Yesterday I won a bid for Alien Bodies on eBay, which I was very glad about because I usually see it upwards of $60-80 and I got it for $32! I was refreshing the page every 10 seconds just to make sure no one outbid me in the end 
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Alien Bodies is excellent, a lot of fun.
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My tip for bidding is wait until the last few seconds and bid then. I don’t understand this bidding through a week, just makes the price more than it needs to be!
Which is good for me when I’m selling, not good for me when I want to buy 
But Alien Bodies is fantastic, it’s next book or two on my reading list.
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Wife is in Aruba for two weeks, escorting her mother and aunt there one last time (not sure why they needed two weeks to scatter her father’s ashes, maybe that’s not all they’re doing).
Enjoying flying solo for a short time, but I’ll be glad to get her back when she returns.
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Feeling mixed emotions at the moment.
There was a big family fall out between my side of the family and my aunt regarding a mobile farming simulator. She was making xenophobic remarks in the chatroom on the game and having a go at people when they weren’t finishing tasks, even though sometimes they had legitimate reasons for not completing them. My Mum eventually had enough of her bullying people and kicked her out, and my aunt has held a grudge against my Mum, my Grandma, and everybody our side of the family ever since.
She previously fell out with my other auntie over the same thing, because she didn’t like comments she had made about her in the game. However, my aunties both made up and now my other auntie is desperate for the my Mum, my Grandma, and my xenophobic auntie to make up. She’s going through to see us on Saturday and persuade my Grandma to consider forgiving my xenophobic auntie, because she’s furious at the way she has behaved and doesn’t want any more to do with her.
I am a little divided on this. On one hand, it would be nice for everyone to get along, and my Grandma isn’t getting younger either, so if the family was to come together again, then it would be better when she’s still alive. It also means that if there’s any support my Grandma needs with her health and well-being, there’s someone else nearby can help, as the auntie we have fallen out with isn’t too far away from her, whereas the auntie who’s okay is about an hour and forty minutes away.
On the other hand, the auntie in question has behaved terribly towards us. She not only publicly harassed my Mum on Twitter, but she named all her farm animals on her game as insults directed at my Mum, calling her things like a ‘viper’ (and the game developers won’t do anything about it), and threatened to take my Mum to court for kicking her out of her team on the mobile game.
It would be very hard to move past that personally, particularly as she even told my Mum at one point that as far as she was concerned, her birthday didn’t exist, and she keeps screenshots of every single thing my Mum ever said on the mobile game and Messenger which she gets out every time she makes out she wants to patch things up. She spends hours dissecting everything to paint herself as the victim, and yet she can say whatever she likes about us. So I don’t know how I feel about a potential family reunion. The thought has kind of both made my day and not made my day at the same time, because she is family, but she is also a deeply unpleasant family member too.
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Over a mobile game?! Adults falling out over a mobile farming game?! 
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Had a lovely day at Paignton Zoo. Sun shining, gorgeous animals and my youngest equally excited by frogs and monkey butts
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Ooh, I’ve been there! Many years ago, but it was a lovely day 
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Okay, then it wasn’t just me thinking that. Thanks for saying it first.
If i had to guess, though, I’d imagine the game is just a medium for the conflict. It really sounds like the kind of intolerance for other opinions that we see in American politics these days. Well, American politics and mobile farm games…
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Yeah, it’s as daft as it sounds. She didn’t like that people weren’t completing tasks and started having a go at them for not being on the game 24/7, so my Mum kicked her out. She’s held a grudge ever since.
That’s definitely an aspect of it. She basically had a go at someone in another country for using ‘wc’ instead of ‘welcome’ as English wasn’t her first language, because ‘wc’ also means ‘water closet’. It’s as crazy as it sounds.
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Sometimes I think there are people put in this world solely to make me look like a reasonable person. 
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oh near where I grew up!
I said near, I wasn’t born in a zoo lol
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At least we now know why you’ve got that username. First job at the zoo…?
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If you’re still down that way I hope you’re visiting Dartmoor.
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Possibly will. Here with extended family.
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Lovely part of the UK.
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I bought plane tickets for my November trip today! I still have to finalise some hotel bookings, but that’s basically it. Then it’s just a matter of hoping nothing gets cancelled last minute and all goes well. It’s my first time flying alone and I’m going cross-atlantic so I’m pretty nervous but I’m confident in my ability to ask for help if I need it.
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Awesome.
You’ve reminded me I need to sort out flights for my holiday in November, & get a new passport!
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we were supposed to get paid on the 31st but a system error caused the check to get frozen… we called to get it unfrozen so now we just have to wait for the bank to process it, which i dont know how long itll take …
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