989th Friday Blog Roundup

Every morning this week, I woke up and immediately thought, “I only have X days until my birthday.” It would be fair to say that I have been highly aware of my birthday this year. It felt a little bit like when you know there is a spider in the room, and you’ve determined that you’re going to wait for someone else to take care of it, but you sort of can’t stop yourself from tracking the spider… it was that except in birthday form.

I saved an Anthony Horowitz book to read. There will definitely be French fries, amusement park rides, and wishes made.

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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:

• “#MicroblogMondays: Information Overload vs Creativity” (The Road Less Travelled)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Barreness gives an update on her parents. My heart hurt for her when I read this note about her mother: “I am often her therapist explaining how things are not ever going back to how they were and that this is the new normal. She asks again hours later, like I am that magical fridge that you open the door to and new things appear.” It is a really really really hard situation, and she could use a kind word. So please go over and let her know that she has people holding her up as she does this hard work.

Lastly, Scientist on the Roof has a post that felt very familiar, in that this is how I process stress, too. But I love this so much: “I keep telling myself – this is not like grad school. I can quit. I can look for another job … Or maybe I’ll just do the best I can and let things be what they will be.” It’s hard to get to that place of acceptance, so sending deep breaths.

The roundup to the Roundup: Birthday weekend. 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 24 – May 31) 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.