I suggested it last year. I wanted to break the monotony of only doing competitions so it doesn't get old and stale.

and I suggested we'd be more than interested.

It's getting pathetic that my 8-year-old son isn't safe in his house.

He sounds like a particularly mischievous 14 year old to me. Not too big to be put over his dad's knee, I wager.

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

The endurance of monotony has about the same place in a healty mind that the endurance of darkness has: that is to say, as a strong intellect will have pleasure in the solemnities of storm and twilight, and in the broken and mysterious lights that gleam among them, rather than in mere brilliancy and glare, while a frivolous mind will dread the shadow and storm; and as a great man will be ready to endure much darkness of fortune in order to reach greater eminence of power or felicity, while an inferior man will not pay the price; exactly in like manner a great mind will accept, or even delight in, monotony which would be wearisome to an inferior intellect, because it has more patience and power of expectation, and is ready to pay the full price for the great future pleasure of change.