Steve, it was great you got called in out of retirement for that special assignment. Sounds like a secret agent movie. That would be my kind of job actually.
As for the doodling, I have always been an avid doodler, on my desk blotter at work, my notebooks etc. I have incorporated a few here in some of my writing at Medium, but not enough. Your tremor has convinced me to start doing more, while ai can. My wife has developed bursitis in her shoulders and wrists and is suddenly so restricted in what she can do. It is scary.