there was a brown spider on the cd pricing table today. i presume that it crawled out of a cd that had been in an old looking box that had been brought down from upstairs. it walked to the edge of the table and seemed to be looking at me as i sat on the top of the radiator. i put a cd lid just under the table edge and it came right down onto it. then i put the lid above the wastebasket and the spider gently let itself in the garbage on a strand of web. several hours later jason noisily compressed the garbage (mostly broken plastic cd parts)with his shoe (which got stuck). i imagine the spider found its way out by then, and survived.