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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 smoke it. Now is that […]

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 pick up a new couch […]

May 15 - 19 2006 – Look for a few cigar reviews this week. Finally caught up on my to-do list and can refocus on my reviews for now.
May 25 - 30 2006 – This is the set date of my surgery on my left SI joint. Surgery is at 7:30 and I’ll be in […]

It’s been a long time since I have read a Steinbeck novel, probably since high school. Shame on me! His writing is so vivid and so complete that reading this book has re-kindled my desire to read more of his offerings.
In the book Travels with Charley in Search of America John Steinbeck travels America with […]

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 smoke a couple of more! […]

Actually more like across the pool, but who’s counting? Last night I ventured over to the pool and common area of the complex and was pleased to see that the Linksys router and the wireless card that I ordered with the laptop, an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) maintained a strong signal and […]

I now have my Dell laptop in my lap on the patio. I purchased a Linksys router, Wireless - G Broadband Router with SRX400 (WRT54GX4) yesterday and spent about two hours on the phone with the tech support group last night. At 2:00am I finally got a wireless connection with the router at 54mbps, so […]

OK. I made fun of my brother several posts ago calling him a gadget geek but truth be told I guess it runs in the family. I will be having surgery in May on my hip. It stems from a 15 year old injury that has decided to rear its ugly head again. I will […]