{"id":379,"date":"2009-02-03T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-01-31T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T19:16:43","slug":"the-ghost-and-my-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/the-ghost-and-my-television\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost and My Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My house\u00a0has a half-deaf ghost that\u00a0likes watching TV on Saturday mornings.\u00a0 Weird.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example… I get up on Saturday morning at 7:00am and the RCA television in the\u00a0family room is on\u00a0with the volume at\u00a0full blast.\u00a0\u00a0This is odd because I was the last one to bed and I made sure the TV was off.\u00a0 Even stranger, the last channel we watched on Friday night is not the same channel that is on Saturday morning.\u00a0 Finally,\u00a0we never watch TV with the volume turned up that loud.<\/p>\n

If this only happened once, I’d just write it off as a fluke.\u00a0 However, it’s been happening regularly for over a year now.\u00a0 It’s not every Saturday morning, but at least once or twice a month.\u00a0 Not on weekdays … not during the evening … only on the occasional Saturday morning.\u00a0 Crazy!<\/p>\n

I’m a pretty analytical guy, so I started investigating…<\/p>\n

I’ve tripled checked the programming on the television.\u00a0 There is an option to schedule the TV to turn on\/off, however, it’s not enabled and there are no day\/times in the system.<\/p>\n

I’ve owned this television for years, but didn’t start having this problem until about a year ago.\u00a0 So I checked with my neighbors, thinking perhaps their remote control was powerful enough to affect my TV.\u00a0 No luck there.\u00a0 They don’t own a RCA TV, they don’t own a universal remote, and they don’t watch TV on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

It happened again this past Saturday morning, but this time the TV was already on.\u00a0 My two-and-a-half year old daughter woke up at 6:30am on Saturday.\u00a0 Nothing like being woken up on the weekend really early.\u00a0 yay.\u00a0 She wanted to watch Disney cartoons and I wanted to sleep,\u00a0so we compromised.\u00a0 I let her watch cartoons in the family room on the couch, while I slept on the couch next to her.\u00a0 About 30 minutes later, she\u00a0woke me up and she was obviously unhappy.\u00a0 When I fell asleep, the TV had been on the Disney Channel.\u00a0 Now it was on the A&E channel with\u00a0the volume\u00a0full blast yammering\u00a0about Adam Sandler’s career.\u00a0 My daughter hadn’t left the couch and the\u00a0remote was placed up high out of\u00a0my daughter’s reach.\u00a0 The ghost had struck again.<\/p>\n

After a year of hunting this down, I’ve come to terms with the fact that we have a half-deaf ghost who likes Saturday morning television.\u00a0 I guess there are worse things a ghost could do to us (I still have terrifying memories of seeing ‘Poltergeist’ as a kid).\u00a0 I just wish the ghost had better taste in Saturday morning TV.\u00a0 If you’re a ghost and you’re going to watch TV\u00a0that early, at least watch some decent cartoons!<\/p>\n

Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3>