i'm finishing up in the laundry. i'm going to pause but i'm probably done.

i put cardboard boxes up on the ceiling in the main part of the room with a mix of duct, packing and weatherproofing tape. i used a lot of duct tape, it turns out, because the wall is concrete and the joists are wood. i crammed insulation in the corners where i know the holes are and blocked a number of holes in the walls from the laundry to inside the walls of the house. this completely seals up the main room.

i did not seal anything in the water closet, and i left the corridor into the furnace open, for now.

i did this because i realized there are still smaller rodents running around in there. i didn't see anything and i've heard very little. even the evidence of droppings is very small. but it's enough. i think they're just staying out of there because it's not appealing to them anymore. there's no food. it's bright and clean. i legit kicked them out.

i want to block the entrances i think they're most likely to use but i also understand that cardboard and duct tape is not going to keep a rat out. bright light and no access to food will. so, i want to keep an eye on it further. i don't want them hiding food from the upstairs kitchen downstairs;  my laundry is not their burrow. i don't want them running into the laundry from the upstairs bathroom. i don't want them coming in from the backyard.

i will seal the furnace room itself but i think i want to keep access between the furnace and the laundry open and i want to observe a lit bit more before i seal up the water closet, if i do. 

the laundry should essentially be spotless, now. if it isn't, where is the filth coming from?

i am probably going to avoid the aluminum in the laundry because it'll be better applied elsewhere. i'm probably going to skip the bathroom, too. it's not a good idea to do this in the bathroom. i mean, it is if it's done properly, but if i make any mistake at all it could be a mess. it's not worth the risk of finding a rotting hole in the aluminum in a year or two.

it's a better idea to put the aluminum up in the kitchen.

so, i'm gong to need to finish up in there, do a secondary general clean, take another shower and then move back into the bedroom to focus on doing the cataloging and the coffee table book for a few days, before getting back to room 3 again, the kitchen. i'll post a video update for the laundry as well.

the big kitchen  update  is still to come and is the next big thing to do.

there will be people that will try to justify the attack by hamas, or question the reporting around it. there are people that deny the holocaust. 

you should let them explain themselves, understand their words and never speak to them ever again.

the legitimate purpose of the fully justified military operation launched by israel after the barbaric terrorist attack by hamas was to permanently remove hamas from power. virtually any response by israel would have been justified. the complete annihilation of gaza was not even yet a proportionate response to a massacre that far outside of the boundaries of civilization. 

hamas had to be removed from the planet in response. anything less would have been insufficient.

the removal of hamas from power is the definition of victory. the rest of it is mostly trivial. 

israel suspended the rule of law in response to these attacks, and it was justified in doing so, but this must come to an end. normal governance must return to israel asap.

it's over.

it's the best outcome possible.