Ohgodohgod - I have cockroaches!

I just went out to the kitchen to get some water, and there, in the middle of the newly cleared and cleaned counter (I had a stack cascade failure the other day, so I put things away and cleaned, including bleaching the stains out of the formica) was a big, fat, brown cockroach. No mistaking it for any other bug. It just sat there, and I hammered on it with the water bottle. Then I put paper towel over it and hammered on it some more. When I picked up the paper towel it scurried off into the gap between the counter and the stove.

It was just one cockroach (I've never had roaches in this place, dammmit), but there's never just one cockroach. Ghaaaaaaaaaa! I'm Googling away right now to find ways to get rid of the little buggers, though I know it's a losing battle. I live in a condo attached to 3 other condos.

I blame the Noisy Boys Next Door, who leave their garbage sitting outside their back door for limitless time. There's a rotted mess that was their Halloween pumpkin still there. I suspect their interior housekeeping isn't much better.

It wasn't enough that they have to blast their music through our shared walls... now it's cockroaches.

Yurg.