To be replaced with a machine after a lifetime of perfecting one's programming/engineering skills, cannot be a happy thing. However, perhaps, he finally admitted to himself that the robot is a better and much faster programmer than he. Also, downsizing is very difficult to contemplate. If he had kids, then we was probably on his second or third marriage, and starting over. It seems, according to the story, that he correctly chose the "Maid's Day Off". One other important clue: If we examine the window, behind the nitrogen gas tank, we see a VERY SAD patched up window, using old packing tape. This house, no matter how large, was probably old and falling apart, and also pretty barren. These houses are poorly constructed, and very cold feeling, with the empty boxes of concrete. Very depressing, all in all.
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