I started the backup and Apple told me it would take about 50,000 plus days to complete.

Here is a screen shot:

So in that case, when I am about 170 days old, in the year 2150 - my backup will be done!

Normally back ups show you time in hours and minutes. For some perspective, 50,000 days is 1,200,000 hours and 72,000,000 minutes.

Lucky me, the backup is now at about 15 days from now - which is still wrong. I might reboot it and see if it speeds things up.

Yea, it only had their name on it.

The post office returned it to use for "Returned For Better Address."

Shouldn't that be, "Returned For An Address?"

My brain dead moment for the year...

And when I got off the highway after driving 4 hours straight (which is awesome time), I spotted a road named Alta Vista Road.

The search geek in me wanted to slam on my breaks and snap a picture, but there were cars behind me going 50 MPH or so. Next best thing, Google Street Views:

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I had a nightmare.

I don't often dream or remember them, although I have about blogging and Google.

This one was scary, unlike the two above.

I dreamt that some how my iPhone was replaced by a Blackberry and there was nothing I could do about it to switch it back.

I was in a panic, I remember being incredibly upset, concerned and worried.

But when I woke up, I looked at my dresser and saw it was safely right next to me.

Call me crazy but I bet a lot of you iPhone users out there would feel the same.

Scary dream!

Image credit to ShutterStock.

Of course, passing a bus is a no-no and can be very dangerous. I would never do that.

But what really bugs me is when a bus has it's stop lights on and I sit there and wait 2 minutes for the kid to walk from his door to the bus. They drag their feet, drop stuff on the way, and casually stroll to the bus. I never knew a person can walk that slow.

Meanwhile, there are lines of cars behind these buses, all of whom have to get to their jobs. The loss in productivity for this is crazy.

I am a time management nut and this stuff pushes me over the edge.

I know kids are our future but come on!

Image credit to ShutterStock for school bus.

Baby and mommy are doing great.

I am a bit exhausted.

Oh, comments might not work. Something is messed up with this old blog software.

Just for my own records, comments are on Facebook, some on Twitter and Google+.

I found this pretty funny.

Here is the video:

It shows a lot of things but to me, the most interesting observation is the number of emails I received and sent in the past 30 days:

A total of almost 12,000 in 30 days to almost 4,000 different people. I doubt this includes items in the spam folder. That is about 400 email messages sent to and from in a day, on average - which seems about right.

I send my brother Ronnie the most emails, a total of 516 in the past 30 days.

Love how Saturday and Sundays dip so much.

How many do you send and receive? You can sign up at google.com/settings/activity.

Last night, I was leaving my office and as I pulled out, I saw a Ford that had "SEL edition" on it:

So when I saw this, I thought, what? A Search Engine Land bumper sticker and then I woke up.

I am way too deep into the search world. :)

Before:

After:

When I returned from DC the same day, I was relived to see my car was still in the lot. I got in, it was very dark, and drove home. The next day or so, I noticed the front of the car had some damage.

I looked and there was a chip on the front of the bumper and under the car, the bottom plate under the car, was slightly hanging down.

Someone must have backed into my car and drove off without leaving a note.

Yesterday I dropped it off to be fixed. The most annoying part of it is having to go get a money order or something like it from the bank for the $500 deductible I have to pay the auto shop.

Of course they don't tell me there "payment policy" until after they order the parts, schedule the work and after I sign all the paper work.

Also would have been nice if the person left a note, instead, this is costing me $500.

I just hope it is a quick fix.

Note, that picture is not of my car, it is from Flickr.

I didn't do this recently, but I did do this once - I think a few months ago.

In fact, I was in such a rush, I managed to keep my shoes on while putting my pants on afterwards.

It happened when I woke up early and was in a daze, so much of a daze that I actually put my shoes on prior to putting on my pants.

This is weird, but have you ever done it?

It came in today and she tried to hook it up only to realize that her Mac doesn't support thunderbolt.

So instead I gave her my two Apple displays, one was the 24 inch with a mini-display port connection and the old 23 inch with a serial like connection. I took the new thunderbolt display.

I am adjusting to going from two full displays and a laptop display (3 total displays) to a full display and laptop display (2 total displays). There is a lot more screen real estate on the new one I am using, so it is working out better.

The best part is that I no longer have that flickering issue with the Apple displays which Apple has been trying to fix for almost a year. Now, since my laptop is thunderbolt and the display I am now using is thunderbolt, I no longer have that issue - which is awesome!

The cool thing about thunderbolt is I technically can daisy chain more of these monitors with my laptop. Whereas before, if I wanted more than one external display, I had to use a software/usb hack, which was awkward and slow. Now it would just work well. I have no plans on doing this any time soon, but good to know I can if I wanted to.

Woot!

By the end of the day, and even this morning, my hand feels like it is going to fall off. Now I know why they make powered screw drivers.

In any event, I just love those Ikea instructions and I found at college humor some funny mocks of them. Here is one but there are plenty more. Enjoy.

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.

Image credit for ShutterStock for iPhone email.