1041st Friday Blog Roundup

Every Saturday morning, a bookstore I love sends out an email with a link to notable books published that week. It’s how I choose books for the most part for my TBR. Due to a time difference, I can usually check their site on Friday nights near midnight and see that week’s list, and on particularly hard weeks, I let myself peek at the first six to eight books before I go to bed.

Last Friday was one of those Fridays. I opened the link, but it showed me the books from the week before. Drats. The booklist wouldn’t be up until morning. But the next morning, when I received the newsletter and followed the link, it took me to the previous week’s books. The page hadn’t been updated. I tried multiple devices. I tried clearing caches. I tried powering down my phone and turning it back on. I tried all of the things.

And then, I am embarrassed to admit, I wrote the helpline for the bookstore. Was it an emergency? Absolutely not. But was I panicking, hitting refresh over and over again as if it would summon the list? Yes, I was. I became that person who writes the helpline because she missed her book list.

Someone at the helpdesk wrote me back the next day, thanking me for alerting them to the issue with the page, and they wrote me back a few days after that to let me know the link was ready to go. Happy browsing.

All was well again in the world.

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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:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Infertile Phoenix captures a moving moment on Father’s Day. She was at a restaurant last weekend, sitting at the bar with her boyfriend, surrounded by other local people she knew. A cute child at a nearby table started interacting with one of her friends, who also was sitting at the bar. After the family left, her friend reminded her that it’s not only women who feel wistful when they look at the road not taken: “I’ve done a lot and I’ve seen a lot… [somewhat of a long pause] But I never had kids.” It’s a great reminder, beautifully written.

Lastly, Grumpy Rumbings has a bit of found poetry, capturing a relationship through messages. Loved this.

The roundup to the Roundup: Routine thwarted and fixed. 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 June 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.