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

[Kona2]

Heather 13,492 m - might be a combination of two days

Every meter upload helps! Sometimes when I'm out of sequence on the "when" of putting the postings together, one can remain standing all alone on the page....meaning that I have missed it. Don't hesitate to ask.

Current Lunie Challenge Team Contributions: https://log.concept2.com/team/2537/vtc/2020

Some really great updates today, too! Keep going, and don't forget about your January Revolution goals! Only you will see how you're doing on them, and darn it if seeing that I'm 16 minutes shy of getting my hour for the day isn't going to make me get back on the bike erg! I've chosen "The Haul" which is 15 hours in the month of January...but trying to get an hour a day done.

[BigBrett58]

About a third of the way through the month. Keep it up everyone!

[Kona2]

Current Challenge Team Standings: https://log.concept2.com/challenges/vtc/2020/teams

Yep, one third of the way into this Challenge (two-thirds of opportunity remain!)...and we're getting nudged along by the Ancients. Again. In the Challenge individual rankings, Tom Odle has overtaken Darlene by almost 67 K...but it is a long Challenge and it is difficult to maintain the grinding pace that those two are bringing to the erg every.single.day. Hall of Erging Famers, both of them. Meanwhile, BigBrett is setting his own mega meter pace with Ron and Gary not too far behind. Without the whole team, though, we wouldn't be in virtual team spot # lucky 7. Keep moving the chains, and don't put up a zero.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:


1.7 MM Brett
1.6 MM Cornel
1.4 MM K2
650 K Corey
650 K Dennis
500 K Stuart

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!


Carol 516 m ...(after doing back to back palindromes of 515 m!)
Zach 525 m ...a palindrome!
Jeff M 3,522 m
Jason 4,456 m
Nancy 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Patrick S 5,013 m
Heather 5,138 m
Ben 5,261 m
Norma m ...high five palindrome!
David T 7,500 m
Salvador 7,500 m
Tombeur 7,556 m
Rebecca 8,000 m
Corey 10,000 m
James S 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Ian B 10,714 m
David A 11,302 m
K2 12,000 m
Gary 13,028 m
danwho 15,151 m...a palindrome!
Stuart 17,471 m ...a palindrome!
Ron 20,102 m ...a palindrome!
Cornel m...a twosie palindrome and a mooner!
Dennis 26,862 m ...a twofer palindrome...two days of 13,431 m I think
Minnie 27,348 m ...Minnie the Mooner
Brett 65,274 m ...mega!

[Kona2]

Current Challenge Team Standings: https://log.concept2.com/challenges/vtc/2020/teams

The Lunie Challenge team just topped FIVE million meters! Incredible efforts by all ! A tsunami of milestones is happening just about daily, and we have a new teammate. Welcome Johan of the Faroe Islands. Geography not always being my strong suit, I had to look up where these islands are. Perhaps you will too.

Just about anything with "cosmic" or "rocketship" gets my attention...but have to admit, I was surprised to find both associated with a new variety of apple!



Coming to a grocer near you...and on 12 MM trees in Washington State. Cosmic Crisp apples, a new variety of apple decades in the making, has its own marketing budget in the millions. A cross between Honeycrisp Apples and Enterprise (I think) apples, these are BIG apples. It's not every apple that gets its own rocketship!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.15 MM Ed
4.15 MM Ron
3.8 MM Warnie
2.6 MM Rebecca
2.55 MM Minnie
1.85 MM danwho
1.8 MM Brett
1.45 MM Norma
1.15 MM Doug
1.15 MM Johan
1.1 MM Danno
750 K Patrick S
300 K Jim M
100 K Nancy
100 K William C

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!


Jason 1,318 m
Jeff M 2,015 m
Larry 4,000 m
Heather 4,779 m ...and less than 1K to her next milestone!
Carol 5,000 m
Zach 5,036 m ...and less than 1K to his next milestone!
David T 5,500 m ...a double double!
david w 5,705 m
David G 6,556 m ...a palindrome!
Nancy 6,932 m
Ben 7,000 m ...less than 1K to his next milestone!
Patrick S 7,313 m
Dan O' 7,420 m
Tombeur 7,648 m
Corey 7,796 m
Bill L 8,512m
Sharon 9,544 m
James S 10,000 m
William C 11,770 m
Rebecca 12,000 m
Norma 12,121 m ...a palindrome!
K2 15,052 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome!
Ken P 15,151 m ... a palindrome!
Doug 16,571 m
Minnie 17,035 m
Brian K 20,000 m
Ron 20,002 m ...a palindrome!
Gary 21,097 m ... he moons us!
Steve W 21,126 m ...he moons us, too!
Danno 23,793 m .. he moons us!
Jim M 33,071 m ...mooner!
Ed 52,196 m ...mega!
Brett 60,187 m ... mega!
Warnie 101,893 m ...just when I've been wondering ...




An AJ drawing of Kai of the plumed tail ! A true 4x6 treasure!

[DavGarcia]

Just wanted to pop in and say WAY TO GO TEAM!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop, and way to empty the meter piggy bank! Congratulations, Andrew, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

Andrew is the 29th Lunie meter millionaire of the season!

[Kona2]

Current Standings, Challenge Teams: https://log.concept2.com/challenges/vtc/2020/teams


The Lunie Challenge Team is holding steady with lots of meter contributions coming in from teammates! Great work!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.85 MM Warnie
2.95 MM David A
1.75 MM Gary
1.2 MM Johan
1.15 MM David T
1.0 MM Andrew
600 K Heather
300 K Ben
50 K Mitch

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Liz 263 m
Carol 510 m
Rich G 2,502 m
Jeff M 4,027 m
Dave P 4,500 m
Heather 4,694 m
Brian 5,000 m
Corey 5,000 m
Derric 5,000 m
David T 5,500 m ..a double double!
Norma 5,775 m ...a palindrome!
Nancy 6,000 m
Ben 7,000 m
Tombeur 7,515 m
Kevin Mc 7,571 m
Salvador 7,650 m
Trevor 7,840 m
david w 9,808 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Mitch 10,001 m ...a one aught palindrome!
Dan O' 10,682 m
Johan 11,832 m
K2 14,000 m
Maria L-G 14,000 m
Steve W 14,200 m
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome!
Ken P 15,151 m ...a palindrome!
Minnie 17,679 m
Tom R 18,519 m
Ron 22,122 m..a palindrome! And he moons us!
Gary 25,101 m ..he moons us!
David A 25,252 m ...a palindrome and he moons us!
Warnie 25,530 m ... he moons us!
Ed 33,333 m ...a palindrome and he moons us!
Andrew 356,746 m...empties the meter piggy bank...from before the Challenge

[Shabana]

Andrew 356,746 m...empties the meter piggy bank...from before the Challenge
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Oops! I have been suffering some computer issues. I suspect some older rows that I had entered manually last year got uploaded from my card again, I will have to track down the duplicates....

My total for the challenge should be 86,582m, and that is all that should have been uploaded.

Looks like I am going to have to go for the 1 million again .

[normadelaney]

An AJ drawing of Kai of the plumed tail !

Lovely! But now you need an Aerie companion piece!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and ANOTHER great start to your erging day! Congratulations, david w, on achieving a ONE million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more!!

david w is the 30th Lunie meter millionaire of the 2020 season!

[BigBrett58]

My daughter, Maddie M, has joined the team this week. She's 12 years old. This morning, she joined me in the rotation of skiing, rowing, and biking while watching CNBC at my office. I think she's a little young to start a rigorous exercise regime, but I'll bring her as often as she wants to go.

[Kona2]

Current Challenge Team standings: https://log.concept2.com/challenges/vtc/2020/teams

Delighted to see that some of our Challenge Team members are also choosing to join the year round affiliation team! Welcome to Becky, and Joerg (who becomes our 31st meter millionaire) !! We wish you much good camaraderie and many good erging sessions!

For those who might be near Flagstaff, AZ during February 15-18, 2020, there's an astronomy festival that may catch your interest:



Back in 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered the then planet Pluto using a blink comparator at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff.

Pictured below, the blink comparator is actually a microscope that compares two photographic plates - plates that were of specific star fields. A mirror flipped between two beams of the microscope ... or blinked. Comparing the two plates would identify an object that was moving among all the thousands of stars in the star field.



MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.2 MM Ed
3.25 MM Steve W
1.85 MM Brett
1.45 MM K2
1.25 MM Joerg
1.25 MM Kevin Mc
1.15 MM Louie
1.0 MM david w
800 K Zach
500 K Rick - a cool half million!

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

David T 1,000 m
Tom M 4,000 m
Larry 4,928 m
Brian 5,000 m
Nancy 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Terry B 6,005 m
David W 6,270 m
Corey 6,587 m
Chuck B 6,684 m
Heather 6,818 m
Trevor 7,030 m
Becky 7,265 m
Tombeur 7,821 m
Steve W 8,000 m
Maria L-G 9,000 m ...less than 2,500 m to next milestone!
Zach 9,228 m
James S 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Ed 10,001 m ...a one aught palindrome!
Ian B 10,542 m
Dan O' 10,695 m
Norma m ...a one of a kind palindrome!
Louie 12,321 m...a countem up and down palindrome!
Kevin Mc 13,410 m
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
K2 14,000 m
david w 14,028 m
David A 14,741 m ...a palindrome!
danwho 15,151 m ...a palindrome!
Karyn 16,355 m
Stuart 16,561 m ...a palindrome!
Minnie 17,568 m
Doug 18,627 m
Ron 18,881 m...a palindrome!
Ben 20,000 m
Gary 21,097 m ...he moons us!
Warnie 22,875 m ...he moons us, too!
Ted 26,000 m ... he moons us!
Brett 93,732 m...mega
Joerg 1,284,529 m

[Kona2]

My daughter, Maddie M, has joined the team this week. She's 12 years old. This morning, she joined me in the rotation of skiing, rowing, and biking while watching CNBC at my office. I think she's a little young to start a rigorous exercise regime, but I'll bring her as often as she wants to go.

Welcome, Maddie! I don't see her name on the roster just yet, but will watch for it.

[BigBrett58]

When I look at her profile, I see Team: LUNA-TICS. I also see her within our team standings. Her ranking ID is 1314256.

[Kona2]

When I look at her profile, I see Team: LUNA-TICS. I also see her within our team standings. Her ranking ID is 1314256.

I see her on the Challenge team now. When I first looked, it had not updated (or I hadn't or something!).