Nice! Stuck in the Crashpad for a while so my sticks will be limited to what I can find at the local shop.

BTW Ronin, I was just giving you shit in that other thread! Good luck in the interview buddy!

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BTW Ronin, I was just giving you shit in that other thread! Good luck in the interview buddy!

No worries, I did not take it any other way!

Quite a busy week here. Our annual shut down for a week started last Saturday. I have been hanging drywall, designing and buying cabinets for a kitchen remodel we will be doing, swim team meet, the usual running around that happens when you have time off from work! While i have been having a cigar a day, I have not posted them. Today's though, a Roma Craft Neanderthal deserves attention. Damn I enjoy these!

This is a good cigar.

This one was damn good.

Wonderful morning, sitting on the deck since 8am drinking coffee with a Monte White. Umbrella is just big enough to keep rain off.

My first tat red band. This is a great smoke.

This evening's choice. La Flor Dominicana Air Bender

Owners of my B&M are at the Vegas show. Just posted this and promised they'd be carrying the lighter sets....

Damn those look good.

Ave Maria Reconquista this evening.

If you haven't tried one yet the Four Kicks Mule Kick is a pretty damn amazing smoke. There's still some out there, last i checked small batch had 5vers for sale.

Weekend starts now.

OK fellas. I'm stuck in Memphis for about 6-7 weeks for training. There is a cigar shop about 5 miles from my crashpad that has turned out to be just the thing that I need.

For the past 10 days or so my schedule has been show up at 7 or 8 AM and be done by 2 PM at the latest. I go grab a late lunch, stop by the crahspad to change clothes and hit the cigar shop by 3 or 3:30. It is a Tinder Box, if anyone is familiar with them. Very good selection, friendly staff and in this one at least 12 chairs to kick back in and smoke.

I have been using my afternoons to study (the iPad and earbuds) and smoke something.

One thing I told myself, just because I could - everything I smoke will be something new to me.

So the first day there I am strolling through the humidor and something catches my eye - a turquoise band. I pick one up and I see H Upmann on the big band an AJ Fernandez on the small band. Well this should be good!



And yes, that was one hell of a nice cigar.

Two days ago I show up and again do the walk through, looking for something I have not seen.

I find something that looks good. I take it out and ask the two guys working what the story is on this stick. Neither one has smoked one, but they hear good things about it.

Good enough, let's go.



An All About Kings Foreverlast.

I lit it up and was impressed. After about 10 minutes I decided to find out what the hell this cigar was. To the Googles we go!

Drew Estate and Caldwell together? No wonder it was so good! Shit, I need to snag a whole lot more of these while I can!

Bottom line - I am having a lot of fun (and so far very good luck) just trying something different. And in my case just mostly random. This place has a very good Drew Estate selection, so every time I walk by the Dirty Rats and UF-13s and say "Nope, not today. Today is for new cigars..." I hear them cry just a little bit....

Thats something i miss about living close to a good lounge. Walking around and looking for something new.

That H. Upman is a great stick and very reasonably priced.

I am smoking a Pistoff Kristoff at the moment. I was told to sit on it for a bit. After about 6 months I couldn't take it any more and decided to fire it up. Quite good! There is a sweetness, like cane sugar in there. Full bodied but not punch yo momma full.

Hearing alot of good for the Pistoff. Guess i need to add it to the long list of smokes to buy.

Had an Olivia something tonight on the patio... delightful!

On vacation had a bunch of great smokes.

Gator, did you fly to Cuba?!

Tonight's selection is a new favorite but in a maduro wrapper. I had natural before and grabbed this chisel tipped maddie recently.



La Flor Dominicana Air Bender maduro