Me, too, I get lost in the libraries. I go looking for one thing and I end up somewhere else. My latest excursion was to track down a major automobile purchase from June of 1930 (fifty Cadillac V-16s). Well, two weeks and about thirty journals later, I've become an expert on the months of June, 1929 to December, 1930... I've yet to do this magazine article on the Cadillacs that's due next week, but I've gotten halfway into three other articles on the advent of the Great Depression...
I feel your pain. Thanks for your posts!