I hate passwords…

I woke up earlier today bursting with plans and ideas about what I was going to post on here today. It all started off really well….

I got some deadheading done in the garden, I tidied up, I made brunch, We had brunch. I went to the supermarket and after I returned, I popped over to say hello and have a little socially distanced chat with one of my neighbours who’s been having a tough time of it recently.

I declined hubby’s offer of a long walk as I wanted to get stuck into working on this little page and check up on some job applications I had sent off. As I had declined his offer, he decided to go for a long run instead and be back in a couple of hours. “Great” I thought, that would give me a couple of hours to do what I wanted to do and then be able to start with dinner after he gets back. I fired up my p.c and was greeted with a message saying that the version of Windows I have on it is no longer supported by Windows and that I needed to purchase a more recent version to ensure that everything on it is safe from viruses and potential malware problems. I have McAfee protection on it anyway (which automatically renews itself annually and kindly informs me it has done so after taking its payment from my card registered with them. Its been doing that for over a decade now) so I wasn’t too worried about that and proceeded with the task at hand. After a bit of fanfare and much tapping I make it onto squarespace but all this is proving quite epic and the computer is really slow so I decide to switch to my iPad. I quickly found out that I can only view the site on my iPad and was politely advised to download the app onto it. I went into the App store to discover that I couldn't download the application onto it for whatever reason so I proceeded to see if I could do so on my phone which is an android product. It would mean having to work on a smaller screen and squint throughout the afternoon but I could still get stuff done.

I visited the play store, found the app and tapped on it to install but was told I hadn't got enough space on my phone so I then spent the next ten minutes deleting videos and pictures and finally could download the app. “Right” I thought, “I can finally get on with this. Let me log in.” I was presented with the option of logging in directly onto Squarespace or use Google, Apple, Facebook or Twitter. I opted to use my Google account as that is what I had used initially when I built the page. The words “The password you used is incorrect” are what greeted me with “We see you used your Google account to register with us, please use your Google password to log in with us. “ Okay, I must have tapped my password in wrong. I repeat the process only to be greeted with the same response. What’s going on here? Am I typing it in too fast and perhaps getting a letter wrong? Or am I typing it in all in lower case? I go through the whole ritual again a few times now and am getting increasingly frustrated while doing so. A link pops up below, “forgot password? ” it asks, “click here !” I give in and click and then i’m told I need to check my phone for the reset link as this whole kerfuffle means I now won't be able to check my emails until I’ve reset my password. I clink on the link and create a new password. I quickly check my emails to see whether it’s worked and it has because waiting for me is a new one to tell me that my job application had been unsuccessful. I returned to squarespace and clicked on my Google option again to be told once again that my password was not correct???!!!! After a few more (annoyed) attempts, still no success so I end up making yet another password to log in directly and finally am able to do so. As I do, the front door opens and Hubby is back from his run and it’s time to start with dinner. I also had two bemused cats giving me withering looks as i’ve taken way too long to feed them theirs. I ended up penning this entry instead of the one I was originally planning to. Here’s to a more successful rest of the week.