So much easier

when they aren't flying...
Mute swan at Tommy Thompson.
Today has otherwise involved finding out why they recommend not doing yum upgrades of Fedora distribution versions, manual interaction with boot loaders, and running xfs_repair -L (the do-or-die version, that is–toss all the existing state information and assume it will reconstruct properly. To my great good fortune, so it did...)
With any luck at all, I'll stop twitching soon.