992nd Friday Blog Roundup

And now this blog is really 18 years old. The space has become an old friend as much as the people who read it. I am glad that I started it, glad I continued it, and I can’t really imagine ending it, even though sometimes it feels like there should be a day that I stop typing.

But that’s a decision for another day.

Today, I’m just marking 18 years.

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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:

• “Birth Mom Wants to Be Called Mommy & That’s Not OK with Me” (Lavender Luz)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Road Less Travelled has good news: She is about to become a great-aunt again. It is super happy news (or, as she says, full of “gleeful anticipation“), but it also comes with a little pregnancy anxiety. I don’t think you can go through what we went through and fully relax with anyone’s pregnancy. Send her a big congratulations.

Lastly, sometimes it feels more commonplace to find complaint posts on the internet, so I especially loved A Separate Life musing about how lucky she is to live where she lives. And, of course, the pictures are beautiful.

The roundup to the Roundup: 18 years of writing this blog. 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 June 14 – 21) 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.