Thanks Deb. He didn't know how long he'd been thinking about it, but I'd guess a couple of months or so. We'd been getting progressively closer over that time (after an email from him a few months ago saying he was uncomfortable with me wanting to ML and such). It is really weird to get an email like that and all of a sudden we are doing more things together.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope things go well for each of us!