ELIZABETH CURSES

It all started innocently enough. Blogger, the program Quills use to present these blogs, started promoting a new and improved version.

I ignored it. My experience with new and improved programs has been that they suck. Wide. In nine dimensions.

The promotions became more urgent. It became harder to get to the old program. I cursed and gave in to the point that I investigated what was involved in the change-over.

It required me to set up an account with Google.

I didn’t want an account with Google.

Why? Simple. Google wanted an email address for the account. I have only one, and I don’t hand it out to everyone who asks—especially the owner of a worldwide search engine!

I went back to the old Blogger program and picked my way through the increasingly fraught minefield in order to blog.

Then I was told that I couldn’t do it the old way anymore. I had to do it the Google way.

Or else.

After blistering the paint in my office with my delight at being coerced into something I never wanted in the first place, I gave in and started to set up the account. Cissy, my web guru/goddess/miracle worker said for me to use my Writerspace email addy.

I didn’t know I had one.

(Like, duh, do you really think I go out and LOOK for ways to spend more time on my computer?)

Cissy said she’d register for me under the old password with the new email addy.

All is well, right?

WRONG.

My new username and password weren’t accepted.

Why? Simple. I hadn’t answered the email Google sent to the account I never use. Until I answered the email, I wouldn’t be officially registered.

Naturally, I tried to access my new email.

Didn’t work. Went nowhere. Neenered me in the extreme.

Cissy said she’d go to my Writerspace email and answer the Google email and all would be well.

Um, NOT.

Cissy can’t get to the account.

Why? Damned if I know.

Damned if she knows.

Just plain damned.

When last heard from, Cissy was “playing in the server.”

*several hours pass*

*Elizabeth chooses fireproof paint for office*

*repaints*

*Cissy passes miracle with server.*

I'M BLOGGING AGAIN.

SUCCESS!!!!!

If you don't count the fact that half my work day is down the toilet.

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