Twitter Heads

I know the vast majority of people don't have a Twitter account. As a result, I thought I'd post a selection of tweets from mine. Keep in mind, each Tweet can have a maximum of 140 characters including spaces. That's why some of these are somewhat abbreviated. Here you go:

8 seconds ago: Someone hacked into Fox News and Tweeted false statements about the Pres. They ruled out Biden since he can't even sign on his own acct.

6 minutes ago: Exxon Mobil spilled 1000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Stone River. Would someone please tell the oil companies oil and water don't mix!

39 minutes ago: VP Joe Biden recently joined Twitter. He said he wasn't sure what Twitter is but it sounds really neat!

1 day ago: Apple will soon release I-phone 5. They considered releasing 6, 7, or 8 but decided to continue releasing the phones in numerical sequence.

1 day ago: Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez is recovering after the removal of a cancerous tumor. Doctors r baffled he's able to function without a head.

26 days ago: If it weren't for dishonest politicians, Ellen Pompeo would be president, James Spader would b VP, and congress would not exist.

26 days ago: After much investigation I finally found an honest politician; he's buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois.

That's a sample for what it's worth. To set up your own Twitter account, go to the "App Store" on your smart phone and down load the 'Twitter' app. Once it's on your phone, just follow the directions. You can find me at "rollarustic" (one word). When you do, click on 'follow'. Within 3 days of signing up to follow me, you will receive something in the mail as a token of my appreciation. It will probably only be the regular kind of stuff you get in the mail, but what do you expect for nothing?

Life lesson #3837

Last week I spent 5 days and 4 nights fishing the U.S./Canada boundary waters out of Ely Minnesota with my good friend Tony, his son's Henry and George, and nephew Mitchell (Mitch-Mitch you son of a.....gun!).
Aside from having a great time, I learned how liberating it is to not be bogged down with a lot of stuff.

On the long canoe trip out to our camp site, one of our several large packs of equipment was accidentally left at one of the 2 quarter mile portages, and we didn't know it was missing until we'd completed the nearly 5 hour canoe trip and were setting up camp.
The missing pack contained all of Tony's clothes and personal affects along with all my clothes. My personal affects (toiletries, flashlight, knife, hatchet etc.) were in a separate back pack, but Tony had literally lost everything.

Realizing it could take days to track down the pack combined with the additional fact that we were totally worn out from the canoe trip, we decided to make due with what we had.
Over the course of the next 5 days, I wore the same pair of pants, same shirt, same pair of socks and the same fleece pullover. Thanks to the generosity of my young friend George, I had 1 additional pair of underwear to rotate through; washing and drying one pair each day while wearing the other.

As time passed, I slowly began realizing how nice it was to not have to make choices each morning about what to wear. I saw how less stressful it was to have a very limited quantity of things to keep track of, and by the end of the week, I came to see how little a person might need in order to get by. In short, I got a glimpse at the possibility that having too many possessions might actually complicate living-not make it simpler.

Not one time while we were fishing and camping in nearly complete solitude, did I think about my lost clothes (truthfully, I did think about them one time when both pairs of underwear were wet at the same time). I didn't think about my clothes in the evening while we were sitting around the camp fire eating fresh Walleye fried over an open fire, and I didn't think about my clothes in the morning when we woke up at sunrise to start the day drinking camp fire coffee.

On that trip, I learned the power of simplicity. I learned how liberating it is to only have to manage 1 pair of sunglasses, 1 pair of shoes, and 1 pair of pants. I learned that having too much stuff might in fact be overrated. I'm going to try not to forget that.