It's been one of those days! You know, where you sit at your laptop going crazy?
It all started with aol. Back in the days when I was a brand new computer user, I signed up with aol to start an email account. I used aol for several years then suddenly my account froze up. It wouldn't recognize me anymore, and I was no longer able to sign on. Oh yes, I investigated. I went on many aol sites and tried calling a lot of phone numbers and talked to a lot of machines. I even visited the Genius Bar at the Apple store... even they couldn't figure it out! So I gave up and opened a gmail acccount and everything has been fine since. As far as I know, though, the aol account is still out there somewhere in the ether, and unread messages are piling up in some unknown place.
Gmail is working fine. The only problem is, I had already used my aol address to set up my Blogger account, my eBay account and my PayPal account. I figured it might cause some problems somewhere along the line, but I would cross that bridge when I came to it. Well, this morning, I had to cross that bridge. I decided to start selling stuff on eBay. I had to re-enter my user ID and my password... then my email address!! Could I still use my aol address? I didn't think so. What if someone had to reach me about an item? Maybe I couldn't get paid without a working email address. That meant I had to change my email address with both eBay and PayPal!
I figured out how to change my email address on eBay. But then, eBay would not let me sign on to my account. I called several phone numbers and talked to several machines. FINALLY I got to a young lady on the phone. She helped me straighten it all out. I had to empty my cache and erase all my cookies. Then I had to change my email address on PayPal.
But I still haven't figured out how to change my email address on Blogger. I think I will leave that for another day. So, if some day when I go silent, you will know that my old email address has finally done me in!
Whew! I wonder if anyone has read this far... sorry for rambling.
2 comments:
My experience is that you will NEVER be allowed to change your email address in Blogger! I still have to use a very old Yahoo address. It's not the most intuitive service. And like you, I suspect that somewhere in the virtual postbox, many unread emails sent to my old e-address sit, waiting in the dark....
Still a thing of wonder, though, all this technology, isn't it!
A thing of wonder, yes... and a source of many mysteries for me.
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