I just enjoyed a really lazy Thanksgiving weekend. I napped, caught up on some shows on my DVR, read a book, napped, started reading another book, called up some friends, napped, watched an ASU football game, watched some NFL, and napped. You can see a theme : )
I purposefully limited my productivity. My fall was busy and I needed some time to rest and just catch up. However, I had two major tasks I hoped to accomplish.
1) Move over another two months of blogs from my old website to the new website.
2) Get Time Machine active on my computer again.
Time Machine–for all you PC users out there–is a great program Apple developed that provides a great visual interface for harddrive backups. My Time Capsule drive remains in Phoenix and with my constant travel this fall, it had honestly been months since I really had the time to back up the files. If you’re away from your computer for too long, that initial backup can take a long time to prepare.
That was the case on Friday. It took my computer close to an hour to prepare the files for the backup as it reviewed all the major changes to files and file folders since my last backup. Since then, the backups have been smooth, taking a matter of moments as Apple backs up my computer on an hourly basis.
As it backed up some of the files, I moved over another set of blogs (I hope to have them all moved to the new site by the end of the week). It was interesting to reread some of my early blogs in April and May and consider what was going on in my life. In a sense, these past few days of file moves have felt like my own personal version of Time Machine–preserving earlier writings, but also visually seeing them again.
We have just one month left this year. As the calendar year winds down, I want to encourage you to find a day where you can reflect on the year that has been 2009. See if you can find a way to scroll through a calendar and think about where you were and what you were thinking throughout the year. If you journal, if you blog, take some time to reread some of those entries. Try to find some of those feelings you want to “backup” and preserve in coming years and maybe consider a few that it’s time you “delete.”
See if you can enter 2010 with a whole new slate.