Definitely work on that ore-approval process! That's the best way to be able to make an offer the instant the house goes up for sale, and if you can establish a relationship with the seller, it might not even go on the market and you might be able to nab it before other people start bidding on it if they like you!
I know too many people like your uncle, and there's too many other people not like your uncle: why should we spend time with toxic people? There's so little hope that we can help them to improve if they don't want to, and it just hurts us and leaves us wounded, there's simply no point. I'm solidly in your corner for avoiding your uncle. I expect he'll be quite happy in Texas. Sadly, I'm going to be seeing a lot of the red neck side of my families this weekend for the funeral, which includes Texans, but I expect people to be on their best behavior and not arguing politics.
While I knew of CBT, I've never done it (my issues would be better handled with talk therapy/counseling). My wife's never gotten into a lot of the details of CBT, but that sounds like an excellent exercise!
If you see a table advertising Flying Buffalo products: mainly the Tunnels and Trolls RPG and the Nuclear War card game, that's the game company that I worked for. Up until this year it was the oldest self-owned hobby game company still in existence, the owner passed a couple of years ago and his sisters sold the company a month or two ago. But at least it's being kept pretty much intact.
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I know too many people like your uncle, and there's too many other people not like your uncle: why should we spend time with toxic people? There's so little hope that we can help them to improve if they don't want to, and it just hurts us and leaves us wounded, there's simply no point. I'm solidly in your corner for avoiding your uncle. I expect he'll be quite happy in Texas. Sadly, I'm going to be seeing a lot of the red neck side of my families this weekend for the funeral, which includes Texans, but I expect people to be on their best behavior and not arguing politics.
While I knew of CBT, I've never done it (my issues would be better handled with talk therapy/counseling). My wife's never gotten into a lot of the details of CBT, but that sounds like an excellent exercise!
If you see a table advertising Flying Buffalo products: mainly the Tunnels and Trolls RPG and the Nuclear War card game, that's the game company that I worked for. Up until this year it was the oldest self-owned hobby game company still in existence, the owner passed a couple of years ago and his sisters sold the company a month or two ago. But at least it's being kept pretty much intact.