<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=windows-1250"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=875125418-05042005><FONT face=Arial>Tuning away on = a Lowry (urgh-glubk) console and the stridency of the treble was getting to me. = So I popped in Diane Hofstetter's earplugs (work great BTW). = </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=875125418-05042005><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=875125418-05042005><FONT face=Arial>I had been = munching some M&M Peanut candy because I missed lunch. With the ear plugs in it = sounded like I was lying at ground level while the entire Russian Army was  = tromping along about  three inches from my ear on ice-covered = gravel: CARUNCH, CARUNCH, CARUNCH--loud!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=875125418-05042005><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=875125418-05042005><FONT face=Arial>So if you tend = to eat/hum while tuning, you'll have to break those habits. :-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan R. = Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875125418-05042005>Sounding Off in </SPAN>Salem, = MO</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>--<BR> No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.<BR> Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: = 04/05/2005<BR> </FONT> </P>