I forgot the network password! This sucks.
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\nFirst, sorry for the hiatus. I’ve been getting used to my “other” job working at City Hall. Now that I’m into the groove of things, and life has stabilized somewhat, I’d like to return to my thrice-weekly blogging habit. There’s a lot to catch up on!<\/p>\n
First, the embarrassing thing that happens to everyone: I forgot the network password. Well, not really the network password, but the router’s password.<\/p>\n
The network password I can remember. Even though it’s about 14 characters long and I made it up on the spot, for some reason I just have it in my brain. Yes, it has the requisite number of upper and lower case letters, a number or several, and various symbols. And I remember it. Odd.<\/p>\n
Well, I probably remember it because I’m always using it. Every time I get a new phone, I have to type in the password on the touchscreen. Such painstaking tasks enforce memorization, I suppose.<\/p>\n
The router password? I think I typed that in only once, when I first set up the router. I probably wrote down that password, but I forget where I put it.<\/p>\n
I often put password in reference books, usually appearing as innocuous margin notes. I must have discarded the reference book that contained the router’s password!<\/p>\n
Anyway, the problem is easy to fix: Hard reset the router, then connect using a browser on a computer. A few seconds later, the router’s setup program is begging me to input a new password.<\/p>\n
So I did.<\/p>\n
I also wrote down the new password.<\/p>\n
In fact, I grabbed a reference book into which I would ensconce the new password. It would be a fit place I would never forget and always remember to look in whenever the odd chance would come that I would forget the router’s password.<\/p>\n
And, lo, there on page 395. In the margin. In my own handwriting, was the router’s password.<\/p>\n
Not only that, it was the very same<\/em> password I just applied to the router. The very same. Why I didn’t just try that password right away is beyond me. Regardless, I had little to write down. The adventure was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I forgot the network password! This sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}