Where am I again?

Before my hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl in January, I asked my father to send me a complete copy of either of the two local papers, the Tampa Tribune or the St. Petersburg Times. As it turned out, the Bucs won, and he ended up sending both. (Tribune headline: "Yes!" Times headline: "Champs!")

The papers finally arrived today, and I was reading them while watching last night's episode of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on my TiVo. Suddenly, while I was fast-forwarding through a commercial break, I became disoriented when a "Channel 4" logo popped up during a promo. "Wait a minute, that should be Channel 8," I said to myself.

Channel 8 is the NBC affiliate in Tampa, which I am currently several thousand miles away from.

Eventually, I convinced myself that despite the newspapers I was reading, I was in Los Angeles, and 4 was the correct channel number. (It helped that I was awakened by a minor earthquake at about 4:20 this morning.)

If I ever get newspapers sent to me from Tampa again, I may have to request that the TV listings aren't included, in order to not have this problem again.