Convention and Here

[Farrell]

I'm starting my planning for Dallas NOW! I'm not letting anything get in my way this time. If you are looking for travel to-and-from Dallas on the cheap, consider driving with me from Tampa. We'll take my new "tank" and pick up a few more on the way! Let me know if you are interested and we'll start planning now.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Christus4@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:33 AM
Subject: Convention and Here


> Esteemed colleagues,
> 
> I would like to express sincere and great thanks to all of you who 
> participate in the "on-line university" we share here, and also to those who 
> contributed to the "continuing education" forum held in Chicago last week.  
> 
> This was the first national convention I attended since Providence.  I 
> justified the expense of it by the free registration I was able to earn the 
> previous year (finally!).  Yes, it was still expensive - even with low 
> air-fare rate acquired on-line, splitting room expense with some Okee' fella 
> I'd never met, eating "energy bars" and drinking the instant coffee my wife 
> packed for me, cheap meals across the street from the Hyatt at the little 
> cafeteria, avoiding the $5 beers in the hotel (and waiting for the open bar 
> receptions).....not to mention a loss of one week's potential income (even if 
> July is a slow month).
> 
> There's a bagful of excuses I had for  bowing out (again) from going to 
> Chicago, the biggest of which really might be trying to finish (sometime this 
> century) the house we're building on our own.  But I remember the words of 
> one of my mentors, who said that it's worthwhile to go to the conventions and 
> seminars even if you have to go into debt for a while because it always pays 
> off.
> 
> Well, the gist of this message is to relate to you all that the investment 
> does pay off! 
> Just today, because of the knowledge acquired and confidence gained last 
> week, I was able to sell a regulation job and other needed action work, which 
> will pay off a sizable chunk of the debt incurred. And this was only the 
> second day back!  
> 
> I'm grateful to not only the instructors of all the great classes taken (too 
> many to mention), the sponsors and exhibitors (ibid), the movers (Les, Paul, 
> et al) and the shakers, technicians from around the globe sharing their 
> experiences and knowledge, the Institute Committee,.....virtually everyone.   
> So much knowledge and talent gathered in one place.   Wow!, can't wait for 
> next year!
> 
> Meanwhile we have this venue, and since I've been lurking here so many months 
> I've learned so much.  
> I apologize for the length of this post, (for those of you who may have not 
> deleted it already), and also for any perceived mushy sentamentality.  
> My nickel's worth....
> 
> Chuck Christus, RPT
> Flagler Beach and Stuart, FL
>