the past few weeks my Roomba has been on the fritz. he wouldn’t charge even though he was sitting on the charger and the charger light was on. i really had no need to freak out about that, i just figured eventually things would work out. Saturday night i was having people over, so i tried again to get Roomba working. no dice. i called the customer service line to see what was up. upon explaining to the kind hearted individual on the other end of the line the problems Roomba was having, the problem was a bad charger and a bad Roomba. my original Roomba, tried and true for almost two years, had lost the ability to be a Roomba. realizing this awful news, i held it together enough to hear what my options were. i could get a new Roomba to replace my current and now broken one, or i could upgrade. i’m not really interested in upgrading, but i think by the end of this week, i’ll call and get a new Roomba. it will be hard to say farewell to my original Roomba though, he has served me well. here’s a picture of the good times:
yesterday when i got home, i set about to cut the grass. i’ve had the same pair of old Nike cross trainers that i’ve been wearing to do any and all yard work in. i don’t really have another pair of junky shoes, so the ones i had were important. i first got them back in 2003 i think, at least 2004, because they were silver. i used to call them astronaut shoes. anyway, they helped to get me motivated to run way back when, but then once i got new shoes, the cross trainers were demoted to yard work. they served well, until yesterday. apparently yard work and this particular pair of shoes didn’t really work very well. i don’t really use chemicals that much, but maybe the fertilizer i’ve used caused the shoes to start to breakdown. i had duct taped the shoes together around the midsection to prevent further damage, and this method was fine. yesterday however, things just fell apart, literally. as i was cutting the grass in the backyard, and air unit from my right heel just fell off. i threw it to the patio and kept cutting. as i was cutting the front yard, the front part of my left shoe just started to fall off. this part was even taped! the tape was not holding! it was awful. i finished cutting the grass and removed my yard shoes for the last time. i took a picture for posterity, but now must find a pair of shoes to demote, or maybe just buy a cheap pair of velcro shoes from walmart (as suggested by new carpool team member Bryce).
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