Greetings from the land of poor but quick writing.  One of the key pieces of advice for this process is don’t edit as you write.  Just get the words down on the page and worry about everything else later.  That’s why I specify poor writing.  turns out it’s not too hard to write badly.

Writing quickly on the other hand is apparently another matter all together.  To achieve the stated goal of fifty thousand words by November thirtieth, I need to write one thousand, six hundred and sixty-seven words every day.  To put that in perspective, an average post here on Brain Bits is between two hundred and five hundred words.

So far, I’ve gotten just over two thousand words.  That leaves me with around thirteen hundred to write before bed.  Now all I have to do is figure out what the heck they’re going to be.

Of course, the more I write here, the less I’m writing there.  But there was one more thing just before I get back to it.  It’s a quick follow up to the post I wrote the other day about our pending F-35 purchase.

Michael Gilmore the top Pentagon weapons tester has put out a memo saying that training flights should be delayed for at least ten months.  The memo sites a variety of potentially fatal issues including an untested ejection system, a faulty generator, and incomplete flight manuals.

Mr. Gilmore expects it to take about ten months to get everything up to snuff to resume testing.  The U.S. Army and Air Force disagree with him, as does manufacturer Lockheed Martin.  Of course they do.  That’s why we have third party, civilian consultants.  No vested interest equals a better chance of honesty.

Yup.  That deal keeps looking better and better every time I hear more about it.

Cheers, Winston