1026th Friday Blog Roundup

We missed the Oscars last weekend. I know a lot of people watch the show even if they haven’t watched the movies, but I hadn’t even heard of many of this year’s movies. That feels strange, and I’m not even sure how it happened.

Back in 1993, the Mississippi flooded, and this chunk of land broke off and floated into the middle of the lake. We called it the Bog (a capital B because it was THE Bog), and people would go down to the lake to see where it was floating. The administration warned us not to step onto it because it wasn’t stable, and we’d likely fall through the marshy land.

That’s kind of what I think of when I think about movies right now. The concept of movies used to be attached to my brain. I knew what was out in theaters, even when I didn’t see the movie. But at some point in this past year, movies broke off from my main brain space and started floating out into the ether. I imagine all the movies hanging out on this figurative bog, and I’m on the shore, watching them float by. I’d like to reattach movies to my brain, but I’m not even sure how I missed so much this year, all things considered.

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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.

And now the blogs…

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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:

• “It’s Up to You” (Infertile Phoenix)

Okay, now my choices this week.

One thing I love about RSS feed readers is that they alert you if someone pops back up. Woulda Coulda Shoulda gave an update this week. She perfectly captures the current mood for so many of us: “Life goes on, of course. But the small measure of existential dread I’ve always lived with has multiplied a thousandfold.” It’s a lot. All of it is a lot. But grateful when people check in and share their a lot.

Lastly, Infertile Phoenix mark the 10-year anniversary of her final IVF cycle. She writes: “I want to celebrate in some small way on the actual day toward the end of the month, but I don’t have any ideas. How do you celebrate recovering from profound loss?” I agree that it must contain cake — not least of which to mark the sweetness of moving from not being able to imagine the next day to living a great life.

The roundup to the Roundup: Missing all of the movies. 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 Feb 28 – March 7) 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.