Furry Sleeping Pills and Other Catly Duties

I decided to take a nap this afternoon, so I laid down on my bed, and my two furry sleeping pills joined me soon after. The big longhair is Sashi and the shorthair is Cubby. The reference to cats as sleeping pills comes from my daughter, and boy is she right! There's just something about that warm little body (or in Sashi's case, not so little!), the wonderful rumble of the purring, that just relaxes me right into sleep.

Since I had the internet service installed and got my computer hooked up on a table in my bedroom, Sashi has decided that's his domain. He lays on the end of the table most of the time, but lately if I get up to go get a drink or something, I come back to find he's taken possession of the chair! He has a tendency to lay his body completely over my right forearm, which makes for some very interesting mousework! Most of the time, like if I'm playing a game or looking at facebook - anything that doesn't require actual typing - I push the keyboard back from the edge of the table and he sits or lays between my chest and the keyboard, purring away, while we cuddle. Pretty cool. The problem comes when he wants to lay down, and doesn't lay straight down (or after a while shifts his weight) to where his hip, or elbow, or butt ends up on the keyboard. Then it's beep! beep! beep! till I shove him out of the way.

Right now Sashi's sitting at my elbow, watching my fingers moving over the keyboard, as if to say "Now, don't you tell any lies about me!". The other night, he shifted onto the keyboard so that his whole body was laying on it. My screen went black - then when it came back, everything was upside down!!!! I've been using a computer for, oh, almost 20 years, and I've never had that happen....so obviously I didn't know how to fix it! Restarted the computer, shut it down completely for a few minutes - nothing worked. And boy, trying to read the help sections upside down - yuck, made me sick to my stomach!.

Finally, I made the interesting discovery that, by hitting the Control, Alt, and arrow keys, you can rotate your screen display in a specific direction (corresponding to the arrow). Life is never dull with my furry friends, but I love it!!!