Collections of her personal items / photos / memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies. Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. I once thought moving pieces around a Monopoly board was confusing with the railroads, and which properties were worth saving and which ought to be traded if any player even would trade. When the pandemic ends, the public will hear how important a Geek is to do these things, for the small price of $100 set-up. And changing passwords is not a problem at all. Passcode is not password how do I open my devices using numbers rather than one digit that has wavy lines unique to me? Go to my ledger and look that up: there, hand-penned with a ballpoint. Uh-oh, I’m not finished with this easy process: two-factor authentication. Oh, I have to do that again on my phone? Okay. But I have to enter it in the device, twice. Password finally done and took longer than it should. why! Who are all these people in space that know these about me! All right. And I shouldn’t use birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, old phone numbers. Could I remember those easily? Possibly if the other necessary things for a password were also meaningful. The ‘&’ looked like a musical symbol oh, let’s do symbols as the last step in creating a password! Okay, how hard can numbers be? We got four numbers. Writing out a dollar sign appears that I’m crossing out a big ‘S’ and the tic-tac-toe board had me want to play as its meaning as hashtag just isn’t in my memory bank. Let’s go back to the letters, I suggested, and also do the math symbols. A lower-case ‘l’ seems too much like the numerical ‘1' so that was out. They also might confuse me since I’d be handwriting those in my little ledger. An ‘s’ or ‘c’ ‘or k’ or ‘m’ or ‘n’ – oh, you get the idea. He said, ‘make it strong.’ Why isn’t a weak one as good since everyone will expect strong? I can remember weaker ones since those don’t need upper case, lower case, numbers, math symbols, and be at least eight letters long! Okay, how about a ‘p’ and maybe a ‘t’ to start? The ‘p’ might look both upper and lower case, so that was out, the ‘t’ when handwritten might look like a plus-sign. A real table, by the way, and not a counter with high stools that, at our ages, we’d have trouble even climbing on. Well, suggesting I change my password, and to something I might even remember, my husband and I sat at the kitchen table. Call my Guru grandson back he got my private information and took over my tech item here and dealt with the company. I looked in ‘settings.’ I never had that turned on, so what was I to do so the company can finish evaluating my trade-in?Īh. Go to Find My Phone, they said my phone was next to me so why should I ‘find’ it. Then came the e-mail: while my former tablet was ‘clean’ and such, some encoded item still present had to be removed. By phone, a grandson 400 miles away, ‘walked’ me through the transfer and erasing the previous device or order to mail to the company’s trade-in place for some cash-back. The computer store, although actually open in a local mall, was not going to transfer data from my previous one even if I’d gone in person, donned in a mask covered with a face shield for extra protection. My new iPad was ordered sight-unseen and mailed to me. A code was talking Pig Latin when I was pre-teen, holding the heavy black Stromberg Carlson telephone that was tethered to the wall I was sure my parents had no idea what ooh-yea meant. Home room closet held my outer coat, and that locker was to hold mandatory gym suit or my clothing when I put on the one-piece, balloon shorts, puff sleeve attire washed and starched by my mother. The combination lock on the steel rectangle in the Girls’ Gym, high school, had turn right/turn left/three numbers but I didn’t think of that as a ‘code. a Monopoly board warning or command? I never did take a pass/fail course, but I did pass the baton in relay-racing, got a hall pass to leave class during high school, heard an old song that said, ‘pass the ammunition.’Īnd code? In religious school, I learned about the Code of Hammurabi, some really important laws to deal with civil and criminal things. Seems medical records should be more private than emailing ‘hi, how’re you doing during this global crisis, and how’s your family holding up.’ On some medical portal, I could use the name I gave my childhood canary and that’s okay, but it isn’t strong-enough for my tablet and phone.
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