Let's see... ( he taps on the screen, which looks like poking in the general vicinity of the video lens, reading his self-stylized calendar. ) If today's the fifth by my calendar, and I arrived last 'month' on around the eleventh or so... Getting close to about a month since I got here.

( both so little time in the greater context of things, and so much time in the more immediate context stretching out into the foreseeable future. )

Oh, a pilot! I've been meeting a few people with that particular skill... you didn't find you had a ship with you when you got here, did you?

( SOME PEOPLE SURE DO and he really, really does not understand that, because that's one hell of an anomaly for an engine quirk to explain. )