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I've spent a goodly portion of the last three days in the dungeon basement. There is much damp, much rotten wood, and much mold. Wood laying on dirt floor is a bad idea. If I had been concentrating on one thing I might have finished it, but I've also been cleaning up stray wiring (mostly cable TV wires), pulling down broken/rusted/unused pipe hangers, reattaching wall insulation, plugging random holes, and putting in sill to floor insulation where that's missing. I built a rack from the joists to hold long construction materials that were laying on pallets on the floor. The cardboard boxes that they were once in are no longer boxes and in fact no longer cardboard, more the consistency of cooked noodles.

Overall, I've got everything mostly done. This is a good time to do the work because it's not too hot working, but warm enough in the basement that fingers stay dexterous. It's also nice that most of the creepy crawlies are dead or sleeping, they like cold weather less than I do.