In search of the perfect cheeseburger

I was a super picky eater as a kid.  I blame squirrels.  My soon to be mom took the dog out during an ice storm  when I was still inside her tummy and said dog saw a squirrel and took off.  she slipped and fell on the ice and I said LET ME OUTTA HERE! 

I was 6 weeks early and I'm told I did not have a fully developed stomach (which seems to have corrected itself).

ANYWAY - I was picky and when my parents went on a vacation I would eat cheeseburgers and I had a little book where I would write down my feelings in each cheeseburger.   THUS - you know where I am coming from 60 years later.  I'm still looking!

We went to The Old Rock last night thinking it;s been a number of months since the change in ownership - how were there burgers NOW!   

WELL - The texture is fantastic, juicy wonderful meat, the burger to bun ration is perfect, the cheese was melted to perfection.   HOWEVER - I SWEAR the new cook came in, saw the grill and with a sander ripped off all that ugly brown seasoning that had built up over the last decade to a brand new spanking clean grill . . . . with zero seasoning.

The burgers had EVERYTHING going for them  except . . . flavor.  Not a bad flavor at all  just a serious lack of any seasoning. ZIP, nada, none.  Was this fried on Teflon?  How utterly disappointing to have what could be the best burger in the tri county area to and ALMOST perfect burger with no flavor but truly outstanding everything else.

Does one bring their own seasoning to a restaurant/bar?  Is this uncouth? 

So at the moment the #1 burger is still . . .oddly . . Mooyah Burgers.  The Caribou Bar in Madison is pretty darn good, Mullins 1/4 pounders were pretty good, Eddy's in Sun Prairie are good depending on the cook.

The search continues.

I see Fast lanes is begging for workers along with most American businesses.  I wish there was a group of skilled, law abiding workers that wanted to come to America for work.  where can we find such a group.  How do we get people to want to come to America.

Democracy is actually a giant ponzi scheme where we NEED people to keep growing.  If population stagnates so does the economy.  Nobody ever said a city that is losing workers is growing.  Every  legal OR illegal immigrant that enters America grows the economy.  Its a fact.

WAIT - is it time for another market pull back?  seems so!

The markets are trading around their all-time highs and are potentially setting up for some pullbacks after their recent rallies. We think the support levels below the indexes offer clues as to how far they may pull back with the Dow Industrials having support at around 26,200 and 25,200 with equivalent levels of 2900 and 2750 for the S&P. Anything above those lower numbers would be considered normal and even expected, in our opinion, but we think breaking the lower supports would indicate some possible larger corrections that could be in the 10%–15% range,. The market indicators reached some areas of being modestly overbought, but not excessively so, which we believe implies that any pullbacks may also be more average and contained.

    

and BTW - anybody saying this is all Trumps wonderful economy . . . . no - it's not.

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DJ and I went on 12 mile 245 feet up cycle trip yesterday.  I love these apps that tell you how many feet UP hill there is on a ride. Who cares about downhill, it's the uphill that bikes worry about.

   
The CWCC (Columbus Wi Cycling Club) will have a ride sometime in the near future to Sassy Cow Cremery and will be joined by the Sun Prairie Club to come back to Cbus.  a 23 mile round trip ride and looking at Sunday morning the 21st depending on weather and other factors.

Anybody wishing to join up we meet at Cercis Brewing on Sundays about 2:00.  DJ and I will be at art Fair on the Square this coming Sunday.  The parade reaped at least 3 new members so far wit h4 more interested and were looking for a bike club in the area.

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I have to admit - the fireworks in Washington DC were fantastic.  Set to the 1812 Overture, my very first album my parents played on their new stereo council in the late 60s.  Great canons.

Tchaikovsky hated this work with a passion.  It's a work influenced with Russian folk songs and celebrates a huge Russian war victory over Napoleon.  Odd how a celebration of everything American is put to a Russian piece celebrating everything Russian.   How ironic.

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and BTW - who is in Mountain View CA - Welcome!!  a town about half the size of Columbus.

HOWDY STRANGER!  Sorry - just looking to see where people came from.