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Happy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! 🎉🥂 Wishing everyone a great New Year!

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It was Mr. Green with the Revolver in the Hall. Tammy won!

Clue board game in progress showing the Tudor Mansion board with character tokens, two black dice, a detective notepad, and a Mr. Green case file card on top.
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Enjoying one of our New Year’s Eve traditions, a delicious pot of fondue. So good.

Cuisinart fondue pot with melted cheese on a stand, a fondue fork dipping bread, a bottle of Kirschwasser, and a colorful glass goblet on a white kitchen counter.
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We went to A Complete Unknown today at the iconic Heights Theater. I thought the movie was great and Timothée Chalamet did a great performance as Bob Dylan. Now I want to listen to Dylan music for the next several weeks. It was also great to hear a couple of Minneapolis callouts. Great movie! 🍿

Movie poster for A Complete Unknown showing a young man playing electric guitar with a harmonica holder around his neck, releasing December 25
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Cool to see the new Mimi Uploader out with support for Micro.blog collections! This along with my Collection Creator Shortcut gives me a lot of options.

I’m still wondering how to name collections. It seems if you have 100 or more collections it is going to get unruly, similar to Pages. 🤔

iPhone screen showing Mimi Uploader app displaying 9 photo collections on thingelstad.com including Coffee, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, and kayaking albums.
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I’m excited to welcome Jesse Lang @jesselang to Micro.blog! Along with Phil Rodemann @See3p0, Marcos D Alves @mdalves, and David O’Hara @davoh that is four of the Christmas Blogs. 🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁

The fifth winner changed their mind so I extended the offer to another. 🤞

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The New Standards were at The Dakota tonight for their regular Preener’s Eve Show! We are fans of the band and of this show specifically. Tonight seemed even a bit better than they always are. Such a wonderful evening. 🎶

Jazz quartet performing on a small club stage decorated with colorful balloons and a Dakota neon sign, to a seated audience.
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Tried a new cocktail at The Dakota tonight — Back to Black. King County Coffee Whiskey, Irish Cream, Cold Press, and Smoked Whip. Was very good but you need to like coffee.

Cocktail in a large snifter glass topped with whipped cream and a garnish, on a bar table in a dimly blue-lit restaurant
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We went to Puttshack today and loved their “enhanced” take on minigolf. We also had lunch and the food was good and the dessert even better. It is fun that the scoring is all done for you and they introduce other dynamics into the course. Fun time!

Person putting a golf ball on a Pac-Man themed mini golf hole at Puttshack, with moving obstacles and colorful arcade-style decor.Person putting on a colorful mini golf hole at Puttshack with a lit prize wheel displaying 5 points in the background.Tetris-shaped light-up obstacles arranged on a mini golf hole with colorful carpet and a glowing red tee marker in the foreground.Smiling man in orange shirt takes selfie at Puttshack mini golf venue next to a screen declaring him the winner.

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We had a great time at [Activate] in Roseville today. The games were great. All of the tech worked flawlessly. We were challenged and got our heart rates up playing. Super fun! Highly recommend checking this out! Wear clothes like you are going to the gym!

Dark room with a large illuminated grid floor glowing in purple, blue, green, and red, with several people standing along the far wall near an exit sign.Three people holding light-up wands face a large curved wall covered in colorful illuminated buttons inside an Activate game room, score display overhead.Dark room at Activate with a wall of glowing screens showing space imagery, a sci-fi scoreboard displaying hearts and score, and a person holding a controller.