Whew

[susandennis]

One thing leads to another... roadskoller commented to my previous entry asking who Jake and Betty were so I thought I'd be clever and reply with the photo that is on my web page only when I got there, I discovered that the link to the bigger version was broken.

Most of the photos on my website (and, due to the years of Kingdome photos) there is hefty amount, are housed on a host that I rarely touch any more. When I went to check on the picture, I discovered that I did not even have a copy of the photos on my desktop!

I remember about a year ago my harddrive was full of stuff that could be easily offloaded so I decided to buy a big external drive and do that. Meanwhile because the website photos were such a huge chunk of change, I deleted all of them off of the desktop harddrive.

I totally forgot to ever download them again onto the new big external harddrive. Yikes! Zero backups. Holey moley.

They are ftping as I type.

Thanks, roadskoller for asking the question!

I still do love this picture...

Comments

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

This has absolutely nothing to do with this post. This is just a handy place to ask...

How often do you have to empty your Roomba? Does it use throw-away bags, or do you just empty a canister?

[susandennis]

No bags. There's a bin that I empty. I generally alternate doing half the house one day and the other half the other day. After each 'job', I empty the bin. And make sure that the contacts and brushes have all the cat hair removed. Oh and there's a filter that needs to be blown out. (Canned air.)

I'm pretty sure it could go with a bin dump every day and maybe the other stuff once a week but it's easy and I'm so grateful that I don't have to vacuum, I generally do it all every time.

[vasilatos]

If I might interject, as a fellow Roomba person... We now run Roomba around the place two or three times a week, but empty it and clean it every run. At first the bin was very full, but now it's more the filter, which I'm told by their FAQ is washable. We have a load o' cat hair, and the human hair is a problem, being long and snagging all the parts. I'm way careful about cleaning it, but it's easy and kind of fun.

[susandennis]

She's very right... after the first week of daily work, Roomba is far easy to clean out now and it is oddly fun and satisfying to do.

[vasilatos]

And also, best photo ever!

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I love both expressions!