This is one of those days. Since i were on a course for a week, my Windows domain login expired. I managed to log in to my computer this morning but after lunch, my screen was locked and so was my account. So i try to give A and B, our friendly sysadmins, a call. Neither phone answers. Turns out that B is on holiday and i’ve got A’s number wrong. I can’t check the right number using Nokia’s Mail For Exchange, which gets the number from the company’s AD, because — well — my Windows account is locked.

So i give our service desk orchestrator P a ring, and she connects me to A who immediately answers and tells me that he’ll unlock my account and he’ll send me the new password over SMS. Well, immediately after congratulating me on the spectabulous way i’ve managed to lock myself out. I so agreed.

At a quarter past five there still is no SMS, so i expect dear Mr. A sent the new password to my work number instead of my personal number. Well, since i changed to another business unit, i changed my phone number as well (the BU used to be another company and we’re still under the old phone number series). But i can’t call A because i don’t have his number, i can’t check his number and i don’t want to bother P whose working day has ended anyway. No worries, i’ll contact him over Messenger.

Dig this: i don’t have my Messenger password. I know i changed it a while back and now evidently, i can’t recall it. On my Windows boot, i would have it cached, but … well, that’s right, my Windows bit is locked.

Last resort: fire up Linux, surf to Live.com, ask to reset the password. Live.com refuses to accept my captcha using Konqueror so i fire up the ‘Fox and ask Live to send the password request to my “alternative e-mail”. I’ve been watching my GMail account since. Nothing there yet. This is just one of those days. Thank goodness for my Linux partition.

Update: Turns out the reset-your-password message had been filtered as spam :). The road to recovery starts… tomorrow.