A few weeks ago someone linked this Youtube video in a forum I’m on at pretty much exactly the same time that I was wondering what I should do for Mel for our upcoming six year anniversary.
This sparked my terrible memory — Mel has wanted a Roomba for ages. We’re both very messy, we both hate cleaning up. The Roomba is perfect for us.
So I looked around for the right model and place to buy and picked up a 5th Generation Roomba from RobotShop.ca. It arrived today and rather than hide it away until Sunday (our official anniversary) I presented it to her when she got home from work. I wish I’d set up the camera to take a video of her joy.
We’ve got the Roomba charging up right now, but had it do a little cleaning early on just to see it in action. Loki wasn’t afraid of it at all – just a little weirded out. He had no problems going up and checking it out.
Here he is hanging out with his new buddy. We haven’t decided on a name yet. Rosie is a little too obvious, right?
Update: Uh, ok, so Toren doesn’t know what a Roomba is, and I didn’t explain. I forget that you’re not all tech-geeks like me.
The Roomba is a Robotic Vacuum Cleaner! It can either clean on a schedule (when you’re out of the house, for example) or started manually. It wanders around your house, learning the walls and even stairwells with its built-in sensors.
It’s so small that it fits under our couches and during its first cleaning of our house it pushed all of Loki’s toys out from under them.
Here’s the official video for the model we got:
What the fuck is that?
<3 my Roomba. Though mine is a wee bit past it’s prime, time to upgrade.