The mileage on your sleigh may vary, but for me, the holiday season is all about traditions. You get choked up watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” debate whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie (it is), and swear for the umpteenth time that you’ll never go to Valley Fair on Dec. 23 again.

And, in San Jose, part of that tradition since 2018 has been raising a toast at one of downtown’s insanely decorated pop-up holiday bars. The celebrations are underway and the libations flowing at three of them already: Miracle on First Street (the transformed Paper Plane cocktail lounge), Miracle at Miniboss (inside the arcade bar on Santa Clara and Second streets) and the tiki-styled Sippin’ Santa at 55 South at Post St.

The “Miracle” pop-up trend started in New York City in 2014 and quickly spread

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