929th Friday Blog Roundup

I wrote this yesterday afternoon and scheduled it because I will be at a meeting by the time you read it. Wearing real clothes. And shoes. It’s hard to be an adult.

We had to buy a new vacuum this week. We went with a Dyson again, especially since the last one is still somewhat kicking (more on that in a moment), and it’s from 2007. I like to write love letters to vacuums.

16 years is a good run, and the first Dyson still has some life left. So we dropped it off at the vacuum repair shop, and we’ll be able to get it back this weekend. It will be our backup vacuum for a bit as we make sure we like this one, and then we can give it away to someone through the help center in our town. I think of the repair money as cash keeping it out of a landfill. And it’s a damn fine vacuum, just with a few worn-out parts.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Dubliner in Deutschland looks back at a 101 things in 1001 days post derailed by COVID. It’s interesting to think about all the plans made on blogs in the first days of 2020 that we had no clue wouldn’t be able to happen a few weeks later. She looks through the list and reports back on what she was able to achieve from the list. I laughed at this one, remembering what my hair looked like that year: “My hair grew really long during the first year of the pandemic when I wasn’t able to get to a hairdresser but not sure that really counts as updating my style!”

Lastly, Finding a Different Path has a post about taking relaxing diversions and feeling stress from them. I feel this, too, with a lot of rituals. Except Wordle is still on this side of the stress relief line because it gives shape to the day. It’s part of my morning routine, and I always feel better vs. worse when I walk through the exercise, meditation, games, and writing I do upon waking. But that line is blurry, and it’s just as easy for me to step onto the other side of it and feel terrible if I don’t do something. Interesting read.

The roundup to the Roundup: New vacuums create clean floors. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between January 20 – 27) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.