People who have been on dead people's computers.

Did you find anything you wish you hadn't?

Good friend of mine had a major stroke and went into a coma.

Prognosis was not good and the family made plans.

Since I was the one that knew about computers, they asked me to go through his stuff and find pictures for his memorial service.

Two laptops and ten USB sticks later, I wanted to bleach out my eyes. My friend was a great

guy, but he was morbidly obese. Apparently had been renting out escorts and such from online

forums. They were far from pretty, and thankfully, my friend only appeared in a few pictures,

but had his clothes on. Out of about 10 gigabytes worth of images,

I was able to find five suitable for his memorial service. The toughest part was telling his

family that I could only salvage five photos. I told them the hard drives were corrupted. Yep,

I wiped them. No sense in letting them know what I found. On a positive note, I did adopt

his parrot until this day she keeps calling me by his name. I'm disappointed we did not get a name

for the parrot and I would also be pretty traumatized if I discovered my friend's USB stick

full of all of his fenangling with ladies of the night.

Turns out my brother was writing a novel and a ton of poetry. I always wonder if we should do

something with it. I'm not sure how completed it all is, but my cousin who went through it said

it was quite a bit of material. I'll seriously look into doing something with this now. I'm not sure

if I'll be back in the US until this late summer,

but I'll see if my cousin can upload the files somewhere next time she's at my parents' house.

There are also piles and piles of notebooks and journals.

Again, I'm assuming are his poetry and short story collections.

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