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Last week I had quite a scare from the nurse that visits and takes care of my wound every day. She thought the second incision was infected and would need treatment by the doctor. My brother was able to get off from work and take me to see the doctor on Monday afternoon. He looked […]

Actually I made it home on Tuesday, after 5:00pm, but just haven’t felt like posting. Today is a better day. My brother and my oldest son are coming over for a sleep over and to take care of me on Saturday since Patrice has to work tomorrow.
Patrice has been an absolute angel before and after […]

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 […]

I will be offline for several days. We are moving to a new condo that we closed on Wednesday the 15th. I have a couple of articles in draft form and really not ready for posting. If I can find time to polish them up I will post them as soon as I can.
I […]

I want to give everyone a quick update on what to look forward to here on some upcoming cigar reviews. I have several reviews in the works and more to come soon.
The reviews coming up next, in no particular order, include a Cohiba XV 645 and from Paul Magier at Puros de Armando Ramos, […]

[richard was listening to: The Cigar Song - Brad Paisley - while writing this post]
I am planning on introducing an additional cigar review here on BlankMindBlog which I will call an IMO “One Off” Cigar Review.
I have been pondering if I should start an IMO“One Off” Cigar Review, mainly because […]

I am working on implementing a search box on BMB soon. Right now it is visible but not functional yet. Until I get it working please use the weighted words, category list or the archive list in the sidebar to “search” for whatever interests you.
I will soon add a few static pages to the site […]

Sorry there hasn’t been any updates lately. My youngest son (14) had a battery explode in his face. There was damage done to his right eye but the doctors say it is starting to heal and he will have sight in both eyes. Thank God!
I have a review of the Montecristo White Label Toro on […]

The first poll from blankmindblog.com is over and the results are in. I said “let the readers choose” and 11 readers cast their vote in my first “let the reader choose my next cigar for review poll”. My thanks go out to those readers who voted.

The winner is:

Romeo y Julieta Reserve Belicoso Maduro

I […]

There are less than two hours left in the current poll “Which cigar should I review next?“. I will pull the poll down at midnight Eastern Standard Time. The Romeo y Julieta Reserve Belicoso Maduro is currently in the lead after a total of 11 votes having been cast.
Here is how the poll […]

After a few forum posts GaMerZ has helped me troubleshoot WP-Polls 2.01 for my site. I want to thank him for his patience and expertise in this endeavor!
Now that I have it up and running I need visitors to complete the poll and pick which cigar will be my next ashtray casualty. If no votes […]

I am trying to add a polling plugin to the sidebar on my site. I hope to get it working soon. I am having a problem with my site working with it and am in touch with the author hoping to work out the kinks.
I would like to add the functionality that would give […]

[richard is listening to: Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing - Chris Isaak - Forever Blue]
After updating my blog with several themes I have settled on this beautiful theme provided by jowra.
For whatever reason MS IE is not translating the css correctly for the gavatars plugin in the comments section. For now IE users will […]

I have settled on this design for blankmindblog. Basically it’s a copy of Relaxation with a few personal tweaks… I like it… May work on the header image a bit…

Last night I tried several themes from the WordPress site and was not happy with anyone of them. I’ll keep trying, might even try updating the current theme???

Spending a few days updating the blog and a new design. Will open the blog up to comments and see how the spammers are doing…

I’ll have a few photos up in a day or two.

Added this plugin to my site yesterday. After trial and error malyfred from the IImage Browser site was able to point me in the right direction and the plugin is up and running. This is a sweet plugin for images on WordPress 1.5.
I’ll use this plugin to add images of cameras and photos from the […]