Browsing all posts from May, 2009.
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
As some of you may know, I mentioned in one of my Stogie Review Videos, that I was heading down to Wildwood Crest for the weekend. This morning while walking around, I pulled out the Flip camera and shot a little video. Below is about two minutes of the Atlantic ocean from a couple of [...]
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
When Jerry and I used to get together for YQMA on Stogie Review, one of the most common off topic questions we used to get asked was “What do you guys watch on TV?”. That same question has carried over to this personal blog and comes up every now and again. Since I’ve been doing [...]
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Last week I did a Shooting the Breeze video to try and kill some time while Stogie Review was down. During that video I asked for some suggestions for discussion topics. One of the questions that came in was about what I stock in my liquor cabinet. I turned on the camera and just started [...]
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
A couple weeks back, Jerry and I were fortunate enough to score a couple of press passes to Cigars International’s annual Cigarfest. While making the rounds, I was approached by a fan of Stogie Review. This person introduced themselves as Alex and began speaking to me about Dutch cigars. Alex went on to tell me [...]
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
This week I had plans on either doing a review for Stogie Review or a First Impressions video for this site. Before firing up the camera I discovered that Stogie Review was having server issues. Getting frustrated with the situation, I figured that it wasn’t the best time to try and focus on a cigar [...]
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Last week my wife was at work and came to find a stack of free tickets to a Reading Phillies baseball game. Having gone to a game the week before, we had a good time and were looking forward to going again. My wife picked up two tickets and made plans to attend the game. [...]
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
The other day I had plans to do some work in my basement. The job was going to take a fair amount of time so I grabbed an old pair of computer speakers and plugged them into my iTouch. From there I loaded up my Slacker Radio player and started listening to the Rock station. [...]
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
After a little bit of a drought here content wise, I decided fire up the camcorder and record another First Impressions cigar review. This time I was craving something mild and creamy as a first cigar of the day. The first cigar that came to mind was one that Davidoff sent me a little while [...]
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to shoot a video to share a few words on how Syrus’ obedience training has been going. This week I was unable to attend the class and my wife filled in for me. Without any first hand information, I decided to skip the video this week. [...]
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Not long ago I put up an article on a local eatery called The Yellow Submarine. Included with that article was supposed to be a video of me discussing the restaurant, in my haste I forgot to encode it and it never made the final cut. I encoded the video a few nights ago and [...]
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Last week I was having trouble sleeping one night, so I jumped on the computer and tried to find something to do until I got tired. I headed over to Hulu and started browsing through some of their featured content. Not seeing anything I was interested in, I started browsing though their complete listing of [...]
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
So the other day, my wife and I were hanging out in the living room watching television. I don’t think anything decent was on so I was randomly flipping through channels to see if I could find something interesting. Wouldn’t you know it, before long I found an older movie that I enjoy watching anytime [...]
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
This week I take a first time look at the new AVO Limited Edition 2009 (LE 09) Compenero. This cigar was a gift from my local tobacconist. Once day while hanging out in the shop, UPS dropped off a package that contained several boxes of cigars. As he unpacked those boxes we were talking about [...]
Monday, May 4th, 2009
After an evening of working with the dog on heel training and teaching him the off command (so that he stays off of my leather sofa), the night wound down and I felt myself getting bored. My wife was half asleep watching Property Virgins on TV, so I thought I would sneak off and have [...]
Friday, May 1st, 2009
If you have been following either myself, @jcruz, @dcamacho, @mountchuck, @tightash, or several other cigar buffs on Twitter, you probably know that we are all headed to Cigarfest 2009. Because the event takes place on Saturday, many of us are making a weekend trip out of it and planning on arriving today. Having attended last [...]