{"id":3586,"date":"2005-11-27T23:40:54","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/27\/post-thanksgiving-wrapup\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:09:23","slug":"post-thanksgiving-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/27\/post-thanksgiving-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Thanksgiving Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7428,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0007Y79B2%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B0007Y79B2%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;link_code=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%3fASIN=B0007Y79B2%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B0007Y79B2%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00006HBUJ%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006HBUJ%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;link_code=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%3fASIN=B00006HBUJ%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006HBUJ%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7436,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000002KOA%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B000002KOA%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;link_code=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%3fASIN=B000002KOA%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B000002KOA%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7437,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/67030411&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190131100430\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/67030411\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 20:51:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 06:23:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:13:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:13:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Heh&#8230;I guess after three days, I should really move my &#8216;happy Thanksgiving&#8217; post down the page a touch, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving was quite nice. I had both Wednesday and Thursday off, and Prairie&#8217;s dad Lon came down on Wednesday afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with us. I got to take him shopping to help him pick up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0007Y79B2%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B0007Y79B2%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Apple Computer: Apple 4 GB iPod Nano Black\">iPod Nano<\/a>, and then we watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00006HBUJ%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B00006HBUJ%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"George Lucas: Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Widescreen Edition)\">Star Wars Episode II<\/a> in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was spent entirely at home, relaxing and puttering around. Prairie cooked up an incredibly good dinner (in the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000002KOA%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000002KOA%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant\">Arlo Guthrie<\/a>, &#8220;a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn&#8217;t be beat&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/67030411\/\" title=\"A Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat...\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/29\/67030411_af5a34f175.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"367\" alt=\"A Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat...\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows, gravy, rolls, jello salad, cranberry jelly, and pecan tartlets and pumpkin pie for dessert. Yum!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, eventually all that ended, and Friday rolled around. <strong>Black Friday<\/strong>, to be precise. There are definite pros and cons to having a mall-based retail job&#8230;and <em>wow<\/em>, but that day was insane. I had a split shift: 7am-11am, off for six hours, and then back from 5pm-10:30pm. Uff-da. Busy all day long (there were actually people waiting at the store gate when we opened at 7am) &#8212; and unfortunately, I just didn&#8217;t seem to be getting the right customers, as I ended up having the least sales of any of the sales staff that day. &#8220; Ah, well&#8230;I know I&#8217;m not a born salesman, I just do the best I can while I&#8217;m there.<\/p>\n<p>More long days Saturday and today, but I&#8217;ve got Monday off to rest. Quite looking forward to that, too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh&#8230;I guess after three days, I should really move my &#8216;happy Thanksgiving&#8217; post down the page a touch, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}