Okay, so overnight really means overnight ...
The drive arrived this afternoon. Gentoo is attempting a Stage 2 install right now. The first attempt failed on the emerge system. I'm attempting emerge -u system right now. If this fails, hello Debian (and hours upon hours configuring X, etc.).
Tomorrow night is the big New Years Eve Party. It'd sure be nice to have something purty to show off ...
Posted from exitwound.org.