OMG, I didn't yet share my latest escapade of yesterday morning!
Pull up a chair, everyone.
So -- I told about the dry skin splitting on Finger #1 (#2 in piano terms), and I didn't mention it but there were actually a couple more that had bothered me in days prior. They'd been healing, but you can still feel the damned things for a while.
Anyhoo, JUST FOR COMIC RELIEF...
I was slicing a bagel yesterday morning, and -- I swear, I'm always careful when doing anything like this -- I was holding the bagel with the OTHER hand, and I somehow allowed the bread slicer to swipe against that hand's index finger...
So guess who had a band-aid on the opposite finger for yesterday's rehearsal and show? You only get one guess. At least I'd already removed the band-aid from the right hand, so I didn't look completely wrapped up like the gal in "The Eye of the Beholder". Not quite yet, anyway.