I didn't practice Friday morning. My intention was to get up and go in but I tweaked my shoulder so badly in Kapotasana on Thursday that I wasn't sure it was a good idea. So I slept, worked... and then drove from Seattle to Portland rolling in around 1am.

Using Google Maps on my phone (thank God for Google Maps), I found Near East Yoga and Jason and Tara... It was a bit cold in the room and my body was stiff and worn out from the shoulder tweak, traveling and a lack of sleep. I probably should have just done first series but I wanted to try Kapotasana with Jason... right up until I got to Kapotasana and then I decided to do a crappy execution of it while he was helping someone else. Only he's no dummy and so I did it again... and then again... and continued to freak out somewhere down there every time. With enough practice, I swear I will love Kapotasana.

After practice Jason and I went to coffee and I had the best latte ever. StumpTown coffee rocks.... we then all had lunch at a killer restaurant where I had the best grilled cheese sandwich ever... and then we went to a fun little street fair.

I was feeling a bit tired... little sleep, long practice... lots of sunlight... so I took a nap in my friend's car on the side of the road beneath a tree and then drove over to Beluahland to meet up with Susan (who deserves a link but I'm too lazy to do it right now). Susan rocks. We threw back a few beers (I noted that she must have thought I was some freak because her original plan was to only stay for one drink ;-) but she ended up staying for a few :) ). Some funny things happened in that bar but we'll leave that for a later post.

I ended up in downtown Portland.... sitting at a corner bar right by Powell's watching all the funky crunchy granola people cruising by. I really like Portland. It's a cool town. Everyone tells me I'd hate it in the winter though. I'm way too much of a California Princess apparently.

Around midnight a friend and I found this really old machine... it sorta looked like a wierd typewriter but we could tell it was some sort of calculator. We tried and tried to figure it out, we looked it up on the Internet and can confirm that it is a calculator of sorts but we never did figure out how it was intended to work. This demonstrates was a complete geek I truly am.

Still later... I had one of the most mind blowing experiences ever. One of those "can't really talk about it" things. And now I sit in the airport waiting for a very delayed flight back to San Diego.

And, no, I'm not even going to get started on Ashtangi.NET for today ;)