The long overdue "Charlie's going away smoke" post

Apologies for the length of time between posts however I have excuses! I'll line them up for you right now:

1) I'm a math major. Until last week I was taking both Calculus and Discrete Mathematics during the summer seven week semester. It was rough. Then I dumped Discrete Mathematics because I couldn't deal with all of her problems. Calculus understands me better anyway. But I was doing homework nonstop when I wasn't sleeping or in class (not sleeping in class).

2) I've been LARPing/ preparing to LARP and that took up a lot of my free time when I should have been/could have been writing this blog... but it was WORTH IT!!!!

3) My computer caught a nasty virus and I had to reboot windows onto my computer, causing me to lose a ton of stuff that I stupidly forgot to back up

4) I didn't feel like it.

Onto the blog:

As per usual, I didn't have the camera so I don't have pictures of this great time, but you'll have to take my word for it, it was awesome.

"Who was there?" I thought I heard you ask?

Here is a sweet list of the people there:

The usual suspects:
Kal-EL - All hail the man of steel
Charlie - Duh, her party
James Howlett - "Should I call you Logan, Weapon X?" -Mallrats
The Gimp - she wasn't actually there but she was on the phone and was there in spirit.

The new guys:
My Number One Fan (#1) - Yeah you're in the blog!
El Presidente - Looking relaxed as per usual
Mr. President - That's right, the Trifecta of President's were there
Jew Lightning - His first time around the Cigar Freak at his best
2 Chicks and 2 Dudes - I didn't know you guys but Charlie did so yay for you, but you don't get cool nicknames. The Cigar Freak is flexing his dictator-like will upon the blogs.

Ok! For this auspicious occasion I was excited because I knew what i wanted to smoke. On my last visit to the Cigar and Hookah Cafe I noticed they carried the cigar brand Nub.

Yeah!

Now for those of you who don't know, The gentleman who created Nub was onto something. It is a well accepted notion that the last two smoke-able inches of a cigar are the best-- the Nub, capitalizing on this-- is only about three inches long.

Get it?

It's all the best part baby! Yeah!

The best thing is that I've also heard it smokes like a much longer cigar so one Nub will last you about the same amount of time.

I'm pumped!

So, I go to get a Nub from the humidor with Kal-El and #1 and I was telling them about how much I wanted to smo-- OUT! They're out of them! What? What the! Fuck!

I think at this moment I probably sighed.

Sigh.

Ah well, there's plenty more cigars there for me to peruse.

I settled on The El Baton Classico Robusto which was rated 91 by Cigar Aficionado. It was also pretty cheap. Like $6.00 ish?

Here's what I have to say about it:

The smoke started out good. It ended up GREAT at the end. Yum! I definitely recommend these bad boys. They burn pretty evenly throughout the smoke and ashed about two inches in. The only issue I had with it was the wrapper was coming apart underneath of where the wrapper had been. I kept licking it down but it would dry out pretty quickly and return to being a nuisance. Other than that it was delicious and a great smoke.

So hookahs were smoked, cigars were smoked and it was a delicious time. Before we left I ventured once more into the humidor and found a cigar called Everyday Joe. It was only $3.49. (I haven't smoked it yet.) The guy at the counter (also known as the owner--who is awesome by the way) knew the cigar by sight even though it had no wrapper. He said he loves them and smokes them all of the time. Yes! I love this place.

So yeah, Charlie's been gone for EVER! She's coming back in a few weeks but come on already!

Get back here so we can share another smoke woman!

And #1, you have the bridge. (I've always wanted to say that.)



Keep em Lit!