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

[Kristine Strasburger]

Happy belated birthday, Barb and Chris.

And thanks for the link to the meteors, K2.

[just27]

Happy belated birthday, Barb and Chris.

Thanks very much for all the birthday wishes; much appreciated!

Good to see you again, David H.

[Kona2]

Great rowing weekend - collectively we rowed about 400,000 m!

Season meters as of 100/365 = 17,255,153 m

Total meters on the day = 181,758 m

Oars in space (participation) = 26 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
600K David T
300K Mike M
Thanks to all who rowed today's meters:
Coulter 2,000 m
Peter G 3,500 m
Gina 5,000 m
Rodrigo 5,055 m
David T 6,000 m
Laurie 10,000 m
Steven L 10,000 m
AJ 10,013 m
Mike M 13,000 m
Baz 14,038 m
Dan 14,766 m

Chris 21,097 m
Will S 21,622 m
Wild Bill 22,089 m
Mitch J 23,578 m

[just27]

OK, for all our sequence-oriented team members ...today at 5:06:07 ... it will officially be 5:06:07 on 08/09/10....WAHOO!!!!

Of course, this is a bit late for most time zones and doesn't work at all for those countries which write the day before the month, and/or use a 24-hour clock! Apart from that ... cool, huh!

[Kona2]

OK, for all our sequence-oriented team members ...today at 5:06:07 ... it will officially be 5:06:07 on 08/09/10....WAHOO!!!!

And I missed it! FYI, I did post this morning's numbers and graphics only to hit submit and have everything pop up with "error" and go away into cyberspace forever. Rats. Wonder where it all goes?

Hooyah - this team is lovin' the Dog Days of Summer! You are all rowing like rowers possessed! Hope everyone who wants to meet this challenge is successful - these incremental gains in distance are a great way to get us all ready for the fall challenge.

Season meters as of 101/365 = 17,489,713 m

Total meters on the day = 234,560 m

Oars in space (participation) = 28 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
1.6 MM Minnie is dancing her way to 2 MM

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Will S with (19,435 m) to go!

Ted brings in a half moon with 30,000 m
Tim gets a half moon with 28,018 m
Mitch J earns a half moon with 27,092 m
Wild Bill with a posting of 21,113 m earns a half moon
Chris with another half marathon....Minnie the Mooner

Thanks to all who rowed yesterday - each meter moves us forward towards target moon:
Ben S 3,129 m
Peter G 5,000 m
Laurie 5,000 m
Steven L 7,204 m
David T 8,000 m
K2 9,000 m
Kristine 10,051 m
AJ 12,528 m
Mike M 13,000 m
Darryl 14,318 m
Will S 20,010 m
Chris 21,097 m
Wild Bill 21,113 m
Mitch J 27,092 m
Tim 28,018 m
Ted 30,000 m

Keep those Concept2 wheels movin!

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations Will S on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations Will S on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!!

Good job, Will!

[just27]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations Will S on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!!

Woot woot

[DuluthMoose]

Congratulations Will on achieving TWO MILLION METERS already in this young rowing year! Way to RoW!

[William H]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations Will S on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!!

BOOYAH!!

Catching up to you is going to be tough

[Toothdoc]

Will,

Good job on the 2 Million. I will be in GF on the the 19th. I'll call.

danno

[Kona2]

Woohoo! We're blasting through the milestones! Leaving no meter unturned! Or unrowed. Or something.

Season meters as of 102/365 = 17,722,678 m

Total meters on the day = 232,965 m

Oars in space (participation) = 32 percent!!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
2.0 MM Will S
700K Steven L
500K Ted
400K William H
400K Tim
300K Mitch J
200K K2

Ted leads the pack with a posting of 30,500 m today and earns a half moon plus some extra
Mary posts 27,492 m and earns a half moon
Wild Bill posts 24.164 , and earns a half moon

Conspicuously absent in the mooning world is Minnie the Mooner. Note that she does end with a just27 number....
Congratulations to all today's crew - you rowed!
Peter G 2,500 m
Laurie 2,500 m
K2 6,000 m
Steven L 7,216 m
Tim 7,442 m
Chris 8,127 m
Kristine 8,939 m
Rick 10,000 m
AJ 10,000 m
Mitch J 10,005 m
Rodrigo 12,260 m
Baz 14,199 m
Darryl 14,451 m
Dan 17,147 m
Will S 20,023 m
Wild Bill 24,164 m
Mary 27,492 m
Ted 30,500 m

Dawgs of summer are packing on the meters! Keep going!!

[BAZzy]

Well...there has been an unfortunate development with the Black Cat Track trek.

We have had to post-pone (indefinitely) due to civil unrest, which has been ongoing, but escalating, in the area at the beginning of the walk. Whilst tribal differences, leading to fighting often occurs in this area the situation has taken a drastic turn for the worse in the past few days and it has become difficult to read and unpredictable to the point that the risk reward of going is no longer worth it. It is fortunate we have good intelligence on what has been happening as it isn’t appearing in the press...or even on the Government’s travel advisories.

And the insurance company has now said it will not provide cover if we go, which makes it difficult as putting aside the civil unrest issue the risk of accidental injury is ever-present on this trek in this remote part of Papua New Guinea and the cost of a medical evacuation (very) expensive.

The window for this trek tends to be fairly narrow so it looks like we will not be able to complete until mid to late 2011......

Big Bad Baz

[bg]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations Will S on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!!

a belated wooo hoooo to will s and a belated thanks for all the birthday wishes...i'm my usual disorganized self.....

[Kona2]

Meteor showers peak about midnight tonight.....air mattresses and lawn chairs at the ready....should be a great show!

Season meters as of 103/365 = 17,865,165 m

Total meters on the day = 142,487 m

Oars in space (participation) = 21 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
500K AJ .. cool half million!

Will S rows a half moon...woohoo! Great to be home I'll bet!
Wild Bill rows a half moon....also a woohoo!

Lunies are loving the Dawg Days of Summer! Lots of good rowing going on!
Laurie 2,500 m
David T 3,000 m
Gina 4,000 m
Peter G 7,000 m
Steven L 7,205 m
8,999 m ....a moonless night of rowing finds Minnie practicing her own version of summmmmr dancing....
Baz 14,261 m ...Am sure that disappointment abounds, but glad you have some independent sources of info re: Black Cat Trek... getting caught in tribal warfare would indeed bring about a new storyline...you do still have that adventure of abseiling off the building..
Ted 14,500 m
Darryl 14,522 m
AJ 18,241 m
Wild Bill 23,131 m
Will S 25,113 m

Have a great rowing day - whenever and wherever you row!