HST:
core. 
BCS:
Says recording here. 
HST:
Yeah, it just I clicked it as you spoke or just before or something like that. 
s3:
All right. 
HST:
How are you doing? Well, I said this last time, and you disagreed with me, but you look OK. 
BCS:
Yes, no, I actually think I am okay this time. I'm a little... 
s3:
Um, 
BCS:
compromised in various ways, which I'm going to tell you about. 
HST:
Sure, well. 
s3:
Um. 
BCS:
One of them being that I haven't done my homework for a reason. I want to try to explain actually, but 
HST:
Well, I mean, it was a short, it was short notice, but I figure we do this. Well, I don't know, it's like going, this is a comparison I use too often in too many ways. It's like we used to do with the kids, which was that we would go to the west coast of Scotland for the Maybank holiday weekend every year. 
HST:
And without paying any attention to what the weather forecast was, because you needed to book in advance to get a cheap place, and so on. And sometimes that meant famously, and, you know, family history is a good thing. 
HST:
Eating our sandwiches in a phone booth on the ferry pier between Sky and Razi. Because it was raining too hard. Didn't want to sit in the car to have our picnic. But sometimes it meant, you know, swimming off white sand beaches in Eriseg in 20 degree weather and it looked and felt like the Caribbean. 
HST:
So you win some and you lose some and if this is not well prepared as you'd like, then we'll talk anyway. 
BCS:
talk anyway. And I have a question about substance. So here's the problem. I have to get the final draft of the reflections book to the press by July 8. Which deadline I'm not going to make. But I need to make it enough that my good standing with the press remains. 
BCS:
Such that I can get an extension. And I think given the uncertainty about my lifespan, to say nothing of maybe just efficiency overall, I just need to do that. So this morning, I kind of thought, look, I might get to[am i gonna] spend the morning reading old versions of God approximately, which I would like to do. 
BCS:
And I slapped myself on the other wrist. Is that a well founded construction? Probably not. But anyway, I mean, I'm and have been working on it. 
HST:
Actually, that's that I mean, you, you're the only person who can correctly set your priorities. [BCS]Right. So I.[BCS] 
BCS:
I think I have to do that. Now, July 8th is not very far away. 
HST:
No, it's not. 
BCS:
So that might mean delaying our project by a rather short amount of time, but realism, the aforementioned realism, means it'll probably mean deferring it for longer than that.