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To a small degree. Some tubos change. The RyJ Churchill ones for instance.

Hoyo DC Wednesday smoke. I came really close to tossing it. The first half was more of a job trying to get anything out of it. Smoke was non existent. A 2021 Sig 2 Thursday night(no pic) was excellent.

2000 serie A. 2000 cigars can be quite hit and miss from my experiences. This was a hit! Delivered creamy nectarines, leather and toasty tobacco.

You will, of course, pass along the refund to your customers who paid the tariff surcharge, right? What a mess.

So do you think you can approximately date a cigar by the style of tube it is in?

Whoops. I meant Tubes.

I just purchased a Fonseca Canadian Regional from my local LCDH (Edmonton) that I would put up for one of your cigars! I doubt I will be jumping on any Discord to call you names as I will be too busy swearing at that rat Mathew Tkachuk. I do not want to get a FOH ban so I will leave it at that! I am quite nervous with Sid the Kid being injured but hopefully McJesus can come through.

I am already nervous for the game, haven’t gotten over the Blue Jays loss yet and can’t imagine if we lose this game. Go Team Canada!

My wife and her sisters are at the Juan Luis Guerra concert in her hometown of Santiago, DR this weekend. This is like the Jets going to the Super Bowl for my wife. He is awesome live, and seeing him in Santiago will be amazing, but I am glad to be home with little buddy for a boys weekend. He just turned 7, I love a good boys weekend at this age. Fishing, pool, hot dogs and hamburgers, Legos, movies and popcorn (quick Sovereign Suns while grilling the dogs). Repeat.

4 5/8 X 40 - I believe the upside down band is a first for me. Did I just smoke a collectors item? 😂 These have been in their tubes for 25 years now. Super rich dense billowing smoke. Medium full strength. Dried apricot, baking spice - sourdough on retro. Passive aromas citrus & spice. Amazing smoke production from these little sticks. These have gone from harsh one note blah to complex flavor bombs. What a delicious 75 minutes.

I'm a fan of soundtracks of 60's music. Easy Rider and The Big Chill come to mind, plus the reggae of The Harder They Come. Woodstock for importance - that movie shook this 16 year old from the suburbs to his core.

If they do it’s because the cigar was too wet or too dry before going into the tubo (or back into the tubo) and didn’t have a chance to properly settle. So the tubo itself can allow for this to happen, but the thing that causes the physical changes in the leaf is water movement inside the cigar.

The thing that is best for the tobacco leaf is stability. Water movement / moisture gradients physically change the cell structure, and this movement comes from temperature and RH changes. The tubo allows for a microclimate inside, so if sealed and in a stable environment, the aging/degradation process will slow way down. Immortal, no, but in theory it should “keep” cigars much longer than keeping them naked in a box.

One thing I have noticed is that a lot of the times, the cigar band, because of the trapped moisture, will go almost green if the band were gold at one point. I have had some of the cigars tend to get darker at 20 years plus!

we flagged thiss a while ago when in its preliminary stages. anyone interested or with any questions, feel free to get in touch. should be fun. plenty of not-stricty wine stuff for spouses and partners if necessary. https://www.wetravel.com/i/69698d71315182e9feef9128/preview

Brother-in -law's birthday shenanigans this evening. Study and life admin for the rest.

It's going to be a warm weekend in my part of the world and so I will need to do my gardening (i.e. mainly lawn mowing) first thing in the morning or in the cool of the shade at the end of the day. A swim in the pool in this weather is very much a 'fait accompli'. My wife and I are also welcoming some dear friends who are visiting Australia from Germany, whom we haven't seen for a few years face-to-face. We're looking forward to catching up over dinner at a local restaurant, which is a personal favourite of ours.

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Probably bending an FOH rule or two here, but I’ll give it a go. I will stake ONE of either: An 8 yo Punch DC A 7 yo RJ Churchill A 6 yo Coro For whatever a Canadian FOH wants to put up for the CAN/USA Olympic gold medal game on Sunday morning, 0810 EST. Potential adversary must be passionate about hockey and be willing to jump on the Discord channel during the game, so we can call each other rude names. Respond below.

France/ 8 tries Arsenal/ 4 Celtics/ 5 12 penalties

It’s official: CAN vs. USA hockey Sunday morning, 08:10 EST. I’m making a post shortly that might/could/probably break an FOH rule that I should maybe be familiar with, but wtf. I figure the worst that can happen is I’ll get Banned for a Week! 🔨🔨🔨 The $1100 dollar tooth implant screw that they installed apparently didn’t take which they were quick to assess was a result of smoking, so they charged me another $300 to remove it. No cigars for me for at least 5-6 months. 😡 The nice dentist lady informed me that since I essentially have a hole from my mouth directly to my skull that smoking could lead to a condition she called “dry socket”, and most everyone says is no bueno. Thank God she didn’t say anything about drinking!!! 🍾🥂 Looking forward to the Champagne master class next month. I’m off to see if I get banned. 🔨

Sunday morning, 08:10 EST CAN vs. USA

Great cigar deck session with the lads yesterday and it is always a great introduction to the weekend. Working on the boat and trailer today with my sons Ben and Tom as we head away on a fishing (barramundi) camping trip end of next week for a few days. I really don't expect to do any real work on the either boat and trailer. Grant, my brother-in-law is coming along with us on the trip and he is a gun camper/Mr Fix-it. Ben and Tom aren't too bad either given they had a mechanical Gumby as a father. I will do what I do best and offer to pay for a post lunch at the pub. Otherwise it will be newspapers and cigars/drinks this afternoon before a Mexican tortilla movie night outdoors with Dee. Sunday is parents day this week so we will herd all the extra oldies to the Bulimba pub for lunch. Dee's mum, my mum and dad and any invitees they decide to bring. Since I have a short week next week due to fishing, I will need to work a few hours Sunday but otherwise a relatively quiet and enjoyable weekend. Cigar wise I have been hoovering through the last of some aged Monte 2 which have been 94/95 per one. I see no reason to stop. For those in the Fat Bastid Competition we have a weigh in coming up! Stay on the course good people!