Spider story!

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+title: I may have killed a spider
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+Our fancy new apartment, the [one with the new
+oven](/2011/06/11/the-smoke-detector-works.html), has two full-sized bed rooms
+and to full size bathrooms. We have one bathroom we shower and brush our teeth
+in, and one bathroom adjacent to the "office." The second bathroom really just
+allows me a place to take a leak during late-night hack sessions in the
+"office," without waking EC.
+
+It's a nice set up, I recommend it.
+
+
+Last night, while spacing out (while taking a leak) I notice a run-of-the-mill
+slighty furry little black spider up near the ceiling. The spider was just
+hanging out, probably spacing out just like I was. The bathroom isn't tiny, but
+it certainly wasn't big enough for the two of us. I decided against just
+smacking him with a paper towel, as the chances I would fall off the counter
+and severely injure myself were too high at that time of night.
+
+I grabbed the bug spray from underneath the kitchen sink, which is where I
+assume all households without children keep their toxins, and waltzed back to
+the bathroom. In preparing for my attack, I stared directly at and inspected
+the nozzle of the sprayer to make sure it sprayed the right way, briefly
+contemplating how difficult it would be to explain to my wife why I was
+screaming and flushing water through my eyes in the sink, should I somehow
+trigger the spray. Like inspecting the barrel of your own gun by peering down
+it, it was a near-Darwin Award waiting to happen.
+
+
+Combating household insects is serious business, and as such I took the ready
+position.
+
+The spray didn't _look_ like it hit him directly but the spider did fall from the
+ceiling immediately; to be thorough I sprayed where he *was* on the ceiling for
+a good two seconds before calling off the attack.
+
+
+I've yet to find the body, a dime-sized shriveled up spider carcas, which means
+one of two things:
+
+1. I didn't kill him, and now he knows what I look like.
+1. I did kill him, and something else, something bigger already disposed of the body
+
+
+Either way, I might just stick to the other bathroom for now.
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