He did need a reminder, but that is quite understandable for avatars of our age. We have so many important things to do and to think about and so many priorities you younger folks cannot even dream of.
P.S. I originally misspelled poor Petr's last name, it's 1) Hastings with an "s", 2) Vanbeeck with a "c" and 3) a hyphen inbetween. *sigh*
