22 Things I can do that Tim Ferriss can't or hasn't, I think

+Tim Ferriss is a great author, has a great podcast and is guy who seems like he can do everything. But I thought about and I'm sure I've done many things he's never done.

1. Get married
2. Get divorced
3. Quadruple money invested in the stock market
4. Father children
5. Send a child to an Ivy league school
6. Be an Expert at Microsoft Excel
7. Play on his college hockey team
8. Play ice hockey
9. Perform 10 magic tricks
10. Juggle 4 balls and flash 5
11. Bite through the side of a beer can
12. Open a bottle of beer with my teeth
13. Work on Wall Street
14. Walk over 2 million steps in a year
15. Develop a website
16. I've ridden a bicycle 210 miles in 18 hours
17. I can play guitar (not very well)
18. Roller Blade
19. Be a twin
20. Work for companies that are on or were on the Dow Jones Index
1. Bank of America
2. JP Morgan
3. General Electric
4. IBM
21. Blow dry my hair
22. Own a house in Nassau County

Is there anything you can do that Tim can't? Post below.

September 7th, 2015

I woke up at 7:00 AM today. Yesterday I went to a dog beach with my wife and dog. Worked on Listi.net conversion. Ran a blood sugar test.

Blood Sugar

Had pizza for dinner. One slice of Buffalo chicken. My blood sugar (bs) hit 166 but may have gone higher. I thought I could have pizza but not candy or sweets. The problem is once I have pizza it sets me off to seek out other great tasting food. My wife went to the ice cream store 16 Handles but I didn't buy anything. I'm so glad. I tried to do so weight lifting, curls and presses and it didn't seem to lower my blood sugar. I was going to test my bs but I thought it was too high at 109. I'll wait 1/2 hour so it comes down before I test a Zone bar.

Listi.Net

Worked on Listi.net conversion to SQL Server and can finally see lists. Ran into issue with bit vs. boolean values, but resolved it by changing the code.

Excel Diet

Got a new user yesterday and was reading through the book. It's not that bad. I'm thinking of printing out a copy of it. I've been afraid to reach out to users and follow up with them. So far only one user reached out to me and I assume he failed his diet. 

I've stalled on my weight loss as I weighed 165 today, due to the Buffalo pizza yesterday.

Wisdom of a Dad

This project has stalled while I'm upgrading Listi.net. My next goal is to proofread the book but this is a daunting task as to the size of the book. You can see my progress at WisdomOfADad.com. 

Home Chores

Desk is pretty messy, I have to clean the poop and do the yard, boxes of stuff, garage.

Fun

This may be the most important goal of all. You want to have longevity and $ so you can have fun. I'm still looking for ways to have more fun. I like blogging but am not getting enough feedback to make it enjoyable. 

Problems are opportunities

I now have experience converting from access to sql server maybe a business possibility?

Overdue books. I keep running into this and could use a better/easier way to add books to some mechanism of reminding me to renew them.

Writing the book WOAD has been difficult and this could be a business or I could develop a tool to assist with the issues. 

Blogger doesn't support shortcut keys.

Could use a system to better analyze and improve my tweets to get more clicks on Twitter.com, 

• What times are the best?
• What copy gets the most tweets?
• What if I do some A/B testing

My website getting a 500 error means there's an issue with the code. This is very difficult to find. I wish I had better version control and could easily identify what changes I make and to easily go back to a previous version.

Book

I'm reading 2 books:

1. $100 Startup (reread)
2. The Power of Now

Key Principle

Today's key principle is Time Balance. 

Liking

Shortcuts in Excel. Learning from Blood Sugar Meter.

September 6th, 2015 #Health, #NYC, #Questbar #Diabetes #BloodSugar

Health

Blood Sugar test day 2 where I'm comparing change in blood sugar from 1 Smore's Questbar vs. Oreo Questbar. From previous tests I notice surprisingly that the Oreo raised my blood sugar much higher than the Smores.

Weight was up yesterday by 2.27 lbs. It seems like I eat one "bad" food and my weight goes up a lot. According to my Walk Logger app I walked 8,591 steps or 3.8 miles.

And the results of this one test.  Smore's bar is better than Oreo bar. I compared two different Questbars and tested my blood sugar in around 30 minute intervals. The adjust difference is adjusting the Smore scores up 5 points  and the difference is calculated. So the Oreo increased my blood sugar  10 points after 1/2 hour, 27 points after 1 hour, 10 points after 1.5 hours and the same at 2 hours. So my conclusion is to eat the Smore's over the Oreo bars. Some future tests will be to use 2 bars for comparison.

	Oreo	Smore	Adjusted difference
start	100	95	0
T+30 mins	120	105	10
T+60 mins	127	95	27
T+90 mins	112	97	10
t+120 mins	98	93	0

Trip to New York City

Yesterday I went into New York City with family. We had Linner (Lunch and Dinner) at Foley's on 33rd between Fifth and Sixth Ave. It's also the Irish American Hall of Fame. My son heard about the place from reading Zach Hample's blog. He is the guy who is famous for catching over 8000 balls at baseball games.

We were there at around 3 PM and the restaurant was empty, but it has great baseball paraphernalia, including hundreds of signed baseballs, cards, bobble heads and chairs.

Afterwards, we walked down to Madison Square Park and got a shake at +SHAKE SHACK. There is an express line if you're not getting burgers.

We then proceeded to Strand Books where they have used and new books. I picked up 5 books for a cost of $19.05.

I have a policy that for each book that I buy I must get rid of two books. This is difficult for me but something I must do if I want to declutter my life.

Feng Shui is a way to place things in your house. I relate it to the way I feel when I walk down certain streets of Manhattan. Sometimes I feel good when there are lots of trees and pretty sights and other times I feel a negative energy to to dirt, ugly buildings and lack of trees. I'll probably never read this one but the concept seems interesting.

The Power of Now is a book that I'm interested in after reading +Sam Harris Waking Up, and is related to Buddhism and self-transcendence.

The Intelligent Investor is a classic investing book that I probably already have. I liked analyzing the stock market in the past and for $1.00 how could I not buy this.

Visual Design for the Modern Web is a book that is old but I could use help with my websites from a design point of view. I've wanted to have a better website, but that's a small piece of the puzzle in trying to make money from one of my ideas.

Concise Guide to Writing is because I'm trying to write and need help.

Current Projects

My current projects are:

1. Upgrade Listi.net to SQL Server
2. Complete Wisdom of a Dad
3. Declutter
4. Read Library books I have
5. Work on lowering my blood sugar

Note, that I had 4 books on dieting which I didn't buy.  

News

• Refugees [from Syria] keep streaming to Europe
• Iran - US Nuclear deal 
• Women in Kentucky denies Marriage licences to same-sex couples and is in jail. Why wasn't she just fired? story

September 5th, 2015

Weight

Happy to see my weight was finally down after eating like a bird and walking like a marathon walk racer. I weighed myself 3x. 161.4, 162.2, 162.2.  for an avg of 161.93 lbs. My goal is in sight of W<160.

The trick was to finally poop. I didn't want to write this but due to its importance I did. This is because you can get upset that what you're doing isn't working. So you want to look at trends in your weight and not just the number. By the way I lost 2.2 lbs. today but it may have been mostly poop.

Blood Sugar

I'm doing an actual blood sugar test this morning. I suspect that certain quest bars affect my blood sugar more than others. 

Test: Does the Cookies and Cream Questbar raise my blood sugar more than the Smores?

Time: Saturday 10:18 am BS = 100

Ate bar and drank a tea. Now it's possible that the tea will affect my blood sugar but the test against the other bar will use the same time. Time: 10:49 am BS = 120. Now that is higher than I expected. Tomorrow I'll do the same test with a Smores Questbar. In looking closely at the packages I notice that the Oreo has more fiber. 17G vs. 13G but lower "Net" Carbs. The "Net" carbs is the carbs from Sugar which is 1g Sugar and 2g Erythtritol. Below are the blood sugar numbers from my quest Oreo bar test.

9/5/2015 10:18	100
9/5/2015 10:45	120
9/5/2015 11:15	127
9/5/2015 11:45	112
9/5/2015 12:15	98

Problem

Bars and low carb foods. I'm looking for low carb foods but can't seem to find them. Is there a low carb flower that doesn't raise blood sugar? The bars should be larger and have less carbs in them. They shouldn't taste terrible but they don't have to taste great so that I can't stop eating them. Their main goal should be to stop me from being hungry for the lowest calories possible.

Productivity

I'm getting annoyed that in Blogger if I want to set text as a heading it takes too many steps. I'd like a shortcut key to do this.

    "Don't complain create a solution"

This idea is definitely doable. I have to monitor a key combo, and do mouse positioning and clicking based on where the control is. This won't work all the time but it should work.

My Droid Turbo phone shows me how to turn on my flashlight by shaking it. So I try it and it works. But this is also something I do to turn on my phone. So I try to turn on camera but flashlight goes on and I don't know how to turn it off. I find that the flashlight app has a setting that allowed me to not turn on if I shake the phone.

Business

Stock market dropped 272 points on Friday. I've been mostly in cash for the last 6 years and am pissed off that I missed the big advance. I have money in HGFSX - Hussman Growth Fund who's done horribly in the 6 year bull market.  I was pretty close to dumping him but felt I would feel horrible if the market crashed and he made money. The question of would I invest with him now would be a yes as he does better in bear markets than the stock market does. He's predicted a bear market just way too early.

And relative to the stock market I've done horribly. I wanted to split up money 1/3 S&P 1/3 Hussman and 1/3 my own trading, but never did it.

I was thinking about some pattern matching code for the market and maybe I should get back into analyzing the market. The problem is that I can't trade easily at work and must hold for 30 days.

News

Presidential candidates are in the news. I've decided I don't like Trump. What kind of president acts like an idiot when Megan Kelly asked him difficult questions. Seems like a bully. 

Hilary Clinton's email is still in the news 

There are a lot of stories on migrants from Syria entering Europe. I feel sorry for these people, but I wonder what type of affect this will have on these countries in the future. 

September 3rd 2015

To today the Impractical Jokers we're hating a live show at the South Street Wrapper Westport Reality I walked by and it looks pretty cool I decided to walk up the water me the east side is a path that seems to go all the way up to 34th street and further for change of scenery is very interesting here really beautiful of water test Underwood bunch of bridges

The nice thing just to walk here it's mostly shave their son some places a lot of pensions very quiet not that many people just a nice work as long as the temperature is not too hot it's so close to 6 p.m. there's a lot of fields with soccer field the stadium baseball field

R time through the fence
I just rdwealize that the summer is over as I looked at the date said September 3rd I find it sad when this summer is over you remind me of having to go back to school at lunch today I spent a lot of rat u want ttime trying to work on the list 3.net converting to sequel server and had all sorts of problems I find it very boring tedious not fun I just over fist today send them my friend said when the summer is over reminds me of having to go to school have lunch today I spent a lot of fun trying to work on with but I have a few ideas on how to make it a little easier wants to use Excel more to find syntax errors another is to refactor the whole program I realized how smart it is to work on something without a debugger debugger I just saw a woman almost get hit by a bike rider s she was jogging and decided to make a you turn right in front of him he had to slam on his brakes I believe she's wearing headphones which probably distracted her.
Soul for real I said my goals are very important to know what they are and that you tell me what I should be doing so I have to make a decision when what ghost pursuit it's hard because none of them are standing out for outstanding certainly having more fun is one of them my job is pretty boring but at the same time I get paid well don't have that much pressure and stress level is relatively low compared to other jobs but I would love to create something actually I've already created plenty of things that's up to sell something is created and make a lot of money walking in this new path shows me how boring my current work is really pretty here auto parts swings people seem very happy
The walk is walking bathrooms maybe and places to get food or snacks
The past becomes very skinny and you have to be careful of those bike riders and pedestrians and so now I'm actually can see a nice view of the city from here

So the question becomes do I really have to make money to enjoy them life just sitting at my computer it's over but I really want to do for fun.

Being Left Out

One of the worst things is life is being left out.

We are social animals and being excluded could mean death in an evolutionary sense.

I remember how often, when I was little there'd be a game and sides were being chosen. I was always the last kid chosen or if an odd number of kids I would have to sit out and watch the game.

Then fast forward 30 years and I'm working at a hedge fund and everyone is going out for drinks and I'm not invited.

$10,000 course

My latest idea this to build what I call a $10,000 course. It's an option of my idea awesome shoot wisdom of a dad. What is it? For $10,000 I will transfer my knowledge to you so what is my knowledge? I currently work at one of the biggest companies in the world. I got this job by certain skills I developed over the years this course will take you through thea nmnn path to acquire the skills. Not everyone can learn new skills so I'm very selective on who I select to take the course. First there is an interview process so that I don't waste your time and you don't mind. Time is one of the most valuable asset you have. One thing this course will teach you is how to use the most of your time limited time.
. So the question is how did I get here and how will I get you here. First of all over the years I've made over 2 million dollars with the skills I have these skills in time will be a fraction of what it would take you to learn them on your own. Fun teaching technique is from the way I learned many of my skills I offer the first week free of charge and this is a 52 week course you don't have to do it in 52 weeks. So let's go to learn is how to create a website. How to interview for a job how to write a resume how to create a YouTube video how to get on the radio how to how to make manual processes that will save you a bunch of time like I said before time is your most valuable asset you'll learn all the shortcuts I know but not the kind of shortcuts that are negative they are all positive you could spend anywhere from 20000 - 70000 a year to go to college skills I will give you a much better than this. College doesn't prepare you for life I will from marketing 2 sales to advertising to copywriting documentation and various programming skills if you think you can't you're right and if you think you can you also write this course will help you think you can there are 27 key principles you will need to learn and every lesson like in the Karate Kid may seem unreasonable but in the end kick some ass.

Free weight loss to success skills and habits just the good ones and get them all there is little to no risk in this offer as you get one week for free where you can try out the course can decide if you want to continue for the first month what are kept low and if you decide to stop you do not have to pay anything else
The course meet online and once a week in person
Some of the requirements to take the course is that you must like numbers want to learn it better.
Some other things I know that a person of needs to learn bar evolution, math, stock market and trading, raising children meeting a partner , writing a book, writing a blog, being frugal,, beans frugal,, memorizing stuff, throwing a baseball riding a bicycle swimming crossing the street critica bad habit watching Cesar Millan TV shows you must watch

Hold hand rails why walking down stairs.