It’s been a week… Before we start I’m asking for help from the collective brain trust. Back in October I changed my cell # over from the one I’d been using since before I went to work in national security back in 2007 to a new one local to where I’m at. This, of course, locked me out of my gmail accounts because the 2 factor authentification were linked to the old number and, as one does, I hadn’t given it a moment’s thought that I should log in before the number was changed, turn the 2FA off or set it to some other option, and then proceed. Anyhow, after several weeks of banging my head against the wall I was able to find a work around for my primary gmail account – put the Google app on my iphone, go to log in, and you can bypass the 2FA number the first time, get a 2FA code sent to your email address, then log in with that and change the number on the account. Which I did. Unfortunately this didn’t do it for the account I use for Balloon Juice email. No matter what I do it won’t let me do that trick again on my iphone or ipad with the app. And the problem is I’ve just gotten and set up a new MacBook. Which I waited to do until I could find a solution to the log into gmail problem. iCloud account set up, no issue. Primary gmail set up, no issue. Balloon Juice gmail account, round and round and round I go never able to get to anything that lets me solve the problem.
It’s still set up and running on my iPad, but that’s only going to last until I get a new iPad. So if anyone has any useful suggestions – and since this is Balloon Juice, the emphasis as useful – please let me know in the comments. Right now my Balloon Juice email account of the accounts that John set up for us so you could contact us is set to forward to that gmail account. Which is what I was using as my contact a front pager account until John set up the special ones for us. If necessary I’ll just have him stop the forwarding, then set up that account on my new MacBook and on my iPad and iPhone and let my Balloon Juice gmail account go. But if I don’t have to, I’d rather not have that happen. So any useful suggestions are most appreciated.
And since I’ve now spent the past three and half hours trying to figure out how to fix this meshugas, and even though the rest of the set up including moving all of my stuff from my old 2013 MacBook Pro went smoothly thanks to easy to follow instructions from our own IvanX – remember jackals, IvanX for all your personal and professional computing needs!!!! – I’m now pretty fried and a fairly easy Friday has ended in frustration despite how nice this new machine is, which IvanX patiently provided guidance on so I’d get exactly what I needed! So I’m going to keep this short tonight so I can go put my head through cinder blocks or something else less painful than going round and round with Google’s “try another way” tab!
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier this evening. Video below, English transcript after the jump: