1086th Friday Blog Roundup

The children are home… for a few days. We went up early in the week to help them move from their college spaces, and drove back so they could spend a few weeks here before they trot off to their summer plans. I feel lucky that I get a few weeks with them. I feel sad that the long summers where they are here for months may be coming to an end.

But I’m trying to put off feeling sad about that and instead enjoy the time I do have while I have it.

See, progress.

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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:

• “Finally Doing Less” (Infertile Phoenix)

Okay, now my choices this week.

A heavy week.

My heart hurts for Dear John, who lost her brother-in-law to suicide four years after her husband took his life. There are no words, but please go over and give support.

Lastly, The Barreness writes about caregiving: “I am overtaxed, overwhelmed, over run with emotions and haggard,” which led into her birthday, which was literally a journey of emotions. I cried with her. That’s the power of words.

The roundup to the Roundup: Welcome home. 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 May 8 – 15) 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.