<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Views on Sue's Blues</DIV> <DIV>    ... a poem.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sometimes you're the hero,</DIV> <DIV>Sometimes you're the goat,</DIV> <DIV>Life is tough, the goin' rough,</DIV> <DIV>Keep paddling, stay afloat!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>'Tis humbling to be bumbling</DIV> <DIV>and stumbling through the day,</DIV> <DIV>But in the end we'll all be dead.</DIV> <DIV>What else is there to say?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hope this cheers you up</DIV> <DIV>(Though I can't imagine how)</DIV> <DIV>But life is grand, strike up the band</DIV> <DIV>And, "Hey Man, don't have a cow!"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyhow ... perfection was hung on the cross a long, long time ago. The rest of us have to muddle through.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And we do. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You, too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Versifying in Salem, MO</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>P.S. This ought to cheer you up: When was the last time a man wrote = poetry(?)  just for you?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>P.P.S. You can wake up with a smile on your lips every single = morning ... but only if you are willing to sleep with a coat hanger in your = mouth.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face="Times New Roman" = size=3>----- Original Message ----- </FONT></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>From:</B> </FONT></FONT><A title=ssclabr8@flash.net href="mailto:ssclabr8@flash.net"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>SUSAN P SWEARINGEN</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>To:</B> </FONT></FONT><A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" = size=3> </FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:15 AM</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Subject:</B> Stupid = Mistake</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Hi everyone.  I had my first little accident as a piano = technician yesterday.  I'm fairly new to the business and this is my first = mishap so I'm feeling a little guilty about it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here is what happened.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After tuning a 3-year old Yamaha U3 upright, I was placing the = front board back in place when it slipped out of my hands and crashed into = and on top of the piano.  It caused some minor rubbing on the = finish but thank goodness it was only on the surface and it buffed out just = fine.  The owner was standing nearby when all this happened so it was quite emabarrasing.  I thought everything was ok but the owner called = me the next day saying the very left note (A0) was not playing.  She = flipped open the top lid and peered in and saw that the A0 hammer was missing, = just a broken hammer shank left.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Of course, I'll be taking care of this little problem at no = charge but I feel like such an idiot over the whole thing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think it would be very theraputic to hear a few stories of = similar mishaps when you more experienced folk were just starting out.  = </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>How about it?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Corte Swearingen</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>