1. An apparatus comprising: one or more sensors; and logic to, place a human interface device in a blocked state in response to a request to power off a system; use a time of day dependent speculative start-up heuristic to establish one or more subsequent operating states for the system while the human interface device is in the blocked state; and remove the human interface device from the blocked state in response to a request to power on the system, wherein the one or more sensors are to monitor the system during the blocked state, and the system is to transition to one or more of a suspend to random access memory (RAM) state or a suspend to disk state based on a result of the monitoring.