See this furry gray miscreant who's avoiding looking directly at the camera? She's decided she likes to walk across and sit on laptop keyboards. I wonder if it's a texture thing, sort of like how most people like to feel soft beach sand on their feet.
Yesterday, I was trying to use my computer to listen to a podcast while I worked on something else. Stella walked across my keyboard several times, and after I shooed her away, the cursor had frozen. I tried restarting, which is my standard trick for anything that goes wrong with my computer. No dice.
Using my phone, I looked for solutions to the problem (aside from restarting, which is evidently everyone's standard trick for anything that goes wrong with computers). I stumbled upon an article that suggested that my mouse might have become disabled. This article specifically implicated cats walking across the keyboard--apparently, they have a talent for stepping on the right combination of keys to cause problems. So I tried going into the mouse settings (all of this had to be done without use of the mouse, mind you--hurray for mouseless navigation!) and sure enough, my mouse had become disabled.
Good thing I learned how to fix it because about twenty minutes later, Stella walked across my keyboard again and the cursor froze again. Sigh. I just hope she shows the same enthusiasm for killing rodent mice if they show up in our apartment again.
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