Note: <888> 05/31/03  Saturday 11:20 P.M.:  I answered a telephone survey about Connecticut politics over the telephone this evening.  In the mail today, I had a recall notice from Hyundai about needing to inspect my 1999 Hyundai Accent for a cracked exhaust manifold.  It said if they need to replace, it they will replace it free, and they are putting a ten year warranty on the exhaust manifold.  I will check with Norwalk Hyundai to see if they inspected the exhaust manifold when I was up there for the 35,000 mile maintenance check up two weeks ago.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/31/03  Saturday 11:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5.80 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.759 a gallon for about 30 miles per gallon.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a bag of Snyder's sourdough pretzels for $1.50, boneless center cut pork chops at $2.99 a pound for $4.13, a head of cauliflower for $2.49, and a bulb of garlic at $2.69 a pound for .43 for $8.55 total.  I then returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/31/03  Saturday 8:20 P.M.:  I watched some television after the last message last night.  I had some Carr's crackers.  I had a telephone call from a relative about 9 A.M. this morning.  I was up at noon, and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with grape jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I fell back to sleep until 5 P.M..  I had a six ounce can of Council crab meat which I made into two crab meat sandwiches with two tablespoons of low fat Hellmann's mayonnaise which I had with ice tea.  I put in a new 38 watt 12 inch circular florescent bulb in the bathroom light fixture above the bathroom sink.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I installed a new Hawaiian Breeze oil scent Glade plug-in in the kitchen.  I will now clean up and go out for a drive.  It is raining outside lightly.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 11:45 P.M.:  I had three pieces of Swiss Cheese 1/4 inch thick by 2 inches by 1.5 inches.  The temperature low in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday was 44 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=St.+Petersburg%2C+Russia .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch a bit of television before going to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 11:05 P.M.:  It looks to me like some cadet has put a bit of ice water over the weather station, since http://www.usma.edu/dops/GraduationWeek2003.htm .  http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=West+Point%2C+New+York says it is 64 degrees Fahrenheit right now.  Of course, it so long since I have been there, they might have moved it up to Canada or Alaska who knows.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 10:55 P.M.:  For some odd reason, it says it is 31.4 degrees Fahrenheit at West Point right now http://www.dean.usma.edu/geo/weather/weather.htm .  Maybe it is cooler up in those hills about 40 miles away.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 10:40 P.M.:  I had two scoops of Edy's low fat low sugar strawberry vanilla swirl ice cream with three large rinsed California strawberries that I quartered lengthwise along with a glass of ice tea.  On my Bellwether Portfolio index it is meant for tracking the stock market performance.  It is not meant to outperform the market, like a serious investor would try to do.  Thus when the market goes up it goes up, and when the market goes down it goes down. That is the nature of an index.  Tomorrow on Saturday May 31, at the United States of America Military Academy at West Point, New York http://www.usma.edu/ they will hold graduation exercises, and the Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney will address the Class of 2003 http://www.usma.edu/dops/GraduationWeek2003.htm .  http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=West+Point%2C+New+York calls for late morning showers, so more than likely the ceremonies will be held at Michie Stadium unless severe weather should develop, in which case the ceremonies are held in Eisenhower Hall, which are limited to guests of the class of 2003.  Needless to say, I will probably be sleeping and getting up around noon and doing my house cleaning.  Since it might be raining later Saturday afternoon, I will try to make it out to people watch depending on the weather.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 10:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  They're blocking the Court Circular again.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 9:35 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I checked out a DVD video disk, but I just remembered that I have seen it on television before.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by the Senior Arts Center to use the bathroom, and I bought a lottery ticket on a quilt raffle for a dollar.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four 12.5 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken and mushroom dinners for $1.69 each for $6.76 total.  I just returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 6:30 P.M.:  Dinner was enjoyable.  I will now go out again.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 6:25 P.M.:  If one wants to track Scott's Bellwether Portfolio index in Microsoft's Investor Portfolio at  http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp , one can download it at http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scopor01.zip  .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 6:05 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I am microwaving a Stouffer's 15 ounce lean cuisine Salisbury steak dinner, which I will have shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 5:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  Judging from the sky, it looked like it was going to rain, so I did not walk Greenwich Avenue.  Generally this time of year when it starts to get warmer, we get heat storms, which generally means a shower about 4:30 P.M. in the afternoon.  I went to the Greenwich Library, and I read Scientific America and the Greenwich Times.  http://www.country-living.com/ is listing in the Greenwich Times a 2 bedroom apartment at the stately Greenwich Lodge for $615,000.  Of course there would probably also be a maintenance charge of a couple thousand dollars a month too.  For downtown living comfort for individuals, the Greenwich Lodge is about the best apartment complex, since it is older, it has more spacious grounds near the Greenwich Hospital and convenient to downtown if one does not mind all the traffic.   There was an article about computers in Scientific America.  I just now returned home after the rain storm while I was at the library, and the sun is now out.  I had three slices of Swiss cheese and some ice tea.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/30/03:

Note: <888> 05/30/03  Friday 1:25 P.M.:  I was up at noon, and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 11:00 P.M.:  I went through my email, and I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 10:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 9:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I had two scoops of Edy's low fat low sugar strawberry vanilla swirl ice cream with three large California strawberries that I rinsed in cold water, and I sliced lengthwise into quarters.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 9:15 P.M.:  I went back out, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I chatted with a local, and some of the regular fishermen were down by the waterfront.  At sunset, the Indian Harbor Yacht Club http://www.indianharboryc.com with its weather page at http://www.indianharboryc.com/weather1.htm fired its small signal cannon to signal sunset.  I hope the young dock boys whom fire the signal cannon have learned how to clean it properly and polish it, because like all artillery pieces, they can explode if not properly maintained.  I then sat out downtown briefly.  I just now returned home, and I had ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 7:05 P.M.:  Well, it is a warm evening, so I think I will go downtown and people watch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 6:55 P.M.:  The Times of London http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ has made the Register and the Court Circular free again, so I guess they decided that knowing the Queen and her family's business should be free for the general public to know.  I enjoy keeping an eye on them, since it was probably her relatives that threw us out of there about 400 years ago, and since I still speak English, I feel it is important to keep and eye on their activities in the English speaking language, but I am sure my Dutch and French relatives good not give a hoot.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 6:35 P.M.:  Windows update tried to install the 811493 security update which slows down the system significantly, so I declined to install it.  I had the same scallop dinner as the night before last, but this time in the olive oil garlic wine herb juices I cooked the scallops in, I added a small bit of lemon juice, and I had sliced green squash instead of yellow squash.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/03  Thursday 5:40 P.M.:  I was up at 11 P.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  They are closed for renovation, but they are suppose to be back open tomorrow.  I then made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 15 ounce Salisbury steak dinners and two 15 ounce Lean Cuisine Turkey dinners for $1.69 each for $6.76 total.  I then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total.  I then returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 11:25 P.M.:  I can not read the Times of London http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ Court Circular now, since it seems to be now part of the subscription package that one has to pay for.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 11:15 P.M.:  When my roommate and I left Nantucket in October 1978, a couple weeks before while I was still working at the Languedoc restaurant and after I had the new clutch put in the Subaru, I bought a surf casting rod blank that split in half.  I put on the ferrules, and I bought a reel and line at the tackle shop that was next to the A&P.  Once I had it assembled, I went out with another friend to the south shore of the island by Lyon Farm Road where the old Navy Quonset hut was, and that evening I caught 78 blue fish and two striped bass.  I filleted them on the beach, and I sold the filets to the Languedoc restaurant for about fifty cents a pound.  Needless to say at that point I though fishing was easy, but it was beginners luck.  On the first trip to the west coast, the surf casting rod fit into the Subaru, since it split in half.  When I first arrived in Laguna, I would try fishing just north of Dana Point near where we staying.  I went to a tackle shop, and I bought some clear primer and lacquer.  I then wrapped both halves of the blank fishing pole entirely with some of the Heminway thread I bought at Hood Sails in Nantucket that came from Steamboat Road in Greenwich that the previous summer, I had used to make my blue canvas nap sack.  After, I wrapped it entirely,  I coated it with about four layers of lacquer, but I only waited two days between coats and lightly sanding it with fine steel sand paper.  After if was finished, and it looked like a very strong fishing rod, the lacquer bubbled because it had not dried properly in the damp California ocean atmosphere.  Anyway in my trips up and down the coast of California in the two different cars, I would always have my surf casting rod with me.  I would frequently try my hand at fishing in San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Carmel, and my favorite location was Surf, California just north of Point Conception just north of Santa Barbara just west of Vandenberg Air Force Base.  There was a small train station depot there that said Surf, California.  In all the fishing attempts, I never even go a nipple, I guess the surf drops off too fast.  Needless to say on election day in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won by a land slide, I was low on money, so I traded my surf casting rod and reel at the Santa Barbara Royal Dutch Shell gasoline station on the highway running through town for $10 in gasoline, and I drove south to Laguna.  I have never fished since then.  I can not remember if I kept the yellow plastic tackle box with the Hopkins lures from St. Louis, Missouri that worked so well out in Nantucket.  Since I sold the Volvo at the end of that trip in California, more than likely since I did not have the surf casting rod, I would not have brought back the tackle box or other heavier items like tools on the jet back to the east coast, so either I ditched them, left it at the Shell station, or left it and other items in the Volvo that I sold.  I used the surf casting rod down in the Florida Keys and Daytona and at Junes Beach, and I would have had it in Nantucket in the spring of 1979, but I did not return back to Nantucket as I recall until the spring of 1983 after finishing the garage apartment and going to Norway.  I might have gone out to Nantucket briefly in the summer of 1979 with the same friend before the trip to California, but I can not recall whether I did or not.  I recall the last time I was in Nantucket was around the summer of 1987 with another friend for a few day visit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 10:20 P.M.:  I think in the spring of 1979, my friend and I also went up to Nantucket for about a month.  We bought four hundred dollars of carpentry tools, which we used to do some carpentry up there.  I used some of them on the playroom in Chestnut Hill, in the fall of 1979, and I believe I sold some of them in Carmel on the trip out there on my own in the fall of 1979, and I use some of them and more that I bought for the garage apartment in Long Island in 1982 and 1983, and I eventually gave them to my brother in law in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania; since the arthritis bothered me so much.  I think I used them down there for another project, and I used them once again on Long Island some time later to cut an opening from the main house to the garage apartment bathroom to connect them and frame in a door and put in steps.  As I recall, there was not too much activity at that time in computers out in California, and other than terminals at the University of California of Santa Cruz computer lab, I did not have access to any.  There were quite a few people in Santa Cruz from Nantucket, so maybe some of them possibly were from Wood's Hole oceanographic institute monitoring Mount St. Helens before it erupted.  I did not hear about it being active while out there, but then again I did not see much media.  I remember a lot of people wearing Bog Whan metals around their necks. On the last trip in the Volvo, the University of California at Santa Cruz had about 2,000 vintage Volvos on campus, and the Royal Swedish symphony was in residence on campus, and I believe the King of Sweden was touring San Francisco.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 9:55 P.M.:  On the first trip to California in October of 1978, I mentioned that the gasoline attendant at the gas station in Midland, Texas did not close my hood properly on the 1971 yellow Subaru wagon, so it flew up when I went back on the highway, and it put a long double cracker the full length of the windshield.  While touring the west coast beach resorts on that trip, I also went to about a dozen junkyards looking for a replacement windshield.  I think as I recall when I returned back east on the first trip after the lousy weather across country, I found a junk yard on the west side of Fort Lauderdale that had lots of junked Subarus of that vintage.  Apparently Howard Hughes had designed the original Subaru, and it when it first came out, it had been test driven in large numbers at a track in Fort Lauderdale.  As I recall, I traded for a windshield and a air conditioning system my Panasonic waterproof floating radio that I had bought in Nantucket a couple of summers before.  I installed the windshield right away, and that upcoming Christmas while in Greenwich house sitting for a friend of my mother's I installed the air conditioning system in the Subaru.  However, it never worked since it had a leak in the system.  Also in the trip to California that I flew into John Wayne airport, I think I also flew into Monterey airport from John Wayne airport and from there flew into Santa Barbara airport before returning to John Wayne or Las Angeles airport.  I think I replaced the Subaru starter motor in Port Washington, Long Island when I was staying there in the winter of 1980.  I recall I also drove up to the Canadian border that winter, and I bought my limit of duty free liquor, and I returned via Lake Placid before arriving back in New Canaan, Connecticut.  The problem with flying to California is that without a credit card, they will not rent you a car even if one has the money.  In touring areas when I traveled instead of eating at fast food restaurants which we did occasionally we usually ate out of grocery stores.  Since the dairy sections were easy to fine, we usually drank orange juice or milk, and ate Colby cheese and yogurt.  Once in Santa Barbara when we were on the last trip, I was low on funds, so I tried to steal a package of two filet mignons from a grocery store there to cook on a beach grill, but I was caught, and I spent several days in jail, until my bail was wired from Manhattan.  Another time when the Volvo needed an oil change in Carmel, I walked out of a grocery store with four quarts of Castrol oil, but I was not caught.  Basically in my travels, I stayed very honest.  I think on the trip to California with the Subaru in the fall of 1979 with my friend, we were in Malibu on Labor Day weekend, and we saw a lot of people at the beach which was very festive, and we tried to go to the Getty Museum, but it was closed, so we drove down to Laguna Beach.  Also while around Santa Cruz, California we would make side trips to Palo Alto, California and spend time at Stamford University.  On the last trip to California in the Volvo, we picked up a Key Palm coconut in Key West, and they sprayed it at the California border.  We left it outside the Stamford University botanical gardens entrance in case they wanted to grow it.  I hope we did not cause the med fly invasion.  I think once or twice we toured Belle Air, California, and it sort of looked a bit like Greenwich or Palm Beach.  A number of times we drove the Pacific Coast highway between San Luis Esposito and Carmel, which is easy to do in a small car.  We did not have that many deluxe meals.  On my own, I ate restaurant meals at the restaurant at the Hyatt in L'Haina.  I think we ate at a steak house in Carmel, where I stayed twice at the Normandy Inn, and I believe we ate once at a good restaurant in Laguna across from the Laguna Hotel.  Also when I was robbed in New York before the last trip, we also ate that night with my friend's mother in SoHo.  I had my identification stolen when I was robbed including a United States passport which according to American Express ended up in Amsterdam before I was ever there.  Thus the bulk of about 70% of the traveling funds were stolen from me that night.  Thus all those trips were basically done on a shoe string budget and wing and a prayer.   We frequently when traveling used college facilities to clean up and shower and would relax reading in the library.  I remembering seeing lots of traveling craft fairs around colleges and Jane Fonda always seemed to be speaking.  On the last trip in Santa Barbara, we bought an inexpensive sleeping bag to sleep under over the reclining seats in the Volvo since it was cold at night in the mountains east of Santa Barbara.  I always thought that there might be Mountain Lions around.  We never did pay the fee for the campgrounds since they were always empty, and it was out of season.  We frequently would grill on the campground grills or some of the public beach grills.  The campgrounds usually had hot showers and toilets.  Since there was so much traffic in Las Angeles, we did not try touring it.  We did tour Huntington Beach and the Long Beach areas, and I think we made several trips to San Franciso after our original trip.  I remember once viewing the rare book collection in the old Episcopal Church on Nob Hill.  On the first trip across country a pope died, and while we were touring the Santa Barbara Mission, it was announced that John Paul II had been elected Pope, although neither of us was catholic, it was amusing.  A number of times in Florida and California we would stop at Farmer's Market or stalls to get fresh food to eat.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 8:55 P.M.:  In my life time, I have made five trips to the west coast of the United States of America.  The first was in October of 1978, after working in restaurants and house painting in Nantucket that summer, I bought a 1971 yellow Subaru station wagon, and I put a new clutch in it.  My roommate, and I left Nantucket, and we stopped by mother's in Greenwich, and then we started west.  We visited my middle sister in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. We stopped by my youngest sister's in Chicago, and then we visited my grandparents in Champaign, Illinois, and then we visited my eldest sister in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  We then drove down towards Arizona, and we visited the Grand Canyon, and we eventually arrived in San Diego.  The first week to rest, we stayed in a motel in south Laguna Beach.  We then drove up north along the coast highway through Santa Barbara, Carmel, and Santa Cruz.  We arrived in San Francisco on Columbus Day, and the who city was closed to vehicle traffic since the Queen of Spain was there.  I noticed the American railroad society convention was going on in the Hyatt Hotel.  We toured San Francisco and the waterfront.  We then headed back south to Carmel and down to Laguna Beach.  We stayed at camp grounds west of San Juan Capistrano in the mountains.  For a couple weeks before Thanksgiving we delivered telephone books in Laguna.  We stay in a motel on Laguna Beach for a couple weeks, and on Thanksgiving Day we were evicted for non payment of rent, since the telephone book job had not paid us yet.  I remember taking the cooked turkey out of the oven at the motel, and we ate it on the beach where the Ritz Carlton is now located in Laguna Beach.  The following day we got our pay for delivering telephone books, so we headed back east through Las Vegas.  I remember hearing Tsunami warnings for the west coast of California on the radio.  We drove from Las Vegas, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah, and we cleaned up at the University of Utah gymnasium.  We then started driving east into the Rocky Mountains.  Once we were at altitude it started snowing heavily.  We kept going in the blizzard through out the night, and there were only a few stopping areas along the way.  The next day we kept driving through the blizzard reaching Vail, Colorado.  We drove back west looking for a room, but we could not find a cheap one.  We then pulled over in Dillon, Colorado, and I went through a tire dump at a Sears, and I found two good Continental snow tires with studs for the car.  I went to an Amoco gasoline station in Vail, and I had them put on the front of the front wheel drive Subaru.  We then were able to make it through the blizzard over Eisenhower Pass down to Denver.  We spent the night at the Denver airport, and I called a second cousin in Chicago who had a condo in Vail, and he thought I was nuts for driving in that weather.  We rested the following day touring Denver, and after another night at the airport, we headed east over the great plains in an ice storm with a layer of ice on the highway.  Around six hours west of Russell, Kansas we found a garage to repair a leaking radiator hose.  That morning around sunrise we stopped by Russell, Kansas, and the famous coffee shop there was closed that early in the morning.  We drove east taking a diagonal route in Oklahoma down to Tulsa, where my sister was, and we knocked on her door in the middle of the evening on a Sunday night.  She did not recognize us, and she thought we were tramps, so she gave us some money and sent us on our way.  When we reached Arkansas and Louisiana there was a lot of flooding, and in the Florida pan handle, there were tornados.  We eventually reached Key West, and there was a Hurricane Watch on, so after that first trip, I was determined the United States of America has the worst weather in the world.  We eventually stayed for about a week at my friend's sister's apartment in Daytona Beach, Florida, before returning north for Christmas in Greenwich and Long Island.  We then went back down to Daytona Beach for the winter after Christmas for the winter of 1979 with various side trips around Florida.  When we returned north, we stayed at my mother's whom was recently married and had vacated an apartment in Greenwich that we used for about six weeks.  Around August 1, 1979, we drove up to Nantucket, and after a few days in Nantucket, we went to Hanover, New Hampshire, and we stayed there for a few days.  We then went to Montreal and after touring Montreal, we went to Toronto and after touring Toronto, we drove down to Chicago to my youngest sister's.  We then visited my grandparents again in Champaign, Illinois.  We then drove west on Route 70, and we spent a night at a camp ground in the Rockies, and then we drove over the same road in the summer that we had driven through in the blizzard the previous winter.  This time, we headed west from Salt Lake City to Reno and passing over the Sierra Nevadas, we encountered snow in August in Truckee, California.  We stopped by briefly at Squaw Valley, California arriving in San Francisco, and then going down to Santa Cruz, California and Carmel, California.  We toured up and down the coast as far south as San Diego with stops at all the different coast beach resorts like San Diego, La Hoya, San Clemente, Laguna, Santa Barbara, Carmel, and Santa Cruz.  We stayed in camp grounds in the mountains east of San Juan Capistrano and around Santa Barbara, and we also stayed on the grounds of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.  As I recall we spent a bit of time out there, and we then drove back in October going east from Laguna to Las Vegas and back over to Salt Lake City and through the Rockies in fairer weather, and we toured Colorado Springs, and then drove east to Champaign, Illinois, and we visited my grandparents again, and then back to the New York area and Long Island.  For about six weeks that fall, I built a playroom in the basement of my sister's house in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and then I drove out to California on my own.  It was probably in mid November, I left Chestnut Hill, and I then visited my grandparents again in Champaign, Illinois for the last time, and I drove west on Route 80 to Denver, and then I went north to Laramie, Wyoming not wanting to drive through the higher Rockies.  I drove from their to Salt Lake City to San Francisco, and then to Santa Cruz, California where another friend was.  I visited the campus at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  I spent some time around Carmel, and I think I went down to Laguna for a while.  I was in San Francisco at the San Francisco airport at the Pan AM VIP lounge when a lot of passengers left on the Shang Hai clipper to Shang Hai, China starting the Pan AM clipper service again to China.  I remember a Mrs. Honeywell from Wellesley, Massachusetts had signed the guest book.  The government then went on alert because of the Iran Hostage rescue situation in the Iranian desert, so I drove south to Arizona and across the country east on Route 10.  I picked up to hitchhikers in New Mexico from Greenwich.  We stopped in Fort Apache, Texas to get gasoline, and I gave one of the hitchhikers the money to pay for the gas, but he must have pocketed it, because I was stopped by the police down the road.  I was arrested for not paying for the gasoline at a Texaco gasoline station, and the two hitchhikers took off.  I spent the night in jail, and I called my Uncle in Dallas, and I was set free the next morning when I paid for the gasoline.  I then drove east, and I toured San Antonio and the Alamo.  I drove into Kelly air force base to see what was happening with the alert, and all the troops were carrying automatic weapons.  I checked with the operations center to see if it was safe to travel.  Along Route 10 there were a lot of Department of Defense stickers on cars, and I had seen important government officials in San Francisco airport.  I also stopped at Tucson airport.  I eventually drove into Florida and down to Key West.  I spent about a week or two there sleeping in my car at the Key West airport and enjoying the community.  One problem with the Subaru was the starter motor quit working about the second trip to California, so it had to push started whenever I started it, which without the hills in California was sort of a pain.   I also had a broken windshield which I think I fixed with a replacement one from a junk yard in Fort Lauderdale.  The windshield was originally broken when the gasoline station attendant in Midland, Texas on the first trip did not close the hood all the way. However, I might have replaced the windshield after the second trip.  Anyway, I then drove north, and I stayed out in Port Washington, Long Island at a friend's father's house and New Canaan, Connecticut at my mother's house.  Around the fourth of July weekend in 1980, I was with my family and the Bush group in Kennebunkport, when George Bush got the vice presidential nomination.  When I returned to New Canaan, I left the Subaru at the Greenwich Country Club, and I caught and airport limousine to La Guardia airport, and I flew out to John Wayne airport in Newport Beach, California.  I spent a couple of weeks in Laguna vacationing at the beach staying alternate nights at an inexpensive motel and staying up all night the other alternate nights.  I also flew up to San Francisco, and I visited with a friend in Santa Cruz.  I then went back to Laguna, and I flew from Las Angeles to Hawaii to Maui, and I stayed for about 10 days at the Hyatt in L'Haina.  I did not leave the hotel, and I had a good time swimming in the pool and using the hotel facilities.  I then flew from Maui to Hawaii, and I took a taxi cab ride out to Pearl Harbor which was quite expensive.  I then returned from Hawaii to San Jose, California airport, and I spent the Labor Day weekend with a fourth generation Californian in Santa Cruz, California whom had gone to MIT.  I caught up with my friend there, and then I stayed in Carmel, California for a while.  I then flew from Monterey airport to Laguna Beach, and after about a week there, I flew back to New York, and I came out to Greenwich, and I picked up the Subaru at the Greenwich Country Club, and I returned to New Canaan.  I then spent some time in New Canaan.  Towards the end of September, I was robbed of traveling funds, so with remaining funds, I bought at John Delia Subaru in Greenwich, a 1974 2 door Burgundy Volvo for $1,700, and I gave them the Subaru which was worn out.  Then the same friend and I drove out to Provincetown, Massachusetts and then we drove up to Hanover, New Hampshire and up to Montreal.  We then drove over to Toronto and down the New York thruway back to New York.  We toured the various locations in that phase of the trip.  We then kept driving down to Florida, and we drove down the east coast of Florida stopping for a while in Palm Beach, before spending a couple of days in Key West.  We then drove up the west coast of Florida, and we went west of Route 10 to San Diego, California in rather hot weather, since the Volvo did not have air conditioning.  We returned back to Laguna, and we then drove up to Santa Cruz, and we visited with another friend.  We spent quite a bit of time in Santa Barbara, and we stayed in a campground next to Ronald Reagan's ranch touring the area in the daytime.  We also spent some time in Carmel.  Around election day when it looked like Reagan was going to win, we stopped by the Montecito Inn south of Santa Barbara, and I ran into a lawyer from Greenwich that worked for my father's former company.  That night I went down to Laguna Beach for the Reagan victory party.  Since funds were getting low, the following week, I sold the Volvo at a Cash for Your Car place next to the entrance of Disneyland for $1,250 since the clutch was nearly gone.  We then caught a jet back to New York, and spent the fall at my friend's mother's apartment, and my friend went back out to Long Island to help his grandmother whom was hurt in a fire around Christmas Time.  Thus that accounts for five trips to California, three and half by land and one and a half by air.  Well, on the road with the Reagan Bush campaign was a lot better than staying home in Connecticut, and the Volvo did have a Reagan Bush bumper sticker on it that I picked up at the campaign headquarters on Greenwich Avenue where People's Bank is now where the Gulf Station used to be across from the train station.  I think in the winter of 1980 before his election, Ronald Reagan marched in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Greenwich.  Thus in those two years of moving quite a bit, I enjoyed coming back to a rest in this area.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 7:10 P.M.:  I had the Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken with mushrooms dinner with ice tea for dinner.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 6:40 P.M.:  I mentioned Miami, Florida in my notes last night.  I did actually tour Miami Beach in the fall of 1976 a number of times while I was centered in Fort Lauderdale.  The beach on Miami Beach was mostly washed away and was very small in depth.  There were a number of vintage 1950s style high rise hotels along the ocean front up to Hollywood, Florida.  On the west side of the beach strip, there were a large number of three and four story art deco hotels, and one would see thousands of older people sitting in lawn chairs in front of those older hotels.  Downtown Miami had parks were there were also lots of older people taking naps in the day time.  It seemed to be a timeless peaceful environment back then.  I have heard that since then the yuppies have modernized the strip and increased tourism, so I guess the older people that are still around have moved elsewhere.  Still, it was frequently windy and in the 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the day time in the fall of 1976, so it was not exactly beach weather.  Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano, Boca Raton, and Delray Beach were traditional Florida retirement communities.  Palm Beach, Florida was very traditional and peaceful in the fall before the winter residents arrived around Christmas Time for the season.  Worth Avenue had all of its deluxe shops and boutiques, but it was not very busy until after Christmas.  The beach in Palm Beach was also very shallow and at high tide the ocean came up close to the sea wall.  It seemed like the mansions in Palm Beach were a bit close together.  Hope Sound, Florida looked like a peaceful tropical resort with small Bermuda type villas on well manicured grounds with lots of towering palm trees and other types of tropical trees.  It seemed to be more anglophile, I remembered reading in the Florida newspapers that the former British Prime Minister Harold McMillan was retired there along with the presence of some of the more notable industry baron families.  The beach in Hope Sound was quite deep like most of the sand from Palm Beach had drifted further north there.  However, unlike Palm Beach and Miami Beach, they did not seem to spray as much insecticide in Hope Sound, since there were lots of "noseeims" tiny little insects that bit and seem to get through screens.  Vero Beach, Florida was first being developed in the 1970s, and I have not seen it since about 1988.  It had a large deep beach with many large Bermuda style homes being built.  Coco Beach had a lot of modern 1950s style homes as did Melbourne, Florida.  Daytona Beach, Florida had a lot of high rise hotels along the ocean and lower rise motels on the inward side.  It had the large wide beach that is well known for driving on.  St. Augustine, Florida had a timeless southern charm of an old historical southern city with many charming old homes.  Flagler Beach was a lot more rustic with homes built along the road on the dunes over looking the ocean.  Jacksonville, Florida was a modern metropolis with expensive homes around the Ponte Vedra Club along the ocean.  Thus I have seen most of the east coast Florida coast line from Key West to Jacksonville, Florida many times.  On the west coast there are many Bermuda style homes in Naples, Marco Island and Venice, Florida, and as one goes north towards Tampa, there are many traditional style Florida homes.  I never drove north from Tampa to the Pan Handle, except I think once in August of 1980, when I was driving from Key West to California in my 1974 Burgundy 2 door Volvo.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 6:05 P.M.:  I went out, and I stopped by the Arnold Bread store outlet, and I bought two loaves of fresh Arnold 12 grain bread for .99 each less 10% senior discount of .20 for $1.78 total.  They charged me the price of old bread for the fresh bread.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I sat out for a while.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly until, it started lightning and thundering.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I stood out in the underground parking area while there was a down pour of rain with lightening and thunder.  I walked over to the library with my umbrella while it let up for a while.  I read the Greenwich Times and P.C. World magazine.  In the Greenwich Times there was a good article about snapping turtles in a swamp in Old Greenwich.  I believe there is suppose to be a big old snapping turtle or more than one in Conyers Farm lake.  I then went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 48 ounce box of Quaker Old Fashioned oats for $3.99, a 25 bag of five each of five blends of Twinings tea for $3.19, a five pound bag of S&S sugar for $2.39, a Stouffer's light chicken and mushrooms dinner for $1.69, a package of four Hoover size C upright vacuum bags for $1.99, and a double pack of an Ocedar Dishwashing Liquid Dispenser refills for $2.49 for $16.01 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 2:40 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go outside directly.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 2:10 P.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 1:40 P.M.:  I have the laundry on the dry cycle with 35 minutes to go.  I had two tuna fish sandwiches for lunch with ice tea.  I will now clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 1:05 P.M.:  I am also on the wash cycle of two loads of laundry.  I put clean sheets and pillow cases on the bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 12:25 P.M.:  I am making a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/03  Wednesday 11:55 A.M.:  I was up at 8 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I fell back to sleep until 11 A.M. when the weekly test of the NOAA weather radio came on both NOAA weather radios.  The test in the bedroom is a bit loud, which one can not adjust the test sound.  I checked my mail, and the package from JAB computers http://www.jab-tech.com/ arrived with the 36 inch copper Primary IDE 133 cable.  I opened it up, and the length of the cable was only about an inch longer between the secondary slave connector and the primary drive connector, despite its overall length.  Still that was more than enough to give my the extra stretch room between the two hard drives.  I left the primary IDE C: drive up side down in the bay beneath the floppy drive, and  I have the secondary slave drive in the criss crossed bay holder beneath the primary drive.  I installed the new cable the same way, and folder the length between the motherboard and the secondary slave drive.  When I booted the system, it all worked as before, and I guess it is an 80 cable IDE cable, since I got no error message.  I will put the ribbon IDE 80 wire cable in the Syntax motherboard box on top of the software to the right of the bedroom television.  One would think that on a 36 inch cable, they would make the length between the secondary IDE slave connector and the primary IDE connector a bit longer, but still it works just fine on my system by leaving the C: drive upside down.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 11:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I relaxed a bit.  I had two pretzel rods with ice tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will now go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 9:35 P.M.:  Maybe this is a more accurate list of World War II casualties, but it does not seem to mention many of the 2.5 billion people in the Commonwealth that participated http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/Casualties.htm .  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 9:00 P.M.:  Similar stories to these have been printed in various media around the world for many years.  Thus when visitors come to this country should they risk it, they do so at some risk.  This is why certain more advanced countries still consider the United States of America despite its advanced economy a less developed country.  Still even worse stories are supposedly graphically displayed on satellite media from within less developed countries, so overall at least here, we have a relatively safe environment, and from an insurance actuararial point of view, the highways of America are probably more dangerous.  Still, since I lead a rather sheltered existence, I prefer to stay in this more sheltered and secure environment.  Basically even in the more advanced nations with two major wars this century, there have been far more equally if not more extreme happenings.  Supposedly in World War II alone, 60 million people died about 20 million in Russia, 20 million in China, 7 million in the concentration camps of Europe, and that means about another 13 million in other areas of the conflict.  Thus although we enjoy relatively secure stable lifestyles here, the old guard know and are aware of more severe times in recent history that people easily forget.  This is why I prefer to be an armchair traveler.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 8:45 P.M.:  About the most scary experience in dealing with the African American culture down south was when I lived in Greenville, South Carolina, I went down to Atlanta regularly on weekends, since one could have an alcoholic drink there and go to a discothèque.  On Saturday afternoon around March 1976, while I was passing time in downtown Atlanta, I thought I recognized a friend go into a movie theatre, so I bought a ticket and went inside the movie theatre.  I did not see the friend, but the entire movie theatre was full of African Americans.  They were watching a movie which showed dozens of white women on meat hooks in a meat warehouse being slaughtered in graphic detail.  What small part of the movie I stayed to watch before exiting, was the primary scene of on woman being slaughtered, she looked like Happy Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller's wife, and the scene looked very real.  I generally do not go to violent movies, and I suppose people whom watch that sort of content would be considered suspect.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:  I watched the ABC evening news.  I just remember another Pan Am Clipper Club VIP lounge story.  Back around January 1979, I drove down from a friend's in Daytona, Florida; and I went to Key West, Florida with a friend for a few days in my 1971 yellow Subaru wagon.  We slept in the car at the Key West airport while down there, so we did not have to pay for a motel room.  However, one of the most reasonable motels in Key West is the Best Western motel next to the Key West airport, if one can afford it, and we may have actually stayed there, I can not remember.  Anyway, on the way back up from the Florida Keys, I wanted to toured Miami.  Since it was cooler out, I stopped by the Pan AM VIP lounge at Miami International airport and I cleaned up, and I changed from my resort clothes to a 3 piece Brooks Brother's medium weight suit.  I returned to the car, and I started exiting the airport, and I remembered I left my flight bag in the Pan AM lounge.  I returned to the same parking spot, where I had just parked for about an hour.  I then started for the Pan AM VIP lounge.  It was busy at the airport, and I noticed a large African American rent a cop yelling at a crowd of arrivals.  I was about halfway through the airport terminal to the Pan AM VIP lounge, when the same large African American tackled me to the ground with a full body tackle and slammed my head to the hard  cement floor, and said I was under arrest.  I asked what the problem was, and he said I had parked in an illegal parking zone.  I explained to him I was not familiar with the airport, and I thought his arresting procedure was a little bit extreme.  I weighted about 130 pounds, and the rent a cop that tackled me weighed over 500 pounds.  My head was repeatedly slammed on the concrete floor, and I was somewhat dazed.  They hauled me off to the Miami jail, and I was quite irritated.  Since I did not know anyone in Miami, I called my former employer at Fluor Daniel in Greenville, South Carolina.  They threw me in the lock up overnight with about 500 African Americans, so I stayed up all night watching them, since they seemed to be a somewhat suspect group.  The next morning, they let me go, and I took the bus back to the airport, and I found my friend had moved the car to another parking area and had waited for me.  The arresting officer thought there was something wrong with my friend and suggested I take him to a hospital for disabled children.  My friend was about 19 years old fully healthy and quite well educated, but he spoke in a slow distinct methodical Long Island accent which the south Florida rent a cop did not understand.  I retrieved my flight bag from the Pan AM VIP lounge, and I avoided touring Miami at that time, and I returned up the coast to Daytona, and I never went back to Miami again except one time.  In February of 1983, when it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero in Manhattan, I had to move out of the apartment that I was staying in on the west side of Manhattan.  I stayed for a week with a friend from Hollywood, Florida on the east side of Manhattan in that cold spell.  Two of his friends were going to Maui, Rio Di Janeiro, and Acapulco, when I chatted with them in Manhattan.  They were pale British aristocrats from England.  I did not think much about it, but after a week of the severe cold weather, I caught an Eastern Airlines Jet to West Palm Beach, and from there to Miami.  In Miami I caught a local airlines into Key West airport.  I spent about two months down there, but only about two weeks before I had less freedom of movement.  That was the time of the fake computer report on the federal crime computer system.  About the second week, I met the same two British aristocrats and after going to Maui, Acapulco, and Rio Di Janeiro, they were so darkly tanned they looked like they were African Americans.  Thus I guess some people do tan more darkly than others.  I remember in Manhattan chatting with French Canadians returning from the tropics that people in Manhattan thought were Mexican or Puerto Rican, so thus when people tan too darkly, people up north might not recognize them when they return.  I guess experienced flight personnel and travel personnel are use to seeing people tan in more tropical climates.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 6:25 P.M.:  I took 13 sea scallops about half a pound, and I rinsed them in cold water in a wire strainer.  I then towel dried them with two paper towels.  I added five tablespoons of olive oil to a 10 inch stick free frying pan four gloves of peeled chopped garlic, and I heated it over a medium high electric burner for four minutes until the oil started bubbling.  I added the scallops and I seasoned them with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, celery salt, Italian spices, Basil, and Oregano.  I lowered the temperature, and I cooked the scallops on the first side for two minutes, and then I flipped them.  I cooked them for a minute, and I added a sixth of a cup of Rene Junot white wine, and I cooked them simmering in the juices for another two minutes.  I had the cooked sea scallops on a bed of steamed white rice along with a steamed ear of sweet corn and a steamed sliced yellow squash with olive oil on the vegetables along with a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/03  Tuesday 5:15 P.M.:  I was up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital, and I had the first of two blood tests for my cholesterol monitoring the Lipitor that I am taking.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then went down by the waterfront.  I next drove east.  I stopped by the ELDC thrift shop in Cos Cob.  I then went by the St. Catherine's thrift shop, and all their merchandise is 50% off.  I next went to Old Greenwich, and I went by the Old Greenwich Rummage room thrift shop, and I bought a stainless steel 12 ounce ladle with an 18 inch handle for half price since Bric a Brac is half price for $3 and .18 tax for $3.18.  I then went out to Tod's Point, and I sat out for a while at the southeast beach area, and then I sat out for a while at the southwest parking area.  I also drove around Tod's Point.  I next drove back along the shoreline, and I spent some time along the waterfront in central Greenwich.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought fresh from George's Banks sea scallops for $5.99 a pound for $7.22 total and a can of Old Bay seasoning for $2.99 for $10.21 total.  I then returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 11:40 P.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 9:10 P.M.:  I chatted with another relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 8:35 P.M.:  Of course if the group of Rolling Thunder motorcycles was venturing this far north, I think the Danbury Mall could only hold about 5,000 motorcycles, however about two hours north northwest of here, Stewart International Airport could hold 350,000 motorcycles, and it would provide additional security for the graduates at West Point, New York nearby this coming weekend.  However, I think there is only one individual that could probably bring them all up here, and he is from Spartanburg, South Carolina, and I have seen somebody that looks like him in this area before, but I have a hard time telling him apart from his father who is physically bigger.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 8:20 P.M.:  I chatted some more with the same relative.  I saw on television on Cspan, they are having a motorcycle rally at the Pentagon for a group called "Rolling Thunder" .  If any of those veterans make it this far north, there use to be a Leather bars on the west side of Manhattan in the west 20ths.  In Port Washington, Long Island there use to be Ghost Motorcycle, and I believe there use to a Harley Davidson shop in Stamford, Connecticut near the railroad yards, and there use to a motorcycle rally at the Danbury Mall in the old days.  That is about all I know about motorcycles, except I use to know somebody that worked at Brumos Porsche in Jacksonville, Florida that knew how to ride a motorcycle.  Also, a friend claims that he knows how to ride a motorcycle, and he is the "Crimson Ghost" which was some sort of 1950s television show.  Also he told me there is a biker bar in Daytona, Florida, called the "Boot Hill Saloon" http://www.damnbikers.com/bars/flbars.htm .  Since I am near sighted and very clumsy, I do not think I would be very good on a bike.  When I lived in Greenville, South Carolina where some veterans lived, it was a dry town.  However, apparently some veterans do still drink, so if they make it this far north the Port Chester, New York beer distributors is still there.  However, Greenwich, Connecticut is a family town with many young children and older people, so I do not anticipate "Rolling Thunder" showing up here, however we still do fly a number of POW-MIA flags downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 7:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 6:45 P.M.:  After dinner which was quite delicious, I sifted through my email.  I received notification from Jab Computers http://www.jab-tech.com/ that my 36 inch IDE copper cable is shipping tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 5:10 P.M.:  I took a little over a half pound of filet of salmon, and I rinsed it cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel.  I then put it flesh side down in a Pyrex pie dish, and I poured in about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine with and a few tablespoons of Borden's lemon juice.  I soaked it flesh side down for about five minutes, and then I put it skin side down.  I seasoned the top flesh side with olive oil, Old Bay Seasoning, Italian Spices, Oregano, and Basil.  I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.  I will have with steamed fresh sliced green squash and a ear of sweet corn both with olive oil, and reheated steamed white rice, and a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 4:40 P.M.:  I went out, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I next drove back down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two quart container's of Edy's low fat low sugar strawberry vanilla swirl ice cream buy one get one free for $3.79 both and four ears of sweet corn for .89 for $4.68 total.  I then returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea.  I stood out in the rain down by the waterfront, and I walked Greenwich Avenue part way in the rain, since it is not too cold this time of year about 56 degrees Fahrenheit right now, it was not too uncomfortable getting out in our spring environment.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 1:15 P.M.:  Thus I always refer to my apartment as my own personal Pan AM VIP lounge.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up and go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 1:05 P.M.:  When I returned back east from exploring California in December 1980 after my last trip there,  I stayed with a friend of mine's mother on the west side of Manhattan.  My friend had been staying with his grandmother since she was injured in a fire in Long Island.  I pursued my normal routine in Manhattan of walking around the city and going to various points of interest.  I would spend quite a bit of time gong to the Metropolitan Museum of art.  I would walk my roommate's dog which was a white German shepherd frequently.  One evening, I walked the dog over to the east side, and I walked the dog to the Waldorf Astoria.  I was greeted by some secret service agents whom were protecting president elect Ronald Reagan.  They liked the dogs looks, and they took some pictures with a Polaroid camera of the dog.  The dog was very smart and frequently would lead me away from trouble on many walks.  When I was walking back through Central Park that night, I arrived by West 74th Street and Central Park West.  There were a lot of police there, and I was told by an onlooker that John Lennon had been shot.  Since I was a enthusiastic Beatles fan, and I had seen John and Yoko many times in that neighborhood,  I was very upset.  I noticed in mid December that one could fly to Frankfurt, Germany on Capital Airlines for $100, so I flew over to Frankfurt, and I stayed there for several days.  When I first arrived there in the airport, there was a woman who looked Princess Margaret trying to carry two empty turquoise suitcases into the Pam AM VIP lounge.  She was dressed in tortoise feathers, and I helped her carry her suitcases.  She thanked me, and she gave me her card, and it was an address on the Rue St. Michel in Barbados.  I stayed at a YMCA for several days touring Frankfurt.  I returned back to America before Christmas.  I bought my roommate a set of six of Rosenthal crystal goblets.  Later that following year in January 1981, I went down from where I was staying in New Canaan, Connecticut to Ronald Reagan's inaugural.  I caught a Braniff airlines jet from JFK which the only passenger on was a Saudi Arabian diplomat.  I toured Washington D.C., and I was watching the inaugural procession when some large black people knocked me to the ground, and I was rescued by the secret service.  I later saw the President again when he showed up at the Hyatt Hotel for the Medal of Honor reception.  I was shown a hotel to stay at by a taxi driver on Thomas Jefferson Street, which is now the Thomas Jefferson Inn.  At the time it was called the Dutch Inn.  The following day, I flew back into Westchester Country Airport on the Time Magazine Jet, so I did not have to pay for a flight back.  However, I did have to pay for a taxi from Westchester Country Airport to the Greenwich Train station, and a train to New Canaan, which was a bit more peaceful than Washington D.C..  I stayed in New Canaan for a while, and I occasionally would also stay in Manhattan at my friend's mothers, Long Island at his grandmother's where I later built the garage apartment, and at his father's in Port Washington, Long Island where I had stayed an earlier winter around 1979 and 1980.  Thus I was staying at different places.  I believe that summer when my mother and her husband returned to New Canaan, I stayed in Manhattan at my friend's mother's walking the white German Shepherd.  That was a hot summer, and it was the only summer I every spent in Manhattan.  I continued to stay there until February 1982, when I had to move out.  I spent a night at the George Washington Hotel in Chelsea, and I then came out to Greenwich on the train.  I spent the morning watching people that I knew go to work, and most of them I knew as Canadians.  I then tried to check in the YMCA in Greenwich, but they were filled up.  It was a rainy day, so I read most of the day in the Greenwich Library.  I called a relative in New Canaan about 4 P.M. that afternoon, and the relative told me that President Reagan had been shot, and nobody knew what was going on.  I decided to take some security action, so I took a taxi cab to Westchester County airport, and I caught a shuttle van to Kennedy Airport.  I spent the evening until it closed at the Pan AM JFK VIP center on standby alert watching the television and playing a computerized chess game.  I then called my roommate in Manhattan, and she told me I had better come back and stay, since there was a bit of chaos in the country.  I returned to the west side of Manhattan.  Thus it is my personal opinion when one changes one's normal routine, it alters the order of the cosmos, and everything else gets out of whack.  Needless to say when one was traveling in the old days, the Pan AM VIP lounges for $40 a year were a quiet place in the chaos of traveling.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/26/03  Monday 12:20 P.M.:  I watched television last night until about 9 P.M..  I was up this morning at 8 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, and supplements.  I fell back to sleep until now.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 7:35 P.M.:    I chatted with some relatives.  I am a bit tired.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch some television before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 6:45 P.M.:  I relaxed a bit.  I am microwaving for 13 minutes a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed peppers with ground beef and tomato sauce frozen meal which I will have with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 5:15 P.M.:  I ran Symantec Update on the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 5:05 P.M.:  I went downtown, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I spent time chatting with a local fisherman.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I then returned home.  I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 12:40 P.M.:  Thus when one gets involved in exploring, maintenance, remodeling or evening working on the computer, the agony is in the details.  I had two tuna fish sandwiches for lunch with ice tea.  I will now clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 11:55 A.M.:  The owner of the house in Plandome Manor, Long Island at the time was from a family related to the German consular staff in New York before World War One, and was a world traveler.  She frequently went to the tropics including Tobago and other warmer Asian areas.  Thus when I built the garage apartment, I put a foot of Owens Corning fiberglass in the roof along with two layers of 5/8" thick sheet rock on the walls.  One the north wall where the garage door was, I sealed and attached the original garage door to the wall removing the hardware for sliding it open.  I built out the north wall a foot, and put in a foot thick pink fiber glass there.  I also put storm windows on all the windows that I found on sale at Sears in Hempstead, Long Island.  I sealed all the storm windows with caulk, as well as the original windows reglazing them.  The apartment had a 25 foot long cast iron radiator attached to the main house boiler which I put a new breather valve on, and it put out quite a bit of heat for the apartment.  The other walls were standard internal depth of 3.5 inches which I put regular fiberglass thickness in.  I also had to rebuild the sill plates at the base of the 2X4 studs since they were eaten away by termites.  I put in 4X4 pressure treated lumber for the rebuilt sills.  I also installed a lot of electrical outlets with heavy duty voltage cable about 18 to 20 type cable, since the intended owner was into computers and word processing.  I put a six foot long electric radiator in the bedroom, and I installed a vent from the main house basement which was very hot with the furnace to blow heat from the basement into the bathroom area and the kitchen area.  Thus if any of the family members returned from warmer tropical areas like they were familiar with, they more than likely would be warm and comfortable in the winter.  Since I worked on the apartment during a long hot summer, I also installed a 10,000 BTU Sears Air Conditioner  which kept me a bit cooler.  I also put a vent in the attic end roof opening, and I built smaller doors that could be opened and closed with the seasons for ventilation or to keep the heat in.  Thus it was a more detailed project than it may appear to have been from the initial observation.  I also built up the floor with 2X4 joists, and put in two inch Styrofoam to insulate the floor.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 11:30 A.M.:  One interesting job a friend and I had in the summer of 1978 in Nantucket was based on the book "How to Hold Up a Bank" about dune restoration out on Long Island.  A summer family in Nantucket that had a house on the northwest shore about half way to Madaket had us read the book.  They had a house with aluminum siding which was unique for Nantucket, and I recall the owner was the head attorney for Bethlehem Steel whose family were the family that bought Alaska for the United States from Russia.  Anyway after cleaning their house with bleach and water to remove the mold that accumulated in the winter, we started on bluff restoration for the house since it was on a high bluff, and the house had been moved back once before.  First we had to go out to Nantucket Harbor around the boat yard, and with a sickle, we cut bundles of reeds from along the shoreline for a number of days.  We then would work our way down the steep bluff creating about 15 inch deep levels with boards at the front held in by stakes, and we would mix the reeds with sand and straw to create a mixture behind the boards, and then we planted dune grass in the mixture.  It took several weeks to work our way down the bluff.  I always wonder how the bluff held up, or if they had to move the house back again.   Later that summer we worked on stripping paint and painting with white Epoxy paint the second oldest house on Nantucket that was being restored.  I stripped off about eight coats of paint off the detailed front door entrance that took several weeks.  I noticed above the doorway, when I got down to the wood, there was the impression of numbers of a different street address, like the street address had been changed at some time.  The house was on the bluff on Lincoln Road overlooking the harbor.  Of course from April 1982 to February 1983, I worked for $2.15 an hour building a garage apartment seven days a week for about 18 hours a day with only Christmas off.  It was out in Plandome Manor, Long Island at a friend's house converting a garage into a mother in law apartment.  I earned about $7,500 for the entire project.  Thus it took a bit a longer than the original two months that was expected.  I learned with my arthritis on that project that I was taking up to 12 Tylenol a day.  Needless to say, I was fed up with the so called social welfare system at that point, so I tried to move Norway after I finished the project, but Ronald Regan and Casper Weinberger showed up my hotel at the West Hotel there, and I was encourage to return to America, since I eventually ran out of money.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 11:00 A.M.:  I think part of the time in the winter of 1978 in Key West, I had Food Stamps, and maybe in 1977 which I used at Faustos, the Herb Garden, and the Bodega.  I recalled we might have gotten about $50 in Food Stamps every two weeks.  There was a catch that one had to have a legal address to obtain food stamps, so I think I used a friend's address.  However, one could get piece work down there, picking off heads off shrimp at the Singleton's seafood shrimp operations, but the locals seemed to need the jobs, and since I eventually had unemployment coming, I stuck with reading periodical literature in the morning at the library and going to the beach in afternoon.  Occasionally when we had money, we would have bacon, eggs, toast and coffee at the diner downtown for about $1.50 .  I recall eating a number of Cuban bread sandwiches with ham and cheese or avocado sandwiches with sprouts.  There use to be one Cuban restaurant where one could get a plate of beans and rice for $2.  Another restaurant served a plate of pancakes for about $2.  In the winter of 1977,  I had a fishing rod and reel that I bought at Sears in Key West, so I would try my hand at fishing.  However, the only time I caught any fish was at the 26 mile marker bridge, when I caught a baby hammerhead shark which I used for bait to catch about an 18 inch long red snapper, which I cooked up there on the shore with my camping cook kit.  In 1978,  I did not have a fishing rod, so I went to a local store, and I bought some large Mickey Mouse balloons, and some 50 pound test line, and some three inch hooks, and a Cuban reel, and then I went to the Publix Market, and I got about 20 pounds of meat fat from the dumpster, and then I went out on the dock south of Mallory Square, and I tried my hand at shark fishing.  I would let the breeze blow out the balloon and the line far enough into the deep water, and I would wrap the line around a large ship mooring, and in case I caught the big one.  However, I never even got a nibble in that the deep water channel.  I guess since the shrimp docks dump so many shrimp off in the water north of there, the fish are not really hungry.  Once in 1978, I went to the charter docks north of town, and I bought a 18 inch red snapper for about $5, and I cooked it up at a friend's house.  I gave away the fishing gear that I bought in 1977 when I gave away the car in Nantucket.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 10:30 A.M.:  Of course when one looks at Live Duval Street. Com Key West Cams Florida in the early morning hours, one sees them hosing down the streets after the bar closes to keep it clean.  When I was down there, water was very expensive, since most of it had to be piped in from Miami along the Florida Keys highway.  I remember walking around in the early morning hours, and one would see the bug control trucks driving the local street spraying the street every morning with insecticide to keep down the population of eight inch long palmetto bugs which are very common down there.  The Florida mosquito district use to also fly up and down the Florida Keys spraying from the air to control the mosquito population.  Thus in developing the tourist resort, they have done quite a bit to alter the traditional tropical environment.  Thus although Monroe County is a liberal democratic county, as far as the natural environmental ecosystem is concerned, they seemed to be a bit more conservative with all the insect control they practice.  I remember the Clarence Higgs beach south of Smather's beach was mostly surround by breakwater and pier, so when one swam in the water with the sandy bottom unlike Smather's beach, one could see any fish that might be in the water with one.  Another place, I once stayed after we were encouraged to leave the Casa Marina, since they were covering it with a tent to fumigate it for termites was just south of Mallory Square, the four story brick Admiral's Operations quarters which was empty.  It had large glass windows, and a view of Tank Island.  Still I recall, it seemed to have better breezes from the west on a warm day than the Casa Marina did on the east side of the island.  Local Key West conchs pride themselves on having the local well water, if the are so fortunate.  Ernest Hemingway's house and the Key West police station had well water.  I think possibly the Monroe County Library had well water too.  One can taste the difference between the local well water which might be high in Coral Calcium which could be healthy for you than the imported water from Miami.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 10:10 A.M.:  My battery level was low on the Logitech cordless wheel mouse, so I put in two new AAA batteries.  I also removed the mouse ball, and I cleaned the three internal mouse roller bearings, so the mouse is now more responsive.  I use a skinny steak knife to clean the crud of the mouse ball bearings.  That seems to have fixed the restoring from Standby problem.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 9:50 A.M.:  I just tried to wake the computer from Standby, and it would not wake up, so I rebooted it.  I was just thinking that when I worked at Le Vielle Maison from November 1977 to January 1978, they only paid me minimum wage, so I could not afford to rent my own apartment.  The chef at the restaurant leant me a tent, and I use to sleep at night on the beach in the palm grove on the north side of the Boca Inlet where the current hotel The Excelsior The Excelsior - Boca Raton, Florida is now located, so maybe when I camped out there, that Florida grey panther was my roommate.  It was a nice location.  After work, when I was hot, I use to go for a swim in the ocean at night.  I use to see the local sea scouts snorkeling in the Boca Inlet looking for tropical fish.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 9:05 A.M.:  Of course when I was down in Florida in the 1970s, I had certain instincts and experience from having lived in Pensacola, Florida during 1954 and 1955 while my father worked at Chemstrand.  Thus I was a little bit more leery of the wildlife in Florida than an ordinary northern tourist might be.  Years later, after having seen the Florida Grey panther in Boca Raton around the Polo Fields during the winter of 1979 while I was waking up from sleeping in my Subaru one morning, I got to thinking that old Florida Panther might work its way down to the Florida Keys, and it might have dropped off all the stray cats that were at the Casa Marina Wyndham Casa Marina - Resort and Beach House - Key West, Florida when I stayed there in the winter of 1978 when it was under construction.  Possibly one of the stray cats might have been a baby grey panther, so maybe there is still a grey panther down in the Florida Keys.  Who knows maybe that same grey panther use to camp out with me, when I was camping out in the wilds of Florida.  Maybe it even migrates up north this time of year, but after all these years, I do not think it would be the same panther.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 8:45 A.M.:  I remember one afternoon, I left Fort Lauderdale about sunset, and I hitchhiked by Lester's diner, and I caught a ride on the Florida Turnpike as far south as the Homestead rest area.  I took some time to clean up at the Homestead rest area, and I got a ride as far as Key Largo.  It was late at night, and I recall standing on the highway for a long time.  I was very cold, and there was a all night Howard Johnson's restaurant, so I went inside, and I had a bowl of oatmeal to warm up.  About 4 A.M. that morning, I got a ride with a young fellow from Chicago in a black Buick sedan who was driving all the way straight through down from Chicago.  He was driving very fast along the Florida Keys highway about 95 miles per hour, and about the time we were coming off the bridge entering Marathon, his car spun out of control and did a 360 degree spin and came to a rest.  Shortly there after, a Florida Highway patrol officer showed up, and told us we were lucky to be alive.  He did not ticket the driver, and we arrived in Key West about sunrise that morning.  As I recall the driver was living on Whitehead Street.  I can not recall whether that was the winter of 1977 or 1978, but it might have been when I was coming down from Fort Lauderdale in January 1978 after returning from the Bahamas.  Thus one has to be careful when hitchhiking.  The rest area on the Florida Turnpike in Homestead was modern and clean, and I enjoyed cleaning up there when traveling through.  I recall possibly in the winter of 1977, while hitchhiking along the Florida Keys highway north, I found a United States Air Force flight suit with a SAC colonel flight insignia on it and a NORAD patch.  It was lying in the bushes off the road.  I use to wear it all the time that winter in Key West with my straw hat.  I would hang around the Key West airport in it.  It had lots of zippers.  I would wear it when doing laundry, and once when hitchhiking from Key West to Fort Lauderdale, I stopped by the Laundromat at the entrance to Homestead Air Force base.  I was doing my laundry wearing my flight suit with long hair, and all these military personnel would come in and see me in the flight suit.  You could tell, they did not know whether to salute me or shoot me.  The following summer in Nantucket, I gave the flight suit to a skier from Fairfield, Connecticut who skied in Stowe, Vermont who worked part of the time in the same Languedoc restaurant as I did.  The owner of the Languedoc restaurant was a retired United Air Force staff sergeant, and there were quite a few personnel from Otis Air Force base on Nantucket, so hopefully the flight suit was more comfortable in Nantucket.  I had advised the skier from Stowe, Vermont to try skiing in the flight suit around Colorado Springs, Colorado.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/03  Sunday 8:15 A.M.:  I was up at 6 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I was just remembering when I stored my personal belongings in the barn in Norwich, Vermont or during the other storage locations, I also lost my Taft School class of 1968 ring.  When I first arrived down in Fort Lauderdale in the third week of September 1976, I had one item in my 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne 4 door sedan that was handy.  I had a coconut machete in a red pig skin sheath that I had obtained in Tobago while there in the winter of 1970 and 1971.  When I was hungry, I would use it open coconuts on the beach for a bite to eat.  I believe I left it in the Chevrolet when I gave it to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift Shop.  When I gave the Chevrolet to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop, I had an address book with all my friends and contacts to date including all the people I had met in Europe, New York and elsewhere.  I threw away the address book in the garbage of the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop, so nobody would bother my friends should they take the address book.  I also had a set of golf clubs and golf clothes, but nobody ever invited me to play golf.  While in Florida in the fall of 1976 and the winter of 1977, I also had another item that came in handy particularly when my car was impounded in Fort Lauderdale in early January of 1977.  It was a regulation green Unites States Army poncho.  It came in very handy when sleeping outside.  I use to carry it in a green canvas duffle bag that I only kept half full.  I would tie one end to the other end folding it in half with the contents in one half of the bag, so it was like an Australian ditty bag slung over my shoulder.  I recall when I woke up in the mornings, the poncho was a bit damp, since on the cooler nights it did not breath.  One place I found to stay outside in Key West beside others mentioned earlier was a group of palmetto trees on the property across the street from the Catholic church.  The group of palmetto trees were hallow in the center, so there was room to lie down and rest.  I frequently in the winter of 1977 would hitchhike back and forth from Key West to Fort Lauderdale, so I could enjoy the scenery along the Florida Keys highway.  It was usually about a four to six hour hitchhike.  I once went as far north as West Palm Beach, but the bank temperature sign by the Florida Turnpike said 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so I went back south.  In Fort Lauderdale, when I camped outside there was a park across the street from the Bahia Mar with bushes to hide in just south of the park.  As I recall, I did not take down to Florida the blue canvas nap sack that I had made in Nantucket until the fall of 1977.  I think when I was working at Le Vielle Maison in Boca Raton in November 1977 through January 1978,  I had the blue canvas back pack stored at the Fort Lauderdale bus station.  Since it was heavy to carry, I checked it in a pawn shop in Fort Lauderdale around January 1978 when I got back from the Bahamas, and when I went north that year, I did not take it with me.  I later paid the pawn ticket, and I had it shipped by Greyhound Bus up to Greenwich around May of 1978.  While I hitchhiked the Florida Keys route regularly, I recall one Episcopal priest that was always driving from Key West to Palm Beach in a Mercedes sports car.  I also remember seeing one man that looked suspicious in a white Volkswagen beetle with a milk crate for the passenger seat who lived around Deer Key.  He gave me a ride once, and although he was a regular fixture in the Florida Keys, I thought he might be dumping hitch hikers off of Deer Key in the ocean.  I thus saw quite a bit of the Florida Keys going back and forth.  It was fun looking at all the birds.  Around April of 1977, a friend and I hitchhiked out of Key West to Naples, Florida, and we got to see all the birds along Alligator Alley.  We returned back to Key West before heading up north.  Tennessee Williams was a celebrity in Key West, and I had met him earlier in Manhattan.  It was hard to tell where he lived, since so many of the houses looked liked his which was prominently shown in post cards.  I recall seeing Tennessee Williams at the Atlantic Shores Beach Club every afternoon usually around the cabana pier bar, so he must have written in the morning like a lot of famous writers do.  Of course like Hemingway, there were a lot of Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway look-alikes in Key West.  I usually wore Lee blue jeans, a red flannel shirt, and Adidas Country running shoes.  Most of the time I was in South Florida from September 1976 to April 1979, I had long blond hair down to my waist.  I spent the winter of 1979 with friends around Daytona, Florida, and we drove down to the Florida Keys once or twice in our explorations in the vintage 1972 yellow Subaru station wagon, which I nicknamed the "Yellow Submarine".  Of course that year was lean too, since all we had was food stamps for a couple of months and that was about it.  I tried my hand at fishing off of the south point of Daytona Beach, but I never caught anything.  I remember that winter the standard recipe was diluting a four ounce can of tomato paste with two parts water, and using it for spaghetti sauce on spaghetti noodles.  Basically when one is poor in Florida not much happens, and one spends a lot of time bird watching.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 8:15 P.M.:  I broke the programs items in my "Start Menu", "All Programs" into four sub groups with alphabetical names which I copied the program icons into, so it is easier to scroll through the list of programs.  I will now adjourn.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 8:00 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch a bit of television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 6:50 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I took half of the filet of salmon that I bought today, and I rinsed it in cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel.  I then put it in a Pyrex pie dish, and I added several tablespoons of Borden lemon juice and a third of a cup of Rene Junot white wine, and I soaked the flesh side down for about ten minutes.  I then put the skin side down, and I seasoned the flesh side with a little olive oil, Basil, Oregano, and Italian spices.  I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.  I will put the fish juices on the fish and the rice.  I will have it with steamed sliced yellow squash with olive oil, and steamed white rice with a bit of olive oil and sesame oil along with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 5:30 P.M.:  For any of you whom have forgot today is the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birthday Victoria Day, thus I think traditionally for those of you whom still drink alcohol, in the British Empire they drink a toast to Queen Victoria, the former Queen of the British Empire.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 5:20 P.M.:  I finished the backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  I had two pretzel rods.  Earlier while I was out, I also stopped by the Exxon station after the first trip to the Stop and Shop, and I bought $6 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.759 a gallon for about 27 miles per gallon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 4:15 P.M.:  I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop, and I exchanged two quart jars of Hellmann's regular mayonnaise for two quart jars of Hellmann's Just2Good low fat mayonnaise.  The Stop and Shop has free cooked Sabrett's hotdogs today, and I believe the Food Emporium is also giving away hamburgers and hotdogs off their grill.  I am not sure how late.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  There was a fire department response around the Barcelona restaurant at the top of Greenwich Avenue just west on the Post Road.  I next drove by the waterfront.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought filet of salmon at $4.99 a pound for $6.34, green and yellow squash at .99 a pound for $2.68, a pound of California strawberries for $1.49, two six ounce cans of Three Diamond crab meat for $2.50 each, and a four six ounce can pack of Starkist solid white tuna for $4.99 for $20.50 total.  I just now returned home.  I will now do a C: drive to D: drive backup of the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/03  Saturday 12:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative before going to bed last night about 8 P.M..  I had another call from a relative about 10:30 P.M..  I was up at 5:30 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, and supplements.  I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I just finished house cleaning and watering the plants.  I had two tuna fish sandwiches for lunch with ice tea.  I have to exchange at the Stop and Shop another two jars of Hellmann's regular mayonnaise for Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise.  I will clean up shortly, and I will go out soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 6:30 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 6:25 P.M.:  Here is an excellent value in a home computer, but it does not seem to have an operating system, so it is cheaper. http://www.accessmicro.com/productinfo.php3?ProductId=SYSBUNEC2000XPDT .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 5:45 P.M.:  I was able to send of my weekly email.  The Optimum Online mail server is now working.  I guess it slowed down with so many people working at home.  I took the last of the boneless breast of chicken, and I rinsed it in cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel.  I then put it in a Pyrex pie dish, and I then added two tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce and a quarter cup of Rene Junot white wine, and I seasoned it with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, basil, and I put two gloves of chopped garlic on it.  I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I will have it with the cooking juices on it along with two ears of steamed sweet corn, fresh broccoli, and a sliced green squash with olive oil on the vegetables along with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 4:45 P.M.:  Usually local politically motivated groups in this area try to bankrupt me in the end of May, so I do not show up for graduation at West Point which is opened to the general public.  Since I know my way there, and I am generally given a good reception for some odd reason, if I really wanted to make it to graduation there, I could.  However, I am not very good sitting out in the rain or too much hot weather, and some times during graduation there, I am on a night schedule.  So whatever, the case the movers and shakers in that neck of the woods ought to have a little respect for the past, since frequently I do not show up at the same time other curious visitors show up.  I am so close to the academy about 40 minutes, I could make it there any time I want, but I have been there so many times that I do not feel the need to interfere with those that might only see it once in a life time, and whom have traveled great distance to see the graduation festivities.  Whatever, the case when one lives here long enough, one knows the routine of the four seasons.  I remember the last time I was there for graduation when Secretary of Defense Perry spoke, he spoke on the new high technology military.  Of course there is a fat army veteran in North Tarrytown that seems to have a bit of influence there, but the last time I saw him he looked skinny like he was worrying about his cholesterol.  Whatever, the case I try not to get involved in other people's family feuds.  Moreover, since the army guys play a bit of golf more than likely they have been here playing golf over the years.  Still having lived around all the different military services, I know a little bit about all of them.  Frequently in the military families, different generations join different services, so theoretically a cadet graduating from West Point might have a father show up that is an Admiral and a grandfather show up that is an Air Force general.  However, the nature of military duty recently just after a conflict, more than likely they would not all show up at the same time.  In other word, do not put all of your eggs in one basket.  Of course, I just know about all of this from my reading experience.  I never was in the military, so I do not have first hand experience as to how they actually operate in today's complex world.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 4:20 P.M.:  Optimum Online's pop email server has not been working all day, so I can not send out my weekly notes.  I had three pretzel rods with ice tea.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/23/03:

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 3:45 P.M.:  I went out, and I stopped by Pickwick Shoe Repair at the Stop and Shop plaza, and I picked up my left Ecco white shoe with the heel wear preventer put back on it.  There was no charge.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, but they are closed for remodeling until May 30, 2003.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 pound bag of Carolina enriched white rice for $4.99, and a 10 quart pack package of S&S dried milk for $6.49, and a bag of Snyder's pretzel rods for $1.79 for $13.27 total.  I just now returned home.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 11:25 A.M.:  I received the grocery store circulars in the mail for next week.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I had a two tuna fish sandwiches for lunch with ice tea.  I noticed this web site for people whom are too skinny and do not need to worry about high cholesterol like myself Ruth's Chris Steakhouse .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go downtown after cleaning up.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 10:00 A.M.:  As I recall when I worked at the Gordon Folger Hotel in the summer of 1977, I could not remember my social security number exactly, so on the employment form, I did not get credit from social security or unemployment compensation the following winter.  There is documentary evidence, since the Gordon Folger Hotel every year took a staff photograph around the middle of the season.  I would have been a bit heavier than 125 pound having worked at that point for a couple of months at the hotel.  I would have been the darkly tanned skinny individual in the photograph compared to the other rather pale and plump individuals in the photograph from up north.  Since Folger was Benjamin Franklin's mother's name, one could say I was still involved in the electrical engineering process, although at the time PCs did not exist, since I did not design one in Boca Raton until December 1977.  I recall in the summer of 1983 while I was last working at the Languedoc restaurant, the book keeper had an earlier model of the Apple computer.  In the fall of 1977 around Thanksgiving, I left Nantucket with a friend, and we drove to Harvard University, and then up to Dartmouth College where in nearby Norwich, Vermont, I had stored my belongings in Greenwich in a barn thinking I might want to live in Hanover, New Hampshire.  I think I did this when I first returned into area from Florida, and I still had the Chevrolet Biscayne to pull a Uhaul trailer from Greenwich to Norwich.  When I left Nantucket at that time, I rented a Uhaul truck for the journey in Woods Hole.  In Norwich, I loaded my personal items into the Uhaul truck, and I drove them down south.  We stopped by for lunch at the Calhoun dormitory at Yale College, and we made a stop at Princeton University.  We eventually arrived outside of Philadelphia in Chestnut Hill, where I stored the personal items in the basement of a family member's house.  Either while the personal belongings were stored in New Hampshire or Chestnut Hill, my vintage nearly new 1955 Schwinn bicycle with the Bendix brakes disappeared along with my Rolex chronometer watch I received for college graduation and the autograph of Harry Truman.  I suppose other items disappeared too.  After storing the items, we spent the night, and then we drove up to Manhattan the following day on Thanksgiving 1977, and we had beers at McSorley's old ale house, and we closed it down at 4 A.M..  We then drove as far as New London, Connecticut where we ran out of money for gasoline, and I dropped the Uhaul truck off at a Uhaul dealership there losing my deposit for not returning it to Wood's Hole.  My friend hitchhiked back to Nantucket, and I hitchhiked back down to Greenwich stopping at home briefly before hitchhiking down to Florida again.  I was carrying a large blue canvas back pack that I had made while out in Nantucket.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 9:25 A.M.:  What got me to thinking about all of this was that I read an article about migrant workers in Florida in a back issue of the New Yorker magazine.  They also do not treat unemployed people very well in Florida either.  From the third week of September 1976 to about April 1977, for lack of funds, I ate so little food that I went from 185 pounds to 125 pounds, which when one gets use to it is actually a very good swimming weight, so I actually at the lower weight I was a pretty good swimmer in Florida, not to mention when at six feet one is so skinny, one is not very attractive shark bait when swimming in those tropical waters.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 9:10 A.M.:  I rested a bit.  When I went down to Key West in January 1977 after having been there around Halloween in 1976, it had changed since Halloween.  When I visited it briefly around Halloween in 1976, there were only about six shops opened on Duval Street, and the entire town was boarded up.  By January 1977, it looked like they were trying to run a tourist resort, since a number of northern people were down there.  I had had my car towed in Fort Lauderdale at the Swimming Hall of Fame, since it had too many parking tickets.  I thus could not sleep in my car.  I remember one person living next to the Swimming Hall of Fame was the head life guard on Fort Lauderdale Beach who had a new Porsche with Colorado license plate "COORS".  Maybe it was a member of the Coors family who was use to the colder weather on the beach that year.  A friend had told me that it is so hot in the summer down there that he use to walk the entire length of the entire beach and stop to cool off at each public shower about 100 yards distance from each other.  Well, it was a cool winter down in Florida, and I found myself for lack of shelter sleeping underneath the community house of the primary Episcopal church in the center of Key West.  I got mail from General Delivery at the post office.  I received a post card from a friend attending the University of New Hampshire who had just returned from a tour of Russia, and a couple of days later the friend showed up.  The friend was more familiar with Florida since his grandfather had the house next to Richard Nixon's in Key Biscayne, Florida.  He found us a place to stay in a trailer with friends on Boca Chica next to the United States Navy station adjacent to a ground to air SAM system.  I was worried that the missiles might go off and start the trailer on fire with their energy blasts.  Still, it was cold down there in Key West, and after having camped out for a bit, I was somewhat claustrophobic being inside.  I still spent a lot of time walking around downtown in the historical area observing the activities in Key West.  At the time the Casa Marina was an abandoned hotel.  Around April of 1977, I received $2,500 of back unemployment compensation, so after the rough time I had been experiencing camping out in Florida, I went up to Fort Lauderdale, and I paid to get my Chevrolet Biscayne out of the pound.  I then drove down to Key West, and I picked up the friend and we drove north to Fort Lauderdale.  It was still cold there, and not many people were around.  We then drove to Orlando, and we toured Disney World, which was a change of pace.  We then went by St. Augustine, and we toured the old town area.  We stopped in Jacksonville, Florida, and we visited a friend whom back in 1972, I had driven with down to Florida from Chicago.  My friend from the University of New Hampshire had to get back to school, so he caught a jet from Jacksonville back up north.  I drove west from Jacksonville, and I stopped around Dalton, Georgia; and I had steering joint work done and shocks put on the 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne at a Firestone garage.  I then toured Plains, Georgia where the current President of the Country was from.  I returned up north, and I went through Greenwich briefly, and I headed back up to Nantucket.  I slept on the south shore of Nantucket in my car around Lyon Farm next to the United States Navy Quonset hut, and it was rather cold in Nantucket.  I eventually gave the car with my belongings to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop since it was too costly to maintain, and the insurance had expired.  I left the island once to go up to the University of New Hampshire to visit my friend who was surrounded by the individuals organizing the Seabrook anti nuclear power plant demonstration.  I attended the demonstration, but they did not arrest me like everybody else since I did not belong to an affinity group.  I then hitchhiked down to Williamsburg, Virginia for a few days, and I slept on the porch of the Presbyterian minister's house.  I enjoyed touring Williamsburg and William and Mary college where I use to clean up.  I then returned to Nantucket around the beginning of May, and I worked opening sea scallops.  I took a bed at a boarding house on India Street, and around the first of June I started working washing pots at the Gordon Folger Hotel for minimum wage, which I continued until about mid August when I changed to Captain Toby's briefly, then baking at the Nantucket bakery and the Skipper bakery,  washing dishes at India House, and finally washing pots at the Languedoc restaurant around October 1977, which I did the following year too when I returned again from Key West.  Basically in jobs in Nantucket one has to be somewhat flexible because with all the summer help and younger people there, different jobs become available depending on when people come and go off the island.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/03  Friday 6:20 A.M.:  I had a telephone call last night from a friend who was up in Vermont, and he said the trout fishing was excellent and the spring foliage was most brilliant.  I was up at 4 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I was chatting with somebody about Florida yesterday, so I will make more notes about Florida.

When I first went down to Florida in the third week of September of 1976, I was thinking about working for NASA.  I had done expediting and data entry for Fluor Daniel construction out of Greenville, South Carolina earlier in the year.  I then spent some time up in Nantucket that previous summer too.  Since there was not much happening in the economy in Greenwich in high technology, I took my 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne blue four door sedan, and I drove down to Florida.  I was able to finance the trip because I had an Allstate check cashing card.  I had filed in Stamford, Connecticut for interstate unemployment benefits from South Carolina.  I did not receive the benefits until April 1977 while I was in Key West, so I was low on money in Florida.  When I arrived in Florida, I drove down A1A along the coast until, I arrived in Fort Lauderdale.  Coco Beach did not look like it had much happening.  I was on a low budget, so I slept in my car at the I95 rest area in Fort Lauderdale.  I toured the area, and I spent some time at the beach.  It was hot down there when I arrived, and one of the first people I met was Stephen Spielberg whom had made the movie Jaws earlier in the year.  He had a small three bedroom house on a canal.  I remembered he had a baby lion cub in the house, and I advised him he would have problems when the lion grew up.  I took him I thought the Mayer family of Metro Goldwyn Mayer use to keep lions too.  Steve was working as a volunteer emergency medical technician on the Fort Lauderdale beach strip, since the movie business was not that profitable.  He was the first person I ever saw with a cell phone, which he used to call the ambulances.  He told me had worked in the YMCA drop in center for kids in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and I told him I had a junior high school classmate that did the same thing there.  I did not see him later on once it got cold.  I spent time around the beach in Fort Lauderdale.  The Forbes boat the Highlander was at Pier 66 Marina, and the Black Hawk owned by the owner of the Chicago Black Hawks was at Bahia Mar.  About mid October it got cold down in Florida, and I remember that Thanksgiving it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning.  I enjoyed seeing the cruise ship, the Queen Elizabeth II come and go in nearby Port Everglades.  I met Wiley Middleton http://www.middletonplace.org/default.htm  whom was descended from the Middleton plantation family in South Carolina.  He had been in the United States marine corps in World War I, and he was like a walking history book on the state of Florida.  He had done the camping trip as a young man in the 1920s with Flagler, Edison, Firestone, and Ford when they were first exploring Florida for development.  He had worked up north having started General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and he was the first Cadillac dealer in Manhattan living at One Fifth Avenue.  His wife was from a family in Bridgeport, Connecticut that owned a silver company.  She had died the year before, and Wiley who was 72 years old was told that he only had a short time to live by a doctor.  He use to walk all day in his daily rounds to his various associates, and he kept an office in the Florida East Coast railroad building.  His family shipping company the Middletown shipping company imported all the coffee beans into the United States of America, and he also had built Port Everglades.  Through General Motors Acceptance corporation he had numerous investments in Florida including the Sheraton Hotel chain.  Another fellow from Connecticut whose father worked for the John Hancock insurance company, and I tried to keep a close eye on Wiley, but he walked so much, he would just come and go through out the day making his daily rounds.  He started each day at St. Luke's Episcopal church.  Well, Wiley seemed to like living outside on the warmer days, so by walking so much he seemed to stay in shape.  He lived until age 96 having retired to Tybee Island, Georgia.  Wiley always wore an Augusta National golf hat, and he was a true southern gentleman.  Needless to say in chatting with him until that January 1977 when I went down to Key West, he told me quite a bit about Florida and its local history.  Having lived down south before moving to Connecticut in 1961, it tended to make sense knowing how southern people tend to think.  Wiley use to go to the mission on Fort Lauderdale beach and have a peanut butter sandwich and a cup of coffee in the evening, and he always enjoyed talking with people.  He had an eye for the pretty ladies, and the last I heard of him in Fort Lauderdale, he had taken a bus to Daytona Beach, Florida to stay with his sister in a nursing home there.  I once found an alligator golf bag in the Salvation Army in Fort Lauderdale for a dollar, and I sold it to Wiley for a dollar, since he knew up north it would cost about $2,000 even back in 1976.  Well, I guess Wiley spending so much time outside in Florida over all those years knew quite a bit about the historical weather patterns in the state of Florida and the southeast.  With all of his experience in Florida, it is amusing that he chose not to have a home in Florida, and he eventually retired to Tybee Island, Georgia where he must have had relatives besides the ones in Brunswick, Georgia.  Maybe he did not need the internet to look at http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  However, he probably had those old fashioned weather instincts.  I know right now it is suppose to be the hottest summer ever on record for the state of Florida.  Thus since hot summers can mean increased hurricane activity, I would imagine the people in that part of the country should keep a weather eye to this upcoming hurricane season.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 7:50 P.M.:  I relaxed a bit.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch television briefly before going to bed.  Remember the United States of America is on Security Alert Condition Orange DHS | Department of Homeland Security | DHS Home Page .  I read that the West Coast security forces are going to 12 hour shifts, so I guess since in the internet mail intercepted recently that Middle Eastern people were advised to leave New York City, Boston, and Washington D.C. since their mail senders expect some sort of terrorist activity that the security forces in those areas should go to longer shifts, basically they should work as long as they can tolerate it before wearing out.  I remember I was once told that submarine commanders in World War II never slept, but cat napped 20 minutes occasionally.  Well, anyway I would imagine that there might be some reserve built up further into the interior of the country.  I believe that the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York United States Military Academy at West Point has its graduation a week from this Saturday on Saturday May 31, 2003 at 9 A.M., which might bring in some extra security into this area.  Of course where they will all be on June 1, 2003 is another question.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 6:25 P.M.:  I raised my monitor resolution to 1024 X 768.  I adjusted my color settings with the 3D color setting program.  I took a six ounce can of consul crab meat, and I rinsed it in cold water, and I flaked it.  I then added a couple of tablespoons of low fat Hellmann's mayonnaise, and I mixed it together.  I made two sandwiches with the fresh Arnold 12 grain bread, and I cut them in half.  I had them for my final meal of the day which is usually called supper when the midday meal is called dinner along with ice tea.  Down south in the United States and in areas like France, Italy, and Spain they have their primary meal in the middle of the day, frequently followed by a nap.  Here in the Unites States of America where so many people are busy all day long, they frequently eat their primary meal of the day in the evening or later at night.  I believe in Spain they have their primary meal after 10 P.M. at night, so they must have a lighter midday meal.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 5:30 P.M.:  A bit of Canadian History The Life and Times of Sir John A. Macdonald .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  I went back out, and I stopped by Pickwick shoe repair at the Stop and Shop shopping plaza, and I left my left Ecco white walking shoe to have the heel wear preventer put back on it.  It came off, and I had the tap.  There will be no charge, and I will pick it up tomorrow.  I made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought an old 2 inch by 4 inch print of Dresden, Germany cathedral in a frame with glass for $1.75.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I just now returned home.  I hung the Dresden cathedral print above the Williamsburg, Virginia church painting in the hallway.  I read about five years ago that they have rebuilt the Dresden cathedral.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 1:55 P.M.:  After dinner, I listened to some of the BBC Radio on the internet http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram .  I will now go out again.  I have 4 gigabytes of space on the C: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 12:10 P.M.:  I was told by the night manager at the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue a couple of weeks ago, I should take alfalfa for my arthritis.  I know they use to give it to race horses.  I also know the United States government spends three quarters of a billion dollars a year growing alfalfa out in Utah, so it should not be too expensive.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 12:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I stopped by the Valley Road post office.  I obtained a money order for $10.23 at a cost of .90 for $11.13 total.  I sent the money order to Jab computers for the 36 inch IDE cable.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next stopped by the Arnold Bread outlet, and they did not have much old bread, so I bought two fresh loaves of Arnold 12 grain bread for $2.09 each less .42 senior discount for $3.76 total.  I then went by Smokes for Less, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total.  I then returned home.  I am cooking an early dinner for lunch the same as last night, except I also put Hungarian paprika on the chicken along with everything else, and I peeled and cut an onion in half, and I put paprika on it too.  It will all be ready in about ten minutes.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 8:40 A.M.:  I finished running Norton Speed Disk.  I also installed IBM World Book 1999, but it will not go online for updates.  I put a new CVS Clorox toilet tablet in the toilet tank.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out.  CIO   

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 7:00 A.M.:  I will now run Norton Disk Doctor and Norton Win Doctor.  I will then run Norton Speed Disk which will take a while.  I will clean up and go out after I start running Norton Speed Disk.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/03  Thursday 6:15 A.M.:  I went to bed about 8 P.M., and I was up at 4 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw out some garbage.  Yesterday, I mailed the Vibra WebCam $25 mail in rebate from Staples at the Valley Road post office.  I deleted the Army Ops game off my computer to free up hard drive space.  I have 2.16 gigabytes free space on the C: drive.  I heard on the news that there was a bombing at the Yale Law school, but the news said it was not mideast terror related.  We have quite a few people in this part of Connecticut whom commute up to Yale to work and study.  The last time I was there was about ten years ago, although I have driven through New Haven about once a year to drive up to Kennebunkport in the summer.  I suppose the geopolitics of the world are coming home to rest in Connecticut.  When I used to stay over for a few nights at Harvard before going down to Nantucket after coming up from Florida in the old days, I would spend the night at Harvard at the Corbusier Art and Design Center.  I some times would stop by the Massachusetts eye and ear clinic across the Charles River in Boston to have my ears cleaned out with the advanced ear wax removal system they have.  Earlier this week, I rinsed out my ears with Debrox or the same CVS ear wax removal system by putting 20 drops at a time in one ear at a time and waiting ten minutes for the Debrox to dissolve the ear wax and then rinsing the ear out with hot water with the ear wax water bulb syringe.  A lot of wax came out of each ear, so thus my ears are cleaner, and perhaps I hear better.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 6:35 P.M.:  Dinner was enjoyable.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television, and afterwards I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 5:45 P.M.:  I took one of the boneless chicken breast halves, and I rinsed it in cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel.  I then put it in a Pyrex pie dish, and I added two tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce and a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine.  I seasoned the top of the boneless chicken breast with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, chicken and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, Italian spices, basil, and oregano.  I put on two diced gloves of garlic, and I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I will have it with the juices on the chicken.  I will also have two steamed ears of sweet corn, steamed fresh broccoli, and a steamed sliced green squash.  I will put olive oil on the vegetables, and I will have it all with iced tea.  I steam my vegetables with a steam rack in a pot usually for fifteen minutes including the time it takes to create the steam.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 5:15 P.M.:  I ordered the 36 inch cable http://www.jab-tech.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_24&products_id=40 from Jab computers.  I will send them a check for $10.23 which is $6.38 for the cable and $3.85 priority mail.  I will send them the print out of the order too, so they know which item it is.  Thus I will soon have the longer cable.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 4:20 P.M.:  The reason I have been looking at IDE cables is that on my Syntax SV266M motherboard that came with my Northgate System, the primary or first IDE controller uses an IDE 80 wire ribbon which came with the system.  However, it is 18 inches long with about six inches between the second IDE connector and the first IDE connector.  Since on the Apex/Foxconn TM-124 case, there are two bays for the two CD players, I use, and then beneath the floppy drive inside the case, there is room if one removes the memory to install the second hard drive.  However, the first hard drive fits into a cage which is 90 degrees adjacent to the other drive, so the reach between the second IDE connector on the second hard drive to the first IDE connector on the first hard drive perpendicular is slightly more than six inches with the twists in the IDE 80 wire ribbon cable.  I was able to solve this problem with just enough length by turning the second hard drive upside down in its installation.  Thus although I have both hard drives connected, the cable is stretched to the limit.  I would be able to more easily install them with a 24 inch or 36 inch round cable, which on the 36 inch cable there is about a foot of length between the second IDE connector and the first IDE connector.  The cables that I studied are PC133 cables, but I am not sure whether that means they are 80 wire or not.  Although it is $30 at CompUSA for such a 36 inch cable, the site at http://www.jab-tech.com/ has a similar 36 inch cable for $6.38 http://www.jab-tech.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_24&products_id=40  which also glows for those of you with clear side panels.  Thus if I chose to have a lengthier cable, it would not be too expensive to order and replace the one that came with the system assuming it is an 80 wire cable.  I install two hard drives of equal size in my primary system, so I can back up the C: drive to the D: drive with Windows XP professional backup, which I do in about six separate files of less than the four gigabyte maximum for the backup program.  However, should I have a major power surge which could happen on some electrical systems despite the ground fault control panels, I could conceivably lose both hard drives including the backup.  They ideal backup on my system would be use one of the new USB 2.0 external hard drives available for about $150 which then could be stored separately from the primary computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 3:45 P.M.:  I went out, and I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue in the rain with my umbrella.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  Greenwich Capital has put up new signs that say "RBS Greenwich Capital" RBS Greenwich Capital - Welcome to www.gcm.com which reflects the fact that they are owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland RBS: Welcome to The Royal Bank of Scotland .  However, whomever owns the Royal Bank of Scotland is a question.  I would assume the Scottish.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times and P.C. Magazine.  I then went to the Cos Cob Food Mart, and I bought a quart jar of Richfood Strawberry Preserves for $2.99, two six ounce jars of Cento artichoke hearts .99 each, six ears of sweet corn for $1 all, three Florida green squash at .99 a pound for $1.72, and a package of Gold Kist boneless breasts of chicken at $1.99 a pound for $3.40 less 5% senior discount .38 for $10.71 total.  I noticed they have liter bottles of various flavors of Perrier www.perrier.com on sale for .99 a bottle which is a very good value.  I then returned home, since with arthritis, I am not good at hanging out downtown on rainy days.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 11:40 A.M.:  I went through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I had two tuna fish sandwiches with ice tea.  I listened to a bit of http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up.  I will then go out for some downtown activity.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 10:45 A.M.:  A good sight for computer cables http://www.jab-tech.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 10:10 A.M.:  Translated version of http://www.lemonde.fr/  .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 9:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I rested a bit.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/03  Wednesday 6:15 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I chatted with a friend at 9 P.M., and I chatted with another friend at 11 P.M..  I was up at 4:30 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  It just started raining here, so I will be staying in this morning.  I read the story last night that the United States government has raised the threat level to orange.  However, this week is fleet week in Manhattan, so there should be a little bit of additional security.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 8:00 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 7:50 P.M.:  I looked at the Creative Web sight www.creaf.com , but I could not find any information on the Vibra WebCam, although it is one of their products.  I filled out the Staples $25 rebate information on the Vibra WebCam, and I have it ready to mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 7:00 P.M.:  I had two scoops of Starbucks coffee ice cream and ice tea.  I guess, once I use of the ice cream, I will have to start buying frozen ice or fat free ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 6:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I uninstalled the video drivers for my Ezonics EzCam USB, and I connected it to the Dell Backup computer which already has the drivers for it on it.  I then installed the Vibra Web Cam drivers and programs.  It is a Creative camera, so it comes with the Creative program Web Cam Control and Web Cam monitor.  The latter program, I probably will not use since I shut down my computer when I leave the apartment.  I then registered the Vibra Web Cam, and I rebooted.  I then installed the Vibra Web Cam to one of the rear USB ports, and it was recognized and installed by Plug and Play.  I ignored the XP compatibility warning, which the instructions said to ignore.  It installed fine, and it is working just fine.  I adjusted the focus, and checked the Web Cam control settings.  I setup Microsoft Netmeeting with it.  I noticed in the web cam video, in the background  12 feet behind one sees the picture very clearly of Charles Lindbergh, so the depth of field on the camera is very good.  I could have tried to buy a USB 2.0 camera, but it would have cost close to $100 instead of $5 eventually, and they apparently do not work much better.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 5:35 P.M.:  While putting away my new summer slacks in the bedroom closet, I took care of an overcrowding problem.  I removed a couple dozen pairs of slacks that are waist 36 inches and smaller that I can not long fit in.  About half of them are corduroy, six khaki, four wool, and two jeans.  I folded them, and I put them in the empty Rubbermaid laundry hamper and on top of it.  I put the extra hangers on top of the computer equipment on the sideboard.  Thus although the bedroom closet is still filled to overflowing, it is less cramped.  I am forever the optimist, and I hope some time in the near future I might lose some weight, and my smaller clothes which are in very good shape will fit me again.  Thus instead of donating them to a local thrift shop, I am keeping them for leaner times.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 4:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  I then went up to Norwalk Hyundai.  I arrived at 7:30 A.M. as they were opening.  I dropped the Hyundai off for the 35,000 mile service check up.  I told them it did not need new spark plugs, since I had platinum spark plugs put in 3,000 miles ago.  I walked over to Stew Leonard's, and I got a 10 ounce cup of Kuhai coffee for $1.  I toured the store.  I noticed rip eye steaks are $5.99, but on my new low cholesterol diet, I can not eat them.  They have six ounce cans of three diamond crab meat for $2.50 too.  I did not make any purchases, because I did not want to carry them around with me while I was waiting for the car.  I then walked back eastward, and I went by Staples.  I toured their store.  I then walked back westward, and I went by Stew Leonard's parking area again, and I sat out briefly.  I then sat for a while at Norwalk Hyundai.  About 10 A.M. the car was ready.  There was $83.35 in labor, 4 quarts of oil at $2.50 a quart for $10, oil plug gasket .49, oil filter $5.73, fuel filter $27.18, PCV valve $10.99, air filter $15.50, washer fluid $2.25, oil treatment $7.13, fuel treatment $7.13 for $86.60 parts plus $10.20 tax for $180.15 total.  I paid cash for the service.    Norwalk Hyundai is owned by a local Greenwich dealership chain of dealers.  They are moving to a new location next to Bonjournos on the Stamford Greenwich border.  I then went by CompUSA in Norwalk.  I toured the store.  I checked out IDE cables, since the stretch on my primary IDE cable on the primary computer is a bit tight.  However, I have an 80 cable on the primary IDE and a 40 cable for the CD players.  They sell a 3 foot cable which would be plenty of length with a foot length between the second drive and the first drive which would be less tight.  It is a PC 133 cable, but I was not sure if it was an 80 cable that my system requires.  It is $30, so I decided not to get it.  I then toured Circuit City.  I then drove back down to Greenwich.  I went to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought a Vibra Web Cam $29.98 plus $1.80 tax for $31.78 total.  The Vibra Web Cam also has a $25 mail in rebate from Staples, so eventually it will be $5 and tax.  I have a web cam on the primary computer right now, but its drivers are not Windows XP compatible, so now I have a Windows XP compatible web cam.  I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room thrift shop.  I next went by the Old Greenwich Food Mart, and I bought a pre made roast beef sandwich with lettuce and tomato for $4.59 and a Snapple ice tea with lemon for .89 for $5.76 total.  I then went out to Tod's Point, and I had lunch at the southeast beach area bench.  I then drove around Tod's Point.  I next drove back to central Greenwich, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I then went downtown.  I went by the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift Shop.  Clothes are deeply discounted.  I bought four pairs of summer slacks for $2 a pair for $8 total.  One pair is Nantucket red cotton, another is cream cotton, another is turquoise cotton, and the other pair is orange linen.  They all fit me.  They are traditional summer slacks.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  They were removing the tulip bulbs.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then returned home, and I had a cold diet Sprite in a chilled mug and a glass of ice tea.  My arthritis was acting up today with the cooler morning temperatures.  I was told it is suppose to start raining tomorrow afternoon for the next three days.  I put a new Nu Car scent Christmas tree scent card in the Hyundai.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 5:55 A.M.:  I made an appointment at Norwalk, Connecticut Hyundai to take my car up there today  for the 35,000 mile service checkup http://www.bargainnews.com/ct/457/norwalkhi.cfm?thedealer=457 .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will have a couple of tuna fish sandwiches and ice tea.  I will then clean up.  I will then head up to Norwalk.  They supposedly open at 7:30 A.M..

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 5:15 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I then rested a bit more.  Well, I am now on a day schedule.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/03  Tuesday 2:05 A.M.:  I did not go out after the last message.  I relaxed a bit.  I had two scoops of Starbucks coffee ice cream.  I put my $20 Staples rebate in the mail box downstairs.  I fell asleep about 11 A.M..  I was up at midnight.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched a bit of Cspan about the President of the Philippines state visit.  In the mail, I received a DVD disk from Microsoft.  Since I do not have a DVD player in the computer, I can not play it on the computer, but I do have a DVD video player, I can use it to look at the video content.  I put the disk in a jewel case, and I put it by the TEAC DVD video player by the Orion television.  I also received a  Greenwich Medical survey in the mail which included a new two dollar bill for filling out the medical survey.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 7:45 A.M.:  I rested a bit.  I had some gold emblem cheese crackers and ice tea.  I put the new batch of ice tea in the refrigerator.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will clean up, and I will go out to see what is happening on this Canadian Holiday.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 4:20 A.M.:  I guess one could have the free Greenwich version of the Chelsea Flower show by touring the McArdle McMillan green houses on Arch street downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 4:15 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I went through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  There is a frost warning this morning, and it is 41 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  Although, I have finished my regular computer work, I am not sure if I want to go out in the cool morning air for a walk.  I might wait a bit and think about it.  I am still waiting to put away the ice tea.  I steep it for an hour to two hours.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 3:50 A.M.:  Today is the Queen Victoria Day Holiday in Canada, but Queen Victoria's actual birthday is May 24, 1837 Victoria Day , which would be this Saturday.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 3:25 A.M.:  Chelsea Flower Show Telegraph | News | Chelsea's flower-power goes psychedelic  . CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 3:15 A.M.:  Spare a smoke? A Great Estate Opens Its Gates .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 2:55 A.M.:  I am boiling three quarts of water to make up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm with the usual proportion of tea bags.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 2:05 A.M.:  I filled out the Staples rebate information the modem.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/19/03  Monday 1:45 A.M.:  I was up at 11 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  In the primary computer, I installed Sterling Communications 56K V.92 PCI internal Faxmodem Model S20, and when I booted Windows XP professional it installed the drivers.  I went ahead and installed the drivers from the CD and the programs on it.  I downloaded the Juno www.juno.com software for free local access here in Greenwich, and I installed it.  It works fine on the dialup modem for the two local access number.  At the moment, I have the Juno dialer set to not dialup through the modem, but to logon on through the cable modem.  Still, it is now available if the cable modem did not work.  I also put a telephone three splitter on the back of the primary control panel for the telephone line to split off to the speaker phone, Uniden cordless phone, and the line to the computer.  I found another speaker cord Y splitter on the floor by the computer, so I hooked it back up to the Dell backup computer, so both the speakers and the headset come out of the primary audio jack.  I opened a new Juno Account, because I could not remember my old account logon name and password.  I think that information is on the AMD backup computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 2:10 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I turned off the air conditioner, since it comes on when the sun hits it, and it is not really warm enough outside to need it yet.  It is nice to have the apartment warm up in the afternoon with the western sunlight it gets in the warmer months, so it is a bit warmer at night in the apartment, since I do not have the heat on this time of year, when it is still cool outside at night around here.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 1:45 P.M.:  I am microwaving a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed peppers with ground beef and tomato sauce.  I will have it with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 1:25 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  While, I was chatting with a fisherman, a blue and white helicopter showed up, and it was flying low over the shoreline of Mead's Point, Indian Harbor, and Belle Haven.  It kept flying low into the harbor about 50 feet above the water.  I think there is a ban on helicopters landing in Greenwich, so it must have been some sort of special activity.  I next drove over to the Mobil Express Car wash in Old Greenwich, and I had my Hyundai washed for $5.  I towel dried it afterwards, and I shook out the floor mats.  I then drove by Staples, but they do not open on Sunday until 10 A.M..  I then went out to Tod's Point, and I sat out at the beach in the southeast beach area in my beach chair for an hour enjoying the view of Long Island Sound.  I donated a dollar to the Special Olympics when entering the beach.  I was told that they are going to have the Special Olympics in Ireland this summer.  While sitting at the beach, I noticed four swimmers out in the distance swimming the entire length of the beach.  Since it is a full moon in June, the low tide is about as low as it gets on a yearly basis.  I next drove around Tod's Point stopping briefly at the southwest parking area.  I then went to Staples, shortly after they opened, and I bought a Sterling Communications 56K V.92 PCI internal Faxmodem Model S20 for $19.98 plus $1.20 tax for $21.18.  It also has a $20 Staples mail in rebate, so eventually it will only cost just the tax.  I then went downtown.  When I got out of my car, I noticed I had lost my cigarettes, so I went to Zyn stationary, and I bought a package of Pall Mall lights 100s for $4.20.  The pockets on my Perrier of America wind breaker are not too deep.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then sat out downtown until noon.  I next went by Exxon next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $6.25 of regular unleaded at $1.779 a gallon for 26 miles per gallon.  I then returned home.  I chatted briefly with a neighbor.  I had some ice tea. I will put in the telephone modem into my primary computer some time in the future to have for backup should the cable modem ever go out.  The cable modem has never gone out so far.  I will then install Juno free dialup, so I could technically get online if the cable modem went out.  However, I have a feeling if the cable modem ever went out, Juno free dialup would be overwhelmed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 6:00 A.M.:  I took a six ounce can of Bumble Bee tiny shrimp, and I rinsed it in water.  I then added two tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together, and I made two sandwiches which I cut in half.  I had the sandwiches with ice tea.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will clean up, and I will go out for some daytime activity.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 5:00 A.M.:  Of course when one goes to Nantucket, they generally expect one to have money, since although they have tried to secede from the United States of America like Key West, they are still under the jurisdiction of the U.S.A..  The last time I was in Nantucket, they were selling Nantucket passports, and Nantucket was a Tory Island in the American revolution, since the British tended to control the seas.  Whatever, the case a lot of people that one sees in Nantucket in the summer are just visitors or summer residents, so more than likely they would not be up there yet, or down there as they say in Boston.  Generally about the time that Harvard University graduates about the third week in June along with the many other New England schools, it starts to get busier.  However, since the southern schools in the United States get out earlier, the southern students frequently get up north to Nantucket first, and they get all the good jobs.  There are some old guard republicans on Nantucket, but the rowdy democrats from nearby Hyannis frequently can cause problems when the different groups come into political philosophy controversy.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 4:10 A.M.:  It says here http://www.flypanam.com/ , one can fly from Westchester Country Airport on the Greenwich, Connecticut border with New York to Nantucket that far away island for about $160 one way on week days.  Of course to save money in the old days, I use to hitchhike to Woods Hole or Hyannis and take the Ferry.  One can also take the Amtrak to Providence, Rhode Island and catch the bus down to Hyannis to catch the ferry out to Nantucket.  However, it is rumored that Nantucket like Key West has gotten very expensive over the two decades since I departed.  However, both Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard have youth hostels in in the summer season for younger travelers.  Of course for arm chair travelers that would be a long journey.  As a point of trivia, if I have crossed the Atlantic 5 and a half times, which side am I originally from.  Nope not Europe, the half trip across the Atlantic was flying round trip to Bermuda in 1968.  As I recall, I returned from Bermuda on Pan Am in 1968 during spring break after flying to Bermuda on BOAC.  I can not recall what other times, I might have flown Pan Am, since I was not a major international traveler, but my father in business had flown a million miles on Pan Am by 1954, so I paid attention to the airline and I read up a bit on it.  I use to have a Pan Am VIP card that one could obtain in the old days for about $40, and when I traveled I would use their lounges.  I did fly quite a bit domestically when I was younger, but I can not recall flying Pan Am very much, since they were an international airline.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 3:40 A.M.:  In reading Charles Lindbergh's biography http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/index.asp , it says that Dwight Eisenhower appointed him a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force in 1954 after completing various other civilian and military assignments.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 2:55 A.M.:  I put away my laundry.  It is my theory from what I have read that with common scanner technology available from Radio Shack or other more advanced systems, individuals can eavesdrop on cellular telephone conversations.  More than likely there are individuals on the south shore of Connecticut trying to eavesdrop on conversation on the North Shore of Long Island and visa versa.  However, with the multitude of languages spoken in this area, it must be all quite confusing unless one is an expert linguist.  Thus as in the old saying in the Navy goes "Lose Lips Sink Ships", one should be somewhat circumspect with one's conversations on wireless technology.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 2:05 A.M.:  For any of the local wharf rats this page contains the tide charts for the area Tide Chart Index Connecticut Coast West at www.maineharbors.com .  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 1:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I also have a Microsoft Hotmail email account that I have never used or given out in the several years that I have had it.  Still, it is interesting that I get 50 to 60 spam emails a day on that one Hotmail email account.  I wonder if Microsoft sells its email list or how people obtain the Microsoft Hotmail email addresses.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 1:30 A.M.:  I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I noticed today that the fishermen with cell phones can now order to pizza to go while they are fishing.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/03  Sunday 1:15 A.M.:  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I am charging up the Slaymaker million watt rechargeable lantern.  I started two loads of laundry.  I put clean sheets on the bed.  In referring to Key West in the mid 1970s there were quite a few Pan Am flight personnel that had homes there.  Pan Am used to have a New Year's Eve party there at the discothèque with thousands of their employees, and the next day they would all take off again all over the world.  The Pigeon House patio adjacent to the Audubon House on Whitehead Street was the original Pan Am ticket office, when they first started flying the flying airboat from Key West to Havana.  Also with the United States Navy pilots at Boca Chica air station there were quite a few pilots down there.  Having lived in Pensacola, Florida from 1953 to 1955, I knew that the Navy air pilots were also there.  There use to be a bar for pilots in Pensacola called the Driftwood, and about a dozen years ago they moved to Vero Beach, Florida.  As the name implies the Driftwood was originally built from Driftwood off the beach.  There were a lot of pictures of pilots in the bar.  Of course over the yeas a lot of the Navy pilots became Pan Am pilots.  Thus in the old days, I treated Key West like it was a flight operations center for both civilian and military aircraft.  Also NASA personnel also lived in Key West, and they supposedly trained flight personnel down in the Florida Keys.  Anyway it seemed to me that somebody had a Federal Government budget down in the Florida Keys, and the largest store in Key West was the Navy Commissary which unfortunately they would not let me shop in.  My family had a distant presence in Key West, since my father's first wife's family owned the Household Finance Company, which also had an office on Duval Street in Key West helping to finance the buildup and restoration of the island.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 11:35 P.M.:  A relative called up about 9 P.M., and we chatted.  A friend called right before I went to bed.   I watched a bit of television.  I had a granola bar with ice tea.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 4:35 P.M.:  For dinner, I had a Boston Market Swedish meatballs dinner and ice tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 4:00 P.M.:  I went back out after the last message.  I stopped by the Stop and Shop, and I exchanged a quart jar of Hellmann's regular mayonnaise for a quart jar of Hellmann's Just2Good low fat mayonnaise.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out for a while at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  Some of the regular fishermen are back again for another summer season.  However, since the water in Long Island Sound along the south shore of Connecticut is running six degrees cooler this year, the fishing is not too good at the moment.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the first section of the Greenwich Times.  I did not read the rest, since it was not there.  I checked out a DVD video disk.  I then went by the Arnold Bread Factory outlet, and I bought two loaves of 12 grain bread for .99 each less 10% senior discount of .20 for $1.78 total.  I then returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 11:40 A.M.:  I vacuumed the apartment.  I put a new vacuum cleaner bag in the Hoover upright vacuum.  I used the older Electrolux vacuum to clean the bathroom vent fan, and I also vacuumed behind the sofa in the living room.  I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  Today art and household items and frames are half price.  I went back by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went back by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought the portrait of Charles Lindbergh http://www.charleslindbergh.com/  for half price down from $65 for $32.50.  It is in a black lacquer frame.  It is 23 inches by 19 inches with the portrait inside the matting 17 inches by 14 inches.  It is in black and white some type of detailed drawing signed by Charles Overall.  I then returned home.  I cleaned the glass on the portrait, and I tightened the nails that hold the cardboard back on.  I hung it above the daybed on the left side below the thermostat.  I moved the two French chateau pictures on the same wall to above the mirror on either side of the smoke detector.  On the right side where one of the French chateau pictures were, I put the picture from the hallway of the Venice canal.  I will now go back out again.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 9:15 A.M.:  I put a can of Progresso New England clam chowder in a microwave cooking container, and I microwaved it on reheat.  I had it for lunch with ice tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 8:45 A.M.:  I uninstalled the Creative SoundBlaster Live MP3+ drivers, and the I reinstalled them again.  For some reason I had two different copies in the Add and Remove programs selection, so it should be better now.  I took the Y splitter off the soundcard on the Dell backup computer, and I used it to connect the Andrea Electronics microphone on the primary computer.  Since it uses an adaptor, it was a bit wide for the plug-in hole, so now it fits more easily, since the Y adaptor is narrower.  I also was able to plug in the primary sound plug further in, so all speakers work properly.  I also installed Vienna Sound Fonts on the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 7:10 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I noticed at 5:30 A.M. on Saturday morning, there is a diesel commuter train that stops at the Greenwich Train station going to New York City.  I guess it is coming down from the Danbury line which is not electrified.  I also noticed a sign in Quinn's liquor store that they are going out of business and all alcohol and wine is 10% off.  I drove down by the waterfront.  Today and tomorrow at the Bruce Museum they are having the outside art show where various artists sell their art.  I just now returned home.  In remembering life when I was in Key West in the winters of 1977 and 1978, I read an article when I returned up north at that time, that Key West had the highest rate of meningitis in the United States because they pumped raw sewage into the water close to the shoreline.  I think they have since fixed that problem by putting in new sewer lines and a new sewage plant.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/03  Saturday 4:30 A.M.:  I rested until about 9:30 P.M..  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I took a six ounce can of Chicken of the Sea tuna fish, and I rinsed it.  I then flaked it, and I added two tablespoons of low fat Hellmann's mayonnaise, and I mixed it together, and I made two sandwiches.  I had the sandwiches with some potato chips and ice tea.  I then rested until 1 A.M..  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I will do the vacuuming later in the morning once my neighbors are up.  I had one of the General Electric 15 watt candelabra bulbs burn out in the pair of sconces above the day bed.  I replaced all four bulbs with new General Electric 15 watt candelabra bulbs.  I saved three of the old bulbs that still work.  I keep a lot of my replacement bulbs in the mahogany bureau in the bedroom and in the bedroom window opening.  I just had breakfast of oatmeal with sugar, cinnamon, and milk; two slices of toast with Smucker's strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, and supplements.  I have probably been tired the last few days with the damp low barometric pressure system in the area, one tends to get tired.  One gets the same effect when one goes on a cruise on the ocean or when one goes out to Nantucket surrounded by the ocean.  Frequently when people first arrive in Nantucket, they sleep for about a week, because the ocean makes them tired.  I also remembered that this time of year is when the migratory animals such as Mountain Lions might be traveling through this area along the ridges working their way further north.  I suppose it is also the time of year when the Indians return to their Happy Hunting Grounds for their traditional activities.  One of the computer fans is making a bit of a higher pitched noise, but I will leave it be.  Hopefully, it will not get any worse.  I will clean up shortly, and I will go out for a morning walk, since it seems drier.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/16/03  Friday 5:15 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/03  Friday 4:10 P.M.:  Around 7 A.M., I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then rested until now.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/16/03:

Note: <888> 05/16/03  Friday 5:35 A.M.:  With the Army Operations download and the install, I only have about 2.2 gigabytes left on my C: drive.  I might uninstall it later to free up space.  I also went through most of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/03  Friday 5:20 A.M.:  I have the Army Operations game installed on the computer.  In the process of installing SMPMclientinstaller which was a feature of the game, it had me install the Microsoft Net Framework, but for it SMPMclientinstaller to run it looks for the Microsoft Net Framework Service Pack 2 which will not install on my machine.  I am not sure what this feature is.  However the Army game works.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/03  Friday 3:20 A.M.:  I am downloading Americas Army 1.70 game from  http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/inspan/games/americasarmy/armyops170.exe.html or http://www.3dgamers.com/games/americasarmy/ or http://www.americasarmy.com/downloads.php?sec=full .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/03  Friday 3:00 A.M.:  I went to bed at 9 P.M., and a relative called at 10 P.M..  I just got up now.  I will do a little bit of computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 7:45 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I did a little bit of other computer work.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 7:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  For dinner, I had a Boston Market Salisbury steak dinner with cheese noodles.  Whoops the cheese noodles might not be good for the cholesterol.  I have two unopened jars of Hellmann's regular mayonnaise that I will exchange for the low fat brand.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 6:05 P.M.:  I watch a videotape until 7 A.M. this morning.  I rested until noon.  I took a six ounce can of Council crab meat, and I mixed two tablespoons of Hellmann's mayonnaise in it.  I made two sandwiches out of it, and I had them with ice tea.   I took a Benadryl.  It is a high pollen count outside.  I cleaned up, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a quart jar of Hellmann's Just2Good Reduced fat mayonnaise for $4.19, a Boston Market chicken and noodles dinner for $2.99, a 96 ounce container of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.99 for $10.17 total.  I then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total.  I just now returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 3:40 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 3:15 A.M.:  I downloaded and installed the Hulk demo, but it did not do much, and it needs a Game Pad.  Maybe joy sticks are passé, and game pads are in.   I removed the Hulk demo.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 2:45 A.M.:  The Star Trek demo would not work on my machine.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 2:20 A.M.:  I am downloading Star Trek II Elite Force demo http://gaming.startrek.com/ to try out my joystick.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 1:45 A.M.:  I am microwaving a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed peppers with ground beef and tomato sauce which I will have with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 1:35 A.M.:  I went through my email including scanning the volcano reports which can be lengthy.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 1:00 A.M.:  I just received email from Volcano Listserv at http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/ that two Volcanoes in Alaska are on orange alert Alaska Volcano Observatory .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/03  Thursday 12:10 A.M.:  I cut up the Capital One Visa card, and I ripped up the information that came with it.  I did some regular computer work.  I noticed that www.accessmicro.com is sold out of a lot of the merchandise that they offer.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 10:30 P.M.:  After the last message, I went downtown by the waterfront.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by St. Moritz bakery, and I bought an almond Danish pastry for $1.25.  I ate the pastry in the park.  I returned home, and I went to bed.  I was up at 7 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal with sugar, cinnamon, and milk; two slices of toast with Smucker's strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee with milk and sugar.  I fell back to sleep until 10 P.M..  I checked my mail, and I got a Visa credit card from Capital One with a $20,000 line of credit for Scott's Internet Hotlist.  It would be tempting to activate the card and travel around the world resting and advertising Scott's Internet Hotlist, but since I do not generate any revenue, I would rather not accumulate dept.  I will thus cut up the Visa card and rip up the forms.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  I finished my regular internet work.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go out for a while and enjoy some morning light.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 5:05 A.M.:  Name Boeing's new airplane sweepstakes http://www.newairplane.com/?source=fs2004 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 4:20 A.M.:  I am in the process of going through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  Sometime in the near future, I have to have the 35,000 mile checkup done on my Hyundai at Norwalk, Ct. Hyundai.  I have about 80 miles before 35,000 miles.  It should be about $120 since I had new platinum spark plugs put in the car in October 2002 at the 30,000 mile checkup, I did at 32,500 miles.  The oil change and filter which they will do then too was last done at 31,800 miles.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 3:40 A.M.:  Barney page with link to Barney Cam http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/abc/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 3:40 A.M.:  I finished reading my email.  I had three pretzel rods and ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:45 A.M.: Microsoft : GetBetterMail : Introduction CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:40 A.M.: Once Derided for Dinosaur, I.B.M. Shows a T-Rex Bite CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:35 A.M.: McAfee Security Virus Warning W32/Fizzer@MM CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:35 A.M.: Microsoft Windows Longhorn - Software Reviews - CNET.com CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:30 A.M.: NASA rethinks Web site approach  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:10 A.M.: Anatahan Volcano History http://www.guam.net/pub/sshs/depart/science/mancuso/marianas/anatahan/anatahan.htm and http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=2132C451-69F1-452F-B016A58773D5C4B6 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Anatahan+Volcano .  Well, we will have to keep an eye on it, since old volcanoes that erupt which have not historical activity can frequently be more dangerous because they have been sleeping for a long time.  As I recall there are a number of veterans whom probably served in that area.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 2:00 A.M.:  Last Tsunami warning in the Pacific was May 4, 2003 http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/ptwc/bulletins.htm .  Looking at the satellite photos of the Northern Mariana Islands erruptions, it is hard to tell whether it is a major erruption that might generate seismic acitivity leading to a tsunami.  I am not familiar with the historical activity of that volcano.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 1:55 A.M.:  Pacific Tsunami warning system link is working now http://www.nws.noaa.gov/pr/ptwc/   and http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/ , http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Volcano/ , http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/ relevant Northern Mariana Islands volcano links.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 1:30 A.M.: Tsunami warning centers http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/tsunami.html  and http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology/Geologic_Hazards/Tsunami/Warning_Centers/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 1:25 A.M.:  Of course with such major volcanic activity, there could be Tsunami activity in Hawaii or the Philippines or other neighboring areas http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Tsunami .

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 1:20 A.M.:  According to this the Northern Mariana Islands is under United States administrative trust http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cq.html .  Maybe this will make it colder here this upcoming winter.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 1:00 A.M.:  According to this http://www.cnmiemo.org/index.htm , Saipan, Mariana Islands is a United States territory, so it is in our realm of influence.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 12:55 A.M.: Northern Mariana Island volcano eruption http://www.cnmiemo.org/Press%20Release%20Vocanic%20Eruption%20Anatahan%205-10-03.htm and .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/03  Wednesday 12:30 A.M.:  I noticed this evening while I was on my evening stroll that there is a white Labrador retriever that is spending the night at Wendy's Closet, a woman's dress store on the east side of lower Greenwich Avenue.  I noticed it was sleeping on a hard floor, and it did not have a comfortable cushion.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/13/03  Tuesday 11:35 P.M.:  I am cooking the same dinner, as I had last night.  It should be very enjoyable.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/03  Tuesday 11:20 P.M.:  I sleep more on Tuesdays and Fridays.  I had a call today from a friend around noon while he was traveling through Greenwich chatting on his cell phone.  We chatted until he got to Darien.  He was going to Ansonia, Connecticut.  He called me again when he was back at work at Yonkers Race track at 3 P.M..  I had a friend last weekend whom called me on Saturday, and they wanted me to go to the Cloisters in Manhattan or drive up to Madison, Connecticut on the waterfront near New Haven, Connecticut; which I was unable to do, since I was on a night schedule.  The same friend was in President Bush's class, and I was told that President Bush has invited his entire alumni class to the White House for their Yale reunion www.yale.edu .  I went up to Yale in fall of 1975, thinking I might want to attend the Yale school of Business and Politics founded by Nelson Aldridge Rockefeller and Henry Clay Ford Junior, but alas that was the same year Ronald Reagan Junior was starting Yale as a freshman, so they did not pay much attention to me when I showed up.  I guess having worked around Harvard in the summer when I was at Polaroid, there was a bit of Ivy League resentment.  Anyway, I spent a week walking around the campus sleeping on the couch in the basement of the Yale law school, and not eating very much, so I returned home to Greenwich, where I was more comfortable.  I also had a telephone call about 6 P.M. from Smith Barney trying to interest me in estate planning, but I explained that I was disabled living on minimal assets.  I had breakfast at 4 P.M. of oatmeal with sugar, cinnamon, and milk; toast with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee with sugar and milk.  I fell back to sleep until 8 P.M..  I got up, and I cleaned up.  I received in the mail from Connecticut Light and Power a Sylvania 75 watt soft white twist 75 bulb that lasts up to 7 years and supposedly saves $55 in energy costs during its lifetime.  I put it in the hallway book light that I leave on all the time.  Thus it is a bit brighter in the hallway instead of the standard 40 watt light bulb I had.  I also received a General Electric Service Protection plan for my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control which is currently covered through August 2003.  The old plan was about $53 a year, but now they want $86.07 a year, so I guess it went up, because the unit is two years old.  I will send it in to keep it covered.  At the moment it is 50 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so I really do not need to use the air conditioner just now.  I cleaned up, and I went out, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  Tiffanies is opened tonight for laying new carpet, so I guess one could stop by and pick up free samples, if the renovation crew did not mind.  The alarm was going off when I went by.  I drove down by the waterfront.  They have a nice antique car in front of the Delamar Hotel http://www.thedelamar.com/ on the waterfront.  Apparently it is a very posh five star hotel, and I have read that some of the rooms even have fire places for cold nights.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a Boston Market Salisbury steak dinner for $2.99, a 96 ounce jug of Tropicana premium orange juice for $2.99, a quart of Smuckers www.smuckers.com Concorde grape jam for $2.29 and a quart of Smuckers strawberry jam for $3.99 for $12.26 total.  I just now returned home.  Last Saturday night, I thought I saw someone I knew on the camera in Key West at www.liveduvalstreet.com , so since he lived in Key West when I did, and since he also lived in Nantucket when I did, he might be bringing up a sail boat from Antigua, where he might be living in the winter to Nantucket where he might live in the summer, so I guess some people still make the annual migration from south to north and back.  Of course he could have been just down from Miami for the weekend where he also lives.  The person looks similar to me, so people frequently would mistake us.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/03  Monday 11:55 P.M.:  I can not find a free game on the internet to use with a joy stick.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television before going to bed.  I have to take my Lipitor before bed.  I will have to quit eating cheese too.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/03  Monday 10:20 P.M.:  I cooked a half pound of frozen swordfish by first rinsing it in water.  I then put in the Pyrex Pie dish, and I added a third of a cup of Rene Junot white wine and several tablespoons of Borden lemon juice, and I rinsed both sides in the mixture.  I added Old Bay Seasoning, Italian spices, basil, oregano, and a few teaspoons of olive oil on it.  I cooked it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.  I had it with steamed white rice, which instead of adding margarine, I cooked it with a tablespoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of sesame oil in the microwave container.  I also had steamed fresh broccoli and fresh sliced asparagus with olive oil and ice tea.  I chatted with a friend after dinner.  I got the Logitech Wingman Attack joy stick going by uninstalling the other Logitech joystick driver, and then I went to the Control Panel, and I selected "Game Controllers", and I added a three axis four button joy stick.  I now have to find a free game to try it out with.  But the set up and test and calibration of the joy stick works, so it is working.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/03  Monday 8:35 P.M.:  I did not fall asleep deeply until about 7 A.M. this morning.  I was up at noon.  I had breakfast three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I cashed my PNY $30 rebate.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I returned the ADSL modem for $10 credit, and with the $10 credit I obtained a Logitech Wingman Attack joy stick.  I went to the Greenwich Hospital for the follow up on my physical.  I am healthy on all the laboratory work, except my cholesterol is too high.  I have to start take 10 mg. of Lipitor at bed time.  One does not take Lipitor with grapefruit juice.  I will have to quit eating eggs for breakfast, and eat oatmeal now for breakfast.  I will have to quit using margarine, and I will use olive oil on vegetables, and I can start using jam or jelly on toast.  I have to be tested for the Lipitor in two weeks and four weeks at the hospital laboratory, and then go back and see the Doctor.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I made my 4 P.M. appointment.  I went by the CVS pharmacy, and I picked up the Lipitor prescription the Doctor prescribed for me. I then went by the Greenwich Library.  In observing the sky recently, I have noticed a lot of the type of weather that has been causing the storms in the Midwest.  I stopped by the Stop and Shop, and I bought thawed frozen swordfish at $4.99 a pound for $7.29,  a Boston Market Swedish meatballs dinner for $2.99, and broccoli at $1.39 a pound for $1.93 for $12.21.  When I returned home, the NOAA weather warning was going off in the bedroom, but for some reason the living room NOAA system did not go off.  I installed the Logitech Wingman Attach joystick, and I installed the Logitech driver that is for the more advanced Wingman, that loads the joystick drivers in the Hardware settings of Windows XP.  However using http://gamesondemand.yahoo.com/ and installing the 4X4 game, I can not get the joystick to work.  Possibly the computer game is too fast or I do not know how to use the joystick.  Still it is an analog joy stick plugged into the Creative Live MP3+ sound card game port.  Since it shows up in the system hardware properties, I assume it is working.  I will have to try another game maybe.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/03  Monday 2:05 A.M.:  I rested.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 10:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I had a few pretzel rods with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 9:35 P.M.: Monroe County pictures Florida's History Through Its Places Monroe County  and Florida Historic Places Atlas . CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 9:20 P.M.:  Dinner was delicious, and since it was frozen, it seems to be all right, after about four and a half months.  Of course, I attended Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu in Lake Forest, Illinois from 1968 and graduated with a degrees in Economics and a minor in Fine Arts in 1972.  I recall reading in the local Illinois history that during World War I and II, when the Germans had India blockaded, that the various shipping interests and navies of the world were not able to get hemp rope from India which is used heavily in shipping.  Thus in the Midwest the grew vast quantities of hemp used to make rope.  When they transported the hemp in railroad box cars, the seeds would fall out of the railroad cars, and thus wild hemp grows along the railroads in the Midwest.  In the state of Illinois alone there are over 50,000 miles of railroad line much of which is probably owned by the Illinois Central railroad and various other railroads that crisscross the Midwest.  Thus although various law enforcement agencies try to enforce border control on a product that is commonly available in the Americas, it is hard to see what the point is since such large quantities of hemp grow out in the wilderness.  I would warn any venturesome hippie types seeking to take advantage of such a resource that wandering around railroads can be very dangerous since the trains in the country are moving fast and they are so many of thousands of tons that they are hard to stop if one gets in their way.  When I first arrived in Manhattan after graduating from college, I met a research fellow of Rockefeller University whom had a grant from the United States government to research marijuana.  Indeed it has been widely reported that the United States government still maintains secret farms where they produce the product for research.  I suppose with all the illegal activity and trade with the product in Canada that the local entrepreneurs in that part of the world are taking hemp production to the Nth degree.  Of course the liberal Holland Dutch in the Netherlands have openly and legally cultivated the product in large amounts, since the Dutch decriminalized the product some time in the mid 1960s.  Thus this event might have started the hippie generation when the European students and travelers started arriving in this country.  Of course even George Washington cultivated hemp on his plantation in Mount Vernon, Virginia since it was used in making cloth.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 8:10 P.M.:  I had a homemade frozen dinner in the freezer left over from Christmas time.  It consists of several slices of Butterball white turkey breast, with mushroom gravy, homemade stuffing www.geocities.com/mikelscott/stuff2.htm , and Canadian wild rice, which I will have with ice tea.  It will be an enjoyable Mother's Day meal.  I also refilled the ice trays in the freezer.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 7:50 P.M.:  Of course having lived around the extensive Pan American Airlines flight network which first started flying from Key West to Havana financed by wealthy Connecticut investors involved in Sikorsky aircraft whom made the flying air boat, there were quite a few aircraft personnel whom once lived in this area.  I recall once about ten years ago, when the old Showboat Hotel on Steamboat road was on its last legs, on one snowy December holiday period, I saw a Pan Am utility pickup truck parked at the Showboat.  It was similar to what use to service the Pan Am planes at the airport.  What was peculiar at the time, was that Pan Am did not exist anymore, and the truck had Vermont license plates on it.  Needless to say when around well traveled citizens coming and going within this community, I also observed quite a few Vermont residents here and down in Key West.  The old Showboat Hotel is now the Delamar Hotel  and L'Escale restaurant http://www.thedelamar.com/ , which is now quite upscale in the tradition of a European five star hotel, instead of the usual group of Greenwich Policeman whom used to enjoy having cocktails there late at night to enjoy the ambience of the worldly travelers whom came and went unknown to the residents of Greenwich.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 7:30 P.M.:  I remember once around February 1978, when I was exiting the Monroe County Library in Key West, I saw a  light blue pickup truck and horse trailer parked in front of the library.  It had the name of a ranch on it in Maui Hawaii.  I thought it was very peculiar, and I wondered how it got there.  On the trip when I went to Hawaii, I actually stayed in Maui.  I did not leave the grounds of the Hyatt Hotel while there in LaHaina, since I was comfortable at the hotel.  Since Charles Lindbergh is supposedly buried on the north side of Maui where he was retired, more than likely one would be able to sell the picture of Charles Lindbergh still for sale in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for more than $65, but of course one would have to send it out to Maui, and see if anyone wanted it.  I suppose the minister at the small church where he is buried might be interested.  Of course, in the United States of America, the name Lindbergh is also affiliated with the Lindbergh law which is the Federal statute against kidnapping, which I believe is still on the books of the Justice Department.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 7:15 P.M.:  Of course since Key West is a tropical location, there were a number of people whom were into holistic tropical medicinal remedies.  I remember one vegetarian health food store called the "Herb Garden".  They sold lot of interesting products.  They had at least a 100 gallon size mason jars full of different herbal ingredients used for various type ailments.  I was not familiar with their usage, so I did not purchase them.  Quite a few of the ingredients looked like they came from the mountains of Appalachia as well at the Caribbean and the southern Americas.  Still the shop was quite busy amongst the locals whom knew how to use them.  They also had a lot of different tropical juices.  They allowed one to charge items there on what was called the "Book of Love", so occasionally when I did not have money I would charge a jar of sesame seed butter and homemade honey wheat oatmeal bread, and I would have it for meals for a number of days.  I paid off my bill that winter before leaving, when I got a large tax return.  I use to use the Monroe County library frequently in the mornings before going to the beach on the east side in the afternoon.  A lot of the older books had book plates from some group called "The Committee of 100".  I use to use the laundromat on rainy days at Caroline street near the library.  There were quite a few laundromats in Key West, and they were all busy on rainy days.  One interesting laundromat was the Margaret Truman laundromat on U.S. 1 just north of the Catholic Church.  The name "Margaret" was omnipresent in Key West.  I once had a mystical vision probably from starving that the "Bones of St. Margaret" the patron Saint of Scotland which were stolen from Scotland by Spanish pirates and lost at sea somewhere were indeed lying off the shores of Key West, which might have explained the presence of the spirit of Margaret.  Also the Scottish rite masons were present in Key West, and their headquarters were in a pink building where the Key West electrical company was also located.  A friend owned a craft shop next to it.  The postmaster at the post office across the street at General Delivery looked like the actor Bill Cosby in the television series "I Spy".  I once received a letter from the British fellow I met in the Bahamas, and he lived at 21 Eaton Square in London, which I suppose is a fancy address.  I lost the exact address, since when I read about Lord Mountbatten being killing in a bombing incident while I was on a trip to California, I thought it best to ditch the address which I did in a dumpster in Santa Cruz, California.  It is funny though because amongst the lawn bowlers in Laguna Beach, California was an individual at the time that looked like Lord Mountbatten.  They all wore dress whites like the British do in the tropics.  On that same trip when I went to Hawaii on a United Airlines jet from Las Angeles airport, there was a woman that got on the plane that looked like Queen Elizabeth II, and the group seemed somewhat Anglophile.  I believe that was in August 1980.  CIO   

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 6:45 P.M.:  I was up at 2 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I found this web sight Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich  .  I went out, and I stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I paid a .30 fine on a book I returned.  I returned a videotape too.  I read the Greenwich Times.  I checked out a videotape.  I then went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought three 35 ounce bottles of Lysol Island Breeze cleaner for $1.99 each and buy one get one free of 12.5 ounce Joy liquid dishwashing detergent for $1.49 both plus .45 tax for $7.91 total.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly.  I next drove by the waterfront.  I then went by CVS again, and I bought a package of CVS dental floss containing a 100 yards for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total.  I then returned home.  In making my notes about Key West last night, I did not mention that when I stayed at the Casa Marina in the winter of 1978 with a friend while it was under construction that there were about 250 stray cats on the property and in the old hotel.  The hotel had last been used as a Peace Corps training center and in World War II, it was the bachelor officers quarters.  I recall that Key West was very strict on law enforcement, and there were about two dozen lawyers with offices on Whitehead Street whose only practice was defending defendants in drug busts.  It was unusual since also in Key West, they had an historical house in private hands at the southeast corner of Duval and Caroline street kitty corner across the street from the Fogarty House.  It was a Florida landmark with a plague in front saying that it was Dr. Porter's House who had helped out greatly in a malaria epidemic.  In 1978, however a group of local young entrepreneurs were living in the basement of Dr. Porter's house Florida's History Through Its Places, Dr. Porter's house   and http://www.freac.fsu.edu/HistoricPlaces/Counties/Monroe.html#porter  selling certain medicinal herbal ingredients that are considered illegal by the United States government.  However, the locals being very liberal seemed to turn a blind eye to the activity.  Since I was an outsider, I preferred to stay uninvolved with the locals' mischief.  Still, it was rather peculiar since it was the center of town and everyone saw the activity.  I just chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 5:00 A.M.:  Well meanwhile up here in the snow belt, we snow birds are doing just fine.  I am somewhat amused that the last time I was in Key West, they gave me a free ride back to Connecticut by air by unorthodox methods.  I am sure, it was part of some previous administration's dirty tricks policy, since I never did anything wrong.  Somebody just hacked into the Federal Crime computer network and posted an erroneous message.  More than likely that individual is now raking up sea weed on the beech in some resort like Key West.  It is unfortunate that most of these ambitious individuals in the political arena, frequently do not have the time or inclination it takes to achieve the job.  Since I have no political ambitions, it must have been done to try to discredit other individuals whom I was around.  Frequently individual confer with me to get an outside viewpoint from someone whom reads a lot of the printed media.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 3:45 A.M.:  Of course, I am not sure Ponce De Leon ever dreamed that Florida would become as overdeveloped as it is today.  Maybe he is still living down there.  It seems to me that the Fountain of Youth might indeed exist down there despite the weather.  Of course, one can always study www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  Whatever, the case I recently noticed another fellow alumni was living down in St. Thomas, which seemed strange since he lived in Coral Gables.  However, it is the nature of going south, one begins the feel the chill more and more in the winter as one gets use to the warmer temperatures, so people sometimes gravitate further south as they get older and can not stand the colder temperatures, they have become accustomed too.  Still, I plan to stay up north for the indefinite future.  I was advised by a friend that they had met recently with the head of operations for Brazil for one of our larger local companies here in this area.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 3:35 A.M.:  Well, theoretically since the Florida Keys is made of coral, and since the local water and not the piped water from Miami might be high in Coral Calcium like in Okinawa, Japan, and since old timers tend to be cheap, maybe some old timers instead of paying $17 at the VitaminShoppe for a 1500 mg. bottle of 90 tablets of Coral Calcium are enjoying the benefits of the possibility of Coral Calcium like life longevity in the Florida Keys.  However, one might not possibly live longer if one got washed away by a hurricane.  It would be sort of like the story of the old timer that thought he was going to die, and suddenly a tornado hit, and he found himself picked up by the wind, and he landed in a bed in a brothel full of young ladies.  I also had two slices of Swiss cheese and ice tea.  Of course when they come north, they always feel a lot colder, and can not necessarily afford the extra cost of extra energy for extra heat, so they have to thicken up their blood again.  Traditionally when one feels the cold from climate change or the change of the seasons, some people whom are more exposed to the climate from working outside, enjoy alcoholic beverage to ward of the cold.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 3:15 A.M.:  Well, I studied the characters walking by on Duval street, and I saw one familiar face.  A lot of people seem to be wearing pink along with pink taxi cabs, sort of Bermuda like.  It does not seem to be like the old rusted out piles of antique cars I used to see, so perhaps, they restored the antique cars and sold them, and bought new cars.  Why Nordic people would be down there in the tropics is beyond me.  Of course Key West had another street called Fleming Street, which obviously showed the Dutch were also involved in the Caribbean Rum trade from the earliest days.  I recall on reading that Freddie Heineken had retired to Jamaica at one time before he died, so obviously some Dutch venture into the Caribbean still today along with http://www.hollandamerica.com/ .  I believe the Dutch Island of St. Kitts is well known as a vacation spot for Dutch airline pilots, since obviously some people there speak Dutch unlike myself, although I am half Dutch.  Some of the Dutch speak Spanish too, since the Netherlands was at one time invaded and occupied by the Spanish not to mention Napoleon and the Germans.  Having seen the Dutch Gouda cheese man personally and assuming he is actually Dutch, I would feel fairly comfortable the Dutch are secure back home in the Netherlands, and the tulip time should be just beginning there about now.  I think the Chelsea Flower show in London is sometime soon too.  Since the Dutch merchants were some of the original traders in the spice trade in Europe, I would imagine they are still trying to maintain their long time cartels in the Caribbean.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 2:15 A.M.:  The friend that I met in Key West in the winter of 1978 was part German English American, and he explained to me that the Casa Marina was built by the Spotswood family local residents in Key West who used German engineering techniques to pour the thick concrete walls.  The front center of the hotel had a cartouche with a key and a sun.  I tried to explain to the friend from my reading that although the Casa Marina walls were thick part of Henry Flagler's original railroad construction project which always had a hotel and Episcopal church in various primary railroad stops like in Palm Beach or Coral Gables, that the hurricane in the 1930s took out 50 foot thick railroad bridges in the Florida Keys, and that water when driven is denser than cement.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 2:00 A.M.:  While down in Key West in the winter of 1978, A friend and myself use to spend time at Louis's Patio sunbathing while it was closed in the winter.  I believe members of Mel Fisher's Dive expedition use to hang out there by the windsurfing platform.  I believe Dartmouth College and Columbia University were 50% investors in Mel Fisher's dive expedition off of Key West.  We frequently would wade through the water to the adjacent Atlantic Shores beach club to enjoy the small beach and hot shower facilities there.  Further south across from the southern most house, there was a non descript two story beach row motel, where it looked like the same cousin of Lord Mountbatten's relative would be living.  I remember that beach and pier had a lot of tiny pine cones about 1.5 inches long.  There use to be the large wind break pine trees adjacent to the Casa Marina to provide shade and wind break, but for some reason I guess to provide more light, they cut them down when I was last there in the winter of 1983.  Of course in that climate, if they were replanted, they would grow back fast.  I recall they were about 70 feet tall in 1978.  I am not sure the name of the pine type evergreen bushes, possibly they are called a scrub pine.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 1:45 A.M.:  I forgot to mention around midnight I had 12 Carr's crackers with slices of Swiss Cheese and ice tea.  There was a distinct presence of items in Key West that the Duke of Windsor had lost and did not make it to the Bahamas in World War II such as a vintage English taxi cab and the high rise hotel was named the Southern Cross which was the name of the Swedish yacht he use to barrow from a friend while in the Bahamas.  When I visited the Bahamas in January of 1978, specifically Paradise Island, there were several British Airways 747s at Nassau airport.  I stayed with a relative of Lord Mountbatten's in a cottage at Paradise Island, and I rode with him and his cousin in a vintage Cadillac limousine on Paradise Island to have dinner at the Casino with a lady who looked the Shah of Iran's wife and her bodyguard.  Needless to say my brief stay in the Bahamas was enjoyable compared to roughing it in Key West for extended periods of time.  We were visited in Key West by Lord Batten Powell's grandson, so I guess since Lord Batten Powell started the original boy scouts, we could consider it to have been an extended boy scout jamboree.  When I was in Key West in my mid 20s of age, most of the people were considerably older.  I remember one mischievous group of young tots who fell through the roof of a small yogurt stand on Duval Street while a friend of mine was trying to work there running the stand.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 1:15 A.M.:  In the winter of 1977, when I was down in Key West, I slept outside in any available place.  In the winter of 1978, I spent most of my time living with a friend at the Casa Marina while it was under construction.  When I got back down there again in the winter of 1982, when it was minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan, it was so crowded that I was stuck sleeping outside again being a coastal observer, until a local Cuban police officer doubted my credentials and had me arrested for sleeping outside at Fort Martello Florida's History Through Its Places, Fort Martello  next to the Casa Marina.  I was somewhat confused, since I was awaken from my half hour morning nap at sunrise.  I never did get much sleep in Key West, since I did not have my own place, but I would frequently stay up all night, and cat nap on the beach in the daytime.  There were outdoor showers and toilets and sinks at the Clarence Higgs beach next to the Casa Marina.  I knew a family that lived next door to the Casa Marina.  I think they thought we were priests affiliated with St. Margaret's Episcopal church across from the Casa Marina.  Also in 1978, my friend had the key to the Casa Marina, and I knew the contractor of "End of the Road Construction Company" doing the renovation work.  Needless to say for all of our work down there, they never paid us, but it was an enjoyable volunteer vacation in the tropics.  If you think walking from the Gulf of Mexico on Mallory Square to the Atlantic Ocean around the Casa Marina via Whitehead Streets, Duval Street, or Simonton Street at least a half dozen to a dozen times of day with interweaving the side streets in easy, try it some time.  Needless to say, I saw a lot going on there.  I frequently was hungry, since I never had anything to eat.  However, at 135 pounds, it is easy to walk a lot in Adidas Country sneakers.  Previously, I have mentioned in my notes and http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm that I was involved in resort development having lived and vacationed at other resorts.  Needless to say in extremely cold winters up north, lots of people head south as far as the can go, so it can get extremely crowded, and for northern people to be outside in that area in the winter, it is not is difficult.  The weather is similar to the weather around here today in the winter down there in Key West, Florida.  However, since I only know English and French, I was not able to communicate in Spanish down there.  I do have a relative who had a friend that knew the King of Spain.  Also I knew so called republican activists whom claimed to be associated with long time experienced personnel in that area.  Of course my father did work in Pensacola, Florida at the Chemstrand plant from 1953 to 1955, so I had some vague sense of what Florida was like along with one vacation down there after we moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.  One did not see as many vultures and buzzards down in Florida at that period in the late 1970s.  Of course since I like bird watching, I spent a lot of time bird watching when I was outside during that period.  Of course John James Audubon whom had a house in Key West was a bird watcher.  I have a theory he could have been the father of Abraham Lincoln, since no one knew who his father was.  Anyway Key West, Florida is basically a 400 year old town, so there is a lot of history there.  It was rumored that John James Audubon whom came from French Martinique was the exiled French Dolphin after the French Revolution, since both were bird painters.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/03  Sunday 12:35 A.M.:  I have been looking at some of www.liveduvalstreet.com .  I guess they party downtown on Saturday night in the warmer tropical resorts.  When I lived in Key West in the colder winters of 1977 and 1978, they did not permit drinking on the sidewalks, and they would even arrest somebody if they dropped a piece of pizza slice paper on the sidewalk.  I guess they are more friendly to the tourist public.  In the winter of 1982, there use to be one person I knew that looked like Ronald Regan, and he would spend a good deal of the day in front of the Fogarty house with a bamboo rake raking the white gravel lawn blending in observing the crowds.  I recall he lived in a trailer with his roommate from Salisbury, Connecticut.  He had had the trailer down there since World War II, so the old gentleman was an expert on the area along with Iguana man with the red alligator shirt.  I remember, I once sat up all night chatting and drinking coffee in the trailer, and at sunrise, when I was departing, I notice a coral snake on the cinderblock doorstep, which the occupants did not seem to worry about.  I guess it helps to have a local guide when one travels into the tropics, and if one spends too much time there, one is prone to "Go Native", or one could even catch dingy fever.  I use to drink orange juice at the cabana bar on the side of the Fogarty house, since the bartender there use to work at the Languedoc in Nantucket.  I once remember the star of the movie PT-109 and his wife were sitting on two of the other stools enjoying the ambience.  Well, I am just doing some regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/10/03  Saturday 11:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I stopped by Exxon, and I bought $6.70 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.799 a gallon for about 22 miles per gallon. I have driven about 3,000 miles locally since I obtained the Hyundai a little over eight months ago.  I am due to do the 35,000 mile checkup up at Norwalk, Connecticut Hyundai some time soon.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next returned home.  Today, I received my PNY memory rebate of $30 on the PNY 2100 256 meg. memory chip I bought from CompUSA a couple of months ago.  On a lesser note, but more on an obscure trivia point, since I have been back in Greenwich for the last 19 and a half years, and since I have been downtown and around the waterfront, I have kept a running tally on the Canadian license plates that I have seen.  Yesterday, I saw a grey sedan with Quebec license plates downtown, and they are the 100th Canadian license plate that I have seen in that extended period.  I use to see a lot more Canadian in this area, and that tally does not include the many Canadian license plates one sees in Maine in the summer.  Thus we do not get a lot of Canadian traffic through here anymore.  I guess Canadians have learned to fly and leave their cars at home.  Having lived down south in Florida around Canadians, I know a lot of Canadians travel south, but I guess not that many stop through Greenwich anymore.  Still as far as obscure trivia, I did keep track of the number of Canadian license plates that I saw, since one of the several people I worked for the last summer, I was in Nantucket was from Canada.  It seems a bit cooler here this year, so maybe instead of Canadians going to Maine for the summer, some of them might come down here.  Of course Canadians generally speak English and French.  I think I still have the Air Canada flight bag that I picked up in Canada, the last time I was in Toronto 19 and a half years ago.  However, I gave my British Air flight bag that I bought in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift to an inexperienced traveler whom was working for a British church organization.  I also still have KLM and Pan AM flight bags.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/03  Saturday 8:00 P.M.:  I removed the Microsoft XP patch 811493 as mentioned in this article http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1037305,00.asp .  I will now eat dinner.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/03  Saturday 7:50 P.M.:  I am microwaving a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed peppers with beef and tomato sauce, which I will have with ice tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and after my meal, I will clean up and go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/03  Saturday 7:35 P.M.:  I was up until 7 A.M. this morning watching television.  I had about four pretzel rods.  I had a call from a friend about 8 A.M..  I had another call from another friend about 10 A.M..  I was up at 4 P.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I received in the mail my order from www.3dayinkjet.com for my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer of two color and one black cartridge.  I put the new color cartridge in the printer, and I cleaned and aligned it.  It is running just fine.  I also added more paper from the IBM inkjet paper box which I keep underneath the yellow chair by the Danish bar.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/03  Saturday 1:20 A.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I had a bowl of CVS cheese crackers and three pretzel rods.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 11:40 P.M.:  I watched the ABC channel 7 news at 11 P.M., and there were no stories about Greenwich, so maybe the coverage was on the 6 P.M. broadcast.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 10:45 P.M.:  I put the ADSL modem underneath the day bed by the brass hat rack.  I might have a relative that uses ADSL.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 10:30 P.M.:  For dinner, I took a half pound of fresh swordfish, and I rinsed it.  I put in the Pyrex pie dish, and I put in a third of a cup of Rene Junot white wine and a few tablespoons of Borden lemon juice, and rinsed both sides of the fish in the mixture.  On the top side, I seasoned it with Old Bay seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, basil, and a few pads of margarine.  I cooked it in the convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.  I had it along with the juice on the fish and on the reheated microwaved white rice and steamed fresh broccoli and fresh cut asparagus with margarine and ice tea.  I tried installing the Westell www.westell.com WireSpeed B90-36R516 modem, only to discover from http://www.epier.com/BiddingForm.asp?401588 it is worth about $99, but alas it is an ADSL modem http://support.iglou.com/fom-serve/bags/westell_wirespeed_36R516.pdf not a telephone modem, and other prices on it are down to $35.  Still, if I ever wanted to use ADSL to run a server on some service like www.directv.com , I would probably be able to use the ADSL modem, but it is an older model.  Well, let the buyer beware in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I chatted with a relative.  I was told about this web sight http://www.thekennebunkportconservationtrust.org/ .  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 8:05 P.M.:  I was up at noon today, when a relative called to wish me Happy Birthday.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up as usual, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a Westell external computer telephone modem for $10.  I next went downtown.  I stopped by Zyn Stationary, and the "I Luv USA" telephone card is 1.8 cents a minute, but there is an unspecified biweekly charge.  I was told the Verizon 1.9 cent a minute card was the best deal, which is available from 7-11 stores, at least in Florida.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store and from their 70% off rack, I bought an orange Wham-o regulation Frisbee for $2 plus .12 tax for $2.12 total.  I then sat out at various locations.  I noticed that the New City local channel 7 ABC news truck with Bill Beutel was at the Senior Center.  I am not sure what the news story was.  I was thinking while I studied the truck with the 50 foot high satellite tower, that if there were a high wind, it might blow over the truck.  I then drove down by the waterfront briefly.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then drove over to the Port Chester, New York shopping center, and I went to the Vitamin Shoppe.  I bought Vitamin Shoppe brands of Niacimide 500 mg. 100 capsules $4.76, One daily multiple without iron 100 count $12.57, C-500 100 count $5.37, E 400 IU 100 count $9.57, Coral Calcium 1500 mg 90 count $16.17, B-12 100 count $4.76, B-Complex 50 100 count $7.17, Deodorized Garlic 500 mg. 100 count $5.37 for $65.74.  I was told that there is a $10 off $40 purchase coupon available on the internet, so the next time I will have to look for it.  I then went by Odd Job, and I bought two 13.5 ounce cans of Roland quartered artichoke hearts for $1.97 each from Spain, four 6 ounce cans of Consul crab meat  from Thailand for $1.50 each, two packages of two Polaroid super alkaline D batteries $1.50 each two pack, and a deck of Aladdin casino playing cards for .50 plus .23 tax for $13.65 total.  I returned home, and I had two Happy Birthday messages on my answering machine from relatives.  I left the Frisbee in the box in the back hatchback area of my Hyundai.  CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/09/03:

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 3:50 A.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I had four slices of New York extra reserve cheese this evening and about a half dozen pretzel rods along with ice tea.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 3:15 A.M.:  Using deductive reasoning like Sherlock Holmes, it says here that the Aga Khan is now 66 years old http://www.amaana.org/agakhan/bd01.htm , so maybe he is now retired and on Social Security, at least if his only presence were in the United States occasionally.  Officially I have read that he is a Swiss National Citizen having been born in Geneva, Switzerland a neutral country.  Since at one time his family was and probably still is enormously wealthy and his grandfather use to steal the Duke of Windsor's girl friends.  One might surmise that since they were also in Pakistan for a while, they might have interests in Royal Dutch Shell which started in Pakistan.  Thus as a Swiss citizen he might have interests in Nestle the world's largest food company headquartered in Switzerland, which in turn owns Perrier across the road U.S. 1 from where I live.  Thus since his father was a founder of the United Nations, they must have had an extended presence in this region which predates my arrival in 1961.  I suppose since his children were educated in the United States of America, and since he has a degree from Harvard, they all might speak proper English along with other languages they have learned.  However, the Aga Khan is considered by his followers a religious leader, so thus he and his family are generally regarded as resident diplomats whenever they travel to America if they should so choose to do so.  However, depending on where his children were born, they conceivably could be United States citizens.  More than likely since I read that the Aga Khan has over 600 homes including a 650 room palace on the Isle of Capri, they might travel a bit with the seasons.  Thus more than likely they would be in warmer parts of the world now, however being Swiss citizens, more than likely they are use to colder weather.  If one knew other languages, more than likely one would find more information in other language sources on the internet.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 2:40 A.M.:  Of course the precious gems that the Aga Khan gets on his birthday all goes to charity, since the Aga Khan already has a bit of spare change.  Of course they do not take the Aga Khan's word about his weight.  They make him sit on a pair of balancing scales, and they offset his weight with the gems until the scales are balenced.  The Aga Khan was born on December 13, 1936, and this web page has a recent photograph of the Aga Khan http://www.amaana.org/agakhan/profile.htm , so he is not as heavy as his father or grandfather whom was quite heavy as I recall from photographs.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/03  Friday 2:25 A.M.:  Happy Birthday to myself.  If I were the Aga Khan, I would get my weight in precious gems, but I am not that heavy yet, just 217 pounds.  I went out, and I stopped by Cumberland Farms.  I found out that the GE prepaid card they sell there is 1.9 cents a minute, but there is also a 69 cent charge for each call.  They also sell the 8.9 cent a minute without extra charge GE prepaid cards.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I then sat out briefly.  I drove by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium.  I bought two 15.5 ounce boxes of Stouffer's stuffed peppers for $2.27 each, a 8 ounce bottle of Loriva toasted sesame oil for $6.49, a package of Snyder pretzel rods $1.79, and four liter bottles of Perrier for $1.50 each plus .20 bottle deposit for $19.02 total.  I then returned home.  I brought up the load with a Rubbermaid laundry cart like I already have that was discarded by the dumpster.  I put the laundry cart in the bedroom between the mahogany bureau and the desk.  I put away my purchases.  I am making a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm using one each of the five different Twinings teas in the five blend box, six Lipton orange pekoe tea bags, two Lipton green tea bags, and nine Bigelow orange pekoe and China cut black tea bags for 21 tea bags total.  The power just blinked for a second, but the computer did not go off.  I was told by one of the staff at the Food Emporium that there is a 7-11 in Danbury, Connecticut.  I remembered the name of the individual who on April 21, 2000, which coincidentally or not is Queen Elizabeth II's birthday, told me something major was going to happen.  I thought the individual was referring to volcanic activity.  The individual is a foreign national resident in Greenwich last I knew.  I have only seen the individual twice.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  I am going over to Cumberland Farms to check out the GE phone card, and then I will go for a short drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 11:15 P.M.:  I called up nearby Cumberland Farms http://www.cumberlandfarms.com/ which is opened 24 hours at 914-937-3992, and they told me they sell a GE, I assume General Electric phone card http://www.geprepaid.com/ that has a rate of 1.9 cents a minute long distance with a $5 minimum cost per card.  I might have to investigate it more some time.  However, the store operator was from Pakistan, so he might not have understood my English, since the GE web sight says that they are 8.9 cents a minute which is considerably more unless Cumberland Farms gets a special rate.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 10:55 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I was told again that 7-11 www.711.com has 1.9 cents a minutes Verizon long distance telephone cards.  However, unlike the location where the relative was chatting from, there are not many 7-11s in this area.  There is one in Fairfield, Connecticut; Terrytown, New York; Scarsdale, New York.  There use to be one on 3rd Avenue around 68th street in Manhattan, but it does not look like it is there anymore.  They have a store locator map service at their web sight.  Since I do not know my way very well around Westchester County, I would be afraid to try to drive through all the traffic to find one.  I know how to get to Westchester Airport, downtown White Plains, Irvington and Terrytown.  However, there is so much traffic in those locations.  I think there is one near the Office Depot in Scarsdale, but one could get lost trying to find it, and end up in even more traffic.  I recall seeing one in the old days on the road to Fairfield Beach which I use to know how to find.  Still in a tiny car, it would be a long way to drive.  I still have about $35 on my Net2Phone card, and I have $40 in AT&T phone cards, and I have to use $5 a month on my AT&T long distance, so at the moment, there is no rush to run out and buy a cheaper phone card.  I remember in the fall of 1976 and early winter of 1977, I use to hang out at the 7-11 store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Once on spring break, I helped stock beer in the cooler, since it was cooler than the heat outside.  I also use to go to the 7-11 store in Highwood, Illinois while I attended Lake Forest College.  I am not sure what the hours of the stores are in this area, but the nature of the store name originally meant from 7 A.M. to 11 P.M. they were opened.  However, I recall the one in Manhattan when it was opened, it was opened 24 hours a day.  Possibly one might check nearby the Nearby Cumberland Farms store on the Greenwich - Port Chester border, and they might have a similar card.  Of course Zyn stationary on Greenwich Avenue has a lot of different phone cards, and I am not sure what their best rate is.  I suppose if one had a lap top computer with WiFi, one could hang out outside Starbucks in Riverside and get on the internet for free.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 9:05 P.M.:  I sifted through my email.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 7:55 P.M.:  Dinner was quite delicious.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 7:25 P.M.:  I am having a little bit more deluxe meal tonight and tomorrow night since tomorrow May 9 will be my 53rd birthday.  May 9th happens to be the day the Red Cross was founded if I am not mistaken too.  If one looks at http://www.famousbirthdays.com/ , one will see that today is Harry S. Truman's birthday too.  I use to have Harry's autograph in my little pirate treasure chest. Somehow it disappeared when I was not around.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 7:10 P.M.:  I rinsed in water a half pound of swordfish.   I put it in the Pyrex pie dish.  I added a half cup of Rene Junot white wine with several tablespoons of Borden lemon juice, and I rinsed both sides of the swordfish in the mixture.  I seasoned the top side with oregano, basil, Italian spices, and Old Bay Seasoning.  I added several pads of margarine on top.  I am cooking the swordfish in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.  I will have it with the fish juices and with microwaved steamed white rice with the fish juices and steamed fresh broccoli crowns and steamed fresh cut asparagus with margarine and ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 6:45 P.M.:  I set up an AT&T account, so I can view my account information on the internet  https://www.customerservice.att.com/ .  I chatted briefly with two relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/03  Thursday 6:15 P.M.:  I was up until 5 A.M. this morning.  I watched a bit of television, and I tired to sleep.  I also had about six pretzel rods and some ice tea.  I was up at 12:30 P.M. this afternoon.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I had a call from www.3dayinkjet.com , and they verified the new order for my Epson Stylus 880 printer of two color ink cartridges and a black ink cartridge, and cancelled my order from two days before.  I then went by Pickwick shoe repair, and I picked up my three pairs of shoes that I had taps put on the heels for $15 plus .90 tax for $15.90 total.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I made my 3 P.M. appointment.  My 3 P.M. appointment gave me the March 2003 issue of Science magazine with the articles on volcanoes.  I then went downtown, and I obtained a money order for $35 at .90 cost to send to a relative to repay them for the inkjet cartridges.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a pound of fresh swordfish at $7.99 a pound for $7.95.  I then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Pall Mall Lights 100s cigarettes for $30 total.  I returned home.  I put $10 on my laundry card.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 11:50 P.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 11:05 P.M.:  I had two pretzel rods and ice tea.  I sifted through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 10:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  The relative is going to order for me from www.3dayinkjet.com for my Epson Stylus Color 880 inkjet printer two color and one black cartridge.  I will repay the relative.  I refill my black ink cartridges, so I only need one, since one can refill them about a half dozen times before they wear out.  I do not try to refill my color cartridges with the kits available, since the colors do not always seem as true as the original equipment cartridges.  The relative said there is a lot of smoke in the air in the southwest from the fires in Latin America.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 9:45 P.M.:  I microwaved a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed pepper dinner, which I am letting cool for a while.  I will have it with ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 9:15 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 8:45 P.M.:  I had a call this morning about 8 A.M. from a friend.  I had a call from a former neighbor.  I had the NOAA weather radio test go off at 11 A.M., and the new radio alert in the bedroom is quite loud.  I guess if anything ever happens I will hear it.  I was up at 12:30 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I received two packages from UPS from a relative.   The packages contained a pair of SAS white walking shoes and a pair of Ecco white walking shoes and one pair of used SAS brown leather walking shoes and a pair of black moccasins.  A relative of a relative passed away recently, so the relative gave me the shoes.  I also received a brass money paper clip from the Northern Trust Company of Chicago, Illinois,  two six ounce cans of Chicken of the Sea whole white albacore tuna, a 8 ounce container of Sargento parmesan cheese, a five serving box of Hershey's French Vanilla hot cocoa mix, a 14 ounce can of Twisties Viennese wafers, a pack of McCormick chili mix, a pair of brown and a pair of white shoe laces, two pairs of shoes trees, a dark orange and black club tie, a pair of blue and white small check Tommy Hilfiger lounge pants, a $10 AT&t phone card, and a dobb kit.  I received a telephone call from www.3dayinkjet.com , and my order did not go through since the card had expired.  I will have to replace the order later on tonight.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I took the two pairs of white walking shoes and one pair of brown SAS walking shoes, and I dropped them off at the Pickwick Shoe repairs to have heel wear preventer taps put on them.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the First Union National Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I drove a former neighbor to uptown, and we went by Zyn stationary and Quinn's liquors.  I drove the former neighbor home.  I then drove down by the waterfront for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Library.  I next went by Smokes for Less in Byram, but they were closed early.  I returned home.  I started two loads of laundry.  I am on the dry cycle now.  I flipped the mattress on the bed, and I put clean sheets on it.  I put $5 on the laundry card.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 4:25 A.M.:  I sifted through my email.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will have some goldfish crackers and ice tea before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 3:45 A.M.:  I went out, and I mailed the card at the Valley Road post office.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly.  While, I was driving past Railroad Avenue down Steamboat Road, a 13 foot high semi truck in front of me from Hickory, North Carolina http://www.hickorymetro.com/  stopped short of the 11.5 foot high railroad bridge.  The trucker asked me how to get to I-95, and I told him to back up, and take the right and then his first left.  If the trucker had hit the railroad bridge, it might have interfered with the morning commuters, since it was a quite heavy truck.  As I recall, Hickory, North Carolina is where they make reproductions of American classic antique furniture usually out of pine or other available woods.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  When I returned back up the road, the truck was gone.  I just now returned.  I put the two Oxford clip binders with my most recent printouts of my computer notes in the left hallway bookcase with the other binders.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 2:45 A.M.: I printed out a Mother's Day card, which I will go out and mail shortly.  I ran out of color ink after I printed it.  I ordered two more color cartridges for my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer from www.3dayinkjet.com for $26.50 total for both cartridges including $5 postage.  I will now go out briefly and mail the card.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 1:55 A.M.:  I finished the C: drive to D: drive backup in six parts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 12:50 A.M.:  I put Microsoft Encarta 2002 back on the primary computer.  I now have 4 gigabytes of free space on the 19.5 gigabyte C: drive.  Of course I think part of the free space is used by the memory swapper file.  I will now do a C: drive to D: drive back up.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/03  Wednesday 12:10 A.M.:  I put the National Geographic Maps on my computer.  I will keep the 8 CD set of data for it in the CD rack to the left of my computer.  Their web site is http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/06/03  Tuesday 11:35 P.M.:  Before I went out, I installed a new Glade Plug in oil refill butterfly and garden scent in the kitchen.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/06/03  Tuesday 11:15 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then went by CVS, and I bought two containers of Ajax cleanser for .99 each plus .12 tax for $2.10 total.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought three 15.5 ounce packages of Stouffer's stuffed pepper with ground beef and tomato sauce for $2.27 each, a 16 ounce bag of America's Choice frozen onion rings $1.79, and a five ounce jar of Gold's hot horseradish for $1.59 for $10.19 total.  I then returned home.  I am microwaving a package of the Stouffer's stuffed peppers which are ready now, and I will have them with ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/06/03  Tuesday 6:55 P.M.:  I did not fall asleep until about 5 A.M. this morning.  I watched some television, and I had about eight pretzel rods.  I was up at 3:30 P.M., and I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I fell back to sleep until a little while ago.  I had a survey call about politics in Greenwich which I responded too.  Last night I had one of those Nigerian scam emails which were directed at me personally.  I reported it to other authorities.  They seem to know that my father built an oil refinery in Nigeria, and they implied he was given $10 million cash by the President of Nigeria to take out of the country.  However, having read the internet news, the next thing they try to do is get one's bank account information.  Then they try to illegally withdraw one's funds.  These type of scams are illegal, and the U.S.A. government more than likely is investigating them.  What is peculiar is that they seemed to know personal information about me.  I will clean up shortly, and I will go out and enjoy the evening.  I also had a call about noon reminding me that I have to have my 35,000 mile maintenance checkup due on my Hyundai.  I will do this when I am back on a day schedule.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/06/03  Tuesday 1:10 A.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch a bit of television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/03  Monday 10:35 P.M.:  I created three links from http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scottpre.htm to load the complete web pages of my previous notes from June 1997.  The links are:

Scott's Notes June 1997 to August 1999 http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2004/mls1.htm

Scott's Notes September 1999 to December 2001 http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2004/mls2.htm

Scott's Notes January 2002 to April 2003 http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2004/mls3.htm  .CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/03  Monday 10:05 P.M.:  I broiled a shell steak in the electric broiler in the stove for four minutes a side.  I had it for dinner with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, reheated steamed white rice, steamed fresh broccoli and fresh cut asparagus and ice tea.  I just chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/03  Monday 8:55 P.M.:  I did not fall asleep until about 5 A.M. this morning.  I had about ten Danish cookies, and I watched a bit of television.  I was up at 2 P.M. this afternoon.  I had oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought a blue and white umbrella for $3.  I put it in the back of my Hyundai.  I noticed the Hospital Thrift shop has a very nice signed framed drawing of Charles Lindbergh for $65.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times, P.C. magazine, and Popular Mechanics.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and they gave me back the $2 they overcharged me on the Bumble Bee tiny shrimp yesterday.  I bought two 16 ounce bars of Swiss Cheese for $2.99 each, another 6 ounce can of Bumble Bee tiny shrimp for $2, two half gallons of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $2 each for $11.98 total.  The cashier said that the store shelf labels were incorrect, but they gave me the label prices on the cheese and shrimp, and then they removed the labels.  I then went to Val's Liquors, and I bought a 10 ounce bottle of Angostura bitters for $8.79 plus .51 tax for $9.30 total.  I next went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription which I paid a dollar for.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  It was a bit cool and damp, so I did not walk.  It is 52 degrees Fahrenheit right now.  I returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative told me that at "7-11" stores down in Florida, one can buy Verizon long distance telephone cards for 1.9 cents a minute where one calls through an 800 number.  The cards are good for 16 hours of talk time, so they must cost around $14.40 at that rate.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/03  Monday 1:55 A.M.:  I made three large web pages with all my Scott's Notes.  I though about posting them, but once again Geocities has returned to a crawl.  I think they need to beef up their servers.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/04/03  Sunday 10:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I printed out with the HP LaserJet IID in Times Postscript 12 font the last four months of Scott's Notes which were 228 pages long.  I broke them up in to two months sections, and I put each section into separate Oxford Clip binders, which I will store with the other notes printouts in the left hallway bookcase.  My printout of Scott's Notes since June 1997 through April 2003 is 2281 pages long.  I have posted a *.zip file of the notes with the most recent version update at Scott's Notes from June 1997 through December 2002, 2525 Kbytes http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsnote1.zip contains "mlsnote1.doc" pages 1 - 1582 and "mlsnote2.doc" 2002 through April, 2003 pages 1583 - 2197" which is about 2200 pages long in Microsoft Word 2002 format in New Times Roman font size 12.  Well, if no one wants to read that print out, they could always use it to test a high speed laser printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/03  Sunday 7:50 P.M.:  I am microwaving a Marie Callender breaded chicken parmigiana dinner, which I will have with ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/03  Sunday 7:35 P.M.:  I was up at noon today.  I had three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went out, and I went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  On my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a six pack of CVS beauty bars for $2.99, a 1.5 liter of CVS yellow mouthwash for $3.99, a 6 ounce tube of Crest Multi Whitener toothpaste for $3.29, a 3 ounce container of Old Spice high endurance deodorant for $2.29, a Glade Scent oil refill Butterfly Garden scent $1.99, jars of Gold Emblem ground black pepper, garlic powder, Italian spices, and oregano for .77 each plus .87 tax for $18.50 total.  After my stroll, I drove down by the Island Beach parking lot, where they were having the Knights of Columbus flea market, and I toured the whole show as it was closing.  I found a straw hat vendor.  I then walked back up to the People's Bank ATM machine, and I used the ATM machine for $1.25 charge.  I walked back down to the straw hat vendor at the flea market, and I bought for $20 an Australian style large to extra large one size fits all natural fiber made in China Summer Club styled in Australia fine mesh straw hat with elastic inside band, so the wind does not blow it off.  I ran into a former neighbor at the flea market, and we drove over to Grass Island.  The former neighbor is getting a new 25 horse power engine on his boat, since the 55 horse power engine gave out.  We then drove back by the waterfront in another location.  I dropped off the former neighbor.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought an 18 pack of large eggs for $1.49, a 30 bag box of S&S hand tie kitchen bags for $2.99, a pint of Edy's raspberry sorbet for $2.50, a quart of Xtra lemon cleaner for $1.29, a quart of Lysol Island breeze cleaner for $2.99 less $1.50 store coupon for $1.49, a bag of Snyder's pretzel rods for $1.50, fresh asparagus at $1.99 a pound $2.29, and two six ounce cans of Bumble Bee tiny cocktail shrimp for $2.99 each, which were suppose to be $2 each according to the store shelf label for $19.97 total.  I will have to check on the shrimp price the next time I go in there.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/03  Saturday 11:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon after watching some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/03  Saturday 10:20 P.M.: It looks to me like we have a bunch of drunker pirates on our southern shores, of course in the tourist industry, vacationers tend to drink.  I suppose the Budweiser man in Key West is making a lots of dinnaro.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/03  Saturday 9:40 P.M.: Fun web cam from Key West http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/03  Saturday 8:45 P.M.:  Dinner was delicious.  I listened to http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram .  I enjoyed listening to Allister Cook's commentary on America and traveling on http://www.jetblue.com/ .  Of course for long time users of Scott's web site, one might remember http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/armchair1.htm .   

Note: <888> 05/03/03  Saturday 8:00 P.M.:  I am cooking a shell steak on the broiler pan in the oven for four minutes a side.  I will have it with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, along with steamed white rice, and steamed fresh broccoli with margerine and ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/03  Saturday 7:20 P.M.:  I was up at 11 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I went out about 3 P.M., and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next drove over to Tod's Point, and I walked out to the southeast point, and I sat out for a while.  I then drove around the point.  I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then returned to downtown, and I sat out briefly.  I went to Exxon, and I bought $7.60 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.839 a gallon for about 30 miles per gallon.  I next went to the Food Emporium, and I bought two shell steaks with bone in for $4.99 a pound for $4.49 and $4.54 each, a 15.5 ounce box of Stouffer's stuffed peppers for $2.27, and a head of Foxy broccoli at $1.99 for $13.29 total.  I just now returned home.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 9:55 P.M.:  Yahoo Geocities is now letting me upload the larger files now.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 9:40 P.M.:  I went through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm.  I looked at my email.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 8:05 P.M.: http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2003/ and http://www.interbets.com/ , http://www.racingpicks.com/index2.asp , http://www.drf.com/ , http://espn.go.com/horse/ , http://www.bloodhorse.com/ , http://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/digest.htm , http://cbs.sportsline.com/horseracing/ , http://www.racing-index.com/ , http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/ , http://www.ntra.com/ , http://www.ukhorseracing.co.uk/default.asp  maybe one might pick up some spare change.  The last time I bet on the Kentucky Derby was up at Norwalk, Connecticut off track betting, and I played seven different horses to win or place or show, and none of them paid anything, so I think I have learned my lesson.  When I visited the Travers a number of years ago up at Saratoga, I bet $5 on Corporate Report, and it won, and I received $40 winnings.  The favored Derby horse is Saudi owned and it only going off at 6-5, and it has the nice colors of pink and green.  However, if one played a long shot, one would earn considerably more if it won.  I do not intend to place a bet.  My favorite long shot going off at 15-1 is Scrimshaw http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2003/derby_coverage/derby_entrants/scrimshaw/ , since I happened to chatting yesterday about a local collector of scrimshaw.  Who Knows?  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 7:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 6:20 P.M.:  I am cooking a half pound filet of steelhead trout in the Pyrex pie dish with a third of a cup of Rene Junot white wine and three tablespoons of Borden lemon juice seasoned with Italian spices, basil, and oregano.  I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.  I will have it with steamed fresh broccoli crowns with margarine and reheated steamed white rice and ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 6:05 P.M.:  Before going out, I turned on my General Electric Profile 14,500 BTU air conditioner with the remote control.  I set it on Cool, with low fan, and Energy Saver at 70 Degrees Fahrenheit.  Thus it will cut off when the room is cool enough.  There was an article in today's Greenwich Times Greenwich Time - Connecticut air quality fails national test again , that Fairfield County has some of the worst air quality in the nation, I would imagine thanks to New York.  I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I obtained four money orders at .90 each to pay my GEICO automobile insurance, Verizon telephone, Cablevision, and Optimum Online cable modem service.  I also bought twenty USA flag stamps at .37 each for $7.40.  I sat out briefly.  I next drove over to Old Greenwich to Off Center hair barbers, and I had my hair cut for $16 plus $4 tip for $20 total.  I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage room thrift shop.  I next drove out to Tod's Point, and I sat out at the southeast parking area.  I then drove around the point.  I then drove back down by the waterfront in central Greenwich.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  One can look at all the fancy houses for sale in the Friday Greenwich Times.  I just now returned home, and the apartment is cool and comfortable.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 12:35 P.M.:  I prepared some bills to pay.  I will now clean up, and I will go out.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/02/03:

Note: <888> 05/02/03  Friday 11:35 A.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I watched President Bush leaving the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier on television.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I am also taking Benadryl because of the allergy season.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/03  Thursday 9:55 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I watched President Bush's speech on television.  I had 10 Danish cookies and ice tea. I am tired.  It is warmer in the apartment up to 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and I have not turned on the air conditioner yet.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go off to bed shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/03  Thursday 7:50 P.M.:  I was just emailed the cheap smokes site http://www.buydiscountcigarettes.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/03  Thursday 7:45 P.M.:  I am now using Microsoft FrontPage 2002 to create my web notes instead of Microsoft Word 2002.  It uploads when a Word document will not.  Perhaps there was some sort of script in the Word document that kept it from uploading.  Today there was a curious photographer trying to take my picture by the veterans monument downtown with the salmon colored tulips.  I dodged the photographer, and he caught up with me when I met up with my former neighbor.  The photographer followed us into Quinn's liquor store and was looking at the Mexican coffee liquor Kahlua which is commonly used to make White Russian cocktails.  Since I am frugal, and I do not like to see people wasting money taking pictures of me, and since I look like any number of ordinary Joes out in the Midwest or in northern Europe, I post this picture page of myself on the internet http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm .  Maybe they want to pay me for doing a White Russian cocktail ad.  Since I once was and am still considered a professional photographer, I try to respect other photographers going about their business.   CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/03  Thursday 7:10 P.M.:  I went out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I chatted with a former neighbor.  The neighbor stopped by People’s Bank, Greenwich Cigar, and Quinn’s Liquors.  I then drove the neighbor back by the waterfront.  I next stopped by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times and National Geographic.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought steelhead trout at $4.99 a pound for $4.51 and a box of Van de Kamp fish tenders for $2.64 for $7.15 total.  I am now cooking a half of the steelhead trout in a third of a cup of Rene Junot white wine and a few tablespoons of Borden lemon juice seasoned with Italian spices, oregano, basil, and a few pads of margarine.  I will have it with the fish juices and steamed white rice with the fish juices and steamed fresh broccoli crowns with margarine and ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/03  Thursday 2:05 P.M.:  I rested.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/03  Thursday 10:20 A.M.:  Today is May Day, a traditional holiday in the Eastern Hemisphere.  I was up at 9 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  When I spend time around the waterfront in Greenwich, I have a bit of experience around the waterfront.  I was born on the Mississippi river, and my family used to vacation in Holland, Michigan.  We also lived in Pensacola, Florida, along the Tennessee River in Decatur, Alabama before moving here to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1961.  We also lived outside of Boston, and I spent a lot of time on Nantucket.  I also spent time out in Long Island and Manhattan and time covering the whole coast of Florida from Jacksonville, Florida to Key West back up to the Tampa area.  I covered the west coast of California for a while too.  I have visited Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Luxemburg, Monaco, Belgium, Austria, Hawaii, Maui, the Canary Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Thomas and St. Johns, Nassau and Paradise Island, Bermuda, Martha’s Vineyard, and Kennebunkport, Maine.  Thus although I do not have an expensive home or yacht on the water, I have spent quite a bit of time around it, so I have a certain level of familiarity with the waterfront, that if one were from the middle of the country, one would not.  CIO