random stuff
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susandennisI saw a link on Twitter that talked about how to recover your Google account. I am so deeply embedded in Google that at this point if you deprived me of all oxygen I'd last longer than if you deprived me of all Google. Sad, but true. They've done good by me and I'm a happy captive but I do live in dread fear of something going sideways.
Back when it was still even really new, my Google Wallet account got frozen and it was a horrible 3 days.
So I have backups to my backups - codes here, info there. This morning I was reminded that one verifying question they like is 'When did you open your Google account?' Not an easy bit of data to find for me. Turns out I had looked before and had a document called Gmail account that simply says "gmail account created on 6/9/2004".
BUT, what if I can't get to my windows computer? Everything else I runs on a Google operating system so will not be operable or will be severely limited. So. I sent that info and other to a non Google email account where it now sits in the inbox. Whew. Here's hoping I never need it.
I got the official invoice for my window shades in email today and it included a lovely little offer to cash in a $100 rebate. Thankyouverymuch!
It seems that LJ has finally turned on the Instagram option to my feed. I turned it on ages ago but it never showed up. Since I send Instagram to Twitter, I can now turn off the Twitter feed which I always thought was lame anyway. Instagram is a much nicer presentation. I like capturing it in my journal.
And speaking of Twitter, I just saw a tweet that Rich Oppel had been named the interim Editor and Chief of Texas Monthly. Blast from the past. Rich Oppel was the hot shot young editor who took over the Charlotte Observer and so became my husband's boss when we were married. He was the one who gave my husband and his co-workers enough rope to write the series that netted them the Pulitzer Prize.
We spent a lot of time that year in parties and receptions and ceremonies celebrating that award and the others they won for that series. I remember Rich and Carol had this obnoxious little kid who was always into everything. Wikipedia tells me that that obnoxious little kid is now a fairly well respected reporter for the New York Times.
Wild. In my head I'll always be 30, Rich and Carol will only be a couple of years older than me and that kid will still be a kid. Wikipedia can't be correct about everything.
The Mariner game is on TV this afternoon which is fun. So that's what I'll be doing for the next few hours. Nice.
Back when it was still even really new, my Google Wallet account got frozen and it was a horrible 3 days.
So I have backups to my backups - codes here, info there. This morning I was reminded that one verifying question they like is 'When did you open your Google account?' Not an easy bit of data to find for me. Turns out I had looked before and had a document called Gmail account that simply says "gmail account created on 6/9/2004".
BUT, what if I can't get to my windows computer? Everything else I runs on a Google operating system so will not be operable or will be severely limited. So. I sent that info and other to a non Google email account where it now sits in the inbox. Whew. Here's hoping I never need it.
I got the official invoice for my window shades in email today and it included a lovely little offer to cash in a $100 rebate. Thankyouverymuch!
It seems that LJ has finally turned on the Instagram option to my feed. I turned it on ages ago but it never showed up. Since I send Instagram to Twitter, I can now turn off the Twitter feed which I always thought was lame anyway. Instagram is a much nicer presentation. I like capturing it in my journal.
And speaking of Twitter, I just saw a tweet that Rich Oppel had been named the interim Editor and Chief of Texas Monthly. Blast from the past. Rich Oppel was the hot shot young editor who took over the Charlotte Observer and so became my husband's boss when we were married. He was the one who gave my husband and his co-workers enough rope to write the series that netted them the Pulitzer Prize.
We spent a lot of time that year in parties and receptions and ceremonies celebrating that award and the others they won for that series. I remember Rich and Carol had this obnoxious little kid who was always into everything. Wikipedia tells me that that obnoxious little kid is now a fairly well respected reporter for the New York Times.
Wild. In my head I'll always be 30, Rich and Carol will only be a couple of years older than me and that kid will still be a kid. Wikipedia can't be correct about everything.
The Mariner game is on TV this afternoon which is fun. So that's what I'll be doing for the next few hours. Nice.
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Date: 2018-03-02 12:08 am (UTC)What's enormously frustrating is that after all of the hair-tearing we've all gone through trying to recover passwords without access to the connected, but no longer used email account, they won't allow my current email as the box to send the proof it's my account!
With the old phone in my hand, showing it's my account. (yes, both are gmail)
The other one I've also had for years transferred fine, but for unknown reasons, they say it also isn't an approved email box.
Meanwhile, the old dumbphone is fading fast.
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Date: 2018-03-02 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-03-02 02:06 am (UTC)Both are just e-mail (g-mail) accounts; both I've had for years and the old phone slooowly powers up long enough I can show the store personnel both are me, but randomly shuts off every few minutes.
They won't send the authorization code for the one still needing transfer directly to it, despite that being the most obvious proof.
I get why it isn't the required option; many new phones replace lost or dead ones. I just don't get why it's not allowed at all.
The one that did transfer, for equally random reasons, also gets rejected as "authorizable account" even when I jump through all of the hoops they throw down.
Naturally, it's the one linked to all of my passwords and online ordering.
But to answer, I can get online on either phone and my ancient Macbook, if you have any suggestions.
(I just have to hold up the little earpiece, lean in and say, "Sarah, get me the Internet, please?" and she connects me from her little switchboard... :^D )
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Date: 2018-03-02 02:44 am (UTC)I was a newspaper editor for a community weekly for about 12 years until medical crap clobbered me. I really miss it, and still have fading hope to get back one day.
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Date: 2018-03-02 02:51 am (UTC)"1981 – Meritorious public service, staff; "For Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect, a hard-hitting look at the terrible health consequences workers suffered from cotton dust produced in the region's textile mills.""
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Date: 2018-03-07 12:44 am (UTC)Kind of like the concussion and steroid issues in today's pro football, it seems -- a lot of people who damn well know better, and have the means to solve the problem, willfully ignored clear evidence in favor of profit.
And it takes the once-free press plus some brave and savvy journalists to fight it past the money machine into public knowledge.