Why?

[nlbarber]

Why, when the desk on one side of the keyboard has been cleared almost to bare wood (or wood-like substance), does this cat insist on flopping on the other side, where I must move the mouse by sticking my hand up his butt? And where he periodically moves the mouse himself, and occasionally even manages to click a button?

And he's tucked his nose against my elbow and is purring, just to defuse my thoughts of moving him.