Burgers and Rhone…..something special

Tonight we had bleu cheese burgers cooked on the grill and a bottle of Perrin Rhone 2004 Reserve. The burgers were’ excellent, mix the cbleu cheese in when you are forming the pattys and get them on the grill. Finish on a whole wheat bun with tomatoes and onions.

When cooking make sure they are done but don’t over-cook them and dry them out.

The wine was really good and best of all… $12. It’s still available on retailers shelves in most places. I think we got ours at Sam’s Club! Big enough for burgers and smooth enough to sip. Nice.

I’m not exactly sure how it happened but we have apparently given up TV!

This was not a conscious decision, at least not on my part. We have not had a TV on anywhere, at anytime, since before June 18th. That’s about 7 weeks ago. I remember June 18th because it was the day we left for a trip. Again, I’m not sure how or why but we just stopped turning it on. It wasn’t some grand pursuit of the simple life, nor the altruistic goal of solving global warming.

I have to tell you that my life is better because the TV is off. I for sure don’t miss the local news….. I don’t miss the shootings at the convenience store, the guy who hit his best buddy over the head with the beer bottle because he told him his pit pull was a sissy or the people who shop-lift at Wal-Mart because, well because.

The TV shows we watched other than local news… I don’t miss them either. As far as I can tell the TV was just making noise and I only thought I was watching something. I can’t really remember what we did watch.

Now, the true test is on the way… NFL and college football! I kinda like watching football but I’m really not sure I’m going to turn on the tube for it. I just am not excited.

Now how do I get my news you ask? Mostly from Bloomberg News. It’s basically a financial website but it does a good job with national and international stories. I also scan the left column of the Wall Street Journal each morning to see if there’s important news I need to get up to speed on. Usually there isn’t.

Do I feel dumb when people are talking about Dancing with the Stars or who survived on that island show? Nope, I didn’t watch that stuff before I stopped watching TV, I’m not really sure what I watched before….but now I don’t.

Life is good.