820th Friday Blog Roundup

I was talking with the Wolvog about bears (as one does), and I told him that I couldn’t remember which type of bear this advice went with, but there was some type of bear where you were supposed to run away. He stared at me incredulously and said, “Brown… get down. Black… fight back. White… goodnight.”

“What does that mean?” I asked.

“With a brown bear, you pretend to be dead. Spread out your limbs so it’s difficult to turn you over. It will eventually walk away. With black, fight back. That bear is terrified of you. And with white… well… you’re dead. So it doesn’t really matter what you do. But did you notice that zero percent of those solutions included running away? You’re not going to outrun a bear.”

Um… that makes a lot more sense.

Teens are full of interesting information.

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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:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

The Skinny Black Girl has a post about why she isn’t blogging that is perfection. I love this post so much. And it’s probably best if you read it without knowing much before going over. Though I will entice you over with this: “It’s hard to write about yourself when you’re lost. When you’re sick of yourself. When you have no idea who the hell you are anymore and you’re known for bold declarations of just that.”

No Kidding in NZ writes about encountering thoughtless commentary on her trip. It was spoken by a friend of her sister’s. She writes, “I often assess my trips here, noting if there were any instances that made me feel childLESS rather than childFREE. I am wondering if that is healthy, even while I bristle slightly at a conversation at my sister’s place.” We all have our biases, but we should also know (and sometimes need to be told) our biases.

Finally, she had me with Skeletor. Hopelessly Infertile and Surrounded by Fertiles is having a hard time being positive. On the bright side, I give her ten points for the Skeletor quote, “I don’t like to feel good. I like to feel evil.” Plus at least five extra points for finding the clip on YouTube. (P.S. Me too on the Skeletor-front.)

The roundup to the Roundup: Bear advice. 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 13 – 20) 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.