I totally trashed this blog yesterday and it is a miracle that you are reading this, or any other post I have written over the last four years.

I kept getting a notice from my web host to upgrade to PHP 8.0. If I did not, they were going to start charging me maintenance for my current version at eight bucks a month.

So, I upgraded all of my sites to 8.0. It broke my blog completely, anybody dropping by yesterday morning/afternoon would have seen nothing, or some PHP junk.

Fortunately, I had backed up my blog and it's database prior to the upgrade.

Anyway, I cranked up my dev box, and everything I did was not working. I tried upgrading my blogging platform from ver 3 to 4, and that just put the finishing touches on my blog. Dead to the world.

I was suddenly in a horrible state, realizing I had trashed four plus years of blogging. My only recourse was to recover my backup.

It was a complicated process, I'm getting drunk, I'm freaking out, but somehow I managed to recover this blog! When the site came back up I was screaming "yes" out to my neighborhood and running around like an idiot!

So here's the new reality: I'll pay the eight bucks a month to run an old version. I ain't changing nothing, rock on!