For the next three days or so. I'm off to Huntsville for a workshop on VSE, but also, I burned the fingers on my right hand on a hot dish tonight, so typing is problematic...

I'm hoping they'll feel better on the morrow.

[Tuesday morning update]

I was being a baby. Just the middle finger has a little patch of blister on it, and not where I contact the keys--the others are fine. But I'll still be busy.

I've found it useful whenever suffering a minor injury like that (and it really was trivial, though it hurt like hell for an hour or two) to think of the vastly more horrendous, almost unimaginable things that happen every day to people in regimes like Iran (and no longer, for the most part, in Iraq), in order to stop feeling sorry for myself.

Geez, Rand - I'm so sorry. That's gotta hurt; fingers have so many nerve endings.

If it's second degree (blisters), be careful - don't want any infections. I've found aloe gel to be very helpful with minor burns. Calendula gel (NOT ointment for a burn) is also good.

Have a good trip.