AstroNerdBoy bloviates and rambles about different things.
Back in the late 70’s, my family were members of a GARB (General Association of Regular Baptists) Baptist Church in Tallahassee, FL. I don’t know much about that organization beyond the fact that they tend to be Arminian in belief structure (at least the ones I’m familiar with are). Our pastor, Donald Shawback, became convinced that the Doctrines of Sovereign…
When I first thought of doing a blog in 2004, I just threw it up on my domain and went on about my business. However, it became apparent to me that because I didn’t have nifty interface abilities like BlogSpot has, updates would be a bit more troublesome. If I were going to write a post somewhere other than home,…
Recently, I received a phone call from market research company. I’ve done work for market research companies before. One time, it was to discuss apartments where I got paid $100. Another time was to discuss supermarkets where I got paid $75. The third was those mall researchers who grab you to view trailers or ads. That paid me $10 to…
Recently, I received a letter from a girl from my old, small home town. She was one of three in charge of the 1987 class reunion and so it had the normal, “Will you attend?” and stuff. I learned that apparently three of my classmates have now passed on (reasons still unknown to me), but otherwise the letter didn’t have…
It is quite a bit late (from April 22, 2006), but now that my friend MB finally provided some pictures of Starfest 2006, I thought I’d go ahead an write about the event. Despite being 36-years old, this was the first sci-fi convention that I’d ever attended, and certainly I’m glad MB and KC talked me into going. It was…