720th Friday Blog Roundup

I am smitten with Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.  I’m halfway through, and it is the best mental sorbet before bed to clear my mind from the day’s news.  I feel like one of you recommended this to me, but I can’t find the comment anymore.  So… thank you to the wonderful person who recommended this book.  It is totally and completely enjoyable.  And it is exactly what I need.

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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:

• None… sniff…

Okay, now my choices this week.

It’s Inconceivable has a post about the intersection of work and loss.  She writes, “We hear so much about the struggles of women with children juggling work and their family commitments … What of those of us who have had numerous losses or loss of hopes and aspirations of a family, or juggling the rollercoaster that is infertility treatment in the world of work?”  It is such an important and interesting conversation.

Baby Ridley Bump is processing her recent loss after the D&C.  She is raw: “All I can think about is how I am supposed to be pregnant right now.  How our baby shared it’s due date with my husband’s birthday, how everything seemed to be meant to be and aligned so perfectly, yet it was taken away so quickly.  I’ve been crying all week at work and I am still just so unbelievably sad about it.”  It is a post about the difference between a physical recovery and an emotional recovery, and how each unfolds at its own pace.

Lastly, Non Sequitur Chica had a post last week (but I read it this week when I was catching up in my feedreader) about seeing Michelle Obama.  With pictures!  But the interesting part is that Obama explained why she didn’t talk about IVF while she was in the White House.  “So while she is happy to be open about IVF, going through marriage counseling, etc. now she didn’t really think that it was appropriate to talk about it while she was in the White House. There were so many other things going on at the time, she didn’t want to be a distraction.”  I’ve been seeing a lot of people discuss her timing and how it would have made a difference if she had talked about it in the White House.  I don’t think one person can change public opinion like that, so that burden shouldn’t be placed on her shoulders.  But it is interesting to consider what people choose to use their platform to get people thinking about.

The roundup to the Roundup: Love Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.  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 November 16th and November 23rd) 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.