26 December 2017

A touch of the Twilight Zone


I woke up this morning to see my Toshiba flat-screen TV exhibiting a stylized strip of animation: people doing wintery things outside such as ice skating with a panorama of mountains in the background.

Except I turned the TV off at bedtime last night.  Also the DirecTV box.

A couple of hours later this morning, I turned just the TV on and the animation returned.

Later, I turned off DirecTV and left the TV running. Got the standard "no video signal" message.

Not WTF, just what the hell?

Cue the theme music again.

I left a friend's house around 5 p.m. today, when it was dark enough to require headlights. The right-side headlight refused to lift its cover.

It did that in October, but started working again in November as mysteriously as it quit. I haven't driven after dark for a month.

Got home, parked, turned headlight(s) off. Turned them back on.

They both came on properly.

Not WTH ... all the way to WTF.

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