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

[Kona2]

Great day at the ballpark when your favorite player hits THREE home runs...and the team wins. Lordy...we've sure been on the other side of that equation!

TWENTY MILLION TEAM Meters! Hooyah!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.0 MM Steve W
850 K David A
550 K Tombeur
150 K Derric

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 2,222 m ....doubled up the palindromes!
AJ 2,517 m
E V 3,173 m
Rebecca 3,443 m ...a palindrome!
Patrick H 5,000 m
Patrick S 5,420 m
Jane 5,555 m ...a high five palindrome!
Dan O' 6,008 m
David W 8,463 m
Louis 10,000 m
Roy 10,000 m
bg 10,089 m
David A 10,147 m
David T 11,000 m
Ted 11,000 m
danwho 11,011 m ...a double aught double palindrome!
Tombeur 11,061 m
Norma 11,111 m ... a palindrome of the first kind!
Doug 11,730 m
Steve W 12,381 m
Rick 12,540 m
Stuart 12,722 m
Minnie 13,131 m ....a lucky 13 palindrome!
Derric 20,000 m


And from the edge...the firecracker of pop and the flying saucer of possibility...

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and it's a MILLION meter day for Steve W! Congratulations on filling that meter piggy bank up to the ONE million milestone...and so early in the season! We wish you many more celebrations throughout the rest of the year and beyond!

wooooooooooooo hoooooooooooo and congrats :]

[danwho]

Congratulations

And a nod to Nolan Arenado too.

[Steve W]

Whoop, whoop and it's a MILLION meter day for Steve W! Congratulations on filling that meter piggy bank up to the ONE million milestone...and so early in the season! We wish you many more celebrations throughout the rest of the year and beyond!

wooooooooooooo hoooooooooooo and congrats :]

Thanks much, K2, BG and Danwho! Getting a case of rower's elbow, so breaking out the flex bar and cutting back a little to nix that. Still have a few on-water events coming up so got to get this treated.

[Drivetofast]

Happy Birthday tomorrow K2 Sorry for early wishes. But I have surgery Today.

[Kona2]

Steve Next time you have a story tell k2 first. The horse flys will turn into Pterodactyls the canoe will be a dug out etc.etc....

You have no idea (yet) of the bunny trail this has started....but I am working on it. Best description of horse flies EVER.

Best possible outcome wished on your surgery. You'll have to read the bunny trail you started tomorrow.

[normadelaney]

Happy Birthday tomorrow K2 Sorry for early wishes. But I have surgery Today.

Good luck and wishing you a speedy recovery!

[normadelaney]

Happy Birthday tomorrow K2 Sorry for early wishes. But I have surgery Today.

Good luck and wishing you a speedy recovery!

Forgot to mention that I'll row some lucky 7's for you.

[Kona2]

On Tuesday, Shaun quietly (ok, maybe a bleat or two) danced over the special EIGHTs eight million lifetime meters milestone. At this rate, the 10 million meter sweatshirt will be Shaun's just when Norma is starting to feel the chill that winter will bring. Congratulations, Norma! We wish you many, MANY more millions of meters!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and way to finish off another million meters! Congratulations, Keith, on achieving SIX million lifetime meters! We wish you many, MANY more!!


I missed this one on Monday (distracted by golf)....

[Kona2]

And so our streak of palindrome days is done for this year...but when August 2018 rolls around....so will another streak! Happily, the Dodgers win streak was interrupted also. Snort (thank you, 00-Minnie, for that word -it is so expressive of many things), little chance that we will get a reprieve until August 2018 from them.

Today's numbers are few...due to the late number grab yesterday. And it's summr, so we're all busy getting outside time before that dreaded first splotch of yellow leaves appears in the trees...and you say "ah, there it is, the first harbinger of Fall." Or something similar.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

8 MM Lifetime Meters Norma
6 MM Lifetime Meters Keith

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Kevin 7,527 m
David A 8,804 m
Jane 10,501 m ..a palindrome!
Stefan 12,047 m
Norma 12,121 m ...biding her time until I notice the yearly total...? A palindrome from the queen of palindromes!

[Steve W]

Happy Birthday tomorrow K2 Sorry for early wishes. But I have surgery Today.

Richard, hope that you are healing and resting comfortably today.

[bg]

Happy Birthday tomorrow K2 Sorry for early wishes. But I have surgery Today.

happy birthday k2 :] and hope your surgery went well...sending lots of healing thoughts :}

[Kona2]

They say it's your birthday.....and so it is! It's going to be a good day, all day....but then...I say that every day! Thanks for the good birthday wishes!

Another episode....


"...the horse flies will turn into pterodactyls..." was certainly one of the best descriptions ever of those beastie biting flies. I had an immediate visual of those sharp beaked flying reptile things going in for the targeted victim.


Big flying birds have filled some of the chapters of Sinbad (the Roc) and certainly those who have watched The Lord of the Rings will remember the giant flying bird that rescued the wizard Gandalf from his stone perch. Or what about Harry Potter and the hippogriff called Buckbeak .... there is no shortage of some of these imaginary flyers in fiction and myth.
But then there were the real ones. Fossils discovered in Kansas, and Texas (home to many big things) showed that Pterodactylus...those flying reptiles with teeth, and pteranodons (no teeth, fish eaters) were those early flying reptiles that perhaps started our evolutionary bird chain. Pteranodons were much bigger that the pterodactylus - and had wing spans that were up to 30 feet. I am certain that some horse flies are related to the pterodactyls - Richard called it right. The pterodactyls were fast little chompers with wing spans of 2 to 3 feet. Unlike our current birds, these walked on four "legs" on ground vs biped stance of current birds. These existed at a time (and there have been four times I think) when all the continents on the Earth formed a supercontinent called Pangea (among other things), and this land mass was surrounded by a global ocean known as Panthalassa. Tectonic forces surely split up the land mass (and even today some of them want to be further away from others). The seas that covered places like Colorado, Texas and Kansas now yield tons of fossils for finding. One of the most remote places to be totally amazed by the ability of single-celled life forms that lived in shells to create land masses (formininfera or forams to their friends) is in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and New Mexico. This area is so unique that it was designated a national park in 1972...you can add this one to your list of places to visit. Ice ages, giant cataclyisms, dinosaurs, flying reptiles...our movies and fiction aren't really so far off from what happened long ago. Keep an eye on the sky ... you never know what could be flying up there... and if it's a hawk with a snake, gawd...don't let it get dropped...

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

400 K danwho
100 K Jonathan

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Steve W 2,000 m
Kevin 5,000 m
Jonathan 6,002 m
Ian 6,003 m
Rick 6,187 m
Larry 8,000 m
Tombeur 10,125 m
Jane 10,501 m ...a palindrome!
danwho 11,011 m ...a double aught double palindrome!
David A 11,230 m
David T 11,500 m
Minnie 12,321 m ...a count em up and down palindrome!
Dan O' 15,811 m
bg 16,627 m
Norma 17,771 m ...a palindrome of lucky sevens bookended by ones!
Derric 21,097 m ...he moons us!

[just27]

They say it's your birthday.....and so it is! It's going to be a good day, all day....but then...I say that every day!

Egads, I have July-23 marked in my party planner as your most significant 2017 birthday. Obviously, Adele was operating in the Bubble Universe when I wrote that down ... many time zones away. Happy Birthday, Astrogator.