I go away for a few days and come back to things like "cockeyed, I guess the heat gets to everyone ocassionaly.

As for the callouses, Sourdough, when I was growing up in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas I was told to soak my sore fingertips in turpentine.(Hey Max, how about your next new wiz-bang is a spell check?) Anyway, that ,strange as it sounds, actually seemed to help!