Did he say it was ridiculous and he wouldn't do it or just that is was ridiculous?
He said he didn't want to get caught up in a "ridiculous convoluted" schedule that was "hard for everyone to manage" and that a week at a time was the "smoothest". He didn't actually refuse to do it and I hadn't previously proposed anything at all, I had asked him what he thought would work. We have friends who use the 3 4 4 3 and I guess that's where he got that idea. I didn't get the sense that he had really put any thought into it at all.
