**croak**

My voice is completely gone. My cats are quite astonished because I don't talk to them, skritching them wordlessly behind the ears instead.

The first human who call me on the phone despite my having told them about it by email, whether to just ask a short question or (heh!) ask me how I am will be awarded a special price for spectacularly lacking logic.

**is waiting**

I shall announce the result here when I have one.-