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[kirkcudbright]

The laptop hard disk is dying dying dying a noisy and painful death. HD Tune claims that there are no SMART errors, and no low-level scan errors, and it's not running hot or anything. But (at decreasing intervals) the drive motor makes horrible double-plus-un-good noises, and it blue-screens. Current plan is to replace the drive before (rather than after, as is my habit) it completely fails, so that I can (hopefully) recover data from it.

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In skating news, it was the last class of the summer session, and it was full-stop the best I've done this session. I did creditable (but small) loop jumps, attempted (and executed) the waltz jump-loop jump combination, attempted (and managed once) a loop-loop combo jump, got the closest I've ever gotten to a real scratch spin, and attempted the scratch spin-back spin combo.

Still, I didn't pass freeskate 4 - I still have to do the sit spin, and nail the waltz-loop combo - but I felt really...hopeful about it. I want to line up a private coach for the fall session, because I'm so hopeless at spins that there's got to be something fundamentally wrong with what I'm doing, that group instruction has failed to address.

I feel like I'm approaching my Peter Principle limit WRT skating, but dammit, I want to at least pass this level. And even if I don't, I (dammit) want to learn to spin (dammit).

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[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Wow! Combination jumps! That's so cool. And I'm totally jealous of the spinning--that's the part of skating that I would most like to be able to do. After, y'know, standing up. :)

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