TimbukTOO Team Room

[lcantey]

It's cloudy here today so there's that...

Where is that????

That's down at the harbor in Santa Cruz CA. Sometimes I think the beach is better here in the winter than summer.

[damselfly]

It's cloudy here today so there's that...

Yesterday Bel C (my 12 year old daughter who joined the team recently) got to play.

Very nice!! And I'll echo Ron -- where do you get to call home?

And I didn't know Bel was your daughter! (smacks forehead) I love how our team has a lot of family ties. That's great!

[damselfly]

It's cloudy here today so there's that...

Where is that????

That's down at the harbor in Santa Cruz CA. Sometimes I think the beach is better here in the winter than summer.

I agree -- most of the goofy tourists are gone.

[lcantey]

And I didn't know Bel was your daughter! (smacks forehead) I love how our team has a lot of family ties. That's great!

I meant to mention it when she joined. She was almost as excited as I was when I finally got my rower the beginning of this year. She hadn't rowed before since she couldn't go upstairs at my gym but she'd been interested in trying it out for awhile (plus she covets my Concept2 shirt). We try to alternate in rows and are having a lot of fun.

[damselfly]

Thanks! Yeah, that's our back yard. We're selling in a couple years --

May I ask to where you are moving?

We're giving everything up to join Glen Baker's cult in Central Oregon. (Even though he's slumming over in Portlandia these days -- bigger river, go figure.)

Here's our new view, but we have to put a house there first. It's a nice little community outside of Bend/Redmond in CO. When my hubby retires we'll move there and build. I get to keep working to support us for a while after that.



And before anyone gets to thinking we're some sort of Wall Street bankers or something, this was a low-priced lot. There were plenty out of our price range, and they have THIS view. That's the thing about the Cascades -- lots of high ground, ergo, lots of views.

[damselfly]

...plus she covets my Concept2 shirt).

A loving father would GIVE her the shirt. Poor child.

[ronmardix]

Here's our new view, but we have to put a house there first.

Wait a second. Wait a second.



There already IS a house there.

[damselfly]

No silly, the house will be where the camera POV is!

[ronmardix]

No silly, the house will be where the camera POV is!

Ah. That makes sense.

Sooooo. Have you been to this house to introduce yourselves? My recommendation would be to walk up, ring the bell, yell "We're here!!! What's for supper?" and see how it goes.

[damselfly]

I gotta say I'm really liking Flickr. I had signed up YEARS ago but haven't really used it. With the iPhone app and all the features it has now, I think I'm going to be moving all my stuff up there. The only failing seems to be not being able to generate the BBCode for a forum post within the mobile app, but there's a workaround for that.

As a matter of fact, I found a bunch of pictures stashed there that I'd lost due to a corrupt hard drive years back. It was an amazing surprise!! Some of family that I had really mourned the loss of. Funny to think of all those 1s and 0s just sitting quietly there all those years waiting to bring me joy.

Anyone using any other photosharing sites that they'd recommend before I take the plunge?

[damselfly]

Ah. That makes sense.

Sooooo. Have you been to this house to introduce yourselves? My recommendation would be to walk up, ring the bell, yell "We're here!!! What's for supper?" and see how it goes.

We did meet the residents on our last visit. They were very friendly to us even though we said we were from California. In fact we chatted for over an hour. That's about 5 times longer than the TOTAL amount of time we've spoken to all our immediate neighbors here over the last 15 years.

[ronmardix]

I get to keep working to support us for a while after that.

Which brings up a whole new thought. I'd love to learn what all of you do for a living. If you're retired, I hate you, but never mind, what did you do when you worked.

I'll start...

I am a technical trainer. I teach corporate clients new skills in computer programming, Web development, how to use in-house applications, things like that. Before I got involved in training I was a computer programmer, and before that I was a flight test engineer on the flight ramp at McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach, CA (before Boeing bought them out).

Wow, so that pretty much sums up my entire adult existence in one or two sentences.

What about every one else? Mind sharing?

[lcantey]

We're giving everything up to join Glen Baker's cult in Central Oregon.

Nice, I grew up on the other side of the Cascades and used to visit the Bend area quite a bit. A very nice area.

[ronmardix]

We did meet the residents on our last visit. They were very friendly to us even though we said we were from California. In fact we chatted for over an hour. That's about 5 times longer than the TOTAL amount of time we've spoken to all our immediate neighbors here over the last 15 years.

Too funny. We had the same experience when we moved here. We now have actual humans that we interact with on a regular basis. We never even met our immediate neighbors in SoCal.

[damselfly]

Ahoy mates!! We've now reached over 9 MILLION METERS in the VTC! Nice rowing, all!! And a tried and true 28 of 86 members (33%) logged 389,712 total meters Sunday!

Posted Meters:
Chuck A - 5,000
Bel C - 2,015
Lee C - 11,948
Douglas D - 14,174
Monica D - 8,018

Mark E - 17,116
Linnea F - 3,019
Randy F - 40,000
Doug G - 9,197
Adrian G - 15,450

David H - 10,286
Teresa H - 22,100
Pete K - 8,451
Kevin K - 2,005
Adam M - 8,741

Jason M - 7,000
Diane M - 75,000
Stephen M - 10,000
George M - 5,200
Michael N - 11,000

Paul N - 27,614
Keir P - 15,740
Angela P - 10,051
Matthew R - 10,000
John S - 10,000

Mark St - 8,500
Glenn Y - 10,087
Bobbie Z - 12,000


Challenge Goals - Day 25 of 31 (80.6%):
Jeff R - 141,140 of 100,000 (141.1%)
Pete K - 456,359 of 333,000 (137.0%)
Doug G - 212,402 of 200,000 (106.2%)
Heather R - 381,500 of 400,000 (95.4%)
Mark St - 142,862 of 150,000 (95.2%)
Lee C - 177,558 of 200,000 (88.8%)
Stephen M - 84,614 of 100,000 (84.6%)
Kevin K - 168,137 of 200,000 (84.1%)
Gary G - 250,836 of 300,000 (83.6%)
Bobbie Z - 242,500 of 300,000 (80.8%)
Ron M - 222,000 of 275,000 (80.7%)

Carl R - 99,176 of 125,000 (79.3%)
Mark E - 192,580 of 250,000 (77.0%)
Lisa H - 108,923 of 150,000 (72.6%)
Linnea F - 49,602 of 75,000 (66.1%)
Ken C - 64,084 of 100,000 (64.1%)
Yisroel H - 156,734 of 250,000 (62.7%)
Katie S - 57,813 of 100,000 (57.8%)
John B - 85,247 of 150,000 (56.8%)
Gary D - 30,000 of 60,000 (50.0%)
Angela P - 92,352 of 200,000 (46.2%)
Jamie B - 68,528 of 175,000 (39.2%)


Milestones achieved:
Diane M sailed past 950K, Pete K whizzed by 450K, Keir P nailed 350K, Adrian G mastered 200K, Randy F blasted 150K, and David H, Matthew R, and Teresa H all acheived 100K!!