Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 5:55 P.M.:  I watched a little bit of that movie documentary about Chicago, Illinois "The Blues Brothers".   I do not think I have ever watched the entire movie, since I do not watch too much television, although I do seem to pay a lot for it.   I ate another piece of cheese cake.   UPS just delivered the package.  I am too tired at the moment to install the floppy drive.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I probably had too much sugar in my diet today, and I think I am hypoglycemic, which means when I eat too much sugar, it makes me tired.  I will now go to bed soon.  Speaking of Chicago, Illinois, I think legally since John D. Rockefeller for tax purposes is a legal resident of Chicago, Illinois, and there is probably some law that he has to show up there at least one day a year to prove his residency to maintain his Chicago tax status.   I think in a situation like his, they probably keep track of it.  Just because I have a picture of Abraham Lincoln in my apartment does not mean we are actually in Illinois, and unless they landscaped Lake Michigan to look like Long Island sound.   For all I know a billion Chinese made a small part of China look like Greenwich, Connecticut.  When I use to be able to afford to buy and read the Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com in the old days when Greenwich was not too prosperous, they frequently printed a story that Prescott Bush was building a country club like the Greenwich Country Club  http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/Greenwich-Country-Club.jpg in China for some odd reason.  Thus with a billion Chinks working on the project, we might be actually in China instead of the U.S.A..  I still wander if China might still have an emperor, and they just lost track of him with all of the people around.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 4:25 P.M.:  I worked with http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .  I booted back into XP.  I am still waiting for UPS.  I finished eating the container of Godiva Chocolate and Truffle Gifts from Godiva: Ice Cream chocolate raspberry truffle.  I am bit tired, but I will stay awake until UPS arrives.  I suppose it is a nice day out, so the local nice weather people whom are usually California types in this area whom arrived with the Reagan revolution and hung around are probably trying to get a little bit of well needed sunshine.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 2:25 P.M.:  I will now boot into Vista beta.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 2:10 P.M.:  I checked the files that I was worried about, and they seem to be all right.  It looks like a hacker might have corrupted certain key files with binary information for some unknown reasons, but the ones that I found earlier, I over wrote with the backups of the files.   I went through my email.  The Optimum email server must be down, because I have not gotten any new email since about 7 A.M. this morning.  I chatted with  www.infoworld.com  , and I completed the information on their renewal process, and I chatted with a bit about tech with them.   I emptied and filled the ice trays in my freezer.   When I tested the air conditioning in my 11 year old Volvo station wagon yesterday, it did not work, but possibly it was still too cool out for it to work properly.   Possibly if high tech companies have energy shortages, they could look to the north of us.   The last time I checked out Toronto, Canada before returning back to Greenwich, Connecticut 22 years ago, Toronto had plenty of energy coming out of Niagara Falls, and I guess much could be said for Buffalo, New York if you can not find enough energy around here.  When I got the watch battery last week at Radio Shack in Cos Cob, I noticed that they are building a new Radio Shack next to the Cos Cob hardware store.   Also they have built a Starbucks at the location of the old Getty station in Cos Cob.   I guess Getty branched out from oil into coffee.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 12:15 P.M.:  I ate a 1/6th piece of the cheese cake before cleaning up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  FedEx was making a delivery to the family units.   I chatted with a neighbor.  I did not get my rent bill.   I have to check out some files on the primary computer, because some of my old backup files seem to be corrupted.  I can restore if they are from other backups that I still have.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 10:15 A.M.:  I installed the Vista beta 2 build 5342 on the primary computer secondary hard drive http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   While doing this I prepared an enjoyable meal.  I took a 16 ounce box of San Giorgio San Giorgio Macaroni Company Florentine fettuccini, and I put it in about 4 quarts of boiling water in a large 6 quart Revere pot with a teaspoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of Morton lite salt, and I boiled it for 14 minutes.  Before doing this I put in a large about quart size square microwave proof plastic container with lid the contents of a 16 ounce jar of Classico roasted garlic alfredo sauce along with the contents of a frozen 12 ounce box of Gorton's of Gloucester - Welcome shrimp temptations scampi and the liquid drained contents of a 6.5 ounce dry weight can of Lindsay large black pitted olives, along with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, and a teaspoon of Italian spices and a teaspoon of oregano along with a several dashes of ground black pepper, garlic powder, and celery salt, and I mixed it all together, and I put the plastic lid on it, and I microwaved it in the General Electric microwave oven on reheat cycle six times while the fettuccini cooked.  I drained the cooked fettuccini in a colander, and then I put it in a large plastic mixing bowl, and I put about a half of a cup of www.kraft.com grated parmesan cheese and I mixed it all together, and then I added about a quarter of a cup of olive oil, and I mixed it all together, and then I put in all of the alfredo sauce mixture, and I thoroughly mixed it all together.  I put in about a fifth of it in a large soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  Before eating it, I put the remaining amount in a large flat Rubbermaid container with lid, and I put it in the refrigerator.  This order from www.newegg.com for NEC Black Internal Floppy Drive Model FD1231H-302 - OEM at Newegg.com for $5.99 and a Philips 908210003521 3.5" Floppy Diskette - Retail at Newegg.com 30 pack for $5.99 plus $9.52 three day UPS shipping for $21.50 total is UPS Package Tracking out for delivery, so I should be here today to receive it.   However, if my rent bill comes in the mail later on today, I will probably go out and pay it.  I still have to go through my email.  I lost a days worth of email a couple days ago, when I restored my Microsoft Outlook 2003 mail files which over wrote the current day's email I had downloaded at the new install, but it restored all of my saved email.   I will now shower, and I will clean up in case I have to go out today.   Tomorrow is a good friend's 56 birthday, and we used to look quite a bit the same before he got thinner, and I got heavier.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 7:30 A.M.:  I downloaded the Microsoft Vista beta Microsoft Windows Vista beta 2 build 5342 which I burned to DVD, and I will now install it on the primary computer first hard drive secondary partition which take about 45 minutes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 6:55 A.M.:  I paid my bills online except my rent.  I paid www.cl-p.com , www.geico.com , www.cablevision.com , and www.verizon.com .   I also ordered from OrderSmokesDirect.com - Buy Cheap Cigarettes On-Line 7 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $11.49 a carton and $12.96 priority mail shipping for $93.39 total.   Thus it is the same old financial cycle that the simpler people in life pursue as opposed to the big spenders at Starbucks.   I have finished the Vista beta 2 build 5342 download, which I might install on the primary computer secondary partition on the first hard drive in a little while.  I do not think I will bother configuring it though.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 4:45 A.M.:  Tracking on my order from www.newegg.com for NEC Black Internal Floppy Drive Model FD1231H-302 - OEM at Newegg.com for $5.99 and a Philips 908210003521 3.5" Floppy Diskette - Retail at Newegg.com 30 pack for $5.99 plus $9.52 three day UPS shipping for $21.50 total is UPS Package Tracking .  On http://connect.microsoft.com when downloading a beta if one has a high speed connection, the first time one tires to download one only gets about 56 kbps.  However if one stops and closes the download program a few times, one eventually gets over 500 kbps download speed, which would be about an hour for the Vista download.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/31/06  Friday 4:00 A.M.:  I was awake at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I watered the plants, and I put more white vinegar in the scent bowl on the window shelf to help the apartment smell better.  I am using the primary light system in the living room, since with the energy saving bulbs, it might be cheaper to have the place fully lighted.   Microsoft has another beta of Vista available for download at http://connect.microsoft.com/ if one is a beta tester.  I will not be doing my house cleaning, since I did it last Friday.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 7:20 P.M.:  UPS tracking on the return of my Thermaltake power supply is UPS Package Tracking , but its tracking is mixed up with two different orders.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 6:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bakery outlet, and I bought a six pack of Thomas sesame bagels for $1.85 and a 23 ounce Entenmann's Deluxe French cake for $2 for $3.85 total.   I then drove down by the spectacular waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I viewed the impressive view of the North Shore of Long Island called Nassau County where the wealthiest people in America live.  Alas non of them seem interested in visiting us.   Maybe if we start talking about building a bridge from Greenwich to Oyster Bay, they might show up again.   I chatted with a family that I had seen before from York, Maine.  My Grandmother Scott's family the Gard family from Devonshire, England were the original settlers in York, Maine on the George's plantation about 400 years ago.   Of course, my branch of the Scott family were original settlers in Williamsburg, Virginia, but once that area became built up, the pioneering family moved west until there were no places left to develop as far as they were concerned.  Of course on mother's Boven side of the family, they are getting ready to make another fortune off Holland, Michigan tulips Holland Convention & Visitors Bureau - Homepage .  I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I toured their presentation.  More people seemed to be buying clothes today instead of the odd pieces of other items.   With all the fashion conscious women in Greenwich whom become over weight when they have families, I would imagine the local thrift shops get a lot of women's clothes.   I then returned back to my apartment building.  I chatted with a neighbor.  Early this morning, when I returned home, I heard something moving out in the woods.  I have seen deer, fawns, red fox, skunks, owls, and coyotes come out of the small one acre patch of woods next to the building.   I hope none of those bigger cats that tend to go north and south with the season are lurking about.  Down in Florida, they call them Panthers and up north they called them Cougars or Mountain Lions, but they can cover a hundred miles a day, so they do not usually spend too much time around here.   I chatted with a relative, and the relative told me coyotes eat cats, but I think only smaller cats.   To be Mountain Lion friendly, I keep a picture of a white Siberian Tiger above the inside of my bathroom door.  With the higher prices of gasoline more of our local citizens are shopping locally, instead of going to the upscale shops over in White Plains, New York.   Of course there are some upscale shops on Greenwich Avenue, but since I usually only shop at CVS www.cvs.com  and the Greenwich Hardware store, I do not know how competitively priced they are with out neighbors.   I use to go over to White Plains, New York, and all I did was meet the son of a butcher from Minnesota and somebody whom was advertising the Seattle, Washington Chamber of Commerce.  Most of the rest of them were people whom had already seen me around, but there were quite a few people over there from U.S.A. Today USATODAY.com - News & Information Homepage a Gannett Company, Inc..  However, by the time they do lunch in White Plains, New York, they usually do not make it over here until the later afternoon.   I will look briefly at my email.  I will then shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  A little while ago, I ate three scoops of Godiva Chocolate and Truffle Gifts from Godiva: Ice Cream chocolate raspberry truffle.   I guess the local people are not interest in computers, since that would require that they not be as fashionable.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 1:05 P.M.:  I took the last inch thick by about four inches by two inches piece of cold eye round of beef, and I cut it into 3/32nds inch thick slices across, and I put them on a slice of toast with Hellmann's mayonnaise and then I put six 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .24 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on top of the beef and another slice of toast with mayo, and I cut the sandwich in half.  If I had invented the sandwich, I would have been the Earle of Sandwich, and I would own the Sandwich Islands.  Of course most people do not know where the Sandwich Islands are anymore, but they are suppose to have cannibals.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.   I had three annoying fax type telephone calls.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment, so I will go out shortly.   I turned the refrigerator up to a warmer 2.5 since it was freezing a bit inside the refrigerator.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 12:20 P.M.:  I received a telephone call from a computer magazine.  I had to hang up on them, since the www.cl-p.com energy assistant team arrived.   They installed 7 MaxLite: The Home Of Energy Efficient Lighting  and http://www.maxlite.com/PDFs/FocusSheets/MicroMax.pdf compact fluorescent lamp light bulbs in my apartment.  Each one uses 20 watts for the equivalent of 75 watts of light.  Each one is suppose to save $44.   They put one in the kitchen stove range hood.  The parsons lamps on the far living room wall each have one.  The center and right lamps on the living room window shelf each have one.   The lamp on top of the backup computer in the bedroom has one as does the lamp on the left side of the bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 11:10 A.M.:  I went outside, and I used duct tape to fasten down the fuse box cover underneath the hood on the Volvo station wagon.   Its latch had broken off, when I was checking it the other day.   One of my neighbors mistakenly threw out a lot of her old files, so she climbed into the dumpster to retrieve it.  At this hour of the day, I would not be able to climb into the dumpster myself, but I have done it in the past.  I listened to some of the http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram on both the primary and server computer at the same time.  However, when one uses both computers, there is an echo, since it does not feed the BBC off off both computers at the same time.  I looked at some of the old files on my server, and I noticed this interesting collection left over http://mikelouisscott.com/british.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/jfkobit.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/jfkobit.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/gator001.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/usaanthem.rm and http://mikelouisscott.com/wolf.ram and http://mikelouisscott.com/twa.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/starr.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/starrep.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/rnw.ram and http://mikelouisscott.com/queenscot.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/psynotes.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/note03.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/nhclinks.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsfarm70.jpg and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls1.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls2.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls3.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/mi6-list.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/micro003.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/iwfall98.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/IBM96.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/ibmlvg98.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/ibmhq.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/hapril98.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/ghostdoor.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/gascoupon.htm and http://mikelouisscot.com/dutchrad2.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/hemp.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/diana.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/devlin.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/craterlake12.jpg and http://mikelouisscott.com/coffee.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/bushtalks.ram and http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html and http://mikelouisscott.com/authors.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/titles.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/armchair1.htm

I posted them all at http://mikelouisscott.com/oldweb.htm .  I chatted with some friends.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 7:55 A.M.:  I ordered a NEC Black Internal Floppy Drive Model FD1231H-302 - OEM at Newegg.com for $5.99 and a Philips 908210003521 3.5" Floppy Diskette - Retail at Newegg.com 30 pack for $5.99 plus $9.52 three day UPS shipping for $21.50 total.  I changed the plug on the Minolta laser 1250W printer from the power strip on the floor between the desk and the printer stand to the power strip behind the right hand side mouse pad, so the Minolta laser printer will work when the living room light switch and its lights are turned off.  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 6:50 A.M.:  The floppy disk on my primary computer malfunctioned, so I can not use it to transfer files such as my notes from the primary computer to the server, however I am still able to transfer them through my local network.   I will look into replacing it in a little while.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/30/06  Thursday 5:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I sat out briefly downtown.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove over to Old Greenwich to the gate at Tod's Point.  I then went by CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza.  Before I went in the store, I put the 25 amp fuse back in the #6 fuse holder, so my Volvo's central locking system now works.  I do not think it is a battery drain, since it does not work, except for locking the car.  Also the gasoline filler flap was not locked without it.   I bought a 12 roll pack of Scott SCOTT Brands toilet paper for $5.99 and a 8 roll pack of Scott paper towels for $4.99, a 3 ounce jar of CVS Gold Emblem cinnamon for $.99, two 180 table bottles of CVS adult low strength aspirin 81 mg. for $2.99 each bottle, two packs of 10 CVS AA alkaline batteries for $2.99 each pack and a $1.02 tax for $24.95 total.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.19, Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $2.19, a head of fresh broccoli for $1.99, two 64 ounce containers of Florida Natural Florida's Natural Growers orange juice with pulp and calcium for $2.50 each, a 10 quart package of America's Choice powdered milk for $6.99, and two 12 ounce bags of Eight O' Clock Coffee – America’s best selling whole bean coffee company. Columbian coffee bags for $5 both bags for $34.71 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon service gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $35 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.099 a gallon or 11.29 gallons for 175 miles driving since March 5, 2006 at 19.9 miles per gallon at an average of 19 miles per hour.  I have to drive a bit more to keep the Volvo car battery charged up.  I then returned home.  I brought up my purchases in two trips, and I picked up the mail.  AOL www.aol.com is advertising high speed DSL service in this area for $25 a month.  However, I will stick with www.optonline.net which is much faster.  I turned down both thermostats in the apartment all the way down to OFF, so there is no heat turned on in the apartment.  I am not using the regular living room lights, but just the two energy saving lights that www.cl-p.com gave me.  I also leave the light on in the kitchen while awake.  It is a little bit dark in the computer work area.  I also turned off the Honeywell www.honeywell.com Hepa air purifier.  Today for some odd reason, I noticed my apartment refrigerator thermostat and been set at the warmest setting.  I did not do it, so somebody had to have been in my apartment to set it at that.  Since I worked in French restaurants for eight years, I know something about food, and I think it is important to keep for properly refrigerated, so I set it at 4 which is about the middle setting.   It would be much more expensive to get food poisoning, if one's food were not properly refrigerated.  It has been about three weeks that the ice cream has been too soft, so somebody had to have been in my apartment about three weeks ago to turn the refrigerator thermostat to its warmest settings.  Whomever it is that gained access to my apartment did not advise me.  I am also worried that they could tamper with other items in my apartment like my food and drink or my computer equipment.   It has happened once before that I know of, so it is not the first time.  Also when I woke up this evening, I heard a beeping sound in my bedroom, which I have heard before like some electronic device is installed there making a slight beeping sound.   It is against the Charter of the U.S.A. www.cia.gov to conduct operations on domestic territory, but I suppose some other foreign powers could be wasting their money.  I cut three 3/8th inch slices of the cold eye round of beef, and I put them on a dinner plate with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.   I put .75 inch of water in the plastic microwave pot with 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I steamed it on the vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and then I put in the other half from yesterday of the microwave rice in Rubbermaid container, and I ran them both for two vegetable cycles, and I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a small bit of olive oil, and I put the rice on the plate with the beef, and I put a couple of tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/29/06  Wednesday 10:50 P.M.:  I made a telephone call to an associate after the last message.  I ran Norton SpeedDisk on the C: drives of the primary and server computers while I was asleep.  I went to bed until 6 P.M..  I chatted with two friends and a relative and an associate.  I went back to bed until 9 P.M..  I tried to get Vista beta 2 build 5380 working on the server D: drive, but when I set up the boot.ini program on the C: drive it would not work.  There might be some program missing from the C: drive that was formatted before the new install to get Vista working on the D: drive.  I copied my server folder to the C: drive, and I formatted the D: drive on the server. I then copied the server folder back to the D: drive, and I ran Norton SpeedDisk on the D: drive with the server folder. I will do a Windows XP Professional ASR backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  I will thus have more room on the server D: drive.   Both the C: and the D: drives are 20 gigabytes.  I will run the server while doing the ASR backup.   On the primary computer, I changed the System Settings to Best Performance to speed it up, and I have "Smooth edges of screen fonts" and "Use visual styles on windows buttons" enabled.  Since I have so many programs loading on startup on the primary computer, this speeds it up a bit and improves performance.  I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I will then make my bed and wash the breakfast dishes.  I will then shower and clean up, and I will go out for a drive to make sure the Volvo car battery is charged enough.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/29/06  Wednesday 11:00 A.M.:  I cleaned the NEC DVD/RW player on my primary computer with my AT&T lens cleaner.  I used Nero 6.6, and I backed up the primary computer C: drive to 7 DVD disks.   Queen  Elizabeth II was making news while I have been doing system work BBC NEWS | UK | Queen heads back after royal tour .  Well about now she is having a cup of tea.   I checked out computer web deals using the server, and there is not anything on sale that I need.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  I will eat some Häagen-Dazs lite coffee ice cream before going to bed.   I turned of the box fan on the inside window ledge, since I am not using much heat that I need it blow around this time of year.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/29/06  Wednesday 8:35 A.M.:  I finished configuring the primary computer and the server about 5 A.M..  About 1 A.M., I cut three half inch slices of the cold eye round, and I put them on a dinner plate with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.   I put 1 inch of water in a plastic pot with lid and 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I cooked it in the General Electric microwave oven for 3 vegetable cycles, and I put the vegetables in a bowl with a small bit of olive oil, and I also made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe, and I put half on the plate with the beef, and I refrigerated half with in a Rubbermaid container, and I put a couple of tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. After I finished configuring the computers, I did an ASR backup of both the primary and the server computers to the Maxtor external hard drive.  The primary computer is now about 25 gigabytes on the C: drive, and the server is about 6 gigabytes on its C: drive.  I still have the old 59 gigabyte ASR backup of the primary computer on the Maxtor external hard drive in case I am missing any needed files.  I also backed up the Server C: drive with Nero 6.6 backup to two DVD disks.  I also backed up the server with an ASR backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  I still  have Vista beta 2 build 5280 server on the D: drive of the server, but I have to enable the C: boot.ini file to get it to boot, I think.  I formatted the K: drive on the primary computer with Vista beta, because Norton Disk doctor said it was defective.  I need to reformat the smaller 25 gigabyte K: drive.  In restoring files, my two ASR backups on the D: drive of the primary computer were defective, because of the same disk problems.  I really should reformat the primary computer D: drive, but I have about 30 gigabytes of files that I would have to move to the C: drive, and it would take about 2 hours to move them.  I ran Norton Disk Doctor on the C: and D: drive of the primary computer.  I am a little over half way through a C: drive to D: drive ASR backup on the primary computer, but I am not sure it would be usable or not, since there might be problems with the D: drive.  I was able to restore the needed files from the earlier ASR backup on the Maxtor external hard drive, thus the primary computer has everything I think I need on it, including the Favorites and stored files.  When I have time possibly later on today, I will make a Nero 6.6 DVD backup of the primary computer C: drive, which should take about 6 DVD/R disks.  I still have a lot of large files stored on the C: drive such as Vista downloads, but I also have 135 gigabytes of free space on the C: drive of the primary computer and 98 gigabytes free on its D: drive.  On the server, I have 11 gigabytes free on the C: drive and 5 gigabytes free on the D: drive.  I refilled the Brita water holder in my refrigerator.  The rear USB ports on the server are USB 2.0, but not the front ports.  I have a regular 4 port USB device connected to the spare rear USB port, but to use the Maxtor external hard drive on the server, I have to carefully reach around the Minolta 1250w laser printer with its paper trays closed, so as not to damage them.  As far as I can tell all devices are working on both computers.  However, I can not publish these notes from the server, since I no longer have FrontPage 2002 on it, and the copy of Word 2000 that I have on the server might not support my html formatting.  Thus I can write a note on the server, but I have to copy it to the primary computer, and copy and paste the text of the note into my existing note.  In an emergency, I guess I could use Word 2000.  The ASR backup on the primary computer is done, so now I can use it.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/28/06  Tuesday 9:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 2 P.M..  I worked more on configuring the primary computer and the server.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with three friends.  Someone from the Disabled Olympics called up for a donation and someone from the www.gop.org called up for a donation, and I explained that I donate my time and money towards the computer services that I provide to support them.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/28/06  Tuesday 7:25 A.M.:  I took out the plastic tub from the left hand side of the kitchen sink, and I placed the white Rubbermaid dishwashing rack across the top left side of the sink, so it is available for dishes to drip dry.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   When I wake up, whenever that will be because I am tired, I will work some more on configuring the primary and the server computer.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/28/06  Tuesday 6:15 A.M.:  I worked with the computer until about noon yesterday.  About noon, the helpers for www.cl-p.com visited my apartment, and they gave me two new 2 foot high brass lamps with white shades and energy efficient light bulbs.  I put one by the telephone table at the apartment entrance, and the other by the telephone by the French reproduction chair.  I move the lamp that was on the tea table to the bookcase in the bathroom.  They also tried to install on the kitchen sink, an energy efficient faucet adapter, but the threads on my faucet are stripped, so it will not work.  The one that was there would not stay on, so I put a pink rubber faucet spray adapter on it.  They tried to install a weather strip on the base of the inside of the front door, but with the rug, it would not fit.   I went to bed at 1 P.M..  A neighbor called at 5 P.M., and left $3 for cigarettes that she had barrowed.  I finally got up at 6 P.M..  I worked with the primary and the server computers, and I could not get rid of the problems that I was having from the repair reinstallations.  I thus decided to do a new install on each computer.  I put the PriceGrabber.com OEM Windows XP Professional (Full Product) Dell OEM Windows XP Professional OEM version on the primary computer, and I put the Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade version on the server.   For the rest of the evening, I have been configuring both computers and installing upgrades.  I have my web site running on the server.  About 9 P.M., I chatted with a relative.   About 11 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  Both systems are running just fine, but I have more configurations do on both.   I went out at 4 A.M., and I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I sat out briefly downtown.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I returned home.  I cut two half inch slices of the cold eye round, and I put them on a dinner plate with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.   I put .75 inch of water in the plastic microwave pot with 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I steamed it on the vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and then I put in the other half from yesterday of the microwave rice in Rubbermaid container, and I ran them both for two vegetable cycles, and I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a small bit of olive oil, and I put the rice on the plate with the beef, and I put a couple of tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/27/06  Monday 10:40 A.M.:  I tried the Windows XP repair installations on both the primary and the server computers.  Although the installations went fine, there are still some problems.  I can not get System Restore backups to work on either computer.   Also on both installation, I received the same three errors about three different files.   However, it is not a problem with the installations CDs.  I tried a couple of different ones.  I also tried installing SP2 on the server, and that would not install.   On the server, I can not get the XP Internet Information Services Server to install properly, and the previous installation seems to be corrupted.   However, both systems with the new installs are more responsive, and they still start up the same.   I cancelled my dental appointment until next Monday.  I am a bit tired, so I will go to bed, and I will work on the systems, when I wake up.   I could restore the XP ASR backups.  I could also do new installs on both system instead of upgrade repairs.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/27/06  Monday 1:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove through downtown Greenwich, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove around once again through downtown Greenwich.  I then drove over to Old Greenwich, and I drove out to the entrance to Tod's Point.  I then returned to central Greenwich at midnight, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue of Putnam Trust Bank of New York.  I then returned back to my apartment.  Since the Windows XP Professional operating system is already activated on my server, I do not want to install the Windows XP Professional OEM full version.  However, I will now shut down the server, and I will refresh the server Windows XP Professional operating system on my server with the Windows XP Professional Upgrade version and the SP2 upgrade.  I think I can do that, and thus the system should be running much better.  Thus the server will be down for about 1 to 2 hours.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/26/06  Sunday 10:15 P.M.:    I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I put the eye round roast on a baking rack in a baking pan, and I seasoned it on all sides with garlic powder, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian seasoning, Kraft Bulls Eye barbeque sauce, and Texas Best barbeque sauce.   I baked it in the Farberware convection oven for 45 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  I let it stand for a few minutes before carving off two half inch thick slices.   I refrigerated the rest in a Rubbermaid container.   I also eat half of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe with some La Choy low sodium soy sauce, and I refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container.   I also steamed for 15 minutes about a 1.5 cups of broccoli crowns and baby carrots which I put a little bit of olive oil on.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.    I washed the dinner dishes.  I watched some of the original Harry Potter movie while cooking and eating my dinner.  It is on channel 49 the Disney Family channel on our local cablevision system.  I will now shower, and I will clean up, and I will take the Volvo out for a drive to keep it charged up.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/26/06  Sunday 8:10 P.M.:  I was awaked at noon.  I was able to program the 20 inch Proscan television in the kitchen by entering each channel separately, so one can now channel surf the television.  I left the Radio Shack universal remote control by it, so one can not use the RCA universal remote control to access the Proscan menu functions and change the setup.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed.   I chatted with a relative about 3 P.M..  I woke up at 7 P.M..  My server was turned off, and there were no entries on the log from 8:09:25 A.M. this morning, and that last entry was "125x101x159x110.ap125.ftth.ucom.ne.jp (125.101.159.110)" , so possibly somebody from Japan is hacking my server computer setup, and turning off the computer from the motherboard settings.  However, when I go to restart it, I have to turn on and off the Kensington MasterPiece control panel to get it to work.  I do not think there is anything wrong with the Kensington Control panel, since it seems to work most of the time.  The hacker seems to cause problems particularly on weekends and Sundays.  Since the hard drives on my server contain the old computer setup, when I put in new hard drives in December 2004, possibly there is some sort of Trojan program on my sever left over from then.  However, with the time it takes to reinstall and configure the server, I do not feel like doing it.  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/26/06  Sunday 5:15 A.M.:  I ate a scoop of Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream and the last remaining scoop of Edy's low fat slow churn mocha almond fudge ice cream.  Staples in store $10 off $40 coupon http://cdn.eyewonder.com/100125/750460/856016/fl7_728x90_aristotle_down.swf .   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Probe returns first Mars pictures .   Total Solar Eclipse March 29, 2006 Welcome to NASA .  That is this Wednesday, but we will not be able to see it here NASA - NASA Sees Eclipse in a Different Light .  NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first pictures.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/26/06:

Note:<888> 03/26/06  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  I made two more copies of my Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade CD.  I also made two copies of my Microsoft Windows XP SP2 CD.  I generally do installations from the CD copies that way the master CD does not lose its quality.   I went through my email.   I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/26/06  Sunday 2:35 A.M.:  I took the remaining 8 ounce square hamburger patties about .75 inch thick, I then put a few of teaspoons of olive oil and a couple pads of margarine in a 10 inch diameter frying pan, and I heated it on medium high until the fat began to bubble.  I seasoned the hamburger pattie on both sides with garlic powder and ground black pepper.  I then cooked it on medium high on each side for one minute a side to seer it, and then I lowered the heat to medium, and I cooked it on each side for another 2.5 minutes.  While doing this I cut in half a Thomas' square bagel, and I toasted it on the inside, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on each inside side.  For the last 1.5 minutes of cooking the hamburger, I put six 1/4 inch thick by 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on the hamburger to melt with lid on the frying pan, and I then put it on the square bagel bottom, and I put Heinz ketchup on it, and the top half of the square bagel, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I put away my laundry.  I watched a little bit of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" on the Turner Movie channel while preparing and eating my meal.   CIO    

Note:<888> 03/26/06  Sunday 12:55 A.M.:  I woke up from my nap at 8:30 P.M..  I switched the 20 inch Proscan television from the bathroom into the kitchen, and I put the 14 inch Panasonic television in the bathroom.   Now there is more room at the bathroom entrance with the smaller television.  In the kitchen I moved the dish rack from the right side of the sink counter to underneath the Harvard chair.  One can use the plastic tub in the sink for drying dishes, or move the dish rack to the left hand side counter, when it is clear.   I moved the used plastic storage bags into a shopping bag behind the chair.  I cleaned the counter underneath the television to the right of the sink and the left of the refrigerator.   I put the Panasonic clock radio on the top wooden shelf on the right side above the kitchen sink.  I moved some small items to the bookcase cupboard.  On the digital television system, the older 16 year old Proscan television autoprogram feature does not work, so one has to select each channel individually with the remote control.  One can not channel surf with the remote control, or if one can, I have not figured it out.  At the stereo system junction for the two way splitter for the bathroom Panasonic and the living room Sony, I disconnected it, and I connected the Sony television lead input cable directly to the Daewoo cable output which also has the cable box input.  I took a spare two splitter, and short cable, and I disconnected the white cable that goes to the Orion television in the bedroom, and I connected the short cable the four way gold splitter behind the living room sofa, and then the two splitter to it, and I connected the bedroom Orion television white cable to it, and I connected a shorter cable to the other connection on the two splitter, and I ran it to the black cable by the Sony television that leads to the bathroom Panasonic television connecting it with another two splitter.  Thus the bathroom Panasonic television can change channels, and it is not dependent on the cable box as are the kitchen Proscan and the bedroom Orion televisions.   I started three loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycles.  I put clean linens on the bed.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 7:10 P.M.:  After breakfast, I checked the Zenith shortwave radio and with the internet, there do not seem to be any short wave radio stations coming in anymore.  Of course it could be the time of day.   I rearranged the video audio cables on the Daewoo DVD/VCR.  I changed the amplifier CD input cable to the Daewoo DVD output.  I then took the Sony television input cables that I disconnected from the TEAC DVD player, and I connected them to the Daewoo DVD/VCR output RCA jacks.  Thus the Daewoo DVD/VCR is setup to play through either the RCA or the television cable connections.  I reset the time on the Daewoo DVD/VCR.   I am a bit tired, so I will put the primary computer on standby, and I will go back to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 5:35 P.M.:  I placed the broken TEAC DVD player on the ground out by the dumpster.   I checked the audio cables on my Technics amplifier, and I have the CD input cables on RCA Y splitters, and one of the cables went to some unknown input device that I presently do not use.  I took another RCA feed cable, and I connected the DAEWOO DVD/VCR to those CD RCA Y cables from the DVD/VCR audio outputs.  Thus the Daewoo DVD sound is now much better, and it plays off the CD button on the Technics amplifier.  I reconnected the Technics turn table to the phono inputs which are also on RCA Y splitters which also feed in the old Zenith short wave radio.  Thus to play the turn table or the Zenith short wave radio through the stereo system, one presses Phono on the Technics amplifier.   If one presses the VCR1 button, it plays the Sony television sound into the stereo system in case anyone can not hear too well.   I will now have breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 4:30 P.M.:  I researched my broken TEAC DV-M5000, and used they go for about $20 in working condition on Ebay www.ebay.com , so I do not think it is worth repairing.  I strapped the TEAC remote and instructions to the case with duct tape, and I will put it out by the dumpster to be retrieved or dumped shortly.   Apparently the newer ones like my Daewoo that I bought at www.compusa.com a year ago for $90 are much better.  One of these days, I should eat breakfast.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 3:05 P.M.:  I was awake at 1 P.M., when a relative called.   I checked my mail and PriceGrabber.com OEM Windows XP Professional (Full Product) which I bought for $69 with free shipping arrived.  Costco www.costco.com sells the similar version for $272.99 Costco Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and Microsoft's list price is $299.00.   Thus it is a pretty good deal.  It is the www.dell.com OEM Windows XP Professional Full Install Version.   However, I do not need to actually install it on the server, since Microsoft has already activated my existing copy on the server.   On the OEM version, one would have to do a new install, and not upgrade the newer version.  It is not SP2, but one can download the SP2 updates on the internet or get them on CD from Microsoft.  I made two copies of the CD.   Thus I have the Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade on the primary computer.   On the server I have the Microsoft Windows XP Professional OEM version full version.  On the Toshiba laptop, I have the Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade Version.   Thus I should be in compliance with Microsoft licensing.   However, it is the nature of my $79 in expenses this week on Microsoft operating system licensing, I am a little bit low on my monthly budget, and I currently only have $15.51 until the end of the month, plus what is left on my laundry card, so I might do laundry today.   I keep an inventory in my apartment of items that I buy on sale http://mikelouisscott.com/inventory.htm , so I generally can get by with little or no money.   I have about a 140 miles on my Volvo, so I figure my gasoline tank is half full.   In other words, I can not do much until next Friday, when I will once again pay my bills.  I noticed on my www.staples.com horse calendar that this Sunday is "Mothering Day" in England, so I guess that is the British version of "Mother's Day".  I changed the stereo connect amplifer phono cable input on the Daewoo DVD/VCR to DVD/VCR, so either feature will play through the stereo system.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 7:25 A.M.:  Well another exciting night in Buy Rum, Connecticut.  In the old days when frustrated couples did not feel like waiting for a wedding license period in New York, they use to come out to Byram, Connecticut just across the Connecticut New York border to the Justice of the Peace anytime of the day or night and get hitched, since there was not a waiting period in this municipality.   However, the Justice of the Peace that use to live in this building where I now live moved down to Pompano, Florida, and I have no idea whom currently is the local Justice of the Peace.  There is presently no mention on the Town of Greenwich web site Welcome to the official Town of Greenwich Connecticut Web site about the position, so I guess they are not as available as they once were.   The Justice of the Peace also serves legal documents such as foreclosure notices, so it tends not to be a very popular job.  Of course in pursuing their job, they usually have the full backing of the local law enforcement community.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 6:45 A.M.:  What is all the rush about BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Revolutionary jet engine tested ,  I guess they don't feel like stopping in America on their way from London to Australia.   The British might some day realize their vision of faster travel might include some more interesting places to visit.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 6:15 A.M.: http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2006/03/24/quest.dalai.lama.interview.cnn  .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 5:50 A.M.:  I have took the cover off the TEAC DVD/CD player, and I partially disassembled it.   When the disks are in position, they do not load, and the motor that drives the disk rotation does not work.  Also the laser does not come on.   Thus I figure the TEAC DVD/CD player is beyond my repair capabilities.  I reassembled it.   It is a five disk player that was made in China November 2001, and it never worked too well for DVD video.  I bought it at Costco in Norwalk, I guess around December 2001 or 2002, and as I recall I paid $129 for it as a clearance item, and I returned the first one that I bought because it was defective.   Well, it will go out to the dumpster later on today.  I disconnected the audio out left and right speaker cables for my Technics phonograph player, and I plugged them into the Daewoo DVD/VCR player DVD audio out jacks.  I could have plugged them into the Daewoo DVD/VCR audio out jacks, but I figure I do not need to play the VCR sound through my stereo system.   Thus one can play music with the Daewoo DVD player through the stereo if one selects the phono switch on the Technics amplifier.   I used duct tape to fasten the TEAC remote control to the TEAC player when I throw it out in case some salvage expert tries to fix it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 2:25 A.M.:  I went through my email. In the American media, we do not know much about Tony Blair anymore, other than he frequently vacations in Barbados.   There is not much on Gordon Brown, other than he is probably cheap since he taught in Scotland Biography of Gordon Brown .  There is a Conservative Tory party in England The Conservative Party with this leader Conservative Party - David Cameron - About David and David Cameron MP - for Witney , however he looks a bit like a Rockefeller, and Rockefellers tend not to win, so although I am a Tory, I am afraid we will have to continue to suffer the indignities of the Liberal Labor party for the indefinite future.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/25/06  Saturday 1:15 A.M.:  I broke three large eggs in a mixing bowl, and I added three tablespoons of milk, a teaspoon of grated parmesan cheese, and 1/4th of a teaspoon of Italian spices, and I mixed it all together with a whisk.  I took my seasoned 8 inch omelet pan, and I put in two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, and I heated it over medium high electric heat until the fat began to bubble, and I put in the egg mixture.  I also had prepared ten 1/6th inch thick by 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and four .5 inch by 2.5 inch by .75 inch slices of Philadelphia Lite cream cheese, and once the omelet was cooked enough to flip, I flipped it over with a spatula, and I spread the Vermont cheese over on half of it on one side and then on top of that the Philadelphia Lite cream cheese and then I sprinkled about a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese on it, and I flipped the side over without the ingredients over the cheese side, and I put it on a plate with two pieces of toast cut in half with margarine on it.  I sprinkled about another tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese on it, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now start up the primary computer.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/24/06  Friday 11:55 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.  I went by the ever glorious Greenwich Library, but since not many people in Greenwich, Connecticut seem to be interested in the English language anymore, not many people were using the facility.   The usual staff were most courteous and interested in what I had to say.  I told them I had heard on the B.B.C. that Gordon Brown is suppose to be the next prime minister of England, but I am not sure whether he is a liberal or conservative, but they said he was conservative in financial matters.  I read Smart Computing magazine, and they had an article about the optic computers that I have been talking about for 20 years, and they are trying to use nanotechnology with gold to develop them.  Obviously if they had me in the laboratory, they would get it right, but they are always more interested in stealing my ideas.  At this rate do you think I really trust them after all of the ideas they have stolen from me over the years.  Of course there are probably some cleaver people just letting them waste their time.  It might be some sort of Jewish holiday, since nobody is around.   After the library, I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  There were a few children spending their allowance at Starbucks, and that was about all that was going on downtown.   All of the parking places were mostly filled on Greenwich Avenue, but not many people were in the late night places, so more than likely it was just people whom live in the area taking up the parking places instead of constantly cruising around.  Maybe there is some sort of secret facility where they all take refuge downtown like a underground bomb shelter that I do not know about.  A few of the children kept seeming to be waiting for something to happen, but not much seem to be happening.  I sat out for a while.  The poor businesses at the top of Greenwich Avenue still can not afford to replace the bench at the top of Greenwich Avenue in front of the Pickwick Plaza.  My Volvo is running just fine, and one of the regular staff at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop when he saw it yesterday thought I had bought a new car.  I waxed it with Mothers car wax MOTHERS® Polishes·Waxes·Cleaners about  18 months ago, so it is a very good durable wax, particularly if one does not wash the car that often.  After my usual walk, I drove down by the waterfront, and not much was going on.  I guess the regular so called rich people at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club took off to some wealthier watering hole like Marbella, Spain Marbella Guia Turistica, Costa del Sol, España , since they obviously would be bored with Palm Beach, Florida which is not their cup of tea.  Obviously all of these wet backs in the Spanish speaking network around here know where the other posh resorts are in their network.  Of course I have heard the new King of Saudi Arabia is an extremely frugal individual trying to help pay off his country's debts, so more than likely the former network of camp follows are probably trying to figure out how they spent all of the money they thought they had.  There is a guy that looks like Bill Gates mailto:billg@microsoft.com that walks around Greenwich Avenue in the early morning hours wearing an orange parka looking for spare change, so he obviously is frugal too.  Possibly the women in the town have absconded with all of the money, and they are spending it on some sort of foolishness in Manhattan.  I remember the fourth to the last time I went to Manhattan, I observed about a 1000 stretch limousines park outside the Chippendale's dance club in Manhattan, so it goes to show that women can not really be trusted with money, since that is the way they seem to waste it.  When I returned from the waterfront, I went by the Stop and Shop, and there was car wreck on the post road in front of it, but nobody seemed to be hurt.  I bought on sale a cab eye round roast on sale for $3.99 a pound down from $5.99 a pound for $11.21 and a dozen extra large Stop and Shop eggs for $1.69 for $12.90 total.  I then checked out the new ATM machine at the www.chase.com bank at the Stop and Shop plaza, and my Bank of New York ATM card works in it, but one has to have money in their account, and I think Chase charges to use a Bank of New York money card.  Basically Chase and Citicorp are Rockefeller banks and Bank of New York is a Roosevelt bank, so you can chose you own poison as far as financial planning is concerned.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I then noticed for some reason the computer server was turned off.  Sometimes, one hits the power strip next to it, and it turns off, since the power strips is lodged on an open desk drawer, and it can wobble against the inside edge of the drawer and turn off the power strip and the server.  Well, it started up again.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/24/06  Friday 7:40 P.M.:  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with franks .  To make it, I used a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans with bacon and onion flavor.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative in Texas, and the relative told me that drive by shooting are pretty much the normal activity in Texas.  I chatted with a friend whom was too busy minding his horses to chat.  I chatted with the British Embassy in Washington D.C. that took the time out to listen.  I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out, since I have to start the Volvo every day and drive it a bit.  I guess I can go by the Greenwich Library which is opened until 9 P.M..  CIO

Note:<888> 03/24/06  Friday 6:30 P.M.:  I finished the house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the periodical literature and old magazines.  I helped a neighbor put a bamboo couch and cushion on her car and tie it down, so she could transport it nearby.  I played some music while house cleaning.  When I install the Sony 27 inch Trinitron television a couple of weeks ago, I move the TEAC DVD/CD 5 disk player to the back side of the sofa while I was installing the Sony television.  It slid off the back of the couch down behind the couch while I was installing the Sony television.  Now although it will not load the disks, when one tries to load them.  Sometime when I have time, I will take it apart and try to fix it.  I still have the Daewoo VCR/DVD player hooked up to the Sony television.  I also have the Phillips CD player hooked up the stereo system.  Thus for now I do not have a working MP3 player hooked into the stereo system other than the primary computer which is connected to the stereo system, if one connects its audio cable to the Logitech 6.1 control speaker and connects that cable at the junction by the orange mirror on the wall in between the primary computer and the server.  According the local news out on the south shore of Long Island, a street gang named the Latin Kings shot an African American basketball star from Post College in a drive by shooting.  Locally there have been dozens of shootings of parked cars with BB guns.  Thus I am not sure exercise walking at night is advisable.  The basketball player was shot in a car stopped at a stop light.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/24/06  Friday 3:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 2:30 P.M., when Redmond Free Subscription called me up to verify my free subscription.  I picked up my mail.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/24/06  Friday 12:20 A.M.:  Well not much happening over here at Crab Grass Junction.   One has to realized that there are hundreds of different dialects of English in North America, so when one travels around, frequently one needs a translator whom is familiar with the various local dialects of the areas that one might visit.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Possibly if I am in the mood when I wake up today, I might try to do my usual house cleaning for a change.   Since I am half Holland Dutch American, I believe in the old Dutch proverb "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness", and although I sort of regard the computer as work, when I am rested I actually enjoy doing house cleaning, and it gives me a different feeling of accomplishment.  I also ate four 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch pieces of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/23/06  Thursday 11:35 P.M.:  Blame it on the Danish, Denmark owns Greenland BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sea rise could be 'catastrophic' .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/23/06  Thursday 11:25 P.M.:  Make your own airplane SOLARBO USA - Kiln Stabilised Balsa, Balsa Supplies, CO2 Car Kits, Bridge Wood, and Balsa Airplane Kits. .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/23/06  Thursday 11:05 P.M.:  I took a frozen 12 ounce box of six Stop and Shop fish cakes, and I put them on a baking tray with 19 America's Choice frozen tater tots, and I put them in the Farberware convection oven, and I baked them at 375 degrees Fahrenheit, since the convection oven runs warmer for 20 minutes.  I put Heinz ketchup on them, and I ate them with a glass of iced tea.  While cooking them, the Fareberware convection oven stopped, and I had to reset the power strip behind the small Panasonic television.  I chatted with a relative.  Apparently it is raining down in Florida.  While I was visiting in Vero Beach, Florida TCPalm this past February, one of my relatives was going through old family photographs, and the relative showed me a picture of my mother and father with EO Library: Wernher von Braun back in the late 1950s.  He apparently use to come down from Huntsville, Alabama to lecture in Decatur, Alabama which was 20 miles south of Huntsville.  The airport was about half way in between.  I remember, I use to enjoy buying balsa wood airplanes and flying them in Decatur, Alabama, when the wealthier local boys could afford motorized electronic toy airplanes.  I also tinkered with American Flyer model railroad sets.  I had a Gilbert Chemistry and Gilbert Erector Set.  I also had the toy plastic bricks building set, and the Lincoln logs building set.   Of course since the weather was warmer down there, we spent more time outside, and I particularly enjoyed walking north to the banks of the Tennessee River on the Wolverine company property and bird watching.  However, I had to learn to be fast to dodge the cattle on the Wolverine company property.  We had central air conditioning in our modern brick house which back in 1956 cost about $50,000 to build, which was more expensive than houses cost in the Greenwich, Connecticut area at the time.  However, with the www.tva.gov in that area, electricity was the cheapest anywhere in the country.  No problems with gators, but there were rattle snakes, copper heads, water moccasins, and one other type of poisonous snake that I forget at the moment.  Also the locals were not too friendly to Republican Party Yankees, when I was doing things like campaigning for Richard Nixon back in 1960.  I remember one article in the Decatur, Alabama newspaper about somebody whom had inherited a large chunk of Manhattan, but I am not sure it was printed the newspapers up north.  Back then there was more money in cotton than Acrylan, but we managed to survive.   There was so much surplus electricity, we even had outdoor ball fields at night which were lit up with large flood lights which were near where my friends and I found the ostrich size petrified dinosaur eggs.   We never did find any confederate gold in the sandstone quartz rock quarry.   Whatever, the case about the most exciting thing that happened in those six years in Decatur, was that they built a large steel water tower behind our local Walter Jackson elementary school.   We use to dress up as pilgrims at Thanksgiving time.  Some of our neighbors were still share croppers living in simple one room houses, but I did take note they had root cellars in the back yard, since the newer houses were built on cement slabs which did not offer much protection during the tornado season.   As I recall fall out shelter and tornado watch drills were part of the normal routine, which sort of programmed us to be prepared for disaster.  Well, now my private air force consists of one $1.49 toy plane balsa wood jet glider.  Of course as the price of fuel goes up, it might be come more practical to look into making air transport once again out of balsa wood, which I think is lighter than aluminum, but probably not as sturdy.  I once read in the local Greenwich Time that Tom Watson of IBM fame in retirement taught hang gliding at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.   Of course one can not always believe what one reads in the Greenwich Time Greenwich, Connecticut, Local News, Jobs, Real Estate | Greenwich Time .  CIO            

Note:<888> 03/23/06  Thursday 8:40 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought a 6 pack of New York Everything bagels for $1.85.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I helped the staff collapse a portable dog crate that the customer needed to have collapsed to fit in a car.  I then went to downtown Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions, and I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  They told me they have balsa wood toy planes on the lower level of the Greenwich Hardware store.  After I completed my walk, I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.   I then drove back down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I surveyed the place.  I then returned home.  I used one of my jeweler screw drivers that I keep in my yellow plastic tool box on the floor in the hallway sweater closet, and I opened up the back of the Benrus watch that I bought for $20 at the Stop and Shop when it was a Grand Union about 6 years ago.  I took out the small watch battery which was a #377.  I then drove over to Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a Radio Shack www.radioshack.com watch and calculator silver oxide battery for #377 part number 23-204 for $3.49 and .21 tax for $3.70 total.  I then returned home, and I installed the new watch battery in the Benrus watch, and I set its time and date.  Both my Benrus and my Swiss Army watch have florescent dials, so one can see the correct time when one is outside walking at night.  I will now start up the primary computer.  I received a call while I was out this afternoon that I have a midday dental appointment this coming Monday.  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/23/06  Thursday 2:00 P.M.:  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail.  I will now go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/23/06  Thursday 1:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend at 6:30 A.M. this morning.  I went out to start the Volvo, but the jump start device still was not powerful enough.  My neighbor tried to jump start me, but it was not enough charge.  I finally went back to my apartment, and I called 1-800-42GEICO www.geico.com which provides me free automobile jump starting and towing under my automobile insurance program.  They dispatched Riverside towing which arrived in about an hour.  They tried their jump start device, and it was not powerful enough.  They connected up their jumper cables to their truck, and after quite a bit of cranking the Volvo started up with a lot of white smoke which means that it was flooded.   I let the car run for a while after Riverside towing left.  I then took the car for a long 62 mile three hour drive.  I drove east on Interstate 95 to Route 7 North and then I went west into Ridgefield, Connecticut.  I  got out of the car, and I left it running, since I could lock it up with the second set of keys that I had.  I went into the Ridgefield Hardware store, and I bought a Guillow's www.guillow.com Jetfire balsa wood glider for $1.49 and .09 tax for $1.58.  I noticed that Ridgefield still has the active Jerusalem Masonic temple across the street from the hardware store.  They have a nice Episcopal church called St. Stephen's.  I then drove west out of town, and north to the New York State border and then back into Vista, Connecticut on Route 123 south leading down to New Canaan, Connecticut.  I parked in front of the New Canaan, Connecticut town hall leaving my car going, but the nearby New Canaan, Connecticut visiting nurse thrift shop was closed until noon.  They have a nice computer chair out in front for a hundred dollars.  I then drove around the downtown New Canaan area, and it has not changed much.  Driving west out of town, I noticed about 500 cars parked at the New Canaan YMCA.  It looked like the New Canaan schools were on holiday with all the youth walking around.  I drove south down to Darien, and then I got on I-95 West.  There is a nice Howard Johnson's www.hojo.com motel in Darien.  I drove to exit 5 in Old Greenwich, and then I went to the Old Greenwich Mobil Express car wash, and I got the cheapest Express car wash for $6.  I then towel dried my car.  I chatted with a local marine about Laguna Beach, California.  I then drove back to my apartment building.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now replace the battery on my Benrus watch, which I think I have a replacement battery for.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:   I watched some television.  I ate half of a 5.5 ounce bag of Arnold regular size seasoned croutons.  I looked at a tech page on my 1995 850 Turbo Volvo station wagon, and it says it needs a lot of power to start, since cranking the motor uses a lot of power, and if the battery is not strong enough, it does not get enough spark power to start.   Well, I will try it again tomorrow, once the jump start system is fully charged up.  I have www.geico.com towing and jump start service, but first I will try to do it myself.   I have not driven it since Saturday night, when I went to the bank.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I might watch some television in bed.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 9:20 P.M.:  I went out to start up the Volvo, but the jump start device was not charged enough to start it up.  I will try again tomorrow, when the jump start device is fully charged.  I have not driven the car since about Saturday night, so I guess I need to drive the car a little bit more often.   I chatted with two relatives.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 8:05 P.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  Last night I took out a one pound piece of top round cab roast from the freezer, and I put it in the refrigerator to defrost.  I just cut it into one inch cube pieces, and I ran it through the CuisineArt, and I turned it into hamburger meat.  I then shaped it into two 8 ounce square hamburger patties about .75 inch thick, and I refrigerated one in a plastic bag.  I then put a few of teaspoons of olive oil and a couple pads of margarine in a 10 inch diameter frying pan, and I heated it on medium high until the fat began to bubble. I added one medium onion sliced into .25 inch thick slices, and  I seasoned the hamburger pattie on both sides with celery salt and ground black pepper.  I then cooked it on medium high on each side for one minute a side to seer it, and then I lowered the heat to medium, and I cooked it on each side for another 2.5 minutes.  While doing this I cut in half a Thomas' square bagel, and I toasted it on the inside, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on each inside side.  I also put two cups of broccoli crowns and baby carrots in a plastic microwave cooking pot with lid with an inch of water, and I heated it on the vegetable cycle three times in the General Electric microwave oven.   For the last 1.5 minutes of cooking the hamburger, I put six 1/4 inch thick by 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on the hamburger to melt with lid on the frying pan, and I then put it on the square bagel bottom, and I put Heinz ketchup on it, and the sautéed slices of onion on it and the top half of the square bagel.  I put the vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go back out, and I see if I can get the Volvo started.  If it starts up all right, I will go for a drive to charge it up.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 6:50 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 6:25 P.M.:  Vista debut hits a delay | Tech News on ZDNet .  

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 6:10 P.M.:  I hooked up the jump start system, and the Volvo almost started on the first crank, which it usually does.  However, I think I must have flooded it, and I ran down the jump start system trying to start it.  Thus I will have to charge up the jump start system for another two hours, before I try it again, and hopefully the Volvo will start up right away then.  I guess I have not been driving it enough.  I checked the fuses, and they seem all right.  However, the plastic clamp on the fuse box cover broke off at its front end, so it is not securely fastened at its front plastic latch.  I will go through my email on the primary computer.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 5:05 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage.  I checked the Volvo, and its battery is run down from lack of use of the Volvo.  I will take the jump start system, and I will start it up, and I will go for a long drive.   First I have to dress up more warmly.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 3:35 P.M.:  I was awake at 1:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I listened to some of the BBC radio http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram .  I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.   Since Microsoft last week already let me activate the copy of Windows XP Professional on my server computer, I guess I will not need to reinstall the new copy of Windows XP Professional full version PriceGrabber.com OEM Windows XP Professional (Full Product) when I receive it in a couple days.  I do not think there is any reason to go through the hassle of reinstalling the system, since the XP is already activated, and the server system is already running fine.  Thus I have a Windows XP Professional full version license, a Windows XP Professional upgrade version license, and a Windows XP Home Edition upgrade license.  Thus my computers are in compliance with Microsoft licensing.  I do occasionally configure other thrift shop computers, and I frequently test them with beta copies of the Microsoft operating systems.   However, having spent $69 and $10 for Microsoft products yesterday, I am a little bit short of money until the end of the month.  However, I do have my computer services all up and running, and it is enough to keep me busy.   I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up, so I do not smell like I just came off the Appalachian trail.  I will then start making http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 3:50 A.M.:  I made two copies of the Microsoft Windows XP home edition CD to have in reserve.   I will go through my email later.  I will run Ad-awareSE, and then I will shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/22/06  Wednesday 2:35 A.M.:  I have the Toshiba laptop all configured with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition.  It has a 6 gigabyte hard drive that has bad sectors, so I have it configured into two partitions of 4 and 1 gigabytes to avoid the bad sectors.  I still have a half of a gigabyte of free space on each partition.  I am running Norton Speed Disk on it right now.   I could install Nero 6.6 if I ever needed to back it up to an external hard drive or CD/R media.  Home edition does not have the Microsoft backup program or Internet Information Services server.  I will now go through my email.  About midnight I ate three scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn mocha almond fudge ice cream.   Before going through my email, I will restart the server.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 11:20 P.M.:  I received email from the vendor of PriceGrabber.com OEM Windows XP Professional (Full Product) for $69 that I ordered with free shipping with the product key.  It said in the email that it is only good for the full OEM version of XP Professional.  I checked with Microsoft also, and they said I would have to do a new full install replacing my existing server system.  I am still configuring the Toshiba laptop with the new installation of Windows XP Home Edition.  I still have a while to go configuring it.  I microwaved and ate a 19 ounce can of Hormel steakhouse stew which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with two relatives.  Earlier today, a neighbor gave me $1 for a pack of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 4:10 P.M.:   On the Toshiba laptop, I installed SP2, Eztrust firewall, and Eztrust antivirus.   I am just finishing installing the XP updates.   I also rested a while.   I just ate the other half of a 5.5 ounce bag of Arnold's seasoned croutons.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 12:10 P.M.:  I have Windows XP Home Edition installed on the Toshiba laptop, and I have activated it, and I have the LAN and wireless devices configured.  I am currently installing the SP2 updates.  I will install the Eztrust firewall and antivirus programs on it.  After that I will probably go to bed for a while.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 10:40 A.M.:  I called up Microsoft at 1-800-936-5700, and for a $10 charge they gave me the product key for my Windows XP Home Edition CD.  I had to use a magnifying glass to see the CD number on the silver side inner ring.   I am installing it on the Toshiba laptop, and the old beta that was on it has been formatted.  It will take a while to install and configure.    CIO

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 9:10 A.M.:  I ate three scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn mocha almond fudge ice cream.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go back to bed.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 8:40 A.M.:  I emailed the email address mailto:ots@ltg.info about getting the product key for my copy of Windows XP Home Edition.  I found the email address at the bottom of this page Windows Additional Licensing Information .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 8:15 A.M.:  I just installed and ran Microsoft Windows Defender on both the primary computer and the server computer.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 7:45 A.M.:  When I woke up at 2 A.M.,  I ate half of a 5.5 ounce bag of Arnold Seasoned croutons with some iced tea.   I went through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 6:40 A.M.:  More in another email reply on http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/06  Tuesday 5:10 A.M.:  I watched some television for an hour after the last message.  I went to bed, and I woke up at 2 A.M..  In running my server on the Syntax backup computer http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  I am using an older backup computer that I configured from parts that I took out of my primary computer when I built it gradually over the last year.   I never used the backup computer until I started running the server.  When I bought the two Maxtor 160 gigabyte hard drives for my primary computer in December 2004 on sale at www.staples.com for $70 each, I took out the two old 20 gigabyte hard drives, and I stored them away.  When I started building my primary computer last May and June 2005 to date, I used the old Northgate Syntax system as a backup system, and some time after that I threw in the two use 20 gigabyte hard drives into it.  However, since the systems were similar Windows XP product activation did not come up, and since I never used the backup computer other than testing it about once a month and adding parts to it, as I upgraded my primary system, I did not consider it a second primary system.  However, now that it is running all the time including when I run my primary computer, I would have to consider it a primary and not backup computer.   Thus I feel it should have its own registered copy of Windows XP Professional.  I just bought this PriceGrabber.com OEM Windows XP Professional (Full Product) for $69 with free shipping.  Since the Syntax motherboard server has not been configured in many years, and it is a bit buggy in terms of system stability, when I get the new XP OEM Professional Full Product, I do not think I can use it as an upgrade, which means to install it, I will need to do a new install on the Syntax server C: drive.  The server files are on its D: drive.  Thus when I receive the XP product, I will probably have to reinstall the operating system on the server.  However, it will then be more of a server and less of a mirror of my primary computer as backup computer, since it contained the primary computer's old hard drives.  Since they are adjacent to each other, it is not necessary to really have the working backup computer now that it is a server, unless like recently when my primary computer power supply failed, I was using the server computer for backup.  Thus if I can not install the new XP product as an upgrade or just its license, I will probably install it as a new install.   It is really a matter of six of one half a dozen of another.  Either a better running server or a more fully configured b