I've been semi-busy making steady progress on the renovations, while dropping more money than I'd initially expected. In the end it will be worth it though for having insulation in some of the walls, setting it in a class nearly of its own compared with the rest of the house. The rest of the walls in time too will need to be torn down and insulation put in. With the old plaster walls it'd be too difficult to simply cut holes and have a company blow in loose fill insulation and patch up the walls so that they looked like the original again, which is both a pain in the ass, and an expensive proposition.
But with the closet already lined with cedar, and drywall hung from the ceiling, and the walls to go tomorrow, I can see the daylight. Some mudding, sanding, and trimming this week, and then with any luck painting next weekend, and I can move back into some normalcy.
In more relevant news, 6 more Canadians were killed this week, with another 4 injured this morning, in continuing the mission that we were never sent in the first place to do, but coerced into by the Bush administration's own 'sweet' talking. And of all the most ridiculous things I've seen written, Harper has the audacity to say that 'now is not the time to politicize the mission'. On the contrary, it is the absolutely most critical time to politicize the mission and have the opposition make an actual assertive move to bring Canadians home from a war that never truly was about keeping the peace. Instead of sitting on their hands, passing motions of 'desire' to have troops moved out in 2009 or beyond, some action needs to be taken. The deaths of more soldiers shouldn't be cause for us to hush up and unquestioningly accept the bullshit that's fed to the people, and in particular the soldiers of this country, it should be cause for outcry. Or, we could just don our favourite cowboy hats and boots and head on down to the Calgary Stampede for some boot-scootin', and forget that whole 'Afghanistan' thing. Yee-haw!