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Hey everyone! Hope you've had a nice weekend. It's time again to let you know what I've been doing the last two weeks!

As you are most likely already aware, this month is a Titans month.  I didn't start out working on that this month though. First few days I've been trying to fix a personal minor annoyance in FET(well more than one to be honest), which could help me scrap a couple of thousand superfluous lines.  Fixing the annoyance was messing with the textbox opacity option initially and I didn't want to sacrifice that function.  So after scratching my head for a while I managed to work my way around it. In the end the solution was ridiculously easy... which might have been the reason I didn't realize it at first.

I was happy to have fixed that age old "pebble in my boot", but by that time my hand had started to act up again.

I talked about this before, but just for anyone who doesn't know or remember, I'm right handed when drawing, but I use my mouse(intensively) with my left hand. I'm very depended on the so called infinite scroll function which means the mouse wheel has no friction(no clicky-clicks) and most mice with that function are too small, right-handed or have something else which makes it not suitable for me. Your choices become a lot more limited when you want something for your left hand with infinite scroll.

Despite my tinkering with mice in the past, including opening them up and messing with their innards, I still went back to using my logitech m500 in the end. Which is exclusively shaped for right-handed use. In the past that had already given me some pain and fatigue, but elevating my hand by putting some cushions under my wrist fixed my initial problems for a long time. But now it was back.

So I went through my collection of old mice and found an ambidextrous one with a nice wide mouse wheel which already had its "speed limiter" loosened by me some time ago. The wheel has no inertia roll because it's so light and it tracked like shit, but adding some space between it and the table's surface at least fixed the tracking somehow.

There's more to it than the above but I won't bore your (or me!) with that. Let's just say my hand is not feeling contorted anymore. Yay!

I wish I could just take the best bits out of all my mice and put them together into one which really works for me.

Unfortunately, my stylus pen also started acting wonky! No surprises there really. I use it all the time and it's old as balls(intuos 2!) but I have spares. Since I switched to my spare I also decided to buy a bunch of new nibs to go with it. I'm almost surprised you can still buy those.

A sketch with the new pen and nib.

(I gave Starfire a bit more, because why not. Bigger versions(pics, not tits) in the attachment)

And with that most of my hand/hardware problems should once more be over for a *knocks on wood* good long time to come.

Now to be entirely honest, I 'm not super certain I'll have a new Titans build finished this month. My hand is feeling fine again since I started using the new mouse, but I've been adding some more than my usual come-inside-or-outside choices for one scene which took me quite some time so I'm reeally behind of where I wanted to be about now.  I'll still try and keep things within this month, but just keep that in the back of your head when we approach the end of April to lessen any possible disappointments.

Anything else worthy to mention?  Not really. Well maybe. I've never seen the Mandalorian. I know Grogu exists and the helmet virtually always stays on etc, but that's about it. I never really felt the need to watch it. But this weekend I saw the Paz Vizsla scene in the latest episode and that was nice enough to make me want to reconsider. Must've been a pretty intense moment for anyone who has been following the show!

Alright, that's it for now. Talk to you later!