3:00 to 4:19 a.m.

Since I went to bed at 7:30 last night, I woke up at 3:00 am. Actually, I woke up at 11:00 pm but thought the clock was wrong and managed to go back to sleep. So I've had lots of sleep.

It looks like the House Boat has been through an earthquake, a flood and has been ransacked by burglers.

I went downstairs and played twister to get through the den. Wended my way to the kitchen and grabbed a Coke Zero. Then made a bee-line to The Daddler's living room. Recliner, check. Big-ass tv, check. Room to walk, check. Cable working, nope. Grabbed every remote in the house and started pushing buttons. Didn't work. Gave up and called Comcast and got Alex in Mexico - major trouble understanding him. I won't go into the details. I'll just say in the course of instructing Alex and extracting the right code from him. I asked him no fewer than 15 times for a different code - one with five digits, not three. Finally he coughed it up. It worked. Victory at last.

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