actually spending some time trying to understand what I've written here

Perhaps if you tried to express yourself clearly and above all, concisely, we wouldn't have to wade all through the verbiage to get at the core of what you are trying to say.

I have a lot of sympathy with Richard's point of view. When I see one of your lengthy posts my eyes tend to glaze over as I know that most of it will be repetitious and pretty much irrelevant to the main point.