Note:<888> 3/7/98 Saturday 1:10 A.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Yesterday I did not update the site because I had a dinner guest and also messed up my back tinkering with an old digarded computer for 12 hours to no avail. I was trying to put another 386 motherboard in my backup 386, but I could not get any of the configurations to work, so I just returned the backup 386 to its former state replacing a hard drive cable and adding a numeric processor. Basically I thought if I got the other motherboard to work, it would accept the extra memory I had. Well the old saying goes, "If It Aint Broken, Don't Fix It !". Today I was up at 6 P.M.. I went out and stopped by the library and read some of the computer press. I noticed a reception going on in the Art Gallery which happens monthly. The library itself was not busy in the evening. Yesterday one of our senior regulars was seen in the library. Basically the staff are more friendly there when one dresses up, instead of showing up in one's old jeans. Well to each his own, I was not planning on winning a fashion show. I checked out classical and march music for a change. After the library I went for a walk downtown and then did some shopping for bargains at the Grand Union. I returned home and wrote Mom a letter and then had a Tony's frozen pizza while listening to the www.dailybriefing.com . I next went out and mailed the letter. I stopped by the Greenwich Harbor Inn to go to the bathroom, and they told me the long time night time receptionist had quit her job for other activities. I went for a walk on Greenwich Avenue and saw the midnight movie crowd exiting the theatres. It seemed to be a quiet night overall. I will do a little net surfing now. CIO

Note:<888> 3/5/98 Thursday 12:10 A.M. EST: Updated Scott's recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . It was cooler outside this evening. I feel like relaxing for the rest of the evening, I am getting tired of the redundancy of the net. It is like a small group of people that keeps on rebroadcasting the same old nonsense. I think it is time to get rid of some of the dead wood and go with more modern viewpoints, in other words cancel their company American Express Cards. CIO

Note:<888> 3/4/98 Wednesday 9:20 P.M. EST: Up about 5 P.M. this evening. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . The usual army of busy mercenary business types was out this evening. I am sure judging by the airline noise, it was a good day for the business community. All the parking spots on the Avenue are full this evening, so local night time establishments are making income. I suppose with the economy and market doing well, lots of people are coming here looking for new and unique toys to invest their revenues in. The library was moderately busy this evening. I did not spend much time there. I have heard lots of airline noise for the last 12 hours, so lots of people must be flying in and out of White Plains airport, which is not part of my territory although adjacent to it. I don't feel like paying for parking there, so I never visit when it is busy. I usually park at the Xerox executive parking or International Aviation when it is not busy, and nobody seems to mind. Well when the PC business was first being developed out in California back in 1978, I did some extensive negotiations with the head of Xerox Parc out there surrounded by thousands of students from Cal Tech. Any California types recently moving into the area are forewarned that sooner of later we will have colder winters unlike the recent warm winter. I recommend roofs pitched as steeply as the Second Congregational Church roof, since the old timers knew that the steeper the roof, the less snow would accummulate on it. Flat roofs tend to either collapse or leak with over two feet of snow. Build for the future not for today. I suppose whomever builds ski chalets in ski resorts, might have future income potential in this area as the weather is colder during future winters. Still when we get a mild winter, we all are in a better humour. I use to think by importing Brazilians their warm karma might insure us warmer weathers, but when NanNook of the North and their friends show up, it usually gets colder. Still most people are day time people around here, so even if one had funds, there is no place to spend funds around here on a night time schedule except groceries, movies, restaurants, gasoline, lodging, those sort of essential items. Unlike the west coast, Computer Superstores and Malls don't stay open all night catering to the Grave Yard Shift. I suppose one might make income by running a 24 hours operation, but usually it is hard to get reliable help and there is a lot of pilferage. Well back to web surfing. CIO

Note:<888> 3/4/98 Wednesday 5:19 A.M. EST: I went back out at 3 A.M. . I walked around the area at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. I found a conterfeit dollar bill that a company called Washington Radio Dispatcher is using as a discount coupon offer. It looks like a dollar bill on the front and is blank on the back. Their number is 212-740-4444 and 212-923-2211. It is illegal to print likenesses of legal tender for promotions and coupons, since they can be mistaken for the real thing. However this frequently happens., particularly in third world America. I checked out the cars on the showroom of the Rolls dealership. They have an old model Bentley coupe brand new in that British Racing Green. I guess no one will want it now that the new models are coming out. I walked around the train station. Someone was using the copy machine at Alphagraphics. They have a four foot wide graphics printer for printing color banners and posters I noticed in the window. I noticed at the train station office building that they need to do a little gardening, perhaps install some box wood planters and bulb plants. It is most noisey in the outdoor plaza there next to the turnpike and quite dirty from all the pollution. One drawback to living on the shore in Greenwich is the great deal of pollution that comes off the turnpike and covers all the exposed areas. Also it is quite noisey whenever one trys to sit outside. Walking up the avenue I said good morning to two peace officers. I noticed a skunk prowling around the Sunoco station. I noticed one of our regular early morning walkers. I returned home and filed this report. For broadcasts on Microsoft DOJ hearing try CNET - NEWS.COM - Radio Index . I noticed the daffodils are coming up. The French restaurant on the corner of Griff street and Greenwich Avenue has set up their outdoor patio furniture, but I think it is still a little chilly for al fresco dining unless you like the cool French Canadian ambience. I spotted another limosine driving the wrong way up Greenwich Avenue. Basically the morning crowd is out now. The train station was closed at 4 A.M. which is the norm. Buckingham Palace according to a morning news report had a piece of ornamental plaster fall on one of its guests during a reception, but I am sure they know how to fix the plaster, I am not sure about the guest. Lots of different people are filing different reports from here, so this my perspective. It is my professional opinion that the Greenwich Police department is highly skilled group of professionals having observed them for 37 years, and some near sighted alcoholic over at the Greenwich Times is probably trying to make trouble over something that happened when he was a kid. I don't read the local paper unless it is available when I am at the library. Years of experience in this town lead me to believe that the law abidding tax payers of this town will win out in the long run. I've been all over the world and from an overall viewpoint it does not get better than Greenwich, if you don't believe me try other places. Particularly for older people we have very professional medical services and a low stress lifestyle once you get out of the fast lane. Over and Out. CIO

Note:<888> 3/4/98 Wednesday 2:35 A.M. EST: I went back out around midnight. I drove around. I stopped by the Shell Station and got $14 premium gasoline, filled the air in the tires, bought a half gallon of Hood 2 percent milk for $1.79 and bought two get one free of Merit lights for $5.50. I parked downtown and walked around for a while. One of our night time visitors was driving up Greenwich Avenue the wrong way and was pulled over. I also before I went out did a cleaning and took out 50 cans of surplus canned food and sorted it, and dropped them off at Neighbor to Neighbor at Christ Church for their donation services. Normally I don't eat much canned food since it has too much salt. I chatted with one of the local night security people downtown about life on the beach in Florida in old day roughing it with Wiley and the gang. Well it was a cold winter down there then. I am cooking a Tony's Cheese pizza for dinner and having a ice tea. I might go out after the Pizza for another thermos of coffee. Rumour still has it that Texaco is interested in merging with Shell Oil. The Skunk patrol is out in full force, but it is a dead slow night with a few disabled cars driving around town. No unusual sightings. CIO

Note:<888> 3/3/98 Tuesday 11:00 P.M. EST: I went downtown at 5 P.M. and picked up two packs of Marlboro Lights for $2.50. I walked downtown. I stopped by the Rolls Royce Dealership and checked out the showroom and conversed about the new model that will be released at the Geneva auto show next Tuesday. I think the new model in a Bentley Coupe with that dark British Racing Green color would be nice to have. It would be about $350,000; but for now I will stick with my old Volvo since I don't need any Swiss bankers knocking at my door. Of course with off shore banking and international business any number of assets can be hidden or kept off shore to avoid the U.S. IRS taxing profits made outside of the country. A great many people do this at certain financial levels. Thus the IBM office in the Cayman Islands might have the new Bentley convertable. I also told the Rolls dealer about 20 old pre 1920s Rolls one collector in Highland Park, Illinois used to have including the 1904 Rolls Roadster with wicker door in Robins Eggs Blue. Vintage cars are more stylish but a real pain to maintain. I chatted with one of the senior British officials in town and gave him my viewpoint. While chatting with him I noticed a Beatles lookalike pass by with four little kids. I then walked up the Avenue and went to CVS. I purchased the Teledyne WaterPik for $41.77 plus tax, two cherry and two honey lemon cough drops for 50 cents a pack of 40, four 75 watt light bulbs for 99 cents, one jar of honey roasted peanuts for $1.59, and two deoderant sticks for 75 cents each for a total of $55.70. I then stopped by the library and read Infoworld and PC Week and chatted with Burns security on the way out. While driving out of the library one of the perpetual regulars called me an "asshole" while I passed by him. I guess they should send him back to the barnyard in Ohio that he came from. I guess the library regulars are stressed that they are not making money. Another fellow in a suit who drives a Cadillac said that he did not have money for food. I don't know why people bother me with these problems. I think they should visit the Department of Social Services which has funding for these problems unless of course they're illegal aliens in which case the church might give them refuge. I work very hard to maintain appearances in this town and volonteer and for out of town provacators to cause problems, they should remember whose families and friends built this town and worked in the area before they start dictating policy. Basically the grass is always greener. After returning from the library I installed the WaterPik which now only comes with two Pik attachments, which is pretty cheap of a friend of mine's brother who owns Teledyne. Must be money in it, since a lot of people seem to have teeth. I had cold chicken with tabassco drops, steamed frozen corn, and potatoe for dinner. Afterwards, I took my trusty thermos downtown and enjoyed some of my www.mikescott.net/coffee.htm in front of the Senior center. I chatted with one friend with sore feet from walking around Manhattan all day. Another acquaintence asked about finding a psychic for raising the dead, so I told him what I knew. I then walked the bottom of the Avenue. I noticed most of the restaurants and bars were fairly empty. Not many cars parked. I chatted with the ticket people at the theatre showing the "Titanic" and it looked slow there too. I suppose Tuesday night is a good night for having a peaceful dead quiet night on the town for those of you whom don't like lots of activity. I noticed a few former neighbors down by the water. I returned home and filed this report. Now for a night of web surfing. CIO

Note:<888> 3/3/98 Tuesday 4:45 P.M. EST: Up at 2 P.M. Backed up computer to tape. I watched the financial news press while doing this. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Time www.time.com is having a 75th birthday tonight with the President in attendance at Radio City Music Hall, so there should be traffic jams around Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. Out here in the boondocks, it is peaceful as usual with the Skunk patrol probably working this evening. Out for a cruise after posting this. CIO

Note:<888> 3/3/98 Tuesday 6:00 A.M. EST: I went to Win 95 System Updates and downloaded and installed Windows Sockets 2 Update . I then downloaded "vtcpup20.exe" and "vipup20.exe" from ftp.microsoft.com Directory of /Softlib/MSLFILES and installed "vtcpup20.exe" which needs to have Windows Sockets 2 Update already installed. I then tried to install "vipup20.exe" which also needs Windows Sockets 2 Update installed first, but installation asked for two files? which I did not have on another disk, so I skipped them and for safety sake reinstalled Windows Sockets 2 Update a second time. The system seems to be working fine with the new updates. Time for bed. CIO

Note:<888> 3/3/98 Tuesday 3:20 A.M. EST: Did not make it outside, kept working on the computer. I posted a NewsWorks Search page www.mikescott.net/newworks.htm that searchs a 130 newspapers. I updated recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm which should be enjoyable for your surfing doldrums. I noticed on the Buckingham Palace PRESS RELEASE MENU that in the release at Buckingham Palace March Press Releases that on March 15, 1998 the Duke of Edinburgh is heading to the United States and the Carribean to March 27 for his activities with the Outward Bound Trust. I am about to shut down for the night. CIO

Note:<888> 3/2/98 Monday 9:15 P.M. EST: I posted a message at Symantec tech support about the "Ltnvram" problem \Ltnvram\ starts when I boot after uninstalling 3.0 demo (Michael Scott ). I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Today I went out and paid my electricity bill and rent. I stopped by the Hospital thrift shop where they are having a $30 a bag sale. They have two Chesterfield's there which would be $30. I sat out downtown and the fire department were out for an incident. I stopped by the library and returned a videotape. I came home and worked on the computer trying to resolve the "Ltnvram" problem. Basically I can't figure out how to keep it from loading when I boot. I had cold chicken with a few drops of Tabassco, potatoe, and peas for dinner. I also made www.mikescott.net/icetea.htm . I might go out for a short while after I post this. CIO

Note:<888> 3/2/98 Monday 12:45 A.M. EST: I fiddled for quite a while installing and uninstalling a program "ltdvram" from loading when I start the computer. It is possibly part of Norton Utilities Speedstart that keeps trying to load after uninstallation. I can't start it since the program is timed out. The program "ltdvram?" seems to cause my ISP connection to disconnect when opening and closing programs which is a minor annoyance. I guess I will have to call Symantec about the problem. I can of course do CTRL-ALT-Del and close the program, but it reloads next time I reboot. I finished my laundry and cooked a Purdue chicken, potatoe, and peas for dinner. I am using the init string again in my modem setup since it seems to give faster connections, particularly when the internet is not busy. I will surf a while and update recent bookmarks www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm. I will probably quit surfing around 2 A.M. since I have to go out and pay bills tomorrow. CIO

Note:<888> 3/1/98 Sunday 6:25 P.M. EST: I was up at 2 P.M.. I listened to www.ttalk.com while I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants. I still have to do laundry. I updated www.mikescott.net/music.htm with a few links. CIO