1087th Friday Blog Roundup

Last summer, I read an article about Trader Joe’s Dubai chocolate. Reiterating: big fan of pistachio, big fan of kadayif, big fan of chocolate. Our store told us it would be back in the fall. For a few months, we checked every time we went to the store, but it didn’t return in the fall or winter, and we thought they had decided not to bring it back.

Imagine my shock when I was leaning over the frozen vegetables a few weeks ago, and Josh said, “Is that the Dubai chocolate?” pointing at the shelf above my head. It was. It was the freakin’ Dubai chocolate that had been on the shopping list for nine months.

I bought four bars, untasted, because I thought it would be easier to give them to someone else than get them again. I was correct. They’re sold out again. But, yes, it’s as good as I hoped.

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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:

• “Prädestiniert” (Elaine ohne Kind)

Okay, now my choices this week.

A Separate Life posted the to-do list she took out of her head. Our to-do lists tell a story; capture a moment in time. And this one made me want to reach through the screen to give her a hug.

Lastly, Swistle has a unique take on using human touch when you don’t necessarily have traditional human touch. She found it grounding during a stressful dental visit to use the moments her body touched another body to focus her thoughts. She writes, “This time, instead, I concentrated on the way I could feel the assistant’s leg against my upper arm, and the dentist’s fingers on my mouth—sorry, it is kind of struggle to write this in a way that doesn’t sound unintentionally erotic; but you’ve had dental work done, you know we are not talking about that.” Okay, I snickered at “unintentionally erotic,” but I think it’s a good reminder when we start to panic to focus on what we can physically feel.

The roundup to the Roundup: It really is very good chocolate. 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 May 15 – 22) 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.