The glitches of yesterday have been rectified. The front door was fixed today (just inform my head teacher, she calls the propery manager, and the job is done before I return). Turns out they do have a key to my place - he locked the door after he was finished (which sent all sorts of worries when I found that upon my return - just think if Mr. FedEx came by after the repair? another delay in HD reunification).
After unlocking the door, I found that such was not the case. A nice cardboard box was waiting for me. I nearly fell over it jumped so high against me! I calmed it down and quickly replaced my hard disk.
debian is up and running. And smooth. Just need to spend a few solid hours setting it up the way I like it. Ah, the hands-on hands-on-ness of linux. Remove programs that I won’t use, add others that I will (need the skype among other things), and burn the debian iso’s (thank god there’s a Japan mirror).
And did some planning of the old doco today.