1023rd Friday Blog Roundup
Once upon a time, even if snow wasn’t in the forecast, I would look outside right as I woke up. I’d start this in late November (you never know) and continue it until late March (again, you never know) because I didn’t want to mess up a snow day. I did once — back in 2015 when I put on my yoga clothes and came downstairs and THEN discovered we had a two-hour delay and I could have slept in. I was not going to mess that up a second time.
But now, snow days are meaningless. The twins are off at college, so we won’t spend a cozy day together. I work remotely, so I’m going to go to work as usual. I thought about this Wednesday morning when I woke up because I knew it had snowed overnight. For old time’s sake, I peeked out of the blinds at 6 AM. But it made me feel super sad to miss the anticipation of an unexpected break and realize that I had given up on the ritual of checking for it.
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Oh, and after all of that Eeyore-ishness, happy Valentine’s Day.
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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.
And now the blogs…
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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.
No Kidding in NZ writes about you don’t have to be a parent to care about the next generation. It’s important to care about all people: It’s kind of the point to society. As she points out: “I may not have children, and I may feel isolated at time, but I have not dissociated from our communities, country, or world.” May we all step forward and take care of each other.
Lastly, The Road Less Travelled introduces us to her childhood piggy bank, which she recently brought home with her. She explains: “She makes me smile every time I look at her. I know I can’t keep EVERYTHING from my childhood, but this meant something to me, and I’m glad I still have it — and have it here now.” It made me smile to see her pig and think about this childhood rite-of-passage to get one in North America. Do other countries give kids a piggy bank?
The roundup to the Roundup: Snow day shmo-day and happy Valentine’s Day. 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 Feb 7 – Feb 14) 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.
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It’s sad that snow days are different for you now. They have changed for me many times. When I was a childless teacher, I could sleep and bake and go get a manicure if I wanted to. When I had really little kids, it was hard to get everyone bundled and unbundled and bundled again, and go out in the cold to play. Now my kids are at ages where they want to hang out and watch shows with me and bake but they can also go out and sled and play in our yard without me, and they bundle themselves. I will miss these days most of all.
Thank you for featuring Petunia in the Roundup! 🙂 I’ve been thinking since I posted that — not only about what they do in other countries — but how did we settle on china pigs to keep our money in? Why not china cows? Or houses? Or shoes? Hmmm…
Yesterday was a snow day hereabouts — we had 20+ cm overnight Wednesday/Thursday. Apparently they are quite rare in the Toronto area, and this was the first one since 2019! Today is a professional day for the teachers in the area ( = no classes), and Monday is a holiday (Family Day) — so these kids got an extra-extra long weekend!
When I was a kid, snow days were pretty rare too (which is not to say we didn’t get a lot of snow — we did!). They would often cancel the buses that brought the country/farm kids into town when the weather was bad (or send those kids home early, if it started snowing too heavily), but if you lived in town, you were generally expected to show up — although there was often a “holiday” atmosphere — so many kids were absent, the teachers would usually just hold off on the lesson plan and let us read or catch up on homework, etc.