B. U. G. S.

I got my manuscript to kevin and he has read it once. Given me a quick assessment, and will be on it today.

He didn’t say, “Bob, ***I*** (unlike you) have a LIFE.”

No spellcheck of my spellcheck. He just used his spellcheck and edited it for me.

Sure it’s SIMPLE. But try to find someone to do that for you and you will find it is not, to say the least, EASY.

Yes, I told you and him what I wanted. I made it so obvious kevin is wondering why I am bragging on him so much.

But I have told many others before, and nobody else did what I asked before.

“I cannot get my orders carried out.”
— Robert E. Lee

And Lee had infintelt better generals than the other side had.

Now I know why Lee loved Stonewall Jackson so much.

Now I understand why the people who were DOING things loved having me work for them so much. And why the others didn’t know what to do with me.

Time-servers LIKE for their staff to bring up petty stuff with them. They can theorize and play, and they want someone to play with them that way. I remember the boss I complained abut sitting back in his conference room late at night talking with his theorizing staff, shuffling the organization chart around like all of the more moronic political appointees do.

They spent a lot of that time beating their chests about how hard-core they were, and the staff he liked kept telling him how hard-core he was. He didn’t accomplish a damned thing except make the Washington media and the bureaucrats mad at him, which he though meant he was doing a good job. As for me, he just stood in my way.

As I said, he got rid of me and they got rid of him. He was the ONLY presidential appointee with senate approval (PAS) I ever knew of who got reappointed and the Senate refused to approve him. I would have warned him against the amateurish crap that got him wasted. I’d done it before.

But he wanted cheerleaders, not Whitakers. Nobody was there to warn him.

kevin knows that I want to DO things. I have spent DECADES trying to find people like that.

And here you are.

The little men I worked for didn’t want me to get out there and do things and check back with them when needed. They wanted to micromanage. They had nothing ELSE to do. The big men wanted me to take the weight off their shoulders. I NEVER went off on my own. But I also never helped them waste their time.

You are LISTENING to me, taking notes, and then DOING it. Pain asked if he should change to the Mantra I am working out with the Europeans. One question. One sentence. With a PERIOD at the end.

Quick question, quick answer: Pain, keep going for the throat the way you are. Pain is not going off on his own, so he checked back. He also didn’t want to the theorize about it.

It was a professional-level checkback. With a PERIOD.

Pain was worried about Mark being upset that he was getting too much attention. A quick checkback. I said he has no greater fan than Mark.

Mark didn’t sit there like a dummy. He backed me up. One quick piece of unabashed ratification of what I said.

Then a PERIOD at the end.

That’s what a PRO looks like.

I asked for Budarick and tenestre to chime in on the talk about translating things for Europeans I was having with Adelheim, another pro. He’s a pro because he went in and tried the Mantra out and reported back.

Tenestre and Budarick got back so quick I am up to my armpits in stuff I need to do.

I LOVE it!

It normally took me WEEKS to get this much done, and that was in the few cases when I could find somebody who COULD do it.

A pro is part of a team. He USES the leader. The leader uses HIM. The pro goes with it and uses the leader for the guidance he needs.

It is simple. But God knows it is NOT easy.