718th Friday Blog Roundup
Anyone else having trouble accessing my blog? Though I guess if you can’t access it, you also wouldn’t see this. One person told me: “Lately, your posts will show in my reader, but when I click on them to go to your blog, I get an error message about the server. I can go to other web sites, just not yours.” Are you having the same issue, and if you are, could you screenshot it and let me know which browser you’re using?
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I tried to give myself a day or two to step back from the election results before I fully processed them.
I’m happy that Democrats took the House because it’s never healthy to have one political party controlling every branch of government. We need checks and balances, and not an echo chamber of ideas. Actually, the healthiest situation would be not having political parties at all and having people state their personal platform rather than conforming to a party line. But… since that won’t happen, the next best thing is to have more than one political party in power.
There are some people who I would have loved to see win, but they didn’t. Some people who didn’t win, and I was relieved. A few moments of diversity. A lot of frustration at voting conditions. A sense that the chasms between us are getting wider. Appreciation for the people who put in the time and effort to get voices heard.
Thank you.
So… I left the night feeling like expectations were met or exceeded. Not happy that I had some of those expectations in the first place, but very little happened that surprised me; good or bad.
How about you?
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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 in order 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. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- “Reading Diverse Books” (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, Mali and Jess!
Okay, now my choices this week.
Magpie Musing has a post about a tiny plastic baby that lives in a jacket pocket. She’s thinking about the things she carries (and her post made me look at the things I always have with me: phone, book, bullet journal, hand sanitizer, cinnamon mints) and she moves to the items that inexplicably have a certain space. She writes, “It is a comfort to me that tiny plastic baby is still in the pocket and ever will be, even though I can’t remember where tiny plastic baby came from. But every time I wore that coat, or moved it to a new closet, I checked for tiny plastic baby, ‘ah yes, there she is.’ Carried.” Not about infertility, but… well… it made me think.
By the Brooke has a post about how the difficult time of day has moved from morning to night. After her daughter died, it was morning, when her eyes opened and her brain remembered everything that had happened. But now it is the worries that come in the evening hours, that look manageable by morning. She explains, “I just needed to write out this reminder that no matter how terrible I feel at bedtime, life is generally more endurable in the morning.” So true.
Lastly, RisaKerslake has a post about her new cycle. She begins: “So I sat, peeing on yet another pregnancy stick, watching for that second line to appear, and giving yet another disappointed sigh when once again, only one line showed. Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. I was officially going insane.” They’re doing something different this time — endometrial receptivity array — and transferring two embryos. Click over and read about it.
The roundup to the Roundup: Problems accessing this site? Your thoughts on the midterms? 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 November 2nd and November 9th) 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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I have had the blog thing happen a couple times – but sometimes I think it’s just a glitch between scheduled posts and the time they’re supposed to be active? It wasn’t with your blog, but others that I can’t remember. Anyway, I’m sure that’s *very* helpful. 😀
I was…let’s go with…not discouraged by the elections. I was hoping for better results in several races. But overall, it’s not terrible. Further news since then has taken over. 🙁
I learned somewhere that the founders of this nation never envisioned a 2-party system. The idea was for it to be multiple parties, ideally 4-4, that would represent the diverse interests of the nation. I see elements of that within both the Republican and Democrat parties, but the truth is there’s mainly black-and-white system. Something I think more and more people are becoming frustrated with.
I’ve been sitting with the results too. “Content” is the best way to describe my current outlook given that I’m happy about certain things but unhappy with others; feel some promises were kept and others were broken. It’s not the burning pain I felt one November morning in 2016, but I’m not dancing in the streets.
Living in a predominantly “red” state, I am seldom happy about the results of an election. However, I was glad to see the Democrats win a majority of seats in the House (even though the GOP congressman from my district was re-elected), and I was happy to see the defeat of a state ballot proposition that would have taken money from our already-underfunded K-12 education.
I dunno I think a lot could be accomplished (at least reverse some of the damage) if demos gain control of senate and presidency…I was relieved we at least got the house back, disappointed Beto lost etc…even tho the house seemed obvious, so was H getting elected 2 years ago, so I was nervous
Every now and then I will get errors clicking through to your site. It hasn’t happened in a while. But something that happens frequently is that Feedly won’t publish your posts right away, but if I go directly to your site it’s usually there. Chrome on my iPhone isn’t great at updating your site, but that’s likely a user error and not your site, I’m guessing.
I was very happy with my local election results. I am not sure what’s going on in FL again, but it seems to me there are some election officials there who need to be looked at closely because something doesn’t seem to be adding up there. Which is utterly ridiculous, because there are supposed to be systems in place to prevent this kind of thing.
I have had that issue when in Feedly and also in safari, but only at my work. I was wondering if my work’s filter was blocking you some how. I never seem to have the issue at home.
Some of the results I was following are still not decided — or have been reversed. Like you said for yourself, I, too, felt very little happened that surprised me; good or bad.
I’ve had that error message once when trying to access your page, but when I tried again, I got through okay. I think not having to select a political party would be fantastic. It’s become so divisive, which has pushed me from being very political myself. I despise politics and what they have become. I voted, but am really disappointed with how our state measures played out.
I don’t have difficulty with your posts or commenting… I also felt kind of blah about the election results. I do love, love, LOVE how many women and women of color were elected, and I am so very thankful that Democrats took the House.
I loved Different Shores’ review of Emilie Pine’s book, Notes to Self: https://differentshores.com/2018/11/02/notes-to-self/
Also Mali’s self described “boo hoo” post about recent bittersweet moments of childlessness, and feeling invisible. I wanted to give her a big hug, and help her feel wrapped in visibility:
https://nokiddinginnz.blogspot.com/2018/11/childlessness-bittersweet-and-also.html?m=1