{"id":11653,"date":"2014-12-26T23:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T04:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2014-12-26T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T04:37:45","slug":"randomthoughts-12262014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/26\/randomthoughts-12262014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (12\/26\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness, the last RandomThoughts article was on Dec 3rd. I am thinking. I am thinking randomly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RandomThoughts belong on a Big Board!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know it&#8217;s &#8220;surplus city property&#8221; now, but wouldn&#8217;t it make financial sense to relocate the Danville Public Schools&#8217; central office to one of the closed schools like Cedarbrook or Glenwood? They&#8217;ve been paying rent on their downtown office building for a long time now.<\/li>\n<li>Repeated from a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sosidecentral\" target=\"_blank\">@sosidecentral Tweet earlier this week (by the way, follow us on Twitter!)<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s good to see that WSET has named their reporters for the 1st quarter of 2015. #DontUnpackYourBags<\/li>\n<li>When the newspaper runs a &#8220;People are winding up their shopping on Christmas Eve&#8221; story, it&#8217;s a sure sign that it&#8217;s a slow news period.<\/li>\n<li>What did we do before the era of gift cards?<\/li>\n<li>I went to Ascension Lutheran Church to see the Chrismon Tree on Monday. Sadly, less than 10 other people visited that night.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Newsome sure got the hell out of Danville never to return, didn&#8217;t he?<\/li>\n<li>Yeah, they&#8217;re a SouthsideCentral sponsor&#8230; but I&#8217;m telling you that we had dinner at Danville&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texassteakhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Steakhouse<\/a> Tuesday night and it was terrific. I had a steak and my sister had their chicken tenders. 2 meals and an appetizer from their special 2 for $22 menu. Can&#8217;t beat it, folks.<\/li>\n<li>It was cool to see that Danville Mall had live entertainment during the holiday season.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the Rexall drug store in Riverside Shopping Center?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some RandomThoughts! for now. 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