Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 10:45 P.M..  Volcano shoots ash up to three miles away - CNN.com .  I guess it is all right to smoke a cigarette in the area.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 10:35 P.M..  I tried some system tweaks.  The copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Contact Manager installed the SQL server which automatically starts up with Vista, so from System Management, I disabled it automatically starting up.  Also with System Mechanic 7 installed, one has to close it out to open the Manage item from Computer.  I also disabled the Norton Internet Security 7.0 firewall, and I enabled the Vista Firewall with Inbound traffic blocked, and no exceptions.  Possibly that might make my Vista computer more secure from hacking.   Who knows, I a'int the Microsoft Wiz kid down the street.  To see how much energy we still use at night, be sure to look at NexSat, NRL/NPOESS Next-Generation Weather Satellite Demonstration Project .  I hope it is all not used for watching Simpson cartoons at night.   I don't think Crate Lake looks like this now http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/CRATER1.gif or http://mikelouisscott.com/CRATER1.gif .  Maybe it would be a good place to get bottled water from.  Well, not much happening in this neck of the woods.  At midnight here on August 1, 2007, all of the so called big shots get their vacations through labor day, so the town pretty much is left to a group of local gypsies who can not afford to get away.  Of course some people work during the summer, so they can vacation during the colder period of the year, but because of school, the family types usually vacation in the summer.  Without the SQL server running, the Vista computer is a bit faster.  I was asked by my appointment today, where I would like to live if I could afford to live anywhere I could chose, I told them Marbella, Spain Marbella.com or Maui ALOHA FROM MAUI.  CIO          

Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 8:35 P.M..  I microwaved and ate a 10 ounce Boston Market Chicken with mesquite sauce dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with two relatives.  At this point, it does not look like I will be going back up to Maine this summer.   I will thus pay my bills tomorrow morning when funds are available.   The computer rebooted from a hacker again.  There is not much I can do about it.  Of course I have a wide network of computer friends and associates, so maybe one of them will do something about it.  You can not be involved in computers for over 40 years without knowing one or two people.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 7:15 P.M..  I rested until noon, when I had a telephone call from a relative.  I got a telephone call from the New Haven, Connecticut branch of the www.fbi.gov branch of government, and I told them about the hacking problems I have been having with my computer systems.  They told me there was nothing they could do unless I had specific proof, and I filed charges with the Connecticut State Attorney General.  Since I now use Norton Internet Security 7, I can not get the IP addresses of hackers unlike in earlier versions.  Even if I had an IP address most long time users on the internet know IP addresses can be faked or hidden.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar. I washed the breakfast dishes.   I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went to the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then went to my usual appointment which is now every two weeks at 3 P.M. on Tuesdays.  I then sat out for while in front of the senior center.   At Zen stationary, I bought a Super Match 3 scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read Popular Mechanics and P.C. Magazine.  I then returned home.  I called up about a TV Guide sweepstakes promotion, but I declined to buy anything.  I had a call from a relative in Maine that my other relative in Maine is doing just fine.  I installed a couple of Vista updates.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 4:45 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will rest a while.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 4:30 A.M..  I subscribed to the Wall Street & Technology, Free Wall Street & Technology Magazine Subscription

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Note:<888> 07/31/07 Tuesday 2:50 A.M..  After the last note, I installed the Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ready Reference discount software on the primary Vista and Epox computers.  I also installed the QuickTime updates.  Three of the other disks play off the CD, and the fourth DK Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe does not install or work properly.  I left the three CD programs on the wicker rack in between the two coffee table computer monitors.  I put the other two in on the CD shelf in the white bookcase in the bedroom.   I then made and ate the same meal as the last three nights.  I then took a nap until a short time ago.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/30/07 Monday 9:20 P.M..  I woke up this morning at 2:30 A.M..  I watched some of Frank Nicholson's documentary about Greenwich and the fourth ward on television.   I then ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and grape and cranberry juice.  I then went out, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I also toured the office park plaza at the Greenwich train station, and I sat out at their outdoor tables.  I chatted with a Metro North Railroad inspector inspecting the tracks.  He is said it was not safe to wait for a bus at the Stamford train station in the early morning hours.  I noticed during my walk, they still have a Port-O-Potty at the top of Greenwich Avenue left over from the repointing of the brick on the top of Greenwich Avenue on the west side.  The headlines today are about the proposed development at Vinci Drive where I live Open space challenged in Byram - Greenwich Time .  The Metro North inspector has a new www.gm.com truck, and he told me that G.M. recommends against using ethanol in it the fuel in its vehicles, but I do not think that is an option around here.  I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with one of the most regular fishermen.  He told me the striped bass were still running. I then returned home.  I fell asleep in my recliner with the white poncho over me, and at 9 A.M., I had a computer magazine telephone call.  At noon a friend called and then I completed the same computer magazine telephone survey when they also called again.  At about 3:30 A.M. another computer magazine survey called up.  It is a bit different sleeping in the Ethan Allen recliner, but some days, one does not feel like opening up the bed.  I got up at 4 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I fell back asleep on the floor with the same poncho over me.  I guess I was tired.  I woke up at 7:30 A.M..  I put the Connecticut state title for the 1992 Buick Roadmaster wagon in the paper holder in the glove box of the Buick to have available in case I ever travel, and I need it to change ownership in an emergency.  I put a new duffle bag in the rear lower cargo area, in case I need to remove the items stored there if I travel.  I put the Test Code analyzer in the rear driver's compartment to have available in the car.  I put the mechanics manual in the rear passenger's side map holder.    I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  The $15 Crucial memory rebate check arrived.  I also received the order for the Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ready Reference discount software for free, DK Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe discount software for free, Wonders of Science discount software for free, Wonders of the Ancient World discount software for free, plus for ordering four items, I got Zane's Encyclopedia on the Oceans for free with $5.99 shipping each on the first four items for $23.96 total.  I will put the Encyclopedia Britannica 2007 on the primary Vista computer, and I will put all of them on the Epox computer which has lots or hard drive space available.   I do not need the others on the Vista computer.  I chatted with my relative in Maine, and my relative in the hospital has a small stress fracture from physical therapy, so my relative may be transferring to another hospital for physical therapy, and my other relative will be staying up there, and thus I might not be going up to Maine later on this week.  I have to wait and hear about any developments on my relative's health condition.  I went back outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO      

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Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 9:00 P.M.. I made and ate the same dinner as last night.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 8:00 P.M..  I chatted with some friends from Sea Island Resort Official Site- Luxury Golf and Spa Resort (888) 732-4752 , so my local Branch of the Bermuda Yacht Club besides being networked with the local Greenwich, Connecticut waterfront, also has contacts elsewhere.  I did use to cover the shore line from Bowdon, Maine down to Key West Florida and from Sea Diego to Fort Bragg, California, so I have some contacts along the waterfront still.  Also I have experience around the waterfront in Europe and Lake Michigan, but I can not sail or swim just dog paddle.  I've also visited Lake Geneva in both Illinois and Switzerland.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 7:10 P.M..  My relative in Maine called up that my other relative in Maine is doing fine and should be out of the local hospital tomorrow.  I am going to drive up to Kennebunkport, Maine in the Buick Wagon on this Friday morning, and I will stay there at least a week or however long my relative wants me to stay.  The Buick wagon is in very good shape for the trip, but I can not do anything about the price of fuel.  It will be handy to have a car up there, and it is more convenient than taking the train which is more expensive.  I got up at 2:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went downtown to CVS where I picked up a prescription.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS again during my walk.  I then returned home, and I chatted with my relative.  I ordered from OrderSmokesDirect.com - Buy Cheap Cigarettes On-Line four cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $12.49 a carton and $7.99 USPS shipping for $57.95 total.  I will now do some regular computer work.  I have to get back on a daytime schedule to go up to Maine.  I will pay my bills after I return from Maine, so I have some spare travel funds in case of emergency.  My www.geico.com automobile insurance policy is paid up in full, and I do not have another payment until October 2007.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 5:55 A.M..  Using the $30 off coupon "W89089103" linked from www.slickdeals.net , I bought ShopNBC.com - Invicta Men's Swiss Gold 10 Collection Bracelet Watch in silvertone for $59.98 less $30 coupon for $29.98 with free shipping.  Its retail value is $275.  CIO

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Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 4:30 A.M..  If you really think we need the 20 inch LCD monitor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009108 for an Acer 20 inch LCD monitor $179.99 with free shipping from www.newegg.com , I could charge it, but I would rather not distress my sick relative whom worries about such things.  North American Aerospace Defense Command Commander expresses concerns, acknowledges improvements .  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 4:05 A.M..  The reason I know that about the Round Hill Club is that one of my old girl friend's grandmother owned the Morgan Stanley Investment Bank Company, and somebody I met here in Greenwich, Connecticut that use to volunteer at the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift shop had a husband now diseased whom used to be the President of the Morgan Stanley Investment Bank Company that happened to rent 40 floors of the World Trade Center, before it was terrorized.  Thus she told me that Billy Baldwin did not paint the handsome field stone exterior of the Round Hill Club in pink and green, he decorated the Club Room at the Round Hill Club in pink and green which were the traditional colors of Queen's Victoria's tropical room at Osborne House on the Isle of Wright.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 3:40 A.M..  Dinner was delicious as usual.  When I was a house guest of http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm for part of the time from the fall of 1973 when Boodles in Greenwich fired me until about the spring of 1975, when I started camping out at Conyers Farm trying to get use to the country again, Fred Von Mierers had quite a large collection of friends.  Since he had lived with the Krump family of Germany, the Shah of Iran's family and the Staltonstahl family from Massachusetts when they were Richard Nixon's ambassador to Spain, he knew quite a few other people from other countries.  With his Iranian connections, he might have known other people in the Middle East whom today might have oil wealth, but it seems most of that group when they came to the United States of America found New York City too cold on a Four Seasons basis, so they settled in the Las Angeles, California area I guess that is where the J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum is, so there must be some spare change out there in the wood work, if you get my drift.  Since there are other people in this area in the summer whom can not take the colder weather in the colder months, I try not to monopolize too much of the downtown area, when they enjoy being here.  They are not necessarily rich, they can simply afford to travel into this area and stay here for the warmer months.  Many families have been coming to this area for the warmer season for generations, so a great many of them have seen me here many times over the years.  I always enjoy seeing new members of the younger generation when they arrive into this area, because they seem to enjoy it for more of what it is and than what it is not.  Last Wednesday night there were about 300 youth downtown age 15 to 25, so I guess they are keeping a closer eye on the downtown area, when the older generation can not afford to travel downtown.  Whatever, the case, more of them seem to be walking recently with the higher prices of fuel.  One should respect bicycle riders, since more of us might be riding them more of the time sometime in the near future.  The Dutch people in the Netherlands have a long tradition of riding bicycles since their country was very flat unlike the small hills in this area.  Since there is the possibility that I might be traveling back up to Maine in the near future, I can not afford to make anymore random purchases.  I will make my standard bill payments this Wednesday on the first of the month, and I will also have to order my cigarettes.  Since my monetary activity has been a little higher recently, I have to make sure I do not exceed its current level.  Basically I have certain fixed expenses that I have to meet in maintaining and running my normal routine around the apartment in my regular lifestyle activity, so I can not afford to make anymore expenses on the computer operations that I currently run.  Since because of the higher prices of energy for gasoline and for electricity, I will also have to be able to afford to pay for those higher prices.  Thus when the Energy Rebate comes around mid October, and I pay off my current credit debt, I will have to use any spare funds and any Christmas gifts to meet the higher energy needs.   Since the U.S. Government does not seem to understand what inflation is in terms of paying individuals more on the fixed income of Supplemental Security Income, more than likely things will not get any better, and I will be spending more time around the apartment.  That does not bother me, since I enjoy working on the internet and writing my web log.  I think the rich people use to employ Billy Baldwin because he was very tiny and cleaver, and he gave them value for their investments Amazon.com: Billy Baldwin Decorates: Books: Billy Baldwin.   I know he decorated the Round Hill Club in pink and green, and that is the most exclusive club in Greenwich, Connecticut, so obviously the old guard liked his taste in design. CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/29/07:

Note:<888> 07/29/07 Sunday 1:35 A.M..  I did some bottom fishing on the internet.  There are none that I can afford.  This item seems reasonable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009108 for an Acer 20 inch LCD monitor $179.99 with free shipping.  Also there is this  available with $20 off coupon code "46745" at check Cheapstingybargains.com: Dell Coupons, Dell Coupon Codes, HP Coupons, Deals, Bargains for http://www.cheapstingybargains.com/jump.php?m=staples&id=183644 for $140 with free shipping.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will them make the same sautéed burger and onions and steamed vegetables meal with flavored rice and iced tea that I have been eating recently.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/28/07 Saturday 11:55 P.M..  After I went to bed after the last message, I was called up around 6:45 A.M. this past morning that my relative in Maine could not get out of bed, so my relative called 911 to wake up the other relatives in the house, and my relative was taken to a local hospital for tests.  My other relative then called back at 8 A.M. saying I should come up to Maine, since my other relative had to return home.  I explained that I was tired after being up all night, so I would not be able to travel right away.  I then went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I was left a message on my answering machine at 11 A.M. that my relative was all right, and my relative was just having tests, and that my other relative would be staying up there for another week.  I left a message.  I chatted with another relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I then went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I left another message with my relative.  I chatted with a friend for a while.  I chatted with another relative.  I then washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I finally chatted with another relative in Maine, and that relative told me that my relative in the hospital would be having tests and probably returning home tomorrow.  My other relative would be staying there for another week, so they will not need me to come up and visit.  Thus I do not know whether I will be returning to visit up in Maine again this summer or not.  It said on my outside weather station at 4 P.M. that it was 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the sun above the black roof outside my window, so I think it was hot today.  I chatted with www.cablevision.com technical support for Optimum Online, since when I was chatting with Optimum Voice, I could hear a low beeping sound like a low call waiting sound.  I asked them if that signal interference could be what is causing my internet connections problems that cause my Vista computer to reboot occasionally.  They listened, but they did not tell me anything.  They said I should email mailto:abuse@cv.net , but I have emailed them before, and they never respond.  I then threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I ate the last piece of cheese cake and a toasted bagel with olive oil.  I disabled a few startup programs on the Vista computer, so it starts faster.  CIO    

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I went through my email.  It seems that I technically could leave earlier, if I went up to Maine, since I have the funds to make it there on the Bus, but I am currently not on a day schedule.  Plus I am pretty much now caught up with having been away for two weeks, and if I were to go up there, I would have to catch up again.  As far as I know there is not much happening around here to keep me here.  However, I am a bit tired, so I would like to get some rest before I might possibly travel. Since I only was there three weeks ago, I feel it is not necessary for me to return so soon.  I generally prefer it when it is not too busy up there, and currently with all of the people on vacation up there, it might be busy, but when I wake up later today, I will confer with my relative again.  At www.greyhound.com , it says there are three buses this Sunday going from Stamford, Connecticut to Portland, Maine, with one even leaving at 6:20 A.M., another at 1:20 P.M., and one at 11:20 P.M. all arriving about 8 hours later, but I would have to arrive at a time that my relative could pick me up, which would be either at the first or the last.  However, my relative is older, and might want to drive up to Portland, Maine from Kennebunkport, Maine.  Of course on Sunday, www.amtrak.com has a more user friendly schedule, where I could arrive nearby in Wells, Maine at about $85 one way trip, but there is a late train arriving at 1:08 A.M. for only $68.  However, the return fare is $105.  I guess more people want to go south for some odd reason.  On Sunday morning, I could leave the Stamford train station at 4:04 A.M. and be in Wells, Maine at 11:18 A.M..  I have the $85 fare, but one can not book online, since it is too close to departure.  If I returned on Monday August 6, there is a $68 fare from Wells, Maine at 8:40 A.M. in the morning.  Thus there are options opened, but currently I am a little to tired to think about it.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I ate another piece of cheese cake earlier.  I just noticed the early bus has only a 15 minute tranfer time in Hartford to get one's bag off the bus and on to the other bus.  The later buses have four hour waits in Boston to transfer, and they take the shore line.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/28/07 Saturday 1:00 A.M..  One month until Jimmy Eldert's birthday.  I think if he was 18 years old in 1973, he was born on August 28, 1955, so he would be on the way to his 53rd birthday, but knowing something about healthcare and living in warmer weather, he tends to look younger, unless he has changed his look for one of his many acting roles.  He is basically a B actor, but who knows he might be more popular in other movie or theatre locations in other parts of the world.   I reheated and made the same dinner as the last five nights.  I chatted with a relative, who thinks I could get by with a pair of khaki pants, but I explained that the wool pants were the same price as khaki pants.  Of course in the British Commonwealth of Nations, they have quite a few sheep which produce wool besides the warmer countries that produce cotton, so I guess it is six of one half dozen of another in the Commonwealth.  Nobody seems to be interested in contacting the Bermuda Yacht Club outside of Bermuda, since I do not know how to sail or swim or drink alcohol.  However, I dare say with all of the money piled up in Bermuda that if there is any tropical storm activity in the future http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm or http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , we might see a few of their residents coming back our way in their private jets to revisit their former hideaways in this area.  Rich people tend to go where their money is safest, and they tend not to lose track of it or what they own, so more than likely the can afford accurate weather forecasts also.  I finished installing System Mechanic 7 on the Epox computer, and I ran its programs to tweak the system.  I did a Vista Server 2008 beta 3 Complete PC backup of both the Vista and XP partitions on the FIC server to the second hard drive.  On both the FIC server and the Epox computers I am doing a Windows XP Professional ASR backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive to change any recent system changes.  On the Epox computer, I will then do a Vista Server 2008 Complete PC backup of both the Vista and XP partitions from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  If I have time and space, I can also do ASR backups of them to the external hard drives, but is not really necessary, since the only changes in my current backups are the System Mechanic installations on the system, and if I needed to restore the systems from the external hard drives, I could always install System Mechanic on them again.  It is basically six of one half dozen of another.  At this point I prefer to keep my two new install and configuration backups of Vista on the primary computer to the two different external hard drives, since I feel it is more important to have clean installations instead of ones that might have been tampered with in the last couple of weeks on the current Vista system.  I also did a Vista Complete PC backup on the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  The first thing they teach people in computers, if you should ever buy one is "GIGO", which is short for Garbage In, Garbage Out, which means the computer only knows what it is programmed with.  The second thing they teach you is Backup, Backup, Backup.  Thus any computer person worth his salt would know these two primary activities which take quite a bit of time, and versus someone that can simply afford to buy one.  Most computer activity is a repetitive amount of maintenance tasks, much like one would go through it one drove a car frequently.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/27/07 Friday 10:15 P.M..  I guess my eyes are not too sharp after looking at personal computers for the last 19 years.  I thought the System Mechanic web site was www.lolo.com , but it is www.iolo.com .  I bought the $50 version of System Mechanic 7 for $9.95 with the PNY promotion that came with the PNY video card.  It is good for three computers.  I have installed and run it on the Vista computer and the FIC server.  I ran its programs to tweak my computers.  I also have installed it on the Epox computer, but I have to still run its program on it.  I chatted with www.cablevision.com about having my primary Vista Computer hacked.  I gave them a bit of information that will lead to them catching the individuals.  When the computer LAN cable leading from the Cable Modem to the D-Link router is disconnected the computer does not crash, which is pretty much comprehensive proof that I am being hacked.  I indicated to the Cablevision people that it is my theory that it could be someone locally in our building or part of our neighborhood Cablevision network that might be causing the problem.  They indicated to me they have their ways of finding out, so maybe they will take it from there.  Since legally I am still classified as a United States Government Department of Defense contractor after having worked in research laboratories, more than likely the various powers that be in the United States Government are also looking into it, but they never give anyone feedback as to what they find out.  From what I know once the government finds out whom they are, they start to follow their trail of contacts and associates to find out what their motives might be.  Since over 40 million people work for the United States Government in various capacities, more than likely their is no shortage of personnel, so sooner or later they will sort it all out.  I ate a piece of cheese cake.  Earlier the order from www.macys.com in waist 42 inches and length 30 inches Macy*s - Men's - Louis Raphael Double Pleated Wool Dress Pant in rope color for $26.24 and in the same size in sand color Macy*s - Men's - Polo Ralph Lauren "Prospect" Pant for $24.99 and $9.95 shipping for $61.18 total that contained the Louis Raphael pants arrived today UPS: Tracking Information .  They look and fit just fine.  I cut off the tags, and I hung them on a hanger in the left living room closet with my new suit jackets.  Thus I can also dress a little bit formally if the occasion ever calls for it.  Of course computer people are usually known for looking like slobs, but in my younger years, I knew some of the top fashion people in Manhattan, so I know a little bit about traditional men's fashion, unlike the group of local deck hands in this area.  I chatted with my relative in Maine, and I probably will not be going up to visit now, but I might visit later after Labor Day.  Of  course the matter is still open for change.  I could always park my car at the Stamford Train station for about $7 a day the last time I use it, and take the bus from their.  CIO    

Note:<888> 07/27/07 Friday 4:35 P.M..  I woke up at around 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I chatted with a friend and a relative and a local security organization.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage along with the recent periodical literature.   I also had a computer magazine telephone call, but they did not call back.  It is hot outside, so I will stay inside by the air conditioner and work on the computer.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I installed the recent Vista updates.  I was told by a friend yesterday that the Striped Bass are now running in Long Island sound which would be about 7 weeks later than normal, so we are definitely having a cooler summer, which might mean a cooler winter.  I was told by a relative on the West Coast of the United States of America that Monterey Bay is full of Giant Squid eight feet in diameter, and the local fishermen are having to wrestle with them to bring them in.  Apparently the Spanish and the Mexicans like eating them for Calamaris, which is sliced squid like rubber bands and fried like onions rings in olive oil.  Yesterday I also chatted with the Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West , and I told them it is finally warm up here, and more than likely next winter they would make lots of money with the colder winter weather up north.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/27/07 Friday 5:15 A.M..  On the order from www.macys.com in waist 42 inches and length 30 inches Macy*s - Men's - Louis Raphael Double Pleated Wool Dress Pant in rope color for $26.24 and in the same size in sand color Macy*s - Men's - Polo Ralph Lauren "Prospect" Pant for $24.99 and $9.95 shipping for $61.18 total.  The Louis Raphael pants have shipped and will arrive later today UPS: Tracking Information .  I will go through my email later on today, when I wake up.

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

Note:<888> 07/27/07 Friday 4:45 A.M..  After the last note, I made and ate the same meal as the last three nights.  I also ate a toasted bagel with olive oil.  I chatted with two relatives during the mid evening.  About 8 P.M., my FIC server running XP Professional was hacked.  I tried figuring out the problem.  The Vista Server 2008 beta 3 partition still worked.  I complained to a local security organization that I am suppose to call, when I am hacked, but they don't care anymore in New Haven, Connecticut, because they have bigger fish to fry.  I chatted with the Cablevision Optimum Online tech person for a while, and I told him what I know, and he just thinks it is another one of those computer spiders out there.  I finally restored the Visa Server 2008 beta 3 backup made on May 1, 2007, and the XP partition was also in the backup, so after a few minor configuration changes and updates, the FIC XP Professional Server is up and running again. The two different server partitions never really change, so it is easier to restore the backups.  I tried for a while to install the old Siemens router as a second router off the D-Link router, so I could have two different DMZ IP addresses, but I could not get it to go online running it off another router.  It is rather queer that the only thing I had done earlier today was email David Foster at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club about my web site, and suddenly for the first time in several months the FIC server is hacked.  Of course it might be just circumstance of the season, when a lot of the regulars are away on vacation, and we seem to get a lot of strangers in the area visiting the area.  Needless to say, the local security people might know more, but they never give one anyone any feedback to help figure out the problem.  I also ate two pieces of cheese cake.  From what I know in the old days, hacking computers was taken seriously, but today with so many people using them, the various computer security organizations can not be bothered with home users.   Well, it was another lost work day.  I will now go through my email.  My relative in Kennebunkport, Maine wants me to come up and visit this Saturday for 10 days, but I can not afford to go up there until the following Wednesday August 1, 2007, when I would have funds available, and then I would only stay a week.  It was suggested that I take a bus.  I could take a Dog www.greyhound.com for $85 round trip.  There is one a day that leaves Stamford, Connecticut at 6:20 A.M. on August 1, 2007 arriving in Portland, Maine at 2:15 P.M..   However, according to the mta.info | Metro-North Railroad Schedules , there is only a train from Greenwich, Connecticut to Stamford at 2:42 A.M. in the morning arriving at 3:11 A.M., and the next train is not until 6:26 A.M. after the bus has left.  Thus I would have to spend three hours at the Stamford, Connecticut train station in the early morning hours.  Also I believe the Greenwich taxi cabs quit running at about 1 A.M., so I would to spend some time at the Greenwich train station.  I would like to go up there, but I will have to chat some more with my relative about it.  I assume my relative would be able to pick me up in Portland, Maine.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/26/07 Thursday 5:05 P.M..  I woke up at 11 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I went outside briefly, and I picked up my mail.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I wore one of my new summer sports jackets.  I went by the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment on Thursday.  I then went by the Arnold Bread Outlet, and I bought a 24 ounce Entenmann's pineapple cheese cake for $2.25, two six packs of Thomas' oatmeal and honey bagels for $1.79 a six pack for $5.83 total.  I now have $2.12 left on my Cell Phones and Cell Phone Plans from AT&T, formerly Cingular Wireless Visa $20 rebate card on the Motorola Go phone.  I then returned home, and I will spend a quiet late afternoon and evening by the air conditioner on a warm day.  CIO     

Note:<888> 07/26/07 Thursday 4:35 A.M..  I registered the www.pny.com video card and the memory I bought this past February 22, 2007, so they will covered under warranty.  I put the receipts for the registration with the other computer information receipts in the Christmas packing folder in the file holder on the bedroom desk.  I downloaded the PNY video driver from the PNY site to see if it is different than the Nividia driver, but it is the same.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Earlier, I ate three scoops of Dulche de Leche ice cream.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/26/07 Thursday 3:15 A.M..  I reset Internet Explorer to its defaults.  I disabled the ActiveX add ins that looked suspicious from unrecognized vendors.  It a'int that hard to do.  This communications war started many years ago in Decatur, Alabama with the younger brother of a friend and fellow cub scout Billy Ellis.  His younger brother Jimmy Ellis was confused about communications, so I showed him how you could take a thread about a yard long, and thread it into the center bottom of two Dixie cups on either end knotting the ends of the thread inside the Dixie cups and holding the tight, and you could communicate with the thread and the Dixie cups.  Dixie cups are made in Champaign, Illinois, and the Hemminway family sell thread.  Of course at that point, I had already toured the Decatur, Alabama telephone exchange with my local grade school class.  I think Jimmy Ellis went on to run Offut Air Force base Offutt Air Force Base for NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command , and he is on the board of directors of Level 3 communications Level 3 Communications .  Having run Offut Air Force base, he more than likely knows how to fly a plane.  Unfortunately a great deal of aviation today is dependant upon electronics working properly, so more than likely his grease monkey skills would only work on the older more dependable aircraft which depended on more reliable hydraulics which are much more expensive and complicated to maintain.  If I have computer problems all of the time with the latest equipment and software, do you really think I would feel secure "Flying By Wire", or flying in an airplane or jet run by a computer.  My associates have enough spare funds that we have a lot of the old reliable B-52s B-52 Stratofortress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia available which have eight engines and are more reliable, and it is rather odd that the Old Guard types like Lindbergh still know how to fly and maintain them.  If the United States Government when I visited Washington D.C. last in 1990 was still using late 1960s Chrysler station wagons for taxis, because they have distributor points instead of electronic ignition, more than likely they are still using the B-52s in areas that are not easily observed, if you get my drift.  Next time you see a picture of Charles Lindbergh in an apartment, remember besides crossing the Atlantic at a young age, by age 40, he was a Four Star Air Force General.  I think we should put Jimmy Ellis back in Young's Bicycle shop up in Nantucket to see if the Wright Brothers have any better ideas.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/26/07 Thursday 2:25 A.M..  I had a promotion offer from www.pny.com with the Nvidia video card to download and purchase  Registry Mechanic 7 for $9.95 instead of $49.95.  However, when I logged onto the offer page, and I was just about ready to purchase the item, my Vista computer crashed.  Then when I rebooted, the Registry Mechanic web site www.lolo.com was hacked, I placed a copy of the hacked page at http://mikelouisscott.com/lolo-hack.htm .  I chatted with a couple of computer security organizations.  CIO   

Note:<888> 07/26/07 Thursday 12:45 A.M..  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a couple of staff members about computers, and I checked on their internet system to make sure my web site worked off of it.  I went by the ATM machine at the Chase Bank on Mason Street, but my AT&T Visa $20 rebate card would not work for a $20 withdrawal, since they charge $1.50 for a $20 withdrawal, which is more than is on the card.  I then went by CVS, and I bought from the 50% clearance shelf, a 200 foot spool of nylon twine for .99 and .06 tax for $1.05 off the AT&T Visa Rebate card.  I put the spool of Nylon twine in the passenger's side front door pocket to have available in the car.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station.  I chatted with a couple of regular Avenue regulars.  I sat out at various locations.  Not much going on downtown.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and it was a full house of people lingering and fishing down there.   I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Center Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $11 of self service premium unleaded gasoline at $3.699 a gallon for 2.973 gallons driving 32.8 miles since last Thursday with a current odometer reading of 114,523.5 miles.  I averaged 11.0326 miles per gallon driving with the trips to the Hartsdale, New York Best Buy www.bestbuy.com  and a trip  to downtown Greenwich this evening.  I thus have $7.95 left on the AT&T Wireless Visa Rebate Card.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $2.35, and Chiquita bananas  at .54 a pound for $1.56 for $6.90 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor doing laundry.  I put away my purchases.  I will now do a little bit of regular internet work.  I saw one yuppie downtown dressed Bermuda Yacht Club style, but he looked like he had enough.  On the northside just off Greenwich Avenue on Lewis street where the Papery is in the Society building, there is an office chair and a 19 inch Viewsonic CRT monitor available that someone has disposed of.  I don't know if it works, but they usually do, since people get rid of them for LCD monitors.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/25/07 Wednesday 7:15 P.M..  I reheated and ate the same meal as the last three nights.   Basically, I do not know much about the history of Bermuda.  It was discovered by Juan Bermudez a Spanish pirate, and it now part of the Commonwealth of Nations as a Sovereign Territory, so therefore the Commonwealth of Nations would defend it, although it is a tiny island nation.  It used to belong to the British, so the British probably still yield a considerable amount of economic influence there.  What looks like a rat on the tiny Bermuda flag http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/large_flag_of_bermuda.gif  is actually a Red Lion on the large Bermuda flag, a sign of British Heraldry of Nobility.  Whether there are actually lions on Bermuda currently or historically is opened to debate, but like all island nations, it tends to have skinny people, so like in Ethiopia, the lions would not bother the skinny people anyway, since there is not much to eat off their bones.  Since Bermuda has Duty Free liquor, the locals and tourists tend to drink quite their fair share of it.  High tea is traditionally thrown at 4 P.M. in Bermuda, since that is when tourists tend to be ready after having waken up and had breakfast and done their daily routines before they start their partying festivities like on a cruise ship.  Of course possibly in Bermuda, if you don't pay the help for all of their work, they might feed you to the lions or cast you adrift.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go out for an evening stroll.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/25/07 Wednesday 6:05 P.M..  I updated my primary Vista computer pictures on http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/25/07 Wednesday 5:30 P.M..  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea. 

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Note:<888> 07/25/07 Wednesday 4:00 P.M..  High Tea in Bermuda time.  I did another Vista Complete P.C. backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive before going to bed this morning.  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I went outside briefly.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I did two loads of laundry.  I chatted with neighbors while doing laundry.  I finished sewing up the pink and white bolster that I bought a few years ago at Christmas Time from the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift shop for $10.  They currently are away on their summer vacation.   That reminds me, when I first started using personal computers 19 years ago, Jimmy Bolster ran a BBS out of Old Greenwich on Astronomy, so a lot of this night time observation was to do with out local astronomy club.  With the higher prices of fuel, the night sky around here is a lot clearer recently.  I recall hearing that Jimmy Bolster ended up the observatory in Argentina.  I have not looked too much at astronomy web sites, since I have been focused on the systems parts of computers, which takes quite a bit of time.  I am making up a batch of Formula Two http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .  I put away my laundry.  I chatted with a relative.  Since I am a bit in debt, I could pay my Service Contract for the next year on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control by September 12, 2007 in three payments of $36.05 over the year, which might be easier for me to handle.  With the higher prices of key commodities going up without my income going up, I am pretty much tapped out.  The good news is I got my $20 rebate on my AT&T wireless telephone on a Visa Card that I have to activate over the internet.  One uses it like a regular Visa of Debit card, but one is limited to $20 in expense amount.  I will now go through my email.  CIO     

Note:<888> 07/25/07 Wednesday 12:50 A.M..  Microsoft releases initial code for IronRuby | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

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Note:<888> 07/24/07 Tuesday 11:55 P.M..  Dinner was enjoyable as usual.  I usually do not eat lunch, because I do not have enough time in my day for lunch.  I move the small Swiss, Swedish, and Bermuda flags from the front dining table Epson printer stand to on top of the flat surface of the large Dell 20 inch monitor on the Vista computer.  I am also using the flat stand on the Logitech web cam.   I will now go through my email.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/24/07 Tuesday 10:30 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M. today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I started sewing up the bed bolster that is ripped on the end.  This will take a bit of time.  About 3 P.M., UPS: Tracking Information on the order for the Nvidia one Newegg.com - PNY VCGFX522PPB GeForce FX 5200 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Video Card - Retail for $59.99 plus $5.84 UPS 1 day delivery less 1.1% discount of .66 plus $2.99 Rush Order Fee, less $2.99 Preferred Account fee for $65.17 total arrived.   The new video card would not work with the ATI Radeon 9600 ATX video card in the primary Vista computer, so I switch the Nvidia Geforce 6200 out of the FIC server, and I put the ATI video card in the server.  The primary Vista computer recognized both Nvidia cards.  I installed the drivers and software on both computers.  I also put the Sterling X2 modem in the FIC server.  I connected up the U.S. Robotics external X2 modem to the Vista computer.  It is behind the lower left LCD monitor.  For security reasons, I have not connected the telephone line to either modem.  They are just for backup.  Since the two Nvidia cards are capable of powering four monitors all together.  I raised the left LCD monitor with four large books on the left monitor shelf.  I moved the center LCD monitor to the table beneath the left LCD monitor on the shelf.  I move the 20 inch Dell CRT monitor to the center of the shelf, which I did first, so its weight would balance the shelf.  The upper left LCD monitor is the 2nd monitor connected to the Nvidia AGP card with the icons and gadgets.  The lower left first monitor is for web publishing or email.  The center Dell 20 inch monitor is for web browsing, and the far right monitor is for web browsing or media playing.  Of course one could vary them depending on their preferences.   This all took some time.  Thus I would say, if one is going to try three or four monitors with Vista, one should use the AGP and PCI video cards with the same chipset of Nvidia or ATI.  I have not tried two ATI video cards.  I moved the Dell Sony 19 inch monitor from the Northgate computer to the Epox computer.  I moved the Dell 19 inch monitor from the bedroom window to the Northgate Syntax computer.  I did a complete P.C. Backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive on the four monitor Vista computer.  I cleaned up my work area.  I still have to finish sewing up the bolster.   I will now make and eat the same dinner as the last two nights.  CIO       

Note:<888> 07/24/07 Tuesday 1:55 A.M..  This might explain the cooler weather this summer up north Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report .  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  Have a good morning.  I ate two scoops of Dulche de Leche ice cream.   When I went to the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, I saw a lot of Marmot jackets, so I thought they were a French or European jacket.  I see them all of the time in Greenwich, Connecticut, particularly on cold days on weekends. .::outdoortraders: outdoor sports equipment, gear, clothing and supplies in Greenwich, CT. Outdoor Traders, outfitters for life sells them, but this time of year, they might have sale prices.  The Greenwich Avenue merchants have not given me any financial assistance for walking Greenwich Avenue regularly for 24 years, particularly at night.  It is just an enjoyable exercise walk, when I can not afford to drive to Tod's Point for a walk around the Point.  Although I occasionally sit down for a cigarette, I spend most of my time walking Greenwich Avenue, as one local walker found out to his exhaustion.  Of course after walking a lot more miles per day in Manhattan, Nantucket, and Key West, I consider Greenwich Avenue a short walk.  Of course the golf courses in back country are a bit longer.  Biggest building I was ever in probably was Versailles.  I never visited the Pentagon.  When you have spent as much time outside walking as I have, any building seems small.   CIO    

Note:<888> 07/24/07 Tuesday 1:35 A.M..  I registered the Needle Jacket Overview | marmot.com at www.marmot.com .  It was Marmot Needle Jacket - Insulated Waterproof (For Men) - Save 60% or marmot.com or Needle Jacket Overview | marmot.com as a clearance item for $120 with 20% discount for $96 and $10 UPS ground shipping for $106 total, which is a significant savings.   It says in the fine print that to wear www.marmot.com clothing, one has to climb an ice glacier, which I do not plan to do so anytime in the near future.   However, the Marmot line of clothing was started at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and I ounce climbed the rock ledge there behind the vegetarian cafe in 1979.   I also climbed a Red Wood tree there.  I climbed the back side of a mountain in New Hampshire in the summer around 1970, and there was a burned out discothèque at the top.  I climbed the back side of Caesar's Head near Greenville, South Carolina without snow in the winter of 1976.  I hiked the Appalachian trail for a few days in late April 1978.  I have also walked regularly most of my life.   However, if we get cold weather on Greenwich Avenue in the upcoming winters, I should be comfortably dressed in the Needle Jacket.  I know what threading the needle is all about in Ice Climbing, and I do not plan to do it.  Jimmy Eldert went to the University of California at Santa Cruz, so maybe he hiked around Yosemite.  I once climbed the water tower in Nantucket with him, and I thought he was sort of nuts, when he asked me what you happen it we jumped off.  I climbed down after that, and I did not bother climbing with him again.  I moved the Red Marmot jacket to the left living room closet, so it is not so stuffed in with all of my other winter jackets.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/24/07 Tuesday 12:05 A.M..  President's Radio address tell you some things that you might not know http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070721.a.mp3 at Welcome to the White House .  The last time I was down in Washington D.C. was around 1990 http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/msdc90.jpg when former President Bush known now as Prisoner Number 41 was in office, and it was a cold winter's day around zero degrees Fahrenheit the night before, and as I recall the then President was visiting Argentina, so they were cleaning the public rooms in the White House, so only about half the rooms were opened on display and the furniture was removed and the carpets taken up in some of the larger rooms.  It is not really that large of a house compared to other houses that I have seen.  It would look more tropical if painted pink with green trim, but then it would not be known as the White House.  I recall the large gold ornate Steinway piano in the lobby as I exited.  What is strange is that the pictures in the media look different than the place that I visited.   It seemed it was rather dark and dreary like a museum half way through renovation.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 11:20 P.M..  www.kenradio.com in Korea.  He talked about the next Microsoft operating system "Seven" .  He has come a long way, since the days of www.bestbuy.com in Chicago, Illinois. 

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Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 10:05 P.M..  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for the Nvidia one Newegg.com - PNY VCGFX522PPB GeForce FX 5200 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Video Card - Retail for $59.99 plus $5.84 UPS 1 day delivery less 1.1% discount of .66 plus $2.99 Rush Order Fee, less $2.99 Preferred Account fee for $65.17 total.  I will thus have to be here tomorrow afternoon to receive it.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 9:55 P.M..  I chatted with a relative who does not like me going into debt on my Chase Visa Credit card.  However, it is the nature of Greenwich, Connecticut that the locals downtown in the daytime tend to be image conscious.  Since I volunteer in a professional capacity, I guess it does not hurt me to put forth a more professional appearance, when I am out in the general public.  However, it will not effect my regular spending habits, since my income more than likely will remain the same for the indefinite future.  I currently weigh 191 pounds, so my current wardrobe should last me for the indefinite future for walking around downtown and stopping by thrift shops and the Greenwich Library and the local grocery stores and the www.exxon.com  gasoline station or whatever my simple routines take me.  More than likely the rich people whom do not feel the need to dress up can afford to dress down.  For years, I wore a yellow Gortex windbreaker that I bought for $3 from the First Presbyterian Church tag sale and blue jeans, and the fashion crowd got tired of looking at me, since I looked like I had just stepped off of an aircraft carrier flight deck.  Now, I will look more like the absent minded professor.  Of course some of the last schools I use to walk around are all the way out west back in Manhattan, and I have had more time to do my home work out here, instead of just walking around the academic neighborhoods of Manhattan.  I have not bought a new sports jacket, since I was in college, which was many moons ago, but I have bought sports jackets in thrift shops, but alas at my current size 46 regular dress jacket, there does not seem to be much available at reasonable prices in our local thrift shops.  Since older heavier people tend to hang on to their vintage clothing, until the move down south and retire or head off for the Pearly Gates.  Sports jacket are handy, since they tend to have multiple pockets for sun glasses, eye glasses, car keys, pens, cell phones, or whatever else a man might need to carry with him.  Of course at the high price of dry cleaning around here, I will not be paying to dry clean my clothes, but I have a steam machine I could steam them with every year or so.  We have a lot of Asian visitors in our downtown area, and they tend to be very fashion aware of the established Western image that we projected in our Hollywood Film reels for so many years. However, I can not afford go Pub Crawling or dining or other leisure activities, so I will just be maintaining my public image which tends to be very public, since I tend to have the ability to walk a lot, which a few people are beginning to learn how to do more with the higher prices of fuel.  Since I do not live in a tropical area, I reflect the fashion trends in my Native New York New England area, and not those of the summer Palm Beach crowd.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 8:55 P.M..  I ordered from www.macys.com in waist 42 inches and length 30 inches Macy*s - Men's - Louis Raphael Double Pleated Wool Dress Pant in rope color for $26.24 and in the same size in sand color Macy*s - Men's - Polo Ralph Lauren "Prospect" Pant for $24.99 and $9.95 shipping for $61.18 total.  The Polo pants might take a couple of months to ship.  I now have $1,172.16 debt on my Chase Visa Credit Card, and I owe $1,237.33 credit debt altogether.   Hopefully, I will be able to pay it off by the first of the year.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 7:55 P.M..  The jackets arrived.  I use a small pair of scissors from the medicine cabinet to cut of the labels, tags, and open up the pockets on the two double breast jackets.  I hung the red Marmot jacket in the right living closet.  I hung the three new dress jackets in the left living room closets.  They are fit quite well.  Alas I don't need any more pants, but if I could afford them they are on sale here Macy*s - Men's - CLEARANCE - Pants .  I reheated and ate the same dinner as last night.  I watched a little bit of television.  I will now do some regular computer work.  Since I am not very much attuned to U.S.A. politics, I stick to what I know in terms of personal computers and modest cooking and house keeping expertise and other Mickey Mouse maintenance.  Usually during the warmer weather in New England, it is best to spend a bit of time depending on what one can afford to get ready for the much longer colder seasons of the year.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 5:45 P.M..  I did some tweaking around the apartment.  I said hello to a neighbor.  BBC NEWS | UK | Residents braced for more floods .

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Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 4:40 P.M..   Lava Flows East Of Pu'u O'o For First Time In 15 Years - News Story - KITV Honolulu .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 4:10 P.M..  Well George Cary grew up with Bobby Goodyear, if you ever need better winter tires, since in East Aurora, New York, more than likely they get some severe winter conditions.  Also, George Gordon Cary's grandfather Jay Coogan looked a little bit like Jay Paul Getty, but he kept his hand cut stone Victorian manor house in Gladstone, New Jersey in the winter at about 45 degrees Fahrenheit, but he had a large collection of four in hand carriages, if you know how to take care of carriage horses.  Of course the Budweiser Clysdales, once showed up in Key West, Florida.  Yeh, I think it is going to be a colder winter.  Thus we have to keep this place, which I call the Buffalo Road House in operation.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 3:50 P.M..  During a let up in the rain, I dried off the lower left and the lower right sides of the rear window of the Buick wagon with paper towels, and I put the Bermuda oval on the lower left or driver's side and the United Kingdom on the lower right or passenger's side of the rear window of the Buick wagon, so the diplomatic symbols of recognition are installed on the 1992 Buick Roadmaster station wagon Michael Scott 1992 Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon.  I could mount the two little Bermuda flags in the rear side windows, but they might fade in the sun.  Of course, I could have bought a Saudi Arabian oval to help pay for the gasoline, but currently, the North Sea oil will probably keep the old jalopy going for a while.  Of course in Bermuda, they have little golf cart type cars with pink and white canopies, but they would not be practical around here during the colder months of the year.  I put the two spare oval decals in the drawer in the Lindbergh radio in the bedroom.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 3:15 P.M..  Since the Bermuda flag seems to have a little bit of orange in its red color, it matches with the center living room orange curtain, so I moved it from the left living room closet to hanging from the orange center living room curtain above the G.E. air conditioner.  Thus the left living closet door is more easily opened without moving the flag, so one can get at colder weather clothing.  I also moved the small 3 inch by 5 inch Bermuda flag from on top of the Epox computer monitor to on top of the Northgate computer monitor, so one is less likely to impale oneself on it, when moving around the brass and glass coffee table computer work area.  Bermuda is a tiny island nation, which is part of the Commonwealth of Nations, and besides suing the state of Texas for calling red onions, Bermuda onions, some of its income is derived from the second largest Reinsurance Business in the world.  They also are home to 50,000 off shore tax free companies.  They also have a tourist industry, which many people enjoy.   We have some expatriate residents from Bermuda in this area, so more than likely they know something more about it.  You can not buy property in Bermuda, but you have to inherit it.  Bermuda became famous when one of Queen Victoria's daughters married a wealthy Canadian, and the winters were so cold in Canada, she chose to live in Bermuda.  When I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, one could buy Bermuda driver's licenses and draft cards for $5 a pair, which were handy for identification in the New York bars, when one was under the 18 year old drinking age.  When I stayed in Bermuda for three weeks in the spring of 1968, I stayed at the Glyndon Guest house, with three other Taft classmates and four prep school students from the Middlesex school in Concorde, Massachusetts for the first two weeks and the last week we shared the guest house with four students from the University of North Carolina.  We threw a High Tea gathering every day at 4 P.M. with several hundred guests.   We use to go the Rugby matches and drink Heineken beer on the side lines, and I recall eating a lot of ham and cheese sandwiches.  For dinner, the girls who stayed at the Elbow Beach Club would let us eat their dinners, but you had to wear a sports jacket and tie.  Riding a moped in the evening after high tea was quite risky.  We even once went to a native night club.  I brought my golf clubs, but I never got around to playing golf at the St. George's club, although I was invited by Waddie Watson every day at high tea.  Waddie Watson was a friend of George Cary's, and that is where I first met George Cary, whom I ended up going to www.lfc.edu with.  I flew to Bermuda on that Spring Break on a British Overseas Aircraft Corporation B.O.A.C. jet out of Kennedy airport, and I recall I was one of a few passengers on it, and I recall returning on a fuller Pan Am jet.  I recall buying a cranberry red, a yellow, a beige, and a baby blue wool sweaters at Trimingham's for about $20 apiece.  Mopeds were about $5 a day to rent, and I think we paid about $5 a night for our bunk beds at the Glyndon Guest house.  Thus we were on a low budget holiday.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 2:25 P.M..  Digital 07 Worldwide Partner Conference  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 2:10 P.M..  I picked up my mail.  The General Electric Service contract on the GE Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control arrived which would start September 12, 2007.  If I chose to continue it for another year, it would cost $101.95.  The order from Buy American and International Flags Flagstore Flagsales Banners two Bermuda Auto Decals Buy Bermuda flags, Bermuda flags, find Bermuda flags, Buy Bermuda flag, Bermuda flag, Bermuda shirts, Buy Bermuda banner, Bermuda banner, find Bermuda banner, Buy Bermuda banners, Bermuda banners, find Bermuda banners, for $2.25 each and $3 shipping for $7.50 total arrived.  On a dry day, I will put on the Bermuda ovals on the driver's side rear window of the Buick wagon.   I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 1:45 P.M..  I put the 3 foot by 5 foot Bermuda flag hanging over the left living room closet.  I put one of the small Bermuda flags on the Epson printer stand at apartment entrance with its weighted stand.  I put the other small Bermuda flag with its weighted stand on the Epox computer monitor, so it is in the center of living room.   I will put the United Kingdom Oval Decal on the rear passenger side window of the Buick wagon on a dry day, when it is not raining.  Thus the Bermuda Yacht Club is up and running.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 1:35 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.  All three sports costs and the Marmot jacket are scheduled for delivery today.  UPS: Tracking Information on the order for two JoS. A. Bank Clothiers - Business Express Double-Breasted Jacket-Navy, Olive Plaid, Grey Stripe in 46 regular for $49 each, one in grey strip and one in olive plaid plus $11.95 two day shipping for $109.95 total.   UPS: Tracking Information on the order with the 20% discount coupon 20% off of the SierraTradingPost sale http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/243140 , you have to enter your email address in the URL that you cut and paste this item Orvis Harris Tweed Hebidean Plaid Jacket (For Men) - Save 62% in size 46 for $103.96 with 20% discount coupon plus $12 ground shipping for $115.96 total a savings of $245.04.   UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Marmot Needle Jacket - Insulated Waterproof (For Men) - Save 60% or marmot.com or Needle Jacket Overview | marmot.com as a clearence item for $120 with 20% discount for $96 and $10 UPS ground shipping for $106 total.  You can use the same 20% off link from above, if you want to order it.  The mail still has not arrived.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 12:55 P.M..  I did not fall asleep until about 4 A.M..  Before going to bed, I took the five foot long dining room table wooden leaf, and I removed the ACER LCD monitors from the primary Vista computer, and I laid the table leaf on top of the control panels centered, and I put the monitors on top of the table leaf, so they are more evenly positioned.  I have the left and right one turned in slightly against the center one.  Currently, they are bit further away from the computer chair, but I probably will get use to them at that distance.  I brought the control panels forward a few inches, so they seemed to be positioned about just the right distance away for easy reading.  I labeled the monitors, left, center, and right.  I am using the top control panel switch for the computer for the left monitor.  One turns on the power to the computer with the UPS switch underneath the keyboard and the CPU switch.   I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with the building custodian.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  CIO      

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 1:35 A.M..   BBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' production begins .  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/23/07 Monday 1:20 A.M..  I opened up the package of six boneless chicken breasts, and I put four of them in a large flat Rubbermaid container.   I then rinsed off the other two in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.   I then put a thin coat of olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish, and on a separate plate, I rubbed the bottom side of the boneless chicken breasts with olive oil, and then I spread a thick coating of seasoned bread crumbs on it, and then I did the same with the top side and the other boneless chicken breasts.   I then put them in the Pyrex pie dish, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I also made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm to which I also added two teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and Italian Seasoning and chicken bullion seasoning.  I ate half, and I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I also steamed in a two quart Revere pot with steamer tray and lid about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat, and I put some olive oil on the vegetables.  I put the other baked boneless chicken breast in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   To install the PCI video card in the primary Vista computer, I have taken out the PCI Sterling X2 telephone modem.  Current configuration http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm reflects the way the system will be setup, once I install the PCI video card.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/22/07 Sunday 11:35 P.M..  After the last message, I ordered online for in store pickup at the Hartsdale, New York www.bestbuy.com store, a  Acer - 19" Widescreen Flat-Panel TFT-LCD Monitor - X191WSD for $129.99 and $9.59 tax for $139.58 total.  I am thus $1,110.98 in debt on my www.chase.com Vista Credit card.  I have pretty much used up my $1,200 credit limit.  It will be lean times for the next few months.  I drove over the back way on Anderson Hill Road to White Plains, New York, and I picked up the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor at the Hartsdale, New York Best Buy.  I then returned home the same way.  I set it up as the center monitor, since it is silver in between the two new black Acer 19 inch LCD monitors.  I tried running the third LCD monitor off two of my old PCI video cards, but they were not compatible with the system.  It took a while to try to test them.  I chatted with two relatives.  I could not find an ATI PCI card that is suppose to work with Vista, so I ordered this Nvidia one Newegg.com - PNY VCGFX522PPB GeForce FX 5200 256MB 128-bit DDR PCI Video Card - Retail for $59.99 plus $5.84 UPS 1 day delivery less 1.1% discount of .66 plus $2.99 Rush Order Fee, less $2.99 Preferred Account fee for $65.17 total.   Thus I now have $1,176.15 debt on my two different credit accounts.  This page says it is suppose to work with Visa PNY FX 5200 256MB PCI  .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/22/07 Sunday 12:35 P.M..  Back on sale again for two days Acer - 19" Widescreen Flat-Panel TFT-LCD Monitor - X191WSD for $130.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/22/07 Sunday 12:20 P.M..  I was awake at 9 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I went back to bed until noon.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I will now go through my email.  There is not much happening around here with all of the Rich people away on vacation, but they usually return by the third week of August from their holidays.  I was told by a friend that there was an article in Vanity Fair about a member of the Bass family having their house broken into in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and they were tortured and held for ransom.  They had forgotten to turn their security system on.   I recommended to my friend that the best security is to have one or more big dogs, which tends to be more reliable, as long as one can afford to feed and maintain them.  CIO   

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 11:35 P.M..  I watched part of a movie about Victorian England, but alas although they seem to be well mannered in the talkies, one has to remember a couple of million English gentleman lost their lives in the trenches in World War I, so more than likely they also still pursue their traditional sporting activities in England.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/21/07:

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 10:05 P.M..  I chatted with a friend, and then I made and ate my dinner.  I turned on the Honeywell Hepa air purifier last week with the other regular apartment lights, so I am using slightly more electricity, but the apartment is more cheerful, and the air purifier keeps the apartment smelling better.   I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 8:20 P.M..  I went out after the last message.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I then went downtown, and the sidewalk sales were just ending.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a New Yorker about covering Manhattan in the old days.  I stopped by CVS during my walk, and I bought two 1.16 ounce containers of Gold Emblem oregano for .99 each for $1.98 total.  I completed my walk, and I sat out for a while.  CVS has the new Harry Potter book on sale for $33.98.  They have about 75 of them on display at a front table.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of boneless breasts of chicken for $1.79 a pound for $6.53, two 64 ounce containers of Tropicana with calcium premium orange juice for $2.50 each, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a three pound bag of onions for $2.79, fresh Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound for $1.58, and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.61 for $21.50 total.  I then returned home.  I said hello to some of my neighbors.  I put away the groceries.  I will now make and eat the same meal as last night.  I chatted with a relative while downtown, and I also got some text messages in Spanish, and I alas I do not know Spanish.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 4:35 P.M..  After my nap, I ate most of the rest of the 12.5 ounce can of Spanish Red Skin peanuts.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out for a walk.  Traditionally in the Old Country in France, Italy, Spain, and Greece, they taps a break or a nap or a siesta in the afternoon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 2:30 P.M..  Earlier, I ate a half of a 12.5 ounce can of Planter's Spanish peanuts.  I just ate two scoops of Dulche de Leche ice cream.  I will now put the primary computer on standby, and I will take a nap. CIO  

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 2:05 P.M..  Why CDW .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 1:45 P.M..  I ordered Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ready Reference discount software for free, DK Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe discount software for free, Wonders of Science discount software for free, Wonders of the Ancient World discount software for free, plus for ordering four items, I got Zane's Encyclopedia on the Oceans for free with $5.99 shipping each on the first four items for $23.96 total.  Now I will have some reference material available to study on the computers.  I thus owe $971.40 on my www.chase.com Visa credit card.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 12:30 P.M..  Build a $250 PC That Doesn't Suck - Computer Shopper .  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 12:10 P.M..  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  Bush back in power, 'in good humor,' after colonoscopy - CNN.com .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 11:20 A.M..  You can use this rebate form for a $100 off http://forums.slickdeals.net/showpost.php?p=7298901&postcount=35 to order this desktop computer with Vista basic FRYS.com | GQ GQ 5140 ( Vista Basic Celeron D 352, 512mb, 80gb $150 after $100 rebate with $12 shipping for $162.  The rebate form only works from this link http://forums.slickdeals.net/showpost.php?p=7298901&postcount=35  not the Fry's computer page.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 11:05 A.M..  Well, we could reopen Triminghams in Berumda and get business going again Triminghams Bermuda .  I will now go through my email.  Bermuda National Trust .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/21/07 Saturday 10:20 A.M..  I woke up at 9 A.M..  Things are just going fine at the Greenwich Branch of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.   I suppose we could start shopping around for our own yacht, but we would have to register it in Bermuda to avoid taxes.  Grant Simmons Yacht at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Indian Harbor Yacht Club Real-Time Weather and Indian Harbor Yacht Club use to fly the Bermuda flag, so you could chat with him if you see it.  It was a raising sailboat, so it would not need fuel except for the generator.  It is not that I am boycotting the pier on Steamboat Road, but from here it is about 7 miles round trip and with a car that gets about 11 miles per gallon at $3.70 a gallon, it would cost me over $2 for the round trip down there.  I may go out tomorrow morning to visit with my friend if he stops by downtown in the morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dinners.  I will then water the plants and put out more white vinegar in the scent bowl.   CIO    

Note:<888> 07/20/07 Friday 9:30 P.M..  I chatted with a friend whom I might meet up with on Sunday downtown.   I will now go through my email.  Well, he could get this done at the West Putnam Avenue Chase Bank building BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush to undergo medical procedure .  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/20/07 Friday 8:00 P.M..  I went outside after the last message.  I chatted with some neighbors.   I then made and ate my usual burger with onions and cheese meal with steamed flavored rice and steamed broccoli and carrots, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a neighbor who delivered a piece of misplaced mail.  Georgetown Inn | Hotel Review | Washington, D.C. | Frommers.com is still opened, and I worked the grape vine with them.   I suggested to them that there might be an undeclared candidate that still might think about running for www.whitehouse.gov .  He currently is a software engineer with www.microsoft.com , but who knows.   Maybe his father won't give him the key to the jet.  CIO    

Note:<888> 07/20/07 Friday 4:45 P.M..  I ate the last two pieces of chocolate filled crumb cake before going to bed last night.  I was awake at 6 P.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dinners.  I chatted with two friends and a relative.  I chatted with a computer security official, and I also chatted with the same official about two former classmates of mine from Greenwich whom were visiting Bermuda on Spring break back in 1968, when I was there with some other classmates.  Who knows I never see them here in Greenwich, so maybe they do not live here, but they live in Bermuda. I picked up my mail, and I chatted with some neighbors.  The AMI fire protection person was inspecting his equipment.  I chatted with him briefly about the technical problems that I have been having.  The PQI i810 mini I-Stick 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive with ReadyBoost, Pink for $19.99 with free shipping arrived.  It is quite tiny, about the size of a man's thumb nail and about 1/8th inch thick.  I copied files that I thought worth backing up to it, which took some time.  I have 353 megabytes of disk space left on it.  My three new suit jackets and my red winter Marmot jacket are suppose to arrive this coming Monday.  The way I figure it, I have about three months until my Renter's Rebate arrives, so I will be paying high interest on my Chase Visa Credit card debt, but I will be better dressed, whenever I can afford to make it downtown.  I ate a toasted bagel with two 1 inch by .25 inch by 3.5 inch slices of American cheddar cheese along with some iced tea.   Basically although we are the low income side of town, we tend to lead a quieter life here than the high powered big bucks people whom seem to monopolize the downtown, whether they live here or not.  The Bermuda stuff probably will not be here for a week or so, so we will have time to get use to blending in like we are from Bermuda. I have a relative whom lived in Bermuda for a couple of winters back in the early 1980s.  We also have a family friend that was the United States Consulate to Bermuda for a few decades. They were from Muskegon, Michigan and belonged to the Muskegon Yacht Club.   I guess nobody else was interested in living in Bermuda full time, since the conditions in the winter there can be quite Spartan.  When I first moved into this building about 18 or 19 years ago, the Grandisons lived here, and they were from Bermuda having settled here after World War II, so there is president of other residents living here being from Bermuda.  The nice thing about being from Bermuda is that there can be certain tax advantages that other people might not enjoy.   CIO      

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 11:00 P.M..  I chatted with a friend and a relative.   I chatted with a few computer security people.  Basically every Thursday, when I go to my regular 3 P.M. appointment, somebody some how messes up my primary Vista computer setup.  I generally restore the Vista backup and any changes.  Whether it happens through the internet or through access to my apartment is opened to question, but today when the computer was messed up, I had it in Sleep mode, which would lead me to believe, it happens by access to the computer.  This has been happening since Vista was first released to me late last November 2006.  I will now shut down and go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 7:50 P.M..  I made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I used a 16 ounce can of B&M maple flavor baked beans and a two Oscan Meyer lean beef hotdogs along with all of the other usual ingredients and the left over rice from two night ago and some bacon bits.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 5:55 P.M.. I called up Minchin Buick parts department after the last note.  I had ordered the front license plate frame from Minchin Buick Minchin Buick-Pontiac-GMC, Inc. - Pre-Owned Used And New Car Sales - Leasing, Financing - Trade-Ins Welcome for $32.86 with tax, and it had arrived.  I had been billed $5 more for shipping, but since I decided to pick it up, it was $5 less or $32.86.   I drove over there on I-95 East from exit 2 to exit 8 in Stamford, and I went by the Minchin Buick garage, and I picked it up.  I toured their new car lot, and they sell a sporty Pontiac that gets about 30 miles per gallon local with a cost of about $20,000.  Of course, they are also a GMC dealer, so they have the big ones too.  I returned back from Greenwich from exit 7 west on I-95 west to exit 5.   I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a medium size white silk shade for $15 and another one slightly darker and smaller for $10 for $25 total.  I then went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $19 of self service premium unleaded gasoline for $3.699 a gallon for 5.137 gallons for 73.45 miles driving since last Saturday about half of which was highway mileage with current odometer reading of 114,489.25 miles.  Thus with mixed highway and very slow local driving with the air conditioner on, I got 14.2982 miles per gallon, which I think is acceptable.  By a rough calculation, I would get about 17 to 18 miles per gallon with just highway driving with the air conditioner on, but that is at about 65 miles per hour or less with half of the highway driving stop and go traffic going up to Norwalk, so I think it is safe to assume without the air conditioner at an average steady speed of say 55 miles per hour, I might possibly get 21 miles per gallon or better, but since the Buick wagon has a Corvette V8 engine in it, one tends to go faster.  It probably needs new shock absorbers, but with the kind of driving I do around town, it does not really matter.  I then returned home.  I installed the new front license plate bracket frame.  I had to use a hex drive bit with a  screw driver bit assembly to remove the three hex screws, and I installed the new  bracket frame, and used the existing two screws to install the front license plate.  Thus hopefully with the loose strip of plastic gone from the front bracket frame, there should not be a vibration noise anymore.  I put the old bracket frame in the driver's side rear compartment.  It might have been replaced before, since there was a white marking pen number "2" written on the inside of the old frame, which I do not think a factory installed frame would have.  I threw out the shipping box.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I put the $15 white silk shade on the pineapple lamp on the bedroom desk.  I put the $10 medium white silk shade on the telephone table lamp in the living room, and I moved its shade to on top of the similar lamp shade by the antique French reproduction chair.  I threw out the old bedroom lamp shade that had a cracked plastic liner.  Thus I now owe $947.44 on my Chase Visa Credit Card.   CIO       

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 12:55 P.M..  Good Price Expensive Toner Newegg.com - XEROX Phaser series 6110/B Up to 17 ppm Up to 2400 x 600 Image Laser Personal Color Printer - Retail $249 with free shipping.

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Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 12:25 P.M..  I went downstairs, and I picked up my mail, and I chatted with some neighbors.  Earlier, I ate a 1/6th piece of chocolate filled crumb cake.   When I worked in Manhattan for many years, I covered the waterfront for a good deal of the time.  One of the warehouse operations was the Bermuda Motor Car Company.  Whenever VIPs showed up in Manhattan, dozens of long stretch Cadillac Cadillac: Luxury Automobiles: 2007 New Cars, New Trucks and SUVs stretch limousines would be deployed out of their warehouse in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, and they all had New York State license plates, "BERMUDA1", "BERMUDA2", etc..  However with the higher prices of fuel today, more than likely the VIPs are wearing Reebok shoes with the British flag on it, if you get my drift.  I was told the Governor of Connecticut The Office of Governor M. Jodi Rell keeps her Horse Guards at the old state psychiatric hospital in Newtown, Connecticut, so I guess there are a lot of equestrian types in Connecticut looking for a tax write off.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 11:25 A.M..  I found this http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/large_flag_of_bermuda.gif .  I saved it, and I printed it out in color on 4 inch by 6 inch photo paper with the HP Photosmart 1000 printer, and then I laminated it with a 4inch by 6 inch 3M Scotch Photo Laminating sheet which they sell at CVS, and then I hung it on the outside of my apartment door at a lower level beneath U.S.A. flag, so it is eye level for a person about 5 feet tall.   Thus we are now the Greenwich, Connecticut headquarters for the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Royal Bermuda Yacht Club .  CIO   

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 10:05 A.M..  I ordered from Buy American and International Flags Flagstore Flagsales Banners two Bermuda Auto Decals Buy Bermuda flags, Bermuda flags, find Bermuda flags, Buy Bermuda flag, Bermuda flag, Bermuda shirts, Buy Bermuda banner, Bermuda banner, find Bermuda banner, Buy Bermuda banners, Bermuda banners, find Bermuda banners, for $2.25 each and $3 shipping for $7.50 total.  I will put the Bermuda decal on the driver's side rear window and the U.K. decal on the passenger side rear window of the Buick wagon, since the British drive on the left side of the road.  I can not recall what side of the road they drive on in Bermuda, because I used a Moped, when I was there for Spring Break in 1968.  I now owe $916.24 on my Chase Visa Credit Card.  Since http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm was suppose to be working on Nelson Rockefeller's beach cabana in Bermuda, more than likely I will come up with the money to pay it off sooner or later from my Renter's rebate.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 9:25 A.M..  Well, I was able to get the band aid and ointment on my back after I showered.  I went out, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The Greenwich Avenue Sidewalk Sales begin today through Saturday.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with a local town employee.  I then walked back to the Greenwich Hardware store, and I looked for a small Bermuda flag, but they did not have one.  I chatted with another town employee.  I noticed the truck carrying steel for the construction of the new Greenwich Public Safety Center is coming down from Quebec.  That is 139 Canadian license plates, I have seen in Greenwich, Connecticut in 24 years, since I moved off of Nantucket.  Since one of my well known relatives was a member of the Bermuda Yacht Club, I decided to make my apartment the local office for the Bermuda Yacht Club not that anyone ever visits anyway.  I returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 5:50 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dinners.  The problem with being a conservative republican in Greenwich, Connecticut is that there is not much chance to make money, since the republicans do not spend much money, and they seem mostly do nothing else but clip coupons.  The founder of this bank Bank of Greenwich hopes to fit in - Greenwich Time was at the Microsoft conference in Hauppauge, Long Island this past February 2007.   He use to work at the Bank of New York.  We have lots of different banks in Greenwich, so there is plenty of places for people to put their money in.   The Bank of New York Mellon The Bank of New York Mellon only does private banking at their Mason Street offices, so if you can afford to have an account there, you have to go up to the second floor to use their retail banking facilities.  Billy Baldwin worked for both the Mellons and the Rockefellers.  http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm use to Bank at the Chemical Bank on Third Avenue in Manhattan across the street from the British consulate.   However, he knew Herb Patterson personally who was the head of J.P. Morgan www.chase.com , and he helped decorate his office.  Well when John Reed ran Welcome to Citibank he use to drive to the Greenwich train station in a Volkswagen Get a VW Quote to commute into Manhattan.  Thus Greenwich has a long history of established people watching every penny to make ends meet.   I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out for an early morning walk.   I might have a hard time putting the ointment and Band-Aid on my back where I had the mole removed yesterday, since it is hard to reach.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.   I figure in having no big flags around my apartment, it is more user friendly to the international business community, since countries like Japan and China have invested a lot of money in the United States of America.  Alas other than one family member and the disability income that I receive, I am not receiving any financial support in my internet and apartment activities, which do seem to cost me a bit of wampum to run.   CIO      

Note:<888> 07/19/07 Thursday 4:25 A.M..  I was awake at 3:30 A.M..  I took down the flags off the hallway bookcases, the left living room closet door and from above the air conditioner in the living room.  I folded them up, and I put the ones that have boxes in their boxes, and I put them all in the lower bedroom clothes hamper.  Thus the apartment looks less ceremonial, and more like a private residence.  I still have the small flags displayed around the apartment.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 7:05 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Gulf dead zone to be biggest ever .

I made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I used a 16 ounce can of B&M maple flavor baked beans and a two Oscan Meyer lean beef hotdogs along with all of the other usual ingredients.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.

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Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 4:20 P.M..  I told you something happened to Flanders BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Megaflood 'made Island Britain' .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 4:10 P.M..  BestDealMagazines.com - Deal of the Day Forbes Magazine $5.29 for one year .  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 4:00 P.M..  The Vista Media Center works fine on the living room Sony Television.  To use it, one has to use the Sony remote control on the right side of the Northgate monitor, and set the television at AV1 with the TV/Video button.  Then on the Vista Computer, one sets the ATI Catalyst Control Center to clone mode for the TV monitor.  One has to figure this out, but it is not to hard to figure out from the interface.  When in clone mode the left primary Vista monitor lowers it resolution so the display is the same on the Sony television.  One can use the Hauppauge 1600 remote control to control the Vista Media Center on the Sony television.  On can also use the wireless remote mouse control on the left side of the Northgate monitor to control the Vista Desktop on the Sony television.  Thus it is working just fine.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 2:45 P.M..  I went to the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic, and they examined the new mole on my back, and they gave me the name for the type of it, and then they quickly removed it.  The doctor that removed it was from Belgium.  They are going to do a biopsy on it to see if it is malignant.   They gave me some band aids and antibacterial ointment to use on it for the next few days.   While I was out, I did a Complete PC backup of the primary Vista computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I got my copy of www.usnews.com and they have this article about the Best Hospitals 2007 Best Hospitals – US News Best Hospitals .  The Greenwich Hospital Greenwich Hospital is affiliated with Yale-New Haven Hospital Hospital Directory: Detail View - U.S. News & World Report  Yale-New Haven and Yale New Haven Hospital . 

My Windows Experience Index on my primary Vista Computer is now:

Calculations per second: 3.4

Memory (RAM) 4.0

Graphics: 5.9

Gaming Graphics: 4.5

Primary Hard Disk: 5.4

This morning I ate a piece of chocolate filled cake, and I just ate another piece with a glass of iced tea.

CIO 

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 12:10 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I changed the ATI video card out of the FIC server, and I put it in the primary Vista computer, and its is much faster with the Vista rating going from 2.4 to 3.6 which is the slower system.  The ATI video card is rated 5.9 instead of 2.4, so the Vista system is quite a bit faster now, once it starts up.  I put the Nvidia video card in the FIC server.  I installed the drivers and software for both cards.   The ATI card does support Clone mode, which I found out in the help file, so I will be able to use it with the Vista Media Center and in clone mode show it all on the Sony television in the living room.  Current configuration http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm or http://geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .   I will now get cleaned up, and ready to go out for my 1:30 dermatology appointment.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 8:15 A.M..  I chatted with a friend.  Download details: Windows AIK Longhorn Beta 3 documentation .  I went through my email.   There seems to be a bit of rain and thunder out this morning.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/18/07 Wednesday 7:05 A.M..  I was awake at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dinners.  According to Almost 200 Feared Dead in Air Crash - Greenwich Time , my friend Tony Pigatto who knew the Agah Khan http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/agakhan01.jpg was a flight attendant for Trans Brazilian Airlines working out of Sao Paulo, so his flight days might have ended.  I have his old email address, and he knew Bill Lawrence up in Danbury, Connecticut.  This is the last picture I have of him in front of the  World Trade Center which is not there either http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg .   I have his old email address, but he was not interested in the internet, so he let his email address lapse I think.  His grandfather owned a million acres of coffee plantation, so all of these coffee shops showed up in this area after he was here.  Of course the picture is 20 years old, so Tony might look a little bit different and living in Brazil he might be more darkly tanned.  CIO     

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 7:40 P.M..  I ate two scoops of Dulche de Leche Italian ice.   I have a feeling tomorrow might be a busy day.  I have a 1:30 P.M. appointment tomorrow with the dermatologist to check out the new large mole on my back that has developed over the last few years.  It is at the Greenwich Hospital Outpatient Clinic.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 6:55 P.M..  While making dinner, I spilt the microwave container with rice and water, so I had to vacuum it up, so I wasted about 2/3rds of a cup of rice.   This pictures shows that the eastern half of the country is lush and green and the western half of the country is very dry NexSat, NRL/NPOESS Next-Generation Weather Satellite Demonstration Project .  If you think about it, some of that green stuff in the picture might be food.  Basically since the Unites States of America is pretty much isolated by two large oceans and two isolated neighbors, we pretty much create our own separate reality here, which does not have much to do with the rest of the world.  Hate to tell you, the Booze Boat is back in town tomorrow QM2 - Itinerary - 2007 , so we have to be on our best Anglophile behavior in case any visitors from the Eastern Hemisphere show up, so any people familiar with the way the real British do things as opposed to how the theatre group portray them in this hemisphere should try to put on a good impression.   I know the Rockefellers have been to England, and there use to be somebody that looked like Nelson Rockefeller that sat in the Greenwich Library on hot days in his white silk underwear picking his nose, but he used a different name.  Of course a lot of older people look the same, so it is hard to tell one from all of their other cousins.  I chatted with a relative.   CIO  

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 5:00 P.M..  I went out after the last message.   I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, but there was nothing there that I need or can afford.   I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.   I provided the information for my Renter's Rebate.   I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I told them about the serial killer being from nearby Decatur, Illinois where the ADM trucks deliver the grain from.   I bought two six packs of Thomas' New York Everything bagels for $1.79 each six pack and a Entenmann's chocolate filled crumb cake 26 ounces for $2.25 for $5.83 total.   I then returned home.  I faxed my SSI 2006 income grant statement to the Renter's rebate person, since I had brought the 2007 SSI grant letter.   One has to bring the 2006 information.   I got my electricity usage information from the www.cl-p.com web site while there, and they will get a rent statement for 2006 from the Greenwich Housing Authority, so everything is done for the Renter's Rebate.  I will now make and eat the same meal as the last two nights.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 1:30 P.M..  After I cleaned up, I chatted with a neighbor outside.  The state of Connecticut has increased my food stamps from $113 to $115 a month, so they think there has only been about a 2% cost of living increase this year.   Of course up in Hartford, they probably all shop at Wal-Mart or where ever it is cheaper.   More than likely they all got their educations at the John Harvard pub east of Hartford.  I will now go out a little bit earlier for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 11:45 A.M..  I filled the dining table salt shaker with low sodium salt, and I filled the pepper mill with pepper corns.   I refilled the Glade Plug-in refill air deodorizer in the kitchen with 40% mixture of English leather cologne, and a 60% mixture of 80% isopropyl alcohol.  I will now shower and clean up, since sometimes the locals expect the embassy staff to look presentable.  After that I can check out to see if anything exciting arrived in the mail.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 11:15 A.M..  I refilled the freezer ice trays.   I put a new opened box of baking sofa on the inside shelf of the refrigerator door and the freezer door.  I dumped the old boxes of baking soda down the kitchen and bathroom drains to freshen the drains.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 10:50 A.M..  Coke reports higher 2Q earnings .

Good Place to read a book http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/05/0524_afflusub_south/index_01.htm?chan=rss_topSlideShows_ssi_5  .  CIO

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 10:45 A.M..  I microwaved and ate a Boston Market 9.5 ounce sirloin and mashed potatoes dinner, which I ate with a glass of water.  Basically, Greenwich, Connecticut has a conservative group of people, but we get tens of thousands of people coming to work every day and visit whom have different viewpoints, so the local small business community makes their money off the traffic in town due to its location 20 miles east of Manhattan.  The biggest business is expensive real estate http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/gwreal.htm which is convenient to the Manhattan business community.  The second biggest business is selling and servicing automobiles http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/greenw.htm .   I would imagine the large financial community is also on a par with the other two business communities.   A lot of companies maintain boutique offices for the traveling business community, which they seem to be able to afford to maintain.   Of course nearby Stamford, Connecticut and White Plains, New York are much larger business communities, but for smaller profitable operations, many people are satisfied with the suburban atmosphere of our local community.  The town offers many conveniences for those whom can afford it, since as a wealthy community, there is a large service community available at high prices to maintain the conveniences that the wealthy people find so necessary.  Of course most of the younger generation do not share my view point, since they are networked around the Greenwich schools which are suppose to have a good reputation for having an international atmosphere.  Whatever, the case since the Scottish and Dutch have been here for close to 400 years, more than likely there a few families locally whom helped build and develop the community and if not those families some of their representatives from neighboring communities try to keep an eye on local activities.   From what I know it is an expensive town to live in and to run, so more than likely any local experts might have some insights into local activities that some of the newcomers do not.  Thus since I have lived here since 1961,and I am Scottish and Dutch, I do things MY WAY based on experience as opposed the local Chamber of Commerce's way of doing things which tends to be much more expensive.   When we first moved here in 1961, a five bedroom house with two acres on Round Hill Road cost about $50,000, so obviously there has been some price appreciation in the area.  The Corporate Bond membership for a Club Member at the Greenwich Country Club back then was $5,000, which because of tax laws back then, one could write off against corporate expenses.  Back then one could write off against taxes nautical activity, so there was a large cottage industry in those fields.   Since wealthy people obviously can afford the internet, most of them do their own type of Bottom Fishing on the internet in terms of high priced merchandise, but since in the high priced range, many of those items are already here at competitive prices, many people tend to shop locally, particularly if they do not want to expose their financial transactions to the internet.  Whatever the case, I find it hard to believe more people do not have anything better to do than to sit in the Greenwich Avenue Starbucks all day, since it would seem if they had some sort of financial reserve, they would be pursuing other more productive activities.   Thus I guess the Starbucks crowd is the modern version of Lounge Lizards.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 9:40 A.M..  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.   I checked underneath the hood of the Buick.  It looks all right.  I checked the oil, and it is topped off, but it is black, so I guess when it was running richer, the oil got a little bit dirty, but it is still good until next year at the rate I am driving.   I have noticed that not much is happening around here, which is the way it should be in a retirement home.  Of course the residents occasionally have to do errands.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  I guess since I can no longer afford to do any bottom fishing on the internet, I will look at some of my other web sites in my directory http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotlist.htm or Scott's Internet Hotlist.  Alas, nobody ever wanted a downloadable directory on the internet, so my web enterprise never took off, but having been on the internet for 14 years, and having used personal computers for 18 years Michael Louis Scott's Resumee , I obviously know a little bit more than the new kid on the block.   From what I can figure out, there are probably over 10 billion pages or more of material on the internet, so basically anyone can find what they are looking for if you know where to look.  I have focused mostly on technical information as it relates to personal computers, so the big boys at big blue do not bother me, since I am not infringing on their turf, if you get my drift.  CIO    

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 7:40 A.M..  Well, I am now $772.16 in debt on my Chase Visa Credit Card.  However, last year I got about $850 in October for my Renter's Rebate, so hopefully when I receive it again this year, I will be able to pay off my debt.   I also will have to pay about a $100 for my G.E. air conditioner service contract by September 12, 2007.   Thus I will not have any extra spending money for the next few months.  However, the reason I bought the sale items now is that they were on sale now, and I have found in past years when I get my renter's rebate in the late fall, there is not much on sale, since it close to Christmas Time.  Thus I think I have gotten some bargains now, although it has put me into debt.   However, over the last 24 years besides watching the Bank of New York branches in Greenwich and recently watching the Chase bank branches, I have also kept an eye on the Greenwich Capital Markets Bank owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland and other financial institutions around town, I do not get any credit for it.  24 years walking Greenwich Avenue regularly is a large chunk of one's free time.  So as far as I am concerned, I do not need to waste my time and money going downtown, until I need to do something, and I am comfortable in my apartment.  I will now put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 6:45 A.M..  BBC NEWS | Europe | Vatican Library closure irks scholars .

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | UK 'needs clear space strategy'

BBC NEWS | Technology | Intel and $100 laptop join forces

Michael Louis Scott Tropical Weather

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 6:20 A.M..  I installed the updates on the three backup computers.  Their monitors are configured properly from the old settings.  I put in two new alkaline AAA batteries in the Kensington wireless mouse on the Northgate Syntax computer.   I am making up a batch of Formula Two http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  Yesterday for security purposes, I put a new 9 volt battery in the Defcon computer case lock.  I took the chain and master lock off the bicycle seat, and I put the chain and lock around the left LCD monitor base and I strung the Defcon lock around the right LCD monitor base and through the chain links, and I attached it to the CPU case, so I have adequate security on my primary Vista computer setup.  CIO    

Note:<888> 07/17/07 Tuesday 4:55 A.M..  I was awake at 3:20 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dinners.  I put another 40 watt Philips tube bulb in the antique desk lamp that I have for lighting up my computer work area.   I have it placed on the Visioneer 4400 scanner which is connected up to the FIC server, and I do not use that scanner very much.   Since I lived in Italy in the winter of 1972, I know something about Italy in particularly Florence, Italy.   When I returned to the New York area, I spent time around Greenwich Village which is just north of the area in Manhattan they call Little Italy.  I am currently living in the Italian neighborhood in Greenwich, Connecticut, but since I am not Italian, they do not really trust me.  Even the Winfield Scott town house in Manhattan is currently the Italian Studies Institute for New York University, so the Scotts have no place to live in Manhattan.  Even when I came off Nantucket back in the December 1983, I went into Manhattan for a cocktail on Christmas Eve, and I ran into a medical doctor named Joel who looked like Nelson Rockefeller, and he was with Sophia Laurens two twin sons.  He told me he was going to spend Christmas Day with Happy Rockefeller.   His job at the United Nations was to try to keep people from drinking alcohol, and he only drank www.perrier.com , and thus I am now living in the Italian neighborhood across the street from the Perrier offices in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Apparently John F. Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller never carried any cash or money, so they would just talk about stuff and not pay for anything themselves, but they would have other people pay their bills.  I was called up last evening for fund raising for the Special Olympics, but I explained to them, since I am disabled, I have no money to give them.  I will now start up the three backup computers to make sure their changed monitors are configured properly.  Since the last time I lived in Manhattan, I lived near the Natural History Museum, and since when I lived in Italy, I visited the volcanic island of Lanzarote, I took an interest in volcano activity when I got on the internet, but alas since I smoke cigarettes, people think I stink, and they do not want to deal with me, but if you were ever around a volcano, it stinks a lot more than me, so there.  Also my friend Tony, although he is from Brazil, his mother is Italian from Milan, Italy, and since he knew the Aga Khan, more than likely his friend can afford a cup of coffee.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 6:10 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening.   I am not missing much downtown at night, because with the higher prices of fuel, few people chose to do downtown in the evening anymore.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 5:20 P.M..  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order with the 20% discount coupon 20% off of the SierraTradingPost sale http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/243140 , you have to enter your email address in the URL that you cut and paste this item Orvis Harris Tweed Hebidean Plaid Jacket (For Men) - Save 62% in size 46 for $103.96 with 20% discount coupon plus $12 ground shipping for $115.96 total a savings of $245.04.

ESC WG: SEISMIC PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY

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Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 4:45 P.M..  After dinner, I got the information together for filing for my Renter's Rebate tomorrow.   I then went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I then took a walk around the building.  Some of my neighbors have a garden.  This is the specific web page for the two Acer 19 inch LCD monitors that I got Acer - Products AL1916WABD .  I set the monitor settings to Auto.  I wonder if this will effect Japan's industrial economy Japanese nuke plant leaked after earthquake - CNN.com .  I will now go through my email.  CIO      

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 2:25 P.M..  I put the Dell Sony 17 inch monitor on the floor of the bedroom closet.   I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I picked up my mail.   I will now cook the same meal as yesterday.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 12:45 P.M..  I move the monitor around, but I put the 19 inch Dell monitor on the right side of the bedroom window shelf, and I moved the 19 inch CompUSA monitor to the Dell L1000R computer.   The other monitors are as described.  I guess I could donate the 17 inch Dell Sony monitor to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I received the email notification from www.bestbuy.com , and I went up there in a lot of traffic.  I picked up the Acer LCD monitors at the Customer Service counter, and I drove back down in a lot of traffic.  Each type of monitor cable comes with each monitor.  I took the VGA adapter off my DSUB on the video card, so each monitor is connected with one each of the two different type cables.   I put a couple more Encyclopedia Britannicas underneath the left monitor, so they are at the same level.  I used the other mounting support for my Logitech web cam, and it is all setup just fine.  I first had to do a Safe Boot to get my Vista computer to recognize the monitors.  When I enabled 1440 X 900 resolution it automatically enabled dual display.  I set the resolution at 75 MHz.  I did not have to install any other software with Vista, since the monitor are Vista ready plug and play.   They look and work just fine.   I now have to straighten up the apartment, and I will save the monitor boxes for a year or so.    They have 3 year warranties from Acer.  I chatted with a relative who was upset at me spending money, but the relative always complained about how my eyes looking so bad, so hopefully with the new Acer 19 inch LCD monitors, they should be easier on my eyes.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 7:40 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.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront, and some of the usual fishermen were there.  I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I ordered two Acer - 19" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor - AL1916WABD at www.bestbuy.com for $139.99 each with in store pickup and $16.80 for $296.78 total.  I have to wait until the store opens at 10 A.M. to receive in store pickup confirmation email.  Once I receive it, I will drive up there and pick them up.   I will move the old 20 inch Dell monitor from the primary computer to the Epox computer system, and I will put the 19 inch Dell with the Northgate System.   I will move the 19 inch Dell from the Epox to the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom.   I guess I will either save for backup the Dell 17 Sony monitor from the bedroom and the old CompUSA 19 inch monitor, or I could get rid of one or both of them.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will start moving the monitors.  All in a day's volunteer work.  I can pay off my Chase Visa Credit card debt when I get my renter's rebate in the fall.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 4:40 A.M..  I will now go out for an early morning walk.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 4:10 A.M..  Acer - 19" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor - AL1916WABD at www.bestbuy.com for $139.99.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/16/07 Monday 3:50 A.M..  I was awake at 1:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dinners.  My family does have other distant connections with the Rockefellers.  Grandma Scott's grandmother was a Davidson.  Tom Scott whom might have been my grandfather's grandfather was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and he organized the Standard Oil Trust for John D. Rockefeller giving them a monopoly in hauling oil on the railroads.  Tom Scott's telegraph operator was Andrew Carnegie whom he leant books to.  My father Louis Dale Scott once was received by David Rockefeller at the Chase Plaza, when he was trying to sell him Acrilan carpet.  Stillman Rockefeller was on the board of directors of Monsanto that owned Chemstrand that produced Acrilan yarn for carpet.  Fred Von Mierers once showed up in the New York Post shaking hands with Nelson Rockefeller.  Fred supposedly was decorating a beach cabana for Nelson's house in Bermuda.  Taylor Sterling Fred's partner was the architect for the Rockefeller Ranch in Venezuela.  Of course Billy Baldwin might have done other things for them.  I might have met Barbara Rockefeller one of the few times I was at her town house in Manhattan, but most of the people there were foreigners and did not speak English too well, so it was hard to tell what was going on there.  A Rockefeller daughter supposedly owned a small dress shop on Strait Wharf in Nantucket, when I was there.  Rockefellers are suppose to live in this area, but about 15 years ago, the Greenwich Times printed the William Rockefeller family had moved away to Lakeville, Connecticut.   Stillman Rockefeller supposedly passed away a couple of years ago, and his house if for sale for $25 million.  I think Mary Rockefeller married an Italian and lives in New Canaan, Connecticut.   Of course some times the Rockefellers use alias names, so people do not kidnap them, so it is hard to tell if I have had anymore dealings with any of them.   There is also a Rue Du Rockefeller in Paris, France, so maybe some of them live over there.   I also knew Scott Nelson who was a waiter at the Chart House in Irvington, New York, and he use to be part of their catering team at Pocantico Hills, in North Tarrytown, New York.  I know one of our former neighbors Dorothy Bush had a son that and grandson that became Presidents of the U.S.A., and I think her son knows Happy Rockefeller, since she was sitting behind him at his President Inaugural Ceremony, when he became President.  I have met a number of people that looked like Nelson Rockefeller over the years, but none of them used the Rockefeller name.   I also used to walk by Abby Rockefeller's house in Manhattan when I stayed at Fred Von Mierers, and I also use to park outside John D. Rockefeller's apartment in Manhattan, when I stayed in Manhattan, so I may have passed them on street.  George Cary supposedly had lunch with Rodman Rockefeller a couple of years ago.  Back in 1967 we lived next to another Rockefeller family up on North Street on Alpine Road, but they probably don't live there anymore.  When we were Dorthy Bush's neighbors, Avery Rockefeller was also another neighbor too.  I see somebody that looks like Godfrey Rockefeller all of the time at Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue, but it might be just a look alike.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 5:00 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  Basically from what I know about economics which is quite a bit can be explained simply.  Basically all of the rich people in America were able to barrow money from the Rothchilds to make money, and all the Rothchilds were able to do was barrow money at a 1/4th  of a percent interest from the Kaiser of Germany.   Thus if you owe money in America, you owe it to the Kaiser of Germany.  However, I already have credit with the Kaiser's accounts, since I have already worked for virtually free for some of the Kaiser's staff personnel in America.   It is sort of hard to tell what the Kaiser of Germany looks like anymore, since he has leant out so much money, he does not have any money to advertise himself in the penny press anymore.   Of course the Kaiser was just the German that was able to unite all of the various feudal princes of the various German states, so in effect, the Kaiser is responsible to all of those various feudal princes whom are still established in the areas he supervises.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 3:55 P.M..  I am now in debt to the www.chase.com bank on my Chase Visa Credit card for a total of $475.38, but I will look more presentable on Greenwich Avenue.   I hope David Rockefeller does not mind me going into debt, but pretty much everyone else in America seems to be in debt to him.  Even Lord Astor granddaughter is leaving him a Buddha in her will.  I have never met any Rockefellers personally, except going to Greenwich Country Day, Mary Rockefeller was in my class, but she was from the poorer side of their family.  On my internet activity, I had a hit from Ashville, North Carolina, so maybe some distant Dutch cousin at www.biltmore.com is trying to get some attention.   The last time I recall being there was when I traveled up from Key West, Florida in 1978 towards the end of April, and I viewed the entrance driveway of Biltmore, as I was looking for the Appalachian trial which I hiked for a few days, before it began to snow, and I hitchhiked back with the same friend down to Key West, Florida to wait until it warmed up a little bit more up north.   I suppose there are still some old timers trying to work their way north from south Florida with their thinned out blood, and they are probably having a hard time adjusting to our cooler temperatures in the north country compared to down south.  There are Canadians whom make the trip north to Canada from the Caribbean, so they have to get use to bigger temperature changes.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 3:25 P.M..  Dinner was enjoyable.  To complete my colder weather wardrobe, I ordered with the 20% discount coupon 20% off of the SierraTradingPost sale http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/243140 , you have to enter your email address in the URL that you cut and paste this item Orvis Harris Tweed Hebidean Plaid Jacket (For Men) - Save 62% in size 46 for $103.96 with 20% discount coupon plus $12 ground shipping for $115.96 total a savings of $245.04.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 1:55 P.M..  For a small equestrian Barbour Riding Mac Long Jacket - Waterproof (For Men) - Save 76% or chopper dude Motophoria Meridian Motorcycle Jacket - Waterproof Isulated (For Men) - Save 60% , don't forget to use 20% off of the SierraTradingPost sale http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/243140 , you have to enter your email address in the URL that you cut and paste.   I will now make my greasy spoon special of burger with sauteed onions with melted cheese flavored with soy sauce with flavored rice with steamed baby carrots and brocolli crowns, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 1:30 P.M..  Gourmet treat for the connaisseurs Smoked Salmon Fillets - Save 35-70% on Famous Name Brands.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I walked around the building.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 12:45 P.M..  On this page is how to get the extra 20% off of the SierraTradingPost sale http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/243140 , you have to enter your email address in the URL that you cut and paste.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 12:10 P.M..  I finished the house cleaning.  I also took the dead palm leaves off the palm tree.   I threw out the garbage and old periodical literature.   I also pumped up the air in the bicycle tires to 65 Pounds Per Square Inch with the Slaymaker jump start system that has a air pump.  I also straightened up the brown entrance hallway carpet, so it is once again aligned.   Thus the apartment is once again in its more presentable state for diplomatic receptions of the diplomatic corps.   Alas the diplomatic corps do not have any fuel to come visit in this neck of the woods, since they prefer the security of Starbucks next to the Greenwich Police station.  I also ate a half can of Spanish peanuts.   I will not be going out today, since I am trying to have relaxing Sunday after doing my house keeping chores.   A lot of people in America do house keeping on weekends, since they work during week days.  There is not much on the tely, but old Archie Leech movies.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 7:35 A.M..  BBC NEWS | Technology | The past is the future at Bletchley Park .

Well its Sunday, and in the Dutch Church cleanliness is next to godliness, so since I have not done apartment cleaning in a month, I think I will do my apartment cleaning today.   I will now put the computer on standby.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/15/07 Sunday 5:20 A.M..  I woke up at 4 A.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted square bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar. I will make my bed and wash the breakfast dishes shortly.   In terms of my primary web site advertiser www.ibm.com , one has to remember I.B.M. stands for International Business Machines.   One has to remember in International Business to think globally and not what is just on local television.   For example although it is summer here, and people whom can afford the gasoline might be going to shore, in the southern hemisphere, where Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa are they are in the middle of winter.  With the higher prices of fuel, they probably can not escape their winter environments.   There are suppose to be a lot of exiled Germans in Bariloche, Argentina: San Carlos de Bariloche City for the winter sports activities, if you do not feel like sitting around your air conditioner here all summer here up north.  In government research it is the coldest time in Antarctica :: NASA Quest > Archives :: .

  U.S. Antarctic Program: Welcome to the USAP Portal .

Current temperature there U.S. Antarctic Program: South Pole Webcam , so you should be happy enjoying the moderate summer temperature here.  At this time of the year, they are iced in, and they can not get out of the place, so they have a bit of Cabin Fever.

nsf.gov Office of Polar Programs - PRSS - Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station . 

South Pole Station - Antarctica Research Stations- Antarctic Connection .

Antarctica - The Antarctic Connection - South Pole

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/14/07:

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 5:00 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Americas | US farewell to former first lady .

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Jules Verne' set for sea voyage

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 4:20 P.M..  From www.sierratradingpost.com I received email for a 20% discount on a $100 order, so I ordered Marmot Needle Jacket - Insulated Waterproof (For Men) - Save 60% or marmot.com or Needle Jacket Overview | marmot.com as a clearence item for $120 with 20% discount for $96 and $10 UPS ground shipping for $106 total.  I ordered it in dark red extra large size, and I think it is suppose to be a good casual jacket for colder weather.  I know quite a few Europeans skiers wear Marmot.  I will now go back to my email.  CIO   

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 2:25 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.   I picked up my mail.   I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 12:15 P.M..  I went out after the last message.   I went downtown, and I chatted with a local.  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 the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a Money Flurries scratch card for a dollar, and I won $2 for a net dollar profit.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I told them about the Wright Brother Hardware store out in Manhasset, Long Island that has vintage hardware items for older houses.  I stopped by CVS, and their small garden supply shelf is 75% off, so I bought four 5 quart bags of Miracle Gro potting soil for $1.25 each and a Scott's Scotts three pound bag of Classic Grass Seed Semilla De Gramma Quick Fix for $1.25 plus .38 tax for $6.63 total.  Thus I have some lawn care products in reserve.  I am not sure what I will do with the Grass seed, but I could pass it on to a relative if they ever come through on a pit stop.  I also can top up my house hold plants with more potting soil, when I have the time.  I put it all in the left living room closet floor.   After my walk, I went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $14 of premium self service gasoline at $3.699 a gallon for 3.785 gallons usage this week for 42.2 miles driving with two trips to Tod's Point in Old Greenwich for mileage odometer reading of 114,415.7 miles for 11.14927 miles per gallon driving at local speeds mostly in town in stop and go driving averaging my usual 13 miles per hour with the air conditioner going.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 1.75 quart container of Turkey Hill Dueto Italian ice for $2.99, two Ocean Spray cranberry grape juice 64 ounce containers for $2 each, a top round London broil for $1.79 a pound for $7.77, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $2.57, and organic green bananas at .99 a pound for $2.33 for $22.65 total.   I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I chatted on the telephone with a friend.   I then cut the London Broil into 1 to 1.5 inch chunks with my serrated knife that is also good for cutting home made bread, and I filled my Cuisine Art up about half way with the chunks grinding the meat with a few pulses, and then forming it into hand shaped hamburgers about 1.25 inches thick weighing 8 ounces that I weigh with my kitchen scale.  I made nine all together, and I frozen six in double plastic bags of two which I put in the freezer, and I have three fresh ones in the refrigerator in a Rubbermaid container.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 5:50 A.M..  I ate the same meal as the last five out of six days.  As a minor editorial note, one can not really write much in web logs, other than repeat public information, since the basic price of lawyers in this area start at $200 and go up to several thousand or more dollars an hour depending on the expertise of one's lawyer.  In Washington D.C. where the Federal Government lawyers hold court, most of their lawyers are middle grade lawyers, and the higher level lawyers seem to be in private practice some of them after many years of government experience.   From what I know Big Time Corporate lawyers can even be more expensive than private litigation lawyers.   Thus basically in my web log, all I do is summarize what is general public knowledge from the public relations departments of various news services.   Most high level individuals do not show up in uncontrolled public places, so they do not take the risk of litigation from individuals trying to generate revenue from nuisance law suits with no merit.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go out shortly, for one of my usual walks downtown.   I will try out my new Reeboks Reebok T0035 CL Riano in 6-10 Width: Medium at Sears.com.  I also received my Sears vacuum bags, and I put them with the other set of them on the shelf in my bedroom closet.   If I did not have so many recent computer problems, I would have more time for a more thorough house cleaning and other daily routines which are part of a normal suburban lifestyle.  I currently can not afford to order three bottles of this for $8.95 each to get a fourth bottle free which with shipping would be about $38 Final Detail Made by Car Buffs for Car Buffs . CIO

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 4:05 A.M..  What has me disturbed that I have not mentioned in my notes is that this past Thursday, after I spent 25 hours restoring my primary Vista computer operation, I went out at noon, and I returned at 4 P.M., and when I returned my computer configuration was tampered with, as if someone had gained access to my apartment and tampered with the equipment.  I was able to quickly restore the backup, but I still do not know if it is someone through the internet or actually gaining access to my apartment that tampers with my computer equipment wasting my time.   I obviously can not spend all of my time here watching my computer equipment, but what has be disturbed is why anyone would waste their time and my time bothering me.   I chatted with a local security group about it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 3:35 A.M..  I ordered PQI i810 mini I-Stick 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive with ReadyBoost, Pink for $19.99 with free shipping.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 2:55 A.M..  This item on getting Ready Boost pen drives to work Enable Vista Readyboost For Any Pendrive « Geeks Bearing Gifts .  However, this one Newegg.com - Crucial Gizmo! 2GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model CT2GBUFDBLKHA0 - Retail that I own does work.  PQI i810 mini I-Stick 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive with ReadyBoost, Pink for $20 with free shipping. Or these Search Result .  Of course you don't know if they work in your own particular system, until you try them.  These search results list the Sandisk pen drive that did not work on my computer Newegg.com - Buy Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more! . CIO

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 2:30 A.M..  City of Albion, Illinois : Information Resources for Albion Residents and Visitors. is where this trucker was from Serial killer may be Tennessee trucker, police say - CNN.com and Alleged serial killer acted odd, hometown says - CNN.com .  My paternal grandmother's family had relatives further south in Robinson, Illinois.  From what I can tell on the news story, there is no feed back as to weather the trucker made deliveries to the Arnold Bread factory nearby in Byram, Connecticut supplying them with flour from Archer Daniel Midland Company in Decatur, Illinois.  Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) probably has money, since I think their produce a lot of Ethanol also, and I think John Andreas its founder also lives in this area, and many years ago, Happy Rockefeller was on the board of directors of ADM.  Whether anyone was done in in this area by this trucker, there is no feed back from the local media or law enforcement.   However, we get so many people coming through this area, it is frequently had for the locals to sort it all out.  I hope the trucker is not a relative, but he has my paternal grandfather Scott's look, which tends not to make me feel too secure about myself.   CIO  

Note:<888> 07/14/07 Saturday 1:45 A.M..  I slept away Friday the 13th.  I ate about a fourth of a can of Spanish peanuts.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 6:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative who is having a cocktail.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  Well today is Friday the 13th, I am not sure if it is safe to go out or not.   I will have to think about it.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 4:20 P.M..  I woke up at noon, when a relative called from www.homedepot.com in Biddeford, Maine.  I made a few telephone calls concerning the earlier report.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted square bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  About 3 P.M. the order for two pairs of Reebok T0035 CL Riano in 6-10 Width: Medium at Sears.com  in size 9.5 medium for $29.99 each and a package of 8 upright vacuum bags Ultracare 609757 Kenmore U Upright Allergen Filtration Vacuum Bags at Sears.com for $10.99 plus .77 sales tax and $7.11 ground shipping for $78.85 total is UPS: Tracking Information arrived.  The shoes fit just fine.  I put one pair out to wear, and the other pair and the empty shoe box, I stored in the left living room closet.  I chatted with a relative about the story.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  There was a young fawn out on the lawn exploring its turf.  I will now make my bed and wash the breakfast dishes.  I will also water the plants.  There is no need to do house cleaning today, since the apartment is not yet that dirty.  CIO    

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 4:40 A.M..  I ate two toasted English muffins with olive oil.  I made a couple of telephone calls.   I will now go to bed shortly.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 3:40 A.M.. Well, there might be a Greenwich, Connecticut connection, since Albion, Illinois is near Decatur, Illinois, and Decatur, Illinois is where all the grain trucks for the George Weston Arnold Bakery come from Archer Daniel Midland Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) .  

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 3:20 A.M..  As I have written before according to www.fbi.gov statistics, at any given time, there are 250 serial killers lose in the United States of America, a serial killer being someone that has killed two or more people.   It is rather strange, this is what James Edward Eldert from Syracuse, New York might look like today Serial killer may be Tennessee trucker, police say - CNN.com .  When I first got on the internet, it said the Eldert family were from Decatur, Illinois nearby where this trucker is from.   Whatever, the case if I were local Greenwich, Connecticut law enforcement, I would try to find out that if in his truck driving activities, he ever visited this area.   Jimmy Eldert looked a little bit like the actor Kurt Russell from what I can tell.  Helen Kress Williams the head trustee of Vassar College told me we should keep an eye on him, but she never told me for what reason.  Of course it all might be coincidence.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 2:25 A.M..  I also ate the last four scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream.  Although I should eat low cholesterol food at my age, all of the high cholesterol food is cheaper.   About the only cheap low cholesterol food is Carolina rice.   It seems unusual around here for this time of year that a lot of people seem to be low on food with the higher prices of fuel, but also with the lost of European Honey Bee population in North America, the plants that provide our food were not pollinated, so less of the food will be available this coming winter.   I saw a very large person at my 3 P.M. appointment today, so he must be from somewhere else.   He is about half the size of what Roger Schultz was when I met him 17 years ago, whom I have not seen in about 16 years.  However, more than likely living in this area with the higher prices recently, Roger has thinned down unless he knows someone that owns a grocery store or turkey farm.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 2:10 A.M..  I went through my email.  Not much happening, everyone is on vacation.   During the last two days, I also ate a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle Sour Cream and Onion potato chips.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/13/07 Friday 1:15 A.M..  Note to wcbstv.com - CBS 2 Investigates .

Dear Sirs:

I worked briefly at C.B.S. news as a clerk typist in the summer of 1973 during Watergate.

Some people seem to think I still work for you.

John Phillips who got me the job at C.B.S. still lives in Riverside, Connecticut.

Since I came off Nantucket in December 1983, and retired on disability in Greenwich, Connecticut, I have noticed in my

Normal routine there are a high number of Italians whom seem to constantly observe me for no unusual reason like they

Are curious as to what I am up to.  Since I lived in Manhattan and Italy too, I am use to seeing Italians.

Whatever the case in Key West, Florida, James Edward Eldert from Syracuse, New York looked like me back in the mid 1970s, and he had worked

As a secretary for Jacob Javitts, and he carried C.B.S. stationary with him.   He was E. Howard Hunt’s godson of the Bay of Pigs, and his grandfather was

Richard Nixon’s neighbor in Key Biscayne, Florida, and he was my neighbor on India Street in Nantucket.  His last known address that I had was

The Malibu Colony out in California.  He knew the Kennedy group in Nantucket, since they were more his age.   My roommate in college at

www.lfc.edu was a next door neighbor of the Bobby Kennedy’s in Hyannisport.  Since I looked a bit like Jimmy, people would mistake us occasionally.

I was told here in Greenwich at the Stop and Shop at Thanksgiving that Ted Kennedy keeps his money in Tahiti. 

Since the local news story her for many years was the Moxley murder, possibly people thought I was looking into it.

I was a back country person in those days and not a waterfront person.   I knew Paul White from the Budweiser beer

Fortune and Gregg Burns from the Burns security family in the Moxley neighborhood, and after the event, they would

No longer chat with me.  From what I can tell, if the Italians keep constant surveillance on me, there must be a reason.

Possibly the New York mafia set up Skakel.  Also the Moxleys lived near a highway ramp, so anyone could have come off the

Highway.   What got me to thinking about it away from computers today is too veterans whom are Italian and were stationed

In Key West during World War II told me at the Tod’s Point beach today, I could be killed there for $10, which seem like rather

Odd conversation, but I was shot at the same location in the southwest parking area about six years ago in May when current President Bush was on a campaign

Swing in the area.   It would seem to me that since Jimmy Eldert probably knew the Skakels in Nantucket, since he dated Ted

Kennedy’s doctor’s daughter that more than likely, he might have noticed something out there that I did not notice, since I was

Busy working all of the time.

I do know in Greenwich before the Moxley murder, I had tried to quit smoking by camping out at the lake at Conyers Farm with a few

Of the local Greenwich high school kids.  One person that showed up was a dishwasher from the Bum Steer a nearby youth bar, and the

Dishwasher told us he was from Michigan.  In later years when the I saw the dishwasher’s picture in the news at an older age, it possibly

Was Mark Furman, if it were he could have been in Greenwich at the time of the Moxley murder. 

That summer after leaving Greenwich, I continued to camp out in Nantucket, where I might have gotten the unknown disease

Called Lyme Disease then called Rocky Mountain spotted fever.   Anyway, at the time of the Moxley murder, I was institutionalized

For Nicotine withdrawal, and that New Years, I took a six month job next to the C.B.S. affiliate in Greenville, South Carolina, the first

C.N.N. or Cable outlet out of Atlanta.  When I returned back to this area in the summer and eventually started going north and south

With the seasons, I did not follow the Moxley news stories.  From what I know, the Italians do not like the Irish, so possibly they set

Up Skakel.  For years there was a Polish fisherman around the waterfront whom claimed to be Meyer Lansky’s nephew, so from what I

Can tell including seeing Gotti family members out here that more than likely, there could have been a setup in the Moxley murder.

Whatever, the case why do the Italians seem to keep such a close eye on me with all of the millions of people whom travel

Through this town every week.   It would seem that something is Rotten in Denmark.   I do not watch C.B.S, since it is too liberal,

And I actually read more news off the internet particularly the B.B.C.

Think About It.

Michael Louis Scott

71 Vinci Drive

Apt. # 206

Greenwich, Connecticut

06830-2902

U.S.A.

203-531-6754

203-532-5475

Web Activity Below.

Yours Truly,

Mike Scott

CIO

Note:<888> 07/12/07 Thursday 9:25 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I made a few routine telephone calls.   I was told that the Sheriffs Department in Key West, Florida is now answering the telephone at the Casa Marina, but they have a full house down there as if anyone really cares up here in the summer.  I was told by my friends in Sea Island, Georgia, there is now a Trident Submarine base down there, so possibly some people from New London, Connecticut are learning about Southern Hospitality.   I think they think I am Tom Sawyer from Key West, Florida, which is a role that I played down there when I was in my mid 20's since I had not read much Hemingway, and I never read Billy Budd, but I saw the movie, and I recall in the paperback book I had in Nantucket on Billy Budd, he wore a red flannel shirt, like I use to wear when I did not bother bringing my wardrobe along with me from Greenwich, Connecticut.  I was told today by the two veterans at Tod's Point from Byram, that you can get killed at Tod's Point for $10, and I reminded them that one supposedly could get killed in Key West, Florida for $5.   I currently have enough influence, I could arrange a local Federal Marshall's Convention to see what these characters are up to, if you get my drift.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/12/07 Thursday 7:15 P.M..   I went out after the last message.   I chatted with some neighbors.   I went out in my car, and I took Interstate I-95 East from Exit 2 to Exit 5, and I went by Staples in Old Greenwich, and I returned the Sandisk USB pen drive that did not work with Vista for $21.18 total cash refund.  I formatted it before returning it.  I bought a spare set of Maxell stereo lifetime warrantyear buds to go with my Sandisk MP3 player to have in reserver.  They are white.   I then went by the www.mobil.com Express Car Wash, and I got the basic car wash for $5.99.   I then drove out to Tod's Point.  They are having the Sidewalk Sales going on in Old Greenwich, so lots of people are in downtown Old Greenwich.   It is hard to get through town.  I chatted with some retired Italian Fisherman at the Southwest parking area whom were stationed in Key West, Florida during World War II, and I told them what was happening when I was down there many years ago.  I then sat out briefly at the southeast picnic area.   I then went to my regular Thursday 3 P.M. appointment.   I then returned home the long way around, since there was a wreck at West Putnam Avenue and Western Junior High.   I missed the UPS delivery for my Reebok shoes from Sears and the vacuum bags, but they will try tomorrow.   I did not see a UPS delivery slip when I came in, but the internet said they tried to make a delivery at 3:33 P.M., when I was out.   I then made and ate the same meal as two night ago.  I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/12/07 Thursday 11:50 A.M..  A good place to cool off Balmoral Castle and Estate, online shop, gift shop, holiday cottages, fishing, scotland .   I backed up the new Vista setup to 9 DVDs this morning.   I threw out the garbage.   I chatted with a tech magazine.   I was bothered by a neighbor that I asked not to bother me.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/12/07 Thursday 8:40 A.M..  Royal Insight > Out and About > Holyrood Week, 27 June to 6 July 2007 .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Astronomers claim galaxy record .  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted square bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar. I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.   I will then shower and clean up.   One feels better through out the day, if one showers and cleans up at the beginning of the day.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/12/07 Thursday 7:50 A.M..  BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC apologises over Queen clips .   I woke up at 6:30 A.M..  It takes 12.5 minutes to boot up the new Vista installation down from 15 minutes.   I have about 17 years of files stored on the computer, and Vista indexes them every time it boots up to have them indexed in its search engine.   Before I installed Office 2007 Professional it took three minutes to fully boot up, but installing Office 2007 Professional caused it to take longer and transferring the files back from the second hard drive to the first hard drive.  I installed the Vista updates available today.  I will now eat my regular breakfast.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/12/07 Thursday 12:15 A.M..  TS2 Event Manhattan August 30, 2007

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

Note:<888> 07/11/07 Wednesday 11:30 P.M..  I was awake yesterday at 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted square bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I chatted with a relative.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I picked up my mail.   On the Vista primary computer, I copied the files that I needed to save from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I then did a quick low level format of the C: drive, and I reinstalled Vista X86, and then I installed the updates and configured the computer.   I finished configuring the computer and restoring the backup files at 3 P.M. this afternoon.  My order four cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com arrived.   I threw out the garbage, and I picked up my mail.   I backed up the new Vista configuration from the first hard drive to the Bytecc external hard drive and also to Maxtor external hard drive.   I also backed it up from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I chatted with a friend.   I took a three hour nap earlier this evening.   At 6 P.M. the order for 46 regular size from JoS. A. Bank Clothiers - Clearance Center a JoS. A. Bank Clothiers - Executive 3-Button Wool Blazer-Internet Style Only in cream for $49 and a JoS. A. Bank Clothiers - Executive 2-Button Sueded Microfiber Sportcoat-Colors Light Sand & Light Green - WHILE SUPPLIES LAST in LT Green and LT Sand for $19.99 each and $11.95 two day UPS shipping for $100.93 total, UPS tracking is UPS: Tracking Information arrived. They are really very nice warm weather sports coats and they look and fit quite well.   I hung them in my left living room closet.  I threw out the box.  After my nap, I finished backing up the computer, and I am watching a bit of the Philadelphia Story while doing it.  The Philadelphia story is about a member of the Scott family who once danced with the Prince of Wales, and in her older days, she died in her mid 90s, when she was cleaning out her mule's staple, and the mule kicked her.  She was the heir to Scott Paper.   After configuring the new Vista setup which is pretty much the same as the old one, but with the new installation, new drivers, and same programs, except I did not install the World Book Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta 2003, and Mavis Bacon Teaches typing.   When I first configured the Vista computer after copying the files back to it, it still took 15 minutes to boot up, but the last boot up only took five minutes.   I will now go through my email.  Last night I ate a half can of Spanish peanuts.  Today I ate a Boston Market 9.5 sirloin tips dinner and later on a 10 ounce Boston Market chicken mesquite dinner.   I also ate two scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream. CIO

Note:<888> 07/10/07 Tuesday 9:30 A.M..   I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/10/07 Tuesday 9:00 A.M..  I tried to find out about my extra Motorola wireless telephone charges, but AT&T keeps bouncing me around their computers, and it is hard to get a human with the answer.   I ate three scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream.

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Note:<888> 07/10/07 Tuesday 5:30 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.   After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront, and then I returned home.   I ate the same meal as the last few days.   I also eat two ears of steamed corn on the cob.  On the FIC server, I installed some of the free U3 programs to have available.   Not much happening on a quiet warm night.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/10/07 Tuesday 1:10 A.M..  If you have the gasoline to go to Elmsford, New York Sam's Club - One Day Pass to use www.samsclub.com .   I ate 40% of a can of Planter's Spanish peanuts.   Not much happening in this neck of the woods.   I will now go out for walk on Greenwich Avenue, since it is cooler out, and not much really is happening here for the low budget crowd.   It will take a few minutes to get ready to venture out into the early morning ambience of downtown Greenwich, Connecticut on early Tuesday morning.   CIO  

Note:<888> 07/10/07 Tuesday 12:30 A.M..  Inside the Mind of a Hacker

Someone seems to be hacking my computer tonight, so I chatted with one of the usual security groups around here.

Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 11:25 P.M..  Shipping on the two pairs of Reebok T0035 CL Riano in 6-10 Width: Medium at Sears.com  in size 9.5 medium for $29.99 each and a package of 8 upright vacuum bags Ultracare 609757 Kenmore U Upright Allergen Filtration Vacuum Bags at Sears.com for $10.99 plus .77 sales tax and $7.11 ground shipping for $78.85 total is UPS: Tracking Information .  The Vacuum bags have not yet shipped.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 11:15 P.M..  After the last message, I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors, and then I picked up the mail.   I went to bed.   A relative left a message on the answering machine about The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA and How to Participate - The Genographic Project .  I went to bed until about 7 P.M..   I chatted with the relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted square bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I chatted with my relative in Maine.  Another relative had their house burn down on the beach in Holland, Michigan.  Apparently some kids set a bomb fire on the beach, and it spread to the adjacent land.   The house of a United States senator also burned down.  The houses were near the Castle Park complex.  I made my bed, and I showered, and I cleaned up.   I shucked the six ears of corn outside at the dumpster.   I saw someone that looked like Steve Ballmer going into Starbucks this morning, but it could have just as easily been Wayne Huizenga.  Older bald men tend to look the same.  I have noticed recently downtown on my evening walks that a lot of the local female population is upset that the local male population around town pub crawling at night are overly aggressive.   I heard one female patron of the wine bar beneath the Banker's Trust Building complain about being felt up at the bar.   Greenwich tends to have a professional group of business people, so any visitors or locals should conduct themselves accordingly.   We obviously also have a  Vice Squad in a town like Greenwich, Connecticut.  In Italy when the local men tend to get overly aggressive, they usually use 400 to 500 pound women to toss the bums out of the place they happen to frequent.   Much could happen to be the same here, since we have the capability.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 11:50 A.M..  I need to fix the front license plate frame on my Buick wagon which has a broken plastic frame.   I could use this Devcon Plastic Welder for Plastics and Composites-10% off For Full Case Orders , but a minimal order would cost me $21.25.  They have it in cream color for about $6 at the Greenwich Hardware store, so I might get it there.   However, it also comes in clear and black, and the web page looks like theirs is black.   Six of one half dozen of another, but the license plate frame is black.    I went ahead and ordered the front license plate frame from Minchin Buick Minchin Buick-Pontiac-GMC, Inc. - Pre-Owned Used And New Car Sales - Leasing, Financing - Trade-Ins Welcome for $32.86 with tax.   I have already tried to glue the current frame with CVS Super Glue gel, and it did not hold.   The current frame with the broken plastic frame on it has the plastic piece vibrate in the wind making an odd noise.   I will now go to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 10:30 A.M..   It will be hot the next couple of days.  I ate a 5 ounce bag of Wise Barbeque potato chips with some iced tea.  If the heat is too much for you, you can try using about an eighth of a teaspoon of India hot curry in a glass of vegetable juice, and the curry is suppose to help you not feel the heat, and the vegetable juice helps you not taste the curry.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Nothing going around here, but a bunch of Old Guard types clipping coupons, and their wives trying to save a little money.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 9:30 A.M..

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Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 8:55 A.M..   I went out after the last message.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I went by the ATM machine at the Chase Bank on Mason Street.   I then mailed the two letters at the central Greenwich post office.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a dollar scratch card #31 EA$Y 10's, but I lost.   I then chatted with a few morning people.   I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon gasoline station, and I told them about Ron's Antique Cars just east of the new Super Stop and Shop in Kennebunk, Maine, and his telephone number is 1-207-967-4703. He might still have the 1994 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon with 70,000 original miles in very good condition with like new Michelin tires for $4,500.   However, the rich types around here do not seem interested in saving money, so I guess he did not take the hint.   Of course only Exxon could afford to keep a car like that going at today's current gasoline prices.   Maybe I should tell www.shell.com .   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two Boston Market Chicken Mesquite 10 ounce dinners for $2 each, three Boston Market Sirloin beef tips 9.5 ounce dinners for $2 each, a 16 ounce container of Billy Bee Pure Clover Canadian Honey for $3.59, and six ears of Sweet corn on the cob for $1 for $14.59 total.   I then returned home.   I chatted with some neighbors.   I put away my purchases.  I ate two scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream.   I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/09/07 Monday 5:45 A.M..  One of these days, I might be able to afford this Final Detail S/2 Top Shelf Series Spray Wax & Towel Kit at QVC $16 and $4.97 shipping.   It is suppose to be easy to apply and polish unlike other car waxes.  Boeing unveils first assembled 787 Dreamliner - CNN.com .  After dinner, I filled out the annual State of Connecticut Department of Social Services annual review, and I made copies of the documents to go with it, and I have it ready to mail.   I also made out a check to mail with my annual property tax bill on the car which is higher than it should be since it is for the Volvo, but they told me they would refund the difference sometime in the future.   I will now go out an mail the two letters, and I will probably sit out briefly downtown.   CIO    

Note:<888> 07/08/07 Sunday 6:10 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/08/07 Sunday 5:40 A.M..   I will now eat a few scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream.   I did not eat any yesterday morning like I said I was going to do.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/08/07 Sunday 5:25 A.M..  I did a little bit of bottom fishing on the internet for some new walking shoes.  At www.sears.com , I bought two pairs of Reebok T0035 CL Riano in 6-10 Width: Medium at Sears.com  in size 9.5 medium for $29.99 each and a package of 8 upright vacuum bags Ultracare 609757 Kenmore U Upright Allergen Filtration Vacuum Bags at Sears.com for $10.99 plus .77 sales tax and $7.11 ground shipping for $78.85 total.   With my previous shoe orders and what I already have, I should have enough walking shoes for the next few years.   CIO  

Note:<888> 07/08/07 Sunday 2:40 A.M..   I put away the laundry after the last message.   I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   There were a few pub crawlers out.   I sat out at various locations.   I drove down by the waterfront, and there were a half dozen fishermen on the pier on Steamboat Road fishing.   I then returned home.  Not much happening on a quiet summer's night.   I guess not too many people go pub crawling anymore with the higher prices of alcohol and the stricter enforcement of DWI Driving While Intoxicated laws.   For anyone whom needs to get away from it all.   You could trying going to Lanzarote Lanzarote.com, Offers on Hotels Reservation the Northeast Canary Island about a couple hundred miles off the coast of the west African Sahara desert.   Then when one is there with all of the tourists in Lanzarote, one could go to the less deserted west side of the island where there is a small sandy cove surrounded by cliffs where on a clear night, one can see million of stars without the aid of a telescope, and see how bright the heavens really are on a clear night away from the Big City Lights.  Iberia L.A.E. can get you there.  However, you might need to watch out for any sea creatures.  Before going out, I did a Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/07/07 Saturday 11:25 P.M..  I reheated and ate the same dinner as last night, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle of the laundry.   I will now shower and clean up.   After I put away the laundry, I will go out for a walk.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/07/07 Saturday 10:20 P.M..  You can get it here for $50 Amazon.com: Used and New: SanDisk Sansa C150 2GB Black MP3 Player - SDMX5-2048-A18 / SDMX52048A18 .

I started two loads of laundry in the washer machine, and I have about 15 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  CIO 

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

Note:<888> 07/07/07 Saturday 9:20 P.M..   Prepaid Cell Phones/GoPhone - AT&T, formerly Cingular Wireless and Prepaid cell phone, GoPhone - AT&T, formerly Cingular Wireless.   I am still waiting for the laundry room to be freed up.  I went through my email.  I will now send out my weekly email.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/07/07 Saturday 7:45 P.M..   I woke up at 9 A.M. when a relative called.   I woke up again at 2 P.M., and I chatted with a relative.   I woke up at 4 P.M., when a relative called.   I ordered a relative two books of the internet.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted square bagel with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I configured Ubuntu on the Northgate Syntax computer.   I installed the XP home updates on it.   I can not back it up, since the second hard drive is locked in XP with Ubuntu on it.  I guess it is partitioned differently.   I installed the XP Professional updates on the Epox computer.   I did an XP Professional ASR backup on the Epox computer from the first hard drive to a second hard drive.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I put clean linens on my bed.   I will do laundry in a little while when the laundry room is free.   I picked up my mail.  I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with some neighbors.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/07/07 Saturday 6:30 A.M.:   I paid my monthly electric bill at www.cl-p.com of $187 monthly average.  From www.ordersmokesdirect.com I bought 4 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $12.49 a carton plus $9.49 shipping for $59.45 total.  I went through my email. I took the Vista Beta 3 Longhorn server off the Northgate Syntax computer, and I put Ubuntu on the second hard drive, so it can boot either Ubuntu of XP Home.   I watched part of a movie.

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I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I will eat a few scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/07/07 Saturday 1:00 A.M.:  Dinner was delicious.  I will try installing www.ubuntu.com on the Northgate Syntax computer on its second hard drive along with XP home.  Free shipping on this if you have a small apartment Target : Danby Countertop Dishwasher - DDW496W $179.99, but I would also get the three year service contract at the bottom of the page for another $19.   I do not think it would work with my kitchen faucet, since the aerator tends to fall off, since its threads are a bit sheared.   However, as a professional dishwasher without that many dishes to wash, I do not mind washing my own dishes anyway.   CIO  

Note:<888> 07/06/07 Friday 10:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center.   I then tried going by the Food Emporium at 9:30 P.M., but they looked like they were closed.   I returned home, and I the MP3 Player was fully loaded.  On its 2 gigabyte hard drive, it has about 333 megs of free space and about 350 songs.  One can select songs by artists, and it plays quite well with the ear buds that came with it.  I checked out its features, and it is quite a handy device.  I have three pairs of Metal Hydride AAA rechargeable batteries that I got at CVS as a clearance item about a year ago, and I am charging up 4 of them, and I will use them for the MP3 player.  I think you are suppose to get 13 hours for a regular AAA alkaline battery, so it might be slightly less for the rechargeable metal hydride batteries.    They will be fully charged at 3 A.M..  I have the Radio Shack battery recharger underneath the living room Sony television.   I set the volume for the loud setting, so one might have to lower it, and it will would work with the Sony headset with the high setting.  It has a very good FM radio too, and one can put pictures or audio books or make recording with it.    It is about the size of two BIC lighters.  I put it in my AT&T wireless headset belt clip.   I do not listen to music when I am outside the apartment, since I like to keep my ears opened.  I could use it with the FM radio device in the car, but most of the same music is on it, but I would be able to more easily select the music, if I were going on a long trip.   One can get similar belt clips at Jembro in Port Chester, New York for $4.  I will now do this.  

I opened up the package of six boneless chicken breasts, and I put four of them in a large flat Rubbermaid container.   I then rinsed off the other two in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.   I then put a thin coat of olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish, and on a separate plate, I rubbed the bottom side of the boneless chicken breasts with olive oil, and then I spread a thick coating of seasoned bread crumbs on it, and then I did the same with the top side and the other boneless chicken breasts.   I then put them in the Pyrex pie dish, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I also made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm to which I also added one teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and Old Bay Seasoning and chicken bullion seasoning.  I ate half, and I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I also steamed in a two quart Revere pot with steamer tray and lid about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat, and I put some olive oil on the vegetables,  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/06/07 Friday 7:45 P.M.:  I am synchronizing my MP3 files using the Windows Media Player with the SanDisk Sansa C150 MP3 Player.  I am half way through importing them.  I have a better Sony headset to use with it that the ear buds that came with it.  I threw out my old periodical literature and the garbage.   I watered the plants, and I put more white vinegar out in the scent bowl.  Local weather hazard through 8:15 P.M. National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary .   I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out.   CIO    

Note:<888> 07/06/07 Friday 6:05 A.M.:   Newegg.com - Fujitronic FR-EH 10 Micro-Computerized Rice Cooker & Warmer(10 cups) - Retail . 

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Earlier, I ate the last scoop of coffee ice cream and two scoops of maple walnut ice cream.  

I will now go to bed soon.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/06/07 Friday 4:25 A.M.:  Earlier I ate a bowl of Lay's Sour Cream and Onion potato chips.   I just finished making up a batch of Formula Two http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm , and I put it in the refrigerator.

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CIO   

Note:<888> 07/06/07 Friday 2:55 A.M.:   I went out after the last message.   I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for .67 each six pack, a 48 ounce container of Quaker Old Fashioned Oatmeal for $4.49, two 1.25 liter container of CareOne antiseptic mouth rinse citrus flavor for $2.50 each, a package of six boneless breasts of chicken for $5.26, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a three pound bag of onions for $2.79, fresh Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound for $1.48, broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $3.70 for $27.35 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.   There were a few pub crawlers.  The fellow from India that is always at MacDuffs is now wearing a Brazil shirt instead of a Norway shirt.   He is the one that knew the Aga Khan has a palace in New Delhi, India.   He also said that http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm probably lives in the hill country of northern India.   I think Fred might be Fred Friendly from C.B.S. www.cbs.com in the old days, and his family might own the Friendly restaurant and ice cream chain, and Jim Eldert is really Danny Bickford whose family own the International House of Pancake chain, which is why they were both in the food business up in Nantucket www.nantucket.net , however that is just opened to speculation.  It is suppose to be very hot out west Records melt in West - CNN.com .  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront, and then I returned home.  I tried out my www.ge.com Super Blue bulbs, but light is relative at night, so it is hard to tell whether they are much brighter, but they do seem to be clearer.   I listened to my MP3 music while driving, and it is a much more enjoyable listening experience than the local radio stations.   Alas, we can not drive far with the price of fuel.  If you figure about 550 tracks at about 3.5 minutes a track, 550 X 3.5 = 1925 minutes divided by 60 = 32 hours of music about on a 1 gigabyte SD card.  Of course 32 hours of driving in my car at 55 miles and hour would cost about $8 an hour times 32 would cost $256 to listen to all of the music in my car over a trip of about 1760 miles, and at that rate it would cost me about $500 to drive across country if everything went well, and of course I have no inclination to drive anywhere anyway on my budget.   You would think with all of my insight, somebody would contact me for some sort of wisdom based on experience, but if I were in  California and hot out west, you could try Squaw Valley or some other mountain area.   When I returned home, I put away my groceries.   I took the Albertville, France winter Olympics framed stamps, and I put them where the Baltimore and Ohio Ashtray was underneath the picture of Abraham Lincoln.   I took the St. Paul's Church in Manhattan plate off the back side of the entrance door, and I hung it in the kitchen where the Bermuda Onion Soup trivet was above the Harvard Chair.   I put the small picture of Prince William and Princess Maxima on the rear side of the entrance door where the plate was.    I will now go through my email.   CIO  

Note:<888> 07/05/07 Thursday 9:35 P.M.:   I then made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I used a 16 ounce can of B&M maple flavor baked beans and a two Oscan Meyer lean beef hotdogs along with all of the other usual ingredients, and I also ate two ears of steamed corn on the cob with a little bit of olive oil.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I took the Hauppauge TV card out of the Epox computer, and I put it back in the Northgate Syntax server.   I took the LeadTek TV card that did not work in the FIC server, and I put it in the Epox computer, and I installed its program and drivers, and it works just fine.   I chatted with a relative.   I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out.   I found the battery cover for the Panasonic television in the kitchen on the floor in the bathroom behinds its old position on the bookcase.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/05/07 Thursday 7:10 P.M.:  I put the Hauppauge TV card from the Northgate Syntax computer in the FIC computer, and it works just fine including the sound.   I will now see if I have a warranty on the Leadtek card, or if I can try it in the Northgate Syntax computer.  It seems like its audio is buggy.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/05/07 Thursday 5:05 P.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  For some reason the Audio on the Leadtek TV card in the FIC server has a lot of static.   I could try one of the other Hauppauge TV cars from the two coffee table computers when I have the time.   I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with some neighbors.  Better stay inside National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary .  For some reason the battery cover on the remote control for the Panasonic television in the kitchen has disappeared.   CIO     

Note:<888> 07/05/07 Thursday 1:10 A.M.:  I watched some television.   There is not much going on.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/04/07 Wednesday 11:25 P.M.:  Fiat.com - Starting Page new Fiat500 .   Maybe the Italian Mafia will start giving them away after all of the money they have tried to barrow from us.   Trust me the non Italian big people in America have a way of collecting their debts.   Of course if you were driving a Fiat 500, one of those Italian garbage men might run you down, but of course a railroad train could accidentally run down a garbage truck, if you get my drift.   I chatted with a neighbor who does not like the local treatment in our local social services and medical community.  From what I can tell, I do know too much about either.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/04/07 Wednesday 10:25 P.M.:   I booted the FIC server into XP, and I installed the updates.   To change the Optimum Boost Dynamic DNS, you have to go to Optimum Online - Optimum Services Advanced Config and sign in the upper right corner of the page.  I am now running the footer http://mikelouisscott.com/stat.htm on the XP Professional IIS server, since www.ibm.com is a local business venture in the area, not that anyone pays much attention to it anymore.   I was told by a neighbor whose son is on vacation in Puerto Rico that everywhere he went they have hard security guards armed with machine guns and bullet proof vests, so they much have security problems down there.   I went outside, and during a break in the rain, I watched from the back yard, the end of the fireworks viewed from over the trees from Port Chester, New York and Rye Playland.   I chatted with a relative.   It now seems to be raining heavily again, so I will not be going downtown in the rain.   I will now take a 6 ounce can of tuna fish, and I will open its lid, and I will rinse if off underneath cold water, and I will flake in a large metal bowl, and I will mix in a couple of large tablespoons of Hellmann's fat free mayonnaise and a dash of Old Bay Seasoning, and I will put it one square Thomas's bagel cut in half, and I will eat it all with some Lay's sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle, and a glass of iced tea.  I also put four old Beach Boy songs and a few other songs on my 32 meg. USB 1.0 pen drive to have available to use with the FM car radio MP3 player.   I will put it in the tape holder in between the front seats the next time I go outside.  CIO  

Note:<888> 07/04/07 Wednesday 5:15 P.M.:  Picture of Prince Charles with grey hair BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Day in pictures Prince Charles .   I put the new two old halogen headlight bulbs in the GE Super Blue containers, and I put them in the driver's side rear storage area in the Buick wagon, when I changed the bulbs last night.   Traditionally on Holidays in Greenwich, Connecticut, since we have a large population of people whom work for a living, they tend to stay home on holidays and get a little bit of rest.   Since most of them it would seem can afford the internet, they do not always have to do shopping errands on holidays, and they can use the internet for their holiday shopping.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/04/07 Wednesday 4:55 P.M.:  I was awake at 1 P.M..  I chatted with my relatives in Maine, and they arrived safely, and the all the items I sent up were well received.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.   These holiday bargains are available.

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I chatted with my relatives some more.   I threw out some garbage.   I checked my new www.ge.com Super Blue headlamps on high beam in the Buick wagon, and they seem to work just fine. 

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Note:<888> 07/04/07 Wednesday 1:05 A.M.:  Happy Decoration Day or Fourth of July.  Bill Baldwin was born on the Fourth of July Amazon.com: Billy Baldwin Decorates: Books: Billy Baldwin and one can still buy it new from here Amazon.com: Billy Baldwin Decorates: Books: Billy Baldwin .  On the 10 million watt rechargeable lantern that I sent up to Maine, I do not recall if I sent the instructions with it or not, but as I recall one recharges it for 14 hours.   I will have to tell my relatives that.   Also I have the instructions for the Schumacher jump start system, which I can fax to my relatives in Maine.   I did not send up the two U.S. Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather sleeping bags good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, since it can get cold here, and since I have electric heat, if I ever lost the electric heat in the winter, I might need them.   I think they are better prepared for extreme cold weather in Maine than we are down here.  As you recall after living in south Florida from 1976 on and off until 1980 during the winter, when I returned the New York City area after Mount St. Helens erupted on May 8, 1980, I had to face two or three very extreme cold winters in this area where the temperature was down to minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit, so I hope some of the people whom enjoyed the more deluxe resorts we developed down in Key West, Florida back in the last 1970s enjoyed them while I was freezing up north.  I did make it back down there in February 1982 when nothing was on television in Manhattan but Dr. Zhivago, but as I recall nobody seemed to know whom I was, or what my earlier level of involvement had been in the development of the area.   Since I had established relatives in Florida, the local people in Connecticut did not seem to know about, they sent me back up here to regain my former status in this area for what its worth.  I am comfortable enough here, but in the time I have learned computers and developed my apartment living area, there are quite a few other things I could have done elsewhere in the world, but I guess I am most comfortable in this area, since I tend to know something about business as opposed to retirement.  Knowing something about the situation in December 1980 after Ronald Reagan was elected, I flew over to Frankfort, Germany to get some additional help from Europe, since I knew a lot of our summer neighbors would not be in this area during the colder winters.   I could not afford to get some additional help from Russia where they are use to colder weather, but the Germans seemed to have accessed the situation the way I did, and we seem to have a lot more residents in this area from the Eastern Hemisphere.  We are managing to survive, since a lot of them are use to dealing with much harsher colder temperature extremes.  There are a lot of cold weather people in this country, but not that many of them want to live in the more congested parts of our northeastern seaboard.  Bill Baldwin knew the Duke of Windsor, so with his network of 2.5 billion people in the Commonwealth of Nations, we have had a lot of help from all around the world which some of the local summer people whom return annually each summer do not seem to appreciate.   When the wealthy established people in this area take off traveling around the world, frequently we get a lot of visitors on the return from the other direction.  As I understood it from http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm we were suppose to be working for established people in this area, whom most everyone knows about.  The fact that Fred had me visit Barbara Rockefeller's town house in Manhattan a number of times seem to legitimize the fact that we were trying to improve the area for those whom could afford it.  It is warmer here than in the Midwest where it was even colder than it was here during those colder winters.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/03/07 Wednesday 11:45 P.M.:  I was awake until about 6 A.M. this morning trying to fall asleep.   I woke up about noon.   I checked the mail, and the USPS - Track & Confirm "9102127391790322154880" on  Amazon.com: Virtual Reality Sound Labs MP3/WMA FM Modulator with SD Card, USB Port, and Audio Input: Automotive for $44.99 with free shipping with a $10 promotional credit on it, so the final cost is $34.99 arrived.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange juice, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I copied about 550 music tracks to my 1 gigabyte SD card getting rid of the backup files that I do not need.   I also copied half of the more modern music to my 512 megabyte USB 2.0 pen drive.   I then installed the FM Modulator in the cigarette lighter in the Buick wagon, and I set it to the only unused frequency of 107.3 FM.   I tuned the FM stereo radio system to the fourth preset for the 107.3 FM.   The FM Modulator stays on all the time it is plugged in, since the cigarette lighter does not go off, when the car is turned off.   It plays just fine, but some times it freezes, if you change the tracks too much, and from what I can tell, one can reset it by inserting a different media device into it, to get it to recognize a different media device, and it resets itself.  I left the 1 gigabyte SD card in it, and I put the 512 megabyte USB 2.0 device in the tape holder between the seats along with the instructions and the Ipod or other MP3 device cable which is the third option for a media device.   It sounds just fine, but with all of the songs on the drives, but it is hard finding a particular song.   One can set it to random play or sequential and adjust the quality with the sound buttons.   On the Buick radio it sounds just fine.   It is a lot of music available from such a tiny inexpensive device.  Of course gasoline to drive to listen to music would be very expensive.  One stops it by pressing the Pause button, and when not using it, one just leaves it on Pause.  I received two different telephone calls from two different relatives that my relative would be out here at 6:35 P.M. to pick up the Audi.  I called back one of the relatives to confirm it.   I showered, and I cleaned up.   I drove over to pick up my relative and his friend, and they arrived on time.  We had to drive around to the other side of the station to pick up their luggage, when they had deposited it.  Instead of letting them use up too much time, I advised them to go ahead and get on the I-95 East for their trip to Kennebunkport, Maine.   I then walked back home.   I stopped by and chatted with two locals at the veterans monument.   I stopped by CVS.   I stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with some staff.   I then walked back home, which on a pleasant evening is enjoyable, and I got to see close up all of the latest exotic European sports cars, which I see all of the time on West Putnam Avenue.  While I was out the JC Whitney: Auto Parts & Auto Accessories for Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, Jeep and More for a two pack of G.E. Super Blue Halogen Dual Beam for $35.99 had arrived via FedEx.  I was able to quickly install them in the Buick wagon.  One does not touch the glass when installing them, since the oil on one's fingers can damage the bulbs.  I have small hands, and the area to install it on the passenger side front is a little bit cramped in front of the battery, but I was able to do it.   The new www.ge.com Super Blue Halogen Dual Beam bulbs work just fine.  I forgot to test the high beam, which I think is the brighter feature.  I then made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I used a 16 ounce can of B&M maple flavor baked beans and a two Oscan Meyer lean beef hotdogs along with all of the other usual ingredients.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I will now do some regular computer work.   My relative should be back up in Kennebunkport, Maine by now.   CIO

Note:<888> 07/03/07 Tuesday 3:30 A.M.:  I put a package of 40 AA alkaline batteries and 10 AAA alkaline batteries in the rear of the Audi.   Last fall,  I ordered two www.army.mil extreme cold weather sleeping bags for $85 with shipping last fall good to minus thirty degrees Fahrenheit, and they are not really necessary for me in this area, if we ever lost our electric heat.   However, they might be practical to have in reserve up in Maine, so I also put them in the rear of the Audi in the trunk or the boot at they call it somewhere else.  I also put in a straw hat for a woman or person with smaller head and a old Greenwich Country Club golf hat for someone with a smaller head http://www.greenwichcountryclub.org/ .  Speaking of my old friend Jim Eldert that sometimes looks like me, he might have once lived in Greenwich, which is why he knows a bit about it, masquerading as one of the Bickford boys that most everyone knows in town.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have been experiencing hacking problems where the primary computer reboots.  More than likely it is the local youth in this area.  It has become the standard policy with such hackers recently in this area to get rid of them by turning off their electricity.  The Vista Longhorn Server Beta 3 seems to be more hacker resistant, and it is seems to be running fine for now.  Good Night.  CIO 

Note:<888> 07/03/07 Tuesday 2:00 A.M.:  I found the cordless telephone directions, which I put with the cordless telephones going up to Maine.   When one has large families, it pays to be frugal.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/03/07 Tuesday 1:50 A.M.:  I put three 3 packs of Perrier www.perrier.com 2000 on the floor on the passenger rear side of the Volvo.  Perrier sparkling water does not get old, since it is already a billion years old.  The Duke of Windsor whose former girl friend once lived in Kennebunkport, Maine made Perrier famous by drinking it worldwide with Bell's whisky, which one can not buy in the States.  I surrounded them with bubble wrap, so they would not break.  My relative can not get film for her camera, so I gave her back the 35 mm Ashi Pentax camera with the zoom lens that she had give me with a couple of rolls of two year old film, and it has new batteries in it, with a roll of film with eight pictures on it.  It has a piece off the rear back that I covered with electrical tape, and the spare piece is in a labeled film canister.  I put it all in the small blue Uncle Scrooge Disney bag that I use to keep my camera supplies in.   My relative is not interested in digital cameras, since she does not have time for computers.  I also put in six Electrolux vacuum bags, which are not as easy to find cheaply in Maine.  Yes, we still use old Electrolux vacuum cleaners up there.   Since my relative is a legal resident of Florida, I put in small Florida flag with its stand.   I also put in the four Currier and Ives 4 inch square trivets which I wrapped up in plastic bags, and the Baltimore and Ohio vintage ashtray, since my relatives diseased husband's family use to own the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.   I also put in the small Dutch delft type mug, and I also put the Bermuda onion cutting wall hanger, since my relative use to live in Bermuda.  I also put in a new used once white Black and Decker iron that I got from the 70% off rack at the Greenwich Hardware store for about $14.   I never iron my clothes, and I have a used iron.  I also put in two Nescafe Tasters Choice one decaf and one regular instant coffee 7 ounce containers, since I do not use instant coffee.   I also put in the large 34.5 ounce container of Folger's ground Columbian coffee.  My relatives seem to be forced to drink to much expensive coffee that high prices from the local coffee vendors in Kennebunkport, Maine.  Also Nestle owns Perrier, and I once worked at Benjamin Franklin's mother's family's hotel on Nantucket called the Gordon Folger Hotel for two summers.   I also put in the 10 million watt rechargeable lantern which I bought last Christmas time for about $20 with free shipping as a clearance item with its charger and automobile cigarette adapter, since spot lanterns are useful around the waterfront.  I also put in the small Schumacher jump start system with its power cord, which I got last fall for about $40, since jump start systems are useful in Maine, particularly, when it gets cold.  I have two spare full size jump start systems.  It is suppose to be left charging all of the time, or it will run down.  Except the Perrier, all of the items are in the trunk of the Audi.  Thus it will be Christmas in July for my relatives, since it is too costly to send gifts down to Florida, which are more practical in Maine.  No liquor this year guys, and everyone knows it is cheaper to buy at the New Hampshire liquor store on the way up north, just off I-95.  It is about the only stop in New Hampshire.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/02/07 Monday 11:15 P.M.:  I have two calendars in the apartment that say today is Canada day, and I have an English calendar that says yesterday was Canada Day.   I have a neighbor from Nova Scotia that thinks July 5 is Canada Day, and Canada Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says yesterday was Canada day, so we are not really sure.  Canada is such a big country, maybe they have to celebrate it on two different days or three.   I ate the same deluxe meal as last night.  I also ate two ears of sweet corn on the cob with a little bit of olive oil on them.   I chatted with two relatives and a friend and another relative three times.   I am going to meet my relative at the Greenwich train station tomorrow evening at around 7 P.M. for him to pick up the Audi to drive up to Maine with a friend.  I took the 15 year old Thomson Electronics RCA Proscan 20 inch television out of the kitchen that has not been used very much in the last 10 years that I bought as a clearance item from County Appliance for about $359 and tax down from $559.   It did not have a remote control, so I use a RCA and a Radio Shack universal remote control with it.  I put the proscan on the passenger side rear seat of the Audi.  I put the remotes in a bag with their instructions along with a recent copy of the American Heritage Family medical reference, since my relative in Maine is a registered nurse, and I put that in the trunk of the Audi with the other items.  I also put in the trunk in another bag, the Columbia 2.4 gigahertz cordless telephone that has a new rechargeable battery in it.  I also put in the bag, the Northwestern Bell 2.4 cordless telephone which has its original battery from about 2.5 years ago.  I could not find the cordless telephone instructions, but they might be underneath the living room Sony television in the cabinet where I store various electronic items.  I do not have the time to look for the cordless telephone instructions at the moment.  The Northwestern Telephone cost me $20 on sale with a $20 rebate, so it was free, and the same with the Columbia, but their original retail prices were about $50.  I also put in the bag, the Krumps coffee bean grinder.  I also put in the Boboli 8 small party pizza pack and two 12.5 ounce cans of Planter's Spanish peanuts, and four 16 ounce bags of the different types of www.newyorkcoffee.com beans for them all to enjoy up in Maine.  I move the Panasonic 14 inch television into the kitchen where the Proscan was, so there more room on the right side of the kitchen counter, which I first cleaned.   I have it hooked up to the living room Sony television cable box, so whatever channel it plays, will come in on the kitchen Panasonic television, which is only one and a half years old, and hardly used.  Thus the bathroom no longer has a television in it.  I put the lamp from the table opposite the bath tub on the bookcase where the Panasonic television was.   CIO   

Note:<888> 07/02/07 Monday 6:20 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.  Apparently Putkin has left Kennebunkport, Maine.   He is now going to Guatemala.   I took the two 3 foot by 5 foot flag sets that I had store in my bedroom, and I put them in the trunk of the Audi, so there will be new flags up in Maine, or they can hang them with the staffs off the side of the house.   I got them for about a dollar each a few years ago at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, but their retail prices marked on each of the two packages were $12.95.   They are like the sets they use to sell at tire dealers.   I chatted with some neighbors about the price of lobsters up north.   I told them about the Graham lobster company up in New Brunswick, Maine or Prince Edward Island, but although they are a large seafood company that used to supply the New England seafood companies, when they ran out of seafood, I can not find them mentioned anymore on the internet.  I checked the oil on the Audi, and it is still down one third of a quart, and it has not changed, since I checked it in Maine.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/02/07 Monday 5:20 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I chatted with some neighbors.  Before leaving I chatted with a relative in Kennebunkport, Maine.  A neighbor from Kennebunkport, Maine whom I had dinner with last Wednesday night at the Wayfarer in Cape Purpose, Maine is apparently today on the front page of the Boston Globe waving the U.S.A. nylon flag that I had folded up in traditional military style which my relative gave to the neighbor, and she was waving it at the protestors in Kennebunkport, Maine yesterday.   I still have two big ones at home, but the biggest one is still missing a star and is only a 49 star flag in case anyone wants to sell Hawaii for a short term profit gain.  I went by the Chase Bank at Mason street.  I chatted with some staff there.   I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my June and July 2007 rent payments to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  One can listen to local Greenwich, Connecticut radio on News Talk AM 1490 WGCH - Greenwich Connecticut .   I then walked over downtown, and I walked up Greenwich Avenue with another regular walker and east on East Putnam Avenue as far a Milbank Avenue and then back west, and we took a break at Garrelick and Herbs where the old Greenwich movie theatre and bowling alley used to be.   They have a lot of alfresco items there to eat.   We then walked back down a back alley and down Greenwich Avenue to where the fellow walker lives.   I then walked across Grigg Street, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station and back up Greenwich Avenue.  I use the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a six pack of Arnold square bagels for $1.85 and about a two pound banana split Entenmann's cake for $2.25 for $4.10 total.   I then went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed my Microsoft Money financial report for June 2007 to an interested relative.   I then returned home, and I put $10 on my MacGray laundry card for $17.85 total on the laundry card.   CIO    

Note:<888> 07/02/07 Monday 11:15 A.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed shortly.   I paid off another payment on my Chase Visa credit card of $124.44.  Thus the recent order from www.jcwhitney.com is paid off, along with the MP3 player, and the car radio FM radio MP3 player.   I scheduled the payment for July 6, 2007, since it has to be three days after my scheduled payment for today.   Thus the entire Chase Visa Credit card debt is paid off, and I do not owe David Rockefeller anymore money.   However, on my books, I show that I still owe $15.49 which is from the fact on my order from AT&T wireless, I ordered a spare transformer for that amount, but it has not yet shipped, so it has not yet shown up on the Chase Visa Credit card account.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out, and I will pay my rent for June 2007.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/02/07 Monday 12:55 A.M.:  I watched some television.  Well, yesterday was Canada Day Canada Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in case anyone forgot.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good night.   CIO 

Note:<888> 07/01/07 Sunday 11:35 P.M.:   I chatted with a relative.  The relative in Kennebunkport, Maine told me that the President Bush www.whitehouse.gov and the President of Russia Президент России or President of Russia landed at the Kennebunkport high school at about 5 P.M. today with three helicopters and drove to Walker's Point.   Other relatives saw them arrive.  Living around the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller families all of these year, I feel more like the Czar of Russia watching it all come and go.   I have seen plenty of Russians in this neck of the woods over the years.   http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm and Helen Kress Williams both of Oyster Bay, Long Island next to the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site - Sagamore Hill NHS (U.S. National Park Service) use to always keep a bottle of Stoli.com Age Verification in the freezer in case any Russian visitors ever showed up.   We even had the Stoli Windsurfing contest at Tod's Point about 20 years ago during on interesting summer's day.  Thus although they are now probably relaxing up on the Maine Coast Kennebunkport, Maine, Scott's Internet Hotlist , we still get visitors in this area.   I remember chatting with somebody one quiet Sunday evening a year ago last June 2006 downtown across the street from Starbucks whom told me they lived by a volcano in Chile, and the individual had the same look as the King of Spain Juan Carlos I of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  Well, anyway I was reminded of Chile this evening when opening up one of the two packages of filet of salmon that I purchased for $5.99 a pound yesterday at the Stop and Shop, and it said it was from Chile.  I took the one pound filet of salmon, and I rinsed it off underneath cold water.   I then put a couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish and I rubbed it around the dish with the skin side down of the salmon.   I then poured about a 3.5 ounces of lemon juice over the salmon and I sprinkled it generously with dried dill.   I then put it in the Farberware convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.   While doing that I also took two five ounce bags of America's Choice Saffron rice, and I emptied them in my microwave rice cooker, and I added 18 ounces of water and a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, and I microwaved it for 13 minutes, and I let if stand afterwards for six minutes.   I also put an inch of water in a Revere pot with steamer tray and lid, and I added 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, and I steamed them first on high electric burner heat and then medium high for a total of 15 minutes.   I put half of the rice in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I put the other half on a dinner plate with the salmon, and I spread the fish cooking juices on both the salmon and the rice.  I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil on them, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I washed the dinner dishes, and I threw out the garbage.   There seems to be a full moon tonight, which is usually good for fishing down by the waterfront.  That was a very enjoyable deluxe meal for someone on my meager budget.   I use to eat like that all of the time, before I started investing in computer equipment 17 years ago, so I was probably much healthier back then on a more luxurious budget.  Of course back then filet of salmon was only $2.99 a pound.  Considering back in the period from 1968 to 1972 oil was only 12 cent a gallon which is a leading economic indicator, and I earned about $200 a week working various jobs while in college, it would seem to me after all of these years that 12 cents divided in $3.70 is about 31, that I should be earning at least $200 times 31 or $6200 a week or about $325,000 a year to keep up with the inflation over all of these years, but alas the government does not seem to know anything about economics or inflation.  In other words, they do what is to their advantage, and thus since I have a very good education and experience, people do not seem to be willing to pay me what I am worth by today's values.   I will now look for some bargains on the internet.   CIO 

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Note:<888> 07/01/07 Sunday 8:55 P.M.:    After the last message, I tried installing the Vista updates this morning, but they would not install.   I finally shut down the computer at 7 A.M., and I went to bed.   I had a telephone call from a friend at noon.   I got up at 2 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a one third mixture or orange, one third of grape juice, and a one third mixture of cranraspberry juice with certo and vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and sugar.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.   I went through more of my mail.  I received the title for my 1992 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon.   I made copies of it.   I finally was able to get the six Vista update to install by installing them one at a time and rebooting, however two of the most current ones would not install.   I ate a 5 ounce bag of Snyders of Hanover garlic snacks.   I ran some maintenance utilities.   I threw out the old periodical literature and the bathroom garbage.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I chatted with another relative twice today, and I just chatted with another relative.  I also diabled the Vista Sidebar Gadgets, so the Vista computer runs faster.   I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I will now be doing some regular computer work.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/01/07:

Note:<888> 07/01/07 Sunday 4:50 A.M.:  I ate three scoops of coffee ice cream.

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Note:<888> 07/01/07 Sunday 2:35 A.M.:  After I watered the plants, I used some rubbing alcohol to dry to clean some of the grass stains off my white Reebok walking shoes that I got when I was using the weed wacker up in Maine.   I printed out my June 2007 Microsoft Money report, and I will send a copy to a relative that is interested in it.   When my other relative drives the Audi back up to Maine on Tuesday July 3, 2007, I put in the white Braun coffee maker that I had as spare in the kitchen along with an extra water filter for it in a bag in the back seat of the Audi.  In the trunk of the Audi, I put the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer and parallel LPT cable to take up to Kennebunkport, Maine to use with the IBM Netvista computer, since the ink ran out on the Epson C60 inkjet printer or possibly dried up, since it is used so little.   There are spare ink cartridges for it in its desk drawer, but it gets so little use, there is no point using them at this point.   The HP LaserJet 4L has an undetermined amount of toner in it, but it does work.  CIO

Note:<888> 07/01/07 Sunday 1:20 A.M.:  I paid my final payment on my www.geico.com bill for my six month policy which is in four payments.   I paid my www.cablevision.com bill for Optimum Voice, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Digital Television.   I paid my www.verizon.com bill.   I paid all of the amount that currently shows on my www.chase.com Visa Card so far, which includes all charges made before I left for Maine, which included the Hank May charge of $141.26 for the new oxygen sensor on the Buick wagon, charges for clothes at Kohl's, and at various items at Jembro, CVS, AT&T wireless, and www.newyorkcoffee.com for a total payment on my Chase Visa card of $247.78.   I still have not been billed yet on the Visa card for my recent car parts order from www.jcwhitney.com of $54.99, and the MP3 player of $49.97 and it might be another month before shipping on the MP3 FM adapter for the car which is $34.99, so in the next couple of weeks to a month, I will have another $139.95 worth of charges to show up on the Chase Visa card.   I do not plan to use it anymore, except in emergencies.   I also paid the $57.35 to www.newegg.com for the one gigabyte of memory that I put in the Epox computer, so I do not owe them anymore.   I do not yet have the funds available for another week to pay for my www.cl-p.com bill which will be the monthly recurring $187.   I have six cartons of cigarettes left, so I will only need to order 3 cartons this month, which will be about $50.  I also have to pay last month's June's and this month's July's rent bills.  I will now water my plants.   CIO