Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 7:05 A.M.:  I ate three scoops of Edy's low fat caramel and pralines frozen yogurt.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I have a 3:45 P.M. appointment today.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 6:10 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 6:00 A.M.:  The $100 Billion Hurricane - Forbes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  A number of years ago, I bought the big 6 foot by 4 foot U.S.A. flag at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for $10, and during the same period I bought the big 6 foot by 4 foot British Union Jack at the Merry Go Mews Thrift shop for $15.  I also during the same period bought the 3 foot by  5 foot Dutch and Saudi Arabian flags from the Greenwich Hardware store 75% off rack for $10 apiece.  I guess the Saudis did not have enough money to buy their own flag.  Of course, I remember when everyone ran out of money in Manhattan in the early 1970s, one friend of mine we thought worked for the Rockefeller family later on Labor Day in 1980 was seen walking out of the Getty Museum in Malibu, when it was closed, so possibly he had some sort of business relationship with the Gettys.  Since either the Rockefeller or the Ford families might be the wealthiest in the United States in terms of accumulated wealth in this country.  Other families earned their money off shore in other countries such as the Gettys in Saudi Arabia, so possibly since they do not return their money back to the United States to pay taxes, except for what they need for local expenses, they might actually have more money world wide, where ever people keep money off shore.  Much of which could be said about the Duke of Windsor's private fortune, which would be hard to estimate, since it probably included large colonial real estate holdings, if you get my drift.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 5:20 A.M.:  I don't have a smaller Netherlands flag Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to display around the apartment with the other flags, so I took the larger Netherlands flag from it box, and I hung it from the center hallway bookcase where I use to hang the Saudi Arabian flag http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-apartment-hallway-bookcases-with-dutch-flag-083105.JPG .  I think when you hang the Dutch flag vertically which I did, one has the red on the left, and the blue on the right, and the white stays in the middle.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 4:35 A.M.:  I took down the flags off the living room curtains over the windows.  It looks much better since the curtains tend to match the rest of the items in the apartment http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-apartment-living-room-curtains-over-windows-083105.JPG .  I put the Dutch flag in its box with the other box containing the Saudi Arabian flag, and they are in the middle drawer on the right side of the living room mahogany bureau.  I put the U.S.A. flag and the British flag in a plastic bag, which I put them on the center closet shelf.  I am recharging the 4 Radio Shack AA rechargeable metal hydride rechargeable batteries in the Radio Shack battery charger.  They should be fully charged at 2:30 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.:  I am thinking of taking the United States of America, Dutch, and British flags off the wall of curtains in the living room, since they clash with the purple and pink tulip curtains on the left and the right with salmon color curtains in the middle with the nice India relief on them that resembles a swastika, but it is not a swastika, I think it is the India symbol of the Earth.  What do you think.  Red, white, and blue tends to clash with the curtains.  I still could leave the small flags out.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 3:30 A.M.:  Instead of searching in vain in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for old smelly curtains for $20 a pair, one can go to www.smartbargains.com and search "Curtains" and buy curtains for up to 80% off or about $40 a pair for two panels 84 inches by 42 inches each.  I like these that I looked at Save on the Croscill La Samana Set of 2 Lined Drapery Panels at SmartBargains.com ,Save on the Croscill Figaro Set of 2 Lined Drapery Panels at SmartBargains.com ,Save on the Croscill Yucatan 2 PC Lined Window Panel Set at SmartBargains.com ,Save on the Croscill "Triomphe" Set of 2 Lined Drapery Panels at SmartBargains.com , Save on the Croscill Verbena Set of 2 Lined Drapery Panels at SmartBargains.com , and Save on the Alexander Julian 4 Pc Lined Silk Blend Curtain Set at SmartBargains.com.  They also have lots of other types and also those that hang on poles.  However, I do not need new curtains, since I have two sets on each window for extra warmth, and I washed them about three years ago.  The one that I have are also probably heavier.  However, at $160 plus shipping for 4 windows, it might be an option in the future.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 2:20 A.M.:  Windows XP Professional w/SP2 (Microsoft-E8502665) - Techbargains.com - Buy computer cheap digital camera review cheap computer sales cheap notebook wholesale online computer store .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/31/05 Wednesday 1:55 A.M.:  When I talked to my relatives, my relative whom had surgery yesterday is still in the process of recovering.  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.  The new Greenwich Financial Plaza Federal Savings bank just south of the Post Office Plaza has a night time ATM machine plaza, but my Bank of New York Card does not work in their door slot.  After my walk, I drove by the train station dumpster area, and they have what looks to be a fairly new 8 foot by 10 foot roll of plum carpeting there rolled up and placed in the dumpster.  It might be a new remnant, but it is hard to tell.  However, when I touched it, it has white dust on it, and it feels like aspestos, and I don't need it anyway.  A building as old at the train station office plaza could have aspestos in it.  It sure feels like aspestos on the carpeting that they threw out.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I guess with the higher prices of fuel, nobody is hanging out down by the waterfront at night.  I noticed the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue is $3.119 for self service premium unleaded, and the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library is $3.599 for full service premium unleaded, but I am not sure what it is for self service, but it is probably a couple of pennies more.  Several months ago, a female relative of mine advised me to take down the Saudi Arabian hospitality flag in my apartment, because in Saudi Arabia women have no human rights.  Ever since then the price of fuel had been skyrocketing.  Although the women in Saudi Arabia have no human rights, they will sure have more money to spend.  I still think I should fly it, but I actually enjoy the town of Greenwich, when it is so quiet.  One could roll up Greenwich Avenue and send it to Peoria, Illinois, and one would not even know the difference.  I then returned home.  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 10:50 P.M.:  I boiled three quarts of water with a tablespoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of San Georgio #9 thin spaghetti noodles.  I then drained the water off with a colander  into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu tomato, basil, and Italian cheese sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I refrigerated the other half of the tomato sauce in its jar.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 8:55 P.M.:  Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 8:50 P.M.:  I was up at 1:30 P.M..  I picked up my mail.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice to fresh filtered cold water about 12 ounces total, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until 7 P.M..  I watched some hurricane news.  I threw out some garbage.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 6:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 6:30 A.M.:  I mailed the Logitech $20 mail in rebate on the Logitech LX 500 wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse in the mail room downstairs.  I threw out some garbage, and I chatted for a while with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 5:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 5:20 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients, but instead of tuna fish, I used four 3 inch by 1 inch by .24 inch slices of ham that I cut into half inch by one inch slices.  I did not use homemade hummus.  I use 8 grape tomatoes on top of the salad.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/05 Tuesday 4:00 A.M.:  In Microsoft Vista beta 1, I installed the software for the Logitech LX 500 wireless keyboard and mouse.  In both XP and Vista beta 1, I had to separately install the Logitech driver for the Logitech PS/2 106 keyboard CTRL/CAPs driver from the Logitech CD.  With that driver, the Logitech program features work for the keyboard.  In Vista beta 1, I had to install the MusicMatch Jutebox and the Real Arcade programs one at a time instead of the automatic installation.  In both operating systems, I set up some of the keyboard features.  Also in both operating systems, I have the keyboard strokes encrypted, so they can not be copied by another system which is a nice feature of the LX 500 keyboard software.  On my Enermax UC-A8FATR4 4 channel fan controller , the CPU fan temperature probe finally failed for good.  I tried bending it slightly, but it did not work anymore.  The Enermax fan controller still monitors the CPU fan speed.  I emailed them about an RMA or sending a replacement set of temperature probe wires.  This all took a bit of time.  I like the near Logitech LX 500 wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 10:10 P.M.:  I have the Logitech LX 500 wireless keyboard and wireless mouse $20 rebate ready to mail in.  This is the rebate link which had to be ordered by August 20, 2005 http://images.pricegrabber.com/rebates/32520.pdf .  I put the old Logitech cordless mouse and Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard on the Dell backup computer in the bedroom.  I moved the standard Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard from the Dell backup computer to the Gateway backup computer, and I put its old Dell keyboard beneath the bedroom side table.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now install the Logitech LX 500 software on the Microsoft Vista beta 1 partition.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 8:50 P.M.:  When I was watching CNN about an hour ago, they said that oil had shot up to over $70 a barrel, so gasoline probably would go up another 70 cents a gallon by the end of the week.  Thus if one has the money, one should fill up their cars and vehicles now.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 8:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative about 1:30 P.M., and my relative was out of surgery and in recovery.  At 2 P.M. UPS delivered the Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 500 Keyboard & Tilt Mouse NEW - 967420-0403 for $34.95 with free shipping Logitech Products > Business Products > Products > Mouse & Keyboard Combinations > Logitech® Cordless Desktop® LX 500 which because I ordered before the end of August 20, I also get a $20 mail in rebate on it.  A similar deal on the same set with rechargeable mouse is available at Amazon.com: Electronics: Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 700 for $53.99 less another $20 mail in rebate with free shipping.  The rebate on the LX700 is good through August 2005.  I woke up at 6:30 P.M., and I installed the new Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse.  I installed its software, and it works just fine.  It comes with MusicMatch.  I uninstalled the Microsoft keyboard program before installing the Logitech software.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice to fresh filtered cold water about 12 ounces total, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched some of the hurricane aftermath news.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed.  I will put my old Logitech cordless mouse and Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard on the Dell backup computer in the bedroom.  I have to fill out the $20 rebate information on the new Logitech LX 500 wireless mouse and keyboard.  I need to set it up in the Microsoft Vista beta 1 partition.  Both the new wireless keyboard and wireless mouse are black, so they show less smudges.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 10:45 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I drove down by the waterfront,  and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a few local people.  I sat out at various locations.  During my walk, I chatted with a Bank of New York employee at their Mason Street location.  I also stopped by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions that I get for free with my Connecticut State Medicaid.  I still think if I were not taking one of them, I would be either one of the wealthiest persons in this area or in jail, but that is for other people to determine.  I actually do know a bit of economics, but the economic world has changed a bit in the 33 years, since I studied economics.  There are all sorts of financial instruments that I do not know much about.  I did noticed that Carlson Travel is still charging 20% currency exchange rates.  Thus one would be better off using a credit card that gives better currency exchange rates.  Not many people use cash anymore anyway.  After I completed my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  They still have the old pink and green about 30 year old faded curtain for sale for $15.  I offered them $10, but they would not take it.  I really like my vintage green and yellow and white curtain in my bedroom anyway.  I think pink and green was favorite color of Queen Victoria at Osborne House on the Isle of Wright.  They did not have much money in the British Royal family in Queen Victoria's Day like today, so in order to save on decorating costs, they had the three primary colors of paint which were her Horse Racing colors of Red, Blue, and Yellow, and they obviously had white paint too with all of the chalk in England.  So they mixed red and white and got pink paint, and they mixed blue and yellow and got green paint, so they were able to use the pink and green color scheme.  Since the Osborne house room that was painted pink and green was a tropical summer room in England, they obviously learned from their poor subjects in the tropical parts of the world how to do this, since they were also limited in their decorating budgets.  Thus in Florida and Bermuda pink and green became very popular with their expatriate group.  Just like in Nantucket, they probably only had black and white paint to make grey paint, so they painted everything battleship grey color.  Obviously the probably mixed them in 50% to 50% mixtures.  However, with the three primary colors and white, one can make any color in the universe if one wants to get creative.  I then returned home, and I watched some of the hurricane news www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 6:00 A.M.:  I went through my email.  Sunrise is at 6:18 A.M. this morning Tides.INFO: Tide predictions from around the globe: Greenwich, Connecticut .  I will now go back out, since I have a bit of Cabin Fever.  My UPS delivery UPS Package Tracking Justdeals.com Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 keyborad and tilt mouse new is suppose to arrive later on today, probably while I am asleep.  I will eat a trail mix bar before I go out.  I am worried about my relative having surgery today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 4:45 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I did not walk the train station area, because there were three suspicious looking dudes in a green pickup truck with out of state license plates with cowboys hats cruising around.  I sat out at various locations.  I drove down by the waterfront, and for a change nobody was there.  I then returned home.  I filled out some paperwork, and I mailed it in the mail room box downstairs.  I will now go through my email.  I also ate half of a 8.5 ounce box of Triscuts with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/29/05 Monday 12:35 A.M.:  CNN.com - New Orleans braces for monster hurricane - Aug 28, 2005 .  When I arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the third week of September 1976, I met quite a few people, but one person that I met was Steve Spielberg, and he was working as a emergency medical technician on Fort Lauderdale Beach.  He had the first type of cell phone that I ever saw.  He told me use to volunteer in the Y.M.C.A. drop in center in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Jim Warburg whom I also knew.  He had just made a movie, but he did not give me its name.  He lived in a non descript house on a canal in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and what was curious was he had a baby lion cub in the house, which was quite friendly.  Of course, I knew Herbie Meyer here in Greenwich, Connecticut whom was suppose to be related to Louis B. Meyer.  Also Joseph E. Levine and David Selznick also lived here in Greenwich, Connecticut, so we have seen more than our share of Hollywood type people in this town over the years.  Of course Hollywood people since they tend to like warmer weather would probably be here only during the warmer months.   Of course Ron Howard also lives here.  I do not know much about the movie industry or television or Hollywood, but I suppose we have other people here involved in that business too.  However, this time of year, they are probably away at their summer watering holes.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put four 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer baked sliced slivers of turkey on the bottom slice of bread and six 1 inch by 3 inch by 1/8th inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham, and four slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, four 3/32nds thick slices of onion, and I covered it with baby spinach leaves and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.   We might have some light showers this morning, but I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  My youngest sister in Sun Valley, Idaho for the summer told me her church is hosting the Dali Lama when he makes an appearance there, and although they gave away thousands of tickets at the church, they are now selling for a thousand dollars apiece on the internet.  I reminded her that the Dali Lama is not a vegetarian, and he will eat a steak if offered one.  I still have the 3.5 pound uncooked three rib standing rib roast in my freezer left over from this past Christmas that I have not gotten around to eating.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  When my family first moved up north from Decatur, Alabama in June 1961, we stopped by in Manhattan, and visited with a Chemstrand associate that worked with my father, and he was a Cuban American named John De SoSa, and I remembered him, because he gave me a half dozen new Titelist golf balls for Christmas one year when we lived down south.  I washed my breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  We also knew my father's boss at Chemstrand in Pensacola, Florida, and I think his name was Lou De King, but my father's immediate boss was Roy Heminghouse  in Pensacola, Florida whom also was in Decatur, Alabama.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 11:05 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a friend this afternoon while I was asleep.  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice with cold filtered water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  One of my neighbor's son lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and he had driven to St. Augustine, Florida to get out of the way of the hurricane headed towards New Orleans.  Remember to keep an eye on  www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I chatted with a relative having surgery tomorrow morning.  I went back to bed.  I was awake at 9 P.M..  I chatted with three relatives.  I went outside briefly.  I remembered that when I left the Bahamas in January 1978, I met someone named Shriver whom was from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  I probably met a few other people in Florida during my time there, but I can not recall everyone.  I knew somebody that worked in a kitchen in Hyannis that also worked in a kitchen in Fort Lauderdale.  I chatted with a lot of retired people because Florida has a lot of retired people.  Since most of the time, I did not have a fixed address in Florida, it was hard to keep track of people that I did meet.  I used to see somebody at the La Ti Da patio high tea in Key West, Florida that looked like Dezi Arnez junior or Jeb Bush, but that is a fairly common look in Florida.  La Ti Da was owned by the Key West, Florida district attorney Larry Formica.  I also knew one of the judges in Key West, Florida, but I can not remember his name, but I think his first name was Louis and possibly last name was Martinez.  Since a lot of the people that I dealt with only spoke Spanish, and they did not know English very well, and many could not understand my limited French, when Jim Eldert was around I let him speak to them in Spanish which he knew.  Also when I had my groin surgery  hernia a year and a half ago, the anesthesiologist had gone to medical school at Louisiana State University.  CIO       

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 7:10 A.M.:  I went outside briefly, and there was a brief morning sprinkle.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/28/05:

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 6:10 A.M.:  Well besides www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , not much else happening on this side of the Atlantic.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 5:35 A.M.:  I felt a little bit chilly from my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control that was made in South Korea that I bought for about $600 five years ago from Partridge and Rockwell just next door to McDonalds here on West Putnam Avenue, so I turned it up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit from 66 degrees Fahrenheit.  To relax a bit, I took a nice hot bath.  Since I weight 203 pounds at 6 feet tall, I have a hard time fitting into my bath tub, which was designed for smaller people.  Still, occasionally it is nice to take a warm bath to relax every now and again.  The air conditioner service contract was paid up this past July, and it is good through September 12, 2006, so we will be staying on the cool side of life here in Greenwich, Connecticut USA, as long as we can afford the electricity bills for it in the summer.  However, when one is use to cooler temperatures, there is an advantage on a year round basis in that one's electricity bill tends to stay less expensive with the lower electric heating bills in the winter.  The first eight years that I lived here on the Greenwich Housing Authority property which is not Federal Housing but Connecticut Public Housing, we had our electricity bills which includes heat and cooling included in our rent.  However, although they lowered our rent by $92 a month which is quite a bit less than the month electricity bill, which in my case last year was $111 a month, they also decreased my income subsidy from Connecticut by that amount, so the net effect eight years ago was that although my rent went down, my income went down by the same amount, and I still had to pay the electricity bill.   Thus I lost about $1450 a year in income from what I had before, while I was able to keep my heat in the winter and my cooling in the summer at a temperature that I felt comfortable with around 72 degrees Fahrenheit which is the mean average temperature in this area year round.  It did not seem fair, and it still does not seem fair, since this building is quite cold and drafty in the winter, since there is not much insulation.  Still I get use to it at my younger age.  However, some of my neighbors to stay warm pay over $450 a month in electric, but they have larger incomes.  Still, it would be nice to be warmer and more comfortable in the winter, since if the Greenwich Housing Authority had been more energy conscious they would have insulated the building better, and they would have put in forced hot water, steam, or forced air heat which is considered more comfortable in a building in a northern climate where the temperatures can go down to below zero degrees Fahrenheit.  Obviously, despite all of the politic rhetoric on television about energy saving measures, they do not practice what they preach.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 4:00 A.M.:  I went through my email.  Maybe this could help us escape out of the country back to the old country Newairplane.com .  Of course, once got there, one would have to have money or earn a living.  In Europe there is no class mobility, so whatever you family did 500 years ago or a 1000 years ago, one is stuck doing the same.  Thus although you might be a computer engineer, if you went back to Europe, and your great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather was a horse thief, you would still be a horse thief, if you get my drift.  I went through my email.  I guess with all of the people evacuating New Orleans, Louisiana CNN.com - Katrina now Category 4 storm - Aug 28, 2005 they will be using up any extra fuel left in this country, so I guess we have to watch our driving around here.  That area off shore in the Gulf of Mexico is where a lot of our energy comes from.  Remember to monitor www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  Of course around here the weather is still nice, and it is not too busy.  We might get some rain from the hurricane around this Wednesday or Thursday, so adjust your plans accordingly.  There is a chance of thunderstorms all week Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 3:15 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat caramel and pralines frozen yogurt and about two ounces of large cut seasoned croutons with some iced tea.   Since the European economy has become so robust with the New European Union, and since there are not many European Americans with much gainful employment in America anymore, maybe we should just all go back to Europe and find some sort of new home countries in the old country.   Alas, most of us can not afford to go over there, so we are left to our imaginations as to how it has changed since we were last there which in my case was the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France back in 1992, when I also saw Paris and Amsterdam for the first time and Geneva and Lyon.  Alas, we did not see much of Belgium accept the highway, since my friend whom was driving was in a rush, and he had already seen it on a motorcycle 20 years earlier.  I know Belgium is suppose to be a very sophisticated populated country in Europe, but the skills that I have here in English would not be transferable easily over to Europe at my age.  Also, since I have family elsewhere in America, whom I do not see too often, but whom I stay in touch with daily, I feel it is important to stay in my family's native land and stay in communications.  We do not get many tourists here in Greenwich, Connecticut USA anymore.  I saw one darkly tanned gentleman downtown this evening in a dark suit at the Blue Cafe probably from the South Pacific with a bit of Frederick Von Mierers look, but he never recognizes me, because by the time he sees me again, he has seen so many other people in his world travels that I am just another face in the crowd, and I would probably distract him from his primary assignments, since he would be more interested in current events as to past history.  I am not really up to date on current events, except in the personal computer field.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/05 Sunday 2:20 A.M.:  Well, today is Jimmy Eldert's 50th birthday.   Since he can not longer afford to travel up to Nantucket or to travel around the world as an international jet setter, I suppose he is sitting out there in California listening to the ocean and music.  More than likely he moved back up further north in California, since Malibu would have been too busy for him.  He is probably one of those hermits out in California like Howard Hughes who has seen and done it all, and now he is just watching the world go by.  I think the most important job he was ever able to hold was shoveling horse manure at the Sandringham Estate of Queen Elizabeth II, so more than likely since she knows quite a bit about horses, he probably knows something about them too.   He used to ride horses on the beach in Nantucket while he lived there.  Whatever the case, since his family also had a small dairy farm in New York state, he is probably interested in the dairy business.   A lot of the people I know seem to have something to do with the American Dairy Association, particularly in the political arena, and quite a few of them seemed to have been related to the founding families of General Motors.  However, since neither business is really doing too well anymore, they no longer can afford to communicate with people whom they once knew whom do not have very much money.  When I first contacted Bill Gates when he was trying to get Microsoft to become a bigger company, I gave him Jimmy Eldert's address and telephone number in California, and I suggested that he should hire Jimmy to help get his company off the ground.  Since Jimmy was very good in music, and since much of the same talent that goes into music ability is the same talent that one uses for computers, I suppose he might have accepted the job offer if he needed it.  I never heard back from either of them, so whatever happens on the west coast of the United States of America, it is like an entirely different country.  Well, anyway once again,  Happy 50th Birthday to Jimmy Eldert.  When I first met him back in October 1973, he was very insistent that I remember that his birthday was August 28, 1955.  I suppose since he has several hundred cousins that supposedly look like him, he is just lost in the crowd of every day life.  Of course like my family his family were one of the early New York settlers in the New Amsterdam Colony, so possibly we are distantly related.  There is an Eldert street in Brooklyn, I guess where the family first settled.  I never noticed any Scott street in Manhattan, but there should be one.  Maybe they should name the West Side Highway "Scott Avenue" since that is where the Scott's first two farms were in New Amsterdam on the lower west side of the island.  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two 12 ounce containers of America's Choice grated parmesan and Romano cheese for $1.99 each for $3.98 total.  I also bought about two pounds of Dole bananas, but they did not ring up on the register, so I guess they did not scan in.  I next went for a walk of the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with another couple about the fact that I use to know the Morrison family from New Orleans, Louisiana when they ran the Morrison cafeteria chain, and they also ran the Lookout Mountain Camp that I attended on the Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee border.  I also knew a Bill Morrison on Nantucket whom was a year round resident of Flossie's guest house on India Street in Nantucket.  As I recall, he worked at Cumberland Farms there.  I sat out at various locations.  There were not many people around at the late hour.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 10:55 P.M.:  I reheated the cooked spaghetti and the Francesco Rinaldi tomato sauce, and I added a small bit of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  Of course a lot of our food comes from down south particularly in the winter, so maybe if we tried to be more hospitable to any invading rebel forces, we might have more food in the winter.  Of course I have to remind them that Ulysses S. Grant's family lived up in North Salem, New York, so there might be some old Yankees still in the wood work.  I have a friend thinking of moving off of Long Island, and moving his ponies into that area to have more room for his livestock.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out to investigate the local terrain.  I suppose with hurricane activity from down south, we would be getting all of the bugs and tropical allergies in the hurricane winds as they push north.  If one has an allergy, one can take something like Benedryl.  Having lived in the tropics, I enjoy tropical weather.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a few relatives.  I mentioned to one relative that every time one goes downtown anymore with the higher prices of fuel, it is food off the table.  Thus it is better to combine one's shopping trips and other adventures into more cost efficient trips into our local village shopping area.  Of course some people still do impulse driving from habit over the years.   If one stays at home, one can always figure out something creative to do based on what one has available at home.  A relative is having her house boarded up down in Vero Beach, Florida in case any upcoming tropical weather comes their way.  Remember to keep an eye on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  With 5 million people living in south Florida, there are probably at least a million whom do not own cars or private transportation, so when they are effected by tropical weather, they have no option, but to stay home and weather out the weather.  Of course many of us up north during the winter months find us doing the same during snow storms and other cold weather events.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 8:45 P.M.:  I rested after the last message.  I recall while I was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from the third week of September 1976 until January 1977, since I did not have very much money I used to go to a church mission on the beach next to the water tower which we called the Peanut Butter Palace, where they gave individuals free coffee and peanut butter sandwiches.  Wiley Middleton use to go there too, and there were quite a few people from up north whom did not have much money that went there.  I recall one of the volunteers that worked at the mission was a hair dresser, and he use to show up with his baby son.  Although it was not a Mormon mission, the volunteer whom worked there reminded me of a Mormon missionary whom was very straight laced and well meaning.  When I met Chris Pariso up north about 7 years ago, he told me a story about what had happened to his father down in Florida, and knowing the area, I thought the Mormon missionary type might have been his father, and Chris might have been the baby.  At the time in South Florida, the local politics and maybe today were heavily influenced by a southern old boy network of Mafia type people whom if they did not like you because you were a Yankee from up north, they would try to set you up or frame you on a setup criminal charge.  I had so many people try to set me up, I gave up trying to make new friends, and mostly I just dealt with people whom know other people whom I knew.  Whatever the case it is my perspective from what I know that area at the time, they could have set up Chris Parizo's father in order to take advantage of his family in Vermont to try extort money or their land from them.  Since his family were in the United States Navy, they might have had enemies, and more that likely it happened to other people.  Thus it is still like the War between the States or the Civil War going on down there, and when one is a poor Yankee down south, they will try to set you up for revenge and profit.  This time of year, when we have lots of visitors from around down south in this area, they seem to be well organized like a well organized group of gypsies, carnival people or other type of travelers whom may try to perpetrate the same type of illegal activity around here.  Since there were so many people in Key West, Florida whom looked like famous people, one of their primary criminal methods of activity would be to impersonate famous people to try to gain financial advantage, and if it were a political individual, they could try to set up some person in some sort of government activity only to end up having that individual become victim from the real United States Government which might have also been around.  However, the rear United States Government changes constantly with the politics at every election, so from what I can tell down south, although the National Political structure might change, the "Good Old Boy" network of Yankee hating southern people still have control down south, and they will set up Yankees or "Snow Birds" as they call them in order to gain some sort of financial or other reward.  Based on experience this is my viewpoint.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 6:05 P.M.:  I woke up at noon, and I chatted with a friend.  I chatted with another friend at 4:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice with cold filtered water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  In writing about the people I knew from Florida and that I saw around back in 1976 to 1978 in Key West, Florida there used to be someone laying cinderblocks at the Key Lyme Motel in Key West, Florida that looked like Nelson Rockefeller, but he had a page boy hair cut like Jimmy Eldert.   I also recall seeing him drive a blue Cadillac around the beach earlier that fall in Fort Lauderdale, and I think he lived at the high rise by the central beach.   Also Jimmy Eldert when I was down there in 1977 and 1978 was friends with a red haired fellow that looked a bit like Rodman Rockefeller, and he had a house with an indoor garden near the Case Marina on one of the side streets.  John and I went to their house for dinner one night.  Jimmy lived across the street from the Catholic Church in an apartment in a boarding house.  The red haired fellow had a truck, and he use to pick up landscaping debris around Key West, Florida.  Also when I was there in 1982, I knew a fellow from Costa Rica whom was in the United States Navy Shore Patrol.  I knew another tall Navy fellow that stayed in a small cabana behind a house on Reynolds Street, and the two blond fellows that lived in the house looked like Gerald Ford's sons Steve and Jack Ford, but I am not if it was them or not.  Also Richard whom had gone to college at Dartmouth College and whom I knew in New York and whom lived in Norwalk, Connecticut was down there in 1978 and 1982.  Also I knew someone that lived in a small apartment next to the Key West Police station that looked like Nelson Rockefeller, and I recall the bar in the apartment was set up like the bar in Freddie's apartment at 420 East 49th Street.  Of course I use to chat casually with other people in Key West, Florida and elsewhere in Florida, but over the years, I can not remember them all.  I do recall back in 1976 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I knew three waiters from Coco Beach, Florida.  Also I knew the people whom I worked with from Le Vielle Maison in Boca Raton, and they were from French Canada and Haiti.  I also knew a ice hockey player from Lewiston, Maine named Norman Targon, but he returned back up north.   Of course in Florida in that period, I met a lot of people, since I was constantly out in the general public, since I did not always have a fixed home.  However, since I only speak English, and I have studied four years of French, and since I do not speak Spanish, I did not meet that many of the local people down there.  It is currently 79 degrees Fahrenheit outside Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 4:45 A.M.:  I looked at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , and I looked at Yahoo! Maps - New Orleans, LA , and I looked at Hurricane KATRINA 3 Day Cone , and it looks like New Orleans, Louisiana and its low lying areas are headed towards trouble.  If I were in that area, I would get out now.  I am tired, and I have to go to bed.  I will now shut down the computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 4:15 A.M.:  The furthest northern churches I have visited are several churches in Oslo, Norway including the old Stav church there, the furthest southern church I have visited is a small chapel in Tobago, and the furthest west church I have visited is probably one of the west coast churches, I visited such as the Episcopal Church on Nob Hill or the Santa Barbara mission, or the Presbyterian Church in Laguna Beach.  I have driven by Robert Schuller's Church, and I have been in its neighborhood near Huntington Beach, and the Presbyterian Church in Malibu, or the Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, and the furthest eastern church is no longer a church, and it is now a Mosque, but it once was known as Agahia Sophia the church of the Emperor Constantine in Istanbul, Turkey, thus the furthest eastern church that I have visited that is probably still active would be one of the many churches that I visited in Greece, but more than likely the one at Corinth in Turkey where St. Paul first preached.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 3:55 A.M.:  When Henry Flagler built the hotels along the Florida East Coast railroad in such places as Flagler, St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami, Coral Gables, and Key West, he also built an Episcopal Church next to each hotel.  In Key West, the Casa Marina Hotel had an Episcopal Church next to it called St. Margaret's, and it was a tiny church with a lot of skinny women whom attended occasionally.  Since John and I looked like Episcopal priests, a lot of people thought we were, since we spoke English.  However, although I have attended many Episcopal churches, I am a confirmed Presbyterian, and I also attended my mother's church the Dutch Reform Church, and here in Greenwich, Connecticut, although I occasionally visited the Episcopal and the Presbyterian churches, we actually attended the Round Hill Church, because we lived in back country.  In New Canaan, Connecticut we went to the Presbyterian Church, at Taft, I went to the Episcopal Church, at Lake Forest College, I went to the Presbyterian Church, because it is a Presbyterian College, in Alabama, I went to the Presbyterian Church, when I did not get along with people at the Episcopal Church, and in Weston, Massachusetts, we attended the Congregational Church, and in Nantucket, I went to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and I also slept there a few times, when everything on the island seemed to be closed.  In Manhattan I have visited a lot of different churches, but most of my friends seemed to attend St. Bartholomew's Church just north of the Waldorf Astoria.  In Champaign, Illinois, my paternal grandparents went to the Methodist and Baptist Churches.  In Holland, Michigan my maternal relatives went to the Dutch Reform Church.  Of course, in my travels I have visited many hundreds of churches, but not always on Sunday.  Here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I am usually asleep when the churches are active, so I just walk around churches.  At home, I occasionally watch church service on television including Robert Schuller, and I occasionally meditate and pray.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 3:30 A.M.:  After my first winter in Key West, Florida in 1976 to 1977 after going back and forth a number of times to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to get more help to fix up Key West, Florida, on my final departure, I left with Jim Eldert, once I had gotten my car out of the pound in Fort Lauderdale, which I was able to afford to do so, because I had finally after six months gotten my unemployment compensation from Daniel Construction company which was delayed because I had filed interstate benefits from Stamford, Connecticut from South Carolina which were delayed because I transferred them to Florida, although I did file my claims every two weeks for the allotted six month period.  When I returned to Key West with my car, and I drove out with Jimmy Eldert, we stopped by and visit long time friends of my family the Hagues in Marathon, Florida, and we then drove north stopping for a day at Disney World, then at a pub in St. Augustine, and then visiting with Hurley Haywood.  I then gave Jimmy money to fly back up to the University of New Hampshire to return to college, and I drove north stopping by to see Jimmy Carter's home town in Plains, Georgia, and then I recall I might have visited with my sister and brother in law in Atlanta before driving back to Greenwich, Connecticut, and then I returned to Nantucket in mid April.  I gave away my 1966 Chevrolet blue 4 door Biscayne in Nantucket along with a lot of my belongings to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop on India Street, and I decided it was cheaper to travel by back pack.  I left the island, and I went to Durham, New Hampshire, and I visited with Jimmy Eldert, and his friends at the University of New Hampshire.  I then returned to Greenwich, and then I returned to the New Hampshire area for the Seabrook demonstration against the nuclear power plant.  Since it was still cold in that area, and I had been hitchhiking I went down to Williamsburg, Virginia, and the minister of the Presbyterian Church let me sleep on his porch there, and I explored the area including William and Mary College.  I then returned to Nantucket for the summer, and Jimmy Eldert and Fred Von Mierers were my neighbors on India Street that summer while I worked at restaurants.  I was so darkly tanned, all of the northern people thought I was Puerto Rican, except I do not know Spanish.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  When I got down to Florida in the third week of September 1976, when I went out from my parents house in Greenwich, Connecticut to buy frozen orange juice at the A&P located where the current Food Emporium is located, I kept on driving south on down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida after I left the store.  I can not recall why, but I was worried I was going to be kicked out of my parents house, and I did not want to be homeless up north, so I kept driving south, since I had my belonging in my car.  It was indeed a cold winter, and as I recalled by the time northern people started showing up in Florida after New Years, I was already pretty darkly tanned, when I finally went down to Key West, Florida after having been there for Halloween earlier.  Those areas were not too busy then.  I recall seeing people from Greenwich as someone whom looked like my neighbor Tam Brown and a old friend Paul White, but they did not recognize me because I was so darkly tanned from living outside.  I saw the person that looked like Tam Brown wearing a tweed jacket being chased down the street in Key West.  I saw the person that looked like Paul White severely sun burned in Key West, Florida.  I was living underneath the community house of St. Paul's Episcopal Church as a homeless person, and when Jimmy Eldert showed up, he had me stay with some friends.  The following winter in 1977 and 1978, when I was homeless down in Key West, Florida, I met John Bolton after I had quit smoking cigarettes, and one morning at the beach, he offered me a Marlboro cigarettes which I accepted, and he showed me a place to stay at the abandoned Casa Marina hotel which he had a key to its door to unlock.  He told me he was the architect on the reconstruction project of the hotel.  Thus we spent that winter at the Casa Marina Hotel and its annex while it was undergoing reconstruction.  Jim Eldert knew Chris Rey who was in charge of the End of the Road construction crew.  Even inside at the Casa Marina, without heat, it can get very cold down in Florida in the winter.  The following winter, we traveled around Florida, but spent most of our time there besides returning up north for Christmas at John's sister's apartment in Daytona Beach, Florida.  We did return briefly to Key West, Florida, after traveling around America, it was better having a roof over our heads in Daytona.  I returned briefly to the Key West area via the same yellow Subaru as I recall earlier that winter after my trip to the west coast on my own before going up north for Christmas and then returning with John after Christmas.   I do not recall whether he was with me down in Florida earlier that winter.  I do not recall returning back to Florida after that winter of 1978 and 1979 until when I returned in February 1982 for a couple of months.  The state was less hospitable since so many people had moved down there with the colder weather up north.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 2:05 A.M.:  Cardinal Cody also told me that his sister owned 25% of Molson's brewery in Montreal.  The French Canadian Vermont Quebec Indian church worker that lived here in Greenwich, Connecticut; New London, Connecticut; Daytona Beach, Florida; and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and also traveled a bit around the country in his younger days probably has settled back down in the north country.  Since he was raised in Jay Peak, Vermont where it is very cold going down to minus 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in the winter, he probably did not feel cold when he was homeless around here or elsewhere.  When he is warm and comfortable living inside, this is what he looks like http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/chris2000.JPG .  He used the name around here of Chris Parizo, but when the locals started giving him grief, I called the Feds, and I told them to keep an eye on him, since he would be considered a Canadian Citizen, since his family owns property on both sides of the border of Vermont and Canada.  I suppose one very cold day, we might see him showing up again around here again.  He reminds me a bit of Abraham Lincoln, and as I recall Mary Todd Lincoln was from Vermont.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 1:25 A.M.:  The last trip down to Key West, Florida in February 1982 when it got cold up north after Mount St. Helens' eruption in May 1980, Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop , I ran into Cardinal Cody from Chicago, Illinois, and he was camping in a tent at Boyd's Camp ground with two alter boys.  I also recall dealing with a senior retired military officer in Key West, Florida whom looked like Admiral Halsey, and he use to carry a side arm, because he collected the money from the bars at night after they closed, and turned it over to the Syndicate that owned all of them.  I knew the fellow that ran the Health Club at the Casa Marina, and he looked healthy enough to run the health club.  I recall his name was Rick.  Of course most of all of these people mentioned into today's notes were physically smaller people since at the time I only weighed 135 pounds, and the larger people did not notice me.  In 1976 to 1978, the security guard at the Key West library was a retired Chicago policeman, and he also carried a side arm.  In 1982, I also saw Chris Dodd and Lowell Weicker from Connecticut down in Key West, and a friend of theirs from Connecticut named Morris whom was a retired Navy Medic helped me out, when I got third degree sunburn.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 12:55 A.M.:  About 45 minutes ago, I boiled three quarts of water with a tablespoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of San Georgio #9 thin spaghetti noodles.  I then drained the water off with a colander  into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi mushroom, pepper, and onion tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/27/05 Saturday 12:50 A.M.:  As I recall there use to be a Russian electrician in retirement in Key West, Florida named Hyman Rickover, so he probably had a house there.  John Barrett whom I knew from Manhattan and whom was Bloomington, Indiana where his family had the limestone quarry for building churches use to live on a boat in Key West, but I am not sure where he is now.  I use to see a Spanish fisherman in Key West, Florida named Juan Carlos, and when he showed up, some of his people would recognize him, and he use to smoke Camel cigarettes non filtered, which is how I recognized him, because I had seen him in Manhattan with his people.  Jimmy Eldert smoked Camel Ultralight filters.  I also recall John Volpe from here in Greenwich has not been around recently, and he told me he bought a retirement home in New Smyrna, Florida.  I never chatted with him, but there use to a short Italian fisherman in Key West, Florida that looked like Pope John whom retired.  I use to see Dezi Arnez down in Key West, Florida.  Of course when I was down there, Avery Rockefeller III use to live down there.  Olive Watson, Thomas Watson's oldest daughter use to live down there.  There was man down there all the time that look like Tom Watson whom held free barbeques at the Monster Discothèque, and I recall he always wore a red alligator polo shirt.  He was younger than the Iguana Man whom did not live in Key West, but further up the Keys.  There was an old timer whom drove a old Volkswagen beetle with a milk crate for the passenger seat whom lived in Deer Key and picked up hitchhikers all the time.  I figured him to be a Serial Killer.  There was the Episcopal Priest whom always drove back and forth daily from Key West to Palm Beach in his Mercedes roadster.  Captain Tony and his family lived in Key West as various members of the Hemingway family would visit or show up there.  The Spotswoods built the Casa Marina and lived there.  John Roug whom looked like John Bolton was from Key West, and he worked at Clarence House in Manhattan.  Joy Cooper whom was in Key West when I was there was from Vermont.  There was somebody from South Carolina that looked like George Cary.  I recall talking with a member of the DuPont family that was broke except for his General Motors seatbelt he wore around his blue jeans.  I knew somebody from Canada that lived by the Casa Marina that looked like Prince Andrew.  There was a fellow that looked like Prince Charles that lived in the two story motel just north of the Southernmost House where the Ramos family lived.  I did not see Jimmy Buffet that many times.  He lives near Key West Community College and the Hospital.  Bob Russell ran the Russell health guest house in Key West, Florida, and he was friends of Steve Bahl.  They were friends with Rick Todd from North Tarrytown, New York and Izi who was from Saudi Arabia.  There also used to be a darkly tan Cuban fisherman that to me looked more like Jacque Cousteau, since I understand a bit of French.  There was a man that lived in a Japanese House with Jimmy Carter's look, but he was about 6 foot 4 inches tall.  I knew the Chinese fellow that ran Design Observations in Manhattan whom also lived down there.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 11:55 P.M.:  Also Mr. Dillon whom I used to chat with in past summers here in Greenwich, Connecticut caddies around Florida for different people like Dorthy Bush the president's grandmother, and he also works for the 82nd Airborne, which is a group of people whom use to use Nylon from Florida to drop in and visit with people.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 11:45 P.M.:  Also George Cary's mother had a retirement home when she was alive in Delray Beach, Florida, and Jim MacArthur who wrote my recommendation to go the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut was retired in Delray Beach, Florida.  He been a CBS Sports golf announcer.  I also recalled that Joe Logan the head of the Physics department at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut looked like Lyndon Baynes Johnson, and he supposedly was murdered while in retirement in Key West, Florida.  That is what peaked my interest in investigating what went on down there.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 11:20 P.M.:  On my last trip to Florida to Vero Beach, Florida, I also met Mrs. Kelsey and Mrs. Curtain, and Mrs. Kelsey's family also lives here.  That reminds me, for the last two days at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I have been thinking about buying new curtains for the bedroom window.  I have a very heavy Nantucket Looms type rough wool curtain on the window side and a lighter green and yellow and white linen curtain over it on the inside side.  They are in good shape.  However, they had a faded pink and green curtain which would have matched my bedspread, but it was sold today.  Yesterday the had a beige and cranberry curtain, but it was sold today.  Today they had a set of red and white floral curtains, which looked nice for $20, but I could not really afford them, and I decided red and white curtains would clash with my pink and green bedspread, so for now the vintage green and yellow and white linen curtains will remain.  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 10:50 P.M.:  On my last trip to Key West, Florida back in February 1982, when it was 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Manhattan, I knew Bobby Fink in Manhattan who lived above an Episcopal Church on East 52nd street between 2nd and 1st Avenue, and he was from Hollywood, Florida, and threw him I knew Michael and Louis Mountbatten that showed up in Key West, Florida when I was there, but they were so darkly tanned from their pale appearance in Manhattan that nobody recognized them down in Key West, Florida after they had been to Carnival in Brazil, Acapulco, and Maui.  Thus they might have a place in Florida.  I also met Steve Salisbury whom looked like former President Bush, and he lived with a gardener in Key West that raked the gravel at the Fogarty House, and he looked like Ronald Reagan, and they both lived in an old Air Stream trailer he had next to the Boca Chica Navy base since before World War II.  Also I met John Bolton's grandmother in Coral Gables on his father's side, and she looked like Katherine Hepburn.   Also while I was down in Key West, Florida in 1976 to 1978 in the winter, there was a lady that looked like Helen Kress Williams from Oyster Bay, Long Island.  Myles McGough use to live with Jimmy Buffet in Key West, Florida.  I also knew Mel Fisher's children in Key West, Florida, and a tall Seminole Indian named "Crazy Horse".  I also knew Chris Rey that had the End of the Road construction company that worked on the Case Marina, and he supposedly died in a plane wreck while building the Winter Olympics compound in Lake Placid, New York.  John Bolton as far as I know does not have a house in Florida, but since his father works for the United States State department, he might know government people with facilities down there.  Also while I was in Key West in 1978 Andwar Sadat and Queen Marguerite of the Netherlands were down there.  Also in 1982, Queen Nord of Jordan was in Key West, Florida.  Tennessee Williams and Steve Bahl looked and talked the same, but I am not sure if they were the same people.  I had met Tennessee Williams in Manhattan with Fred Von Mierers, when they lived in the same neighborhood, and of course I saw him around in Key West.  Also through John Bolton's maternal Grandmother, I met the Coffin family in Vero Beach, Florida.  One of our long time family friends in Greenwich, Connecticut was Richard Wheelwright that looked like Commander Schweppes, and he owned a mile of beach in Vero Beach, Florida from 1926, and he made the furniture for the United States State Department.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 10:20 P.M.:  Also back in 1964, I met Jack Nicklaus, and he supposedly lives down in Jupiter Island, Florida.  Dave Kennedy from Palm Beach, Florida used the alias Dave Moran here in Greenwich last summer, but I knew him from Nantucket as Dave Kennedy since he lived in the same house as Fred.  Also Fred Von Mierers worked for the Getty family, so they might have a house or property in Florida somewhere.  Also one my many doctors here in Greenwich, Dr. Hampton has a house in Winter Park, Florida.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 9:55 P.M.:  Of course around here and down in Florida we know the Biglers too, but around both my mother's and my father's house when he was alive they both have a gardener that looked like current President Bush.  He seems to know how to cut grass and work with a machete.  My father's long time business associate in Florida was Bud Reed who Dad use to call his head fire fighter.  I also recall a number of people from the Midwest around both of my parents homes including the Ishams whom I knew from Lake Forest, Illinois and I recall meeting the Petersons and Davidsons, and I recall my father once introduced me in 1983 to a Mr. Vickers from England and he looked a bit like the Duke of Windsor.  My father's house when he was alive was at Newport Richey, Florida about an hour north of Tampa and due east of Tarpon Springs, and I recall him once telling me the nice thing about it was that it was 50 feet above sea level.  The area looked a bit like South Carolina, but it was not on the ocean.  Also I think Lowell Weicker's family had a house at Cedar Key, and I recall John Shepard was retired in Sanibel, Florida.   One of my diseased uncles on my mother's side of the family lived in Naples, Florida, and I think my father's first wife Eleanor Briggs also lives there too.  I would assume my father's third and last wife still lives at Newport Richey, Florida, but whether she remarried or not, I don't know.  I also use to know somebody from Pensacola, Florida in Manhattan named Jack that lived with Bobby Culver, and Jack talked like Tennessee Ernie Ford the way Steve Bahl did, so maybe they were both form down south.  There are probably a few other people whom I know from Florida that go back and forth like millions of other people do.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 9:30 P.M.:  I also know the Donahue family whom live in Palm Beach, Florida and elsewhere, but like all of these other people whom live down in Florida they had to downsize and cut back, they supposedly lost all of their money, I think investing in race horses in Ireland.  I also went to school and grew up around various members of the Ford family whom have a house in Palm Beach, but although I look a bit like Bill Ford, I don't have his connections.  The last time I saw him here, he was riding around in a Porsche automobile last November here in Greenwich.  However, the Ford family is not doing well, since with the higher price of gasoline, people can not afford to drive.  Also Fred Von Mierers use to go to Palm Beach, but I am not sure whether he had a house there, but he knew people there.  I met W. Averill Harriman, and I believe besides Barbados and Jamaica, he had a house in Hobe Sound where Herald Macmillan was retired.  I also have been around members of the Vanderbilt family, but they are still pretty much in the same boat as the other families, but they are suppose to have a house in Palm Beach, and I knew members of the Whitney family that had home in Ponte Vedra up by Jacksonville, Florida where Hurley Haywood lives.  I suppose there are other people down in Florida, but having lived mostly a private life, I do not really know that many people although I have seen a lot of people.  I just chatted with a relative.  I am finishing up my house cleaning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 7:35 P.M.:  One of the few people who has visited with me here in my apartment over the last few years was a local church worker here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but when he had to leave town for other business, I told him to look up Admiral Halsey in New London, Connecticut, and the time he showed up here in town after "911", he showed up like Special Forces from Canada.  His grandmother lived at Daytona Beach, Florida with lots of retired Generals and Admirals.  Of course Ormond Beach, Florida by Daytona is one of the 650 different Rockefeller home sites around the world.  I only know a few dozen of them.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 7:25 P.M.:  I noticed today in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, somebody bought the Donald Trump doll that was there yesterday, so maybe somebody is using it for bad voodoo thinking I am one of his relative sticking pins in it.  Although I have only seen Donald Trump around once in town, I suppose he still has associates here.   I have never met him.  I did notice yesterday when I was in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, there were two middle eastern customers, and one of them bought a boom box radio, but they were not tanned, so they did not look like they had been in the middle east recently.  They were possibly Pakistani, but they looked harmless enough.  I also have another friend in Florida from Illinois, name Tom McMurray in Miami, Florida, and the last time I chatted with him about 15 years ago, he was the banquet manager at the Holiday Inn in Miami.  His father was one of the original architects that developed Miami.  I also use to know the Woodruff family from Fisher's Island off of Miami.  When I first left Nantucket and returned to Greenwich, 21.5 years ago, I met a doctor in Manhattan that looked Nelson Rockefeller that drank Perrier and Angostura Bitters, and he was with two twin Italian boys whom I think were Sofia Loren's twin sons that also live on Fisher's Island.  The Doctor that looked like Nelson Rockefeller said his job was to try to keep United Nations diplomats from drinking alcohol.  He lived in an apartment on Fifth Avenue around 92nd street with lots of Chinese art, and he said he was spending that upcoming Christmas with Happy Rockefeller, so he knew the family.  Also when I first returned to Greenwich at that same time, I had my Christmas dinner of a turkey croissant at Rue de Croissant which is no longer here, and Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill were eating there at the same time, I use to see them down in Key West at the bar at the Fogarty House.  I think they also live in Palm Beach.  I once went to a tag sale at their house here in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the lady running the tag sale gave me three Viennese green crystal wine glasses, but although the husband of the house looked like Cliff Robertson, the lady did not have her wig on, so she did not look the same.  Of course I still have family at John's Island, Indian River Shores, in Vero Beach, Florida during the winter.  I have met lots of people down in Florida when I was there over the years, but since Florida is tourist destination, it is hard to tell whom might actually live there, versus whom might be just visiting.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 7:00 P.M.:  Yesterday, after my brief trip to my 3 P.M. appointment and the quick stop by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I felt like I had been gassed by a hidden aerosol device.  It is my viewpoint that since Greenwich, Connecticut is suppose to be a Bush hometown, which it actually is not.  There are a lot of troublemakers that show up, and some individual or group of individuals are using hidden aerosol type devices like mace to spray at people they perceive they do not like.  Although Cytex which has a chemical laboratory on the Greenwich Stamford border, I do not think they would use the general public for guinea pigs.  Whatever, the case, I took a two baby aspirins and two Tylenol last night trying to get rid of the severe headache and dizziness caused by whatever happened to me while I went out on my brief excursion yesterday.  It is like a severe allergy attack, which would not occur this time of year.  Whatever, the case I have a feeling if it were not a hidden aerosol, which would possibly also effect the instigator, it could be someone driving around in automobile or other vehicle which emits some sort of toxic substance.  This has happened quite a number of times before in this area.  It seems like when our regular residents are away on vacation, a group of carnival type people or other types of troublemakers show up in this area, and try to pull off some sort of dirty tricks.  Since they could possibly be short term renters in this area, they will have to vacate their residents on the first of the month when their rents run out, and they will probably be stuck traveling on the highway probably back down south from where they come from just as the heavy rain from the hurricane will be passing over this area.  It is all over to conjecture.  One friend of mine who has studied such happenings in this area, yesterday said there were increased solar flares on the sun, but from my observation yesterday, there were not any increased solar flares on the sun, and generally when that happens the effects go away at night once, the sun is on the other side of the earth.  It is all opened to conjecture.  A local young law enforcement officer in the area also committed suicide, so possibly in his rounds about town, he could have been subject to the same hidden aerosol which caused his erratic behavior.   I am continuing my house cleaning.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/05 Friday 5:20 P.M.:  I woke up during the night, and I ate half of a 5.5 ounce package of Arnold Seasoned croutons.  I finally woke up this morning at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice with cold filtered water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I showered and cleaned up.  I went out to my 1 P.M. appointment at the Greenwich Hospital dental clinic, and I had my teeth cleaned.  They also took X-rays.  I was told I should try the Crest Glide Floss Picks instead of flossing with dental floss by hand.  I am not sure if I can afford them.  I picked up a copy of a magazine at the Dental Clinic of "Kids Discover Volcanoes".  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I dropped my Red Vuarnet sunglasses on the floor, and I broke the left ear piece.  I bought for a $1.50 the World Book 2004.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I put the contents of a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder in a microwave proof plastic pot, and I heated it on reheat, and I put the hot soup in a large Cobalt Blue soup bowl along with about 15 large cut croutons.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I then took a nap until 4:30 P.M. when I got a wrong number telephone call.  I went to install the World Book 2004, but it turns out it is for a MAC.  It also came with the iMac Mac OS version 10.3.1 on DVD and also on 2 CDs.  If I ever buy an iMac, I now have the operating system.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I have another pair of tortoise sunglasses that I will wear.  Vuarnet sunglasses have pins that can not be removed to replace the ear pieces.  UPS Package Tracking Justdeals.com Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 keyborad and tilt mouse new is making good progress across country.  It is now in Hartford, Connecticut, so I guess it should be here on Monday.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 9:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put five 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer over baked sliced slivers of turkey on the bottom slice of bread and six 1 inch by 3 inch by 1/8th inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham, and four slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, six 1/8th thick slices of onion, and I covered it with baby spinach leaves and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a couple of friends and a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 7:25 P.M.:  Last summer, I spent a good deal of time chatting with Dave Kennedy at the Greenwich Library whom had helped build the Wellington Mall in West Palm Beach, Florida, and he indicated a lot of older women use to shop there, and I guess it is probably a substantial structure.  There is also a new veteran's hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida.  The Warburg family here in Greenwich, Connecticut also have a small home in Deerfield Beach, Florida near the pier.  We know the Matthews family from Palm Beach, Florida, and Betty Matthews is Henry Flagler's daughter.  She might be here.  They gave $2.5 million to the Presbyterian Church here in Greenwich, Connecticut for their new facade about ten yeas ago.  I think her son by a previous marriage is Cuban.  I saw someone that looked like Jim Eldert driving through Greenwich, Connecticut this past Sunday with Porsche Carrera with New York License Plate "91 TARGA".  He has spent more time in South Florida than I have recently, and I think his family use to live in Key Biscayne, Florida and Hobe Sound, Florida.  He seemed to know how to get things done in Florida, when no one would listen to me except Wiley.  Wiley also built Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Of course when I was camping out in Florida in the old days, I was also around Grey Panthers and Gators.  Donald Trump here in Greenwich, Connecticut developed Henry Post's grandmother's house Mar Largo in Palm Beach, Florida where Myles McGough lives, and I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu with Henry.  He used to live with Robert Morganthau's daughter Debbie Morganthau in Manhattan.  I also knew Ernest Hemingway's grandson Shawn Hemingway who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Another friend of Hurley and myself was his cousin Rob Glore whose mother was a Dupont.  Rob stayed down in Key West, Florida after I returned up north in October 1972 after visiting with Peter Isham in St. Thomas.  Bill Stroh is suppose to be a Trust Officer of the Northern Trust Bank in Coral Gables, Florida.  Dr. Lee from here in Greenwich, Connecticut is also retired in Coral Gables, Florida.  He lives on the same street in Coral Gables, Florida as Lawton Childs and Jeb Bush.  I might have seen him here last week.  He went to West Point, since he is related Robert E. Lee, so he knows something about the military.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 6:45 P.M.:  Back in 1976 when I first started exploring Florida again in the third week of September, I met Wiley Middleton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where the current hurricane is heading, and we also already knew the Huizinga family whom were my grandmother's neighbors in Holland, Michigan whom later became prosperous in South Florida.  Also when I attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, I knew Mike Tomasello whose father was the head attorney for the Florida Citrus Growers Association.  Since the company that my father worked for as a plant manager in Pensacola, Florida called Chemstrand from 1954 to 1956 was a large employer in Florida, we also knew a lot of other people in Florida.  Wiley had done the camping trip in Florida after World War I where he was Marine, and he left the family homestead the Middleton plantation in South Carolina, and he did the camping trip with Henry Flagler, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and Henry Ford.  Wiley had chances to be the original investor with DuPont in Nylon or Chandler with Coca Cola, but instead he invested in General Motors, and he was the first Cadillac dealer in Manhattan, and he later went on to start General Motors Acceptance Corporation which owned the Sheraton Hotel chain at the time I knew Wiley.  Thus Wiley being one of the largest land owners in Florida gave up trying to have a fixed home in Florida with all of the hurricanes that he dealt with, so whenever the weather was not nice, he would go stay in one of the Sheraton Hotels that he owned.  I recall there was a Holiday Inn and Sheraton Hotel and Ramada Inn and Howard Johnson hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida along with Pier 66 where the Forbes kept their yacht the Highlander along with Bahia Mar where the owner of the Chicago Black Hawks kept his boat the Black Hawk.  The Swimming Hall of Fame was in Fort Lauderdale, where Joseph Coors III lived near by as the head life guard on Fort Lauderdale Beach.  He drove a Red Porsche with Colorado license plates "COORS", so he was not hard to miss.  I knew Brian Hibbs down there from Cheshire, Connecticut, and his father worked for the John Hancock Insurance Company, which believe it or not there are insurance companies up north that cover Florida.  Wiley through the Middleton shipping company that his family owned also imported all of the coffee into the United States of America.  Although the Social Security data base says that he is now dead having died in Tybee Island, Georgia at age 96, I have seen someone down in Florida that looks like him recently, so he would be about 105 years old betting whether his beach in Fort Lauderdale Florida gets more sand or not.  If I were homeless picking up cans in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with no place to go, and none of the hotels or shelters would give me shelter from the hurricane, I might walk west of the beach to the Presbyterian Church off Los Olas Boulevard near where Clay Shaw had his law office, and stay there.  They use to have an air conditioning room at the Presbyterian Church that was warm on a cold night.  Also Wiley kept an office in the Florida East Coast Railroad building on Broward Avenue, and he would start every day pushing his shopping cart around Fort Lauderdale, Florida from nearby St. Lukes Episcopal Church.  Of course the boat showers at the Bahia Mar Hotel and Yacht Club did not have any windows to avoid flying debris, but they were at sea level, so they might flood.  Back in October 1983, I weathered out a mild tropical storm at both the Marlin Beach Hotel on the beach and the Blue Boy Hotel next door, when I was sitting there with friends from Boston trying to sell adjustable electronic darkening and lighting sun glasses.  Of course, one could just sit up all night at Lester's diner near the southern truck route west.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 6:05 P.M.:  I was awake at noon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice with cold filtered water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  They were busy at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, but since it is towards the end of the month, I can not afford to buy anything.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  It seems to be busy once again downtown, but with all of the European residents we have here, the current price of premium unleaded gasoline here is less than half the price that they pay in Europe, so the Europeans tend to drive twice as much here as they normally would, where as the Americans whom are now paying twice as much for gasoline as they used to pay are now driving half as much.  In other words, it costs me money to go downtown and walk Greenwich Avenue for free and pay to park, when at the same time I am paying for increased electricity costs to stay cool by the air conditioner at home.  I have my own viewpoint of my personal economic situation based on my experience as opposed to people trying to sell people things they do not really need at the moment.  Whatever the case, the Greenwich follies continue to go on, until after Labor Day when the children go back to school, and suddenly it gets cooler, and once again the locals have to think about surviving through another winter as opposed to many of the summer residents whom go back down south for the winter after the hurricane season www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 6:20 A.M.:  Well I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to sleep.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 5:55 A.M.:  Well with premium unleaded gasoline costing $3.06 a gallon in Greenwich, Connecticut, there is always a bright side.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 4:45 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 4:30 A.M.:  U.S. Government & Contractor savings on test equipment .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 4:25 A.M.:  I am going through my email.  This has some sales links for the next 22 hours Geeks.com sale for next 22 hours .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 3:30 A.M.:  I put away my laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 2:10 A.M.:  It say here CNN.com - Presidential gas bill gets steeper - Aug 24, 2005 , if you run for President of the United States of America and win, they will pay you fuel bill.  However, if you are a hermit like me, one would not want all of the publicity.  Anyway being a hermit is cheaper, if one does not have much money.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/05 Thursday 1:55 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.   A few of the local pubs had a few pub crawlers, but not much is happening.  I drove down by the waterfront.  There are a few late night fishing people, but not much is happening in terms of fishing since Long Island Sound has hypoxia, and there are no fish to be caught.  On my way home, I stopped by the Greenwich Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and they told me they are now opened 24 hours 7 days a week.  I also stopped by the West Putnam Avenue Shell station, and they are as usual opened 24 a day seven days a week.  They both have Windows XP on their computers.  In the old days about 12 years ago, when I use to go over to White Plains, New York to see what was happening, I met Scott Nelson, and he was from Minnesota working at the Chart House in Irvington, New York, and he use to do catering at the Rockefeller Estate in North Tarrytown, New York.  When I use to drive him around, I was always pointing out that the Shell Stations were opened 24 hours, but the Exxon gasoline stations were not.  I indicated that Shell was probably making more money.  Scotty probably has returned to Minnesota to become a dentist which was his lifetime ambition.   His family owned a gourmet meat company up in Minnesota, so he did not worry too much about money.  He was a cold weather person, and he would be out late at night in the middle of the winter.  I guess he thought I was from Minnesota, because one cold night in White Plains, I told somebody I was from Frost Bite Falls, Minnesota as in the old Bullwinkle cartoons "Rocky and his Friends".  Whatever, the case since he moved back into Manhattan next to Columbia University, I lost his telephone number, and I guess he made new friends, because he never got back to me on the computer activity I was just beginning to pursue.  It seems to me since he was from a family with a British Naval history, he would have, but he had lived in Chelsea in London and gone to school in Germany, so he knew German.  He had also lived in Key West, Florida where he ran a gourmet cooking television show, and he had lived in Nantucket, and when I knew him he was also traveling out to the Hamptons.  I guess the closer one gets to North Tarrytown, the closer one gets to the fast set in those circles.  He was however quite frugal, but he did give me gasoline money for driving him around.  I gave him my old pedestal reading lamp with Victorian lamp shade and a complete set of Washington Irving novels that I had bought in Tarrytown, New York at an Episcopal Church tag sale for $2.  His roommate was named Max, and as I recall they lived above the bakery in Irvington, New York, so since the heat came up from the bakery, they did not have to worry about paying too much to heat their apartment.  He had been mugged in Manhattan, so he had moved out to Irvington, New York into a safer environment.  Thus I got to know that area, and one sees a lot more fair haired people in that area.  Of course since it is exposed to the north westerly winds, and they blow across the Hudson River, it is much colder over there.  The last time I saw him, he had a tall friend close to 7 feet tall that was from Nicaragua, and his friend worked for Consolidated Edison Company.  I guess he never noticed that he looked a bit like Nelson Rockefeller but taller when he was food catering at the Rockefeller cottages over in North Tarrytown, New York, but since I remember what Nelson looked like when he was younger, I recognized the family resemblance.  I first met Scotty when I came off Nantucket in December 1983, and I met him at another pub in Manhattan near the Planetarium, and he was staying at the Swiss Hotel in midtown Manhattan just west of the Waldorf which flies a Swiss flag, so I treat him as if he is a Swiss citizen.  He always seemed bored with it all compared to his European adventures, and he could be very dogmatic in his point of view.  Whatever, the case I suppose coming out of the Midwestern part of the United States of America, he was use to seeing more people that looked like him than in this part of the country, but he certainly was a cold weather person.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I also put clean linens on my bed in the bedroom.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 10:15 P.M.:  I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel 2% milk low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I used 8 grape tomatoes.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shower and clean up and go out.  There is a little rain down in Florida National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 8:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative with bronchitis from a visit to Alaska.  I chatted with a friend fishing up on Cape Cod.  I left a message with a friend whom is always on the road in New York state investigating race horses.   I will now reboot into Vista beta 1 to see if its configuration changed at all.  Basically there is no reason to bother my computer setup to obtain Microsoft Vista beta 1, since over a half million people are beta testing it, and if one wants to obtain it, it is available from http://connect.microsoft.com/ .  Since in both XP and Vista beta 1, someone is disabling my Plantronics DSP500 headset, it would seem to me that someone does not want it working when they are using my computer and possibly eavesdropping on their conversations.  From my viewpoint for the entire 16 years that I lived here in this apartment, I have considered the apartment was possibly bugged and monitored, so it shows to what extent other governments will waste their money.  They United States government would not waste their money bothering me.  I originally set up my web site to catch the Unabomber, so perhaps we have caught a bigger fish.  On this web site for The Stables The Barn . Toronto it says they are closed, so perhaps they are away on another major construction project.  They basically look like all of the Beefeaters that one sees around Buckingham Palace around the British Royal family and that group, which goes to show where ever they are, they are probably building something big again.  It would be nice if they came down here and built a nuclear power plant, so we could have more electricity in the winter.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 6:55 P.M.:  I was awake at 2:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of orange juice with cold filtered water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  When I started up the computer, it appears that someone had used the computer while I was asleep, since the USB Persona Plantronics headset drivers were not installed, and the audio was set to the Creative MP3+ live headset.  I reinstalled the Plantronics headset, and I set it as the default audio.  I ran Ad-awareSE which I did before shutting down this morning.  It corrected a number of problems which should not have been there, since I ran it before shutting down the computer.  Thus it would seem to me that while I was asleep today, there was an intruder in my apartment whom used the computer.  This bothers me, but I suspect it has happened other times before.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 4:05 A.M.:  Well anyway, since I still can not get a job in the United States of America based on my skills and being disabled also does not help, I still feel like I am the Duke of Windsor's house boy serving in the British Navy.  However, since I was born in the United States of America in Alton, Illinois where Sam Walthrop was from, and since Sam was only 8 foot 7 inches tall, I suppose out there in the wood work, we have larger people whom can protect us frail old people from Mountain Lions and other problems they try to explain on television.  Thus although I have served around the British in various areas of the United States of America and the world, I am still qualified for all the benefits of being a United States of America citizen, and all of the previous agreements and contracts that government officials have awarded me over the years would still have to be in force, since there is not suppose to be anything wrong with speaking and reading and writing English in the United States of America, which according to our local propaganda is suppose to be the majority language in this country.  Of course I could be in Potemkin town that just looks like Greenwich, Connecticut, and maybe I am in Greenwich, Russia; Greenwich, China; Greenwich, Canada; or one of those other places that are suppose to look like Greenwich, Connecticut.  It is hard to tell.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  If it is Greenwich, Illinois, the Mississippi River seems wider.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 2:30 A.M.: Of course if one were foolish enough to want to rebuild the World Trade Center again to make it another target for someone to knock down, there is a bar in Toronto, Canada called "The Barn" across the street from the Toronto Sports arena, and the last time I stopped by there in December 1983 before returning to Greenwich, Connecticut I saw many of the same people whom were around the west side of Manhattan when they built the World Trade Center. They are an older group of construction engineers and steel workers about 60 to 80 years old if they are still around, and a lot of them worked for the Olympia and York Construction company in the old days. There were a group of about two thousand men about 6 foot 6 inches to over 7 feet tall and a great many of them wore beards since they were from the North Country. I heard they also built Canary Wharf in London, England and the Needle Tower in Toronto, and many of them have been working on the Yanksee River Dam these recent years. I also saw a great many of them down in the Florida Keys when they were rebuilding the Bridge network down there. If one thinks about it, a 140 miles of bridges and highway might have been a bigger project than the World Trade Center. CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 2:20 A.M.: Remember, when one explores the wilds of America, one has a good chance of running into this cat http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/mtlion.jpg . CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 2:15 A.M.: I toasted two halves of a bagel on the inside sides only, and I put a little bit of olive oil on it along with two half inch slices on each spread around of America's Choice Philadelphia style 1/3 less fat cream cheese. I was thinking recently with all of the talk about building a new building on the sight of the World Trade Center which really does not make sense since not that many people work down on Wall Street anymore and many people work from other locations. I suppose they could open up the sea wall and build a nice marina in the open foundation area of the old World Trade Center. That way pleasure craft along the waterways around Manhattan would have a protected marina to moor at. With the internet and modern telecommunications, there is really no need for that many people to be working at one location down in the Wall street area. Also with higher energy prices, more of the Wall Street types are more likely to be in warmer climates, thus when they come north in the summer, they could moor their yachts down on Wall Street and enjoy any rum they have brought back from the tropics, which was their original business anyway before they branched off into piracy and pretended to be dairy farmers. CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 1:10 A.M.: I ate 12 Ritz crackers with 1 inch by 1 inch by .10 inch slices of Kraft Cracker Barrel 2% milk low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them and some iced tea. It is beginning to seem not too much happens in the world anymore, when all of the movers and shakers are away on vacation. I hope they have not turned off the printing presses at the Treasury Department in Washington D.C. too Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. . Maybe with the President in Idaho, we might see more French Fries and Steak around here, but alas that would not be good for my cholesterol, since I am taking Lipitor. Whatever the case we seem to be getting by here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but as I recall last year during the first week of December it was down to zero degrees Fahrenheit, which obviously with the higher prices of fuel, if the same event happens for some extensive time again this year and this coming winter, it will be more expensive to live here, so we should try to save some money to pay for upcoming winter's heating bills. CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/05 Wednesday 12:45 A.M.: See sunrise in Nantucket Nantucket.net's Live Harbor Cam - Nantucket Island, MA - nantucket net from Nantucket Island, MA, 02554 Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 00:18:26 (EDT) . I think the house on the far right in the picture or the far left is the house on Lincoln Road that I worked on in 1978. It was suppose to be the second oldest house in Nantucket, so it was not that large compared to some of the newer houses. Alas none of my old Nantucket friends ever look me up, because they don't live in this area. I once figured out that Nantucket being an island out at sea probably had a few people whom came ashore from other points of the world off various stealthful mooring vessels such as foreign submarines, so they could intermingle with the general population of tourists on the island. On Nantucket I lived at Mrs. Florence Frances' better known as Flossie's boarding house on India Street. I also lived in the basement of the owner's of the Languedoc guest house on Hussey Street. Most of the people I knew in my later years on Nantucket were different than the people whom I knew in my college years. Alas it is a big world, and they have all taken off to other places. Nantucket is actually more enjoyable after Labor Day, since it is not as crowded, and since it is closer to the Gulf Stream the weather can be quite nice right up until Christmas Time. I have returned there once, since I left in December 1983, and when I left just before December 1983, the flowers were still in bloom, and I almost drowned in the third week of October that year swimming off shore by the Mount Vernon farm, when I got caught in a rip tide. I learned to swim with a rip tide. Occasionally people whom live in Nantucket leave during the summer renting their homes for higher prices to return after the tourist season. However, one has to remember that since it is an island, everything but seafood and sand has to be imported, so the prices can be quite high compared to the mainland. I bet gasoline on Nantucket is close to $4 a gallon, so plenty of people are riding those old bicycles they keep around. Of course if one had to heat a house on Nantucket, one would probably close off most of the rooms, and live in one or two rooms around the kitchen to stay warm in the winter. Of course a great many people on Nantucket go south for the winter, so they don't winterize their summer homes. Flossie once all of the students left her boarding house use to go to Lyford Cay in the Bahamas Lyford Cay Homes: Lyford Cay Real Estate - Bahamas Real Estate . Flossie was a local on the island with family there, and she claimed not to have left the island since 1924. Thus I don't know what the real story was. Since some pleasure cruisers off sailboats tend to go north and south with the seasons, one can figure out they vary their itineraries depending on their budgets and sailing skills. I recall one person I knew lived on Quince Street near Hussey street, and Robert Louis Stevenson's private library was in that house, and over half of the books were on Mysticism. Thus Nantucket can be entirely different kettle of fish from the mainland of America. Still, since the rents are so high in season, there were not that many people to do all of the heavy work that I use to do in the restaurants and around the island on other jobs, so I suppose now with the higher prices, help is even harder to get there. I read in the Greenwich Time that they fly up maintenance personnel from this area to do various chores, but most of the major maintenance they do off season when the weather is still nice. With all of the high tech people in the northeast, I don't think they need anyone to fix their computers. Since it is a summer resort with not much to do but socialize if you have money and connections, frequently the people in Nantucket seem to drink a bit more than their share of alcohol, which after relaxing on the island for an entire season, they frequently are not prepared for the busier environment on the mainland, when they return. The last time I flew out of the Nantucket area was actually the day after the 25th anniversary of Jack Kennedy's death, and the day of if I took the ferry to Hyannis, and I stayed up all night, and I caught a morning flight on Provincetown Boston airlines with John Von Airsdale as the pilot, and I happened to notice that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sitting a couple of rows in front of me, but I did not bother her, and we landed safely at LaGuardia airport. I then caught the train from Pennsylvania station, and I took the Amtrak to Toronto, and I spend a week or two there sleeping on the couch of the Anglican Seminary at the University of Toronto, and when I returned on the way down, there was somebody on the train with a little blond baby boy that looked like the Queen Mum of England, and while the train stopped briefly outside of Buffalo, New York, I chatted with a friend of mine's father whose wife's father had worked for Queen Victoria. The rest is pretty much history, and I still seem to be here in Greenwich, Connecticut living in one of those railroad flat type apartments that look like one of the Vanderbilt's railroad cars up in Shelburne, Vermont Shelburne, Vermont, New England, USA and Shelburne Museum - Shelburne, Vermont.

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 11:40 P.M.: Costco.com 20 free photos for members. CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 11:30 P.M.: Amazon.com: Electronics: Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 700 for $53.99 less another $20 mail in rebate. CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 11:15 P.M.: TCPalm : Stuart fishermen catch 620-pound swordfish off Jupiter Inlet . CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 11:00 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I ate the last two scoops of Friendly Butter Crunch ice cream.  I will now reboot and work in Microsoft Vista beta 1.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 10:20 P.M.:  Clearance Items from Sears Furniture Sale - Discount Bedding - Discount Home Furniture .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 10:00 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by Zen stationary during my walk, and I bought a #28 Emerald Green Tripler scratch card for a dollar.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought a 7 ounce bag of black licorice for $1.19 plus .07 tax for $1.26 total.  After I completed my walk, I sat out for a while observing the ambience of downtown Greenwich, Connecticut for a while.  It seems pretty much the same as it always is.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I scratched the scratch card, but I did not win.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 6:50 P.M.:  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put five 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer over baked sliced slivers of turkey on the bottom slice of bread eight 1 inch by 3 inch by 1/8th inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham, and four slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, six 1/8th thick slices of onion, and I covered it with baby spinach leaves and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shower and clean up and go out.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 5:40 P.M.:  I was up at noon.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors, and I picked up my mail.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a fresh banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I went out to the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought three 5.5 ounce packages of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons for .99 each bag and a mixed bag of 6 Arnold bagels for $1.85 for $4.82 total.  I returned home, and I chatted with a couple of neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.  This order UPS Package Tracking Justdeals.com Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 keyborad and tilt mouse new has shipped, and it is due for delivery next Monday.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/23/05 Tuesday 12:05 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 11:40 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 11:20 P.M.:  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 10:55 P.M.:  If you look at this live camera from Washington D.C, it is always daytime in Washington D.C. anymore, so they must be more tanned than us down there Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. .  Of course out here in the burgs of east of Manhattan, people whom are interested in Washington D.C. politics are diagnosed as having "White House Fever" , but down in Washington D.C., they call it "Potomac Fever".  Needless to say the U.S. government threw away the internet for Defense purposes about 25 years ago, so now it is mostly just an educational tool.  It sort of makes one wander what sort of modern equipment they are using down there in the Beltway.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 10:50 P.M.:  I have the UPS tracking number for Logitech wireless keyboard and optical wireless mouse order UPS Package Tracking Justdeals.com Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 keyborad and tilt mouse new , but it does not work yet, since it has not been registered yet.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 10:45 P.M.:  I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used four three inch by 1.25 inch by .25 slices of Danish Plumrose ham that I sliced into .40 inch wide slices.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Swiss cheese and Cracker Barrel 2% milk low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I used 9 grape tomatoes instead of 8 grape tomatoes.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 8:45 P.M.:  I noticed today while I was downtown, a few individuals were wearing the classical Sperry Topsider which is still a very popular shoe around here.  One can witness a local politician wearing them back in 1968 http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/lowell-weicker-junior-with-scott-family-members-1967.jpg .  When I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut The Taft School , they use to make Sperry Topsiders in nearby Naugatuck, Connecticut at the U.S. Rubber Plant there.  However, if anyone knows anything about President Taft, he was also ambassador to the Philippines, and generally if one needs rubber, one has to get it from some area like the Philippines.  I can assure you Rubber plants do not grow in Connecticut.  I chatted with a relative from down south about the winters around Connecticut and New York during the 1980 to 1983 period.  Alas I can not afford boat shoes or a boat, but I have shoes similar to Sperry Topsiders.  I used to wear them without socks in the winter when I first arrived back in New York from college in Illinois at www.lfc.edu , but after lots of walking in Manhattan in them, I learned they are not very good for walking in the winter without socks, so I changed to Adidas Country sneakers, and today I have so many pairs of shoes, I feel like Imelda Marcos.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 7:15 P.M.:  I finished backing up with Nero 6.6 the Microsoft Vista beta 1 DVD partition, and it took two DVDs to back it up.  I chatted with a relative.  I took a walk around the apartment building I live at 71 Vinci Drive, and I noticed it has 33 different sides to the building, so this is a hard building to take sides in.  I will put two rubber bands around the two DVDs in jewel cases, and I will put them in my Fire Sentry case behind the apartment entrance door to have for safe keeping.  CIO      

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 6:10 P.M.:  I was up at 1 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I picked up my mail.  I showered and cleaned up.  The building custodian gave me a new General Electric 32 watt 12 inch circular fluorescent bulb, which I used it to replace the bad one in the light fixture above the toilet in my bathroom.  I then went out to my 4 P.M. appointment.  I noticed yesterday when I was driving over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping plaza that there was a large white helicopter landing at the Town Hall playing field.  I was told today, that they use the helicopter for transporting patients to other hospitals.  After my 4 P.M. appointment, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a relative twice.  My order for Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 500 Keyboard & Tilt Mouse NEW - 967420-0403 is being processed, and they will send me a UPS tracking number once it has shipped.  Alas, the $20 mail in rebate is no longer available after August 20, 2005 orders.  I will now do a Nero backup to DVD of my Microsoft Vista Beta 1 partition on my computer.  It should take about three DVDs.  I will do the Nero backup from my XP operating system.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 3:15 A.M.:  Well the computer system seems to be running fine.  As for what else is going on in the world, I have not the foggiest idea.  I have a 4 P.M. appointment today.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  In Vista beta 1 on the E: drive, I tried starting Microsoft Programs from the XP C: drive, but although FrontPage 2002 would start, it still needs product activation.  MSN and Microsoft Net meeting would not work.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 1:25 A.M.: I installed the AVG free antivirus program in Microsoft Vista beta 1. It works just fine. However, one can not create a rescue disk to floppy drive or CD drive, so I wrote the rescue information to my D: drive in the AVG folder. If one's product activation has not yet appeared in Vista beta 1, one can activate it by running "licenseui.exe". CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/05 Monday 12:05 A.M.:  I went through the Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  I will now reboot into Vista beta 1.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: The Road to Windows Vista 2005 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 11:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 10:30 P.M.:  I am going through Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  This free antivirus program Grisoft Freeweb: Get AVG for your home PC virus protection is suppose to work with Vista beta 1.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 10:25 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 10:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend in Sea Island, Georgia.  The friend told me it is still hot down there, and there is not much to do but make Peach Cobbler.  I mentioned that I had once visited Summerville, South Carolina in the spring of 1976 where Elizabeth Arden lived, and in front of the hardware store there, they still sold those sheet metal outside lawn chairs, which would support people whom have a lot of weight from eating southern cooking which tends to make one put on the pounds and gain weight.  As I recall Summerville, South Carolina had a lot of shade trees for when it was hot down south.  I had a friend whom worked for a veterinarian in Aiken, South Carolina at the same time I lived in Greenville, South Carolina during the winter and spring of 1976, before I returned back up north for the tall ships in New York harbor during the Bicentennial.  They have a lot of beef in the Carolinas, so people down there tend to put on weight eating Carolina beef.  Meanwhile back in Greenwich, Connecticut where we still seem to have a connection with grain from the interior of the Americas, we seem to manage to keep the Arnold bread factory supplied with grain.  I ate a 5 ounce bag of Arnold Seasoned croutons with some iced tea.  Of course I munch on black licorice through out the evening.  Well not much happening in this neck of the woods.  Greenwich, Connecticut which over advertises itself has a lot of retired people whom sort of live the same existence as those people in the retirement community in the British television show "The Prisoner".  One resident of the retirement community in the weekly television show "The Prisoner" would always try to escape, and each week's episode was based on the elaborate escapes, and the modern methods through surveillance they used to catch the individual and return the individual back to his retirement cottage.  Much could be said about life being the same in Greenwich, Connecticut.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 8:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put four 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer over baked sliced slivers of turkey on the bottom slice of bread six 1 inch by 3 inch by 1/8th inch slices of Danish Plumrose hamd, and four slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, six 1/8th thick slices of onion, and I covered it with baby spinach leaves and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 7:30 P.M.:  I went outside, and I checked the weather.  I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 6:45 P.M.:  Weather warning for this area Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 6:45 P.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I also added six packages of Splenda sweetener to the mixture.  I put it in the refrigerator to chill.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 6:05 P.M.:  I was up at noon.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I gave a neighbor a five dollar bill in exchange for five one dollar bills, so he could use the MacGray laundry card machine.  I showered and cleaned up.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza, and I bought a bottle of CVS 60 count B-12 2000 mcg for $7.19, a bottle of CVS 100 count flush free Niacin 500 mg for a penny, two CVS Glucosamine and Chondroitin 180 count tables buy one get one for a penny for $38 both, two CVS B-150 50 count for $10 both, two CVS 100 Count Garlic oil 1000 mg for $4.60 both, and one CVS adult low strength 81 mg. aspirin pain reliever similar to St. Joseph adult low strength aspirin for $4.49 for $64.29 total. I then returned back to central Greenwich.  I noticed while I was returning back to central Greenwich, I saw an individual driving a red Porsche Carrera whom is not from this area but is from the area where my friend was earlier when I called him in Syracuse, New York on his cell phone, and I noticed the license plate on the red Porsche Carrera was New York license plate "91 TARGA", and since I introduced that friend many years ago in April 1977 to Hurley Haywood in Jacksonville, Florida whom owned Brumos Porches, more than likely he finely found enough money to buy his own Porsche and learn how to drive it.  Of course, one still has to be able to afford gasoline, which is probably not a problem in his family, i.e. the person driving the New York license plate "91 TARGA".  Of course Hurley has better Porsches, but he might not have as much money.  I then went to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a bottle of CVS B-12 2000 mcg 60 count for $7.19 and a bottle of CVS flush free Niacin 500 mg 100 count for a penny for $7.20 total for $71.49 total on vitamins and supplements at both CVS stores.  CVS this week has a sale on CVS Vitamins and Supplements for buy one get one free for a penny.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I returned home.  I chatted with the same friend again, and he is so busy, he can not be bothered with some of the other people that I know.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 2:00 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 1:05 A.M.:  Remember this might have some relevance in terms of people returning back down south NRL Monterey Tropical Images .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/05 Sunday 1:00 A.M.:  I did some research on various devices that I possibly can stick into  the fourth 5.25 inch bay that I have in my computer that currently holds the 5.25 inch floppy drive.  Most of the items available are case fan monitors which I already have or memory card readers with USB plugs.  However, I already have a USB memory card reader and I have enough USB plugs available, so for now the drive bay configuration will stay as is.  I don't need additional wires in the front of the computer anyway, since it would prevent me from closing the drive bay cover.  Still it kept me busy researching a while.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/20/05:

I chatted with two relatives.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/05 Saturday 8:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $12.50 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.059 a gallon for 55.3 miles driving this past week at 13.5 miles per gallon at an average of 12 miles per hour.  I then checked all four of my tires for 32 pounds per square inch tire pressure.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 7 ounce packages of black licorice for $1.19 each package and .14 tax for $2.52 total.  I then completed my walk.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then stopped by the Food Emporium, and I bought fresh Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $2.01, buy one get one free of 10 ounce bags of Baby Spinach for $3.79 both, a 58 ounce container of Edy's low fat caramel and pralines frozen yogurt for $2.54, a pound of Jarlsberg lite sliced cheese for $4.99, and a pint of grape tomatoes for $2.99 for $16.52 total.  I then stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used four three inch by 1.25 inch by .25 slices of Danish Plumrose ham that I sliced into .40 inch wide slices.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Swiss cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/05 Saturday 3:20 P.M.:  I was awake at 10:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive and the Vista beta 1 drive.  I did a backup of the entire system from the Vista beta 1 beta backup program.  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a friend.  I showered and cleaned up.  I will now go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/05 Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  I ran Norton Win Doctor and Ad-awareSE.  I then did a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  I watched some television.  I ate four 1 inch by 2 inch by .25 inch slices of Stop and Shop Swiss Cheese.  I also ate about 30 Arnold Caesar croutons.  The new Arnold croutons in their new self sealing packaging taste a lot better than the their previous croutons.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/05 Saturday 12:45 A.M.:  I did some regular internet work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/19/05 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/05 Friday 8:20 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went to the Greenwich Hospital dental clinic, and I had an upper left side middle rear tooth cavity repaired.  The last two times I have had it done, they have used a bonding agent to fill the tooth, and the injection to stop by pain of drilling, one does not feel, and the modern version of Novocain seems to work faster, and it causes no pain.  My teeth are fine, except the right lower rear tooth needs a crown, but the State of Connecticut will not pay for it.  I could lose the tooth if it is not done sometime soon.  It would cost $1200 to $1300 to have it done.  I then went back by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought for $4 an ABS plastic and aluminum kitchen shelf unit about two feet long and 15 inches deep and about 20 inch high with middle shelf.  It came disassembled and packaged, and it was made in Taiwan.  I also bought for .50 each four white bone type china  4 inch diameter butter plates with gold trim made in Bangladesh and a cup size plastic funnel for a dime for $6.10 total.  I then returned home.  I assembled the kitchen shelf, and since it adjusts lengthwise, I left out two of the three inch wide shelf inlays, so it is only 20 inches wide.  I remove the hanging pot rack from off the wall above my General Electric microwave oven, and I clear off the items from the top of the General Electric microwave oven.  I put the shelf unit on top of the General Electric microwave oven, and I put the items that I had on top of which are mostly microwave cookware in the kitchen shelf plastic and aluminum unit.  I also moved the set of nine bone white China plates from the floor to the shelf unit along with the China Village rice steamer and the lettuce spinner, so I no longer have items stored underneath the kitchen smoking chair.  I took down the Audubon pictures of doves from the other side of the wall, and I put it behind my bedroom door.  I hung the metal hanging pot rack on that wall, and then I put the various pots and skillets hanging from that rack along with my Chinese wok.  I put the nice gold trim made in Bangladesh butter plates on my brass and glass coffee table at the far end to use as drink glass coasters.  I then reheated the cooked spaghetti and the remaining 13 ounces of Ragu primavera tomato sauce, and I put some grated parmesan cheese on it, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I then did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I next threw out the garbage and some old periodical literature.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/19/05 Friday 11:30 A.M.:  I was up at 9:30 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I watched the aviation and farm reports on Cspan.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I will now shower and clean up.  I have a 1 P.M. dental appointment.  I guess I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants after that.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 11:40 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  I have a 1 P.M. dental appointment tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 10:40 P.M.:  I did some research on keyboard bargains, and I ordered Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 500 Keyboard & Tilt Mouse NEW - 967420-0403 for $34.95 with free shipping Logitech Products > Business Products > Products > Mouse & Keyboard Combinations > Logitech® Cordless Desktop® LX 500 , and since it is a new item with its regular retail packaging and thus has a UPC code on the box, and since I ordered before August 20, 2005, it is eligible for this rebate http://images.pricegrabber.com/rebates/32520.pdf or Logitech LX500 $20 rebate by August 20, 2000 of $20, so after I receive the $20 rebate, it will only cost me $14.95, and there are no shipping charges.  This shows what www.newegg.com is selling it for Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 2-Tone RF Wireless Keyboard - Retail at Newegg.com or in other words, I paid $27 less than their price.  Considering the order includes free $9 shipping probably from California, it is only costing me $6 for the item after the shipping and rebate.  I chatted with a relative earlier.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 8:00 P.M.:  Microsoft Windows XP Pro Upgrade with SP2 Academic Version - Retail at Newegg.com and Microsoft Education .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 7:35 P.M.:  China Trade Summit - summit introduction .  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 7:00 P.M.:  I went outside after dinner, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 5:50 P.M.:  I am boiling three quarts of water with a tablespoon of olive oil and and a dash of sea salt.  I will boil for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of San Georgio #9 thin spaghetti noodles.  I will drain the water off with a colander  into another pot, and I will throw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I will reheat half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu Primavera tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven.  I will put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I will eat on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I will eat it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  I was asked about this web site today Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.  I started a complete system scan on the primary computer with Norton Anti-Virus 2005.  It completed after four hours, and there were no problems.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors, and I picked up my mail.  I put a new Glade Plug-in Hawaiian breeze scent holder in the Glade Plug-in scent holder in the kitchen.  The one that I refilled a number of times with a 60% to 40% mixture of English Leather Cologne and Isopropyl alcohol was no longer reusable, but I have filled it about a dozen times.  I also took the wooden hangers out of my paper shredder, and I put the wood hangers in a bag on the bedroom closet shelf.  I put the paper shredder at the bedroom entrance by the white bureau, but it is not very good, and it only does about one sheet of paper at a time.  I went through my socks in the lower mahogany bureau in the living room, and I took out 13 pairs of white cotton socks with holes in the heels, and I threw them away in the dumpster, and I saved 3.5 pairs of old white wool socks to use for polishing, and I put them on the lower shelf in the sweater closet in the hallway.  I watched some Cspan television.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I took the 16 ounce container of Master Choice grated parmesan cheese to the Food Emporium, and I exchanged it for a good one.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought a Krups coffee grinder which is the type that holds the beans in the coffee grinder for $1.75.  I bought an IBM Plexiglas printer stand for $1.50 for $3.25 total.  I chatted with a music connoisseur there that collects Bing Crosby records.  I told him Bing Crosby was from Cour De Laine, Idaho.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  My 3 P.M. appointment was getting new HP flat screen monitors.  I then returned home.  I put the IBM Plexiglas printer stand underneath the EpsonStylus Color 880 printer, so there is room for spare printer paper to be stored underneath the Epson printer.  I mixed up a batch of 50% hazelnut and 50% decaffeinated coffee beans, and I put them in the Krups coffee grinder, and I put it on the kitchen shelf on the left side of the kitchen with the two Braun coffee grinders on the counter with the coffee machines and the Gaggia coffee grinder.  I have hazelnut coffee beans in one Braun coffee grinder and decaffeinated coffee beans in the other one with Italian espresso coffee beans in the Gaggia coffee grinder.  I labeled the three jars with the different types of coffee beans and mixtures.  I chatted with the Bing Crosby fan on the telephone, and I told him what I was doing.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/18/05 Thursday 2:05 A.M.: In Vista beta 1, I tried to install the program for the Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard, but although I had it set to XP compatibility, it would not install, and it would not show the different keyboards to select from. I was able to get the delete key to work, since according to the Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard in Vista Beta 1, my Num Lock key was on, which it should not be on, when I boot Vista beta 1, since it is not set to boot up in the CMOS. I turned it off, and the delete key now works. I tried to install once again the Win98 and the Win2000 drivers for my SOHO Lan card that is similar to the Macronix MX98715-Based Ethernet Adapter (Generic), but the system would not boot, so I did an F8, and I selected the last known good configuration. However, I have the SOHO LAN card working, since I installed it as the Realtek RTL8139C+ Fast Ethernet NIC, which it works fine, except for one exception, when one runs the "Scan for Hardware Changes", it tries to change it to "Ethernet Adapter", which does not work once installed, but when one reboots, it reinstalls the Realtek driver. The Realtek driver was on my Gigabyte motherboard CD. A lot of people in this area use the SOHO LAN card, since it is the card that Cablevision uses to install with the Optimum Online service. I find them in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop all the time. I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003 and Ad-awareSE on the Vista beta 1 partition. I also installed the Juno free dialup program, and I set up two dialups for the Greenwich numbers and one for the Port Chester, New York number. However, only the first Greenwich number seems to work at the moment. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 11:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I will finish going through my email tomorrow.  I will now reboot the computer into Vista beta 1 and install the Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard program, and then I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 8:45 P.M.:  Captain Kirk XYZ Computing Logisys  Phone Smart LED Keyboard and Logisys WHITE/BLACK PHONE SMART LED KEYBOARD  and FREE SHIPPING LOGISYS BLACK STREAMLINE ILLUMINATED KEYBOARD W/ USB & PS2 COMBO.  I am fine on my keyboards and mice, but one can find other keyboards at Yahoo Keyboards .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 8:10 P.M.:  I started going through my email.  I was diverted by looking at www.overstock.com at discount Logitech wireless keyboard and wireless optical mice, but they were sold out.  I then decided to move from my primary computer the Kensington Wireless keyboard and mouse to the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I moved the Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro and Logitech wireless mouse to the primary computer.  First I cleaned the rollers on both mice, and I put two new Energizer alkaline batteries in the Logitech cordless mouse.  The Microsoft keyboard makes more noise, and it is a bit firmer typing.  I installed the latest Microsoft Internet Keyboard drivers on both computers, and all of the extra buttons on the Microsoft Internet Pro Keyboard on the primary computer seem to work.  I will now go back to my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 6:25 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I threw out some garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 6:05 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I use a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Swiss cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I went to open a new 16 ounce container of Master Choice grated parmesan cheese, and it was not sealed, so it was all moldy.  I will return it to the Food Emporium to exchange it for a good one some time in the future.  I chatted with two friends.  Since it is 85.5 degrees Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast , I will not be going out downtown.  I would rather save the energy to stay cool at home.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 4:25 P.M.:  I took the General Electric Answering machine off my telephone system, and I now have the Panasonic two line telephone answering system set to answer both systems.  It can hold 35 minutes of messages.  I put the General Electric answering machine in the cable box next to my bed.  I moved the GN Netcom headset system from the old Panasonic two line phone next to the French Reproduction chair to my new Panasonic 2 line phone on the telephone table at the apartment entrance.  Of course to use the GN Netcom headset, one has to lift the Panasonic 2 line phone receiver and turn on the headset switch from its control panel.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 3:35 P.M.:  I have the Panasonic two line telephone answering machine Model No. KX-TMC98-B Panasonic KX-TMC98B 2-Line Corded Phone with Answering System and Jog Dial : StormLabs.com  set up and programmed.  It a very good telephone, and it sold for $200 about six years ago.  I labeled line 1 as Verizon and line 2 as Optimum.  I have it set up to select line 2 which is Optimum Voice  when one picks up the receiver.  Thus when one selects one of the jog dial memory stored numbers, it will automatically dial out on Optimum Voice.  However, this means if one buzzes the front door buzzer system, one has to answer it with the Panasonic 2 line telephone by pressing the Verizon line first and then 6 to let somebody in the building.  I also only have it set up to answer calls after three rings  on Optimum Voice, since I have my General Electric answering machine set up to answer for Verizon, but since it is a very good telephone with answering machine, I might set it up to answer for Verizon some time in the future.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 12:30 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  While I was watching television with my morning coffee, I noticed that the television still had wavy lines on it.   I investigated my cable setup.  I had an old coaxial four splitter installed on my cable system with two cables installed besides its input.  I took it off, and I replaced it with the two splitter that I took off yesterday, and the Orion television in the living room, no longer has the wavy lines on it.  I threw out the old defective four slitter which was made in China, and I bought it at Odd Job about 14 years ago for a dollar.  I guess like in computers as well as in other electronics, the weak link is frequently an old piece of equipment that is defective.  I went outside, and  I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out some garbage.  I picked up my mail.  I will now read the Panasonic two line telephone instructions, and I will program it.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/05 Wednesday 12:05 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 11:40 P.M.:  I move the two chairs out from the left side of the bedroom desk, and I disconnected the telephone cable from the LCD telephone, and I put it on the Panasonic 2 line telephone on the telephone table at the apartment entrance.  I put the original LCD telephone cable back on it.  I thus had the two new 12 foot Southwestern Bell telephone cables available.  I then move the items from in front of the left bedroom night stand and then its drawers and finally I moved the left bedroom night stand out of its place.  The Verizon telephone jack in the bedroom services all the Verizon telephones in the apartment except the kitchen Verizon wall telephone.  However, the wall electrical plug by the Verizon telephone jack is turn on and off by the wall switch that turns on the bedroom lights connected to it.  I took the surge protector with telephone surge protection that I bought at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop last Saturday for 50 cents, and I plugged both of the 12 foot telephone cables into it.  I connected one to the Verizon telephone wall jack and the other cable I put a double female barrel telephone line plug on it, and I connected the three duplex telephone adapters in tandem to it.  I then plugged the surge protector into the wall outlet behind where the left night stand was, and I plugged the bedroom computer power strip into it.  I tried using a three splitter adapter on it, but there was not enough clearance.  I put the three splitter electrical outlet adapter in the top plug with the Dictaphone plugged into it.  I  plugged the extension cord that powers the telephone power adapters into the power strip connected to the surge protector.  I then moved everything back into position the way it was before.  Thus all the Verizon telephones in the apartment are on surge protection except for the kitchen wall phone.  The bedroom computers are also on surge protection.  Yesterday, I put all of the Optimum Voice telephone on surge protection.  I also put the three plug adapter in the switchable outlet with the plugs plugged into it replacing the old three plug adapter.  I also put the telephone juctions on the floor underneath the rear of the two chairs to the left of the bedroom desk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 9:30 P.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 chatted with a visitor from Hartford, Connecticut about computers and coffee.  During my walk, I stopped by the Putnam Trust Bank of New York ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 7 ounce package of black licorice $1.19 and .07 tax for $1.26 total.  I also sat out at various locations.  I also used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I told one of my former neighbors from Japan a quick summary about the Microsoft Vista beta 1, and he could be part of the beta program by logging onto http://connect.microsoft.com , but alas it is not available in Japanese yet.  There is rumor that since it only take up 2.5 gigabytes on the DVD, that they might offer it in multiple languages, since there is room for it on the DVD.  Of course in the final release more drivers would also have to be on the DVD.  I can not really say much more about the beta than I have since I am obliged by the Microsoft beta contract not to reveal to much about it or redistribute it myself.  I guess technically I could give someone a copy of the DVD, but they would have to get their own registration key to unlock it.  Also one can have Microsoft send one a copy on DVD.  The next beta will be out in September, and I hope it has the upgrade feature, so I can install it over my existing beta configuration.  Since I read the tech news, most of what I talk about in my web log has already been more widely distributed in the computer technology news particularly those one concerning the beta.  I next returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor. I then chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 5:15 P.M.:  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put seven 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer over baked sliced slivers of turkey on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, six 1/8th thick half slices of onion, and covered I covered it with Dole Caesar salad lettuce and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half. On the same large dinner plate, I put about a 3/4ths of a cup of the Dole Caesar salad lettuce greens, a few tablespoons of Arnold seasoned regular cut croutons, five grape tomatoes, four sliced mushrooms, and two tablespoons of the homemade hummus, a few slices of chopped onion, and I seasoned it with olive oil and a 50% mixture of balsamic vinegar and white vinegar.  I ate the sandwich and salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 4:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I found the fourth solid pine captain's chair like my other three for $5, and one of its legs had been chewed on by a cat.  I also bought a Panasonic two line telephone answering machine Model No. KX-TMC98-B with power adapter and instructions for $3.75 for $8.75 total.  I then toured the shop some more, and I bought a nice puffy 20 inch by 20 inch by 8 inch square chair pillow in burgundy, green, and yellow for $3 and a Black and Decker rechargeable Dust Buster for $2 for $5 or $13.75 total all together.  I then went by Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a 997 Joules Home Entertainment Surge Protector Home Entertainment Surge Protector for $21.99 plus $1.32 tax for $23.31 total.  I then went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought two Southwestern Bell 12 foot telephone cables for $2.99 each, a package of three Champion men's performance white crew socks with 84% Ringspun cotton, 12% Polyester, 2% Natural Laytex Rubber, and 2% Nylon shoe size 6 to 12 for $9.99 all three pairs, and a three pack of Sport men's sport socks 80% cotton and 20% polyester made by Amity Hosiery for $5.99 all three pairs less a $4 off coupon on over a $20 purchase plus .12 tax for $18.08 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I looked at coaxial cables.  I then returned back to Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a 6 foot gold RG6 F cable for $12.99 plus .78 tax for $13.77 total.  I then went to the Korean produce stand next to it, and I bought a fresh 10 ounce box of mushrooms for $2.49.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases.  I went to install the surge protector, but the input coaxial plug was lose, and the item was defective, so I went back to Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I got a good one, and I also returned the gold coaxial cable, since I did not need it.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then returned home. I connected the cablevision coaxial cable to the input on the surge protector, and I removed the two splitter from my cable setup, and I connected the cable modem gold cable to my gold four way splitter, and I connected its input cable to the output of the surge protector.  I then plug it into the wall outlet behind the long green sofa.  I then attached the orange heavy duty extension cord that goes to the desk area, the orange heavy duty extension cord that connects to the Toshiba laptop computer setup, the power strip, extension cord,  and the clock plugs to the surge protector, so that five plug jacks are used and one is vacant.  The lights on it light up properly, and it is grounded and the surge protection function is working just fine.  I then between the two stereo bookcases removed one power strip plug, and I plug it along with other power strip into the existing Belkin power strip surge protector at that location, so all of the entertainment electrical items are protected by surge protection.   I then removed the fourth blue bent oak chair from beside the bedroom desk on the left side, and I put it with the others in storage. I then slid back the small wooden chair back, and I put the fourth pine chair at that location to the left of the bedroom desk with the burgundy, green, and yellow pillow on it.  At the apartment entrance on the telephone table, I detached the General Electric big button telephone and the LCD telephones, and I put the Panasonic 2 line telephone in their place connected up to both Verizon on line 1 and Optimum Voice on line 2.  I used one of the new Southwestern Bell 12 foot telephone cables to set it up, and I have its power adapter plugged into the power strip underneath the chair at that location.  From the bedroom side board, I removed the Southwestern Bell telephone and I put it with the GE big button telephone underneath the night stand to the right of the bed.  I put the LCD telephone on the side board connected to Optimum Voice.  I put the rechargeable Black and Decker dust buster on the bedroom side board connected to the power strip.  I put $10 on my laundry card, so I have $12.05 on it.   I sat outside my building.  Earlier I brought up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 8:25 A.M.:  I will put  the last load of laundry away in five minutes.  The moving louvers on the General Electric 15,500 BTU Profile air conditioner with remote control quit working, so I have the moving louver feature turned off, but the air conditioner still works fine.  After I put away my laundry, I will go out, so I will now shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 7:55 A.M.:  I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle of the last load of laundry.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 7:25 A.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I am just about done with one load of laundry drying, and I will start drying the second load of laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/05 Tuesday 6:15 A.M.:  I was awake at 5:30 A.M..  I am doing two loads of laundry.  I have done one wash load, and I have to do the second.  The laundry is busy this morning.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 9:05 P.M.:  In Vista beta 1, I ran Ad-awareSE and Norton WinDoctor 2003.  It all seems to be running quite well.  I went outside briefly.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  However, first I will eat a couple of scoops of Friendly butter crunch ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 7:55 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I then installed the drivers for the Vivitar DSC 350 Digital camera in Vista beta 1.  It works fine.  I installed Microsoft Picture It version 10.  For some reason the camera does not work on one of the two USB cables available by the right side for that purpose, but it works with the other one.  The ITW-SP6 surge protector ITW Linx | Category 6 Surge Protectors | Power and Lightning Surge Protection Solutions and the GN Netcom GN Netcom 27354102 - AC Adapter For MPA-II - S&J's Telecommunications from S&J's Telecommunications & Supplies Info arrived via UPS at 5:36 P.M..  I installed the GN Netcom headset power adapter on the headset control unit, but first I removed the batteries.  It now has power for headset use.  It is the headset by the French Reproduction Chair on the two line Panasonic telephone.  One has to turn it one with the switch on its control unit when using it.  I took the old Belkin power strip surge protector off the primary computer.  I installed the new ITW-SP6 in its place, and it works fine.  I placed the ITW-SP6 on the stereo speaker behind the left monitor.  I have it plugged into the wall plate surge protector and the top Power Control Center also has surge protection.  I plugged into the ITW-SP6 the two Power Control Centers, a power strip, and three power adapters.  I took the surge protector off the cable modem that I installed on Saturday, since it is protected by the same setup.  I removed the power strip from the Northgate backup computer setup, and I installed the Belkin power strip with surge protection.  I connected the telephone line for the cable modem into the Belkin surge protector.  I moved the power strip that I removed to the bedroom sideboard connected to a power strip on the white bureau.  I will use the small surge protector that I removed from the cable modem at some other location in the future such as the bedroom computer when I have time.  When looking at the Newsgroups, I found a note to run the "activate.vbs" script in the System32 folder, and it seems to have enabled some other features of Vista beta 1.  However, my 78,000 Favorites don't scroll, and I can not find the setting for them to scroll.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 4:00 P.M.: I finished going through the Vista Beta 1 newsgroups to date. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 3:10 P.M.: In Vista beta 1, I was able to setup the HP PhotoSmart 1000 printer by using the HP port driver which installs with the HP PhotoSmart 1000 driver, but since its driver does not work, one can get it to work with the HP Printer Port by installing it as a HP DeskJet 950C. I also setup the Epson Stylus Color 900 printer, so all of my four printers are connected up to Vista Beta 1. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 2:45 P.M.: www.ibm.com  does not display properly in Internet Explorer 7.0 with Vista beta 1. Also on my machine the Delete Key does not work in Vista Beta 1. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 2:35 P.M.: I went outside, and I threw out some garbage. One can copy from XP the "msinfo32" folder to Vista beta 1 in the same location to get most of the System Information application to work. It reports that I am using a Pentium when I am using an AMD Athlon XP 2000. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 2:05 P.M.: I took two frozen slices of Arnold Multigrain bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put two 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer 1/32nds of inch thin sliced slivers of smoked turkey and three 1/32nds thick slices of Oscar Meyer over baked sliced slivers of turkey on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, eight 1/16nds thick half slices of onion, and covered I covered it with Dole Caesar salad lettuce and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half. On the same large dinner plate, I put about a 3/4ths of a cup of the Dole Caesar salad lettuce greens, a few tablespoons of Arnold seasoned regular cut croutons, five grape tomatoes, two sliced mushrooms, and two tablespoons of the homemade hummus, and I seasoned it with olive oil and a 50% mixture of balsamic vinegar and white vinegar.  I ate the sandwich and salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 12:20 P.M.: www.tweakvista.com for Vista Beta 1. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 11:55 A.M.: In working with the Vista beta 1 newsgroups, I found out that one can copy the folder with "msconfig" from XP to Vista beta 1in the same location, and then one has "msconfig" working in Vista beta 1. I ran it, and I disabled some of the startup items, I don't need in Vista beta 1. My order for UPS Package Tracking on Mike Scott order from S&J Communications for GN Netcom Power adapter and ITW-SP6 surge protector is out for delivery. Possibly they will be here about 1 P.M. like last Friday. I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail. I got a post card from www.smokinfree.com . I also received a $30 rebate check from Antec on my computer case. They had already sent me two $15 rebate checks, so basically the new Antec computer case was $2 with tax. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 10:20 A.M.:  I will now work the Microsoft Vista beta 1 newsgroups from Vista beta 1.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 10:00 A.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I am going through Michael Louis Scott's Computer Online Stores and Techbargains.com - discount computer sale buy cheap digital camera review cheap laptop techbargain tech bargain looking for computer bargains.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 9:20 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 9:10 A.M.:  Midwest Drought Threatens Crops and Shuts River - New York Times 

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 8:55 A.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 8:05 A.M.:  I moved my cordless telephone headset from the hanging between the two computer monitors where I had it available for the Columbia 2.4 GHz cordless telephone, and I attached it to the Northwestern Bell 2.4 GHz cordless telephone on the telephone table at the apartment entrance.  I have the cordless telephone headset hanging on the lamp shade on the lamp on the same table.  UPS Package Tracking on Mike Scott order from S&J Communications for GN Netcom Power adapter and ITW-SP6 surge protector tracking does not yet say, it is out for delivery yet.  I will now take a shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 7:50 A.M.:  I had room in the living room beneath the mirror in front of the electrical circuit breaker box and beneath it the Shield of Pall Mall, so I hung the NASA Shuttle Launch picture at that location.  I do not have anymore room for hanging any more mirrors or pictures, unless I remove one.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 7:10 A.M.:  After breakfast I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I watched some of the European News on Channel 113.  They had a report on World Wide S.E.T.I. Website and World Wide SETI Team Site which is a student project of the ESA Portal where young students from Europe are using the internet to build a satellite which the European Space Agency will launch into space.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/05 Monday 5:50 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  Around 4:30 P.M. to 6 P.M., I was back awake because NOAA weather warning radio went off for impending thunder and lightning storms in this area.  I went outside briefly.  I disconnected the three power cords from the surge protector on the left side of the primary computer.  I disconnected the LAN cables from the Siemens router.  I disconnected the Optimum Voice telephone line from the cable modem.  I disconnected the control panel power cord from the power strip on the floor beneath the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  That should have isolated the computers from lightning.  I just woke up, and I reconnected them.  Today I have my delivery from UPS Package Tracking on Mike Scott order from S&J Communications for GN Netcom Power adapter and ITW-SP6 surge protector .  They came earlier on Friday, so I should probably stay around to wait for them to arrive.  There are suppose to be showers today Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast , so I will probably stay home until UPS arrives.  I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/05 Sunday 2:40 P.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  Instead of one 28 ounce can of Goya chick peas, I used two 15 ounce cans of Rienzi 15 ounce cans of chick peas.  I use a large clove of elephant garlic too.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I then made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker barrel 2% milk low fat Vermont Extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used 8 grape tomatoes on top of the salad.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with two relatives, and I left a message with another relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/14/05 Sunday 11:55 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I mailed a letter.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area, and I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by Starbucks, and I stopped by CVS.  I bought two boxes 20 count quart CVS zip lock bags for  two boxes for $2.49 and a 7 ounce bag of black licorice twists for $1.19 plus .22 tax  for $3.91 total.  I completed my walk.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with some of the regular fishermen.  A regular visitor from Sweden was back down there fishing again.  I then drove around the downtown area, and I sat out for some more.  I stopped by Starbucks again, and I chatted with a local politician from the downtown area in Greenwich.  I mentioned that from what I use to know in the past when I could afford to drive around more in Fairfield County that the cheapest gasoline in Fairfield County use to at the entrance ramp to Exit 14 West Bound towards New York of I-95.  Right at that entrance ramp there was an Iranian gasoline station that use to sell gasoline at cut rate prices directly from the oil tankers that arrive in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Of course, if one were in Greenwich, Connecticut that stretch of highway between Greenwich and Norwalk is one of the most dangerous stretches of highway in the United States.  I then drove around some more downtown, and I drove into the plaza on Mason Street where Smith Rents It is, and they have a frame shop there.  I also noticed yesterday behind the Greenwich Hardware store where the antique shop use to be, there is now a bicycle shop if anyone wants to risk riding a bicycle in this area with the heavy traffic on the roads.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/05 Sunday 7:20 A.M.:  Happy Birthday to a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.  There is a chance of thunderstorms starting at 10 A.M. this morning Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast and Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  For those of you whom winter in Vero Beach, Florida or vacation there TCPalm: Press Journal .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/05 Sunday 6:35 A.M.:  I was up at 4:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and a cup of coffee.  I started up the computer, and the CPU temperature probe was on LLL, so I twisted it a bit, so it shows the correct temperature, and I secured it in position above the CPU cooler fan by attaching it with scotch tape to a wire for the rear case fan temperature probe.  It seems to be working fine now.  This news appeared recently on www.polaroid.com a company that my family worked for from 1968 to 1973, that they laid off most of their employees, and they are now just a brand name for distributing goods made off shore Little left of Polaroid - Technology - International Herald Tribune .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 9:10 P.M.:  I read some of the newsgroups in Microsoft Vista beta 1.  I learned that if one right clicks from the shut down button, one gets other options like the restart button.  I had to reinstall my audio sound components in Vista 1, since they were messed up again.  I set the default audio to the Creative Live MP3+ sound card instead of the Plantronics USB headset.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will eat 2.5 scoops of Friendly butter pecan ice cream.  I will then go to bed.  I guess I am back on a day schedule.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 4:15 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now reboot and work with Microsoft Longhorn Vista beta 1 and the Newsgroups now available.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 4:05 P.M.:  I have the Microsoft Longhorn Vista beta 1 Newsgroups working.  I have been using the wrong password.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 3:50 P.M.:  BBC NEWS Middle East Germany attacks US on Iran threat .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 3:50 P.M.:  A friend of mine who lives in Fairfield, Connecticut told me that gasoline there is still $2.45 a gallon.  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/13/05:

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 3:00 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put six 1/32nds thick slices of Oscan Meyer 1/32nds of inch thin sliced slivers of smoked turkey on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, six 3/32nds thick half slices of onion, and four large leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  This NOAA weather alert just came off the NOAA weather radio Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I just gave a friend the NOAA weather warning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/05 Saturday 12:35 P.M.:  Happy Birthday to a friend.  I was awake at 5 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I then showered and cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $6.50 of premium unleaded gasoline for $2.999 a gallon for 24.8 miles driving this week, at 14.1 miles per gallon, at 13 miles per hour.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The new train station elevator on the pedestrian overpass is still not finished.  During my walk, I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and they carry the filters for the Black and Duster dust buster automobile vacuum that I have, but I am not sure if they carry the one for my particular model.  They are $6.99, but I might just use a coffee filter in its place.  I will have to study up on them on the internet.  I completed my walk.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I chatted with a regular fisherman.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought a one outlet surge protector with telephone line protection too for .50.  I then went to a Tag Sale at the apartment complex across from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I agreed to buy a full length wood frame mirror for $15.  The mirror is 18 inches wide with maple wooden frame by 55 inches long, and its frame pieces are 2.5 inch thick, so the mirror itself is 13 inches by 50 inches.  I walked over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I got the cash to buy the mirror.  I then walked back to the tag sale, and I bought the mirror for $15.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought buy one get one free of Dole 7.8 ounce Caesar salad greens with 2.1 ounces of dressing for $3.79 both bags, a head of broccoli for $1.99, Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $2.01, two 6 ounce dry cans of Americas Choice large black olives for $1.39 each, a pine of Haagen Dazs lite coffee ice cream for $1.99, and a pint of Haagen Dazs caramel lite ice cream for $1.99 for $14.57 total.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold Multigrain bread for $1.59 and a bag of six different types of Arnold bagels for $1.85 for $3.44 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases, and I put them away.  I used a 100 pound OOK hook, and I hung the new full length mirror on the hallway side of the bathroom door.  I took the two mirrors off that side, and I hung them on the inside of the bathroom door.  I removed the NASA Shuttle picture from the inside of the bathroom door, and I put it behind my bed head board again.  I took the surge protector which had three prongs, and I used a three prong to two prong adapter, and I connected it to the extension cord from my Power Control panel  that connects to the telephone cable modem, so the cable modem now has a surge protector, and I used my spare telephone cable with the funny device on it, and I connected it from the cable modem to the surge protector, and then the cable from the surge protector to my apartment Optimum Voice network.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 1:35 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go outside briefly, and I might eat some Friendly Butter Pecan ice cream, and then I will probably go to bed in a little while, and I will try out my new used Simmons mattress.  When I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, there was a Simmons mattress factory there.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 12:50 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  I received one of those noise telephone calls like a fax machine call which does not work, since I do not have a fax machine or room for it, but I can send and receive faxes with my computer over the toll free Optimum Voice telephone network.  I also received a one ring telephone call.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 12:35 P.M.:  The Donald has a web blog Trump University - Welcome .  Of course if one has big bucks, one can afford to go to college or university and get one's own MBA.  Of course Bill Gates mailto:billg@microsoft.com dropped out of Harvard University www.harvard.edu to start his software company, so maybe someday when he has the time, he will finish his law degree at Harvard.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 12:20 P.M.:  I went downstairs, and I picked up my mail.  I walked around the building, and there was a lonely golfer hitting golf balls on the dry burned out baseball field.  It would be really nice if we got a little bit of rain.  While I was sitting outside briefly, the Greenwich Housing Authority picked up the old Sears mattress that I had discarded.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 11:30 A.M.:  I am done with my house cleaning routines.  I figure there is no point in wasting gasoline to go downtown to be hot, so I will stay home near the air conditioner.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 10:30 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel 2% milk fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used 13 grape tomatoes on top of the salad along with all of the other regular ingredients.  I did not use hummus.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out my garbage.  While I was outside two Turkish deliverymen delivered a new mattress to a neighbor.  They brought out the old full size mattress which was better than my current Sears mattress that I bought at a tag sale in Darien 16.5 years ago for $65.  They gave it to me.  I used my cart from the back of the Volvo, and I brought it up to outside my apartment.  I stripped my bed, and I brought out the Sears mattress into the hallway.  I then put the new used Simmons Simmons® Mattresses - Bed, Mattress & Sleep Products - Store Dealer Locators Endeavour Luxury back care mattress Simmons® Brands - BackCare® Mattresses - Back Pain Support Mattress - Aid Sleeping Problem on my bed.  I sprayed both sides with CVS Lysol type spray.  I took the old Sears mattress down to the dumpster area.  I brought down the plastic sheeting from the new used mattress, and I put it in the dumpster.  I put my cart back in the Volvo.  I mailed my Verizon letter at the letter box in the Post Office room downstairs.  I will now make up my bed with the new used Simmons mattress, and I will do my vacuuming.  I chatted with a couple of relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 7:40 A.M.:  I have the Verizon paper work ready to mail.  I filled up the paper feed with more paper in the Minolta laser printer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 7:05 A.M.:  Overnight I was billed $41.94 on my debit account for my order from S&J's Telecommunications & Supplies for the surge protector and the GN Netcom power adapter.  Thus I guess it has finally shipped.  According to the order, they sent the ITW-SP6 surge protector which does not have power protection for the cable modem line, but I guess that will do.  Tracking on the order is UPS Package Tracking on Mike Scott order from S&J Communications for GN Netcom Power adapter and ITW-SP6 surge protector  .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/05 Friday 6:45 A.M.:  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a toasted bagel  with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage.  I still have to vacuum the apartment, which I will do later on this morning.  I let the newspaper delivery people in.  I have to fill out a form for my Verizon lifeline eligibility.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 7:00 P.M.:  Well not much happening in Greenwich, Connecticut.  With the higher price of fuel, the town is very slow, since very few people can afford to travel around on their regular rounds.  I ate a 9.5 ounce can of CVS cashew bits and chunks.  Balmoral Castle and Estate, online shop, gift shop, holiday cottages, fishing, scotland for northern look on life.  They help support the local hospitality industry with their modest gift shop online Balmoral Collection .  However, like in Sweden which has the royal emblem of a Mountain Lion, I think Scotland also has the same sort of cat around.  Of course back down south in London, they rely on the Lion.  Maybe they should sell cat food online.  Of course Scotland is well known for Scotch, so they also sell that at Balmoral Estates Whisky Range .  The Prince of Wales is known to occasionally enjoy some Scotch, so perhaps that is where his dry sense of humor comes from.  I have seen so many people whom look him over the years, I don't really recognize him anymore when he is around, because if he has ever shown up here, I have not noticed him, but possibly in my European travels or elsewhere, I might have seen  him.  In my life, I have more focused on older people, so I do not take notice of people my own age give or take a few years.  Whatever, the case I am sure he knows more about North America than I do, but alas I seem to know the local turf after having been here these many years.  Since I just volunteer my services occasionally like "Traveler's Aid", I am not sure what the real need for my services are anymore, and I currently can not take the very hot summer, we have been having, so I have just been staying at my modest apartment working on the computer.  I have seen lots of people from down south, but they seem to come and go in waves, and since they are much more energetic than I am from living in a warmer climate, they do not seem to take much notice of me going about my slow plodding routines.  Perhaps someday people will learn that from experience I have learned that although the English do speak English, they are also focused on the entire world, and not just those areas where people speak English.  Since they have a lot of contacts in India whom speak English, they probably rely on people from India to manage some of their Commonwealth Affairs.  Whatever, the case as an unelected United States of American citizen, I can not interfere with another nation's sovereign affairs.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO   

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  I went out, and I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  Various items are 50% off.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home.  I leant one of my neighbors a package of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes.  I ate 2.5 scoops of Friendly Butter Pecan ice cream.  The last time I was in Toronto, Canada in December 1983, before I returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut, I was told that the population consisted of 25% Chinese immigrants.  Apparently there is so much surplus electricity in Toronto, Canada from Niagara Falls, the large Chinese community is able to enjoy warm housing in the winter without having to endure the energy shortages and colder homes that we have in this part of America.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 1:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative for a while, and I also chatted briefly with a friend.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will get ready to go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 11:55 A.M.:  I went outside, and I checked the weather Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  It is currently 84 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  When I first started working on home computers 15 years ago, I met a former Greenwich, Connecticut resident at Computer Warehouse in Stamford, Connecticut where he now lives.  He is a computer systems engineer, and I used to go to the Egghead computer software clearance store in Rockland County over by Nyack, New York with him.  He was doing software engineering for Schweppes in Stamford, Connecticut.  His name was Roger Schultz, and he use to be on the Greenwich, Connecticut Representative Town Meeting, and he was a personal friend of Nancy Rockefeller.  Roger convinced the town of Greenwich, Connecticut to build the retirement home for elderly and disabled people where I now live.  I have not seen him around recently, but he is easy to spot.  He is also a member of Christ Church.  One of his computer associates was from Vermont, so whatever the case more than likely Roger Schultz is still around working with computers.  He probably knows more about them than I do, since he has a bigger budget.  The last time I visited with him was during the first Iraq war, and he lived across the street from Asea Brown Boveri  www.abb.com on Long Ridge Road.  I dare say Roger is still working in the same capacity that he has frequently worked in before.  He sort of looks like the same character as his last name Sergeant Schultz in Hogan's Heroes an old American television show.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 11:15 A.M.:  On my order from S&J's Telecommunications & Supplies, one of the two items either the surge protector or the GN Netcom power adapter had to be special ordered, so they are still waiting to send out the order and bill me.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 11:10 A.M.:  I worked in Microsoft Vista beta 1 for a while.  The audio was malfunctioning, and I finally isolated the problem, and it was the USB Audio device drivers.  I deleted them, and I let plug and play reinstall them, and the audio works fine now.  I chatted with a relative.  The United States Post Office delivered my order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com of 5 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s.   I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put six 1/32nds thick slices of Oscan Meyer 1/32nds of inch thin sliced slivers of smoked turkey on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, four 3/32nds thick half slices of onion, and four large leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slice of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 4:35 A.M.:  I set up the Microsoft Vista beta 1 password for their beta newsgroup in Outlook Express, but it will not be active for a couple of more hours.  I will now boot the Vista beta and set it up in the beta's Outlook Express program.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 4:05 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/05 Thursday 3:10 A.M.:  I woke up at 1:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  On European News, I watched the attempted launch of the European Space Agency ESA Portal of an Ariane 5 ESA - Launch vehicles - Ariane 5 Generic and ESA - Launchers Home - Next launch from their Guiana launch facility, but it was put on hold.  I will now do some regular computer work.  Yesterday, I chatted with a friend at Saratoga New York Racing Association - Saratoga , and the friend that works for NYRA told me it is very busy at the Races up there.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 3:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend, and a few other places.  It does not cost me any extra than the $15 a month I pay for long distance telephone calls to Canada and the rest of the United States, but I do not really know that many people to call.  I went outside briefly, and I cleaned my car windows.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow, so I will have to stay up later tomorrow.  This storm Tropical Depression IRENE is heading towards the coast next Tuesday, so maybe around Wednesday or Thursday next week, we will get a little bit of needed rain.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 1:40 P.M.:  Beware many men and boys go down to the sea, and many of them have never come back History of the World's Navy's .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 1:15 P.M.:  I went outside and checked the building perimeter.  I picked up my mail.  I got another fundraising letter from President Bush GOP.com Republican National Committee  , but with the higher prices of energy, I can not afford to contribute.  I ate one of the 9.25 ounce cans of CVS chunks and pieces of cashew nuts.  I guess with the higher prices of energy the Greenwich Marine patrol can not afford to operate their police launch, which an acquaintance of mine gave to them.  I suppose they could use one of those rubber Zodiacs like the U.S. Navy Seals used in Viet Nam.  Since Connecticut is a U.S. Navy state more than likely there is somebody whom knows how to use one.  If they get punctured, they are easy to fix with a bicycle tire tube kit or some other similar device.  There was a nice article in the Greenwich Time yesterday about Steamboat Road Greenwich Time - Public pier has no equal . From my experience down there observing for 22 years, it helps if one knows multiple languages.  Since Greenwich, Connecticut does not have many public areas outside the downtown area, the area down at the end of Steamboat Road draws a cross section of the world's population trying to enjoy the vista of Long Island Sound.  I use to joke more people in the world do not belong to the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Indian Harbor Yacht Club Real-Time Weather than the relatively small group that does.  Thus if one is an experienced waterfront observer from around the world, it is an enjoyable vantage point on our aquatic environment.  Alas to live on the Greenwich, Connecticut waterfront can be very expensive except at the old apartment complex run by the Jenkins real estate empire on Steamboat Road.  They occasionally have apartments for rent particularly when people leave after the warmer summers, and their telephone number is 1-203-869-0800.  I lived there for 5 years when I first returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut from Nantucket, and the first two years, I did not have car, so I got used to walking around Steamboat Road and the downtown area of Greenwich, Connecticut.  Thus when I drive down there, I try to be extra careful of pedestrians.  However, once it gets cold in Greenwich, Connecticut the waterfront is less busy, and it can be just as cold down on the waterfront as anywhere else in town depending on which way the wind blows.  The building where I lived at 700 Steamboat Road had the boiler for the larger apartment complex south of it, so it was quite warm in the winter, however, I was told the other night, they have changed to more modern, and I suppose less expensive heating methods.  I still know quite a few people whom live there and the area.  Most of the people I know in that area have been there for over 20 years.  Some of the office crowd enjoy having lunch down there in their free time too.  I will not say I am an expert on Steamboat Road, but I know the area, but alas it is still too expensive for me at this juncture.  I actually enjoy watching the nautical birds down there.  I have observed in the morning over the years that crows linger around the waterfront down there, and anyone whom knows crows know if one leaves something like one's car windows open, or other items available where crows are in the area, they will fly off with those items.  I have even read that certain gypsy types of characters train crows for such purposes, and they work them in areas, such as resorts, where they can make money providing the crow returns to its keeper with the goods.  I suppose with modern satellites, one could track different groups of crows, to see if they are wild or if they are trained.  Well, from what I can tell, with the higher prices of fuel, it is less busy around here than in past summers.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 11:20 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 9.25 ounce cans of CVS cashew nut chunks and bits for $2.49 each and a 15 count package of CVS zip lock freezer bags for $1.99 and a box of CVS 50 count sandwich bags for $1.99 plus .24 tax  for $9.20 total.  I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue after CVS.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront and some of the usual fishermen were there and the Greenwich Marine patrol whom I have never seen down there in 21 years.  I guess they can now afford a truck.  I then returned to CVS, and I exchanged the box of sandwich bags for a 15 count box of CVS storage bags with zip lock tabs for the same price.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought three solid pine captains chairs for $5 each and a strainer ladle for .25 for $15.25 total.  The captain's chairs are similar to the one at my dining room table, but smaller with a curved back with spindles.  I then returned home, and I brought up the three chairs.  I put the three chairs around the dining room table with cushions.  I moved the larger captain's chair to my bedroom desk with cushion.  I moved the smaller wooden chair at the bedroom desk to the left side of the bedroom desk with cushion.  I put the three small bent oak chairs that were at the dining room table and to the left of the bedroom desk in my usual storage area I have.  I have a fourth one out behind the chair to the left of the bedroom desk.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 6:30 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients, but I did not use hummus.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  On top of the salad, I used 15 grape tomatoes.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out for my usual morning stroll.  Not much happening in this neck of the woods.  The www.cablevision.com cable modem service for the entire area is out for system wide maintenance, but it came back on around 6:15 A.M..  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  There are two more benches in front of our building made of iron and wood with palm trees on them.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 4:15 A.M.:  Surplus Computers Mini Keyring Alcohol Breath Tester in Silver with free shipping $8.99 .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 4:10 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 3:10 A.M.:  I tried installing the memory that I found at the train station dumpster the other night in the Gateway backup Linux computer, but it does not fit, so I left the 128 meg and two 64 meg memory chips in it.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.:  When I was down  on the waterfront two days ago, I noticed this house's http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/house-with-widows-walk-on-greenwich-ct-waterfront-021505.JPG  lawn looked incredible good and well manicured and quite green, despite our recent drought.  Whomever is taking care of their lawn, they are doing a very good job.  Maybe they sprayed it green like they do in California.  The house looks similar to our first house in Greenwich in back country off Round Hill Road where we also had a Widows Walk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 1:50 A.M.:   I downloaded and installed the Windows and Norton updates on the primary computer and the three backup computers.  I also ran Norton Win Doctor 2003 on all four of them.  I am still downloading the updates for the Toshiba laptop computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/05 Wednesday 12:20 A.M.:  I was awake at 10 P.M. with a call from a relative.  I had telephone calls while I was asleep from an associate and from a friend.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 2:10 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 1:55 P.M.:  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put six 1/32nds thick slices of Oscan Meyer 1/32nds of inch thick sliced slivers of smoked turkey on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, six 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 12:50 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I called www.cl-p.com , and I had them recycle my budget amount to start over at $111 a month, now that I have used up my surplus in their account.  They told me it has been a hot summer, but I have not really noticed sitting by my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control, but my budget has when I pay the electricity bills.  I started the Dell backup computer in the bedroom, and I was able to open my long Microsoft Word file on it in Microsoft Word XP, and I copied it to FrontPage Express, and I save it on a floppy, so I now have the missing file for December 2001, which I have posted with the other files.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 11:20 A.M.:  I tried opening one of my Microsoft Word documents which would contain my notes for December 2001 that are missing.  However, Microsoft Word 2003 will not open the document, and it freezes, I guess because it is too large.  I think I made the first two documents with Microsoft Word 2000.  I will look into it later.  I scanned a hard copy of the document for December 2001, and it was pretty much the normal Christmas routine for me.  I had just installed Microsoft Windows XP, and I was doing some shopping occasionally in Port Chester, New York.  I did notice a mention about a murder on a December 4, 2001 entry, so it must have been a day or two before mentioned in the local paper.  I will try to get the note off the same document from another computer, so it is available.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 10:05 A.M.:  I posted my web notes Michael Louis Scott's Notes from June 1997 to Date .  I went outside briefly.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 3:30 A.M.:  I put away my laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 1:15 A.M.:  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/05 Tuesday 12:55 A.M.:  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 5 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 11:55 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last message. I had a telephone call from a relative.  I was awake at 10:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  On the order from S&J's Telecommunications & Supplies , I received email that they would look into the order to see if the ITW-SP6 surge protector for $25 was sent or if it was replaced by the ITW Linx SP8C - SURGEPROTECTOR 8 COAX - AC AND COAX SURGE SUPRESSOR - S&J's Telecommunications for $28.50 along with the GN Netcom AC adapter for MPA-II for $7.99 plus $8.95 shipping for $41.94 total or $3.40 more with the ITW Linx SP8C.  The SP8C model also protects the cable modem cable.  However, I would have to get a piece of cable to split it in, but I might already one.  There goes Bermuda again Tropical Depression IRENE .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 3:05 P.M.:  I went through my email. BBC NEWS World Middle East Obituary: King Fahd from an English speaking point of view.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  I guess the Saudi Arabians or Texans or whomever set the price of oil is making more money, but with the higher prices of fuel, it seems that there is less activity here around the local merchants.  I guess investing in walking shoe companies and bicycle companies and other energy saving companies might be profitable.  It looks as if the higher fuel prices are here to stay.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 2:30 P.M.:  MSDN IdeaBlade-Lite Special Offer .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 1:30 P.M.:  I took three two month old refrigerated eggs, and I broke them in a bowl, and I whisked them together with a few tablespoons of milk.  I then took my omelet pan, and I put it on the stove on medium high electric heat, and I added a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and margarine, and I heated it until the fat began to bubble, and I added the egg mixture, and I reduced the heat to a little lower than medium heat.  I toasted two halves of bagels at the same time on the open side only, and once the omelet began to harden, I added six 5/8th inch by 3/32nds inch by 1.75 inch slices of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and a six 2 inch by .25 inch by 5/8th inch slices of 1/3 less fat America's Choice Philadelphia style cream cheese on top of the omelet, and I let it heat a bit more, and I then slid it onto a plate, and I spread margarine on the toasted bagels, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a town politician downtown, and apparently nobody gets paid anymore, and they are all communists.  It must make it hard to pay one's bills.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 12:15 P.M.:  I went outside after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a #28 Triple 7's scratch card for a dollar.  During my walk, I sat out at various locations.  At then end of my walk, I scratched the scratch card, but I lost.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a gallon of America's Choice white vinegar for $1.85, four half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2 each, two 120 count packages of America's Choice napkins for $1.09 each package, two 9 ounce packages of Oscar Meyer shaved turkey slices one Smoked and one oven roasted for $2.99 each package, a 39 ounce bag of Eight O'clock decaffeinated coffee beans for $11.99, a dozen Nature's Design Grade AA extra large natural white eggs for $1.99, two 16 ounce packages of Imperial margarine for .99 each for $31.79 total.  I then went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought two packages of six Arnold multiseed bagels for $1.85 each for $3.70 total.  I then returned home, and I used my cart from my apartment to bring up my groceries.  I also brought up my mail.  I then put away my groceries.  I then called up www.ordersmokesdirect.com at 1-866-215-1069, and one apparently as of July 15, 2005 can not place a credit card order from Connecticut for cigarettes, but one can do an Electronic Funds transfer, so I ordered 5 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in the box for $11.49 each carton and $8.70 United States Post Office shipping priority mail for $66.20 total.  One can do an Electronic Funds transfer on the internet from their web site at www.ordersmokesdirect.com , but for some reason when I tried it the last two times, it did not work.  There is something wrong with their java script.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 6:50 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I will put the bottled tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea before I go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 6:35 A.M.:  I paid my electricity bill using up my payment along with the remains of my surplus in the account.  I did it online at www.cl-p.com .  It was $176 in July which is basically busting my budget, but I only paid $48.10 with the remainder from the remaining surplus in my account.  Let's hope it is a moderate fall, and the winter is not too cold.  This amount of usage is exactly the same as last July 2004, but the bill is $30 more for the same amount of electricity.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 5:55 A.M.:  Shuttle landing delayed until tomorrow NASA Delays Discovery Landing Until Tues. - Yahoo! News .  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put three 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, six 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  Into the regular mixture I put in six packets of Splenda.  I will wait for the tea to steep for an hour before I bottle it, and I put in the refrigerator.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 3:50 A.M.:  I installed Nero 6.6 on the Northgate backup computer.  When I tried to install the Nero Upgrades from a CD that I had made, the CD drive froze.  I tried changing the cable on the CD drives, and it still happened.  I finally determined that it was from the formatting on the CD that I placed the upgrade on, and that CD worked in my CD/RW drive where it had been burned.  I left the replacement cable on the CD drives.  Anyway both primary and backup computers are running just fine.  On the Northgate Syntax backup computer, I will now do a Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  The Space Shuttle is due to land this morning at 4:46 A.M. CNN.com - Science and Space and CNN is suppose to begin coverage of the event on their channel at 4 A.M. eastern daylight time.  Also http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm has this link NASA - NASA TV Landing Page , if you want to monitor the event on the internet.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/08/05 Monday 12:20 A.M.:  I woke up at 11 P.M..  I did a quick computer hardware change.  I took the DVD/R drive out of the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I made it the first master DVD drive in the primary computer, and I setup the NEC DVD/RW as the second slave DVD drive.  This way one can copy DVDs on the fly with Nero 6.6 from one DVD drive to another which is much faster for copying.  I put the CD 50X drive as the first master CD drive in the Northgate backup computer and the CD/RW drive as the second slave CD/RW drive in the Northgate backup computer, so it now can copy CDs on the fly.  I will install Nero 6.6 and its upgrades shortly to the Northgate backup computer.  On the primary computer, I will now do a C: XP drive backup with Microsoft Windows XP Automatic System Recovery to the D: drive.  While doing this, I will eat breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I changed www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm to reflect the changes.  Happy Birthday to a relative.  This story is very sad to hear ABC News: Peter Jennings Dies at 67 .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 2:15 P.M.:  I installed Nero 6.6 and its upgrades in the Microsoft Longhorn Vista beta 1 partition.  I then did another complete backup with the Vista beta 1 beta backup program from the Vista E:  partition to the D: drive.  While doing the backup, I went outside, and I vacuumed my Volvo with the Black and Decker dust buster.  Its dust filter might need replacing, so some time I will have to look into that.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/07/05:

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 9:15 A.M.:  I ate six 1.25 inch by 1.25 inch by .25 inch pieces of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  Recently Columbia has been in the news because the El Presidente de Columbia visited Texas.  However, they had problems about 10 years ago, when I got on the internet, when a volcano erupted, and it caused a glacier in a mountain to melt, and it send a large cascading wall of water down the mountain, which killed in about 50,000 people in the flood that followed.  Also shortly before that, 8 volcanoligists were killed in Columbia when a volcano they were investigating had a major tremor.  One professor named Williams whom was severely crippled in that event teaches at the University of New Mexico and is still active in volcanology research.  On my current directory http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/volcanoe03.htm where they are linked from, these web links appear ::: INGEOMINAS ::: , ::: INGEOMINAS ::: .  Columbia besides supply pharmaceutical medicines also has large reserves of oil in the western hemisphere not to mention Columbian coffee and mineral riches such as rubies and emeralds and since there are a few Spanish people there, they probably have a cow or two.  Columbia is also the second largest exporter of cut flowers in the world after the Netherlands.  On the pharmaceutical issue in a great many Spanish countries such as Spain, there are no pharmaceutical laws as we know them in the United States of America.  However, one still has to pay their less expensive prices.  A great many European pharmaceuticals happen to be made in Switzerland, a neutral country, but their ingredients might come from elsewhere.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 8:25 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  We had a visitor from Medellin, Columbia whom was looking for a neighbor whom was not here.  The visitor only spoke Spanish, but the newspaper delivery people are Spanish, so they chatted with the visitor.  The visitor from Medellin, Columbia works at the THE WILLETT HOUSE - STEAK & LOBSTER RESTAURANT , and he looks like he has eaten more than his share of prime Spanish beef, unlike us local people worrying about our cholesterol.  The Spanish are well known for having some of the best beef in the world, although they call their cuts of beef by different names such as Chateaubriand and Tornadoes.  A Chateaubriand is the whole cut of beef that filet mignons come from, and a tornado is a filet mignon.  I had tornadoes when I visited the steak house in Carmel, California around 1980 with some vintage Spanish name like Hacienda.  I recall it had an open pit fireplace where they cooked the meat.  I only ate at the Willet House once about 10 years ago, when a friend took me there, and I recall a Prime New York steak was about $20, so it is obviously more expensive now.  Of course locally here in Greenwich, I drive by Manero's Steakhouse Restaurant, Family Dining, Butcher Shop, Wedding & Banquet Facilities in Greenwich, CT every day, when I drive down by the waterfront.  However, in the day old days, when a friend took me out to dinner regularly, we use to frequently eat at Chucks Steak House in Darien for more privacy from all the people that know me in Greenwich, and frequently we would eat at the larger Chuck's steak houses in Darien, and I once sat next to the then current president of Monsanto, a company that my father had worked for for 15 years, and which brought us originally to Greenwich, Connecticut, when my father was a vice president in their fibers division.  Of course back then Greenwich, Connecticut was less expensive that the area we had moved from in Decatur, Alabama, but of course it is now a lot more expensive.  Decatur, Alabama also made my original General Electric refrigerator here where I live, before it was replaced by a White Westinghouse refrigerator about five years ago.  Of course Judge Duncan's family probably still have a bit of influence there along with the Weicker family, so it is hard to tell people that people tend to eat more food down south, and I used to enjoy hickory smoked barbeque pork with McIlhenny Tabasco sauce on a hamburger bun along with halves of barbeque chicken.  As I recall next to our favorite barbeque place in Decatur, Alabama, Bimboes salvage yard was there, and they were written up in the Smithsonian magazine about  a half dozen years ago for all of the military surplus and other items they had recycled over the years.  Apparently it was a quite profitable operation.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 6:30 A.M.:  I made a backup of the XP C: primary partition to 8 HP DVD-R media, and I also copied my DVD data media that I made earlier today, and I copied the Nero 6.6 OEM CD, the NERO 6.6 upgrades CD, and the Favorites CD, and I bound the 8 backup DVDs with two rubber bands and the remaining media with two rubber bands, and I put each up the two media bundles in clear CVS plastic zip lock bags and I took out the old backup tapes from the Fire Sentry box on the lower wire rack at my apartment entrance, and I put in the new backup media along with the other media that I made and a copy of Longhorn Vista beta 1 in the locked Fire Sentry Box, and the Fire Sentry box is now in position to retrieve in an emergency.  Of course I don't know how good it would be in protecting the plastic media in a real fire, since plastic tends to melt when it gets hot.  I put the old backup tapes inside the locked liquor cabinet on top of some dusty wine glasses on the top left shelf.  I also moved two other old backup media CDs from the Fire Sentry box, and I put them with my reserve installation media that I keep on the  middle shelf of the wire rack.  In the old days when I felt my backups were more important other than saving time on restoring the system, I use to rent a Safety Deposit box at Putnam Trust Bank of New York about ten years ago for about $50 a year, and I put in a updated backup tape every week, which lead people to think I had more valuables assets than I actually have.  I have not had that Safety Deposit box in about 9 years, and I gave them the key back, when I quit paying for it.  Of course another viable backup method is to upload a copy of one's drive over the high speed cable modem to Iron Mountain - Services which I have a family member whom knows somebody that owns it, but I think that would be more expensive than even the $50 a year for the Safety Deposit Box at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street in Greenwich, Connecticut.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  I finished installing Nero 6.6 and its upgrades, and it is all working fine.  I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I will now do some other maintenance on the C: drive XP partition.  I could back it up to 8 DVD disks, but at 8 minutes a disks that would take about an hour, and I should check my email first.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 1:35 A.M.:  The CD/RW player worked fine with the AT&T lens cleaning CD.  One plays track 4 for about 45 seconds to clean the laser lens.  I ran it three times.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put three 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and four slices of American cheese, eight 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now do a full install Nero 6.6 and its upgrades.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/07/05 Sunday 12:50 A.M.:  I woke up at noon yesterday Saturday, when the United States Post Office delivered Nero 6 Ultra 6.6 (Full Product, PC) Techbargains.com - Buy computer cheap digital camera review cheap computer sales cheap notebook wholesale online computer store .  I then went back to sleep until 3:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  On the primary computer, I uninstalled Nero Burning Rom 5.5, and then I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I then installed Nero 6.6 and all of its features, and it works fine.  I made a DVD copy of the files that I copied from my C: drive that I save to my D: drive in the C: folder which was 3.7 gigabytes in size.  I checked to see if I could made a backup of the C: drive to DVD disk, but the function was only available to CD/R.  I then upgraded Nero 6.6 and three of its accessory programs with the latest upgrades that I downloaded, and the Nero Backup function to the DVD drive is available.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered and cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought two 25 packs of HP 8X DVD-R disks for $11 off each for $8.94 each plus $1.07 tax for $18.95 total.  I then went by the Mobil Express Car Wash, and I had my Volvo washed for the basic $5 car wash.  I towel dried the remaining water.  I then drove over to the southwest parking area at Tod's Point, and I stood out for a while.  I then went to the southeast parking area for a while.  I left Tod's Point at 8 P.M., when it was closing.  I then returned to downtown Greenwich.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS just before closing at 9 P.M., and I bought two 7 ounce packages of black licorice for $1.19 each plus .14 tax for $2.52 total.  I completed my walk.  I then tried to use the bathroom at Starbucks, but it was busy.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with some new neighbors.  I then went by the Greenwich Exxon known as Greenwich Automotive next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5.50 or premium unleaded gasoline at $2.899 a gallon for 32.2 miles driving since Thursday, at 15.7 miles per gallon averaging driving 14 miles per hour.  I have noticed recently when I have ventured out in the early morning hours around 3 A.M., the Greenwich Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library now seems to be opened 24 hours.  I then returned home.  I started up the primary computer, and when I went to copy the Nero 6.6 upgrade files to CD/RW drive, the CD/RW was very sluggish.  I right clicked on the drive's properties, and it was not enabled to write, although I had used it before I left to make a copy of the Nero 6.6 CD.  When I enabled write, I was able burn a copy of the Nero upgrades to CD/R media.  I tried go get the CD/RW drive which does work to work better by reinstalling its driver, and then I rolled back the system with System Restore to before  I installed Nero 6.6, and the CD/RW drive is still a bit sluggish when one right clicks on its properties, but it does work.  I will clean it with my AT&T CD lens cleaning disk.  I then have to reinstall Nero 6.6 and its accessory programs, and its upgrades.   It seems like somebody had used the computer when I was out, but possibly Nero 6.6 operates separately from the XP CD/RW drive settings, so I was able to burn the backup copy of the Nero 6.6 to CD/R.  If anything it is a bit time consuming.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/05 Saturday 5:10 A.M.: I booted into Vista. I looked at http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15965 , and it mentioned Etrust AntiVirus as working with Vista, so I went to Computer Associates - Antivirus, Spyware, Firewall, Security & Virus Protection Solution and I downloaded the free 30 day version CA Consumer Online Store of etrust EZ antivirus 2005, and I tried to install it, but it would not completely install because of Adminstrator rights. However, from its folder, I can run the program to scan my hard drives in Vista for viruses, but the online and email protection antivirus features does not work. According to this satellite photo NRL Monterey Satellite Photos linked from www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , there are some suspicious cloud formations in the equatorial Atlantic ocean, so we have to see what develops. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed. Also for some reason on my computer in Vista, System Restore is not available, but it is mentioned as being available in the beta site tech notes. I also changed the resolution on the left monitor to a higher level, so the icons are smaller. CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/05 Saturday 3:00 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/05 Saturday 2:05 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used all of the regular ingredients, but instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  On top of the salad, I used eight grape tomatoes.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I copied 77,000 "My Favorites" from XP to a CD/R.  I tried to copy "My Documents" and other files to a DVD, but neither XP or Vista support that function.  I instead copied them to a C: folder on the D: drive which is 3.7 gigabytes in size, and I now have them ready to copy when I get Nero Burning 6.6.  I tried to copy that folder with Cute DVD, but it froze up when I went to burn the DVD.  While working in Vista, I was prompted to "Activate" Vista within ten days, so I activated it online.  Now Microsoft knows I have it working just fine.  I was also able to save my Contacts in XP Office Outlook 2003 to a *.pst file, which I was able to import into Vista Office Outlook 2003, so my address book in that Vista program now shows my email addresses.  One thing I don't like about Vista in its beta form, is that it does not yet display small icons on the desktop, so the desktop with large icons reminds me Windows 3.1.  Of course some of us don't see so well after all of these years of computers, so we probably need large icons.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/05/05 Friday 10:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now try to back up my favorites to CD/R, and then I will try to back up part of My Documents folder to DVD.  I also have to import my email addresses from the XP Outlook 2003 the Vista Outlook 2003 program by saving them in XP and importing them in Vista.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/05/05 Friday 9:30 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  One relative has been looking at the baby Panda at the National Zoo http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html , but their primary link at http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/default.cfm?cam=LP2 is frequently busy.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/05 Friday 9:00 P.M.:  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage and some of the old periodical literature.  This is working now NOAA Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/05/05 Friday 6:05 P.M.:  I was awake at 5 P.M. when UPS delivered Amazon.com: Electronics: Linksys USBHUB4C ProConnect Compact USB 4-Port Hub .  I connected it to the Northgate Syntax backup computer lower front USB 2.0 port.  However, since it is a short cable USB device, I could also use it on the Toshiba laptop computer which only has one USB port.  I called up Microsoft in Nova Scotia at 1-800-426-9400 about the product activation on FrontPage 2002 in Vista beta 1, and they told me I can only install it on one installation at a time, so I will keep it activated in my XP partition.  I am writing this note from the Vista beta 1 installation using Microsoft FrontPage Express which does not have spell checking. Also in Vista beta 1, when one presses the delete key, one get the period instead of delete. I will now eat a toasted bagel with margarine with orange juice and vitamins and supplements. I will then finish my house cleaning. NOAA weather radio keeps going off with a Marine warning, but their web site with alerts is not working in this area at the present. CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/05 Friday 10:50 A.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put five 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and five slices of American cheese, eight 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I was not able to do a backup of the Vista partition from XP backup.  I did however backup the entire system from the first hard drive to the second hard drive with the Vista backup program.  I was not able to defragment the Vista partition with the Norton Speed Disk program from XP, but I used the Vista program to defragment the Vista partition.  I copied my 77,000 plus Favorites from the XP Favorites folder to the Vista Favorites folder.  The primary computer system in both XP and Vista seems to be running just fine.  I also did my preliminary house cleaning, and I cleaned the bathroom.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  I will finish my house cleaning when I wake up.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/05/05 Friday 6:30 A.M.:  I have not done house cleaning yet.  I have been working on configuring the Microsoft Vista beta 1.  The only program that I have problems installing that would not install was the Microsoft Contact manager for Outlook 2003.  It would not complete its install cycle.  In installing Rhapsody and some other programs, I set them to install in Windows XP compatibility.  I also get the product activation wizard for Microsoft FrontPage in Microsoft Vista beta 1, and I chatted with them about that, and I am suppose to call back their product licensing number at 1-800-426-9400 after 9:30 A.M. EDT.  Their computers look at it as a different installation.  I have 49 uses of it left.  I will now start a backup up of my Vista Beta 1 configuration with its backup beta program.  I also will start my house cleaning now.  I was able to shift the Windows Tray by raising it up two levels and dragging it to the left monitor and then lowering it to one level, and then I locked it again.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 11:40 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative after the last message.  I then slept until 11:15 P.M..  When I start up the computer after it has been off for a while, it does not always display the opening monitor display with password, but it does the second time.  It seems to avoid this problem, one should start the computer with the two monitors turned off, and once it beeps, one can turn on the monitors to see the opening display with password prompt.  I have not heard back from http://www.sjtelecommunications.com/ about which surge protector they are going to send me, so I guess it is the ITW-SP6.  The online form still shows the more expensive SP6, but I have not been charged the extra $7 from my debit account.  The second half of my order from www.amazon.com for the Amazon.com: Electronics: Linksys USBHUB4C ProConnect Compact USB 4-Port Hub has shipped, and I was billed charged $11.65 now that it has shipped.  The order for Nero 6 Ultra 6.6 (Full Product, PC) Techbargains.com - Buy computer cheap digital camera review cheap computer sales cheap notebook wholesale online computer store has shipped via Priority Mail.  I will now do a Windows XP backup with Automatic System Recovery of the C: drive to the D: drive.  I will then use the new Vista backup program to backup the Vista partition as it currently is.  While doing this I will eat breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will then do my house cleaning and watering the plants, but I won't vacuum until after 8 A.M. in the morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 7:05 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have to do house cleaning and watering the plants whenever I wake up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  I lightly toasted four slices of bread, and I opened a 6 ounce tin of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I left the lid on it, and I rinsed it out underneath cold water at the tap, and then I squeezed the water out.  I then flaked it in a bowl, and I added two large heaping tablespoons of Hellmann's Just-2-Good tuna fish, and I mixed it all together.  I used half of it to make each of two sandwiches, and I cut them in half.  I ate the sandwiches with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 5:55 P.M.:  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment, but the appointment was still away on vacation.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  A lot of their merchandise is still have price.  I bought for half price for $15 a new Braun Espresso Cappuccino Center which contained a Braun E 45 Espresso Cappuccino machine, a metal frothing pitcher, a Braun coffee grinder, a gourmet coffee drinks recipe book, and a 6 ounce bag of Caravali gourmet espresso coffee beans.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then sat out for a while at Bruce Park.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold 12 grain bread for $1.59, two 5.5 packages of Arnold seasoned croutons for .99, and a 5.5 ounce bag of Arnold restaurant style Caesar croutons for .99 for $4.56 total.  I then returned home.  I took out the old Krups and the old Braun cappuccino espresso machines from the left side of the kitchen counter, and I put them in bag, and I put them on top of the cable box at the right side of the bed in the bedroom.  I put the new Braun cappuccino espresso machine on the left counter along side at an angle with the Gaggia espresso coffee grinder.  I put the new Braun coffee grinder in its box with the other coffee machines on the floor of the left side of the bedroom closet.  I put the instructions and the coffee recipe book on top on the HP LaserJet IID printer on the dining room table.  I put the metal frothing cup on the left side of the new Braun machine underneath its frothing spout.  I normally use a cappuccino espresso machine to make my one cup of coffee a day.  I have a few old ones in reserve that I might get rid of some day.  I will now throw out the Braun box and some other old shipping boxes.  I have noticed during my regular walks on Greenwich Avenue up at the top of Greenwich Avenue on the east side that the Complete Cookery Gourmet Kitchen shop has been having a pink and green 25% off sale.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 2:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I mailed my paperwork at the Valley Road Post Office.  I used their postage center, and I bought fifteen .37 cent U.S.A. flag stamps for $6.66.  I went for a walk of the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with some fishermen.  I then went by the Greenwich Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $16.40 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.899 a gallon for 78.8 miles driving this month averaging 14.7 miles per gallon averaging driving 14 miles per hour.   I then returned home, and I toasted four pieces of bread.  I opened a 6 ounce can of chilled Geisha crab meat, and I mixed it with Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise about two large tablespoons.  I spread the mixture on two slices of bread and put the other pieces of bread on top, and I cut them in half.   I ate the sandwiches with a glass of iced tea.  I then ate about a third of a 5.5 ounce bag of croutons.  I then slept from 7 A.M. to 1 P.M..  I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  I will now shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 3:00 A.M.:  I got the paperwork put together.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out and mail the paperwork at the Valley Road Post Office.  Then I will take one of my usual strolls along Greenwich Avenue during the wee hours of the morning.  Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is 73 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/04/05 Thursday 1:35 A.M.:  I was awake at 11:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I emailed some friends.  I will now do some paperwork.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 6:25 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with some neighbors.  Old Mount St. Helens is still puffing away and growing larger day by day.  At this rate, we might see some activity in the next couple of years Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop in which case if it ever erupts again, we would have colder winters up north, and the people down south would make more money, and the oil tycoons and sheiks would get richer.  Of course, there are 75,000 volcanoes on the planet Earth, so it is frequently the one that one does not pay attention to that eventually causes the problem.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  During these hot summer days in the northern hemisphere, there are plenty of volcanoes up around Alaska not to mention northeastern Russia and Iceland, if one feels like smelling a bit of sulfur on a hot Nordic day.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 5:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 4:40 P.M.:  On my order from http://www.sjtelecommunications.com/ the SP6 order was placed for $25 along with the rest of the order, but it has not shipped, so I just emailed them to try to change it to a ITW-SP6C ITW Linx | Category 6 Surge Protectors | Power and Lightning Surge Protection Solutions or ITW-SP8C ITW Linx SP8C - SURGEPROTECTOR 8 COAX - AC AND COAX SURGE SUPRESSOR - S&J's Telecommunications , or whichever is least expensive, which should not be to much more than the existing order.  The two surge protectors the ITW-SP6C and ITW-SP8C also protect the cable modem cable from a power surge.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 3:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two six packs of Arnold Multigrain bagels for $1.85 each six pack less .37 senior discount for $3.33 total.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a 30 inch by 30 inch by about 10 inch deep 20 pound weight heavy wool brocade fabric pillow with quality stuffing for $15.  I then went downtown, and I sat out for a while, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center, and I had a drink of water from their water cooler from a Dixie cup.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove up to the Glenville shopping center, and I bought two 10 ounce bars of Stop and Shop Vermont sharp cheddar cheese for $2 each, four 64 ounce containers of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, from the deli sliced Stop and Shop American cheese at $4.99 a pound for $5.14 and sliced rare roast beef at $6.49 a pound for $7.17, three 15 ounce cans of Rienzi chic peas for .67 each and one for .66, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.19, a 5 pound bag of yellow onions for $3.49, fresh bananas at .69 a pound for $1.56, a clove of elephant garlic for $1.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39, two pints of grape tomatoes for $2 each, a pound of baby carrots for $1.99, fresh broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.39, and a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 for $51.97 total.  I then returned home, and I used the cart from my apartment, and I brought up my groceries, and I put them away.  I took two frozen slices of Arnold Healthnut bread and toasted them, and spread on both slices fresh Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I put five 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef folded in half on the bottom slice of bread, and five slices of American cheese, eight 1/8 thick half slices of onion, and about six leaves of spinach and seasoned it with ground pepper and salt, and then put the top slices of bread on it, and cut it in half.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I posted this picture of the new large pillow on the living room sofa.  It is the large one in the center http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/scott-family-schoonamaker-cow-tail-sofa-vintage-1948-with-throw-pillows.JPG  .  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 9:25 A.M.:  I received email about the surge protector from http://www.sjtelecommunications.com/ , and they will charge me $25 or $6.06 more for the ITW SP6 surge protector.  I worked on Microsoft Vista beta 1, and I tried to install the SoHo LAN with the Windows 2000 driver, but the computer would not boot Vista beta 1, so I booted the last good configuration, but I was able to get the SoHo LAN card to work with the RealTek Fast Ethernet Adapter driver on my Gigabyte motherboard CD.  Thus all four LAN devices are working in XP.  I set up its Outlook Express email program, but it leaves the mail on the server, so my primary computer Outlook 2003 program can still fetch the email.  I tried a test print with the HP Photosmart 1000 printer, and it crashed Vista beta 1, so I uninstalled it.  I installed Ad-awareSE and ran it. I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003.  Thus all of my connected devices are working with Vista beta 1, but the Visoneer 7600 scanner which I have not tried and is sort of tricky anyway with XP.  When I started FrontPage in XP, it asked for Product Activation, so I reinstalled the install disk, and I activated it.  Well Microsoft Vista beta 1 is running just great.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I have to pay my rent and get some groceries.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 7:40 A.M.:  I napped until 6:30 A.M..  In Vista beta 1, I installed the Creative Vibra web cam and the Creative Monitor program.  I installed the ADMtek AN986 USB to Fast Ethernet Converter with its LAN working, and I will now install the SoHo LAN card.  I also installed the EpsonStylus Color 880 printer and the HP Photosmart 1000 printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 3:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 3:05 A.M.:  I burned another copy of the Microsoft Vista beta 1 DVD, and I made label inserts for the CD jewel cases for both copies I have made.  I tried to use the Cute CD DVD burner program twice more to make copies of some of my data, but although I did not use anymore DVDs, the program froze on trying to compile the data, so I only have 11 more uses of it.  I will be able to do much more CD and DVD activity with the Nero 6.6 program when I get it in a couple of days or so.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/05 Wednesday 12:45 A.M.:  I posted a picture of the primary computer running Microsoft Vista Longhorn beta 1 build English 5112  http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/primary-computer-with-microsoft-longhorn-vista-beta-1-080305.JPG .  Noticed the little Longhorn steer horn on the top side of the right monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 11:45 P.M.:  Since the version of Nero Burning Rom 5.5 will not burn with my NEC DVD players, I ordered Nero 6.6 full edition Nero [Nero 6 Ultra Edition - Nero Digital™ - SIPPS™ - Nero PhotoShow -=- Because technology counts!] from Nero 6 Ultra 6.6 (Full Product, PC) Techbargains.com - Buy computer cheap digital camera review cheap computer sales cheap notebook wholesale online computer store for $9.95 plus $6.95 U.S. Postage Priority Mail for $16.90 total.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 10:05 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 9:55 P.M.:  Apple's Tiger vs. Windows Vista: Who Comes Out Ahead? . CIO 

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 9:40 P.M.:  Amazon.com: Books: Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 9:20 P.M.:  I received email that I am being sent a SP6 ITW Linx | Category 6 Surge Protectors | Power and Lightning Surge Protection Solutions instead of a SP8 from Home Audio Furniture, Lorex Home Security - Great Prices!  and http://www.sjtelecommunications.com/ .  Since they have already billed me, I guess it is the same price for the more recent model SP6.  I am in the process of going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 8:10 P.M.:  I had a telephone call about a computer magazine about 2 P.M..  I was awake at 4:30 P.M..  I leant a neighbor a package of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes.  I moved my Volvo station wagon from the rear parking lot back to the front parking lot.  They cleaned it and painted new stripes in the front parking lot today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until a short while ago.  I washed the breakfast dishes and made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 6:35 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/02/05 Tuesday 5:55 A.M.:  On the Microsoft Vista beta, I was able to install the XP S3 Graphics Savage 4 driver, and I now have the second monitor on the left working.  I can not move the tray from the right to the left monitor.  Also "msconfig" and "System Information" are not available for tweaking startups. I tried installing Norton Internet Security 2005 and 2004, and they did not work. I installed Norton System Works 2003, and the Norton AntiVirus 2003 did not work, and I uninstalled them, but I left the Norton Utilities 2003 on the beta drive.  I was also able to install the SoundBlaster Live MP3 drivers by first installing the older version of the drivers and then the most recent update.  The Vista beta recognized my Plantronics headset USB Audio, but although its audio features work, the Persona program freezes, although its audio works in the other programs.  I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 on the system, and it cleaned up some problems.  I went out about 3 A.M., and I moved my car from the front parking lot to the rear parking lot, because they are doing maintenance on the front parking lot today.  Basically the Vista beta is running much better than I expected.  However, there is a problem with drivers that are not yet supported.  Still, it looks quite snappy, and it works quite well.  I am using its firewall and no antivirus program.  I put Frontpage Express on the beta drive, but I will probably not use it for my random notes, since it changes the format of the note from Frontpage.  Now that I booted XP again, I have to do some regular work.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 10:45 P.M.:  From XP I ran Norton Speed Disk on the L: Vista beta drive to optimize it.  I will now reboot into Vista beta and start configuring it.  I also downloaded the S3 Graphics Savage 4 driver for XP to try to install in Vista beta for my Diamond Multimedia PCI 32 meg. video card, so I have the second monitor.  I do not think I can install Microsoft Frontpage because of Product Activation, so I can file notes while working in Vista beta, but I can use FrontPage Express.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 10:20 P.M.:  Since the Microsoft Vista beta would not install on my Northgate Backup computer probably because of its onboard video, and since it can install into a separate partition or drive installing a boot manager leaving the exist operating system available, I went ahead and installed it on my primary computer on the L: or the E: drive depending on which operating system which is a 23 gigabyte empty partition on my first hard drive.  The DVD Vista disk booted without any problems, and it installed the entire operating program and its features in about 45 minutes without any problems.  As a beta my five year old Diamond Multimedia second video card does not work, but my Mad Dog NVIDIA 4X AGP 64 meg. video card works fine.  It installed my two LAN cards for networking, but not the onboard LAN.  It goes online without any problems, and it is very fast.  I need to try to install Norton Internet Security 2005 on it for its Virus Protection.  With the boot manger one has about 30 second to chose between operating systems.  I am most pleased about what I have seen so far with the Microsoft Vista beta, and it seems quite a bit faster and more responsive, but I have not installed Norton Internet Security 2005 yet which tends to slow down operating systems.  I chatted with one relative twice and another relative once.  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks with a 12 ounce can of B&M baked beans maple flavor.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea. 

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 7:55 P.M.:  Nero Burning Rom 5.5 will not work with my NEC DVD/R player, since it is limited to my CD Writer that it came with.  I downloaded and installed Burn DVD images,DVD image burners,DVD burners,burn DVD,DVD burning softwares which as a 15 use demo download.  I burned the Vista *.iso to a DVD.  I then installed the old DVD player into my Northgate Backup computer.  I was able to boot the Vista Beta, but it would freeze.  I then ran it from Windows XP, and it worked.  I prompted it to install on the second D: drive.  However, when it reboots I get a boot loader to select the old operating system or Vista beta setup, but the Vista beta freezes up on installation.  I tried changing some of my CMOS settings.  I tried an F8 VGA mode, and still it freezes. I have a LAN card and a Modem in the beta machine, so I will now remove them, and try it again.  I don't have a video card in the beta machine but only its onboard VIA video.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 4:55 P.M.:  I was up at 2 P.M., when FedEx Track  on Mike Scott's order from www.newegg.com for a NEC DVD Burner delivered the NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM at Newegg.com .  I then ate a toasted bagel with margarine and orange juice with vitamins and supplements.  I then showered and cleaned up.  I went out to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I returned the spare change to the Volvo and I renewed my Catch 22 reserve.  I then went by my 4 P.M. appointment, but it was cancelled.  I then returned home.  I installed the NEC DVD/R drive in the primary computer in the second bay down beneath the case fan monitor.  It seems to work just fine. I still have to install the DVD drive that I took out in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I will now use Nero Rom 5.5 to try burn the Microsoft Windows Vista beta onto DVD.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 8:40 A.M.:  I will shut down the computer shortly, and I will go to bed until 1:30 P.M..  I have a 4 P.M. appointment today.  I have the paperwork ready.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 8:30 A.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I have to get some paperwork ready for my 4 P.M. appointment today.  I also might possibly have a friend stop by this evening.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 7:55 A.M.:  I went online, and I ordered ITW Linx SP8 - SURGEPROTECTOR 8 - 8 AC OUTLET SURGE SUPRESSOR - S&J's Telecommunications made by ITW Linx | Category 6 Surge Protectors | Power and Lightning Surge Protection Solutions for $18.94 and shown here by another dealer Affcomm - Affordable Telephone Systems Surge Protector 8 (8 AC Outlet Surge Suppressor) $19.00  and a GN Netcom 27354102 - AC Adapter For MPA-II - S&J's Telecommunications for my GN Netcom telephone headset for $7.99 and $8.95 ground shipping for $35.88 total.  I will use the surge protector on my primary computer, and I will move the one that I have on it to my backup computer.  I figured while ordering the GN Netcom telephone adapter to go with my GN Netcom headset on the Panasonic two line telephone that I should also take advantage of the shipping that I would pay already and find another bargain.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 7:20 A.M.:  I paid my www.cablevision.com Cable Television, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and my Optimum Voice Long Distance Telephone Service online, and I also paid my Verizon telephone bill online.  I still have to pay my rent once I receive the bill, and I have about 3/4th of my electricity bill already paid at Connecticut Light and Power, but I won't receive the bill for about another 10 days.  I do not have a www.geico.com payment this month or next month.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 6:55 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I now have to pay a few bills online.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 6:00 A.M.:  I have 22 minutes left on the dry cycle of laundry.  I microwaved and ate a Marie Callender 14 ounce turkey dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 5:00 A.M.:  Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd has died .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 4:55 A.M.:  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 17 minutes on the wash cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 4:15 A.M.:  For the same picture in smaller format to see how it fits into the overall picture NRL Monterey Satellite Photos Possible Mid Atlantic Hurricane Forming 080105 4 A.M. smaller picture that little sliver in the upper left hand corner is Florida .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 4:05 A.M.:  Linked www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm this bothers me although it has not formed yet NRL Monterey Satellite Photos Possible Mid Atlantic Hurricane Forming 080105 4 A.M. .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 3:15 A.M.:  I ran the usual maintenance utilities.  The computer seems to be running just fine.  I signed up for the Vista newsgroups.  I still have to wait for my password to become active.  The primary computer seems to running just as fine as it ever did.  In other words, it is running just fine.  I still do not know if I should use my backup computer which also runs fine to beta test Vista, but I can always restore its up to date current backup, if Vista proves too tedious of a beta.  Beta testing can be a real nightmare, because a lot of times when you think you have it running it fails, and a lot of the devices don't work, since they are not yet supported.  Still it will keep me off the streets and out of mischief this August, so I guess I will be installing it once I have it burned to DVD.  I have Nero Burning Rom 5.5, so hopefully it will be able to burn a DVD with it from the Vista *.iso file.  I do not get any DVD software with the NEC OEM DVD/R drive.  I know Nero Burning Rom 5.5 can burn an *.iso file to CD/R, so hopefully it will also burn to a DVD-R.  As we all know there is a learning curve in computers, and a lot of it is not based on what one's expertise is, but what one's budget is.  Since over the years, I have had the stamina to beta test operating systems a number of times, I think I can survive beta testing Vista.  I have read in the tech news a lot of large computer users do not upgrade their operating systems, until they upgrade their hardware, which depends on what their profits are and how much they can write off on the standard three year tax deduction that the United States of America government allows, which is why a great many desktop computer producers today made them to last about three years, but that of course depends on how much they are actually used.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 1:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I also made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/05 Monday 12:35 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  As I recall I bought the ADMtek device last May 2004 from either www.directron.com or www.outletpc.com  for about $14.  There are newer similar devices, so that current item is no longer available on the internet.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  If you don't want to build your own computer, I was asked about this item today by relative, which is still available HPshopping.com - a1030e series for $249 plus $99 shipping after $50 mail in rebate.  It includes Windows XP Home Edition which is about $90, the HP Pavilion a1030e customizable desktop PC which would be the motherboard, power supply, case, and internal cables which would be worth about $150, the AMD Sempron 3000 processor which is worth about $110, 512 megs of 400 MHz memory which would be about $90, a 40 gigabyte hard drive which would be about $40, onboard video and audio, a keyboard and mouse which would be about $20, Microsoft Works 8.0, Money, Encarta which would be about $80, so it is basically a $580 package for $348 after shipping and rebates.  There is also from the same link a $50 mail in rebate on a $70 HP Printer.  Of course you would need a monitor too, and you might want to buy a service contract or tech support.  CIO