Another comfort today has been the music of the Indigo Girls. Good lord I like them. I believe that "Touch Me Fall" is my single favorite of their songs, in part because it is different from most of their music - harder, weirder, more electric. It has three distinct parts, each one faster, and the third part I swear could easily be an Allman Bros or Lynyrd Skynyrd or Dickey Betts Band song. Something about the lyrics always puts a catch in my throat. It's dreamlike, sad and it just makes me feel wistful and melancholy. nd Karen Carpenter was on the radio. It is eery how similar their voices are.

A catalog of things that have screwed up or worse - that I have screwed up in the last 48 hours:

- I broke a machine at WREK in my quest to get Oracle installed on it, one that handled the whole e-mail system, and all internal web interfaces

- Syncing it this morning to get my fresh Plucker stuff, my Handspring did a hard reset, requiring a full reinstall (automatic but took time) of all my stuff onto it.

- My Linux box at home hung for no apparent reason, requiring a hard power down reboot

- My autologin from that box to my webhost via the SSH key exchange stopped working at the same time, whether caused by the crash or not. I can't get it working again.

None of these things is huge in and of itself, but the conflation of all of it is just wearing me out.