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stimulant: coffee
Friday, October 21 2011
Today was a coffee day. I drank a whole French press worth and then revealed to Gretchen one of the sources of our basement mold problem: the boiler chimney. It's an uncapped hole measuring 36 inches square, and during Tropical Storm Irene, it dumped gallons of water behind the closet of our smaller basement guest room (the "Gunther Room"). Today, while walking around with a paint brush and a cap full of bleach, I'd noticed that black mold had taken over the lower backside of that closet. When Gretchen saw that, she was horrified, and suggested that we remove the carpet from that closet. She's suggested carpet removal and replacement in the past, and it's always seemed like a bad idea, but for this situation it actually seemed like a good idea. There's no need to have carpet extending into a closet, particularly one subject to periodic flooding. Ultimately, though, I'd like to build a couple drains in the boiler room to divert such floods away from the house.
We'd be having a houseguest tomorrow, so today I leveraged my caffeine high to do a thorough cleaning of the lowest two floors of our house. I was rocking out with my podcasts (starting with this week's Kunstlercast)
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