"Endless rain into a paper cup"

I feel like I'm treading water. Exhausted most of the time, just trying to stay ahead of my work. The semi-stressful Easter weekend -- notably not making it down on Friday night and having to get up bright and early on Saturday -- certainly didn't help.

Perhaps this weekend of fun will allow me to catch up on rest and relaxation as Wilbe and Ricker come up for some March Madness. I am scheduled to take a half-day off on Monday to rest-up after a late night on Sunday so that won't hurt.

One of these days I have to squeeze in my taxes and get those taken care of...blarf.

Anybody see the Mayor of Detroit on the news? He pleaded "Not Guilty" to 12 felony charges brought against him for:

• Firing two police officers who were investigating an affair he was having with his chief of staff.
• Lying under oath about the affair.
• Lying under oath about the firing of these police officers.
• Settling out-of-court with those police officers in the amount of $9 million dollars worth of Detroit taxpayer money.

This has been going on since January when the Detroit Free Press published excerpts of literally thousands of text messages between he and his chief of staff during the time of their affair. It's been really ridiculous and I'm glad they've chareged him. He needs to do time for these crimes. It's national news right now...

"Silver hammer man"

Happy Belated Easter.

Easter weekend for the Rosenbergs consisted of a 7-hour drive to Anderson. Yes seven hours due to several inches of snow that just wouldn't let up. It made for a stressful Friday night after a very stressful week of work.

Despite that it was good to be home and visit with family and friends. Easter Egg hunting with my niece and nephew...playing late night Shout About Movies with friends...it was a good weekend. Brief but good.

Nevertheless, I am still recovering. I can't seem to get back in the swing of things just yet. Still exhausted after last week...

But things are looking good. Rogers job seems to be going well so far and she starts another part time job tomorrow morning. I hope they both go well for her. She's going to be a busy woman! Ricky and Wilbe are coming up for the Sweet 16 in Detroit this weekend. Perhaps basketball will bookend a trip to the Casino.

Before you know it, I'll be heading South again for Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos. This spring will be spotted with trips to Indiana, Iowa and likely Illinois.

"You can test my will"

A Fine Frenzy was an awesome concert. Lots of fun. Wilbe, next time she's around, you will have to come up to go to that. Although they are from California, her mom was standing right in front of us. That was strange -- she was in town on business.

If you like A Fine Frenzy download her iTunes live exclusive stuff as well as the song The Well. They are all good.

Work sucks right now. I've billed 24 hours so far this week. That means since Sunday at 8 a.m., I've worked 24 hours. That's too much for my tired bones. I'm sure glad I don't have to work 60-70 weeks very often!

Rogers got a job..."Yeeaaa!" "Bueno!" "Koo"

"Great in the eyes of someone"

I've been awake for 20 hours....ahhh. Of course that's excluding the 20-minute nap from somewhere over Michigan to landing in Chicago. Trips to Chicago -- although not always preferred -- definitely do help me focus on my work.

It's been a long, but successful day. 40ish hours until A Fine Frenzy. I'm excited.

Time for 5.5 before another long one.

"Celebrate we will"

Not to takeaway from my other new post immediately below, but Dave Matthews and his band will be in Noblesville as follows:

Fri 7/25
Verizon Wireless Music Center
Noblesville, IN
On Sale Mar 29 2008 10:00AM local time
Sat 7/26
Verizon Wireless Music Center
Noblesville, IN
On Sale Mar 29 2008 10:00AM local time

Somebody get the camping gear, because rumor has it we're going for two nights this year. After last year's show, how could we not?!

"We can be friends if you want to"

The time has come once again to begin to develop friendships with new people. It's been awhile since I've made a new friend. I would consider Taaha to be a friend, but he decided to move to Chicago so I've only seen him once in the past six months.

These new folks are a part of the Wednesday night class we started going to at church in January. (In fact, we've gone about 8 weeks in a row, which is pretty remarkable for us.) The people we are meeting are great -- although I must say there aren't many males in this little group. But the one male that is there invited me to play basketball with him a couple of weeks ago, which led to me playing basketball and subsequently being very...very soar for the next 3 days.

Most importantly I've been exposed to Scripture and eight more sermons than I would have been otherwise. The video series is called "The Bait of Satan" by John Bevere. In it he preaches about living free of offense. Not being offended by people, handling offense correctly, forgiving, etc. At first I found the guy kind of annoying (mostly his preaching style), but after awhile I warmed up to it. And he's got some darn good things to say.

PhilAndrea are coming up to D-Town this weekend. Should be a good time to catch-up and be friends...and maybe sneak in a game or two of late-night Tecmo Bowl. It's going to be a rip-roaring SouthEastern Michigan weekend.