<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = khtml-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BR:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"I smiled and thought, "This guy is = really warped."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That just made me nostalgic for Monty = Python.  That was a pretty funny routine he came up with. :)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I first started tuning, people = would often say "My son/daughter isn't home from high school yet."  So I grew a = sparse beard.  Then they expressed reservations about their daughter or = son hanging out with a hippie.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sometimes there's just no winning in = this strange business :-).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>JeffO</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=piano57@insightbb.com = href="mailto:piano57@insightbb.com">Barbara Richmond</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 20, 2006 = 1:43 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] Reactions, = was disability insurance</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jtanner@mozart.sc.edu = href="mailto:jtanner@mozart.sc.edu">Jeff Tanner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 20, = 2006 12:43 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] = Reactions, was disability insurance</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>But my all time favorite was a Doctor -- yes, an MD, a college = educated man -- who, when he found out what I did, said, "I thought you had = to be blind to do that."</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR> <DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px = 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; apple-text-size-adjust: = auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder> </DIV><BR = class=Apple-interchange-newline></SPAN></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></= DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I arrived to tune this guy's = piano and one of the first things he said to me was when he was a child, the man who = tuned his family's piano was blind, so as a child he thought all piano = tuners were blind.  Then, of course, he discovered later that no, a = person didn't need to be blind to be a piano tuner, but didn't I think it = would be a fine Monty Python scene--John Cleese at the desk of a vocational = school asking, "So, what do you want to be?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The unsuspecting would-be piano tuner would say "Why, I'd like to be a piano tuner, = sir."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"All right, please step into that = room and your eyes will be plucked out....."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I smiled and thought, "This guy is = really warped."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial = size=2>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial = size=2>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR= >*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"I think I'm in luv."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial = size=2>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR= >*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial = size=2>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*<BR>*</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We were married nine months later....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond (coming up on our = 14th anniversary)</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>