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BY THE BOOK

I have an appointment with the DMV for renewal of my driver's license the 11th of January.

I will have to take an eye test, leave a finger print for the new tight ID cards and take a written test.

The license tests here are notoriously tricky.

They help you as much as they can with on-line drills, sample tests and a drivers ed book from which the questions are taken.

When I got my CA license I failed the first test. I didn't really take it seriously and I thought it would only pertain to driving issues. Wrong. It pertains to the entire motor vehicle law including deadlines for applications for licenses and arcane shit like that.

"Arcane shit" because I didn't know the answers.

There is relief though. You can miss three questions and you can take the test three times per visit to the DMV. Then you have to make another appointment and pay the fee for the test again.

So I am beginning to study now. I have the book.

John got his renewal a couple weeks ago (missed one question) and he suggested that I take a yellow marker and ink in those parts that were new to me, that I didn't already know.

The part I have read is already a sea of yellow marks. Like pissholes on the snow.

I am not a good test taker. I fight the process. These will be multiple choice answers. The worst. I can't bullshit my way through it. There is a right and a wrong answer. It is one or the other. No "in-between" to weasel around with.

OK. It is only once very 12 years. The next time I go I will be 85.

I will report in on my progress or lack thereof as we ramp up to the test day.

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