demonic cotton buds come to rescue during deadly cat coaster disaster

Andy was in charge of the grocery shopping one week and he did a great job (lots of Maltezers to keep me happy.. or shut me up... it's all about perspective really ;) but great job aside, he ended up ordering some truly bizarre cotton buds. A quick look at the image to the right and you'll instantly notice how demonically sharp they are.. and they aren't the least bit soft either! "They are Cosmetic ones" he said, as if that's a justification ;) so I spent the ensuing month randomly cussing at these completely useless cotton buds and suffering numerous near misses with the cotton covered weapons (if you wear eyeliner you will understand) so when one day I finally started to see glimpses of the bottom of the demon cotton bud canister I was more than a little relieved, mostly because I'd never actually found a practical use for them... until the day of the Deadly Cat Coaster Disaster!

cat coaster + coffee + keyboard (my Logitech G15 no less!) = Disaster!

We have these glass Cat Coasters, for which I have no one to blame but myself as I was the dork responsible for picked them out. At the time I was trying to suck up to Peanut, the coasters were cute and my desk (and mouse mats) were getting covered in coffee rings... so cat + coasters - coffee rings = success

That was until I actually started to use the glass coasters...

Problem #1 Peanut didn't give a shirt that I had cool new glass coffee coasters with cute black cats on them. She continued to snare, scratch and glare at me with visual slappings of distain and/or complete disinterest... she also increased her desk patrols, blatantly starting to walk between myself and my keyboard on a regular basis... all the while waving her bum in my face on her now incredibly slow, drawn out stroll from one side of my desk to the other.

Problem 2#  Coffee rings... they didn't disappear, don't ask me why I was under the illusion they would! There was merely a transference of "rings" from my desk and mousepads to actual the coasters themselves. Clearly I must dribble when I drink coffee.. either that or there is a suction coffee spray generated during my daily inhales.. all that aside though.. while my coffee cup rings were now centralised there was a fatal flaw looming in the not too distant future...

glass coaster + coffee ring build up + wet cup bottom = temporary suction

By the end of the day... and need I say "and numerous cups of coffee later"... there would be a build-up of coffee rings on my coaster, which in turn created a kind of sticky, suction effect on the glass surface and the end result became part of my daily routine...
I would reach for my coffee cup (without looking as I normally do) and while on the upward motion the glass coaster would briefly be stuck to the bottom of my cup, but within seconds of the initial upward lift, the coaster would separate from the base of my cup and it would clatter back down to my desk.
This little quirk happend many times during my day, most of the time the noise was expected and it wasn't too distracting, a brief look to my left, a quick replacement of the coaster and life would continue as it normally did.

Part way through the next day, with a few coffee inhalings already under my belt, I paid little attention to the suction effect and carried on my merry, somewhat stressful way. I was completely engrossed with the task at hand and working to a deadline so it was a matter of working, inhaling and paying little, if not no attention, to what was going on around me and I was well on track for a satisfying day...

That is until the moment where I lifted up my coffee cup as I usually do, but this time I was blissfully unaware that both cup and coaster had travelled a great deal further this time and were hanging midair over my keyboard and about to part company... which they inevitably did, but in doing so they caused a huge, unexpected racket, at which point I scared myself stupid and shot out of my chair all the while still clutching my coffee cup... and in doing so, I manged to slop just over a third of a bucket of hot coffee straight over my desk and into  my Logitech G15 keyboard, Wacom tabet, Logitech Trackball mouse, and my Flexiglow Fx Gaming Pad...arrggh!

I immediately started to flip everything over and while in the process of doing so, Andy came running to my rescue... I suspect it was my loud burst of profanity that caught his attention *blush*... he quickly started mopping things off and eventually settled into a routine of slowly and methodically dismantling my equipment... one of which was my much loved Logitech G15 keyboard.

As he started to pop off the keys off the board he remarked how good a job I had done as not only did the key bays themself house coffee, but also the underside of the keys were swimming in it... what the hell kind of gravity is that???! Andy promptly sent me in seach of something to clean the crevices with so I set about frantically searching all rooms of the house... finally I hit the bathroom.. and there sitting on the vanity was the canister of demonic cotton buds with their sharp pointy bottoms all lined up in a row and ready for action!

I shot back to our office and set about cleaning each individual bay and key one by one and within the hour my keyboard was back in action and happily glowing away as it usually does... for which I now bow down and bless the wee cotton bud tips every chance I get.

My thanks to Andy is a little slow in coming though ... sometimes one shouldn't mutter, laugh or openly ponder the folly of a person whilst they are standing in the same room as you are but there is such a thing as "bad fairies" which do eventually catch up with you ;) A week down the track all my gadgets are still happily humming away and the cute cat coaster remained in it's rightful position (although very clean!) that is until today when Andy nabbed my coaster for his tea cup... only to experience the suction effect first hand... thankfully it wasn't his keyboard that suffered the same fate, it was just his lap ;)

Within minutes of Andy's lap dosing the coasters were evicted from the office which is a sad loss... but Peanut is now happily asleep on the chair beside me... so it seems like it all worked out for the best in the end :)

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