Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 11:45 P.M.  Prince William, Kate Middleton to delay honeymoon - NYPOST.com

BBC News - Royal wedding: Couple opt for delayed honeymoon  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 10:50 P.M.   I made 85 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 9:40 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 9:15 P.M.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with ketchup and Dijon mustard and Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 8:35 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I put away the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 7:50 P.M.  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I chatted with two friends and a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I stored away the winter comforters and blankets, and I put the summer lighter blankets and summer quilt on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry.  I have 20 minutes left to go on the dry cycles.  I picked up the mail.  I received a form letter from my new state worker at the Connecticut Department of Social Services that my food stamps had been discontinued as of the first of May 2011, because they had not received the redetermination form that I sent in on February 25, 2011.  I was told by the head supervisor there back in March 2011 that the long form that I send in later in March 2011 would solved the problem, and I received a form letter from my previous state worker on April 1, 2011 that my food stamps would be continued.  I left two messages with my new Connecticut State worker and one message with my Town of Greenwich Social worker.  I took the six yellow tulip bulbs out of the pot, and I put them by the garden in the back yard to be replanted there if the gardener wants to do that.  I transplanted the aloe plant into the larger tulip pot, and I added some MiracleGro potting soil.  I put the aloe plant on the small folding table by the hallway entrance.

Prince Charles to use Texan's jet in US visit - CBS News  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 4:25 A.M.  I watched the tele.  Well, I guess now that there is no more news for a while, we can get some rest.  These big news days tend to wear out the communications people.  Of course with the higher prices of gasoline in America, possibly more people are staying home and watching television, reading books or surfing the internet.  Of course, one can always keep busy with household chores.  I tend to wear out more quickly as I am about to reach age 61 on May 9, 2011.  I guess it might get busier around here, when some of the old guard from Florida venture north around the first of June.  I guess once I wake up later on today, I will probably do laundry, but frequently once I fall asleep, I can sleep for a longer period of time, and it takes quite a while for me to get going for the day.  I suppose if I were on a daytime schedule, which I will be next week, I have to deal with a lot more activity around here.  There is not much to report on, since I maintain simple routines.  Whenever, it gets busier around here, it is usually because people from Manhattan come out here for the weekend, and they seem to be use to leading busier lifestyles.  I noticed this past evening that CVS on Greenwich Avenue closes at 10 P.M., and Starbucks closes at 11 P.M. on weekdays.   There was not very much traffic, so I guess with the higher prices of fuel, people are not cruising around aimlessly at night.  I combined my trip to the grocery store with my walk downtown.  Of course there are people whom work around here at night, particularly at the Greenwich Hospital which obviously is staffed 24 hours a day.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly sunny today and 66 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 2:45 A.M.  Drive Time: Stuck In Traffic, Commuting, Congested Cities -- AARP

Royal Wedding Economics: Is the royal family good for the British economy or a drain on it? - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine

Royal Wedding 2011: Top 8 Moments of Prince William and Kate Middleton's Big Day - ABC News

IN PHOTOS: THE ROYAL WEDDING - ABC News

The Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration

YouTube - ReaganFoundation's Channel

CompUSA.com | COMEM817 | April Black Friday

Hirohito (emperor of Japan) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

BBC News - Royal newly-weds celebrate at Buckingham Palace

BBC News - Royal wedding: The day as it happened

BBC News - Royal wedding in pictures

BBC News - Nasa delays shuttle Endeavour's mission

BBC News - One-minute World News

BBC News - Royal wedding

BBC News - William and Kate's World Wide Wedding

BBC News - Obamas tour Kennedy Space Center  CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/11 Saturday 1:35 A.M.  I ate two 7 ounce seasoned salmon patties fried in olive and my usual steamed vegetable and rice mixture with Smart Balance Spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 11:50 P.M.  Muzee Internet Radio and TV and eBook, Poper IVD+eBook  CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 11:40 P.M.  I went downtown after the last note.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.49 each six pack, a 59 ounce container of Simply Orange orange juice for $3, two 15 ounce cans of Chef Boyardee Beefaroni for $1 each, a six pack of day old hard rolls for $1.30, and bananas for .79 a pound for $1.06 for $10.34 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area, and I sat out at various locations.  They now have a few more new statues at the front yard of the Senior and the Arts center.  It was not very busy out for a Friday night.  There were a few people pub crawling, and that was about it.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 9:00 P.M.  I ate the other half of the Rothschild stew that I made last night, and I ate it with a glass of watered down punch.  I watered the plants.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 8:15 P.M.  I watched the British Royal family waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace before going to bed at 9 A.M..  I noticed it must be warmer in England, since the leaves are all out on the trees.  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

The order with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Buy.com - Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO Notebook Card for $6.99 with free shipping arrived.

The order for Innovera Compressed Air Gas Duster Cleaner 10 oz | eBay for two cans with free shipping for $10.99 both arrived via UPS.  It was shipped from www.samsclub.com .

I went back to bed until 6:30 P.M..  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.

The Royal Couple: Prince William and Kate Middleton - GreenwichTime

Bob Horton: A party thrown by Greenwich residents for ONLY town residents - GreenwichTime

I chatted with a relative.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 7:55 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 7:45 A.M.  The Royal Couple: Prince William and Kate Middleton - GreenwichTime  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 7:40 A.M.  I just finished watching the Royal Wedding on www.cnn.com and The Royal Wedding: Unveiled - CNN.com Blogs .  I guess they are now putting on the feed bag.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 4:05 A.M.  WEDDING WATCH: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - Forbes.com

 I paid my bills for www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Voice Long Distance, and my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com local telephone bill.

I ordered 96 ounces of Peter Stokkebye Turkish Pipe Tobacco (ounces) for $1.18 an ounce for $113.10 total with free shipping.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 2:40 A.M.  I am making up a batch of Rothschild stew, and I will eat half with a glass of watered down punch and I will refrigerate half.

First one makes up Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe without using the teaspoon of sesame oil

Once the rice is ready, one adds to the rice in the rice steamer

One 5 ounce can drained of Libby's Vienna sausages cut into quarter inch thick slices across.

One 10.5 ounce can of condensed mushroom soup.

5.25 ounces of milk

season lightly with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and oregano.

Mix it all together.

Then microwave on one vegetable cycle.  Makes two large soup bowls of Rothschild stew. CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/11 Friday 2:15 A.M.  I woke up at 12:30 A.M..  I watched part of the Cary Grant movie North by Northwest, which I have seen many times before.  It was on www.tcm.com .  I finally got up at 1:30 A.M..  I turned on the living room air conditioner and fans, since it was warm in the apartment.  Old brick buildings tend to accumulate heat. 

The Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton Charitable Gift Fund

When I was at the Greenwich Hospital yesterday, they had set up an aid station in the Watson Wing Lobby where they were offering peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which is a southern custom in America, so people from down south might have returned to Greenwich for the warmer weather season.

Of course today, we can pretend like we are in Greenwich, England waking up early in England for the The Royal Wedding .

My interest in British Royal developed slowly over the years.  When I lived in Decatur, Alabama from 1956 to 1962, we use to watch the television game show "Queen for a Day".  In that period I also read the World Book Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica which mentions all sorts of worldwide nobility.  Around 1960, we visited Chicago, Illinois in the winter, and the headlines in the Chicago newspapers were about the Royal Yacht Britannica being there for a visit with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.  I guess they like cold weather.  When we moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1962, the oldest golf trophy in the United States of America was at the Greenwich Country Club dedicated to Queen Victoria.  Down south and in Connecticut, we frequently had British guests, since Monsanto Chemstrand did business in United Kingdom, and my father was always over there on business.  We carpooled at Greenwich Country Day the first year in 1962 with a British family.  At the Taft School and Lake Forest College, we had British students.  When I was in Europe in 1972, I met lots of British citizens.  When I visited a friend's family in East Aurora, New York in the fall of 1972, we went to the Fort Erie racetrack, and the Queen Mum was at our table.  She presented the trophy at the horse race.  When I visited St. Thomas in the fall of 1972, I saw somebody that looked like Prince Charles at a pub by the ferry dock to St. John's.  He was wearing a British Officer uniform.  In Manhattan, when I used Fred Von Mierers apartment it was down the street from the British consulate.  I also used an office one floor above British Airways on Park Avenue.  In Greenwich Village, they had the Greta Garbo home for Wayward Boys, which was the headquarters for British Intelligence in World War II.  In Boston, when we lived there, we were friend with the head of BOAC in Boston, and I first visited Nantucket back in 1969, with one of his twin sons.  In Greenwich, Connecticut, there are always British people around.  On the Fifth of July in 1976, I saw Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip tour the Bloomingdales department store in Manhattan.  I visited the Bahamas in January 1978, and I stayed with somebody from Eaton Square in London.  In Key West, Florida, there were lots of British people around.  When I flew to Maui in August 1980, there was somebody on the plane that looked like Queen Elizabeth II, and the staff at the Hyatt Hotel in Maui, were wearing British tropical uniforms.  When I use to visit Manhattan, there were frequently British people around.  When I last visited there about three years ago, they were flying the British flag at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, and I saw somebody that looked like Gordon Brown and Prince Charles at Grand Central Station.  However, it is such a big world out there, the British might have forgotten us here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/28/11 Thursday 7:00 P.M.  Exxon Pumps Up Shareholder Payout - Forbes.com

BBC News - Barack Obama pledges to help US tornadoes recovery

BBC News - Petraeus to lead CIA, Panetta to head Pentagon

BBC News - Royal wedding: William greets fans ahead of wedding

I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will set the alarm to get up at 4 A.M. to watch the Royal Wedding. 

Mostly sunny tomorrow and 65 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/28/11 Thursday 6:35 P.M.  I opened up the 20 pound bag of Stop and Shop enriched rice that I bought on sale last summer for $4.99.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/28/11 Thursday 6:05 P.M.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with ketchup and Dijon mustard and Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/28/11 Thursday 5:20 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went to my 1 P.M. appointment.  After my appointment, I made an appointment for next week to get the rash on my right foot right side ankle checked out by a doctor at the Greenwich Hospital Outpatient Clinic.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.

The order with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Logitech C120 Webcam with Headset Open Box for $12.99 with discount coupon of "MLC210436042060NL1" for $5.99 total with free shipping arrived.  I installed it on the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table.  I put the Chinese web cam from there on the shelf below the stereo system.  I installed the Windows Updates on all of the computers.  I chatted with a friend.

Good source for what is happening with the Royal Wedding Mail Online and The Royal Wedding and Royal Roundup: Program and Music Posted on Official Wedding Site | BBCAmerica - Anglophenia blog and BBC America: Home of the Royal Wedding | Facebook  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/28/11 Thursday 12:20 A.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

Tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Buy.com - Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO Notebook Card for $6.99 with free shipping.

Celebrate Will & Kate's Wedding With A Traditional British Supper - ABC News

BBC News - China census shows population ageing and urban

BBC News - Royal wedding

BBC News - 'Neglected' current could keep Europe warm

BBC News - Kennedy fire no drama for shuttle Endeavour launch

BBC News - Volcanic ash air shut-down the 'right' decision

BBC News - Twitter, Facebook and YouTube the royal wedding

Bill requiring drug testing of welfare recipients passes House » TCPalm.com

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I have a 1 P.M. appointment today.

Thunderstorms today and 67 to 53 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 10:30 P.M.  I am just about ready to eat a Stop and Shop cheese pizza that I added grated parmesan and Romano cheese to along with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning and olive oil.  I will eat it with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 9:45 P.M.  I made 168 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching FoxBusiness.com .   I chatted with a relative.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.  Before I showered, and I cleaned up, I ate a bowl of chili with beans and rice and a glass of watered down punch.  I threw out the garbage.  I moved the Audi to its usual place.  I picked up the mail.  I will now make some cigarettes. 

This could make Royal life awkward: Kate Middleton reveals she's allergic to horses | Mail Online CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 5:45 P.M.   I woke up at 1:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I watched the Federal Reserve chairman news conference on the Fox Business Network.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  I chatted with a relative.  I had to open up the primary work computer CPU case, and detach and reattach the third hard drive IDE cable or second IDE1 slave drive, since it was not being recognized in the system.  It now works fine.  I installed the updates on the Vista partition. 

Obama's Birth Certificate - FoxNews.com

Ann Dunham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 5:25 A.M.  Morning showers today and 69 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

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I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 4:45 A.M.  I ate some chili with beans and rice and watered down punch.  One of the original people I chatted with on the internet, when I first went online with a telephone modem over fifteen years ago was a Scottish engineer.  I explained to him what my back ground was, and he told me I should say I am an engineer, but I do not have any educational degrees in engineering.   Back then I also chatted with somebody up in Disco Island in Greenland which is pretty far north.  People do not seem to like to chat over the internet anymore, although it is much faster than it was in the old days.  I do know English which is pretty common around the world, but most people do not seem to have time to chat anymore during the early morning hours.  I have kept my web log for a long time, but it seems there are not many people whom read it, but it is obviously based on my own experience.  Well, working on the internet at home is more interesting than going over to a pub in White Plains, New York, and watching www.ibm.com play 50 cent computer games, which is all I saw them doing in the old days, but there were quite a few night people there from other professions including a few of the traveling public.  I have to reboot a minute after updates.  I put the Lasko box fan on top of the white wicker breakfast tray in front of the living room air conditioner to blow the cool air around more.  I have not done a good apartment cleaning since Christmas time, so probably sometime in May, I should do Spring House Cleaning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 3:15 A.M.  I posted 61 pictures of recent minor changes and acquisitions in the apartment over the last couple of months and some pictures to remind one what is really here.

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-042711/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mls-apt-042711/ CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 1:35 A.M.  For cleaning dust out of my computers, I ordered Innovera Compressed Air Gas Duster Cleaner 10 oz | eBay for two cans with free shipping for $10.99 both.

I also ordered Buy.com - Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO Notebook Card for $6.99 with free shipping.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/11 Wednesday 12:40 A.M.  Online OEM Shop

NETGEAR NETGEAR® N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router

Windows 7 Still Chasing Windows XP, Despite 350 Million Licenses Sold - Windows - News & Reviews - eWeek.com

Great Speculations » Gold Bugs Beware Of Fed Extermination Comments Feed

Buy.com - Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO Notebook Card $6.99 with free shipping

!!!! Bargain for $349.99 going fast CompUSA.com | LX.RD502.039 | Acer Aspire AS5253-BZ660 15.6 Notebook

BBC News - Weather good for shuttle Endeavour farewell

BBC News - Defra to remove problem monk parakeets from wild

BBC News - Royal wedding: Westminster Abbey 360 tour  CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/11 Tuesday 11:25 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four double strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  When the yellow tulips are gone, I will transplant the aloe plant into the tulip pot.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/26/11 Tuesday 10:05 P.M.  I went way out east to downtown Greenwich Avenue after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a local contractor.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought Buy Gold Bond Foot Cream Therapeutic online at CVS.com for $7.99 and .48 tax for $8.47 total.  I then bought a 10 inch high aloe plant in a three inch plastic pot for $3.99 and .24 tax for $4.23 total.  I sat out after I finished my walk.  The long stem tulips are now out at the veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center.  They are various colors.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a local lawyer.  I then went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought an 8 ounce jar of Golds hot horseradish for $1.99, and fresh Dole bananas for .79 a pound for $2.44, and a frozen Great American Seafood 1.25 pound filet of Wild Alaskan salmon for $7.99 for $12.42 total.  They also have 8 ounce frozen Jimmy Buffett shrimp meals for half price for $4.99.  They have a large selection of prepared frozen food items including lots of interesting tid bits.  As I recall Huntington Hardford's father was Lord Hartford, but Huntington Hartford was also of Austrian descent.  I next went to the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $6 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $4.639 a gallon for 1.294 gallons for 17.4 miles driving since Sunday April 17, 2011 at odometer reading of 68484 miles for 13.447 miles per gallon driving in mostly local traffic.  I then returned back home.  I put the aloe plant in front of the living room air conditioner, so it will get some sunlight.  I put away my purchases.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/11 Tuesday 4:50 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.  The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for Microsoft XSA-00001 Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 - OEM for $24.99 and $7.59 ground shipping for $32.58 total arrived.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go downtown for an evening stroll.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/26/11 Tuesday 4:20 P.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/11 Tuesday 3:50 P.M.  After the last note, I chatted with a friend twice. I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I watched the movie "Gettysburg".  I ate some triscuit crackers and cheese.  I went to bed at 3 A.M..  I woke up briefly at 10 A.M., and I turned both air conditioners on.  I finally woke up at 1 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 11:00 P.M.  Total Chef Yogurt Maker on sale at the lowest and best deal price!

'Gods of Greenwich’ -- a hedge fund thriller - GreenwichTime

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Sunny tomorrow and 78 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 10:30 P.M.   The World's Biggest Public Companies - Forbes

Apps to Navigate the Royal Wedding - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Volcanic ash air shutdown the 'right' decision  CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 9:40 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I called up Hostaway at 1-800-504-5710 , and they transferred me to Optimum Business at 1-866-575-8000, and they got my remote web server running out of Chicago, Illinois going again.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 8:40 P.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 7:45 P.M.  I am just about ready to eat a Stouffer's 21 ounce frozen meat and tomato lasagna with grated paremesan and Romano cheese sauce on it and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 7:30 P.M.  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for 21 Smokers Best Light 100 mm Filter Tubes 200 tubes Rolling Papers .com for $3.49 each carton and $9.95 UPS shipping for $79.75 total arrived.  It was left at the front door downstairs, and I picked it up.  They are available more cheaply here SMOKER'S BEST CIGARETTE TUBES 100s LIGHT 50ct CASE | eBay  and here Smokers Best Cigarette Filter Tubes (RYO) - People's Wholesale Outlet . CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 7:00 P.M.  I installed the All Products / Air Conditioners & Dehumidifiers / Window-Mounted Air Conditioners / FRA086AT7 in the living room window.  I have it setup, so I can still open the window and use the fan.  I am currently running both air conditoners at high level to cool down the apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 5:55 P.M.  I found the other Panasonic air conditioner knob.  It had rolled underneath the right side of the bed, when I lifted it into position.  I like have the living room window opened this time of year for fresh air, but it is a bit warm in the living room at 82 degrees Fahrenheit.  I can install the air conditioner in the living room in less than an hours time, but since it will be cooler later on in the week, I will think about it for a day or two, since I would like to try to save a bit on energy, until I have to use them both.  I pulled down the living room shade another 18 inches, so the direct sun from the west will not come in as much this time of day.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 5:30 P.M.  I went outside, and I picked up the mail.  I brought up my folding cart from the rear of the Audi.  I used it to move the Panasonic 12,000 BTU air conditioner into the bedroom from the living room.  Installed it in the bedroom window, and I installed Plexiglas on the left hand side of it, and I sealed it with duct tape and a strip of foam rubber.  It works just fine.  However, somehow one of the two knobs has disappeared, so I only have a knob on the fan switch, and I left the thermostat on 10.  However, I can change the knobs from between positions, if I need to use the knob on the thermostat switch.  I looked around, but I can not find the second knob.  I went outside, and I put the cart back into the trunk of the Audi.  I chatted with neighbors.  The upload is not working for my remote server site for some odd reason, so I can not post my notes there.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 3:00 P.M.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M..  There only seems to be mostly children's programming on television at this hour of the day.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 12:45 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 11:25 A.M.  greenwich Gas Prices - Find the Lowest Gas Prices in greenwich, Connecticut CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 11:05 A.M.  I woke up at 10:45 A.M..

Beckham, Elton, Mr. Bean to attend royal wedding - GreenwichTime

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for 20 Premier Light 100 mm Filter Tubes 200 tubes Rolling Papers .com for $3.49 each carton and $9.95 UPS shipping for $79.75 total, however the order was changed to 21 of another type of the same size tubes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 3:15 A.M.  I will now rest some more.

Scattered thunderstorms and 62 to 53 degrees Fahrenheit today.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 3:05 A.M.  I read and watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/11 Monday 12:10 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 11:15 P.M.  Greenwich Gossip  CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 11:10 P.M.  Kelly: Giffords Cleared to Attend Shuttle Launch - FoxNews.com

NASA - Shuttle and Station  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 11:05 P.M.  I made the cheese burger as noted below, which I ate with my usual steamed vegetable mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  It is 76.3 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment living room right now with the window opened, and the three fans goings.  It is suppose to cool down later in the week.  I will now shower and clean up.  The six yellow tulips are fully opened.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 9:50 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 9:20 P.M.  I woke up at noon.  I chatted with two relatives.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..

I watched most of a television program about Ray Kroc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia of McDonalds.com .  It mentioned that Willard Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was the first Ronald McDonald Ronald.com USA .  They also have Ronald McDonald House Charities and Hamburger University - About McDonald's .  When I was at nearby www.lfc.edu , I use to eat a lot of 15 cent McDonald hamburgers and 18 cent McDonald cheeseburgers.  However, since I have been low on income recently, I can not afford their more expensive hamburgers.  However, I have my own version of a hearty hamburger, I call the McMike which is an 8 ounce hamburger sautéed in olive oil and seasoned with garlic powder, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning, and steamed in soy sauce for the last two minutes with two slices of processed cheese on it and served on a Kaiser roll with ketchup.  I flip the hamburger every minute when cooking it all together for 8 minutes except once the cheese is on it for the last two minutes.  The 8 ounce burger is made with 100% lean ground eye round of beef about 1.25 inches thick and about five inches in diameter.  One can also cook it with sliced onions and serve the onions on it, but then one's apartment smells a bit like onions.   CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/24/11:

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 7:10 A.M.  The primary work computer stopped again, however when I opened it up again, it was working.  I checked the cables.  I do not have an air can to clean the inside of it.  I found one big dust ball on a motherboard coil, and I removed that dust ball.  I also installed the new Intel LAN card.

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread.  I will then go to bed.

Showers today and 70 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 5:15 A.M.  Recently, sometimes, when I start up the primary work computer, the wireless mouse does not work.  However, that is easily fixed by unplugging the wireless sending unit from the USB 2.0 hub behind the keyboard and plugging it back in. CIO 

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 4:45 A.M.  I watched the movie "Angels and Demons".  It was interesting to see the movie shots around Roma, Italia and the www.vatican.va .  By religion I happen to be Episcopal, Dutch Reform, and Presbyterian.  However, my paternal grandmother was Roman Catholic from the Gard family, so by heritage I am a mutt.  I have actually once been at the Vatican.  After I finished my studies and travels at and out of Florence, Italy during the winter of 1972, that April 1972, I took the train from Florence, Italy to Rome, Italy.  I wandered around the City, and I found a nice quiet dark place that evening with a lot of colonnades which I wandered around.  I sat out by the steps in the dark watching taxi cabs come and go.  I did not know what the place was, but it was quiet and peaceful.  I wandered over for part of the evening over to the Spanish Steps, where there was more activity with lots of people.  However, I spent most of the night sitting up by the steps by the long group of colonnades.  I did not know it was the Vatican.  It was just a quiet dark peaceful place, where nobody bothered me, while I was sitting up all night.  I was on limited funds, so I was trying to save money by not taking a pensione room.  Early that morning, I caught the bus out to the Leonardo Da Vinci airport, for my flight to Athens, Greece, where I met up with George Cary at the airport as I recall.  It is rather strange for the last 22 years, I have ended up living at 71 Vinci Drive still staying up all night.  Of course even before Europe in 1972, I liked being awake at night.  Back in Illinois at www.lfc.edu , I would frequently stay awake all night.  I recall, they had an old Jesuit Monastery in Lake Forest, Illinois that had been brought over piece by piece from somewhere in Europe, so I would assume people in the church where there before I was there.  Nearby between Libertyville, Illinois and Mundelein, Illinois was the Retreat for the Archdiocese of Chicago which nobody used, but it was fully maintained with lots of imposing brick buildings and colonnades and even an 18 hole golf course.  It might be where Saint Mary's Lake is The Archdiocese of Chicago Retreats.  It was built during World War II in case the Vatican was kicked out of Europe by the Nazi as an alternative location in case the Vatican had to relocate.  Of course it was not as imposing with as much art work as the Vatican.  This might be it University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary , but when I drove around it one winter, it was also abandoned.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/24/11 Sunday 1:25 A.M.  My friends that normally come out and visit on Easter Sunday will not be coming out this years, since they are elsewhere with the flu.

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Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 11:55 P.M.  The primary work computer quit working.  I opened up the case, and I took out the video card, and I reseated the memory.  I tighten the power connections to the video card, when I put it back in, and I also tightened the power connections to the hard drives.  I cleaned out some dust.  I found a hard drive dip pin that I saved.  I put in a new 2032 CMOS battery.  I did not have to reset the CMOS settings.  The primary work computer seems to work just fine now.  I chatted with a friend.  The friend told me I should get some Gold Bond Medicated - Healing Since 1908 and Gold Bond Medicated > Pain Relieving Foot Cream .  It costs $8 at CVS Buy Gold Bond Foot Cream Therapeutic online at CVS.com .  I will now make and eat a 21 ounce frozen Stouffer's meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch with a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 8:45 P.M.  If one wants to live in this area and pay Westchester County taxes which are very high, there is this lower cost alternative http://www.heritagehillssalescenter.com/ ,  however it is cold up there on top of that mountain in the winter, and the condominiums have cement floors with electric heat in them which can be hard to walk on.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 8:25 P.M.  I have 30 minutes to go on the dry cycles.  I made up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 7:40 P.M.  I woke up at 2 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I chatted with a local walker.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M., when I chatted with a relative.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the wash cycles.  I picked up the mail.  The first issue of Popular Science arrived.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 2:25 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Rain today and 55 to 53 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 2:00 A.M.  Postal Service selects former pet supply store for downtown location - GreenwichTime  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 1:55 A.M.  BBC News - Quake research mission to 'ring of fire'  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/23/11 Saturday 1:15 A.M.  I ate the other half of the Rothschild stew with some watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 11:40 P.M.  I made 113 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television with a program about the The Royal Wedding .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 9:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched some television.  I will now make some cigarettes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 8:25 P.M.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  There are will field rabbits around here, so if someone caught them, they could have rabbit stew.  As a youth, I used to be able to run down a wild rabbit.  I picked up the mail.  I have a new State of Connecticut Social Worker.  I also received the order for two New Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter PWLA8391GT 8391GT | eBay for $15.99 each with free shipping from Hong Kong for $31.98 total.  I put them on the right side of the center shelf in the left bookcase behind the Sony television in the living room.  I do not need to use them let.  I watered the plants.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 7:15 P.M.  In Western Europe, where they have a billion people, there is not as much food, so they tend to eat smaller less nourishing portions.  The last time I was there in 1992 for the Winter Olympics at Albertville, France, at Albertville, France for the two weeks we were there, we ate dinner every night at the cafeteria setup for the 50,000 communications workers it took to set up the events that are watched by two billion people.  We ate fettuccini alfredo every night with steamed vegetables and a slices of French bread with butter and a glass of white wine and coffee all of which was about $10.  Thus for Americans use to eating a lot of meat, they probably would be hungry.  I recall on a day side trip to Geneva, Switzerland, at www.mcdonalds.com there two regular cheese burgers with a small French Fries and a small coke was $20 U.S.. I saw signs there at the John Bull steak house advertising a 6 ounce Delmonico steak there for dinner for a $100.  Thus food is a lot more expensive in western Europe.  When Europeans come here, they tend to be thinner with less weight, and they probably enjoy eating our abundant cheaper food.

I will now shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 6:25 P.M.  I am making up a batch of Rothschild stew of which I will eat half and refrigerate half.  I will eat it with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 5:50 P.M.  I went back to sleep after the late note.  I just woke up.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.  I guess I am back on more of a night schedule.  There are so many daytime people around here with all of the younger families, that there are not that many late night people around here.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 2:40 P.M.  Free coffee or tea today at www.starbucks.com , when you bring you own travel mug.  Tree Huggers Unite.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 2:35 P.M.  I woke up at noon, when a relative called.  I got another computer magazine telephone call that I cancelled.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

Today is a Good Friday a major holiday in the Christian Calendar.  Today is also Earth Day, so possibly to Save the Planet, we all have to stay inside and not use our cars and let the children walk around downtown and play.  I guess it is permissible for bicycle riders to venture out into the wilderness in this area.  On www.foxnews.com , Mike Reagan www.reagan.com is worried that Donald www.trump.com will run as an Independent and split the republican vote in the 2012 Presidential election.  Maybe it is time we got some Fresh Blood into the Republican Party with a Younger group of conservatives instead of the same individuals that lost the election in 2008.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 3:55 A.M.  Well, not much happening up here in Dog Patch, Connecticut.  It is too cold up here yet for black eye pea eaters to come back up north.  Us locals are use to the cooler weather here after the very cold dismal winter.  It is sort of like the weather in Maine in June at night.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly cloudy today and 49 to 41 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 3:15 A.M.  John Hancock Center Chicago, Illinois .  It says here John Hancock - Interesting Facts that is can withstand 132 mile per hour winds.  Since the Midwest has lots of tornadoes does that mean if a tornado hit it, it would fall over?  I have been inside it a number of times.  I think also the observation deck.  They have very fast elevators.  Business men probably like it, because it was near the Playboy Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 2:25 A.M.  Since I had connections with www.sears.com that owned Allstate Insurance, I was able to cash $20 checks at Sears stores in 1976 to get down to Florida.  An amused relative up north paid for them.  Brian Hibbs whom was one of the first people I met in Fort Lauderdale was from Cheshire, Connecticut, and he grew up as a townie around the www.yale.edu campus, so he was street smart.  His father worked for the John Hancock Insurance Company, and Wiley liked Brian.  If one has ever been to Chicago as opposed to the John Hancock Insurance building in Boston where all of the windows popped out of it, the John Hancock Insurance building in Chicago behind the Drake Hotel is well built with cross braced steel beams making for odd looking apartments.  They did that for protection against the Chicago winds.  They do call it the Windy City.  My father had an apartment in the John Hancock building in Chicago, and Alex Gardiner who use to monitor Greenwich for John D. Rockefeller III also had an apartment in the John Hancock building in Chicago.  John D. Rockefeller III's legal address in the Unites States of America is the Drake Hotel in Chicago, so somebody might remember him there.  More than likely some Rockefellers know some other people like the Rothschilds, so don't give up your day job trying to get ahead with the Rothschilds.  I was wandering today if Abby rent a car is named after Abby Rockefeller.  The Rockefellers developed Daytona, Florida as their winter retreat.  They also developed the Doral Corporation which managed a lot of resorts in Florida.  Possibly they even own part of the company that makes Doral Cigarettes called R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.  A relative of a relative is related to the Reynolds family that produces tobacco.  There is also a Reynolds street down in Key West just west of Roosevelt Boulevard and East of Truman Avenue.  Judging by the names down there, it is pretty much controlled by the democrats.  Also the original project in Key West, when the Marriott Corporation rebuilt the Casa Marina Hotel, it was financed by the Equitable Life Insurance from Chicago, so that is another Illinois connection.  It gets very cold in the Midwest in the winter, so a lot of people go down south for the winter.  The oldest condo on the beach in Fort Lauderdale is called the Illini.

In world history, there is the Romanoff family from Russia, and possibly they met up with the Rothschild, Rockefeller, and Roosevelt families, because they were all around each other in some location that everyone was alphabetized.  Either that, or they all of have connections with Rome.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 1:35 A.M.  Of course, when I was in Florida, I covered the whole east coast of the state, and I also visited the Bahamas which is better, until one runs out of money.  I also spent quite a bit of time consulting on rebuilding Key West trying to make it look like Nantucket.  The few British that I ran into were friendly, but usually broke.  The Americans were not interested in poor snow birds.  I networked with other people my age from up north.  Jimmy Eldert had a strong Florida connection, since his grandfather had the house next to Richard Nixon in Key Biscayne, Florida.  Wiley Middleton a local Florida resident since World War I had done the camping trip with Flagler, Edison, Ford, and Firestone.  Wiley was suppose to be one of the largest land owners in Florida.  He told me in 1976, he was buying everything he could from the Chase Bank up north of 25 cents on the dollar.  He also knew Arthur Vining Davis whom was another large land owner in Florida.  In Key West, I tried to remain inconspicuous, but my original only friend down there was from the DuPont family, so nobody really bought it.  John Bolton claimed he was the architect on the Casa Marina Hotel project which was going at a snail's pace.  Jimmy Eldert showed up the second winter in 1978 with more friends, but he gave up on Key West, and he hitchhiked out of Key West with a blue duffle bag to California, where he ended up in Santa Cruz, California.  Brian Hibbs from Fort Lauderdale and Cheshire, Connecticut showed up once in Key West while I was there, and I also had driven down there with him on Halloween in 1976 for a day, when nobody was there.  Hurley Haywood once showed up in Key West for a High Tea party.  Basically if somebody was there, you tended to bump into them.  I once ran into a friend of one of my sisters whom was a White House photographer, and being a photographer, she recognized me, despite the fact that I was darkly tanned.  Any resort gets so many tourists, that you tend to deal with the people, one sees on a regular basis as opposed to the constant visitors.  It is much like that on Greenwich Avenue.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/22/11 Friday 12:40 A.M.  When I returned to Nantucket in the summer of 1976 after the Tall Ships in New York Harbor, I had my 1966 blue Chevrolet Biscayne four door sedan with my vintage Schwinn Bicycle in the trunk and all of my good clothes, so I was more upscale than the summer before.  I stayed at the Pollard's guest house near the White Elephant, and I parked my Schwinn Bicycle at the White Elephant, so it looked like I was staying there.  However, after about a week I ran low on money, so I camped out in the car for another week.  I finally left the island, and I think I returned to Greenwich.  Later on around the third week of September 1976, I drove down to Florida on my own for the first time, and ended up homeless sleeping in my car in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when my unemployment checks did not come through for six months.  Around mid April 1977, I returned back to Nantucket with the same old blue Chevrolet after a miserable winter in Florida.  I gave the car to the Nantucket thrift shop, and most of my good clothes.  I had stored the Schwinn bicycle in a barn in Norwich, Vermont with my other belongings including my Rolex watch that disappeared I think from there.  I left the island for the Seabrook demonstration hitch hiking, and I also left it another time to go Stowe, Vermont to clean up the bar Sister Kates owned by Nantucket employers.  Thus I was out on Nantucket working in restaurants that summer until about Thanksgiving, when I left Nantucket with John Cooper, and I picked up my stuff in Norwich, Vermont with a U-Haul trailer, and I stored it at a family house in the Philadelphia area.  I departed with the U-Haul truck and John Cooper around New London, Connecticut with John going back to Nantucket, and I hitchhiked back down to Florida for another miserable winter starving.  I returned to Nantucket around mid May 1978 with John Bolton, and I went back to work in restaurants and house painting.  In October 1978, I left Nantucket with John Bolton in a $150 yellow Subaru station wagon that I had put a new clutch in, and we drove out to California and back down to Florida.  In the spring of 1979, we returned back to Nantucket, and we did some carpentry for a couple of weeks, and then left the island.  I think we did drive up to Cape Cod later that summer.  As I recall I did not return back to Nantucket on my own until Easter of 1983, when I worked out there until the first week of December 1983, before returning back to Greenwich with side trips to Florida and Canada.  I returned once back to Nantucket for a weekend stay with Richard Van Marter around July 1987.  Thus I have not been back to Nantucket ever sense, but it seems rather strange in Manhattan, I kept meeting people from Nantucket.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 11:45 P.M.  Royal Residences Now Owned By Commoners - Forbes.com

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I noticed at the A&P Fresh store that prime rib of beef is on sale for $5.99 a pound ending today, but they might have some packages marked at $5.99 left tomorrow.  The Stop and Shop has rib steak roasts for $5.99 a pound starting tomorrow.  That might be the same, I don't know.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 10:45 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a 21 ounce Maria Callendar frozen lasagna with some grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 8:05 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played an Aces High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I sat out at various locations.  They have three new iron elephant sculptures and a iron turtle sculpture in front of the senior and the arts center.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I remembered there use to be a French restaurant in Manhattan called the Rothschild Giraffe.  The Apple computer store is still closed because of flood damage.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store to shoot the breeze with the staff.  I stopped by CVS again, and I bought one 2.5 ounce Gold Emblem garlic powder for .88, two 3.3 ounce Gold Emblem ground black pepper for .88 each, and three 1 ounce Gold Emblem Italian seasoning for .88 each for $5.28.  I said hello to another regular Dutch person on Greenwich Avenue.  I told him that Guy Rothschild's second wife and widow is a Dutch catholic, so she might have inherited some money.  My father and his third wife once gave a life size solid gold statue to the www.vatican.va , when they earned a bit of money building an oil refinery.  I guess that was because his third wife was catholic.  I used the bathroom at CVS, when I was there a second time.  After my walk, I sat out for a while.  The tulips are out at the Greenwich Post Office plaza, and they are pinkish.  I next for a change of pace, I went by the A&P Fresh.  While there I chatted with a few neighbors.  They have a first rate store with a lot of deluxe items.  They no longer carry the America's Choice fish sticks and fish cakes though.  I bought a head of broccoli for $1.67, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, and fresh Dole bananas for .79 a pound for $1.15 for $5.81 total.  While I exiting the store, I noticed they have lots of pots of red tulips for three pots of six tulips for $10 or $3.33 each pot.  I bought one of the few remaining pots of yellow tulips with three partially opened and three about to open bulbs for $3.33 and .20 tax for $3.53 total.  They don't sell quahogs at the A&P Fresh.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I have a survey to do for the Greenwich Department of Social Services.  I chatted with the building custodian.  I put away my purchases.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 3:00 P.M.  I will now go downtown to see if the Indians are giving away any wooden nickels.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 2:50 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 2:05 P.M.  Aladdin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 1:35 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

A couple of the www.ford.com boys went to Taft, but we do not mention them very much, since they are a private family that nobody knows too much about.

Stillman Rockefeller also went to Taft, and they are a private family in Greenwich that raises honey bees.

Another German engineer Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 12:45 P.M.  Coal gas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coal gasification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 12:30 P.M.  Ferdinand Porsche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Joseph I of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 12:15 P.M.  Information on starving Greeks who went to Taft Victoria von Gontard to Wed - NYTimes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 12:05 P.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

This coming Sunday Easter Sunday is also Easter Sunday in the Greek Orthodox calendar.  In the Greek Orthodox church, one is suppose to fast and not eat any food the week before Easter Sunday, so at this point the Greeks are probably pretty hungry.  Right at the stroke of midnight on Easter Sunday, they start to party and feast.  I noticed if anyone has any money the Stop and Shop has Australian legs of lamb and boneless butterfly legs of lamb.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 11:40 A.M.  Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of rulers of Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

House of Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 11:20 A.M.  I chatted with a friend who has the flu. 

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Well there is not much going on in Greenwich, Connecticut, except old ladies grocery shopping and fat old men trying to lose weight.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 9:40 A.M.  Of course the Rothschild family financed Cecil Rhodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to start The De Beers Group , and they also have their own security group called De Beers Security.  They are profitable enough, they could even hire another country such as Russia for better security.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 9:10 A.M.  Rothschild.com - Welcome to Rothschild

Since my branch of the Scott family has been in America for 400 years give or take, more than likely we have some financial partners.  I do know my father Louis Dale Scott's first wife was the wealthiest woman in Chicago, Illinois, when he married her in the 1940s.  Her family owned the Household Finance Company.  Today HFC is part of the HSBC . My mother use to have a house next door to the chairman of HSBC who was John Bond (banker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  My family also has done business with Northern Trust - Personal and Institutional Financial Services .  I also have a relative working for BNY Mellon | Asset Management and Securities Servicing .  Although I worked as a bank teller at the First Midwest Bank - Lake Forest, IL - Bank in Lake Forest, Illinois for two years while at www.lfc.edu , I lost interest in banking when I went to Europe and came back to the New York City area.  Having been a photographer at www.polaroid.com , I was interested in the arts, and I spent about 10 years walking around the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org when in Manhattan, before I moved out of Manhattan in February 1982.  The museum was never very busy then, but I would enjoy taking cigarette breaks at the englehard.com Court Yard at the museum.  My father before he joined Polaroid was offered the job as President of Englehard, but instead he joined Polaroid.  I know James Paul Warburg had a falling out with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s when he was under secretary of the treasury, when he wanted to let the price of gold not be controlled.  However, until about 1972, the price of gold was fixed at $32 an ounce, and nobody was interested in owning any of it.  How times have changed.  In my Gold network, I also know somebody from South Africa that lives here in Greenwich, and he is an expert on precious metals.  He advised me about five years ago not to own gold, but to invest in Platinum Mining stocks.  Alas nobody ever listens to my financial wisdom, because I smoke cigarettes.  Back in 1982, when my roommate in Manhattan was working for Cyrus Vance, she had a daughter named Lisa who went to work for China Airlines, and the name of the first Apple computer was called a Lisa.  I do know Queen Nord of Jordan's first name also happens to be Lisa, so possibly they got various Lisas mixed up with Mona Lisa in the fine art world Site officiel du musée du Louvre.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 8:35 A.M.  Flooding causes closure of Greenwich Apple Store - GreenwichTime

Baron Guy de Rothschild  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 8:15 A.M.  I went back to bed until 8:15 A.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/21/11 Thursday 3:20 A.M.  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 6:05 P.M.  I ate the last of the cold eye round of beef in the same dinner that I have eating recently, but without the vegetables and green tea.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Sunny and windy tomorrow and 55 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 5:05 P.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

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Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 4:40 P.M.  Yes, Nantucket is full of Russians who sneak on and off the island via Russian submarines unobserved by the U.S.A. military.  The Russians like monitoring the NORAD early warning system microwave towers out there.

The secret recipe for Nantucket Portuguese bread is that it is the same as French bread, and just the loaf is shaped differently.

My neighbor picked up the FedEx package.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 4:05 P.M.  Picking up Quahogs with one's toes at low tide is sort like picking up golf balls in a pond, if you are use to that.  You have to feel around for them with ones toes.   There are also suppose to be a lot of lobsters in the cove on the north side of Madeket.  However, the longer one stays out on Nantucket, one finds out that all of one's so called rich friends can not stand each other.  Of course the locals thought I was Tommy Tucker of Tucker Electronics Test and Measurement Instruments , since I looked like him back then, and Tommy's grandmother had a $85 million farm on Nantucket, where they thought I was living.  Tommy was in the class behind me at Taft, and his family lived in Bedford, New York, where all of the rich people seem to hide out and live.  Maybe Tommy was at Tucker's Town, Bermuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  I did notice that there was a new grave in the cemetery for a Michael Scott across the street from the Maria Mitchell observatory.  Jimmy Eldert who was use to seeing me dressed up in a three piece suit, so he was not too pleased to see me roughing it.  I do know when he worked at India House on India Street a lot of their expensive wine was disappearing.  When Fred Von Mierers showed up around August in 1975, he had me stay at the DeMendle House on Main Street that he was renting for $8,000 a week, and he took me out to dinner at the Opera House, so at least he recognized me, when he first arrived back on the island.  Since Fred was from Massachusetts, he knew a lot of people out there.  Alas he went ballistic, when I misplaced some of his luggage, and I had to leave the island quickly not to return until the following summer after having been in Greenville, South Carolina near www.biltmore.com .  I also had started smoking cigarettes again.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 3:35 P.M.  How does one find Quahogs for Quahog chowder in Nantucket.  It is quite complicated.  First one has to give up smoking cigarettes in Greenwich, Connecticut in April and be a neighbor of the Rockefellers and Bushs.  Then one has to camp out at Conyers Farm for three months swimming in the lake out there, until one becomes a good swimmer.   Once one becomes a good enough swimmer to swim the whole length of the lake in about July, one returns back to one's comfortable Greenwich house and bakes six loaves of rye bread for food to travel with, and then one can hitchhike up to Cape Cod.  However, one has to be given a ride by a Coast Guard helicopter pilot who lives in a trailer up around Borne.  Then one hitchhikes to Woods Hole, and the local episcopal priest sends you to stay at the Poor House run by the Episcopal Church in Borne on the harbor, where they have lots of government surplus food.  Then after the Fourth of July, one has to sneak on to the Martha's Vineyard Ferry from Woods Hole.  Then one hitchhikes out to Edgartown, and Phil Silvers and his wife give you a lift.  Then one starts walking around the island and on the south shore road, you camp out in the bushes.  Then one spend a night at the Martha's Vineyard youth hostile, because it is raining.  Then one sneaks a ride on the Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket ferry.  Once in Nantucket, one has to try hitchhiking.  If one is lucky, one gets a ride with Tony Ferrell who lives out by the sewer beds at Surfside.  He will tell you about a bunch of cousins who live on abandoned property on Fairgrounds Road just north of where the new Nantucket Police station is and south of the pine forest where Camp Richard, the boy scout camp is.  Then once one gets settled in on the camp site with a hand pump well for water on an unfinished house foundation, one has to meet a few local hippies who know the island.  Once you meet them you have to walk out to the cove in Madeket on the north side of the island about 10 miles where Madeket Millie lives.  In that cove at low tide, if one is tall about six feet and use to cold water, one can use one's toes to pick up quahogs.  One can get about a 50 pound burlap potato sack bag full in about an hour.  After one has enough quahogs, you have to carry them back into downtown Nantucket about seven miles, and you can sell them to Charlie Sayle on Strait wharf, but the catch is the local hippies in Nantucket take all of the money, and you are left starving for the rest of the day watching Charlie try to sell frozen Quahog chowder.  Then you can walk around hungry, until about midnight when some of the girls in the Nantucket bakery on Orange Street working there give you free pastries, and you can work all night in the Nantucket bakery making Portuguese bread for the rich people.  Over the years, one can work one's way up to paying jobs such as dishwasher pot scrubbers and prep work and cleaning in one of the many restaurants.  However, once the season is over about December, you are broke, because everything is 25% more on the island, and you have to leave the island with little of no money to go where ever one wants to go for the winter.  Thus Nantucket is not a very profitable job opportunity for the average traveler.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 2:45 P.M.  Paragon Software Group Free three license backup until April 22, 2011  .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 2:25 P.M.  I ordered the Logitech C120 Webcam with Headset Open Box for $12.99 with discount coupon of "MLC210436042060NL1" for $5.99 total with free shipping.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 2:15 P.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I sat out for a while.  The buds are just beginning to come out on the trees.  That means more pollen for people with allergies.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 1:05 P.M.  After spending $3,000 to $5,000 and thousands of hours restoring the 1952 Mercedes Benz 300b, as I recall, I sold it in the summer of 1972 for around $1,250, to a pharmacist in Watertown, Massachusetts.  It apparently was not worth that much, four door sedans were very common, and in restoring it, I had cherry Naugahyde upholstery put in it for $400 at Adolph's auto tops in Wellesley, Massachusetts.  Leather would have been twice as much.  I was told that leather would crack in the cold winters.  When I was in Greece in the spring of 1972 with George Cary, all of the taxi cabs in Greece were like my old Mercedes.  The second Mercedes I owned for $450 while owning the other one was a 1961 Mercedes Benz 300C that came from the Royal Palace in Greece.  It burned oil, so I sold it after owning it a short time.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 12:55 P.M.  In the summer of 1969, when I first made it out to Nantucket, I was having a beer at the Salty Dog bar on main street chatting with another beach bum who was equally dirty as myself.  After chatting with him for a while, I determined it was my roommate from my freshman year at www.lfc.edu Guy Erdman who was one of the original half owners of 1951 Mercedes Benz 300B http://mikelouisscott.com/mb1951.jpg .  At the end of the freshman year, I bought out his $150 share after he had put a dent in the passenger side rear fender.  Guy and myself and a couple of other friends Bill Stroh and Walter Terry from the college had worked on the Korhummle? Horse Farm in west Lake Forest, Illinois shoveling horse manure that spring.  I broke the windshield on the Mercedes, when I drove into a horse barricade while working on the farm.  The Korhummles? gave me $50 to replace the broken windshield on the 1951 Mercedes 300B.  Guy was from Princeton, New Jersey, and his family later bought a house next to the dump on Martha's Vineyard.  He had three younger brothers who use to fly model airplanes inside their rather large house.  He was one of Jeff Hoguet's roommates at the Taft School, since Jeff was also from Princeton, New Jersey.  The bar the Salty Dog on Main Street in Nantucket later became the ice cream parlor which was quite busy, but everyone was always complaining that there was no bathroom, so they built a public bathroom next to the Information Center in downtown Nantucket.

I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 12:25 P.M.  Generally during a recession beer companies and fast food restaurants are more profitable.

Glass beer mugs for frozen frosted beer mugs are available here glass beer mugs wholesale - Bing Shopping .  I think this Libbey Glass Sintra 18 5/8 oz Beer Mug 12pc NIB - Ad#: 993392 - Addoway or ZigZig Promotions: 20 Oz. Glass Beer Mug or IDBarn: 20 Oz. Glass Beer Mug for frosted beer mugs.  After all younger people have more disposable income, so in a recession, they might have money to spend.

In Boston when I lived there, the ice cream parlors of which there were many used to serve The Lime Rickey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 12:05 P.M.  www.fedex.com left me a package for a neighbor across the hall.  I chatted with a relative.

Possibly the rich man in this picture is Baron Rothschild http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-picture-of-visitors-at-courchevel-1550-albertville-france-winter-olympics-1992.jpg .  The picture was taken with a $10 Japanese camera from Odd Job in Port Chester, New York.

If one looks at the New Hampshire Liquor store inventory Mouton Cadet White Bordeaux is $8.99 a bottle http://ice.liquor.nh.gov/public/default.asp?Category=inquiries&Service=brandinfopost&req=8124 , so it is the same price at www.varmax.com and http://www.varmax.com/w37873504w , so there is no point driving to New Hampshire to get cheaper wine.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 11:25 A.M.  I made my bed.  A lot of the colleges down south get out of session for the summer around the middle of April, so the students come up north to get the first jobs available in Nantucket before the New England schools get out in Mid June.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 10:35 A.M.  I woke up at 8:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I cleaned the kitchen sink drain with the toilet plunger.

The New York Auto Show is on New York International Auto Show .

I remember back in Nantucket www.nantucket.net where a lot of people walk and there are no fast food restaurants, one of the more profitable local businesses was the Steamship Wharf clam shack called the Sea Shanty.  They were opened all day serving the tourists, and they would stay open until 2 A.M. serving the late night pub crowd after the pubs closed at 1 A.M..  They would serve fried clams, fried scallops, fried shrimp, fried fish cakes, and fried French fry potatoes and fried onions rings with your choice of sodas.  In Boston, they call sodas, tonic.  Also on Steamboat Wharf, there was Henry's Sandwich shop which like an early version of the Subway sandwich franchise.  On Strait Wharf, they used to sell frozen Charlie Sayles quahog chowder which is basically clam chowder.  A quahog is a large clam.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 2:10 A.M.  Very few people tried leaving college at www.lfc.edu , because about the only other job alternative was the military in Viet Nam which did not look too glamorous.  In the winter of 1972, I did get to wander around a lot of security in Europe with lots of machine guns though until June 1972.  The Italian police, the French police, the Spanish police, the Greek police, and the Turkish military all seemed to be well armed with plenty of machine guns, so despite the fact that the wine was cheap and the cigarettes were expensive, one tended to stay on one's guard.  I guess with the much larger population in Europe, the security people have to be much more stricter to keep the general population from getting out of control.

I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Isolated thunderstorms today and 61 to 44 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 1:45 A.M.  The safest house I probably lived in was probably, when I rented the Farm http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-the-farm-illinois-1970.jpg from September 1970 to December 1971 in Knollwood, Illinois at 1014 Rockland Road while I attended www.lfc.edu.  Not that it was really that safe, but it was way out there in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest of America with Fort Sheridan and Great Lakes Naval Station nearby.   Thus living in the heartland of America with family from the Midwest, I enjoyed a sense of security that one does not get living around a lot of foreign travelers on the coasts of America.  It was so quiet out there at night, all one could hear was the box cars coupling and uncoupling nearby a couple of miles away at the Chicago and Milwaukee rail yards.  We use to like going to the Oasis rest area on the nearby turnpike to watch the travelers from Chicago going to Milwaukee.  They had an interesting railroad salvage store in Great Lakes, Illinois.  They had a Salvation Army store with good furniture in Waukegan, Illinois, and they delivered for free.  A draught beer in a 10 ounce class was 15 cents and in a frosted 16 ounce stein 35 cents and a mixed drink was 50 cents with an ounce of alcohol and your favorite mixer.  Gasoline was 19 cents a gallon for premium.  Fuel oil was 12 cents a gallon.  Cigarettes were 35 cents a package.  I earned about $200 a week while going to www.lfc.edu working various jobs around Lake Forest, Illinois.  It cost $250 a month to rent the Farm with 40 acres from a lawyer named Mr. Michaels in Lake Bluff, Illinois.  It had oil heat and four bedrooms and a full basement.  I split the rent and expenses with three or four other roommates.  As you can tell from the car in the driveway, one my roommates with the green MG with Connecticut plates on it was David Field from Fairfield, Connecticut, and I had quite a few classmates from Greenwich and this area.  Alas from what I can tell in hind sight the rich Midwestern people might have been taking advantage of us with all of the work that we were doing, since we were paying a lot of money to attend college where our grades and academic performance suffered because of all of the work they had us doing.  One of the locals from Lake Forest, Illinois was Arthur Wood Junior, and he once told me while he attended www.harvard.edu , he worked all night in a Sears Warehouse in Boston, while his father was the president of www.sears.com .  I guess a lot of the Midwest students take jobs on the East Coast while they attend college here.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.  When my family moved back to Greenwich, Connecticut from Weston, Massachusetts in June 1973, we lived on Cornelia Drive until we sold the house either in 1977 or 1978.  We paid $125,000 for it, and I think we sold it for the same amount.  It was an old barn that had been converted by an architect into a modern house.  It had oil heat and no basement and no air conditioning and four bedrooms.  It was on two acres with a smaller auxiliary guest house without plumbing that had propane gas heat.  There was a small dilapidated bomb shelter in the back yard that was full of mold and moisture.  That is where I found the Polynesian Tiki with Day Glow Orange paint on it that somehow disappeared during our stay at the house.  I also used a relative's apartment at Putnam Green during the summer of 1979.  When I returned to Greenwich in December 1983 from Nantucket, I lived in a small rented attic bedroom at 100 Milbank Avenue until April 1984.  It had a shared bathroom and a shared refrigerator.  I then lived on Greenwich Avenue in a second floor apartment bedroom on the northwest corner of Grigg Street and Greenwich Avenue in a shared apartment.  In June 1984, I moved to 700 Steamboat Road to a studio apartment on the waterfront with bathroom and half size refrigerator and no kitchen, so I ate dinner every day at the Greenwich Hospital which was the cheapest place in town to eat.  I moved from there in December 1988 to my current Greenwich Housing Authority residence at 71 Vinci Drive which is a 400 square foot apartment with small kitchenette, small bathroom, small bedroom and modest size living room with all of my computer equipment.  One has more time for computers and the internet, when living in a simpler environment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/11 Wednesday 12:20 A.M.  Microsoft PowerPoint SlideFest

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BBC News - Internet-based attacks on critical systems rise  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 11:55 P.M.  In the first house on Baldwin Farms North, we were neighbors of the Weicker family in Greenwich, when Lowell Weicker was First Selectman of Greenwich, so we use to know a lot of people in Greenwich, until I started to explore nearby New York State and elsewhere.  The first house on Baldwin Farms North also had a Widow's Walk, so I guess I was bound for poverty in www.nantucket.net .  However, our first house in Connecticut in 1962 was actually an apartment in Stamford, Connecticut that we lived in for a couple of months, until our new house in Stamford, Connecticut was completed on Rocky Rapids Road for a cost of $50,000.  It had five bedrooms and a full basement and oil heat and was on a dirty pond.  Since most my siblings' friends were in Greenwich, since we went to private schools in Greenwich, we moved to Greenwich in 1963.  The house in Stamford did not have the same floor plan as the other four houses.  All of the houses did have basements, and I quickly learned on hot nights in the summer the basement was the coolest place, so we would frequently play down in the basements in the cooler air.

When we were building the house on Baldwin Farms South, we lived for a while on Alpine Road in Greenwich in a rented house.  When we were building the house on Bittersweet Lane in New Canaan, Connecticut we lived at the Patterson Farm on Smith Ridge Road which we rented.  When we first moved to the Boston area in 1968, we rented an apartment for a couple of months in Waltham, Massachusetts, and then we rented a house next to the Dana Hall girls school on Vincent Road in Wellesley, Massachusetts until the house in Weston was finished.  The house next to Dana Hall was a Swiss Chalet.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 11:15 P.M.  I ate the same cold eye round dinner that I have been eating recently.

The person that I chatted with today from Kramer Lane Construction was Mike D. Radaric, the General Manager. One can contact him at mailto:mike@kramerlane.com or by cell phone at 1-203-984-4471 or land line at 1-203-344-9401 or by fax at 1-203-621-3020 and by mail at 13 Arcadia Road, Suite 17, Old Greenwich, Connecticut 06870.  I particularly like this house Kramer Lane Construction Pilot Rock , since it is on the waterfront in Riverside, and it looks to be overlooking Tod's Point possibly. Since waterfront houses in Greenwich, Connecticut are very expensive, and two acres in Belle Haven can cost $18 million without the house, and since the waterfront property in Riverside is just as expensive, depending on the amount of acreage with the house, I would say it would cost from $18 to $25 million or more.

Of course, it one only needed it for a summer house, one could always rough it with the Bushs in Kennebunkport, Maine for $2,650,000 Search Results Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC Kennebunkport, Maine waterfront , and have money left over a lobster dinner or two.  Generally people whom have very expensive homes have multiple homes, so they do not put all of their money in one location, unless they plan to be somewhere for a long time.  The average corporate person moves every three years, so probably only very senior stockholders can afford very expensive homes.  Most Old Guard investors are already "Land Poor", and generally do not need to buy more real estate.  Of course the real estate taxes on such a house on the waterfront in Riverside, Connecticut could be from a quarter million to a half million dollars a year. 

Not that I plan on moving, but one use to be able to buy a house in Indiana for $10,000.  The Scott family's first house in Greenwich, Connecticut back in 1963 was $75,000 for two acres at Baldwin Farms North with a 4,500 square foot two story house with five bedrooms and half basement with central air conditioning and oil heat.  Full basements in Connecticut cost a lot of more, and the Scott family house on Baldwin Farms South in 1968 was $85,000 for two acres with basically the same house and a full basement and finished bedroom over the garbage making it six bedrooms and no central air conditioning and oil heat.  In 1966, we also built the same slightly modified floor plan in New Canaan, Connecticut on Bittersweet Lane for $85,000 with seven bedrooms and full basement and no central air conditioning and oil heat.  We also built the same floor plan in Weston, Massachusetts on Beech Road in 1969 for $125,000 with an outdoor heated swimming pool and six bedrooms with the finished large bedroom over the garage with full basement and no central air conditioning and gas heat and lots of Japanese Bonsi plants around the swimming pool.  We built the same floor plan, because at Chemstrand which was part of Monsanto they made Acrilan which was used to make very expensive area rugs which fit into all of the similar floor plan houses my family once had.

Basically pictures of the same four houses can be seen in the three pictures from the Weston, Massachusetts house in 1969.

http://mikelouisscott.com/weston-1969/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/weston-1969/   CIO   

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 8:40 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 8:05 P.M.  I made 137 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 6:10 P.M.  I woke up at 4:30 P.M., when I had a no person telephone call.  I briefly watched some television.  I picked up the mail.  I got a chain letter from Eureka, California, which I have not had time to read.  I drank my second cup of coffee today with splenda and milk.  I made my bed.  I will now make some more cigarettes.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 3:10 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 2:35 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

I bought Microsoft XSA-00001 Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 - OEM for $24.99 and $7.59 ground shipping for $32.58 total.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/19/11 Tuesday 1:25 P.M.  I woke up during the night, and I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread.  I finally woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I was told by a neighbor that one is not suppose to plants tomatoes around here until the end of May.  I then went by the Chase Bank at 19 West Putnam Avenue, and I put my $25 survey check in the bank.   Basically when one lives around high ranking United States Government employees, one never gets any real work done, because one has so many people investigating one's business activities, everything comes to a complete stand still.  I went to my 11 P.M. appointment early.  I read some magazines while waiting.  I then chatted with Kramer Lane Construction while leaving the Greenwich Town Hall.  They are selling tickets to a Town of Greenwich Party in the lobby of the Greenwich Town Hall.  I then returned back home.  The Town of Greenwich Fire Marshals were inspecting this building.

The breakup: Weicker to leave the board of WWE - GreenwichTime  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 10:05 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.

Showers tomorrow and 51 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

I have an 11 A.M. appointment tomorrow.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 7:30 P.M.  Cheap used Dell Optiplex computers for auction here, but $20 shipping Deal Train Mania items - Get great deals on Auctions, Notebooks items on eBay Stores!  CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 7:15 P.M.  France to ditch NATO, embrace Russia if National Front comes to power | World | RIA Novosti  CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 7:10 P.M.  Microsoft Opens Office 365 Beta to All | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

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Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 5:05 P.M.  I finished installing and configuring Ubuntu 10.10 on the second partition on the Dell Dimension 4600i computer.  It will not however support my printer network, so I can not print from it.  I went outside, and there is some furniture and televisions thrown away from a former neighbor's apartment.  I picked up the mail.  I got another $25 survey check.

I will now make and eat the same cold eye round of beef dinner that I have been eating recently.  In Greenwich in the old days, the children were fed at 5 P.M., and the parents would eat later.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 3:40 P.M.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  There is more aviation traffic recently, so I guess with the warmer weather tourists are returning back up north to plant tomatoes.  I think, one is suppose to wait until Memorial Day to plant to tomatoes, because we can still have frost in May.

On the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, I installed the Windows updates.  The Logitech USB headset microphone would not work with it for some reason, so I put it on the second IBM Think Centre computer, where it works just fine, and I moved the Radio Shack headset from the second IBM Think Centre computer to the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, where it works just fine.

On the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a 18 gigabyte second partition with a 5 gigabyte swap file third partition.  I am now installing the Ubuntu updates on it.

I am a crumb covered donut.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/18/11 Monday 1:10 P.M.  They way I figure it with all of the unemployed creative writers advertising how rich Greenwich, Connecticut is, they might not be telling the real truth, since there are a lot of poor people in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Actually New Canaan, Connecticut is far richer with very few poor people, but they are not as friendly up there, and it would cost a small fortune in gasoline to drive there to be ignored.  Since Port Chester, New York now has a lot of mega stores like www.costco.com and www.homedepot.com , more smart shoppers in this area are shopping there compared to buying all of the women's items on Greenwich Avenue.  Of course, I think, one pays a half percent higher sales tax in Port Chester, New York. I usually go up to Norwalk, Connecticut for big ticket items, since they have a www.walmart.com and www.pcrichard.com along with many of the other big box stores, but it costs a lot more money to drive there in a lot more traffic.  The truly rich people in this area, probably use their home here as second homes in the summer, and they have their primary homes in Florida and elsewhere where the taxes are lower.  If one thinks rich people do not watch their pocket books, you have to remember, they probably got rich by thrift and frugality and not handing out money to everyone that happens along the way.  I have lived here since 1961, and I have not seen much evidence of anyone giving away anything or money for charity to casual venture seekers.  Thus if you think you will get rich by hanging out with the not so rich and famous, more than likely, one will wear out a lot of shoe leather and use a lot of fuel to come and go from here.  Actually from a business viewpoint, the White Plains, New York is a much more professional business library, since they have a larger inventory of government documents as does the SUNY Purchase library.  I finished restoring the Paragon XP Professional Backup on the Dell Dimension 4600i computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Monday 12:35 P.M.  On the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, I took out the Seagate 40 GB IDE hard drive, and I put in the refurbished Western Digital 80 GB IDE hard drive.  I am now restoring the Paragon Backup of the XP Professional Configuration.  I set it up for a 55 GB primary XP Partition, and I will used the spare 23 GB free space for a www.ubuntu.com 10.10 installation.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Monday 11:00 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a couple of neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Monday 10:05 A.M.  LibriVox Free Audio Books .  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Monday 10:00 A.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until noon.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a crumb covered donut.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  www.foxnews.com says www.trump.com is leading the republicans in the early polling at 25% versus everyone else at 15%.  In an interview www.trump.com said that gasoline might be going to $7 to $8 a gallon.  Back a few years ago, when gasoline was $5 a gallon, the MINI of Fairfield County | Stamford MINI | Greenwich MINI | Darien & Norwalk was a very popular car.  I have noticed a lot more younger people riding bicycles downtown recently.  I bet a Toyota Prius is hard to come by Toyota CT | Greenwich CT Toyota Dealer | Cos Cob, Connecticut, 06807, serving Stamford CT and www.toyota.com and 10 cars rate highest on miles per gallon of gas .  Of course some people like myself do not drive that much, since they have seen everything, so the price of gasoline does not really matter too much greenwich Gas Prices - Find the Lowest Gas Prices in greenwich, Connecticut.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Sunday 11:45 P.M.  If you missed it two weeks ago Rothschilds & Rockefellers – Trillionaires Of The World .  As a Western Hemisphere Economist, I have no specific information that it is true.  However, I have traveled around Europe for about nine months all together, and I have seen no evidence that it might be true in my travels.  They seem to live more poorly and more simply in Europe than we do here, thus it might be somebody's way of misinforming people to try to get them to go to Europe to work for lower wages at a higher cost of living.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Afternoon showers on Monday and 58 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Sunday 11:25 P.M.  Canada Act (Canada-United Kingdom [1982]) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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Note: <888> 04/17/11 Sunday 10:25 P.M.  Prison Planet.com » A Golden Tipping Point: University of Texas Takes Delivery Of $1 Billion In Physical Gold Comments Feed  CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Sunday 10:20 P.M.  I watched part of an Austrian ballet movie "They Mysterious House of Dr. C." on the www.tcm.com movie channel.  A lot of people think Austria is a poor Eastern European Country, but at one time they used to be part of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, so they were very advanced in the arts, when they were not making war against whomever they fought against.  They are famous for coffee shops and pastries, and I think you can still smoke in their coffee shops.  Vienna is also famous for producing some of the best surgeons in the world in the field of medicine.  Alas, I don't know German, and I have never been to Vienna.  I think Austria might secretly have money though, since in the mountains, they use to wear Geiger Jackets, and Geiger Counters are used for finding uranium, so possibly Austria has secret uranium mines in the Alps.  They are also known for the White Arabian Horses they train to perform.  Since they are a Land Locked country, they do not have too much of a naval presence, but I recall in the movie "The Sound of Music", Baron Von Trapp was an officer in the Austrian Navy, so maybe they have some lakes with naval ships.  I used to see a few people around here in the winter in traditional Austrian Dress, and I even once had a traditional Austrian Dress Suit that I bought for $17.50 at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, but I only wore a couple of times, before I outgrew it, and I donated it to Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I know a few people with Austrian connections here in America, but alas they tend to be very private, and I have not heard from them in years.  I guess they are so busy with finance, they have lost track of the larger picture.  The Von Trapp family have a guest lodge in Stowe, Vermont, so possibly there are other Austrian families up there in Vermont.  Alas having lived in a warmer climate here in Greenwich, Connecticut at the edge of the tropics, I tend to see a larger world group of people on the four seasons basis.  Recently with the higher prices of fuel, I do not get out as much, but as I recall in Innsbruck, Austria, although most everyone has cars, they pretty much park them and walk around downtown on the Maria Teresa Strauss which is a pedestrian mall.  I wanted to make Greenwich Avenue into the a Pedestrian Mall and have it covered with a wrought iron canopy like they do in the Tivoli Gardens in Denmark, but alas the older people in town prefer to be able to use their cars for shopping.  I chatted with a relative.  Nobody calls me up too much anymore, since I guess with the internet, they are able to chat with a larger group of people around the world.  When I was a student in Europe back in the winter of 1972, I collected an address book with about 200 names, but over they years, I never heard from anyone.  Back in the summer of 1980, when Lord Mountbatten was killed, I thought some terrorists might be stalking some of my European friends, so I threw away the small address book with all of my friends names, addresses, and telephone numbers in a dumpster at the University of California at Santa Cruz, California, thus I have lost track of all of those people I met between 1968 and 1980.  I used travel around the world telling people, they should try moving to Greenwich, Connecticut, but when I finally got back to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, nobody I ever met could afford to live here, or possibly they had all gone back home.  It is a big world out there, so possibly my old friends' children and grandchildren are now traveling around here on ventures out from New York City and elsewhere.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/17/11 Sunday 8:55 P.M.  I ate the same cold eye round dinner as yesterday.  Last night, I chatted with a relative before going to bed, and I just chatted with a relative just now.  I also mailed the two signed forms for the Greenwich Housing Authority at the Central Greenwich Post Office today.  CIO

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Note: <888> 04/17/11 Sunday 6:10 P.M.  I woke up during the night, and I ate a crumb covered donut.  I finally woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until noon.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a crumb covered donut.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I went by CVS.  I bought a 200 package box of Splenda sweetener for $6.99 and four buy one get one free of 60 capsule MSM 1000 mg. for $7.79 for two less a $3 off CVS internet coupon for $19.57 total.  I then stood out by my Audi for a while.  I then went back by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of CVS B-150 complex 50 capsules for $12.49 total for both.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  The regular tulips are beginning to open up elsewhere on Greenwich Avenue, so later in the week, they should be in bloom by Easter.  I stopped by Starbucks, but the bathroom was busy.  On my way up Greenwich Avenue, I used the bathroom at CVS.  I sat out at the top of Greenwich Avenue for a while.  After my walk, I sat out at the Alliance Francais park at the Greenwich Common.  Downtown Greenwich was quite busy today, which I had not seen in a long time.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of fresh Kaiser rolls for $2.69, a 5 ounce bottle of Gold's hot horse radish for $1.50, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance Lite Spread for $2.49, a three liter can of Star Extra Virgin Olive oil from Tunisia for $13.99, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $1.15 for $21.82 total.  I then went by Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $7.01 for 1.537 gallons of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $4.559 a gallon for 18.9 miles driving since Saturday April 9, 2011 at odometer reading of 68466 miles for 12.297 miles per gallon driving in mostly local traffic.  I then went back by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription that I had forgotten to pick up earlier.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/16/11:

Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 7:55 P.M.  I ate a 15 ounce can of Chef Boyardee Beefaroni with a crumb covered donut and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then go to bed.

Tomorrow Palm Sunday will be partly cloudy and 59 to 43 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 6:35 P.M.  Tell Congress: End the unaffordable war in Afghanistan

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Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 5:25 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.

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I have web cams on all of my computers.  I even have a spare new unopened Webcam C600 that I bought new on sale from Staples six months ago for about $25.  I have an older spare Creative web cam also and an older Intel USB web cam, so I do not really need to order another web cam, since I never ever use them.  The Chinese web cams are even cheaper 32.0 Mega Pixel 6 LED USB PC Laptop Video Webcam+Mic | eBay for $6.88 with free shipping, I have never used them too much, but they seem good enough.  The wheel on the Chinese web cam cable darkens and lightens the LCD lights.  The Logitech webcams come with useful downloadable software.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 3:00 P.M.  The older Logitech Communicate web cams Logitech Communicate Webcam | eBay are suppose to be better than the cheaper Microsoft web cams below.  I have several of them, and they are quite good.  The USA web cams I mentioned show a picture of the user further away, where as the cheaper Chinese web cams which are higher resolution show a closer picture of people.  Thus if one wants some surroundings in ones web cam view, the U.S.A. ones show more.  Of course it depends on the amount of light available too.

I ate three 3/8th inch thick slices of cold eye round of beef with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and my usual steamed rice and vegetable mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 2:05 P.M.  I put away the laundry.

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Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 12:05 P.M.  Obama Social Security claim vanishes from O'Reilly podcast  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 11:50 A.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/16/11 Saturday 11:25 A.M.  After the last note, I ran the Comodo System Cleaner on the primary work computer, and it corrupted Internet Explorer 9.0, so it would not work.  I then uninstalled Internet Explorer 9.0, and I am now running Internet Explorer 8.0.  I went to bed about 10 P.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 9:30 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I ate two crumb covered donuts.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the wash cycles.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 9:05 P.M.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will eat a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread before going to bed.  Afternoon showers tomorrow and 48 to 47 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 6:55 P.M.  Obama Administration Unveils Internet ID Plan - FoxNews.com

World's Oldest Man Dies in U.S. at Age of 114 - FoxNews.com  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 5:45 P.M.  President George W. Bush Launches the 4% Project

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Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 4:15 P.M.  Dinner was delicious.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants.  I signed two forms from the Greenwich Housing Authority that I will mail at the post office the next time I go downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 2:50 P.M.  I called up www.rollingpapers.com at Rolling Papers Booklet or Box - Contact Us at 1-307-664-2220, and they thought they had my order in for the Premier 100 mm light filters, but they only got the King size in.  They called me back, and they are going to send me another brand of 100 mm filter light tubes, and they are going to send me 21 cartons for the same price of 20 cartons.  I can not remember the brand, but the only one that I can find is Zen 100 mm (long) Filter Tubes Lights 250 count 25% Over a Carton for Injecting Rolling Papers .com .

I am cooking half of the 7 pound eye round or 3.5 pounds, and I froze the other half.  I will eat two half inch thick slices with my usual steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil and Smart Balance Spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 1:30 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I moved the Audi to its usual place.  I sat out for a while enjoying the cooler day.  The buds are just beginning to show up on the trees, so it is still early in the spring yet.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/15/11 Friday 1:05 P.M.  I woke up during the night, and I ate a crumb covered donut.  I finally woke up at 6 A.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a crumb covered donut.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I made 95 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 9:45 P.M.  Information & News from TCPalm.com (Stuart, FL) Governors urge response to prescription drug abuse

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy tomorrow and 54 to 38 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 9:05 P.M.  I chatted with a Dutch relative who is an expert on tulips.  I was told by the relative that the tulips with the pointed petals are also called parrot tulips.

I was thinking today that one regular Greenwich Library user was related to Charlemagne and was a member of the Knights of Malta.  It got me to thinking there should be an order of the Knights of Nantucket www.nantucket.net .  Well not much happening downtown in Greenwich as far as I can tell, but with the warmer weather people are now more visible.  I even saw quite a few people from India today.  However, once when I flew into J.F.K. airport in New York City from Tobago during the first week of May in 1971, when I was coming back from Tobago on BWIA, there was six inches of fresh snow on the ground, so we can still get colder weather this time of year.  One generally does not plant one's tomatoes here until after Mother's Day.  We probably are seeing a few Canadians come north from down south, since they are use to cooler weather.  If one is driving up the Atlantic Coast from Florida, one can always stop by St Augustine Florida and Middleton Place, Charleston S.C. and Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site and Old Sturbridge Village .

However, around the second week of May 2011 at Holland Michigan , there is Tulip Time Festival | May 7-14 2011 , and after that some people go further north to Greetings from Mackinac Island, Michigan .  Thus there is a lot to do in the north country, once it warms up a bit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 7:50 P.M.  Biltmore Email Newsletter about tulips

I was told by a relative that the red tulips with the pointed petals are called Rembrandt tulips or French tulips.

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Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 7:25 P.M.  I reheated and ate the chili and rice mixture from last night, which I ate with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.   

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 6:45 P.M.  After the last note, the primary work computer quit working.  When I tried to start it, it would stop at the memory check.  I finally opened up the CPU case, and I reseated the memory, and that seemed to have fixed the problem.  I also push on the hard drive power cables to make sure they were firmly attached. 

I chatted with a relative.

On the Epox computer on the oak dining table, it is difficult to start up, but it does start up and work.  One has to turn on all of the switches on the power control center.  Then one presses the Epox computer CPU button, and nothing happens.  Then one turns off the CPU power control switch, and then one presses the CPU power button, and nothing still happens.  Then one turns on the CPU switch on the power control panel with all of the other power control switches still turned on, and this time when one presses the Epox computer CPU power button, it will turn on.  I can not figure out why it works that way.  I have tried changing the motherboard to power switch cables around, and that did not make a difference.  It was not always like that, but for some reason it is that way now.  I have not used the Epox computer too much over the years and like the Abit computer, they both have older used hard drives salvaged out of the primary work computer and the FIC server.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 4:45 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue to CVS.  I picked up a prescription.  I bought eight 5 ounce cans of Libby's Vienna sausages for 50 cents each for $4 total.  I used the bathroom at CVS.  I then went further downtown.  The tulips are out at veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center.  They are red with pointed petals.  I went by Lexus of Greenwich - Greenwich CT - New & Used Lexus Dealer .  They have a silver RX350 SUV in the window like a relative just bought recently.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS again, and I bought a 120 count bottle of CVS low dose 81 mg. aspirin for $5.89 and a second one for half price for $2.94 for $8.83 total.  I then finished my walk.  I chatted with a local writer during my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library.  I chatted with one of the library staff.  I looked at the used books for sale downstairs in the concession area.  I chatted with someone from California driving a vintage copper color Chevrolet station wagon.  I gave him a calling card.  I then went by the Stop and Shop.  I chatted with someone from Poland about the internet.  I gave him a calling card.  I bought a 5 ounce jar of Gold's hot horseradish for $1.50, a 10 ounce bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.29, and a seven pound whole top round of beef eye round for $2.99 a pound for $20.93 for $25.57 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I put away my groceries.  Tomorrow, I will cook half of the eye round and freeze the other half.  I checked my prescription, and I only got half the number of pills.  I called them up, and they told me to come back downtown to get the other half.  I ran into another Taft School alumnus whom I had not seen in a while, and I chatted with him.  I picked up the other half of my prescription.  I then returned home.  Now that it is warmer, it seems to be busier downtown.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 11:05 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the broken Konica Minolta PagePro 1250w laser printer.  I left it by the dumpster for parts with a note that it is broken beyond repair.  I put the new Town of Greenwich Beach Parking permit on the inside of the lower driver's side windshield of the Audi.  I took out the old sticker.  I will now go downtown for some errands.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 10:00 A.M.  I woke up at 8:30 A.M..  On the primary work computer, I did a Complete PC backup of both partitions from the first hard drive to the third hard drive.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I had another computer magazine telephone call.  For the last year, whenever computer magazines call up which is frequently particularly in the daytime waking me up, I have been canceling them.  Whenever one subscribes to free computer magazines, they keep calling one up to do surveys, so they are not really worth subscribing to, unless one wants to be bothered all of the time.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 3:40 A.M.  I finished the bedroom Abit computer backup to the Seagate external hard drive.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will eat a few day old muffin before going to bed. 

Mostly sunny today and 63 to 43 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 3:15 A.M.  I had to restore the backup on the bedroom Abit computer, because the audio would not work.  I then installed all of the updates.  I then did a backup to the second internal hard drive, and I am now doing a backup to the Seagate external hard drive.  Since I never use the bedroom Abit computer, I can not figure out why the sound malfunctioned, but it did.  Everything is fine on it now, and the audio works just fine with the new speakers.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/14/11 Thursday 1:35 A.M.  Michael Louis Scott Recent Volcano Links April 14, 2011

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Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 11:50 P.M.  I threw out the garbage including a bad bottle La Choy soy sauce.  I picked up the mail.  I installed the new speakers on the bedroom Abit computer.  I am now doing some systems maintenance on it.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.  After the last note, the order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the return of the RMA order for Buy.com - Cyber Acoustics Studio CA-3001rb Multimedia Speaker System for $14.99 with free shipping arrived.  I rested until 9:15 P.M..  I did wake up, and I ate a few day old muffin.  I also chatted with a relative.  I am just about ready to eat chili with rice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 11:35 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer.  I will take a nap for a while.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 10:40 A.M.  One of the more popular restaurants on Greenwich Avenue I have noticed recently is Morello Italian Bistro - Greenwich USA , however for hungry people like myself, a New York strip steak is $32 which is a bit expensive.

I chatted with a relative wishing the relative Happy Birthday.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 10:25 A.M.  I installed all of the Windows Updates on all of the computers in the apartment.  I got a 8 inch by 10 inch photo from the George H.W. Bush library George Bush Presidential Library and Museum of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.  I put it in a Plexiglas frame, and I hung it on the back side of the apartment entrance door above the mirror.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 7:45 A.M.  Tracking is FedEx Tracking on the return of the RMA order for Buy.com - Cyber Acoustics Studio CA-3001rb Multimedia Speaker System for $14.99 with free shipping.

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Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 7:00 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  www.stopandshop.com made a early morning delivery to a neighbor.  I picked up yesterday's mail.  My old Greenwich, Connecticut beach pass has been renewed until 2013.  I got a new Beach Pass Parking permit.  Its number is 11-00088.  I will put it in the Audi window on a dry day.  Alas the fuel to drive all of the way over to Tod's Point is way too expensive for me anymore.  I could try going to the Byram Shore park, which is much smaller without much room to hike around or the Island Beach Ferry, but I think there might be a charge for the Island Beach ferry, and there is no place to go to the bathroom on the Island Beach Ferry for those in need.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/11 Wednesday 5:35 A.M.  Happy Birthday to a relative.  I rested after the last note until noon.  I watched a movie.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched another movie.  I ate a 15 ounce can of CVS spaghetti and meatballs with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread and a glass of watered down punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed about 6:30 P.M..  I woke up at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  Since I have low blood pressure, rainy days tend to make me more tired.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 9:00 A.M.  I read a little bit.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed.

Light rain today and 58 to 44 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 8:00 A.M.  Greenwich Gossip

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Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 7:40 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.  In times of recession, people can make money as Hookers The Rug Hooker's Network .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 6:30 A.M.  I am just about ready to eat a 21 ounce Marie Callender meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 6:10 A.M.  I made 108 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 4:20 A.M.  License Plate Cameras Aid in Police Investigations - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Mitt Romney exploring 2012 presidential run

BBC News - Japan: Nuclear crisis raised to Chernobyl level

BBC News - Europe's future lies under Africa, scientists suggest

BBC News - Nitrogen pollution may reduce average human life by 6 months

BBC News - Winklevoss twins lose Facebook appeal over site idea

BBC News - Prince William and Kate Middleton visit Lancashire  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 3:35 A.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made up a fresh batch of punch.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the shipping boxes and the garbage.  The lights in the parking lot are now working at night at 71 Vinci Drive.  I picked up the mail.  Although, I am about the only one awake in this area right now, there are a billion people awake at this hour in Western Europe, so they are creating situations that the people here will have to deal with once they wake up.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/12/11 Tuesday 1:30 A.M.  After the last note, the order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Konica Minolta PagePro 1250W Cam Shaft, Genuine (B6859) for $6.95 and $9 UPS shipping for $15.95 total arrived.  I was able to install it on the lower left side of the roller bar at the bottom of Konica Minolta PagePro 1250w laser printer.  However, the nylon gear wheel that it fit into on the left side has broken gear teeth, so the laser printer still does not work.  The nylon gear wheel is not replaceable.  I will throw out the laser printer for parts, when I have time.  This all took some time.  It was hot in the apartment, so I opened the living room windows, and I started the fans.  I ate a few day old muffin.  I finally went to bed at 6:30 P.M..  I woke up, and I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread.  I finally woke up at 1 A.M..

BBC News - US Civil War 150th anniversary: How US remains divided  .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 2:30 P.M.  I watched some more television.  I will now go back to bed to sleep for a longer period.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 1:55 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I watched some television.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 12:30 P.M.  I woke up at 10:30 A.M..  I watched some cooking shows on television.  Most of the rest of the daytime television programming seems to be children programming, but we do live in Muppet Land, so maybe somebody around here is making money.

The order with the tracking number of "9101936503012990840790" at www.usps.com for the order for Amazon.com: Premier 100mm Light Cigarette Tubes - 10 Boxes: Everything Else for $32.99 and $7.99 shipping for $40.98 total arrived.

Although the Premier 100mm light cigarette tubes are difficult to find at the moment, the Premier Light King size cigarette tubes are available here Premier Lights Cigarette Tubes | eBay .  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 8:35 A.M.  I ate a crumb covered donut.

Charl Schwartzel emerges on wild Sunday to win the Masters | Photo gallery » TCPalm.com

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 7:55 A.M.  For any New York City lawyers, one can always pay big bucks for Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP or Contact Us | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 7:30 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes a little while ago.  Also in Decatur, Alabama as a youth I also made pot holder out of cloth loops, and one could loop six or eight of them together into a place mat.  We also painted ceramics and fired them in a kiln.  I also had a garden with tomatoes, wax beans, and Swiss chard.  I also kept busy cutting the grass and trimming the cherry laurel hedges.  Of course I also went to elementary school down there studying the history of the American Indians in the southeast.  We once learned when the Spanish explorer Desoto arrived in Alabama, he took one of the Indian chiefs young sons hostage thinking that there were not many Indians around, and when we explored the site of the massacre, there were millions of Indian arrow heads around.  We also road horse back for $5 an hour.  I also went to Lookout Mountain camp for two summers.  I also played golf regularly at the Decatur Country Club.  I also dived for golf balls at the pond on the Decatur Country Club golf course which was profitable.  My father was the plant manager for the Monsanto Chemstrand acrilan synthetic fiber manufacturing facility thus he could use the company jet and company limousine and the company guest house, so we were fairly established by southern standards, but I guess the locals thought we were carpet baggers.  I was one four yankees out of 200 campers at the Lookout Mountain Camp, so they do keep track of yankees down south.  I also had a job feeding my father's boss's daughter's horses which was dangerous, when the horses would try to trample one.  We never made any money off the petrified dinosaur eggs we found in the ditch of the Walter Jackson elementary school in our neigborhood.  I would also water the bushes around the property.  Four O'clock bushes do open up and flower at 4 P.M..  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 6:50 A.M.  When I built the garage apartment out in Plandome Manor, Long Island back in 1982 and 1983, the youngest granddaughter of the household was the first European to go to work for China Airlines as a flight attendant, thus I feel like I have been cheap labor for the Chinese ever sense.  Of course George H.W. Bush was the first U.S. ambassador to China and back in Decatur, Alabama back from 1955 to 1961 besides the omnipresent Japanese from Mitsubishi, there were a few Chinese that nobody seemed to notice and a few people associated with Claire Lee Chennault - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  At our house at 1920 Stratford Road in Decatur, Alabama my first business was a Kool Aid stand, and once I was digging a hole to plant a new azalea bush, and my neighbors commented that I was digging a hole to China, so I branched out into the China trade.  Of course the Scott family from Illinois have been selling soy beans to the Chinese for generations, so we have long term contacts with the Chinese.  I read recently that eating tofu is good for longevity, but I think the Chinese also use soy sauce.  Of course a lot of soy beans come from Brazil, so the farmers in the Midwest now have competition from the Brazilian soy bean farmers.  I have never been to Asia, but I have been to the Kaanapali Beach Maui Resorts- Maui Hawaii Resort- Lahaina Hotel- Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa  in Maui where I saw a lot of Asian guests and Chinese art.  In fact back in the summer of 1980, when George H.W. Bush got the vice president ticket for the republican party, I left the tennis court in Kennebunkport, where I was observing them, and I showed up in Maui, in August 1980.  During that period, there was also a hurricane Houston, Texas.  The American District Attorneys and the American Judicial Association were having a conference at the Hyatt in Maui, so I had ample legal representation.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 5:55 A.M.  To have a spare PCI Ethernet Adapters, I ordered two New Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter PWLA8391GT 8391GT | eBay for $15.99 each with free shipping from Hong Kong for $31.98 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 4:30 A.M.  Yesterday two of the tulips were out in bloom at the veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center, so probably by next weekend, they will all be out.

Another classmate at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut in my class of 1968 was Woody Chase.  His father was in the State Department in Lebanon.  Thus if his family still owns stock in www.chase.com , they might have a penny or two.  The Chase Bank which is hooked up with J.P. Morgan supposedly manages $6 trillion in assets.  I was told Jimmy Diamond is of Greek heritage, so possibly when in Greenwich, he eats at the Greek diner across the street from the Y.M.C.A..  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/11/11 Monday 3:55 A.M.  I woke up at midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I watched a program about Ulysses S. Grant on www.pbs.org Public television.  I guess the Civil War was a bloody affair.  I went back to bed until 3:15 A.M..

Boehner speaks at Stamford fundraiser - GreenwichTime

Yesterday, when I was working on the computer, I had a couple of problems that might have been caused by a hacker.  The first problem was the Microsoft Wireless 6000 mouse would not work.  I eventually fixed that problem by unplugging the sending unit and plugging it back into its USB 2.0 hub, and reconnecting it by pressing the sending unit reconnect button and the mouse reconnect button.  I had gone through the process of testing the Microsoft Wireless 6000 mouse and keyboard on another computer to make sure it worked properly. 

The major problem was that the Netgear GA311 Ethernet card was not working on either partition.  I tried connecting it up with a new LAN cable, but that did not fix the problem.  When I tried updating the Netgear GA311 drivers which are Realtek RTL8169 drivers, the Ethernet card still would not work.  I finally restored my backup from April 5, 2011 and restored the few changed files, and that fixed the problem.  All of that took some time.  I still sometimes have to reconnected the Microsoft Wireless 6000 mouse, which before I did not.  Since the backup had Internet Explorer 9.0 on it, I am back to using Internet Explorer 9.0 on the primary work computer, although some more complicated web sites do not work with Internet Explorer 9.0 like www.lexus.com .  I ate a crumb covered donut.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 3:10 P.M.  I ate a day old muffin and a crumb covered donut with a glass of water.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed.

Sunny tomorrow and 69 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 2:35 P.M.  The Tropical Meteorology Project: [FORECASTS] 2011 Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Forecast

Michael Louis Scott Tropical Weather

Michael Louis Scott Tropical Weather  CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 2:15 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a Lucky 7 scratch card for a dollar, and I won a dollar for a net profit of nothing.  I noticed there were a few early morning people waiting for the Apple computer store to open to hopefully get their Ipad IIs.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of 180 count Nature's Bounty cholesterol free fish oil 1000 mg. tablets for $14.99 both and a 32 ounce container of CVS drain cleaner for $5.79 and .35 tax for $21.13 total.  I used the bathroom at CVS.  I finished my walk.  I sat out at various places during my walk.  It seemed rather slow downtown, but I guess with the higher prices of gasoline not as many people are driving on weekends.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  It is .9 miles from the West Putnam Avenue Shell station to my apartment building at 71 Vinci Drive.  It is 4.8 miles round trip from 71 Vinci Drive to the Senior and the Arts Center.  Thus since I get about 11 miles per gallon, it costs me $.3864 a mile or about $1.86 in gasoline to go downtown round trip, when there is not much traffic.  Obviously in traffic, it costs more.  I thus do not go downtown as much anymore.  I put about a cup of the CVS drain opener in the bathroom sink drain, and after two hours, I filled it with hot water, and I used the toilet plunger to force the water through the sink drain, and thus the bathroom sink drains a little bit faster.  Still it could be faster, but the building custodian would probably have to disconnect the PCV pipe drain and clean it out with a plumber's snake.  It is good enough for now.  I did some routine computer work with nothing to mention.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 6:40 A.M.  I reheated and ate the other half of the Rothschild stew that I made yesterday, and I ate it with a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will dress up warmly, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 6:10 A.M.  Another old timer with some foreign experience Mark Salzman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , but at age 51, he is probably not as quick as he once was Mark Salzman :: The Steven Barclay Agency.  I ate to tell some of those young Turks out there that people do get old over time. 

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 5:55 A.M.  As I recall, the ski slope from St. Anton to Switzerland was a Double Black Diamond rating ski slope which is the most dangerous and steepest and hardest to ski, and this time of year in the spring, it would probably be full of avalanche risks.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 5:45 A.M.  Of course, when I went to Innsbruck, Austria; I had to travel from and to the Munich, Germany airport which was full of formidable security people with my look.  However, I did learn from the friend that I traveled with whom was also Holland Dutch, that when in Innsbruck, Austria, one can take the ski bus to the Saint Anton ski area St. Anton am Arlberg and its holiday region - Holiday in the Arlberg and one or more of the many ski slopes in St. Anton is not patrolled and goes into Switzerland, where it is more expensive than Innsbruck, Austria, in case you need to escape from Austria.  In the period, I knew Geoffrey Hoguet, he was also good friends of Myles McGough whom a couple of years later was living next to www.harvard.edu with Lisa Hallaby before she became Queen Nord of Jordan, thus rich people tend to know and network with other rich people. From my viewpoint, I am not sure whom the richest person I know is, since at my level so many established people tend to be quite private.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 5:15 A.M.  When I used Fred Von Mierers' http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm  apartment from October 1973 until February 1975, it was next to the www.un.org , and at the time Kurt Waldheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was the Secretary-General of the United Nations.  Also Sandy Carlson invited me to a reception at his art gallery on East 67th Street back around the fall of 1974, and I saw W. Averill Harriman at the reception, and I noticed it was across the street from the Austrian consulate in Manhattan.  Alas I do not speak or read the German language.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 5:10 A.M.  After I cleaned up, I put some CVS drain cleaner in the bathroom sink to hopefully clean out the drain.  When one shaves with shaving gel a regular two track razor, one gets a lot of shaving scum built up in the sink drain which can eventually clog it.  I picked up the mail downstairs.

I remember when I visited Innsbruck, Austria around the winter of 1988, I saw somebody that looked like Geoffrey Rothschild Hoguet in a local pub there one night, but he has a common look in Austria, so I am not sure whether it was him or not.  Somebody else in the pub kept trying to get me to visit the Casino on top of the Mountain in Innsbruck CASINOS AUSTRIA and CASINO INNSBRUCK , but I can not find that particular casino listed.  Who knows maybe I would have made some money.  However, if I had lost the little amount of traveling money that I had, I might have ended up working at the www.mcdonalds.com in downtown Innsbruck.  When I took the gondola to the top of the mountain in Innsbruck, there was a big sign at the top of the mountain advertising McDonalds.  When I visited Innsbruck, there was no snow in in downtown area, but there was plenty of snow in the mountains.  When I visited the University of Innsbruck , I was told they work 12 hours a day seven days a week, so I would imagine it is a very good university.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/10/11 Sunday 3:05 A.M.  I chatted with a relative after the last note.  I went to bed.  I woke up, and I ate two crumb topped donuts.  I finally woke up at 1 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I watched some television.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up.

I noticed when I was on my walk yesterday morning that UrbanOutfitters.com > Official Site of Urban Outfitters > Shop Women's, Men's and Apartment has opened a new store on East Elm Street just east of Greenwich Avenue in the old Greenwich Time building.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/09/11:

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 12:45 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

There were about a half dozen people lined up in front of the www.apple.com store on Greenwich Avenue this morning.  I chatted with one, and the individual told me, the Ipad II is available there, but there is a waiting list.  I saw a report last week that when traveling internationally in foreign countries and using the Ipad or Ipod, the roaming charges can be hundred of dollars and even up to a thousand dollars a week, so the roaming charges when one travels could bust your budget.

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed.

Afternoon showers tomorrow and 54 to 49 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 11:55 A.M.  I made up a special treat.  I will call it Rothschild Stew.

First one makes up Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe without using the teaspoon of sesame oil

Once the rice is ready, one adds to the rice in the rice steamer

One 5 ounce can drained of Libby's Vienna sausages cut into quarter inch thick slices across.

One 10.5 ounce can of condensed mushroom soup.

5.25 ounces of milk

season lightly with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and oregano.

Mix it all together.

Then microwave on one vegetable cycle.  Makes two large soup bowls of Rothschild stew.

I ate one half portion of the above with a glass of watered down punch, and I refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 10:35 A.M.  I threw out the rotten onions.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I ate a crumb covered donut.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 9:40 A.M.  I threw the garbage out.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at CVS.  I bought three 6.32 ounce tubes of Pringles reduced fat potato chips for $4 all, four 5 ounce tins of Libby's Vienna sausages for .99 each, and four 10.5 ounce cans of CVS condensed mushroom soup for .77 each for $11.02 total.  I finished my walk.  I sat out at various places.  The tulips at Veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center are pretty much out of the ground, but the tulips petals have not yet opened.  I next went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought two 16 ounce boxes of Entenmann's crumb covered donuts for $2.50 each, a four pack of day old muffins for $2, a six pack of day old Kaiser rolls for $1.95, a 59 ounce container of Simply orange orange juice with calcium for $3, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance lite for $2.49, fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $2.18, a sweet white onion for $1.29 a pound for .86 for $17.48 total.  I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $9.01 of self service premium V-power gasoline for $4.379 a gallon for 2.057 gallons at odometer reading of 68447 miles for 27.2 miles driving since Monday March 28, 2011 for 13.223 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic.  There were about a dozen Saturday morning bike riders out early this morning.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  I ate one of the crumb covered donuts.  I have to throw out a 3 pound bag of rotten onions.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 5:40 A.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four double strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will dress up warmly, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  Mostly sunny today and 58 to 43 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 4:40 A.M.  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 4:05 A.M.  Tracking number is "9101936503012990840790" at www.usps.com for the order for Amazon.com: Premier 100mm Light Cigarette Tubes - 10 Boxes: Everything Else for $32.99 and $7.99 shipping for $40.98 total.

BBC News - Rare wild horses at Loch of Strathbeg  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 3:25 A.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/11 Saturday 3:00 A.M.  The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for Deskjet | HP® Official Store for $29.99 less $10 with coupon code "MEGASALE"  and a $1.20 tax for $21.19 total with free shipping arrived.  I put it as a spare printer on top of the file cabinet in the bedroom.  I woke up again at 3 P.M., when I chatted with a relative.  I woke up at 6 P.M., when I chatted with a friend.  I finally woke up at midnight, when I chatted with a friend.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I moved the two pairs of L.L. Bean long underwear from hanging on the bathroom door to the bedroom closet shelf.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the wash cycles.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  I set up one of the oak folding TV tables by the right side of the Ionic Pro air purifier on the far side of the living room to put various papers and other items on, so they are not lying on top of the Panasonic Toughbook CR-29 and the second Dell Latitude D410 laptops at the apartment entrance.  Thus those two laptops are cleared to be used.  I put the box with the nine pair of spare sunglasses to the left of the Sony Trinitron television in the bedroom.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/08/11 Friday 1:05 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/11 Friday 11:55 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch. 

The order with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Buy.com - Logitech QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks Webcam - Silver, Black for $11.95 and .72 tax with free shipping for $12.67 total arrived.  I will now install it on the second Dell D410 laptop computer.  I moved the Creative web cam from the Dell Latitude D410 laptop to the shelf behind the www.harvard.edu chair.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/08/11 Friday 10:50 A.M.   I made 149 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/08/11 Friday 8:00 A.M.  Media shut out of Prescott Bush dinner - GreenwichTime

Gas station rips ice cream ads from cigarette truck - GreenwichTime

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Tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for Buy.com - Logitech QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks Webcam - Silver, Black for $11.95 and .72 tax with free shipping for $12.67 total.

I will now make some cigarettes.

Mostly cloudy today and 53 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/11 Friday 7:00 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  It seems to be a nice morning.  I picked up yesterday's mail.

I ordered Amazon.com: Premier 100mm Light Cigarette Tubes - 10 Boxes: Everything Else for $32.99 and $7.99 shipping for $40.98 total.  Thus I will have some spare cigarette tubes, until the other order arrives.  The new order comes from Western Massachusetts, and they are in stock, so they should come fairly soon.

I put $25 more on my AT&T Go Phone and there was a $1.50 tax for $26.50 total charges.  I now have $93.12 on my AT&T Go Phone good until July 7, 2011.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/11 Friday 5:30 P.M.  I went back to bed until 4 A.M..  I ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Harvest request soup with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread and a glass of watered down punch.  I watched one of the episodes of the new television series on Starz TV called "Camelot".  It seems the British were pretty brutal in the old days, so I guess they are still basically the same way behind their modern veneer.  Living here in America with the Indians, we do not have much contact with the modern Europeans other than what we see on television.  I washed the breakfast and lunch dishes.  I will now make my bed, and I will shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 11:10 P.M.  After the last note.  I chatted with a relative.  The windows repair people inspected the apartment windows with the building custodian.  I then watched the United States House of Representatives on Cspan television.  About noon one of the windows repair people caulked the entire length of the underneath side of the windows shelf in the living room.  I then setup up the monitors on the FIC server again.  I chatted with a relative.  I chatted with Rolling Papers Booklet or Box - Contact Us .  They told me my order was back ordered, and it should be ready for shipping next week.  They also told me they had a problem with Cougars eating the cattle out there.  It is also still cold out there.  Frannie, Wyoming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frannie, Wyoming (82423) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  I went to bed about 2:30 P.M..  I woke up at 9 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  Basically nobody seems to be too much on a night time schedule around here anymore.  It costs money to be on a night schedule and not earn money in the daytime, when the people with money seem to spend it.  In the old days, when gasoline was cheaper and there was nothing going on around here, I occasionally would drive to the Darien, Connecticut rest areas on I-95 and watch people coming and going, but they now tell me there is a lot of crime around the rest areas.  Usually college students are frequently awake at night, so possibly there are some students awake at www.yale.edu in New Haven, Connecticut, but that is suppose to be a high crime neighborhood.  I use to buy Presbyterian Pipe tobacco at the Cigars for sale, Tobaccos, Pipes, Pipe Repair, Humidors, Music Boxes also at Owl Shop in New Haven, Ct. one of the oldest smoke shops in the country. , when I smoked a pipe.  In the old days when the United States Government first started after the American revolution, the country had no intelligence agencies, so the original intelligence agents were the various tobacco buyers whom were all around the world, since the United States had a thriving tobacco business even 200 years ago.  CIO      

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 9:20 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Today morning showers and 53 to 37 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will turn down the FIC server Eizo 19 inch LCD monitors, so when the windows caulkers show up, they area behind them will be ready to caulk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 8:55 A.M.  For my second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer, I ordered Buy.com - Logitech QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks Webcam - Silver, Black for $11.95 and .72 tax with free shipping for $12.67 total.  There never used to be tax on the internet, so either the national government or some local state governments have passed internet tax bills, but I have not read anything about it in the news.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 8:15 A.M.  On the primary partition on the primary work computer, I uninstalled Internet Explorer 9.0, because it was too buggy and froze a lot.  I am now back to Internet Explorer 8 which seems to work just fine, and it automatically installs when one uninstalls Internet Explorer 9.0.

Yeh, they are real conservative up in New Canaan, Connecticut Glenn Beck's Fox show ending - GreenwichTime , but I still have a few friends up there keeping an eye on things.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 7:05 A.M.  It would seem since his mother was a U.S.A. citizen, he would be a U.S.A. citizen, unless his mother was not his real mother Hawaii elections clerk: Obama 'caught fibbing' .  Maybe they just found him.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 6:35 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 4:40 A.M.  A Social Security Back-to-Work Program That Doesn’t Work - NYTimes.com

I have been living off Disability Income, since December 1983, so more than likely at age 61, I will not be going back to work any time soon, but I manage to keep busy by volunteering in my own way maintaining my internet activity, which I know how to do, but it is quite expensive.

Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

UNIGE - Département de minéralogie - DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY

The Best Free Software of 2011 | PCMag.com

Donations for the Greenwich Red Cross

A Close-Up Look at the World’s Deadliest Volcano - John Giuffo - Small World, Big Mouth - Forbes

Kate Middleton’s Childhood Home Up For Grabs - Morgan Brennan - Closing Table - Forbes

Experience Scotland’s Highland Games !

Microsoft Windows 8: 10 Reasons It Will Shatter Windows 7 - Enterprise Applications - News & Reviews - eWeek.com

BBC News - Thunderstorm numbers calculated

BBC News - Europe 'losing' superbugs battle  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 3:40 A.M.  I am installing the www.ubuntu.com updates on the www.ibm.com NetVista computer which I never use, since it is only 400 MHz with 256 megabyte of memory, but I keep it around, since it was a cleaver design in its day.  It could run a slow copy of XP on it.

With Bill Gates touring Europe for umpteenth time, we might have some Europeans coming back here.  I know Bill Gates is big on Africa, but frequently in undeveloped countries like Africa and even more rural parts of Europe, they do not have the infrastructure to support advanced electronics and they have more pressing needs in other fields like medicine and environmental concerns.  The biggest health problem I know of in Paris is that multiple millions of people are buried in the catacombs of Paris which are basically the sewers, since they had no other place to store their remains.  There is even a bar about three to five stories down below ground level behind the www.louvre.fr that I have been to, which looks like it once was a good bomb shelter, but it might be connected to the catacombs or sewers.  I was only there once on my visit to Albertville, France in 1992 for the winter Olympics.  They are probably running high speed internet cables through the sewers of Paris, so possibly the ghosts of all of those millions of dead people are hacking into the internet.  When one visits very old cities, one is looking at a modern version of life built upon centuries of layers of older cities that preceded it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 2:45 A.M.  I checked my power strips and surge protectors, and they all seem all right.  The more expensive ones cost $20 to $50 apiece, so they are very good ones on most of the computers and some of the electronics.  I also have good ones on the stereo and TV setup in the living room and the bedroom.  The cheaper ones in the kitchen and elsewhere in the apartment are still good ones.  The cheapest ones that I am using are from www.homedepot.com and www.cvs.com , and they are UL approved.  If the ones from Home Depot are defective, then tens of millions of people have problems.  I also checked out the power transformers, most of which are connected to the cordless telephones, and they are all cool.  The one on the AT&T cordless telephone in the living room is slightly warm as is the one on the new Black and Decker dust buster in the bedroom.  I stored away the U.S. Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather sleeping bags good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit and the two comforters that were all stored behind the Ethan Allen recliner.  Thus I only have the new twin size Aerobed, twin size mattress cover, and sheets and blanket for the Aerobed stored behind the Ethan Allen recliner.  It is still too early to do spring cleaning and install the air conditioners in the apartment.  I also use heavy duty extension cords and not cheap lamp extension cords through out the apartment.  The power strips on the Sharp Convection oven, and the GE microwave oven and Sony Trinitron television in the kitchen are standard power strips, and they should be safe enough to use.  I feel a power strip with a heavy duty extension cord is safer than a cheap extension cord.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 2:05 A.M.  TFD warning public about defective power strip - KGUN9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports

http://ehsrms.uaa.alaska.edu/power%20strip%20safety%20release.pdf 

Power Strips: Are You Using Them Properly?

Start Note About Power Strips:

Immediate Action Request - Safety Hazard - Power Strips

 

The United States General Services Administration (GSA) has reported that there have now been three recent fire incidents with the following power strips:

 

EFI model P-50ES

 

The most serious case was in the Social Security office in the federal building in Dallas, TX

Due to the seriousness of this issue, we are asking Building Managers and every employee to inspect all power strips in use within your offices and work spaces, regardless of manufacturer.  

 

Remove and replace any of this EFI make and model that you find, but also any other make and/or model that show signs of overheating (melting, dark spots, scorching ) or excessive wear (frayed or separated cords).

 

While we’re discussing power strips, it would be a good time to remind all that a power strip is considered by Regulation an extension cord and, as such, is NOT allowed to be plugged into another extension cord.  This is a common and reoccurring problem.  If you find a “daisy chain” during your inspections please correct this situation as well.

End Note About Power Strips: CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 1:35 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  It feels good to be clean.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I received notification from the Connecticut Department of Social Services that my Food Stamps will continue to be $200 a month which at today's prices do not go far.  Basically red meat is a luxury anymore.  I have a funny digestive system that whenever I eat a steak which is seldom, it goes right through me, so it is really not worth the money eating them anyway.  I guess my system is no longer use to eating steak anymore.  However, it does not happen with top round London Broil, so possibly steaks have more fat in them, where they go through my intestines faster. 

I think the town of Greenwich, Connecticut and the state of Connecticut could make more money by allowing the sale of alcohol and beer 24 hours a day instead of having all of the local people in this area drive across the New York border to Port Chester, New York, where they sell it much later depending on the store.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/11 Thursday 12:30 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I really should clean up, which I will probably do soon.  However, not cleaning up saves on energy.  I remember in the old days in Greenwich, the grunge look used to be popular.  I was watching the House of Representatives on Cspan today, and apparently, the US Environmental Protection Agency is interested regulating cow manure and their methane gas levels, since they cause 28% of the Green House gases.  They also want to regulate the amount of CO2 that humans can exhale to keep down the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.  Nobody really knows what the government does, but you have to remember that we are all paying for it with our taxes, except the top 150 Fortune companies that do not pay taxes.  I guess the off shore investors think they run this country like an old time European colony.  There are a billion people in Western Europe, so they do have economic influence here, but frequently when they come here to check out their investments, they seem confused.  I also watched a television program about electric cars, and except for the expensive ones, they do not have much of a range until the gasoline powered generator has to kick in.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 11:25 P.M.  I woke up about 1 P.M., when a Greenwich Policeman knocked on my door trying to find out how to get into a neighbor's apartment whose emergency alarm had gone off.  I told him about another neighbor that might have a key.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate a few slices of cheese.  I had a couple of telemarketing telephone calls, when I went back to bed.  I got up at 9 P.M..  They are going to do some more window's maintenance tomorrow, and I guess that would be the caulking on the left side of the living room windows.  I chatted with a relative twice and a friend.  Earlier in the day, I had also chatted with another friend who has the flu.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I chatted with an out of town security agency.

When I went to the The Taft School from 1965 to 1968, one of my classmates and friends was Geoffrey R. Hoguet - The Hastings Center .  Most of my friends were friends with him.  I recall he liked ice hockey, and he was trying to learn German.  This says a bit more about the family Nancy Hoguet Plans to Marry - New York Times .  It says that he was with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. for ten years.  He is on the board of directors of A Clean Energy Technologies Company which has these associates Important sites and resources .  He apparently likes riding bicycles though.  He managed to make a public appearance here though Geoffrey Hoguet | Panache Privée .  Thus since his family is from Vienna, Austria, he might know other people from there. He gave $7,300 to Hilary Clinton Geoffrey Hoguet - $7,300 in Political Contributions for 2008 ,  so he is a democrat.  He has a rich relative in England who keeps horses Evelyn Robert de Rothschild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSir Evelyn De Rothschild Buys Lehman Brothers For $10 Billion - TopixYouTube - Sir EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD talks about the GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS .  This shows whom else is giving money to the Clintons Political Criminals . Well, I guess money buys influence.  CIO            

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 7:35 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 6:40 A.M.  I normally would go out for an early morning walk with all of the local garbage men on Greenwich Avenue, but since my right foot has a rather severe rash on it, I will not be going out for an early morning walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 5:25 A.M.  I am making the same dinner as last night, and I will eat it shortly. Afternoon showers today and 55 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 4:40 A.M.  Bill Gates travels to Europe to promote global health investments

Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen, Bill Gates feuded, memoir says - Chicago Sun-Times  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 4:35 A.M.  Playing from the rough: Country clubs try to adapt to the recession - GreenwichTime

http://www.greenwichcountryclub.org/

Welcome to Country Club of New Canaan costs $350,000 to get in.  I used to live across the street from the New Canaan Country Club in 1968, when my family rented the Patterson Farm on Smith Ridge Road.

John's Island Club costs $350,000 to get in.  I have relatives that were original members of J.I..  Jerry Ford was at the opening of the J.I. Club back around 1978.  The Powers family here in Greenwich, Connecticut whom were heirs to American Motors were involved in starting the J.I. club.  They were neighbors of ours in Greenwich as were the Bushs and Rockefellers and a few more private families whom would rather not be mentioned.  The Vanderbilts are not really private, but they have so many homes around the world, nobody ever seems to know where they are.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 3:55 A.M.  Tracking is FedEx Tracking on the order for Deskjet | HP® Official Store for $29.99 less $10 with coupon code "MEGASALE"  and a $1.20 tax for $21.19 total with free shipping.

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Can Brazilians Save South Florida Real Estate? - Kenneth Rapoza - BRIC Breaker - Forbes

BBC News - Japan earthquake: Radioactive leak plugged at reactor

BBC News - SpaceX to launch huge new rocket

BBC News - Dino crater focus for ocean drilling plans  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/11 Wednesday 3:00 A.M.  I went back to bed after the last note.  I woke up at 1 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

If one looks at http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm , on the first primary work computer; I am using a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-RZ Socket 462 Motherboard with an AMD Sempron 3300+ MHz processor.  I had the Bios set to the defaults for the processor.  However, I changed it on the seventh page for Frequency/Voltage Control for CPU Host Clock Control from disabled to enabled, and then I changed the next setting for CPU Host Frequency (MHz) from 166 to 184.  When the computer now boots instead of showing 1837 MHz, it shows Sempron 3000+ in the processor ID at boot up.  Thus the primary work computer should be working a little bit faster.  However, I still have to keep the memory set at DRAM Clock (MHz): 266 (MHz).  The entire page of bios setting are at http://mikelouisscott.com/gig1-bios.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 11:20 P.M.  I had a telephone call from an associate after the last note, and I also chatted briefly with a friend.  I woke up at 9:30 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes.  I will make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up.  

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 1:35 P.M.  I ate a Kaiser roll with some watered down punch.  There does not seem to be much happening in Greenwich, Austria.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Partly cloudy tomorrow and 55 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 12:40 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I went to my 11 A.M. appointment.  I looked at the Vanity Fair issue on Kate Middleton's family, and her brother looks like Tony Blair, when he was younger.  I think Tony Blair is Scottish.  I picked up the mail, when I returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 9:50 A.M.  2011 Lexus RX 350 Reviews, Pictures and Prices - U.S. News Rankings and Reviews

I ate four barbecue chicken breast tenders and my usual steamed rice and vegetable mixture with Smart Balance Spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with lemon juice.

I chatted with a relative.  I have an 11 P.M. appointment today, so I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will get ready to go to my appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 8:00 A.M.  McDonald's wants to fill 175 jobs on the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach » TCPalm.com and 50,000 Nationwide, because they are going to start staying open 24 hours a day.

Working Here :: McDonalds.com  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 7:35 A.M.  Besides the 2 ounce tube of CVS Neosporin that I bought recently for $10, I just rediscovered that I had bought five 2 ounce tubes of CVS Adult Rash Ointment as a clearance item last year, so I will be using some of that on the rash on my right foot left side ankle and heel.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 7:10 A.M.  On Manhattan Streets, Loosie Men Sell Illegal Smokes - NYTimes.com

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Konica Minolta PagePro 1250W Cam Shaft, Genuine (B6859) for $6.95 and $9 UPS shipping for $15.95 total.

President and Mrs. Bush Make First Visit to George W. Bush Presidential Center Construction Site

Millions warned over substantial email data theft - Telegraph

Bank customers warned after breach at Epsilon marketing firm

Thieves are stealing children's identities

BBC News - Arctic ozone levels in never-before-seen plunge

BBC News - New crew head for space station aboard Soyuz rocket

BBC News - Glaciers in Chile 'melt at fastest rate in 350 years'

Computer model shows Connecticut shoreline moving inland - GreenwichTime  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 6:10 A.M.  I removed the Epson Stylus C120 inkjet printer from the right side of the primary work computer.  Its two black ink cartridges are empty, and its three color ink cartridges are about 25% full.  I stored it away.  I setup the new refurbished Epson WorkForce 30 printer to the right side of the primary work computer.  I installed its software and drivers on both partitions.  It works just fine.  One has to move the Internet Radio to a lower position to use the Epson WorkForce 30 inkjet printer.  I then did a Compete PC backup of both partitions to the third internal hard drive.  I ate a bowl of chili with steak and beans and rice with a glass of watered down punch.

MICHAEL GOODWIN: Robert Gates Tries to Tell the Truth About Libya -- Is Anybody Listening? - FoxNews.com

Gingrich's financial angel — a casino mogul with legal woes - Politics - Decision 2012 - msnbc.com

In New York City, death is no excuse not to show up on Election Day - NYPOST.com  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/05/11 Tuesday 1:25 A.M.  I woke up at midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes.  I will make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up.  The majority of the people whom are awake in the daytime seem to think they run the world.  However, there is always another smaller shadow group that are awake at night time who usually can not figure out what the daytime people are doing.  Of course, when I wake up here at midnight in Greenwich, Connecticut U.S.A., there are a billion people just waking up in Western Europe in the morning, so I am not the only person awake at the moment.  In the financial markets frequently the groups in Western Europe or Asia set the financial markets for the day, while their counterparts in the Western Hemisphere are dreaming.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/04/11 Monday 2:55 P.M.  I bought Deskjet | HP® Official Store for $29.99 less $10 with coupon code "MEGASALE"  and a $1.20 tax for $21.19 total with free shipping.  You have to enter the coupon code twice on two different pages.

The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for $39 with free shipping Epson WorkForce 30 Ink Jet Printer - Refurbished, Overview - Product Information - Epson America, Inc. with 10% discount with coupon code "EP93L" of $3.90 off for $35.10 with free shipping arrived.  I will install it later.

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the return and replace on the order for Buy.com - Cyber Acoustics Studio CA-3001rb Multimedia Speaker System for $14.99 with free shipping.

I ate a bowl of chili with steak and beans mixed with steamed rice, and I drank a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed.  I have an 11 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  Thunderstorms tomorrow and 55 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit.

Prince Harry goes to North Pole - GreenwichTime  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/04/11 Monday 12:20 P.M.  I watched an old time movie about an auto race to Monte Carlo after the last note.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread with some watered down punch.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Chase Bank at 19 West Putnam Avenue.  I then went by the Wells Fargo bank at Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then went by CVS, and I walked through CVS, and I walked up Greenwich Avenue to the UPS package store at 15 East Putnam Avenue, and I mailed the defective computer speakers back to Ontario, California with no charge to me for shipping.  I then walked back to CVS, and I looked at the foot section, and three mole skin patches for a irritated foot cost $4, so I will like today just wear two pairs of socks.  I bought three 6.3 ounce tubes of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips for $4 all.  I then bought two 6.4 ounce tubes of Crest tartar protection regular paste toothpaste for $2.25 each less a $3 CVS bonus buck coupon I got on the previous purchase and 9 cents tax for $1.59 total.  I bought from the center aisle clearance section four 4 ounce Right Guard Xtreme clear deodorant for $1.29 each and .31 tax for $5.47 total.  I then went further downtown, and I went by the Senior and the Arts center, and I used the bathroom.  I made change for one of the patrons.  I then sat out for a while.  I then went by the Apple Ipad computer store, and they told me the people waiting outside yesterday morning were hoping to get the Ipad II computer which they do not have yet.  I then went by the Chase Bank just south of the central Greenwich Post Office, and I got change.  I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office which is still for sale, and I bought twenty 44 cent forever Ronald Reagan stamps for $8.80 total.  I then sat out for some more.  I then returned back home.  I noticed yesterday that the nearby www.jeep.com dealership got in nine more traditional jeeps with the soft roofs and roll bars.  They are parked by the Chrysler dealership up the street.  I chatted with neighbors.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/04/11 Monday 4:40 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/11 Monday 4:25 A.M.  I moved the Logitech USB web cam from the bedroom Abit computer to the Dell Dimension 4600i computer in the living room, and I installed its drivers and software.  The main reason for doing that is the Chinese web cam that I took off the Dell was too close of an image, where as on the bedroom Abit computer it works just fine.  On the Chinese web cams the rotary control on the cable is not for microphone volume but for the LCD lights.  More are available here 32.0 Mega Pixel 6 LED USB PC Laptop Video Webcam+Mic - eBay (item 390195964628 end time Apr-09-11 00:28:24 PDT) for $6.68 with free shipping from China.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/11 Monday 2:00 A.M.  Was There a Natural Nuclear Blast on Mars? - FoxNews.com

BBC News - World's biggest radio telescope, Square Kilometre Array

BBC News - Jodrell Bank chosen as base for largest radio telescope  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/11 Monday 12:40 A.M.  I am baking four seasoned breaded chicken tenders which I will eat in about 7 minutes with my usual steamed vegetable and rice mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

!!!!! Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 11:45 P.M.  Impeach the Democrats The Federal Reserve’s 3.3 Trillion Dollar Bailout of Foreign Banks and Corporations | Unelected.org .

Federal Reserve made $9 trillion in emergency loans - Dec. 1, 2010 .

Federal Reserve Cannot Account For $9 Trillion

Federal Reserve and the opaque banking syndicate – If the economy were booming why does the Fed still hold over $2.5 trillion in securities? $640 billion current fiscal year budget deficit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 10:45 P.M.  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted briefly with a relative.  I made 120 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  There was a dozen people lined up in front of the Apple computer store on Greenwich Avenue on Sunday morning at 6:30 A.M. like there might have been something going on their when I think they open at 10 A.M..  CIO     

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/03/11:

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 10:40 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy and windy today and 54 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 9:10 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the book on Cornelius Vanderbilt.  I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I mailed the beach pass application.  I then sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I then went by CVS, but no one was there at 7 A.M., when they are suppose to open on Sundays.  I need to get some padding strips for the callous or rash spots on my right foot.  I next went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought a 33 ounce bag of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee beans for $16.99.  I then went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought a 8 pack of Kaiser rolls for $2.85, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance Lite margarine for $2.49, two 10 ounce bars of Stop and Shop extra sharp Vermont cheddar cheese for $2 each, a 59 ounce container of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3, Stop and Shop sliced deli Danish ham for $5.99 a pound for $9.16, Land-O-Lakes white American sliced deli cheese for $5.99 a pound for $9.13, two 12 ounce generic honey for $2.49 each, a 40 ounce bottle of Heinz ketchup for $2.99, a 30 ounce jar of Hellmann's mayonnaise with olive oil for $4.99, a 7 ounce box of Triscuits roasted tomato and olive oil flavor for $2.99, four 64 ounce Ocean Spray crangrape lite juice for $2.50 each, four 64 ounce Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $2.50 each, four 6.3 ounce Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips for $1.69 each, two 48 ounce Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99 each, a quart of Borden real lemon juice for $2.69, two 8 ounce Stop and Shop parmesan and Romano cheese for $3.99 each, a 16 ounce package of Smithfield hickory smoked bacon for $3, a package of White Gem boneless breast of chicken tenders for $2.99 a pound for $5.53, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $3.49, fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $2.09, broccoli crowns for $2.49 a pound for $2.59, and a 16 ounce bag of Gorton's batter dipped frozen fish filets for $3.99 for $114.68 total.  I then returned home.  I used my folding cart that I brought with me to bring up the groceries.  I put away the groceries.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 6:15 A.M.  I ate a few day old muffin with watered down punch.  I will go out now, and I will mail the beach card application at the central Greenwich Post Office, and I will sit out briefly watching the world go by before the Stop and Shop opens.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 5:40 A.M.  I changed the calendars on the first of the month.

I watched some television.  With Elton John in the area, there might be other British people in the area, so I put the Scottish Cross of St. Andrews flag in front on the right hallway bookcase and the British Union Jack in front on the left hallway bookcase.  Thus we are even more Anglophile.  Back on the farm while at www.lfc.edu , we use to listen to his first 8 track tape on my Lear Jet 8 track tape player.  I remember in 1973, he was seen at the Crisco Disco in the Chelsea area of Manhattan.  I guess this all goes back to Billy Baldwin being a friend of the Duke of Windsor.  However, for myself Michael Louis Scott, I was born in Alton, Illinois U.S.A., so from my perspective I am a U.S.A. citizen trying to maintain a British hospitality environment, but all of the Italians that live around me seem to scare away the British, or the British are not really too interested in what I do anymore in my advanced age coming up of 61 years old.  I just do thing based on my experience and based on my budget and not based on the Big Bucks Budget of various government representatives that might happen to be around in this area.  I do not go out for walks downtown much recently, because gasoline has gotten more expensive.  There is not much going on downtown anymore.  It was a colder winter, and I feel more comfortable at home.  I also have a skin irritation on the heel of my right foot and the inside of my right foot ankle which makes it uncomfortable to walk distances.  I have been putting CVS Neosporin on it.

Number 10 TV | Number10.gov.uk

Reviews and News on Tech Products, Software and Downloads - PCWorld

Online Computer Help, Computer Scan | PC Checkup Service  my computer passed, but I have 43 tracking cookies on it that I can get rid of with www.ccleaner.com .

Romney's Strategy Hopes to Reverse 2008 Outcome - FoxNews.com

I will go out at 6:30 A.M., and I will mail the Beach Pass Application at the Valley Road Post Office.  I will return the Cornelius Vanderbilt  book that I did not have time to read at the Greenwich Library, and then I will go to the Stop and Shop, when it opens at 7 A.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 2:05 A.M.  My actual bill from www.cl-p.com for the March 2011 electricity is $145.18 for 862 kWh for 29 days or 29.72 kWh per day with an average temperature of 40.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

My bill for March 2010 was $152.78 for 32 days for 827 kWh or 25.84 kWh per day with an average temperature of 47.6 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 2:00 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  The lights in the parking lot at 71 Vinci Drive are not working.  They are on a timer, so perhaps someone needs to reset the timer.  I picked up the mail.  I got my rent bill from the Greenwich Housing Authority.

I put the generic speakers back on the Abit computer.

I put a Glade Plug-in Clean Linen refill in the Glade Plug-in in the kitchen.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 1:35 A.M.  I filled out my Special Needs Greenwich Beach Card application, and I have it ready to mail.

Jenna Bush Hager tells uplifting stories to Greenwich crowd - GreenwichTime

The Dish: Elton John to tickle the keys for local causes - GreenwichTime

I am charging up the rechargeable two million watt lantern, and it should be fully charged by 6 P.M. today.

Food Stamp information is now online EBT Account:Welcome to EBT Account

The Stop and Shop and the A&P Fresh on West Putnam Avenue open at 7 A.M. this morning, so I might try to do some grocery shopping this morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/11 Sunday 12:05 A.M.  I put a new 9 ounce Automatic bowl fresh jar in the toilet tank.  I did not eat a few day old muffin.  Instead I ate a 21 ounce Marie Callender meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I will shower and clean up shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 11:15 P.M.  I got an RMA number and UPS shipping label for the Buy.com - Cyber Acoustics Studio CA-3001rb Multimedia Speaker System , and I repackaged it with the RMA UPS shipping label on it, and I will ship it back to Ontario, California for replacement.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 10:20 P.M.  I chatted with a relative at 3 P.M..  I woke up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.

The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for Buy.com - Cyber Acoustics Studio CA-3001rb Multimedia Speaker System for $14.99 with free shipping had arrived earlier outside my door.  When I opened it up, the subwoofer case was cracked open a bit, and there was a round card board tube loose inside the subwoofer housing.  However, I installed it on the Abit computer, and it works just fine.  I moved the generic pair of speakers underneath the right side of the bed.  I will keep the shipping box just in case I should decide to return it.  The Cyber Acoustics speakers looked like the package had been opened and repacked by someone else before.  Possibly they cracked the wooden subwoofer case trying to fix the lose cardboard tube problem.  I will eat a few day old muffin.  I will then shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 6:50 A.M.  Why not everyone? Windows 7 Student Discount $29.99 download

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy today and 52 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 6:35 A.M.  I ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 5:50 A.M.  Charlemagne (Holy Roman emperor) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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The cam roller bar for the Konica Minolta PagePro 1250w laser printer is back ordered, and not expected to be received by the supplier until April 8, 2011 from their supplier.

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Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 5:00 A.M.  I did some more reading.  The internet is now working.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 4:10 A.M.  The Cable Modem Internet service has not been working in the last note.  Nobody answers at Cablevision.  There is just a recording saying their is an outage in this area.  I put away the laundry.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 1:35 A.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/11 Saturday 1:15 A.M.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycles.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 11:50 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

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Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 10:50 P.M.  I have used 255 pages on the thousand sheet starter toner cartridge on the Konica Minolta PagePro 1350w laser printer.  However, I have a new remanufactured 6,000 sheet cartridge for it.  Once I fix the Konica Minolta PagePro 1250w laser printer, it still has about 4,000 sheets left on a 6,000 sheet cartridge.  On the Brother MFC8840D, I have used about 2,000 sheets of its current 6,700 sheet toner cartridge, and I have a new 7,000 sheet cartridge for it.  On the Lexmark E238 laser printer, I have a 6,000 sheet toner cartridge in it that I have used about 1,500 sheets on.  I also have the Samsung color laser printer CLP-315 that I have printed out about 60 sheets on.  I am not sure how many pages, it is good for, but the black toner cartridge is suppose to be good for 1,500 pages, so maybe if all four toner cartridges were used evenly, it would be good for up to 6,000 color pages.  Thus as far as laser printers, I am doing fine.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 10:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

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Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 9:40 P.M.  I had a police fund raiser call from out of state this morning, a Card Holder services telephone call that would not hang up the phone when I hung it up and a CVS call with no message.  I woke up at 1 P.M., when three people inspected the windows again.  They need to caulk the left three feet of the living room window sill underneath.  I can tilt down the FIC computer monitors, when they do that.  I chatted with a friend.  I picked up the mail.  I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.  I ate a few day old muffin.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M.  I watched some television.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 7:15 A.M.  I ate a 21 ounce Marie Callender meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Rain today and 44 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 6:00 A.M.  I mailed the Microsoft Money report envelope to a relative, and I put it in the mail room downstairs.

I found the part to fix the Konica Minolta PagePro 1250w laser printer Konica Minolta PagePro 1250W Cam Shaft, Genuine (B6859) , and I ordered it for $6.95 and $9 UPS shipping for $15.95 total.  It will take about five to ten minutes to put in, once I receive it.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 4:30 A.M.  I paid my bills for www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Voice Long Distance, and my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com local telephone bill.  I got my $880 Energy Assistance payment in my CL&P account, but I still have to pay the monthly average.  I paid my May 8, 2011 www.geico.com payment, so I still have two more monthly payments on my six month GEICO policy that starts April 8, 2011, so I have paid have of it.

I ordered 20 Premier Light 100 mm Filter Tubes 200 tubes Rolling Papers .com for $3.49 each carton and $9.95 UPS shipping for $79.75 total. 

I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money 2007 Income Versus Spending Report for March 2011, and I will mail one copy to an interested relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 3:05 A.M.  The Rothschild Bloodline

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I printed out the Rothschild Bloodline pages, and I put them in a clamp binder.  They are 65 pages long.

While trying to print them out, I tried to feed more paper in the Konica Minolta Pagepro 1250W laser printer, and it jammed and started making a broken noise.  I took it apart, and the nylon feeding rod and also one of its supports are broken, so it is no good and broken.  It has a refilled 6000 sheet cartridge in it with about 2000 sheets used, but I have no use for it, so I will probably throw it out.

I put the new Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W laser printer in its place.  It has a 1,000 sheet starter cartridge, but I recently bought a spare refurbished toner cartridge for it.  I installed its drivers, and I set it as the default laser printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 1:10 A.M.  I ate chili and rice and a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/11 Friday 12:15 A.M.   http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/ 

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