"The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard"

Well...I came here to see if I could figure out when I first saw Dave Matthews Band live. I think it was 2000 and LiveTrax 34 is being released and it is from June 24, 1999 at Deer Creek Music Center. How great would it be if it were the first Dave show I attended? I don't believe that's the case, but I should be able to find the old ticket stub or the newspaper article I submitted to the Herald Bulletin after attending.

To catch future Berg up on the past four years, I moved into our Health & Benefits practice in 2012 and my career has been evolving since that time, continuing on a trajectory heading north. I am blessed and grateful. It has been a great place to work for the first 9 years of my career. In 2015, I took over the Cincinnati and Columbus markets as well.

More importantly, on a personal level, Rogers and I are in the process of adopting our first child. We have been in the process for about 10 months or so and are officially on a waiting list and have been for some time. We hope to bring a baby home later in 2015.

I am still as interested in music as I have always been. I heard recently you stop listening to new music after the age of 32. We shall see if that's the case... it won't surprise me too much, but I like to think I'll continue to gravitate to the young whipper snappers coming up well into my 40s.

I am in the process of decorating my office at home with all of the various set lists and memorabilia I have collected from the past 10 years of concert-going. Setlists and memorabilia include:
Gin Blossoms, Florence & The Machine, Counting Crows, Toad the Wet Sprocket (autographed), Arcade Fire (2x), Ray Lamontagne (autographed), The Killers (3x), Weezer, Imogen Heap, No Doubt, David Gray (2x), The National (2x), A Fine Frenzy, Coldplay, William Fitzsimmons (2x), Better Than Ezra (2 or 3x + football + drumstick) and likely a few others I am forgetting.

Concerts this year have or will include:

• U2 on July 2 in Chicago
• Brandon Flowers in Columbus
• Dave Matthews Band 2x at Deer Creek / Klipsch
• Will Butler in Bloomington in April
• And likely a few more... we shall see.

I am thinking of taking up comedy. I've got a few bits I'm working up, and have my eye on an open mic night in Broad Ripple to jump in. And we shall see about that too.

"Without giving anything to see"

To blog or not to blog...This may have been my longest time between posts in 5 years of the All About Andy blog...when I've thought about blogging recently, I thought what's the point, who cares?

Today I'm in Columbus, Ohio and I've been trying to read a textbook and listening to a mix of old and new songs including:

Dogs - Damien Rice
Windmills - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Someone Like You - Adelle
Unchained Melody (cover) - U2
To Run - Josiah Leming
Competition Smile - Gin Blossoms

Maybe its some of those older ones that made me want to write a post.

I finish my MBA in November...amazingly that is merely 7 months away. In the next few years to come, post MBA some of the things I'd like to do include:

1) Have a kid or two
2) Write a movie script
3) Teach an undergrad course

I'd also like to vacation in Italy and Mexico, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco with Rogers, not necessarily in that order.

"I fell"

Happy Valentine's Day. Lisa and I celebrated our 13th Valentine's Day as a pair. On that first Valentine's Day we were merely freshmen in high school. That was a long time ago.

We celebrated with Thai Kitchen and Cheesecake Factory on Sunday evening. 18 hours later we both felt like we were in a foggy haze at work for a few hours. Maybe it was the famous Cheesecake Factory Delayed Sugar Coma hitting us. Seriously we both got home and said that we felt really out of it for like 2-3 hours after lunch. Weird.

But it was a good Valentine's Day weekend.

Listening to: 4,600 iTunes songs on shuffle

"As you walk through the doors"

The blog seems to be dying a slow death...just trickling along month after month...rare post to even rarer post.

Football season ends next week with the Steelers v Packers Superbowl. Wilbe and Par are hosting a Chili Cook Off.

2011 is off and running. Work is moving full speed ahead.

"If I wait another hundred years"

My 800th post and my first post of 2011 all at once. Well I got Americanized last night at the Clodfelders 2011 America New Year's Party. The Year of the Forearm Grab began at Midnight.

And we celebrated a late Christmas with the Rogers this afternoon. This included watching the movie True Grit, which brings the movie watching recap since Monday to a nice solid 7 flicks:
Monday - Meet the Fockers
Tuesday - The Fighter and Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone
Wednesday - Black Swan and Ghost
Thursday - None
Friday - Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
Saturday - True Grit

We'll see if I get past 44 posts this year...this ole Blog may have life in it yet. In the meantime, I'm submitting my first Survivor application this week!

"Jesus and Mary, what a great day"

Christmas Day is approaching quickly. Just a couple of last presents to wrap up, literally and figuratively (i.e., I still need to purchase a couple).

To think that God, the Creator, would humble himself to come to earth, live as a man, and sacrifice his life to redeem me. It truly is awesome.

Listening to: Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas

"When the holy night is upon you"

I was flossing tonight and a crown fell off and dropped into my mouth...I've had either visions or actual dreams of teeth falling out recently and me chewing them. My body must have been warning me that this was coming. When combined with two flat tires last week, all this weird stuff is happening. In the meantime, Christmas is just around the corner now. A few days to gather a few last presents and wrap a few others... Just got to get through this Business Law test on Thursday.

"Smile below each nose"

Wow, I just stumbled across this post from almost exactly five years ago... And I'm again reading the book Good to Great. I never finished it the first time. This time it is on the list for my class C562: Developing Strategic Capabilities, so maybe I'll get a little further...I'm glad that I'll finish my MBA around with 5-6 years after undergrad. I think 5 years was my goal, so I'm only slightly behind schedule.

Caught up with fellow Hoosier's the Patries today. It's good to have them back in the Heartland...It's been too long.

"Come thou fount of every blessing"

Christmas time is here, and I'm looking forward to relaxing with loved ones and that warmth that only Christmas brings. 8 days out and I've got shopping to do, gifts to wrap, carols to sing and cookies to eat. But it will all get done!

On the train from O'Hare to downtown Chicago and listening to Sufjan's 5-volume Christmas album.

"Only to bring you peace"

The fifth annual Rosenberg Christmas newsletter is finally finished. If you're reading this, hopefully you'll be receiving your copy soon!

"Silent night for a change"

It's been awhile, and I'm watching a business law lecture, so it seems like a good time to update. School's been busy. November was OK. Thanksgiving was nice. Graduate school continues to plod along...I think I'm down to my last 7 classes.

My nephew Ezekiel Lyndon Spires was born last month, which was fantastic! More blogging coming soon, hopefully.

Currently listening to...Christmas version:
Boots - The Killers
Merry Merry Christmas Everyone - Jon McLaughlin
Christmas Lights - Coldplay
Happy Birthday Guadalupe - The Killers

"I was afraid I'd eat your brains"

The days leading up to Halloween did not disappoint. Rogers surprised me one Friday night and took me to the Trail of Terror on some farmland in Fishers. A nice little jaunt through the woods with ghoulish figures flying at you and jumping out from some decent hiding places. This preceeded us playing House of the Dead: Overkill, which is modeled after a Grindhouse movie and is pretty darn fun with arcade-style Zombie killing. Of course we watched a little Dawn of the Dead and played some Plants vs. Zombies on the iPhone over the weekend as well. It was a zombie-riffic Halloween. I snuck in The House on Sorority Row, Sleepwalkers and The Last Man on Earth over the past couple of weeks as well.

More importantly, Republicans picked up 60+ seats in Congress in yesterday's elections, so the Democrats will not be able to ram through socialistic balogna like Health Care Reform for the next two years.

Over the weekend, Rogers and I traveled up to Detroit for the first time in 18+ months to visit friends and our old church, eat at our favorite restaurants and watch a Redwings game with 9th row seats. Even though it was only for 36 hours it was nice to get away with Rogers for a day...Pretty sweet!

It's been a good couple of weeks!

"Like a million parachutes"

A few exciting things in the hopper for work. Hopefully, they will come to fruition. Making day trips to Warsaw occassionally, which makes for a nice drive up 37 through Marion and up 15 through Wabash.

Excited about Halloween...or at least the idea of Halloween. I've been wearing my various Halloween-type t-shirts and recording all the Friday 13ths on AMC, and moving all the streaming Netflix Horror movies into my queue so I can grab them through the Wii. And I'm strongly leaning toward purchasing a House of the Dead arcade-style shooter for the Wii...hopefully, I'll have the time to enjoy all of these morbid things over the next week...we'll see.

"Shine a new reflection to the sky"

Fall doldrums are settling in, I guess. I think it is primarily school that has me reeling. I'd rather be watching a horror movie every night to celebrate October. Instead, I'm studying economics and information technology. I'm ready for Jason Vorhees, and instead I learn about Enterprise Resource Programs. It's time for Mike Myers, and I am learning about the Fed and monetary policy. 13.5 credits of school every six months on top of a full-time job is no way to live. I need a change of pace.

Currently listening to: Mark Kano

"I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses"

Exhausted...time for bed. School is keeping me more than busy these last few weeks. Global economics and information technology. Post 800 is right around the corner, but at the rate I'm going it will likely be 2013 before I reach number 1,000.

Movies watched over the last month of Fridays:
The Town
Wall Street 2
The Social Network
Easy A

"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.