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IQ Test

2004

Films

I'm a bit behind myself, so a belated happy birthday to Annie and Altariel.

My printer arrived yesterday (after a delivery estimate of 20th-26th January). The lead hasn't arrived though, of course, so I appropriated the one from my TV card. It's not as if there's anything on till Wednesday anyway.

I spent an hour setting it up and installing all the stuff, twice. So then I tested it and I spent five minutes completely gobsmacked at how fast it is. Admittedly, my old printer is old, but the new one prints so quickly you can practically blink and miss it. I'm, not my phone will fit on top of it, which is something I didn't think of, but apart from that, it's great. I will have to try printing some stuff in colour, in draft quality, double-sided and some photos on the paper they sent with it.

At work today we had a charity day to raise money for the tsunami victims (specifically someone living near the company chairman's house in Sri Lanka who has been taking in people who have lost their homes). We managed about �500, which the company said they would match. Which is really great but annoys me because most of the rest of the people in the company never give anything to charity at any other time. Except when I come round selling raffle tickets/asking for sponsorship.

I know you can't have a big thing too often - we used to have a charity week at school so often it seemed like it was every other week. And I know that there are a lot of charities, all worthy causes, that you can't hope to support them all. And it's really important to remember that there are lots of others that need support, apart from tsunami-related ones. But I just want people to remember them at other times of the year - when they aren't prompted to by the rest of the country.

Tomorrow night is our annual cheese and wine quiz. It was not looking good on Tuesday, for the numbers of people we had going. Now it almost looks like we'll have too many for the venue! I managed to stand up in front of about 20 people at the Christmas dinner and make a short speech without getting nervous, so I'm going to attempt to make a welcome speech in front of 50 tomorrow. Which, I have to admit, I would never have considered doing six months ago.