It`s been a while. Reading has become rather monotonous, lacking in variety and interest. By that I mean I really have no interest in reading and looking at photos and videos of his face and mouth which lips reminds me of a dead fish as he sucks his last breath of air. It sickens my soul to read any thing associated with this crook and his followers. So I just limp along and wait for what`s in store going forward.
But read I do. This diary by elfling caught my attention in more than one way. I note that July is reset your password month is one way it caught my attention. One other way is that I caught the diary during my morning routine of checking in to see how the community is faring...and behaving. All is good as far as I can tell.
But the real issue that has me back is that it caught me by surprise because I had been having trouble logging-in to my personal email account because someone must have stolen my password. Since I do not have a dog, I cannot blame it on him, but when I tried to enter my password to read my mail, I got rejected, as having entered a wrong password — and rerouted to a form from AT&T asking that I open an email account with them. No matter how hard I tried to enter my account with my password, even using the form AT&T provided I could not.
In other words, I felt being forced to change my password. So `elfling`s` diary was right on time for me. Or maybe my old password had become so old and rancid that it was rejected as being toxic-old, needing to be changed.
Long story short, it doesn`t surprise me. Many times I have read and seen the same advise of why it is so important to change one`s password periodically, and if I had followed that advise I could have opened up my email and read what is now lost forever.
I became so frustrated that I opted to forgo my original email account that I had used for some time and opened a new email account with new user name and password. I must have lost many emails in my inbox but not being a fan sending out many, I don`t think it really matters.
One thing that does matter, is that even if I have an account with a Tech Support Guy website which I visit on the regular basis, I have learned that on one, and I mean no one, can help with a password question. That is why one must always write password and save it in a safe place. I am so lazy that I never kept a record of saved passwords and always running into the same problem that I write about today about my lost personal emails and inbox. Not only am I lazy by not keeping my passwords in a safe mode, I even sometimes forget passwords to enter certain areas of the internet where I had an account. The latest loss has taught me a good lesson as I made sure to make a record in writing as I changed my journey here and elsewhere.
So I`m taking the time today and follow the advise I found about changing the password. Today I changed my Daily Kos website password. The email address in my profile has also been changed — keeping only my user name of ole Texan. I have often wondered why I keep using this `user`s name` for so long since I do not live or frequent that state for many years since I escaped north and settled in Wisconsin — Milwaukee to be precise.
So again, thank you elfling for the reminder. You have me as an example of why it is so important to change a password. For me it was a must……….,
To be sure, after following instructions and changing my Daily Kos password, I logged off. To verify my changes I tried go log-in with the same password that I had just changed and I was denied.
I again logged-in with my new password and it worked. I have made a note to again change my new password in six-months. I think folks that like me, are lazy and do not keep passwords written and kept is a safe place, I guarantee you that you will remember this diary.
Other than the above foregoing I really have nothing to add. As I note in the beginning, to read and write about the racism virus that has infected so many of our folks both personally and politically I have chosen to stay clear of the storm.
Pretty soon I will reach my ninetieth birthday. All the years I`ve hung out with you here on site I have chosen to keep my personal privacy about age. I am tired yes, but I mention this today to assure you that during my life`s journey I have seen and felt the virus of racism that I voiced above. I will not bother you with the list of nationalities that have suffered the same fate as today`s Mexico`s brown children along with children from further south of the U.S. border.
I have faith that in the end, as I see it coming closer that these children, one by one, will turn out to be my hero. It is clear to me that the southern border politicians have sacrificed with great pain their own countries future by sending their children into battle. They never sought a fight, only a better life and when they were arrested and separated from their own mother`s arms and placed in cages, this country made a fatal mistake. Mexico`s history is replete with stories that tell of its children liberating their nation with similar sacrifices as I am witnessing today.
This is my own personal take after all I`ve seen in my lifetime. Today I came in peace to fix an important matter that will keep me among you for many more years to come. After my one-hundredth birthday everything I`ve seen and read hopefully will become moot.
It was rather easy for me to write this diary. As I note above I am a very old brown man. One of the last standing good Chicanos that takes note that I have seen this movie before. It fades me no more. I guarantee you, we too will survive like the past generations of people that came to this country in peace from abroad to seek better lives for their own.
We are no different but the enemy is the same.
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