A collective THANK YOU to the many readers who responded to my bleg this

morning about Tonic Trouble. In blegging for this, I inadvertently revealed

that I am the last person left in the U.S.A. that has not yet used e-Bay, &

in fact I had no clue what it was, though I had heard the name. Look, I’m a

C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E. (Among my heros are those crusty old English

judges who periodically peer out from under their horsehair wigs to

interrupt court proceedings with questions like: “Who, exactly ARE these

’Beatles’ Counsel is talking about?”) It looks as though e-Bay may deliver

for me (though I still have not much idea how the thing works). Other

readers directed me to the UbiSoft web site, which I already knew about, but

which is useless–you call one of their phone numbers and some different

gaming company answers, & knows nothing about TT. An advance thanks to the

many readers who alerted me to TT’s smarter brother, Rayman, which I shall

definitely try. NRO readers ROCK!