The universe has it out for me.

1. I have VirtualBox up and running just fine on my half-broken host.
2. I wanted to install TinyME.  But I deleted my ISO.
3. For some reason, I wasn’t able to boot up off of the CDROM.
4. Then I tried to turn my burned CDROM back into an ISO, but graveman spat out an error.  Fine fine, whatever.  I’ll download it.
5. Next I learned that the ISOs were taken offline, so I can’t download them.
6. But I hunted around and found that Sourceforge still had an ISO.
7. I booted into it, installed TinyME and everything was happy.  I used the snapshot feature a few times.
8. I did some extra steps and I wanted to revert to an earlier snapshot.  I learned that I couldn’t boot into an earlier snapshot and continue a new branch from there, I was forced to discard my current snapshot.
9. Ok, I abandoned my work and started from an earlier position.
10. But now VirtualBox’s “install guest additions” feature does nothing when I select it.
11. I tried unmounting, re-mounting other cdroms, restarting the machine, restarting VirtualBox, starting another machine that had the guest additions and it worked.  Somehow this TinyME virtual machine couldn’t do this anymore.
12. Reverting to an even earlier state didn’t help.
13. I tried deleting the virtual machine, but couldn’t!  Somehow things were corrupted.
14. I exited VirtualBox, manually deleted the files on the disk and restarted VirtualBox.  It complained.  I still had to dip into menus and delete bits and pieces of the virtual drive before it could be removed.
15. I installed TinyME from scratch in a new virtual machine.
16. But now I can’t update – ibiblio.org went down.

Does the universe work like this for anyone else?

UPDATE:

I posted this blog, powered down the virtual machine .. and ibiblio c <and just now, another tab popped up an expiring wiki edit page, arg!> and ibiblio is back up again.