January 1, 2010







1 comment:

  1. Happy New Year, Lionel. I always enjoy the "when does the decade (or century, or millenium, etc.) begin" question. I agree that technically we have now entered the last year of the first decade of the second millenium. But I sipped champagne on New Year's Eve 1999 with a sense of the dramatic shift to Y2K (and with an eye on my software), and I'm glad today to step out of the "aught's" and into the teen's of the new century as well. It's a little bit reminiscent of the inevitable confusion about the 12 Days of Christmas. Technically speaking, the First Day begins at Vespers on the 24th and runs until sunset on the 25th, which then begins the Second Day, etc. But that correct reading tends to skew the planning for the parish Boar's Head Festival . . . .

