Finishing Touches

This post over to[sic] GG's blog reminded me that I forgot to pick up a new battery for my stupid laptop this summer. My current battery lasts about ten minutes. No, really, Ten minutes. When the power source is disconnected it tells me it has three hours, but about five minutes later the little meter is down to about half capacity. No problem, right? How hard can it be to find a battery for a three-year old laptop?

A little harder than all that, it turns out. CompUSA didn't have them in stock, so I had to jackass all the way out to Fry's in Concord. This was actually nice, since I managed to avoid shopping at CompUSA, a store that I hate for a variety of reasons. Nonetheless I was a little irked at having to shop at a store whose radio spots I abhor:

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at Fry's."

Anyway, I got the stupid battery and now I'm all set for the inevitable power failure, flood, locust swarm, political upheaval, or whatever else the fates decide to place between me and a career as a lawyer.

And now, some comforting statistics from the July 2004 Bar Exam:
Overall pass rate: 48.2% (Ouch! BUT...)
First-timer pass rate: 62.8% (Lookin' good....)
First-timers from ABA-approved schools: 69.4%
First-timers from Boalt: 87% (Nice!)
First-timers from UCLA: 87% (Boo yeah!*)

*For a while there UCLA had the highest pass rate in California, something obscene like 94%, with Boalt and Stanford jockeying for the silver in the high 80s. Now Stanford is at 91% and Boalt hasn't gone anywhere, but at least my transferrin' heart won't be burdened by knowing my old school had a higher pass rate.