947th Friday Blog Roundup

The Wolvog updated us all day Wednesday and Thursday on the air quality index. It wasn’t as bad down here as it was in New York, but it still looked odd outside. It’s bizarre to think that the fires were a 10 – 12 hour drive away from D.C. That the smoke drifted all the way down the coast. And truly terrifying.

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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:

• “An Unexpected Conversation” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “Life Makes My Life Meaningful” (No Kidding in NZ)
• “The Early Days of the IF Blogosphere” (Stirrup Queens) — thanks, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Road Less Travelled has a post about the wildfires. She writes, “It was supposed to be a sunny day — but when I look outside, all I see is a hazy grey sky.” It is scary to watch destructive events intensifying — the frequency and scope picking up year after year. What will the earth look like — feel like — twenty years from now?

Lastly, No Kidding NZ is back from a month-long trip to southern Africa, and she writes about traveling without kids. I love the story about the other couple they met on the road. “I said to my husband after a couple of days that I was sure they didn’t have children either. It hadn’t been mentioned, almost pointedly, by either of us. In fact, it actually took me a day or two to realise that neither of us had brought it up.” I love the exchange they had and look forward to more stories about the trip.

The roundup to the Roundup: Wildfires. 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 June 2 – 9) 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.