No problem. And, yeah, it's probably for the best to keep calm while they deal with what's certainly more than their usual problems. What's your paper about, if you don't me prying? BTW, I recently found this utility, and it's been proving itself invaluable.
Detexify is the only practical use I've found so far for the touchscreen on my laptop! The paper's on stuff I did for undergrad research ages ago that just never got published. We wanted to see if we could detect static shocks to a computer using only software running on the computer and it turns out that yes you can probably do that, although it's tricky. Looking back on it I wish we had had better experimental methodology but fortunately the project's been revived in a slightly different form so hopefully my dreams will come to pass.