Tuesday night (Feb 2nd), I attached the hardware to our new plywood attic hatch, and then screwed it into the attic rough opening. For now, it's held closed with a 2x4 wedged up against it. The latch will be installed some other time, but for now it allows much easier access to the attic, and keeps the warm air in the house much better. Wednesday night (Feb 3rd), I made some more progress with the master bedroom - I started closing up the hole I made in the wall to run the electrical wiring. I went through two more 5 pound buckets of joint compound to fill up the strip I cut out of the plaster, and also stuffed more fiberglass insulation into the wall cavities. I have more plaster work to fill, and will need another bucket of joint compound. Joint compound probably isn't the best thing to use for this, but it does work, and should sand up nicely. There's more to do on the bedroom - sand the filler smooth, add more to places that need it, etc. It takes at least two applications of filler, and probably 3 in all. I could probably use a belt sander... Hmm.