Rehearsal and Google

Two things come to mind for today. Google and last night's rehearsal.

What's up with Google? Well, they've been doing this thing where they're taking over various websites and implementing this sort of standardization of the logins across all of them. This login standardization is wreaking havoc with my logins because I had accounts on all these different sites before Google got to be a part of them. I did not always use the same email address when setting them up, so passing between these sites is nothing short of a chore. For instance, blogspot was not always a Google property, but Google adsense was. So I had a Google adsense account under my home email address, but this blog is actually setup under a completely separate email address to preserve its rather transparent anonymity. Then Google acquired blogspot. Adsense is an actual deal you can put on the blog, but since this blog is under a different email address than my adsense, I can't do that.

Even worse than that, though, Google acquired Youtube, and recently killed all the old logins to favor the email address it was setup under. It linked this email address to any other Google properties that also use that address. YouTube had my home address as the contact, so it linked that to the adsense stuff along wth the other Google stuff there. Where it gets really complicated is the Queen uses the home address for her Facebook login where I use yet another email address for mine. When Google came up with +, I figured it would be good to just use the same email addresses for that (not that we ever use it). Oh, and did I mention that I had used that home address on a completely different blogspot account to write some stuff up once?

This means that Google has managed to make a mess of my online life by trying to make it easier. In order to write this blog, I had to log out of the Queen's Google account (you know, cause it took the Google + account holder's name and made it the primary name) because I had logged into my YouTube account earlier today and login to this one. You could say I did it to myself, but at the same time, we share the home email address. This whole thing was only further complicated by the requirement of setting up a Google account for our Android phones and linking that to everything else.

Anyway, last night, I had my Wednesday night rehearsal for church. These days, I alternate between keyboard and bass, and last night I was on keys. We primarily worked on a single new song, but at the end of the rehearsal, the leader wanted to try playing through the song again on his electric guitar rather than his acoustic. He said anyone who wanted to go could go and anyone who wanted to stay could stay. Naturally, I wanted to stay because I like playing with people. I moved myself to piano to play the missing part since the piano player left as soon as she could get out the door.

It was very fun. It was just fun to just play because that's what it felt like. We decided we needed to get together and just jam, so he figured we'd wait till the first days of school wound down and maybe do something in the fall on a Saturday. I hope we can, because playing together when you're not cramming for a performance is invigorating.