955th Friday Blog Roundup

Beorn celebrated his third birthday this week. We held a photoshoot in the morning. We told him we were taking “glamour shots,” and he lunged at the phone to nibble the edge of the case. He then turned around to nudge the blinds with his nose to make them swing. And he finally gave us a lot of side-eye before agreeing to a few pictures in exchange for spring mix.

He has a teddy’s sweet temperament and an American shorthair’s jubilance. Beorn, you are still the best of all worlds three years in.

Happy birthday.

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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:

• “You Won’t Get Today Back” (The Next 15000 Days)
• “Well, This Is New…” (The Road Less Travelled)
• “Conversations With Adults” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “Leitplanken” (Elaine ohne Kind)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Movable Type has a post about taking a pregnancy test during perimenopause; a very different experience than peesticks earlier in life. She explains, “As tiny as the likelihood, I had to pee on a stick – for old time’s sake – only this time, this time I did NOT want to see the double line. Never have I been so happy to get a negative.” The shift is interesting.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path has a beautiful post about craving noise but having quiet, and how moving helped with life being different from what she wanted. She writes, “But moving away from those noisy ghosts was a great way for us to mark that transition, the contrast that wasn’t so outwardly apparent of Wanting the Chaos to Accepting That Our Life Is (And Sounds) Different.” It’s a post about the different ways quiet can sound.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy birthday, Beorn. 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 August 4 – August 11) 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.