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What an excellent video in a world of cigar influencer crap. I visited the Correnti factory years ago. It is indeed a time capsule. Every continued success to Chris and his team.

Locking myself in the studio, trying to bang out a new song if I can finish writing the damn thing.

Happy Birthday John!

I loved that school/sport stage of life taking Ben, Becky and Tom to the various week trainings and weekend games. Very special. Enjoy!

BOTL provided this lovely Lanceros for Christmas. Wonderful cigar. Cheers

Assuming it is not an overly thick wrapper + construction good.........glorious. I love a mottled wrapper with what looks to be a rosado tinge. Photo's can be deceptive of course. Reminds me of the wrappers on many of the Punch Punch 50 cabs when they were available. If it was my box, straight down for a 60-90 day nap/acclimatisation and try one. Work out your strategy from there.

Ninfa at night. 30 days post-delivery, basically all RyJ cherry and floral which I'm here for!

E1 Bills win/ over E2 SF/under E3 Pats / 7-13 E4 Rams / 6 Tie 7

Banger.

Thanks JD.

Glad to know that the hour long power outage at the Hotel Nacional in November was a figment of my imagination. I was a little concerned prior to hearing the minister's reasurring words. Especially when you realize that outage was when Venezuela was supplying oil on a regular schedule.

1) Bills win / over 2) Seahawks win / over 3) Patriots win / 7-13 4) Bears win / 5 sacks TB) 8 punts

I thought that subject might garner a little interest, lol... Here's the deal...I was able to acquire this box of Punch Punch a few months ago. They are oily. They smell great every time I open the box. But the look is...divisive? I've seen some guys rave about mottled wrappers, others (like me) tend to prefer more uniform/smooth and lighter colored wrappers. So where do you fall on this particular box? I have to re-emphasize, the smell is fantastic.

Busy one. Cigar reviews on Saturday, the start of the 2026 review season. Sunday having some friends over for a couple of cigars, then off to the MILs to celebrate my birthday early.

If driven regularly, any Ferrari manufactured in the last 25 years will not leave you stranded. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of Ferrari's are daily or near daily drivers. Mechanical failure is rare. Expensive cars have expensive parts. The parts don't ever get less expensive even though the car itself does.

Thank you so much and you’re SO welcome! Hope you love it as much as I do 😊

daughter (12) - first soccer tournament of the year, 90 minutes away in Sacramento son (8) - first flag football game, Sunday AM same as it ever was

Quiet one also. Brunch with some friends tomorrow but today is life admin which I'm hoping to get through by 4 or so and then I've got Nobody 2 to watch with some ginger garlic chicken stir fry I've been marinating overnight. Some nice whites in the fridge so it'll be a cruisy evening. Hopefully step out onto the balcony for a cigar after.

Romeo y Julieta Línea de Oro Nobles EPO JUL22. Many thanks to my Secret Santa @NYGuido for this wonderful smoke!

Relatively quiet one this weekend which makes a nice change. walk and gym now (after I tap this out), Zoom with Hamlet, knock out a couple of hours work, read the newspapers + Negroni (3) followed by Saturday arvo kip. I think I will cook up some pork rack for dinner and have an espresso martini movie night + a Fenomenos. Need to find a 2 hour plus movie classic. ......will report back. Tomorrow (Sunday), Ben and I are taking the boat out for a 1/2 day fish. I haven't been out for a while so am looking forward to spending the time with Ben and hopefully bringing home some dinner. There are a couple of cigars in the Fabrica 5 development pipeline I need to try, so that will deliver the perfect opportunity. What's up for the weekend?

Screw them dry fatties. 🤣

And those of you who don't drink alcohol and are fat have no excuses! It sounds easy to lose fat without drinking! Liver's always on fat burning mode!

We can dig up studies that say that the Covid vaccines killed more people than the virus. What we can find and what the best studies, interpreted by people with the education to understand them, are two different things. The only way I've been able to remain faithful the the medical industrial complex, and I'm close to Boston, (a significant research center) has been to accept that modern medicine endeavors to do the best for the most. The reliance on statistics in the field pushes a practitioner to provide the treatment that has been statistically shown to be best for most. Lots of MDs ard researchers around my town in the summer. If I hear one more say, "there is no research to support that idea.".......Couple the statistical analysis with insurance controlled appointment times and it's easy to see why people hate the medical industrial complex. Very easy. My buddy, who hates MDs and big pharma, thinks they are all corrupt, money grubbing, condescending crooks and wouldn't piss on a one of them if they were on fire, was pretty happy when they removed the kidney stone in his gut last year.