I see you're working five days straight, you trooper! Is this the norm for you or is it some kind of one last hurrah?

I've been wanting to see you to experience what you seem to put so much thought and energy into providing, but I've been putting it off for some reason. Clearly your leaving the industry will mean I have to revise my priorities; hope to have met you by week's end.

Just to keep the pattern of quotes going, I think this suitably sums up my reasons for punting, which may resonate with some of you

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces