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5 points for supporting the Vision Zero Rally and 10 more points for Rockville Bike Hub open house. 15 points! The upside down photos make me giggle.

@Sophie CW 216300 wrote:

Couldn’t get more miles in today, but I did bike to a Vision Zero rally in the morning then to the Rockville Bike Hub open house.
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Sorry, I don’t know why these photo are upside down!

[Judd]

50 points for donating blood!

@kmrice 216209 wrote:

I spent the afternoon in the Red Cross blood donation center downtown. (And I heard a similar story—staffing shortages prevent more blood collection events). I did not have to wait as long as you Steve-about an hour, in and out

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10 more points for RBH volunteering!

@Sophie CW 216202 wrote:

Biked to the Rockville Bike Hub to help prepare for their Open House event tomorrow: https://fb.me/e/6fkCwhu4n
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I’m awarding 50 points for the effort and for a long history of blood donations.

@Steve O 215963 wrote:

Well, I tried.
I’ve been giving blood for decades. I made an appointment for Monday afternoon to give a double-red donation at the donor center on E St. in DC.

When I got there I was told it would be a 45-minute wait (plus, from past experience, the almost 2 hours it actually takes–which is also absurdly inefficient). That was unacceptable, especially since I had an actual appointment. I left.

After a couple of follow-up conversations with Red Cross people, I have learned something. Yes, there is a blood shortage nationwide. However, that blood shortage has nothing to do with lack of donors, which is what their marketing seems to imply. I had to wait weeks just to get an appointment, because they are completely booked. The shortage is a problem with staffing; there is no shortage of donors. If anything, there are too many donors.

So my giving blood or not will make no difference in the blood supply. Knowing that, I am not willing to put up with the nonsense of interminable waiting to give blood that someone else would give if I weren’t there. Same amount of blood collected either way.

So no points for me.

[Judd]

Kapow! 10 Pointer for volunteering with the FoMVT.

@Gina 215736 wrote:

Joined the Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail again today. This time we worked on trail edging near Gravelly Point.

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I’ll update the points standing this weekend but wanted to share a few opportunities:

Saturday, 2/19 – Trail bump repair and vegetation cleanup on the Mount Vernon Trail – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invasive-removal-and-trail-bump-repair-near-marina-towers-registration-263434368287
Monday, 2/21 – Trash cleanup at Gravelly Point -https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-landing-bid-presents-trash-cleanup-at-gravelly-point-registration-261608948407

[Judd]

2/7/2022 Planets

Seen from the Mount Vernon Trail, the moon peeks through the cloud cover over Lockheed Martin who was awarded a NASA contract today to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle which will visit Mars, collect rock samples and return them to Earth.

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I caught Boomer in the wild working on his new YouTube show where he critiques the craftsmanship of Little Free Libraries. Here he points to the magnetic latch and pocket hole screws.

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2/6/2022 Capricorn

Goat Hill Park. A little park built on a steep hill in Alexandria.

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MEGA POINT OPPORTUNITY in celebration of Black History Month.

The DC Public Library is looking for virtual volunteers to help add descriptions to signs from last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in Lafayette Square. I’ll award 25 points to anyone who volunteers and posts a picture of an interesting sign.

Full details and registration is at: https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/5974957

Description from the site:
Celebrate activism in DC by helping provide access to posters collected from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Lafayette Square.

Celebrate activism in DC by helping The People’s Archive add posters collected from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in Lafayette Square to our digital collection Dig DC. Learn to create descriptions, called metadata, at this hands-on virtual event. No prior knowledge of metadata is required to participate. All skills levels are welcome. This event will be completely virtual.

[Judd]

We have a new points leader, but it’s still anybody’s game to win 500 bucks for their favorite nonprofit organization.

Player Total Points
Sophie CW 95
Gina 90
Boomer2U 70
Komorebi 55
kmrice 55
Mtansill 45
CaseyKane 35
Sfrank 25
lordofthemark 10

[Judd]

50 points for donating blood! I’m awarding 5 bonus points for giving blood upside down. 55 points!

@Sophie CW 215511 wrote:

Donated a pint at blood drive at Tikvat Israel today:
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[Judd]

5 points! Plus another 5 points because I hate all of the porcelainberry along the WOD. 10 Point total!

@kmrice 214703 wrote:

I’m still in the game—Got some of my garden club buddies together to clean invasive vines out trees along the WOD in Falls Church. We cleaned vines out of four apple trees.

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Phoenix Bikes Adult Volunteer Nights are returning March 1st. Sign up at https://phoenixbikes.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d5ff90288752e322471168dd5&id=d214b7552d&e=a323e14d4d

From their newsletter:
We’re looking forward to restarting our adult volunteer nights in March, where adult volunteers are welcomed into the shop to work on bikes to be put up for sale or donated to a community member in need. No experience? No problem! We’re happy to help our volunteers learn bike mechanics during our volunteer nights.

Our first volunteer night will be held on Tuesday, March 1 from 6:15pm-8:00pm. If you want to get your hands dirty working on bikes and improving your mechanics skills, sign up here and keep an eye on our Facebook for announcements about future volunteer nights.

[Judd]

@DanB 215326 wrote:

Now that Wordle got bought up by the NYT, many are worried that the game will go from free to a subscription fee. But there’s good news for cyclists who love Wordle. Now there’s Bikle, which is a game using the same format but instead of plain ole words, it uses a database of past and present professional cyclists.

https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/theres-now-a-bike-version-of-wordle-and-its-pretty-hard/

Personally, I wished they used all kinds of bike terminology. But since it was created in Italy, I suppose this was the best way to make it international.

If it doesn’t have enough spaces to type SteveO then I don’t want to play.

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