Note:<888>05/31/00 Wednesday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I had a quiet Memorial Day weekend. I stayed inside from Friday evening until Thursday morning June 1, 2000. I rested a good deal on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I also worked a bit on the computer tweaking the system. I disabled the LTImodem in the Devices, so the system does not try to boot it. I also disabled the LTImodem in the System.ini file under Boot. I made a few C: Drive to D: drive backups. Possibly the LTImodem was interfering with reinstalling Windows 98, but I have not tried to reinstall it, since I disabled it. I had my usual breakfasts alternating with eggs and cerial every morning. I also am still having Perrier and Orange juice. I am not taking as many vitamins as usual since I am low on Vitamins. I finished the carrott slaw and Muligan stews. I also had other snacks like peanut butter sandwiches. I also finished up batch of hot Italian sausage speghetti sauce with speghetti noodles for dinner a few nights. I smoked less, and I smoked one of my pipes at the end of the month being low on cigarettes. I also hand rolled a few cigarettes. I did not do house cleaning on Sunday, but I did water the plants on Monday. I got quite a bit of rest. On Wednesday afternoon a friend stopped by on their way down from Boston from visiting a sick relative. We chatted for a while. I thought about stopping the Cablevision and the Optimum Online to save money, but I then decided to go ahead and keep them. Well it was a chaotic month on the net, and I now have the system running fine without any problems. CIO

Note:<888>05/26/00 Friday 4:10 A.M. EDT: On Tuesday and Wednesday, I worked on tweaking and reinstalling the Windows 98 operating system. I intially on Tuesday tried installing the system from scratch. I then restored the previous configuration, and had it running fine after a long days work. I had breakfast of Armour hotdog omlette with onions, toast, coffee, orange juice with Perrier, and vitamins. I also for lunch and dinner had my Mulligan stew. I recall going to bed in the early evening, and I was up on Wednesday morning about 3 A.M.. I had the Kelloggs corn flakes for breakfast with orange juice and Perrier, vitamins, coffee, and toast. It occurred to me on Wednesday morning to backup the "system.dat" file, and to reinstall Windows 98 without it on the system. The installation went smoothly without the video settings interupting. However, I spent most of the rest of the day reinstalling programs to get the system settings working properly along with the usual group of Microsoft downloads. I then go an improper boot, and it restored the old "system.dat" file, and the entire system was working with the right settings as before. I did some system tweaking. I left the CDROM version of the Diamond Stealth Video driver, instead of the download since www.diamondmm.com is not working for the last week. Perhaps there is some problem with their downloadable media driver. I finished off the Mulligan stew with ice tea and coffee. Well after getting the system running, I rested in the late afternoon and early evening, and was up on Wednesday evening around 8 P.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg's corn flakes, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins. I spent most of the evening and morning hours on Thursday tweaking the system. I have a problem with the old LTImodem driver on the system which I think I will disable in the CMOS for that slot in case, I ever need to use the telephone modem, I will have it in the computer. Mostly the system seems to be working fine. I turned off the boot in the CMOS for the floppy drive and CDROM player. I also disabled "SmartDisk for Hard Drivers". I also set the PIO mode for the CDROM player to "5", and I turned off 32 bit access for all drives. Hopefully once I disable the last ISA slot on the hard drive for the LTImodem, the system will boot smoothly. I was up all night and this past morning. I made biscuits in the morning after having the last of the defrosted Mulligan stew. I looked at the pictures in the books I had checked out. I went out about 1 P.M., and I returned the books and checked out more books at the library. I read the Wall Street Journal which had some interesting internet links one does not normally find. I also read two computer newsweeklies. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop. I went downtown at 4 P.M., and I walked around for a half hour before returning home. I then relaxed at home, and I had the rest of the biscuits. I also have munched on Moserralla cheese slices and dill pickles earlier in the week. This past morning, I shredded the last bag of Dole mini carrotts with two medium onions, a quarter cup of small kerkins, four gloves of garlic, and four dill pickles, and I mixed them together with a half of jar of 3.5 oz. Crosse and Blackwell capers. Then in the CuisineArt I added a quarter cup of Kerkin juice, a quarter cup of dill pickle juice, and eighth of of a cup of white vinegar and red vingar, a few dashes of Sessime Oil, Olive oil, Lea and Perrins worstershire sauce, Angostora bitters and also Angostor soy sauce, a large tablespoon of Bournier French mustard, one egg, dashes of Tarragon, Basil, garlic powder, Chillie Powder, Pepperica, cellery salt, ground pepper, hot currie, Chinese five spice, ginger, nutmeg, oregano, Italian seasoning, and a quarter cup of Parmesian and Romano crated cheese along with a half of cup of Hellmans mayonaise. I mixed this all in the CuisineArt, and then I added it to the shredded mixture. I then put it all in a flat rubbermaid container to chill in the refrigerator and pickle a bit. I will either eat it cold after a day or I will add a couple more eggs and bake in a Pyrex dish for 40 minutes at 350 degrees for a hot vegtable dish. I also took of the plastic face plate on my air conditioner so it does not make so much noise. I need to buy a new filter for it. I went to bed about 8 P.M., and I was up at a half hour past midnight. I chatted with Cablevision and explained to them the hacking coming into my computer is probably somebody trying to sell me DirectTV internet and television service since the would be the only cost equivalent service, but they are much slower and in a cold climate, I would not have the capability of removing the snow off my dish when it snows. I had three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins for breakfast. I set back the setting in Real Audio, so it does not use as many CPU resources. I will not try to reboot without the CMOS setting for the EISA slot for the Logicode X2 modem to see if it works booting any better. Well have a good morning. I also notice I made about a dollar a day off the ValueClick advertising links whether the server is running or not which shows somebody out there is using the downloadable directory. For now I don't plan to run the server with people always trying to hack the system like DirectTV. CIO

Note:<888>05/23/00 Tuesday 8:20 A.M. EDT: Well I was up yesterday morning about 8 A.M.. I had breakfast of a three egg omlette with hotdog and onion filling and orange juice and Perrier along with coffee. I worked on the computer in the morning trying to possibly reinstall the operating system. I went out about 3 P.M.. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and I did one other errand to do with my lease. I also made my 4 P.M. appointment. I drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich and did a quick tour of the store. I stopped by CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza, and I bought a carton of Phillie lights natural for $15.40 plus a $2.50 discount and .80 tax for $15.40 total. I then stopped by the Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $6.01 of premium gasoline at $193.9 a gallon. I returned home, and I worked on the computer until about 9 P.M.. I had some slices of moserella cheese with quartered dill pickle and ice tea for a late dinner. I was up at 2:30 A.M.. I reinstalled Windows 98, and I restored the backups from the D: drive to the C: drive. The overall system is running fine, but I have a ".VXD" or ".VDD" file that is in the registry or the system.ini file that keeps me from reinstalling Windows 98 over the restored system that I have to fix sooner or later. Still the system is running fine. I turned off in the CMOS the options for "Hard Drive Fast Disk", and I also set up only the hard drive "IDE0" and the "CDROM" to eliminate boot delay and also I turned off "Power Saving". Well the system is back to normal. I also cleaned the wax out of my ears with Debrox and a ear syringe, and I also cleaned out the bathroom sink drain with the toilet plunger. Well I now will run Norton Speedisk on the C: drive. Have a good morning. I will continue to keep off the Cable Modem and not run the server. CIO