Bro is game even driving it around my suburb. I mean its not fankston, but we've got more commodores with exhausts cut off than we do BMWs. Dunno whos worse, the teens fanging it or the soccer mums in huge SUVs they never quite mastered.

Ibuprofen has helped though!

yeah its good to be home!

For sure, I have been very lucky to have a supportive mentor, I just feel like I've failed him (and myself) a bit - but better not to dwell on it, onward we go, even if the end result isn't really ground breaking or entirely my idea, I'll have learned something from it I hope.

Thanks Melba. You're probably right, at least I kind of hope someone's copping it. But I doubt it. I think everyone's gotten off mostly scott free, because the program manager, and area manager were on leave, and the "case management practitioner supervisor" had been sacked. And of course, nobody ever wants to rock the boat when in an interim role, so I think child protection exploited that as well, I've seen it happen before so it wouldn't be unsurprising

There's just 198 days until I turn 18, and then these people don't really have a say in my life. However, I will likely still live here anywhere between an extra 6 months and year after I turn 18, although then I'll have even less recourse in such situations

I can jam things in the door, but I'm not sure it's really worth it. I already know that there's nobody either in the house or my room, it's just trying to teach my brain to comprehend that at 2:30 in the morning that's an issue.

I don't have oven cleaner, but always have something I know how to improvise with in case of self defence. I don't keep a knife in my room anymore, because that does seem a little OTT and paranoid, but there's always something. I also got a bright torch off Amazon (technically we're meant to have one of those giant ones in the evacuation kit, but the last one was noticed to be completely corroded and smashed about 6 months ago, and they've yet to replace it). It has a strobing function, which might be useful, although I do wonder about the effectiveness of them.

If the new doors and frames do result in shitty locks, I'll probably have to figure out how to install one myself. That's probably a rather bad idea, so I'll definitely have to see what happens next before I do anything like that, but it's a possibility I have shoved away in the back of my mind if it's ever as bad as it was again

Also probably worth noting: I have security cameras all over the property, and as of today, there's now proper ones with a UPS as well. It is technically possible to get into the house by breaking into the neighbours backyard, then jumping the side fence, then shimmeying a window up, but it doesn't seem super likely. So I'll always have advanced notice if he returns

And no, absolutely not. I appreciate the advice and suggestions

Thanks SG. I just want to say that I really appreciate how much of a rock you and the rest of the DT regs have been through the entire ordeal. It helps to have somewhere to vent that isn't biased towards the org

Thanks tom. I've honestly been beginning to wonder if I'm putting unfair expectations up, mostly due to the absolute apatheticness most people involved irl seem to show. I did get some hopefully good news about an hour after I posted that. The "case management practitioner supervisor" sent me a text to say that "a number of builders will be there replacing the door frames and people for the cctv stuff". I'm a little worried about their implementation, as before the doors may make the situation worse if they don't reuse the same locks, and the cctv system might end up being installed in some office somewhere monitored by randos. AFAIK it won't be on premises. It'll be proper corporate type surveillance, so remote monitoring (by the people living here anyways) won't be a thing. But if it's like the ones they put in resis, it also has extremely good night sight

And yes, I've never used something that looks so modern, yet acts like it hasn't been redesigned since 4kbps was the average internet speed! I had a zoom call earlier with a "success coach" from the TAFE who walked me through how to use it and what to do. Seems I can safely ignore most of the buttons, which is nice. But there's still a bit to figure out

i’m going out to work in a few hours

Don’t forget the biscuits

I need to know are they still on the BBQ?

Hallelujah

Scorpions Rock you like a Hurricane

Generally they are much more resistant to any bacteria etc. than we are. It's important to get it from a decent supplier though, cross contamination etc. are more of a risk than the meat itself.

Mr Woof gets raw meat, but Miss Meow is not allowed because she is immune deficient.

I got: Lenovo LOQ 15.6" FHD 144Hz Gaming Laptop (Intel Core i5)[GeForce RTX 2050]. The only game I'll play is Dota 2 probably so this should do the trick nicely

I like when we have an elder do a welcome to country. It's different and always pretty cool.

Doing the acknowledgement before every meeting is basically tokenism at this point.

they said "welcome to country" but I suspect they meant acknowledgment.

it was an ad hoc "telling off" meeting by a department who thinks they have power (and probably SHOULD have power) but in reality they dont. Kind of a nothing burger meeting.

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