Its was a crazy couple days. Wednesday morning I was working as usual when I got a dreaded “blue screen of death” on my company laptop. The BSOD is not always fatal. It does cause a “hard stop” on your computer where you are forced to restart the machine. Many times you can restart and not have any more problems. Not this time. When I tried to restart I would only be able to start in “safe mode”. A mode that lets you get on your computer but with very limited functionality. After working with the HP help-desk remotely things only got worse. So bad in fact that the laptop would not fully boot up any longer. UGH!! So I couldn’t access email, tools, anything. I was screwed. No other options other than to scheduled an appointment to get the machine fixed next morning at HP headquarters in Palo Alto.
So for the first time in years I was going to the office, in commute traffic no less! It really wasn’t that bad. only took about 40 minutes to travel 15 miles to the office. I dropped off the laptop at the IT help station. The guys there said it would take about 4 hours to re-image the laptop and get everything working correctly again. So with a little time on my hands I went looking for my buddy Joe. Unfortunately he was not in the office yet. I took a long walk around the facility, had a cup of coffee. Joe eventually got to work and I hung out with him for awhile. After soup and salad lunch in the cafeteria my laptop was ready for pickup. Back home in no time! Thanks to Barb for taking a picture of me ready to go to work.
