10 Things from Today

 In no particular order... 

1. For some reason there was a ton of Christmas stuff on display at the Goodwill today including this big guy in the picture (on sale for $150!).  Christmas in July maybe?
2. After an interminable wait for PUA unemployment several months ago, I got a letter from the unemployment office a couple days ago saying they paid me too much and I needed to return $1300.  I checked the weeks they said I was disqualified for and thanks to the Wayback Machine I was able to find a schedule for my job for 2020 so I filed an appeal with a letter explaining the weeks I would have worked had the job not been cancelled so hopefully that takes care of this problem.
3. I never buy ink for my printer and instead make the few copies of documents that I need at our local Office Depot.  Unfortunately our local Office Depot recently closed down so I thought I would go across the street and make copies of the appeal letter at the UPS Store but they charge $1.50 per page!  So we went to a nearby library to make copies and they only charged 10 cents per page there!  Instead of paying $6 for copies of four pages we only paid 40 cents so that was a big savings today.
4. Next it was off to the post office to mail my appeal letter via registered mail to ensure the unemployment office gets the letter prior to the appeal expiration deadline.  I haven't used the post office in a while so I was surprised it cost a little over $4 to mail the letter!  I guess prices are rising on everything!
   
5. It's 114 degrees today and the weather website says it will stay over 110 degrees for the next week...eeekkk.
6. When we were at the library, we noticed that they have a DJ Booth for teens to use to learn how to be a DJ.  Since it is so hot here and since the grandkids will be here next week, we have been trying to plan some inside activities for us all to do together so it looks like the DJ Booth will definitely be on our list of activities since all of the grandkids are into music.  I love our library system!
7. I watched the free concerts that took place downtown last weekend on YouTube and judging by all of the people who packed into the area, I am more than happy to check out everything online rather than in person.  Videos here, here, and here.
8. I've heard people saying gas might go up to $10 per gallon(!).  Hopefully it doesn't get that high but it is already near $6 a gallon in California.  Double eeekkk.
9. I've been watching YouTube movies recently; they are free to watch with commercials.  My favorites so far: Jane Eyre (the 1997 version which I had never seen before) and Holy Chicken (I'm a big fan of Morgan Spurlock).
10. Finally, the price of houses in our area--all over actually--continues to skyrocket.  It would be great to sell our house and pay cash for a cheaper house somewhere else with all of the equity we have in our current house but with prices high everywhere that we would be interested in moving to, the savings wouldn't be that great.