1/7/08 - Exterminator Comes and We get smart

The exterminator comes, and we learn a lot.

For one thing, he says to throw out my bed frame. He was finding them in the wood grain, and even pulled one out with a safety pin the last time he was here. This is news to me - I would've tossed it in a heartbeat. We throw it out but keep the mattress, since it's in a casing. I tape up the zipper.

He sprays my apartment, but because none of my other roommates or guests have gotten bites, declines to spray their rooms. He checks the few dead bugs we found in my girlfriend's apartment next door (she lives in the same building, and we fear we're bringing them back and forth) but says they're just beetles and are harmless. He sprays just in case.

I went to Ikea later in the night and bought the Naidal bed, which is all metal except for the wood slats. Sucks about wood slats, but it's the best I can do under short notice besides buying a box spring. I put it together at home and set the legs in tupperware containers filled with mineral oil, which is supposed to stop them.

I wash all the sheets and pillows, and we go to sleep, exhausted and beat up from a long, long night.