Working from the sofa, while Tilly helps. (Photograph by ...

Working from the sofa, while Tilly helps. (Photograph by Howard Gayton)

Thank you to everyone who left me "get well" wishes in the Comments section of my last post. I'm starting to feel better, and I'll be posting here regularly again once I'm back in the office and have caught up on the work I missed...if not by tomorrow, then certainly by Monday. 

Teleri: Thank you for the German expression ""betüddeln lassen," which I'd not heard before despite coming from a large German-American family on my mother's side.  (They are Pennysylvania Dutch, which isn't Dutch at all -- it's a language corruption of "Pennsylvania Deutsch.") By the way, I hope you saw that I did eventually answer your question about notebooks.