Dammit! One step forward, two back-- I got the new drive for my laptop, but now the Dngrlab computer, the one with all my backup data, went south.
I got permission to pick up a 2TB NAS for backing up everyone's laptops, but now I have to find a SATA-eSATA cable or enclosure so I can restore all my data.
... and now I can't remember where my blog data was on the old drive. Hopefully that was backed up, or I will be weeks digging through email traffic finding all the entries.