<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Alan,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yea, that comes with middle (and advancing) age... every month or so when I'm standing with backlighting in just the right way, my wife notices some new rogue hairs emitting from the ear area, and is kind enough (partly out of self-interest of course, because she doesn't want to have to look at them!) to take out her Swiss Army Knife scissors and do a little lawn mowing. (I do my own eyebrows and, er, nose hairs). </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Pardon me for sharing this, which may be way too much information for some - but it's the only way to keep undergrowth in control. If you don't have a willing wife, there are undoubtedly professionals that will provide this service : ) called hairdressers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So despair not, there is an answer to this little problem. And frankly, sometimes I'm led to wish more people would avail themselves of it!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Allen Wright</DIV><DIV>London, UK</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 14 May 2007, at 03:51, Alan Barnard wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Vietnam, Navy (MACV adivsor), PBR (river boats smaller than John Kerry's). Duty stations: Finnegayan, Guam; Futenma, Okinawa; Danang and (mostly) Thuan An, Vietnam. Also spent time in Bien Hoa, Saigon, Cu Chi, and Danang and have been to Hue, Phu Bai, etc. Ah, the good old days, 1967-1971</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">No ear problems except old(ish)-age hearing losses and increasing ear hair</SPAN><EM style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; ">--what's up with THAT?</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; "></EM><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Alan Barnard</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Salem, MO</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><DIV style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><HR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Original message</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">From: "James H Frazee" </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "> </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">To: "Pianotech List" </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "> </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Received: 5/13/2007 5:25:42 PM</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Subject: Re: Are there many piano techs who are veterans?</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><BR style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Dianne,</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Yes, I'm a Viet Nam Era veteran with severe tinnitus. So add 1 to the list.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 14.6667px; ">Jim Frazee</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>