So many things, so little time

I just feel so overwhelmed by everything I want to do. I need to back up of the computer working. Need to get knitting stuff update so the info are not in so many little pieces of paper. And there are other to do's too...Knitting and reading are just in the way of doing those too...

I finally connected the newly bought seagate external backup server. While the sales person said "yes" to my question: "Can I back up all my computers at home (mac and pc) to the same drive)?" , I am finding out the real answer is other wise. After puzzling over the instructions so many times and experimenting on my own:

I learned that if the drive is formatted for microsoft file system, my laptop can pick it up and show it in the windows explorer properly. The mac will be able to read it but it won't be able to back up to it. If the drive is formatted to mac file system format, then the mac will be able to back up to it but my laptop won't pick it up. And apparently I cannot divide the drive to different partitions and format each partition differently.

So I decided the right thing to do is format it in microsoft format and back up my laptop because it's the oldest and needs backup the most. After making it the proper format (via mac help), the program told me it would be take an hour and half. I don't like why it will take so long but that makes it difficult to backup on the regular basis. I just can't figure out how to back up specific directories in the pc (it makes me back up the whole drive). This is puzzling because I am able to do that in mac.... *sigh* Another reason to get mac for my next computer...

I want to blog about all those other things. I want to start putting my knitting stuff in the blog along with the photo, but I am just so discourage to do that because I just don't feel safe making all those effort and not be able to back up the work. I still need to figure out how to do category in the blog so I don't have to keep ten thousand blogs. Wish google blogger does it already...*sigh*

I owe so many people pictures...*sigh* so many things to do....