Tomorrow is my last day.

So Friday will be my last day at www.pipesandcigars.com. I'm gonna miss it quite a bit. I've met some extremely wonderful people in my time here. The gang here is extremely dedicated. They are a fun loving bunch of hooligans. Everyone is always laughing and making jokes, yet we all get our work done. I have to say it is one of the best work settings that I have ever been around.

Through my time here I got to learn a lot about the tobacco industry. I now know a lot more about pipe tobacco than I ever thought I would. I have also learned a lot about the cigar industry. I feel I have grown a lot as a cigar smoker. Trying stuff that I never would had if I continued on the path I was traveling along before this job.

I also met some great people in the industry. Even got to meet some of the big guys like Marvin Samel, Avo, and Nick Perdomo. Its been a "Cigar Geek's" (my boss likes to call me that) dream. I want to give a shout out to Scott Bendett for giving me a job when I needed it the most. I truly appreciate all that you have done for me.

So now that I am leaving, my cigar smoking will go down quite a bit. I think my girlfriend will be doing the happy dance about that fact. I will still have them from time to time, just not as frequent. So with that I think I should smoke as many as I can get. Its only fitting right? So yesterday I smoked a couple. I had a Perdomo Exhibicion Corojo. I like Perdomo cigars. I like them a lot, but am I crazy that I think almost all of his stuff tastes the same? I know there are differences in each line. But these taste like the Patriarch which I think are very similar to the Lot 23 which I also think are very similar to the Habano line, and so on. I don't know. The only line that I don't like is the Gran Cru Maduro. I hated it as you can see in one of my earlier blog entries. The Exhibicion was good. The construction was awesome. The amount of smoke that came out of that cigar was very impressive. Very decent flavor. They are a good everyday type cigar. That's kinda how I feel about all Perdomo cigars. Good not great. I'm just waiting for one to absolutely blow me away.

The other cigar that I had yesterday was a Rocky Patel Edge Corojo. Think I was on a Corojo kick yesterday. I have to say that my cigar of choice from Rocky Patel is the Sun Grown with the Edge Maduro closely behind it. The Edge Corojo has never really got my juices flowing. I smoked it quickly at the end of the day. It was better than I remember. Once again it had flavor that you come to expect with a corojo. It was quite enjoyable. I'm gonna have to reconsider these again.

So now that my last day is almost here I have to celebrate. So I'm asking you, How should I celebrate? Good cigar? Nice dinner? Leave a comment letting me know what you think I should do. My next blog will be about what I ended up doing.

Thanks for checking me out and as always:

Smoke a good one!

Andy aka agctribefan