That's where I've been since Friday night when I first noticed something was going funky with Ashtangi.NET's servers. First it was just the mail server, then it was the subdomain for blogs, then it was the SQL server, then the mySQL server... the in progression the entire site just collapsed. Moreover, the entire site for the lame ass webhost collapsed too.

Saturday morning - still down. Saturday momentarily things came back up.. then down again... finally I started searching the Internet and found a thread with some other unhappy customers reporting the same outage... Sunday... still down, I've given up... obtained services with a new webhost and put together an entirely new site. I figured I might as well learn something in the process so I ported Ashtangi.NET over to a DotNetNuke site. I'm a true techie geek head and not ashamed to admit it.

Monday - a holiday -- don't figure we'll see anything from the now non-existent webhost. I check the thread of unhappy customers... more and more start coming out of the woodwork.. People who have built their entire business using this host's services, completely shutdown. I feel thankful that Ashtangi.NET is small and community based and, essentially, for lack of a better word, a hobby. No email, no status on their control panel or home page.... Finally the details start to become clear with Internet sleuthing. Their WHOIS record shows they are out of business, their SSL certificate is expired and a new one shows up if you try to ping the control panel... the new one is in a different company's name.

Tuesday... frustration on top of frustrations..while I have the whole of Ashtangi.NET now ported (thanks to a suddenly reappearing webhost), the webhost has locked down my domain name rendering me effectively helpless to move the domain over to the new server. Said suddenly reappearing host does not answer telephone, emails or any posts from any of the disgruntled customers.

Wednesday... more phone calls... this time to the new company now listed on my WHOIS record... I don't even know who they are. The new webhost can't help. Finally I'm told that I must continue to attempt to contact said defunct webhost and request them to unlock the domain... then I can transfer it. I finally bitch and moan enough that I send a formality email and the new WHOIS registrar unlocks the domain. As we stand right now, I am still waiting for the "registrar of record" (and who knows if that is the new WHOIS registrar or the defunct webhost) to approve the transfer. I'm about to tear my hair out by now. I wonder why I chose to work in this field... oh yea, I love it.

This whole thing has cost me so much time and money it isn't funny. I am fairly certain we won't see any assistance financially or otherwise from the defunct but apparently resold webhost (um, I hate to tell you new management but I think you've effectively lost all of your business and if there's some idiot customer who continues with your services, man, I wish you the best of luck). But here I am ... still waiting... and letting go of attachment ;) just kidding... well sorta.

As for what else has been going on...

We spent the afternoon at the beach on Sunday... it was so amazingly lovely. The weather was perfect. The Daughter had a playdate and I got to talk to said playdate's parent for awhile. We brought some food and drinks and literally just hung out all afternoon. We had The Husband's family over for a BBQ on Monday... all in all a pretty mellow weekend though I spent way too much time in front of the computer... not only for Ashtangi.NET but this huge project at work that I don't know how to do.

As for practice... practice is practice. My teacher has started doing Dwi Pada with me before Supta K now which I love. My left leg stays behind my head on it's own now... I think this is a result of putting more energy into Mari A. Tonight I practiced outside in the sun at the club. It started out good but the day was so beautiful that suddenly there were a bazillion people there and since I was on the patio, everyone could see me. I heard a variety of things:

"Wow, that's just wierd" from a young boy.

"Honey, is that yoga?" response "No I think that's stretching." "No I think she's doing yoga... she just did that really wierd pose that you always try at home and can't do." (said pose was Bakasana -- I had the BEST HIGHEST MOST AMAZING bakasana today.. I had so much concentration and my feet were all the way up, I just wanted to hang out there) Then the man replies "Yea I guess she is doing yoga." turns to his child and says "See, that's yoga, that's what daddy does."

"Did you see that lady - she has her leg behind her head..look honey, it's like the circus."

The last time I practiced out on the patio it was so relaxing and private and nice... with all these people and comments I just couldn't go on, it didn't feel right and turned out to be about the physical. I decided to just wrap it up with backbends... and they felt so lovely I did like 10 or so... standing up, dropping back. When dropping back I'm really concentrating on the pause... going over and then slowly slowly dropping back. I've discovered that what I was doing was holding my breath. I don't think you can exhale that slowly so I think you must have to breathe while dropping back... now I can take one breath, hang out during the inhale and then drop back. One of my dropbacks was simply amazing. I stopped counting after 6 but I just kept doing them until I flat out couldn't stand up anymore. Of course, dropping back and stnading up is way easier at 6pm at night in 75 degree heat...