Ok, the internet is seriously screwing around with me tonight in both FireFox and Opera and I’m not even going to try Internet Explorer.  So I’m going to try posting this one more time and hopefully it will make it to the page without totally disappearing or going haywire with glitches.
Some of you logged in registered users may have noticed that I’ve started posting about work again.  I took a hiatus from that because of confidentiality reasons, but now that I have the ability to semi-moderate who reads that stuff (thanks to Protected Posts capabilities) I’m feeling a little more relaxed about sharing things (such as the previous protected post) that I wouldn’t normally tell the whole world about.
So promise me you can keep a secret

The other day I was matching socks and amassed quite a pile.  As I’m prone to do, I left them in the living room because obviously it takes SO MUCH EFFORT to transport a bunch of socks upstairs that I just couldn’t convince myself to do it.

The next day I walked by the sock pile and I vaguely remember thinking, “That pile seems smaller than I remember it being.  Oh well.” I didn’t think anything else of it.  Well, other than, “One of these days I really need to take those socks upstairs.”

Yesterday, LB was playing with this riding airplane toy she has.  It has a seat, and if you open the seat there’s a “storage” space in the middle.

She pulled open the seat and started pulling out…socks.  Pairs of matched socks, one after another.  I couldn’t believe how many she had managed to stuff in there, and subsequently how many were now all over the living room floor.

To think, we used to blame it on the dryer gnomes.

So I’m at work and I’m trying to log into our credit card transaction log and it’s telling me that my password has expired and that I have to reset it to a new password.

I HATE THAT. Why can’t it just let me keep my old password? Why do I have to come up with a new one every stupid month?

So being the docile sheep that I am, I continue on to the Change Password screen only you have to enter the old password in order to change the password.

I don’t know my old password.

See, I have all my passwords stored in my browser and all you techno security geniuses who think I might as well just hand my head over to the identity terrorists can just SHOVE IT because I have a hard enough time remembering which brand of toothpaste to buy and there is simply no space in my head for remembering if this is the password that requires 6 letters or 8 letters or a combination of letters and numbers or mixed upper/lowercase or 5 all numeric values or if I chose this password or if it was assigned by my company and I could swear my password was ******, or was that last month’s? and I’ve had to change it 6 times since then so I don’t have the first friggin clue as to what’s behind those stupid little stars.

But I can’t use the little stars now because I have to TYPE my old password in order to change it against my will to the NEW password.

So I have to go back to the login screen and click “Forget your password?” and it wants to know my email address and my login (which, fortunately, Firefox also remembers) and… my pet’s name?

I have 2 pets and at the time I signed up with this account I had 3. Let the guessing begin.

So I finally get my email and they don’t just send me my password in the email because that would be WAY TOO EASY - they make a temporary authorization for me to change my password, so that then I can log in to change my password.

So I log in and change the password and then I remember that I need to go update the password in my browser so that I can forget it again, so I find the place where I can manage all my stored passwords and GUESS WHAT???

It lists all my passwords right there in front of me so I could have gone there to look it up the whole time and GUESS WHAT ELSE???

The New! Password! that I just spent half an hour trying to change to? It’s exactly the same password I had before.