Roomba has arrived
Sep. 20th, 2007 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisFinally. Scott, the building manager, brought the package up which is way way way outside the scope of his duties. He knew I had been waiting and waiting and if I had seen the UPS guy on TV, I would have been down there before he unloaded his hand cart as I have been soooo many times before. But, I had totally missed him so Scott brought the box up here. What a nice guy.
The new Roomba is quite the adult!! It has a sexier look and a more solid feel and it's quieter and it doesn't ram into things. And it does a much better job (at least on my carpet). It stopped midway through it's first run and told me I needed to clean the brushes and boy, was it ever right! Whew.
1. The instructions said that when you plugged it in the first time it would take 16 hours to charge. It would blink amber and then solid green when ready. It went solid green in two hours. Who am I to argue with a robot. I fired her up.
2. The old ones just beeped. 4 beeps meant one thing. 6 beeps meant something else. This one tells you exactly what the problem is. Clean the "fucky brushes you person with a hairy cat!!!"
3. The cleaning is different, too - different bits to unload and check and remove debris from.
It's now resting and recharging. I only did half today. I'm going to leave it alone until tomorrow and then turn it lose on the rest.
Nice.
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Date: 2007-09-20 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 12:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 12:20 am (UTC)*L*
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:34 am (UTC).
Feeling a mite punch-drunk from the purchase I just made, I'm reading this post and saying to myself, "God, it would awesome to have one of those Roomba things!"
We don't tell Shobhit the thought has even crossed my mind. Not yet anyway . . .
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:37 am (UTC)oh we are SOOOOO not telling Shobhit about your Roomba thought. He's have a stroke!
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:39 am (UTC).
I did it. I don't have it yet though.
I just posted the detailed journal entry.
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 01:08 pm (UTC)Having three cats and solid floors, plus being fundamentally lazy, they kinda seem a good idea…
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Date: 2007-09-21 01:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 02:38 pm (UTC)Though I don’t think the cats would ever forgive me.
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:10 pm (UTC)