Michael Louis Scott's Notes February 2007

During my walk, I also stopped by CVS, and I showed them the new jacket. I also used the bathroom at the senior and the arts centers. Apparently several seniors slipped on the ice there this morning. From what I know of in the area, when it is warmer in the day time, the snow and ice melts, and then at night it freezes, and at night or in the early morning there can be icy slippery conditions. The most dangerous icy area, I know of on Greenwich Avenue after walking it for 23 years since I moved away from Nantucket is the sidewalk north of St. Marys in between their property and the George Jensen jewelers where the moisture on the drive way runs down on to the sidewalk and then freezes in the right conditions, and one gets black ice there which is invisible slippery ice. They have tried to fix it recently as recently as this year, but we have not had hardly any snow this winter, so it is hard to tell how bad it might be or not. After I completed my walk on Greenwich Avenue, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and as far as I can tell the lights are still working out on Long Island, but there does not seem to be as many lights shining on Long Island as there once were. I noticed the electrical company is working on the underground transformer box at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I briefed the staff. I mentioned at www.lfc.edu there were not any famous people whom ever graduated from Lake Forest College other than Richard Widmark famous for the movie "The Bedford Incident" The Bedford Incident (1965) . I mentioned Mr. Donnelley of RR Donnelley We prepare, produce and deliver solutions for our customers. donated their original library that has been since replaced with the help of the Lee family, and that R.R. Donnelley supposedly publishes 2 million periodicals a year, so there was a lot of periodical reading material at Lake Forest College. I also mentioned that I took the Evelyn Wood speed reading course there during my freshman year, so I tend to speed read a lot of periodical literature, since so much of it repeats itself. I suggested they look into Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 at the Cromwell, Connecticut event this Thursday February 22, 2007 for the afternoon event where one can get a free copy for download of Microsoft Office 2007 Professional a $500 retail value, if you can afford to travel that far out of town. I am sure the place will be packed full of Yalies in need of the software, since even at www.yale.edu , $500 is still a lot of money, particularly since some researchers at the Sterling Library there seem to live off the vending machines for what little nourishment they get. I then returned home, and I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream, and I chatted with a relative. The relative in Florida said the young boy claiming to be the father of the baby girl of Anna Nichole Smith is not from the Bahamas, but he is from Las Angeles, and that the judge in the case is hoping to get on Court TV, so I have a feeling that this will drag on forever like the Gloria Vanderbilt case of yesteryear. Since I know some of the Rock clan live out in California, the young fellow still could be a Rock relative, but that look is very common on the West Coast of America. It is basically the Iowa farm boy look that has spent too much time at the beach look. The young boy's picture on the television yesterday also has the same nose as another family beside the Rock clan, and if you ever look at the well known portrait The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access Grant Wood American Gothic , he could just as easily be related to them. Trust me from experience there are a lot of people in the Midwest that look like other people. I will now do some regular computer work. CIO

Note:<888> 02/10/07 Saturday 7:45 A.M.: Yesterday before going to bed, a neighbor had me jump start her car. I tried using the new Amazon.com: Schumacher PS-400-3A Instant Power Jump Starter: Automotive on her dead car battery, and the car started up right away. The Schumacher jump start systems do not come with AC power cords, so you have to get a 12 foot Husky Light-Duty Tool Extension Cords 16 gauge for $6.97 each at www.homedepot.com . However, only this one shows up Home Depot Coleman 25 foot 13 gauge extension cord for $6.49 or this one Amazon.com: Coleman Cable 02407 25' 14/3 SJTW Red Extension Cord: Tools & Hardware . The Schumacher jump start systems have round about 2 inch in diameter recessed plugs on their rear sides for exension cords, so not all extension cords work with them. Maybe you should just get a Husky American Kennel Club - Siberian Husky for, if you are in upstate New York. Thus if one leaves the jump start system on continual charge charging from its AC cord when unused, the device works perfectly fine. One leaves it turned off, and I put the positive clamp on the positive battery terminal and the negative clamp on the negative battery terminal, and the jump start system made a beeping noise, but when I turned it on with the switch, it quick making the beeping noise, and the car started up right away. My neighbor drove away to charge up her car. I went to bed after that. I had a telephone call from a relative about 7 P.M.. I woke up at 4 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I gathered some of the packaging in the bedroom for smaller items that I have bought recently, and I put them in a plastic bag in storage. I am charging up the 2.5 million and the 10 million watt lanterns. I labeled their charging adapters, so one knows which is which. I took the bicycle outside, and I put down the rear seat in my Volvo station wagon, and I put the bike in the rear of the car to store there, until after I am inspected this Wednesday. I put the U.S.A flag over the British Union Jack in the hallway and the U.S. Air Force flag over the Dutch tricolor flag, thus I have the apartment ready for inspection. After the inspection I will put the bike back in the apartment, and I will change the flags back around. I am charging up the Creative MP3 player. On the primary Vista machine, I had to uninstall the Logitech USB 5000 web cam software, and with the Logitech USB 4000 web cam, I use its XP drivers from the Logitech XP usb 4000 webcam disk, and then I install the Logitech Vista USB 5000 web cam software, and the Logitech USB 4000 web cam works just fine in Vista. I will now go through my email. CIO

Note:<888> 02/07/07 Wednesday 3:35 A.M.: Before going to bed this past morning, I chatted with the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor , and I told them that since the pier on the end of the road on Steamboat Road where some of their guests walk down to enjoy the view of the harbor has a lot of seagull droppings, they should advise their guests to take off their shoes before entering their suites after walking on the pier, and they should antibacterial soap to wash their hands after handling their shoes. Most everyone I know, know that seagull droppings are some of the dirtiest objects in the world in terms of hygiene control. I woke up at 7 P.M. this past evening. The eBay: Exxon Embroidered Gasoline patch Oil Gas Station (item 150048787075 end time Feb-16-07 14:18:50 PST) for about $5 with shipping arrived in the mail. It took about 2.5 hours, and I sewed it onto my Polar King Hat on the front over the White Polar Bear. It is sort of a nice tan winter cap with ear flaps that I got from the Greenwich Hardware store a few years back from their now gone 70% off rack for about $5. Thus when I am walking out on cold winter's days, I can advertise a local company that a few local people seem to know something about. Alas since the Rockefellers Rockefeller Sites have sold out of www.exxon.com to the company according to somebody in their horse stables, and since the company moved down to Irvine, Texas, all we have is a few country club people left around here who use to hob nob with them in the old days. However, the town of Greenwich is supposedly taxing country clubs, so I do not know if people can afford to belong to them anymore. They were primarily a conservation effort to preserve open space in the community that was also useful for sporting purposes and other entertainment purposes. I do know the Rockefellers over in North Tarrytown, New York gave a large portion of their property that is now a New York State Park, and anyone can visit it, but like any state park, there might be some sort of wildlife around that one might not necessarily want to deal with, so if you were not too adept at dealing with wildlife, you might encourage the local state wildlife ranger to walk around with you in case there was any in the area, if you get my drift. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I chatted with a relative. I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed. I took a nap on the Scott family long green sofa until about 1:30 A.M.. I will now do some regular computer work. Traditionally Tuesdays are sort of a slower day off for me, so I tend to get a bit of rest, since weekends are always busier for me with all of the New York City people whom seem to visit downtown and with the commuters whom seem to have returned home from the city and elsewhere. I have lived in Manhattan in the winter, and there is not really much going on in Manhattan in the early morning hours during cold winter nights. The last time I went in late at night after midnight was about 13 or 14 years ago, and I dressed up in my Austrian game keepers suit that I recently gave to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop that came from the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and I went to a couple of pubs, and I chatted with the doorman outside the Waldorf Astoria Waldorf Astoria who told me he was Swiss, and I noticed to young blond girls come out from their bar, and they told me they were from Green Farms, Michigan, and they got into a new blue www.ford.com Taurus, and I told them they should dress up in Blue Jeans and come out here and try to pick up some young preppy boys whom do not pay much attention to the Big City. I saw one of them walking around our neighborhood a few years ago, but I do not know if any of the local preppy teenage boys took note of some of their Midwest cousins, whom tend to look a lot healthier and whom tend to be use to colder weather, since it is colder in Michigan. I recall that night it was about minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan, so there are some cold weather people around occassionally. The church on the near side of picture of the Waldorf Astoria is http://www.stbarts.org/ where quite a few friends of mine had families that attended, and they even have a swimming pool. From their front patio when I was having a cigarette break in January 1973, I noticed the Duke of Windsor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Edward VIII of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia entering the Waldorf Towers from a livery vehicle, and I did not realize at the time, he had supposedly died the previous June. I still see a few young people venturing into Manhattan during the early morning hours, so we manage to keep up some level of communications with our cousins in the big city. According to the history of the area, the Duke of Windsor spent some time on the North Shore of Long Island, and he also dedicated a statue at the old Electrolux factory in Old Greenwich, Connecticut while he was still Prince of Wales, so more than likely there are one or two British people still in the area keep the rugs vacuumed. On the order for Extra Large in Tall Adirondack Barn Coat, Insulated: Coats and Casual Jackets at L.L.Bean in Mariner Blue for $39.95 and $5.95 shipping for $45.90 total for a 42% savings for the tall size, tracking is FedEx | Track , so it is due today. I received email on the CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 02/04/07:

Note:<888> 02/04/07 Sunday 6:55 A.M.: Sale at Sierra Trading Post - Save 35-70% on Famous Name Brands . I have plenty of winter clothing, but here is a sale item Adirondack Barn Coat, Insulated: Coats and Casual Jackets at L.L.Bean only in Mariner Blue. The Netherlands, the New Tax Shelter Hot Spot - New York Times . In Elder Care, Signing on Becomes a Way to Drop By - New York Times . Residential Towers to Sprout Soon on Far West Side - New York Times . USGS Online Automated Recruitment System . Number of People Stopped by New York Police Soars - New York Times . Wabash Cannonball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Wabash Cannonball . Of course you would have to know how to drive a train, which I am rather sure Granddad Scott knew how to do. I was once on one of those old coal fired steam locomotives checking out the locomotive compartment when I was about seven, and I dare say they were well engineered enough that they probably could still get you there today, if you knew the right people. Of course out in the middle of the country, they do not always have railroad crossing warning gates, so whenever driving in the middle of the country when crossing a railroad track, one should come to a complete stop and look both ways before crossing. When traveling through the Midwest as a youth on vacation with family, I ran across a number of train wrecks. It is usually very hard and it takes time to stop a train with over 200 freight cars once it gets moving. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note:<888> 02/04/07 Sunday 5:20 A.M.: I have been looking at extra memory for my computer systems http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm for the last couple of months, but they really do not need anymore memory, and until memory gets quite a bit cheaper, I will not be buying anymore. I noticed coffee at the Food Emporium this evening was about $13 a 38 ounce bag of coffee beans, so I did not buy anymore. I still have quite a bit left in my apartment. I have two opened containers of Folgers decaffeinated and regular instant coffee over a couple of years old. I also have two unopened Nescafe decaffeinated and regular 7 ounce each a couple of years old. I then emptied all of my coffee grinders of their various mixtures of coffee beans into a large bin, and I added the remaining 38 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Columbian beans and I added about 12 ounces of two different types of Italian Espresso coffee beans over a couple of years old, and then I filled one of the Braun coffee grinders with fresh decaffeinated coffee beans from the remaining unopened 36 ounce bag of decaffeinated coffee beans, and then I added the remaining decaffeinated coffee into the bin of coffee beans. I mixed them all together thoroughly using my hands. I then filled up the other Braun coffee grinder with the coffee bean blend, and then I filled seven 40 liquid ounce Mason jars with the remaining coffee beans, and I labeled them "regular" , so I basically have 300 liquid ounces of coffee beans. The regular mixture is about 7% Italian Espresso coffee beans, 43% decaffeinated coffee beans, and 50% Columbian coffee beans, so my stock should last me another couple of months, hopefully by which time, I might noticed that the Food Emporium has put their Eight O'clock coffee beans on sale again, when I have funds. I only drink one large 12 ounce cup of coffee a day, so they should last a while. There is no use letting my stock deteriorate. I think the unopened instant coffee and possibly the opened instant coffee lasts a while. CIO

Note:<888> 02/04/07 Sunday 4:00 A.M.: Dinner was delicious and filling as usual. I figured the onion is a useful food in cold weather when sautéed, since more than likely it has proven itself over time, since the Russians put Onion Domes on all of their churches, more than likely they knew the value of the onion. Since I use expensive extra virgin olive oil to sauté the onions with the hamburger to which I add a few pads of margarine, I do not drain off the oil or fat from cooking, and I pour it over the sautees onions on the hamburger and on the rice too. I rebooted the server, and it seems to be running just fine. When I finish my computer work later on this morning, I will leave it running, so in case I am not awake by 6:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time this evening, it will automatically start recording the www.superbowl.com . Although I do not know much about football, I did go to college at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois www.lfc.edu from 1968 to 1972 with the winter and spring of 1972 spent on foreign study programs in southern Europe. Thus I know a little bit about Midwestern people since both my mother's and father's families were from the Midwest. I do not know about football, but I do know the people in Illinois are physically large, but they have a larger population, so the food available does not sustain as many larger people. However, I know Indiana has just as much food with a smaller population, so therefore they have some physically very large people, and we all know the history of Notre Dame in football, so therefore although my father's family is from Champaign, Illinois, granddad Scott's and Grandma's Gard Scott's family farms were down state Illinois on the Illinois Indiana borders, so we obviously have relatives in Indiana since the area of Robinson, Illinois lies on the Wabash River which is on the border between Illinois and Indiana. It is a small river, so of like the Byram River, I live nearby on the border of Connecticut and New York. However, I saw the Indiana National Guard at Vice President Dan Qualye's inaugural reception, and if a Indiana football team is as large as the Indiana National Guard, I would say that Indiana might have a good chance of winning, but I would not want to say anything that would upset my relatives and friends in Illinois. We do know Gary, Indiana has some very large people whom make steel for the various steel companies, but since it is near the Illinois border on Lake Michigan, the steel workers could live in Indiana, Illinois, or Michigan, and more than likely they have not run out of food, so they could sustain a large football team. I recall Granddad Scott's cabin on the farm on the Wabash River was on the Indiana side of the river, and he was able to afford to run a small ferry across the river to move farm equipment from one side to another. Besides Ethanol from corn, there is also oil in down state Illinois, in that they have thousands of those old slow oil pumpers that pump a couple of barrels a day, and I read that Marathon Oil Marathon Oil Corporation which used to be owned by U. S. Steel - A Leading Steel Producer, Steel Manufacturing, Steel Maker built a refinery in Robinson, Illinois that refines 350,000 barrels a day of oil from those old slow pumpers. They call that area of down state Illinois, "Little Egypt" for some odd reason. Thus hopefully if the computer makes a recording of the Superbowl, I should be able to burn it to about 4 DVDs to have available for entertainment. It will be a good way to test the Vista Media Center, and to see how it works. CIO

Note:<888> 02/04/07 Sunday 2:05 A.M.: I woke up at noon yesterday, when the order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for 7 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box arrived. I went back to bed until 5 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I went back to bed until 9 P.M.. I dressed up warmly without cleaning up, and I went out with my grocery cart and two jump start systems in case I needed them. However, the 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon started right up without any problems. I scraped a small bit of ice off the driver's side of the windshield, and I drove over to the Stop and Shop. I bought a 6 pack of Stop and Shop bagels for $1.69, a 22 ounce bar of Stop and Shop New York Extra Sharp cheddar cheese for $4.99, two 59 ounce carafes of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3 each, four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's New England clam chowder for two for $2.79, two six ounce boxes of Certo for $3.79, a 8 ounce container of Kraft grated parmesan cheese for $2.99, two 5.5 ounce containers of Pringle low fat sour cream and onion potato chips for $1 each, four 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop lite grape juice for $3.49 each, a 200 package box of Splenda for $9.39, a six pack of boneless chicken breasts for $2.99 a pound for $11.06, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a three pound bag of onions for $2.29, fresh Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound $1.66, a bunch of broccoli at $1.79 a pound for $2.04 for $76.20 total. I then went downtown, and I stood out briefly. I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road. I then drove along the waterfront and shore neighborhoods down to the beach entrance at Tod's Point in Old Greenwich. I noticed lots of people were having dinner out in Old Greenwich which also has a number of restaurants. I then returned along the shore area in Riverside. Around the entrance to the Riverside Yacht Club road, a oncoming driver veered into my path and almost hit my car. One has to be careful about driving around on Saturday night, because there are usually a few people whom had cocktails still trying to drive despite the town warnings. I then went downtown, and I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and then I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I found a small black beret at the Greenwich train station that I brought back home. I then went by the Food Emporium at closing at midnight, and I bought two Jane Parker 3 pound fruit cakes in the tins for 75% off for $7.50 total. I then returned home. I brought up my purchases with my cart and the jump start systems too. I still do not know if the new jumper start system works or not. Possibly the problem with it was that I did not have the clamps attached tight enough. I will have to wait until we get a spell of cold days in a row. Still it is important to drive every couple of days to keep the car battery charged up, and to keep it in running performance, particularly since I park my car outside. I also brought up the mail. I put away the groceries. I got a Christmas Letter from Queen Elizabeth II Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy from her country house at Sandringham written by a Lady in Waiting, saying she looks forward to her visit to Virginia for the 400th anniversary Jamestown 2007 - America's 400th Anniversary . I am not sure how many of the Scotts are left in Virginia anymore. I noticed on the Greenwich Avenue news boxes this story Antares possible investment - Greenwich Time . I put the Christmas letter with its envelope in the frame that I have hung in the hallway with the other letters that I have received in the past. With my web site, I let them know that the Scott family is still managing to get along in America after all of these years. I got my electricity bill from www.cl-p.com and with the 20% rate rise in January and using more electric heat in January, my bill went up to $235 from $185 in December. I have it already paid for by my NEON Energy allotment from the Federal Government of $675 to assist low income individuals with their energy bills. I pay an average monthly bill of $165 on a yearly basis, so it should last about 4 months, although I use more electricity for electric heat in the winter. I will now make the same hamburger with cheese, onions, vegetables and rice meal of recent previous nights, and I will eat it with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 8:40 A.M.: Information on Media Center Extender and Windows Media Center Extender Technology , I do not have the Media Center Extender device, however in my current primary computer setup with Vista Ultimate using the Nvidia monitor card, I can put the card in a setting for clone mode, where it plays on the left monitor with the same display on my Sony HDTV television and with the Hauppauge remote control that came with the TV card, I basically have the same effect without the additional expense. The Hauppauge remote control controls the Vista Media Center program just like one were watching television. However, if one saved too much media, one would quickly run out of hard drive space at 3.5 gigabytes an hour, so it is basically like TIVO. Also, possibly I could get the sound to be better with it on the television, since the rear audio input have two jacks, and I only have the cable from the 6.1 speaker system going into one jack as I recall, but at the moment I am too tired to climb behind the Sony television to double check that, and more than likely it might need some simple adapter. It is plenty loud enough with the computer speaker system from the rear of the television viewing chair, but barely loud enough when the television sound is activated with the system by plugging in the jack into the 6.1 system that leads to the Sony TV. Of course the more expensive content on the internet is not really too much cheaper than the content on the Digital Cable Box television, none of which I can ever afford to buy, so I am pretty much life in the slow lane, except for some of my older neighbors, whom seem to think I am from Mars. I configured the Media Center with some of my contents that I had saved on the computer from the old XP system. I will do a Vista Complete PC backup of the first hard drive to the second hard drive. I will then shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon. It is suppose to be very cold out at night for the next few days. I hope my car starts tonight after sitting out in the cold for three days. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 6:00 A.M.: I chatted with www.cablevision.com about the new Vista Media Center working with the CompUSA.com: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC NTSC Hybrid Video Recorder TV Tuner - 1178 - Computer Upgrades » TV Tuners and WinTV-HVR-1600 TV card. I studied the Media Center, and it has a lot of WCBS TV3 prepaid programming setup to record on it for some reason. Those are commercials. I set it up to record the Superbowl, so if the computer is turned on at 6:30 P.M. tomorrow, it will automatically record it. I chose channel 3 instead of channel 2 since it seems to be a better picture on the www.cablevision.com system. I will shortly see if I put the Nvidia video card into clone mode to what if anything the Media Center will do with it on the Sony HDTV. It should display on it, but there is some Media Center "extender" function that looks like it might work with it. I ordered two Emtc - Panasonic Cordless Phone Headset for $9.95 each with free shipping for $19.90 total. If they do not work with my Panasonic 5.8 Ghz cordless handsets, they will work with the other cordless handsets. Possibly the other one did not work too well, since it had noise cancellation. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 4:20 A.M.: The order from this link, one gets 10% off Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! plus 10% off , I ordered two Overstock.com: Hand-hooked Aubusson Fruit Ivory/Blue Wool Rug (1'8 x 2'6) : Home Decor for $19.99 each for $39.98 subtotal less four dollar 10% discount and $2.95 shipping for $38.93 total have shipped due to arrive this Monday UPS: Tracking Information and UPS: Tracking Information , maybe Aladdin will deliver them himself. I am not sure what happened to my old brass oil lamp like the ones that the Arabs use to use, but maybe it will show up sooner or later. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program - Large Igneous Province Workshop . Works with Vista Surplus Computers Microsoft Wireless USB Laser Desktop 6000 Keyboard & Mouse $38 with shipping , and use these Vista drivers Download Software Drivers for Microsoft Vista for Microsoft Mouse and Microsoft Keyboard . I have been using a set that I paid about $50 for about six months with Vista without any problems. I got mine from www.justdeals.com . I finished going through my email. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 3:50 A.M.: There is not much going on around here, because all of the Corporate Fat Cat types can seem to write off business and entertainment expenses for going down to Florida for the Superbowl www.superbowl.com , and more than likely they are boozing it up and drinking away their profits. I got a thank you note today from the Gerald R. Ford Memorial Fund Gift Information for my $5 donation. It had a post mark from Fort Meyers, Florida. A couple of weeks ago I also got a Christmas Note card from Vice President of the United States - Richard B. Cheney , since he is rich enough to be able send out cards, but alas www.whitehouse.gov never sends me a Christmas Card, since their spies here in Greenwich, Connecticut know I never go to church, so they think I am a fraud, but I am mostly on a night schedule. The last church service I attended was as I recall the February after "911" during the G8 conference in Manhattan, and I felt relatively secure there, because I noticed two United States Navy Academy USNA Music Department WebGate - Men's Glee Club buses outside the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church | Welcome , so I decided to attend with a friend before meeting up with other friends at the Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org , but I do happen to know quite a few church people. Alas the old guard Anglican Episcopalians do not trust the Scottish Presbyterians, since they conquered Scotland, and what always worries them is that the Scottish might actually waste some of their money visiting them to take it all back. I do know that Scotland is a very cold damp climate, so not many people want to visit, and more than likely what I heard is that they let the Romans invade, just so they could steal their gold. Whatever, the case the www.rbs.co.uk is still around until they move their U.S. headquarters to Stamford, Connecticut, so more than likely they still wield a little bit of influence in this neck of the woods if you get my drift. However, the last I heard Royal Bank of Montreal is suppose to have a non commercial office nearby on West Putnam Avenue, I guess to keep track of the relatively few Canadians whom can afford to live in this neck of the woods. However, I have never checked out to see if it were actually there. My friends from South Africa also have an office nearby where they invest money in real estate in the area. I know their outfit bought a large mill property in Maine for development, and they own the old Society Bank building on Greenwich Avenue, and they own the small shopping center in North Salem, New York, and they also bought the old MacArthur airfield out on Long Island to build a shopping mall there. Since one of them drives a $140,000 Mercedes Benz while the other stays home and plays the stock market, more than likely they have other friends besides a former snoopy neighbor. He is Dutch, and she is British, so more than likely they know more about DeBeers Security than I do, since I have never visited Africa, but I do know his brother is in charge of I think it was Goldman Sachs in Japan, or maybe it was Lehman Brothers. He made money before the internet by reading the Financial Times of London World business, finance and political news from the Financial Times – FT.com US and Home - Barron's Online , and he is the only other Economist that I know of that I have chatted with in this area. He also has the same look as my diseased Dutch uncle from Holland, Michigan that was an orthodontist. Thus he is the only person I know of in this area of Dutch descent from over seas besides, Eric who is Queen Beatrice's nephew, Yap that worked for Citicorp, and the lady I met from Harlem in the Netherlands that was here two summers ago. They rest of the Dutch people ignore me, because I do not know the Dutch language, and they do not seem to understand my dialect of English, since I took the Evelyn Speed Reading course my freshman year in college, I also tend to speak English very fast, but not the Oxford King's English. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 3:05 A.M.: I made and ate the same hamburger and onion dinner, but I only had baby carrots and rice with it, and I did not have broccoli. I ate it all with glass of iced tea. I tried calling www.cablevision.com internet service to give them some Vista tips, and they seem to be quite busy, since one can not get through to them. More than likely now that it is the weekend, the office crowd types have acquired Vista, and they are trying to get it all configured and working before the Monday work day. On the big fat lie of Joe Kennedy III's about the friendly people of Venezuela, it is even printed in the liberal press that Venezuela has the highest murder rate of any country in the world. Thus more than likely as usual, the democrats are desperate, and they have resorted to bold face lying to try to enhance their schemes. I happen to remember the name of the old Venezuelan oil company, and it was called Anaconda Oil , not to be mistaken by this company with the same name Anaconda Company - Britannica Concise , and more than likely it was name after the large snake in Venezuela of the same name Anaconda | biggest snake | biggest anaconda , so even if you thought the people were friendly there, more than likely you would not want to go on any nature hikes too far off of the cement, if you get my drift. I ate the last two scoops of butter pecan ice cream. I will now go through my email. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 12:55 A.M.: I connect up the Panasonic headset to the AT&T 2.4 GHz 2 line cordless telephone in the living room by the French reproduction chair, and I tested it by chatting with www.cablevision.com , and since the AT&T telephone has a higher volume control and more electrical output for the headset, it works just fine with the AT&T telephone by the 1989 Social Register. You figure anyone who has been in the Social Register since the new internet money showed up, more than likely knows a thing or two. When I worked for Vivian West out in Plandome Manor, Long Island, she had one of those old heavy black metal AT&T telephones in case the new Princess style quit working. Thus summer New York Telephone has a satellite photograph of Cape Cod on their telephone book. CIO

Note:<888> 02/03/07 Saturday 12:10 A.M.: I was awake at 1 P.M.. I picked up the mail downstairs, and I chatted with the building custodian and some neighbors. I received a promotional package from www.microsoft.com for their new Vista and Office 2007 software. That package was left outside my door. I chatted with a friend. I went back to bed until 5 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed. I chatted with a friend and two relatives, both relatives twice. I noticed on the Fox News www.foxnews.com that Joe Kennedy III is advertising an oil company called Citizens Oil that is selling home heating oil I would assume in this area which comes from Venezuela for 40% below the market price. Since the oil was confiscated by the communist government of Venezuela from www.exxon.com , I would assume that activity of selling communist oil from confiscated from a U.S. company would be illegal by United States government standards. It is no different that if I stole a car in a foreign country and tried to sell it here. Since the Kennedys supposedly own stock in www.gm.com and www.hertz.com , I have a feeling some Exxon stock holders could start stealing their cars in return for them stealing Exxon's oil. The wife of the fruit cake from Arkansas was also on television saying that the U.S. Government should also confiscate the U.S. oil companies profits particularly Exxon's. I would assume from this level of activity the liberal democratic party is now just a front party for the old line communists and socialists doing what ever they can do to get elected. In the U.S.A. since private property owner's pay taxes to the U.S. Government, I have a feeling the tax payers will take a dim outlook on this level of activity by the communist democratic party. As I have told many people over the years, Exxon employees can take care of themselves. Exxon security from my general level of observation is there to protect the general public from www.exxon.com emplyees in case any of them get in the way. If anyone needs one, there are other Exxon patches at eBay: Exxon Embroidered Gasoline patch Oil Gas Station (item 150048787075 end time Feb-16-07 14:18:50 PST) for about $5 with shipping. I think 5 are available. One could sew it on a baseball cap, and try to look like an Exxon employee, but locally here in the upscale Greenwich, Connecticut area, they would think you are a Red Neck, which is a term for southern farmers down south who when they work outside in the fields in the day time, the back of their neck gets Red. I chatted with Winthrop Rockefeller's Winthrop Paul Rockefeller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia telephone number in Arkansas about matter, the number is available in the 1989 Social Register. I think the Rock's would take a dim viewpoint about the Kennedy Clan stealing their oil. I think the Kennedy's have their own oil company down in Texas on the Mexican border on the Kennedy ranch, but what brand they market it under is hard to tell. Thus I think it is safe to say the Clan of Kennedy boot legers are playing fast and loose with the U.S. legal system, and I think it is safe to say, one could call them war profiteers. When the troops get back from Iraq and elsewhere, they are not going to be pleased. I noticed the old AT&T two line telephone by the French Antique reproduction chair in the living room was not working properly. Its handset would not work. After testing it, I disconnected it, and the Plantronics Vista headset, and I connected up at that location the AT&T cordless 2.4 GHz 2 line telephone that I had at the apartment entrance on the telephone table. I put the Plantronics Vista headset underneath the bedroom side board, and I put AT&T phone with the faulty handset underneath the right bedroom night stand. I chatted with a few security people about the political oil problem, and they said the only thing one could do was contact the Attorney General who in the U.S. is Hispanic United States Department of Justice , but probably not a communist since he was appointed by www.whitehouse.gov . I tested all of the telephones in the apartment, and they are now working fine. In connecting up two line telephones, they seem to frequently only work with each line connected one of two ways, so one has to switch them around to get them to work. It is like the movie of the name Brazil, when the technology got so complex only the technicians knew how to use the new devices. The Panasonic headset for the Panasonic cordless telephone in the kitchen is not loud enough, so I disconnected it, and I left it hanging on the kitchen bookcase side. I could try to order another one, but there is no warranty, since I bought it used from Ebay. Maybe the Japanese have better hearing. This is the best deal in one Emtc - Panasonic Cordless Phone Headset for $9.95 with free shipping, but I am not sure it would be any better. I placed a bid on anther Panasonic KX-TGA670 expandable cordless handset 5.8 Ghz eBay: PANASONIC KX-TGA670 EXPANDABLE CORDLESS HANDSET 5.8 GHZ (item 270086121228 end time Feb-05-07 15:14:15 PST), which will only work with the base unit that I already have, so not many people can use it. I tweaked the pillows and other items on the down sofa. The Epox server, seems to be working fine now that I have it connected to the good UPS device without the control panel drawing power for the monitor too. CIO

Note:<888> 02/02/07 Friday 6:05 A.M.: I microwaved a single portion bag of popcorn, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. When microwaving a smaller single portion bag, one needs to microwave it about 30 seconds less, since my General Electric microwave oven has a regular size popcorn button. Today is Ground Hog's day. I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note:<888> 02/02/07 Friday 4:40 A.M.: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Blame for warming pinned on man . BBC NEWS | Technology | Tiny engine boosts nanotech hopes . BBC NEWS | Technology | Vista has speech recognition hole . BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft starts Vista hard sell . BBC NEWS | Technology | Vista security claim challenged . Earlier Windows Updates installed the Office 2003 updates. I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive. Before doing that, I first clean out the Internet Explorer Cache. I then run Ad-aware SE. I then run CCleaner. I then empty the recycle bin. I then check for Vista and Norton Updates. I then do a System Restore backup. I then do the Vista Complete PC backup to save my daily work. Earlier I ate three scoops of butter pecan ice cream. CIO

Note:<888> 02/02/07 Friday 4:10 A.M.: Well, I stopped the Donald Trump recording at the end of its half hour presentation. In the Windows Media Center using the CompUSA.com: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC NTSC Hybrid Video Recorder TV Tuner - 1178 - Computer Upgrades » TV Tuners and WinTV-HVR-1600 that I bought, the Donald Trump 29 minute program is 1,806,038 Kbytes or about 1.8 gigabytes for a half hour. Thus a four hour SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XLI would be about 1.9 gigabytes times 8 or about 15.2 gigabytes on DVD. Since I think a DVD holds about 4 gigabytes of files, it would take about four DVDs to burn it to DVD. I am not sure whether the Vista Media Center burns to multiple DVDs or not. For demonstration purposes and not commercial purposes to show the quality of the Hauppauge CompUSA.com: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC NTSC Hybrid Video Recorder TV Tuner - 1178 - Computer Upgrades » TV Tuners and WinTV-HVR-1600 in my machine connected to Digital Cablevision through the analog input bypassing the Digital Cable box, I am posting this 1.8 gigabyte file that will play in the Vista Media Center that comes with the Ultimate and Business editions http://mikelouisscott.com/trump-020207.wmv. I guess one would download it by right clicking on the video link and then save it to the Vista Machine in the "Users\Public\Recorded TV" folder for viewing in the Vista Media Center. CIO

Note:<888> 02/02/07 Friday 3:00 A.M.: There is a gas station down in Irvine, Texas known as www.exxon.com that stated that it earned $39.5 billion Exxon Mobil: A Well-Oiled Machine? . You would think with all of those earnings, they could afford to pay some of their help a little bit better. We have so many people whom claim to be connected with the company anymore, we do not know whom is whom, and for all we know somebody just bought a Exxon baseball cap at their local station. I think they are suppose to sell them there. I signed up for Exxon Mobil Speedpass to catch up with the times. It takes the funds out of one's debit account, it is not a credit card, in case you have dreams of filling up the corporate jet. Of course you could always express another point of view with Boycott Exxon Mobil : Media Tees: Funny Movie T-shirts, & Quotes Gifts : CafePress.com . I placed a bid on this eBay.ca: Vintage EXXON cloisonne logo pin (d591) (item 110086995423 end time 08-Feb-07 13:48:46 EST) . Other Exxon items eBay Canada - Exxon, Gas Oil, Advertising – new and used items at discount prices on eBay.ca . Use this to save money for the company jet eBay.ca: Exxon Airplane Bank Mint condition in original box (item 280075802090 end time 03-Feb-07 21:20:56 EST) . eBay.ca: BRAND NEW PROMO EXXON MOBIL ASHWORTH GOLF POLO SHIRT L (item 170076173817 end time 05-Feb-07 18:41:22 EST) . Don't forget about www.microsoft.com eBay Store - SNAZZY DRESSER: Microsoft Merchandise: CLASSIC BRAND NEW MICROSOFT WINDOWS START BUTTON MUG . I just bought this to have available eBay: Exxon Patch (item 260081803942 end time Feb-01-07 23:44:27 PST) for $3.75 and $1 shipping for $4.75 total which would be a good price for a gallon of gasoline about now. Of course this one is still available eBay: Exxon CEC Patch (item 170069233342 end time Feb-09-07 09:13:02 PST) for the same price. For some odd reason, my Windows Media Center is recording a program on Donald Trump www.trump.com , and it seems to have started doing it automatically. CIO

Note:<888> 02/02/07 Friday 1:15 A.M.: Gates unveils virtual Da Vinci notebook - CNN.com . I searched out inexpensive UPS devices, and they are still expensive with shipping which is more today for heavy items. I then checked out the old APC UPS connected to the server, and instead of having it connected to just the server, I had it connected to the control panel which also controls the monitor which would be too much of a load on it. I disconnected it from the Epox server setup, and I use a long orange heavy duty extension cord, and I connected the Epox server CPU to the UPS device for the FIC server which is turned off most of the time recently, so now one turns on the Epox server CPU from its front panel button instead of the control panel button. Hopefully that will solve the problem with the system turning off occasionally. I will now go through my email. The Glenlivet City Links and RSVP . Chichón Conference Mexico . Microsoft Updates Vista Before Rollout - Technology News by TechWeb . Maybe Bill should check out why his broadcast do not work Bill Gates Webcasts . Cheaper way to get Vista Get Vista upgrade, never pay full price . CIO

Note:<888> 02/01/07 Thursday 11:05 P.M.: I was awake at 5 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed. I chatted with a relative. I did house cleaning and watering the plants. I threw out the old periodical literature and the garbage. I opened a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it on one vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and I put it in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl with a little bit of dried parsley on it, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I then showered, and I cleaned up, so I feel a little bit better. There is no need for me to go out tonight since the car battery should be fully charged after my trip to www.compusa.com in Norwalk, Connecticut yesterday. I will now do some regular computer work. The Epox server has been occasionally shutting down, and I thought it might be a hacker, but I have its powered connected on an old Thrift Shop APC UPC device with a bad battery, so possibly that is causing the problem, since it does make a beeping sound when I turn on the Sony television. CIO

Note:<888> 02/01/07 Thursday 10:15 A.M.: Hero of Vesuvius . Bill Gates' to-do list | Tech News on ZDNet . Microsoft Takes Manhattan - Forbes.com . Windows Vista Tips & Tricks - Expert Help by PC Magazine . Windows Vista - Reviews and Price Comparisons – from PC Magazine .Biltmore Newsletter . Canada's Most Expensive Homes - Forbes.com . Windows Vista: Home Page . Vista Arrives With Limited Fanfare - New York Times . I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888> 02/01/07 Thursday 9:15 A.M.: With this link, one gets 10% off Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! plus 10% off , I ordered two Overstock.com: Hand-hooked Aubusson Fruit Ivory/Blue Wool Rug (1'8 x 2'6) : Home Decor for $19.99 each for $39.98 subtotal less four dollar 10% discount and $2.95 shipping for $38.93 total. I will put one in the small walk through entrance to my kitchen, and I will put the other in front of the walk area in the living room in front of the French antique reproduction chair. I will now go through my email. CIO

Note:<888> 02/01/07 Thursday 8:40 A.M.: I mailed the two letters. I went outside briefly. I paid my bills online. I paid the www.cablevision.com and www.verizon.com bills. I do not have www.geico.com and www.cl-p.com . I got my $675 energy grant paid to my electricity account, so I will not have electricity payments for the next four months. However, it usually comes in May, so I have extra money in the summer when I can be more active. However, it now means I will be less active this coming summer with less money. Six of one a half dozen of the other. I will now go through my email. CIO

Note:<888> 02/01/07 Thursday 7:45 A.M.: After I finished the Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive, I did another one to the Bytecc external hard drive. I also have the $20 mail in rebate on the Hauppauge TV card ready to mail. I made and ate the same hamburger and onion and vegetable meal, which I ate with a glass of iced tea. I will now go out and mail them. CIO

Note:<888> 02/01/07 Thursday 4:30 A.M.: I went back to bed after the last message. I woke up at about 5 P.M., when the backup was finished. I made my bed. I moved the white pillows off the down sofa, and I put them on the long green sofa, and I moved the big pillows from the long green sofa to my bed. I have a lot of pillows on the bed to move, when I go to bed. I uninstalled Office 2003 from the primary computer, because Word 2003 was not working, and I reinstalled it, and it now works just fine. About 8 P.M., I drove up to CompUSA in Norwalk, and it was not too busy. I bought the CompUSA.com: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC NTSC Hybrid Video Recorder TV Tuner - 1178 - Computer Upgrades » TV Tuners and WinTV-HVR-1600 for $99.99 and a CompUSA.com: Monster Cable THX Coax RF Video Cable, 8 feet - THX V100 F-8 - Electronics » Home Video » A V Cables for $14.99 and $6.90 tax for $121.88 total. I then returned back to central Greenwich, and I sat out briefly downtown. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon Station, and I bought $24 of premium unleaded self service gasoline at $2.859 a gallon for135 miles driving in the last two weeks at 16.7 miles per gallon average driving at 18 miles per hour. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.41 and buy one get one free of Friendly 1.75 quart ice cream of one coffee and one Maple Walnut for $6.19 both for $7.60 total. I then returned home. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 toasted English muffins with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. The CompUSA.com: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC NTSC Hybrid Video Recorder TV Tuner - 1178 - Computer Upgrades » TV Tuners and WinTV-HVR-1600 that I bought, I installed it in my primary computer http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm running Vista Ultimate with the Vista Media Center program, and it works fine with the Vista Media Center which recognizes it. When installing the Vista drivers Hauppauge Computer Works: Support for WinTV-HVR-1600 , I installed the Vista drivers, and then I ran the Vista install program and configured the TV card, and then I ran it a second time, and I also ran the XP Hauppauge install program from the DVD at the same time, and I deselected the programs on the XP install that the Vista version wanted to install, and I first installed the XP programs and then the Vista programs. The WinTV 2000 program recognized my analog channels off the cable system, and when I switch the Digital Cable box channel to channel 3, I can use the switch I have installed with the Radio Shack cable switch, and I can also watch the Digital Cable box channels on the channel 3. I tried connecting the Digital port directly to my cable system, but it did not recognize any other channels, however www.cablevision.com is gradually changing their service to all digital in the future, so perhaps the digital connector will be useful in the future. The Hauppauge remote control recognizes and runs the Vista Media Center program on Vista Ultimate. The Vista Media Center configured my WinTV-HVR-1600 card, and it runs it TV programs with it just fine. I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money report for January 2007, and I will mail one to a relative. I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup of my primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive. CIO