Arriba a Roomba!

Helen finally convinced me that we should get a Roomba to automate our base elevation cleaning. Her research assured her the 5th generation sucking robotic mechanism doesn't...well, suck. Now we can just press a button and the little sucker comes to life and traipses around our rooms to hoover up all the stuff that loses out to gravity. The Roomba vectors its way around the entire room, crawling under places that we'd skip because it's too much of a pain to move that lamp or chair. We can even program it to run automatically at set times. After it's finished, it scurries back to its base to re-energize and wait for the next cleaning opportunity. Pretty neat.