Note:<888>1/30/99 Saturday 12:30 P.M. EST: Well I finished most of my routine internet work today. I had a ham and cheese sandwich on toast with dijon mustard, mayonaise, and horse radish along with Ramen noodles and ice tea and I am finishing my coffee. I also finished the Banana Nut Crunch cake. Well it is warm inside, and I really don't have anything to do outside, so I will just hang around inside and not irritate my arthritic condition. Anyone with a few extra pennies to spend, can check out gwreal.htm to see what is happening in the local housing market. I prefer my "Grace and Favour" establishment, since it is part of the hereditary legacy of the family in this area for over 350 years, of course I could always reclaim Long Island, but leading ministers from Foreign Nations figured out it would be underwater in about a 100 years along with Florida and the Netherlands. Thus since I am an living at an interesting topicgraphical location, it might be at the location of a new light house in about a 100 years overlooking Westchester Harbor. Well enough of future planning, no news is good news. I think I will listen to some of my MP3 collection music1.htm, which I can play continuously on my computer through my sterio system. Well have a good afternoon, and give my best to the weekend warriors. CIO

Note:<888>1/30/99 Saturday 6:00 A.M. EST: I was up at 4 A.M., and I had quaker oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cafe au lait for breakfast. I am sifting through my email. There is Damond Multimedia's MP3 site RioPort.Com Home Page - Your source for Digital Music on the Web which has MP3 music links. Well have a good morning. I have the heat turned up, and it is warm and comfortable inside this morning, but my legs still feel stiff after walking around in the cold yesterday. I need to get more of the arthritis pills Claucostomine and Glucosomine pills at Fresh Fields at the first of the month along with having my Doctor check into giving me a prescription for Monsanto's new arthritis pill Celebra. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/29/99 Friday 4:40 P.M. EST: I did some work on the computer this morning, I can't recall what. Someone called me to deliver some items, so I went out and delivered them around 1 P.M.. I stopped by the ELDC thrift shop. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I drove down by the water and observed the sound. I stopped by CVS and picked up a prescription. I stopped by the Arnold Bread store outlet, and bought two loaves of Healthnut bread for $2.33 together, my Arnold card was filled up so I got two free cheese cakes, and they also gave me a green line banana cake. I returned home and put the bake goods in the freezer. I had a piece of banana cake. Well it is a very nice sunny day out, but my arthritis condition is very severe and I felt crippled while walking all day long. I will have to take a hot bath to feel better. I guess the arthritis cuts in and out like a neurological disorder, one minute I am walking fine, and the next moment I am walking at a very slow pace, which is hard to break. It happens all the time in the winter, so I just spend more time inside. Living around senior citizens, one learns not to complain about arthritis, and one gets use to the normal routine. They have two nice Paul Revere lamps at the ELDC shop for $150, like the old saying about the British Arriving, "One If By Land, Two If By Sea." I chatted with some decent chaps from Jamaica about the Carribean while browsing the Arnold Bread Outlet. Well enjoy the rest of the day, I am going to take a hot bath. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/29/99 Friday 7:10 A.M. EST: I finished my daily internet routines of web surfing and email, I also read the @home newsgroups. I had a light meal of pasta and brocolli with olive oil and butter and herbs about 5 A.M. along with ice tea. Well it is warm and comfortable inside. With this North Sea weather the visitors have brought, my arthrtis has been kicking in and out when I go outside, but it is warm and comfortable inside the apartment. It seems like a Saturday although it is only Friday, so I guess we can pretend like it is a Holiday for some odd reason. Well time to relax a bit, I will leave Iphone open for conversation, but nobody ever wants to converse anyway, and the British are never on Iphone anyway, since there are to many odd balls using it, not to mention if I never can get on the Microsoft Netmeeting server, the Brits certainly can't log onto it, but both have a few freezing Canadians regularly using them. Well no news is good news. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/29/99 Friday 4:10 A.M. EST: I updated Scott's Broadcast sound.htm , well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/29/99 Friday 3:20 A.M. EST: I was up at midnight and had breakfast of Quaker Oat Meal, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I listened to some tech reports. I got a tired spell and went back to sleep. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>1/28/99 Thursday 4:40 P.M. EST: I went out at 8 A.M. and stopped by Steamboat Road and chatted with a local waterfront observer about nautical and volcanic activities. I mentioned that the Seismic activity in Columbia is probably caused by Volcanic activity in the area. I also filled up my car at Exxon. I went by the Hospital Thrift shop and toured the shop again for the millonth time. I returned home and worked on the computer a bit in the morning. I rested from noon until 1:30 P.M.. I went out and dropped off an item for an acquaintence whom needed it and drove him back home. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I returned home and had the same dinner of red and white clam sauce with noodles with ice tea. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well I have been up since about 8 P.M. last night, so it is time for me to go to bed and get some rest. Enjoy the evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/28/99 Thursday 7:20 A.M. EST: While chatting with a friend last night about the news, I mentioned that there was a lot of news recently about Scott base in Antartica and the Scott - Amudsen base there too, particulary with concern from New Zealanders whom are keen on Antartica. I read there stories saying that in the next 100 to 200 years if the polar ice shelf drops off and falls into the ocean melting its 2500 metres of ice, that it would subtancially change the ocean levels for low lying countries and climates after changing the ocean currents. The same articles also mentioned that 90 percent of the earth's fresh water is frozen in Antartica. What I also know is that the weight of the South Pole is so substancial that if it were to melt into water, and flow freely in the earth's ocean, it would more than likely effects the earth's polar axis, thus also causing the earth's orbit to possibly change along with the angle at which the sun strikes the earth, thus in such an eventuality that the earth could be tipped on its axis, and the poles would be tropical and dry, the equatorial countries would be frozen. So another event to be looked forward to by future planners, if it should happen, just imagine Norwegian orange juice, camels, and palm trees. Well back to some early morning activity around town, perhaps I will float outside for a while to see what the morning Titans are up to. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/28/99 Thursday 5:55 A.M. EST: I went out for a walk on Greenwich Avenue after the last message. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I smoked a dark CVS fifteen cent cigar in front of the post office plaza and walked the entire lenght of Greenwich Avenue. I also drank a thermos of coffee at the post office. I noticed an automobile trailer vehicle drive up Greenwich Avenue the wrong way at about thirty miles an hour carrying three automobiles for delivery. About 45 minutes later I noticed him drive back down Greenwich Avenue the right way. I noticed the Street Cleaner out going up Greenwich Avenue the wrong way. I had to relieve myself once in the park and once next to Saks in alley way. As one gets older there are not always the proper facilities downtown when nature calls, which is much the gripe of a lot of our visitors who come into the area late at night. Of course there is always the Greenwich Harbor Inn or the Colonial Diner if you happen to have the time. I noticed the street clock in front of the location that use to be the Greenwich Hardware store now a Vermont Handicraft shop is no longer working properly. I once talked to the clock man fixing it several years ago, and I believe he comes from the Northeast part of Connecticut. Thinking about Perrier, I got to thinking about the Gullivers Discotecque fire that occurred on its office location around October 1974, and I remember beside the local citizens, the casulties included European students, so possibly some of their relatives occassionally visit the site. I am not sure if there is any fitting memorial to the casulties lost in that most tragic fire. I will have to look at the Greenwich Time microfilm in the Greenwich Library when I have time to refresh my memory on those events, as I recall at the time although I lived here, I was actually working in Manhattan and only visiting Greenwich on weekends to cut the grass and rake the leafs. Since I was not continually in the area during the tragedy, I did not read the newspaper accounts, but I do know there were lots of foreign visitors in town as usual and I had friends around the French consulate in Manhattan that I would occassionally see in my activities in Manhattan. Well I suppose the younger folks at Perrier don't know whom was lost, but I recall there were French citizens lost in the fire. Well enough of gloomy remembrances, let us try to stay current with present events which bare just as much attention. I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon, I might try to stay up until then. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/28/99 Thursday 2:00 A.M. EST: I went to bed at 1 P.M. yesterday. A friend called just as I was going to bed and I chatted for a while. I slept until 8 P.M.. I was up and had breakfast of Quaker Oat Meal, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cafe au lait. I had optimized the computer while I was asleep. I started a hard drive to hard drive backup. I went out and stopped by CVS in Riverside and bought another carton of Hav-A-Tampa Light Small Cigars for $13.96. I said hello to a french gentleman there. I stopped by the Stamford YMCA and chatted with a friend outside in my car observing the local night street activity. I stopped by the Old Greenwich Hyatt and withdrew funds from the Putnam Trust ATM machine there. I noticed both Seimens and Perrier were having receptions there. I chatted with a Perrier representative from Dallas, Texas about my knowlege of Perrier and Nestle and other local business activities. I would imagine there were some French citizens at the Perrier reception. I returned to central Greenwich and drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and observed the weather. I returned home and boiled a package of noodles and mixed a can of white clam sauce with some defrosted pizza sauce I had in the freeze and put the red and white clam sauce mixture on the noodles for dinner and saved the rest for later. The compute backup of as many files as I have room to backup is finished. I made a cup of coffee and put it my thermos, and I will go out to drink it outside and have a cigar downtown in another exciting adventure of Mike up all night. I will try to get around to doing my weekly broadcast this morning also. Well have a good morning. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm , just now. CIO

Note:<888>1/27/99 Wednesday 10:40 A.M. EST: I went out at 8 A.M. this morning and scraped a light layer of ice off my automobille windows while Finoccios Garbage hauler showed up to empty the contents of the building dumpster. It is a clear warm day in the mid 40s to mid 50s F.. I drove by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop and toured the meager collection of goods they have available, mostly clothes and not much of interest this week, but it depends on what the local citizens decide to chuck away. A local camper from Maine was there in his GMC and very peculiarly wearing shorts as if it is a spring day. I said good morning to some of the regular staff and volonteers. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue which was not too busy to the bottom of Steamboat Road and observed two swans on the completely calm Long Island Sound on a bright sunny morning. I put a half of a quart of Quaker State oil in my automobile. I listened to the NOAA weather radio from Brookhaven Labortory out on Long Island I believe in the Cold Spring Harbor Area. I noticed a couple of morning walkers and newspaper readers down by the harbor. I checked the dual fan belts on my alternator and they need tightening and make a little noise, but nothing major to worry about. I returned up town and stopped by the Greenwich Library. I said good morning to the regular Burns Security. I read the Greenwich Times which had the usual local content. I chatted with one of the long time Greenwich Residents who recently moved downtown and uses the library regularly in the morning. He said it is noisey downtown at night with all the fire engine activity coming and going at all hours. I told him I try to keep an eye on downtown at night and mentioned the extra traffic we have had at night recently. The library was not too busy. Burns security told me the new Petterson addition has at least another year before completion. I returned home and made a ham and cheese sandwich on toast with dijon mustard, mayonaise, and horse radish. I am just finishing up a class of ice tea. Well it is a nice pleasent morning in Greenwich, but NOAA radio says it is suppose to turn colder and rain earlier this evening. So enjoy the pleasent morning. Well have a good day, time for me to get some sleep. CIO

Note:<888>1/27/99 Wednesday 6:55 A.M. EST: Well I downloaded some more MP3 files, I put on the server. I fiddled with a few MP3 find programs, but ftp sites seem to be resticted so far. I fiddled with trying to use the WinAmp Shoutcast plugin without the shoutcast server using the apache server instead, so one might be able to broadcast a winamp broadcast without going through the shoutcast server, but through the apache server, I am sure there is a simple way in the settings, I just have not figured it out or what the link would be for loading it, if one were successful. Well I am hungry, so time for some Fresh Florida Fruit and time to go to bed or least start slowing down. I also finished sifting through my email. CIO

Note:<888>1/27/99 Wednesday 12:05 A.M. EST: I had some Goldfish crackers and Tacco chips for a light snack. I finished up the goldfish crackers. I am having a cup of coffee. I though I would write a letter to a family member now. CIO

Note:<888>1/26/99 Tuesday 11:05 P.M. EST: I went out at 8:45 P.M.. I did not stop by the library. I parked in the center of town. There were lots of dog walkers out. I chatted with a regular shepard walker. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. It was not too busy out, but I-95 I believe has construction East of Greenwich Avenue, so there is lots of traffic with people trying to bypass the I-95 tie up. I chatted with the Starbucks crew while they were closing about francaising experience in the marketing department. I told them the coffee shop across the street from the United States embassy in Paris kitty corner from the Louvre is an excellent location of a coffee shop, where one can smoke, however it is not for sale. I smoke a Java CVS 30 cent cigar while in the post office plaza. I rewalked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I have noticed lots of disgarded materials around town the last couple of nights, like disgarded tires and last night somebody left out a toilet brush. I guess people occassionally drop items in the street. I noticed a backpacking visitor walking around town. I believe the British have some sort of program called "Outward Bound" where they expeience outside reality camping around other people's areas to observe what is going on in other areas. We use to have "Outward Bound" headquarters in Greenwich for youth who would go camping in the woods in the old days. I recommend that if one is to try such an experience in our local area, they be amply prepared with adequate provisions for camping, since the local tundra particularly at night can be quite inhospitable, unless you happen to be "Nanook of the North". Well I returned home, and will file this report. Have a good morning for you all night people. CIO

Note:<888>1/26/99 Tuesday 7:25 P.M. EST: Well this morning before I went to bed, I had to restore the System information filea program from my backup. I guess the Frontpage 98 beta 2 corrupted them. Once system information was running, I restored a number of files that had been changed with System File checker, just leaving the two changed files "c:\windows\system\user.exe" and "c:\windows\system\iosubsys\amsint.mpd" that I believe the MS Internet Explorer 5.0 beta changed, and one does not restore those or the MS IE 5.0 beta would not work. I guess it goes to show one should not use old betas. I was up at 6 P.M.. I had breakfast of Quaker oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I watched ABC evening news. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm and Microsoft was up quite a bit today. Bill Gates' personal weather is up a tad too, see Bill Gates Net Worth Page . Well if I had some money I might check out CompUSA In-Store Advertised Products: Systems , if one felt like going to CompUSA in Norwalk, for me I will shower and stop by the library. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/26/99 Tuesday 5:40 A.M. EST: I had breakfast yesterday evening of Quaker Oat Meal, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I watched the ABC evening news. I cleaned up. I went out at 8 P.M.. I scraped a thin layer of ice off the car windows. There was black ice out on the roads and sidewalks. I went by the Greenwich Library and read PC Week and the local paper. I drove down by the waterfront and viewed the harbor listening to NOAA radio. I parked in the center of town. I walked the entire distance of Greenwich Avenue which was slippery at the top while smoking a CVS factory made fifteen cent cigar. There were not many people out. I said hello to a couple of young fellows visiting from Chicago. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought 20 packs of four different flavors of Ramen noodles for $4. They now have shrimp flavor Ramen noodles. I generally don't use the flavor package since it has MSG, and just use soy sauce instead. I returned home and started working the internet about 11 P.M.. I was curious about Frontpage 98, and I found a site with the Frontpage 98 beta 2 and a cracker which I don't normally use, but one needs it to use the beta. I downloaded and installed it on my machine. It works with @Home. It uses too many resource for me to use it though, so I uninstalled it. I had to reinstall it again, because for some reason it change my machine IP address to bring up a blank home page. I was able to remedy the problem on the reinstall, and now I have the Apache server with WinProxy running which takes up less resources. I liked what I saw of Frontpage 98, but since I don't have a machine to run a dedicated server on, I won't be using it. I am not sure if one needs the explorer feature running to run a server with @home. I am hungry and tired, so I will boil some Ramen noodles in the microwave. My formula is to put the noodles in a Rubbermaid container with a whole in the top, and add a cup of water and microwave on high for five minutes, and then strain off the water and add soy sauce. Well not much accomplished this morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/25/99 Monday 6:20 P.M. EST: Well I am up, I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Time for breakfast. CIO

Note:<888>1/25/99 Monday 10:45 A.M. EST: I took a three hour nap this morning from 4:30 A.M. to 7:30 A.M.. I worked with several free encoding CD ripper programs, but none of them seemed to work. I don't know if I really need to post MP3 files, since there are plenty of them for download on the net, but at night when it is not as busy I might check out some MP3 sites. I also set up my NEC 800 Plus printer as a LaserJet configuration in the menu options on the printer with the NEC 860 Plus driver, and it is working perfectly fine, unlike in PostScript configuration. Well I might rest a bit after reading some news. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/25/99 Monday 4:00 A.M. EST: The CDEX program mentioned below did not encode from Cdroms propertly, so I will probably have to register and buy one of the CD rippers MP3.com CDrippers to post cd mp3 music or download one like Easy CD-DA Extractor or search "mp3" at www.download.com . I went out at 11:30 P.M. and stopped by the Shell Station for laundry change. I drove down to the end of Steamboat Road on the chilly night and viewed the harbor. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I noticed they were playing live music at the Dome and Thataway Restaurants. I smoked a White Owl panatella in front of the post office. I returned home and did my laundry. I made a ham and cheese omlette with toast and three strips of bacon, ice tea, and coffee. I will now fiddle with Easy CD-DA Extractor and see if I can find a better free Cd ripper. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>1/24/99 Sunday 8:55 P.M. EST: I decided to encode some MP3 files from my cdrom player on the computer. I found CDex which seems to be a good "Free" CD to MP3 ripper encoder. I might not go out for a while. CIO

Note:<888>1/24/99 Sunday 7:55 P.M. EST: I worked on the computer until 9 A.M. this morning. I chatted with a family member. I slept until about 6 P.M. with one call from a family member. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, cafe au lait, and vitamins. I watched the ABC evening news. I chatted with a family member who was watching CBS sixty minutes. I read the Yahoo news stories. It sounds like it has quit raining, so I might go out for a walk after I shower. I will encode some more music, which I am not doing anything. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/24/99 Sunday 4:00 A.M. EST: I went out after the last message. I stopped by Cumberland Farms, and bought a gallon of milk from the fellows from India for $2.89. I then went downtown and viewed the harbor from the end of Steamboat Road. The tide is high and with the rain there is danger of flooding in the lower areas. I then walked the lower area of Greenwich Avenue. I noticed somebody had lost a wire hubcab on a blue station wagon. I put it on the hood. There are new can bottle containers on the lower section of Greenwich Avenue for the proper disposal of those containers. I lite up a Java cigar at the Post Office Plaza, and it finally quit raining for a spell. I then walked up to the top of the Avenue and returned back down viewing the store windows. I noticed the staff at several of the local pubs were cleaning up, and I waved at the staff of the Dome Restaurant. I then returned down to the lower section of Steamboat Road listening to NOAA radio with the flood warning for lower coastal areas. The harbor water was up to within a foot of the top of the sea wall at the Greenwich Harbor Inn, so there is a high tide with the rain. I returned back home. The usual security patrols were out and about. I put away the gallon of milk. I listened to RADIO ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT Saturday, January 23, 1999 . It is interesting I left the BBC morning radio playing when I left the apartment. It is like somebody comes in and turns it off. I have suspected for a long time that persons or persons unknown might enter my apartment, but I have no evidence of it, except a few strange setting changes on the computer that I can not account for. It seems strange, but like the title of the book I never read "The Ghost in the Machine" by Arthur Koester, I suppose the computer might be haunted by its own invisable spirit. I found a pair of women's sun glasses on Greenwich Avenue. I noticed Boswell Drugs has an antique replica doll house of their store in the window. It is sort of sad to see some of the long established merchants struggle to get by while the new chain operators come into town and take over Greenwich Avenue. I guess this is all part of change. We still have Peabody's garage who use to run a stable in the same location, and occassionally have low milage horseless carriages obtained from elderly folks in back country whom do not drive very much anymore. Well it was a quiet evening on Greenwich Avenue, and I got a little exercise. My arthritis did not kick in or perhaps I did not notice it since I was strolling by myself. I suppose the weather report on NOAA radio for early morning showers might be correct, so be prepared with you umbrella if you venture outside in the morning.Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/24/99 Sunday 1:45 A.M. EST: I went to bed at 5 A.M. yesterday. I recieved a call at 6 A.M. and I talked for a while. I slept until 4 P.M.. I was up and had breakfast of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I was tired and slept again until 9 P.M.. I am leaving the internet server going with my local server linked from Scott's Internet Hotlist Greenwich, Connecticut . I did a little computer work reading email. I started listening to www.ttalk.com weekender program, and they mentioned Greenwich, Connecticut with an internet site Welcome To Haggle Zone! that just came online from here. I cleaned the apartment and watered the plants while listening to the program. I had dinner of ham, baked potatoe, brocolli, ice tea, and coffee. I just finished showering after the show. I also just finished making a batch of ice tea. I noticed a friend gave me some of the "Prince of Wales" Dutchy Originals Fine Assam Tea, which I opened, but did not use for ice tea. I have it available in case any visitors need a fine cup of tea. Well with the server running, I will go out for a little fresh air this morning. I am running the BBC news. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>1/23/99 Saturday 2:30 A.M. EST: I decided to post my local site with more content at my local Greenwich computer. Site is Scott's Internet Hotlist, Greenwich, Connecticut , I will leave it up for now depending on the traffic and how much it slows up my other work. I also have a number of MP3 Music files on my computer including Beatles music, so I linked them from Beatles and Other Music MP3 Files at Scott's Internet Hotlist Local Greenwich Site . I am using WinProxy WinProxy: Secure Firewall Proxy Server Software for Shared Internet Access by Ositis Software which is good for 30 days at which time I will have to buy it and the Apache www.apache.com Windows 98 Server. Well I hope local users enjoy the local site, if my computer can handle it, and hopefully no one will try to sabatoge my efforts. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>1/22/99 Friday 8:45 P.M. EST: I was on the computer until 4:30 A.M. this morning. I recieved a call at 1 P.M. and chatted with a friend. I was up at 3 P.M. and had breakfast of Kellogs Corn Flakes, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I showered and cleaned up. I went out at 5 P.M. and stopped by the Stamford YMCA to visit the same friend. We toured the Stamford Government Center lobby which has a modest art collection in the lobby along with a jobs computer bank. I was advised the Stamford Police fine pedestrians $60 for jay walking. I chatted with the pool attendant at the Stamford YMCA about swimming in salt water. I returned from Stamford via CVS in Old Greenwich looking for the proper brand of lite little cigars that don't have the tax on them. I then toured the new Food Emporium in Riverside which is about 40% more expensive that the Grand Union I shopped at in central Greenwich. I tried to buy two boxes of Lipton Tea on sale for $1.29 but one of the foreign employees told me that I would have to buy $10 in items to be eligable for the discount. I felt like telling him to go back to India. I left without making a purchase. If Huntington Hartford walked into some of the local Food Emporiums around here, and saw how poorly the stores were being managed, he would probably draw and quarter the store employees. Obviously the A&P management does not know anything about using sale items to promote regular purchases, like the Grand Union does. Well the customer is always right. Next I went to CVS in the Riverside shopping plaza and toured the cigar section. It is rather amazing with two major tabacco companies headquartered in Greenwich, Fortune Brands "the old Duke Tabacco" the largest tax payer in Greenwich, and U.S. Tabacco which sells tabacco also, one can not find out what individual tabacco products they sell. I studied the little cigar tabacco labels and they all come from down south in Florida and Georgia where money is tighter, and I decided to start purchasing Hav A Tampa Natural Little Cigars, which I believe come from Tampa. I purchased a carton of the item for $13.96 which is $16 cheaper than the Virginia cigarette product since not many people smoke them, and apparently the taxes on cigars are substancially less since politicians don't like taxing one of the main products they are use to consumming in the old days along with a few of the old guard. Also before the Food Emporium I toured Stables which has a Clearence section that has HP ink printer cartridges for $1 along with other copier and printer toner cartridges for $1 none of which fit any models I use. I did not purchase any items at Stables. I returned directly home after CVS and filed this report. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm which does not include any internet stocks, since most of them are overhyped and overvalued as far as real value is concerned, so watch your portfolio if you own any internet stocks, since they are headed for a rocky road of decline to reflect their real value. To give you an example the bird brains at AT&T and @Home and TCI bougth Excite for $6.5 billion dollars, which mean that hopefully if the Excite directory database had a million entries at least of a paragraph each that would be $6,500 a paragraph which seems awfully pricey for a computer generated database. If I were an AT&T stockholder, I would demand an SEC investigation into the real value of Excite along with the other internet companies, which are substancially overvalued and overhyped. As they say in the Netherlands, "A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted". Well have a good night and watch your pocketbooks and savings. CIO

Note:<888>1/22/99 Friday 12:25 A.M. EST: I went to bed at 5 A.M. yesterday, and was up at 1 P.M.. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I came directly home to change the tape on the tape backup I started before I left. I just finished the tape backup at midnight taking 11 hours and five tapes for 2 1/2 gigabytes. I read three months back issues of the Greenwich Post. I had dinner of fresh Florida fruit salad, Ramen noodles, and goldfish crackers, ice tea, and coffee. I watched the ABC evening news and CNBC news and channel surfed. I eventually watched for about two hours Prince Edward's Program on the Duke of Windsor on Public Television. I have Larry King on with Dan Qualye announcing he is going to run for President. I plan to turn off the TV and do my email. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good morning. CIO