"We persevere, God gives us hope"

Tomorrow night the second Killers show that I've been too...and boy am I stoked. With a splash of rain (torrential downpour) some earsplitting music, a rambunctious crowd and a wayward drumstick, it was a memorable evening to say the least. Tomorrow should be grand as well.

In the meantime, the Celtics-Bulls have played their 4th overtime game out of 6 in their first round series. And it was triple overtime...Pretty amazing.

What else is shaking...hmm...my boss is out for a few weeks, so my responsibilities have somewhat expanded...basically meaning if someone really needs to get something done and it would normally fall on my boss, now it falls on me. So far, no problems though.

Friday is rolling around in about 10 minutes. Time for some sleep. It will be a good Friday.

"Greedy little pig"

The WHO has raised the swine flu alert one more time so it's one step away from a full-fledged global pandemic. Does this mean concerts...like the Killers...will be postponed, schools canceled and offices closed? Will South Park parody this right away as they did the Somali Pirates or do they need to wait 20 years so it can be funny? These are all pertinent questions at the dawn of the unknown.

In the meantime, time to go to sleep with a plastic tarp between me and Lisa to protect each other from...each other. Afterall, someone from Lisa's office was in Mexico last week. Great.

"A shell of empty thoughts"

700 posts later...from January 2005 - April 2009. 52 Months of blogging capturing many songs of the day in the early posts...trips to Lithuania, Mexico, a Spring Break in Naples, and beyond...a lot of currently watchings...some political rants...a few lists...thoughts on modern life...some memories...old pictures...two posts that weren't titled with song lyrics...and some things that are just fun to go back and read now and then. While I always blog with the realization that this is public information and at least a few of my friends will likely see it, a lot of what I've written has been for me. For catharsis at the end of the day (when I would venture to say about 680+ of the posts were typed up.

So with that, how about a list of things I'm looking forward to in the upcoming warm weather season:

• Coldplay in concert at the old Deer Creek
• Enjoying the new neighborhood...and proximity to Coldstone
• Living without wisdom teeth
• A trip to Kings Island with the Martin clan
• Perhaps a trip to Cedar Point...anyone?
• The Diamond-Mason wedding festivities
• How about another game of Blood Fued of New York...with an egg timer?
• Rogers' grilled chicken and her turkey burgers...yum
• Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp
• Better Than Ezra at the Vogue...anyone want to go with me and Diamond?
• An anniversary
• A birthday
• Fireworks
• A few rounds of golf
• Maybe a basketball game or two
• Niece and nephew playing on the swingset
• A trip to the beach
• A Tigers baseball game
• Sleeping with the windows open (if it can stay a bit cooler for awhile)
• Being more spiritually, physically and financially fit

While it's technically a couple of months away, with 80 degree weather I think it's OK to say it will be a good summer.

Song of the Day: Live Again - Better Than Ezra

"Shoplifting corner store"

This is No. 699. The weekend had it's ups and downs, and it's about time to roll into Monday feeling fine. Anyone that hasn't been to Night of Thrills at the Anderson Speedway should put it on their calendar for the end-of-season edition. It was a good time.

Can you believe it's almost May...every month seems to fly by. And this also means, we've been in our house for about a month. (Which, by the way, is the only New Year's Resolution I've completed this year: "#4 - Move out of parent's house") The house is very slowly coming along. I'm not the best unpacker. I've resigned myself to making very small, positive steps. So today, I set up both the DVD player and VCR on our downstairs TV and also began putting all of the TV DVDs on the top shelf where they will ultimately be alphabetized. We also have the grill all set up and a new screen in the back door. Slowly, but surely.

The Killers will hit Indianapolis in five days, which is destined to be a fantastic evening. Between now and then, there's work to be done and sleep to get. Goodnight everybody.

"I turn round and there you go"

Well Monday is over, and I feel pretty worn out. This is shaping up to be one of my busiest weeks since I began working in Indianapolis. Meetings every morning for the rest of the week and plenty of work to do as well as my boss is going to be out on medical leave for about a month. But it is good to be busy, so this is OK. Just need to get some sleep and a cup of coffee during the day.

Our house is starting to get a little bit cleaner thanks to some work over the weekend. Rogers has our bedroom mostly organized and the family room doesn't have too many boxes left. So we're getting there...slowly but surely.

Currently listening to: Fleet Foxes
Watching: Transformers
Dreaming: Philadelphia overlooked Iran and Iran's missiles started launching, but then quickly turning back toward the ground and blowing up Iran. (And their missiles looked like big rockets.) Before long, we were in a building taking cover from the waves of fire that were coming at us much like the waves of time-change that came through on Lost island. Eventually, we made it to safety as the fire really didn't burn very many people if you ducked and covered.

This was a real and strange dream.

"If this is what we get"

There will be no normal for the Rosenbergs. We're in a perpetual state of change. As quick as we have a new house, Rogers is launching into a new full-time job! So I need to pitch in a bit more around the house, which is something I'm not good at...especially when it comes to unpacking boxes and organizing messes. I tend to get easily distracted and usually take about three hours for 30 minutes of work. That's my MO.

While we were incredibly grateful to have been able to stay at my folk's house for the past 9 months, and I stand by my frequent statement of "It's actually not too bad" I could not overstate the feeling of being back in our bed, having our little dog, room in the freezer for an ice cream cake, an office and a bathroom connected to our room. Good times.

Song of the Day: "Yesteryear" by Rosi Golan

"Closer to the end"

Tonight's Report Card:

• Deano's Vino: B- Food was great, but not filling enough. I'd recommend checking it out, but not getting the pizza for your meal.
• Chase Coy: B- Good songs and a great first show for an up-and-comer.
• Rosi Golan: A- She would have an A+, but she couldn't play my favorite toon Come Around because it's a piano song and she was all acoustic. But what a voice!
• Rosi's Autograph to Wilbe when he sent me up to buy her CD for him: A+ "Wilbe, thanks so much. Don't be shy. (heart) Rosi"
• William Fitzimmons: A Great songs, good singing, good sense of humor and an all around nice guy.
• William Fitzsimmons' Setlist: A+ It's scribbled out on a napkin for his first of hopefully many shows in Indianapolis. Autographed now too. Priceless.
• Radio Radio: A+ Great venue. The Berg seal of approval.
• Company: A+ Jason and I had a good time eating dinner and hanging out. And I'm glad Shannon and Wilbe made it down for the show.
• Drunk Girl at the next table over: F She sucked.

"A small part in your passion play"

Good Friday everyone. It is now Saturday, but Friday was pretty good and involved some good Italian eats, free ice cream, and some Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit with good friends. Tomorrow will be spent cleaning up the house and putting things away. Hopefully a relaxing day. It's been good having some space to stretch our legs. Having an office again. Having Grace with us. And having a bathroom connected to the bedroom, which we haven't had since the old apartment.

Shows I'm watching this season:
Survivor
Lost
Amazing Race
Scrubs
The Office

Time for a good nights rest...perhaps the end of the old Oceans 11 first.

"The glow of something bright"

For your consideration:

• Berg needs to work on his Rock Band vocals -- weak
  
• It was good to see Greg Tipton -- I believe for the first time since Margot and Bon Iver at the Vogue in 2008
• Don't ever tell Greg he can't sing Chop Suey on Rock Band -- he will prove you wrong
  
• It's been different -- seeing Squatch without his Jennings jersey
• I got Larry Bird's autograph at Tuesday's Pacers game -- thanks to my Dad-In-Law who took me to and his great seats
• The guys had an awesome story about the Pacers game on Sunday -- ask them about it
• When you Google Josh McRoberts stuff to try to find the Blog that references the guy's story, you won't find it -- even if you throw Clodfelder's name in there
• When you get bored and Google just Jason Clodfelder without McRoberts -- you'll find this really easily:
• Meadowbrook Pizza is better than Meadowbrook Stromboli