Good morning, dear reader. This morning I found out what kind of computer runs the system for my radiation treatments. I’d never really paid attention to it before, but it turns out that it is a Windows machine. How do I know this? Let me explain.
As I was meditating upon the various joys of being bolted to cold pieces of furniture, I heard a familiar voice from around the corner and through the door. One of the radiation technicians posed the following question to her colleague, “Uh-oh, what is this? I’ve never seen this before.”
There was a short pause, then came his response. “That is called the Blue Screen of Death. Go tell him it will be a few minutes longer since we have to reboot the computer.”
She entered the treatment room and delivered the message. I don’t think I was supposed to have heard the earlier conversation.
So, an extra fifteen minutes on the slab today as they figured out what annoyed their system. Then treatment concluded as normal.
I left without giving in to the temptation of asking which version of Windows they’re running. They would have said 98, and I would have cried.
Let me be clear – I don’t trust my recipes to Windows machines.
<Gump> That’s all I have to say about that. </Gump>
