Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 9:25 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 9:15 P.M.:  Before going out today, I put in a new Homecenter blue toilet tablet in the toilet tank, so for the time being the water will be blue.  I just made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I am now using a few 1/4 inch thick sliced mushrooms and a 1/4 inch by 1.5 inch by 4 inch slice crumbled of Danish blue cheese and for the cheddar cheese portion, I am using Vermont 50% low fat cheddar cheese, and I am also using Stop and Shop fat free grated parmesan cheese topping.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 7:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $6.25 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.899 a gallon for about 20.5 miles per gallon.  I then went downtown to central Greenwich Avenue.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS during my walk, and I bought from the 90% off rack of Christmas items a dozen two packs of Merrybrite Candelabra Bulbs for Battery Operated Candle Lamp Use for .12 each two pack and six four packs of MerryBrite four C7 .14 each four pack plus .14 tax for $2.42 total.  I then completed my walk.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove over to Tod's Point in Old Greenwich, and I stood out at the southwest area for a while, and the inner harbor there is mostly frozen over.  I then stood out at the southeast area.  I next went by Walgreen's and with the store circular coupon, I bought four six packs of AA heavy duty Walgreen batteries for .99 each six pack plus .24 tax for $4.20 total.  I then went by Staples, and I bought from the clearance section two 10 packs of CD jewel cases for $2 each 10 pack plus .24 tax for $4.24 total.  I then went back to downtown Greenwich, and I sat out for a while, and I walked the central downtown area, and I stopped by Zyn Stationary, and I bought a #28 Winner Wonderland scratch card for a dollar, but I did not win anything.  I then used the men's room at the senior and arts center, and it was very warm in there.  I next drove down by the waterfront, and I climbed over the snow bank which is a bit difficult, and I walk out onto the pier on Steamboat Road.  Because of the snow on the concrete abutments at the end of the road there, it is not too difficult to take the large step down onto the pier, but it can be quite difficult to return back up the slippery incline of plowed snow.  Thus only the sure footed should try to venture out on that pier for now.  I noticed a lot of ice on the inner harbor there too.  One goose was walking on the ice, so it is beginning to thicken up.  I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought for $1.99 a pound $3.68 of boneless breasts of chicken.  I then returned home.  I will put the bulbs in my bedroom mahogany bureau bulb drawer, and I will put the batteries with my other spare batteries in the blue bureau second drawer down left drawer.  I might get some of the battery Christmas candles at CVS to use with battery bulbs in case there is an eletricity emergency.  I do not think the battery bulbs since they are DC 3 volt will work with line electrical current.  I drank some iced tea.  I will put the CD jewel cases in the right living room closet shelf.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 12:45 P.M.:  Earlier around 10 A.M., I vacuumed my apartment.  I finished the paper work.  I ate a piece of apple pie with iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 11:50 A.M.:  I picked up my mail downstairs.  I ate three dozen triscut crackers and five Wheatsworth crackers, and on the five Wheatsworth crackers, I put on 1/8th inch thick slices of Cabot Vermont 50% low fat cheddar cheese.  I have to do some paper work.  I need to fill out my apartment lease information.  I have to sign my lease with the Greenwich Housing Authority this Thursday afternoon, so I will not be able to attend the Microsoft Security conference at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Connecticut at that same time.  I hope Microsoft understands.  I will now fill out the paper work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 10:20 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 9:10 A.M.:  I went through most of my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 8:35 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I ate five 3/4 inch by 1/4 inch by 2.5 inch slices of Cabot's 50% reduced fat Vermont cheddar cheese.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 7:50 A.M.:   ShermansTravel.com visit exotic Belize Screened Listings, Deal Reviews, Objective Editorial .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 7:45 A.M.:  http://toolbar.msn.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 7:30 A.M.:  Well, it looks like the sun is up in Key West, Florida; and they have cleaned up the streets there this morning http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ .  I suppose with all the tourists down there, they have to run a ship shape environment.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 7:15 A.M.:  It is currently 12 degrees Fahrenheit, and there is a wind-chill factor of 0 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  I suppose we might have people visiting in this area from even colder areas.

Note: <888> 01/31/04  Saturday 7:05 A.M.:  I was up 4 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I still have to vacuum the apartment, which I will do after 9 A.M..  While, house cleaning, I listened to the radio 106.7 FM on my Emerson Wireless headphones, and I am now recharging their batteries, which should be done at 2:30 P.M. today.  There is a fully recharged pair in the headset right now.

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 8:20 P.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/30/04:

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 7:30 P.M.:  I went downstairs, and I picked up my mail.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  In a little while, I will put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 7:10 P.M.:  I minced one large clove of elephant garlic, and I sliced into 3/16 inch slices one medium four inch diameter yellow Spanish onion, and I sautéed it all in three tablespoons of olive oil and 1/8 teaspoon of Italian spices in a 10 inch skillet.  I sautéed stirring continually the onion and garlic over medium heat until they turned clear about 10 to 15 minutes, and I then added one 14 ounce can of Swanson's chicken broth and 1/8th teaspoon of Italian spices, and I brought the mixture to a boil, and I then simmered it over medium heat for about 20 minutes stirring continually until the mixture was reduced by about half its liquid.  I then put the onion soup in one of my large 14 ounce Cobalt blue soup bowls, and I added nine evenly spaced large cut Arnold garlic and herb croutons, and I spread over it a couple of tablespoons of Stop and Shop reduced fat grated parmesan cheese, and I had the soup for dinner with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 6:05 P.M.:  I am making up a batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I am using one tea bag each of the five different variety pack of Twinings tea, four Lipton green tea bags, one Bigelow orange pekoe tea bag, and 10 Salada orange pekoe tea bags for my usual mixture, and I am not using sugar.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 5:20 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a United States Golf Association 2004 calendar for a $1.  I then went downtown to the central Greenwich Post Office, and I obtained a money order for .90 cost for $12.50 value to renew my annual dues with the American Association of Retired People AARP.  I mailed in the dues payment at the central Greenwich Post Office.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  It was an expensive day, and I had to spend a dollar parking.  During my walk, I browsed the 70% off rack at the Greenwich Hardware store.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought eight six ounce cans of Bumble Bee solid white albacore tuna fish for .99 each, four 2.5 ounce tins of King Oscar native Norwegian sardines in olive oil for .99 each, a 10 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds for $2.50 for $14.38 total.  I then completed my walk.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and Arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  Someone has cut a small path for able bodied mountain goats to get out on the pier on Steamboat Road.  To make a safer path, it would probably take a pick and a shovel.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and from the dented canned foods section, I bought a 10 package box of Stop and Shop dried milk for $1.50, two 14 ounce tins of Rienzi artichoke hearts for .75 each can, and a 44.5 ounce can of Stop and Shop chicken broth for .99, and two bars of Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese for $2 each, two Stop and Shop 100% grated fat free parmesan cheese topping 8 ounce containers for $2.49 each, two 28 ounce cans of Goya chick peas for $1.09 each, six 4.25 ounce cans of Stop and Shop chopped black California olives for three for $2, Rosenborg Danish blue cheese imported from Denmark for $6.99 a pound for $3.60, a bulb of elephant garlic for $1.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh whole mushrooms for $1.99, fresh plum tomatoes at $1.99 a pound for $2.39, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.50 for $30.62 total.  I then went by the Arnold bread store outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold 100% Natural whole wheat oat bread for .99, three 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold large cut Garlic and Herb croutons for .99 each box, and a Entenmanns's apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .59 for $5.26 total.  I then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes for $31.  I next returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea.  I hung the United States Golf Association golf calendar on my apartment entrance door on the inside.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 11:10 A.M.:  I checked the mail, and it is not here yet.  I am heating a 18.5 ounce of Campbell's Select New England clam chowder, which I will eat shortly with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and after I eat, I will go out for errands.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 10:30 A.M.:  This is the link to the Hyatt Hotel resort in Maui where I stayed in August 1980 http://maui.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtm .  After I left the tennis court in Kennebunkport, Maine observing former President Bush's vice presidential entourage, which at the time was not too big, but they did have a campaign rally on the Green in Kennebunkport, I thought it was important to make contacts with the California republicans since Ronald Reagan https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ was the republican presidential candidate.  Back in the winter of 1975, roommates of mine in Manhattan had thrown a party for Nancy and Ronald Reagan at the Copa Cabana night club at the Pierre Hotel http://www.fourseasons.com/pierre/index.html in Manhattan, so I knew they were in the area even back then.  Thus in August 1980, I set out to California on my own flying to west coast.  I initially went to Laguna Beach which friends of mine had mentioned over the years.  After exploring Laguna Beach, I went up to Santa Cruz, California to visit a republican friend whose grandfather was Richard Nixon's neighbor in Key Biscayne, Florida.  I also stayed in Carmel, California at the Normandy Inn.  Since I did not have a credit card, I could not rent a car, so I had to fly short hops in airplanes to get to various locations.  I flew into Santa Barbara too, and I was only able to walk from the airport to the University of California at Santa Barbara.  I then headed back to Laguna via John Wayne airport.  Since I had worked for Daniel Construction of Greenville, South Carolina which later merged with the Fluor construction company of Newport Beach, California.  I spent about a week exploring Laguna Beach, and there were construction people there building the twin nuclear reactors in the area.  I flew from John Wayne airport to Las Angeles airport with my traveling gear, and I ran into the owner of a house on Lincoln Road in Nantucket whom I had worked for the summer before.  He sold me his ticket to Hawaii for $100 since he needed the cash having filed for bankruptcy on the expensive house.  I flew to the big island of Hawaii, and I caught Maui Air to Maui.  I took an expensive cab to a village and rented a small room near the beach, but I did not stay there, instead I continued on to the Hyatt in Lahaina, Hawaii, and I checked into the least expensive room there for about $90 a night which was used by the assistant manager who was away.  I spent the entire week at the hotel enjoying the pool and the ambience.  They had a night club there, and since I did not have any Hawaiian clothes, but Greenwich preppy clothes, I used to go to the night club in my pink linen golf slacks with my white Pilipino linen type shirt with the shirt tail out the way they where their dress shirts in the tropics.  I recall enjoying Vodka and Tonic.  I kept the air conditioner in my room going on maximum the entire time, since it was a bit tropical.  I use the health club at the pool for exercise, and I drank tropical fruit drinks.  The American Bar association and the American Judicial association were holding a meeting there, and since I was not watching too much Hawaii Five O on television, I only heard rumors about a hurricane approaching Houston, which seemed a world away.  The beach at the Hyatt in Maui is very rough rocky lava, so most people used the pool area instead.  Since it was an older crowd, I kept mostly to myself, although there were a few younger people at the discothèque at night.  Since I could not rent a car, I could not explore the north slope of Maui where Lindbergh lived.  After a week's stay I paid my bill with hard Canadian currency which had Queen Elizabeth II's portrait on it.  I also wore my Greek fisherman's shirt and my green and yellow Jams at the pool.  Since living up north for a number of years, I did not have a lot of tropical clothes.  I had seen in the winter of 1978 in Key West, Florida a pickup truck and horse trailer from Maui, and I had seen a car with Hawaii license plate in Nantucket.  I recall flying to Hawaii on United airlines.  When I left the Hyatt in Maui, I flew back to the big island from a different airport in Lahaina.  I toured the old colonial hotels on the beach front in Hawaii, and I took a taxi cab ride out to the Pearl Harbor area.  When I returned from the big Island to the mainland, I took a World Airlines discount jet for $100, which landed at San Jose, California, and I hitchhiked to Santa Cruz, California, and half way there, a family friend gave me a ride, and let me stay at his house.  I then returned from to San Jose to pick up my luggage, and I flew to Laguna, and after about a week's stay there, I flew from Las Angeles airport in a Sabena airlines jet full of nuns back to Manhattan.  There were lots of Germans in Laguna Beach, but I do not recall having anyone tell me they were Belgium.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 9:40 A.M.:  Ronald Reagan books on sale https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ and https://www.reaganfoundation.org/store/products.asp?subcat_id=39 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 9:25 A.M.:  I rested after the last message.  I chatted with a friend around 6:40 A.M..  I was awake at 8:45 A.M..  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 4:35 A.M.:  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 4:20 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - Bush nets $1.1M in return to Greenwich .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 4:15 A.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  I used a 6.5 dry ounce can of California medium black pitted olives in the hummus with all of the other usual ingredients.  I then made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm , which for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% lean Vermont cheddar cheese.  For the grated parmesan cheese portion recently, I have been using Stop and Shop fat free grated parmesan cheese.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/04  Friday 2:55 A.M.:  I was up at 10 P.M., and I chatted with a relative.  The local television channels 3 and 8 on the 11 P.M. news reported the President Bush had a successful fundraiser at the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  He talked about his days at Yale University www.yale.edu .  The local republican party raised $1.1 million dollars for President Bush's reelection effort http://www.georgewbush.com/ at the $2,000 a person fund raiser.  They served roast beef sandwiches.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with the same relative again.  I cleaned up, and I went out to downtown Greenwich.  The Greenwich Avenue  area was blocked off for snow removal by the ever efficient department of public works.  I drove down Milbank Avenue, and I parked at the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place.  There were several dozens of large dump trucks with snow plows and other snow removal equipment.  Greenwich Avenue by that time of 12:30 A.M. was mostly cleared of snow as well as the sidewalks and side streets, but there were still long rows of piles of snow in the middle of the side streets that had to be removed into trucks for disposal.  Coming back, it looked like they were dumping snow at the Holly Hill transfer station, and possibly at Grass Island as usual.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area, and I sat out at various locations.  They are still at this time have quite a bit of piled up snow to remove off the downtown area, and they are also working on the side street areas.  They are also salting the roads.  I returned to my car, and since the train station area was blocked by the snow removal operations, I drove back up to Putnam Avenue, and I drove back by the Town Hall, and I drove down by the waterfront and the south side of the train station area.  I then drove through Bruce Park to see if there were any wolves or coyotes prowling around.  I just now returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  At the moment, it is 14 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 1 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  CIO   

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 4:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I stopped by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.  They have one of those India Elephant ceramics on display.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a package of 24 Nantucket cocktail napkins with the Nantucket flag of a harpooned whale for .50 for the entire package.  I then made my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I came back directly home, because with the impending Presidential visit of the President of the United States of America and whomever else he might bring with him, I suppose they will be increasing security in the area, and they will be shutting down major highways in the area to facilitate his transportation.  I suppose we should go to the top most security level.  I remember seeing a Presidential visit for Congressman Stewart McKinney's funeral in this area, and when all the Congress was there too, they closed off all of Interstate 95 from the airport to Southport, Connecticut.  Since all we know is what is in the Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com , I would imagine the other side of town and the adjacent airport will be a little bit busy.  It says the President will be arriving in Air Force One, but it will not be the blue 757, since we all know a 757 can not fit into such an airport.  Air Force One is the call sign for any plane or jet the President may chose to fly on, so if he chose to visit on the Wright Brother's biplane, it would be called Air Force One.  I am not an expert on the republican party here in town, and I suppose we will have a number other visiting dignitaries from other neighboring communities.  I use to show up and observe at such events in Manhattan many times in the old days, but since I have been up since 9 P.M. last night, and since I generally do not try to observe after being awake for more than 18 hours, I will not be present at the fundraiser, but I am sure I will have a few friends representing me at such an important event.  Since as a volunteer in an international community, I am somewhat aware of the international nature of this community, I would imagine a number of the curious are not politically involved, but well informed foreign residents, whom would probably like to get a glimpse of the Presidential entourage.  Basically from what I remember in the old days at the Waldorf Astoria, when one would see 5,000 White shirted gold shield senior New York police officers standing around the Hotel and its interior, New York City use to provide ample security.  Thus I would imagine Greenwich and the state of Connecticut being part of such a large metropolis will be amply prepared to receive the Presidential entourage.  Since there are more than likely other people in the area whom bare a faint resemblance to the President, more than likely when the Presidents show up, one will see how many people he has working with him, even when he is on the road.  We have a clear and cool sun shiny afternoon with a temperature of 22 degrees Fahrenheit, so more than likely it will be a colder weather group of people out observing. However, from the last time I viewed the interior of the Hyatt Hotel about three years ago, there were quite a few people from tropical locations working there in that although it is a business hotel, the Hyatt has a number of tropical resorts in their hotel chain.  I have never stayed at the Hyatt Hotel in Greenwich, and the only Hyatt Hotel I ever stayed at was in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii http://maui.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml the week after I saw former President Bush get the vice presidential nomination around August 1980, when Houston was hit by a hurricane.  Kennebunkport to Maui in a week was about as far as my independent campaign resources would take me, and when I got to Maui in August, I turned on the air conditioner full blast, and I did not leave the hotel for the week that I was there enjoying the ambience of the Hyatt hospitality.  The last VIP I remember seeing at the Hyatt was Margaret Thatcher when she visited after she was Prime Minister.  If I am not mistaken the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich is half owned by a Japanese group, but that might have changed over the years.  Well, with all my local knowledge and computer expertise, unfortunately after 10 years of looking at computer monitors this time around, I am a bit cross eyed and near sighted, so if I tried observing, I would be like Mr. McGoo the cartoon character.  More than likely a few other people in this corporate computer environment are like myself, so I have a feeling that since this is a Bush family hometown, the President's people know their way around.  Well, I did eat a Nature's Valley granola bar a couple of hours before the soup.  I think I will now eat another one, and I will now also shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon, since I am quite tired.  Have a good night, and I hope the visitors enjoy themselves.  I will put the Nantucket napkins on the Danish bar.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 12:55 P.M.:  I burned two CDs of the Favorites' *.zip files for backup.  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's Chunky New England Clam Chowder, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will relax briefly before getting ready to go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 12:05 P.M.:  I checked my mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 10:45 A.M.:  I rested for an hour.  I uploaded *.zip files of my Favorite URLs, so one can download them.  I have not worked too hard on them for about two years, but still there is a lot of useful information.  The URL download page is http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/favurl.htm .  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 7:10 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I will now shut down the computer.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 6:20 A.M.:  On the Dell backup computer, Link Sweeper completed running, but because it is a slower processor at 366 MHz Pentium II with 384 megs of memory, it failed to save the broken links in a separate broken links folder, so all of the broken links are still in their original folders.  There were 8,331 broken links (status 404), 3,445 moved links (status 301), 1996 invalid hosts for a total of 13,772 broken links of a total of 75,406.  22% were broken.  Thus the Favorites in the Dell backup computer are still the same and have not been changed.  I also ran Ad-aware 6.0.  CIO   

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 6:00 A.M.:  On the primary computer, Link Sweeper had already save the Favorites and Broken links when I posted the last note, it just did not show it in the Link Sweeper interface.  I organized all the links in my Broken Links folder in the Favorites folder into Alphabetical folders and a IBM, Microsoft, NASA, "0+num" numeric folder.  Thus the broken links are still available for examination on the primary computer.  I might save them and burn them to CD, and put them on the Dell backup computer, or I just might delete the broken ones on the Dell backup computer.  Since sometimes links are broken because of servers are down or other technical reasons, they will still be available to examine on the primary computer Favorites folder.  The Dell backup computer is about 60% though checking the Favorites.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 4:45 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I made the salad with all of the usual ingredients except I used six olives instead of eight olives.  I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese for the cheddar cheese portion.  I had the salad with iced tea.  The link checking feature on Link Sweeper on the primary computer has finished running, and it is now saving the Favorites which takes a while.  Of the over 76,000 Favorites in my Internet Explorer Favorites, there were 9,796 broken links (status 404), 3,758 moved links (status 301), and 2,358 invalid hosts for 15,912 total broken links of a total of 74,273 Favorites.  Thus about 20% of the Favorite links were broken.  The Link Sweeper program has been in the process of saving the Favorites for about 10 minutes, so it will probably take a while with some many links.  The Link Sweeper program on the Dell backup computer is about 45% through checking the links, since it is a slower computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 3:35 A.M.:  I am running Link Sweeper on the Favorites on the primary and Dell backup computers.  I set the primary to 100 links at a time with 15 second timeout and the Dell backup computer since it is slower computer to 30 links at a time with 15 second time out.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 2:35 A.M.:  I made and drank a cup of coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/04  Thursday 1:40 A.M.:  Today is suppose to be a momentous day in the history of Greenwich, Connecticut with the President of the United States of America www.whitehouse.gov showing up for a fund raiser at the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  Alas to go to a fund raiser, one has to have money, and since I live on a limited budget, I will not be attending.  However, if I am not mistaken, the corporate Big Wheel types and Fat Cats get paid on the last Thursday of the month, so they should be flush with cash, so they can afford to attend the event.  On a lesser note, I went out after the last message, and I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I first though used my snow brush, I keep in my Hyundai to clean of the snow from the bench from the north side of the veterans monument across from the senior center and from the benches in front of the post office and the senior center.  Still some of the benches have snow piled up around them, so they are not easily accessible.  I completed my walk of the length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area.  Plows were out working on clearing the roads, parking lots, and sidewalks.  I am not sure whether, they are going to clear off the snow off Greenwich Avenue this morning or tomorrow morning.  I put the wreath that had fallen from the tripod at the veterans monument at the base of the veterans monument, where it usually is.  I drove down by the waterfront.  There is so much snow piled up at the end of Steamboat Road, it would be very difficult to climb over it to make it out on the pier.  I recall one of the regular fishermen telling me he was going to New Smyrna, Florida for the winter.  I next went by the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a package of Basic Lights 100s cigarettes for $5 total.  I then returned home.  The primary computer with two 19 inch monitors started up without any problem.  I drank some iced tea.  While I was sitting on the bench at the north side of the veterans monument across from the senior center, and I looked up in the sky to the southeast, and there is a star or planet visible.  Since no other stars were visible, and since the reason for the Mars Rover is that Mars is at its closest in 60,000 years or 220 million miles away, more than likely what one can see clearly visible in the southeastern sky might be the planet Mars.  Of course there use to be an office on Steamboat Road called Mars Inc., but I am not sure if they are still there anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 10:00 P.M.:  After breakfast I checked my mail.  I received my NEON Energy Assistance grant letter, and I will be receiving $535 this year.  Of course it takes a couple of months until the money is actually put in my electricity account at Northeast Utilities.  When using the two monitor system, the left most monitor is the primary monitor with the icons.  For some reason Windows Media and Real video only shows up on the left monitor, and one can not slide it over to the center right monitor.  When moving programs from left to right, one needs to click on the upper right corner center icon of the three icons on a program screen to minimize the program half way, and then move it from left to right or vice a versa.  Then one can maximize it in the right center monitor.  One should also move the programs back to the left primary monitor before closing them out, so when one reopens them again, they open in the left primary monitor.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 9:10 P.M.:  I just woke up.  I booted the primary computer with the two 19 inch monitors, and it boots up with the left 19 inch CompUSA monitor showing the boot up screen.  I had the Iiyama 19 inch monitor also turned on, and about half way through the boot up process, the Iiyama monitor went through a signal recognition sequence, and it too was working properly with the yellow monitor light changing to green to show that it was working with the system, and when the system is first booted, the center Iiyama monitor screen is blue, and one can move over programs from the left monitor to the center monitor for multitasking.  Well, I guess that has solved my Iiyama monitor cold boot problem.  I guess once the computer is in the boot sequence, it gives out the correct signal to the Iiyama monitor which is the secondary monitor.  I will now eat some oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I recently have been putting in two ounces of grapefruit juice in with eight ounces of orange juice.  One is not suppose to drink grapefruit juice with Lipitor, but I figure a little bit would not hurt.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 8:20 A.M.:  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will watch a bit of television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 8:15 A.M.:  I brushed the snow off my Hyundai.  The driveway in front has been plowed, but there was about 2 feet of plowed snow in front of the cars, so I shoveled off the snow in front of my car, and I put it in the pile on the other side of the driveway.  The building custodian is using his plow to clean off the walks.  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, which I ate with iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 7:10 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I will now bundle up in some warm clothes and go outside and clean the snow off my Hyundai.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 6:30 A.M.:  I went through the first half of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 5:50 A.M.:  I ate of bowl of corn chips with iced tea.  I am watching and listening to on the left monitor German news in English http://rd01.t-bn.de/ramgen/live/dwelle/dwelle-video-dsl.rm .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 5:25 A.M.:  I put the Lindbergh radio that was on top of the AMD backup computer monitor on the Danish desk in the bedroom on top of the IBM Cyrix backup computer CPU on the left side of the Danish desk on the Danish end table.  I moved a family picture frame holder to on top of the monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 4:40 A.M.:  I did a Guest logon on the primary computer to make sure both monitors work, which they do.  I went downstairs by the front entrance, and I measured the snow in several locations, and there is about seven to closer to eight inches of fresh snow.  Presently there are very light flurries.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 4:20 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 3:40 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I made it with all the usual ingredients including six olives instead of eight olives, and I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  On Monday night when I was walking Greenwich Avenue, I noticed that CVS had a number of wooden pink flamingoes in their store windows along with Coca Cola bottles.  If I am not mistaken Coca Cola is not solely a southern company, but the parent company www.coke.com in Atlanta also owns the New York State franchise which used to have headquarters in Greenwich by the Boys Club before they moved back into Manhattan.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 2:45 A.M.:  I looked out the side door downstairs, and there is about five inches of fresh snow, but it currently is not snowing.  I hung the headset for the Columbia 2.4 gigahertz cordless telephone in between the two 19 inch monitors, so it available to use with the Columbia cordless phone just to the left of the keyboard.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 2:30 A.M.:  I shut down the Dell backup computer.  I arranged the two duck placemats on the dining room table, so the first one is at an angle as one faces it from the apartment entrance, and the other faces across the table towards the wall.  The first spot on an angle is where I will be eating regularly, and one's feet will have to straddle the pedestal of the dining room table on the floor.  I also arranged the items on the dining room table, so it has the same busy look as before.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 2:10 A.M.:  I disconnected the Royal 17 inch monitor from the IBM Cyrix in the bedroom on the Danish desk, and I put it with the AMD backup computer.  Thus the IBM Cyrix does not have a monitor.  However, I doubt if I will be using it anytime soon.  I put the Sterling V92 56K PCI modem in its box, and I will leave it on the right back side of the white bureau in the bedroom with the other computer items.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 1:50 A.M.:  I have the Dell backup computer back together and connected up.  I set the onboard video in the CMOS for video init to AGP and 256 meg aperature and no VGA probing.  The onboard video has 8 megs of memory, and it is all configured for both systems, and it is running just fine with the Dell Trinitron 1025TM monitor with the onboard ATI Mach64 video.  It actually seems to be a bit faster and better quality than the previous setup.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 1:00 A.M.:  I label the lower control panel computer switch as "Center Monitor".  I put a piece of Scotch tape over the label, so it does not smudge.  I took the two paper trays out of the HP Laser Jet II laser printer, and I put them on top of the printer, so they do not protrude into the kitchen entrance way.  I only use the HP LaserJet IID printer every four months when I print out my random notes, and although I have other laser printers, it is a heavy duty laser printer with about 2,000 pages left on the fairly new HP 95A cartridge that I bought two years ago for $100 at Office Depot in Scarsdale, New York.  I put the pink floral design Chinese basin inside the larger blue and yellow Chinese basin which is on the center back of the long mahogany bureau in the living room overlooking the living room sitting area, and I put the large Golden Pathos plant inside the basins.  I have had that plant for about 20 years, from the first year that I moved on Steamboat Road 20 years ago, and I have replanted it a couple of times, and it is currently in a large 15 inch terracotta pot.  I put the glass bowl and Revere silver plate bowl and the large Revere silver plate bowl with lid on the right front of the mahogany bureau by the day bed.  I put the Nantucket ashtray on top of the display case on the front center of the mahogany bureau with the Greek Parthenon silver plate box on top of it.  I put each my two Swiss flags on the center top of each of the 19 inch monitors along with the wireless mouse remote sender which is turned off and the Vibra web cam.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/04  Wednesday 12:25 A.M.:  I moved the large pathos plant with the Chinese basin from the dining room table to on top of the other Chinese basin on the long mahogany bureau.  I put the Revere silver plate bowl with top on top of the Nantucket ashtray on the right side of the mahogany bureau.  I rotated the HP LaserJet IID laser printer 90 degrees clockwise and pulled it forward, so it faces out towards the kitchen entrance sitting on the dining room table.  I disconnected my Dell backup computer, and I opened up the case, and I took out the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI video card.  I opened up my primary Northgate Computer, and I took out the telephone modem, and I switched the LAN card over to the right most PCI slot, and I put the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI video card in the center PCI slot, so there is a bit of air space between the right most AGP slot video card.  I have the Creative Live MP3+ card in the left most PCI slot which would also be the lowest PCI slot, so right would be highest when the CPU is upright.  I use my antistatic wrist band for doing all of this.  I had to put a new video cable connector screw which I had on the Diamond Stealth PCI video card.  I closed up the primary computer case.  I moved the CompUSA 19 inch monitor on a Encyclopedia Britannica 1962 year book on the dining room table just to the left of the primary computer monitor, so they are both at the same height.  It is at about a 35 degrees angle to the primary computer.  I connected the power cable to the CompUSA monitor to the primary upper control panel Computer monitor switch which says monitor, and I connected the Iiyama monitor to the lower control panel switch that says computer which I will rename with a slip of paper "center monitor".  I connected the CompUSA 19 inch monitor to the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI card on the primary Northgate computer.  I booted the primary computer, and I set in the CMOS "Display Init" from AGP to PCI.  When the computer boots the left most CompUSA 19 inch monitor displays, which also has no boot up problems like the Iiyama monitor.  The system recognized the two monitors and the television monitor for three monitors total.  I set up the monitor display properties.  I set the left side CompUSA 19 inch monitor to be the primary monitor with Desktop Icons.  I have the IIyama monitor as the center monitor which can display any programs that I move over on to it to work on.  This way moving left to right is more natural than if I set it up the other way, plus one has a display with out monitor error when one boots.  I guess when the system is cold, I will have to turn on the Iiyama monitor once the system is booted, and it should work fine, once it is turned on a time or two.  I now have to put the Dell backup computer back together which I will use with its onboard AGP video, and I will take the Dell Trinitron monitor from the bedroom AMD backup computer, and I will put it with the Dell backup computer.  I will put one of the Dell HP monitors with the AMD backup computer, and I will move the Royal monitor from off of the CPU of IBM Cyrix backup computer to be with one of the HP backup computers.  I also have to straighten up and arrange the dining room table.  This will take some time.  I am most pleased with the dual 19 inch monitor setup on the primary Northgate computer, and once one gets use to it, it should make multitasking easier.  One has to remember to move the programs to the left adjacent desktop icon monitor when one closes them out, so one does not clutter the center monitor work area.  Well, I feel like I have my own Wall Street trading setup or War room, when one has multiple monitors going.  One can also display the primary monitor screen on the Orion television too.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 10:35 P.M.:  My Microsoft Investor http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp stock market tracking portfolio is at an all time high.  It is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scopor01.zip .  However, I do not recommend it as an investment portfolio, it is simply meant to track the average performance of the stock market not to out perform it.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 10:30 P.M.:  I went back to sleep until 9 P.M..  I chatted with a relative and a couple of friends.  We presently have about 2.5 inches of fresh snow, and we are suppose to get more.  Thus we could start a new computer club called "Siberia Sam's Computer Fans".  I guess I could try to network on the internet, but I basically get more information from reading all the technological information out there.  Since I am a high baud cable modem user, I get my information off the internet faster, so I can surf the internet faster.  I have thought about putting the Diamond Stealth PCI 32 meg video card back into my primary computer, and then I would be able to run two 19 inch monitors with it.  However, unless I moved the primary CPU to the left of the primary computer monitor on the dining room table, and then created another stack of items to put the second monitor to the right of the primary computer monitor.  It would take a bit of time, and I am not sure if the second monitor would interfere with the television monitor I presently have set up.  About the only benefit to setting it up that way would be to watch internet video on the right monitor while one surfed the web on the left monitor.  It would also involve moving a lot of cables which might not reach the extra distance anyway.  It is just a thought, but since I do not think I have the room to do it anyway, I will probably not do it.  Also with the primary CPU set up the way it is, I have room to work on it when I occasionally have to attach cables and for other maintenance, which I do not think would be as easy if I put it on the dining room table.  I basically need a bit more room to set up that configuration, which I do not have in my present limited area in the apartment.  The 19 inch monitor weighs too much to put it on the CPU.  I will think about it a minute, but more than likely I will leave it the way it is for now, since it works fine enough the way it is all set up presently.  I could move the HP LaserJet IID printer from the dining room table and put the second monitor in its place, but I do not have any room to put the HP LaserJet IID laser printer which is quite large in another location where I could use it.  I guess I could try moving it further towards the door, and then there would only be one place to eat at the dining table, but I would then have to relocate my large pythos plant to the mahogany bureau too.  Well think about it.  I do not actually watch that much internet video since I do not have a Real subscription, and since I actually spend most of my time reading off the internet, so I am not sure it would be necessary anyway.  Also when using the PCI card with my AGP card, the primary monitor has to be the PCI card as I recall, and I prefer using the current setup with the AGP card as the primary video card.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 7:15 P.M.:  Well, it is just beginning to snow out, so I will be in for the evening, unless it should quit early.  The latest weather forecast is:

... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT...

AREAS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE... WILL CHANGE TO A MIX OF LIGHT SNOW AND SLEET THIS EVENING. BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP AFTER 8 PM... AND SPREAD NORTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. SNOWFALL RATES MAY REACH 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WITHIN THE HEAVIER BANDS. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE FORECAST TO RANGE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES BY SUNRISE WEDNESDAY. THE SNOW IS FORECAST TO TAPER OFF TO LIGHT SNOW LATE TONIGHT... BEFORE ENDING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

ONCE AGAIN... THE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE FORECAST TO RANGE FROM 5 TO 10 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.

I will now have breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 7:00 P.M.: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Christian Science Monitor Daily Online Newspaper .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 6:55 P.M.:  The Iiyama monitor still does not start when it is turned on first, and then the primary computer is turned on.  However, it still does start right up, when it is turned on about a second after the primary computer is turned on.  I turned off "Sync on Green" in the monitor menu to try the next time it is cold.  Well, it is not that big of a problem starting the computer, so I will just leave it as the primary monitor, since it is still a very good monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 2:35 P.M.:  I had a call from a relative about 1 P.M..  I think I fixed the problem with the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch flat screen monitor starting up with the primary Northgate Computer.  In the Syntax SV266M motherboard CMOS setup, I changed the CMOS setting for Primary Video Init Display from AGP to PCI.  Since I have onboard AGP which I do not use, the AGP setting tries to start the onboard AGP first when booting the computer.  Although I use the Mad Dog Multimedia Prowler MX-440-SE AGP 4x 64 meg. http://www.mdmm.com/products/graphics/mx440agp-se.asp video card which is AGP, in the CMOS setting I have to set Primary Video Init Display to "PCI" since the card is an AGP slot and not the onboard AGP.  The setting is ambiguous, but I have a feeling I have it setup properly now.  I also enabled on the menu of the Iiyama monitor the "Sync on Green" setting.  I will now try to go back to sleep, and I will see it the computer starts up properly when I wake up, and it has not been start up in a couple of hours or more.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 2:05 P.M.:   I found this information on my Iiyama monitor http://www.cosuk.com/trade/images/VMPRO450.pdf .  I turned off "Sync on Green" in the Iiyama monitor menu.  I also "Reset" its settings.  Possibly the problem is that I am starting the Iiyama monitor with the Power Control Panel switch instead of the monitor switch.  Still for now, it is easy enough to start, if one starts it at the same moment as starting the computer.  I will now go back to sleep for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 1:05 P.M.:  I just chatted with a relative.  I tried turning on the primary computer with the Iiyama monitor, but once again the Iiyama monitor did not start initially.  However, when I turned it off for a few seconds at the control panel, and when I turned it on just as I was starting the primary computer, it does work.  Thus I will leave it in place as is.  It is easy enough to start.  Basically one turns on the Iiyama monitor with the control panel switch just about a second after one turns on the primary Northgate computer.  One does not need to let the monitor warm up.  It is simple enough.  I could try using a BNC five plug cable, but I do not feel like spending an additional $30, and I do not think that would make a difference, but it would be even sharper.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 7:50 A.M.:  Well, there is not much going on in this neck of the woods, so I think I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Wolf calls usually do not scare away wolves, but they attract wolves, so be careful about playing it.  Of course, they probably still sell a beer up in North Salem, New York at the delicatessen near Interstate 684 at exit 7, called Nordic Wolf beer from Sweden. CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 7:25 A.M.:  When you're sitting inside or outside on a cold snowy winter's night, and you think you're all alone, remember your friendly local wolf is still probably prowling this area like they have for thousands of years.  Just in case you do not know what one sounds like try http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/wolf.wav .  I suppose they are still poking around this area despite the cold.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 5:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 5:40 A.M.:  I ate a half of a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn tortilla chips, which I had with some iced tea.  I tried unsuccessfully to install a couple of free Linux antivirus programs on the Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 3:45 A.M.:  Two snow storms may be converging on us CNN.com - More snow and ice head east - Jan. 27, 2004 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 3:40 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I made it with all the usual ingredients, and I had it with a glass of iced tea.  For the Cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 2:20 A.M.:  I have both 19 inch monitors switched around, and the Iymama monitor is on the primary Northgate computer, and the Compaq 19 inch monitor is on the Dell backup computer.  The Iiyama since it is warmed up started right up, when I turned the computer on with Iiyama monitor turned on.  It seemed to startup more smoothly, so possibly the CMOS settings made a difference.  It did not make as much noise starting up as before.  Well, we will see when we do a fresh start when I wake up later today after the primary computer has been shut down for two hours or more.  However, I would almost be willing to bet that the problem is fixed with the CMOS settings adjusted.  I think it was the CMOS setting being disabled for "PNP/OS" that fixed the problem.  The CMOS settings for the Mad Dog video card just make it run better.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 1:50 A.M.:  One major difference between the Dell backup computer where the Iiyama monitor works and the primary Northgate computer is that to get Red Hat Linux 9.0 to work on the Dell computer, I had to disable "PNP/OS" in the CMOS.  I just did this on the Northgate primary computer when I reset the CMOS settings.  This means that the computer reads the BIOS settings from the CMOS and not the Operating System.  I will go ahead and switch the monitors around, and when I restart later on today when the Iiyama monitor is not warmed up after sleeping hopefully the Iiyama monitor will work properly on the Northgate primary computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 1:40 A.M.:  I set my CMOS settings to the Syntax SV266M motherboard defaults, except I used the video settings in http://www.mdmm.com/support/faq/graphics.asp .  The computer booted properly, and it is running just fine, and it seems more responsive.  I had a lot of the CMOS settings for my Mad Dog  Multimedia Prowler MX-440-SE AGP 4x 64 meg. video card wrong, so possibly the Iiyama monitor might now work on the system.  In the CMOS instructions I have the "Init Display" setting set to "AGP", since I have an AGP card, but I am not sure if that means the onboard built-in AGP, or the card too.  I do not want to try PCI, because as I recall, it would not show a screen, I would have to either clear the CMOS and reset the settings, or I would have to install my PCI video card from the Dell backup computer to get it to work, so I could reset it to AGP if PCI did not work.  Thus I will not try it.  When I get done working on the computers this morning, I might try switching the monitors around which is tedious to see if the Iiyama works on the primary computer when it is not warmed up when I restart when I wake up today, since if I tried it now with it working for a while on the Dell backup computer, it would start anyway.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/04  Tuesday 12:25 A.M.:  I did not fall asleep until about 10 A.M. this morning.  I was up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I put the Acrylic navy blue knit cap on the shelf behind the apartment entrance door.  It is now clean and dry.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I walked the train station area too.  I then drove around the train station area and the waterfront.  I have frequently walked and driven around the train station area for the last 20 years, but I do not mention it, since I consider it part of downtown.  I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural Ruby Red grapefruit juice for $2.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I started up both the primary and the Dell backup computers.  The Dell backup computer with the Diamond Stealth 32 meg PCI card seems to start up the IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch monitor with flat screen without any problems.  So maybe the problem on the primary computer was with my Mad Dog Multimedia Prowler MX-440-SE AGP 4x 64 meg. http://www.mdmm.com/products/graphics/mx440agp-se.asp video card.  I will recheck these CMOS settings http://www.mdmm.com/support/faq/graphics.asp , but the only problem I think there might have been was that on the Iiyama, I am using a 14 pin 15 pin cable, and maybe, it needs the 15th pin.  However, it works fine on the Dell backup computer, so I will leave it there.  I will recheck my Syntax  SV266M motherboard CMOS values compared to the Mad Dog recommendations.  It is suppose to start snowing late Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning, and we are suppose to get 6 to 10 inches of snow, so more than likely I will not be going out tomorrow night, and I will have to see what the conditions are like when I wake up late Wednesday afternoon or early Wednesday evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 8:50 A.M.:  Earlier I finished off one of the bags of Snyder's 40% reduced fat white corn tortilla chips.  I ate them with ice tea.  It is the Dutch perspective in this area that for the last 20 years, we have had large numbers of Germans using the old Zimmerman plan to invade the United States by entering this country by pretending to be Mexicans.  When I first realized this 20 years ago, I had a neighbor here 15 years ago whom was an authentic Mexican who was a reporter for the Associated Press, and his family still lives in the area.  Thus I guess, the Mexicans know whom is Mexican and whom is just German that lived in Mexico for a while and learned Spanish.  It would have seemed by using an old outdated plan, they are no longer well adapted to the colder weather in this area that if they had come here directly from Germany without going through Mexico, they might be better adapted to the weather in this area.  Since I have no influence over German Mexican affairs, I would recommend that they consult with their respective consulates in this area.  I obviously speak neither German or Spanish, so I have very little familiarity with the complexities of their negotiations as far as their status in this area.  Basically, so many people have seemed to misrepresent themselves as so called officials, that I dare say when the real ones show up, it will be extremely slow in this area.  I have forewarned many people that with all the con artist activity on the internet that it reminds me of the 1920s when the Ma Barker gang impersonated so many government officials, diplomats, and key financial personnel that it eventually caused this country's economic collapse.  I recently spoke about three months ago with a local businessman here, and I told him we probably needed the Attorney General from Illinois investigating local activities in this area, since they were the experts on this activity back in the 1920s.  I have seen a number of Attorney Generals from Illinois over the years, but at the moment instead of the formidable men whom have shown up before, no one has probably noticed this individual http://www.ag.state.il.us/newsroom/news.htm who looks like your ordinary house wife.  Needless to say, with women in business and politics and the media, it sort of makes one wander what all the men are doing.  I guess there are quite a few of them down in Florida fishing trying to get away from the matriarchal dominance of American life.  Well, I am tired, so I will probably go to bed soon.  I will first shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 8:10 A.M.:  I have a friend whom attended school with me at Lake Forest College and later when I was in Florence, Italy when we had traffic problems.  A friend and I were later his witnesses at his wedding in Greece.  He was very good at kicking in fenders on Fiats with Harley Davidson boots that he wore all the time, when he walked around Florence, Italy.  I heard about 20 years ago, he was a law enforcement officer in Colorado, so I guess he is equally effective there.  I guess he could have fun kicking in fenders on Rolls Royces, Mercedes Benz, BMWs, and other types of prestige automobiles.  Of course, more than likely to employ somebody like that to work in this area would mean having to impose MARSHALL LAW, so I guess if that is what it takes, we will simply have to do it.  I read recently that Wackenhut Security http://www.wackenhut.com/ is now being used to protect U.S. Military facilities, so the National Guard will be available for other duties.  I suppose they are an equally effective group.  However, one would have to have private money to employ them, and since the U.S. Military is already being paid to protect us, it would seem it would be far cheaper to employ Marshall Law to enforce equal security to the citizens of Greenwich, Connecticut.  It might seem extreme, but I have a feeling that it would be cheaper in the long run, since we are at a key transportation and communications hub in this hemisphere.  To the uninformed whom sit in back country and rarely go out in the downtown environment, this may not make sense, but I would imagine most of the skilled observers in the downtown area would agree.  Whatever, the case our most regular military observer in this area has been noticeably absent for some time in this area.  An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of trouble.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 7:25 A.M.:  Since this area is subject to high winds, I suppose the tripods that hold the floral arrangements at the veterans monument frequently fall over.  On a more interesting engineering note, about a month ago, when we had winds of over 50 miles and hour, I noticed the traffic signs downtown and at the Greenwich Town Hall parking lot were being blown over in the high winds.  The signs that blew over were based in heavy metal wheel hubs that were about 15 inches in diameter.  However, I did notice at the intersection of Arch street and Greenwich Avenue, the two stop signs there did not blow over, and they were based in large truck tires filled with cement, which are much heavier.  On a note of caution, the nightly drivers whom still are not familiar with the area continue to drive through the stop signs downtown without stopping which is a hazard to pedestrians whom might expect them to stop.  The other night three cars in a row drove through the stop sign at Greenwich Avenue where it intersects Arch street.  This tends to be a very busy intersection, so I would recommend to people when crossing at that intersection at night to wait for all traffic to come to a complete stand still before trying to cross.  I guess the commuters in back country are in such a rush to get to Manhattan that they zoom through town very fast, and they frequently are not aware of their neighbors downtown.  Since frequently the people downtown could be major stockholders inspecting their investments, I would recommend to the hurried managerial types that their positions will be in jeopardy if they continued their hurried ways.  Basically, I would still recommend installing traffic lights downtown that could be turned on when the traffic officers are not on duty.  This is a common practice in the New York City area, so just because we are in the quaint country state of Connecticut, it does not mean that we are not close to the metropolitan area of New York and its increased traffic.  It would seem to me the local Greenwich and Connecticut officials are being derelict in their duties in not installing the traffic lights that could be turned on and off.  I suppose Connecticut is no longer the insurance state anymore, since it would seem that the insurance industry with all of its lobbying capability is not able to convince the local and state officials to install the traffic lights.  Basically every time the subject is brought up, some standard reply is given, and we all know it has been studied long enough.  If it were my decision, I would chain the First Selectman of Greenwich, Connecticut and the Governor of Connecticut to the bench down at Greenwich Avenue and Arch street for 20 years, so they could see the error of their ways.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 6:40 A.M.:  In typing today, a lot of us still use the QWERTY pattern http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html  instead of Dvorak keyboard layout http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ which is suppose to be more efficient.  The QWERTY pattern was for typewriters, so keys next to each other would not stick together.  I guess at my advanced age of 53 years and nine months give or take a few days, I am like T Rex http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/trex/ stuck in my old ways.  Still, I have not seen any Dvorak keyboards showing up in the thrift shop to try to learn them.  However, I think one can change the keyboard pattern in the Windows XP operating system, and then I guess one would have to remove and refasten each key on the keyboard if that were possible which it might be on some keyboards.  On a lesser note, when using the Red Hat Linux 9.0 operating system, one sets up and installs the operating system to the root account, which one uses only for system upgrades.  Then one sets up sub accounts which one uses for one's individual programs and preferences.  Thus by maintaining the integrity of the root account, one has better security on one's computer system.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 6:25 A.M.:  As a point of reference in the urban areas on the east and west coasts of the United States of America, there are a lot of bicoastal people whom do not pay much attention to the rest of the country in between, and they think they know it all.  Frequently if one in their leisure time has time to explore the interior areas of the United States of America, one begins to realize that it is a quite formidable country in that there are large numbers of very large people whom one does not see very often in the coastal urban areas of the United States of America.  I suppose if one has ever been to a Big Ten college football game, one would have seen their children anyway.  Thus when one leaves the urban coastal areas of the United States of America, one should practice a modest level of diplomacy, since larger people in other areas tend to be very much in control of their environments.  Whatever, the case smaller people like myself tend to be better at typing on keyboards, since a large person, would type something like this.  MNpoiqwe iouasd ttwer tuio,mwer ddpior as;klj;lk ggpiopiosdf m,werbb ttpio xcvpio,,wer tpio ttjhwer asuiosdf piof tyhweriourttrr xcviopyuimtretuyy.  This is basically what happens when someone with large fingers press the keys on either side of a key and when typing, "Now is the time for all god men to come to the aid of their country", which is what some typing schools teach when learning the typing keyboard.  At the local typing school at the Eastern Middle school here in Greenwich around the summer of 1965 I learned to type, and I learned to type with this phrase, "They quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."  Thus if there is anyone trying to throw their weight around the typing pool, we can always use them for moving heavier office equipment.  Of course besides attending that one summer course, I also had other educational and work experience, which younger people due to their age would not be expected to have.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 5:40 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - National Geographic glances at central Greenwich .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 5:30 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm except I did not use blue cheese in it.  For the cheddar cheese portion I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, except I used 4 olives instead of 8 olives.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I watched some NASA TV about the old days http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html .  I set up my primary domain logon instead of the Root domain on the Red Hat Linux 9.0 Dell backup computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 3:30 A.M.:  I made some minor corrections in the two uploads.  I burned a copy of the Scott directory to CD, but the Dell backup computer would not read it, so I installed the Scott directory by downloading it and installing it to the Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/26/04  Monday 1:25 A.M.:  I had a call from a friend yesterday morning at 7 A.M..  I slept until 5 P.M., and I then had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I ate a Quaker low fat white cheddar flavored corn cake with some iced tea.  I then chatted with a friend and a relative.  I then heated and ate a Campbell's Chunky 18.5 ounce can of New England clam chowder, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I then dressed up warmly, and I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue for a walk.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  While sitting on the bench on the north side of the veterans monument across from the senior center, I noticed the stands for two wreaths laid for veterans' holidays had fallen over, so I uprighted the stands and put the wreaths back on the stands.  Since this area tends to be quite windy at times, the stands will not probably stay upright too long, but for now it all looks better.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home at midnight.  I then took my interactive directory http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotlist.htm , and I renamed all the files to lower case, so it should work on a local hard drive with a case sensitive web browser such as Mozilla in Red Hat Linux 9.0.  It is available for download from http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scott008.zip .   I also posted the copy of the downloadable U.S.A. Department of Defense directory http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/dod.htm , and it is available from http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/dod01.zip .  I will now put the lower case directory on my Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition to have available for use.  It is currently 14 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 6 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 5:25 A.M.:  I ate three bowls of corn chips and drank some ice tea while listening to the NASA feed.  It is currently 5 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of -11 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 5:10 A.M.:  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 4:20 A.M.:  I have been watching the kids play "Space" on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html .  I guess they did not end up sleeping in their cars when they took off to California with their laptops.  I never had a chance to visit Pasadena or Cal Tech http://www.caltech.edu/ on my four or five visits to California 26 to 24 years ago, so I guess whatever they do there, I missed out on.  However, since I was last out there, I would imagine a whole generation of children have grown up.  Of course we have better communications today than the old days in the mid 1950s in Decatur, Alabama near the Huntsville, Alabama Redstone now the Marshall Space Center.  I did make it around MIT www.mit.edu until 31 years ago.  I even saw a bit of CoCo beach, but Texas is such a large state, I never saw what sort of facility they have there.  We're pretty backwards and old fashioned in this old yankee state of Connecticut, but I am sure the more modern Californian people if they come out here this time of year would be spending a bit of wampum on cold weather clothes compared to what they're use to in the warmer weather of California.  It seems they have succeeded again taking pictures of Rocks on Mars, but I suppose we will let the public relations department handle that information.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 2:10 A.M.:  I checked the status of my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer $70 rebate, and the site said the rebate has been fulfilled, and I should receive it in 10 to 15 days.  Back in the old days in Greenwich, when we were younger and fitter, we use to have a "Freezing Norwegian" patrol on very cold nights and early mornings to make sure everything was all right.  However, on a limited budget, I would rather save the energy instead of cruising around.  Basically, the energy to cruise around for an hour can keep one's apartment warm and comfortable for probably a whole day.  Still, I have been out already today, so I would imagine there are probably still some late risers out and about this morning.  There are still slippery spots of ice on the sidewalks on Greenwich Avenue, so one has to be vigilant when walking downtown.  I guess they salt the spots, and the ice melts and refreezes again.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 1:45 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the usual ingredients except blue cheese.  I used four olives instead of eight olives.  I also used Cabot's 50% less fat Vermont cheese for the cheddar cheese portion.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 12:50 A.M.:  Earlier this previous afternoon, I woke up briefly at 2:30 P.M., and I took the fully charged Radio Shack metal hydride 9 volt battery out of the Radio Shack battery charger by the Orion television in the living room, and I put it back in the Realistic transistor radio, which I keep on the top left side shelf of the blue bookcase cupboard at the kitchen entrance.  I switched the Radio Shack charger back to Nickel Cadmium for future use with the Emerson wireless headphones which I use with  AAA Radio Shack Nickel Cadmium rechargeable batteries.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 12:40 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I put the two new boxes of Christmas card on the lower right of the lowest shelf in the left most bookcase in the hallway along with all the other spare Christmas cards I had in my lower right living room desk drawer.  I have quite a lot of Christmas cards for future use now.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 11:40 P.M.:  I was awake at 5 P.M. today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $4.25 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.899 a gallon for about 24 miles per gallon.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station.  At the crosswalk at Railroad Avenue, I found a navy blue 100% Acrylic knit cap made in Taiwan.  I stopped by CVS during my walk, and I bought two boxes of 18 Santa Claus Christmas cards and envelopes for 90% off for .49 a box plus .06 tax for $1.04 total.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at the beginning of the walk at the Senior and Arts center, and I used the bathroom again at Starbucks.  After completing my walk, I drove down by the waterfront and the train station area.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2 each, a large bunch of Foxy broccoli for $1.50, and two 12.5 ounce bags of Snyder's white corn 40% less fat Tortilla chips for a $1.50 a bag, less $1.21 Food Emporium bonus points on the orange juice for $7.29 total.  I used the bathroom again at the Food Emporium.  The cold seems to make me have to go to the bathroom more frequently.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries, and I drank some iced tea.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I decided the bootup procedure on the primary computer with IIyama monitor was tedious, so I changed the 5 year old CompUSA 19 inch monitor back to the primary computer, and I put the IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch flat screen monitor on the Dell backup computer.  I am just finishing configuring them for their respective computers.  I washed the blue navy 100% acrylic knit cap with some generic Woolite type cleaner in my bathroom sink, and I have it drying from the shower rod.  It will be a good backup knit cap.  It is suppose to go down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit this morning with a wind-chill of -15 degrees Fahrenheit.  It is currently http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 7 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of -11 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 8:10 A.M.:  I shut down the primary computer, and I unplugged the parallel cable plugged into it that was not being used.  I connected it to the Dell backup computer parallel port and to the Epson Stylus Color 880 printer, and when I booted Red Hat Linux 9.0 it recognized it and installed it while it was booting.  I did a couple of printouts with the Mozilla and Open Office, and the Epson printer works fine with it.  I then shut down the Dell backup computer, and I disconnected its parallel cable to the Epson, but I left it by the rear of the Epson, and I reconnected the parallel cable that plugs into the switch box connected to the Siemens router printer driver.  Thus I have the option of using the Epson Stylus Color 880 color printer with Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the Dell backup computer.  I guess it does recognize plug and play devices all right.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 7:25 A.M.:  On the Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition, I tried setting up printers.  The Minolta Pagepro 1250W printer will not work because it needs a Windows interface.  The Epson Stylus Color 880 printer was not recognized either, although it is one of the options.  The Red Hat Linux 9.0 program recognized the USB port for the Minolta printer but not the Epson printer.  I suppose I could try the LPT port on the Dell backup computer, but I will try that at a later date.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 4:55 A.M.:  I took the two fully charge Radio Shack Nickel Cadmium AAA rechargeable batteries out of the charging position in the Radio Shack battery charger, and I left them inside the charger for future use with my Emerson wireless headphones.  It is currently 10 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 0 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  I took the 9 Volt Radio Shack Nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery out of my Realistic transistor radio that I keep in my kitchen entrance blue book shelf pantry, and I changed the Radio Shack battery recharger from Nickel Cadmium which I use for my Radio Shack AAA Nickel Cadmium batteries to Nickel Metal Hydride, and I am charging the 9 volt battery, which should be done at 2:30 P.M..  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/24/04:

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 4:05 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 3:50 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 3:05 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I did not use broccoli or blue cheese.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's http://www.cabotcheese.com/ Vermont 50% reduced fat cheese.  I used all of the other usual ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 1:50 A.M.:  After my coffee, I went through the accumulated mail on my bedroom desk most of which were school alumni mailings, and after sifting through it all, I threw most of it in my paper disposal waste basket, and I went outside and put it in the paper disposal waste container.  I will now fill out a congressional survey mailing that I received recently.  The bedroom desk is a little bit better organized and neater.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 12:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I walked the train station area too.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I just now returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  On cold nights I turn on the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators to medium level at a temperature setting of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6.  I also wear my heavy cranberry terry cloth robe over my casual sleeping clothes while in the apartment.  One gets use to the cold weather up north, and it is not too bad.  It is mostly in the fall when the weather first changes that one is bothered by the colder weather.  Since I am on a limited budget, I chose not to use my limited funds for warmer activities like sitting in coffee shops drinking coffee, movies, restaurants, and pubs.  However, I do have a quite comfortable well run apartment.  I will now make a cup of coffee and drink it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 9:45 P.M.:  I opened up another Food Emporium Eight O'clock 38 ounce bag of Hazelnut coffee beans, and I filled my Braun coffee bean grinder and three large mason type jars with the coffee beans.  I keep one jar on the extreme left kitchen counter and two underneath the dining room table with the remaining unopened 38 ounce bag of Food Emporium Eight O'clock coffee beans.  I chatted with a relative.  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's Chunky New England clam chowder, which I had with some iced tea.  I will now put the computer on standby.  I will clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 9:00 P.M.:  I was up at 2 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I checked my mail, and I had a holiday greetings letter from Vice President Richard Cheney http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ .  I put it on the French cafe sculpture that I keep on my other cards on the wall to the right of the primary computer.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I put a new Hoover vacuum cleaner bag type C in the Hoover upright vacuum cleaner.  I listened to 106.7 FM with my Emerson wireless headphones while doing the house cleaning.  I am now recharging the used pair of Radio Shack AAA rechargeable batteries that I used, and I have a fully charged pair of AAA Radio Shack rechargeable batteries in the charger.  It is currently 13 degrees Fahrenheit outside with a wind-chill of zero degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 6:30 A.M.:  I went through the top news part of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 6:15 A.M.:  I took the family photo file frame from on top of the Dell monitor for the AMD backup computer on the bedroom desk, and I put it on the AMD backup computer CPU.  I moved the silver framed Canadian quarter with a front side of Queen Elizabeth II and the Radio Shack Digital clock, and I put them on the IBM Cyrix CPU.  I took the Lindbergh radio from the top of the mahogany bureau in the bedroom, and I put it on top of the Dell monitor for the AMD backup computer on the bedroom desk, and I connected it to the power strip on the desk.  I move the tobacco pipes and pipe rack to on top of the oak bookcase on top of the mahogany bureau.  I dusted off the top of mahogany bureau, and I put the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer on the left side of it.  I put the stacks of glass globes on the right side back along with a glass ashtray with lighters.  I put the vanity box on the left front of the top of the bureau with the backup Radio Shack NOAA weather warning radio on it.  I do not have it turned on.  I also put the pewter bowl with the spare eye glasses on the vanity box.  I took out the two cases containing the ACER 486/SX 4 meg. laptop and the Compaq 486/DX 8 meg laptop, and I put them on the hamper at the bedroom door entrance.  I took out a spare parallel cable from the black file box beneath the right side of the bedroom desk that contains computer cables, and I connected the parallel cable from the HP Kayak XA computer on the left side of the bedroom side board to the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer.  I installed the drivers for it.  I thus have it connected to a working computer.  It works fine with it and is easily accessible.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 3:55 A.M.:  I ran the Sandra utility to diagnose my system, and it recommended me to turn off in the CMOS "VGA Palette Snooping" which I did.  I had two copies of Microsoft Messenger starting on system startup, so I uninstalled one.  I reinstalled the drivers for the Plantronics DSP 500 headset.  I ran http://www.pcpitstop.com/ , and I used their applet to change my Internet Explorer Active X security settings in Restricted Zones.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 2:05 A.M.: Sandra download http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_x86&langx=en&a=  and http://msn.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,114030,00.asp .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 1:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 12:55 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I did not use broccoli or blue cheese.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker barrel extra sharp 2% low fat cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  It is currently 17 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is suppose to get colder down into single digits this morning and tomorrow night http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 3 ounce jar of ground black pepper for .77 and a 1 ounce jar of Italian spices for .77 for $1.54 total.  I completed my walk, and I sat out at various places.  I used my snow brush I keep in my Hyundai, and I cleaned off the snow off the four benches at the central Greenwich Post Office plaza.  There use to be a fifth bench in the southwest corner of the circle, but someone whom was very strong broke off an arm of the cast iron bench about five years ago.  I can not imagine someone slinging a sledge hammer at that particular location to break the bench.  I also cleaned off the snow off the bench off the bench on the south side of the veterans monument across from the senior center.  I next drove by the lower level parking area of the central Greenwich train station and by the dumpster area, there was discarded an HP LaserJet 6P laser printer, a HP LaserJet 4L laser printer, both about five years old, and a dual level laser printer sheet feeder that did not fit either of the two printers.  I retrieved them all.  I then drove by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a four pack of Bumble Bee solid white albacore tuna fish for $2.99 all, four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's chunky New England clam chowder for .99 each can, a 6.5 ounce dry  can of S&S medium black pitted California olives for .99, a quart of jar of S&S strawberry preserves for $2.99, fresh plum tomatoes at $1.99 a pound for $2.05, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99, and 10 ounces of fresh spinach for $1.50 for $16.47 total.  I then returned home.  I brought up the laser printers and sheet feeder with a cart I keep in my car, and then I brought up the groceries.  I put away the groceries.  I drank some iced tea.  I set up the HP LaserJet 6P printer on my primary computer, and it worked properly.  I printed out some test pages, and it has clear printout.  I then took the miscellaneous papers and other items off my HP LaserJet IIP plus laser printer in the bedroom to the right of the AMD backup computer.  I put them on the left side of the left night stand.  I disconnect the HP LaserJet IIP Plus laser printer, and I removed the Microsoft font cartridge from it.  I put the printer by the door to discard, since it does not feed properly except from the lower front shelf, and it produces a wrinkled copy, although it is a clear print out.   I put the font cartridge on the dining room table in front of the HP LaserJet IID printer by its font cartridges where they are installed.  I installed the HP LaserJet 6P printer in the same location to the right of the AMD backup computer.  It has a switch that one has to set by the plug, since the plug door will not close with the non HP cable.  I have the switch set on.  The HP LaserJet 6P printer turns on from the AMD backup computer control panel.  I loaded its lower paper drawer with fresh paper.  I loaded the drivers for it, and it is set to work on the LPT1 port of the AMD backup computer on the bedroom desk.  I then test the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer on the primary computer, and it works just fine with perfect printout too.  I filled its paper drawer with fresh paper.  I put it on top of the HP server monitor on the right side of the side board in the bedroom.  I moved the large Long Island light bulb to on top of the Proscan television in the bedroom.  I checked out the sheet feeder, and it is a generic sheet feeder with no company name on it.  It did not fit any of my laser printers.  Although it looks like a quality product.  I removed paper from it, and along with the paper from the two HP laser printers, I have about 500 sheets of slightly wrinkled scrap paper, that I put in my bedroom window with the other scrap paper.  I put out the old HP LaserJet IIP plus laser printer and the dual level sheet feeder by the left front of the dumpster outside.  I put the cart back in my car.  While doing all of this, I chatted for a while with a friend and a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 4:50 P.M.:  I was up at 1:30 P.M..  I had a message on my telephone answering machine.  I drank orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and I ate a Nature's Valley granola bar.  I cleaned up, and I made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I returned home, and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television.  I will now go back out shortly after I make a telephone call.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 4:20 A.M.:  I read two computer magazines.  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 2:30 A.M.:  I will now read some technical magazines that I have received in the last few weeks.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 1:50 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I watched some television.  I ate some little candied hearts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 11:10 P.M.:  I made up a batch of fresh hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  For the garlic portion in the hummus instead of 6 to 8 medium cloves of garlic, I use one very large clove of elephant garlic, which would be about the same amount.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  This time instead of tuna fish, I sliced crosswise in 1/8th inch thick slices a cold garlic herbal boneless breast of chicken that I cooked two days ago.  I did not use broccoli, and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker barrel extra sharp 2% low fat cheddar cheese.  I did not use blue cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I ate a half dozen heart candies.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 9:45 P.M.:  I did not fall asleep until about 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate two Quaker low fat white cheddar cheese flavored corn cakes with some iced tea.  I also chatted with a friend.  I was up at 2 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I showered and cleaned up.  I went out, and I cleaned the snow off the benches in front of the building I live in with a snow brush from my Hyundai.  I then went downtown, and I went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription at a $1.50 cost.  I then went drove further down Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS again, and they have in their center aisle a large assortment of St. Valentine's candy.  I bought a 21.5 ounce bag of Brach's small conversation hearts for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total.  I then completed my walk.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I put the Brach's small conversation hearts in a Delft type bowl on the right side of the long mahogany bureau in the living room and the rest in a Steuben type glass bowl on the dining room table at the kitchen entrance.  I am thinking that small pieces of candy occasionally might help reduce the amount that I smoke cigarettes.  I reduced the megahertz setting on my IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch flat screen monitor from 120 Mhz to 85Mhz, at which setting I think it would last longer, although it does work fine at both settings.  I still have to turn it on by turning it on first with the control panel switch and letting it warm up for five minutes.  I then turn it off and on again and then off again.  Next with it turned off, I turn on my primary computer, and just after I start the primary computer, I turn on the control panel switch for the monitor and the IIyama monitor starts right up.  When it first starts it is a bit dark, so one has to wait for it to lighten up to see the password prompt, or just enter the top secret password with out waiting to see the prompt.  It works quite well, so I have no complaints.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 4:00 A.M.:  I finished going through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 3:00 A.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 2:45 A.M.: Wal-Mart www.walmart.com sells good microwave ovens for about $100, and they also sell kits of plastic microwave cookware for about $10.  My General Electric microwave oven that I bought about three years ago is 1100 watts.  I recall paying $100 for it.  They also have microwave ovens that one can get at Costco www.costco.com  or Sams www.samsclub.com .  One has to remember though that when one travels to shop at discount outlets, one can easily spend $5 or $10 or even more on gasoline to get there and back, not to mention a comparable amount of wear and tear on one's automobile, so occasionally depending on what one's amount of purchases are, it pays to shop locally.  However Sams Club web site only show over the counter models, and Wal-Mart has a large variety Walmart.com - Search Results Microwave Oven and Costco has large units Costco.com search microwave oven and Sears www.sears.com carries a lot of them too.  However, none of them seems to carry Panasonic Consumer Electronics - Countertop Microwaves Home , but the Panasonic web sites says that Country TV and Appliance in Stamford, Connecticut, Sams Club in Elmsford, New York just north of White Plains, New York, and Sears in White Plains, New York and Costco are suppose to carry the Panasonic line of microwave ovens.  Frequently internet web sites do not reflect what a local retailer of the same group might carry.  Of course I hope my General Electric microwave oven last me for a few years more.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 1:50 A.M.:  I took a 10.75 ounce can of Campbell's condensed chicken noodle soup, and I put it in a microwave proof plastic pot, and I added two ounces of Rene Junot white wine, five ounces of water, half of the 10 ounce can of Green Giant peas without the water and a few chopped stalks of cooked fresh asparagus, a half teaspoon of Italian spices and a quarter teaspoon of dried parsley, and I heating it in the General Electric microwave oven on Reheat.  I will have it with about 10 Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons on the soup and a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 1:30 A.M.:  I ran Ad-aware 6.0 and Spybot.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I am using one each of the five different types of Twinings tea in the five variety pack, four Lipton Green tea bags, one Bigelow orange pekoe tea bag, and 10 Salada orange pekoe tea bags.  I am making it the usual way with Angostura bitters and I am not using sugar.  I will now run Norton Win Doctor.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 12:30 A.M.:  I just finished going through my email.  One might find this site useful Microsoft Service Packs , but usually Windows Update has most of what one needs.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 10:30 P.M.:  I made dinner of the reheated garlic herbal boneless chicken breast with steamed white rice and streamed Green Giant canned peas with steamed fresh cut asparagus with a little bit of olive oil on the vegetables, all of which I had with iced tea.  I watched President Bush's State of the Union speech on television.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 8:00 P.M.:  I was up at 1 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought two four packs of Type C Hoover vacuum cleaner bags for .50 each four pack for a dollar total.  I will put them on the right side of my bedroom closet with the other vacuum bags.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then made my 4 P.M. appointment.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and  they were almost out of long underwear.  I went by Sportif, and they carry Red Hot Chilli Pepper thermal ski long underwear for about $55 a pair.  It is made of a composite of synthetic materials.  I sat out at various locations.  I completed my walk.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I just now returned home.  I put the Java Virtual machine for my Internet Explorer web browser on my primary computer http://www.java.com/en/download/ .  It is a free download.  I finished eating the spice drops.  President Bush is suppose to making his State of the Union speech on television tonight at 9 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, and it will also be available at www.whitehouse.gov .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 2:15 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch a little bit of television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 1:40 A.M.:  On the Queen Mary II, I came up with these links http://www.qm2.org.uk/ , http://www.qm2.org.uk/itinerary.html , and Cunard: The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World Queen Mary II .  Well, I guess they have two days until they get to Barbados, and they will not be arriving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida until January 26 - 31, 2004.  Thus the ship should be going through its sea trials now.  It says that in April 25, 2004, both the QE II and the QM II will leave Manhattan for a joint voyage back across the Atlantic to South Hampton.  I keep my computer keyboard on a place mat with a picture of a Clipper Ship from the White Star line.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 1:10 A.M.:  I had another feeding frenzy, and I ate the 10 ounce can of lightly salted cashew nuts.  I am a bit full.  I guess, I should try to watch my weight, but in the colder weather, one occasionally needs a little bit more food to stay warm.  I presently weigh 210 pounds, the American weight measure, not the British currency.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 12:25 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I ate some more spice drops.  About half the package is gone.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/19/04  Monday 10:50 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative after dinner.  I ate some spice drops.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/19/04  Monday 10:05 P.M.:  There is not any news about the Queen Mary II arriving in Fort Lauderdale yet PCWorld.com - Queen Mary 2 Sails the High Tech Seas , maybe they are taking a break in Bermuda on the way over.  I took the three halves of boneless chicken breasts, and I rinsed them in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel, and I put them in a Pyrex pie dish bottom side up.  I then rubbed the bottom sides with olive oil.  I then seasoned them with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian spices, basil, and oregano.  I then flipped them over.  I rubbed the top sides with a little olive oil.  I open a chilled new 1.5 liter bottle of Rene Junot white wine, and I put another unopened one in the refrigerator.  I pour on about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine and several tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I then minced two medium cloves and one large clove of Elephant garlic, and I spread the minced garlic over the chicken.  I then seasoned the tops of the chicken breasts with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian spices, basil, oregano, and Hungarian paprika.  I am cooking them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I have a few minutes to go.  I opened up a ten pound bag of Carolina enriched white rice, and I put most of it in a large Rubbermaid liquid container that I keep on my bread box.  I put some in a quart jar, and the remainder is in the bag.  I am having one piece of the chicken with the cooking juices on it along with steam white rice with the cooking juices on it and steamed fresh broccoli and fresh cut asparagus with a small bit of olive oil on it.  I make the rice by taking a cup of the Carolina white rice, and I rinse it in a large metal bowl underneath hot water.  I then rinse it again underneath hot water in wire strainer.  I then put the cup of rinsed white rice in my China Village Rice cooker that I bought at the Food Emporium for $15.  I then add 14 ounces of water, two tablespoons of olive oil and a teaspoon of sesame oil, and I put the inner and out lids on the China Village rice cooker, and I microwave it in my General Electric microwave oven for 11 minutes, and I then let it stand with the lids on it for another five minutes.  I then have enough rice for two to four portions.  I will have the meal with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/19/04  Monday 9:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 2 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I ate a Quaker low fat white cheddar cheese flavored corn cake with some iced tea.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I used my snow brush that I keep in my Hyundai to clean off the snow off the benches in front of the senior center and the bench on the north side of the veterans monument across the street from the senior center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 18.5 ounce cans of buy one get one free of Progresso New England clam chowder for $2.59 both and a 10 ounce can of fancy lightly salted whole cashews for $2.69 for $5.09 total.  I got a CVS extra bucks $5 coupon on my receipt, so I bought an extra large pair of thermal circular knit men's long underwear bottoms 65% cotton and 35% polyester with U.S. made components  assembled in Mexico for $4.99 and a 15.4 ounce bag of CVS Gold Emblem spice drops for .99 less the $5 bonus coupon for .98 total.  I then completed my walk.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  I put $5 on my MacRay laundry card, so I now have $12.45 left on it.  I will put the spice drops in the glass bowl on the right side of the long mahogany bureau in the living room.  I will hang up the long underwear bottoms with my other long underwear bottoms on the brass hook on the right side of the bedroom entrance.  They have about a dozen pairs of long underwear bottoms in various sizes at CVS on Greenwich Avenue.   CIO 

Note: <888> 01/19/04  Monday 2:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/19/04  Monday 2:00 A.M.:  I installed the updates for Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the Dell backup computer.  At this link http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html the Linux 2.x (libc6 i386 RPM works for installing the Real Player 8.0 and its plug-in for Red Hat Linux 9.0.  One has to follow the instructions on the page for installing it though which are straightforward.  It is working fine on the Dell backup computer.  I tried putting my interactive directory on the Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0, but it does not work because Mozilla is case sensitive in Red Hat Linux, so I set the Mozilla web browser to default homepage of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotlist.htm .  The Dell backup system is working just fine.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 11:50 P.M.:  I cleaned the snow off my Hyundai.  I did not go for a drive because it looks too slippery outside.  The Dell backup computer is just about finished installing the Red Hat Linux 9.0 updates.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 11:00 P.M.:  The Red Hat Linux 9.0 updates have downloaded and are now in the process of installing.  I ate 12 Nabisco Wheatsworth crackers with 1/8th inch thick slices of Kraft Cracker barrel extra sharp 2% low fat cheese on them.  I checked outside, and I think I will bundle up and clean the snow off my car.  It is presently 28 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 10:25 P.M.:  Listen to the Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu radio station online http://www.lfcradio.com .  I guess it is better than the old jukebox at Jim Mitchell's pub and the Lantern or the local pubs in Highwood for that matter.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 10:15 P.M.:  For wireless users which I am not, this might come in handy TechTV  Dark Tip: AirSnare .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 10:05 P.M.:  I finished installing Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the Dell backup computer.  I installed all of its components.  I chatted with a friend.  I installed the Red Hat Linux 9.0 updates update https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-267.html#Red%20Hat%20Linux%209 .  I am now installing the updates.  It is all running without any problems.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 7:40 P.M.:  I went through my email.  For my dinner shortly, I am reheating the garlic herbal boneless chicken breast and steamed white rice.  I will have it with streamed fresh green beans, broccoli, and cut asparagus with a small bit of olive oil.  I will also have a glass of ice tea.  Red Hat Linux 9.0 is just about installed on the Dell backup computer.  I will then run the updates.  I also reuploaded www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scott008.zip which has a few minor changes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 7:15 P.M.:  I found this link for the Florida embassy in Washington D.C. in Jeb Bush's weekly news letter http://www.flahouse.org .  I guess if one visited there, one would be warm and would probably get free orange juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 6:00 P.M.:  I am reinstalling Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the Dell backup computer since Red Hat Linux Fedora beta updates would not work.  When installing Red Hat Linux 9.0 on a computer, one has to remember to install this update https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-267.html#Red%20Hat%20Linux%209 , so the updates works.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 5:00 P.M.:  I studied the Red Hat Fedora web site, and they merged with Fedora back in September 2003.  Fedora http://www.fedora.us still maintains a web site too.  Apparently with the merger, their updates on the Fedora beta do not work properly.  I am trying to install some of the updates that do work properly.  I did see mention that there is another update program in the beta, so if I can find that on my machine, I might try that.  The Fedora beta is on the Dell backup computer.  It seems to have quit snowing, but since it is a Sunday and since tomorrow is the Martin Luther King holiday, I am not sure whether the town of Greenwich will be paying overtime to plow the roads or not.  However,  U.S. 1 Putnam Avenue and I-95 should be plowed since they are state roads.  Since I have no destination anyway, I plan to stay inside.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 3:30 P.M.:  I updated Net2Phone www.net2phone.com to version 2.0 with fax capabilities.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 3:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/18/04  Sunday 2:55 P.M.:  I had a telephone call after the last message, and I chatted with a friend.  I went to bed after the telephone call, and I slept until 2 P.M. this afternoon.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I am stuck inside, since we have four to six inches of fresh snow.  It is suppose to continue until 6 P.M. possibly mixing with a little rain, so it will be icy and slippery too.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 10:15 P.M.:  I finished off the Necco candy wafers.  I ate most of the spice drop candies.  I finished of the CVS jar of dry roasted peanuts.  I watched some television.  I guess one could say I went through a feeding frenzy.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 8:15 P.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 7:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I took the five halves of boneless chicken breasts, and I rinsed them in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.  I put three in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator to use later.  I put the other two in a Pyrex pie dish, and I rubbed them on both sides with olive oil.  I then seasoned them on the bottom side with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian spices, basil, and oregano.  I then put the bottom seasoned side faced down on the Pyrex pie dish, and I poured about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine over the chicken and about three tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I then minced five cloves of garlic, and I spread the minced garlic over the tops of the boneless chicken breasts.  I then seasoned them with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian spices, basil, and oregano.  I am in the process of cooking them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes, and I have about ten minutes to go.  I will eat one of them with the cooking juices along with steamed white rice with the cooking juices and a combination of steamed fresh quartered broccoli stalks, fresh cut asparagus and fresh green beans.  I will have it all with iced tea.  I will refrigerate the other cooked boneless chicken breast in a Rubbermaid container.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 6:25 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5.70 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.89 a gallon for about 23 miles per gallon.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I brushed off the snow off the bench on the north side of the veterans monument with my snow brush I keep in the car.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought boneless breasts of chicken at $1.99 a pound for $4.96 and fresh asparagus at $1.99 a pound for $1.67 for $6.63 total.  I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 2:40 P.M.:  I finished vacuuming.  The telephone rang once with a no answer on the end.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out shortly.  It is warmer out.  It is now 29 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 2:00 P.M.:  I was up at 12:30 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I was able to start the primary computer Iiyama Vision Maker Pro 450 monitor, by turning it on for about five minutes.  Then I turned if off from the control panel.  Then when I turned it one from the control panel while starting the primary computer, it powered down, and did not start.  I then unplugged the plug in back briefly with the control panel switch turned off.  I then plugged it back in, and the green power light came on when I turned the monitor back on with the control panel switch.  I then turned it off with the control panel switch.  I then turned it back on with the control panel switch, when I turned on the primary computer, and it started up properly.  I guess, I will have to go through this procedure whenever, I first start up the computer after it has been off for a while.  I checked my mail, and I received my Connecticut emissions notification, and I have to have the emissions check by March 5, 2004.  I will now vacuum my apartment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 2:50 A.M.:  Before I wrote the previous note, I finished eating a box of CVS baked cheese crackers along with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 2:40 A.M.:  Of course in the old days in America, we use to have quite a few paint companies, and the paint companies would frequently select quaint little communities and give them a fresh coat of paint to see how long their products would last in certain environments to test their products.  Thus areas like Nantucket which were usually painted with surplus United States Navy paint of one color known as Battle Ship Grey began to see colors familiar in areas like Florida which were usually painted in White Wash.  While in college, I stumbled into a party at Trader Vics in Chicago, Illinois; and it was for the Dupont Paint pigment suppliers, whom probably supplied other paint manufacturers with pigments to color their paints.  Of course in the old days, soy bean oil from the Midwest of the United States was used heavily to paint automobiles.  I guess over the decades the business has changed.  Still, I would imagine some paint companies are still testing their products in various environments to see how well they last.  I have only done a modest bit of painting in my life, but I as I recall besides Sears paint, there use to be Dutch Boy Paint, Sherwin Williams paint, Benjamin Moore paint, Behr paint, the St. Louis Paint company, and of course the old Mary Carter Paint company, which the media alleged had CIA contacts all of which I dabbled with.  I suppose they now have a line of paint at Wal-Mart and Home Depot and K-Mart as well as other national chains of retailers.  Of course for every commercial retail product like paint, more than likely there are large specialty wholesalers that manufacture in bulk for large organizations like the military and the government.  Basically, as I recall when I was last in France about 12 years ago for the winter Olympics in Albertville, France; most every building I saw was painted the same color as Versailles or the Louvre, which is sort of a tobacco tan brown wash of paint.  I guess since France is still a large agricultural country, they prefer to have the buildings painted the color of the soil.  In Florida and other tropical locations where they use lots of stucco for outdoor coverings on buildings, they use lots of pastel colors, which form a large variety of tropical colors in the environment.  I recalling seeing pictures on the palaces and villas of St. Petersburg in Russia, and they too use lots of pastels.  However, in New England the preferred color seems to be white with various colors trim.  In the United States of America in the southeast the African American community whom in the old days maintained rural homes which frequently were not painted regularly would paint the trim around their doors and windows with blue to ward off evil spirits.  Of course a lot of homes in the southeast were also built of brick, so they began to use the Williamsburg, Virginia colors that I guess were derived from the time of the Dutch monarchs of England William of Orange and his wife Mary.  In the southwest, they seem to use a lot of traditional Latino colors, which usually means white wash with terracotta roofs.  I have never seen the northwest, but we all know they have lots of trees out there, so more than likely they might use lots of natural timber products.  My family house in Decatur, Alabama back in the mid 1950s was made of brick and redwood siding, but we painted the redwood siding tan, because it began to weather like a picnic table.  Of course a lot of people in this country now use synthetic sidings, so they do not have to paint their homes as often.  Although, one does not have to paint unfinished brick, one still has to point up and patch the mortar to prevent moisture from getting in and freezing and causing more damage.  Of course down south despite the paint job, people frequently use stucco as much as possible to avoid having to deal with termites which tend to get into anything made of wood.  I would imagine they are using mostly aluminum for construction and where they use wood, they use pressure treated wood.  Thus while I have become more experienced around computers these last twelve years, I would imagine the world of construction has changed a bit too.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 1:10 A.M.:  For those of you whom were not among the 1.5 million people to get a White House Christmas card, one can view it here http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031125-4.html .  I use to know a modest family in Oyster Bay, Long Island that had a modest art collection, but alas I have not heard from them in so long, I suppose they have fallen on hard times.  However, if they have ever sneaked across Long Island sound to the south shore of Connecticut, I might have seen them, but with all the people I continually see, I might not have recognized them.  Alas, with all the traffic in this area, I have not been able to travel out to Oyster Bay, Long Island in about ten years or more, so I suppose it has changed.  I suppose there are still some quiet Old Guard types on the North Shore of Long Island, but alas it always seems about ten times busier out there than here.  I suppose when they are not clipping hedges, they are clipping coupons, and plotting their strategies for the next dog show.  I pay quite a bit of money to Long Island never to hear very much from them.  I send about $95 a month to Cablevision which is headquartered out in Westbury, Long Island, and I pay about $720 year for comprehensive automobile insurance to GEICO automobile insurance out in Melville, Long Island.  I have a number of friends out on Long Island, and since most of them have lived there for some time, I suppose they know the Scotts use to own all of Long Island until about 1700.  Sometimes when I am viewing Long Island from the pier on Steamboat Road, I wish I had some device like a television remote control that I could use to turn on and off the electricity on Long Island.  However, the Long Island people would then have to go through all the effort of resetting their clocks, and we would not want to disturb some elderly gentile people sitting in their rocking chairs.  I have seen most of the North Shore of Long Island from Manhasset to Lloyds Neck, and I have seen Jones Beach and the Hamptons.  I have seen Garden City, Levittown, and Hicksville, and I recall being out to Montauk once or twice.  Alas I know there is lots of scenic ocean frontage out on Long Island, but I prefer the calm waters of the south shore of Connecticut.  However, having spent time out on Long Island, since it is surrounded by water, it tends to be warmer than this area.  Presently it is 16 degrees Fahrenheit here, but it is 2 to 4 degrees warmer out on Long Island, so it is not that much of a difference.  However, the people I knew on Long Island seemed to be able to afford to keep their houses warmer, so more than likely they had visited or lived in warmer areas at one time of another.  Long Island has its rural parts, and I suppose I might still have some distant relatives out there.  I no long have the ship to shore radio in my car, so I can not chat with various waterfront areas across the sound.  I gave the ship to shore radio to a Russian maintenance person here whom does maintenance on a friend's boat to hopefully put it in his boat.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/17/04  Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  I heated and ate a 18.7 ounce can of Campbell's Kitchen Classics Creamy Tomato soup, which I also had with about 20 Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons, and I also had some iced tea.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/16/04:

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 11:30 P.M.:  I finished the house cleaning and watering the plants except the vacuuming, which I will do when I wake up tomorrow.  After using the Emerson wireless headphones, I put in a fresh pair or AAA Radio Shack rechargeable batteries, and I am recharging the batteries that I used.  They should be fully charged by 6 A.M..  I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 9:40 P.M.:  I finished my coffee.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I will listen to 106.7 FM with my Emerson wireless headphones, when I do the house cleaning.  I will put the computer on standby.  It is 17 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill temperature of 1 degree Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 9:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 and four packages of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $3.25 each for $44 total.  I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 15.5 ounce bag of CVS spice drops for .99 plus .06 tax for $1.05 total.  I then completed my walk.  While, I was walking down Greenwich Avenue on the west side of the street, I almost slipped on a patch of ice in front of Tiffany's.  I next drove by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times, and I read a back issue of P.C. magazine.  I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  I then put my pine cone Christmas wreath in a large plastic bag and my small artificial Christmas tree in another plastic bag, and I put them in the false ceiling area above the Danish bar.  I put the silver plate Revere bowl with top back on the pink Chinese basin on the center of the Mahogany bureau where the Christmas tree was.  I filled a small Steuben type glass bowl with silver rim with the spice drops, and I put it on the right side of the mahogany bureau.  I turned on my Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch monitor for about five minutes, and I was able to get it to start properly by turning it off with the control panel switch, and I switch it on just after I turned on the computer, and it seemed to get the correct signal from the computer and work properly.  I will now make and drink a cup of coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 5:25 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I will now clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 4:55 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I made it the same way that I have done previously this week.  I used up the rest of the cold eye round of beef making it into cold strips of beef, which I used in the salad instead of tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used 2/3 Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and 1/3 Kraft Cracker barrel extra sharp 2% reduced fat cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 4:10 P.M.:  I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle on the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 3:45 P.M.:  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/16/04  Friday 2:55 P.M.:  I was up at 6:30 A.M. this morning when a friend called.  I started the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch flat screen monitor, and I let it warm up for five minutes, and I then turned it off.  When I turned it on while booting the computer, it went to power off status, so I had to turn off the computer, and then I turned off the monitor at the control panel switch.  I unplugged the monitor plug briefly from the rear of the monitor, and then I plugged it in, and I turned on the monitor from the control panel.  When I booted the computer turning the monitor on at the same time, the monitor did turn on properly, so I guess I have to go through this procedure each time, I initially turn on the computer. One the computer and monitor are started, I do not have the problem, until they are turned off for about an hour.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to sleep until 2:30 P.M., and I left the computer and monitor on.  When I brought the computer out of standby the monitor turned on properly.  I changed the CMOS settings back in the CMOS to they way they were before I installed the monitor.  I could put the Iiyama monitor with the Dell backup computer, which I do not use very often, and put the CompUSA 19 inch monitor back with the primary computer.  However, the Iiyama monitor is such a good high quality monitor once one gets it going, for now I will leave it with the primary computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 11:15 P.M.: I ate a bowl of CVS cheese crackers along with some iced tea.  It is currently zero degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill temperature of -19 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I put a Home Center blue toilet bowl cleaner tablet in my toilet tank today, so I now have blue water in the toilet.  Well, stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 10:50 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I gave up trying to download the updates for Red Hat Linux Fedora beta, which I have installed on the Dell backup computer.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a friend.  I was emailed this link http://halfpasthuman.com/ .  I ate about 4 ounces of CVS 50% less salt dry roasted peanuts along with some iced tea.  I also ate a few Necco candy wafers.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 7:45 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm the same as the last few nights with cold beef strips instead of tuna fish.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 6:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative before going out.  The relative has two full size standard poodles, and the younger poodle broke the neck on her cockatoo, so the relative was not happy.  I was told by the same relative that in cold weather such as we are experiencing recently, that one should remember to open the cabinet doors underneath sink cabinets, so warmer air gets in and pipes do not freeze.  I went out after the last message, and I made my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I had to clean about four inches of powdered snow off my Hyundai.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, but they were closed today.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and the only bird on Long Island sound was a white Swan, so I guess swans are cold weather birds.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 7.4 ounce package of six Nature Valley chewy granola bars strawberry yogurt flavor for a $1.99 and a 7.4 ounce package of six Nature Valley chewy trail mix fruit and nut bars for $1.99, and a 16 ounce jar of CVS 50% reduced salt dry roasted peanuts for $1.99 and a roll of Necco candies for .59 plus .04 tax for $6.60 total.  I then completed my walk.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I turned on the primary computer monitor to warm up five minutes, but after that time it would not start with the computer, so after I got it to turn on again by unplugging and replugging in the rear power cord, I then tried another procedure which worked, which is to turn on the monitor about two seconds after one turns on the computer.  I am downloading and installing the Red Hat Fedora Linux beta software updates on the Dell backup computer, which still seem to be slow downloads.  It is presently 5 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of - 17 degrees Fahrenheit.  I guess it will get a lot colder tonight.  It is supposedly was -10 degrees Fahrenheit this past early morning.  I  have both DeLonghi oil filled radiators turn on medium at a temperature setting of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6.  It is presently about 71 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment living room.  I am also wearing over my sweat clothes my long heavy cranberry color terry cloth bath robe to stay a little warmer.  I put the Necco candy wafers in a cut glass bowl, I keep on the dining room table by the kitchen entrance.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 1:30 P.M.:  I installed some of the updates on the Red Hat Linux Fedora beta Dell backup computer.  The downloads are very slow from Red Hat this time of day.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out soon.  It is 9 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now with a wind-chill of minus -3 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 12:45 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M., and I started up the primary computer with the Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch XGA flat panel monitor.  I was able to get the monitor working properly by turning on the monitor first for five to ten minutes.  I then turned the monitor off, and I booted the computer which stops when it reaches the password prompt after five second, which one can not see because the monitor is off.  However, when one turns on the monitor, it does work, since it has been warmed up a bit.  I am also running the Updates on the Red Hat Fedora beta installation on the Dell backup computer.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 4:00 A.M.:  The Red Hat Fedora beta update server is slow, probably because lots of people are watching http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html .  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, so I need to go to bed.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will run the Red Hat Fedora beta updates on the Dell backup computer at a later time.  It is presently 8 degrees Fahrenheit with a minus -3 degrees Fahrenheit wind-chill factor.  Stay warm.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/15/04  Thursday 2:20 A.M.:  I ate a bowl of the sugar free sparkling berry Jell-o with sliced peaches.  I finished installing Red Hat Linux Fedora beta on the Dell backup computer.  I am now installing the updates.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  Fedora is about halfway installed on the Dell backup computer.  I watched the NASA press conference today on the Mars Rover http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html .  The Mars Rover is suppose to be venturing on to the surface of Mars at 3:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time this morning Thursday.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:  I downloaded the three large *.iso image files of the Red Hat Linux Fedora Project beta Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat from the mirror site at NCSA Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat mirrors , and I burned them to three Cdroms.  I am now installing it as a upgrade over Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the Dell backup computer.  It will probably take a couple of hours to complete installation.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 8:50 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 7:45 P.M.:  Earlier today, before I went out, I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's lentil soup in which I put about 20 Pepperidge Farm large cut croutons.  I had the soup with iced tea.  I also had a bowl of the sugar free sparkling berry jell-o with sliced canned peaches.  I just now made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients, but instead of the tuna fish, I cut two 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round, and I cut them into two to three inch by half inch strips, which I added to the salad.  I did not use blue cheese.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I use Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  It is presently 10 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 6:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I donated to them the HP 15 inch color monitor.  I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I obtained a U.S. postal money order at .90 cost to pay my Northeast Utilities electricity bill.  I sent in the payment at the post office.  Since I have electric heat in my apartment, it is important to keep the electricity bill paid and up to date.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I browsed the merchandise.  They still have Christmas lights and other decorations for 90% off.  I used the bathroom at the Senior Arts center.  I completed my walk, and I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and the Greenwich Times was not available, so I read P.C. World magazine.  I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  I had the same problem with starting the primary computer with the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch XGA flat screen monitor, but basically the startup procedure is to turn on the monitor and let it warm up for five to ten minutes without the computer turned on.  Then one turns it on and off once or twice with the control panel monitor switch, until one sees the Frequency D-Sub white letters showing the Signal Select setting in faint white letters, and then once one sees those letters, one can turn on the primary computer, and it should boot up properly.  It is a good enough high resolution monitor, it is worth the annoyances of the startup procedure, and once it is booted and warmed up, it can be rebooted, turned off for up to a half hour, and it will still start properly.  Somehow the Signal Select setting is lost, if it is turned off for an extended period of time.  If one tries to start it too soon, when it is not warmed up, the monitor power light will turn off, and it will not reset back on, when it is turned off and on, unless one turns it off, and disconnects the power cable in back and leaves if off for a few seconds, and then reconnects it again, and then the monitor should turn on again.  When the monitor turns on, one first gets a green light which turns to a yellow light to show that it has no signal.  However, once it does have a signal, when one boots the primary computer, it turns back from yellow to green.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 12:55 P.M.:  In the CMOS, I enabled Video Bios Shadow to Rom, and I disabled Assign IRQ to Video, and I also disabled Video Bios Init.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 12:30 P.M.:  Iiyama had more information at www.iiyama.ch , but unfortunately, I can not read the Swiss German on their web site.  They do have an English Iiyama test program for download from their site.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 11:50 A.M.:  When I put the computer into standby, the monitor goes through the shut down process of alternating between frequency messages of "D-Sub" and "BNC", and one can turn it off, and it when one turns the monitor on and brings it out of Standby, it works just fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 11:25 A.M.:  The NOAA weather warning test just went off.  It is currently 8 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of minus -4 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 11:10 A.M.:  I ran the Epson Stylus Color 880 head cleaning utility, and it is printing out just fine.  I do not use the Epson printer that much, now that I have the Minolta PagePro 1250W laser printer.  It is good to run the Epson head cleaning utility once a month, particularly when one is not using it very much.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 10:50 A.M.:  After breakfast, I searched out information on the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA flat screen 19 inch CRT monitor.  I called Iiyama www.iiyama.com tech support in Norcross, Georgia, and they suggested that I turn off the video power saving in the CMOS, which I did, and I also disabled in the CMOS "Video Bios Copied to Ram" .  Well, the computer boots and shut downs fine enough.  I will have to see what it does when it is shut down for an extended time.  At the moment, when it is warmed up, and when the monitor is turned on, it goes through the video boot screen of selecting "Signal Select" option between D-sub and the other option.  I tried selecting it when booted, so maybe I changed something, but when I select the "Signal Select" options, the monitor just goes black and returns to the Windows desktop.  Still for now it is working just fine.  I will have to see if it boots properly, when it is shut down for an extended time over a half hour or more.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/14/04  Wednesday 7:55 A.M.:  During the night, I got up, and I ate two Quaker low fat white cheddar corn cakes.  I was awake at 7:30 A.M..  On the primary computer, I turned on the Vision Master Pro 450 monitor, and I let it warm up for five minutes.  I then turned it off, and then when I turned on the primary computer, I turned on the monitor at the same time, and it all booted properly.  If one has problems with the monitor green power light going off, when one turned on the primary computer, one can unplug the monitor power cable from behind the monitor with the monitor power control switch off and replug in the plug, and that seems to reset the monitor.  Then one would try booting again by the same procedure of turning the monitor on, when one first turns on the primary computer with the switch on the CPU case.  It is sort of tedious, but it works.  It is such a most excellent monitor, ocne it starts, I plan to continue using it.  I will try to research the problem on Google.  It is presently http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 5 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of minus -11 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now make breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 11:05 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I guess on the primary computer with the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA flat screen 19 inch CRT monitor, since it works fine, once the monitor is warmed up, one should turn on the monitor and let it warm up for a minute or two before starting the computer.  Since when the monitor is warmed up, there are no start up problems.  http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 says it is 16 degrees Fahrenheit with a 1 degree Fahrenheit wind-chill factor.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 10:30 P.M.:  Volcano blew up in Russia, it could make it colder! Text of volcano alert follows.

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Bezymianny eruption
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From: avo-sci@usgs.gov

Eruption of Bezymianny volcano, January 13, 2003

Kamchatkan and Northern Kurile Volcanic Activity
INFORMATION RELEASE 03-04
Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 12:20 KDT (00:20 UTC)

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) received the following release via
e-mail from KVERT (Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruptions Response Team). Kamchatkan
Daylight Saving Time (KDT) is 21 hours ahead of Alaska Daylight Saving
Time.  All time and dates are UTC, if not marked specifically.


BEZYMIANNY VOLCANO 55o 58'N, 160o36'E; Elevation 2,895 m
CURRENT LEVEL OF CONCERN COLOR CODE IS RED.
PREVIOUS LEVEL OF CONCERN COLOR CODE WAS GREEN.

According to video observation, a strong explosive eruption of
Bezymianny volcano is occurring. According to seismic data, the
eruption began at 22:53 UTC on January 13.  The ash plumes rose up to
6 km or 19,800 ft. ASL and extended to the east-northeast. A large
pyroclastic
flow is probably forming.

PLEASE CONTACT AVO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENT

Olga Girina
Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruptions Response Team
IVGG, Piip Blvd, 9
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006 RUSSIA
E-mail: girina@kcs.iks.ru
tel (41522) 58627

Tom Murray
Scientist-in-Charge, Alaska Volcano Observatory
4200 University Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508 USA
E-mail: tlmurray@usgs.gov
tel 907-786-7497

The Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team is a cooperative program of
the Alaska Volcano Observatory (USA), the Institute of Volcanic Geology and
Geochemistry FED RAS and the Kamchatkan Experimental and Methodical
Seismological Department GS RAS (Russia).

See  http://www.avo.alaska.edu/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 9:55 P.M.:  I chatted with two different relatives.  I heated a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder which I ate with 15 croutons along with a glass of iced tea.  I have the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators turned on at medium with the temperature setting of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6.  It is presently 17 degrees Fahreheit outside with a wind-chill of zero degrees Fahrenheit.  It is suppose to go down to zero Degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday night and Friday morning.  Stay warm.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 8:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two 5.5 ounce boxes of Garlic and Herb larger cut croutons for .99 each, and a loaf of Arnold whole wheat oat bread for .99 less 10% senior discount of .30 for $2.67 total.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  While walking up Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 7 ounce box of CVS baked cheese crackers and a 7 ounce box of CVS baked wheat crackers for .99 each and a package of large CVS latex dish washing gloves for .89 plus .05 tax for $2.92 total.  I then completed my walk.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read P.C. Magazine.  The Greenwich Times was not available.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I started the primary computer, and once again the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 monitor turned off, when I started it shortly after starting the computer.  I disconnected and reconnected the power cable in back,  and I was able to get it to turn on without the computer started.  I went through this a couple of times.  I then tried turning on the monitor just as the computer was turned on, and it booted properly.  I researched computer cable information on the internet.  I also checked out Belkin's www.belkin.com information on monitor cables.  I changed monitor cables to the heavier monitor cable.  The system once it is booted up properly reboots and shuts down without any problem.  I changed some CMOS settings.  There is no way to disable the onboard AGP, but supposedly having a AGP card installed disables it.  There are no instructions for my Mad Dog Prowler video AGP 4X 64 meg. video card, and I do not recall it having any dip pins.  It seems that the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 monitor failed to start when it is not warmed up.  Possibly the solution is to leave it on for a minute, and then turn it off, and then when the computer is turned on, turn it on a second afterwards.  I will have to experiment with this procedure.  Possibly I need some special monitor cable.  I am using a 15 pin monitor cable which actually has 14 pins.  This different type cable would also work Staples | SKU Level Online Catalog Page 5 BNC monitor cable .  Well, I am able to get the computer and monitor working without too much trouble, so maybe I just need a newer heavier duty SVGA monitor cable.  I also found this link Buy.com - Belkin Display cable - 15 pin HD D-Sub - male - 15 pin HD D-Sub - male - 6 ft , which has the term "D-Sub" which my monitor displays on the monitor menu under "System Select", so maybe it might work better, but it is not a heavy cable, and it also is actually 14 pins although it is a 15 pin cable.  I will check the Iiyama web site to see if it says anything about monitor cables or other information.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 2:45 P.M.:  I listened and watched some internet television on the Orion television.   I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used the strips of cold eye round beef and Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese, but I did not use any blue cheese.  I used all the other regular ingredients.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 1:40 P.M.:  I showered and cleaned up.  I threw out kitchen garbage, and I emptied the bathroom waste paper holder, and the bathroom garbage can.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 12:45 P.M.:  I waited over a half hour, and the primary computer with the Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch flat panel monitor booted up properly using the previous mentioned procedure.  When the monitor it is first turned on, it is a bit faint, but after a short period one can see the text and graphics to enter the Password prompt.  I sorted through my old disk batteries, and I put them all in an envelope in the left top living room desk drawer.  They are used, so I will not be using them.  I have new a 2032, and two new 2025, and one new 303/357 disk batteries.  I put the HP 15 inch monitor on top of the HP Kayak XA Dell monitor in the bedroom for temporary storage, until I decide whether to get rid of it or not.  I will now clean up.  I might not be going out, since I have work to do at home.  Although it is warm out, it is a bit damp today.  However, the next few days will be colder and drier.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 12:05 P.M.:  I think, I will keep the HP 15 inch monitor, until I am sure the Vision Master Pro 450 monitor is working properly on the primary computer.  I will now shut down, and I will go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 11:55 A.M.:  I was up at 9 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I tried booting the primary computer and once again the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 monitor would not come on.  I figured out that one can reset the monitor by disconnecting and reconnecting the power cord in the back of the monitor not turning off the monitor button on the power control center.  However, the problem persisted.  I put the newer video cable on the computer system which has a couple extra pins.  I still had the problem.  Once I had reset the monitor again by disconnecting the power cable in the back and then reconnecting it, the monitor power light would come on, but when one booted the computer, it would turn off.  I finally figured out, that with the monitor reset, so it did come on after disconnecting the power cable and reconnecting it, that one can boot the computer first with the monitor turned off, and then once the computer reaches its password prompt which is very quick and the hard drive stops flashing, one can turn on the monitor with the power control center switch, and it turns on and works properly.  The Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch flat screen monitor has a built in Signal Select feature which does not work, if one turns the monitor on first, but it works if the computer is booted first.  I also changed a couple CMOS settings related to the video which might help.  I will shut down the computer by the usual method.  Shutting down the computer might have some effect on the way the computer recognizes the monitor when rebooted, but I don't think so.  I will clean up shortly, and I will go out.  I will drop off the HP 15 inch monitor at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  When I return, I will see if the primary computer boots properly using the previous mentioned method, after it has been turned off for a while.  Well, anyway its seems to work properly for now, providing one turns on the computer first before the monitor.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 2:30 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 2:05 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 1:45 A.M.:  When moving the computer monitors in the bedroom, I moved the large Long Island light bulb from on top of the AMD backup computer monitor to on top of the HP Vectra Server monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 1:35 A.M.:  According to this the Iiyama VisionMaster Pro 454 new is $358, so they have come down in price IIYAMA USA .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 1:25 A.M.:  I found these links AnandTech: iiYama VisionMaster PRO 450 and Iiyama Flat Screen Monitors, PC Computer Monitor Review (VisionMaster 450 19 inch Monitor) , so the monitor came out around November 1999, so it might be 3 to 4 years old, but when I opened it up, it had hardly any dust in it, so it might be newer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 1:15 A.M.:  According to this CADALYST Labs Reviews: 16 Sweet Monitors the IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch monitor when new had a street price of $699, but that was probably a couple of years ago.  Still with lots of people dumping CRT monitors for LCD monitors, I probably got a fair price on the item, since I had to put some work into getting it to go.  It is a most excellent monitor, and I should have less eye strain now.  Also I now have a backup 19 inch monitor.  I will remind people whom trade in their CRT monitors for LCD monitor that although LCD monitors are probably sharper with the right adaptor card, I do not think LCD monitors last as long as CRT monitors.  I just reviewed my old Scott's notes, and I bought the CompUSA 19 inch monitor on December 13, 1998 over five years ago for $424 with tax at CompUSA in Norwalk.  It is still working fine, however I did returned the original one for another one like it shortly after buying it, because the on off switch was faulty.  So on the present one, I have always used a control panel switch to turn it on and off.  Thus the CompUSA 19 inch monitor which is now on the Dell backup computer has lasted over 5 years with all the time I spend on the computer.  I believe it was made in Taiwan.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/13/04  Tuesday 12:40 A.M.:  I repositioned the monitors in the bedroom on the backup computers.  I also configured them.  I have the HP 15 inch monitor and the cart by the front door, so I can take the HP 15 inch monitor to the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop later today.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/12/04  Monday 11:15 P.M.:  My 4 P.M. appointment was cancelled today and rescheduled to next Tuesday.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  This time I cut two 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round, and I cut them into strips about a half inch by a quarter inch by about two inches, and I used them in the salad instead of tuna fish.  I also used a quarter of a diced yellow onion instead of Bermuda red onion.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Vermont extra sharp and extra sharp 2% low fat cheddar cheese.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I just chatted with another friend.  I put the 19 inch CompUSA monitor with my Dell backup computer, and I configured it.  I also ran the Red Hat Linux 9.0 updates on the Dell backup computer.  The IIYama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch monitor has a slight  half inch diameter smudge in the top most center of the monitor, but it is not very noticeable.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/12/04  Monday 8:15 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove downtown and Marx Brothers is now out of business.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  They had a 19 inch IIYama www.iiyama.com  Vision Master Pro 450 XGA monitor that they were testing, but they could not get the Menu to work, and they did not have a computer to test it on.  They did not know whether it worked or not.  I offered them $20, and they agreed to sell it to me.  I drove over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and then I returned to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought the IIYama 19 inch Vision Master Pro 450 XGA monitor for $20.  I used the little cart I keep in the hatchback area of my Hyundai to carry it to the car.  I then went by Entree computer, and they exchanged the color and black Epson 800 ink cartridges for the Epson color and black ink cartridges for the Epson 880 printer that I have.  I thanked them for the favor.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I carried up the IIYama 19 inch Vision Master Pro 450 monitor to my apartment with the same cart.  I disconnected my 4 to 5 year old CompUSA 19 inch monitor from the primary computer, and I tested the IIYama monitor, but it would not work, and it seemed to be not getting a signal, and the monitor power light would turn off, when I started the computer.  I disconnected the IIYama monitor, and I opened up the back cover, and I removed a metal cover, and I examined the inside of the monitor.  There a was a small bit of dust, so I used my Chinese mini vacuum to vacuum out the dust.  I checked a number of connectors to make sure they were tight.  I then tried to get it to work with another monitor cable on my Dell backup computer, and it did not work, but I noticed that whenever, I turned on the monitor when it was not connected to the Dell backup computer, there were some faint numbers briefly on the screen, so it showed the monitor worked.  I then disconnect the monitor and turned it on, and the power light was on.  I then with monitor on, I plugged in the monitor cable to the monitor, and then I plugged it into the Dell backup computer, and when I turned on the Dell backup computer, the monitor worked.  I checked some Menu properties.  I then disconnected the monitor, and I refastened the inside metal cover and the monitor cover.  I then connected it to my primary computer with the same monitor cable, which is a cable I bought about two years ago that I was using on the IBM Cyrix backup computer.  I then booted the primary computer, and I had the same problem again.  This time, I disconnected the monitor cable at the monitor, and I turned on the monitor, and with the power light on, I connected the monitor cable to the monitor, and I then turned on the computer, and the IIYama monitor worked just fine again.  I let Windows XP boot, and the monitor driver was installed plug and play.  I checked the monitor driver properties in the Display properties, and it is a XGA monitor and instead of 85 MHz, I was able to set it at 120 MHz.  I adjusted some of the monitor Menu settings, and it had one setting "Signal Select", and I set it to "D-Sub", which it seems to do automatically.  When I shut down the monitor went through a menu of four signals, which it also did when I rebooted again, automatically selecting the correct signal for the monitor.  Thus, it seems the IIYama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch XGA flat screen monitor is working just fine.  I then changed monitor cables to a heavier one that I had, and it still worked fine.  I will now connect the CompUSA 19 inch monitor to the Dell backup computer.  I will but the Dell 17 inch Trinitron monitor on the AMD backup computer.  I will put the 17 inch Dell monitor from the AMD backup computer with the HP Server, and I will put the 17 inch Royal monitor with the IBM Cyrix computer.  I probably with donate the HP 15 inch monitor to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I put the black and color Epson 880 color ink cartridges to the left of the primary computer on the HP LaserJet II D instruction manual which is behind the dining room table adjacent to the primary computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/12/04  Monday 1:10 P.M.:  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, which I put Arnold croutons on, and I also had some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer.  I have a 4 P.M. appointment today.  It has warmed up a bit, and it is now 34 degrees Fahrenheit, so it is a bit warmer.  However, the very cold weather http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=06830 is suppose to return starting this Wednesday, so one should use these two warmer days to get ready for colder weather again.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/12/04  Monday 12:15 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/12/04  Monday 11:45 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I chatted briefly with a relative.  I was awake at 8 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 11 A.M..  I picked up my mail.  I put the fully charged Radio Shack rechargeable Nickel cadmium batteries in the Emerson wireless headphones, and I am charging the other pair of batteries which should be fully charged at about 7 P.M..  I called Marx Brothers, but no one answered their telephone.  I will take the Epson ink cartridges downtown with me, when I go downtown in case they are still open.  Frequently they have older Epson inkjet printers including the Epson 800 in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 9:15 P.M.:  I relaxed a bit.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 8:20 P.M.:  I made up a bowl of onion soup.  I first minced two medium large cloves of garlic, and I peeled and sliced one large yellow onion about 4 inches diameter into 1/4 inch thick slices.  I then put four tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet on a electric burner on medium high heat and once the oil started bubbling I added the minced garlic and sliced onions, and I sautéed it all on the ingredients turning them continually them over medium heat for about 15 minutes until, they were all were all soft and mostly blanched.  I then added a 14 ounce can of Swanson's chicken broth, and I raised the heat to medium high stirring continually until the mixture started to boil, and then I reduced the temperature to medium, and I continually stirred the mixture for about 25 minutes over the medium heat, until the liquid was reduced by about 40% and the mixture had a slightly darker appearance than to start with.  I then poured it all into one of my 20 ounce Cobalt blue soup bowls, and I spread fifteen large cut Arnold garlic and herb croutons on the soup pressing each one slightly into the mixture, and I then spread on about four tablespoons of Kraft grated parmesan cheese, and I then sprinkled on it about a teaspoon of dried parsley.  I put the soup bowl on a plate, so the heat from the soup bowl would not hurt the duck placemat.  I ate the soup with a large soup spoon, and I also had a glass of iced tea.  It was a very delicious soup.  I just chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 6:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront, and I observed the waterfront.  I then drove through Bruce Park, and there were no snow geese as far as I could tell, but there were about a 100 Canadian Geese.  I then drove north on Indian Field Road, and I drove west on East Putnam Avenue, and I returned to the center of Greenwich Avenue.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I also walked around the train station area.  They now have the train station waiting room open in the day time on Sunday, so travelers are a bit warmer.  They use to keep it closed a couple of years ago on Sunday.  During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought eight 14 ounce cans of Swanson's chicken broth for two for .96 for $3.96 total.  One can sauté a sliced onion in olive oil or butter, and then add a can of Swanson's chicken broth, and heat it, and one would have a very good onion soup.  If one used a Bermuda onion, it would be Bermuda onion soup, and if one used a yellow Spanish onion, it would be French onion soup.  One then could add some croutons and grated parmesan cheese, and one would have a staple soup of the European diet.  They also have Swanson's beef broth on sale for the same price, and one could have a heartier onion soup.  One could makes one's heartier chicken broth by boiling a whole chicken, and one would have a lot of chicken meat, but then one would be making chicken soup not onion soup.  Of course boiling a whole chicken for about an hour uses a lot of energy, and one has to separate the meat from the bones, and one has to skim off the fat.  I think for chicken soup, one uses such spices as cloves and bay leaves and one could also add a few cloves of garlic or any of different vegetables or noodles.  During my walk, I sat out at various locations.  After I completed my walk, I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99, two 26 ounce jars of Ragu Robusto parmesan and Romano tomato sauce for .99 each jar, plum tomatoes at $1.99 a pound for $2.73, a 8 ounce container of Stop and Shop 100% fat free grated parmesan cheese topping for $3.99, a 12 ounce bottle of Rienzi balsamic vinegar for $2.99, a 28 ounce can of Goya chick peas for $1.09, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.50, and three eight ounce bars of Cabot Vermont 50% reduced fat cheese for $2 each for $22.27 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 1:35 P.M.:  I put away my ice tea in the refrigerator.  I chatted with Staples in Port Chester, New York, and they said they would not be able to exchange my Epson ink cartridges unless they were purchased at Staples.  Marx Brothers does not seem to be open today, so I will check tomorrow to see whether they are still in business or not.  They apparently still own the building on Greenwich Avenue.  I use to know one of their salesmen who was a retired U.S. Navy pilot who the last I heard was working for Earthlink.  The salesman was from Concord, Massachusetts where the famous minute men supposedly fired a shot that was heard round the world around the Concord Bridge that I use to photograph when I worked at Polaroid.  Concord, Massachusetts is more traditional, and they do not believe in allowing in too many modern buildings.  I also used to know some people from a famous United States Navy family there too who have lived there so long, they are sort of taken for granted like the Bridge.  It is rather peculiar with all this cold weather that Royal Dutch Shell stock was down 4.5 dollars on Friday.  One would think with all of this cold weather that energy stocks in this area would be up.  I have not looked at the other energy stocks to see how they are responding to the cold weather.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out to enjoy the cooler weather.  I figure when one is healthy and middle age, one should not waste time watching television, and one should enjoy one's environment.  There is plenty of time when one gets older in this area, and one is not able to go out as much in cold weather, for one to watch the television.  Of course some younger people are so programmed on the television media, they do not have any other since of reality.  Basically, I find by not watching too much television, I can manage to keep busy with other minor activity and errands.  I do watch the television whenever I have my breakfast coffee.  Occasionally I channel surf to see what the media is trying to tell us.  However, on a limited income, there is not much I can do about what the television reports on, except maybe someday make the decision not to pay for Cablevision and possibly spend a little less time on the computer and maybe read some other information besides technical computer information, which I have done extensively for the last 12 years.  Since I am not a lawyer and since I have no political ambitions, I am not really interested in what the government does, except for how it effects me directly.  Basically, I feel there are enough experienced people in government that they seem to know how to run the show, and the few times I have visited government areas, they seem to be inexpensive and efficiently run organizations based on their allocated budgets.  That might not be the case with the military or NASA or other governments, but it is also the nature of government that they will not tell you what they are doing other than the official public relations as provided by their official public relations officers.  Once again, I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out to see if I see any Snow Geese.  I actually did see a few in Bruce Park about ten years ago.  They sort of look like a squat swan.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 12:35 P.M.:  I enjoyed my meal.  I will now shower and clean up.  It is presently 18 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 9 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 12:05 P.M.:  I cut three 3/8 inch slices of cold eye round, and I put them on a dinner plate, and I covered them with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, and I will have them to eat in about five minutes with reheated steamed white rice and steamed fresh green beans and broccoli along with ice tea.  I put a small bit of olive oil on my steamed vegetables.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 11:40 A.M.:  I am making a batch of ice tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I am using one each of the five different teas in the Twinings five different types of tea package, four Lipton Green tea, two Bigelow orange pekoe tea bags, and nine Salada orange pekoe tea bags, but I am not using sugar, but I am using Angostura bitters as usual.  Angostura bitters comes from Trinidad and Tobago.  I visited Tobago during the winters of 1970 and 1971 with my family during the period I was attending Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu about a half hour north of Chicago, Illinois on Lake Michigan, during the same period that my family was living in Weston, Massachusetts.  Thus I was basically a cold weather person, and I enjoyed the tropical vacations to Tobago.  Well know recluses like Greta Garbo had homes in Tobago along with a great many British and Canadian subjects.  Of course back then it was not too expensive.  They drive on the other side of the road like the British, and we rented French Renault cars down there.  The first winter there, we rented a house across the street from the ocean near the Bishop's sugar plantation, and the second winter there, we rented a house on the other side of the island on the ocean next to the Mount Irvine club and golf course.  I checked with Liberty Travel here in Greenwich about four years ago, and they offered a per person double package weeks stay at the Mount Irvine Club with airfare for about $850 round trip.  Of course, one would still have to pay for meals, airport transportation to and from the club, drinks, and tips and gratuities, and transport if one rented a car, in one felt confident driving on the other side of the road or taxi, it could add up and be expensive.  However, Tobago has been developed a lot more in the last 30 plus years, so they have other resort facilities nearer to the tourist areas compared to the more isolated Mount Irvine Club.  However, there are so many resorts in the Caribbean, that one can find hundreds of other options.  Of course, one still has to be able to afford it.  Tobago was known as the Robinson Crusoe Island, and the natives 30 years ago worked mostly in the agricultural economy of harvesting coconuts and other island crafts.  I suppose more of them are in the tourist industry today.  Since Tobago lies about 25 miles north of the coast of Venezuela, there are also South Americans whom vacation there too.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 10:35 A.M.:  I put my heavier winter coats on the right side of my right living room closet.  I also have the long down Rainforest parka which I keep on my brass hat stand on the right side of the day bed, which is sort of like a Chinese border guard parka, which I have been wearing recently.  I also have a couple of warm vests that one can wear underneath the winter coats.  Most people in this area use the layer principal for staying warm, in that they wear layers of clothes, with the largest article on the outside with closer fitting warm clothing on the inside.  I have adequate winter clothing for the current conditions, and I only spend one to three hours outside anyway, not to mention I have the Hyundai with a heater.  Basically from what I could tell on Greenwich Avenue, people were not dressed that warmly, they are just dashing from their cars to the shops.  Of course, if one were traveling a distance particularly north, it does not hurt to have warmer clothes, in case one found oneself spending a long time outside.  I usually wear my Icelandic knit cap on cold days, and I bought it in Toronto, Canada for $40 about 20 years ago, when I was thinking about moving to Canada.  I guess I probably should have moved to Canada then, because being a northern person, the Canadians were a lot friendlier to me than some of the local new arrivals have been in this area, which also has northern people, whom seem to know something about the adjacent ocean.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 10:00 A.M.:  I saw someone wearing a parka yesterday that had a patch on the right sleeve that said Snow Goose.  The walker said it was the name of the parka, and that he had gotten a good deal on it in the Bronx.  I checked web sites, and I found this cold weather clothing provider that might make it http://www.canada-goose.com/ , but I do not see any reference to a parka named "Snow Goose", unless it is an older model.  Still http://www.canada-goose.com/ looks like they have some cold weather clothing, but I do not think this cold spell will last too long in this area, so there is no reason for spending too much money on extra winter clothing.  I still have my Survivalon Artic parka that I bought at the Norwalk Factory Store for $250 twenty years, but alas I only weighed 145 pounds when I bought it, so at my current weight of 205 pounds it does not fit me.  However, I keep it around in case I ever lose weight.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 9:45 A.M.:  I downloaded and installed the free Real 10 Player from www.real.com .  I put it on both the primary and backup Dell computers.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 8:05 A.M.:  I woke up in the middle of the night this past morning, and I also ate a bowl of Lays K.C. Masterpiece barbeque potato chips.  Basically, I would imagine the economy is tighter around here, because with the colder weather we have been experiencing lately, people are having to pay more to heat their homes.  My electricity bill last month was 50% above the monthly average, which is about normal for this time of year, but I try to keep my apartment cooler in the winter, but still warm enough, so it is comfortable.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/11/04  Sunday 7:30 A.M.:  I was awake at 5 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  It is now 3 degrees Fahrenheit, and there is a minus -8 degrees Fahrenheit wind-chill factor.  I guess I will stay in this morning, and I will do a little bit of computer work.  CIO   

Note: <888> 01/10/04  Saturday 9:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Staples, and they would exchange the Epson cartridges for me, but the two that I bought at Marx Brothers, they told me they sell them for $6.50 each all the time, which is not what their web site says.  Thus they would only give me $13 credit towards their price on the Epson 880 black and color cartridges, which would have been about $43 more.  I did not get them.  I will check to see if Marx Brothers is still in business and see about returning or exchanging them for something else.  I did buy a 2004 calendar with horse pictures for $5.99 plus .36 tax for $6.35.  I then drove back to downtown Greenwich, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I returned home, and I chatted with a relative.  I hung the horse calendar on the refrigerator door where I hang my calendars.  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, which I ate with 15 croutons and a glass of iced tea.  It is currently 7 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill temperature of minus -6 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/10/04  Saturday 5:45 P.M.:  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will go out for another spell.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/10/04  Saturday 5:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Gateway Auto Supply, and I bought a container of Pennzoil Gumout concentrated fuel injection cleaner for $3.99.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, but it was not working because of the cold.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  Along my walk up Greenwich Avenue, I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue, which is inside, so it is warmer and works.  I then stopped by CVS, and I bought six 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's Chunky New England Clam Chowder for two for $2.99  for $8.97 all six.  I stopped by Marx Brother's going out of business sale, and their merchandise was up to 80% off.  I bought a Epson S020108 black ink cartridge for $12.47 and a Epson color ink cartridge S020089 for $14.50 half price for both plus $1.62 tax for $28.59 total.  I made a mistake though, the cartridges I bought are for the Epson Stylus Color 400/600/600Q/800/800N/850/850N/1520 printer.  However, I have an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer, so they will not work in them.  I can not return them, because this was the last day of the sale, and I do not recall seeing cartridges for the 880.  However, I will sometime in the future try to exchange them at Staples for 880 cartridges.  I then completed my walk, and I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue again on my way down Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by Greenwich Exxon, and I bought $7 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.839 a gallon for about 26 miles per gallon.   I put the Pennzoil Gumout concentrated fuel injection cleaner in the gasoline tank before filling up with gasoline.   One is suppose to use it every 3,000 miles.  I then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  It is currently 10 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of minus - 5 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/10/04  Saturday 12:55 P.M.:  My meal was delicious.  I will now clean up, and I will go out.  I will wear two pairs of long underwear bottoms and two pairs of socks.  It is 7 degrees Fahrenheit outside with a wind-chill of minus -10 degrees Fahrenheit.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/10/04  Saturday 12:05 P.M.:  I took the 2 2/3 pound eye round roast that I bought yesterday at the Stop and Shop for $3.59 a pound, and I put it in a baking pan on a baking meat rack, and I seasoned it on all sides with garlic powder, chicken and meat seasoning, Old Bay Seasoning, celery salt, ground black pepper, Italian Seasoning, basil, oregano, and Texas Best Mesquite barbeque sauce generously.  I am baking it in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.  I will have two 3/8 inch thick slices of it for my meal, with steamed white rice, and steamed fresh broccoli and fresh green beans with iced tea.  I have about 15 minutes to go on the eye round roast.  I will refrigerate the rest of the cooked eye round roast in a Rubbermaid container.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/10/04  Saturday 11:10 A.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M. this morning, and it was Zero degrees Fahrenheit outside.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I fell back to sleep until 7:30 A.M..  I chatted with a friend.  I just finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I listened to 106.7 FM off my stereo amplifier with the Emerson wireless headphones while doing my house cleaning.  I am recharging a pair of AA Nickel Cadmium batteries for the wireless headphones.  They should be charged at 6 P.M..  It is currently five degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of minus - 15 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have both DeLonghi oil filled radiators turned on in the living room with them set at medium and temperature selection of 4 from 1 to 6.  It is warm and comfortable in the living room, and when I woke up, I turned the bedroom thermostat down from 70 degrees Fahrenheit to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, since I do not use the bedroom in the day time.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/09/04:

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 7:10 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I did not use a sliced plum tomato or sliced baby carrots.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I used a quarter of a diced yellow Spanish onion for the onion part and for the cheddar cheese portion, I use Kraft Cracker Barrel 2% low fat cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will first send out my weekly notes.  It is presently 8 degrees Fahrenheit here in Greenwich, Connecticut with a wind chill of minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is suppose to be colder this evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 6:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.   I bought four identical 15 inch by 12 inch place mats with three ducks on them for $1 each in new condition originally $4 at Filenes probably over ten years ago and a General Electric night light with automatic sensor activation for $1 for $5 total.  I then went downtown, and I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.  They have more furniture in there.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I used the bathroom at the senior center.  It takes a while to get use to the cold.  The senior center, when I was there briefly was warm and comfortable.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times and P.C. Magazine.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 96 ounce containers of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.99 each 96 ounce container, a eye round roast at $3.59 a pound for $9.28, a bulb of elephant garlic for $1.99, four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's Kitchen Classic soups for $1.25 each, one New England Clam chowder, one tomato, one lentil, and one chicken noodle, a five pound bag of yellow onions for $3.49, fresh green beans at $1.29 a pound for $1.20, a bunch of fresh broccoli at $1.29 a pound for $1.87 for $28.81 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my food purchases.  I drank some iced tea.  I put the night light in the bathroom with a new 8 watt night light bulb that I had in my second down from the left blue kitchen bureau where I keep the batteries.  I move the 4 inch General Electric florescent bulb fixture from the bathroom to the power strip on the center kitchen counter, and I moved the lower Glade Scent device to the power strip behind the Panasonic television in the kitchen.  The General Electric night light in the bathroom stays on when the bathroom light is off, but it goes off when the light is turned on.  I have a similar one on the center power strip in the kitchen.  It is cold out, and presently it is currently 8 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill temperature of minus eight degrees Fahrenheit.  Stay warm.  I forgot to wear a double layer of socks today, so my feet were a bit cold.  I put two of the Duck place mats on the dining room table, and I put the other two with the three Tree of Life place mats on the lower shelf of the right bookcase in the hallway on top of the books.  CIO   

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 12:15 P.M.:  I finished my lunch.  I will now go out, and pretend I am on a summer adventure.  It is only 10 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so I will bundle up, and try to stay warm.  I think I will wear two pairs of socks along with all of my other winter gear.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 11:55 A.M.:  I put away my laundry and picked up the mail.  I am heating a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Select New England clam chowder, which I will have for lunch with about 15 croutons and a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 11:15 A.M.:  Important Norwegian press announcement Health Statement on the King of Norway December 1, 2003 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 10:45 A.M.:  I showered and cleaned up.  I have 35 minutes on the dry cycle on the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 10:05 A.M.:  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycle of two loads of laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 9:35 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 9:00 A.M.:  I checked some other temperatures, and it is most definitely about 30 degrees Fahrenheit colder in Canada.  I checked outside, and it is clear and cold.  I guess if one does not have anything to do, one could try this web site http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/ks.html .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 8:25 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate four 1.5 inch by 1.75 inch by .25 inch squares of Kraft extra sharp 2% reduced fat cheese with the remaining piece of Apple pie.  It is 13 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now however that is what Weatherbug says, but http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 says it is 9 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  I think the WeatherBug information comes from Rye Brook, New York, where as the http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 comes from the National Weather service weather station at Tod's Point on the waterfront, which actually should be warmer.  In any event for this area, it is quite cold outside right now.  Although, I could bundled up and go outside, I think I should probably stay inside in my warm comfortable apartment and work on the computer.  It is between 72 and 74 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment right now in the living room, but I would hate to think what it might be costing me to stay warm.  Besides having the living room thermostat set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, I have the DeLonghi oil filled radiator behind my computer chair on medium and set at 4 on a scale of 1 to 6.  C'est tres froid, n'est pas!  CIO

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 7:25 A.M.: C'est tres cher! Forbes.com: Forbes' Faberge Eggs and http://www.forbes.com/2004/01/08/cx_pm_0108fcphotoessay.html and http://www.forbes.com/2004/01/08/cz_cf_0108whomade.html .  I have an old broken goose egg in my apartment, but I don't think it is a Russian goose egg.  I also gave a decorated goose egg to a relative for Christmas a few years ago with the Star of India rough cut diamond in it, both of which I bought for a dollar each at the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop.  However, I think the relative might have thought it was just another piece of junk, so I do not know whether the relative kept them in safe keeping or not.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/09/04  Friday 5:45 A.M.:  I was up at 4 A.M..  I turned on the heat in the bedroom while I was asleep, and I turned the bedroom thermostat up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  When I woke up, I turned it down to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television about Donald Trump trying to find people to work low paid jobs for him in Manhattan.  I guess people in Manhattan are so overpaid too much for what they do, that there is a serious shortage of job applicants in Manhattan.  I suppose after 911, no one wants to work there.  Of course, a lot of Manhattan people once they receive a comfortable level of income, they tend not to work very much, and they spend most of their time entertaining and being entertained and occasionally traveling with the Jet set.  Well, I guess not much has changed in that Rum Runner's paradise on the Hudson River.  There is just a new generation of young privateers venturing into port.  I installed the SoHo LAN card on the vintage IBM Cyrix 233 computer with 64 megs of memory.  The card installed plug and play, and it is now capable of going online with the cable modem LAN cable in the bedroom connected from the Siemens' router in the living room.  I had taken the old LAN card out of it, and I put in the HP Kayak XA backup computer.  The IBM Cyrix computer is the oldest and slowest of my five backup desktop computers that I keep handy in case there is another disaster in the New York area, and we need backup computer power for word processing and web browsing provided we have electricity at this location.  I do know somebody that worked for Disaster Services in Manhattan after 911, so if that individual contacted me after another disaster, more than likely I would let him and some of his associates use my facility here, provided they made it out safely from Manhattan.  I am not saying that something will happen, but it does not hurt to be prepared at a modest level.  It is presently 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now, so it is a bit nippy at this location currently.  I chatted with one of the CVS store staff on Greenwich Avenue yesterday, and the individual told me that they might be getting Haines long underwear in stock soon.  Last year, there was a Russian at the Port Chester, New York flea market at the A&P shopping center selling long underwear, but I am not sure whether the flea market is still open this time of year.  I think they might be open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Thus having taken all of the older vintage computer systems and reconfigured them to be more up to date, I feel like the Dr. Frankenstein of old computers.  Of course in this area back around 1982, there use to be a computer show called "Max Headroom" about an apocalyptic Manhattan where lots of displaced people sat around watching old computer systems connected to a large mega corporation computer network.  I guess life is beginning to imitate art.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 9:25 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought a SoHo LAN card in an unopened box for $5.  I will put it in my IBM Cyrix 233 MHz with 64 megs of memory backup computer, which I have on the Danish end table on top of the left side of the Danish desk in the bedroom.  I then made my 3 P.M. appointment, and then I saw the Doctor for follow up on my cholesterol screening.  My cholesterol is about the same, and it is all right as long as I stay on the Lipitor.  The Doctor recommended that I should try to quit smoking cigarettes, which I might do sometime soon.  I have a follow up appointment for a physical during the first week of March.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations, and I went by CVS.  I bought a eight pack of CVS AA alkaline batteries for $4.99 and a 1 ounce jar of Basil for .99 and a .75 ounce jar of Oregano for .99 plus .30 tax for $7.27 total.  I then completed my walk.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then chatted with a young skate boarder whom needed a cigarette, and he reminded me of another young skate boarder from years past, whom has not been seen around recently.  I suppose when they out grow their skateboards, they start investigating other items with wheels.  I then returned home.  I microwaved and ate a Marie Callender 16 ounce chicken pot pie along with a glass of iced tea.  I am tired, so I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will put the SoHo LAN card in the IBM Cyrix computer when I wake up tomorrow.  When one spends quite a bit of time out in the cold, it tends to exhaust one, since one loses a bit of body heat even when one is warmly dressed.  Stay warm, it is 24 degrees Fahrenheit right now, and I suppose it will get colder tonight.  I read one report that it is suppose to go down to 9 degrees Fahrenheit tonight.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 12:45 P.M.:  I ate about 3/4 of the 9 ounce can of Walgreen's smoked almonds before going to bed after the last message.  I was up at 10:30 A.M..  I have a small shelf rack behind my apartment entrance door.  I realized I had two much weight piled up on it, since it was only held on to the wall by two small Ook nails.  I took off 11 cans of air freshener, and I put 9 on the floor behind the shopping cart behind the door, and I put two on the Krups coffee machine to have available for use.  I left my scarves, knit cap, and gloves on the shelf which are lighter weight.  I also rehung the shelf with the two Ook nails, so the shelf Ook nails are fastened into more secure sections of the sheet rock.  I refilled two of my Glade Plug-in refills with a 2/3 mixture of English Leather cologne and 1/3 mixture 91% isopropyl alcohol, so the lower of the two on the kitchen power strip and the one behind the Minolta laser printer are now filled up.  I only filled them about 75% full, so there is air in the refill container, which seems to help them work properly.  In other words, if they are too full, they do not evaporate.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I checked the mail.  I will now clean up, and I will go out.  I have a 3 P.M. and 3:45 P.M. appointment at the same location.  The last appointment is for the follow up on my cholesterol test and for follow up on the Lipitor that I have been taking.  It is 26 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now, so it is a bit warmer today.  However, I think it is suppose to go down to 9 degrees Fahrenheit tonight.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 4:50 A.M.: I ate four 1/4 inch by 1.75 inch by 1.5 inch slices of the Kraft Cracker Barrel 2% lean cheddar cheese.  I will now have a handful of the Walgreen's smoked almonds.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 4:35 A.M.:  I ate a piece of Apple pie with my meal.  I remember the good old days, when one could buy a regular size Table Talk pie for .59, now week old Entenmann's pies at the Arnold Bread outlet cost $1.89, when they have them.  They sometimes are generous, and they do not sell them, and they give them to the local community shelters nearby.  Recently, they have not had as many of the Entenmann's baked goods for week old sale.  I am now buying fresh bread, instead of week old bread.  They charge me the same.  However, by the time the English Muffins get down to Fort Lauderdale via truck to be served on the new Queen Mary II, they might be a few days older, like some of the passengers.  I guess since the British since they are frugal at home, they can afford to travel "High Cabin".  Maybe some old veterans in the south Florida could look into them into helping pay off some the massive war debts of this past century that they have helped incurred in the process of defending them.  Of course, they were on the front lines defending our democracy, when we were just collecting scrap metal and running scavenger drives back here.  Maybe, they could donate the old Queen Elizabeth II for a floating retirement home in Long Island sound, since there are quite a few elderly people whom have not chosen to retire down south, but have decided to stay in their family locations, where they have lived most of their lives.  Well, the grass is always greener on the other side.  Most of the younger people, I see in this area from down south tend to be overweight, but when one goes down south, a lot of the older retired people are very thin.  Thus the younger generation is eating the older generation out of house and home, so they better be prepared to help defend the home fires, if and when that time comes again.  Recently in the United States of America, they are advertising Detroit, Michigan as having the fattest people in the United States of America, so I guess, if any foreign invading group wants to occupy this country, they should head for Detroit, Michigan where there is plenty of food to sustain them.  However, it is cold in Michigan like Canada, so more than likely the people there need extra body fat to stay warm.  Maybe, any invading group should just pass by the United States of America, and head up to Canada, where they always seem to be well fed and warm and comfortable.  Of course that might just be in the big cities, and in the country, they are probably still breaking the ice on the privy out back in the winter, and up there in the north woods in the summer, they do have quite a large number of nasty insects, not to mention the other indigenous wildlife.  Quite frankly, it is my personal opinion that there are traveling carnival or circus type people who work their way around the world trying to scare established people into making foolish financial decisions.  With the Internet, this has become particularly apparent these days.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 3:55 A.M.:  I am microwaving a Stouffer's 12.5 ounce Lean Cuisine chicken with mushrooms dinner, which I will eat with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 3:35 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 3:20 A.M.:  I have been going through my email.  I boiled 1.5 cups of water, and I put in a .3 ounce package of Jell-o sugar free sparkling white grape mix and a .3 ounce package of Jell-o sparkling wild berry mix in a Pyrex baking bowl with lid, and I stirred the boiling water into the Jell-o mix, and I stirred it two minutes.  I previously had opened a 15 ounce can of DelMonte lite sliced peaches, yellow cling peaches in extra light syrup, and I had drained off with the open can lid four ounces of the peach syrup, which I put in a measuring cup with nine ounces of cold Florida orange juice and three ounces of Rene Junot white wine, and I added this mixture to the hot Jell-o mixture after I had stirred it two minutes, and I stirred it until it was mixed, and then I added the peaches from the 15 ounce can of DelMonte sliced peaches, and I mixed it all, and then I added three ounces of cold water, and I mixed it all.  I then put the Pyrex lid on the Pyrex bowl, and I put it on the lower shelf of the refrigerator to chill.  It should be ready after about four hours to eat, but I will probably wait until tomorrow to have some.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 2:45 A.M.:  Yesterday morning, I noticed when I drove over to Port Chester, New York that on main street in Port Chester, New York; CVS has cleared the ground to build a new store with a drive through Pharmacy pickup.  I guess people in New York, whom might be an older population too, do not like getting out of their cars to pick up their prescriptions.  I guess this is probably already the case down in Florida and southern California and southern Texas and other areas in the southwest and southeastern United States where there are lots of retired people.  The person I initially talked with the most when I went down to Florida on my own during the third week of September in 1976 was a long time Florida resident with a great deal of experience in the southeast coming from one of the original European families in the southeast, and although he was a staunch democrat, his primary political past time was for the Florida Grey Panthers senior citizen lobbying group which do not seem to have their own web site, but of course there is always http://www.aarp.org/ which I have been paying memberships dues of $10 annually to, since I turned 50 years old.  The person that talked about the Florida Grey Panthers senior citizen lobbying group use to talk a lot about Senator Claude Pepper who helped start the organization.  I guess he was not very successful, since although the individual was one of the largest land owners in the state of Florida, he eventually retired and passed away in Tybee Island, Georgia, so I guess at the time there were people whom were more senior than him at age 72, that still had a bit of influence that he did not have.  Of course on colder days in Florida, not all the seniors went out and explored to see whom was around.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 2:20 A.M.:  Wired News: Bush Grabs New Power for FBI .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 2:10 A.M.:  New stuff http://www.demo.com .  Maybe the Chinese of the Japanese have come up with a robot that does mind working in the cold weather.  My personal viewpoint is the human experience is more adaptable.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 2:00 A.M.: Car story from Michigan HollandSentinel.com -Toyota, Honda boast record sales 01/05/04 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 2:00 A.M.:  Of course, once having been in the hospitality business, we also try to be prepared to entertain on a year round business.  I emptied my eight ice trays in the refrigerator freezer into a triple layer group of three plastic CVS bags, and I put the loose ice back in the freezer, and I refilled the ice trays.  The ice in the freezer trays tends to evaporate in the dry conditions of the freezer.  This weather locally is suppose to continue on until this Monday when it warms up a bit http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=06830 .  Of course on this Monday, there might be snow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 1:35 A.M.:  I turned on the DeLonghi oil filled radiator behind my computer chair, and I set it at medium and temperature selection of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6.  At the moment it is 18 degrees Fahrenheit outside, but tomorrow night, it is suppose to go down to 9 degrees Fahrenheit.  Cold snaps do not usually last two long around here, but back around January 21, 1982, it was 24 degrees Fahrenheit below zero here, so that was the last time I tried to venture down to Key West on my own, since I did not have any place to stay here.  However, when I got down to Key West, Florida they were not very friendly, because the United States government people down there thought that the United States government was more important than private capitalist enterprise.  Sooner or later, the United States government people living off the tax payers' money are going to learn that a great many hard working tax payers pay money to operate the United States of America government, and even people like myself living on disability income spend a great deal of time volunteering based on an advanced expensive education and years of experience.  Thus individuals whom think they know it all, might need a little bit more experience, until they begin to realize that people up north spend a great deal of time in the warmer months getting ready for the colder months, so they have time to be warm and comfortable at home.  As I have said before, it is not necessary to be using energy to heat up cast iron in an automobile, when one can use the same energy to be warm and comfortable at home.  Of course if one were out in an automobile running the engine and the car heater to stay warm on a cold night, it is frequently advised to leave the automobile window open a small bit, so in case the carbon monoxide fumes coming from the automobile are leaking into the car, some fresh air will also get into the car, so one does not get carbon monoxide poisoning.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 1:15 A.M.:  I studied the Solutia www.solutia.com web site to see what products they make.  Of course in this cooler weather, we could have a Siberian tiger downtown too or even a Mountain Lion or Cougar.  Whenever, I get around to venturing out, I will have to keep an eye out for White Snow Geese or even a White Fox.  The north woods are full of hungry animals on the prowl when it gets cold, and not all of them hibernate.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 12:30 A.M.:  According to this information Chemstrand is now part of http://www.solutia.com/pages/corporate/ and not Monsanto, unless of course Monsanto owns Solutia.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/08/04  Thursday 12:10 A.M.:  According to this http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/jangrw04.htm , it is high tide presently and a full moon, so the fishing might be good off the pier on Steamboat Road, but with a 20 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, the only think one might catch is an Orca or Killer Whale.  I have never seen anyone catch an Atlantic salmon there.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 11:50 P.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  Back in the winters of 1976-1977, 1977-1978, and briefly in 1978-1979, and again briefly in 1982, I spent time around an old abandoned hotel in Key West, Florida from 1977 to 1978 when it was under renovation and full of a couple of hundred stray cats.  It is still called the Casa Marina, which in Spanish means "Castle by the Sea" http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/ .  Of course, there must have been a bunch of communists down in Key West, since for all the work and time, I spent keeping an eye on that hotel, they never paid me.  If I am not mistaken, the property of the Casa Marina is not owned by the hotel itself, but it is on long term lease from the United States government.  Thus, certain people with political connections are living high on the hog down in Key West with low cost rent from the United States government.  Originally the Casa Marina was renovated by the Marriott Hotel corporation with financing from the Equitable Life Insurance Company out of Illinois.  The http://www.wyndham.com/ resort network seems to be out of Dallas, Texas, so I guess they now are in charge down there.  However, at the same time I was around the Casa Marina, I also used to be around members of Mel Fisher's dive expedition to recover lost gold that they eventually found in Key West.  Locally here in Greenwich, there were members of local established Greenwich families whom also lived in Key West, so although I was never paid, I did spend quite a bit of time down there, and I did work keeping an eye on the island.  More than likely the individuals whom did not want me keeping an eye on the area drank too much Caribbean rum, so while they were having a fun time, I was not drinking, and I was trying to keep an eye on the area based on my experience in Florida.  Also my father's first wife's family own the Banking company that had a branch office down there too.  Thus, I suppose if I had hired a lawyer and was a bit cleaver, I could have become more established down there.  However, basically being a northern individual, it was more of an adventure.  When I was down there, people were basically dirt poor, so since it appeared that my friends and myself might have some financial backing we were well received.   Whatever, the case my friends down there mostly all had Washington D.C. contacts, so I guess when the elected political officials changed, their influence down there also changed.  Thus I do not venture down into that area, since I do not feel like sleeping on the beach or in my car.  Much the same could be said for California.  Basically, I have a comfortable apartment here after 20 years, and I am warm and comfortable, so I do not need to waste my time exploring that long since forgotten pirate's lair.  In terms of United States capitalists, there were people affiliated with the Coca Cola company and the Dupont company whom maintained an interest in south Florida, because they had friends there whom had lost substantial properties when the Communists took over Cuba, and they some day hoped to reclaim those properties.  Since before we moved here to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1961, my father was a top ranking corporate executive in a company called Chemstrand owned by Monsanto that had manufacturing facilities in Pensacola, Florida we had an established network of corporate friends with contacts in Florida and neighbors whom were gainfully employed by the United States Navy, so at the time we had some sort of established respectability in that region.  However times change.  I still have established family members in other locations in Florida, so my adventures in Florida at that period were my attempt to establish myself there.  I also having spent time down there know of other established people in that area.  However, as one friend once told me, "Fish and House Guests Stink after Three Days", I am not sure I would be welcomed back into those areas, if I were not adequately financed.  I suppose other people down there have become more established, so they do need the financial security that my network of friends was once able to offer them.  However, when the major players in that area come into focus, I am sure some of them are still paying off their mortgages and debts that they accumulated in that area trying to settle into that area.  Basically the United States Government is not giving anyone a free ride, so the fact that I was down there, would indicate that I was qualified back then to be down there.  Of course when one is a northern person walking around on hot days in the south Florida winter, one tends to smell a bit from the accumulated perspiration.  However, the longer one spends time in south Florida, one's blood thins out, and one gradually becomes less able to adapt to the colder temperatures up north.  Thus more than likely there are new arrivals in this area as always whom are not as comfortable with the colder temperatures in this area.  I will now print out the Greenwich Harbor tide charts for the next six months http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/tidectw.htm .  I know someone who has friends in the United States Navy whom is suppose to be use to colder weather in this area, so he or his friends are suppose to keep an eye on this area in colder weather.  Of course for all I know the only people downtown are Yeti and a Polar Bear and a white wolf.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 10:35 P.M.:  Today is Russian Christmas.  I checked to make sure the Holiday lights were working outside in front of the building, and they are working.  I am just about ready to have a cup of Salada orange pekoe tea with a tablespoon of lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 10:10 P.M.:  I rested until 9 P.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I have my flannel pajama pants on with sweat shirt, my GAP full length long underwear, and my heavy terry cloth bathrobe, so I am warm enough.  It is 71.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment, and it is 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  I suppose it will get colder tonight.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 12:40 P.M.:  I made up a batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  This time I used a 6.5 ounce dry weight can of California medium black pitted olives.  I also made an ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm , but this time I used Dole Tuscany greens salad mixture instead of Spinach, and I did not use tomatoes, carrots, and broccoli.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used 2% low fat extra sharp cheddar cheese.  For the onion portion, I used one fourth of a large diced yellow or Spanish onion.  I had the salad with iced tea.  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap.  Underneath my sweat shirt and flannel pajama bottoms, I am also wearing inside my GAP full length long underwear.  It is 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 11:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the ATM machine at the Bank of New York in Port Chester, New York.  I then went by the VitaminShoppe at the A&P shopping center in Port Chester, New York.  I bought VitaminShoppe multivitamins one daily with Lutein and Lydopene and no iron 100 tablets $12.57, 100 capsules of Deodorized Garlic 500 $5.37, 100 capsules of B-12 500 mcg. $4.76, Coral Calcium 1500 mg. 90 capsules $16.17, C-500 100 capsules $5.37, E-400 IU with wheat germ oil and lecithin 100 softgels $10.77, Niacinamide 500 mg. 100 capsules $4.76, B-Complex 100 capsules $7.58, and MSM 1000 three hundred capsules $32.36 for $99.71 total.  I then returned home.  I will store my new vitamins and supplements in the VitaminShoppe bag on the right living room closet shelf until I need them, which will be soon when the current bottles in the center kitchen cupboard start running out.  This is all part of my normal routine.  It is 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 9:25 A.M.:  I did a C: drive to D: drive backup on the primary computer in seven parts.  I ran Norton SpeedDisk afterwards.  After I ate breakfast I showered and cleaned up.  The computer is running just fine.  I now have 38,800 miles on my Hyundai.  It is 17 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  I will now stop by the ATM machine at the Bank of New York in Port Chester, New York, and then I will go by the VitaminShoppe www.vitaminshoppe.com in Port Chester, New York at the A&P shopping center, and then I will return home.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/07/04  Wednesday 6:30 A.M.:  I woke up earlier, and I ate a Quaker low fat white cheddar corn cake.  I was awake at 6:15 A.M..  I will now run Norton Disk Doctor, and then I will do a seven part C: to D: drive backup.  I will have breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/06/04  Tuesday 11:40 P.M.:  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso Rich and Hearty creamy chicken with wild rice soup, which I ate with about 15 croutons and a glass of iced tea.  I did a backup with System restore, and I used disk cleanup to remove the old System restore files.  I still have over 3 gigabytes of disk space free on the C: drive.  Tomorrow I will do a backup.  I am not sure whether I will do a seven part backup or use the Automated System Recovery Wizard and do one entire backup file.  The disadvantage of one entire backup file is that if it became corrupted, one would lose the entire backup.  However, using my seven part backup procedure, I am not sure if I am backing up the entire system or not.  I do recall once restoring the system with the backup files since using Windows XP for over a year, so I think that procedure works.  I am also not sure with Automated System Recovery, if one can restore individual files or not, which is occasionally necessary.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  It is 20 degrees Fahrenheit here right now so try to stay warm. CIO

Note: <888> 01/06/04  Tuesday 10:55 P.M.:  After the last message, I uninstalled Windows XP SP2 beta, and it uninstalled and returned the system to its original configuration quickly and without any problems.  I then installed Windows XP SP1 and all of the other updates.  I then tried to print out with the PaperPort 6.5 program from the Visioneer 4400 USB scanner, but it would not print.  I then uninstalled the PaperPort 6.5 program and the scanner drivers including the including the C:\Windows\twain_32\VISCAN folder.  I used the registry editor, and I deleted all references in the registry to "Visioneer", "PaperPort", and "ScanSoft".  I then installed the Visioneer Software with the USB driver for both the Visioneer 4400 scanner and the WIA-42 Bit USB Scanner 1.0 (32-32) driver both of which are available from Visioneer.  After rebooting, I printed out without any problems the scanned copies of my new DieHard International battery receipts from Sears.  I printed out three copies, one of which I will put in the Hyundai glove compartment.  However, when I rebooted again the Visioneer 4400 PaperPort 6.5 program would not print out.  I tried reinstalling the software again, and it printed out, but when I rebooted, it would not print out.  I chatted with a friend.  I then searched the www.paperport.com web site, and I found a patch for PaperPort 6.5 http://knowledgebase.scansoft.com/view.asp?tnID=920 , and I downloaded and installed the patch and rebooted the computer and the Visioneer 4400 scanner with PaperPort 6.5 now works perfectly fine without any problems.  I guess when I installed the refresh of Windows XP with the upgrade option before installing Windows XP SP2 beta, I erased the PaperPort 6.5 patch that I had forgotten about.  This all took quite a bit of time, and I also ran Norton WinDoctor a few times, which I will do so again right now.  The primary computer system is running just fine.  Basically the Epson Stylus Color 880 printer driver would not work with Windows XP SP2 beta, so I now have the more stable XP system without the new features of XP SP2 beta.  I also copied the PaperPort 6.5 patch to a CD, and I put it with my Visioneer 4400 CD.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/06/04  Tuesday 4:55 P.M.:  After the last message, I tried copying my sales receipts from Sears for the new battery.  My Visioneer Scanner 4400 USB scanner worked, but it would not print out.  I tried reinstalling the Visioneer Scanner 4400 USB Paperport program, and it still would not work.  I finally figured out the scanner program was set to my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer, however when I tried to change it to my Minolta PagePro 1250W laser printer, it would not change.  I finally determined that my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer would not work with Windows XP SP2 beta, so I used the add remove programs to uninstall the Windows XP SP2 beta.  Thus my system is in the state when I reinstalled Windows XP from the Windows XP cdrom Update option.  Now I have to installed Windows XP SP1 and the other updates.  I backed up my system first with System Restore.  I had had some other minor problems with the Windows XP SP2 beta like system instability with the mouse cursor, and I guess it will be best not to use it.  I will now install the updates.  With the uninstall of Windows XP SP2 beta, the system seems to be running fine, and it is still configured the same way.  Of course the Windows XP firewall will not work with Norton Internet Security 2004, which I do have installed still.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/06/04  Tuesday 3:00 P.M.:  I was up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the central Greenwich post office, and I obtained three money orders at .90 cost each to pay my Verizon telephone bill, Cablevision television, and Cablevision Optimum Online cable modem, and I mailed the payments for the bills.  I sat out downtown briefly.  I then drove over to White Plains, New York via Glenville Road, King Street, and Anderson Hill Road.  Sears has moved from it old to location to the Galleria Mall, and they have an automobile service center there off the parking garage area.  I think they might have a larger store there, but I just saw the automobile and hardware areas, but the store from the outside looks bigger.  I noticed they have Christmas items in the hardware department for 50% off and including fruitcake reduced from $30 to $15.  I did not see it, but they might have a larger store than what I saw.  I got my Michelin tires that I bought at the old store on August 28, 2002 rotated after about 7,400 miles usage.  There was no charge for the rotation which is included in the price that I paid for the new tires.  Since the original battery in my Hyundai was a month less than five years old, I decided to have it replaced too.  I bought the DieHard International Automotive Batteries at sears.com Diehard International Battery  sales slip number PS 22833347 International Group 47 for $99.99 plus $12.99 service charge and $9.04 tax for $122.02.  I toured the Sears Automotive hardware section while I had the car serviced.  In the Food Court of the Galleria Mall, I used the Bank of America ATM machine for a $2 charge.  The sales price on the Sears International Battery included turning in the old battery which was original when the car was new.  The reason, I buy my tires and car batteries at Sears www.sears.com is that although I infrequently travel, if I ever had to travel, there are a great many Sears stores in North America, where I could get the tires and battery serviced under the Sears warranty.  The Sears web site indicates, I needed the DieHard International #31247 battery, but they installed the #33347 battery which the web site refers one from the #33347 to the #31247.  More than likely #33347 is for colder climates, where #31247 is for warmer climates.  Thus I have the DieHard #33347 battery in my Hyundai.  The new Sears International battery has a three year warranty.  I next toured CompUSA in White Plains.  I then returned home by the same way that I drove over there.  I then chatted with a relative.  I reheated the garlic herbal boneless breast of chicken and steamed rice that I made yesterday, and I ate it with steamed fresh cut asparagus and iced tea.  I am just about to drink a 50% - 50% Folgers' instant regular and instant decaffeinated coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/06/04  Tuesday 12:15 A.M.:  I have enough cold weather clothing if I remember to wear it.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/06/04  Tuesday 12:05 A.M.:  Weather Underground: Agata, Russia Forecast -minus 57 degrees F. right now .  Cooler weather due here for the rest of the week Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut 9 degrees F. on this Thursday Forecast .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 11:55 P.M.:  Obscure Key West, Florida trivia that Jimmy Buffett the former resident of Key West is actually from Montana Weather Underground: Montana is cold right now! .  Let's hope the cold does not come our way.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 11:35 P.M.:  Dutch pet cats The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network: Baby Tiger Cubs Out for a Stroll .  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a piece of the apple pie along with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 10:35 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the first section of the Greenwich Times.  The other sections were not available.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and they have their remaining Christmas items at 50% to 90% off.  I bought a Dover and York wood remote control holder with two compartments for 90% off for .99 plus .06 tax for $1.05 total.  I then completed my walk.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  They have a large number of poinsettia plants at the dumpster area at the lower level parking area at the Greenwich Train station office building.  They would do better in a warmer environment.  I just now returned home.  I put the remote control holder on the TEAC DVD player with the other similar remote control holder with the remaining remote controls in it.  I drank some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 7:00 P.M.:  I had a telephone call at 5 P.M. about a legal matter that I might be able to help out on.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out as soon as I dress warmly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 1:20 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 1:00 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then drove over to Old Greenwich, and I went to Off Center Hair Stylists, and I had my hair cut for $18 plus $5 tip for $23 total.  I then went by the Rummage Room Thrift Shop.  I next went by the Old Greenwich CVS, and I bought three Dover and York gift packages for 75% off.  I bought the Dover and York Calendar, World Time Clock, Calculator with a wooden base and bell alarm for $3.25, the Dover and York Sound Soothing Machine with five sounds of mountain stream, summer night, ocean, heartbeat, and spring rain, with a power off timer, and ear phone jack for $3.75, and the Dover and York Multi Purpose Emergency Tool with a dual point glass breaker and seat belt cutter in a reflective case with mounting bracket for $2.49 plus .57 tax for $10.06 total.  I put the emergency tool with instructions in the space in front of my Hyundai gear shift underneath the dashboard.  I then drove around Tod's Point.  The tide was very high.  I next drove back to downtown Greenwich, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Arnold Bakery outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold Branola Country oat bread for .99 and a Entenmann's Countrystyle apple pie for $1.89 less senior discount of .29 for $2.59 total.  I then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes for $31 total.  I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea, and I ate a piece of apple pie.  The world clock came with two LR-44 button cell batteries included, and I removed the plastic tab to keep them from working, and the clock started up.  I set the time and date.  I put it on the right front of my HP LaserJet IID printer on the dining room table, so I now have a calendar as well as time and the calculator.  I put in for 4 Energizer AA batteries in the soothing sound machine, and it works just fine.  I left if on the brass and glass coffee tables in between the two couches for relaxing sounds.  I left the instructions for the two items on the brass Eiffel Towel plate on my dining room table.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 8:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 8:05 A.M.:  http://www.marsinstitute.info/ news from the Red planet.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 7:45 A.M.:  I am still reading some of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I also watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 6:25 A.M.:  I ate two mandarin oranges.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 6:10 A.M.:  Watching Microsoft Like A Hawk - Microsoft News Watch Site .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 5:45 A.M.:  I updated http://www.atomtime.com/download.html .  I am going through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 5:25 A.M.:  I ate one fourth of a bag of Lays K.C. Masterpiece Barbeque potato chips along with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 4:25 A.M.:  The entire file group for Scott's Notes for the last six years and seven months is available for download from Scott's Notes from June 1997 through December 2002, 3.05 Mbytes http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsnote1.zip contains "mlsnote1.doc" pages 1 - 1582 and "mlsnote2.doc" January 2002 through December, 2003 pages 1583 - 2855" .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 4:05 A.M.:  I printed out a copy of my last four month's Scott's Random notes.  It is 270 pages long, and I put it in two Oxford Clip binders, which I left on the near end of the blue sofa for easy reading.  In a couple of days, I will put them with the other Oxford Clip binders in the left bookcase in the hallway.  The entire printout of the notes for the last six year and seven months is 2855 pages long, so it is a long stack of Oxford Clip binders in the left hallway bookcase.  I used my trusty old HP LaserJet IID laser printer, which is good for heavy duty printing.  It probably has less than a thousand sheets usage on the present toner cartridge, so it should be good for another two thousand pages.  I print out in Post Script Times Roman 12 Bold, so it uses a bit more toner in the printout.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 2:30 A.M.:  I watched a little bit of television while I was having my coffee.  I will now print out the last four months of my Scott's Random Notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 1:25 A.M.:  Dinner was delicious.  I am just about ready to have a cup of coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 12:50 A.M.:  For any stranded night owls who are hungry or cold, and providing one has Unites States of America wampum, the Glory Days Diner on East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut is usually opened 24 hours a day seven days a week, so one can take refuge there and eat to one's heart's content.  However, here on the more frugal side of town, I am cooking the same dinner as last night. I took two Purdue boneless breasts of chicken breast, and I rinsed them off in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.  I put them in a Pyrex pie dish, and I rub both sides with a little olive oil.  I then seasoned both sides with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, and basil.  I put about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine in the dish with a few tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I put six minced gloves of garlic on the top of the boneless chicken breasts.  I will cook them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I will eat one of the chicken breasts with reheated steamed white rice, and I will put the cooking juices on both the chicken and the rice.  I also will have steamed fresh asparagus, and I will eat the dinner with a glass of iced tea.  I will refrigerate the other cooked boneless chicken breast for use later.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 12:10 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 11:55 P.M.:  Free cars Big GM incentive: free cars - Jan. 4, 2004 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  I was up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched some television.  I went back to bed until 10 P.M..  I just cleaned up.  I will not being going out, since it is a cool damp night out.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 10:10 A.M.:  I finished running the utilities on the HP Kayak XA computer, and it is all running fine.  I shut it down.  I have the bedroom LAN cable connected to the AMD backup computer on the brass and glass coffee table on top of the Danish desk, but the LAN cable can be switched around easily.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 9:45 A.M.:  I ate two Mandarin oranges.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 9:20 A.M.:  On the HP Kayak XA computer, I changed the IDE Cdrom from Cable Select to Master.  The computer then booted without any problems from the CD.  I replaced the defective file.  I rebooted without the CD, and the computer is running just fine, and it is all configured.  It has about 1.5 gigabytes of free space on the 4.5 gigabyte hard drive.  I have it back in the bedroom underneath the sideboard.  I am running a utility on it.  Well it is all running just fine, so I now have four backup computers that can go online, and another one that can not go online besides the primary computer which obviously can go online.  Well, it took some time, but the HP Kayak XA seems to be running fine.  When I changed the Cdrom to IDE Master, it was also recognized as to the specific type it is.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 6:40 A.M.:  I shut down the HP Kayak XA computer, and I put it back in the bedroom underneath the sideboard.  Unfortunately when I booted it with the other Dell monitor in the bedroom, it would not start saying that I had a corrupt file that needed repair.  I can not boot the CDrom at the moment to try to repair it, since the CDrom does not boot.  The CDrom is set to Cable Select, and if maybe I set it as the Master IDE device, it might boot, when I select the CD boot option.  I will work on this at a later date when I have more time.  It is just one of many backup computers that I have, so it is not critical.  I had it all configured, and it was working just fine, until I moved it into the bedroom and tried to boot it.  It might be that it has a faulty SCSI controller or hard drive, but during the many reboots during installation and configuration, I had no problems with it.  Well, it just goes to show the best efforts can frequently be to no avail.  Still, in working with the HP Kayak XA computer, I learned something about the older technology.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 4:25 A.M.: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html  or same Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html with feed on the NASA Mars Rover.  I also went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  I am still configuring the HP Kayak XA computer.  I will use it as another emergency backup computer, so I will not be using it regularly, except to check it to make sure it is still working.  Configuration is coming along just fine, and I about done configuring it, and then I will run some utilities on it.  It has a 300 MHz Pentium II processor with 160 megs of memory, so it just has enough horsepower to run the programs that I have put on it.  Well, I guess we could call it part of the "Dumpster Computer Repair Skunk Works Project".  Sound is working on it, so I will put the headphone set from the AMD backup computer which has speakers anyway.  It also has the HP Lan card and another Lan card, so technically it could be used for networking.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  I am still working on configuring the HP Kayak XA computer.  I made this dinner.  I took one Purdue boneless breast of chicken breast, and I rinsed it off in cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel.  I put it in a Pyrex pie dish, and I rub both sides with a little olive oil.  I then seasoned both sides with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, and basil.  I put about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine in the dish with a few tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I put five minced gloves of garlic on the top of the chicken.  I cooked it in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I had the chicken with steamed white rice, and I put the juices on both the chicken and the rice.  I also had steamed fresh asparagus and broccoli, and I ate the dinner with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 11:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 10:45 P.M.:  I was awake at 3 P.M., when a friend called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to sleep until 7 P.M..  I vacuumed my apartment, so the house cleaning is now done.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I stopped by CVS.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I briefly sat out at the Greenwich Library.  It was damp out, so I did not walk.  I went by the Exxon gasoline next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $2 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.839 a gallon for about 30 miles per gallon.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice original flavor for $2 each half gallon, a Marie Callender chicken tenders dinner for $3, fresh asparagus at $2.49 a pound for $2.46, a 19 ounce bottle of Texas Best Barbeque sauce original rib style flavor for $2.99, a quart of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $2.99, a Spanish yellow onion at .99 a pound for .84, a bulb of fresh garlic at $2.99 a pound for .48, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $3.99, and just before the asparagus, they rang up an unknown item as the same weight at the asparagus "Sar Grnd Chourco" for $3.70, which was the cost of the Purdue boneless breasts of chicken at $1.99 a pound for $3.70 for $28.45 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I drank some iced tea.  I just chatted with a couple of relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 7:15 A.M.:  I will finish configuring the HP Kayak XA backup computer later on today, when I wake up.  I shut it down.  I went through my email.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/03/04:

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 6:15 A.M.:  I am mostly finished with the configuration of the HP Kayak XA backup computer.  I still have at least another hour or two to finish it off.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 4:55 A.M.:  I am still configuring the HP Kayak XA backup computer.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used the Dole Tuscany salad greens instead of spinach.  For the cheddar cheese part, I used Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and 2% low fat extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 3:25 A.M.:  I am still configuring the backup HP Kayak XA computer.  I took the World Wildlife Federation www.wwf.org 2003 calendar off the refrigerator door, and I put it to the left of the AMD backup computer in the bedroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 1:55 A.M.:  Since I have not been doing much reading off the internet this morning, I have been listening to 106.7 FM with my Emerson wireless headphones.  I am recharging the spare pair of rechargeable batteries, and they will be charged at 8 A.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 1:25 A.M.:  I was up at 7 P.M. this past evening.  The HP Kayak XA computer would not work, so decided to format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.  I have just finished doing that.  I will start configuring it shortly.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  While installing the operating system on the HP Kayak XA computer, I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I still have to do the vacuuming, which I will do after 9 A.M. in the morning, when I will not disturb my neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 11:45 A.M.:  I had problems configuring the HP Kayak XA computer, so I shut it down for now.  I finished eating the can of smoked almonds.  I will now have some iced tea, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 8:00 A.M.:  I am still working on the systems maintenance upgrade on the HP Kayak XA computer.  I chatted with a friend.  I drank some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 4:55 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  I put the iced tea away in the refrigerator.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 3:25 A.M.:  I am installing some updates on the backup HP Kayak XA computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 2:30 A.M.:  As a point of reference, a relative asked me today how much I weigh.  I just weighed myself on my bathroom scale, and I presently weigh 208 pounds before eating my primary meal of the day.  I will probably have my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm in about another hour or so.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 2:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove over to Walgreen's in Old Greenwich, and I bought two nine ounce cans of Walgreen's smoked almonds for $1.99 each can, three 11 ounce cans of Madam mandarin oranges for $1 all, and three eight ounce Air Wick air fresheners in three scents, Green Apple and Honeysuckle, Crisp Breeze, and Sparkling Citrus for .99 each with the store circular coupons for the Madam mandarin oranges and the Air Wick air fresheners  plus .18 tax  for $8.13 total.  I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I then returned home.  I am making up a batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm using one each of the five different types of Twinings 25 pack of five different Twinings tea, eight America's Choice orange pekoe tea bags, one Salada orange pekoe tea bag, four Lipton green tea bags, and two Bigelow orange pekoe tea bags.  I am not using sugar either.  I ate six medium handfulls of smoked almonds along with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 10:25 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up and go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I am microwaving a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 13 ounce glazed chicken dinner, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 9:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I watched the New Years concert from Vienna, Austria with Walter Cronkite hosting the show.  I only saw about the last two thirds of the show.  I listened to it with my headphones connected to my stereo amplifier connected to my television.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 8:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I ate two mandarin oranges.  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 6:45 P.M.:  I was up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television.  I rested a bit more.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 4:55 A.M.:  I ate two mandarin oranges.  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 3:40 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I put the glove box organizer in my Hyundai glove box, and I put the insurance and registration information in the glove box organizer to have it handy.  I mailed the large envelope at the Valley Road Post Office.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 1:20 A.M.:  I installed the Red Hat Linux 9.0 updates on the Dell backup computer.  I printed out a report.  While I was looking for a large envelope to mail it, I found two souvenir coffee cups in my desk drawer with a large number of spare ink pens.  I put the two souvenir coffee cups with the ink pens in them on the Danish end table on the right side of the bedroom desk to the right side of the IBM Cyrix computer.  I found a large mailing envelope, and I will go out shortly to mail the report.  I will put the computer on standby.  I will also put the glove box organizer in my Hyundai glove box, and I will put the insurance and registration cards in the glove box organizer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 12:05 A.M.:  Happy New Years!  CIO