Hello all my yoga blogging friends... Last night the server and scripts which run commenting on Ashtangi.NET were infiltrated by spammers. It nearly brought the server to it's knees and, as a result, the host locked out Ashtangi.NET blog software in order to maintain the integrity of the server. I worked on this some today and have turned everything back on; however, if at any time the script is compromised again, the site will come down again.

In the meantime, I've installed Akismet in an effort to bring down CPU utilization and, hopefully, cure the problem. I didn't want to mess with everyone's blogs until I know it will work so it is turned on, currently, on my blog. You'll note you no longer have to enter a number to comment. If over the next few days my blog is okay, I'll change everyone else hosted here as well.

As for me personally, thanks for your emails and comments, as always, I know that the greater Ashtanga community is out there listening. I'm in a really difficult place personally right now and have monumental decisions to make in more than one arena of my life. I am so dysfunctional that I've engaged the services of a professional (wow that sounds scary, doesn't it). No yoga on my horizon to even me out though the doctor told me if I wasn't feeling anything while laying down I could attempt easy stretching with no pull on the upper part of my body (clearly not yoga).

In an effort to maintain the committments I made the other day I have:

a) at least communicated the desire to get together with The Best Friend though we haven't found a time;

b) made a definitive plan for dinner with B (though I forgot to ask for the picture!! However I am picking up the phone right now to call back.)

and c) wrote an email to Chi but then figured given my current personal spiral, it might be better to save that for later ;)

Namaste
Julie