{"id":9645,"date":"2014-08-02T21:56:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T01:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2014-08-02T21:56:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T01:56:59","slug":"randomthoughts-822014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/02\/randomthoughts-822014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (8\/2\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had much time to think lately. Go ahead and make the obvious joke. How about some RandomThoughts?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of these days, I&#8217;ll only ask for a Moderately-Sized Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s Tax Free Weekend! Only in Virginia, though. The dysfunctional NC legislature zapped their tax free weekend in the name of revamping the state income tax code. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tax.virginia.gov\/site.cfm?alias=SchoolSuppliesAndClothingHoliday\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the state&#8217;s website that will give you a complete list of items that are tax-exempt<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I was down at the JTI Fountain this week for some night photography and noticed some of the LED lighting is starting to mess up.<\/li>\n<li>How can South Boston have and support two frozen yogurt shops and Danville only has one?<\/li>\n<li>Food alert! Danville&#8217;s Sonic has half-priced shakes after 8 PM.<\/li>\n<li>The Register &amp; Bee handles pushback by closing the comments to their badly written stories. Nice.<\/li>\n<li>I also notice that the Register &amp; Bee&#8217;s paywall system is now working. Then it&#8217;s not working. SouthsideCentral remains free to read.<\/li>\n<li>Update on that RandomThoughts: I&#8217;ve already broken through the R&amp;B&#8217;s paywall. That didn&#8217;t take long.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the JC Penney factory outlet in Martinsville&#8217;s Liberty Fair Mall? Gone. Totally gone. They used to have some very good buys there.<\/li>\n<li>With apologies to Chuck Vipperman, Clarke Whitfield and Ricky McFarling&#8230; it&#8217;s too damn early for high school football. Even for football practice.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s also too damn late for kids to be playing baseball. Let them enjoy the summer. Heck, American Legion Post 325&#8217;s baseball team had to forfeit out of the tournament because the kids had other things to do and they couldn&#8217;t field a whole team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some RandomThoughts for Saturday. 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