1073rd Friday Blog Roundup

Back in elementary school, the kids had to fill out a Valentine’s Day card for everyone in their class. Each kid also decorated a box, and then, before the classroom party, they would walk around and deliver their Valentine’s to each other by dropping it in the other person’s box.

Choosing your Valentine’s Day card design was high-stress because you were limited by the options, time had to be considered (making your own card made it unique but took a long time), and there was fierce competition for the best cards.

We always had a few leftovers that I shoved together into one of the earlier boxes (Spy Ruby Decoder Valentines), and it’s bittersweet to shuffle through the cardboard greetings.

Which is a long way of saying Happy Valentine’s Day one day early. And Happy Friday the 13th, if you celebrate that sort of thing.

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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:

• “Gelebtes und Ungelebtes” (Elaine ohne Kind)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Speaking of Elaine, The Next 15000 Days pairs a quote Elaine gave her with a photo taken during a walk in the Julian Alps. It’s a simple quote, but I thought we could all use a reminder of kindness these days.

Lastly, Infertile Phoenix writes about the impact of other people’s writing. She explains, “It has taken years to develop the habit of asking myself what do I want and what do I need before considering what others want and need.” So she understood the what, but she didn’t understand the how and why. Until she read something and understood herself (and others) better. I love this.

The roundup to the Roundup: Happy Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day (a day early). 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 6 – 13) 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.