nothing good happens before 7am

talk about wanting to just go back to bed…

…so, tuesday i get up at 6:37am. or, at least, i wake up. i call to check the ol’ bank balance as i was expecting a deposit to hit overnight. i go through the recording prompts, get to the end, and hear:

as of today your balance is ZERO dollars and ZERO cents…

not good. i didn’t know WHEN the deposit happened exactly, but i knew it was supposed to be sometime while i was sleeping. now i was awake…but didn’t have the dough. i had once stayed up to just after midnight to see when deposits hit, and i checked it at 12:05am to find the money there…

…the next time i tried that trick i was up till 1:15 with no account balance. that was the last time i tried THAT shit.

but now it was 6:40am, and nada. not cool. not anywhere NEAR cool. so, i decide to wait out the time (figuring it’s only a matter of hours or minutes) by clearing off the ol’ dvr and watching some tv. i hit the power button on the remote and the tv springs to live…

…but the direct tv box doesn’t. this is where you see the evolution of man reverse, as you point the remote at various angles and hit the same button again and again with no result. not fucking cool. so, i decide to go old school and (don’t make fun of me) actually un-ass the couch and hit the power button on the box.

nothing.

i pull the box out of the entertainment center and see the light on in the back and the fan whirring. i unplug the power cord, watch it all wind down, wait a minute or so and replug it. i then go to let the dogs in. when i come back it’s cycled around and done what it needs to do, so i fire up the tv. blank screen. nothing. i hit buttons on the remote to no avail. i even try swapping batteries on the remote. still nothing. the one in the bedroom worked, so i knew it wasn’t a dish issue or anything.

the time is now 6:52am.

i try recycling the power one last time and it takes longer for it to go through the boot sequence this time. not only am i envisioning a day with no tv in the den and lamenting all the stuff i’d lose if the dvr died. but then it started with these countdown graphs on the screen and wallah – the tv was up and running and cool…

…at 7:01am.

for shits and giggled i called the bank back – money in the account now.

so, yeah…i figure this is God telling me i don’t need to see the world before 7am – ever.