OMG, yes, it's going to be okay!!! 😁🍾🥳🎆 My backup of my WSL home dir happened to include my .ssh directory. That included a public key to allow me to login on the server as one of my standard users. And that user has permissions to elevate himself to root! 😎 With this, I can figure out everything else. I can just reset the email password on the other email account, and I can update my passwordless login and SSH keys. It's all going to be okay. 😌

Making progress! In a corner of one of my "throw way too many different kinds of notes all in here" file (which of course I back up *QUITE RELIGIOUSLY and in multiple ways*), it turns out I *did* have password hints for 2 of the 3 email accounts! Woohoo! Ofc, the 3rd is the one I use the most nowadays. 🙄 I probably wrote those hints before I set up the new account. Oops. But still, it's progress.

So, let me see if I've got this right: 1) Thunderbird didn't export my email passwords 2) That wouldn't actually be a problem IF I could still log into my remote server, because that's where all those accounts were anyway. I could just change them to something new. Except that I don't have that login, either. 🤦🏻 FML. Okay, so I'm locked out of my own email until I either guess my password, or get back in as root. Fucking hell.

Holy fucking shit, what the funking fuck. I backed up my Thunderbird (email program) profiles before nuking my old drive. I assumed that would include the passwords to those accounts. Why is it prompting me for my passwords? Which I don't fucking remember? 😰🤯

OMG, fuck, fuck, fucking fuckety fuck. I think I've figured out what I forgot to back up. My SSH keys for my remote server. They were all stored in my PuTTY configuration. 😰🤦 I may have just locked myself out of my own server. I only log in there something like once every 2-3 months or so, so I forgot that in my list of "things I do on my computer a lot". That's something to figure out later. Dammit. Fuck.

Okay. An hour spent writing, and not much word count, but I got some assistive files cleaned up a bunch. Now I guess it's time to destroy Windows and migrate to Linux. Yikes. Here goes. Leeroy Jenkins. Geronimo. The end of a (very long) era. Hope all of youse hear from me again soon.

Anyway, I'm putting some Irish Coffee into my mouth, in the hopes that caffeine will spur me to heights of productivity (while a little bit of whiskey loosens me up to write freely, and also keeps me from getting *too* wired). 🤞🏻   🇮🇪☕

Okay, if I can just get an hour of writing done tonight, then maybe I can go ahead and start that Linux migration... (Right? That'd give me *at least* 3 hours to get my system back into shape after writing and before I should get to bed... right?) Let's see what happens.