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That is an excellent story. One of the many things I loved about Oscar Valladares was his rolling school in Danli Honduras. I hope that one day that Fab 5 will be in hte position to do the same. Rolling school, childcare for the youngins.

I appreciate the feedback folks. Did a testing on Sunday morning on the way to lunch. NB/Saucony/OC/Hoka predominantly. I have ordered a couple of sets of Hoka (Clifton and Arahi). 40% sale helped make the decision but they felt great. Let's see how they go.

It blew the Snapper out of the water. Sweet white meat. Excellent.

you take one flight...

you are doing a good job regardless ........ Epstein files/releases have no part of this forum. Unless you or I come up. JohnS would be a suprise. Fuzz would not.

no argument.

looking at all this from the perspective of diversions involving cuba and others, so as not to go down paths inappropriate, it started before the arrest in 2019 with epstein and very suspicious deals with acosta. this and the arrest was in trump's first term. then came prosecution of maxwell and subsequent appeals. this was during the previous administration. investigations relating to all this were only shut down by trump in june or july last year, from memory. while this is going on (the appeals, investigations, statements from witnesses and so on), it was considered inappropriate and potentially prejudicial and even likely to adversely affect the case against maxwell by providing her with further and likely successful grounds for appeal should files be released. and it just isn't done at this stage. the dept of justice, or any such entity (assuming them competent and not simply one man's private law firm), does not go around releasing files before a matter is concluded. in addition, as the previous white house has explained, they believed in the seperation between the office of the president and the justice dept. as they should. sadly, not everyone does. invading Cuba? as for it being a stretch, really? politicians the world over have used diversions to cover problems. many believed that thatcher declared war on argentina, not to save a few sheep on a far distant rock, but to take attention away from her failing popularity at the time. if so, it worked. i always liked thatcher but she was a politician. it would be fair to say that the current incumbent of the white house does not do diversions, simply because there is so much going on that some might feel he'd need them daily. who really knows. but a lot of things seem to happen when the focus is very much on the latest chaos. attention now on Cuba could easily be more of the same. we've seen it before. one exampple among many. it really is a bit difficult to see the actions of bombing small boats allegedly because of the drugs issue as anything more than yet one more diversion, very much along these lines. the size of these boats mean they need to carry an estimated 950 gallons of fuel to get to the US (not much room for all the alleged drugs left), the US coast guard/navy have already identified them and if they really were headed to the US or an interim site, could easily intervene and arrest them. they are supposedly being bombed to prevent fentenol arriving in the states. venuezla makes about as much fentenol as i do. fentenol basically comes originally from china. yet not a word about stopping that. and if they were genuine about drugs, why pardon a guy who sent literally tonnes of drugs into the US? and on and on. so yes, if/when the epstein files issue builds again, i can see a diversion, whether it be Cuba, china, iran, another city like Minneapolis, a prize ceremony, a movie, who knows. not a big leap. but to go further might see us transgressing FoH rules.

Exciting photos!

The cigar from my brother's wedding day The best cigar I've ever tasted H. Upmann, connoisseur B

When it comes to Cuba, every international govt is interested only in their own geoplotical benefit. China/Russia/Mexico/Venezuela/USA....all of them. Cuban military is only interested in their control and survival. Cuban people are an afterthought unfortunately. Let's hope for a best case scenario. Regime change or adjustment in the shortest possible time period with no or minimal military action.

didn't know about the settings - i simply ckicked on and they started giving me stats. will have to see if i can make it harder. that would be intereting.

I’m on it. You just wait….

All good gentlemen, I have you all on my spreadsheet. 😁

I would say we need to up the photography game, but I know that war from long ago conversations with Charlie & Brooks. We may do other things well but serious photography is beyond our capacity.

Funny you said that, because I actually took a few photos before I got one of the wrapper that I was happy with. Still didn’t quite capture it.. I tried, though, because as you said it was a very nuanced wrapper.

Sancho Panza El Rey today with just excellent weather. Delicious, creamy, salty chocolate. Absolutely loved it!

I'm actually not a fan of Trinidad in general but this looks like it was created for the saudi royal family

There are a few settings that you can tweak to make it harder/easier. I play on hard. Have done 200+ streak. Starter is Orate

Didn't I say a couple weeks ago that $1000 cigars were around the corner? At least a decade is some value, but what a margin.

Quite seriously? Conflating Taiwan, Cuba and Epstien is quite a stretch. The US Dept of Justice arrested Epstien in the summer of 2019 and immediately started gathering eveidence, then siezed and raided his island later that year and grabbed all his tapes and correspondence. Do you really think that after all that was done to discredit that bad orange man in the succeding four years they wouldn't have made it all public before now?

Been a Wordle player for quite a while now, but never signed up and have no idea of how long my win streak is. I used to start with 'pious' then 'alert', but lately I've been starting with 'adieu' and go from there. Another good series of games are Quordle / Octordle.

This is the strongest SS I've hard by far and maybe the strongest Viaje old or young. Just off the charts. I'm pretty sure they were around 15 years, I'm quite certain +10 years based on the look alone. These pics aren't doing alot of justice to the texture and delicacy of the wrapper here.

Rare Pink Work of Art while on a walk with doggoJL2 very good just a little tight

@LizardGizmo, Bam maybe could’ve gotten even MORE for his Fundys! 😂

Wow, I had no idea this was that old until seeing your title. So much strength, still, after all that time! Fresh, it would probably give me the head spins.