Thursday, September 3, 2015

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.






Wednesday, September 2, 2015

$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.

Monday, August 31, 2015

August 31st 2015

It's a hot day today and I'm leaving work I walked this morning and I'  walking on my way home for a 6 miles total. I'm counting my calories today and didn't drink any bulletproof coffee. My blood sugar was high in the morning at 1:08 and about 3 p.m. it was dead 90 inches good camp mike hours today and didn't drink any bulletproof call my blood sugar was fine morning 1 way and about him I'm trying to walk both ways to try to get below 160 work new line I added a shortcut to my time analysis spreadsheet not a very productive Monday boss wanted the queries that I ran for report had lunch I worked on this day looking at the tables and came up with a method to migrate to the new sequel server I'm going to use the Website XL for bids.com to test my sequel server code I'm going to try to document all the errors I run into the document the process I spent many hours yesterday trying to get the code to work I was trying to do it automatically but wasted many hours doing that a lonely day and is Eric wasn't at work today prior to dinner I'm at 11:10 to 1000 calories walking up stairs appears to lower my blood sugar
I'd like to have more fun I have to make a list of things that are fun work isn't fun feel lonely there who do I talk to Raj today women I'm walking up Anais Street in Soho Old West Broadway
Today at lunch I saw a guy juggling and wanted to talk to him thank you step outside your comfort zone but I didn't not sure why a developer chatted with me inside a quick question that took 10 minutes to answer the information and the answer isn't recorded anywhere and it should be and should be easy to do and should be encouraged that could be a big money maker if you could come up with a way to record this information and help others access it stock market was down last time I checked over hundred points 4 West Broadway crosses kidney Houston Street it changed to LaGuardia place which is NYU which is a interesting outdoor seating and silver spurs and the five guys went out of business on this block GMT tavern is also a nice outdoor eating place more after eating at Bareburger if something to Feng Shui as certain blocks in certain buildings freak me out. The park Washington Square Park is really nice with a lot of people in a beautiful park
Is a dark park in the park and it leads to the beginning of Fifth Avenue
Interbreeding working I made miss my training it's very pretty in the bottom of 5th Avenue very few stores interesting architecture
On 13th street it changes from residential to business serving a lot of homeless people one thing I've noticed walking in the city is that if we walking against traffic and run about 50 steps and a small job will make every life so walking north on 5th Avenue for example this would work since Fifth Avenue run south at 23rd Street the crowd picks up Italy is a good place to go they have been upstairs restaurant you have to find in elevator or if someone in the zoo bar on the top I'm 23rd Street in Madison Square Park is a restaurant called Shake Shack using the same famous New York landmark which service is very good burger. After 23rd street you run into Broadway and it gets very poor Feng Shui the beginning is not bad but I should get into the upper 20's this kid gets run down a little bit the lot of Nigerians selling stuff on the corner of 26th and Broadway was a place called Tashi which is pretty interesting they always have music even very early in the day
23 has a lot of flower and plant stores

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Aug. 30, 2015

Health

Blood Sugar 97. Drinking Bulletproof coffee for breakfast. 

News

  • Dr. Wayne Dyer, self-help guru passes away at age 75
  • Bernie Sanders gains on Hilary Clinton in primaries for Presidential nomination
  • Sheriff gets shot. A lot of shootings in the news

Excel Diet

Find a way to get below 160 lbs. Figure out why diet hasn't been working.


Listi.net

Work on getting tables created in SQL Server. I decided to find an automated way to do it instead of creating tables manually. This isn't easy as it's been 2 hours working on this. 

  1. Download SSMA for Access 6.0.0.exe
  2. Download and install Sql server express 2014 
    1. I do the above but I don't see how to run sql server express or do anything.
  3. Annoyance: I install the MSI in step 2 but don't know what to do next
  4. SFA (So Fucken Annoying) trying to install .net Framework
  5. Computer acting strange
    1. My "Logger" software is having issues now, WTF, so
    2. Shortcut not working to start it
    3. Had to kill program from taskmgr
  6. Decided to manually recreate the tables

$
How much time do I spend pursuing money?


WOAD - Wisdom of a Dad

Proofread book plan. This seems to be a daunting task.

My writing needs improvement.

I want to proofread the book and turn it into a book on tape.

Idea

Process to create a book using FTAD method
  1. Write one article on a topic
  2. Store ideas for articles
  3. After 10 articles, create a small book with the information
  4. Use top/down, bottom/up or hybrid of both methods

Home

  1. Fix Hole in bathroom
  2. Clean desk

Terrorism and Random Murders

How big of a problem is this vs. other problems.

Random killing by people instead of lightning, animals, accidents. It's preventable? 

Dogs

Do dogs get mosquito bites? Yes and can get Heartworm from them.

Problems/Ideas

I'm trying to upgrade my Microsoft Access DB to SQL Server and it's a PITA (Pain in the Ass). Have a method to do this easily. Too many decisions, perquisites. Just have an install button and check whatever is needed then allow to install by default.

Book


I read this book awhile ago and now to look at my highlights and implement what the author says. I read a lot of nonfiction books but don't take enough action. 

This is a great title. It tells me that for $100 I can start a business. 

Maybe I could learn something from the author as he wrote a book and what questions would I ask him

Cover

The cover has 4 sections

  1. Title
    1. 2 words with "the"
    2. Centered
    3. Red
    4. Caps
  2. Subtitle
    1. Uses 2 colors
  3. Picture
    1. Red "Pee-wee Herman Bicycle with money bag on rear carrier
  4. Author's name
    1. Caps
    2. Red
  5. Background 
    1. Off-white
    2. Black thick border



Saturday, August 29, 2015

Aug. 29, 2015

Health

Weighed in today at 163.6 and here's my ExcelDiet.com sheet.

The key disturbing issue to me is my trendline is going up.  This is clearly telling me what I've been doing for the last 10 months isn't working. This is my fourth attempt to follow the red goal line and I've failed 3 times so far. Even worse is I don't know why I've failed to lose weight or have a stable trendline. On the positive side I use to weigh 185, so I'n down over 20 lbs. from that point.

Like the rule "Buy low sell high," what sounds easy can be very difficult to implement. One difference is I haven't been following the Excel Diet but more of a Paleo/Atkins/Bulletproof type diet where I eat lot's of fat and low carb. I've been measuring my blood sugar since  March 29, 2015.

One of my favorite sayings is "If you do what you've done, you'll get what you've got." Basically, what I've been doing in this time frame hasn't worked, I need to try something new.

News

No big news stories but topics being talked about are:

  • Katrina 10 year anniversary
  • ISIS
  • Global warming
  • Iran Nuke Deal with the US
Stocks

Stocks came back big time. For some reason big losses means big gains a few days later. This seems like an easy strategy to take advantage on if you can trade short term.

PURGE - Prioritize Ur Goals Everyday
  1. Clean Desk
  2. BS = 83
  3. W < 160
  4. Move Listi.net to SQL server
  5. Proofread Wisdom of a Dad
  6. Work on cover
    1. Install Photoshop
  7. Finish report at work
Accomplished Tasks

  1. Cleaned bathroom
  2. Vacuumed house
  3. Cleaned dog poop
  4. Took dog for a walk
  5. Designed Book cover w/o photoshop
  6. Took dog to All American burger and skipped the buns
Ideas

  1. Bathroom cleaning product.  
  2. Dog food made out of treats
  3. Business to help people who are afraid of dogs overcome their fear
  4. Product to help write a book
Excel Diet

Got a download of the spreadsheet to day and tried to upload the book to Scribd.com but had and issue.

Listi.net

Working on porting the website from Microsoft Access to SQL server. I've set up a table and got a script to be able to read and write to the table. My backlog is the following:
  1. Create main tables in SQL server database
    1. Identify main tables
    2. Set up the table(s) on Godaddy website
  2. Load data from access to SQL server
  3. Make sure data is getting backed up
  4. Need a process to copy data from MS Access to SQL server

Microsoft Access Database

The main database is called ListMaker.mdb

The relevant tables and description are:

1.       PageCache – stores webpages for quick access so queries aren’t needed. Created to optimize the response time
2.       ListInfo – Information about a list
3.       GenData – Most important table where all the list info is stored
a.       GD_Id
b.      GD_status
c.       GD_Desc
d.      GD_Memo
e.      GD_UID
f.        GD_DateAdded
g.       GD_DateDeleted
h.      GD_Category_Id
i.         GD_nbr_items

4.       GenOrg – Stores the organization of the database

There may be an issue with autonumber fields as the numbers to be loaded must match data in the access database. 


Friday, August 28, 2015

Aug. 28, 2015

The weekend finally starts. It was a hard week for me at work

Work.

 I worked late most of the days due to trying to get out a report for the Fed.

The report was very complicated or so I thought. I made a big blunder in that I didn't carefully read the email. I opened a spreadsheet I was sent and thought the user wanted the report grouped on SIC or industry code. So I spent a few days writing this report. But it turns out that I didn't look at the users requirements carefully. Anyway a lot of wasted time and effort. I also didn't ask enough questions early enough. If you wait to ask a question sometimes it's too late. If you just meet someone it's okay to ask them their name a week later. But if you've known them for three years and don't know their name it's hard to ask.

My boss asked me a question he often asks "When is it going into production?" I didn't know but IM'd Caoilte in Ireland and he told me Sept.

Boss was angry with me because it's taking too long in his mind to complete the report. I sent him a sample two days ago and he failed to look at it and finally told me after wasting two days that I was doing it wrong. MFAH!

News

The popular news that past few days was about a guy who shot a reporter and cameraman on live TV, took video and posted it to Twitter.

50 people died in Austria on a truck, seemed to be people from Libya trying to relocate.

Health


My weight is at 163.4 and I'm behind my weight goal by a couple of pounds. Had Carvel last night. Blood sugar was around 100 both times I tested it. Foot hurts still but I walked my 4 miles from work. Feeling a little lonely. My bad eyesight is bothering me. I think my high blood sugar is contributing to my eyesight. I have blurry vision and see floaters.

WOAD - Wisdom of a Dad

I realized that the book doesn't flow well and there's a lot of work left to proofread it. I'm wondering why I should spend another minute on it and I'm not sure I should. But my goal is to present my son with the book bound and professionally looking. Website could use some improvement. This morning I worked on the favicon for the site. I think I used the site http://favicon-generator.org. Editing the book has become a chore and is pretty boring.

I've been taking more pictures with the idea for the cover to be pictures of the different wisdom in the book, sort of like a Mr. Brainwash Picture.

I've put a list on my phone of the most important concepts for success. They are unordered:

  1. Learn from bad behavior. I didn't like the way my boss treated me, I hope I don't treat people this way
  2. Do the opposite of bad behavior
  3. Study failure and correct what went wrong
    1. I screwed up at work today, how can I prevent this from happening
  4. Have a process or checklist
    1. What questions to ask user when developing a report
  5. Alarms
  6. Have a team. No one ever built anything of use by themself
  7. PURGE - Prioritize Ur Goals Everyday
  8. Working overtime
  9. Habits
  10. Goals
  11. Time balance
  12. Feedback
  13. Deadlines
  14. Measure
  15. Don't Quit
  16. Be Curious
  17. FTAD - Finish Then Add Details
  18. Read nonfiction
  19. Automate
  20. Fud wud ug wug - If you do what you've done you get what you got. Change
  21. Success comes from spending time on something
  22. Buy or build tools
  23. Write
  24. Follow up


MIT - Most Important Task
I was thinking about what my most important task is and I'm not sure. I think it may be to just balance my time between the 3 goals (3G) L$F - Longevity, $ecurity and Fun.

Writing
I use the words "stuff" and "thing" too often. My book is organized poorly. Some of the issues: I was thinking of using a number scheme


  1. Flow of book.
    1. It's like a comedian telling jokes but not connecting them.
  2. Duplicate content
    1. I say the same think 3 - 4 times

Idea
I was wondering how my time is spent at work between the various software I work on:

  • Excel
  • VBA
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Debugging

Fun

I feel like I'm not having enough fun. I walked through Little Italy today and passed many bars and the people inside all seemed to be having a good time.


Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Aug. 26, 2015

4:05 A.M and I up again. Had to pee and wife was snoring.

XD - Excel Diet

I ate okay yesterday, very low carb. BPC +Bulletproof coffe for breakfast, two questbars for lunch, nuts and low cal grape drink for a snack and for dinner tuna with seeds and pistachios and some cheese. Walked almost 18,000 steps.

POD - Principle of Day

Each day I randomly select a focus from a list of key principles I keep in a spreadsheet. Yesterday's was FOCUS. I take the principle and create an image using pbrush.exe (Paint brush software). I then show it on my desktop to remind me.

I2$
I'd like to have a better way to turn an idea into money as I haven't yet done this. I have a few books that could help. From Idea to Success , $100 Startup, and The 22 Immutable Laws of BRANDING. are on my bookshelf that I've read but know need to implement.

I had 2 downloads of the XD (Excel Diet) spreadsheet yesterday. I'm over 100 so this could be the opportunity to focus on.

I had a few new ideas and I'm not sure to work on them or to work on something else. I could also DAMAGE (Don't Ask Me Ask Google Everything) on how to go from idea to money

Why I've failed with my previous ideas?

Here is a list of reasons, maybe excuses why I've failed.
  1. Twixcel - Twitter automation because Twitter changed the API so software stopped working.
  2. No one knows about the idea
  3. If someone does know I'm not following up
  4. I'm not charging for any of my content
  5. I get excited, work on project, slow my work and then move on to next project
  6. I haven't committed any cash to an idea
  7. I haven't gotten any feedback
  8. I'm working solo
  9. I have a job so I can only work on my ideas in my spare time

WOAD
I worked on Wisdom of a Dad on train in morning and afternoon and at lunch and at night. I'm editing the book which is pretty boring. I've noticed that there are still many typos, duplicate content. I'm still adding content to it which is bad. I'll never finish if I keep doing this, so unless the content is earth shattering I'll keep the idea in a separate place, maybe in my blog.

Dog
Walked Lola with Cheryl and Max. Lola almost ran into street at Hollywood park after I took her off leash,. I screamed, "LOLA STOP" and she did. I've been thinking about how I dealt with neighbor with a dog. I was correcting the husband because he was holding his dog's leash too tight when around my dog. A few days later I saw his wife and she didn't remember me but she would up letting my and Lola into her back yard. Her dog Riley is a puppy but was very aggressive and excited with Lola. Lola already had a play date with Stella. When we got home she was panting very hard and was even shaking a little.

She just went through a phase of not eating her food.

Work

Worked on creating trade blotter in Python. After 2 weeks to a month awaiting permission, I set up a meeting with Anudeep and Ivan to chat about the method to get the data to be merged into our online Risk system. Ivan doesn't shet up. He's one of those people that my saying "I'm smart enough to know I'm not that smart."

Work was fun. I even worked late which I haven't done for a while. Boss finally said hello to me which is pissing me off. One of the reasons I worked late is that I have my car back.

Walked from work with Evan. He was stressed because he had to work on a project for Debby who is his boss's boss.

I merged Shortcuts to my main spreadsheet at work.

Family
Max was sick last night but felt better today. Nigel had his first day of school today. I hope it went well.

Cheryl saw neighbor walking her dog and was afraid that neighbor would criticize what she was wearing as she's done it before.

Health

My blood sugar has been good for me the last couple of days all under 100. 82 at 8 pm. 92 at 8:30 am. 

I walked 17,900 steps which is 7.9 miles according to Walk Logger app on my phone.

Goals
  1. Declutter - Desk is messy
  2. W < 160
  3. I2$ - Turn an Idea into money
  4. WOAD - Wisdom of a Dad
  5. bs = 83
  6. No foot pain
  7. Listi.net accessing SQL Server
  8. Read books I have, especially library books
  9. Add content to Twixcel spreadsheet
  10. Learn the Hanukah song on the Guitar

Messy desk


Stocks

Stocks bounced back yesterday in the morning and dropped near the close yesterday. It's my understanding that the close tells you what the big investors are doing. I don't know if this is true or not. Here is the chart.

Dow Chart

I'm thinking that the market up at the close would be a buying signal.