Note:<888>06/21/00 Wednesday 1:40 A.M. EDT: Well I was up until 8 A.M.. I was awaken at noon by a telemarketing telephone, FAX, or computer modem call which I have been getting two or three times a day for the last two months which are quite annoying. I chatted with Bell Atlantic about it, but they said nothing could be done about it. I pressed *69 to try to get the FAX call number, but it gave me the number of a previous call on my answering machine. I had breakfast of Quaker Life cerial, toast, orange juice and Perrier, coffee, and vitamins. I went out about 4 P.M., and I drove by the waterfront. Then I drove over to RadioShack in Riverside, and I checked out about returning the cordless telephone jack extension cable. I did not do it then. I then went to Staples in Old Greenwich, and returned the Platonic headset for $21.18. I saw a Microsoft WheelMouse and Microsoft Keyboard Elite set at the clearence table normally $59.98 got $20. I told them I would buy it. Then I went to Radio Shack again and returned the headset extension cord for $5.99 and bought a Dual Headphone adapter for $3.99 and I got $2.12 back. I then went back to Staples and bought the Microsoft mouse and keyboard set for $20 plus $1.20 for $21.20. It came with a $20 rebate, so it is basically free once I get the rebate free. I then drove around Tod's Point, and it was quite busy. I then drove by the waterfront in central Greenwich. I then drove over to CompUSA in White Plains via Anderson Hill road arriving about 8 P.M.. I noticed on the way, they have the Computer Vendors sale at the White Plains Civic Center on July 1 & 2. I toured the store and thought about getting a LAN connector box for $30 with my gift certificate, but I decided not to get it, since I could not afford the needed Lan cable to use it. This would permit me to use both computers with the cable modem at the same time. They sell about five different models for about $30. I noticed they have a similar but newer Advent speaker system that I have the right speaker broken on, on sale for $50 down from $100. I might think about getting it, but I have good sound right now, and I will first look into seeing if I can send in the broken one under warranty. Thus I will have to figure out what to do. I then returned back home via the Merritt parkway getting off at King Street. I went to the Glenville Grand Union, and I bought two dozen eggs for .69 a gallon and a loaf of bread discount for .50 for $1.88 total. I then went home via Weaver Street. I took the parial mixture of Alfredo sauce and added another jar of Alfredo sauce eight gloves of garlic, herbs and spices, and three diced medium onions, and I heated it all up. While doing this I boiled a box of Ziti noodles and some remaining shell noodles and when it was all done I combined it all for my Alfredo noodles mixtures. I had some for dinner with ice tea and coffee, and I refrigerated the rest. I had defrosted the rest of my Spinich Quiche mixture, and I added two more eggs and a half cup of milk to increase the mixture. I then made a larger nine inch pie crust in my nine inch Pyrex pie plate, and baked at 450 degrees F. for fifteen minutes. Then I added the Spinich Quiche mixture and baked it again for 40 minutes at 375 degrees F.. While baking it, I installed the new mouse and keyboard. I put the old mouse and keyboard on the backup computer. I also installed the Microsoft Intellimouse program. They keyboard was plug and play. I put a larger Audubon placemat underneath the new keyboard, so it is properly propted up in the computer keyboard. The mouse is great particularly with the scroller for web browsing and other computer applictions. It is also much more responsive than any other mice I have used. I let the Quiche cool, and I then wrapped it in a large zip lock bag, and I refrigerated it. I am listening to the BBC radio 5 live. I will now feel out the Microsoft $20 rebate for, and go get a copy of at the all night copy center across from the library and mail it. I then might take a walk after I mail it. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/20/00 Tuesday 7:15 A.M. EDT: Well I went to bed after the last message on Sunday. I got up in the afternoon, and I had a breakfast of Spinich Quiche and brown rice along with Perrier and Orange Juice. I vacuumed the apartment. I went out about 4 P.M., and I returned three three packs of Perrier at the Food Emporium for $8.97. I then bought a half gallon of Tropicana Ruby Red orange juice for $1.99. I then went down on Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by the news stands, but they did not have any tabacco, I was interested in. I then drove by Staples at the Riverside shopping plaza and toured the store. I then went by CVS and I bought six Phillie Natural cigar cigarettes packs for $7.25 with .25 off coupons on each pack. I then drove out to Tod's Point, and I drove around the park. I then drove back to town, and I drove by the Grass Island park, and I chatted with a local. I then drove down by Steamboat Road and chatted with a few locals. I then returned home, and I did some routine internet work until about 4 A.M. on Monday morning. I chatted with a friend, and I noticed the Bell South 2.4 gigahertz telephone was not working properly since the volumne control did not work, and the bell turn off did not work. I went to bed and was up around noon. I checked the mail, and I recieved a Memorex floppy disk rebate of $10. I had breakfast of Spinich Quiche, brown rice, Perrier and orange juice, and coffee. I then chatted with Cablevision about Optimum Online problems. I found out yesterday when I also stopped by the Radio Shack at the Riverside shopping plaza that around August 1st, the DirectTV service will be offering internet download device at up to 3 megs along with 250 channels for about $70 a month on a $400 satellite device and transponder. On Monday afternoon, I checked with Thomson electronics the maker of the device, and they were not sure when it would be available. I decided to returned the Bell South 2.4 gigahertz telephone to CompUSA in Norwalk, so I went out without cleaning up, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York, and I cashed the Memorex $10 check. I then headed up to CompUSA, and I returned the telephone since they no longer carry the item for $53. I have an older GE cordless telephone still. I toured the store from about 4 P.M. to 8 P.M.. I bought a Vortex SQ2500 sound card which is regularly $80 for $63 with a $20 instant rebate. It came with a $30 manufacturers mailin rebate, but since the store did not have a rebate form, they gave me a $30 gift certificate. I could not find anything else I needed at the moment. I then headed home down the Boston Post Road. I drove by Tod's Point at sunset. I also drove down by the waterfront in central Greenwich. I returned home, and I installed the new sound card. I put the old SoundBlaster SW 32 in my backup computer. I also installed the Logicode X2 modem in the backup computer since I don't have a telephone modem in my primary computer, just the Lan card for the cable modem. When I installed the software drivers for the new sound card, it used two IRQs. I had a problem with my primary sound system with the two speakers with and the bass woofer, the right speaker does not work. I fiddled with it for a while, but I could not get it working, so I also added the pair of speakers from my backup computer to the primary computer, so I have speakers on it, one that does not work. I put an older speaker on the backup computer. The new sound card sounds really great with much better sound quality. I installed the sound drivers on the backup computer along with the Logicode X2 drivers. This all took a bit of time. The new sound card came with three computer games which I did not install. I don't have the Creative Cdrom driver loading anymore which I use to disable. The overall system is running just great. I need to pick up a small RCA male jack two way to two female splitte cable, so I can have my headset and lead cable for the feed into the sterio system working. I have a RCA receptacle jack on the card along with input, microphone, game, and two sound outputs. At the price of $33 it is a great value. I also recieved three games that I did not install yet. I also had dinner of a Stauffer's 20 oz. beef Lasagna with ice tea and coffee about 9 P.M.. I am a bit tired, and I need to have a bite to eat before going to bed. I also chatted with a friend around midnight. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/18/00 Sunday 3:30 A.M. EDT: I finished cleaning house and watering the plants. I still have to vacuum which will have to wait until after 8 A.M., so as not to disturb my neighbors. Not much happening, I guess I will do a little regular internet work. CIO

Note:<888>06/18/00 Sunday 12:30 A.M. EDT: Well I rested most of Saturday. I was up for a while on Saturday afternoon. I had a breakfast of Spinich Quiche and Perrier and Orange juice. I finally got up around 11 P.M. today. I had some herbal brown rice and English muffin along with ice tea and coffee. I guess I will listen to some internet audio while I start my house cleaning. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/17/00 Saturday 3:10 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message about 2:30 P.M.. I stopped by Exxon and bought $23.75 of premium gasoline at around $2 a gallon. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and cashed my ACER rebate check. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a Krups Optisteam Plus steamer new for $17 that is regularly $40. I then went downtown,and I paid my apartment insurance of $35.17 to Travelers Insurnace with a .80 money order at the Post Office. I then went by Zyns and bought double wide cigarette papers for $1.89 for 30 little papers which seems pricey for cigarette papers. I stopped by Greenwich tabacco and told them I liked the Round Hill tabacco. I then walked around the park downtown a bit. I then drove down by the waterfront on a pleasent day. I went home, and I took about an hour and twenty minutes to steam two cups of brown rice with herbs and condiments, with about four cups of liquid. I rolled some cigarettes while doing this. I also took all my old inexpensive CVS cigars that are at least a year old, and ground them up in the CuisineArt and sifted and sorted the tabacco with a colander and added it to my existing tabacco mixture, and put it all in a tobacco jar by the entrance. I then rolled a few more. I have pipes, but generally when busy I smoke cigarettes even if it takes time to Taylor make them. Once the rice was ready, I used a portion with the remaining defrosted Mulligan stew and heated it all in the ventage General Electric Microwave. I had this for dinner with iced tea and coffee. I then cleaned up the kitchen, and I went down by the waterfront at sunset and relaxed a bit. I then went uptown for a walk on lower Greenwich Avenue. I returned home, and I rolled a few more smokes using up the pack of Double Wides. I froze the second Quiche, and I had some brown rice mixture with a small portion of Quiche, and a half of English muffin with peanut butter and ice tea. I made up a mixture of herbs and spices with the remaining Alfredo sauce, ham pieces, a bit of white wine, with milk and mixed it up and froze it. I also made up a baker's dozen of biscuits. Thus I tried to keep busy today on other routines besides working on the computer.

Note:<888>06/16/00 Friday 1:00 P.M. EDT: Well I recieved a telephone call a little before noon today from a family member. I told them about the Spinich Quiche. I then got up, and I chatted with a neighbor. Apparently the neighbor on the other side of him has a leaky toilet which they thought was coming from my apartment. I recieved a $25 rebate from Acer for the 50X Cdrom drive I bougth a couple of months ago. I had a third of a Spinach Quiche pie for breakfast with toasted English muffin, Perrier and orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I have to go out for a tank of gasoline at Exxon next to the library and I need to pay my month Traveler's GEICO apartment insurance. Then I will get some pipe tobacco and cigarette papers to make my tailor made cigarettes. It is hot out, but it is nice and cool in the apartment. Well have a good afternoon. I have the Diamond Stealth Video Card S540 32 megs memory set at "Optimal" and "32 bits" and "800X600", so I have excellent video on the CompUSA 19 inch monitor. CIO

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Note:<888>06/16/00 Friday 4:00 A.M. EDT: Well now with the computer up and running fine. I took time off this evening after dinner to chat with a in state friend about economics in Connecticut. I then went downtown, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a couple of local mechants always discussing local economics and other businesses outside of the area. It was a nice cool evening and not very busy with a few diners an movie goers out and about town. In the old days when people had cooks, Thursday was the cooks night off, so people dined out. A few people seem to observe the tradition. I noticed that the white brick work on the new Richards clothing store is coming along fine. It was pretty much a normal night in Greenwich. I walked up to the top of the Avenue and sat out briefly for a while. I noticed Bell Atlantic is still busy installing Optic Fibres in midtown along the Post Road. I believe then intend to offer high speed internet services. I returned down the Avenue, and I walked the lower section of the Avenue again. I then headed home. I had a bicuit with iced tea. I relaxed a bit. Then I decided to make a Spinich Quiche. I got out the "Old Joy of Cooking". I made a flour pie crust, by adding two cups of white flour to the CuisineArt with the dough blade, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 cup of water, and 1 1/3 sticks of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" and mixing it up until the dough formed. I then turned the dough on a wood board and cut it in half, and rolled eat half out with a rolling pin and place each flat section of dough in two aluminum seven pie pans from other store bought pies I had bought before. I fitted them and smoothed the edges and made indents with my thumbs. I then baked them in the Faberware convection oven at 425 degrees Farenheit for 12 minutes. I then opened a one pound Danish ham, and I cut eight 1/4 inch slices off the center length wise. I sauteed the strips in olive oil and garlic powder and black pepper until lightly browned. I then cut them across into 3/8 inch by 1 1/4 inch strips. I then scalded two cups of milk and let it cool briefly. I mixed four eggs, 1/4 teaspoon celery salt, 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper, 1/8 teaspoon ground Nutmeg, 1/8 cup of white wine, and a half jar of Classico Alfredo sauce or 8.5 ounces together with a 10 oz. package of steamed and drained chopped spinich along with the ham bits. I mixed this all together by hand with a large wooden spoon. I then added about one fourth of the mixture to each of the two pie crusts. I froze the rest for use later. I baked the two seven inch Spinich Quiches at 375 degrees Farenheit in the convection oven for thirty minutes, and then I set them on a wire rack to cool briefly. Then I covered them with plastic store bought pie covers and place them in the refrigerator to cool. I placed two labels on the old pumkin pie labels "Spinich Quiche, Michael Louis Scott". Well I got hungry, so I had the last biscuit with the butter spread and a little Kraft Parmesian cheese on it after, I toasted it. It will be interesting to see if the Quiche is any good today after it sets up. I would imagine it would be good cold or hot or at room temperature. I relaxed a bit, and I also used the rest of the rolling papers for "Taylor Made Cigarettes". Well not much else happening, I guess I will read a little computer news and go to bed. This weekend is suppose to be hot. CIO

Note:<888>06/15/00 Thursday 7:20 P.M. EDT: Well I went to bed at 9:30 A.M., and I was up at 2 P.M.. I had breakfast of Quaker Life Cerial, English muffin, orange juice and Perrier. I cleaned up and I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then returned two three packs of Perrier to the Food Emporium for $5.98. I toured the store. I think instead of Spinich Quiche, they could try making Swiss Chard Quiche. I noticed they also carry Soy Milk. They have lots of different coffee beans along with the usual assortment of items. I then went to Zyn stationary, and I bought a buy one get one free of Lucky Strike lights. I sat outside downtown for a while. I drove down by the waterfront. I returned home, and I made biscuits. I had several biscuits with a Diet Coke in a chilled frosted mug. I set out the Williamsburg Beer Stein with the tabacco ashes preserved by covering them with red candle wax in the stein. I did a little internet work, and the system is working fine. I am just about to have some reheated Mulligan stew along with iced tea and coffee. CIO

Note:<888>06/15/00 Thursday 6:15 A.M. EDT: Well I have been up all night again. After much hassle over the last couple of months, I believe I finally got the Diamond Stealth video card S540 fixed. The car and drivers were fine. However on my www.pcware.com S571LMR motherboard when I put in the AMD K6II 450 MHz processor serveral months ago, it worked at 85 MHz, 2.2 Volt, Multiplier 5.5 on the CMOS setup with the onboard video. By isolating the new Diamond Stealth S540 video card on the same board, I finally figured out that I need to have it 66.6 MHz for the card to work properly at 2.2 Volt and 5.5 multiplier in the CPU CMOS setup. Thus my system is now running at 366 MHz instead of 450 MHz. The Benchmark is 100 instead of 110, so I have about a ten percent decrease in overall system performance. The rest of the settings are still the same, but I enabled "Assign IRQ to PCI" in the CMOS also. I have the video card in Slot one and Plug and Play assigns it to IRQ 10. The SoHo Lan card is in Slot 2, and Plug and Play assigns it to IRQ 9. Also my USB port is working fine without interrupting the boot process and the Cable Modem log on. All systems seems on the computer seem to be running fine. I reinstalled Windows 98 Second Edition along with all Internet Explorer updates again. I also reinstalled DirectX 7.a and the Diamond Stealth video drivers. I also installed the Outlook 98 security update. I ran Norton Disk Doctor and Norton Image and Norton WinDoctor. I have a minor problem on the 8 gigabyte F: drive, I have to disable "LBA" in the CMOS for the Norton Utilities to work on it. I had some of my reheated Mulligan stew I defrosted along with iced coffee. I went out about midnight and bought a pack of E-Z Wider at the Shell station for rolling my pipe tabacco for $1.79. I also owe the Shell station $2.50 for a pack of Monarchs, I purchased several nights ago. I stopped by Cumberland Farms first, but they did not have any Buglers or Drum cigarette tabacco. I also dropped off the computer equipment at the Hospital Thrift Shop. They are still working on the telephone lines on the Post Road downtown. I had a peanut butter sandwich and ice tea about 4 A.M.. I also rolled about 10 of the wider cigarettes. It seems awfully pricey for cigarette papers, but we all know the local Hemp Heads can afford them. Well time to make a C: drive to D: drive backup, and then I will run Norton SpeedDisk. I am tired, and should be done about 8 A.M.. I will then rest, and I have to be up at 1 P.M. to make a 3 P.M. appointment. Well have a good morning. CIO