Podcast Headache

This hobby will either drive me crazy or create a career for me... My lack of techical knowledge and just pure bad luck is making it difficult to create my last episode of the year. Yesterday, I bought an USB microphone just to realize that my laptop's soundcard will not work with it. Today I decided to create a "year end show" and have spent all evening putting together clips in Audacity just to have it crash and lose all my work.... ARGGH!!!