I woke up by myself, so naturally I assumed that no one had woken me up and I was already late. I looked at the clock and it was exactly 6. 6?! How in the world did I wake up at 6 by myself? I freakin' went to bed at 12 after watching the X-Files movie! Oh well. A few minutes later I heard Matt's barely audible alarm go off and he woke up. I think he stayed in bed until 7 when Ben's alarm went off and was blasting. I got up around 7:30. Amy got up at 8 and complained that she was supposed to wake me up.

I went and woke my parents up and my dad came out to give me directions to the courthouse in Springfield. I should have gotten my mom to do it because he was really unsure and took forever to do it. He started getting in this rush and looking online for it when I could have already been on my way if my mom had taken the task.

In Springfield, I found the police department and they said the court was the next building. At the next building, they said that my court was the one on a different street. I looked around for it and finally found it and had to wait in line at the counter to check in. Inside, I had to wait for the judge to call my name. Right before me was this guy who had 3 charges for having pot with the fines being $500, $600, and $700. He explained his case a bunch but the judge only dropped them down to that much from their original $1,000 each. On my turn, I pleaded "guilty", of course, and just told her that I was passing and didn't know there were 2 cars so I had to speed up. She left the speeding fine at $237 and dropped the passing fine down from $237 to $190. I paid and went home. My stupid wisdom tooth was hurting constantly all day today and only got worse as the day aged.

I got out the phone book and began calling computer tech support places in the yellow pages and wrote down the ones who said they would accept a resume. I found 5 places before I called this place and it went like this:

Him: Hello, this is Gordon.
Me: Oh... do you work out of your home?
Him: Yeah. What do you got for me?
Me: Well, I was calling about employment.
Him: Okay. What do you specialize in?
Me: Well um... computer repair... A+ Certification...
Him: And you're trying out for the job?
Me: Yeah.
Him: Hahahahaha! Well, what you need to do is look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're worth it... that you are really great, because right now, I get that you suck. Honestly, my first impression is that you suck. Yeah, I could use some help, but what you need to do is call back when you get some lion-heart.
Me: Well, at first I thought that I had the wrong number.
Him: Hahahahahaha! No, you got the right number, but you just need to call back when you get some lion-heart.

So, I told my dad about it and he said not to bother with that guy. I decided I wasn't going to accept that and 10 minutes later, I called him again. This time it went like this:

Him: Hello, this is Gordon.
Me: Hi, my name is Jason. I'm calling about the job again.
Him: (5 second silence) Oh! Jason, you're calling again! Hahahahaha!
Me: Yeah, I called before. That was back when I sucked.
Him: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Me: But I don't anymore.
Him: Well, that's certainly good. So, you said you had some experience with the A+ Certification (then he said something I couldn't make out).
Me: What?
Him: ...uh-oh.
Me: No, I didn't hear what you said.
Him: Okay, I'll repeat it. You said you had some experience with the A+ Certification. How long ago was that?
Me: Oh, I just recently passed the hardware part and I still have to take the OS part.
Him: How far back into Windows 9.x does it go?
Me: It covers Windows 95. It has DOS on it, too.
Him: Okay. How proficient in the registry are you?
Me: Well, I can do everything from the control panel, but just modifying it manually...
Him: How do you get to the registry in say, Windows XP?
Me: Go to "run" and type in "regedit".

He asked me what I'd do to fix a keyboard error and then gave me his email address and said to email him my contact information.