RickAstley

All the time. Something I learned to do growing up from family. I've found a new level of appreciation for finding change on the ground as a dad now.

My 4 year old loves any chance he gets to put change into his piggy bank. If we find something as simple as a penny in a parking lot, he'll keep it clutched tight in his hand until we are home and then run inside and dump it into his piggy bank. Pure joy.

Everything is still a treasure to him. He brings home pockets full of rocks and pea gravel any chance he gets and has a pile he's making in the garden. Brings me back to my childhood when I would spend hours looking for fossils in the rocks used for gravel roads and parking lots.

I've heard stories about Ravens in the Arctic region befriending the natives. Ravens will circle wild game like a moose when they are hungry to help lead hunters to a kill. Then the ravens score scraps from the leftover carcass.

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all I can say is that must have been a heck of a collision for the 6-7 y/o. did the kid sustain any damage? I backed into my door and it didn't do that much damage.

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A combination of a sloped driveway and the kid not knowing how to brake properly led to him building up a lot of speed prior to collision. No idea how fast he was going, but it wasn't pretty at all. The kid is a tough little bastard though. He was out riding around the next day and didn't have any noticeable scratches.

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just fix your house dude. Were you never a kid? shite happens. I can’t believe you are even entertaining making them pay for it

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Dude I will end up fixing my house whether it's my money or theirs. If my kid goes to their house and damages their property, I'm going to pay the damages and punish the kid. There's nothing wrong for me to expect the same from my neighbors, much less others.

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I wouldn't threaten legal until last resort. I'd wonder if it's going to be worth it for $1000

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Definitely not planning to go this route. I'm leaning towards getting one more quote. The original quote was from someone that I trust, and it didn't seem outlandish given the damages.

Not sure if anyone cares or not, but the price change fee dropped to $130 two days before my flight. I ended up rescheduling for the 9:50 am flight. Oddly enough it stayed that price even on Saturday. I don't know how Delta's pricing works for their flights, but the change fee was very expensive for about 6 days and dropped within 48 hours of departure.

Thank you all for the feedback :cheers:

I'll preface this and say I screwed myself with my original booking when I opted for the 'cheapest' route.

With that out of the way, I have a 7 am flight that I very much want to change to a 9:50 am flight. Both take me to a hub airport. There is one more flight on my itinerary to my destination that won't need to change. When I try to change the flight, it's adding nearly $700 to the original total for the main cabin. Am I screwed or is there a method to maybe get the cost lowered closer to $200 or less. This flight is scheduled for a week away.

Edited to add this is for the return flights for a round trip booking.

Do you have a rough idea on the salt to water ratio or just going by feel?

I have a stack of books next to my desk that I plan to tackle throughout the year. I do not consistently read, so it's likely I either finish this stack before end of year, or I've added several books to it and haven't completed it:

Current Read:
* Black Range Tales - James McKenna

Books to read:
1. AI 2041 - Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Quifan
2. Flags of our Fathers - James Bradley with Ron Powers
3. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
4. Empire of The Ants - Bernard Werber
5. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E Frankl
6. When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Harold S. Kushner
7. Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O'Neil
8. Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior - Mike Leach & Buddy Levy
9. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick

Completed reads:
Blood and Treasure - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

No numerical goals from my end on total number of books to read this year. My main goal is to work against this list and try to be consistent from start to finish in reading books and magazines this year.