I don’t read emails. I mean, I used to. When they were new and novel. But the past fifteen years, I have been inundated with all manner of “chain” emails, sales, and stupid jokes…so along the way I just stopped reading them. Ask Mike Rucks, he will tell you. He was my Farnam rep while I was at Co-op and it took him a year or two to catch on. But see, here’s the thing. If it was really important, he would come by. So technically, I’m a product of my environment. 

Well, anyway. Now that I’m a DOMAIN owner, emails evidently have a new level of importance.

You’re probably wondering why I’m writing this on here instead of my sparkling new blog, as promised.

Well, I’m getting to that. 

It has to do with reading emails. Or not, if you wanna get technical about it. 

So I go to login tonight and I can’t. I thought I had inadvertently reset my password so I hit the little “forgot password” located oh-so-conveniently at the top, just there.

“Email not found” it spat back.

Well, that’s just garbage. WordPress has been nothing but a headache from the get-go. So I moved to step 2. “Check that spelling is correct.” Of course it’s correct. I may not know what 8×7 is, but by George, I can spell!!!

Step 3: Validate that you have a wordpress.com account and not a wordpress.org

Hmmm. Now there’s a possibility. So I try to log in over there. No dice. I keep reading. It instructs me to go to “Recover account”. It asks me all these hard questions about transaction id numbers and url’s and a whole mess of other crap. I scan my emails (alllllll my accounts, which takes some time). I get my credit card bill. I got nothin’ like what they want. I login to Bluehost, they’re good people and have never failed to help me. And I go to the frequently accessed “Help” menu. I know just where it is. I type in my latest problem. So it gives me a variety of reasons why I could potentially be locked out, including something about a validation email. This gives me pause. Seems like I skimmed something about that. 

The title, you all will be delighted to learn, included the words “Verification” AND “Action Required.”

How ’bout that.

Turns out, the email expired after two weeks (which was today, even though it seems like I’ve been fooling with this crazy thing for eighteen years) and it instructed me to request a new one.

With no handy link button.

This required further digging. I was well and truly aggravated by this point and it was nobody’s fault but mine. To the help tab I go. Again. And find the steps to take to get the email resent (I mean, is it THAT hard for the computer gurus to give me the link right where it tells me to request it??) and I accomplish getting the second email sent. IT comes over immediately and really, it took less than two seconds to click what I needed to.

Sigh of relief as I sit back and go to sign back into wordpress.

And it still doesn’t recognize me. 

I hit the roof. “Nothin’ but problems!! WordPress has been NOTHIN’. BUT. PROBLEMS since the BEGINNING!!” I rage. Bluepress will help me. I dial them up. I select my menu on the automated system while I read more about this validation email.

I’m on hold for the next available associate when I see it: “It may take 24-48 hours for your login information to be recognized after you have been locked out”.

HOW NICE.

I hang up. Somebody in New York probably heaved a sigh of relief. I’m sure they’ve got my account and phone number flagged up there.

So, long story short, I didn’t read a Very Important Email this one time and caused myself a lot of undue stress and aggravation. And I can’t be mad at anybody but myself this once. And I HATE IT when that happens.