1053rd Friday Blog Roundup

We decided it was a good time to do a little subscription shedding. It’s partially cost — it’s hard to justify a charge if you barely use the service — and it’s partially maintenance. Each subscription brings a slew of emails telling you about all the exciting things streaming that week or reminding you about all the exciting add-ons you can get. I open all of those emails in case there is something I actually need to know from the service. But I will not have to open an email if we no longer subscribe to the service.

We’ll hop back on a service for a month or two to watch a show, but we’re trying to bring it down to the bare minimum of ongoing subscription services.

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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.

I was blown away by this post from Dear John, where she points out how her husband’s craving for external validation brought on a lot of unhappiness. She writes: “I think therapy would have helped you realize that your failures were a product of your willingness to take chances. That your self-doubt should have been cured by your many, many successes … Contentment is what you should seek, because that’s longer-lasting and stable. You wanted the highs, but found yourself far more entangled in the lows.” While speaking to an individual, she so perfectly captures that gap between the external and internal self. It’s a quiet, heart-tugging post. Go read the whole thing.

Lastly, there is a lot to process inside Road Less Travelled’s brain dump. I liked Elizabeth Day’s Magpie, and I wrote on Goodreads: “I have never felt more seen by a book. She captures infertility perfectly. And far from being a painful read, it was like spending time with a friend who got it.” Guess I now know why. And sending a big hug for the big changes coming to her parents.

The roundup to the Roundup: Backups are good. 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 September 19 – 26) 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.