"Don't see why it wouldn't. Besides, I don't think there's any rules to it anyway." Certainly not any he takes especially seriously.

"I've made a lot of resolutions I didn't manage to follow through on. Just don't always have the time. This one, though, I've been meaning to get to for a while, you know that. I wasn't just bugging you about the physics of sound back a year or two just because I wanted to talk to you more."

Though in retrospect, yeah, probably some of that too, which makes him grin. He just never really registers these things until much later.