Tin foil on the footstool or something not so "comfy"? Books? :-)

My cat jumps up on the other end of the dining table here and walks across my baracade of books to the papers/books/work area here next to my computer and does his lie down so his tail is across the keyboard :-) I use to have to pick him up and "dump" him unceremoneously onto the floor several times before he'd give up. He's not stubborn so much as not very bright I fear :-)