Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 6:45 P.M.:   I printed out my monthly Microsoft Money 2006 report.  I have it ready to mail to a relative.  I chatted with a friend.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will watch a bit of television before going to bed.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 4:35 P.M.:   I microwaved and ate a bag of Jolly Time popcorn, which I ate with some iced tea.   I chatted with a friend.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 3:15 P.M.:   BBC NEWS | Technology | Homemade walking aid tackles MS  .   I chatted with a British Citizen at the embassy today, and I suggested that in the old days when they made Raleigh bicycles, they used to have a small generator on the back that rotated off the rear tire to provide electricity for the night running lights.   I suggested that they probably make them somewhere in the commonwealth.    He said they were called "Dynamos".   Here are some links on the subject Bike Lights - Generators and Dynamo Hubs , Bicycle Regulator , Batteryless Bicycle bike safety LEDs lights, A non-friction bicycle dynamo, generator, No battery, No friction! flashing light, invention, new product. , ACCESSORIES - Lights - Dynamo Lighting - Bicycle Workshop. Londons bike repair specialist , Kinetics - Bike Components & Accessories - Trailers, Publications, Panniers, Dynamo Lights and More... , .  Dynamo (Generator) Lights: Fact vs Fiction , Bicycle Lights and Generators , and a inexpensive purchase available at Bicycle Dynamo Lighting Sets of Low Quality and Commensurate Price at Yellwo Jersey  or more expensive Union German Dynamo Systems at Yellow Jersey .  Front Dynamo Lights for Bikes .  City Bikes - Full Service Bike Stores serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia - Hundreds of Bikes in stock, Specialized, Cannondale, Jamis, Giant - Planet Bike Dynamo  or for battery power City Bikes - Full Service Bike Stores serving Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia - Hundreds of Bikes in stock, Specialized, Cannondale, Jamis, Giant - Lighting / Headlights/Taillights .  BBC - h2g2 - Bicycle Lights  and BBC News | DOT LIFE | Handlebars get the hi-tech treatment .  CIO

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 2:40 P.M.:  CNN.com - Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia - Apr 27, 2006 .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 2:30 P.M.:   I just woke up from my nap.   I had a no person telephone call from the 914 area code from Holy Rosary.   It seems to be warmer out Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .    I would like to go downtown for a walk, but I guess with the need for energy conservation, I will just stay around the apartment.   I got a $3 off coupon in the mail for my next purchase at  www.cvs.com , so I could get a free can of nuts or something.   The picture of the bird house on the weather page looks like a Martin Bird House.   Each martin in your area eats a couple thousand mosquitoes every day.    They were very popular up around the Boston area in the old days.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 10:30 A.M.:  I chatted with an associate.  I microwaved and ate a Maria Callender 21 ounce meat lasagna, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.    I also cut a dill pickle into quarters lengthwise, and I ate it.    I chatted with a relative.   I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap for a while.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 8:35 A.M.:   I personally think gasoline is going to over $10 a gallon.   I chatted with a friend whom also thinks the same thing.   It was $9 a gallon in France, when I was there 14 years ago.  I put together a short handy list Bicycle Links .   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/30/06  Sunday 7:30 A.M.:   I was awake at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I studied the logs on Norton Internet Security 2005 on my server to see if I could figure out whom is causing the problems on my server.   The logs just show mostly generic advertising feed back.    I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I threw out some garbage, and I moved my car to its usual parking place.   I chatted with a neighbor.  CNN.com - Economist John Kenneth Galbraith dies - Apr 30, 2006 . BBC NEWS | Americas | Liberal thinker JK Galbraith dies . BBC NEWS | Business | Brazil's sugar crop fuels nation's cars .  Ethanol Still | Ethanol Stills | ethanol production | ethanol fuel | ethanol | how to make ethanol .   ABC News: Gas Too Pricey? Make Your Own .   Don't tell the revenuers, it is pretty much the same as White Lightning.   With the allergy season around, one can take Benadryl and CVS sells its own generic version CVS Online Pharmacy Store CVS Allergy Liquid Gelcaps Dye-Free and CVS Online Pharmacy Store CVS Allergy .   I have been taking one with my breakfast vitamins recently.  CIO    

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 8:15 P.M.:   I did some routine maintenance on the server.   I also did a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive on the server.   By enabling ASP.net 2.050727 on the XP Professional IIS server, the web server runs a lot faster than with the ASP.net 1.1.4322 .  On has to download ASP.net 2 from the updates first.   I do not know that much about servers, and I just run a simple computer setup, but it seems to me, a few unexplained events seem to be happening with my computer server.    I keep many redundant backups, so I can always restore them quickly.   Possibly some childish individual is using my server to practice their hacker skills, however it is the nature of my position in the community, and my internet presence that certain more sophisticated individuals in the computer industry monitor it also, so they obviously know the parties that are creating the mischief.    Once they start bothering somebody important, they will probably just turn the electricity off again.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/29/06:

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 3:15 P.M.:   I will now send out my weekly notes.    CIO

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 3:15 P.M.:   I always activate the motion detection camera when I go out.   However, I just noticed the center lamp on the living room window shelf was turned off.    I do not recall turning it off.   Thus it seems that someone over rode the motion detection camera and is still gaining entrance to my apartment for some unknown purposes.    Thus at this point, if I find out whom the individual is, and if they have assets, they are going to receive a substantial bill for all of the chaos, they have caused on my computer systems over they years.   I have an accounting firm that keeps track of such matters.  I also have a security organization investigating the matter too, so they will probably know more than they probably will tell me.  I threw out some garbage.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 2:55 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   The tulips are in full bloom.   I saw one young fellow wearing an Amsterdam sweat shirt.   I use to have an Amsterdam sweat shirt, but I gave it to an experienced jogger, so it would get more exposure.   I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store during my walk.   After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then drove around Grass Island, and I returned back to my apartment.   I took a nap for a while.   I watched some television about the Lake district in North England.    I microwaved a 16 ounce Stouffer's turkey medallion dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 9:35 A.M.:   CNN.com - Largest cruise ship set for maiden voyage - Apr 29, 2006 .   ABC News: Wedding bells for Prince William? .  I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up.    I will then go out for some daytime activity.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 8:25 A.M.:  Private Quarters Club - Private Residence Clubs – Golf Course Communities .  April 11 patch re-released with fixes .   I finished going through my email.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 7:55 A.M.:   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I ate the last couple of ounces of mixed nuts with some iced tea.   I downloaded and installed Spyware Doctor - Award-winning Spyware Remover , and I ran it half way, and it did not find any problems.   I will now go back to my email.   CIO   

Note:<888> 04/29/06  Saturday 6:50 A.M.:    I chatted with a relative after the last message, and I worked with the Vista beta, until about 9 P.M..   I went to bed.    I woke up at 2:30 P.M.,  and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until about 6 A.M..   Tabloids hear wedding bells for William - Europe - MSNBC.com and BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bells ring out for Queen's 80th .  The order for two 7 pin Mini DIN Male to RCA Female, S-Video to RCA Adapter Cable, OEM-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com has tracking of UPS Package Tracking .   I will now go through my email.  Just For Men - Welcome to Just For Men .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/28/06  Friday 7:10 P.M.:   According to this Microsoft's stock dropped over $3 a share today Greenwich Time - Microsoft Shares Hit 52-Week Low , and according to this Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock , he owns 141,159,990 shares of Microsoft Stock, so he lost $426,303,169.80 today.   However, the good news is that he still has $57,834,220,000 to play around with.   Whatever, the case he and his liberal friends have not done anything to fund my environmentally friendly computer efforts over the last 16 years, so I guess the view from the Northwest is that I should try beta testing their new http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm instead of bitching about the price of tea in China.   I will now boot to the beta that I installed yesterday to see how it works, since there is not much for me to do on the internet at the moment.  For all I know with over 3 gigabytes of code, it is running a Chinese telephone company or doing something else.   I will look at my email tomorrow.   I will then shut down the computer after some beta work, and I will go to bed.  I ate 75% of a 11.5 ounce can of CVS mixed nuts.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/28/06  Friday 6:15 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Spacecraft seek climate clarity .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/28/06  Friday 6:00 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I microwaved a bowl of Jolly Time popcorn, which I ate with iced tea.   I chatted with a  relative.   I took a nap.   I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I threw out the weekly garbage.   I have been tired a bit recently, and I guess it is because the warmer apartment with the air conditioner set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, the apartment is warmer, and its tends to make me feel bit tired.   However, for energy savings reasons I will have to get use to it, so hopefully I will pick up my energy level in the warmer apartment.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/28/06  Friday 1:50 P.M.:   I took a nap.  I watched some television.  I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with some neighbors.   I picked up my mail.   I am making up a batch of formula one http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/28/06  Friday 12:05 P.M.:   I put about one inch of water in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I added about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I steamed them on one vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, I then put in the cooked rice in the Rubbermaid container that I made yesterday, and I ran both on three more vegetable cycles.   While doing that I put about two tablespoons of olive oil in a 8 inch diameter stick proof frying pan on the small electric burner of the General Electric stove, and I turned it to medium high.  Once the fat began to bubble, I added the salmon cake that I made yesterday, and I cooked on medium to medium high for four minutes a side.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now take a nap, and I will put the primary computer on standby.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/28/06  Friday 11:00 A.M.:   I chatted with a relative before going to bed after the last message.    I was awake at midnight.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 6 A.M..  I did some regular computer work.   I set up NeroVision Express to capture video and audio off my digital cable television box with the Pinnacle capture device.    I found this link for displaying video from the computer Yahoo! Go with a free downloadable application .   However, my 256 MB ATLANTIS RADEON 9600 Picture Gallery dual video card came with the wrong S-Video to RCA adapter, so I am not able to output the computer to the television monitor.   I order two 7 pin Mini DIN Male to RCA Female, S-Video to RCA Adapter Cable, OEM-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $2.99 each  and a Flower Case Badge (labels, stickers, tags), #F08-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05 plus $7.14 UPS ground shipping for $13.17 total.   Thus when I get the adapter, I should be able to output the Sony television which I have the cables already connected to.   I am pretty much financially wiped out for the month.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I watered the plants, and I put white vinegar in the vinegar dish on the living room window shelf.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 6:05 P.M.:   I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I bought a 4 inch square Dutch Delft type blue and white windmill tile for $2.   I then sat out briefly downtown at the veterans monument across from the senior center.   They have planted new grass seed there.    The tulips have just opened up.   However, if one has allergies, there is quite a bit of pollen in the air this type of year.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then returned home.  I put the windmill tile on the dining table next to the Netherland Club of New York tile.   I ate the last three scoops of Godiva Dark Belgium chocolate ice cream.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  Bon Soir.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 2:30 P.M.:   I installed the updates on both the primary and the server computers.  I ran Ad-awareSE, Norton Win Doctor 2003, and did System Restore backups on both.    I did a ASR backup on the primary computer from the C: drive to the Maxtor External hard drive, and I also did one from the C: drive to the D: drive.   I deleted my old backup from the previous setup from the Maxtor external hard drive.   I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.   The Energy saver feature on the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control seems to work.  It just takes a few minutes for it to kick in.   I have it set at Cool, low fan, energy saver, and temperature 78 degrees Fahrenheit with the exhaust louver closed.   I threw out some garbage.    I picked up my mail.   I  chatted with a relative.   I have to leave shortly for my 3 P.M. appointment.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 10:50 A.M.:  I have the beta installed http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 9:10 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I used the bathroom at Starbucks after my walk.   I drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions.   I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold Whole Grain Classics Dark Wheat bread for $1.85.    I then returned home.   The Microsoft Vista beta 2 build 5365 was finished downloading.   I just burned it to DVD with Nero 6.06.    I will now install it on the secondary partition on the first hard drive on the primary computer.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 5:10 A.M.:   I opened a 14.75 ounce can of Bumble Bee Alaska pink salmon, and I left the opened lid on it, and I drained it a few times underneath cold water.    I then put the canned salmon on a dinner plate, and I picked through it all with my fingers removing any bones.   I put the remaining cleaned salmon in the Cuisine Art along with a large cracked egg and two tablespoons of Progresso bread crumbs, a half teaspoon of Italian seasoning, and a half teaspoon of dried parsley.   I ran it a few cycles stirring it in between cycles to scrape the unmixed portions off the sides of the Cuisine Art.   I then took the mixer holder off the machine, and I removed the blade.   I divided the salmon mixture into halves, and I shaped two one inch thick paddies out them.  I put one of the paddies in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I also made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe .   In a plastic microwave proof container with lid, I also put an inch of water and about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns.   After the rice was done in the microwave oven, it has to sit at least five minutes, so I took it out of the microwave oven, and I ran the vegetables on three vegetable cycles in the General Electric microwave oven.   While doing that I put 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a 8 inch diameter stick proof frying pan on a small burner on medium high electric heat.  Once the fat began to bubble, I cooked the salmon paddy for four minutes on each side.   Once all of the items were cooked about the same time, I put half the rice in Rubbermaid container with lid in the refrigerator.    I put the other half on a warm dinner plate with a couple of teaspoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.   I put the cooked salmon paddy on the dinner plate, and I put the drained cooked vegetables in a large bowl with a couple of teaspoons of olive oil on them.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I will now shower, and I will clean up.  I had to restart the Vista beta 2 build 5365 download, but it is going faster at about .5 mbps download, so it has about 1 hour to go.  Of course during the Hurricane season down south http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm , one might want to have their ears clogged up, if one does not like the sound of a train rushing by for a few hours or more.   CIO   

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 3:15 A.M.:   Microsoft Global Software as a Service Seminar .  ECEES 2006 .  I finished going through my email.   CIO   

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 2:50 A.M.:  The Turner Movie channel has the vintage movie on with Cary Grant, "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House in Connecticut".   Judging about the amount of activity around here the last 22 years since I returned from the isolation of Nantucket, I think a lot of other people have done that too.   I used the CVS ear drops CVS Online Pharmacy Store ear drops, and for an adult size person with larger ears, I put 25 drops  in one ear, and I hung my head sideways with the ear upwards for 10 minutes with a towel around my shoulders while I watched television.   I then filled the bathroom sink with hot water, and I used the rubber ball ear syringe, and I filled it with hot water, and holding my head over the bathroom sink with the ear facing towards the water, I squeezed the hot water into my ear canal, and after about a half dozen times, I removed all of the ear wax in my ear canal,  and several big chunks of ear wax came out.   I did the same for the other ear.    I now have much better hearing.  I do this about every six months.   If one lives around the sand and surf at the beach, one needs to do it more often.  If one does not have a rubber ball ear syringe, one can get one with ears drops at the CVS store at the Riverside Shopping plaza for $6.99 Medicine Cabinet - CVS Pharmacy Drug Store CVS Ear Wax Removal System.   I will now go through my email.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/27/06  Thursday 1:25 A.M.:    I went to bed after the last message.    I was awake at 9 P.M..   I chatted with a relative.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until just now.   If one can not afford to keep one's house warm during the upcoming winters, one might catch the flu, so this story might have interest to you CNN.com - Study: U.S. couldn't slow flu pandemic - Apr 26, 2006 .    I am downloading Vista beta 2 build 5365.    It is about a six hour download.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.   I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.   Since I put my summer quilt and summer blanket on the bed removing the winter comforter and the electric blanket, it has been a bit cool while I have been trying to sleep recently.   Maybe I am pushing my summer preparations.   CIO      

Note:<888> 04/26/06  Wednesday 7:45 A.M.:   I watched a little bit of morning television.   As usual there is not much going on in America, except the status quo whatever that is.    I suppose since Fox News said the government gets the biggest share of gasoline prices, it is another way of taxing the general population.    Alas, since I am limited on my activities based on my disposable income, I can not respond to nothing happening on Greenwich Avenue.    I suppose the town could save money by getting rid of the town government and other municipal services, and leave everyone to fend for themselves.    Alas, from what I can tell from the media, the local Hartford, Connecticut state government is not very much in tune with this area either.     I suppose since Fairfield County pays so many taxes and gets so little in return, we could become a separate economic entity, and maybe we would do better.    I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed sooner.    Maybe,  I will be up a little bit earlier today.    CIO 

Note:<888> 04/26/06  Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:   I took my nap.   I ate two scoops of Godiva Dark Belgium Chocolate ice cream and half of a 8.5 ounce can of CVS Ranch Style seasoned cashew nuts.   I will now go through my email.    CIO  

Note:<888> 04/26/06  Wednesday 2:00 A.M.:   I am going to put the computer on standby, and I am going to take a nap.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/26/06  Wednesday 1:25 A.M.:  Now if you do not think this cat http://mikelouisscott.com/mtlion.jpg can not sneak up on you while you are out bird watching at this hour of the morning, it really depends on whether they are hungry or not, and this time of year when food is scarce, they tend to be hungry, and like the people they to tend to migrate south to north and back with the seasons.   That is probably why some people chose to live on more remote islands despite the sharks and the gators.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/26/06  Wednesday 1:10 A.M.:  As I recall when I worked for Daniel Construction now part of www.fluor.com  in Greenville, South Carolina for the first six months of 1976, I lived next to the C.B.S. news station which also was one of the first cablevision stations coming out of Atlanta, Georgia, when Ted Turner was still selling highway advertising road signs, and at the time everyday, I drove to work, I drove by the Greenville, South Carolina sheriffs office with about two hundred sheriff's cars, so more than likely somebody in that area knew something about the Irish travelers.   We only got three television stations back then, so like today, we were not use to watching much television, since all it does is try to sell soap.  Proctor and Gamble owns most of the soap operas, and as I recall Helen Kress Williams owned a lot of Proctor and Gamble www.pg.com .   If the media type people keep bothering me too much, I might quit paying the extra $53 a month, I have to pay for Digital Cable television, which I do not watch too much.   If everyone in America quits paying for the television media, they will end up going out of business, and soap might be cheaper.    CIO

Note:<888> 04/26/06  Wednesday 12:50 A.M.:   Back in the good old days, when President Bush was first president, we use to have Dorothy Bush's caddy from Hobe Sound, Florida sleeping outside around Greenwich, Connecticut at night, and since he always carried a 100 pound duffle bag, he was a fairly powerful man, but we have not seen him in a couple of years, so he is probably still caddying on the P.G.A. golf tour.    Of course, there are always kids moving around this area at night, since they tend to work jobs in the evening, and then spend a little down time out and about after midnight.   We have some local colleges such at Suny Purchase, which also have a few youngster prowling around this area to see what is happening, and I suppose occasionally some of the cadets from West Point venture over here, because of all of the golf courses we have in this town.   It is the nature of the United States Army that they tend to walk a lot, so anywhere there are a lot of golf courses, more than likely there is somebody from the United States Army in the vicinity.   However, if I happen to be in the United States Army, they are a communist organization, because I do not recall having been paid since 1968, thus they would owe me a lot of money.  Of course Lake Forest College besides being just north of Fort Sheridan, which at my time was in charge of all of the recruiting for the United States Army, and a fairly secure location with golf course and 500 pound plus master sergeants, it was also south of Great Lakes Navy Medical Center with about 50,000 U.S. Navy personnel.    Thus as a local observer in the nearby college, I worked in the bank two years, and I also drove a taxi for two years while in college.   To drive a taxi in Lake Forest, Illinois, one has to be fingerprinted, and the fingerprints are put on file with the FBI, so my fingerprints have been on file with the FBI, since about 1970.   Of course when I was born, they also did my baby foot prints, so I am a fairly well documented individual.    Speaking of found property on Greenwich Avenue, this past morning, I found a nickel, but one usually does not see much spare change or bills around Greenwich Avenue because of all of the pedestrian traffic.  I took three large eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and a couple of tablespoons of milk and a couple of teaspoons of olive oil and few dashes of Italian seasoning, and I whisked it all together.    I put three paper towels on a microwave proof dinner plate and then seven strips of regular bacon and two more paper towels and the plastic microwave plate cover, and I put it in the microwave, and I set the timer for four minutes.   I put two pieces of bread in the toaster.   I then took a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I added few tablespoons of olive oil, and I turned on the electric burner to medium high, once the oil began to get hot, I added the egg mixture and lower the electric burner heat to medium, and I started the bacon in the microwave oven, and I started the toast.  Once the eggs were about half cooked, I used a spatula, and I slid the cooked part off the bottom of the pan to let the liquid part cook some more.   About the time the bacon was done, the eggs and toast were done.   I mixed the eggs a little bit towards the end to scramble them medium soft.   I put the hot skillet briefly on a dinner plate to warm it, and then I put the eggs on the plate along with the bacon and toast.   I put olive oil on the toast, and I cut the two pieces in half.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.    I suppose since I have a full belly, I could shut down the primary computer, and I could shower and clean up, and I go out on the usual Mountain Lion patrol.   I became aware of Mountain Lions, when I use to camp out by Ronald Reagan's ranch in the hills above Santa Barbara, California, and when I use to camp out in Florida, I use to see pretty much the same cat called a Florida Panther, and I had the experience of some sort of cat jumping on the roof of my Volvo about 7 years ago out by the reservoir by Lowell Weicker's former house before he moved to the Virgin Islands never to be seen again.    However, I do see his license plates around town, but I never recognize many members of his family, since they tend not to be as tall as he is.  Among the local political groups, they seem to think he is still in charge in this area, but the last I knew he was living quietly in retirement, but I think he still has a legal practice in this area, since by profession he is a lawyer.  However, I actually do have work to do at home, so I doubt if I will be going out.    I am so far behind in my computer and internet activity with all of the system's maintenance that I have been having to do recently, I am having a hard time remembering some of my normal internet activities, which I use to keep busy with all of the time.   Most of the time it was reading various technology news articles, and my shortlist was posted at Scott's Daily Work List Links .   Thus I do not really need to taking an exercise walk, when I have plenty of work to do at home.   From what I can tell that group of con artists known as the Irish Travelers from Murphyville, South Carolina are probably working this area again like they seem to do every year at this time, and it seems they might have become more high tech and be pursuing some sort of internet fraud.  CIO   

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 11:25 P.M.:  Amazon.com: Calphalon Professional Nonstick II 8 Inch Omelette Pan: Kitchen & Housewares .   Amazon.com: Memorex High Performance AA Alkaline Batteries, 50 Pack: Electronics .  CIO

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 11:15 P.M.:   April 24, 2006 Stroke-associated damage to brain structure may lead to heart attack .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 11:05 P.M.:  New York University www.nyu.edu discoveres Lava Lamps CNN.com - Unleash your inner geek at 'Dorkbot' - Apr 25, 2006 .  When I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu Dr. Jung used to teach physics there, and some of his students worked with him in his laboratory on Holography.   There used to be a Holograph museum also in SoHo in Manhattan, but I guess the rent was too high, so they moved back to Chicago, Illinois Museum of Holography .  As I recall Dr. Jung's holography research laboratory was in Libertyville, Illinois where Adlai Stevenson had his farm.   However, I did not take Dr. Jung's courses at Lake Forest College.   I recall Bailey Donnelly was my Physics teacher, and he was the head of the Physics Department at www.harvard.edu during their summer sessions, so he must be pretty good in physics.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 10:50 P.M.:   BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Fathoming Tibet's political future .   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 10:40 P.M.:   I went to bed after the last message.   I had a computer magazine telephone call about 11 A.M. this morning.    I woke up at 5 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I went back to bed until 9 P.M..   I chatted with two relatives.    I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail.   I will now do some regular computer work.   I have so many computer magazines to read that if I do not have anything to do on the computer, I can always read the computer magazines.   CIO   

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 9:50 A.M.:  I microwaved and ate a bag of Jolly Time popcorn.   I chatted with a relative.   Another relative is back from a sail across the Atlantic.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  First lady hits Stamford to boost GOP war chest - Greenwich Time .   I think this is the building just north of the Senior and the Arts Center Greenwich building sells for $23.4M - Greenwich Time .   CIO     

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 8:35 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.    I then drove over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza.   Someone off the highway was sleeping in their car there.   I bought a 14 ounce can of Comet Cleaner for .99, buy one get one half price of Life Fitness B-100 Time Release 60 capsules for $11.99 and $5.99 the second one, a .5 ounce bottle of CVS Ear Drops for Earwax Removal for $4.99, a 11.5 ounce can of CVS Mixed Nuts for $2.50, and a 8.5 ounce can of CVS Ranch House seasoned cashew nuts for $2.50 less a $5 off coupon on over $25 purchase for $23.96 total.   On the CVS cash register slip, I got a $3 off coupon on my next purchase, so I bought a bottle of CVS natural garlic oil 100 softgels for $4.59 less the $3 off coupon for $1.59 total.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a dozen large Dutchland eggs for $1.59, and fresh Dole bananas for .69 a pound for $2.65 for $4.24 total.   The night produce person at the Riverside Shopping Center Food Emporium is from Paraguay.   I then returned to central Greenwich, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.    I sat out at various locations.   The tulips are not yet fully opened, so they were not damaged by all the rain that we had the last few days.   I drove down by the waterfront.   Somebody had dumped an Old English 800 beer bottle in the Steamboat Road waterfront dumpster.   I also noticed somebody had left a fishing line leader in its packaging on the sea wall.    I then returned back home, and I chatted with a neighbor.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 3:15 A.M.:   I will now shut down the primary computer.   I will shower, and I will clean up.   I will then go out to the CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza and the Food Emporium.   The weather has cleared, so I probably will take a walk on Greenwich Avenue with any Mountain Lions that happen to be around.    CIO    

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 2:55 A.M.:  Tracking on my www.outletpc.com order Michael Scott's www.outletpc.com order is UPS Package Tracking Outlet PC Order for Mike Scott .  CIO

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 2:15 A.M.:   I was mistaken in last weeks notes.   The Microsoft Technet presentation will be at the Rye Brook, New York Hilton Hotel on Thursday, May 4, 2006.   One can register for it at Events Home Microsoft Technet Rye Town Hilton Rye, New York, Thursday, May 4, 2006 and Events Home Microsoft Technet Ryetown Hilton, Ryebrook, New York, Thursday, May 4, 2006 for Developers .   I finished going through my email.   Not much happening around here during these rainy days anymore.   I guess the rich people from Florida will not be showing up here until June, so we are just enjoying some quiet spring days.  Bill Gates is off in Viet Nam VN Embassy : Bill Gates Arrive In Vietnam .  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 1:50 A.M.:   I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.   I will now go through my email.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/25/06  Tuesday 12:40 A.M.:   I went to bed after the last message.    I had a computer magazine call about noon.    I woke up at 5 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I threw out some garbage.   One of my neighbors was getting a food delivery from Stop & Shop Supermarkets - Home Delivery, Great Ideas, and More .  I picked up my mail.    I went back to bed until 11:30 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO         

Note:<888> 04/24/06  Monday 9:15 A.M.:  Hate symbols scrawled inside center - Greenwich Time ,  I put a 7 ounce Banquet chicken pot pie WITHOUT its aluminum dish in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I microwaved it for four minutes, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.    I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   We seem to have a thunderstorm approaching.  Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/24/06  Monday 7:40 A.M.:  I went through my email, which on Sundays is not much.   I went outside, and I checked the building parking lot area.    It seems to be another cool damp spring morning.   You have to realize, it is not even May yet.   The last time I was down in Tobago for a few weeks back in 1971,  I returned with my family flying into J.F.K. airport in Manhattan during the first week of May 1971, and there was six inches of snow on the ground, so the weather can play tricks on you this time of year.  The Peru Ubinas Volcano web sites are Principal Peru Ubinas Volcano web site , IGP_Principal Peru Geophysics , Volcan Ubinas - Peakware World Mountain Encyclcopedia , Ubinas, Peru .  I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu with Brian Porto whom was from Peru, so maybe he would know some more.    I recall when I threw the Kentucky Derby Party on the Farm back in 1971, Brian did not show up, and nobody won the Derby bet that year, since a horse named Canonaro from Peru won that year.    It was suppose to be a strong runner, since in the heights of Peru, the air is thinner.   Thus the Derby Party broke even, it did not show a profit at $5 a head with all that you can drink in terms of beer, wine, and good quality alcohol and mixers.   I recall buying up all the mint in the town of Lake Forest at the gourmet food store, and the rest of the town was quite upset, I think it cost me about $40 for a case size tray of mint.   One the visitors showed me something interesting about the manure out by the barn during the derby party, it had about a quarter of an acre of mint growing in it, so it was one of those cases of God's Little Acre of looking for what is in one's back yard.  Alas, the Farm http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-the-farm-illinois-1970.jpg is no longer there, but at 12 cents a gallon for heating oil back then, it was quite warm and comfortable on those cold nights in Illinois.  One of the room mates from Minnesota use to keep his room at about 90 degrees Fahrenheit, while one roommate from Connecticut moved out after a few months, because there was no heat on the sun porch, where he was trying to sleep at a lesser cost.    That is his green MG in the picture, and I guess since his name was David Field from Fairfield, Connecticut, he is probably fairly wealthy old guard Yankee today.  One of the roommates was the step son of Robert Wagner, the former mayor of Manhattan, and the son Bennett Cerf a well know publisher with the name Barry Cerf.   Another roommate was Tim McMurray a local genius from Lake Forest, whom died in a fire in Miami, Florida when working as a social worker, and one of his clients killed him.   Another roommate was from Detroit named Doug Turner, whom joined the Navy.    The roommate from Minnesota was Skip Benson, and his family were wealthy in the Commodities Business.   Of course, I frequently missed some of my classes, because I was busy running the Farm, and also working local jobs around Lake Forest, Illinois, but one tends to keep long hours, when one is younger.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/24/06  Monday 6:25 A.M.:  I turned back on the Honeywell Hepa air purifier.   I reset the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner to turn on with the Energy Saver feature at 78 degrees Fahrenheit on low fan speed on cool, however it comes on, when it should just stay on standby, so I just left it turned off for now.   Possibly the power failure yesterday afternoon caused some sort of problem.   I have the maintenance contract paid up on it through September 12, 2006, however I do not think it is worth calling them about the Energy Saver feature, because once it gets hot, it just tends to keep going all the time.    I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/24/06  Monday 5:20 A.M.:  Instead of going through my email, I went through the apartment, and I double checked my inventory of items that I keep around the apartment http://mikelouisscott.com/inventory.htm .   I printed out the inventory list, and I put it in a clamp binder, and I put it on the Lexmark X1185 on the dining room table.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/24/06  Monday 2:05 A.M.:   I will now go through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/24/06  Monday 12:50 A.M.:   I woke up about 5 A.M. yesterday morning, and I microwaved and ate a bag of Jolly Time popcorn.  My General Electric microwave oven has a popcorn button.    I fell asleep about 6:30 A.M..   I woke up at 2:30 P.M., about the time the electrical power went off.   The new generator only provides electricity for the hallway lights and not the apartments.  I went outside, and I chatted with my neighbors.  I chatted with a friend.  About 4 P.M. the electricity went back on.    I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I then went back to bed until about 7:30 P.M..   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $34 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.459 a gallon for 155.7 miles driving since the first of the month at 16 miles per gallon averaging 13 miles per hour.    I then drove back downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I stopped by Starbucks, and I told them with the increased price of gasoline, they should raise coffee by about 50%.     I stopped by the Greenwich Taxi, and I told them the same thing, but they told me their rates are controlled.    There are quite a few vacant stores on Greenwich Avenue.    I notice the custom made soap store just north of CVS is laboratory animal friendly.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I chatted with a yacht club employee from Guatemala.    I let my car run about 20 minutes while chatting with him to charge up the car battery.   I then returned back to my apartment.   I got out some of my car supplies from underneath the sideboard in the bedroom.    In the leather bag, I put in a car spot light and a car light bulb both with cigarette lighter plugs.  I also brought them down to the car along with a half gallon of Prestone antifreeze.   I put about a pint of antifreeze in the coolant overflow container, since the lower coolant light was coming on, and I used a funnel that I brought down.   I also put those items in the rear area of the Volvo station wagon along with a quart of Castrol 10W30 oil and a quart of Valvoline 10W40 oil.    Thus I have a little bit more room underneath the sideboard in the bedroom.    I keep most of my other car items and tools in the tool box underneath the telephone chair and table at the apartment entrance.    I will now microwave a 21 ounce Marie Callendar meat lasagna, and I will put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it, and I will eat it all with a glass of iced tea.   CIO          

Note:<888> 04/23/06  Sunday 3:20 A.M.:   I went through my email.   I took the Map of Magellan circa 1500 out of the Reader's Digest Atlas, and I put it in the sailboat picture frame over the sailboat picture, and I hung it in the same location on the right side of the wall in the kitchen entrance.  The sailboat drawing and the island street scene pictures came from a tag sale for the Darien boy scouts about 15 years ago.   I think I paid 50 cents for each picture.   BBC NEWS | Americas | Volcano prompts Peru evacuation .  I still can not afford to go to Jolly Old England BBC NEWS | UK | England 'addicted to sex and TV' .  Dutch news BBC NEWS | Europe | I'm a bit boring, admits Dutch PM .  I guess if you do not know Dutch, one never hears much about what is happening in "Wind Mill Land".   I think their tulips come out about two weeks after our tulips, and then the tulips in England come out about a week earlier.    I the last two scoops of Friendly maple walnut ice cream.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO             

Note:<888> 04/22/06  Saturday 11:15 P.M.:  I need some spare parts to keep on hand, so I went to www.ouletpc.com and I looked at their clearance items Clearance For Your Computer At The Lowest Prices - Outlet PC.com on a over $100 order with coupon "WAREHOUSE", one gets free shipping.  I ordered 5 Powmax 80mm Case Fan w/ Intelligent Temperature Sensor and Aluminum Construction (ALUMINUM) - $2.98 , Spire HawkStream II Socket A/462/370 Cooler (up to AMD 2800+) - $4.89 , 2 Samsung 1.44MB 3.5-inch Floppy Drive (BEIGE) - $5.33 , FanControl 4 Channel Fan Controller w/ 3 LEDs and Colored Bezels (Silver) - $8.84 , 4 PC Toys 18" Single Device Round Floppy Cable (SILVER) - $0.65 , ACTM USB 2.0 & Firewire 3.5'' Front Panel Case Adapter - $3.95 , LD 10ft USB 2.0 A to B Device Cable (BLACK) - $1.28 , Syba NEC 4+1 Port USB 2.0 PCI Contoller Card - SD-V2-5U (RETAIL) - $8.96 , 2 4 Pack Thumb Screws for PC Cases (No Screwdriver Required) - $0.28 , Lance Armstrong Foundation WearYellow LiveStrong Wristband - 1 Pack (ADULT) - $1.00 , 2 CCT RJ11 / RJ12 T Adapter - Phone Line Splitter - $0.99 , Belkin 10ft DB25 M/F ASM Serial Cable - F3D112 (RETAIL) - $0.50 , Shelspia Silver Ultra-Light/Thin Aluminum Smart Media Memory Card Case (Holds 2) - $1.98 , ACTM 15ft 6-pin to 6-pin M/M 400Mbps IEEE 1394 Firewire Cable - $2.50 , 2 Micro Innovations 6ft Retractable Telephone Cable - $0.48 , 5 LD 6ft USB 2.0 A to B Device Cable (BEIGE) - $0.69 , and a LG 16x GSA-4167B DVD+/-RW Dual Layer DVD ReWritable Drive (BEIGE) - $48.95 with free UPS ground shipping on over $100 order with coupon "WAREHOUSE" for a total of $117.96.    At those prices, I think I can afford to stock up on a few spare parts.   CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/22/06:

Note:<888> 04/22/06  Saturday 6:35 A.M.:   I called up the British Embassy in Washington D.C. this past evening to wish Queen Elizabeth II Happy Birthday, and it was strange the person answering the telephone was from Iraq.   I just finished doing my laundry.   I took the electric blanket off the bed and the heavy winter comforter, and I put them in their plastic holders on the left side of the bedroom closet shelf.    I put the light summer weight medium blue blanket on the bed and the pink and green floral pattern quilt on the bed, so now it is set up for warmer weather.    I did two loads of laundry, and I put the clean clothes away.   From my personal half Dutch point of view, cleanliness is next to godliness, so since the computers are running fine, I am going to do my routine house cleaning this morning.    It does not use energy like driving the car, and since I spend more time in my apartment with the higher prices of fuel, it is important to keep a clean orderly apartment.   According to the Greenwich Post, premium unleaded gasoline is up to $3.269 a gallon.   The retired banker I saw going into Manhattan on the train on Thursday evening is from a well known oil family, so if he is taking the train, I think other people should think about using the train and saving energy.     I still have my older Schwinn bicycle here, but although it is older and it does work just fine, at this point I can not afford the parts to keep it running properly on a regular basis.    To use it at night one needs reflectors, and at the moment, there is still too much automobile traffic around here.   I also do not have spare tires or tubes.    However, I think I am in good enough shape to ride it after walking up and down Greenwich Avenue all of these years.   I actually enjoy walking a lot, so I might simply walk downtown later today after doing my house cleaning.   I run my apartment like I were living in my mother's home and not in some hippie crash pad.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/22/06  Saturday 3:30 A.M.:   I woke up at 9 P.M., and I chatted with a relative, a friend, and an associate.     I explained to them what I have been dealing with is some sort of "Cyberterrorism".   My friend in Manhattan told me a lot of their friends in Manhattan have been having computer problems.    Thus it is more widespread than me locally.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went back to bed until 3 A.M.   I was able to get FTP to work between the two computers by changing the IP address for FTP, and it now works.     However, to get the web to work off my server, I now have to enable Advanced Configuraton DynamicDNS.    However, for the moment everything is working just fine.    I will do some of my regular computer routines, after I wash the breakfast dishes.     However, before I make my bed, I also have to do laundry.   In my world unlike hacker's worlds, house cleaning  and maintenance comes first before routine computer activities.   CIO     

Note:<888> 04/21/06  Friday 12:55 P.M.:   I do not pay attention to what goes on in this area.   For all I know they have some sort of security event going on, but from what I can tell, I heard briefly on MSNBC this morning, that a number of gasoline stations in the Northeast are Out of Gasoline.   I guess with the war effort going on and what ever modest level of propaganda, we are able to maintain in this modern world, it looks like you ain't going anywhere with your American Express card, except to maybe the sneaker store.   I tried restoring my backup on the server, and deleting the server partition and restoring the server partition information, but I still can not FTP between the primary and the server computers, so I have to transfer files manually.   Whatever, the case the new IP address that appeared on my server seems to be connected with the motherboard LAN.   I can change it back manually to the old IP address, which I have forgotten or another IP address, but for now I will not worry about it.    Basically, although it is only set up for transfering between the primary and the server computer, from what I can tell with the constant hacking skills that appear in IBM's back yards, anything could happen with these systems as the Fifth Columnists try to disrupt the area, before they hope to take over.   I will warn these simple minded individuals the Old Guard tends to come north around the End of May for events like graduation at West Point, and it is the nature of their military connections, they tend not to run out of fuel.    Since the two most frequent users of my web site tend to be out of Waterbury, Connecticut and Beverly Hills, California, maybe what we're dealing with is a couple of actors killing time.    Waterbury, Connecticut is where Timex watch company is, and brass companies.    However, I think Timex is a Norwegian Company.   Since the people are use to taking advantage of my hospitality at the expense of my time, I have had to advise people to simply ignore them, and to let them fend for themselves.   It does not seem they have any interest in computers, and the information they can provide, and that they are more interested in disrupting communications.    We have so many different types of communications anymore, I tend to ignore most of it.    I already have received another harassing telephone call from a person pretending to be a policeman.   I was advised by the local police they do not randomly call up residents.    I think since it is warmer in this area, we have that group of carnival type people coming out of the south trying to pull off their usual con games.    With modern criminal investigation methods, I think the government is now rounding up their families back where they really live and watching their traffic pattern at the moment.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.    CIO   

Note:<888> 04/21/06  Friday 8:00 A.M.:  I chatted with the Casa Marina Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West with the Romanian supervisor named Christian, and I have chatted with him before.   I tried to access the situation to him, but he did not tell me anything.   I tried to explain this map, which makes a bit of sense in terms of the Florida situation.    Basically in 500 years the coast line of Florida has changed.    If much of the map is accurate, how could the coast line of Florida have changed so much.   One should think about it, before investing in Florida real estate.   Map of Magellan 1500

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.   I will shut down the primary computer again, and I will go to bed.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/21/06  Friday 4:25 A.M.:   Well, the local mafia messed up my computer server.    I know how to fix it, but I do not have time to do it this morning.   The web server works, but the FTP between the two servers does not work.    One employee at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop keeps asking me how to network a computer together, and I explained I never network my computers together, because I do not like enabling "File and  Print Sharing".   I just simply FTP between the primary work computer and the server.   Whatever, the Server was messed up, but I was able to fix that with a System Restore, so the web server works for now.   I will have to manually transfer the files between the primary computer, and the server.    If local political activists are involved in messing up my computer operations, more than likely they have bothered other people with more influence, which could make their short stays in this area even shorter.     I tend to take the long term approach.    I enjoyed the period away from computers in the 1970s, when www.ibm.com was left to live in Russia.  Stock brokers were lucky to make $20 a day as bus boys, and most anyone whom had assets to survive on learned the simple joys of gardening.   It always seems that when I go out to my Thursday appointment, somebody messes up my computer activity.   It seems they still gain access to my apartment and are avoiding the motion detection cameras stealthfully.   Whatever, the case it seems to me there is no real purpose, other than they are so ignorant, they are not aware of commonly available information available for reading to the general public in most large libraries.   This might imply they are first generation immigrants or illegal aliens.   Whatever, the case the net result of having my computer systems constantly tampered with, means that I can spend time on other equally important activities.   Thus more than likely, I might not have time to do my usual house cleaning later on today, until after I fix the FTP feature between the two computers.    I have given up on exercise walking and most of my regular routines with the downtown local Greenwich population, which mainly seems to be a HELL bent group of Catholics whom really do not like more dour protestants.   From my viewpoint, if they are so intent to keep messing up simple ordinary computer systems, they must be up to more mischief in the general population.    They claim to be wealthy, but all they seem to be clever at is screwing up things.    Since the IBM family name is on the Greenwich Hospital, and since the computer constantly get screwed up in this area around the Greenwich Hospital and ibm, it leads me to believe the IBM, Harriman, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Watson families in this area are conducting an open campaign of sabotage against ordinary citizens going about ordinary routines, since they are not willing to pay some sort of political graft to their political machine.   I guess that would be the same for the former Clinton group nearby whom are always lingering around this area.   Since this building where I intend to live the rest of my life is about 20 democrats, and 6 republicans, and 30 first generation immigrants whom do not really give a dam, it could be pretty much anyone causing the problems.   The hacking problems do not show any special computer expertise, it shows a pattern of willing misconduct and mischief and neglect of other people's personal activity.    Thus since I have made mention of this in my notes many times, it would seem to me, those individuals whom look into such patterns of behavior, and whom have a larger over all picture in terms of the general population probably know a lot more.   Since I have already invested my time and money in this technology over the last 16 years, I am stuck using it.    However, if I were an organization or government with a lot more cheap labor than technology, I would not use these systems, since they are not very secure, and any grade school student seems to be able to mess them up.   Basically in computers, you get what you pay for.   In the world of computers, the systems I use compared to more advanced systems, is sort of like having somebody steal your hub caps off your Volkswagen.   If somebody tried the same tricks that they do with my systems on more advanced systems, more than likely they would end up making license plates during their spare time.   I am bored with this exercise in dealing with the stupidity of the local population.   However, even during World War II, there were individuals whom would read the letters of typewriter ribbons.   It is the nature of my position in this community that anyone bothering my computer system would more than likely be a foreign agent, and as such in times of war, they would be subject to espionage charges or deportation.   It does not matter whom they know, "THE LAW IS THE LAW".   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.    On a minor note, we also had a briefl Power Failure this evening.   Also with some of the local Italian residents whom might be involved with local Mafia, the United States Government has continually deported many of them over the years, no matter how much time, they have spent in this country.   It seems to me, that their sports orientated perspective of America does not match up with the American judicial system.    CIO

Note:<888> 04/21/06  Friday 2:15 A.M.:   After the last message, I tried to sleep without any success.  Earlier I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I ate two scoops of Friendly's Maple Walnut ice cream.    I then eventually feel asleep about 7 A.M., after watching some vintage television including part of a David Niven movie where he acts as a jewel thief when he was younger.    Around this retirement home, we get some movie on the Turner movie channel that predate William G. Griffith.   The next time they show "Birth of a Nation", I will let you know.   William G. Griffith got the British Royal family Celebrating the Queen's 80th Birthday > Send a birthday greeting to The Queen and Celebrating The Queen's 80th Birthday > Homepage interested in moving pictures, when Lord Mountbatten visited America about the time the moving picture industry got started in California, and he returned with a home movie camera after meeting William G. Griffith, and ever since then they have not been very publicity shy unlike other more reclusive Royal families whom can not afford to put mine fields around their private properties to keep away poachers.    Thus if you visit them unannounced are just drop in, you might become poached eggs, if you get my drift.  Of course one Emperor of China kept over ten thousand palace staff that looked similar to him, so the outsider never knew which individual was the Emperor.   That is why the Forbidden City had 9,999 rooms, I would rather not clean.   More than likely the real emperor lived in some less public place in a larger 10,000th room.   From what I can tell, all of the recent political activity has revolved a group of secretive people in politics for the last 50 years or more looking for the Long Lost Forbidden Imperial Treasury of Imperial China, which was secreted away during World War II.   When I knew Joanne Blair whom was William McCormick Blair's daughter, J.F.K.'s former ambassador to Denmark and the Philippines, she kept telling her tea circle that the Chinese had hidden the treasure in the Philippines, and ever since then treasure hunters have been looking for it.   However, in thinking about an knowing how vast China and its population are, more than likely somebody would have noticed like the Communists whom eventually took over.   Thus more than likely since Mao Tse Tung Quotations from Mao Tse Tung lead the revolt coming out of northwest China from Mongolia, he would have had a supply line leading backing into Northwest China and Mongolia.   Since Mongolia is an inhospitable landlocked country, more than likely they would not have wanted to secret it out across the ocean, and the Imperial Chinese treasury was probably hidden by the Communists in Mongolia or in some other neighboring country like Russia.   Thus with such a vast area to search even with satellites, more than likely even if one located the hidden Imperial Chinese treasury, one would not be able to retrieve it without its protectors' consent.    About 7 A.M. yesterday morning, I fell asleep, and I was awake at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up.    I went out, and I dropped off my lease papers at the Greenwich Housing Authority.    I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.    They are tearing down the old south wing of the Greenwich Hospital, and someone I know that works there was hit by flying debris, so be careful when walking in that area.  I next went to the equally impressive Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.    Most everything but the staff it 50% off.   I bought a nice half gallon size cider jug with flowers on it and a red bumble bee pattern lamp shade for $3.   I chatted with the usual friendly staff whom are afraid to chat frequently with regular customers, since the staff does not want the regular customers to know too much about what really goes on there.   They are not as hard up there as they pretend.   I have seen their second floor storage area a number of times, and it can rival many first glass department stores if one likes vintage style clothing which some of the Old Guard can still afford to wear.    I saw the retired head of bank going into Manhattan today on the train in blue jeans, and lots of his employees coming out later on the train in khakis.  I next went down to the less busy Greenwich Avenue area, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area, and I sat out at various areas.   I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store and CVS.   I also used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center after my walk.   The tulips are out in full bloom.   Traditionally the Dutch plant tulips around everything they own, so when the tulips are out, you can get an idea of hour much the Dutch own in this area.  Of course the tulip was originally brought to Holland from Persia, so more than likely, one will see them elsewhere in the world.    Back in the 16th century the Dutch being such good artists did not trust printed money or other forms of easily forged currency, so they frequently used tulip bulbs for currency.   Thus tulips became more valuable, particularly when you owned property to plant them on.   When I lived in Manhattan, Park Avenue was always full of tulips, if you ever happened to notice.   Thinking of Manhattan, I happened to notice in the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, they were selling a small scale model of the World Trade Center for $30 not half behind the counter.    Alas in the old days, I think the gifts shops on the ground floor level of the World Trade Center use to sell them for about $20.   I never bothered using the elevators much in the World Trade Center, since I only once or twice had appointment there, and I only once went to the top with the Aga Khan's younger son http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg , and he laughed at the picture of Ronald Reagan dressed as Rambo, which they had on display.   I had read the building swayed in the wind, and when I was up there, I felt like I was on a moving airplane.    It was a nice view of New York Harbor, and one could get a feeling for the area without having to fly over the City, which I had done many times before having grown up around aviation.    Afterwards, we visited the Doubleday Bookstore at about 17th street and Fifth Avenue.    He was maintaining a low key presence in America, and he did not know his father was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and he even paid the Mafia working around the Salvation Army on West 14th street several thousands of dollars for a green card, so he could work at the White Plains Galleria.   Ever since then, we have had a lot of coffee in this area, since he came out of their home in Brazil.   Nobody took much notice of his older brother whom is even more mischievous from what I can tell.  I suppose we could send him the scale model of the World Trade Center in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and more than likely the would have enough help to rebuild it in Brazil.  Somebody obviously know how to build it around.   However, I am not sure all of those 7 foot tall plus Canadian steel workers would be comfortable in Brazil.  Needless to say after exploring Greenwich Avenue today, I drove back down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and with the higher price of fuel around here, one tends to see more local people and former neighbors in that area.  I once saw Prince Claus of the Netherlands standing outside the last house on the left at the end of the road on Steamboat Road, and since I am half Dutch, more than likely I would have recognized him.   I also know somebody from Chicago, who claims to have an office across from Queen Beatrice's in the Hague.   Alas I do not know Dutch, so when I hear Dutch, I frequently think they are Russians.    I chatted with a couple regular observer whom wandered what happened to all of the regular observers.   There is nothing really interesting happening on the end of Steamboat Road, it just happens to be a nice view of Long Island Sound, but so many people show up there over the years, since besides the downtown area, it is one of the few public places in Greenwich.    There is a modest level of crime down there being a public area.   Once somebody stole a yellow quart of Pennzoil oil out of my yellow Volkswagen Dasher, which I started locking after that.   I never use to lock my apartment down there, so for all I know somebody was using it take naps.   Since my current apartment is more complex, I keep better security around it, and including security prevention methods.   I will not go into details, but even 20 years ago a camera a microphone could be the size of the end of a piece of thread.     I do not like to take too much time down there during the busy season, since a great many people like having it to themselves.   Few of them realize that I go down there most everyday including the transient staff at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.   It is the nature of sailors, they tend to know many ports.   I next returned to Buy Rum, Connecticut, and I picked up my mail.   I  put the new cider jug lamp on the bathroom television.   I moved the electrical oil lamp from that location to beneath my Grandfather Bovan's portrait in the southwest corner of the living room above the computer setup.    I have it plugged into the modem power strip, so its 40 watt bulb stay on all the time now to had more low light into the living room.   I took one of the 70 watt mercury bulbs from the lamp above the bedroom computer, and I replaced it with a 60 watt bulb, and I put the mercury bulb which is 70 watts but uses 11 watts in the brass lamp behind the server computer, since it tends to be on a great deal of the time.   I opened a 19 ounce can of Hormel Steakhouse stew, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I ran it on the reheat cycle twice in the General Electric microwave oven, and I put it in a soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  Alas I probably will not be renewing my www.costco.com card, which was a birthday card last year.   I chatted with a relative after dinner.   I had some problems with the server, for some unknown reason the IP address of my LAN card changed.    It is highly unlikely I changed the LAN card or the motherboard while I was out today, so more than likely XP Professional can have its static IP addresses changed on the system.   There has been computer mischief around my computer activity for the last 16 years, so I somewhat doubt that the hacker, intruder, or ghost or whatever causes it, really knows what they are doing, and their sole purpose is to waste my time, so I spend less time around my usual activities around town.    Having dealt with this problem for many years, I have let other unknown people pursue some of my usual activities to give them more experience.   I chatted with security personnel about the computer problems to see if their is more to it or not.    For all I know it is some super computer that randomly targets internet users.   Needless to say I am not going to waste money with www.ibm.com to find out.    There are crooks down by the waterfront, so one has to be careful.   The most regular fisherman down there for many years bragged many times he once broke into Howard Hughes' penthouse in the Bahamas, which having seen and read about Howard Hughes, he just owned a hotel there, so more than likely he was billed using the penthouse for whatever purposes.   Once he pays that bill, he will find out that a lot of people do not waste time with the courts, they just send the person a bill.   After all of these years, I frequently feel like sending the German Consulate in Manhattan a bill, or maybe I will just drive in their some night, and observe them, since it is part of my old territory.   They would obviously recognize me, no matter what I was driving.    Even Deutche bank used to be on Steamboat Road before RBS.   www.rbs.co.uk is suppose to stand for the Royal Bank of Scotland, which in Scotland is allowed to print their own money.   However, locally the snide Round Hill Club group call it, the Robber Barons of Scotland or Rockefeller Bull Shit.  You have to rest assured anywhere they drink Scotch in this world, somebody with Scottish connections is keeping an eye on you.    Also since Scotland is somewhere north of England, and since it is somewhere southwest of Norway, more than likely the Scottish know one or two Norwegians.   Also since it is due east of Ireland, they frequently have to confer with Ireland about the English, whom always seem to know it all.  Of course frequently the Danish come to the rescue of the Scottish, since they seem have connections with larger world.   We have heard about Wales, but we could never find the place.   I heard they are suppose to be coal miners in Wales, so perhaps it is all underground.   The Scottish tend not to travel too much, since it tends to seem like a waste of money, since when you get there, they usually charge too much for what they offer.   Locally they want to build a bank at my regular Exxon station Greenwich Exxon might become bank branch - Greenwich Time next to the Greenwich Library.   However, I also have another Exxon station down the hill from me, which probably will not be built upon, since it is in the middle of a traffic circle on the Connecticut New York Border.   Pictures of the lamps follow 

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.   CIO               

Note:<888> 04/20/06  Thursday 2:10 A.M.:   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/20/06  Thursday 2:00 A.M.:   I ate two scoops of Friendly's maple walnut ice cream.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/20/06  Thursday 1:10 A.M.:   Identity Theft Information - The Bank of New York .   I went through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/20/06  Thursday 12:05 A.M.:   I ate about a third of a 8.5 box of Nabisco Triscuts.    CIO 

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 11:35 P.M.:   I ventured out into the great unknown this evening.   I chatted with a neighbor about life in America, and it is not all that Hollywood pretends it to be.    I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by central Greenwich, and at the Board of Education several Greenwich Police vehicles were interviewing a few youngsters about 2.5 to 3 foot tall whom seemed to be still intent on skate boarding around the Greenwich Board of Education.   However, since the local schools are on spring break, it was not the usual group of local teenagers whom frequent that location, but a much younger group of three or four.  The Greenwich Time Greenwich, Connecticut, Local News, Jobs, Real Estate | Greenwich Time reporter did not look much older than some of the regular skate boarders.   I next drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with an employee of Royal Bank of Scotland www.rbs.co.uk whom was from Tobago born of Chinese and Russian parents.    I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a Vietnamese resident and a visitor from Boston.    I also chatted with somebody whom regularly rides a bicycle through this area coming from Bridgeport going to Port Chester.    I guess one sees quite a bit along U.S. 1.   We discussed bicycle maintenance.    He told me you could buy bicycle tires at Wal-Mart for $8.    Of course one first has to get to Wal-Mart.   I then returned home, and I chatted with a relative.    I microwaved and ate a Stouffer's 17 ounce meat loaf dinner, which I put a little olive oil on the vegetables and mash potatoes, and I put a little bit of parsley on the meat loaf.    I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .    I will now do some regular computer work.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow, so I can not stay up much past 4 A.M. this morning.   The primary computer seems to be running just fine.    CIO  

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 6:10 P.M.:   I was awake at 3 P.M..   I picked up my mail.   I did a Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I received in the mail, my new Bank of New York MasterCard ATM Debit card.   I activated it over the telephone.   I received my rent papers to sign, and I signed them, and I made copies of them.   I will drop them off at the Greenwich Housing Authority tomorrow when they are opened.    I chatted with a relative.   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.    I will now shower, and I will clean up, and then I will go out.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 9:35 A.M.:   I researched the problem at www.google.com, and I came up with the solution.    There is conflict between the EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard and the ATI ATLANTIS RADEON 9600 Picture Gallery AGP dual video card drivers.   However, there is a simple fix.   I uninstalled all of the ATI drivers and programs, and I then installed the Omega drivers for ATI 9600 or the standard ones with its defaults per the driver install program OmegaDrivers.net , and it seems to have resolved the freezing conflict I was having with the Epox motherboard.    The system is running much better, and I briefly ran some tests, and it seems to be performing normally.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  On the new Epox motherboard with the case opened at the bottom front of the Epox motherboard there is a LCD indicator that displays POST messages in two digit format for troubleshooting the system.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 6:55 A.M.:   I had a problem with the primary computer this morning and this past evening in that it froze about four times, and yesterday after installing the new motherboard, it froze about two times.   In reading the reports about the Microsoft Security Update flaw, it mentioned that the HP devices are NVIDIA drivers could conflict with the Microsoft Security Update.   I thus went ahead and uninstalled the recent Microsoft Security Update 908531.   In the add remove programs box, there is a check in the upper right corner to show Windows Updates.    Hopefully this fixed the problem I was having.    I have to remember not to reinstall it again.   Also before the uninstall, I went ahead and installed a new round IDE hard drive cable, but I had the same problem which is why I uninstalled the update.   Hopefully it is not the new Epox motherboard.    I do not think it is the motherboard, but I will research it on Google to see if there are any driver conflicts with it.  CIO    

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 5:00 A.M.:  I emailed a Birthday Greeting to Queen Elizabeth II at Celebrating the Queen's 80th Birthday > Send a birthday greeting to The Queen .   I ate two scoops of Friendly Maple Walnut ice cream.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 4:20 A.M.:  accueil colloque and Organisation de congres, seminaire, incentive et agence en evenementiel, team building et voyages .  Staples.com® | Staples® Coupons .  A Birthday Fit For A Queen - Forbes.com . Celebrating The Queen's 80th Birthday .   A New Crime Fighter, for $10 in Hay and Oats - New York Times .   I finished going through my email.   BBC NEWS | UK | Queen 'will do her job for life' .   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 3:45 A.M.:   Speaking of Redmond, Washington Redmond | The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community .   I just opened a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, and I put it in a microwave plastic pot with lid, and I heated on one reheat cycle in the General Electric microwave oven.    I then put it in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl, and I sprinkled about a half of teaspoon of parsley on it, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 3:15 A.M.:   With all the Asian computer parts that I am using, it looks like they made enough money to come visit us ABC News: Hu Meets With Business Leaders in Wash. .   Back around February 1983, when I finished a 8,000 hour carpentry project over 10 months working 12 to 18 hours days with only Christmas off, and I was paid a grand total of $1.15 an hour, most of went fast relocating and visiting relatives and a trip to Oslo, Norway; thus I too was once able to travel.   Since the grandmother owner of the house that I worked on knew Billy Baldwin and was probably around the Duke of Windsor out in Long Island in the 1930s, I felt it was worthwhile employment, although I was not paid very much.   It was a nice quaint neighborhood in Plandome Manor, Long Island next to the train station.   Since one of the grand daughters of the house use to work in the liquor store next to the Dakota in Manhattan, before she became a flight attendant for China Airlines, I figured sooner or later the Chinese would be showing up.  Well, I am doing better out here in Greenwich, Connecticut five miles south of Armonk, New York www.ibm.com instead of living near the IBM Country Club in Sands Point, Long Island.  Needless to say I have seen most of the movers and shakers in the computer industry over the years, so possibly although the computers are easier to use, the rest of the household environment is probably falling behind in terms of today's technology.   I was ahead of my time on the Mother in Law garage apartment out on Long Island, in that I put a four socket walk plug about every four feet or every two studs with above code electrical cable thanks to the tips in the Reader's Digest www.rd.com home improvement manual.  However, with my arthritis I was taking over a dozen arthritis Tylenol pills a day, and working with computers is easier on one's hands and fingers.   I did cut my left hand second finger from the right with the sharp edge of the IO plate installing the motherboard yesterday.  Although I work on computers most of the time here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I frequently feel more like the Twinings Tea representative, since after over a hundred thousand hours of work on computers for the last 16 years, I am frequently left with nothing but a lot of Twinings and other teas.  Possibly if any of the problems I have experienced while working on the internet are due to any hackers, it is the nature of the internet that hackers can be easily tracked, and in due time they will find that their resources will become limited.   However, it is the nature of the computers and software that they are so complex, it is more like that vintage movie from 20 years ago called "Brazil", when everything was so complex, the only people whom knew how to use them was the maintenance people.  About 30 years ago, I read the reason the Israel military was so successful was like the U.S. military in the old days, in that they were able to take extremely complex systems and simplify them.    I suppose if by the same token, one wants to get a message to Washington D.C., one could simply write a letter and mail it with a postage stamp.    I have feeling the government reads all of its email with computers scanning for key words and phrases.  Welcome to the White House should have some news about the China visit this Thursday.   Since it is a four day trip with two days in Washington state and Thursday in Washington D.C., I wander where the President of China will be on Friday.  If he shows up in this area, you will see a lot of people walking around in Chinese made sneakers.    I have Chinese neighbors, but they never tell me anything.  The Optimum Online email server is not working now.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/19/06  Wednesday 2:30 A.M.:   I have been busy tweaking the primary computer system with the new EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard .   I downloaded the latest drivers from www.epox.com from both the U.S.A. and Taiwan.    I installed the latest version for the onboard Realtek Audio and LAN.    However, since the main chip feature of the motherboard is the www.nvidia.com nForce3 chipset, I downloaded the entire package from Nvidia.   Thus the Nvidia drivers on the new Epox motherboard are two years newer than the ones that came with the motherboard.    The system is running much better with them.   In worrying about this problem InformationWeek | Security Patching | Microsoft Patch Snafu Grows, Users Seek Workaround | April 18, 2006 , I disabled the three HP startup programs that one selects by running "msconfig".   I also did this Microsoft tweak Problems in Windows Explorer or the Windows shell after you install security update MS06-015 .   I also install a few minor updates to the Epox motherboard programs.    I also installed the latest version of the ATI drivers for my ATI ATLANTIS RADEON 9600 Picture Gallery AGP dual video card.   I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 a few times in the process, and I also did a System Restore backup a number of times.   I also ran Ad-awareSE with the latest updates.   It all takes time tweaking a system, but it seems to be running just fine.    I also adjusted the Norton Internet Security 2005 for my new motherboard settings.  I will now go through my email.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/18/06  Tuesday 9:55 P.M.:  http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/185303742 , more on Microsoft Patch Snafu.   CIO      

Note:<888> 04/18/06  Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.    I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with franks .   I used a 16 ounce can of B&M bacon and onion flavored baked beans.   I also added a little bit of soy sauce to the recipe.   I will now go through my email.  When I tried to boot the Vista beta 2 build 5342, it would not boot with my new Epox motherboard, so I will have to reinstall it again when I have the time.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/18/06  Tuesday 7:50 P.M.:   I went to bed at 6 A.M. this morning.    Before going to bed I ate half of a 8.5 ounce box of Nabisco triscuits and two scoops of Friendly maple walnut ice cream.    I woke up at noon, when I had a telephone call from www.microsoft.com about a TS2 conference at the Rye Town Hilton, in nearby Purchase, New York on Thursday afternoon May 11, 2006, but I can not find any mention of such as event in the Microsoft's calendar.   I have a regular Thursday afternoon appointment, so I would not be able to attend anyway.    I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I picked up my mail.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..   I took all of the empty computer item boxes from my bedroom window, and I put them in three plastic bags, and I put them in the false ceiling above my bed in the bedroom.   I keep them for warranty purposes in case I have to return an item, and over time I get rid of them.   I also put in the same location a bag of foam shipping peanuts.    I threw out four shipping boxes.   I sat outside for a while.   I put a new Glade Plug-in Hawaiian Breeze scent container in the Glade Plug-in device in the kitchen.   I did not refill it, since the old one had dried out.   I will now boot into Vista beta 2 build 5342 to see if I need to install drivers for my new Epox motherboard.    CIO   

Note:<888> 04/18/06  Tuesday 3:10 A.M.:  I finished dinner and the backup.   I am going through my email.   CRN Microsoft Security Patch Causes IE, WinXP Lockups, Crashes| .   TechWeb | News | Microsoft Offers Registry Fix to Patch IE, Office .  Buy One Color Surveillance System, GET ONE FREE @ Geeks.com .  LogMeIn Free - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com .  NBC.com > Celebrity_Cooking_Showdown .  I will now shut down the primary  computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/18/06  Tuesday 1:15 A.M.:  I was awake yesterday at noon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  At around 2 P.M., UPS delivered my order which I had paid $29.95 and $9.10 UPS ground shipping for $39.05 total for the EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard which the tracking was UPS Package Tracking Epox motherboard tracking .    I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went to my 4 P.M. appointment, and then I returned home.   I then disconnected the primary computer from its cables, and I wheeled it into the bedroom, and I opened up its case.   I removed the old Gigabyte motherboard, and I installed the new Epox motherboard.   It was a routine installation.  I chatted with a relative twice during the process.   When I first tested it without the cards, it would not give the proper startup error message, and I was able to troubleshoot it.  My Antec case front USB 2.0 plugs, although they fit the Epox motherboard connector, they kept the computer from booting properly.   Since the Epox motherboard only has one 9 pin USB connector, I used the USB slot for the rear of the case with 2 USB 2.0 receptacles that came with the Epox motherboard.   Thus with my four port USB 2.0 card, and the other four USB 2.0 receptacles on the rear of the motherboard, I have 10 USB 2.0 receptacles, which is the same as with the Gigabyte motherboard, but I do not have front USB receptacles which does not really matter, since I have USB 4 port devices around my keyboard.   The Epox motherboard had two sets of pins for Firewire, and I was able to get the firewire device to work on the front of my Antec case.   The installation took about 5 hours, but it works just fine.   I had to reinstalled my ATI dual AGP video card drivers and the Pinnacle capture device and its software.   I am not using for the fourth LAN my USB LAN device, but I have two LAN cards and two motherboard LANs.  I tested my printers to make sure they all work.   I had to reactivate Microsoft Windows XP Professional and also FrontPage 2002.   I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.   They Epox motherboard has a third case fan plug, which I am using for my fourth case fan to have it monitored besides the CPU and other three case fan monitoring device.  I thus have the spare Gigabyte motherboard in case my primary or server computers need to have them replaced.  I did several System restore backups.   I will now do a Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.   While doing this, I will microwave and eat a Stouffer's 16 ounce turkey dinner, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.     

Note:<888> 04/17/06  Monday 5:25 A.M.:  I took three large eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and a couple of tablespoons of milk and a couple of teaspoons of olive oil and few dashes of Italian seasoning, and I whisked it all together.    I put three paper towels on a microwave proof dinner plate and then six strips of regular bacon and two more paper towels and the plastic microwave plate cover, and I put it in the microwave, and I set the timer for four minutes.   I put two pieces of bread in the toaster.   I then took a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I added few tablespoons of olive oil, and I turned on the electric burner to medium high, once the oil began to get hot, I added the egg mixture and lower the electric burner heat to medium, and I started the bacon in the microwave oven, and I started the toast.  Once the eggs were about half cooked, I used a spatula, and I slid the cooked part off the bottom of the pan to let the liquid part cook some more.   About the time the bacon was done, the eggs and toast were done.   I mixed the eggs a little bit towards the end to scramble them medium soft.   I put the hot skillet briefly on a dinner plate to warm it, and then I put the eggs on the plate along with the bacon and toast.   I put olive oil on the toast, and I cut the two pieces in half.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  BBC NEWS | Europe | Monaco's ruler reaches North Pole , and in case he gets lost BBC - Science & Nature - Planet Earth .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/17/06  Monday 4:15 A.M.:  I posted a picture of the backup computers in the bedroom http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/northgate-syntax-amd-duron-1.6-and-dell-l1000r-backup-computers-in-bedroom-041706.JPG .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/17/06  Monday 3:30 A.M.:  The flash light that I got for a relative for Christmas is on sale again Surplus Computers CES11043  - Ultra Bright 28 LED Compact Flashlight (Titanium) w/case for $14.99 with free ground shipping.   I went through my email.  California State Not Ready for a Flu Crisis - Los Angeles Times .  I have a 4 P.M. appointment today, and I also have to be here this afternoon to receive the order for $29.95 and $9.10 UPS ground shipping for $39.05 total for the EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard which the tracking is UPS Package Tracking Epox motherboard tracking when it arrives.  The draw back to ordering off the internet is that although one finds cheaper prices, one frequently has to spend all day around the house waiting for the delivery person.  Of course with the price of fuel who can afford to travel far to shop anymore anyway.  I wonder how Mall of America is doing these days.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/17/06  Monday 3:15 A.M.:  Since the green led power light was not working on the server case, since the server case came with a 3-pin connector for the green power led with only two wires connected to it, but the Matsonic motherboard only has a 2-pin connector, so I researched 2-pin connectors, and I came up with this 2-PIN CONNECTOR W/HEADER, .10" | All Electronics Corp - Parts, Supplies and Components .   However, I thought I might have one around, so I looked through various areas where I keep older spare parts.    Finally in the plastic bag inside the living room television chest, I found a old hard drive led light which had the same 2-pin connector.   I cut off the led light, and I opened up the server case.  When working on the server particularly on the motherboard, one should disconnect the power cable, and I always remove my socks and wear my rubber sole house slippers.    One should also wear a grounding strap connected to the case frame.   I cut the 3-pin connector off the cable for the power led with a nail clipper.   I then striped the two small cables carefully with a Swiss Army knife leaving about an inch of bare wire on each of the four cables.  I then twisted the two black cables together which are the ground, and I put black electrical tape over them wrapping it around the cable.   I did the same for the green and red cables that I connected together which are the positive leads.   The motherboard manual shows which motherboard pins for the case controls are positive and negative.    I then connected the spliced cable to the motherboard pin location, and it worked just fine with the green led light on the case working now to show the power is on.   I checked to make sure the hard drive light and the power switch and the reset switch were working properly too.    Thus one can now tell when the server is turned one as if one can not hear the various fans in it and see the blue light from the front lower case fan.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/17/06  Monday 12:55 A.M.:  I finished the ASR backup of the primary computer.   I chatted with a relative.   On the server, I update the Matsonic motherboard with the latest bios.   I also installed the latest drivers for it.    I installed the updates on the two backup computers in the bedroom.   I copied the server folder from my Maxtor external hard drive to both the C: and D: drives on the primary computer.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/16/06  Sunday 9:10 P.M.:  I watched a Batman movie this morning before going to bed about 6 A.M..   I had a telephone call from a friend about 9 A.M..   I had a telephone call from another friend about 11 A.M..   I was awake at noon, and I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with the relative again.   I went back to bed until 4 P.M..   I have the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control set at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, with Energy savings, so it only comes on when it is warmer in the apartment.    I did not bother showering, and I went out.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then drove over to Tod's Point.   I sat out at the southwest picnic area for while by the Mortimer memorial tree.   The Mortimers were W. Averill Harriman's children.   They also have a stone which as I recall marked 1892, which is some long forgotten date.    I enjoyed the view of Long Island and the Manhattan skyline.   I then sat out at the southeast picnic area.   I then returned to the center of downtown Greenwich.   I walked then entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   Sam Goody's music store is going out of business.   I guess with the internet, there is not much demand for music stores anymore.   There are several other vacant stores on Greenwich Avenue.    The Pier 1 store is also vacant.    I drove back down by the waterfront.   I then returned home.    I microwaved and ate a Marie Callender 21 ounce frozen lasagna which I put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.    I chatted with a friend.   I ate the last two scoops of Breyer's Dolce de Leche ice cream.   On the primary computer, I will now run Symantec Update, Windows Update,  Office Update, Norton WinDoctor 2003, Ad-aware SE, do a System Restore backup, run Ccleaner, empty the Norton Recycle bin.   Then I will do a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.   I will work with the server and the Northgate Syntax backup computer while doing the backup.   The daffodils are out, and the tulips should be out in another week.  CIO    

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/16/06:

Note:<888> 04/16/06  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will then shut down the Northgate Syntax backup computer and the primary computer,  and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/16/06  Sunday 3:35 A.M.:  I finished configuring the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I am now running a maintenance utility on it, before I shut it down.   On the Server, when I installed the new Matsonic motherboard, I was not able to connect the small two wire plug with three holes to the two wire pin for the Case On green light.   Thus the green case on light does not work at the front of the computer.   However, I might be able to get a three prong male to two receptacle female cable adapter at Radio Shack to fix the problem.   I ate two scoops of Breyer's Dolce de Leche ice cream with some iced tea.   I showered and cleaned up, just so I would feel a little bit better and cleaner.   Also I do not smell as bad.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/16/06  Sunday 12:40 A.M.:  Happy Easter.   I am still configuring the Northgate Syntax backup computer.   It is working just fine.   I updated http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/15/06  Saturday 10:45 P.M.:  The Matsonic motherboard has a pair of motherboard USB connectors.   One pair is USB 1.0 connected to the front of the case.   The other pair of connectors, I connected a 2 USB 1.0 device I had, and its two USB 1.0 plugs on the slot are at the rear of the case in a spare slot.   I also have four USB 2.0 plugs on the rear of the motherboard.   Earlier this afternoon, I did a Microsoft Windows XP Professional ASR backup of the server from the C: drive to the D: drive, and I also did one from the C: drive to the Maxtor External hard drive.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/15/06  Saturday 10:20 P.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M. this morning.   At 11 A.M., the eBay: MATSONIC MS8177C SOCKET A MOTHEROARD (item 6867844852 end time Apr-11-06 19:39:17 PDT) , I bought it for $15 and $12 United States Post Office priority mail shipping for $27 total arrived.   It took about 4 hours, and I installed it in my server, and I had to do some minor configuration.   It runs just fine.   I have two space PCI slots with it, and I have the capability of improving the processor and memory for it over time.   I only installed the 512 MB memory chip, and I saved the 256 MB memory chip for the Northgate Syntax backup computer, which I next put together.   About 4 P.M., I ate two piece of reheated pizza with some iced tea.    I chatted with a relative twice today.   I finished putting together the Northgate Syntax computer, which I used the Syntax 266 motherboard, the AMD Duron 1.6 Mhz processor, the 256 MB memory chip, and a 8 Gigabyte hard drive.   I installed the 58 X CD player and the CD/RW from the Dell V350 computer and the hard drive came from it too.   I am using the onboard AGP and the onboard video.   I put in a PCI LAN card and a PCI 8 meg. video card, but I am using the onboard AGP video.   I am in the process of configuring the Northgate Syntax computer.  It is located on the left side of the bedroom desk, where the Dell V350 was once located.  I also use the floppy drive from the Dell V350, but I am missing its face plate.   I used the Arrow 500 watt power supply.  I have the old CPU cooler in it, and the old case fan.   My neighbor gave me a dollar earlier today for the pack of cigarettes that were barrowed.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/15/06  Saturday 2:30 A.M.:  I am a little bit tired, so I will go back to bed for a while.  I will shut down the primary computer.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/15/06  Saturday 2:05 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Breyer's Dulce de Leche ice cream.   I renewed some free computer magazine subscriptions.   I went through my email.   I turned off Norton AntiSpam, since it was dumping my regular email in the AntiSpam folder.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/14/06  Friday 11:45 P.M.:  I probably will not be going out, since it is still misty and damp out Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  On the $45 Epson Ink settlement suit, one can find which inkjet printers qualify at http://www.epsonsettlement.com/ and one can register online for the $45 settlement at Epson America, Inc. - Registration Page .   The form that I received in the mail says that registering at that link is all one has to do to receive the $45 settlement.   I assume, one has to be the original purchaser of the product.    CIO  

Note:<888> 04/14/06  Friday 11:10 P.M.:  In keeping with our Good Friday non meat eating users, I took a DiGiorno - Rising Crust Pizza frozen four cheese pizza, and I cut it into four equal pieces, and I placed them on a baking sheet, I then spread over the pizza pieces garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, Italian spices, and oregano.   I then sprinkled a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese over each of the four pieces, and then I sprinkled about a 2 tablespoons of olive oil over each piece, I then peeled and cut a medium onion in to 1/16th inch thick slices, and I spread the slices over each piece, and then spread about another tablespoon of olive oil over each piece, and then I sprinkled red cayenne pepper over each piece, and then I opened a 6.5 ounce dry can of Lindsay olives, and I used about 3/4th of the can, which I cut the olives in half lengthwise, and I spread them around the edges of the four pieces,  with one in the middle of each triangle, and then I sprinkled each piece with a generous amount of dried parsley.   I then put the baking sheet in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit, and I cooked it 22 minutes, until it begins to turn light brown.    I chatted with two friends.   I took the pizza out to cool.   I put two slices in a flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I put the other two cool slices on a microwave proof plate with lid, and I ran them through on Reheat cycle on the General Electric microwave oven, and I transferred them to a cool plate, and I ate them with a glass of iced tea.   Thus I had traditional Italian Good Friday dinner.  Good Friday is the busiest pizza day of the year.  Of course you can make you own homemade pizza Michael Louis Scott's Home Made Pizza .  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/14/06  Friday 9:20 P.M.:  I made up 15 labeled bread tabs with numbers 1 - 15.   I put scotch tape over them, so the adhesive labels would not fall off the plastic bread tabs.   The bread tabs have indents for securing the bread bags which also are good for hanging on computer USB cables.   I put ten of them on my 10 USB cables on the rear of the primary computer starting as one looks at the front of the case from upper right to lower left.   Thus when I disconnect the USB cables from the case, one knows how to reattach them in the same order.  It does not matter with the other cables attached to the rear, since they have unique positions.  In the Christian calendar, today Good Friday is a religious holiday, so not much is happening today, as well as this Sunday in the Christian calendar is Easter Sunday.  However, in the Orthodox church I believe Easter and Christmas fall on different days.  Also in the Leant Calendar when some Christians such as Catholics observer, they do not eat meat from Ash Wednesday to Easter, thus you are still not allowed to eat meat until Easter Sunday, when some times traditional Christians eat lamb to symbolize the sacrifice.  In the Scottish Presbyterian Church and the Dutch Reform church since they are not as traditional, and since they did not have as much food to ignore, they tend to eat what ever is available.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/14/06  Friday 8:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M. today.   I checked my mail, and I receive a notice on my Epson StylusColor 880 printer that I bought the day before "911", that there was a lawsuit against www.epson.com pertaining to it, and if I fill out the information, I am entitled to a $45 refund from the store, which would be Staples in Old Greenwich.   As I recall it was regularly $150, and I bought it on sale for $80 and tax, and the following weekend after "911", I got another $10 discount on it from Staples in Old Greenwich, because it was on sale cheaper that weekend.   I will fill out the information in a little while.   I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..   I watered the plants, and I filled the white vinegar bowl on the window shelf.   I threw out the garbage and the periodical literature.  It is raining out until about midnight.   On Monday when the order for order for $29.95 and $9.10 UPS ground shipping for $39.05 total for the EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard with the tracking is UPS Package Tracking Epox motherboard tracking arrives, I probably will replace the GIGABYTE - Support - Motherboard - Driver 7VT600P-RZ  motherboard in the primary computer with the new Epox motherboard.   They are similar, but the Epox model is a two year newer model.   When the order for eBay: MATSONIC MS8177C SOCKET A MOTHEROARD (item 6867844852 end time Apr-11-06 19:39:17 PDT) , I bought it for $15 and $12 United States Post Office priority mail shipping for $27 total arrives possibly tomorrow, I will put it in the server computer, and in the other backup computer I will build, I will use either Syntax 266M motherboard from the server or the gigabyte motherboard when it is available.   I am not sure if the five PCI slot gigabyte motherboard will fit into the Northgate case or not.    Thus possibly the Gigabyte motherboard will be kept as a reserve motherboard in case I have problems with the other ones.   Since I will be disconnecting the primary computer from its many cables, I should take plastic bread bag tabs, and put adhesive labels with numbers on them and install them on the various USB cables, so I can keep track of the USB cable locations on the primary computer.  On local political news BBC NEWS | Europe | Mafia shadow hangs over Corleone .  CIO      

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 8:15 P.M.:  I went through my email.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 7:55 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I leant a neighbor a package of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 7:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend and another local institution.  Today is the head of my family's birthday, so it is a very important birthday and person.  I ate two scoops of Breyers Dolce de Leche ice creams.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 6:05 P.M.:  I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend whom is making a modest living trying to sell real estate out in the boon docks in Wilton, Connecticut Country Living Associates, Richard Van Marter , where a lot of the younger families whom do not need to go to New York City live.   He is making a modest living by Greenwich standards filling a niche market, but he is also licensed to sell in Greenwich, and he also has an office here.    He never tells me what is going in Real Estate, but I obviously know something about the local read estate market too, but I am not a licensed broker.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 4:55 P.M.:   I was awake about 10 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I picked up my mail, and I chatted with a neighbor.    I showered, and I cleaned up.   I drove down by Grass Island.   The new addition to the Greenwich Boys club looks completed.   I drove down by Steamboat Road, and the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor looks busy.   I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and they still have the nice drop leaf solid wood table for sale for $300.   Also they have their usual cross section of vintage items.   They have about 12 foot long by 10 foot pink, green, blue, and white tent or some sort of cabana cover or awning for $40.   I went to my 3 P.M. appointment.   They are tearing down the old south wing of the Greenwich Hospital Welcome to Greenwich Hospital.   They need some more money to build an underground parking garage at that location, before they build a park on top of that.  I drove through the center of town and back down by the waterfront.   There is an above normal amount of traffic on I-95 East leaving New York City, so I guess a large number of people are leaving for the Easter Holiday.   I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Multigrain bread for $1.59.   I then returned home.   Across the street from where I live the Antares Welcome to Antares Real Estate is renovating the Putnam Green Apartment complex into million dollar condominiums.   Along the Byram River in Greenwich just north of the Cumberland Farms, they are also building a large condominium complex.   I have noticed several houses in the local neighborhood for sale by owner.   I guess there is a big rush to get out of the City, and still be nearby.   I have been told they are doing upscale development along the waterfront in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Massachusetts is so desperate to get people, they are evening housing people in renovated mental hospitals CNN.com - 'World's scariest building' goes condo - Apr 11, 2006 , the governor is offering free health insurance to the residents of the state SlickDeals.net Forums - Massachussetts & Conservative Gov. Romney Offer 'Universal Health Insurance' .  Of course it does not make it any warmer there in the winter, if you can not afford to pay your heating bills.   CIO           

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 2:50 A.M.:  Of course for Rock Hounds, there is something happening later on in Peking or Beijing, China this year 2006 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting :: 24-27 July 2006, Beijing, China .   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Remember, I do not know too much about Geophysics, so I would not be qualified to attend such a meeting.   I just simply know how to run a home personal computer.  Of course if one enjoys a longer walk than Greenwich Avenue, one can always try this BBC NEWS | Europe | Judge to decide explorer's fate .   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 2:20 A.M.:  I ate a 9.5 ounce can of Planter's lightly salted mixed nuts with extra cashew nuts with some iced tea.   Back in the old day of aviation around EO Library: Wernher von Braun and the Chemstrand company plane in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when aviation was not too fully developed, and we mostly just flew around in the McDonald Douglas McDonald-Douglas passenger planes display models DC-3 which was a roomy two prop airplane, we frequently did not find restaurants in airports, so we would have box lunches made up, and the plane was fully stocked with many different type of Planters nuts www.planters.com .   Of course since the planes frequently flew around important executives, there was also a bar on the plane.   I recall, I enjoyed drinking Canada Dry Ginger Ale Canada Dry , but we also had plenty of other mixers.   Of course back in those days if you did not have your sea legs on the many bumpy rides, you also needed Dramamine Dramamine Drug Information to prevent motion sickness.   Even in the early 1970s when I was able to still afford to fly frequently on Boeing www.boeing.com 707s mostly in and out of Chicago and between there and Boston, most all of the seats had vomit bags in the magazine holders on the back of the seats.    I guess aviation has changed over the years, so I guess there are smoother flights anymore.   Whatever the case, I am so infrequently on a plane anymore, I am not very familiar with the modern day procedures, so I frequently find myself praying on Take Off, which probably makes the other passengers nervous.  The way I figure it that is the hardest part of the flight.   Of course for inexperienced travelers, one might consider just taking a nap or reading a book.   I tend to enjoy taking the train more, since the trip lasts longer, but since I am a cigarette smoker, one is not allowed to smoke on trains or planes anymore, so I find it uncomfortable to travel anymore.   Thus I am a armchair traveler Greenwich, Connecticut Armchair Travelers .  I guess since the United States most profitable company is suppose to be www.boeing.com which helped start the smaller company www.microsoft.com , they continually elect a President www.whitehouse.gov whom likes to travel to show the Boeing product around the world and the country as well as the big Cadillac Luxury Cars & Sport Utility Vehicles at Cadillac.com making the president our number one salesman.   However, as the country gets older, and we have less energy, maybe they need a president whom takes long naps, enjoys walking, and does not disturb the general public much so as to save money.   I recall one American President Calvin Coolidge Biography of Calvin Coolidge supposedly was low key.   Of course that was before television or too much popular media.   Whatever the case, since the United States of America is a relative isolated country in terms of geography and neighbors, we do not get too many visitors, although we do tend to advertise quite a bit.  U.S. hails upcoming visit by Chinese president , thus in about a week, everything will be very Chinese orientated, and I suppose even the Cherry blossoms will be out in Washington D.C..   China's Embassy of People's Repulic of China in the United States of America leading export Giant Pandas - National Zoo| FONZ will probably be getting a lot of coverage.  From what I can tell, over the years, I have a few Chinese connections, but since I do not speak Chinese, I do not know if they ever take my advise.    From what I can tell, the last time I visited, Washington D.C. tends to have somewhat of an old world Chinese aspect to it, so possibly the Chinese have figured out how to advertise it already to their curious population.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/13/06  Thursday 12:45 A.M.:  I signed up for the FREE Microsoft Office Live beta, but when I entered my credit card information, and I had to back up the browser a few times to try to get it to work, the took a dollar off my account four times.   I called 1-800-CALL-BNY, and they told me it was just what the do, and they do not actually take the dollar off.   However, I moved funds around, so I would not be overdrawn in the account messing up my other transactions.   The $4 should be restored some time soon.   However, now that I have signed up for the site, it does not work for me anyway.  I ate two scoops of Breyers Dolce de Leche ice cream.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/12/06  Wednesday 11:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I went through my email.  CIO   

Note:<888> 04/12/06  Wednesday 10:30 P.M.:  If you are catholic, you can enjoy Italy with the Pope Italy 2-City Rail Packages from $699! Book now & save! and Vatican: the Holy See , but even if you are not catholic, Italy can be very enjoyable, providing you have Italian lire.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/12/06  Wednesday 9:45 P.M.:  I went to bed about 2 A.M., and I was awake at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I went back to bed until about 4 P.M..   I turned on the television, and they reported this BBC NEWS | UK | A family affair at Sandhurst .   I then showered, and I cleaned up.   I next went out, and I drove downtown.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I chatted with another night person at CVS.    I drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the P.C. Magazine and P.C. World magazine.   I then returned home.   I put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns in a plastic microwave container with an inch of water with lid, and I heated it in the General Electric microwave oven for 2 vegetable cycles, and the I microwaved a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 13.25 ounce Chicken Florentine dinner for 4 minutes, and then I pulled back the plastic, and I stirred its ingredients around, and I put the plastic back on, and I microwaved both the vegetables and frozen dinner for another 4 minutes.   I drained the water out of the vegetables, and I put them in a bowl with a little bit of olive, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.    I chatted with a relative.   Earlier this afternoon before going out, I chatted with two friends.   CIO     

Note:<888> 04/12/06  Wednesday 12:35 A.M.:  Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West .  I called them up again, and as usual down there, nobody seems to know whom is in charge, which is par for the course in Key West, Florida.   Well from what I can tell, it is running better than when I was down there, but of course they have more money than when I was down there.   Well not much happening up here in this neck of the woods, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I always look at the headlines of the BBC BBC NEWS | News Front Page , but it really never tells one much that is relevant to this area.    I suppose as the British man who works for Swiss air told me, "You are not suppose to know anything."  However, it is sort of hard to keep busy, if one does not have direction as to what one is suppose to be doing.  If all I am doing is competing against the New York Times The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia and the A global view on world, UK and business news and comment from The Times and Sunday Times , I guess one gets what one pays for in terms of writers.   Locally about ten years ago, the Reuters Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com news agency in Stamford, Connecticut pays their writers about $8 an hour, but one really can not live on that income in this area, so they probably employ writers whom work more cheaply elsewhere.    I know the owner of the Greenwich Time Greenwich, Connecticut, Local News, Jobs, Real Estate | Greenwich Time , but in maintaining my computers, I have very little time to read out local newspaper.   I have seen their former editor coming and going frequently from this building, but whatever he does here, they will not even give me a free copy of the printed edition, and I would not have time to read it anyway.   Also with the higher price of gasoline in this area which is now over $3 a gallon, it is too expensive for me to drive to the Greenwich Library Welcome to Greenwich Library! to read it and other periodical literature.   Also I do not focus on local events, and I mostly read computer tech news, when I have free time to read it.   I also get dozens of computer magazines every month that I do not have time to read.    In maintaining a rather complex but small apartment, there are always a lot of maintenance routines to do at home, so the more time I spend at home, the better organized the apartment is.   Of course, since I own the 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon, I have to start it up every two days or so, and take it for a drive to make sure it stays in good running condition.   From what I can tell, the 9 to 5 crowd seems to think they run everything when I am out and about in the day time, and from my viewpoint, all they do is sit in Starbucks and hope to get ahead in business without really trying.   Bon Soir, J'me Souviens.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 11:10 P.M.:  I won the Ebay auction for  eBay: MATSONIC MS8177C SOCKET A MOTHEROARD (item 6867844852 end time Apr-11-06 19:39:17 PDT) , I bought it for $15 and $12 United States Post Office priority mail shipping for $27 total .   After all of my bills and lavish spending as usual this month, I only have $10.84 left until the end of the month, but I am stocked up on most everything that I need in my apartment, and I have 3/4ths of a tank of gasoline left.   I have a birthday on May 9, so possibly I might get a little bit of early birthday money.   If not I will just sit here and stew in my own juices.   I guess you can tell from my 16 years of computer activity and over a 100,000 hours of activity in pursuing this computer activity in our local community in Greenwich, Connecticut, I have overwhelmed the local population in trying to have them try to keep up with me.   Alas IBM is think about going back into the meat scale business.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 9:55 P.M.:  I used to have a local security person to monitor my computer activity, and he was about an 800 pound German fellow that worked for Schweppes.com as a software engineer.  However, I began to think it might be a little bit expensive to employ him, so I came up with a cheaper alternative.   Locally we call her "Wanda, the Wicked Witch of the West".   However, I think she is really Alice Roosevelt, and her son is such a large man, we do not really worry about anything around her.    CIO  

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:   Earlier today, I ate two scoops of butter pecan ice cream, and later on this evening, I ate the last two scoops of butter pecan ice cream.   I chatted with a friend.    With the high price of real estate, people have to live somewhere CNN.com - 'World's scariest building' goes condo - Apr 11, 2006 .   Of course living in a European Village type complex is not always appealing, since a great many Europeans found them uncomfortable, when the old Nazis rolled in.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 8:30 P.M.:  I installed the most recent Windows XP updates on my three XP computers.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 7:50 P.M.:   I took a frozen 7 ounce box of Armour 10 lite sausages, and I put 3 tablespoons of water in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and the sausages, and I brought the water to a bubble over medium high electric heat with the a lid on the frying pan, and then I timed it for four minutes on medium heat, while doing this, I broke three large eggs into a mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of milk, a teaspoon of olive oil and Italian spices, and I mixed it all together with a whisk.  After the sausages had steamed four minutes, and the moisture had evaporated, I added a tablespoon of olive oil and three pads of margarine to the pan, and I spread it around until the fat bubbled, and then I added the egg mixture.  I stirred this with the sausages while the egg mixture cooked.  While the eggs and sausages cooked, I toasted a bagel on the insides.  Once the eggs were cooked to medium soft surrounding the sausages, I put them on a dinner plate with the toasted  bagel and bit of olive oil on the bagels.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I washed the dinner dishes.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 6:55 P.M.:  Been there seen it and done it http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsdc.jpg .   When I was there not much was going on, since it was zero degrees Fahrenheit back around February 1990, when I visited Washington D.C., which as I recall was the last time I visited.   As you noticed I am just wearing sweater and golf jacket with a red and white golf umbrella.   Since it was cold by Washington D.C. standards then current President Bush #41 had left town to visit Argentina, and they were cleaning the White House which is what they do when the President is away, so most of the furniture was moved out of the ground floor for the cleaning.   I recall the room with the Van Buren bust was still furnished, and they still had the gold Steinway piano in the lobby.   All the rugs were rolled up too, so it pretty much looked like another vacant house for sale in Washington D.C. which happens to have a nice lawn for an urban environment.  I recall about the only security around the place was about a 6 foot 8 inch tall blond haired middle age fellow that I had seen up in Kennebunkport, Maine during the summer, and I was told he is in the United States Air Force, and he is from South Dakota.   The friend I visited the place with was in the landscaping business, but he did not make any useful suggestions for improving the lawn, since most of the trees and bushes are part of U.S. History.   In other words if some King of England planted a tree, you should not cut it down.   Since we are a democracy here in the United States of America, it is a very simple People's house compared to the larger mansions of the Robber Baron families in the New York area.   I have never been on the second or third floors of the White House www.whitehouse.gov as I recall, but possibly when I was younger I might have visited, but I do not recall it.   My first memory of the area is when we visited Monticello on our trip north in 1961 to move to the Connecticut area.   I suppose other people have visited there over the years, but as I recall what is now the arrival entrance of the White House is the back side on the North side.  Traditionally in a Southern Home, the front of the House faces South, so it is warmer in the winter.   Of course the whole place was rebuilt back in 1948 from the ground up, so I would imagine after 58 years, it is time to remodel the place, but usually they do not pay much attention to such activity there, until they start having problems.   Since the White House is surrounded by busy urban streets with traffic, it is like any urban dwelling, and it suffers from a gradual weakening of the structure from all of the urban traffic surrounding the place, since constant vibration can weaken a structure.   Whatever, the case, more than likely if they ever remodel it, they will make it look the same, but it will have more modern features to bring it up to date with the modern world.   Obviously, the have underground maintenance facilities as part of the over all structure, and if you believe the media, all of Washington D.C. is honeycombed with underground maintenance tunnels.   Thus technically whomever lives there, really does not need to go outside on a rainy day.    I guess they have central heating and air conditioning, but whether they can control the temperatures in the individual rooms by zone thermostats I do not know.   From what I can tell, since there are about five million people living in and around Washington D.C., they tend to have local experience and keep an eye on activities, whether you take notice or not.   If they do not let you stay at the White House, where they bill you or the President at very high rates for everything you do, use, or consume like at a hotel, you could always stay a more modest place where I use to stay when it was the Dutch Inn, and it is now called the Thomas Jefferson Inn  changed to the Hotel Monticello Hotel Monticello - Washington DC - Hotel Monticello Reviews - TripAdvisor .   The last time I stayed there in 1990, it was about $135 night for two people in the two major room penthouse.  However, it has a low garage, so high vehicles can not fit in, and it has small elevators.   I also stayed there with three friends for Bush #41 inaugural in 1989.  I found the place back during Ronald Reagan's first inaugural, when the Hilton next to the White House  was too expensive, so I asked a taxi cab driver, where there was a cheap place to stay.    Besides that time, I also stayed there when I visited Washington D.C. back in 1983, but Dr. Gillespie that time had me transfer from the then Dutch Inn to the Georgetown Inn The Georgetown Inn, Washington, DC Hotels - Yahoo! Travel , because he said the Dutch Inn was a flop house.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 5:40 P.M.:  I watched some television, but not much is happening on television.   I chatted with a relative and two friends.   I called up the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and I suggested that they advertise the hotel as a good place for allergy sufferers.   Being way out there in the ocean, and since Key West does not have too much vegetation, and they have the trade winds, the local air quality tends to be very good down in Key West.    If you ever have allergies, you would know starting this time of the year is the beginning of the allergy season in the New York City area.  On the four inkjet printers connected to my primary computer system, I ran the cleaning cycles, and I printed out test pages.   They all seem to work just fine.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 3:05 P.M.:   I was awake at 11:30 A.M., when I had a  wrong number telephone call.   I went downstairs, and I picked up the mail, and I chatted with a neighbor.   My neighbor whom is a veteran, but does not drive a car, does not like "Towel Heads", and he said if he sees any around, he will run them off.   Of course it is warmer this time of year, so we do not need "Towel Head" oil to keep warm.    Figuring after "911" this community is not user friendly to Arabs, I decided to take down the Saudi Arabian flag, behind the Swedish and the Dutch flags in the hallway, and I put it in its box in the long mahogany bureau drawer in the living room.    I suppose some winter's days in the future when we are all freezing, we will have to look to the Venezuelan communist party for our energy needs, since their is not much support for using Arab energy in this area.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   The original towel head joke had nothing to do with the Arabs.   When we were younger, and we did not have much money, and we were darkly tanned from our winter days on the beach in Florida and summer days on the beach in Nantucket, I worked with other friends as a dish washer in Nantucket.  At the more upscale Languedoc restaurant, they came up with fancy red and white dish towels to dry the dishes in the dishwashing area, and they looked like the towels the Arabs wore on their heads, so we use to occasionally pretend to be Arabs since we had their towels.   Whenever, we use to head out to the beach, we use to say we're going to Saudi Arabia, and when we used other code words, such as when we went to the library, we said we were going to the Rand Corporation, and when we went down by pier on the waterfront, we would say we going out to join the Navy, and when we went down by the Ferry Dock, we would say we are going out for a long sea voyage, when in fact we never ever left the island, but it was code for the different places we were checking out.   When we went to the airport, we would say we are going fly to the Moon.  Of course in the Nantucket Athenaeum, there are suppose to be 22 different versions of the Wizard of Oz.   For all I know the Arab I saw here yesterday was just one of the local flight personnel whom spent the winter in Hawaii which some people are known to do.   Remember when one smokes cigarettes, one knows various tobacco people, and it is well advertised around the Vanderbilt group in Newport, Rhode Island and New York that their neighbor Doris Duke also has  a fancy house in Hawaii, if you get my drift.   Thus while we were surfing the internet this winter, some local dude was probably out surfing the big waves in Hawaii, and from what I can tell, you do not want to tangle with the Duke.  CIO   

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 4:05 A.M.: Fred's http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm great grandfather's library The Pierpont Morgan Library | Museum and Research Library apparently built a new addition in Manhattan.   It shows what happens to a pirate, when they get to be too well known.   I ate most of a 9.5 ounce can of Planter's lightly salted mixed nuts with extra cashews which were mostly peanuts at an inflated price.   I guess the Brazilian mixed nut business people are not coming up with the other nuts from the Rainforest in Brazil as easily as they once did.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Since the Scott's have been lingering around this continent for 400 years, we have a large network of friends and associates in this hemisphere, but it is strange we do not really hear much anymore from the Eastern Hemisphere.   It is like they possibly do not exist anymore, and maybe the entire eastern hemisphere which is a newer geological territory sank beneath the ocean leaving a dolphin in command.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 3:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I went by the Shell gasoline station on West Putnam Avenue to get a $5 bill in exchange for 5 brass United States currency Indian dollars.   I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I put in enough funds, so if I win this auction later on today eBay: MATSONIC MS8177C SOCKET A MOTHEROARD (item 6867844852 end time Apr-11-06 19:39:17 PDT) , I can buy it for $15 and $12 United States Post Office priority mail shipping for $27 total, and I will thus have a spare motherboard for my primary or server computers.   It does not hurt to have spare components around, because they will not get any cheaper, and they will become harder to find, as more people need them.   I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and the lights still seem to be on Long Island Sound, so I guess the Roosevelt and Harriman families can afford to keep the Scott's old potato patch going if you get my drift.   I bet about now, they wish the Shoreham nuclear power plant had not been dismantled, and they had the electricity from that facility.   I think most of Long Island's energy comes from Canadian Natural gas that comes down from Canada through a pipe line which goes underwater around New Rochelle, New York.  If one has ever driven on the Long Island Distressway, one has more than likely seen the large natural gas tanks in Queens.   I guess about this time of year, they are getting a bit low.  I saw a Saudi Arabian citizen outside my building on West Putnam Avenue today, and he was standing on the sidewalk across from the Mobil Station by the "Do Not Dig" sign by the trans Atlantic telephone cable in front of the United Jewish Appeal building.   Since I have lived down south, I can tell the difference between Mexicans and Saudi Arabians.  The Saudis tend to be more darkly tanned and more fierce looking.  I guess dealing with all of those sand storms, it is not computer friendly territory, since dust and sand tend to mess up computer components.   On my trip out just now, I noticed that the Greenwich Automotive Service Center Exxon gasoline station is still opened all night.  They have red cones in front of the Full Service pumps, but the Self Service pumps are opened.   At 8 P.M. this evening, they did not have the lights on at their station, so it looked closed.   Maybe www.exxon.com is trying to save on electricity at night.  It is the nature of generating electricity in a large metropolitan area, that there tends to be surplus electricity at night, but one still has to pay the same rate as day time users.   However, commercial establishments which use larger amounts of electricity at night get a cheaper rate.   Thus I am now back in what I call Flanders's Farm Michael Louis Scott's Economic Statement of Personal Computer Activity and Flanders Farm as of April 21, 2005 .  However, most people do not know where Flanders is.  It is part of the legend of the lost continent of Atlantis.  A small part of its territory remains around the shores of Belgium and the Netherlands.  About 50,000 years ago, the ocean swallowed up the area of Flanders, and it became what is now the French or English channel depending on what side one is on the channel.  Thus the people whom still own the land underneath the Channel are Flemish, and since oil has been discovered in that area, they have their rights to their oil revenues.   However, when Flanders went under water, their people dispersed all over the world, since they were a seafaring people, so more than likely the few remaining native Flemish maintain their last bit of territory on the Continent as sort of a Pied of Terre of the Old World that sank beneath the ocean.  I guess much the same will happen with Holland in the next hundred to two hundred years.   Thus as the oceans encroached on their lands, they became known as the bog people or the swamp people, and the settled in other similar areas.  The fact that I look a bit like the King of Belgium Monarchie - King Albert II or more like his son Monarchie.be Belgium Monarchy would tend to indicate I have some Flemish blood.  Also by the same token, since I live on the Connecticut side of the waterway at the end of Steamboat Road, I think I will start calling it the Connecticut Channel, which they tend in the old days.   Why should we advertise Long Island in Connecticut.   They obviously can afford to advertise themselves.  Of course in the winter when it is colder and in the summer when it is hotter, Long Island tend to be warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, since it is surround be water like the United Kingdom, thus it has a more temperate climate, and there tend to be quite a few English citizens living on Long Island, whom do not seem to like my upstart Scottish ways, although we were there hundreds of years before they arrived.  The first European settlers on Long Island was a Captain Scott in South Hampton, Long Island, and another Scott once owned the entire island until 1700, but it was so unprofitable, he moved to Jamaica, and he left others to manage it for his family, least you forget.  In other words somebody in the Scott family still owns a lot of Long Island, and they can prove it.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/11/06  Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:  Somebody is still selling www.ibm.com PC's A Powerful PC for a GREAT PRICE @ Geeks.com! IBM P4 2.0 GHz 512MB 40 GB CD FDD with video and sound but no OS and IBM P4 2.0GHz 512MB 40GB CD FDD w/Video & Snd - B (Black) IBM IBMNVPIV20 for $219 and $24 shipping to Greenwich, Connecticut, but you could try for the Operating System PriceGrabber.com OEM Windows XP Professional (Full Product) for $69 , so you would have a dang good little computer for $219 + $24 +$69 for $312 total, but you would have to provide your own monitor and mouse and keyboard and other software and devices and internet access.   I will now put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I went through my email also.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/10/06  Monday 11:20 P.M.:  I am making up another batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/10/06  Monday 10:50 P.M.:  I was awake at noon today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I worked on the server, and I installed the Syntax motherboard drivers, and the I did a Windows XP Professional Automatic System recovery backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   They have a nice solid wood drop leaf dining table, they are trying to sell for $300, but it has a marked finished, but perhaps some lemon oil would make it look better.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a $1 "King of Cash" scratch card, but I did not win.   I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.   I stopped by CVS.   I noticed they have lots of pansies on display on Greenwich Avenue.   The daffodils are out, and other bulbs such as tulips are beginning to come up.   Perhaps some Dutch people will spend a few guilders to see our modest display of tulips.   I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with another waterfront regular.   They have been catching striped bass, but you can only keep them, if they are over 26 inches long.   I then went by the Stop and Shop.  I noticed on the way that Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library is closed because they are out of gasoline.  Let's hope it is not a sign of things to come.   At Stop and Shop, I bought two 59 ounce containers of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, a 1.75 ounce quart container of Friendly Maple Walnut ice cream for $1.99, a 36 ounce Mrs. Smith's frozen cherry pie for $2.99, two 9.5 ounce cans of Planter's low salt Mixed nuts with extra cashews nuts for buy one get one free for $4.69 both, a 8 ounce container of Kraft grated parmesan cheese for $2.99, and fresh bananas at .79 a pound for $2.58 for $20.24 total.  I then returned home, and I picked up my mail, and I put away my purchases.  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with franks , which I made with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans with bacon and onion flavor, and I also used a couple of teaspoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce in the recipe.   The FTP transfer between the primary and server computer works now.    I had changed the port assignment from the default 21 to 80, and with the default 21, the FTP transfer function between the primary and server computer works just fine.   On my order for $29.95 and $9.10 UPS ground shipping for $39.05 total for the EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard , the tracking is UPS Package Tracking Epox motherboard tracking.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/10/06  Monday 6:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will eat a couple of scoops of butter pecan ice cream, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/10/06  Monday 6:25 A.M.:  I could not get the server working, and I tried the ASR restore of the C: drive on the server a couple of times to no avail, and I chatted with Cablevision and Optimum Boost tech support a few times.   The server does work on the C: drive.   I was getting a password for the server on the D: drive.   I still can not get my network to FTP between the two computers.   I copied the server folder to the C: drive and the ASR backup, and then I deleted the D: drive, and I reinstalled and formatted it.  I then copied the Server folder and the ASR backup back to the D: drive.  It has been a long hard night and irritating morning.   It always seems that System problems happen on Sunday and early Monday mornings.   I suspect that some weekend hacker might behind the problems that I have continually experienced over the years, which never seems to happen on weekdays, except holidays.   It leads me to believe that since there is no reason to bother my internet activity, there is some sadistic individual out there on the net whom takes pleasure in causing me computer grief.   If I ever get to the bottom of it, I will make sure his or her boss fires them from what ever routine weekly job they pursue, when they are not bothering me.  Well any way the server is now running off the second hard drive, but I can not get FTP to work through the network, so I will have to manually transfer my notes and other files.   I can always use DVD for larger files if I ever produce any.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/09/06  Sunday 9:50 P.M.:  After I put away the laundry.   I tried to do some regular internet work, but my web server was not going.  It was a technical problem with Optimum Boost that they fixed about 9 P.M..   Since my web server was not working, and I was worried that a potential hacker had compromised the system, I restored my backup, which on the server stays pretty much the same except for updates and a few files that I changed.   However, now the Advanced Configuration Manager which I do not need to use opens, and runs, but its icon is not displayed in the tray, so I can not adjust its settings.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, it but it still does not display its icon.   I do not need to use it, so it does not really matter.   Since problems always seems to occur on Sundays, I suspect it is a local computer person hacking on his day off.   I have dealt with many computer people in this area over they years, so I suspect the more informed individuals already know whom it is, and they are just letting the individual waste their time.   Earlier today, I moved the wooden box from the window shelf further to the left behind the server, and I put the Cambridge Sound and Monsoon speaker systems for the server computer on the box, so they are more securely placed off the window shelf, which might get damp from moisture during the winter from condensation on the windows.   I also connected up the Optimum Voice line to the telephone on the left side of the bed, so I have a choice between either telephone line when in bed.  I chatted with a friend earlier.  I microwaved and ate a 21 ounce Maria Callender frozen lasagna, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/09/06  Sunday 4:25 P.M.:  I went to bed at 4 A.M., and I was awake at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I did some regular internet surfing.  I went back to bed around 10 A.M., and I got up at 2 P.M., when a relative's called ID showed up on the telephone.   I tried calling the relative, but they were not there.   I chatted with another relative.    I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.   I chatted with a friend.   I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.   I need to changed the Columbia telephone on the left side of the bed from Verizon to Optimum Voice, since I can not answer Optimum Voice when I am in bed.   CIO    

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/09/06:

Note:<888> 04/09/06  Sunday 2:20 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will then shut down the primary computer, and I will eat a couple of scoops of butter pecan ice cream, and then I will go to bed.   Happy Palm Sunday.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/09/06  Sunday 2:00 A.M.:   I finished the backup of the ASR backup of the primary computer, and I watched a vintage James Stewart western about the Winchester Rifle.    It seems I have not been doing too much on the internet the last three days, I have actually been doing a bit of research on motherboards for my server.   My server has the three and a half year old Syntax 266M motherboard in it from my Northgate Computer system.   However, I have the Northgate case, a AMD Duron 1.6 processor, spare power supply, and other parts in my Dell 350V backup computer to make a faster spare backup computer, if I have another motherboard to replace the Server computer motherboard, and use it in the spare backup system.   I originally ordered eBay: MATSONIC MS8177C SOCKET A MOTHEROARD (item 6867844852 end time Apr-11-06 19:39:17 PDT) which I cancelled, since I was not sure how much it had been used.   I looked for motherboards similar to my GIGABYTE - Support - Motherboard - Driver 7VT600P-RZ  , but they are hard to fine, and it is a two year old motherboard with the only new one available at eBay: Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ Socket A Motherboard (item 6865931821 end time Apr-29-06 19:05:56 PDT) or Computers Plus - Detailed Product Information if you place an $75 order.   Since I am on a limited budget, I looked at this item on sale EPoX EP-8KRAIPRO ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail at Newegg.com which is a good deal with an 800 Mhz bus, which I do not need that with my older server parts in the server.  However, it would have a 2 year warranty.  Instead I went to Welcome to Epox Store motherboards, and I ordered for $29.95 and $9.10 UPS ground shipping for $39.05 total Welcome to Epox Store EP-8RDA3+ Socket A Motherboard (Refurb) and EPoX Computer Co., LTD. EP-8RDA3+ motherboard which is about a $70 regular price motherboard which is cheaper because it is refurbished, and it only has a 90 day warranty.  However, it has more advanced LAN and Firewire features than the other version with the 2 year warranty.    Thus after several days of research, I have finally made an another important executive decision based on my budget and my reality.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/08/06  Saturday 8:05 P.M.:  I did some regular internet work.  I went through my email.  I updated the Gigabyte motherboard drivers of the onboard LAN and the Raid drivers.   All of its other drivers are up to date.   I ran Norton WinDoctor, Ad-awareSE, CCleaner, did a System Restore Backup, and I will now do a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.   While doing that, I will work on the server computer, and maybe I will watch a little bit of television.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/08/06  Saturday 5:50 P.M.:   I was up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I did some regular internet surfing.   I then showered, and I cleaned up.   I 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 then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then drove over to Old Greenwich, and I went by the First Congregational Church Rummage Room thrift shop.   I gave them the pair of turquoise and orange floral pattern curtains that I took down.   I stopped by briefly at the wine store next door, and they have a large selection of first class wine.   I guess the people in Old Greenwich enjoy an alcoholic beverage or two.   I noticed before the Food Mart in Old Greenwich has a lot of beer displayed at the front of the store.   I guess in their relative isolation from the rest of the town living in Old Greenwich, they have time for cocktails.    I went by CVS, but there was nothing that I needed.   I went out to Tod's Point, and I stood out briefly at the southwest parking area, and then I stood out for a while at the southeast parking area.    I chatted with a fellow trying to fix his vintage Volvo's heating and defroster system.   He had it all taken apart.   I told him about Swedish Automotive on the Black Rock Turnpike by the Merritt Parkway in Georgetown, Connecticut near the hotel that George McGovern bought a number of years ago.  I then returned back home.   I surfed the internet some more.   I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I put an inch of water in a plastic microwave pot with lid along with about 1.5 cups of broccoli crowns and baby carrots, and I put the contents of a 19 ounce can of Hormel Steakhouse stew in another plastic microwave container with lid, and I ran the vegetables on one Vegetable cycle on the General Electric microwave oven, and then both pots on two reheat cycles, and the stew pot on one more reheat cycle, and I put the contents of each pot in a separate soup bowl, and I put a little bit of olive oil on the vegetables, and I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.   I chatted with a friend.  CIO    

Note:<888> 04/07/06  Friday 10:20 P.M.:  I chatted with three friends and a relative.   I ate the last piece of apple pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream.   Today, when I was picking up the mail, they were testing the new generator out behind the building, and it seems to work just fine, judging from the sound that I heard.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/07/06  Friday 9:00 P.M.:  You better behave yourself http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2006/Halliburton-Detention-Camps31jan06.htm .   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/07/06  Friday 8:55 P.M.:  I reheated the spaghetti and tomato sauce left over from last night, and I put a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with a relative and a friend.   The Wood Memorial is tomorrow Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Racetrack .  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/07/06  Friday 6:40 P.M.:  I was awake at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I watched some http://www.foxnews.com/ which seems to be the most popular news station in the United States of America.   I then went back to bed until noon.   I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I also moved the Delonghi oil filled radiators out of the living room into the bedroom to the right hand side of the desk with the Epson 900 inkjet printer sitting on top of them.   I took the folding oak table from that location, and I put it back in the folding oak table stand behind the brass and glass end tables in the living room.   I listened to the stereo system while doing my house cleaning, and the amplifier plug was unplugged, so I had to plug it back in again.   I threw out the garbage and the waste paper.  I put a new Vanish Drop-in blue borax tablet in the toilet tank.  I went through my email.   For some reason the Norton AntiSpam email filter was discarding all of my email, so I had to tell it my regular email was safe.   CIO    

Note:<888> 04/06/06  Thursday 11:20 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Politics | The David Cameron story .  Well not much happening on this side of the Pond.   I guess when I wake up tomorrow, I will do my house cleaning.   Since I had more bills to pay this month along with the usual regular expenses, I will be on more of a limited activity schedule.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/06/06  Thursday 11:05 P.M.:  I ate a piece of apple pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream.    I went through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/06/06  Thursday 9:55 P.M.:  I installed the updates on the server.  I also installed the drivers for the Lexmark X85.   Although I do not have ink in the Lexmark X85, it can be used for scanning and faxing.   I have plenty of ink for my other ink jet printers however.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/06/06  Thursday 9:00 P.M.:  I ran Norton SpeedDisk on the C: drive on the primary computer, while I was asleep last night.  I boiled three quarts of water with  a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.   I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni #9 thin spaghetti noodles.   I then drained the water with a colander into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu garlic, onion, and tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid in the General Electric microwave oven on the reheat cycle.  I added half of a drained 6.5 ounce can of Snow's minced clams, and I put the other half in the jar of Ragu tomato sauce that I refrigerated.  Next time, I might add the liquid ingredients of the clams to the tomato sauce instead of draining it off.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/06/06  Thursday 7:25 P.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I did some regular internet surfing.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out about 1 P.M., and I drove by Grass Island.   They have fixed it up quite a bit in the last couple of years, and it looks quite nice.   I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I spent a little bit more time there than normal.  I bought a pair of each piece about 7 foot by 7 foot pleated heavy linen or canvas or rough cotton off white curtains with the hooks for $40 for the pair, and a brass pedestal tube light for $5 and three pairs of sunglasses for a $1 a pair for $48 total.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.   I then returned home.  I brought up my purchases.   I had two layers of curtains on my living room windows to keep it warmer in the winter.  Of the three  8 foot by 4 foot windows, on the far right and the far left, I took down the oldest pair which faced the outside, and I left the pair of purple and pink tulip curtains on the underside with their lining facing the outside, and I put the new pair of curtains on either side of the center orange curtains, and they look quite nice.  It makes the apartment a lot lighter.   It took about an hour and a half to install them.  I took the old pair that I took down which are quite worn from sunlight, and I put them in the back of my station wagon, and I will see if Neighbor to Neighbor at Christ Church wants them, if not I will throw them away. I kept the extra curtain hooks in a plastic bag on the lower level of my hallway sweater closet.  The new curtains came with curtain hooks.   I put a 40 watt tube bulb in the brass pedestal lamp, and I place it on top of my primary right computer monitor, so I now have a keyboard light.  It is plugged into the router and modem power control strip, so on can turn it on and off with the switch on its right hand side.   If one wants to work in low light, there is now a keyboard light.  I move the Radio Shack speaker phone from that location to on top of at the rear of the primary computer CPU.  I chatted with a relative.  I got the new Ronald Reagan Library http://www.reaganlibrary.net/ and http://www.reaganfoundation.org/ catalog https://www.reaganfoundation.org/store/ in the mail today.   CIO

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Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  I did some research.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 9:50 P.M.:  I still have my Tropical Weather page http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm .   Of course last July, August, and September 2005, when three different major hurricanes were coming ashore, I happened to have systems malfunctions, which I think might have been caused by a bug in the satellite photographs from NRL Monterey Tropical Images .  I told the retired man in his 90s who was 6 foot 4 inches tall down in Vero Beach, Florida TCPalm that, and he told me had lived down there since the end of World War II, so obviously he had seen a storm or two.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 9:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  It is that time of year, and Dr. Gray's Tropical Storm Forecast as of April 2006 is back out again The Tropical Meteorology Project: [FORECASTS] .   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 8:35 P.M.:  I ate a piece of apple pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream along with a glass of iced tea.   I took an hour nap.  About 6:30 P.M., UPS delivered the returned and repaired RMA www.thermaltake.com 420 watt dual fan power supply.   They returned it with the power supply case frame that I had mistakenly removed from the primary computer case.   I reinstalled the power supply case frame in the primary computer, so its new power supply is attached with four screws.   I then installed the Thermaltake 420 watt dual fan ball bearing power supply in the server computer removing the Arrow 500 watt power supply, which I will keep for backup.    The Thermaltake power supply is a lot quieter than the Arrow power supply, so the computer working area is now quieter.   I had to scotch tape the drier static sheet which I am using as an air filter on the bottom front of the server, so it will not slide out of the bottom front of the case, when the server is turned off.   I put the old Arrow power supply in the shipping box, and I stored it on the top shelf of the left living room closet along with the old AT power supply.   I updated http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm to reflect the computer configuration change.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 5:25 P.M.:  I have paid all of my monthly bills.  My electric bill was $154 in March 2006, which I have already paid.   Hopefully, it will be lower in April 2006 with all of the electric heat turned off.   I have thought about turning off the two air purifiers, but with the allergy season upon us, I think I should keep them going.   I did not get a air filter with my yellow Antec aluminum case.   I researched it, and one sight said I could use a drier antistatic paper as a filter, so I slid in from the bottom front of the case a CVS antistatic drier piece of paper.   I might replace it with air conditioning foam filter when I have time to get some.   I am going through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 4:10 P.M.:  I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few time.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I toasted lightly four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of toast, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 3:45 P.M.:  I worked in http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   I tried cleaning and refilling the half size Sharp UX-B20 fax machine ink cartridge that came with the machine last December 22, 2005, but it would not work.   Thus in May I will have to get another full size Sharp fax ink cartridge.   I hardly ever used it for receiving faxes, so I can not figure out why it ran out so quickly.   It was suppose to be good for 300 pages, and I only received about one fax, and I once printed out a couple alignment pages and about dozen error pages.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 12:45 P.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I listened to some music using the Vista beta, and the sound system sounds just fine on it.   I chatted with a relative.   I watched President Bush's www.whitehouse.gov Health conference from Bridgeport, Connecticut.   I chatted with a neighbor, and I picked up the mail.   I threw out the garbage.   Yesterday in the dumpster, I found a Roadmaster jump start system.  I put it in my Volvo.   I just now brought it up, and I plugged it in to charge it up to see if it will take a charge.   If not I can always get a replacement battery for it at Batteries - Laptop, Camcorder, Cordless Phone, Cell Phone, Digital Camera - Battery Chargers .   While watching the Bush conference, I picked off the dead leaves from the phycus plant that I brought in from the cold on a freezing night over a month ago.   The plant seems to be doing well.   I put it on the left side of the mahogany bureau, and I moved the miniature palm tree from that location to along side the other one on the brass and glass end tables on the far side of the brass and glass coffee table.   I am waiting for UPS this afternoon.   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  A friend is getting the distinguished alumni award from www.columbia.edu at graduation this spring.   I have been invited to attend, but alas I do not venture into Manhattan.  I need to refill the black ink cartridge on my Sharp fax machine.   I have not used it much, but it only came with a half size ink cartridge, so possibly it is getting low.  CIO   

Note:<888> 04/05/06  Wednesday 12:25 A.M.:  New book BBC NEWS | Americas | Inside private world of Laura Bush .   I went through my email.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/04/06  Tuesday 11:35 P.M.:  GaraVolcan2006 Canary Islands .  Mexico Centre of Exchange and Research in Volcanology .  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/04/06  Tuesday 11:05 P.M.:  Presidential visit in this area President Bush visit to Bridgeport, Connecticut Wednesday April 5, 2006 The Connecticut Post Online - Connecticut Post Search Results .   I hope he has enough fuel to make it there.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/04/06  Tuesday 10:10 P.M.:  Download or Order Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition for Free .    This beta also VMware Server .   I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/04/06  Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I ate a piece of apple pie.   I missed the UPS deliver on the www.thermaltake.com power supply RMA return today, and they will attempt delivery tomorrow UPS Package Tracking ,  so I guess I have to wait for them to deliver it tomorrow.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/04/06  Tuesday 8:50 P.M.:  I worked in http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm  before going to bed at 5 A.M..  I had people wake me up with fax calls this morning about 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I picked up my mail.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out.   I went by the Arnold bread factory outlet, and I bought a Entenmann's deluxe 24 ounce apple pie for $2, a six pack of New York Everything sesame bagels for $1.85, and a loaf of Multigrain bread for $1.59 for $5.44 total.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I then went downtown, and I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and I bought about a two quart Williamsburg style bean pot for $2.  It is white salt pottery with a blue stripe.   I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue.   There were about eight television satellite trucks parked around the Greenwich Police station Greenwich Town Departments - Police Department .  They link this page National Sex Offender Public Registry .  Apparently there was a murder in town yesterday, and it is being investigated Fraud suspect slain in home - Greenwich Time  and DANY | What's New | October 6, 2005 and How a Co-op Lost Millions - New York Times with picture .   I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.   I then went by the  Stop and Shop, and I bought Chiquita bananas at .79 a pound for $2.28.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a three liter container of ::: BERTOLLI ::: extra virgin olive oil for $23.99.   I then returned home.  I microwaved and ate a 21 ounce Marie Callendar frozen meat lasagna dinner, which I put a couple tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I then took a nap for a couple of hours.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/04/06  Tuesday 1:20 A.M.:  I am tired.   I will shut down the primary computer,  and I will go to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 11:45 P.M.:  I saw one interesting college student this past Saturday, when they were all on break.  I noticed one young fellow walking around town with my family look, or my same look when I was younger, but he was taller.  He was about 6 foot 4 inches tall, and he was wearing a T-shirt saying "Joe's Bar, Hanover, New Hampshire", but like me at that college age, he was only about 120 pounds.  www.dartmouth.edu use to have rather large east coast college students, but I guess they have fallen on hard times, and they can not afford to feed their students properly, but at that weight I noticed he was an agile walker.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 11:30 P.M.:  BNY Online Banking - Internet Banking is back online.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 11:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I left a message with some friends and another with a relative.   I sent a fax to relative's fax machine up in Maine, which seems to be picking up the telephone line, so nobody can call in, so hopefully they will turn off the fax machine.  I reinstalled the drivers on my Minolta QMS laser printer, since they were in some foreign language  that I do not understand.  Life in Greenwich seems pretty much the same as ever, and there is not much unusual to report.   I told Gary about the Capitol matter today, and he said he would look into it.  I got two of the new $10 bills at bank today to keep in reserve for when I am low on money at the end of the month.  The are in the usual Catch $22 place, where I also keep two Indian dollars, and I also keep two other Indian dollars in reserve in a conspicuous location.  It is my profession viewpoint as a reputable analyst that this story A Tangle in Caracas for Exxon - New York Times means that the communists which includes people like Communist China, Cuba, and Venezuela will control the 80 billion barrels of oil in reserve in Venezuela, and with that oil, they will be able to use it for some military activity like invading the United States of America, the same way the Allies used the North African oil in World War II to invade the Continent of Europe.   Thus in this neck of the woods, matters could get worse before they get better.  Also Russia still has the Old Communists.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 9:45 P.M.:  Now BNY Online Banking - Internet Banking is not working.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 9:40 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  I left a message with two more friends.   Today when I was at the dentist, on their television between 12:30 P.M. EDT and 1 P.M. EDT, there was a report on CNN that the Capitol in Washington D.C. had been evacuated because of a power outage, but there is nothing this evening on the internet news about it.  I ate the last portion of the pasta, alfredo, shrimp, and olive meal with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 7:50 P.M.:  I received my order of 7 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com today.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/03/06  Monday 7:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I picked up my mail downstairs.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I then went to my dental appointment.   I supposedly have three cavities, that I need filled, so I have to have an appointment made to have them filled.  I still need a crown down, but that would be over a thousand dollars that the state will not pay for.   I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop again, and I bought a plastic floppy disk case for a dollar.   I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Starbucks and the Greenwich post office and the Senior and the Arts center during the walk.  I went to my 4 P.M. appointment.  I also stopped by the Parks department at the Greenwich town hall, and since I have a beach card for disabled individuals, I do not need to renew it or my parking permit.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four www.cabotcheese.com Monterey Jack 8 ounce bars for $2 each, four 64 ounce containers of Florida Natural Florida's Natural Growers orange juice with calcium for $1.88 each, two six ounce jars of Gold's horse radish for $1 each, a 1.75 quart container of Breyers Breyers butter pecan ice cream for $1.88, and a 1.75 ounce containers of Breyers dolce de leche ice cream for $1.88, a 8.8 ounce container of 4C 4C foods, bread crumbs, cheese, parmesan, romano, iced tea mix, homestyle, carb careful grated parmesan cheese for $3.99, 2 www.hellmanns.com low fat mayonnaise quart jars for $2.50 each, a 48 ounce container of Quaker welcome to Quaker, a unit of PepsiCo old fashioned oatmeal for $4.39,  5 six ounce cans of Star-Kist http://www.starkist.com solid white albacore tuna fish for $1 each, five 6.5 ounce cans of Snows canned clams for $1 each, and a 200 count package of Splenda SPLENDA® Brand Sweetener - Welcome to a World of Sweetness for $6.99 for $51.29 total.  My total before savings was $86, so I got some big savings of $34.71.  I also got a $5 off my next Stop and Shop purchase paid for by Unilever global company website for buying their Breyers ice cream.  I then returned home, and I used my cart to bring up the groceries.  I put away the groceries.   I put my newer computer floppy disks in the plastic box on the right side of the middle printer stand shelf  to the right of the primary computer.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/02/06  Sunday 8:15 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.   I ate a 5.5 ounce bag of Arnold Seasoned croutons regular cut.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/02/06:

Note:<888> 04/02/06  Sunday 5:55 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I set the Volvo clock ahead one hour.  I noticed some of my neighbors were outside enjoying the warmer weather.  Some of my neighbors are from warmer parts of the planet, so when it warms up here, they are more visible.   I ate some more of the pasta alfredo shrimp dish.  I have two more portions left.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I will now send out my weekly notes.  Need batteries try this eBay: 96 Lot AA Alkaline Batteries Golden Power Super Plus (item 9706955453 end time Apr-06-06 17:59:59 PDT) .   CIO

Note:<888> 04/02/06  Sunday 4:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I deleted the backups files from the D: drive, and I move the other files to a temporary folder on the C: drive.  I then formatted the D: drive to make sure it is in good shape.  I did not repartition it, because I did not want to lose the drive letter assignment which might have happened.  I then moved the files back to the D: drive.  Most of them are backup files.  I ran Norton SpeedDisk on the D: drive.  I then ran Norton WinDoctor and Ad-awareSE.  I then did a System Restore backup.  I ran CCleaner and I emptied the Norton Protection Recycle bin.  I then did a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  I then backed up three separate groups of files.  While doing the backups, I reheated on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven one portion of the pasta alfredo shrimp meal that I prepared two days ago, and I ate it with ice tea.  I then ate the last piece of cheese cake.  Yesterday I ate two pieces of cheese cake when I returned home before going to bed.  I just moved the Lasko box fan to the far right on the window shelf, and I pinned up with the large bobby pins the curtain above the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control, and I took the Styrofoam sheets off from in front of it.  I connected it up to its high voltage dedicated power cord from the air conditioning plug.   I started it up, and it running just fine, and it seems to be putting out lots of cool air as the afternoon sun warms up the apartment.  I do not really need it now, but I will run it for an hour to make sure it works all right.  I also turned back on the Honeywell Hepa air purifier, since it is the allergy season, and it will make the air cleaner in the apartment.   The moving louvers do not work on the General Electric air conditioner anymore.  However, I have a General Electric maintenance contract paid up on it through September 12, 2006.  I put the charged up batteries back in the Vivitar digital camera.  CIO

Note:<888> 04/02/06  Sunday 11:40 A.M.:  I rested some more after resetting the clocks and other time pieces.   CIO  

Note:<888> 04/02/06  Sunday 6:50 A.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I will now set my clocks and watches ahead one hour, since Daylight Savings Time has gone into effect.    The computer automatically sets itself ahead one hour.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/02/06  Sunday 5:25 A.M.:   I went out after the last message yesterday.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I got one of those new but very used $10 bills to see what they look like.   They do not seem to last any longer in circulation than the old ones.   They use a phrase from the Decoration on Independence, "We the People".   I  next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and they were quite busy, but it is still at the full price level.   I then went to downtown central Greenwich, and I mailed my financial report to a relative at the central Greenwich Post Office.   I then went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and they have a large selection of item, but their donors tend to be smaller people, so there are not as many clothes and items for larger people.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area mostly in the rain.   I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store and CVS.   One of the older CVS employees had heart surgery at Yale New Haven hospital which is surprising, since he is quite thin.  However, he is from the Philippines, and they eat lots of palm oil there which is high in cholesterol.   I completed my walk.   I then  drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then went by Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought on sale the 50 DVD +  Memorex bundle for $14.94, and a clearance item marked $5 that they charged me the regular price for of $7.98 for which is a black plastic Staples six shelf letter holder and $1.38 tax for $24.30 total.  At home, I had a $10 off $40 Staples coupon, but I had forgotten to bring it with me.  I also have a $5 off $25 coupon for CVS.  Both coupons are good until the end of April 2006.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and as usual the staff were trying to be helpful, but I was just curious how busy it might be.   I told them we might have to shut down the library, since we will not have any oil to keep it going.   I then returned home.   I assembled the six shelf letter holder, and I put it on my dining table with all the spare items from the dining table and some spare laser paper.  I called up the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and I told them that www.exxon.com probably would not be able to afford to pay the staff at their hotel, since all of their oil had been confiscated by the communists.   I chatted with a few friends and relatives, and they did not seem concerned about Exxon having its oil confiscated.   When I called up the http://mikelouisscott.com/rock.htm about 10 years ago, they told me they had sold out their stock in Exxon to the Company.   Whatever the case, I went to bed at 9 P.M., and I woke up at 4 A.M. after six hours sleep because with daylight savings time, as they say "Spring Forward".   At the bank I chatted with a former neighbor whom had returned from Fort Lauderdale, and I suggested he try working for a railroad family I know about in Long Island.  I am charging up the 4 AA RadioShack metal hydride rechargeable batteries from the Vivitar digital camera.  CIO   

Note:<888> 04/01/06  Saturday 10:15 A.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  After I ate the meal listed below, I washed the dishes.  Earlier I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   CIO

Note:<888> 04/01/06  Saturday 9:35 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I will now reheat some of the pasta, alfredo sauce, shrimp, and olive mixture that I made yesterday, and I will eat with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note:<888> 04/01/06  Saturday 8:55 A.M.:  I am making up a batch of http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   There goes the price of gasoline A Tangle in Caracas for Exxon - New York Times .  I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut The Taft School with Steve Shook who was from Venezuela, and I assume he spoke Spanish.   Also when I was around http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , we met Alex Kruger who was raised on the http://mikelouisscott.com/rock.htm ranch in Venezuela.  I personally have never set foot on the continent of South America, but I have been nearby about 20 miles away on the Island of Tobago Welcome to Trinidad & Tobago where www.bp.com has large oil reserves off shore.   If one was staying in the house next to the Chairman of British Petroleum, Mr. Colon in Billy Fraser's house or Lord Stathalmond as they call him in Jolly Old England, I would assume he would have other friends down there.   I do know Hernado Pigato http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg who was a guest of the Aga Khan http://mikelouisscott.com/agakhan01.jpg in Manhattan when I knew him, and Hernado use to ride around Manhattan in the Aga Khan's Rolls Royce, and he told me the Aga Khan had an apartment on Central Park West near Columbus Circle.   However, I never told Hernado that the Aga Khan also has a house on French Road off Round Hill Road in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Hernado is from Sao Paulo, Brazil and works for Trans Brazilian airlines, and his father owned a large grocery store in Sao Paulo, and his grandfather owned a large million acre coffee plantation, thus he was a bit spoiled.  A lot of coffee has shown in this area, since he first visited, but he never felt like working at Starbucks downtown, since he enjoyed traveling.  His father is native Portuguese Brazilian and his mother is from Milan, Italy, so he is sort of an upscale Brazilian European.    He speaks Brazilian, Portuguese, Italian, and English.  He lived in Valhalla, New York next to the large dam, and he knew Bill Lawrence in Danbury, Connecticut whom was in the advertising business.  At the time the Aga Khan whom is a Swiss medical doctor raised in Kenya, was the high commissioner of refugees for the United Nations Welcome to the UN. It's your world. .  When the Aga Khan use to walk around downtown Greenwich, Connecticut, there were always about 200 black suited Pinkerton detectives walking around with him, and I always thought it was for John Davidson Rockefeller III, but I have seen him many times without the 200 black suited men.  Thus I guess the Aga Khan still has big bucks.  I know one of his banks is the Bank of Bombay, India, and he also probably is a large stock holder in Royal Dutch Shell www.shell.com  , and he is also a large stockholder in www.nestle.com .   More than likely he has other assets around the world.  I know he has a 650 room villa on the Isle of Capri, and he also has a web site His Highness the Aga Khan's 69th Birthday where he tries to raise money on his birthday, since he is suppose to get his weight in precious jewels on his birthday which they use for charity.  He sort of looks like another Greenwich, Connecticut resident Klaud Kirschner who use to do the children's television show back in the 1950s and 1960s named "Clowny".  CIO   

Note:<888> 04/01/06  Saturday 7:15 A.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 6 A.M..  I chatted with a friend.   I printed out my monthly financial report, and I have it ready to send to a relative.  CIO  

Note:<888> 04/01/06  Saturday 2:45 A.M.:   Happy April Fools Day.  Today is the 56th birthday of a friend of mine, who is so busy around the horses, he never takes time to visit http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-with-distant-relative-whom-knows-about-horses-with-relative-whom-knows-about-railroads-putnam-hotel-in-saratoga-ny-about-summer-1990.jpg .  I suppose we could tell him we are running a bookie parlor for the Queen Mum on England, and he would still be to busy to visit.  I was awake at 1:30 A.M..   I installed the new NEC floppy drive in the primary computer, and it works just fine.   I also have 30 new floppy disks.  One should not use floppy disks that are more than two or three years old, since they tend to deteriorate, and one could lose data.  I installed two new AA Energizer batteries in my Logitech wireless optical mouse.  When setting the connect frequency from the base unit to the mouse by pressing the base unit and then the small button on the bottom of the mouse, on one of the random frequencies, there seems to be interference, so one has to set it again to get a clear frequency.   CIO