Haha no worries, of course I'll bear with you, don't worry :)

What I forgot to say earlier, is that there has been some difficulties lately with the steemit chat, in the last couple of days, so it could be just a technical problem.

It should normally work with your steemit log in info yes, but otherwise you could create another account just for the chat.

Meanwhile, I'll ask around see if I can get any info on when this could be solved. Normally it doesn't last long :)