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Welcome to day 9 of Thingadailies

Mister Graduates!

Mister is going back to the shelter tomorrow for surgery and adoption, so I took pictures this afternoon. This cat is ridiculously photogenic and sweet.

In other foster news, Lulu went into a nosedive yesterday afternoon, and honestly, if it hadn't been Sunday night, I probably would have called the shelter and told them it was time to let her go. She could no longer walk, and she was trying to eat but couldn't stay upright long enough to do so. She dragged herself next to the litter box to pee, but couldn't get inside the box so she went on the pee pad next to it.

But it was Sunday night and I didn't think she was in so much pain that it was worth driving to the university, so I gave her some B vitamins just in case her neuro signs and weakness were related to that, and then left her to relax on the heating pad for the night.

When I woke up this morning, I half expected her to have passed away during the night, but nope! She was able to get up and walk again, and she ate most of the food I'd left for her.

Was it the B vitamins? Are the meds finally kicking in? Or was it just random luck? I honestly have no idea. I'm still not super optimistic about her long-term outcome, but she looks a lot better today. (And yes, I will be continuing the B vitamin supplementation — if her problem is thiamine deficiency, that's fixable.)

Selections

I continued the tutorial today.

Key learnings in Affinity 3:

• Hit z to zoom in and out with the mouse, and z again to return to what you were doing
• Hit h to pan with the mouse, and h again to return to the previous task
• Once you've used the pen tool to mark all the nodes when you are cutting something out, there's a button at the top to actually make the selection. (We won't talk about how long it took me to figure this out...)
• But before you hit that button, holding command will switch the tool into node-edit mode and you can refine your selection.

I'm still getting used to the dynamic layer adjustments. GIMP doesn't have that (I think?), so I'm having to change how I think about things.

All this is to say I cut out the girl and added her to the bubble and then added some highlights and shadows. My version isn't as good as the tutorial, but I don't have that level of patience.

That gets me to about 7:30 minutes in the 20 minute tutorial.

Other Stuff

I added 600+ words to the cozy today (which is my current daily goal). And now it's time to medicate everyone and also read this 60k gothic horror for my critique group on Thursday. See you tomorrow!