thanks for the recommendation on going over to certbot-auto. after removing letsencrypt, I installed certbot-auto and ran the renew command:
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/mysite.com.conf
** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates below have not been saved.)
Congratulations, all renewals succeeded. The following certs have been renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/fullchain.pem (success)
** DRY RUN: simulating ‘certbot renew’ close to cert expiry
** (The test certificates above have not been saved.)
I definitely like seeing that! thanks for the tip!!
as an aside, can I see which email address I used when creating the certs anywhere?