Alright well I think my repaired iMac is up and running and not giving me any troubles. As a bonus, this new hard drive seems to like Lion much better than the last one did, maybe because this one is a Lion native and the other one started out a Snow Leopard or whatever.  About the only thing that is forever lost is my little spreadsheet that I made that recorded how awesome I am- by counting all the miles I ran and pushups I pushed and so forth. Though the fact that I kept such a spreadsheet perhaps cancels out any awesomeness....
Speaking of awesome, Avengers. Yeah, you already knew that. We finally got to see it. Worth the wait. That Thor Hulk fight was waaaay better than the one from the made-for-tv-movie, The Death of the Incredible Hulk: