I know one shouldn't get those stupid extended warranties that electronic stores offer you but I always do it for my Roomba. For $50 bucks (a little more than a new battery) I can trade in my Roomba for a new one if anything happens. I know the battery will die well before the three years are up and I've also found that the Roomba will go nuts once in a while and go backwards all the time or some other crazy behavior. I've gone through two Roombas and their battery always lasts 1 year and then it will start to carry less charge until it dies.

Right now the battery on my one Roomba died and I haven't replaced it as I'm waiting for the new model to arrive at the store so I can get that one under warranty.

Actually, the vacuum didn't kill the bats. When we were done, we opened the bag and let them out.

This brings back so many memories. My grandfather has an old house in the mountains of Puerto Rico. When he bought it, it was a house that had burned down so he rebuilt it. Half of the house is wood, the other half is concrete. For the top half, he left the burnt wood in place and it made it look pretty cool. The thing is, the ceiling was made up of zinc metal sheets, that are shaped like a soundwave, so bats had a tendency of crawling in between the sheets and the burnt wood and forming colonies.

One day, when I was living with my grandfather after graduating college and looking for a job, we decided to get rid of all of them. So we put shirts over our heads, like ninjas and got a trusty vacuum cleaner and started dismantling the bathroom walls. As soon as we removed the wood covering the walls, bats started flying around like crazy. I was below my grandfather, vacuum in hand sucking them up.

How I wish I had a video camera with me that day. Imagine a 70 year old and a 20 year old, dressed up as ninjas (so as to not breathe the guano), my grandfather with a hammer, me with the vacuum, sucking up bats. I guess we could've called ourselves the Ninja BatBusters or something.

I love that house... :(