{"id":3942,"date":"2006-12-25T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/12\/25\/merry-xmas-were-off-to-alaska\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:29:10","slug":"merry-xmas-were-off-to-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/12\/25\/merry-xmas-were-off-to-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Xmas, We&#8217;re Off to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, of course, whatever holiday you might be celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to survive another Christmas shopping season while working retail in a mall (something I don&#8217;t really recommend to anyone, though this makes my second time), and thankfully, there weren&#8217;t <em>too<\/em> many truly obnoxious customers. A few, yes, there&#8217;s always a few, but few enough that nobody totally snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Weirdest request of the season, especially considering I work in a camera shop: a gent who came in last week looking for a &#8220;drinky bird&#8230;y&#8217;know one of those sippy bird toys that bobs into a cup of water&#8230;.&#8221; We managed to get him pointed vaguely in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/index.html\" title=\"Archie McPhee\">Archie McPhee&#8217;s<\/a>, then wondered what made him think that we&#8217;d have such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>I went out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157594435045757\/\" title=\"Christmas Confessional at the Vogue\">Christmas Confessional night at the Vogue<\/a> on Thursday night, while Prairie was down visiting her family, and got a lot of fun pictures of the various peoples and performers. Quite a good night!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157594435045757\/\" title=\"Christmas Confessional at the Vogue\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/157\/330271671_446e0945cc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Christmas Confessional at The Vogue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, Prairie and I are waking up and taking care of the last few details before we head out to the airport to fly up to Anchorage for the next few days to visit my folks. Enjoy your Christmas (or Hannukkah, or Yule, or <em>whatever<\/em>) season!<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:6170,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mcphee.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308191948\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mcphee.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mcphee.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 13:07:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 12:30:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 05:05:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 04:17:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 09:52:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 07:00:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 05:30:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 05:30:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3929,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/72157594435045757&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/sets\\\/72157594435045757&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, Prairie and I are waking up and taking care of the last few details before we head out to the airport to fly up to Anchorage for the next few days to visit my folks. 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