End of Note, Friday 06/30/00

Note:<888>06/30/00 Friday 6:25 A.M. EDT: I am running the server again at: http://mrscott.com/ .

Note:<888>06/30/00 Friday 6:15 A.M. EDT: In addition to the iced tea, I made up a half gallon of ice coffee with my five bean A&P Blend and Hawaian Kona and Costa Rican coffee. I emptied and refilled eight ice trays and bagged the ice. I also made up a batch of biscuits.htm . I sorted through my bills, and I made up a shopping list. I will go out after I shower and once the bank opens, I will pay bill and do some grocery shopping and some other errands. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/30/00 Friday 3:40 A.M. EDT: I was up at 11:30 P.M.. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and Perrier. I thought about the Mews thrift shop carpet, and I decided I don't need it. Instead I took the Burber white carpet remnant and laid it in the kitchen over the an identical piece of carpet, so it is my cleaner looking. This took about three hours moving a chest and other items. I had to cut it to fit. Since I have an older Bissel carpet cleaner, I will shampoo the blue wool rug in the living room which should dry fast enough with the air conditioner going. I still have the wool throw in the center of the living room. I am making a batch of icetea.htm . This time I am using ten Salada orange peako tea bags, two China black, two Earle Grey Twinnings, two Lipton Green tea, and one Sleep Time camomile along with 8 ounces of orange juice and 8 ounces of white wine with 6 ounces of sugar and several tablespoons of Angostora bitters for 12 quarts of ice tea. Normal routine for me. The internet is going very slowly possibly from PC Expo or the kids being out of school. Most of the sites I normally look at, I can get access to. I have some bills to pay this morning, so I will wait until about 8:30 A.M. to go out. I will have Mulligan stew and brown rice and soda before going out. I put in 30 cans of various sodas in the refrigerator to chill along with the Perrier and ice tea. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/29/00 Thursday 5:40 P.M. EDT: I went out at about noon today. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and chatted with a cold water sailor. I read the local paper. I then went by the hospital thrift shop. I noticed they have a electrolux vacuum cleaner without the hose for $15. I also noticed a few other new items. I then went down by Steamboat Road, and I studied the waterfront for a while. I then drove by Grass Island, I studied the waterfront for a short time. I went by the Mews Thrift shop, and I chatted with the staff and I noticed a green, salmon, and yellow 18 foot X 15 foot carpet of heavy matterial for $150. I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment. I then returned back down by the waterfront, and I chatted with a out of town family about local historical sites such as the Bruce Museum, the Bush Holley House, Putnam Tavern, and mentioned Sturbridge Village up in Northeast Connecticut on the Massachussetts boarder. It is so long since I have been there, it might actually be in Massachussetts. I noticed most of the regular sea gull population has disappeared, which means we might be in for a bad storm in the upcoming tropical weather season. I also have not seen any evidence of any tropical gators, crocs, or caymens; but I suppose a good indicator if any are around would be the two swans in the harbor have a goose size off spring, which if it survives might mean that such a reptile has not bothered it. Well have a good evening, time for me to go to bed. I had some brown rice and ice tea. CIO

Note:<888>06/29/00 Thursday 10:30 A.M. EDT: Well I was up at about 6:15 P.M. yesterday. I had Kellogg's rice crispies for breakfast, with my five bean coffee mixture, orange juice and Perrier, toast, and vitamins. I had been up until about 10:30 A.M. that morning before. I then emailed my internet directory "scott008.zip" to 29 individuals and group, about four emails were bounced back to me since their servers could not handle the larger file size of about 2.5 megs. I then did a lot of routine computer work. The internet was very slow, probably because PC Expo in the New York City area. The night before I had reinstalled the Java Virtual machine, and this morning I uninstalled the Vortex video drives along with their programs. I also ran the usual suite of maintenance routines. I had the Mulligan stew for dinner about midnight. I then cooked up about six cups finished of herbal and spiced brown rice in the Krups steamer. I channel surfed a bit, and I finally slept from about 4 A.M. to 6:30 A.M.. I had some brown rice and ice tea. I inventoried the Perrier I have left. I have 57 bottles of Perrier litres which I enjoy with my orange juice when I wake up. I moved the beige, white, black, and browns wool throw off the bedroom wall and put it down on the carpet in the living room sitting area. I put the 9.5 foot by 5 foot 49 Star United States flag made in Valley Forge, Pennsylvannia, I bought at the New Canaan Thrift shop for $5 before the Bush inaugurul back up on the bedroom wall. It just barely fits in. I then hung the Duck picture on the outside bathroom door, and another bird picture on the stores door adjacent, and the Quail picture beneath the parrot pictures in the bedroom. I threw out the Compaq printer box. Well I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, so I might go out in a little while and enjoy the day. If is suppose to be a rainy day. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/28/00 Wednesday 8:45 A.M. EDT: Well I edited Scott's downloadable directory and took out all the ValueClick Advertising Links. It is available from scott008.zip . I am not going to run the server, but I have edited to reflect the changes, and I also updated the Shell and Exxon Mobil pages. Well now I will do a C: drive to D: drive backup. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/28/00 Wednesday 4:30 A.M. EDT: Well it was a routine computer night. I reinstalled some Win98 files like the Java Virtual machine and the IE5 files. I spent quite a bit of time fiddling with my speaker setup. I found out from 3DHardware.net - Advent/Powered Partners AV390PL Review (1/3) that I might be able to get the right speaker working on the AV290 system, if I put the satellite speakers on a seperate 15 Volt adaptor which I might try when I have the money. I think I might do a back up sooner, but first I might take the advertising links out of my directory. I had some defrosted Mulligan stew along with ice tea and coffee. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/27/00 Tuesday 9:30 P.M. EDT: Well I did a little computer work this morning. I quit loading all the startup applications on my computer, so it boots more smoothly. I went out this morning at around 6:30 A.M., and I stopped by the Food Emproium and I returned fourteen three packs of Perrier for about $41.52 refund. I then bought one bag of A&P red bag for $2.99, one of Bokar for $4.39, one of Columbian for $4.39, one of French roast for $2.99, one of Hazzlenut for $4.39, and a half gallon of Florida Natural for $2.49 for $21.64 total. I then drove down by the waterfront, and they have a construction pile driving barge down by the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. I chatted with a few local fishermen. I then went over to Staples in Old Greenwich and toured the store. No interesting Clearence Items were available. I mentioned CompUSA in Norwalk is selling PNY 64 megs memory for $50 and their same product is $70, and they won't match the price. One store employee seemed rather irritated when I chatted with him, so maybe there is a computer parts price war going on. I then went by the Riverside shopping center and bought a bag of Lays potatoe chips at the Food Emporium for .75. I then went by CVS and bought 10 packages of Philie lights natural for $12.19 plus .73 tax for $12.92 total. I then went by the Greenwich Library and chatted with some of the staff. I then stopped by Exxon and bought $6 of premium at $2 a gallon. I then returned home and ate the bag of potatoe chips with ice tea. I went to bed about 10:30 A.M., and about the time I went to bed all the lights and power went off. I then slept well until about 7:30 P.M., and I got up, and I had three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins for breakfast. I chatted with one friend about the day's events. He mentioned there was a bag storm today. I blended the five bags of coffee together for my Food Emprium coffee blend before I had breakfast. I will now do a little computer work. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>06/27/00 Tuesday 2:15 A.M. EDT: Well I did a little internet work. I then went out a little after midnight and the Food Emporium was closed in central Greenwich. I went over to the Food Emporium at the Riverside shopping plaza, and I they would not let me return Perrier after midnight. I guess I will return it at the central Greenwich store in the morning after they open at 7 A.M.. As usual I have the receipts. I then went over to the CVS and bought a package of Philly Natural cigar cigarettes for $1.21. I then chatted with some night owls in front of the Food Emporium. I then drove down by the waterfront and checked out the waterfront overcast conditions. I then returned home, and I had a Coca Cola in a chilled frosted mug, and I then filed this report. Not much happening on a quiet Monday evening. CIO

Note:<888>06/26/00 Monday 9:45 P.M. EDT: Well I slept until about 1:30 P.M.. I got up and have speghetti sauce and noodles with ice tea. I then went downtown and stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. They have a few new items there. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment. As I was leaving the building, I was explaining to the receptionist how my new air conditioner has a remote control where one can turn it on and off, and as I was demonstrating the hand jesture of turning it on and off, all the electricity went off in town. I then returned home and the power was back on. I reset my clocks, and I was awaken by telephone call by somebody looking for somebody with a similar name as me. I then went outside and hung out with my neighbors until the electricity went back on about 9 P.M.. I then chatted some more, and I cam upstairs and I had some more speghetti sauce with noodles and ice tea. I am just about read to have coffee and get back to internet work. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>06/26/00 Monday 7:30 A.M. EDT: Well I listened to some music files on the computer this morning both CD and MP3. I loaded some of my MP3 files into the MusicMatch player for later listening pleasure. I just finished improving my shredded cigar tobacco mixture made from shredded cigars and cigar cigarette remains of tobacco. I added a couple ounce mixture to the quart of tobacco of a bit of Jack Daniels whikey, Canadian Club, Dewars, Mount Gay, Lea and Perrins, Angostora bitters, Angostora soy sauce, McHilney's tabasco sauce, and sessime oil for a more aromatic and more moist blend of pipe tobacco. I guess one would call it whikey cigar pipe tobacco. I am having a relaxing morning and there is not much happening. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/26/00 Monday 4:50 A.M. EDT: Well I went back to bed about 11 A.M. on Sunday. I got up again around 6 P.M.. I chatted with a family member using www.dialpad.com that seems to be working better now possibly with more people on vacation and the kids out of school. I had three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins. I was up until about 10 P.M. then I went back to bed until about 4 A.M.. I just had three soft boiled eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins again. I guess I will now do some computer work. I found this interesting program www.loadtv.com that works very well on my computer with full screen video. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/25/00 Sunday 8:10 A.M. EDT: Well on Saturday morning, I was up about noon. I had breakfast of Spinich Quiche, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins, and I chatted with a couple of people and went back to bed until about 5 P.M.. I then did a little routine computer work. I chatted with a friend four about four hours on www.dialpad.com with a half hour computer break. I checked my setting in the overall internet setup for Creative Labs sound cards and the programs that it came with. When I play a CD in the Acer 50X CdPlayer with the enhanced computer sound played through the 22 speakers in my apartment and on my computer system when I feed it into my Technics sterio system, I bed I have one of the best computer aided sound systems in the area. It is really most excellent sound if the CD is recorded properly. The older MP3 that I listened to sounded a little bit flat compared to the CD quality music. I had the rest of the Alfredo sauce and noodles along with ice tea. I rested from midnight until 3 A.M.. I then did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I still have to vacuum the apartment, but I will wait until after 9 A.M. on Sunday morning, so as not to disturb my neighbors. I sifted and sorted my cigar cigarette Danish cookie tabacco can and seperate the butt ends from the tobacco and the ashes. I saved the ashes which can be used with gold leaf for making antique looking picture frames, and I put the remaining tobacco back in my tobacco jar. I threw out the filter butts. It looks like it might be raining out. I guess I will have a bite to eat before vacuuming. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>06/24/00 Saturday 3:50 A.M. EDT: Well I watched a little bit of television until 10 P.M.. I then slept until about 11:45 P.M. when I chatted with a friend for a while. I then made up a batch of biscuits. I then started going through my email. I found this from ZD ZDNet's LaunchPad: Norton Personal Firewall 2000 which I downloaded and installed the 30 day demo. I have seen it for sale at Staples with Norton AntiVirus for about $50 before. I also found out that when one installs WinOptimizer 99 Deluxe shareware you get a free 10 time use registration code which is enough to clean up one's registry and empty folders without repeating the one third at a time process. Well time to finish my email. CIO

Note:<888>06/23/00 Friday 9:15 P.M. EDT: I backed up the E: drive, and then removed it with Fdisk and reinstalled it. I then formated it, and I restored the backup of the E: drive. This took a while and I just finished it. I worked on trying to the LTImodem going on the backup computer which it use to work on. I must be having a problem getting on the right COM port. Well when I have time, I will work on it some more, although with the LAN on it, it works perfectly fine on the Cable Modem. Well not much else happening. I am just about to have alfredo sauce and noodles along with ice tea and coffee. The computer is much more responsive, and the E: drive now once again works with Norton Utilities. Also using the utility last night removed most of the empty folders in my "Favorites". I also installed the creative microphone on the backup computer. Well have a good evening. CIO

End of Scott's Notes 06/23/00

Note:<888>06/23/00 Friday 3:30 P.M. EDT: Well I was up until 8:30 A.M. this past morning. I tweaked the speaker settings again. I also finished backing up the C: drive to the D: drive. I just go up. I set the air conditioner to circulate, 70 degrees Farenheit, and Energy saver. I was awaken around noon time by two FAX computer calls which are really annoying. I will send out my weekly notes. I will have breakfast of Spinich Quiche, toast, coffee, orange juice and Perrier, and vitamins. I will also run Norton Speedisk on the C: drive. The overall system is running just great. Well have a good weekend. CIO

Note:<888>06/23/00 Friday 5:00 A.M. EDT: I went to bed after the last message. I was up at around 8 A.M., and I had breakfast of Spinich Quiche, toast, coffee, Perrier and orange juice, and vitamins. I went back to bed at about 10 A.M. until 2 P.M.. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper and four computer newsweeklies. I noticed in the local paper they mentioned that the brick work was falling off the old library addition, since about half the brick wall retaining plates had deteriorated. I then returned home, and I started working on the computer. I tweaked the sound system by downloading the latest drivers and other files. I also downloaded the files for the Creative WebCam III, I returned at Christmas time since it did not have a flash, and I still have some of its programs on the computer. Once I got the system going fine, I ran Norton Web Services and updated and downloaded quite a few files. I then ran the demo of PTS WinOptimizer 99 Deluxe to clean up my registry and system which only does a thrid at a time when unregistered. I then ran Norton WinDoctor. I still have to install the Sound Fonts on my system. I then will make a backup of the C: Drive to the D: drive. Well have a good morning. I had dinner around 8 P.M. of my Alfredo cheese noodle mix and ice tea. I had Spinich Quiche and ice tea around 4 A.M.. CIO

Note:<888>06/22/00 Thursday 12:40 A.M. EDT: Well I have been up since the last message. I did some routine computer work last night. I had popcorn about 4 A.M. and watched a little television while doing a backup of the C: drive to the D: drive, and then a backup of the E: drive to the D: drive. I went out about 8 A.M. after having a peanut butter sandwich with ice tea. I returned 9 three packs of Perrier to the Food Emporium for $26.73 refund. I then stopped by the copy center, and I made three copies of my Microsoft keyboard and mouse sales slip for .25 and then I mailed the rebate for. I walked around a bit on Greenwich Avenue. I went down by the waterfront, and I chatted with a few morning viewers. I then returned home for a glass of ice tea. I then went over to CompUSA in White Plains, and I bought the Advent speaker set half price for $50 and tax with the $30 gift certificate and cash. I then drove up 684, and I gave a lift to a fellow out of gasoline to the Texaco gas station in Armonk and returned him to the airport exit. He rewarded me with $10 for the effort. I then drove back down to Greenwich. I stopped by Staples briefly. I then went by the Riverside Radio shack and returned the $3.99 headset cable splitter for a three way gold plated sterio headset spliter for $6.99 plus .42 costing me after the return $3.18. I then stopped by the Riverside CVS and I bought six pack of Phillie Natural cigar cigarettes for $8.34 less a .25 off coupon plus .49 tax for $8.58 total. I then returned home about 1 P.M.. I worked on the Vortex soundcard and the new speaker system trying to get them to work together, but the speakers would not work with the card like my other ones. I chatted with Vortex tech support for a while. I packaged up the speakers and the Vortex sound card, and I drove over to CompUSA in White Plains arriving about 6:45 P.M.. I returned them and I bought the Creative Labs SB Live MP3 sound card for $99.99 plus $7.75 tax for $107.74 getting back $10.77 in cash from my store credit of $118.51. I then returned to Greenwich, and I stopped by the Greenwich Exxon station and bought $10 of premium. I returned home, and I had some of the alfredo noodle mixture with ice tea. I installed the new Creative SB live MP3 sound card along with its drivers and closed up the computer. I rearranged the working pair of speakers, so left and right are on the right sides. I am still not able to get the right speaker on the Advent speaker system with a left speaker and a bass woofer to work still, but the overall sound is just great once I tweaked and balenced the audio settings. I installed the software that came with the sound card. It came with a copy of IBM viavoice along with a number of audio applications. I straightened up my work area. I also got a stand microphone with the sound card which I don't have connected. I connected the two split sterio Y to the computer, and then I put the three splitter in one of the two splits, so I have the three speaker systems connected along with the headset ear piece. Well I went to bed at 8 A.M. on Tuesday, and I was up at noon on Tuesday, so I have been up continually until now. I am hungry, so I will have some Spinich Quiche and ice tea before going to bed. Have a good morning. CIO