Roomba has arrived

[susandennis]

Finally.  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.