Output Excerpt Manually
<!-- There is always the_excerpt(), but that does some pretty specific stuff (e.g. adding paragraph tags, adding [...], not respect the more comment, use the saved excerpt...). Advanced Excerpt is pretty good at customizing that. -->
<!-- If you want to get real simple though: -->
<?php
$content = get_the_content();
echo substr(strip_tags($content), 0, 130) . '...';
?>