Window!

While I was sitting about playing Conflux (we've finally uncovered the fourth of the destroy-the-world genres: Vecna Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gehenna, has installed a bunch of new electrical generators, which are filling the North American power grid with enchantments casting "conjure bacteria" spells over and over. Whenever I try to explain a Conflux plot, it sounds like that.) on Saturday, there was a whole bunch of banging from the basement. harrock has had the project of "replace the basement windows" on his list for a while, and this was the test case. It seems to have worked. Thinking about the windows makes me worry more about the bricks, though, which seem to have transmuted via time and dampness to bricky sand, held together by force of habit rather than anything stronger. I am confident that if imprisoned in the basement, I could tunnel my way through the wall in short order, with a spoon. When we bought the place, the home inspector didn't seem to think it was a Big Problem for the walls - he did disapprove of the moldering in the support pillars, which we replaced two of with lally columns. I guess all the deconstruction upstairs has mostly convinced me that it is not the walls which are the big structural supports. But it worries me.