So the second weekend of 2009, I lost my desktop computer and my web hosting server within 24 hours.

Suck.

I lost all the posts from this blog and a great deal of content on my other sites.

Double suck.

I have to thank Twitter, Digsby, Gmail, Archive.org and my external backup hard drive. Friends on Twitter/Digsby offered great advice & support; Gmail archives all email on its server; Archive.org lets you access content from websites from years ago and the backup drive saved all my critical data.

This last week has been a blur, and somewhat exhausting. Add to the mad scramble to recover files, data and get close to 200 websites back up and running the fact that it’s snowed almost every night since the 9th, making it dangerous and stupid to try to go anywhere that’s not necessary. So there’s the cabin fever. I haven’t left the house in 9 days. We haven’t received mail (that includes much-needed paychecks) since Wednesday because of the snow, and tomorrow is MLK Day, so no mail ’til Tuesday. Unless it snows some more, I guess.

Bleah. Can we get a 2009 do-over?

ADDENDUM: I also need to thank Rock Star Energy Drink, Lifehacker.com and Pumpkin the Puppy. Rock Star for… well, that’s obvious; Lifehacker is an indispensable info source and Pumpkin is always ready with puppy lovin’ when I get stressed out. Never underestimate puppy lovin’.