Star Trek Hotties

After my last, totally depressing post, I thought I'd try to lighten things up a bit. I recently added Star Trek Voyager, season 1, to my NetFlix queue and was reminded of two things: 1. the show is excellent 2. Kes is hot. Anyway, I began to think about the women of Star Trek history and thought I'd give you, in my opinion, the top three hotties from each series:

Star Trek (the original)
1. the blonde Yeoman that always brought Kirk things to sign (I forget her name)
2. the green alien seductress (again, I forget the name of the species, but always wondered why they were never in any of the newer series.)
3. Uhura
honorable mention: any female crew member in those short short skirts ("You could almost see the giblets." -Larry the Cable Guy)

TNG
1. Tasha Yar
2. Deanna Troi
3. Dr. Chrusher
honorable mention: the entire species of sex hungry, scantally clad women in that episode where Wesley Crusher was sentenced to death for falling in some flowers.

DS9
1. Jadzia Dax
2. Kira Nerys
3. Dabo Girls!!
honorable mention: Ezri Dax. Cute, but no one can truely replace the original Dax.

Voyager
1. Seven of Nine
2. Kes
3. B'elanna Torres
honorable mention: Captain Janeway

Enterprise
1. T'Pol
2. T'Pol
3. T'Pol (she's really attractive)
honorable mention: Hoshi Sato

Hall of Fame top three:
1. T'Pol
2. Seven of Nine
3. Dax (the original)

Any disagreements or anyone that I forgot to mention?

Sad News

Hey all you AWHS alumni, I got some sad new yesterday. My mom called to wish us a Happy Easter and then followed that right up by telling me that Don Voss (Tim's dad) died last Wednesday. I guess it was ruled that he had a heart attach while driving and then had an accident. I think he ran into a building or something. If you don't know Mr. Voss, he was a really nice guy and helped teach percussion at Anthony Wayne High School. He also came down for alot of the OSU football games and went to all of the OSU Marching Band shows that he could. So, keep his family in your thoughts.

Sorry for bringing everyone down. In the future, I will try to lighten things up a bit.

Good Times

So, I'm in a pretty good mood today. Sure, I have to work ten hours in my basement, but that's OK. The past few days have been very nice outside. 75 degrees and sunny. Spring is definately my favorite time of the year. The weather is nice, trees are turning green, plants are popping up, and there are no bugs yet. I hate bugs. The only negative is all the weeds I have coming up all over the place. Oh well. I bought some bushes: two roses, red and black raspberries, and a blueberry. I also have started some flower and herb seeds (I love fresh herbs. Rosemary, basil, dill, cilantro and chives). I think I need to throttle down though. My plans for my back yard may be exceeding the amount of time I have to actually work in my yard. Plus, my budget is not a big as I'd like. Well, when my fence is finally installed, I was going to put flower beds all around the place. I would need to take a full week off to acomplish what I would want to. So, I will just plant my bushes and put in my vegetable garden in. I'll put off the rest of my plans for next spring. Another part of the problem is that I have no idea what is coming up in my yard. We moved in September 1st last year, so we missed almost all of the plants that are coming up. It looks like we have tulips all over the place. I like tulips, but may have to remove some of them due to their placement. Anyway, I guess my point is I need to wait and see what is going one back there before I plant more stuff. The roses and raspberries were necessities though. They are both favorites of mine. I also bought some strawberries to put in planters on my deck. Mmmmmmm....Berries.

Another part of why I am happy is because I was able to get all of the Sopranos DVDs at a fair price. I got seasons 1 and 2 on Ebay for $30 each. I started bidding on 3 and 4, but noticed that I probably would have to schell out $40 or so for these DVD sets, so I thought I'd check WalMart and see their prices. I'd seen the DVDs at target and Best Buy for about $90 each, but found them at Wally World for $50 (seasons 3 and 4) and $60 (season 5). I snatched them up. Yes, it's more than I'd have paid on Ebay, but I am an instant gratification kind of guy. Impulse buying is the term. Regardless, I now have all of the DVDs and am happy.

Ebay Oops

Somehow I screwed up and bought two copies of the Sopranos season 2 DVD box set on Ebay. I thought I had lost the first box set I bid on, but I guess not. So, now I have two sets, one new one used, on the way. I'm glad that I won at least one of the auctions, but who really needs two sets of the same DVD set? I may re-sell one of the sets on Ebay but thought I'd throw out the offer to my faithful blog reader. If he hasn't stopped reading this pile of dog poo. I know, more than one person reads my blog, I'm just being funny(ish). Anyway, I paid $30 and will gladly sell it to someone for the same price. I'll even give the new set rather than the used one. Let me know if you are interested. Otherwise, I'll just throw it back on Ebay. If you don't watch the Sopranos, I suggest you start. It's pretty good.

Don't call is a come back....

So, I hosted a poker game last night. It wasn't a huge game, but 12 people showed up to play. It was a good amount. We started out with two tables and I was doing well. Things turned ugly when I bet big with two kings and was trounced by three aces. I started to play really tight so that I would be able to stay in the game for as long as possible. Nothing is worse than hosting a poker game and getting knocked out early. We went down to one table when we got down to nine players and I was low stack in the chip category. The blinds were coming around to me and $200 and $400, and I had $365 left. If you don't know poker, blinds are forced bets that are made by the two people to the left of the dealer. So, when the big blind rolled my way (at $400) I was forced to put all of my remaining chips in the pot. I was 'all in'. Everyone was waiting for the enevitable conclusion that I was out. Well, I was dealt two aces and won the hand. I now had over $800 in chips. Still not great, but I was going to be able to hang around for a while. The next hand (I was in the small blind of $200) I was dealt two nines. I played the hand and two other people stayed in with me. When a third nine came up on the flop, I went all in again and won another hand, bumping me up to over $2400 chips. Now I'm in business and I eliminated another player. I'll make a long story short by telling you that I was low stack with nine players left at the table and was able to fight back to take second place. I'd like to say it was skill, but the truth is that I got lucky and hit big hands when I needed to. Still, it was a great game or me and a good time was had by all.

Be sure to check out pictures of Amy and Johnny's baby boy. Congrats to mom and dad.

Don't call is a come back....

So, I hosted a poker game last night. It wasn't a huge game, but 12 people showed up to play. It was a good amount. We started out with two tables and I was doing well. Things turned ugly when I bet big with two kings and was trounced by three aces. I started to play really tight so that I would be able to stay in the game for as long as possible. Nothing is worse than hosting a poker game and getting knocked out early. We went down to one table when we got down to nine players and I was low stack in the chip category. The blinds were coming around to me and $200 and $400, and I had $365 left. If you don't know poker, blinds are forced bets that are made by the two people to the left of the dealer. So, when the big blind rolled my way (at $400) I was forced to put all of my remaining chips in the pot. I was 'all in'. Everyone was waiting for the enevitable conclusion that I was out. Well, I was dealt two aces and won the hand. I now had over $800 in chips. Still not great, but I was going to be able to hang around for a while. The next hand (I was in the small blind of $200) I was dealt two nines. I played the hand and two other people stayed in with me. When a third nine came up on the flop, I went all in again and won another hand, bumping me up to over $2400 chips. Now I'm in business and I eliminated another player. I'll make a long story short by telling you that I was low stack with nine players left at the table and was able to fight back to take second place. I'd like to say it was skill, but the truth is that I got lucky and hit big hands when I needed to. Still, it was a great game or me and a good time was had by all.

Be sure to check out pictures of Amy and Johnny's baby boy. Congrats to mom and dad.