Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:   I went through my email.   Yes, once one has worked for www.cbcnews.com , lots of people tell one lots of things, so one always learns to take them with a grain of salt.   I bid on eBay: Royce Union Bicycle Generator Lighting Set/nib (item 7245613726 end time Jun-05-06 11:35:31 PDT) , and I also bid on eBay: Vintage THIRST KNOWS NO SEASON CocaCola Tray (item 7244748402 end time Jun-01-06 12:38:08 PDT) .  There are quite a few other vintage items at eBay Seller: pepperjanetmike: Action Figures, Clocks items on eBay.com , but the postage is high.   I figure the Royce light would not be as bright, as the news ones, but it would have a bulb that is easily replaced, and it is cheaper.   I already have one Coca Cola www.coke.com tray, so I could use a backup one.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO    

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 11:10 P.M.:   In the Christian Church, they pray, but in the military they follow orders.   To prove that I actually knew Wiley Middleton of the Middleton Place Plantation Middleton Place Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, Wiley told me many things, and he once told me that the real story on Jimmy Hoffa was that he had been killed by the Florida mafia figure Sam Trafficante AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 7 and put in a oil barrel of cement and dumped in Biscayne Bay.   When I investigated the Kennedy assassination, I read lots of material on it, and from what I read it looked like Sam Giancana Sam Giancana was behind it.  What ever the real case on all of these figures, there are frequently more shadowy figures in the wings, so we never know the real story.   Maybe it was the Maytag repairman.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:   Beta Experience – The pleasure of testing .  Earth-prints: Home .  Voui volcanic lake .  British Geological Survey online shopping home page .  » D4 | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com .   I went through my email.   CIO    

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 10:00 P.M.:   I did some research on bicycle night lighting systems.  My favorite is bikepartsusa.com - Product 01-170747: Union, Marwi , Halogen, Light Generator Set (Union) , then Reelight | International available from Amazon.com: Reelight SL100 Bicycle Safety Lights: Sports & Outdoors . Pedalite | The non battery-dependent bicycle pedal light - operates automatically when ridden to increase visibility. .  There is also from the Microsoft neck of the woods in Redmond, Washington Bicycle Lights - International Bike Lights Home Page , but there is no rear light, or with batteries only Amazon.com: Bell Dark Flyer Light Set: Sports & Outdoors , or if you want to bid on this vintage bike light set from Harry Truman eBay: Royce Union Bicycle Generator Lighting Set/nib (item 7245613726 end time Jun-05-06 11:35:31 PDT) who also visited Key West, Florida, and they named the main U.S. 1 street after him known as Truman Boulevard.   When I worked for Daniels Construction, Harry's daughter was known as Margaret Truman Daniel, so maybe her husband had money.  This Amazon.com: Cycle Force 6-Volt Generator Bicycle Light Set: Sports & Outdoors is a low price unit, but I am not sure that it is durable enough for regular use.   These too are available Shop for Bicycle Lights in Bicycle Safety and Security at DoItYourself.com The Internets Largest Hardware Store. .  Brands Cycle and Fitness - Lights and Light Systems . shop.sunrisecyclery.com: Shop By Category » Accessories » Lighting .  Thus as one group of people once said, "It is better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness."   CIO   

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 8:40 P.M.:   On my order for Amazon.com: Kryptonite 108312 5 Foot x 12mm Key Cable: Sports & Outdoors for $11.99 with free super saving shipping, tracking is DHL: Track (By number) Detail with tracking number "50216017821".   That is probably the prisoner number in China that made it.   Of course, if I were Superman, Kryptonite would slow me down.   CIO   

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 8:25 P.M.:   Well, this is what has me worried CNN.com - Storm pundit predicts 9 Atlantic hurricanes this year - May 31, 2006 .  Figure it out for yourself The Tropical Meteorology Project: [FORECASTS] .  CIO   

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 8:20 P.M.:   I chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and they told me, they are remodeling, and I suggested that they not waste too much money in terms of the hurricane seasons that will continue on for the next 15 years as more severe.   I suggested though, it would be nice if they painted the hotel in the traditional tropical Florida colors of pink and green.   However, from the pictures it seems to look fine to me as is.   Obviously I do not need a tan or need to go down there, since we have so many other resorts around the world that somebody needs to inspect occasionally.   I just focus on that facility since I have first had experience with it, but from a professional point of view, I am a more private person anymore, so I do not need to be in the public eye anymore, and quite frankly since there are not too many people in Key West compared to the 40 million people in the New York metropolitan area, I have all the privacy that I need in this area.   In other words, it is more important to keep business going in New York that to get a sun tan.   One can always buy tanning butter to look tanned.   However, from my viewpoint some people need to get away from it all, so there will always be people visiting down there.   Since I do not drink alcohol, I actually did not like living in a resort where so many people seem to drink alcohol.   From what I can tell, the British are trying to recreate some sort of long forgotten image of the island, and perhaps they have succeeded, but most people whom seem to enjoy Key West actually go there for the fishing and not the tourist facilities.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 7:25 P.M.:   I left telephone messages with a few friends, and I chatted with a relative.   I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  If anyone happens to run into one of my old Spanish interpreters from Florida named James Edward Eldert, he is so busy with family affairs, he prefers to remain private.   For all I know he learned Spanish in Argentina, which is why he was a cold weather person that spoke Spanish and broken English.   He is suppose to be Dutch and Irish from Syracuse, New York, but that just might be a summer home from when he comes up from down south.   Since we were never able to get accurate intelligence on him, but just what he told other people, we can assume that if he is in California for so much of the time, and since everyone around him seems to have something to do with Howard Hughes that more than likely Jim has some sort of Hughes connection.   Possibly the reason he is seen around the planet so much of the time is that he has some sort of aviation back ground.    A lot of people in Key West, Florida were pilots, but coming from this neck of the woods with a Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh picture in my apartment, more than likely there are other experience pilots out there in the wood work.  Jimmy was just experienced in communications.   From what I can tell, since Lindbergh was a four star United States Air Force general, more than likely there might be other pilots out there in the wood work.   My best guest, if terrorism were to happen on June 6, 2006, it would probably be at 06:06:06 in the morning and not 18:06:06 which is 06:06:06 P.M. in the evening.   However, June 6, 2006 is also the 61st anniversary of the D-Day invasion, so possibly we are going to be invaded that day in return for our visit 61 years ago.   Obviously we can not afford to invade over there, so maybe they are coming back to visit us on the return.   I have not heard from my Coastal Observer in Denmark, and he is suppose to email me if he sees a lot of hostile naval forces coming our way, but possibly since he once sent me a $5 bill from Moscow, Russia, he is on their side.   Since Germany does not have much of a navy, and since England is an ally, the only hostile group that might invade us is Russia, and they still have a formidable Navy, and one would spot them moving between Denmark and Sweden.   I dare say if somebody saw over 10,000 Navy vessels moving our way, somebody would take note, not to mention lots of people have satellite observation systems, but those can be compromised, so I tend to rely on old fashioned observations and communications.   Maybe the coastal observer will send a carrier pigeon our way.   Since so many of our forces are involved in the Middle Eastern situation, I am not sure what the status of our domestic fleet is beside the Island Beach ferry.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 5:35 P.M.:   I went outside a couple of times, and I chatted with neighbors.   It seems to be pretty much a normal late spring day around here.   I do not hear much traffic on the nearby highway at rush hour, so I guess a lot of the office types have taken off on vacation which is normal for this time of year.   It is rumored that some people actually travel to Greenwich, Connecticut to vacation here in the summer, but that is just a rumor, I have not been told any such facts, but I do see a lot of out of state license plates off the nearby highway all of the time.   For one winter, I even saw a grey Rolls Royce from Alaska.   However, the most amusing license plate was the one from Hawaii, and I always wandered how somebody got a car off of Hawaii.   Of course back in the winter in Key  West, Florida in 1978, I saw an old blue pick up truck with a blue horse trailer behind it with license plates from Maui.   Maybe the Flying Dutchman was around.   Of course this time of year, one can rent a cottage up at Balmoral Castle and Estate, online shop, gift shop, holiday cottages, fishing, scotland for about 800 pounds a week, but from I have read there is not much to do up there but fish for trout and salmon, if you are into fishing.   Of course, if I went back up there again, they probably would put me back to work in the garden again, since I was always a better gardener than a communications engineer.   They would not want me playing "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" like I played the "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" down in Key West, Florida.   Maybe I could try to play Sherlock Holmes, but I have only seen the moving pictures about him, I have never actually read any of the books.  Of course as last I heard, you can not have them ship their whiskey Balmoral Estates Whisky Range over to the United States of America, because of some argain law against it here in the States.   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 3:50 P.M.:   I registered for both morning and afternoon tech events in case I can make it.   If I went there from here on the New York border in Byram, Connecticut, I would probably go over to Port Chester, New York and up King Street to Westchester Airport and from there take I-684 East to I-84 East to Danbury, Connecticut.   It is an easier drive without the two way traffic of Route 7 and although longer, it is probably faster.   The last time I was in Danbury, Connecticut was when I registered my Volvo around October 1, 2005.  I had to go to the Danbury DMV, because I was registering an out of state car.   If one were coming from New York City or points west of me, one could go on Interstate I-95 East to I-287 North in Port Chester, New York, to I-684 East, and then I-84 East to Danbury, Connecticut.   However, I am not sure how to find the Lowe's theatre, but you could find it on Yahoo Maps Yahoo! Maps - Danbury, CT 06810-4025 4 International Drive, Danbury, Connecticut   and Yahoo! Driving Directions - Greenwich, CT to Danbury, CT.  Of course at 16 miles per gallon for 88 miles round trip, it would cost me about $20 round trip, and for that I could buy something more useful locally.   However, they do sometimes give you interesting promotional packages at the TechNet events.   I printed out the event tickets, the map, and the driving instructions in case I can make it.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 3:00 P.M.:  Escape Dooms Day in Manhattan on June 6, 2006, computer date "060606", and go to Microsoft Technet ITPros Events Danbury, Connecticut June 6, 2006 and Microsoft Technet Events Developers Danbury, Connecticut June 6, 2006 .   Of course if you are wanted by the Feds, you probably should not show up, since Danbury, Connecticut is home to the Danbury Correctional Facility a local Federal Prison.   However, if you come out of New York City on Interstate 95 East, you take Route 7 North at Norwalk, Connecticut, and it changes in a few miles to a busy two lane road for about 30 miles north into Danbury.   There are lots of Connecticut types of shops along the way, and there are a lot high fuel consumption cars for sale along the way too.   Of course Hughes Satellite HUGHES use to make the Hubble Telescope Satellite HubbleSite Mirror in Danbury, Connecticut, so their might be an interesting group of people there.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 2:45 P.M.:    I chatted with a relative.   I have the air conditioner set at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, which leaves the apartment at 72 degrees Fahrenheit, so I am a bit more efficient in the cooler apartment.   I chatted with a relative.   I listened to the Microsoft LiveMeeting conference on Vista Beta 2.   However, on my primary computer, LiveMeeting does not work with Vista Beta 2, and it crashes the computer, but it works with XP.   I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.   I picked up my mail.  I took a metal mixing bowl, and I broke three large eggs in it, and I added a couple of tablespoons of milk, 1/4 teaspoon of Italian spices, a teaspoon of olive oil, and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese.   I whisked it all together with a whisk.    I then put three tablespoons of water oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I heated a 7 ouncepack of Armour Maple flavor sausages ConAgra Foods, Inc. : Armour over medium electric heat burner on the stove with lid for 6 minutes.  I thin drained the water off the sausage by putting in a wire strainer.   I then dried the frying pan, and I heated it over medium high electric heat with a few tablespoons of olive oil, and once the oil was heated,  I then added the egg mixture, which I let cook for about four minutes, mixing scrambled eggs and sausages together as they cooked.   When I put the egg mixture in, I started toasting two pieces of bread.  Once the scrambled eggs and sausages were cooked, I put the frying pan on the dinner plate to warm it a bit, and I then slid the eggs and sausages on the dinner plate, and I put some olive oil on the two pieces of toast, and I cut them in half on the diagonal, and I put them on the dinner plate, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I then washed the second breakfast dishes.   Breakfast tends to be cheaper to cook than other regular meals.   Thus I have a full belly.   I am making up a batch of Formula One ice tea http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 10:00 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors and the building custodian.   Windows Vista Velocity Midmarket Offers .  TechWeb | Windows Vista Beta 2: Great Search, Improved Security, Hardware Snags .  Just $9.95 - Embroidered Company Logo Shirts! .  This shirt company is owned by Fred Meyers, so maybe he is the same person as http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm .  Microsoft bug-checking tools promise fewer crashes | Tech News on ZDNet .  » Vista Beta 2, up close and personal | Ed Bott's Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com .  » Windows Vista takes on Norton Ghost | Ed Bott's Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com .  TechWeb | Review: 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2 Is Up And Running .  Bush Nominates Wall Street Chief for Treasury Job - New York Times .  I finished going through my email.   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 8:55 A.M.:   If you do not mind living across the street from poor people like me at my Greenwich Public Housing on Western Junior Highway in Greenwich, Connecticut near the Port Chester, New York border in Byram, a working class neighborhood in Greenwich, Welcome to Antares has bought the Putnam Green Apartment complex across the street from me, and they have their real estate office opened across the street from me with model apartments already refurbished, and they supposed cost $600,000 to $1,600,000.   They have four bedroom apartment complexes in Putnam Green.     It is about a two mile walk to both the Greenwich and Port Chester train stations if one wants to walk to the train station.   It is the nature of my retired neighbors, we tend to get poorer with inflation, while the younger yuppies in our area, tend to be earning "Big Bucks".   However, on the local real estate front Greenwich, Connecticut USA, Real Estate , supposedly the real estate rentals in Fairfield County, Connecticut are the size of a large telephone book, since the mortgage rates are currently so low, most people are buying real estate instead of renting.    Thus people seem to be buying the units across the street instead of renting elsewhere.   For the people like me, its makes the area more upscale.   Also the town of Greenwich has built public housing across the street from on West Putnam Avenue for young policemen and firemen, so the area would be considered a safe neighborhood with them living across the street, but I am not sure how your daughters would feel.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 8:35 A.M.:  On the order for eBay: AMD ATHLON XP 2800 CPU SOCKET 462 (item 6883860391 end time May-27-06 14:45:30 PDT) for $51 and $8 shipping, tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm .   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/31/06  Wednesday 8:15 A.M.:   I was awake at 5 A.M. this morning.   I did two loads of laundry, and I put clean linens on my bed.   I chatted with an internet security agency.   I chatted with a friend.  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I threw out some garbage.   I moved the 32 meg pin drive from the primary computer to server computer.   I still have the 512 meg pin drive on the primary computer.   On my order for $99.99 with free Super Saving Shipping Amazon.com: Mongoose Inland 26-Inch Dual Suspension Mountain Bike: Sports & Outdoors , it is suppose to arrive tomorrow according to FedEx | Track .    I will give my old vintage Schwinn bicycle to a friend.   I hope he picks it up soon, so I have a bit of room in my apartment after the Mongoose bike arrives tomorrow.    I hope the Mongoose bike is not to hard to assemble.   The Amazon.com: Kryptonite 108312 5 Foot x 12mm Key Cable: Sports & Outdoors for $11.99 with free super saving shipping still has not shipped yet.   However, I have a steel chain with Master Lock pad lock if I want to secure the Mongoose until the other arrives.   The Kryptonite cable lock is suppose to arrive around June 8, 2006.    I will not go through my email, and I will do a little bit of internet work.   If I have to wait for FedEx tomorrow, I might miss my 3 P.M. appointment.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/30/06  Tuesday 12:15 P.M.:   I went out after the last message, and I checked outside the building.   I said good morning to some neighbors.   I then called up Logitech Tech support which opens at 6 A.M. in Las Vegas, Nevada.   They are available at 1-702-269-3457.   I chatted with their tech support representative about the problem I had with the Logitech LX500 cordless keyboard and cordless optical mouse.   I was told to try to plug it into a USB port instead of using the PS/2 port to USB plug adapter.   I did this while still online and the telephone, and the Logitech wireless keyboard worked just fine.   I chatted with the tech rep about other tech.    I then setup my systems the way they were before the Logitech wireless keyboard problem.   The Logitech programs and drivers were still on my system from the system restore earlier this morning.   Before connecting the Logitech devices, I uninstalled the Kensington programs and drivers.    I also installed the Kensington programs and drivers on the server with the Kensington wireless keyboard and wireless mouse.   Both Logitech devices have new CVS AA Alkaline batteries in them.    I had a problem starting up the systems, since it looked from the Netgear Switch box, I was being hit by a denial of service attack, which my firewall finally blocked or it went away.    I have the Microsoft Internet Pro keyboard and Microsoft Wireless mouse back on the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom.   I have the four port USB 1.0 device connected to the server again.    Possibly some of my problems could be that when they start to happen this time of year, which has happened before, it is when the children get out of their various schools, and they start up their hacking activities locally again.   It has happened many times before whenever the schools let out.   They tend not to like various symbols on my web site like the U.S.A. flag and other establishment symbols, so when they learn to use the new wooden abacuses they learn to make in Chinese prisons, they will begin to learn what freedom and democracy is about, and it also has its responsibilities.   I am very tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I have turned the air conditioner down to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, since I can stand a 82 degree apartment, and for now I will continue with the 72 degrees environment, until I figure that I can not afford it.   I will eat a bowl of the reheated rice and with some La Choy low sodium soy sauce with some iced tea.   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/30/06  Tuesday 7:50 A.M.:   I had a time consuming technical problem after the last message.   I shut down both the primary and the server computers.   I then put the server Kensington Comfort wireless keyboard and wireless mouse on the primary computer, and I put the Microsoft Internet Pro keyboard on the server along with the Microsoft wheel mouse.   I then install the Microsoft keyboard and mouse driver, and I configured them on the server.  I then booted up the primary computer, and it would not boot up.   In my work routine, I had faxed a copy of my most current job history http://mikelouisscott.com/resumee.htm to www.cbsnews.com in Washington D.C. at their fax number 1-202-659-2586  .  The www.whitehouse.gov fax number was busy 1-202-456-2461 as was the www.cnn.com fax number 1-213-250-3919 .   I also called up the www.boomboomroom.com , but nobody was answering their telephone, but it is a good place to get use to the California ambience and check out the Howard Hughes rejects before going to the north slope of Maui if one needs a break.   I had also looked at the Jordanian web sites.   I suspected the primary computer malfunction might be a micro virus from the Jordanian or Hughes web sites.    Safe Mode worked, so I tried a System Restore, but the computer still would not boot regularly.    I checked with a local security tech person a number of times about the possibility of some sinister virus.   I then tried using the Vista beta 2 boot DVD restore option of the backup that I made on this past Sunday, but although the Vista beta 2 boot DVD restore option restored both my XP and Vista partitions, the system would not work.   I suspected some sort of hardware problem, but since Safe Mode and Vista restore worked, I had my doubts.   I then used the Max Blast CD, and I repartitioned my first hard drive into the same 137 gig and 26.5 gig partitions after deleting the old partitions and then formatting, and then I did a Vista beta 2 restore again.    The primary computer XP and Vista Beta 2 partitions still would not work.   I then tried a Max Blast quick low zero write of the first hard drive suspecting a micro virus, and I then repartitioned and formatted it the same way again.   I then did the Vista beta 2 system restore of the first hard drive from the second hard drive backup of XP and Vista beta 2.   I suddenly noticed that my left monitor was not working.   I must have hit the power switch when I change the mice and keyboards.   When I turned on the left monitor, I got the normal XP boot up screen prompting my for password while the right center monitor was black making the computer look like it was not working because the left monitor had been turned off.   I booted XP restored backup normally.   To be on the safe I did a DOS boot, and I reflashed my BIOS.   I then booted XP, and I installed the Kensington Comfort Wireless keyboard and mouse drivers model 64353 Kensington Keyboard Software Download .   I then rebooted and configured the drivers.   For some reason the Logitech keyboard driver loads, but the Kensington wireless keyboard and wireless mouse programs work just fine.   I restored the files that were lost from my server to the primary computer through the network.   For some odd reason, my Microsoft Money 2006 information had not been lost, and all I can think of is that the second hard drive contains it backup or it is posted online.   Thus as they say in Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing".   However, the primary computer system is currently running just fine, and possibly with the system troubleshooting I have improved it.   The Vista beta 2 backup and restore programs works quite fast and without any problems, but one should have the option about which drive partitions to backup and restore.   I hope the local tech computer person was not too bothered by my phone calls, but I really thought it might have been some sort of new sinister virus.    Thus I did not get much regular work done this morning.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/30/06  Tuesday 1:00 A.M.:  CNN.com - Jordan king visits Bush, Cheney in U.S. - May 29, 2006 .   King Abdullah II Official Website - King Of The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan - Home Page  and Rania Al-Abdullah Queen of Jordan Official Web Site .   Maybe the Jordanian Royal family have their own karma and bring warmer weather.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/29/06  Monday 11:30 P.M.:   Although the downtown area of Greenwich, Connecticut recently with the higher prices of fuel does not look very busy, it is the nature of this area with an expensive library Welcome to Greenwich Library! that costs $5 million a year to run and a lot of families in the publishing business that it is a very bookish community like New Canaan, Connecticut, so more than likely a lot of established people are staying home and reading more.  Of course next weekend for a bit of flash on the waterfront 2006 GREENWICH CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE-VINTAGE CARS, BOATS AND PLANES  .   Who knows you might see a Tucker mingling with a Ford or a vintage bomber looking for boot leggers in one of Henry Ford's old launches.   It is in the Roger Sherman Baldwin Park adjacent to the Five Star The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor , so even if you do not want to sink big bucks into real estate in Greenwich, Connecticut Greenwich, Connecticut USA, Real Estate , it is a chance to see what is left over from the Gatsby days of Greenwich, Connecticut when the rich people of the north shore of Long Island needed a sailing destination on their weekend jaunts across Long Island Sound.   Of course few of the poor people on the south shore of Connecticut can afford sail across the other way to the North Shore of Long Island, if you get my drift.  I think one of the richest more exclusive areas out on Long Island is suppose to be Lattingtown, Long Island Long Island History: Lattingtown  which is hard to find, if you do not know your way, but it is somewhere near Oyster Bay, Long Island, I think.   I chatted with a relative.  CIO   

Note:<888> 05/29/06  Monday 10:40 P.M.:   I put three tablespoons of olive oil in a 7 inch diameter stick proof frying pan on the electric stove burner on medium high heat, and once the olive oil was heated, I fried the salmon pattie that I made last night for three minutes a side.   I also put the remaining half of a 14 ounce bag of frozen green squash in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid with an inch of water, and I heated it twice on the vegetable microwave cycle.   I also reheated on the second cycle a Rubbermaid container with lid with one fourth of the rice that I made last night, and I took the green squash out after the second cycle, and I ran the rice on one reheat cycle.   I drained the water from the squash, and I put it in a bowl with a little bit of olive oil and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese.   I seasoned the rice with a few tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and I told them it is now time for some of their northern residents to come back north, now that it is once again warm back up north Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .   I would assume if they can afford to stay at the Casa Marina, they can afford accommodations in our area.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/29/06  Monday 9:25 P.M.:   I was awake about 2:30 P.M. this afternoon.  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I chatted with a relative.   I went downtown, and I picked up two prescriptions at CVS.   I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I used the ATM machine at the Greenwich Avenue branch of Putnam Trust Bank of New York.   I bought a Aces High scratch card at Zyn stationary for a dollar, but I did not win anything.   I stopped by CVS again.   I chatted with a movie theatre employee at the Greenwich Avenue movie theatre showing the Da Vinci code.   I chatted with the employees of Borders bookstore.  I mentioned that Simon Winchester || Harper Collins Publishers  has a new book "The River at the Center of the World" that was mentioned on www.booktv.com when they covered the Miami book fair this past February.   It does not seem to be popular.   I chatted with an employee of the Pickwick Plaza.   I used the bathroom at Starbucks after my walk.  I was thinking a good name for a new chain of coffee shops would be "Java Joes".   I drove down by the waterfront.   I sat out for a while at the Greenwich Library parking lot.   I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $22.22 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.559 a gallon for 108 miles driving during the last two weeks at 16.4 miles per gallon at an average of 13 miles per hour around town.   In the warmer weather my Volvo air conditioner does not work, I have been driving around with all four windows down and the sun roof opened.   The Volvo air conditioner quit working last September 2005.   Perhaps it just needs more Freon, I will probably get it checked out when I am up in Maine during the third week of June 2006.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought buy one get one free of two 16 ounce jars of Planter's dry roasted peanuts for $3.39 both and fresh Chiquita bananas at .79 a pound for $2.38 for $5.77 total.   I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases.   I then got a large crescent wrench out of my took box in the living room, and I tightened the nut on the driver's side windshield wiper assembly where it some times come lose, so the wiper does not work.   I left the wrench in the back on the shelf of the Volvo to have available for any similar repairs.   I chatted with a relative.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/29/06  Monday 5:45 A.M.:   I still have not gone to bed yet, but I will shortly.   Since the price of fuel has gone up in this part of the world, and since I enjoy moving around in the warmer weather, I did some research on men's bikes on the internet, and I bought this bike that I bought for $99.99 with free Super Saving Shipping Amazon.com: Mongoose Inland 26-Inch Dual Suspension Mountain Bike: Sports & Outdoors and Amazon.com: Kryptonite 108312 5 Foot x 12mm Key Cable: Sports & Outdoors for $11.99 with free super saving shipping for a grand total of $111.98 with the $100 savings on the bike and $31.59 savings on the shipping.   I am not sure if I will keep my old Schwinn bike or not, since the apartment would be a bit crowded with both, but the new bike will be more reliable.  I already have a good bike helmet.   I will deal with bike lighting at a later date.    The bike is scheduled for delivery between June 8 and June 13, 2006.   Time to shut down the primary computer and go to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/29/06  Monday 4:05 A.M.:   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I reset the air conditioner to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.   However, since it is cooler outside, it does not start up despite the warmer temperatures inside.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/29/06  Monday 2:50 A.M.:   I made a few telephone calls to do with my internet activity.   I paid for the eBay: AMD ATHLON XP 2800 CPU SOCKET 462 (item 6883860391 end time May-27-06 14:45:30 PDT) for $51 and $8 shipping for $59 total.   I have a new Spire HawkStream II Socket A/370 CPU Fan - $4.89 , so until I am sure the new processor works all right, I will not by the better CPU cooler ClubIT Product - Thermaltake TR2 Silent Boost TR2 RX CPU Cooler K7 Socket A (CL-P0295) .   CIO        

Note:<888> 05/28/06  Sunday 11:30 P.M.:   The computer had a malfunction in that the Microsoft PS/2 Intellimouse 1.1 was not working properly.   It was one I think I bought in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for a couple of dollars.   Basically the web pages would not go back and forth and one could not copy or paste with it.   I chatted with a relative suspecting sabotage, and I then put a Microsoft PS/2 Wheel Mouse on the system that I took off the Dell L1000R computer.   It now seems to be working properly.  With the defective mouse, System Restore would not work to restore to an earlier date.   Now that the computer seems to be working properly, I will not try system restore, since I think I have solved the problem.   That is way I keep spare parts around the apartment.   Today while I was sitting out at Tod's Point by the Mortimer Memorial tree at the southwest picnic area, I noticed somebody that looked like a well know computer figure with some youth at a picnic.  What was sort of scary, is that one of the youth hit a wiffle ball with a plastic bat, and the well known computer person took a direct hit in the head.   The well known computer person would prefer that I not mention his name.   However, on the nautical front here in Greenwich, Connecticut somebody can still afford to move a 100 foot Yacht with a Commonwealth of Nations type flag on it.  The town motto of Greenwich, Connecticut is "Frugality and Fortune", which in England means "Penny Thrifty and Pound Foolish".  I chatted with another relative who is a computer person, and that relative spends too much time talking about basketball instead of working on the computer.   Basically if one were a high paid lawyer, one would not want one's legal secretary going through all of the hassles of thrift that my five million word web site explains.   It is my viewpoint that since I have unexplained computer system changes, that somebody is accessing my apartment.  For example the motion detector on the server web cam was turned off when I returned to the apartment today.   Also one of the most frequent changes on my computer system, is that the microphones would be muted, and the sound system would be crippled, as if somebody were afraid of somebody eves dropping off their conversations in my apartment.    Since most of my telephones came from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, more than likely somebody could have also have planted bugs in any of my telephones.  Possibly if my Logitech LX500 wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse were sabotaged, the reason could be that somebody did not like its keyboard encryption feature.   Basically living in a Bush family home town since former President now prisoner number 41 was once head of the CIA, we probably have many of their associates and adversaries practicing their craft in this area not to mention all of the various geopolitical groups.   The Greenwich Time is just the California political machine mouth piece trying to sell the California lifestyle.   Most of the longest established families in this area do not read it.  If one lived in this area in the early 1960s, the new houses had Greenwich Time plastic green delivery tubes by their mail boxes, but the more established homes did not.  I never saw a copy of the Greenwich Time in the headmaster of Greenwich Country Day's office.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/28/06  Sunday 8:30 P.M.:   I moved my summer shirts from the far left side of the bedroom closet to the left center.   I moved my winter shirts from the left center to the far left of the bedroom closet.   I went out after the last message.   I chatted with some neighbors outside.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I chatted with a local couple from Toronto, Canada.   I then drove over to Tod's Point, and I parked in the southeast parking area.   I walked the 2.5 mile walk around Tod's Point.   I sat out for a while at the southwest picnic area.   There were quite a lot of people out at Tod's Point.   I then drove back to the center of downtown Greenwich, and I chatted with a few local people.   I then drove back home, and I said hello to some neighbors.   I set the air conditioner at 70 degrees Fahrenheit while I was out to cool down the apartment, and I just turned it back up to 78 degrees Fahrenheit.   I opened a 14.75 ounce can of Bumble Bee Alaska pink salmon, and I rined it with its opened lid on underneath cold water, and I drained out the water.   I then put the salmon on a plate, and I picked out the bones.   I then put the salmon in the CuisineArt with a cracked raw egg and two tablespoons of Progresso Italian bread crumbs and two teaspoons of parsley and a bit of ground black pepper.   I then mixed it all together with the CuisineArt.   I then shaped the mixture into two five inch diameter patties about 1.25 inches thick.  I refrigerated one in a Rubbermaid container.   I made up a double batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe .   With the double amount of ingredients one microwaves it for 17 minutes, and lets it stand for about 7 minutes afterwards.    While the rice was standing, I put half of a 14 ounce bag of frozen squash in a plastic microwave proof container with an inch of water and lid, and I heated it on two vegetable cycles in the microwave oven.   I also put about two tablespoons of olive oil in a 7 inch diameter stick proof frying pan, and I heated it on medium high electric heat.   Once the fat began to simmer, I added the salmon pattie, and I cooked it for three  minutes a side on medium to medium high electric burner heat.   I then drained the water out of the squash, and I put it in a bowl with a small bit of olive oil and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese.   I then put the cooked salmon pattie on a dinner plate with one third of the rice, and I put the rest of the rice in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I then put a few tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with a relative.   I went to start up the primary computer, and the Logitech X500 wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse system would not work.   I checked the cables, and from I can tell since neither unit works, the base unit quit functioning.   I disconnected them from the primary computer.   I took the four port USB device off the rear of the server, and I connected it to the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom.   I removed the Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard from the Dell L1000R computer, and I hooked it up to the primary computer.   I put another Microsoft keyboard on the Dell L1000R computer, and I hooked up its two USB devices to the USB port device.    I also hooked up a Microsoft PS/2 Intellimouse 1.1 to the primary computer.   I installed the drivers for both devices.   I bought the Logitech X500 wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse system from www.justdeals.com last August 2005.   It was bought as a new item, and it has the full Logitech warranty.   I will have to check the Logitech web site about an RMA, and I also have to see if I have to send the whole system or just the base unit.   Well anyway the primary computer is running fine again.   It seems rather odd, I have to spend so much time on maintenance, but I spend a lot of time on the primary computer, so it gets a lot of usage.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/28/06  Sunday 10:10 A.M.:   I was awake at 9 A.M..  When I have funds, I will probably order ClubIT Product - Thermaltake TR2 Silent Boost TR2 RX CPU Cooler K7 Socket A (CL-P0295) for the server which should work just fine with the AMD Athlon XP 2800.   I will now try to do a backup of the Vista drive partition to the other hard drive or the external hard drive.   I will eat breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I will make my bed and wash the breakfast dishes.   After the backup, I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/28/06  Sunday 1:15 A.M.:   I worked with http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   It is running just fine, as I have it configured.  I ran Ad-awareSE on both the primary and the server computers, which I do every day before quitting.   I put two new CVS Alkaline AA batteries in the primary computer Logitech X500 cordless optical mouse.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/27/06:

Note:<888> 05/27/06  Saturday 8:10 P.M.:   I went through my email.  The Office 2007 betas are available for download from 2007 Microsoft Office system preview site .  I downloaded Office Professional Plus 2007, Office Visio Professional 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Office Project Professional 2007, Office OneNote 2007.  I will install them on the Vista Beta 2 partition, once I have sent out my weekly notes.   I will now send out my weekly notes.    I have been aware of this since 3 A.M. this morning BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Search for Java quake survivors .  However, since it is a Holiday weekend, most of the people I have chatted with do not seem to be aware of it.   It is in the area of Merapi Volcano Links Java Indonesia , so if and more likely when Merapi erupts, more similar types of events could occur.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/27/06  Saturday 6:45 P.M.:   I rested for a while after the last message.   About 2 P.M. the electricity went off for about 15 minutes.   I restarted the server.   I rested some more.   I ate a 5.75 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.  I chatted with two friends and a relative.    I did some more research on available AMD XP 2800 Processors, and there were not many listed on Ebay.   I finally bought a used one that is guaranteed to work at eBay: AMD ATHLON XP 2800 CPU SOCKET 462 (item 6883860391 end time May-27-06 14:45:30 PDT) for $51 and $8 shipping for $59 total, which I will pay for on Tuesday once my bank clears my last deposit.    I will install it on the server, and I will put the server AMD XP 2000 in the Northgate computer, and I will have a spare AMD Duron 1.6 in case any of the three AMD computers have processor malfunctions.   The item is hard to find, and since I bought the motherboard for the server from the vendor, I think he knows his business.  Other items currently for sale by the vendor are eBay Seller: rdalama: Desktop PC Components, Computers Networking items on eBay.com .  CIO  

Note:<888> 05/27/06  Saturday 1:15 P.M.:   I went outside briefly, and I picked up the mail.  I microwaved and ate a Stouffer's frozen 21 ounce lasagna with meat sauce, which I put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap on the living room sofa.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/27/06  Saturday 11:35 A.M.:   I have the Northgate backup computer working just fine after reinstalling the operating system and its updates.   I am doing a backup of the Northgate computer with the Maxtor external hard drive.   I have shut down the two backup computers in the bedroom along with the Toshiba laptop.   I chatted with a friend and a relative.   I watched the last five minutes of the President's speech over at West Point, and I watched also through the internet the presentation of the diplomas over at West Point United States Military Academy at West Point .   There was a live feed United States Military Academy at West Point Live Feed .   Thus we know the President of the United States of America www.whitehouse.gov is within our area, so we all should stay vigilant.  I turned the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control down to 78 degrees Fahrenheit, so it will be about 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment.   www.cl-p.com has offered to replace older window unit air conditioners in our building on a first come first serve basis with new units, for those that need them.  My current air conditioner works just fine, and I have a maintenance contract paid up on it through September 12, 2006.   I am just leaving the apartment warmer to save on energy.  CIO  

Note:<888> 05/27/06  Saturday 8:30 A.M.:   I was awake at 3 A.M..   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I installed the updates on the two backup computers in the bedroom and the Toshiba laptop.   On the Toshiba laptop, I moved it over to the right on the near end of the brass and glass coffee table, so its mouse pad is on the left.   I am having to do a repair restoration on the Northgate Syntax backup computer, since when installing its updates, it crashed.   This will take a short time.   I chatted with a friend.   I ate the the last half of a 5.75 ounce tube of Pringle barbeque potato chips.   Not much happening in this neck of the woods.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/26/06  Friday 7:05 P.M.:   I checked on the RMA on the Epox motherboard at 1-714-680-0898, and it should be returned in a week or two.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/26/06  Friday 6:15 P.M.:   I started to go out after the last message, but I saw a Fedex truck parked in front of the Splash car wash across the street, so I returned to wait for it.   However, at 1:30 P.M., a different Fedex truck arrived at the family units, but it did not make a delivery at the building I live in.   I chatted with some neighbors while waiting outside, and I checked my Volvo oil.   I came inside briefly.   I then went downtown to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then stopped by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of dark German whole wheat bread for $1.59.   I then returned home, and I sat out for a while.    I then came upstairs, and I chatted briefly with a relative.   I had a telephone message from Microsoft about Microsoft Partner Readiness or 1-800-214-6223 .   I then sat around sort of in a trance, since the apartment is warmer in the late afternoon this time of year, and it is probably about 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment, which makes one tired.    I started to take a nap, but Fedex delivered the the order for $26.50 and $8 UPS ground shipping for $34.50 total  FIC AN19 VIA KT400A Socket A ATX Motherboard w/Sound FIC AN19 (KT-400A Pro) .   It was the same Fedex delivery person that delivered the yellow aluminum Antec tower case for the server a couple of months ago.   I studied used AMD XP 2800 processors, but starting at $32 with shipping they are a bit expensive, and since I only run the server most the time, and I do not do much other computer work on it, I do not really need a faster processor.   However, I will think about it.   There is one auction ending about 6 P.M. on Saturday evening.   I am a bit tired, but I will try to do a little bit of computer work.   This weather alert is posted for this area, but it seems to be sunny right now Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .   I ate a half of a 5.75 ounce tube of Pringle barbeque potato chips.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/26/06  Friday 11:05 A.M.:  The Linens 'n Things - Bath: Accessories: Bath Mats: Watergard Bath Mat for $14.99 less 20% one item discount coupon code "953500000004" good until May 27, 2006 Linens 'n Things coupons and Linens 'n Things coupon code for $3 off for cost of $11.99 plus $1.12 tax and $6.65 UPS ground shipping for $19.76 total arrived with the mail.  I sat out briefly while the mail was being sorted.   I will put the new rubber bathmat on the side of the tub.   It is much more substantial than the old one, which I will throw out with the shipping box.   The new one is also mildew resistant.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go out briefly on an errand.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/26/06  Friday 9:55 A.M.:   I took a metal mixing bowl, and I broke three large eggs in it, and I added a couple of tablespoons of milk, 1/4 teaspoon of Italian spices, a teaspoon of olive oil, and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese.   I whisked it all together with a whisk.    I then put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I heated it over medium high electric heat burner on the stove.  Once the olive oil was heated, I put in the 10 sausage links from a frozen 8 ounce package of Jone's Welcome to Jones Dairy Farm! spicy breakfast sausages, and I heated them for five minutes, moving the pan frequently to rotate the sausages.   I then added the egg mixture, which I let cook for about four minutes, mixing it the last minute to become scrambled eggs with cooked breakfast sausages.   When I put the egg mixture in, I started toasting two pieces of bread.  Once the scrambled eggs and sausages were cooked, I put the frying pan on the dinner plate to warm it a bit, and I then slid the eggs and sausages on the dinner plate, and I put some olive oil on the two pieces of toast, and I cut them in half on the diagonal, and I put them on the dinner plate, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I then washed the second breakfast dishes.   Breakfast tends to be cheaper to cook than other regular meals.   Thus I have a full belly.   I will now shower, and I will clean up.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/26/06  Friday 8:55 A.M.:   I was up at 3 A.M..   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I  threw out the old periodical literature and old computer magazines.   I chatted with a neighbor.   The elevator is not working properly, so I called it in to the Greenwich Housing authority.  The order for $26.50 and $8 UPS ground shipping for $34.50 total  FIC AN19 VIA KT400A Socket A ATX Motherboard w/Sound FIC AN19 (KT-400A Pro) has tracking of FedEx | Track is out for delivery today.   I will thus have a backup motherboard for the server.   Currently, I can not afford to order another processor, and perhaps, since it is a server that runs all the time, it might be better to have a cooler running slower processor like the AMD Athlon XP 2000 currently in it, instead of a faster running 2800 processor that would run warmer.   It is probably six of one half dozen of another.   I might still bit one at eBay Seller: rdalama: Desktop PC Components, Computers Networking items on eBay.com , and it would work in either my current Matronic motherboard on the server or the FIC motherboard that is arriving today.  More on Bush and Blair BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush and Blair admit Iraq errors .   I suppose when they retire, they could drink "B&B"  benedictine .   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 7:35 P.M.:   I ate a scoop of peach ice cream.   I chatted with a friend.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 6:20 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.   I then sat out for a while.   I chatted with a used book dealer from Stamford, Connecticut.   I then went down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.   I chatted with the fellow from India that showed up there right before the Tsunami at Christmas Time a year and a half ago.   He showed me a USB cable that had two wires with old fashioned keyboard plugs attached to it.  It did not make sense to me.   I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.   I next returned to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a four foot length by 19 inch wide mahogany wood framed mirror for $35.   I then returned home.  It was very busy downtown with a lot of people taking the Memorial Day weekend holiday a day early.  I then hung the mirror sitting on the floor in the living room on the small wall portion to the left of the left closet beneath the mirror hanging over the circuit breaker box.   I only use a 50 pound double nail OOK hook to hang it, since it is also resting on the floor, and the hook just keeps it hanging against the wall.   I moved the NASA shuttle photograph from that location to behind my bed for safe keeping.  I move the brass Shield of Pall Mall to the side of the hutch in the bedroom, so one sees it on entering the bedroom.   Limey news BBC NEWS | Europe | Blair arrives for talks with Bush .   The British do not pay attention to me anymore, since according the British embassy in Washington D.C., the Scottish are a bunch of "Nutters".   However, I believe Mr. Blair was born in Scotland, and I recall Scott can also be a British family name, and it was the family name of the Marquis of Queensbury.  Also the former Queen Mum of England was Scottish.   However, I guess the Scottish hardly every make it down to Washington D.C., since it is considered a tropical location, so since my family have roots in the Virginia area, we probably have one or two relatives left in that area that never managed to explore further out in the Americas.   Picture follows http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mahogany-wood-frame-mirror-in-living-room-052506.JPG .   I used to frequently chat with British citizens in this area, since they seem to be well informed, and they usually speak English.   However, they have seen me around for so many years, they tend to treat me like the Maytag repairman.   Also since I smoke smelly American cigarettes, they are not very friendly towards me anymore, since they have adopted the more modern European way of thinking until they either run out of money or food, which they have in the past, usually after they have conflict with their neighbors.   What has happened many times before will more than likely happen again some time in the future, but today it is more of an Economic War.   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 12:55 P.M.:   I threw out some garbage.   I picked up my mail.  I will now go out and do some waterfront observation before my usual 3 P.M. appointment.   It seems to be warming up outside, so I would imagine the warmer weather is on the way.  Last year at this time during the first week of June, we had 90 degree weather, but then it cooled down for a few weeks after that.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 12:10 P.M.:  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with franks .   Instead of hotdogs, I used a 7 ounce tin of Armour Vienna sausages that I drained and cut into quarter inch thick slices.  For the beans, I used a 15 ounce can of Van Camps pork and beans.   I also added a bit of La Choy low sodium soy sauce to the recipe.  I will eat it in just a minute with a glass of iced tea.   CIO   

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 11:30 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I chatted with some neighbors.   I went downtown, and I walked upper Greenwich Avenue.   I stopped by CVS, and I read the store circular.   They have Planter's Deluxe nuts for buy one get one free for $4.59 both this week.   However, since Jimmy Carter was president, they seem to think I am a nut case around here, so I can not afford them.   I completed my walk of upper Greenwich Avenue.   I mentioned to the private construction crew working on the sidewalk between George Jensen Jewelers and St. Mary's Church that the patch of sidewalk below the alley way at that location is the slipperiest section on Greenwich Avenue in the winter.  When the moisture from the alley way melts in the day time, it runs down on to the side walk at that location and at night it turns into black ice.  They should have a metal grate drain running the width of the alley at that location in between the alley way and the sidewalk, so the moisture runs into a drain instead of freezing on the sidewalk.    Of course nobody worries about people slipping on the sidewalk going to church in the warmer period of the year when they do maintenance.   The light across the street from the entrance to the Greenwich Train station also tends to be on and off some of the time at night, so there is some problem with it.  If one can not see pedestrians at the crosswalk at night at that location, there could be an accident.   After I complete my walk, I sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with someone from Long Island.   I then chatted with the Royal Bank of Scotland parking lot attendant.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I toured the store, and I set aside two books to buy.   Books and clothes are currently half price.  I then left my car in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I walked over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I did some banking business.   I then walked back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.   I bought for half price for a $1.50 each for $3 total , the "The Living World of Audubon Mammals" by Robert Elman, and "The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals" by John James Audubon and the Rev. John Bachman and John Woodhouse Audubon edited by Victor H. Cahalane with Forward by Fairfield Osborn.  When I returned home, I put them on top of the folding oak tables at the far end of the brass and glass coffee table in the living room.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and they have a lot of dollar sale items it you have spare dollars.   I bought Chiquita bananas at .79 a pound for $2.33.   I then returned home.   I chatted with the Meals on Wheel delivery person making their daily weekday delivery.   I drank some iced tea.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 7:10 A.M.:   I did some research.   The motherboard on the server EuroComla.com / VIA KT600 , Serial ATA , USB 2.0 , 8X AGP will support up to an AMD XP Barton 3200, which I have bid on and lost.   However, the FIC AN19 VIA KT400A Socket A ATX Motherboard w/Sound FIC AN19 (KT-400A Pro) that arrives on Friday, will only support up to an XP 3000, so I would not be able to use it for a backup motherboard for the server, if I got the faster processor.   I already know my primary computer AMD Sempron 3000 processor works with the Gigabyte motherboard presently in it, and the Epox refurbished motherboard that should be returned to me soon the RMA.   Thus if I were thinking about using the FIC motherboard sometime in the future, I would be better off getting an XP 2800.   However, for now I am fine.  I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half cross wise.  I ate the sandwiches  with a glass of iced tea.  I also had half of a 5.75 ounce can of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.  I also quartered a dill pickle lengthwise, which I also ate with the sandwiches.  I was significantly outbid, on the XP 3200 processor.   However, there are still three XP 2800 processors at eBay Seller: rdalama: Desktop PC Components, Computers Networking items on eBay.com .  If I had to use the spare FIC motherboard on the server, they would work.  However, I will wait until later Saturday afternoon to possibly bid on them.    Thus I do not currently have my spare funds at the end of the month committed.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up.   I will then go out downtown for some morning activity.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  I filled the Glade Plug-in refill with a 60% to 40% mixture of English Leather cologne and 80% isopropyl alcohol.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/25/06  Thursday 4:30 A.M.:   I went to bed after the last message.   I woke up in the morning, and I ate half of a 5.75 ounce tube of pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.   I went back to bed until 9:30 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   While asleep, I did a Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.   I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  I went back to bed until 1 A.M..   I worked with http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   I had to restart the server, since it was not working.  At the moment, I have been outbid on eBay: AMD ATHLON XP 2800 CPU SOCKET 462 (item 6883860412 end time May-27-06 16:00:00 PDT) .  At the moment, I am the current high bidder on eBay: NEW AMD XP 3200 Athlon processor. Barton - 400 mhz FSB (item 6885265297 end time May-27-06 16:44:23 PDT) , but I can not afford to bid any higher than $37 plus $5 shipping, so I do not think that I will get it when the bidding ends Sunday evening.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  When I have funds,  I could also get a new one like I am currently using in the primary computer for the server from either of these two locations Sempron 3000+ Processor (AMD-SDA3000DUT4D) - PriceGrabber.com .  However, I am currently using an inexpensive CPU cooler on the AMD Athlon XP 2000 in the server, and I aldo have a new inexpensive one, but more that likely if I put in an expensive CPU, I would also have to get a better CPU cooler.  Six of one half a dozen of the other.  CIO          

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 9:05 A.M.:   I installed and worked with Vista beta 2 http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   I went outside briefly twice.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I will eat two scoops of peach ice cream.   BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Above normal' hurricanes in 2006 .   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 5:10 A.M.:   I finished downloading Microsoft Windows Vista beta 2.   I will now burn it to DVD with Nero 6.06.   I will then install it on the second partition of my first hard drive.   It should take about a little over an hour to do all of that.  I will do a minimal configuration, and later I will try more advanced configuration.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 4:15 A.M.:   http://www.cheapstingybargains.com/2006/05/520-disc-capacity-black-leather-like-quality-cd-wallet-only-1205-w-free-ground-shipping .  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 3:35 A.M.:   TechWeb | News | Windows Vista Beta 2 Launches With Security Fixes .  I am downloading it right now from http://connect.microsoft.com/ .  One has to be a registered beta tester to download it.   It is downloading fast, so it should take about 1.5 hours.  Download details: Expression Web Designer CTP1 .   There is a Microsoft TS2 event in Danbury, Connecticut on June 6, 2006 http://www.ts2seminars.com/ .   » Windows Vista beta 2 released | George Ou | ZDNet.com .  ZDNet Windows Vista beta 2 Review & Comparison .  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 2:55 A.M.:  I put the diluted tea in the six 59 ounce orange juice jugs in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I took four pieces of bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on each of the slices of bread, and I put two 1/32nd thick slices of turkey folded over and three 5 inch by 5 inch slices of American cheese and the top half of the bread.   I cut the sandwich in half on a diagonal.  I cut two dill pickles into quarters lengthwise, and I put them on the sandwich plate with 1/3rd of a tube of pringles sour cream and onion potato chips, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I will now go through my email.   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 1:45 A.M.:   Happy Queen Victoria's birthday holiday Victoria Day  and History of the Monarchy > The Hanoverians > Victoria .   I installed the latest Gigabyte drivers for the primary computer gigabyte motherboard.  In the early days of the Greenwich Country Club http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/Greenwich-Country-Club.jpg , they use to have a gold trophy in their lobby which was suppose to have been one of the first golf trophiers in America that was dedicated to Queen Victoria by the Wilson or Spaulding sporting goods company.   However, it might have perrished in the fire in the early 1960s, so the one that I saw over the years might have been a replica.   I remember it use to have deer or elk handles.   I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.   I did a system restore backup.   Recently the Symantec Updates program has not been finding any updates for my computers, so perhaps it is doing it automatically.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/24/06  Wednesday 12:45 A.M.:   The wireless headsets are 900 MHz, so they probably only work in the apartment.   They seem to work fine, but they are not fully charged yet.  I have them both set to mute with the switch on top of the receiver.  Also on the server, one has to enable the microphone in the audio volume control.  On the primary computer, one has to enable the onboard sound versus the sound card sound.  Each one has a belt clip, so one can attach it to a belt and walk around the apartment with the wireless headset and chat on the internet.  Of course if one uses Net2Phone, one has to pay, but computer to computer communications would be free, and I also have Optimum Voice in the apartment that is good for free calling the U.S.A., Canada, and Puerto Rico.   I do not have a headset for my cordless telephones, since the one that I had I took down to Florida this past February for a relative to use.    They are not expensive, but I have not gotten around to getting one.  I am sure they are available for $10 to $20 at Radio Shack.   The $19.76 charge for the rubber bathmat has disappeared off my Bank of New York debit account, but it will probably reappears in a day or two.   Different companies, bill people differently.  The wireless headsets when fully charged, are suppose to be good to 6 to 8 hours of talk time.  CIO

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Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 11:55 P.M.:  I saved the Netgear shipping box, and I threw out the other shipping box.   I chatted with two relatives.   I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   We have more aviation traffic than normal, so maybe people are finally returning from down south to their summer homes.   I believe this weekend is graduation at nearby West Point United States Military Academy at West Point and USMA Class of 2006 .  They do not say whom the speaker will be at graduation, but I know that the President of the United States  www.whitehouse.gov  rotates graduation speeches between the four military academies every four years, so since he last spoke in 2002 President Bush Delivers Graduation Speech at West Point , it would seem he is due to be at their graduation this weekend, so I imagine they would have more security than normal.  However, anyone from the general public can attend, but I am usually out of money at the end of the month.   Also since I am a high ranking volunteer, for security reasons, they probably do not want me to show up at the same time he is there, perhaps next year.   CIO    

Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 10:30 P.M.:  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I have the Toshiba laptop connected to the Netgear 16 port switch, so it works without using the AT&T router.   I do not have any LAN cables connected to the AT&T wireless router.  However, I have the generic 8 port switch connected to the same power switch as the AT&T wireless router on the server control panel.   I have four LAN cables connected to the 8 port switch, and the cables are stuffed underneath the left pillow on the long green couch.   I will now throw out the shipping boxes.  I put the Belkin LAN card on the right side of the white bureau in the bedroom with the other spare parts.   I put the two packages for the wireless headsets at the same location.   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 9:05 P.M.:   After the last message, I rested until 8 A.M..  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I watched some television.  I microwaved a 7 ounce Banquet frozen chicken pot pie, and I ate it with a half of a tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips along with a glass of iced tea.   I went to bed about 1 P.M. after resting a bit.   I woke up at 6:15 P.M., when UPS delivered the packages.   I hooked up the 16 port Netgear Switch.   I have the four ports on the D-Link router connected to the Netgear 16 port switch, the AT&T wireless router, the 8 port switch, and the bedroom 4 port Netgear switch.   I placed the 8 port switch to the right of the server on top of the UPS.   I have spare LAN cables connected to it which I placed underneath the sofa pillow.   I have the other LAN cables connnected to the 16 port switch.  I still have to connect the Toshiba laptop to it.   I connected the longer serial cable that I had ordered a couple of weeks ago to the printer port boxes from the D-link router.   I connected up the two wireless microphone sets.  On the server, it is connected to the sound card.  On the primary computer, it is connected to the onboard sound jacks.   The two wireless microphones have to charge up for about 24 hours before they work.  I connected the Andrea electronics microphone headset to the Toshiba laptop computer.  I also connected up the server onboard LAN to the 16 port switch.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 5:15 A.M.:   I went through my email.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 5:05 A.M.:   CNN.com - Busy Atlantic season could bring up to 10 hurricanes - May 22, 2006 .  CNN.com - Growing concern over Internet addiction - May 19, 2006 .  InformationWeek | FlexGo | Microsoft, Intel Debut Pay-As-You-Go PC For Emerging Markets | May 22, 2006 .   CIO

Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 3:30 A.M.:  I observed last Sunday night when I was out, a high ranking member of the Florida Bureau of Investigation.   I recognized the individual right away, since he was wearing rubber flip flops like the prisoners wear in many of the prisons in the U.S.A..  I think if it is the same individual that I have dealt with before, his real name is James Edward Eldert from Syracuse, New York.   He usually pretends to be affiliated with some sort of church group.   I do know he once worked as a secretary for former New York senator Jacob Javitts whom drove a pink Mustang around Manhattan.   At the time Jacob Javitts' wife was doing public relations for the Iranians.   Whether the individual is still in this area is opened for question, since he has traveled extensively, and frequently used many aliases and bull shit stories.   Since he was a neighbor of mine in four other locations, and since an eccentric witch on Long Island suggested back in 1973 that we should keep an eye on him, I have advised many people over the years to keep an eye on the individual since nobody else ever asked me to do that.   However, since Helen Kress Williams had the last name Williams, maybe Jimmy was a relative of hers.  Possibly he is one of Ted Williams sons whom knows.   Most people usually get fed up with Jimmy since nothing ever seems to happen around him, and the world comes to a complete stand still.   I do know he use to have a good ear for music, and he has worked as a disk jockey in a radio station.   I also know things start disappearing when he is around.   I am not sure what he is doing in this area, unless he is part of some cleaver group working in this area.   Maybe Syracuse, New York is just a summer residence, and he is originally from down south.    Whatever, the case he once told me, he hated Greenwich, Connecticut, so it is curious that he is here again.   Since he was friends of Peter Hubbard from Greenwich, Connecticut out in California, maybe Jimmy is involved with the Church of Scientology.   I know in the old days he use to have certain powers, when something would happen like it would rain 15 inches, but that is an easy trick to perform with old cloud seeding techniques providing there are clouds.   Since he has gymnastic skills perhaps, he is involved with some circus or carnival in the area.   Whatever the case, I have not recognized him in this area, since I have returned in 22 years.   He does look a bit like Winston Churchill, so although he is supposedly Dutch and Irish, he might have some other roots.   He supposedly is related to the Moran family in New York that own Moran towing the tug boat company in New York harbor, and his grandmother is a Joy from an old family in Boston, that also helped start General Motors.    However, whatever the real case, I have been told these thing by him over the years, but I have not actually bothered to verify them.  If he derives money from General Motors, perhaps with hard economic times, he finally ran out of money, and he is the character living on the boat in Greenwich Harbor whom does not have any gasoline to move the tub.   Maybe he ought to chop down a tree and put a sail on it, and sail it over to Huntington harbor on Long Island near Melville, Long Island.   I have a friend whose grandfather looked like J. Paul Getty, and his house looked like it could have been a Getty family home.   Whatever the case, since he is friends of Peter Hubbard from Greenwich, Connecticut and since Peter's family claimed they started the masons in Greenwich, Connecticut, if he wanted to stay here, they could build him some sort of brick house.   Possibly if he is from Nantucket where he once lived, his real name might be James Starbuck, so we could tear down Mrs. Jenkins property on Steamboat Road and build a copy of the three Starbuck houses on Main Street in Nantucket.   Of course then he would have to have three daughters to live in them.   Possibly he is just sailing south to north this time of year.  Although we see him in Nantucket and Key West, the extreme points of his yearly sail from Antigua to St. Andrews, Scotland and back.  He also stops off around Kennebunkport, Maine on his way north and south.   Thus the James Bond bookstore in Antigua and the red Scottish lion on his yellow tee shirt in the old days.   Perhaps, since he is a north Atlantic sailor, he is connected up with another North Atlantic sailor known as Ted Turner, whom recently retired, so maybe Jimmy took over Ted's old job.   However, from past experience if he is around, sooner or later, we will get lots of rain.   Maybe he is from some place half way in between called Bermuda.  I reheated the cooked spaghetti and the tomato meat sauce mixture from last night, and I put some grated parmesan cheese on it.  I also added the remaining cooked peas to the tomato sauce.  I ate it with some iced tea.   Earlier, I ate two scoops of peach ice cream.  Maybe he is James Twinings of Twinings Tea .  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/23/06  Tuesday 1:05 A.M.:   This morning, when I was out on my last trip downtown, while I was sitting downtown for about a half hour, there was the continual sound of either a carpenter using a nail gun or a kids on a skate board over by the town hall.   Whatever, the case with that sound which sound is similar to small arms fire, it tended to make the morning commuters nervous.   I think with modern weaponry, one does not necessarily hear them, so if you hear something like small arms locally in this area, it is probably not, since more than likely the Greenwich Police would respond, if they had gasoline.   When I was chatting with one of the regular fisherman down by the waterfront today, I remembered that Adnan Khashoggi use to be one of the regular limousine drivers down by the waterfront until "911", and I have not seen him since.    I know he use to rent a house by the entrance to the Greenwich Country Club.   I also know a lot of the night time limousine drivers in this area are from Pakistan.   Thus possibly Adnan Khashoggi with his oil reserves controls a larger network of livery vehicles in this area.    Thus by driving all of the VIPs around this area, they would know about their movements in this area.   Since Bib Fisher was a vice commodore of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, and since his company Fiduciary Trust was on the 102 floor of the World Trade Center, perhaps he was targeted since as a retired U.S. Marine, he might not have deferred to the Arab presence in the area.   Also Bin Laden's wife supposedly has lived in the area.   Whatever, the case, if they once had a network of livery drivers in this area, more than likely they are still working the same network of livery drivers around the Private Clubs and other facilities, and more than likely they are gathering intelligence on the established members of the U.S. business community.   A lot of the livery drivers are also from Columbia, South America.   Possibly when Adnan Khashoggi had his divorce, his wife was from an established family, and possibly his wife's family started creating problems base on his business network.   I chatted with a few contacts and a relative this morning before going to bed around 1 P.M..   I woke up in the afternoon, and I ate a 9.5 ounce can of CVS lightly salted cashew nuts.  I woke up at 8 P.M. this evening, and I chatted with a relative.  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I tried bidding on eBay: AMD ATHLON XP 3000 CPU SOCKET 462 (item 6883860438 end time May-27-06 14:45:39 PDT) , but I was out bit at $30 which was the maximum I can afford at the moment.  I bid up eBay: AMD ATHLON XP 2800 CPU SOCKET 462 (item 6883860412 end time May-27-06 16:00:00 PDT) to $22.72 plus $12 shipping , but if it goes any higher there are two more for $20 plus $12 shipping at eBay Seller: rdalama: Desktop PC Components, Computers Networking items on eBay.com .  Since I run and maintain older computer equipment which in terms of technology is at least two years old or more, I have to look for parts when they are being cleared out or dumped on the market, since the manufactures usually do not provide them.   Thus life on the cheap side of town is different than life on the "Big Bucks" side of town.   I do not plan to go out tonight, since I went out three times yesterday, and I have to conserve my energy allowance.   The order for two JustDeals.us 980118-0000: Logitech Wireless Headset Microphone Cordless -- 980118-0000 for $14.95 each refurbished, and one JustDeals.us F5D5000: Belkin 10/100 Ethernet Desktop LAN Network PCI Card -- F5D5000  for $6.95 for $36.85 and FS516 10/100 16 Port Dual Speed Switch RJ-45 (NETGEAR-FS516) - PriceGrabber.com for $43.95 with free UPS shipping which would be a total order of $80.80 with free UPS shipping of UPS Package Tracking is due to arrive later on today.   The order for $26.50 and $8 UPS ground shipping for $34.50 total  FIC AN19 VIA KT400A Socket A ATX Motherboard w/Sound FIC AN19 (KT-400A Pro) has tracking of FedEx | Track .  There is no tracking available on this order Linens 'n Things - Bath: Accessories: Bath Mats: Watergard Bath Mat for $14.99 less 20% one item discount coupon code "953500000004" good until May 27, 2006 Linens 'n Things coupons and Linens 'n Things coupon code for $3 off for cost of $11.99 plus $1.12 tax and $6.65 UPS ground shipping for $19.76 total.   There is no word yet on the Epox motherboard RMA return.   I will now do some regular internet work.   CIO              

Note:<888> 05/22/06  Monday 9:15 A.M.:   I ate two large scoops of the gelatin fruit mixture with some iced tea.   I printed out a copy of Meet The Hackers .   I went out again, and I dropped by the copy of Meet the Hackers at the West Putnam Avenue Shell station for the regular night person to read.   I then sat out a while downtown.   At the northeast corner of the Board of Education parking lot, they have posted Tree Warden signs that they will be cutting down some trees in that area.   I used the bathroom at Starbucks which was busy as usual.   I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with the last of our regular fishermen.   I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I restarted the server again, for the second time this morning.  It is the pattern over a long time of the hacker to hack my server or computer on Monday morning between about 4 A.M. and 7 A.M..   It is like they get up early on Monday morning and do it before they go to work.   Since I am about 75% sure whom it is, obviously the real investigators already know whom it is and have the person under surveillance.   I will now eat two scoops of peach ice cream, and I will then go to bed.  CIO    

Note:<888> 05/22/06  Monday 5:45 A.M.:   When I went out for the first trip this past evening or morning, I dropped off the two Windows XP books at the Greenwich Library book drop.   Speaking of the Greenwich Library, I might have identified the hacker whom has caused me problems for a long time.   With the help of several security agencies and some old fashioned detective work, it is possibly a foreign national and a regular user of the Greenwich Library whom is also employed by a computer business.   Since this activity has gone on for many years, it seems the individual has left his hacking pattern around for others to investigate.   If the local computer enterprise the individual is working for has put the individual up to the activity they could be sued in a court of law.   Also since the individual is a foreign national, the individual could also be deported or prosecuted for espionage and sabotage during time of war.  I will let the various security organizations deal with it in their own way.  Obviously the individual has caused havoc for other individuals more important than myself.  CIO    

Note:<888> 05/22/06  Monday 5:10 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went by the West Putnam Avenue Shell station, and got some cash for some change.   I then went by the Bank of New York ATM machine on Mason Street, and I made a small deposit.    I then went downtown, and I put the Greenwich Avenue art signs back up around the senior and the arts center that had blown down in the high wind.   I also set the Coleman cooler by the entrance of the senior and the arts center.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   Somebody has had a small yacht moored out in the harbor for the last few weeks, I guess it is too expensive to move.   I returned back home.   I placed a $20 bid with $12 shipping at this site eBay Seller: rdalama: Desktop PC Components, Computers Networking items on eBay.com for a used AMD Athlon XP 2800 Socket 462 CPU.   There is a 3000 that I could big on, but I think that will go beyond my maximum bid range in the 5.5 days remaining in the auction.    I could use either the 2800 or 3000 in the server to have it go faster.    I would then put the AMD Athlon XP 2000 from the server in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.   If I win the auction, it would leave me with less than $10 till then end of the month, so I can not really spend money on anything else until June 2006 comes around.   I guess  I am a prisoner of computer maintenance activity.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/22/06  Monday 2:50 A.M.:   I went through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/22/06  Monday 2:35 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.   I sat out at various locations.  Somebody left a standard size cooler around the front of the Senior and Arts center.   There was just a small amount of pub activity and not much else.   After my walk, I drove around the train station area.   I drove down by the waterfront, and I returned home.    There are still brisk cool evenings around here.   Judging by the amount of displaced items, there must have been some high wind today.   I took the remaining 8 ounce hamburger, and I cut it up along with 2/3rds of a Vidalia onion, and I put few tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan, and I heated the oil over medium high electric heat, and I sautéed the hamburger meat and onions with garlic powder, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning.   I then put half of it in a plastic microwave container with half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu primavera tomato sauce and I mixed it together, and I put the lid on.   I put the other half of the hamburger onion mixture in the Ragu jar, which I placed in the refrigerator.  I boiled three quarts of water with  a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.   I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni #9 thin spaghetti noodles.   I then drained the water with a colander into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu primavera tomato sauce with the meat and onion mixture in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid in the General Electric microwave oven on the reheat cycle twice.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.    I washed the dinner dishes.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 10:10 P.M.:  Before going to bed, I watched a travel channel program about the St. Regis Hotels and Resorts - Reservations at stregis.com in Manhattan.   I used to get my hair cut there when I lived in Manhattan, and I recall they used to have the alumni magazines from various Ivy League colleges to read.   I think the old barber shop with its black and white tile floor was used for the murder scene in the Godfather movie.   I also attended Susie Watson's Debutante Party at the St. Regis Roof back around 1971.   I recall when Arthur and Tom Watson started to leave the party, I happened to be in the old elevator with the 180 degree control handle, and I gave them a rough ride back down to the ground floor running the elevator up and down real quickly at various stages.   After that nobody else invited me to any other parties except family parties and a debutant party in Chicago, Illinois.   I am not sure whether the barber shop is still there, but the King Cole room is still there, if one needs a cocktail.  That is where they invented the Bloody Mary, which was originally called the Red Snapper.  The Old Guard according to the Kennebunkport, Maine Kennebunkport, Maine, Scott's Internet Hotlist  newspaper are suppose to like drinking Bloody Mary's on Sunday.   I woke up at 8 P.M..  The one backup was finished, and I did a Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I chatted with two relatives.  I threw out some garbage.  It is quite windy and blustery outside.   I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.    I will shut down the primary computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   Once it gets hot around here at night, when I am out at night on hot summer evenings, I begin to feel like Boo Radley in the book and movie "To Kill a Mockingbird".   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 8:20 A.M.:   I looked at the two XP books.  I copied the XP Network security book to my hard drive, and I created a short cut to start it.   I also installed the XP Power Toys.   I also copied both the DVD and CD.   I checked for updates.  I ran Norton Win Doctor.   I will now run Ad-awareSE.  I will then run then do a System Restore backup.  I will then run CCleaner.   I will then do a Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the Maxtor External Hard Drive.   While that is running, I will go to bed, and when I wake up, it will be done.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 6:35 A.M.:   Lots of concrete China marks completion of Three Gorges Dam - Yahoo! News .   CIO

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 5:45 A.M.:   Pyramid is giant farming clock - Sunday Times - Times Online .  CNN.com - Powerful telescope to be built in Chile - May 18, 2006 .  CNN.com - Ecuador volcano spews gas and ash - May 18, 2006 .  From Servers to Service: Dell's Makeover .  Meet The Hackers .   CIO

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 5:00 A.M.:  I just microwaved and ate a bag of Jolly Time popcorn, which I ate with  a glass of iced tea.  Back in the old days when Granddad Scott worked on the Illinois Central railroad popcorn was more plentiful in the Scott family.   I remember Granddad Scott use to keep a bushel basket of popcorn on the cob from his farm in down state Illinois around Robinson, Illinois where they supposedly also refine oil from those old slow oil pumps near Little Egypt, Illinois.   They also grow field corn which Archer Daniel Midland Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) uses to make ethanol.   They also process soy beans for soy sauce, so rice tastes better in Asia.   Henry Ford www.ford.com liked Soy Beans, since they use to make automobile paint out of their oil, but as I recall soy bean automobile paint use to fade quite fast in the hot sun.   However, the Scott family from Illinois out in Greenwich, Connecticut since 1961 lost touch with Illinois over the years, because by the time the Illinois people that did visit made it out here and got through Manhattan, they could not afford to stay long in Greenwich, Connecticut.   The secret to survival in Greenwich, Connecticut is to never go to Manhattan, but to try to make a living out here off the traffic around us that travels through the area.   If one goes into Manhattan, all one ends up doing is walking around a lot.   Most Manhattan people have destinations, and if you do not have a destination, you just end up walking around in circles.   I guess most of my Big City friends do not stay in contact with me, since living in the city, they tend to be thinner with the smaller amount of food available in the City, and when they see me out here at 202 pounds versus about 135 pounds in the City, they feel intimidated by me.   However, walking around the Cho Cho train station around here year round, one needs a bit of body fat to with stand the elements.   In my daily walks around Manhattan, I also use to walk through the Cho Cho train station at least once a day.   Thus I feel like I am working around a Chinese railroad, since not many people ever chat with me.   However, I have met W. Averell Harriman W. Averell Harriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia many moons ago, I guess nobody is interested in his family anymore.   There has been a modern painting of someone that looks like him in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for the last few months, and nobody has been interested in buying it.    I guess all of these modern heirs are more interested in the cash as opposed to any old family memorabilia left lying around in this area.   Of course for all I know we are not even in Greenwich, Connecticut U.S.A., but some Potamkin Village elsewhere in the world.   Well, it is sort of interesting with all of this modern  communications, nobody really seems to know how to communicate.   I guess if somebody has influence with www.ibm.com 's many company employees, they could email them a message to see if any of them have any ideas, but is it the nature of modern corporate America, they do not encourage free thinking.   Of course when one if frequently on a night schedule, one feels like the old Maytag repairman, and not much really seems to happen anymore, since we are more modern, so if something goes wrong, it is taken care of.   From my point of view sitting here at the keyboard is an exercise in frustration, since there are probably more than 10 billion pages on the internet, and people in the work a day world do not have much time to read as much as they once did.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 3:50 A.M.:   I ate two scoops of peach ice cream.   I think the Vanderbilts www.biltmore.com have many acres of peaches in the area of their estate in Ashville, North Carolina, so peaches are popular with that Dutch family if you get my drift.   Everyone in Manhattan pretty much knows about Cornelius Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   and Biltmore builder George Washington Vanderbilt II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and William Henry Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia got Cornelius' money.  Of course back then a dollar was worth a lot more money.   CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/21/06:

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 2:45 A.M.:   I ate two large scoops of the gelatin fruit mixture.   On a minor point of dispute with the U.S.A. and Connecticut accountants, I think they do not know anything about Economics.   Basically in the last 22 years of S.S.I. or Supplemental Security Income, I have not gotten a Cost of Living increase.    I do get a cost of living increase from S.S.I. such as about the 2.5% increase this year, but we all know certain prices of gasoline, electricity and other items have gone up a lot more.    However, when I get the cost of living increase, the Greenwich Housing Authority raises my rent by the amount of the cost of living increase, so the net effect is that I get no cost of living increase.   I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/21/06  Sunday 2:00 A.M.:   I woke up at 4 A.M., when a relative called.   SI.com - More Sports - Barbaro foes unite in concern for fallen horse - Saturday May 20, 2006 9:24PM .    I went back to bed until about 8 P.M..   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.    I threw out some garbage, and I picked up the mail.   I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop, and they gave me back the $4.62 on the London Broil cab round steak purchase, so it was only a $1.99 a pound or $3.01.   I bought two 59 ounce containers of Simply Orange orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each for $5 total.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.  I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  I chatted with another night person.   After I completed my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.   I then returned home.  While doing that I put about four tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch diameter stick proof frying pan, and I heated it on medium high electric heat on the General Electric stove.   I  then put one of the two remaining hamburgers and two thirds of a sliced Vidilia onion onions in the frying pan.   I heated the hamburger on side for a minute, and then I flipped it and seasoned it with ground black pepper and garlic powder, and after another minutes, I flipped it back again to sear it on both sides.    I then cooked the hamburger for about 2.5 minutes on each side seasoning it and the onions with garlic powder and ground black pepper.   I  stirred the sliced onions while they were cooking.   For the last two minutes on the last side of the hamburger I put three 1/16th inch thick slices of American cheese on it.   Once the hamburger and onions were done, I put the skillet on the dinner plate to warm it up for about 20 seconds.   I then put the hamburger in the middle of the dinner plate.  I then put about three tablespoons of A1 steak sauce on the hamburger with the sautéed onions on top of that.   At the same time, I put a 12 ounce package of frozen peas in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid with an inch of water, and I microwaved them two times on the vegetable cycle.   I drained the water out of the steamed peas, and I put half of them in a bowl with a small amount of olive oil.  I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I washed the dinner dishes.   CIO            

Note:<888> 05/20/06  Saturday 9:30 A.M.:  I have mentioned over the years that when I returned to Nantucket during the summer of 1975 after I had quit smoking cigarettes for a few months, I met a young Scottish Jewish fellow that worked in an antique bookstore in Hartford, Connecticut.    He told me had examined some of the books in the Nantucket Library the Athenaeum, and there was an original version of "The Cordova" CHAPTER IV and ARAB WORLD | The Arab contribution to civilisation in the collection.   He also mentioned there were 22 different versions of the "Wizard of Oz" in which different characters were the star.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I ate two scoops of Peach ice cream earlier this morning.  I was just thinking, when I lived down in Key West, Florida during the winters in the mid 1970s, and everyone was poor and skinny, a lot of people in the morning at sunrise did TAI Chi , but since back then I enjoyed walking, I just walked around all day for exercise.  Southern people tend to be thinner, since they do not need as much body fat to stay warm in the warmer weather.   However, there are some southern people around here, who look like they have had more than their fair share of food.   I have noticed a Hispanic man around the Arnold bakery that weighs over 600 pounds half of what Walter Hudson weighs.  CIO    

Note:<888> 05/20/06  Saturday 8:35 A.M.:   Windows Vista: Get Ready .  In order to have another spare motherboard for either my primary computer or server, I ordered this item for $26.50 and $8 UPS ground shipping for $34.50 total  FIC AN19 VIA KT400A Socket A ATX Motherboard w/Sound FIC AN19 (KT-400A Pro) .    It is a new not refurbished motherboard, but it is only the motherboard, and it does not come with any other parts.    I chatted with a friend.   I also finished going through my email.   Running computers in warmer temperatures is more wear and tear on the electronics, so it does not hurt to have spare motherboards.  When I use to read about North American Aerospace Defense Command in the 1960s and earlier, I also saw a few movies then.  Apparently in the old NORAD system, they kept spare parts, so they could easily replace them and have systems back up and running in a short time.  Of course on my limited volunteer project budget, I do not have the same budget as the United States military, but as in the Concord, Massachusetts, the Minute Man group was suppose to be ready on a moments notice Minute Man National Historical Park (National Park Service) .   In the old days at Polaroid, I use to enjoy photographing that old bridge many times, so obviously I know the area.  If one were a hermit type, one could hide out at Henry David Thoreau's old cabin at Walden Pond nearby, but that area tends to get a lot of tourists in the summer.   When we lived on Cornelia Drive in Greenwich, Connecticut in the old days, the main house on the street was occupied by an attorney named Vanderpool whom conducted the legal defense of Walden Pond Walden Pond State Reservation, when they wanted to develop it.   It is the nature of old families with Minute Man connections, they have larger networks of friends whom know more than near sighted computer engineers like myself.   I did happen to notice that there was wandering around downtown last night a Bull Mastif dog, but I am not sure if it was being walked by one of the other walkers, or it was wandering around on its own.  It was not on a leash, but with that particular dog, I do not think a leash would even matter.  Of course one of my neighbors walks one around here too.  CIO   

Note:<888> 05/20/06  Saturday 5:30 A.M.:   I ate two scoops of beach ice cream with some iced tea.   I will now go through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/20/06  Saturday 4:30 A.M.:   I woke up at 4 P.M. yesterday, and I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I went back to bed until 8 P.M..   I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.   I chatted with a friend whom is traveling south with a relative.   I suggested a place to stay down south that I looked up on the internet.    I watched a bit of a Bob Hope movie about being kidnapped to Havana, Cuba.   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I watered the plants, and I put more white vinegar in the vinegar bowl on the living room window shelf.  I then threw out this week's kitchen garbage, and I emptied the Danish cookie tin that contained this week's cigarette butts.  I chatted with another relative.   I cut the 1.5 pound top Round London Broil cab steak into approximate 1.5 inch cubes.   I ran half the cubes in the CuisineArt until they were chopped meat.  I then removed the chopped meat, and I ran the other batch of meat cubes in the CuisineArt until they were chopped meat.   I then but both batches of chopped meat in the CuisineArt, and I mixed them together since one batch had more fat.   I then removed the meat from the CuisineArt, and I separated the meat into three equal amounts about 8 ounces each which I packed into ball shapes and compressed them evenly around.   I then took a large orange coffee cup saucer with the concave portion down, and I press it down on each meat ball to form it into a hamburger pattie about 1.5 inches thick.   I then evened the patties around the edges with my hands to form three hamburger patties.   I put two in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator for later.   I then peel a Vidalia onion, and I cut off two thirds of it into quarter inch slices.   I put the rest with the meat in the refrigerator.   I then put a cup of baby carrots in a microwave proof plate pot with lid with an inch of water, and I ran it on three vegetable cycles of the General Electric microwave oven.   While doing that I put about four tablespoons of olive oil in a 10 inch diameter stick proof frying pan, and I heated it on medium high electric heat on the General Electric stove.   I  then put the hamburger and sliced onions in the frying pan.   I heated the hamburger on side for a minute, and then I flipped it and seasoned it with ground black pepper and garlic powder, and after another minutes, I flipped it back again to sear it on both sides.    I then cooked the hamburger for about 3 minutes on each side seasoning it and the onions with garlic powder and ground black pepper.   I  stirred the sliced onions while they were cooking.   For the last two minutes on the last side of the hamburger I put three 1/16th inch thick slices of American cheese on it.   Once the hamburger and onions were done, I put the skillet on the dinner plate to warm it up for about 20 seconds.   I then put the hamburger in the middle of the dinner plate.  I then put about three tablespoons of A1 steak sauce on the hamburger with the sautéed onions on top of that.   I drained the water out of the cooked baby carrots, and I put them in a bowl with a small amount of olive oil.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I then washed the dishes.  I then chatted with a relative.   I then showered, and I cleaned up.   I then went out at Midnight which is the only civilized time for Vampires to leave their house.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I chatted for about another hour while walking with another regular walker.    Not really much was going one, since with the higher price of energy, not many people want to waste money cruising around downtown.   Of course, once one parks at night, walking is not too expensive, if one is fit enough, and I am only a mile from town, and I really should start the car every two days to keep it in good running shape.   Plus in the warmer weather, it is an enjoyable walk.  I then returned home, and I ate a 9.75 ounce can of CVS lightly salted cashew nuts.    I drank some iced tea.    CIO        

Note:<888> 05/19/06  Friday 7:30 A.M.:   I send out an email to my Taft alumni agent.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Flipper better watch out BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Deep-sea fish stocks 'plundered' .   BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft reveals Vista checklist .   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/19/06  Friday 5:15 A.M.:   I ordered Linens 'n Things - Bath: Accessories: Bath Mats: Watergard Bath Mat for $14.99 less 20% one item discount coupon code "953500000004" good until May 27, 2006 Linens 'n Things coupons and Linens 'n Things coupon code for $3 off for cost of $11.99 plus $1.12 tax and $6.65 UPS ground shipping for $19.76 total, which at basically $3.65 shipping is cheaper from an insurance point of view than driving over to Linens and Things in Port Chester, New York, and one is not tempted to buy anything else like almonds at Costco.   I think my Costco card expires at the end of May 2006 anyway.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/19/06  Friday 4:35 A.M.:  I rehung the shower curtain and the shower curtain liner.   The old Rubbermaid bath mat is starting to fall apart, so I cut of six inches off the end where it has begun to wear out.   I will get another one at Linens and Things in Port Chester, New York, when I have the time.   It is amazing how many so called smart elderly people and even younger people do not invest in rubber bath mats for their shower tub enclosures.   I would rather spend the money on a rubber bath mat to prevent a fall and breaking a hip than a lot of other necessities of life.  From an insurance actuarial point of view, you are more likely to be hurt falling in your bath tub or shower stall than you are from being hurt by Ben Laden and Al Qaeda, but most governments do not look at the simple things in life, since they are not big ticket budget busting items.  A rubber bath mat in a shower stall or tub enclosure to prevent slipping and falling is like a seat belt in a car.  And they ain't cheap anymore Linens 'n Things - Bath: Accessories: Bath Mats: Search for , and this is probably the one that I will get Linens 'n Things - Bath: Accessories: Bath Mats: Watergard Bath Mat , which at $15 and a trip to Port Chester, New York is cheaper than a hip operation at the Greenwich Hospital.   It is sort of queer that they do not sell them at CVS in Greenwich considering how important they are.   I will check next time I go by CVS, but I do not recall ever seeing them there.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/19/06  Friday 3:50 A.M.:   I still think more like the Duke of Windsor's house boy than my more recent activities on computers.    Although, I will not bother to do house cleaning later on today, but with all the rain we're getting that might give me something to do off the computer.   To compensate, I took down the shower curtain and shower curtain liner and the Rubbermaid bath mat, and I am washing them in liquid detergent and bleach to get off all of the soap scum and mold.   That is another routine that I do about every six months, when I have the time.   If someone were not "Excuse My French" screwing up my computers all of the time, I would have more time for the other routine house keeping exercises and routines which are equally important.   Since I consider myself Anglo Dutch American, I try to keep up with contacts across the Atlantic, and since I do not speak Dutch, I figure there is not point with chatting with the Netherlands, but I hear tell they tend to speak English well.   However, I do not have any telephone numbers for anyone in the Netherlands, so although I might know someone there, they never gave me a telephone number.   For all I know they are still using two Dixie cups and a piece of thread.   In the old days in France, when they were invaded frequently, they use to string hidden telephone lines through the grape vineyards, so they still could chat in occupied territories.   Thus when I work in communications, I call it "Working the Grapevine", if you get my drift.   For all I know the Dutch might monitor me too, but if they do, they never let on.   The Dutch do not really seem to be too interested in New Amsterdam, since they have been here so many times, they can not figure out why we do not visit more frequently.   It is only a hop, skip, and a jump across the pond, but the Dutch seem to earn more Dutch guilders to travel, than the Dutch in America have to travel the other way.  Thus if you want another picture of me around the telephone box in Amsterdam, http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mls-nl.jpg , I am going to have to lose about 45 pounds to look that thin again, and more than likely you will not like the smell of my Canadian cigarettes.   It you notice in the background of the Dutch telephone picture, it says Thomas Cook which used to be a British travel agency, until more modern people put them out of business.    I still have that brown tan jacket, but it does not fit me very well at 200 pounds.   I was told by a relative that the tulips in Holland, Michigan Holland Convention & Visitors Bureau - Homepage did not look very good this year, because of all of the bad weather.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/19/06  Friday 2:20 A.M.:   I chatted with another local security organization.   I also gave a call to If you suspect it, report it - Metropolitan Police Service using Net2Phone, which is only 4.9 cents a minute to London, England, where they still speak the Queen's English.   I chatted with them for a while.  I ate the other half of the 5.75 ounce tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.    www.net2phone.com international rates are Net2Phone - Consumer Services - CommCenter .   I did not have the Plantronics DSP 500 headset plugged in properly, so I plugged it in properly to the primary computer, and I adjusted it.  It is the nature of the internet that it runs through long distance telephone lines, and since I live within a 100 yards of the trans Atlantic telephone line with an unknown terminal and since there are not many people between here and London except fish, the internet with a high speed cable modem tends to work quite well for chatting over on the other side of the pond with Net2Phone.  Next Tuesday, when I get the two wireless headsets to connect to the primary and the server computers, one will be able to chat with them connected to the computers with wireless capability with a 100 foot range to the base station connected to the computer.    I also ate a couple large heaping scoops of the gelatin and fruit mixture that I made last night.  CIO     

Note:<888> 05/19/06  Friday 12:35 A.M.:   I have some good news to report for anyone whom knows people elsewhere in the world.   I currently use Optimum Voice - Local, Regional & International Calling Plans with Voice Service in New York, Connecticut & New Jersey which I get from www.optimum.net for $15 a month with a $20 discount from the regular $35 a month, since I also subscribe to Optimum Digital television for about $72 a month.   With Optimum Voice, I get unlimited telephone calling in the United States of America, Canada, and Puerto Rico.   However, now for another $20 a month, one get 500 minutes or 8.33 hours of Voice Service - Optimum Voice Worldwide Calling only $19.95 a month for 500 minutes International Calling  for just another $20 a month.   Thus if you are not a hermit like me, and you have friend over seas you need to chat with about the Price of Tea of China, it is now much cheaper to call.    CIO 

Note:<888> 05/18/06  Thursday 11:55 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went by my usual 3 P.M. appointment.    I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and all of their clothes are half price.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I bought a scratch card for a dollar at Zyn stationary, and I won a dollar, so it worked out even.   I stopped CVS during my walk, and I bought buy one get one free of CVS 9.75 ounce lightly salted cashew nuts for $4.39 both, a 12 ounce bottle of Frank's hot sauce for $1.99, four 5.75 ounce Pringles potato chips sour cream and onion flavor for .88 each, and from the clearance shelf a 24 pack of AA CVS alkaline batteries for $4.99 plus .30 tax for $15.19 total.   I then stopped by the Swedish sleep shop.    I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I gave the reference librarian some information.   I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a loaf of Stop and Shop stone ground whole wheat bread for $2, and two Vidalia onions at .99 a pound for $1.16, and a cab shoulder steak on sale for $1.99 a pound, but they mistakenly charged me $4.99 a pound for $7.63 for $10.79 total.   Thus they owe me $4.62 back, since I gave them my Stop and Shop discount card, but it did not scan properly.    I then returned home.  I took two pieces of bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on them, and then I put four 1/32nd thick slices of turkey folded over and six 5 inch by 5 inch slices of American cheese and the top half of the bread.   I cut the sandwich in half on the diagonal, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea and half of a tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips, and a dill pickle sliced lengthwise.   I had to restart the server, because it looks like their was a Comcast User hacker from Waltham, Massachusetts.   I advised the local Waltham, Massachusetts security organization and another security organization.   I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I  left a message with two other friends.   Since the server had its firewall and antivirus programs stopped, and it also had its motion detection camera stopped, I can not tell if there was any intrusion into the apartment or not.   Since I once lived next to Waltham and worked at Polaroid many moons ago, there might be a Greenwich connection, or it could be some JDL type at Brandeis College thinking I am an Arab.    Whatever, the case the security people I know usually sort it out.   I saw someone that looked like Mayor Bloomberg exiting the art opening at the Greenwich Library.    I have seen him many times before, so I guess it was him.   Possibly somebody does not like me running my server, so they can try to impersonate me, but I tend to stay locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, and most everyone I deal with knows me.   Also my fingerprints have been on file with the www.fbi.gov since 1971, when I drove a taxi cab in Lake Forest, Illinois.  CIO           

Note:<888> 05/18/06  Thursday 2:25 P.M.:   I did a Microsoft Windows XP automatic system recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive while I was asleep.   I also ran Ad-aware SE before doing the backup, and I also did a System Restore backup.   I woke up at noon.   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I will now go out to my 3 P.M. appointment.   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/18/06  Thursday 5:40 A.M.:   BBC NEWS | Business | Airbus shows off 'super-jumbo' .    I worked for a while with http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   Well, I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO     

Note:<888> 05/18/06  Thursday 3:55 A.M.:   I ate the other half of a 3.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips with some iced tea.   I watched some television.   I ate two scoops of peach ice cream.    I went through my email.   I will now boot in Vista to check if the gigabyte drivers install.   On earlier builds with the Gigabyte motherboard, they would not.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/18/06  Thursday 1:20 A.M.:   Since I got my 1995 Volvo Turbo Wagon around the first of October 2004, I have driven it about 4500 miles.   It had 98,500 miles on it, when I got it, and it just changed to 103,000 miles last night.   Thus over 19.5 months, I have driven 4500 miles or about 231 miles on average per month.  Since I get about 15.5 miles per gallon driving locally around town, I used about 15 gallons of premium unleaded gasoline a month at about $3.569 a gallon locally, I currently would spend about $53.53 a month of gasoline if I drove at my pre gasoline increase pattern, but I have cut back significantly, so I only am not spending about $30 a month, so I have cut back my driving by about 60%.   I never actually drove that much by suburban standards.   I filled with fresh cold water ten 59 ounce clear plastic orange juice containers, and one cleaned 200 ounce Arm and Hammer liquid detergent container, so I have 790 ounces of stored fresh water, which I stored underneath the www.harvard.edu chair in the kitchen, and I also have several thermos containers with about four year old hurricane water that I saved, and they have been kept sealed.   I boiled a pint of water, and I opened up two Royal 2.5 ounce gelatin mixtures, one orange and one cherry, and I put them in a Pyrex casserole bowl with the pint of boiled water that I mixed into the gelatin mixture.   I opened a 15.25 ounce can of Del Monte Del Monte Corporation chunky mixed fruit, and I drained out the liquid into a pint measuring cup, and I filled it the pint measuring cup the rest of the way with cold fresh orange juice, and I added the mixture to the hot gelatin mixture, and I then added the Del Monte chunky fruit and mixed it all together.   I put the lid on the Pyrex casserole, and I set it on the lower shelf in the refrigerator, and it should be set up in about four hours, and be ready to start snacking on later on today.   I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half cross wise.  I ate the sandwiches  with a glass of iced tea.  I also had half of a 5.75 ounce can of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips.  I also quartered a dill pickle lengthwise, which I also ate with the sandwiches.  I turned the main living room light switch off that controls the primary lights in the living room, and I am now working underneath low light conditions.   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 11:25 P.M.:  The China Trade might be interrupted for a while FOXNews.com - More Than 500,000 Evacuated Before Typhoon Hits Southern China - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News .  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 11:20 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I put away my laundry.   I left a message with another relative.    If one needs a 7-Port USB 2.0 Non-Power Hub PPA 7-Port USB 2.0 Hub 1813 at TigerDirect.com this is about the best deal, I can find on the internet.   However, I do not really need one, since I have enough USB ports.    I will now do some regular internet work.   I did not bother cleaning up, since I am not going out.   Since it is warmer in my apartment, I am just sitting around my apartment in my boxer shorts.   I used to know one Greenwich Library volunteer who use to sit around the library on hot summer days in his silk underwear, so there are all sorts of ways to save money on energy.   I could turn off the living room lights, and work underneath the other lower powered lights, but that would get a bit gloomy after a while.   However, who knows in the future.   When I use to study the old photography box of photographs called the "Recording Eye", there was a picture of the Boxer rebellion in China with all of the boxer rebellion individuals with their heads cut off, so any boxer types can be forewarned about what can happen.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 9:30 P.M.:   I started two loads of laundry.   I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle.   I put clean linens on the bed.   I threw out some garbage.    I sat outside briefly.   I will now shower and clean up.   One feels better if one showers and cleans up, but one also has to remember, one uses more energy for hot water.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 7:55 P.M.:   I woke up at 6 P.M..   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I chatted with three friends.    I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.   I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.   I guess I will also shower and clean up, so I feel a bit cleaner.    I will not be going out tonight to save on energy.   I will stay home and work on the computer.    Greenwich is still busy downtown with people going to the movies, dining, having coffee, and whatever; but it is not as busy as it once was.   There is a new restaurant beneath the Greenwich Financial Center on Fawcett Place that seems to be quite busy.   Also McDuffs across from the Railroad Avenue movie theatre is busy.   Supposedly Fergie dined there two weeks ago.   However, since she is involved in weight watchers WeightWatchers.com: Start Losing Weight Today! , she probably does not dine out too much anymore.   Off course there are lots of other restaurants opened in the area at night.   It only takes money and gasoline, and that is something that a few people in Greenwich, Connecticut have not seem to have run out of yet.    Meanwhile here on the Forgotten Side of town, the newspaper is paying attention to us Byram prepares for improvement plan - Greenwich Time .   However, it is only the New York City and Visitor types that are in to dining out in downtown Greenwich.   Back in the old days, when my family lived off Round Hill Road, we would occasionally go the Nielsen's ice cream parlor across from the Greenwich Library and the Exxon gasoline station on Saturday nights and have a hamburger.   It was basically a Howard Johnson's type of restaurant.   Thus for the local country bumpkins from back country Greenwich when they visit downtown with their pen money have more options that we did in the old days.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 8:15 A.M.:   I reinstalled and did some minor configuration on http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   I ate two scoops of peach ice cream.   Dante was born on the same day I was Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, Divina Commedia May 9 in History .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO  

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 5:00 A.M.:   Floater One Imagery - Satellite Services Division .  ASTER: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer .  I finished going through my email.   I will now install recent updates, and then I will reinstall the Vista beta build 5381 on the primary computer second partition on the first hard drive.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/17/06  Wednesday 3:25 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I stopped by the Food Emporium, and I bought Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.89.   I then went downtown, and I mailed the Epox motherboard at the central Greenwich post office Priority Mail for $9.   The package weighed 2 pounds and 14.60 ounces.   It is suppose to arrive at its destination in California this Thursday, but the package post box I deposited it in says there is no pickup in the central Greenwich Post Office lobby until 5 P.M., so it will lose a day.    I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I noticed a local maintenance crew was steam cleaning the sidewalks on Railroad Avenue.   It looked like someone had dripped paint in front of the railroad station and the restaurant.   Also the street light across the street from the train station entrance is still out after all of these years.   I also checked out the Citibank ATM machines, and their ATM machines besides having English and Spanish also have an Asian language, but I am not sure if it is Chinese or Japanese.   I completed my walk.    I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.   I ate the remaining 25% of CVS whole cashew nuts.  I took three large eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and a couple of tablespoons of milk, and a couple of teaspoons of olive oil, and a few dashes of Italian seasoning, and I whisked it all together.   I put three paper towels on a microwave proof dinner plate and then four strips of double thick Oscar Meyer bacon and two more paper towels and the plastic microwave plate cover, and I put it in the microwave, and I set the timer for four minutes.   I put two English muffin halves in the toaster.   I then took a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I added few tablespoons of olive oil, and I turned on the electric burner to medium high, once the oil began to get hot, I added the egg mixture and lowered the electric burner heat to medium, and I started the bacon in the microwave oven, and I started the English muffins.  Once the eggs were about half cooked, I used a spatula, and I slid the cooked part off the bottom of the pan to let the liquid part cook some more.   About the time the bacon was done, the eggs and toast were done.   I mixed the eggs a little bit towards the end to scramble them medium soft.   I put the hot skillet briefly on a dinner plate to warm it, and then I put the eggs on the plate along with the bacon and English muffins.   I put olive oil on the English muffin halves along with about 2 ounces of Philadelphia 1/3 less fat cream cheese.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I then uninstalled the Epox and Nvidia drivers and programs from my primary computer, and I installed the Gigabyte programs and drivers.   For some reason the Bios update program will not work, but since it is already updated that does not really matter.    I have not received a second tracking number from JustDeals, so maybe they combined my Friday and Sunday orders in the package that I did receive tracking for.   I will now go through my email.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/16/06  Tuesday 7:05 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative a friend after the last message.   I woke up a couple of times, and I ate 75% of a 9.5 ounce can of CVS whole cashew nuts.    I finally woke up at 4 P.M..   I contacted Welcome to Epox Store Contact , and I got an RMA number for the Epox motherboard.   I packaged it up in bubble wrap in its box including the RMA information but just the motherboard and not its other parts.   I put it in a United States Post Office Priority Mail box, and I sealed it, and I have it labeled and ready to mail.   I can mail it after hours at the central Greenwich Post Office.    I left a message with a friend.  Apparently somebody with Greenwich, Connecticut and Vermont connections is having people murdered according to this story Vermont slaying attracts interest of Kissel investigators - Greenwich Time .   Probably half of Greenwich, Connecticut has Vermont connections, so it could be anyone.   Greenwich, Connecticut with its large Jewish population from New York City also has a lot of New York City people whom have too many traffic tickets, so they established Vermont residence to get Vermont automobile license tags, so they can avoid New York City traffic fines.   I will have breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  There is no information yet on my second http://justdeals.us order.    I will now shut down the primary computer.  After breakfast, I will shower and clean up and go out.   CIO       

Note:<888> 05/16/06  Tuesday 7:10 A.M.:   I microwaved and ate a Marie Callendar 14 ounce turkey dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with a friend.   The order on the FS516 10/100 16 Port Dual Speed Switch RJ-45 (NETGEAR-FS516) - PriceGrabber.com for $43.95 with free UPS shipping has tracking of UPS Package Tracking .  This past morning before going to bed, I ate half of a 9.5 ounce can of whole cashew nuts, and I woke up a couple time and ate more, and I finished them off after breakfast last evening.   I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO  

Note:<888> 05/16/06  Tuesday 5:40 A.M.:   I had two telephone calls this morning that I did answer.   I woke up at 6:30 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I had to restart the cable modem, since the Optimum Voice telephone was not working, but the server was working.   I chatted with a relative.   I watched President Bush's www.whitehouse.gov  speech on immigration on television.    I got a NOAA weather warning for a thunderstorm in Manhattan about 9:30 A.M..   I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor for about a half hour.   I returned to my apartment, and I chatted with a friend.    I started to start up the primary computer, and the power control panel switch was turned on, and the lights were on the primary computer, but it was not booted up.   I tried restarting the primary computer, and it would not boot, but its power was turned on and working properly.  I did not get any display on the monitor.    I suspected possibly fowl play since there were a number of strangers circulating around the building, so I called the Greenwich Police, and one of their officers came over, and I chatted with him in front of the building.    I then disconnected the primary computer, and I put it in the bedroom on the bed, and I tried troubleshooting it, but its troubleshooting light gave an 88 code that it would not boot.   I finally removed the Epox motherboard, and I installed the old Gigabyte motherboard, and it works just fine.   However, either I installed the switch plug wrong, or something is wrong with my control panel, because the power comes on to the computer, when I turn on the control panel switch, but I still have to turn on the switch to get the computer to boot.   I think that is an option to bring the computer out of hibernation, if one is running a server that is not busy.   I will look into that later on.   Plug and Play installed the old gigabyte motherboard drivers.    I probably will have to reinstall the Vista beta again.   I cleaned up my work area.    I tested the Epox motherboard without the control panel in the bedroom, and it would not give a boot code, so there is definitely something wrong with the motherboard.   When I reconnected the primary computer to its wires, I did not connect the telephone cable to its telephone modem, since although it is on a surge  protection system, that might be a risk.   I have the cable modem and the power to the computer on surge protection.   I checked with the police, and they told me their was not lightning today.   I have a 90 day warranty on the refurbished Epox motherboard, so I can return it for replacement.   I will pack it up tomorrow, and I will ship it back to California.   I can mail it at night at either of our post offices, but first I have to get an RMA for it.  More than likely it is just faulty, since it was working fine when I shut down yesterday morning.   It there was an intruder into the apartment, they show a level of sophistication in sabotage,  that I would not expect from the ordinary individual.   I did not have the motion detection camera on, when I went out to chat with the neighbor, but an intruder would not have known that.  I had to reactivate XP and FrontPage 2002.   Whatever, the case all of the repair activity is resulting in me spending up to 75% of my computer time on maintenance instead of working with the systems, which should not be the case.   I suspect something is afoul.  I have to do some minor system adjustments and put the Gigabyte programs back on and make sure I have the latest drivers.  I also removed the USB front port device, since the gigabyte motherboard supports the Antec case front USB devices.  CIO         

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 8:10 A.M.:   I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream.    I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 7:15 A.M.:  I think it is getting back to that time again that we reactivate the "Old Eagle's Nest", for what it is worth.   On another Audubon communications note, http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/ for a view of young eagles in their nest in the day time.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 6:45 A.M.:  I sent this message in the form to Indian Harbor Yacht Club Contact Form . 

Since I returned off Nantucket in December 1983, I have been around your small Yacht Club mostly down by the Steamboat Road piece after living for 4.5 years next to at Mrs. Jenkins at 700 Steamboat Road. I still make it down to the pier regularly. I do not have much interest in sailing, since I am a lousy swimmer. However, I have lived around the waterfront for most of my life, and keep up my interest in computers, the weather, and volcanology.

My current web sites are:
http://mikelouisscott.com/
http://geocities.com/mikelscott/

I noticed this past Sunday evening around 6 P.M., there was no on parked in your yacht club parking lot. However, I saw a lot of British tourists around town today. Thus possibly, many of your members took off on the maiden voyage of the Carnival Cruise ship, "The Freedom of the Seas". Who Knows?

From my viewpoint if Ben Laden is to attack the New York area again, he might do it on Tuesday June 6, 2006, which in computer date code is "060606". However, it might be somewhere else in the world. One friend who just got back from Lanzarote, said over there the reason he has not been found is that he got hold of a Russian submarine. I do not know what the possibilty of that might be, but I can speculate. My original suspicions of the date June 6, 2006 became more suspect when someone from China took $15.99 out of my Bank of New York account, and I got to thinking why that number. The Chinese has 50 million of their citizens living outside of China, so they obviously know a lot. It one take 1 = 5 = 6 and two "9"s upside down equal "66", so maybe it was an old British opened code message that something would happen on that date. I assume nothing will happen out here in Greenwich as usual, since they seem to never bother us here. It would not hurt for your members and staff not to go into Manhattan on that day to be on the safe side. My wealthier family members that week are going to be up in Lake Louise in Calgary, Canada area. Since many of your members have more information with the IBM employees and other worldwide networks around your yacht club, they might know more. Remember when Pearl Harbor happened, the United States government had broken the Japanese Imperial code, and they did not alert Pearl Harbor, so the Japanese would not know they had broken the code. Any thought let me knows.

Michael Louis Scott

Since my family is British origin, and I do not have a job in the United States, I actually could be assigned to some sort of subordinate roll in the British Commonwealth of Nations, if you get my drift.

Yours Truly,

Ships Ahoy,

Cheerio and All That Rot,

Michael Louis Scott,

Wharf Rat

.CIO

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 5:25 A.M.:   I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott/icetea.htm .   The only person the local people out of the know in Greenwich, Connecticut think that have money locally is Donald Trump.   I checked out TRUMP.com , and then I went to Trump Taj Mahal Atlantic City Hotel & Casino > More > Contact Us , and I chatted with their security about my viewpoint of what might be happening business wise in terms of U.S. Capitalism.   I explained my suspicions in terms of June 6, 2006.   I told them a few of my friends connected with the Trump organization.   I explained that possibly someone was trying to steel the New York business community.   Possibly the only person in the world with those sort of contacts would be the http://mikelouisscott.com/agakhan01.jpg .   Since his father was once the world's richest person, possibly he might still have more money than Bill Gates mailto:billg@microsoft.com , whom I am not suppose to email by advisement from Microsoft Security person Carl Mountain.   I explained that if I were Donald Trump worried about security, I have read about the Trump Hotel complex in Indiana, so possibly that would be a safer place to hang out on June 6, 2006, but I can not find it listed on their web site, so maybe they changed it into a corn field for more profitable ethanol, who knows.   As a minor point of dispute Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) of Decatur, Illinois is currently making a bit of extra money currently, since they are the United States of America's largest producer of ethanol.   Ethanol is what Kentucky moon shiners use to sell to bootleggers in the hill country.   Well, anyway  they just listened.  I explained that if Mao Zedong a communist house painter came out of northwest China some area close to Mongolia that more than likely he was involved with the Khan family as in Genghis Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia whom once had a bit of influence in Mongolia, before they invested in horses and took off traveling.  Thus when Mao Zedong took over China from the Chinese Imperial family and their Imperial Treasure, he might have been allied with the Khan family, since at the time the Agah Khan at the time was the world's richest person.  Thus today in terms of the geo politics of the United States of America that same Khan family might be trying to make a power move across the oceans having established bases through out southern Asia.   Since the Agah Khan's father lived in Bombay, India more than likely his son would know some of his network.   However, the current His Highness the Aga Khan's 69th Birthday is a Swiss Medical doctor whom was the high commission for refugees at the United Nations from about 1985 to 1995, and since his family have owned a house on French Road off Round Hill Road here in Greenwich, Connecticut since 1922, I would have to consider him the major player in this area, whenever he shows up from any of his other 650 houses around the world.  He became a popular U.S.A. figure when he leant Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev one of his family houses for a peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland.   His family also financed the origins of the United Nations www.un.org.   Since in this current picture he is holding a bust of one of the largest munitions manufactures of all time, I do not think he worries about security where ever he is in the world.  With all of the Italians I have seen around recently, maybe he is at his 600 villa on the Isle of Capri.   Whatever the case in terms of the world of international finance and major investors, when an individual pretty much already owns the whole company whatever it might be like Shell in Nederland - Welkom bij Shell Nederland or www.shell.com , he more than likely does not need to buy himself out of business.    Thus from my viewpoint this whole geopolitical struggle is between www.exxon.com and www.shell.com with www.bp.com left picking up the pieces.   Maybe the Donald is just the pilot buying extra insurance for the company jet with his celebrity press.   If Fred Trump was a pilot, it would make sense that Donald Trump is a pilot.   Most of all of these famous people one reads about have something to do with aviation from my viewpoint.  Thus if one works around the railroad, one has a different point of view.   From what I can tell, even if the Bin Laden should strike New York on June 6, 2006, there will still be 40 million people give or take a couple of million people in the area to do business with.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 3:25 A.M.:   CNN.com - New warning as volcano intensifies - May 14, 2006 , BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Java volcano activity increases .  CNN.com - Floods force hundreds from New England homes - May 14, 2006 .   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 3:20 A.M.:  Gator news is now good from Florida CNN.com - Alligators blamed for 2 more deaths - May 15, 2006 .   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/15/06  Monday 2:45 A.M.:   I went to bed after the last message, but I checked out the local television stations.    I woke up yesterday Sunday on Mother's Day about 1 P.M..   I chatted with my mother, and my mother is doing just fine keeping an eye on the Snow Birds still down in Florida.   I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put a new Vanish Borax toilet tablet in the toilet tank.   I went out, and I stopped by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $14 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.599 a gallon for 53.2 miles driving since May 4, 2006 at 15.5 miles per gallon at an average of 12 miles per hour driving around town.    I then checked my tire pressure at 32 Pounds Per Square Inch on all four tires.    My rear tires that I put on, I think are the original Swedish tires on the original tire rims that came with car.   They still have good enough tread on them.   My relative said that this summer up in Kennebunkport, Maine when I visit around the third week of June, they might buy me a new set of tires at Sam's Club in Scarborough, Maine.   However, my current tires are perfectly safe for the current driving conditions in this area.   I was told they had 10 inches of rain in Kennebunkport, Maine and York County, Maine this past weekend.   There was also a bit of minor flooding locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut.   I next went to the Greenwich Library, and I checked out two Microsoft Windows XP books with CDs.  One is "Microsoft Windows XP Do Amazing Things" and the other one is "Microsoft Windows XP Networking and Security Inside and Out".  I surfed the internet for a while in the library using the IBM www.ibm.com computers.   They seem to work faster than my primary computer, but one has to remember, when I boot my primary computer, I boot about 20 startup programs with it, since I run a more complex computer system.    I chatted with a visiting British couple.  The new Carnival Cruise http://www.carnival.com/ ship "The Freedom of the Seas" was in Manhattan this past weekend, so we had some British visitors around.   They always seem to be more interested in exploring around that hearing my short version of British history in this area.   I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I chatted with a Starbuck's regular at the beginning and the end of the walk.  I stopped by Zen stationary, but it was too late to buy a Scratch card.   I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 3.5 ounce CVS Clorox Bleach Drop In tablet for $1.99.   I believe in England, they call them Johnny Cakes.   I bought two six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.50 each pack.   I believe in England, they call them Scones.  I bought two 9.75 cans of CVS whole light salted cashew nuts for buy one can get one can free for $4.39 both.  I believe in England, they called them parrot food.  I also bought two 3.35 ounce bottles of CVS Gold Emblem paprika for .66 each, one 2.79 ounce ginger for .66, one 2.5 ounce chicken bouillon cubes for .66, one 2.5 ounce beef bullion cubes for .66, and one .42 ounce chopped chives for .66.   I also bought a 15 ounce Alberto V05 Kiwi and Lime shampoo for .88 and a 15 ounce Alberto VO5 Kiwi and Lime conditioner for .88  plus .23 tax for $15.34 total.   I chatted with the children's hair stylist from the top of Greenwich Avenue where Mike's barber shop use to be, and he told me he has moved further down Greenwich Avenue, but I have not spotted the shop yet.   There also is a local bicycle shop downtown behind Sak's Fifth Avenue in their rear parking lot area.  Maybe Fred owns it too, because I think some of his associates used to have an antique shop there previously.  I stopped by Restoration Hardware store, and they told me they still make Dynamos for night bicycle lights in Italy.  After I finished my walk, I sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront.   I chatted with some more British tourists.  One of them was wearing a Queen Elizabeth II jacket.   The Indian Harbor Yacht Club was totally deserted, so maybe they all took off on the Freedom of the Seas for unknown destinations.  There were only three launch crew there as far as I could tell.   The sea gulls have been dropping conch shells on the wharf.  I then stopped by the Royal Bank of Scotland, and I chatted for a while with the security officer.   I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two gallons of America's Choice white vinegar for $1.99 each and two 59 ounce containers of Tropicana orange juice for $2.50 each $8.98.   The regular cashier had just gotten back from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, and I was told they are worried there that the reason they have not found Ben Laden is that he got hold of one of those Russian submarines.    Well, I guess anything is possible.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases.   I chatted with my mother again.  I do not mention much about my mother because I like respecting her privacy, but she is doing just fine.  I was just thinking today about this picture http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-and-life-guard-mike-tabago-1971.jpg  and the dark skinned life guard in Tobago looks familiar from other photographs I have seen since.   Would he possibly be the world's most recognized celebrity known as the Brazilian soccer star Pele.   He does look a bit like him.   There was also one recluse in Tobago whom had an opened air house with about 2,000 exotic birds in it, so unless one likes being around bird droppings, I would not bother dropping in.   I checked out some bargains on the internet.    I took the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu 7 spice tomato sauce, and I put it in a rubbermaid plastic pot with the contents including juice of a 6.5 ounce can of Snow's clams, and I mixed the sauce and clams together, and I put the lid on it, and then I heated both containers on two reheat cycles of the General Electric microwave oven.  I put the hot spaghetti noodles on a dinner plate with the clam sauce on top of it with a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I bought a few bargains on the internet.   I bought two JustDeals.us 980118-0000: Logitech Wireless Headset Microphone Cordless -- 980118-0000 for $14.95 each refurbished, and one JustDeals.us F5D5000: Belkin 10/100 Ethernet Desktop LAN Network PCI Card -- F5D5000  for $6.95 for $36.85 total with free shipping.   I can used the two wireless Logitech wireless headsets for talking and listening on the internet with wireless connections.    Here is a better description of the devices pricesaving.com Product Description and Specifications of LABTEC-Labtec Cordless Headset 100ft Range for Voice CHAT Int. Tel-9801180000  .   I took quite a while to research them, and make sure they are what I need and want.  Thus JustDeals also has another web site www.justdeals.us .   I chatted with a few local security organizations, but they never really tell one anything.   My best guess in not really knowing all that much is that if Ben Laden is to strike at the alliance somewhere in the world, it might be on June 6, 2006 or on the computer date 060606, a day that people might remember, so possibly it might be a major strike at some location.   However, I do not really know any hard facts, it is just a guess, but it is a date that people would remember.   Since the Al-Qa'ida group think we are Western devils, they might chose to strike on that day, which in the bible the number "666" was suppose to be the number of the devil, but it really was the Hebrew symbol for the hated emperor Nero.   Your guess is as good a mine.   I was told many years ago, the primary cargo on the British cruise ship lines is bonded liquor that they pick up and deliver at the various ports around the world.    I was also once told by the captain of the Queen Elizabeth II that the only products they purchase in Manhattan is Scott Paper.   I also once observed quite a few of their passengers when they depart the ships terminal on the west side of Manhattan, they head for the King Cole room in the basement of the St. Regis Hotel just east of the piers and just east of Fifth Avenue, where they  have a jolly time in port.   I will now do some regular internet work.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/14/06  Sunday 12:50 A.M.:   I ate the other half of the 3.5 ounce tube of barbeque pringle potato chips with some iced tea.   I watched some television.    I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 11:40 P.M.:  CNN.com - Indonesian volcano threatens 20,000 - May 13, 2006  .   CIO

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 9:50 P.M.:  After I did the C: drive to D: drive backup, I did a C: drive to the Maxtor external hard drive ASR backup.   I boiled three quarts of water with  a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.   I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni #9 thin spaghetti noodles.   I then drained the water with a colander into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu 7 herb tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid in the General Electric microwave oven on the reheat cycle.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I watched part of an old Randolph Scott movie.   He was better off than most actors, since his wife was Pierre Dupont's only daughter, and she controlled one of the largest fortunes in America.    I chatted with a relative.   CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/13/06:

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 5:35 P.M.:   I was awake at noon.   I had breakfast of oatmeal with sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.   I went back to bed until just now.   I will install the updates and run some maintenance utilities on the primary computer, and then I will do a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.   I had a telephone call from India trying to sell me Long Distance Service.   I will first send out my weekly notes before I do the backup.  CIO    

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 3:55 A.M.:  Recently www.whitehouse.gov has had some problems with its approval Bush: Job Ratings , so GOP.com | Republican National Committee :: Home has some work to do.   However, without wampum Wampum--Native American Beadwork , NativeTech: Wampum; History and Background , Wampum: Introduction , the Great White father ain't going anywhere.   I frequently have to remind well meaning Fairfield County republicans that the Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert is from Illinois, where my branch of the Scott family is suppose to be from.   Thus more than likely someone out there in the governmental woodwork is keeping an eye on me.   However, I plan to live where I am presently located in Greenwich, Connecticut for the rest of my life, since I have lived here most of my life.   However, if I ever chose to go back to family roots in the Midwest, I could also chose another hometown besides Champaign, Illinois such as my mother's hometown of Holland, Michigan, but possibly just returning to somewhere in between such as my old college hometown of Lake Forest, Illinois would be halfway in between.   However, after all of the action and big city life out here on the east coast for most of my life, I suppose I might become somewhat disorientated with the slower pace of life in the Midwest.   I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream before going to bed yesterday morning, and I just ate two more scoops this morning.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   However, if I ever chose to live in Champaign, Illinois, I might have access to National Center for Supercomputing Applications which is suppose to have some sort of budget, but alas I do not know Unix programming, so I am left around www.ibm.com being a pain in the you know what as far as they are concerned.   However, on a minor point of dispute, since the mother of the First United States of America Supreme Court Chief Justice "John Jay" was from the Scott family, it would seem to me that their might be some old roots in this area, once clears away all of the old dead wood.   I put two new CVS Alkaline AA batteries in my Logitech LX500 wireless keyboard.  CIO  

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 2:35 A.M.:  I put together a web page Merapi Volcano Links Java Indonesia  .  CIO

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 2:00 A.M.:   jules homepage: portal to the Jules Verne Voyager interactive map tool .   UNAVCO Home Page .  Global Volcanism Program | Merapi | Maps . http://jules.unavco.org/Voyager/Earth?n=-7.542&e=110.442&dn=4.5&de=6&gmt=2&geo=4&opt=256&lbl=64&pre=si_gvp  .  CIO

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 1:55 A.M.:   If you look at this, you can probably figure out if Merapi eruptions meant colder winters the following winters Global Volcanism Program | Merapi | Eruptive History .   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 1:50 A.M.:   Global Volcanism Program | Merapi | Summary  .   Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program: Worldwide Holocene Volcano and Eruption Information .   CIO

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 1:25 A.M.:   Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi .  Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi - Home . Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi - Berita Hotnews . Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi - Merapi naik ke level IV AWAS .   Java was once a Dutch colony, and I think the pages are in Dutch.   Although, I am half Dutch, I do not know Dutch.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 1:10 A.M.:  Merapi Volcano Observatory . News from The Associated Press Hundreds Flee From Active Merapi Volcano  .Merapi Volcano, Java .  MERAPI, Indonesia .  Direktorat Vulkanologi Indonesia .  The International Merapi Workshop 2006 - Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation .  CIO

Note:<888> 05/13/06  Saturday 12:50 A.M.:   I did some bargain hunting, but there is nothing that I need.   BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Red alert for Indonesia volcano .   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/12/06  Friday 11:10 P.M.:   I opened a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on two reheat cycles of the General Electric microwave oven.   I put the hot soup in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl with some parsley on top of it.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.    I then ate the last piece of French crumb cake.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/12/06  Friday 10:15 P.M.:   I went through my email.  Here is the link on the Netgear Switch that I ordered Welcome to NETGEAR - Products ProSafe 16 Port 10/100 Rackmount Switch Model FS516 .   This says its  regular new price is $530 Tech Gift Ideas: Electronics: NETGEAR FS516 - Switch - 16 ports - EN, Fast EN - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX , but the Netgear site only lists the FS524 for $450, so anyway it is a considerable savings.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/12/06  Friday 8:40 P.M.:   I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I also filled the shower caddy with shampoo, conditioner, and liquid soap.    I ran a lubrication cycle on the paper shredder, by adding a few drips of the paper shredder oil to a piece of paper and running it through.   I also emptied the paper shredder.   I threw out the old periodical literature including some old computer magazines and the garbage and shredded paper.    This morning before going to bed, I took the old light blue silverware holder, and I put it underneath the sharp fax machine, and I removed the Winston Churchill book, and I put it in the right hand side bookcase in the hallway.   Winston Churchill was a very popular British politician.   He spent all day in bed drinking brandy and smoking cigars, and he lived to be over 90, and he won World War II.   He also was a journalist, and he even found time to build brick walls after being prime minister.    CIO 

Note:<888> 05/12/06  Friday 4:40 P.M.:   I was awake at 9 A.M..   I  chatted with a relative.   I had breakfast of oatmeal with sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed.    I woke up at 3 P.M..  One of my neighbors thinks my casual leisure clothes are my pajamas, so I will now wear my blue jeans when I go out over my leisure pants.  I checked the mail, and my MasterCard debit card arrived to replace the old one that had its number replaced.    I ordered FS516 10/100 16 Port Dual Speed Switch RJ-45 (NETGEAR-FS516) - PriceGrabber.com for $43.95 with free UPS shipping.   It is the same as Netgear FS516 16 port Fast Ethernet LAN Network Switch - FS516 that this link is sold out of.   I only have eight LAN ports on my present Ethernet LAN Switch, so I can connect them together and have up to 24 for networking purposes.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on them, and then on each of the two sandwiches, I put three 1/32nd thick slices of turkey folded over and four 5 inch by 5 inch slices of American cheese and the top half of the bread.   I cut the sandwich in half, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea and a bowl of potato chips.  I will now start my house cleaning and watering the plants.   CIO          

Note:<888> 05/12/06  Friday 2:25 A.M.:   Well, I suppose with gasoline going to $15.99 a gallon more than likely sooner or later, we will be walking a bit more around here.   I noticed this past day at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, they had an Italian men's bicycle for sale with a flat tire for $10, and I noticed it had a dynamo generator and light on it.   However, even if one has a light on a bicycle around here, I consider this area too unsafe to ride a bicycle.    In studying the no battery flash light, I noticed its generating cylinder is similar to those used on ocean buoys for generating lights at sea.   I am a bit tired, so I will not shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  When I went  to the Taft School The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut  and Lake Forest College Lake Forest College - Chicago's National Liberal Arts College in Lake Forest, Illinois, I had classmates Rob and Rick Ford whom were Henry Ford's nephews, and I noticed in the Lake Forest alumni list, there was also a Fred Ford, whom lives in Grosse Point Farms, Michigan.   What is peculiar as I recall at Lake Forest College, Fred Ford was an African American, so maybe he is one of those individuals whom tan darkly in some place like Barbados on extended holidays, and when he comes back up north, he is mistaken for an African American as opposed to a tanned American.    Since Prince William is currently on extended holiday in Mustique, he might have problems being recognized, whenever he comes back up north, but blond haired people tend not to tan as darkly.  After three weeks in Tabago in 1971, this is about as darkly tanned as I got.  I am the white guy on the left http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-and-life-guard-mike-tabago-1971.jpg .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/12/06  Friday 1:20 A.M.:   I ate two bowls of potato chips.   I did some thinking about http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , and possibly he was living under an alias.   In the period of 1973 to 1975, I heard Fred Hughes' named mentioned, but according to this picture, Fred Von Mierers was not Fred Hughes Andy Warhol 1970 - 1974 , although Fred Hughes does look a bit like Howard Hughes, and Howard Hughes also lived on East 49th Street.  This mention's Fred Hughes The Fred Hughes Estate Auction ; Maine Antique Digest, December 2001 .   However, since Fred Von Mierers was more European acting possibly, he was from one of those Eastern European groups that were taken over by the Russians after World War II and relocated to Siberia or other remote areas.  Then possibly he was trained as an agent, and Ed Powers in Manhattan would have been his handler, and Helen Williams his contact.    However, Fred knew thousands of people in Europe, so I do not think he was the Spy who came in from the cold.   He might have been associated with some Northern European royal household, since he always kept his Frederick air conditioner going full power during the winter months.   Thus he was a cold weather person.   Whatever, the case there is very little reference to him anymore, so more than likely possibly the story as we know it, is the story.  Whatever, the case more than likely other people in Europe would have his same family look.   Since Fred supposedly had accumulated millions of dollars in his New Age cult, more than likely he would have had a lawyer and legal heirs.  From what I have read, more than likely there was a link between him and the Scientology - Church of Scientology Official Site and L. Ron Hubbard Home Page and L. Ron Hubbard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   The Greenwich, Connecticut connection might have been the Masonic order in Greenwich, Connecticut was started by a Hubbard family member, and Jim Eldert out in California lived with Peter Hubbard who was from Greenwich, Connecticut, and last I heard Peter Hubbard was majoring in law at U.C.L.A. about 25 years ago.   It is a quaint fact that I have only attended two weddings in Greenwich, Connecticut.   One was at the Hubbard family farm in Glenville, Connecticut back around 1965 and the other was for a minister friend of mine and his wife around 1975.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/11/06  Thursday 10:15 P.M.:   If you did not know it, Queen Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada and a few other countries you probably never heard of like Australia.   Thus in the Commonwealth group of folks which number 2.5 billion people, it is quite a lot of people to keep the British busy.    In case Queen Elizabeth II did not get the message Prime Minister of Canada: Happy 80th Birthday to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .   Having dealt with the British a few times in my life, usually when they show up here locally, it tends to rain.  Of course that might be because back in the old days, when the British had a bit of influence in Florida, since the Duke of Windsor was Governor of the Bahamas during World War II, they also dealt with drought in Florida.   Thus some cleaver British chemist probably figured out how to make it rain in Florida by "Cloud Seeding".   Basically from what I have been able to piece together, one takes about one gallon of Iodine and 50,000 gallons of water, and one mixes it together in an air tanker and sprays it on the clouds from above to seed the clouds and make it rain.   There always tend to be clouds in Florida, if they had enough fuel for the air tanker, they would be able to make it rain.   Any of the old timers in Florida would know how to do that.  Of course there might be a more modern way to do it, possibly by adding Iodine to jet fuel or some other method like shooting Iodine mist shells into the hair.   However, I am not Burt Lancaster "The Rain Maker", and currently the House of Lancaster is not very popular in England anyway.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/11/06  Thursday 9:35 P.M.:   I chatted with a friend whom I have to call back in a few minutes.   I chatted with someone whom speaks English, and that is about all I know.   For desert I ate a piece of French crumb cake.   This morning before going to bed, I also ate a bowl of potato chips.   I was thinking since I read the book about 15 years ago called "A Man Called Intrepid"  Amazon.com: A Man Called Intrepid: Books: William Stevenson whom the current head of British Intelligence might be in North America.   About 10 years ago, when I was asked, I said it might Gaylon Weston, the Canadian grocery store billionaire.    Ever since then all of the British have been spending a lot of time in grocery stores, or that is always where I see most of them.   However, on closer reflection like Sherlock Holmes, the head of British Intelligence in North America more than likely is not known.   However, one could probably figure out whom it is.   It is more than likely someone that live in Ottawa, Canada.   More than likely the individual has contacts secret or otherwise with Richard Branson of Virgin Airways.  Since Canada is 25% Chinese origin, more than likely the individual is out of the old Colonial Commonwealth network, and is probably Chinese from Hong Kong or Shanghai.   That is about all I can figure out base on my information.   Thus it would be somebody like the old movie's character Charlie Chan.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/11/06  Thursday 8:25 P.M.:   I chatted with a friend, and I left messages with another friend, and I also chatted with another friend.  I took three large eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and a couple of tablespoons of milk, and a couple of teaspoons of olive oil, and a few dashes of Italian seasoning, and I whisked it all together.    I put three paper towels on a microwave proof dinner plate and then five strips of double thick Oscar Meyer bacon and two more paper towels and the plastic microwave plate cover, and I put it in the microwave, and I set the timer for four minutes.   I put two pieces of bread in the toaster.   I then took a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I added few tablespoons of olive oil, and I turned on the electric burner to medium high, once the oil began to get hot, I added the egg mixture and lowered the electric burner heat to medium, and I started the bacon in the microwave oven, and I started the toast.  Once the eggs were about half cooked, I used a spatula, and I slid the cooked part off the bottom of the pan to let the liquid part cook some more.   About the time the bacon was done, the eggs and toast were done.   I mixed the eggs a little bit towards the end to scramble them medium soft.   I put the hot skillet briefly on a dinner plate to warm it, and then I put the eggs on the plate along with the bacon and toast.   I put olive oil on the toast, and I cut the two pieces in half.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I put the white Rubbermaid silverware holder in the center kitchen drawer, and I removed the torgoise one, which I guess I could wash and give back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   Since all of the republicans in Greenwich seem to be busy slaving away elsewhere in the world, I suppose I am left with a bunch of disgruntled democrats.   However, I suppose if the republicans ever lose their majority, the democrats will be back doing the same thing or whatever they use to do, and all of the republicans would return back to Greenwich which might be good for the local economy, since the republicans tend to have money.   The four most prominent republican families I know of in the United States of America are the Roosevelt, Ford, McCormick, and the Rockefeller families, but not necessarily in that order.   If any other republicans have money, they are good at letting people not know it.   It is like Pat Nixon, once said referring to republican women in plain cloth coats.   Whatever the case, I think the republicans will survive particularly if they quit paying for the liberal television media.   If any democrat is ever elected to the www.whitehouse.gov,  I intend to quit paying for cable television, so if all of the other republicans do that, the liberal media companies will be left with soap operas and vegematics to make a living.   However, it is a good way to get all of those lazy liberal democrats off their fat duffs and back to work by putting lots of republicans on television.  CIO         

Note:<888> 05/11/06  Thursday 5:55 P.M.:   I woke up this morning about 10 A.M..   I had breakfast of oatmeal, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I picked up my mail, and I told the postman next spring the rate for first class mail per ounce was going up to 42 cents, but you can buy a  forever stamps now for .39 cents that will always be good as first class stamps.   I guess since the government is so short of money that is they way of the government barrowing money.  I showered, and I cleaned up.    I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a Rubbermaid drawer silverware holder for $1.   I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment early.   I took time out to tour the new Greenwich Hospital, and it has some interesting displays on the history of the Greenwich Hospital.   I checked out their coffee shop and their cafeteria.   On the bulletin board opposite the cafeteria in the hallway away from the cafeteria entrance, they show various items for rent or for sale.  One can rent a two bedroom apartment at the Fairfield apartments just south of the Greenwich Hospital for $2,100 a month.    The number for that rental is 1-914-393-6276.    After my 3 P.M. appointment, I drove down the Miracle Mile, they call Greenwich Avenue, and I noticed the Complete Kitchen gourmet food store is going out of business.   I did not bother with Steamboat Road to save gasoline, but I swung back around to the Stop and Shop.   I bought three 7 ounce packages of Armour frozen sausage patties for $1 each and two 7 ounce boxes of Armour frozen maple flavor sausage links for $1 each, a dozen large Stop and Shop eggs for $1.59, and Chiquita bananas at .79 a pound for $2.13 for $8.72 total.  I found a $20 bill on the floor of the Stop and Shop while shopping, which now brings the total up to $42 that I have found lying around Greenwich, Connecticut downtown in the last 22 years.   I then went by Val's Liquor store at the Stop and Shop plaza, and I bought a 10 ounce bottle of Angostura bitters for $9.50 with tax.   I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.    I chatted with a relative.   They are suppose to get some well needed rain in Florida, since they have had a drought recently.   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/11/06  Thursday 12:50 A.M.:  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Story about oil http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1946528 .CIO  

Note:<888> 05/11/06  Thursday 12:30 A.M.:    I installed the Instant Media program.   With a high speed internet connection, they have a lot of free television shows, if one has the time to watch television.   CIO

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Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 11:30 P.M.:   ABC News: Huge Meat-Eating Dinosaur Discovered .   I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 10:50 P.M.:   Earlier today, I ate few handfuls of dry roasted peanuts.   I just cut the remaining cold eye round into ten 3/32nds of an inch thick slices on an angle, and I put them on a dinner plate with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.    I also took the remaining fresh broccoli crowns, and I cut them into spears, and I put them in the larger square plastic microwave pot with lid and an inch of water, and I ran them on three vegetable cycles on the General Electric microwave oven, and then I drained the water out, and I put them on the dinner plate with a little bit of olive oil.   I also cut a dill pickle into four lengthwise quarters, and I put them on the dinner plate.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   After dinner, I had a piece of French crumb cake for desert with iced tea.    My April 2006 electric bill from www.cl-p.com was $139 and change.   Since I did not run the electric heat for the entire month of April 2006, and the air conditioner would occasionally turn on in the afternoon when the westerly sun would shine in and warm up the apartment, I did not use much electricity for temperature control.   However, the hot water heater, the refrigerator, and Honeywell air purifier, and the allergy machine air purifier are going all the time along with the server.   Since I am on a night schedule frequently, the living room and kitchen lights are going as well as the primary computer a good deal of the time when I am awake.  I also occasionally watch television.   I use low wattage light bulbs.   That gives one, an idea of what the average monthly electric bill is today in my apartment without heat and air conditioning temperature control going.  The good news is that the next five months from June 2006 through October 2006, my monthly electricity average has been paid up my the NEON energy assistance program, and is presently in my electricity account.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 9:50 P.M.:   I worked with http://mikelouisscott.com/visbeta.htm .   I went outside a couple of times, and I chatted with neighbors.  I was outside to receive the UPS order.   I put the packing foam peanuts in the plastic bag in the false ceiling above the bed.   I threw out the shipping box just now.   I used four of the five fan extension cables to connect the four cases fans on the server to the case fan monitor.   I also install the new LAN card in the remaining PCI slot of the server.   I have the server running off the two LAN cards, and I disabled the onboard LAN.   I also disabled the onboard audio.   I connected the Andrea electronics headset with a Y adapter to the first sound out plug on the SoundBlaster Live MP3+ card along with one of the sets of speakers, and the Andrea electronics microphone to the SoundBlaster card too.   Thus the Andrea Electronics headset now works on the server as well as the speakers.   I left the four case fans set at the lowest speeds.  I took off three of the power supply case fan adapters, and I stored them in my spare parts box on the white bedroom bureau along with the spare fan wire extension cable.    I put the NYPD on the top front of the server case.   I did not receive a Great Seal of the United States case badge, but instead they sent me a United States Air Force case badge, and I put it on the top front of the primary computer.   I put the red flower case badge on the lower front of the Northgate Syntax computer, and I put the yellow flower case badge on the center front of the Dell L1000R computer.   I hooked up the Emachines keyboard to the Northgate Syntax computer on the coffee table placing it in the oak keyboard drawer.   I downloaded, and I installed its software drivers, and its programs buttons work just fine.  I put the old Microsoft keyboard underneath the bedroom sideboard.   I put the new spare power supply on top of the hutch in the bedroom.   The two flashlights that do not need batteries work just fine.  I put one by the telephone tea table in the living room with the other two flashlights.   I put the other one in my Volvo's driver's side door pocket with the other orange flashlight with batteries.   I chatted with a neighbor.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 2:25 P.M.:   I finished downloading the Microsoft Vista beta 2 build 5381, and I will now burn it to DVD, and then I will install on the second partition on the first hard drive on the primary computer.    This should take about an hour.    I am still waiting for UPS Package Tracking Directron.com Mike Scott order .   The way I figure it with the higher prices of energy those survivalists out on Nantucket might face the fact that their oil tanks might run down this coming winter, and if they do not have oil out on Nantucket, it would be awfully hard to spend the winter there, if you get my drift.   However, a lot of Nantucket people go south for the winter, since it is a nautical island.    Of course south could be about any place in the world.  I knew a sailor in Nantucket whom claimed he was the attorney representing all of Saudi Arabia in Boston, but for all I know he thought I was Saudi Arabian, since the last time he saw me, I was darkly tanned.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 2:10 P.M.:  See if you recognize any suspicious characters way out on Nantucket Nantucket.net - Live Cams .   Of course Nantucket tends not to get too busy until about the third week of June, when the Boston schools start letting out their students.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 1:50 P.M.:   QM2 - Itinerary - 2006 is not due back in Manhattan until May 23, 2006.   I was looking at TCPalm and about 30 miles south of Vero Beach, Florida, they now have TCPalm: Dining at Queen Mary British Pub : British Food and Beer .  Jupiter is the wealthiest zip code in the United States of America, and it is just south of Hobe Sound, where a lot of the movers and shakers probably still live part of the time during the winter.  They way I figure it, it is so cold in England, nobody stays there anymore, so you are more than likely to run into the British in warmer ports of destination.   Of course Welcome to Yum! Brands, Inc. has some food too, and they also own Welcome to Long John Silver's , which I use to frequently eat at in Manhattan and Greenwich in the old days.    Yes, the probably still have Fish and Chips.  I chatted with a relative again.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 1:00 P.M.:   I was awake at 9 A.M. this morning.   I had breakfast of oatmeal, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I chatted with a relative.    I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a Microsoft representative from Redmond.   I left a message with a couple of relatives and some friends.  I am downloading the 32 bit version of Microsoft Vista beta 2 build 5381 which includes the server.   It will take a while.   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   CIO        

Note:<888> 05/10/06  Wednesday 1:35 A.M.:   I went through my email.   I ate another piece of French crumb cake.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.    Not much happening in this neck of the woods.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/09/06  Tuesday 11:50 P.M.:   I chatted with Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and I told them back in the good old days, when I lived at the Casa Marina during the winter of 1978 with John Bolton from Manhasset, Long Island, we not only had a local Key West security group patrolling the hotel that was called "K-9 Security", but we also had 200 stray Hemingway 6 toed cats with one of them that might have been a baby panther.   I do not know if the mother panther was around.   They also had tarantulas on the hotel property that the 200 cats were not able to keep away.   Thus when one ventures into the tropics, one never knows what type of varmints that one might run into.   Locally, an individual that has time to read and watch the local press told me they had a problem with a bear around the garbage at a local pizza restaurant  in New Rochelle, New York.   Since we are further out in the country here in Greenwich, Connecticut, we probably have bear problems too in back country.   I remember, when I knew Louis Rosenstiel, I also knew his property warden Seiger, and Seiger was always complaining about bears around the Conyers Farm property.   CIO    

Note:<888> 05/09/06  Tuesday 11:10 P.M.:   I cut three 3/8th inch thick slices of cold eye round of beef, and I put them on a plate with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them.    I also put about 1.5 cups of baby carrots, sliced asparagus, and broccoli crowns in a plastic microwave pot with about an inch of water with lid,  and I heated it on the vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven for one cycle.   I then added the remaining cooked rice in the Rubbermaid container, and I heated both the vegetables and rice on two reheat cycles, and I put the vegetables in a bowl with a small bit of olive oil, and I put the rice on the plate with the cold eye round, and I put La Choy low sodium soy sauce on it.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I also ate a piece of crumb cake.   Tracking on my order for Super-Flower Power Supplies TT-520SS SuperFlower Switching Power Supplies Aluminum Color 4 Fans P4-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $19.99 plus for .05 a free Eagle overclock case badge, five  3-Pin Extension Cables / Adapters for 3 Wire Devices, 12"-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $2 each, eMachines KU-0108 Black Internet Multimedia USB Computer Keyboard Windows-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $6.99, 2 Self Powered LED Flashlight, with No Batteries or Bulbs to Replace-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $4.99 each, CNet 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI-Bus Adapter PRO200WL Wake-On-LAN CNet 07C712 N-Way 10/100Mbps PCI Network Card PRO200 WL-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $3.99, Case Badges - NYPD-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05, Red & Yellow Flower Case Badge (labels, stickers), #F07-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05, Flower Case Badge (stickers, labels, tags), #F02-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05, *Free USPS Shipping* Case Badges - US Seal, Flying Eagle, stickers, labels, #R2-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $2.99 plus $13.48 ground UPS shipping for $67.62 total is  UPS Package Tracking Directron.com Mike Scott order .  I guess I will have to stay in tomorrow and wait for the order.   Locally I have noticed several individuals traveling around with black nylon guitar cases.   Technically guitar cases could carry sniper rifles in them, so one should check out individuals carrying guitar cases.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/09/06  Tuesday 11:00 P.M.:   There was also a raccoon out at the bush at the southwest parking area at Tod's Point.   The locals leave bird seed there, so different birds tend to show up there.     

Note:<888> 05/09/06  Tuesday 10:00 P.M.:   I woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I had a telephone call from a relative, and I chatted with another relative.   I ate a couple of handfuls of peanuts.   I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.    I then went by Barbershop, beauty salon, haircuts - Old Greenwich, Connecticut , and I got my hair cut for $20 and $5 tip for $25 total.    I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room, and I bought a brass battery powered florescent picture light for $1.50 and .09 tax for $1.59.    I then went by CVS, and I bought two sour cream and onion 5.75 ounce Pringles for .88 each and two 5.75 ounce Barbeque Pringles for .88 each less a $3 discount coupon for .52 total.     I then went out to the Southwest parking area at Tod's Point, and I ate half of a tube of sour cream and onion Pringles.    I watched some birds in the bush there on the shoreline.   Besides the usual sparrows and starlings, there were two parrots and a cardinal and a red winged black bird.    I then parked by the south shore, and I ate the rest of the tube of Pringles.   I then went to the southeast concession area, and I sat out at the picnic area, and I watched some squirrels.   I used the bathroom at the concession area.    I then returned to central Greenwich, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a heavy cloth brownish MODA suitcase on wheels for $5.   It is the type that is suppose to fit in the luggage rack above the seat on a airplane.   I then went downtown, and I walked a small section of lower Greenwich Avenue, but it looked like it might rain, so I returned to my car.   I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I then went by the Arnold Bread store outlet, and I bought a loaf of Healthnut bread for $1.59 and a Entenmann's 14 ounce Deluxe French Butter crumb cake for $2 for $3.59 total.   I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases and the mail.   I put the suitcase on the left on the floor of the left living room closet, since two of the tires are not there anymore, there is room.   I then put the battery powered florescent light on the window shelf in front of the Lexmark X85 printer system, so it is available for emergency light.   It is too awkward to use for a picture light.    I then took a nap.   I woke up, and I chatted with a relative.   I then woke up again at 9 P.M., and I chatted with another relative.   I had a telephone call from my bank today that the amount taken out of my account was put back in by Paypal.   A relative gave me a red and white checked shirt sleeve cotton shirt for my birthday.   I then today my birthday is also the anniversary of the founding of the red cross.  CIO      

Note:<888> 05/09/06  Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:   I ate a couple of handfuls of peanuts.   I watched some television.   I will now shut down the computer.   I will go to bed soon.   Today is the 56th birthday of some unknown visitor from another planet.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 11:30 P.M.:   Security Watch: Gone in 60 seconds--the high-tech version - CNET reviews .   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 11:00 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I went outside, and I checked the perimeter.   I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream.  I will now go through my email.     CIO 

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 9:35 P.M.:   BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh and East | Dolphins 'have their own names' and BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Unravelling Krakatoa's secrets  .   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 9:25 P.M.:   I was awake at 11 P.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by Mavis Tire in Cos Cob, and they told me, they can repair a slide wall cut on a tire.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a white AT&T two line model number 722 corded telephone for $7.50.   I then went to my 4 P.M. appointment.   I was told by someone that reads the printed version of the Greenwich Time http://www.greenwichtime.com/  that according to it and Connecticut News 12, there were 350 cars in Byram, Greenwich, Connecticut that had their tires  slashed this past weekend, so the act of vandalism was not specifically targeted at me.   Also people have been firing BB guns at local house and cars.    I next returned home.   I picked up my mail.   I brought down from my living room closet the two best of the four radial snow tires for my Volvo mounted on rims with hub cabs.  I put one each on the two rear wheels of my Volvo, and I inflated them with the jump start system air pump to 30 PSI.    I put the spare in the underneath rear compartment, and I put the two tires I had taken off the rear axle in the back area of the station area, and I put the other items back in the car.   I brought up the jump start system with the air pump.   I chatted with a relative.   I put three AA Energizer alkaline batteries in the AT&T telephone, and I removed the General Electric cordless and the black wall telephone from the bathroom, and I installed the AT&T telephone on the near side of the bookcase inside the bathroom entrance on the left side.  I also took the long black received cord from the black wall phone, and I put it on the AT&T phone.    I put the black wall phone and the General Electric cordless telephone underneath the right night stand.   The AT&T phone came with one connection cable, and I put a second one on the other line.   The first line if Verizon, and the second line is Optimum Voice.   I have not labeled the AT&T phone yet.  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe , and I put half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.   I also steamed on medium high electric heat two cups of baby carrots, broccoli sprouts, and sliced asparagus, and I put them in bowl with a little bit of olive oil.   I cut two half inch slices of the cold eye round, and I put them on a dinner plate with the other half of the rice, and I put Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on the cold beef and La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   CIO     

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 3:55 A.M.:   I just made another telephone call.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.    I would like to get back to some of my normal internet and computer routines, instead of bothering me with what is pretty obvious, if one takes the time to study the internet instead of doing whatever else people do with their spare time.   I will eat a couple of scoops of coffee ice cream before going to bed.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 2:25 A.M.:  CNN.com - Giant rock growing in Mount St. Helens' crater - May 5, 2006 .   If Mount St. Helens erupts again, it would make it colder in the north country, but since down south it would be colder, there would be less hurricane activity.   However, with colder weather in the north country with less energy, it would be even colder than back in 1982, since one would not be able to stay warm.   For the life of me, I can not figure out why somebody would puncture my car tire, and I do not think it is because of my internet activity, since hardly anyone looks at my web site.   Maybe it was Fred http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm .   When I use to keep an eye on his apartment back in 1973 to 1975, I also use to keep an eye on the two black Daimlers parked on the north side of 49th street around the corner from the British consulate, and back them from what I could tell, nobody even scratched them.    I guess from what I can tell, we have a hostile group working this area.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/08/06  Monday 2:00 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   My passenger side rear tire was deflated.   I got the jump start system, and I tried to inflate it.   On closer examination, in the upper left side wall of the tire, there was about a .75 inch knife puncture.   I called the Greenwich Police, and they took down the police report on the incident.   I then replaced the punctured tire with the smaller donut type spare tire.   I inflated it to the recommended 60 PSI.    I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area, and I sat out at various locations.   I chatted with a few regular night people.   I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home, and I brought up the jump start system.   I chatted with a relative, and I chatted with a few other people.   On the tire, a relative was going to get me a new set of tires for my birthday, but if an individual is going to puncture them, I see no reason at this time to replace them.   I have a mounted set of four snow tires with about the same amount of tread about .25 inch on them, so I could put two of them on the rear axle.  One has to run matched radial tires on each axle.   I do not think the punctured tire can be repaired since the cut is in the sidewall.   While out tonight I noticed that the Greenwich Automotive Exxon service station was closed, and they have red cones in front of their gasoline pumps like they are out of gasoline.  The Shell station on West Putnam Avenue is still opened.   Somebody still has gasoline, because I saw a long white stretch Cadillac limousine still driving around.  In World War II, when there was a problem with inflated tires being punctured, they started using solid rubber tires to eliminate the problem.   However, if I put two of the spare tires on the rear axle, and they are punctured, we would have to go a higher level of security around here, such as posting armed guards, which the state of Connecticut can obviously afford to do.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/07/06  Sunday 6:20 P.M.:  I rested for a while.   I ate two scoops of coffee ice cream.   I will shut down the primary computer, and I will now shower, and I will clean up.  I will then go out for a while.   Having the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control set at 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 70 degrees Fahrenheit to save energy tends to make me feel tired in the warmer environment, since I am use to cooler temperatures.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/07/06  Sunday 2:50 P.M.:   I took four pieces of bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on them, and then on each of the two sandwiches, I put three 1/32nd thick slices of turkey folded over and four 5 inch by 5 inch slices of American cheese and the top half of the bread.   I cut the sandwich in half, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea and a bowl of potato chips.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest for a while.   CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 05/07/06:

Note:<888> 05/07/06  Sunday 1:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.   I chatted with Paypal, and they told me the person whom committed the fraud on my account did not access my Paypal account, but they used my debit card number and security card code to set up a fraudulent Paypal account with a fraudulent email address.    I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/07/06  Sunday 11:35 A.M.:   I rested after the last message until now.   I woke up about 7 A.M. briefly, and I ate the last piece of cheese cake with a bowl of potato chips.   Also yesterday I ate a piece of cheese cake and some potato chips with iced tea.    I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/06/06  Saturday 10:15 P.M.:   I was awake at 10 A.M., and I chatted with a relative, and I left messages with a few friends and relatives.   I went back to bed until 4 P.M..   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched the Kentucky Derby.   I did two loads of laundry, and I put clean sheets on the bed in the bedroom.   I chatted with a relative.   I also started making up a batch of Formula One  http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .   I still have to put it in the refrigerator.   On the primary computer, I also did a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  CIO   

Note:<888> 05/06/06  Saturday 4:35 A.M.:   I am burned out, and I have been working the grapevine.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/06/06  Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  What has me curious about the internet activity on http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm is that in his apartment at 420 East 49th street in Manhattan on the ground floor next to the Spatz in his bedroom closet, he had the complete works 100 volume set of Edgar Casey.   He also had a few of Jacqueline Onassis's coffee table books that she would try to sell while working just west of Fred at Random House which also housed the Norwegian and Swedish consulates to the United Nations, and the British were just around the corner on third Avenue next to Fred's liquor store and across the street from Fred's bank.  Since Fred's family were 14th generation Holland Dutch New York, and since Fred had also lived in Europe and he spoke fluent Dutch, he knew quite a few Dutch people.   His girl friend Sonja Von Vorhies was a bit hard of hearing from all of the discothèques that Fred frequented.    They also were an old Dutch family.  The head of Fred's Dutch friend seems to have been Van Renselyer whose family had a parked named after it.   Paul Bryant was the local older person that tried to keep an eye on the kids, and his family had a park named after it.   Since nothing was named after Scott in New York, they did not pay any attention to me, and they just used me as the cheap cleaver house boy and odd job person.   Also I knew how to drive a car, and most of Fred's friend did not know how to drive, which is probably just as well for the pedestrians of Manhattan.   Thus Fred was sort of the neighborhood guru around the United Nations.   Thus although Fred has been legally dead, it makes me nervous that all of these people are suddenly looking for him after 14 years.   I saw a Japanese fellow walking down Greenwich Avenue two days ago that looked quite a bit like Fred Von Mierers, so maybe he has been living in Japan.  You know if you live around a foreign population you begin to look like them after a while.   From the Christian Church point of view with all of its spiritual history, our forebears seem to frequently protect us.   Having done Art History research I have been around the Vatican, old churches in Florence Italy, old churches in California, most the churches in Manhattan, a lot of churches in Greece and the big church in Turkey where you have to take you shoes off.  Plus I have been in the big church in Oslo and Paris.   I was in a tiny church in Innsbruck, Austria, and they had somebody buried there Hofkirche (Court Church) - Innsbruck, Austria .   When I was there, it said he was buried there.   However, the pages he was buried elsewhere.   In American history, it also says that another Maximilian was also emperor of Mexico Maximilian, 1832–67, emperor of Mexico .   I did once see a picture of somebody that look like Fred living in a golden temple in Mexico, but how he could afford it made no sense to me, unless it was one of those Hollywood mock up photos they do for tourists in some areas.  I do know that Fred use to get all of his liquor for big parties from the Mexican consulate in Manhattan.  Fred always thought he was descended from Frederick II of Prussia Frederick II of Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , and having met Fred's father, he looks a bit like him.   Let's see when I met Frederick Von Mierers in October 1973, he claimed to have been 24 years old, and his birthday was on Christmas Day December 25, thus he would have been 25 on that Christmas in 1973, and 32 years later, he would today be 57 years old .    With all of the languages that Fred spoke, he must have more about something besides fabrics.    However, if he has some sort of royal following, they must not have the internet yet, so maybe we could make money selling them the internet.    For all I know Fred is just simply sitting out in Oyster Bay, Long Island protected by the New York Mafia reading old books.  It is the nature of European residents in this area, they tend to trust the Mafia, since they tend to be European as opposed to the U.S. government personnel whom tend to be a mixed bag of political activists.  If Nelson Rockefeller let himself be photographed with Fred Von Mierers, possibly that was an indication that Fred was a bit more important than he realized.   However, Nelson never carried cash, and Fred only carried taxi  and disco money, so possibly they were in business together in some sort of activity like getting to become President of the U.S.A..   However, Nelson is more of a private individual, so possibly he did not do to well nationally.   Whatever, the case I happened to noticed that George Herbert Walker Bush now known as prisoner number "41" has his inaugural, that Nelson's second wife Happy Murphy Rockefeller was sitting on the inaugural platform with them, so maybe one of the Bush family members are related to one of the Rockefeller family members, which is why a dry good salesman from the Midwest gets to run the country.   I think Ron was a soap salesman and Clinton was the part time Fuller Brush man.   It goes to show how much influence these little old ladies have in developing wandering talent into politicians.   Although we have not seen here in a few years, Wanda the Wicked Witch of the West or Alice Blue Gown as she is know locally, tends to always show up sooner or later with a bunch of wild teenage kids.  I relayed a message from an east coast Dutch church person to a west coast Dutch church person.   It is the nature of Holland or the Netherlands not being a large super power, they tend to keep an eye on their larger neighbors and confer with their friends.  CIO

Note:<888> 05/06/06  Saturday 12:35 A.M.:   Did you ever think some fanatical terrorist might strike somewhere in the world on 06/06/06.   Of course the origin of "666" was that it was the Hebrew symbol for "Nero" the hated emperor of Rome.    I chatted with a circle of friends and family , and none of them seemed to be around except two family members.    It is generally the rule of thumb when you deal with friends that you lose track of that as they are preoccupied with their families, so you really do not have much in common to talk with anymore, particularly as one gets older.   I put the eye round roast on a baking rack in a baking pan, and I seasoned it on all sides with garlic powder, ground black pepper, celery salt and Italian seasoning, and Texas Best barbeque sauce.   I baked it in the Farberware convection oven for 42 minutes at 325 degrees Fahrenheit.  I let it stand for a few minutes before carving off two half inch thick slices.   I refrigerated the rest in a Rubbermaid container.   I also ate half of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe with some La Choy low sodium soy sauce, and I refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container.   I also steamed for 15 minutes about a 2 cups of broccoli crowns and baby carrots and sliced asparagus which I put a little bit of olive oil on.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.    I washed the dinner dishes.    Also a local English speaking person advised me on a web site to look for a job at, since even though I am legally disabled,  I have certain job skills.   Everyone always wants me to volunteer, but that is the American form of communism, and I have been doing that for 22 years, and with inflation I have less spending power, and I still have fixed costs and bills to meet.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/05/06  Friday 5:00 P.M.:   I was awake at 7 A.M. this morning.   I checked my server, and I noticed there had been some activity on my Bank of New York MasterCard debit card while I was asleep.   I checked with the Bank of New York at 1-800-CALL-BNY, and they told me the two charges were done with my Paypal account.   I called up Paypal at 1-402-935-7733, and they told me that another email address had used my account and my MasterCard debit card.   They said they would email me a form to cancel the charge.    I then chatted with the Bank of New York again, and they said they could report the fraud.   I chatted with a detective at the Greenwich Police department.  I then went over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street without breakfast or cleaning up.   They cancelled my Bank of New York MasterCard debit card, and they will reissue me another one in the future.   The gave me a temporary ATM card.   They can not cancel the two Paypal charges until they try to clear the bank instead of when they are just posted.    I will have to go back there Monday morning to cancel them.   I then returned home.  My server was not working, so I got it working again.   I chatted with a relative.   I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I had to restart the server again a couple of times.  Something or somebody was interfering with it.   I chatted with the FBI office in New Haven, Connecticut, and I told them about the strange internet happenings, and it seems strange that they would bother me.   I also told them people are still interested in http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , 14 years after he died.   They really should get their own lives.   I chatted with Niel Grennon at the Le Languedoc - Inn and Bistro up in Nantucket, and he is still busy opening up the restaurant.  Niel in the winter use to be the chef at Lockobers in Boston, but I think he is about 72 years old, so I am not sure if he still works that hard.  Al DeKuna was too busy to talk to me.   I told Niel that since Fred was also one of his neighbors, they are still working for him.   I know when Fred was working around Billy Baldwin, he preferred to eat the Opera House in Nantucket, and when he got more snotty, he preferred to eat at the Chanteclair up in Sconset.   For all I know he now owns Spaghetti Freddies on the north shore of Boston.  Niel was too busy to talk during the lunch time rush.  The person that answered the phone was from Jamaica.  I chatted with PayPal again, and the gave me the email address of the individual whom had defrauded my account, and I found out the email contained my Paypal password.  They told me they had emailed the form to the fraudulent email address, and I explained to them, I had not set up the email address.   I deleted my credit card information from Paypal, and I changed the password to a more complicated password.   I chatted with a relative.   I reported the new information to the Greenwich detective.   I then went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.   I picked up my mail.  Maybe all of this intrigue is over the Kentucky Derby tomorrow http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006 .   When I told the people the potential winner about 12 years ago, I had been over to the Homestead Bar in Port Chester, New York, and Kenny a black African American with blue Cadillac with Connecticut license plate "KENNY" who is a time on the back side of Belmont told me "Go for Gin", so I told a number of people including a friend of mine from Canada whom had met Queen Elizabeth II.   I do not know if he ever bet on the horse or not.  I recall give Jeff Sarasas whom I had met the previous winter during the SuperBowl night, when nobody is out in Manhattan the tip.  I also recall, I gave him four books on Shakespeare and a number of other books on personal health, so maybe after all of these years, he is Doctor by now.   A lot of people whom I knew in Manhattan were in the Medical profession, since that is another business in Manhattan that some people seem to be unaware of.   It is pretty hard to be around people from www.rockefeller.edu without being around people from the medical profession.    Of course the best thing for older people is not to have too much excitement, and they prefer peaceful quite days of retirement.    CIO   

Note:<888> 05/05/06  Friday 12:10 A.M.:  I always wander around here, if they trust me at the www.whitehouse.gov , the United Nations neighborhood, and the Waldorf Astoria, why are they always so distrustful of me around here.   I have lived here since 1961, and if they are hiding something around here, I really do not know anything about it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/05/06  Friday 12:05 A.M.:  I just remembered, I put the second video card to video cable adapter in the top left living room desk drawer.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/04/06  Thursday 11:15 P.M.:   I chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and they are still at a 100% occupancy.   They are owned by the Blackstone group that David Stockman started after he was Ronald Reagan's budget director, and since David Stockman has lived and may still live here in Greenwich, it is another Greenwich connection down in Key West, for those people whom do not like cold weather.   I was told their average guests visit twice a year for about a month at a time.   I guess it is cheaper than maintaining a house in Florida without the risks.    Since they seem to be making quite a bit of money, they might think of paying some of their former employees whom were never paid, because they supposedly did not have any money.  Of course when I lived there with a friend whom claimed he was the architect on the project, we had the whole hotel for the winter of 1978 to ourselves, except for the End of the Road construction crew in the day time.  I went out after the last message.  I drove by Grass Island.   I chatted with one of the regular fishermen down by the waterfront, whom I had not seen since last fall.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a white two shelf wicker rack for $3.   I then drove over to Tod's Point in Old Greenwich, and I sat out for a while at the southwest parking area.   I still believe it is the best weather observation area in Greenwich.   I noticed at the bend by the small beach on the way into Tod's Point on the right side of the road, they tore down the old beach cobble stone house.   The stones are still standing, but the house is gone exposing the small boat basin.    I chatted with a couple of people at the southwest parking area.   I used the bathroom at the small restroom.   I tried to help a young Russian boy jump start his Volvo, but it would not start, so it was not the battery.   I then went over the southeast parking area, and I sat out for a while.    I chatted with a German resident about all of the Germans that I have met over the years.   I also mentioned to some people from Massachusetts that when I lived in Nantucket, I noticed all of the Nantucket license plates ended in K, and they also ended in K in Williamstown, Massachusetts.   I guess the people in Williamstown, Massachusetts needed a beach.   I next went over to the Food Emporium at the Riverside Shopping plaza, and I bought two boxes of 10 one quart packages of America's Choice powdered milk for $6.99 each box and a Angus top round rip eye roast at $2.99 a pound for $7.80 for $21.78 total.   I then sat out briefly by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with the Greenwich Police dog handler, and he told me their current dog Shilo is due to retire soon.   I then went to the Greenwich Automotive Exxon Service station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $16.40 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.459 a gallon for 79.6 miles driving the last two weeks at 15.8 miles per gallon average driving 12 miles per hour.   I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors and about that time, UPS delivered the video card adapter for the television input cable.   I then put away my groceries.   I installed the video card television input adapter, and I booted the primary computer with the television set to Video 2 for the front input cable.   After uninstalling the Omega drivers, and installing the latest ATI drivers, the video from the computer can be displayed on the Sony television, but one has to enable it with the ATI basic configuration program not XP.   However, when the television monitor video is enabled, only one of the two computer monitors are enabled.   Thus one can watch television such as European television off the internet on the Sony television, and one can also web browse off the television using the remote control mouse I have hooked up to the primary computer.   I chatted with two relatives.   For dinner the new Banquet 7 ounce chicken pot pies come in microwave safe pie dishes, so I microwaved one for four minutes, and I ate it along with two bowls of Utz potato chips and ice tea for dinner, and then I ate a piece of cheese cake.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I had a long day today, and I will probably do my house cleaning tomorrow, since I seem to only do it every two weeks anymore.   I was told today, that one of the most regular fishermen on the waterfront had a liver transplant, so he will probably recover from bladder cancer, which really does not make sense.   Now they seem to think besides taking about computer parts down by the waterfront, and I am also promoting body parts.   I did mention to a few people that Argentina was suppose to be a good place for transplants, because they have a lot of accident victims with the Spanish being such poor drivers.   However, I was told that most people go to Thailand, since it is better organized and cheaper.   I guess people are now shopping around for medicine.   CIO        

Note:<888> 05/04/06  Thursday 9:45 A.M.:   I woke up at 7 A.M., and I did a little bit of bottom fishing on the internet for spare parts.   I bought Super-Flower Power Supplies TT-520SS SuperFlower Switching Power Supplies Aluminum Color 4 Fans P4-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $19.99 plus for .05 a free Eagle overclock case badge, five  3-Pin Extension Cables / Adapters for 3 Wire Devices, 12"-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $2 each, eMachines KU-0108 Black Internet Multimedia USB Computer Keyboard Windows-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $6.99, 2 Self Powered LED Flashlight, with No Batteries or Bulbs to Replace-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $4.99 each, CNet 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI-Bus Adapter PRO200WL Wake-On-LAN CNet 07C712 N-Way 10/100Mbps PCI Network Card PRO200 WL-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $3.99, Case Badges - NYPD-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05, Red & Yellow Flower Case Badge (labels, stickers), #F07-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05, Flower Case Badge (stickers, labels, tags), #F02-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for .05, *Free USPS Shipping* Case Badges - US Seal, Flying Eagle, stickers, labels, #R2-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $2.99 plus $13.48 ground UPS shipping for $67.62 total.    I have a birthday this month, so I have been able to afford a few spare parts.   The power supply is a good value, and I will now have a spare new power supply for my systems.   Parts in an emergency can be expensive, so it is better to keep them on hand.   If you think what it would cost to drive to www.compusa.com and buy one of their more expensive parts, it makes sense.  The order for two 7 pin Mini DIN Male to RCA Female, S-Video to RCA Adapter Cable, OEM-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com has tracking of UPS Package Tracking is due to arrive later on today.    I had a telephone call from the Greenwich, Connecticut Junior Jaycees trying to raise money.   I will now have breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I will shut down the computer now.   After breakfast, I will go out to get gasoline, and I will drive over to the Riverside Shopping Plaza to the Food Emporium to see if they have the eye round  roast on sale for $2.99 a pound and the 10 pack of powdered milk.   While over there, I might also drive around Tod's Point to see if any gators from Florida have returned.   Alas with the higher prices of fuel this year, I will not be making it over there too often.   Also I can not afford to get a hair cut at the moment over there, since I have been usually going three months between haircuts at $25 a clip with $5 tip.   Thus with the longer hair at the moment, I do not look like William Clay Ford, but more like some old hippie.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/04/06  Thursday 12:10 A.M.:   When I put the Northgate computer setup on the coffee table in the living room yesterday, I also moved the remote controls from the coffee table to the remote control box which I placed on the near side arm of the large green couch, and I moved the sound device to the Danish bar.   There is not much happening in this neck of the woods, since so many people are busy with their media devices that they do not pay much attention to anything else happening.   For all I know the Russian army has invaded us, and nobody even noticed.   It is the nature of long time observers in this area, that they know more goes on in the back country area than just golf and tennis.   For all I know in terms of modern devices, we have an army of robots ready to go into action at a moments notice.   However, for all I know the technicians do not feel like operating them, since they are not being paid for any of their work.   In a democratic society, when people are not paid, it is called volunteering.    However, in other types of society when people are not paid, it is called the feudal system in which the landed gentry tend to rule the day.   However, it is the nature of the New York City area, nobody ever really knows the real story, and more than likely most of them are buying yesterday's Hollywood dream.    In the modern world, people tend not to like the colder environments, and they tend to gravitate to warmer climates with their money.   However in warmer climates, there are a lot more communists and dictators.    Thus it is my point of view, sooner or later, they will all be coming back here with their tails between their legs.   Since New Zealand is fairly far south, it is not necessary a warmer climate, but probably more like England despite the volcanoes.   Whatever, the real case it seems with the higher price of fuel, the travel business and tourism is not doing very well.   Of course we could always start shaking down Saudi Arabia, since they probably are making a little bit of extra money.    However, if I start flying the Saudi Arabian flag, all of the expert Christian and Jewish and Asian medical people might desert me, and since I am legally disabled medical people are more important than gas station jockeys.   Basically, since I do not let myself be programmed by the local media, I tend to have a different point of view than the cable person from where ever they come from trying to sell soap.  Even Ronald Reagan use to sell Borax.  Since my father was an organic chemist, there tends to be no shortage of such products in our multiple households.   The Bush family are not oil people, but they are simply dry goods merchants from the Midwest wild catting.  Having lived around the oil people in the south for many years, I think all of the key players know whom I am.  The Bushs show up as gardeners around some of my more senior members of the family.   Just because a guy can weld steel for an oil rig does not mean he understands a lot of the other aspects of the industry.   At this point we probably need somebody like Red Adare.   However, most of what he does in fighting oil rig fire would not work very well without www.dupont.com dynamite.   Of course if you are Swedish, Alfred Nobel supposedly invented the product.   Whatever, the case I use to travel around with Vademecum Swedish mouthwash Vademecum products - Vademecum Mouthwash Concentrate, Anticavity Toothpaste, Fluoride Free Toothpaste because it was lighter to carry.   Once when I was using the dock facilities at the Pier 66 Marina in Fort Lauderdale, I was bothered by one of the www.forbes.com boat boys, and I told him my bottle of Vademecum Swedish mouthwash was nitroglycerin, and I started tapping it against the sink in the launch facility.  Suddenly Fort Lauderdale got nervous.   Also the first person, I knew in Key West was a DuPont, and if anyone knows the formula for dynamite it is basically saw dust and nitroglycerin, more than likely the DuPont's know how to make both.   I use to make it in my chemistry glass at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and I even noticed a previous student had left a beaker of it sitting in the sun for a few years.   Whatever the real case, since Duponts were on the job building the bridges down in the Florida Keys, more than likely if we were invaded at that point, they would know how to get rid of the bridges, and suddenly all of those so called sailors would really have to venture out on to the great ocean.   It is a basic truth about drinking alcoholic beverages around the waterfront or even lingering around the waterfront that one can get shanghaied by various different navies or other sea going operations around the waterfronts of the various ports around the world.   However, they tend not to bother me at the moment, because I drive a green Swedish Volvo.   Of course some people that wear green in America are not Swedish neutrals, so you can not always trust the color green.    Basically living around all of these diplomats over the years, I have learned quite a bit.   I was told by one Philippine resident today that the large tobacco company in China is called Fortune tobacco.   Of course around the waterfront here anymore, one is more than likely to run into South Seas Pirates.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 05/03/06  Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:   I took three large eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese and a couple of tablespoons of milk and a few dashes of Italian seasoning, and I whisked it all together.    I put three paper towels on a microwave proof dinner plate and then four strips of double thick Oscar Meyer bacon and two more paper towels and the plastic microwave plate cover, and I put it in the microwave, and I set the timer for four minutes.   I put two pieces of bread in the toaster.   I then took a 10 inch stick proof frying pan, and I added few tablespoons of olive oil, and I turned on the electric burner to medium high, once the oil began to get hot, I added the egg mixture and lowered the electric burner heat to medium, and I started the bacon in the microwave oven, and I started the toast.  Once the eggs were about half cooked, I used a spatula, and I slid the cooked part off the bottom of the pan to let the liquid part cook some more.   About the time the bacon was done, the eggs and toast were done.   I mixed the eggs a little bit towards the end to scramble them medium soft.   I put the hot skillet briefly on a dinner plate to warm it, and then I put the eggs on the plate along with the bacon and toast.   I put olive oil on the toast, and I cut the two pieces in half.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with two relatives, two friends twice, and another friend.  I also chatted with two security organizations.   I also left a message with another friend, and I chatted with the Southern tip of the U.S.A..   Basically it is my viewpoint locally with all of the military away overseas, we are just left with a few children and retired elderly people in this area, so various other military groups are scouting out the area.   I can assure you when the regular U.S.A. military returns into this area, it is like having the P.G.A. tour around here.   They are a quite formidable group, although they tend to be diplomatic with the local village idiots.  I also chatted with somebody whom speaks English as opposed to American, and you know there is a difference.   First of all the British know English, so well they tend to speak it rather quickly and in brisk tones, except those whom are older or tired or under the weather.   The theatrical British English that one hears in the media is not the same as what one hear the real British speak.   About my tallest acquaintance in my childhood upbringing that I have seen since school was Jack Dane, and as I recall he was a classmate of mine at www.lfc.edu .   He also used to work as a ticket agent for Provincetown Boston Airlines out in Nantucket.   The tallest person that I have seen in the New York area is probably Miller who is a Canadian assigned to the New York City police department, and he used to be frequently seen standing at 42nd street and Fifth Avenue observing the crowd.    Of course where I was born in Alton, Illinois, Sam Walthrop was from there, and he was 8 foot 6 inches tall.   Thus if he too is a relative, I might have some taller relatives.   Growing up around the Scott family, I always felt like the midget in the family, and even today, I am still only 6 feet tall.   In other words, the reason that basketball is popular in the U.S.A. is that there are a lot of tall people around particularly once one gets out into the more rural areas.   I saw a tall person around the bank with my look today, but he only was 6 foot 8 inches tall.   When I lived in Key West, Florida, there were about two thousand men with beards whom were about 6 foot 6 inches to 7 feet plus, but I thought they were the Federal Marshall service looking for fugitives at the End of the Road.   However, on later reflection since I did not pay much attention to what they were doing, they might have been the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers whom rebuilt the 140 miles of bridges.   However, they probably do other things like work in the oil business or whatever tall people manage to do to make a living.   When I worked in Nantucket, Ian Greenshield was always trying to get me to work extra jobs for some odd reason.   Since I am not a house painter it seemed very peculiar.   Admiral Halsey's house looked to be a simple two bedroom Cape Cod overlooking the Polpis Harbor, and one day we did some touch up paint work on the upper trim.  As I recall in the fall, there were a lot of bees around the house.  He had a scallop shell driveway, and by Nantucket standards it was a modest house.   Of course, if one were into communications in Nantucket, Sparky was the person you kept an eye on.  He was about the oldest person that one saw around the waterfront, and he lived in a corner house on Orange street about halfway from town to the Nantucket bakery.  As I recall he smoked a corn cob pipe.   Flossies brother was a house painter, and he had a missing arm, and he lived by the oil tanks behind the A&P.   I assume since I saw Henry Cabot Lodge regularly that he was one of the important legal people.   I saw somebody today from Nantucket that did not recognize me, and I think he is Admiral Moore's son, but I also know quite a few other members of the Moore family, and I once ran into Admiral Moore on my last visit to Fort Lauderdale during October 1983 during the Granada invasion, and I saw all of the thousands of very tall people around the Fort Lauderdale beach.   There was a picture of a five star general known as the G.I.'s general or better known as Omar the Tent maker or General Omar Bradley.   The picture was over 8 feet tall, but I am not sure how tall he was.  Dwight David Eisenhower was only 5 feet 10 inches tall, but as Douglas MacArthur 5 foot 9 inches tall said he was a brilliant administrator.   However, there are probably taller people in the military who do things like hang flags on masts or whatever tall people do.    I guess the most senior military person that I have ever seen is the Duke of Edinburgh whom as Queen Elizabeth II's husband controls the largest private military in the world.   I think he is also 5 foot 10 inches tall.   Queen Elizabeth II is only 5 foot 3 inches tall, but most of her people can ride horses, so they look taller when they are on a horse.  The tallest person, I ever saw in Washington D.C. was during Ronald Reagan's first inaugural, and that was Ed McMahon who use to be Johnny Caron's side kick on the television show the Tonight Show, before he branched out into doing Budweiser beer commercials.  About the biggest person that I have seen in the world be the Gouda Cheese salesman from Mattrich in the Netherlands, when he was selling cheese at the Food Emporium in central Greenwich, when Ronald Reagan went over there for the G8 conference in Mattrich in the Netherlands.   Also when I visited Amsterdam before the Albertville, France winter Olympics, I noticed a lot of the local youth in Amsterdam were quite large people.  The biggest person I know in this area is Roger Schultz, and he is only about 6 foot tall and 800 pounds, and he is a software engineer working for Schweppes.com .   Of course as I have said before, it takes a skinny farmer to feed a hungry military.   Of course quite frankly, the women tend to be larger in America than the men, since out in the hinterlands, they have so much food, the women tend to eat a lot.   Thus it is not unusual to see women who weigh over a thousand pounds throwing their weight around.   Of course the Queen of the Netherlands keeps those Dutch Dragoons around whom tend to be as big around the waste as they are tall.   Thus although I tend not to ever recognize the Queen of the Netherlands, since she looks like most any other Dutch lady that you might see, if one sees the Dutch Dragoons around, one can figure that she might be around.   The Hollywood types tend to be smaller since on the tube smaller people photograph better.   CIO           

Note:<888> 05/03/06  Wednesday 5:55 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I brought my folding cart with me to bring up the groceries.   I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I did some banking business.   I found a Lincoln penny in the parking lot.   The Lincoln family from Illinois were originally from Devonshire, England, if I am not mistaken.  That reminds me the small chrome frame on the Dell L1000R computer monitor in the bedroom contains a Canadian quarter in it with Queen Elizabeth II's picture on it.  In the old days, when U.S.A. quarters were made of copper metal alloy, the Canadian quarters were still silver.   I am not sure if that is still the case.   Anyway the picture frame fell off the monitor, when I was working on it yesterday, and the glass broke in the lower left corner, so now there is a spider web type image from the glass in the frame.   They use to give you those little frames with two packs of Parliament cigarettes.   I next went by the Wachovia bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.   I then went down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I enjoyed the view of Greenwich Harbor.   I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, Stop and Shop sliced American cheese for $4.49 a pound for $4.67, Stop and Shop sliced premium turkey breast for $5.99 a pound for $6.44, five 7 ounce Banquet frozen chicken pot pies for $3 for five, a 1.75 quart container of Breyer's peach ice cream for $1.99, a 1.75 quart container of Breyer's coffee ice cream for $1.99, a Stop and Shop 28.2 ounce frozen four cheese self rising pizza for $3.99, a 8 ounce container of Kraft grated parmesan cheese $2.99, a 48 ounce container of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.39, four 26 ounce jars of Ragu thick and hearty 7 spice tomato sauce for .99 each, four 6.5 ounce dry cans of Stop and Shop large California black pitted olives for .99 each, two 12.5 ounce bags of Utz ripple potato chips for $2 each, two 16 ounce packages of John Morrell bacon for $2.50 each,  two 8 ounce boxes of Jone's frozen maple and bacon flavor sausages for $2.69 both, two 8 ounce boxes of Jone's frozen spicy sausages for $2.69 both, three pounds of onions for $2.99, and a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99 for $66.76 total.   I then went across the street to the Food Emporium, and I bought fresh broccoli crowns for $1.49 a pound for $1.85 and a bunch of fresh asparagus at $1.99 a pound for $2.01 for $3.86 total.  I went there looking for the top eye round roasts on sale for $2.99 a pound, but they were out of them.   I will look later in the week or at the Food Emporium at the Riverside shopping plaza, since they also carry the Master Choice 10 packs of powdered milk.   I filled out the form, and I got a new Food Emporium customer card and two key cards.   I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet which on Wednesday have 10% Senior discounts, and I bought a loaf Arnold Whole Grain Classics dark German style wheat bread for $1.59 and a Entenmann's 23 ounce Deluxe French cheese cake for $2 less .36 10% senior discount for $3.23 total.   I then returned home, and I used my cart to carry up my purchases, and I put them all away.   When one receives Food Stamps or EBT as they call them here in Connecticut, one tends to stock up on food sale items during the first of the month.   According to one local expert here in Greenwich, Connecticut over half of the town's population lives below the official poverty line, so despite the back country propaganda, Greenwich, Connecticut is not a wealthy town.  CIO 

Note:<888> 05/03/06  Wednesday 1:05 P.M.:  I made up a grocery list.   I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate the sandwiches  with a glass of iced tea.  I also quartered a dill pickle lengthwise, which I also ate with the sandwiches.   On the Toshiba laptop for it to go online, the AT&T wireless router has to be turned on, since the Toshiba laptop is connected to one of the AT&T wireless router LAN ports.   Also the Toshiba switch is left on all the time on the Northgate control panel on the coffee table, so the Toshiba battery stays fully charged.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   I will pay my rent, and I will do some grocery shopping.   No time for thrift shops today.   My 3 P.M. appointment was cancelled tomorrow, so I could have gone to the Microsoft conference at the Rye Town Hilton tomorrow, but I think it is too late to sign up for it, and I have a hard time sitting through four hour presentations without a cigarette.   The last one I went to was about two years ago at the Bridgeport, Connecticut Holiday Inn, and I chatted with a fellow there that looked like Bill Gates, but it was not him, since the fellow I chatted with was six foot tall and smoked cigarettes, and Bill Gates is suppose to be 5 foot 8 inches tall.   We talked about how much money the tobacco industry has.  CIO   

Note:<888> 05/03/06  Wednesday 11:45 A.M.:   I was awake at 3:30 A.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I went back to bed until 8 A.M..   I left a birthday message with a relative.   I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I labeled the control panel for the computer on the living room coffee table and the switch on the control panel for the Dell V350 on the bedroom desk control panel.   I just stick a cut piece of sticky label with scotch tape over it.   I printed out my last four months of notes which are 246 pages long.  I put them in two clamp binders, which I placed on the near side of the down sofa.   I posted them at Scott's Notes from September 2005 through April 2006, 856 Kbytes http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsnote2.zip contains "mlsnote5.doc" and "mlsnote6.doc" pages 4335 - 4937.  I received my order for 7 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .  CIO  

Note:<888> 05/02/06  Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I ate half of a 16 ounce jar of dry roasted peanuts earlier today.   I will now eat a couple of pieces of French bread toast with olive oil with some iced tea.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/02/06  Tuesday 7:35 P.M.:

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Note:<888> 05/02/06  Tuesday 7:00 P.M.:  Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library Store .    I finished going through my email.   I chatted with www.cablevision.com .  Last month both of my payments to both of my accounts went to one account, and this month both of my  payments went to the other account, so both accounts now have evened out.   I was advised that I should log out and log in before making the second payment.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/02/06  Tuesday 6:10 P.M.:   I finished setting up the backup Dell V350 computer in the bedroom.  I am just running a maintenance utility on it.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.   I sat out for a while.   I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/02/06  Tuesday 2:50 P.M.:   I was awake at 4 A.M. this morning.  I watched a bit of television.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I moved the Toshiba laptop computer to the end of the living room coffee table opposite the chair I watch television from.   I then took the oak wooden keyboard drawer from the bedroom desk, and I put it on the brass and glass coffee table in the living room opposite the green sofa pushed to the left.  I took one of the control panels from the bedroom desk, and I put it on the oak keyboard drawer.   I then took the Northgate Syntax CPU from the bedroom, and I put it underneath the small brass and glass end tables at the far end of the brass and glass coffee table sitting on a hard place mat.   I took the 19 inch Dell monitor from the bedroom desk, and I put it on top of the oak keyboard drawer in the living room.  I hooked up the Logitech cordless mouse and a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard to the Northgate system as well as the two pairs of speakers and headset that were hooked up to the Toshiba laptop.   Thus I have a large screen computer for use in the living room sitting area as well as the Toshiba laptop.   I move the bric-a-brac around from the coffee table.    On the CD holder underneath the Sony television,  I put the round Swedish glass, the framed family picture, and the Steuben like glass.   I then reconfigured the Dell V350 computer.   I put in a CD/RW drive and 45X CD drive.   I do not think the 45X CD drive works.   I put in the original floppy drive, and a 8 gigabyte Maxtor hard drive.  I put in a LAN card.   It has onboard AGP, and I have the old EISA SoundBlaster AWE sound card in it.  I installed a generic operating system, and it seems to work fine for web browsing.   I will not bother configuring it.   I have it setup on the left side of the bedroom desk with the Dell 17 inch Trinitron monitor.   I have the Dell L1000R computer still hooked up on the center of the bedroom desk with old generic CompUSA 19 inch monitor.    I thus have six working computers in the apartment hooked up to the internet.  I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a neighbor.   I opened a 19 ounce can of Hormel steakhouse stew, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I reheated on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven twice.   I put it in a soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  The power for the Toshiba laptop turns on the from the control panel for the Northgate computer.   On the two backup computers in the bedroom, I have the left Dell V350 computer connected to a power strip that turns on from the control panel at the center of the desk.  CIO     

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 11:30 P.M.:   I cleaned up my work area on the bed in the bedroom.  I put the spare computer cables in the cable box underneath the desk in the living room.   I connected the retractable telephone cable between the Toshiba laptop and the AT&T telephone.   I put the spare telephone parts in the drawer in the night stand to the right of the bed.   I put the remaining parts in the box that they came in on the chair at the bedroom entrance.   I will assemble the Dell V350 computer again when I have time.   I have a 8 gigabyte hard drive that I can still in it, but there is no room to set it up in the apartment, although I do also have a spare 17 inch Dell Trinitron monitor, so technically it could be set up, but it would be to obtrusive in the living room, but in an emergency it would be available.   I ate half of a 16 ounce jar of dry roasted peanuts this afternoon.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will eat some more peanuts with iced tea.   I might also toast and eat a piece of the French bread that I made today with some olive oil on it, and a glass of iced tea.   I am too tired to cook anything else.   I still have plenty of food in the apartment.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 10:40 P.M.:  I prepared the primary, server, and Northgate computers to work on.  I took the floppy drive out of the server, and I put it in the Northgate.   I will put the one from the Northgate back in the Dell V350.  I took the CD/RW from the server, and I put in the Northgate.  I took an older CD/RW from the Northgate that I will put in the Dell V350.   I took the DVD/R from the primary, and I put it in the server as the first DVD drive, and the NEC DVD/RW is second one.  The new parts arrived at about 6:30 P.M., just when I was ready for them.   I put one of the Antec fans from the server as a second fan in the Northgate.  I put a new fan in the server replacing the Antec that I took out.   I install a new floppy drive in the server and a new floppy cable.  I put in the case fan monitor in the lower 5.25 inch bay, but I need four 12 inch to 18 inch extension wires to connect it up to the case fans to control their speeds.   It is a simple monitor with no RPMs or temperatures.  I also installed the 5 port USB card in the server.   In the primary computer in the spare 3.5 inch slot, I put in the front port device, but it does not connect to the motherboard pins instead only to similar ports.   Thus I was only able to connect the left USB port on it to the internal USB port on the USB port card.  It also project about a half inch from the front of the case, since its predrilled screws did not match up with my case holes.   When removing the metal plate on the spare 3.5 inch slot, I broke a thin wire.  I removed the front of the case, and I repaired the wire by stripping it and twisting it and taping it with black electrical tape.   With the delicate electronics on the computer, I did not want to risk soldering it.  I also cleaned the front case filter which was dirty.   I installed the new DVD/RW drive as the second DVD drive, and the older NEC DVD/RW drive is the first one.   Thus on both the server and the primary computers, the older DVD drives are the first ones, which get more use, and the second ones are for mostly writing.   I reconnected the three computers, and they all seem to work fine.   I chatted with two relatives during the process.   I also ate a Columbo raspberry yogurt.   CIO      

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 4:15 P.M.:   I watched some television.   I am going to shut down the primary computer now.   I will disconnect it, and I will move it into the bedroom to get it ready to install the new parts.   After the parts arrive, I will install them, and then I will do the same for the server and the Northgate Syntax backup computer.   I will have enough spare parts to get the Dell V350 computer going again, but I will not have any place to set it up.   I technically could set up the Northgate Syntax computer on the living room coffee table with the monitor on the coffee table and the CPU on the floor, but that would mess up the comfortable sitting area in the living room area, so I will not do it.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 3:05 P.M.:   I woke up from my nap.   The bread is finished cooking in the bread machine, and the machine is cooling itself.   I am still waiting for UPS.   CIO    

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 12:40 P.M.:   I threw out some garbage.   I picked up my mail.   I will now take a nap for a little while.   CIO  

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 11:55 A.M.:   ECEES 2006 .  Microsoft Software Will Let Times Readers Download Paper - New York Times .    I went through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 11:15 A.M.:   I opened up a bag of Columbian Eight O'clock coffee today, which I am using for regular coffee now instead of Hazelnut.  I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on, and I rinsed it underneath cold water pressing the lid a few times.  I then flaked it in a bowl with a fork, and I added two large tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I took four pieces of bread, and I put the tuna mixture on two pieces of the bread, and I put the top sides on the tuna sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate the sandwiches  with a glass of iced tea.  I also quartered a pickle lengthwise, which I also ate with the sandwiches.   I put my winter caps, scarves, and gloves from the back of the down sofa on the top of shelf of the bedroom closet along with my long underwear.   I left one pair of cotton long underwear out for the cool mornings during the spring.  I got my Welbilt bread machine from the left living room closet shelf.  I had been using a Japanese lacquer coaster to balance it, since one of its rubber feet were missing.   I cut a piece of a wine cork to size, and I glued it on with Elmer's glue to balance it.   I am making my French bread recipe with it.

Put one package of yeast in Welbilt Bread Machine

Three cups flower

One Tablespoon Sugar

One Teaspoon Salt

Three Tablespoons of Olive Oil

One Cup Hot Water

Set Welbilt Bread Machine to French Bread setting and turn on.

CIO

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 9:55 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   None of the regular fishermen seem to be returning, so I guess the higher price of gasoline is keeping them away, plus it was low tide, when I was there.   I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   While waiting for them to open, I walked over to CVS on Greenwich Avenue.   I bought two 16 ounce jars of Planter's dry roasted peanuts lightly salted for $1.88 each and four 14 ounce cans of Comet cleaning powder for buy one get one for a penny for 2 for a dollar plus .12 tax for $5.88 total.   I then returned to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I did some banking.    I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2.50 and Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $1.47 for $3.97 total.   I then returned home.   I put $10 on my MacGray laundry card, so I have $16.05 on it.   I have to wait today for on my www.outletpc.com order Michael Scott's www.outletpc.com order with UPS Package Tracking Outlet PC Order for Mike Scott  which is due today.   CIO   

Note:<888> 05/01/06  Monday 6:35 A.M.:   I was awake at 3:30 A.M..  I had a telephone call from a relative while I was asleep.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, 2 slices of toast with olive oil, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I paid online, my bills for www.verizon.com , www.cl-p.com , www.cablevision.com , www.geico.com .  I then ordered from http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/  sevens cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes in a box for $12.49 a carton for $87.43 subtotal plus $12.96 USPS Priority Mail shipping for $100.39 total.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go out for some morning activity.   CIO