Spring 2006, Volume 29, #1 - Our 29th Year!

BHJ – I’M STILL HERE

Welcome to Prost 2006! I’m back after a disastrous computer crash early Oct 2005 – I turned on my PC, the power supply blew, & fried my hard drive, so I lost all the previous issues I had stashed, plus the membership list I had. I, the eternal optimist who never backed up anything, was going to replace the crashed PC to get more memory & a faster chip anyway after I got back from 2 weeks back east – the “fry” did me in. Thank heavens I bought a laptop a month earlier that I could plug into my DSL line, so I could clear out my overloaded mailboxes.

For 10+ years I was using Adobe PageMaker. From now on, MS Word – once I get used to it, the quality will improve & the content will increase. I’m not reconstituting the stuff that used to be on Page 2 – the officer info is on our website; the other extraneous stuff is history. Further – we’ll be distributing only electronically, except for a few “old-timers” who we know aren’t online & will post all issues at our web site.

If you didn’t get this via e-mail & are a paid-up member who picked this up off the website, PLEASE e-mail me ASAP: beerman49@msn.com – this is the mailbox I read first; I’ll copy & paste your address to my big address book at another mailbox on which I have my Malts’ group list stashed. This is a “quickie” issue – sometime in late May/Early June, I’ll have a bigger one – contributions welcome!!

For now, we have no calendar, except for the Oyster BBQ (see below) - we’ve ordered 1000 oysters (I hope smaller than the ones we had too many leftovers of) last year. E-mail me your “body count” - pay at the door if you can’t get a check in the mail by 4/24. If you’ve not paid your dues for 2006 yet, pay at the door or sent them to the NEW PO Box at the top of the page.

Peace & Good Brewing/Tasting! – MJK

OYSTER BBQ DETAILS

Where: The usual spot, San Pedro Park, Pacifica (Linda Mar east off of Hwy 1, turn right @ the dead end, then immediate L into the parking lot - $5/car ) NOTE: Hwy 1 is closed indefinitely @ Devil’s Slide, so if you live south, take 280 to Westboro Blvd exit – Westboro becomes Sharp Park at Skyline (CA 35) - then turn left on 1 down to Linda Mar & proceed as above.When: Sunday April 30, noon-dusk.

Bring: Brew (preferably “homeys”) & an appetizer, side dish, or dessert to share. If you don’t eat oysters, there are grills to cook other stuff on – we’ll have plenty of charcoal (we who work the grills aren’t averse to a little “turf” to accompany our “surf). Also, you can help us be eco-friendly by bringing your own flatware & drinking vessels – we provide plates & napkins for all; flatware & beer cups for the aberrant ones.

Prices:

Malts & 1 guest/per - $15/ea

Additional Guests - $17/ea

Kids 6-12/Non-Oyster eaters - $6/ea

Kids < 6 – FREE

Send checks to the PO Box above NLT 4/21; otherwise, e-mail beerman49@msn.com with your body count & pay at the door.