As George sat staring at an empty RADAR screen he noticed a fly on the window on the other side of the room. Any movement, on the RADAR screen or on the window was cause for immediate response.

On closer observation he counted a total of 5 flies, 4 having missed the original detection because they were stationary.

George, out of boredom, wrote a formal memo entitled, “The Daily Fly Count in the Status Room” and circulated it throughout the base as any other official US Government Document.
After about a week that too became boring so he discontinued the report.

Several days later he received a Letter of Reprimand from one of the base officers as to why he had not received the Daily Fly Report as expected.

What made me think of Georges’ story from so long ago was when I woke up this morning I wondered who reads my blogs and why. What would happen if I suddenly became bored and stopped writing? Would anyone care? Would I get nasty notes?

I’m not willing to risk that so keep checking to see what “pearl of wisdom” will drop out of the shells.

Thanks for reading.

I hope that I am not boring my readers with the length of the articles.

Some of the text contains as many as a 1000 words.

Bob Walsh recommends in his outstanding book, “Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them”, on page 193, that postings should be kept to about 250 words.

A number of years ago I was free-lance writing for a local newspaper and my goal was to keep the articles to 500 words.

I hope that my readers have an attention span of at least 700 words before they fall asleep or move onto someone else’s posting.

I feel that most of the subjects that I write about cannot be written in fewer words and still cover the salient points.

I try not to ‘pad’ my writing with unnecessary adjectives.

Hang in there friends, I have a lot to say!