I will post the dough recipe when I write it down , I go by how it feels , I dont measure anything, I just throw it together, I will work on it & measure the stuff next time I make it . . fret not it will be soon, but I dont know if it will be this week . enjoy, Vince

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Gooood moooorning it is Sunday 19, Oct. , 2008 & we had out first frost of the season last night , the trees are a beauitiful gold & red & the sky is BLUE the grass is still Green & it is just a Wonderful time here in da Burgh , I am not a big fan of the fall season But it is so pleasing to the eye, I know the winter ice is not far behind & I hate winter, I hate the gas bills & the electrict bills in the winter, I hate the fact that i need to start my car 10 minutes before I need to go to work, (thank GOD for the remote starter) , maybe I should just build a garage hahaha well I dont think that is going to happen any time soon. ............. Well I had a great time this week , worked at the shop all weeksmoked a LOT of fine cigars, I worked the alphabet this week started with Alcazar , finished with a Zino last night , I did try to do it in order , but i did skip arround a little , maduro was a sticking point for me, I keep going back to them , But in the morning I still like to start with the Don Carlos #3 , How ever there isnt a cigar that starts with X , Q was no problem , Quarm, Quintero & Quinteso ....... No OPUS starts with O not X , BUT it was as close as i could get ! .................. Did you get to see Sara on SNL last night ? she has a real sence of Humor ............ taken for what its worth , no matter how you vote, it was funny, & yes I know Humor is not what we need in DC but for those of you who remember Richard Nixon , who did a skit on Rhoan & Martins "Laugh IN" back in the 60's or was it the 70's , so long ago I forget, hey i have a lot of history to remember, I lived it , most of you guys just study it hahahahaha ......................the grandson are still messing up the computer but now they KNOW to set it back to my settings, I tried to set up 2 users on this machine & all was fine till they logged off with out changing the font size , well i thought if they logged off as the rugrats , when I logged on as myself the fonts would go back to the way in had them set, But it didnt work! , well now they know , so i dont need to go to the school pick one of them up to come up & change it back again ... Dammmm smart ass kids , hahahaha .............. Last night I was the MC for the local LIONS club fund raiser dinner, , I had an over cooked slice of Prime rib , I asked for it RARE but they didnt have any it was all done to medium well or well done, I just dont like well done beef, Knock off its horns whip its ass & serve it , MOOOOOOO , tender juicy & TASTY , not dry tuff & chewey, well it was Free hahahahaha & beggers cant choose what they get , So I shut up ate some of it , drank the 12year old scotch out of a coffee cup , they didnt have any brandy snifters, or any DECAFE , what kind of a hall is this, NO snifters & no decafe, hey I got to get some sleep some time & after 4 Pm I switch to the NO LEAD & all the old folks that were there I bet over half of them were on BP meds & asked for decafe ............ Sanka Instant was all they had & they ran out of it before the dinner was even served ... POOR planning on there part, & NO SMOKING in the dining room, I had to go to the bar to have a cigar, this place is HUGE we had less than 200 people & get get 700 in for Bingo , High roof , you can play basket ball in the place ( 2 full coarts ) , but NO smoking . bunch of whimps !!!! , well next year I dont now if i will be the MC again, I might just need to be at work that night ... what ever night it is !!!! , the staff was frendly BUT SLOW , people at one end of the room were eating there Ice cream all ready & I was still waiting for my salad ! ....... Good thing I had the scotch !, I left the house with three , 3 finger cigar carriers & 2 more cigars in my shirt pocket PLUS a fresh Hemmingway classic in my mouth when I left the house, I was ready for a long night ! , an even Dozen cigars , when I got home I had 1 cigar left, dammmmm MOOOOOOCHERS .............. I gave my self the day off today No cooking( after breakfast ) , I am heading to the local catering company & picking up 2 stuffed porkchop dinners ........ dammmmm its fun to be lazy hahahahaha ... ................Monaca, Pa ( where the shop is located ) had there fall fest on Saturday , a 5K run, fire trucks & the high school band & alkl the political asshats running for everything from US CONGRESS to the local dog catcher were in the parade both partys R&D were in full swing, no fights but I bet there were a few who wanted to trade a punch or two, it was a lot of fun BUT my regulars wernt able to get to the shop as the main street was closed to traffic, well you cant expect an 85 year old guy to walk 12 blocks from the parking lot to the shop & then after 2 cigars a half pot of coffee & a few shots of single malt & have to walk back to his car, dammmmm he needs help in when he parks right out front! hahaha well with the shuttle bus out of service we didnt get many of the regulars BUT we did get a lot of new faces, to bad they were not cigar smokers, but we had one of the only rest rooms that we allowed the public to use with out buying anything , no one wanted to use the porta johns on the street, , , , , , Can I use your bathroom, sure I said, then I get a call hey there no paper, theres no towels, theres no soap, dammmm full was in the broom closet pissing in the sink................. & one more PET PEEVE , dammmmmmm DOGS , now dont get me wrong I love dogs but when a customers brings in his MUTT & it lifts its leg on one of the leather chairs , its getting kicked in the ass then the asshat leaves with out cleaning it up, I rolled out the mop & bucket & got the guy going down the street & I held the leash of the dog when he went back & cleaned it up.......... ASSSSSSS HATTTTT , a 4 year old HOUSE broken MUTT , I have No idea what bread he /she was a mix of, all I know is NO FRIGGING DOGS IN THE SHOP , Unless its a Guide dog , some of the regulars always bring there dogs & I have never had a problem with any of them as long as they sit or lay down & dont bother anyone , No problem BUT if your dog wants to hump my leg bark at customers or use a chair like a Fire plug, YOUR OUTTA HERE ! Thats about all I have right now so From Da BURGH to you , Enjoy, Vince

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Damn Vince, action packed week for you. You're a nicer man than I, I would taken the mop upside the guys head if his dog pissed on my chair and he walked away.

I wanted to but the place was busy & I didnt want to let him get away with just a lump on his head, & then I would have had to clean it up, well this way he cleaned it up & now needs to go to the gas station to get his white owls

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LOL, He bought White Owls?

Good morning it is Sunday the 26th of OCT., 2008 a wonderful day here in da Burgh the Sun is out the sky is blue & the wind is a bit cool but it is the end of Oct. so we are right on track for the season, the trees are just spectacular , reds ,golds & oranges of all shades & hues , just a fantastic landscape out there ......... we did go for our Saturday night Cigar ride last night & saw 3 huge Does & a 12 point buck , just wondering accross the road about 9:30 last night , they all looked well fed , & were in no hurry to cross the road, just a snort & off they went into the next field .............. This mornings coffee is a Moca Java roasted to the first crack , I now wish I had let it go just a bit darker , & I will next batch, the Sunday morning Kona was all gone about 6:30 this morning along with the Don carlos #3 , but for breakfast this wonderful Sunday I grilled a few English muffins , sliced some Hot pepper cheese added a little crisp bacon & an egg to the mix & a breakfast sandwich was on the table with the moca java coffee & since today is Sunday & it is Cool outside the BOSS wants a Hunk of Beef for supper so I have a Chuck roast defrosting & will get it close to the heat soon. .................... the shop was slow all week with the stock market doing its roller coaster ride the sales of the big buck megga smokes is down, & the sale of the bundle stuff is UP , guys are still smoking as many sticks but just cut back on the quality, not that there is anything wrong with bundle cigars , Lord knows I smoke a TON of them , dammm if it wasnt for somking seconds & rejects ,overuns & blems I would be BROKE I am averaging 10 sticks a day & even at the wholesale price its gettin 'SPENCIVE !!! Thursday was #1 grandsons 13th Birthday , a nice celebration was had with Pizza & wings , his favorites & he was pleased with the turnout & the gifts, at his age now CASH is KING , , so I gave him a choice the envelope or a 10 dollar bill for every year he was old , well wats in the envelope, hahaha cant tell you, do you want to take a chance ? could be just 13 bucks in it , might be 13 cents , might be 1300 bucks , so what will it be ............... he took the 130 bucks & guess what was in the envelope? the same 130 bucks hahahahahaha , what he is going to do with all the cash i have no idea , maybe a new I pod or some other hunk of junk I have no idea how to use !! hahaha ............... well the Boss wants me to help her remove all the furniture from the back deck & put them away for the season, get out the leaf rake & snow shovel along with the rock salt for the drive way & walks , drain the gas from the lawn mower & take down all the spinners & windchimes from the back deck, looks like summer is OVER !!!! Not much else happening here in da Burgh , other than PENN STATE winning again ....... Steelers later today with the Giants ............ should be a fun game if your into football hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

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Good morning it is the First of November, the second day & it is the first day of Eastern Standard time here in da Burgh, gone is the daylight savings time , what they say they save is beyond my comprehension, but what ever the powers in chgarge think is good for us hahahaha, yea like I amn going to roll over & play dead , but it is the standard we have grown up with & changing times is just a pain in the clock, spring fwd. fall back, just keep it the same & get done with all the BS, when you want to "save " daylight just get up[ an hour sooner , why inconvience EVERYONE , the trains as far as I can recall all run on STANDARD time all year , when I was just a weeee lad my grandfather was a conductor on the Pennsylvania rail road & I do remember there was a BIG BEN clock in the living room that was Rail Road time , not to confuse it with the savings time that the rest of the world was using, if its still like that I have no idea , but thats what I remember ! ............... the weather here is crazy as a loon , snow last week & the A/C on this week, welcome to Pittsburgh hahahaha , this year is the 250th. Birthday party for the city , ahhhh yes I remember the founding well hahahaha , it all started with a fort at the area now called the Point , where the Monganhelia river , met the Allegheny river to form the OHIO river , & by way the point where the Ohio joins the Mississsippi river the OHIO has a larger flow & by all rights the Mississippi is a tributary to the OHIO & from that point it should be called the OHIO river that flows to the Gulf of Mexico , but since I wasnt there for the naming rights I guess I dont have much of a *** , but whats right isnt always what happens ....... all Hallows eve has come & gone, there were some Intrestion souls in the shop Friday night , we had visits from Shara Palin & Dog the bounty hunter , as well as a few ghouls & goblins , Donald Trump & a few pro sports players , & I was dressed as a Cigar roller , & did roll a few CIGARS , I know a lot of you sick bastards will read in that I was rolling a few Joints , well I havent rolled any since I was in the Navy , how ever I have mixed up a few good pipe blends since then ! .............. BUT to be honest I just enjoy the hand rolled cigars , I have no idea how I would support myself & my passion for Cigars if I didnt work in the industry........ I never know what I am going to say in this Sunday Morning smoke , I just type what comes to my sick perverted mind , give the readers a little insight to the area & tell you just what I have planned & a review of the past week the family BS is fun & the food stuff is my if you pardon the pun MY bread & butter, as a trained Chef & former instructor I just love to cook, & I love to pair food & cigars along with a glass of wine, a weeee dram of scotch & a pot of coffee , I just love anything that will tickle my taste buds , & I am alway looking for that Perfect pipe blend of tabacco or the Perfect cigar for the morning , afternoon & evening, so far I have been expermenting since 1955 & the reasersh is still going on , right now I have been toying with the Don Carlos #3 for the Morning smoke & I still havent found anything that will give me what I amn looking for better than the DC3 m I did a few days of the Monte white corona , a few days of the Monte Classic corona , but came back to the DC3 , the #4 is close but I like the 3 the best , I have gone from the 11/18 Camacho to the pepin JJ & still come back to the #3 ............ I was hitting the Morning blend pipe mixture from Dunhill for a few days but it just didnt cut the mustard , & the pipe is a pain in the ass to take care of, with a cigar you just Toss the butt way & forget all about it ................ a lot less work with a bigger return in taste, how ever the ladys seam to like the pipe better than the cigars BUT since I am not trying to impress anyone but MYSELF I dont give a rats ass what the ladys want me to smoike , the only lady I have to worry aboutb is my poor suffering wife Barb, 38 years together so far & we have never thought about Divorce , MURDER yes but never divorce !!!!!!!!! Breakfast this morning was a simple plate of bacon & eggs a slice of toast & a little jelly on half the slice , the first half went to slopping up the runny yoke ........... tonight I have a nice pair of beef slices , think I might make a southern classic , Chicken fryed steak with a white sauce , some steamed veggie of some sort & a few mashed spuds , maybe yams , gotta look to see whats available ............. , it is going to be in the 60's today maybe IU should just fire up the grill & make some thing else .............. hotdogs maybe , bratwurst? hummmmmm Pork chops dammmm before I get my taste buds all fired up I better check with the BOSS to she what SHE wants . I cook for her , 'cause when she is happy EVERYONE is happy ........ the Grandsons were low profile this week, nothing new or exciting happened with them, the dog is doing just fine as any 140 pound mutt can do, other that ripping up all the grass at the fence from running back & forth he hasnt done much of anything but sleep & druel all over everything & every body ................ that new car bug has bitten me again , we went window sticker shock shopping last night after the dealers closed ............. I have 170K on my 2000 Sable , & it looks like I will be keeping it a few more years , shooting for 240K , a Trip to the moon, the Tempo we had for 13 years still have the orginal clutch in it with 213 K on the ticker we got rid of it & I still see it hitting the road some summer days , it is in the need of a lot of TLC to get back to the shape I had it in when we got rid of it , but that was MANY uears ago , some cars just never seam to die but we had a Dodge Aspen station wagon that Died that fatefull day we bought it ! , a new car with about 40 miles on the clock when we drove it off the lot, it ran out of gas before we got out of sight of the dealership , less than a block from the gas station , well after all that on the firs day it was down hill from there , we were going to atlantic City the next month & had the oil changed for the first time right before we left for the shore, , going across the Walt Whitman Bridge in Philly the oil light came on, , 6 lanes wall to wall traffic, I get it off to the side, & pop the hood, the oil filter was leaking & all the oil was gone, well it gets fixed by the local service station, ( theyt sitll had them back then) now all you get is gas & you pump it yourself ... well to make a short story long My Buddy lived in Haddonfield NJ & we were on our way to pick him up on our trip to AC , well his street is a bussy on with a light at both ends of his block so getting out of his drive way is just a matter of timing the lights so you can get out , well, as I backed out & dropped the hammer to go Fwd, shifter from reverse to drive when the back wheels were still in reverse the transmission took a *** all over the road , lots of red fluid all over the place & NO GO fwd or backward, mind you this car has less than 2K miles on it , ran out of gas, had the oil filer leak & then the trans shits its guts , well we had that car a few months & the frame weld that holds the front suspention in place broke & both front tires were sittling at a 45 degree slope pointing at the sky , & now winter hits & the drivers door freezes shut, the Ziebart was jamed in the latch & the door was stuck till it was taken apart & all the guts inside the door had to be replaced, , then less than a year later the froint fender on the drivers side started to rust, seams like th battery cover to keep it warm in the winter had a vent for battery gasses , wll it went right uo on ther bottom of the fender & ate a big hole in the sheet metal , , , , , then they added a plastic hose to vent it down away from the bottom of the fenderm & the hose ended right above the front disc of the brakes on the drivers side, need I tell you how long it took for the front breaks to need replced ? hahaha, well we got rid of that car before it was paid off, , that was the Last Dodge we bought , How ever I have been looking at the Dakota Pick up ................ BUT I keep remembering the ASPEN.................. I am sipping a pot of Moca java right now, the kona whent down smooooooth as always & this is just as nice , well its time for me to head out to the Qtr.DECK & get started on todays top 10 cigars ............ Enjoy, Vince

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Good Morning , It is Sunday 9 Nov. 2008, a chilly wet morning here in Da Burgh we had a Fantastic week weather wise this past week, low 70's & blue skys with the trees all in the Autumn glory of Reds & golds a few evergreens dotting the hillsides it was just what the Doctor ordered to lift the spirits of the masses of people worring about the election & wall street , I have taken the Alford E Numan approch to life , " What Me Worry" , so I lost a few bucks on wall street, warren buffette lost BILLIONS , & the best thing about it is , it will not effect either one of our life styles he will still have his jets & his beat up old 98 olds , & I will still have my Sable with 170K + on it . . . . I look at it this way you can only drive one car at a time , live in one house at a time , smoke one cigar at a time, ( well I have had 2 lit at the same time just to compair) & make love to one lady at a time , ( yea i know there are times when you want to do her & her friend at the same time , but lets face it guys , your NOT superman , & unless your a freek of nature you only have ONE member hanging between your legs , so lets cut the crap & just think about it , sure it would be nice to have 2 or more at one time, just to watch them with each other, but then if that happens what to they need with you ??? hahahaha ............ well back out of the gutter & back to the Sunday morning smoke .... dammm it was a nice little trip into the gutter anyway........... , Lat night we celebrated the THIRD birthday party of the Blowen Smoke Pod casts at Slippery Rock cigars , & a great time was had by all, we had a few sticks to share with the troops with operation Cigar pimps & made a donation to a fellow brother of the leaf who had a fire at his home & lost his Humidor along with all of his "STUFF" , no one was hurt in the fire but it is tuff to loose your home, I understand & know what the guy is going through , in the spring of 1967 our house went up in smoke & I lost a good deal of STUFF , but thank GOD no one was hurt, the insurance covered a lot of it but not all, BUT back then I was still smoking the Drug store brands & hadent Graduated to hand rolled sticks , yea I would have an occasional contraband havana & a few Good cigars here & there , But I was still into the Marsh wheelings & the el productos & havatampas , it was about the mid 70's when I went to the Good stuff & stayed there, well I still have a Marsh wheeling when ever I am feeling nostalgic .. ............ My wife & I were looking at a new car for her , the one she is driving is a 95 Contour & it is starting to show a little sign of USE , the headliner on the sunroof is starting to come undone & the water pump is starting to squeel at times there is a tranny leak , the gas milage is not as good as it was but then she has a lead foot & never did get great milage with it , a little car like that with a DOHC V6 she like to GO , well we looked at a Fusion & a Taurus, the Fusion looks sharp & has all the bells & whistles & the Taurus is equipped the same PLUS it has Heated leather seats ................... the cost is the same for both cars , the draw backs are the LIGHT Tan Interior of the Fusion & the Dark Gray exterior of the Taurus .................. , well I can live with what ever she picks , I like the ride & room of the Taurus & the looks of the Fusion.............. makes no difference to me . I will keep driving my sable till it falls apart, the only thing holding it together is the is the tar & smoke , the seat has a few burn marks , as well as the carpet& console , the headliner is a wonderful color of smoke & the sunroof is now extra dark tint ! the seat has formed to my butt & the coffee stains now are so big the clean spots look like the spills hahahahaha ! I have a PORK roast to go in the oven soon ............ NO BEEF today YEA , so it will get a little liquid smoke & a dash of BBQ sauce & a nice crisp apple for sweetness a baked spud with sourcream & chives & what ever fresh veggie I can get at the local farmers market.... The Boys were here Thursday , Nothing new with them just school & home work , the dog is doing just fine & takes them both out for a drag , the dog is heavyer than both of them together ! , one dog 2 leashes & 2 boys Inside the fence , he is just so strong he pulls me when I TRY to take him out .... just a BIG stupid eating & shitting machine that will love you unconditionaly ! I am getting a Visit from Pedro Gongalezes this week he is the owner of Don Gonzalezs Cigars , he will be in the Pittsburgh area all week , we are going to hit a few shops with specials so if your near the leaf & Bean in the strip district of Pittsburgh saturday afternoon we will be there, friday Night it will be at King Beaver cigars in Monaca Pa , Thursday we will be in Sharon Pa at Penn Ohio Cigars & in Gerrard Ohio at Cordys cigar box , if you get a chance stop & say hi get a few boxes of cigars .............. Enjoy, Vince

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Good morning it is Sunday ,16 November,2008, a Cold crisp day here in da Burgh , a little intermitent snow & some rain are falling & it is windy on top of all that, a down right MISERABLE day , BUT I have the Qtr.Deck all ready & will be relaxing with a cigar & a POT of coffee all day long, I have stuffed porkchops comming out of the oven between 3:30 & 4 , so the day is off to a great start, & breakfast was great this morning , a slice of bacon , & a scrambled egg with a big slab of Hot pepper cheese melted in the egg , & a nice slice of watermellon on the side, , the coolness of the mellon & the HEAT of the hot pepper cheese , made my taste buds dance the coffee was Kona but now I have a pot of Moca Java , later today I think I will try a little bit of Tanzanian Peaberry & a Don Gonzalezs maduro torp. , & speaking of Don Gonzalez , he has been here in da burgh all week we did a few tastings on Thursday , Friday & Saturday , he is headed to the Steeler game later today & the poor guy has NO idea what he is in for, Born in Cuba , now living in Miami , & he is going to the MUSTARD bowl , Hinze Field in the rain & snow, BET he will be freezing by the end of the teams warming up ! , & unless he has a weee bit of anti freeze he will be a solid block of ice by the half ! We finished the BIG @$$ Birthday party pod cast lest week at Slippery rock cigars , the pod cast is now 3!, you can get to the pod cast by going to www.burghherfers.com click on the pod cast link. NOW on with the news, ... I picked up a new GRAY Ford 500 , well new to me , it was a lease & had just over 20K on the clock, the orginal sticker was still in the glove box & it was well over 28K, I got the car for under 12, & on the way home , the state was painting the yellow lines on the road & sure as shooting , a big sploch of yellow pain from wheel to wheel on the drivers side , didnt even get it home , BUT the heated leather seats are just what my hemroid needed, & they feel good on my behind as well, ( Now for you S L O W people out there reading this , I am refering to my wife as the hemorid ) ............ Just hope she dosent read this hahahaha Not much going on the gradsons are keeping a low profile, getting it geared up for the Being good just before Christmas ........... you all remember that dont you? hahaha seams just like yeasterday I was telling My mother what I wanted for Christmas, yep Scotch & cigars hahahaha , but back then it was butterscotch & buble gum cigars ............. I remember the Christmas of 57 Or was it 56 what ever it was a LONG time ago , we had about 30 inches of snow on the ground & it was a Beautiful morning looking out the front window & seeing EVERYTHING covered in a blanket of marshmellow cream, BUT then I remembered I had to shovel it all off the walkway & drive way & when the city plowed the street I had to remove the BIG pile from the end of the drive way, so then I realized snow was fun to look at & a real Pain in the lower back to get rid of it , my idea was since GOD put it there , let GOD get rid of it But my mother had a different idea , I get rid of it & she will stop hitting me with the wooden spoon telling me to get out there & shovel it...... hahahaha ....... I still Miss her at times , but I have gotten out of the habbit of picking up the phone to give her a call, that was the worst part , every time some thing good would happen & I wanted to share it with her , I would pick up the phone & give her a call or stop in & tell her in Person , I guess death is the start of a new way of life for everyone involved with the person who passed away , I do miss my father as well but he has been gone about 10 years longer than my mother & I have come to terms with it years ago ........... I still miss both of them a lot , but I wish my gransons had a chance to meet MY grandparents ,,,,,,,,, dammmmm we are all getting old hahahahaha the Trees have all lost the color of the fall & the yard has been raked a few dozen times , the weedeater leaf blower has a hole in the bag , & I have patched it a few times & it keeps blowing out the materiel is just shot so I went on line to order a new bag for it & BINGO I found it first time , this is slick, no more going to the parts store , just type in the company name , the modle number & a parts list pops up, click the part you want add it to the shopping cart & click check out , smoooooth as a pina colada , & I also ordered a T shirt from Denmark for my grandson with some bands tour dates & logo, on it , & it got here in less than a week, dammmm the internet 7 the post office are doing a Bang up Job , salute to the USPS for delervering a package with out any postage at all on it ! way to keep the revenue up ! it is about time for me to hit the Qtr.Deck & have an other cigar , No idea what this one will be till I go look & see what striks my fancy or maybe some thing I have a lot of that I should thin down the population , just so I can get more in the humi ! hahaha Enjoy, Vince

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sorry no post this sunday, I got the flu

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Vince O:

sorry no post this sunday, I got the flu

Hey Vince, Sorry to hear it.. Hope your feeling 101% soon.

get well soon

Ick. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

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Well here it is a few days past sunday BUT I am back to work & am feeling much better ............ Last friday I went to the doc for my flu shot, guess it wasnt soon enough ! hahaha, friday evening at work I was feeling a little quesy , but I thought it was the Rum on a fairly empty stomach, well I stopped sipping the rumabout 8:30 PM & went to bed about midnight , got up at 8 AM with the boss & she had her HONEY do list , well I told her I didnt feel well & then it started, you always feel good when your going out to work or spending time with the grandsons BUT when it comes to me you are sick well I am pissed, OK settle down what ever you want to do I will do, NO YOUR SICK, well with that I went back to bed, left her standing there , no one to argue with , hahahaha , I Guess I was sicker than i thought , I slept till 4AM , never getting up to go to the bathroom , NOTHING ! , well at 4AM I needed to drain the brain hahaha, , I got a sip of water & it came back up ! dammmmm maybe I an sick ! , well I went back to bed & slept an other 12 hours ........... took Monday off & am feeling a lot better today, NOW the Boss has the bug & tells me she feels bad for being mean to me when I was sick, since I made her supper tonight ( SOUP ) wedding soup her favorite , ( I took it out of the freezer last night ), so all I needed to do today was heat it for her, JUST LIKE it was made today ! so that was MY weekend , sleep & get yelled at, just like any other weekend But with out all the sleep ! hahaha We Got our new car this past week, & on the way home the line painting guys from out crack highway dept. put a nice coat of yellow center line paint on the drivers side from wheel well to wheel well on our new Gray car .............. well I went to the state office & they filled out a form & it came back today with a 2 page form to fill out, & a request for photos, witnesses & injury reports , well since i didnt know i got painted till I got to work, I do know where & when I passed the paint crew , so now all I need is a second estamate from a body shop , photos & a sworn statement , noterized & a copy of my last blood test & a note from the Governer & all my w2 forms from the last 17 years & my third grade report card . soon I will get a check from the state for 12 bucks that will cost me 570 Bucks to fix ! ahhhh yes our elected leaders out spending our money again ! One thing about being asleep all weekend , I didnt have a cigar from Friday at 10 PM till today at about 10 AM .... YES it was a Don Carlos #3 & it was GRAND..... since I was sleeping all weekend plus Monday & didnt eat anything or drink anything , I was kind of hungry this morning ( TUESDAY) so out came the Tofu & rice , a little coconut & dried Bananas ,peanutbutter , & just to add a little spice , green tabasco ......... , a splash of chicken stock & I was in BUSINESS , not a bad way to start the day ! I dont want to sound like a broken record, BUT I didnt get to spend any time with the grandsons this weekend so I have no news from the goings on of the RUGRATS , I do know they went to West BY GOD VA. with there dad for the weekend, what they did I have no idea , what ever it was didnt make the evening news so for that I am thankfull, as he is when the 3 of us dont show up on the news !!! hahahaha Sales at the shop have been off this month , I hope it picks up after thanksgiving , right now we are looking at the lowest gross sales for a month since we opened 2 years ago , well it looks like the sales signs will be going up on FRIDAY at 3 PM , all purchases of 75 BUCKS for single sticks will get 10% off & all boxes will get an extra 10% off & what ever else I can figure out to do ! dammm it sure beats being back in the kitchen, working for a living.......... ahhh yea RETIREMENT with all the great times to do anything you want . Smoke, when I want spend time with the grandsons when I can, have a weee dram when times & conditions permit, listen to music when i feel like it & tell anyone I want to GET off my Grass hahahahaha , , , , Naww I am not that grumpy old man I will be out building snowmen with all the kids & tossing snow balls at the police car when he drives by hahahaha , CANT WAIT !!!!! Gasoline has dropped below 2 Bucks a gallon at some of the private owned No brand name stations ,,,,,, the national brands are still at 2.15 a gallon a WHOLE LOT BETTER than the 4.59 we were paying just a few months ago ............ How long will it last? I thought it would have gone down before election day ! Now a few words about the bail out ............. BULL$HIT, the CEO's took the money & ran to companys into the ground, they stole from the share holders & now we the taxpayers are bailing them out, BS, SEND THE SOB'S to JAIL , just like the guys from Enron, I worked hard for my money & I dont want to "share the wealth" , LET the SOB's work 2 jobs or 3 just like I did . I burnt the candle at both ends for way to many years so I could kick back & enjoy my old age , Now some young bean counter wants to take my nest egg & & give me 3% BS, I worked for it , its mine, I might just cash out & burry the cash in the back yard hahahahahaha , time to move to a socialist country in Europe, oh wait I dont need to move socicalisum is Here DAMMMMMMM Well that about all i have tonight, see you all SUNDAY !!!! Enjoy, Vince

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Please pass the gravy, GO NAVY

Enjoy, Vince

Vince.. Good to see your sense of humor is back, ( third grade report card, ) I'll have to use that one some day. Have a week week, Kas.