When I was a young kid, I read comic books, and always wished I'd get bitten by a radioactive spider and gain superpowers.
I did, in fact, get a superpower, but unfortunately the superpower wasn't the proportional strength of a spider and the ability to climb walls, no, my superpower is the amazing ability to spill my coffee.
I do it constantly, everywhere, all the time.
You can call me the Amazing Coffee Spilling Man. Not quite as catchy as the Amazing Spider-Man, but that's what we're going to have to work with here.
Anyways, I managed to spill my coffee on my laptop, and needless to say my laptop no longer starts.
I was going to get a new one anyway, but what shot my stress levels through the roof was the fact that some passwords that I had written pieces of paper were not working. Including my Steemit password.
Passwords that can not be recovered.
I was able to decipher my handwriting after numerous failed attempts, and now all is well. No need to worry. I have my Steemit passowrd, my money, and most of the passwords that weren't on pieces of paper were on my external, so not much of value was lost. Some projects, sure, but there's no use crying over spilled coffee.
The actually interesting thing was the fact that after all of this was resolved, after I made sure that I did not lose anything, and that everything is okay, my body was slow to react.
My heart kept pounding a railway train for very long after the fact.
I'm a very passive guy and a general master procrastinator, but the moment I realized that I have the passwords, et cetera, I started cleaning. I cleaned the entire house. I did some stuff that I don't even do that often, like clean my windows. I cleaned uncontrollably for hours.
I guess it's the adrenaline I got from the feeling of fear, which activated the "Fight of Flight" mode, which is a survival mechanism from back in the day when we were chased down by sabretooth tigers and whatnot. Basically the adrenaline you get from extreme fear forces you to move and do something, because otherwise you will get eaten.
Can anyone relate? Similar experiences?
Shit like this fascinates me to no end, so I'd be interested to hear.
You're not the only one who's good at spilling coffee Mr. Amazing Coffee Spilling Man ;)
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LOL
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I lost a thumb drive years ago with a Bitcoin wallet on it... Today it would be worth $10-14k if I were to ever find it again. I've hunted top to bottom for it but still to this day have had no luck! Who knows, maybe by the time I find it it'll be worth a lot more! Still after going on at least 5 years now I haven't been able to locate it. The house gets scoured clean periodically whenever I get an inkling to hunt for my buried treasure! Thanks for sharing!
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you wont believe it but since 2 days im trying to recover BTCs of one steemit user that lost password to his wallet ;)
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At least you aren't digging through landfills for it..
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I was fully expecting you to say that you cleaned your house to find your passwords ... then came the twist. 😃
I know what you mean about the adrenaline that comes rushing up after an exciting or frightening event. Sometimes I think it is spurred on by the fact that your brain was going a million miles an hour trying to figure out how to solve the problem (at least that's what mine would've been doing). And then it's hard to slow down once the problem has been solved. Is it really over?
Physical activity helps me get over it too ... at least yours was productive!
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I was going to get a new one anyway, but what shot my stress levels through the roof was the fact that some passwords that I had written pieces of paper were not working. Including my Steemit password.
So how can you get back into account steemit .. maybe you can share your..
Thanks..
Sory i dont speak english
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Haha you were hella thankful your steem password worked, you decided to spoil yourself after that
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Always have a hard copy of all your passwords. Then make a backup hard copy and keep them in different places.
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This shit happens to me all the time. Whenever I have a bunch of stuff to do, or something stressful is going on, BOOM I gotta clean the house. I think it's just the most immediate thing that can be fixed.
Congrats on NOT losing your Steemit password... I can hardly imagine a worse nightmare. I'm gonna go make another dozen backups now that I'm thinking about it... o_o
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Firstly, spilling the coffee so frequently can probably be remedied by drinking less coffee. This will both limit the instances for spill opportunity and reduce the caffeine and stop the shakes. But, there will be shakes fron withdrawals so don't go cold turkey.
Secondly, yeah, I have lost stuff, especially photos that I cant replace through bad backup practices. Afterwards, I clean up and vow to change my ways only to fall into apathy again.
It is like being caught speeding perhaps, changes behaviour in the short-term only. At least for me, but I am not the sharpest tool perhaps.
Thirdly, email me all of your passwords and I will print them immediately so there is offsite backup.
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Lol
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I'm glad that you found your password friend master @schattenjaeger. A Steemit without the @schat is not worth steeming.
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Maybe you should call him your "mentor" as well, I have actually seen that happen. It's an art, this commenting.
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I prefer to sit down until the feeling passes.
After situations involving a lot of adrenaline, I usually got physically sick and didn't feel like doing much of anything. But those situations were more extreme than losing a password.
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