Holy Cow! It's been 20 years!

Well I'm officially approaching middle age. Actually I am a firm believer that I'm not middle aged until I approach 50. Then I will be a middle aged yuppie idiot who is driving a much nicer car than I have now. While being in great metal band. Now when I'm 50 years old, will all of you think that I'm suffering through a mid-life crisis because I'm in a sports car and playing bass (wid me fingers!) in a fine Christian progressive death metal band? :)





I think not. By then I will be a world famous Christan progressive death metal bassist with tons of groupies. Being married, these groupies will only shower me with gifts and handmade quilts instead of the usual groupie offerings (which I have never partaken in, but mostly because nobody wants to fool around with a handsome Asian brother (HAB) bassist, we're too serious and committed to the dark arts of CPDM). Plus nobody ever tells you that the bassist gets stuck with the ugly chicks. But since I'm married to a hot babe, I must say, I have proved them wrong! Anyways why am I writing about this on a blog about cheap cigars and other cheap things? Not sure why, so therefore I must be venting.

I had my 20th high school reunion at the beginning of May. The class of 1988 at WBHS truly is starting to look, well, older! A good number of my classmates look pretty much like a more mature but still recognizable version of themselves from 1988. There were some people that I just had no idea as to who they were, and when they told me their names, I still had no clue. Now that is scary. One woman claimed she knew me (everybody knew Chuck in high school!). I had no idea who she was. She said she even put the yearbook together. Again, no clue! She spent all of bar night and the reunion pestering me to remember her. I even saw the picture of her helping our reunion organizer puke in the bathroom.
It was a fun time, my only complaint was that there was no open bar. What sort of cheapskate doesn't book an open bar? Just kidding, but seriously, I like my drinks! Maybe the Somerset Inn was cheating us or something.

Other than that (late seating was another pet peeve), it was a nice reunion. My old neighbor is still aloof and single. Can never figure her out. Too bad, her mom and stepdad are really nice folks. Got to talk to a bunch of other people, and they were cool. Good to see people after 20 years.

Okay, so what does this have to do with cigars? Hee hee, glad that you asked! When I got back I decided to forgo my thought of not purchasing anymore bundles in 2008 (my humidors have more than enough, and since I don't smoke every day, the humidors are now very full) and promptly purchased two bundles of La Floridita Lonsdales from Famous Smoke Shop in Pennsylvania. I've had good luck in purchasing premium and economy cigars from them over the last four years. Only once have I purchased a box cigars that totally sucked from there (Famous Nero Cattivos crap). La Floriditas consistently get good reviews for both their natural and maduro cigars. FSS had a buy one get one deal, so I got two bundles of lonsdales for $28.99 (free shipping too!) with one being natural and one maduro. I will let you know how these are once I get over my stupid cold. Never drink or smoke when you're sick. It ain't worth it.