Now what?.
Because I do want to continue my email notifications, and that I did not studiously analyze and document the process Cinn elaborated, I appear to have locked my ID after I tried to change the email from the old to the same old, rather than ONLY clicking the "Verify".
Exactly WHY that Studiously inept event occurred is because in my email, when I got Roligs response, I went to my dashboard and into my "change email" which I have no interest or intention of changing.
I will give it another try only clicking the Verify.