So as an apology, kitteh!
[video description: Mara, a small calico tabby shorthaired cat, lays across my laptop's keyboard, biting at a large bag of Cheetos laying beside the computer, which rustles pleasingly. I laugh and ask "Are you having fun with that, sweetie?" She pauses to lick her paw, then returns to chewing on the bag. "Yeah? You're enjoying trying to destroy my snack?" She ignores me. "Rawr." More nomming, holding the bag down with one paw, as I pan out a little so you can see all of her. "So we've taken over my entire computer, and we're trying to destroy the bag I'm trying to eat out of. She's very - " Mara suddenly gets a good grip on the bag and starts to stand up and back away across my keyboard with it. "Oh! Oh. Where are you going with that? Hey, hey, hey. No. You can't go anywhere with that, give it back." I pull it out of her mouth and set it back down, where she promptly returns to chewing on it. "Yeah, no. That's not for you, kitty-cat."]
She loves to sit on my keyboard whenever I will let her. I've stood up to go do other stuff for awhile, and come back to find her snoozing on my computer, with the screen showing a dialog box asking if I want to allow some program to make changes to my computer! She's also helpfully tried to write blog posts for me. Thankfully I've always caught it before she hits "publish", but if a nonsensical post of random text strings pops up one of these days, it's entirely her fault. I let her keep hanging out on there anyway, both because it's so cute, and because she gets cranky with me when I try to stop her...
[video description: my hand, hovering over my keyboard, with Mara leaning on it with both front legs wrapped around my wrist as she bites my hand. "Ow, ow, ow!" She stops and untangles herself to sit next to my keyboard; I leave my hand hanging there to stop her in case she tries again. "This is what happens when I try to stop her from stepping on my keyboard. She tries to step over my arm, and then when I don't let her do it, she starts biting." I pan the camera over to focus on Mara, who is now busy grooming her chest and belly. "Of course, you would just completely fail to provide a demonstration of this, now that I have the thing going." I nudge her side a little bit with my knuckles, and she immediately whips around to face my hand and clamps right back on, biting. "Ack! Oh god. Ow. Apparently poking it was all that was necessary!" She chews on my fingers a few more times. "You're so cute." She decides she's done eating my hand and re-untangles herself, giving my fingers a last couple of licks before turning away. "Yes, I'm sure I has a flavor."]
Maybe next weekend I'll see if I can get the video of her chasing her tail on the bed posted for y'all. Until then, have a good weekend, keep fighting the good fight, and hopefully I'll have some more substantive content for y'all this week.
