Practice today was the hottest I've ever felt it. It might as well have been Bikram. In fact, at some point, I'm pretty sure Tiff said that. Mat space was tightened, the teacher trainees have arrived en masse. Pretty much from the start there was this odor in the what is usually the front half of the room but, today, was the back half of the room (keeping those of us "my space" mat nazis on our toes that teacher!). It was disconcerting but perhaps the most disconcerting moment actually happened during Janu Shirasana B when Tiff leaned over and said the most funny ass thing... it took me like 3 breaths to get it before I was literally chuckling out loud, way too loudly... which made her laugh out loud... which then made Dr. Mike laugh out loud.

Standing up from backbends is now only work. For awhile I was still in the OH I just learned to do this phase... and, now, I'm in the middle phase where it's just this mountain for me. My lower back has been really acting up in practice... like an edge acting up... or maybe it's the Motrin kind of acting up... I'm not entirely sure I know the difference. Regardless, I've been able to pull them off, they just don't seem or feel very elegant.

We ended up driving to Temecula to have a family dinner with my family for Father's Day. I had a bunch of glasses of rare Belgian Ale. My dad is 60 and still races dirt bikes every weekend or more. He's got these friends in various places and one of them is in Belgium. He goes down there to ride with them every so often and they come here. He had them send him a bunch of non-imported bottles of Belgian Ale... they come in bottles like champagne bottles... have a cork... are drunk in wide mouthed glasses... How can one resist that! Besides I have the day off practice tomorrow because I have to go to L.A. for my demos. I still haven't figured out a way to work in a practice on those days. I hate chalking it up to a shrug of the shoulders but not sure how else to look at it. The beer was really good and then I had a lovely new banana Hefeweisen at dinner (banana meaning blonde). Before kids, before I like wine, I was quite the beer snob. I suppose I still am a beer snob, I just rarely drink beer anymore.

My parents told us tonight they are considering buying a house downtown between Ensenada and Rosarito and retiring there... how cool would that be! I say go live it up for the rest of your lives... man, that's what I hope I do at 60.

My tattoo artist is ready to do my tattoo... just the Ganesh, upper arm... I can't decide... not if but now or later. Can I justify spending the money on another tattoo? Should I wait til after summer? Color or black and white?

In Ashtangi.NET news, I am working on the ability to link back to the main page of everyone's blog rather than directly to the post... it does change the blog interaction... I've just been cranking out this demo and haven't had time to edit the code to add that in (well mostly because I haven't set up a test bed for DotNetNuke).. but I will... as soon as I can breathe again.