tele_mark says:
Mikesch has been having one of his spurts of improvements the last month. He is now not shy at all about coming up on the desk in front of me. OK -- it helps a little that I have food in front of me But he's also getting very talkative. He comes into the room when I'm on the computer and asks to be pet. I'm thinking it's close to re-classifiying him from feral to shy. Here's a clip of him asking to be pet, and Ivan answering out of site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DV1DePR9I