[Trubmeisters] March Madness
Date: 2003-03-07 12:52

Last night was another great gathering of the Trubmeisters.  I need to
thank my wife for all the work she did to make it happen.  And is
probably still doing some today.  Something about sticky stuff all over
the floor.  Hmmmmm .....

I know the 4 hours of sleep I got last night are not doing me any
justice.  When I woke up this morning to take a shower, I almost fell
down the steps!  I soon realized I was not quite sober yet, so I took
smaller steps, and held onto the railing.  ;-)  I had a short thought
about calling my office and saying I couldn't come to work because I was
still drunk.  I figured that wouldn't go over very well.  The bad part
is Friday is my early start day of the week.

You're wondering why you would care about my days troubles?  Well, it is
my way of saying I'm not very creative today.  I'm just hanging on
trying to make it to 3:00 so I can go home and collapse on the couch.

Here goes ...

We had our March meeting at the home of Jeff and Diana Kane.  If I may
say so, they are the greatest host and hostess the club has.  ;-)  Diana
made some Jumbalia and a King Cake.  Those are Mardi Gras foods.  Both
were weight watchers recipes.  Now you know you ate diet food last
night!  And it was actually quite good.

The other food was some assorted chips and dips.  I'll miss some so
forgive me.  A bean and cheese dip, dill dip, avocado dip, and it seems
like a 4th also.  Maybe I was just seeing double when I looked.  Sausage
was also on the menu.  A little CWD meat I believe.  Some baked orange
potatoes were laying around, but not for long.  They were very good.
There was a chocolate cake too.  

There was beer and beer and more beer.  I think we had only 3 wines and
Zero Meads!  We were actually meadless.  Is that allowed?  The Barley
wines made up for it.  A 93 Old Crustacean, 95 Sam Adams Triple, 95
Thomas Hardy, 98 and 99 Big Foot, a 99 Old Something Ale, and a couple
others I can't remember.  We did bring out a small bottle of our 16 year
old fermented Welch's grape juice too.  We also had some Great Dane
Stone of Scone Scotch Ale.  There were quite a few bottles laying on the
table.  I could go home and send another note.  :-)  But I won't.  Too
much work.

I think someone said there were 7 kegs.  I know there were a lot, but
I'm not sure if that is right.  We had every thing from a pils to a
stout.  A lot of choices in between too.  Even a great Belgium.  Not a
bad beer in the bunch.

With the absence of George, there was an attempt by the alleged
President Betty to remove him from office.  By overwhelming vote, we
removed her instead.  She tried to bribe everyone in the club by giving
them made up titles.  We were not gullible enough to fall for it.  She
is still out and George will rise to the presidency once again.

Steve did make it, and he is doing fine.  We tried to make him
President, but he declined due to his impending jail sentence.  Since
all politicians are criminals, we figure that shouldn't matter.  Hence,
Steve is the new President.

There were 4 new members to the club last night.  Zach, Steve, Connie,
and Kim.  Actually we met Connie and Kim last month, but they became
official members when I added their email addresses last night.  Zach
and Steve came on their own, but I think our Tony and Steve couple were
who asked them to join us.  We had a vote, and Steve is now the
President.  Then we voted and Zach is now President.

In the end, I think everyone is now President of the club.  This should
create much more organization than we had in the past.

Being Mardi Gras time, we had to have some beads.  All of the ladies in
our group earned their beads.  Photos were prohibited, so I can't show
you what we all saw.  We really missed George's wife.  She would have
fit right in last night.  Some of the guys felt left out and wanted to
earn beads too.  We made sure each of them received what they had
coming.

Next month is April.  (Surprised that I actually remember that?)  What I
do remember is that we will meet on the First FRIDAY, NOT Thursday next
month.  The meeting place is Lakefront Brewery for the Fish Fry.
Details are yet to come.  We have questions like will they allow us to
bring our own beer?  How about our own mead?  See you ALL there.

A Good Beer To All, And To All A Good Beer!
                                                Jeff Kane