Note: <888> 01/31/08 Thursday 10:55 P.M..  I woke up at 11 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I threw out some garbage, and I picked up the mail.  I chatted with the building custodian.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I mailed the letter that I put together last night at the Valley Road Post Office.  I then went by the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I then went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I bought a Cool Cash scratch card at the Greenwich Cigar store for a dollar, but I lost.  I chatted with someone from California.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store to let them know I am still around.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought three 16 ounce containers of Sunsweet Premium Mediterranean dried apricots for $1.99 each for $5.97 total.  I noticed during my walk, the large GAP store has gone out of business, and they are going to demolish the building, and I was told they are going to build a department store in that location.  I completed my walk, and I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center again.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I ordered off the internet

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Note: <888> 01/31/08 Thursday 4:30 A.M..  Earlier I ate a 1/5th piece of French butter crumb cake.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/08 Thursday 3:40 A.M..  A relative wanted a copy of another relative's Christmas card.  When I went to use the Samsung all purpose machine, I had to change the USB cable from the 7 port USB adapter to the last USB port on the primary Vista CPU to get it to work.  I scanned the Christmas card, and I sent it to my relatives.  It took a bit of time.  I also used up to many resource, and the computer had to be restarted with the restart button.  The primary Vista computer with SP1 RC2 revision 2 now still take 12 to 15 minutes to still boot up completely.

$5 of $20 at www.walgreens.com today Hot Buys: Store Coupons and Savings | Walgreens .  Of course it would cost me $20 in gas to probably drive over there.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/31/08 Thursday 1:30 A.M..  I did some routine computer work.  I set up the VistaPrint address ink stamp, but I left it in its plastic zip lock bag on the dining table, so it does not dry out.  I opened up the XX Large T-shirt with my picture with the Audi on the waterfront.  I do not plan to wear it, but I put it on a plastic hanger, and I hung it over the nautical chart of Guadalupe to Trinidad behind the bathroom door, so it is seen when one closes the bathroom door.  I put 10 calling cards, 5 of the small post cards and two magnetic calendars with the same picture on them, and I put them in an envelope to mail to a relative with 92 cents postage on it for 3 ounces first class hard object envelope.  I have my usual 3 P.M. appointment today.  I deposited two days ago my $10 Knowledge Networks survey check, and I filled out another survey earlier this evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 10:40 P.M..  Endowing an Elite Prep School - The New York Times > Business > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 9  . The last alumnus I met from Exeter turned out to be a serial killer.

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 8:45 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I took a Revere five quart pot, and I filled it two thirds full with water, and I put it on the large electric burner, and I turned it on high, and I added a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  It took about 15 minutes to boil with a lid on. I took a large stick proof frying pan, and I added a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and a couple of pads of 50% less fat butter.  I then peeled and minced two cloves of garlic, and I put them in the frying pan.  I then peeled and diced two medium small onions.  I then took a 8 ounce defrosted top round of beef London broil burger, and I chopped it into about half inch chunks.  I then turned on the frying pan to medium high, and once the fat began to bubble, I added the onions and the chopped meat.  I then seasoned it with garlic powder, Old Bay Seasoning, chicken and meat seasoning, beef bouillon seasoning, Italian spices, red cayenne pepper, bacon bits and ground black pepper.  I sautéed it all under the meat was browned and the onions were blanched.  I then added a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi tomato sauce, and I mixed it all together adding a couple of tablespoon of Kikkoman low sodium soy sauce.  I brought it all to a boil, and then I put a lid on it, and I let it simmer covered with a lid over medium electric burner heat lowering it half way through to medium low and stirring it every few minutes or so.  While doing that, once the pot of water began to boil, I added a 16 ounce box of Barillo fettuccini, and I boiled it for 12 minutes stirring it occasionally.  Once it was done, I put a colander in another large pot, and I drained the water off the cooked fettuccini into the other pot.  I then put half of the fettuccini on a dinner plate, and I put the other half in a flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I then put half of the tomato sauce on the fettuccini, and I put the other half in a round Rubbermaid container with lid, which I put in the refrigerator.  I dumped the hot water from the draining pot down the bathroom sink to clean out the soap scum.  I put a few tablespoons of Kraft grated parmesan cheese on the tomato and pasta dinner.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now go through my email.  It appears the problem with the primary Vista computer rebooting was caused by the Cablevision Digital TV cable plugged into the Hauppauge 1600 HDTV card, and since I disconnected it, it has not flashed the blue screen and crashed.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 5:40 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hummingbird 'uses tail to chirp'  .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 5:30 P.M..  After I showered, and I cleaned up, I went downstairs, and I picked up the mail. I said hello to the building custodian and his visiting family and a neighbor.  With all of the Italians at www.ibm.com "Italian Business Machines" , their most important vendor is Planet Pizza .  I heard in the old days, they use to smuggle in motherboards in pizza boxes.  If the FIC server motherboard should go on the fritz, I have a spare identical FIC Via 400 motherboard which would work, and it is the same as the current motherboard, but it is not Via 600.  Of course my primary Vista computer Gigabyte motherboard and the two Gigabyte spare ones and the other spare one are all Via 600.  I also have a heck of a lot of other spare parts including CPU coolers and case fans and IDE cables and one good spare power supply,  and a new generic power supply, and a new 320 gigabyte Maxtor hard drive, so in a desktop CPU failure, I probably would be able to do onsite repairs in a day without ordering parts.  This morning, when I was trouble shooting the network system, I exchanged the FR114P Netgear Router from Mission Viejo, California with the one from Minnesota, and there is no problem with either one of them.  There is the possibility with the higher price of fuel in the United States of America, the internet infrastructure is not being maintained as well as it once used to be maintained, and possibly the technicians are not able to service the equipment as much as usual.  The parking lot for the ice skating rink in the back yard is full, so the town of Greenwich, Connecticut Welcome to the official Town of Greenwich Connecticut Web site is still maintaining that facility up to standard.  I have only been over there once in 24 years, and that was 21 years ago to take a friend of mine from Sao Paulo, Brazil ice skating. Although I have a strong pair of legs, I would be awkward ice skating, and I do not feel like breaking anything. CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 4:05 P.M..  I lost two days worth of email, when I restored the Vista Complete PC backup from the second hard drive to the first hard drive this morning.  However, I saved the few emails worth saving before the restore.  I will now shower and clean up.  It is not that expensive for me to shower and clean up, since last September, I bought at the Greenwich Hardware store http://www.greenwichhardware.com/  and installed a brass Find Deluxe Saver Shower Head and other Shower & Bath Repair at Aubuchon Hardware by Whedon Products The Flow Pro Model DS2C-AB Designer Saver Shower  Head which uses 1.8 to 2.5 gallons per minute at 80 PSI which can save $50 to $200 a year for $21.99 and a roll Teflon plumbers tape for free and $1.32 tax for $23.31 total.  Thus it is less expensive to shower and clean up every day, if I happen to have the time.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 3:40 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with www.cablevision.com .  I also chatted with a local security official.  I also chatted with a friend.   Since I am limited to my adventures downtown anymore because of the higher price of fuel, I know even less than I once knew.  Yesterday, I disconnected the Microsoft wireless 6000 laser mouse from the FIC server, since it is faulty mouse, but I left the wireless keyboard attached.  I installed the Microsoft cable wheel mouse from the Toshiba laptop on the FIC server, and I installed a similar Microsoft cable wheel mouse on the Toshiba laptop. 

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I will now shower and clean up, but I will not be going downtown, since I can not afford to observe the Starbucks laptop warriors as much anymore.

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 1:20 P.M..  I was up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I restored the Vista Complete PC backup from the second hard drive to the first hard drive.  I was able to get the FIC server to go online with Vista server by disabling the Via onboard LAN, and I am just using the Netgear card.  However, I could not get it to ftp from the primary Vista computer to the FIC server, so I started up the FIC server in XP, and it seems to work just fine.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/30/08 Wednesday 2:05 A.M..  I have the FIC server working from Vista Server Beta SP1, but I can not get it to work from XP on the other partition.  I also can not FTP between the primary Vista computer, and the FIC server with either partition running.  I have tested all of the options.  All that I can think to do is to try the other router to see if that makes  a difference.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  About midnight, I ate two fifths of a French butter crumb cake with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/08 Tuesday 11:45 P.M..  Both the FIC server, and the primary Vista computer were not displaying my homepage off the server.  I called up the Optimum Host provider at 1-800-504-5710 , and they told me to restart the computer and the router.  I eventually had the FIC server where they could see it in Vancouver, Canada, but my two computers here would not see it.  Both systems seem to be running fine now.  I saved the Router information, so it can be restored.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/29/08 Tuesday 6:20 P.M..  While watching the State of the Union address last night, I did a Vista Complete PC backup restore of the primary Vista computer, and the FIC server both partitions.  I left the server turned  off, when I went to bed.  I was awake at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I installed the recent updates on the FIC server XP partition, and I configured the most recent changes both on the XP and the Vista Server partitions.  On the FIC server, I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the XP and Vista partitions from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I picked up my mail.  I received the order for The VistaPrint Everything must go free sale , and I ordered 10 custom letterheads for free, 250 premium business cards for free, 10 vertical large magnets with the business card information for free, a free rubber stamp with my address, and a custom made extra extra large t-shirt with a picture myself and the Audi that is on my homepage for $1.99 extra for the larger size, a $69.44 value for $1.99 and $7.45 slow 21 day shipping from Minnesota for $9.44 total.  I put one of the magnet card on the refrigerator.  I went out, and I gave one calling card to a neighbor.  I went by the New Lebannon school, and I was told the Connecticut primary is not until February 5, 2008.  I then went by the Arnold Bread Outlet, and I bought two six packs of Thomas' plain bagels for .99 each six pack and a 14 ounce Entenmann's French butter crumb cake for $2.25 for $4.23 total.  I then drove around Grass Island.  I saw a Yacht from Antigua heading south for the winter leaving the harbor.  I then went by the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I gave one of their floor staff one of my calling cards.   I used the bathroom in the basement there.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a patron from Cyprus about what I have been doing over the last 24 years or more. I gave one of my calling cards to a regular library patron and the fellow from Cyprus.  I was told Cyprus is made up by two volcanoes.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought green Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound for $1.57.  I then returned home.  I noticed the Cablevision equipment room door is left opened on the second floor by the elevator with the light on, so maybe Cablevision is coming this evening.  I am doing a XP ASR backup of the XP partition on the FIC server, and I will then start the Vista Server 2008 beta sp1 on the FIC server.  Computers take a bit of maintenance.  CIO      

Note: <888> 01/29/08 Tuesday 12:35 A.M..  I have to vote in the Connecticut Republican Primary later on today.  Well, if I had been able to afford to buy some beach front property while I was living around the beach or traveling around the beach, I would be better off today.  Well, look at it this way, I don't have to worry about flooding.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 11:05 P.M..  I watched the State of the Union message.  From a Republican point of view, it was a very good speech.  I noticed one of the commentators said that the rebate bill would also include low income and social security individuals, so hopefully as an SSI recipient I will also get the rebate.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 8:35 P.M..  The President's www.whitehouse.gov is suppose to be delivered tonight at 9 P.M. on the major networks.  You can try to figure out if there are any robots in the audience of not.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 8:20 P.M..  I chatted with a relative earlier.  I disconnected the Cablevision cable that connects to the FIC server from the four way splitter in between the two laser printers.   Since neither computer has crashed or rebooted since I have them both disconnected, particularly the primary Vista computer, it would lead me to be believe my systems might be being hacked through the Cablevision cable.  Cablevision said today they do not put out a signal that would cause problems.  Possibly someone in the building or the neighborhood cable network is tampering with the Cablevision system.  However, from what I can tell both systems are still being hacked through the internet, and I am also getting denial of service attacks.  With technology today anything is possible.  When I chatted with the computer parts person on the order that was cancelled in Manhattan today, they told me they had visited Epcot center at www.disney.com recently on a 20 year old $85 ticket, when it costs more than three times that today.  I told him when I visited there in 1977 with Jimmy Eldert, I peaked behind a door that had been left ajar in an unopened exhibit, and I saw a lot of human robots, and then I explained that in the way technology has changed in 31 years since then, we could be dealing with robots today that look and act like real individuals.  For all we know the President www.whitehouse.gov is a Disney robot.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 4:55 P.M..   I searched the internet for any Netgear power adapters for the Netgear FR114P Prosafe Firewall/Print Server, and all I could find was used ones, so I ordered four of these similar products for 12VDC @ 800mA PLUG SUPPLY-MPJA, Inc. for $4.95 each for $19.80 subtotal and $8.86 UPS ground shipping for $28.66 total.  There is a $15 minimum order limit..  Thus I will have two power supplies for each of the three routers.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 1:20 P.M..  I went out, and I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 12:45 P.M..  I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I checked the mail, but it is not here yet.  I threw out the garbage, and I found two spare www.ge.com microwave round glass trays in a broken G.E. microwave by the dumpster.  When I was coming upstairs, I noticed the door to the Cablevision room with the stored air conditioners was left open.  I closed it.  Maybe somebody has been tampering with the Cablevision setup in the building.  I put the two spare G.E. glass trays in between the two small tables at the kitchen entrance.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/28/08 Monday 11:45 A.M..  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with four security officials about the computer and internet problems that I have been having.  The primary FIC server was once again hacked again by the Monday morning hacker.  When I booted the primary Vista computer, it has not crashed with the Cable TV cable disconnected from it, but all of the audio devices were not working, and I was able to enable them by disabling them and enabling them, so it would seem somebody is still hacking my computers through the internet.  Basically it would seem the computer and internet technology is not reliable as it exists today, and if I had an important message to get through, I would use a stamp and a letter and the post office, which seems to be more reliable.  CIO    

Note: <888> 01/27/08 Sunday 11:55 P.M..  Goldschmidt 2008:

Note: <888> 01/27/08 Sunday 11:35 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I watched a movie about tornadoes in Texas.  I watched a remake of the movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" .  I will now do some regular computer work.  The computer still crashes.  From what I can determine, it is one of about three problems.  Either a signal comes through the Cablevision Digital TV system connected to the Hauppauge TV card that causes it to crash.  The Nvidia drivers for the two Nvidia cards are faulty, and they cause the system to crash.  A third possibility is that some how through the electricity system, the system is tampered with which is possible.  Since it happens when the Cable Modem is turned off, it does not seem it is a hacker through the internet.  A four possibility is that there is some sort of undetected Trojan virus that causes it to crash at random intervals.  If I get another signal switcher, I could turn off the TV cable signal to the computer when I am not using it.  For now I disconnected the cable to the Hauppauge card from the cable switcher to see if that is causing the problem.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/27/08 Sunday 8:10 P.M..  I woke up at 7 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I went outside, and  checked out the outside environment.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I browsed the internet a bit.  I read the previous issues of www.forbes.com and the most recent issue of U.S. News and World Report.  I took a nap in the recliner.  I ate a 3.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips with some iced tea.  I took another nap in the recliner.  I watched the movie the "Godfather III" .  I've seen it before.  I chatted with a relative.  I microwaved a Stauffer's 21 ounce frozen lasagna, and I put some grated parmesan cheese on it with oregano, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  Not much happening out here in the far side of town.  I guess everyone is staying cabin bound, trying to save on energy, so hopefully they can continue to go to work and afford to live here.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/26/08:

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 11:00 P.M..  Lights off in U.K. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Britain 'facing energy shortfall' 

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 9:45 P.M..  I installed Vista SP1 RC1 Revision 2 from Windows Update, which as a beta tester I am able to do.  It was a no brainer.  I chatted with two relatives.  I ate a bowl of chicken Ramen noodles with some iced tea.  I ran some of the regular utilities.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  Well meanwhile back here in Little Switzerland not much is going on in this neck of the woods.  Since the internet does not seem to be very good for communications in the United States of America, since all communications are constantly monitored and intercepted, I guess we could go back to using Swiss Alpine Horns, if you get my drift.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 6:00 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up after the last note.  I turned off the DeLonghi oil filled radiator in the living room.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Library.  I checked out the same Vista Business book that I never got to read.  I gave my small Mike Scott Audi postal card to three library patrons.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a local walker while he was waiting for the movie, and I gave the local walker another small postal card.  I chatted with another village regular.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center.  The men's room on the ground floor in the senior and the arts center is probably the warmest room in town over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, if anyone from the equator needs a place to stay.  I chatted with another local.  I read the brochure at CVS.  I chatted with the owner of the ski shop at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and he seemed to know what I was chatting about.  I used the ATM at the Chase Bank at the middle of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out for a while.  I went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline, and I fillled up the tank buying $6.50 of premium self service gasoline at $3.799 a gallon for 1.711 gallons at local in town driving speeds of less than 30 miles per hour for 21.9 miles driving since this past Monday night odometer setting of 59,479 miles for 12.7995 miles per gallon.  I then returned home.  I turned on the DeLongi oil filled radiator, and put back on my leisure clothes and two pair of union suits.  I was told the Super Bowl is next weekend.  The football teams probably have to walk to Arizona, so they are having it later this year.  I think today would be my father Louis Dale Scott's 89th birthday if he were still alive.  Alas after all of the stress of the corporate world he passed away about 18 years ago at a younger age.  His last construction project was building an oil refinery for King Wilkinson construction in Kaduna, Nigeria for Mobil oil, most of the oil which being low sulfur oil was going to Japan.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 1:05 P.M..  I made and ate my usual sautéed burger with onions and cheese, which I ate it with a microwaved potato with low salt butter and microwaved baby carrots and broccoli crowns with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out for some downtown activity like a walk.  With the higher price of fuel for getting from here to there, I am not getting as many exercise walks in anymore.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 11:50 A.M..  As I have said before, this Bed Bath & Beyond Product Watergard™ Bath Mat for $14.99 plus shipping is the best thing one can do for home security.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 11:15 A.M..  I went out without cleaning up after the last note.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I went by the www.chase.com bank branch on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went by the www.mcdonalds.com on West Putnam Avenue, and I got a regular cup of coffee with two Equals and milk for a neighbor for $1.47 which my neighbor paid me for.  www.mcdonalds.com has Double Cheeseburgers through January 31, 2008 for .99.  I then returned home, and I gave the coffee to my neighbor.  I picked up my mail, and the most recent issues of www.forbes.com and www.aarp.org arrived.  I went ahead and ordered Netgear FS116 16-Port 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Switch: FS116NAR JustDeals.com Inc. for $22.95 and $1.95 shipping for $24.90 total.  Now I will have a good backup network switch for my computer network setup.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 9:45 A.M..  If I needed a spare Network Switch, this would meet my needs Netgear FS116 16-Port 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Switch: FS116NAR JustDeals.com Inc.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 9:25 A.M..  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  CIO   

Note: <888> 01/26/08 Saturday 8:25 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  Windows Update for Vista SP1 RC1 revision 2 still does not work.  I guess with Bills Gates in Swiss Cheese Country BBC NEWS | Business | Gates forecasts victory over spam , the kids back at www.microsoft.com are taking some time off and not working very hard.   I watched part of the Bloomberg Business news, and it said the United States economy is in a recession.  I remember during the recession in the early 1970s, investments in businesses such at Beer Budweiser, www.mcdonalds.com and movies did quite well during the recession in that period.  However, I am not sure whether that would still hold today.  CIO   

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 10:40 P.M..  I tried to download the latest update of Vista SP1 RC1 revision 2, but it is not downloading.  I have already uninstalled the earlier version.  I watched part of a Bob Hope movie while trying to do the download.  I ate the last of the goldfish crackers.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed.  Have a good night.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 7:50 P.M..  Scottish & Newcastle & Carlsberg & Heineken - Forbes.com

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 6:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 6:25 P.M..  I made a three egg omelet with Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and 1/3rd less fat Philadelphia cream cheese, two slices of toast with low salt butter, and five strips of Oscar Meyer bacon that I cooked in the microwave on a plate with paper towels.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I am now making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .  I chatted with a relative whom I will call back another relative in five minutes.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 4:50 P.M..  Tell the slaves, they better behave themselves Suspected killers -- beware of these guys - CNN.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 3:35 P.M..  Kennedy family has a Fire Sale BBC NEWS | Americas | Major fire grips Las Vegas hotel .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/08 Friday 2:50 P.M..  I woke up at 5:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a few local security officials about a few things that happened a long time ago.  I threw out the garbage, and the old periodical literature.  I chatted with the building custodian.  I watered my plants with Schultz fertilizer and water.  I chatted with a relative.  I did my regular house cleaning, which I had not done in six weeks.  It took about six hours.  I also used a small scrub brush to clean the inside of the toilet tank and I put in a new blue toilet tank tablet.  I also refilled the Glade Plug-in container in the kitchen with a 50% English Leather Cologne and a 50% 80% isopropyl alcohol mixture.  I took down the Saudi Arabian flag because it did not make it feel any warmer in the living room, besides I don't know how to read the Arabic on the flag anyway.  Perhaps http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm knows, since he speaks their language.  Besides in the New York City area, 70% of the energy comes from Canada.  I went outside, and I then picked up my mail.  About 11 A.M., I ate a bowl of chicken Ramen noodles with some iced tea.  CIO       

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 8:35 P.M..  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil.  I chatted with two friends.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 6:10 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up after the last note.  I went out, and I went downtown.  When I left my apartment building, the small odometer was at 9.1 miles.  I went downtown, and I drove down Greenwich as far as Fawcett Place, and then I drove over to Milbank Avenue, and I parked on Havemeyer Place.  I then walked over to the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift Shop, and I toured the store.  I gave the shop proprietor one of my small post cards.  I noticed they have two very nice colonial style hard wood dining chairs for $45 apiece.  I then stopped by the Senior and the Arts Center, and I gave one of their employees one of my small postal cards.  I then returned to my car, and I drove up Mason Street, and I went to the Greenwich Hospital for an appointment.  I gave my appointment a small postal card.  I parked in the lower level of the Helmsley Wing parking garage.  I then returned back to my apartment via the Lake Avenue circle down Glenville Road to Valley Road to West Putnam Avenue to my apartment.  According to my odometer that was a 10 mile trip which does not seem right.  I would think it would be half as much.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up my mail.  I relaxed a bit.  I chatted with a friend.  I went back outside, and I move my Audi to its usual location.  I then returned back to my apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 12:40 P.M.. I took another nap in the recliner.  I had a computer magazine telephone call.  I had a fund raising call from www.gop.com .  I made and ate the same sautéed burger with onions and cheese dinner with a microwaved potato with low salt butter and microwaved steamed baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will get ready to go out.  I have my usual 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 7:35 A.M..  At Davos, the Growling of Bears

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 7:05 A.M..  I took a nap in the Ethan Allen recliner next to the DeLonghi oil filled radiator underneath a comforter.  It is now 67.1 degrees Fahrenheit near that location.  I will see if it costs me less to provide minimum heat to the apartment in the current setup.  I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 4:05 A.M..  Advanced Artery Solution

Note: <888> 01/24/08 Thursday 3:40 A.M..  I think I had a telephone call from a relative while I was asleep.  I woke up at 12:30 A.M..  I called up a local security group, and I told them about my energy depleted condition.  I mentioned that a blond haired blue eyed son of Arab banker had emailed me.  The individual use to live out in Sands Point, Long Island where the Harriman family lived.  I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut with the individual, and the individual use to like playing ice hockey.  Well, we have an ice rink in the back yard, but I don't know if they can afford to turn on the electric lights.  The local security individual suggested that I try using a space heater.   Since I have the electric baseboard heaters turned off in the apartment, it was 62.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment.  I also have two DeLonghi oil filled electric radiators.  One is by the sweater closet and the French reproduction chair.  I keep it turned off.  I moved the other one from in front of the chair by the Sony television to the left of the Chinese computer desk with the laptop computer, and I plugged it into the power strip for the FIC server, and I used the decoy place mat from underneath the new HP laser printer to cover the Delonghi cord which runs across the living room entrance sitting area.  I then turned it on to medium setting power level 4 of 6.  It is currently about 66 degrees in that immediate area.  I then hung one of my large picture post cards on the upper outside of the apartment entrance door.  I took out the Saudi Arabian flag, and I hung it over the left living room closet, so now it is displayed in the living room.  Despite the fact that women have no rights in Saudi Arabia from my viewpoint no women live in my apartment, and my father used to work for Aramco amongst other oil companies, so I now have the Saudi Arabian flag flying, but it is not much warmer in the apartment except around the DeLonghi oil filled radiator.  From previous experience it seems the DeLonghi oil filled radiators give out a better quality more even heat, but they seem to use more electricity for the amount of heat produced compared to the electric baseboard radiators.  I will turn it off when I leave the apartment, and when I go to bed.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I will now do some regular computer work.  I will now make up another batch of passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/08 Wednesday 5:00 P.M..  I microwaved a 21 ounce Maria Callendar frozen lasagna dinner.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/08 Wednesday 3:25 P.M.. Stay Secure on a Public PC - Expert Help by PC Magazine

CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/08 Wednesday 2:00 P.M.. My order for The VistaPrint Everything must go free sale 100 post cards with my web page picture with the Audi and information on the back, and 50 more large post cards of the same, and 25 brochures of the same all for free a $89.96 value and $7.45 slow 21 day shipping from the Netherlands for $7.45 total arrived via www.dhl.com .  I mailed four large post card to associates and relatives, and I gave one smaller one to the building custodian, and I gave three smaller post cards to neighbors.  I put the box with the post cards and brochures on the in tray on the new HP laser printer.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/08 Wednesday 12:10 P.M..  I woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.  I checked my www.chase.com accounts, and once again I had been charged $12 for having too many online transfers.  I called up the Mason Street branch, and I chatted with their most senior account manager, and I explained the situation.  They told me they keep track of the six times that one can transfer money not from the first of the month, but when they post their statements, which is later in the month.  They agreed to refund the $12.  I then called up the www.whitehouse.gov , and I explained to them they should get rid of the old 1920s wire transfer law that is still on the books, because it interferes with internet banking transactions.  The person that answered the telephone at the White House did not sound old enough to vote.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.    I then went downstairs, and I chatted with some neighbors, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/08 Wednesday 2:45 A.M..  I am always like the Maytag repairman, and I am not much aware of anything going on all of the time.  Much the same was with me, when I stayed at the Van Deusen town house in Manhattan on an off from 1980 to 1982, and my friend that let me use the apartment was a legal secretary for Cyrus Vance.  There were cold winters after Mount St. Helens down to minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit.  However, my friend had two dogs a White German Shepard a Doberman that I had to walk frequently up to six times a day to keep the dogs healthy, so I knew the neighborhood quite well.  On the night Ronald Reagan first arrived in Manhattan, I walked the white Sheppard from the Van Deusen town house at 315 West 74th street behind the Eagle Brook school and across from the Schwab house, and the dog and I walked east on West 72nd street through Central Park New York, and I brought the white Sheppard into the Waldorf Astoria, and all of Ronald Reagan's secret service agents were happy to see it, and they photographed it with a Polaroid camera.  My friend's father was a resident of Santa Barbara, California.  When the dog and I walked back through Central Park, there  was a commotion around the Dakota, and a passer by told me that John Lennon had been shot, so about a year later, I moved out of the neighborhood as I recall and after a boring trip to Key West, I built the garage apartment in Plandome Manor, Long Island in old man Grumman's neighborhood who was blind, so if her mother came back up from Tobago in the winter, she would have a warm substitute for the colder house.  It was about 7,000 hours work at $1.15 an hour which included storm windows, a foot of insulation in the ceiling and a built out north wall with a foot of insulation.  The garage had a 25 foot long steam radiator fed off the primary house German ship boiler which would have produced more heat in the primary house, but the interior decorators had painted over the bleeder valves on the steam radiators.  I replaced the ones that I was able to replace, and I also found the right one at the Wright Brother's Hardware store in Manhasset, Long Island to use on the long 25 foot steam radiator.  So the house was warm and comfortable back in February 1982, when I left with my years wages of $8,000 they paid me at the end for all of the work.  I visited relatives in Florida,  with  trips to the Washington D.C. area, New Haven, and I finally tried to move to Oslo, Norway, where they are suppose to have better social services, but the Norwegian and the United States government deported me back, and charged my family a $1,000.  I did not originally intend to visit Norway, but at J.F.K. airport, I had paid $825 in travelers checks to the www.sas.com counter attendant for the Round Trip S.A.S. package advertised in the New York Times to Stockholm, Sweden and a week stay at the S.A.S. hotel there.  Thus S.A.S. robbed me, and the Norwegians basically kidnapped me, because the Stockholm bound flight landed at the military airport in Oslo, and everyone got off the flight.  All the pilots were drinking Vodka in the rear of the flight during the long long flight.  We flew over mostly trees the whole way and not ocean.   While at Oslo, Norway, I stayed the Y.M.C.A., and they kicked me out after a couple of nights, and they let me stay at the West Hotel behind the palace for the rest of my stay.  I did not eat much because by that time, I was running out of money.  I returned via Copenhagen, but since I did not have funds, I stayed in the airport, and I ended up at J.F.K. for a week without money sleeping rough in the terminal at Easter time, and finally I returned to Nantucket, and I went back to work at the Languedoc.  What I do remember that I heard later in the news was the apartment at 315 West 74th street was two doors west of Sidney Biddle Barrows apartment better known as the Mayflower Madam.  Thus all of the long black stretch limousines I saw coming and going at what I thought was a luxury town house were the girls and customers, and I never figured that out while living there.  Well I am a bit tired, so I will now go back to bed soon.  Shut down time.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/08 Tuesday 8:15 A.M..  Well it is after 8 A.M., so it is time to sign off from American Poverty www.ap.org , and I will take a nap until about noon, and then I will get ready for my 3 P.M. appointment.  I ate the last piece of apple pie and a bowl of goldfish crackers.  For all of you southern folk who ain't got no education, www.ibm.com never made much money off of computers, so they invested in the Smuggler's Notch Ski Resort Winter Vacations at Smugglers' Notch Vermont up in Vermont, and as far as I know the only people that make money up there is Molson.com , which is a Canadian beer company par excellence.  With the price of feed, there obviously is no money in dairy farming up there anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/08 Tuesday 7:20 A.M.. Computerworld.Self Registration Screen

Note: <888> 01/22/08 Tuesday 3:35 A.M..  I put the 12 inch Griswold frying pan on the large electric burner on medium high to medium electric burner heat, and I fried four strips of bacon, flipping them several times.  I then drained them with two paper towels on a plate.  I poured the bacon grease into a fat jar that I keep in the refrigerator.  I had already broken three extra large jumbo eggs in a metal bowl, and I added a tablespoon of milk and a few dashes of Italian seasoning, and I used a whisk to mix it all together.  I then put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and a couple of pads of 50% less fat butter in the hot Griswold frying pan on medium electric burner heat, and once the fat bubbled, I added the egg mixture, and once the eggs began to harden, I scrambled them with a spatula.  At the same time I toasted a bagel, which I spread two pads of 50% less butter on each half.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  Back during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, we mostly lived on scrambled eggs, English muffins and bacon, and coffee, which usually after being up all night patrolling New York City, we would have at some convenient diner or restaurant for about $2.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/22/08 Tuesday 2:15 A.M..  I woke up at 8:30 P.M.  I ate a 1/5th piece of apple pie.  I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a dozen extra large jumbo eggs for $2.49 which expire February 16, 2008, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.71, and broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $2.21 for $9.40 total.  I chatted with a couple of staff like I always do.   There are signs posted in the dairy section saying that the price of milk and dairy products are going up world wide.  It takes a lot of expensive feed to feed dairy cows, so since feed is more expensive, their products go up.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon Service station, and I bought $6 of self service premium unleaded gasoline at $3.799 a gallon for 1.58 gallons for 10.5 miles driving and 45 minutes idling for the last six days since last Tuesday at odometer reading of 59,457 miles for 6.646 miles per gallon with all of the idling that I have been doing.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I noticed they still have the old vintage Mercedes 220 SE convertible for sale at Carriage House Motors.  They are painting the show room.  The Greenwich Taxi stand waiting room is quite warm, and they just painted it, and the taxi drivers were gambling with dice.  From the Greenwich Train Station Plaza, I could see the usual amount of traffic on I-95, so lots of people are still driving.  There were no computer items discarded at the train station parking dumpster area.  I walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue and back down.  I noticed at the top of Greenwich Avenue in the first parking space in front of the Chase Bank www.chase.com , there is a small blue Toyota always parked there.  It is a Toyota Yaris http://www.toyota.com/yaris/index.html , so that must be an inexpensive high miles per gallon car.  The former manager of the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop use to drive a Hyundai Accent or similar model, before she retired to Rhode Island.  After I finished my walk, I drove back down on the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and the retired U.S. Army colonel is back at his house on the end of the road on the left with his black Mercedes Benz from Maryland.  He looks like a younger version of my diseased step father, so maybe he is related.  The senior former military person in the area, probably still would be Al Haig, since he was a five star general.   Of course in Brazil, they have 20 star generals that nobody pays any attention to.  The lights seemed to be still working out on Long Island, and it is a clear view across Long Island Sound.  The Benedict house is all lighted up, so maybe the Tammany Hall New York politicians are out here again.  I then returned home.  It is a bit cold in my apartment, and it is currently 64.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment.  I am wearing my leisure clothes, my Gap long underwear and my L.L. Bean long underwear with a knit blue Rossignol :: Pure mountain company ski cap that I found on Greenwich Avenue last winter. I also have on my wool socks and new fleece lined house slippers and to be a bit warmer, I am wearing a baby blue wool scarf.  It sort of feels like one were sitting outside on a fall day.  Not much going on here.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/08 Monday 1:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  The telephone rang twice, but nobody was there, and I went downstairs to see if a package had arrived.  There was no package, but the elevator is out of order, and the Greenwich Housing Authority has been called.  It worked fine this morning, when I did my laundry.  I also had a computer magazine telephone call.  I took a Revere five quart pot, and I filled it two thirds full with water, and I put it on the large electric burner, and I turned it on high, and I added a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  It took about 15 minutes to boil with a lid on. I took a large stick proof frying pan, and I added a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and a couple of pads of 50% less fat butter.  I then peeled and minced two cloves of garlic, and I put them in the frying pan.  I then peeled and diced two medium small onions.  I then took a 8 ounce defrosted top round of beef London broil burger, and I chopped it into about half inch chunks.  I then turned on the frying pan to medium high, and once the fat began to bubble, I added the onions and the chopped meat.  I then seasoned it with garlic powder, Old Bay Seasoning, chicken and meat seasoning, beef bouillon seasoning, Italian spices, red cayenne pepper, bacon bits and ground black pepper.  I sautéed it all under the meat was browned and the onions were blanched.  I then added a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi tomato sauce, and I mixed it all together adding a couple of tablespoon of Kikkoman low sodium soy sauce.  I brought it all to a boil, and then I put a lid on it, and I let it simmer covered with a lid over medium electric burner heat lowering it half way through to medium low and stirring it every few minutes or so.  While doing that, once the pot of water began to boil, I added a 16 ounce box of Barillo fettuccini, and I boiled it for 12 minutes stirring it occassionally.  Once it was done, I put a colander in another large pot, and I drained the water off the cooked fettuccini into the other pot.  I then put half of the fettuccini on a dinner plate, and I put the other half in a flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I then put half of the tomato sauce on the fettuccini, and I put the other half in a round Rubbermaid container with lid, which I put in the refrigerator.  I dumped the hot water from the draining pot down the bathroom sink to clean out the soap scum.  I put a few tablespoons of Kraft grated parmesan cheese on the tomato and pasta dinner.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  After every meal, I clean up the dishes, although I never mention it in my notes.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm. CIO    

Note: <888> 01/21/08 Monday 10:25 A.M..  Around the apartment today in the colder temperature of the apartment, I am wearing the L.L. Bean red long underwear over my leisure clothes with my red heavy duty terry cloth robe and a heavy blue knit Speedo cap and my new wool lined house slippers with heavy wool socks.  I will not wear the new house slippers outside the building to keep them clean on the bottom.  I have an older pair to wear for brief trips outside the building.  The inside temperature of the living room is currently 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  I went downstairs, and I chatted with a couple of neighbors.  They told me the New England patriots and the New York Giants will be playing in the Superbowl in Arizona.  I opened a package of chicken Ramen noodles, and I put them in a quart Rubbermaid container with the ingredients of the flavor package, and I covered them with water, and I put the lid with a hole on top, and I microwaved them on one beverage cycle, and then I put them in a bowl with a little Italian seasoning on them.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with another one of my friends just back in Manhattan from Georgia.  They were at Madison Avenue and 86th street, and I suggested that they stop by Bloomingdales at 86th street and 3rd Avenue on the northwest corner to get heavy knit caps.  Southern people never dress warm enough for New York City.  I mentioned a delicatessen that use to be just east of 3rd Avenue on the south side of 86th street, but they told me it was gone.  At mid block between 84th street and 85th street on the east side of third avenue, there used to be the Old Dutch Deli, and I recall a block further south on the same side, there use to be a Hungarian restaurant that served goulash for about $2, but that all was in the early 1970s, so times might have changed.  In very cold weather cell phone batteries do not last as long.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/08 Monday 4:50 A.M..  I turned the living room thermostat back up to 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and I still have the two tower fans going to blow the heat around the apartment.  After the laundry is done in five minutes, I will put it away.  I will then shower and clean up, which I have not done since this past Thursday.  The only thing I really need downtown is bananas, and I don't think it is worth making a special trip downtown in cold weather to get bananas.  Current outside temperature is 13 degrees Fahrenheit.  The Audi use to be left in the garage in Kennebunkport, Maine all winter, and only started up once a week or so, so I don't think it will hurt it, if I don't start it up every day.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/08 Monday 3:45 A.M..  The apartment is warm enough, so I turned the living room thermostat down to 70 degrees fahrenheit, and I turned the bedroom thermostat down to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I am also doing a third load to wash the white quilted cover from the Ethan Allen recliner.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I will eat breakfast during the dry cycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/08 Monday 2:35 A.M..   I woke up at midnight, and I also had a telephone call from a friend earlier that is back in Manhattan, and I might have had a telephone call from a relative.  It is currently 15 degreed Fahrenheit outside, and it is suppose to go down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit this morning.  On this web page Compuvest Corp. Switches , they show this refurbished item regularly $460 for $20 Compuvest Corp. Nortel BayStack 450-24T Switch Ethernet 10/100Mbps 24-Ports Refurbished AL2012A14  and $23.61 FedEx shipping which would be $43.61 total.  It weights 11.7 pounds, and it is 17.4 inches long, which is if I got it, it would require me to have the Minolta 1250W printer stand sitting on it with about 15 pounds of weight.  It seems to sturdy enough to support it.  However, it is a stackable Ethernet switch, and I am not tech savvy to know if it would work with my current system or not, or if it would need other components.  Right now I do not really need it, but it is an option if I needed an inexpensive replacement for my 16 port Netgear FS516.  In an emergency, I have the 8 port D-link switch and the 4 port Netgear switch which could be connected together for 13 ports.  I feel in the colder weather it is important to keep a little bit of money in reserve towards the end of the month.  The Audi has been starting up all right after three days of not being used in the winter.  I also have two heavy duty jump start systems if there was a problem.  The Audi's battery has a cover, so if one had to jump it, the cover underneath the hood would have to be removed some how.  I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  It is currently 70.2 degrees Fahrenheit inside the apartment.  I have a dozen eggs that I bought November 30, 2007, but this Ask Mr Breakfast -- When do eggs go bad? How long do they last after the date on the package?  says they would not be any good.  I keep forgetting to eat some eggs recently, and they always seem to go bad, before I eat them.  Maybe I am living too high on the hog.  Anyway, I will throw out the eggs.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 4:05 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Europe | France's oldest WW1 veteran dies , people who drink wine live longer.

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 2:15 P.M..  Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S. - New York Times .  I have learned over the years that everything the New York Times prints is not true.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 2:00 P.M..   I don't drink alcohol, but I know the Food Emporium in Port Chester, New York has a large alcohol and beer section, and if I am not mistaken in New York State, one can buy liquor on Sundays.  It comes from the fact that with 40 million people living within a hundred miles of Manhattan, there are all sorts of people working different work schedules 24 hours a day seven days a week, so the local New York state merchants try to meet their customers' needs as fits their schedules.  In my frequent calls to www.whitehouse.gov , it seems they only work 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. five week days, so not as much gets done compared to a larger group of people whom seem to work around the clock all of the time.  Of course, when one works longer hours, one has to pace oneself.  A lot of it comes from experience.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 1:15 P.M..   I cancelled the order for

Newegg.com - NETGEAR JFS524 10/100Mbps Rackmount Switch 24 x RJ45 4000 MAC Address Table 320KB Buffer Memory - Retail for $89.99, and it has a $30 mail in rebate

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Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 12:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I watched part of a Zorro movie on television.  I used the Swivel Sweeper to do a light cleaning of my carpets, and I am now charging its battery pack which takes about two hours.  It is handy for picking of light amounts of traffic debris.  It is suppose to go down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit tonight, so it might be a bit colder in the apartment without the electric heat on, but the apartment seems to be retaining its heat.  I suppose with the lights, electronics, and appliances, they might generate a bit of heat.  I turn on the Honeywell Hepa air purifier for a couple of hours when I cook with onions.  I will try to stay up until about 5 P.M. today, so I will be back on more of a daytime schedule.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 11:35 A.M..  I chatted with the United States Army Military police at 1-845-938-3333 United States Military Academy CONTRACT SERVICES FAQ over at www.usma.edu , and they told me that only people with United States Military Department of Defense Military Identification can use the Post Commissary and buy their product line at military discount prices.  I wonder if they sell gasoline over there at discount prices too.  I threw out the garbage.  One of my neighbors has a large mirror in the back of his pick up truck, so it causes a lot of glare in the parking area outside, and probably distorts the satellite view of the area.   Since 1959, the www.nasa.gov spy satellites could read the fine printing on a Marlboro box, if you get my drift wood.  When I was down in Key West, Florida, and I left in 1978 with a friend whose grandfather was a colonel in the U.S. Army based in Atlanta, Georgia, I explained to him I read about the www.dartmouth.com United States Army Cold Weather Studies program, but I could never afford to drive that far north to see what it is all about up in the snow belt.  From what I know, we are just keyboard jockeys down here around www.ibm.com , and not many people seem to think whatever IBM does is very important in terms of some of the personnel that might be in the area.  Of course in the old days, they called IBM, "I've Been Moved", the local Italian Mafia called it "Italian Business Machines", the tobacco salesman from Houston, Texas I once met up around the www.hughes.com facility in Danbury, Connecticut called it "Ity Bitty Minds", so whatever the real presence of IBM in the world today is opened to debate.  I was told that Armonk, New York is just a display museum of some of the older products that they used to make, so maybe they are doing something more modern in other parts of the world.  Of course their primary business has not been involved in the personal computer business for a long time, so unless one is ready to shell out big bucks for a Super Computer that might become quickly outdated and know how to use it and service it, you would be wasting your cigarette money bothering them.  From what I know which is not much, IBM is a professional business company, but it costs a lot of money to deal with them in this environment.  For example a Firewall program from IBM can cost over a $100,000 ; thus possibly it might actually work.  I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 9:45 A.M.. Earlier I reset the Northgate Syntax Vista RC1 beta installation, so its final date of use it February 19, 2008.  After that I can install the final release version good for another four months or as long as I feel like reinstalling it and configuring it which takes quite a bit of time.  Currently it is 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground , and it is 68.4 degrees Fahrenheit inside in the living room with the living room thermostat set at 50 degrees Fahrenheit.  Hopefully I am saving a bit of money on my www.cl-p.com bill without keeping the apartment heat too high.  Since we live in an active business community, we frequently have a lot of business travelers in the area, but nobody ever contacts me, since I am not in business.  From what I can tell, the cost of doing business and traveling to this area is very expensive, so usually only those corporate individuals whom are well financed seem to be able to afford to travel into this area.

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 8:05 A.M..  I printed out a paper copy of my computer list.  It runs 48 pages.  I put it on the Toshiba laptop with the Internet Beach Bum print out.  Earlier I ate two bowls of goldfish crackers.  I will now eat the same dinner as the last of four nights consisting of a sautéed burger with onions and cheese along with a microwaved potato with three pads of 50% less fat butter and a cup of microwaved steamed baby carrots and broccoli crowns along with a glass of iced tea.  Seems to be all quiet on the eastern front.  The reality of this area in the daytime is that there is an extremely large population density, but late at night and the morning hours, it is mostly like being the Maytag repairman.  They've returned Freemasons return to Greenwich - Greenwich Time .  I remember in the old days, they use to drive around in go carts at the St. Patrick's Day parade.  Granddad Scott was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite mason from the Champaign, Illinois lodge. My father was always too busy working to have time for fraternal organizations.  Much could be said for the same as me.  I noticed in the article they have a bar in their lodge and police officers are involved in the organization, so I guess they have to walk to and from their meetings, since Greenwich, Connecticut has an extremely tough drinking alcohol and driving law enforcement. I guess they could ride a bicycle to their meetings.  Some old timers drink, so they don't have to listen to their wives all of the time.  Tom Watson of www.ibm.com was a mason, and so was Gerald R. Ford.  I have an old broken dinner plate in my apartment by the toilet from the Putnam Lodge Masonic lodge, but those were the days when Greenwich, Connecticut was a farming community with lots of trees, so there was more heat and food with a working railroad carrying coal and working farms.  Alas the high tech business community seem to earn a lot of money here, but they do not seem to spend that much money here, since most them are New York City residents.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 7:05 A.M..  I updated the pictures in http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 5:45 A.M..  Some recent pictures of my current computer systems http://mikelouisscott.com/mlscomp-012008/ .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 3:55 A.M..   I did not order Newegg.com - NETGEAR JFS524 10/100Mbps Rackmount Switch 24 x RJ45 4000 MAC Address Table 320KB Buffer Memory - Retail for $89.99, and it has a $30 mail in rebate

http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/Netgear15MIRSJan04Mar3108lt12.pdf

Plus $2.99 rush order fee and Less $2.99 preferred account fee and $8.34 one day delivery which would possibly mean this Tuesday or Wednesday for $98.33 total.

I am currently using a Netgear FS516 that I bought as a refurbished item for $44 two years ago, and since it runs all of the time, I thought at the rebate price of about $68.33 with shipping for a new item, it was worth buying.  I charged it, instead of paying for it.  Thus I am back in debt again.  I have an older 8 port D-link switch that might be handy in an emergency, but now I will be able use my older Netgear FS516 for backup.  It does take a lot of time and money to maintain the rather complex computer systems setup that I maintain in my apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 2:25 A.M..  University of Buffalo Center for Geohazards

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 1:30 A.M..  In the first part of my notes on

Internet Beach Bum by Michael Louis Scott

Internet Beach Bum by Michael Louis Scott ,

these are the places I have not been to Bimini, Kauhai, L'Hanai, and Marbellia.  Also of the rest of the places in the first part of the note and the second part of the note,  I have been too.  Obviously in visiting those places, I have been to the areas around them in traveling to and from them.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/20/08 Sunday 1:00 A.M..  I chatted with two friends after the last note.  I told one friend that is involved with race horses that the locals down in Ocala, Florida are eating their race horses, since they can not afford to feed them.  A relative told me about the story from www.tcpalm.com .  The Vero Beach newspaper is owned by the www.nytimes.com , so it should have fairly reliable news.  I had email back from a Taft classmate asking what about Watch Hill, Rhode Island.  I replied that I had never been to Watch Hill, Rhode Island, but my father had a friend Harvey Thayer who was an engineer at www.polaroid.com , and he had a summer place at Watch Hill, Rhode Island.  From what I know Watch Hill, Rhode Island is suppose to be a traditional New England summer community.  I think the old hotel there is only opened in the summer and not in the winter.  I went to bed about 2 P.M.  I had a telephone call from a relative.  I woke up at 10 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I threw out some garbage, and I checked the Audi, and I picked up my mail.  Things are not any better or worse here than they have ever been.  This is pretty much the same type of routine that I have been through, since I first moved here in 1961.  However, since I now live in a smaller apartment instead of a big house, I have more free time for my internet activity and other computer activity, where as when one lives in a larger house, there is always a lot more to do.  I am not going downtown as much, since the energy to go downtown might come in more handy to keep my apartment warmer if it gets colder.  There was plenty of people whom live downtown, so they do not need me down there all of the time, since they are tending to stay more local anymore.  It is currently 66 degrees Fahrenheit in my apartment with the living room thermostat turned down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and one tends to get use to it after a while.  A friend of mine from Vermont says he keeps his apartment at 68 degrees Fahrenheit at St. Mary's By the Sea in East Fairfield Beach, Connecticut a condominium complex on the waterfront which is part of Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Since he works at Country Living Associates Richard Van Marter, Wilton, Connecticut , and he moved out of Redding, Connecticut since he got Lyme disease four times in three years, so hopefully around the waterfront, there are less deer tick, but that is not the case in Old Lyme, Connecticut.  He paid $225,000 each for two 1250 square foot one bedroom condos on the waterfront, and he pays $225 a month maintenance on each and $1,200 a year in property tax on each, and he rents one to pay for the other.  Since he is in the town of Bridgeport, Connecticut he is part of their school district with less taxes than Fairfield, but he claims the fresh produce is cheaper as is the price of fuel.  He says the electric bills in his apartment are only about $60 a month, but I would imagine, that does not include the heat.  Thus being in real estate in this area that is the decision he made.  I showed him property in Greenwich, Connecticut for 22 years, and although he looked at a number of places for less than $400,000 many years ago, he never bought here.  Originally he could have bought a house on Steamboat Road for less than $350,000.  Now I don't think there is anything there for less than $2,000,000; so he would have made money, if he had bought here.  I am not going downtown as much anymore, also because at my age, I get a bit uncomfortable walking and sitting out in the cold at night, and I am quite comfortable in my own apartment.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/19/08:

Note: <888> 01/19/08 Saturday 11:30 A.M..  Backing Up With Windows Vista - Computer Shopper