It was an amazing, loving family. Priceless.
O.C.? Ah, cool! I grew up in Huntington Beach and used to surf the pier often. :)
As for audio books, it took me a while to get up to 3x. Even at normal speed, I needed to get through a couple books before I didn't have to keep hitting the 30s rewind button. Eventually I was able to bump up the speed over time. Now I can listen at 3x while driving or running without too much effort. If something is really good, and I feel I didn't absorbs it all, I'll sometimes just listen to it again. Some books have difficult narrators which require me to slow down. Others have so much data, text would probably be better (recently finished the Master Algorithm along with Superintelligence, two books which I will probably have to listen to again). I just finished The Origins of Virtue today and loved it.
Good call on the narrators. I'm currently listening to The Art of War narrated by Aidan Gillen, aka the actor who plays Littlefinger on Game of Thrones, cause I thought that would be amazing.
Unfortunately for me He is Irish, so occasionally my brain is busy working out what the fuck he said instead of listening to what he says next or thinking about the concepts. But it's my first audiobook, I just downloaded Audible, and I guess as with all things, there is a learning curve