Making good progress after surgery in last two days. Mostly slept through the first 48 hours.
Switching to Ibuprofen from Vocodin is more difficult than I thought. Planning to pull through the weekend with a lot more sleep.
One handed typing is time consuming as well and it looks like the Dragon Nuance files from old laptop did not get copied to new laptop. No motivation to reteach the voice recognition software from scratch!
Thanks to all for your wishes..
Pics from Jr. and little one, both of them initially grossed out but have now come to accept the hand as some kind of science experiment that needs periodic observation..
(skip if you are easily grossed out)
On a side note, the plucked chicken shaved feel on the right hand feels good. Used to wonder if all those men in yoga class with that copper looking muscle tone lost all hair because of yoga? Maybe they just shaved?!
At work, I use notes app in my iPhone to take short notes and that way I don't have to carry my laptop around.
Wanted to go back to my notes two days later and was surprised to find out that most of my notes were edited by the little one!
In fact she had inserted words into some of the notes.
Apparently she has decided to use that as her journal of sorts!
found this gem.
Apparently she wrote that when she was angry that I was still working when she bugged me to get off the laptop. Well the rest of the notes are kind of a cross talk like thing where serious work meets serious anger. So cannot share them..
She is also into writing letters now. She writes as she hears and it is interesting to watch her spelling patterns. We are going through this after a three year gap and it is giving us a deja vu feeling..
She does not like it when we correct her spelling, because she is so sure she is right. That is the only difference between the two kids, but a big one!
She makes up for her stubborn nature when she dresses up and poses..
We are now into matching sunglasses!
The little one is going to be a lot more difficult to handle than Jr. That is for sure!
Human subjects are difficult to do HDR using bracketed images(the overall Google opinion seems to be that). Most Human subject HDR images are from tone mapping with single images.
This was an attempt to do bracketed images using high ISO and lower f numbers but have the shutter speeds still short enough to pull off three shots in rapid succession before the kids moved..
We are almost there..
Thanks to my wonderful subjects who pulled in a deep breath then let it go and off we went
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These days the weekends seem to fly! Well we still have another day to ourselves...
This week was an up and down week thanks to the stomach bug. When you make an all out attempt to fight it, sometimes you take two steps forward and one step back.
Friday was again a wash, but with enough sleep and some determination got back to normal today.
We did go do our daily exercise and to add to it, we did some photographing / demos in the backyard to show the kids a few poses.
Toe Stand (Padangustasana)
Standing Bow pose (Dandayamana dhanurasana)
Eagle pose (Garudasana / Garurasana)
You have all seen my stomach from the past. Note that except for the little flabs on the bottom at the hip the rest of the fat is gone. Do see that most male teachers have this little flab just above the waistline even if they have a 6 pack abdomen. Maybe it is harder to get rid of or it is not a bad thing? Don't know. For now, not complaining because it is possible to "suck the belly in" when the teacher shouts "stomach, stomach, stomach, suck it in!" and the stomach actually reacts to the command from the brain!
Awkward pose (Utkatasana)
This is one challenging pose and again it was not easy to keep the hands straight. Then one of favorite morning teachers taught us to push the hands out and then bring them back to "lock the triceps"! Another new concept.. We used to wonder "How to lock it? What do they mean lock it?" We were going through the motion but the triceps were not "locking". It appears that for a lot of the instructions to kick in, certain parts of the body have to get to a minimum shape and certain muscles require a minimum strength. At least that is my personal experience.
The kids actually did the photographing this morning. Originally wanted to come back just after yoga and do this, but we decided to do this after breakfast and an hours break.
The little one has the intensity and the focus, but she is not a perfectionist. If anything, she is going to come to Yoga class with me when she grows up! That is for sure.
And now for "Lock the knee"..
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Hope that helps those who are still learning how to lock the knee. A teacher confirmed that I am now doing it right!
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 9:23AM 
