The Cocoon excavation of the basement has had to be postponed, contributing to a cascading  of other delays.  Sigh.  But I resolve not to contribute to the delay!  I decide to stay away from the office, turning instead to sanding the newly stripped baseboard.  This is satisfyingly concrete work—got all the baseboard done, first with #80, then with #120.  Of course, there is only 130 feet of it, which is at best a quarter of what will be needed for the whole house.  I wasn’t able to recover all the baseboard from the original core of the house, so we are woefully short.