Note: <888> 05/31/04  Monday 1:20 A.M.:  I looked at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm .  I then watched NASA TV NASA - NASA TV Landing Page .   I reset my Mad Dog Electronics www.mdmm.com AGP 8X 64 meg video card to Clone mode, so with the RCA plugs I have from the video card and the sound card, I input the content into the Orion television in my living room after I switch it with the Orion remote control with the TV/AV switch to Aux2, and thus with the Windows Media Player opened in the IIYama monitor, I see the content also on the Orion television.  One also has to change the video card from the Plantronics headset to the Creative Labs PCI MP3+ Live card too.  The Real Player does not work in clone mode on the television monitor, but I have not checked it in over a month since the new upgrade, so maybe it works now.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/30/04  Sunday 8:50 P.M.:  I watched the CSPAN presentation on the World War II memorial dedication http://www.wwiimemorial.com/ this morning at midnight.  Another group of older people showed up in Washington D.C. today ABCNEWS.com : Bikers Roll to White House to Praise Bush .  I guess with June 1 coming in another day, the summer visitors are returning from down south with the warmer weather we are enjoying here.  Of course the temperature and weather are all relative depending on what one is use to.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/04  Saturday 10:05 P.M.:  Forbes.com: Inside Track .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/29/04  Saturday 10:00 P.M.:  ic Newcastle - Forces career hint from Prince , BBC NEWS England Gloucestershire William hints at military career , William hints at joining armed forces  and http://www.wn.com/ for other news.  I ate a piece of cheese cake with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/04  Friday 11:55 P.M.:  Of course most established people already own their own horse farms, so they do not need to buy one of these Forbes.com: Most Expensive Equestrian Properties In The U.S. .  Of course if one could not afford a horse farm, one could always join the United States Army Calvary or some other Calvary of some foreign nation.  I think since the Queen of England likes horses, a lot of her followers tend to keep horses around the world.  Whatever, the case the last time I rode a horse was on the Greenwich Country Day lacrosse fields around May 1975, and as I recall it threw me into the woods at the end of the field by the Greenwich Country Club, when it came to an abrupt stop.  I also rode horses regularly when I lived in Decatur, Alabama from 1956 to 1961 for $5 an hour at the local riding staple, which was a bit pricey for Alabama in those days.  I also rode horses at Lookout Mountain Camp when I attended camp there around the summers of 1957 and 1958.  At my age and weight of 210 pounds, I would feel sorry for myself with arthritis and I would feel sorry for the horse having to bear my weight.  However, I do remember somebody that looked like Prince Phillip in Manhattan whom use to drive a Hanson Carriage in Central Park during the winter.  He use to wait outside the Plaza Hotel with his horse drawn carriage, so maybe he comes over here and moonlights as a carriage driver.  I recall the second to the last time, I was at the Waldorf Astoria around 10 years ago on a zero degrees night in February, the doorman looked like the Aga Khan, so maybe the two of them are competing in New York based on their skills here in America, since they might have got tired of spending money and are trying to earn money.  Of course, maybe they were just volunteering their services.  Since the Waldorf Astoria http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=NYCWAHH  is owned by the Hilton Hotels, and since they are basically a Swiss operation like a lot of first class hotels, and since the Aga Khan is a Swiss citizen, he might have invested in it.  It is really hard to tell anymore whom is the real person, and whom is just the look a like, but of course the real people usually have the toys and associates to go along with their persona.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/04  Friday 2:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  My French teacher from the Greenwich Country Day School http://www.greenwichcds.org/ and a long time Greenwich volunteer passed away this past week Greenwich Time - Frank J. Nicholson Obituary .  He was one of the few long time residents that I recognized over the years.  We will all miss him.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/28/04  Friday 1:35 P.M.:  Yahoo! News - Looming Atlantic Hurricane Season Seen as Busy .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/04  Thursday 5:05 P.M.:  TCPalm: Hurricane tracking gets more accurate .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/04  Thursday 12:10 P.M.:  ic Newcastle - Prince Charles meeting Dalai Lama .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/04  Thursday 12:05 P.M.:  XP SP2 delayed until July .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/04  Thursday 10:15 A.M.:  I printed out the Belmont Park train schedule MTA LIRR - Packages - Belmont Park for a local race horse enthusiast.  Also there is a new casino at http://www.saratogaraceway.com/ and Saratoga Raceway Gaming Casino .  It was built by http://www.perini.com/ in three months.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/27/04  Thursday 9:50 A.M.:  They have graduation at the United States Military Academy at West Point http://www.usma.edu/ , New York this Saturday at Michie Stadium starting at 9 A.M..  For more information http://www.usma.edu/Graduation/2004/GraduationWeek2004ParentsGuide.pdf .  Also New York City has Fleet Week 2004 under way http://www.fleetweek.navy.mil/ .  A local citizen asked me about this information MTA LIRR - Packages - Belmont Park .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/04  Tuesday 8:10 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 12.5 ounce chicken Tuscan dinner.  I had the meal with a glass of iced tea.  I have noticed with the war on that either people are getting fatter in this area or fatter people are showing up.  One has to remember that there are up to 40 million people in the New York City metropolitan area, so this area is constantly changing on a day to day, hour to hour basis.  However, when one lives here as long as I have, one tends to get the impression that it is a slower moving town than it actually is, since I tend to be on a non working schedule, and I frequently do my errands during the less busy time of the day.  One also has to remember that during the Rush Hour periods, the area seems actually busier than it actually is as large volumes of traffic pass through this area.  Also it is the nature of the waterfront area that there are always different people showing up to view it, and it is the nature of the New York City metropolitan area that visitors tend to be somewhat indifferent to the natives and visa versa.  Whatever the case, I probably will continue my normal routine for the foreseeable future.   There was just this news flash on Fox FOXNews.com - Top Stories - U.S. Officials Concerned About Summer Security , so I guess those whom are able and can afford it should continue to be vigilant as they go about their normal routines.  I suppose so many people tend to watch television too much, they do not know how to be vigilant compared to professional observers.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/25/04  Tuesday 7:00 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront in central Greenwich, and I spent some time studying the clouds to see if I saw any funnel clouds passing over us this time of year, which happens frequently.  I the drove over to Grass Island, and I chatted with another regular fisherman.  I then went back by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next went to my 4 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea and ate three .25 inch by 1 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese.  I watched Tony Blair's press conference on television.  I watched a small part of a vintage southern style movie on the Turner Movie channel.  I got a little bit of color today from the time out in the sun.  I wore my Chinese made Australian style straw bush hat.  The most regular fisherman has not shown up, but I might have seen him about two weeks ago in a red Honda.  He is suppose to be a local Greenwich resident, so maybe he is busy with the internet.  It is my personal viewpoint that if one is conservative with ample funds, one should not waste money on broker fees and commissions and the risks of the stock markets, but one should put their money in long term United State Treasury bills which pay about 4 to 5 percent interest Long Term U.S. Government Bond Yield Data, Trend, and Forecast , and although one will not earn large gains to keep up with inflation, one will not risk losing one's capital in a market depreciation.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/04  Monday 5:50 P.M.:  I just put two copies of the tide charts in the back of my Hyundai.  I will now print out another copy of the tide chart for the apartment.  Just to show what one can do with the internet Greenwich Country Estate for sale in Japanese or in English http://www.greenwichcountryestate.com/ for the Scottish Country Gentleman who is not afraid of Mountain Lions because not even a Mountain Lion will mess with a skunk .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/04  Monday 5:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold Branola bread for $1.59 and a 5.5 ounce box of Arnold large cut Zesty Italian croutons for .99 less 10% senior citizen discount of .26 for $2.32 total.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  Somebody did not clean up after their dog down there.  I gave my copy of the Greenwich Harbor tide chart from May to October 2004 http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/tidectw.htm to another local waterfront observer.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  They have 50% off clothes there.  I then went downtown, and I mailed the Hyundai horse power letter at the Greenwich Post Office.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  While, I was up at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I walked over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  Then on the way down Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by CVS, and I picked up a prescription at $1.50 cost to me.  I then completed my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I next returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  The NOAA weather warning radio went off for severe thunder storm warnings until 9 P.M. this evening Weather Hazards for Northern Westchester County, NY .  I will now print out two more copies of the tide charts.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/04  Monday 9:45 A.M.:  I called Hyundai http://www.hyundaiusa.com/ at 1-800-633-5151 Hyundai Consumer Affairs FAQ , and under the horse power lawsuit, I do not have an extended warranty.  Thus I will apply for the $120 dealer credit.  I was told as a second owner that my five year warranty expires June 17, 2004.  As the second owner, I do not get the extended 10 year /100,000 mile Powertrain Limited Warranty.  At the moment, I only have slightly over 40,000 miles on my 1999 Hyundai Accent L 2 door hatch back.  I will now fill out the form for the Hyundai settlement on the horse power lawsuit indicating I want the $120 dealer credit instead of the $75 debit card.  I also moved my Columbia bedroom telephone around, so it faces out from the left night stand, so if is not as easy to knock the telephone handset off the base unit.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/04  Monday 8:25 A.M.:  This activity today Yale University Commencement will probably draw additional visitors in the area, so keep an eye out for any Bull Dogs.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/24/04  Monday 8:05 A.M.:  Byram story Greenwich Time - Residents ponder what to call a slice of town  .  In the old days Byram, Connecticut part of Greenwich, Connecticut use to be the first town in Connecticut when coming out of New York City, so couple wanting to get married would frequently wake up the Justice of the Peace that lived here at any time of the day, so they could get married without the usual waiting period in New York City.  They would just pay their $5 fee to the Justice of the Peace, and then they would be hitched.  There was an article a number years ago in the Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com that is how Lucille Ball and Dezi Arnez originally got married, so that is probably the most important event that ever happened in Byram, Connecticut.  The Justice of the Peace use to live in my building, but I think he has since moved elsewhere.  However, the name Byram is originally the shortened from the expression "Buy Rum" which might have been one of the original businesses in Byram, Connecticut.  Well anyway the cross border trade between New York and Connecticut can be seen in this area.  A great many people in Greenwich, Connecticut shop in Port Chester, New York, since they some times have less expensive items.  However as Connecticut residents, they should remember their sales tax is then going to New York instead of Connecticut, so for big ticket items, they should probably shop up at the stores in Norwalk, Connecticut, so Connecticut gets the sales tax.  Since I live in housing administered by the Greenwich Housing Authority that is the state of Connecticut public housing, I would rather see Connecticut get the taxes instead of New York which already has too much money.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/04  Sunday 6:10 P.M.:  CompUSA.com - Four Days Only! Save up to 75% with Huge Clearance Savings! .  CNN.com Specials West Nile Virus .  I went though my email.  I went outside again.  It has cleared for now, but it still looks ominous.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/23/04  Sunday 5:00 P.M.:  Weather Hazards for Northern Westchester County, NY Severe Thunderstorm Warning for this area at the moment .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/23/04  Sunday 4:40 P.M.:  I received in the mail this week information from http://www.gov.pe.ca/visitorsguide/ and one can call them at 1-888-PEI-PLAY .  However as the weather warms up here, I suppose we will have Canadians traveling north through this area to return to their home land.  Since my college roommate was from East Aurora, New York and his family were involved with both the British Royal family and the United States of America and Canadian government, more than likely his group of friends would know more about the north country.  However, I was told that the Canadian Prime Minister http://pm.gc.ca/ Paul Martin and his government are up for reelection on June 28, 2004 Toronto Star TheStar.com - News/News Canadian Prime Minister Election set for June 28, 2004 .  Thus any Canadians wanting to vote should get back home or send in an absentee ballot.  I chatted with the 800 number.  I just chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/04  Saturday 9:05 P.M.:  CNN.com - Bush falls on bike ride - May 22, 2004 .  I took three 15 foot extension cords that I have, and I plugged them into the new power strip underneath the living room desk to have them available for laptop use.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/04  Saturday 3:35 P.M.:  Gates touts the merits of blogs in speech to CEOs .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/22/04  Saturday 3:30 P.M.:  The New York Times Opinion Affordable Housing in Crisis  .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/21/04  Friday 12:35 P.M.:  Rockefeller property for sale Forbes.com: Rockefeller Seller .  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/21/04  Friday 11:15 A.M.:  One can buy a large can of Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco from this site for $13.66 plus shipping Sir Walter Raleigh: Welcome to Your Tobacco Shop 1 at  http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/04  Thursday 5:20 P.M.:  ABCNEWS.com : New Underwater Volcano Discovered .  CIO

TENERIFE Canary Islands 28.271°N, 16.641°W; summit elev. 3715 m

Local volcanologists reported that there was increased seismicity at Tenerife in mid-May, according to a news article. The article stated that during several days before 18 May there were "five successive low-intensity earthquakes in the island's most volcanically active zone in the area between Mont Teide and Santiago del Teide." The director of the Estación Vulcanológica de Canarias stated that the earthquakes, which were less than M 2, could be an early sign that something unusual was happening at the volcano.

Background. The large triangular island of Tenerife is composed of a complex of overlapping Miocene-to-Quaternary stratovolcanoes that have remained active into historical time. The NE-trending Cordillera Dorsal volcanic massif joins the Las Cañadas volcano on the SW side of Tenerife with older volcanoes, creating the largest volcanic complex of the Canary Islands. The most recent stage of activity beginning in the late Pleistocene consists of the construction of the Pico Viejo and Teide edifices. Tenerife was observed in eruption by Christopher Columbus, and several other flank vents on the Canary's most active volcano have been active during historical time.

Note: <888> 05/20/04  Thursday 6:55 A.M.:  Somebody should check with Rhone Dietrin on Lanzarote to see if he knows anything about a possible volcanic eruption in Tenerife Yorkshire Post Possible Volcanic Eruption in Tenerife and Global Volcanism Program - Volcanoes of the World - Tenerife - Volcano Information .  Since I started my web activity over 10 years ago, it was to help out Rhone Dietrin on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands in case he was still living there.  I never managed to track him down.  He would be about 45 years old, and his father would still probably be a pilot with S.A.S..  Rhone speaks Norwegian his native language, Spanish, and English, and his family use to have the little two bedroom bungalow at the end of the runway in Lanzarote.  They were the only family that ever offered me free hospitality in Europe during all the times that I traveled there.  More than likely there are a number of people visiting Spain and possibly the Canary Islands, because the King of Spain Juan Carlos' son Prince Felipe is getting married this Saturday in Madrid, Spain.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/20/04  Thursday 6:25 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  The friend is taking the Coast Guard training course up in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  I advised the friend to be an active boater on the waterfront, one needs to be a very good swimmer too, particularly in the colder waters of Long Island Sound where one can get cramps from the cold water.  Since I am more like Bubba the Beached warm water whale, I do not venture out into the colder waters of Long Island Sound at 210 pounds, and since in the warmer waters down south, one can easily develop skin cancer over time, although I observe around the waterfront, I do not actually go out on the water.  I have been around the waterfront for so long, I tend to respect it more than the average person that just views it occasionally or even once in a life time.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/20/04  Thursday 5:55 A.M.:  I was up at 3:30 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I sent out some email.  I suppose this web site is relevant this time of year http://www.pestproducts.com/goose_buster.htm and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4638582/ .  I noticed in yesterday's Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com  that this article Greenwich Time - Local office park attracts several new financial firms says there are a large number of hedge funds in Greenwich, Connecticut.  However, www.forbes.com says this about Hedge Funds Forbes.com: The Hedge Funds the Sleaziest Show On Earth , thus the local business community should be somewhat weary about some of their local neighbors.  I reregistered at the free Forbes web site, so I think I now have two accounts there.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 5:45 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  It seems the sun might have come out, so I suppose the evening strolling will be a little bit more enjoyable than today's earlier weather.  I still suspect that someone or a group of individuals might check out my apartment while I am out of the building, which although nothing ever seems to have disappeared from the apartment, I can not figure out why with all of the opulent places in Greenwich, why they would want to check out my apartment, however I did notice when I returned today that the lights in the apartment were on, when I always turn them off when I leave.  However, occasionally I have a visitor, which although when I am not here, I never seem to notice it, it can also make one uncomfortable after the visitor leaves, and one returns to one's apartment.  As I recall, the Greenwich Housing Authority has a routine bug and insect exterminator that services the building, so what ever the exterminator sprays in the apartment can occasionally cause problems for the residents depending on whether they are allergic to insecticide or not.  Possibly that was the case today, when I found the lights on in the apartment when I returned.  However, there might be some volunteer acting as a private security expert, whom might notice things about the apartment, which I never seem to notice, and many times I suspected it was just the "Old Ghost of Flanders", which many long term Greenwich, Connecticut residents are use to dealing with.  Well, enjoy the sun that I perceive coming through my drapes.  I am off to sleep.  I just checked www.cl-p.com and the United States of America Federal government still has not placed my NEON energy assistance grant into my electricity account.  Although, I received the grant letter in February 2004, one has to wait for the congress to pass the legislation funding.  Last year the grant was in the account by the first of May, so I guess the funding for the NEON energy assistance program has not gone threw yet.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 4:50 P.M.:  I am a staunch Bush supporter because I am a staunch republican, and from my experience I could say a lot worse things about the democrats, but I happened to stumble across this group of web pages, which might explain what other people are looking at George Bush: #41 The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin .  I suppose it says more than our local press says.  Since I hardly have much time to watch television anymore, pretty much what I read is what I know, but having been raised and educated in this environment for a good deal of my life, I can understand how people try to over simplify an area with over 20 million people.  One reason, I seem to know more about the democrats is that since I was always a staunch republican, I have had more than my share of democrat tricksters try to cause problems in my life, so I can imagine at the much higher levels of national office, their tricks are even worse.  Basically, one learns more from experience than other people's propaganda attempts.  By Greenwich, Connecticut standards, the Bush family was never particularly wealthy, so they participated in a more ordinary life style, but it is only the long term families that seem to appreciate their efforts, and I am sure they have made some enemies along the way, as I am well aware my family also has.  I guess a lot of people read too much propaganda, and they do not know the real story.  Whatever, the case since the liberal minority currently out of power have managed to take over most of the Ivy League colleges in this country, they are very cleaver at manipulating public opinion and taking advantage of their Ivy League privileges.  However, when it comes to supporting and building those institutions that other long term families have built over hundreds of years, they do not seem to realize that a much larger group has been watching their manipulations for a great deal of time, and it is what Richard Nixon frequently said that the "Silent Majority" frequently knows more.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 4:00 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 12.5 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken with mushrooms dinner, which I had with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 3:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought a Mainstays decor three different types Liquid Soap Dispenser white color for $7.50, a brushed brass parsons type light which swivels for $5, and a white wicker two shelf rack for $5 for $17.50 total.  I then went downtown, and I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and they also have lots of new merchandise like the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop did.  The volunteers were planting the garden at the Merry Go Round Mews retirement home.  I next chatted briefly and walked briefly with a local downtown resident.  I then walked up to the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought a package of two 50 pound capacity OOK hooks with carbide nails for $2.49 plus .15 tax for $2.64 total.  I then returned to the central downtown area, and I sat out for a while.  I noticed they have done some nice gardening around the senior center with bushes planted behind the benches in front of the senior center.  However, one has to be careful when sitting downtown around bushes in the summer, since sometimes they have wasps or other bugs in them.  I also remember last summer about a half dozen people whom regularly sit in the Greenwich Common got Lyme Disease, and it is still very prevalent in this area, so when one is outside one should be careful about Deer Ticks.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I left the May through October 2004 Greenwich Harbor tide charts at a former neighbor's mail box.  I then went down by the water.  There were no sea gulls around the pier, so I though it might hold off from raining, because the sea gulls usually sit around the pier when it is raining.  Still it looked like it was going to rain.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases.  I used the two 50 pound OOK hooks with carbide nails to hang the two shelf white wicker rack on the left side wall of the bathroom sink.  I raised the Hummingbird print above it.  I hung the parsons type brushed brass swivel lamp to the right of the orange and gold mirror on the wall to the right of the primary computer, so it hangs over the Espon printer.  I have it extended straight out.  I used two wall anchors to hang it.  I took the 100 watt bulb out of it which is a fire hazard, since it would get very hot with brass, and I put in the used General Electric 25 watt frosted tubular bulb.  It has a rheostat on the fixture switch, so one can lower the light intensity.  It adds a bit of low lighting around my computer work area.  Possibly one could put a 40 watt version of the same bulb in it, but I would not put any large wattage in it.  The tubular shaped bulb keeps a distance from the brass shade, so it does not heat it up.  I have 40 watt clear tubular bulbs, but they are for the parsons standing lamp next to the long green couch, and they are two long for the new fixture.  The new fixture uses the same bulbs as the Rembrandt print of the Polish rider light fixture which can only use 25 watt frosted tubular bulbs.  I hung the soap dispenser above the wall tile on the center rear of the bath tub shower area.  It has pump action dispensers for three different types of liquid soap.  I used the English labels from left to right for Shampoo, Conditioner, and Soap.  I then filled the shampoo dispenser with European Mystique shampoo, the Conditioner dispenser with European Mystique conditioner, and the soap dispenser with Wal-Mart Equate antibacterial clear liquid soap.  Thus I do not have the plastic shampoo bottles in the bath tub area anymore, but I left the soap dish with the bar of soap.  The dispenser pumps are about six feet above the tub area, so any short individual would have to use the shampoo bottles in the wire rack to the right of the toilet.  I primed the soap dispenser pumps by pushing them a few times, which one has to do when refilling them.  They have window indicators to indicate when they are low and need to be refilled.  I left the new white wicker rack empty, since at the moment, I can think of anything to put in it.  I showed the building custodian what I had done during the last few days.  I washed the plate with the Great Seal of the United States of America that I have hanging on the bathroom wall on the upper right wall of the toilet at eye level, not out of disrespect, but it is a location that any guests will not miss it, and they will have time to contemplate it while using the facilities.  I relaxed a bit trying to stay away, since I have been awake since 9 P.M. yesterday evening, and I have to be back on a daytime schedule, so I can make my 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  CIO    

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 8:00 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will eat a piece of apple pie with iced tea.  I will then go out on a rainy day.  Rainy day blues for anyone just waking up.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 7:50 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  There is a new Chinese Office Suite in English and Japanese from  http://www.eioffice.com/ and http://www.resii.com.tw/ and in English http://www.evermoresw.com.cn/weben/index.jsp  and Japanese http://www.eio.jp/ .  They are suppose to offer competition to Microsoft.  They certainly have a large market where they are coming from.  Maybe Paul Allen should invest in a Kayak.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  Wharf rats beware http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/0803top100/index1.html and http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/ and http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/ .  However, I am not surf if the Viking Yacht is bigger or not, however if I am not mistaken, it is Norwegian owned, but it is in a different class, since it is a sailing racing yacht.  I do know that I read that the Viking is bigger than the King of Saudi Arabia's Yacht which was bigger than the British Royal Family Yacht the Britannia, however when one gets into yachts of country's frequently their navies have specialized yachts that do not draw much attention since they do not travel far from their home ports.  However, with the Yacht Viking, since it is a sailing racing yacht, it might not be able to fit into Long Island Sound, since frequently on a sailing racing yacht, the keel is as deep as the mast is high.  I can not find reference to it on the internet at the moment.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 5:30 A.M.:  Another big boat story The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Paul Allen resurfaces in cable waters .  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 5:25 A.M.:  Anyone know what time it is http://direct.msn.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 5:00 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - A taste of Balsamic Vinegar .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 4:55 A.M.:  I put away the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I am now going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 4:10 A.M.:  I had not used my two free Juno email accounts in over two months, so I reactivated them by using them.  I will have to remember to do that every two months or so.  I do not have room for my Sterling PCI modem on my primary computer, since I am using the LAN card, PCI video card, Audio Card, and AGP video card, which uses up all my slots.  However in an emergency if I needed to use Juno Free Dialup if the cable modem did not work, I have my U.S. Robotics External X2 modem hooked up to the serial port on the Dell backup computer.  I also could hook it up to the serial port pass through device on the remote control mouse base with serial port pass through that I have hooked up to the serial port on my primary computer.  I use the remote control mouse if I am using the TV out line on my AGP card to my television, which I can do, and I also have sound hooked up to the television.  However, at the moment I have the Plantronics headset sound drivers loaded, but I can quickly change to the Creative MP3+ sound drivers in the Sounds and Audio Devices icons which would permit me to use the Andrea Electronics microphone and ear piece, the 10 computer speakers, or output to the stereo system or television, or headphones.  However, recently I have not used those options since the computer speakers in my apartment along with my computer setup are in the southwest corner of the living room, and the computer speaker sounds would bother my neighbor downstairs, however I have the Plantronics headphone and microphone set to use, which are a good enough substitute.  Since the layout in my apartment is the ideal layout, there is no point of even thinking about changing it.  However, I will make a little room in the apartment during the second week of June, when some relatives pick up the day bed to take to a new guest room in another relative's house in Kennebunkport, Maine.  I will then have room to move the long mahogany bureau and two Danish end tables in the living room to where the day bed is on the north wall, and then I will be able to pull the blue sofa another 2 feet further away from the long green sofa.  I will put the brass and glass coffee table on top of the Danish desk in the bedroom in between the two sofas with the two brass and glass end tables on either end of the blue sofa.  Whether I will have room for the French sitting chair at the apartment entrance is still open to conjecture.  Still, it will make the living room seem larger.  However, I still have the two backup computers on top of the brass and glass coffee table in the bedroom one of which is actually on top of the square Danish solid fruit wood table.  Thus if I also use the square Danish fruit wood table in the living room, I would not have room for one or two of the backup computers, unless I figured out some way to make room for them on the Danish desk.  Thus my apartment is like Rubik's Cube, and when one moves one item, one frequently has to move a lot more of other items.  Also I have a lot of various items stored underneath the day bed such as an IBM selectric type writer, and a Panasonic word processing type writer, an old Bissell rug shampoo machine, some computer parts boxes, and who knows what else along with some cables.  I put labels with scotch tape covering them on my Dell backup computer control panel for the switches for the modem, speakers, and hub.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 2:25 A.M.:  Generally when it warms up around here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I set my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control to 72 degrees Fahrenheit on low fan with no moving louvers and no exhaust vent.  72 degrees Fahrenheit is the median temperature here year round.  Occasionally on warmer days, I turn it down to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, since during the warmer months, the sun in the afternoon and evening hits my westerly facing windows.  However, unfortunately during the colder months, that is not the case.  I also have the General Electric maintenance contract paid up at about $74 a year on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control until September 11, 2004.  I generally get it, since the unit cost close to $600 four years ago and since it weighs 85 pounds, I would rather not have to move it or pay to have it serviced.  Thus for now, we are fine as far as cooling, but I will have to pay around August for the service contract to be renewed.  Of course having paid about $225 on the service contract since I bought it, one could argue at today's cheaper prices for similar units, I would be able to buy a new one, but at least for another year or two, I will keep renewing it.  My Sears unit that I had here the first 11 years only needed to be maintained once, but it was a chore carrying down to the car and taking it over to the Sears repair station in Stamford, Connecticut and back.  Since I do not know anyone whom is willing to help me with heavy lifting, I now use my cart that I keep in the back of my car for heavier items.  I suppose moving so much stuff over the years is why I needed the hernia operation a year ago.  I just ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used about 18 sliced baby carrots instead of 8, since at the moment carrots are cheap.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the regular ingredients.  I am getting low on Rosenberg Danish blue cheese, which I use a few crumbs of in the salad, because I think the mold is good for one.  I will have to remember to buy some more in the future.  Of course during the end of the month, with all the recent maintenance expenses, my budget is low.  I also opened up the last 3 liter container of Bertolli Classico olive oil, which I transferred part of into two smaller containers for easier usage.  I am now making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 12:45 A.M.:  I put the recent computer receipts and order forms in the Christmas wrapping shipping package that I keep my computer receipts in, and I put it on the right side file holder on the Danish bedroom desk.  I put the package of 16 Radio Shack wire connector nuts that I did not use in the top box on the right side floor of my hallway sweater closet.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 12:35 A.M.:  Yahoo! News - NOAA Expects Above Normal 2004 Hurricane Season .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 12:35 A.M.:  I just boiled some water in the General Electric microwave oven, and I left my two tooth brushes in the boiling water.  I then put my three Water Pik tips in the boiling water along with my throw away razor.  I then ran the boiled water through my Water Pik cleaning the inside of the three Water Pik tips and the inside of the Water Pik.  I also put boiling water in my bathroom sink glass, and I cleaned it out along with the Water Pik water holder.  Thus for now, they all should be a bit cleaner.  The inside tubes of Water Pik devices tend to build up bateria and mold, so it is a good idea to run boiling water through them every so often.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 12:20 A.M.:  Of course there is a cheaper way to improvise a germ eliminator, and that is if one boiled water in the microwave oven for tea of coffee, one could dip one's tooth brush in to the boiling water before using it to make tea or coffee.   CIO

Note: <888> 05/19/04  Wednesday 12:10 A.M.:  I watched some television after the last message, and I did not fall sleep until 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate a bowl of white corn chips before going to bed.  I had a call from a friend about 10 A.M..  I was up at 4 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 9 P.M.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought buy one get one free of 16 ounce packages of baby carrots for $1.99 both, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99, and a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.29 for $6.27 total.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station.  I sat out at various locations.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I noticed somebody fleeing the tropical storm season has parked a large boat at the http://www.thedelamar.com/ .  Unfortunately the Greenwich, Connecticut harbor is such a small harbor, that one can not moor the large boats that one is use to seeing down south.  The ship Viking is suppose to be the largest private yacht in the world, but it will not fit into Greenwich Harbor.  I am not sure if it would even fit into Long Island Sound.  I noticed somebody from UST http://www.ustinc.com/ in the Stop and Shop, and since they are a local company and one of the largest tax payers locally, I try to be curious to them.  UST has its corporate headquarters across the street from the Greenwich Library, and a former neighbor of my family was Mrs. Peterson whose husband was president of United States Tobacco.  It was her bequest of $25 million dollars to the Greenwich Library that built the new Peterson Business and Music addition to the Greenwich Library, which is a great asset to the town.  Also if one has tracked UST's stock performance http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=UST  and http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=UST&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= , they have out performed the technology sector during the last 20.5 years I have been sitting across the street from them in the Greenwich Library.  Thus they are a great asset to the community, and I think possibly they might expand their presence by buying the Levers Brother building next door, which will be vacated when they move to Trumbull, Connecticut.  Since it is the nature of the tobacco and wine business, one is in relationships with individuals from warmers parts of the world, one more than likely sees individuals associated with UST during the routine of using the Greenwich Library.  I also noticed this item http://www.germterminator.com  on an infomercial this morning, and I will probably buy it next Christmas, since it looks like and interesting device when I have the funds.  The infomercial on television says it is only $20 but the web site says it is actually $99.95, so they are actually practicing some deceptive advertising on television.  Still it looks like a worth while device.  However, one has to remember in the process of drinking water or using water to brush one's teeth, one is probably consuming germs from the water, since it is the nature of water that it is hard to keep germ free.  I also noticed somebody from Korea bought my old web site domain mrscott.com .     CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/04  Tuesday 2:55 A.M.:  Well, I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/04  Tuesday 2:45 A.M.:  Well, I spent $72 with shipping for the 6,000 sheet remanufactured laser toner cartridge for my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer from www.infinityimaging.com , $12.11 for the parts from www.outletpc.com plus $6.69 shipping, and the second half of the order from www.outletpc.com was $61.03 plus $9.92 shipping, the order from www.directron.com was $17.93 and $7.35 shipping, and the Antec 80mm SmartCool case fan from Staples was $12.99 plus .78 tax, so for my current maintenance upgrade of my computer system and network, I spent for $176.06 on parts plus $23.96 UPS shipping, plus .78 tax for a grand total of $200.80 plus a bit of web surfing looking for items and a bit of know how to install them and a bit of persistence to try to maintain my systems up to snuff.  Thus life in the home computer world ain't cheap, but considering that I am paying $46 a month for online cable modem service from www.optimum.net , I guess one has to do one's best to make ends meet.  I do enjoy being online on the internet, and I enjoy writing my notes, so it keeps me busy.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/04  Tuesday 2:00 A.M.:  Since I bought the barebones Northgate Computer from www.accessmicro.com in December 2002 for $320 plus about $30 shipping which included the case, power supply, AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor and a 512 meg. 2100MHz memory chip, it only had a one year warranty, which means the warranty is no longer in effect, so I am not voiding the warranty by changing the parts.  I have added the two 20 gigabyte hard drives, the two double round IDE cables, the, 58X CD player,  24X10X40X CR/RW player, Windows XP Professional Upgrade, a 256 meg. 2100 MHz memory chip, Creative Live MP3+ audio card, Mad Dog AGP 4X 64 meg. video card, Diamond Stealth 32 meg. PCI video card, LAN card plus all of the other accessories attached to it along with the parts that I just put into it, so it is a very good system, and I plan to keep it for a while.  I have the five 233 Mhz to 366 MHz backup desktop computers, which I can use if the primary system ever fails.  Around March 2003, I shipped the Barebones system without the parts back to Access Micro, when the system fail, and it has worked fine ever since.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/04  Tuesday 1:10 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  One of these days, I have to get around to reading all the printed periodical material that I have received, which is mostly on computers and technology.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/18/04  Tuesday 12:50 A.M.:  I did something I normally do not do this past evening, when I went to Staples in Old Greenwich.  Instead of driving along Putnam Avenue, I drove from exit 2 to exit 5 to and from Staples on I-95.  There was not too much traffic at 7 P.M., and I guess it is good for my Hyundai to go a little faster occasionally instead of local driving to clean out the spark plugs.  I also still have to call the local Hyundai dealership to see if the previous owner obtained any extra warranty time on the car in the low horse power lawsuit that I received a settlement notice on, since instead of taking the $150 shop credit or $75 debit card, I think I would rather have the extra warranty time, if the previous owner had applied for it.  I would imagine Hyundai would know about the warranty.  I have a 5 year or 50,000 mile warranty, and I think the 5 year warranty is just about up, although the car only has 40,000 miles on it.  In my apartment with the four port network hub in the bedroom and the eight port network hub in the living room, technically a larger group of people could be online in an emergency situation, although it would be crowded providing we had cable modem and electricity service.  Of course since I am mostly here by myself most of the time, it would seem a bit crowded, and also since I have many personal items lying around the apartment, I do not think I am planning to open the place up to the general public unless possibly in an emergency, since I would prefer not to have my apartment treated as a gift shop.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/18/04  Tuesday 12:25 A.M.:  I read reviews on the parts that I ordered and installed, and they seem to be top of the line parts.  The system is definitely running quieter, and it seems to be running smoother and more responsive with a bit more speed.  Possibly the old 250 watt power supply was not strong enough for my computer with all the additional parts and items in it.  I am most pleased with its overall performance, and some of the benchmarks have gone up.  I am in the process of going through my email.  I put the old IDE ribbon in my Syntax motherboard box on the white bureau in the bedroom.  Since I now have two rounded double IDE cables in the computer, there should be better ventilation around the hard drives.  When installing the Arrow 500 watt power supply, I did not have to install the power supply to the case switch, since the case switch is connected to the motherboard, so I just plugged the power supply to the motherboard and the IDE devices and that was it.  I am also running the Antec SmartCool fan off the power supply instead of the motherboard, except the white RPM? or temperature? wire is attached to the motherboard.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 11:20 P.M.:  CNN.com - Above-normal hurricane season forecast - May 17, 2004 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 11:10 P.M.:  I reheated in the microwave in microwave proof containers, the remaining half of the vermicelli and the remaining half of the Francesco Rinaldi no salt tomato sauce which I put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on, and I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 10:30 P.M.:  I reattached the Defcon loud siren security cable lock to the CPU case.  I hope I never hear it, but I am sure my neighbors will.  I hooked up the four port USB 1.0 hub to the back of the CPU on the last remaining of the four USB 1.0 ports on the back, and I put the USB 1.0 four port hub between the CPU and the right monitor stand, so it is next to the Andrea Electronic microphone I still have hooked up.  I put the two 10 foot USB cables behind the four port USB hub.  I still have the two USB 2.0 ports on the front of the computer, one of which I use for my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer.  I hooked up the 8 port Network Hub to the printer power supply switch on the Dell backup computer control panel.  I used a 10 foot extension cord since the power supply is bulky to fit on to the control panel.  I set the 8 port Nway Network Switching Hub on the top front of the Dell backup computer CPU.  I connected it to the Siemens router with a 9 foot LAN cable.  I connected to the eight port Nway Network Switching Hub a 10 foot and a 9 foot LAN cable, which I stored behind the sofa pillow.  Thus with this setup, one would be able to run up to seven laptop computers if one had the enough long LAN cables, but it might be tricky stepping over the all the LAN cables.  I can not afford wireless, and LAN cables are faster.  I moved the family picture from the Dell backup CPU to the window shelf.   I put the ground strap back behind four port USB hub.  I packaged up the old parts in the boxes that the new parts came with, and I also put the CPU thermal compound tube that I ordered in the box with the old CPU cooler.  Since the old CPU cooler, Power Supply, and Case Fans are still good, in a failure of the new components, I would have back up parts, until I obtained new parts.  I put the spare case screw lock and key and the other case screw lock key in a secure location.  I also order a CPU switch and 10 feet of red wire and 8 feet of black wire that I have stored in the same shipping box.  I put the shipping foam peanuts in a plastic bag in my bedroom window.  I put the Intel CRN network card in the same shipping box with the wrapper for the new Antec SmartCool case fan.  I put the shipping box with the various items on top of the clothes gift box on the left backup computer monitor on the bedroom side board.  I opened up the box for the new laser cartridge to examine its contents, but I will not open the sealed laser cartridge packaging, until I need it.  I put it on the floor to the left of the left mouse pad wooden support box which is underneath the dining room table.  I put the shipping receipts in the blue and white bowl on the dining room table along with the battery receipt from RadioShack yesterday and the Staples receipt for the case fan.  Thus the primary system has had it power supply, CPU cooler, and case fan replaced along with the rounded IDE cable for better ventilation.  The 20 gigabyte C: drive on the primary computer is about two years old, and the 20 gigabyte D: drive is three years old, but it is never use except for backups.  If one want to use the 8 port network hub, one would have to turn on the primary computer cable modem, Siemens router, and then the printer switch on the Dell backup computer control panel to turn on the 8 port network hub, and connect a laptop cable with one of the LAN cables available.  Thus I have done some maintenance on the primary computer, which is about 18 months old, and I have the over all system set up to be more flexible with LAN and USB connections.  Plus I have the new 6,000 sheet laser cartridge ready to install when I use up the starter cartridge in about 400 sheets at 1250 pages.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 8:55 P.M.:  I have the computer up and running with the new parts.  I removed the old 250 watt power supply, and I installed the Arrow ATX 500 watt power supply.  It was a mater of removing the old cables and installing the new cables in the same locations.  The Arrow power supply has more connectors, since it is a more powerful power supply, and it also has dual fans for cooling.  I then removed the memory, and I removed the old CPU cooler, and I installed Spire www.spire-coolers.com 5F271B1L3 FalconRock II CPU cooler.  It came with the CPU thermal compound already on it.  It was a straight forward procedure disconnecting the wire and replacing the wire.  I had ordered a case fan, but the one that I ordered was a two wire fan, and I needed a three wire fan, so I did not use it.  I disconnected the ribbon cable from the CD and CD/RW drives, and I replaced it with the rounded IDE cable with three connectors.  I took out the LAN card, and I installed the Intel Pro/100 VE 10/100 Mbps CNR network card.  I test the system with a spare power cable, and it turned on properly with the new power supply and CPU cooler working.  I then put the cover on, and I reconnected it, and when I booted it, plug and play did not recognize the Intel CNR card.  I downloaded on the backup computer the drivers for it, but the system did not still recognize the card, although it installed the drivers, but they did not work.  I then decided since the old case fan was making noise to get another one.  I found one on Staples web site.  I shut down the computer, and I drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich.  I bought the Antec 80mm Smartcool case fan for $12.99 since the web listed it as $12.99 versus the store price of $17.99 plus .78 tax for $13.77 total.  I then returned home.  I uninstalled the Intel CNR network card driver.  I then shut down the computer, and I detached the cables.   I opened up the case, and I removed the old case fan which was noisy, and I installed the new case fan using the four pin cable to the power supply and one pin to control it off the motherboard.  The Antec Smartcool fan has a temperature sensor, so it varies the case fan speed with the temperature.  It has double ball bearings, since it is running off the power supply, it does not draw power from the mother board.  It is a lot more quiet than the old case fan.  I then took out the Intel CNR network card, and I installed the PCI network card.  I then tested the system to make sure the fans worked.  I then put the cover on it using one of the case cover lock screws.  I then reattached the computer, and it is all working just fine and much quieter.  I still have to hook up the Network 8 port hub and the four port USB hub, and straighten up the work area, but it seems to have been a successful maintenance upgrade without any problems.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 4:35 P.M.:  I opened up all three boxes, and all of the parts that I ordered arrived.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will disconnect it from its wires, and I will open it up, and I will install the new parts.  This should take about one to two hours.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 4:20 P.M.:  I was up at 2:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside and waited for UPS www.ups.com , and I chatted with some neighbors.   The three UPS packages arrived at 4:04 P.M..  I will now open up the boxes to check their contents.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 11:20 A.M.:  After the last message, I ate two bowls of white corn chips, and then I went to sleep.  I had two crank fax calls.  All three packages are out for delivery according to UPS tracking as of 7:58 A.M..  I picked up my mail downstairs.  I will continue to rest.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 5:35 A.M.:  I did some regular internet work.  I checked outside briefly, and I threw out some garbage.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 5:00 A.M.:  I ran RegClean, Ad-aware 6.0, Spybot, and Norton Win Doctor.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 4:35 A.M.:  I installed the update for Real Player 10 Basic.  I configured it and installed its updates.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 4:00 A.M.:  I printed out five sheets of laser paper with Microsoft Office Word 2003 Avery #5371 business card format, and then I cut each sheet of ten calling cards with a pair of large scissors, and I now have 50 more calling cards.  I put half in my wallet, and I kept half for future use.  The second 1.3 pound UPS package from www.directron.com  shipped from Stafford, Texas arrived at Norwalk, Connecticut at 3:07 A.M. this morning, so I guess I will receive all three packages today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 3:05 A.M.:  I switched my Logitech cordless mouse from Mouse Channel 2 to Mouse Channel 1, which seems a bit more responsive.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 3:00 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 2:55 A.M.:  Pollen forecast weather.com - Allergies Forecasts Greenwich, Connecticut 06830 .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 2:25 A.M.:  I boiled about a gallon of water in a six quart Revere pot with the lid on, and I added a teaspoon of olive oil and a half teaspoon of low sodium salt, and one it started boiling, I removed the lid, and I added a 16 ounce box of Stop and Shop vermicelli, which I am boiling for six minutes.  I will reheat in the General Electric microwave in a microwave proof container with lid, a half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi no salt traditional tomato sauce, and I will put it one half of the vermicelli with several tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I will have it for dinner with a glass of iced tea.  I will refrigerate the other half of the vermicelli in a Rubbermaid container along with the remaining half of the jar of tomato sauce.   CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 2:00 A.M.:  The seven pound UPS package coming from www.outletpc.com from Las Vegas, Nevada arrived at Norwalk, CT. at 1:18 A.M. this morning, the 1.3 pound package coming from www.directron.com  from Stafford, TX. left Chelmsford, Mass. at 11:42 P.M. this past evening, I assumed destined for Norwalk, Ct., and two pound package from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges with the laser cartridge shipped from Chantilly, VA. arrived at Norwalk, Ct, on May 15 at 3 A.M., so it looks like possibly all three packages might be delivered later on today.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 1:55 A.M.:  A couple of weeks ago, I replaced the little LCD clock that I used to keep on my car dash board that did not work in the heat with the Quartz moving hands clock that I keep on the right map pocket of my passenger side door, since it works in the heat that builds u in the car in the summer.  I had put the LCD clock on my refrigerator door, but it fell off tonight because the Velcro glue would not adhere to the refrigerator door.  When one presses it to adhere to the Velcro, it also causes the disk lithium battery to depress the electrical contact too far, so it does not work.  I raised the contact, and I took the Velcro off, and I used its little wire stand, and I put it on the top side of my left primary computer monitor to easily see the time.  I also reset it.  I then took off the school magnetic labels and other magnetic labels from the refrigerator door, and I removed the duct tape that held on the horse calendar hook.  I put the labels in my center top desk drawer.  I rehung the horse calendar with one of the magnetic hooks from the wire rack to the right side of the apartment entrance door.  I took one of the three boxes of "As Seen on TV Orange Eliminator" cleaner from underneath the bathroom sink.  I bought them for 75% off from CVS for $2.50 each last fall.  I opened up the spray bottle of orange glo cleaner.  I used some Ronson lighter fluid to clean off the duct tape glue from the refrigerator and other heavy stains.  I then used the Orange Glo cleaner to clean the front and the side and the edges of the White Westinghouse refrigerator and the bottom shelf.  I also cleaned the rubber lining.  It looks much better clean without all the labels and other items stuck to it.  I left the Connecticut Poison Control Center number 1-800-272-3433 sticker attached to the freezer door, and I use two of the magnetic hooks to rehang the two Williamsburg blue pot holders on the refrigerator door.  I also cleaned the wall to the right of the refrigerator.  Thus it looks a lot whiter, better and neater.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 12:40 A.M.:  I was just look at an old link that did not work, and it refers to http://www.csit.fsu.edu/ and it refers to http://www.csit.fsu.edu/HHP/ , so I guess I might have been around Howard Hughes people when I saw a lot of TWA people and Howard Hughes medical people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida back in the fall of 1976.  In the field of science as well as aviation, Howard Hughes people keep popping up all the time, frequently when it is warm down south.  I also noticed this evening at the First United Methodist church across from the YMCA, they have a summer bible study program this June called "Lava, Lava", but I do not know if it has anything to do with travel to volcanoes or other tropical locations or why they are using the term.  I recall once being told that Howard Hughes' family attended an established Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, but we all know from the press that Howard was surrounded by the Mormons, since he thought they were more conservative.  Whatever, the case, I am sure the Hughes legacy lives on in terms of different ventures around the world, but I am still not going to subscribe to DirecTV ADSL, just so I can run a server.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/17/04  Monday 12:30 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront, and I observed the western sky, and there is what looks like a bright star in the western sky gradually descending that I think is the Comet Neat.  One can not see its tail, since there is so much extra light in the New York City area.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I then drove back down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  On the way home, I noticed there is a yellow Connecticut Light and Power www.cl-p.com truck working on the underground cables across from the Splash car wash, which I suppose is what caused the power failure earlier today.  Since they are working on the electric power in this area, one should save one's computer work more frequently in case there is a power interruption again, and anyone running servers might have to reset them.  I replaced the Polaroid 40 watt bulb in the left parsons lamp above the day bed with the same bulb, since it had burned out.  I some times user lower wattage bulbs in those areas where one might focus, so the bulb wattage is not too bright.  There is no more new activity on the www.ups.com tracking activity on my three shipments.  From past experience, UPS usually starts back up to work at midnight between Sunday and Monday.  Hopefully the three packages will arrive today.  I will be resting this afternoon waiting for them to arrive.  CIO    

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 9:35 P.M.:  There is no new activity on www.ups.com tracking on the three packages scheduled for delivery for tomorrow.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 9:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now take the batteries out of the charger.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 9:10 P.M.:  It is suppose to be clear tonight, so maybe one will be able to see the comet Neat high in the western sky at this moment.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 9:05 P.M.:  I was up at 7:30 P.M., and I had to reset some clocks and turn the air conditioner back on since the electricity power had gone off for a short while.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will take the RadioShack Nickel Metal Hydride Rechargeable AA batteries out of the Radio Shack charger at 9:30 P.M., when they are fully charged.  I will put them back in their packaging and leave them on top of the TEAC DVD player next to the charger to have available for use.  I will switch back the RadioShack charger setting from Nickel Metal Hydride to Nickel Cadmium to have available for use in charging my AAA Nickel Cadmium batteries when I use them with the Emerson wireless headphones.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 11:45 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I chatted with a neighbor, and while I was chatting my allergies bothered me, so I went upstairs, and I took a Benadryl http://www.benadryl.com/ .  I went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5.25 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.259 a gallon for about 35 miles per gallon usage.  I probably was not able to fill the tank all the way up, since I was at the second self service pump, which is on more of an incline, so I got better gasoline mileage, which means next time, I fill up at the first pump, I will probably get less gasoline mileage.  I then went downtown, and I chatted a bit with some waterfront observers down by the waterfront.  I was suspicious about the weather, whether it would rain or not.  I then went downtown, and I started to walk the length of Greenwich Avenue, but my arthritis was bothering me, so I cut short my walk, and I only walked about a block.  I next went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove over to Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I waited a half hour for the store to open at 10 A.M..  I bought a four pack of RadioShack www.radioshack.com Nickel Metal Hydride Rechargeable batteries 2000mAh 23-528 for $19.99 and a package of RadioShack 16 count assortment of wire connectors 64-3507 for $1.69 plus $1.30 tax for $22.98 total.  I then returned back downtown, and I sat out for a while.  I then returned home.  I next changed my RadioShack battery charger from Nickel Cadmium to Nickel Metal Hydride, and I am charging the four batteries I just bought at Radio Shack.  Apparently Nickel Cadmium occasionally have memory loss, and the need to be fully recharged when they are not fully discharged.  However, Nickel Metal Hydride need to be fully discharged before recharging.  I have four Radio Shack Nickel Cadmium AAA batteries that I use with my Emerson Wireless headphones.  I set my bedroom alarm clock to go off at 9 P.M. to indicate that the batteries are fully charged.  I had a former neighbor call from down by the waterfront who wants a copy of the next six months of tide charts http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/tidectw.htm , so I printed out a copy, and I will keep them in my car with my copy, and I will give them to him when I see him next.  I will now eat a piece of apple pie and drink some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 7:10 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 6:45 A.M.:  I am microwaving a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 13 ounce glazed chicken dinner, which I eat with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 6:20 A.M.:  I checked the weather outside, and it seems to have cleared up.  The LCD screen on the Sony AM/FM Walkman went blank after a while, when I removed the new AA alkaline batteries, and I reinstalled the batteries, and it now works just fine.  I set the five channel presets to some radio station that I occasionally listen to.  I bought it at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for a dollar about a year ago.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 5:50 A.M.:  The power just blinked for a fraction of a second.  I took the two AA alkaline batteries out of the Sony Walkman AM/FM radio, and maybe once the power on the LCD screen runs down, it will reset itself.  I will wait a few days to see if that happens.  When I used to practice with a bull whip in Decatur, Alabama when we lived there from 1956 to 1961, I did it for a certain reason.  As I recall I use to carry it with me, when I went bird watching.  We lived in a four bedroom brick house at 1920 Stratford Road in Decatur, Alabama, and frequently, I would walk north on Stratford Road to then end of the road past all of our neighbors.  I would then cross through some barbed wire fencing, and then after a bit of a hike on a dirt road, I would walk through a cattle grazing area, I think owned by the Wolverine company which was also in Decatur to the south shore of the Tennessee River.  I would do a lot of bird watching and reptile watching along the shore of the Tennessee River, since I had done it down in Florida earlier in my youth when I encountered alligators.  I do not recall seeing alligators in the Tennessee River, it was mostly tad poles and minnows.  However, in the cub scouts we were taught the local nature, so I would keep a keen eye out for rattle snakes, water moccasins, and copper head snakes which were prevalent in the local area.  Since we would be venturing into marsh land areas, one would have to be careful.  Since the cattle when we walked through the pasture would occasionally chase me, I found the bull whip handy in case any of them tried to bother me.  I recall on the Wolverine picnic grounds, they had a coca cola vending machine which we were always trying to figure out how to get free cokes out of.  Also in the fall since we were in the Tennessee flyway which is a large bird migration path in the country on different days there would be different flocks of birds, and on some days there would be what seemed to be millions of starlings, and other days the skies would be covered with Canadian Geese.  We also would see lots of wood peckers, king fishers, cardinals, and many other migratory birds.  Since there were a lot of hunters in the area, other areas were set off for game bird hunting, and once my father broke his leg while goose hunting in climbing a barbed wire fence.  He had a compound fracture, and it took him about six months to recover, when he was able to resume water skiing on the Tennessee River, which he enjoyed doing.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 5:25 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 4:25 A.M.:  I found my Sony AM/FM walkman which had fallen down on the floor behind the Queen Anne chair when I was rearranging some video tapes that it sat on.  It needed new AA alkaline batteries which I put in it.  The radio part worked just fine, but while I was pressing different buttons to try to set a preset, the radio part froze up on 1060 KHz, and it no longer responds to pressing the buttons.  However, the tape feature works just fine.  I put it on the wire rack with my other radios by the apartment entrance door.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 3:30 A.M.:  When we moved up north from Pensacola, Florida in 1956 to Decatur, Alabama, when my father was transferred to the Chemstrand Acrilan plant, where he eventually became plant manager, we would make regular trips down to Pensacola, Florida on the company DC3 plane sometimes accompanied by lots of Japanese business associates whom worked for Mitsubishi textiles in Japan which Chemstrand had business relationships with.  I think my father traveled also frequently in that time to the United Kingdom, since during that time, the British made textile looms and needles and other textile manufacturing equipment.  I recall back around 1957, my father visited Mexico, and he gave me a Mexican bull whip when he returned which I was quite expert at using as a youngster.  I would frequently sit out in the driveway in the afternoon practicing using the Bull Whip.  Alas after we moved to Greenwich, Connecticut it finally wore out and broke.  I recall back in 1965, when we were suppose to be transferred to 1765 Paso Del La Reforma in Mexico City, Mexico where my father was to run a Monsanto manufacturing facility, my father visited Mexico a number of times on that business deal, but it fell through when the Mexican government wanted to own 50% of the operation.  I recall when he returned from one trip, he gave me a Mexican guitar, which I never learned how to play.  Since that was about the time, I was graduating from Greenwich Country Day, a great many of my classmates thought that I had moved to Mexico City, when indeed, all we did was sell our house in Greenwich, and we moved to New Canaan, Connecticut where the mayor of Mexico City also owned a house.  The current president of Mexico is named Fox, and it is rather curious that our neighbors across the street from our last house in Greenwich, Connecticut on Cornelia Drive were also named Fox, and the widow that lived in the house with her son had worked for Time magazine.  I recall we sold the house on Cornelia Drive around 1976 for not very much money by today's standard.  Thus as a long term Connecticut resident, I have enjoyed seeing other groups of people whom are affiliated with the various corporate activities as they relate to this area.  However, I do not speak or write Spanish, so I do not know frequently what they are up to or talking about.  Supposedly 12 families own most of the country of Mexico, and former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker is related to one of those families.  When I use to stay at Fred's apartment in Manhattan from 1973 to 1975 http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm , he use to get duty free liquor from the New York City Mexican consulate which he served at parties.  Since Fred also spoke Spanish, and since he had lived with the Saltonstall family when they were Nixon's ambassador to Spain, and since he had been in Key West, Florida before I met him in October 1976, he obviously had other Spanish connections.  Also since our mutual friend Jim Eldert from Syracuse, New York also spoke Spanish, the two of them seemed to know about what was going on as far as the Spanish, when I was left communicating in English my native language.  Thus having been to Spain, I know it is an Old World country, and since Prince Felipe of Spain http://theinternetforum.co.uk/rf/felipe1.php  is getting married on May 22, 2004 http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Spain/ , more than likely most of the same guests that were at Prince Frederick of Denmark's wedding will also be sticking around Europe for the Spanish royal wedding.  Thus the first lesson that one learns in travel and tourism, is that when one group takes off traveling abroad, frequently another group comes back our way.   CIO 

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 2:50 A.M.:  I get Jeb Bush's email from Florida every week Governor Jeb Bush's - In The News , and this week it says it costs the state of Florida $17,286 for the State of Florida to keep each prisoner in jail for a year, so they are looking for cheaper social alternatives.  I use to tell people that back in 1976 when I was down in Florida that it costs more to keep people in jail than to send them to college.  One has to realize that when I lived in Florida from 1954 - 1956, we were probably middle to upper middle class, since my father was the assistant plant manager for the Chemstrand Nylon plant in Pensacola, Florida, which at the time if I am not mistaken was one of the larger employers in the state of Florida.  They employed a lot of women, while their husbands were away in the U.S. Navy.  When I went down to Florida in September 1976 on my own trying to blend end to find out what Florida was really like off the beaten tourist track, I discovered it still is a southern state with many rural poor people just making ends meet.  Thus once one gets away from the tourist beach strips on the sun coast, a prosperous person might be like a Texan wearing a straw cowboy hat driving a pickup truck, since more than likely the people whom own the land in Florida which is also a ranching and agricultural state would tend to be country folk and would have some economic prosperity.  However, since I already knew how to pick oranges, I was not inclined to go into the business, since according to the New Yorker magazine last July 2003, immigrants in Florida are paid $40 a day for picking eight tons of oranges, and most of that money is spent in the migrant labor camps for subsistence needs.   Thus although we get cheap fresh orange juice up here in Greenwich, Connecticut, it is off the sweat of the backs of poor illegal immigrants whom live in virtual slavery in the migrant camps.  They usually go back home after a year or two, and it is a group of people whom the tourists in Florida rarely see.  Since a classmate at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut use to boast that his father was the head attorney for the Florida Citrus growers association, I suppose they have a separate pecking order down in Florida, and locally since the company headquarters are nearby for PepsiCo http://www.pepsico.com/ which owns Tropicana orange juice along with other items we consume for breakfast such as  Quaker Oats, there is a bit of local influence in terms of the orange groves down in Florida, however it is my personal point of view that the Gators still control the swamps, and we are all just temporary visitors.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  I received a message in Dutch about this Dutch web design ezine http://www.smallzine.nl/ , since I am half Dutch but I do not read or speak Dutch, I can not make hide nor hair of it.  However, knowing the Dutch are cleaver in Art and Design, if one knows Dutch, I am sure it is an interesting Ezine.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/16/04  Sunday 2:15 A.M.:  I woke up from a clap of thunder about 1:45 A.M..  I watched some television.  I ate a piece of apple pie with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 9:55 P.M.:  I just got a tired spell, which I tend to do with my low blood pressure just before it rains.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  It will probably rain while, I am resting.  There is rain in the forecast from now through tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 9:30 P.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  I used a 6.5 ounce dry weight of California black olives along with all of the other regular ingredients.  I then made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.   I threw out the garbage.  Thunder storms are supposedly coming into this area.  There is a lot of lightning, but it is not producing thunder yet, so it is a ways off.  If the thunder storms come closer and yield more lightning, I will shut down the computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 8:00 P.M.:  For accurate weather information down by the waterfront in Greenwich, Ct, try Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830 U.S.A. Real-Time Weather .  Of course this time of year, there might be sailors on the waterfront whom do not have the internet on their pleasure crafts.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 7:45 P.M.:  Of course I happen to know a little bit about steam locomotives powered by coal, since my paternal grandfather operated one for 50 years on the Illinois Central railroad for 20 years as a fireman and 30 years as a locomotive engineer.  If I am not mistaken the Pullman cars had steam heat and the freight trains which had a caboose at the end of the train used a coal stove, since they would not have heated the freight cars with steam.  Thus I call the Hartwick Radio Company stove a caboose stove which they would have used anywhere where coal was plentiful.  The Hartwick Radio Company was located in Tennessee, so they must have coal down there besides all the cheap electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority http://www.tva.gov/ hydroelectric dams,  however at the moment Henry Ford is not transferring me to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, so I can take advantage of cheaper electricity.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 7:25 P.M.:  I noticed at Home Deport in Port Chester, New York last night that they have 10,000 BTU  115 volt Maytag www.maytag.com air conditioners for about $239, 15,000 BTU 115 volt Maytag air conditioners for $359, and a 25,000 BTU Maytag air conditioner with 220 volts for around $500.  I can not recall the exact prices, but those are close.  I also noticed they have a pickup truck that they rent there.  Of course for the best air conditioning units that money can buy besides central air conditioning Friedrich air conditioning units http://www.friedrich.com/ are generally considered the best.  A friend http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm  whose apartment in Manhattan I use to use during the winters of 1973 to 1975 which were cold during the oil embargo kept his Friedrich air conditioner going all winter during those winters, so I generally assumed he was a cold weather person.  He also knew Carol Maytag.  When I first moved here over 15 years ago, I bought a coal stove for $50 at a tag sale on Mayfair lane here in Greenwich, where my friend's partner lived.  The coal stove was in near like new condition besides the broken fire grate since somebody had tried to burn wood in it.  It was basically an old railroad caboose stove.  It was manufactured by the Hartwick Radio company which was since acquired by Maytag.  The president of Maytag bought the coal stove from a friend of mine in exchange for three Maytag refrigerators, three washers, and three dryers.  It is suppose to be in the president of Maytag's office.  My friend gave me a $100 for it, which I used to buy my Phillips 5 disk CD player.  All of the pieces of the fire grate were there, so a person with a foundry would have been able to cast a new one.  I thought since we have so much coal in this country that they could actually reproduce the old Hartwick Radio company coal stove.  I suppose in the days of Eleanor Roosevelt traveling around the country by rail and visiting coal mines, she probably warmed herself in the Pullman car near a similar coal stove.  Thus any of us could consider ourselves the Maytag repair man.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 6:55 P.M.:  The night light in the bathroom that always stays on burned out, so I had extra Christmas tree type bulbs, so I put a red bulb in the night light, which casts a red light.  I also have a night light in the kitchen that goes on and off in the dark, and I keep the Sylvania long life tubular bulb on all the time in the book light on top of the center hallway bookcase.  It is still 84 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so I am staying inside by the air conditioner.  I have told several people this week that if one does not want to feel the summer heat when it arrives, one can keep chilled tomato juice in the refrigerator and in a 6 to 8 ounce glass of chilled tomato juice one can add about 1/8th of a teaspoon of India hot curry, and the curry helps one not to feel the heat.  Of course it is the nature of my apartment which some refer to as the Lincoln sitting room because of the picture of Abraham Lincoln that in Illinois it tends to be colder most of the time.  Generally in Illinois there is 10 months of winter and only about two months of summer, so once it warms up in Illinois people start to feel the heat more intensely.  I recall one summer in Illinois after I graduated from Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu in 1972 when I returned from Greece, a group of friends and myself went up to the thousand islands north of Sault St. Marie, and each family had a private cabin on a separate island, and we were attending a wedding where the church was on a separate island, and I was suppose to be the photographer.  At the last minute, I was told not to take pictures because Howard Hughes was attending the wedding, so I kept a keen eye on the guests to try to figure out which person was Howard Hughes.  I recall seeing quite a few tall people since Midwestern people tend to be taller, and possibly one of the guests was indeed Howard Hughes, since he was 6 foot 4 inches tall.  Alas I was not in very good shape for taking pictures, since the island cabin we were staying in had an earthen ware crock of about five gallons inserted in a water cooler type stand containing Corby's whisky which friends tell me stands for Canadian boot leg whisky.  Although we were there in July 1972, when it was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the day time and would go down to 20 degrees Fahrenheit at night, I suppose in the winter when it goes down to minus 80 degrees below zero Fahrenheit they might need the Canadian whisky.  However, the cabins we used were not winterized, so I doubt if they were used in the winter except by bears.  However, a great many prominent Chicago, Illinois families had cabins in the thousand islands which are the group of islands that lie between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.  I recall we arrived on Canadian Dominion Day, so we could not buy liquor, and the next day was Sunday, so we could not buy liquor, and the following day was the Fourth of July, so we could not buy liquor, so we were left to drinking the Corby's whisky.  Up in the Berkshire Mountains, they have the local Tanglewood music event in the summer and nearby  Greenwich at Caramoor in Katonah, New York, they have a similar summer music event, and on the north shore of Chicago, they have the Ravenswood music event in the summer.  Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, we also have music events in Roger Sherman Baldwin park down by the waterfront in the summer.  One of my roommates in college knew the head of the Chicago Chamber Music ensemble.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 6:25 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from Microsoft on Thursday about a TS2 Connect with Microsoft conference on Tuesday May 18, 2004 from 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. at the Trumbull Marriott Merritt Parkway, 180 Hawley Lane, Trumbull, Connecticut 06611 Connect with Microsoft or call 1-877-359-5901 .  There are certain restrictions such as one has to be employed as a technology provider, and those attending with be receiving a DVD disk with conference information, and a certificate.  The last TS2 conference I attended in February 2004, the certificate was good for Microsoft software including Microsoft Office 2003.  I guess Microsoft qualifies me as an attendee, since they keep inviting me, and also a relative is a stockholder in Microsoft.  I will not be attending the event, however since I attended the same event in February 2004.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 6:05 P.M.:  Well, there is no news on my three UPS www.ups.com shipments, so I guess all three shipments are still scheduled for delivery on Monday.  I guess I will be staying in on Monday until they arrive, and I will then install the parts and accessories.  Usually UPS arrives in the afternoon on weekdays.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 6:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  The small mahogany shelf that I took down from the wall behind the apartment entrance door to the right, I put on top of the left hallway bookcase.  I hung the hat rack above the inside door way of the bedroom door which does not close because of the large mirror that I have hung on the door making the entrance appear wider.  I hung six of my baseball style hats on the hat rack.  One has to be taller to reach them.  I took the oval picture of Abraham Lincoln from above the bookcase in the kitchen entrance, and I hung it to the left of the right parsons lamp above the day bed.  I moved the oil painting of white flowers in guilt frame by Lisa Polemus from there, and I hung it to the right of the left sconce above the day bed to the left of the large mirror.  I took the 15 inch by 30 inch mahogany mirror with curved top from the left side wall at the bathroom entrance, and I hung it above the cupboard blue bookcase on the left wall of the kitchen entrance.  I took the 24 inch by 30 inch mirror from the floor by the bedroom door, and I hung it on the left side wall at the bathroom entrance.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 4:45 P.M.:  I did not fall asleep until 8 P.M. this morning.  I finished off the bag of Snyder's white corn chips.  I woke up at 3 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside briefly, and it is currently 84 degrees Fahrenheit weather.com - Local Weather Page Greenwich, CT. 06830 .  Since it is warm outside, I will stay by the air conditioner which I have set at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is about 74 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment presently.  I will now print out the tide charts for Greenwich, Connecticut for the next six months http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/tidectw.htm .  I will put one copy on the back seat of my Hyundai, and I will give another copy to a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 4:20 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 4:10 A.M.:  I tried sending the email to the one AOL user without different URLs, but it kept bouncing back from AOL, I just sent it without any URLs, so hopefully it will go through.  I am not sure what the offending URL was.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 3:00 A.M.:  One of my emails was bounced back by AOL because supposedly one of my URLs in the text of the message has generated a high volume of complaints.  I wander which URL it was.  This evening when I installed the wire racks, I moved the flight bags which use to hang on the hat rack on the wall by the apartment door to the left living room closet floor on top of the shoes.  I have a vintage Gucci flight bag, a Air Canada flight bag, a vintage KLM flight bag, and a vintage Pan Am flight bag.  I microwaved a 10.5 ounce Stouffer's chicken pot pie, which I will eat in a few minutes with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/15/04:

Note: <888> 05/15/04  Saturday 2:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  A discothèque party was just getting over at Richard's and the Blue Cafe was busy, however they had Railroad Avenue blocked off for repairing a water main break.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I move the quart cans of old tomato juice that I use for removing skunk odor should the need arrive.  I put them on the lower side of the rack behind the apartment door.  I move the three rechargeable seltzer bottles from the Danish bar, and I put them on the bedroom wire rack, with the various coffee cups and coffee cup tree I had on the Danish bar.  I also put the Queen Elizabeth II whisky jug, the cut glass water bottle, and the empty Dom Perigon bottle on the wire rack in the bedroom.  I also put the seltzer bottle CO2 cartridges on the wire rack in the bedroom.  I also took the 12 bottles from the variety pack of Kennebunkport, Maine shipyard ale, and I moved them on the wire rack in the bedroom.  They are about two years old, and they were refrigerated for the first year, and for the last year, they have been resting underneath the French sitting chair at the apartment entrance.  Thus the bedroom wire rack is filled up, except for a space where the light switch is.  I left the two brass hooks on the same wall as the wire rack, since they are attached by toggle bolts, and I did not feel like loosing the toggles.  Also when I parked downtown this evening, my odometer turned to 40,000 miles on my 1999 Hyundai Accent two door hatchback.  Since I bought it with 31,800 miles around September 1, 2002, I have driven around 8,200 miles in 21 month, or about 390 miles average driving a month, which includes two round trips to Kennebunkport, Maine last summer.  I also moved some small items off the dining room table, and I reorganized the bookcase pantry shelf at the kitchen entrance.  It now has a bit more room, and there are no boxes, cans, or bags on the kitchen floor.  I left the two big white 16 ounce coffee cups with saucees in the bookcase.  Thus there is a cleared off area on the Danish bar too, and I put one of the flashlights back on it for easy retrieving.   I have a several year old bottle of Keoem sparkling Concorde grape juice on the wire rack in the bedroom.  I also have two packages of three .75 liter bottles of Perrier 2000 underneath the French sitting chair and four packages of three .75 liter packs of Perrier 2000 in between the two levels of the Danish bar and three single .75 liter bottles of Perrier on the wire rack in the bedroom and three chilled .75 liter bottles in the refrigerator for a grand total of 24 .75 liter bottles of Perrier in the apartment.  They are all from the Perrier 2000 vintage, but only 18 are still in their three bottle Perrier 2000 packaging.  Of course since Perrier www.perrier.com is over a billion year old bubbling spring water, it never really goes out of date.  According to UPS tracking www.ups.com the 7 pound package left Secaucus, New Jersey at 12:04 A.M. this morning, the laser cartridge departed Shrewsbury, Mass. this past evening at 11:13 P.M., and the 1.3 pound package is still in Chelmsford, Mass..  I will now send out my weekly notes. 

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 10:40 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I drove over to Home Depot in Port Chester, New York.  I bought two Closetmaid Eight-Tier Wire Racks 72" high by 18 7/8" wide X 5" deep ClosetMaid - LAUNDRY 8 Tier Wire Rack for $28.78 each plus $4.32 tax for $61.88 total.  I used my debit card to purchase them at the self check out counter, since there was a line at the cash register.  I was able to fit both of them in through the rear of the car, since they fit inside of each other.  I returned home.  Each unit came with six screws, six wall anchors, and six clamps.  I raised the wooden electric clock to the right of my apartment entrance to as high as it would go.  I removed the hat rack and the small mahogany shelf.  I removed the other items against the wall between the kitchen entrance and the apartment door.  I then cleaned the floor area.  I then put the clamps on the wire rack, and I marked the drill holes with a small drill hole.  I then drill 1/4 inch holes, and I installed the six wall anchors, and I then secured the unit with the six screws to wall.  The bearing weight of the unit is resting on the floor.  I put my flash lights, lanterns, one quart and one cup Danish coffee presses, transistor and emergency radios, spare flash light and lantern batteries, the set of Japanese tea cups, the hand grind coffee grinder on the wire rack, along with my Fire Sentry fireproof case at the bottom.  There is thus more room in the blue bookcase at the kitchen entrance.  I then installed the other wire rack the same way on the right side of the bedroom entrance way.  I took down the heavy mirror from that wall, and I put it on the floor beneath the mirror on the open bedroom door.  I moved the NASA shuttle picture to the back of the bathroom door, and I took the Audubon Louisiana Heron print from the bathroom door, and I hung it above the wire rack.  I have not put anything in that wire rack yet.  All three wire racks are quite secure, since they are resting on the floor secured to their respective walls.  I will now eat a piece of apple pie with iced tea.  I will put the computer on standby, and I will go out.  It is suppose to rain around 1 A.M..  CIO   

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 6:35 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 12.5 ounce chicken with mushrooms dinner.  I had it with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up.  I will then go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 6:05 P.M.:  I finished house cleaning and watering the plants.   I threw out the garbage.  I checked UPS tracking and the laser cartridge arrived at Shrewsbury, Mass. at 3:05 P.M. this afternoon,  the 1.3 pound package from Texas arrived at Chelmsford, Mass. at 3:40 P.M. this afternoon, and the 7 pound package from Las Vegas is still in Secaucus, New Jersey.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 3:15 P.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw out some garbage.  I showed the building custodian the wire rack that I put in the bathroom.  I will now do my house cleaning.  I will shut down the computer while I do my house cleaning.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 1:25 P.M.:  I just woke up.   I guess, they are now hitched BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Danish prince marries Australian .  

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 5:40 A.M.:  CNN.com - Royal wedding fever grips Denmark - May 14, 2004 , The Royal Wedding - Media Service , The Danish Monarchy , The New York Times > International > Australian Woman to Wed Her Danish Prince .  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will try to rest some more. CIO

Note: <888> 05/14/04  Friday 4:50 A.M.:  I woke up at 3:30 A.M..  I finished off eating the dry roasted peanuts with some iced tea.  I search the internet for 6 foot high by 19 inch wide by 5 inch deep wire racks, but I find no mention of them in that size.  Although the Home Depot www.homedepot.com web site does not mention them, they might carry them at their stores.  I could possibly put one on the right side of the wall in the bedroom entrance, anther on the wall to the right of the apartment entrance and remove the bookcase from the left kitchen entrance wall and put one there.  Of course I would have to first find them and be able to afford them.  My 7 pound UPS package arriving from Las Vegas, Nevada from www.outletpc.com arrived at Secaucus, New Jersey at 3:06 A.M. this morning, the laser printer cartridge from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges departed Laurel, MD. at 3:53 A.M. this morning.  All three packages are still scheduled for delivery on Monday, May 17, but it looks like the 7 pound shipment is running a bit ahead of schedule.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 10:30 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 10:10 P.M.:  My remanufactured 6,000 sheet laser cartridge that I ordered for $72 for my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges  departed from Chantilly, Virginia at 9:32 P.M. this evening via UPS, and it is due to be delivered this Monday May 17, 2004 with the other two orders coming via UPS.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 10:00 P.M.:  Yahoo! News - More Evidence Points to Meteor in Mass Extinction .  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 9:50 P.M.:  After I ate the lasagna, I ate a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea.  The Comet Neat is still in the western sky, but with all the overcast weather recently, I have not been able to see it.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 9:15 P.M.:  I am now microwaving a 10.5 ounce Stouffer's lasagna with meat sauce, which I will have with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 9:10 P.M.:  I use to have a can of Black Flag wasp spray that I bought about two years ago, when I had a wasp in my apartment, but about two weeks ago, the can started to leak, so I threw it out.  I just weighed myself, and I weigh 210 pounds.  I just chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 8:40 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M..  I ate a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 12.5 ounce chicken fettuccini dinner along with some iced tea.  I checked my mail.  I went out, and I stopped by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold oat nut grain bread for $1.35, a 5.5 ounce box of Arnold large cut Italian seasoning croutons for .99, a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .42 for $3.81 total.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next drove over to Old Greenwich to Off Center hair stylists, and I had my hair cut for $18 plus $5 tip for $23 total.  I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room thrift shop.  I next drove out to Tod's Point, and I sat out briefly at the southwest parking area.  I then used the bathroom at the southeast beach area.   I chatted with somebody from Kansas City, Missouri.  I next went by Staples, and I bought a 500 sheet package of Staples laser paper for $4.98 plus .30 tax for $5.28 total.  I then made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought for $3 a six foot high by 19 inch wide six shelf white wire rack about five inches deep.  I put it in my Hyundai through the hatch back opening.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various location.  On the way up Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought three carburetor cable clamps for a dollar all.  The wire shelf had three similar clamps on it.  I then on the way back down Greenwich Avenue from the top, I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store again, and I bought a package of six wall anchors for hallow walls # 10 - 12 with screws for $1.49 plus .09 tax for $1.58 total.  I then completed my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior center.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I put the new laser paper underneath the open package of laser paper underneath the Minolta laser printer table.  I checked the wire shelf, and it fit in just perfectly against the wall to the right of the bathroom toilet.  I took off the picture of "A Friend In Need" of dogs playing poker, and I rehung it to the right side of the bathroom sink above the small shelf.  I move the plate of the "Great Seal of the United States" further to the right on the wall to the right of the toilet, so the wire shelf would fit in.  I put the wire shelf in position, and I put the three carburetor cable clamps along its right side, and the three plastic clamps that came with it, I put two at the top and one in the middle center.  I had to take the wicker shelf off from above the toilet temporarily, but one can not drill into the corner at that point because of aluminum studs.  I marked the clamps with small drill holes.  I then drilled quarter inch wide holes into the sheet rock, and I put in the six wall anchors, and I secure the wire shelf with the six screws.  Since the wire shelf rests on the floor, most of its bearing weight is on the floor, not the wall.  I then took all my cleaning supplies and other toiletries from the floor to the left of the bathroom sink, and I put them all in the new white wire rack.  They filled up the entire rack.  I move the three boxes of home cleaners from the bathroom entrance to underneath the bathroom sink.  Thus the bathroom entrance and the area around the sink on the floor is a little less cluttered, and my cleaning supplies and toiletries are neatly arranged.  I then went outside, and I sat out briefly.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 3:50 A.M.:  I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts with a glass of iced tea.  I surfed the net a bit.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 3:10 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/13/04  Thursday 2:50 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove around the train station area, and they are still working on the Arch Street railroad bridge at night.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought four half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, two 13.5 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken with mushroom dinners for $1.99 each, a Stouffer's 12.5 ounce glazed chicken dinner and a Stouffer's 12.5 ounce chicken fettuccini dinner each for $1.99 each for $17.96 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea.  I now have 7.5 half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium, which should be enough to last until the end of the month.  I do not care if it is a couple of weeks old.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  I threw out some garbage.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of chopped sardines, and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:  On my Minolta QMS 1250W laser printer, I have used 770 pages on the 1250 page starter cartridge.  I just ordered for $72 with free UPS ground shipping the 6,000 page cartridge from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges , a Compatible Minolta Pageworks Pagepro 8E 8L 1100 1250w Toner Cartridge - Replaces Minolta 1710405-002,1710399-002,1710511-001. .  Thus when I run out of toner in the starter cartridge, I should have 6,000 sheet of printing capacity from the new cartridge.  I just opened up a new 500 sheet package of Staples laser paper, and I filled the Minolta 1250W laser printer with paper.  The remaining paper, I keep in box in a sealed plastic page to prevent moisture, which I keep underneath the laser printer table.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 8:55 P.M.:  I had a telephone call about 10 A.M. this morning about how to set up an eye appointment.  I slept until 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I watched some television news.  I threw out some garbage.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 9:15 A.M.:  I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts with iced tea.  I did some computer web surfing.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed again.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 7:25 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I chatted with a friend.  The friend wanted to know the name of a book that he saw me reading some years ago about the ocean.  I know it also included some information about sailing on a schooner to Barbados.  From searching on the Internet, I think the book was called "The Living Ocean" by Elizabeth Collins.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 5:05 A.M.:  I ate a bowl of peanuts before going to bed.  I just woke up, and I ate a Nature's Valley strawberry and yogurt bar along with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 12:40 A.M.:  I put one of the new cans of tomato juice in the refrigerator, and I put the other underneath the blue sofa.  I labeled the old can dated to expire March 2003, and I wrote on it "Old Skunk Juice".  I will use it if I ever get sprayed by a friendly skunk.  I put it underneath the yellow French sitting chair at the apartment entrance.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. 

Note: <888> 05/12/04  Wednesday 12:25 A.M.:  I checked outside, but there is haze in the west, so I was not able to see the comet.  I will look later this week if the evening sky is clear.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 11:50 P.M.:  At the moment according to StaryNight, there is a Comet called "Neat" 24 degrees above the horizon in the west.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 11:25 P.M.:  I put away my laundry.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of a can of solid white albacore tuna fish, I used a 6 ounce can of flaked tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese, and I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 9:40 P.M.:  I was up at 12:30 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I turned on the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control.  It is cooling off the apartment nicely.  I set it at "Cool", 70 degrees Fahrenheit, low fan speed, with the exhaust louver closed.  I then cleaned up, and I went out.  I made my 4 P.M. appointment.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 16 ounce jar of dry roasted lightly salted peanuts for $1.99.  I then finished my walk.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $2.41, two 48 ounce cans of Stop and Shop tomato juice for $1.39 each, two four packs of six ounce cans of Star Kist solid white tuna fish for $2.99 a four pack, and a bulb of elephant garlic for $1.99 for $13.16 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank a glass of iced tea.  I next started two loads of laundry, and I currently have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  There is no new news on the larger 7 pound UPS package that shipped from Las Vegas last night at 8:35 P.M., but the smaller 1.3 pound package arrived in Houston, Texas and departed at 4:19 A.M., and then it departed Mesquite, Texas at 2:49 P.M. this afternoon.  CIO    

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 4:55 A.M.:  Earlier I finished off the jar of dry roasted peanuts.  I also ate three 3 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 4:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 3:55 A.M.:  I uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times Quicken 2003, and it still will not register, because of a script error.  I have it still setup, and I restored the backup file after reinstalling it.  I put away the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I watched some television.  The second UPS package has departed Las Vegas, Nevada.  They are both due for delivery on Monday May 17, 2004.  One package weighs 7 pounds coming from Las Vegas, Nevada, and the other package coming from Stafford, Texas weighs 1.3 pounds.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/11/04  Tuesday 12:40 A.M.:  I am making up a batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I received notification that the two computer parts orders from www.outletpc.com that I ordered this past weekend shipped UPS www.ups.com  from Stafford, Texas this evening at 10:23 PM and the other order from www.directron.com  has sent billing information to UPS, but has not been picked up yet. 

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 11:45 P.M.:  I hear thunder off in the distance.  I have three vacuum cleaners.  I have a Hoover upright vacuum, a Electrolux vacuum with a regular hose and metal poles with vacuum attachment and upholstery brush.  It is about 25 years old.  I have a 20 year old Electrolux vacuum with a hose with the power nozzle attachment.  It one were going to use the newer Electrolux with the metal poles or upholstery brush, one would use the hose from the older model, since it would be difficult to detach the power nozzle from the hose on the newer model.  I also have plenty of bags for all models and spare belts for the Hoover.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 11:40 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I did not use broccoli and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 10:15 P.M.:  I ate two bowls of dry roasted peanuts before going to bed this morning.  I was up at 1 P.M., and 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 Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue,  and I sat out at various locations.  During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 1.5 liter bottle of yellow mouthwash for $4.19 plus .25 tax for $4.44 total.  I next went by the Greenwich Hardware Store, and I bought two General Electric 25 watts frosted tube bulbs PC:13487 25T10/F CD for $3.99 each plus .48 tax for $8.46 total.  I then completed my walk.  I used the bathroom at the senior and arts center.  I sat out in front of the senior and arts center.  I noticed that besides cutting down the one willow tree at the northwest corner of the property and moving the other willow tree just south of it to where the cut down willow tree was, today they cut down the white birch tree at the northwest corner of the senior center and arts center.  It does not make sense to me why they cut it down, unless the police administration building wants a view of Greenwich Avenue, which was blocked by the trees.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a package of the parts for a two position interlocking connector #274-222 for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time and the New York Times.  I was showed in the New York Times in the top left editorial section by a fellow library reader that the U.S. Government is debating whether to eliminate Section 8 Housing Vouchers which would effect two million recipients.  This obviously would aggravate the homeless problem.  I get rental assistance for my Connecticut public housing, but I am not sure whether it is from Section 8 Federal funds or the Connecticut general fund.  In any event, I plan to stay where I am living for the rest of my life as long as I am able to get around, so I guess the only way I would be moving is "Feet First".  Having been homeless during my visits to south Florida during the winter from 1976 to 1978, I do not feel like becoming homeless, so hopefully the Federal Government will not eliminate any subsidy I might need.  I suppose though if it came down to needing money to pay my rent, I might depend for a short period of time from relatives, but since I am elderly and disabled, I probably would have to look into moving to another country such as Canada or Holland which I would be eligible for from my family background, and hopefully the social benefits would take care of me.  I then returned home.  I put the two new frosted 25 watts tube bulbs in the picture light above the Rembrandt print of the Polish Rider.  One of the old two were burned out.  I saved the other used one in my bulb drawer in the bedroom mahogany bureau.  I bought the Radio Shack 2-Position Interlocking Connector to possibly use to repair my Electrolux vacuum power nozzle, but when I opened up the vacuum hose spout with the electric interface, and I took it apart, I decided to crimp slightly the female receptacles to make a better connection.  I then reassembled it, and it worked initially, and then I noticed that the hose spout nozzle cover tended be a little lose when fasten on with the two screws causing the round electrical contact rails not to make a steady electrical connection.  I fixed it by wrapping black electrical tape around the nozzle cover to make it fastened on more tightly, and the Electrolux power nozzle seems to work just fine now with the vacuum cleaner.  I will put the Radio Shack parts package in a card board tray on the floor of my hallway sweater closet, where I keep other electrical items.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 4:55 A.M.:  There is an error in the Quicken 2003 registration script which causes it not to work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 4:25 A.M.:  I installed Intuit www.intuit.com Quicken 2003 New User Edition.  I exported my Microsoft Money 2002 files, and I imported them into Quicken 2003.  However, I can not get Quicken to Register Online and to create a user account.  I will try to maintain my accounts in both programs, which will take a bit of extra time.  I checked out the Intuit web site for information on the registration problem, but nothing worked.  The updates do work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 1:55 A.M.:  I opened up a birthday present from a relative.  I received a size 40 inch waist by 30 inch length pair of Calvin Klein blue jeans which fit just fine.  I received a large Polo by Ralph Lauren Williamsburg blue color polo shirt and a large Chereskin casual light green beige short sleeve dress shirt.  However, in the shirts I tend to be extra large size.  I can either save them and hope I lose weight which I hope to do some time soon or since I received the TJ Maxx sales slip for the Chereskin shirt and the jeans, however I did not receive the sales slip for the polo shirt,  my relative said I could exchange them, if I needed to.  I will have to think if I want to drive all the way to Norwalk to TJ Maxx to exchange them, or keep them in hope that I will lose weight.  I will wait until I have a chance to discuss it with my relative.  I also received a Intuit Quicken 2003 new user edition CD and a American Greetings CreataCard disk.  I will now see how much disk space they take up, and possibly put them on my computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/10/04  Monday 12:45 A.M.:  Since I was born on May 9, 1950 at 10:30 P.M. Central Standard Time in Alton, Illinois, I guess I am now officially 54 years old.  I placed another computer parts order at http://www.outletpc.com/ for a Spire FalconRock II Socket A/370/462 Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler (up to AMD 3400+) for $9.67, a Nway 8 Port 10/100 Mbps Auto Sensing Switching Ethernet HUB (silver color) $18.78 total, a Sunon 80 X 80 mm Sleeve Bearing 2 - pin case fan $1.98, a Artic Ceramique High Density Thermal Compound Syringe 2.7 g (22-32 Applications) $2.38, a Arrow 500 Watt ATX Power Supply 500 W (RETAIL) $22.48, a 4-Port Mini USB for PC-Mac $5.74 for $61.03 subtotal plus $9.92 UPS ground shipping for $70.95 total.  When I get all three shipments that I have ordered this weekend, I will do some maintenance on my primary computer, and upgrade the case fan, power supply, CPU cooler, CD drive IDE cables, connect the 4 Port USB mini hub, connect a Lan cable from the Siemens router to the Nway HUB to be placed on the Dell backup computer CPU, so technically with the LAN cables I ordered, a few people could be online in my living room with Laptop computers should the need arise.  Since my primary computer is about 18 months old, the moving parts such as power supply, CPU cooler, and case fan need to be maintained.  I will also install case locks on the CPU, and I will put in the CNR network card and reinstall the PCI X2 telephone modem.  Thus when all three orders that I ordered this weekend arrive, I will probably do the maintenance upgrade on my primary computer CPU and setup.  Possibly they will be here by next weekend depending on UPS, since they will not be fulfilled until today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/09/04  Sunday 10:25 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  A friend called at 6:30 A.M. this morning, and we chatted.  I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts.  I then went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then chatted some more with the same friend.  I the cleaned up, and I went out.  I decided to vary my routine, since it is my 54th birthday.  I went over to Costco www.costco.com , and I toured the store with a store pass.  To be a member, it costs $45 a year, but since at the moment, I do not need any of their discounted items, I am not a member.  I toured the store, and I noticed they have a 19 inch flat panel LCD Princeton monitor for $559, a 10,000 BTU Panasonic air conditioner for $220 and a 10,000 BTU Carrier air conditioner for $240.  I checked out the food department upstairs and ground sirloin beef is $1.99 a pound, pork loin roasts and pork tenderloins are $2.99 a pound, Gouda cheese is $3.99 a pound, and New York Strip steaks and delmonico steaks are $8.69 a pound.  The last time I toured the store around Christmas time in 2002, New York strip steaks were $3.99 a pound, so the price of beef steaks have gone up.  I toured the waterfront plaza to the north and east of the store along the Byram river.  If I ever need a discounted item, I might take out a membership if the discount pays for the membership.  I next drove down by the waterfront in Greenwich.  I then stopped by Manero's and their meat department was closed, where I had planned to get a steak sandwich with onions, but I was able to order one to go at the bar.  I bought a steak sandwich to go cooked medium rare on a subway roll with onion rings on the sandwich for $7.95.  I ate it on the steps of Greenwich Capital http://www.gcm.com/ , Royal Bank of Scotland http://www.rbs.co.uk/ overlooking the harbor.  I then drove up to Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a regular cup of coffee at Starbucks for $1.70 plus .30 tip for $2 total, and I drank it front of the senior center, where on a nice day, one can enjoy a cigarette outside.  Somebody has left an orange Department of Public Works dump truck in front of the Senior Center along with some garbage bags.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two packs of three pair each pack of Hanes Cushion Crew white socks size 6 - 12 for $2.99 each three pack for $5.98 total.  I then went completed my walk.  I sat out for some more.  I then drove back down by the waterfront again.  I next went by the Food Emporium at closing time, and I bought a 13 5/8 ounce Stouffer's chicken fettuccini dinner for $1.99 and a 12.5 ounce Stouffer's lean cuisine with mushroom dinner for $1.99 for $3.98 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases and drank some iced tea.  I ate the last piece of French butter crumb cake.  CIO    

Note: <888> 05/09/04  Sunday 4:00 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/04  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  I looked at the local public media television provided by Cablevision, and it seems to be the usual weekend programming.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/04  Sunday 2:40 A.M.:  After eating the chicken pot pie, I ate two bowls of corn chips with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/04  Sunday 1:20 A.M.:  I am microwaving a 10 ounce Stouffer's chicken pot pie, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/09/04  Sunday 12:50 A.M.:  Well Happy 54th Birthday to me.  I was just remembering for those of you whom are not familiar with the motto of the state of Florida which applies to other parts of the world.  It is "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash".  I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake before going to bed yesterday morning.  I was up at 4 P.M. this past afternoon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I had a telephone call from a friend, and his relative had lost the stone in her wedding wing while collecting plants in her garden for mother's day church.  They could not find it.  I suggested using a wire strainer or colander to sift the dirt in the garden.  I then showered and cleaned up.  I then left a message with my friend, and I suggested they should check sink drains.  I then went downtown, and I went by Zyn stationary, and I bought a Western Union www.westernunion.com money order for a dollar cost to pay my Northeast Utilities electricity bill.  I then filled it out, and I mailed it at the outdoor box at the central Greenwich Post Office.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I went by CVS, and I bought two 7.5 ounce boxes of wheat crackers for $1.79 buy one get one free, a 16 ounce jar of Gold Emblem dry roasted peanuts for $1.99, a three pair pack of Haines white socks for $2.99, a 10 count pack of CVS type S.O.S. soap pads for .99, a 33 ounce spray bottle of CVS window cleaner for .99, two 12.5 ounce CVS spray furniture polish for .99 each,  six 14.75 ounce cans of Bumble Bee Alaska pink salmon for .99 each plus .24 tax for $16.91 total.  I then completed my walk carrying my items.  I then sat out for a while.  I next drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with a local waterfront observer.  I then went by the Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $6.60 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.159 a gallon for about 23 miles per gallon usage.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea.  I received a message from a friend on my answering machine that he had sifted the garden dirt with a wire screen, and he had found his mother's wedding ring stone, so he was very relieved.  I guess persistence in a crisis tends to pay off.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 8:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 8:25 A.M.:  I logged onto www.directron.com  and I ordered two CPU Case Security Locks, works like a case screw but requires a key to open for $2.99 each, 12 feet 20AWG Red wire .99, 10 feet 20AWG black wire .99, two 9 foot RJ45 LAN cables for $1.99 each, a Directron Rounded IDE dual device cable with boots in white 24 inch length for $4.99, a AT Power Supply Push button switch for computer $1 for $17.93 subtotal plus $7.35 UPS ground shipping for $25.28 total.  Thus with the last two orders, I have bought some inexpensive parts over the internet that would cost considerably more locally.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 7:15 A.M.:  I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 6:40 A.M.:  I called www.bny.com 1-800-CALLBNY and I was able to figure out that my $5 donation to the Greenwich Country Day School www.gcds.net needed the Card Security Code from my Master Card debit card, so it went through and the $5 donation to the Greenwich Country Day School Annual fund has been made.  I chatted with the Bank of New York representative for a while.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 5:40 A.M.: I ordered from http://www.outletpc.com/ a Intel Pro/100 VE 10/100 MBPS CNR Network Card for $5.78, two 10 foot USB 2.0 cables for $1.99 each and a 10 foot Crossover RJ45 Cat5E Ethernet cable 10/100 MBps for $2.35 for $12.11 subtotal plus $6.69 UPS Ground Shipping for $18.80 total.  Since I only have 3 PCI slots in my computer, all of which are used, I can free up a slot by using the Intel CNR Network card in my CNR slot on the Syntax motherboard.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 4:30 A.M.:  I have been browsing www.accessmicro.com , www.jab-tech.com , and www.tigerdirect.com to see if there are any small items or bargains, but at the moment, I do not see anything I need.  I have thought about getting this CPU Security Lock, works like a case screw but requires a key to open, -cg , but there is a $10 minimum order and shipping.  I do not need any ink or toner cartridges at the moment, and I usually get them at http://xtremetoner.com  , but I figure with printer supplies, I can be like Dell and order them when I need them.  I will now study http://www.directron.com/ .  CIO   

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 2:00 A.M.:  I finished going through most of my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/08/04  Saturday 12:40 A.M.:  I am going through my email.  I just made a $5.00 donation online to the college I attended Lake Forest College http://www.lakeforest.edu/ in Lake Forest, Illinois.  I specified it be used for the Annual fund for Economics.  I would imagine that people in Illinois would appreciate the significance of $5, since Abraham Lincoln's portrait is on the $5 bill, also $5 in Illinois will buy about as much goods and services as $10 on the east coast of the United States.  I think some colleges still hold bake sales to raise money from their alumni, but alas I do not live near the old campus.  While attending Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu besides majoring in Economics for four years and a minor in Fine Arts, I also had time to work afternoons six days a week in a local bank there, and I also drove a taxi cab and restored old Mercedes.  Thus I was living better by the standards of that time than I am doing today, but having majored in conservative economics, I have learned to stretch a dollar, which is hard in this area.  If I were the Lake Forest College alumni office, they could buy two ten pound bags of Carolina rice for about $2.50 a ten pound bag, and locally in Illinois soy sauce is cheap, and they could probably make it through to better times.  When I attended Lake Forest College, there were a certain group of apathetic students that said that LFC stood for "Last F***ing Chance", but since my father's family were from Illinois, I took my college days seriously, although I was frequently working so hard, I did not always make it to my scheduled classes.  However, my parents did pay real hard earned money for me to attend college, so I graduated with above average grades, and I received a Bachelor or Arts degree in Economics.  One of the many definitions of Economics is the "Management of One's Home", not to be confused with the more complex economics on the world's stage.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 11:20 P.M.:  I ate four 1.75 inch by 1.35 inch by .30 inch slices of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese along with some iced tea.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/07/04:

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 10:20 P.M.:  I chatted with some neighbors.  My guest arrived at 6:20 P.M..  We chatted for a while.  My guest gave me the $20.40 that I paid for ordering him a carton of Misty Ultra Light 100 Menthol cigarettes.   My guest will probably have me order more for him in the future.  We next drove down by the waterfront.  We chatted with a former neighbor down there.  We next went over to the East Putnam Avenue shopping plaza next to the YMCA.  My guest treated me to a birthday dinner at the Hunan Gourmet Chinese restaurant.  I had a spring roll for appetizer which was a $1.50.  We each had Chilean sea bass with ginger and scallion sauce along with white rice for $15.95 per person.  We also had green tea.  The bill was around $40 plus tip.  My guest told me that Stew Leonard's sells Chilean sea bass for $23 a pound, so the large portions we had were an excellent value.  My birthday is in two days on May 9 http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm .   We sat outside at the tables nearby afterwards, and we had a cigarette.  We then drove down Greenwich Avenue again, and we returned to my apartment building.  We chatted with a neighbor.  My guest, and I chatted at my apartment for a while.  My guest left at 9:30 P.M..  I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake with some iced tea.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 5:05 P.M.:  Buffalo.com(SM) - Duty Free Cigarette Links  .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 5:00 P.M.:  According to a neighbor the art street festival was last night Greenwich Time - Town festival brings art works to the masses .  I checked the passenger side front seat belt, and it seems to be working just fine now.  One simply does not pull it out too fast.  I have a friend coming down at 5:30 P.M. to take me out to dinner.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 4:35 P.M.:  Greenwich Arts festival is suppose to be tonight www.greenwicharts.com and Greenwich Time - Takin' it to the street: Art to the Avenue returns to Greenwich .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 4:25 P.M.:  I woke up after the last message this morning, and I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake.  I was up at noon today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage.  In the mail, I had a notification from Hyundai on my 1999 Hyundai Accent that I am due a $75 debit from them due to a lawsuit on the horse power on the car.  Other models are due up to $250 debits.  They can be used at the dealership for merchandise.  I will have to fill out the form for the debit.  I also noticed in a promotion from Bank of New York www.bny.com that the life time free checking promotion does not require a minimum balance, so I will have to check with my Bank of New York branch on Mason street to see what the case is.  They had told me that I am required to keep a $100 minimum deposit in the checking account.  On my 1999 Hyundai Accent the passenger side front seat belt does not pull out too easily.  I will have to see if I still have the five year warranty on the car to get it fixed for free.  I would imagine it should not break.  I will now go outside and fiddle with it to see if I can repair it myself by pulling it all the way out and letting it retract.  It is 78 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and I am currently running the air conditioner, since the apartment heats up with the westerly afternoon sun.  However, it is suppose to go down to 45 degrees Fahrenheit tonight and be cooler on Saturday.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 1:55 A.M.:  Well, I have to be on a daytime schedule today, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will do house cleaning later on today when I wake up before my guest arrives.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 1:45 A.M.:  Of course the 2,000 marines give or take a thousand that I saw having a Sunday beach break on Huntington Island, Georgia in the first week of May in 1978 were not wearing Marine uniforms, but just swim wear, so it was hard to tell whether they were Marines or not, but they seem to have short 1/4 inch long military type hair cuts, and they seemed to be in good physical condition, and I was familiar that Paris Island was near by.  Of course my friend and I both had long hair down to our waists, so we looked more like hippies.  However, I did notice that Huntington Island, Georgia has a large Marine burial ground, and when we were in the town, nobody gave us a ride hitchhiking and we had to walk everywhere, which was quite a hike.  However, we had done so much walking down in Key West, that it was not too difficult.  If one walk in the Old Town Area of Key West from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic about 1.75 miles on the various cross streets for about six to twelve trips each way each day, one gets quite a bit of exercise not to mention walking up Roosevelt Boulevard at far north as the airport along the beach.  Of course all we usually go to eat down there was a Cuban sandwich and orange juice for breakfast which is basically a ham and cheese sandwich on Cuban bread occasionally yogurt and a orange for lunch and either a veggie sandwich for dinner or a plate of rice and beans.  Thus for poorer travelers in Florida, there is not as much southern hospitality as one might think.  I do recall once the Salvation Army in Key West gave us a can of corn, and I do recall that the Herb Garden in Key West let us charge modest amounts of food, and I paid off my bill there every season before I left Key West.  Basically down in south Florida, there are so many large numbers of elderly getting by on marginal incomes that there is not much charity down there, so since we were spending our own money, one would have to call it a cheap vacation.  My father once asked me in the winter of 1977 to come up to meet him at Miami airport when he was arriving from Brazil on Varig airlines, and when I arrived at the airport with my last funds, there were a lot of displays at the airport, and he bought me a Miller beer, and he left on a connecting flight.  I was expecting some sort of financial assistance, but apparently he was not able to offer it.  I felt sort of strange drinking a Miller beer at Miami airport at 10 A.M. in the morning, but I somehow made it back down to Key West hitch hiking after taking the bus up to the airport.  Thus frequently when so called rich relatives show up, they are not able to help out their poorer relatives, and since most of my immediate family and friends know I live on a modest income, they do not expect financial assistance from me.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 1:15 A.M.:  Of course on a more northern note, I noticed when I was looking at my electricity account www.cl-p.com that my past April 2004 electricity usage which includes electric heat was 75% higher than in April 2003, so it was a cooler April this year plus in December 2003, electricity rates were raised 10% in December 2003.  My Northeast Utilities Electricity account still has not received the NEON electricity supplement that I get from the Federal Government each year, so possibly I will have to pay an electricity bill in May when it arrives.  Thus living here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I tend to do things based on the four seasons basic here, although I have experience elsewhere.  During the winter of 1979, when we spent some time in Daytona, Florida after venturing down to Key West and living in Port Washington, Long Island at my friend father's house, the food budget was so lean in Daytona, Florida until we got our $60 a month food stamps, that I recall a major meal was a box of spaghetti noodles boiled and a four ounce can of tomato paste diluted with about two parts water.  Of course, I am eating more up north, because in colder weather one needs more body fat.  Back during that period in the 1970s, I had weighed 185 pounds when living in Greenville, South Carolina, and after the first winter in Florida in 1976-1977, I went down to 125 pounds, and until I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, I continued to weigh 135 pounds, so I did not eat as much.  I recall, I think I bought the prime rib roast with food stamps at Bonjournos in Stamford, Connecticut after the winter in Daytona in 1979.  I did use to try fishing in Daytona, Florida with my surf casting rod and my usual Hopkins lure, but I never caught anything from the break water on the south end of Daytona Beach and not in the Florida Keys and not at Jones Beach and not in California.  However, I did once catch 78 blue fish and two striped bass out on the south shore of Nantucket by the Old Navy Quonset Hut at the end of Lyon Farm road in Nantucket in October of 1978, and I filleted them on the beach, and I sold them to the Languedoc restaurant where I worked for about .50 a pound.  With the profits, I bought a blank surf casting rod that split in half and a reel and tackle, and I began the long tedious process of wrapping the ferrules and the entire rod eventually which I finally finished lacquering it in California later on that fall of 1978, and the lacquer bubbled because of the humidity along the coast of California, and in the fall of 1980 after Ronald Regan was elected, I left it with the reel at the Shell station on the highway in Santa Barbara for $10 of gasoline to get to Laguna Beach, and a week later we left California for the last time selling the 1974 two door Burgundy Volvo for $1,250 at a cash for your car place outside the entrance to Disney Land.  Thus although the fishing was good in Nantucket, it was not very good everywhere else I tried around the country.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/07/04  Friday 12:45 A.M.:  I have friends in Manhattan whom also have a home in Sea Island, Georgia, and they have repeatedly invited me down to visit.  Although, I know it is very nice down in Sea Island, Georgia having lived down south during colder winters, if I ever went down south, I would probably not want to come back for the colder winters up north.  However, one time when a friend and I thought the season was over in Key West, Florida during the spring of 1978, we went up to the Appalachian Trial starting in Ashville, North Carolina, and for about four days we hiked the trail north in the first week of May, until it started to snow.  What bothered me on the trail in the Pisgah National Forest, is there were lots of signs posted by Champion Paper company warning about Bears in the area.  Since we were only armed with a pen knife, I was somewhat nervous about our hiking expedition.  On about the fourth day it began to snow, we found a Christian hostel in the mountains of North Carolina in a small town.  I remember buying an Acrilan blanket for extra warmth, and we stayed in the hostel for a couple of days.  We then hitchhiked down to the Hilton Head shore line, and we got a ride with someone that had worked for Daniel construction in Greenville, South Carolina.  In Hilton Head, we pitched our tent on the north side of the island on the beach, and during the night, my friend woke me up, and said there was a hoot owl outside the tent.  I sort of had a feeling it was not a hoot owl, but I did not want to scare my friend.  Since for defense, I only had a pen knife, I started boiling hot water on the little butane camp stove to make tea.  We never did venture outside the tent that night, but the next morning, there were tracks from about a 14 foot long alligator around the tent.  We then spent another night on the beach at Huntington Island and woke up that Sunday morning surrounded by about 2,000 Marines on the beach having a little recreation time.  We then started hitchhiking back south again to Key West, Florida, and we got a direct ride down to Key West with someone whom seem to know us whom looked a bit like Jimmy Buffett and was going to visit Jimmy Buffett, so we picked up our May allotment of Food Stamps in Key West, and we stayed another week or so, before finally hitch hiking up as far north as Washington D.C. where we caught a train to Stamford, Connecticut and returned to my mother's apartment in Byram.  I recall being so hungry after that winter in Florida, I use my food stamps to buy a standing rib prime roast at Bonjournos over in Stamford, Connecticut.  A few days later we returned to Nantucket for the summer around mid May in 1978.  Possibly the time I used the Food Stamps at Bonjournos in Stamford, Connecticut was after the following lean winter in Daytona Beach, when we returned north in the yellow Subaru.  I can not remember now.  CIO    

Note: <888> 05/06/04  Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  Upcoming G8 information http://www.g8online.org/  and http://www.g8usa.gov/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/06/04  Thursday 9:40 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I sliced the remaining two 3/8 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese and Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I am trying to register online with www.cl-p.com , but their online registration is slow to work.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/06/04  Thursday 8:15 P.M.:  I was up at 9 A.M. this morning when a friend called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until noon.  I then got up, and I cleaned up.  I then went downtown, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then returned home.  I picked up my mail, and I chatted with a relative.  I then made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a fairly new Sylvania 4 head hi-fi stereo on screen display easy operation VHS/HQ 19 Micro head VCR with remote control for $10.  I also bought a blue and white pillow case for a dollar, a white and pastel pattern pillow case for .50, a pastel pattern pillow case for .50, and a blue and white and green pattern pillow case for a dollar for $13 total.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with a couple from Argentina in French.  This evening, they were having the arts festival downtown with horse drawn carriages and strolling musicians and other festivities.  The Colony florists next to Starbucks has lots of pretty flowers on display.  They have local art in the store windows.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I returned home, and I hooked up the Sylvania VCR to the 20 inch Proscan television in my bedroom.  It automatically setup itself.  I set it to play on the Proscan channel 3, but it might automatically recognize it.  It seems to work just fine.  I put the new batteries in the VCR remote control.  I just chatted with a friend whom is coming down around 5:30 P.M. tomorrow to take me out to dinner.  CIO  

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 11:40 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will first eat a piece of apple pie with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 11:25 P.M.:  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 10:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 9:50 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I sliced three 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips.  I also put on the salad five artichoke heart quarters.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 8:15 P.M.:  I finished the C: drive to D: drive backup after the last message.  I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive, and while it was running, 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 the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 6.5 ounce dry weight of medium California black pitted olives for .99 each can, two 28 ounce cans of Goya chick peas for $1.09 each can, a 28 ounce bar of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese for $3.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $1.99, a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn chips for $1.69, a quart of fresh plum tomatoes for $3.49, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.50 for $16.82 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I had a telephone call from a relative whom is traveling just before they took off.  The computer is running just fine.  I put as one of my first Internet Explorer favorites weather.com - Local Weather Page Greenwich, Connecticut 06830, since I do not have Weather Bug running.  Weather Bug runs just fine, but it seemed to be using a bit of startup system resources, so I will just stick with the link.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 3:15 P.M.:  I uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton System Works 2003 along with Live Update and Symantec events detect.  I safe booted the computer, and I delete the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\" folder.  I then reinstalled and configured Norton Internet Security 2004 with Norton Antivirus 2004 and Norton System Works 2003 without Norton Antivirus 2003.  I also ran the Norton Updates.  The system all seem to be working just fine.  I ran Norton Win Doctor and I did a System Restore Backup, and I did a Disk Cleanup on the C: drive.  I will now run Norton Disk Doctor, and then I will do a seven part backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  I will run Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive after that.  I will eat breakfast while doing that.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 1:35 P.M.:  Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton Antivirus 2004 would not start.  I disabled the Windows XP Firewall.  I tried uninstalling Norton Internet Security 2004, but it would not uninstall because, I did not have administrator privileges.  I ran "msconfig", and I tried unchecking Norton startup programs, but that did not make a difference, and I rechecked the Norton Programs in Startup.  I finally ran "msconfig" and under "Services", "Symantec Event Manager" was not checked.  I checked that to enable it and rebooted, and both Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton Antivirus 2004 are running just fine.  I also uninstalled Weather Bug.  I will now run Norton Update, Norton Win Doctor, do a System Restore backup, then do a Disk Cleanup of the C: drive, and then I will run Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  While doing this I will have breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 12:05 P.M.:  I was up at 11:30 A.M..  My cigarette order from http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ arrived from the Seneca Indian reservation in Irving, New York up by the Great Lakes.  I received five cartons of Seneca Ultra Light 100s at $11.25 each carton and a carton of Misty Slim Ultra Menthol  100 Box for $19.20 plus $1.20 ship each carton for $82.65.  I now have enough cigarettes to last me into June.  I also ordered a friend a carton.  It took five days from the time I placed the order for them to arrive.  I will now uninstall Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton System Works 2003, since when I boot up the computer, they do not always start up.  I will then reinstall them.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 4:50 A.M.:  I ran Ad-ware 6.0 and Spybot.  I also uninstalled a couple of startup ad aware programs with Bazooka.  The computer is running a lot better with the maintenance that I did this evening.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/05/04  Wednesday 2:55 A.M.:  I did some systems maintenance after the last message.  I put in my Microsoft Windows XP Professional CD, and I ran install, and I selected "upgrade", and I reinstalled the operating system saving my current setup by using the "upgrade" option.  I was prompted for the Syntax motherboard USB VIA drivers that are on the motherboard CD.  It was a normal install.  I then installed XP SP1 update and all of the other updates.  I next ran Norton Win Doctor and Norton Disk Doctor.  I had to reset the registry with this tweak InfoWorld: Speed cleaning: February 28, 2003: By Brian Livingston: Platforms .  I then did a System Restore backup.  I next ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive which works much faster with the previous mentioned tweak.  I still have 2.5 gigabytes of free space on the C: drive.  By refreshing the system, it seems a bit more responsive, since it was beginning to get a bit sluggish.  Of course everything in computers is relative to the observer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 11:05 P.M.: The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service  and BBC NEWS  World  Europe  Polish president welcomed to UK .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 10:15 P.M.:  I chatted with the same relative again.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 9:40 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:  ABCNEWS.com : New Medication Useful for Many Ailments including quitting smoking.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 8:05 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I sliced three 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips.  I also put on the salad five artichoke heart quarters.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 5:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop.  I then went downtown, and I mailed my $5 check donation to the Taft School Alumni Fund http://www.taftschool.org/ .  I know a Japanese resident in town whom is interested in sending his daughter to Taft.  It is very fine school started by President Taft's brother, and the Taft family of Ohio are still involved in running the school along with other activities.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought the last 4 inch by 6 inch German flag with a small flag pole for $2.95 and a small plastic flag stand for .99 plus .06 tax for $4 total.  The German flag is a black stripe over a red stripe over a yellow stripe.  I once worked out in Plandome, Long Island for a German American family whose older relative had worked for the Kaiser's general consulate in Manhattan before the Great Wars.  I also used to visit with a friend in Manhattan whom spoke fluent German and had lived with the Krup family in Germany, and near where he had his modest apartment at 420 East 49th street is supposedly where the German Consulate to the United Nations is located at First Avenue and East 49th Street, but I have not seen it myself.  Also before I moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1961, I lived around Germans whom worked for NASA.  I also use to regularly visit the Mercedes Benz dealership in Lake Forest, Illinois while I was attending Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu when I was restoring old Mercedes for a little extra pocket money.  I also have a Norwegian American friend whom races Porsches quite successfully.  I first visited Germany during December 1980 to Frankfurt, Germany, and I spent about four days touring around Frankfurt.  I found it very clean and well run.  I noticed quite a few United State service personnel were stationed there.  Also around 1988, I flew via Lufthansa to Düsseldorf, Germany, and then flew on to Munich to catch a bus to Innsbruck, Austria, and I returned the same way.  Thus I have not seen too much of Germany, but what I have seen impressed me.  I also on my first trip to Frankfurt took a local train to Stuttgart, Germany, and I toured the Mercedes Benz showroom, but I have not seen the factory.  I have some relatives whom are taking a tour this month on My Celebrity Cruises - Celebrity Constellation Cruises. , and as part of the cruise they will be taking a train to Berlin, Germany this month, since I do not think Berlin is on the ocean.  I put the German flag on the U.S. Robotics external modem on top of the Dell backup computer.  I thus have added it to my collection of flags.  After finishing my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought an Entenmann's carb counting crumb topped French butter cake for $1.89, a fresh loaf of Arnold 7 grain wheat bread for .99 and two 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold's large cut garlic and herb croutons for .99 each less 10% senior discount of .49 for $4.37 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I also put $10 on my Mac Gray laundry card, so I now have $20.55 total on it.  CIO   

Note: <888> 05/04/04  Tuesday 1:15 P.M.:  I was up at 11 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I checked my mail.  I made out a $5 check to the Taft School Alumni Fund http://www.taftschool.org/ , which I will mail when I go out.  I tried to make a $5 donation at www.gcds.net , but the web site would not accept the Bank of New York Master Card debit card.  I will wait until I receive a Greenwich Country Day School alumni solicitation, and I will then mail in a $5 check, if I have the funds.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 11:50 P.M.:  I read some internet news.  I relaxed a bit.  I ate a piece of apple pie and two bowls of white corn chips along with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 10:35 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 10:15 P.M.:  http://music.download.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 9:30 P.M.:  I am in the process of going through my email.  Make a bootable CD http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 8:10 P.M.:  I just logged onto  http://www.hourofpower.org/support/ at http://www.hourofpower.org/ and since their web site has a minimum donation of $20, I called 1-800-9-POWER-9, and I used my Master Card Debit card to make a small $5 donation.  I met Dr. Robert Schuler about 17 years ago, when he was signing books in this area at the Stamford, Connecticut mall, and he prayed for me.  From what I can tell, my life got better after that, so I enjoy supporting his church, which is part of the Reformed Church of America which has its roots in the Dutch Reform church which was in my mother's home town of Holland, Michigan, since a lot of Dutch people lived there.  I believe Dr. Schuler's wife Arvella is on the board of trustees of Hope College http://www.hope.edu/ in Holland, Michigan where a great many of my mother's family's relatives attended.  Although they are small donations, I consider them seed money at this spring time of year.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 7:30 P.M.:  I watched the NBC evening news.  I used my Master Card debit card from the Bank of New York to make a $5 campaign contribution to the Bush - Cheney 04 campaign fund http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/SupportOurPresident/ and  http://www.georgewbush.com/ select the "Donate" button and make your own donation.  Remember, it is all the small donations that add up to a big political victory this fall.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 6:00 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I sliced two 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips.  I also put on the salad five artichoke heart quarters.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  It is suppose to rain through out this evening, so I will not be going out.  However, tomorrow is suppose to be sunny.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 4:55 P.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of home made hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  For the olive portion, I used a 6.5 ounce dry weight can of California black pitted medium olives, and for the garlic portion, I used two cloves of elephant garlic.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but instead of 1/4 teaspoon of celery salt which is no longer available at CVS, I used a teaspoon of celery flakes.  I just put away the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 3:50 P.M.:  Yahoo! News - Simmering NZ Crater Lake More Scary Than Mt. Doom .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 3:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total.  That will probably be the last carton of cigarettes that I buy at Smoke for Less, since I expect my order from http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ later this week, and I will order from them in the future.  I next went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I mailed my Cablevision, Optimum Online, and Verizon bills.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, but there was no parking there, so I did not go in.  I then drove to the center of town, but there was no parking at the Board of Education parking lot where I usually park, so I did not sit out or walk downtown.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I noticed the Launch sailor at the Indian Harbor Yacht club smokes cigarettes.  A lot of people around the waterfront smoke cigarettes to keep the bugs away particularly in the tropics.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I chatted with a couple of regular library users.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2 each, a 10 package box of quart packages of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, five 16 ounce boxes of Stop and Shop vermicelli for .40 each, a 48 ounce box of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $3.99, two 10 ounce Stouffer's chicken pot pies for $1.50 each, a Stouffer's 10 ounce vegetable and a Stouffer's regular 10 ounce meat lasagna for $1.50 each, a 16 ounce jar of Classico roasted garlic and alfredo sauce for $1.99, a 26 ounce jar of Classico four cheese tomato sauce for $1.99, a 24 ounce bar of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese for $3.99, a quart jar of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $2.99, two 17 ounce bottles of Monari balsamic vinegar from Modena, Italy for $2.50 each, a 10 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce for $2.79, a 16 ounce container of Stop and Shop grated parmesan cheese for $5.99, a 12 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn chips for $1.69, a package of Quaker low fat popcorn cakes for $2.39, and two packages of five different varieties of five each for 25 total per package of Twinings tea for $3.19 each for $63.18 total.  I then returned home, and I used my metal shopping cart that I keep in my apartment to bring up my groceries.  I put away my groceries.  I started two loads of laundry.  I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I also washed in the washer machine my yellow Gortex wind breaker jacket, which I hung up in the shower tub area to dry.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/03/04  Monday 11:35 A.M.:  I ate 15 Town House crackers after going to bed last night.  I was up at 9:30 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I put clean linens on by bed in the bedroom.  I took off the heavy wool baby blue wool blanket from the bed, and I put it in the bedroom closet.  I put on the light weight dark blue summer blanket along with the orange bed spread.  I checked my mail.  I made out checks to pay my Verizon, Cablevision, and Optimum Online bills.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 10:55 P.M.:  I sent a relative an email.  I ate ten Town House crackers.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 10:10 P.M.:  I watched some television including the last half of the movie Robin Hood on the Turner Movie channel.  I just now chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 8:25 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I noticed they have Planter's peanuts buy one get one free.  One can get two 16 ounce cans of Planters cashew halves and pieces for $5.99 both.  Although, I was tempted to get them, I decided to stick with my diet, and not to get the snacks.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then took a drive through Bruce Park and north on Indian Field Road, and back west on East Putnam Avenue.  I sat out at the library for a while.  I moved the orange rubber bumper in front of the rail divider in the annex parking lot.  I have seen people in their car hit the rail before, so with the orange bumper, hopefully they will see the rail.  The kids are not suppose to skate board in the library parking lot, but they do occasionally.  I suppose when they ride the rail, they move the bumper.  I also noticed on the light pole on the east side of the street at the top of Greenwich Avenue, the Christmas tree lights timer is left open to the weather, and it still has an extension cord coming out of it.  I next went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I found out that my BNY ATM card no longer works, since I activated my BNY debit card.  I next drove back down by the waterfront, and I watched the approaching storm front and fog coming in.  I then returned home.  I had a message from a friend on my answering machine.  I put away the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I took the BNY ATM card out of my wallet, and I put it in a safe place, and I put the BNY debit card in my wallet.  I ate a piece of apple pie with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 5:05 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I will let the tea steep while I am out.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 5:00 P.M.:  I cut four slices of 1/4 inch thick cold eye round, and I put Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them, and I reheated the remaining half of the rice from yesterday, and I put a few teaspoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I am now making a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 4:25 P.M.:  I printed out the list of the different files that I back up in my seven part back up procedure in backing up the C: drive to the D: drive.  I backed up the C: drive to the D: drive in seven parts.  While doing this I corrected in black ink the page numbering of my print out of my last four months of notes.  The total print out is now 3,166 pages long in Post Script Times Roman 12 bold font.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 2:30 P.M.:  I will now run Norton Disk Doctor, and then I will do a seven part backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 2:20 P.M.:  I printed out my last four months of notes.  I got the page numbering mixed up, and I printed out 310 pages numbered at page 2751-3061, when it should have been 2856 -3166, but later on I will ink in the correct page numbers.  I have the print out in two clip binder folders.  It is also available for download at Scott's Notes from June 1997 through April 2004, 3.41 Mbytes http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsnote1.zip contains "mlsnote1.doc" pages 1 - 1582 January 1997 to December 2001 and "mlsnote2.doc" January 2002 through December 2003 pages 1583 - 2855" and "mlsnote3.doc" January 2004 through April 2004 pages 2856 - 3126" .  The page number is different on the download from the printout, since it is in True Type Times New Roman as opposed the printout in Times Postscript.  I chatted with a friend and a relative while doing the print out.  I have the print out on the near side of the blue sofa.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/02/04  Sunday 11:35 A.M.:  Before going to bed after the last message, I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  I woke up after a couple of hours after it finished running, and I turned off the computer.  I was up at 10 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will now print out my last four months of notes on the HP LaserJet IID printer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 11:30 P.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 10:30 P.M.:  For Windows XP SP2 RC1 in the Add Remove programs, one has to check "Show Updates" to see the Windows update programs to uninstall.  I uninstalled Windows XP SP2 RC1 and its updates, since my system seemed a bit unstable and slower with them.  It was taking a long time to boot, and the Norton Internet Security Firewall 2004 and the Norton Antivirus 2004 programs were disappearing from the lower right tray like they were not working.  After uninstalling Windows XP SP2 RC1, I ran Windows update.  I then ran Norton Win Doctor and Ad-aware 6.0.  I then did a System Restore backup, and I then ran disk clean up, and I have 2.52 GB of space left on the C: drive.  The system is running much better, and there does not seem to by any problems.  All of the startup programs are working.  While doing this, I watched a NBC television movie about Tornado Hunting, and then I watched on FOX 67, President Bush's speech at the White House correspondents dinner.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 9:00 P.M.:  I changed my three calendars to the month of May.  I ate a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea.  I checked www.usps.gov tracking, the legal document that I sent by Priority Mail from the central Greenwich, Ct. post office on 4:11 P.M. on this past Thursday afternoon was delivered at its destination in Kennesaw, Georgia today 9:09 A.M..  It had nothing to do with my work on the internet, but my web site contained copies of another web site pages from years ago, and the litigant needed verification that it was downloaded from the web site that it came from, which was still contained in the web site pages.  I might be reimbursed for my expenses which were $8.65.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 8:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with another walker.  I went by CVS, and I bought two packages of two Marks-A-Lot retractable permanent markers for 75% off for .75 each two pack plus .09 tax for $1.59 total.  I completed my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at the senior center.  I gave a dollar to the Greenwich High School Habitat for Humanity fund raising group in front of the Board of Education building.  They want to raise $5,000 for to build a solar house in Mexico.  I noticed that tomorrow despite the impending rain, they are having the Knights of Columbus flea market sale at the Island Beach parking lot.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then sat out at the Greenwich Library for a while.  I ran into the same walker, and since he had bronchitis, I gave him a ride home in my direction.  I drank some iced tea.  I opened up one of the two packs of markers, and I put one in the blue and white bowl to the left of the left computer monitor, and the other on my bedroom desk.  I will leave the other package in the bedroom top right desk drawer.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 4:05 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  Dinner should be ready in five minutes.  I should be out of here around 4:30 P.M. to 4:45 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 3:50 P.M.:  The Kentucky Derby www.kentuckyderby.com comes on channel 4 WNBC television at 5 P.M. here http://entertainment.msn.com/TV/guide/Default.aspx .  However, since it is nice this afternoon, and since it is suppose to rain the next couple of days, I will probably not watch it, but I will go out for a walk after I eat dinner.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 3:45 P.M.:  I started the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control when I went out this morning setting it at 70 degrees Fahrenheit low fan with ventilation louver closed.  It is currently about 72 degrees in the apartment with the westerly sun shining on my west facing windows.  I closed the ventilation vent, since in the allergy season, it will not bring in fresh air.  I took the 2.65 pound eye round roast, and I put in on a baking rack in a baking pan, and I seasoned it on all sides with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, basil, oregano, and Texas Best Mesquite barbeque sauce.  I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.  It has about 20 minutes to go.  I will eat two 3/8 inch slices with the juices.  I will steamed some quartered broccoli stalks, which I will eat with a bit of olive oil.  I rinsed in a metal bowl a cup of Carolina white rice, and I rinsed it underneath warm water with a metal wire strainer.  I then put the cup of rice in the China Village rice steamer with 14 ounces of water, two tablespoons of olive oil, and a teaspoon of sesame oil.  I put the inner and outer lids on it, and I will microwave it on high in the General Electric microwave oven for 11 minutes, and I will let it stand for five minutes.  I will eat half of the rice, and I will refrigerate the other half in a Rubbermaid container, and I will also refrigerate the remaining portion of the cooked eye round roast in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I will have the meal with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 3:00 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed my GEICO insurance premium and a letter to a relative.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went downtown, and I went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription at $1.50 cost to me, and I bought another Master Lock padlock at 75% off #803D for $1.75 plus .11 tax for $3.36 total.  I then went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $4.80 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.079 a gallon for about 27 miles per gallon this week.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2.50, two 13 ounce boxes of Keebler 50% reduced fat Town House crackers buy one get one free for $3.59 both, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.50, two 10 ounce bars of Cracker Barrel Vermont sharp white cheddar cheese for $2.50 each, and a eye round roast at $2.99 a pound for $8.16 for $20.75 total.    I then went by the Vitamin Shoppe www.vitaminshoppe.com at the Port Chester A&P shopping center.  They have coupons on the internet at http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/centers/moneysavingcoupons.jhtml .  I had printed some out.  I bought with my Vitamin Shoppe discount card B-complex 100, 100 capsules for $5.95, E-400 IU with Wheat Germ oil and Lecithin 100 capsules $7.18, Niacinamide 500 mg. 100 capsules $4.76, deodorized garlic 500, 100 capsules $4.48, E-400 IU, 100 soft gels $4.95, two C-500 complex 100 tablets each bottle $3.18 each, Multivitamins one daily with lutein and lycopene with no iron 100 tablets $12.57, B-12 500 mcg 100 capsules $4.76, and I used a $10 off coupon that I had received in the mail for a purchase over $50, so the total was $41.01.    I then returned home.  It took a while for me to figure out a minor error in my Microsoft Money program, but I finally found it.  I decided to take my Internet directory files off my 32 meg. USB drive, and instead I put on my Microsoft Money file which is about 29 megs.  I drank some iced tea.  I will put the extra Master Lock pad lock in my left top living room desk drawer.  The www.usps.gov tracking says that the Priority Mail package that I mailed on Thursday afternoon has reached the town of its destination, but I am not sure if it has been delivered or not.  CIO

Note: <888> 05/01/04  Saturday 9:40 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 will now clean up, and I will go out.  I will start doing a full system scan with Norton Anti Virus 2004.  CIO