952nd Friday Blog Roundup (17th Anniversary)

This is the anniversary — the 17th anniversary, to be exact — of the very first Friday Blog Roundup. I didn’t know how to do hyperlinks back then, and there are probably older issues that weren’t tagged correctly and, therefore, don’t show up under the Roundup tag. But this blog has 951 other Roundup posts, mainly following the same format, week after week.

I still think all of the same things I said back on the 15th anniversary, two years ago.

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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:

• “Is a No Kidding Life a Radical One?” (No Kidding in NZ)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Next 15000 Days has a post about being okay. She explains, “A young woman who is accepting her childless life finds comfort in reading my old posts. She wrote that she wants to see in my posts that I am OK. Because if I am OK, she will be too. Am I OK? I think I am!” It definitely sounds like more than an okay life (nature + ice cream = time well spent). But I especially love this reason for why people read blogs; why we connect to another person’s story.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path writes about medical imaging and finding photographic evidence of happy moments or problems. She writes of those early ultrasound pictures: “In more hopeful times, I saw these photos as the earliest possible baby pictures ever. I saw them as proof of the inexplicable medical miracle that was possible.” But I love love love this post for this: “All of them remind me that I’m a survivor. I can come out the other side of something traumatic with more strength than before.” 100% yes.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy anniversary, Roundup. 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 30 – July 14) 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.