Michael Louis Scott's Notes April 2004

Note: <888> 04/30/04 Friday 10:40 P.M.: I went through half of my week's email. I watched some television. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/04 Friday 9:05 P.M.: I printed out a card to mail to a relative. I also printed out 30 calling cards on pieces of paper, which I will keep in my wallet. I have the calling cards, so I do not have to talk about my web activates, which can be tiring. I also ran the cleaning cycle on the Epson Stylus color 880 printer. CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/30/04:

Note: <888> 04/30/04 Friday 7:10 P.M.: I browsed some web sites. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . This time for the tuna fish portion, I used a 6 ounce can of chopped tuna fish. I also did not use cheddar cheese. I did used about seven artichoke heart quarters. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/04 Friday 4:40 P.M.: I finished house cleaning and watering the plants. CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/04 Friday 2:30 P.M.: I was up at 11:30 A.M., I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail, and I received a letter from Vice President Cheney on an old legal matter. He said they would have the Justice Department look into it. I also received my Bank of New York Master Card. I activated it over the 800 telephone number. I then logged onto http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ , and I ordered five cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $11.25 a carton, and a carton of Misty Slim Ultra Menthol 100 Box for $19.20 for a friend plus $1.20 shipping charge for each carton for $82.35 total. I then made out a check with my new check book to pay my GEICO automobile insurance payment. Keeping track of my transactions with http://www.bnyonline.com/ and Microsoft Money 2002 can be a bit confusing at first. I transfer money from my savings account to my checking account to cover online debit charges or checks, and I have to keep a $100 minimum balance in the checking account. Of course, I will be able to buy cheaper cigarettes until I finally quit smoking, and I will not have the cost of money orders at the post office. I could pay my bills online with http://www.bnyonline.com/ , but I prefer to have the cancelled check for a receipt of payment. I now will do my house cleaning. CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/04 Friday 12:10 A.M.: I chatted again with the same relative. I reheated the remaining half of the vermicelli along with the remaining half of the Francesco Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce, and I put three tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it. I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I sent out an email regarding the affidavit. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/04 Thursday 9:45 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. An officer notarized the legal document that I had prepared. We chatted for about a half hour about economics. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment at the usual place, but I did not park in the garage since I was late, I parked on Lafayette Place and paid .50 to park. My 3 P.M. appointment reviewed the document. I then went downtown to the central Greenwich post office. I paid another .50 to park for $1 total. I then mailed the legal document Priority Mail which was $4.90, and I also asked for delivery confirmation which cost an extra .45 for $5.35 total. I can check delivery confirmation over the internet. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. During my walk, the same local horse enthusiast whom suggested Limestone in the first poll position which I got confused with Birdstone also suggested Tapit, but had reservations since it is the 18th poll position. I told him I did not know anything about horses, but I liked the name "Read the Foot Notes" which is in the 14th position. I then walked some more around Greenwich Avenue during my walk, and I stopped by CVS. They have a number of discounted sale items in the office supply area. I bought a 3M Scotch 4" X 6" Photo Laminating package with five two sided sheets for half price for $2 and a Master Lock Padlock #3D for 75% off for $1.75 and from the clearance shelf, I bought a 2 ounce tube of Gillette Right Guard Xtreme Sport antiperspirant deodorant cool peak for $1.50 plus .32 tax for $5.57 total. I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought two feet of 1 inch oval 3/16 th inch thick chain for $1.19 a foot plus .14 tax for $2.52 total. I then completed my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior and arts center. They cut down the old cherry tree on the north west side of the senior center this week, and they replanted it with a new cherry tree. There are some pruned limbs that need to have black pitch or pruning paint put on them. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I next returned home. I drank some iced tea. I put the bottle of French white wine that I had on the Danish bar, in the center hallway bookcase cabinet, and I also have a few other alcoholic beverages in the same cabinet, and I then put the chain that I bought around the cabinet handles, and I locked it with the Master Lock pad lock. I put the two keys in a secret place. I then laminated my bank information card that I keep in my wallet, and my last cardboard calling card. I will print out some more calling cards on paper, since paper is cheaper than cards. I can use the Avery 5371 Label setting in Microsoft Word, and then cut the sheets of paper into 10 cards. I put the remaining laminate material in my top center desk drawer. I just chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/04 Thursday 1:30 P.M.: I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's select New England clam chowder, which I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. I will then go out. I have a 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/04 Thursday 12:50 P.M.: I printed out some paper work to do with an affidavit that I have to send to someone. I have it ready to mail, but first I have to have it notarized at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/04 Thursday 11:05 A.M.: The New York Times > Business > Exxon Mobil Earnings Before Items Rise on High Energy Prices . CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/04 Thursday 10:45 A.M.: I picked up my mail. CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/04 Thursday 9:55 A.M.: I was awake at 8 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. It is my personal perspective that well established people have so many items to keep track of in their travels and multiple homes that frequently without better communications, the individuals or family members whom work for them get confused, and they end up sending fur coats to Brazil and beach chairs to Norway. Thus when one is trying to live and run homes in multiple environments, it is frequently important to have better communications. Since I stay one place year round, I personally do not have those problems, but I have a relative whom other family members try to assist whom maintains a northern and a southern home, so it can be confusing without better communications. One would think that with all the modern cheap communications, they would take time to telephone or call. However, it is the nature of people when they are traveling between different locations, they get a bit confused and somewhat disorientated, so what their normal focus is at home might become confused in their travels. Since none of my relatives ever chat with me or stop by to view the large selection of items I have accumulated in my apartment over these last 20 years, I assume they are not too interested in viewing them. However, some of those relatives are due to stop by in the second week of June 2004, so possibly they will find some items of interest to take to the other relative's northern home along with the day bed. At the current moment, my apartment is beginning to look like a gift shop, so perhaps, it will be a bit more spacious after I rearrange it without the day bed. CIO

Note: <888> 04/28/04 Wednesday 10:10 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/28/04 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.: I boiled a 16 ounce box of Stop and Shop vermicelli for six minutes, and I heated half a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce, and I refrigerated half of the vermicelli and the other half of the tomato sauce, and I put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on the vermicelli and tomato sauce, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I chatted with a friend. CIO

Note: <888> 04/28/04 Wednesday 8:00 P.M.: I was up at 8 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I cleaned up. I checked my mail. My new checks for my checking account arrived. I probably will only use them for paying bills. I normally do not spend that much money. I next went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I bought a full size beige fitted sheet for $3 and a full size baby blue fitted sheet for $4 for $7 total. I noticed they have a nice large blue color oriental rug there for $3,000. I next drove through town and through Bruce Park and along the waterfront over to Tod's Point in Old Greenwich. I walked the 2.5 mile walk around Tod's Point. I chatted with a local teacher whom was teaching about volcanology http://www.little-scientists.com/ , and I gave him my calling card. I noticed a family friend's daffodils were out in bloom. I sat out for a while at the south east concession area. I then drove to downtown Old Greenwich, and I went by the Old Greenwich First Congregational Church rummage room thrift shop, and I bought two white pillow cases there for .50 each plus .06 tax for $1.06. Their linens were half price today. They did have about 20 white twin sheets. I next went by CVS, and I bought a 10 ounce can of lightly salt cashews for $2.50 and a CVS Clorox toilet tank drop-in tablet for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $4.61 total. I then went by the Feinsod Hardware store, and I bought a package of four National 30 pound brass picture hooks with nails similar to OOK hooks for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total. I then returned to the Old Greenwich Rummage room, and I checked the white sheets, but they did not have any full size ones. I then returned back to central Greenwich, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a yellow pillow case for $2 and a grey and brown striped pillow case for $2 for $4 total. I then walked about 3/4 of the length of Greenwich Avenue up and back. I cut short my walk to get to the Arnold Bread outlet. I then went to the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .19 for $1.70 total. I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors. When I started up my computer Norton Antivirus 2004 gave me an error message that I had to reinstall it. I thus uninstalled Norton System Works 2003 and Norton Internet Security 2004, and I did a safe boot deleting the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\" folder which one has to do to reinstall Norton Internet Security 2004 with Norton Anti Virus 2004. I then installed Norton Internet Security 2004 with Norton AntiVirus 2004, and I installed the updates. I then installed Norton System Works 2003, and I installed the updates. I next ran Norton Win Doctor. I will now drink some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.: I noticed one Old Guard member of our community today has traded in his old white SAAB sedan for a new grey SAAB sedan. I took noticed when we almost bumped fenders today as he was leaving the Shell station at Sherwood Place and East Putnam Avenue. I guess since SAABs are made in South Carolina, although they are a Swedish car, they could be considered a Swedish American car. I also think General Motors www.gm.com owns stock in SAAB http://www.saab.com/ . Well, I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 8:15 P.M.: I relaxed a while. I drank some iced tea. There is not much happening over here at the Rio Byram. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 6:50 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I drove directly down by the waterfront, and I observed the downtown area. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I noticed they had a vintage print of the Lee family Homestead in Virginia. Alas, I would expect a member of the Lee family to buy it. I then drove by the center of town, and I observed the tulips at the tulip bed across the street from the Senior center at the veterans monument. I noticed that all of the tulips are red and white striped this year, which reminds me of either the Red Cross, Switzerland, Canada, or Denmark, since those groups all use Red and White. I noticed one salmon tulip bulb in the group. I suppose there are lots of other tulip beds in the area to observe. Traditionally the Dutch use to plant tulips in front of everything that they owned. However, the tulip is not native to Holland, but it is a wild flower from Turkey. Whatever the case with the recent tulip mania, I suppose the warmer weather brings a few people out from the cold. I noticed a few people returning from down south. I next went by the Greenwich Town Hall for my 4 P.M. appointment. I noticed they have already turned on the air conditioning in the building, so the Greenwich Town Hall is a cold weather group of people. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. I relaxed for a bit. I then ate 16 Town House crackers with 1/8th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese on them. I ate them with some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 1:05 P.M.: Since the United States of America and its allies are still at war with a hostile nation, I would think it would not be necessary to dress more formally during daytime activities, and it should be generally accepted that blue jeans or khakis are considered standard dress wear for daytime activities. However, some of the formal members of our business community whom might make their clients feel more insecure if they did not dress more formally will probably still continue to dress more formally. Some days, one just does not feel like dressing up. I will now shut down the computer. I will now clean up and get ready to go out. I have a 4 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 12:45 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I checked my mail. I received a membership application for http://www.usni.org/ which is $35 a year, but alas my shore pay never came in after 50 years in the U.S. Navy, so maybe I was just working for a box of Cracker Jacks http://www.crackerjack.com/home.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 10:45 A.M.: My Microsoft Investor portfolio http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp and use with www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scopor01.zip shows that Royal Dutch Shell www.rd.com paid a .74 a share dividend today Investors Centre - Latest Dividend Announcement: Royal Dutch . I guess someone in the Netherlands is making money at tulip time. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 10:30 A.M.: I rested for a while. I finished off eating the other half of the 12.5 ounce bag of white corn chips with some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 8:10 A.M.: The computer is receiving a DNS attack, so I will shut it down for a while, and I will rest. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 7:15 A.M.: I proofed “Frederick Von Mierers” or “Life on the Poor Side of Beekman Place” . I am now microwaving a Stouffer's 12.5 ounce Lean Cuisine chicken with mushrooms dinner, which I will eat shortly with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 5:50 A.M.: I published a note about someone that I once knew in Manhattan “Frederick Von Mierers” or “Life on the Poor Side of Beekman Place” . CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/04 Tuesday 2:40 A.M.: I did not fall asleep until about 6 P.M.. I ate a half of a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn chips along with some iced tea before falling asleep. I was up at 1:30 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 2:20 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. However, I will first eat a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 2:10 P.M.: More water information http://www.worldwater.org and http://www.worldwater.org/links.htm . At the moment, we seem to be getting quite a bit of rain in Greenwich, Connecticut which is normal for this area. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 1:40 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought a 3 pack of Staples clamp binders for $5.99 and a 500 sheet package of 24LB Staples laser paper for $4.98 plus .66 tax for $11.63 total. I chatted with one employee who was concerned about drought conditions in Columbia caused by rapid deforestation and erosion, and he was wandering if there were anyway to find underground water with satellite technology. I told him I would email him. These sites might be of interest to him http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/ and http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/ . I suppose one might also be able to use infrared satellite photos http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ to find underground water. I told him that I thought the study of water management was called "hygronomy", but there does not seem to be much mention at Google on it. Also there is Hydrology http://etd.pnl.gov:2080/hydroweb.html and http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ . I will email the individual shortly, since he gave me his email address. He told me he had an older brother whom had a chemical engineering degree from the University of Illinois. I next went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes for $31 total. I returned home, and I drank some iced tea. I put the new laser paper underneath my Minolta laser printer, and I put the clip binders with the other ones on the left hallway bookcase with my other clip binders. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 8:15 A.M.: I watched a bit of television including the television show "Lost World" http://www.lostworldtv.net/ , which I sort of enjoy, since it seems to use a bit of scientific fact for its script. I think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/ also wrote Sherlock Holmes. Well, I will now shut down "HAL", and I will clean up, and I will go out for some errands. I think I should remember to bring my umbrella. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 6:40 A.M.: I chatted with a friend, and the friend told me that some kids pulled off the electric meter off his farm's chalet about six weeks ago, and although the electric meter had been repaired, he has to go up there to check for frozen pipes. This is at a location about two hours north of here, so it is colder. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 6:10 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm which I had with iced tea. I threw out some garbage. It is suppose to rain all day, so I will not be going out for a walk this morning. However, I will probably go out for some errands at 8:30 A.M. this morning. Back in the old days in Holland in the Netherlands that swamp area west of Germany and North of Belgium and south of Denmark, the tulip almost replaced money Tulips history Holland . When I use to live in New Amsterdam about 20 miles west of my current home, there use to be a group of volunteers whom lived on Park Avenue in Manhattan whom would plant tulips in the center street islands on Park Avenue. It was always fun to see the tulips in bloom, and I suppose it reminded old Dutch New Yorkers of their Dutch Heritage. Well, I guess this week is tulip week in this area, so one can always admire the tulips in one's travels in this area. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 4:45 A.M.: The New York Times > New York Region > Stung by Suit, Greenwich Weighs Ban on Sledding . I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 3:50 A.M.: I ate three piece of .25 inch by 1.5 inch by 1 inch slices of Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I installed and ran TechTV | Free File: SpywareBlaster . CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 3:05 A.M.: TechTV | Free File: SpywareBlaster . CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 3:00 A.M.: I unplugged my DeLonghi toaster oven, and I cleaned out the crumbs from it by opening the bottom panel and wiping the crumbs out from it. CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/04 Monday 2:35 A.M.: I watched television after the last message, and I chatted with a friend about 6:30 A.M. before going to bed. I was up at 10 P.M. when a relative called. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until about 1:30 A.M.. I watched a bit of television. I guess I will now do some regular computer work. John Kerry Jewish roots Senator John Kerry's Jewish roots and membership in Skulls and Bones and John Kerry has Jewish roots -- who knew? (February 07, 2003) . Also a friend of mine whom knows the inside Manhattan gossip told me that John Kerry had an affair with a senate intern and he also was alleged to have beat his first wife. If so many items about John Kerry's personal life and back ground have been covered up by the liberal media, it sort of makes one wander what other skeletons might be in his closet. He also attended schools in Switzerland swissinfo Travel - Central Switzerland John Kerry's school in Switzerland . Thus if the liberal media is so protective of their candidate in disclosing personal information about him, it sort of makes one wander if we do indeed have a free press in this country. CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/04 Sunday 10:30 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/04 Sunday 9:05 A.M.: I watched some television after the last message. I chatted with a friend. I watched a bit more television. With the family basic Optimum online cablevision package, there does not seem to be much original content on television, and it is mostly repeats. I frequently think about canceling my cablevision service and saving the $50 a month, but I occasionally like watching some of the news stories. The political news stories do not interest me too much, since most of the liberal press have a bias against the republican party. However, most people through out the country know this, and the way I figure it, President Bush will win again this November. I took the last 1/3 of a pound of cold eye round, and I sliced it into quarter inch thick slices, and I put Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on it, and I ate it with a reheated half of a 15 ounce can of Green Giant sweet tender baby green peas with a small bit of olive oil on them. I had the meal with a glass of iced tea, then I ate a piece of apple pie. CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/04 Sunday 6:15 A.M.: After completing the update work, I shut down the five backup computers. I will now put the primary computer on standby, and I will rest for a while. CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/04 Sunday 5:10 A.M.: I have been doing some routine systems maintenance on the five backup computers. I ate three 1.5 inch by 1/4 inch by 1 inch slices of Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese with some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/04 Sunday 3:15 A.M.: I tried going to bed after the last message, but I did not fall asleep until about 5 P.M.. I ate the last remaining crumbs of the open package of white corn chips. I was up at 11 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I watched on the Turner movie channel Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The (1966) . Since Nat Benchley is a local writer here in town that also lives in Sconset out in Nantucket, it was enjoyable seeing the familiar terrain of the Cape Cod Island. If I am not mistaken the movie was filmed on Cuttyhunk http://www.cuttyhunk.com/ which is one of the smaller islands off Cape Cod. I had seen the movie a couple of times before, but it is enjoyable to see what the island looked like back in 1966. I have never been to Cuttyhunk, but I used to know someone whom knew the writer Xaviera Hollander whom apparently use to live on Cuttyhunk in the summer. I sort of like the beginning part about how damp it is around the ocean, and how it aggravates one's arthritis. When I used to live in Nantucket, visitors to the island used to sleep for about the first week until they got use to the dampness. The high moisture content on oceans islands tends to make one tired or it could be the lower barometric pressure. Locally here in the Greenwich, Connecticut New York area, I have read the Russian consulate to the United Nations has 6,000 personnel, and there have been over a half million Russians immigrants to the New York area in the last 20 years since the Wall came down. However, I suppose over time, they have also spread out over the Americas, since they obviously would explore other areas besides the New York area. Since I do not go to Manhattan as much anymore, exactly one time in 10 years, I do not see as many Russians, as I use to see, when I was walking around the Manhattan Russian consulate on East 65th street near where Richard Nixon use to have his Town House. I suppose the more professional Russians have mixed into the New York professional market, but more than likely they are all involved in International Business. My father use to know Dr. Armand Hammer whom use to do business with Russia, so more than likely I have met a number of Russians over the years. However, Russians to relax people frequently tell people they are from Scandinavia. I believe there is also a Russian consulate in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, and there is another one in Glen Cove, Long Island. Thus any long term Russian residents in the Greenwich, Connecticut or the neighboring area would probably know whom I a am. Recently two different people in Greenwich whom live and work downtown have told me I look like someone locally named Jim Larkin whom I do not seem to know. I read on the internet that Jim Larkin was an Irish labor organizer on the waterfront in Ireland and the United Kingdom http://www.iol.ie/arena/webpages/larkin/ in the 19th century, so maybe the Jim Larkin here has a relative. Since I am supposed to have Jim Larkin's look, possibly he also was around the waterfront in Manhattan when I covered the waterfront area in Manhattan, and maybe we were confused with each other. I do not recall having met a Jim Larkin here in town. However, frequently when one sees someone whom looks like oneself, one does not notice that individual, since that image is the image one is most frequently use to seeing in the mirror. However, there is a young fellow whom looks I did when younger, whom I might have seen before http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~larkin/ or maybe he has a father of the same name that would look more like me. I originally bought my first home computer about 12 years ago, and before getting on the internet about nine years ago, I use to dial up a local computer BBS in Old Greenwich, Connecticut run by Jim Bolster with lots of information on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Last I heard about five years ago, Jim Bolster was working at an astrophysics observatory in Argentina. I used to visit another friend Jim Eldert at the University of California at Santa Cruz from 1978 to 1980 where the Lick Observatory http://www.ucolick.org/ was located. Also when I last lived in Manhattan until February 1982, I use to live on West 74th Street at a friend's apartment which was near the Natural History Museum http://www.amnh.org/ with its planetarium. Thus having grown up around NASA before I moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1961, more than likely there are certain people whom I was around in the early days whom might still be around or whom might have children in similar scientific endeavors. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 2:45 P.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 2:05 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I sat out for a while downtown. I ran into a local morning walker, so we walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue and as far east on East Putnam Avenue as Christ Church. We then walked back west on East Putnam Avenue as far the Kinko's copy center, and then we walked down the back alley way as far as West Elm Street, and then we walk back to the center of Greenwich by the post office and parted company. I sat out for a while more. I then drove down by the waterfront. I chatted with one of the regular fishermen. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. For $2 I bought a Eveready spot light, with orange flasher and fluorescent tube with batteries that did not work except intermittently. I also bought for a dollar a four pack of Duracell D batteries which were dated to be used by January 1993 for $3 total. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I next returned to my car and the white quartz clock with the hands had fallen off the dashboard. I guess because I used Turtle Wax dashboard protector, the sticky patch on the Velcro strips would not hold its weight. Since it had a clamping apparatus, I put the white quart clock with hands on the passenger side door map pocket, where one can see it easily from the driver's side. I then returned home. I received a birthday card in the mail from a relative, and they told me they would be picking up the day bed and box spring and mattress from my living room in June to take it up to another relative's in Kennebunkport, Maine. Thus I will soon have some extra room in the apartment to spread out the remaining items. When they stop by in June, I will try to see if they need any other items that I might have around my apartment. I next checked out the Eveready spot light, and the problem was that the bulb in the spot light beam part of it was lose, and once I installed it securely it worked properly. There is not a cover for the florescent tube part, but it all works fine enough. I will keep it in the apartment on the Danish bar behind the Queen Elizabeth II whisky jug next to the heavy rubber RayOVac flash light. The florescent light part would be handy for an electricity black out. Also the batteries in the four pack of Duracell D batteries work just fine, so I guess they do not wear out over time as quickly as the manufacturer thinks, but they might not last as long. Then I took my winter gloves, scarves, and knit caps off the small shelf behind the apartment door beneath the wall clock, and I put them on the lower shelf in the hallway sweater closet. I then took the Eveready large beam lantern from the floor, and I put it on the shelf with the RayOVac Sportsman flash light that was already there along with the four pack of D batteries that I just bought along with 5 new Walgreen Ultra Alkaline D batteries and three Fuji alkaline D batteries in opened packs. In the second down smaller drawer in the blue kitchen bureau where I keep my other spare batteries, I also have two packages of two Polaroid alkaline D batteries and two packages of two CVS alkaline D batteries along with all of the other batteries. I also have on the floor behind the apartment door a small Eveready beam lantern and two Eveready lantern batteries one of which I think is unused and the other is partially used. I also have all of the other flash lights around the apartment. I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 7:50 A.M.: I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Chunky New England clam chowder. I ate the soup with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back out. It looks to be a nice day. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 7:30 A.M.: I took the white Quartz clock with hands off my refrigerator door, and I took it down to my Hyundai, and I used new Velcro strips to place it on the dash board of my Hyundai where I had the Quartz LCD clock. The Quartz LCD clock tends to overheat in the summer and not work, so hopefully the white Quartz clock with hands will work better. I put the Quartz LCD clock on my refrigerator door. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 6:55 A.M.: I noticed in the Greenwich Post recently http://www.acorn-online.com/greenwichhome.htm that the Harvest Time Assembly of God http://www.htag.org/ has a new home and other Greenwich churches http://www.greenwichcommunitypage.com/ReligiousOrgs.htm . I remember when the Harvest Time assembly of God was first meeting in the YMCA, and I remember when they use to be on Old Track Road. I recall responding to an advertisement in a local paper about someone looking for church property about 10 years ago, and I recall calling them up at about 1 A.M. in the morning to tell them there was property available on King Street. I wander if it was the same group that I called. I also recall the Harvest Time Assembly of God bringing me a turkey for Christmas about five years ago. It is enjoyable to see that they have grown and prospered. In my residence in Greenwich as a youth, I attended the Round Hill Community Church, and I also attended a few times the Presbyterian Church and Christ Church. Thus being in the down town area, I see a lot of church people all the time. Of course there are other churches in Greenwich that do not seem to have made the long list. Recently I have not attended church too much since I am frequently on a night schedule. I recall the last time I attended church was at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church when the United States Navy Academy glee club was there in February 2002 in Manhattan during my only trip there in about ten years. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 6:15 A.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. I checked out my new ATM card at the Putnam Trust Bank of New York ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue, and it works just fine. During my walk, I noticed all the daffodils are out and the tulips are just beginning to come out. I sat out for a while, and I listened to the morning birds. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich library, and I bought $5.45 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.079 a gallon for about 26 miles per gallon. I also bought a cardboard Christmas tree Nu-Car scent for $1.18 plus .07 tax for $1.25 for $6.70 total. I put the Nu-Car Christmas tree scent on the driver's side rear seat belt hook, and I threw out the old one. I just now returned home. I believe the tulip festival http://www.tuliptime.com/ is in Holland, Michigan http://www.holland.org/ and http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/ and http://www.dutchvillage.com/ from May 1, 2004 to May 8, 2004. This year is the 75th anniversary "Diamond Jubilee". CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 3:45 A.M.: I put the iced tea in the refrigerator. I checked outside, and it has quit raining, but it is still damp out. I will put the computer on standby, and I will go out for an exercise walk. CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/24/04:

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 2:55 A.M.: Remember next Saturday is http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2004/ . A local horse player here in Greenwich, Connecticut likes this horse http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2004/derby_coverage/derby_entrants/birdstone/ , however anything can happen in a horse race, so do not forget http://www.kentuckyderby.com/ and http://www.interbets.com . Of course one could also go up to Norwalk, Connecticut OTB to place a wager http://www.trackinfo.com/pl/pl_otbs.html or in New York City http://www.nycotb.com/ . Of course one could also watch it at the http://www.jockeyclub.com/ if one were a member. I have a friend whom works for www.nyra.com , so maybe he knows more. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 2:25 A.M.: Messy finger prints on the screen SAMSUNG's Digital World - Press Center Internet Refrigerator . CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 2:15 A.M.: Old Dude music www.neverfellow.com . I am just finishing going through my email. It is suppose to continue to rain until 4 A.M.. CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 1:30 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced three 1/4 inch thick slices of the cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I am now making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/04 Saturday 12:15 A.M.: I rested until noon yesterday, when a relative called and told me about this article http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/nyregion/23queen.html . I then slept until 6 P.M.. I then got up, and I vacuumed my apartment. I then had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I watched the NBC evening news. I checked my mail. I then went back to bed until 10 P.M.. I cleaned up, and I went out. I went by the Food Emporium, and I got there before midnight, so I got this past week's sale items. The Food Emporium starts each new week's sale items at midnight between Friday and Saturday. They are opened all night weekdays through Friday night Saturday morning. I bought a quart of America's Choice lemon juice for $2.19, a quart of America's Choice strawberry jam for $2.79, two 17 ounce bottles of Monari balsamic vinegar for $2.49 each, four Stouffer's 13.5 ounce Lean Cuisine different varieties of chicken dinners for $2.29 each. I got a chicken with mushrooms, chicken Florentine, glazed chicken, and chicken Tuscan meals. I also bought a 20 ounce bag of America's Choice frozen onion rings for $1.79 and a 30 ounce bag of mini potato pancakes for $1.69 for $23 total. I then drove down by the waterfront. Since it was raining, I did not walk. I stopped underneath the Steamboat Road Interstate I-95 bridge for a cigarette break out of the rain. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/04 Friday 4:40 A.M.: I ate 16 low fat Town House crackers each with a 1/4 inch by 3/4 inch by 1 1/2 inch pieces of Wisconsin white cheddar cheese on them along with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest for a while. CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/04 Friday 4:25 A.M.: I went through my email. I also sent out an email pertaining to someone else's inquiry on a legal matter. CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/04 Friday 1:40 A.M.: I was up at 9 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. The relative told me that the Queen Mary II encountered 70 foot seas on its way across the Atlantic to Manhattan, so it must have been a rough crossing. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I took the new signed photograph of President Bush, and I put it in the frame holding the Bush Cheney inaugural invitation, and I hung it to the right side of the day bed beneath the Queen Elizabeth II, President and Laura Bush photograph above the magazine rack. I move the memorial picture of Princess Juliana to above the sweater closet door, where the Bush Cheney inaugural invitation was. I took the winter comforter off the bed in my bedroom, and I packaged it up in the plastic wrapper it came in, and I put it on my center bedroom closet shelf. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I still have to do the vacuuming. While doing my house cleaning, I listened to the final tape number 6 of Dutch about Ronald Reagan. I listened to it with my Emerson wireless headphones. I am now recharging the Radio Shack rechargeable nickel cadmium batteries, and they should be fully charged by 8 A.M.. I have a fresh pair in the Emerson wireless headphones. I threw out the garbage including the waste paper and the garbage from the bathroom. I put a new CVS Clorox toilet tank tablet in the bathroom toilet tank. It is suppose to be raining this morning, so I will be staying inside. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 4:20 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 4:15 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I made it to my 3 P.M. appointment. I returned home. I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive while I was out. I just ate a piece of apple pie with some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 2:00 P.M.: I received a nice signed picture in the mail of President Bush http://www.georgewbush.com/ . I will look for a frame to put it in. I received a package from a relative via UPS. I downloaded and installed the 60 day demo of Microsoft Money 2004, but it works just the same way with www.bny.com as Microsoft Money 2002, so I uninstalled it. I will now shut down the computer, and I will now go back out for my 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 1:15 P.M.: I reinstalled Microsoft Money 2002, and it works just fine. However, it does not import the information from www.bny.com . I am not sure if Money 2004 would are not. However, www.bny.com online works just fine. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 12:30 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I opened a free checking account for life providing I maintain a $100 minimum balance. I also received $10 off a $20 check order. I will also receive a Master Card debit card. I received a temporary ATM card until I receive the card. I also signed up for online banking at www.bny.com and online bill paying. I next went by the Greenwich Housing Authority, and I gave them my signed lease information. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a parallel printer cable for $3. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I bought 10 Washington D.C. stamps for .37 each for $3.70 total. I then went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop. I next went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two 5.5 ounce packages of Arnold garlic and herb large cut croutons for .99 each, a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89, and a loaf of Freihofer's oat nut bread for $1.35 less 10% senior discount of .52 for $4.70 total. I then returned home. I heated a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder which I ate with 12 large cut croutons and a glass of iced tea. I then checked out www.bny.com online banking. To get it to work with Microsoft Money 2002, I have been prompted to reinstall Microsoft Money 2002, which I will do now. I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 7:55 A.M.: I was up at 6 A.M.. I watched television. I will shut down the computer. I will now get dressed and go out for some daytime activity. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 2:25 A.M.: I will now put the computer on standby, and I will lie down for a nap for a while. CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/04 Thursday 2:10 A.M.: I ran Ad-aware 6.0, Spybot, and Norton WinDoctor. I did a System restore backup. I ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive. I turned off Norton AntiVirus 2004, and I installed Windows XP SP2 Release Candidate 1 #2096 upgrade. I then ran the Windows updates. I next did a System Restore backup of the C: drive. I then ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive. I next ran Norton WinDoctor. The system is running just fine with the upgrade. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced three 1/4 inch thick slices of the cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a head of organic broccoli for $1.99 and a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's low fat white corn chips for $1.69 for $3.68 total. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. I moved the black and white comforter from the blue sofa to the end of the bed in the bedroom for when I take naps. I ran the Symantec updates for Norton Internet Security 2004. I will now do a backup with System Restore. I will then run Disk Cleanup on the C: drive. I will then install Windows XP SP2 Release Candidate 1 #2096 on the primary computer. I had a call this morning at 11:30 A.M. from Microsoft about www.microsoft.com/livemeeting/ , and I explained I had not had time to evaluate it yet. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 9:00 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. It is suppose to rain around midnight. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 8:40 P.M.: I was up at 6:30 P.M.. I watched some of the evening news. Today is Queen Elizabeth II's 78th birthday http://www.royal.gov.uk/ , but she does not celebrate it until June when it is warmer in England. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with a relative. I am thinking about opening a Bank of New York www.bny.com checking account with a Master Card debit card, so I can order cigarettes from http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ more cheaply, and I also could pay my bills with personal checks instead of United States post office money orders. For the free checking one has to keep a $100 in one's bank account, so I might just do the individual charge per check method. I will have to think about it. With the debit card, one can only spend the amount in one's checking account. It is not a credit card. I would still keep my Bank of New York savings account. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 6:05 A.M.: Somebody in India with money http://www.maharajajodhpur.com/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 4:55 A.M.: I watched some television. I ate the last piece of apple pie with some iced tea. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest a bit. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 4:00 A.M.: http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ at the web site Seneca cigarettes are $11.25 a carton, and they soon will also except checks for payment for those people whom do not have credit cards. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 3:45 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 3:25 A.M.: The New York Times New York Region A Ship So Big, the Verrazano Cringes . CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 3:05 A.M.: I ate a 1/4 inch by 1.2 inch by 2 inch slice of Stop and Shop Wisconsin cheddar cheese with some iced tea. Technology News Article Reuters.com Top Internet Countries . CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 2:30 A.M.: I finished reading some of the computer technical press and other periodical press. CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/04 Wednesday 12:30 A.M.: I rested a bit. I watched some television. I will now read some of the computer magazines and periodical press that I have accumulated recently. CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/04 Tuesday 11:30 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced two 3/8 inch thick slices of the cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest some more. CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/04 Tuesday 10:10 P.M.: I was up at 3 P.M. today, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I fell back to sleep until 9 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I put all of my recipes on a separate page from the homepage http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/recipie.htm . I will now check the mail downstairs. CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/04 Tuesday 6:05 A.M.: I microwaved and ate the Stouffer's chicken Florentine dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea. I put a little bit of olive oil on the carrots. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/04 Tuesday 5:20 A.M.: I went out after the last message, and I dropped off a calling card at the Shell gasoline station on West Putnam Avenue. I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $2.50, a 10 ounce bag of Harvest select all natural spinach for $2.49, a 13.25 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken Florentine for $2.39, and a 12.5 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken with mushrooms for $2.39, a 12 ounce box of mushrooms for $2.49, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.79, and plum tomatoes at $1.99 a pound for $3.24 for $17.29 total. I was told by one of the staff about Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner - Free spyware scanner . I will install it shortly. I then returned home, and I put away my groceries, and I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/04 Tuesday 3:15 A.M.: I went out after the last message. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I went by the train station area, and they still are working at the train station area at night on the bridges and the track. One of the maintenance personnel told me they need to replace the electrical towers which they have not allocated money for. The project there is a $30 million dollar project. The engineering company is an engineering company with Harris in the name and three more other names. I next drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Shell station on West Putnam Avenue, and I gave them my last calling card. Another acquaintance whom I had not seen in a while came into the station, so I retrieved the calling card, and I gave it to the other acquaintance. I lower the air in my tires from 35 PSI to 32 PSI. As it warms up, the air in one's tires increases with the increased temperature. I will now use my last two Avery 5371 sheets to print out 20 more calling cards. I will then go back out to give one to the Shell Station. When I was out before the Food Emporium was closed, so I will check back to see if they are now opened. CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/04 Tuesday 12:20 A.M.: At 12:02:30 A.M., the lights and electricity just blinked for a couple of seconds, and I had to restart the computer. It is currently 74 degrees Fahrenheit, and since I did not wake up until 3 P.M. this afternoon, I think I will go out and do a little star gazing, just to familiarize myself with the local turf at night to see if it is still pretty much the same. Tuesday nights and Wednesday morning are generally the slowest time of the week at night. I will put the computer on standby. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 11:50 P.M.: I put away my laundry. I guess too many people in this area watch too much television because it is a colder area. Thus the military activity on the television tends to scare civilians whom have not lived around the military and whom frequently know about as much about the military as what is in the modern cinema. Having lived and traveled around the U.S. Military when I was not in Greenwich, although I have not actually been involved in combat, I know the U.S. Military is a quite large group of people whom are well funded. Thus since I have seen certain elements of the U.S. military and their activities at a modest level, I feel somewhat secure that they are capable of protecting this country. Also since the U.S.A. has two friendly neighbors on their borders and two large oceans on either side with a well equipped U.S. Navy to secure the oceans, we have a very good level of military protection in this country. However, all I know is what I read in the civilian press versus military communications. Since in times of war, it would be against journalistic principles to publish information on the U.S. military except what they chose to publish, I can not really say much more. It would seem to me if the military news in the public media scares people, they should try looking at other information. I remember during World War II, the civilians in the United States whom were not involved in the military effort worked in the defense production industry producing the materials needed by the military. Also a great many people whom were not involved in the military or production worked on such efforts as Victory gardens and salvage drives. Since Greenwich, Connecticut is a well established community, the citizens may feel, they do not have the time to help out on some certain level. I guess we have not reached that point yet in this more modern world where some of the old fashioned techniques might still work. Whatever the case from my viewpoint, my modest apartment is well maintained, and all of the computers are working well, so what on my limited budget, I have been able to do is successful. However, there is always something else that others can do. I suppose since people prefer not to bother me, since I am disabled, I just simply do what I think is best. In my writing, I try to do it in a friendly Midwestern style versus the tombstone press of the New York press. I obviously know other styles of writing from having traveled and read quite a bit. Since I read so much technical information on the internet, I tend to write short summaries with just the basic facts. In other words, I do not write like I were writing a movie script or great literature. Since I chat with various people through out the day, I find out occasional information that I do not report, since it might be more sensitive information to the individuals involved. Thus a lot of what I write is more a historical memoir or log of activity that I can remember a bit of now versus what the current reality might be in that same location today. Since we have mass communications in this country today, more than likely people seem to all know the same news, so I tend to look at more technical reports which most people would find boring, since as a self trained engineer, I have some back ground in the technical field that other people might not have. What ever the case, I suppose those people in the public arena with White House fever will soon find out, they are not going anywhere without money, and to have money to influence public policy, one generally has to work at some profession or skill. Thus at the moment, I see a great many democrats using the Greenwich library as a political platform which is their right, but at the same time, the other political parties have the equal rights to use it too, and since over half the town population might not be U.S. voting citizens along with visitors and guests, they more than likely would have other non political interests relevant to their homelands. Since I think more like a reference librarian on the internet, I tend to focus my insight towards what I know is available on the internet, and not what is personally financially profitable or politically advantageous. Since the republican party control the Executive branch of government at the current moment, there are probably a large number of displaced democratic operatives. However, just because they once worked in government and they might once again work in government in the future does not mean they have the right to pretend that they are still in government when in fact they are not. It is my personal viewpoint that most of the full time government officials do not change very much with elections, since most government work is not as highly paid as the private sector, and there are so many complex procedures that the entrepreneurial spirit is frequently stifled. Whatever, the case if all that people are upset about is what is on television, they can disconnect their cable television service and read a wide variety of printed press available. When I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu , there was a wide variety of printed material available because the Donnelly family of R.R. Donnelly http://www.rrd.com/ had donated the library and there was a large variety of printed information to read. It is my primary belief the purpose of the library is for reading and obtaining reading material, so the concept of networking in the library to me is anathema. I have used the Greenwich Library for 43 years, so obviously I know a few other library users. I suppose, since I do not pay attention much to the younger generation whom seem to be in business, I am more involved in other more technical computer research in the reading material I read in the Greenwich library, and since I have the internet at home with ample communications, I would imagine if anyone wanted to email me, they would be able to do so. Thus by keeping my web presence very simple, I do not pretend to be a great metropolitan university lording it over the simple idiots in the country. From what I know a great many academic people from the New York University systems live in this area, so just because the fact there is the internet, they more than likely are waiting to publish their books or other publications in which case, they might earn some money unlike me who takes the time to volunteer my two cents. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 10:10 P.M.: I have 25 minutes to go on the dry cycle of the laundry. I chatted with a relative. I reheated the remaining half of the steamed rice from yesterday and a half of a 15 ounce can of Green Giant green peas, which I ate with four 1/4 inch thick slices of the cold eye round beef with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce. I had it all to eat with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 9:05 P.M.: I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom yesterday. I just started two loads of laundry, and it has 25 minutes to go on the wash cycle. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 8:45 P.M.: I had a telephone call from a friend about 6:30 A.M. this morning. I was awake at 3:00 P.M. this afternoon. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I cleaned up, and I went out. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 32.5 ounce bottles of GlowIt tough acting orange cleaner degreaser and multi-purpose cleaner for .88 each and a 19 ounce bottle of Ajax antibacterial dish washing liquid for .77 less a $2.50 bonus bucks coupon for .03 total cost. I then completed my walk, and I sat out at various locations. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the first section of the Greenwich Time. I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors, and I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 4:15 A.M.: Of course since Greenwich, Connecticut is supposedly still an Exxon company town, we could try to get some wealthy Exxon personnel from Irvine, Texas to come up here for medical treatment at our local hospital http://www.greenhosp.org/home.asp under the Exxon www.exxon.com company medical plan, so maybe we might make a little money in Greenwich. Of course, I am not sure whether White Plains, New York is still an Exxon company town, but they have http://www.burke.org/home.cfm and http://www.wcmc.com/ . Of course the Greenwich Hospital is affiliated with http://www.med.yale.edu/ and of course New York City has http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/, http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/44.cfm , http://www.gnyha.org/ , http://www.med.cornell.edu/ , http://www.nym.org/, http://www.svcmc.org/portal/default.asp , http://www.einstein.edu/ , http://www.montefiore.org/ , http://www.wehealnewyork.org/ , http://www.nyudh.med.nyu.edu/ , http://www.med.nyu.edu/ , http://www.nyfoundling.org/ , http://www.med.nyu.edu/Bellevue/ , http://www.northshorelij.com/ and http://www.nyp.org/ . Thus if one can not get medical care within one hour of this area, more than likely one has not looked hard enough. I am sure there are other more specialized medical facilities in this area too. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 3:30 A.M.: When I first arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the third week of September 1976, I noticed there was a Howard Hughes medical clinic in Fort Lauderdale, and I saw lots of TWA airline personnel which Hughes owned at the time. I thus figured that one of the so called homeless people around town might be Howard Hughes. The one homeless man that I dealt with regularly was Wiley Middleton, and he was 72 years old with blue eyes and about 5 foot 10 inches tall, and I recall he had a very noticeable groin hernia, which I was always curious that he never had treated. My surgery for the same condition a year ago last February at the Greenwich Hospital with arthroscopic surgery was not too difficult. However, Howard Hughes was supposedly 6 foot 4 inches tall, so Wiley was not Howard. I have a picture from the internet of Howard Hughes in my apartment with the Spruce Goose which I can not find on the net presently, but these are still there http://securehosts.com/fecha/hughes.htm , http://www.booksmags.com/books/search/res/r371354.html . There is a gardener in Greenwich whom works for the Public Works Department that has his same look, but not as tall. I have not seen him in about six months. Also when I first came back to Greenwich over 20 years ago, I use to go to a church group twice a week for the first five years, and the person whom ran the church group use to belong to Howard Hughes' family Episcopal church in Houston, Texas. That person moved to Figure 8 Island, North Carolina and when her husband died, she moved to her daughter's in California. Thus since the Hughes network not only has roots in Texas but California, maybe other Hughes associates are moving out to California to get away from the cold up north. I also recall when Microsoft started getting big, they moved the Spruce Goose to Oregon http://www.sprucegoose.org/, and possibly since Hughes as an aviator was involved with Boeing www.boeing.com in Seattle, Washington, more than likely there might be a Hughes Microsoft connection. Also since I just saw on local television that there is still 40 feet of snow in some locations at Crater Lake in Oregon, and since Hughes as a geologist as well as an aviator would know something about Crater Lake, possibly if he were still alive, he could be living on the island in the center of Crater Lake monitoring the Volcano. I think the name of the mountain in which Crater Lake is located is Scott mountain. Also my paternal grandfather had the same look as Howard Hughes. Since the Scotts and Hughes were both first families of Virginia, there might some kinship there too. Thus if we do not seem to be part of the Rockefeller network, we could always pretend to be part of the Hughes network. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 2:45 A.M.: Before the last message, I cut my toe nails and my finger nails. It is a little known fact that after one is dead, their hair, finger nails, and toe nails continue to grow, because all of them are composed of dead skin. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 2:40 A.M.: Basically the computer error on the Federal Crime network computer network when I was last in Key West with a number of senior government officials was caused by an individual whom I attended Greenwich Country Day, the Taft School, and Lake Forest College with. The computer person also worked for NASA and Harris Electronics at one time, and he also used to live in Lowell Weicker's guest cottage on Lake Avenue where the individual grew up at the same location. Whatever, the individual's political motivation for misusing his access to the Federal Computer network is hard for me to determine, since when I was last in Key West in February 1982, I was around a gardener whom looked like Ronald Reagan and a resident of Salisbury, Connecticut that looked like former President Bush. Moreover the same computer operator was dismissed from Lake Forest College for causing similar problems, and the same individual's family claim to be close friends of a Supreme Court Judge. Since the same individual was close childhood friends of a Rockefeller relative whom I also attended schools with, it would seem to me that his political motivation might have been against the conservative wing of the Republican Party, since while I was at Greenwich Country Day which is basically a Rockefeller funded school in its origins, I openly campaigned against Nelson Rockefeller in his republican primary run. I openly campaigned for Barry Goldwater whom seemed to be a bit more conservative in times of conflict, not to mention I personally liked Nelson, so I did not want him to get shot like Kennedy. Whatever, the individual's political motivations were, it would seem to me that more than likely he would continue to practice dirty tricks, and where there is one, more than likely there are more. If the individual is still around here, I no longer recognize the individual, but I would imagine since his family is also an established part of the Greenwich Community, he would be more than likely still in this area. The same individual also showed up back at Lake Forest College a number of times after he was dismissed from the college, and since he was from here, I always tried to be congenial. Whatever, the reason for causing the problem on the computer network down in Key West it was probably to my advantage to get back up north, since the last time I was down there in February 1982, we really did not have any security, and while visiting the two other individuals mentioned for coffee one night, I noticed when departing their trailer near the Boca Chica navy base that there was a coral snake on the door step. Thus since I was not adapted to Key West when I was last went down there because of the cold up north, more than likely my old habits of camping out which I did in 1976 to 1978 would have gotten me into trouble. Also the arresting Cuban police officer arrested me, because he claimed that I was Nazi because I wore Bosche and Lomb sun glasses which are quite common up north. Moreover, while I was down there I was around another individual that looked like Nelson Rockefeller, Steve Buel who looked like Tennessee Williams or Adolph Hitler without the mustache and supposedly he owned a million head of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and ran the Fennimore cheese dairy cooperative in Wisconsin, Rick Todd from North Tarrytown, New York, and Bob Russell whom ran a small health resort guest house in Key West, and Buel, Todd, and Russell use to spend a lot of time driving a Izy whom was a Saudi Arabian around town like they worked for him. Izy spent most of his free time on a prayer rug at Louis' Patio where the Windsurfers including Mel Fisher's children use to sunbath back in 1978. I think most of them might have been down there while I was there in 1976 to 1978. Thus although Key West had gotten busier the local chamber of commerce did not like me running around like Tom Sawyer, but wanted me to look more like a resort person which is a more expensive look to maintain. On that trip I also met someone from Canada that looked like Prince Andrew and a former United State Navy medic named Miller, from New Haven, Connecticut that knew Lowell Weicker and he gave me a morphine pill when I got third degree sunburn and turned purple. Thus since I was around the establishment down there, they obviously did not want me around for some reason, since the winter in 1976 to 1978, they did not seem to have any money, so on that last trip in 1982, they seemed to have so much money that they did not seem to think that I was very important to keep an eye on. Basically, it was my perspective that the people in the Monroe County jail on that trip looked healthier and more like your average cross section of Americans than the people supposedly running Key West. Whatever, the case it is my personal viewpoint that since Key West is in Monroe county, Florida which is a democratic county, they simply did not like republicans. I also recall that there was a Navy frigate about a quarter of a mile off shore from the Casa Marina, so maybe they did not want me to see some sort of military activity. I did see people whom might have been Scandinavian whom I had seen down there before as well as someone that looked like Andwar Sedat of Egypt and Queen Nord of Jordan. Of course, for all I know one of those Cuban looking people might have been her husband. Whatever, the case they were not too friendly. I suppose possibly someone was being held up north in the cold, so they might have selected me to be a hostage, but it sure was not the expected vacation that I expected. Any way after about a month in jail at the Monroe County Jail, they flew me by the Federal Air Marshal air service by prop planes from Key West to Titusville, Florida, and then to Virginia Beach, Virginal, and then to Bridgeport, Connecticut and then after waiting a month in Bridgeport, Connecticut since I did not have $150 bail, they took me to court, and they then said it was all a mistake and set me free. Basically to me, it seemed like a big waste of the tax payers money for no other reason than some idiot was probably playing power politics. From what I know when I live here and stay locally in Greenwich, those types of situations do not seem to occur. Of course once burned, twice shy, so I have never bothered returning to Key West, although I have returned to Florida a few times. It is my viewpoint as the Executive branch changes in the United States government every four years, so does the disposition of friends and enemies in this country. So thus although I am a member of the republican party, I do not work for the U.S. Government, although I am dependant on them for financial security, thus locally in my networking here in Greenwich, I try to take a Swiss or Swedish or neutral perspective. CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/04 Monday 1:30 A.M.: I ate two bowls of corns chips with some iced tea. I turned on some television with some of www.booktv.org about Hemingway. It reminded me of something, although it has been a long time since I read any Hemingway. I think it was only during high school. When I returned to New York in January 1973, I occasionally would have a drink. There use to be two bars on the east side called Daly's Daffodil and Daly's Dandelion. Daly's Daffodil was at about 3rd Avenue and 62nd street and Daly's Dandelion was at First Avenue and 59th Street. I use to go to Daly's Dandelion more often because it is was not too busy, and it was near the Ford Modeling agency, so it was sort of an amusing crowd. There were two young aspiring actors that worked there as waiters named Michael Bright and John Michael Barrett. The lived on Minetta Place in Greenwich Village where both Faulkner and Hemingway had lived in a carriage house. Michael Bright was from Stonington, Connecticut and his uncle was a neurosurgeon at Sloan Kettering hospital and John Barrett was from Bloomington, Indiana, and he had been raised by George Bernard Shaw's mistress. One of the regular customers in the bar at the time was Shawn Hemingway whom had been to school in Switzerland, and we all used to chat with him. When a few years later, I was in Key West other members of the Hemingway family were down there. Since I did not have a typewriter when I was in Europe the winter before, I did a lot of writing in blank page journals while I traveled. Whatever, happened to those journals, I do not recall. I suppose since the Hemingway family were from Michigan where my mother's family were from, we might have known them earlier. Whatever, the case, when I was in school, I read quite a lot, and the professors always kept saying "Publish or Perish", so now that I have a very good computer with word processing, it is easier to write, but since I do not travel very much anymore, I do not have must first hand experience to write about except my daily routine. I do recall the last time I spoke with Shawn Hemingway, he had fallen off a bar stool at Daly's Dandelion, and we took him the emergency room at Sloan Kettering. I do recall him telling me that he had never been to Key West. I also noticed that the person that I just saw on television did not bare much resemblance to the Shawn Hemingway on Book TV just now, so maybe Hemingway had more than one relative named Shawn Hemingway. Whatever, the case I use to enjoy chatting about my adventures in Europe at that time. I suppose so many people go to Europe anymore, it is pretty hard to come up with any real new content. I still enjoy trying to recall past adventures on my keyboard. I suppose locally here in Greenwich, I never mention that there is a little league baseball field in the field behind the building and a skating rink, and I never mention these facts, since I do not pay much attention to them, but I noticed recently the Boys of Summer have returned again. I only went into the ice rink twice in the last 20 years about 18 years ago to take a friend from Brazil ice skating. I never do much descriptive activity about Steamboat Road where I lived for 4.5 years before moving here a little over 15 years ago. Basically in 20 years, a lot of Steamboat Road has been fixed up a bit with renovations of some of the shore homes, but from outward appearance, the renovated Delamar Hotel is about the only noticeable improvement. I do not spend much time around Grass Island, since I have to drive through a bit of traffic congestion to get there, and I enjoy brief views of Long Island sound from Steamboat Road more. It is sort of like walking out to the beach, which I did most every day on Nantucket. I also have to drive through a bit of traffic to get out to Tod's Point, so it is not as easily accessible as one might think. There is not really too much traffic in the mile drive for me to Greenwich Avenue, where I frequently walk. I do not go to Byram Shore very often, since it does not have much of a view of Long Island sound. Well, I suppose once one has seen the open ocean views on Nantucket the viewpoints from the shore in Greenwich, Manhattan, or Key West seem quite limited. However, I also suppose as one gets older, one enjoys the comfort of more neighbors and more facilities. I do recall down in Key West a great many people spoke French because of the large number of French Canadians there, so frequently since I did not know Spanish, I spent a lot of time speaking broken French. I was once thrown in jail once because of a computer error, and one of the cell mates who was quite large bunched me quite hard in the jaw and face a number of times. I finally got him to quit doing it since there was no way at 135 pounds I could hit back hard enough by telling him, "I was glad he knew how to hold his punches." He never hit me after that. Basically it has been my pattern for most of life in pursing an investigation or a story to be lead astray down a detour road of pursuit to see where it all leads. It is sort of the concept of the "Road Less Traveled". However, once one makes that detour, one frequently increases the traffic so much on that detour, that it becomes the "Road Most Traveled" . When I was down in Key West, somebody use to write about one article a week in the New York Times about Key West, so gradually it became busier. It is the nature of living 22 miles east of Manhattan that this area tends to be busy all the time except maybe late at night. I do not go out much late at night anymore, since although it is warmer, I recently seem to enjoy typing notes on the computer compared to star gazing on Greenwich Avenue. I really have not regularly walked at night since about a month before 911, so I suppose there is a whole new group of night strollers after this period of time. Still having done it so many times, I suppose once it warms up, I might try it some more. I have noticed that the printing and copy shop just south of Starbucks is closed and Van Damm interiors further south is relocating. Plus there are the two buildings where there were fires, which are due for demolition. Whatever, the case the general ambience of Greenwich Avenue has not changed too much over the years. In the morning there are the maintenance personnel and more early rising senior citizens and commuters. At lunch time, there is the business community. In the afternoon, there are the house wives shopping with their children and the students. In the early evening, there are the commuters and the day workers pursuing their after work activities. At night, there is the restaurant crowd, the pub and coffee shop crowd, and the movie crowd, and quite a few exercise walkers. After about 10 P.M., there is just the occasional commuter and hospital personnel walking back and forth to the train station with a few pub crawlers. After 2 A.M., there is not much of anyone, except some of the janitorial personnel going about their jobs. By 5 A.M., it begins to pick up with early morning joggers and walkers and the delivery trucks and early rising commuters and maintenance personnel. Thus having seen Greenwich downtown for over 20 years this time around at different times 7 days a week for 24 hours a day, I pretty much know what the downtown area is like at all times of the day, much the same way I use to know Manhattan. However, since I have spent so much time exercise walking downtown which is cheaper than a golf course or a gym, I suppose some of the locals might have the misconception that I am security personnel. Quite frankly when my family could afford it, I much more preferred the routine in back country of doing chores and gardening and playing golf, which is a much more expensive past time than watching the daily pedestrian traffic on Greenwich Avenue. However having lived in busy urban environments since I lived in Florence, Italy in 1972 I am quite use to the busier urban environment. Whatever, the case I suppose it is also enjoyable being on this side of town, where it is a bit quieter than the downtown area, particularly since I am frequently sleeping during the daytime. Thus I have become accustomed to my environment. Since gardening in back country can become all consuming, it is enjoyable to have a bit of free time for other activities. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 11:05 P.M.: I watched a Book TV show with Mike Deaver about his new book about Nancy Reagan. I ate a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 9:35 P.M.: I took the 2.5 pound eye round beef roast, and I seasoned all sides with Old Bay seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, Italians spice, oregano, basil, and Texas Best mesquite barbeque sauce. I am cooking it on the roasting rack in the metal baking pan in the Farberware convection at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes. I will eat two 3/8 inch thick slices of it with the cooking juices along with steamed white rice and steam fresh broccoli and iced tea. I make the steamed rice by rinsing a cup of Carolina enriched rice in a large bowl under hot water, and then I strained it with a metal wire strainer underneath hot water, and I put the cup of rinsed rice in the China Village rice microwave rice steamer with 14 ounces of water and two tablespoons of olive oil and a teaspoon of sesame oil, and I put the inner and outer lids on the China Village rice steamer, and I will heat it in the General Electric microwave oven for 11 minutes and let it stand for five minutes. I will eat half of the rice and I will refrigerated the rest in a Rubbermaid container. I will also put about a teaspoon of olive oil on the steamed fresh broccoli. I will have the dinner with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 8:40 P.M.: I was up at 3 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with a relative. I cleaned up, and I went out. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I sat out at various locations. I stopped by CVS, and I bought from the center 90% off rack four 14 ounce bags of Brach's premium peacock eggs or jelly bean type candies with real fruit pectin for .19 each bag plus .05 tax for .81 total. I then completed my walk. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. I put the jelly beans in the bag with the candied hearts on the floor in the left living room closet. I also got on my receipt a $2.50 extra bucks coupon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 4:55 A.M.: I watched a bit of television. Of course if one has read a bit of Hemingway on I believe the Spanish revolution, when the revolutionists marched into Madrid, he wrote there were "Four Columns surrounding Madrid, and there was a Fifth Column in Madrid", thus the term "Fifth Columnists". Well, anyway Hemingway was from Michigan and spoke Spanish, and my family is from Illinois and Michigan besides living elsewhere, and besides English I have studied a little bit of French and Latin, so I some times can makes sense of the Latin languages, but I do not speak any Spanish, and my French is very broken. I remember, when I lived down south, I saw the movie taken from Hemingway's book "For Whom the Bells Toll", and living in the peaceful south at the time, it showed graphically the story of the Spanish revolution. Well, today is another day, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon, and I suppose today will be another day. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 3:35 A.M.: During June 2001 before 911, I had two friends come up from down south to visit, and they are in residence in Manhattan right now. At that time, I had a candid conversation with them at Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue, and I explained to them briefly my assessment of the area. I said with all the large numbers of newly arrived people here from the Eastern Hemisphere, it was like an invading army, and possibly they were coming here during times of peace, so as not to be there during times of conflict. I explained to my friends that this country is not as wealthy as it once was, and it was my viewpoint that unlike World War I and II when the Americans went overseas, if there were ever to be another conflict some time in the future, more than likely the invading forces would be arriving on our own shores. To my surprise my well educated friends agreed with me. What sort of time frame, we are talking about is opened to second guessing. However, with the large commitment of U.S. military forces and supplies to the Iraq effort, it obviously has drawn down our reserves, so I would imagine current allies are accessing our potential vulnerabilities in the future. I told my friends that I had toured most of America, and from a military point of view, there was not really much worth stealing, and they agreed with me too. Whatever, the case I suppose some of our many visitors in the last couple of decades since the wall came down have been accessing us militarily. However, what the time frame of any future events which potentially could occur would be up to how well we maintain our current state of military preparedness. Realistically, it could be something like the western half of the Eastern hemisphere invading the eastern half of the Eastern hemisphere, and the Western Hemisphere would be like a highway rest area between both sides. Still on the shores of the Eastern Hemisphere, there are large numbers of people whom have seen conflict before, so they are not as secure as some of the residents of this country whom sit comfortably in the middle of this country reading the news stories. However, currently from my point of view this area pretty much remains the same as it has always been, since I have lived here, except the population has increased over the years and there are a lot more foreign cars and other imports. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 2:30 A.M.: I ate two bowls of corn chips with some iced tea. Basically although the Scott family has been in America for close to 400 years and were settled on the east coast of the United States and Canada very early in its European settlement, I suppose since they were hearty explorers, seamen, and farmers. However, my particular branch of the family were out in Illinois before my father moved our family here in 1961 in a corporate move. Illinois also tends to be fairly developed and established. Since a great deal of Illinois land is involved in agricultural purposes, besides growing field corn they also grow large amounts of Soy Beans. When one sees the Archer Daniel Midland http://www.admworld.com/ trucks arrive at the Arnold Bread factory here in Greenwich, Connecticut, they obviously are supplying a large amount of the grains used by the Arnold bakery which is owned by George Weston foods http://www.georgewestonfoods.com.au/ . Thus beside the commodity brokers in Illinois, I would suppose people around my family out there were also in touch with the Asian community in Asia to supply Soy Beans which are used in Soy Sauce a common additive to Asian foods. My grandfather Scott's brother once told me he had been to China over 40 times selling soy beans to the Chinese, and I suppose he also sold them in Japan. Thus when one eats a corn chip, more than likely somebody in Illinois are nearby is making money, and much could be probably said for soy sauce or other Midwestern food ingredients which are distributed all around the world. I suppose when one begins to realize how large the Midwest is in the United States and one adds the Canadian plains, one is talking about a large geographical area in which food and grains are produced. I suppose although about 5% of Americans are now involved in the agricultural business with mechanization, I would imagine there are still a large amount of people whom are involved in the food business at other levels of manufacture and distribution. Basically from what I know about my family's roots in the Midwest, they were established members of their communities, but since they were primarily agricultural communities, they were not particularly wealthy, but they managed to make a living, and when I use to visit my relatives in the Midwest, it seemed they were living comfortably. However, I suppose since this area is so busy compared to other areas, they would not feel as comfortable in this area, since it is also very expensive. However, since my paternal grandfather was a locomotive engineer on the Illinois Central railroad which had about 50,000 miles of track in Illinois, I would imagine he would have known other railroad people. Also since he lived in Champaign Urbana, Illinois where NCSA http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ is located, there are obviously highly intelligent computer people there with ample funding from the government. Since I only visited that location, and I never actually lived there, I am not really that familiar with the area, but I would imagine in the more rural academic environment, they are able to concentrate more fully on their work. Of course Internet Explorer was developed from NCSA Mosaic which was also developed there. Whatever the case, I suppose in time some of their other work will be made available to the general public. I saw this web site while browsing Starbucks today www.hp.com/recycle . Whatever, the case since most people in this area are programmed on New York media, it has been my experience in this area for 43 years not many people are interested in the Midwest, since it is a lot colder and more isolated out there. However, like any areas where there is less distraction, the academic community out there has plenty of time for reading, so they tend to be well informed. I suppose if one were to check out one's local library more closely, one would find they also publish quite a bit of printed material. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 1:10 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/04 Sunday 12:15 A.M.: I watched a little bit of television. I guess I will now go through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/04 Saturday 11:00 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I went downtown, and I drove down by the waterfront. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I bought a number 28 Winner Wonderland scratch card for a dollar, but I did not win. I used the ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue at Putnam Trust Bank of New York. After I finished my walk, and I went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5.65 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.039 a gallon for about 24 miles per gallon. I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought an eye round roast at $2.99 a pound for $7.39, two 96 ounce containers of Tropicana premium orange juice with calcium for $2.99 each, and a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's 50% less fat white corn chips for $1.69 for $15.06 total. I then returned home. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm , but this time I used a 4.5 ounce can of flaked crab and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. I chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/04 Saturday 3:25 P.M.: I was up at noon. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I worked on some email. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/04 Saturday 5:05 A.M.: I have never made an international telephone call with my Net2Phone account www.net2phone.com , because I did not know anyone to call overseas, but I just found this London, England telephone number [44] (0)20 7499-9000 for the United States of America Embassy in London, England http://www.usembassy.org.uk/ukaddres.html and I tested it. Basically, in Net2Phone one selects the country prefix which is 44 for London, and then one dials the rest of the number. I got through to an operator at the U.S. embassy, and it sounded clear as a bell, but I did not actually hear Big Ben in the back ground. I gossiped briefly working the grapevine. The Net2Phone rate to London is .05 a minute http://dcs.net2phone.com/consumer/commcenter/rates.asp . I guess since I only speak English well, I can only call English speaking places internationally, but since I have been so busy on the computer for the last 12 or so years, I have not managed to really keep up on all the contacts I once had. Since most of the people I know seem to be established, I assume they would contact me if they had reason to do so, since more than likely they could afford the cost. I guess since there are all sorts of security problems with travel anymore, not as many people are traveling. I was told by a local British resident recently that there is a lot of security coming from England into this country. However, it has always been my experience when reentering this country from abroad that there is always a lot of security. I guess for those individuals coming from more rural areas, it looks like a lot of security, but from my viewpoint, it is just the normal activity for a busier transportation hub. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/04 Saturday 3:50 A.M.: Basically from what I can tell, we get a lot of people whom travel through this area because a small group of people advertise themselves as being from this area, when in fact affluent people frequently have multiple homes, so they are not always at the place they advertise themselves as living at. Since my family has lived at multiple locations, I maintain the best communications that I can afford. However, since this area is near a lot of transportation hubs, it would seem to me that a great many other people are in the same boat so to speak. From what I can tell, if people whom I supposedly know do not contact me, it is because they do not have any matters which to discuss with me. Basically since I constantly maintain my rather outwardly simple apartment which is quite complex because of the computer activity, it is not what one might expect. However, since I live on disability income with modest assistance from a family member and government subsidies, I try to be cooperative with the local governments and I continually communicate with family members. Basically by being eligible for subsidized housing and by watching my expenses by buying grocery sale items and other thrift shop items, I made ends meet. However, I do smoke cigarettes which is expensive, and I do have other fixed expenses, so I really can not afford any other sort of entertainment outside of my apartment other than walking and reading, and bird watching. Since I run a complex apartment, I only entertain a few friends and family members when they are in the area. Basically since it is a bit crowded with all of the second hand items that I have accumulated, most people would find it claustrophobic unless perhaps they had been traveling in a cabin on a cruise ship or some other limited living hospitality. However, a great many people up north live in smaller residents, since up north one has to pay to heat one's residence during the winter. Thus I have never done anything wrong or illegal, but a certain vocal and conspicuous minority in this community seem to avoid individuals whom are affiliated with the republican party and conservative politics, and they also seem to try to provoke trouble, when they should realize that during the times they are in the minority they should try diplomacy and not hostility towards the status quo. It is my impression that besides the tax payers a great many other people here volunteer their professional skills, and from a political stand point, probably close to half the full time residents of Greenwich are probably not United States citizens, so they prefer not to involve themselves in the various political activities in this area. In other words many people come here poisoning the wells before other people arrive. CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/04 Saturday 3:00 A.M.: When I first returned to Manhattan around January 1973 after college and living elsewhere, I was already familiar with Manhattan, since I had lived out here in Connecticut since June 1961. With the economic toll the Viet Nam war took, Manhattan had not changed very much. About the only noticeable change was that instead of large amounts of coal dust in the air from coal burning furnaces, there was an improved air quality at least in the winter. While living in Manhattan, I mostly walked since the subways were an expensive .35. My father gave me $5 a week walking around money, and I stayed at my sister's apartment and ate my food there. I dressed up in a suit most every day while job hunting. Basically with the decline of the Viet Nam war, the economy was already in a down turn. I occasionally would go to student bars in the student areas and chat with other students. Since I lived the previous year in Europe, I was used to meeting and chatting with Europeans many of which were in Manhattan. Since I usually dressed in a suit or dress pants with a wool jacket and top coat, I probably looked a bit more prosperous than some of the other students. Of course from the period of 1961 to 1973 after living in Europe on a leaner diet, I was still about 135 pounds, so I basically was just wearing my old school clothes. Most of the people I interviewed with job hunting appeared to be a bit overweight. Since I was thin it was not too difficult to walk a lot. However, it was my impression that there were not that many young people in Manhattan except on weekends, when they came in from the suburbs. Most of the people I knew were starting out jobs and lived in the upper east side. Since I was more of an academic and since I had lived in Europe, I explored Greenwich Village which was a student area, and after my sister was married, I lived in Greenwich Village from about May to July of 1973. A friend from Illinois also lived nearby. At the time I paid $40 a week for a room on a $85 a week take home salary after taxes from C.B.S.. Basically after paying to take the subway uptown and to transfer on a bus to West 57th street and eating my meals in the C.B.S. cafeteria, there was not much money except for laundry. Once it got hot in Manhattan that June 1973, I did visit South Hampton once on my own via train, and I was surprised the A&P grocery store out there cashed a check for me off Chemical Bank with just my CBS identification. I think later that summer I was house guest in South Hampton of a family from Bedford, New York whom my friend from Illinois knew. At the time I did not know that the Scotts were the original settlers of South Hampton. Whether there were still any relatives out there is open to speculation after close to 400 years of immigration and many people taking the family name. Around July of 1973 after CBS fired me, I moved back home with my parents and family whom had moved down from Weston, Massachusetts back to Greenwich, Connecticut. Thus I spent time helping to move into the house and gardening around the house. That September 1973, my father cosigned a loan for me to buy a 1971 four door Volvo from Mr. Peabody here in Greenwich for $1,750. I recalled the banker was named Mr. DuPont, and he worked in the bank across Bob's Sports in Darien. With the car, I was able to get a job working at Boodles in Greenwich. Since I had a car, I would occasionally go into Manhattan late at night after work as a waiter. Some times when I was not working, I would go to art events such as openings at the Museum of Modern Art. I basically learned at CBS, that the New York Times sold out every morning at the CBS newsstand, so I learned to read it. I recall on Friday's they published an article about various events happening around New York City. I think about November that year, the oil embargo started, and I was able to get gasoline at the Round Hill store or the Darien I-95 rest area or the Hess station in Riverside. In Manhattan, they had gasoline at the Hess station on 10th Avenue around 46th street, the Shell Station on Houston street, the Mobil gasoline station next to Rockefeller University, and occasionally the Mobil station across from the C.B.S. broadcast center on west 57th street, and I recall a Marathon gasoline station across the Queensboro Bridge on the way to Long Island. That was about all that was available for gasoline then, and possibly some occasional stations in the Bronx on the way into Manhattan. I knew people in Manhattan, so around December 1973, when business was so slow in the suburbs that the restaurant fired me through no fault of my own, I would spend more time in Manhattan helping out a friend whom had a going business catering to the establishment. Thus although we were never really paid, we got the occasional free restaurant meal, free taxi ride, and invitations to the occasional party. Still there was the business to run, and I recall answering my friend's telephone from 50 to 100 times a day and taking messages while he was away on appointments. Thus I knew his network of contacts and associates. Since I was already familiar with Manhattan, I kept myself busy going to museums mostly the Metropolitan Museum, and I basically knew where the working people in Manhattan spent free time versus the tourists. Since I had a minor in fine art from college besides my B.A. in Economics, I thought if banking did not work out, possibly something in the art world would. However, living in Manhattan requires a lot of walking, so occasionally I would go back out to the suburbs which back then were pretty quiet, and I would do chores and gardening around home. I sold the Volvo around February of 1973. Thus I pretty much continued that routine until April 1975, when I tried to quit smoking cigarettes by camping out in the woods at Conyers Farm and swimming and doing chores around home. I recall I built a raft about 20 feet by 20 feet out of an old dock on the Conyers Farm lake, which was quite substantial, since I knew how to frame a house. I went up to Nantucket from mid July to mid August stopping first at Martha's' Vineyard. I tried looking into Yale that Fall, and I moved to South Carolina the first of 1976, so I do not recall going into Manhattan after that previous April, except once. A friend of mine's godmother had gotten into a car accident in Glen Cove, Long Island, so I took some dried flowers from our garden, I packaged them up, and I left them with her door man on East 68th street. I suppose it might have seen odd, but I could not afford fresh flowers, and there were plenty of fresh flowers around. I recall my friend's god mother was in charge of a number of charity events including the Long Island garden show, so she must have thought we were pretty hard up in Connecticut. Actually the flowers when I picked them from our family property might have been something like fresh honey suckle, and I recall putting wet toilet paper and tin foil around them before I packed them up and dropped them off. Later that summer when I first arrived in Nantucket a friend of my friend told me his god mother had died from her injuries, and when my friend showed up in Nantucket, it was strange he did not mention it, or seem to know it. I did not mention it to him, and I left the day after he arrived after we had a fight about another gardening product that he brought with him to Nantucket. I had another friend on Nantucket whom I told about that. Basically by the time I moved to South Carolina, I was looking forward to some southern hospitality, but the winter in Greenville, South Carolina while I was working at Daniel construction expediting was almost as cold as up north, but shorter. I recall seeing lots of cars on the nearby interstate heading down to Florida. When I returned back home to Greenwich a day before the Fourth of July with a U-Haul trailer, I was just in time to see the Tall Ships in New York Harbor for the bicentennial and all of the pageantry. The day after the fourth of July, I saw Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip touring Bloomingdales department store. I was told that King Olaf of Norway was at F.A.O. Schwartz toy store. I then returned to Nantucket for part of the month of August and that September around the third week, I ventured down to Florida on my own, which is another different story. I recall having my traveling belongings in the car, and I had returned to Greenwich, after leaving Nantucket and driving around New England a bit and then returning to Greenwich, and I think I had a fight with my mother, so I said I was going out for frozen orange juice at the A&P, and for some odd reason when I left the A&P, instead of returning home, I just kept driving south to Florida, until pretty much the next thing I remember is two days later, I was exhausted relaxing on Fort Lauderdale beach. I do recall driving down A1A the whole way once I got to Florida, and the first beach activity I saw was around Fort Lauderdale, so at that point I quit going south. It was like I was hypnotized. However, at the time I was worried about being thrown out of my family home with winter coming up, so I figured I would have a warm winter down south. I had already applied for Interstate unemployment benefits from South Carolina in Stamford, Connecticut, but they did not arrive in Florida until that following April, so in the lean times in between, I went from 185 pounds to 125 pounds, but I made some friend since I had South Carolina license plates on my 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne 4 door blue sedan that I had bought from a Daniel construction coworker originally from Texas and it even had a oil bath air filter on the air filter when I originally bought it. Of course that is another story. CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/04 Saturday 1:40 A.M.: I reread my note, which took a while. I ate a piece of apple pie with iced tea. I had to resecure my the two screws on my eye glasses since one of them came out. It took a while to find the tiny screw that came out. CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/16/04:

Note: <888> 04/16/04 Friday 10:55 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Library. I reminded the reference librarian about the United States Library of Medicine reference site http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ . I mentioned to the reference librarian that when I was in Greece during the spring of 1972, I met the head of the International Red Cross whom my traveling companion recognized. During that same time there was a small pox epidemic in Yugoslavia near where we would be traveling, so all of my group that I was traveling with got small pot inoculations. I had one also when I was a child. I read the Greenwich Time. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then returned home. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/04 Friday 7:55 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out for some downtown activity. CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/04 Friday 7:25 P.M.: I woke up last night, and I ate 10 Town House low fat crackers and a Nature's Valley granola bar with some iced tea. The night before, I woke up, and I ate 3 Quaker low fat popcorn cakes. I have managed to lose some weight recently, and I have gone from 215 pound to 208 pounds. I woke up at 2 P.M. this past afternoon, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail. I did house cleaning and watering the plants. I took the Styrofoam sheets off the front of my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control. I have clean filters in it. I used some duct tape to tape some loose insulation on the louver area on the inside of the vent area. I plugged it in to the heavy duty air conditioner extension cord, and I put the remote control on the right brass and glass coffee table, so I have it all set up for warmer weather service. I turned off the heat in the living room, and I turned it off in the bedroom. I now have the air conditioner fan on bringing in a little fresh air. This time of year the sun starts to hit my west facing windows over the roof outside my windows, so the apartment tends to warm up in the afternoon. However, it still gets a bit chilly at night. I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor. I will now reheat the other half of the vermicelli from last night along with the remaining half of the 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce which I will eat with a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and iced tea. While doing my house cleaning, I listened to tape 5 of the audio book "Dutch" about Ronald Regan with my Emerson wireless headphones connected to my stereo system. After I finished the tape, I put in a fresh pair of Radio Shack rechargeable Nickel cadmium batteries, and I am charging the used pair, which should be fully charged about 2 A.M. this coming morning. CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/04 Friday 12:25 A.M.: I did some regular computer work. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 11:25 P.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie along with some iced tea. Basically, there is not much happening locally here in Greenwich, since it is still cooler in this area, although for the locals it was perfectly comfortable today, since the temperature was up to about 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Today, I also stopped by Greenwich Capital http://www.gcm.com/ , and I gave them one of my calling cards, and I also stopped by the Delamar Hotel http://www.thedelamar.com/ , and I also gave them a couple of my calling cards. I reminded the desk clerks that their property flooded during Hurricane Gloria http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanegloria.htm , but the previous owners rebuilt the sea wall, which probably would not do much good since the water would just run around from the end of the harbor by Arch street. However, we usually do not get severe tropical storms here like down south. As I recall in Hurricane Gloria, the wind was a worse problem compared to the flooding, however at the time, I did not have a car, so I was not able to explore what it looked like afterwards other than downtown walking. However, it is the nature of this area with so many established residents whom winter down south, that we tend to keep a weather eye down south, even when we are not there. I guess a great deal of the country with retired parents down south also feel the same. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 11:00 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 10:40 P.M.: The New York Times > Home & Garden > Guy Décor: The Bachelor and the Dust Bunny . CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 10:15 P.M.: I guess when Bill Gates sells, he has to pay taxes Yahoo! - Insider Trades - GATES, WILLIAM H. III and Bill Gates Net Worth Page . Alas owing to my minimal net worth, I do not owe any taxes. I wander if American Indians have to pay taxes. I have never read whether they do or not. Of course if one were living in North Florida around the Jacksonville, Florida area where German cars first come off the boat, one might get first choice of the latest and newest German products at this local Jacksonville, Florida car dealer http://www.brumosporsche.com/ . I once was taken on a test drive in one of their Mercedes 600s back in 1972 through the everglades on a Tiger hunt like a Maharaja from India. Raj Mikan use to have fun in the old days. I suppose one could try test driving a Hummer http://www.hummer.com in the Everglades, but I am not sure it would be must protection against gators and cats. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 7:40 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I remembered that my 3 P.M. appointment was cancelled today. I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store on my walk. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. During my activity today, I gave out some of my calling cards. I next stopped by Mercedes Benz of Greenwich http://www.greenwich.mercedescenter.com/mbcenter/b/index.jhtml , and I gave them one of my calling cards. I was told Bob Watson still owns the dealership. I suppose with all of the people driving German cars around here, there might be some German citizens here too. Today is income tax day in the United States of America, and I guess even if one is a foreign national, one still has to pay income tax on money one earns in this country. I next returned home. I boiled for six minutes a package of Stop and Shop vermicelli, and I refrigerated half, and I use half with a half of 26 ounce jar of reheated Francesco Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce which I put on the vermicelli along with a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 1:50 P.M.: I put the ice tea in the refrigerator. I showered and cleaned up. I will now go out for my 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 1:15 P.M.: On a point of reference, when I flew down to Ronald Regan's inaugural in January 1980, I said I returned on the Time Magazine private jet. When I was leaving Washington National airport on that trip, I ran into some people from Greenwich whom invited me aboard a 727 jet with a green tail fin with a large blue T on the tail fin. I assumed it was the Time magazine company jet which landed us at Westchester Country airport, but no one told me it was the Time magazine jet. I just assumed the T stood for Time. However for all I know it was the Trump jet or Transamerica jet or some other organization that began with T like Texaco which at the time at offices in White Plains, New York. Most all of the people seemed to be Greenwich people, so they seemed to know me. When I arrived at Westchester airport, I took a Greenwich taxi to the Greenwich train station, and I caught a train to Stamford, and I changed trains to New Canaan where I was living at the time. On the train to New Canaan, I recall chatting with a pale blond haired blue eyed teenage boy who said he was from Brazil, which did not make sense, since he was so pale. There were lots of Fairfield County people around the whole trip, so maybe other people would remember better. CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/04 Thursday 12:50 P.M.: I was up at 11 A.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail, and my 2004 Greenwich beach pass and automobile beach sticker arrived. This year's Greenwich automobile beach sticker is sort of a dark pink. The beach pass good until April 30, 2007 is sort of a salmon pink. I peeled of the 2003 automobile beach sticker, and I scraped the remaining glue off with my Stanley scraper knife. I then put the new 2004 automobile beach sticker in the lower left from the inside windshield in my Hyundai. I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.: I ate 15 Town House low fat crackers with slices of Land O Lakes Pepper Jack cheese on them with a glass of iced tea. I ate the last three Quaker low fat popcorn cakes this past morning when I woke up. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 10:15 P.M.: I updated Michael Louis Scott's Biography 1950 to 1997 with this additional log information http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scobio2.htm which I linked from the bio page. It does mention people's names that I have met in that period, but since I meet so many people all the time, I do not consider it an invasion of privacy, just an amusing log of activity. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 9:05 P.M.: I watched some television including a chat session between Governor Rowland http://www.ct.gov/governor/site/default.asp and Chief Deputy Minority Leader State Senator William Nickerson http://www.senatereps.state.ct.us/senainfo/Nickerson.htm . However, I am not sure if it was a new program or a rebroadcast of a program that I have seen before. I noticed that Governor Rowland looks a bit like Tom Ridge http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/ridgebio.html . Well anyway since I have not been out today, I have a bit of Cabin Fever. However, it is warming up and once it quits raining so much, I am sure there will be plenty of time to venture out during the warmer weather coming up this spring. I suppose, since I learned to type at Eastern Middle School when I was about 16 years old, I have an advantage over other people on the internet. I posted my biography that I put together a number of years ago Michael Louis Scott's Biography 1950 to 1997 . CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 7:30 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 6:55 P.M.: Since there are suppose to be occasional rain showers this evening, I will not be going out. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 6:45 P.M.: I heated and ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso creamy mushroom soup with about 30 croutons, and I had it was a piece of apple pie and a glass of iced tea. I then copied my new directory files to the USB 32 meg. pen drive. I then noticed the Radio Shack audio control wall phone was not working in the kitchen which has been a problem. I removed the phone from the wall, and I cut the telephone sliding connector off of its red and green wires. I then soldered an eight inch piece of telephone wire with a connector plug to the phone red and green wires. I then taped them with electrical tape. The phone still did not work properly, but it worked just fine on another jack. I then removed the kitchen phone wall plate, and I tightened the connecting wires in their sliding slots behind the wall plate. I tested the Radio Shack wall phone, and it worked just fine. Since the bedroom telephone jack wires run through the kitchen wall phone plate for the apartment phones to work, the wires in the kitchen wall phone plate have to be tight. I reconnected the kitchen wall phone plate. I reconnected the Radio Shack audio control wall phone to the kitchen phone wall plate, and it works just fine, and the other telephones in the apartment work just fine. Thus when removing the kitchen Radio Shack audio control wall phone, one has to disconnect it from the wall plate and unplug it like a normal phone wire from a phone jack. This all took some time, but there should not be any problems anymore. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 4:30 P.M.: I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/desc.htm . I uploaded the recent changes to Download Scott's Internet Directory "scott008.zip" 2.26 megs and open "scotlist.htm" in web browser 04/14/04 .

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 4:05 P.M.: I proofed www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 3:15 P.M.: I was up at noon. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail. I spent two hours reading the computer periodical press. I threw out those magazines that I read. CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 12:30 A.M.: G.C.C. Address Imagery View G.C.C. . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 11:35 P.M.: It is the nature of publishing my web log and the nature of the internet that it tends to be for individuals on a lower budget, and it is not meant to compete with the big budget operations on the internet. Since most of the world lives on a low budget, I would imagine it has a certain small group of curious users, possibly those whom are trying to live on a modest budget in an unfamiliar environment. However, since I have lived here since 1961 and since I have lived in other areas such as Manhattan, Nantucket, New Canaan, and Key West where people from Greenwich also live, from experience I know after 43 years, there is no point in trying to get ahead, since basically the Greenwich environment is a matriarchal environment in which a group of Amazon type women control the purse strings and the general economic welfare of the town. Thus since I grew up in a matriarchal family, I am familiar with this environment. It would seem to be that since there has been substantial inflation on the price of food and other items in the past year that there should be a comparative increase in the budget for subsistence income. I have noticed that only the blue color workers in town seem heavy and a few Asian visitors, and everyone else seems to be getting thinner. There is an old saying that "One Can Not Be Too Thin or Too Fair", but during times of conflict and potential terrorism, it might not hurt for the younger generation to have a little extra body fat in case they have to do field work or assist in other emergency capacity. However, since a great many of the tax payers here are office workers, it is the nature of their professions working with office equipment that they tend to be a thinner group of people. However, since I do most of my observation when walking downtown which consists mostly of women's shops, I suppose if I went over to some location like Home Depot, the people would be a bit beefier. Whatever, the case since I have pursued computers for 12 years this time around, I suppose the office crowd downtown in Greenwich is quite familiar with computers, and since they are trying to protect their corporate confidentiality with their clients, they are not a very chatty group except for when they are trying to curry favor with business customers. Thus since I do not interfere with the status quo with the local business community I seem to maintain my status here. However, since my family were amongst the original business partners in this area going back almost 400 years, I would imagine there are probably still members of the family in the business community in this area whom would be better versed in the exact nature of some of the complex business arrangements in this area. Since a great many of the community might be focused on television, and since the community also has a hospital, it is the nature of hospital personnel that they tend not to look like television celebrities but just your average cross section of world wide citizens. Since the senior community control the town, I would imagine they need the attention of the hospital personnel more than the theatre community whom also might move around this community. Basically since a great many people need exercise, I have noticed that many people use the downtown area for exercise. Whatever, the case it is the nature of the downtown area of Greenwich, it is actually a very small part of the entire real estate area of the town of Greenwich, and economically it is also a small part of the overall economic picture of this area. In other words, the shop operations on Greenwich Avenue are not Fortune 500 operations, and therefore, it would seem to me that those representatives of Fortune 500 companies in this area would probably have a greater economic impact on the area as they interrelate with their bankers and financial advisors whom also have economic influence. CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 10:55 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 9:10 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Greenwich Town Hall for my 4 P.M. appointment an hour early. I went to the town parks and recreation department, and I filled out the required information for a new beach permit and beach parking permit. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. During my walk, I stopped by the 70% off rack at the Greenwich Hardware store. I did not sit outside during my walk, because it was raining. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time and P.C. Magazine. I then returned home. I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm . I use two 4.25 ounce cans of crushed California black olives and a clove of elephant garlic along with the other usual ingredients. I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the tuna portion, I used a 6 ounce can of Bumble Bee chunk light tuna and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Land O Lakes Pepper Jack cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 2:15 P.M.: I read all of the periodical literature except the computer press. I threw out what I read. I still have a large stack of computer press. I chatted with a relative to wish them Happy Birthday. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. I have a 4 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 12:20 P.M.: I did not fall asleep until 1:30 A.M. this morning. I had a telephone call from a friend at 6:30 A.M.. I was awake at 10:30 A.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I picked up my mail. I have a 4 P.M. appointment this afternoon. I have a lot of periodical literature mostly on computer technology to read, so I think instead of working on the computer, I will read some of it. CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 12:05 A.M.: United States National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 11:25 P.M.: I rehung the battery operated door bell, which I keep in the bedroom, so I can hear people visiting at my door, and the batteries still work. I have it set to play the "Blue Bells of Scotland". I bought it for about $8 at Odd Job, when I first moved in to this apartment about 15 years ago, and I ran door bell wire from the apartment door into the bedroom, and I think I purchased the ringer button separately elsewhere. I moved all my computer tech magazines that I have not read along with other periodical literature that I have not read to the top of the magazine rack on the right side head of the day bed. It is about an eight inch high stack of periodical literature. Thus when one sits on the far side of the blue sofa, they are no longer there anymore. I threw out the old grocery store circulars in the trash. I put the 30 calling cards in my car. I have 7 more in my wallet. Basically, it is my impression locally people presently in Greenwich are not very interested in tropical storms, since they are use to dealing with so much colder weather in the winter. However, when some of the retired and southern people venture north in the tropical storm season there seems to be an interest. Also since Connecticut is known as an insurance state, there is obviously some actuarial and risk management involvement in terms of the insurance industry in New York, Connecticut, and elsewhere around the country and the world and those insuring against risk in those areas effected by tropical storm activity. Basically as an economist, I know the biggest variable is the weather. Whatever, the case I personally am not involved in the insurance business, and I just study what is made available freely over the internet. However, I do have family members, friends, and associates living in those areas at risk. I have read that there are 80 million U.S. citizens living along the shoreline from the south coast of Texas to the north of Maine, not to mention the Latin and Caribbean areas. Thus it is a large population group that is aware. During the last three years, the tropical storms have been moving further north in the tropical storm season, so areas like the Carolinas, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Bermuda have been more effected than normal. Also if the trend continues, it would mean those areas further north would be effected. From what I know it is not the air temperature as much that effects the tropical storm activity, but the ocean temperature, and although it is currently cold here in Connecticut, the weather down south has been very warm for a while, so the ocean water in the tropical storm areas is heating up more. I have not proofed my tropical storm page since last season, but it is available at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm for people to make their own best judgments as to their risks. Also the United States government since 1978 has sold low cost flood insurance, so more people take the risk of living in the effected areas. Since from what I hear, it is very busy down south with the colder winters, it is hard to tell what portion of that group might be venturing north with the terrorists threats since 911, and I suppose they might go to more remote parts of the country up north, but still the New York City metropolitan area offers many essential services which many people seek out in their travels away from home. CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 9:50 P.M.: As a point of reference, I currently have 17 mirrors in the apartment, if I counted right. I use the mirrors to make the apartment fell larger, since they not only reflect light, but they also make the apartment fell a little bit more spacious. CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 9:15 P.M.: I had five sheets of the Avery 5731 labels left, so I printed out 30 more calling cards on three of the sheets, but this time instead of the zip code "06830-2902", I printed out "06830 U.S.A.", but the rest of the format remains the same. My family lived in Martinsville, Virginia from 1953 to 1954, so I might have possibly visited Washington D.C. during that period, but I do not recall. The first time I recall visiting Washington D.C. was around February 1961, when I flew up from Decatur, Alabama on the Chemstrand Gulf stream, and we stopped over at National airport, and while walking through National airport, my father introduced me to the head of the Atomic Energy Commission. We then continued our journey up to Westchester County airport, and it might not have been in the Gulf Stream which is a turbo prop, but it might have been in a D.C. 3, since the Chemstrand and Monsanto company had a large fleet of company jets, they rotated the planes occasionally when one traveled on them, which I did quite a bit down south, so by the time I arrived here I was an experienced air traveler in the days of Planter Peanuts for snacks on the plane with box lunches and a soda pop for the kids. Later that year around June 1961, we moved up to Stamford, Connecticut, and when we drove north, and we toured through Mount Vernon and Washington D.C. on the way up north. One summer when I was about 15 living in Greenwich at that time, I drove down to Virginia with a couple of other people from old Virginia families, and we might have driven though Washington D.C. on our way to stay in Williamsburg and touring some James River plantations in Virginia, and I recall attending a wedding at the Boars Head Country Club and the Country Club of Virginia or some similar names. Thus more than likely we drove back north through Washington D.C.. I recall driving down south with my family for a family vacation in Pompano Beach, Florida around 1965 during the winter, so we might have driven through Washington D.C. on that trip both ways. I recall driving though Washington D.C. on my trip north from Greensville, South Carolina in July 1976, and I walked around Washington D.C. a bit during a few hour break. I recall the following September, I drove down to Florida, but I think I might have taken the Chesapeake Bay tunnel bridge, so I might not have gone through Washington D.C.. I recall that spring 1977 driving north through Washington D.C.. That same spring after the Seabrook demonstration, I hitchhiked from New Hampshire though Washington D.C. to Williamsburg, Virginia where I stayed a few days, and then I hitchhiked back north again returning to Nantucket probably traveling through Washington D.C.. I recall hitchhiking that following fall down through Washington D.C. on my way to Florida, and I was held temporarily in jail in Richmond, Virginia for hitchhiking on the Interstate for a few hours before they let me go. Since I could not hitchhike the Interstate Highway in Virginia, I think I hitchhiked a local road through Williamsburg, Virginia and down to Virginia Beach and down the coast highway into the Carolinas where one could hitchhike and then down to Florida, but I might have gotten a ride from the ramp near a military base in the Carolinas, all the way down to Fort Lauderdale. The following spring 1978 I hitchhiked north with a friend as far as Washington D.C., and we caught a city bus to the Amtrak station in Washington and took the train north to Stamford, Connecticut. In the fall of 1978 after a trip to California in the yellow Subaru and then down to the Florida Keys, I returned north with a friend before Christmas 1978 probably driving though Washington D.C.. I recall that winter of 1979 driving back down south again to Florida around Daytona and then returning early in the spring to the New York area which would have required going through Washington D.C. each way. I think also around 1979, I might have driven down to visit a relative in Philadelphia, and on the return trip I might have driven down to Washington D.C., and then driven back to the New York area, and it might have been around the time of the Pennsylvania nuclear accident called "Three Mile Island". I recall possibly in the fall of 1979 driving out to California in the same yellow 1972 Subaru wagon, and when the Iran helicopter rescue attempt was happening and the U.S. forces were on military alert, I drove from California on Route 10 East down to the Florida Keys and then back north to the New York area, which would have meant going through Washington D.C. around December 1979. I recall on my last trip to California in the Burgundy Volvo in September 1980, we drove from Greenwich to Nantucket, to Montreal to Toronto to Key West via Washington D.C. west across Route 10, and after election day in November 1980, we sold the car about a week later and flew back to New York. I think the next time I was in Washington D.C. would have been for Ronald Regan's first inaugural, which I think was in January 1981. I did visit between his first inaugural and former President Bush's #42 inaugural twice as mentioned in the earlier note. I think the trip that I flew down for a day and back was about six weeks after Reagan's first inaugural, and the person sitting next to me the plane looked like Ed Messe the United States Attorney General. Then there was the previous mentioned trip to Washington D.C. in February 1983 before I went to Oslo, Norway. The next time I was there, I attended former President Bush's #42 inaugural in January 1989 as mentioned in the earlier note. I think the following winter in 1990 when former President Bush was in Argentina and it was zero degrees in Washington D.C., I drove down there for a few days with a friend, and after the visit, the friend went quail hunting in Virginia, and I returned via Amtrak to this area. This picture was taken then http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsdc.jpg . That was the last time I recall being in Washington D.C., and on that trip we toured the White House along with the Capitol and a few other sites and we stayed once again at the Dutch Inn now the Thomas Jefferson Inn. Since there is a big world out there much of which I have not seen, if I ever get enough money to travel again, I probably will want to explore other areas, since I have seen quite a bit of Washington D.C.. I recall on my driving trips north to south and back going though Washington D.C., I stopped by Dulles airport a few times since it was an enjoyable exercise walk away from the city, and I recall once driving by Andrews Air Force base when I went around the east side on the belt way. I have visited in various trips the Botanical Garden next to the Capitol, Georgetown University, the National Cathedral, the White House, the Capitol, the Smithsonian, the National Air and Space Museum, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the train station, Stephen Decatur House, Lafayette Park, the Willard Hotel, the Canadian Embassy, the National Gallery, and I have driven near the Pentagon and Arlington National cemetery. I think when I moved to Greenville, South Carolina in January 1976, the plane down there also stopped at National Airport, and possibly on some air trips down south and back, the plane might have stopped at one of the Washington D.C. airports. I just chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 7:10 P.M.: Before the last message, I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder which I added 20 large cut croutons too, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I then ate a piece of apple pie with more iced tea. I normally do not drink alcohol very much, so in those few times, I traveled to the Washington D.C. establishment which is actually quite transient, they probably thought I drank that much all the time. Unfortunately since I have driven automobiles a lot in the suburbs for a good deal of my life, I do not drink much in the suburbs, but when I did not have a car in places like Europe, Nantucket and Manhattan, I would occasionally have a drink, particularly during very cold winter nights. However, before I quit drink alcohol almost completely, my normal routine was to have one or two beers on weekends, and that was pretty much it. Basically, although I keep alcohol in the apartment, I can not afford to get use to drinking it, since not only the cost of alcohol is expensive, but also one would have to walk or hire a taxi cab to travel. Basically, from what I can tell, I have never had a serious alcohol drinking problem, and about the worst it has ever been was when I was on spring break in Bermuda in 1968, my freshmen orientation first month in September 1972 at Lake Forest College, and the first five weeks in Florence, Italy in January and February 1972, I drank quite a bit of cheap Chianti and occasionally I would have a drink during the rest of that trip until I returned home in May 1972. When one is busy and low on funds, one does not drink too much alcohol. CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 6:45 P.M.: I secured the frame with a small nail and duct tape on the Audubon blue heron picture, but I forgot to straighten the print, so it is slightly crooked, but it still looks all right, since it is the nature of the print that it looks a bit crooked anyway. I originally got the Audubon pictures in a portfolio set at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop for $5 about 15 years ago, when I first moved here. Two friends with whom I visited Washington D.C. to see former president number 42 George Bush's inaugural in 1988, which we actually did not make it to the inaugural, since it was a very cold day, so we watched it on a small television at the Dutch Inn now the Thomas Jefferson Inn on Thomas Jefferson street in Georgetown. Before Ronald Reagan's inaugural in 1981 the night before, I was bought about five triple Vodka's on a cold night in Greenwich Village, which I stayed up all night, and since I had clothes and belongings to travel, I decided to go to Washington D.C. for the inaugural, I flew down on a $40 Braniff flight with Prince Boni Sadhir of Saudi Arabia. We were the only two passengers on the jet. I changed into my suit on the jet, so during the inaugural, I was a bit under the weather. After inaugural that time, I had a butterscotch sundae at the ice cream parlor in the basement of the Washington Hilton, and I saw Ronald Reagan again that evening in the lobby when he appeared at the Medal of Honor reception. I recall, I was drinking a Drambuie in the lobby cocktail lounge when he showed up. Since the Hilton was filled up, I was told by a cab drivers about the Dutch Inn in Georgetown. I stayed there that night, and I returned the following day via the Time magazine jet to Westchester airport and back up to New Canaan, Connecticut where I was living at the time. I think I also had another drink that trip to Washington D.C., when I went across the street from the Hilton after the inaugural to the Sheraton, and I recall having a Vodka tonic and sitting next to outgoing Admiral Stanfield Turner or someone that looked like him. During former President Bush's inaugural, during the inaugural myself and my two friends, and one of my friend's fiancée, we all had lunch in the basement of the Dutch Inn watching the inaugural, and I noticed that Happy Rockefeller was sitting behind George and Barbara Bush on the inaugural stand, so she has a good seat. We each drank about five alcoholic drinks while watching and as usual, I drank vodka and tonic. We also had drinks and wine at the dinner before inaugural ball and we had drinks at the inaugural ball, but at that point I can not remember how many we had all together. We were not driving, we were using Washington D.C. taxi service. I recall the following night after inaugural, I went to the 1782 Inn in Georgetown, and I met a Georgetown University heart surgeon that I had met on a previous trip between those two inaugurals, and I had a few Vodka tonics, and I was invited back to his house to meet his wife, and we sat up all night chatting on general subjects. The heart surgeon was a very brilliant man, and he looked like the actor James Mason, and he might have been related to the family that once owned the Stamford Advocate and the Greenwich Time, since both family names were the same. The heart surgeon told me he had been Lyndon Johnson's heart surgeon, and he had done thousands of heart operations, and he had also done many autopsies, and he claimed smoking and cholesterol were not the biggest causes of heart disease but stress was. Since the heart surgeon was Old Guard, and since his generation had gone through major challenges, I did not think it odd that he drank alcohol, since a great many of his generation did unlike the current generation. Anyway the same two friends sometime after the inaugural were visiting me in Greenwich, and I showed them the Audubon prints, and they liked them, so I gave one third of the prints which were mostly field birds to one friend, and I gave another third of the prints which were mostly inland water birds to another friend, and I keep most of the other third of prints which were mostly marine, sea, tropical, and swamp birds. Of course we divided the Audubon bird prints quickly, and I recall they had been part of some insurance company promotion about 40 years ago. I recall during Ronald Reagan's first term in office, I returned to visit Washington D.C. once for a day flying each way and walking around and once again after I finished the garage apartment in Long Island around February 1983 before I visited Norway, and it was at that time I met the heart surgeon. I also have traveled through Washington D.C. a number of times going north and south with the seasons when I was younger. CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 4:55 P.M.: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I cleaned up, and I went out. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I bought a Radio Shack weather radio for a dollar. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. During my walk, I stopped by the senior center before and after my walk to use the facilities. I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store and CVS. I sat out at various locations. Through out my activity yesterday and today, I have given out 33 cards with my web site address to various acquaintances including two cards to some to pass then around. I mention that I have a Tropical Weather page www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . I next drove down by the waterfront, and I then went by the Greenwich American Red Cross, and I gave them a few of my cards with the internet information and suggesting they study the tropical weather page. I noticed a small photograph of Dorothy Walker Bush on the wall. I guess they can not afford a bigger picture. I guess her son and grandsons get the bigger pictures. I mentioned I had met the head of the International Red Cross in Athens, Greece in April 1972 when I was traveling with a Harriman family relative. I also for a short spell in the fall of 1972 lived across from the Red Cross ambulance fleet in Chicago, and I also lived eight blocks north of the New York Red Cross headquarters in Manhattan during 1980 to 1982, so I probably have seen some Red Cross personnel in my life, and having studied Hemingway when I was in Key West, I use to tell people I volunteered for the Red Cross, however I have never been trained by them, and I do not actively use their offices, but I try to keep them informed based on what I know. I have only given blood twice in my life, since they tend not to want blood from non smokers, since smoker's blood gives recipients nicotine fits. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop again. They seem to have more stuff with people doing spring house cleaning. I bought a 44 inch by 31 inch size of frame with mirror in new shape for $45. The maple frame is curved about two inches deep and about 3.5 inches wide with scrolling around the edges on the mirror side. It looks quite well. It has mirror wire strung to hang it vertically. I then went by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought a single OOK three nail 100 pound hanger for $2.49 and a package of two 2 nail fifty pound hangers for $2.49 plus .30 tax for $5.28 total. I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold garlic and herb croutons large cut for .99 each and a loaf of Arnold nutty oat grain bread for .99 less 10% senior discount of .30 for $2.67 total. I then left the store, and then I returned, and I bought a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .19 for $1.70 total thus $4.37 total for both purchases. I then went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought two cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 each carton for $62 total. I then returned home. I used two pairs of heavy winter gloves that I keep in the back left hatch back area of my car to carry the mirror up by its hanging wire. I then brought up the other items. I then took down the 20 inch by 30 inch mirror from the bedroom door. I had it hanging on two heavy hex wood screws into the door. I put the 100 pound OOK hanger slightly above and in between the two Hex wood screws. I then moved the 32 inch by 44 inch mirror with 1.75 inch maple frame from above the day bed to hanging on the opened bedroom door. Thus the bedroom door can not be shut now, since the mirror is wider than the door. I have a Rubbermaid hamper in front of the lower part of the door with my old laptop computers in their bags and a Microsoft TS2 conference bag. I moved the George W. Bush and Richard Cheney framed inaugural invitation from the bedroom door to above the sweater closet above the weather instruments. I hung the mirror that I bought today above the day bed on the three molly bolts I have fastened to the wall, so it is very secure. I moved the glass framed Lindbergh picture from the left side of the day bed to the left side lower of the bathroom hallway entrance wall. I moved from there the Audubon Louisiana heron picture to the lower half of the hallway side of the bathroom door. I moved the picture from there of the Audubon great blue heron to above the right sconce above the day bed. I moved the glass framed print of Notre Dame from there to above the left sconce above the day bed along side of the print of the Paris City Hall. I moved the 2 foot by 28 inch mahogany framed mirror from the right side of the bedroom entrance to wear the Lindbergh picture was above the left side of the day bed. I put the picture of George W. Bush and Laura Bush with Queen Elizabeth II to the right of the right parsons lamp above the day bed, and I moved the picture of Princess Juliana beneath the right parsons lamp. The mirror that I took off the bedroom door which is about 20 inches by 30 inches I hung on the right side of the bedroom entrance with two 50 pound OOK hangers each with two nails. I put one of my used 9 volt batteries that I used in one of the two smoke detectors, and I put it in the Radio Shack weather radio. It works just fine. I put a heavy duty AAA Walgreen's battery in my key chain flash light. I then put the Radio Shack weather radio beneath the radio in the console recess beneath my dashboard in my Hyundai. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 10:00 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I picked up my two guests at a private home in Greenwich where they had Easter dinner. We then drove downtown, and we walked up Greenwich Avenue and some of the side streets, and we then walked down Greenwich Avenue and some of the side streets. We then drove down by the waterfront. We then went over to Gopher Ice Cream at the Cos Cob shopping plaza by the Mobil gasoline station just east of Indian Field Road. My two guests had some ice cream and sorbet treats. Because of my cholesterol, I do not eat ice cream anymore. We then drove up North street, and my guests toured another private place, and then we drove across Clapboard Ridge Road and down Lake Avenue. I showed my guests the completed stone work facing they did on the Cole Auditorium at the Greenwich Library. I then took my guests to the Greenwich train station, and they caught the 8:12 P.M. train into Manhattan. I mentioned that I would like to see the Queen Elizabeth II http://www.qe2.org.uk/itinerary.html and the Queen Mary II http://www.qm2.org.uk/itinerary.html on Sunday April 25, 2004, when they both are at port in Manhattan at the same time before sailing to Southampton, England, however usually at the end of the month, I am low on funds, so I probably will not be going into the city. I then returned home, and I heated a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder which I put 20 large cut croutons into, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I then ate a piece of apple pie with some more iced tea. I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 4:50 P.M.: I am going to pick up my guests now. I will put the computer on standby. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 4:05 P.M.: If my guests are arriving by train from Manhattan which they might be, the next train due in Greenwich is at 4:29 P.M.. They might have gotten their trains mixed up, since the schedule changed on April 4, 2004. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 3:40 P.M.: I am still waiting for my guests to call. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 2:40 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. The relative told me that she could use a cordless and a regular telephone. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 2:15 P.M.: I drank a 50% Folgers's instant and 50% Folgers's decaffeinated instant coffee. I cleaned up. I am waiting for my guests to call at 3 P.M.. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 1:25 P.M.: I reheated and ate the remaining half of the vermicelli and the remaining half of the 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi traditional tomato sauce which I put three tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it with a small bit of dried parsley, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. I watched a bit of television. I am suppose to have two guests visit at 3 P.M., so I will now clean up. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 11:55 A.M.: I chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 11:15 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 10:35 A.M.: I updated Scott's homepage, so it translates into 12 different languages from the links on this page www.geocities.com/mikelscott/lang.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 9:55 A.M.: I was up at 7 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I put one of my information cards in my mail box downstairs covered with scotch tape. I added http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to my homepage at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/ and I put it on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/lang.htm , but the Java Script does not work for links for some odd reason, but it does work from the homepage and from http://babelfish.altavista.com/ . I have two friends coming to visit at about 3 P.M. today, but they are suppose to call first. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 12:55 A.M.: I went through my email. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/04 Sunday 12:35 A.M.: I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, which I added a dozen large cut croutons to. I had the soup with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 11:55 P.M.: I went out after the last message. While I was dumping out the garbage, I found in the dumpster a General Electric big button eight memory dial telephone, which I retrieved. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York ATM machine and then CVS during my walk, and I bought two packages containing a 16 ounce bottle of European Mystique papaya-mango shampoo and a 16 ounce bottle of European Mystique papaya-mango conditioner for $1.79 each two bottle pack plus .22 tax for $3.80 total. I then completed my walk, and I sat out some more. I then drove down by the waterfront. I chatted with a couple of local waterfront observers. I then went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $6.10 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.999 a gallon for about 30 miles per gallon usage. I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two 36 ounce bags of Eight O'clock Hazelnut coffee beans for $4.99 each bag for $9.98 total. I then returned home. I put a new Duracell 2032 lithium battery in the General Electric telephone since the one in it was corroded. I put it on the right side drawer that projects from the living room desk next to the long green couch, and I connected it to the telephone system through the U.S. Robotics external modem on top of the Dell backup computer. I programmed it with seven speed dial numbers of family and a friend along with the emergency 911 number. I printed out copies of my telephone list, and I put one underneath the Columbia cordless telephone by the primary computer, underneath the AT&T telephone on the Danish bar, underneath Columbia big button telephone by my bedroom bed, and one in my wallet, and one on the cork board in the kitchen. I also cleaned out some old cards from my wallet. I gave out some of my web site cards tonight to various people whom I dealt with. I will also put a copy of the telephone list in my automobile glove box. I drank some iced tea. I now have the Radio Shack audio control wall phone in the kitchen, the Uniden cordless telephone on the Danish bar, the AT&T button phone on Danish bar, the Northwestern Bell button phone by the Queen Anne chair underneath the Orion television, the General Electric button phone I just put in, the Columbia cordless 2.4 gigahertz telephone by the primary computer, the Spectra princess phone by the primary computer with a Radio Shack speaker phone, the Spectra princess style wall phone in the bathroom, in the bedroom the Columbia big button telephone on the bed night stand, and the Radio Shack cordless telephone on the Danish desk with a Radio Shack speaker phone, not to mention Net2Phone through the high speed Optimum Online cable modem service. Thus I have ten telephones in the apartment plus the two speaker phones and the internet Net2Phone through the computer. Although few people ever call me, I have my apartment set up so a number of people could chat through the same telephone line. Alas, I do not have a cell phone, but since I was on a night schedule for so many years and frequently still am, few people call me during the day time except family and a few friends. Still, when the telephone rings, I do not have far to go to pick up the telephone. I guess when one has a cell phone, one has to look around for it. CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 6:35 P.M.: I chatted with a friend. I rested until just now. I will now shut down the computer. I will eat a piece of apple pie with some iced tea. I will shower and clean up. I will go out. About 2 P.M., there was a report on the traffic channel that a truck had knocked down a pole on the Boston Post Road in Greenwich, but I did not recognize the name of the cross streets. CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 1:45 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 11:55 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 11:50 A.M.: Local Tectonics event coming up http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mspieg/CMG2004/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 11:40 A.M.: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/update.html . CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 11:15 A.M.: More than cheese in Vermont http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 11:05 A.M.: University of California Scripps MARIANAS EXPEDITION and BBC NEWS Science/Nature Double whammy link to extinctions . CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 10:45 A.M.: www.lfc.edu makes news http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/bestvalue/default.asp and Lake Forest College by the Princeton Review . CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 10:35 A.M.: I am going through my email. This link for developers http://channel9.msdn.com/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 10:10 A.M.: I chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/04 Saturday 9:20 A.M.: I was up at 6:30 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I watched some television while drinking my coffee. I have a package of Avery 5371 White Business cards which had 8 remaining blank sheets of ten blank business cards each sheet, and I used four of them to print out 40 cards with my name, address, telephone number, email address, and web site. I packaged 38 of them with a green rubber band to keep in my car, and I put two of them in my wallet. If one has a card, it is easier to explain one's activity by referring a new acquaintances to one's web site. I bought the package of Avery business cards as a clearance item from Staples for .50 a few years ago. The remaining blank cards are in my center desk drawer in the living room. Microsoft Office Word 2003 has the label and envelope program that has the Avery labels as one of the label items for proper formatting. However, I guess if one could also print out the cards on a blank piece of paper and cut them with a scissors, but occasionally when I chat with people, I have a difficult time explaining what I have been doing on the internet and elsewhere around town, so I just refer them to my web site. Since there are a lot of movers and shakers around here, I like to keep in perspective what I am doing. CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 11:20 P.M.: I watched some television. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 9:55 P.M.: The new Radio Shack wall phone with audio control which I put in the kitchen was not working again because of a faulty connection. I studied the connector piece on the slider on the phone and the receptacle on the wall, and I determined that the connector piece was not projecting far enough into the receptacle. I was able to fix this by removing the connector piece on the phone from the slider bar, so it projects about 1/8th of inch further into the wall receptacle. Then by exerting a little pressure when installing the phone onto the wall receptacle, I was able to get to make a solid connection and secure it with the sliding lever on the side of the phone for securing it to the receptacle plate. Thus it now works just fine, and there should be no more problems with usage having it become disconnected since it is firmly secured. CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/09/04:

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 8:15 P.M.: I finished dinner. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 7:30 P.M.: I am bringing to a boil a half of a six quart Revere pot of water in which I added a half of a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil, and I will put in it a 16 ounce box of Stop and Shop vermicelli, and I will boil it six minutes. I will use half and refrigerate half in a Rubbermaid container. I will heat half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi traditional tomato sauce, and I will put it on the vermicelli along with a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese. I will have it all for dinner with iced tea. I will refrigerate the remainder of the jar of Francesco Rinaldi traditional tomato sauce. CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 7:10 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I stopped by Bank of New York on Mason Street, and then CVS, and I bought four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's Select New England Clam Chowder, buy one get one free for $2.49 for two, a 6.25 ounce jar of celery flakes for .99, and four 6 ounce cans of Bumble Bee solid white albacore tuna fish for .99 each for $9.93 total. After I completed my walk, I drove down by the waterfront. I then drove over to the Mobil Old Greenwich car wash, and I had my Hyundai washed for $5. I removed the radio antenna by unscrewing it, when I put it through the car wash. I then towel dried any remaining moisture and reinstalled the antenna. I shook out the driver's side floor mat. Then for a dollar, I vacuumed the car floors and the seats, so it is much cleaner inside. I then drove over to Tod's Point, and I parked at the southwest parking area, and I dusted off my dashboard with a towel from the back of my car. I then sat out for a short spell. I next drove over to the southeast parking area. I chatted with a regular beach observer, and she enjoyed seeing the children fly kites. She gave me a book by Henry Drummond titled "The Greatest Thing in the World". She recommended me to read it. It is about Christian Living. I mentioned various churches that I knew of in the this area and Manhattan. I next returned to downtown Greenwich, and I sat out for a while. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 and a six ounce jar of 4C parmesan and Romano grated cheese for $1.99 for $3.98 total. I then returned home, and I drank a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 12:05 P.M.: I saw this web site on television this morning http://www.backcountrystore.com for the outdoors types in the colder weather. I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, which I put 20 large cut croutons in, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. We are suppose to have rain Sunday through Wednesday http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 . I am about to update http://www.tropicdesigns.net/weatherpulse.html . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for some fresh air.

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 11:25 A.M.: I turned the living room thermostat down to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and I turned off the Lasko box fan that I use to circulate the heat. CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/04 Friday 11:20 A.M.: Happy Good Friday. I chatted with a friend last night about 9 P.M., and she and her husband are coming out to visit on Easter Sunday about 3 P.M.. I ate 2/3rds of a 9 ounce can of smoked almonds. I chatted with a relative about 10 P.M.. I woke up at 6 A.M.. I watched television for an hour. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I put the throw rug that I found discarded the other day underneath end of the bedroom bed rolled up. I took my long heavy Rainforest winter coat from the brass coat rack at the head of the day bed, and I put it on the left side of the right living room closet. I moved my lighter weight jackets and coats from the left of the right living closet to the right side where they are more accessible. I threw out the garbage. I set a couple other clocks in the apartment for daylight savings time. While doing my house cleaning, I listened to the fourth tape of "Dutch" Ronald Reagan's biography with the Emerson Wireless headphones. I am now recharging the pair of Radio Shack Nickel cadmium batteries that I used, and they should be charged by about 5:30 P.M.. I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail. It is clear and sunny and 60 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 7:50 P.M.: I turned the living room thermostat back up to 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and I set the box fan above the wall radiators to low to circulate the warm air to take some of the dampness out of the apartment. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 7:20 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I bought for $7.50 a Radio Shack Heavy-Duty Wall Phone ET-3240 43-3240 White with Volume Control and a Traditional Bell Ringer. I then went downtown to the central Greenwich Post Office, and I bought a money order at .90 cost plus face value to pay for my Northeast Utilities electricity bill. I mail it at the post office along with a birthday card. I went by the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift Shop. They have a nice solid drop leaf mahogany table there for $200, and I noticed they also have a blue velour love seat for $500, and I noticed men's bow ties are three for a dollar. I then sat out for a while. I next made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then went downtown, and I started to walk lower Greenwich Avenue, but it started to rain, so I returned home. I drank some iced tea. I then took off the white spectra princess type wall phone off the kitchen wall, and I put on the Radio Shack wall phone in its place. I also used the longer 10 foot headset cord that was on the spectra phone, and I put the Radio Shack headset cord on the spectra phone. The Radio Shack phone seemed to have a bit of static and it did not always work, and I finally figured out there was a problem with the two wire contacts on the phone. I was able to get it to make better contact by spreading with an eye glass screw driver the two parallel slider slots where the contact wires are, so they were slightly V shape and make better contact with the wall mount plate terminal wires. It all seems to work fine now, but if one were to jar the phone too much, it might still not make contact and then would need to be adjusted. Since I frequently talk on the kitchen phone when I am sitting by the kitchen stove fan smoking a cigarette, it helps to be able to turn the volume up. I took the white spectra phone, and I plugged it into the Radio Shack speaker phone on the dining room table next to the left primary computer monitor, and I placed the spectra phone to the left of the Radio Shack speaker phone. I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish, and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I use all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 10:45 A.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie with some iced tea. I have to pay my electricity bill which came yesterday. I have an appointment on Tuesday April 13, 2004 at 4 P.M.. I printed out a birthday card that I will mail to a relative. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 9:50 A.M.: I put away the laundry. I started up both the Compaq 486 laptop with 8 megs of memory and the Acer 486 laptop with 4 megs of memory to have their batteries charge up. I think the Compaq holds a charge, but the last time I tested the Acer, its battery would not hold a charge. I never use them, but I keep them around for mobile word processing in case I ever had to do it. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 8:50 A.M.: I chatted with a relative last night, and they told me it would be too expensive to rent a truck to take the pineapple post day bed up to Kennebunkport, Maine, since the day bed with box spring and mattress only cost $70 at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop about four years ago. Thus it will be staying here for the indefinite future. I have a friend with a station wagon, but he is always too busy to drive up to Kennebunkport, Maine, and his Buick Roadmaster station wagon is over 11 years old with over 100,000 miles on it, so it might be too much wear and tear on the Buick to drive all the way up to Kennebunkport, Maine and back. The last time we did a few years ago, he had to pay for a new transmission when it broke on the way down. I have noticed in my observations around town that a lot of Old Guard citizens and Veterans drive Buick Centuries, so I guess that is the preferred car of the senior community, if they can afford the higher amount that they cost plus to maintain them. Also last weekend, I saw for the third time in as many years someone park in front of the senior center in a new Audi, and have their front bumper catch on the stone curb, and when they tried to back up, the outer plastic covering on the bumper pulled off from the inner Styrofoam that cushions the bumper. One would think that the Germans with all of their advanced engineering skills would be able invent a bumper for the Audi that does not pull off when it catches on a curb. I have not noticed any other cars have the same problem. I think what they have to do is have the plastic bumper covering project further underneath the Audi, so it does not catch on curbs. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 8:25 A.M.: Since it is warmer outside, I turned the thermostat in the living room from 78 degrees Fahrenheit which keeps the room at 72 degrees Fahrenheit down to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and the living room is now 68 degrees Fahrenheit. I have the thermostat in the bedroom set at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which I kept it at all winter except on colder nights. I never turn on the heat in the bathroom. I turned off the box fan on the living room window shelf that I use to circulate the living room heat through out the apartment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04 Thursday 8:15 A.M.: I was up at 6 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I started two loads of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle. I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom. I threw out some garbage. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 10:00 P.M.: I finished off eating a third of a box of CVS wheat thin crackers along with some iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 8:30 P.M.: I chatted with a friend, and I left messages with three friends and a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 7:30 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I bought for $5 a black canvas director's chair that sits about three feet high off the ground on folding wooden legs. Since it folds up, I put it in the back of my Hyundai Accent hatchback area. I then drove down by the waterfront, and I sat out in the director's chair on the pier off Steamboat Road, and I used my binoculars that I keep in my car to observe the waterfront. From what I could tell, they seem to have built a lot of new buildings on the north shore of Long Island. I chatted with a British couple. I told them about the fact that people have been eves dropping across the waterfront for over a half of a century. I suppose from both sides. I also told them that all of the corporate CEO and managers live on the south shore of Connecticut in Fairfield County, while the owners whom have had so much money for so long that they do not know what they own, live on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau and Suffolk counties. However, down by the colder waterfront out in the wind, it is still a bit colder than downtown. I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I stopped by Zyn stationary, and for a dollar, I bought a number 28 scratch card Winner Wonderland, but I did not win. I also stopped by CVS, and I bought four 32 ounce Fantastik orange action spray bottles with contents for $1.99 each and a five pack of Bic lighters for $2.49 plus .63 tax for $11.08 total. I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store. I then completed my walk. I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times. I next returned home, and I baked in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit six America's Choice fish cakes, 15 America's Choice frozen miniature potato pancakes, and 14 America's Choice frozen onion rings for 12 minutes on each of two sides. I mixed up a half of a cup of Heinz ketchup with three tablespoons of horse radish to have a seafood sauce to go with the baked items. I had it all with a glass of iced tea. I then chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 12:55 P.M.: I threw out some more garbage. I am still waiting for the mail to come. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. It is currently 56 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so it has warmed up a bit. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 12:25 P.M.: I made and ate www.geocities.com/mikelscott/onionsoup.htm . I had the soup with a glass of iced tea, and then I ate a piece of apple pie. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 11:25 A.M.: I threw out the garbage. One of my neighbors threw out a 5 foot by 8 foot rug which is green with stars, so I rolled it up, and I retrieved it to my apartment, and I put it by the bedroom door entrance. Sometime in the near future, a relative will be driving north through this area with a rental truck, and they will pick up the pineapple post day bed and its box spring and mattress, and they will take it up to Kennebunkport, Maine to a relative's house. Then I will move the long mahogany bureau in the middle of the living room to against the far living room wall with the two Danish end tables on either side of it. I will then have room to pull out the blue couch further away from the long green couch, and the rug that I just found should fit in between the two couches just fine. I will get rid of the smaller DuPont Orlon rug. I will then put the 2 foot by 4 foot brass and glass coffee table that I have on the Danish desk in the bedroom in between the two couches, and I will put the two small brass and glass end tables on either end of the blue couch. Of course, I can not do this until the relative comes through with the truck, which might be over a month. The relative might want to pick up some other items, since my apartment tends to be a bit cluttered right now. I checked the mail, and it has not arrived yet. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 10:50 A.M.: I put the ice tea in the refrigerator. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 10:35 A.M.: I chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 9:55 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04 Wednesday 9:25 A.M.: I was up at 6 A.M., and I chatted with a friend. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until 8:30 A.M.. I am making up a fresh batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . Recently I have seen advanced elements of the group that spend the winter down south coming north into our area. Whether they will spend the summer here or go further north is opened to question. Since there are large numbers of them that regularly move through this area on their way up north, we are use to seeing them starting about the first of April. However, whether they will be resting their laurels in this area or moving into the north country, I do not really know. CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 7:55 P.M.: BBC NEWS In Pictures In pictures: Queen in France , BBC NEWS UK Queen urges strong ties with US , Entente Cordiale The Centenary . Je suis un peu fatique, et je veux reste. I am a bit tired, and I wish to rest. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. Usually when the seasons change, I get a bit tired. I suppose now that the weather is changing, it is effecting my biological clock. During the winter, when it is cold, I feel more energetic, but when it starts to warm up, I begin to feel a bit tired at first until I get use to the warmer weather conditions. At the moment, it is 47 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I have not walked much in the last few days, since I have been on a different schedule, and during the daytime schedule, it costs too much money to park downtown for a walk which can take over an hour and cost .25 a half hour. Thus I have not been walking as much. Since I have low blood pressure, when I take it a walk, it tends to wake me up a bit and get me going. CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 6:30 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 and a loaf of whole grain low fat oat bread for .99 less 10% senior discount of .29 for $2.59 total. I then drove down by the waterfront. I checked the oil in my car, and it is fine. I checked my glove compartment document folder holder, and the yellow registration slip that I had in it had expired, but in an envelope in the glove compartment, I had my current registration. I put it in the document holder. I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital to pay a minor bill of $2, but they told me it was an accounting error, and I did not need to pay it. I then returned home, and I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I then rested for a while. I next ate a half of a box of CVS wheat thin crackers and then I ate the remaining fifth of a 9 ounce can of Smoked almonds. I then watched some television. However, all of the television seems to be programmed for young children, so there was not any television for me to watch. It has warmed up to 51 degrees Fahrenheit, but I feel lazy, so I will just continue relaxing at home. CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 9:10 A.M.: I went through the Microsoft information that I received yesterday, and I put it with the Microsoft TS/2 conference bag that I have on my Rubbermaid hamper at the entrance to the bedroom. The information that I received yesterday is basically a few pamphlets on the Microsoft Open License Program, a clipboard, a spiral notebook calendar, and a Microsoft pen. It lists these links http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/webcast/saleswebcasts.asp , http://members.microsoft.com/partner/licensing/softwareadvisor/ and http://members.microsoft.com/certpartner/help/rsc/default.aspx . I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 8:45 A.M.: I checked my Hyundai service list, and I am not due for any Hyundai shop service, until 48,000 miles. I currently have about 39,650 miles on the car, and I am due for a oil change at 40,800 miles. I chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 7:55 A.M.: My guest the night before last finished eating the bag of corn chips. My guest also noticed that when he was riding in my Hyundai that the front passenger side retractable seatbelt did not work properly. I extended it after I got out of the car yesterday, and I left if fastened. It is hard to draw out the belt from the retainer since it catches, when one tries to draw it out, and one has to let it retreat a number of times before extending it out far enough to cover the passenger. If one is looking for items in this area, try looking at www.bargainnews.com . CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 7:45 A.M.: I just finished going through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04 Tuesday 7:15 A.M.: I went to bed after the last message. I chatted with a relative about 10 P.M.. I was awake at 5:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I took the Lasko box fan out of the living room window where I use it to blow the heat from the electric radiators around the aparment in the winter. I removed both of its louvered side panels, and I washed them in the kitchen sink. I also cleaned the fan blades and the interior of the fan housing. I then reassembled it, and I put it back in the living room window in front of the G.E. Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control, which I have covered with Styrofoam. I turned the Lasko fan on low, and I now have it blowing the electric heat around the apartment. CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04 Monday 6:15 P.M.: My guest just called up, and he is headed back to Long Island. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. It is suppose to be cold tonight. CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04 Monday 5:25 P.M.: About a year ago, I had given my guest my Land's End aqua marine colored Eisenhower jacket, and while my guest was here, I gave him my other similar aqua marine Eisenhower jacket made by Patagonia. Neither fit me, since I weigh 215 pounds, but they fit my guest whom weighs about 155 pounds. I have plenty of other clothes that size. I noticed today that the ELDC thrift shop is no longer in business at the Cos Cob shopping plaza next to the Mobil station just east of Indian Field Road. I called Microsoft back about a phone message about Microsoft's New Livemeeting program www.microsoft.com/livemeeting/ , which I have not had time evaluate, but since I am on a limited budget, I will not be buying it. I heated an ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Select New England Clam chowder which I ate with 20 large cut croutons and a glass of iced tea. I also ate a piece of apple pie. CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04 Monday 3:50 P.M.: After the last message, my guest and I both cleaned up. My guest had a glass of orange juice. We drove over to McDonalds, and my guest had breakfast of a sausage, egg, and cheese muffin with a potato pancake. I had already eaten breakfast. We returned to my apartment, and my guest picked up his belonging, and then we eat drove our respective cars, and I showed my guest the way to North Street, so he could drive up to the Merritt Parkway. I then left him at the beginning of North Street, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a Every Ready black and yellow flashlight for a dollar. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I used the bathroom downstairs there besides doing some banking business. I then drove over to Walgreen's in Old Greenwich, and I bought a 12 pack of Walgreen Ultra Alkaline D batteries for $9.99, two nine ounce cans of Smoked Almonds for $1.99 each, three 11 ounce cans of Madame mandarin oranges for .39 each with store coupon, and three 6 ounce cans of Bumble Bee chunk light tuna for .39 each with store coupon plus .60 tax for $16.91. I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room. I next drove out to Tod's Point, and I parked by the southwest parking area, and I enjoyed the view. I ate half of the can of almonds for lunch. I fed a fourth of the can of almonds to the squirrels, crows, sparrows, and cardinals in the bush in front of me. I then went to the southeast parking area, and I sat out for a while, and I used the bathroom there. I then went by Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought a damaged package of 500 sheets of Staples legal laser paper for $2.60 and a 25 pack of slim jewel cases for $4.44 plus .42 tax for $7.46 total. I then returned to the center of Greenwich, and I sat out briefly for a while downtown, and I then returned home. I put in the new D batteries in the Every Ready flash light and the other black rubber flashlight I had in the car, and I put in three new batteries in the RayOVac metal Sportsman flashlight, and I brought it up from the car, and I put it on the rack behind the apartment entrance door. I decided not to leave it in the car, because when it rolls around on the floor of the car, it turns on and runs out of power. I put the other five D batteries in a bag in the top left drawer of the blue kitchen bureau. I put away the other food items. I filled my Minolta laser printer with more paper. I put the CVS legal laser paper in a plastic bag to reduce moisture, and I put it underneath the table holding the Minolta laser printer. I put the 25 slim jewel cases on the printer port box to the right side of the primary computer on the wicker rack on the wall. I received at my door while I was out a Microsoft software advisor kit which has Microsoft information that I will look at later. I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04 Monday 8:45 A.M.: I checked the weather outside, and it is clear and currently 26 degrees Fahrenheit. I made breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, pineapple orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. My guest is still asleep, but when he woke up briefly, he said he would be up soon. He has to drive to Ansonia, Connecticut today, which I think is on this side of New Haven. I do not travel much in this area, so I do not know where a lot of places are. It seems colder than normal for this time of year, but I can remember when it has snowed here during the first week of May back around 1971. I remember that because I was returning from Tobago, and when we flew into Kennedy airport during that time, there was snow on the ground as we transferred to Boston, and then I returned to Chicago. Thus since we have had a colder winter, and if the pattern holds, which it can do for a up to 15 year cycle, this colder weather for extended periods might be here to stay for more than a decade compared to the warmer winters we have experienced during the previous 15 years or so. Weather tends to go in long term cycles. I hear tell, it is quite busy down in Florida, and I also hear that it is a lot colder out in the Midwest of the United States of America. I suppose with all of this cold weather, the energy companies will be making more money, and of course we will be paying more for energy. My guest just woke up. CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04 Monday 7:10 A.M.: I cleaned up after the last message. My guest arrived shortly thereafter. We chatted for a while. My guest drank two St. Pauli Girl dark beers along with eating some white corn chips. We went out about 10:30 P.M., and we drove downtown down by the waterfront. I showed my guest the view of Long Island, and that the lights were still on out on Long Island. We then went by the Glory Days Diner on East Putnam Avenue. My guest bought dinner. We both had iced tea. My guest had a cheese omelet with bacon and Rye toast. I ate a Caesar Salad with baked slices of grilled chicken. We chatted over dinner. We then returned back to my apartment. My guest went to bed on the day bed in the living room about midnight, and I went to bed at the same time. I just got up, and my guest is in no rush this morning, so he is still sleeping. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 8:00 P.M.: I rested until a half hour ago. I had one friend call and say he would not be able to make it to visit. However, another friend will be arriving to stay the night shortly. The friend has to drive further east in Connecticut in the morning, so he will save the time coming from Long Island. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 2:35 P.M.: I rested a bit. I watched some television. I ate two large bowls of corn chips with some iced tea. Not much happens in the suburbs during rainy weekends, since people are not able to pursue their outdoor activities. Since the people in the suburbs are not as literate as their big city slicker neighbors, the suburban people are probably involved in other activates such as Sunday dinner, which frequently can be enjoyable, if one can afford it. Since it is not safe frequently to drive during lots of rain, people just stay home and reflect upon sunnier days. I suppose their might be a few English residents poking around town trying to make the spare pound or two, since they are use to lots of rain. Generally here in the New York state area, we average about 40 inches or more of rain a year http://www.the-home-improvement-web.com/State-Facts/New-York.htm which works out to about one inch a week, however for some odd reason New York City's central park averages about 10 days a month or about one day in every three days, it rains in New York City, so although it supposedly rains less in the suburbs, anyone whom has lived in this area for a long time would be use to rain, so get use to it. Rain information http://www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/wx/climate/daysrain.html . Thus having lived in New York City and having spent 20 years here in Greenwich, Connecticut walking downtown and having lived in wet areas like Nantucket, Boston, Chicago, and Florida, the rain does not bother me at all. I just have to readjust to it, when it occurs. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 11:25 A.M.: I will put the computer in standby mode, and I will rest for a while. I am suppose to have a guest come out to visit for the night at 7 P.M. this evening. Obscure facts The House of Bush: Born in a Bank . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 11:00 A.M.: The Queen Mary II will be in Lanzarote on April 6, 2004 http://www.qm2.org.uk/itinerary.html . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 10:55 A.M.: If you forgot http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 10:45 A.M.: How to get rid of goose poop http://www.pestproducts.com/goose_buster.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 10:40 A.M.: http://www.abc.net.au/outbackhouse/ CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 10:25 A.M.: I watched a bit of television including a show on Channel 21 about light houses in California. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 8:10 A.M.: Art story News Danish Carlsberg collection coming to London . I suppose next they will be drinking Carlsberg elephant beer in London. I was told a few years ago by a Swedish visitor whom spent a lot of time sitting in our local Starbucks that if I ever go to Stockholm, I am going to end up sitting in a coffee shop. I suppose with the colder Swedish weather that would be better than sitting on a bench outside. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 7:50 A.M.: It is rather strange that all of these so called environmentally friendly activists will spend a few gallons of gasoline to buy a $3.30 cup of coffee, when it would be far simpler to stay at home and make one's own coffee. Of course the not so rich and not so secure like to strut their stuff hoping to advance themselves up the caffeine ladder of life. I recently noticed that coffee beans have gone up in price, so maybe Starbucks should raise their prices, so they can more properly reflect the price of doing business, particularly at the central Greenwich, Connecticut business address, which is very expensive rental real estate, so when some out of Towner parks their butt their pretending to be Lord of the Roost, they might find out, that the Greenwich people probably do it in their locations too. Thus in strutting their stuff pretending to be ecologically friendly, they are actually using up quite a bit of energy. Whatever, the case so many of them work so hard on weekdays, they enjoy the ambience of Greenwich on weekends, which I actually find mundane and sort of boring with all the burned out corporate types, when the group we seem to see during the weekdays is actually more colorful and interesting. Thus from 7 day a week 24 hour a day perspective, one has to keep everything in perspective. Albany, N.Y. -- timesunion.com Starbucks story . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 7:35 A.M.: Taipei Times - archives Hungry Polar Bears the Biggest Hazard in Arctic golf game and http://www.icelandnews.com/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 6:40 A.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie. I watched a bit of television, and it is still the usual programming the people seem to prefer in the suburbs. I checked outside, and although it is not raining, it is still quite damp out, which individuals like myself whom have arthritis generally try to avoid, so I guess I will not be going out. Basically, I could bundle up and go out, but since I spend most of my free time when I am not outside or doing household chores or resting, I generally spend that extra time reading on the internet. Of course if I get tired of reading off the internet, I could always read some of the periodical literature that I receive. I also keep my notes up to date. One tends to get a bit of cabin fever staying in, but since I can not afford the warm ambience of Starbucks downtown, in the current weather conditions, I would not feel comfortable sitting on a bench downtown. I guess, I will make and drink a cup of coffee at my own version of Starbucks or Chez Mike's. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 5:10 A.M.: I ate two large bowls of corn chips with some iced tea. If one has not figured it out, with daylight savings time, it will be lighter later in the evening, but it will be darker earlier in the morning, so sunrise this morning will be at 5:33 A.M. and there is suppose to be rain all day http://www.weather.com/weather/detail/06830 , so I do not think I will be going out. Maybe there is some vintage movie on television http://entertainment.msn.com/TV/guide/Default.aspx , which at the moment is "White Zombie" . CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 4:25 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 4:00 A.M.: Daylight Saving Time starts in Europe and North America Spring forward an hour on our time. I was up at 10 P.M., and I chatted with a relative. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, pineapple orange juice, vitamins, and supplements and coffee. I chatted with a relative. I watched a Fox broadcast with Laura Bush and Karen Hughes. I then checked outside, and it felt a bit damp. Since it is warm and comfortable inside, I went back to sleep until a short time ago. I set all my clocks and watches ahead. Well today's date is 04/04/04 that does not happen too often, so it is a unique date. I believe today is also Palm Sunday. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 1:50 P.M.: I reheated the other half of the spaghetti noodles and half of the jar of tomato sauce that I had last night, and I added several tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with iced tea. Before I did that, I checked my mail. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 12:20 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I sat out briefly downtown. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $4.75 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.999 a gallon for about 25 miles per gallon usage around town. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought five 16 ounce boxes of Stop and Shop vermicelli for $2 all, four half gallons of Minute Maid not from concentrate premium orange juice with calcium for $1.50 each, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $3.99, a box of ten quart packages of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, four 25.5 ounce jars of Francesco Rinaldi traditional tomato sauce with no salt for .99 each, a 32 ounce jar of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $1.99, a 17 ounce bottle of Monari balsamic vinegar from Modena, Italy for $2.99, a five ounce jar of House of Tsang pure sesame oil for $2.99, two 13 ounce boxes of Keebler reduced fat Townhouse crackers for $2.50 each box, four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's New England clam chowder for two for $2.69, a bulb of elephant garlic for $1.99, a 3 pound bag of yellow onions for $3.29, two Rosenborg extra creamy Danish blue cheeses at $7.99 a pound for $3.96 and $3.08, two four packs of six ounce cans of Chicken of the Sea solid white albacore tuna fish for $3 for two four packs with card, four 6.5 ounce cans dry weight of California medium black pitted olives for .99 each can, two 28 ounce cans of Goya chick peas for $1.09 each, two 8 ounce bars of Land O Lakes Monterey Jack and Pepper Jack cheese for $2 each, a 14.75 ounce can of Bumble Bee Alaska pink salmon for .99 for $71.23 total. I chatted there with a local about my experiences down south. The local said he had never been down south. I then went to the Food Emporium, and I bought a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Hazelnut 100% Arabica coffee beans for $7.99 since the bag was priced $7.99, although it rang up $8.99. I used my Food Stamp allotment for all of the purchases. I then returned home, and I used my cart that I keep in the apartment to bring up my purchases. I next put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 6:45 A.M.: My energy assistance from the NEON program although it has been approved, it has not yet been deposited by the Federal government into my electricity account, so I may have to pay my electricity account this month. However, if it comes later, I will not have to make a payment later in the summer, when I tend to be more active. I guess when the Arab sheiks are here in the summer with their energy business partners, they like to see us living better with our energy assistance. However, I happen to know one Arab that lived in Connecticut when I was at prep school at Taft, and not many people knew he was Arab, since he said he told them he was from Louisiana, however another classmate used an alias which was my same last name to keep an eye on him, and when the Arab sheik left, my classmate with the Alias claimed he was kicked out of school for listening to a transistor radio. We had very strict rules which included no drinking alcohol on campus, no smoking except for seniors, no television except in master's apartments, and students also were not permitted radios, so what we knew basically came from reading a lot, since the school library had lots of printed information. I made up a grocery list, so I guess I will shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out and do a bit of grocery shopping. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 6:05 A.M.: The right most sconce candelabra bulb on the dining table wall burned out. I took out the other three Satco 15 watt bulbs, and I replaced all four with Philips 25 watt DuraMax long life bent tip candelabra light bulbs output 145 lumens energy used 25 watts life 2000 hours or 1 1/2 years. I put the three used 15 watt Satco bulbs in their boxes, and I put them back in the mahogany bureau drawer in the bedroom where I keep various bulbs. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 5:45 A.M.: I finished going through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 5:10 A.M.: PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites . CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 4:35 A.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie with some ice tea before I wrote the previous note. CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 4:15 A.M.: After I sent out my weekly note, I took the time to read it, and although it makes sense to me based on my experience, it might not make sense to other people in other locations. Still, when I was at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu , they always said publish or parish. When I returned from Europe in June of 1972 to Weston, Massachusetts where my family lived, I had seen some waterfronts in Europe, and I was familiar with the waterfront in Massachusetts area. I spent that summer at Lake Forest, Illinois, and in the fall, I went down to Jacksonville, Florida and St. Thomas, I then returned to Chicago, Illinois, and since they were not friendly to Nixon republicans, I returned to Weston, Massachusetts, and then around January 1973, I moved down to Manhattan staying with my sister on the East side of Manhattan. From about mid April 1973 to July 1973, I worked as a clerk typist at C.B.S. news at the broadcast center on West 57th Street, and I saw about five thousand French sailors walking by the building coming off a French aircraft carrier. I figured by their numbers, they would know more than C.B.S.. That was during the Watergate period of broadcasting, so there was not much original news being published. Since I was on a limited budget, I rented a room in on West 9th Street at the St. Clair Residence for about $40 a week, and I shared a bathroom down the hall from about April through June of 1973. The room did have a non working fire place. A friend from Illinois lived nearby on 13th street just east of Fifth Avenue. Since I was earning about $85 a week after taxes, I used the subway to get back and forth to work, but in my free time I walked around Manhattan. Thus from about January 1973 to July 1973, I spent a lot of time walking around Manhattan familiarizing myself again with Manhattan. Since Richard Nixon's daughter lived nearby on the east side, there were a lot of republicans in the area, although New York City tended to be a democratic environment like all urban centers. I explored the city, and that July 1973, my family moved back to Greenwich, Connecticut, so I moved back home, and I quit working at CBS, since I had a hard time waking up early enough in the morning to be at work at 10:30 A.M., so they would have the paperwork done for the evening news, which back then was filmed a half hour ahead of time, and then broadcast if there were no mistakes. If there were a mistake or late breaking news, they broadcast live. At the end of the day, I would watch the broadcast at CBS, since I did not have a television at home. When I was fired for being late for work, I enjoyed being back in Greenwich, and since I had use of the family car, I could explore around Connecticut as well as visiting in Manhattan. That fall, I worked locally at Boodles restaurant in Greenwich and their Scarsdale restaurant Sassafras as a waiter. I made from $40 to $100 a night. That fall, I think was when the oil embargo started, and there was no oil from the middle east. Since my father had cosigned a loan with a bank in Darien for me to buy a 1971 four door blue Volvo 244 sedan for $1,750 from Peabody's garage in Greenwich, I would occasionally drive into Manhattan at night after work and explore around. By the winter of 1974, the oil embargo was causing major shortages of gasoline and fuel oil, and gasoline was hard to come by at the few gasoline stations selling it. I had friend in Manhattan, so during one snow storm, I dented the left side of my Volvo when the automatic transmission shifted, and it slid into a guard rail on the Connecticut turnpike after buying gasoline at the rest area there on the turnpike in Darien, since there was no gasoline for sale in Greenwich. I would stay with a friend in Manhattan near the United Nations, and I recall once my car was towed. I would go back and forth to Greenwich spending time at both locations. Around April and May 1974, I stayed with some friends in Chelsea, but going back and forth got to be too expensive. I recall selling the Volvo around March of 1974. I thus had to use the train when going back and forth, and I had to do a lot more walking. In the summer of 1974, I was around both Manhattan and Greenwich not doing too much but routine maintenance since the economy was in decline. I continued the routine of going back and forth until about April 1975. Of course the friends in Manhattan generally thought suburban people were not too interesting, since they were caught up with their larger Manhattan networks. Some of my friends were from Long Island, so I would visit out in Oyster Bay and Locust Valley, Long Island. Still those were cold winters, and there was not much energy available. The friends on the east side of Manhattan had buildings heated with steam from the East Side power plant south of the United Nations, so they had fairly warm comfortable apartments, which is why they needed to run the air conditioners all winter, since frequently it is hard to regulate steam heat. The railroad tracks underneath Manhattan would supply the power generation plant with plenty of coal to keep running for lack of oil. I spent a lot of time walking around exploring Manhattan including the waterfront areas on the west side, but with the lack of energy, it looked like everyone had left town. Still, I did not meet that many people from Connecticut, since Connecticut did not have much energy, but the mass transportation did work, so lots of people were using it. Basically like today even then Manhattan was expensive, so one spent a lot of time walking around in lieu of spending money. I stayed continually out in Greenwich from about April 1974 until July 1974 swimming at Conyers Farm and doing chores around home. I then went up to Nantucket for about a six weeks, and I returned to Greenwich around Labor Day. I went up briefly for a week to Yale thinking about continuing my education, and I then after the first of the year in 1976, I worked in Greenville, South Carolina for Fluor Daniel construction company on traffic and expediting, and I quit the job just before the fourth of July to return to Greenwich and Manhattan for the tall ships with all of my belongings that I had moved down to South Carolina. I then went up to Nantucket for some time, and around the third week of September 1976, I went back to Florida, since we did not have enough energy at home in Connecticut. Thus until I returned to live in Greenwich in December 1983 in that period I was traveling between Greenwich, Connecticut, Florida, Long Island, Manhattan, Nantucket, and California when I was not staying at one of those locations. One gets tired of traveling and sleeping on other people's sofas, so it is nice having my own home, and a more settled existence. CIO

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

Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 12:40 A.M.: I chatted with a friend shortly after starting to lie down. I just woke up. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 8:30 P.M.: I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest for a while. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 8:15 P.M.: I am boiled a 16 ounce package of Mueller's thin spaghetti noodles, which I will eat half of with half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu Parmesan and Romano tomato sauce which I will reheat in the General Electric microwave oven on reheat. I will refrigerate the remaining unused portion. I will put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on the meal, and I will eat it with iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:40 P.M.: I read the American Express information. I called them on their 800 number 1-877-621-7786 or www.americanexpress.com/prefgold1 in Orem, Utah, and I chatted working the grapevine for about an hour or more. I was told by their sales representative that they have had seismic vibrations of 2 to 3 on the Richter scale in the Orem, Utah area. I believe there are volcanoes in that area, but I can not find which one. I use to chat with WordPerfect personnel there about eight years ago, and I was told they had a volcano which I thought was interesting since Microsoft was also near a volcano. Perhaps it is these reported events http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/monitoring.html that they are feeling in Orem, Utah. I was told by American Express that although $130 fee is waived the first year, I would have to pay it after that. Since I have no travel plans, I will not be getting the American Express Gold car, but it is nice to know they think I am eligible. I chatted with a relative. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 5:00 P.M.: I was up at 2:30 P.M.. I went out without cleaning up. I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the drive-up teller at the Wachovia Bank on Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I gave them the extra bags that I had collected. I bought another crystal cut glass shade like the other five that I had bought yesterday, and I paid a dollar for it. I now have six of them. I put it with the others behind the Lindbergh radio on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom. I then returned home. I put $15 on my MacGray laundry card, and I now have $21.35 on it. I vacuumed my apartment, so I am now done vacuuming. American Express sent me an American Express gold card application, with a card without my name, so I am not sure if it is a valid card or not. Since I am on limited income, I will probably cut it up. However, it would be handy in emergencies or for buying bargains online. I will have to think about it and read the details in the paperwork that came with it. In my earlier note chatting about my paternal grandfather that was surrounded by millions of acres of corn and a father whom was a well educated organic chemist, I suppose besides the option of making corn whiskey, they could have had another option of making methyl butyl ethanol which is a common additive in gasoline in North America during the warmer months to reduced air pollution. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:45 A.M.: I will now put the computer on standby, and I will try to rest some more. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:40 A.M.: Yahoo! News - 3 Intense Hurricanes Forecasted in 2004 and EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL . CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:05 A.M.: I put a box of six America's Choice fish filets and 14 America's Choice frozen onion rings, and 14 America's Choice potato miniature pancakes on a baking sheet, and I am cooking them in the Farberware convection oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 minutes a each of two sides. To serve with them, I mixed three tablespoons of horseradish along with a half of a cup of Heinz ketchup, and I will dip the cooked items in the seafood sauce. I will eat it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 5:45 A.M.: I used to know somebody that had the complete works of Edgar Cayce http://www.are-cayce.com/ in his apartment near Beekman Place in Manhattan in the old days, and his houseman was named Ed with another last name. However, during those cold winters, there was a bit of alcoholic refreshment in the apartment, and I recall, we actually left the Frederick Air Conditioner going all winter, so it was a colder group of people whom spent a bit of time outside in the cold weather. Since people like Nelson Rockefeller were in political office, and since Edgar Cayce was a confidant of Nelson Rockefeller, all I could figure out, was that they were not alcoholics, but they spent so much time in areas of extreme cold, which people from down south are not familiar with that those locals would occasionally have a drink of alcohol. I am not sure the relevance of it all, but when one is down south for extended periods of time, one's blood thins out, so possibly when one comes north, and one is not operating mechanized machinery such as automobiles, occasionally in the old days, alcohol helped people ward off the cold. Of course everything in moderation. I guess it is all what one is use to. I suppose somebody from say where it is 80 degrees Fahrenheit would say 40 degrees Fahrenheit is really not that cold, but once they hit minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, their attitude might change. Where I went to Lake Forest College, Richard Widmark also attended that college, and he made the movie "The Bedford Incident" All Movie Guide: The Bedford Incident , which if one has ever seen it, it is a really cold looking movie like Dr. Zhivago or Ice Station Zebra, but for me here locally it is not too bad presently at 40 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest a bit. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 5:15 A.M.: whisky merchants Kentucky bourbons, corn and rye whiskey off license shop , but the only source of corn whiskey in the United States of America is supposedly Other Whiskey Brands - Corn, Rye, Blended and Canadian Whiskeys - Heaven Hill Distillers , but I always joke since there were millions of acres of corn around my paternal grandfather in Illinois, and since my father was a well educated organic chemist from that area that more than likely they had the capability of making the stuff and even exporting it, so maybe this is where this stuff comes from Corn And Rye Whiskey, United States, Mellow Straight Corn Whisky 50% , of course back in the hill country of Appalachia and Arkansas, and other more rural areas, I think they still call it White Lightning, so if you happen to stumble across any of it in old gallon glass jugs or mason jars, don't tell any revenuers, since more than likely it is probably still freely produced in the North America, it is just harder to find, since they have gotten more cleaver. From what I hear tell, it is sort of smell and tastes like lighter fluid, and if it is too strong, it will make one go blind. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:45 A.M.: Of course there is a better alternative to Scotts lawn care products that might be cheaper, if one were a frugal Scotsman. In the American west, when they tried introducing sheep to range land, the cattlemen did not like it, because when sheep craze, they do not cut the grass, but they pull up the grass by its roots thus causing the grass to be harder to reproduce itself. I guess this is what caused much of the desert conditions in certain parts of the world. However, in an area like Scotland, there is so much moisture and rain, more than likely sheep were cultivated successfully there, since with the rocky soil, the grass seemed to continue to grow anyway despite the introduction of sheep. However, if one has sheep, more than likely one as a byproduct called Sheep dip or Sheep manure. I have frequently recommended to White House personnel here in the United States of America to spread Sheep manure on their lawn, and it stinks so bad nobody will come within miles of the place, so it would offer additional security and privacy. However, once the sheep manure gets blended into the soil, one actually ends up with a very nice lawn, which might be cheaper than calling Scotts, but of course one would need a source of Sheep manure. If one has ever traveled around America and smelled farms where they spread sheep manure, you would know what I mean, but it does truly smell when first applied. Of course if one's environment supported sheep, one would also have extra wool to stay warm, and if one were a carnivore, I suppose one could eat a bit of mutton too. Of course if one were living around the King of Cornwall, one more than likely could stay warm with some corn whisky, which I hear tell is still available in some areas of the world. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:20 A.M.: Coming up May 1, 2004 http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2004/ . CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:20 A.M.: BW Online April 5, 2004 Online Extra: ExxonMobil: More Power Ahead? and BW Online April 5, 2004 Online Extra: Why ExxonMobil "Makes Bets Early" . CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:10 A.M.: A job for Scotts http://www.scotts.com/ could be this assignment Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event London Parks Need 100 Million Pounds for Repair . However, I am not sure London is ready for a bunch of Midwestern gardeners. CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 3:50 A.M.: CTV.ca - Prince William tabloid photos dismay royals - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television and Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event Sun Banned in Royal Row . CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 3:15 A.M.: I had a telephone call from a relative about 10 P.M.. We chatted for about a half hour. I then ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, pineapple orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I just finished it all except vacuuming, which I will do in the day time, when I will not disturb my neighbors. I just threw out the garbage, and I put the extra bags in my car to give back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 5:50 P.M.: I drank some more iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I will do house cleaning when I wake up tomorrow. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 5:35 P.M.: A relative just called from http://www.rougehotel.com/ in Washington D.C. where they got a good discount rate through one of the internet travel sites. Their cell phone cut off, so I did not get to talk much about their visit. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 5:15 P.M.: I ate a Quaker fat free popcorn cake and a Nature's Valley strawberry yogurt granola bar along with some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 4:35 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went back by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I bought three money orders at a cost of .90 each for $2.70 cost of the money orders plus the face value of the money orders. I then mailed in the money orders to pay my Verizon telephone bill, my Cablevision bill, and my Optimum Online bill. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I returned the three video camera tapes for $6 credit, and I bought five cut glass crystal lamp shades for $1 each and two bronze gold like goblets for $1 each for $7 total less $6 credit for an additional dollar I paid them. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment. I next returned home. I put the two goblets on the top of the center bookcase in the hallway. I put the five crystal lamp shades with the other spare glass lamp shades and hurricane globes behind the Lindbergh radio on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom. I drank some iced tea. I sorted out some shopping bags and packing paper to give back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I told people today about www.wn.com and http://www.wnnetwork.com/ , which between those two web sites, there is enough news information to keep one busy reading the news to see what one might be missing in just watching a small bit of the television news. Of course one has to have the time to read all of their news. I noticed today in Byram near the Byram Veterans House and the Byram Fire House at the Lutheran church on Delevan Avenue, they now have a Japanese Gospel Church posting their sign their too. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 12:30 P.M.: I will now eat a piece of apple pie with some iced tea. I will then go out again. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. I will now shut down the computer. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 12:10 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the central Greenwich post office, and I obtained a money order at .90 cost to pay my GEICO automobile insurance. I mail it there to GEICO, and I also mail two other envelopes. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought four unopened Maxell Normal Bias UR 90 minute tapes for $1 each, and two unopened JVC TC-20 SHGM tapes for $2 each, and one unopened Minolta 8 MM P6-60 tape for $2. I did not know what type tapes my Sony Handy Cam used, but it uses Super 8, so I will try to return the last three tapes for $6 refund. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $2.99, 24 ounces of Stop and Shop Monterey Jack cheese for $3.99, 16 ounces of Stop and Shop grated parmesan cheese for $5.99, 17 ounces of Monari balsamic vinegar for $2.99, broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.71, plus tomatoes at $1.99 a pound for $2.31, a quart jar of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $2.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.29, a 20 ounce bag of Tostitos restaurant style white corns chips for $2.99 for $27.25 total. I then went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of nutty oat grain bread for .99, a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89, and two 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold large cut Zesty Italian croutons for .99 each less 10% senior discount of .49 for $4.37 total. I then went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought two cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 each carton for $62 total. I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases, and I drank some iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 7:30 A.M.: I heated and ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, which I put 20 large cut croutons in, and I had it with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer. I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 6:55 A.M.: I updated and configured Win Amp. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 6:45 A.M.: Microsoft Executive E-Mail: Current Edition . CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 6:35 A.M.: NOAA National Hurricane Awareness Week and of course www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm is still there. There Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com shares offices with Yachting magazine http://www.yachtingnet.com/yachting/ , so more than likely with all of the people locally here whom travel back and forth down south, there is probably a little bit of hurricane experience in this area, not to mention Connecticut is suppose to be involved with the insurance industry. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 6:15 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 5:40 A.M.: I rested a bit, and I watched some television. I ate a Quaker low fat popcorn cake. I drank a 50% decaffeinated instant Folgers' coffee and a 50% Folgers' instant coffee. I changed my three calendars to April. I threw out the old papers and some garbage. I took down the Saudi Arabian flag from the bedroom door where I had hung it, since it is warmer here, and for the time being we not that dependent on their oil for heat as much. I put it in its box in the middle drawer of the long mahogany bureau in the living room on the right side. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 2:45 A.M.: I will now put the computer on standby again, and I will try to rest, and I will try to get back on a daytime schedule again. CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/04 Thursday 2:20 A.M.: I went to bed until about 1 P.M., and I then watched some television. I called GEICO www.geico.com , and they told me they had sent me a new policy on March 5, 2004. I was able to get my policy reduced by about $40 a year from $712 a year because I only drive about 5,000 miles a year or less. I found the new policy underneath some papers on my desk along with the insurance card. I will pay it later on today. CIO