<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Well, I guess that's a fair to partly cloudy question and—as the cow walking through tall grass said—I am udderly tickled to answer it for you...<BR><BR>In private correspondence, Bill has been very helpful to me. Like so many on the list, he seems to have a rich store of knowledge and experience to share. Also, like so many on the list, he is a man of strong opinion and short fuse, perhaps. You gotta admit, the conversations were lively! But some folks did seem bent on driving a stake through his little old Equal Beating heart for reasons that, I admit, I didn't fully grasp...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR><FONT size=3>So I say, "sticks and stones .... but graphic represenations of font characters on a computer screen can never hurt me—unless I let them (thank you Elinor Roosevelt)." </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>And remember, O List, OJ is still out there searching for the <EM>real</EM> killer. And that great humanitarian, Rodney King, actually did say "Can't we all just get along?" right before being arrested for beating the hell out of his girlfriend.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>If this all seems like rambling, mindless drivel, please note three things:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>1.  I am very tired; slept only about two hours last night.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>2.  Mindless Drivel is my forte and normal for me, I'm told. (My piano is a different brand than my forte)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>3.  I don't really care what you think, anyway. So there!.<BR><BR>Actually, I do. I am secretly sentimental and shamelessly sensitive, a closet concerned colleague, caring confidant, if you will—or even if you won't. As Marshall Gerard said: "Don't tell anyone, okay?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Psssst, Maybe the one-armed man did it, OJ.<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>More Than Enough of Me for One Day from Salem, Missouri<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>> [Original Message]<BR>> From: Avery Todd <avery1@houston.rr.com><BR>> To: <tune4u@earthlink.net>; Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>> Date: 05/30/2005 7:31:35 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: Some Very Important Deep breathing ....<BR>><BR>> Why????????<BR>><BR>> Avery<BR>><BR>> >I'm even trying to talk Bill B into coming back on line,<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>