Changing password. PITA...

Sooo, I was checking some of the security on my computer 'stuff', and realized I hadn't changed my password in some time. 

So, I decided to change my password from password to 12345678.*  Should be simple, right?

HA!

I start the change, realize I've not typed the password two times, so it has me go back.  Fine. 

Oh, now I need to do a second form of verification?  All right, phone, great.  Waiting.  No call...

And the thing times out, while I am scratching my head, wondering where the verification code is.
It shows up about 30 seconds later.  I have managed to get the silly thing locked up.   It wasn't even letting me put in the code.  Try in a few hours, it said.  Sigh.

So I wait.  Finally, it releases.  I *quickly* got the verification code, again.  And put it in.  So... Did it work?  ...

Yep!  More than a little chaos and confusion, but I now have a new password... Whew!





*
(Yeah, no.  That is a joke, and for anyone reading, PLEASE don't use either of those!!!)

Hmph. Stupid Passwords...

Can I say I wish I had photographic memory for passwords?

I wanted to blog last Tuesday, and so I zipped onto the computer, and then...

PLEASE ENTER PASSWORD.

Uh.  Ok, Lessee. It's in my password book.  Which is in my purse. Hmm.

Or my carry bag...

My coat?

Maybe it's in the back seat of the... Oh, crud... I left it at the house, on the table.  I had put it NEXT to my purse, but not IN it.  Ergo, when I left, it sat quietly, not letting me know I was leaving it.  Unlike Ding, who meows and tries desperately to follow me out the door, and if that isn't possible, she tries to leave enough fur on my pant legs to let me know she's fluffy, for several hours after...

(I have images of the Sherlock episode where he's analyzing a gent, and figures out he has a dog.  No, 2 dogs... I keep thinking he'd figure out I had a cat, chickens, and frequently walk in mud...  However, he might think I raise sheep and goats, or pack rope, just as easily, with all my spinning fiber...)

So, I didn't get to blog this last week.  We have had a doozy of rain here, even for Oregon...  And I think everyone and their dog, and their dog's dog, must have been streaming movies.  We could just NOT get on line much.  So, I made a POINT of putting the password book in the purse...

And yes, it's probably not the best method of keeping the things straight, but until they can make it so I don't have so many passwords, that are supposed to be random combinations of digits, numbers, and symbols, and they can't be less than six long, yada yada yada... I have to be able to remember the doofy things somehow!  So, I will do up a few for this week. 

Since I can get in, today.  I keep thinking of the bit I saw about photographic memory.  I have it, but I just don't have film in the camera... :)