I Won a Roomba!
Those of you who followed my twitters during the Vegas trip will already know this. Saturday was PostieCon and they gave out raffle tickets at the door. They then used those tickets to draw prizes between all of the sessions. They gave away everything from Roombas, GPS systems, Ipods, gift cards, and stereos! The very first prize, though, was a Roomba.
They started reading off the numbers. 311, yeah… 2, yeah… 6, yeah… 8!! YEAH!! I won!!! Holy cow! If you’re anything like my mom, your first response is “What the heck is a roomba?” Well, a Roomba is a vacuuming robot made by iRobot. I’ve linked there to the exact model that I won. I’m seriously excited for it to show up here so I can set it to work on the cat hair embedded into my carpet.
You might be wondering why I’m waiting for it to show up if I’m already at home. Well, that is due to the awesomeness of my friend Julie. I was trying to figure out how in the WORLD I was going to get this large, heavy roomba home. It wasn’t going to fit in my suitcase… I didn’t trust it to come off of the turnstile at baggage claim. Julie was completely fabulous enough to offer to ship it to me. So my Roomba is currently in Las Vegas, Nevada waiting on FedEx to come pick it up. Soon it will arrive here, and I will have to clean. I’ve been told you have to get everything up off the floor before you can run the vacuum. Yeah, I’d say I’ve got a lot to do before I can use it! 
November 15th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Roomba’s don’t do a very good job with embedded cat hair. They’re awesome at getting surface stuff — crumbs, in particular — but they don’t have the same suction as a regular vacuum cleaner.
That said, it’s still wonderful watching a robot do the work for you, and if you run it often enough then sooner or later you’ll probably get all of the cat hair out.
Conrats on the win, btw!