981st Friday Blog Roundup
I went from making no plans to see the eclipse — despite everyone I know having solid plans to see the eclipse, so it wasn’t as if it wasn’t on my radar — to asking Josh if he could come home from work early because we really need to see this eclipse. This meant digging through the drawers to find our old eclipse glasses from 2017 and writing frantic texts to the kids about how they need to procure new eclipse glasses.
Ha — though with the 2017 eclipse, I talked about having seven years to do things better. Forgot that memo until this week.
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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 writes about separate waiting rooms because it really is the best idea in the world. (Though, side note, I got tea on my computer for laughing during this line: “I guess because I didn’t ‘fess up to shaving my bellybutton? WTF.” If that doesn’t get you to click over, I don’t know what will.) She unpacks many different offices and finally ends up somewhere good. But it highlights what offices and doctors need to do differently and what they get right.
Lastly, A Blank New Page talks about a conversation with a 93-year-old woman who asks if she has children. The woman also did not have children and shares her feelings about it. She writes, “How calmly she asked me this question back then. How calm her own comment on it was. And how liberating it felt for me, how good, how accepted, understood and yes – how calm I felt.” Love this.
The roundup to the Roundup: Eclipse! 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 March 29 – April 5) 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.
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It was funny to read your old 2017 eclipse posts, and my comments on them! 2024 seemed so far away then!
I’m drafting a post about the eclipse for #MicroblogMondays 🙂 but (spoiler alert! haha) I will say that I did see a total eclipse back in 1979, and it was pretty cool. We’ll be just outside the path of totality this time around. We don’t have the proper glasses so I won’t be trying to get a direct look, but I’m sure we’ll see the effects from our balcony. It was only about 75% totality in 2017 and it didn’t get very dark, but the light did dim in a kind of weird way. So I expect it should be a lot darker, albeit not completely dark, this time around. Niagara Falls (Ontario), about 1.5-2 hours away, is going to be a prime viewing spot and they are expecting about ONE MILLION PEOPLE to be there. There aren’t a lot of roads going in & out of NF and they’re predicting gridlock. No thanks!
Thank you for including me! I think your post deserves the nod, because it made me think about it in the first place! 🙂 https://www.stirrup-queens.com/2024/04/separate-waiting-rooms/
And Infertile Phoenix’s “Knowing I Won’t Have Kids” post, which explores that horror of the not-knowing and in-between versus the grief but also peace of finality.
https://infertilephoenix.blogspot.com/2024/04/knowing-i-wont-have-kids.html
Oops. I missed commenting on this post. I’m glad you picked up my favourite posts.
Of course, the eclipse was irrelevant to me … but this could have been me. 100%! “Ha — though with the 2017 eclipse, I talked about having seven years to do things better. Forgot that memo until this week.”
I told my sister in 2017 that we were coming to her house for the eclipse. I mentioned that my friend and her family would be joining us. I said we’re having an eclipse party – start buying booze now. I brought it up every April thereafter. Did she pay any attention to me at all? No. I told her a few weeks before the eclipse that my friend would be there on the Sunday and she was all “Aaaahhhh! Where are they going to sleep?!” She has a bigger house than our oldest sister and we manage to jam ton of people in our oldest sister’s house all the time. I didn’t see a problem. We figured it out. It was a great time. But she should really listen when I tell her stuff – if I talk about it, it’s likely to happen.