re: #215 Obdicut

If they did, they get it wrong, since my wife and I are both atheists. Though we have Christmas, because it’s not like Christmas as it exists is actually a religious holiday anyway. So sure, merry Christmas all the live long day. No skin off my nose. Except that I don’t like the materialism of it all.

Heh, last year I tried to sign up to work at a homeless shelter on Christmas, only to learn that apparently that’s the day everyone tries to sign up. Made me feel pretty embarrassed. So I signed up for the first week of January instead.

The local Jewish Community Center has a sign-up sheet for “Mitzvah Day” (Dec. 25) where people can sign up to do “good deeds” for people on Christmas. I supposed this day will be concluded with a huge feast at a Chinese restaurant. I could never figure out this type of Jew who feels guilty about not doing something “special” on Christmas.

Personally speaking, I have many times gone in to work, perform backup and maintenance on Christmas and New Year’s and never made a big deal out of it. Although this year they are closing the center for the last week in December and it sucks because, no pay.