wake up in other room

A cockroach arrived in the room dwelling.  There is a dismay at recognition of its arrival.  I have a theory cockroaches and other traipsing things find the walls and ceiling more convivial, as opposed to the floor.  They have better chances elsewhere than floor.

Once cockroach arrives in the room dwelling the room dwelling gives up a portion of its room dwelling-ness.

1. cockroaches are very quick.  If its location was noted, and then attention turned for a moment elsewhere, and later the cockroach is noted once more, it is reasonable to think it could be a second cockroach, so far abroad from where it last was, is the first, it is hoped, noted cockroach.

2. I don't kill cockroaches or other, any, things, if I can help it.  Attempts are made to steer it out a window.  A container of some sort closes over it when poised at a reachable spot.  The fairly simple part of the operation.  Next a robust enough card form thing to slide under the opening of the jar.  Worry over catching the leg of the thing, or, because you are close to the thing, you (me) and it in vulnerable positions, here we are together, you in a container, a jar perhaps, I looming outside it, and attempting a slide of robust card thing.  Then we will have you contained.

3.  We need to flip the container over while the card remains blocking the opening and allows no exit of yourself I am afraid, cockroach thing.  We need to keep all this secure and carry it all together and contained to the window -- first we must slide open the mosquito mesh -- and tip the container away so you can leave but not approach immediately my self who has done all this very very gingerly and maybe with breaks in between when it is plausible to have a break (the first containing, the next with the card thing slid successfully but the containment as a whole not yet tipped, after that there are not many windows for a break)

We are lucky as a species that cockroaches do not want to drain our blood, or can fly (but they have some form of wings in their carapace?), or can weave a web and dangle from above and encounter quietly your head.

Brian Conn co-editor of Birkensnake mentions the clicking among its body bits of an insect caught in spider's web.  I find more unnerving the sounds of a cockroach as it interacts with an inactive aircon nook, or, on a kitchen shelf the rustle of a plastic bag responding to wisp probes of antenna acts.

If I manage to remove the cockroach 10cm outside the door or the mosquito mesh of the window the room quickly regains its room dwelling-ness, but perhaps not completely.  I imagine, like the chip damage from a blocked hadouken, a fragment is forever lost.  

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