LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kristine Strasburger]

You guys are throwing down some serious meters! Great job team! I had a slight kink in the chain these past few days. I had five bags of apples from a friend's orchard that were beginning to go bad; thus the applesauce project commenced. No time to row. Finally got it all canned up last night. 14 pints + 14 quarts of delicious homemade applesauce! I'm set for the year! Hoping to release my reindeer by the weekend.

[Kona2]

Day 15 of 33...

Another Episode...bunny trails of the mind

The National Cathedral in Washington DC is a majestic place of worship, an Episcopalian cathedral that is the fourth tallest habitable building in DC. Construction started in 1907, the Teddy Roosevelt era. Many visits to Washington DC, but I've never been to the cathedral. Yesterday's state funeral for our 41st US President provided many views of the cathedral's interior amidst some towering words. I went looking for an online tour of the Cathedral, and before I knew it...I was down the bunny trail.

There is a Space connection to the Cathedral. The Apollo 11 mission donated a lunar rock for the purpose of creating a stained glass Space Window. It is remarkable, as is each mission into space. The Space Window was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the lunar landing in 1974, with all three of the Apollo 11 astronauts present at the dedication. Here's a short video showing lunar rock placement and a few things about the Space Window
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAGf3MmiFI



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

Distance remaining to lunar landing: 45,889,017 m

900 K Baz
750 K Gary
450 K bg
400 K Virginia
350 K Rosie
300 K Kellee
200 K Chuck B

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Liz 1,546 m
Trevor 4,007 m
Dan O' 4,324 m
Jonathan 4,523 m
Cornel 5,000 m
Truthy 5,000 m
Kevin Mc 5,185 m
Jeff D 5,277 m
Rebecca 6,000 m
Bernie 6,028 m
Doug G 6,038 m
Karyn 6,329 m
Jason 6,431 m
John D 6,636 m
Steve W 7,000 m
Todd 7,997 m ...a palindrome!
Tom M 8,550 m
Sarah 8,570 m
FRiC m ...a palindrome to the nines!
Derric 10,000 m
Michael C 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Rosie 10,000 m
Victor 10,000 m
Josh 10,054 m
Tombeur 10,240 m
Thor 10,621 m
Howard 11,179 m
Jamie 11,333 m ...a double triple...first it was 11,111, then the next day 11,222 and then today's 11,333 m...bets on tomorrow?
12,121 m ...a Welkian palindrome!
Danno 12,421 m ...a palindrome!
K2 13,000 m
Chuck B 13,558 m
Patrick S 14,125 m
David A 14,656 m
bg 16,239 m
Stuart 16,633 m
David T 17,000 m
Minnie 18,312 m
Baz 20,000 m
Virginia 20,000 m
Gary 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Ian 21,451 m ... he moons us, too!
Ed m ...a starry palindrome!
Kellee 96,000 m ... biggie update!

[Kona2]

Buttercup (K2)

Now that I've earned my $2 in charity matches, Buttercup is out of the gate!

[just27]

Mata M16(Minnie)

Note: Minnie says that despite Mata H's bad rap, she still likes her. Taking some license, we're rebranding Mata with a new British identity as Mata M16.

Hah ... my first thought was "why does my reindeer have a machine gun?"
It took a few clicks to parse that through the clues!

[DavidA]

hopefully i'm back :-] woooooooooooohooooooooooo and congrats for all the milestones that i missed :-} and hope everyone is doing well

YEAH!!
Woo Hoo!!

David

[DavidA]

I'm baaaaak! Missed you all! Great to see that the LUNA-TICS are still going strong. Looking forward to being able to begin rowing from home again as my regular routine. I decided to quit going to Crossfit back in July due to repeated shoulder injury issues and Achilles tendon issues which were definitely connected to the workouts there. Hopefully everything is healed up, and this will be an amazing Holiday Challenge (just couldn't pull it off last year so soon after the auto accident - had to admit this disappointing conclusion after rowing day one on the challenge last year - first Holiday Challenge I have missed). I did a bulk upload from my data card of 7,344 meters which is my total meters for the season so far. You can subtract that amount from the meters I row and upload today to get my Holiday Challenge meters rowed today (didn't manage to row any yesterday before the guests arrived for dinner.)

Cool fox in the yard, K2!

Cheers to the Team!

Welcome back!
Good luck with this year's Holiday Challenge.

David

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop, and way to bring in the reindeer season! Congratulations, Stuart, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

[bg]

Whoop, whoop, and way to bring in the reindeer season! Congratulations, Stuart, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

woooooooooohooooooooo and congrats :-}

[Kona2]

Nitro (Dennis)


Luna (Rebecca)


Turbo (Michael C)


Max (Chuck B )


Orion (Jeff B )

[Kona2]

Day 16 of 33...approaching midpoint

Those of us who routinely use the Erg Data app know that it is usually a pretty quick sync of the data...except when it's not. Wait. I just did 12K meters and where are they?! I tried the transfer of the meters from the PM5 using a flash drive, but did not see the expected USB Logbook option. More work needed on this one, but a manual upload has now occurred.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

Distance remaining to lunar landing: 45,468,017 m
A side note: our Lunie meter total today was 421,000 m ....can't remember when we last had 000 as the last three digits...

5.4 MM Ed
2.2 MM David A
1.0 MM Stuart
850 K Dan O'
650 K Ted
600 K K2
300 K Jamie
150 K Karyn

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Debbie 1,105 m
David T 1,500 m
Steve W 2,000 m
Keith F 3,000 m
Gines 3,664 m
Gman 4,332 m
Dan O' 4,357 m
Cornel 5,000 m
Karyn 5,019 m
Josh 5,035 m
Rich G 5,673 m
Jeff D 6,285 m
Gary 6,288 m
John D 6,396 m
Sarah 9,253 m
Doug G 9,951 m
Kristine 10,000 m
Michael C 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Rosie 10,000 m
Howard 11,340 m
Jamie 11,444 m ....another double triple...5's tomorrow?
bg 12,204 m ...working on the antler lights!
Stuart 12,631 m
Patrick S 13,055 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Chuck B 13,609 m
David A 15,733 m
Todd 16,000 m
Norma 17,771 m ...a palindrome with lucky 7's inside!
Ted 20,000 m
Louis 21,212 m ...a palindrome...and a moon!
Jeff B 22,344 m ... he moons us!
K2 24,500 m
Ed m ...a threesie palindrome!
Ron 33,535 m ... he moons us, too!

[Kona2]

Rocket(Salvador)


Jupiter (Rick))


Buster (Dan O')

And Stargazer has earned the antler lights AND the Holiday Challenge pin....enough time left to go all the way to tail wag and some swagger!


Stargazer (Norma)

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and what a great time of year be a meter millionaire! Congratulations, Patrick S, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

[Kona2]

Merry (Laurie)


Meteor (Steve W)


And the penultimate reindeer bling: antler lights, flashing harness, tail wag and ear wag!


Comet (Ed)

[Kona2]

Day 17 of 33...

Lunies...the herd grows stronger!!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

Distance remaining to lunar landing: 44,963,629 m

5.45 MM Ed
3.15 MM Ron
1.55 MM Louis
1.5 MM Ken
1.15 MM Todd
1.1 MM David T
1.1 MM Danno
1.1 MM Norma
1.0 MM Patrick S
450 K Rick
300 K Salvador
150 K Laurie

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!


Rich G 3,041 m
Jason 4,249 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Trevor 5,000 m
Dan O' 5,041 m
Kevin Mc 6,304 m
Keith J 6,910 m
David T 7,500 m
Steve W 8,000 m
David A 8,755 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Emma 10,000 m
Jessica 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Keith F 11,000 m
Louis m ...a onesie palindrome!
Howard 11,376 m
Jamie 11,555 m ...a double triple! Sixes tomorrow!
K2 12,000 m
Chuck B 13,736 m
Danno 13,975 m
Patrick S 14,277 m
Laurie 15,000 m
Rosie 15,000 m
Andrea 15,685 m
Stuart 16,391 m
Ian 16,971 m
FRiC 17,010 m
Anna C-S 18,052 m
19,191 m ...busy.busy.busy...a 19er of a palindrome!
Salvador 20,000 m
Todd 20,000 m
Gary 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Ron 21,943 m ... he moons us!
Ken 40,000 m ... good update!
Ed 42,195 m ... he full moons us!

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and what a great time of year be a meter millionaire! Congratulations, Patrick S, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

wooooooooooooooohoooooooooooo and congrats :-}