"If she knows you're paper"

And so another week comes to a close...one more day to power through some homework tonight and a full day in the office tomorrow. Had lunch with an AU student today who's looking to network as he explores what type of job he wants to find when he graduates in the spring. Hit up Scotty's for lunch. Always a good place to eat, but the Mo' Fo Buffalo Chicken Wrap turned out to be a painful mistake.

The second episode of Running Wilde was disappointing. I had high hopes after the decent Pilot. Now those hopes are dwindling. I'll give it a few more episodes before it dies for good.

So that is that...the end of September 2010. Recap:

> Labor Day
> Trip to Cooperstown, NY
> Visit to Oil City, PA
> Grandma and Grandpa's house broken into
> Preston's soccer game where he scored 5 goals
> Diamond Dash
> Thai Smile 2 closing
> Saw Wall Street 2, The Crazies, Shawshank Redemption

Song of the Day: Mr. November - The National

"The new blue blood"

School is dragging me down right now...it seems I've found myself in the middle of two challenging classes. The next couple weeks look to be pretty jam packed with projects on Economics and IT. Sounds like a blast, right?

Fortunately, both classes have a lot of teamwork, so I'm not going it alone. Just trying to keep up...With lots of school work comes lots of opportunity to absorb new music. Here's what I've been listening to in the last week.

The National - Alligator (select songs 3x since Tuesday)
Gin Blossoms - No Chocolate Cake (2x since Monday)
Margot - Buzzard (5x since last week)
The Open Sea - (20x since Sept 14)

"Gone loose inside its shell"

Now I can drive in peace...We moved to Anderson in early June 2008...I waited the first nine months to confirm what our permanent address would be. There's just no excuse for the sixteen months after that. Having to take the written test scared me away, I guess. But today I conquered that fear, passed that test only missing one question and have a temporary Indiana driver's license in my wallet right now. The permanent is on its way in the next 10 days. For the last year, I've been concerned that I might be pulled over sometime, get issued a ticket for whatever reason I was pulled over (or not), but then get hammered for not updating my driver's license to Indiana. I've heard that could be a stiff penalty. And a full 9 months before my other license would have expired anyway!

"Lunatic, lunatic, lunatic"

On Thursday, my grandparents house was broken into and a small, flat screen TV was stolen from their kitchen while they were in the living room watching TV. The criminal broke and climbed through a window leaving blood and fingerprints as evidence. Very disturbing. My grandparents are in their 80s and it is horrible that someone would terrorize them for a TV that they may be able to pawn for $150. They have had their garage broken into twice. Now they will be moving out of the house they have lived in for 20 years in Anderson. Horrible.

"Get up, go on, get up"

It's always tough going back to work after a vacation. Today was exhausting, and it's time for bed. I almost took a nap at the office desk about 30 minutes ago...I was having flashbacks to college.

I joined Foursquare last week and started checked in to all of the places I listed on the trip. My goal is to be the Mayor of the Chase Tower and maybe the Fishers Qdoba and the Hamilton Town Center Pop-a-Shot game. I think I can make those things happen. I wonder how long Twitter and Foursquare will last. Sure seems like Facebook is going to stick around for a long long time.

"All in a day"

Places my Dad and I went on our Fantastic Americana Road Trip to Cleveland > Cooperstown > Oil City > Mansfield are listed below (in reverse order). It was a great few days full of shakes and burgers at diners, good conversation and music while driving, and appreciation and perspective while at the Rock & Roll and Baseball hall of fames.

Perhaps the most surprising moment...the wall of no-hitters at Cooperstown had about 100 baseballs from no-hitters, a few other pieces of memorabilia and one jersey. The jersey was from Terry Mulholland worn during his no-hitter on August 15, 1990. Amazingly, we were at this game 20 years ago! The one Philadelphia Phillies game I've been to in my life was with my family when I was 7 and happened to be a no hitter. 20 years later that happens to be the one jersey on display worn during a no-hitter now frozen in time in Cooperstown.

Coney Island Diner - Mansfield, Ohio
Arlington Hotel - Oil City, PA
Villa Italia - Oil City, PA
Cooperstown Diner - Cooperstown, NY
National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown, NY
New York Pizzeria - Richfield Springs, NY
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Museum - Cleveland, OH
Doubletree Hotel Cleveland Downtown - Cleveland, OH
Koral Hamburg - Waterville, OH

Currently listening to: The Open Sea

"A reason to get out of the city"

Upcoming and potential concerts - Fall 2010

September 19 - Toad the Wet Sprocket (unlikely due to The Manning Bowl)
October 2 - The National (definitely)
October 15 - Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos (maybe)
December 5 - Better Than Ezra (most likely)

I'm sure another show or two will weazler their way into the mix.

Movies I've seen with my free Hamilton Town Center - Oscar Winning Tickets
> The Last Song (with my sister)
> Kick-Ass (with Rogers)
> Iron Man 2 (with Wilbe & Brian)
> Get Him to the Greek (I think this was free with Rogers)
> Date Night (with Rogers)
> Scott Pilgrim Must Die (Par & Wilbe)
> Inception (Palmers, Brian, Wilbe & Par)

Time to read some Economics...

"Leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away"

Happy Labor Day 2010. The Rosenbergs had a cookout today and broke out a game of wiffle ball for the first time in a very long time...decades. I remember playing wiffle ball with friends as a kid. We have video of playing some baseball on a similar day when I was six. It was a good throwback to the 80s...or at least the early 90s. It always strikes me as odd that 20 years ago was 1990. A lot happened in the 90s. I grew from 6 to 16.

So fall begins and with it comes two new MBA classes. I took one class all summer, which was great. Two classes will probably have me hunkered down again this fall.

Currently watching: True Blood Season 3
Listening to: The National
Thinking about: Going to bed

I have some catching up to do this fall to rescue 2010 from my least productive year of blogging to date. We'll see how it turns out.

Friday begins the Fantastic Americana Road Trip (F.A.R.T.) with my Dad. The Rosenberg men will be driving to Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame and Mansfield's Ohio State Reformatory between Friday and Tuesday. Hopefully, along the way, we'll enjoy some good food and a Colts Week 1 victory at a sports bar in Cooperstown.