"Oh. Yeah. That. Total highlight of this little vacation. A+, would get put down by a two year-old again." He winces, but at least he's put it aside enough that he can be sardonic about it. Besides, he's with Zouichi. Sarcasm and deflection is how they roll.

Besides, Zouichi knows him well enough to catch that there's a good reason Howard never told anyone about it, and doesn't want to sit around talking about it.

Howard isn't quite sure what 'ancillary' means, so he's just going to go with the definition Zouichi provides. "No, just the small stuff. The big stuff we're going to have to actually see before we can figure out how to boost it. Grab that trash can, by the way. We need wheels," he says, nodding towards a janitor's cart that's parked outside a work area.