I got to write my first Unusual Incident Report and my first First Aide report this week. Always feels like a milestone when working at a new agency. Nothing too serious, thankfully.
I didn't mention it, but on my first day, someone graffiti'd the WALES building. Just sprayed the tag "N4" repeatedly across our building, sign, and picnic tables, as well as the abandoned Catholic school next to us. They were a little bit more elaborate with their school graffiti, expanding the tag to the "North 4" and in places using the phrase "We the North".
That phrase sounded super familiar. Looked it up and it's the old Toronto Raptors (basketball team) slogan, which has since been replaced by "North Over Everything". Doesn't make a ton of sense to use it as a graffiti tag.
Some of the participants were suggesting it's a hate crime targeting the population we serve. I said it likely wasn't because they didn't predominantly hit us. But apparently the same tag showed up all over KW Hab, which is also a day program for people with differences, which is suspect.
One of my friends got shot. With a gun. By a person that was trying to shoot him with a gun. This happened a little while ago but I only heard about it recently. This past weekend we got together and he was pretty comfortable talking about it, and I got the full story. First time I've known someone who had something like that happen.
I don't know if I mentioned it, but the old group home I used to work at got shut down. I know I mentioned that my old boss and a handful of seasoned employees were fired, and there was a change in management, but more recently the entire house got shut down and all the residents were relocated. That's an old house, so this was a big deal. I linked up with someone on the inside and got the scoop on that too, although I won't be going into detail here.
I haven't talked too much about my garden this year. I'll give you some before and after pics.
It can be kind of hard to judge the height based on the picture, but some of those plants are taller than me! I actually ran into the issue that the tops are vulnerable to snapping during windstorms because they're so much taller than the bamboo stalks I fixed them to. This isn't the most recent image, I think they're actually taller now, but we're getting small frosts rolling through the city and it's making them look a little sickly, plus they took some damage after a couple of wind storms, so they're looking healthier in this image than if I were to snap a pic right now.
There's a lot of construction happening in the complex where I live. They've dug up sections at both entrances, as well as a bunch of the parking lot. I don't have a car, but if I did, I would be pretty mad at them for dumping a mountain of dirt on my parking spot. Right now, my regular path to my bus stop is blocked off and I have to go a round about way to get to it. I also have to walk around a mound of dirt to get into my unit. They've danger taped the area around our backyards, so there's no communal walking area. When they first sectioned off an area, they put up a small fence that said the area was a nature preserve. But then they dug it all up, which is a weird thing to do to a place you just declared as a nature preserve.
I've been using my student card as a bus pass. In the past, they would put an expiry date on the cards and usually give, like, five years before having to renew it. So even if you stopped going to school, you could still use the card as a bus pass until it expired. Recently however, they converted to a system where you have to scan your card when you board the bus. And I guess you have to reload it annually because somebody deactivated my card. I had to buy a regular bus pass for the first time in a year.
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