We've been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the late 1970's... first with Ron and Greg and me, then with Phil and his brothers Dan and Bren a couple of years later, then finally with Mike and John. I've been in the service with Ron, won the AD&D Open with Ron and Phil, and had most of these guys at my multi-day bachelor's party in the French Quarter in New Orleans, twenty-two years ago. But in all those thirty years, the routine hasn't really changed much. Get together one night a week and play some D&D.

But lately, at Ron's request, some of us have been gathering at the local cigar shop, a very manly place where manly men gather to smoke stogies and revel in the absence of women. Don't get me wrong... I love women. I married one. She's my best friend. I have three daughters and a stepdaughter. But damn it's nice to get away from them on Wednesday night and let my essential guy-ness recharge from the ambient energy that permeats the cigar bar.

I'm not sure if I'm trying to tell you that there's hope for you to get out of your rut, or if I'm telling you that cigar bars are pretty cool and that I recommend you check one out, but for what it's worth, there you go.

I agree! Meeting at the cigar bar has become one of things I look forward to most. It's sort of a Man's fortress of solitude. I love the range of topics from Politics to Comic Books....fun times indeed.

Ya those shops are cool, I live in a small historic town, and the cigar shop here, has all that dark old woodwork, 16 foot ceilings with all that tin work, the leather couches and chairs that you sink into, big flat panel TV, and they serve BEER! by the Pitcher too!