My power went out and the wallet gives me an error and closes when I try and open it. It's done this before and I just let it reload the blockchain and it's good to go again.
I have noticed that for that first minute after I open the wallet, it syncs like crazy. After a minute or 2, it almost seems to slow to a standstill. If I close it and open it again, it will tear through the blocks for a few minute, then its right back to a trickle.
Is that normal, or do I have some configurations out of whack?
Yep is a bug. Download latest blockchain backup for fast sync and restart wallet everytime when sync slowdown. Also you can put masternodes list from my previous post to transfer.conf
Latest blockchain backup:
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/transfercoin/Transfer.rar