diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d3d1f0..fe2044a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [v3.6.2] - 2020-11-17
 ### Fixed
+- Re-open events.log if it's modified or removed while the daemon is running
 - Removed the "disabled" log, which was getting sent out way too frequently,
   and caused outages due to poor logic handling event queues
 
diff --git a/src/instance.go b/src/instance.go
index 8565d06..19593e8 100644
--- a/src/instance.go
+++ b/src/instance.go
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ type Instance struct {
 	jPuzzleList       []byte
 	jPointsLog        []byte
 	eventStream       chan string
-	eventLogWriter    io.WriteCloser
 	nextAttempt       map[string]time.Time
 	nextAttemptMutex  *sync.RWMutex
 	mux               *http.ServeMux
@@ -49,12 +48,6 @@ func (ctx *Instance) Initialize() error {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(ctx.StateDir); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if f, err := os.OpenFile(ctx.StatePath("events.log"), os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0644); err != nil {
-		return err
-	} else {
-		// This stays open for the life of the process
-		ctx.eventLogWriter = f
-	}
 
 	ctx.Base = strings.TrimRight(ctx.Base, "/")
 	ctx.categories = map[string]*Mothball{}
diff --git a/src/maintenance.go b/src/maintenance.go
index 399c103..44079ed 100644
--- a/src/maintenance.go
+++ b/src/maintenance.go
@@ -327,7 +327,13 @@ func (ctx *Instance) Maintenance(maintenanceInterval time.Duration) {
 		case <-ctx.update:
 			// log.Print("Forced update")
 		case msg := <-ctx.eventStream:
-			fmt.Fprintln(ctx.eventLogWriter, msg)
+			// log.Print("Writing events log")
+			func () {
+	 			if eventLogWriter, err := os.OpenFile(ctx.StatePath("events.log"), os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0644); err == nil {
+					defer eventLogWriter.Close()
+					fmt.Fprintln(eventLogWriter, msg)
+				}
+			}()
 		case <-time.After(maintenanceInterval):
 			// log.Print("Housekeeping...")
 		}
diff --git a/src/mothd.go b/src/mothd.go
index 36d033b..a61666e 100644
--- a/src/mothd.go
+++ b/src/mothd.go
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ func main() {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	defer ctx.eventLogWriter.Close()
 
 	// Add some MIME extensions
 	// Doing this avoids decompressing a mothball entry twice per request