I hope he listens to his father and doesn't fly to close to the sun

Human condition indeed. All I can add is, and don't let the ideals of interrogating cliches interrupt this thought, but the very thing that we as people despair over is a source for magnificent acts, and in performing these, is the very thing that makes us most vulnerable. So when we manage to achieve a high level of cognitive dissonance, lets not just go and rationalize it all away (incorrectly I might add), but let's open ourselves to something more and we might just find ourselves on the opposite side of despair. Sorry to be all magical/mystical towards the end bit there but I dont know what the right words are for my own recent experiences that are hardly unique and probably documented by someone, somewhere, already.

install console2 from sourceforge, install msysgit and have it add itself to your path, set your startupshell in console2 to the git bash, and you get all kinds of goodies including ssh utils

well at least they finally fixed having to click the cashew twice to close it after making various changes.