The Lewis Show

Sometimes I hold unpopular opinions and I was overdue to share one here. Janine and I had a discussion three or four years ago about the future of Black Friday. We both agreed that one day in the future, stores would be opening on Thanksgiving Day. We also agreed that was just a terrible thing. I still feel that it is terrible for these stores to be open on Thanksgiving evening. People should spend time with their families and if people don't like their families, then stay home and play a video game or make a turkey sandwich. Don't make people work on Thanksgiving. I still hold that belief, but now that dreaded day is here. Then I had a thought. What if people want to work on Thanksgiving? What if people want to provide for their families by earning a salary and working on Thursday evening and/or Friday morning? Not all of us have those jobs or live that lifestyle, so we don't completely understand it. We've become quite accustomed and dare I say entitled to sit...

It looks like the llama finally prevailed and will no longer be getting its ass kicked. Aol announced this week that they are going to end support for Winamp effective December 20th. Many of us used Winamp to play downloaded music that was stored on our computers. Over time, cloud services and portable media players made need for applications like this to become increasingly unnecessary. I will personally miss the application, but I'll probably keep the last version installed on my computer. I remember spending my weekends with my friends in the mid 00's listening to music on Winamp. I would spend hours tweaking it with various plug ins to add bass or decompress the sound of my MP3's. It has always been part of my desktop music life and with this last download next month, that will be it for that chapter of third party music players. I have to admit I have been using Google's All Access now since last fall and have enjoyed having most every song available on d...

It is that time of year again. Every year about this time I typically take to the internet to complain about the leaves falling in my yard. This year is no exception. I have spent the past two weeks moving mountains of dead leaves into our front ditch for county removal. I've also taken in a few walks around town. I took it upon myself to explore Richmond more since I have been a resident here for over eight years now. There are considerably more interesting places than I imagined and most all of them have been safe. Richmond does have a tendency of wearing it's violent reputation on its sleeve, but I have not feared for my life really at all since I moved here. In fact, I would dare say most of the stories I've heard have been based on misconceptions. Be safe and use common sense, but I have found most of the locals to be quite nice, hospitable, and plenty Southern. The walking around Brown's Island, the Canal Walk, Belle Isle, Jackson/Madison Wards, the Capit...