His obsession was supposed to take a break according to his own words, but he either forgot (in which case he might be simply light in the loafers), or he's not to be trusted with his word.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if he fesses up to forgetting, or whether we will need to call him on his incapacity to tell the truth.
He's made similar promises before, and has broken them all in short order. I've now come to expect that of him.