Last work night... Yay....

 GungirlTM strikes a movie poster pose...

    Bit of a weak blog today due to time pressures. Mom's doing better today. She sounded far stronger than last week. Word is, the move to a physical rehab facility may be coming by the weekend or the start of next week. We're all hopeful that we've seen the worst of this, and Mom can make a full recovery.

      I usually buy my stogies online. My two favorite etailers are JR Cigar and Holts.com. Both offer excellent values in boxes, bundles, and samplers. I can't smoke at home, so I usually smoke when I drive to work or at lunch during work weeks. A daily premium cigar is too expensive for me, so I usually get an inexpensive bundle from one of the online stores. Lately, for my daily, inexpensive cigar, I've been smoking Holt's 'Bottom Shelf' cigars. The website description gives the cigar short shrift, tho pointing out that the 'Bottom Shelf' cigars still taste light years better than machine-mades available here in the US. And it's true.

    I've found the 'Bottom Shelf' cigars to be excellent smokes. They have a nice, unblemished wrapper. And they actually are a nice medium-bodied smoke, outstanding for the low price. My hour and half drive to work gives me enough time to smoke two, and I enjoy every minute of it. The 'Bottom Shelf' cigars are available only in 7x50 size, either tapered or straight. I'd love a Robusto size variation, but these are a great bargain nonetheless, great for smoking while doing yardwork, etc.

    Today's featured Call of Duty 4 vid is a flawless TDM on crash by the redoubtable Ronin6337. Second up is Kiddy Kong tearing up Quarry with the akimbo Vectors. Moving on...

Featured Call of Duty 4 Video
TDM Flawless on 'Crash' by Ronin6337

Uploaded 12 August 2010 by Ronin6337

    Call of Duty Links:

Quarry, 20-2 Akimbo Vector TDM by Kiddy Kong

Uploaded 12 August 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Prestige' edition preview on BASHandSlash.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops to include zombie mode? I'd be surprised if it didn't. 
• Black Ops beta 'in consideration'. I'll be POed if they don't have one. 
• Is Call of Duty all it's cracked up to be? More than this limp article seems to be...

    More Gaming Links:

• StarCraft II buoys PC gaming sales while console game sales fall.
• Square Enix releases Chaos Rings for iPad.
• Id's Rage dated: 13 September 2011. And thirteen is my lucky number! 
• Live with Rage at QuakeCon.
• Rage headed to iPhone at 60 FPS. I'm pretty sure my PC couldn't run it at 60 FPS.
• John Carmack: Id probably done with new IPs for next 10 years. 
• What if everyone behaved the same way with games? It would suck, I imagine.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Astronaut underwear and other oddities from space auction.
• Android OS overtakes Apple; smartphone sales explode. And Apple fanboi heads asplode...
• Chrome to Phone now available in the Android market.
• Google supporting Flash in Android: 10 Possible Outcomes.
• Facebook disagrees with Google-Verizon pact. 
• New law forbids sending smokes to soldiers. WTF, over?!?!
• Woman threatens to call 911 for help - while being arrested.
• Spiderman musical to open on Broadway. Hoo boy.

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