{"id":59437,"date":"2017-01-18T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=59437"},"modified":"2017-01-18T20:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:28:05","slug":"randomthoughts-11817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/18\/randomthoughts-11817\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (1\/18\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a new computer. I&#8217;ve got a new phone. Crap just got real.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s think randomly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The storage room for all of our Big Boards has a lot of cobwebs in it since it&#8217;s been so long. Let&#8217;s clean one off and bring it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because last year&#8217;s SCLC &#8220;Stop The Killing&#8221; banquet and march was so effective at keeping down Danville&#8217;s murder rate, the SCLC did it again this past weekend. Sheesh. Here is my comment that I made on the Southside News &amp; Views Facebook page on a thread about an on-camera interview at the <del>parade<\/del> march&#8230;<span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\">&#8220;If I wanted to hear another &#8220;I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.&#8221; speech, I&#8217;d listen to Whitney Houston music. This was a &#8220;Stop The Killing&#8221; weekend and it ended up with the same group of people patting themselves on the back. Whooping and hollering inside and outside of the churches didn&#8217;t do a damn thing to Stop The Killing last year. Make a real difference this year. Go door-to-door to your neighbors. Tell them about Crimestoppers. Tell them they can remain anonymous yet still make a difference in getting crimes solved. Preach that in the pulpit on Sunday. Say that to the banquet on Saturday night.&#8221; Yeah, I warned you people that I was back. Heh.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Hey, whatever happened to the &#8220;Ruby Archie Memorial Library&#8221; idea?<\/li>\n<li>Although I&#8217;ve roasted Mark Hermann &amp; his River District Towers project lots of times, I&#8217;m glad to give him credit for finally getting the job done. Well, almost done but close enough to get my accolades.<\/li>\n<li>Wasn&#8217;t Danville&#8217;s &#8220;Toys R Us&#8221; store supposed to close about 15 years ago?<\/li>\n<li>Goodwill&#8217;s &#8220;Ye Olde Bookshop&#8221; inside their Westover store has devolved into a pile of crap over the last few years.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m embarrassed to say that I had almost forgotten how to format articles in the SouthsideCentral style.<\/li>\n<li>We heart Barbara Durbin, otherwise known as &#8220;The Cake Lady&#8221;. We also heart her husband, Mike Durbin.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re tired of paying a lot for cellphone service, I have to recommend Virgin Mobile. I&#8217;m now on an unlimited-everything plan with 10GB of high-speed data for just $45. Their phones range anywhere from the latest down to models that still perform well.<\/li>\n<li>Since I made it to the end of an article without mentioning food, don&#8217;t forget to go to Dav Gerrells&#8217; Cafe 99 in downtown Reidsville. He&#8217;s only open until 3PM Monday-Friday but he&#8217;s got the best lunch around at extremely reasonable prices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there you go! I&#8217;m thinking this is the 4th rebirth of SouthsideCentral, but this time is different (yeah right), because I&#8217;ve got new tools to keep the content going. Thanks for sticking around, folks. 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