The Blue Screen of Death

If you know what that phrase means, you can feel my pain. After over a year of loyal service climbing on roofs and banging into doorways, my work tablet pc is going through some tough times. Yes! I am actually using it for work as it has once again picked up and I'm out in the world protecting the interests of buying real estate clients in the greater metro Austin area.

TBSoD, as it can be referred to, is basically a complete shit-down of a system caused by one of 1.4 million different things. It renders the pc worthless, giving an infamous blue screen with way too much technical information, until it can recover or become the latest door stop. Well after some trouble shooting on the interwebs, I think I have an idea what is going on. Since I am out driving around all over the place every work day, I have been plugging my power cord into a "cheap" convertor that enables a regular grounded plug to receive power from the cigarette lighter of a car. Well apparently the pc/software doesn't like this and refuses to work in this environment.Tisk-tisk. It has been performing flawlessly for the last couple of hours, even through a couple of restarts and I am playing with the settings now and going to road test it tonight on the couch to see if it will behave.

So on this mornings inspection, I had to write everything down on a piece of paper on my clip board (gasp) and then transfer the data into the reporting software after getting back home. In a vain attempt to earn some brownie points, thinking I may be able to bribe the pc with them, I helped two old ladies cross the street, gave a panhandler some peanut butter crackers and didn't say "fuck" once today. Well it looks like my good deeds are going noticed!