<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Mark Cramer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Fred... perhaps if you spent<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><i>less</i></u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>time at the computer?... just a thought.  ;>)</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Gee, that never occurred to me! You think it would help? Nah, it's hopeless. We just have to make do with who we are and how we operate. <G><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Actually, I write more when I tune a lot at the U, because my stamina for tuning is limited. I have to get one done, more often than not and often including significant pitch change, within less than an hour (room scheduling), but I can't keep up that pace all day long. For the long term, there needs to be down time physically, so I might as well exercise the brain. In any case, I give my institution far more than its money's worth, so my conscience is clear. Days when I am not at the U, like today, and am on the road and occasionally have wifi and a bit of time, well, it passes the time, helps keep me sane, or what passes for sane anyway <G>.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm">http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm</a></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>