883rd Friday Blog Roundup

Globle turned out to be the Wolvog’s gateway game. Initially, he was meh about Wordle, but once A told me about Globle (where you have to guess the country), his geography-nerdy heart exploded, and he got sucked into the Wordle world. We now all play Wordle, Globle, and Worldle, which is like Globle except you get the country shape and then the kilometer distance with each guess. We all play the three games in the morning, but then need to wait until dinner to discuss our guesses.

I save Guess My Word, Nerdle, and a few open-ended Wordle-like games such as Absurdle or Hello Wordl in the evening.

It’s like a second job by this point.

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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:

• “Change of Perspective” (A Blank New Page)

Okay, now my choices this week.

No Kidding in NZ has a post about marking milestones. These milestones may be personal to each person’s journey, but you know them when you encounter them. They indicate a level of change. She writes, “But we can grieve loss AND embrace growth, mourn something that is gone at the same time hoping for something new, and in doing this, we can begin to look forward.” I love that.

Family Building with a Twist proposes a thought experiment that includes two brilliant questions, “What do you think your 16-year-old self would think of the life you have?” and “How do you think you would feel if you lived the life your 16-year-old self envisioned?” Like her, my 16-year-old self didn’t know a lot about infertility. But she would definitely be thrilled to discover that she will have twins. I love these questions.

Lastly, The Barreness checked in with an update. This post is why I love blogging, and why I still read blogs over all other forms of social media. Her stream-of-conscious processing of a life is more interesting than a snappy meme on Twitter. She asks at the end of her update: “Is anyone else feeling this too?” Again, that is blogging. To hear the echo, yes, we feel this, too.

The roundup to the Roundup: Globle and Worldle. 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 February 11 – 18) 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.