739th Friday Blog Roundup

Have people been watching The American Farm on the History channel? It’s on Thursday nights at 10 pm EST. It covers a year of family farms, following them through the ups and downs of farming, season to season.

There was a line in the description that crawled under my skin: “America’s farmers are heroes who gamble every last dollar on their own two hands.” It reminded me of the line from “Inútil” in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights: “He cut the cane / He came home late and prayed for rain / And on the days / When nothing came / My father’s face was lined with shame.”

Because planting crops is an enormous gamble. Raising livestock is an enormous gamble. Having inventory that is completely outside your control; that can shrivel up or get sick and die makes year after year a gamble.

If you’re not watching it, go DVR it. Now. Or watch it online on the History Channel site.

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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.

The Uterus Monologues has a roundup of 75 pieces of advice after baby loss. She writes: “Just about managing to cut its way through the white noise and static of shock and grief is a notion that this is something that will take time to heal from. But what is less clear is what this actually looks like. What exactly do you do? What do other people do?” So she set out to learn what other people do. And she presented the findings in a post. Brilliant and helpful.

Everything Comes with Pancakes has a post about donor eggs and “So what happens when the babies are old enough to understand it all?” It’s what we’re preparing for all through that babyhood. But it’s what we can never really prepare for, right? I love this line: “She is exceptional and teaches me more about who I want to be every time we connect.” Everyone should have someone so wonderful in their world.

Lastly, I snickered over Torthúil’s panda bear post mostly because my brain works the same way. You’ll need to read it to see what I mean.

The roundup to the Roundup: Farming is fascinating.  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 April 5th and 12th) 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.