I turned around and came back home, got my wallet, and drove off again. They are on Highway 99, and I passed their driveway and was forced onto the crossing freeway, so I had to get off on the next offramp and turn around. I still ended up being a few minutes early. Go me. We sat in bleachers and a girl from my high school was there, sitting in the front row, so I sat by her. First, the lady had a sheet of name tags that were pre-labeled. She would point to each person and they would tell her their name and she would look on the sheet to find it. I decided I would make it faster to find my name. I looked on the sheet and my name was fifth down on the left, though the fourth one down was gone, so that made mine fourth down. When she called me, I said, "Fourth down on the left," and she looked there and was confused. I said my name and she gave me mine.

Next, availability sheets were passed around. After we filled those out, a little cup with pieces of paper was passed around. Each piece of paper had a question typed on it. Some examples were: "What did you most like about your last job?", "Who was your least favorite boss?", and "What would make you motivated while working at Jerry's?" We had to answer them out loud. The person who got the third of my examples answered in a way that made me roll my eyes. He said, "I would be motivated by making the customers happy and seeing then satisfied." If I had gotten that question, I would have answered honestly, "Well, when I'm at work, I'm in a different state of mind than when I'm at home, and I'm just automatically motivated to work. Also, if I have some personal life troubles, keeping busy would keep my mind off it and make the time go faster so the thing would seem to be over faster. Lastly, I'd look forward to payday." Well, I didn't get that question. I got the one that said, "If you could do any kind of work you wanted, regardless of pay, what would you do?" I said that for the pay part of it, I'd like to be the owner of a large corporation. For the work part of it, I'd love to be a computer programmer since I can do that and skip meals because I don't want to stop." After that, they had us watch a video that featured customers saying what they like about shopping at Jerry's. Ten people out of the roughly 25 were picked to have a private interview, and I wasn't one of them. Oh well. Can't say I'm bummed about it.

I came home and worked on the units that I've been making for my brothers to play with on Total Annihilation. It's an RTS (real-time strategy) game where you build a base and an army and attack the opposing team. I design my own troops for it using various programs (Notepad, Paint, Photoshop, Cobbler, 3doBuilder+, HPIViewer, HPIPacker, Gaffer, GafBuilder, and TA:Mutation). I use them all to make each troop. It's complicated, but I'll explain it if anyone wants me to. I got them working how I wanted them to so Matt and Ben could play against/with each other using our two networked computers.

Then Bro. Jim called and said to bring my car over because he was free to work on it. Yay! I brought my car over and he had brought me 2 corndogs and 2 for himself. I had just eaten but wasn't full, so I ate one. He also had Diet Cola. I can't honestly say that I've ever had a diet soda before, except for Pepsi One at Kelli's house. I usually boycott anything with reduced fat or fake sugar, but I was thirsty. We started by taking the tail lights out. Then he wanted to take the metal inner bumper off first, so the fiberglass outer one would be easier to get off. The metal one was bent and would either need to be replaced or bent back. We had trouble getting the bolts off the inner one since we had to lay down under the car and reach far upward into a tight area. I only managed to get the botton 2 off on my side, leaving the top two. Bro. Jim had the tail pipe in his way and also some stripped bolts, so he had a harder time. He got one of the bottom ones off, but couldn't get the other off. We tried different things, even cutting it, but he didn't have the right tools to do that and just ended up bending it upward.

We decided to work on the outer bumper, which proved just as difficult at first. Then we got one of the plastic clip things out and saw how it worked, and were able to get the others out relatively easily. Once that was off, he used this huge bar (I think he called it a cheater bar) and used leverage to bend it back pretty straight. We decided to keep the bumper instead of getting another one. He pounded out a large dent as well as he could. Then he told me a list of things to get done before I go back over there on Saturday to finish it. He said I'd need to go to the Junction City Muffler shop and have them weld part of the inner bumper back to the frame so it would straighten it out more. He said to have them heat the dented area and pound it straight. He said to get a quart of Bondo/hardener to fill in parts they can't pound out. Also, he said to get 25 8-32 screws that were 1/2 inch long. I had purchased some stylish caps a long time ago to cover the ugly center of my wheels, but the front wheels didn't have screw holes, and neither Bro. Jim nor I had the right size screws for it.