this is why too many online identities and forgotten email accounts are a BAD THING.

i was thinking about the last place i’d remembered seeing the email address of an old friend of mine, whom i haven’t seen in a couple of years, nor spoken to in the same while, and i figured that it would be on my ICQ contact list. and i thought, hey that’s great! i’ll find out the email address and then write an email saying hi are you still alive how’s it going i’m doing fine am in london right now don’t know when i’ll be back but what’s your mobile number anyway i’ll call you whenever i’m in town and we can go for drinks.

so i go and check out my icq list, but first have to download icq, then remember my password - which i can’t. so, to get the password, i have to remember the email address that i registered my original icq account with - which i can’t. i’ve tried really hard, tried all the possible combinations of passwords that i remember ever having, tried all the email accounts that i’ve possibly maybe owned, but nope, nothing.

sigh.

and it’s just going to sound really dodgy and demented if i email the icq people telling them my sob-story. so, for now, the email will just have to sit in my draft-of-a-draft folder (i.e. just in my head) and hope that my friend is actually a tea-leaf-reading psychic who can sense that i’m trying to get in touch and pre-empt me by sending me an email instead, saying it’s weird but i’ve been having dreams of you trying to contact me but you forgot my email address so i decided to see if it was true.

i knew all this identity switching and email account hopping would come back and bite me in the ass one day.