This was my response...
When you make a commitment to yourself and others to succeed, but fail; winners find solutions, losers find excuses. For example, I once had a new employee who was thirty minutes late to work three times. The first time, he said there was a brown-out, and slept late. My advice, get a battery operated alarm and try getting to bed thirty minutes earlier. Second time, there was traffic. Join the company car-pool. The third time, somehow the alarm wasn't set. 'You didn't set your battery alarm?' was my only question. Well no, I haven't had the time to get one. You've worked three weeks since the last time, that's six days that you've had the chance to fix an issue, take all the time you need, you're fired.
As you read this, you're not thinking of a middle aged man, who was raised in a hostile world, that survived car-bombs and lost friends from stray bullets, and who is disabled from being a good Samaritan. You care about my promise to pay you, on time. I care about seeing a fun game being produced in a timely manner. Everyone wants results, not excuses.