Tip for finger-picking filkers

Superglue is particularly handy for fixing broken fingernails. As long as it's just a crack and a piece hasn't broken off completely, you can just apply superglue to the crack, plus a thin layer over the surface to hold things together. Avoid picking your nose for the five minutes or so that it takes to dry. Had to do it twice this weekend, on two different nails. One happened the day before my concert -- that makes the second concert this year I've done with bionic nails.

I found a particularly useful item in Walgreens: a package of 8 tubes of superglue for $3.99. Having multiple tubes is particularly important because they tend to leak, glue themselves shut, and become useless. Once upon a time there used to be fingernail-repair kits that included not only superglue but little silk reinforcement patches. Couldn't find one the last time I looked. Buy your glue in the school-supplies section: it's cheaper.

Baycon was fun

Along with the concert I was on four panels: "Writing the perfect filk", "Deconstructing SCO", and "Good vs. religious". The last one was the most fun, largely because Diana Paxson was such a good moderator. As usual I didn't get to many of the panels that looked interesting, but I did get to a few.

I didn't spend much in the dealer's room -- 3 CDs, 4 books, and a pair of Cthulhu slippers (for those times when you're tired of picking the lesser of two evils in the shoe store). I went to the art show, which was excellent, and avoided getting a bidder number for fear of using it.

Mostly I enjoyed the conversations (including the LJ BOF session) and the singing. That's really what I go to cons for these days.