Sunday Morning News from the dining room table

[Vince]

[QUOTE=CBCyclone;436883]Indeed! It was great seeing everyone again at. Hey Vince, dumb ass that I am, I walked out of there leaving my green flame lighter, my triple flame lighter, AND my Xikar cutter on the table. Didn't realize it until I got to my cousin's house in Corry, PA 90-minutes due north. Luckily Rob found my green flame lighter and Joe found my triple flame and the cutter. Joe sent them to me, and threw in a couple sticks, too! What a guy that Joe is!

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Good thing it was at Slippry rock, had you left them goodies at KING BEAVER , I might be sporting a new green flame lighter ! hahahahaha

[Vince]

sorry no post this sunday, I got the flu

[Vince]

Well here it is a few days past sunday BUT I am back to work & am feeling much better ............ Last friday I went to the doc for my flu shot, guess it wasnt soon enough ! hahaha, friday evening at work I was feeling a little quesy , but I thought it was the Rum on a fairly empty stomach, well I stopped sipping the rumabout 8:30 PM & went to bed about midnight , got up at 8 AM with the boss & she had her HONEY do list , well I told her I didnt feel well & then it started, you always feel good when your going out to work or spending time with the grandsons BUT when it comes to me you are sick well I am pissed, OK settle down what ever you want to do I will do, NO YOUR SICK, well with that I went back to bed, left her standing there , no one to argue with , hahahaha , I Guess I was sicker than i thought , I slept till 4AM , never getting up to go to the bathroom , NOTHING ! , well at 4AM I needed to drain the brain hahaha, , I got a sip of water & it came back up ! dammmmm maybe I an sick ! , well I went back to bed & slept an other 12 hours ........... took Monday off & am feeling a lot better today, NOW the Boss has the bug & tells me she feels bad for being mean to me when I was sick, since I made her supper tonight ( SOUP ) wedding soup her favorite , ( I took it out of the freezer last night ), so all I needed to do today was heat it for her, JUST LIKE it was made today ! so that was MY weekend , sleep & get yelled at, just like any other weekend But with out all the sleep ! hahaha
We Got our new car this past week, & on the way home the line painting guys from out crack highway dept. put a nice coat of yellow center line paint on the drivers side from wheel well to wheel well on our new Gray car .............. well I went to the state office & they filled out a form & it came back today with a 2 page form to fill out, & a request for photos, witnesses & injury reports , well since i didnt know i got painted till I got to work, I do know where & when I passed the paint crew , so now all I need is a second estamate from a body shop , photos & a sworn statement , noterized & a copy of my last blood test & a note from the Governer & all my w2 forms from the last 17 years & my third grade report card . soon I will get a check from the state for 12 bucks that will cost me 570 Bucks to fix ! ahhhh yes our elected leaders out spending our money again !
One thing about being asleep all weekend , I didnt have a cigar from Friday at 10 PM till today at about 10 AM .... YES it was a Don Carlos #3 & it was GRAND.....
since I was sleeping all weekend plus Monday & didnt eat anything or drink anything , I was kind of hungry this morning ( TUESDAY) so out came the Tofu & rice , a little coconut & dried Bananas ,peanutbutter , & just to add a little spice , green tabasco ......... , a splash of chicken stock & I was in BUSINESS , not a bad way to start the day !

I dont want to sound like a broken record, BUT I didnt get to spend any time with the grandsons this weekend so I have no news from the goings on of the RUGRATS , I do know they went to West BY GOD VA. with there dad for the weekend, what they did I have no idea , what ever it was didnt make the evening news so for that I am thankfull, as he is when the 3 of us dont show up on the news !!! hahahaha


Sales at the shop have been off this month , I hope it picks up after thanksgiving , right now we are looking at the lowest gross sales for a month since we opened 2 years ago , well it looks like the sales signs will be going up on FRIDAY at 3 PM , all purchases of 75 BUCKS for single sticks will get 10% off & all boxes will get an extra 10% off & what ever else I can figure out to do !
dammm it sure beats being back in the kitchen, working for a living.......... ahhh yea RETIREMENT with all the great times to do anything you want . Smoke, when I want spend time with the grandsons when I can, have a weee dram when times & conditions permit, listen to music when i feel like it & tell anyone I want to GET off my Grass hahahahaha , , , , Naww I am not that grumpy old man I will be out building snowmen with all the kids & tossing snow balls at the police car when he drives by hahahaha , CANT WAIT !!!!!


Gasoline has dropped below 2 Bucks a gallon at some of the private owned No brand name stations ,,,,,, the national brands are still at 2.15 a gallon a WHOLE LOT BETTER than the 4.59 we were paying just a few months ago ............ How long will it last? I thought it would have gone down before election day !

Now a few words about the bail out ............. BULL$HIT, the CEO's took the money & ran to companys into the ground, they stole from the share holders & now we the taxpayers are bailing them out, BS, SEND THE SOB'S to JAIL , just like the guys from Enron, I worked hard for my money & I dont want to "share the wealth" , LET the SOB's work 2 jobs or 3 just like I did . I burnt the candle at both ends for way to many years so I could kick back & enjoy my old age , Now some young bean counter wants to take my nest egg & & give me 3% BS, I worked for it , its mine, I might just cash out & burry the cash in the back yard hahahahahaha , time to move to a socialist country in Europe, oh wait I dont need to move socicalisum is Here DAMMMMMMM
Well that about all i have tonight, see you all SUNDAY !!!!
Enjoy, Vince

[Vince]

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BURP!!!

BURP AGHHHHHH

[Vince]

Good morning it is Sunday 30 November 2008, Thanksgiving weekend & the begining of the Christmas shopping season, yea just what the econemy needs, more people out spending money they dont have , charging on the credit cards, ahhh yes the Consumer is always right ! hahaha, , Sorry for the delay in last Sundays post but I was sick as I have ever been , slept 19 hours at one strech, with out a Pee break , I think hahahahaha
well the bird has been picked clean & the bones are going in the soup pot later today , nothing better than a roasted bone to make soup with , company comming, hey just add a little more water to the soup, lots to go 'round .............. , Turkey salad , creamed turkey on bisquites ,turkey sandwiches, cranberrys on the side of every thing, we had my mother in law here for supper, dammmm I thought by now I would not be having to spend time with my mother in law, she has no idea who we are , she has no idea who she is , but knows for sure she wants to go home ( she has been in a elder care facility over 2 years now ) body is healthy but the mind is GONE, kind of like me hahahaha ...... well we visit a few time s a week ( well my wife anyhow, I do get there some times ) , my daughter takes the great grandsons to see her every sunday, & the old bat knows who they are , well there names anyhow, but she thinks they are her grandsons not her great grandsons , & she has no idea who her grandaughter is, she just tells every one she is the nice lady who brings her grandsons to see her................ dammmm just shoot me NOW , it is tuff when the mind is gone but the body is still strong!, I dont think I need to worry about anything like that , I will be fertilizer long before that happens, creamated with a bottle of Laugavulin in my Gut I hope !!!!! , I want that fire to last a few days hahahaha Give every one a cigar & light it from the fire hahahaha, talk about sick hahahaha..........
the weather has been a bit chilly , running about the same as the Dow Jones Industeral average, & getting lower dayly, yep just like the Dow
6 do I hear 6 ?????? well i bought a mutuial fund last summer when the dow was just hitting 14 or was it 15, maybe 16 who cares now all i know had I bought canned beer instead of the fund I would have had a better summer hahahaha , drank all the beer & cashed in all the emptys & bought more beer , all I have now is piece of paper & the computer tells me I am worth about half of what I started with..............Hey how about a bail out for ME & YOU?????

I havent been cooking much this weekend, other than the Bird on Thursday & breakfast all week , been eating a lot of eggs & some tofu , a bit of cheese & some left over turkey sprinkled in the eggs ............ what else would you eat after Thanksgiving ???? , reminds me of a joke about a wife who gets a turkey tatooed on one inner thigh & a Christmas tree on the other , , wondering if her husband wants something to eat between the holidays ........................ dammm I am one sick S.O.B. hahahahaha

the weather has been Pittsburgh weather, cold, wet, one minute sunny the next...... nothing different here , same old stuff, dont like the weather wait a few minutes , you might get what what you want....,
Steelers have been doing what the Steelers are supposed to do , 5 time super bowl champs have been back on the winning ways, well all in all & no matter how you slice it , Football season is getting ready to get interesting , as well as Pitt pulling the back yard brawl out of there respective asses ..............

This is going to be a busy week comming up, I will be on the road part of monday checking on a few accounts , & thursday I have a fund raiser in Sharon Pa for some non profit group the name escapes me right now & Friday night we are haveing a Whisky Tasting at KING BEAVER Cigars , Rums from Napal , who knew they made Rum in Napal ? we will also have a few from Dominican Republic, Barbados ,& Panama, as well as 4 different Arminac from france 7 a small batch bourbon from Maple Hill distillerys in KY. & what would a tasting be with out S C O T C H ? I requested a flight of single malts one from each of the grand regions of Scotland , Highlands , Lowlands, Campbelltown, Islands & my favorite, ISLAY , I know one thing , I will eat before hand & have LOTS of Coffee ready, the cigars are going to be as special as the whiskys, I am breaking out the Museums from R&J & a new maduro from Montecristo, the Museums retail for 30 Bucks & I will have them Friday Night for 20 Bucks , & 3 for 55 !! , I havent figured out the sale price on the montes yet, But it will be GOOD for the customers & NOT all that good for me. but if we sell a lot who cares, as long as evey one is happy, might raffel off a humidor , anyone want to buy a chance on a 50 count humi for a buck? hahaha.

I will be making soup later today so I have a lot of veggies to cut up & a kitchen to clean up after breakfast, Barb is still feeling a little down about her mother not remembering everyone, but she knew this day would come, I think she is worried that some day that will be her, all her aunts & mother have Altzhimers & it seams to run in the family so some day soon she will be in the same position as her mother , dosent seam fair but thats life ...........


I hope you all had a safe & joyfull Thanksgiving , I know i did , Good food, family & a little scotch with a fine cigar after & with coffee, my brother in law & his wife & son with one of the sons buddys all showed up for desert, , I was forced to smoke a 5 year old VSG churchill, that my brother in law brought for me , I gave him a contraband monte #2 & I think it was a fair trade almost , we stayed in the Qtr.Deck most of the evening but he had to go home & get a little sleep before he went to work at 2:30 AM, what a time to start any job !!!! he is a clerk at the post office in Moon Twp , near the Pittsburgh Airport , he is working 12 hours from now till the RUSH is over , they have a few clerks off sick , & 3 just retired & havent been replaced as of yet, so they are working short handed & sucking up the over time , he is going to need a Brinks truck to bring his paycheck home hahahahaha

I will take a little time out after I get the soup started & roast a few pounds of coffee , there is enough Kona from one more pot , maybe 2 & I will be out of the Tanzanian Peaberry by Wed. so it is time to fire up the side burner on the grill & get my formerly fat behind outside & get the coffee going, then relax in the Qtr.Deck till the boss is done with the Sunday paper ,,,,, seams like we are in a rut, but its our rut & we are enjoying life one day at a time .......... Enjoy, Vince

[Vince]

Good morning it is Sunday 7 Dec.2008, Pearl Harbor day ( for all you young people it was the day that the USNAVY was bombed by the Japaneese Navy & the start of the war in the Pacific Ocean, it just boggles my mind how as a country we all pulled together & defeted the axis powers in WWII , but when the liberal press & the nay sayers & sympathisers got in the mix we were a house divided & messed up big time in Viet Nam & now again in the middle east, let the DAMMMM GENERALS fight the wars & keep the politicians out of it , General Swartzcoff showed us how to do it a month of bombardment & less than 200 hours when the boots hit the ground it was all over , so now here we are a few YEARS later still with boots on the ground & the liberals are still wineing , Oh well nothing to do but suffer through it , I was told a long time ago , be carefull what you wish for , you might just get it ! , So 7 December & 11 Sept. days that we as a country were "sucker punched" , we recovered from 7 December , the jury is still out on recovery from 11 Sept. .........................

It is a COLD blustery day here in da burgh wind chill of 5 F , the wind chimes are are so cold I think they might crack, we have about an inch of snow on the grassy areas but the road crews have been busy & the streets are clean, BUT since my flu shot last month I havent felt at all well, right now I have a head cold, sinus pressure & sneezing , watering eyes & popping ears , scratchy throat, I dont think I will be heading out to the Qtr.Deck today so No Don Carlos BUT I did fire up a pot of kona this morning, with the throat lozengers & spray , I could have been drinking tea & not known the difference, the taste buds have deserted me this morning .................

Yesterday was my Baby Girls 36th Birthday , seams just like last week I was holding her hand at the school bus stop & she didnt want to go ...... not much has changed over the years , I have gotten grayer & she now has 2 boys of her own , ahhhh yes paybacks are a bitch hahahahaha ..........

We had a whisky tasting friday at the shop it was a lot of fun & I did try a few Armagnacs, verrrrry tasty but will never replace islay scotch on my list of drinks to accompany my cigars with a pot of coffee, dammmmm not much I can say about that , cigars , coffee & scotch, the taste buds are DANCING , it was a FUN night 11 different scotches, 5 rums one bourbon & 4 Armaganacs plus 3 or 4 Tequila's, I was 4 for 4 on the Armagacs , 11 for 11 on the scotch One of the tequilas , passed on the rums & the bourbon, BUT Thursday night I made up for the lack of corn whisky in my system, I was at a fund raiser for a non profit group in Mercer county & they had a jim Beam Ambassador there with the entire line of TOP shelf stuff, Bookers blantons ,knob, & the rest as well as a Rye that was SMOOOOOOTH , but it just didnt have the smokey peat taste of a grand Islay , BUT the guy tells me BEAM Brands just bought LAPGROAIG , so Qtr Cask here I come hahahaha ,,not that it will ever replace Laugavulin 16 YO as my all time favorite , BUT you never know ................


breakfast was a simple poached egg on a grilled bagel with a slice of bacon on the side , it could have been a slab of styrofoam for all I can taste , dammmmmm I hate this, nothing has any taste today & i have a pot roast to make for the boss later today, I have no idea how to season anything, just looks like I will fake it hahahaha , I will season the beef when i start it out but I like to check on it & adjust the seasonings to make that wonderful GRAVY , BUT today it will be a long shot at perfection ! hahahaha

Since I was sick last weekend I didnt get to spend any time with the boys & this weekend I am still a bit under the weather so no news from the rugrats this week ..............


Thats about all I have from the Burgh this week ......... Enjoy, Vince

[Vince]

Good morning it is Sunday 14 December 2008, a cold cloudy day here in da 'Burgh we have a coating of snow on the ground & a bit of ice on the walks & roads we are looking for a high of 35F today but it will be at 65 F or better in the Qtr.Deck this afternoon ! , all I will need will be a flannel shirt ,Jeans & a warm pair of socks & slippers , a pot of coffee , a snifter of single malt & as they say the rest will be History, I have a Masterpiece Maduro I picked up last Christmas , looks like today is the day , BUT I just might opt out for the Museum from R & J , I did smoke one a few weeks ago & it was just great, reminded me of a Casa Fuente , Mild yet complex in flavor ............. dammmmm maybe I will smoke them BOTH ! hahahaha
I have a 6 pack of boneless pork chops , why I ever bought Boneless is beyond me ??? i always like a Bone in the meat , cant understand why the beef industry went to removing the nice tasty bone from the chuck roast , nothing better than a 7 shaped bone in the chuck roast, ahhh the great gravy it made, now I need to BUY a hunk of Bone to roast with the chuck to get the flavor they took out when they removed the bone, back when I was a kid the Butcher gave you the soup bones for your dog, now they charge extra to take out the bone & then charge you extra on top of the inflated price to get back the bone they took out , JUST LEAVE IT ALONE & I WILL PAY FOR IT STILL IN ONE PIECE , create more work for the butcher & the chef for an infearior product .............. Progress my @$$
we had a great Friday at the shop lots of Customers & a few ladys in for Gifts, Just point me to the good smelling ones she said & I asked how much she was willing to spend, BINGO BIG BUCKS , so I show her the Montie's , Camacho trippple Maduro & the Hemmingways , No they dont smell good & she gets a box of KUBA KUBA , I have a feeling they will be comming back December 26TH for an exchange ...... yea like i am going to take back a box of cigars that have been frozen in the car roasted in the house & let set outside a humidor for a 2 week time frame , looks like the 20% restocking sign will be going up Monday morning ! I hate to do that BUT I told her I dont think her husband will like them, he is a regular & he smokes Upman Cameroons most of the time ................ Given the choice of smoking a Kuba Kuba or nothing, at all I will take the Nothing at all , sorry but I just cant take the taste of them, some people love them, why else would he be in businenss if sme one didnt like them, well thats why I enjoy the cigar life style, everyone has a Nitch to fill & soon it will come full circle the Grape blunt smoker of today will be the Davidoff smoker of 20 years from Now ,,,,,,,,,,, if the government dosent regulate the business into the ground, a 3.5 Billion dollar industry that the US GOVERNMENT wants to raise 35 BILLION in new taxes on, seams to me you cant tax 10 times the value of the industry & expect it to keep running , Prohabition didnt work back in the 1920's , it lead to a growth in orginized crime , look what it did for Chicago , the legescy is still there even in the Governers office .............. hahaha , well all I can say is , JUST CALL ME AL ( from the paul simon song ) Yep I will just go underground & bring in my own cigars & sell them at a speak easy , put in a wood fired grill out front , Burn a lot of smokey wood to cook over make hams & bacon for a side line & cover the cigar smoke with Burning Hickory ,maple & mesquette ............
After a week or so of feeling poorly I have rebounded & am back to my cigar chomping ways filled with a big dose of hot peppers , garlic & fresh ginger the taste buds have come back with a CRY for flavor so the HEAVY doses of herbs & spices have set fire to the taste buds & they are craving More & more & it is my pleasure to give them what they want ... just need to do it in moderation, in the AMOUNT taken in , the spicyer the better , consintrate the flavors but the key is Balance & complexity , adding different amounts of the same spices at different times during the cooking process will change the flavor if you had put it all in at the same time , a slight difference but a difference all the same , the difference between a first run through of a play & the first performance , everything is there but it is FINE TUNED .....
I have a feeling that the Christmass season this year will be behind in sales from last year , the customers are there just not spending as much, I did get 2 boxes of Anejos from Fuente this year , they are selling well & the trippple maduros from Camacho are almost all gone BUT I have a lot of maduro monties , dammmm I realy like that cigar BUT I am a Maduro smoker , it is a great taste & isnt that what we are looking for a great taste at a cheep price, well they are not cheep so I tend to smoke the lower priced stuff when I am working like the Bundle Alcazars , dammmmm for a CHEEP cigar its wonderfull the 8 x 52 will last me a few hours & with the econemy as it is every one is looking for the biggest bang for the Buck , why smoke a Punch rothchild for 3.35 when you can get this MONSTER for 40 cents more , More than TWICE THE smoke , BUT with a few beers & a couple of scotches a pot of coffee WHO CARES ! hahahaha

The Boys were here Thursday , But we didnt get to do much a little Supper & they headed off with Barb to Bible study & I went to the Qtr.Deck for a cigar ......... its the simple things in life that make it worth all the BS .............
Time to Cook & head for the QtrDeck , Enjoy, Vince

[tekeeladude-cl]

As usual, great stuff Vince! I wish I had a QtrDeck or something similar -- it's a balmy 14 degrees this morning and I'm not brave enough (or stupid enough) to smoke anything outside today.

[Vince]

I am just about 25 minuts from the Pittsburgh Airport, just give me a call when you land & I will be there to pick you up hahahahaha

[sboyajian]

Originally Posted by Vince

I am just about 25 minuts from the Pittsburgh Airport, just give me a call when you land & I will be there to pick you up hahahahaha

I am only 20 minutes from Dulles Airport.. so I suspect I could be in Pittsburgh by 4...

Happy Sunday and enjoy the warmth in the deck.

[Camacho Junior]

Good stuff Vince.

[Vince]

[QUOTE=Camacho Junior;442903]Good stuff Vince.[/QUOT

feel differnt since your married, Cant beat rolling over & going to sleep Not having to get out of a warm bed to go Home !!!!!

[Camacho Junior]

Thats the truth.

[Vince]

Good morning it is Sunday 21 December 2008 the First official day of winter ,but the winter weather has been with us for a few months all ready , we have a light dusting of snow on the ground this morning, Frozen, to the ground & cars, I thought I could use the broom to remove it but it needs a shovel , it is just a BIG solid mass of frozen water in the most beautiful way, nothing like the ice they had In New England last week, ,no powerlines are down but it is COLD
the shop[ is still lacking in sales from last year, I guess the doom & gloom we hear in the TV is hitting harder day by day, , Now with the Government getting there nose in it , I GUESS it will only get worse !
to paraphrase President Ronald Regan, the worst thing anyone can hear is "I am from the government & I am here to HELP" ................. God help us now is all I can say, way to many of the washington DC jokers have forgotten that they are servants OF the people , FOR the people , not Sucking off the teets of the people , dammmmmm this close to CHRISTMAS & I am going on a political witch hunt.... Oh well back to the season & AWAY from the political BS..............
the Boss has been fighting a cold all week & when she isnt feeling well NO ONE gets any rest arround here , you all know what I mean dont you ! hahahaha
How ever we did manage to make 17 dozen Petezelles yesterday , with many interuptions with friends stopping in we did manage to have a good day in the kitchen together, some thing that isnt happening all that much, ...... we being in the kitchen together !


well I did get all my Christmas shopping DONE, well I am out of cash & the list is not .......... so I guess I need to get a little more cash out of the bank & strike that last few gifts off the list , To bad I cant just give EVERYONE cigars ,,,,, but the grandsons Dont think its all that great of an Idea !!!

since it is Sunday & its COLD out , I have the Sunday Chuck roast ready for the Boss , dammmmm I am getting a weeee bit tired of it BUT thats what she wants , so thats what she gets , one less reason to argue with her, Just Give her what she wants & let it go , a lot easyer on the mind & Body just to give up & tell her what she wants to hear, maybe she should get a JOB at GITMO , all she need is to learn to speak Aribic or farci , dammmmm if she got a Job I could retire AGAIN, this time I will just sit at the cigar shop & watch some one else work hahahahaha
we both are fighting colds & each other , so what else is new hahahaha , the #2 grandson isnt feeling 100% he is only 11 & growing taller but not gaining any weight, in fact he lost 2 pounds from his last check up , it is tuff when your so thin , he never is hungry, but when its time to eat he is at the table but just dosent eat much, , he went to the hospital for an ultra sound of the lower gut & a Berium enema , , dammmmmmm that just sounds like BS to me , kid isnt hungry so you check out the exaust ? & not the intake ? I guess thats why I am not a Doctor ! I did get a verry intrusting Early Christmass Gift , a bag of Unroasted coffee from Brazil that is the left overs from a Bird called the JACU bird, I have no idea how big this bird is But it eats the red coffee cherrys & YES Dumps them out in the Bird droppings ,,,,, Just like the Kopi Luwak coffee of Indonesia where the weasel eats the coffee cherrys & "deposits "them on the ground , & after cleaning & roasting this coffee is much the same well this Bird $hit Coffee is Supposed to be much better than the weasel $hit coffee , so as soon as I get a day that is ABOVE 40 F I will get outside & roast this stuff & let you all now what I think about it ................. stop in for a cup anytime !!! I have no info on this stuff but if you google it I am sure you will find some thing about both coffees !
I have the Heat on in the Qtr.Deck & will be enjoys a few cigars today , i have a few to choose from but I havent made up my mind on what I will be sipping with the coffee today , might be port , might be scotch, might be Irish whisky , depend on what the dram will be as to what the cigar will be or CIGARSSSSSSSS

Breakfast was a great debate with the boss this morning a refridgerator fallout omlet , so she Got her Fryed eggs bacon & toast, I had the formentioned omlet, there was a little spinich dip left over as well as a little gravy some steamed mixed veggis & a little cheese left over from a cheese tray I made for Wednsday , so it all went on the Grill & an egg to hold it all together , a blast of Tabascco , HEAVEN dammmmm tasty ! but No I dont want to taste it , I might like it ! hahahahahaha 38 years & counting, dammm if I had killed her I might just be getting out of jail now ! hahahahahaha
The sun is out but it is Cold , the cow pasture looks like a field of diamonds , sparkling & twinklining , with the occasional cow walking by , the birds are scavenging under the raspberry bushes & the feeder is getting its small share of visitors when I went out to get the Sunday Paper there were cat tracks on the walkway , Bunny tracks on the grass & a pile of blood & fur at the end of the driveway , I guess the cat is having hossenfeffer for breakfast today , I wish the cats would let the bunnys alone & get the dammmmmm DOVES , they make way to much noise & $hit on everything !

Since this is the first day of winter that means the days will start to get LONGER each day again , more daylight , the better, But I dont think I want to be in the 24 hours of daylight they get up north , land of the Midnight Sun , No thanks I need some down time BUT,thank you very much !

Retired Pro Wrestler Dominick DeNucci stopped in the shop Friday Night , everyone was like a kid in school listening to his storys of the road & former pros we all watched as kids drom Bob Backland to Superstar Billy Grahm , Burno Samartino & Ivan Putsky , the guys we loved & the guys we loved to hate , the good boys & the bad boys , it is suprising how many of them we all remembered & the long lives most of them lived after retirement, NO STEROIDS but now there are so many that are dead & used up buy the time they are 45 its amazing ............. like some of them are not juicing hahahahah , if you look to good you gotta be on the juice to keep it up day after day , traveling & working all the time , a lot of great looking Bodys have become toombs for the guys who thought they could get away with it ........... & a few great looking ladys end up dead or looking like old hags , I guess its better to live life as well as you can with out resorting to artifical means to stimulate your life, like whisky, coffee & cigars hahahaha Yea like thats going to happen here hahahahaha, & speaking of coffee I am almost out of the Sunday Kona , next pot up is going to be a pot of Community Coffee from New Orleans flavored with a bit of chickory
I have a BIG Rayies family Torp to fire up with this pot of coffee but the jury is still out on the libation for later this afternoon , it just might be the port & a pot of Dark roast Italian coffee & a BIG Maduro Don Gonzales Churchill for this afternoon , the football game is set for 4:15 Pm, & I dont think I will be watching or listening to it today , i will be BUSY eating , smoking & drinking about that time , who needs TV when there is great food & beverages to taste , I pay attention to the taste buds & they take care of me , if I just watch the idot box & much mindlessly I cant SAVOR the food or drink, it is a hand to mouth reaction not a journy to excitement
if we would learn to enjoy our food 7 drinks instead of just jamming ftuff down our pie hole I dont think we would be a nation of HEAVYWIEGHTS , I know I was an abusrer of the system , but since i lost the 202 pounds I have found a new friend in my taste buds sure it tastes good always did , but Now I need to control it & instead of letting the taste buds run wild I have befriened them & now we work together getting them the taste & flavors they crave & letting me Maintain a weight that is advantagous for me & the taste buds , the better shape I am in the longer I will be able to satisfy the taste buds ................ & right now I need to bend to the call of an other part of the body & rid my self of all the coffee I have consumed since 6 am Today ! Enjoy, Vince

[Camacho Junior]

As always Vince really good stuff. Have you seen the cigar Oliveros makes with the Kopi Luwak coffee? I heard about that coffee when I watched The Bucket List. Jack Nicholsons character didn't know why Morgan Freemans character didn't want any of that coffee when he offered. Morgan finally explained it and I was kinda of like "yuk" but I guess it could be worse.