Sunday Morning News from the dining room table

[Vince]

Good morning everyone it is Sunday ,15 April 2007, it is 3 years since my by pass & I am down to or up to 227 I did get down to 215 from my all time high of 417 , but now I find I can eat things I wasn't able to eat before , like a small amount of bread, which before would make me sick , but now I can handle it, wish that never happened, before I just ate to do some thing, now I eat to stay alive, but the taste buds are still working & instead of allllllllll the food I was consuming now I drink more coffee if thats possable, sip a little scotch & smoke a fuller body cigar more than the light & medium body smokes , I still enjoy a Don Carlos III in the morning with coffee , but I have found that a Camacho SLR in the afternoon is one fine smoke , I have been savoring for a Camacho Select , & that is coming up this afternoon.
My wife & I went to see "Cats" last night , we have a New High school in the county devoted to the Arts, it is the Lincoln school for preforming arts , in Midland Pa , & what a fine place it is , a 4 story high atrium ( Dammmm fine place to smoke a cigar BUT NOT ALLOWED ) in front of the 750 seat Theater , a MAGNIFICENT performance by the students , a few future "American Idols" in this bunch & a few "sanjays & william hong's " also but they have the guts to get out there & do it ! , the dancing was great & the entire production was Broadway worthy , including the sanjays & william hungs, great comic relief ,I would willing to pay twice as much for my ticket to see it again, it was a great show ! ( I did get the tickets for free, my brother picked them up for me & I still haven't paid him for the tickets hahahaha ) BUT I will not pay him double !
We did a pod cast Friday night from King Beaver cigars , it should be up on the net at www.burghherfers.com some time today if it isn't all ready up, just click the link to the POD casts & listen at any & all of the 30/35 we have in the can all ready, they are all at lest an hour in length , good stuff to listen to with a cigar in hand !
the BUS is FULL for the cigar crawl, a sell out , looks like next year we will need 2 busses , I kind of liked it when we had a 55 seat bus & only 25/30 people went, you could SPREAD out & get s*** faced , now you might need to crawl over some one to get to the bathroom , well I plan on fining the smallest person on the bus to share a seat with, , , who ever it is I will not let them smoke Flavored cigars , , dammmmm what an abomination , we sell a lot of acid cigars & a lot of flavored Philly blunts , but most of the people who smoke them Dont smoke them in the shop for obvious reasons on the blunts anyhow !
Yesterday was the first game of the spring Soccer season for the grandsons, & Jonas ( the 9 year old ) took on ball right to the head, he went down like a stack of playing cards , BAMMMMM , he is going to wake up this morning with a great shiner , I told him to block the kick with his hands not his head ! , a little ice & now he has a great story to tell !

we have been working on leftovers from Easter all week now , today I clean out the freezer & we finish it all & what ever is left over , is SOUP ! , ham & grits soup hummmm call it ham & polenta & I can charge twice the price hahahaha

I got my car back from the body shop & still dont have any turn signals, the E flasher still works & all the bulbds are fine , replaced the fuse & it worked fine till I stepped on the brake with the trn signals on & popped the fuse again, something isnt quite right ! , they gut at the body shop thinks its the turn signal switch, I think it is a pinched wire in one of the tail lights he replaced , well its going to an electrical shop on Tuesday .

we dodged a late winter storm of the century according to the local weather man at first he was calling for 10/20 inches of snow for the Burgh & more to the east of the city , well the temp stayed up & we are getting RAIN, Thank GOD , you dont need to shovel rain !!
its about time for me to head to the Qtr.Deck with a pot of Kona & a Cigar, I have some jazz to listen to & a bottle of Spayburn to finish , cant open a new one till this one is gone , I should be opening the new one about 4PM ! , Come on over if you can !
Enjoy, Vince

[Stogie]

Wow! i love it allready. That was freaking hillarious, Ball to the head Ouch!

Do not get me hooked on Vince's Sunday Morning news! Who else loved this thread?

[CigarRob]

Vince is (in)famous for his Sunday morning brain dumps. Something in his Kona, maybe?

[Ceedee]

Hey Vince, congrats on the Bypass and your weight loss! Truly amazing my friend! I really enjoy your rants on Blowing Smoke and this little bit of news will keep me coming back for more, so please, keep us informed of what's happening in your world!

Tell Jonas that there's nothing wrong with an old shiner now and again... I was a goalkeeper myself since I was a kid. Seen more than my share of bumps and bruises... The cool thing is the ice cream after the game and the "props" your buddies give you for taking one for the team... lol.

Anyway, good to hear from you Vince... keep the news coming!

CD

[Vince]

I have been posting every Sunday morning on Amback.com for a few years now, , it is listed under the cigar talk & it is called the Sunday Morning smoke, . the thread is well over 100 Pages now with a lot of comments from a lot of different people , if you ever get a chance to go over there & read you will fall in love with the posts from Cian, he showed up one day posted for a few times & just like that he was gone, dammmm I miss his explots with his dog & family, as well as his cigars , , it started even before that on Cigar aficanado but there was a big fight & a few people left, & I moved with the crowd I was posting with , I hope nothing like ever happens here , this is a great place to BS & I know a few of the skumbuckets here all ready, like Rob,Trav, & Joe , in fact I have given all of them the shirt off my back at one time or an other , but they dont fit rob any more & soon will be to big for Joe , how ever Travis is still Travis ! nuff said about that , he lives about a mile from me, & I almost moved when I found out hahahahahaha , but he is a good guy no matter what Rob has to say about him ! hahahaha !!!!
time for me to hit the shower & go to bed !

[mrgatorman]

Very cool...nice read. Like hanging with ya.

[Barnz-cl]

Great post and congrats with the weight loss. I am down 40 lbs myself from Oct of last year doing the low carb thing, about 70 more till my goal of 220. The wife and I only have 1 more dinner of ham leftover from easter. We had 9 people over and cooked way to much food.
I have enjoyed catching up on your past podcasts. I really need to quit delaying and get an ipod so I can listen during my drive time.

[terrasco-cl]

Good to hear from you. Glad that you are doing better with the bypass. Really enjoy those podcasts. Y'all sound like you have a lot of fun. It is really great to see those high school kids perform.

Weight loss is something I am struggling with right now. I have always enjoyed food and always ate because I was bored. Now I am trying to eat less/better. The same philosophy applies to cigars. Less often/ better smokes.

[CigarRob]

Glad to see I'm not the only one working on some weight loss. Down 12 in 3 weeks with the next scale hop tomorrow.

[terrasco-cl]

Originally Posted by CigarRob

Glad to see I'm not the only one working on some weight loss. Down 12 in 3 weeks with the next scale hop tomorrow.

Good progress. That's a real solid loss.

[Eespidie]

Im not fat... thats a lifetime of good living bought and paid for
---cant remember where i heard that.

[CigarRob]

Thanks. I want one of those old 70's lookin' t-shirts that says "One In the Oven" with an arrow pointing down. :huh:

[Vince]

Rob, I have some old shorts, you might need to cuff them up to ware as long Pants but I think the waist will be big enough ( hahahah , dammmm thats a fat joke & a short joke all at the same time ! ) BTW did you tell the guys here that my old belt is taller than you ????? dammmm an other short joke ! hahahaha , , My place thursday night, the Qtr.Deck will be open , Doug will be there with Randy & maybe tom . Enjoy, Vince

[Ceedee]

Originally Posted by CigarRob

Glad to see I'm not the only one working on some weight loss. Down 12 in 3 weeks with the next scale hop tomorrow.

Rob, well done man? What are you doing to lose the weight? Curious...

CD

[mrgatorman]

Originally Posted by Ceedee

Rob, well done man? What are you doing to lose the weight? Curious...

CD

Splain ricky...i need to loose a person worth of weight.