Hello again!

AGAIN? Yes, again....

At the moment it's a big bone of contention in our house.
I joined the wonderful, fairly new, community of Steemit on the July 20, 2016. At the time I was one of only 28000 users.

This is me

• My name is still Naómi-Louise
• I'm still from Pretoria, South Africa
• I'm still married and a stay-at-home mom of two girls aged 6 and 2.

This is me then

Here’s why I have to start … Again… When I registered there was no Facebook authentication and no 52 character password awarded. You chose your own password. I got a very long and very involved speech from my husband not to ever forget my password.

Brute force hack

Hundreds of passwords were brute forced around the time I joined. My husband being one of them. Shortly after, there was a freeze on all new sign-ups while the problem was solved and upgrades were made.
Since I joined I stayed logged in and posted and voted often. I once logged in on my cell phone to vote, but found it too laborious to type my password in every time.

The bone of contention

Recently I went on holiday and knew I wouldn’t be posting to Steemit so I logged out. Returning from my holiday I tried to login, but the system keeps saying ‘Incorrect Password’. My husband gives me ‘the look’ and keeps using the words ‘forget your password’ and ‘lose your password’.

I didn’t do either!

No, I didn’t back-up my password (because it wasn’t a something I would forget or lose). Bearing in mind that before I had my kids, I was a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems and fixed assets accountant. I know what I was thinking when I chose my password and typed it in TWICE. For the past three weeks I’ve tried in vain to decipher what could possibly have gone wrong. It’s driving me bonkers! I don’t have a solution and I don’t know what caused this. It might be that some characters or numbers didn’t enter when I typed it in the first time (TWICE!) Who knows? I certainly don’t, but I’m still hopeful that somebody else in the Steemit community experienced the same problem and has some advice. There has to be a reason other than ‘lost/forgot your password’. I’m just not seeing it and certainly not ready to accept failure yet.

So here I am

I’m not new. I’m still just me. I still think in songs, I still occasionally like spending time on my soap box, I love my job as a full-time mom and wife (mostly in that order).

I’m starting again again because Steemit rocks and @jacor and I’m going to the Steemfest in November! Whoop-Whoop!!

Over the next few days I’ll repost all articles from my previous blog @naomi-louise. Those posts are who I am. I’m just that obstinate and want to have some sort of history in my new account so you’ll know it’s still me, myself and I.

From now on I’ll be @naomi.louise

Please follow me and help me rebuild what I’ve lost.

I like to Steemit, Steemit!! I like to Steemit, Steemit!!