Sunday Morning Smoke

Vince,

Im currently in the DEP for the Air Force. Ill be shipping out on the first of the year if everything goes to plan. Right now my plan is to do at least 20 years active duty, but I plan on using the CCAF to earn my bach. and transfer to being an officer. Im extremely excited about it, I cant wait to start my adult life!

Im really just a supporter of our military period. My mom served 20 years in the Army, dad 20 years in the Navy, and my grandfather served 24 years in the Navy. The service history goes back very very far in my family, so I somewhat have to keep the family tradition going.
If Im every in the area, Ill definatly have to hit you up.

Good luck to you Syntax.

I have a friend in the Air Force, she is currently stationed in Germany and has her own show on the AAFES radio station.

I wish you the best of luck, Syntax (at 19, and what a commitment.)

Good luck to you Syntax. I've been in the Navy for about 3 years and plan to stay in the Navy for a while. I've got a lot of buddies from college that are in Iraq. Don't forget to "hurry up and wait." God bless.

Thanks, all of you guys!
Its great to see support for the military from you guys.
Im a big computer nerd...and 99.999% of them are hardcore lefty's, so when I mentioned to my friends that I had enlisted...Well, shit hit the fan with a very loud noise lol.

Syntax said:

Im a big computer nerd...and 99.999% of them are hardcore lefty's, so when I mentioned to my friends that I had enlisted...Well, s*** hit the fan with a very loud noise lol.

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I'm one of those "leftys" :wink: . Maybe, your friends just want to make sure your choices are not done in haste.

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee

Dear Airman Syntax,

We maybe hardcore "Lefties" but that does not mean we do not support the "Victoms" of this war. We support the Troops. Don't forget that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello all,
This is my first post in this thread .
It's 8:30 here in northern Indiana. I just had my coffee/cream/rum Sunday morning combo, smoking a Cusano 18
This is my second C18....ok I'm hooked. I think I will be ordering some more soon.
My friend Rob will be calling soon to let me know his Fighting Irish won big time yesterday. I will be watching the NASCAR race at Texas routing for the BUDWIESER car and watching the Dolphins shut down Atlanta today.

Have a good Sunday all and "smokem if ya gotem"
Rich

Im sitting here with a hot cup of Peet's Holiday Blend (not that great this year). I have a well aged diploma and Im getting ready to light. Unfortunatly this will be the only free time for me today. I have to go over and paint a living room for my mom. Her fiance was working on it, but unfortunatly he cut the back of his knuckle off on his left thumb... He is going in for surgery on monday because he severed the flexor tendon somehow. I guess the cut rotated under his thumb and sliced it. I looked at it last night and the tendon is hanging out a little bit. Usually in this sort of situation they spring back into the wrist or forarm. The doc at the ER told him there is a very good chance they will not be able to fix the knuckle because of the damage to it...
So that means I get to finish the trim, and paint the place. Not a big deal, but life is stressfull at the momment with all the police testing im doing. So for the next hour im going to sit here and spend this time thinking about not a god damn thing except for the great cigar and sorta great coffee im consuming.

Hope all of you guys have a unproductive, lazy, and enjoyable sunday! (unless of course you have crap to do like me)

I'm going to have a Maximus Diamond Crown robusto that my local cigar guy gave me to celebrate my daughters birth.

Hope everything goes well with your mom's fiance, Rory!

smoking a excalibur no.1 while watching tampa bay get thier butt kicked again. oh well the cigar is good and i got a h upmann and a ryj to go yet sundays are good.

Halloween is an event at my house (my 10 and 8 year old girls see to that) and this year FuManChu got into the act. Le Madame also thinks Halloween is a wonderful American custom and participates by dressing up (this year in an Elvira, Mistress of Darkness costume that she found in a store on St. Thomas). I wear my every day clothes since I take my kids out in the neighborhood to trick-or-treat (I don’t dress up -- looking silly enough with a big cigar stuck in my face, shorts, NY Yankees baseball cap and a t-shirt with a Garfield the Cat quote: “My I.Q. is so low you can't test it, you have to dig for it.” (the t-shirt was a gift from Le Madame on my last birthday). Fu did his part (although he did whine nervously and waived his tail alot). The girls dressed him in a cut-down striped tiger costume with reindeer antlers (alternately glowing purple and green) secured to his head (when my wife stopped laughing at the two of us, Fu and I mustered all the dignity we could and took the girls out to terrorize the neighborhood.

Dinner today was a party in honor of the folks whose wedding we attended in Paris. The first course was a crab, mango and fresh cucumber salad, followed by carmelized bay scallops (a Caribbean specialty) with cauliflower, Saupiquet de Jambon, (ham in cream and herb sauce which is from Burgundy), a platter of paupiette of sea bass in a barolo sauce. The cheese dish was Camembert (made from cow’s milk; tasting better when creamy, so let it outside of the fridge for a few hours before serving so that it becomes softer); several bottles of 2001 Chateau Mission Haut Brion Bordeaux (that I dug up from the wine cellar). Dessert was Chocolate Crepes with Plums & Port (crepes filled with simmered fresh plums and topped with chocolate cream sauce).

After dinner (my wife did not allow me to sneak seconds on anything) all of the men plopped in my office where we opened a 150-year-old bottle of Grand Marnier and cut cigars. Being a Cohiba fan and this being a special occasion (the groom married an alpha female, and being wed to one myself we can share a level of experience that other men can only guess at – as Homer Simpson would say: “Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!”)

The Cohiba: Esplendido (vitola is Julieta). This is a cigar that must be smoked to be believed. The legend of Cuban cigars was probably born or added to as a result of this smoke. The fruity, honeyed and earth notes that flow out of this stick are purely amazing. I am biased of course, but IMO this cigar has no equal (an hour and a half smoke). The stick has a fine wrapper, silky and creamy, which is a characteristic of the Partidos region. The second half of the cigar tasted of vanilla, hints of cacao and spices. A powerful cigar.

After a while, Le Madame brought in a tray of hot coffee to go with the Grand Marnier and cigars. The room was filled with smoke since I had not bothered to turn on the ceiling fan. Adrienne tut-tut a few times, waved her hand as if to cut through the fog we were creating and exited the room. We all laughed (once we figured she was a safe distance and away) and poured another round of Grand Marnier. As Henny Youngman once said: “I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”

Vince – Hang in there. Imagine how good the sticks will taste when you can resume.

Bloofington – you and Vince are the phrase masters. All of us that are faithful readers only ask that you post more.

cian

Cian, all I can say is thank God for your participation on this thread. I have to echo what Vince said about your post. I would also say that I have to agree with you on every point about the Cohiba Esplendido. It may be the most special cigar I've ever smoked. I've got a couple that I've aged almost a year. One is going to someone else, and the other will be smoked before the end of football season.