Cat Tales #40 Landscape To Portrait

There is nothing in the archives for today. I was on my travels last Friday and didn’t use this one, so shall inflict it on you now.

26 April 2017 at 10.01

Felixcat's favourite sitting spot when anyone is in the office is on a keyboard, preferably Fester's laptop.   

Fester uses a pc for work and the laptop for tv and radio, either live or iplayer.  

If we're both in the office I expend a deal of effort in persuading Felix to walk around the back of the laptop.

It's not unusual for Fester to doze off whilst working.

We were in the office the other evening and Felix creeps, un-noticed, onto the laptop and settles down comfortably.  Eventually Fester wakes up, shoos Felix away and discovers the laptop screen has been turned through ninty degrees.  Instead of being landscape it is portrait.  Also he thinks the mouse isn't working because he's shifting it so vigorously he can't actually focus on it.

So there are cries of

"Me bloody cursor's gone!"

"It's there, stop moving the mouse."

"The mouse isn't bloody working!  It's all over the place!"

"Then stop moving it."

Of course Fester had no idea how to return it.

I had a vague idea about the control panel but with the mouse 'not working' even when we can get in there's no obvious screen orientation menu.

I suggest we ask Ferretfingers as he once turned his VDU's screen upside down in secondary school (the technician had to close down and reboot the whole school system to get it back). However the atmosphere was so fraught communication was impossible.

Then "Thunderthighs come down here a minute."

Thunderthighs looks at the problem, laughs, says "hang on a minute", thunders back to the loft and down again, presses three keys and - Hey Presto!- it's back as it should be.

"What did you do?  Show me what you did!" demands his father.

"Control, alt and an arrow key."

"Which arrow key?"

"Any arrow key."

Thunderthighs trundles off and peace, for a while, returns.

Beejay  It's a cat thing - Diggle can do things on my laptop that I can't, including rotating the display.

Bentonbag  There are upsides to having autistic offspring.

Woolerwoman  Can I have 2 tickets for next week’s performance please!

So much better than the telly. 😁