WaPo Book World Editor Ron Charles was having a pretty tough morning. Not only is it dark and dreary out there, but he couldn’t get onto WaPo‘s website. That’s right, before 8:28 a.m., he was locked out of his own paper’s website. Whoever the genius is that makes WaPo‘s technical calls deserves a prize, or at least a free meal at Chop’t with the restaurant’s favorite consumer, Ezra Klein, for achieving this. Although we’re guessing Ezzy may have been able to help Charles out had he been in the neighborhood.

The much reported death of website passwords can’t come too soon for me. Am locked out of the Wash Post site this morning…. ARGH.

— Ron Charles (@RonCharles) May 7, 2013

And then the day got worse.

Now that it’s definitely raining very hard, I will walk to work….(sigh)

— Ron Charles (@RonCharles) May 7, 2013