I simply need to stop flying during the workday or fly exclusively with flights that have Wifi.
Yesterday, I took an 11am (Israel time) or 4am (EDT) out of Tel Aviv and to New York. The flight is about 12 hours, so I didn't land until after 4pm (EDT).
When I landed, I had 322 emails in my inbox! Probably about a hundred I needed to reply to.
I also had 750 or so items in my RSS reader to go through.
It is so overwhelming.
The only nice'ish part of this 12 hour flight was that I watched 5.5 movies.
I received a nice letter in the mail from the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department telling me I was speeding. They even provided proof in the form of photographs.
Truth is, I was not driving that car the day they said the violation happened. I was home, in New York - not in Washington, DC, driving 62 in a 50. I know who was driving my car, but it was not me.
In any event, they did not issue me with a fine - instead they said this is a "warning" and next time, I will be given a fine if I speed.
They even have this whole web site portal to login, view the pictures and pay the fine (if applicable).
I never received one of these letters before, I hear it is illegal in some states for the police to use speed cameras - but I guess it is not illegal in Washington, D.C.
Orthodox Jews do not eat non-kosher food. Many also would not walk into a non-kosher restaurant because they don't want a kosher Jew to see them going into the non-kosher restaurant and think that it must be kosher since that Jew went in there.
So even to use the bathroom, many orthodox Jews wouldn't even walk into a non-kosher restaurant.
Which brings up the question, can a Jew who holds by not going into non-kosher restaurants, checkin on Foursquare to non-kosher restaurant?
As I travel on Amtrak back to New York from Washington DC, I am randomly looking for places to check into on Foursquare along the way. And I am specifically avoiding non-kosher restaurants or restaurants I do not know if they are kosher or not.
Jews, what would you do?
Non-Jews, you think I am crazy? Well, some Jews think I am crazy.
And many people think I am crazy just for using Foursquare in general. :)
I am on my way to a client in D.C. This is the first time I am taking Amtrak anywhere, I heard it is the smart way to go from New York to Washington, D.C.
We made it to Trenton, New Jersey and stopped there. I've been sitting in Trenton for almost two hours. My scheduled arrival time is in about 20 minutes. At this point, it makes sense for me to turn around and go back. So why don't I?
I am literally on a bridge over the Delaware river in Trenton, NJ.
The last day of Chanukah was yesterday - and I got all my gifts in and ready.
I got a ton of cards and gift baskets from clients, vendors, SEO folks and so on. I wanted to blog about the gifts I received that were not e-cards, physical cards and gift baskets.
Promedia Corp send me these gloves that I can wear and still use my iPhone at the same time. I have been using them, they aren't that warm, but at least I can use my phone with them!
Jim Boykin and Internet Marketing Ninjas sent me a ton of their swag this year, from shirts, 3d glasses, usb sticks, and chinese stars.
My wife got me stuff I need, like a new talis plastic cover for my talis bag. It was needed, my other bag was shredding!
She also got me a much needed new shaver head. We ordered it from ShaverOutlet.com - a really nice web site that even has video demos on how to install it.
My shaver head had holes it in and started to cut my face. So after a couple weeks of trying to live with the pain, I splurged the $15 to get a new head.
I am starting to think that people do not like me. First I had almost $30,000 in credit card fraud the other week and now I see I had almost $1,000 worth of fraudulent phone calls made from my phone system at my office.
There was about $770 worth of calls made to various locations in Africa from my phone system. Some how someone gained access to make calls from my phone system and made hundreds of calls in a matter of several hours over four different phone lines to Africa.
The crazy part is when I called my phone company, Optimum/CableVision, they said I have to talk to IDT, which is who they outsource the international calling to. My credit card bill has transactions from Optimum Voice International, but technically, IDT bills under that name. So I got IDT on the phone and they want Optimum to split the charges, but Optimum doesn't want to. They spent 10 minutes on the phone with me yelling at each other.
Currently, no one has credited me for this fraudulent calls - so I had AMEX deal with those charges.