987th Friday Blog Roundup

Provided I keep writing the Roundup every week this summer, I will hit 1000 Roundups on August 16. Moreover, if I keep writing this blog, I will hit 18 years in a few weeks in late June. My blog will be an adult.

Think about how many blog posts I’ve read to write 1,000 Roundups.

Writing the number for this Roundup — 987 — made me think about milestones and big numbers. A deep slowdown in blogging makes me think about what comes next.

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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.

No Kidding in NZ wrote about the sequel to a book that has been on my TBR. There is a lot many of us will relate to, and I loved this line she highlighted: “In talking about pregnancy loss, she notes,’That you can’t let go of grief, you have to wait until it lets go of you’.” Also, Mother’s Day is a complicated day, and while I’ve seen it expressed on blogs, I’ve yet to see it expressed in a book. So now I have another entry on my TBR.

Lastly, the Road Less Travelled wrote about the Northern Lights. We couldn’t see them because it was too rainy both nights, but my Facebook feed was flooded with pictures. She expresses feeling guilt that some people were seeing the Northern Lights for the first time, and had thought they would never get to experience them. She explains, “They were infrequent and special enough that we’d usually go outside to have a look at them, but they weren’t exactly a rarity.” I fall in the “haven’t seen them yet” camp, so looking forward to the experience one day.

The roundup to the Roundup: That’s a lot of blog posts. 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 May 10 – May 17) 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.