Note:<888>6/07/99 Monday 5:40 P.M. EDT: I cleaned up and went out after the last message. It was real hot. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I went over to CVS in the Riverside Shopping plaza and bought two cartons of Dutch Treat Lights for $30.08 both. I returned home since it was too hot. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . CIO

Note:<888>6/07/99 Monday 2:40 P.M. EDT: Apparently the server was down from about 9:30 P.M. last night after I went to bed. I was up at 8 A.M., and I had breakfast of Kelloggs raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I went back to bed shortly there after, and I just got up and restarted my server. CIO

Note:<888>6/06/99 Sunday 7:00 P.M. EDT: Well after last message, I had Ramen noodles and ice tea for Sunday dinner. I took out a diet Coke in my Kennebunkport chiller and went down town and parked briefly on Steamboat Road. I walked downtown, and drank the diet Coke. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue about four times and chatted with some locals. After that I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat and observed the waterfront. Well not a lot happening today, just the usual people out strolling on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Well I guess I really should get to bed, have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>6/06/99 Sunday 12:45 P.M. EDT: Well I went out after last message. I drove down by the waterfront and a few fishermen were out there. I returned to the center of town and had my coffee in front of the senior center. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I returned to the center of town, and I boarded my trusyt old Volvo and drove down to the lower Avenue and chatted with a local. There was a minor fender bender at Railroad Avenue at that time. I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and said good morning to the fishermen. I chatted with a few locals. I returned to the center of town and sat out at the verterans monument, and chatted with another local. I chatted with another local at the senior center. I sat in front of the post office for a while, and at noon I left. It was a typical Sunday morning with moderate activity, and nothing unusual to report except about a half dozen tour buses driving around downtown. Well it is time I start slowing down thinking about rest. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>6/06/99 Sunday 7:05 A.M. EDT: I sifted through all my email and regular routine. I encoded more classical CDs http://mrscott.com/music4 . I had dinner of broiled pork chops, steamed peas, baked potatoe, ice tea; and I am just about to go out with my thermos of coffee. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>6/06/99 Sunday 2:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at 10 P.M. yesterday evening after going back to bed in the evening. I had a Tony's Pizza, ice tea, and coffee. I started cleaning my apartment and watering the plants, and I finished it all about an hour ago. I then cleaned up and showered. I also updated Scott's Weekly Broadcast sound.htm , which I will post shortly. I will work on my email, and possibly go out around sunrise. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>6/05/99 Saturday 5:55 P.M. EDT: Well I got up at about 4 P.M.. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I called the Greenwich Police non emergency number at 203-622-8003 to report that the high tide in the area is running three to four feet above normal. I chatted with a family member, and they reminded me that the Belmont was on television. I just finished watching the Belmont Steaks . The Lemon Drop Kid won. Well I guess I should start cleaning up, and go out in about an hour or so. CIO

Note:<888>6/05/99 Saturday 5:15 A.M. EDT: I did a bit of minor work on the computer and sat around reflecting until 4 A.M., when I went out. I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and viewed the harbor, one car with a funny look like the Jetsons was parked down there. I returned to the center of town and walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. A couple of the usual morning walkers were out there. I then returned to the bottom of Steamboat Road, and got out and viewed the harbor at first light when no one was there. There was a Mathamatics paper with the name "Whit" written on it with a 60 on it. I left it there. I walked half way out on the pier, and it was very peculiar the high tide was up to two feet from the surface of the pier which is about three to four feet higher than normal for a half moon. Perhaps since the moon actually has an elliptical orbit, it is closer to the earth causing higher tides this time of year. I suspose if there were serious storm weather, it would be a more dangerous situation. The water is high enough that a large fish like an orca or dolphin could swoop up and pull you off the pier. At the moment it must be about ten feet deep. I studied the situation a bit more and thought about it. I don't think the Antartica Ice Cap seperation would cause higher coastal flooding this soon, and of course the tide on the Hudson River in Manhattan might actually be higher with the river current. I returned back up Steamboat Road and drove thru the Greenwich Harbor Inn. The two farthest license plates were California and Kansas, so I guess summer time travelers are on the road. I returned back home and said good morning to a neighbor. Well it is 55 degrees Farenheit out, so I imagine it should not be too warm today. Enjoy the pleasent weather and have a good day. It is time for me to start slowing down, and going to bed. Happy Birthday to a family member. CIO

Note:<888>6/05/99 Saturday 12:45 A.M. EDT: Well I updated scottpc01.htm to reflect my minor effort on the internet in the area. I had my dinner and about 9:30 P.M., I went downtown and walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and chatted with a couple of the locals, and then I returned to the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. It was quite a busy evening out tonight with lots of diners, movie goers, and coffee sippers, and pub crawlers. I noticed they redid the sidewalk at Elm street in front of http://www.restorationhardware.com . I stopped by the Greenwich Harbor Inn to use the restroom, and they had a full crowd having after dinner drinks on the waterfront. Besides the pleasure craft from St. George, the also had a sailing Yacht from St. Croix and another pleasure cruiser up from New Jersey. I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road, and the Greenwich Police were running of the late night harbor viewers from the end about 11:30 P.M.. I chatted with the officer briefly, and a few of the fishermen will remain parked on the side fishing during the morning hours. I returned back uptown to the Grand Union and bought a Tony's pizza for $2.50, two large jars of B&G Kosher dill pickles for $3 both, and a Stauffers frozen lasagna 20 oz. for $2.99 for $8.49 total. I then returned home and put away the groceries. I have about a 100 email message from this week to look at. Not much happening, it was pretty much a normal night downtown. CIO

Note:<888>6/04/99 Friday 6:35 P.M. EDT: Well I went out about 3:30 P.M. after having Ramen noodles and ice tea. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and they seem to be overflowing to the rafters with excess merchandise. Perhaps they should open up a salvage yard for all the merchandise they seem to be accumulating. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue and viewed the waterfront with quite a lot of fishermen out on the pier. I then went to the Greenwich Library and read three computer newsweeklies and the Greenwich Times. I was noticing the rather inflated real estate values in the Greenwich Times which reflects the New York Real Estate market. I guess if one had control over a waterfront pier in Manhattan one could park a cruise ship or an old iron oar barge there and have deluxe waterfront property to enjoy or maybe even a house boat. Of course living on the waterfront is not for the faint of heart, it takes certain knowlege of local folk lore around the waterfront and keeping a weather eye to the weather and the tides and currents. I checked down in Key West at the Casa Marina 1-800-626-0777 and they seem to have a neighboring resort motel the "Atlantic Shores" which is full of tall naked French Canadians sun bathing around their pool terrace on the waterfront. I am not sure whether there are people walking around in the general public nude down there, since when I was mostly there during the winter of 1976-1977 and 1977-1978, most of the time it never went above 75 degrees in the day with a constant wind and at night it was frequently down into the mid 40 degrees F., so thus although Key West gets tropical trade winds, maybe when the snow birds go north in the Spring another group shows up there during the hotter summer days and shed their clothes for personal confort. I was advised by the head of Columbia University's Dermatology department to stay out of the sun as much as possible when down there, so I actually never tanned very much and mostly had a golfers tan. I remember when the Mel Fisher dive expedition was first announced back then, they advertised the fact that Columbia Unversity and Dartmouth College were major investors in the expedition, so I would imagine if one investigated the revenues at those two venerable institutions, they made substancial profits off of the multi billion Spanish Treasure Gold that the expedition found over the years. I never read about that in the National Geographic article about the expedition. Well on other trivial points, we have quite a lot of traffic which looks like city people traveling through town heading out to the country for the weekend, so I guess we have our usual weekend invasion. Well I guess I will broil some center cut pork chops along with potatoe and frozen mixed vegtables and ice tea and coffee; before I go out again. Well have a good evening. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm .CIO

Note:<888>6/04/99 Friday 2:10 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 8 P.M. last night and was up at midnight. I added the Fantasticks to my Broadway Index of /music5 . I also reoragnied music1.htm , and I also added another directory to hold the less busy modern music. At 4 A.M., I shut down the server and did a C: and D: drive to E: drive backup with compression. I also did a E: drive to C: backup with compression. I ran Norton Speedisk on the C: drive and the E: drive and also Norton Windoctor. At 7 A.M., I started a complete tape backup of the entire system, except the two hard drive backup folders. I turned on Good Morning America and watched live from the White House on ABC for the next two hours about Gun Control in the schools. I had a breakfast of four fried eggs, five strips of bacon, two pieces of toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. Earlier in the morning I had finished off a can of mixed nuts. I went back to bed at 9:00 A.M., and I slept until about 1:30 P.M. and the tape drive backup had finished about 1 P.M.. I rebooted the system, and started the server running. Well, I might a rest a bit more. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>6/03/99 Thursday 7:35 P.M. EDT: I started to go to bed at 4 A.M. this morning, but then I decided to purchase http://www.musicmatch.com for $29.99 over the internet. It works fine on my 233 mhz system unlike the Real JukeBox. It also works fine encoding CD music disks into MP3 files while the server is serving out up to 200 streams. It also is fast and take about as much time to encode as the music would take to play. Today I made four Broadway MP3 groups of files, "My Fair Lady", "Oklahoma", "Camelot", and "The Sound of Music" available from Broadway Index of /music5 . The first file in each folder is a M3U files that plays the entire group of tracks to play the entire CD. It took time to set up the M3U files and each MP3 file can not have spaces, but needs "_" between each word. They all work fine. Thus I eventually went to bed at 9 A.M. after one morning phone call from a friend. I was up at 1 P.M., and I had breakfast of Kelloggs raisin bran, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I went out at 2:30 P.M., and I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and withdrew funds. I paid my rent at the bank on Lafayette Place. I ran into my 3 P.M. appointment there. After my 3 P.M. appointment I went to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop and test a 1993 Texas Instruments Postscript laser printer for sale for $20. I am not sure if it runs or not, since I did not have enough paper to do an accurate test. Thus I did not buy it and I do not need another printer. I then went down to the post office and got money orders to pay my GEICO and MCI bills. I sat out in front of the senior center until 5 P.M.. I then drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and chatted with a few regulars down there. I stopped by the Greenwich Capital Assoicates building to see who actually owns the building, and the security did not know. I returned home about 6 P.M., and I finished the MP3 Broadway music files with their M3U play all files. I just finished microwaving a Stauffer's frozen lasagna which I will eat with ice tea. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm also. After dinner, I might rest a bit since I did not get much sleep this morning. Have a good morning. CIO

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Note:<888>6/03/99 Thursday 2:20 A.M. EDT: Well I went out about 11:30 P.M. after making the ice tea. I took along my coffee in a thermos. I mailed the birthday card at the central Greenwich Post Office. I sat in front of it and had my coffee. I walked down Greenwich Avenue, and the sewer project is still progressing underneath the railroad overpass. There is a strong smell of methane gas in the air. I stopped by the Greenwich Harbor Inn, and I chatted with the regular night manager. I told her that the name of the non descript hotel in Key West, where retired British tourists used to stay was the Atlantic Shores. Last time I saw it in 1983, they had built a pool deck out over the water front on the Atlantic side of Key West across the park from Augie Ramos' Southern most house. Apparently all the tall Canadians staying there using the pool at the Atlantic Shore motel prefer nude sunbathing, so it is not exactly a family hotel; but I guess up in Canada it gets so cold when they go south all the way to Key West, they go biserk and take off all their clothes. Key West used to have an ordinance that you had to wear a shirt downtown and shoes to make the island more presentable. Well I have not been down south since about 1988, so these are all vague memories; and I assume times have changed. Well after stopping by the Greenwich Harbor Inn, when I exited I noticed a yacht parked at the waterfront, from Georgetown, Cayman Islands called Dream Weaver?, so that is the first vessle out of Georgetown, I have seen this season. I walked by the harbor side of the General Reinsurance owned office building?, and there were no security as the front desks. I continued on down Steamboat Road, and I chatted with a few of the star gazers and fishermen at the end. They said the Stripe Bass were running, now that it is warmer. One of the fishermen said he caught a 28 pound stripper. I noticed they now have the street lights going on the bottom of Steamboat Road and for many years they seemed to be deliberately out, possibly so as not to interfer with Marine traffic navigating the harbor in dense fog and rain, when they might be mistaken for the launch lights at the Yacht Club. I walked back up Steamboat Road. I noticed a floral arrangement with ferns had been left at the Island Beach parking area newspaper boxes. I returned to the center of town and sat out in front of the Senior Center for a while. The southern light of the two light posts on either side of the Veterans monument has been burned out for about six months, and I believe one of the light in front of the senior center is also burned out, but I think it might have been fixed recently. I guess someone should check the lights at night to make sure they have not burned out. I drove back down to the harbor and everyone was gone. I returned home just now, and it looks like today might be hot, but the evening is perfectly comfortable. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. I noticed in the Greenwich Times that Malcom Pray is selling his dealership, if anyone is looking to buy an automobile dealership which is well established. I will a do a little internet work, while I have a diet 7Up. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>6/02/99 Wednesday 10:30 P.M. EDT: I went out after last message, and I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and then headed to the Riverside Shopping plaza CVS and bought a carton of Dutch Treat Light cigar cigarettes for $15.04. I went out to Tod's Point and walked around the three mile walk around Tod's Point. I returned to downtown Greenwich and went to CVS there and bought a gallon of CVS detergent for $2.99, a birthday card for a family member for $2.95, a DJeep lighter for $1.59, two cans of Mixed nuts for $1.99 each plus .45 CT. tax for $11.96 total. I then drove down by the harbor. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and checked out 10 Broadway Music CDs. The local paper was not available. I went by the Grand Union and bought 3 twelve packs of Citra soda for $5 total with coupon plus $1.80 can deposit, a half gallon of GU 2% milk for $1.72, boneless pork chops at $3.99 a pound for $4.51 and a half gallon of Turkey Hill Egg Nog ice cream for $1.99 plus .30 tax for $15.32 total. I returned home and put away the groceries. I am just finishing up making a batch of icetea.htm . I will have the Stauffers pizza out of the oven for dinner in five minutes. After dinner I will make coffee and go out with it with my thermos, and mail the card. I had one phone call from Stamford. Everything seems all right, just mosquitoes over there. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>6/02/99 Wednesday 4:35 P.M. EDT: I was called up by a family member or two of them about 10 A.M. this morning. I finally got up at 2 P.M.. I had breakfast of 4 fried eggs, six strips of bacon, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I surfed the net a bit. My server is running better with the contents on the E: drive, and it is easier to use the programs on the C: drive without them both having to use the same drive. I prepared the rebates to send in for the CompUSA Maxtor $50 rebate and the Microsoft Serial Mouse $5 rebate. I got most of my bills ready to be paid tomorrow whenever I go out. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . I will clean up and go out in a little over a half hour. Today is hot and it looks like there is a bit of ozone or pollution out along with a high pollen count, so allergy sufferers will not feel too good. I guess I will go by the library and downtown when I go out. CIO

Note:<888>6/02/99 Wednesday 7:00 A.M. EDT: I started to go to bed about 3 A.M. and got up shortly thereafter. I decided to remove the B: floppy drive from the computer and installed the Western Digital 1 Gigabyte Drive as the third drive as the D: drive Slave from the first IDE controller, and the new CompUSA Maxtor drive is now the E: drive. Reconfiguaration and installation was straight forward. I tranfered little used file to fill up the 1 G. D: drive freeing up space on the C: drive. I then optimized all three drives again, while watching the History Channel on the American Revolution. Well time for bed, have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>6/02/99 Wednesday 1:10 A.M. EDT: I was up at noon yesterday. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I showered and cleaned up, and went out about 2 P.M.. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and withdrew funds. I drove up to CompUSA in Norwalk. I bought the CompUSA Maxtor 8.4 gigabyte hard drive on sale from $199.99 for $149.99 plus $9 sales tax for $158.99 total plus it has a $50 mailin rebate from CompUSA, and I also bought a Microsoft serial mouse on sale from $19.99 for $9.99 plus .60 sales tax for $10.59 total, and it also has a $5 mailin rebate from Microsoft. I returned home. I took out the old 1 gigabyte Western Digital hard drive out. I blew canned air in the computer to remove dust. I had a problem with the rails fitting on the new drive, so I used the old rails on the new hard drive. I installed it as a primary drive on the second IDE controller. I recognized it with the CMOS. I did a Command Prompt boot and ran fdisk. I set up the new drive as a full 8.4 Gigabyte D: partition. I rebooted and the system and it recognized and installed the new drive. I checked for any updated drivers for the drive, and it was fine. I formated the new D: drive and I also ran the Sys Command on it just in case. I checked the new drive with Norton Disk Doctor and I did a thorough surface scan of the drive, and it was alright. I moved the swapper drive to the D: drive and optimized it after rebooting to be at the beginning of the D: drive with Norton Speed Disk. I transfered my Apache Server files for my server to the D: drive, I also installed the Apache server on the D: drive, saving my old logs and my httpd.conf file which I edited to reflect the D: drive. I transferred my HA web analysis program to the D: drive, and edited its config.txt to represent the D: drive. I ran Norton Speed Disk and optimized the C: drive and then the D: drive. I watched the ABC evening news while this was going on. I started cooking dinnner about 7:00 P.M. of broiled sirloin steak, steamed carrotts, baked potatoe, ice tea. Just before I began eating dinner, I started a complete system backup to the new D: drive. I cleaned up the dishes after dinner, and I made coffee and put it in the thermos. I went out about 8 P.M. and stopped by the new Greenwich Library Peterson addition which opened today. It is quite a tremendous beautiful new building. There are quite a few computer terminals around. It is quite spacious and well lit. I browsed the whole new area and the parts as it is incorporated into the old building until they are finished remodeling the old building. It is quite comfortable and the music CD collection is well displayed now. I chatted with some of the staff. I am most pleased with the final outcome on the new library addition. They still have to finish the "Jewel" extension on the library, and some furnishing are still not in place. I will have to look at it during the daylight hours. I made four copies of my CompUSA receipts for .40 for my rebates. I read the Greenwich Times. I left shortly before the library closed, and headed downtown. I started drinking my coffee, and I chatted with one local about various topics. I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road about 10:00 P.M., and I then drove by the Exxon station and put $11 of premium in my car. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a Stauffers frozen 20 oz. lasagna for $2.99, two Stauffers extra cheese french bread pizzas for $3.29 each, two Tropicana Grove stand half gallon orange juices for $2 each, and two I Can't Believe It's Not Butter for $1.29 each for $16.15 total. I then returned home and put away the groceries. I checked the computer, and the backup had stopped because it can not write a file larger than 4.2 G.. I restarted the backup backing up the C: drive only to the D: drive, and the D: drive only to the C: drive. This took about two hours, so I watched a little of PBS. I started the server running about midnight, and it is all running fine. Now with the server running off the new 8.4 Gigabyte D: drive, I won't have the main C: drive running all the time. With the backup files on both drives, I am using up a bit of space for now; but it is good insurance while I can spare the space. Next time I will have to remember to compress them. It all seems to be running fine. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well, I need to relax a bit; but I will probably do a little computer work for a while. I also installed the new Microsoft Mouse, which is much more responsive. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>6/01/99 Tuesday 3:00 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road, and I then parked in the center of town. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue and sat in the Post Office plaza for a while where the veteran wreath is. It was very quiet out. I guess I will head off to bed, well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>6/01/99 Tuesday 1:45 A.M. EDT: Apache server back up and running with new log file at 1 A.M. and the old log files saved. It took a while to download the log file from Florida for May. I have cleaned up and will go out for a little while for some fresh air. Also CompUSA http://www.compusastores.com still has the Maxtor 8.4 gigabyte hard drive on sale for $149.99 with a $50 mailin rebate for $99.99 total through Thursday. I will go up there when I get up today, and see if they still have any. Then I will be able to post my server files on the new 8.4 G. D: drive, so they will run seperately from the system files and give less wear and tear on the system C: drive. I will also have enough room to grow with new files and for now to make a C: and drive D: drive backup to the D: drive. It should be about a half hour installation since I won't have to transfer the entire system files. Basically take out the 1 G. drive and put in the new 8.4 G. D: drive with the dip pins set as a slave and run cmos setup to recognize it and and plug and play should recognize it for FDISK, if not run FDISK and set it up and also remember to set up FAT 32 on it. CIO

Note:<888>6/01/99 Tuesday 12:10 A.M. EDT: After dinner I watched Memorial Day programs on Channel 13 PBS from the U.S.S. Interpid Aircraft Carrier in Manhattan, and the National Memorial Day television show from the west lawn of the Capitol. It was very enjoyable. I am shut down the server just before midnight and will start it up shortly after midnight to change the Apache server logs. I guess I will now clean up, and go out in a little while for fresh air. Have a good morning. CIO