Yoga makes me feel like...

1) a complete and absolute moron.
2) a person with zero coordination or balance.
3) a complete and absolute moron.

That pretty much sums up my yoga experience. The first half of the workout isn't extremely difficult from a skill perspective, but it sure as hell is tiring. Going from upward dog to downward dog to warrior 584738 makes my arms and shoulders burn. If I was doing this on a pink mat like Muddy I would probably just have to kill myself :)

I've learned through major amounts of cramping, inability to hold certain positions, and what feels like my muscles ripping at the seams that I am in no way flexible. I came to terms with my lack of flexibility a long time ago, but the yoga workout shows me just how tight my entire body is. Watching the people on the video and trying to emulate them is an exercise in futility. One of the dudes is a dancer, so we know he's flexible. However, the least flexible person on there is kicking my ass like it's his job (I guess in reality it is). It definitely gives me something to aspire to, but until I become like the yoga man above I'll be relegated to falling on my face and using my yoga block.

On a completely unrelated yet geeky side note, I realized today just how dependent I am on Google each day. While this realization is not uncommon to most people, it really hit home when I had to setup a new PicasaWeb Albums account to get some pics to my sister. I have several Picasa accounts, but I've never set one up tied to my personal email. When I did that, BOOM, all of the pictures I've uploaded to Blogger were in my Picasa account. It was actually kind of scary.

So then I started thinking about all of the Google applications that I use on a pretty much daily basis:
- Google Search (who doesn't)
- Google Apps for Domains (both at home and at work) which includes all my email and calendars.
- PicasaWeb Albums (three accounts to date)
- Google Maps (desktop and mobile phone)
- Google Sites
- Google Talk (again work and home, but also through Jabber clients like iChat)
- Google Checkout (gotta get money somehow!)

So Google if you're reading this, you need to keep making mega-bucks and keeping all of your shit free or else I'm screwed! add to del.icio.us saved by 0 users