According to http://www.geocities.com/mikescottnote/06021400.htm , I bought it at Partridge and Rockwell on West Putnam Avenue here in Greenwich, Connecticut on June 9, 2000 for $550 and $35 tax for $585 total.    Thus in what I have paid in service contracts for seven years with the first year free, I could have pretty much have bought one of the newer ones listed about for about $459 and tax.   I could call them up about the broken moving louvers on the current unit, but I do not think at this point they would give me a new one and deliver it and install it for free, but they have had the use of my money for all of these years which might be worth another $50 to a $100.   Well at least I am covered until September 12, 2007.   Of course this time of year, they could easily fix it or replace it, and during the warmer weather, they might not be available right away.  Seven years ago, I was able to transport if from Partridge and Rockwell myself in the back of my old Volvo, and I was able to move it upstairs on the building skateboard, and I was able to install it.   One winter, I actually took it out, and reinstalled it the following spring which is way too much trouble.  However, when I researched them the last few years, I noticed these units who web site currently does not work Panasonic Consumer Electronics - Window Air Conditioners Learn More ,  in that they were more compact for the same BTU ratings, so they might be able to be more easily removed from the window for the winter.  Of course big bucks always go for Friedrich Air Conditioning - Multiple Solutions. One Trusted Name. ,   but for most of this summer, I seem to be covered.  Of course if the current model G.E. air conditioner continues to work this summer, and if I did not renew the service contract for another year when it expires September 12, 2007, I might not be able to afford to buy one when and if it did fail.   There would be two options for me if relatives could not finance me, one would be to buy one on credit from Newegg.com - Buy Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more! , which has limited supply in the higher BTU range, or they have inexpensive 12,000 BTU units from www.homedepot.com for about $359 and tax last summer  The Home Depot: Shop Appliances online.  However, when I have the time, I might call up my General Electric air conditioner service contract people and have a chat with them.  www.cl-p.com  has been giving out new 5,000 BTU units to the tenants that applied for them, but in my particular case 15,000 BTU is just barely enough.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/30/07 Friday 1:50 A.M.:  If you want to see other Tuckers, try news at :: The Official Tucker Club of America :: .  I think the reason, automobile manufacturers did not go with the three headlight design, although it was brighter, is that most people have two eyes, and the third headlight tended to cause an hypnotic effect for oncoming drivers.  Of course a lot of individuals try to do reverse engineering in this country, and for all I know Thomas' English muffins that drop so many crumbs in toasters and toaster ovens are a fire hazard, and in the old days, General Electric toaster ovens were such a fire hazard with the metal screw that secured the hot plug housing connector to the toaster unit about 1/3 of an inch above the counter, that General Electric sold its toaster oven division to Black and Decker, and Black and Decker did some mortifications.   Since the General Electric toaster oven design did not change for over 20 years, although people acknowledged the problem, it makes one wander about other General Electric www.ge.com products such as aircraft engines and nuclear reactors and locomotives.   It says here GE :: Housewares - Product Details , they still sell them.   I wonder if that hot electrical screw is further off the counter on the bottom side.  One relative burned three kitchen counters with the G.E. toaster oven, and if you cook a potato in it, it can get really hot.  I use to keep one that I have on an old hard wood cutting board, and it always had burn marks beneath the toaster oven on the cutting board where it got hot.   I still have the cutting board underneath my General Electric microwave oven which seems to be safer.   Being the Pack Rat that I am, I still have the G.E. toaster oven underneath the counter in the far left cabinet, just to the left of the General Electric stove that I only use the burners on, since it is cheaper to use the Farbareware convection oven on top of the Westinghouse refrigerator that probably will not get a burn mark.   When I first moved in here 17.5 years ago, they had General Electric refrigerators installed made in Decatur, Alabama, but after about 9 years, they installed the Westinghouse Frost Free refrigerators.  One had to defrost the old General Electric freezers.   We do not have room for automatic dishwashers here,  and quite frankly as a retired individual with some dishwashing experience, washing a few dishes is not a problem.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/30/07 Friday 1:25 A.M.:   I noticed when I got out and observed from the pier on Steamboat Road today that the replacement house at the former Watson www.ibm.com house location seems sensible.  It is a "L" shaped two story house with gables, and the short side back or base of the "L" faces north with the long side inside of the "L" facing east up Long Island Sound.   Thus when the cold north wind and the cold northwestern winds blow, the opened "L" area facing east and south will be better protected from the cold winter winds.   It is wood frame, and it looks to be about five thousand square feet.   The Victor Borge vacant lot just north of it on the waterfront is still vacant, so maybe some rich person plans to land their helicopter there some day.   If the mad hatter Hilary Clinton gets elected President, the flight pattern for Westchester County - AirportMonitor - by Megadata - powered by PASSUR will be changed from not flying over the Belle Haven section and southwestern Greenwich, and they will probably start flying several hundred planes a day over that area, since Hilary lives in some unglamorous town north of the airport, but as President the planes would not be able to fly over her home to the north, so they would have to fly over our area.   That is really the only political agenda in the area, so obviously some young Turks north of Westchester airport seem to think they have more influence until they have to pay their mortgages.   There are a lot of California type homes built in the ravine area of the area north of the airport, so possibly the high tech California types think they know better, but why do they spend so much time hanging out here trying to network, instead of their own backyard in Armonk, New York.  Maybe the California types like shopping for dresses on Greenwich Avenue, but more than likely they are shopping for what is shopping for the dresses.   Locally they are called "Trophy Wives" .  People with money do strange things until they have their days in court with the divorce lawyers.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/30/07 Friday 12:45 A.M.:  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe, and I also added a beef bullion cube and a teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce.  I put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns in a Revere pot with steamer tray and an inch of water and lid, and I steamed them for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat.  For the last 10 minutes I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan with a few pads of margarine, and I heated it medium high electric burner heat.   I then put in an eight ounce hamburger in the frying pan and a medium large onion peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices, and I seasoned the burger and onions on both sides with garlic pepper, ground black pepper, and chicken and meat seasoning, and I cooked them on medium to medium high electric burner heat flipping them frequently for about 4 minutes a side, and for the last two minutes, I put on a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and on top of the burger I put two 3/16th inch by 1.25 inch by 4 inch thick slices of New York State extra sharp cheddar cheese, and I put a lid on, and I steamed the cheese for a couple of minutes.   I then put the vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put the burger on a dinner plate with the sautéed onions over them, and I put half the rice on the dinner plate and the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I was told recently that the New York Mafia has been meeting frequently recently in an inconspicuous coffee shop up in Bedford Village, New York just north of Greenwich, Connecticut.   They must have money, since most people I know in Greenwich, Connecticut can not afford to drive up to Bedford Village, New York.   Bedford Village, New York is such a labyrinth of roads, anyone could live up there, or come and go from any direction, so it is hard to tell.   I am not familiar with the area too much, so I do not know which coffee shop.   As a kid, I use to have drinks at a small Inn just west of Bedford Village about half way to the Shell station towards www.ibm.com , and I can not recall the name of the Inn, but I recall they had a nice fire place in their bar room area.   People try to keep me away from Bedford Village, New York, since I apparently use to look so much like some electronics guru up there, they mistook me for him as a youth.   I recall the individual was in the class behind me at the The Taft School , his name was Tommy Tucker of the automobile family fortune, and they branched out into Tucker Electronics - Sales of New, Refurbished, and Used Electronic Test Equipment which does not sell much that the average layman would need, but more than likely they are a U.S.A. Defense Department contractor, and like all Defense Department contractors, the government would keep surveillance on them.  If you don't know what this is All About Used and New Oscilloscopes , you probably need to go back to electronics school.  I recall in my days of testing Polaroid Land Cameras, the old high speed black and white install roll film was heavily used by France's Nuclear Development Agency or whatever it is called today.  Thus more than likely it was used by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory agency, and as such Polaroid would have been classified as a Defense contractor besides working on the development of the Norden bombsight NORDEN BOMBSIGHT , so more than likely former Polaroid employees still have surveillance on them like any other former government defense contractors.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/29/07 Thursday 10:50 P.M.:   I ate a serving of the Ramen chicken noodle soup that I make my way with a cup of water before going to bed.  I woke up at noon.   I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made the bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out to my usual Thursday 3 P.M. appointment.   I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   Some of their ever changing line of merchandise is 50% off.   I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.   They refunded to my debit card $28.60 for the two inkjet refill kits.  I also gave them all of my used inkjet cartridges, and two of them were HP, so I got $3 store credit for each of them, so I bought another three pack of Staples Clamp binders for $6.49 and .03 tax for $6.52 total with the two $3 coupons.  I then returned to the less busy area of central Greenwich, Connecticut, and I went by the convenient Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought four 1.25 inch and four 1 inch thin Phillips machine screws similar to the ones that held the small cooling fan on the heat sink on the video chip on the Epox motherboard in the Epox server for .17 each and .08 tax for $1.44 total.   I then walked the enjoyable year round exercise walk of the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar Store, and I bought a "Money Talks" scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.   I toured the lobby of the Greenwich Train Station, and they have signs out for new train station schedules available starting April 2007, but the new train schedules were already gone.   I chatted with a local resident in front of the senior center.  I chatted with somebody that looks like a famous celebrity from the old days.   I stopped by the ATM machine at the Chase Bank on Greenwich Avenue, where the Bank of New York use to be.   I chatted with some of their staff about some of our local business individuals.   I stopped by CVS, and I chatted with some of their staff.   I completed my walk, and then I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with some of their staff.   I read P.C. Magazine.   I then returned home.  I picked up my mail.  I got one of those suspicious free cruise trips for two tickets  to the Bahamas and a $1,500 voucher at the Ramada Inn in Florida, and a relative said it was probably fraudulent, so I shredded the offer.  I chatted with a relative.  I booted Vista, and I tried tweaking the monitor resolution settings they recommend, but the print is too fine to read, so I restored it to the easier to read settings.  I installed the free QuickTime player update on my computer from www.apple.com , and now the www.chase.com web site does not black out my Vista computer screen for a few seconds.   I had the old Quick Time player, but one needs to the latest free version update to work with Vista I guess, so the Chase web site does not black out for a few seconds.  I know the Rockefellers are not too swift, so maybe they use Apple computers.   CIO       

Note:<888> 03/29/07 Thursday 5:05 A.M.:  I mailed the $10 mail in rebate in the mailroom downstairs.   ReadyBoost: Better Windows Vista Performance In A Flash - Technology News by InformationWeek .  Free Financial Software Evaluation Kit: Try Microsoft Dynamics™ GP Free Free Trial .    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I have to be up at noon.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/29/07 Thursday 3:50 A.M.:  My little 16 ounce taco meal was very good reheated.  With the higher price of beef in America, www.mcdonalds.com could sell something like it in one of those little Styrofoam containers, and they could call it the "Big Mex" .  Since there is not much meat in the burrito filling, there is probably about two ounces of meat in the meal with beans, rice, tomato, corn shells and flavoring.  Thus it might be alternative fast food.   I have never eaten at Taco Bell to see what sort of meals they serve, but I once drove someone to a Taco Bell a couple of times in Old Greenwich.  I dug through hundreds of receipts and I found the Staples Receipt for the Jettec Lexmark inkjet refill kits.  They were purchased on December 6, 2005 for $11.99 for the black Lexmark refill kit and $14.99 for the color Lexmark inkjet refill kit plus tax.   Possibly since they do not get old, I might be able to return them.   I will have to call them up to find out.  I will now go through my email.  At www.chase.com with Vista on my computer and a Nvidia video 256 meg. dual video card, when I go to their web site, the screen blinks dark for a few seconds.   I think it does that because it tries to load a Quicken applet that my system does not support.   It is rather annoying, and no other web sites do that.  I also have a Polaroid inkjet refill kit another one that is opened.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/29/07 Thursday 2:45 A.M.:  They Epson Stylus Color 880 printer has new ink cartridges in it, and it prints out fine with a test page.   The HP Photosmart P1000 prints out fine after running a few cleaning and priming cycles.  The HP Deskjet 842C only has red ink left.  I removed the ink cartridges from it.   I disconnected it, and I place it on top of the DeLonghi radiators to the right side of the bedroom desk.   I took the EpsonStylus Color 900 printer from that location, and I placed it where the HP Deskjet 842C was on top of the FIC server.   I hooked it up, and plug and play recognized it in Vista.   I have its power cord connected to the power strip to the right of the keyboard, so it has to be turned on from the control panel to turn on the Epson Stylus Color 900 switch.   I put a new generic color cartridge in it, and it works just fine.   I have a spare black cartridge for it.   I also have two spare identical black cartridges for the two HP inkjets.  That is all the spare ink cartridges that I have.  I have a bag of use and old ink cartridges that I need to return to Staples.   As soon as I can find the receipt, I also have the Jettec black and another Jettec color refill kits that I have not opened, and that I can return to Staples.  On the Epson Stylus Color 900, I also have it connected up the Network D-Link port on the FIC and the Epox servers.  On has to change the top printer port box underneath cable box tray to port D to use it.   It is there, it is just not easy to see underneath the tray.   I have the $10 mail in rebate ready to mail on the keyboard.   I will now reheat the 16 ounce taco meal in the Rubbermaid container that I made last night, and I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.   It should take one vegetable cycles.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/29/07 Thursday 12:10 A.M.:  At 3 P.M., I received  the order with the $10 mail in rebate http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/Rosewill23-201-022Mar22May2207cd12.pdf on the Combo listed at the bottom of this page Newegg.com - Rosewill RK-680 BK Black 104 Normal Keys 18 Function Keys USB Wired Standard Keyboard - Retail for $7.99 for both keyboard and optical mouse, and with the checkout coupon "PAYPAL10" for paying with PayPal , I got free UPS three day shipping which is worth about $7.99, so for a spare keyboard and optical mouse for $7.99 total with free shipping is UPS: Tracking Information .   I will prepared the $10 mail in rebate shortly.   I slept until 6 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made the bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I took down the flags in front of the hallway bookcases.   I put them in the lower Rubbermaid hamper in the bedroom.   Since I use to read a lot, I like to display the books most of which I have not read in the hallway bookcases along with the other display items.   I did keep the Dutch tricolor flag out hanging it back over the left living room closet door.  About 8 P.M., I went over to Home Depot www.homedepot.com  in Port Chester, New York which is only about two miles away from Byram.   Downtown Port Chester, New York with the new stores downtown and movie complex is beginning to look like Time Square.  They have  a lot of outdoor plants and flowers at Home Depot in Port Chester, New York.   I toured the indoor plant section.   I bought a six inch diameter Pathos "Marble Queen" plant from the Solomon Islands for $9.97 and a Schultz 8 ounce liquid container of 10-15-10 liquid plant food for $4.38 plus $1.06 sales tax for $15.41 total.   About 11:15 P.M. the building fire alarm system went off, and the Byram Fire Department responded.   One of the neighbors downstairs had a smoky toaster oven.   It is a good idea to clean the bread crumbs out of a toaster oven or toaster regularly, so one does not get toaster fires.  The fire department aired out the apartment.   I returned back from Home Depot, a little before 9 P.M., and I threw out the dead cane plant, but I kept its pot.  I scooped out some of the dirt from the pot, and I mixed it with the Miracle Gro potting soil.   I put the six inch Pathos plant in the pot, and I added the Miracle Gro potting soil mixture into the pot around the pathos plant.  I did this in the kitchen sink.   I cleaned up the work area.  I watered the pathos plant, which with that pot, you have to water in the sink, since the bottom tray tends to over flow.   I then put 7 drops of Schultz Plant Food in a quart container of water, and I watered it on the new Pathos plant, and I also water the other plants with Schultz plant food.   Once the new pathos plant had drained, I put it on its water tray, and I moved it to the left front of the living room mahogany bureau where the dead cane plant was.   One can get a nice cane plant at Home Depot in Port Chester, New York for $10, but I think they need lots of light, which my apartment does not have.   The pathos plant grows in low light.  The dead cane plant and pot, I found on Greenwich Avenue last February a year ago when it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and it was discarded in front of the now defunct Sam Goody store.   It had a few small shoots last summer, but it did not seem to have survive the winter.   It did not have any roots when I threw it away.   I also threw out the plastic hanging pot that the pathos plant came in.  I will leave the Schultz plant food beneath the kitchen sink with the glass Tropicana watering jar.   I restored the Vista Complete PC backup from two days ago, and I then restored the few changed files.   For some reason the Vista computer did not start up properly until after the restore.   It might have been the update from yesterday, that it just installed again.   With Vista who knows?  I will put the spare mouse and keyboard beneath the bedroom side board with the other spare mice and keyboards.   I chatted with a relative earlier this evening.   The fire department were wearing Scott Health & Safety - Air-Pak® Fifty™ .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 11:10 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of sugar free fudge tracks ice cream.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Enjoy the warm day.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 10:35 A.M.:  I took the two U.S. Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather sleeping bags off the far ends of the sofa, and I put them behind the bedroom closet door.   I moved the paper shredder from behind the bedroom door to along side the back side of the down sofa in front of the French reproduction chair.   I took the two comforters off the backs of the sofas, and I put them on the top left side of the bedroom closet shelf.   I move the two hurricane globes with brass candle stands to the top front of the living room mahogany bureau in front of the large pathos plant.   I took down the British Union Jack flag from in front of the center living room curtain, and I rehung it over the Scottish Cross of St. Andrews flag on the right hallway bookcase.   I took the Dutch tricolor flag, and I moved it from the left living room closet to the left hallway bookcase in front of the Swedish flag.   I then removed the Styrofoam that covered the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control, and I slid it against the window above the air conditioner.   I took about 10 large bobby pins, and I hemmed up the orange curtain above the air conditioner.   I move the Swedish blue glass globe to in front of the air conditioner.   I move the Williamsburg bean pot to the right side of CD cabinet underneath the Sony television.   I connected the air conditioner to the heavy duty power cord that connects to the air conditioner plug, and I opened its exhaust vent, I turned it on low fan.   I set its remote control with the other remote controls on top of the White Star Line place mat on top of the Toshiba laptop on the brass and glass coffee table in front of the Ethan Allen recliner.   I left the Honeywell tower fan going in the same position to the right of the air conditioner.  I put the slender tall vase to the right side of the air conditioner.  I put the fatter blue vase on the right rear side of the Lazy Susan holding the tall palm tree.  I straightened up the sofa pillows and the green slip cover on the long green sofa.   I left one light blanket on the back of each sofa and one afghan on the back of each sofa.   Once we get pollen in the air, I can not open the exhaust vent on the fan setting on the air conditioner, since it would bring in pollen.  I move the hats, gloves, and scarves from the back of the down sofa to the lower right shelf of the sweater closet in the hallway.   Thus I have the apartment set up a bit for warm weather.   I will still leave my long underwear hanging in the hallway in case we still get some colder days.  The air conditioner cooling feature seems like it works, but it will turn on with the cooler temperature outside.  One would have to try it in the afternoon when the sun hits the west facing windows above the black flat first floor roof.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 8:15 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Animated guide: Volcanoes .  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 7:45 A.M.:  I set both the bedroom and the living room thermostats to "OFF" , which is counter clockwise all the way.   I took the small wooden oak folding table from the right side of the bedroom desk, and I move it behind the bedroom door.  I think the other three folding oaks tables are underneath the bedroom on the right side.  I moved both of the DeLonghi oil filled radiators which I did not have to use this winter from the hallway entrance area leading off the living room, and I moved them to the right side of the bedroom desk with the Epson Stylus 900 printer sitting on top of them with my old mail on top of that.  One of these days, I will have to sort through my old mail.   We might yet get a cold spell, so I will still leave my hats, scarves, gloves on the back of the down sofa, and I will still leave my long underwear hanging in the hallway.  Since I am use to colder temperatures, and since I have a westerly exposure with a lot of sun light in the warmer months, my apartment can get too warm starting around the first of May.   I leave the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner installed year round, and I insulate it and cover it up in the winter.   However, it only takes about a half hour to uncover it and have it available for use when needed.  I have the General Electric Service contract paid up on it until September 12, 2007 which costs about a $100 a year.   Its moving louvers do not work, but it seemed to work otherwise fine last season.  The Honeywell Tower fan on its right side would probably be good at moving around its cooled air a little bit more, since the moving louvers do not work.   It slides out of its case for service.   There are two screws on either side of the lower front sides that have to be removed to slide it out the unit from its case housing.   Its outside housing is installed with support brackets to support the heavier unit.   It cost about $600 at Partridge and Rockwell 5 years ago, and it runs just fine.   It is high energy efficiency made in South Korea.  I think I cleaned the filter before closing it up this past winter.  I just put a Frost King foam filter over its factory installed filter, so I can clean it.   The new foam filters which I have a spare one have cost a few dollars.  Obviously with the computers running I have to keep the apartment in the summer at about 78 degrees Fahrenheit.   All of the computers have extra case fans for keeping them cool too.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 6:55 A.M.:  I have turned both the bedroom and the living room thermostats down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit for the last 24 hours, and it is currently 79.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room, so I guess the afternoon sun from the west is warming up the apartment a little bit.   It is currently 44 degrees Fahrenheit outside Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   Of course if it goes below 70 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room, I can always turn back on the electric heat.   I am leaving the Honeywell tower fan going, since it tends to circulate the air around the apartment.   Maybe the lights and computers and other electrical items are generating that much extra heat.   I only wore a flannel shirt and opened jacket out last night, and I did not need anything warmer, but I still wear light long underwear with my blue jeans, since with arthritis, it helps if you dress a bit more warmly.   Also I tend to spend a bit more time outside walking around than people whom are just dashing back and forth from the car to some destination.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 6:20 A.M.:  I think possibly my old gigabyte motherboard might still be good.   I might have had the memory seated in it in the wrong order.   Plus I have the other spare one and a couple of other ones http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  Windows Vista: Help and How-to .   Good News Vista Sales Better Than Expected .  TS2 Event in Plainfield, New Jersey , Italy Nuova pagina 3 , IBM Gives Networking A 16x Boost , The Vermont Country Store , Top 100 Most Influential People in IT , time for a change Giugiaro's Hydrogen-Powered VAD.HO - Forbes.com , http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=401&tag=nl.e539 , L.L.Bean: Search Results blue jeans .   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 4:45 A.M.:  The email server was down briefly, so I checked the Epox server, and it did not work on it either, but now the email server is working.   While checking out the Epox server, I heard a low sluggish sound from it.  I disconnected it, and I opened it up.  There is a heat sink just below or left of the CPU on the Epox motherboard, and it has a small 40mm by 40mm by10mm two pin fan on the heat sink.   That small fan seems to have given out.   However it is not needed in my particular configuration, since I have a five inch diameter rear case a few inches behind it, so I removed the failing small fan, and with the small fan removed, there is more air circulation around the heat sink, so the system should be just fine, and I do not think I need to replace the small fan.   Also the power supply has two or three inside fans and the there is a front case fan along with the CPU cooler, so there is more than enough air circulation around the inside of the Epox server.  However, I found this replacement 2 pin one that is twice as thick at 40mm by 40mm by 20mm instead of 10mm, so hopefully since it is a bit thicker it might last longer, and it is 2 pin, and the other available 10mm thick were three pin, so it cost me $4.31 with free shipping from eBay.ca: Delta 40mm Video Card/Chipset Fan $4.31 FREE SHIPPING! (item 290097694364 end time 30-Mar-07 20:30:00 EDT) , and I will have to go to the Greenwich Hardware store to get four screws that are about 1/3rd to a half inch longer than the ones that I took out from the heat sink.   It is not needed, but I will replace it anyway.   I owed $228 plus change to www.newegg.com , so when I have the funds available, I will pay the $228 less $50 or $178 and change on my bill.  In the end of April, I am due the $50 mail in rebate on the Samsung all purpose printer, fax, copier, and scanner, and I will pay the remaining $50 when I get the rebate.   I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 2:30 A.M.:  I had saved four Stouffer's meal trays, so I made up five batches of my taco meal that I just ate, and I also put a few ounces of shredded New York extra sharp cheddar cheese on each meal before adding the parsley.   Each meal weighs 16 ounces, and I put each of the four in Stouffer's trays in Zip Lock food bags, and I froze them in the freezer, and the fifth, I put in a flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I used up the burrito filling in making them.  I would say one should unzip the Zip Lock bag on the frozen ones, and leaving the taco meal in the bag, and I guess would microwave one of the Scott's frozen taco meals for about eight to nine minutes.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/28/07 Wednesday 1:30 A.M.:    The top round roast made 11 eight ounce hamburgers.  I froze eight and refrigerated 3.   I took one of the soft and one of the hard tacos, and I stuffed as much of the burrito filling in the hard taco as it would hold, and I put as much of the burrito filling on one side of the soft taco as it could hold and still be folded.   I had put them on a microwave proof plate, and I covered each with about three ounces of jar spaghetti tomato sauce, and then I put a microwave lid on the plate, and I heated it on one vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.   I put the hot plate on another plate, and I sprinkled a small bit of dried parsley on the tacos,  and after letting them cool slightly, I will eat them with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/27/07 Tuesday 11:50 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.   I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I went back to bed until 4 P.M..   I made my bed, and I microwaved in a microwave proof pot with lid about 12 ounces of the burrito mixture on two vegetable cycles, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.   I showered and I cleaned up, and I went out.   I drove on I-95 east from exit 2 in Byram to exit 5 in Old Greenwich, and I went by Staples.   I bought Staples Circular Savings 100 Sony DVD-R media $24.98 in DVD+R and a 3 pack of clamp binders for $6.49 plus $1.89 tax for $33.36 total.  I then returned back to downtown Greenwich, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York JP Morgan Chase Bank NA on Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by and toured CVS.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I activated the radio on my Volvo station wagon by entering the code, which came off a couple of months ago, when the battery ran down.   I drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $9 of Exxon middle grade unleaded plus for $3.199 a gallon for 46.4 miles driving in the last week averaging 15.8 miles per gallon averaging 15 miles per hour.   They were out of Exxon Premium gasoline.    I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a top round roast at $1.99 a pound for $9.63, two half gallons of Florida Natural Orange Juice with calcium for $3 each, from the clearance section a package of Old El Paso 6 soft and 6 hard taco shells for $2, two one liter bottles of CareOne antiseptic mouth rinse blue mint flavor for $2 each, and Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.10 with .24 tax for $22.97 total.   I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I gave the neighbor a half package of cigarettes, since the neighbor was out.   I picked up my mail.  I put $15 on my MacGray laundry card, so I now have $17.05 on it.   I put away my groceries.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now take the 5 pound top round roast, and I will cut it into 1 to 2 inch chunks, and I will run them through the Cuisine Art, and I will make 10 eight ounce hamburgers out of the ground beef, and I will put four in a flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I will put the other six in two each in double Zip Lock bags, and I will freeze them.    CIO

Note:<888> 03/27/07 Tuesday 5:40 A.M.:  I watched the television program, "Madame Tussaud and Her World of Wax" .   I ate two scoops of sugar free fudge tracks ice cream.  I turned the living room thermostat down to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.   I will now try to rest for a while, and I will shut down the primary computer.  CIO      

Note:<888> 03/27/07 Tuesday 3:55 A.M.:  Embattled Smithsonian Official Resigns - New York Times .  Geological Society of America - Cordilleran Section Meeting - 2007 .  http://www.gop.com/PresidentialTrust .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/27/07 Tuesday 3:15 A.M.:  I made up a double batch of Michael Louis Scott's Burrito Filling .  I first made up the rice http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm, and I used some Old Bay Seasoning and a beef bullion cube in making up the rice along with the other ingredients.   I used  a Chinese wok to make up the burrito mixture.   I used a few cloves of chopped garlic too when I sautéed the pound of ground beef and two chopped medium onions in olive oil and margarine.  I also used dashes Old Bay Seasoning and a few tablespoons of Frank's hot sauce in the mixture.  Instead of New York Extra sharp cheddar cheese, I use a 8 ounce bar of Philadelphia  1/3rd less fat cream cheese that I cut into small inch square chunks, and it took a while for the cream cheese to melt.  I used a 16 ounce can of B&M maple flavor and another of bacon and onion flavor baked beans.  I ate about one fifth of it in a soup bowl with a glass of ice tea, and I put the other 80% in a larger Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/27/07 Tuesday 1:35 A.M.:  There is a $10 mail in rebate http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/Rosewill23-201-022Mar22May2207cd12.pdf on the Combo listed at the bottom of this page Newegg.com - Rosewill RK-680 BK Black 104 Normal Keys 18 Function Keys USB Wired Standard Keyboard - Retail for $7.99 for both keyboard and optical mouse, and with the checkout coupon "PAYPAL10" for paying with PayPal , I got free UPS three day shipping which is worth about $7.99, so for a spare keyboard and optical mouse for $7.99 total with free shipping is UPS: Tracking Information , so I will be paid $2.01 for buying the combo, which seems like it still might be available.   My account still has not bill for it yet, for some odd reason.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/27/07 Tuesday 12:30 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.   I changed the accounts that I pay at the first of the month from the Bank of New York to Chase.   I had to make a $1 payment on www.cl-p.com to change that account over.   I have not changed www.geico.com yet, but I will on this Friday, when I pay my bills.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/26/07 Monday 10:55 P.M.:  I woke up at 4:30 A.M..   I ate the last two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   I worked with the Epox server.   I restored its XP Professional ASR backup except the Server folder.   I did this because the sound on the TV card would not work.  I put in the other spare TV card, but the sound still would not work.   I finally changed the plugs on the audio card, and the sound on the TV card now works on the Epox server.   I had somebody knock on my door looking for another neighbor.  I went to bed about 9:30 A.M..   I woke up at 2 P.M..   I picked up my mail.  I went over to the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue where the Bank of New York use to bed.  I then returned home, and I went back to bed.   About 3:30 P.M., I had a computer magazine telephone call.    About 5 P.M., I had a bothersome neighbor telephone call.    I woke up at 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I washed the breakfast dishes. President Bush www.whitehouse.gov to visit Connecticut FOXNews.com - Bush to Speak at 3 Graduation Ceremonies - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum .  I chatted with a relative.   I am doing two loads of laundry with 40 minutes to go on the dry cycle.   I put clean linens on the bed.  I threw out the garbage.   I need to change the account numbers on the bills that I pay monthly to reflect my new Chase Account number.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/26/07 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  I microwaved and ate a Stouffer's 21 ounce frozen lasagna, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go back to bed.    CIO 

Note:<888> 03/26/07 Monday 1:40 A.M.:  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I washed the breakfast dishes.   I did a Vista Complete PC backup restore from the backup on the Bytecc external hard drive.  I then restored any changes since the backup.   I also incorporated my www.chase.com account into Microsoft Money 2006.   My www.chase.com account is now active online.   I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I then did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   When doing the backups, I disable the screen saver.   I watched a Turner Movie Channel Movie.  I watched a program on the Weather Channel about the Seattle Fault Zone Seattle Fault Zone .   I guess Seattle, Washington could have big problems in the future.  Hopefully www.microsoft.com in nearby Redmond, Washington to the east of Seattle will be all right.  I went through my email earlier.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/25/07 Sunday 2:15 P.M.:  I did some system maintenance.   I also cleaned up some files.   I ate a bowl of Ramen noodles.   I tried doing a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive, but the system kept crashing or freezing.   I finally disabled the screen saver, and I was able to do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I chatted with a relative earlier this morning.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed shortly.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/25/07 Sunday 6:15 A.M.:  I watched some television, and I rested in the recliner.   I ate two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   SORCERERS APPRENTICE OCCULT BOOKS AND PSYCHIC EQUIPMENT .  PayPal - Extra Savings on Spring Shopping .  I watched the European Union 50th Anniversary News on the Signing of the Treaty of Rome Treaty of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on the European News Channel.  The anthem of the Europa - The European Union On-Line is "Ode to Joy" from Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .   I had it on my server hard drive, so I posted it at mikelouisscott.com - /bs9/ .  CIO        

Note:<888> 03/25/07 Sunday 12:45 A.M.:   I ate the same meal as the last five days.   The movie "The Longest Day" about the Normandy Invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944 came on the Turner Movie Channel about midnight.    I watched the first part of it, the allies alerted the French underground with coded messages to let them know it was happening.   Thus when they broadcast some sort of message in English such as "The Windmills Are Turning", it meant the Allied Invasion was on.   However, the Germans thought the allies would only attack on a clear day at sunrise instead in the rain at midnight.   Whatever the case here, there is not much left to invade for.   There just are a bunch of new rock houses with a lot of new foreign cars, most Americans would not be interested in.   The fattest people I have observed around here stay fat by eating pork loin roasts, so they manage to keep their weight on.  In my particular case I get a bit of starch from the rice that I eat to keep my weight on.   They no longer fly the "Prisoner of War" flags downtown, but some of the U.S.A. flags are at half staff and some of them are at full staff.   Basically from what I can tell not much is going on, but this afternoon should be a bit busy with the St. Patrick's Day parade which usually has a formidable group of people.   As I recall in past years, the biggest group was the Westchester County Fire Department, but as I recall they do not wear green kilts, but red, black, and yellow kilts.   They usually have a few Irish wolf hounds in case any wolves show up out of the woods.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/24/07 Saturday 11:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I went out, and I threw away the garbage.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I topped off the coolant over flow container in my car with about a pint of antifreeze.  I picked up the mail.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..   I watched part of the Turner Movie Channel movie "It's a Mad Mad World", but it basically just shows California desert and farm country.   I guess the primary activity in California is farming, so now that the growing season is in effect, we might get some more food from California.   I chatted with a relative.   The relative eats better because the relative lives in Florida, where they also produce a lot of food.   I saw on a brief news clip the Ivy League colleges are now producing soft porn magazines, which seems like a waste of intellectual activity.  Locally in the Food Emporium and the Stop and Shop food circulars, there are still a few bargains.   The Stop and Shop has top round roast for $1.99 a pound, and the Food Emporium has boneless breasts of chicken for $2.99 a pound, and if one is hungry, one can get a Chairman's Reserve Pork Crown Roast for $3.99 a pound.   However, other prices are higher for sale items at the Food Emporium, such as Premium Gold Angus Fillets of beef for $23.99 a pound or in steaks for $28.99 a pound, a Carando Spiral Smoked Ham is only $2.99 a pound, top round veal cutlets are $15.99 a pound, premium gold angus ground beef 85% lean is $3.99 a pound, a Empire uncooked turkey is $2.19 a pound, fresh flounder is $11.99 a pound, fresh Atlantic salmon fillets are $10.99 a pound, fresh bay scallops are $11.99 a pound, grey sole fillets are $20.99 a pound, extra large uncooked shrimp are $11.99 a pound, jumbo cooked shrimp are $14.99 a pound, asparagus are $2.99 a pound, beef steak tomatoes are $2.99 a pound, and fresh green beans are $5.99 a pound.  At the Stop and Shop, they still have an eye round roast for $4.99 a pound, a medium uncooked chicken for $1.49 a pound, 90% lean ground beef for $3.99 a pound, Friendly ice cream for $2.50 for 1.75 quarts, a boneless center cut pork loin for $1.69 a pound, haddock fillets for $8.99 a pound, previously frozen sword fish steaks $7.99 a pound, bay scallops $5.99 a pound, and English muffin six packs are buy one get one free.  Food use to plentiful and cheaper in the United States of America, but it does not seem like that anymore.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/24/07:

Note:<888> 03/24/07 Saturday 6:45 A.M.:  I tried testing the old power supply that I took out of the primary computer in the Epox server, but it does not work at all in the Epox server, so I left its fairly new power supply in it.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will then do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I will then shut down the primary computer.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/24/07 Saturday 4:30 A.M.:  I ate three scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   This might help you discover a new land over half price off Boatbuilder's Jacket: Coats and Casual Jackets at L.L.Bean with free shipping using coupon code "2344580" . 

Note:<888> 03/24/07 Saturday 3:45 A.M.:  Tracking on the Combo listed at the bottom of this page Newegg.com - Rosewill RK-680 BK Black 104 Normal Keys 18 Function Keys USB Wired Standard Keyboard - Retail for $7.99 for both keyboard and optical mouse, and with the checkout coupon "PAYPAL10" for paying with PayPal , I got free UPS three day shipping which is worth about $7.99, so for a spare keyboard and optical mouse for $7.99 total with free shipping is UPS: Tracking Information .   The Shuttle May Go, but the Stories Will Linger - New York Times .  Shelter Island Stunner - Forbes.com .  I went through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/24/07 Saturday 2:40 A.M.:  I am making the same meal as the last four nights, which I will eat in about 15 minutes.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/24/07 Saturday 2:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue, but it does not work BNY Online is unavailable. and Chase Information , until Monday March 26, 2006.   I tried using the www.chase.com ATM machine at the top of Greenwich Avenue, but it would not work either.   The good news is that they are planning a late St. Patrick's Day Parade on Greenwich Avenue this Sunday March 25, 2006.   I guess the Irish all got back from their southern vacations, so they will probably be a little bit tanned.   I went by the Food Emporium at 11:45 P.M., but they were already closed, so they must close earlier now instead of midnight.   I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I returned home.  I finished off the opened tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.  I was told by a friend that knows Hilary Clinton's interior decorator that Al Gore uses $2,500 a month in electricity for his Tennessee home, and he has several other homes elsewhere, so I guess he is an energy hog.  Need DVD media Staples Circular Savings 100 Sony DVD-R media $24.98  CIO   

Note:<888> 03/23/07 Friday 10:00 P.M.:  I also put 45% mixture of English Leather cologne with a 55% mixture of 70% isopropyl alcohol in the Glade Plug In refill in its holder in the kitchen.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now shower and clean up and go out for a stroll.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/23/07 Friday 8:45 P.M.:  I woke up at noon today.   I checked my mail, and I got a $10 rebate on the Hauppauge HRC 1600 TV card.   I went over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on West Putnam Avenue, and I deposited it.   I then returned home, and I went back to bed.  I chatted with a relative whom lives near FRYS.com out on the West Coast.   I went back to bed.   I woke up about 7 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a friend.   I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.   I will water the plants.  I will then throw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/23/07 Friday 2:45 A.M.:  I bought the Combo listed at the bottom of this page Newegg.com - Rosewill RK-680 BK Black 104 Normal Keys 18 Function Keys USB Wired Standard Keyboard - Retail for $7.99 for both keyboard and optical mouse, and with the checkout coupon "PAYPAL10" for paying with PayPal , I got free UPS three day shipping which is worth about $7.99, so for a spare keyboard and optical mouse for $7.99 total with free shipping, it was a pretty good deal.  If you look at the Chicago Tribune news : Local news, weather, traffic, shopping and classified , you get a look at what the middle of America is interested in.   The "MOB" is still active in Chicago Land Mob hit suspected in suburban remains | Chicago Tribune .   Well, I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Possibly damp weather.   I ate half of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.  CIO        

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  Bill Gates finally getting a Harvard degree - USATODAY.com .  Of course www.ford.com owns www.volvo.com , if you want me to ditch the Swedish flag for either the Saudi or U.S. Air Force flags, but when one is here on a four seasons basis, the Swedish tend to be quite helpful, since they seem to know how to navigate around in colder weather periods.   The art gallery just west of the Y.M.C.A. now has a crucifixion painting in the window with the hand grenade painting on the wall behind it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 11:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.   I will now go through my email.  Sky High inflation has just hit Greenwich Avenue.   It now costs 25 cents for 20 minutes to park on Greenwich Avenue instead of 25 cents for 20 minutes, so it now cost 75 cents to park for an hour on Greenwich Avenue, which is a 50% rise in the parking rates.  Of course as of a month ago, it still is free to park in Old Greenwich, if you can afford the gasoline to drive over there, and the Riverside Shopping Plaza has free parking for its shoppers, and of course the Greenwich Library has free parking for its patrons, but you are not allowed to go anywhere else while using their parking facilities.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 9:55 P.M.:  I woke up at noon today.   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  They are doing some remodeling repairs at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Real-Time Weather Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, Connecticut , so the construction trucks are using up the parking area at the end of Steamboat Road.   I then went to my usual 3 P.M. Thursday appointment.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   They have a bit more Bric a Brac there than they have in the past.   I chatted with a local golfer about having some sort of wild cat jump on the roof of the 1976 white Volvo 4 door sedan when I owned it about 7 years ago with two cars since, and I reported that the cat jump on the roof of the car on the southwest side of the Greenwich Reservoir, when I was checking out the dam after feeling a seismic vibration downtown, and that was about 4:30 A.M. in August at the time.   Not knowing what it was I drove south a short bit down Lake Avenue and then west across Clapboard Ridge and up Round  Hill Road  and west on Porchuck Road and across Riversville Road and west on Cliffdale Road and around 4:30 in the morning on I think a Saturday night somebody came from the opposite direction of Cliffdale Road from the Bruce Golf Course area, and turned south into the Farm just east of the small bridge they have redone since, or whatever French Normandy Farm House is called, so I would have had a witness as to whatever was on the roof of the car, but knowing the family that lived there, they tend to be private, so I never bothered them about it, but they would have seen whatever it was.   I then drove on from there to Westchester County Airport where they have lights and cameras, and the all night Hertz Rent A Car person that I knew there at the time told me there was nothing on the roof of the car.  However, I do have a witness, maybe they were drinking and thought it was some sort of stuffed animal.  However, my cat allergies were activated, so I assume it was some sort of cat.  Frequently wealthy people have exotic pets that get away, so who knows, it had me puzzled at the time.   I normally do not drive in back country at night since once one becomes accustomed to the Big City lights of downtown Greenwich, back country Greenwich is so dark, it looks like the back woods of Canada.   I suppose it is more so, now that it is more expensive to keep the lights on all night around a house.  After chatting, I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.     At the top of Greenwich Avenue, I walked over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street through Pickwick Plaza, and I chatted with a few of their staff, and they told me the old Bank of New York MasterCard Debit ATM cards would still be good when they switch over this weekend to www.chase.com .   Putnam Trust already had a Rockefeller connection, since Bill Rockefeller use to be President of it, before he retired.   I then returned back downtown, and I sat out for a while.   I then used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center.   It started to rain.  I then returned home.   One of my neighbors is now using a body guard for personal security.   I chatted with a relative.   I then ate the same meal as the last three nights.   I also ate two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   I will now go through my email.   CIO    

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 4:05 A.M.:  I chatted with Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, so I will have to get up about noon.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 2:40 A.M.:   I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I made and ate the same meal as the last couple of nights, and I also put a little bit of oregano in the rice.   We could try to pick things up around here.   I could fly the Saudi Arabian flag and the U.S.A. flag, and turn off the heat, and I could say this is the Saudi Arabian and U.S. Air Force Cold Weather Studies program.   However, I will keep the Swedish flag flying on the left hallway bookcase, since I drive a Swedish Volvo, and www.abb.com is a Swedish Swiss Engineering Firm.   I will leave the Scottish Cross of St. Andrews flag flying for now on the right hallway bookcase, since my last name is Scott which might be Scottish, but from what I know I am half Dutch, and the Scott half is 1/4th Scottish, 1/4th English, 1/4thFrench, and 1/4th German, so I am only 1/8th Scottish and 1/8th English or 1/4th from the United Kingdom and half Dutch and 1/4th German French.   The U.S.A. flag around here is not very useful, since people see it so some much of the time, they do not pay much attention to it, and since the U.S. Government does not pay much attention to us in this neck of the woods, we just keep hoping we will continue to get our monthly Supplemental Security Income and a few other benefits, so we can manage to get by here, which is why I keep using my spare money to volunteer.   I think to get the U.S. Government to respond to you, you have to pay a lobbyist whom is someone whom convinces a politician to do something in your favor, and that of course takes more money than I or my neighbors have.   The www.rbs.co.uk which owns Welcome to RBSGC.com is improving their entrance area, the last time I looked a couple of days ago, and they have tent type flats hanging from the middle entrance way to block the weather while they do some sort of renovation work on their lobby entrance area.   I know they employ Europeans there, or at least people whom claim they are European, but originally about 10 years ago, when General Reinsurance moved out of there, the tenants then had Sudanese Security Guards whom claimed they had worked for the Royal Saudi Arabian family, and thus from what I can tell, for all I know www.rbs.co.uk like Barclay's Personal Banking - Barclays Personal Banking might be just another Saudi Arabian front company.   However, the Hebrew community here does not like Saudi Arabians, so I do not fly the Saudi Arabian flag, since I do not travel that much or use that much energy by U.S.A. standards, and as I get older I might need Hebrew Medical assistance more than I need a quick trip around the block.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 12:55 A.M.:   Morgan Stanley Rising - Forbes.com .  Microsoft TechNet: Windows Sysinternals .  Welcome to We Are Family 2007 .  Florida Hurricane Relief Fund .  Volunteer Florida Foundation, .  Microsoft, Vista activation researcher butt heads .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/22/07 Thursday 12:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last note.  I put the $10 mail in rebate check in the mail room drop downstairs.   I chatted with a neighbor about the Steamboat Road area of Greenwich, Connecticut.   I went by the Stop and Shop, and I chatted with a local lawyer.   I bought a 24 ounce container of Colonna flavored Italian Style Bread Crumbs for $1.99, a liter of Kedem grape juice for $2.49, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, and brocolli crowns $1.99 a pound for $2.35 for $9.82 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.   I sat out briefly.   The Senior and the Arts Center was closed, so there was no place to go to the bathroom, and I did not want to bother Starbucks, so I returned home.  I chatted with a relative.   I got my new J.P. Morgan Chase www.chase.com checks that are replacing the Bank of New York checks, I think this weekend when their computer switch over from BNY Online Banking - Internet Banking to www.chase.com .   I do not use many checks, but I keep them in case I ever need one to pay for something.  I chatted with a relative.   I am making up a batch of Formula Two http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   Another reason, I returned home early is that I thought I had lost my gloves, but they fell down behind the telephone chair when I moved the telephone table further towards the living room closet doors to make more room for the sofa sitting area walk through area.   I will now go through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/07 Wednesday 7:35 P.M.:  I opened a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, and I put it in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I microwaved it on one vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.   I put the soup in a large Cobalt Blue soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.   I guess possibly the reason, one does not see many potatoes in the grocery store anymore is that they do not cook evenly in microwave oven, and they might be using them in New England clam chowder.   I mostly eat rice for starch anymore.  I will now shut down the  primary computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/07 Wednesday 6:50 P.M.:  I have the $10 rebate ready to mail in to the rich people in Arizona.   Every penny counts, when one is trying to volunteer to help out poor people in Florida, whom only make about $50 for picking eight tons of oranges according to the New Yorker magazine two years ago.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/07 Wednesday 6:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I have been having problems with the primary Vista computer starting up properly and shutting down properly for the last year.  I have replaced the motherboard and other items without much help.  I put in a new power supply a year ago, so I put in one of my spare power supplies and that fixed the startup and shut down problems, so the primary computer currently has no problems.  I also put in one of the new CPU coolers, since the old one was about 27 months old.  Thus the primary computer should be ready for the upcoming hurricane or tropical weather season http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm and http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  Its current configuration is http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm or http://geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .   When I woke up this afternoon, there was a nice travel program on about Miami, Key West, and the Bahamas, so I guess some people have stayed in that area despite hurricane problems in the last years.  I will now prepare the $10 Mushkin memory mail in rebate to mail.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/21/07 Wednesday 5:40 A.M.:  There is another program on television about Antarctica.  Not much happening as far as I can tell.   I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  Walking around downtown like Zombie in the late night and early morning hours tends to wake one up, when one is on a night schedule.   I have not been reading too much tech news recently, since every tech story seems to lead to additional expense, which I can not afford.   I suppose, since I spend so much time maintaining my computer environment, I should try to put it to better use, but I have read so much in my life time, a lot of the stories tend to repeat themselves for new readers.     I recently have been trying to figure out why we are all living here.   It certainly has nothing to do with New York City.   We all just ended up here a long time ago, and we have been here ever since with a few side journeys to get away.   I guess we are an anglophile community, but from what I can tell, the English have lost their sense of purpose in terms of their position within America, since so many other foreign powers seem to be yielding major economic influence in this rather remote outpost in the world.   England is supposedly 3,456 miles away across a vast ocean, so we have to realize we really are way out in the middle of nowhere away from modern European civilization.   However, having been to Europe a number of times, it is just as cold there as here, and it seems to be quite a bit damper over there, since they are on the eastern side of the Atlantic.   They write a good story there, but from what I can tell, we have the same research information over here, if you know where to look.  There is no need to do research in Europe when a major university in the States would have the same information.   I guess a lot of younger people want to go to Europe, since they like the Film Industry viewpoint of Europe today, but Europe like a lot of other parts of the world has its problems too, and frequently one is not as well received, as one would be expected to.   Currently with the war on in Iraq, citizens of the United States of America are supposedly not as well received, when they travel overseas, so we just stay home, and we manage to get by.   Since I do not live in a very urban environment, I do not share the same viewpoints of my urban neighbors, and I tend to reflect the viewpoint of my older more experienced retired neighbors.  At my age, I do not need to be facing many new challenges, and I enjoy a simple ordinary daily routine, compared to the more hectic urban pace many of my neighboring commuters face.   Since their jobs are usually only relevant to them, we frequently do not have much in common with our working neighbors who face other responsibilities.   Still we manage to stay in touch with anyone whom might contact us, but everyone I chat with seems to be so busy so much of the time, they all seem to be on a tread mill.   However, as energy for transportation becomes more precious here in America, fewer people will be able to continue their pace on their current tread mill.   A lot of people think because they keep busy moving around, they are accomplishing something, when in effect all they are doing is moving around in circles.   Good night.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/21/07 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.:  Not much happening in the email department.   I remember as far as big rocks are concerned in relation to the asteroid collided with the earth 65 million years ago Earth Collisions Asteroids Comets Meteors supposedly causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, so possibly they might hold some interesting clues or whatever else is to be found there in Decatur, Alabama or that area in terms of that event.  Of course nobody ever listens to me.    For all I know Stone Mountain Park: Georgia theme park in Atlanta might be part of that asteroid, which I wrote last night.  Possibly I found out when I was living in Greenville, South Carolina back from January to July 1976, when I returned to Greenwich to review the Tall Ships in Manhattan with Queen Elizabeth II and a few other friends, one of our mutual family friends in Greenville, South Carolina had a son that worked in the electrical engineering department at Daniel Construction now part of www.fluor.com in Irvine, Texas where www.exxon.com manages to struggle on away from its New York roots.   I was invited by the son of the friend of the family to go on a hike in the nearby mountains.   I was very agile and thin then, and the son of the friend of the family had graduated from school in Switzerland where he did some Mountain Climbing.   He brought along his dog, which I think might have been some sort of Nordic dog, and he strapped it to his back pack, and he took me to a large rock like Stone Mountain, and it was called Caesar's head.   We climbed the near vertical incline up the side of Caesar's head, which I think might have been over 500 feet not using any ropes, just grabbing on to the cracks in then rock, and I recall the dog was happy to get to the top.   Once at the top, we walked down the path leading which was a less sharp incline.   So at one time I was more agile.  I guess it was from the years of walking that kept me more agile.    Well, anyway maybe Caesar's head is also part of the same asteroid event that hit the Yucatan 65 million years ago.   It is sort of like "Zeus' Marbles".   Technically a big asteroid could have skipped across the planet for some distance and fragmented.   Of course the local authorities say it is just the remains of the glacier.   However, I obviously live around a lot of glacier remains in this area, and other than the butte on the North Side of New Haven, Connecticut, I have not seen that many unusual rock formations.   It is just mostly worn down hills and mountains.   There is another area down south called Rock City, so possibly they might have some unusual formations, but it is hard to tell the difference between conventional wisdom and what modern technology might yield.  However, even the Parthenon in Greece is on an usual butte of sorts.  I think a butte is sort of an island left behind after a large period of flooding when the waters receded.   If they ever found the petrified dinosaur eggs from the Decatur, Alabama area, carbon dating them might yield some information.   Of course technically they could have been stashed there by a traveler from another part of the world.   The Decatur, Alabama area has a lot of red clay soil such as used in bricks, so the area is unusual, but the statue of Vulcan in Birmingham, Alabama obviously shows that they know how to make steel there.   Therefore the Red Clay might be red since it has iron in it, and possibly the iron in the clay came from some asteroid or other celestial event.  I ate two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/21/07 Wednesday 1:45 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I went out after the last note.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 3 liter Capatriti extra virgin olive oil containers for $9.99 each down from $22 each, and they only had one more left.   I also bought green bananas at .54 a pound for $1.48 for $21.46 total.    I then went downtown, but Greenwich Avenue was blocked off because the Department of Public Works was clearing off the piled off snow off Greenwich Avenue, so I parked at the Wachovia Bank parking lot on Benedict Places.   There were a few dozen trucks and front end loaders and other heavy equipment removing all the piled up snow from Greenwich Avenue with their usual expert efficiency.   Unfortunately they have not had much practice this year, but they will be ready in case we get another late season snow fall.   Thus it will be a little bit safer navigating around Greenwich Avenue for the last agile population.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   Not much happening except heavy equipment.   I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, Yes the Lights are still working out on Long Island, so I presume they have electricity out there unless they have gotten cheaper and are using their old whale oil lanterns.  I then returned home.   It seems a bit cool in the apartment now, and the inside temperature is down to 73.2 degrees in the living room, but it is a more even temperature with the electric heat being blown around with the Honeywell Tower fan.   I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 8:45 P.M.:  I shut down the Epox server, and I disconnected it, and I have it opened up and ready to install the new memory.   It will have 1.5 gigabytes of memory in it, once it is installed.  I currently owe www.newegg.com $228.95, so next month when I pay my bills, I will be as short on money as this month.   I remembered when I worked on the garage apartment out in Plandome Manor, Long Island, I installed a separate circuit breaker electrical box in the kitchen area with the garage apartment electricity connected to it.  However, it had to be connected to the primary circuit breaker box in the basement or the primary house.   I ran a heavy duty electrical cable between the two fuse boxes which ran underneath the garage apartment bathroom sub floor, however the primary circuit break box in the basement of the main house had no way to turn it off the electricity from the utility line feed from outside.   I thus installed I think it was a 50 AMP circuit breaker in the basement circuit breaker box, and then carefully connected the ground and two wires from the garage apartment into the basement circuit breaker box while it was still electrified which was a bit dangerous, but I was able to tighten the 50 AMP circuit breaker clamp down screws with a heavy insulated screw driver, so I was not electrocuted.   They did not want to pay for a professional electrician.   However, if one nailed into the garage apartment sub floor or possibly the kitchen floor at the wrong place, one might hit that heavy electrical cable.   Possibly I ran the cable along the adjacent garage apartment kitchen wall, but I can not remember.  There was not much closet space in the garage apartment.  There was a small closet in the bedroom, and a deeper one in the living room, and a kitchen pantry closet.  However, the southern facing windows on the garage apartment opened on to the garden, and there was quite a bit of light that came in through the old garage apartment windows.   However, from the outside, it did not look like anything had changed except for the new door on the back side of the garage.  I matched the stucco as best as I could on the exterior garage apartment bathroom wall, and I probably used another 10 bags of Sacrete on that wall.  I also put about four 50 pound pails of plaster on the primary area ceiling sheet rock, since it was uneven with a rough plaster finish.   I do not recall whether I put additional sheet rock nails in the ceiling sheet rock to hold the extra weight of the rough plaster, but more than likely I might have.  If the ceiling has not fallen down in 24 years, more than likely it is all right.  J.B. was suppose to help me on the project, but the only thing he actually did was come up with the floor plan, and he also painted the old pair of glass doors on the living room kitchen partition Chinese Fire Engine Red.  The glass doors had originally separated the primary house living room and dining room.   J.B. was also able to get the funding from his grandmother Vivian.  I recall, I bought a 12 inch wide by 12 foot long by 1.5 inch thick plank of oak that I cut into an 8 foot by 4 foot section with a 45 degree angle for the L shaped kitchen eating area along the wall.   It was a simple apartment, but it took quite a bit of time to get done.   I went to Norway, because I was tired of people trying to have me work on projects outside of my skill level, when I was much better trained in a professional field such as economics and computers.  I recall using the Reader's Digest www.rd.com  Home Improvement Book to see how to complete the project.   We purchased most of the supplies from the Rickels Home Improvement store in Glen Cove on Northern Boulevard, the Sears Clearance Section in Hempstead, and the Port Washington lumber yard and of course the Wright Brother's Hardware store.  J.B. did not want to pay for a professional trim cutting tool, so we used a cheap $5 trim cutting box, so the trim was not cut to exact angles.  I fixed the imperfections with putty.  About 6:30 P.M. the new memory arrived, and I put it in the Epox server.   It works just fine.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will eat the same meal as last night, and then I will shower and clean up and go out.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 5:55 P.M.:  I had two no person telephone calls today while I was asleep.   I woke up at 3 P.M..  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.   It is quite a bit warmer in the apartment today with the warmer weather today currently 42 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground , but this time of year, the sun starts to shine into the apartment windows in the late afternoon, so on a sunny day, one gets the green house effect, and it is 75.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room, with the outside thermometer showing the same temperature in the sun, so it is warmer in the apartment until after the sun goes down.   It fools one into thinking it is a warm day outside.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 9:05 A.M.:  Another Scott makes the news After the big lahar, a swarm of earthquakes - 20 Mar 2007 - News and photos from the dramatic lahar on Mt Ruapehu - nzherald.co.nz .  Partner Adopted by an Heiress Stakes Her Claim - New York Times . U.S. Goes Bananas On Chiquita - Forbes.com .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | GM mosquito 'could fight malaria' . I saw a rather large about 2.5 foot length brown and white hawk fly around our building last evening, when I was going out.   It looked quite fearsome.  I will now shut down the primary computer.  Newegg.com - mushkin 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory - Retail for $52.99 minus $20 with promo code "EMC315MUSH512 " at checkout less 1.1% discount of .37 less $2.99 preferred customer for $29.63 plus $4.99 3 day UPS shipping  plus $2.99 rush order fee for $37.61 total, and it has a $10 mail in rebate http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/rebate/SH/Mushkin20-146-219Mar15Mar2107kl09.pdf , so it will eventually cost $27.61 is UPS: Tracking Information is due to arrive today.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 8:20 A.M.:  With the new Honeywell tower fan, I lowered the living room thermostat from 80 degrees Fahrenheit to 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is still 75 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment, but it is warmer outside this morning at 42 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now go through my email.   I also made up some Ramen chicken noodle soup, my way.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 7:55 A.M.:  I personally think www.coke.com is the world's most popular brand name.   That Hebrew town west of Manhasset, Long Island is Great Neck, and it is near  the home of the United States Merchant Marine Academy for any of you sea hogs in the area at Kings Point, Long Island, and it also happens to be located on 300 Steamboat Road, which in Greenwich, Connecticut would be about where the Greenwich Train Station is.  Alas since reading a few sea novels at the Carnegie Library in Decatur, Alabama which was named after Stephen Decatur who fought the Barberry Pirates of North Africa, so it had a few sea novels, I decided it was not worth risking going to sea, because all sea adventures seem to end in disaster.  I did once tour the small Stephen Decatur Naval Museum near Lafayette Square in Washington D.C., and they seem to be amused to have a visitor, since they never seemed to get many visitors.   I guess the pirates got the rest of them.   If I am in the military, I must be in some sort of communist military, because I do not ever recall receiving a pay check except from the Languedoc retaurant in Nantucket which was owned by someone retired from the www.af.mil , so technically I would be a U.S. Air Force Dish Washer, which never paid much money.  Of course if they wanted me throw away the paper cups and plastic plates on Air Force One, technically I might not be scared to fly, since I was flying around in air planes, before I learned to ride a bicycle.  Alas I never learned how to fly one.  With the two 555 seat Air Buses, one could take the seats out, and fill them with some sort of useful cargo like medical supplies that they might need elsewhere to distribute out of Europe, but a relative told me they need a much thicker runway to land on, which most of the runways in America are not thick enough to handle.   However, I know the Germans are good at building thick roads, so maybe they would be good at building thick runways.   Something that heavy landing on a piece of concrete might break it.   For customers with a long way to fly with a lot of passengers on a regular route with thick runways Airbus A380 Aircraft Family - The A380 .   There is even one wealthy middle eastern sheik having a private one built for himself.  I hope they don't serve their passengers cinnamon.  I think the Air Bus flies by wire which means by electronics and computers, so I do not know whether it has hydraulics or not.   What bothers me in looking at this Aircraft Family - A380 Specifications is the maximum take off weight is 560 tons, and the maximum landing weight is 386 tons, so that means if the plane took off and had to land in an emergency, they would have to ditch 560 minus 386 equals 174 tons of fuel less take off consumption, which might take a while.   Of course I am sure they have figured that out into their engineering.   It does look appealing to me, since it has four engines which I consider safer than  Boeing: Commercial Airplanes - 787 Home which seems to only have two engines.   I worry about a jet with only two engines, if one fails on take off, it might not get off the ground.   However, this old model Boeing: Commercial Airplanes - 747 Home does have four engines.   This was always my favorite Factsheets : B-52 Stratofortress : B-52 Stratofortress because it had eight engines, and they were sure to deliver.  Of course they are more costly to operate, unless you happen to be a Super Power with bucks to burn.  CIO           

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 6:30 A.M.:  I ate to be redundant, but for people whom read Englosh  , the The Prince of Wales degree at University at Gordonstoun was in Paleontology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ,  which means he likes digging up old bones.  My continued interests in the petrified dinosaur eggs in Decatur, Alabama; although they have been found world wide is that they lie near about three hundred miles north of the Gulf of Mexico on the opposite end away from the Yucatan Peninsula where the asteroid collided with the earth 65 million years ago Earth Collisions Asteroids Comets Meteors supposedly causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, so possibly they might hold some interesting clues or whatever else is to be found there in Decatur, Alabama or that area in terms of that event.  Of course nobody ever listens to me.    For all I know Stone Mountain Park: Georgia theme park in Atlanta might be part of that asteroid.   Of course, you would have to take the long term perspective in terms of erosion over 65 million years and possibly it skipped off the Yucatan and landed in Georgia after doing its dirty work.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 5:55 A.M.:  Thus my last regular job on the mainland before I returned from living out on Nantucket was working for a family affiliated with the German Government for over a hundred years and also affiliated with the United States Department depending on Domestic politics and also whom have a more recent connections with China.   I already had strong Chinese connections before I met them, since I grew up around Claire Channault's people down south in Florida and Alabama.   We use to have a Chinese neighbor in Alabama that taught piano lessons.   I also went to the Taft School The Taft School with a few prominent Chinese Americans.   We were Ambassador Bush's family's neighbors here in Greenwich, Connecticut when he was the first U.S. Ambassador to China.   I left www.lfc.edu with Hurley Haywood who was General Haywood's grandson who was the first American General to deal with Mao Zedong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .   The last time I chatted with http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , he had a Chinese roommate named John going to Columbia University www.columbia.edu and Fred was reading 600 year old books in Chinese, I presume from the Morgan Library The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, founded by Pierpont Morgan or the Kress Collection Samuel H. Kress Foundation .  Maybe Fred Von Mieres is Frederick W. Beinecke Frederick Beinecke Profile - Forbes.com , but that might be stretching the matter, but they also have a collection at Beinecke Library -- Beinecke Guide (Western) , and they also are famous in the 1970s for buying up the waterfront in Nantucket.   I think they also have a nice house here in Greenwich, and I used to collect S&H green stamps.  I also found the missing Ming vase in the Lanqueduc Cabana in Nantucket which was missing from the desk at the Jared Coffin House across the street.  One of the first Chinese computer people I dealt with in home computer parts was Ming up in Hamden, Connecticut at www.hmcomp.com .   Other Chinese connections are that somebody that looked like Mao Zedong and Margaret Thatcher once showed up at the same time in the same pub in Greenwich Village in the 1970s when they were stopping over in Manhattan when traveling elsewhere.   Also J.B.'s youngest sister married a Chinese silk merchant, and she has worked for China airlines since 1982.  www.lfc.edu had a Chinese physicist name Dr. Jung whom developed holography.  I have a Chinese neighbor who teaches at www.yale.edu when he has transportation, and he supposedly has a PHD in computers from University of Oxford .   Of course, for all I know Jimmy Eldert might be Chinese too, but he has not figured it out yet, since he travels so much.   Of course back in Alabama around 1957, we got interested in China, when I started digging a hole in our front yard to plant a tree, and all of our neighbors said I was digging a hole to China.  Well nearby we did find petrified dinosaur eggs in the Walter Jackson Elementary School ditch on the southwest side of the play ground near where the Chinese piano teacher lived near the small pine forest.  A petrified dinosaur egg as I recall is about the size of an American football, but not as long, and considerably heavier.    As I recall we found a couple dozen of them, but we broke about half of them in half with other ones to look at the yellow petrified yokes.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 5:00 A.M.:  I also put a double layer of 5/8th inch thick sheet rock on the outer inside apartment walls to keep it warmer.  I recall I did not use the old rusted iron pipes leading to the garage through the solid block of concrete.   I ran new copper pipes from the basement through the bathroom sub floor into the bathroom and the kitchen area.   I was able to find a 5 inch PCV adapter to thread into the existing sewer connection in the basement for the sewage pipe to lead into instead of a cast iron pipe and lead seal.   The PCV pipes should hold, and I used plumbers cement on the 5 inch PCV adapter into the sewer pipe.   Hopefully they never got any sewer gas in the basement.   I recall the previous owner of the house in the 1930s was a German puppet maker or marionette maker.   That is a wood doll on strings.   I saw a lot of people in the area that looked German, but Manhasset was founded by the Dutch and had a Dutch Reform church, so there could have been Dutch in the area.   There was even a Harlem Savings Bank named after Harlem in the Netherlands.  One of the last things I did was plant tulip bulbs, so since it was late in the season, I was surprised they came up the following spring.   I use La Paz pebbles on the sidewalk surface which is similar to the aggregate around the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, so hopefully the current residents never slipped on the sidewalk.   Possibly they wore off over time.  J.B. had the terracotta tile taken off the bedroom room and replaced with asphalt, since it was to expensive to replace the terracotta tile.   I think the primary garage of living room and kitchen space also had a terracotta roof as did the main house, and that was a lot of weight on the garage.  Also I cut a vent in the end of the garage attic for ventilation in the summer, and I put a box ban up there, since they could not afford a regular attic exhaust fan.  I installed a small door on it that one could close in the winter to keep the place warmer, but it was hard getting into the attic since there was not enough room in the ceiling joists to put in a folding attic stairs, one had to climb up on a ladder through a trap door, which I as able to do back in 1983.   Since I was working that entire period except a day off at Christmas, I did not know much of what else was going on in the world.  That following spring, after going to Norway, where they had six feet of snow on the ground when I arrived a couple of weeks before St. Patrick's Day, which somehow melted in a few days while I was there, I stopped by to visit the garage apartment briefly and see J.B. before I returned to Nantucket for my last summer as a dishwasher.  In December I moved back to Greenwich, Connecticut after leaving Nantucket and visiting Toronto, Canada.  I knew my other friend out there in Sands Point, Long Island was living out there, but I did not call him for a couple of years, until I became accustomed to this area again.   When I first moved back here, and I did not have a car, and I got use to walking downtown, there was a whole fleet of black SAAB sedans moving around this area all of the time.  Of course as I have mentioned before that first Christmas back in Greenwich, Connecticut, I was able to buy a package of Camel cigarettes at the Chinese restaurant next to the Y.M.C.A., and I ate a Turkey Croissant at Rue De Croissant across from the Greenwich Train station which until recently was run by a family from Argentina, and I saw Cliff Robertson and  Dina Merrill there whom I had last seen down in Key West back in the winter of 1978, before I met J.B. when they were having cocktails at the Fogarty House, because I guess it was too cold in Palm Beach.  Back then they were about the only people down there that seem familiar with Florida versus the tourist perspective.   Michael the bartender at the Fogarty house was also the bartender at the Languedoc in that period, so I think they got their Michaels mixed up.  Just like I was suppose to know the Grannis family from Lake Forest, Illinois in Nantucket, and I ended up working for the Grennons from Concorde, Massachusetts and Stowe, Vermont.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 4:15 A.M.:  I recall using over 50 fifty pound bags of Secrete concrete mix to build the foundation wall for the garage apartment bathroom, the foundation wall for the north wall of the garage that the old garage door sits on that was caulked and filling in the gaps around the 4" by 4" inch pressure treated base sill of the garage apartment that the studs sat on, and at some points where the exterior wood was eaten away by termites, underneath the outside stucco which was about the only think holding up the garage, I also filled it in with concrete.   I think I used another 25 bags or more of Secrete concrete to construct the entrance stairs, and the small side walk leading of the smaller side walk around the back side of the house.  I can not do anything about the noise from the commuter train, but time might fix that, since there is an old wooden railroad trestle on the west side of Manhasset leading towards the next town west over a valley, and since it was built in the late 19th Century, some day it might need to be replaced.   However, I do not think many of the commuters notice it in their daily rides.   My Uncle from Texas and my recently diseased Aunt lived in the next town west during World War II, when he was in the Merchant Marine.  J.B. said that town was all Hebrew people, but I do not think my Aunt and Uncle were Hebrew.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 3:35 A.M.:  I installed the XP Professional updates on the two desktop PCs in the living room, and of course the third Desktop PC in the living room had Vista Ultimate.   I also installed the XP updates on the Toshiba laptop that has XP Home.   They all seem to be running fine.   I do not leave the FIC computer running anymore, since I am running the server off the Epox computer.   However, the Epox computer takes so few hits, I am wandering whether I should bother running it anymore, and just leave the Geocities Server going at http://geocities.com/mikelscott/ .   I noticed today on the Epox stats Summary (Michael Louis Scott's web site) under Recent Visitor Activity [Michael Louis Scott's web site] that a couple of people looked at this old web page Rope, Hemp, Cannibis, Marijuna in North America Expose .   I can assure you I do not smoke hemp or marijuana.   If you looked at my over 10,000 pages of information and web logs on my server, it is obvious that I have been keeping busy with my volunteer activity for the last 11 years or so that I have been on the internet.   Possibly someone is interested in getting rope for a large boat.   My research on the subject was sketchy, and I am not a botanist.  I have a friend that is more of an expert on botany, but alas he has been quite scarce for the last few years, so possibly he is busy with other matters.  He is known my the nickname J.B., but alas he last showed up here with Virginia license plates on his car, and since his father worked for the United States government state department, I figured he probably got a job in government, so he does not like chatting with unemployed civilians anymore.  Whatever, the case, I am sure there are some Chinese keeping an eye on him, because of his family's Chinese connections, where ever he might be.   There are 50 million Chinese living outside of China, so unlike the U.S. Government Intelligence agencies with about 50 thousand people, the Chinese frequently know more, they just never tell anyone anything, since by the forces of numbers they see more around the world.  J.B.'s maternal grandfather was a Canadian geologist that explored North America for the oil companies in the old days, so he knew quite a bit about geology and the layout of North America.  His maternal grandmother's family owned John G. Simmons insurance company that insured the oil refineries in the New York area, and they lived in a neighborhood out in Plandome Manor, Long Island, New York, where there was a Getty gasoline station nearby in Manhasset, Long Island, his maternal grandmother's family the West family were the first United States ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, so the Arab Sheiks use to visit Plandome Manor in the late 1940s, and possibly even the Getty family might have had a home out there.  The Plandome Manor area looks sort of like the Millbrook area of Greenwich, Connecticut, but Plandome Manor only has a train station the second to the last stop on the Port Washington line of the Long Island railroad with a small post office.   Since his maternal great grandmother's family were part of the Kaiser of Germany's consular staff in Manhattan before World War I, I built the garage apartment interior renovation, but I tried to treat the place like an embassy trying to regard any historical details that might have been intact in the house.  John was most proud of the Japanese Maple? version of the tree that blooms in North America at Easter time with the four white petals with the red cross formed on the white petals.   They were also very common in the American version down south.   We did cut off a section of the old apple tree which was rotten, but half of it was still growing.  I advised them not to get rid of the old oil furnace, since it seemed to be a classic well made machine if properly maintained.  It put out so much heat the basement was always warm, and I put a fan in the canning room in the basement adjacent to the garage apartment vent, to blow the heat from the basement into the garage apartment.   Knowing Vivian vacationed in Tobago, and knowing that I met J.B. down in Key West, I figured they wanted the garage apartment to be warm.   I put a foot of insulation on the north wall of the garage apartment building it out into the interior.   I put a foot of pink Owens Corning insulation also in the attic.   I put 2 inch thick Styrofoam underneath floor in between the joists.    I put regular 3.5 inch thick insulation around the rest of the walls.   I caulked all of the air leaks around the old garage with 20 year guaranteed caulk.   I also put storm windows on the door and the windows.   The garage also had a 25 foot long heavy cast iron steam radiator, which I partially covered with a shelf with ventilation around it.   I also found a new bleeder valve for it at Wright Brother's Hardware store in Manhasset, Long Island, so if the garage apartment is still intact, it should be a very warm 500 square foot garage apartment for someone from a warmer climate.  The former father was also stationed in Thailand, so obviously he knew other people from warmer parts of the world.   I also put a six foot long electric base board heater in the bedroom.  There was a through the wall air conditioner from Sears.   The only problem with the apartment that I knew was they were on a limited budget, so they would not let me put in water proof plywood on the apartment floor before the carpet was laid, except in the bathroom and possibly the kitchen area, so if the composite flooring on the main living room and bedroom floor got wet, it might deteriorate very fast.   However, I anticipated that problem, so when I installed the base boards and molding, I left them about 5/8 inch above the floor, so the composite wood could easily removed and replaced with water proof plywood.  I think the flooring was tacked down with wood screws too.   Also when I took down the old plaster, I put in new termite proof pressure treated 4 inch by 4 inch footings around the exterior of the building connecting them to the 2" by 4" studs with angle irons, and also parts of the base of the studs had to be replaced because of termite damage, so if the apartment roof settled anymore, it would be on a firm foundation.   I also added cement to fill any voids along the footings.  The house obviously had major termite damage in the garage, but I am not sure about the main part of the house.    The garage roof was bowed in from where the garage had settled from the termite damage and the constant vibration from the commuter train over the years.  I installed a natural gas stove with a large tank outside to feed it, but they later took it out because, the natural gas tank made them feel uncomfortable.   I also installed the heavier gauge wiring I think 10 instead of 14 or vice a versa.   Basically I was paid about $8,000 or $1.15 an hour for the work back in 1982 from April 1982 to February 1983, when I tried to move to Norway with my earnings.   I was in such pain with my arthritis, I was taking 8 to 10 Tylenol arthritis pain pills a day to do the work.  So if you divide 8000 by 1.15 equals about 7000 hour work.   I still have the time slips that I kept track of.   However, since they were family friends, and since I had stayed in the daughters apartment in Manhattan for about a year and a half, I was also doing it to pay them back.  However, having done it, I lost all interest in construction, because it was too painful for me personally with arthritis.   There is also low water pressure in the kitchen, since the cast iron pipes through the solid poured concrete foundation underneath the powder room downstairs that they the kitchen water was connected to had very low water pressure because they were rusted.  I sometimes thought there might be an old vintage Mercedes hidden in the maid room bathroom foundation.   It did not make sense why somebody would pour such a large solid foundation of about 5 foot by 10 foot and four to six feet deep, unless something was hidden in it.   However, possibly it was to reduce vibration from the commuter trains, which one does not notice after time.  What the resident of the house never seemed to notice was how many thousands of people got off the train there, and loitered around the train station until the returned train came by on its return.   I even recall reading the local paper out there that a member of the Kennedy family was married out there while I was working out there.  I do not recall which one, because there are so many of them.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/20/07 Tuesday 12:50 A.M.:   Now that the Chinese have money after all of these years, I was wandering if those old Chinese railroad bonds that everyone use to have in the old days are now worth any money.  I went out after the last note.   I helped a neighbor get her car started which barely started without a jump start, and then I rocked it a bit to get it unstuck out of the ice and snow, and then I parked it in the adjacent cleared parking space.   I chatted with another neighbor.  I then went downtown, and I stopped by the ATM machine at the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York, and I deposited the $15 PNY memory rebate check, and then I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I walked by the Lexus dealership, and I viewed the bright red Lexus IS | Overview 250 that they had in their showroom window.   It looks quite sporty, and it looks like a very practical car.   The Lexus dealership maintenance garage here is opened 24 hours a day on weekdays, since they do a lot of leasing work.   The Greenwich train station is warm and comfortable when it is opened.    They were having another small peace demonstration in front of the Greenwich Post Office with about 24 people attending.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 16 ounce jar of lightly salted dry roasted CVS peanuts for $1.99.  I sat on the bench across the street from the Gingerman restaurant, and I ate about 1/6th of the peanuts.   I then completed my walk, and I sat out for a while.   I then used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I told them about there being a Starbucks at the Forbidden Palace in Peking, China.  I think the Forbidden Palace has 9,999 rooms, so they must have run short on money to make it an even 10,000, so I guess one could considered the adjacent Starbucks, the 10,000th room.   I next drove down by the waterfront, and I viewed the cold damp view of Long Island Sound this time of year.   The lights still seem to be on out on Long Island.   I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $9 self service premium gasoline for $3.139 a gallon for 38.2 miles driving in the last nine days at an average of 13.4 miles per gallon driving an average of 11 miles per hour.   I then went by the  Stop and Shop, and I chatted with somebody from Corsica and another person from Jamaica.   I bought a six pack of boneless breasts of chicken for $1.69 a pound for $5.36 and two Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound for .42 for $5.78 total.    I then returned home, and I chatted with a relative.   I was out of seasoned bread crumbs, so I took a four ounce tube of Ritz premium crackers, and I threw them in the Cuisine Art with a generous amount of Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, and Oregano, and I ground them into bread crumbs, and I put them in the 4C seasoned bread crumb container.   I opened up the package of six boneless chicken breasts, and I put four of them in a large flat Rubbermaid container.   I then rinsed off the other two in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.   I then put a thin coat of olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish, and on a separate plate, I rubbed the bottom side of the boneless chicken breasts with olive oil, and then I spread a thick coating of Ritz seasoned bread crumbs on it, and then I did the same with the top side and the other boneless chicken breasts.   I then put them in the Pyrex pie dish, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I also made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm to which I also added two teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and Old Bay Seasoning and chicken bullion seasoning.  I ate half, and I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I also steamed in a three quart Revere pot with steamer tray and lid about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli spears for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat,  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/19/07 Monday 5:35 P.M.:  Europeans invading Airbus A380 makes big statement in U.S. - CNN.com .  The Chinese have big bucks     http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2007/03/18/

yoon.invest.trillion.cnn&wm=11 .   The Honeywell www.honeywell.com fan arrived about 5 P.M..  I installed its base.  I put it on the living room windows shelf to the right side of the living room air conditioner which this time of year is covered up and insulated.   I set it on low and I have it set to swivel 90 degrees.   Thus on the left rotation it blows air along the area above the electric radiators rotating to the right to perpendicular into the room, so it is blow more of the air from above the electric radiators out into the room, so hopefully the apartment will be warmer and less expensive to heat.  I left the Honeywell tower fan box on the back of the down sofa for now.  I moved two vases in front of the air conditioner.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/19/07 Monday 4:55 P.M.:   I went to bed after the last message.   I got up at 1 P.M..  I picked up my mail downstairs.   I received the $15 mail in rebate check on the PNY memory.  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I chatted with somebody from Nuance - Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 out in Iowa.  He told me they still have a whole lot of corn out in Iowa.   CORN GRAINS, corn, ethanol market, e85, biofuels market, fuel ethanol market .   At Commodities - Latest Trading Prices and Data from CNNMoney , it says corn is only about $4 per bushel, and I told the person from Iowa with what it costs to grow, produce, and distribute corn, it should be more like $20 per bushel.  My order on the on the Duracraft DY-012 Tower Fan from Newegg.com - Honeywell DY-012 Duracraft Tower Fan - Retail for $25.99 less .29 1.1% discount plus $5.64 three day UPS shipping for $31.34 total, tracking is UPS: Tracking is out for delivery.   UPS tends to come later on Mondays since it is busier after the weekend.  Tracking on the Newegg.com - mushkin 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory - Retail for $52.99 minus $20 with promo code "EMC315MUSH512 " at checkout less 1.1% discount of .37 less $2.99 preferred customer for $29.63 plus $4.99 3 day UPS shipping  plus $2.99 rush order fee for $37.61 total, and it has a $10 mail in rebate http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/rebate/SH/Mushkin20-146-219Mar15Mar2107kl09.pdf , so it will eventually cost $27.61 is UPS: Tracking Information .   I turned off the Lasko fan, and I disconnected it, and I put it behind the Sony television in the living room.   I have the area set up to install the Honeywell Tower fan.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/19/07 Monday 4:20 A.M.:  I was just thinking maybe the United States of America government if it is able to win the war with Iraq will then invade Turkey and then invade up into Russia where nobody will notice, since it is such a big country.   It is hard to tell what is going on with the war, since not much news is being reported back here.   I guess the news organizations can not afford to maintain news coverage of the war anymore.   Of course, my local Cablevision channel might be programmed with children's programming, since mostly children watch television around here.   Last night I noticed a truck moving someone in or out of my old building area on the waterfront, so possibly we have new neighbors in that neighborhood.   There are still a lot of people around here, but on a night time schedule there are not many people around, since there are not many ways to make money at night.   Thus most of the daytime people are out, since they like to make contacts to make money.  Unfortunately, I have always been a night owl, so I have a different perspective than the daytime people.   Whatever, really goes on around here, probably revolves more around the daytime people, since they are making the local communities polices and strategies.  From what I can tell, as I have said before, about half the town's population is under 16 years old, and they tend to keep the older generation busy maintaining the town, so the younger generation can watch children's television programming.   Basically, not much ever happens in the suburbs, since people spend so much time going back and forth into Manhattan, that by the time they get out here, all they seem to do is disappear into the wood work.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/19/07 Monday 3:15 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative out west, and they recently have been having 4.5 earthquakes around the Humboldt fault line out around San Francisco, California.   I guess with the war on, they do not report much of the news anymore.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/19/07 Monday 2:35 A.M.:   I watched the last hour of a program on www.fox.com about Winston Churchill.   At the end of the program, they mentioned he was half American, since his mother was Jenny Randolph from Virginia.  Perhaps, since the Scott's are an old Virginia family, maybe the Randolphs are related to the Scotts and thus the Scotts are distantly related to Winston Churchill.  One of his most memorable lines were "Never Give In !" .   I think it was last summer or a couple of summers ago, I met a young fellow on the waterfront on Steamboat Road from England wearing a New York Yankee's baseball jacket.   He was taking pictures with a digital camera, and I drove him around the waterfront in Greenwich out to Tod's Point, and then I showed him the Greenwich Country Club http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/Greenwich-Country-Club.jpg where there is suppose to be a golf trophy dedicated to Queen Victoria.   I have a book here on Winston Churchill, but at the moment I do not have the time to read it.   From my perspective, the country is in relatively good shape.   We still have plenty of food here in America, if you can afford it.  We still manage to drive our cars around occasionally despite the higher prices of petrol.   We still are able to keep the lights on, and the basic services seem to be still maintained.   Of course here in America, we are never in a rush, since old time Americans have been here so long, we never think in terms of going elsewhere or even moving elsewhere, but we are aware of our friends and allies elsewhere in the world, and perhaps they have come here so often, they seem to forget about us, whom have been here for so many years.   Since my branch of the Scott family seems to have physically larger people or whom I am one of the smaller ones, I enjoy seeing the new European arrivals whom are more my size compared to the rather large Americans in the middle of the country whom never think about going anywhere.  Having seen about half of the United States of America and parts of Eastern Canada, I am well aware of how large a country and area North America is.   We have ample resources to survive here for an indefinite time if the country is well managed, and with higher prices of fuel, we simply have to manage our inventories and means of production better, so hopefully we will continue our relatively high standard of living compared to other world economies.   I am sure there are still substantial people whom have a whole ham, roast beef, baked chicken or turkey, leg of lamb, or some other nutritious meal every day, but frequently physically bigger people are not seen walking around the fashion street of Greenwich Avenue.  Still judging by the grocery stores, there are still some large people somewhere that eat a lot of food here in America.   Since I am on the low income level of this rather wealthy town, I do not always reflect the reality of the others around me.   However, from what I can tell, some of the local citizens have such large comfortable homes, they never leave the comfort of their homes to see what their neighbors are up to, so from their comfortable points of view, the town pretty much remains the same.   However, since they have economic influence, as the prices of certain fixed items that they consume go up, they just simply raise the price of the goods and services that they provide within the community.   It is not like the good old days of "Wage and Price Controls", when Richard Nixon was President.   I would imagine a few people here might be a little poorer in the immediate future when they have to start paying their Federal Taxes to the Internal Revenue Service Internal Revenue Service .   Well, from what I know from the internet, the local business community seems to be prospering so much, they are always away traveling on vacation, and it would seem to me, if they spent more time working here, the local business community would be even more prosperous.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/19/07 Monday 1:35 A.M.:  I watched some television, and not much is happening on the tube.   I guess it is programmed for anyone whom happens to be up all night.   I ate the same meal as last night.  I had to reheat the burrito mixture in the General Electric microwave oven on three vegetables cycles.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 11:45 P.M.:  I put away my laundry.   For some reason the light in on in the second floor Cablevision electronics room next to the elevator.   I do not recall it being on, when I came up from putting the laundry in the washer machines.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 11:05 P.M.:   Mercedes' fish-inspired car - CNN.com  .  Donald Trump www.trump.com  was on a  www.fox.com ? broadcast today saying President Bush is the worst President www.whitehouse.gov we have ever had.   He thinks the next President will be from New York.   I would like to strongly disagree.   When I lived in New York for 10 years, we were never paid for the work we did, and a good meal once a week was macaroni and cheese or pasta with clam sauce.   I think I am doing much better out here in Connecticut with President Bush as President.   If you want to starve to death, you might vote for a President from New York, but from a simple Midwestern Republican point of view out here, we are doing much better with President Bush.   Maybe the Mafia is doing better in New York, but I am not sure about the ordinary citizens.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 10:35 P.M.:  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the first hard to the second hard drive before going to bed this morning,  I woke up at noon.   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I surfed the internet.   I went back to bed.   I woke up a little bit in the afternoon, and I watched television, and I ate a tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and two scoops of butter pecan ice cream, and I went back to bed.  I finally woke up at 8:30 P.M..   I chatted with a relative.   I put clean linens on the bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I have 30 minutes to go on the dry cycle of two loads of laundry.   I threw out the garbage, and I also threw out the defective Lasko fan.   I guess I am back on a night schedule, and it is up all night with Michael.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 4:55 A.M.:   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Action plan for killer asteroids .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Crater' spied under California .  Experts warn of identity theft risk - CNN.com .  Huge ice deposits cover south pole of Mars - CNN.com .  Fujitronic FF-606 Tower Fan with Remote Control .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I finished off the jar of peanuts.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/17/07:

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 2:55 A.M.:  Hour of Power » Guest Survey 1.0 .  2006 Etna Eruption .  Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Catania .  VII2 conference homepage .  VII2 conference homepage .  Volcano Discovery Tours - adventure & study travel for small groups / custom-design & geologic excursions .  Stromboli volcano photos: lava flows and eruption in March 2007 .  FRYS.com | Microsoft Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Full OEM $186 .  On the Duracraft DY-012 Tower Fan from Newegg.com - Honeywell DY-012 Duracraft Tower Fan - Retail for $25.99 less .29 1.1% discount plus $5.64 three day UPS shipping for $31.34 total, tracking is UPS: Tracking Information .  James F. Luhr obituary .  I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 2:25 A.M.:  I ate the last two scoops of peach ice cream.  I will now go through my email.  I have heard about this new item recently Lexus IS | Overview .  They start at about $32,000 .   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/18/07 Sunday 1:10 A.M.:  One can fax with the Samsung all purpose printer, copier, fax, and scanner by printing from a document on the computer with the "SmartThru PC Fax" option in the printer option, and if the machine is turned on, it will send the fax through it.   I tested if by sending the http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm document of twenty pages to 5 different groups.   It takes about a page a minute, so the internet is a lot faster, but sometimes, one needs to fax.   Basically Fred was a fairly well organized individual with all of the activities he pursued, so more than likely if he were still alive, he would still be fairly well organized.   Since he worked in the more creative field, being organized was relevant to his creativity.   Whatever the case, I suppose since he had seen some of the more conservative homes in the New York area, he knew how the "Old Guard" lived, and since his godmother Helen Kress Williams was one of the primary patrons of the New York Antique show at the Park Avenue Armory, more than likely whatever he managed to accomplish in the decorating business included antiques, before he joined the "New Age".   From what I can tell, Helen also lectured to the Colonial Williamsburg Society with Fred in tow, so more than likely some cousins down in Virginia, or that area have tried to replicate some historical residences.  When I visited the area in 1964, I particularly like the old Brick House on the James River or Potomac River, called "Carter Hall", or it was similar to Carter Hall.   Of course Mrs. Barclay might remember what houses she showed us.   Of course back in the old days, it was cheaper to maintain a large house particularly if it were in a rural area.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/17/07 Saturday 9:40 P.M.:  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I dressed warmly.   I chatted with a relative.   I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I cleaned off the snow and frozen ice off my car which had melted a little bit with the warmer weather today.   I drove downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought an Ice scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.   During my walk, I found a quarter by the corner in front of Bank of America.   I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought a 12 double roll pack of Cottonelle toilet tissue for $5.49 and a 12 pack of English muffins for $1.99  plus .33 tax for $7.81 total.  I completed my walk.   There did not seem to be any Irish around celebrating St. Patrick's Day, so I guess they have all gone back to Ireland.  The Gingerman restaurant had paper shamrocks in their window.   With drinking and driving laws around here anymore, it does not pay to drink and drive.   I next drove down by the waterfront.   I then returned home.   I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Burrito Filling or http://geocities.com/mikelscott/burrito.htm , and I ate half or about 16 ounces in a bowl, and I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator to eat tomorrow.   I also put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli spears in a Revere pot with an inch of water and steamer tray and lid, and I steamed them on medium high electric burner heat for 15 minutes.  I put the drained vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   It takes about the same time to make the burrito mixture too.   I think a burrito is a soft corn shell or an uncooked taco.  I will now go through my email.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/17/07 Saturday 10:40 A.M.:  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go back to bed.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/17/07 Saturday 9:40 A.M.:   U.S.: Winter was warmest on record - CNN.com .   I ordered with this promo Slickdeals.net , the Newegg.com - mushkin 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory - Retail for $52.99 minus $20 with promo code "EMC315MUSH512 " at checkout less 1.1% discount of .37 less $2.99 preferred customer for $29.63 plus $4.99 3 day UPS shipping  plus $2.99 rush order fee for $37.61 total, and it has a $10 mail in rebate http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/rebate/SH/Mushkin20-146-219Mar15Mar2107kl09.pdf , so it will eventually cost $27.61.   I will put it in the Epox computer, so it will have 1.5 gigabytes of memory.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/17/07 Saturday 8:55 A.M.:  Earlier this morning, I ate two scoops of peach ice cream.  There was a program on television about the Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum: Welcome .  Fred's http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm parents before they died in a car wreck in 1954 use to own the mansion on the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights next to J.P. Morgan's mansion, so possibly somebody in Brooklyn would know more about Fred's family.   It seems strange to me that although he supposedly died, people keep showing up looking like him.  Helen Kress Williams was also the head trustee of the Brooklyn Museum, so possibly they were all members of the New York City Bloomsbury Group Bloomsbury Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  Verizon high speed Chinese internet Verizon Online – 住家服務 .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/17/07 Saturday 8:30 A.M.:  The Vista Complete PC backup to DVD still will not work.   I also did a regular Vista backup from the C: drive to the D: drive along with the Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   The regular backup took some time.   I rested from 2 A.M. until now.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 11:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I threw out some packaging material and small shipping boxes.   I have the area in front of the inside bedroom window a little bit better organized.   When one lives in a small apartment, one has to constantly straighten up the place and keep everything in order, so the overall appearance does not get too cluttered.   It is still sleeting out side.   Sleet is freezing rain.  Windows Vista: Help and How-to .   In tweaking the apartment, I moved the picture of President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush to the wall behind the right primary computer monitor, and I moved the www.whitehouse.gov letter from that location to the right above the sweater closet.    During foul weather, when one is stuck inside, one can always tweak one's environment.  I ran "msconfig", and in the Services, I unchecked two Nero and one Ulead program, which might be interfering with the Vista Complete PC backup to DVD.   I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I will then try to do one to DVD to see if it might now work.   I ate a few handfuls of peanuts.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 8:50 P.M.:   Vista on a stick: How to flash install your OS .  Not much happening in the email department.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 8:15 P.M.:  I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with a relative.  If you do not feel like living and working in the lower 48 states, there is free land available in Alaska where it goes down to 60 degrees below zero in the winter 21st century homesteading: Free land in Alaska - CNN.com .  They have a U.S. Air Force base nearby www.af.mil where one could help defend the country against grizzly bears.   I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 7:05 P.M.:  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe, and I also added a beef bullion cube and a teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce.  I put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns in a Revere pot with steamer tray and an inch of water and lid, and I steamed them for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat.  For the last 10 minutes I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan with a few pads of margarine, and I heated it medium high electric burner heat.   I then put in an eight ounce hamburger in the frying pan and a medium large onion peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices, and I seasoned the burger and onions on both sides with garlic pepper, ground black pepper, and chicken and meat seasoning, and I cooked them on medium to medium high electric burner heat flipping them frequently for about 4 minutes a side, and for the last two minutes, I put on a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and on top of the burger I put two 3/16th inch by 1.25 inch by 4 inch thick slices of New York State extra sharp cheddar cheese, and I put a lid on, and I steamed the cheese for a couple of minutes.   I then put the vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put the burger on a dinner plate with the sautéed onions over them, and I put half the rice on the dinner plate and the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  It is suppose to quit snowing 8 A.M. tomorrow morning, and since it is below freezing it will be snowing all night with a layer of sleet underneath it, so it will definitely not be safe to drive until the roads are plowed and sanded.  Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  I picked up my mail earlier today.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 5:35 P.M.:  I organized the software CDs on the sideboard last night before going to bed.   I put the lose software CDs with the betas on the top shelf in the small white bookcase at the bedroom entrance.   I put one of the small display stands on top of the small white bookcase with the small light from on top of the Panasonic television in the bathroom now on top of the small white bookcase.  I moved a few of the books from the small white bookcase to the side left side board shelf.   I put a  couple of the candles with holders on top of the CD case on the side board shelf.  I moved the emergency light to the power strip on the left hand side of the side board.  I went to bed at 6 A.M..   I had a telephone call with no one at 9:30 A.M. this morning.  I slept until noon.  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 1/3rd mixture of orange juice with a 1/3rd mixture of grape juice and with a 1/3rd mixture of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 2:30 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I watered the plants.  I threw out the two dead poinsettia plants from the mahogany bureau in the living room.   I set up the candle holders with the small hurricane lamps in the poinsettia plants place.   I put white vinegar in the scent bowl in the living room.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  We have a new neighbor moving in on our floor wing.   There is about two inches of snow, and it seems to be sleeting right now.  I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 3:05 A.M.:    The Tuner Movie channel recently has been showing vintage British World War II movies.   Mrs. Miniver Mrs. Miniver (1942) at Reel Classics .  Well, I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the year 2007 version of Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Charles Babbage .  There use to be a Babbage's software store at the Stamford, Connecticut mall, so there might be some computer people over there.   For the first year in Connecticut back in 1961, we lived in Stamford, Connecticut for a year before we moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1962.   We use to drive to car pool to school in Greenwich with a British family whom owned grey Chevrolet Corvair, while our family owned a turquoise 1959 Nash Rambler, so we were not very upscale by Greenwich, Connecticut standards, when we build a house in Baldwin Farms North off Round Hill Road for $50,000.  However, the new house did have central air conditioning which was uncommon in Connecticut at the time.  The British family had their own computer software company called "Online Decisions" which had offices at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.  Thus before invading the IBM territory in Greenwich, we knew some computer people, and I would imagine in Decatur, Alabama before Connecticut with www.nasa.gov nearby in Huntsville, Alabama, we might have been around a few computer pioneers.   The reason so much high technology was in Alabama at the time was Senator John Sparkman from Alabama was the senior senator on the U.S. Senate defense committee, so he obviously put some Pentagon spending in Alabama.   Alas, after all of these years of high technology, we might have seen some improvement around here in the government funding area.   About all I hear about in terms of local companies in Greenwich, Connecticut area from the past is Pitney Bowes and Electrolux.  A relative today whom is retired in Florida, claims the Electrolux service person from Stewart, Florida charged $165 for tampering with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner that did not have much suction, and the problem turned out it needed a new bag, which the service person did not replace.  I know Pitney Bowes used to make microfilm reading machinery in World War II.   Well, from what it seems like around here, we are still in the Cold War in the same sort of way as in the past.  Bon Soir.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/16/07 Friday 1:05 A.M.:  I updated http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm or http://geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm .   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/15/07 Thursday 11:55 P.M.:    Why is gasoline cheaper in Illinois away from the Middle East AAA Chicago: Fuel Prices Climb Sharply in March ?   This is the bike that I bought for a $100 with free shipping last June 2006 Amazon.com: Mongoose Inland Dual Suspension Mountain Bike: Sports & Outdoors , and it is out of stock here Target : Mongoose Inland 26" Mountain Bike .  Similar one ships from Connecticut for $130 and $27 shipping at Amazon.com: Used and New: Mongoose Domain Dual-Suspension Mountain Bike to get this one Amazon.com: Mongoose Domain Dual-Suspension Mountain Bike: Sports & Outdoors .  This is the best deal, I found if you need one Amazon.com: Mongoose Syncome Full Suspension Mountain Bike 2004 (Closeout Price!): Sports & Outdoors at 53% off retail price.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/15/07 Thursday 11:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  It is dry in orange juice country TCPalm: Local News Water managers impose more limits on drawing from Lake Okeechobee  .   I ordered one of these Duracraft DY-012 Tower Fan from Newegg.com - Honeywell DY-012 Duracraft Tower Fan - Retail for $25.99 less .29 1.1% discount plus $5.64 three day UPS shipping for $31.34 total.   I have two Lasko box fan to blow around the heat coming up along the living room window wall, but one is broken, and the other has run continuously for two winters, so I ordered the tower fan to replace it, and I will keep the good Lasko fan for backup.   Since I have a false ceiling with about four to five feet of air space above it, I use the fan to circulate the heat from the electric radiators along the base of the outside living room wall with windows around the apartment instead of letting it all rise into the false ceiling area.   I keep the heat very low in the bedroom around 55 to 60 degrees, and I do not use the bathroom heater.   Using a fan which costs pennies a day to run saves me over $25 a month in electric heat costs, when I checked it about two years ago, so it would be more today, and it provides a more even heat through out the apartment.  I took a three ounce package of Ramen chicken noodle soup, and I put the uncooked noodles in the bottom of a one quart Rubbermaid container with a slit in the lid, and I added the flavor package contents on top of it, and I added slightly over a cup of water to cover the noodles, and I put the lid with the slit in it on the container, and I heated it on one beverage cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and then I stirred the chicken noodle mixture, and I let it stand covered for another minute, and then I put it in a soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  It is a quick inexpensive snack meal on a cold damp night, which since I paid $3 last week for two 12 package boxes of the Ramen chicken noodle mixture, it costs about 12.5 cents a serving plus the cost of electricity.  One of my associates reminded me the flavor package has MSG in it though.   I have the living room thermostat set at 80 degrees Fahrenehit, which on the colder days leave the living room at about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, but with the warmer outside temperatures recently, it is currently 76 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/15/07 Thursday 9:30 P.M.:   Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation .  The new www.ge.com 15 watt clear bent tip bulb burned out, so I replace it with another one.   I recall I bought the two packs of them up at www.walmart.com for about $1.59 a two pack, so Sam owes me 79.5 cents plus about 4.5 cents tax for 84 cents total, but I will not use the gasoline to drive up there to get my refund.   Well, not much going on around here, and there is suppose to be rain for the next couple of days.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/15/07 Thursday 7:05 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 12 5/8 ounce Stouffer's Corner Bistro chicken sesame dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   If you have money, you can always go "Bottom Fishing" on the internet at eBay Seller: retail-recyclers: Gadgets Other Electronics, Desktop Laptop Components items on eBay.com .  H&R Block Tax Center Free TaxCut Premium Federal Software .  I ate half of a 5.75 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.   I guess the reason, one does not see inexpensive potatoes in the grocery store anymore is that the cost of shipping is too much on them compared to rice.   I chatted with a relative.  I will now go through my email.   I replaced the left sconce light on the left sconce above the primary computer with a 15 watt www.ge.com bent tip bulb.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/15/07 Thursday 4:35 P.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I drove over to the Greenwich Hospital Outpatient Clinic, and the dentist there filled two cavities in on two teeth in between the upper left hand side where possibly food got stuck in between causing the cavities on the side of the teeth.   I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home, and I picked up the mail.  We might get a bit of snow the next two days Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  However, this says the winter snow watch has been cancelled Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/14/07 Wednesday 10:50 P.M.:  I ate some peanuts.   I watched some television.    BBC NEWS | Europe | France to launch superfast trains .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Asteroid mission concept unveiled .  BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft buys voice tech company .  The Mounting Uncertainty over Subprime .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/14/07 Wednesday 9:45 P.M.:   Federal agencies ban Windows Vista | Tech News on ZDNet .  The Insider's Guide to Windows Vista - The Insider's Guide to Windows Vista - Features by PC Magazine .  Inn on Biltmore Estate - Four-Star Hotel in Asheville, NC .  Biltmore Estate - Spring Events - Festival of Flowers .   Free Vista Ultimate, if you go to Las Vegas, Nevada on your own money Visit MIX07 .  The Glenlivet - Wear a Kilt to Work Day .   There is not much to watch on television yet.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/14/07 Wednesday 9:15 P.M.:  Last evening, I ate three scoops of peach ice cream.   I also ate the rest of a jar of dry roasted peanuts.   I just ate 2.5 scoops of peach ice cream.   I chatted with two relatives.   I will not through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/14/07 Wednesday 7:55 P.M.:  I uninstalled and installed the latest Samsung multipurpose printer drivers and program for Vista, and I configured it.   I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I installed the latest Vista updates along with the Logitech webcam pro 4000 Vista driver.   I did not update the Logitech webcam program, since I have the latest update.   The sound did not work on the Epox server, since I hit the Epox server speaker's button with the vacuum cleaner last Friday, and I turned it off.   I now have it turned on and set to work with the control panel speaker switch.   I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   I chatted with a local security organization, and they indicated there is not much they can do about hacking if it comes from outside the country.   Such is War.   I put the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi marinara sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I reheated it with the remaining cooked spaghetti in a Rubbermaid container on two vegetable cycles in the microwave oven.  I put it on a dinner plate with a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  My Chinese neighbors were banging on the adjacent wall in my kitchen.   Maybe they are tapping into my cable connection.   It is conceivable.   The primary Vista computer seems to be running just fine, but I do not really have that much to do on it.  In this story CNN.com Video , the sketch of my the jewel thief looks like Jim Eldert, so maybe he has an interest in geology.    I could go out, but I have to go through my email, and I have to get to bed early enough this evening to get up early enough tomorrow for my dental appointment tomorrow at 1:30 P.M..   Tomorrow is the Ides of March Ides of March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .    CIO    

Note:<888> 03/14/07 Wednesday 1:10 P.M.:   I installed the updates after the last message, but I could not get the Vista Complete PC backup to work from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   The system seemed like it might have been hacked, so I restored the backup from March 5, 2007 from the Bytecc external hard drive.   I then had to make a few changes in my startup by running "msconfig" .   I restored the few changed files, but the backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive would not work.   It was like the system might have been being hacked.   I had turned off the cable modem earlier.  I disconnected the USB cable from the Samsung all purpose machine, and I disconnected the cable TV connections to the computer.   I also turned off the wireless headsets.   I still was not able to get the Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I finally disabled the caching on the hard drives, and I disabled the screen saver, and I was able to get the Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I chatted with a relative earlier in the evening.   While letting the backups run and the restore, I watched the movie "Patton" .   About 4 A.M., I went to bed this morning.  I woke up at 7 A.M., and I started the backup that finally worked.   I woke up at noon, when DHL delivered the beta 2 copies of the Microsoft home server.   For now the primary Vista Computer seems to be running just fine.   I am not sure what the cause of the problems are.   I reconnected the various cables to the system.  I will now eat  breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I will then make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.   CIO        

Note:<888> 03/13/07 Tuesday 6:45 P.M.:  Office 2007 Professional free at this event TechNet Events - Vista, Office and Exchange hit the road .   'NYT' Opening TimesSelect to Students and Teachers for Free .   How To Live Like A Billionaire - Forbes.com .  Windows Vista Hardware Assessment: Overview .  TS2 - Microsoft Across America .  The World's Billionaires - Forbes.com .  Bush Heads To Ethanol Country - Forbes.com .  Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Hand-hooked Fruit Harvest Blue Wool Rug (2'6 x 6') for $60 .  I went through my email.   BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | A glowing legacy .  I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/13/07 Tuesday 4:55 P.M.:   I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went outside, and I put the last 1.25 quarts of Mobil 5000 Clean motor oil in my car, so it is a little bit over full.   The car is a high compression engine, so it uses a bit of motor oil.   I will have to buy more at the first of the month.   I put about a pint of antifreeze in the overflow container.   I chatted with some neighbors.   I noticed somebody had driven on the hill out behind the family units leaving tire tracks.   It must have been a large four wheel drive vehicle.  One of my neighbor's children told me that someone keeps a pet baboon here in town, so maybe it got away.   I went to my 12:45 P.M. dental hygienist appointment at the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic.   I had my teeth cleaned.   I have an appointment this Thursday afternoon to have a filling done.   I also have an appointment on May 8, 2006 to have a physical.   I then drove downtown, and sat out briefly downtown.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 1.75 quart Edy's sugar free butter pecan ice cream for $2.50 and a 1.75 quart Edy's sugar free fudge tracks ice cream for $2.50 and bananas for .54 a pound for $1.13 for $6.13 total.  I then gave a neighbor and another store employee a ride.  I dropped the other store employee at Dunkin Donuts, and I dropped my neighbor off at my building.   I brought up the mail.   I put about four quarts of water in a 6 quart Revere pot with a teaspoon of olive oil and a few dashes of salt, and I brought it to a boil.   I put in a 16 ounce box of San Georgio spaghetti noodles, and I boiled them 8 minutes.   I then drained them in a colander over another pot, and I put half the noodles on a dinner plate, and the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I dumped the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out any shaving scum.   While doing that I put half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi tomato marinara sauce in microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on three vegetable microwave cycles.   I put the tomato sauce on the noodles with a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I put the half full jar of tomato sauce in the refrigerator.    I will now go through my email.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 10:10 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  It is suppose to be rainy starting in the middle or the week Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground , which is not enjoyable for people with arthritis.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 8:35 P.M.:   I broke an egg in the sink by mistake.   I broke another three eggs in a bowl, and I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and a few dashes of Italian seasoning and a couple of tablespoons of milk, and I whisked it all together with a whisk.   I then put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil with a few pads of margarine in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I heated it on medium high electric burner heat, and I added a 7 ounce package of Jone's breakfast sausages and reduced it to medium electric burner heat.   I sautéed them for 10 minutes turning them occasionally.   I then removed the sausages from the skillet, and I drained half the fat off in a grease jar that I keep in the refrigerator, and I put the pan back on the burner on medium electric burner heat, and I added the egg mixture.  Once the eggs were half cooked, I added the sausages back into the skillet, and I mixed the scrambled eggs and sausages together, until they cooked about medium soft.   I also toasted two English muffin halves, and I put a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put it all on a dinner plate, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I will now go through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 7:25 P.M.:  I was awake at noon today.   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I picked up the mail downstairs.   I chatted with two Irish nuns that were visiting a neighbor.   They are from a nearby church.   I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out.   I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with the Department of Public Works cleaning up the pier area on Steamboat Road.   They are still working on the renovations on the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a retired Norwegian ship captain, and I also chatted with some of the library staff.  I read PC World and PC Magazines.   I then drove around downtown.   I then to my regular 4 P.M. Monday appointment that I had not had in about five weeks.   I then returned home.   I have a dental appointment tomorrow.   I received the AMD 3200+ Socket A 3 Heat Pipes CPU Fan, 70 x 15, Model: CFHPK7-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com and Modware CPU Fan for AMD K7 3400+ 3 Heat Pipes cpu cooling fan cpu fan for $4.99 each for $24.95 sub total and $8.85 UPS ground shipping for $33.80 total is UPS: Tracking Information .  I tried installing one on the Epox server, but the Video fan cooler on the motherboard on the lower side of the CPU cooler kept it from being installed.   However, they should work on the other Desktop CPUs.   I installed the regular spare Thermaltake Volcano CPU cooler on my Epox server, so it now has a new one.  The Epox server runs all of the time, so it is good to have a new CPU cooler on it.   I put the spare CPU coolers in a box on top of the sideboard in the bedroom.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 3:35 A.M.:    BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | British Skynet satellite launched .   I guess the British never leave home, so they like to watch on their telies what other people are doing worldwide with their spy satellites while they drink their pints and blame everything on everybody else.  BBC NEWS | Technology | Staying safe without anti-virus .   Well, I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 3:20 A.M.:  Well, since I do not know anyone in Manhattan, we might as well turn the lights off in Manhattan and quit the trains running, and then the liberals in Manhattan can get more practice on saving energy.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 2:55 A.M.:  Of course Ronald Reagan's best man when he got married was William Holden famous for the movie "Bridge over the River Kwai".   Alas I forgot to mention when I was down in Key West, Florida when the Army Corps of Engineers built those 140 miles of bridges, my original friend in Key West, Florida was Rotten Robbie, whose mother was a DuPont.  The Duponts are pretty much famous for only one thing in America which is product invented by Alfred Nobel, thus more than likely if push come to shove the Swedish would know how to take care of it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  I forgot to mention, I use to live with Tim Grant on the east side of Manhattan near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I can assure you he knows how to ride a bicycle.   Also Mr. Grant was the Vice President of the Midwest Bank in Lake Forest, Illinois where I use to work while attending www.lfc.edu , so more than likely there other members of the Grant family still around up north, and more than likely they still have other friends.  Of course my friend Bob in Danbury, Connecticut never gave me his last name, but he has the Lee family look.   He told me he was an X-ray technician at the Greenwich Hospital.  Of course there is a young tall skinny man walking around occasionally, and nobody ever seems to see him but me occasionally, and he once told me he could shoot the hair off the back of a dog.   I tended to believe him, since I had gone to school in Illinois.   The only problem with sharp shooters from Illinois, the terrain in New England is not as flat and wide open, so you do not get much practice at shooting at something two miles away.   Anything over two miles away is not worth shooting at the since the earth curves, and more than likely you would not hit it.  Of course in Rocketry that would not apply.   You would have to talk to Ricky Rocket about that.   Of course living around the waterfront here, more than likely the Sea Wolf is around, and nobody even seems to know whom the Sea Wolf is.   The last time I remember recognizing the Sea Wolf was down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida before I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983.   Usually when you recognize the sea wolf the real people are around and not the imposters.  The sea wolf even looks a little bit like a wolf.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 2:20 A.M.:  I monitored some of the television activity, and it seems normal for this time of day.    I guess the easiest way to make money in this area is to print it up on some of the local printing presses.   It is my theory that some of the local liberal democrats when they were in power in Washington D.C. got the real treasury department plates for printing money, and they use the various local printing presses in this area to print their own money which is perfect copies of the real thing, which is why they never run out of money.   Of course with today's newer bills, they might be trying to still circulate the older type of counterfeit money.  Of course the www.fbi.gov and the United States Department of the Treasury  constantly monitor this area, since it is a microcosm of what goes on in the larger urban area to west of us.   From what I can tell, so many people are still moving around, at certain times for unexplained reasons, there is a larger group of people shadowing a smaller group of people with money.   Of course this time year, when it starts to warm up, we have to watch out for the "Irish Travelers" from Murphyville, South Carolina whom come into this area to try to con the older retired people, and they have done that in this area for many years.   If you need any tips on them, you can always contact the sheriff's office in Greenville, South Carolina.   I once lived near the Sheriff's office in Greenville, South Carolina, and I was also living next door to the first Cable TV channel where it came out from Atlanta, Georgia.   Of course, one weekend when I went down to Atlanta, Georgia, I saw a large audience of African Americans in a movie theatre watching a movie about white people being slaughtered on meat hooks, and one of the white women looked like Happy Rockefeller, so I decided not to go down to Atlanta, on weekends to have a cocktail.   Greenville, South Carolina had fairly good security, since General William Westmoreland was from there, but they did not really trust me, since I was a Yankee.  Of course with the military they frequently have to travel during time of war, so they tend not to run out of gasoline, but if they start interfering with the civilian activity, the civilian activity that keeps this area going and pays the government taxes will not be able to function, and the government will not have any money to pay the military, and the military will be a bunch of traveling hobos looking for their next hand out.   In the United States of America, there are so many well defended civilians that if the military tried to interfere with Civilian government, they would quickly find out the motto of the state of Florida, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" .  Since we are in the state of Connecticut, and since I am about a 100 yards from the New York border, if any north bound travelers out of the south are still fighting the Civil War happen to bother me at this junction of the roads, more than likely some of my other friends north and east of me along the road for the next two hours of your highway journey might object.   The only friend I chat with in this area lives near the Bridgeport, Connecticut state police and all I know about him is he drives a lot, and he was in the United States Army  www.army.mil , so he knows how to use firearms, but at his age, he is still conducting tours of Ulysses S. Grant's house up in North Salem, New York which has a wrought iron fence around it to keep the bears away.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/12/07 Monday 12:40 A.M.:  My best guess as to whom might be causing the internet problems would be number one someone the U.S.A. is involved with in the current problems in the Middle East; number two some of our old adversaries in previous wars such as the Japanese, Italians, Germans, or North Koreans; number three the Russians and Socialists whom are still cold war activists, number 4 the Irish whom do not like me because I speak English.  So your guess is as good as my guess.   I doubt if any illegal mafia or narco trafficker type gangsters would bother me on the internet because that would expose them to surveillance.  It could also possibly be the Iranians, since when I covered the United Nations neighborhood around Beekman Place where http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm lived, the Shah of Iran's niece lived there, and possibly they think I am some sort of high level government agent.   Also the Shah of Iran's son was in Key West, Florida when I was there, and also the Shah of Iran's son use to live in Fairfield, Connecticut, so he would have other associates.   Since I use to walk through the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan to warm up, possibly the group of Koreans whom kept an eye on the hotel because General MacArthur had lived there might be causing the problems.   Possibly it might be a group of kids whom do not like republicans around the Bush group.   The local peace activists here in Greenwich seem to be spending a lot of time around the Asians here, which is sort of queer since most of the oil from Iraq is going to China to fuel their new economy.   Whatever the case, it would seem to me, the British have the capability to interfer with me with their high technology capability, but since my family has long time contacts with them, it seems highly unlikely.   However, when one is friends with the British, their friends in the Commonwealth tend to be your friends, and also their enemies around the world also tend to be your enemies.   Alas, I do not know that much about British politics to know what the problem is.   The most likely problem with being friends with the British is that it could be the French or the Spanish whom do not like me confering with the British, since they have other alliances with other countries.   I do not think it has anything to do with religion, since at the higher level of geopolitics, there is not very much religion.   From what I can tell locally here, it would be some disgruntled old timer from around www.ibm.com who is not able pull off dirty tricks with computers anymore with so many people working with them around the internet.   The hacking problems seem like they might be coming from some sort of old time hacker whom just got out of jail or whom is using older outdated methods and cheaper equipment.   I know so many tech people in this area, it is hard to tell where it is all coming from.   Since the local police department here is not that high tech outside of this community, more than likely it could be some home user whom thinks they know a lot, and actually they do not.   It is the nature of the internet that every IP address is recorded in terms of internet activity, so obviously they could find out whom it is, if they wanted to.   Possibly it could be somebody accessing the Cablevision Cable Modem service after it leaves Cablevision's offices or somebody hacking it locally in my neighborhood.  However, what would be the purpose.   Obviously the Greenwich Police only pay attention to people with money, so obviously somebody with money might be doing it and getting away with it.   However, if it is somebody with money, they also could be sued by the people they hacked and also by the Cablevision company.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/11/07 Sunday 11:40 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I watched some television.   In the old days in Greenwich before the internet and the Bushs, we use to get a lot more rest, since not much was going on, and we use to read a lot.   Alas, they decided to let commercial businesses move into town to raise taxes, and once the commercial businesses moved to town, the town got a lot busier with people trying to conduct business all of the time.   In the old days, people had time to do a bit of gardening, and we spent a bit of time doing maintenance ourselves.   Now it seems that everyone is a real estate speculator, and they are all trying to make money off their primary investments in expensive real estate.   Well from what I can tell, they now have so much money, they all took off traveling, and there are not that many people left here anymore.   We just get a lot of traffic from people moving through our town from adjacent towns.   It is really hard to tell what goes on here anymore, since there is always a different group of people downtown from hour to hour, day to day, etc..   Of course the people whom actually do live downtown are a small fraction of the local people living here in town, since there is a much larger residential real estate area in back country than the relatively small downtown area.   When I use to live in back country, I networked with other people living in back country areas mostly to the north of us, and I did not pay much attention to the individuals living downtown, since they seemed to be interested in other matters that I was not interested in.  Even in Manhattan, I tended to network with people from more remote areas, instead of people from the Manhattan urban environment.   I figured England was way up north in the middle of nowhere, so I tried to walk by the British consulate when I was in that neighborhood, and I figured there was a chance some of them might know English, but not many paid any attention to me in that neighborhood.   Also in the University neighborhoods where I spent time, there were a lot more people my age, but alas the people I knew figured I lived way out in the boon docks of Connecticut, so they never bothered to visit me here.   Most people in Manhattan are prisoners of "Rent Control" from the old days, so they never can afford to move away, since a lot of them use to have very low rents compared to what the modern real estate market was really worth.  An associate showed me a menu from the King Cole Room at the St. Regis Hotel around 1962, and back then lobster soup was .85 and a Chateau Briand was about $9, and those would have been high prices for the time.  Even back in college from 1968 to 1972 out in Illinois at www.lfc.edu "Last F**king Chance", I remembered paying about 12 cents a gallon for home heating oil out in Illinois.   Alas with the sticker shock of recently higher energy prices, we have all become prisoners of our own home environments where we are spending more and more time at home.   When ever we hear an airplane, we figure it is some traveling Arab supervising their investments in the area.   There seems to be a small group of about fifty thousand people in this area that can afford to move around constantly trying to make the area seem busy, but where that group of people is actually from is hard to determine, and whether they have any sort of central coordination amongst that group is hard to determine.   My best guess is they come from the area around Danbury, Connecticut, and how they can afford to travel so much is hard to determine.  My best guess is that whatever sort of group that is interfering with my internet activity is also causing other problems for more important people.   Thus since the Scottish have a lot of high tech associates since they are heavily involved in communications and electricity, more than likely some of my associates are monitoring the individuals that are causing the problems, so the trouble makers might experience other high tech problems when they go about some of their other activities.   Cars have computers that can malfunction.   Telecommunication devices have processors that can malfunction, and even aircraft have computers that can malfunction.   Most financial activity is controlled by computers, so some of my associates could arrange for the trouble makers not to be ever paid, until they quit causing the problems.   Since all of this internet sabotage is causing a lot of time and money for a lot of people, the individuals that control the price of other items such as the price of fuel and energy might have to keep raising the price of energy and fuel to offset the cost of higher computer expenses that the saboteurs are costing.   Basically from what I can tell, whomever it is, is being monitored, and once they commit a serious enough crime they will be arrested, and they will do a lot of hard time in the old poky or the slammer or lockup or the brig or some other secure guest facility.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/11/07 Sunday 9:20 P.M.:  I took a nap in the recliner.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/11/07 Sunday 5:40 P.M.:  I made up the same meal as yesterday.   I chatted with two relatives and a friend.   I ate two scoops of peach ice cream.   Peach ice cream is very popular with the Dutch Vanderbilt crowd around here because they have a lot of peach trees around www.biltmore.com .  Of course when visiting Biltmore House and Gardens, one has to be careful the bears do not eat you, since there are a lot of bears in the woods around the property, which is why they have a lot of gardeners.   Well not much happening around here on weekends with the higher prices of fuel.   When I use to go to Nantucket, I would take the ferry from Woods Hole, Massachusetts to avoid the Irish bootleggers in Hyannis, and I would stop by a little restaurant just across the small tidal bridge in Woods Hole leading to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) , and one could get a very good bowl of New England clam chowder there.   Unfortunately for the Irish in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims were there a long time before the Irish showed up.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/11/07 Sunday 2:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   Yesterday, I also made up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/11/07 Sunday 1:25 P.M.:   I rested some more after the last message.  I left the computer on, and it seems to be running just fine.   Yesterday, I told some plumbers downtown my joke about "Hasta La Viega" Viega homepage - Belgium ,   I guess would mean in Spanish translated into English, "Until I go to the bathroom" .   Of course at the Microsoft conference I could have said "Hasta La Vista" or "Until I See You Again" .    Yesterday, I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I told them the last time I had driven by their owner's farm in back country, he was using a bull dozer to remove a rock from their property, and judging from what I saw from the road he was going to need to use dynamite.   Back in 1962, our old neighborhood in Baldwin Farms off Round Hill Road made the news because somebody stole dynamite from a construction site.   Friends who lived in the neighborhood later told me they had taken it, and not knowing what to do with it, they had flushed it down the toilet.   The foundation of our second house in Baldwin Farms at the end of Baldwin Farms South, when I helped frame that house when I was 16 years old was filled in with beer cans, since in the afternoon after work, we use to drink a bit of beer, and we eventually filled up the sides of the basement foundation with beer cans.   Of course we were non union carpenters, so the local union picketed us the whole time, and I use to cross the picket line everyday, so when I came back here in 1972 after living in Boston and again 1983 after living in Nantucket and elsewhere, I guess as a non union type of individual, I was never able to get a job, since it seems my jobs skills are limited as far as the type of wall street work most people do in this area, so since 1983, I have spent a lot of time walking around and observing on Greenwich Avenue.   Yesterday, we had a blue chip crowd moving around Greenwich whom looked very wealthy, so possibly the Dutch came out here in response to my fax to their New York Consulate The Royal Netherlands Embassy's Offices/Websites in the United States of America .   I saw several people with the same look as Jay Rockefeller rockefeller.senate.gov :: Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), which since the Rockefellers are Dutch is a Dutch look.  Maybe they think I am a Rockefeller since I was wearing my Exxon www.exxon.com cap, but alas my grandmother Scott's grandmother was only a Davidson.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/11/07 Sunday 8:55 A.M.:  I saw my old friend Jimmy Eldert jogging around here yesterday, and he still looks a bit like me but in better shape.   Since he might be a pilot, he could be here today and gone tomorrow.   I chatted with a relative after the last message.   I woke up at 6 A.M..  I was having computer problems last night when the computer crashed on shut down.   I could not get it to start up this morning.   I tried doing a low level format of the first hard drive, and it froze.   That indicated to me that I had a bad IDE hard drive cable.   I replaced the IDE hard drive cable with a new one, and I did a low level format of 1% zero write of the first hard drive with the MaxBlast 4 utility.   I then restored the Vista Complete PC backup, and the primary computer seems to be running just fine.  IDE hard drive cable failure is the most common problem with personal computers, so I keep spare ones around.  The one that I replaced was less than three months used, so possibly I might get an RMA on the Cobra IDE cable that had been replaced before, but that might be stretching my luck.   I restore the few changed files since the backup.  I set the clocks ahead one hour.   One should remember "Spring Forward, Fall Back" .   I remembered something yesterday.   The reason I became homeless in South Florida starting back in 1976, when I had gone down there to try to work for www.nasa.gov was that I met a ice hockey player on Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida whom was from Maine.   During the short period I knew him before he returned to Maine, he told me that he had been offered $50,000 by two fellows from Tulsa, Oklahoma to kill me, so I started being less visible sleeping in my car and moving around more.   At the time I had a relative whom was an assistant district attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and when I finally went down to Key West, Florida, nobody bothered me with all of the U.S. Military around, and of course I lived out in Nantucket most summers after that until 1983.   Thus for some reason those two guys from Tulsa, Oklahoma wanted to kill me, which seems odd, since with all of the people in the New York City area, nobody ever bothered me, until about 15 years ago when I was mugged and about 5 years ago when somebody took a shot at me at Tod's Point beach in Greenwich, Connecticut.     I obviously must look like somebody else they are after.  I will now eat  breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I will then make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 10:05 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I chatted with a local security organization.   I ate the last three scoops of Dulche de Leche ice cream.  Eye in the Sky BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Skynet satellite launch postponed , they have been around forever.   Back in 1957 when we lived near Huntsville, Alabama, the local press reported the satellites could read the fine printing on a Marlboro box, so I assume in 50 years they have gotten better.   It seems like a waste of a lot of money to read the fine printing on a Marlboro Box, and it would be cheaper to buy your own package of Marlboros.  Each cigarette from various regions of America served special purposes for that local area, until they all got mixed up in national advertising.   From what I remember, Marlboros were good at keeping rattle snakes away.   I think Senecas are good at keeping Mountain Lions away.  Benson and Hedges were the preferred cigarette of this area when I moved up north in 1961, and it even sported a Park Avenue Address.  I guess it was good at keeping the media away.   Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco was also good at keeping wild cats away.   They sent me a $3 off promo for Pall Mall ultra lites, and I know Ronald Reagan who was from Illinois use to advertise them, so maybe they are good for keeping away what ever ales one in Illinois such as Timber Wolves.  In America we have a lot of wild animals, and I frequently worry about the small patch of woods near our building.   I have only seen deer, foxes, skunks, and owls around it.    However, I have occasionally heard animals being killed in those woods by some sort of predator, and I have heard their shrieks.   I never go into those woods to investigate.   I saw two police men here the other day with a police dog, and the police dog would not get out of the car, so maybe the dog has more sense than myself and my neighbors.  Worse case scenario might be that since I had friends from Northern Vermont whom use to visit here, possibly a "Big Foot" or Yeti type creature follow them down from Vermont to keep an eye on what they were up to.   Of course a wild cat can cover a hundred miles a day, and rich people frequently keep all sorts of exotic pets around.   I frequently worried the Rocks might still have Tony the Tiger around or its off spring.   Also sometimes zoos lose track of animals.   Maybe the Central Park Children's Zoo set lose my old pet Scandia to keep an eye on me, but if Scandia were around, I think other people would notice.   Scandia looks like this Polar Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, but is bigger since she does not get much exercise in the cage.  Scandia always like seeing me walk the white German shepard around the zoo.   More than likely it is just something like a Coyote.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO      

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 7:05 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown about 11 P.M.,  and I stopped by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $10 of premium self service unleaded gasoline at $3.099 a gallon for 38 miles driving this week  at an average of 13.8 miles per hour averaging 14 miles per gallon.  I then went downtown.   They were having a small peace protest at the Greenwich Post Office.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.   I stopped by CVS, and I chatted with someone from India.   I sat out at various locations.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   There was a green pickup truck from Illinois parked down there.   I guess it is another hay seed who has never seen the ocean.   I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with another resident from Illinois whom I have not seen in a while.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 pound bag of Carolina rice for $5.69, a 5 ounce bottle of House of Tsang Pure Sesame Seed Oil $2.99, and a 2 pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99 for $11.67 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors.   One neighbor who works at the Stop and Shop told me they might be going on strike tomorrow, so if you need food there, you better get it in a hurry.  I then hung the Dutch tri color flag over the left living room closet door with two small OOK hooks.   When opening the left living room closet door, one has to reach up 6.5 feet to unattach the one side of the Dutch flag, which only takes a few seconds.  I do not open that closet that much in the warmer weather, since it is mostly winter clothes.   It currently is 50 degrees Fahrenheit.  Let's hope it stays.  I then hung the British Union Jack flag over the center living room window curtain, so it is prominently displayed.   However, its colors tend to clash with the orange curtain underneath it.   Over the left hallway bookcase, I put the Saudi Arabia flag, with the U.S. Air Force flag over it, with the Swedish flag over that.   Over the right hallway bookcase, I put the U.S.A. 50 star Stars and Stripes flag with the larger Cross of St. Andrews of Scotland over that.   If any one knows Scotland, the average Scottish people in Scotland tend to be a lot larger than the average American, which is why so many of the smaller Scottish people came over here.   Scotland is pretty much a Nordic country, so like all Nordic countries, they tend to have larger people.   I guess it is the fresh air.   At the Stop and Shop, they were promoting chocolate with CACAO RESERVE BY HERSHEY'S .  Apparently chocolate helps people not feel depressed in the winter, when they do not get too much sun light.   I told the person how much chocolate I saw the Norwegian eat while I was in Norway in 1983.   I do not each much chocolate since I am hypoglycemic.   Remember when opening the left living room closet door, one has to unhook the Dutch flag to get at some of the winter pull overs.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/10/07:

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 8:45 A.M.:   I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will then do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I will then shut down the primary computer.   I will eat the same primary meal as two days ago.   I will then shower and clean up, and I will go out for a while to give my car a little bit of exercise.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 8:20 A.M.:  Of course you can get it here for free with $5.99 shipping Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ready Reference discount software .  I will just wait for the $15 check.  Samsung Samples First Hybrid Hard Drive .  Vulcan FlipStart E-1001S - Review by PC Magazine .  Gates' Washington Trip a Privacy Affair .  I went through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 7:25 A.M.:   PC Perspective - AMD ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner - HDTV for the PC .   Newegg.com - ATI 100-714127 HDTV Wonder Remote Control Edition Tuner - Retail software supposedly does not work with it.  ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner .  The Tech Report - TV Wonder lets Vista PCs tune digital cable .  http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673232-5.html .  It seems you need a Custom Bios to use it.  Priciest Private Jets - Forbes.com .  On my PNY $15 rebate, I can this instead http://app.parago.com/promocenter/rebateshq/click_choice_details.html?reward_id=1000062 worth $25 or this http://app.parago.com/promocenter/rebateshq/click_choice_details.html?reward_id=1000080 worth $50 instead of the $15 rebate.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 6:20 A.M.:   I took a nap in my recliner.   I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/10/07 Saturday 3:40 A.M.:   I was awake at 2 A.M..   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I did a Complete PC Restore Backup Restore to March 5, 2007, and I copied and restored the few files that had changed.   The reason for doing it was although the computer seemed to be running fine, on Thursday there were some unexplained events that might have been some sort of hacking.  So just to be on the safe side, I restored the backup.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/09/07 Friday 4:35 P.M.:   I chatted with a friend and a foreign security official.   I also chatted with a relative.  Nothing unusual happening around here.   Yesterday, I noticed a tanned visitor in the Greenwich Library with his wife, and the visitor looked a little bit like Adolph Hitler, so maybe he came out of Brazil when Bush went down there.   Apparently the head of the gay mafia activity in Key West, Florida is George Kravis who is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I guess they can afford to be down there.   More than likely they are probably trying to poach off the Mellon and Rockefeller and Dutch oil properties out in the Gulf of Mexico.   With all of the deluxe resorts in the world, there is not really any interest in Key West, Florida, unless one is interested in off shore oil, which is why so many oil workers show up down there.   When I was down there, the Army Corps of Engineer had two thousand men with beards from 6 foot 6 inches to over 7 feet tall, so that is what it took to build a 140 miles of bridges.   Of course it is the nature of engineers in construction projects, they can be from any where in the world.   I ate three scoops of dulche de leche ice cream.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed for the day.   Being disabled, I had a rather exhausting day today, so I need my rest.   I also chatted with a Microsoft representative on the follow up of the conference last Thursday.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/09/07 Friday 3:25 P.M.:   I was awake at 5:30 A.M. this morning.   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I stirred up the dirt in my potted plants, and I added Miracle Gro potting soil to them, so hopefully they will grow better.   I also watered them.    I put more white vinegar in the scent bowl that I keep out in the living room.   I did my house cleaning.   I threw out the garbage, and I also threw out the old periodical literature.   I brought up my bike and the orange bike helmet from the rear of the car.   I put up the rear car seat and the station wagon rear area shelf.   I move the down sofa and telephone table and telephone table forward about six inches, so the living room sofa sitting area is narrower, but there is not more room in the walk through area behind the couch which the bike is resting against.   I chatted with a relative.   I am microwaving a Stouffer's 16 ounce turkey dinner, which I will eat with a glass of ice tea.    I received my order of 7 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 9:45 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I ate a couple of handfuls of peanuts.   I also ate two scoops of dulche de leche ice cream.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  It is currently 18 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   When I wake up tomorrow, after breakfast, I will do my house cleaning for the first time in a month.   Stay warm.   CIO    

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 8:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I went by the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift shop, and I bought a mahogany night stand for $15.   I paid with a check, since I did not have any cash on me.   I carried it back to my car a couple of blocks away.   It has a drawer with two shelves.    I then went by the ATM machine at the Mason Street Office of Putnam Trust Bank of New York.   I then went to my usual 3 P.M. Thursday appointment, which I had not been to in about  a month.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 3 pound bag of onions for $2.29, a 15 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce for $2.89, and two 16 ounce jars of Planter's lightly salted peanuts for $1.99 each for $9.16 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up the night stand.   I removed the mahogany end table with inlaid leather top from by the chair at the apartment entrance, and I put the small telephone table from the bathroom at that location.  It gives more room for one to enter the couch sitting area of the living room.   I put the night stand in the bathroom.   I brought the mahogany end table down to the car, and I dropped off by the entrance to the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.   They told me I could leave it there.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.    I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a dollar ICE scratch card, and I won $3 for a $2 profit.   I stopped by CVS during my walk.   At the top of Greenwich Avenue, I viewed the new steeple of the Presbyterian Church.   I guess the pigeons will start nesting there soon.   I then completed my walk.   I drove down by the waterfront.   I then stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.   I then returned home.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 12:50 P.M.:  Microsoft® adCenter .  Meanwhile back at Siberian Sam's social club, I ate a couple of handfuls of dry roasted peanuts.   I watched part of a Bob Hope movie, but it took place in the tropics, and unfortunately I do not have the option of going to the tropics.   They do not let me go to the tropics, because I do not know their languages, and I do not have any of their type of money to use anyway.   Thus I am stuck up north with the skeleton crew maintaining this lonely outpost on Long Island Sound with the few people that manage to hang on remaining in the New York City area.   Since I have not been to New York City in a long time, I am not sure if there are any people left there anymore or not.   I have two friends that live there occasionally, but they are not currently there, so I do not have any contacts in the City at the moment.  For the $20 price round trip on the train for going into Manhattan, one can manage to keep busy out here on a limited budget instead of walking around in the cold in New York City.   I have a network of friends around the area whom share my viewpoint about staying away from New York City, since it tends to be too expensive for what they offer.   However, I see plenty of New York City refugees out here, so more than likely the locals around here know something about New York City too.   Well not much happening.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will start to get ready to go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.   Trust me, I am very good at the computer aspect of my volunteer activity, but on a limited income I have to watch every penny after I pay my monthly bills.   There are plenty of people around here with money whom do not seem to do too much besides keep other people busy with what they think is important.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 11:10 A.M.:  I made and ate the same primary meal as yesterday.   I chatted with www.ordersmokesdirect.com , and they were back ordered on the Seneca cigarettes, but they have received them now, and they will ship today.   I still have a carton left.   I have my usual 3 P.M. appointment today.  Rising above 1st Presbyterian gets its steeple - Greenwich Time .  It might conduct electricity.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 9:15 A.M.:  I burned the Microsoft Home Server beta 2 to DVD, but when I tried to install it on the FIC computer, it wants to format both hard drives which I would rather not do, so I did not install it.   I am doing an XP Professional ASR backup of the FIC computer from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   I chatted with a relative.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 7:15 A.M.:   Blame It On Bond - Forbes.com .   ASPnews.com -- News : Microsoft Claims Google 'Bolsters' Piracy .  Biltmore Newsletter .  How To Avoid A Heart Attack - Forbes.com .  I am downloading the Microsoft Home Server Beta 2.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 6:10 A.M.:  Of course back in the good old days when http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm was working on Nelson Rockefeller's Nelson Rockefeller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia house in Bermuda, one of my primary weekly tasks was to go down to McNulty's Tea & Coffee Company: Home Page at 109 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York to get Viennese blend coffee beans which Fred made with a Danish coffee press and ground the beans with a Braun coffee grinder.  They have all sorts of coffee beans and teas for your beverage enjoyment.  McNulty's Tea & Coffee Company: Talk to Us to order catalog .  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/08/07 Thursday 5:15 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative at 9 P.M..  I woke up at midnight.   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 4 A.M..   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.    I will now go through my email.   I chatted with one of the staff from Peru at CVS at the Riverside Shopping Center last evening, and I was told that Peru grows some of the best coffee in the world for any of you coffee drinkers

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Coffee Offerings

Peru La Florida from Peru FTO-Shade,

but it is available in limited quantity Planet Ark : Peru jungle farmers raise cups to fair trade coffee.   MY order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com still has not shipped.  CIO     

Note:<888> 03/07/07 Wednesday 12:40 P.M.:   I restarted the Epox server in the XP Professional IIS mode.    I  ate three scoops of dulche de leche ice cream.   I also ate a few handfuls of peanuts.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/07/07 Wednesday 10:25 A.M.:   I have been fiddling with the Vista Longhorn Beta 2 server build 6000 on the Epox computer.   There is a static file module on it, but it does not work for a footer as far as I can tell.   I am adding some more features to it at the moment.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/07/07 Wednesday 7:55 A.M.:   Tracking on the order for five of AMD 3200+ Socket A 3 Heat Pipes CPU Fan, 70 x 15, Model: CFHPK7-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com and Modware CPU Fan for AMD K7 3400+ 3 Heat Pipes cpu cooling fan cpu fan for $4.99 each for $24.95 sub total and $8.85 UPS ground shipping for $33.80 total is UPS: Tracking Information .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/07/07 Wednesday 7:40 A.M.:  I took the two London Broil steaks, and I cut them into 1 inch to 2 inch chunks.    I then put one fourth of the chunks at a time in the Cuisine Art and after about 90 seconds of pulse grinding I made each batch into hamburger.   I then weighed out eight 7 to 8 ounce balls of hamburger, and I shaped each one into a 1.25 inch thick hamburger pattie.   I put four into  Ziplock bags of two each of  with the air squeezed out, and I put a second Ziplock bag over each package, I froze the two package of four hamburgers.   I put three in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe, and I also added a beef bullion cube and a teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce and dashes of Old Bay Seasoning.  I put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns in a Revere pot with steamer tray and an inch of water and lid, and I steamed them for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat.  For the last 10 minutes I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan with a few pads of margarine, and I heated it medium high electric burner heat.   I then put in an eight ounce hamburger in the frying pan and a medium large onion peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices, and I seasoned the burger and onions on both sides with garlic pepper, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning, and I cooked them on medium to medium high electric burner heat flipping them frequently for about 4 minutes a side, and for the last two minutes, I put on a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and on top of the burger I put four 7/8th inch by 2.5 inch by 1/8th inch thick slices of www.cabotcheese.com  Vermont seriously extra sharp cheddar cheese, and I put a lid on, and I steamed the cheese for a couple of minutes.   I then put the vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I put the burger on a dinner plate with the sautéed onions over them, and I put half the rice on the dinner plate and the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go through my email.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/07/07 Wednesday 5:40 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I drove down by the train station on Greenwich Avenue and down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road and back up to the top of Greenwich Avenue to give my car a little bit of activity charging it up.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I tried using the ATM machine at the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York, but it was not working.   Thus when I was at the top of Greenwich Avenue, I walked over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I used the ATM machine in their rear lobby area.  There was a poster for The Greenwich Symphony Orchestra .  I noticed on the section of East Putnam Avenue between Mason Street and Greenwich Avenue, there were three vacant stores.   There are also three vacant stores on Greenwich Avenue or possibly four.   Some of them are large building floor areas.   GVA - GVA Williams seems to be renting several of them.   Also Luxury Real Estate & Homes for Sale | Official Sotheby's International Realty® Site is renovating their offices.   Thus more than likely there is still a dollar or two left in Greenwich, Connecticut.   However, rich people tend to go south for the winter, so we have to wait until they return in the late spring for our economy to recover.  After my walk, I stopped by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I bought eighteen 39 cent statue of liberty stamps from the automated postal center for $7.02 total.    I then drove over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza.   I bought four 5.75 ounce Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips for .88 each, two 16.9 ounce Febreze extra strength formula fabric refresher for $2.50 each, and two 12 pack cases of 3 ounce Ramen chicken noodle soup for $3 all plus .30 tax for $11.82 total.  I then went by the Food Emporium at the Riverside Shopping Center which is also opened 24 hours on weekdays, and I bought a 12 pack of Thomas' English muffins for $1.88, a head of broccoli for $1.99,  a ten quart pack box of America's Choice powdered milk for $6.99, and buy one get one free of London Broil top round of beef for $8.08 both for $18.94 total.   I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.    CIO     

Note:<888> 03/07/07 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  I woke up at 11 P.M..   Back in the old days in Manhattan in the early 1970s when the stock market was crashed, the local university group in Manhattan use to hang out at the Ninth Circle on West Ninth Street in Greenwich Village.  What got me to thinking about that is that it is currently nine degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   Well, I have to drive the car every two days to keep it charged up.   I will thus wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out like Nanook of the North to volunteer for the "Freezing Norwegian Patrol".   Basically walking around in extreme cold weather takes practice.   First of all one has to learn to dress warmly for it, and taking the time to dress warming for it is important.   It is not quite as easy as a walk in the park.   Well I will now get ready to go out.   Tomorrow night is suppose to be 10 degrees colder, so it ain't over until the fat lady sings.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 4:45 P.M.:   I was inspected by the Greenwich Housing Authority Section Eight inspector.  I called up  PNY Rebate Center , and they said they confirmed that I had submitted the right information, and they would move the rebate up to the next highest level in 7 to 10 days.   VII2 conference homepage .  VII2 conference homepage .  5DollarSoftware.com .  Microsoft Partner Program E-Newsletter Guide .  The Vermont Country Store .   BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia .  BBC NEWS | UK | England | Surrey | Rare Bugatti crashes into trees .   I will shut down the primary computer, and I will now eat a couple scoops of dolche de leche ice cream before going to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 2:10 P.M.:  Usually during slow news periods, the Greenwich Time starts publishing stories about the Moxley murder.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 2:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative again.   Gannett purchases Advocate, Greenwich Time for $73 million - Greenwich Time .   I wonder if they got Yachting Magazine too.   Yachting Magazine is also in the Greenwich Time building downtown.   However, with the higher prices of fuel, probably only Arab sheiks are yachting anymore.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 1:15 P.M.:  I tweaked the apartment a little bit.   I chatted with a relative.   Not much going on around here with the colder weather and higher energy prices.   It costs money to drive all of the way over to Tod's Point to enjoy the view of Long Island Sound.   I can always go to the Greenwich Library, but recently whenever I eat any meat, I seem to have a lot of gas which the other library patrons might not enjoy.  Also I have been getting up in the late evening and early morning, so by the time the library is opened, I am a bit tired.  On a night time schedule, it does not cost to park downtown, but it can be a lot colder at night, so I am more comfortable staying home.  As I have said many times before, there is no point in heating up the cast iron engine of one's car to drive around in circles, when the same amount of energy will keep one warm and comfortable at home.   I have plenty of food http://mikelouisscott.com/inventory.htm .   From what I can tell, the people who cater to the traveling public and new comers are spending most of their time downtown, so that is where they drum up their new business.   Alas, since my family moved here in 1961, I know a lot of people, but since most of them know I am frequently on a night schedule, they do not bother to call and chat with me in the daytime.   The Wall Street crowd is not allowed to chat anyway, since that would be considered inside trading.   Whatever the case, if anything is reported unusual, I will be the first to notice it at night.   I guess so many of the affluent people are away down south, the movers and shakers are probably not around anyway, but just the cold weather skeleton crew that maintains this town during the cold weather.   Since Greenwich Avenue has a nice ambience, there are always people hanging around Starbucks for a $2 cup of coffee to see what shows up.   For people coming out on the train from New York City and elsewhere, the Welcome to Greenwich Library! is about a mile hike from the Greenwich Train station along a busy shopping avenue.   From what I can tell, once it warms up, we will probably have less air pollution with the higher prices of fuel.   I do not noticed the large groups of youth driving around late at night anymore.   Of course people still have to get back and forth to work.   In the suburbs there is not always public transportation to all parts of town.   Maybe the town of Greenwich should look into a public bus system like the Westport, Connecticut public bus system that picks up and drops people off all around town, and not just the major roads.   Ready for a New Day Launch Tour 2007 .  Protect your computer  .  OfficeMax.Com Broyhill Seating at OfficeMax! .  Say hello to Tony Bush to Set Out Shift in Agenda on Latin Trip - New York Times .  He claims his grandfather has a million acres of coffee plantation.   Tony Pigato of Sao Paulo, Brazil http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg can get you there on Trans Brazilian Airlines.   He knew the http://mikelouisscott.com/agakhan01.jpg , and he told me the Aga Khan had an apartment at about 62nd street and Central Park West besides the Hunting Lodge up on Round Hill Road, and the Aga's father or grandfather helped start the www.un.org , so more than likely other people also know him.  Last I heard when Tony visits here he stays with Bill Lawrence up in Danbury, Connecticut where there are fifty thousand people from Brazil living.   Like all South Americans he drives to fast.   He speaks Portuguese, Italian, English, French and Spanish.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 11:45 A.M.:  "Hasta La Viega" Viega homepage - Belgium ,   I guess would mean in Spanish translated into English, "Until I go to the bathroom".  Translate your own Language Tools .   CIO

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 11:35 A.M.:  What's happening down south TCPalm: Local News Our first citizens: Florida's earliest residents developed their own societies to match their environments .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 11:15 A.M.:  The onion that I cut to use with the sautéed boneless center cut pork chop had a lot of liquid in it, when I sliced it.   I think that is what gave me the blurry vision.   I went downstairs briefly about 9:30 A.M..  Nobody seemed to be around.   I guess since it is cold, people are in their apartments where it is hopefully warmer than in the hallways.   I watched some television, part of which was watching President Bush's speech www.whitehouse.gov to a group of veterans.   I ate 2/3rds of a tube of sour cream and onion potato chips.    My biweekly appointment was rescheduled to next Monday at 4 P.M..   Well not much happening.   I am a bit tired, but I have to wait up for the apartment inspection at 2:15 P.M..   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 8:55 A.M.:  I watched some of the television.    I looked at the Taft alumni magazine, but the justice department censors all of our email.   If you want to hear from the Queen, you have to live a long time How can I receive a congratulatory message from The Queen? .   I will now shower and clean up.   How time flies when one is busy on the internet.   I just had a spell of blurry vision for about an hour, but it seems to have cleared up.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 7:40 A.M.:  I ate the same meal as yesterday.   I chatted with Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and it is cold down there at 65 degrees Fahrenheit, but it is still a lot warmer than the current temperature here 10 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  Of course if you do not like hanging out with the fast money elite of South America, Simply Tobago - Tobago tourists' guide is currently 81 degrees Fahrenheit Tobago Crown Point, Trinidad And Tobago Forecast : Weather Underground before it warms up today.  Of course Tobago is as far south of Jamaica as Jamaica is south of New York, so it is way down there about 20 miles off the coast of the communists in Venezuela.  Of course if one vacationed there, you might get so darkly tanned, they might think you are a person of color when you get back.  www.libertytravel.com across from the Greenwich Library use to have round trip per person double occupancy at the Mount Irvine Club Mount Irvine Bay Golf Club - the definitive guide to golf on Tobago and Mt Irvine there for a week for about $850 a week, but you would have to buy you own meals.  Search www.expedia.com if you got the bucks to get away, but be sure to bring a straw hat and sun screen.   Angostura Bitters and Lemon are also good for a Hang Over if you drink too many Planter's Punches.   CIO      

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 6:20 A.M.:  I filled out the form about the $15 PNY memory rebate error information.   Italy's Mountain of Fire Home .   Debrief & Defend: Windows Vista v. Windows XP, from TechRepublic Pro - Downloads - TechRepublic .  Microsoft Research Home .   I went through my email.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 5:35 A.M.:  I got this email that the $15 mail in rebate on the PNY memory did not have all of the required information submitted, but I did submit all of the required information.   PNY Rebate Center , and I have copies to prove it.  At www.cl-p.com , the total new charges for February 2007 are $295.76 compared to January 2007 which was $235.32.   However, I only pay the monthly average of $165 , thus with the NEON grant of $675 in January 2007 taking off $165 for the January and February 2007 bill average amount for both together of $330 subtotal, I should have $345 remaining in my account to pay the March and April 2007 average bills of $165.  My usage history in February 2007 for 32 days was 1679 KWH, or 52 KWH per day.  The average temperature was 25 degrees Fahrenheit which was 5 degrees colder than the previous year.  I will now go through my email.   CIO    

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 4:55 A.M.:  I order five of AMD 3200+ Socket A 3 Heat Pipes CPU Fan, 70 x 15, Model: CFHPK7-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com and Modware CPU Fan for AMD K7 3400+ 3 Heat Pipes cpu cooling fan cpu fan for $4.99 each for $24.95 sub total and $8.85 UPS ground shipping for $33.80 total.  They are side mounted fan socket A CPU coolers which should work in my larger CPU cases.   Four of my five desktop computers use Socket A processors, so they should come in handy for spare parts, particularly once it gets warmer around here.   Of course, they might be tricky to fit into the computers, but I think they will work.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/06/07 Tuesday 2:35 A.M.:   I had a telephone call from a relative at 10 P.M..   I woke up at 1 A.M..  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I have the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector inspecting my apartment today at 2:15 P.M..    It is clear and cold outside right now at 17 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground , so stay warm.   I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 3:45 P.M.:  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will eat a bowl of dry roasted peanuts with some iced tea, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good evening.  If you are English, tea time is suppose to be at 4 P.M., however here in the States, we do not even get a siesta like in southern Europe, so we just keep going until we need to rest.   Some of the smarter older people I know take naps in the afternoon.   However, generally when I go to bed I rest until I am rested and wake up refreshed.   BBC NEWS | Technology | The 'new age' of super materials .   BBC NEWS | Americas | Atlantis orbiter rolled off pad .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 3:25 P.M.:  I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive to save the startup changes.   Since the system had not changed since this morning, it only took a few minutes to backup the few files that had changed.   I picked up my mail downstairs.   Newegg.com - HUNTER 90045 12'' Rockefeller Table Fan - Retail .   Newegg.com - HUNTER 90044 12" Rockefeller Table Fan - Retail .   Newegg.com - Biography - Nelson Rockefeller DVD - Retail .   Lots of airplane traffic today Westchester County - AirportMonitor - by Megadata - powered by PASSUR .   I guess it is a nice enough of a day to fly them a little bit to make sure they are still working.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 2:45 P.M.:    I ran "msconfig" , and I tried disabling 20 startup programs, and then I tried running Vista Complete PC backup to DVD, but it still does not go further than the first DVD.  I made a list of my startup programs, and I restored them.   They seem to be in a better order, since the computer runs a bit better particularly the graphics.  

My computer's Windows Experience Index Base Score is 2.6

Subscore:

Processor 3.4

Memory (RAM) 4.0

Graphics: 4.1

Gaming Graphics 2.6

Primary Hard Disk 5.4

CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 12:45 P.M.:  Microsoft Connections .  Microsoft WWE - Event Details - In-Person Event Norwalk, Connecticut May 1, 2007 .  http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/resources/connections/default.aspx#webcasts .  Microsoft Small Business Center .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 11:50 A.M.:  Newegg.com - XEROX 6110/N Laser Personal Color Printer - Retail .    If you need to save video Newegg.com - HITACHI Deskstar T7K500 500GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM $146 with shipping.   Overstock.com: Conner Dark Brown Leather Chair : Furniture .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 11:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I chatted with some neighbors.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I next went by Val's Liquors at the Stop and Shop shopping plaza, and I bought a 10 ounce bottle of Angostura Bitters for $9.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.16, two 10 ounce bottles of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.19 each, and a 4.25 ounce container of McCormick whole black peppercorns for $4.39 for $9.93 total.   I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.   I will now do some regular computer work.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 8:15 A.M.:  I will try using Microsoft Office 2007 to post my notes.   I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe .  I also used chicken bouillon seasoning, Old Bay seasoning, and a couple of teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce along with the other ingredients.   I put an inch of water in a three quart Revere pot with steamer tray and 1.5 cups of broccoli crowns and baby carrots.   I steamed them on medium high electric burner heat for 15 minutes.   I peeled a medium onion, and I sliced it into 3/16^th inch thick slices.   I put a four tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan along with three pads of margarine and two peeled and minced cloves of garlic.    I heated the fat over medium high electric burner heat, and once it was hot, I added one half pound 1.25 inch thick center cut boneless pork chop, and the sliced onions.  I seasoned them with garlic powder, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning.   I sautéed them turning them regularly for four minutes on each side seasoning them on both sides.   I then put in a few tablespoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, and I put a lid on, and I steamed them another three minutes turning them once.   I put pork on a dinner plate with the onions and the juices on top of it.  I also put half the rice on the dinner plate.   I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil.  I put the other half of the rice in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I did a Vista Complete PC Backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I tried disabling to two Nero startup items, but a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the DVD drive still would not work.  I cleaned both DVD drivers with the AT&T lens cleaning CD.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air and to pay my rent.  It seems Office 2007 will not let me upload my saved notes file to the server as long as the file is still opened in Office 2007, it is protected.    Thus I will continue to use Frontpage 2002 to post my notes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 5:30 A.M.:  In Vista as in XP, when one installs device drivers, one has to make sure the system updates the latest driver, which one frequently has to do manually by updating the device from the device manager updates for the device.   I had to do this with my Nvidia video card and my Samsung all purpose machine drivers.   I reinstalled the Samsung SmartThru 4 software, and I tested it, and I added some fax numbers to its phone book.   It looks like in the FAX settings if one sets it to use the Outlook address book, the SmartThru 4 program will freeze, and one will have to uninstall it and reinstall it.   I ate a bowl of peanuts.   I went through my email earlier.    I have to go by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place to pay my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority this morning, when they open at 9 A.M..   CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 1:50 A.M.:  There is a good ironing board on the side of our dumpster if anyone needs it.   I organized my favorites.   Good site for bottom fishing on the internet eBay Seller: retail-recyclers: Digital Cameras, Gadgets Other Electronics items on eBay.com but high shipping.  Just Released - NEW Norton 360 All-In-One Security .   Time to put away the laundry.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/05/07 Monday 12:45 A.M.:  I was awake at 10 P.M..   I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   I put the bicycle and the orange bicycle helmet back in the rear area of the Volvo station wagon.   I put clean linens on the bed.   I am doing two loads of laundry, and I am just about to start the dry cycle.   CIO     

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 4:05 P.M.:   I looked at the moving picture box for a while.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 2:35 P.M.:    I worked with the Vista Server beta 2 6000, but as far as I can tell, there is now way to install a footer, so each page will display at the bottom http://mikelouisscott.com/stat.htm .   I chatted with a relative down in Florida, it is suppose to be busy down there.   I tested my fax machine by sending my http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm and Michael Louis Scott's Resumee to two groups that are suppose to know me, but they ignore me, since I am not from Texas or England.   I bought the scratch card for a dollar today at the Greenwich Cigar store, so the http://mikelouisscott.com/agakhan01.jpg could have enough money to make it home to his hunting lodge in back country Greenwich, Connecticut.   Alas, he no longer has enough money to bring along his large group of followers, since they are not all Swiss like he is.   It is the nature of The ABB Group - Automation and Power Technologies that it is a Swiss and Swedish engineering group, so more than likely there are other Swiss and Swedish people around here.  Switzerland and Sweden are not members of the www.un.org , since they are neutral countries, but they keep observers there.  Although I do not have a college degree in engineering, I have a bit of experience myself in patching together my communications setup, but alas nobody has anything to communicate, they just have lots of items from Asia, they are trying to sell at inflated prices.  Maybe I could sell my Chinese neighbors for live in help for someone with a larger budget.  I noticed somebody downtown today attending church in an old blue www.cadillac.com .   There might be some sort of Jewish holiday coming up, since the Stop and Shop has Jewish holiday food items on sale.   There was hardly anyone downtown today.   I still have a Saudi Arabian flag in my apartment, but I do not display it, since it would offend my neighbors, but as I recall in 1980 to 1982, it flew every day along side the United States of America flag at the Waldorf Astoria The Waldorf=Astoria® in Manhattan when it was down to minus 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.   However, from what I know, we are only flying the Canadian flag at the nearby The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor .   More than likely all the rich movers and shakers have gone down south for Winter Holidays, since it is pretty slow around here.  Of course it will speed up a bit when the work week starts again tomorrow.   I ate a bowl of peanuts.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 11:50 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Europe | Swiss in Liechtenstein 'invasion' .   This is where the Microsoft Conference was held Hyatt Regency Wind Watch .  They are right next to MacArthur field airport and across the street from www.cablevision.com and www.ca.com .  There is an www.exxon.com gasoline station on the corner by them.   In season they have a golf course, and there is a separate restaurant on the premises.  I chatted with a friend.   At the Microsoft Conference, they demonstrated a free program they have that the source code can be downloaded for to use on vendors internet web sites to select different styles, fabrics, designs, colors and measurements for clothing, and they have an animated model to display the clothing for perspective buyers.   I was not able to attend the last hour of the conference, but I would say over two thousand people attended all six sessions in the morning and afternoon.   They had light refreshments, and the attending group was more of a senior professorial type of group, although many of the Microsoft people were younger.  They had a number of sponsors whom were offering items too, but I was not familiar with them.   Since I was rather tired, and anxious about making it back home safely, I was possibly not as attentive at the conference as I should be, but since I have beta tested Vista and read the reports for a year and a half, I am pretty up to date on Vista.   Microsoft with their new web design software has changed the look of their web homepage Microsoft Corporation .   IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond -- MSDN Magazine, March 2007 .  2007 Microsoft Office System .  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 10:20 A.M.:  I showered, and I cleaned up after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar Store, and I bought a Aces High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.   I chatted with a man digging through the garbage cans, and he asked for money, but I told him I could not afford to give away money.  I said good morning to another computer person, and I told him about getting a copy of Office 2007 for going to the Microsoft conference.   I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon service gasoline station, and I bought $15 of self service premium unleaded gasoline at $3.059 a gallon for 122.2 miles driving since this past Wednesday afternoon at an average speed of 41 miles per hour at 26 miles per gallon.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $3 each, a dozen Nature's Promise eggs for $2.50, a 1.75 quart container of Breyer's Dulche De Leche ice cream for $2.99, a 1.75 quart container of Breyer's peach ice cream for $2.99, two 16 ounce jars of Planter's dry roasted peanuts for $1.99 each, a six ounce box of Certo fruit pectin for $3.79, three 64 ounce jugs of Kodem grape juice for $2.49 each, three 64 ounce jugs of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $5 all, two 48 ounce containers of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.69 each, a 11.5 ounce bag of Ruffles sour cream and onion potato chips for $2, a 2 tablet 1.7 ounce each Stop and Shop Pure Power blue toilet bowl cleaner $2.69, a package of two boneless center cut pork chops for $3.69 a pound for $3.80, two pounds of baby carrots for $2.99, and broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $2.11 for $57.85 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my groceries with my folding cart that I brought along, and I said hello to a couple of neighbors.   I put away my groceries.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/04/07:

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 6:00 A.M.:  I rested a bit.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will go out around 7 A.M., and I will do a little bit of grocery shopping at the Stop and Shop.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 4:55 A.M.:  I watched a little bit of television.   Not much on the tube in the early morning hours.   BBC NEWS | Technology | Wave farms show energy potential .  I will now take a snooze on the sofa.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 3:30 A.M.:  I took a LIFESTYLE By Freschetta® Products frozen  LIFESTYLE By Freschetta® Products Brick Oven Italian Style Pepperoni Pizza , and I cut it into four squares, and I put them on a cookie sheet, and I seasoned each slice with garlic powder and Italian seasoning, and I spread about two tablespoons of olive oil on each, and I am baking it in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes or slightly less.   I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO  

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 2:50 A.M.:    Costco $229.99 After $50 Savings X2gen 22" Wide 5ms 1000:1 500 cd/m² 1680 x 1050 WSXGA+ .  For XP Download Vista Transformation Pack 6 Final - Vista Transformation Pack - Bring to your desktop the look of Microsoft's future operating system, Windows Vista - Softpedia .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/04/07 Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  I had two telephone calls from relatives while I was asleep.  I woke up at 6:30 A.M..  I  ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a relative.   I changed the memory around in the primary Vista Computer, so the first memory chip in the rear most slot is the 1 gigabyte generic memory chip and then the two 1 gigabyte PNY memory chips in the second and third slots.  The computer is now stable, and I no longer get the occasional blue screen of death.   I installed the latest Nvidia driver for Vista.   I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.   I slept from 11 P.M. to 1:30 A.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/03/07 Saturday 12:45 P.M.:   Extracare Signup 30 free CVS photo prints .    I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil with iced tea.   I finished both backups.   I shut down the FIC computer.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good day.   I will be awake whenever the vampires wake up.   Torrential rain causes area flooding: 17 streets closed; many evacuated from homes - Greenwich Time .  CIO

Note:<888> 03/03/07 Saturday 11:30 A.M.:  VII2 conference homepage . VII2 conference homepage .  Section des Sciences de la Terre .  James D.L. White: Geology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand .  Centre of Exchange and Research in Volcanology .  Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center .  Windows: Downloads .  Bill Gates Webcasts .  The Glenlivet - Wear a Kilt to Work Day .  I set up the working server on the Epox computer with the Vista Longhorn Beta 2 build 6000 running it, which I had already installed.   I finished restoring the FIC server, and since I will not be using it for a server unless needed, I put the Microsoft Reader and my Ebooks on it.   I also installed Office 2003 Professional on it.  The ASR backup should be finished on it in about a half hour.  I finished going through my email.   I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I used a 11 ounce can of Campbell's baked beans Maple flavor along with a little soy sauce and all of the other ingredients.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note:<888> 03/03/07 Saturday 3:30 A.M.:  I installed a new IDE cable in the FIC server.   I am restoring the backup to it after reinstalling XP Professional and SP2.  I will have to reactivate it again a second time after restoring the backup, since the backup was made with a different memory configuration.  I will then install Office 2003 Professional on it.  I will then back it up again, so it will take some time.   I will then start up the server again.   I watered the plants, and I put out more white vinegar in the scent bowl.   I threw out the garbage and old periodical literature, and I picked up my mail.   I put $5 on my MacGray laundry card, so I now have $12.85 on it.  I brought up the two U.S. Army cold weather sleeping bags from the back of the car, and I put them on the far end of the sofas.   I figured they would get damp inside the car, plus there is now room in the rear area to place groceries.   I have three folding beach chairs in the rear, which could be removed if more space were needed.  However in the warmer months, people like to sit out by their cars in chairs occasionally.  I enjoy chatted with the Microsoft Product Activication people from India, since they are always very friendly.   They are always trying to get me to visit India, but alas I can not even afford to visit New York City.  However, I am attempting to keep up with my bills, and besides the new computer memory, I do not owe any money, but I still have to pay my rent for this month on Monday.   I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 03/02/07 Friday 10:00 P.M.:  I ate a toasted bagel before going to bed.  I woke up at 8:30 P.M..  The FIC server seemed to have a microvirus or some other problem on the first hard drive, so I used the Seagate Utilities, and I did a 1% low level format on the drive.   However, the MaxBlast 4 Utilities, still do not recognize the drive although the XP install does.   I think I have a hard drive cable problem.   Thus the partition with the Vista Longhorn beta 2 build 6001 server February edition is deleted.  I have a backup for the XP Pro partition.   I will first eat breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.   CIO   

Note:<888> 03/02/07 Friday 7:35 A.M.:   I have Office 2007 Professional installed on the primary Vista computer.   I did not install the Business Contact manager.   I also installed Groove.   The internet was down for a few hour this morning.  On the FIC server, I restored XP Professional ASR backup, since the server was acting a little funny.   I am now running Norton Internet Security 2005 on it.  I am trying to fix the boot manager to get it work with the Vista Longhorn Beta 2 server 6001 build February, but I am a bit tired, and I am having a bit of trouble remembering how to do it.  You have to remember, I have only had about three hours of light sleep since Wednesday at 4 P.M., when I woke up.   I might sneak out at 9 A.M. this morning and pay my rent to get that over with.  I will now do a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary Vista computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO 

Note:<888> 03/01/07 Thursday 11:45 P.M.:  After dinner, I chatted with two relatives.   I also had to do a Vista Complete PC Backup restore to February 26, 2007, since the Microsoft Money 2006 program was not working properly.  It is all working fine now.   In Vista, I think Vista Complete PC backup restore will NOT restore to SCSI hard drives, and that was my experience, and I have read other reports to the same.   Thus your first hard drive should be an EIDE hard drive.   I paid my www.cablevision.com bill for Direct TV, Optimum Voice, and Cable Modem and www.verison.com bills on line.   I order 7 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in box for $12.49 a carton from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for $87.43 subtotal and $14.46 shipping for $101.89 total.  I paid my bill at www.newegg.com for the for the Samsung SAMSUNG's Digital World - Multifunction Products | SCX-4521FG/XAA from Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Laser MFC / All-In-One Monochrome Printer - Retail  for $209.99 minus $2.31 1.1% discount minus $2.99 discount for preferred account plus $17.94 shipping and $2.99 Rush Order Fee for $225.62 total  which I am due a $50 rebate on in April rebate information http://samsungelectronics.rebatestatus.com/link.aspx?P84313797-55867277 .  I still owe $160 to www.newegg.com which I will pay next month for the Newegg.com - PNY 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail for $159.99 less $1.76 1.1% preferred customer discount, plus $2.99 discount for preferred customer for $155.24 plus $4.99 three day UPS shipping and Rush Order Fee of $2.99 for $163.22 total.  I paid an extra $3.22 at www.newegg.com , so the amount would be an even $160 owed.   Thus I can officially say I own the Samsung unit, but not the memory yet.  Now I will go to work installing Office 2007 Professional as mentioned earlier.  CIO    

Note:<888> 03/01/07 Thursday 7:35 P.M.:   I slept lightly this morning until 6:30 A.M..   I got out of bed once, and I brought up the bicycle from the back of the Volvo along with the orange bike helmet, and I put it along the back side walk area where it was before.   I will ask the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector on March 6, if I can keep it there, since I like to have my car seats up the way they are now with the extra items in the rear area.    I slept a bit, and then I ate a piece of fruit cake with two scoops of banana split ice cream.   I slept some more, and I decided to put two United States Army www.army.mil Extreme cold weather sleeping bags in the rear area of the Volvo in case I had to camp out in an emergency in my trip to Long Island or any other time.   I have room in the back seat area to put groceries.  I did some bottom fishing on the internet.   Dusk to Dawn Light Sensitive Socket Sensor Light (set of 3) .   Webster's Millennium Complete Reference Library 2004 Edition (4 CD-Rom Set) .  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% mixture of orange juice with a 50% mixture of grape juice with a teaspoon of Certo with vitamins and supplements, and coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.    I left my apartment at 9:30 A.M., and I followed the Google Map to the Hyatt Hotel in Hauppauge, Long Island New York arriving there about 11 A.M. about a 59 mile drive.  I checked in the conference, and they gave me a Microsoft souvenir bag with a black Vista tee shirt with orange letters and a light up pen, and a note pad.   They gave us a ticket for the Launch 2007 Resource Kit, which has Windows Office 2007 Professional.   We were told after the conference they would distribute the CDs.   I checked out the hotel and the Launch sponsors.   I noticed they have repaved the Long Island Expressway since I was last out there.   The Launch was across the street from www.ca.com and www.cablevision.com .  I suggested to one of the Microsoft people it would be nice it the Cablevision Box work with the Vista Media Center instead of having to change the digital cable box manually.   I chatted with a few people about Vista.   I did not eat anything or drink anything, because when one is on the highway, there is not always a bathroom available in the New York area.  The Developers presentation I attended for the first 2/3rds of it, was very interesting, and it gave me some ideas about things I might be able to do in the future.   I had to leave early, because I was worried about the New York City rush hour traffic, and I explained to them I had been awake since 4 P.M. yesterday with a cat nap, and I was worried about the traffic and impending rain.   They gave me the Launch CD.   I left at 3:30 P.M., and I returned home at 4:30 P.M..  I paid a $4.50 toll each way over the Throgs Neck Bridge and a $1.25 toll on the return at the New Rochelle, New York toll station for $10.25 expenses today.   I chatted with a relative when I returned home.   I still have to pay some bills on line.  My rent was lowered from $78 to $69 a month, so it will help.   I think I should be able to budget myself this month, so I can pay for the Samsung all purpose fax, copier, printer, and scanner shortly to www.newegg.com .   I will have to wait to pay for the memory until next month, unless I win a scratch card.   On Office 2007 Professional, one has to uninstall the Office 2007 demo, and I will also uninstall Office 2003.   I will first save my Outlook 2007 demo folders information, by exporting them all to a *.pst file.   I will then install Office 2007 Professional on the Vista computer, and I will install Office 2003 on the FIC server in its XP Professional partition.   I also have to copy the Office 2007 Professional DVD, and install from it, and keep the original as a master DVD.   However, first I will microwave and eat a 15.5 ounce Stouffer's stuffed peppers dinner, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  Thus I still have a little bit of work to do today.  CIO