Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 10:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I logged onto the internet with the primary computer, and it still would not stay online.  I called up  our local Cablevision Optimum Online number at 1-203-348-9211, and the tech support walked me through some tests.  The primary computer would not go online with Norton Internet Security 2005 disabled.  I then tried my backup computer, and it worked fine.  We determined there was nothing wrong with the internet connection.  I explained my setup to the individual whom was most helpful.  I finally remembered about 9 months ago when I had the same problem, it was the ADMtek AN986 USB to Fast Ethernet Converter that also has the three powered USB ports.  After I restored my backup on Wednesday after major system failure, and I fixed Windows Update on Friday, when I ran Windows Update, it installed a new driver for the Armtek AN986 USB to Fast Ethernet Converter.  I have two LAN cards and the onboard LAN on my computer, and the ADMtek AN986 USB to Fast Ethernet Converter.  I rolled its driver back to the 2001 driver which I have used before the recent update, and the primary computer is working just fine without any problems going online.  I had this problem around last Christmas as I recall, and I removed the device then.  Thus it would seem to me the recent driver update on the ADMtek AN986 USB to Fast Ethernet Converter was causing all of the problems I experienced with the internet connectivity this weekend.  It all seems to be working just fine now.  I downloaded an older driver for it to have available, but the primary computer is running just fine.  I noticed in the Properties of My Network Places, the "delete" feature is grey out and not available for some odd reason.  The reason I use the ADMtek AN986 USB to Fast Ethernet device is not really for the extra LAN connection, which I do not need, but it is a powered USB device as opposed to a non powered USB device, so the USB ports have power.  I need to eat breakfast.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 12:50 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I went outside, and I chatted with the neighbors.  I gave the green nylon folding chair that I found by the dumpster that I fixed that I had in the back of my car to one of my neighbors, because they have a lot of friends stopping by that like to sit outside.  Since my internet connection worked fine from 11 P.M. last night to 6 A.M. this morning when I went out, it would seem to me the problem is with the internet service provider www.cablevision.com that provides Optimum Online cable modem service or with the internet itself.  It could be the 3,000 youngsters in the Netherlands hacking the system in which case, they will find out their airline tickets do not work for their return trips.  It could be the 2.5 gigabyte download of the Microsoft Vista beta released to 10,000 people is causing download and traffic problems on the internet.  I doubt if it is a rodent chewing on the cable, since it worked fine, when everyone was asleep.  It could be that so many people are away on vacation that they are not maintaining the system.  From a practical financial point of view, if people can not access the internet when the stock markets open tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. instead of 9:30 A.M., they will not be able to make investments and they will not be able to carry out other internet business, in which case people will not earn and will possibly lose money, in which case people if they lose money will not have to pay taxes in which case the so called United States Government will not have revenue to do such things that they do and whom ever depends on income from a government agency will not be able to receive it.  In which case we will not have a government or a trading system in which case, modern people will have to use more expensive gasoline transportation for some of their activities in which case more energy will be consumed.  Whatever, the case I am about 95% sure there is nothing wrong with my computer system or my internet equipment, and it is a fault of the internet or my internet service provider.  The United States government would not shut down the internet, so it would seem to me that until it gets working properly again, we will have to rely on slower communications.  It will probably work again during the early morning hours when I am awake again.  The Cablevision people said they would raise their investigation to a higher level whatever that means.  I suppose since over a half billion people use the internet, it obviously is working elsewhere around the world.  Possibly we could have a local hacker interfering with the system, but if that were the case, the Cablevision people would terminate their connection, and they would be subject to law enforcement review.  Whatever, the case I am tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 10:10 A.M.:  After the last message, since I don't know much about DVDs, I studied DVDs at VideoHelp.com .  I determined that the DVD-R was the most popular format, and since my drive will be 8X, I then looked at www.staples.com, and they have the HP 25 DVD disks on sale for $8.99, and www.walgreens.com has the Maxell DVD-R 4.7 GB 30 pack on sale from $19.99 for $12.99.  They said the Maxell were more reliable, which one needs for an operating system copy versus video  I then shut down the computer.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I then drove over to Walgreen's in Old Greenwich, which is opened 24 hours, and I bought the Maxell DVD-R 30 pack for $12.99 plus .78 tax for $13.77 total.  I drove over there on I-95 east to go a little faster, so as to clean up my emissions and spark plugs, than from the usual local driving.  I then drove back west on East Putnam Avenue to downtown Greenwich.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I stopped by Zen stationary.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I chatted with some former neighbors, and they looked well.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a 12 ounce jar of Vlassic Sweet Gherkins for $2.99.  My neighbor has asked me to picked them up for them.  I then returned home, and I gave them to my neighbor, and my neighbor paid me back.  When I bought the DVD disks at Walgreen's, I paid for it with Indian dollar coins that I had and a Susan B. Anthony dollar along with other change, and I was off on my change, because the sales clerk as usual thought the Susan B. Anthony dollar was a quarter which is the problem with them.  I have no change in the Volvo, and not much around home, but the computer is running fine.  I had to reset the cable modem again which is really quite simple.  I just chatted with a friend calling from his cell phone driving through Greenwich up to Plymouth, Massachusetts for a horse show.  The way the price of gasoline is going, it might be worth investing in horses.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 3:40 A.M.:  I am not going out, but I took a shower and cleaned up, so I would feel a little bit fresher.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/31/05:

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 2:15 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I have to remind people that using the free Yahoo Geocities web site at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/ , I have no control over the content that Yahoo adds to my web site, and since I don't feel like I can afford to pay for an ad free web site at $5 a month, we will have to deal with whatever the California community of computer people think is worthwhile advertising on my web site.  Having been to California a five times on a low budget, I think they should advertise corn chips and orange juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 1:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 1:40 A.M.:  Desktop Pipeline | A New Vista: Microsoft Releases Vista Beta 1 .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 1:35 A.M.:  Lobster Kennebunkport, Maine .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 1:30 A.M.:  Pink Sand http://www.tuckerspoint.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 1:20 A.M.:  Update 7: Refinery Fires Send Crude Prices Past $60  .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 12:50 A.M.:  This is the NEC DVD ND-3540A drive that I ordered Optical Drives Optical Drive Series NEC ND-3540A from NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM at Newegg.com  with free Fedex Shipping, and I paid $41.99, and they have since raised the price $5, and this is more information on it Technical Specifications - ND-3540A Double Dual Layer DVD±RW Writer (NEC-ND3540ABLACK) - PriceGrabber.com , but I won't be able to afford the Dual Layer DVDs that it can work with, until they come down a bit in price.  Of course, I will be able to use the regular 4.7 gigabyte DVDs.  Tracking on it is FedEx Track  on Mike Scott's order from www.newegg.com for a NEC DVD Burner .  I guess I will now be able to back up my entire "My Documents" folder to DVD, and will be able to burn all of my saved music on the computer to a DVD, not that I ever have time to listen to music besides when I do house cleaning.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 12:30 A.M.:  Maybe this is the cause of my recent internet problems CNN.com - Geeks gather at 'What The Hack' - Jul 29, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/05 Sunday 12:10 A.M.:  I checked with Optimum Online, and I reported the service started working without any problems about 11 P.M..  I also reported that someone is possibly running an unsecured wireless network in this building which if it is coming off of their service could possibly have hackers or other parties causing problems with their service.  It is my personal viewpoint that someone might be interested in gaining access to the Microsoft Vista beta, which I have not been able to burn to DVD yet.  For them to do that would be a violation of my agreement with Microsoft, and if they want it, they should sign up at http://connect.microsoft.com .  If they have access to the cable modem system to interfere with my system, they obviously could download it themselves if they were permitted to be one of the beta testers.  Whatever, the case it is the first time I have ever had problems with the Optimum Online cable modem service in the about five years that I have used it, so it would seem the reason behind individuals bothering my access might revolve around the Microsoft Vista beta.  I reheated in the General Electric Microwave oven in the Rubbermaid container, the four remaining http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pig-in-blanket.htm , and I ate them with a glass of iced tea.  Since Microsoft has already distributed the beta to 10,000 beta testers, more than likely anyone whom needs it, already has it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 10:40 P.M.:  I unplugged the four LAN cables into my Siemens SpeedStream router with the router turned off.  I then turned it on with the reset button pressed in front.  I then turned it off, and I plugged in one of the LAN cables, and I turned it back on, and I logged onto the Siemens router from its web browser address, and I restored it to its factory defaults.  Right now everything seems to be working online just fine.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 9:15 P.M.:  I was awake at 3 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6:30 P.M., when I chatted with a friend.  I then tried starting up the computer, and the cable modem would not work again.  I called our local Cablevision Optimum Online number at 1-203-348-9211.  I chatted with the tech support agent for Optimum Online.  At the time the Cable Modem was working properly again, and he said from what he could tell on his end, it was working.  I then decided possibly the startup program from England "Weather Screen" might have a Trojan program installed in it like the Weather Program that I once installed from Washington D.C., so I uninstalled Weather Screen, with it replacing the files it backed up.  I then rebooted and ran Norton WinDoctor.  I then was not able to run the updates for Ad-awareSE, so I downloaded their latest definitions file from www.lavasoft.com and I installed them in the Ad-wareSE directory, and I then ran Ad-awareSE, and it removed 49 spyware problems.  However, now once again the cable modem has quit working, so someone or something is obviously causing the problem.  I will now restart it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 8:00 A.M.:  I did a little bit of regular internet work.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 5:35 A.M.:  I put Internet Explorer 7.0 beta one for XP on my Northgate Syntax beta machine, and it looks quite interesting.  It seems faster and neater than Internet Explorer currently available.  Of course it is what in the works underneath the hood that really matters.  I will leave it on, until I install the new Vista beta probably on Monday or Tuesday when I get my DVD burner.  Of course to install the Vista beta, I will have to format the C: drive and do a clean install on the beta machine.  The beta machine has two 20 gigabyte hard drives, and I have the ASR backup of my current configuration on the D: drive.  Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 1 in Update has a system validation feature which passed on my system, but the updates feature does not seem to be working yet, because they probably are not yet available.  When downloading it from the beta site, I was also prompted for multiple languages, but only English seems to be available.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 4:05 A.M.:  Cnet Microsoft Windows Vista .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 3:55 A.M.:  BBC NEWS Science Nature  Astronomers detect '10th planet' .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 3:15 A.M.:  I made and posted this recipe Michael Louis Scott's Pigs in a Blanket Recipe  .  I ate three of them and the biscuit croissant, and I refrigerated the other four in a Rubbermaid container to eat some time in the near future after I reheat them.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/05 Saturday 12:45 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 5 ounce cans of Armour Vienna franks for two for .99 and a 7 ounce bag of black licorice for $1.19 and .07 tax for $3.26 total.   One can wrap the little armour franks in biscuit dough http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/biscuit.htm and bake them to make "Pigs in a Blanket".  One could also coat the Vienna franks inside of the dough with a litte barbeque sauce.   I sat out at the top of Greenwich Avenue on the stone wall at the Plaza since the bench is no longer there.  I completed my walk of Greenwich Avenue.  I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with someone from Greenwich that also lives in Puerto Rico, and once lived in Key West, Florida.  We chatted about the old days down there.  On the way down to the waterfront, I stopped by the lower level Greenwich train station parking dumpster area, and they have two dusty office chairs there.  I retrieved a box full of old cables from the dumpster.  I guess they are going wireless at the Office Plaza.  I then returned home. I chatted with a neighbor. I inventoried the box, and it contained six empty 512 meg. DDR Kingston Memory chip boxes, and three old IBM 128 MB 184 Pin memory chips, 38 3 foot to 20 foot LAN cables, 2 heavy duty 12 foot serial cables, 1 twelve foot 240 volt heavy duty cable possibly an extension cable, 7 monitor cables of both 15 pin and the large number of pin monitor cables, 2 serial to LAN cables about three feet long, 3 PS/2 mice, 5 serial to LAN adapters, 2 LAN to VGA adapters, 4 computer and monitor power cables about six feet long, 1 oval power cable such as goes with my Creative RIO player transformer, 5 USB cables, 9 small bags of nuts and bolts and other small hardware, 1 twelve foot telephone cable with some sort of device on it, 1 four foot orange 1.5 inch diameter cable cover, 1 PS/2 mouse cable extender.  I put the three PS/2 Mice and the mouse cable extender underneath the side table in the bedroom with the other mice.  I put the 5 USB cables in my cable box underneath the living room desk, I put the three 128 meg. memory chips in three of the memory chip boxes, and I put them on the side board in the bedroom.  I put all of the small parts in a plastic bag, and I put all of the cables back in the Compaq box, and I put it on top of the HP laser printer to the far side of my bed in the bedroom.  I put the telephone cable with the funny device in the top left living room desk drawer.  I took my small cart back out to the car.  I had to disconnect the power to cable modem again, since it is not working right again.  I will now test it again.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/05 Friday 6:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative whom was making brownies.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used 7 grape tomatoes on top of the salad along with all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.  Remember for those of you whom have family or friends with homes down south to keep and eye out on http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm and if one looks at this satellite picture, you get the whole picture across the Atlantic and Africa where the hurricanes come from.  Locally when we seen dragon flies, it is a sign of tropical weather.   Also if one sees a blue heron, it is a good sign of tropical hurricane weather down south.  I guess Audubon by studying the birds knew they knew a lot about the weather, since they spend more time outside.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/05 Friday 5:20 P.M.:  I chatted with some neighbors, when I threw out the garbage.  I picked up my mail.  With CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - Bandwidth Test , I am now getting 3841.8 kbps bandwidth, which is better than a T1 line.  I guess with all of the people away on vacation, the internet is working faster.  I thought my hard drive was making noise, and both Maxtor 160 gigabyte hard drives are only about six months old, and it was only the printer port box rattling against the side of the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/05 Friday 4:35 P.M.:  I woke back up at noon.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I retrieved from the dumpster area a green nylon webbing and steeling folding chair that had its slider support out of alignment.  I was able to knock it back into shape by hitting it against the cement curb.  I then put it in the back of my Volvo station wagon in the rear area along with the collapsible Ford Explorer chair.  I then did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  While doing house cleaning, I also ran Norton Disk Doctor with surface scan on both hard drives and all three partitions.  I also did another C: drive to D: drive backup with Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery.  I will now throw out the garbage.  I also chatted with a relative whom is traveling through this area on their way up north.  I had to turn off and reactivate the cable modem again.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/05 Friday 10:05 A.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest a while, and then I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/05 Friday 8:50 A.M.:  If one wants to sign up for the Microsoft Vista beta, the web site is http://connect.microsoft.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/29/05 Friday 8:45 A.M.:  I just woke up.  Last night after the last message, and currently the internet seems to have come to a complete standstill.  Possibly with 10,000 people trying to download Microsoft Vista which is a 2.5 gigabyte download it has come to a standstill.  This could be a local phenomenon with all of the IBM people trying to download it.  It also could effect today's markets with people not being able to trade online.  Also when the next release of Microsoft Vista next Wednesday August 3, 2005 to a 100,000 people that would mean more than 10 times the present number would try to download it, meaning another internet meltdown.  However, I just called Cablevision, and they had me disconnect the power cord from the back of the cable modem for a couple of minutes and then restart it, and it is working fine now.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 9:45 P.M.:  I was awaken by a telephone call from the Indian Harbor Yacht Club that I did not answer in time.  While I was asleep, I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  Tracking on the NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM at Newegg.com is FedEx Track  on Mike Scott's order from www.newegg.com for a NEC DVD Burner .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 4:35 P.M.:  While doing the backup, I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I walked around the building.  I ate the remaining two scoops of Haagen Dazs Macadamia Brittle ice cream Welcome to Häagen-Dazs.com .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will do my house cleaning when I wake up tomorrow.  I will also run Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  I deleted the three old ASR backups from January 2005 to April 2005, since they don't work with the new Gigabyte motherboard that I put in June 2005.  I still have three ASR backups on the D: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 3:00 P.M.:  I used the fix for Windows Update listed below in this note, and it worked.  I then installed the Windows Updates that I did not have.  I will now do a C: drive to D: drive backup with Windows XP Automatic System Recovery.  This should take about an hour.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 1:50 P.M.:  I finished downloading the Microsoft Longhorn Vista beta.  I will install it when I get the DVD burner next week.  I went through my email.  I received a telephone call from Bank of New York BNY Online Banking - Internet Banking , and they offer savings accounts with over $10,000 a priority 3.5 interest rate.  I alas am not in that category.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 1:20 P.M.:  I have 110 megabytes or 28 minutes to go on the Microsoft Vista beta download.  I rested for a while.  I picked up my mail.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 11:00 A.M.:  Instead of resting, I went out, and I went to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on West Putnam Avenue.  I made a small deposit.  I then returned home, and I ordered NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM at Newegg.com for $41.99 with free Fedex shipping.  Once it arrives around Monday, I will get the DVD disks at Staples.  Then I will be able to burn and install the Microsoft Vista beta.  I will put the new DVD burner in my primary computer, which is simple enough, since it slides out of the case, so I won't have to move the case.  I will put my old DVD player in the Northgate Syntax backup computer, so I can install the beta.  I still have 2 hours and 40 minutes on the download.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 10:00 A.M.:  The beta server has slowed down to 64 KB/sec, and it says I have 860 megabytes to go in about four hours.  I ate 14 Ritz crackers with .5 inch by 2 inch by 1/8th inch slices of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them along with a glass of iced tea.  I will now leave the download running, and I will rest for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 9:25 A.M.:  The Vista beta is 50% downloaded and 1 hour and 15 minutes to go.  I went outside earlier, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I went through my email.   The Microsoft fix for the Windows Update error problem "0x800A01AE" is:

In our case log, I understand that the error code 0x800A01AE is received when running Windows Update. I understand the inconvenience that you are experiencing. Please be assured that I will try my best to help you. If I have misunderstood your concern, please let me know.

The most common cause of this behavior is that certain components, which are responsible for Windows Update, are corrupted or missing from the system.

At this time, let's refer to the following steps to get this issue resolved.

Step 1: Restart the computer in Safe Mode
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1. Reboot your computer and start pressing the F8 key on your keyboard.
2. When the Windows Advanced Options menu appears, select Safe Mode, and then press Enter.
3. Log onto Windows.

NOTE: In Safe Mode, your system display and desktop will look and perform differently than in normal mode.

Step 2: Remove the corrupted files
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1. Click Start-> Search.
2. Select "All files and folders", and then search for the following files:

wuapi.dll
wuauclt1.exe
wuauclt.exe
wuaucpl.cpl
wuaueng1.dll
wuaueng.dll
wuauserv.dll
wucltui.dll
wupdmgr.exe
wups2.dll
wups.dll
wuweb.dll

Tip: when searching for multiple files in Windows, you may enter the file name continuously like wucltui.dll; wuapi.dll; wuauclt.exe in the search field. This will speed up the whole process.

If you find any of the above files, please right click to rename this file to (such as wuapi.old). Please understand that we may not find all the files listed above. If so, it is normal, and please continue to search for the rest of the files.

After finishing the above steps, please restart the computer in Normal Mode and try to access the Windows Update site again.

CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 8:25 A.M.:  I received email from Microsoft about how to fix the Internet Explorer Update, but it requires a safe boot, which I can not do right now.  I have two hours to go on the Vista beta 1 download.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 8:15 A.M.:  Microsoft Longhorn Vista beta 1 for x86 is available for download, and I am downloading it.  However, I need a DVD burner to burn the *.iso file to a DVD, and once I have one, I can transfer my DVD drive into the Northgate Syntax backup computer that I will use for the test machine.  When I reinstalled XP on my primary computer, I only was able to create a 127 gigabyte partition for the C: drive, so I thus have another 26 gigabyte partition on a L: drive.  It is on the L: drive because my Smart Card Reader uses up a lot of drive letters.  I technically could try to install it on my primary computer on the L: drive, but I don't know if it supports the XP boot manager or not.  I still would need it to burn it to a DVD disk to install it.  I don't have enough funds to order a DVD drive and buy DVD/RW disks, but I technically could scrape enough funds together to get one, but it would mean putting some spare cash in the bank, but I don't think there is any rush, so I will order one at the first of the month.  I think I would prefer to install the full release that will be available on August 3, 2005.  Also Internet Explorer 7 for XP beta is also available for download for Microsoft approved beta testers.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 7:30 A.M.:  About 1 A.M. I took two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that has been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and put three 1/32nds thick slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, six 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea. About 3 A.M. while I was configuring the computer, I ran Norton Disk Doctor on my D: drive where my old Windows XP Professional Backup Automatic System Recovery backup file was.  It must have fixed it, or the installation process, because the Windows XP Professional Backup Automatic System Recovery backup file worked.  I thus made a ASR backup of the installation I had done so far.  I then restored my ASR July 9, 2005 backup from the D: drive to the C: drive without any problem.  I then made the changes that I had added since then.  The computer is once again running fine.  Outlook 2003 works fine.  However, Windows XP Update from Internet Explorer still gives the error message "0x800A01AE" .  However, besides that the computer seems to be running fine.  I need to run Norton Speed Disk again on the C: drive. when I wake up today.  Windows Automatic Update does work though.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/05 Thursday 1:20 A.M.:  I went outside after the last message, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I went to bed.  I woke up at 4:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with some neighbors, and I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a relative.  One the primary computer, I tried to reinstall the Windows XP automatic system recovery backup from the WinXP CD boot ASR option, but it would not install.  I low level formatted the C: drive with MaxBlast in case I had a virus on the hard drive.  I then installed WinXP Professional, but in the process of rebooting it scanned my D: drive, and it corrupted my Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup file.  I had one from mid April 2005, but when I tried to reboot after installing that one, it would not work, since I had installed the new Gigabyte motherboard after that backup.  I chatted with a relative.  I then reinstalled a clean version of Windows XP Professional without any problems.  I have gone through installing the Norton Internet Security 2005 and the Norton System Works 2003.  I have installed the Windows Updates and a few other small programs.  I still have to configure my primary computer accessories and restore some files.  Basically it will take another couple of days to get it all back to the way it was before.  Before I do any more work, on it, I will run Norton Speed Disk on the setup so far, so as to have the operating system files at the front of the hard drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/05 Wednesday 7:40 A.M.:  I reflashed my bios and Outlook 2003 now works all right.  I can not get Windows XP Update to work because of a Error number: 0x800A01AE , and the solutions I search out did not work.  However, the automatic update feature does work.  So basically the computer is running fine right now.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/05 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  I ran Norton Anti-Virus 2005, and there is no problem with my system according to it.  I reinstalled Office 2003, but the Outlook 2003 mail program still did not work.  I then restore my latest July 9, 2005 Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup, and the computer worked perfectly fine along with Outlook 2003.  I chatted with a relative while restoring the backup.  I reconfigured the computer to reflect the changes since July 9, basically updating some files from backup files.   I also installed Norton Internet Security 2005.  However, now Outlook 2003 does not work properly again.  However, when I turn off the router disconnecting from the internet it works, so there is something from the internet that is keeping the Outlook 2003 mail program from working like some sort of remote access through my firewalls.  I can not figure out what the problem is.  However, besides the Outlook 2003 problem, the computer is still running fine.  Another problem is that Windows Update won't work.  It is very peculiar. Also the Outlook 2003 email spam blocker is not installed yet, so that is not the problem.  The problem occurred yesterday when I installed the Ashampoo 30 day demo, which should not be effecting the computer now, since restoring the backup.  However, they did send me a number of email to activate the product, but my Norton security software did not and does not show any problems.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/26/05 Tuesday 10:45 P.M.:  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  During my walk, I also double backed before returning to my normal walk, so I could talk with another walker.  I stopped by CVS during my walk, and I bought a 7 ounce bag of black licorice for $1.19 plus .07 tax for $1.26, but I only gave the cashier a $1.25 by mistake which he did not mention.  I completed my walk.  It is sort of annoying not having the bench at the top of Greenwich Avenue, so I can take a cigarette break during my walk.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2 each and fresh organic Dole bananas for .99 a pound for $1.66 for $5.66 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/05 Tuesday 6:15 P.M.:  This story Source: Beta of Windows Vista due Wednesday | Tech News on ZDNet says the Windows Vista beta will come out tomorrow, but the full version with the additional features will not be out until August 3, 2005.  I think I will wait for that version to test it.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that has been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and put three 1/32nds thick slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, six 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I went outside briefly, and it does not feel too hot to me.  I think I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/26/05 Tuesday 5:30 P.M.:  I had a problem with Microsoft Outlook 2003.  I ran Office 2003 repair, but it still persisted.  It might have been caused by the recent Outlook 2003 Junk Email update that I put on yesterday.  I was able to get Outlook 2003 to work, if I started it up with the Network turned off, and then it worked when the Network was turned on.  It seemed like it was working all right, but when I rebooted, and it happened again.  I ran some of the Outlook 2003 cleanup utilities.  In frustration, I tried to run Windows XP Automatic System Recovery from the installation CD, to restore my ASR backup, but it prompted me that my installation hard drive was not large enough to do a restore, which is odd, since both hard drives are 160 gigabytes.  Possibly one needs to do a restore from  the 2nd hard drive to an empty 1st hard drive to get it to work.  I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003, and it fixed a number of problems, and I ran Ad-awareSE, and it fixed a number of problems.  I tried running Outlook 2003, and it now works fine.  Hopefully that has fixed the problems.  I am concerned that I was not able to get the ASR restore to work.  I will have to research that a bit. I have gotten it to work on a empty 1st hard drive before.  It is currently 75.5 degrees Fahrenheit at the computer intake fan port, and it is 87 degrees Fahrenheit at its exhaust fan port, and it is currently 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I chatted with a relative for a while, and the electricity went off for a few seconds.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/26/05 Tuesday 1:15 P.M.:  I was up at 10:30 A.M., and I watched the Space Shuttle successfully launch www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm .  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out my banana peel, and I drank my coffee.  I picked up my mail.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I emptied the ice from four of the ice trays, and I put the ice cubes in a double plastic bag in the freezer, and I refilled the four ice trays with water.  It is 69.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the computer fan intake, so it is cool and comfortable in my apartment which is also good for the computer equipment.  I will now do some regular computer work.  Current temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is 91 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast with the temperature expected to go higher.  I don't think there is any point in wasting energy going downtown in this hot weather, although I am out of bananas.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/26/05 Tuesday 12:50 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay Cool.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/26/05 Tuesday 12:30 A.M.:  I lowered the air conditioner to its lowest temperature setting of 64 degrees Fahrenheit and low fan and Energy Saver and moving louvers, thus it should cool down the apartment even more during the night hours before it gets hot later on today for the next couple of days.  The temperature at the computer fan intake is 73.7 degrees Fahrenheit.  With large energy use during the next couple of days for cooling there could be brown outs or power failures, so be prepared for the worst.  One local celebrity use to like to sit in the Greenwich Library on hot days in his silk underwear to stay cool.  For any northern exiles from the English Speaking Union, the British Royal Family usually vacations in August up in Scotland at Balmoral Castle The Royal Residences > Balmoral Castle and Balmoral Castle and Estate, online shop, gift shop, holiday cottages, pony trekking, fishing, scotland and they have online shopping at Balmoral Collection , and it looks like now, one can order Whisky from them Balmoral Estates Whisky Range , so I guess they all are not tea totalers.  I suppose in the winter around here, a dram of real Scotch whisky would come in handy, but for now I have enough in reserve, but it is only an unopened 1.75 liter bottle of Dewars which is popular with the local Country Club set.  However, it is at least 5 years older than when I bought it.  David Rockefeller's old gardener is from Scotland, and he frequently can be seen downtown this time of night watering the hanging plants on Greenwich Avenue, and there was a nice article about him in Greenwich Magazine about three months ago.   I suppose there are other Scottish people around, but since they have developed a reputation with the Royal Bank of Scotland being in our area as having some sort of hidden wealth, they are more invisible.  When I called up the British Embassy in Washington D.C. a few weekends ago, they told me a few Scottish jokes that I had heard many times before.  However, if the Scott family telegraph operator Andrew Carnegie were really cheap, a lot of people would still be picking up discarded newspapers to learn how to read.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 11:40 P.M.:  The ice in my 8 ice trays in the freezer had evaporated, so I filled them again, and they should be frozen by tomorrow in case I need ice.  What little ice was in the trays, I put in double plastic bag in the freezer.  I took out my Hamilton Beach blender from the left living room closet to have available for to use in the kitchen for making smoothies or whatever they call ice blended in the blender with a fresh cold drink such as orange juice.  Possibly the darkly tanned individual downtown that I saw with all the tattoos was some sort of Hawaiian Royalty.  I have seen Queen Kamayamaya from Hawaii around downtown Greenwich during our hot weather periods.  When they visit here from Hawaii, they usually hold Louous at Tod's Point with all of the usual native festivities.  I am not sure how they get here, but the fact they have been here before means they might come back.  I first went to Hawaii with Queen Elizabeth II back in August 1980 after I left the tennis court with the Bush family in Kennebunkport, Maine.  After spending time around Laguna Beach and Santa Cruz, California, I went to Las Angeles airport, and I ran into the owner of the house on Lincoln Avenue I had worked on in Nantucket during a previous summer, and he had gone bankrupt, so he sold me his ticket to Hawaii for $100.  I only bought a one way ticket since I planned to stay there indefinitely.  I got to Hawaii, and I caught the island shuttle to Maui.  I rented an inexpensive motel room on the beach in Maui, but it was so hot, I left it, and I checked into the Hyatt in Hyatt.com | Maui hotels | Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa for a week.  I think my room was about $85 a night, and it was air conditioned.  It was the least expensive room in the hotel.  I never left the hotel property while I was staying there, since there was rumors the Royal Hawaiians were in revolt.  At the same time the American District Attorneys and the American Judicial Association were holding a meeting there.  I paid for my bill with a one ounce Canadian gold maple leaf which at the time was worth about $800, and I was give a $100 bill back in change.  When I went back to the big island to fly back to the mainland, I put on my wool suit to look presentable, and I bought a ticket on World Airways back to San Jose, California where they had their terminal.  While at the Hyatt, I swam at their pool and used their weight room, and I drank pineapple drink smoothies.  At the time, they had about $2 million of Chinese art in the hotel, and although it was an older crowd, there were younger people in the discothèque at night.  I use to wear my linen Pilipino shirt with the shirt tail out, because I had read all the exiles from Asia wore their shirt tails out, until they return to the mainland.  The room was air conditioned, and the only thing on television was Hawaii 5 O.  I only ate one dinner in the restaurant, which was $85 for six large shrimp scampi and a bottle of German wine.  They had large buffets for breakfast, which tended to last me all day long.  I did not use the beach, since the lava or coral shoreline was rough on bare feet.  When I returned to California, they would not let me rent a car without a credit card, so I hitchhiked and walked to Santa Cruz, California where a friend lived.  About half way there Vincent Butler gave me a ride, and he invited me to stay at his family house on top of the mountain in Santa Cruz, California next to a golf course while his family was away in Lake Tahoe, California.  He liked drinking Vodka, which at the time I enjoyed, so we spent the weekend drinking Vodka and telling stories.  He had lots of the old German Marshall music that he collected in his travels, and I showed him the different German march steps that I had seen other Germans do in my travels.  I think we drank the vodka with orange juice.  When I left a he gave me a Fresca soda can with a radio in it, and he told me to say hello to mother.  He dropped me off at the University of Santa Cruz, California campus, where I was going to meet up with a friend on a Sunday morning, and I sat through a Russian Orthodox Church service that was going on, and I was arrested for shaking hands with the minister after the service.  I guess they smelled Vodka on my breath.  They made me dry out for about five days in a very nice facility in Santa Cruz, California that they had, and there were a large number of Iranians there.  They only gave us orange juice to drink.  I then met up briefly with my friend.  I then went back to Laguna Beach, and I did not drink alcohol anymore for the rest of the trip.  I only drank orange juice.  Frequently people will offer travelers something to drink in terms of alcohol, but if they don't offer food, it tends to mess up one's system.   In Laguna Beach, I stayed about a week, and then I returned back east, and I picked up my old yellow Subaru at the Greenwich Country Club where I left it in the lower parking lot next to the tennis court, since it was convenient place to park it to catch a taxi cab to the get the airport limousine to the airport.  I don't recall ever seeing Queen Elizabeth actually in Hawaii, but it was a United Airline plane I flew there on, and possibly it was going on to Australia or New Zealand.  I think that was the first time I made a round trip air flight to the west coast, and later on that summer I drove out there again with a friend, and I flew back with the same friend in the fall.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 10:25 P.M.:  Heat coming our way ABC News: Heat Spreads Suffering, Midwest to East .  Local temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is suppose to be in the mid 90s the next two days Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  Local weather at NASA Shuttle, Florida Weather Underground: Titusville, Florida (32796) Forecast .  I wonder how Titusville, Florida got its name.  Maybe there was some big fat man named Titus that put his name there, or maybe it was one of their pet alligators.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 10:20 P.M.:  If I get to bed by midnight, I would be up early enough to watch this CNN.com - NASA may fly shuttle even if sensor problem returns - Jul 25, 2005 .  However, our local cablevision Digital television network here in Connecticut from www.cablevision.com  does not provide NASA television, because the local education people here in Connecticut do not think it is that important compared to some of the other content they provide like the Home Shopping network.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 10:10 P.M.:  I ate three scoops of Haagen Dazs Macadamia Brittle ice cream Welcome to Häagen-Dazs.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 9:50 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Another relative lives in Sun Valley, Idaho which the Harriman family started as a railroad resort for one of the Scott family Rockefeller enterprises.  There are always individuals trying to poach off the celebrity of the Harriman family, but they have only been here since about 1852 representing church people from Europe.  The Scott family having been here for close to 400 years frequently knows more about the nature of this country which the celebrity press does not ever print, because it would not sell newspapers.  Whatever, the problems with the summer people out west, it generally goes away once the winter winds start blowing and the cougars and the bears start moving in.  A great many people live off Hollywood reality which also has Scott family involvement, since they are obviously trying encourage people to settle in areas of America, they have already developed as opposed to homesteading in the wilds.  Of course since we are integral part of the history of this country, we would also have enemies whom continue to come back at us trying to reengage us in some worthless activity for their own profit.  Basically we would have representation in Washington D.C., but they frequently don't pay much attention until all Hell breaks lose.  I just simply volunteer around the railroad on Greenwich Avenue, and I am very diplomatic with all visitors.  However, some people don't like us, because when they come to America looking for Hollywood dreams, they find out that they have to work here just like in the Old Country.  Whatever, the case I am not making any money watching visitors on Greenwich Avenue for 21 years, and from what I can tell somebody sends them out here because of the celebrity of other families whom advertise themselves too much here, and frequently they are only part time residents if that.  Whatever, the case since we have had a great many flight personnel live here over the years, probably only their current airline would know their current status, and airline personnel don't make that much money anymore, so frequently they can no longer afford to live in this town.  Mostly the current group of people whom can afford to live here are gamblers from Wall Street, and usually once they have enough money, they move away to a more relaxing environment.  Of course over the years a great many overworked men have left behind a large number of widows whom try to support the town as best as they see fit.  In other words skinny little ladies at Christ Church are not going to pay for big fat 300 pound plus men to party and drink with their money.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 8:30 P.M.:  Of course the cheap inexpensive Seneca 100 ultra light cigarettes that I smoke from Canada might have some problem with them too.  They are suppose to be All Natural.  I basically have nothing to do downtown, and I am perfectly comfortable at home, so why bother going downtown.  Of course on Monday nights it is so slow, it is actually quite enjoyable, and one feels like one actually owns the whole town except for a few random skateboarders.  Of course like in the winter, if one stays inside too long around the cool air conditioner, one begins to get Cabin Fever.  However, one generally has to interact with the general public, when one goes downtown, which breaks one's concentration, and it also tends to be less relaxing than staying at home.  Although I pay $63 a month for digital television, I find it an equally annoying distraction.  It makes me feel like California is invading my home.  Of course there is not that much going on in Connecticut compared to other busier areas, and more than likely the locals are planning their strategies as opposed to the big city Manhattan, and since a great many of them have larger more complex homes, they are frequently engaged in routine house keeping activities.  Since Monday night is a slow night for many office worker types, they actually do such mundane chores as laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 8:05 P.M.:  I feel relaxed and a bit tired, so maybe I won't go downtown.  I have a theory that certain mischievous individuals could have a certain type of concealed device, and when they walk around in the general public they could spray individuals with a conceal aerosol type mixture of chemicals that messes up their body chemistry.  However, in the New York City area with all of the pollution, it could just be seasonal allergies that also happen in this area.  Also technically someone could put an additive in their automobile fuel, and when they drive around it would cause individuals to not feel well, but to do that, they would probably need to drive in a sealed vehicle, since it would effect the passengers in the delivery vehicle as well.  However, in this area with all of the pollution and trees and vegetations, it is probably just allergies.  A number of the places, I lived such as Key West, Florida, Nantucket, and Lanzarote that I visited and the west coast shoreline of California tended to have very fresh air, since it came right off the ocean.  It is the nature of the west shore of Lake Michigan where Lake Forest, Illinois is located, they would have a lot of pollen from the agriculture in the Midwest.  However, the eastern shore of Lake Michigan where Holland, Michigan is located would probably have cleaner air with less pollen.  Likewise around the waterfront in Kennebunkport, Maine the air quality tends to be better than here locally.  However, living near the ocean, one can deal with a lot of other problems.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 7:40 P.M.:  I took two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that has been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and put four 1/32nds thick slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with three relatives.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  It has been pretty slow around here with the higher prices of gasoline.  However, since I only live a mile from downtown, I have for 19 years tried to keep an eye on the downtown area all the time, so there are probably a number of local downtown people whom seem to think I live downtown, when I am actually living over in Byram next to the skating rink.  The skating rink is a very popular place in the winter, and whenever I talk with any of my old classmates from Greenwich Country Day, they say "O' Yeh You Live by the Skating Rink".  Alas having grown up down south until age 11, I don't ice skate.  I tried it a few times on the ponds which is dangerous when we first move here around 1962.  I helped build a indoor ice rink at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu while I was a student there, because I use to be a big fan of ice hockey, because I had a lot of friends in the old days that played ice hockey.  I also ice skated once back in 1976 at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.  I also ice skated at Rockefeller Center back in February 1982 before going over to Oslo, Norway.  I was fairly good ice skater back then because back then I had a strong pair of legs from having walked around New York City for about ten years back then.  I recall it cost about $7 to ice skate at Rockefeller Center with skate rental back in 1982, and there was no time limit.  When I was in Oslo, Norway I felt like I had been poisoned back here before I left, so I spent a week there using the heath club at the S.A.S. hotel which was free because I did not pay for it, although I stayed at the West Hotel behind the Palace, and the S.A.S. hotel health club had a good sauna bath to sweat out the possible poisoning.  The night before I left I had a drink down in Greenwich Village, and while I did not think about it at the time, I saw the bartender holding a vial of mercury in his hands behind the bar which seemed odd at the time.  For this reason and other similar times, I do not take beverages in public from public places, and I only buy sealed containers in the grocery store which I use.  Since it has also happened to me at Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue, I have kept a close eye on the place for about ten years, and I know most of the staff that work there, but it happened there when they use to leave their milk and cream supplies in a pitcher which anyone could tamper with, and now they use sealed containers.  I also thought it happened to me at our local McDonalds on West Putnam Avenue, but on a hot day with a lot of Hispanic help there, I ordered a large sugar free coke, and instead they gave me a regular coke with sugar, since they probably did not know English very well.  A large McDonalds coke with sugar has 12 teaspoons of sugar in it, and since I am hypoglycemic that would have messed up my body's metabolism, and that day I ended up in the hospital.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  Of course, when I drink fresh Florida orange juice in the morning, it has fructose sugar in it which is similar to sugar.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 6:10 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I threw out some garbage.  Not much happening.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 5:05 P.M.:  I received a free 30 day demo offer from Ashampoo which I downloaded, but when I installed the program, it slowed down my computer, so I uninstalled it, and did a System Restore to yesterday, and then I add reinstalled the latest version Microsoft Messenger and Visual Basic also had to be reinstalled along with CCleaner which relies on Visual Basic.  I also ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 and Ad-AwareSE.  The system seems to be running just fine now.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 3:30 P.M.:  I was awake at 12:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I received my General Electric Service Contract which after the current one expires on September 13, 2005, it runs from September 14, 2005 to September 14, 2006.  It is the General Electric Service Contract on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control that I bought about five years ago in June 2000 from Partridge and Rockwell here in Greenwich, Connecticut for $589 plus tax, so it is a good one, and if I have any problems with it, which I have not yet, it will be serviced in home as covered by the service contract.  It was made in South Korea, and I installed it myself, and it weighed about 85 pounds.  I leave it in the window opening during the winter, and I cover the inside front with layers of Styrofoam held in place by duct tape to prevent drafts.  I put the new General Electric service contract in its envelope in the front of the metal file holder on the bedroom mahogany chest.  I chatted with another relative visiting at my relative's house in Kennebunkport, Maine http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/137.htm , and the relative was having problems with the IBM Netvista computer going online with the wireless Xterasys XN-2133G 802.11G USB 2.0 54Mbps Wireless LAN that I left with it.  We finally figured out that that since it is 2.4 gigahertz, and the relative was chatting with me with a 2.4 gigahertz cordless Panasonic telephone that one was interfering with the other, and once the relative turned of the 2.4 gigahertz Panasonic cordless telephone, the relative was able to get online with the local wireless connection without any problems.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 4:30 A.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 3:20 A.M.:  I still have the General Electric Profile air conditioner at 66 degrees Fahrenheit, so as to keep the apartment cooled down at night, so during the warmer daytime temperatures, it is cooler in the apartment.  It is currently 71.2 degrees Fahrenheit by the computer intake fan.  I suppose if one were down in Antarctica now, it would be a bit cold now, since it is the dead of winter down there.   This place seems to have a familiar name Scott Polar Research Institute .  Of course The New South Polar Times is always interesting reading.  The Official Antarctica Home Page or Mawson Station Webcam - Australian Antarctic Division and Australian Antarctic Division - Heat energy at a glance and Australian Antarctic Division - Home Page and :: NASA Quest > Archives :: and Virtual Tour: Antarctica and Virtual tour of the Pole. and Australian Antarctic Division - Station Webcams and weather and CIA - The World Factbook -- Antarctica and Welcome British Antarctic Survey and Cool Antarctica, pictures of Antarctica, information and travel guide and Antarctica New Zealand .  However, in the winter when it is cold up here, one frequently feels like we are in Antarctica, since we can not afford to pay for much electric heat, so it is easier and cheaper to get use to the colder temperatures most of the year, and use a little bit more air conditioning in the summer than to pay for a lot of heat in the winter.  I ate the last two scoops of Friendly pistachio ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/05 Monday 2:20 A.M.:  I can order the AC adapter for the GN Netcom MPA-II for $7.99 and $7.95 shipping for $15.94 total from GN Netcom 27354102 - AC Adapter For MPA-II -Telecom Equipment , but I will do it at the first of the month, and I would like to maintain a minimal amount of funds until the first of the month.  It was about the best price I could find on the internet for the item.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 11:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  Needless to say on Sunday a hot day in the evening the train station was already closed.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought 10 2.75 ounce tins of Beach Cliff sardines in water for two for .99 for $4.90 all.  I chatted with visitors in front of the senior center, and town residents at CVS, and I also sat out at various locations, which are short one sitting place in front of the Chase Plaza at the top of Greenwich Avenue.  I guess the Rockefellers can not afford a new bench.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with some waterfront observers.  I saw fireworks coming up from around Cold Spring Harbor, New York which is a nice artist colony in the summer.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative, whom I will chat with later.  I also chatted with a friend before I went out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 6:00 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used the www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I also used 8 grape tomatoes on top of the salad.  I used the authentic Caesar salad croutons.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  There is a certain lazy group of people around here whom claim to hard working businessmen, but on weekends all they do is drink beer and watch sports on television to relax.  When they get to drinking they think they can order people around whom are not their employees as if they were their employees.  It is my perspective, there is another cheap group of business people from New Jersey whom ride their motorcycles up here from Far Hills, New Jersey when they are not running the business magazine www.forbes.com to try to network with the Connecticut business community, and since they were some of our original friends in this area, we are always prepared to expect the unexpected.  Of course since my paternal Grandmother's grandmother was a Davidson, for all I know there is a Harley Davidson motorcycle gang downtown checking out our local turf.  I guess I will now shut down the computer, and I clean up, and I will go downtown to inspect the downtown area to see what is happening.  Usually since on weekends we don't have the usual maintenance personnel around, there seems to a bit of excess liter around left by the visitors off the commuter train from the Big Apple.  More people around here leave the New Post lying around than any other newspaper including the Greenwich Time.  Of course one of these days, I might find a copy of the Chicago Tribune or some other foreign newspaper that I never really get a chance to read.  My favorite newspaper man has not been seen in about four years, and he was in his 80s, and he was always sitting in the Greenwich Library and carrying copies of the day's newspapers when he went back and forth to the Greenwich Train station, but he is probably now working for www.aarp.org .  Nobody ever took notice of him, since he did not look too prosperous.  The laptop warriors in Starbucks are probably trying to figure out a way to not have to pay for internet access there, and one of these days, when the weather is cooler, I could try out my laptop computer downtown to see if there are any free internet hotspots near Starbucks.  I keep a close eye on Starbucks, since they come out of Seattle, Washington where Microsoft comes from, and although the Microsoft people try to shield their presence in the area with all the IBM people around, more than likely a few of them have ventured out here from their office across the street from Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, but since their office located there, more than likely some of them live out on Long Island, and they might possibly venture over here across Long Island Sound in the summer.  One of the original Windows web sites came out of Manhasset, Long Island, where I build the Mother In Law apartment in Plandome Manor, New York for a family involved with a United States State Department software engineer.  Also nearby where the Harriman family lived, there was also the IBM Country Club in Sands Point, Long Island.  Of course the going rate back in 1982 and 1983 for 8,000 hours of construction work building the garage apartment in Plandome Manor, Long Island for 18 or more hours a day 7 days a week for 10 months with one day off, was $1.15 an hour with no benefits including Social Security benefits, and two 1/5th of a pound hamburgers for dinner.  I still have the work receipts that I kept to prove it, and if they are not careful, I will put them on the internet.  Thus it is my professional point of view that group of United States Government employees out on Long Island are involved in some questionable business practices.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 4:15 P.M.:  Of course a frugal Dutchman who could not care less what the English speaking union is saying might go over to Costco in Port Chester, New York with his Costco card, and if he had money from his Royal Dutch Shell investments, he could probably afford to buy some cases of Heineken Beer www.heineken.com , but when he got back to Greenwich, Connecticut the Greenwich, Connecticut police whom only drink in Bridgeport, Connecticut next to the Bridgeport Correctional facility would probably give them some grief, but according to the local New York law enforcement, plenty of people in New Yorker are occasionally seen drinking and walking around, or Manhattan would not be there.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 4:00 P.M.:  New MSN Messenger .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 3:45 P.M.:  Old Mount St. Helens is still steaming away Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 3:40 P.M.:  Hurricane Frank is veering north of Bermuda Tropical Storm FRANKLIN .  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea in a few hours.  Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is 82 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast , and this Tuesday and Wednesday, the temperatures are suppose to be up to the mid 90s Fahrenheit.  Let's hope the electricity holds out.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 2:50 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Some of my relatives will be flying south this evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 2:30 P.M.:  CNN.com - Tsunami warning issued for Indian Ocean - Jul 24, 2005 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 2:20 P.M.:  I still have the cold German beer and the cold cans of soda pop in the refrigerator too and the cold filtered Brita water in the Brita water container in the refrigerator along with the cold orange juice.  I don't have room to make and store a cold gelatin and fruit mixture, since the items to make my salads take up too much room.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 2:05 P.M.:  I have three chilled Perrier 2000 .75 liter bottles in the refrigerator, and I put in three more in to  chill.  I also have a chilled one year old 46 ounce can of Stop and Shop tomato juice and a chilled new 48 ounce can of Stop and Shop tomato juice in the refrigerator.  It is the nature of Perrier because it is over a billion year old sparkling spring water, it tends not to go out of date or get old.  I don't have room in the refrigerator at the moment to make coffee and refrigerate it to become iced coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 1:35 P.M.:  Of course for the sober tea totaling crowd, I will start making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/icetea.htm shortly.  When I first came off Nantucket 21 years ago, I met a Doctor in Manhattan with first name Joel that looked like Nelson Rockefeller and knew Happy Rockefeller, and his practice revolved around keeping United Nations diplomats from drinking too much alcohol.  He only drank Perrier www.perrier.com with a dash of Angostura bitters.  Perrier's corporate headquarters are across the street from me, the last time I looked about 10 years ago, and I keep plenty of chilled Perrier in the apartment along with Angostura bitters that I am getting low on, which Joel use in cold chilled Perrier, and I also use in my iced tea.  Angostura bitters comes from Trinidad and Tobago, and they sell it in 8 ounce bottles at Val's liquors at the Stop and Shop grocery plaza on West Putnam Avenue for $8.59 plus tax.  Je Me Souviens.  Also Perrier and Great Waters of France was bought out by Nestle, the World's largest food group www.nestle.com .  Mrs. Liliane Bettencourt Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People 2005 Liliane Bettencourt is suppose to be a large stockholder in Nestle, so if you work for Perrier, she would be you major stockholder.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 1:15 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I put a new set of 4 AAA alkaline batteries in the Thomson Electronics 20 inch Proscan television RCA remote control for my bedroom television.  Believe it or not I bought it as floor model clearance item for about $359 and tax from County Appliances in Stamford, Connecticut over 10 years ago.  County Appliances in Stamford, Connecticut is also a good place to buy air conditioners.  A friend remodeled a house in Wilton, Connecticut about 10 years ago, and he put in 240 volt plugs at three locations, and he bought three 25,000 BTU Carrier air conditioning units to keep the place cool, and they worked quite well.  He sold the house to a family that distribute Dom Perignon quality French campagne in this area.  Alas I only have a bottle of Moet et Chandon in my refrigerator, which has been kept cold in the refrigerator for about ten years, but if it is no longer good, one would always have an expensive vinegar.  I bought it for $19 at the Var Max liquor pantry just west of me over the border at 16 Putnam Avenue Port Chester, New York on U.S. 1, which tends to have a lot of quality French wines and liquors, since a member of the Rothchild family lives nearby in Byram, Connecticut, if you get my drift.  Their telephone number is 1-914-937-4930 according to US Wine Stores Database: Main Menu. .  Of course the Port Chester, New York beer distributors is still at 315 North Main Street in Port Chester, New York at telephone 1-914-939-2020 according to BeerAdvocate.com | Join the BEER Revolution! .  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/24/05:

Note: <888> 07/24/05 Sunday 12:25 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I drank my coffee outside in my plastic Starbuck traveler's cup.  I will now do some regular computer work.  I have noticed a lot of the so called younger movers and shakers are spending more time downtown in our local community here in Greenwich, Connecticut, since with the higher price of gasoline, they can not afford to cruise around as much.  I have noticed a lot of individuals from media families walking around looking like they are looking for a news story. However, more than likely some of the older tax payers are still in town, since a lot of them prefer to vacation down south where it is warmer during the winter.  None of these younger media individuals have contacted me, since I guess they prefer their laptop computer warrior network.  I noticed one local individual downtown yesterday whom was darkly tanned, and the individual was wearing a lot of theatrical makeup tattoos like he was an experienced sailor, but most sailors tend not to have that theatrical look anymore, since I know the individual whom knows how to apply all of those fake theatrical tattoos.  In the old days, in Manhattan, next to Henry Kissinger's apartment, there use to be on east 52nd street "Camouflage Hairdressers" which would give people a new look, so people would not recognize them in the City.  One of the individuals walking around always in hot weather environments whom does not seem to run out of money is from a family in Syracuse, New York where Carrier air conditioning is located which is now owned by United Technologies United Technologies Company UTC , so obviously during hotter weather the Carrier air conditioning group is making a little extra money.  They don't just make the window units, but they make the big units that go on top of the roofs of commercial buildings to cool a large building.  It is suppose to get hotter later on in the week, so be prepared for hotter weather Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I have told many people over the years that if they feel hot during the summer, they can take a cold 6 to 8 ounce glass of V8 or tomato juice and put an 1/8 of a teaspoon of India hot curry in it, and the curry will help one not feel the heat.  Well, I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/05 Saturday 10:45 P.M.:  I chatted with six relatives and three friends.  I noticed today PRIME TIME-CT Shuttle Home services this area with vans to and from the New York airports.  I noticed with the terrorism news from London, England the Special Police units in London, England were wearing the types of jackets we wear here in the spring and fall around here, so I guess it is cooler there.  Current temperature in London, England is Weather Underground: London, United Kingdom Forecast .  I noticed somebody that I use to know walking around from Bermuda today, and I guess this is why Tropical Storm FRANKLIN .  I still have the clothes in my apartment to dress up like I am from Bermuda, but since so many people know me around here, nobody would buy that look coming from me.  Well not much happening in this neck of the woods.  It is time for me to hit the hay.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   

Note: <888> 07/23/05 Saturday 8:20 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Heathnut bread for $1.59.  I then drove down by the waterfront at Grass Island, and they have improved the park down there with new landscaping, and it looks very nice.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I chatted with someone from Guatemala that use to live here, and the individual asked me if a volcano had not errupted in 500 years, if it were active, and I explained that a volcano usually  has to be quiet for about 50,000 years to be considered dormant.  I then went downtown, and I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought for a dollar a #29 FastCash Bingo scratch card.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of CVS MSM 1000 mg. 60 capsules for $6.39 both bottles.  I then completed my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I then returned to my apartment, and I took two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that has been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and put three 1/32nds thick slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, one slice of Jarlsberg Lite cheese and four slices of American cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and season it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I scratched the scratch card, and I lost again.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/23/05 Saturday 2:30 P.M.:  I finished going through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I put away my laundry.  I had a telephone call from a relative whom is traveling up north.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  Local weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is 77 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/23/05 Saturday 1:30 P.M.:  Bermuda Department of Health: Rat Man Begins .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/05 Saturday 1:20 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I clipped my toe nails and finger nails.  On the Northgate Syntax backup computer, I installed the updates, I ran "msconfig", and I disabled some of the startup programs.  I ran the maintenance utilities.  I did a C: drive to D: drive backup with Windows Backup Automatic System Recovery.  I ran Norton Speed Disk.  I thus have it already to install the beta of Windows Vista, which I will try to install as an upgrade if that is possible.  If not I will install it from scratch.  I will that be able to restore the current configuration with the backup, if there are any problems with the beta. 

Note: <888> 07/23/05 Saturday 12:50 A.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 11:55 P.M.:  I ran "msconfig", and I disabled some of the startup programs that I do not need to start.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 10:35 P.M.:  TechWeb | Microsoft's next browser | IE 7 Beta May Be At Hand .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 10:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $14 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.899 a gallon for 71.6 miles driving total at 13.6 miles per gallon averaging driving 12 miles per hour.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 1.5 liter bottles of CVS Citrus mouthwash for $4.39 each, a 100 yards of CVS mint waxed dental floss for $1.99, and buy one get one free of RTH 3 outlet 15 foot white extension cords for $3.99 both less a $2.50 CVS coupon if I bought $10 of CVS products plus .74 tax for $13 total.  I then completed my walk.  They have removed the bench up at the top of Greenwich Avenue in front of the United States Trust Company and Morgan Stanley Paine Webber, where I usually take a break when walking around Greenwich Avenue.  Perhaps it is out for repairs.  I chatted with a regular walker who rode his bicycle downtown this evening instead of driving from Old Greenwich.  Although a bicycle is nice this time of year, it can be a bit cold in the winter.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases, and I put the extension cords in the cable box underneath the living room desk.  I ate three scoops of Friendly pistachio ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 5:45 P.M.:  Earlier, when I was doing house cleaning, I moved the large framed group of family pictures from on top of the TEAC DVD player underneath the Orion television to the left side of the living room window shelf between the two vases.  I moved the other picture frame from the TEAC DVD player, and I hung it above the French reproduction chair.  I moved the picture from that location to above the living room mirror in front of the circuit breaker box.  I moved the picture from that location to right side of the file cabinet in the bedroom.  I then moved the Emerson wireless headset and other items off the TEAC DVD player, and I placed them beneath it on the television cabinet.  With the top of the TEAC DVD player cleared of all items, it seems to work without any problems, but if one puts any weight on it, it does not seem to work.  I just now cleaned the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control's air filter.  I keep a Frost King foam air filter in front of it folded around it, which I also washed in soapy water and rinsed out and squeezed the excess water from.  I also turned on the moving louver feature, and I set it at 66 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is about 76 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment right now.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out to enjoy the warmer weather.  With arthritis, I feel very good in the hot weather.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 5:05 P.M.:  Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914-1993) - Forbes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 5:05 P.M.:  News from PC Magazine: Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Vista .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 4:55 P.M.:  The Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day!Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless Network Adapter worked just fine on the Toshiba laptop computer.  I installed its software driver and program, which it uses instead of the Windows Wireless Connection program, but one can change to it, if one prefers to use that.  I disconnected it, and I put it back in its box with its USB cables, software driver CD, and instructions, and I put the box on top of the HP Photosmart 1000 printer on top of the Northgate Syntax CPU.  Besides my AT&T wireless network, it picked up another wireless network, which must be nearby.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 4:20 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients.  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I also used 8 grape tomatoes on top of the salad.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I received Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day!Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless Network Adapter from UPS Package Tracking Netgear WG121 802.11g wireless network adapter for Mike Scott about 3:30 P.M..  I am now installing it on the Toshiba laptop computer, and I will test it with my AT&T wireless router.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/05 Friday 2:45 P.M.:  I was up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I just finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage along with the old periodical literature, and I picked up my mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 8:45 P.M.:  I did some regular internet work.  I chatted with several relatives.  I will now shut  down the computer, and I will go to bed.  TCPalm : Flip-flops can be functional, fashionable and more than just basic footwear .  Tracking on Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day!Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless Network Adapter is UPS Package Tracking Netgear WG121 802.11g wireless network adapter for Mike Scott .  I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants when I wake up tomorrow.  Current weather in Holland, Michigan is Weather Underground: Holland, Michigan (49423) Forecast .  Alas, I don't think I have been there since about 1963 or so.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 6:45 P.M.:  History on my mother's relatives family Boven from Holland in the Netherlands right on the border with Germany in Midwolda, Netherlands Excerpts from Boven Dutch Apple Pie .  Yes I have a Dutch flag about 3 feet by 4 feet hanging from the center of my living room window wall with the United States of America flag on the left and the British Union Jack on the right, but alas I don't speak Dutch, just four years of high school French.  Of course mom's family immigrated to the United States of America in 1842 and settled in Holland, Michigan where it is very cold in the winter and even in the summer it is cold there, so we sort have been assimilated into the local culture.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 5:55 P.M.:  PCWorld.com - WinPatrol v9.5 .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  PCWorld.com - Five-Minute Fixes .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 5:10 P.M.:  Microsoft Makes Longhorn Performance Promises .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 4:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a neighbor when I went out.  Currently it is 85 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  I will now go through some of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 4:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  However, when I went to open my last can of Goya chick peas, it was a 29 ounce can of small white beans, so I made it with that.  I also used a 6 ounce can dry of California medium black pitted olives, and clove of elephant garlic.  I use the liquid from the beans and the olives, but it came out a little bit soupier that it normally does.  I will now throw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 3:10 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 1:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought two 16 ounce jars of Planter's lightly salted dry roasted peanuts for $3.29 both and a 7 ounce bag of black licorice twists for $1.19 plus .07 tax for $4.55 total.  I got a $1.50 bonus bucks, so I bought two more 16 ounce jars of Planter's lightly salted peanuts for $3.29 both less $1.50 bonus bucks for $1.79 total.  I then stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a #28 Triple 7 scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a white Krups single serving cappucinno espresso machine with carafe and attachements for $2.50.  I then went by the Stop and Shop in Glenville.  I noticed on Glenville Road, they have their usual farm stand for this time of year with lots of freshly picked produce.  At the Stop and Shop, I bought a pound of 1/32nds inch thick sliced Purdue turkey at $5.99 a pound for $5.99, 1/16th inch thick sliced American cheese for $4.99 a pound for $5.02, three 5 ounce boxes of Mrs. Cubbinson's fat free herb seasoned retaurant style croutons for .99 each box, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99, fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.45, fresh brocolli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.97, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39, a pint of grape tomatoes for $2.99, and a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 for $26.76 total.  I was told they will finish remodeling the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue on September 8, 2005, so for one's shopping convenience, one can always drive to the Stop and Shop in Glenville.  If one does not have a car, one can pay slightly higher prices at the Food Emporium across the street from the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue or one can shop at Whole Foods on East Putnam Avenue which is very expensive, and of course there is always the Food Mart in Cos Cob.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I have a single cup espresso cappucinno machine already, so I put the new one in the bedroom closet to have for a spare.  They don't last forever.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that has been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and put six 1/32nds thick slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and season it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 8:50 A.M.:  I installed the Windows Updates, the Symantec Updates, and I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003.  The computer system seems to be running just fine.  Today's weather Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up and go out.  I will first have two scoops of Friendly pistachio ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 8:10 A.M.:  Lists of service personnel lost in the war In Remembrance .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/05 Thursday 8:00 A.M.:  I was awake at 2:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I put away the old 250 watt power supply and the two old CPU coolers in the box on top of the left side of the hutch in the bedroom.  I spent several hours checking the speaker cables and adjusting the sound settings on the computer speakers.  I have the two old pairs of speakers on the rear plug, and the newer Monsoon and Cambridge Sound speakers on the front plug.  I adjusted their sound levels.  The two headsets connected to the Creative Live MP3+ sound card also work.  I generally have it disabled though, and I generally leave it set to play the Plantronics headset which is a separate sound system.  However, it is easy enough to switch between the sound systems with the Sounds and Audio Devices Icon, which I have also put on the Desktop.  I also have an input cable from the sound card into the television for live internet feeds when the television is enabled as a third monitor on the Orion television, and I have an audio input into the stereo system too.  However, to input into the stereo system, one has to connect the two cables together behind the Minolta laser printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 5:30 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  There was no mail today.  I ran Ad-awareSE.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscot/salad.htm. I used all of the regular ingredients, except I did not use homemade hummus and tomatoes.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I have noticed this week that the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue is closed for remodeling, but there is another Stop and Shop in Glenville northwest of downtown.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 3:35 P.M.:  I have the Arrow 500 watt power supply installed in the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and it is running just fine.  For now, I left the old 250 watt power supply and the old primary computer CPU cooler on the vitamin shelf on the sideboard in the bedroom.  The new power supply and CPU cooler boxes and packaging are on the back of the down sofa at the apartment entrance.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 3:05 P.M.:  With the SpeedFan program, I show the CPU cooler fan running at 32 degrees Celsius which should be cool enough.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 2:45 P.M.:  I have the new power supply Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com and the Thermaltake CPU cooler Silent Boost P/N A1889-01 Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP both installed and running fine in the primary computer, and it all connected back up and running fine.  On the power supply there was a sensor connector to plug it into the motherboard, but the case fan monitor needs to be plugged into the motherboard, and one would not want to connect the power supply to the case fan monitor, since its fans should be going at full speed all the time.  Thus I would say I am done with upgrade process on my primary computer.  The new CPU cooler uses thermal compound, which I used instead of a thermal pad.  I also cleaned the old thermal compound from the surface of  the AMD Athlon XP 2000 CPU with cotton swaps and 70% isopropyl alcohol and facial tissue very carefully, and I let it dry for a while before installing the CPU cooler.  I now have to install the Arrow 500 watt power supply in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 12:30 P.M.:  I went to www.geappliances.com , and there was no way to renew my current service contract on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control which expires on September 13, 2005, so I called them up at 1-800-626-2224 , and I renewed it for another year until September 13, 2006 for $97.63 with tax.  I could have locked in the price by paying a monthly payment, but I prefer to pay it all at one time, so I do not lose track of my funds in my bank account when they would have automatically deducted it.  FedEx delivered FedEx Track on Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-430AD Dual Fan 420 Watt Power Supply my new primary computer power supply Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com , and I will now shut down the primary computer and install it, and I also will install the new CPU cooler Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP with my existing AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor.  I will move the old Arrow 500 watt power supply from the primary computer to Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I will now shut down and go to work on installing the new parts.  It should take less that 2 hours for both of them.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 10:20 A.M.:  General Westmoreland's obituary at the Greenwich Time Greenwich Time General William Westmoreland . I signed the guest book Guest Book - Gen. William Westmoreland  and  Guest Book - Gen. William Westmoreland .  I recall reading in the Greenwich Time back around 1975 that both General Westmoreland and President Gerald Ford had been made Honorary Lifetime members of the Greenwich Country Club http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/Greenwich-Country-Club.jpg .  Back in the 1960s, I recall seeing someone around the Greenwich Country Club that looked like General Eisenhower also.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/05 Wednesday 9:45 A.M.:  I had a telephone call from a friend about 9 P.M. last night.  I was awake at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw out some garbage.  My order for Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com is out for delivery FedEx Track on Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-430AD Dual Fan 420 Watt Power Supply , so I will have to wait around here today for it, and I will then have to install it, and I will transfer the old Arrow 500 watt power supply into the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I don't think I will install the Thermaltake CPU cooler Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP , since I would rather save it in case I ever install a faster CPU AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com .  On a new CPU cooler, it comes with a small thermal pad on it that I think one can only install once, which is more effective, and after that one installs it with the CPU thermal compound that I already have.  I could install it, but I don't think there is any point.  Of course I could think about it today while I wait for the power supply.  It is an ideal day for the beach from what I can tell outside http://www.weatherroom.com/weather?forecast=zandh&pands=06830&weather=forecast , but it is suppose to go up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have my apartment cool and comfortable with the General Electric 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control.  I will have to pay the $74 maintenance contract on it in August.  Its current maintenance contract is good until September 12, 2005.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 7:45 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I read the http://connect.microsoft.com/ invitation more carefully, and although I had entered my invitation identification number last night, the server gave me an error message, when I tried to complete the survey information.  I finally clicked on "My Participation" just now, and I was able to complete the survey.   I am now listed at "Pending" Windows code-named "Longhorn" MVP Beta Program, and however currently the programs are not yet available, so we will now have to wait for Microsoft to provide them.  There is no indication as to when this will be.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 6:10 P.M.:  I went reheated the cooked spaghetti and the remaining Ragu tomato sauce from yesterday on reheat in the microwave oven.  I put the tomato sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid and the spaghetti was in a Rubbermaid container.  I put grated parmesan cheese on it, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend whom was on the road headed towards Albany, New York.  I guess with all the people away on vacation, not much is happening here.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 4:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Town Hall, and I paid the local property tax on my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon of $57.78.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a Braun Flavor Select water filter cartridge KWF1 for $1.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two six packs of New York Multiseed bagels for $1.85 each for $3.70 total.  I then returned home.  We are suppose to get another thundershower this afternoon Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  Somebody left a message on my Voicemail about laying new carpet at the Greenwich, Connecticut Indian Harbor Yacht Club, so I guess there is another Michael Scott who is in the carpet business.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.:  I was up at 10:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw some garbage out, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I have to pay the property tax on my ten year old Volvo station wagon which is about $58, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.  Current temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is 88 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  The web site for downloading the Microsoft Longhorn beta is currently busy, so I can not download it at the moment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 2:40 A.M.:  I am tired, so I will now shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 1:30 A.M.:  Back around 1978 to 1982, I used to spend time living at the Van Duzen family town house in Manhattan on West 74th street, which was the name of General Westmoreland's wife's family, and I always wandered if it was the same branch of the family.  There was one young tall resident there of the family that owned it named Scott Van Duzen.  I thought they were a Dutch bakery family.  Needless to say, I used to see two different retired gentleman frequently around Greenwich, Connecticut that looked like General Westmoreland, and I once saw someone that looked like him salute our veterans monument during the weekend at Graduation at www.usma.edu .  Of course a lot of older men look the same, but when I saw any of the individuals that looked like him, they always seemed to recognize me.  I once had a very quiet peaceful life living in Greenville, South Carolina for six months where his family also lived, and when I use to deal with Wiley Middleton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I think he would have known the General.  It is so long ago, we all learned to respect him.  I remember once reading in the Greenwich Times that he was made a life time member of the Greenwich Country Club along with former President Gerald Ford.  Whatever the case may be, I find it hard to believe that he is gone after all of these years, since having lived down south a great many of the people I knew down south would have known him.  There is a Westmoreland Sanctuary in nearby Bedford, New York also.  We find it hard to believe after all of these years, because we never heard much about him.  I suppose once they retire around their family and their grandchildren they enjoy being out of the limelight.  Farewell Brave Warrior.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 1:15 A.M.: Sad news, put the flag at half staff CNN.com - Vietnam-era commander Westmoreland dead - Jul 19, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 12:50 A.M.:  Well in the old days in Illinois during college at www.lfc.edu when I lived on the old Doonebury Farm west of Lake Forest, Illinois in Knolwood, Illinois just east of Libertyville, Illinois where Adalai Stevenson lived on his farm, I noticed we had packs of wolves living in the woods around the Farm.  Also when I used to visit in down state Illinois near Robinson, Illinois where Grandad Clarence Scott had two 1,000 acre farms where James Jones wrote the novel after World War II "From Here to Eternity" when I was about 7 years old, I had my cousins down there on the farm, and when we would visit with them besides having fights in the chicken house throwing chickens at each other, we would also play with baby wolf pubs in the woods.  Thus I guess my cousins whom were always too busy growing popcorn, sent up a pack of wolves to Knolwood, Illinois to protect me during the Vietnam War, so maybe during this war, they sent out another pack to protect me here at Flanders Farm.  Who knows?  Well during all the years working out here for the Rockefeller and Carnegie families, some of them must have gone out there to Illinois, because when I researched Marathon Oil about five years ago, I read in that area of downstate Illinois near "Little Egypt" where they have a lot of those old slow pumper oil wells that pump about a barrel a day, they had built a Marathon Oil refinery that refined 365,000 barrels of oil a day, so at least in that location if one can afford it, they have a little extra fuel for farming.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/19/05 Tuesday 12:25 A.M.:  While waiting to download the Longhorn beta, I got to thinking that the tall skinny young grey fox that has been living in the woods on the east side of the building that I live in at 71 Vinci Drive might not be a grey fox.  It could be a young coyote or grey wolf, which is really no worry, but if it were a young grey wolf, and its mother were still around, I don't think you would want to tangle with its mother unless you were wolf friendly.  Also sometimes wolves run in packs, and there might be more around as opposed to a lone wolf.  Still I need to stay focused on computers.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 11:25 P.M.:  I received an invitation from Microsoft to beta test their new upcoming operating system called "Longhorn".  Currently their server at http://connect.microsoft.com/ is busy, so I can not download and install it on my Northgate Syntax beta backup machine.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 10:05 P.M.:  I keep thinking I forgot to do something, but I can not remember what.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 9:20 P.M.:  The GN Netcom web site is GN Netcom  The world's leading provider of hands-free communication solutions , and my model is the MPAII with ADP-I Advantage Plus, and the AC adapter for the MPAII is available at AC Adaptor for MPA-ll (REV 4) .  I already have a similar Plantronics headset by my computer, but as I get older, they sometimes are easier to use for long conversations, and one hears better.  Next thing Howard Hughes will put an Iron Lung in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 8:40 P.M.:  I put three quarts of water in a four quart Revere pot, and I also put in a dash of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil, and I brought it all to a boil.  I boiled a 16 ounce package of San Georgio #9 spaghetti noodles for 10 minutes, and I drained the water off into a colander sitting in a six quart Revere pot.  I poured the discarded hot water down the bathroom sink drain to clean it out.   I put half the contents of a Ragu tomato, basil, and garlic sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and halfway through the spaghetti boiling process, I reheated on the General Electric microwave proof oven the tomato sauce, and I put the tomato sauce on half of the spaghetti on a dinner plate, and I added grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I put the remaining jar of tomato sauce in the refrigerator along with the remaining half of the spaghetti in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I ate the dinner with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 6:35 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought an HP LaserJet IID 95A laser cartridge for $2.50, a GN Netcom headset ADP-I Advantage Plus Part No. 27214101 headset similar to my Plantronics headset for $2.50 and a Microsoft scroll PS/2 mouse for $1.50 for $6.50 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  It looks like they just about have the elevator ready on the pedestrian overpass.  I ran into someone that I regularly walk with, and I went for a drive with the individual in his car, and I showed him my apartment which he had not seen.  I then drove across with the individual to the stationary store across the New York line, so he could buy a lottery ticket for the $45 million dollar lottery I guess you can buy in New York state.  I then returned back downtown with the individual, and the individual showed me his apartment, and I then chatted with another downtown observer.  The the weather conditions started to change, so I drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I put the HP 95A cartridge underneath my dining room table with the old ones, and I have a new generic one in the HP IID, so it is good for 6,000 sheet of print outs.  I put the new Microsoft scroll mouse on the Toshiba laptop computer, but it did not work.  I then changed the CMOS setting to Autoselect, and it worked.  I now have a spare PS/2 Microsoft and spare PS/2 Compaq mouse.  Along with about five serial mice.  The GN Netcom telephone headset did not come with a power adapter, but it takes two AA batteries, so I put in two new Walgreens AA Alkaline batteries in it, and I plugged it into the two line Panasonic telephone by the French reproduction chair, so one can now use a headset with it.  It works fine.  I will try to find the adapter on the internet when I have time.  It started to look like a thunderstorm with lightning, so I unplugged the primary and backup computers from their power strips along with along with their telephone modem connections and their the LAN cables from the Siemens router.  I went downstairs, and I checked the weather.  I chatted with a neighbor doing laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 11:30 A.M.:  I picked up my mail.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out soon, after I shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 11:00 A.M.:  I will now go downstairs, and I will check the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 10:55 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I then went outside with the Stanley scraper, and since the Presidential Elections have been over for quite a while, and the local democrats don't like seeing republican stickers, and since I like to blend in anyway, I took the Bush Cheney sticker off my rear side window, and the Republican elephant with three stars and the W04 stickers off the left rear window of my Volvo.  I still have the Greenwich Country Day alumni sticker, the U.S.A. flag on the right rear window and the "Support Our Troops" sticker on the left rear side window.  I scotched taped the "Support Our Troops" sticker on the inside of the window, since they tend to come off in the car wash when outside of the car, although I hardly ever go to the car wash, since it is very expensive.  I also have the Greenwich, Connecticut beach pass on the driver's side lower inside of the window.  The mail man has arrived, so the mail should be distributed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 9:40 A.M.:  Fedex tracking on Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com is FedEx Track on Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-430AD Dual Fan 420 Watt Power Supply . UPS tracking on Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 Wirelss Network Adapter is UPS Package Tracking Overstock.com Netgear Wireless Network Adapter .  UPS tracking on Amazon.com: Electronics: Linksys USBHUB4C ProConnect Compact USB 4-Port Hub is not available, and www.amazon.com no longer shows information on my account or the order.  It seems my www.amazon.com account information has been deleted or lost.  The email receipt says it is suppose to ship and be received between July 23 and August 2, 2005.  They have not yet charged my account for the Linksys USB 4 Port Hub.  On the defective Viking memory rebate that I returned, and I received a refund for, they are also in the process of processing a $15 rebate on it, so I will come out ahead financially.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/18/05 Monday 8:55 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I have a telephone call from a relative about 8 P.M. from a relative whom wanted me to log onto www.delta.com to get a ticket for a roofer in Sun Valley, Idaho to go work down in Vero Beach, Florida.  Unfortunately I was too tired to log onto the internet.  I also had a telephone call from another relative on my Optimum Voice line that showed up on my caller ID on the three phones with that feature, so I will call that relative later on this morning.  If you look at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , it looks like Mexico will be getting a little rain Hurricane EMILY Coastal Watches Warnings and 3-Day Cone .  Local weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  It looks like a little bit of rain today, so more than likely all of the so called experienced retired people with nothing else to do will be using the Greenwich Library.  Since they do not like me to occupy, so much of the facility since they are orientated towards the democratic party, I spend my time working at home, although even in this building I am surrounded by democrats.  Even, though the democrats claim to environmentalists, they will use a lot of gasoline for their own particular causes just to hang out together.  There are actually not many of them in this town, but they come in from the neighboring towns to harass the honest hard working republican tax payers who pay for many of these facilities.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 5:30 P.M.:  Well not much happening on this side of the pond.  This dude just won the tour Tour de France 2005 , but even though he may be a good bicycle rider, the only person that I knew riding around a bicycle in this area over the years used the name Chris something other like Paris, but he reminded me of Chris Periwinkle from Nantucket. Somebody that nobody ever took much notice of around the island, as he made his rounds visiting elderly shut-in retired people whom enjoyed a quiet life away from the busy world.  Of course you would have to have lived in both Greenwich, Connecticut and Nantucket to get my drift.  Of course since Chris was not very good on English which was only his fourth language after Russian and Spanish and German, and when he knew me he only had 3 years of English, he had a lot of people confused here, but the senior community seemed to enjoy him keeping an eye out on things when they were busy elsewhere.  From what I can tell, he might have thought Nantucket where he lived was some place else.  I think some people on Nantucket think they live on Gardener's Island, which is actually an island off the north shore of Long Island, which is a private family island, once used by pirates and other sorts of beach combers.  Whatever, the case is if he is in the area, he more than likely is trying to get enough money together collecting cans, so he can have a six pack of beer after work.  He basically is the volunteer dog catcher here in town, since the town did not feel like paying him for the duty.  However, when one drives down by the waterfront, one drives by the Bruce Museum, which also has next to it, the Greenwich Pet Shelter for abandoned and stray dogs and cats, which we seem to get a lot of in this area.  And as I mentioned before, there was once a little old lady in Manhattan, and back in 1973 she left $65 million dollars to her cats, which later went on to become the Microsoft fortune, because the trust officer invested the money in a company that the cats all seemed to like.  Basically when one comes to Greenwich, Connecticut with a name like Greenwich, it also attracts a large group of people whom despite seeming to be Christians are actually into witchcraft.  Thus despite the nature of the witches and warlocks in Greenwich, the more peaceful simple people on this side of town are not very much impressed with their mischief, and like the ants and the grasshopper, they should try to get ready for another long cold winter.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  Another 24 hour day for the price of tea in China.  CIO     

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 4:15 P.M.:  I guess if one is bothered by migrating wildlife birds, one could try these items Bird Control: Goose Buster Repels Geese, Sonic Pest Control . CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 4:00 P.M.:  I went out, and I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 1:40 P.M.:  I microwaved a package of ACT II popcorn, which I ate with some iced tea.  Well, the nice thing about tea in Greenwich, Connecticut is that the local grocery stores in Greenwich, Connecticut use to sell old tea on sale that New York City people would not drink because it was too old.  Much could be said about its resident too.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 1:00 P.M.:  If what is left of my father's family's business in Illinois still is in the family hands, it is probably growing popcorn in Illinois, which is not very profitable, and with the distances and cold in Illinois, most of any potential profits would go to energy costs, but while watching the old rerun movies on the old television in Illinois there tends to a bit of food around including popcorn, because in the warmer months they know how raise and preserve foods.  Basically since I was well educated by United States of America standards, I chose to rough it out here in the New York City area which has quite a few professionals.  However, the Rockefellers made one mistake with their motto over Rockefeller Center, which is "Knowledge is Power", and that is one also has to OWN it.  77% percent of the private wealth in the United States of America is controlled by skinny old women over 70 years old whom live on tea and toast, and they always save for a rainy day.  Basically they have had money for so long, they don't need much in terms of personal items, and what they do with their money is invest it in hopefully profitable investments.  As Richard Nixon use to say in the old days, Mink coated democrats and Republicans in thread bear cloth coats.  Thus just because the democrats try to pretend a humble image, they had wealth and power for so long, they don't know what it is all about when times get rough, and they frequently resort to quick fixes based on their fantasy realities.  A lot of medical people in this area are Jewish medical professions, and they are intelligent in their fields and well educated, but frequently when they go out of their fields of experience in which they have no expertise, they are in over their heads.  Even the medical profession is governed by the American Medical Association headquartered in Chicago, Illinois not where all the supposedly smart doctors are in Manhattan.  From what I can tell the medical community is so profitable here, they are more interested in their stock brokers than their patients.  Basically the next time one expects a free ride in a town where 8,000 retired professionals volunteer, one better have a bit of experience to volunteer oneself.  Since professional practice is frequently expensive in terms of costs, a lot of experienced professionals have less expensive hobbies which they pursue based on their incomes.  A great many older women still knit, and a great many retired men work at training younger people in their former professions.  All of this takes time, and it costs them money, and with current energy rates, many of them can not afford to move around in this rather expensive community.  The old products and services that provided many of the local merchants with careers, no longer interest the part time residents whom can afford to live here, so they frequently have their own personnel take care of such matters.  In other words if one owns a large local company, one probably already has skilled personnel in some field that one might need in home improvement.  However, more advanced equipment also requires more advanced supervision which is frequently not available in a home environment with children around.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 11:35 A.M.:  Of course New York Cit y lawyers can cost several thousand dollars an hours in legal fees, so when it comes to the legal profession one better be able to afford it and win, or you will pay the legal costs.  Another old friend of mine showed up in backyard recently with a golf club, and he is a resident of the Netherlands, and he has diplomatic security and diplomatic immunity.  He has been a Dutch diplomat in New York City, Washington D.C., Moscow, London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Las Angeles, Mexico City, Berlin, Peking, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Perth, Ottawa, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Antigua, and Jamaica in that order, which by diplomatic standards is not that much at his age of 50.  I guess with the hurricane coming towards Jamaica, he came up here to get away from it. He always comes over to observe me when he is in this area for Amnesty International to know for sure that I am still alive.  He never talks to me, although I once tried to teach him English.  He only knows Dutch, German, Spanish, and about 10 years of English, so he sounds more like Hollywood, when he speaks English, but he is extremely smart, and when he worked at Yale University, he was one of their top reference librarians which at Yale is a quite demanding job. Of course as a scholarly librarian and diplomat, he has used the libraries in the other countries that he has lived in.  His political boss is the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, but since he is a nephew of the Queen of the Netherlands and a number of other Royal Households including a wife whom is the sister of the Emperor of Japan, he is use to a type of life that most people only can dream about.  Yes, he is also related to the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts.  However, being related to them he is always cheap and prefers to sponge off his friends like a great many diplomats do.  The reason that he lives in Jamaica is that his father Freddie Heineken is in retirement there, and it is the nature of their family business he occasionally enjoys a beer. He regards Greenwich, Connecticut as a corporate bedroom community full of nouveau riche upstarts whom have no regard for the common humanity of man, but he also has a lot of influence back home and in world courts.  He has never served as a diplomat in India, but if he keeps pressing his luck, he might well end up there. From what I can tell, he did not spend much time in the sun while in Jamaica, and he probably spent all of his time there inside their private home reading.  I was advised by a Dutch friend of mine here in Greenwich, Connecticut that the Dutch are actually the largest property owners in the United States having been here the longest, and they are a formidable enough group of people that they could prove it in a court of law in the United States.  Whatever, the case is, when he shows up, he brings along his whole entourage of distant relatives, family retainers, accountants, and whatever it takes to make his life comfortable.  Since he once worked here in Greenwich, Connecticut as a bus boy at Le Cremiere, he has seen the upper crust in Greenwich, but down in Key West he just ran a yogurt stand, and obviously his family owns comfortable property here in America.  He is very infrequently seen in the company of other people, and he prefers a more solitary life.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 10:55 A.M.:  Despite the Jewish propaganda in the New York Times, I used to know somebody that was wealthy that use to sleep outside the New York post in the winter observing activity around the New York Post, when all the time his best friend whom lived here in Greenwich, Connecticut in back country Greenwich was an assistant editor for the New York Times, back in 1974, so he probably runs the paper by now.  Just like one of my many best friends in college was the nephew of the founder of Newsweek magazine while I lived here in Greenwich and was educated around the Time magazine people.  Whatever the case, it is my viewpoint with hurricane Emily www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , and 30,000 oil platform employees being moved off the offshore oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, they more than likely moved in on Washington D.C. Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. , and they had enough energy to turn the lights back on for a while.  Since Greenwich, Connecticut is a family type town, I don't think they would be prepared for 30,000 off shore oil platform employees to be taking Recreation and Relaxation here, but they obviously could afford it.  Larry Lawson also happens to a member of the Greenwich Country Club, and from what I know he costs about $400 an hour to hire for legal work.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 10:15 A.M.:  While outside, I retrieved a folding steel and brown nylon chair from by the dumpster that said Ford Explorer on it, and I put it in the back of my Volvo station wagon, and it so happens that Ford Motor Company also owns Volvo automobiles, so when they go back to Minnesota, and they don't seem to notice my relatives the Davidsons, perhaps one will find out a great many states in the Midwest are quite large, and not everyone knows everyone else.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 10:10 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  They were not very friendly.  They frequently use the excuse of local and national politics as an excuse for not conversing.  I seem to have individuals in this building whom are former residents and employees of the YMCA here in Greenwich, Connecticut interested in keeping an eye on me.  Whatever the case, it is a facility that I never used.  Perhaps the day Ronald Reagan was shot after I watched a number of friends going to work at the Greenwich train station, and then left my luggage at the YMCA since there was no place to stay there, and used the Greenwich Library, despite the national events they would have had access to my luggage which would have included my identification including passport, and if they used it for some purpose while I was at the Greenwich Library before I retrieved my luggage and returned to New York, they might be trying to cover up that fact.  It seems strange that the Greenwich YMCA has so much interest in me and continues to pursue their harassment after all of these years.  I can only say that my friend that visits here is very good friends of the family that gave the largest gift ever to the YMCA in this country, and he will remind them of it, the next time he sees them.  I don't think this has anything to do with national politics, it is like an organized effort to secure their long term security within the community as it relates to certain established groups they perceive as being established.  If he thinks he is so important, he might try going back to Minnesota where he came from and see how many of his friends left to go down south.  About the only reason to visit Minnesota in the old days was to visit the Mayo Clinic, and if one can not afford that, then there is no reason to go to Minnesota ever again.  From my viewpoint, I think like a journalist, while most of the taxpayers in this community think like business people, and whatever the case, the only unexplained events at the Greenwich YMCA while I have lived here according to the Greenwich Time if you believe them was three suicides which is way beyond what it should be, so perhaps there is some rotten business going on there.  There is a top lawyer here in Greenwich, Connecticut whom I know named Larry Lawson, and he frequently uses the Greenwich Library, and the Greenwich YMCA, and banks at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason street, and he once ran for Probate Judge and lost.  He drives a blue Oldsmobile station wagon with Connecticut license plate, and he once told me he lives in North Terrytown, New York, so he more than likely would be a Rockefeller family employee whom could sort out this group of people whom don't think to believe this is an Exxon Company town.  Also at the moment, I can not afford to fill up my gasoline tank at Exxon either.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 7:55 A.M.:  It looks like the Scott name is still on bicycles SCOTT Europe Global Bike , but I don't think they own it.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/17/05:

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 7:10 A.M.:  Well not much happening in Greenwich, Connecticut either.  I guess our local visitors are trying to get a perspective on whom actually lives in Greenwich, Connecticut by watching our commercial areas.  However, Greenwich, Connecticut is as large as Washington D.C., so there is a lot more that goes on than meets the eye downtown.  The largest person that I attended school here in Greenwich, Connecticut with was Robert Vanderstrict, and their family were not in the security business, but they just owned a department store in Syracuse, New York.  I have seen even larger security people around here.  There were 500 to 800 pound African Americans working at Home Depot in Port Chester, New York when I went over their for the closet repair items.  I have occasionally seen white men that are over 7 feet tall and 800 pounds, but they are usually in the construction business in the New York area, since a lot of construction goes on in the New York City area.  The tallest person that I ever observed in the New York City area was a New York City policeman named Miller whom was white about 7 feet 4 inch tall that worked the police beat at 42nd street and Fifth Avenue at rush hour.  The heaviest person in the old days was suppose to be Walter Hudson at 1500 pounds, but he put Hudson Valley Armour car company out of business eating too many bags of free Lays potato chips.  Having observed the waterfront in the Manhattan area for about 10 years when I worked there, I would occasionally notice very large African men whom would come into port on the large ships, but one never saw them in the pedestrian areas in midtown.  It is the nature of large people, they do not always feel comfortable in the environments made for smaller people.   The largest person that I have seen ever as I recall was the Dutch Gouda cheese salesman from Maastricht in the Netherlands that showed up at our local Food Emporium while Ronald Reagan went there to the G8 Economic conference.  However, since larger people do not travel easily when they are full grown adults, sometimes there children sneak away and try to masquerade as adults in populations where the adults are their size.   Thus depending on youth travel patterns, one might have a 10 year old kid trying to pass as 24 year old adult.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 6:20 A.M.:  About 2:30 A.M., I called up the White House www.whitehouse.gov switchboard at 1-202-456-1414, and I asked them if anything was going on down there because the live camera showed the area all lighted up for a change Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. , and they replied nothing unusual was going on.  I just now made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  I did make and use my homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm , because some local authorities think that the large amounts of garlic that I use in it makes me stink.  Of course if one has vampires around, garlic can be handy.  I also used ten California medium black pitted olives and a sliced a vine ripe tomato into quarters.  When I went to use the olives that I keep in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator in their brine, the container had flipped over, and the brine had leaked onto the floor of the refrigerator underneath the bottom pull out drawer where I keep old bottles of German beer and other assorted soft drinks that are about two years old in cans.  On a hot day, they probably would still be good.  I cleaned up the brine mess with white vinegar and hot water.  I put the beverage drawer back in the refrigerator.  I bought the German beer about five years ago, when a friend of mine was in Germany, and when he returned he drank some it, and I seem to still have some around, but I don't drink it myself.  I mostly drink diluted iced tea.  I suppose German beer like everything else has gone up in price.  I have a six pack of Lindener Sperial beer in the upper shelf of the refrigerator, which is probably about three years old, and I have 10 bottles of St. Pauli Girl dark beer which is also about three years old that have been kept cold all the time.  I also have 12 bottles of the Kennebunkport, Maine Shipyard Ale collection from http://www.federaljacks.com/ which is about two years old, and they were warm about the first six months, and then refrigerated for about 9 months, and then left warm for about 9 months.  I am not sure how refrigeration and room temperature effects the longevity of beer.  I think my friend drank the German beer that I got 5 years ago while he came back Germany and later after "911" he and his girl friend drank some other beverages including a fifth of Gordon Gin, which I replaced, and it came with a newer type of bottle.  Since I run a very complex apartment here in a very simple surroundings, I don't feel like holding cocktail parties around all of my electronics and computer equipment, and more than likely a lot of items that I find useful around the apartment would become displaced.  I run my apartment like an office.  Everything pretty much stays the same the way that I want it.  I have one friend that occasionally visits whom is familiar with my routines, and he does not disturb items.  I have a few other friend that drop by once in a blue moon, and very infrequently do family members stop by, since they grew up in the more private parts of Greenwich, Connecticut, they are not use to the more cosmopolitan aspects of the downtown area or automobile row where I am on the west end of.  I guess the White House does not need to buy a foreign car.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 4:30 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 4:20 A.M.:  For all of these disasters we are more aware of with the internet, this link has been set up ReliefWeb .  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 4:05 A.M.:  This view is provided by the United States Navy Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks on Hurricane Emily, but my web pages translate into many languages from http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/lang.htm such as this in Dutch Tropical Weather Page in Dutch, and the pages linked from them translate for the first portion of the page.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 3:35 A.M.:  From a birds eye view NRL Monterey Tropical Images , Emily does not look too big, but with winds of 165 miles an hour it would be a major storm, but I have not read any news on this one yet either NRL Monterey Satellite Photos Western Pacific versus the smaller one that we have NRL Monterey Satellite Photos Atlantic Basin and the U.S. Navy shows this Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 3:25 A.M.:  Of course President Bush www.whitehouse.gov is suppose to have lots of friends in Texas and Mexico, so possibly with Hurricane EMILY Strike Probabilities , he has more friends visiting in Washington D.C..  Keep an eye on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  According to this the Northeast side of the hurricane would brush over as far north as Corpus Christi, but hurricanes do change paths, and the Gulf Coast of Texas is like Florida this time of year with lots of people vacationing.  There are 90 million people living along the East Coast from the south of Texas to the north of Maine, so possibly there are more people trying to get out of harms way, and with the higher prices of fuel that makes it difficult, particularly in such a vast area.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 3:20 A.M.:  It may be that with the higher cost of gasoline and less driving the air quality is clearer in Washington D.C., so that the lights appear brighter on the internet in this web camera live feed Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. than they have in the past.  It is unusual to see half the lights on in the Old Executive Office building at this hour of the morning, but it could just be that with lots of people away on vacation, they have one of those night crews painting the office interiors.  They tend to do maintenance down there at night, and when people are away, they have more time for maintenance.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 2:40 A.M.:  For anyone with Potomac fever, they post this page on the internet Important Phone and Fax Numbers and E , and since I have unlimited free long distance service in the United States of America and Canada with my Optimum Voice telephone plan that I pay $15 a month for, this might be useful Government Contacts Canada Site and Prime Minister of Canada: Contact the PM is another person that speaks English and French, so even though with the large number of people vacationing here from the southern parts of the world, we seem to have ample contacts in the northern hemisphere, but more than likely the only people answering the telephone up north at this hour of the morning would be RCMP Detachment Telephone Numbers , but their dog sleds do not work too well this time of year, so it might take them a while to get down here.  More than likely the individuals on this list RCMP Ontario Detachment Directory would know English, and having dealt with Canadian youth whom are bigger than most Greenwich, Connecticut adults, more than likely their parents would be even larger, like Paul Bunyon types Paul Bunyon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 2:05 A.M.:  My roommate at the time I was asked and complied to move out of the apartment on West 74th street in Manhattan in February 1982 at the time was still married to a United States Government State Department employee working overseas, and she was employed by a former out of power United States Government Secretary of State in one of the major law firms in Manhattan headquartered across the street from IBM's New York Office.  As such I don't think there was any question as to my legal status as far as the New York legal system, and I used to see that same former Connecticut politician without current legal status on West 72nd street when he was in Manhattan.  Since the apartment was rented from the in laws a prominent United States military person in that era, it would seem to me that there would have been adequate security and legal protection within the United States Government.  Since I left the apartment on other times to return to Connecticut only to have events such as the assignation attempt on Ronald Reagan call me back into Manhattan to see about what was going on, I was not able to stay continually in Manhattan or Connecticut.  I happened to have been sitting in the Greenwich Library at the time Ronald Reagan had his assignation attempt, and I recall I had left my bags at the Greenwich, Connecticut YMCA, which I recall later after I heard the news, I picked them up, and I caught a Greenwich Taxi to Westchester County airport from where I caught a shuttle van to Kennedy airport, from where I waited watching the news at the Pan American Airlines Clipper Club playing a computer chess game, and when I called up my roommate back in Manhattan, I was requested to return back to the apartment, where I stayed for another year, until I was asked to leave again when it was 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Manhattan.  Since at the time of the attempt on Ronald Reagan's life the United States Government was in jeopardy, I chose to be at Kennedy airport where ample forces could easily be deployed in time of national emergency.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 1:35 A.M.:  I don't think these ashes would fit in my Danish cookie tin that I put my cigarette butts in Moses Lake: Reflections, Mount St. Helens , but I bet it was cold in Denmark after it erupted, and I recall hearing that the Queen of Denmark Kongehuset Danish Royal Household was visiting in Key West, Florida the last time I was down there in February 1982 when it was 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Manhattan, and my roommate asked me to move out of the apartment, and I went to a bar and met somebody that eventually left for St. Barths, and so with my last remaining funds, I headed down to Key West, Florida which was very crowded, and I had to camp out, since there was no place to stay, and I got severely sun burned, and a fellow Connecticut resident whom was a United States Navy medic gave me temporary shelter for a day, and eventually I was forced to leave the Key West environment, since the United States of America Federal computer network had inaccurate information on my legal status placed by a hacker whom was also a tenant of another United States of America politician, so I still consider it was dirty tricks, and as such when I eventually visited Norway with the same United States of America head of state at that time known as a President, he was not in legal position to challenge the King of Norway in his own land or those of his allies.  Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in the daytime, Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop at sunset right now, and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and PNSN - Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network and USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) whom have the responsibility for monitoring events out there.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 1:15 A.M.: Details on the new power supply that I ordered Thermaltake PurePower Power Supply Series- 420W from Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com .  It seems that it will be the right unit for my needs and my budget.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 1:00 A.M.:  About 13 years ago, this area of the world gave us a 4.5 foot snow fall Philippines National Institute of Geological Sciences .  This is the web site of the manufacturer of the new power supply and CPU cooler Welcome to Thermaltake a Taiwan company, as if you did not know.  Of course when I first returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut from Nantucket Nantucket Island, MA, 02554 Sunday, July 17, 2005 at 01:12:59 (EDT)  21 years ago, the Taiwanese had anticipated my needs, but not my budget, and they were selling $1,500 Titanium bicycles with the name "SCOTT" brand name at the old bicycle shop that use to be next to the entrance of the Greenwich Train station.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/05 Sunday 12:40 A.M.: For volcano and mountain people Google Earth Hacks - File Downloads - Natural Formations - Mountains and Google Earth Hacks - Lots of downloads, information and hacks for Google Earth. for Google Earth . Stop the World I Want to Get Off.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 11:25 P.M.:  Remember to keep an eye out at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , and the this shows the tracking on Hurricane Emily Hurricane EMILY 5 Day Cone .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 11:20 P.M.:  I chatted with three relatives.  Because it is hot and sultry here Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast , they think I would be more comfortable, if I stayed at home and worked on my computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 8:55 P.M.:  UPS tracking is UPS Package Tracking on www.overstock.com order for Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 wireless network adapter on this order Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless Network Adapter .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 8:45 P.M.:  It looks like something is going on at the White House, the place is all lit up for a change Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 8:40 P.M.:  Splish splash, I took a shower on a Saturday night.  Basically since neither IBM or Microsoft can afford to operate an office in Greenwich, Connecticut, I feel like I am running an office for both of them.  Since the Arrow 500 watt Power Supply that I will take out of the primary computer is still good, and it has been used about 15 months at about 12 hours a day which is about 5400 hours, but it is probably closer to 7000 hours, since I spend a lot of time on the computer, but since it has a life expectancy of 30,000 hours, it has plenty of life left in it.  However, the Northgate Syntax backup computer has an older 250 watt power supply with probably over 10,000 hours on it since it was used about 20 months.  When I get the Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com I will put it in the primary computer with the new Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP , and I will put the old Arrow power supply in the Northgate Syntax backup computer which already has a new CPU cooler.  The Thermaltake power supply is a better quality power supply, so I am less likely to have any voltage irregularities which might cause damage to some of the system components.  I have redundant surge protectors on my primary computer in case of major voltage power spikes in the electricity system.  The only other new component that I could put in my primary computer is a AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com , and although it would be nice, I don't do that much CPU intensive work on the primary computer, and for the moment the AMD XP Athlon 2000 processor is doing just fine with the gigabyte of memory installed.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 7:50 P.M.:  I was up at 6 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I started two loads of laundry, and I am just about ready to start the dry cycle.  I threw out some garbage.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I have about 500 emails to go through.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 8:00 A.M.:  After I shut down the computer after the last message, I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I then ate a bowl of Friendly pistachio ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 5:50 A.M.:  I went ahead and ordered Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com for $36 and .99 Fedex Saver Shipping for $36.99 total.  With the CPU cooler  Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP that I have already received that should be all the new parts, I need for my current computer upgrade process.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 5:05 A.M.:  I did some research on new power supplies.  According to this, mine is only rated for 30,000 hours which means it is probably due to be replaced having been installed in May 2004 Arrow 500W Dual Fan ATX Power Supply, Retail Box .  There is this one at www.newegg.com with two fans Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com and this one which is suppose to be long life Product Detail (COOLMAX CX550B 550W BLACK) which is a bit cheaper than  COOLMAX CX-550B 550W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com , but they both have one big reliable fan, and they are suppose to be long life.   This long list Standard ATX (20-pin) Computer Power Supplies-ATX 20pin PC Power Supply Standard ATX 20 Pin PSU - Best Computer Online Store w/ Discount Prices; Directron.com, Houston Texas and Aluminum Power Supplies-Alumnimum PSU Al Power Supply Pwer Supply Power Suply - Best Computer Online Store w/ Discount Prices; Directron.com, Houston Texas and this that looks interesting Aluminum, 4 Fans, Color Super-Flower Silent TT-520SS P4 520W Switching Power Supplies, 4 Colors - Best Computer Online Store w/ Discount Prices; Directron.com, Houston Texas , but it does not say much about its electronics, and this current bargain which I could afford at the moment Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) 420W Power Supply - Retail at Newegg.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 1:35 A.M.:  I turned on all five computers in the apartment, and the electricity in the apartment seemed to handle them with the air conditioner going.  However, I only do that to test them.   I am doing some updates on the Dell backup computer.  Possibly free bargain X-CAD: Amazing Free 3D CAD Giveaway, Mechanical CAD Software Download .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/05 Saturday 12:10 A.M.:  I ate dinner about 8:30 P.M. of a frozen Marie Callender country fried chicken dinner with corn on the cob and mashed potatoes which I microwaved according to the instructions, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  I made some adjustments to the Toshiba laptop computer, so it runs better, and the guest logon is more organized.  I posted the pictures,

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/1964-gold-magazine-all-american-autographed-at-westchester-open-by-golf-pros-including-arnold-palmer-071505.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/shield-of-pall-mall-071505.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/toshiba-satellite-2590CDT-laptop-computer-with-400-mhz-intel-celeron-cpu-192-megs-memory-6.5-gigabyte-hard-drive-071505.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/gateway-350-mhz-cpu-192-meg-and-dell-350-mhz-384-meg-computers-071505.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/pcchips-amd-450-mhz-256-meg-computer-and-compaq-486-4-meg-laptop-and-acer-486sx-8-meg-laptop-071505.JPG ,

and I also added them to :

http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm and

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/05 Friday 8:45 P.M.:  www.buy.com put the $26.42 back in my debit account for the faulty Viking memory.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/05 Friday 8:40 P.M.:  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I also finished running Norton Speed Disk on the C: and the E: partitions on the Toshiba laptop computer.  I threw out the garbage.  I showered and cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with a local citizen whom was trying to the sell the Greenwich, Connecticut calendar for $10 for half the normal price, since we are half way through the year.  I stopped by CVS, and I chatted with another regular town merchant, and I bought a Energizer #395 SR927SW 1.55 volt disk battery for $3.99 and a 7 ounce bag of black licorice twists for $1.19 plus .31 tax for $5.49 total.  I then completed my walk.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I put the #395 disk battery in my Swiss Army watch, and I snapped the back cover back on being sure to have the indent line up with the stem of the watch and making sure it closed all the way.  I then set the time and date on it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/05 Friday 1:25 P.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M. this morning.  I ran Norton Disk Doctor surface scan on the Toshiba laptop, and the first 70% partition of 4.2 gigabytes is fine.  However, I then resized an empty partition of 700 megs., and then I made an E: partition of 1.2 gigabytes at the end of the hard drive, and it scanned fine with a Norton Disk Doctor surface scan.   Thus I have 5.4 gigabytes of useable space on the Toshiba laptop computer.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I continued configuring the Toshiba laptop computer.  I ate breakfast at 8 A.M. of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  At 11:30 A.M. I picked up my mail, and I received from www.compusa.com a $20 and a $15 rebate checks on the Antec case Antec CS600 SOHO ATX Tower Case - CompUSA.com , so it only cost me about $27.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I finished configuring the Toshiba Laptop computer.  After I put the basic Real player on it with the updates, the update feature for Real quit working, so I was not able to put the Real Games arcade on it.  However, the rest of the configuration is fine. I am now running Norton Speed Disk on it.  I have 646 megs free on the C: partition and 481 megs free on the E: partition.  I will now take two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and toast them, and spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that has been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and put 1.5 slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about four leaves of spinach and season it with ground pepper, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I will eat the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the primary computer, after I eat lunch I will do my usual housecleaning and watering the plants.  Also www.buy.com said they would be refunding me my $26.42 on the faulty Viking memory in 3 to 5 days.  CIO     

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 10:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I have been working on configuring the Toshiba laptop computer.  I will now shut down the computers, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 6:55 P.M.:  I took of the back off my Swiss Army watch with my Swiss Army knife, and I need a #395 lithium disk battery for it.  I think I put the last one in about two years ago, when I bought it for $40 at Eurochasse on Greenwich Avenue down from $140, but it had a worn out battery.  Thus the batteries in them last about exactly two years.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment, and I returned home.  The surface test on the 70% C: partition on the Toshiba laptop showed no errors.  I then installed the operating system without any problems.  I am now installing the updates.  The remaining 30% I partitioned into a 300 meg. F: drive which I think has the bad part, and the end part is a 1.8 gigabyte E: drive, which I think should be all right.  However, I will now use them for computer files, but possibly for data storage such as photographs.  Yesterday when I completed the configuration, I have used about 4 gigabytes of space of the 6 gigabyte hard drive, so I still should have enough room to install the same configuration.  I will start configuring the Toshiba laptop after I update it.  I opened a 15 ounce can of Dinty Moore beef stew, and I put in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven. I put it in a bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 1:50 P.M.:  I ate the remaining gelatin mixture with a glass of orange juice and vitamins and supplements.  I ran the Windows ME Fdisk utility, and I partitioned the Toshiba laptop hard drive into a 70% and 30% size partitions.  The bad portion of the hard drive should be in the 30% partition which I can adjust that later on into a smaller partition.  I formatted the 70% partition, and I am now doing a surface test on that partition with scandisk.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will get ready to go to my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 12:55 P.M.:  I looked at Setup repeatedly stops and restarts about using the XP recovery council and chkdsk /r and chkdsk /f, but it did not work.  I then used a Windows ME boot disk, and I deleted the XP Fdisk partition, and I created an Windows ME Fdisk partition.  I am now formatting the drive, and I will then try to run the XP recovery council with chkdsk command again.  I chatted with a friend.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 12:10 P.M.:  The IBM Hitachi advanced diagnostics failed at about 3/4ths of the way through.  Possibly there is a bad sector there which when I format the drive, it should be marked bad and not used.  I went outside, and I picked up the mail.  I am now trying to reinstall the operating system, and I will see if it formats the drive all right.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 11:25 A.M.:  The IBM Hitachi advanced diagnostics test quit which might be caused by the power saving feature on the Toshiba laptop, which one can not disable, and it is set to 30 minutes.  However, the basic IBM Hitachi diagnostics say the hard drive is fine.  I am now trying the advanced diagnostics again, and I want to see if it cuts out at 30 minutes, so I am timing it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 11:15 A.M.:  The IBM Hitachi basic diagnostics utility said the Toshiba laptop hard drive was all right.  However, it will not do a low level format.  I used the Maxtor Drive Fitness Test V. 4.04 to do a Quick Low Level format which low level formats the first and end sections of the hard drive.  I then was able to successfully do a complete low level format of the entire hard drive, so possibly it had a boot sector virus.  However, the Maxtor basic diagnostic utility said the hard drive had a problem.  However, it is not made for the Toshiba hard drive, so that could possibly be wrong error message.  I am now running an advanced IBM Hitachi diagnostics of the hard drive.  Possibly the hard drive had a boot sector virus.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 10:10 A.M.:  I looked at Drive diagnostic utilities compendium - TechSpot OpenBoards , and it said both the IBM and Maxtor drive utilities will work with the Toshiba drives, so I then downloaded and created a bootable disk of IBM Hitachi Support Downloads Drive Fitness Test V. 4.04 , and I am now running it on the Toshiba laptop.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 9:40 A.M.:  I ran the Maxtor Diagnostics utilities a few more times, and the Toshiba laptop failed them every time.  Its current hard drive is easy enough to replace with two screws removed.  It is a 6 gigabyte  Toshiba MK6411MAT hard drive.  I could replace it with this TOSHIBA Super Slimline 40GB 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive - OEM at Newegg.com , but I am not sure it is worth spending $71 on a $5 five year old laptop that I bought in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I might look for other bargains, but I don't think I would want to spend the money on a cheaper used one.  Also with 193 megs. of memory and a Intel Celeron processor at 400 Mhz, it is not really fast enough to run XP.  I will keep my eye out for a cheaper replacement hard drive.  I put the Toshiba laptop in its book bag, and I placed it by the right side of the living room desk.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 7:55 A.M.:  I ran the advanced diagnostics, and it says the Toshiba Laptop hard drive is failing, so there is no use in configuring it, until I can find a replacement hard drive for it, which at the moment I can not afford.  I am running the advanced diagnostics again.  I went outside while the diagnostics were running, and I chatted with two neighbors.  One neighbor reminded me that the Greenwich, Connecticut sidewalk sales are beginning today.  They will be today Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.  Alas I don't need anything, and I can not afford to buy anything.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/14/05 Thursday 7:10 A.M.:  I was up at 4 A.M..  I tried running Norton SpeedDisk on the Toshiba laptop, but it kept failing.  I tried running  Disk Defragmenter from a safe boot, but it failed to.  When I went to reboot, the system would not shut down completely, and then it would not boot.  I tried using XP recovery to replace a corrupted file, but it turned out the main "system" file was corrupted, which can not be replaced.  I tried installing XP again, but it would not format the hard drive. I used Maxtor PowerMax Diagnostics 4.21 which I created from this download Maxtor.com - ATA Hard Drives , and the drive passed the short diagnostics test.  I am now low level formatting the drive.  I might then run the more extensive diagnostics test.  This all takes time, which at the moment I have plenty of.  Thus my installation and configuration has been formatted over, and I will have to do it all over again if the drive is all right.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 10:00 P.M.:  I shut down the laptop computer.  I will finish running Norton SpeedDisk on it tomorrow.  I ate a bowl of the gelatin mixture with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 9:10 P.M.:  The Toshiba laptop went on hard drive saving mode, which I can not disable, so I had to restart Norton Speeddisk.  I ordered this Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Netgear WG121 802.11g USB 2.0 Wireless Network Adapter for $18.95 and $2.95 shipping for $21.90 total.  It is similar to the one I left with the computer in Maine.  Once I receive it, I will have wireless capability with the Toshiba laptop.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 8:50 P.M.:  I am still running the maintenance utility Norton Speed Disk on the Toshiba laptop.  I had to disable temporarily the power saving features, so it would not shut down while running the utility.  I also disabled hibernate, and I have Standby enabled.  I chatted with a relative.  Norton Speed Disk is about 57% complete.  I also took the headset of the Dell backup computer in the bedroom, and I put it on the Toshiba laptop, so one can use it for communications with Net2Phone.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 6:35 P.M.:  For lunch I ate 13 Ritz crackers with .5 inch by 1/8th inch by 1.5 inch slices of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them along with a glass of iced tea.  I also ate a half of a 11 ounce can of Planter's Mixed nuts, and I ate the rest of them this afternoon.  I finished configuring the Toshiba laptop computer.  I am now running one last maintenance utility on it.  At 5:30 P.M. UPS delivered Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP by Thermaltake which I had already paid $24.99 for.  I left it in its opened box, and I put it on the rear bent chair in the bedroom by the window.   I will probably not install it until the current CPU cooler needs replacing or I upgrade my processor to a faster one which is highly doubtful in the near future.  One of my neighbors barrowed a package of cigarettes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 12:10 P.M.:  CNN.com - Shuttle Discovery launch set to go - Jul 13, 2005 and http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm  and NASA - NASA TV Landing Page .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 12:05 P.M.:  I received email from www.buy.com that the returned defective 256 meg. Viking memory chip was received back, and it would take two weeks for them to process the return and refund my money.  I also received email that since I had already sent in the rebate, they were processing my $15 rebate.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/05 Wednesday 11:55 A.M.:  I was up at 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I am continuing to configure the Toshiba laptop computer.  I have it just about done.  My www.cl-p.com bill this past month was much higher than expected, and I was away for a week in June, when I did not use any electricity.  I have thus decided to leave the General Electric Profile air conditioner at a setting of 70 degrees Fahrenheit with the apartment temperature at 76 to 78 degrees Fahrenheit to hopefully save a bit on electricity.  I don't have an electricity payment, since I have a surplus in my account.  Hopefully with the warmer apartment temperature, it will not effect my computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 11:50 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computers, and I will go to bed soon.  I will finish configuring the Toshiba laptop tomorrow.  I put my monitor cleaning sponge underneath the Minolta laser printer input tray to support it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I ate a bowl of the gelatin mixture that I made with iced tea.  I am still configuring the Toshiba laptop.  I updated its bios.  I have a copy of Norton Internet Security 2005 that came with my Gigabyte motherboard, and I put it on my primary computer.  Its update feature expires after three months, but my old Norton Internet Security 2004 did not expire until April 2006, so the new version Norton Internet Security 2005 does not have its updates expire until then.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 7:05 P.M.:  After the last message, I went out, and I went by the Shell gasoline station on East Putnam Avenue at Sherwood Place, and I had my Connecticut Emissions testing done for $20.  It was first come first served, and it was about an hour wait.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I gave them the upholstery fabric that I decided not to keep anymore along with the old orange bed spread.  I was able to buy a Toshiba Satellite  2590CDT Laptop computer for $5 , and it contains a Pentium Celeron 400 Mhz processor, 64 meg. memory chip and a 128 meg. memory chip for 192 megs. total and a 6.5 gigabyte hard drive, manufactured in 1999.  It has a LAN card, modem, one USB port, and it came with an older Compaq PS/2 mouse, Toshiba installation CD and Toshiba Versions of Windows 98, manual, and other installation disks in a book bag that said "Teach for America Educational Opportunity for All".  It was not running very well, but I thought I would try to fix it.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 48 ounce container of Quaker Old Fashioned Oats for $3.99, a 100 package count box of Splenda sweetener for $4.79, fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.62, and a bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 for $12.39 total.  I then returned home.  I put the Toshiba laptop on the green sofa side of the coffee table pushing the hurricane globes with candle sticks towards the down sofa.  I connected its power to the orange cord with the three plug adapter on the left side of the coffee table. I cleaned the rollers on the Compaq mouse, and I put it on the left side of the laptop with the Staples mouse pad from the right side of my primary computer.  I tried a Microsoft PS/2 mouse that I had, but it does not work.  The Compaq PS/2 mouse works fine.  I formatted the hard drive.  I then reinstalled the operating system.  I tried connecting it to the Linksys Ethernet switch, but it would not always work, so I connected it directly to the Ethernet Switch by the Siemens router, and it works fine with that.  I am installing the updates, and I still have to configure it.  When I originally tested it, it only showed 64 megs of memory, but it had the other 128 meg. memory chip that was not seated properly.  Once I seated it properly, it showed all of the memory.  The battery seems to be holding a charge on it, and it is about 50% charged.  The power adapter gets quite hot, so I placed it on the Netherlands Club of New York tile that I have on the small brass and glass end table to the left of the brass and glass coffee table.  Thus it should not get the glass too hot.  It seems to be a fast enough laptop, and I should be able to use it when I travel.  I have a Compaq laptop computer bag with a much slower Compaq laptop in it with 4 megs of memory.  Thus once again with a little effort, I found another bargain in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I also chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 8:20 A.M.:  I took two frozen slices of Arnold multigrain bread and I toasted them, and I spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that had been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and I put 1.5 slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about four leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper, and then I put the top slices of bread on it, and I cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up and go out.  CIO     

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 7:45 A.M.:  I had a Linksys Ethernet 10/100 Workgroup switch device that I was not using it.  I bought it for a few dollars in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I decided to use it, and I put it by the right side of the Northgate backup computer monitor on the keyboard drawer powered by the Cobra adapter set at 4.5 volts.  It is suppose to use a 5 volt adapter, but the Cobra adapter at 4.5 volts works fine with it.  I connected it to the Siemens router removing one of the primary computer's LAN cables which I connected to the other Ethernet switch by the Siemens router.  I connected to the Linksys switch six LAN cables which I have coiled and placed behind the sofa pillow adjacent to the backup computer.  Two are 15 foot and four are 25 foot.  For the Linksys switch to work, one has to turn on the Cable modem and the Siemens router from the primary computer control panel, and then one turns on the HUB switch on the Northgate backup computer control panel.  Thus with the 6 outlet power strip on the floor at that location with an additional extension cord plugged into it, one could use six laptop computers on the coffee table with two to three people sitting on either side on the sofas or in the two chairs, and have them connected up with the six LAN cables.  I have tested it, and the Linksys Switch works fine.  For it to work, it has to have its input in the uplink plug, and I had problems when using the #8 port, but the #1 through #7 seem to work all right.  Maybe one has to start with #1 and not #8.  One of the rubber plugs on the bottom of the Siemens router came off and fell on the carpet, and I can not find it, so I put a plastic ring in its location to raise it up.  Also on the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W printer, the plastic paper feeder flap, broke where it hangs off the printer on one side, so I supported with another little O ring at the right level.  I suppose I could order another plastic paper support flap, when I have the time.  Also I need to pay the property tax on my Volvo today, and I am suppose to have my Connecticut emissions inspection done on the Volvo during this July, so I need to set up an appointment at the Shell station at Sherwood Avenue and East Putnam Avenue across from the YMCA.  Both the primary and the backup computer seem to be running just fine.  I did not get much regular computer work done this morning while configuring the cables and switches.   I also put the books back on the speaker to the right side of the primary computer keyboard with a mouse pad, so I right handed person could use the primary computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 3:20 A.M.:  I took the 6 outlet power strip from the sideboard in the bedroom, and I connected it to the power strip underneath the living room desk, and I have it available between the couch and chair, if one wanted to plug laptops into it.  I have the wireless internet in the apartment, but I had to spare ports on the 8 port Ethernet 10/100 switch, so I connected two 15 foot LAN cables to it, that I have tied looped, and placed along side the cable modem.  Thus one could connect two laptops with the LAN and use it at the coffee table between the sofas.  I use to have more available, but when the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector inspected the apartment this spring, they complained about the extra LAN cables.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 3:10 A.M.:  I logged onto www.microsoft.com/partner/usa , and it appears that I have already subscribed to their program.  However, I don't know if that makes a difference in terms of me getting the beta of Longhorn.  I possibly could install it on the second D: drive of the Northgate backup computer, since it probably has a boot manager, but I am currently using the D: drive for my backup.  Also, I could install it on the C: drive, and if there are major problems, I could use Windows XP Backup Automatic System Recovery to restore the backup from the D: drive.  On XP SP2, they had me start beta testing in December before the release the following August, so maybe they are trying to figure out what ever happened to me, since I can not afford to show up at the Microsoft events.  As a beta tester, I have never been paid, but at the last Microsoft TS2 event that I attended in Bridgeport, Connecticut during the winter of February 2004, they gave me a $550 copy of Microsoft Office 2003, which I am currently using.  Thus although I am not a lawyer, I do have some sort of affiliation with Microsoft as one of their partners.  I still have my Microsoft Windows XP tee shirt from when they launched the product, and I attended the demonstration at the Marriott hotel in Stamford, Connecticut I think it was during the fall of 2002.  I gave my IBM tee shirt to relatives whom knew some IBM personnel.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 2:50 A.M.:  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I ate a bowl of the gelatin mixture that I made last night with some iced tea.  I got out of my cable box underneath the living room desk, a 15 foot USB cable, and I plugged it into one of the front Northgate backup computer USB 2.0 ports to have available for use.  I left it tied up with a twist tie looped together.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/12/05 Tuesday 2:05 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  About 11:30 A.M., my order from http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/ arrived containing ten cartons of Seneca Ultralight 100s, and I now have 12 cartons.  I slept until 9 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a relative.  I picked up my mail.  My order for eBay item 5786260109 (Ends Jul-05-05 19:03:31 PDT) - Rio 600 800 900 LEATHER Sports Carrying Case for $6 and eBay item 5786259926 (Ends Jul-05-05 19:04:06 PDT) - Rio 600 800 900 & Nitrus BeltClip Carry Case for $3 and $2 first class postage 7 to 10 days for $11 total arrived.  Both the nylon and the leather cases hold have belt clips, so I put the leather on for now.  They are both by the Rio 800 player on the near back side of the down sofa.  I went to bed until 1:15 A.M..  My returned Viking memory to www.buy.com still has not been received by them, so I am still waiting for them to credit me to my account for the memory.  My order for the Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP by Thermaltake for $24.99 is due to arrive tomorrow July 13, 2005 according to UPS Package Tracking Amazon CPU cooler .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 9:25 A.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out the old broken wire closet shelf.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  I have to get up about 1:30 P.M., since I have a 4 P.M. appointment today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 8:15 A.M.:  I moved the 8 port Ethernet switch to the side of the Siemens router, since there seemed to be a bit of heat buildup with it on top of the Siemens router.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 8:10 A.M.:  I looked at the specs on the Amazon.com: Electronics: Linksys USBHUB4C ProConnect Compact USB 4-Port Hub that I ordered with the CPU cooler, so I could get free shipping.  One drawback with it, it is like my other two USB hubs, and it is non powered if one wants to one a device that needs extra power, one needs a powered device too.  I will probably use it on my Northgate backup computer plugged into the USB 2.0 port on the front.  I noticed it has a short cable.  However, it reminded me I still have the D-Link USB powered hub with 3 powered USB ports and a 10/100 LAN.  I took it down from the shelf in the bedroom.  I then took my  new 6 outlet power strip, and I plugged it into the power strip on the right side of my primary computer CPU, and I placed it on the speaker beneath the base of my primary CPU at its front.  Both power strips turn on and off with the router switch on the control panel.  I then plugged the D-Link hub power adapter into the new power strip, and I connected it to the D-Link hub.  I have 12 USB 2.0 ports on my primary computer.  Four are on the motherboard at the rear, two are connected to a slot on the rear from the motherboard and the two front ports connected to the motherboard plus the four ports on the USB 2.0 card.  I also have the two four port USB hubs connected to devices.  I put the D-Link hub beneath the control panels just inside on the right on the printer stand, and I connected it the USB 2.0 port on the lower rear of the CPU.  I don't have any USB devices plugged into it at the moment. I then disconnected my 8 port Ethernet Switch from the Northgate backup computer setup, and I plugged it into the same new power strip, and I placed it on top of the Siemens router.  I have plugged into its rear the cable for the AT&T 6850G 108 Mbps 802.11g wireless router that I have placed in the corner above my computer setup on top of the stereo speakers.  I turn it on from the control panel on the Northgate backup computer.  I also have connected to the 8 port Ethernet Switch the two LAN cables to the Northgate backup computer, and I put two more LAN cables on it, and one is connected to the onboard LAN on the primary computer, and the other is connected to the D-Link Hub LAN port, plus I have the two LANs from the two PCI LAN cards on the primary computer.  I tried also connecting the Motorola SBV5120 Surfboard Cable modem via its USB port besides the LAN connection to my Siemens router, but it interfered with the system working properly on the internet, so I left the spare USB cable next to right side of my keyboard to, and it is connected to the other lower backside USB 2.0 port.  I guess one could use it for a camera cable instead of the front port.  I unbridged my LAN connections on both computers, since they seem to work better that way.  Thus on the primary computer, I have four LAN connections, but they all come out of the same cable modem and Siemens router and 8 port Ethernet Switch.  The two PCI LAN connections come out of the Siemens router.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 4:35 A.M.:  Microsoft's new beta web site https://connect.microsoft.com/ and Neowin.net Longhorn Beta1 Invites are out! , alas they seem to have forgot me again.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 4:05 A.M.:  As Dalai Lama Turned 70, First Uncensored TV Program on His Life Aired to Tibet .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 4:00 A.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 2:10 A.M.:  I boiled 12 ounces of water.  I took two of the packages of Stop and Shop cherry gelatin mixture, and I put their contents in a three quart Pyrex glass bowl with lid, and I added the boiling water to the cherry gelatin, and I mixed it with a whisk until dissolved.  I then put in 6 ounces of fresh Florida orange juice not from concentrate and 6 ounces of Rene Junot white French table wine, and I mixed it all together.  I then opened up a 26 ounce jar of Stop and Shop apple sauce, and I put it in the mixture, and I mixed it all together.  I then put the lid on, and I put it in the refrigerator to become a chilled fruit gelatin mixture.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/05 Monday 1:35 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used the remaining medium rare top round of beef which I sliced into half inch wide by .25 inch thick strips instead of the tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  For the tomato portion, I used a vine ripe tomato that I cut into six wedges.  For the crouton portion, I used both Pepperidge Farm Caesar croutons and Gardinin's all natural gourmet cut croutons.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I am now making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative after the last message.  I went to bed until 6 P.M. when a friend called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I showered and cleaned up.  I chatted with another relative.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Stop and Shop.  Stop and Shop keeps sending me email that Swanson's dinners are on sale for the last two weeks, but when I go into the store, they are not on sale.  The night manager said I could bring in a copy of the email to show them.  I bought two each for six total of Stop and Shop .44 ounce sugar free gelatin in cranberry, cheery, and raspberry flavors for 3 for $2 for $4 total.  I then returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 9:40 A.M.:  Don't forget to look at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 8:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 8:50 A.M.:  I shut down the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 8:40 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  It is suppose to be a hot day today with the temperature going up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  I am installing the Windows updates on both computers.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 5:45 A.M.:  I posted two pictures of my recent efforts,

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-repaired-bedroom-closet-071005.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/northgate-syntax-backup-computer-with-19-inch-dell-monitor-071005.JPG

CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/10/05:

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 4:35 A.M.:  I opened up a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.  I put it in a large Cobalt Blue soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/10/05 Sunday 3:45 A.M.:  After the last message, I went to lay out my clothes on the bed in the bedroom before I showered, and when I went to open the closet door, it would not open.  I thought the Bissell rug shampoo machine was caught on the closet door, but on further investigation, the heavy wire closet shelf with hanging rod had collapsed.  I made of the list of the parts that I would need, and I went over to www.homedepot.com in Port Chester, New York.  I bought three Duracell #2032 disk lithium batteries for $1.96 each, and one Duracell #2025 disk lithium battery for $1.96, a six outlet power strip for $2.97, a Valu-Pak of OOK #50918 hooks for $8.98, a four pack of Philips 25 watt DuraMax long life bent tip frosted candelabra bulbs for $2.49, two packages of ClosetMaid Storage Solutions #6610 7 wall clips for $1.77 a package, two packages of two ClosetMaid #6620 Wall Brackets with Anchors for $2.29 each pack, two packages of two Closetmaid #6606 support brackets for $4.76 each package, and a package of 20 fifty pound Buildex E-Z anchor self drilling drywall anchors with screws for $5.88 and ten free Behr wooden paint sticks plus $3.30 tax for $48.11 total.  I then returned home, and I took the items out of my bedroom closet, and I put a blanket on the quilt on the bed, and I laid the clothes on the bed.  There was quite a bit of weight on the closet shelf with hanging rood.  I took it apart, and I noticed the 83.75 inch shelf had bent and on the left side two of the welds that support the hanging rod had broken.  Thus it was no good to reuse.  I measured it, and it was 83.75 inches long and 16 inches deep.  I then went back to Home Depot in Port Chester, New York, and I looked at the ClosetMaid - CLOSET Shelf & Rod 16" with Hang Rod at 10" and it only came in 6 foot and 12 foot links, but they had a heavy bolt cutter there to cut it to size.  I found a piece that had already been cut, and it was 10 feet long, so I cut the piece to 83.75 inches long, and I trimmed the wires around the part where the end support brackets slide in.  I was charge for an 8 foot piece at $14.98 and $1.10 tax for $16.08 total.   I then returned home, and I checked the new shelf, but it was about an inch too short, but the end support pieces protrude into the shelf about 1.5 inches on each side, so there was enough length.  However to lessen the gap I put two halves of a paint stick on top of each other, and I mounted them in the old wall end mount anchor holes. I then put the new end support pieces over the paint sticks which protruded out from the wall about a half inch, and I mounted them with the wall anchors and screws that I bought.  The two end back clips were still in place, so I held the shelf in place with the existing hardware, and I marked along the shelf places for the 14 back clips evenly spaced.  I then installed the back clips by drilling holes and hammering them into the wall with their expandable wall mounts, and I positioned the shelf in position.  I also had the two old end support sliders that fit into the ends of the shelf hanger where the end brackets mount.  Before I only had one center support bracket which had slid out of position when the shelf collapsed.  I reinstalled the center bracket and four more brackets for 5 total evenly spaced.  I installed them by securing with the wall anchors and screws two paint sticks on top of each other parallel to the shelf where the lower end of the bracket met the wall, and I secured the lower end of the bracket into the mounted double thick paints sticks.  Thus by 12:30 A.M., I had the new shelf installed much more securely.  I vacuumed the work area, and I put away my tools.  I then put the items on the floor of the closet.  I hung up all my clothes from the shelf's clothes rod.  I then evenly distributed the items that went back on the shelf.  I did not put the paper goods on the shelf, and I added them to existing ones on the bedroom window shlef.  I took out about 60 pounds of material that I don't need including my old orange quilt, and I put it in the back of my Volvo station wagon to donate to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  Thus I have lessened the overall weight on the closet shelf by about 90 pounds after adding the new hardware and shelf with five support brackets.  Thus it should be more secure for now, and hopefully I won't have any problems in the future.  I have a spare package of end supports left over along with the wall anchors and screws that I did not use.  I saved the old shelf to show the building custodian.    Thus the parts that I bought for repairs were $40.35.  I put the spare disk batteries in the left top desk drawer in the living room.  I use them for my computer CMOS batteries.  I got the #2025 in case it might work in my Swiss Army watch, when it needs to be replaced, but I don't think it is the right one.  I put the OOK hooks in the right top drawer in mahogany bureau in the bedroom.  I put the bent tip bulbs in my bulb drawer in the same bureau. I put the new power strip on the sideboard in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 7:05 P.M.:  I took two pieces of frozen Arnold multigrain bread, and I toasted them.  I then spread Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise on both pieces.  I then cut three 3/16th inch thick slices of the medium rare top round of beef, and I put them on the bottom piece of bread, then I put a couple of teaspoons of horseradish on the beef, then I cut four 3/32nds of inch thick slices of onion, and I spread them on the sandwich, and I seasoned it with ground black pepper, and I put the top piece of bread on the sandwich, and I cut it in half, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I watched a bit of the CNN news while making my meal.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 6:15 P.M.:  CNN.com - Baby panda born at National Zoo - Jul 9, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 6:10 P.M.:  I chatted with three relatives.  Other news from Florida on Key West, Florida TCPalm: Press Journal and TCPalm: Hurricane .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 4:25 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  My neighbor that I leant the cigarettes to gave me $5 for them.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 3:40 P.M.:  Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT and this from Key West, Florida on the hurricane alert:

CIO 

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 2:55 P.M.:  I was up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  Before and while eating breakfast, I did a C: drive backup with Windows XP restore. I then fixed Disk Cleanup with this tip Speed cleaning InfoWorld Column 2003-02-28 By Brian Livingston .  I then ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive including eliminating the old System Restore backups.  I then ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I then did a C: drive to D: drive backup with Windows XP Automatic System Recovery.  I then ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  I threw out some garbage.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 2:05 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 1:25 A.M.: www.techbargains.com has a deal on a Gateway server for about $260 with shipping and tax.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 12:50 A.M.:   Not much happening in Old Key West http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ and CoolerGuys www.coolerguys.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/09/05 Saturday 12:35 A.M.:  I took two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that had been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and I put two slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about four leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper, and then I put the top slices of bread on it, and I cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/08/05 Friday 11:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $13 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.799 a gallon for 88.7 miles total driving this week, at 18.8 miles per gallon averaging driving 19 miles per hour.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 59 ounce containers of Simply Orange orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, two 6 ounce dry cans of California medium black pitted olives for .99 each, the 25 pack box of 5 different varieties of Twinings tea for $2.99, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99 for $11.96 total.  I then made another purchase, and I bought two Vanish Drop-ins with Borax Cleaning Booster for $1.19 each plus .14 tax for $2.52.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  Today when I got up at 6 A.M., I charged up the Rio 800 player for two hours.  Overnight, I also charged up the four RadioShack AA metal hydride rechargeable batteries in the RadioShack charger underneath the Orion television in the living room, and I put them back in the Vivitar digital camera.  I also charged up today, the 2.5 million watt rechargeable lantern.  I also brought the blue and yellow and white surf fishing pole in from the Volvo, and I put it back behind my apartment door entrance.  I was told by the regular fishermen that none of them had lost it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/08/05 Friday 9:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computers and I will go out.  Remember to look at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/08/05 Friday 8:25 P.M.:  My UPS order from www.jab-tech.com arrived about 6 P.M..  I unpacked the box, and I took the foam peanuts out of the box, and I threw them away.  I took out the items, and I stored all my round IDE and floppy cables in the same box to the right of the television in the bedroom.  I put the CPU cooler fan ointment tube in my tool folder holder that I keep to the left on the floor of my primary computer.  I put the ties and the slot protectors on the sideboard in the bedroom.  I used one PCI slot protector in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I disconnected the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I opened it up on the blanket on the bed in the bedroom.  I put in the new case fan in the front of the computer blowing air into the front of the computer, and I have another one exhausting air.  I took the round IDE cable that I took off my primary computer last week that was still good, and I used it to connect the CD drive in the backup computer eliminating the ribbon cable for better ventilation.  I removed the old CPU cooling fan, and I put in the new CPU cooling fan that I bought earlier this week as a manager's special at CompUSA for $8 and tax.  It just fit in with no room to spare along side the installed memory.  When I tested it, this time it worked just fine on the backup computer running at 4400 rpm and 40 degrees Celsius well below the 60 degrees Celsius shutdown level.  I do not have a case speaker on the Northgate backup computer for beeping sounds.  Once I had it connected back up, I put SpeedFan SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer on it, and the temperature on the CPU is way below what it was with the old CPU fan.  However, the old CPU fan had a copper insert for better conductivity, but I guess, the new fan turns faster.  Perhaps the fact that it turned faster is why it would not work on my primary computer.  I put the old CPU cooler fan in its box on the shelf on the sideboard in the bedroom.  I then installed www.juno.com free dialup on both computers to have in case the cable modem does not work.  However, both telephone modems on both computers are currently connected to the cable modem line, so if the cable modem failed which it never has, I would have to change the wire at the junction for it to be Verizon dialing local access numbers.  I also set  up two separate dialers for the two Greenwich numbers on each computer.  On the Dell backup computer in the bedroom, I now have PS/2 Microsoft keyboard and Microsoft mouse.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/08/05 Friday 5:25 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I am just about done running the maintenance utilities on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  CRN Breaking News Longhorn To Ship In Fall 2006 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/08/05 Friday 4:25 P.M.:  I made and ate my  usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I sliced two 3/8th inch thick slices of cold medium rare top round of beef, and I cut it into half inch wide slices, and I put it on the salad.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  For the tomato portion, I cuts a vine ripen tomato into six sections.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I copied data files from the primary computer to the Northgate Syntax computer.  I freed up a lot more space, and I have 6.9 gigabytes of free space on the C: 20 gigabyte hard drive.  I will now run another maintenance utility on it.  The 20 inch Sony monitor on the Northgate Syntax computer has always acted up irregularly fogging over frequently, so I used my small cart from the back of the Volvo, and I threw the Sony monitor into the dumpster outside.  I then took the Dell 19 inch monitor from the right side of the bedroom desk, and I installed it with the Northgate Syntax computer.   CIO 

Note: <888> 07/08/05 Friday 11:35 A.M.:  I was up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw out some garbage including some old shipping boxes.  I took the AMD backup computer from the bedroom, and I moved it on the floor by the bedroom entrance.  I hooked up the Dell backup computer on the bedroom desk where the AMD backup computer was.  I washed the kitchen stove fan filter which gets dirty from cigarette smoke, when I smoke cigarettes at that location.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out some more garbage.  While doing house cleaning, I ran maintenance utilities on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I am waiting for a UPS delivery today from www.jab-tech.com which is out for delivery UPS Package Tracking www.jab-tech.com order .  I will now shower and clean up.  Depending on when UPS arrives, I will work this afternoon on the Northgate Syntax backup computer configuring it.  The Northgate Syntax backup computer has 2.65 gigabytes free space on the C: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 10:30 P.M.:  My www.jab-tech.com order is due tomorrow from UPS.  Tracking on it is UPS Package Tracking www.jab-tech.com order .  Tracking on the www.amazon.com order for the CPU cooler is UPS Package Tracking www.amazon.com CPU cooler .  The Linksys Hub from Amazon has not shipped yet.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants, when I wake up tomorrow.  I am a bit tired, since I did not have much sleep this morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 9:55 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I posted these two pictures,

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/primary-computer-with-gigabyte-motherboard-070705.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/northgate-syntax-backup-computer-070705.JPG

 CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 9:20 P.M.:  I shut down the Northgate Syntax computer.  I will tweak it some more when I have the time.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 9:10 P.M.:  Visitors and tourists being evacuated out of the Florida Keys keynoter-dot-com - Your best source of print and online news from the Florida Keys .  Also one should look at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 9:05 P.M.:  I cut three 3/8th inch thick slices of cold medium rare cooked top round of beef, and I put some Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them.  I also reheated the remaining rice, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I also took my vitamins and supplements before dinner with a glass of orange juice.  I chatted with a relative.  I am running maintenance utilities on the Northgate Syntax computer.  On its C: 20 gigabyte hard drive, I have 1 gigabyte of hard drive space left.  I will use the second hard drive D: drive for backups.  It all seems to be running just fine.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 7:15 P.M.:  I was up at noon, when a neighbor called to barrow a pack of Seneca cigarettes.  I gave the neighbor one then, and I just gave the same neighbor another package.  I thus have leant the neighbor two packages of them.  I have not yet eaten today.   I called up http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/ at 1-866-215-1069, and I ordered ten cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $11.50 a carton and $17.40 shipping and handling for $132.40 total.  Their web site was not working properly.   At 12:30 P.M. FedEx delivered AMD Duron 1.8 266MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com is Newegg.com - Track Order AMD Duron 1.8 from www.newegg.com .  I first put in a second older LAN card into the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I then installed the new AMD Duron 1.8 266 MHz FSB Socket A Processor with the old Volcano CPU cooler However, the system would not boot.  I worked on it for a while, checking my connections.  I then cleaned up, and I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I returned home.  After checking out the computer without the PCI cards, it worked, and I determined the older second LAN PCI card was keeping it from working.  I then connected up the Northgate Syntax backup computer where the old Dell use to be on the right side of the living room desk.  I set up its BIOS.  I booted it, and it is  working just fine.  I am running some updates on it and freeing up some disk space.  I put the old Dell which I will use eventually in the bedroom on the left floor side of the bedroom entrance.  I have to straighten up the bedroom work area.  I also will mark the bad LAN card as "No Good".  I am using the other PCI LAN card and the onboard LAN, and I have them bridged together.  The only other PCI card in the computer is the Sterling X2 modem.  I have a free PCI slot.  I am also using 32 meg onboard AGP 4X video.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 5:50 A.M.:  I did not get a change to go through my email.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  BBC NEWS UK England London Several injured in London blasts  .  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 4:30 A.M.:  I could have ordered it from www.jab-tech.com plus shipping for the same price, but I had already place my order, sp I ordered from www.amazon.com a Amazon.com: Used and New: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP by Thermaltake and Amazon.com: Offers from Amazon.com: Cooling for AMD Athlon XP by Thermaltake for $24.99, but to qualify for SuperSaver shipping at over $25, I also ordered Amazon.com: Electronics: Linksys USBHUB4C ProConnect Compact USB 4-Port Hub for $11.65 with no cost for SuperSaver Shipping for $36.64 total.  I will go ahead an replace my CPU cooler on the primary computer when I get it, and it will work with the faster Athon XP 3000 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com if I ever decide to get it, and I can afford it some time.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 3:15 A.M.:  I rebooted to the BIOS, and on my new motherboard GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Products 7VT600P-RZ bios, there is only a setting to enable it if the CPU fan fails, so that is what must have caused the problem when I tried the generic AMD XP CPU fan that I bought today.  I do have the setting for the alarm enabled.  On my Northgate Syntax backup computer motherboard, it has different levels for the CPU alarm to go off.  I ran Norton Update, and I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003.  The two return payments from www.newegg.com have been put back in my debit account.  Don't forget to keep an eye on http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 2:30 A.M.:  On the www.compusa.com memory that I bought two of FMI 512MB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memory Module - CompUSA.com for $39.99 each, the nice thing about it is that it has a lifetime memory guarantee, which in my case, I hope is a long time.  I logged on to www.jab-tech.com , and I ordered two 24" Blue rounded IDE dual for $3.49 each, two 18" Blue rounded IDE dual for $3.49 each, UV Blue slot protector kit for $1.99, Cooler Master UV Silent Fan 80 x 80 mm SUF-S82 - EG (UV Green) for $4.99, 18" Floppy cable - ***UV BLUE*** for $1.99, Arctic CERAMIQUE 22g for $7.99, 10 4" UV SENSITIVE Blue Tie wrap for .10 each, and 10 8" Neon Yellow Tie wrap **UV sensitive** for .12 each plus $5.51 UPS ground shipping for $38.63 total.  On the $8 generic AMD CPU cooler from www.compusa.com that I bought today, since it would cost me about $6 in gasoline to drive up there and back to return it, I probably will not return it, but keep it as a spare for my Northgate Syntax backup computer.  The alarm shutdown problem with it might have been caused on my primary computer because I have it set at the medium setting in the bios, and the generic CPU cooler probably did not keep it cool enough.  If I need it, I might be able to use it in the future on my Northgate Syntax backup computer that has the original Volcano CPU cooler used for about 15 months before I replaced it with my present primary computer CPU cooler is a Spire FalconRock II Socket A/370/462 Ultra Quite CPU Cooler similar to these bought from www.outletpc.com for $10 and installed 14 months ago.  I won't replace it for a while, since it should be good for another 10 months.  However, by then I might also upgrade the CPU in which case I would need a more expensive CPU cooler.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 12:45 A.M.:  This explains the extra Local Area Connection that no longer appears Adding a USB camera to Windows XP creates Local Area Connection 2 and Extra IP Address Appearing as "Microsoft TV/Video Connection" .  However, I did use the Network Bridge feature to bridge my two LAN cards Local Area Connections.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/07/05 Thursday 12:40 A.M.:   I threw out the garbage including a 14 ounce bag of Stop and Shop frozen broccoli that was no good.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 11:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a top round roast for $1.99 a pound for $6.92, four 10 ounce bars of Kraft Cracker Barrel 2% low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $2 each, two 59 ounce clear plastic bottles of Simply Orange Juice with calcium for $2.50 each, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39, a head of broccoli for $1.79 a pound for $1.18, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.28 for $24.77 total.  I then sat out briefly downtown, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I took the eight white plates off the Farberware convection oven, and I put them underneath the smoking chair in the kitchen, since it was too much weight on the oven.  Yesterday, I also found discarded in the laundry room a wooden salad mixing bowl and 7 wooden salad bowls that I washed, and I put on top of the white plates underneath the smoking chair in the kitchen.  I then took the top round roast, and I put it on a backing rack in a baking pan, and I seasoned all sides with garlic powder, poultry and meat seasoning, ground black pepper, celery salt, and Italian seasoning, and I then spread on all sides Kraft Barbeque sauce.  I then put it in the Farberware oven at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.  Sixteen minutes before it is ready I will start Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe and I will then carve off three .5 inch thick slices, and I will add some of the juices on it, and I will eat half of the rice.  I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.  I will refrigerate the remaining rice in a Rubbermaid container and the meat in another larger Rubbermaid container.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 9:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 9:15 P.M.:    I went out after the last message.  I went down by the waterfront, and some of the regular fishermen were there.  However, the fisherman that lost the blue and yellow fishing rod that I found down there and brought with me was not there.  I then drove up to CompUSA in Norwalk, and I bought two FMI 512MB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memory Module - CompUSA.com for $39.99 each and a generic Manager's Special AMD CPU XP cooler for $7.88 plus $5.27 tax for $93.13 total.  I then returned home.  I disconnected my primary computer, and I put the blue blanket on the quilt on the bed in the bedroom, and I took out from the primary computer the 512 MB and the 256 MB PC2100 memory, and I put it in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I then put into the primary computer the two 512 MB PC 3200 DDR DIMM memory modules, so I now have 1024 MB of faster memory in the primary computer, and I 768 MB in Northgate Syntax backup computer, which should be enough to use it to test the Microsoft Longhorn beta when it is released this August.  I put in the new AMD CPU XP generic cooler, but when I started the computer, the alarm went off like the CPU was too hot, so I put the old one back in, and it is now all running fine.  I will have to return the fault CPU cooler for $7.88 and tax.  Anyway the primary computer is running a bit faster, and with 1024 MB of memory, I am also getting in the Network Connections folder, the "Local Area Connection Connected to Microsoft TV/Video Connection".  I am not sure what it is, but it might have to do with video output from my AGP 4X 64 meg. video card to my Orion television.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 5:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I picked up my mail.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up and go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 4:30 P.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 3:30 P.M. when the NOAA weather radio woke me up with this report Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT , but locally it does not seem too bad, but I have not been outside Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  Although the Weather Pulse programs says we might have thunder showers during the next couple of hours.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 1:55 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 12:20 A.M.:  Earlier I put in two new Walgreen's ultra alkaline AA batteries in my Kensington wireless keyboard. 

Note: <888> 07/06/05 Wednesday 12:15 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I took two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that had been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and I put two slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about four leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper, and then I put the top slices of bread on it, and I cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea. I took the Rio 800 with its power supply, and I put it on the near back side of the down sofa, and I connected it to the power strip to keep it charged.  I also have its headphones connected.  I left the USB cord for it plugged into the top front USB 2.0 port on the front of the computer.  I will now read the Rio 800 manual.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 10:55 P.M.:  On the Rio 800 player, I used the "Windows Media Player 9 Support" file driver Rio Audio : Rio 800 PC Support Page to get it working with the Windows Media Player 10.0.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 10:45 P.M.:  I had $10 in my PayPal account from the defective AMD Athlon XP 2400 CPU refund, so I ordered from eBay item 5786260109 (Ends Jul-05-05 19:03:31 PDT) - Rio 600 800 900 LEATHER Sports Carrying Case for $6 and eBay item 5786259926 (Ends Jul-05-05 19:04:06 PDT) - Rio 600 800 900 & Nitrus BeltClip Carry Case for $3 and $2 first class postage 7 to 10 days for $11 total with one dollar coming off my debit card and the $10 off Paypal which I could afford.  The web page on the Rio 800 Player is Rio Audio : Rio 800 PC Support Page .   Fedex tracking on AMD Duron 1.8 266MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com is Newegg.com - Track Order AMD Duron 1.8 from www.newegg.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 10:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  The Rio 800 player works just fine.  I have it fully charged, and it says it has 11 hours of time available.  I has two 128 meg. internal and external memory for 256 megs total memory.  I installed the Rio 800 Sonic driver for Windows Media Player 9.0 which works with the Windows Media Player 10.0 .  I transferred my old Elvis, Beatles, and other vintage music to it, so it is filled up with vintage music.  I have a very good Titanium Pro 25 headset that I am using with it.  I still have to read the instructions which I printed out, and I put the instructions in a clamp binder.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 7:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  The eBay item 5768924271 (Ends Jul-18-05 18:13:25 PDT) - Rio 600 800 AC Adapter Power Charger 9V 1.2A - NEW that I order for $10 and $6 shipping and handling for $16 total from California arrived, but it was missing its AC power cord, however I had one from my old Compaq printer.  I plugged the power cord into the power strip below in between my two computer monitors, and I plugged the cord into the adapter, and I plugged the adapter into the Rio800 player, and it seems work just fine.  I will now download and install the software for it.  A friend called whom wanted me to order cigarettes for him from www.ordersmokesdirect.com however, their web site does not seem to be functioning, so I contacted them by telephone at 1-866-215-1069, and they told me by telephone one can use a credit card, so my friend is going to it that way.  Via the internet, one can only use a bank account number.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 7:35 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I mailed the Epson C60 printer paper support to a relative who has the printer.  I then stopped by the West Putnam Avenue Shell station, and I asked the usual night proprietor if they had heard anything about Shell Oil being bought out.  He said there were rumors.  I told him all that I had heard was on European News on Channel 113 on Digital Television which Shell oil advertises on, they had reported that Royal Dutch Shell the petroleum company was going to merge with Anglo Dutch Shell the Shell Oil transport company to form an even larger company.  Of course I think each company already owns shares in the other's companies already.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I then drove down by the waterfront, and some of the usual fishermen were there.  I was told by one of the regular fishermen that another fisherman that he knows might have lost the blue and yellow fishing rod that I found in the Steamboat Road dumpster in February 2005.  I guess the person must have been ice fishing back then.  I then returned home.  When my guest and I were returning back from the beach yesterday, my guest saw a blue heron, which up north is a sign of tropical storm activity down south, since the birds always seem to know more than the people, since they spend more time outside.  Thus if one is an inside person, one should keep an eye out on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  The Queen Mary II is back in Manhattan today after its three day cruise to nowhere and then it returns back to South Hampton, England QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 , so if one happens to see some landlubbers heading towards the docks in Manhattan, that is probably what they are up to.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 3:45 A.M.:  I put the Epson C60 printer paper support in a mailing envelope, and I put four .37 stamps on it, and I will now go out and mail it at the Valley Road Post Office, and then take a short cruise.  I will put the computer on standby.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 2:20 A.M.:  I installed my 092636988074 PA400U Targus Defcon 1 - security alarm - DEFCON 1 NB ANTI-THEFT SECURITY SYS Security Notebook/PDA Security Accessories Accessories TriTech Corporation of America through the computer case on my primary computer attached around the hard wood coffee table leg it sits on. Also the case cover has two locks, one which came with it, and this one CPU Security Lock, works like a case screw but requires a key to open, -cg [04E37] - Best Computer Online Store w/ Discount Prices; Directron.com, Houston Texas . Although technically someone could cut the leg off the coffee table to acquire my computer, more than likely they it would be a considerable effort getting at it with all the items on top of the coffee table.  Also if one cuts the Defcon cable, it makes a 110 decibel alarm sound, which I think is enough to wake up the Chinese army that lives next door.  Since I have a lot of aeronautical memorabililia in my apartment, I decided to put the United States Air Force Academy ashtray on my coffee table between my two sofas on the far green sofa side.  It is the one with a picture of the screaming eagle if you get my drift.  Of course everyone knows the United States of America government is so low on energy, I don't think we can afford to fly our old air force fleet the way we use to, if we want to stay warm in the winter, but I suppose we could play Ben Franklin, and we could try flying a kit to discover electricity.  Ben Franklin plays prominently in the Walt Disney movie, "National Treasure", which I saw on DVD from Blockbuster Video when I visited John's Island, Indian River Shores, Vero Beach, Florida this past May 2005 during the first two weeks.  This link is the Disney link for "National Treasure" National Treasure - The Official Movie Web Site .  I have not yet seen it playing at the Greenwich, Connecticut movie theaters, so perhaps the local Greenwich, Connecticut movie chain can not afford to show Disney movies.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/05 Tuesday 1:20 A.M.:  My guest arrived promptly at 5 P.M. yesterday on the Fourth of July.  We chatted with neighbors.  We then went up to my apartment, and I showed my guest my new apartment improvements.  I gave my guest his spare car keys, which I had been holding for him, since he lost his wallet with credit cards and car keys on the beach when he left them there when he went for a walk, and the tide washed them away.  I also leant my guest $20 which he will mail back to me tomorrow.  We went downtown, and we went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 2 pound bag of Vidallia onions for $2.79, 10 pack package of Stop and Shop powdered milk for $6.99 and a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 for $11.77 total.  We then went for a drive, and we drove down by the waterfront in central Greenwich, and then we drove over to Tod's Point.  Since my guest is a well known businessman in the Greenwich, Connecticut community we were able to get into Tod's Point with just my beach pass and car sticker, since technically he is still a legal resident of Greenwich, since his family still owns undisclosed property here.  We then drove out to the southwest parking area, and we walked out to the southwest picnic area, which was quite busy on the Fourth of July evening.  We then drove over to the southeast beach area, and we chatted with a long time Greenwich resident whom has lived here for many more moons that either of us.  We then returned back to my apartment, and I made each of us my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  On each salad for the cheddar cheese portion, I used America's Choice extra sharp cheddar cheese, and a eighthed vine ripen tomato on each and 12 pitted California black olives on each, a little bit extra grated parmesan cheese, and along with half of a can of flaked tuna fish on each, I also added half of a tin of chopped sardines.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, and for the croutons I used Gardinin's all natural gourmet cut croutons.  We ate the salads with a glass of iced tea.  My guest left, and then went downtown, and I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  Two bus loads of local youth were returning from the fireworks in New York City on J&R chartered buses on lower Greenwich Avenue.  I completed my walk of Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue during the walk, and then I drove down by the waterfront, and then I returned home.  CIO     

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 4:55 P.M.:  I have a guest coming down at 5 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 4:30 P.M.:  I just noticed on the bargain below, they get you with $99 shipping, so it is not such a good bargain.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 4:05 P.M.:  I was up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with one relative twice, another relative twice, a friend twice, and another friend.  Two friends called at the same time on the two different telephone lines, but I was not able to put them both on conference.  I suppose both incoming calls have to be on the conference telephones and not received on the single line phones to make a conference call.  It seems strange the conference feature would not work.  I then showered and cleaned up.  I went outside, and I threw out a banana peel.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up a new copy of the Fairfield County Yellow book from the front entrance of my apartment building.  Although I can not afford an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com to upgrade the primary computer and if I got it, I would also have to get a new CPU cooler Thermaltake Silent Boost 80mm Ball Cooling Fan - Retail at Newegg.com  and Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM System Memory - Retail at Newegg.com which would be about $200 to further upgrade my computer, but I will probably do it some time in the future.  I noticed this deal for basically the same items in a whole computer HPshopping.com - a1030e series $249.99 after $50 rebate which seems to be a very good deal for an AMD 3000 processor in a computer without monitor.

HP a1030e series desktop AMD Sempron 3000+, 256MB DDR/40GB Serial ATA 7200rpm hard drive, Free 48x CDRW, 1394, Ethernet, Integrated graphics, 5.1 Audio, MS Works8/Money 2005, XP Home, 1 yr warranty $299 - $50 rebate = $249.99, high $99 shipping. Tax in CA, GA, ID, MO, NY, TN, VA, and WI. Free HP 3847 printer after rebate. Exp 7/9

Select Customize >>, Select Free 48x CDRW - Continue. Select Free Deskjet 3847 printer.

17in CRT +$49.99.   From Techbargains.com - Buy computer cheap digital camera review cheap computer sales cheap notebook wholesale online computer store techbargain tech bargain   I just noticed it is not such a good bargain, since they charge you $99 shipping. 

 When one considers that I have already put $300 since May 2005 in my old computer to upgrade it, but it does have very good components www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 2:45 A.M.:  Happy Fourth of July to those of you whom are not away from your computers on vacation.  I will now shut down my computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 2:05 A.M.:  I received email that the Balmoral Castle the summer residence of the British Royal family Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy is suppose to be online with their new gift shop, but at the moment www.balmoralcastle.com does not work.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 2:00 A.M.:  I received email that the individual from San Jose, California where it is hot and computers tend to overheat that sent me two bad as in they don't work AMD Athlon XP 2400 CPUs that I bought one for $20 and $9 shipping is refunding me $10.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 1:50 A.M.: My FedEx tracking number on AMD Duron 1.8 266MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com is Newegg.com - Track Order on Scott's AMD Duron CPU order from www.newegg.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 1:45 A.M.:  I took two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread on both slices Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise that had been opened and refrigerated for about six months, and I put two slices of turkey folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 1/8 thick slices of onion, and about four leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper, and then I put the top slices of bread on it, and I cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea. 

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 12:30 A.M.:  However, the real cost of my expenses since I started using personal computers and keeping track since October 1900 are:

Michael Louis Scott Computer Expenses October 1990 to 070405

10/1/1990 through 7/4/2005

Subcategory Total

Income Categories
Internet Advertising 604.44
Other Income
Computer Items Sold 2,507.80
Computer rebates 960.52
Total Other Income 3,468.32
Total Income Categories 4,072.76

Expense Categories
Computer Items
Hardware 9,826.78
Internic Registration 70.00
Online 3,247.80
Software 1,475.18
Computer Items - Unassigned 2,291.57
Total Computer Items 16,911.33
Total Expense Categories 16,911.33

Grand Total (12,838.57)
 

This figure does not include the long distance telephone bills I ran up when I used Compuer BBS bulletin boards through the telephone lines, and for several years a relative paid for my telephone internet access.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/04/05 Monday 12:10 A.M.:  I put together this page Michael Louis Scott's Primary Computer System and Other Computer Systems and Accessories  and Software Posted July 3, 2005 that explains my computer hardware and software expenses for the last fifteen years.  Of course it does not include the costs of my own lifestyle devoted to the effort along with internet access costs or maintenance of my living environment where I perform most of my activities or my own personal transportation or the cost to me in performing my volunteer activity versus having pursued other activities.  However, since computer items tend to depreciate fast in this area, the items that I bought are not worth as much today after all of these years.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/03/05 Sunday 6:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 2:30 P.M. when a relative called.  I called back the relative.  I then ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then chatted with someone whom knows English about what is going on with the English in America.  I then went outside, and I threw away the garbage.  I then chatted with another friend whom may be coming down tomorrow.  I will now do a little bit of regular computer work.  The two orders that I cancelled with www.newegg.com were for $85.81 and $155.97 for $241.78 they need to put back the money on my MasterCard debit card, which they say they will do in two to three business days.  Well, the good news it keeps me from spending that money.  Basically I spent after the $30 rebate I will get soon $25 on the new Antec case, $15 less $15 rebate for the memory card reader, $36 on the case fan monitor, $40 on four case fans, $10 on a floppy drive, $42 on the AMD Duron CPU, $50 on the new motherboard, $15 on software, $19 on HP IID laser cartridge, $3 on CPU thermal compound, $29 on the faulty used AMD CPU Athlon processor, $6 on floppy disks  and about $30 on shipping, so I have basically spent about $305 since the first of May 2005 upgrading and improving my overall primary and backup computer systems and their accessories.  That is all that I can really afford to do this year at this point.  As usual I have also spent a lot of time configuring and working on the computer systems.  Of course this year, I have also bought used inkjet printers and inkjet cartridges, a digital camera with compact memory card, a tripod and camera case, and a computer work chair not to mention all the new telephone equipment and their cables and connectors not to mention the cost of maintaining high speed cable modem and Optimum Voice flat rate long distance in the United States and Canada.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/03/05 Sunday 5:45 A.M.:  I sent an email to Queen Elizabeth II at  http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3776.asp .  The text of the letter follows:

from:

Michael Louis Scott

71 Vinci Drive

Apt. # 206

Greenwich, Connecticut

06830-2902

United States of America

Secret information on the Bush family from Greenwich, Connecticut.  Basically the Bushs are somehow connected up as agents of the Rockefeller family, and they personally do not have much money, so once their political careers are over, they will need a way to earn a living. Perhaps you could take them on as charity cases, and give them some sort of franchise in the United States of America like "Selling Bell's Whisky".  Basically all the Bushs, Rockefellers, and Harrimans were able to do was borrow money from the Rothschild bank which was able to borrow money from the Kaiser of Germany whom was able to raise taxes.  It is another way of saying "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul".  Whatever, the case in being their neighbors since 1961 and possibly earlier, they seem to run a quiet town where ever they live, but from a business point of view quiet is not always profitable, particularly in the New York City area.

Since I am from one of the earliest English, or Scottish, or Scotch Irish families in America, we probably have a larger network than the Bushs as relates to your group of people.  All the Bushs seem to do is send large numbers of Hispanic people at us from down south, but generally when they show up, it is pretty much the same old people that use to live here that chose not to live here anymore because of the higher prices and colder climate.  Still there are plenty of new people here from you part of the world looking for warmer weather.  Whatever, the case mother seems to get along with them, but it is my viewpoints, they are simply agents of the Saudi Arabian government using a lot of less expensive Hispanic help.  Still, Greenwich remains pretty much the same, but I don't see many of your people here compared to what it use to be.  I will continue to remain here, since my father advised me to continue to stay here before he passed away.  I get by, but because I am not from Europe and because I am not Jewish, I do not always share the same values at my neighbors.  The Hispanics do respect me, because although I am disabled, I volunteer and do my own work on the computer.

http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/ 

Email: mikescot@optonline.net

Mother has been slow to recover from her hip operation, and she is once again spending her summer in Kennebunkport, Maine with some of my relatives visiting with her.

I think you should give extra security to President Bush when he visits the G8 conference, so that when your family visits here, you get extra security.

Yours Truly,

Michael Louis Scott

I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/03/05 Sunday 4:45 A.M.:  In the United States of America, they always try to bankrupt the British on the Fourth of July, but thanks to Swiss Banking the British always seem to weather it through the American Holiday.  I ate two scoops of Friendly Pistachio ice cream.  I always am curious since we have a lot of people from northern countries that live here because of the warmer weather, if anyone from Greenland happens to live here.  Basically Greenland is owned by Denmark, so the Danish are not as poor as some people think.  However, in the United States of America very little is known about Greenland, so maybe we should have a massive public relations campaign to inform more people about Greenland.  When I first got on the internet about 11 years ago, I use to chat with a person from Disco Island whom worked at a power station in northwestern Greenland.  Thus they seem to have developed some sort of modern culture there since Leaf Ericson.  For more information about Greenland, try Frontpage - Greenland Tourism - The National Tourist Board of Greenland and CIA - The World Factbook -- Greenland .  Basically living around Nordic people we all have the same sense of humor about warmer weather, and we try to work harder in the warmer time of the year to get ready for another colder winter, when sometimes there is more time to relax.  Whatever, the case on Master Card holding my money on the two orders that I cancelled at www.newegg.com which they never charged me for, it must be a way that Master Card and the Banks make money by holding the money and earning the float on the large of amounts of money that they hold for a few days.  Don't worry, I am still way within budget, and I am just maintaining my normal routine based on years of experience on this level of income from my perspective on this side of town.  There was another story in Greenwich Time Greenwich Time beside the consideration of building more public housing at my current location at McKinney Terrace, and that was they are considering building another skating rink in our back yard next to the existing Dorthy Hammil rink for about $9 million.  Thus it seems that certain groups in the area have more influence about the way money is spent versus other groups.  It is my personal opinion that the same groups might consider spending more money on maintaining the building that I live in, and on providing free heat which they did for the first eight years of my residency here.  It is a very cold building in the winter, and expensive to heat with electric heat.  However, the bright side of the picture is that if we run out of oil for heat in this area, we might still have electricity for electric heat, so we can continue to live hear despite any oil shortage providing the electric plants have a source of energy.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/03/05:

Note: <888> 07/03/05 Sunday 3:00 A.M.:  www.newegg.com says in their email, they will put the debit amount from my cancelled orders back in my debit checking account in two to three business days, so since I have already charged other items to the account, I can not spend anymore money on my checking debit account without risking being overdrawn, but once the Newegg transactions are credited back to my account, I am financially secure for the month.  Thus I can not make any impulse buying decisions until probably next Thursday besides the current funds, I already have on hand.   It is amazing how quickly the computers will take one's money away, but how slowly they will give it back, since there is no reason in the technology that they could not credit it back to me right away.  I should charge them interest.  Well, I guess a major expense of $42.99 on upgrading my backup computer system, so it works won't hurt me, and I will be also getting the Viking Memory credit from www.buy.com of $20.90 soon as UPS gets it back to California.  Well, I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/03/05 Sunday 2:05 A.M.:  I made another executive decision turn around, and I decided I would like to buy AMD Duron 1.8 266MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com for $42 and .99 shipping for $42.99 total.  I thus will be able to complete building the faster backup computer, and I will use my 256 MB chip from the primary computer in the backup computer.  This is my most economical course that I can afford at the moment.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/03/05 Sunday 1:40 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I heard the fireworks coming from the Greenwich High School.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $3 both and a gallon of America's Choice white vinegar for $1.85 for $4.85 total.  I then returned home.  I then surfed the www.newegg.com web site thinking about changing my order from this past morning, and I finally cancelled the order for the Northgate Syntax backup computer  AMD Duron 1.8 266MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com for $42 and for the primary computer Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM System Memory - Retail at Newegg.com for $38.99 plus $4.82 shipping for $85.81 total.   I do not really need a faster backup computer at this point, and I can always get the parts when I do need them.  I also do not need more faster memory for my primary computer at this point, and at this point it is running just fine.  However, in the process of making the decision, I made another order which I cancelled and both orders have been voided on their web site, and NewEgg still needs to put the money from the two orders back into my bank account.  Since Paul Allen www.paulallen.com is a major stockholder in NewEgg, it is Microsoft friendly, and I am now in the position of having Paul Allen owe me money.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 8:25 P.M.:  I made up and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks .  I used a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans with maple flavor.  I ate the mixture with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out and explore the night air.   CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 7:25 P.M.:   Of course from an Economist's point of view, this might be interesting G8 Gleneagles 2005 Home and http://www.perthshireg8.com/ which at moment does not work.  Of course the Scott family and other member of the West Indies company have been in business in this part of the world for over 400 years, and we have the presence of Welcome to RBSGC.com here in Greenwich, Connecticut which is owned by RBS: Welcome to The Royal Bank of Scotland , which might attract one or two people from across the Pond into this area, and if one forgot the Queen Mary arrived in Manhattan today for a three day cruise to nowhere QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 , so possibly we might have some visitors off of it whom might be exploring our area.  Since I have not worked on my Whisky page in a while, I don't know if its links work or not http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/006.htm .  However, if one lived in Scotland where the weather tends to be cold and damp, one more than likely would occasionally have a dram or two during the colder months, particularly if one came from a warmer area.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 7:15 P.M.:  Of course for Old Timers, there is probably not much difference between Ethanol and Corn Whisky, so they probably make that in Illinois too, which might come in handy during the colder months.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 7:05 P.M.:  For the corn flakes perspective of the world University of Illinois Satellite Products: .  Of course, I noticed something interesting last night when I was filling up gasoline at the Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and that in the New York City area in the warmer months to control pollution 10% of the gasoline mixture contains Ethanol which is derived from corn, so somebody in Illinois and the Midwest is obviously making money off the energy business this time of year.  However, I am not going to bet the Farm on it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 6:55 P.M.:  The last time I was in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop on this past Thursday, I found a paper support I think will work with the Epson C60 printer that I brought up to Kennebunkport, Maine http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/137.htm  along with the IBM Netvista computer when I visited two weeks ago.  I am currently using a old wooden ruler in it to support the paper.  The paper has to be supported for it to work properly.  I guess I could mail it up there, and there is local expertise to install it there.  I have also replaced three light bulbs in the last two days.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 6:40 P.M.:  If you feel lost in the world on the internet, try Google Earth - WinPlanet Windows Software Reviews and Downloads .  On my computer, it works in the default video mode, and it does not work in DirectX mode.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 5:45 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 5:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative about 9 A.M. this morning.  I finally woke up, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched part of the movie Casablanca on the Turner movie channel.  I went downstairs, and I threw away the garbage.  A neighbor gave me the $5 for the cigarettes that I had given the neighbor.  Well, I have spent quite a bit of time working and researching improving my computer setup on a minimum budget during the last two months.  Hopefully, when the order that I ordered this morning from www.newegg.com  arrives, my overall computer setup with the new backup computer will be running better.  I received email back from the person in San Jose, California whom sent me the two defective AMD Athlon XP 2400 processors, and after his costs, he is going to put $10 back in my Paypal account.  I am still waiting for eBay item 5768924271 (Ends Jul-18-05 18:13:25 PDT) - Rio 600 800 AC Adapter Power Charger 9V 1.2A - NEW that I order for $10 and $6 shipping and handling for $16 total from California.  I guess California is so high tech on the west coast that us low budget newbies on the east coast will have to continue to scour California web sites to look for inexpensive spare parts to maintain our older systems, since we can not afford the newer more complex systems that the Californians are trying to sell us through their local retail outlets on the East coast, particularly since it costs so much to drive around looking at what is available at technology stores.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 7:40 A.M.:  I did some research, and I bought for the Northgate Syntax backup computer  AMD Duron 1.8 266MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com for $42 and for the primary computer Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM System Memory - Retail at Newegg.com for $38.99 plus $4.82 shipping for $85.81 total.  I will take out the 256 MB. memory chip from the primary computer and put it in the Northgate Syntax backup computer, when I get the parts that I just ordered, so I will have two 512 MB memory chips in the primary computer.  At this point, I can not afford AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400MHz FSB Socket A Processor - OEM at Newegg.com to upgrade the primary computer, and if I got it, I would also have to get a new CPU cooler Thermaltake Silent Boost 80mm Ball Cooling Fan - Retail at Newegg.com , so it would be about $166 more if I did that less the cost of the AMD Duron or about $124.  Thus since I am still smoking cigarettes, I will probably having to spend money on cigarettes later this month.  Well on Tuesday or Wednesday, we should have the parts.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 3:45 A.M.: https://www.geicoprivileges.com/ .  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 3:25 A.M.:  Microsoft Digital Photo Home Page .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 2:00 A.M.:  I paid my GEICO automobile insurance payment for July 2005, and it is the last one of the four month billing cycle in the six month policy, I renew it every six months.  I will thus have to make my next payment in October 2005.  I also paid my Verizon telephone bill, my Cablevision Digital television bill, my Cablevision Optimum Online Cable Modem bill, and my Cablevision Optimum Voice long distance telephone bill.  Sometime in the near future, I will have to pay my General Electric Service contract of about $74 on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control.  I have had it four years I think, and the first year included the service contract, and I have paid it for the last three years.  The current contract expires on September 12, 2005.  Since the air conditioner is an essential part of my overall comfort in my apartment which would be rather hot in the summer without it, and it is important to have air conditioning with computers, I keep the service contract which covers complete maintenance on it at home by the General Electric Service personnel.  I have never called them yet, but since the unit weighs 85 pounds, and stays in the window year round, I figure General Electric can handle it and service more easily than myself for that yearly price.  Since I won't have an automobile insurance payment in August, I will probably pay it then.  The unit seems to be function fine so far this summer, but it has not been really hot yet.  However, I keep it going at night to cool off the apartment, so when it gets hotter in the daytime, it does not have to cool a warmer room.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/05 Saturday 1:00 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used America's Choice Monterey Jack and Extra Sharp cheddar cheeses.  I used ten grape tomatoes on top of the salad.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 11:40 P.M.:  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage and some old periodical literature.  I showered and cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $14 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.759 a gallon for 65.1 miles driving averaging driving 14 miles per gallon at 13 miles per hour.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, two 16 ounce packages of Stop and Shop margarine for .99 each, a 1.75 quart container of Friendly's butter crunch ice cream for $1.99, a 1.75 quart container of Friendly's pistachio ice cream for $1.99, a quart of Hellmann's mayonnaise for $1.99, fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.19, fresh tomatoes on the vine for $1.99 a pound for $2.29 for $16.43 total.  I then put my groceries in the car, and I remembered something that I forgot, so I went back in the store, and I bought four 16 ounce jars of Planter's Lightly salted dry roasted peanuts for $1.99 each for $7.96 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my groceries, and I put them away.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 5:50 P.M.:  I finished my breakfast.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  Weather warning for this area Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 4:50 P.M.:  I was up at 2:30 P.M..  I logged onto www.buy.com, and I got an RMA number to return the Viking memory, and I printed out a  UPS label and packaged it in its bubble wrap envelope.  They pay for the UPS charge.  I then went out, and I mailed it at Pak Mail at 16 North Water Street in Byram, Connecticut .7 miles away.  They are the same Pak Mail that use to be at the Stop and Shop shopping center.  With downtown Greenwich getting more busy, there are a lot of new businesses in Byram.  I then returned home, and I got my rent bill in the mail.  I then went to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went to the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent.  I then returned home.  The Viking memory was $20.90, and I don't think they will refund the $5.52 postage.  I could have ordered a replacement, but I figured I don't want to have the same problem again.  Since I have already sent in the rebate, the return packaging envelope did not have the Product Code on it that I had submitted with the rebate.  I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 6:25 A.M.:  The computer seems to be back to running normally again.  The Buy.com - Viking VC Value - Memory - 256 MB x 1 - DIMM 184-pin - DDR SDRAM - 133 MHz / DDR266/PC2100 obviously is faulty.  I will have to return it.  The memory came in a simple antistatic flat envelope in a bubble wrap envelope, so obviously it was not packaged well.  When working on the interior the computer, I remove the power cord, wear rubber shoes, wear a grounding strap, and I touch the power supply to ground myself there too.  I downloaded and installed the latest version of Ad-awareSE, and then I ran it.  I also installed the Adobe Reader updates, and  but the Adobe PhotoShop Starter Edition won't work, so I uninstalled it.  I then ran Norton WinDoctor 2003.  Well, I guess I will shut down, and I will go to bed soon.  I suppose I am back on a night schedule.  I will do my house cleaning, when I wake up later today.  I also packaged the used IDE cable, and I marked it as good.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 5:15 A.M.:  I took the new Viking 256 meg. memory chip out, so I now only have the 512 meg. and the 256 meg. chips for a total of 768 megs.  Hopefully the computer will now not crash.  The problem seems to have started when I put in the new memory.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 4:45 A.M.:  When I ran Ad-awareSE, the system crashed which leads me to believe that it might be an IDE cable problem.  I replaced the IDE round cable with a new spare one that I bought from www.jab-tech.com.  I still have one spare one left.  It seems the round IDE cable wear out about every two months.  I rebooted, and the system crashed.  The only thing I can think about doing is taking out the new memory that I put in.  However, it seems to me that since the computer runs fine most of the time, and these things always seem to happen on holidays.  It leads me to believe that some outside forces that come into this area during holidays might be causing the problem, but it shows an a level of expertise, that I can not figure out why they would bother me.  Possibly we have some disgruntled hackers whom hack systems during their weekend holidays.  It is hard to tell.  If the system crashes again, I will try replacing the memory.  Possibly I could consider going back to using the ribbon IDE cables which although they provide less ventilation seem to last longer.  I have a spare one, and one connected in the Northgate Syntax that I am building.  There is another possibility that someone could possibly be gaining access to my computer in my apartment and causing problems.  I have seen enough evidence on the computer over the years that this could well be the case.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/05 Friday 3:20 A.M.:  I surfed the internet checking out CPU prices.  I then had a technical problem that I was able to fix.  On my computer from top down I have an AGP card, five PCI slots with cards, and a USB 2.0 two plug plate plugged into the motherboard.  However, when I was rebooting the computer, it would not do a complete reboot, and the primary right center monitor would not come on, except for when I turned off the computer completely.  I tried System Restores which did not work.  I tried reinstalling the BIOS which I can do easily online.  I finally figured out it was probably the two LAN cards in the bottom two PCI slots causing a conflict.  I disconnected my case, and I opened it up in my bedroom on the bed with a blanket to protect the quilt.  I took out the USB 2.0 four port card from the first PCI slot, and I moved it to the bottom PCI slot, and I moved the LAN card from that position to the first PCI slot.  Thus I have the AGP card, the LAN card, the PCI video card, the sound card, the second LAN card, and then the USB 2.0 card from up to down.  I then checked my cables, and my case fan sensors. I also checked to make sure the new memory was seated in securely, since I had installed it with the case connected which is awkward.  I then reconnected the case, and I booted, and the computer works fine with no video problems.  However, in the Networking it install, a Microsoft Video Network icon, which I assume is my cable to the television from my AGP card.  However, the system crashed.  I then did a System Restore to before I installed the IBM programs two nights ago, and I rebooted, and the computer seems to be running fine now.  However, the Microsoft Video Icon in the Networking folder is no longer there, but the two LAN icons are.  It is the first time I have seen such a networking icon.  I then ran Norton Win Doctor, and I will now run Ad-awareSE.  CIO