http://www.blankmindblog.com It's what happens when I try to write for this blog Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:51:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The latter part of April I visited my local ABC Fine Wine & Spirits store and picked up an intriguingly named cigar called a Diablo Picante. I thought to myself this sounds like a little hot tamale. It has since been resting in my humidor for the right time to ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=320 It’s been a couple of weeks since I was out to see mom and dad plus my brother’s wireless router started slowing down again. This time he wanted to install a different brand, one from NetGear, in hopes it would perform better. My oldest son, Ryan, needed my truck to ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=319 I stopped by Aroma’s Cigar Bar last week on Thursday morning after some bank business to quickly pick up a couple more Rocky Patel Vintage 1990 Robustos to review. Since I had reviewed them last month before the move and lost the review notes I thought it only fair to ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=316 In January I placed a hold on the book “Travels with Charley in Search of America” by John Steinbeck with my local library. It had been so long that I had forgotten about it and forgotten the reason that drew me to wanting to read it. However, over the weekend ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=312 Our new home has a wonderful view of the pool and a two acre lake both within 20 feet of our patio door. Today was the first time in a month that I felt comfortable enough to sit and smoke and review a new cigar I picked up a few ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=309 This is an IMO “One Off” Cigar Review, basically this is a first impression light up only, and I will try to review this cigar as a normal IMO Cigar Review at a later date. Sorry to report that this weekend yielded no new fish stories, I guess I could tell ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=302 Last week (Sunday) I needed to take a trip down to Daytona Beach, Florida, some family business needed attention so I decided to take a C.A.O L‘Anniversaire 1968-1998 Cameroon Toro with me to smoke on the way back. My brother, Robert, went along for the ride even though he had ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=301 I had the pleasure of smoking this cigar on my parents back porch last weekend. The Savinelli 2004 Special Selection Toro is one of three sizes, the other sizes are a robusto and torpedo, all of them have a torpedo style head. The Savinelli 2004 Special Selection Toro has the dimensions ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=297 Cigarfan has thrown two stogie family members into the judicial ring to fight their way out of the proverbial paper bag. They appeared before him in his court of personal opinion last week. He has pitted Camacho vs. Camacho, a SLR Maduro and a Coyolar, one against the other to ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=293 Friday afternoon Tyler called and said he was through with all his tests and could come home early if someone would pick him up. After I picked him up from school we headed down to the Pope Duval Fish Management Area to try out some artificial bait. As we walked ... http://www.blankmindblog.com/?p=292