Day 27 of 31
1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual Club 26,656,856 304 87,687
2 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 25,335,395 195 129,925
3 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 13,773,674 95 144,986 Way to row extra, Lunies!
4 Free Spirits Virtual Club 13,604,737 121 112,436
5 RowPro Team Virtual Club 13,470,865 113 119,211
6 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 13,442,073 44 305,502
7 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 11,570,510 130 89,004
8 TimbukTWO Virtual Club 9,618,819 68 141,453
9 Empty the Tanks Virtual Club 6,769,529 53 127,727
10 Team NAS Pensacola Military Facility 6,564,971 258 25,446
Another episode....
Sometimes these bunny trails just present themselves without warning! One of the ways that a golf league that I'm in raises prize money is to have what they call a Cuss Jar. Each swear word (that would be a single expletive vs a bunch of them strung together) that you say on the course means a dollar to the Cuss Jar. At the end of the season, we have a tournament where the prize money is what we've generated throughout the season from our contributions. Sometimes, this thought process around Cuss Jars and "paying" when you say something spills over into our regular lives, like the time the toad jumped out of the flower pot I was working on ... I had to make a contribution then to my own Cuss Jar.
I started wondering who thought up this idea of a Cuss Jar, and before I knew it, I was down the bunny trail. There are some truly bleepworthy moments in life when a well-enunciated expletive is really the only thing that will express the emotion of the situation. Sometimes, it's even important to strafe the listener with a series of them. And we would ask that these bleepworthy moments be corralled?!! Ha! Who thought of that?
A quick review of one of my favorite resources, Wiki, finds that the Cuss Jar is first mentioned in an article about "How To Stop Swearing." This is a multi-step process.
1) Enlist the help of a friend. What? They have to stop swearing, too?
2) Identify your triggers and learn how to avoid them. Obviously, the author is NOT a golfer.
3) Use a cuss jar. It is said that the cuss jar is a tried and tested method which has helped MANY people kick their swearing habit. You can view the cuss jar in a couple of ways: either as a punishment or as a delayed reward. Sounds like a win win situation to me!
We have several league members who start the golf round by throwing in a $20 to the cuss jar, just to cover all situations. Some do their cussing sotto voce....I can't hear you, but I know what you're saying! Maybe you use word substitution....oh duck is not going to fool anyone. And some of us just say rats a lot.....except when toads jump out unexpectedly....
Tomorrow is our Cuss Jar Tourney, and things must be tough this year. For the tourney, the charge per word is $4 instead of $1...that's enough to make you slip up right there! Hahaha!
Season meters as of 163/365 = 47,864,985 m
Total meters on the day = 571,440 m
Oars in space (participation) = 31 percent
MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:
2.95 MM bg
2.7 MM Richard T
2.7 MM Ron
2.3 MM Ed
1.5 MM Jay K
1.3 MM Ronnie
1.15 MM Rosi
1.0 MM Jim
850 K Reba
500 K Ted ... a cool half million!
50 K Karen
50 K K2
Thanks, everyone, for rowing with us!
Lily 750 m
Jay R 4,125 m
K2 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Robert H 5,000 m
Todd 5,000 m
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Rivka 6,000 m
Karyn 7,483 m
David W (AZ) 8,000 m
Bobbie 10,000 m
Mikkel 10,000 m
Cathie 10,010 m
Kristine 12,000 m
Marie 12,000 m
Ted 12,000 m
Greg C 12,745 m
Anita 14,000 m
Eric 14,164 m
David A 14,562 m
Andrew 15,430 m
Stephen 15,745 m
Rosi 16,000 m
Richard T 17,074 m
Jim 18,499 m
Sam 21,097 m
Scott 21,097 m
Ronnie
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Peter G 24,948 m
bg 25,359 m
Norton 26,527 m
Jay K 29,597 m
Ed 30,000 m
Will S 31,000 m
Ron 41,097 m
Richard T 43,342 m
Thank you for all you do
