doo dah

Published by Pyrofenix under Main on November 20, 2007

With the health issues of my (step)dad recently - he had surgery on Monday and is back home now - it appears that I will be doing more inspections as an overflow inspector. I’m in my second straight week of doing inspections and while the first few days were a nice change of pace rather than sitting in the office.

In prep for the following days inspections, several pages of maps are printed to keep from getting lost. It’s a big waste of paper at the end of the day, but now i’m considering picking up one of these new Asus Eee PC in combination with a GPS (especially if I can get work to at least cover part of the cost.

The tiny notebook comes with Xandros (a flavor of linux) installed but will run windows. I hate the idea of replacing linux with windows but we use a specific map software for windows only and this device seems like it could be a nice gps device. The flash hard drive isn’t exactly abundant so dual booting would be a waste of space.