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I'm a Christmas music fanatic and I actually start playing it on Nov 1 (day after Halloween) as that is when I start decorating my house. Some might find that excessive but I have over 50 sets of lights to get up and I'm only talking the inside of the house. I like to be done hanging the lights by Thanksgiving and the the tree traditionally goes up the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. By Christmastime itself, I'm all done and only have to sit by the fireplace and watch the lights as my wife watches one sappy Hallmark movie after another.

Plots of those movies are always the same. City woman on the fast track goes home for the holidays and reconnects with her roots. Some insecure male country music star goes to same town and they end up together by the end after a lot of predictable twists and turns. I think this is how the women like it with regard to movies.

Anyway, believe it or not I have over 4,000 Christmas songs in my collection and they are decidedly not the 40 or so songs the terrestrial radio stations play over and over again on the FM dial. Even though I start on Nov 1, I am never able to hear all the songs in my Christmas collection on any given year. I have songs in my playlist that I haven't heard since 2011, only because they have not come up on shuffle yet. Maybe next year as around noontime today, that playlist is being mothballed until Nov 1 of next year.