944th Friday Blog Roundup

I received a note from my doctor to schedule an appointment. So I scheduled an appointment and shaved my legs. The last time I saw her, I hadn’t shaved my legs because I didn’t think anyone would see my legs. So I was going to be careful this time. You never know when you’re going to be asked to disrobe.

I jumped in the car at the crack of dawn. (Oh, did I mention that I snagged the first appointment of the day?) It was so early that the office wasn’t actually open yet, but she took me (bleary eyes and all) five minutes early.

“Why are you here?” she asked.

“I’m here because you sent me a note to make an appointment. Why did you want me here?”

“Um… I don’t send notes to people to tell them to make appointments. Why would I want to create more work for myself? I only see people if they need to see me.”

It turned out that there was a glitch in some centralized system that sent that note out without her knowledge — as in, the algorithm decided that I needed an appointment and signed her name. She told me in the future to always check with her office if I received something weird like that. A co-pay and messed-up morning later, the end of the story is that I didn’t need to be there at all.

Awesome.

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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:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Heather Armstrong was still on a lot of people’s minds. The Road Less Travelled created one of my favourites, asking a thought-provoking question as she unpacks the legacy of “mommy blogging.” She writes, “And without ‘mommy blogs’ like ‘Dooce,’ I wonder, would childless women like me have felt the need to respond by writing about their/our much-different experiences in the same, highly personal way?” See, thought-provoking.

Lastly, Edenland returns to her site to process her thoughts about Heather’s death, and writes as only Edenland can. An example: “Told her I didn’t go so she sent me a single question mark. I followed with the laugh-cry emoji and ‘Mate I was too depressed to go.’ Then we just kept exchanging the death skull emoji in increasing increments until one of us gave up. One of us gave up.” Go read the whole thing.

The roundup to the Roundup: Pointless appointments. 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 May 12 – 19) 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.