976th Friday Blog Roundup
It occurred to me earlier in the week that because employers base salaries on a 365-day calendar, everyone worked for free yesterday with the leap day. It would have been brilliant if the world had given the day as a holiday; 24 extra hours of found time to do with as you wish. But it didn’t, so I worked as if it were a typical day, albeit with an unusual date at the top of my notes.
What did you do with the leap day?
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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 Positive Thinking Really THAT Powerful?” (Finding a Different Path)
Okay, now my choices this week.
The Road Less Travelled wins for coolest post experience this week. She wrote a book review, explaining how an unnecessary dig at childlessness ruined a few pages of the book for her. The author, S.J. Bennett, jumped into the comment section and gave the best answer, thanking her for pointing it out and stating that she would try to change it in future editions. I’m reading the same book right now (though not quite to that chapter), and it made me love it even more, and it was already a five-star book for me, just like the first three books in the series. As much as the internet can divide us, it can also bring us closer together and understand each other better. This is really a story of two women learning from each other.
Lastly, Infertile Phoenix talks about getting COVID, (continue to feel better!) and the thoughts that went through her head while sick. She writes: “Those were just some thoughts I had. I got sick and couldn’t do anything, but I had some time to think about things. And things have been different … And even though I’m a creature of habit, different can be good.”
The roundup to the Roundup: Leap day. 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 23 – March 1) 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.
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Ok, but for hourly workers, the extra day really did mean extra earnings, and I’m guessing hourly need that more than salaried, on average. And the same would be true for freelancers (more work time = more revenue). So I’m less annoyed about the work-a-day-for-free thing than I would be, though like you I am salaried and worked an extra day in February, compared to a non-leap-year.
Hmmm, interesting thought… although I am paid for 187 days in the school calendar and those 187 days shift about from year to year, so it wasn’t really for free for me either. I liked talking about it with my students, but it didn’t really register as very different. I like the idea of doing something a little different on Leap Day!
I loved Mali’s post on repetition: https://nokiddinginnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/repetition.html
I think when you’ve been blogging for a while and living for a lot, you do tend to repeat some themes, but you do it from different perspectives, and I think she explored this in a brilliant way.