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I've missed the three day weekend (and forgot Trudy whilst I was at it annoyingly). So missed two bust days and a 14:10 day. Back on the horse today with Garet.

Sorry, I did my typical disappear for the weekend trick!! I did indeed get it! And I managed not to feed it to my temporary Skeith as well which would have been an absolute disaster! Scream. Then change the language and do it that way. And if that still didn't work, hope it wasn't stolen whilst I faffed with attaching it to another pet, painting it, removing it and then attaching again to my Nightsteed! Thankfully I didn't have to do any of those things and it went on first go! Yep! I have paid for this blighter, you are darn well having it!! And ouuuuuch!! I did! I thought I would as the next increment would mean someone paying 15 million, which seemed unlikely! Thanks for filling in for me and congrats on the avatar!

I just bit the bullet and bid on a Candychan. 10.5 million of my hard won neopoints are now in escrow for anywhere between 2 and 8 hours. That is a ridiculous amount of neopoints to bid for a single item. I am fully aware of this and just did it anyway. My Nightsteed had better be really drattedly grateful for her shiny new petpet...

It's not so much an achievement as a potential good turn. I adopted Bankskeither for the avatar, but whilst I have him in my possession, he's had a paint job and I'm boosting his stats a little to make him more adoptable. He's also been fed and watered and I'll put him back in the Neolodge before he goes back to the Pound so he'll have 28 days of relative comfort at least. It does occur to me that I may be a little too invested in the future of random pixels... then I shrug off that thought and continue as before.

I always forget to do this one, but today was a good day.

Lesser Healing Scroll from the Wheel of Knowledge. Not a bad return on 400np. Between my previous job coupon and this, I've got a few free spins!

Good shout! I'd forgotten you could do that! He's now out of the Neolodge and painted Faerie to hopefully give him a better chance in the Pound when he goes back in! I was toying between Royal and Faerie - and picked Faerie first because it was significantly cheaper with a morphing potion and secondly because the Tooth Faerie making bank with her ill gotten gains came to mind which seemed to fit the name Bankskeither!

Also 24:10. Gone straight with Garet today. Single positive so not the best of days, but hey ho.

So I just adopted a Skeith from the Pound for the avatar and had a facepalm moment. I immediately stuck him in the Neolodge so he wasn't dying any longer... but of course, now he's not hungry and I can't get the blooming avatar! And I now feel morally responsible for the blighter as I adopted him. So I'll likely end up having to paint him to adopt out as I'll just feel guilty for dumping him back again!

Yep, also a bust here but I don't feel bad as Garet busted as well! I've largely removed Lagoon today and boosted Shipwreck. Still a high risk set, particularly as I've added two bets to cover all the 2:1's coming through. Checking it on neocities, I still have a 46% chance of busting, but it's better than the 70% chance of Garet's to my mind!

Mosaic is stunning! It would be a nightmare to customise, but it is stunning! I love the decorative hearts on the ruff! No, most of them seem to be plain colour eyes: The Uni seems to be the only other species with tiles eyes

52:10 yesterday! My gamble paid off as Garet got 20:10 Today, I've boosted the four pirate arena with five safeties and a base bet. And yes, I may well regret not covering those pesky 13:1's!

Another petpet one off the list. Unfortunately that's the pet I want a Darigan Candychan on... and my main excuse for not spending a frankly ridiculous amount of neopoints was that my avatar petpet was aging!

I'm often a book a day/every other day depending on length and heft, which is why I decided to only include the highest of the high recommendations in it. So rather than being a full journal of books read, it's more like a book of recommendations. Out of 160 odd books last year, I suspect 10-15 will make it in. I'm not going back much further than that and am only including books from 2018-2019 that made such an impression I remember them clearly two to three years later!! I also collect quotes from books in another set of notebooks... so it does take up an extra amount of time, but I think the fruits of the efforts are worth it! It's actually quite helpful that I'm so far behind on quote taking - it means I get a refresher of books in 2019-2020 before Book Journalling them! As I said, I'm no artist by a long stretch, so my pictures are more like simplistic representations either of the whole book or of a specific scene. So this one for instance was just a single scene where she's getting married after getting pregnant out of wedlock but her husband to be has been conscripted, so instead of being present, they just had a hat on a simple stool to represent his presence. I'm not sure why that image had such an impression, but it did! And in complete contrast you have Dune... and a very 'abstract art' (read, could be drawn by a child!) of the world and the sand worms!

A few of us had the same idea with the books didn't we!?

12:10 yesterday as well. I even thought that the 13:1 in Lagoon might be a better bet than Dan in Harpoon, but went with Garet's gut rather than my own!! Poops! I've boosted Lagoon and Cove today with two safeties and a base bet. May regret this.

Found a shop selling just about everything for 1000np. Now there were a lot of items worth less than 1000np. However several hours later, I have filled the 88 odd free spaces in my own shop, got 50 items sitting in my inventory and SDB'd a load of books. I have literally gone through almost every item in that shop SSW'ing or JNing the items. The average mark up to SSW prices on the items I grabbed was probably 500-1000np. But a lot of the items were actually worth 3000-4000np and a handful of items were worth 15k-20k! So, I've spent just shy of 200k at this single users shop. But hope to make a profit of another 200k at least out of it! This is what I currently have left in my inventory... all bought for 1000np a piece! The majority of the higher end items went straight into the shop to avoid stealing events. This is just the odds and ends that are left after the book clear out and then the final few purchases!

I'm sorry for your loss. It's hard enough when you are expecting it, but to have it come as such a shock is horrible. *hugs*

I'll certainly know to hold on FAER!!! I tend to sell all but 250 of stocks. I then sold the remaining 245 of FEAR at 96 or something, so have 5 left!

I haven't! FAER is the first one I've seen rise past 80-90 since my return!!

So I got an awesome Book Journal for my birthday a while back and I just started using it. I'm no artist at all, but I thought I'd like a picture accompaniment to each book as I already review on Goodreads and didn't just want to be duplicating. I'd also only including the best of the best books as otherwise I'm run out of spaces quickly. I just wanted to show off some of my efforts.

And of course FAER is now at well over 100. And of course I sold at 75 odd!

Annoyingly, other people also seem to be doing some hard Charity Corner Prep and finding cheap items is getting harder. That said, my ongoing CC prep is still ongoing. 500 plus items bought today! I haven't updated my spreadsheet, but I suspect I'm up to 60,000 points at least.

14:1 and 24:1 (Goob got 28:1 yesterday... I know where the 2:1 addition went as I replaced the 2:1 base with a 13:1 chase... but I'm really not sure where the other 2:1 went for me... maybe the odds had changed slightly when I put my bets in!). Today, I've taken the Treasure Island to boost over Shipwreck as there are no 2:1's in it at all. I've then done the 3 non 13's in Lagoon and the two non 13's in Harpoon plus a Fran chase. If all the low odds come in, it's a minimum of 16:1.

I even thought to myself I need to remember to get some this weekend... and still forgot. Doh!