I've updated my kernel and all my other packages and rebooted successfully. It took a bit of googleing along the way. Now I'm not too worried since it rebooted, but I did notice that my /lib is not symlinked.
Backstory:
When it came to one of the errors, I ran across this (http://allanmcrae.com/2012/07/updating- ... e-install/) and that lead me to the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De ... iki:usrlib) .
I ran into Issue 1. Everything updated fine, but the end check...
$ ls -ld /lib
shows
ls -ld /lib
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 22 11:50 /lib