Tips for better money management:

As mentioned yesterday, pay extra-special attention when making travel plans. The difference in flight price + the penalty is a bitch to pay.

A kind soul remarked yesterday that I could conceivably go to Europe for what I'm paying to go to San Antonio.

And when the nice highway patrol officer pulls you over to give you a speeding ticket, make sure that he knows that the address on your license is not current. This way, you'll be sure to get the little courtesy notice in the mail, alerting you to your options in taking care of the ticket. Oh, and pay attention to the ticket itself. It will have something called a court date listed on it. If you don't show up for this court date, they send your ticket to a collection agency, where a one-time-$77 ticket becomes a $77 ticket + $250 collection fee.

Learning through living.