This blog will be longer than the others I’ve posted about my trip because I’m going to give you a virtual tour of Drew Estate, and do my best to convey to you all of the amazing information I learned along the way. So grab a cigar and start reading! First, let’s go over the [...]
Patron makes Tim happy! Ketel and Cigars at Fumee Madeline is on crack? Anthony says “Happy Memorial Day”
Thank you to everyone who came out for the Adrian’s Costa Rican event! We had a great time sampling rum and eating fajitas. Here’s Anthony and I rocking our Adrian’s Cigar shirts: And here’s back of one of the Adrian’s shirts. Don’t you just love the design? Keep smoking Adrian’s and try the new blend- [...]
So I’ve come across a dilemma. I had decided to never carry Oliveros because their ads are particularly demeaning to women, like in a woman-fellates-cigar sort of way, and I don’t see any need to support them because of it. Now I have a semi-regular customer who keeps requesting them, and I don’t know what [...]
Our Saturday crowd, hanging at the bar Our new awning was installed. Now we finally look like a classy joint. Anthony smoking at the shop. Weird wonky ash.
Well, the journey is over! The store has been opened for four days now. Business has been on the slow-steady side, we’re still trying to make our presence known here in Cedar Park/ Austin, but everyone that comes in seem to love it. This week we’re concentrating on marketing, marketing, marketing! You can see the [...]
We’re having a Los Blancos event tomorrow from 5 PM- 8 PM! come meet David Blanco of Los Blancos cigars and sample his line. We will also have complimentary drinks and snacks. Don’t miss it if you live in Cedar Park or Austin!
The lights pointing towards the fountains were not working. We replaced the bulbs and tried every switch imaginable. Nothing. So I started following the cables and it turns out that the two lights make a look and 3 cables come out of them, the ones on the top part of the picture. However, when I [...]
Today the plumbing was finished so the tile was filled in in the bathroom: They also filled in the tile from where we knocked down the wall. The ceiling in the humidor was begun today. Tomorrow it will get sheet-rocked in. I had to pick out lights from Home Depot which is more complicated than [...]
Why all the security? That’s the entrance to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan. What does that have to do with us? Someone from there ordered from us. I thought it was cool and exciting. I knew there was a reason why I studied “international” business.