Phendrana Drifts

I recently had the task of going through my Mom's computer. I decide I don't want to fiddle around with hooking up a monitor and keyboard etc. to it, so I take the hard drive out and throw it in my computer. Boot my computer... all is going well. I copy the entire contents of her drive onto mine, restart the computer and open up the folder. Naturally mostly it is the bits of Windows and stuff that everyone has on their computer. I delete everything extraneous and move to the nuts and bolts of the operation. The internet history, as voyeuristic as it would be looking through some people's stuff, was pretty ordinary. Internet banking, news reading, a couple of online groups, nothing telling or even really personal. I wonder what you would all think if you read through mine?

I then go through her documents, and again, nothing really important for me to make note of. A good deal of work from her bible studies, some clever jokes, some other stuff for her small business on the side. I saved all that in a folder in my documents.

Then I setup Outlook Express to open her e-mail. It took a bit of effort, because I too use Outlook Express. I wanted the folders to be intact the way she used them, so I wanted the trash, sent items, everything. Her death was very sudden, so we didn't have all the time in the world to clean up any loose ends (or even discover what loose ends there were) and I thought we might glean something from her e-mail. Her inbox, trash and sent items folders were fairly large, so I knew there was bound to be lots in each.

I open it up and swallow hard. Her inbox had every single e-mail Allie and I ever sent her. That is it. Over four years of my e-mails to her and nothing else.

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