975th Friday Blog Roundup

We went up to visit the twins at college.* For three days, we wandered around their campuses, ate apple cider donuts, hiked in the snow, explored new towns, and hung out in the hotel room talking. It was amazing to be back together, making the time to the next break a little easier.

It’s also hard to say goodnight every night and leave them at their dorms. (Or drop them off on campus so they could run off with friends. We know they’re not actually tucked up in bed at 10 pm.) It’s hard to say goodbye and drive away on the final day. It feels physically and emotionally awful.

It’s the balance of the highs and the lows.

* On the way up, we met A Half Baked Life for 15 minutes underneath the neon vape sign of a mini mart to give and get a hug. Mini mart meetups are the best.

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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.

Did your father win an Oscar this week? No? Then go over and live vicariously through Finding a Different Path’s account of watching her father win a major award. Look at the pictures and feel the love: “I love my dad so much, and it’s always difficult to say goodbye. Those was an amazing visit though, with a day at the LA Zoo, the Aquarium of the Pacific, the fancy schmancy day, and the best Thai food I’ve ever had in my life last night.”

Lastly, No Kidding in NZ has a super helpful post about how to think positively (or what you’d put “on your personal encouragement card“) — both to use AND to get you thinking about your own list. I love this: “Love yourself, and feel compassion for yourself. Give yourself comfort. Stop beating yourself up. It helps more than you can imagine.”

The roundup to the Roundup: Good visit. 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 February 16 – 23) 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.