I was thinking the exact same thought this morning. Where on earth did 2000 go?

I barely had time to get over my bitching about last year's Christmas decorations, and here they are again. One day I fear they will put them up and they will never come back down again. Actually, I notice that, in suburbia and in rural areas, the whole year has now become completely taken over by a sequence of commercialised holidays -- the calendar is firmly fixed around shopping for the next holiday. This is particularly true if you have small children -- the school system has become one long series of holiday projects. Ordinary time seems to have disappeared.

yours, Peter T.