I Stopped by my Parents' House

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I stopped by the house today to drop off trash (it's because I produce so little that I just put mine out with theirs) and recyclables, and ended up chatting with my mother. She's been writing grants lately to try to get funding for an ambitious glass park she's been working on for over a year. There is a lot to that project and it keeps us busy. I went past the television and there was a sticky note on it, that read "Tech guy coming on Friday to look at cable box." I asked if they were having problems with the TV and was told that it hasn't been working for the last few days. So I said I would fix it. I took all the wires out of the box and detached the connections from it to the TV. I noted that the cable cord was a little loose, but didn't think that was the only problem. I even got out the compressed air and blew the dust out of the box. Then I hooked everything back together and turned it on. After it booted up again, nothing happened. I would not be defeated, so I played with the settings and found the channels were off normal settings, but it was still static. Then I went into its input settings and change things back to the usual settings. The TV was fixed. Now everything works again. So my mother called the cable company and told them that no one needed to come after all. Everyone was happy. I guess it's a good thing that it was trash day!