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

[Kristine Strasburger]

Great rowing, Team!

[Drivetofast]

Great rowing, Team!

Well Great Rowing to You Kristine

[Kona2]

Hooboy - yesterday got away from me. Today is another day!

Season meters as of 191/365 = 61,506,022 m

Total meters on the day = 686,880 m

Oars in space (participation) = 28 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.45 MM Ron
3.35 MM bg
2.9 MM Ed
2.85 MM Ed
2.15 MM David A
1.8 MM Norton
1.4 MM Cathie
1.3 MM Jim
900 K Peter G
650 K Mikkel
350 K Corben
350 K Harold
300 K Tim K

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and skierging with us!

From Thursday:

Reba 277 m
Lily 1,000 m
Tony m
Brittany 2,000 m
Luna 2,000 m
Steven 3,008 m
Sam 4,500 m
Brian C 5,000 m
Dave H 5,000 m
Scott 5,000 m
Ross 5,254 m
Marty 5,500 m
Rivka 5,509 m
Michelle 6,000 m
Greg C 6,327 m
Cathie 6,500 m
Rosi 6,500 m
Anita 7,000 m
Christa 7,000 m
Melissa 7,000 m
Marie 7,300 m
Ronnie 7,500 m
Jane 7,702 m
Jim m
David W (AZ) 8,000 m
David T 8,000 m
Stephen 8,556 m
Peter G 9,349 m
Jay 9,898 m
Harold 10,000 m
Howard 10,156 m
Minnie m a palindrome!
Dan W 10,483 m
Nataliya 10,500 m
Kristine 12,000 m
Norton 12,570 m
AJ 14,242 m
David A 14,678 m
Eric 16,106 m
Ron 21,097 m
bg 25,220 m
Ed 50,000 m

And from today:

Brittany 119 m
Joe 556 m
Luna 640 m
Tristan 1,000 m
Lily 1,200 m
Bobbie m
Nataliya 2,500 m
Jerri 2,516 m
Rosi 3,000 m
Scott 3,000 m
Steven 3,102 m
Marie ...7...8..9..10...
Reba 3,465 m
Anita 3,500 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Rivka 5,000 m
Peter G 5,200 m
Sarah 6,192 m
Ronnie 7,000 m
Pat B 7,608 m
Jay 8,000 m
Marty 8,000 m
Corben 9,814 m
Tim K 10,000 m
Todd 10,000 m
Mikkel 10,210 m
Howard 11,120 m
Jim 11,988 m
Norton 13,274 m
Dan W 15,537 m
David T 16,000 m
David A 16,008 m
David W (GBR) 16,816 m
bg 22,127 m
Ed 25,000 m
Danno 33,889 m

[Toothdoc]

Great rowing Jay and Marie

danno

[Kona2]

Welcome back to returning teammate Tim S! Great to see your name on the roster!

MORE COWBELL ! One of the fun things about organized events is the volunteers that make that event such a whoop, whoop and hooyah feeling for the participants...and surely one of the most audible ways that the volunteer spirit is expressed is the clanging of the cowbells as you approach a finish line or a rest stop. Seems right that the winners of the SkiErg Sprint Challenge will receive cowbells to ring !

SKIERG Sprints: We may have some teammates participating - because we have some skiergers!

How it works: race 1000 meters on the SkiErg at your club, gym, school or home November 8–10. Post your time to the Concept2 logbook by 5 p.m. ET Monday, November 11, 2013. The winners of each age group will receive custom engraved cowbells to help ring in the snow season. Prizes will also be awarded for the top three times in each age group.



Season meters as of 192/365 = 60,231,129 m

Total meters on the day = 280,939 m

Oars in space (participation) = 20 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.4 MM bg
1.2 MM Danno
350 K Nataliya
Mikkel

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and skierging with us!

Melissa 2,000 m
Nataliya 2,500 m
Jerri 2,513 m
Anita 3,300 m
Marty 4,000 m
Rosi 4,000 m
Brian C 5,000 m
Tim S 5,846 m
Cathie 6,000 m
Pat S 6,011 m
Rick C 6,169 m
David T 7,000 m
Stephen 7,573 m
Ronnie 8,000 m
Chris H 10,000 m
m
Kristine 12,000 m
Danno 12,005 m
Jay 15,000 m
Norton 15,135 m
Jim 19,500 m
Robert 20,000 m
bg 22,184 m
Ron 31,097 m
Mikkel 42,195 m

[bg]

Welcome back to returning teammate Tim S! Great to see your name on the roster!

MORE COWBELL ! One of the fun things about organized events is the volunteers that make that event such a whoop, whoop and hooyah feeling for the participants...and surely one of the most audible ways that the volunteer spirit is expressed is the clanging of the cowbells as you approach a finish line or a rest stop. Seems right that the winners of the SkiErg Sprint Challenge will receive cowbells to ring !

SKIERG Sprints: We may have some teammates participating - because we have some skiergers!

How it works: race 1000 meters on the SkiErg at your club, gym, school or home November 8–10. Post your time to the Concept2 logbook by 5 p.m. ET Monday, November 11, 2013. The winners of each age group will receive custom engraved cowbells to help ring in the snow season. Prizes will also be awarded for the top three times in each age group.



Season meters as of 192/365 = 60,231,129 m

Total meters on the day = 280,939 m

Oars in space (participation) = 20 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.4 MM bg
1.2 MM Danno
350 K Nataliya
Mikkel

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and skierging with us!

Melissa 2,000 m
Nataliya 2,500 m
Jerri 2,513 m
Anita 3,300 m
Marty 4,000 m
Rosi 4,000 m
Brian C 5,000 m
Tim S 5,846 m
Cathie 6,000 m
Pat S 6,011 m
Rick C 6,169 m
David T 7,000 m
Stephen 7,573 m
Ronnie 8,000 m
Chris H 10,000 m
m
Kristine 12,000 m
Danno 12,005 m
Jay 15,000 m
Norton 15,135 m
Jim 19,500 m
Robert 20,000 m
bg 22,184 m
Ron 31,097 m
Mikkel 42,195 m

volunteers are rock stars...i know that none of my races would happen without them....and i support my running group...the somerville road runners by running and volunteering.....annnnd i love the cowbells....annnnnnddddd welcome back tim....hope i haven't missed welcoming anyone while my computer was in the computer hospital....

[just27]

MORE COWBELL ! One of the fun things about organized events is the volunteers that make that event such a whoop, whoop and hooyah feeling for the participants ...

Hah! I just got home after my regular Saturday volunteer gig at our local library. There were some kids, turning in their books from a reading challenge "event" ... I felt the need for some silent (or Very Understated) cowbells ...


Aw ... Let Pluto Be a Planet!

[danwho]

Oh Minnie, nice of you to look out for Cousin Pluto.

[bg]

Oh Minnie, nice of you to look out for Cousin Pluto.

agree and agree :}

[Kona2]

Oh Minnie, nice of you to look out for Cousin Pluto.

Hahaha! I almost missed this little gem!

[Kona2]

Don't forget to upload your sprints!! You could be a contender !

Season meters as of 193/365 = 60,224,668 m

Total meters on the day = 345,390 m

Oars in space (participation) = 27 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.5 MM Ron
1.9 MM Jay
1.35 MM
600 K Eric
550 K Brian C
550 K Kristine
250 K Pat B... a cool quarter million!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us! 10,155 m was a popular number today!

Lily 1,000 m
Nataliya 2,500 m
Anita 3,000 m
Marty 4,600 m
Melissa 5,000 m
Steven 5,415 m
Tristan 5,800 m
Christa 6,000 m
Pat S 6,020 m
Rick C 6,133 m
Marie 6,915 m
David T 7,000 m
Pat B 7,118 m
Ronnie 8,000 m
Bobbie 9,000 m
Brian C 10,000 m
Paul B 10,000 m
Brittany 10,155 m
Corben 10,155 m
Joe 10,155 m
Luna 10,155 m
Reba 10,155 m
Richard T 10,155 m
m another palindrome...
Jim 11,600 m
Kristine 12,000 m
Rosi 12,000 m
David W (AZ) 12,166 m
Danno 13,817 m
Stephen 16,855 m
Ron m
Ken G 20,000 m
Jay m ....sometime in the next few days, the Explorer's odometer will go to and you can bet that I will be driving around a parking lot or something so I can snap that photo....
Eric 30,200 m

[just27]

10,155 m was a popular number today!

10,155 sure was a popular number ... what did I miss??

Oh Minnie, nice of you to look out for Cousin Pluto.

Hahaha! I almost missed this little gem!

As spotted by K2 on a car window decal; I merely endorsed the sentiment. Planet Plagiarism!

[danwho]

I merely endorsed the sentiment.

Works for me too. I had to refresh my memory on the Pluto decision. So even though Pluto orbits the sun, and even though it has sufficient gravitational pull to maintain its shape, and even have moons (but I don't want to get all luna-tic about that), it was decided that it should not be considered a planet because it didn't "clear its neighborhood" - it doesn't demonstrate enough gravitational dominance to clear away other objects that are somewhat nearby, other objects in the Kuiper Belt, one of which was found to be even bigger than Pluto. Seems a marketing problem to me. Instead of trying to merely save Pluto's planetary designation, we should elevate its status.
Pluto, the friendly planet... Why do we have to go to the edge of the solar system to find a planet that knows how to share its space?

And this orbit dominance talk seemed like it might be trying to cut a fine line. Made me think of the sci-fi notion of a Counter-Earth, sharing our orbit, but exactly always at an exactly opposite point so we couldn't see it. Never occurred to me that one consequence of such a discovery was that the Earth might lose its planetary status (for not aggressively pursuing this other body in its orbit). Time to sound the alarm, folks. Pluto is just the beginning...

Hope to hear more about the 10155 story. If there's a rowing flashmob in the works, count me in.

[Kona2]

It's Veteran's Day here in the US - and, as always, we send out out sincere thanks for your service to all veterans from all countries!

Season meters as of 194/365 = 60,576,378 m

Total meters on the day = 351,710 m

Oars in space (participation) = 27 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.85 MM Norton
1.7 MM Stephen - with a fine half marathon!
1.65 MM Cathie
1.15 MM David T
1.05 MM Marie
500 K Robert - a cool half million
200 K Jerri

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and skierging with us!

Tony m 1111 for 11/11 !
Steven 1,663 m
Nataliya 2,500 m
Jerri 2,516 m
K2 m to make the season 111,111 m...
Anita 5,000 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Rivka 5,000 m
Ryan 5,187 m
Sam 5,500 m
m
Howard 6,040 m
David T 7,000 m
Ronnie 7,000 m
Jim 7,500 m
Cathie 8,000 m
Marty 8,011 m
Bill 9,000 m
Ross 9,442 m
Brian C 10,000 m
Ken G 10,000 m
Peter G 10,000 m
AJ 11,017 m
Marie m
Kristine 14,000 m
Danno 14,615 m
Jay m
Dan W 15,991 m
Norton 16,078 m
Ron 21,097 m
Stephen 21,097 m
bg 22,058 m
David A 25,176 m
Robert 30,000 m

[Kristine Strasburger]

Tim's back on the board, trying to get ready to leave for Air Force basic training . He leaves in mid-December.