I’m nearly positive the hard drive has some sort of wonkiness - it failed in the same way under slax. The dvd burner appears to be ok for the moment: I can burn from the command line, but k3b sends some funny options and makes the drive freak out. That’ll take some investigation. Wish I had tried slax before I downgraded and re-upgraded my debian - could’ve saved heaps of stress and time. piles of heaps, even.
Anyway, the school video should be ok, so long as I have enuf onboard hard drive space. If the dvd player is truly working, then I can free a lot of space before the frame grabbing commences.
Yesterday was the sports day at my school, and this time the weather was good. However, unlike previous years, I actually got to participate in events (only two, but two is infintely many more times than 0). The first was the dizzy race: sprint a bit, put your head on top of a baseball bat, spin around 10 times, and sprint 50 meters around a traffic cone. I was also part of the mukade relay - the centipede madness. Luckly, I was only tied to 3 other people, and not 9 like some students were.