Dog update
So Nicki survived being confined to the kitchen yesterday with no accidents. Alison took her to the vet this morning. It turns out she has a protozoa that is causing the problem. She has a 10 day supply of medicine that should get rid of it. Unfortunately there is a good chance she picked it up at the dog beach. It sucks, she has fun when we go there but the last two times we went, she came back with medical issues.
For some reason, to me, the sky at night the last week or so has seemed darker and the moon and stars have been exceptionally bright and clear. Maybe Naples rotated under a pollution free part of the atmosphere.
Yesterday I was browsing the Irobot web site. Even though I have had a long list of issues with my Roomba, I still love it. Right now in order to use mine, I have a bastardized set up. The charging system on my Roomba got fried after a power surge, so I charge the battery in another Roomba that has other problems and then slap the battery in the Roomba with the fried charging system.
Anyway, I am getting the itch to get a new Roomba as well as a Scooba. As I browsed the site, I saw how many different models they have nowadays. The one that caught my interest most was the Roomba for Pets. It has a different brush set up that doesn’t get as full of hair as a regular Roomba as well as having a cleaning tool that makes hair removal a no-brainer.
They have a model called the Dirt Dog which is supposed to be for areas like garages, workshops, patios, etc… That would be cool too! And of course they have the Scooba which vacuums and then washes hard floors. Irobot actually sells a package that gets you a Roomba, a Dirt Dog and a Scooba for about 600 bucks. That would be awesome. However, now is not the time for me to be buying one. With the van repair bill coming up and the trip out west following shortly, the coffers will be considerably lighter already. However, if someone else out there wants to buy a Roomba off the Irobot site, use this promo code “msport” when checking out. It gives you 20% off the price AND FREE shipping, this is quite the deal. The code is only good till the end of July.
After I missed the ending of Godfather 2, I hopped on half.com and bought a used copy of it on VHS. I got around to watching the rest of it last night. Evidently one of my biggest gripes about Godfather 2, the lack of subtitles when the flashback pieces came up where they only spoke Italian, wasn’t the case with version I was watching. All the Italian had subtitles, making things much better to follow. It almost made me want to go back and watch the entire thing over but I decided to just pick up where I left off. It was very good. Man that Michael turned into a ruthless SOB. It makes me want to see the last one even though I heard it sucks, just to see it all wind up.
The weekend will be busy. Randall is coming over tonight to stay over before we play in our tournament tomorrow. It should be fun stuff.