Yes, I did it. I got my first two posts to publish. It took a long chat discussion to get it done today, but I never gave up and I never surrendered. 

Of course, if you've not read the two post prior to this one maybe you should let your eyes shuffle through those so that this brief post will make sense. 

Now that I've got THE Blog Post thing working. Although, I suppose I'll know for sure in a few minutes when I try to publish this one! But for now, let's assume I did get it to work and all is well and good in my Wordy Little  LaLaLand. 

And if it doesn't work for me on my first attempt... Sigh. 

No. Nope. I shant think negatively. I shall expect the best and nothing less. 

Besides, if you're reading this then - I must've got it, right?

Hello. I've been away for a couple of weeks because, you know... life and whatnot. 

Not only have my husband and I been catering to our furry guests* but I've been visiting furry guest who aren't staying with us, too. And that means I've done a lot of walking anywhere between 3 to 5 miles (or more) every single day. 

The vast majority of that walking has been along hiking trails that range from Moderately Difficult to Extremely Difficult. Needless to say, the nifty digital scale at the house which tells me not only what my current weight is but also how hydrated I am and how much bone mass I have, but it also tells me things like how much subcutaneous fat I have as well as my metabolic age - yeah, that kind of scale - is happy with all the motion because it's good for me. (And drat,  my family doctor  agrees with the scale's assessment, to0.)

*Not sure if I mentioned that when I'm not working with words and whatnot, I also own a Pet Concierge service where I board pooches at my house and do drop in visits for all sorts of other critters, too. If I did mention it - awesome. If I didn't - now you know!

With all that preamble, I supposed I should get to the meat and gravy of this post which deals with frustration of the utmost kind - PASSWORDS. 

Passwords are such useful things because they let us check our email and be able to purchase nifty things from Amazon and to write things on a blogsite. More often than not, we go merrily by  never thinking twice about our passwords thanks to our nifty smart devices including the ever-present cell phone which stores our passwords within its bits and bytes in such a way that all we need to remember is our smartphone passcode and/or allow our devices to see our face and determine that, 'Yes, the face that can be seen is associated with this device.' And then POOF! we are granted access to our own property. 

And our phones are so damn smart they even remember our passwords for all the sites we frequent so we never have to worry. 

BUT 

Then there those times when, for some weird reason, we go to a site we've been to loads of times before without any issues only to be told something like 'Verify it's you.' And then you have to remember not only WHICH email (I have several email accounts for different purposes, doesn't everyone?) you used to set up the site, but you also are asked to provide the password for it. 

Ummm...

That's where it gets tricky because maybe I set up the relevant information weeks, months, or years ago and I used my X-email with the password and I used a password that is no longer active. So I go to my handy-dandy iPhone and look up the app I'm trying to access under the helpful 'Passwords' setting. 

Logically, I should be able to find the app and see what the current password is. But LOGICAL is nowhere to be found because I see the app listed like 8 times under 2 or 3 emails and each of the 8 listings has a DIFFERENT password! 

Yes, instead of automatically overwriting the previous email/password combination for the particular site where I can easily access that information on my iPhone so I can then input the proper information into the field as seen on my laptop... it just holds on to every single password I've ever used for the site!

Oh, and get this... my laptop is synced to my iPhone which I sort of figured meant - if I accessed a site using my iPhone and set up my user information there, shouldn't one assume that those devices would share that information because they're synced? 

Well, as my daddy used to say - when you assume something, it makes an ASS out of U and ME!

Grrrr!

Now you're probably wondering how this Password Tirade has anything to do with writing for this blogsite... 

Well, this site was created using the Weebly website creator. And I already have four domain names/sites with Weebly, and WordsmitheryByBrown is my fifth one. When I set it up about 1 month ago, I had issues logging in because I had to update my main password via the Forgot Your Password? route. Which I did. And I even wrote it down!

Then about two weeks ago, I got time to sit down and work on this site - but, again, I had trouble logging into the site. After about fifteen attempts and failures, I gave up and had to get another password reset email. Again, I reset it and saved it not only on paper but I took a pic of my laptop with my iPhone to save in my 'Hidden' pictures folder on my iPhone.

I figured there is NO WAY I can screw it up again. (Yeah, yeah...)

I wrote a post and even added a tab that would allow anyone perusing this site to read some of the shorts, novellas, observational humor, etc. that I've written beyond this blog. After all, with a website named 'WordsmitheryByBrown' it implies that I am am loquacious and beyond the realm of blogposts, right? 

Yes, that's what I thought, too!

I decided I'd wait a day or two and then I'd write another post. 

BUT...  As I mentioned at the beginning of this post LIFE set in, and I was AFK from any sort of devoted writing.  

Yesterday, I tried to login. But I couldn't. It was late, like 9:00PM y'all, and I was worn out. So I put my laptop aside and decided I'd wait to try again today, March 1, 2022. 

Gander to take a guess at how I got into my Weebly site today? 
1. I remembered the password I reset my account to only two weeks ago.
2. I remembered that I wrote down the password?
3. I remembered that I took a photo of the password and it was on my iPhone.
4. I remembered that my iPhone is synced to my laptop and could login using either.
5. I looked up the password in my Saved Passwords on my iPhone.

Nope. Well, ok - yes, I did try each of those methods. 

But in the end, I had to login by asking for another damn password reset! 

There has gotta be something I'm missing! 

And with that, I'm done. Gotta go walk some dogs!

Cheers, y'all

Oh, did I mention my iPhone was damaged last week? Hmm, that's a story for another day!