Passed Exam/smoked a surprise
gmill880
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Hey guys . Wednesday I took the exam for the NC Real Estate Pre-Licensing exam . Friday I got the results - Passed . Wheeew ! My wife is a broker and has has been after me to take the exams needed and she finally won . Next will be the actual state licensing exam . If I pass it will be an option and a man can never have too many options . I still don't know if I want to pursue this or maybe something else ( I have a few business plans ) and own my own business . Decisions decisions .
As a celebration smoke I chose a cigar gifted to me by a former client who is Cuban-American and now lives in Miami . He offered me a choice of cuban cigars from a small humidor he had with him and after taking a look , I chose an unbanded beauty . He grinned and said good choice , you can thank me later . He would not tell me much about it other than it was one of his personal favorites that he picked up each time he returned to Cuba . That was the end of 2009 and it has been resting peacefully since awaiting a time I felt was right to smoke it . Today was that day . Partially because of passing my exam but also because of alot of things that I have seen and gone thru in the past months relating to family and friends and realizing we are never promised a tommorow .
It was one hour and forty five minutes of pure cigar bliss . I'm not good at reviews but it started out with a touch of a hay flavor mixed with leather and pepper . The ash held firm for about 2 inches and then I chose to ash it , it didn't fall . A great peppery spicey smell filled the air with a bit of a charcoal grilled steak smell . The flavors turned pre dominatly pepper/white pepper and spice with a good shot of leather and almost a strong expresso hint weaving in and out . The last third really ramped up the spice and stronger leather taste with a earthiness mixed in with still a hot pepper flavor in and out . It was an awsome smoke and I need to dig thru some files and find my old-new best friends phone number LOL !!!
As a celebration smoke I chose a cigar gifted to me by a former client who is Cuban-American and now lives in Miami . He offered me a choice of cuban cigars from a small humidor he had with him and after taking a look , I chose an unbanded beauty . He grinned and said good choice , you can thank me later . He would not tell me much about it other than it was one of his personal favorites that he picked up each time he returned to Cuba . That was the end of 2009 and it has been resting peacefully since awaiting a time I felt was right to smoke it . Today was that day . Partially because of passing my exam but also because of alot of things that I have seen and gone thru in the past months relating to family and friends and realizing we are never promised a tommorow .
It was one hour and forty five minutes of pure cigar bliss . I'm not good at reviews but it started out with a touch of a hay flavor mixed with leather and pepper . The ash held firm for about 2 inches and then I chose to ash it , it didn't fall . A great peppery spicey smell filled the air with a bit of a charcoal grilled steak smell . The flavors turned pre dominatly pepper/white pepper and spice with a good shot of leather and almost a strong expresso hint weaving in and out . The last third really ramped up the spice and stronger leather taste with a earthiness mixed in with still a hot pepper flavor in and out . It was an awsome smoke and I need to dig thru some files and find my old-new best friends phone number LOL !!!
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Yeah they are crazy exams in N.C. now . As of Jan 1 2012 , over half of the exam is national and the rest is NC specific , some really tricky stuff to keep straight .
Is your wife going to take the NC exam ?
My wife loves it , cant get enough , I guess thats why she has been successful at it . She even watches the real estate programs on TV - House Hunters and all that . I enjoy the House Hunters International , like to see what prices are like and what your money buys in other countries , interesting .
I'm in Hickory NC , thats about 60 miles maybe NW of Charlotte NC . Let me know if you ever come thru this way , maybe we can share a drink and a cigar . What part of NC are you looking for a house in ? Gene
Thats great . Charlotte for me is about an hour since the opened up a straight shot almost down US Hwy 321 .