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

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS to ALL the LUNA-TICS!!!


From your rowing friends and neighbors in the room next door

Team TimbukTOO/Timbuk2/Timbuktu


Pat & Crew

happy holidays to our friendly rivals....and yeah to everyone reaching their goals...

[Kona2]

Happy Winter - Boxing Day !

And great graphics of the rowers in the sky Gina! Kudos for finding that one! Congratulations, also, on your 1.5 MM lifetime meters!

Holiday Challenge Wrap Up: Luna-Tics Challenge Meters 7,739,432 m - good for 5th place!

Individual Honor Board Contributors:

600K and beyond: William H (king of the boat!), Will S
400K and beyond: Chris, Tony, Dan C
300K and beyond: Darryl, Ted, Tim P, Mary, Karyn
200K and beyond: Peter G, Rodrigo, Peter H, Andrea C, Kenneth G, Mike C, Kristine S, Jan, Tom R, Tom P, Laurie
100K and beyond: Barbara, Gina, Steven, Angelo, Jack, Keith

Junior Division:

100K and beyond: Tim S
50K and beyond: Ben S

Season meters as of 241/365 = 42,458,884 m

Total meters for the day = 64,362 m

Oars in the water = 9 percent

MILESTONES:

3.8 MM Dan
2.3 MM Darryl
1.9 MM William H

1.5 MM Lifetime Gina

And thanks to the lunar crew for today:

Dan 21,786 m (half marathon)
Darryl 14,716 m
Tim P 14,073 m
William H 10,010 m
Peter G 3,000 m
Tony 777 m

[tom pinckney]

Some nice photos of you Guiness lovers. WEll...........I like imported beer and my wife takes care of me. I don't drink much, but drink GOOD stuff. I got hooked on George Kilian's Irish Red Beer. Kind of wondered why it was so affordable for an import - Imported? Yep - I found out later that it is a Irish FORMULA brewed by Coor's beer in Colorado. So..........I guess my wife (my wife is from Scotland and came here when she was 19 years olf) figured I should check out some REAL Irish brews. For a long time, I would go out with her and would go to order some Guiness and she stopped me saying......"that stuff will knock you on your..........!"

We went on vacation with a group of several other families to North Carolina. We shared in the food/drink costs and everything was up for "grabs!" My wife "graced me" with twelve Guiness Stouts! The Guiness was in the fridge to share with others. If someone wanted one, all they had to do was help themselves!

Yep -one has to acquire a taste for it, but I had my share - ALL of them!! At the end, I enjoyed them. Of couse, it's Guiness STOUT - not beer. In the "old days" the REAL pubs served it warm!! After drinking it, I figured you really gotta be STOUT to drink it. Kind of a special person that can drink it!! - Takes a REAL man or woman to drink Guiness.

[Kristine Strasburger]

Wow! Looking at the final team stats for the 2008 Holiday Challenge...You guys and gals are amazing! We are all in shape now for the JVC. Now some bad news...our family will be on the road from 12/30/08 thru 1/10/09, so we will not be logging any JVC meters for the first third of the competition .

[Toothdoc]

Wow! Looking at the final team stats for the 2008 Holiday Challenge...You guys and gals are amazing! We are all in shape now for the JVC. Now some bad news...our family will be on the road from 12/30/08 thru 1/10/09, so we will not be logging any JVC meters for the first third of the competition .

Kapt K,

You'll just have to do double duty when you get home. Have a fun safe trip!

dc

[kgallagher]

Love the Ireland photos. My hubby is a native Irishman and avid fan of Vitamin G. The best pint of Guineess I ever had was at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. (I recognized the photos.) I would love to share a photo of my daughter holding a pint from the Brewery last year, but don't know how to upload to the forum.

Happy Holidays!

Karyn

[kgallagher]

Some nice photos of you Guiness lovers. WEll...........I like imported beer and my wife takes care of me. I don't drink much, but drink GOOD stuff. I got hooked on George Kilian's Irish Red Beer. Kind of wondered why it was so affordable for an import - Imported? Yep - I found out later that it is a Irish FORMULA brewed by Coor's beer in Colorado. So..........I guess my wife (my wife is from Scotland and came here when she was 19 years olf) figured I should check out some REAL Irish brews. For a long time, I would go out with her and would go to order some Guiness and she stopped me saying......"that stuff will knock you on your..........!"

We went on vacation with a group of several other families to North Carolina. We shared in the food/drink costs and everything was up for "grabs!" My wife "graced me" with twelve Guiness Stouts! The Guiness was in the fridge to share with others. If someone wanted one, all they had to do was help themselves!

Yep -one has to acquire a taste for it, but I had my share - ALL of them!! At the end, I enjoyed them. Of couse, it's Guiness STOUT - not beer. In the "old days" the REAL pubs served it warm!! After drinking it, I figured you really gotta be STOUT to drink it. Kind of a special person that can drink it!! - Takes a REAL man or woman to drink Guiness.

Tom, if you enjoy Killians, try Smithwicks (pronounced more like Smith-icks). This is a true Irish beer and what I used to drink back home in Ireland. Prior to its being imported to the states, Killian's was the closest I could find around here. Now I can buy it in the local liquor stores and pubs. Yummy!

Karyn

[kgallagher]

Thanks to the guidance of Dan C. (Toothdoc) I am now able to upload a photo. This was my Holiday card image from last year. It is of my daughter Sinead holding my 1/2 pint from the Guinness Brewery in Dublin.

Karyn




Thanks Dan!!!

[tom pinckney]

Thanks - I'll give it a try and say: "may the wind be at your back and May you be in Heaven 30 minutes before the devil knows your dead!"

[just27]

... was my Holiday card image from last year. It is of my daughter Sinead holding my 1/2 pint from the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. Karyn

Great image of Sinead ... a future rower? (Good job on the upload, Karyn and Dan combo!)
Chris

[Kristine Strasburger]

Kapt K,

You'll just have to do double duty when you get home. Have a fun safe trip!

dc

You're right, Doctor Dan. Maybe I can make it up somehow. Half-Marathons every rowing day for the rest of the month? Is it possible? Can the bum hold out after being off for so many days? Where's my bubble wrap from last year?

[Toothdoc]

Kapt K,

You'll just have to do double duty when you get home. Have a fun safe trip!

dc

You're right, Doctor Dan. Maybe I can make it up somehow. Half-Marathons every rowing day for the rest of the month? Is it possible? Can the bum hold out after being off for so many days? Where's my bubble wrap from last year?

That's the Loony spirit!!!

dc

[Kona2]

It's time to go for the gold!

Season's meters as of 242/365 = 42,667,024 m

Total meters on the day = 208,140 m

Oars in the water = 23 percent

MILESTONES....Bragging Rights.....Celebrations:

3.1 MM Chris
1.1 MM Mary
700K Mike

Half Marathon # 35 - Chris!

And thanks to today's lunar crew:


William H 32,922 m
Rodrigo 22,846 m
Chris 21,135 m
Will S 20,079 m
Mike 20,000 m
Darryl 14,492 m
Sorin 14,000 m
Tim 11,309 m
Kenneth G 11,075 m
Mary 11,053 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Gina 8,500 m
Tony 5...6....7....8 Who do we appreciate!
Tom 5,551 m
Murielle 2,500 m

[Kona2]

Season meters as of 243/365= 42,841,708 m

Total on the day = 174,684 m

Oars in the water = 17 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights....Celebrations:

1.3 MM Rodrigo

Half Marathon #36 Marathon Minnie Chris

TWO Million Meter Watch: ( Missed calling this one out!)

William H with (35,822 m) to go! Red zone, man, red zone!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Angelo with (10,702 m) to go! Red zone!

And thanks to today's rowers:

Angelo 45,152 m
William H 31,051 m
Chris 21,097 m
Ted 15,000 m
Darryl 14,420 m
Rodrigo 12,736 m
Peter G 12,000 m
Tony 7,777 m
Mike 7,500 m
Gina 4,142 m
Mary 3,809 m

[Kristine Strasburger]

We have been getting way too much snow for this time of year. This is what it was looking like at the end of January last year. All this shoveling is keeping us off the rower...just too exhausted and sore.