Time has come to start packing the cigars for my move next week. Including the latest two shipments, I now have a 100-count desktop, a 50-count desktop, two 15-count traveldors, seven shallow "temporary tupperdors" and a box of Olivas still in the box with the box in a ziplock; all full or nearly so. Bovedas in everything, HF beads in the two desktops. Empty space under the lids of the desktops will be filled with air-bags or bubblewrap so the cigars don't bounce around. I plan on smoking out of the traveldors until everything is in the new place and unpacked; everything else except the 100-count will fit into my 36-quart Coleman cooler, I think; if not, I'll put the overflow into a cardboard box. I'll just lock the 100-count, box it for transport, and hope for the best.

How many sticks total? Dunno, I didn't count, but I'd estimate around 225-250. (I've been gifting some of my local friends, probably given away 75 so far.) The collection I'm transporting runs the gamut from cheap Casa de Garcias to Avos, Fuentes and Padrons; right now I'm heavy on Rocky Patel, Oliva and Romeo y Julieta, light on several other favorites.

My leaky old 50-stick humidor is now an official cigarstuph box, someplace to keep supplies and accessories. Except it's 'way too small to hold everything, and I keep finding more that needs to be kept with the cigars, so I've filled a couple of cigar boxes and I'm working on a third one. All of these will end up boxed together for the movers to transport.

The way it looks now, I may end up filling the Accord's back seat and floorboard with just cigars and cigarstuph. That means the acoustic guitar will probably go into the trunk, and the rest of the musicstuph will either go on the moving truck or wait until I make a second trip in the car -- which I have to do anyway, since I won't trust movers with most of the computer gear. (I now know the exact location of every bump and pothole between here and there -- lots of them.)

I'll have more space in the new apartment, and I need it; I have too much stuph! The second bedroom will become a combination home office/cigar lounge/library/music room, leaving more usable space in the living room and master bedroom. There's also a patio, larger than the one here, where I can enjoy cigars and beverages when the weather's nice. The apartment community even has a picnic area with both gas and charcoal grills permanently installed, something I didn't have here. Now, if I can just get the manager to swap the small fridge in the kitchen for one of the larger ones they have ....