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

[Edscapade]

Happy New Year, fellow Luna-Tics !!!

You might need to lend a little auditory imagination for the opening, but this should help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRzbKNbTsY

Awesome! Thank You, Happy New Year All! I wish health and success in 2023…

Happy Rowing,
Ed

[andreacs]

Happy New Year, fellow Luna-Tics !!!

You might need to lend a little auditory imagination for the opening, but this should help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRzbKNbTsY

Thanks Dan for the cool bar-tending! We enjoyed very much the drinks!

Happy 2023 and happy rowing to all!

Andrea

[Kona2]

24th out of 381 teams....JOIN us !

Surely we can enlist MORE than 41 Lunies in this Challenge?!? When next in your logbook, scroll across to the TEAMS section, scroll down and JOIN. And while you're working on your January Revolutions goal, your meters can count for the Virtual Team Challenge and vice versa.

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

5.3 MM Wild Bill
3.75 MM Ron
3.1 MM David A
2.1 MM Rich
1.5 MM Thor
700 K Trevor
500 K Vanessa...a COOL half million!
250 K Rick

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Bill L 500 m
Brent 524 m
Karyn 540 m
Larry 1,000 m
Janice 1,287 m
Steve D 2,000 m
Jane 2,112 m...a palindrome!
Jason 2,166 m
Benjamin 2,500 m
Steve W 3,000 m
Andrea 3,223 m...a palindrome!
Kiara 3,646 m
David T 4,000 m
Patrick Hmr 4,297 m
Adam 5,000 m
Bill K 5,000 m
Lola 5,005 m...a palindrome! High fives!
Jeff F 5,077 m
Kevin 5,395 m
Rick 5,498 m
Thor 5,511 m...a double double!
Trevor 6,107 m
Jodi 6,316 m
Judy 6,548 m
Tombeur 7,353 m
Ed 10,000 m
Stuart 10,000 m
Gene 10,092 m
Anya 10,511 m
Howard 11,009 m
Patrick Hsr 13,505 m
K2 20,000 m

21,097 m and more = mooners!

Ron 21,120 m...mooner!
Norma 23,232 m...a palindrome and a mooner....new year's theme!
David A 28.366 m...mooner!
Vanessa 31,000 m...mooner!
Wild Bill 36,663 m...a palindrome and a mooner!
Rich 43,957 m...mooner!

[andreacs]

Whoop, whoop and what an achievement! Congratulations, Ron, on achieving 75 million lifetime meters! Getting closer every erg session to a double orbit!! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations!

Congratulations Ron! Amazing achievement! I wish you many more!

Andrea
P.S. At my current rate of 12M/16 years I would need 62.4 years to achieve that milestone...

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and way to get it done! Hula, hula! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving a TWO million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations!!




Whoop, whoop and why not ANOTHER milestone right away?! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving an orbit and a half as the erg odometer rolls over the SIXTY million meter milestone!! Amazing!

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and what a great time of year to earn a sweatshirt! Delighted to report that the Bike Erg odometer clicked over the TEN million meter milestone yesterday, bringing my lifetime meters to 26.5 MM (16.5 MM rowing, 10 MM bike)...or half an orbit!

[Kona2]

15th out of 457 teams....JOIN us !

Things are looking up...no time for complacency, though! 51 Lunies on the Challenge team roster - including some long time participants whose affiliate teams don't float a Challenge team...we see you, and thank you !!

Speaking of floating, Minnie assures us that the atmospheric river besieging the Sacramento area isn't putting her in danger (although there WAS a greater than 12 hr power outage). Meanwhile, Denver airport keeps working on being a bag collection station - this time with freezing fog. And it was a freeze yer face kind of walk with the K9s yesterday. Uff da. No doubt that other Lunies are experiencing galactic weather challenges, too. Glad to have the option of INDOOR ERGING!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

10.2 MM Chip
5.35 MM Wild Bill
2.85 MM Ed
2.15 MM Norma
2 MM Minnie
1.2 MM K2

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! Welcome back, Margee B and Terry B!

Margee 847 m
Steve D 1,000 m
Briana 1,165 m
David T 2,000 m
Louie 2,000 m
Sorin 2,000 m
Scott 2,318 m
Jodi 2,409 m
Jim 2,720 m
Jean 3,631 m
Larry 4,000 m
Lola 4,994 m...a palindrome!
Adam 5,000 m
John 5,000 m
Ron W 5,000 m
Gene 5,750 m
Kevin 6,046 m
Jeff F 6,248 m
Jeff D 6,520 m
Judy 6,588 m
Eric 7,493 m
Andrea 7,777 m...a lucky 7 palindrome!
Tombeur 7,938 m
Carol 8,019 m
Ed 10,000 m
Ken 10,000 m
Patrick Hsr 10,000 m
Rick 10,000 m
Anya 10,530 m
Howard 11,015 m
Brent 11,661 m
Terry B 12,000 m
Dennis 13,436 m
Brett 13,931 m...a palindrome!
Steve W 14,491 m
Patrick Hmr 17,242 m
Minnie 17,703 m
Derric 20,000 m
Rich 20,040 m
Ron 20,202 m...a palindrome!
Bill K 21,000 m

21,097 m and more = mooners!

Gary 21,097 m...a January half marathon! Mooner!
Norma 21,212 m...a reverse Welkian palindrome~ Mooner!
David A 21,223 m...mooner!
K2 22,222 m...a palindrome and a mooner!
Wild Bill 39,993 m...a palindrome and a mooner!
Chip 68,192 m...mooner!

[DavidA]

Whoop, whoop and what an achievement! Congratulations, Ron, on achieving 75 million lifetime meters! Getting closer every erg session to a double orbit!! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations!

Awesome!
Good luck with many more!

David

[DavidA]

Whoop, whoop and way to get it done! Hula, hula! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving a TWO million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations!!




Whoop, whoop and why not ANOTHER milestone right away?! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving an orbit and a half as the erg odometer rolls over the SIXTY million meter milestone!! Amazing!

Woo Hoo!!!
That's a lot of erging!
Good luck on finishing this next lap around the world!

David

[DavidA]

Whoop, whoop and what a great time of year to earn a sweatshirt! Delighted to report that the Bike Erg odometer clicked over the TEN million meter milestone yesterday, bringing my lifetime meters to 26.5 MM (16.5 MM rowing, 10 MM bike)...or half an orbit!

Congratulations!
So are you biking more than erging?
Are we placing bets on if bike meterage passes row meterage before 20 Mm - a full orbit?

David

[andreacs]

Whoop, whoop and way to get it done! Hula, hula! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving a TWO million meter erging season! We wish you many, MANY more milestones and celebrations!!




Whoop, whoop and why not ANOTHER milestone right away?! Congratulations, Minnie, on achieving an orbit and a half as the erg odometer rolls over the SIXTY million meter milestone!! Amazing!

Whoa! Congrats Minnie/Chris! And many more achievements!

Andrea
I will not calculate how long it would take me to catch up ...

[andreacs]

Whoop, whoop and what a great time of year to earn a sweatshirt! Delighted to report that the Bike Erg odometer clicked over the TEN million meter milestone yesterday, bringing my lifetime meters to 26.5 MM (16.5 MM rowing, 10 MM bike)...or half an orbit!

Wonderful K2/Jan! Congrats!
And all these while keeping all of us motivated! A couple more millions for the time spent for us!

Andrea

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and what a great time of year to earn a sweatshirt! Delighted to report that the Bike Erg odometer clicked over the TEN million meter milestone yesterday, bringing my lifetime meters to 26.5 MM (16.5 MM rowing, 10 MM bike)...or half an orbit!

Congratulations!
So are you biking more than erging?
Are we placing bets on if bike meterage passes row meterage before 20 MM - a full orbit?

David

David -

As far as will bike meterage surpass the rowing machine...I still have my rower, and was delighted to put meters on it once again...until I tore my meniscus. I did want to reach 20 MM rowing meters, so I still plan to do that. Getting the 30 MM bike meters still needed (which would be 15 MM net)...no lie, it IS easier for me right now!

I've actually thought about this...and know that there are some things, like numerical equity, that matter to me .... so, when I calculate that I have 10 MM bike meters - that means I have 5 MM towards an orbital total! My total meters would be 16.5 MM plus 5 MM for the 21.5 towards half an orbit. Concept2 lumps all the bike meters into the lifetime meters as a 1 to 1. I disagree with that approach. If we are taking the time to pound bike ergers over the head time and time again that during Challenges our total meters must be doubled to be counted, then why wouldn't we believe that the total meters should similarly be counted?! Yes, I will happily take the 10 MM bike erg prize, knowing that it is being given at 5 MM overall...but that's different than what I see is kind of an integrity issue. I'm sure Concept2 has logic on this, but it eludes me.

[Kona2]

Hooboy! Getting a late start on my "homework" of the stats today!

I may have mentioned this before, but since it is FRESH in my mind, you get a double dose if it's a repeat, because it STILL makes me laugh.
It's not often that a visit to the dentist makes any of us laugh, but recent practices since the dreaded Virus, sent me into the land of snickering today. It probably would have been a full snort if that were possible. Prior to your dental cleaning, the hygienist hands you, the victim, a paper cup filled with a mouthwash to whatever proportion the dental office has designated as "enough". We are told to swish this for about a minute, and of course there are NO CLOCKS near The Chair. No secret that I have an active imagination. Apparently I also have active swisher capability too. The thing about this mouthwash stuff is that it FOAMS. Well, after about 30 seconds, I'm starting to envision what I will look like as a rabid patient...foaming at the mouth. This makes me laugh, and it is SO HARD not to spew foam when the laughter starts. Good luck with that.

14th...a fine spot to be!...JOIN us !

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

10.3 MM Chip
5.4 MM Wild Bill
3.8 MM Ron
3.15 MM David A
2.15 MM Rich
1.55 MM Brent
1.25 MM Gary
1.1 MM Ted
1.05 MM Judy
850 K Cornel
850 K Dennis
750 K Howard
650 K Patrick Psr
650 K Stuart
600 K Carol
600 K Brett
600 K Bill K
500 K Adam...a cool half million!

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Steve D 1,000 m
GMan 1,009 m
Briana 1,808 m
starbuck 2,222 m...a palindrome! Doozy of a twosie!
Ian 2,938 m
Jason 2,996 m
Sharon 3,015 m
Patrick Hmr 3.412 m
Jean M 3,665 m
Andrea 3,993 m...a palindrome!
Colin 4,000 m
David T 4,000 m
Brickman 5,000 m
Paul 5,000 m
Robert E 5,000 m
Sorin 5,000 m
Jane 5,115 m...a palindrome!
Jim M 5,770 m
Kevin 6,405 m
Anya 6,520 m
Judy 6,588 m
Steve W 7,021 m
David A 7,272 m
David W 10,000 m
Derric 10,000 m
Ed 10,000 m
Patrick Hsr 10,000 m
Ron W 10,532 m
Patrick S 10,628 m
K2 12,500 m
Jeff F 13,031 m...a pallindrome!
Carol 13,371 m
Gene 14,090 m
Jeff D 14,982 m
Adam 15,000 m
Ken 15,000 m
Vanessa 15,000 m
Rick 15,528 m
Brent 16,183 m
Tombeur 20,028 m

21,097 m and more = mooners!

Cornel 21,172 m...mooner!
Howard 22,149 m...mooner!
Thor 22,558 m...mooner!
Stuart 23,132 m...a palindrome and a mooner!
Norma 2..3...2..3...2..m...a Sinatra palindrome (2-3-2-3-2 is very like do be do be do) and a mooner!
Dennis 23,431 m...mooner!
Brett 28,329 m...mooner!
Gary 30,997 m...mooner!
Bill K 35,163 m... mooner!
Rich 35,319 m...mooner!
Ron 40,205 m...mooner!
Ted 44,000 m... mooner!
Wild Bill 80,008 m...mega mooner and palindrome!
Chip 121,394 m...more mega mooner!

[just27]

Happy New Year, fellow Luna-Tics !!!

You might need to lend a little auditory imagination for the opening, but this should help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRzbKNbTsY

Thanks so much for all the effort you put into the virtual bar, on NYE, Danwho! I was looking forward to viewing and imagining all the interesting drinks ... but, the latest "atmospheric river" storm to blast through California, took out our power from 8:00 pm on NYE, till lunch the next day. It started getting chilly after a couple of hours, so everyone went to bed early, to keep warm. (I did think about y'all, enjoying the party in Ten Forward, and gave a wistful, virtual nod to my midnight champagne.) Next storm is due to hit within the hour ... this time we have candles, flashlights, snacks, etc., at the ready ... plus a just-delivered battery pack for our cell phones ... thanks for that recommendation, K-2!