1013th Friday Blog Roundup

Last week, my friend and I went sans kids to see Frozen (the play, not the movie). I had forgotten numerous plot points, and the stage show had a bunch of additional songs and special effects. At one point, Elsa is singing about letting it go, and she throws out her arms, and she is in the ice queen dress. Snow shoots out of her hands. Olaf dances across the stage. It was really cool.

And it made my heart hurt because the little kids in the audience (and it was bonkers how many little kids were there on a weeknight) kept whispering to their parents, “The real Elsa and Anna are here!” After the final bow, a bunch of kids burst into tears, heartbroken that they were so close to the real Elsa and Anna, but they would have to leave them. There was a lot of wailing in theater lobby.

I felt pretty teary through the whole thing myself, even though I was completely delighted to see something so happy and hopeful amid all the bleak November news. I remember that soundtrack playing on a loop through a chunk of elementary school. How far away college felt back then. How it’s here now.

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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.

Apron Strings for Emily unpacks her thoughts on the election. She writes: “And here we are now, 8 years later … feeling like we’re back to Square One. Some may even venture to say Square Negative One Hundred.” But don’t despair — reading her post may give you a little peace of heart.

Lastly, A Separate Life’s list of favourite cities is a nice distraction this week, even though she left my city in the undecided category. Reading it made me realize that I like small cities. We tend to use a major city as a base (London) but then take day trips off of it to smaller cities. Oxford and Canterbury are still cities, right? They’re just small cities. So I am a small city lady. I like Bayeux over Paris. I like Jaffa over Tel Aviv. I like Figueres over Barcelona. Go read her list.

The roundup to the Roundup: Frozen. 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 November 15 – 22) 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.