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New Years 2010: A Tale of Tweets

January 2, 2010

For New Years 2010, a bunch of us (Tom, Pete, Adam, Jennifer, Erin, Dustin, Tonya, et al) decided to head down to Red Wing, MN to reign in the new year in style. The night started at the super Super 8, then downtown, then to Treasure Island Casino. Needless to say, the evening was a lot of fun, thanks to Dustin for coordinating, and everyone else for making it out.

What follows is a rough recap of our evening which, thanks to the wonder that is Twitter, included some folks that weren’t able to make the trip… Note: Click on the Twitgoo and Twitpic links for Tweet-embedded images.

Liberty’s in red wing
9:00 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from txt
Editors note: Liberty’s Restaurant and Lounge, not a bad spot.

@dustinumn I expect you brought your wig!
8:05 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from Tweetie in reply to dustinumn
Editors note: Dustin did not bring his now-famous wig, which is probably good because it smells like year-old beer.

gettin ready for treasure island http://twitpic.com/w4vw8
8:37 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

@djlein you’re missing out! http://twitgoo.com/at3ip
8:42 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from twidroid
Editors note: Tom’s scalloped potatoes, which hopefully tasted better than they looked…

@giencke That looks horribly disgusting! Don’t they have any buttersteak?
8:45 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to giencke
Editors note: Buttersteak, made famous in Vegas 2006 when Tom dipped his Kobe beef in drawn butter.

Butter bone! http://twitpic.com/w516u
9:02 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
Editors note: A discarded rib from Tom’s dinner + butter. Genius.

RT @beyondbasic Butter bone! http://twitpic.com/w516u
9:03 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from twidroid
Editors note: The RT button got a lot of use that night — “Retweet it like it’s hot.”

@beyondbasic @giencke @djlein you guys are killin me!
9:21 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from txt

@KellBean Aren’t you down there having butter bone with everyone else?
9:26 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to KellBean

@djlein hell no. Sitting around in a casino for 8hrs does not appeal to me
9:27 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from txt

@kellbean we’re on hour 13 at the casino, wish you were here
9:45 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from twidroid in reply to KellBean
Editors note: And at this point we weren’t at the casino yet

@giencke LMAO. That could be the best tweet of 2009.
9:47 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to giencke

http://twitpic.com/w5ln6
10:36 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
Editors note: Finally at Treasure Island, posing for a pic in between chatting up the locals.

Hour 96 at the casino: http://twitpic.com/w69hr
12:23 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck
Editors note: Minus 95 hours and change

Editors note: Everything after this gets a bit hazy, but there was gambling, drinking, and a 4:30am trip to Perkins. All in all, a great, great New Years!

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