Advent

Wow, they've even commercialized Advent the season before Christmas, which for those who don't know, starts on December 25th. Most uninformed people think the Christmas season ends at midnight on December 24th, which is why so many trees are out on the curb by noon on Christmas Day. Understandable, since commercialism in the retail sector starts putting out Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving. We all have seen Christmas stuff before Halloween. And I used to work for a store that opened and still opens its Christmas shop (I kid you not) in August! Every year. Some of you can guess which retail chain.

Any way, Advent is supposed to be almost a full month (four weeks or so) of prayer, fasting (starving to you godless atheists), and quiet sober reflection before you drink yourself into a coma and gorge yourself almost as much as you did on Thanksgiving. If I was going to preach at you or psycho-analyze you, I'd say that you were trying to fill the emptiness which you need to fill with either Jesus or something meaningful depending on whether I was wearing my preacher hat or had you on my Freudian couch. Either way, something to think about.

As always, I wander off on pointless tangents as a pretext to minor remarks about the link or links. In this case, Advent dot net, "the leading Christmas Advent Calendars Site on the Net."

http://www.advent.net/

When I typed in Advent dot edu, net, org, and com I expected some Seventh Day Adventist site or something better. Dot com is an investment management software site. In view of my foregoing rants (please re-read my Thanksgiving rant), do I really need to say anything about Wall Street?