931st Friday Blog Roundup

UK Mother’s Day happens before US Mother’s Day, so my inbox already contains UK brands asking me if I’d like to opt out of Mother’s Day emails. I say this every year, always hoping that it will catch on in the US, too, but every year, UK brands are the only ones that send me a kind email, short and sweet.

Three sentences. No hand wringing. No trying to sell me anything else at the moment. Just a simple, “If you’d prefer not to receive any emails of this sort from us, opt-out by clicking here and we’ll take care of it.”

I love that. I appreciate that. And I wish it would catch on here, too.

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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 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. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• ” A Decade Later…” (A Few Pieces Missing From Normalcy – An Infertile Man’s Perspective)

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Uterus Monologues has a book announcement. She writes, “Life, Almost is a book that contains pretty much everything that happened on the road to having a baby. It’s a book about miscarriage, yes, but it’s also about fertility, reproductive medicine, and pregnancy more broadly, especially the many gaps in our knowledge.” It’s really a lovely post about why we need miscarriage memoirs and to talk about loss. Congratulations on the book.

Lastly, Bereaved and Blessed talks about mid-life aches (which reminded me of Spalding Gray’s Bermuda Triangle of Health from age 50 – 53). She explains, “Next month I turn 48 and it seems this stage of middle age brings with it a host of seemingly random, and at times rare, medical challenges.” These two are unusual, and I didn’t know about the dangers of antihistamines.

The roundup to the Roundup: Thank you, UK brands, for your thoughtfulness. 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 February 3 – 10) 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.