And so it is...

We've "suffered" with our cable TV. The HD box was booting, rebooting, and then rebooting again. Grampa disconnected the box and switched to direct feed on the TV. And then..it was getting very hard to remember which one of the four remote controls did what. And then...we actually had to get up, go over to the TV, and switch it...arrrgh. Now comes the "real" story. The breaker in the garage gave up it's power...it quit...dead. With hindsight, that was the problem all along. Grampa plugged in the "entertainment center" into another wall socket....voile...it all works fine. Now we have to get the electrician out here again because we have another orange cord powering the family room. Good thing we have plenty of orange cords in THIS house.