magic carpet ride

[susandennis]

My house is wall to wall carpet. It was installed in 2005. I had two goals for carpet picking - it had to be comfortable to walk on and it had to hide cat stuff. I picked correctly. At first glance you cannot tell where it is dirty or stained but I know. I should just replace it but the very idea of that kind of upheaval makes me clutch my pearls. As does hiring a carpet cleaner.

Finally, I compromised and bought a carpet shampooer during Prime Day. It's one for spot cleaning not doing the whole house. It's big enough for good cleaning but small enough to store easily. I hope.

It arrived this morning. (And thank you, Amazon delivery guy, for bringing it up here to my door.)

So that's today's chore. Starting with getting the thing out of the giant box.

Also The Split. The last episode of Season 3 will land on Thursday so I am now starting with Season 1. It's on a stream that I pay for by the month so I want to kill the subscription after I finish this one show. BTW the shows I thought I wanted to see on Showtime were all a bust. Glad I only spent $1.

The baseball game last night was dramatic. The Mariners were losing until the 8th when they decided to win it and did. Part of the drama for me is that the one good broadcaster we have is on vacation or something and the two guys on TV were horrible so I watched it mostly muted which isn't that much fun. The radio broadcast was a bit better but the lag between the two is getting worse with every game. If I have twitter scrolling, I can see any big plays on Twitter long before they happen on the screen but last night there was a solid 90 seconds between the TV play and the radio announcing of it. Geesh.

At least they aren't at home. If they were here, and it was cool enough to have the door open, the timeline of a home run would be:

home run hit in ballpark

H-0 - crowd roar
H-30 seconds - twitter reports home run
H-60/90 seconds - home run hit on tv
H-120 seconds + - that same home run announced on radio

I mean, really, sitting in this chair, the Mariners hit four home runs with one swing of the bat.

Tonight they play at 5. In Texas but the same two idiots will be on TV so the broadcast drama will be the same.

But before anything else happens, I need to treadmill.

Comments

[spiffikins]

The radio broadcast was a bit better but the lag between the two is getting worse with every game.

are you listening to "real" radio or a radio stream?

I listen to the news radio on my streaming speaker in the mornings - and I'm realizing that the stream is putting more/longer ads in between, so when they say "it's 7:05am" - it might actually be 7:10am because it gets out of sync!

Sometimes I wake up before the radio comes on - and I start it up - and then when the "alarm" kicks in, the radio pauses and then starts up again - and *definitely* doesn't start up in the same part of the news broadcast - so I know it is not in sync - which is super weird to me!

[susandennis]

good point. i'm talking radio stream.

i don't think i can get am radio in this house. i don't even know if i have a radio!

but i plan to look today and if i do, test that out.

excellent suggestion. thanks!

[susandennis]

ok! radio found! Actually 2. a 4,000 year old Sony transistor and an emergency radio/flashlight/signal thingie. The reception sucks on the transistor is better but not really game good enough on the emergency one. BUT, you are spot on with the lag. I tuned in the same station on stream and on radio and holy moly. You could bake a cake between the two.


So... Amazon is bringing me a better radio. I think you nailed my issue and may have saved my Summer!!!

[spiffikins]

Woohoo! Great timing on your post - because I had literally just noticed this lag earlier this week!

[rsc]

My experience, using a real radio broadcast and getting the TV signal through the TiVo, is that the TV lags the radio by quite a bit – long enough so that if I happen to be watching the TV but listening to the radio¹, I often hear the result of a batted ball before I see the pitch thrown.

¹I don't do this to avoid annoying broadcasters; there are times when one of us is in the kitchen preparing dinner or washing the dinner dishes while the other is watching the game; we put the game on the radio so the kitchen person can hear it, and in Cambridge this means the TV-watcher hears it too.

[glassfinger]

I really enjoyed The Split, myself. I found the finale unsatisfying but better than it could have been. But then I like loose ends tied up the way I want them, please!

[seattlejo]

Which rug cleaner did you get? I have two one that works well on its own, but is now leaking and one that needs me to babysit it to work.

they both suck.

[susandennis]

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B098BRB55N/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[seattlejo]

Ahh bigger then my spot bots. I wonder why these things all just have to suck.

[rsc]

Just a few days ago we had a meeting with the folks managing the renovation of the apartment that we're going to be moving into this fall¹, and one of the many decisions we had to make was whether we wanted carpet or hardwood floors in the living room and bedrooms; we're opting for wood, even though it will cost us.

¹Have jwg or I mentioned here that we're moving into a retirement community in the near future?

[susandennis]

You are moving? Holy moly - that's big.

I know it's out of style but I really like wall to wall carpet - even with the stains, it's my preference over hard flooring.

Moving? Er, nope. neither of you have mentioned it at all! details, plz

[rsc]

I'll write a post about it.

[susandennis]

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