Confessions of a Grumpy Old Man: Recent Episodes
Tom Bourne
Life bah.
Promises so much, delivers so little.
I spill the beans on an interesting life, warts and all.
No punches pulled, so fairy floss and candy canes.
The highs, the lows, the achievements and the betrayals.
It's all about to hit the fan.
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The grabs for government cash
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More of the bizarre happenings managing violent sexual offenders
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On drug and alcohol testing
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The structure and make up of our unit
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The introduction into working as a surveillance compliance officer
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Power struggles within a small campus.
What joy.
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Working as a lecturer in a small remote country town in WA
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Living on a flood plain - the joys of.
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The pest that was, and is.
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The failure to launch step child springs a suprise plan
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You provide for them when no one else will, you give up your time your dreams and dollars for them.
They spit in your face and abuse you.
The joys of being a step parent.
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Interest blossums working with a fellow trainer
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Their creepy, they slither, they are silent and they kill. Snakes
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Some of the weird stuff we found at Customs.
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The phone call that changed my career, for better or worse.
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About the Australian and international cricketers I have had the pleasure to meet.
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Failed business ventures and being forced back into a security role
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A little more on my background leading into formalised and accredited training and assessing.
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From my first real job in training.
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Tales from the Cricket tradgic.
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An introduction to a life time love affair with the game
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More of the time and responsibilites I had in Customs
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My experience with firearms and how I have come to think of them.
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One of the saddest day's of my life, the day my Mum passed.
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A little more on the going ons in Customs
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Joining the Customs Service
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The venomous little creature who was.
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Mine Site 05 and my introduction to the world of mining.
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The final word on my life as a night patrol man.
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Some of the dumb things my first security boss did.
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Some of the more interesting times as a security night patrol man
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On the interesting times patrolling a little town called Casio
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More of the crazy life as a night patrol man
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The joke that the Family Law Court decisions over child custody has become. It failed me, the working poor who couldn't afford a lawyer, and I know it has failed counteless others.
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The ridiculous way people can deliberately throw around accusations and then do not get penalised when they found to have fabricated the whole story, regardless of the hurt these allegations cause.
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The ending of the first marriage brought on a battle in the family court.
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An insight into some of the factors leading up to and from the breakdown of my first marriage .
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Some reflections on my first initial months with Post
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The first look at working with an organisation I would spend a decade with.
A decade I wish I could get back.
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Some of the dodgy dealings working with local government.
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Some of the more bizarre moments on the Island
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An introduction to my time as a night time patrol man
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A brief first look at my time working in food production and packaging.
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More absurdities including some of the flood response we were instructed to carry out.
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The truth about working for the southern hemispheres largest local government region.
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The disturbing truth about how some clients were treated on the island.
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More about the conditions and environment on Christmas Island. The crabs, the crabs, the crabs.
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Some of the more supernatural things I witnessed on Christmas Island
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Part 1 of a reflection on my time working on Christmas Island.
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Two of the wonderful animals I have been lucky to have as friends.
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An introduction to the end of my second marriage. So much more rich material to be gleaned from this disaster that lasted 17 years. But this was end, at least part of it.
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One of my chief frustrrations.
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Another well meaning, zero thought goverment scheme that was implimented to save the country from the global economic downturn.
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The joke that is Childcare subsidies in Australia and the failure of multiple governments to get it.
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Captain Morgan had no idea who he was dealing with when his arrogant and aggresiveness was unleashed on myself.
But he soon found out.
A Captain with no sailors to order around.
A Captain waiting for a mutiny from the board.
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Captain Morgan - the little angry man who had to go.
How to destroy someone in the way that hurt most.
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A brief reflection and introduction to the ones that got away
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My eldest sister Peggy and her parasitic ways.
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A summary of the life and times of one of my sisters, Reese.
She was not a very nice person who lived a sad little life.
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The family situation - a brief background so context can be drawn around what happens during the rest of my. strange life.
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Life, bah. What a dissapointment. So much promise, so little delivered.
We learn a little about my family in this episode.