Man, I hate Cuban cigars too. Yuuuuuuuck. Not sure there are any out there that could change my mind. Especially aged Trinidads.....barf-orama.

Thanks so much guys! Had a great weekend, my wife planned a social distanced weekend in exotic Topeka KS with the kid and we spent a healthy amount on fireworks since most displays were cancelled. Haven't had as many cigars as I'd like and have been scarce around here as a result. Doing our...

My wife bought her first ever full case of wine..."Wow! This will last me forEVER!" If it lasts more than the weekend, are you even having fun? So glad I stopped, or I'd be telling her how she's doing it all wrong.

A couple of my best buddies I smoke with all the time on a restaurant patio downtown came over for the first time ever today. I set up the social distancing and let my wife be the decider on it...everyone with their own ashtray, cutter, lighter, and I broke out some OR Illusione Haut 10's for...

So sorry to hear this, a real hit to the gut. RIP my friend.

I'm trying to keep it to 1 per week and really having to "earn" it with some serious yardwork, carpet cleaning, finishing an emergency covid related work project, just something that helps frame it as an experience to truly savor and appreciate. Kind of a "back to basics" cigar experience, and...

Finally my first quarantine smoke! I'm not a small smoke guy for the most part but I'd definitely buy more Diplo 5's if they were still in production. Kind of like if Joe Exotic was a Montecristo.

I've got a really good one on Mon/Wed averaging 10 people. The problem I've run into with more popular meetings is the sheer number of folks. This one is called "Ben's Friends" specific to the food/bev community. I'm not in the industry, but 90 percent of my friends are and I've worked with so...

Alright, so I've been doing a lot of yard work and husband-y type stuff, and acting like it's all a way bigger deal than it is. So this has helped me to ease my wife into the reality that, yes, I'm going to have the occasional cigar out on the (pristine as of today) deck. Bonus- she's been...

My latest purchase is a box of Illusione D'Aosta's that I apparently forgot to hit the final submission button on the Smallbatch site. I found this out when I started wondering why they hadn't arrived, and in the meantime they all sold out. I wish I could blame this level of dumbassery on being...

The house is the cleanest its been in years, totally ready for the company we can't have. I've been so proactive cleaning up the deck and getting the herb garden bed prepped that I didn't realize I'm about a month ahead of my normal schedule and local nurseries aren't even carrying a lot of...

I did feel a calming disturbance in the force earlier...

- We have witnessed my 7 year old daughter go from cartoons to live action tv shows - She settled on The Goldbergs for some unknown reason - We started relying on The Goldbergs to tell us what classic 80's movies we should show our daughter - My daughter suddenly switched to The Masked Singer on...

To pass the time, I stopped reading after "To keep it simple for me, I used a straw..." and just let my imagination run with what happened with the Clorox.

Just living vicariously here...this is the first time in ten years of marriage my wife has asked me to please not smoke for a while. So I'm putting that good will in the bank to cash it at some point during our prolonged teleworking and homeschooling family quarantine. But carry on gentlemen...