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Furinkan High School Kendo Club: The 20 Sexiest Sci-Fi Babes Part 1

As a Sci-Fi nut, I thought this was nifty. They run the gamut from popular to more obscure stuff like Lexx. Here’s one of my favorites:

6. Kaylee Frye (“Firefly” 2002, “Serenity” 2005”)

“Goin’ on a year now I ain’t had nothin’ twixt my nethers weren’t run on batteries!” You know, Kaywinnit Lee, if’n that tree stump of a doctor ain’t gonna help y’all out in that respect, I reckon’ I might be willing ta fill in there.

Little Kaylee is as much the heart of Serenity as the ship’s photon-reaction drive. But the plucky, homily-spouting cutie is apparently a wildcat in the sack as well. She’s the one ship’s engineer with whom I’d like to get trapped on an island. Sorry, Scotty.

I find it disappointing that they didn’t include Samantha Carter from SG1, Dr. Elizabeth Weir from SG Atlantis, or Aeryn Sun/Vala Mal Doran from Farscape/SG1, respectively. Oh well.

Well, roughly $1000 later, the car has been repaired to a comfortable level.

Now, there is a bit of irony in this. On the way in to the shop, as I got out of the curves heading into town, the speedometer went out. Oh well, what better time to have something stop working than on the way to the shop. I have them check out the car and run a diagnostics. They checked if a tune-up was a priority, the steering problems, and they looked into the speedometer.

While I waited for the prognosis, I sat in the waiting area and beat the hell out of Grand Prix mode on Mario Kart DS. Yes, all of it that I had left.

In the end it came down to having to replace the front ball joints, brake pads, rotors, tires, speed sensor, and get an alignment. The bill was to come to nearly $1000… so, as anyone would do after seeing the number, I hesitated. But, I went through with it. I figured that if I spend $2300 on a car, it would be better that I know more about what’s good and bad in it. Besides, its in pretty good shape and seems like it will last me a while. Anyway, I went through with it. They told me it would take roughly 4 hours, so I called Josh and had him pick me up while they worked on it since he lives right down the road.

I sat around for the most part, watching BS TV shows. Daytime TV sucks. After about 4 and a half hours, I call to check in. They were just taking it for a test drive, so I headed back. I paid my dues and took off…. and then the speedometer didn’t work. Argh. So, I spin around and head back and have them take a quick look at it. They’re not exactly sure what the problem is, but they think the speed sensor that they put in might be defective. They asked me to bring it in on Monday so they can replace it free of charge. The nutty thing is that it was working when the tech took it for a test drive. Go figure.

Finally, I depart the shop and head off for Wal-mart to get a quick check on how they’re handling the Wii launch tomorrow night and then head home… and then the nuttiest thing happens. As soon as I get out of town and I can pick up speed, the speedometer starts jumping up and down and acting crazy. Then, as I’m getting even closer to home, it stablizes. I’m not taking any chances, so I’m gonna have it looked at on Monday if I can.

Oh well, dren happens. :)