Not at all! And I should be able to make tea -- that coffeemaker is wonderful for heating up the water, actually. [He pulls out a package of Hydrox-brand sandwich cookies and brings it over to the table, extracting one of the plastic sleeves for picking at, then busies himself boiling the water in the coffeepot and getting tea bags.]

Fair enough -- I can hardly imagine running something so large myself. Despite the fact that my father did so easily. . . [He shrugs, then smiles.] Ah -- I should have guessed, really, from our first conversation.