Did you think that was just asaying?... well I know from first hand experience it's unfortunately not just a saying. After a week at a conference in Austin, a day waterskiing in Somerville, Clark and I decided to stay in Houston so he could get his flight out the next day easily. It was about 11pm and I just wanted a cheap motel/hotel near the airport. First motel was $60...to high. The next motel, Symphony Inn, was $50. It was run by Indians who didn't know a lot of English...but it should be fine for a short night right? Well I guess the first clue should have been our "no smoking" room had ash trays and little match boxes in the middle. So I went down and asked for another "no smoking" room. They just came up with a smoke-be-gone spray and sprayed it all over the room and said, better? Oh man, really? Whatever, it was fine. So I thought. After the next night in my bed in College Station I woke up with red bites on my back! After closer examination of my bed I found one! I found a bed bug! They are about 3 mm in length and 2 mm in width. With a tiny black head, long antenna, and striped butt. Yikes!!!
Need-less-to-say instead of fixing my vessel and getting the data off the computer from the experiment I did yesterday, I spent today cleaning my room. It is not a little process (esp. to do alone). You have to clean the whole room first. Then take off the mattresses. Vacuum very well. Then do all your laundry (all clothes, sheets, towels, etc.). Buy bed bug spray and spray the bed frame, wall borders, picture frames, mattresses, etc. Also buy waterproof covers from wall-mart to conceal any remaining bed bugs in the mattress (they can not get through). After all this resemble. ... I really hope they don't come back.
