Nearly lost one of my cats tonight

[M61A1MECH]

I stepped away from my laptop for a few minutes to attend to something and came back to find one of the cats sleeping on the keyboard not the first time she has done it and you never know what havoc she will cause until you try to use the computer again, normally just something simple like a few hundred key strokes entered into the test box on a search function.

 

Well today the keyboard appeared to be totally frozen, nothing worked, not the keyboard on the laptop itself nor my USB keyboard I have plugged in. Found after several minutes that it required you to hold the keys down for 3 to 4 seconds before they would respond. I type slow enough as it is, I do not need any additional hindrances.

 

I activated the virtual keyboard, amazing that it worked just fine. I was able to get some help from GOOGLE. Somehow she turned on the filters for sticky keys, found a small stopwatch looking icon that when double clicked it opened up a control box so I could turn the filters off. Now it is all working just fine, good news for the cat.

 

So lesson for the day; put the lid on the lap top down when not attended, so the cat has a warm place to sleep and so she cannot goof anything up. As with everything else in the house it is her's after all, just ask her, and I am just part of staff here to take of her. Next time I may do dogs instead of cats, at least they treat you like family.

[slowrollwv]

Steve they do like to lay on warm things. We do not have cats any longer and I will not let any of my family have one again. We do have two dogs a Beagle and a pit bull and they are both outside dogs. We let them in the house for short periods but then they go back to the kennel.

[bongobobny]

Heck, I did the same thing the other day without either cat's help...

[M61A1MECH]

Heck, I did the same thing the other day without either cat's help...

 

You fell asleep on the keyboard?

[bongobobny]

Hehehehehehe! No Silly, I somehow managed to lock up the keyboard with "Sticky" keys! Not sure how I did it, but the keyboard started acting funny and the computer asked me if I really meant to turn on sticky keys...

[Dragonslayer]

I stepped away from my laptop for a few minutes to attend to something and came back to find one of the cats sleeping on the keyboard not the first time she has done it and you never know what havoc she will cause until you try to use the computer again, normally just something simple like a few hundred key strokes entered into the test box on a search function.

 

Well today the keyboard appeared to be totally frozen, nothing worked, not the keyboard on the laptop itself nor my USB keyboard I have plugged in. Found after several minutes that it required you to hold the keys down for 3 to 4 seconds before they would respond. I type slow enough as it is, I do not need any additional hindrances.

 

I activated the virtual keyboard, amazing that it worked just fine. I was able to get some help from GOOGLE. Somehow she turned on the filters for sticky keys, found a small stopwatch looking icon that when double clicked it opened up a control box so I could turn the filters off. Now it is all working just fine, good news for the cat.

 

So lesson for the day; put the lid on the lap top down when not attended, so the cat has a warm place to sleep and so she cannot goof anything up. As with everything else in the house it is her's after all, just ask her, and I am just part of staff here to take of her. Next time I may do dogs instead of cats, at least they treat you like family.

I used to have a bumper sticker on an old vehicle which read,

 

Cats flattened for free