Day: January 1, 2021

With fingernails that shine like justice

Posted on by Shawshank

Well I’ll address the elephant in the room, happy New Years! Let’s all say goodbye to the dumpster fire that was 2020, and say a hearty hello to 2021. I was impressed with myself. I actually stayed up and made it to midnight.

I’m now off until Tuesday. I may go in Monday morning for a few hours to finish inputting stuff to the live inventory. It’ll be the only day that I can go in and have it be completely quiet, with no distractions.

I watched Infinity War with my dad last night. He’d never seen it before. Not a lot of emotion when Thor arrived in Wakonda, but was rather annoyed them at it just faded to black and ran the credits. We’ll probably be watching Endgame sometime today.

But for right now, the coffee is ready. Happy Friyay, and happy new year y’all!

First Impressions – The Guest List

Posted on by Shawshank

So this is a new thing I want to try out. I’m calling it “First Impressions”. I’m only a handful of pages into The Guest List by Lucy Foley, and I just want to talk about what I’m thinking about the book as I read the opening chapters.

It’s gonna be a wild ride, methinks.

Reese? Oh Witherspoon, not John Conners dad from The Terminator. Good to know.

So like A Song of Ice and Fire, each chapter is dedicated to one character in the book. We’re introduced to the bride, the plus-one, the best man, the wedding planner, the bridesmaid, and the fiancé. You really get to know them in the opening chapters. But at the end of each chapter, you’re left wanting more.

The other character in the book is the small Irish island out in the Atlantic Ocean. Lucy Foley is doing a great job of describing the island as both menacing, and gentle. I believe I’ve gotten to the point where all the characters are now on the island, and soon, I’m sure, all hell will break loose.

And I can’t wait to see how all this plays out.