985th Friday Blog Roundup

If August 2023 was a month that I dreaded for years, May 2024 is a month I’ve looked forward to for… well… not years. But certainly months. Pretty much since August 2023.

This year has felt like one of those confidence courses they string up in trees where you wear a harness and walk across a wobbly log suspended twenty feet about the ground. I’m not a fan (you’ve probably guessed) of confidence courses, though there is something about that moment when you step off the wobbly log onto the stable tree platform, and your whole body shakes as the adrenaline drains and you think, “I did it. I actually did it.”

Unlike a confidence course, I will need to do it again. When you don’t like something, it doesn’t really help to think about how you got through it last time. But August 2024 feels far enough away right now that I’m just going to enjoy trying to shove their belongings into a storage unit and jumping into the car, celebrating the start of summer. Soon soon.

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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:

• “Well Received” (Infertile Phoenix)
• “The Invisible Load” (The Road Less Travelled)
• “The Brambles” (Stirrup Queens) – thanks, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

Grumpy Rumblings has a thought-provoking (and purposefully controversial) question: “Do people really love it when bad things happen to people and hate it when good things happen to people?” An interesting conversation is happening in the comment section (just like the old days!), so jump in.

Lastly, Finding a Different Path is celebrating her birthday (happy birthday!), and she muses on being close to “old enough that the x-ray technicians don’t ask if I could be pregnant.” [Side note: Do not get me started on getting charged for a pregnancy test pre-MRI EVEN THOUGH I COULDN’T BE PREGNANT. Grrr…] Here’s to celebrating (instead of dreading) growing older.

The roundup to the Roundup: It’s finally May 2024! 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 April 26 – May 3) 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.