As I've mentioned before, today will be my last weekday on this site for about 2 to 3 months, the length of my semi-absence depending on my GED testing schedule. I'm going to start a regular studying schedule (at home) for the GED tomorrow. Although I'll stop by on at least most weekends, for obvious reasons I'll probably have less mental energy for the site. I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Chat to you when you get back, Force. All the best.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Thank you very much. You seem so learned that I always imagine you as having an Honors Degree from Oxford (do you?).

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Dont be silly! I am an ignorant old sod who has just been lucky enough to have been around long enough to have 'accumulated' certain knowledge along the way. But your words I take to be a kindness, as you would flatter me....no need, but thanks all the same.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

I'll mention again that you would be well served to take the test once before you start to study. Think about it, please.

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All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. -H. Goering

Well, I would consider that if it weren't for the hassle involved. To take the tests themselves, I have to attend an orientation (orientations are held only on Mondays), then schedule the testing for each subject separately (testing is done only 4 days per month), ride a bus across the city I live in and take five tests, each of which is over an hour long. I will take each one on a different day, of course, because I would simply be too worn out to do any more, meaning that taking the tests more than once would further delay my progress. Frankly, the bureaucracy will be worse than the tests or the studying. I still have to figure out how to get a special $100 receipt for the orientation. I guess it would make too much sense if I just handed them the cash. The EU and the IRS have nothing on Oregon GED testers.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Well, of course I was unaware of the bureaucratic hassle involved. In general, it would be a good idea but maybe it is simply not feasible in this case. Anyway, all my best to you and hope to see you when you finish.

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All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. -H. Goering

Thank you very much. I'll inform everyone when I've actually passed the test.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Good luck. Sterkte. Hambla Galtle. Wena O kae. !Xhile ma !kwante

(The !'s are ssupposed to be there, it is a clicking sound).

This is just to say good luck in 5 of South Africa's official laguages (maybe you;ll get that a question, lol).

Good lluck old chap, and remember: Relax and believein yourself!

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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. "
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. "

Nelson Mandela

Good luck on the GED, Force!
I'm sure you'll do fine.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside