ergonomics

[Ron Nossaman]

> Ron,
> 
> Well, actually, I was just comparing it to handily parking in the driveway
> of a home and walking in the front door with stuff.  This week I did a big
> regulation, etc. job on a 22 year old C-7 (man, it goes!) and I loaded 
> up my
> luggage rack with my brief case, two tool cases, a stool, a lamp and my key
> leveling stick.  The church building is handicap accessible, so all I 
> had to
> do was roll up the ramp.  Of course, there was a second trip to the van for
> the LaRoy Edwards action caddy--what a wonderful investment.

Hi Barb,
My biggest "mileage" problem is with schools. There are 
sometimes "visitor" spaces a mere hundred feet or so from the 
door, but they are usually full of cars with parking stickers 
that shouldn't be there in the first place, leaving the next 
available spot at the far end of the lot - if there is an open 
parking spot at all. I'm probably being unreasonable in 
expecting an institution who hires a service people to come 
and do some needed work, to supply a parking place reasonably 
close to the building for them. It would be an interesting 
experiment to see how far any of the administrative office 
denizens could carry my tool case before their knuckles are 
dragging (assuming they don't normally, of course).


> Hope you made it through with little or no ice.  Thankfully, we had just 
> a little freezing rain, but there might be a second round tonight...


We're right at the Western edge of the action, and have missed 
the freezing rain so far (but not all that much). That's the 
good part. Got about an inch of accumulated sleet, with 
intermittent snow, and about 4" more snow due tomorrow. South 
and East of us look like they got hit a whole lot worse. I was 
supposed to have gone out of town this morning to tune for a 
local community concert deal, but they wisely decided to 
postpone, so I got to sleep in to just about the time I'd have 
otherwise been tuning unisons. Didn't pay as well, but it sure 
was nice.

Ron N