950th Friday Blog Roundup

This is the 950th Friday Blog Roundup. Maybe not quite as remarkable as the 1000th Friday Blog Roundup, but it still feels worth mentioning because that milestone (#1000) won’t happen for another three years. Three years? How is that possible?

Because at some point, the numbering got messed up, and this is actually the 850th Friday Blog Roundup, even though I left the messed up numbering, which says 950 instead of 850. Still, I feel like I should do something big next year to mark the fake 1000th Friday Blog Roundup.

I wish I had kept better records so I could roll out all kinds of cool stats. But I didn’t. So I guess it’s just onward.

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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.

Finding a Different Path talks about the benefits of knowing, even when diagnosed with PCOS. She doesn’t want the disorder, but the explanation explains so much. The same thing happened recently when she learned more about ADHD and realized that it might explain many things in her life. She writes, “There’s a lot to unpack for myself here. But also, it’s a relief. All the things that I felt shame and that caused me a great deal of anxiety are because my brain is different.” And later, “There’s so much power in starting from knowledge, even when it took 47 years to get to this epiphany.” Yessssss.

Lastly, Infertile Phoenix takes the term “spiraling” and points out how it can be a good thing. Spiraling can also move you deeply into something interesting or important to you. She is doing qualitative research with childless-not-by-choice individuals. She explains, “Instead of using numbers to describe things, qualitative research uses words (i.e., narrative data). Qualitative research can describe the experience of an individual or group.” It’s important work, and I’m grateful she is doing it.

The roundup to the Roundup: That’s a lot of Roundups. 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 June 23 – 30) 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.