Welcome Home, George II

George II is our new iRobot Roomba. He's George II because George I met a horrible and untimely end.

George I came to our house in the fall of 2007. He was a Red 4100 series Roomba (one of the cheapest ones). He was bright red and happy looking. Evan was a bit skeptical. This "robot" can just be another one of the many gadgets I bought and will eventually end up in the basement collecting dust with the rest of our stuff. We charged him up, and let him go. Our hardwood floor throughout the house was perfect for this lower-end Roomba. George went everywhere, cleaned up everything. We didn't have to do any vaccuuming work.

We clean out George when he got dirty. Other than that, he merrily did his job. Now, the tale of George's demise. One Saturday morning, I let George go and do his work while I went to the gym. When I came back 90 minutes later, George was stuck and dog puke was all over him. Apparently, our 90 pound great dane mix threw up and George kept cleaning. Which meant, sweeping and sucking all the dog puke into his brushes and dragging it all over the house. I spend an hour cleaning the floor and George, who was salvageable.

Two days later, we left for work and George was happily sent off to do his job. When we came home, we walked into the most putrid and disgusting scene. Feces everywhere; on the floor, on the wall, on the furniture legs. Our beloved great dane had diarrhea. He let it all our on a relatively discreet corner of the house. It would not have been such a big problem if it wasn't for George.

The happy worker that he was. He must have attempted to clean the poo. But instead, he covered himself in liquid poo. He then dragged the poo from one little corner all over the house bumping into furniture and walls. Leaving poo marks on every conceivable area. George was not salvageable. I was not going to clean his brushes of doggie doo-doo. I, unceremoniously dumped him in the trash bag with the poo-fill rags and threw him out. George was a good robot.

We missed George.... So we got the exact same model, and named him George II.

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