Haha I had to lookup the bad penny reference and I'm definitely using it going forward. Not a bad penny at all my friend, more like a welcomed guest!

I'm all about the philosophy of automating as much of your life as possible in order to maximize your time not doing work. I'd absolutely be interested in the connection and I appreciate you even offering. I'm not entirely sure what I'd be able to help him out with seeing as he's pretty much doing what I'm half-assed attempting to do here, but networking is never a bad option.