674th Friday Blog Roundup

Dirk Gently was cancelled, and I’m bummed.  We watched the season finale on Monday night.  I tried to convince Josh that we should save the last episode and savour it because it would be months before the new season began.  But, no, he haaaaaaaad to watch it and find out what happened with Wendimoor.  And then Tuesday, I found out the show was cancelled, so the season finale became the series finale.  It was the best thing on television and now it’s gooooooooooone.

Dirk Gently, you were a spot of happiness on a dreary day.  You were always good.  You were always funny.  You always filled up my heart.  I’ll purchase the show in iTunes so the twins can watch it in the future.  And now I have to go back to weeping.

It is easier to be bummed about Dirk Gently than it is to wrap my brain around the state of the world.

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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 in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “What I Know, What I Suspect” (Pages, Stages, and Rages)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Searching for Our Silver Lining has an update about her job situation as well as lessons learned from infertility.  It is… sadly… a framing that actually brings peace of mind.  “One major benefit of infertility is you learn that the fear of failure and breaking is always worse than it actually happening. Though each miscarriage and failed cycle left indelible scars, the fear was always far more crippling.”  It’s true because I think the moments beforehand break you and break you and break you.  By the time you get to the actual breaking, you’re already in pieces.  And sometimes a break — breaking free of what you think you should do, breaking tradition, breaking up with something that isn’t working — is exactly what you need.

By the Brooke has a post about flowers she purchased in Eliza’s memory for a church service.  Seven red roses for a daughter who should be seven.  She explains, “Having people know about Eliza, know that I had a baby who died, makes me feel vulnerable. But if they don’t know, I feel a little bit like a fraud, or at least like I’m only connected to them in the most superficial way possible.”  Now they know.  But she also knows something, too: “December will never not be sad for me, but seven years in, I’m also grateful that I can find the hope in the dark.”

Lastly, Not a Wasted Word asks where is her aha moment; that moment of clarity where her life falls into place?  Will we all have one, and if not, why do some people have their mental light bulb spark on while others fumble around in the dark?  She writes, “I’ve done all the things everyone tells you to do, and I’m still, YEARS LATER, making the same mistakes, unable to change.”  I don’t have answers, but it’s a very interesting question.

The roundup to the Roundup: Bummed about Dirk Gently.  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 December 15th and 22nd) 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.