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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY!

I spent the day with my new friend, ChatGPT. I found new ways to enhance and improve my inputs to get the best answers from AI, and today it worked like a charm. This large language model - depending on the input, of course - can be a terribly useful tool to help improve one's English. However, the only caveat one should keep in mind while trying to get familiar with this tool is it requires precise input; otherwise, it cannot produce useful answers.

Apart from my AI session, the locksmith came to finish the fence in the back garden, and it looks amazing. The frame is black, the slates are white, and it looks beautiful. Not to mention how useful it is because we can sit in our little garden with Abby without keeping an eye on her because the fence prevents her from running about in the common garden - which, by the way, is a complete shambles. The next turn is the front garden, where we need stairs and a fence to go out there with Abby.

The weather was hot today. The storm that devastated the southern part of the country didn't bring hail over our town, only some rain which made the air humid today. The weekend and the first two days of next week will bring scorching heat, but it won't be as bad as in Southern Europe. They predict +49°C in various parts of Italy and the Mediterranean region will resemble hell on Earth. Greetings to all global warming deniers!

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