I wanted to say Yay, Grace! for the extubation, but she got reintubated while I was reading the rest of Natter. It's like watching y'all's lives on TiVo. I'm gonna say Yay, Grace and Noah! anyway, though, because they deserve a yay.

Re your brightly-colored skirt, ita, have you tried fixing the dye with a salt-water soak? That worked for one of my brightly-dyed items. Don't know why.

My current quandary is this lovely Indian skirt that says hand wash except the pattern on it runs awfully. It's a beige skirt with bright colours just above the hem. Am I supposed to wash it separately from itself? I already washed it in delicates with magical Woolite whatever. Now I just look at it sadly.

ita, have you tried Clorox 2? It really helps. It might even remove whatever colors have bled, if you didn't dry the skirt in a machine.

have you tried fixing the dye with a salt-water soak?

What's my risk of it bleeding colour in the soak? Because it's the running onto itself that upsets me the most. Can't I like, laminate it or something?

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It might even remove whatever colors have bled, if you didn't dry the skirt in a machine.

I most certainly did not. Hmm. Still nervous, but more thinky.

It's enough to make me vote for Giuliani.

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James Dobson of some big right-wing, "God loves our version of family" organization whose name I'm blanking on swears he'll never vote for Democrats or Giuliani.

HBO's putting the first ep online for free on Monday. (On HBO.com, I assume.) I meant to say that earlier.

This is very exciting. I never did see them live, but their special was fantastic.

Did you ever listen to their BBC Radio 2 show? That one is on iTunes, under Audio Books (for some reason).

I bought it a few weeks ago but haven't had time to listen to it yet. The one episode I listened to when it was going on was hilarious.

I'm trying to decide if I should be a horrible human being and post a picture I just accidentally ran across and really wish I hadn't. Hrm.

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sarameg just pulled a semi-stealth ita.

Nice one.

Well played, Sarameg.

Okay, my neck is trying to kill me. Can I get a do over? Or at least skip ahead to physical therapy? And the ensuing pain meds?

It's enough to make me vote for Giuliani.

If Obama weren't in the race I'd vote for Giuliani over any of the other Democrat or Republican candidates. I find him generally quite admirable, if a little too free in his interpretation of police powers. And he's the one candidate that I'm absolutely certain is gay-friendly, regardless of whatever story he may be telling right wing conservatives at the moment.