"Dad, Tell Mommy about the blood coming out of the TV!"

Kai says, "Dad, Tell Mommy about the blood coming out of the TV!"

No, we weren’t watching Poltergeist or The Shining. We have been having problems with the television cable signal for the last couple weeks. It mostly affects the lower channels rendering any recordings off the major networks unwatchable. The PBS Kids recordings have still been okay so it hasn’t been an emergency.

I finally got around to calling Comcast to have them check it out. The guy that came to work on it was talking to me about the problem and was explaining that all the different devices we have stacked on top of one another: amplifier dvd player, vcr, Tivo box, cable modem, wireless router, Vonage box, stereo speakers - all these things can “BLEED” radio frequency signals. He talked about how signal interference can “BLEED” from one device to another, that bad cables can “BLEED” signals too, and that “BLEED-over” can affect your TV picture.

Even after Tina and I explained to Kai that the word “bleed” meant something different the way the cable-guy was using it and that their wasn’t any blood in the TV, Kai continued to insist the problem was blood. He then went on to pretend to be a cable-guy and acted out fixing an imaginary television. He was able to locate and successfully stop the blood from coming out of a number of components.