Retirement at Les Bois 

but no 'body'      is "out of the woods yet"

Hi Mike

Re: your comment about this “neck of the woods”  around Boise (Les Bois – the woods)

I keep forgetting that you know this ‘neck’ of the woods like the back of your hand. But with all the new construction around here now, for us to get to work you have to go around your elbow to get to your thumb, and my heart’s racing for all the ‘ground-pounder' self-propelled & foot traffic.  I’m cross-eyed and dizzy looking for more threats of getting hit again (my Vette was totaled on the freeway recently) and being late to the push point – I mean, the office.   It’s just like "S.E.A." or "Desert Storm" again. 

But this being retired from flying fighters makes me mentally tired just thinking about the boring 'non-lethal' civilian work. I’m just glad that our company (even the frenzied head) doesn’t believe in face time (although he does get his nose out of joint occasionally, wink wink). It’s actually unheard of, especially since we’re barely standing with our level of revenue so we have to shake a leg, and keep our nose to the grindstone.  And since we are a technology company we keep our ear to the ground, and our finger to the wind to stay current. Well, maybe the marketing guy has his finger up his b... What with all of the customer maladies that I’ve been ‘slapped’ with it’s sure given me a black eye, and I’m pulling my hair out.  I’m busier than a one-armed proctologist, dealing with twice the aches and pains in the ...

This new web tool has a steep learning curve to climb and I’m drinking from a fire hydrant, and I may have bitten off more than I can chew.  And if I have any more problems with IT slipping I’m going to puke – they’re always crying about something, and the chief is a bit cheeky to boot. He’s got lots of forehead and little brain. I’m ready to turn my back to them and give them the cold shoulder but they’re so deaf that they can’t hear a new, healthy system improvement brain-child of mine.  But crap, they have in fact earned us some piss-poor amount of revenue and that’s sure better than a poke in the eye. I guess there’s a smiley face in there somewhere. The really good news is that we’ve blindsided our competition and are a leg up on them for the long run.  In fact, we are about to cut them off at the kneecaps and that will make for some drooped shoulders and raised eyebrows among the whole body of the trade.  But they are a bunch of assholes and pricks anyway.

I just wish that our sales force would toe the line, glad-hand some customers or kick some butts, and run up some sales.  If not, we’ll have to strip down to fighting trim, tighten our belt, and just gut it out until we starve ourselves blind.  My partners can’t even feed the ankle biters.   

But gosh, you know the ‘startup’ dance, we just might be smiling and sitting pretty ... or else tits up in a few months.