It would, yeah. But...we know how that goes. [ it's difficult to be optimistic when you're proven wrong so, so frequently. ideal outcomes are hard to obtain. ] If anything, we're probably going to end up running into the real problem last-minute and having to improvise. But it's frustrating to know that we're right in its hand and we don't know how to stop it in its tracks yet.

[ there's a sigh. ]

I'd like to be optimistic, but...I used up all of it last week and it fizzled out by Sunday morning. [ this is like half a joke. ] It's just another week of horrors.