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[moominmuppet]

Home, feeling like crap (the extra-long day yesterday kicked my ass), but in a relatively good mood nonetheless. Going to soak in the hottub in a bit and see if it makes some of the hurt go away. Somehow the past few hours have been "liquid everywhere" time, though. Woke up to find that one of the squirty bottles we've got for critter control

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[blackbyrd2]

Getting a will set up should be a relatively painless process if done with a competent lawyer. I think I spent $300 on mine, and it included a couple odd items. The good thing is the lawyer should be able to set up whatever you're looking to do, regardless of conditions, and may point out some potential pitfalls as well.
I have no idea about the online thing, but I bet you could leave an envelope with the lawyer with your information in it, to be handed out to the executor at your death. That's if you want someone to have access to the accounts, as opposed to simply having them left active and available as archives-only, which ought to be good in most cases for several years, and wouldn't require anything on your part. I think the only thing I've ever lost online was a geocities site, and an excite mailbox... Now if you're talking about collecting all that data and permanently securing it, you're talking serious work, with the appropriate price tag, I'm sure. If so, you should already be collecting that data someplace.

Peh. There I go again. Well, maybe some of it might be useful, so I'll leave it. :)

[moominmuppet]

I'm mostly thinking archiving to a stable location -- probably external hard drive or something. For LJ there's LJarchive and other apps for doing so, and something similar can be done to my main email account. Conveniently, several folks in the household and family know my default passwords and password schema, so it shouldn't be difficult to do. I do most of this kind of archiving semi-regularly, and all my old personal emails and such are on a hard drive now, so it's something I'll likely keep updating and modernizing over time.