Audiobook finished

Monstrous Regiment by Pratchett
A young lady disguises herself as a boy and joins the army to go search for her beloved but slow-witted brother who she's always looked after, who also is in the army. She discovers (eventually) that nearly everyone in her platoon is a disguised female. Their country (Borogravia) has over hundreds of years attacked all their neighbors multiple times, and the neighbors finally got fed up and allied against them. Borogravia also worships a god who it turns out is dead, and the insane proclamations of what is an "abomination" this week are just death echos. These abomination decrees are slowly turning the country both mad and starving. In the end the women are exposed and nearly hanged, but they wind up gaining for Borogravia what it really wants; to be left alone, to stop fighting, to escape the grip of madness, some help rebuilding.

Weekend (so far)

The tomatoes are in, watered and caged; two each big boys, early girls, Rutgers and some cherry tomatoes, can't remember the variety. They all look healthy.
Didn't get the flower garden planted yet, but got the big granite rock placed within it.
Did a lot of moving stuff around in the garage and moved the workbench. I need to put electrical outlets in on that wall before placing and setting up the bench permanently though. There's a LOT of stuff in there that needs to be thrown out, largely small pieces of wood.
Generally did a lot of walking around and moving things from one place to another (hopefully things wound up closer to where they belonged by the end of the day).

Book finished

Old Man's War by Scalzi

(Tor gave this away as a free eBook a few weeks ago - if you subscribe they give away a free eBook every week - I converted the Mobi format one they provided to Sony LRF format with Calibre (free software))

This is the first book I've read on the Sony Reader. Actually I read about the first half of it on the Palm. I've always been a fairly slow reader, but I'm certain that my reading speed on the Sony reader is significantly faster than either on paper or on the Palm. On paper, I don't know what it is but I tend to lose my place a lot on a page, and I find holding books awkward. It's a lot easier to read on the eInk screen. The Palm had both a small screen and a short battery life which meant I usually had to stop reading after an hour or so - the thing had about a 2.5 hour battery life but it usually wasn't charged up when I picked it up to read. I charged the Sony last night for the first time. I read for probably 3.5 hours or so today and the battery meter still shows full.

Usually I post these privately and include a story synopsis; I'll skip the latter since I'm posting publicly, which I'm doing because people were interested in impressions of the reader.