{"id":1334,"date":"2007-06-21T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2007-06-21T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T03:45:00","slug":"die-die-die-little-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Die, Die, Die Little Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roaches. They are not the most popular<\/a> thing<\/a> in our household. After never really ever have seen a roach in America I had some in my old apartment when I first moved in upon arriving in Japan. Since I killed them off and sealed up some holes, my experiences with cockroaches were really just in the occasional restaurant. <\/p>\n

Last night after work I saw a cockroach go running into the small air conditioner in our bedroom. That was a big surprise, because our house is pretty clean and airtight. After thinking about it I realized that they had probably done a bug cleanout in the vacant apartment two doors down – maybe this guy was looking for new digs.<\/p>\n

I tried a little bit last night to get him out of there, but it’s a pretty big piece of machinery and there were a lot of places to hide. Cut to this morning, and I pulled the air conditioner off the wall and took the thing apart looking for the little bug.<\/p>\n

After an hour of taking the thing apart, cleaning it up, and putting it back together there was no roach to be found. I figured it had either left the room or went out whatever hole he came in. <\/p>\n

So I put the AC unit back on the wall, plugged it back in, and turned it on to test it out. And a little cockroach came flying out on a cushion of cold air. Ah, ha!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for him he didn’t have a parachute, and he landed squarely on his back. I did a quickdraw with a newspaper and flattened the little guy. Roach problem solved.<\/p>\n

After all that adventure I’m going to have to get ready for work now. Today I have a couple bad students, so I may need to have a chat with one or two of them. My little talks with them seem to be pretty effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roaches. They are not the most popular thing in our household. After never really ever have seen a roach in America I had some in my old apartment when I first moved in upon arriving in Japan. Since I killed them off and sealed up some holes, my experiences with cockroaches were really just in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-lw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}