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

[Kristine Strasburger]

Greetings, One and All!

Aaaaakkkkk! How did I miss uploading any meters at all so far this season? Where has the time gone? I'm not even showing up on the team yet! All of this was discovered as I sat here eating breakfast,and getting myself mentally psyched to get started on the Holiday Challenge. I've been rowing in CrossFit, and have meters to upload from my log card. Their machines don't seem to record the correct date, so I'm not sure what that will do to my meters. Just in case it throws things off I will do the upload before beginning to row Holiday Challenge meters, and will upload meters for the challenge once I see that K2 has captured that first upload.

Missed you all, and I'm hoping to get back into the routine of a daily check in on the Team Room during this challenge.

[bg]

Greetings, One and All!

Aaaaakkkkk! How did I miss uploading any meters at all so far this season? Where has the time gone? I'm not even showing up on the team yet! All of this was discovered as I sat here eating breakfast,and getting myself mentally psyched to get started on the Holiday Challenge. I've been rowing in CrossFit, and have meters to upload from my log card. Their machines don't seem to record the correct date, so I'm not sure what that will do to my meters. Just in case it throws things off I will do the upload before beginning to row Holiday Challenge meters, and will upload meters for the challenge once I see that K2 has captured that first upload.

Missed you all, and I'm hoping to get back into the routine of a daily check in on the Team Room during this challenge.

welcome back captain k :]

[Kona2]

Our total is now 28 Lunie reindeer! Well done! Congratulations to danwho, Steve W and Jeff M on earning the Concept2 first level donation!

At various points during this seasonal challenge, international versions are presented. Today is the day for Italy, since danwho has earned his reindeer. Oh the pressure!

La Befana, the old woman who delivers gifts on Ephiphany (January 6) is still the more popular custom, but Italy is starting to celebrate Christmas more with their version of Santa Claus....Babbo Natale. Naturally, the reindeer are Italian versions of Dasher, Dancer, etc. These are: Cometa, Ballerina, Fulmine, Donnola, Freccia, Saltarello, Donato, Cupido (Comet, Dancer, Dasher, Prancer, Vixen, Donder, Blitzen, Cupid).



Babbo (danwho)



Meteor (Steve W)


Titan (Jeff M)


Dasher (Ed) ...he's hit the half a million milestone! WOWZER!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and way to celebrate the Holiday Challenge with a brand new meter millionaire! Congratulations, Patrick Heiser, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season. We wish you many, MANY more!

[bg]

Whoop, whoop and way to celebrate the Holiday Challenge with a brand new meter millionaire! Congratulations, Patrick Heiser, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season. We wish you many, MANY more!

wooooooooooo hoooooooooooo and congrats :]

[Kona2]

Another episode... it's the javelina version...

Love the Southwestern buttes and mesas....but I gotta say that the drive from Albuquerque to Tucson is rather underpopulated. Many signs warning of gusty winds and dust storm probabilities. Rattlesnake warnings at the rest stops. Aerie, now ten months old and tired of being cooped up, made a dash for freedom as the hatch was slowly closing following one such rest stop. I had just taken her leash off, so she was unfettered. I tried to grab her as we were only 50 feet or so from a very busy freeway...and was not successful. So I screamed. I am not a screamer, but I screamed. And she stopped, and came back doing the sheep ear thing that retrievers do. For the next many miles, I still had the shakes as I thought about what a Discovery Channel moment almost happened.

Speaking of Discovery Channel, we've been on several walks since our arrival and there are lots and lots of new smells and different wildlife. But I wasn't prepared to run into a javelina. These things are somewhat potbelly pig size, and like moose don't see well. And they may look so cute....for pigs...but be careful. They attack more by heat signature, or like most things, if cornered. It wasn't until I was retracing my steps that I realized that I had passed a home where the trash cans had been upended by javelina. They usually travel in small family batches, and apparently there is a javelina family with some babies in the neighborhood. Josephina Javelina...not (a fun storybook for kids).


Javelina with babies

Welcome back to Capn Kristine! Suspected that with both sons in the military now that you and Keith are like free birds - getting to do a lot of different things. Was hoping that rowing was still one of them! For those new to the team, Kristine created our forum pages these many years ago...and we would not be here without her.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.25 MM Ed
2.2 MM Steve W
1.0 MM Patrick Hsr
800 K Ron
500 K Stefan with a cool half million
200 K Sharon
91,019 m ...a nice year to date palindrome by Chip
50 K Paul

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m...a palindrome
April 2,328 m
Patrick Hmr 4,505 m
William H 5,000 m
Minnie 7,007 m ...a secret agent palindrome!
Jeff M 7,366 m
Patrick Hsr 7,400 m
David W 8,000 m
AJ 8,021 m
Ron 8,946 m
Greg H 10,000 m
Louis 10,000 m
Mike C 10,000 m
Stuart 10,000 m
Virginia 10,000 m
Dan O' 10,018 m
Dennis 10,320 m
Howard 10,408 m
Danno 10,421 m
Paul R 10,587 m
Sharon 11,169 m
Teresa R 11,411 m ...a palindrome!
Chip 12,000 m
danwho 12,121 m ...a Welkian palindrome!
Kevin 13,155 m
David T 16,400 m
Stefan 20,114 m
Steve W 21,097 m
Norma 22,222 m ...one of my favorite palindromes!
Kristine 23,900 m
Tombeur 26,716 m
Ed 66,666 m ...not nearly as devilish a palindrome when viewed as two 33,333 m !

Onwards.



Many in neighborhood have yard sculptures of javelina...

[danwho]

Siamo spiacenti Rudolph, nessun suino nella barca. Nemmeno quelli cute con nasi rossi.
Sorry Rudolph, no pigs in the boat. Even the cute ones with red noses.

[just27]

Dasher (Ed) ...he's hit the half a million milestone! WOWZER!

WOWZER, indeed. Next up, the glowing red nose for Dasher?
Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best.
That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

[Thor MW]

Whoop, whoop and way to celebrate the Holiday Challenge with a brand new meter millionaire! Congratulations, Patrick Heiser, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season. We wish you many, MANY more!

Way to rockem man.

[danwho]

Whoop, whoop and way to celebrate the Holiday Challenge with a brand new meter millionaire! Congratulations, Patrick Heiser, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season. We wish you many, MANY more!

Congratulations, Patrick !!!

And welcome back, Kristine !!!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Thanks! It's great to be back!
Way to row, Patrick!

[Kona2]

Hooboy! Hey Mr Sandman Santa! Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere is prime time summer holidays!



Radar (Kevin)


Fireball (Patrick Hsr)


And congratulations to Norma and Danno on earning the Challenge pin, $6 in donations and the reindeer bling!


Stargazer (Norma)


Prancer (Danno)

[Kona2]

Day 19 of 31...so we've just 12 days to go...be mindful of the gap between your current meters and your destination!

Meanwhile, back in the southwestern desert, I'm also mindful of the gap between my meters and my intended meters (but the job jar is getting emptied as chores get done!)...and the holiday decorations continue to be different. I've written a lot about ice luminaries, because they are fun to make...but the more traditional luminaries are paper bags with sand in the bottom, and a candle centered on the sand. The Tucson Botanical Gardens did a fine job with this. I do like the cactus Santas...



30 Lunie Reindeer!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Thor 3,792 m
Larry 4,014 m
Dan O' 5,017 m
Bernie 5,018 m
Danno 7,127 m
Melissa 8,000 m
David T 9,000 m
Janice 10,000 m
Kevin 10,000 m
Peter G 10,000 m
Greg H 10,002 m
Stefan 10,650 m
Jonathan 11,039 m
Teresa R 11,511 m ...a double five double palindrome!
danwho 12,121 m ...great graphic for Babbo! And a palindrome too !
Sharon 12,576 m ...moving right along in reindeer land!
Stuart 12,641 m
Norma 13,131 m ...lucky 13 double one double palindrome!
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome of more lucky 13s!
Chuck B 13,445 m
Jeff M 14,044 m
Patrick Hsr 14,628 m ...and he claims his reindeer!
Minnie 14,941 m ...wowzer and hula hula....she is putting some meters on the boards! A palindromic effort!
bg 15,268 m
Jeff D 15,620 m
Cheryl 17,185 m ...not too late to get your reindeer either!
Ron 17,273 m
Tombeur 18,226 m
Mike C 20,000 m
Andrea 20,545 m
Will S 21,099 m ...a half moon plus a couple extra meters!
Kristine 22,223 m ...awesome number!
Howard 22,850 m
Steve W 23,097 m ...a half moon plus a 2K effort (which is probably from today)
Ed 75,528 m ...boggling....

5.3 MM Ed
2.25 MM Steve W
1.65 MM Louis
1.05 MM Norma
800 K Will S
700 K Jonathan
450 K Peter G
350 K Bernie
200 K Teresa R
48,884 m Tony...a palindrome!

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us!

[bg]

thanks for all the photos k2:] love the cactus santas :}

[Steve W]

thanks for all the photos k2:] love the cactus santas :}

And the javelinas! Ed's numbers are amazing !