900th Friday Blog Roundup

This is the 900th (okay, really 800th because things got misnumbered years ago) Friday Blog Roundup. It will have its 16th anniversary in July, but… come on. By Internet standards, 800 posts marking 800 weeks and, on average, 4 posts per week (early posts had 4 – 6 posts, now it’s more like 3 – 4 posts) equaling about 3,200 reviewed posts, is like the Methuselah of the blogosphere.

So I’m giving you homework. This is the 900th/800th Friday Blog Roundup. You have until July 22nd, which will be the 16th anniversary of the Roundup, to find two posts: (1) one of yours that I highlighted here that you also love and (2) someone else’s post (from any time period) that you think everyone should read. So about four weeks. Start working.

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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:

• “Done Skipping Life” (The Next 15000 Days)

Okay, now my choices this week.

It’s Inconceivable felt like something bad was coming… and it did. She unpacks the last few months of life, her brother’s health crisis and her own, and she comments: “Yes, even at follow up hospital appointments where you’d think access to my rather large medical file would make staff realise I don’t have kids, I get asked about family… all the time. All The Fucking Time.” It’s a hard post because it is clear after a cancer diagnosis that she will be in a medical situation for quite some time. And it’s also clear that she could use some support and a virtual hug from everyone.

The Barreness has a post about the dumpster fire of a situation the world is in right now. She writes: “I am having lots of feelings with no place to take them.” Me too. Maybe because everything is too big, too important, too heavy. And it’s all at once. I love the unpacking of how it feels to be changing and becoming a different woman; not knowing yet who this new version of you will be.

Lastly, one of the nicest things about blogging is exposure to other worlds. I love it when No Kidding in NZ writes about Maori culture, and the new year celebration feels like an amazing way to pause and reflect on where you’ve been (and who has shaped you) and where you’re going.

The roundup to the Roundup: 800 Friday Blog Roundups. 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 17 – 24) 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.