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It seems like ages ago since I last updated, but yes, we did have a white Easter in the end. In the last 3 weeks, we’ve visted the restaurant where my Mum works (The Townhouse) 3 times! It was recently taken under new management, and it has improved a lot since then. They do a nice roast dinner on Sundays, and last Thursday evening we went to the Curry and Quiz night, which was fun. The questions were quite difficult though (they were mainly about celebrities and old films from many years ago), so we only got 26 out of 60. The last round was a “wipeout” round, whereby if you get even just one question wrong, you will get zero for the whole round. So if you’re not absolutely sure of an answer, it is best to leave it blank. This wipeout round caught us out, as we thought we knew the answer to a question, but it turned out to be wrong, wiping out our entire score! It was still a good night though and I liked the curry – I had a nice chicken korma. We plan to go again this week.

I’ve met my friend Naomi twice in the last week or so. We met up during my lunch-hour and we went for a meal at KFC in the local mall. It was quite busy and we had to queue for a while and by the time I finished my main meal, I realised there wouldn’t be enough time for me to queue up again for a ice cream. So we decided to go to the Walls ice cream parlour downstairs instead. I had a chocolate ice cream which came in a huge cup! I couldn’t eat it all by the time I had to go back to work, so I ended up having to take it into the office with me! I was a bit nervous that the security guard might not let me in, but no-one said anything about it. So I sat at my desk eating it, and as I was trying to do my work at the same time, it took me nearly 20 minutes to finish it!

Work is going well at the moment – I was recently moved into a new Process Improvement Taskforce, where I’m responsible for speeding up and improving existing reports using macros and VBA in Microsoft Access and Excel. I’ll also be learning new programming languages such as SAS.

When I logged in to write this blog, I noticed that WordPress 2.5 is now available. From what I’ve heard about it, it sounds good. I’ll have to try it out in the next couple of days or so.