Laugh at my stupididity. →[More:]So Mom's settled in for her afternoon nap and the TV is blessedly off and I'm listening to some soothing classical music on my iPod. I decide to check in with EVE Online, maybe mine a bit, move some minerals around and check the nearby regional markets. No sooner do I sign in than my Mac goes CRAZY: windows start opening up, the cursor doesn't respond or else spews gibberish in random fields, I can't force quit to the desktop.

ZOMG!!!! I haz been haxx0red!

I shut the machine off and try to think rationally. OK, maybe it's a keyboard problem. I'll clean the keyboard, since it is kinda grotty. I pry the keys off, blast with compressed air, hit the corner filth with some isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip. Great. Keyboard is pristine.

Restart.

Chaos. On a grey screen, the mac and windows partitions flicker madly. I can't select anything.

OH NOES OH NOES OH NOES!

OK. Find the manual. Call AppleCare. Call the cavalry. Call the President. Fuck, I don't know. What if all my financial data is compromised? I'll hafta cancel the cards and change the bank account numbers and ....

The manual is in a stack of stuff on a nearby chair. On top of the stack of stuff sleeps a brown retarded cat. In the stack of stuff, on my way to finding the manual, I find...

...another keyboard. The one associated with my mouse. That I'm using right now. So it's plugged in.

And there's a CAT SLEEPING ON TOP OF IT.

Oh.

OH.

I restart. Guess what? Without 20 pounds of brown retarded cat to depress all the keys on the keyboard that I'd forgotten was plugged in, the damn thing works just fine.

*sigh*

*facepalm*

What's the dumbest thing you've done recently?