It’s never fun when you fat-finger something at work, and quit applications as you’re deep into work on them. Nobody likes to redo work that has already been performed to one’s satisfaction.

My desk is now deeply indented in front of the keyboard from my repeatedly pounding my head into it in sheer frustration. The delicate spatter of blood is like a light crimson dew on my monitors. It is slowly collecting itself into tiny rivulets, sanguine streams of essence, seeking, as liquids are wont, the easiest, fastest path through the cracks of my desk, and from there to drip into the foul, frayed carpeting in my cubicle, thus passing into a mundande yet sordid oblivion. The story of my life, cast in a sickly carmine hue.

The sad thing is that I do this all the time. I have to many edit technical articles at a time through a web interface, and am constantly opening new browser tabs in order to do so most efficiently. When an article is amended (or marred, as some might maintain), and the changes submitted, I close the tab, being done with that task. When my group of tabs are gone, I reach into the database for another dozen articles or so, opening each one up in a new tab.

The tragedy is that the keystroke on the Mac to close a tab, Command-W, is very close to the keystroke to quit the browser (or any other application, for that matter), Command-Q. As in physically close. As in too goddamn close for my stubby, tired digits to manipulate correctly every day, apparently. I’ve hosed my work in eight articles today, so far, through this stupid method.

Screw it. I’m going home.