Everyone stop! Please! This is just so much static! How long before anything changes? How long has it been so far? Triple that. Quadruple it. Whatever. Just don't expect anything to change. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Paul Williams <<a href="mailto:pwilliams4@unl.edu" target="_blank">pwilliams4@unl.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I still have a hard time, really, trying to understand what you're saying, Duaine. Sure, $3,000 will buy a nice vacation, but you're forgetting the priceless education you have now missed...again. Even after some 22 years at this business, I continue to learn; as should you. Paul On 7/19/12 4:28 PM, "Duaine Hechler" <<a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a>> wrote: >According to Wilhelm (aka Wim), just think how good a vacation one could >take for $3000 or $6000. > >Especially when one hasn't had a vac > >Just sayin' >Duaine > >On 07/19/2012 01:59 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: >> >> Yup and some times the 1500 bucks it takes to convention-ize goes along >>way towards the family vacation. Choices >> situations and tradeoffs.... that,s what it comes down to. >> Its even more expensive to exhibit, teach and pay for you own travel >>etc. for the privilege of teaching others. >> Sarcasm implied. >> Dale >> >> *Dale Erwin R.P.T. >> Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc. >> **Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos >> <a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com" target="_blank">www.Erwinspiano.com</a> >> Phone: <a href="tel:209-577-8397" value="+12095778397">209-577-8397</a> >> * > > >-- >Duaine Hechler >Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ >Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding >Reed Organ Society Member >Florissant, MO 63034 ><a href="tel:%28314%29%20838-5587" value="+13148385587">(314) 838-5587</a> ><a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a> ><a href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com" target="_blank">www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</a> >-- >Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years > > </blockquote></div>