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

[BAZzy]

Tomo said thanks for all the welcomes; and said he'll be passing me soon (talk about pressure!)

Cheers...BBB & Tomo

[Kona2]

Congratulations! We rowed 2.4 MM meters for week 27 of the 2010 rowing year! Yep, everyone is gearing up for the individual challenge that's on its way!

Season meters as of 189/365 = 52,505,126 m

Total meters on the day = 261,030 m

Oars in space (participation) = 23 percent

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

2.8 MM Barbara
1.3 MM Peter G

Will S brings in a half moon with plenty of meters left over...34,143 m
Kiba stays on course for her 1 MM month with another 33,000 m deposit into her piggy bank and a half moon for decoration
Barbara with half marathon/moon # 85 !
Chris with half marathon # 121
Peter H with half marathon # 21 - catching up to his goal pace ...

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Chris with (60,285 m) to go!


TWO Million Meter Watch:

Baz with (12,557 m) to go!

Tim with (115,271 m) to go!

Dave H with (121,507 m) to go!


And thanks to all today's crew for helping us get closer to the moooooon:

Nancy 2,300 m
Tomo 2,618 m (I know you started with 1400 or so, and added 1600 or so yesterday, but it's all in a single day's posting)
Chuck 3,014 m
Rick 6,686 m
Steven 7,189 m
Peter G 7,500 m
Gina 7,500 m
Baz 10,000 m
Mike C 12,000 m
Kenneth G 12,000 m
Scott 12,936 m
Darryl 14,517 m
K2 15,000 m
Tim 17,108 m
Peter H 21,097 m
Chris 21,097 m
Barbara 21,325 m
Kiba 33,000 m
Will S 34,143 m

Have a blue sky day....wherever you row!

[Kona2]

The spike is the FRC

[Toothdoc]

Hmmm... I'm assuming this is a reference to baseball, however losing the translation somewhere - maybe due to solar flare activity?
Working from home this morning... and it looks like the Yankees are about to win the "World-Series"... however I can't see how this links to Just27

I'm glad that someone else wondered about that cryptic post ... I thought (as usual) that it was all about me, because of the "27." (In a PM, Dan assured me that it's so not about me.) I notice that he edited his original post to include "Yanks" this afternoon ... a good clue! (Just wait until the Olympics ... I'll watch hours of events that I didn't even know were sports.)

Yes, why is it the baseball "world" series?
(Kiba, you popped up while I was previewing my post!)

WS-27.....made perfect sense! It is the 27th time the Yankees have won the World Series.......... It's been so long since the Yankees won that Dan probably had a moment of lunacy....

Maybe next year....

OK, now I get it... so does that mean you are a fan Doc??

If so congrats... if not comiserations to all who are saddened by this event of questionably international importance!
So are all of those "athletes" really chewing tobacco still??

Dave H,

Yes I am a fan, have to be, I married into a family Yankee fanatics. About the tobacco chewing, more and more of the younger guys are chewing gum these days but there are still some knuckle-heads with a plug.

K2 had it exactly right. Now there is a baseball fan. Go Rockies!

It seemed to me like everything had calmed down after the SCC so I thought I'd stir the puddin' at little.

I think it's called the World Series because when it started all the baseball in the world was played in the US and the United States Series just wasn't very catchy.

danno

[Kiba]

Does anyone play the games? I just tried the fish game, I tried it once before when I first started rowing, but found it really frustrating. Now that I'm a little better at rowing I thought it was pretty fun.

Fish Game PB: 1230 points (edit: 1515 points!!) (the big fishies only got me a couple times)

[Kona2]

Just for fun - and because I was curious about major league baseball parks and what the clubhouses looked like, etc., some friends and I went on a tour of the Coors Field ballpark. Tobacco chewing is very much in decline. It has been replaced by quantities of sunflower seeds. The players put a wad of seeds in their mouths, much like you would have seen with the tobacco wads of old, and spit out shells. During the tour of the clubhouse, we were shown the giant stacks of boxes of gum and sunflower seeds that come in prior to each game. I think they have to powerwash the dugout for the gum and seeds, but it's kind of cool to go in there. I would highly recommend taking time to go on a tour of a stadium - whatever the sport - you get to learn all kinds of fun facts....like after every Rockies win, the clock is highlighted with purple neon lights....

[Kona2]

Whoa....we have a veritable astral medley today....red giant, five half moons...lots of rising stars!

Season meters as of 190/365 = 52,744,929 m

Total meters on the day = 239,803 m

Oars in space (participation) = 15 percent

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

3.3 MM Dan
Minnie has cobbled (or is that a different Disney story...) together what I believe is her first red giant....which includes half marathon # 122 on the year, and an assortment of meters from her meter stash...however you put these together...well done!
Kiba gets a half moon for 33,000 m....the streak continues!
Dan with half marathon number 100.....woohoo! There's a milestone!
Will S with a half moon and 26,184 m
Barbara with half marathon/moon # 86
And some say Peter H now has half marathon # 22 in the piggy bank...

THREE Million Meter Watch:

Chris with (4,463 m) to go!

TWO Million meter Watch:

Baz with (4,789 m) to go!

And thanks to all today's crew for moving us closer to the moon! You are stellar!

Tomo 2,343 m (if you can row this many meters for 25 of the days between the dates of Nov 26 and December 24th...you can earn a holiday challenge pin with 50,000 m)
Steven 7,205 m
Baz 7,768 m
Anne 10,000 m
Mitch 10,009 m
Scott 12,937 m (rising through the ranks pretty quickly is our man in France)
Peter H 21,097 m
Barbara 21,780 m
Will S 26,184 m
Dan 31,658 m
Kiba 33,000 m
Chris 55,822 m

Holiday Challenge Details Update

Row 100K, 200K or 50K (16 yrs and younger) during the challenge and not only will you qualify for the great Concept2 incentives, but Concept2 will donate several cents on the kilometer to several charitable food supply organizations...once you row past the basic challenge incentive points....here's the write up from their challenge page:

Support a Good Cause with Meters Rowed

Besides helping you maintain your fitness and fend off holiday weight gain and stress, we’re giving you the option of supporting organizations whose mission it is to make sure that no one goes hungry and our food supply is sustainable. Consider it a holiday gift. For every person who rows at least 100k during the challenge, Concept2 will donate $.02 per kilometer (1000 meters) rowed to your choice of the following organizations: Oxfam International, Slow Food USA, Feeding America or The Center for an Agricultural Economy. And once you get beyond 100k, we’ll donate $.04 per kilometer rowed. Our goal through this group effort is to raise a total of $30,000 to support these causes. The usual prizes of a pin and certificate will still be awarded. Note: For kids and adaptive rowers, the $.04 rate will take effect at 50k.

In recent years, we have had around 5000 people participate in the Holiday Challenge! We are hoping that this incentive will bring in even more people and encourage past participants to row more meters than ever to help us reach our goal. Please invite your friends to join us. Our strength is in our numbers. It’s like rowing an eight: when you all work together in synchrony, you become greater than the sum of the parts.

Stay tuned to your online logbook for how to select your organization for this year's Holiday Challenge.

[Kiba]

Wow Minnie, congrats on your first red giant!!

Dan, congrats on HM 100!!

[bg]

Just for fun - and because I was curious about major league baseball parks and what the clubhouses looked like, etc., some friends and I went on a tour of the Coors Field ballpark. Tobacco chewing is very much in decline. It has been replaced by quantities of sunflower seeds. The players put a wad of seeds in their mouths, much like you would have seen with the tobacco wads of old, and spit out shells. During the tour of the clubhouse, we were shown the giant stacks of boxes of gum and sunflower seeds that come in prior to each game. I think they have to powerwash the dugout for the gum and seeds, but it's kind of cool to go in there. I would highly recommend taking time to go on a tour of a stadium - whatever the sport - you get to learn all kinds of fun facts....like after every Rockies win, the clock is highlighted with purple neon lights....

i did the fenway park tour...unfortunately the club house was not part of it...what was really cool was that one year when i ran the baa 1/2 marathon , we got to run on the warning track in fenway....the big screens were on..one showing us running and the other saying welcome athletes....

and woo hooo chris for another awesome rowing feat.....

[Kona2]

Woohoo! Fireworks over Sydney harbor!! Congratulations Bazzy on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!

[Toothdoc]

Congratulations Bazzy on achieving a TWO million meter season!

[bg]

Woohoo! Fireworks over Sydney harbor!! Congratulations Bazzy on achieving a TWO million meter season! We wish you many, many more!

woo hoooo bazzy......

[Kiba]

Congrats Bazzy on 2 MM!!

[BAZzy]

Thanks for the well wishes on 2mm ....but crikey the young fella put pressure on me today

Baz

[DuluthMoose]

Congratulations Bazzy on Two Million Meters for this Season! Way to Row!