See you later

I'm going to be away, and mostly offline, for about a week. cattitude and I are spending a couple of days in Niskayuna, with lots of his family, and then I'm going up to Montreal. Amtrak seems to be treating this as a round-trip ticket to Montreal, and throwing in Schenectady free.

I may be checking email intermittently, but don't count on hearing from me until you get back. I probably won't get to do a week's worth of "previous" on my friends list, so if you need me to see something, please email me: I might not read that for a week, but I will read it.

See you later

I'm going to be away, and mostly offline, for about a week. cattitude and I are spending a couple of days in Niskayuna, with lots of his family, and then I'm going up to Montreal. Amtrak seems to be treating this as a round-trip ticket to Montreal, and throwing in Schenectady free.

I may be checking email intermittently, but don't count on hearing from me until you get back. I probably won't get to do a week's worth of "previous" on my friends list, so if you need me to see something, please email me: I might not read that for a week, but I will read it.

No, my memory's not that good this morning.

My bank wants me to start using their online bill-paying service, enough that they'll send me a $25 gift card if I use it three times by the middle of August.

So, I went to sign up. Created a userid, ignoring their advice to add random numbers to make one that's hard to guess, because I want one I can remember. I created a password. I then clicked to actually use the bill-paying service. It wants me to create a security key, 8 to 30 characters, with the usual "nothing that can be connected to you" suggestion, and a "virtual keyboard" that seems not to allow for punctuation. Presumably, for security, I shouldn't write that down either.

I realized that I'm not up to coming up with, effectively, another password that meets those conditions at the instant, and being sure I'll remember it next week. (Suggestions not needed, I know the tricks of that trade, but I'm mostly thinking about packing, tea, and such.)

No, my memory's not that good this morning.

My bank wants me to start using their online bill-paying service, enough that they'll send me a $25 gift card if I use it three times by the middle of August.

So, I went to sign up. Created a userid, ignoring their advice to add random numbers to make one that's hard to guess, because I want one I can remember. I created a password. I then clicked to actually use the bill-paying service. It wants me to create a security key, 8 to 30 characters, with the usual "nothing that can be connected to you" suggestion, and a "virtual keyboard" that seems not to allow for punctuation. Presumably, for security, I shouldn't write that down either.

I realized that I'm not up to coming up with, effectively, another password that meets those conditions at the instant, and being sure I'll remember it next week. (Suggestions not needed, I know the tricks of that trade, but I'm mostly thinking about packing, tea, and such.)