1010th Friday Blog Roundup

After many years of talking about getting a symphony membership, Josh and I got ourselves a symphony membership. It came with 28 concerts, which may be too many concerts. We’ve narrowed it down to 14 that fit our schedule, and we can always add in more on a whim if we have time. It gives us a discount for popular performances that are not part of the package, and we have three that we’ll purchase separately for the spring.

It feels super grown-up to have a symphony membership. Who are these adult people living in our house with a symphony membership? Oh, they’re just us.

I like being a member somewhere again. We now have to talk friends into getting their own membership so we can have a group that goes together and nerds out on Chopin.

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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:

• “Fractured Internet” (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Phoenix!

Okay, now my choices this week.

I have never prepped for election results, but there are things in Swistle’s election prep piece that I’ve decided to do, too, after reading her post. Anything that doesn’t go out of my way to get anything or do anything I wouldn’t normally do, at least. If I end up going out next week, I’m two steps ahead of where I need to be. If I don’t, I’ll be happy I prepared.

Lastly, No Kidding in NZ talks about the misogyny of ignoring women without children, especially in dismissing another person’s emotions. She writes: “By dismissing our emotions and feelings of loss over infertility and the life we now have, we are being told our feelings are not important … it reinforces that feeling of invisibility, of worthlessness, that so many childless women have to battle against.” Don’t want to harm women? Give space for women to feel what they are feeling without shame or dismissal.

The roundup to the Roundup: Feeling massively grown-up. 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 October 25 – November 1) 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.