990th Friday Blog Roundup

The birthday celebration continues this weekend. It felt like too much pressure to put all my big feelings on a single day, so we spread the celebration over multiple days. Actually, if I’m being honest, it’s multiple months. But it’s a big birthday. It has been so nice to have it spread out, I think I’ll do this every year.

This weekend, we’ll do the cake (a nutella cake!) and dinner.

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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.

Scientist on the Roof asks a question within her update: “What do you miss the most from your childhood home?” Most of the things I love my parents still have and use, but I miss my grandmother’s thimbles. We used them as fancy metal drinking cups for Barbie and Andy Gibb. Tell her what you miss.

The Road Less Travelled also made me nostalgic with her post about her happy place. It reminded me of the first time I went into Borders. It was the largest bookstore I had ever entered, and it didn’t matter that other bookstores contained all of the books I wanted. More books equaled more exciting.

Lastly, Dear John updates her late husband on home improvement projects, but it’s the ending about the trip that stuck with me. She writes, “I wish you were here to do the driving – you were always more confident, even if you had no idea where you were going. I’ll have to manage. But it would be easier if you were here to do it for me.”

The roundup to the Roundup: Birthday celebration continues. 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 31 – June 7) 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.