Thanks in large part to a conversation with someone at work (thanks petts@!) a few months ago, tonight I’m about to leave to go do one of these tests. It should be fun and exciting I imagine. Yum!

(They are checking for sleep apnea and such as possible causes for snoring and non-restful sleep.)

Yesterday Amy re-auditioned at her orchestra and was bumped to the next level up.

Woo!

On Friday morning the sign said “Our New Hours! 8 AM to 7 PM!” That was a reduction in hours. My immediate thought “Oh no, they are in trouble”.

By Friday afternoon the sign had been replaced with the above.

We stopped by there a few hours ago and picked up some things. The shelves were already half empty. It was somewhat sad.

This is the grocery store that is very easy walking distance from our house. We used to walk there all the time for small grocery trips. We’d walk there all the time with Roscoe as well, with one of us going inside and grabbing something small while the other (usually me) stays outside with Roscoe.

Brandy was already a little upset with them because during the snow they closed early a couple of times without notice (and without turning off their sign) and twice they locked the doors just as we were walking up, and then turned their backs and completely ignored people who came up to the doors. (Not even with a “Sorry, we had to close early due to the snow” from the employees or on a note taped to the door.) I thought that was understandable, but Brandy was annoyed.

Brandy says their prices were also generally higher than the multiple grocery stores a little further away from home. and they were smaller and with less selection. But this was a five minute walk from home and very convenient. I would frequently stop by there on the way home from work when Brandy made a last minute call saying she needed something. No more I guess.

Of course, it was not our primary source of groceries. It probably wasn’t the primary place for most folks around here. It was the secondary place to go for something quick. Which, along with the economy in general, is assuredly part of why they are closing.

As for us, our primary place for groceries continues to be Amazon Fresh. Aside from last minute things you don’t know you need until the very last second, it is just far more convenient. And Roscoe likes to bark at their truck when they drop the stuff off early in the morning.

For Christmas we sent Sara a bed just like the kind Roscoe likes.

I corrected the error (my audio accidentally got offset by 12 seconds from Ivan’s for the first 15 minutes, which made it kind of unlistenable) and pushed out the corrected version. For any of you who have not yet downloaded it… just do your normal thing and all should be well, let me know if it is not.

For what I believe are the two people who already downloaded it other than me…

I tried to do it in such a way that iTunes will actually detect the change and download the new version, but iTunes is sometimes finicky. If you have the broken version… which I believe only three people do, including myself, and iTunes doesn’t get the new version for you on its own then you can try going to your podcast section in iTunes, right click on Curmudgeon’s Corner and choose “Update Podcast”. If that fails, you can always click through directly to the XML file to find the new file, or for that matter, here is a link directly to the corrected mp3 file.

I’m letting my iTunes just sit to see if iTunes does end up actually grabbing the new one on its own. The only other time I had to do an after the fact fix it did not, but I’m trying something different this time.

Do let me know what works or does not work in terms of forcing iTunes to pick up the new one.

If you are one of those two people that is. (One of whom is the person who pointed out the problem to me… thanks Chris… and the other of whom is somebody who looking at the IP and the traceroute I don’t have a guess as to who they are.)

Anyway… all is well now. :-)

And it is time for me to run to work.