1019th Friday Blog Roundup

Facebook delivered a memory from 2014 on Wednesday about the Creme de la Creme. Remember that? I loved writing it, but this week was always super busy because a slew of new posts would be sent in after the first. Still, it was fun to see what everyone nominated from their blog and to see the community come together to celebrate the posts.

I miss the Creme de la Creme.

I hope your year is going well. All two days of it, so far.

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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.

AndMom writes about how COVID continues to impact her family. It is like living in an alternate universe. I feel very similarly to her, and I nodded as I read: “That’s the universe I live in; the one founded in thousands of studies all showing that this is bad and you should not get it. But the universe I watch everyone else live in says it’s a cold, no big deal, it’s fine.” But I love love love the end of this post. The alternate universe has a lot of pluses, and I love that she highlights them.

Lastly, Bereaved and Blessed writes about when her parents show up in her dreams. She explains: “As with previous dreams I’ve had of both parents since their deaths, I typed notes on my phone, while anything I could recall was fresh in my mind.” It’s a post about the ways people continue to touch our lives and bubble up in day-to-day interactions.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy New Year. 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 December 27 – Jan 3) 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.