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Woodworking school, rotating cast of characters (the students), and excellent teacher who shows the techniques. Throw in some comedy, and the students can handle all of the conflicty things, like this guy is cheating, or that guy is using shortcuts (Domino when the assignment was to create a mortise and tenon joint).

If you really want the conflict thing, two schools: one that uses power tools preferably, another that likes to use hand tools.

Random thoughts on Christmas Eve from Florida. Merry Xmas to one and all!

Congratulations to Norm in his upcoming retirement... I hope to see more of him in This Old House, and with some good luck, in other projects. He is a fine teacher, and practically irreplaceable. He made woodworking understandable. His style is perfect for this kind of thing.

Perhaps he can train a replacement? Nah, there's no one else like Norm. His gain is our loss. Good luck to you, Norm Abrams. I, like most others, will sure miss you.

I like cookies...

iPod for tunes; there is an app for the iPhone that helps track time spent on a project as well as expenses.