Beginnings

Well, here goes nothing. This is my first posting on this blog. I thought it should begin with the New Year of 2006. I will be posting a title picture of Charybdis based on a screen capture from the movie "The Odyssey" sometime soon. You might wonder why I named this blog after a mythical sea monster. I do too. No good reason except that I've always liked myths and legends.
I've heard people say "two-thousand six", and "twenty-oh-six". I wonder if there is a proper way of stating the year? I've thought about this since the turnover of the millenia, but haven't resolved it, other than most people seem to say the former.