Today Jason was played by a puppet. 

Also, Andy dropped us behind his desk. That's why we see the ceiling. 

Andy's presentation this week was very inspiring. It was an astute speech that looked great on video. 

During his speech this week, Darrell showed us some of the progress he has made on a construction project he's been working on. It was an excellent way to use the technology we used already to stay connected remotely. He just carried his laptop around the site and showed us the physical location. It was awesome!

 Here are we on WebEx again. Come join us:

https://downtowntm.my.webex.com/meet/downtown1145

 Julian spoke to us today about written communications - a somewhat esoteric topic for Toastmasters.

 Today Gary read us some poetry in his speech where he informed us about how words can be used.

 This week Jason spoke to us about something he saw that would help increase employee engagement in your teams. It was very execellent!

Today, Gary told us about some Toastmaster events he remembers as if they were yesterday ...

This week we had something pretty unique. 

Darrell was part of a panel of speakers at a conference. However, with COVID-19 floating around, the conference is online. He showed us a video of the panel discussion asked us to evaluate his part. 

This week, Andy told us about the garbage we put in our bodies and our minds. He gave us some ideas of how to be better.

This week, Shawn told how it all began with pigs ....

This week Julian told us about his leadership styles based on the Pathways project "Understanding Your Leadership Style." Here they are, which is pretty similar to when he did this project last time:

This week, Andy tried to convince us that Jason looked like Eric Clapton with his new beard. I'm not saying he doesn't look like Eric Clapton ....

Our speaker this week was Gary who told us about the difficulties of getting an official ID, if you don't already have one. 

This week Jason told us about a company forgotten by time .... which made watches. 

Andy was not present to make the appropriate puns. 

This week Gary gave a very concise and engaging presentation on what a presentation should include. 

Plus, we heard from many who their favorite wrappers were. Most responses would really surprise you.

In the age where we might be returning to work, Darrell lead us in a discussion of combining a virtual meeting with our traditional in-person meeting.

Today, Andy talked to us about Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, and a inspirational speech. 

This week Shawn was able to join us again, hurray!

This week, we barely mentioned Hazmat Suits, but that's the screenshot I got. 

The speech was given by me. I talked about my newly acquired, quarantine hobby: Creating content in Roblox. 

Gary told us all some stories about what it was like living in the Texas Tech dorms in the 60's. It made us all nostalgic. 

This week we talked a bunch about getting new members in general, but also amid the COVID19 lockdown.

This week, Gary told us about his CDO (OCD), using a great introduction involving Tetris.

Also, we saw cats.

Online meeting three and we are rocking along!

This week, Jason told us about some of the certification programs he is working on.

Online meeting week two. This time, we tried out WebEx, which worked pretty well.

Coronavirus got you isolated? No problem!

Today we met over Skype.

We also, apparently, saw a lot of ceiling tiles

Today, Shawn's speech was an amazing inspirational message about not giving up.

Julian gave the second speech for his Pathway project today. He gave a speech a second time using feedback from the first. It was a lot of fun and we got to hear about how he got this guy.

Gary talks to us about a very important message of how we spend our time.

Two long time Lubbock Downtowners were able to make it back!  Welcome back Jason and Gary! Here we see Jason giving some pointers to Andy about his speech. Andy always gives great speeches, but this one in particular was great!

Darrell speaks to us showing an excellent example of hand gestures.

This week, we heard about Julian’s obsession - and we got to hear where and how he got this:

This is for the Level 1 Pathways project Evaluation and Feedback. He spoke today and got feedback, then he has to give the speech again and incorporate the feedback. So, we’ll hear about his Legos again.