It Wasn't Heat Stroke

"Colors"

My skin is kind of sort of brownish
Pinkish yellowish white.
My eyes are greyish blueish green,
But I'm told they look orange in the night.
My hair is reddish blondish brown,
But it's silver when it's wet.
And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.

~Shel Silverstein

Today’s Exploit:

Today Matt discovered the reason the computer on the rig floor keeps doing the freak-out.

It works happily until he goes to slide, or change the direction of the well.  Then “KA-BAM”.  The screen locks up and the mouse stops working and the keyboard says, “Nuh uh”.

So we have to restart it and let it get running and open its programs.  

Then we can send the screen he needs.

First we thought it was the heat.  

It’s really hot.

So we propped it up on a giant bolt to allow air to circulate underneath.

It seemed to work for a while, until the next time Matt had to slide.

After re-sending the screen a few times this morning Matt called to tell me he’d solved it!

The computer works just fine, until he sets his iPhone next to it.  

Who knew?  A phone can shut down a computer just by being in the same air space.  Not even the fancy-schmancy programs that let you start the car or turn on the burglar alarm from far away.  

All it took was being within a couple feet of each other.

Technological magic.