Why, when I am up way too early, is one TV getting the regular cable transmission of CBS affiliate WWNY of nearby Watertown NY on channel seven while the one with the digital box is showing ABC 22, a station serving Vermont, Plattsburg NY and Montreal? Don't tell me I need to get used to upper Champlain Valley local news now, too. This is an extension of another phenomena. If the digital box TV and the non-digital box TVs are set to the same channel, there is a three second lag between the digital one and the non-digital one. What are the electrons doing during that lag?

The upside? I learned from ABC 22's broadcast at 5:51 am that - according to the apparently not uncontroversial Pastor Arnold Murray Shepherd's Chapel, speaking from his nondenominational church in Gravette, Arkansas - the answer to all of life's questions appears to be "you got to read your Bible, son" if his question and answer session, apparently to Vermonters and others of the upper Champlain valley, were anything to go by. Maybe that's more aimed at Montreal. Give me the late Perry F. Rockwood any day.