Well, i havent been on DA much at all till i started modeling again, but low and behold something else has to go and fuck itself up. My 120 GB Maxtor harddrive took a dive yesterday, system uptime was 69 days, now ive got bad blocks on my /home partition which was 100 gigs. ran maxtors utilities and my harddrive is 'failing' according to it.
So now i have to send it back, wait for a replacement since its under warranty, and reinstall gentoo which will take several days. Then get everything back up to normal, i figure it will take a few weeks.