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

[Kona2]

It will be a shiny red pin .... just like Rudolph's nose...or maybe YOURS after some celebration....hahahaha...

Meanwhile, Chinook winds are blowing mightily giving us a big temperature boost...too much time outside, though, and you start to feel a bit desiccated....good time to be inside erging!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.1 MM David A
1.7 MM Minnie
1.5 MM Louis
1.25 MM Keith
1.0 MM Ian B
750 K Tim
400 K Patrick H
350 K Stuart

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Todd 3,336 m ...welcome back for the 2018 season!
Kevin 5,000 m
Bernie 5,015 m
K2 5,152 m....rats...just missed a double double...
Keith 6,000 m
Peter G 6,002 m
Ron 7,227 m ...a palindrome!
Tim G 7,500 m
m ...a lucky 7 palindrome!
Patric S 8,010 m
Tim M 8,278 m
Richard McC 8,465 m
Tom M 8,511 m
Dennis 10,000 m
Robert H 10,000 m
Ed 10,001 m ...a palindrome!
Doug G 11,208 m
Chuck E 12,000 m
Minnie 12,346 m
Louis 14,000 m
Ian B 17,059 m
Patrick H 19,211 m
Dan O' 20,237 m
Stuart 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Steve W 21,112 m ..he moons us with a fine palindrome!
Tombeur 25,582 m ... he moons us also!
David A 28,919 m ...he moons us!

[danwho]

Whoop, whoop and herald in the Lunies NINETEENTH meter millionaire of the 2018 season! Congratulations Ian B on achieving a MAJOR milestone! We wish you MANY, many more!!

Way to cruise along, Ian !!!
If I may be so bold, I would just like to make one suggestion.
Judging by the flatness of the nose in your profile pic, BETTER BRAKES.

(I'm sure baseball wouldn't be your sport, but couldn't resist using this image.)

[Kona2]

Snort. And to add insult to injury, Villar was still OUT. Another reason not to slide head first....but there's an ale for that! But I digress, the mugshot of Ian's profile is a fun one...good find, danwho!

[Kona2]

Thanks to Dave Coverly and his Speedbump comic...some of you might muster up a grin...

Meanwhile, the Big Event (aka the Holiday Challenge) is even one less mere day away than it was yesterday. Some of us will just throw ourselves into it - and others have prepared better, gradually increasing their meterage to be able to achieve the numbers they set their sights on without too much pain. However you choose to participate, the key thing is to PARTICIPATE! Sign up for the charity that your meters will support, dig deep for that inner resolve, and take a look at the numbers below...because it really does help to have a target number for your aspirations. Your logbook page has a Challenge meter contribution counter RIGHT there...and you can keep track of the grand tally.



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

250K K2
50 K Chuck E

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

AJ 3,019 m
Steve G 3,158 m
Todd 3,347 m
Dennis 3,431 m
Kevin 4,548 m
Patrick H 5,000 m
Gines 5,334 m
K2 5,622 m
Chuck 6,000 m
Mikkel 6,015 m
Dan O' 6,578 m
Ron 7,337 m ...a palindrome ...lucky 7's!
Keith 8,000 m
Tim G 8,000 m
Robert H 10,000 m
Howard 10,077 m
Norma 10,101 m ...a one aught palindrome!
bg 10,358 m
David A 11,129 m
Ian 11,503 m
Louis 12,000 m
Jonathan 12,123 m
Stuart 12,888 m
Minnie 13,531 m ...a rare palindrome!
Gary 13,575 m
Teresa R 15,405 , ... welcome back for the 2018 season!
Ken 26,100 m ... he moons us!
Salvador 40,586 m ...a good update!

[bg]

[quote="Kona2"]
Thanks to Dave Coverly and his Speedbump comic...some of you might muster up a grin...

that's great :} bringing back good teaching memories :]

[Kona2]

...they're in queue ...and so are YOU!

To all who are traveling during this USA holiday....we wish you a safe drive, flight, sail, bike, walk, train ride...and ANY other means you may choose! Pack patience - for the trip and for the relatives! Hahahaha! And maybe Tums for the dish that your aunt always says is your favorite....snort.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


4.55 MM Ed
350 K Richard McC
150 K Tony

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ...a palindrome!
Jonas 1,500 m
Larry 2,000 m
Steve W 2,222 m ...a twofer palindrome!
K2 3,016 m
William H 5,000 m
Teresa 5,015 m
Louis 6,000 m
Todd 6,861 m
Jonathan 7,013 m
Ron 7,337 m ...a lucky seven bookended palindrome!
Keith 8,000 m
Tom M 8,000 m
Tim G 8,008 m ...a palindrome bookended with special 8s!
Tim M 8,368 m
bg 10,485 m
Kevin 11,000 m
Tombeur 11,250 m
David A 11,276 m
Doug 12,584 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
FRiC 16,557 m
Gary 21,097 m ...and he moons us! Getting to be a regular mooner!
Dan O' 21,256 m ...and he moons us, too!
Ed 33,333 m ...a mooner of a palindrome!
Richard McC 47,673 m ...a grand update!

[Kona2]

Erg early and often!!
This is the gift you'll keep on earning...for 32 days...and beyond as the charity YOU choose makes its impact.

And so it begins, this Challenge that was the lure that started it all for many of us! The trick was to figure out how to keep it going all year long - took me a few "pre-Lunie" years to appreciate the role that Concept2 would play in my world. Have a fun day today - however you spend it!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

2.15 MM David A
1.95 MM Dan O'
550 K Gines
400 K Gary
350 K Ted

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Tony 1,111 m ....it's a palindrome!
Remon 1,509 m
Howard 3,027 m
Anna C-S 4,124 m
K2 5,000 m
Louis 5,000 m
Todd 5,000 m
ATX33 5,007 m
Bernie 5,020 m
Heather 5,522 m ...a double double!
danwho m ...a high five palindrome!
Gines 5,762 m
Larry 6,000 m
Gary 6,018 m
Teresa R 7,090 m
Tim G 7,500 m
Mikkel 8,025 m
Jane 8,118 m ...a palindrome!
Kevin 8,331 m
Tim M 8,562 m
Richard McC 10,267 m
David A 11,214 m
Stuart 12,722 m
Andrea 12,952 m
Keith 14,000 m
Dan O' 14,025 m
Ted 26,000 m ... he moons us, too!
Ed 33,333 m ... a palindrome with a built in moon!

[dag1]

Couldn't pass up dragging the erg out to the patio this morning to start the challenge, beautiful weather here as we will come close to a record high temp of 73. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

[Kona2]

Hooboy! 36 Lunies are on the Road to Reindeer...which is not quite like the Road to Hana...

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.6 MM Ed
1.95 MM Steve W
1.8 MM Tombeur
1.05 MM Doug - it WAS a beautiful day in the neighborhood!
700 K Kevin
250 K Robert H

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Heather 1,527 m
ATX33 1,686 m
Dave H 5,000 m ...welcome back for the 2018 season!
Sorin 5,000 m
Todd 5,000 m
Chip 5,009 m ...welcome back for the 2018 season!
Chuck 6,000 m
John D 6,494 m
Gines 6,548 m
Tim M 6,587 m
Tim G 7,007 m ...a secret agent palindrome!
Dan O' 7,015 m
Patrick H 7,186 m
Teresa 7,512 m
K2 8,888 m ...a palindrome!
Peter H 8,888 m ...a palindrome!
Ed 10,001 m ...a palindrome!
danwho 10,101 m ... a one aught one palindrome!
Howard 10,182 m
Tombeur 11,446 m
Kevin 11,987 m
Patrick S 12,200 m
Steve W 12,500 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Andrea 14,284 m ....wowzer! She's upped her meterage big time !
David A 15,574 m
Ian 17,012 m
Robert H 20,000 m
Doug 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Gary 21,097 m... he moons us!
Lynne 21,189 m ... she moons us...throwing down the Holiday Challenge gauntlet to take the top podium spot...

Great time of year to see the moon visible in the daytime skies! No oh-dark-thirty required!

[Kona2]

898,013 m in the Lunie Holiday Challenge so far!! Maybe more than one million by day's end?!

Another episode....bunny trails of the mind!

The Tucson Botanic Garden is featuring an exhibit called "Origami in the Gardens" - an exhibit developed by American artists Kevin and Jennifer Box. One of the things that the Botanic staff does is to develop accompanying educational content to go with these kinds of exhibits...and the first part of the batch made sense: paper folding, classic Japanese garden design, plants you can use for making paper...but then they added some that were surprising: mathematics, satellites and space exploration. Ok. Down the bunny trail for sure.

Origami and mathematics? Turns out that origami has been used to help demonstrate geometric theory, and solve math problems. What I might have thought of as "only" an artistic expression is well integrated in science, math and education with its own International Conference on Origami in Science, Math and Education held approximately every four years. The next on is lucky number 7 (7OSME) and will take place in Oxford, UK between 5 and 7 September 2018.

Origami and satellites? Follow this link to learn a bit more about the smart radiator designed to help remove or add heat to small satellites. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/20 ... by-origami It only follows that space exploration benefits from similar designs.

But the original interest in the exhibit came from the sculpture depicting a game we played as kids (and maybe as adults when trying to decide who gets the short straw)...was Rock, Paper, Scissors. These larger than life exhibits look like good fun with much in the way of hidden gems.


Rock, Paper, Scissors sculpture by Kevin Box

"What inspires me about origami is its simple metaphor for life. We all begin with a blank page; what we choose to do with it is what matters, and the possibilities are endless." Kevin Box, 2014

Something to think about while you get your erging done for the day!



MILESTONES...Bragging RIghts...Celebrations:

1.2 MM Zach
1.05 MM Ian B
900 K Ron
850 K Dennis
500 K Stefan - a cool half million
450 K ATX33
400 K Stuart
150 K Andrea

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Jeff M 2,018 m ...a year to look forward to!
Todd 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Mikkel 5,011 m
Chip 5,015 m
K2 5,044 m
Gines 5,502 m
Jonathan 6,017 m
Jeff D 6,547 m
Tim G 7,117 m ... a palindrome!
Ron 7,337 m ...a palindrome!
Sorin 7,404 m
Teresa R 8,013 m
ATX 8,057 m
Kevin 8,733 m
Peter H 8,888 m ... a palindrome!
Keith 10,000 m
Louis 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Robert H 10,000 m
Howard 10,131 m
bg 10,147 m
David A 11,170 m
Chuck E 12,000 m
Tim M 12,315 m
Patrick S 12,400 m
david w (GBR) 12,500 m
Remon 12,594 m
Dave H 12,982 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
Ian B 13,577 m
Stefan 15,000 m
Stuart 16,161 m ...a palindrome!
Andrea 16,585 m
Gary 21,181 m...he moons us!
Tombeur 23,152 m ... he moons us!
Dan O' 24,059 m ... he moons us!
Ed 33,333 m ... he moons us with a palindrome!
Steve W 35,761 m ... he moons us!
Zach 72,576 m ...wowzer! Big update!

[Kristine Strasburger]

Woo-hoo! I'm so glad to be back for the Holiday Challenge! We just got home from a 3 week road trip celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary! Glad to be alive! We got into a pretty bad vehicle accident on our 3rd driving day. Both pickup trucks were totalled, but all people involved walked out of the Emergency room after being checked out. It was truly a miracle. I'm still feeling a little bruised in the ribd, so not sure how rowing is going to feel when I give it a try shortly, but this is my favorite challenge of the year, so the motivation factor is high. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with the old team mateys, and meeting the new ones. Crossfit is going on the back burner for the next month cause I'm shooting for some reindeer bling! I've missed the good old TEAM LUNA-TICS! Glad to see you are still at the helm, K2! Cheers!

[bg]

Woo-hoo! I'm so glad to be back for the Holiday Challenge! We just got home from a 3 week road trip celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary! Glad to be alive! We got into a pretty bad vehicle accident on our 3rd driving day. Both pickup trucks were totalled, but all people involved walked out of the Emergency room after being checked out. It was truly a miracle. I'm still feeling a little bruised in the ribd, so not sure how rowing is going to feel when I give it a try shortly, but this is my favorite challenge of the year, so the motivation factor is high. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with the old team mateys, and meeting the new ones. Crossfit is going on the back burner for the next month cause I'm shooting for some reindeer bling! I've missed the good old TEAM LUNA-TICS! Glad to see you are still at the helm, K2! Cheers!

omg!!!! so glad that you are okay!!! and welcome back and happy anniversary :} btw...how are your sons doing??? and are you still running marathons????

[Kristine Strasburger]

Thanks, BG! Both boys are doing great, and still on Active Duty. I had to quit the marathon running because it was taking too much of a toll on the old bod. I've had some other issues with hand numbness that have really impacted my life, but I seem to have that issue under control now. I'm hoping that the rowing doesn't reactivate it. Are you still doing marathons?

[bg]

Thanks, BG! Both boys are doing great, and still on Active Duty. I had to quit the marathon running because it was taking too much of a toll on the old bod. I've had some other issues with hand numbness that have really impacted my life, but I seem to have that issue under control now. I'm hoping that the rowing doesn't reactivate it. Are you still doing marathons?

wasn't it just yesterday i joined the luna-tics and your boys were so young...time really does fly :] i'm still running marathons-i've run 26 so far....and i'm also running ultras now....sorry about the hand numbness :[

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and it's a TWO million meter day! Congratulations, Dan O', on achieving a TWO million meter 2018 erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!