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The Festival of Flight and the100 year anniversary of the Long Beach Airport. Had a great day at the Long beach Airport in October 2024. Saw lots of cook airplanes, talked with a couple of U2 pilots and learned about an ex military airplane that was made of plywood and material. All in All a…

I have not been posting much in the last ten months. That is because I am changing my life. This involves learning a new kind of vocation, learning a new kind of avocation, and incorporating it into my life narrative which still includes dog training as the foundation and reference point for change. I think…

We have gone into production on the new dog adoption show. It is scheduled to air on Long Beach cable starting October 16, 2024. We are looking to help local dog rescues located within the 562, 714, and 626 area codes. At this time there will be a new episode every two to three weeks….

Finished chapter 5 in the new training book. So I am still on track to get the first draft done on time. I am now working on chapter 6. This blog post is being done a while after the video. I also go over my public speaking projects. Talk a little about some possible public…

Haptic refers to touch. There are two types of touching sensations that can be experienced as haptic. They are tactile and Kinesthetic One is tactile. Tactile sensations detect pressure or force on the skin’s surface. We experience this type of haptic sensation as touch. We can use our haptic perception of touch to determine many…

It’s Coffee Time With Andrew Episode 87 Speech preparation. Preparation for the new scripted speech. I am doing an experiment on developing a very well structured speech. This is a new kind of verbal presentation for me. Yes, it’s a presentation where I am using a script. The script does not leave a lot of…

The Vocabulary word for the day is Dolichocephalic. Today we are talking about Salvador Dali and long noses.

This Coffee Time With Andrew is quite different than most. It was done at the REignite Real Estate meeting mini seminar on Friday April 24 2023. It was a rainy day in February that I attended the REignite Real Estate meeting. It was great to have a chance to see several different presentation styles. As…

Vocabulary word for the day – Today we are talking about mnemonic. A mnemonic device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering). I will also talk a little about the difference between developing a vocabulary for reading and listening as opposed to speaking.

The Thanksgiving Eve video was not really planned. It was an afterthought. It was a creative use of random media from a test shoot. About a year ago I acquired a mirrorless camera. In the beginning I used it. At first I started to learn the nuances of the camera. I would experiment and test…