{"id":10062,"date":"2014-08-25T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:34:13","slug":"randomthoughts-8252014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/25\/randomthoughts-8252014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (8\/25\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while so I&#8217;m thinking. Randomly, that is.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Big Board!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hey! Who all went to the big VIR race this weekend? Yeah, me neither.<\/li>\n<li>The Danville Braves are finished for home games this regular season. They may get into the playoffs and that would mean up to four more home games. I went to one and that&#8217;s sad.<\/li>\n<li>The Register &amp; Bee seems to think that there&#8217;s something odd with the City of Danville using credit cards for purchasing. Um. No. It&#8217;s one of the best ways to track purchasing down to the employee level. I&#8217;ve got a very strong feeling that once you take out Ben Hairfield&#8217;s apparent fraudulent spending, you&#8217;ll find it&#8217;s a system that works quite well. What&#8217;s very odd is the exact opposite policy for the Danville school system. They&#8217;ve only got one card and it&#8217;s in the name of the superintendent.<\/li>\n<li>It looks like the Register &amp; Bee has dropped their paywall. I wonder if it&#8217;s only temporary?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been holding off doing an article about Friday&#8217;s &#8220;Stand With Ferguson&#8221; rally because I wanted the KKK story to die. Sadly, that story shows no signs of dying.<\/li>\n<li>If you go down to Riverside Plaza in Danville, you can see the old Mason&#8217;s snack bar advertising in the windows of what used to be the Dan River Grand Prix.<\/li>\n<li>Man, the owners of that Dan River Grand Prix sure got the hell out of Danville once they closed.<\/li>\n<li>Anybody remember Fazoli&#8217;s?<\/li>\n<li>Heck, I remember when there was a grocery store with carpeted floors in the Sherwood Shopping Center.<\/li>\n<li>There appears to be something going on in the dead shopping center on West Main Street. Anybody got anything on that?<\/li>\n<li>Richard T. Davis. Awesome photographer. Awesome guy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s my RandomThoughts for today. 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