Daily 5 minute Journal. Jan. 2, 2016

Woke up with blood sugar 107 which is still too high. I'm not sure the Metformin is working. I've upped my dosage of metformin to 1000 mg but it hasn't seemed to lower my blood sugar.

Weighed 166 this morning which was higher than I'd like.

I have set my goal for this month to weigh less than 160, but I've been stuck where I am for so long I'm not sure if I can reach it. I have stopped putting butting and coconut oil into my coffee.

Still have a messy area and thought today that I should do the following:

1. Come up with life's goals
2. Come up with 10 year plan
3. Come up with 5 year plan
4. Come up with years goals
5. Come up with monthly goals
6. Come up with week's goal
7. Come up with day's goal
8. Do most important thing on day's to-do list

Yesterday, I spent a lot of time watching Youtube videos. I learned how street performers levitate and watched many of Project One Life videos and saw very funny Jesus pranks. This guy  I have that http://Time-creator.com software that would every 15 minutes remind me to log data about what I did the previous 15 minutes.

question of "What did I do yesterday?" I feel like I did a lot of nothing that was goal related. I had an alarm in my

• What did I do
• What goal?
• My rating for review
• Exceeds Expectations
• Meets Expectations
• Below Expectations
• What an Exceeds Expectation would have done
• What to put on resume

Walked the dog and it was very cold. Watched Larry David with son.  I'm into compiling Larry David songs and he sang two:

1. Jaiya Jaiya Jaiya I made it out of clay
2. N-E-S-T-L-E-S song (The Terrorist Episode)
3. Ah Yapa doody Ya Ya

Reflections on 2015 and Goals for 2016

Happy New Year to all. It's kind of the worlds birthday.

How was my 2015 and what are my plans for 2016?

Many of my goals for last year continue into this year.

1. Weigh < 160 and have downward weight trend
2. Declutter house, books, tasks, ideas
3. Make $ from one of my ideas
4. Pay books on time
5. Make > friends
6. Lower blood sugar
7. Improve my Osteoperosis
8. Smart Task Selection 
9. Be Super Productive
10. Get books printed out (Wisdom of a Dad and 69 Immutable Laws of Weight Loss)
11. Make a million dollars
12. Improve my Job Security
13. >Fun
14. Make the world a safer place
15. Find a way to invest without losing $ do to stock market downturn
16. Coloscopy
17. Heart doctor
18. Lift weights
19. Find an anti-aging doctor
20. Create professional websites

Accomplishments from last year

1. Made 6 figure income
2. Got child into Cornell
3. Measured and tested my blood sugar
4. Finished reading a number of books
5. Got a new monitor and computer and phone
6. Not sure if I mad a new friend 
7. Complete first draft of Wisdom of a Dad
8. Came up with CurTask software
9. Decluttered back of basement
10. Didn't gain any weight stayed level
11. Organized my book shelves
12. Walked over 1 million steps

Failed to achieve in 2015

1. Declutter
2. W < 160
3. Normalize Blood Sugar
4. Make $ from any of my ideas

Top things I learned in 2015

1. Python
2. Mindfulness
3. I have Blood sugar issues
4. I have Osteoporosis
5. Bulletproof Diet
6. Learned of Sam Harris

Daily 5 Minute Journal Dec. 26, 2015

Islamaphobia. 

This term has been used in a number of ways, To me it means a fear of Islam. Islam makes me afraid as any doctrine that can get people to kill themselves and others fly planes into buildings, mass murder people who've done nothing at all is something to fear. The term seems to be used to stop people from criticizing an idea, which all religions are.  And when people talk about all the hate crimes against Muslims, there are a number of reasons people do this and the main one is what certain Muslims have done in the name of their religion. Obviously there are many good Muslims and the majority would never do these crazy things. The only question I have is that I believe the term phobia relates to an irrational fear, but I don't know that this fear is irrational.

Health

wt. 165.4 which is > 165. Blood Sugar was 93 which is better than usual. I took a lot of pills and stuff yesterday morning, maybe the affect is delayed. Saw family yesterday.

TV

I watch a weird Star Wars Christmas special that was so bad it was good. 6 is nice.

I watched Booze Traveler show which was in Guatemala. This show is giving me the travel bug. Niece is going to Thailand.

It's nice having my son home from college as he spends time with me. We watch some TV together, like Curb Your Enthusiasm (spoiler alert).

We watched the episode where Larry is going to a wedding get's hung up as he can't find his airline tickets. There is a scene where Larry and Cheryl are driving to the wedding and Larry sing's the following song. Ya dat da.

Memory

Where's my phone? This seems to be the question I ask the most these days.

I walk into the garage and forget why then realize it's to get a trash bag. I've been doing this since I was a kid where I'd get to a new room and not remember why I'm there.

I can't remember Mel Gibson's name and the movie he did with the Inca's?

Wisdom of a Dad

I recently located a hard copy of my book Wisdom of a Dad. It's a bit overwhelming figuring out how to get the information in the book into the one I've published on the web.

Current Task

I'm having second thoughts about CurTask, Which is the software that's supposed to help me reach my goals. I'm realizing that it's not working and maybe I need to come up with another method to get stuff done. The idea is something I've been working on a long time and the real name is Smart Task Selection. The idea is that a smart computer will tell you what to do and if you do it you will reach your goals.

Meditation

I meditated yesterday, using the Headspace app. I liked it. It did relax me.

Optical Illusions

I spent some time yesterday watching youtube videos on optical illusions. Mostly balls rolling up hill.

Annoyance

Annoyance that the Windows explorer to view files by descending date use to be instantaneous but with the newer version of windows it takes too damn long.

Twitter

I'm still posting to twitter and do love when I get retweets, likes or mentions. A little pissed that twitter has banned my account from advertising and I'm not sure why and they refuse to tell me.

Daily 5 Minute Journal Dec. 25, 2015

So I moved on today from watching anti-islamist videos to optical illusion videos on youtube.

Day moved very quickly, before I knew it, it was time to shower and go visit my family.

I did well in terms of eating as I at low carb. I did the following:

• Pigs in blanket. Ate just the hot dog not the bread
• Pizza. Avoided it.
• Desert. Avoided it and brought my own questbar chocolate chip
• Nachos, pretzels, etc. Ate just the cheese
• Alcohol. Just skipped it.

My month goal is lower my blood sugar, which isn't a very inspiring goal. I tried taking all the products that are suppose to lower blood sugar at at same time and didn't notice any benefit:

• Magnesium
• Cinatrol
• Glucosamine
• GTF Chromium
• Ultra Sugar aid
• Fiber

Blood sugar at start was 99, 30 minutes later 100 and 52 minutes later (97, 104) 100,5. So no appearance of lowering from this test.

Today I got a auto-tweet that said "Who are your customers?" and I thought who are they?  I'm not currently selling anything so I guess I have no customers.  So the question should be "What am I selling?"  Maybe the question should be "What could I sell?" or "What do I have that's sellable?" or "What do I have that can be converted to something that's sellable?" What does sellable mean?  

Daily 5 minute Journal Dec. 24, 2015

Up at 8:30 am and working from home from for second day in a row. bp 124/87 and hr = 70, wt = 164.2.  bs = 109.

Right hand in pain and I'm wearing a wrist brace.

I'm watching too much anti-islam stuff and it's depressing. I'm the only one on my team at work. My goal for month is to lower my blood sugar and I don't have a good way to tell if I've done this. I'm trying ALA 200 Mg throughout the day.

My FSH (testosterone) is high and my Alkaline Phosphate is low. I'm not sure what this means but I'm going to start taking a multivitamin again as it said scurvy which could be since I don't eat any fruits.

I'm having bulletproof coffee for breakfast.

I was very unproductive yesterday wfh.  I'll try to be more productive today.

Creating a cool dashboard

I've create the below dashboard pretty easily using Tableau software. I'm impressed at how quick and simple it was and free.

I had to download the app from the Tableau website and watch a tutorial 

I did have one issue where the system ask for a captcha and kept asking me to prove I wasn't a robot. I exited and it seemed ok.

The above was created pretty pretty pretty easily using Tableau Public software

Daily 5 minute Journal: Dec. 22, 2015

Woke up at 10:15 and weighed myself at 164.6. I'm below 165 but not near my goal of W<160. Went to Cheescake Factory for dinner to celebrate by son getting into Buffalo University and other son getting 3.88 average at Cornell for his first semester last night.

Have pain in right thumb, I'm thinking from juggling weighted balls.

The weather is mild but raining on Long Island.

Made my Bulletproof Coffee and it's the last day of my vacation.  I'm angry over my phone which rebooted 3 more times last night, my blood sugar was high last night (measured at 152 probably higher) after eating Nachos, Avocado Egg rolls, 1/2 California Cheesesteak and about 8 french fries, I skipped the steak.


I need batteries for my blood sugar machine.

I'm also trying to figure out what plug I need for my exercise bike. I thought I found a plug that worked but it didn't. The Lifecycle isn't marked with a serial number except on the transformer.

I contacted my doctor on Friday morning and she hasn't gotten back to me yet.

I've been reading and watching a lot of Sam Harris and watched a few Robert Spencer from JihadWatch.org videos.

I updated my book Wisdom of a Dad on the internet in pdf form.

December is running out and my goal for the month lower my blood sugar hasn't been reached. My goal for November 2015 was to declutter and I'm no where near finished.

Yesterday, I finally looked into code that helps you control a website and used it to retrieve the due date of my library books.

Search on "vba CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")" and you should find examples.