Why not suggest to him that you try it over the summer? If it doesn't work at all, you haven't lost anything. Don't be too intense, maybe work two or three days a week, but prove to him that it's a great idea.
Im such a lazy bum. I *should* have done it over this past summer...was thinking more of starting after the first of the year....
gotta go for now. promised to play chess with her.....