I think I'll call him... Dog

[elizilla]

I decided the robot vacuum needs a name, and what would be better than to name it after the hellhound in Good Omens?

Wednesday we moved it to the basement to work down there for a while. We left it on its charging base and we didn't think it had any scheduled activity, it should have just been sitting there. But last night Steve went down to do laundry, and found it was on the move down there. He came upstairs exclaiming "The robot is running around in the basement! Why?"

The answer to this is, of course, "BAD DOG! BAD!"

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[devon]

Dog! I hope your Dog is mostly good. I mentioned to Mark that such a device might help us out; I'm having terrible luck with decent, reliable house keepers.

I have to "fire" my current one because she forgets everything I tell her about using my products and rinsing off the gritty cleanser, and I don't have the energy to get up and remind her every month.

[elizilla]

I have discovered that if you don't program when it should run, it is defaulting to turn on at midnight. It's happened a couple times now. We have switched it off.

It works pretty well but you do have to pick up. It will attempt to eat anything small that is left on the floor. Cell phone chargers are especially susceptible to being eaten. Also newspapers, hair ties, socks.