1090th Friday Blog Roundup
I’m doing nothing for this weekend. I’m not going downtown to whatever is on the Mall. I’m not watching fireworks. I’ll read a book and bother the guinea pig, but that’s about it for this holiday weekend.
Do you have any plans?
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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.
A Half-Baked Life has a post about abiding. Being present and supporting a person is something that happened via her blog. She writes: “This space and the community I found through it have been so important to me for over fifteen years that it’s hard not to acknowledge; it’s also shaped the person I’ve become far beyond the page.” It’s a gorgeous post about how writing and reading can change who you are.
The roundup to the Roundup: No weekend plans. 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 26 – July 3) 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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I am also doing nothing. There is supposed to be a pretty cool festival at our local national park/monument. But it’s hot and I don’t like crowds when they don’t smell sweaty. So…I’ll stay home. Also, how can I be around people any more when I know so many of them are terrible? Here’s hoping that my kid and yours can actually enjoy the tricentennial.
My parents host a picnic bbq every year for our family so we went to that. It’s important to them because we have it done it my whole life and they want my kids to make those memories too. It was fun but also a lot of work as they age and I feel like I take over the hosting, and it was just so hot. We came home to find we were still out of power after the storm of July 3 BUT the lights and AC came back on a few hours later and my girls got to swim in a neighbor’s pool so the day turned out ok.
People at work were asking about everyone’s holiday weekend plans, but my plans were to do nothing. I’ve been doing so much this year (new job, appointments, errands, etc.) and welcomed a long weekend without plans. My boyfriend and I ended up going for a pretty drive and stopping for a burger and some ice cream. That was easy and spontaneous (and I’m never spontaneous… unless it’s planned, haha). It was fun. To be honest, I’d be fine with several more long weekends without plans…
I did nothing. Well, I did listen to the buffoon’s speech, because I am a glutton for punishment and also like to hear things unfiltered. Although I say that and then desperately wish for a filter or a pierced eardrum while listening. 🙂
I Loved Phoenix’s post about her onesies. It is hard, but I loved that she had a collection of punk rock baby clothes and that she found the perfect person to inherit them. Bittersweet.
https://infertilephoenix.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-last-onesies.html