Cockroach War

Ok, my apartment has cockroach infestation problems.

They come in at least 2-3 types and various sizes. Thank god all these kinds of cockroaches have one thing in common, they don't fly. God, I would hate if they do. Flying cockroaches really brings back some horrible memories.

So, I've pretty much seen them everywhere. The worst place being in my drinking water early in the morning, while I was drinking. Twice. Oh, the second time I wasn't drinking, because I learned to exam the water before I drink again.

Oh, by the way, my apartment is very clean, I don't think they can live here for long. So I'm pretty sure they're coming from my neighbors, which also means, they'll never stop coming.

So, after fighting cockroaches for 2 month, I've learned a couple things about them.

First of all, they obviously don't like lights. I almost never seen any of them under broad daylight. It's almost always at night. Secondly, they're smart. It seems like they always know where's the closest crack to run whenever I spot one. And yes, it seems like they always know when they're spotted.

So.. what do I do? Whenever I see one, the first thing I do is drop whatever I was doing (yes, whatever, I can't think of any exceptions.), and grab a nearest tissue, and squish them. And what I have been doing for the last couple weeks was to patrol the kitchen and washroom at night. I walk into the kitchen every once or twice at night, turn on the light, and kill all the cockroaches that I'm able to get.

And the record has been incredible. I believe the most I've killed in one day was 17 cockroaches.
And on average it's about 5 per day.

I was thinking of getting sprays and cockroach houses. But I don't like sprays and I have no idea where to buy cockroach houses except on ebay. So unless they really start causing huge threat, I'll probably just kill them the way human has been killing cockroaches for the last 500,000 years, with modern weapon, of course, the tissues.

Well... the thing is, I haven't seen any cockroaches for the last two days. Which also means zero kills for the last two days. Maybe they finally realized there's nothing to eat in my apartment and decide to move out.. for a vacation or something.

But I know they'll come back.

They'll always come back.



One more thing, the pretty picture on top of this paragraph is from wikipedia. I really have no idea who would still buy those home edition encyclopedia with internet around. Must be really sucked for those encyclopedia sales for the last 10 years.

Oh.. and my wow accounts expire tonight. :(