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February 28, 2007 [ More archived home pages here ]
Reached Advanced Communicator Bronze
![]() Today's song is Talking Loud and Clear, by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD), released in 1984. Today I finished the requirements for my Advanced Communicator Bronze (AC-B) award at my Twin Oaks Toastmasters club. This means I presented the last of five speeches from each of two advanced manuals: Storytelling and Special Occasion Speeches in my case. My first of these was on May 7, 2005. My other speeches may be searched on this site. The project for that tenth advanced speech was to Accept An Award. My speech's title was The Four-Year Journey and acknowledged my time and efforts I've dedicated time to this club and the Toastmaster mission since 2003. Below is the prepared text of that five to seven minute speech, presented in front of the club, without notes.
Thank you for this award, it's been four years in the making. Allow me to tell you about my journey to this time and place today. I plan on giving the two leadership speeches I need for my next level award AC Silver at the upcoming March Speech Marathon our club holds in a few weeks. After that I only need to complete two more advanced manuals of five speeches each to reach that next step in my progression. I already have two speeches completed from the Technical Presentations manual. I might be able to reach that AC Silver by the end of June 2008.
I published the review for Bob Katzman's third book. He's making a lot of progress recently promoting his books. Buy one and help him out.
According to this PC to Mac Switcher story, about 9,000 people a day leave Windows behind for the Mac OS X. A quote from that article is below:
"I know someone who is of that very mind-set. She has used Windows since 3.0 and has never seen any reason to use anything else. Her computer, she says, is a tool, not a toy (jab); she needs neither a point-and-click nursemaid nor eye candy, and she's too busy to see how that other half lives just for the sake of broadening her horizons. I can't argue with any of that. These are the unmistakable words of a hardcore non-switcher. Here's another article that perhaps explains one of the reasons why so many people switch to a Mac.
My sister-in-law, Rita, sent me this link. Pass it along to those you care about as a sign of appreciation. Thanks, Rita!
You can get started with a convenient truth about Al Gore, recent Academy Award winner for his environmental film known in some quarters as, "Do As I Say, Not As I Do". I haven't seen the film. I'm planning on coming back in my next life as a fish; so I need all that extra water to live comfortably. Back at ya, Al! ;-) Don
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