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It’s been pretty cold here for a few days, since about Saturday afternoon.  So no big surprise that this morning was more of the same.  But I was a little shocked looking at the temperature gauge in my truck on the way to work this morning.  -4F.  That’s cold for this part of the country.  I was used to that when I was living in Winnipeg.  But I’ve been here for 20+ years now.  That’s “unseasonably” cold as they say.  Well last year we got a boatload of snow, apparently this year we are going to get the cold.  I was also half listening to a report on the radio saying something about Russia having record amount of days with NO snowfall, something like 130 years since they have had that little amount of snow.  It even went so far as to say that they days of huge snowfalls in Russia is a thing of the past.  What does that mean??  Who knows, but it’s something to consider I suppose.

Only a few weeks until the Holidays, or Xmas as I like to call it.  I get a lot of flak about calling it Xmas instead of Christmas.  I have nothing against using Christmas, I’m just a lazy butt and abbreviate it Xmas (or X-mas).  Now, for all those “your taking the Christ out of Christmas” busy bodies, do you know where the term Xmas came from?  Do you know why it was abbreviated that way?  My guess is you don’t.  So instead of me going on and on and on and on and… on.  I’ll just direct you to the Wikipedia entry for it: here.  I actually thought I had posted on this before because I first started getting people annoyed back around the time I started doing this blog.  I looked back through though and can’t seem to find it.  I know I had looked it up at the time so I knew why it was abbreviated as such so I had no issue continuing.  For those who are still reading and are not planning on clicking the link.  The punch line is:  X is the Greek letter for Christ and has been used in that way for quite some time (that really is a dumbed down explanation, the Wikipedia entry does it so much better).  So your not really taking the Christ out, your actually just going old school.  Or in my case possibly being a little lazy.    In fact, I would dare to say that those of you focused more on what you are going to get for Christmas, or how much someone is going to spend on you, or are out being jerks in the stores, are taking more Christ out of Christmas than someone abbreviating it to Xmas ever is.