A couple of months ago my Debian desktop ran out of space in the root 
directory. That should not have been a big deal to fix, but I somehow 
screwed it up and rendered the box unbootable. After a couple of hours of 
not getting anywhere, I figured evrything important is backed up so I'll 
just start over. 

Everything important was not backed up.

The source Markdown for 20+ years of blog posts on ODonnellWeb.com were 
apparently not backed up.

Fuck me.

I maintained the site with the Pelican SSG. It's not a catostrophie as 
all the HTML online is fine. I just have no way of managing the site 
without the massive task of converting 800+ blog posts back to Markdown. 
The creator of Pelican generously offered his help if I needed it. 

I had chrisod.org just redirecting to ODonnellWeb, and free blog hosting 
via my membership at omg.lol. So I took the easy road and just continued 
the blog at chrisod.org. It's not likely anyone is paying attention to my 
blog anyway! I do want to eventually merge everything back together 
again, but I'll readily admit that is a very backburner project. I 
redirected the RSS feed so if I have any RSS subscribers they probably 
didn't even notice.

Take the lesson kids. Make sure everything important is getting backed up 
to a remote drive.