On Photos
You can never have too many.
Our new before going to bed activity is to pull up the day's selection of photos from google photos and have a good laugh.
Every night I find one that pops up (at least) that I have not remembered at all. I don't remember either being there or having a camera with me in the room.
I take thousands of photos a year and it's my opinion that they are irreplaceable.
So. I backup. A lot.
And forget a lot where I have backed up to.
So I backup again.
Most normal people would use Google Photos or Apple or Amazon or Facebook or one of the biggies and have all their photos on the cloud - or worse: only have them on their phone (I can't imagine)
I have my photos backed up on all the big cloud servers using their apps and for a normal person that would be more than enough. I am not that person.
One location I have my photos backed up is google cloud for enterprise. This costs me about 25 cents a month which is pretty cheap. It costs more if you have to actually restore or download but I hope to never come to that. These are "the house burned down" backups.
Anyway. All that to say I have a backup plan for my photos.
I want these photos for her. I want to hand her the keys to the great archive in the sky so she can show her kids how cool her old man was. And how silly and beautiful she was/is because as you know - they grow up quick.
One of the neat features of all these cloud services is they send you notifications: 6 years ago, 10 years ago, etc. You're reminded of your photos from the past or they create silly gif's like the one you see above.
You tell yourself: "there's no way that it's been six years.
But you see yourself in an elevator mirror and you see your hairline for the first time in years and think to yourself:
Yup, six years is about right.
