<888> 06/30/15 Tuesday 8:15 P.M. I woke up at 5 P.M.. I went for a ride with a relative along the Kennebunk beach and back, and we sat out at the west end of the east beach watching the dog walkers and the surfers at low tide. We then stopped by the Clam Shack in downtown Kennebunkport, and we got a half pint of fried clams for $21.55. We then returned to my relative's house, and we watched the evening news and ate fried clams, taco chips with Hell-Uv-A-Good horseradish sauce and watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate barbecued 12 ounce New York strip steak medium rare and one ear of corn on the cob with butter and cold slaw and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now read or watch television before going to bed. At www.samsclub.com, they have New York Strip steaks for $9.99 a pound. Normally I do not eat too much beef to keep my cholesterol down, but since I am on vacation, and I will be traveling back to Greenwich, Connecticut this coming Thursday, I might need a little bit of extra energy. CIO
<888> 06/30/15 Tuesday 3:05 P.M. I chatted with two friends and another friend twice. One friend will be visiting Newport, Rhode Island until this Friday. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and vinegar potato chips and potato salad and a watered down orange juice. I went out with a relative, and we did an errand in downtown Kennebunkport, and then we went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove along the waterfront back in Kennebunkport. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/30/15 Tuesday 11:10 A.M. I did a wash load of colored clothes, and I am now drying them. I brought the garbage can in from the street, and I threw out more garbage. I chatted with a relative. They yard man cut the grass on the north side of the house. He will back again on Friday. CIO
<888> 06/30/15 Tuesday 9:20 A.M. I watched the www.pbs.org Antique Road Show until 10 P.M., and then I went to bed. I woke up at 8 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana and blue berries, a toasted English muffin with butter, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/29/15 Monday 8:50 P.M. I woke up at 6 P.M.. I watched the evening news and drank watered down orange juice with taco chips and salsa and Hell-Uv-A-Good horse radish dip. I went for a drive with a relative along the Kennebunk beach and back home. For dinner, I ate barbecued 12 ounce New York strip steak medium rare and one ear of corn on the cob with butter and egg and potato salad and a small mixed salad with blue cheese dressing and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now read or watch television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/29/15 Monday 4:55 P.M. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and vinegar potato chips and potato salad and a watered down orange juice. I checked the oil on the Volvo wagon. I walked down to the waterfront, and the fallen oak tree looks like it is on the south neighbor's property and its base is about three feet in diameter, and its root base was already hanging over an embankment on the marsh pond, so now most of it has fallen into the marsh pond. I went with a relative to the Kennebunkport post office. We then went to a medical appointment in Biddeford, Maine. While waiting, I read part of this week's www.time.com magazine. It said the Dali Lama gets up at 3 A.M. and goes to bed at 7 P.M., and spends six hours a day in prayer and meditation. We returned back to my relative's house. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/29/15 Monday 12:15 P.M. I started a load of white wash, and I am now drying it. I cleaned the toilets in the powder room, master bedroom and downstairs bunk room. I used the electric leaf blower, and I cleaned off the driveway. The painter says that either end of the garage door will probably need a third rubber strip, since the ends of the garage floor are not level. A bit oak tree blew over in the storm yesterday. It is about 15 feet south of the property line down on the neighbor's proferty down by the marsh pond about ten feet in from the marsh pond at high tide. I put the garbage can out by the street for pickup tomorrow morning. CIO
<888> 06/29/15 Monday 9:45 A.M. I read part of the Sunday www.nytimes.com . I went to bed at 9 P.M.. I woke up at 8 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana and blue berries, a toasted English muffin with butter, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I chatted with a relative. The painter is here putting a second rubber strip on the bottom of the garage door. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/28/15 Sunday 8:00 P.M. I woke up at 3:15 P.M.. I helped a relative out with a matter. We watched television. I went out to H. & B. Provisions in downtown Kennebunkport, and I got a half gallon of Hood 2% milk for $2.59. It was so slow out with the constant rain, there was nobody lined up the clam shack by the bridge in downtown Kennebunkport. I returned home, and I watched the evening news with relatives. For dinner, I ate three 1/4 inch thick slices of rotisserie chicken white meat with Jack Daniels Honey Smoked barbecue sauce and potato salad and cold slaw and watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now read or watch television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/28/15 Sunday 1:05 P.M. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and vinegar potato chips and potato salad and a banana smoothie. I will now take a nap. We are out of milk, so I will have to make a milk run after I take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/28/15 Sunday 12:05 P.M. I made 164 Zen Filter Lights 100s cigarettes while listening to www.foxnews.com . CIO
<888> 06/28/15 Sunday 9:05 A.M. I went to bed at 9 P.M.. I woke up at 8 A.M.. I brought in the www.nytimes.com . I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana and blue berries, a toasted English muffin with butter, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. www.foxnews.com says Jeb Bush has 15% in the polls and Donald Trump has 11% in the polls, so I guess the republican party is gaining some momentum with a year and a half to go before the Presidential election. I will now shower and clean up. I will then make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 06/27/15 Saturday 8:10 P.M. I woke up at 4:30 P.M.. I watched a bit of television including the evening news. For dinner, I ate barbecued 12 ounce New York strip steak medium rare and two ears of corn on the cob with butter and a glass of watered down orange juice. It is supposed to rain heavily tonight starting around midnight and into tomorrow, and it is also supposed to be cooler with a high of 60 degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow. I will read or watch a little bit of television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/27/15 Saturday 2:45 P.M. Another relative stopped by briefly. I drove with a relative to the Kennebunkport post office, and I mailed the $60 Pirelli rebate form. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to process. We then went by www.cvs.com in Kennebunk. Next we went by Hannaford's and got groceries. We also bought a $15 thirty inch high sunflower plant with about 10 flowers. We drove back from Kennebunk on the Mother's Beach road and drove along the Kennebunk beach which was quite busy. We returned to my relative's house. I put the sunflower plant by the front sidewalk entrance adjacent to the lawn, and I watered it. I brought in our purchases. The painter has finished painting the back deck, but the outside railing still has to dry. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and vinegar potato chips and potato salad and a glass of iced tea. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/27/15 Saturday 10:50 A.M. I found this $60 mail in rebate form for my new Pirelli Scorpion Verde All Season tires http://www.pirelli.com/asset/index.php?idelement=46591 , and I printed it out, and I have it ready to mail with a copy of the sales receipt. The house painter is here. CIO
<888> 06/27/15 Saturday 8:50 A.M. I went to bed at 10 A.M., and I woke up at 7 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana and blue berries, a toasted English muffin with butter, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I swept off the front porch, and I watered the flowers. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/26/15 Friday 8:20 PM. I woke up at 4:30 P.M.. I went for a drive with a relative along the Kennebunk beach and we parked briefly at the east beach before the parking officer walked by. We then drove along the waterfront in Kennebunkport and returned back to my relative's house. We watched the evening news, and I ate brown rice crackers with Hell-Uv-Good horse radish dip and iced tea. For dinner, I ate three 1/4 inch thick slices of rotisserie chicken white meat with Jack Daniels Honey Smoked barbecue sauce and potato salad and cold slaw and iced tea. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will watch a little bit of television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/26/15 Friday 1:55 PM. I went out with a relative to Kennebunk for an appointment. While waiting I chatted with a friend and Microsoft Tech in the Philippines. We then went to the Kennebunkport post office and returned to my relative's house. I ate reheated baked breaded haddock, potato salad, cold slaw and iced tea. The lawn man and the house keeper are here. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/26/15 Friday 9:10 AM. It quit raining. I sat outside, and I saw a red Cardinal bird and a sparrow hawk. I cut a full bloom red rose from the front porch area, and it is on display in the kitchen. I cleaned the coffee maker, and I threw out the garbage. My new baby blue Ralph Lauren waist 50 inches shorts fit just fine. CIO
<888> 06/26/15 Friday 8:30 AM. I woke up at 10:45 P.M., and I ate some mixed nuts and iced tea. I went back to bed until 6 A.M.. I brought in the www.nytimes.com . I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up. CIO
<888> 06/25/15 Thursday 8:20 PM. I went out to the Kennebunkport post office. The order with tracking number of "1Z31T67TYW03322264" at www.ups.com on the order for $40 with shipping http://www.onlinestores.com/american-flag-4ftx6ft-valley-forge-koralex-ii-2-ply-sewn-polyester.html arrived. I returned to my relative's house. I put up the new flag on the flag pole in front of the house, and it looks just great. I dried the colored clothes. I went out with relatives at noon, and we went by Port Lobster. We then drove up U.S. 1 to Biddeford, Maine and got on I-95 north and we got off at Scarborough, Maine, and we drove north to the Portland Jet Port, where we dropped off a relative who was leaving. We then drove to the nearby Mercy Medical Center office building, where a relative had an appointment with a foot doctor. We then went to Marshall's. My relative bought me a pair of baby blue Ralph Lauren waist 50 inch shorts for $29.95 for $60 off. We then went by www.samsclub.com , and we filled up my relative's car with gasoline. We then bought groceries at Sam's Club. We then took I-95 South to Biddeford, Maine, and we drove back to my relative's house in Kennebunkport. We unloaded the car. The painter painted the deck out back today. We watched the evening news while eating blue cheese with brown rice crackers and a glass of iced tea. For dinner, I ate a rotisserie chicken leg and thigh and two 1/4 inch thick slices of white meat, potato salad, and mixed salad and a glass of iced tea. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will go to bed in a little while. CIO
<888> 06/25/15 Thursday 9:50 AM. I watched www.foxnews.com and www.cnn.com before going to bed at 10 P.M.. I woke up at 8:15 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up. I started a load of colored wash. CIO
<888> 06/24/15 Wednesday 8:15 PM. I watched the evening news and drank a glass of iced tea. For dinner, I ate baked breaded haddock with two ears of corn on the cob with butter and steamed broccoli with butter and a glass of iced tea. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now watch some television or read or chat with relatives before going to bed in a little while. CIO
<888> 06/24/15 Wednesday 6:30 PM. I woke up at 5 P.M.. I watched the Antiques Road Show from England and some BBC news. I drank a glass of iced tea. I got email that Schultz liquid plant food http://schultz.infinitylawnandgarden.com/products/plant-food/liquid/plant-food-plus is now owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro and is supposed to be available at www.homedepot.com , Menards, True Value, and Ace Hardware stores. CIO
<888> 06/24/15 Wednesday 2:35 PM. I went out with relatives to the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove up to www.cvs.com at Kennebunk. We then got some groceries at Hannaford's. We then went back by the Kennebunkport post office again. We then went by Port Lobster. I brought the pedestal fan up from the basement and put it at the dining room entrance into the kitchen to blow some cool air around. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and vinegar potato chips and egg and potato salad and a glass of iced tea. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/24/15 Wednesday 10:40 AM. Before going to bed, I watched programs on www.pbs.org about Ronald Reagan and the Roosevelts. I went to bed at 10 P.M.. I woke up at 8 A.M.. Garrick Pillsbury plumbing was here at 8 A.M., and they put a new rubber cap with hose clamp over the existing defective brass cap on the four inch waste water disposal outlet to the left side of the washing machine, so that is all fixed. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and blueberries, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I washed and dried my blue Volvo wagon with Turtle Wax car wash solution and water, so the blue Volvo wagon now looks a lot better. I showered and I cleaned up. CIO
<888> 06/23/15 Tuesday 8:30 PM. I woke up at 4:30 P.M.. I drove along the Kennebunkport waterfront with relatives to Cape Porpoise. We ate dinner at the http://www.pier77restaurant.com/ . I had fried boneless breast of chicken with a steamed green vegetable and mashed potatoes and onion rings with a glass of ice water. We then drove back along the Kennebunkport waterfront and we returned to my relative's house. I will watch a little bit of television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/23/15 Tuesday 2:05 PM. I went out, and I went by the Big Apple www.citgo.com gasoline station in downtown Kennebunkport. I bought $22 of premium self service gasoline for $3.179 a gallon for 6.92 gallons at odometer reading of 110563 miles for 206 miles driven since the Massachusetts turnpike rest area on Monday June 15, 2015 for 29.769 miles per gallon in mostly highway traffic. I then went by the Kennebunkport post office. I then returned to my relative's house. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/23/15 Tuesday 12:55 PM. I started a load of white wash which is now on the dry cycle. We watched www.bloomberg.com news which on the Time Warner Digital Cable Television service in Kennebunkport is on channel 207 which is the same as the telephone area code. www.fedex.com delivered the www.lifeline.com device. We set it up on the blue wicker table on the south end of the kitchen next to the Panasonic Digital cordless telephone and made a test call on it, and it works just fine for my relative to wear the emergency call button. We are mailing the form information letter back to Life Line with the relevant information. The carpet person was here to measure the carpet for the master bedroom in case my relatives decide to get new carpet for the master bedroom. I ate the reheated moosaka with a glass of watered down orange juice. I bottom fished http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . Garrick Pillsbury plumbing is supposed to be here tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. to check the leaking drain pipe cap in the basement on the left side of the washer machine. CIO
<888> 06/23/15 Tuesday 9:40 AM. I watched the www.pbs.org Antiques Road Show until 10 P.M., and then I went to bed. I woke up at 7:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I showered and I cleaned up. It is raining outside. CIO
<888> 06/22/15 Monday 8:30 PM. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I went for a drive with relatives. We went by Port Lobster. We then drove the entire length of the Kennebunk beach, and we parked for a while on the west end of the east beach watching the surfers. It says on the parking kiosks, it is $20 a day to park at the Kennebunk beach for any non residents who want to enjoy the ocean. We then drove back to my relative's house. We watched the evening news, and I ate crackers with chopped tuna fish and taco chip cups with salsa with watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate baked breaded haddock with steamed broccoli with butter and creamed corn with bacon and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. As scheduled now, I will be leaving Kennebunkport on Thursday July 2, 2015 to drive back to Greenwich, Connecticut. Tracking number is "1Z31T67TYW03322264" at www.ups.com on the order for $40 with shipping http://www.onlinestores.com/american-flag-4ftx6ft-valley-forge-koralex-ii-2-ply-sewn-polyester.html . I will watch television or read for a while before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/22/15 Monday 1:00 PM. A relative dropped off a local paper. I chatted with two friends. I went out with a relative. We went by the Kennebunkport Police Department, and we dropped off the Maine recycle bottles. We then went by the People's Bank. We next went by the Kennebunkport Post Office. We then went by Port Lobster. For lunch I ate the reheated stuffed salmon with cold slaw and watered down orange juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/22/15 Monday 10:00 A.M. I cleaned the felt pads on the bottom of the kitchen stools with the Black and Decker dust buster stored in the library bar. I glued on felt pad back on with Elmer's glue. I moved the primary garbage can and all of the recycle material out on to the street for pickup tomorrow morning. CIO
<888> 06/22/15 Monday 8:40 A.M. I ate a relative's last piece of week old birthday cake. I watched a program about British Royalty fashion through the ages. I went to bed at 9:30 P.M., and I woke up at 7 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up. CIO
<888> 06/21/15 Sunday 7:50 P.M. A relative stopped by for dinner. We ate mooska and mixed salad with blue cheese dressing and Newman's sesame seed low calorie dressing, and I also drank watered down orange juice with ice. The relative departed. We cleaned up the kitchen. I went for a drive with a relative along the beach in Kennebunk. On the way back, we stopped midway on the east beach and watched the surfers and the dog walkers. We then drove along the waterfront in Kennebunkport and returned to my relative's house. I will stay up a little while before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/21/15 Sunday 4:25 P.M. I drove over with relatives to the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove nearby to the site of the former grist mill which some locals are thinking about restoring. They have a couple of the old stone mill wheels left in the ground at the former site on the east of the Kennebunk River. We then returned to my relative's house. I took a nap until 4 P.M.. CIO
<888> 06/21/15 Sunday 1:05 P.M. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and vinegar potato chips and egg and potato salad and a glass of watered down orange juice.
I found these vintage pictures http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g772/the-bush-family-in-kennebunkport-maine/
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/g206/most-powerful-families/
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<888> 06/21/15 Sunday 12:05 P.M. I chatted with a friend. There is supposed to be a Bush family photo in front of their compound at Walker's Point in the printed version of www.usatoday.com today. CIO
<888> 06/21/15 Sunday 11:00 A.M. I ordered for $40 with shipping http://www.onlinestores.com/american-flag-4ftx6ft-valley-forge-koralex-ii-2-ply-sewn-polyester.html for the family house here in Kennebunkport, Maine. CIO
<888> 06/21/15 Sunday 10:30 A.M. I read Architectural Digest before going to bed. There was an article about an expensive house out in www.nantucket.net , where they did not build large houses this past century, but kept historically accurate houses for the area. I woke up at 8:15 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I showered and I cleaned up. At around 8:45 A.M., a puff of smoke came out of the exhaust vent from the house in front of my family's house, so we figured it was their furnace starting up. We need to order a new U.S.A. flag like this http://www.onlinestores.com/american-flag-4ftx6ft-valley-forge-koralex-ii-2-ply-sewn-polyester.html for the outside flag pole, since the old nylon U.S.A. is a bit worn out. It would be about $40 with shipping. CIO
<888> 06/20/15 Saturday 7:55 P.M. I watched the evening news with relatives and ate blue cheese and crackers with watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate 1.5 baked stuffed salmon filet with creamed corn with bacon and a glass of watered down orange juice. I have been emptying the bunk room dehumidifier twice a day, so it keeps going. Another relative sleeping in the bunk room likes the sound of the dehumidifier going all of the time. I will stay up a little while longer before going to bed. There is suppose to be heavy rain tonight and tomorrow until tomorrow evening. CIO
<888> 06/20/15 Saturday 5:35 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I helped with dinner preparations by cutting the corn off five ears of corn and chopping a half of a onion. CIO
<888> 06/20/15 Saturday 2:10 P.M. I went out with relatives to the Kennebunkport post office. We then went to Hannaford's in Kennebunk for groceries, and then we returned to my relative's house. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and a glass of watered down orange juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/20/15 Saturday 11:15 A.M. I made 218 Zen Filter Lights 100s cigarettes while listening to www.foxnews.com . The painter put in two new support beams where the old support beam underneath the deck had rotted by the library entrance door. CIO
<888> 06/20/15 Saturday 8:15 A.M. I woke up at 6:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a blueberry muffin, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/19/15 Friday 7:20 P.M. I ate blue cheese with crackers while watching the evening news. For dinner, I ate a rotisserie chicken leg and thigh with two 1/4 inch thick slices of white meat and egg and potato salad and a piece of a relative's birthday cake and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/19/15 Friday 4:55 P.M. I woke up at 3 P.M.. We use www.scottbrand.com septic safe toilet paper in the family house in Maine, so we don't damage our septic system or sewage pipes. I drove with a relative to the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove along the entire length of the Kennebunk beach and back. We parked at the west end of the east beach to watch the surfers. The dog walkers are allowed after 5 P.M.. They have parking kiosks, so I guess anyone can pay to park at the beach this time of year. No one is allow to park there from 11 P.M. to 6 A.M. year round, so the rum runners can sneak ashore with their booty. We then drove along the waterfront in Kennebunkport, and then we returned to the family house. The bug exterminator paid a visit this afternoon. CIO
<888> 06/19/15 Friday 12:50 P.M. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and a glass of watered down orange juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/19/15 Friday 11:40 A.M. I went with a relative to an appointment in Kennebunk. When we returned to my relative's house around 10:45 A.M., the yard man was here cutting the grass, and the house keeper was here to brief my relatives' about the winter activity. The www.sears.com repairman was here. He replaced the light switch on the refrigerator which is partially covered by warranty, so the refrigerator light now works. He also check out the leak on the washer machine leak in the basement. It is not the washer machine, but the four inch diameter drain plug in the main waste water pipe that is leaking. We thus have to get Gareth Pillsbury plumbing to replace that four inch diameter waste water drain plug to the left of the washer machine in the basement. Also a relative called www.lifeline.com to have their equipment delivered to the house for an elderly relative that uses their service. The house painter is not here today, because it rained earlier this morning. CIO
<888> 06/19/15 Friday 7:50 A.M. I woke up at 6 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up. CIO
<888> 06/18/15 Thursday 8:30 P.M. I watched the evening news while eating peapods, baby carrots, and crackers with Hell-Uva- Good horseradish sauce and a glass of watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate a salad consisting of Romaine lettuce leaves, sliced mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, a sliced hard boiled egg, three 1/4 inch thick slices of white rotisserie chicken meat cut into strips, crumbled blue cheese, sliced white cheese strips, bacon bits, blue cheese dressing, and Newman's sesame low calorie dressing, ground black peppers, Lowery's seasoned salt, and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/18/15 Thursday 5:20 P.M.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
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<888> 06/18/15 Thursday 4:15 P.M. I did a load of whites laundry. I ate lunch of turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. I drove with relatives to the Kennebunkport post office, and then we went to http://www.portlobster.com/ and a relative bought Halibut from Alaska. We then drove along the Kennebunkport waterfront to Biddeford Pool where we dropped off a relative. I then used the bathroom at https://www.facebook.com/pages/GoldthwaitesPool-Lobster/246123608731277?sk=info&tab=overview . We then drove back along the waterfront to Kennebunkport. We went to Meserves, and a relative got a Shanes of Maine Moose Tracks sundae for $3.77. We then drove out to the Kennebunk beach, and we saw a local with a car all the way from Marin, California. It was a bit cool at the beach today. My Dell Latitude E6400 laptop computer on the Windows 7 partition had been freezing when looking at Fox News and ABC News web sites. I fixed that problem by changing the setting to "Best System Performance" under "Advanced System Setting". Perhaps, my older laptop does not have the horse power for the more advanced web pages. CIO
<888> 06/18/15 Thursday 10:20 A.M. I chatted with a friend. I started a load of white wash, and I am now on the dry cycle on the dryer. The washer machine did not leak. The yard man and the painter are here. We have a lot of tree pollen this year, so I rinsed the recent tree pollen off my blue Volvo wagon. CIO
<888> 06/18/15 Thursday 8:40 A.M. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a blueberry muffins, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I will now shower, and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/17/15 Wednesday 8:25 P.M. At 11 A.M., I went out with relatives. We went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then went by Port Hardware, and we got two appliance light bulbs for the house refrigerator. However, the refrigerator light bulbs were not burned out, it is the door switch that has to be repaired, when the www.sears.com repair person comes this Friday afternoon. We then went to www.cvs.com in Kennebunk. We then went to Hannaford's in Kennebunk, and we got groceries. We then went to http://www.portlobster.com/ , and my relatives got lobster rolls for $11.99 each for lunch. For lunch I ate the reheated sesame chicken tenders with potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. I then took a nap from 2:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.. I went for a drive along the Kennebunk beach with a relative. We parked at the west end of the east beach and watched the dog walkers. It was a nice sunny evening at extreme low tide. We then returned to my relative's house. I ate Spanish cheese and crab meat and crackers and watered down orange juice while watching the evening news. For dinner, I ate five 1/4th inch thick slices of white rotisserie chicken meat, egg and potato salad, reheated quinos, seafood chowder, and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will go to bed about 9:30 P.M.. CIO
<888> 06/17/15 Wednesday 9:05 A.M. I watched a www.pbs.org broadcast on Franklin Roosevelt until 9:30 P.M., and then I went to bed. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I brought in the www.nytimes.com . I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and sliced banana, 1.5 blueberry muffins, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of hazelnut coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk. I showered, and I cleaned up. I read the New York Times. I put the U.S.A. flag up on the flag pole on the front yard. CIO
<888> 06/16/15 Tuesday 8:05 P.M. While watching the evening news, I ate crab meat with crackers and a glass of watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate five one quarter inch thick slices of white rotisserie chicken meat and Quinos with a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. The www.samsclub.com rotisserie chickens for $4.99 are twice as big as the Stop and Shop rotisserie chickens for $5.99. I will now watch a little bit of television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 06/16/15 Tuesday 5:15 P.M. I researched Schultz liquid plant food http://schultz.infinitylawnandgarden.com/products/plant-food/liquid/plant-food-plus on the internet, and although they still make it, it is sold out every where. A few people are trying to sell it for $70 to $96, although it should only be about $5. I ate lunch two turkey and cheese sandwiches on pita bread with Hellmann's mayonnaise and Lays Kettle potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. I went with a relative to the Kennebunkport Post Office. We then drove up the Maine Turnpike to www.samsclub.com in Scarborough, Maine. We filled up the family car with gasoline, and we bought some groceries. They have rotisserie chickens there for $5. We then went to the Portland International Jetport, and we picked up another relative. We then returned home, and we put away the groceries. It is still raining out, but tomorrow is supposed to by sunny and moderate temperatures. CIO
<888> 06/16/15 Tuesday 8:40 A.M. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I brought in the www.nytimes.com . I ate breakfast of oatmeal with Truvia sweetener and milk and a sliced banana and sliced strawberries, a blueberry muffin, a 12 ounce glass of 50% orange juice with 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and vitamins and supplements. The painter is here to continue painting the kitchen. I will now make my bed, and then I will shower and clean up. It is suppose to rain today, but tomorrow is suppose to be sunny. CIO
<888> 06/15/15 Monday 8:15 P.M. I watched the news while eating Triscuit crackers with blue cheese and another cheese dip along with watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate 8 ounces of reheated sesame chicken tenders with a several mixed cold salads and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I put four new AA alkaline batteries in the sending and receiving unit of the kitchen Lacrosse weather station. I will now go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/15/15 Monday 5:45 P.M. I went out with a relative, and we went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove the entire length of the Kennebunk beach and back. I sat out briefly at the south end of the north beach. We then went drove along the waterfront of Kennebunkport. We stopped by the Cape Porpoise kitchen, and we got chicken sesame tenders for $10.99 a pound for $11.12 total. We then drove out to Cape Porpoise, and then returned to my relative's house. CIO
<888> 06/15/15 Monday 3:40 P.M. I woke up at 3:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a 12 ounce glass of punch and cold filtered water, a toasted English muffin with extra virgin olive oil, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I showered, and I cleaned up. I closed down the apartment. I left at 5:30 A.M. in the rain. I drove east on Putnam Avenue and left on North Maple and right to North Street up to the Merritt Parkway. I drove east on the Merritt Parkway. I used the rest area at Fairfield and North Haven. I continue north on I-91 to I-84 East. I got off at South Windsor, and I tried to used the bathroom at an Extended Stay Motel, but they did not have a bathroom in their lobby, so I went in the parking lot. I used to the bathroom in the woods at the picnic area before the Massachusetts turnpike. I got off at the Conyers rest area. I used the bathroom. I ate half of my sandwich. I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone. At the Gulf pumps, I bought $16.10 of premium gasoline for $3.139 a gallon for 5.128 gallons at odometer reading of 110357 miles for 129.9 miles driving from Greenwich for 25.322 miles per gallon in highway traffic. I then got off at I-290 north, and I paid a 50 cent toll. I drove to I-495 north, and I used the bathroom at the Lowell rest area. I then drove east to I-95 north, and I used the bathroom at the New Hampshire welcome center. I paid a $2 New Hampshire toll. I paid a $3 Maine Turnpike toll. I got off at the Wells Sandford exit, and I used the bathroom at the Amtrak station. I then drove north on Interstate 1 to I-9 north arriving at my relative's house in Kennebunkport at 12:30 P.M. for 262 miles driven. I ate the other half of the sandwich with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and Lays Kettle Mesquite barbecue potato chips. I then unloaded the Volvo wagon. I unpacked. I set up the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop computer with out the docking station, since the docking station did not seem to work. I am getting 25 mbps download from the house wireless and 1.5 mbps upload from the house wireless. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 6:35 P.M. I surfed the internet. I chatted with a relative. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. I probably won't be turning on the computer, before I leave tomorrow morning, so I will post a note once I am up in Kennebunkport, Maine. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 4:30 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while enjoying the warm day, and I chatted with a neighbor. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 3:50 P.M. I ate 8 ounces of heated Perdue chicken breast meat grilled short cuts, a microwaved sweet potato with Smart Balance Spread and extra virgin olive oil and steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance Spread and extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I cleaned out the refrigerator except for what I need for breakfast tomorrow. I made a ham and cheese sandwich to take with me. As the plans stand, I will be returning from Kennebunkport, Maine back to Greenwich, Connecticut on Thursday July 2, 2015. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 2:10 P.M. I finished packing. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 12:45 P.M. I still have a way to go in packing. I chatted with a relative. I put $10 on my H2O wireless Nokia Go Phone which is good for 90 days at 10 cents a minutes. It says I still have the previous balance too, but that might expire today. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 10:40 A.M. I have the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop and its accessories packed and ready to go. I also installed the latest updates. I noticed there is 100% chance of heavy rain tomorrow all the way north to Lowell, Massachusetts and a 40% chance of heavy rain in Kennebunkport. Since I will be worn out after packing today and done with that around 1 P.M., I don't think I would be rested enough to drive this afternoon in the clear weather. Thus more than likely I will be driving in the rain tomorrow. I chatted with a relative twice up in Kennebunkport, Maine. I will just take my time as usual driving up there. I will now continue packing and see how I feel after packing. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 9:00 A.M. I chatted with a friend. The friend told me it takes a long time for beech trees to grow. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside enjoying the morning. It is still quiet over here. I will now start getting ready to leave tomorrow. I have a number of things to do along with packing. CIO
<888> 06/14/15 Sunday 6:35 A.M. I woke up at 5 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 06/13/15
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 6:20 P.M. I went outside, and I walked around the building. I sat outside front and back. I think there might be beech trees in the back yard at the veterans monument, but I am not sure; but their bark is like the beech tree downtown at the Greenwich Common, except they are smaller. I don't recall seeing any beech tree seeds around them though. Well, since I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, I have lead a quiet life. I did visit Manhattan about thirty times in 31 years, and it has not changed. I made two trips to Europe, and several trips to Florida, a trip to Nantucket, a few trips to Newport and regular trips every summer to Kennebunkport. I think I might have visited New Haven about three times, but I drive near it, when I drive to Kennebunkport. I made about 50 trips to White Plains. I once visited Saratoga, New York, and I once visited Princeton, New Jersey, and I also visited Chicago and Champaign, Illinois during my father's funeral in January 1989. I think I also visited Washington D.C. two times. I have tried to be a good host observer in Greenwich, spending a lot of my free time downtown walking around. I guess since I have a Holland Dutch look people are not familiar with my look, although I have a Anglophile name. I suppose what few Dutch Americans remain in this area have nothing to do now that the tulips have bloomed and gone away. The Dutch are known for liking the waterfront, so their might still be a few Dutch people down by our waterfront. Over the years, I have pretty much explored most of Greenwich, Connecticut. Since I am downtown constantly, I am well known and recognized. However, now that I am getting older, I tend to go downtown, when it is less busy. That lets the younger people be themselves without adult supervision. I have noticed there are less people downtown anymore, so possibly they are spending more time on the internet and of course it does take some getting used to and training. I heard my neighbors complaining about telemarketers that constantly bother people, so I guess the Do Not Call List does not work very well much to our botherment. Well, I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed for the night. Have a good evening. CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 5:10 P.M. As I recall in the British Royal Navy www.royalnavy.mod.uk , the sailors are allowed to have their rum rations on Queen Elizabeth's Official Birthday. I would assume that is when they are not doing anything important like steering a ship or swimming. CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 4:30 P.M. I went outside, and I sat outside for a while on a quiet hot day. I chatted with a neighbor. I picked up the mail including a www.time.com magazine.
Sweden royal wedding: Prince Carl Philip marries ex-reality star
Trooping the Colour spectacle in London, Queen Elizabeth II's Official Birthday with family video CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 3:20 P.M. I went outside, and I sat outside for a while. I chatted with neighbors. Not much seems to be going on in this neck of the woods. I guess after the very severe winter, people are trying to get used to being outside on warmer days. Nobody outside of family members and a few friends ever communicate with me, so I guess I don't have my two cents to add to the world situation. However, I am quite familiar with this area, where as the local Hearst publication www.greenwichtime.com is owned by a California family that seem to think they control the U.S.A.. Unfortunately they seem to pay attention to both coasts, and if one ever deems to investigate the interior of the wilderness of the U.S.A., some people in that remote part of the wilderness might have a different perspective about what is going on in America and the World at General. However, some people just keep busy and don't pay much attention to the various electronic media available today. It is the nature of the New York City area, many people have divergent viewpoints. I guess since I spent time in Manhattan but hardly anytime in the boroughs of Manhattan, my New York City viewpoint might be a bit different. Alas, since my family could afford to give me a good education, I just stick with my research on the internet. Once one has an advanced education, one tends to be preoccupied with what one has learned. For some reason, the local electronic media seems more interested in selling products as opposed to being really informative. Still I have a bit of experience in travel also. As I have said many times before, I have been as far east as Istanbul, Turkey, north as Oslo, Norway, west as Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A, and south as Tobago in the Caribbean. Thus all together I have spent about a year outside of the U.S.A. However, 25% or world residents cross international borders every year, so the traveling public is always coming our way out of nearby New York City. For a more private life in Connecticut, I have heard mention the small towns of Lakeville, Connecticut, Litchfield, Connecticut, and Guilford, Connecticut which are more picturesque New England communities. Still there are a lot of other small New England towns in Connecticut besides the major cities. However to explore them in the winter time, one probably needs a user friendly four wheel drive vehicle like a www.jeep.com or www.gmc.com or www.ford.com Explorer. My Volvo wagon has four wheel drive and all season tires, but to navigate in heavy snow, one might succeed, but one still has to be weary of the other drivers that are on the road that might not be as experienced or equipped. Thus in the winter, I tend to stay close to home, since at an advanced age of 65 years old, it is expensive to travel in the north country and still enjoy one's creature comforts while one travels. www.stowe.com , Vermont has golf this time of year, but there can be bears on the gold course. Canada is opened for business, but they are not giving away anything up north, and one needs travel documents to visit there. I enjoy Kennebunkport, Maine http://scott-mike.com/137.htm since I have vacationed there since 1979, and I have family there to visit with. I enjoy watching the visitors show up there, and one can see quite a few French Canadians, since Canada's beaches are further away and probably more remote. A lot of Boston people vacation and live in southern Maine, and so if one is familiar with Boston, one is fairly at ease in Kennebunkport, Maine. I do see a lot of tour buses coming off of ships docked in Portland, Maine, which feeds the local tourist economy. I have never been further north in Maine than Brunswick, Maine where Bowden College is. www.llbean.com has there always opened store in Freeport, Maine, and I think they also have an outlet in Manchester, New Hampshire. The local Maine people tend to eat a bit more food and seem to be able to withstand being outside more in the cold winters. Still when I see them, they look like a fairly healthy group of people compared to the stressed out New York City population. The water at the public beach in Kennebunkport is a bit colder than Long Island Sound. I think this time of year, one can buy a parking pass for beach parking at the Kennebunk beach from the parking vending machines made available or a couple of local shops. Since the State of Maine for its size does not have many sandy beaches, the local residents are very protective of their beaches and try to enjoy them themselves plus making them available to the many tourists. Since the state of Maine is quite large, there are obviously a lot of other activities away from the shorelines. CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 1:25 P.M. : http://www.ov.ingv.it/ov/it/news/38-inprimopiano/629-international-workshop-on-advanced-monitoring-of-active-volcanoes.html
http://discoveringthedeep.com/ CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 12:40 P.M. I took a fourth of a head of Cello iceberg lettuce, and I ripped it up into small pieces in a large soup bowl with one sliced tomato. I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian spices, celery salt, Montreal Spicy Steak Seasoning, a quarter cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, 4 ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese cut into 1.5 inch by 3/8th inch by .25 inch pieces and I put Wish-Bone blue cheese dressing and extra virgin olive oil on it. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I chatted with a relative. I will now drink a cup of Eight O'clock Columbian Peaks coffee with splenda sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 10:40 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with a neighbor. I went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.99. I then went by CVS briefly. I then went further downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com , and I wrote a note to a regular morning local, since he did not have his hearing aids on. I told him about the Norway Savings Bank in Kennebunk, Maine. I sat outside for a while. Recently a bumble bee has been buzzing me off from the Senior Center benches. It looked like it might rain, but it later cleared up. I drove over to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription. I paid 50 cents to park across from CVS, so I sat out in the little vest pocket park for a while observing the morning walkers. I then drove over to Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $9 of self serve V-Power gasoline for $3.449 a gallon with a dime a gallon off with my Stop and Shop card for 2.618 gallons at odometer reading of 110267 miles for 42.5 miles driven since Sunday May 31, 2015 for 16.234 miles per gallon in mixed traffic. I then went by CVS on West Putnam Avenue. I bought buy one get one free 250 soft gels 1200 mg Lecithin for $10.79 both. I then returned home. I sat outside for a while. I chatted with a neighbor. I put away my purchases. CIO
<888> 06/13/15 Saturday 6:05 A.M. I woke up at 4:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown for a walk. CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 5:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative and a friend. I heated and ate a Marie Callender 16 ounce chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 4:20 P.M. I put the copy of the service receipt in the back pocket behind the driver's seat in the Volvo wagon. I sat out for a while. I chatted with a neighbor. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=%20%20%20%209374869903500428845147 on the order for the power adapter http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1PK1030716&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Standard+Batteries+%26+Chargers-_-9SIA1PK1030716&gclid=CLaI1oL898UCFVcUHwodoTYAlQ&gclsrc=aw.ds for it for $11.59 with free shipping arrived. I hooked up to Dell monitor on top of the Dell Dimension 4600i computer on the left side of the bedroom desk with a DVI cable. It works on the DSP 2. I booted the computer, and the Dell Monitor works just fine. I have the Eizo monitor behind it disconnected from the video card. I am installing some updates on it. CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 2:55 P.M. I called up www.greenwichautomotive.com at noon. They told me the Volvo wagon was ready. I then walked down the back steps over to Port Chester, New York. I chatted briefly with somebody from Miami, Florida at the www.exxon.com station when I crossed their parking lot.
The total for the bill was $1,964.86 which relatives paid for.
Brake Labor - Inspect and Replace Rear Brake Rotors, Pads, and Emergency Brake Shoes, adjust emergency brake $287.50
Rear Brake Pads $87.50
2 Rear Rotors $180
Emergency Brake Shoes $75
Labor: Replace Driver's Side Front Coil Spring $287.50
Drive's Side Front Coil Spring $159.40
Labor: Dismount and Balance Four Tires $64
4 Pirelli Scorpion Verde All Season Tires $660
2 Tire Valves $5
Tire Disposal Fee $12
Subtotal:
Labor: $639
Parts: $1,178
Supply Charge: $12
Subtotal: $1,829.90
Sales Tax: $134.96
Total: $1,964.86
I thanked the service manager. I then drove back to my apartment complex nearby.
I chatted with a neighbor. I made four copies of the service records, and I will put one copy in the Volvo wagon and another I will give to a relative, and I keep two copies for my records. I also emailed copies of the service records to two relatives. Well, the Volvo wagon should still be good to go this Monday morning for my trip to Kennebunkport, Maine. CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 11:55 A.M. I made 272 Zen Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching the last episode 22 of "The Reign" and the first half of "Noah". CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 8:15 A.M. I chatted with www.greenwichautomotive.com , and they told me to call them back at noon today, when the Volvo wagon is suppose to be ready. They were able to get the Pirelli tires. I chatted with a friend. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside, and there was not much going on. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 5:30 A.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/12/15 Friday 4:05 A.M. I chatted with a friend at 8 P.M.. I woke up at 3:30 A.M.. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 6:50 P.M. I chatted with a friend that I used to travel with, but the friend is elderly; so he no longer likes to travel long distances, and he made new friends further east of here. I tried to convince him over twenty years ago to invest in property on Steamboat Road, when a small house could be had for around $300,000; but alas the new larger homes are closer to $3 million on Steamboat Road. He likes the simplicity of the waterfront further east of here. Since the friend used to be involved in real estate, he might know more than I know. I went outside, and I sat outside for a while. I walked around the building . The usual Little League baseball is back in full swing, but since I do not know anything about baseball, I do not watch it. I guess because of the New York Yankees, the young people like baseball. Since I lived down south until age 11, I regularly played golf down south, and I once knew quite a bit about golf, until I went to school in Illinois where it is very cold to play golf in the spring. Besides the bigger people in Illinois seem to be a lot better golfers or scratch players than my 8 handicap, when I was 18 years old at the Greenwich Country Club. I did help start the golf team at Greenwich Country Day, but I also was on the tennis team, and I quickly learned a tennis swing messes up one's golf swing and visa versa. In the old days, I walked the gold course, and I had to put up with the trap shooter spraying the second and third holes with shot gun pellets, so I guess I was under fire there, while I was playing golf. I noticed some of the caddies seemed to know quite a bit about golf, but as usual, I played dumb, since the locals did not trust people from down south. Now that I have been up in the North Country all of these years, I have begun to enjoy the northern perspective for what it is worth, but alas my southern friends, if I ever had any forgot about me, and my northern friends still try to figure out what I am doing here, since I frequently talk about other matters instead of the local area. I figure, since we all live here, we share the same experience; so I like to advise people on other areas, in case they get wanderlust. The last time I played golf as I recall was around 1983 in Kennebunkport, and since I had not played golf in a long time, I think I shot a 97. I did play golf once in 1983 at my father's house in Bayonet Point, Florida, and I think I shot an 87 including an Eagle 3 on the par 5 Ninth Hole. My father's house was called Birdie on the Ninth, since he had an African Grey parrot that he brought back from Kadunah, Nigeria after he built an oil refinery there for www.shell.com and www.mobil.com . He was able to get the project done there, since he used Japanese engineers, since there were no other engineers available that knew how to do it. As project manager he was paid a regular salary by King Wilkinson, and he was not an oil tycoon. His retirement house in Florida back then was about $135,000. He did seem to know the petroleum industry. Of course there are lot of people world wide in that industry, so they all know the cycles of boom and bust. The Nigerian oil was low sulfur oil, so it creates less pollution which was desired by the Japanese with their highly congested cities. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 5:15 P.M.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
Ronald Reagan Made in the U.S.A.
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<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 4:50 P.M. I chatted with neighbors. I sat outside for a while on a hot day. I picked up my mail. I got a letter from www.ssi.gov that since I turned 65 years old my Social Security Ticket to Work eligibility has been terminated. Since I am disabled, I had not planned to try to work an office job on computers. I do things at my own pace. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 3:25 P.M. I chatted with www.greenwichautomotive.com , and my Volvo wagon's front tires are worn down to the tread wear marks and the rear tires will last until about this fall. I chatted with two relatives, and they agreed to finance a set of four new Pirelli tires for the Volvo wagon which will be about $165 a tire or about $1800 for the total bill with the other repairs. They are also going to check the fluids on the Volvo wagon. It hopefully will be ready around noon tomorrow, if they can get the tires. www.ibm.com call me up from Dallas, Texas. I chatted with them about computers. They are going to send me a link for Lotus Notes that does not expire, so I can put it on the final version of Windows 10 on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower when Windows 10 is finally released on July 29, 2015. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 1:35 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I ate a deli sliced ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays Mesquite barbecue kettle potato chips and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 11:50 A.M. I went outside, and I sat outside for a while and chatted with neighbors. One neighbor gave me back two packs of cigar cigarettes that I leant the neighbor. They are Wild Horse blue 100s cigar cigarettes. It is hot outside, so I guess I will stick inside my cool comfortable apartment. I can not order anything, since I plan to be leaving this Monday for Kennebunkport, Maine weather permitting. I mostly chat with family members and a few old friends that I have known for a long time and a few neighbors about the price of tea in China. There is such a diverse group of people in in this area any more, that when one finds someone that knows English, one takes the time to chat with them. A lot of the new multi national residents know English as a second or third language, so they are not as fluent with the many various dialects of English in America. It helps if one speaks English more slowly, so they can understand what ever one is chatting about, but it may not be relevant to their other worldly experiences. I basically have learned over the years to be hospitable to visitors, since they obviously paid substantial sums of money to come here, and they might have some valuable experience to add to the community. The local Greenwich Hospital draws a large diverse group of medical personnel which I think is important for the community. However, we all tend to do things based on our experience as opposed to electronic media from other parts of the country. Still since I have worked with personal computers for 25 years, I tend to make it the focus of my communications. Possibly the paid advertising world has a different perspective. I have noticed with the lower price of gasoline in this area, the air quality is not as good as when gasoline was over $5 a gallon. Still this is a rather complex area, and people have to move around for work and lifestyle activities. Also in the warmer months, they do a lot of maintenance in this area, which they can not do in the colder weather. Basically the warmer summer season here is so short, by the time one has gotten used to hot weather, it has gone away. About the second week of September, it can cool down again, but for the locals, it is invigorating weather. Of course up in Kennebunkport, Maine in early June, it can be colder particularly at night. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 10:45 A.M. http://article.wn.com/view/2015/06/10/Climate_change_has_left_US_exposed_in_Arctic_say_military_ex/
http://wn.com/worldnews . CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 9:40 A.M. I went outside, and I sat outside a while, and I chatted with neighbors. There was a little bit of early morning activity around the building. It seems perfectly normal over here based on my 26 years of experience living at this location. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 7:55 A.M. I sat outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I watched the morning birds having breakfast. I walked around the building. It is all quiet on the greater southwestern Connecticut front in Byram, Connecticut. I guess a half hour before the New York Stock exchange opens the traffic will pick up as the employees of the financial institutions in this area rush into town for work. It is supposed to be sunny today with a high of 87 degrees Fahrenheit. The big heavy flat screen Hitachi television is out by the dumpster. It is too heavy for me to bring in and test. Also I don't have my little folding cart from the back of the Volvo wagon to move it. It takes a standard computer power cable, but I can not see a coaxial or other antenna hookup on it. It was probably several thousand dollars, when it was new. However, I don't know if it works or not. It was lying around the community room for about a year, so somebody probably tested it, and decided it was faulty. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 6:10 A.M. I put away the clean laundry. I chatted with a friend. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 4:20 A.M. I have 10 minutes to go on two dry cycles. I made up a batch of fresh punch. CIO
<888> 06/11/15 Thursday 3:20 A.M. I chatted with a relative at 8 P.M.. I woke up at 2 A.M.. I put clean linens on the bed. I started two loads of wash which are just about done. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 6:05 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with one of my neighbors. The building custodian put an older heavy big screen about 40 inch LCD television out by the dumpster. I am not sure if it works or not. I picked up the mail. I will now eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. Walking downtown on Greenwich Avenue all of these years is like being a static train conductor constantly seeing wave after wave of different people coming out on Metro North to visit our small quaint New England suburb. Even in Kennebunkport, I check in at the Amtrak train station in Well either when I am arriving or departing and sometimes both times. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 5:10 P.M. I chatted with a www.greenwichautomotive.com , and they told me that the rear emergency brake system had deteriorated causing the rear brakes to deteriorate, so to repair the entire rear brake assembly would be $650 and the driver's side front axle has to be replaced, which is another $450, and all together the entire bill will be about $1206. I chatted with a relative and the relative agreed I should go along with those repairs, and another relative that I chatted with agreed to pay for the repairs. The Volvo wagon should be ready late tomorrow afternoon. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 4:10 P.M. While working with old Mercedes Benz while at www.lfc.edu, I learned that one has to change automobile oil about every three thousand miles or once a year. Even if one does not drive that much in a year, the warming and cooling of oil in the engine causes moisture condensation, so the oil loses it viscosity. Thus one has to change the oil at least once a year, even if one does not drive too much. Out in the Midwest the distances are so vast, frequently the locals do not travel via automobile long distances. When I attended Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, I noticed there were a lot of first rate low mileage cars in the community, so people stuck close to home and probably took the train to Chicago for work. However, with military bases nearby such as Fort Sheridan which was in charge of all www.army.mil recruiting and Great Lake Naval www.navy.mil station, there were a lot of military people in the area. Back then when sailors or soldiers returned from Europe, they were allowed to bring back an automobile paid for by the government. However, since European automobiles are hard to maintain the Midwest, a lot of them ended up on used car lots. I discovered with the vintage Mercedes Benz, the Bosch fuse box underneath the cowl or hood was the problem. With the salt on the roads in the Midwest in the Winter, the fuse box would become rusty and corroded, and the electronics would quit working. I used to use metal sand paper and sand the Bosch fuse terminals and put in new Bosch fuses, and everything would work again. Of course since a lot of automobile parts and American automobiles are made in the Midwest, I seemed sort of strange, but used European automobiles were cheaper to buy. Having lived back east, I knew they were popular on the East Coast. At the parts department at Knauz Mercedes Benz in Lake Forest, Illinois, they could get any Mercedes part from Germany in two days via Lufthansa into nearby Chicago O'Hare airport. Of course back then, one had to convince the parts department to let one study their parts catalogs. When I returned back east and moved to Manhattan in the beginning of 1973, Park Avenue in Manhattan was full of Mercedes Benz 600 limousines. Even in front of the Random House office around the corner from the British Consulate, there were two large Dark Royal Blue Daimlers parked all of the time that never moved from their Diplomatic parking spots. I guess the British consulate people walked a lot, but they were probably trying to interest people in that expensive neighborhood in buying them. The elderly German lady than owned the house in Plandome Manor, Long Island told me her mother was part of the Kaiser of Germany's consulate to New York City from before World War I, and she had one of the first Mercedes Benz out on Long Island. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 3:35 P.M. Back in 1982 and 1983, when I built the garage apartment out in Plandome Manor, Long Island besides Mr. Grumman living in the neighborhood, Tom Carvel of Carvel ice cream also lived in the neighborhood, so that is another dairy connection. I guess there are still a lot of dairy farmers in America. I never worked a farm, but I had relatives in down state Illinois at Robinson, Illinois that farmed down there. Apparently the area is a little bit warmer in the winter than other parts of the Midwest, because they get tropical breezes out of the Gulf of Mexico, but I don't ever recall being there in the winter to verify that fact. I think it was basically field corn, soy beans, and pop corn. Archer Daniel Midlands is in Decatur, Illinois, and they ship grain and flour all over the world. In the warmer months, raw commodities can be exported up through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway to Europe, but once the St. Lawrence Seaway freezes, the commodities have to go down the Mississippi River on large barges. Of course the railroads also transport raw commodities, but that does not work for overseas transport. England imports 80% of their food, so once the St. Lawrence Seaway freezes over, they have less access to food from the Midwest. I recall visiting Chicago in the late 1950s during the winter during a blizzard, and I recall the headlines in the local tabloid that Queen Elizabeth II was visiting on the Royal Yacht Britannica, so somehow they got it to Chicago, but I am not sure if the St. Lawrence Seaway was even opened then, and if it were, it would have been frozen over, so they must have brought it up the Mississippi River. They used to have cruise ships on the Great Lakes too. I recall visiting a family in Evanston, Illinois that had a warm fire place to sit by. I remember, we stayed at a modern hotel on Lake Michigan, but coming from the south, I was a bit cold. However, I was use to summer vacations on Lake Michigan at Holland, Michigan, where even in August, we had to use the kerosene stove to warm up the cottage. The Holland, Michigan Dutch are extremely religious, but also very pragmatic, when it comes to business, since they have to survive the long cold winters with the cold northwest winds coming off Lake Michigan. I recall both sets of grandparents had houses in the Midwest heated by coal furnaces which seemed to work well enough, if one could afford the coal. I think they had automatic feeding mechanisms, and one did not have to shovel the coal. There is suppose to be 400 years worth of coal in the United States of America. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 2:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I chatted with www.greenwichautomotive.com ,and they still have not gotten the estimate together on the repairs on the Volvo wagon. Hopefully it will be done this week, so I can continue as planned and drive up to Kennebunkport, Maine this Monday morning weather permitting. On one of my first visits to Kennebunkport, Maine in the summer of 1980, when George W. Bush first got the vice presidential nomination, and their family were staying in a house nearby Walker's Point, I noticed they had three blue Volvo station wagons in their driveway of their summer house. Thus they must have known they are good for the cold weather that people experience in the cold country up north, particularly they are good at starting in the winter with Bosch fuel injections systems. One of my last friends in Lake Forest, Illinois also owned a blue Volvo station wagon, we drove up the Thousand Islands up around the Canadian border. Also when I moved back to Greenwich in the summer of 1973, I bought a blue Volvo 240 sedan from George Peabody, but the Arab Oil embargo started, so when I was driving to the Darien rest area in a now snow storm to get gasoline coming back the automatic transmission shifted on the snow covered I-95, causing it a slight collision with the guard rail on the left side of the road, so that Volvo had some dents on the left side. While living in New York City, when I needed the money, I sold it to an African American from White Plains, New York at a loss because of the damage. I did know three people in Manhattan that had the little tiny two seater Volvo sport station wagon, and occasionally they would take me for a drive, but mostly I just walked and used public transportation. Fred Von Mierer's apartment at 420 East 49ths street was two blocks east of the Random House building where the Swedish and Norwegian consulates were located. Also Jackie Onassis had her officers there, since she worked for Random House. Also Howard Hughes had a town house nearby as did John D. Rockefeller III. Of course there were a lot of older people in that neighborhood, so I did not always recognize people, and as a unemployed waiter from Greenwich, I obviously was not networking with them. I guess because I had worked briefly at CBS, people were always telling me about different facts, but with expensive telephone communications at the time, one pretty much kept everything to ones self. Back then when not in Manhattan, I helped out around the family house in Greenwich. I even once tried to tune up the Chevrolet Monte Carlo by putting in new spark plugs, but I am not sure if that worked or not. I later learned when one does a tune up, one has to check the timing on the fly wheel which is tricky. I think on modern cars, they now use computer systems to check out the systems. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 2:10 P.M. An obscure fact, the country of Belgium is only size of Fairfield County, Connecticut. However, it is also the most densely populated country in the world with the busy port of Antwerp. Also the 1971 Burgundy 2 door Volvo sedan that I drove on my last trip to California in the late summer and fall of 1980 was made in Belgium. Thus at one time the Volvo automobile was also made in Belgium and Nova Scotia besides Sweden. Volvo was bought from Ford Motors, and is now owned by the Chinese, but I still think they make them in Sweden. I know the King of Sweden like collecting Chinese Art. I guess he was over exposed to Russian art living so nearby. What is curious is that one never hears anything about Finland which lies between both Russia and Sweden. I guess in the Nordic countries, they have their own way of doing things. Since I am not familiar with the Nordic languages, I can not network with them. However, once when I was on the pier on Steamboat Road many years ago, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden asked me where the local hotel was on the waterfront. I know the former night person there was Greta Garbo's niece. Greta Garbo used to work for British Intelligence and also had a house in Tobago besides across from the River Club in Manhattan on East 52nd Street. I once met someone that lived across the hall from her. I also once met somebody that sublet their central park west pent house to the Norwegian actress Liv Ullman. In Key West, I was told the Danish Royal family used to vacation there. When I first visited Fort Lauderdale in the fall of 1976, the King of Norway was on vacation there. Of course it seems sooner of later everyone shows up in Manhattan, so for the ones that can afford to live there, they see everyone sooner or later. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 1:25 P.M. I know a few bits and pieces of America based on my experience. However, I am told there are another 320 million people in the U.S.A. who might know a thing or two. I was told writers are suppose to write from their own experiences. Alas, I no longer have my American Flyer train setup or its cars. Also in the 1950s, cereal box used to come with different railroad badges of all of the different railroads in America. I think I collected over a hundred different railroad badges, and my generation used to trade them like baseball cards. Those seemed to have disappeared too. When I used to play the Parker Brothers game of Monopoly, I was always buying hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place and buying utilities and railroads, and I frequently won. In modern finance, the financial instruments are so complicated and confusing, I am not sure the average lay person can understand finance anymore. I guess I am a bit out of date on other changes besides computers in the last 25 years. I do not see any more visitors in this area than I ever saw, and it is usually a cross section of New Yorkers coming out to visit from the more urban areas of the city. I still do keep an eye on automobile license plates downtown as I walk around to see if I notice any out of state license plates in the area, besides the nearby states. One hardly ever sees a New Jersey license plate here, so I guess New Jersey people do not venture north of New York City. I see the most out of state license plates in my walks downtown on Railroad Avenue around the train station. Some states used to have coding on their license plates numbers and letters, such as in the old days in Massachusetts, the plates that ended in the letter "K" for some reason were from both Nantucket and Williamstown, Massachusetts. I have not seen any black and orange California license plates recently, so I guess that group of veteran travelers became more modern. The most interesting part of Greenwich, Connecticut, when I first moved here in June 1962 was that all of the police cars were forest green www.ford.com Edsels. My father had even thought about buying an Edsel station wagon, but we arrived in a white Chevrolet station wagon. We did once own a Ford Country Squire station wagon in Boston. It had faulty valves that Ford was never able to repair. When I had the used 1984 Ford Escort, the local Ford garage and other mechanics including myself could never get it to start in the winter. It had a lot of soot underneath the hood, so possibly they had some sort of malfunction on it, before I bought it from an older woman in Norwalk. I traded it in for the 1976 Volvo 240 with 45,000 miles which last me 10 years until the spring mounts rusted out. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 12:45 P.M. I drank a cup of Eight O'clock Columbian peaks coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. When one watches the local media around here, it tells the locals that it is not safe to visit or travel around the Middle East or Baltimore. However, if one could take the larger perspective in travel around the United States of America, one could research how many unguarded railroad crossings there are in this country where there is still a lot of wide open spaces out in the frontier of America. When I went to www.lfc.edu in Lake Forest, Illinois, I knew a college classmate that rented a house in the neighborhood where one of the founders of www.mcdonalds.com lived, and one had to cross a unguarded railroad crossing to get there. Lake Forest by American standards was a wealthy community, but still they had unguarded railroad crossings on the Milwaukee line. By unguarded railroad crossings, I mean ones that do not have cross gates that come down to warn of oncoming trains. My grandfather Scott was a railroad fireman and engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad for about 60 years. He was also involved in Union Activity on the railroads. Since it is hard to stop a freight train, he knew of numerous incidents of railroad accidents that possibly the larger media ignored. Alas, since I have been so focused on my home usage of personal computers for the last 25 years, I might have lost perspective of the larger picture. Still I have to pursue activity based on my experience and my budget. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 11:50 A.M. I took a fourth of a head of Cello iceberg lettuce, and I ripped it up into small pieces in a large soup bowl with one sliced tomato. I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian spices, celery salt, Montreal Spicy Steak Seasoning, a quarter cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, 1.5 ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese cut into 1.5 inch by 3/8th inch by .25 inch pieces and I put Wish-Bone blue cheese dressing and extra virgin olive oil on it. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 10:15 A.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor for a while. Since the world has become for might high tech since pen and paper, I remembered that www.cbs.com used to have a high tech research facility on High Ridge Road in Stamford, Connecticut besides in the old days in Greenwich, they also owned Fawcett publications. Alas when this Nixon republican could not make it into to work by 10 A.M., they laid me off at then end of May 1973, but I knew my way around the broadcast center for the two or three months that I was there doing their paper work for their commercials and watching their evening news broadcast. Alas instead of watching too much media anymore, I try to put my thinking cap on and based on my experience, I try to figure out ways to improve my current situation as opposed to what the broadcast media from afar might suggest. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 8:05 A.M. I chatted with two different relatives. I chatted with www.greenwichautomotive.com , and they will call me, when they know more about the Volvo wagon. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 6:45 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while on a nice morning. CIO
<888> 06/10/15 Wednesday 5:15 A.M. I woke up at 3:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up.
Although I am of Dutch, English, and Scottish descent; nobody from those countries here or there has ever communicated with me recently except through their electronic entertainment media. Since I was born in the U.S.A., and I am a United States citizen, and since I might know some other people on this side of the pond, and since most of my income and support comes from the U.S.A. government which my family and friends pay a lot of taxes to for over a century or more, I decided to put the two 50 star Stars and Stripes Betsy Ross flags up in the hallway to see if that changes my karma or outlook on interior decorating. Of course once winter sets in again, and I left with the remains of the town, I might be putting the European diplomatic flags back up, since I have to deal with what is around me in my immediate area as opposed to what is on other people's cable television networks or other electronic media. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 9:10 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. Bon Soir. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 7:35 P.M. I installed the Windows Updates on the primary work computer. I went outside, and I walked around the building. I sat outside for a while. I will now eat a blueberry muffin. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 5:15 P.M. I woke up at 3 P.M.. I chatted with one relative and then another relative twice. I took the Volvo Wagon to the nearby www.greenwichautomotive.com just across the State Line in Port Chester across from the Carvel ice cream shop. They said the problem might be the constant velocity joint, which would cost about $350 to put in a refurbished one. I left it there for them to check out tomorrow, and they will call me. I am also going to have them tighten the emergency brake cable. I walked back home up the steep flight of steps behind my building which are a hike. I sat outside briefly. I picked up the mail. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 11:15 A.M. I chatted with a relative. I sautéed a 10 ounce Hatfield ham steak in extra virgin oil and Smart Balance spread, and I seasoned both sides with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Montreal spicy steak seasoning, celery salt and Italian spices. I ate it with a sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil and steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 11:10 A.M. I went out. As I was backing out of my regular parking place, the left front of the Volvo wagon made a bit of noise around the left front tire from the driver's perspective. I drove downtown to central Greenwich, and I could still hear the noise while driving. I checked underneath the hood of the Volvo wagon, and it looked fine. Looking at the left front wheel, it looked fine. I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and the noise lessened. On the east side of Steamboat Road across from about 650 Steamboat Road, they have torn down a large house for new construction. Where Victor Borge's house was in Belle Haven, there appears to be more construction there. They have a port-o-potty at the end of Steamboat Road. There were a couple of fisherman and a orange plastic fence at the end of the pier. I guess the pier is in danger of collapsing. I then drove over to the www.shell.com station across from Whole Foods, and I checked the air in my tires all around for 32 PSI. The left front tire was at 25 PSI. I also felt the spare tire underneath the rear deck, and it seemed to be fully inflated, but I could not get at the valve, since it is on the underside. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I got on exit 3 east of I-95, and I drove to exit 4 at highway speed, and the Volvo wagon ran just fine, and did not make any noise. I then drove through Bruce Park and returned to Greenwich Avenue. There were baby geese in Bruce Park. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought another Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . I stopped by www.cvs.com and I picked up a prescription. I bought two clearance item 4 inch by 6 inch heavy wire picture frames for $1.99 each and .25 tax for $4.23 total. I then finished my walk. It was not too busy out. The new park at the Greenwich Common is proceeding along. I then drove to the A&P Fresh, and while pulling into the parking lot, the left front of the Volvo wagon made a similar noise again. I bought a half dozen America's Choice large eggs expire July 3, 2015 for $1.79, bananas for .79 a pound for $1.04, and a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.99 for $6.82. I then returned home. As I was making a sharp turn to pull into my regular parking place, the left front tire area made a similar noise again. I am not sure what the problem is, but the Volvo wagon appears to be safe to drive at highway speeds to Kennebunkport, Maine this coming Monday. Perhaps, it is from the fact that I do not drive it too much. It has fairly new struts all around. I chatted with neighbors. I put away my purchases. I put the picture frames on the shelves of the bookcase to the left of the hallway. I have almost finished installing the Windows Updates on the Asus Netbook. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 6:05 A.M. I am installing the Windows Updates on the Asus Netbook. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. I sat outside for a while. I left a package outside a neighbor's front door. I will now go downtown for a walk. CIO
<888> 06/09/15 Tuesday 4:55 A.M. I woke up at 3:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 7:45 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 7:35 P.M. I heated and ate a Marie Callender 16 ounce chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I chatted with a relative.
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<888> 06/08/15 Monday 6:45 P.M. I did some regular internet work. The Asus Netbook would not update Windows at the moment. I sat outside for a while. I picked up the mail. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 4:00 P.M. I am installing the Windows Updates on the Asus Netbook. The D-Link wireless router from Optimum is model "AC 1750". CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 3:00 P.M. I had a telephone call from an associate at 9:30 A.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ate http://scott-mike.com/em.htm with a glass of cold filtered water. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm until 11:30 A.M.. I then went back to bed until 1:30 P.M., when the order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=603064500342&cntry_code=us on the order for https://arrowdirect.com/search?q=dell+ultrasharp+2001fp+20 without the power adapter for $22.32 less 10% with coupon code "ARROW" for $2.23 off and $1.28 tax for $21.37 with free shipping arrived. It came with a regular computer power cord which will not work and a VGA cable. I set it up on top of the Dell Dimension 4600i computer on the right side of the bedroom desk in front of the 19 inch monitor. I guess I will install it there, once I get the power adapter, and keep it as a spare monitor for my more advanced computer systems. I could install it on the Abit computer on the left side of the bedroom desk. There are no computers in the living room that need it. I threw out the shipping box. I chatted with a neighbor, and I sat outside for a while. I got a telephone call about http://optimum.net/lineup . They will reorganizing the cable channels in the next few weeks. I made my bed. I will now drink a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 7:25 A.M. I finished updating the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table. I sat outside for a while watching a grey squirrel have breakfast. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 5:55 A.M. Yesterday before going to bed, I ate 4 ounce of Lays Kettle Mesquite barbecue potato chips. I took a fourth of a head of Cello iceberg lettuce, and I ripped it up into small pieces in a large soup bowl with one sliced tomato. I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian spices, celery salt, Montreal Spicy Steak Seasoning, a quarter cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, 1.5 ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese cut into 1.5 inch by 3/8th inch by .25 inch pieces and I put Wish-Bone blue cheese dressing and extra virgin olive oil on it. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
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<888> 06/08/15 Monday 5:05 A.M. I chatted with Optimum, and they only support the Cable Modem and D-Link wireless router. I finished installing the Windows 8 Updates on the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I move the 7 LAN cables from the 8 LAN port Netgear switch device to the TrendNet 8 LAN Port Switch device. It is connected to the three IBM ThinkCentre on the north side of the living room and other devices. It turns on with the second switch back on the Rosewill switch power strip. I have the LAN cable for the primary work computer plugged into the 8 LAN port Netgear Switch, and it turns on with front switch on the Rosewill switch power strip. The IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table goes online with 16 LAN port Netgear switch which turns on with rear switch on the Rosewill switch power strip. I am installing the Windows Updates on it. Some of the devices might still conflict, when conflicting LAN switches are turned on at the same time. Thus for now, one can not use all of the computers at the same time, but I can live with that for now. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 3:05 A.M. I have the Windows Updates installed on the two IBM ThinkCentres in front of the mahogany bureau. I am now installing the Windows 8 updates on the IBM ThinkCentre along side of the Ethan Allen recliner. On the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table, it monitor would not work, but it just turned out the power cable on the back was lose, so it now works. However, it will not go online when plugged into the same 8 LAN Port Netgear switch as the other three IBM ThinkCentres, and it takes those off line, when I connect it. Once the Windows 8 Updates are finished on the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner, I will turned of the 8 LAN port Netgear Switch and see if the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table will go online when plugged into the 16 LAN port Netgear switch. Before I had the different Net Switches daisy chained together, but now that I have each connected separately to the Dynex wireless hub, the computers do not go online until I switch them around. I tried putting back the Daisy chain setup earlier, but that did not fix the problem. The primary work computer is connected to only the TrendNet switch, so I can take online and off line quickly. However, it is a newer switch, so might try connecting the eight devices on the Netgear 8 LAN Port switch to it to see if that solves, the problem and connected the primary work computer to the older 8 LAN Port Net Switch. I still have all of the devices connected to the 16 LAN port Netgear LAN switch that I will have to trouble shoot sooner or later. CIO
<888> 06/08/15 Monday 12:50 A.M. I tried installing the Windows Updates on the three IBM ThinkCentres in the north center of the living room. They would not go online no matter what I tried. I finally removed the TrendNet router from the apartment network, and they still would not go online with the four net switches connected to the Dynex wireless router. I finally moved one of the IBM ThinkCentre LAN connectors to the Netgear 8 port LAN switch where the other two IBM ThinkCentres were connected online, and all three of them went online with the other Net Switches turned off. I guess it is a Net Switch IP address conflict. I am now installing the Windows Updates on the three IBM ThinkCentres. Without the TrendNet Router connected, I am getting the maximum Optimum 101 Net Speed of over 100 mbps with Dynex wireless router. However, I will not be able to print out on the Network without the TrendNet USB print server. The Dynex wireless router has a USB port, but I don't know if it can be used as a print server. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/07/15 Sunday 9:55 P.M. I woke up at 8 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed.
Pictures of Princess Charlotte and Prince George unveiled CIO
<888> 06/07/15 Sunday 8:05 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while. There were a few young bunny rabbits around. I walked around the building I finished installing the updates on the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom, and I shut it down. I ate http://scott-mike.com/em.htm with a glass of cold filtered water. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 06/07/15
<888> 06/07/15 Sunday 6:40 A.M. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn. I did some regular internet work and http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm to look for any bargains that might be lurking on the internet. Not much seems to be happening. I started up the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I changed the input LAN into the bedroom Netgear switch to lead from the Rosewill net switch in the living room which is on most of the time. It took a while for the bedroom IBM ThinkCente to renew its IP address which I guess happens, when one changes routers and switches on the overall network. I am now installing the Windows Updates on it.
I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO
<888> 06/07/15 Sunday 3:05 A.M. On the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower with the lastest Windows 10 beta upgrade, I restored its most recent backup from the most recent beta upgrade on June 1, 2015 to get rid of the IBM Lotus Note 9 program trial which I don't need, even if it did work.
I heated and ate a Marie Callender 16 ounce chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 06/07/15 Sunday 2:05 A.M. I downloaded the IBM Notes 9 trail, and I installed it on Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower Windows 10 beta computer. It sets up easy enough. However, although I set it up with the Optimum POP3 mail server configuration, it does not send and receive email. Thus IBM still does not make things simple enough for the average user to use, without an expensive IBM Tech Rep, which I would never pay for. CIO
<888> 06/07/15 Sunday 12:25 A.M. I went outside, and I sat outside for a while. I could hear the sounds of some weekend warriors moving around in the area. Alas, they will have to be back at work on Monday morning. A couple of my neighbors were still moving around. I am not sure what I am supposed to do on a night schedule anymore, since at age 65 I am too old to venture downtown to see what the younger generation is doing to use up their idle hours versus watching reruns off cable television. I guess the whole American experience is one gigantic rerun of yesterday's news. If anything new ever happens in America, I probably will be the last to know about it. I guess it comes from being a Taurus, which is a very settled astrological star sign. There is no point sitting out downtown at the veterans monument on a cool night playing Boo Radley. I only do that on hot nights which we have not yet to seem to have had up here in the north country. It does seem cooler for this time of year, but once one gets use to the cooler weather versus the hot weather of the subtropical regions, it is very enjoyable and refreshing. Of course the younger generation have an entirely new outlook with all of their wireless devices, so they are better networked than the previous generations. It is still fun to get outside I would think for this time of year, instead of spending one's younger life playing computer games. I suppose a lot of the local colleges and universities in this area have graduated from their studies. Possibly www.nantucket.net is seeing a new generation of young dishwashers traveling to the island for summer adventures. Alas I was too busy working out there to survive to ever have time to network with the leisure class. Thus when I departed from Nantucket in the end of November 1983, I ended up settling back in Greenwich, Connecticut for better or worse. At least I don't have to face the colder weather up north around www.harvard.edu and www.mit.edu . I used to know my way around Cambridge, Massachusetts, but I guess with the high tech revolution, it has all changed in that area on the Charles River. The "Old Guard Bostonians do not like upstarts from the New York area. They spend a lot of time looking at the bottom line before making any new investment decisions. Maybe they should invest in www.navistar.com which makes a lot of heavy equipment that might be useful for removing the mountains of snow, they seem to be getting recently. I don't see as many license plates around here from that part of the country anymore. I guess since www.lotus.com was one of the original software companies before www.ibm.com bought it many moons ago, they might have come up with some new software. Alas they have not come up with any new ways of making money, so people can afford to buy it. When I used to test some of their betas, they were difficult and not user friendly to setup. Also the fonts in their programs were very small, so the user interface was difficult to read off an average size monitor. The gurus up on the hill in Armonk, New York are off in their own tech world of super computers, so they don't think like www.mcdonalds.com with the billions of potential customers out in the world that they could come up with some sort of product to market to them. I guess IBM does not like dealing with the average person in the street, and one needs at least a PHD in computer technology to hold a conversation with them. Since I never learned Unix or any of the other IBM software languages, I am left out here in the wilderness of Connecticut bogging my two cents to a deaf community of users, but many of them might be stockholders that venture into this area to see what Big Blue is up to. I have tried for many decades to make a presence in the downtown Greenwich, Connecticut area, but alas besides the www.apple.com computer store and the Computer Super Center on Mason Street, it is not too high tech. The New York fashion and design industry seems to have more of a presence, since that is what invests here downtown. Well, given a little time, I will dream up something to do this morning. I can always update my Windows PCs, which is a monthly boring task that www.microsoft.com puts us all through. With the summer arriving, we might have a few visitors from elsewhere out of the area, but I am limited to English in my communications skills. Since America is a relatively younger developed part of the world, we do not have the historical strings that limit and tie our perspective on the world like the Eastern hemisphere. Alas without adequate financial support, I make do with what my limited resources permit me to accomplish. Also at my age, I am not a very good traveler, and I prefer to keep my creature comforts of home around me versus the younger generation out on a "Joy Ride". CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 10:20 P.M. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 10:05 P.M. I woke up at 8 P.M.. I sat outside for a while. I picked up the mail. I got the www.time.com magazine, which I never have time to read. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 11:20 A.M. I chatted with two relatives. A neighbor rang my door bell looking for dryer sheets, which I don't use. I went downstairs, and I chatted with a neighbor. I also sat outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a bag of microwave popcorn, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 7:55 A.M. I ate http://scott-mike.com/em.htm with a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 7:35 A.M. I made 315 Zen Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching episode 19 and 20 and 21 of "The Reign". CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 3:00 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while on a damp cool night. There was a late night big jet arriving at nearby Westchester County airport. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 2:10 A.M. I ate a deli sliced ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays Mesquite barbecue kettle potato chips and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I will now shower and clean up.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-04/thousands-flee-indonesia-upgrades-alert-mount-sinabung-volcano/6523076 could make for a colder winter next couple of winters. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 1:10 A.M. It was the cable labeled 25 that was defective. I ran the new cable from the Netgear 16 port LAN to the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server. The Netgear 16 port switch turns on with the rear most switch on Rosewill power strip that powers the four different net switches. Thus I forty LAN connections on the four different net switches which are sort of confusing to figure out. I once had all the cables labeled with scotch tape and magic marker, but I have changed them around over the last couple of years, so it is sort of hard to figure out which is which. The Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server still will not update Windows 10. There has been a bit of local activity this past day, if one looks at www.greenwichtime.com , but the big buck liberals don't care about the little people. Still I have my vast networks of friends around the world, from when I was more popular in my youth. Alas once one is over 65 years old, one is yesterday's news. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 12:35 A.M. The internet is back up and running. I have both wireless devices going. The cable to the Lenovo ThinkCentre on the right side of the FIC server is faulty, and I can not figure out which cable it is on the net switches, so I ran another cable from the Netgear Wireless router behind it to connect it up. Thus the Netgear Wireless router has to be turned on for both Lenovo ThinkCentres to go online. I am trying to update Windows 10 on it again. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/06/15 Saturday 12:10 A.M. I went back to bed until 10 P.M.. I made my bed again. The internet has been going on and off for the last two hours. CIO
<888> 06/05/15 Friday 5:40 P.M. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn before going to bed. I woke up at 4:00 P.M., when a neighbor rang my door bell. The neighbor barrowed another pack of cigar cigarettes.
Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=603064500342&cntry_code=us on the order for https://arrowdirect.com/search?q=dell+ultrasharp+2001fp+20 without the power adapter for $22.32 less 10% with coupon code "ARROW" for $2.23 off and $1.28 tax for $21.37 with free shipping.
For it, I ordered this power adapter http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1PK1030716&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Standard+Batteries+%26+Chargers-_-9SIA1PK1030716&gclid=CLaI1oL898UCFVcUHwodoTYAlQ&gclsrc=aw.ds for it for $11.59 with free shipping.
I will eat breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I will then make my bed. CIO
<888> 06/05/15 Friday 6:25 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/05/15 Friday 5:05 A.M. I ate http://scott-mike.com/em.htm with a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
<888> 06/05/15 Friday 4:00 A.M. I think some of the old time residents here up north of the Mason Dixon line have never been down south to see the southern perspective of Southern living, and all they know is Ted Turner's viewpoint from www.cnn.com and the Hollywood media. It is a large area of the country, and a lot of American military personnel come from that neck of the woods, so they are experienced worldwide travelers. I guess really all we see in this area is the regular business travelers out of Atlanta on www.delta.com at nearby Westchester County airport. Since nobody communicates with me, they do not like my perspective of America from the old days, when I traveled around a bit, when I was younger. Alas for senior citizens on disability income, it is too costly for me to travel even locally, since everywhere one goes it is expensive anymore. One of the last times, I had coffee at a www.starbucks.com was at New Canaan, Connecticut, and although I know some people from New Canaan whom I won't mention, the staff at that Starbucks by the New Canaan train station were very insulting. I think they must have me confused with someone else in this area. I know one can get dollar coins for parking at the New Canaan train station vending machine. New Canaan is sort of old fashioned, and I did get my driver's license there, when I learned to drive around 1966 or 1967, when my family lived across the street from the New Canaan Country Club at the Patterson Farm on Smith Ridge Road. Thus I also know my way around New Canaan. There is also a back road from New Canaan that a friend showed me that goes to Wilton, Connecticut which is even more rural. Since my family has medical connections, I prefer living near the Greenwich Hospital, particularly as I get older. Still, every suburban town in the New York City area has their own viewpoint as to their benefits and lack of essentials. Since I have been around Greenwich, Connecticut since June 1962, I am pretty much grandfathered into this community, no matter how much it changes. The New York City people and other suburban and urban areas play various different groups off each other for their own profit at the expense of the truth and reality. CIO
<888> 06/05/15 Friday 3:20 A.M. I heated and ate a Marie Callender 16 ounce chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. Once I know the https://arrowdirect.com/search?q=dell+ultrasharp+2001fp+20 without the power adapter for $22.32 less 10% with coupon code "ARROW" for $2.23 off and $1.28 tax for $21.37 with free shipping ships from Austin, Texas where the last surviving Texas Ranger hang out, I will order this power adapter http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1PK1030716&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Standard+Batteries+%26+Chargers-_-9SIA1PK1030716&gclid=CLaI1oL898UCFVcUHwodoTYAlQ&gclsrc=aw.ds for it for $11.59 with free shipping.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
http://www.unicv.edu.cv/index.php/conference-fogoeruption
http://americancruiselines.com for Gator Watching down by the Swamp Fox, better known as Francis Marion.
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<888> 06/05/15 Friday 12:45 A.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature and the shipping box. I picked up the mail. Well, the midnight night watch has begun. While the whole western hemisphere sleeps, a few of us are left watching nothing going on while the daytime movers and shakers rest. If anything ever does happen at night or in the early morning hours, I might not be the first to know because I do not look at the primary news sites while I am awake. Usually there are a number of truckers moving through this area on Interstate 95 when there is less daytime traffic. I think there is a truck stop off Interstate 95 around Milford, Connecticut. When I traveled across country via automobile four times between 1978 and 1980, I became aware of the large number of trucks on the highway that keep America moving not to mention the railroads carrying container ship cargo containers. I once worked as a Daniel Construction expeditor for six months in Greenville, South Carolina, and I was made aware of the fact that the rules and regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission regulating transport are as big at the Encyclopedia Britannica, so it takes a few experts to know how to navigate those rules not to mention maintain and run the vehicles concerned not to mention the by ways they travel on. Since Daniel Construction is now part of www.fluor.com in Irvine, Texas where www.exxon.com and www.mobil.com have their corporate headquarters, they might know how to manage certain parts of the transport industry that the average layman might not know about. I was told by a friend that once owned 200 acres in Great Barrington, Massachusetts that he sold to John Chambers of www.cisco.com that there was a large bear on the property that had built a den in the debris pile they built after the tornado up there many years ago. Thus somebody should probably tell John Chambers, if they know how to contact him. I personally think that smoking cigarettes out at night in the wilds of America is part of my karma with keeping will animals away. We don't have any skunks around here anymore, so more than likely the great horn owls in the area are eating them. I was told by one of Louis Rosenstiel's game keepers in 1975 that there were bears on the Conyers Farms property in North Greenwich. The same friend also used to hunt on the Westmoreland sanctuary in Bedford, New York next to where Governor Cuomo used to live; and he has a baby bear skin that he shot on that property when he was younger. When my family lived in the back country areas of Greenwich and New Canaan we had a German Shepard and a St. Bernard, and they were always barking at activity in the woods at night. Of course we watched so much television back then, we did not pay attentions to what our dogs were trying to tell us. I guess with modern infrared satellite surveillance, they can track wildlife in the woods, if somebody knows anyone with access to such systems. CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 8:40 P.M. A neighbor rang my door bell at 2:30 P.M to barrow a pack of cigarettes. Another neighbor rang the door bell at 4:30 P.M., and delivered the order with tracking number of "1ZX79947YW29457976" at www.ups.com for http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?sdtid=7887613&SID=fb9fc2accb10449c80c043bb1ab8ea55&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16812119283&cm_sp= for $7.99 with free shipping. I chatted with a friend at 5:30 P.M.. I woke up at 8 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I will eat breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I will then make my bed, and then I will shower and clean up. I moved the Dutch tricolor flag from in front of the left living room closet to in front of the left hallway bookcase. CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 10:00 A.M. I went downtown, and I sat out for a while. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and it was a $1,000 prize, and I got a Jack, but the dealer got a King, so I lost. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . I chatted briefly with another morning person. I sat out for a while. I then went by the Stop and Shop. I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for .99 each, a loaf of Pepperidge Farm 15 grain whole wheat bread for $3.99, a chunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese for $6.99 a pound for $7.69, a 59 ounce container of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3, a 16 ounce Smart Balance extra virgin olive oil spread for $3.49, deli sliced Stop and Shop white American cheese for $4.99 a pound for $4.94, deli sliced Stop and Shop honey ham for $5.99 a pound for $5.99, a Marie Callender 16 ounce mushroom chicken pot pie for $2.50, a Marie Callender corn chowder chicken pot pie for $2.50, two 42 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.99 each, a 64 ounce Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice $2.99, buy one get one free of 48 ounce Welch's' grape juice for $3.99 both, two 16 ounce Ken's chunky blue cheese dressing for $2.50 each, two 12 ounce generic honey for $2.50 each, a 8 ounce www.kraft.com grated parmesan and Romano cheese for $3.99, a 8 ounce Lays Kettle Jalapeño potato chips for $3, two 8 ounce Perdue Italian short cuts of cooked chicken breast meat for $3 each, a head of cello iceberg lettuce for $1.49, bananas for .49 a pound for $1.04, three sweet potatoes for .99 a pound for $2.85, a 1 pound bag of baby carrots for $1 and 75 cents can return for $81.66 total. I put my groceries in the Volvo wagon, and I went back to the store, and I bought three 16 ounce Marie Callender mushroom chicken pot pies for $2.50 each for $7.50 total for $89.16 Grand Total. I then returned home. I used my little wire folding cart that I bought with me, and I brought up my groceries, and I put them away. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 6:45 A.M. I chatted with a friend. I will now go downtown for groceries. CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 6:15 A.M. http://abc7chicago.com/news/photos-king-and-queen-of-the-netherlands-visit-chicago-us/764168/
http://woodtv.com/2015/06/02/netherlands-king-queen-visiting-gr-on-tuesday/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/netherlands-king-queen-visit-chicago-part-us-tour-31515195
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<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 5:50 A.M. I ate http://scott-mike.com/em.htm with a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 5:00 A.M. I ordered a https://arrowdirect.com/search?q=dell+ultrasharp+2001fp+20 without the power adapter for $22.32 less 10% with coupon code "ARROW" for $2.23 off and $1.28 tax for $21.37 with free shipping. When I placed the order, it said it was not in stock, but the order shows up at their web site, and I was billed for it, so maybe I got it.
Three-Course Dinner with Wine at La Crémaillère Restaurant - Fairfield County: Amazon Local CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 3:55 A.M. If anyone were scarred of black bears in backcountry Greenwich, they could always try staying at the http://www.thedelamar.com/ on the waterfront which has all of their rooms on the second floor or above. www.arrowdirect.com still has free shipping with used LCD monitors as low as $35. I turned on the unprotected Netgear 5G wireless router and the Netgear range extender, so for now there is free WiFi in my neck of the woods for the duration of the black bear emergency. I tested Windows 10 on the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, and with its built in WiFi which supports 300 mbps, on my 5G WiFi connection, at www.speakeasy.net , I am getting 90 mbps download 40 mbps upload. However, I am not sure which connection is the Netgear WiFi extender, but if one were in range, they would receive the unprotected WiFi. Well it does not hurt to have some of the neighbors better connected for now, in case they see something outside their windows, since I have no view from my windows. CIO
<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 1:20 A.M. I took a fourth of a head of Cello iceberg lettuce, and I ripped it up into small pieces in a large soup bowl with one sliced tomato. I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian spices, celery salt, Montreal Spicy Steak Seasoning, a quarter cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, 1.5 ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese cut into 1.5 inch by 3/8th inch by .25 inch pieces and I put Wish-Bone blue cheese dressing and extra virgin olive oil on it. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Bear-seen-near-Seton-Boy-Scout-Reservation-6305480.php .
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<888> 06/04/15 Thursday 12:15 A.M. I put away the clean laundry. Two of my neighbors were still moving around. The Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server, still will not let me update Windows 10, so perhaps Microsoft limits updates for different Microsoft IDs. CIO
<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 11:30 P.M. My www.eversource.com electricity bill for May 2015 was $278.88 for 1354 kWh for 30 days for 45.13 kWh per day with an average temperature of 64 degrees Fahrenheit. That is with the two air conditioners going for most of the month of May 2015.
My bill for May 2014 was $236.74 for 1387 kWh for 32 days for 43.34 kWh per day with an average temperature of 61.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus my electricity rate has gone up about 18.215% for the same usage. I have to use the two air conditioners because my large western facing windows on the second floor over the flat black tar room gets a lot of sunlight and heat, and it is frequently over a 100 degrees Fahrenheit outside my windows during the warmer times of the year in the daytime. Alas in the winter, the sun is further south in the sky, so I don't get the same effect. I use minimal lighting in the apartment during the warmer months, since all of the energy saving light bulbs put out about 4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit of additional heat. I am also on the night rate plan for my electric service, so my electric rate at night is cheaper than the regular rate. CIO
<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 11:00 P.M. I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles. We had top secret activity going on here for the last two months. A pair of robin birds had built a bird's nest underneath the front canopy I guess for protection from the weather. They were very vigilant in watching the robin's nest. The nest disappeared today, so I guess the baby robins have flown the coop so to speak. I saw a black cat moving around behind the dumpsters. CIO
<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 10:30 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I put clean linens on the bed. I showered, and I cleaned up. I started two loads of wash, and I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycles. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature and two shipping boxes. I watered the plants. I put 15 drops of Schultz liquid plant food in each quart of water that I used to water the plants. Schulz liquid plant food used to be available at www.homedepot.com in the gardening department. It the opened container lid is dried out and hard to open, one can use a pair of pliers to open it. CIO
<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 8:15 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I picked up the mail. The orders with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction.action?tLabels=9405511699000964477248 for 10 http://www.elionshop.com/everything-roll-your-own/zen-light-blue-100-s.html for $3.63 each for $36.30 with free shipping and the order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction.action?tRef=fullpage&tLc=1&text28777=&tLabels=9205590106531507486073 on the order for 80 ounces of http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/40011/peter-stokkebye-84-turkish/#p-106299 for $1.40 an ounce for $112.00 total with free shipping arrived. I went back to bed until 6:15 P.M., when I chatted with a friend. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 7:35 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
!!!!!!<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 7:10 A.M. I finished the backups. I found this http://scott-mike.com/em.htm . Instead of microwaving the egg 40 seconds, I did a jumbo egg 50 seconds, and after I built the sandwich, I heated it about 10 seconds in the microwave to heat the cheese and ham. It was a very good sandwich, but don't use too much butter, or it will drip on your hands. CIO
<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 3:15 A.M. I heated and ate a Marie Callender 16 ounce chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
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<888> 06/03/15 Wednesday 1:25 A.M. I did some regular internet work. I happen to have a free spare copy of Office 2007 Professional that Microsoft gave me at the Hauppauge, Long Island conference eight years ago. I installed and activated it on the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop computer Windows 7 partition. I am updating it now. I now have to configure Outlook 2007 on it. I will then have to do the two external drive backups on it again. When I booted it, it prompted for my email address to notify me to install the free Windows 10 upgrade on it on July 29, 2015. I don't use the Dell laptop hardly at all except for maintaining it, but I do take it with me, when I go away on vacation to Kennebunkport with family. Unfortunately the Optimum email servers will not let me send out email from other ISPs, so I have to use www.gmail.com or www.outlook.com to send out email, when in Kennebunkport, Maine. CIO
<888> 06/02/15 Tuesday 8:05 P.M. I have a telephone call from a relative at 3 P.M.. I woke up at 6:30 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 06/02/15 Tuesday 10:05 A.M. I went downtown to the www.chase.com bank at Deerfield Road and West Putnam Avenue. I then went by the Wells Fargo Bank on Havemayer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then returned back home to Villa Chez de Vinci. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/02/15 Tuesday 8:30 A.M. I will now get ready to go out and pay my rent. CIO
<888> 06/02/15 Tuesday 6:45 A.M. I finished the Dell E6400 laptop backups. I am wasting time blogging to www.gatesnotes.com about the old days of tech. CIO
<888> 06/02/15 Tuesday 4:15 A.M. I finished the four backups of Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise Edition version 10030 of the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower. I drank a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. On the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, I finished installing Windows 10 Technical Preview version 10130 on the second partition. I am now doing an Aomei backup of both partitions to the Toshiba 1 GB SATA drive in the Rosewill USB SATA drive holder. I will then do a Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Seagate 1 TB SATA drive in the Rosewill USB SATA drive holder. CIO
<888> 06/02/15 Tuesday 2:40 A.M. I took a fourth of a head of Cello iceberg lettuce, and I ripped it up into small pieces in a large soup bowl with one sliced tomato. I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian spices, celery salt, Montreal Spicy Steak Seasoning, a quarter cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, three ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese cut into 1.5 inch by 3/8th inch by .25 inch pieces and I put Wish-Bone blue cheese dressing and extra virgin olive oil on it. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
On the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower I did a Complete PC backup of Windows 10 version 10130 to the second hard drive. I did an Aomei backup to the second hard drive. I will then do the two different backups to the Toshiba 1 TB SATA drive in the Rosewill USB SATA drive holder. I am installing Windows 10 update version 10130 on the Dell E6400 laptop. I will then do an Aomei backup of both partitions to the Toshiba external drive and a Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Seagate 1 TB SATA drive in the Rosewill 1 TB external hard USB SATA drive.
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!!!!!! <888> 06/01/15 Monday 11:55 P.M. Lots of pictures of the Dutch Royal family here http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/05/dutch_king_on_president_obama.html CIO
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 11:20 P.M. http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/06/dutch_king_queen_meet_with_pre.html#incart_more_news
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 11:00 P.M. I straightened out the two 4 foot by 6 foot Aubison style Acrylic throw rugs in the living room. On the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower, I am installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise Edition Version 10130 update on it. On the Dell E6400 laptop, I am installing the Windows 7 updates on it. I will try to install the Windows 10 updates on the second partition in a little while. On the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server, it still does not want to install the latest Windows 10 updates, but it work just fine as is. Windows 10 updates are fickle. I will have to back up the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the four different methods that I do, once the update is installed. That will take a while. Grand Rapids, Michigan weather tomorrow for the King and Queen of the Netherlands is supposed to be 75 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny, so they should have a good time around the Dutch Americans. CIO
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 9:10 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I stood outside for a while on a cool damp night. I picked up the mail. I got my rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority, so I guess I will pay it early tomorrow morning. Night owls in this neck of the woods lead a secluded life like Trappist monks only going out in the real world when it is necessary. CIO
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 8:20 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I ordered http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?sdtid=7887613&SID=fb9fc2accb10449c80c043bb1ab8ea55&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16812119283&cm_sp= for $7.99 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 6:20 P.M. I woke up and ate some triscuit crackers and Lays jalapeño kettle potato chips. While asleep, somebody tried to send me a fax three times. I chatted with a relative at 2:30 P.M.. I finally woke up at 5 P.M., when the NOAA weather alarm went off in the bedroom, I guess for an impending thunderstorm. I chatted with a friend who told me half of Long Island was without electricity today. I chatted with another friend. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up.
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 4:55 A.M. I did some regular internet work. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn and a blueberry muffin.
I saw this mentioned in a news story www.gatesletter.com . I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 06/01/15 Monday 12:20 A.M. I printed out two copies of the Microsoft Money Sunset Income versus Spending report for May 2015. I put one copy in an addressed envelope to mail to an interested relative with a 49 cent forever stamp on it. I mailed it in the mail room downstairs. I stood outside underneath the front canopy for a brief while watching it rain cats and dogs. CIO