Haha, yeah that might have helped. I ended up doing something semi-similar with my pry bar which seemed to work out alright.
Well, we got a ton done today. The windows are now in and most of the inner wall is framed. Unfortunately, my camera took a dump on me halfway through the work. This is probably due to the copious amounts of plaster which got in my pockets where the camera resided... Anyway, I got some of the remaining demo work on my camera and some shots of the rest of the work on my wife's phone which I'll have to get later.
Here is the wonderful 'framing' job done on the door that was in the wall.
Here is the ceiling of the room. It is balloon frame, but it has a 1x4 board notched into the 2x4, for what reason, I do not know.
I'll get the rest of the pictures up tomorrow. For now, I sleep.