... I did, thank you. I had some help from a friend from home who arrived here recently. [In more ways than one, unfortunately.......]
[But, that talk is less than cheerful and he casually is just gonna eat a candy all the while, because it'd be distraction enough--or too much of one, as he eats a yellow one and suddenly finds that Porthos has become the distraction. ... Oh. Wait. No. Bad.]