".........and the password is?" Allen Ludden game show host

Several of the group that went to dinner Thursday spent the night in Walnut Creek. We hung out in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Express both before and after dinner. It was very nice seeing everyone who stayed there, as well as the folks who just came to the restaurant.

I am finding out more and more people do the "she said" "he heard" game. At times it even happens with people not related. As I said, there were a dozen of us at the lobster table. We were in a sort of "private" room which was very nice. It looks like it may have at one time been a breezeway they enclosed. It's set up for three large and a couple of small tables. A nice area for dinner and conversation.

The topic of farmers markets came up so I tried to describe a very large one Saturday mornings in Walnut Creek. No one seemed to know the directions I was giving when I said, "It's on Ygnacio Valley Rd. and Wiget Lane." Karen who was sitting across from me looked over a few seconds later and said, "We got laid?" which set a "who's on first" short conversation. It was even funnier considering Karen is very quiet and probably the last person you would expect to say that.

So, we had a wonderful time on Thursday night and look forward to doing it again next year.

Passwords! A topic of conversation the other evening and again last night. Wanda and I each have a small pocket type phone book with our passwords in it, alphabetically. I just counted the ones I have in mine, fifty. I have fifty freakin' passwords off one sort or other in that little book. Ridiculous.

Yesterday afternoon Harriet called and one of the things she told me about was a download for a "password keeper." I thought that was pretty ironic. She also sent me a link to something on YouTube which is one of our new TV apps. We can use that, Netflix, Picasa and several others. Last night I did a search for Harriet's link and was blocked on the TV. I did get a prompt that referred me to my YouTube password for full access, right.

It was after eleven o'clock last night when I sat down to get my "full" YouTube access. I went to the site, looked in my little address book and entered my screen name and password. What I got rather than the website was:

"Please use your Google Account (cshu100@yahoo.com) password to sign in. We no longer support signing in with your old YouTube password."

This is a screen name I used with Yahoo I.M. They were asking for it so I figured they knew what they were doing. I went to my little address book, put in the associated screen name and password and:

Account Verification Needed The account you attempted to sign in to is not yet activated. The associated email address needs verification. In order to verify that the email address associated with your account is correct, we have sent an email message to that address. To activate your Google Account, please access your email and visit the verification URL provided.
To have the verification email resent to cshu100@yahoo.com            CLICK HERE


If you mistakenly entered the wrong email, please to change your email address.  CLICK HERE



I clicked on the first suggestion but wasn't able to get the account activated because I didn't have the correct password for the Yahoo E Mail account.

I then went to the second suggestion:

"A user with the email you specified already exists"

OF COURSE someone already exists with the email, it's ME you dummy.

I tried another sign in name, it didn't work, but I did try my Google sign in name, it didn't work either.

This blog is Google related, I tried this information, it didn't work either. Now I had a prompt that said I could sign in with my old YouTube account and "merge" that with my new Google account, so I did that. The first time I got another of the "that name is in use" the second time it asked if I wanted to sign up for a new YouTube account. I had nothing but time so I tried that:

"In order to sign you up for YouTube, we need to log you out of your Google Account before starting the sign-up process."

I didn't know I was signed IN so how in the Hell was I going to sign OUT? I don't know what I did, or didn't do. What I signed out of or in to. What I deleted and what I now have and I'm pretty sick of doing whatever it is I'm doing.

I am going to go ahead and turn on the TV, maybe I can sign in to something there. If not, I know I can watch something. It may not be YouTube, that's OK with me.