I think I’m developing an allergy to smoke. No joke. I’m going to try not smoking any cigars for a day or two and getting the laundry basket out of our bedroom (which contains all of our stinky cigar clothes) and see if it helps. This would be a bad development, if true.
This weekend I went down to Houston for a cigar event. It was Serious Cigars holiday party. It was amazing. Hundreds of people, catered, open bar, great raffle prizes (they gave away a scooter, several Wiis and ipods). I hope one day to have a party that big and well-attended. Baby steps!
Me at the Serious Cigars Party
I love this picture, because you can see how insanely smokey the tent was. Oddly, I didn’t notice it at all while I was there! (pictures from Jon Mackey)
Smokey Tent
One nice thing about the party (besides all of the networking I was able to do), is that I met a guy who runs a cigar shop in town. He’s far enough away to not be my competitor, and I’m hoping he can be someone trustworthy I can bounce ideas off of and go to for advice . I really need that for certain issues that I don’t know how to handle. For example, we’ve been keeping our humidor at 70 % humidity since we opened, with no problem at all. But people were complaining that it wasn’t humid enough, even though that’s the proper humidity for cigars. So my options were to ignore their complaints, or to kick up the humidity to 72% to make them feel better, even though that’s too high. I chose the later, but what if someone says the same thing again? Do I kick it up to 74%, which is ridiculously high? Do I ignore their complaint? At this event, I noticed that their cigars were kept VERY humid, I would bet it was at 74%. Maybe that’s a trade secret I don’t know yet, that retail stores OVER humidify their cigars? This is why I need an experienced retailer to be my mentor and to pose these questions to.
Anyways, I had a really nice time. We got back from Houston 3:30 Am and then I had to work a double the next day. That was not fun! Luckily it went by relatively quickly. So, who is coming with me next year?
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