Building Character

People exercise and stuff to build muscle and strengthen resistance against boredom from repetitive movements, as far as I have been able to decipher it.  I am on a quest to discover the type of exercise that builds character because I need a new character a lot more than I need muscle definition—not that I’m too buff; I just don’t need to lift anything other than my own body weight.  An employee or client and sometimes both always handle the stuff I can’t and/or don’t want to lift.  I can’t risk hurting my back and being put on injured reserve again.  I could also use an additional level of true grit for 2015 if I’m going to indulge in upgrades.  This means that an internal budget war is looming.  The purchasing czar has vetoed the last three proposed upward budget revisions.  He is going to have to go if he continues to refuse to sign off on our necessary budgetary increases.  Supplemental test vehicles cost real money.  I wish our purchasing czar understood that.

Anything worth doing is worth doing as well as your energy and motivation levels will allow.  AcMo has diversified into multiple and varied markets because that is what all of the bigger players do.  I had all of my eggs in one basket before and then I dropped the basket when a hornet startled me.  Breakfast and my usual effusive elation derived from experiencing the marvels of existence were both ruined in that one instant.  It wasn’t a completely negative experience though because that taught me a lesson that most of you probably already knew:  always carry all of your eggs in a padded basket and don’t drop them.  Sometimes the only way to learn is to fail even though watching others fail is a lot more fun.

Confusion falls into the category of something worth doing well.  I go all in and hope I emerge with a clearer understanding of the problem.  It is terrifying at the time like staring into the open mouth of a hungry shark while being dangled over the edge of the boat holding chum.  That isn’t an activity that a prudent person would want to make a regular habit, but it does add character.  Assuming of course you survive.  My understanding is that Russian roulette is safer, but maths is not my forte, and the odds makers no longer allow me to bet.  I suppose true grit would help here allowing me to double down and disregard the rules of proper betting.

My current confusion surrounds the direction AcMo needs to take in 2015 to complete the last pieces of the puzzle required for world domination.  We are so close, but at the same time there is still a lot of work to be done.

I am quite adept at finding new ways to break things.  That talent has proved invaluable during my travels around the country.  I once broke the entire state of Arkansas by accident through one innocent tweet.  Now that I think about it, the breakage was more Twitter’s fault than mine.

People often ask me how I got my scar.  I am always happy to tell the inquisitive ones a story.  The mean people get my best evil eye, a smirk, and a two fingered salute as I continue on my way to board the fail train.  The scar was a gift from surviving a skydiving incident.  A tandem skydiving team landed on top of me out of nowhere.  Their rigging sliced into my head and left me with a stout battle scar.  I thought I was standing in the spot I was supposed to since it had a big white circle in the middle of it.  It wasn’t possible for me to know people would be falling out of the sky at that precise location.  Sound doesn’t travel well from altitude, so I never heard them shouting for me to move from the landing zone.  I thought it ludicrous I could even be standing on a landing zone since not even a Harrier would have attempted a landing there.  I failed to take into account people landing without use of an aircraft.  That is a mistake I have only made once.

The resulting scar shaped my outlook on life.  People looked at me differently after that, but I had to own my scar and make it a part of my character that I was building.  I’ve had it for so long now that I sometimes forget it is there until some insensitive stranger accosts me on the street to demand answers on how I received it.  If only I could turn those occurrences into a revenue stream…I do know a guy who knows some carnival people.  Maybe I could join a traveling show.

Some of AcMo’s investors have suggested that it is time for the AcMo IPO since all of the noise surrounding Alibaba has dissipated.  Taking AcMo public would provide additional opportunities to bolster our black project fund and give us the freedom to spend even more time at the track.  Track time is invaluable when you’re standing up an F-One team.  The AcMo affiliated Scuderia AcMo F-One team is building toward their triumphant debut, and I need to be ready in case they need a real driver and call me.

I have decided that 2015 will be the year of a new character, and as such, I have scheduled reconstructive facial surgery so that I can escape the bonds of my previous face and identity.  AcMo Paper Products division has already generated new papers for me, and I am looking forward to finally establishing bases around the world.  While I can’t tell you where or when I might be invading a country near you, unlike those quiet skydivers who accosted me, I am certain that you will at least hear me arriving since my appearances are usually accompanied by a sonic boom and mass disturbances in the force.  The sonic booms serve as a unique and unforgettable wake-up call.  Even if I’m only able to do that once because it will cause anyone in the vicinity to go deaf, at least they’ll always have a strong and indelible memory of their first non-Internet based AcMo encounter.

As an aside, I have started a project to investigate the utility of instituting a six-day work week (for the staff, I would reduce my week to one work day and then write a book about it) and eradicating remote work capabilities for everyone except me.  Being the CEO has to have some perks not bestowed on the regular employees.  I’m wondering if that will satiate my need for power and control.  I doubt it.  I may run these ideas by the board at our next meeting and request additional input on how we can replace the purchasing czar with someone who knows how important test vehicles are.