1058th Friday Blog Roundup

We bought our Halloween candy last weekend. On Sunday night, I told Josh I was opening the bag and having one piece. Thus started the slippery slide of eating through the Halloween candy before giving it out tonight.

Listen, it’s an enormous bag. The kids are not going to go without their treats. But I needed the Snickers. I needed the Almond Joys. I even needed the mini Butterfingers, even though they flake all over you when you bite into them, making them sort of annoying. The only thing that was not in this bag was my absolutely favourite: Three Musketeers.

Luckily, Halloween candy goes on sale this weekend. I can snatch those up for myself.

It’s hard to have candy in the house.

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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:

• “#MicroblogMondays: I dreamed a dream…” (The Road Less Travelled)

Okay, now my choices this week.

All & Sundry has deep thoughts about how we get accustomed to new situations. And yes, the pain is still there after a loss, but it’s about the pain becoming manageable instead of being overwhelming and blotting everything else out. I especially liked this paragraph: “I am alone enough now that I often think about the differences of shared experiences and whether one state is intrinsically better than the other … There is such a huge difference between being lonely and being alone.” Yes, you’ll have to click over to read what comes in between, but start at the top because it’s a great post.

Lastly, Jewish IVF has a post about her final embryo transfer, a carefully orchestrated plan that went sideways when everything she put in place bumped up again people who hindered more than helped. The takeaway clinics need to hear: “I was so frustrated that no one paid attention to what’s important to me as a patient. There was no discussion between the clinic and the OR to communicate the limitations I had shared.” My heart hurt reading it.

The roundup to the Roundup: Don’t open the Halloween candy too early. 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 October 24 – 31) 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.