Good morning , it is Sunday 26 July 2009 , A wonderful cool morning here in da Burgh , we have had a cool summer a lot of need for the A?C so far , but I think Aug & Sept. will make up for the lack of heat so far, in a normal summer my grass is showing a little distress by now , but it is still green & lush, a few spotty brown spots but nothing is burnt out like in years past, we have had a good bit of rain , but not as much as we should have had, we do get showers a few times a week but they are short & light, we do need a good soaking rain, but some places have had flash floods in the area, so its hit & miss for most of us ..... I started the day with a pot of Jamican blue mountain, , the meter maid just came back from vacation & brought me coffee & Rum , Good coffee BUT GREAT RUM , as you all know I am a scotch drinker , & the Appleton Rum was smooth , didnt have the smoke of the Islay scotch I enjoy but was a fine dram with a lighter cigar , like the Monte white band , of witch I am enjoying the double corona this morning, YES I DID have the Don Carlos #3 right out of the starting gate with the JBM , but I do miss my sunday morning Kona , & I have a pot of a medium/light roast of a blend of american coffeesbrewing right now, I have no idea the ratios, just a few beans of columbian, brazillian, costa rico,mexico & what ever else I had left over in a light or medium roast , 3.5 ounces of ground beans & 10 /6 ounce cups of filtered water, , run it through the drip pot , ( just way to lazy to clean the press pot this morning ) , it should be fine with a light body cigar like the monte white , I will let you know hahahaha It is an other BANNER day here in Freedom Pa , NO BEEF on todays menu, I got the boss to agree to chicken & rice ,,,,,,,,,,, it will get started about noon or so , when ever i feel the time has come, no set schedual today , it is a lazy summer day & I have nothing planed other than a BIG cigar right after the one I am smoking NOW , & a lot of @$$time on the back deck or in the Qtr.Deck ,,,, I went out for the sunday paper before the boss was awake, brought the paper in , set it on the couch & went back out to fire up the morning cigar , well i heard her in the kitchen soon after & thought I will wait till she has finished her morning bible reading & then come in & make breakfast , well about 30/35 minutes goes by & I need to get rid of all the coffee I have been drinking, so I get up to go in & the door is locked, I knock, , , & wait, knock again, & wait, knock again & wait, , Nothing , No movement, no foot steps comming tward the door, SO I KNOCK A LOT HARDER & LONGER , Oh she says , I thought you were on the computer & when I say the door was unlocked I just locked it, well Suprise you opened the curtains in the computer room & I wasnt there was I , & if I wasnt on the computer, or in the bathroom, I must be outside dont you think? well yea she did agree to that & has no idea why she locked the door when she saw it was OPEN, Habbit I guess, , maybe its time to start using the hide a key or just take the lock off of the door all together , its looking like she will be joining her mother at the nursing home sooner rather than later hahahahaa The boys went camping in the wilds of W.Va . with thier dad this weekend, , I guess its fun when your young, but dammmm , I want COMFORT ,,,,, , one main reason I joined the Navy , when they go into battle they take the beds , showers ,toilets , Stoves & ovens right with them ............. No "camping out" for me ! the shop has been holding its own, nothing major or minor happening, just slow sales & few NEW customers, , I guess I have to get a next generation of cigar smokers trained soon to keep the shop alive hahahaha right now I want to say some thing nice about the econemy................... sorry , nothing comes to mind, , other than welcome to the United Socialist States of Amerika............ My idea of Good government is that you never know they are in session, nothing changes , No NEW taxes, no scandle, No graft & kick backs , YEA like that will ever happen, hahaha , I didnt vote for McCain or Obama , but I think we all should give him a chance to see if his ideas will work, past preformance of any socialist government has shown that it will not work, but dammmmm lets try it again..... the sign of stupidity is doing the same thing over & over again & expecting differnt outcomes the next time you try it , you piss on an electric fence ONE TIME & you learn your lesson........... Nuff said . Enjoy, Vince

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Good morning it is Sunday 2 August 2009, a wet damp rainy morning here in da Burgh , & my Second tobacco free day ( so far anyhow) , yea from 10 cigars a day to zero, , , , let me explain , I have a vericose vein in my left leg that is comming out at the end of the month & the doc wants me off tobacco for better healing, hey he's the doc , I did have to abstain when I had all the skin removed after loosing the 202 pounds , so this should be a peice of cake , & to top it off I need a little eye thing taken care of again, so the no tobacco thing will work to help promote that healing as well, , I have no idea how it works but today is the last day for the asprin, fish oil , Vit E , & a few other herbs & exilers that I consume every day, but just untill the doc tells me its Ok to go back on them, I have no idea if any of them realy work, But I take them anyhow, ..... dammmm advertisments hahaha Rib steak on the grill today along with a grilled summer squash , dammmm I should could go for a nice cigar right now ! hahaha , yesterday was not as bad as I thought it would be , but Barb did get on my nerves a little more than usuall , a sneeze with a mouth full of coffee covered the inside of the windshield & like it was my fault when I did clean it I missed a spot & left it a bit streaked & heard all about it AGAIN & AGAIN when we went to watch the fireworks last night at the community park , Oh well such is life , the boys are at home this weekend, I get a break, dealing with them & no cigars just might be to much hahahaha well its time for me to get the eggs on & the bacon cooking, the toast will not toast it self , Enjoy, Vince

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Have a good day Vince!

And good luck in the near future with your health AND with no cigars!!!

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Who Farted?

Well that explains the sudden abundance of Don Carlos cigars !! Damn Doctors and their... don't do this, and don't do that..

kaspera79:

Well that explains the sudden abundance of Don Carlos cigars !! Damn Doctors and their... don't do this, and don't do that..

Yeah mine said lay off red meat ...so I just grill my steaks x tra well now , no red showing ....and doctors have no sense of humor! When I told my heart doctor this he just gave me one of those looks like I was a 15 year old kid that got caught cheating on exams !!!

5:13 PM , still able to hold a conversation, nails on left hand are gone, thumb on right hand is bleeding, But I did get the rib steaks cooked & the scotch is helping CALM the nerves, , 3 pots of DECAFE & driving the wifes car instead of mine, ( Cant smoke in her car ) , as My car looks like & smells like a cigar lounge OH wait , it is a cigar lounge , well I think the worst is over now, I just hope I dont get any samples in the mail this month hahahahaha , cant go to New Orleans for the show, that would just be almost as bad as water boarding !!!! No Worse ! hahahahaha

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Good Luck Vince ...

Monday 10 Pm still No cigars , 18 days to go , can I make it ??? from 10 a day to zero in a week, ........ good thing we dont have a dog that poor B@$t@rd wwould have gotten kicked more than one time this weekend, , I have been eating a lot of cherrys & holding the pits in my mouth to keep me busy ! , hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

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Vince O:

Monday 10 Pm still No cigars , 18 days to go , can I make it ??? from 10 a day to zero in a week, ........ good thing we dont have a dog that poor B@$t@rd wwould have gotten kicked more than one time this weekend, , I have been eating a lot of cherrys & holding the pits in my mouth to keep me busy ! , hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

Hang in there buddy . My little heart problem kept me from smoking any for about 40-42 days and it was tuff. I never knew so many things could remind me of cigars. I have never smoked 10 in a day though so I know your going thru more of a battle than I did !!!

Good morning , it is Sunday 9 August 2009, a HOT HUMID day here in da Burgh, going up to 90F+ today, first +90 day this summer, & I plan on doing as little as I can today, THANK GOD for A/C ... , well its been an entire week with out a cigar , the finger nails are over the worst of it & are slowly starting to heal a little , the only comment I have heard so far is from the local Pizza shop , Now I dont stink the place up when I walk in to pick my order ................... dammmm I dont know how to take that, oh well just a few more days till the eye is done then a few days later the knee get cut, so bt Labor day I should be back to the cigars, from 10 a day to ZERO , I'm glad the wife is still talking to me hahahaha , BUT I have noticed I am spending more time at the 'fridge , good thing we have a lot of fresh fruit & veggies, but the dark chocolate is getting a bit more action than it should, & the coffee, dammmmm that wonderful mug of coffee, or a MUG full yes a MUG full of espresso ,,,,,,, having a bit of trouble sleeping, getting to sleep is a fight , cant get comfortable, to hot , to cool, pillow to fluffy, pillow to flat, just cant get in the right groove ............. I have been up early all week, but still up at 2 AM , dammmm I miss the relaxation I got with a Fine old stick & a snifter of single malt whisky , Oh I still get a weee dram here & there , a glass of wine here & there & I had a beer this week also, Bloated the H3LL out of me , , just cant do the carbonation anymore , dammm getting old is TUFF, hahahaha the new couch was delivered Friday morning, , the old one was moved to the Qtr.deck, , now I need to re arrange the seating plan & outlet usesage, & decide if I want to keep the computer out there or just stay with the radio & CD player , just not enough room for everything, the rocker is all ready gone & the 'command" chair might need to go , with both couches it is a little tight in the space dept., , , Since it is so dammmmmmmm hot today , No pot roast, NO OVEN to heat up the house, Chicken on the grill will be todays bill of fare , brown rice & garden fresh tomatoe's right off the vine this morning, stopped at a buddys place & raided the garden when I was out for my morning NO CIGAR walk , dammmm I realy enjoyed that first one of the day , OH well , Labor day will be here before we know it ,,,, just think of the money I am saving right now, & the money the tobacco growers are loosing............ I should be in New Orleans Right NOW , spening everything I have plus what ever I can get on my plastic money BUT that just isnt going to happen this year, I am missing one big drunken weekend in the big easy, Oh well there is always next year hahahaha .......... I havent seen mush of the grandsons , they are busy being kids , Bike riding & other summer activitys are keeping them out of the house & in the pool, Good for them , bad for me , spending to much time with the wife hahahahaha , Speaking of the wife, we went to the movies yesterday, Julie & Julia , a funny story about a young girl cooking the entire Julia Child , "Mastering the art of French cooking ", a bit of a background story of both there lives, a story in a story, JULIA Childs & Julie ( damm I forget her last name ) cooking her way through the entire cook book in a year & writing about it as she went, ended up a movie, dammm I wonder if this BS I have been dishing out every Sunday morning might lead to a book or a movie hahahaha yea like that will ever happen hahaha , any agents out there? Well the Boss just got up & I have an assignment , make her breakfast, so it is time for me to get off the computer & back to the kitchen for me ! Enjoy the weekend, whats left of it & ENJOY a BIG Double corona for me ! Enjoy,Vince

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Good morning it is Sunday Aug 16, 2009, a HOT & Humid here in da Burgh , & the 16th day in a row with out a cigar for me ........... dammmm I must have gained 30 pounds in the last 16 days hahahaha , , the eye gets cut on Tuesday & the knee on the 31st , & the doc told me I will heal better with out the nicotene, well I didnt check on it , didnt go to scopes to see if it was for real, didnt get a second opinion, but he is a cigar smoker himself so I dont think he would deny me the Pleasure & relaxation of a cigar here & there , yea I know my 10 a day is a bit much , but I was even a bit over the top at 3 or 4 a day , but now ZERO for 16 days , its a wonder my wife is talking to me hahahaha, dammmm maybe I should have thought of that solution sooner hahahah, well yesterday ( the 15th ) was our 39th anniversary & she is still talking , I havent got in 3 words in the past 39 years hahaha, , , & even since the weather man tells us its going over the 90F mark today she was insistant on a Hunk of beef , so the hunk o Chuck is in the oven all ready , a nice slow oven , the A/C is cranked up & running at full blast , & for the first time today she is some what quiet & reading the Sunday Paper , with out the escape to the Qtr.deck for the past 16 days , I wonder WHY did I stay with her so long hahahahaha No we really do get along just fine, she lets me have my cigars & buys a lot of them for me , some of the local shop owners know her by name, & so do some of the manufactures , as over the years she has been instrumential in getting me some GREAT stuff from a few of the Big guys in the industry, , like a hand written note from Nick Prodomo sealed inside the box before it was shrink wrapped , Class , just pure class, yea I make light of her OCD & her love of Roasted Well done beef , But if I had to do it all over again, dammmmm I would have married her sister hahahaha no I cant complain , BUT I DO ! hahaha The Boys are getting ready for school, & will be heading to North Carolina with there other grandparents for a few days to see the other grandmothers sister , who has No kids , & will be invaded by 2 boys & 3 girls ( the rug rats cousins) , so I feel a little sympathy for her hahahah, better her than ME ! hahahaha the shop has been SLOW as its ever been, & Friday the sales were verrrrry low & everyone was using plastic, didnt get enough cash in to cover payroll, & have change for saturday, So I was a wee bit short till saturday morning when the first customer of the day bought a box & Paid CASH , Yea baby thats more like it , I gave my self a 2 buck bonus as I didnt want to take any ones out of the regester , dammm well earned that 2 bucks hahahaha ....... The computer was down a few days , got some kind of a bug or trojan , as my grandsons tell me , well I called my comcast rep & he wasnt able to help me get rid of it, so he connected me to the McAfee help desk in the Phillipines & the guy did speak English ( AMEN ) , but he wasnt able to get rid of it either, so I shut it down called a Buddy who works for IBM, & builds computers, & develops software , so he is as big a geek as you can find, he tells me he will be out for a cigar ( his payment was to be a 3 pack of God Of Fire by Carleto ) BUT before he got her the NUMBER ONE GRANDSON fixed it in less than an hour , BUG GONE , Computer up & running, all it cost me was a new pair of shoes for school, a new back pack for school, a new jacket for school & 3 new pairs of pants & matching shirts, sox, underware & a belt, , & the same stuff for grandon NUMBER TWO , & dinner at red lobster for all of us, ......... dammmmm I could have got a new computer for it cost me hahahahaha , Oh yea then they wanted to go to the arcade to play air hockey dammmmm , the cash flow has turned into a lake draining burst dam.................... good thing I cut out the cigars cant afford the cigars & the grandsons back to school shopping !!!! we had a minor tragiety this week, the groundhog who lives under the yard shed got smashed by a car as it was crossing the road, , so the boys wanted to burry it in the woods, , I gave them each a shovel & told them to have at it , well it was a very shallow hole , & since it was almost 90F it didnt take them long to call it quits , by next summer there will be a new groundhog family living there raccoons, possums, or Rabbits, I dont care as long as its not a family of Skunks !!!! we did have some new cows born this past week, I see 3 new Tiny little ones out in the pasture ,,,,,,,, VEAL ANYONE ?????? dammmmmm electric fence hahahaha Coffee this morning was an end of the African Safari Blend & the start of a moco java , since I am not having a cigar I opted out of the Sunday Kona , , dammmm after all this time you would think it would be easy, But everything I do , leads me back to the humidor DAMMMMMMM , Oh well Labor day isnt that far away & the money I am saving this month will go to Jerrys kids & MDA telethon on labor day , step up & buy Jerrys kids a cigar this year ....... Enjoy, Vince

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Just think how good your first cigar will taste when you can smoke again, it just might be the best one and most memorable one you've ever had.

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Ken Light:

Now what we have is a president who is a limp d!ck worthless piece of slow-acting, overly-analytical nonsense wrapped in a fast-melting candy-coating made of hope... Get him the hell out of there.

been through this before, & the first one back is HEAVEN, a don Carlos #3 , right out of the gate then I get heavy hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

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How did the eye surgery go today Vince ? (of course you may not feel like looking at the boards)

I'm willing to bet that Vince is not thinking about surfing the WWW. Hey Vince, you are one step closer to that Don Carlos Buddy !