Note:<888>7/31/98 Friday 6:35 P.M. EDT: I went out at about 3 P.M. after doing a bit of internet work. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop. They have some new solid mahogany office furniture that somebody has donated, which is not yet priced. I went by the library and read the computer weekly press and the local Newspaper. I checked out two videotapes, "Shadow Warriors" and "Mission:Impossible". I drove down Greenwich Avenue down by the water. There seems to be a number of young families visiting in town. I drove down by the water and there was the usual amount of waterfront activity. I returned home and a friend will be down at 9 P.M. to stay after finishing work. I had dinner of cold chicken with Tabasco, peas, Ramen noodles, ice tea, and coffee. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I then filed this report. CIO

Note:<888>7/31/98 Friday 1:35 P.M. EDT: I went out for a walk last night at 8:30 P.M.. I chatted with the night custodian at the senior center about observing that deluxe truck parked downtown the night before with "The Associates" written on the side. I told him a good place to hide out in America would be "Truck Stops of America" on Route 90 up in Montana. I don't think there is anything for 500 miles in either direction. The ultimate rest area on the North American continent. Of course it might be a little cold up there in the winter. There were lots of families on vacation walking around downtown. I suppose today is cooler weather, so people are enjoying their vacations more. I observed a local Norwegian motorcycle rider who use to look a bit like James Dean until he seems to have put on more weight. He now looks like a Royal Norwegian Marine. I guess all that fresh Salmon in bulk builds bulk. I observed a local hippie type medical personnel walking down the Avenue with duffle bags to move his sailboat to a safer port in case a hurricane works its way up this way in a week. I commented to a local officer on patrol that the ABC news stats on the odds in the PowerBall said that one has a 1 in 5000 chance of being killed if one drives, and only a 1 in 25,000,000 chance of being killed if you fly. Thus I would assume it is safer to walk around. We had a full force of diners, strollers, movie goers, coffee sippers, and a few youth out observing for their internet reports. The Old Guard seemed to be out in numbers too, since Thursday is usually the cooks night off, so they usually go out to dinner. Well today is suppose to be in the mid 70s. I suppose it will be a good day for the beach. The Hospital Thrift shop had an older Hitachi sterio amplifier that was a pretty good model in its day. I returned back home about 10:30 P.M. and sat up until about 3 A.M.. I was thinking about the Greenwich resevoir system, watershed system, and the original water drainage routes in the town of Greenwich from my local familiarity. I suppose if the Conyers Farm resevoir dam ever gave way in some sort of activity like a minor earthquake, most of the water would run down across upper Lake Avenue down the western side of upper Lake Avenue towards Porchuck Road and down the valley along Riversville Road eventually flowing into the Byram River gourge and down through Glenville, and eventually flooding most of downtown Port Chester before entering the Sound. If the Greenwich Water Company resevoir dam east of Lake Avenue and west of North Street ever gave way most of the water would run down along the creek bed just east of Lake Avenue down through the center of town down to the Sound and also probably run down the along the valley east of the cemetary into the Husted Lane area running by the Greenwich Academy playing fields and passed the Hospital and down Greenwich Avenue into the Sound. If the revoir north of the Parkway overflowed I don't think it has a dam, but flows into the Water Company dam resevoir, but that might actually divert its contents into the Stanwich Valley area running down long the gourge west of Stanwich Road into the lower Greenwich Country Club area flooding the high school and the Milbrook area before emptying out into the Bruce Park area into the Sound. If the Mianus River dam gave away, its escaping water might have enough force to take out the U.S. 1 bridge over the Mianus River flooding the Mianus River harbor area, and theoretically the escaping water might have enough force to dislodge the I 95 Joseph Morano Bridge over the Harbor along with the railroad bridge. Thus though I assume the local resevoir dams are maintained and in good shape in the area, one should survey what major water resevoir properties lie upland from property one owns or are interested in puchasing in Greenwich. Moreover the Conyers Lake resevoir I believe is fed by underground spring or river that might be connected with the resevoir system up along I 684 which hold substancial water for the New York resevoir system, all of which is held back by the formidable dam in Vallahala, New York made of substancial masonry blocks. If that ever gave way, I believe most of that resevoir systems water would run down the existing river bed north of White Plains into Terrytown, New York where KLM and the Marriott and other office parks exist along the access route. I am not sure about these observations, one would have to look at a proper geographical survey of the area, to see where the natural water and river drainage areas are. Of course the resevoirs up around 684 are fed by the extensive drainage area north of it. Thus if the Conyers resevoir is fed by an underground River theoretically it could have much more water behind it if water were allowed to flow naturally releasing the contents of that entire resevoir system north of 684. When I use to swim in Conyers resevoir in my mid 20s in the mid 1970s, there were large cold spots coming up in the center of the resevoir where the water was entering into the resevoir. Thus since the existing Conyers Farm resevoir and dam prevent the high water resevoirs from reliefing their contents into the underground river or spring, they drain towards Valhalla. However, if the Conyers Farm Dam ever gave way, concievably the contents of the upper resevoirs along 684 might drain undergound into the existing drainage area into the Byram River gourge. Yes it would be a lot of water flowing down into Port Chester, New York. I sit about 45 feet above Port Chester, so I guess I am relatively safe in that eventuality. Well it is a nice day, so I might read the internet news and go out in the afternoon after I clean up. CIO

Note:<888>7/30/98 Thursday 7:55 A.M. EDT: I stayed up until 8 A.M. this morning doing a little system work. I went to bed and got up at 1 P.M.. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop and they have a variety of new mechandise. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I returned home directly and met up with a friend who will be staying for a while until he relocates. I drove up to Wilton with him and picked up one of his cars and returned it here. He is moving down here tomorrow. I drove back and had cold chicken with Tabasco sauce, Ramen noodles, corn on the cob, ice tea, and I am now drinking a cup of coffee. I updated Scott's Index today, it was up a bit www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I will go out shortly after I finish my coffee. Well have a good evening. CIO

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Note:<888>7/30/98 Thursday 3:40 A.M. EDT: After a delicious dinner of Purdue chicken, corn on the cob, Ramen noodles, and ice tea; I went out about 2 A.M.. I sat out in front of the senior center. Bette Davis is now driving another car a black lincoln and is camped out there still. I drank my coffee in front of the senior center, and I am a bit wired, but I will have to go to bed by 6 A.M. to be up at 1 P.M.. I chatted with one of the two Power Washers steam cleaning the front of Starbuck and the sidewalks in front of the place. They should do that to the rest of Greenwich Avenue. It is looking really filthy. I chatted with the two janitors getting out from cleaning the movie theatre, and I suggested that they have the owner steam clean the front of the railroad movie theatre. I also suggested to them that the owner of Planet Pizza deposit his garbage in the dumpster on the side of the movie theatre instead of in front of the building which unsightly or use Waste Management brown dumpster containers like some of the other merchants do on Greenwich Avenue. Leaving garbage out in plastic bags attracks rats and other vermon. I drove down by the water and chatted with two chauffeurs in front of the General Re building, so I guess Greenwich Capital is working late tonight. I drove down by the water and a couple of fisherman were still out there. The IBM house on the water is well lit up. I noticed a black or grey and white two tone 1956 circa Chevy Coupe driving down the Avenue. I noticed a long dark blue stretch Lincoln livery vehicle run the Stop sign in front of Starbucks. I guess a lot of our regular drivers have to get use to the new signage on Greenwich Avenue. I noticed the black and white tuxedo cat earlier this evening around the Greenwich Harbor Inn. I noticed another black and white partially Tuxedo cat with half white face checking out the garbage in front of one of the apartment entrances around Zyn stationary. I returned home wired on coffee and filed this report. I really should not have had another cup of coffee, it will mess up my sleeping schedule. Well the usual patrols are out, and it seems to be a quiet night in town. Not much to report on the New Amsterdam night watch from the Byram observer on Greenwich Avenue. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>7/30/98 Thursday 1:00 A.M. EDT: News Item: SEC Creates Office of Internet Enforcement for any young yuppies contemplating net fraud, and don't want to serve time in the French Club Med Resort called "Devil's Island", one should study up on the SEC rules governing stock trading commerce and inside trading and other minor laws some group of government regulators seem to think are sort of important. Well in the long run, the lawyers always seem to make a penny or two. CIO

Note:<888>7/30/98 Thursday 12:25 A.M. EDT: I put the Dolphin background wallpaper on my computer desktop Royceart Wallpaper . I went out at 10 P.M. and drove downtown. The PowerBall lines were all cleared out, but about 7 television trucks were still around town. I saw the Chief of Police smoking a cigarette in front of Zyn stationary. I drove down by the water and there were a few people enjoying the sound breezes. I went back up town and sat in front of the senior center and drank a Sprite. I walked down Greenwich Avenue, and the police had disperced the crowds in front of Zyns, and the television trucks were doing their wrapup news stories. I went around town and it was very quiet for a change. I returned up toward the center of town and returned to the car and drove down to the Greenwich Harbor Inn and used the restroom. I drove back down by the water and there were a couple of fisherman there. I drove to the Grand Union and returned a $1.20 in cans. I chatted with a local proprieter of a pizza parlor that had a store across from a lottery stand. I purchased a dozen eggs for $1.39, Early Morning Bacon $1.50, and a Purdue Chicken at .69 a pound for $4.60 for a total of $7.49 less $1.20 can return for a total of $6.29. I returned home and started the Purdue chicken and it should be finished at 1:30 A.M.. I turned on the midnight channel 12 local Connecticut news and they gave out the PowerBall numbers

www.powerball.com . They had the usual news stories about Greenwich PowerBall, and the Connecticut Lottery has decided to terminate PowerBall in Greenwich for the remaining of this PowerBall game if by a 10% chance somebody has not won. They will not know until the computers sort out the numbers in the morning. Well I will do a little net work before having dinner in a little over and hour. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>7/29/98 Wednesday 8:55 A.M. EDT: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast and sifted through my email. I went to bed at 1 P.M. until 5 P.M. while running "Maintenance Wizard" on my computer. I started a complete backup which just finished. I had a light dinner of pasta fraiche and ice tea and coffee for dinner and watched ABC evening news. I posted Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I will go out shortly to see the remains of PowerBall in the area. The PowerBall stores are suppose to close at 10 P.M. Well have a good evening. I have to drive up to Wilton tomorrow afternoon with a friend to retrieve a car and return it down here. It is warm, buggy, and muggy out this evening. Tomorrow is suppose to be cooler and Friday is suppose to be much cooler about 75 degrees F.. Have a good evening. CIO

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Note:<888>7/28/98 Tuesday 11:30 P.M. EDT: I restarted the previous mentioned download twice, it is still going with about 1 1/2 hours to go. I went downtown at 8:30 P.M. and returned Peter Norton's Win98 book and Win98 for dummies at the library. The Shell Station had the usual PowerBall lines. I read the local paper. I went downtown at 9 P.M. and bought a buy four packs get one free of Marlboro 100 Lights for $11.60. I drove down Steamboat Road and noticed the sailboat from the Guernsey Islands is back in port. I parked in the center of Greenwich Avenue and chatted with the night custodian at the senior center. I walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue and the PowerBall stores were all closed, so it was the usual quiet evening in Greenwich. Tomorrow night hopefully the last night of PowerBall the PowerBall stores are scheduled to close at 10 P.M.. We are suppose to have an observer from Governor Rowland's office is town, and I saw a car with a Rowland bumper sticker on it. I noticed lots of State Police departing town. I exchanged casual conversation with some of the regulars downtown. I drove back down Steamboat Road and observed the weather for a spell, and it finally dawned on me this is perfect hurricane weather. It feels like a low pressure system drawing in a tropical depression off the Ivory Coast of Africa. One would have to look at my page of Satellite Photos and Life Cam Links to see if there is a satellite photo out there, I believe GOES 8 has a photo of the west coast of Africa where the hurricanes form. I returned back up town and mentioned it to a few people. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a half gallon of 2% milk for $1.67. I returned home and told my suspicions to a couple of neighbors and filed this report. Thus I don't plan to go out tomorrow until after 10 P.M.. It was suppose to have been really bad today with wall to wall traffic. Well have a good evening, while I go back to downloading. CIO

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Note:<888>7/28/98 Tuesday 5:00 P.M. EDT: I was up at 8 A.M. this moring and had breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, and coffee. I watched a little morning news and made a couple of phone calls. I heard that the PowerBall is expected to be worse today and many people are sleeping on the streets overnight in Greenwich waiting for the PowerBall stores to open in the morning. About 12 stores are selling up to 50,000 tickets a day. I heard on the local news that the town was thinking about closing down the turnpike entrances into town, and encouraging the PowerBallers to drive further east into the state of Connecticut. I have not been out in two days. I went back to bed and was up around 12:30 P.M. and had more pasta fraise. I watched a Channel 91 Romance Channel with Richard Chamberlain about espionage in Switzerland. It was discontinued after one part, so I guess the next part will be showed tomorrow. I went back to bed and was awaken about 4:30 P.M. by a relative who was visiting with other relatives in Idaho and it is raining there. I asked the relative to pick me up a PowerBall ticket there if they sell it there. I don't know if I will venture out, since it is the end of the month and as usual I am low on funds, so I don't have much to do but sit on a bench on Greenwich Avenue and watch the PowerBallers or go to the library. I will do a little computer work for a while. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm today. It was down over 1.8%. Microsoft took a big hit Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock with Bill Gates losing a couple of billion dollars. I guess the local financial community is sizing up the PowerBallers on the street and they are selling their portfolios. Well have a good day, and enjoy the evening. I might go out after 10 P.M. when most of the PowerBall stores close. CIO

Note:<888>7/28/98 Tuesday 12:20 A.M. EDT: No I wasn't kidnapped by PowerMad PowerBallers. I took an hour nap after the last message. I then checked out some of the featured programs on the Microsoft Windows 98 Resource Kit Book Cdrom that I checked out of the library. There are two dicatation programs on it, and it took a while to go thru voice training the programs. They seem to work quite well, but I am not sure whether I will use them. There are also a lot of Microsoft utilities for Win98 and an excellent design program on the CDrom. I am a bit bushed, so maybe I will go to bed without having ventured outside today. Well have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>7/27/98 Monday 4:35 P.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I had a light snack. Time to take a nap. CIO

Note:<888>7/27/98 Monday 3:25 P.M. EDT:Microsoft Windows Update fix for Outlook Express Attachment Problem available on Win98 update. CIO

Note:<888>7/27/98 Monday 3:20 P.M. EDT: Sherlock Holmes deductive reasoning. If we have about 10 lottery sites and each sells about 15,000 to 10,000 tickets, that is $100,000 to $150,000 lottery sales. Divide average customer purchase into say 10 tickets, that is 10,000 to 15,000 people lining up each day to buy tickets, which is one fourth the size of the town of Greenwich, not to mention the lottery sites are in busy areas, so one can figure one would need to increase the police force and other public safety services by about 25% townwide, however we get at least an equal number of people coming through looking at lottery sites and going further east to less busy locations, which creates additional traffic. Overall I would say that the town would have at least a 50% increase in traffic from the PowerBall activity, not to mention the usual increase of summer traffic this time of year. CIO

Note:<888>7/27/98 Monday 3:15 P.M. EDT: I created a second IBM mail account alias besides mailto:mikescott@ibm.net , I also have mailto:mikescott1@ibm.net . Well I don't get that much email anyway. I hope all the visitors in town are having a fun time. I am just hanging in the old apartment kicking back on the internet doing my thing. Not much to report on when one is inside. Time for a bite to eat of reheated pasta fraise. CIO

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Note:<888>7/27/98 Monday 12:10 A.M. EDT: I went out at 9 P.M. and parked downtown in the middle of the Avenue. I observed a new black Audi lose its front bumper and have its radiator bust when the driver pulled out of their parking place at the last parking spot on the left side in front of the senior center across from Starbucks. Apparently the new cars with their lower front end spoilers have them catch on the higher curbs when people park on a angle on Greenwich Avenue. A German American Steamboat Road resident also observed the incident and we chatted about technology in America. I have frequently observed the diagonal parking on the Avenue also damages the left front or right front radial sidewalls on tires when they hit the sharp edges of the curbs, thus creating a timebomb situation for the residents jeapardising their safety over time since either of the front tires could have sidewall failure on a highway from a curb cut anytime. A family member had their Mercedes bumper damaged last weekend while they were here, possibly from the same type of hazzard. Thus the quaint folk of Greenwich who think they know it all, but don't know anything about proper safety systems engineering should probably fork over some precious Greenwich Green for a safety evaluation in the town. Moreover, since Connecticut is one of the primary insurance locations in the nation, it would seem that insurance people are not doing their proper job on evaluating saftey hazzards in this area. I guess so much is right in front of us, no one every notices it. After chatting with the German American I finished my coffee out of the thermos, and walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue and chatted with Kennedy Security across from the train station. The movie theatre across from the train station was closed, but the Greenwich Avenue Movie theatre was showing "Saving Private Ryan" which seemed to be busy and should let out about midnight. It was not too busy this evening and it seems like a lot of people would prefer to be on an earlier schedule. Bette Davis is resting on a bench in front of the senior center now. I returned back up the Avenue and about 11 P.M. the tow truck arrived to tow the Audi and its occupants departed. A younger brother of one or our local heros who moved to Virginia a number of years ago showed up downtown to buy a newspaper. His older brother asked me to keep an eye on the younger brother 23 years ago. He seems to have grown up and is close to 40 now, so I guess he and the rest of their clan are still around. I drove down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and there were a few wharf rats out. I returned back home about 11:45 P.M. and filed this report. Not much more to report on the local scene. I suppose the next three days will be PowerBall Days. I think the Connecticut Towns to the east of us are less busy at their lottery sites. If one is looking to get a PowerBall ticket the best option might be the Food Emporium in the morning whenever their machine goes online. There were about 500 people lined up at the Shell Station when I went out this evening at 9 P.M.. Well as far as I can tell Greenwich is still in its summer swing with a number of visitors and city folk and regulars going about their normal routines. Of course with a million people traveling through town every day, anyone could show up in the crowd, so be vigilant and keep a sharp eye out for government officials from other states who might be checking out on the way the local government money is being spent, not to mention foreign observers whom might be trying to learn from us. Well have a good night, and I will probably do a little net surfing this morning, before going to bed. CIO

Note:<888>7/26/98 Sunday 8:55 P.M. EDT: I went out at 3:30 P.M. and drove downtown. The PowerBallers were out in force. I parked at the Island Beach parking lot and took the 4 P.M. fairy to Island Beach. I enjoyed watching the people enjoy themselves on the waterfront. As we entering into the outer harbor, I heard either two or three shotgun type blasts about 4:10 P.M. coming from the terrace of a former IBM executive's house who use to be Jimmy Carter's ambassador to Russia. I noticed a cloud of smoke around the terrace. The flag was not flying, so I don't think they were home, so perhaps a housekeeper are gardener was using some sort of device to scare the geese off the lawn on the harbor to prevent their droppings from messing up the lawn. There was a flock of geese on the lawn. I road the rest of the way out to Island Beach, and remained on board while the rest of the passengers departed. I was on the top deck. On the ferry boat filled up with returning passangers, we returned to the harbor with a full load. I departed the ferry dock and returned to my car and drove down the waterside roads to Tod's Point. Tod's Point was busy and I walked around the three mile walk enjoying the coolish to moderate evening air. I returned to the concession area and saw a fellow with a little of my look speaking Portugese. I departed the beach saying good day to a British sounding lady in a Black BMW with a handicap parking sticker on it. I noticed a Dutch lawyer leaving the beach. I drove back west on the waterside roads and returned to downtown Greenwich and bought a buy four get one free of Marlboro lights for $11.60 at the stationary store on the left at the bottom of the Avenue. The PowerBall lines were gone on the Avenue because the vendor, Zyns and the one across from the train station had closed. It was the normal evening strollers and diners. I drove down by the Greenwich Harbor Inn and they looked like they were having a large party on the Harbor. I returned and I saw PowerBall lines at the Food Emporium on West Putnam Avenue and the Shell Station also on West Putnam Avenue. I returned home and boiled three types of pasta and made a Ragu Parmesian cheese sause mix with a jar of it and a half cup of wine, chopped zuchinni, onion, and herbs and spices. After they were ready I mixed the pasta with the sause and have enough for several days after having dinner. I made coffee and put it in my thermos and will go out and enjoy it shortly. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>7/26/98 Sunday 3:30 P.M. EDT: I was up at 11 P.M., and I did my house cleaning and watered the plants. I checked with the White House Secret Service Intelligence Division and gave them a briefing about what is going on up here, but they said they are busy down there. There number is 1-202-435-5000. Somebody from Greenwich use to answer that phone, but I guess the government people are not worried about people who live in Greenwich. They said they would check with the State Department to make sure any of their protectees are all right. I guess they are overwhelmed with summer tourists down there. A family member told me other family members traveling through some Canyon out west with Belgium Tourists were given German camoflauge fatigues when it started to rain in the canyon area they were visiting. The Belgiums did not feel like wearing German camoflauge rain gear for protection. Well, I have done my house cleaning, and cleaned up, and now I will go out to see what is going on. A family member wants me to buy $5 in PowerBall lottery tickets. I will drive over to Old Greenwich and see if it is less busy, and then maybe stop by Tod's Point. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

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Note:<888>7/25/98 Saturday 8:55 P.M. EDT: Capitol shooting suspect was ex-mental patient Interesting Point in Weston Capitol murder and Theodore Kacynski both lived in a few miles of each other in cabins in an old mining area 30 miles south of Helena, Montana. It is interesting to wonder if there is any connection between them or any other parties there. It might be a possible cause of their irrational behavior that it is frequently the case that old Gold Mining Towns have environmental poisoning from large amounts of Cyanide used in Gold Mining. Perhaps both of them were suffering from Cyanide Poisoning in their water which gave them Paranoid Delusions to cause their irrational behavior. It is an interesting point and should be looked into, since it would seem if they lived so close to each other, there is more than a likely chance that there is some common link to their irrational conduct, unless some other parties up there are involved. Well I am bushed and time to relax a bit. CIO

Note:<888>7/25/98 Saturday 8:30 P.M. EDT: Today I was up at 9 A.M.. I drove up to Wilton and helped a friend who is moving put furishings in a storage locker. I returned at 6:30 P.M. While at the Exxon Station next to the library filling up at 7 P.M., they were having difficulty with a customer and four officers responded. I walked the lower length of Greenwich Avenue and the PowerBall customers were still out. Let's home somebody wins this evening to reduce the amount of traffic in town. I returned home at 8 P.M. and I will relax and go to bed in a while after doing a little net surfing. CIO

Note:<888>7/24/98 Friday 8:10 P.M. EDT: I will probably go out briefly after 10 P.M. once the PowerBall visitors clear out. Going offline for now. CIO

Note:<888>7/24/98 Friday 7:05 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 1:30 P.M. and got up at 5:30 P.M. The phone rang once, but nobody was there. I reheated some speghetti and had ice tea with it. I drank a cup of coffee. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Not much seems to be happening, and since it is hot and crowded out, I am not bothering to go out with all the PowerBallers in circulation. Yes I know about the Capitol Hill Report, but at the same time when one sits inside all day not much is happening here. They had to order a new pump and valve assembly for my Braun Capacino Machine, so it won't be ready for two to three weeks. I suppose one can not let other outside events, effect ones perspective of maintaining a level headed perspective, particularly since it is necessary to keeps ones senses tuned around here. I might have to go up to Wilton tomorrow morning to help move some pictures. Well have a quiet evening. CIO

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Note:<888>7/24/98 Friday 12:40 P.M. EDT: Up at 9 A.M., I had bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, vitamins, orange and grapefruit juice, and coffee for breakfast. I am surfing the net and working on my email. This interesting site came up for career minded government employees whom might have the right skills CIA Computer Employment Opportunities . CIO

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Note:<888>7/24/98 Friday 1:20 A.M. EDT: Melting glacier could raise sea level , look for ocean front property at 20 foot higher elevation, there goes the Manhattan, Nantucket, Key West, and Greenwich ocean front property. Problem with the story they don't tell how soon it will happen, or for a curious Dutchmen whether there will be time to transfer the contents of the Netherlands to higher ground. Well maybe the Dutch will make a fortune on building Dykes off this environmental nightmare if it happens. Invest in Dutch Dyke Enterprizes. I went out after the last message, and around 10 P.M. and Royal Dutch Shell down the street had about 300 people lined up to buy tickets as they were closing. I thought it would be good free advertising for the oil companies if the local media covered the oil station PowerBall sites giving them a free publicity after they have been so generous in lowering oil prices recently. If some oil guru I know raised gasoline to $8 a gallon like in Europe, I am sure a number of locals and neighbors would not waste so much money and oil buying lottery tickets, and more over they would learn to have more respect for pedestrians and other people who don't drive too much or at all. I remember a Renault behind the Palace in Amsterdam that was a nice green color that got over 65 miles a gallon, and the entire four days I was there before the winter Olympics in Albertville, it never moved. The Dutch know a bit about conservation, and would prefer to save their energy for staying warm in the winter, as opposed to wasting it on foolish adventures. Well, lets see what happens next. I went downtown and walked the entire lenght of Greewich Avenue, I chatted with a couple whom are frequently downtown. I noticed quite a few young kids downtown. Bette Davis is still camping out. I suppose she will do the same to anybody showing up in her home town. Let's hope not the whole Confederacy. I noticed a few young yuppies as usual chowing down at the local restaurants. I would give advise to them to learn to cook, because if you can afford food, you can reward yourself several times a day with an enjoyable meal without the bother of going out in the general public and eating hamburgers all the time. Once your gourmet talents become more advanced, you might have the advantage of more dinner guests. Having helped serve 250 meals a night in the old days, I have certain talents, which many of the other seniors in town have in putting on the feed bag too frequently, and thus I find it frequently necessary to walk in hope of losing a few pounds and to stay in shape. Generally recreation walkers wear sneakers, since they are more comfortable. The fat slobs in the bars will be the first to be reconditioned by the new order in the salt mines that we have plenty of in this world. Have you every noticed how many people you once heard of keep disappearing and are never seen again. However, maybe the are just leading quiet family lifes in more private areas of the country and enjoying local community activities, and don't want to be bothered by the broadcasters of tourist destinations from around the world. Still we all like to travel sooner or later, so I imagine when the group that passed us going east passes us going west, we will see them more tanned and relaxed and less stressed out. However maybe they plan to keep going further east if they are originally from European origins, and won't need to come back this way again. The long term residents here, seem to survive off the ebb and flow of activity out of the New York area, so they can occassionally afford to go into Manhattan and assult little old ladies in the street, terrorise wall street commuters, kidnap diplomats, litter posh neighborhoods, threaten figures in authority, etc. Remember the road of diplomacy runs two ways. I have tried to be diplomatic, I would recommend our visitors to try the same tactics, and remember some of the services and professions the residents of Greenwich have offered over the years, when they had to time to study and learn their professions in the more quiet environments of the suburbs. Remember smaller people are frequently involved in the medical profession, and they don't pretend to be professional athletes. After walking the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, I drove down by the water, and on the way down the Avenue, I noticed quite a few youngsters coming out of the movie theatres, all very well behaved. The most common people seen on Greenwich Avenue walking around late at night are Greenwich Hospital Personnel who reverse commute coming and going from the train station and the hospital. Remember medical personnel don't look like movie stars, but your ordinary cross section of the general population, but frequently are much more tired and burned out since they frequently put in long days in the medical profession. Well time for some shuteye on this side of town. Over and out. CIO

Note:<888>7/23/98 Thursday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I folded the laundry, and I put it away. I recieved the Microsoft Windows 98 Discount Coupons today, I might be able to use the fourth night free Marriott coupons up in Maine, but I don't know if there is a Marriott hotel in the Kennebunkport area, but I believe there is one in Portland, Maine. There is a Days Inn next to the Biddleford exit of the Maine turnpike which might be reasonable. Also the Wells area south of Kennebunkport, might have less expensive motels $60 a night along Route 1. They usually advertise their prices on the motel signs. Kennebunkport can be a little pricey, and I don't believe a lot of the posh hotels have Air Conditioning which might be necessary if you're use to cooler weather. Well I am going to leave the BBC internet playing through the sterio while I go out for a stroll, in case any Anglophiles sneak in. CIO

Note:<888>7/23/98 Thursday 8:35 P.M. EDT: I got up at 2 P.M.. I showered and made my 3 P.M. appointment. I went over to the Hospital Thrift Shop and they have the usual cross section of merchandise. We had a shower while I slept and it soaked the PowerBallers. I drove downtown and observed the PowerBall lines. About 100 to 300 people in each of the two lines on the Avenue, the stationary store on the bottom left had side of the Avenue quit selling them. I drove down by the water. I went by the library and read the local newspapers and the two of the computer newsweeklies. I was advised by a local professional observer that the local Town Hall is up in Arms about all this PowerBall activity that is draining the town resources. I went back up town and walked around the PowerBall crowds, and I noticed we had not brought in the military police, but it is the same people, but they are just wearing baseball caps which make them look like military policeman or swat team members. The look meaner in the baseball caps. I guess they use to wear the pyth helments from the old days in Bombay when the British served in the overseas corps. The baseball caps are suppose to be cooler and have better shade over the eyes. I never wear a cap usually myself, because it messes up my natural senses. I do wear an icelandic knit cap in the winter when it is down below 10 degrees F. usually. I did not observe many out of families traveling today, I guess they are mostly at their eastern points of destination.I drove down by the water and chatted with a Cuban fisherman who is selling sodas at the bottom of Steamboat Road. A local law enforcement officer might check to see if he has a vendors license. However, he wears a New York City Policeman's hat and I think he is good presence down there, since he does mind sitting out in the heat all day. I doubt if many people would want to do it. He does not seem to understand the Kings English very well, since english is his second language. He told me the bunker are back, and I told him something bigger than the bunker like a "Killer Whale" might be out there, but it is my personal opinion that the waters of the sound might be two shallow for such a large mamal. I guess one would have to check with the Norwalk Aquarium about what the largest preditor species is in Long Island Sound, probably pollution, or hypoxia. As I finished chatting, it started downpouring for a half hour. I will have a house guest for a few weeks starting next Wednesday, and may travel up to Maine for a few days during the second week of August to visit family members. The conventional wisdom around here is that our older summer residents are major stockholders, but also the people who live here year round have the best viewpoint in terms of local activity and the ebb and tide of the town. Many daytime commuters are use to dealing with the large pedestrian crowds in Manhattan, and I have seen longer lines at subway kiosks than at the PowerBall lines, however, the downtown merchants are losing substancial business revenue, and I would advise the town fathers to terminate all PowerBall activities in the Town of Greenwich, Quid Pro Quo. Ultimately the taxpayers of the town of Greenwich run the town, not the Out of Town Neighbors, it is within the jurisdiction and jurisprudence of the town to terminate such activity any time they may deam it fit and proper. I returned home and made www.mikescott.net/icetea.htm and had reheat speghetti for dinner. I chatted with my neighbors coming in. I am doing my laundry and I am on the dry cycle with about a half hour to go. I once visited Newport, Rhode Isalnd this time of year besides living on Nantucket, and there are always particularly in Newport, a large party of people on the wharfs having a good time enjoying summer beverages, and the ocean breezes with an ample marine view of the waterfront activity which is part of the Newport scene. Well back to the net. I will post Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm when I post this brief message. CIO

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Note:<888>7/23/98 Thursday 8:00 A.M. EDT: I went out yesterday afternoon about 2:20 P.M.. I walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. I ran into a young Dutch traveler returning from soccer camp in Pennsylvannia who came out here to have his ticket adjusted. He was going to take the train back into New York and catch the bus to JFK airport. Instead I helped him carry his luggage and walked him down to the Greenwich Harbor Inn where he caught the 4:40 P.M. airport limosine to JFK for $33. He was catching a 10 P.M. British Airways flight to Shiphol Airport in Amsterdam. He road in the limo with another student from England. His name was Mark Harmon from Hendahoven in the Netherlands and he spoke English very well. He was kicked out of soccer camp for punching another camp attendee. He stuck out as a Dutchman since he was wearing a football jersey from the World's largest electronics company Philips. It was good to see another fellow Dutchmen in this next to the woods outside of New Amsterdam. He was very cheerful and a little hot carrying about a 100 pounds of luggage. He looked at hockey jerseys at the local sports store Rink and Racket, but they were too expensive. One of the Fox television people covering the PowerBall mania here along with six other networks followed us down to the hotel for some odd reason. I dare say with all the security at the airports, they had just enough time before their departures. I walked back up the Avenue and the media had three television tower trucks with towers errected to cover the PowerBall out here at Zyn stationary. We had additional security downtown that looked like military policemen. I chatted with a visiting Russian in the park about Techtonics, he had the same look as Bill Clinton, but with a long beard. I told him where the CIA headquarters were in New York along with other points of interests for Russian travelers. He said he want to visit Hartford. He was carrying one of those large square briefcases like government employees carry, and like what the security people are always worrying about that could carry one of those minature Russian briefcase Nuclear bombs, they make for about $250,000 apiece. He said I looked like a lot of Russians, and if I went to Red Square I would blend right in. We disgussed techtonics and volcanology for quite a while, and he was quite knowledgable and well educated. I noticed the Bette Davis look alike sleeping on the bench next to the veterans monument, and the custodian at the senior center said she could sleep inside there for a while. I returned home at 7:30 P.M. and went to bed at 9:30 P.M.. Lets hope PowerBall is over for now. I will surf the web this morning, and I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon. CIO

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Note:<888>7/22/98 Wednesday 12:55 P.M. EDT: I went downtown last night at about 10 P.M.. I walked around as the Powerball crowd was thining out. It was hot as hades and still is. I noticed a few young yuppies having dinner at Thataway. I chatted with a local observer from Florida. I saw about 20 youngsters coming out of the movie theatre. I chatted with a senior gal who was downtown observing the crowd that looked like the famous actress Bette Davis. She was dressed up in white like a nurse and driving a white cadillac. Whomever she was waiting to see, probably would have liked to see her. She said she lived up the road in Bridgeport and there was not much theatrical work available there. He hair was in a blond page boy look, and she did looked like Bette Davis in real life if you have ever seen her. I told her about various Davis family activities I know of, such as Jefferson Davis, Nancy Davis Reagan whose father Dr. Liola Davis was the top neurosurgion in America, Ziff Davis Publishing, Davis Street in Greenwich, and as any in attorney in Manhattan would tell you the second largest law firm in Manhattan, I believe is Davis, Polk, Wardwell. Thus the Davis families have a few minor resources at their disposal. I believe Bette Davis was also Howard Hughes favorite on the old RKO lot. When I returned home at 1:30 A.M., I called 203-869-1000 and chatted with Kennedy Security and told them they should make sure she is all right. I went to bed shortly thereafter and got up at 7 A.M. this morning. After breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs, healthnut toast, orange and grapefruit juice, vitamins, and coffee, I went out without showering since it is so hot. I stopped by the Arnold Discount Outlet store in Byram and bought two loaves of Healthnut bread for $2.58 for both. I drove downtown on Railroad Avenue and swung down Steamboat Road. The morning fishermen were out. I parked at the middle of Greenwich Avenue and walked down to one stationary store that was not yet selling PowerBall tickets and bought one buy two get one free Parliament lights for $5.80. I returned to the center of Greenwich Avenue and told the Fox Channel Five news casters he should keep a sharp eye out for a Dark Blue Bentley Sedan with a Paul Allen lookalike that that look like Jerry Garcia with long dark hair driving it, that is a better news story. He told me I mispronounced Medelin Drug Cartel, I say it like a short e he says like a long a. I know quite a few Columbian citizens work quite hard in this area, at the Greenwich Library, Exxon Gas Station, Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and the Coffee Tree Coffee Bar, The Food Emporium, and I would imagine a florist since they are the second largest exporter of Flowers in the world after the Dutch. I write this as I enjoy my coffee. I sat outside at the Senior Center and told a couple of volonteers there how Wiley Middleton with Claude Pepper had started the "Grey Panthers" political lobby down in Florida a number of years ago, and it is the largest political lobby in the country. I walked back down the street and returned. I notice somebody that looks like a former president who is a famous actor. I noticed a dude that looked like me 20 years ago. It might be a relative. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and withdrew funds, and told the floor manager about a friend of mine who wants a job in Corporate Security. Another floor officer told me that since the money machine always runs out of cash on weekends and holidays, they're going to start using $50 dollar bills in it instead of $20s. I guess we have a large cash community in town, since nobody likes paying high credit card rates. I told him they have advanced ATM machines that issue not only cash, but stamps, and money orders and much more, but knowing that bank, they don't want to invest in a new machine. I guess we will see a lot of $50 "Grants" floating around. The Grant Homestead is up in South Salem, New York I believe. I have driven by it many times. Mark Twain published Grant's biography to pay for it. I would imagine members of the Grant family are still around. I told the bank security guard I would never sell IBM or Microsoft stock while about 5 people were standing around me. I also told them that one can tranfer a trillion dollars to Switzerland for less than the cost of a postage stamp, with modern wire services. I went over to the Hospital Thrift Shop and they were not busy. They were just taking in a CuisineArt Machine but it looked like it might be faulty and risky to use. I don't know that much about them, but they use to be another local company. I saw some old typewritters, word processing machines, old computers, lot of bric a brac, and of course they have a large complete selection of women's clothing, if you are not too large. Greenwich women tend not to be too heavy compared to the rest of the country. I then went by the Greenwich Library and the newspaper was not there. I decided to read the weekly computer publications later. I went by the Grand Union and was asked where to buy a PowerBall ticket by a fellow in a Cadillac, and I told him the Food Emporium. I also chatted downtown with a Greenwich maintenance man who was trying to get rid of all the cigarette butts on the Avenue. I suggested the town buy a water canon like they use in Europe to clean the streets. They hose down the first story, the sidewalks, the cars, water the greenery all in one sweep. They usually use them in the early morning hours when not many people are walking around, but they keep a clean street. I also told him I tell people to throw their cigarette butts in the street since the street sweeper comes by regularly in the evening. I saw a former senator's former wife in the Grand Union along with many other locals. I bought GU raisin bran for $1.99, GU large eggs $1.39, Armour Bacon $2.29, GU lemon juice $2.19, GU whole milk half gallon $1.67, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $1.29, two Tropicana Orange Tangerine Juice for $2.50 apiece, two ears of corn for .50, one 12 pack diet Sprite for $1.99, one 12 pack diet Coke for $1.99, plus $1.20 deposit for $21.74. While returning my cart, one local volonteer was blocked in by another car, so local citizens when they park should make sure they don't block the driver's door of an adjacent car. He was really ticked off trying to squeeze into his car. I returned home an put the groceries away and had a Diet Dr. Pepper, and Ramen noodles for lunch, ice tea, and I am now having coffee. I checked with some friends to make sure the Bette Davis lookalike is all right. Well I am sure it is hot out still, I did notice the Island Beach Ferry Boat is running every hour on the hour if you want to brave the heat of the day. I noticed one prominent structure in town had a vehicle parked in front of it last night that said "ARMY" in the window, so I guess we are well protected. Well enough Constant Comment, back to Netville, USA. CIO