As you can see, we're gearing up for this year's Advent & Advert Calendar features. (Thanks to Brian for working on the design, even though he's a miserable Kraut and I hate hate hate him.) For those who don't know, I LOVE CHRISTMAS and intend to ostracize everyone who doesn't celebrate it by writing about it over and over and over again, or until I get drained in late December. This year, we're doing things a little bit differently. Okay, I admit it: We're doing things more simply, because I want to make sure I don't overextend myself and hit a point where you come here and find NO CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!

In other words, for X-E's 2005 Christmas season, I've decided to keep everything located here, on the blorgh. The decision was pretty easy, since the holidays have become a busy and generally good time for the blog -- lots of lurkers come out of the virtual woodwork to contribute, and because of all of the many wonderful holiday-themed items I seem to pick up by the minute, there are usually more new posts during December than during any other month on the site. So, let's make this place one big ol' month-long holiday bash!

The blog will be homebase for this year's Advent and Advert Calendars, and if you don't know what those are, I guess you haven't been reading the site very long.