Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 11:20 P.M. EDT: I went out at 7 P.M. after a Tony's frozen pizza. I had ice tea with it and I took my thermos of iced coffee downtown to enjoy. Today I heard on CNBC the price of coffee is going up. Aparently they plan to produce 35 million hundred kilogram bags of coffee in Brazil this year, unless they get frost. Last year they only produced 23 million hundred kilogram bags. Thus one would think the price of coffee is going down. However no on likes drinking the cheap Brazilian coffee, but all the gourmet coffee freaks prefer the expensive blends from Latin American and Mexico. However with the drought in Latin America and Mexico there is less quanity of gourmet beans, plus there is a huge demand for the gourmet blends from all the gourmet coffee houses and gourmet coffee providers. Thus the price of yuppie coffee will be increasing. I walked around the bottom of Greenwich Avenue three times. I chatted with a fellow walking his hedgehog. I chatted with a Norwegian fellow coming out of Figaros with his family. I asked him his he had run into Rhone in the Canary Islands, but he explained he might be in Iceland. The Norwegian fellow and his family seemed to be enjoying themselves. There is a 100 foot Yacht from Capetown, South Africa at the Greenwich Harbor Inn. Also there is a yacht from Miami that is going to Nantucket. This time of year we get quite a few small pleasure craft pulling in to Greenwich Harbor which is actually quite small, and can not accomadate the large ocean going yachts like one usually sees in the Carribean and the Mediterranian. It is my viewpoint that we could accomadate motor launches from a 1,000 plus foot Yacht if it pulled into New York Harbor at the West Side Pier, and they could shuttle guests out here. I was told that Long Island Sound can not accomadate 1,000 foot plus yachts. Thus the ship the Viking would have to shuttle launch craft back and forth. I chatted with a member of the Canine Corps about volcanology on the internet. Overall it was a pretty full house downtown this evening for a Tuesday evening, and I spotted quite a few travelers at the Greenwich Harbor Inn strolling up and down Greenwich Avenue as usual in warmer weather. Well back to net. CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 5:55 P.M. EDT: For those in the know who wonder who were the primary investors in the Key West operation in the mid 1970s. It was the Dupont family who own the main bank in Florida along with the St. Joe paper operation. Gulf Oil had an office on Duval street. Henry Flager through his operations with the Florida East Coast Railroad represented the Rockefeller family. Desi Arnez was a main stock holder in CBS was down there. Howard Hughes would drift in and out like a hobo. Household Finance Company related to one of my relatives had an office on Duval street. Kress department store was on Duval street, related to the Kress family of Oyster Bay, Long Island. There was a foursome of Izy the Arab who had Saudi wealth, Bob Russel who started pizza francaises at all the big ten universities which became Pizza hut and sold them to Pepsi Cola, Steve Buel who owned a million head of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and sold Fennimore cheese, and Rick Tod from North Terrytown, New York who was another Rockefeller representative. William Marriott restored the Casa Marina using End of the Road Construction Company owned by the Ray family. There were a number of homeless Duponts one of whom claimed he had sold his last share of GM stock and only had his GM seatbelt left which he wore around his waste. There were members of the Cooper family who were related to the Vanderbilt family. There were members of the established Coca Cola famlies who use to run beverage concessions down there. I recall a peanut farmer from Georgia had a Japanese house down there. Columbia University and Dartmouth college had invested in Mel Fisher's Dive expedition. I recall Equitable Life Insurance financed the Casa Marina venture. A German American family there ran an insurance company that insured the oil refineries in New Jersey. There was old yankee money from the Joy family GM money and Connecticut wealth from Salsbury, Connecticut represented by their namesake. I suppose there were a few other less notable people there, but obviously there was enough financial capital to rebuild the island into the resort you see today, not to mention the United States government sank a lot of money into the military facilities in the Keys not to mention the 200 miles of four lane highway leading down there. For the record. I recall an older gardener that looked like Ronald Regan that had an air stream trailer there next to the Navy base since World War II. I also recalled seeing some Roosevelts around since they have the same Dutch French look I do, not to mention quite a few retired prominent military figures that have a few family financial resources like Halsey, Moore, McArthur, and Rickover, just to name a few. I assume there was a Pershing there too since I met him earlier at the Wall Street Club. Royalty included members of the British, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Saudi, Jordanian, Swedish, Irainian famlies, and I believe heads of state I recognized besides current and previous presidents included heads of state of Canada and Egypt. God only knows who else was there. CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 5:25 P.M. EDT: Well I paid all my bills today. I already had paid my rent on Thursday. I paid my Bell Atlantic Telephone Bill, my MCI long distance and MCI access bills, GEICO insurance, Electricity, Cablevision, and the property tax on my Volvo. I also bought a white Black and Decker toaster oven at the Hospital Thrift Shop for $5. I sent in my Win98 travel coupon voucher from CompUSA for redemption. I drove down by the water. I went by the library and read the computer press. I returned home and filed this report and am drinking a Canada Dry gengerale with apple juice to refresh myself on this hot day. I renewed the Win98 books I have checked out. The Connecticut DMV bus is in front of the town hall today, first Tuesday of every month. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm today. Hughes Electronics was down 10% today. Since I think they make satellites, they might actually go up, if as predicted the micro asteroid belts comes into out orbit during the first week of this November possibly crippling 50% of the earth's satellites. I think the micro asteroid belt comes around every 35 years. Well back to the net, and maybe a frozen pizza for dinner. CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 1:30 A.M. EDT: Custom charted a boat from Key West, Florida & lower keys CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 1:25 A.M. EDT: Diana Isle Also Burial Site for Pets . CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 1:00 A.M. EDT: Cheap Supercomputer Avalon: T-CNLS Dec Alpha Cluster why does the DOE need to pay IBM a billion dollars for the same item. CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 12:45 A.M. EDT: Well enter the contest www.lick101.htm . It sounds like some of Mick's gang are trying to get attention. Limey Rock stars and all that stuff. CIO

Note:<888>7/7/98 Tuesday 12:40 A.M. EDT: I had Ramen noodles for a snack. I put the Ramen flavor packet in a cup of water in a Rubbermaid quart container with a hole in the top. I then push the ramen noodles down into the container and nuke them for five minutes in the Microwave. If you don't like too much MSG or salt use half the flavor packet. Well the truth is we're still a low budget operation here, but I think we'll survive. Remember I weigh 200 pounds, so it takes a little bit more to feed me. CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 11:55 P.M. EDT: I ran Regclean 4.1a INFO: RegClean 4.1a Description and General Issues on my Win98 system. It ran fine. The system seems to boot faster. It did not change any of the c:\windows\system.dat and the c:\windows\user.dat registry file lengths, but it did make some fixes to the registry. I add a can of mixed nuts about 9 P.M. and went to sleep for three hours. I still have not been out today. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 8:40 P.M. EDT: Anyone notice that the Microsoft World Traveler Desktop Theme at Microsoft Windows 98 Update has the same a desktop wall paper that looks like Crater Lake in Oregon in the summer. Crater Lake Volcanic caldera in the winter http://www.mikescott.net/crater1.gif . Try using this for your desktop wallpaper. It is over a mile deep and if it ever went up, we'd be like boiled lobsters. Remember the movie "The Mud People" after Mt. St. Helens went up. Well enough constant comment. CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 6:35 P.M. EDT: CMicrosoft MSN Windows 98 Newsgroups Computing Central CIO.

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 5:30 P.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . It is at a all time high up about 30% since I started it last September. It went down by February and actually up 30 % since February. Thus the Wall Street Yoyo effect. Back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 4:45 P.M. EDT: If you have a web site for sale check out ZAP . CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 4:20 P.M. EDT: I am finally up after a good days sleep. I ran maintenance wizard while I was asleep. I also have the power savings features enabled in the CMOS and the Power Saving program installed on the computer. I will have breakfast of cerial, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, vitamins, and coffee shortly while listening to www.dailybriefing.com . CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 4:30 A.M. EDT: I am downloading World Traveler desktop theme from Win98 updates page. I got to thinking even if one used the electronic shark repeller in the water, it probably would not work against a giant octupus or killer whales, so thus if you go in the water you take your own chances. Of course the undertow can be really wicked after a storm also. I remember one year on Nantucket watching a windsurfer take off from the south shore saying he was going to sail to South Hampton, Long Island but when he sailed off over the horizon in the direction of what he thought was South Hampton, Long Island he was headed more in the general direction of Bermuda or Africa, since the South Shore of Nantucket does not exactly face South. Well live in learn, if I ever get any money I might go into competition with the Chicken Box and Shipwreck Charlies and open Shipwreck Mikes, but who cares. The kids always seem to have fun out on the Island when they go there, and most seem to survive. I actually enjoy the more sedate quieter venue in Kennebunkport, since I am not really an ocean going rat anymore. Well when you don't travel very much for many years, one becomes a professional arm chair traveler. I don't even surf much around the world on the internet anymore. We have so many people showing up here anymore, it is always fun to people watch in one's own town. CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 2:15 A.M. EDT: New SoundBlaster file for Windows 98 Creative What's New on the FTP site . CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 1:55 A.M. EDT: Maybe you should not ride a bike. Bike Seats May Cause Impotence . CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 1:40 A.M. EDT: I finished reading the Windows 98 manual which is a quick read while listening to tech news. I heard today that President Clinton will be vacationing on Martha's Vineyard this summer in addition to visiting South Hampton. I suppose half the Washington bigwigs will be heading that way. If you are a poor hippie type roaming around Martha's Vineyard, I recommend from my experience on Nantucket to beware of the tall grass in the moors which can contain deer ticks which can give you Lyme Disease which you don't want to get. I also suggest against trying to camp out on the beach since a great many people drive around at night in four wheel drive vehicles and might not see you. Both Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard have excellent youth hostiles, particularly Marthas Vineyard with bunkroom domatories, but they fill up early, so I recommend trying to make reservations early if interested. There use to be a Christian residence in Bourne on Cape Cod called the Poor House that is a magnificent house run by the Episcopal Archdiocese of Cambridge, Massachussetts. Poor stands for the Standard and Poors family that funded it. I suppose anyone going to the Cape would also need sunscreen if they were going to be outside for long periods of time. Also the South shore of both Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket can have severe riptides depending on the amount of tidal sand washed in and out each year during the winter, so one should swim on the calm sides of the island. I heard on a tech program that there is now a electronic shark repellent device that puts a electronic shock wave in the water around you that is suppose to repell sharks. Of course some of the locals might be useful local guides since they are accustommed to the local waters. Captain Black and Captain Frances on Nantucket use to be excellent deep water sport fishing guides with charter craft on Nantucket. I suppose one should not open a charge account at either of the Henry's liquor stores on either island or the whole island will know quickly that you plan to do a lot of entertaining. Remember the local island people are very tight and clannish and gossip a lot about everything that goes on particularly newcomers, not to mention the summer students working on the island have their own networks. Nantucket use to have at least 500 student dishwashers, so they even had a network. We also use to use to code for different locations on the island in the old days. They Old Navy base on Nantucket up the Sconset Road and down Lyon Farm Road and turn right south at the end driving past the old Navy quonset huts if they are still there and have not fallen into the ocean use to have excellent surf casting on the south shore in the evening. I once took in 50 blues in about two hours there in October. Of course as tides and currents and weather and the moon changes, so can fishing conditions. I never used a car except once on both Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard, and I generally had moderate luck hitch hiking around the island. Renting bicycles if you plan to stay on the paved roads can be a useful way to get around, but if you plan to explore sandy areas of areas down dirt roads, the gears on bicycles can get messed up with sand. If you should be fortunate enough to find inexpensive accomadations downtown in one of the locations, everyone you ever met from out of town and off island will use it as pit stop while you're away, since they like snooping on each other there. Lots of families use to have dormitory type facilities in their homes, so they could put up a couple of dozens kids, cousins, and friends. If you walk at night wear reflectors and watch out for autos on the roads which might not see you. I suppose one can explore to their hearts contents out there on the islands, but once you're there long enough, everyone seems to know your routine and location of residence soon enough. I use to enjoy watching people come and go off the Nantucket ferries. Remember the locals usually know quite a lot they don't tell you. Well enjoy your holidays whereever you may go, I enjoy staying at home in Greenwich, Connecticut which has extensive recreation facilites, and I find my own apartment more comfortable than camping out on the islands at my age. Back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>7/6/98 Monday 12:25 A.M. EDT: I finished my laundry and I will listen to www.answerguy.com . I went through www.mikescott.net/scotwork.htm . I might instead of surfing the net this evening read the Windows 98 manual to try and find out more about it. CIO

Note:<888>7/5/98 Sunday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I went out at 7:30 P.M. I stopped by CVS on Greenwich Avenue and with the store weekly circular I bought two four packs of GE light bulbs for $3 for both one pack is 60 watts and the other 75 watts. I also got Arrid Extra Dry deoderant for .99 and the store cash registered scanned wrong so they had to correct it. Apparently the Arid coupon does not scan properly. I also bought a bottle of 100 500 mg. Vitamin C for $2.99 for a total of $7.40. I then went down by the senior center and drank my coffee out of the thermos. I started to walk down the Avenue and found a sales piece of paper from a store called Computer City. They have one in Scarsdale, New York at 423 Central Avenue, Phone 914-722-8400. They have a lot of comparable bargains to CompUSA. I will stop by there some time when I have money. I only got 4 pages of the 8 page brochure. I see a 17 inch monitor for $249, 32 meg SDRAM $40 and 64 meg SDRAM $100. Their site is www.computercity.com . I suppose one might find something there if you take a look. I am not sure where Scarsdale is, but I think it is somewhere west of here on I95 before Yonkers. It should not be too far away. Central Avenue might run out of White Plains west from the White Plains Civic Center. I then walked down Greenwich Avenue and I saw a local IBM couple feasting at the French restaurant. I noticed a bunch of hot thirsty kids hanging out in front of the movie theatre area. I then returned back up the Avenue. I drove down Steamboat Road and returned home and chatted with one of my neighbors about the old days in Florida. I am doing washing right now and shortly I will start the drying cycle. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>7/5/98 Sunday 6:50 P.M. EDT: I was up at 2 P.M.. I had bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, vitamins, and coffee for breakfast. I chatted with a family member. I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants. I put drain cleaner in the bathroom sink to clear it out. I listened to www.dailybriefing.com while doing this. I am watching ABC evening news. I will have a bit to eat and make a couple of more telephone calls. They're having a little league baseball game going on the backyard field and it is a very nice day. CIO

Note:<888>7/5/98 Sunday 3:50 A.M. EDT: Well I read the news and checked out my server stats http://www.mikescott.net/stats.htm . About 500 people read my complete notes link www.mikescott.net/mlsnote1.txt last month. Part of my premise in posting such detailed notes on normal everyday events, is that in a busy area, they help give recall to other events as they may be occurring during the same time. It is sort of like Thomas Jefferson keeping track of the temperature every half hour at Montecello while the Declaration of Independence was being debated in Independence Hall in Philadelphia 222 years ago. I suppose if I were a better historian, I would know more, but as I have said many times from a famous quote, "Man Who Does Not Read History is Bound to Repeat Himself." Well enjoy the rest of the weekend, and please drive safely if you are on the highway this holiday weekend. All quiet on the Northeastern Front. CIO

Note:<888>7/5/98 Sunday 2:30 A.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Notes long text file through June 1998 and made a hardcopy print out. The link to the link is www.mikescott.net/note02pr.htm . It is close to 300 pages and seems to be enjoying some minor popularity. Well back to checking out the next activity at www.mikescott.net/scotwork.htm . CIO

Note:<888>7/5/98 Sunday 12:45 A.M. EDT: I went out at 9:30 P.M.. I drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I then drove over to Riverside to CVS allnight drugstore. I purchased 15oz. bottle of antibacterial liquid soap for $1.19, a 7 1/2 oz. dispencer of liquid antibacterial soap for $1.19, 2 mentadent toothbrushes made in Germany for $2.99, and a bottle of a 100 balenced B-50 vitamins for $6.75 for a total of $12.44. I then drove back down to Greenwich Avenue and parked and walked down to the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. It was not too busy. I noticed a two tone tan GMC parked in front of one of the two French restaurants at the bottom of the avenue on the right near Grigg street. I noticed somebody in Figaro who looked like he might be the owner. I dare say he is probably a prosperous rancher. His license plate was Wyoming license plate "G". It made me hungary for a steak. I then walked back to the Senior Center area and sat down for a while. I walked back up the Avenue towards the middle. I noticed that some of the Navy Seals in town for the air show were on Shore Leave enjoying the local color at the Dome restaurant. I chatted with one of the enlisted men and a officer and they were very polite and seemed to be enjoying their stay. They told me they were stationed out of Norfolk, Virginia. I returned to the bottom of the Avenue and then walked back up to the top of the Avenue. I left the Avenue about midnight and drove down Steamboat Road and then returned home. I put the liquid soap in the kitchen for washing my hands, it is easier to keep next to the sink than soap, and is probably more sanitary. I will read the morning reports off the net. The rain held off and I dare say tomorrow will be muggy whether it rains or not. Well have a good morning, signing off for now from Greenwich, Connecticut USA. CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 9:20 P.M. EDT: I had a friend stopped by who is moving at the end of the month. He is moving from Wilton, and possibly looking in Guilford, CT. on the water. He gave me some hobo bread his mother had made. We watched the history channel about the American revolution. I went downtown after he left and stopped by the Food Emporium which is suppose to be open until midnight tonight. I purchased A&P Bokar coffee beans $3.69, Bulk Hazzlenut coffee beans at $9.99 a pound for $10.79, French Roast Coffee Beans $3.49, Red Bag Coffee Beans $3.49, and a large bag of Columbian Coffee Beans for $10.99 for a total of $32.45. I went by the bank money machine and then down the avenue and picked up three buy two get one free of Parliament lights 100 for $17.40. I then drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and chatted with some of the local coastal observers. They were having a party going on at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club with a middleage group of adults and young kids. At about 8 P.M. it started sprinkling, so I drove back home and blended the coffee beans together and put them in my glass mason storage jars. I reheated some chicken, ham, ramen noodles, hobo bread with ice tea and finally a good cup of fresh coffee that is equal five parts of the different kinds with a double part of the Columbian beans, it actually tastes better than the equal parts. I now have about another six weeks supply of coffee. I will surf the net a short bit and go out again. A few famlies around town were looking for the fireworks which were luckily last night. It is too low of a cloud cieling tonight. I suppose it is another quiet night in town. This evening seemed very quiet downtown. Well enjoy the rest of the fourth weekend where ever you are. CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 2:20 P.M. EDT: Well I passed the Year 2000 test using PC World Today: Is Your Computer Millennium-Compatible? . I just got up and will eat breakfast and go out and enjoy the Holiday, if it is not too hot. CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 4:05 A.M. EDT: Well I am bushed as usual. I think I will have a bite to eat while I listen to the folks in Chicago at www.ttalk.com . CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 3:50 A.M. EDT: NASA Lunar Prospector CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 3:45 A.M. EDT:Althorp - The Official Web Site . CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 3:40 A.M. EDT:PC World Today: Is Your Computer Millennium-Compatible? .CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 2:45 A.M. EDT:Hottest volcanic eruptions yet observed on Jupiter's moon Io . CIO

Note:<888>7/4/98 Saturday 1:00 A.M. EDT:Carribean Satellite photo for viewing Montserrat Volcano activity NRL Satellite Photo goes8_images/trop_atlantic_vis/LATEST.jpeg tropics . CIO

Note:<888>7/3/98 Friday 11:40 P.M. EDT: I went out at 8 P.M. and chatted with my neighbors about the volcano activity recently. I went downtown and chatted and walked down the Avenue with a senior British citizen who was stopping by the Greenwich Harbor Inn. I returned to the senior center about the time the fireworks let out. I chatted with another town citizen. I walked back down the Avenue and returned to the center. I went to the Grand Union about 11 P.M.. I purchased 18 packs of various Ramen noodels at 6 for $1 for $3, 3 half gallons Florida Natural Honey flavored Grapefruit Juice for $2 thus $6, 3 half gallons Florida Natural Orange Juice for $2 each thus $6, a half gallon GU 2% milk $1.67, a six pack diet Coke .99, a six pack diet Sprite .99, 2 Tony's frozen pizza @ $2.50 each thus $5, .60 cent can deposit, and a bottle of Angostora Bitters $2.99 for a total of $27.48. I stopped by the Shell station for a pack of smokes Basic lights for $1.68 on the way home. Well it is a warmer evening out and it was not to busy downtown since most of the town probably were at the fireworks. Well have a good night.

Note:<888>7/3/98 Friday 7:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon today. I had bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, vitamins, orange and grapefruit juice, and coffee for breakfast. I worked on the computer looking at information until about 2 P.M.. I uninstalled Colorado Cheyanne Backup and used the Microsoft Windows 98 Seagate backup to make two backups of my system. Each backup took two hours. I had to use two tapes for each backup. I watched a bit of television while making the backups and cleaned up. At 6:30 P.M. I heated some Ramen noodles and reheated the noodles from dinner last night. I also made www.mikescott.net/icetea.htm which I will put away shortly. I also had Cheesecake for desert. I also noticed in the CompUSA sales brochure which ends tomorrow on July 4, that they have a Hercules Stingray 128/3D 8 meg memory video card which I assume is PCI, for $196.99 with $98 instant rebate for a total of $98.99 which one could use with their onboard video or other PCI card to enable Win98's multiple monitor function, so that you can use two or more monitors at the same time. I don't think I will get it, but it is a neat feature you could use with Win98. I also noticed that the Montserrat Volcano errupted today with a 40,000 foot plume Discovery Online -- Trouble in Paradise, Montserrat - Eruption Cam. I posted the satellite photo which shows a tiny bit of the plume at www.mikescott.net/montser1.jpg, perhaps there will be a better photo later. I am listening to the BBC radio, third dino on the homepage www.mikescott.net to have recieved the report. I will go out shortly after I put away the ice tea and do a little bit more of work. CIO

Note:<888>7/3/98 Friday 3:40 A.M. EDT:Well, I believe President Clinton after his return form China is suppose to enjoy another holiday at the Scott family resort in the Hamptons around South Hampton on Long Island that the Scotts started around 1640, when they were trying to find a cheap rum running port to stop over at on the way to and from the Indies. I suppose the Swamp Club will be full of all the White House VIPs and the locals in the Hamptons will have something new to chat about at their cocktail parties. I believe the favorite passtime of the famlies in the Hamptons is Charades which helps keep the conversation down for the Old Guard in the evenings. Well who knows, the ocean front beach resort might have some entertainment once one gets tired of people watching. I suggest the Maidenstone Club for golf, and I believe there is a beach club called the "Breakers". Remember the eatern tip of Long Island around Montauk is world famous for Great White Sharks, so I suppose the president won't be going into the Ocean, but just using the pool. Well who knows he could always use the Navy Seals as bait. Any good fish stories would surely pick up the rather dull press reports recently. CIO

Note:<888>7/3/98 Friday 3:25 A.M. EDT: Well tonight on the BBC World Report on the midnight report at 7 P.M. here, the newscaster made the comment that, "Prince Charles is Crazy as a Mad Hatter." I suppose what that means if one is use to trying to decode "Open Coded Messages" from the BBC like they used during World War II, is the the Prince of Wales is strongly urging his dominion to be more respectful of his family's personna, and not to try to interfer with their normal everyday life routines, which they seem to have become accustomed to. I believe the Royal Crest has a motto, "Dieu et Mon Droit". Thus those who expect royal privalege will generally recieve it by the "Grace of God". Well I suppose the BBC correspondant will be washing dishes at the "Mad Hatter Restaurant" in Nantucket for a quite a long time, until he realizes the "Error of His Ways". The Queen like the Pope has the power of Excommunication for those in her relm. Well lets hope we have pleasent weather this Holiday. Of course the Mad Hatter was a character from Alice in Wonderland which is based on Queen Victoria's reality. CIO

Note:<888>7/3/98 Friday 1:55 A.M. EDT: I went out at midnight and walked around the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. It was very quiet considering tomorrow is a holiday for many. I suppose there were about two dozen people at the Dome and hardly anyone else at the other pubs. I don't think many people stay up late during the nice summer days, prefering to be on a daytime schedule to enjoy the summer warmth. All quiet on the Eastern Front. CIO

Note:<888>7/2/98 Thursday 11:45 P.M. EDT: I went out at 8 P.M. and stopped by the library. I drove downtown and walked around the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. Someone had disgarded a half gig Seagate drive at the station dumpster. When I returned home at about 10 P.M., I tried testing it, but it did not work. I also backed up my D: partition and deleted it with FDISK and reinstalled it with FDISK. By using the Win98 FDISK, I now have the newer Win98 FDISK that recognizes large partitions. When using it, one has to make sure not to delete one's primary partition or any other major drives, so if you use it be careful. I formated the D: drive and returned the backed up files from the C: drive to the D: drive. I use the D: drive to keep my downloads and other files, so I don't have to redownload them. Well the system is all back together and running fine. Have a good evening. I will probably go out for a short walk in a few minutes. CIO

Note:<888>7/2/98 Thursday 6:55 P.M. EDT: I posted this link to the current weather satellite photo See How Bad the Fires are in Florida NRL Satellite Photo . I went out at 2 P.M. and stopped by my bank and withdrew funds and went over to the other bank and paid my rent. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop and picked up a 50 cent computer CD holder. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I drove downtown down by the water and noticed wall to wall teenagers and college kids downtown along with vacationing families. I guess with the fires in Florida lots of people are coming this way. I returned home and chatted with my neighbor from England about British comings and goings. I posted Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm at my site. I am just about ready to have dinner of baked herbal chicken breast in wine, with baked onion, ramen noodles, and corn on the cob. I think if you have clouds, you can seed clouds for rain by putting a gallon of iodine with a 100,000 gallons of water and dropping it in the higher levels of the clouds from a fire service or air force service fire sprayer tanker. We are suppose to have Fire Works on the Fourth of July or maybe tomorrow night the 3rd, and the U.S. Navy Seals are landing to give a demonstration at the high schools of their advanced talents in combat defense operations. Well enjoy the delightful weather this evening. CIO

Note:<888>7/2/98 Thursday 1:45 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon. I had GU raisin bran, toast, orange grapefruit juice, vitamins, and coffee for breakfast. I did a little net work. I updated Scott's Stats www.mikescott.net/stats.htm . I havea 4 P.M. appointment. Well it should be another normal day in Greenwich. Enjoy yourselves. CIO

Note:<888>7/2/98 Thursday 2:50 A.M. EDT: Western Digital Corporation (Service/Support) - Tip of the Month (March 1997) Transferring Files From the Old to the New Drive in Windows 95, this might be useful if your lucky to afford one them new fangled IBM 8.5 gig hard drives at CompUSA on sale for $295 with a $95 mailin rebate from IBM for a $200 total, I think it would have been smarter to sell it with a share of stock. Also if you were looking at the above mentioned page, you would want to install FAT32 from Win98 on the drive first, so that it was a FAT32 drive, and you would not need the EZdrive information, since Win98 will recognize a 8.5 G. hard drive. This above procedure worked for me when I installed my 1 G. Western Digital Hard Drive last August. Well the tires were more important than a new hard drive, and quite frankly I am having a hard time filling up the 1 G. hard drive. I think Canadians are allowed to drink Corby's Whisky on Dominion Day, if they're not on duty, and allas the shipment of "OLD COURAGE" seems to have been lost amongst the Old Guard. I believe there are one or two Canuks in the area. Well if you see anyone from the Maple Leaf club, give them my best. CIO

Note:<888>7/2/98 Thursday 1:50 A.M. EDT: Happy Dominion Day, to you folks up in Canada. CIO

How many grains of rice in China? 1.2 billion people, a cup of rice twice a day, about 1000 grains of rice in a cup of rice = 1,200,000,000 X 2 X 1000 X 365days divided by 2 growing seasons. 1,200,000,000 X 2 X 1000 X 182.5 or 1,200,000,000 X 1,000 X 365 =438,000,000,000,000 grains of rice give or take a few grains. MLS 438 quatrillion.

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 11:20 P.M. EDT: I went out at 8 P.M., I found a palm fone basket about three feet high and 18 inches in diameter disgarded at our dumpster which I put upstairs in my apartment. I use to watch many people make them down in the Key and it is part of native Carribean Art. It is a larger version of what is used for plant baskets. I then chatted with one of my neighbors, and she told me about living in Westchester County next door years ago, and she seemed to be doing well enjoying the nice pleasent weather today. I went by the library and read the Greenwich Times. It was not too busy on this summers evening. I went downtown and walked around the bottom of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. The downtown movie, restaurant, pub, and coffee shop venues were quite busy this evening. I saw what looked to be quite a few visitors in the crowd on their summer holidays. It was most colorful and festive, as the summer evenings usually are. I returned home at 10 P.M. after driving down by the water. I suppose with a large amount of visitors traveling through and into the area, a large contingent are enjoying the shore after a very rainy May and June. I will do a little routine internet work tonight, and possibly read the Win98 manual and look at the two Win98 books I have. Well enjoy yourselves. CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 7:20 P.M. EDT: Also at CompUSA they have a $30 IDE CMOS card that fixes the Year 2000 problem on older PCs, if you're interested. CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 7:10 P.M. EDT: I was up at 10 A.M. this morning. I had GU raisin bran, toast, orange grapefruit juice, vitamins and coffee for breakfast. I went out about 11 A.M.. I stopped by the bank and withdrew funds. I said hello to a family friend from backcountry. I drove up to Norwalk and stopped off at Town Fair Tire. I purchased 4 General Tire Brigadier 402 185/75R14 All weather tires for $45 each, plus $10 for valves, $31.80 for computer balancing, four wheel allignment $19, Road Hazard Lifetime replacement $12, Tire Casing Disposal Service $4, plus $15.41 sales tax for a total of $272.21. While I was waiting for installation I walked over to CompUSA and toured the store until 3 P.M.. I will give a quick run down of some interesting items that caught my eye. IBM 8.5 gig hard drive $295 with mailin rebate of $95 for $200 total. I noticed they were putting out Compaq color inkjet printers that don't take up much space. I saw they had DVD drives on sale for about $350. One can get two ethernet cards for $10 apiece and a ethernet 17 foot cable for $16, thus one could network two computers together if you knew how to do it. I guess it is somewhat complicated according to the Scottish salemen. He did not know if they were going to have the Highland games in Norwalk or not, they might be somewhere in the state this weekend. The have the Encyclpedia Brittanica cdrom set with IBM viavoice for $99, so one can listen to the Encyclopedia. They have a $30 IBM joy stick with $20 mailin rebate for $10 total. They have the Wordperfect 7.0 for Windows 3.1 for $30 with $30 mailin rebate for $0. I chatted with a number of customers and staff on general topics, and they seemed quite knowlegable. I walked back to the tire store at 3 P.M. without making any purchases. I retrieved my car. I checked the Volvo hubcaps to make they were secure. I put hub clips from the spare which is also a General on the fourth right rear tire which is where I had the blowout and mounted the hub cap. I then drove down the post road to Greenwich instead of the turnpike to make sure the hubcaps were secure. They seem to be on securely. The car is running just great with the new tires. I then went by Oil Star Oil Change Center and got an oil change with FRAM oil filter and Castrol GTX 10W40 oil plus other general check up items for $37.02. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue and stopped by CVS and bought 5 cans of mixed nuts for $1.99 each with tax altogether $10.55. I noticed a mother in the store with two huge baby girls in a twin carriage with very full faces. They are going to grow up to be big women. I then drove down to the senior center and chatted with an employee there. I next walked to the bottom of the Avenue and back up. I returned home at 5 P.M. and chatted with two people. I made dinner of ham sandwich, ramen noodles, coke, three kosher dill pickels, and coffee. I filed this report. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . It was a good day on Wall Street. I will go out shortly to enjoy the great weather we've been having. It is ideal sailing weather. CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 3:50 A.M. EDT: The party is over, it is time to call it a day. Enjoy counting your sheep. I expect today to be pretty quiet, now the visitors have settled into their place. CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 3:15 A.M. EDT: http://www.mikescott.net/bushsave.exe , Old George Bush DOS screen saver for your amusement. CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 3:10 A.M. EDT: PC Week Radio, Listening to Bill Gates Windows 98 Launch at Fort Mason last Thursday . CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 1:35 A.M. EDT: BBC News | UK | Althorp braced for invasion Princess Diana Memorial Althorp House today, opening life on the internet today. CIO

Note:<888>7/1/98 Wednesday 1:10 A.M. EDT: I went out at 10:30 P.M. and walked around downtown until just now. There was a medical emergency at Thataway cafe while I was walking around. I did not see many people out on the damp night, but the rain had cleared up. There were Tornado warnings in Eastern Connecticut earlier this evening. There is some sort of Trawler parked at the Greenwich Harbor Inn. I noticed they were shampooing the carpet at the entrance this evening. They have a light colored carpet at the entry way and probably need to clean it more often. I suggested once again that they should put carpet on all the hard surfaces, walls, cielings, doors, shelf sides in the Greenwich Library to reduce sound and improve the accoustics. I noticed a Crescent Moon this evening with a star I believe. A famous symbol in the Eastern Hemisphere. They still have all those keyboards down by the train station. Most of the Greenwich Police fleet seems to be replaced with the dark blue cars. I saw our former first selectman in the bank today. He looks younger now that he is out of that tough job. I hope he is enjoying his golf game. I don't think the Greenwich Harbor Inn is booked up since there are only about thirty cars in the parking lot. I guess it is busier on weekends, and the change of the month when monthly people head out on vacation. I had a peanut butter sandwich and cheese cake and orange soda for a snack just now. I am going to quit taking the Welbutrin red pills since I have not managed to quit smoking, and maybe sometime soon try the patches again. I believe CVS has peanuts on sale this week. Tony's pizzas are on sale at the Grand Union for $2.50, but they weren't stocked this afternoon. I find the way I have the ergonomic keyboard setup on books on the computer drawer tray much easier to use. I have to go up to County Tires on Route 1 in West Norwalk today for a new set of tires. I hope I can get them and mount and balence them for less than $250 to $200. I have over 45,000 miles on the present set. County is competively priced and they offer one nice service with tire purchase of lifetime tire rotation which helps with the life of the tires. Sears has a Fourth of July tire sale on now, but they don't offer free tire rotation. However, if I were going to be traveling which I won't be in a 21 year old car, Sears would be a better place to buy them, since they can offer nation wide service and warranty. I might look at the 45,000 mile Michelins if that is within my price range. A friend bought Generals at County. I will need to get "All Season" radials. I will go to bed shortly, and go up there when I wake up tomorrow. Well have a good morning. CIO