Note:<888>04/14/00 Friday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I cleaned up, and I went by the Putnam Trust ATM machine. I stopped by the Arnold Bread Store outlet, and I bought three loaves of 12 grain bread for $2.40. I noticed all the sea gulls had disappeared around the dumpster at the Arnold Bread store too. Then I went down to Grass Island. I chatted with one waterfront observer, and he agreed that the sea gulls seem to have disappeared. It was a cool evening out, so I only spent about an hour around the waterfront. I stopped by Steamboat Road and no sea gulls where there also. I drove through Bruce Park and there were no sea gulls or other waterfront birds. I stopped by Staples in Old Greenwich. They have battery packs and automobile and aviation accessories for laptop computers on sale for 80% off. I noticed they sell a Networking kit with two Lan card and a hub and drivers and cables for $70. I am not sure I want to network the two computers together because my primary computer only has three PCI slots, and it I wanted to add another accessory I would have no room since I use one slot for the Lan and one for the video. I am using my old Sound Blaster SW32 on a ISA slot as well as the X2 modem for the telephone modem. I chatted with some of the store staff. I bought a 30 pack of IBM formatted Maxell floppy disks for $5.50 plus .33 tax for $5.83. I have lots of old floppy disks four to six years old, but I have not bought any new ones in a long time. I believe floppy disks are only good for about two years. One needs to them for making emergency boot disks and back ups of certain files. I then stoppped by the Greenwich Library, and it was slow. Today's copy of the Greenwich Times was not there. I saw a few people going to the Friday night movie at the library auditorium. The movie Dr. Strangelove was playing. I next stopped by the Grand Union, and I bought a half gallon of Tree Ripe orange juice for $2.50, a 16 oz. package of Polly-O skim moserrela cheese for $1.99 on sale for $4.49 total. I then returned home. I started cooking the Cookin Good chicken in the Faberware oven. Since it is about seven pounds and does not have a bird watcher pop up thermometer, it will take about an hour and a half in the Faberware convection oven at 350 degrees F.. I seasoned it with a bit of garlic powder, black pepper, oregano, Hungarian pepperica, celery salt, and poultry chicken seasoning. I will have it with a microwaved potatoe, and steamed frozen brocolli, along with ice tea and instant coffee. I put two loaves of the bread in the freezer. I then checked my server. I noticed the market was down a lot today. My bell weather portfolio set up a million dollars three years ago was up to $1,280,000 and today it was down $50,000 which means it was down about 3.5 %. I would imagine computerized trading programs started issuing sell orders and certain people were selling to pay taxes. Well I will now make some emergency boot disks with the new floppies and back up my MS Money 99 file to the new floppies. Well it is cool and damp out this evening, so I will probably stay inside. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>04/14/00 Friday 4:15 P.M. EDT: I was up at about 3:30 P.M. this afternoon. It seems to be a nice day outside. I updated nasa.htm and posted nasa-101.htm . Well I guess it is time for three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>04/14/00 Friday 7:15 A.M. EDT: I had some microwave popcorn. I also finished making the ice tea. I actually tried to spend some time on the internet tonight looking at other sites that I have not looked at in a while. I also installed the latest versio of Zone Alarm. The system all seems to be running fine. I suppose since I have not worked on the internet directory that much in the last year, a lot of new sites have appeared. Well there is not much happening as far as I can tell. I guess I will start winding down and get ready to go to bed. I suppose I could sneak a peanut butter sandwich. I am back up to180 pounds. I guess it was the French bread I made the other night. I could come up with some moserella cheese, I could make a home made pizza with the frozen speghetti sauce, but then that would be fattening. A lot fat alternative might to be use Tofu or Soy Cheese. I noticed the Smithsonian has posted a lot more information on their Volcanology pages. Well from what I can tell, it is already a bit cooler here from the events of the last month. Let's think about next winter and probably having to get use to a colder winter, which also means paying higher heating bills. Of course the air conditioning bills might not be as high this summer. I calculated all the different small bulbs I burn in my living room, and it is 286 watts. Also I keep the fan going on the air conditioner in the winter for fresh air and a HoneyWell air purifier going going all the time along with the computer equipment. The television and the sterio I don't use much. I also keep the telephones going. I tried calling up myself with www.dialpad.com to see if the answering machine works, and it still seems to work. I also leave the florescent light on in the kitchen when I am away, and I suppose the refrigerator goes all the time along with using the microwave and other appliances for cooking. I suppose the hot water heater uses a bit of electricity, but I don't use the electric heater in the bathroom in the winter, I just close the door so the cigarette smoke does not disturb my neighbors through the bathroom fan. I also have to turn on the bedroom lights occassionally to navigate around the bedroom. Thus I try to keep the energy use down, but I suppose it all adds up. Well not a lot happening right now. I suppose I could do a bit other house cleaning and maintenance routines when I have the funding, but it is not warm enough to shampoo the rugs or wash the curtains which take a bit of effort to climb up and pull them down. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>04/14/00 Friday 2:35 A.M. EDT: I went to bed about 7 A.M., and I was up about 2 P.M.. I had breakfast of GU corn flakes, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I chatted with one regular shopper about arthritis supplements. I next drove down by the harbor. I then stopped by the Greenwich Library. I read three computer newsweeklies and the local paper. I rested from about 5 P.M. to 7 P.M.. I chatted with a family member. I get 60 free minutes a month for the first six months with the AT&T 7 cents a minute prime time plan and 5 cents evenings and weekends. Well I had Ramen noodles for dinner with the rest of the speghetti sauce I made. I still have two containers of the speghetti sauce in the freezer. I had ice tea and instant coffee with the meal. I then stopped by the Greenwich Library before closing and returned some Broadway music CDs. I owe about $3 on them. I noticed a CBS news truck was at the library and they were covering a lecture on Lyme Disease. I mentioned to the reporter in the truck that ten years before Lyme disease showed up on Nantucket back around 1968, people were coming down with Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Nantucket which is similar to Lyme disease. I then went downtown. I stopped by the news stand across from the Figaro restaurant and bought a five pack of buy three get two free of Marlboro lights 100s for $11.85. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue twice. I then walked up to the top of the Avenue. I noticed the CBS news truck was putting up its satellite dish about 25 feet high in front of the stores next to the Presbyterian church. The raising of the satellite dish from the parked van, almost hit the over head street light support arm above it. I suppose that is a high spot for the dish. However, Steamboat Road might have a direct line of sight to the World Trade Center where the antenna is probably not to mention the hospital nearby can generate a lot of electronic interference. I then went on back down the Avenue. There was the usual group of yuppies out and about the local pubs. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again. I then drove down by the waterfront, and it was quiet. I headed over to the Grand Union. I bought a Cookin Good Chicken at .69 a pound for $4.86, dozen GU large eggs for $1.49, and a half gallon of GU whole milk for $1.59 for $7.94. I chatted with a local naturalist about volcanology and the local Audubon situation. I then returned home. I studied my furniture situation, and I decide to leave it the way it is. I straightened up the dining room table rearranging it and removing about a month's worth of mail from it. I sorted out the mail and put it away and threw out the flyers. I repotted a palm plant into a large pot and also a weak Golden Pythos plant into a larger pot. I am just finishing up making up a patch of icetea.htm . This time I am using ten orange peako bag, six green tea bag, two Twinnings Earle Grey tea bags, and one Camomille bag along with the usual mixture. I have not been using wine in it recently because spending so much money on computer parts, I can not afford to refreshen my cooking wine supply at the moment. Well it is pretty much a quiet evening. I might have some Microwave popcorn now. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>04/13/00 Thursday 6:50 A.M. EDT: I was up until about 1 P.M. yesterday. I got up at about 5 P.M.. I chatted with a friend. I tried all night until about 2 A.M. to get the onboard Lan going through various configurations and settings to no avail. I eventually uninstalled it and the network drivers. I have a feeling the onboard Lan is not compatable with the Cable modem and the backup computer Lan card. Well I had a bit of trouble with my Creative Lab SW 32 sound drivers, so I opened up the computer again and checked that the two 4 meg. memory chips on the card were properly seated and the cable near it was not touching it. I also disabled a DOS emulation setting on the card. I then uninstalled my Audio and Network drivers and rebooted, and the over all system is running fine. I am getting Norton Benchmarks from about 120 to 140 which is pretty good for my system. I had a peanut butter sandwich around 11 P.M. with ice tea. I also had three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins and instant coffee about 3 A.M.. I am a bit tired. I will rest for a while and I also have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>04/12/00 Wednesday 12:10 P.M. EDT: Well after I had my speghetti dinner last night with the fresh slices of French bread. I did a little routine internet work. I also installed the latest version of the Apache server .12 . About 4 A.M., I decided to enable the onboard Network LAN on my primary computer by setting the dip switch inside the case. I then installed the driver for it. From then on, I have been working at trying to network the two computers together. I get each computer set up in Network, but I can not get them to recognize each other and communicate between them. I don't know if it is the LAN connections or the settings. I basically have it all set up properly, and all LAN card and connections seem to be working properly. Well I am a bit tired, so I will rest for now. I had some slices of the French bread through out the morning along with ice tea. Well time for rest. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>04/11/00 Tuesday 11:15 P.M. EDT: Well I just finished making two medium loaves of French bread and I am now letting them cool on a wire rack. I cooked them for 30 minutes on the Faberware convection oven at 350 degrees in a Echo Baker's French bread pan. Each is about 12 to 13 inches long, and since the Echo Baker's French bread pan is only about 18 inches long, and it just fits into the Faberware oven, I am limited to the length of French Bread I can cook. I used the Welbilt recipie for French Bread. I put in the Welbilt bread machine, a package of Fleishman's yeast, three cups of flour, a tablespoon of sugar, a teaspoon of salt, three tablespoons of olive oil, and a cup and a eighth of hot water. I set the Welbilt bread machine to "French Recipie" and I started it for about a half hour letting it run on the first part of the cycle until the dough was kneeded. I then turned off the Welbilt bread machine, and I floured a wooden bread board. I seperate the dough into two halves, and I rolled each out into about 12 inch long rolls. I lightly oiled with olive oil the Echo Baker french bread pan, and I put each roll of dough in each of two sections. I then put the kitchen oven on warm a few short minutes to take the chill out of it, and I let the dough rise in the closed oven for about an hour before putting it all the Faberware convection oven to bake. I listened to Connecticut Public Televison on a show about the former Presidents and now there is a show on about the history of Connecticut. Well I guess in a short while I will reheated the rest of the speghetti noodles with the remainder of the of my speghetti sauce for dinner and eat it with the a few slices of the French bread along with ice tea, and I guess a cup of Samba instant coffee with milk and sugar. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>04/11/00 Tuesday 9:20 P.M. EDT: I went to bed after the last message. The telephone rang about 9 A.M., but I did not answer it and the answering machine did not record a message. I slept until about 4 P.M.. I recieved a telephone call from MCI trying to get me to change, but I decided to keep my current ATT service which is 7 cents a minute during prime time and from 7 P.M. to 7 A.M. and on weekends it is 5 cents a minute, plus the first six months I get 60 minutes free. I also have to pay $5 a month for this service. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I checked the mail. It looked to be a cold damp day outside. I watched the ABC evening news. I chatted with the ATT customer service representative about my service plan. I am now making French Bread dough in the Welbilt bread machine which I will then form into two French loaves and let rise in the French loaf bread pans in the oven on a warm setting just to take the chill out of the oven and then turn it off and let if rise in the oven for an hour and then I will bake the two loaves at 350 degrees in the Faberware convection oven for 30 minutes to 40 minutes to have some fresh French bread to go with my reheated speghetti dinner later on this evening. Not much going on. I downloaded Napster which seems to be very effective in finding MP3 files on the internet. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>04/11/00 Tuesday 6:20 A.M. EDT: Well I finished sifting through my email. Time for bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>04/11/00 Tuesday 4:40 A.M. EDT: Well I wrote a letter and published it with Microsoft Home Publishing Premium 2000 which I bought for $5, and I printed it out in color. I cut and pasted different sections of the letter into the different pages I set up. It looks pretty good, however the extra graphics seem to use up a lot of ink in the color ink cartridge in the Compaq IJ200 color printer, and it also takes a bit of time to print them. I then went out and mailed the letter. I also bought seven stamps for .33 each at the post office for $2.31. The new post office up the side road from Rusty Oxer's service station has a stamp machine in the lobby that is open all night. I next went downtown, and I drove by the waterfront. I then parked downtown. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue on a very chilly evening. I stopped by the Shell Station on the way home. My driver's side rear tire was down ten pounds of air, so I raised the air pressure to 30 pounds. I stopped by the service station cashier's desk and he was checking out the new cablevision channel line up. I returned home, and I made some microwave popcorn and had it with ice tea. I checked the new cablevision television channel line up. It is a bit different and will take some getting use to. There was an old Noel Coward film on "Our Man in Havana" which seemed sort of interesting. Well I have about 300 automatic email messages to get through, but I am mostly caught up with my work for now. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>04/10/00 Monday 11:25 P.M. EDT: I updated the text file of all Scott's Random Notes note02pr.htm . I also printed out the last section to add to the already printed out sections. I need to find more left side clipable blue binders like I have used previously. I have not been able to find them at Staples in Old Greenwich. It is now 1036 pages available in a ASCII Text DOS file for your downloading and enjoyment and printable if you need to print it. Well I am now about to write a letter, and I might try printing it out with my Microsoft Home Publishing Software or PrintShop software for a more colorful letter. CIO

Note:<888>04/10/00 Monday 10:15 P.M. EDT: Well I went out after cleaning up after the last message. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and returned some books and read the local paper. I then stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I found a cream pitcher they had disgarded in a dumpster in front. I stopped by the waterfront. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I read the local paper for the last three days while waiting. I then headed on back down to the waterfront and then returned home. I decided to make some alterations to my furniture setup. I moved the blue couch perpendicular to the day bed, so it is across the room facing the television again. I moved the Queen Anne chair in front of the bar, so one can still reach the sterio system easily. I moved the palm leave basket out of the way in the bedroom. I put the mahogany tea table along side the computer chair. I moved the Danish coffee table with large number buttons in front of the blue sofa. I had to move the large green couch slightly more into the bedroom hallway, but it is still passable. I put the telephone answering machine on the bedroom desk. Well after doing all that, the apartment is still more open and spacious and more comfortable, but one has easy access to the day bed. I then rested from about 6 P.M. to 8 P.M.. I watched a bit of the www.foodtv.com . I reheated some of my homemade speghetti sauce with some angel air speghetti and had that for dinner with ice tea and cappacino. Well I have about 300 automatic email mesages to sift through from the past week along with other work. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>04/10/00 Monday 1:25 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon today. I had breakfast of GU corn flakes, toast, vitaimins, orange juice, and coffee. I have a 4 P.M. appointment. I will clean up and go out shortly. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>04/09/00 Sunday 11:40 P.M. EDT: I went after the last message, and there was hardly any snow left, but it was cool. I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I then went to CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I bought a six pack of BIC lighters for $3.24 with the .75 off coupon, CVS facial tissue .50, CVS Pine Disinfectant $1.99, Ajax antibacterial liquid dishwashing detergent .79, 8 oz. of sugarless jelly beans .69, Ultra Brite toothpaste .99 plus .49 CT. tax for $8.70. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I viewed the waterfront. I then went to the Grand Union and bought a container of STP fuel injection treatment for $3.29 plus .20 tax for $3.49. I next went to the Exxon station put the STP fuel injection treatment in the gasoline tank, and I bought $12.80 of premium at $1.89.9 a gallon. I also bought a carton of buy three get two free of Marlboro Lights 100s for $12. I then drove down to the center of town, and I park. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I returned to the car. I went back by the ATM machine. I then went to the Grand Union. I bought a 12 oz. jar of Jiffy crunchy peanut butter for $1.99, a 28 oz. box of Kelloggs corn flakes for $2, GU whole stewed tomatoes $1.09, and GU stewed sliced tomatoes $1.09, 2 GU tomatoe paste .75 both, a 8 oz. container of 4C parmesian and romano grated cheese $3.69, a package of Hot Italian sausages at $2.49 a pound for $4.20, two green pepers at $1.69 a pound for $1.74, a box of whole mushroom for $1.50a bulb of garlic at $2.99 a pound for .63 box of GU sugar substitute for $1.69 for $20.45 total. I chatted with another customer about politics and the economy outside in the parking lot. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. I sliced the hot sausage links into half inch slices. I put a little olive oil in the bottom of the Griswold frying and I brown the sausage on medium heat. I put a little olive oil to cover the bottom of a gallon Revere stew pot. I added a a can of stewed whole tomatoes and a can of stewed sliced tomatoes. I added the browned hot sausages which formed little ball while I was stirring them when they were done in about fifteen minutes. While doing this, I cleaned and diced in half inch chunks one large and two medium onions, 2 large green bell peppers, and seven gloves of garlic cleaned and diced in small bits, which I added. I quartered and sixth the box of mushrooms which I set aside. I added another can of sliced stew tomatoes to the pot with a quarter cup of white wine, and two cans of tomatoe paste, and three beef boullion cubes, a couple dozen drops of Sessame oil, a few dashes of Angostora bitters, Lea and Perrins worstershire sauce, Angostora Soy Sauce, McHilney tabasco sauce, along with a a few small dashes of black pepper, celery salt, Chinese five spice, chili powder, ginger, cinnemon, pepperica, and a few larger dashes of garlic powder, basil, thyme, oregano, and Italian spices along with four bay leaves. I mixed this all together in the pot along with the sectioned mushroom while it was beginning to heat on medium. I eventually cooked if for a 45 minutes on medum and 30 minutes on low stirring every fifteen minutes. The last half hour, I boiled some water with a tiny bit of olive oil and salt for the extra thin speghetti noodles and I will boiled them the last five minutes before the speghetti sauce is ready. It will be a good meal, I will have with a little of the grated cheese on it and ice tea. Well it should be ready about midnight. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>04/09/00 Sunday 7:40 P.M. EDT: I went back to bed after the last message until 3 P.M. when I got a telephone call from a family member. I then had some Prgresso New England Clam Chowder with toast and ice tea and instant coffee. I then cleaned the apartment and watered the plants. I watched the ABC evening news. I just finished cleaning up, so I will go out for some errand and hope there is not any snow left on the car. Well have a good evening. I also changed the mirror at the bedroom entrance to over the bedroom desk, and put the Bermuda print at the bedroom entrance. Also I rehung the Albertville Olympics Stamps over the mirror to the left of the living room left closet and rehung the chateau prints to center them underneath the parsons lamps. CIO

Note:<888>04/09/00 Sunday 8:55 A.M. EDT: I went to bed after the last message. I was up about 3 A.M.. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I tried networking the two computers together by connecting the two different LAN card, and using Thresh's FiringSquad to follow the installation of the Network. However, it took a while and although I got the network installed on each computer, the different LAN cards did not communicate between each other. I guess the only other way would be to try using identical LAN cards. Well it took some time, and I am just about ready to quit and take a rest. It sounds like it is raining out. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>04/08/00 Saturday 9:05 P.M. EDT: I got the networking installed on the backup computer by setting the network card to 16 bit instead of the first setting of 32 bit. I did not put Dialup Networking on the backup computer since, the telephone modme might need to have its dip pins set or other settings. I then installed the Microsoft Home Publishing and the BorderBund Print Shop. I then ran Norton Disk Doctor, Norton Speedisk on the C: drive which I also did on the secondary computer. I then did a C: drive to D: drive backup. I watched a bit of television while doing this. I also had some popcorn this afternoon and I had a peanut butter sandwich with ice tea for dinner. Well I might try resting. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>04/08/00 Saturday 6:00 A.M. EDT: Well I read in the Greenwich Times yesterday that today is the first anniversary of the new dolphin in the Mystic, Connecticut aquarium. I had dinner about midnight of roasted chicken, steamed asperagus, microwaved potatoe, ice tea, and instant coffee. I just had a peanut butter sandwich with ice tea. Well not much happening. I have just been relaxing around all night. Well have a good morning. Time for me to go to bed. The computer seems to be running fine. CIO