Serendipity!

I'm happy to report tonight that, despite my best efforts, my new Cable/DVR box is hooked up, and operating perfectly.

So I'm driving along, and I come upon a detour. I'm in my town, just a part that I'm not too familiar with. I realized I needed to make a U-Turn, and when I did, I went into the parking lot of my cable TV company.

I have been wanting to get the DVR for a while, so I figured I'd ask what I needed to do to get one. The Lady at the counter was very nice, took my phone number, and told me that I could take the new box home right now. I could bring the old box back tomorrow, no problem.

Ok, that's not supposed to happen that way.

So I take the stuff and go home. I open the box, and inside the box was the cable box. Not a cat, not a bologna sandwich, not a brick. A cable box.

I take the cable box out, and the AC cord is there, as well as the coaxial cable. I connect everything, plug in the AC cord without electrocuting myself. So far, no fatalities.

I turn the TV on and sit. I unwrap the remote and see that it requires 2 AA batteries, included in the box. I look, and there they are: 2 AA batteries. Not C batteries, not a car battery, AA batteries.

That's not supposed to happen! After a few seconds of the "One Moment Please" screen on the TV, it loads up, and I'm looking at television. I insert the batteries, and follow the easy instructions to program it. I program it to work my TV, and my DVD player.

Then I test the remote, and it works all the devices. I start flipping channels, even getting into the comfy "Channel-Surfing" position. I'm surfing...I power down, I power up, TV, DVR, DVD, I'm programming recordings, and everything is working

OK, what the hell is going on here? No fires, no injuries, no short circuits, and not a single cuss word.

Great. And I've got shows programmed already, going into next WEEK! This is just not right!

Yeah, but I have to go out tomorrow, now, don't I? (return the old cable box and all)

I'm gonna get hit with a falling piano now. I just know it.

All I know is, right now, at this moment, everything works.

Oh well, I tried.