um lol.....sorry but the whole monkey metaphor thing made me giggle....of course I have a mental pic of a monkey with its hand stuck in a jar.....ok sorry....Im not laughing at your problem, it just conjured up a funny pic in my head....
To me it sounds like he is just having alot going on in his head....like maybe he gets something figured out, but then something else gets in the way? But without the whole monkey thing lol.....Yea some people's metaphors are something else to say the least....best of luck into getting to the bottom of this "monkey" business