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Busy week. Took great communication class taught by Bart Queen from Ultimate PowerSpeak.

Podcast:

Morning Commute 2011-02-18

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• Ultimate PowerSpeak

Discussed iPhone and birthday dinner out with family.

Podcast:

Morning Commute 2011-02-11

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• Lubranos Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria

Continued discussion about my new Verizon iPhone. Snowy day. Discussed the podcasting process.

NOTE: Still using iTunes to synced and then uploaded to my blog. I’m still looking for software to ftp the audio file from the phone.

Podcast:

Morning Commute 2011-02-10

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• Guitar Toolkit iPhone app

Discussion about my new Verizon iPhone. My first experiment in podcasting from the iPhone. NOTE: For this first cast, I synced to iTunes and then uploaded to my blog. I’m still looking for software to ftp the audio file from the phone.

Podcast:

Morning Commute 2011-02-08

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• Verizon iPhone

Denise and I spend the afternoon taking a blacksmithing workshop from Will Foster at the Maybry Mill Blacksmith shop on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We started the workshop having never done anything involving hot metal and hammers and left with 2 wall hooks which we will hang by the door in our mountain cabin.

We started by heating our steel rods in the forge:

Then we thinned one end to a point and curled it over to make a little pig-tail loop.

Then we made a finial on the other end where we would attach the hook to the wall.

Finally, we bent them around a mandrill and made the hooks A coat of wax to keep them from rusting and we are done.

It was a lot of fun. You should try it sometime.