I've been away a long time...
I know, it's been an awful long time.

But I am here, and alive. Very much alive!

I will probably renew my efforts to keep this blog up to date, but just in an effort to ramp up to that glorious day when I'm updating fully, and in detail...

I thought I'd share with you the derivation of... Xmas!

So, many people think this is just an abbreviation for 'Christmas' -- in fact, commercially, it is just an abbreviation, for the sake of smaller banners, more punchy slogans, and from removing us slightly from the actual concept of Christ.

But not so... It comes from ... The Greeks! Christ is spelt 'Χριστος' in Greek, see? X being the Greek letter with the phonetic sound 'chi'. It's not even pronounced 'eks-mas'... or it shouldn't be, anyway.

Just as a side-note, 'Xtian' is also a valid form of the word 'Christian'...

Now religious types can self-label themselves as something COOL!

Merry Christmas,
-S