Work up this morning at 6 am, wondering why the alarm I had set wasn’t going off. I use the Alarm Clock app on my mac to play songs instead of an annoying buzzer or something, which is fantastic, btw. So, get up, and tap the spacebar to wake it up. Nothing. “Weird”, I think. I tap the power button. Nothing. Dead. Check Power, try battery, without battery, only battery, anything I can think of. Dead.
Amazing timing.
Today was the first day of the California Bar Exam. 3 hours to write three essays in the morning, 3 hours to write one big “Performance Test” essay in the afternoon. It is not something you want to write by hand. And my precious computer is dead. Never had a problem with it before. Never a hiccup, and now, dead.
What the hell was I going to do? Well, first, I just laughed. It was just too perfect. I mean, talk about comedic timing. What else was I going to do? Get pissed? Throw my computer against the wall? For what? A computer that then definitely wouldn’t work come test time? Nope, sometimes, all you can do is laugh.
I eventually called my amazing girlfriend, had her download and install the required software on her machine, luckily got near-instant approval to use a different machine than the one I had registered to take the exam with, and raced to meet her at the Jack In The Box just off the freeway on the way down to the convention center. So, it worked out. It always does.
In the meantime, all you can do is laugh.
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