This cat, which we will call Grinder, since that’s his official name, although today I called him a few choice other names, believes that the very best places to sleep are the places he is not allowed to go. For example, the top of my computer desk. Another favorite is the keyboard of my laptop. Another is the screen of my laptop.All I can say is that he is alive today because of Control + Z, in other words, “Undo”.
Yes, it’s true folks, despite the number of times he’s walked across my keyboard, I am a sucker for cute. When I came back from my shower and saw that he had managed to gain access to my office and was crashed out on top of the computer desk, I said, “Oh, ain’t he sweet?” and let him stay. And then…a few minutes ago, after many, many hours of revising my manuscript, I got up to go tell my husband something and when I came back, he had flattened my laptop (the cat, not my husband) and was pawing at the screen. Naturally, I got rid of him fast, but the damage was done.
Why is it, that in order for me to use my new Office Word 2007, I had to get a book called Word 2007 for Dummies, but with one fell swoop of his paw, he was able to completely erase my entire manuscript, type a new document, and save it under the name ‘j! Yes, my revision was gone, but I’m the proud owner of a document called ‘j. I wonder if my agent would like to read it. It’s stunning prose…it goes like this, “hlmmll kkllj ksls …lske”
But here is where I am smarter than the average pea-brain cat (we already know why I’m NOT as smart as the average pea-brain cat). I never get up from my desk without hitting Control+S (save). I was able to hit numerous Ctrl+Zs and back from hlmmll kkllj ksls …lske to a blank document to the first fifteen pages of my revision and once more to the get the whole thing back.
So…all’s well that ends well, and just so you know, Grinder’s time in my office has certainly come to an end. No matter how high he pegs the cute-ometer!
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