---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I, for one, shall definitely miss meeting both you and Brian Trout VERY MUCH!! Greg Newell At 10:00 AM 6/11/2002, you wrote: >In a message dated 6/10/2002 5:45:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, >mkurta@adelphia.net writes: > > >>Subj:10 excuses.... >>Date:6/10/2002 5:45:56 PM Pacific Standard Time >>From:<mailto:mkurta@adelphia.net>mkurta@adelphia.net >>Reply-to:<mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org >>To:<mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org >>Sent from the Internet >> >> Mike > > > I have taught and attended many state and national conventions and > still do. This year as with many the choice is simply between spending > the budget on a family vacation or convention in Chigago. > Sorry to not be there. I also find that the further away conventions > are the fewer I attend. Part of the situation of those on the west or > left coast is the travel time distance and expense. I figure it cost a > minimum of about 1200 dollars to attend a left coast convention. > Also the summer months are very busy for rebuilders. And those with > employees have difficulty leaving them unattended. > One last minor comment is that so many convention classes are repeats, > however I have noticed a creative endeavor in the last few years to > remedy this at many conventions and hope it continues. > >>>>There it is!! > >>>>>>>>>>Dale Erwin>>>>>>>>... > >> >>It would be interesting to poll PTG members (both associates and RPT) as >>to why they don't attend national conventions. After going to seven, I >>seem to see the same faces year after year. Curious...... >> >>My picks for reasons folks don't attend conventions. >> 1. Not interested >> 2. Costs too much >> 3. Too far away >> 4. I know enough already >> 5. I'll lose too much business when away >> 6. I'm shy and not a good mixer >> 7. Can't get away >> 8. >> 9. YOUR CHOICE...... >> 10. >> >> Mike > Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3d/61/3c/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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