Hello again.  We’re not having Dominican Mornings this weekend (or the next) because we are both traveling.  Brother Dicksbain is in the UK (for two weeks), and Uncle Moneybags is in San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles celebrating his first wedding anniversary (my how time flies).

In the meantime, we both have webcams now (welcome to the party, pal), so we’re now able to have Dominican Mornings live, via telecast (at least between each other).  We did a trial run on Wednesday night and it worked flawlessly.  Given that both brothers are generally technocrats, it’s surprising that it’s taken us this long to adopt this technology.  Nevertheless, you can be sure Dominican Mornings will continue, now that it has been enhanced with video.

Lastly, for those of you looking to try something new, or for those who want to revist an old favorite, please consider this Carlos Torano sampler.

I’ve always been a silent fan of Torano.  I think its easily the best brand of Honduran cigars.  Rich, creamy, complex flavors.  Always something interesting, and plenty to choose from.  I recently ordered the above sampler, and I’ve been nothing but impressed with each cigar.  Each is easily better than the average cigar.  At just three bucks a stick, this deal should not be missed.  (Just for the record, we don’t make any money from our recommendations or reviews, so rest assured we’re not making bogus claims just to earn a fast buck.)

Have a great weekend.  Summer is here.  Light one up, prepare for Fourth of July by ordering a box, sit back, and savor the moments while you can.  One day, you will smoke your last cigar (hopefully by choice and not because you died–or is it the other way around?)  See you next week!

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Werd. Well, we’re officially back. Taking it slow, to be sure, but we’re back. And DMs are back on as well. Nothing much going on this weekend. Weather is good for both of us, and we’re enjoying the weekend as best we can. Brother Dicksbain is playing BF:2 and finally reached First Sergeant. Uncle Moneybags officially retired from that game, but is enjoying Mass Effect (crashy, crashy, however) and his new Dell M1330 laptop (fully loaded). After a successful week at court, Uncle Moneybags deserves a break. But he’s only getting a limited one: win one case, get sacked with another for the weekend. They didn’t put that in the brochure….

Topics Discussed:
New A/C for Brother Dicksbain upstairs.
The Return of Leafytimes.com
Drinking and more drinking (Unclemoneybags currently on hiatus)
New Laptop for Unclemoneybags
Games
Trance (Infected Mushroom)
Father’s Day gifts
Jazz (Gil Evans, Bud Powell)
Work woes
Southern California OS/2 User Group - Should we attend?  Is this a support group for recovering OS/2 Users?

Cigars Smoked:
CAO Gold Robusto (x2)
Romeo y Julieta Bully
Padron 1964 Exclusive Maduro
God of Fire by Carlito

More to come!

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Another fine weekend is here. Weather is good for both of us (for once). We had a good time getting back to our old habits. Meaning we had some good smokes. Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few drinks, have a few laughs.

Topics Discussed:
Mass Effect - The Greatest Game Ever Made
BF:2 - UncleMoneybags retires after discovering padding servers
Indiana Jones - Both going to go see this weekend.
New Dell M1330 Laptop for UncleMoneybags
New Suits for Dicksbain
Updating your suits? Huh?
Dicksbain’s Garage progress/decks - looking good, but more work is needed

Gars Smoked:
Artuero Fuente King “B” - not so good, tight draw, flavor so-so. Great name.

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A dismal effort by the Brothers this weekend. We missed Saturday DMs altogether, and Sunday DMs were plagued by work woes. Still, we managed to get in a little BF2 in between.

Topics Discussed:

Work Woes (Back with a Vengance);
Eve: Online - the greatest, most pointless game ever?
Fable 2: looks good;
XBOX 360 gets an HDMI port (non-Elite edition) finally;
BF2: “free” 2,000 points from EA due to stats server malfunction;
Uncle Moneybags mounts another TV to the wall;
Simpsons Movie - Dicksbain waiting for the DVD?
Die Hard: “Asian Dawn, what the fuck?”
Flooding in Uncle Moneybags’ guest bathroom - the friends who spilled too much water?
Gars for Sister’s Wedding
Working the Fair and Miller Lite
Uncle Moneybags - Snagged for weekend work both days!

Gars Smoked:

Romeo y Julieta Bully
Romeo y Julieta Reserva Maduro Robusto
Romeo y Julieta Vintage Robusto
Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Robusto
5×54 5 Vegas Gold
5×54 5 Vegas Classic
Sancho Panza Barcelona
CAO Brazllia Gol!
CAO Black VR Maduro Toro

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Topics Discussed:

Old games and music therefrom! Snafu, Burgertime.
God of Fire – great smokes, but strong as hell.
Foxit Reader – great pdf viewer
Rehersal Dinner Opus Xs
Cigar smoking sitting down vs. standing
BF2: Brother Dicksbain’s pursuit for 8,000 (acheived!); Uncle Moneybags’ 750 point weekend!
Half Life 2: The Revenge of Motion Sickness; Great Story, though
Lunch at the gas station in Irvine – Dos Amigos Forever!
Top 10 Gaming Controller of All Time (Nintendo MAX, Small XBOX Controller, Gravis PC Gaming Pad, Sony Dual Analog
StarCraft2 – Preordered by Dicksbain
Brother Dicksbain on the Wagon – Uncle Moneybags Still drinking!
Freelancer and Diablo on laptops
Work Woes? Nahhhh….

Gars Smoked:

God of Fire Robusto 2005 Don Carlos
God of Fire Robusto 2005 Carlito
5 Vegas 5×54 Gold and Classic (x2)
Sol Cubano Maduro Toro
Perdomo Cameroon Corona
Gurkha Regeant Toro
Montecristo No. 2 Habana (still the greatest smoke ever)
Casa Fuente ???

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Back in June, Brother Dicksbain and I lawfully purchased God of Fire Robustos at Casa Fuente during the Uncle Moneybags Mo-Money Bachelor Party/Gar Festival.  Good times.  We didn’t get a chance to smoke them during the wedding festivities, so we’ve hung onto them for a special occasion. While there’s nothing particularly “special” about this weekend, we’ve decided to smoke them on Saturday morning anyway–if only to “celebrate” that you don’t need a reason to have a super-premium smoke. We’ll be doing a review, for sure. Brother Dicksbain went with Don Carlos’ God of Fire creation, whereas I went with the Carlito (which has a toothy Cameroon wrapper instead of a Sumatran wrapper).  This will be the first of either kind for the brothers.

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Happy DMs to our loyal readers. This weekend marked the return to traditional Dominican Mornings, now that Uncle Moneybags is back to work. Uncle Moneybags went to see the Simpsons Movie and celebrated his dad’s graduation, while Brother Dicksbain enjoyed a fantastic brew festival. Much BF2 was had between events. Brother Dicksbain is a remarkable 4000 points ahead of Uncle Moneybags, though Uncle Moneybags is now 70% of the way to a new rank. Good times.

Topics Discussed:

Dad’s graduation and killer watch present
Simpsons Movie (a riot, though not without its flaws)
Uncle Moneybags’ Mo-Money Quad-core Mega Machine (forthcoming)
Roomba for the garage? Scooba for the floors?
Battlefield 2 (great game, but plagued by hackers)
Work woes (very minimal right now)
Sister-L’s upcoming wedding
Lego Indiana Jones Trilogy
Cleveland Indians (running strong, with the Angels over Detroit)
Brewery Festivals - Stone in Cleveland?

Gars Smoked:

Gurhka Legend Silver Series
Gurhka Ancient Warrior Toros
Cigar.com purple and blue lables
Perdomo Cameroon Anniversary Perfecto
Casa Fuente Belicoso

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Congratulations to Uncle Moneybags on his recent wedding in Paso Rubles, CA last weekend. We had some great times and smoked some fine cigars to celebrate. Before the wedding, we hit up Casa Fuente in Las Vegas. While we found some of the smokes their above retail prices, they had an amazing stock of every Fuente cigar you could imagine. We smoked the 21-ESG Robusto and purchased a few dozen smokes.

Moneybag$ in White, Dickbain in Black getting ready to smoke some Opus Xs.

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Congratulations to Leafytimes.com for making it one full year! It’s been a great year in gars for us. Our palates have exploded, and we’ve tried literally every cigar that we wanted to try (and, sadly, some we wish we didn’t). A year ago, we were singing the praising of JRcigar.com and raving about Macanudos and Montecristos. Today, it’s Padron 1964s, Cubans, and Opus Xs. Good times. I don’t know if there are any other great gars out there that we haven’t tried, but I’m sure there will be in the future. And one thing’s for sure: leafytimes.com will be around for years to come. God Bless Gars.

Topics Discussed:
One year anniversary of Leafytimes.com
Uncle Moneybags’ semi-retirement extravaganza (yes, I finally made it out)
Home improvement projects (garage floors, wireless internet set up, patching walls, bbq set up, etc.)
Nintendo WII (great system)
Xbox 360 purchase (forthcoming) for Dead Rising and Gears of War
22″ widescreens for computer
Del Taco in foreign lands (Michigan, Toledo Ohio)
VegGar 2007 1.0 (it’s closer than you think)
Becks Light - good cause you can drink 12 and barely feel it

Gars Smoked:
Oliva Serie O Robusto
Maxx Fatty Robustos (x2)
Cuban Partagas
Don Garcia Serie JJ (x2)
Montecristo Serie V Mini Churchill (last one from over a year ago to celebrate the anniversary)
La Flor Dominica L700 (same)
Pryme Toro
La Aurora Preferido Cameroon Robusto (last one from this cherry box)

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Happy DMs. This is the first post for all of April 2007–what can I say, we’ve been busy. Uncle Moneybags is completing his move to South OC; indeed, this is his last week of working at the job he’s been bitching about since before we even started this website. That’s not to say that we haven’t been having our regular DM calls. In fact, we’ve made every weekend (sometimes at alternate times), smoked some fine gars, discussed many home improvement projects and some other things. For example, this weekend, Brother Dicksbain refinished his decks and bought a pressure washer to boot. And Uncle Moneybags “bic-ed” his head for the first time ever–loving it.

On a more important note, this coming Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Leafytimes.com. Considering the success of our last blog, which only lasted five months, I never thought this one stood a chance to make it a year. But it did. Because gars are great. To the many memories to come.

Cigars Smoked (among others):
Oliva Serie O Toro
Don Pepin Garcia (Standard) Toro
La Aurora Preferido Robusto
Gurhka Napolese Warrior
Gurkha Black Puro
Montecristo Serie V Mini Churchill (the last of a box purchased in 2005!)
Don Pepin Garcia Serie JJ (fantastic smoke)

Topics Discussed:
Xbox 360 Elite purchase (with Gears of War AND Dead Rising!!!)
Satellite vs. Cable
Uncle Moneybags’ Mo-money mega Automatic Outdoor Lights
Hudgar 2.0 (sponsored by Caesar’s Palace, June 19-20, 2007)
Lawn care = full time job
Napster vs. XM
Stone Brews & Leffes
Furniture Delivery - no show
Uncle Moneybags Mo-Money Vacation Extravaganza!
Garage Floor Epoxy — where Uncle Moneybags’ Home Improvement Project Begins
(Note: we did NOT discuss work woes–who cares anymore?)

God Bless America

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Happy Dominican Mornings. The brothers are doing relatively well. Uncle Moneybags spent most of the weekend at his mo-money-mega mansion, complete with a stop along the way at the Classic Del Taco and Circle-K. Bought a power drill, installed a door lock, fixed some other door handles, and only broke a continuous loop on his blinds in the process–doh! Meanwhile, Brother Dicksbain enjoyed the warmer weather in Cleveland while painting his house and enjoying some fine ESV Perdomo Maduros. Good times.

Topics Discussed:

Work Woes
Xbox 360 Elite Edition
Eve Online: no gaming going on
28 days/weeks/years later and alternate endings
Washing the Rx-8
Baseball–Cleveland Indians vs. Angels
Hudgar 2.0 - the return
Wedding Plans for Uncle Moneybags–vegas trip in the works
Cuban cigars - truly the best
Drinking Stone Ale as a starter beer

Gars Smoked:

Padron 1926 Serie No. 26 Maduro (only one left)
Montecristo No. 2 (cuban) - still one of the best gars ever
Perdomo ESV 1991 Maduro (x2)
La Aurora Preferido Robusto
Perdomo Champaign Corona (x3)
1997 Cusano Robusto
Bolivar Toro

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What the heck is Dominican Mornings?

• Discussion on ashtrays. CAO Cubist. Prometheus Teadrop.
• Moneybag$ Mo Money Mega Mansion in exclusive^{[citation needed]} Dove Canyon.
  • LG Washer/Dryer Combo Installation today.
• Three/Four-Way light Switchs discussion.
• Dicksbain’s Chalk Board project.
• “Shut up Becky!“
• Weather:
  • Hudson, OH - 58° F Fog/Mist
  • Dove Canyon, CA - 62° F Overcast
• XBox 360 Elite - Fact or Fiction?
• MoMoney Ladder purchase?

Cigars Smoked:
Perdomo ESV ‘91 Robusto
Perdomo Cabinet Cameroon 444

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