In a fit of sudden inspiration, I downloaded ICQPro, restored my old, ancient, musty ICQ contact lists from a gazillion years ago, and all of a sudden, my ICQ contact list is repopulated with a zillion aliens from out of nowhere, long forgotten, long lost to the sands of time.
It's amazing--all the ICQ chat histories, the treasure trove of memories, good, bad, ugly, all, coming back to life. It's amazing.
It's very very late, and I'm very, very sleepy; this has just opened the floodgates to an entire overwhelming flood of emotional memories. More next time, perhaps. Sigh.
Goodnight.