We had a TV quit working on us a couple of weeks ago.

In the past that would have been a major crisis because it would have meant many fights over the remaining television. For some reason, however, in recent years we have accumulated a storehouse full of TVs and other devices of entertainment around our home.

At the time of this TV’s demise we had TVs in five rooms. The problem with that is there are only three of us living in the house, if you don’t count the dog. When you throw in a computer, a couple of DVD players and a few more radios and it sure seems like overkill to me.

The television that decided to bite the dust gave no signs that trouble was brewing.

When it quit it just quit, but it’s death didn’t come in a way I would consider normal.

In fact, I think a ghost might have set up shop in our home and just in time for Halloween.

Why do I lend anything to that possibility? Because this television just started coming on without any help, unless Rookie (our dog) has been spending his spare time learning how to turn on a television.

And to make matters worse, when it would come on in the middle of the night, the volume would be low. It would, however, get louder and louder until it was turned up full blast, which woke me up and sent me pounding into my son’s room to see why he couldn’t shut off his TV - again.

I really don’t think we’re a victim of any visits by ghosts or spirits.. It’s more likely that we are a victim of some kind of new technology that’s well ahead of anything I’m ready to learn.