Who said what?

One of the most confusing things about Twitter is the "retweet". There are so many different ways that people add their own comments to a tweet it's sometimes hard to tell who said what. I wish there was a way everyone could agree on to do a retweet with comments.

Here's my way. And for the sake of this exercise, I'll use the same tweet for the different ways I've seen it done. Here's one I did a while back:

This is why I hate flying RT @???: My girlfriend just got off wicked, bumpy flight. Said everyone was throwing up. Even flight attendant.

See @??? wrote that piece about her friend and you can clearly see it was me who said I hate flying. Right?

Here are various versions of RT's I've seen:

"@???: My girlfriend just got off wicked, bumpy flight. Said everyone was throwing up. Even flight attendant."...This is why I hate flying

Note: I've seen it with and without the quotes

Or

RT @???: My girlfriend just got off wicked, bumpy flight. Said everyone was throwing up. Even flight attendant. > This is why I hate flying

Or

@???: My girlfriend just got off wicked, bumpy flight. Said everyone was throwing up. Even flight attendant <--This is why I hate flying

Or

@???: My girlfriend just got off wicked, bumpy flight. Said everyone was throwing up. Even flight attendant (This is why I hate flying)

Out all the styles, I dislike the quotes the most. And those without RT in them.

Tutorial anyone?

My friends are trying to kill me...

I have a couple of friends who go hiking just about every day. They asked if I wanted to go, and being the naive nice person that I am, I said sure.

Now this isn't hiking where you put a harness on and go up and down sides of mountains. This is where you go hiking in the woods and there are rocks all over the place, including rock ladened hills. You know, the type of place big slimy snakes like to congregate.


Photo from www.mountainbiketx.com

They told me we were only going for 30 minutes. 30 minutes my butt. We were traipsing out there for over an hour!

Luckily we didn't see any snakes on this outing but one of the dogs my friend had got attacked by a mixed Chow. That dog just picked up little Finland by her back and it scared me silly. Luckily she is ok.

I'll be out there again I'm sure. Maybe.