[Trubmeisters] September Meeting Notes
Date: 2001-09-07 10:51

Hard to believe it is September already!  The months meeting date is
gone, and winters cold is soon to arrive.

I want to welcome new members to our club.  I know Steve has been busy
signing people up during August.  We even had 2 new people at last
nights activities.  They seem to fit in well.  The only requirement to
enjoy our meetings is a sense of humor, and the willingness to drink
beer, mead, and wine.  :-)  If you want to read past discussions on this
list, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trubmeisters/.  For previous
meeting notes, look for the titles Month Meeting Notes after clicking a
months number of messages in the chart.  I think I have used that format
for quite a while now.

First, thank you to Dan and Lisa for putting up with us this month.
They supplied us with Dan's Mom's FANTASTIC corned beef.  This stuff is
so tender and flavorful, it is like eating candy.  Fresh bread, and some
homemade horseradish made for a great feast.  There were also some chips
and some bean/corn dip.  I will not repeat the story about swallowing
teeth and corn.  I leave that to your imagination.

Someone brought a bundle of plants that we decided were either pot or
coke.  Since none of us really knew what either looked like, we decided
it was a new species that was genetically spliced together from both.
That way, you KNEW you could fly if only those people weren't out to get
you.  (I'm not explaining that one - sorry.)

The beer was really good.  So many kinds, and such little glasses.
There was even some root beer to sample.  Let me try to recall them.
There was ginger mead, pyment mead, and peach mead.  Cream Ale, that
dark wheat of Dan's, Newcastle Brown Ale (clone), pale ale, some more
wheat, a chocolate porter (my favorite), some Warsteiner (I think), and
something in a small keg that was pale aleish (I forgot to ask what it
was).  There were at least 2 others, but my memory already is fading.
There was also a couple of wines that were both sweet and refreshing.

Dan broke out his private stash of liquors near the end.  He has some
pretty exotic stuff.  Some (was it pear or peach?) liquor, ginger
liquor, peanut butter liquor, and chocolate liquor.  He has the neatest
little shot glasses.  They are like teeny tiny wine flutes, and appear
to hold a single shot or so.  The stuff was very good, but since it had
been smuggled into the US inside some used gym socks, there is little
chance to ever see them again.

For the required rock'n'roll, there was a couple of choices.  First, a
singing lobster sang some water song.  I forgot which one because the
other singing animal overwrote those sectors in my memory storage
device.  Dan has a kangaroo that hops around and sings "Let's Go To The
Hop".  It was so cute!  Then Steve had to ruin it by forcing it to hop
on his lap.  That poor kangaroo will never be the same.  Then again,
neither will anyone of us who witnessed the gruesome event.  Shortly
after that the energizer bunny came out and beat Steve into submission. 
I should ask how many people know the difference between a gopher and a
beaver?  (You had to be there.)

That leaves religion and politics.  I seem to have heard a background
discussion about divorce and which churches allow remarriage.  That will
have to do.  Since politics are boring this time of year, all we know is
that one of the new members is a republican.  I told him I was sorry.
Everyone makes mistakes some time.  (I am independent.  I vote for the
guy who makes the best beer.)

I guess it could be considered that the lack of our president at this
meeting is political in nature.  Since the president of vice did not
jump in and take over, I guess that means anarchy has taken over.  OH
YEAH!  We never had anything other than anarchy from day one.  We wanted
to impeach Betty since she abandoned us, but no one was willing to step
in and take the heat required by the thankless title that is little more
than a target in our club.

We all wanted to wish Julie well on her soon to be child birth.  We
missed her and Scott.  There was a brief discussion about showering her
with beer, then anarchy took over again.  At the instance of MJ, we were
called back to order only to have anarchy take over once more.  I began
to feel like I was participating in a Monty Python skit.  In the end, we
decided to shower Julie with only the best beer we could find.

Speaking of Julie, I just got an email from Scott.  He says hi to all,
and wishes they could have been there.  Too many baby preparation chores
to do.  You know how everyone wants to see the pregnant mother and all. 
They just won't stop pestering you, and double your work load by
stopping by just to say hi.  :-)

Sue didn't make this meeting.  I guess she had to go to a vet.  She was
feeling under the weather.  Doh!  It wasn't Sue, it was her 10 year old
dog.  Poor Jim had to leave early to go hold his paw.  I guess he is
having some kind of reaction.  Sounds like bad hops to me.  Quit making
the dogs sample your beers.  Do you really trust their opinions anyhow?

What did I miss?  As usual, feel free to send your own meeting notes out
to fill us in on the stuff I forgot about.