Well, I've been watching Dead Like Me...a short lived series about grim reapers "living" among the living.  Pity it only had two seasons, it was a god show.  The main character has a lot of short internal monologues dealing with the various issues of being undead.  Basically the only good part of being undead is that they don't die (although catching small glimpses of other people's afterlife probably makes that seem like a down side) and they  heal quickly.  They still have to hold down jobs like the rest of us although one perk of actually being able to talk to the recently deceased (or heck, even being around them a lot) is that they can sometimes take stuff :D

And speaking of death *sigh* one of my wife's friends died recently.  Kind of hit her hard since he died of pneumonia and that's kind of similar to problems that have hospitalized her in the past...then of course there's the fact that he died at 31!!!  And speaking of taking dead people's stuff a little earlier, the guy's family left his 19inch monitor (CRT) in front of the dumpster so...I'm back at 1600x1200 :D

Also on computer parts...I've been experimenting with FreeNAS, a FreeBSD based network attached storage package including a few extras (can act as a router, FTP server, time server, etc).  A friend has me thinking that it might actually be good to start using Roaming Profiles on the home network.  If you're not familiar with that, basically, you can have it save all your files and settings to the server so you can access them from any of the computers on the network.  I wanted to do it myself but it's not looking good, I'll probably have to ask him about it.  Then I can set up a nice 500gig RAID5 (software) array on the server and our documents won't even need backing up for the most part.  It will also make it a LOT easier to set up or replace a computer, since all the documents and settings will be stored elsewhere.

Finally...for a random bit of information.  A few days ago I was taking a picture of a flower.  Nothing on the flower, I was standing on a patch of ground that didn't have anything on it, there's nothing important nearby...and a bee flew up from somewhere, landed on my hand and stung me.  WTF?