We are all familiar with PBKAC (Person Between Keyboard And Chair) errors, but in honor of #caturday, I want to point out a much more problematic error, the CBPAM (Cat Between Person And Monitor) error.

Two of my cats think that the plexiglass protector that I put over my keyboard to keep them from typing on it is a cat posing stand, and whenever I sit down to do some work, they stand in front of the monitor and stick their butt in my face. I am a pretty good touch typist, but it is really difficult to do accurate typing when you can’t see the screen. *or* the keyboard.

@lynngrant Do you hands fit in there? At least once a day when I work from home, I have to turn my keyboard off when my cat lounges against it.
@mrbruno Not terribly well. It is kind of a trade off between pulling the keyboard forward enough to use and keeping enough covered that they don’t step off the protector and stand on the spacebar or the bottom row.