Today's helpful tip

Do not ever, ever let yourself go more than six months without tuning your cello.  Ever.  (I'd no intention of letting her lie in her case for so long, but between a wrist sprain, the pregnancy, and my utter inability to do more than eat, sleep, and work for a few months, it just happened.) 

I spent a good 30+ minutes tuning.  I'm really lucky that I didn't break any strings  in the process.  (It was close with the A string.)  One good thing: I had not kept her downstairs during the winter, with the awful temp fluxuations.  Upstairs it's pretty universally warm.