all about contamination

Today I learned that it takes me four days to decontaminate bedding I contaminated with borax from a previous load in the washing machine. The next time I want to get the formaldehyde out of something new in a hurry, I will do it in a washtub, not the washing machine, and I suppose I ought to use milk instead of borax. Either one is a pain to wash out of the new thing, but they're both a whole lot better than formaldehyde.

After that I learned that there's a 100-ton DDT deposit off the coast of Los Angeles, so I should have quit while I was ahead.