the fauxnies

I put on my black cat socks, and that was as Halloween-y as I got today. It just isn't my holiday.

Work was spent doing three things:

1) Heat transferring images onto safety vests, which was more time consuming than usual because the machine kept over heating and I'd have to unplug it and let it cool. Not so bad, just little delays.

2) Heat transferring images onto safety hats. Easy peasey, lemon squeezey.

3) Helping apply a vinyl wrap to the side of a thingy. Tricky. Hold of holding taught of vinyl, but not too taught.

Got home tired and a bit chilled. I finished A Casual Vacancy. VERY depressing book. I almost cried while listening to it, right at the end. It's tragic indeed. Started The Eyre Affair, which is fun and such an odd but lovely universe to listen to.

Since I've listened to so many audiobooks, thought I'd give out some faux awards:

Best All Around Book of the Bunch: Reamde by Neal Stephenson

Best Stephen King Novel: 11/22/63 (runners up: The Gunslinger & The Drawing of the Three)

Best Narrator: Jeremy Irons reading Brideshead Revisted

Worst Narrator: Jim Dale reading The Night Circus (he came off as a bit too husky and strained for voices that, to me, needed to sound more youthful)

I Have No Interest In The Main Character and Can’t Be Bothered to Finish: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Holy Shit That Was Dismal, Why Can No One Be Happy?: A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Best Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Book: Equal Rites (honorable mention to Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, and Pyramids)

Best Wimsey Novel: Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (runner up Whose Body?)

Best “I haven’t read it in a while, I should give it a listen”: tie between Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens

Best Interesting World Builder: Jasper Fforde with The Last Dragonslayer (runner up: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde)

Best First Book In A Trilogy, Which is Unfortunately Followed By A Dissappointing Second Book : A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Best Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Best Sketch Comedy: That Mitchell and Webb Sound (runner up John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme)

Best Audio Comedy: Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore

Most Likely to Be Listened to Next: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.

Likely to be listened to soon: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, Forever Odd by Dean Koontz, The Waste Lands by Stephen King, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayer.

Yup.

Spent the rest of the night relaxing, eating chips, chatting online, watching telly, and generally staying warm. Tomorrow is Thursday! Already! Gee.