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  • Cherryfudge
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    The weather has been pretty dry today, but it's not summery unless you count wanna-be thunderclouds racing over. The washing from two days ago is nearly dry but I haven't been in most of the day so I couldn't attend to it.

    This afternoon's class was okay though exam prep is happening and I need to find some more examples for the person to practice on. AI was very helpful this morning, when I fed it the prerequisites for one part of the exam and it gave me scenarios to practice with. I now know the course finishes in the first week of July, but I don't know if I'll be needed again in the autumn.

    The good side of that is that I'll be available for childcare on Thursday over the summer should DD need me - she's still not well despite being on antibiotics.

    This evening there were some dramas, two of which aren't my business, so I won't write about them. The other was that as I packed up to leave work, the alarms went off. Shortly after, I realised the building had been locked up with me inside, so I rang the manager who immediately got security out to me - but they faffed about outside because one of them didn't have his pass on him. I gave him short shrift for not checking the building properly though it later turned out he'd asked a colleague, who hadn't realised I was in. Then the police turned up, blue light and all, as the alarms will be connected to their building. I left security to deal with them, and to be fair both he and the colleague have said sorry. I wouldn't have been annoyed if it were a complete one-off but a few days ago he locked a main side entrance so that I had to get someone to let me through another gate, and it's happened before.

    Anyway, in the grand scheme of things, it's nothing.

    Spending today: £3 bus fare, £1.05 on a bag of sweets. The bus fare will be refunded. I had one of the meat pies I made, for lunch, and banana muffins and chocolate for tea, then a baked potato when I got in from work, so I have almost avoided the work-day food spending.

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