Note: <888> 08/31/07 Friday 10:10 A.M..:  BBC NEWS | UK | Prince Harry leads Diana tributes

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CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/07 Friday 9:50 A.M..:  I finished the house cleaning.  I threw out the garbage and old periodical literature, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I heard and saw a small rocket launch in the back yard baseball field, and I saw its capsule successfully land via parachute.  I did not see whom the rocket launchers were, but possibly we have some aeronautical engineers in the area.   I have a leather sewing awe with my Norwegian back pack that I sewed up in Nantucket back around 1977, and I can use it to repair my moccasins.   It seems like it might be a warm today, so I will stick around the air conditioner.   I have to pick up a relative with the Audi later on this afternoon or early this evening, so the relative can depart for Kennebunkport, Maine, so I might try to get a nap in since I have been up since midnight.  It sounds like there is a bit more traffic, so possibly this area is getting back to its normal level of activity, but more than likely it is just people leaving early for the Labor Day weekend.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/07 Friday 6:35 A.M..:  SlipperStore.Com - Men's Slippers, Women's Slippers, Sheepskin Slippers .  This like my old pair I have worn around the building for years Amazon.com: Slippers International Men's Suede Moccasin Slipper: Apparel .  I ate a couple of handfuls of dry roasted peanuts.  I ate two scoops of maple walnut ice cream.   I have not done my regular house cleaning in over a month, since before I went up to Kennebunkport, Maine for the first two weeks of August 2007, so in the long tradition of Dutch cleanliness, I will now start my house cleaning chores.  Since the Dutch have been around New Amsterdam for close to 400 years, they know to clean up this area.  There are plenty of Dutch people over seven feet tall whom seem to get their way when it comes up to cleaning up New Amsterdam.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/07 Friday 5:05 A.M..:  I woke up at 8 P.M. yesterday.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until midnight.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a sliced dill pickle with iced tea.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put a new sponge on the dishwashing wand.   I watered the plants, and I put out some white vinegar in the scent bowl.  I chatted with somebody in Manhattan about a crime that happened 16 years or more ago.  The Queen Mary II QM2 - Itinerary - 2007 is back in Manhattan today on its way to Halifax, Nova Scotia.  I think the Russian KGB has its Super Computer headquarters for North America in Nova Scotia, so possibly some of them travel on the Queen Mary II.  I paid my bills on line to www.cablevision.com for Digital Cable TV, Optimum Voice, and Optimum Online Cable Modem, www.cl-p.com for electricity, and www.verizon.com for local telephone service.  I also paid www.newegg.com for the High Definition TV antenna connected to my computer TV card.  I ordered from www.ordersmokesdirect.com four cartons of Native Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $12.99 a carton and $7.99 USPS Priority Mail shipping for $59.95 total.  The order for a relative for free Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Free Cultured Freshwater Pearl Necklace worth $19.99 for free with $2.95 shipping shipped on August 29, 2007 to my relative at their home address and not their post office box, so I hope they receive it, depending on the postal service.  The order for the cables from www.directron.com is suppose to arrive today UPS: Tracking Information .  Since they are longer cables, I might be able to install each of my two different hard drives on a separate cable with each cable also having a DVD drive, and since they are on separate IDE buses, they would work a lot faster when backing up hard drive to hard drive or copying DVDs to DVDs, which I do not do frequently.  Thus the only bill I still owe for this coming month of September is my rent bill to the Greenwich Housing Authority which has not arrived yet.  Usually once my bills are paid, it is usually Greenwich, Connecticut on $10 a day or less depending on what else I buy.  I chatted with a local security group, and from what I can tell not much is happening around here.  Maybe when people get back from vacation after Labor Day, the level activity might pick up, but with the higher prices of fuel, I do not think it will be all that busy.  CIO         

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 11:40 A.M..:  According to News 12, the crane story is an old story, and it should have been fixed by this past Wednesday morning.  Last night like many other nights when I have returned from downtown, there were several police department cars returning from my area, when I returned.  Obviously somebody from the local Greenwich Police department knows whom is using my computer equipment.  Since it is government housing I do not apparently have the right to prevent local government officials from using and messing up my computer equipment.  Representative Chris Shays visited the Senior Center yesterday according to News 12, so possibly he paid another visit here.  He should try visiting here in February, when people are dying instead of sun bathing.  From my viewpoint, if they dealed with me directly based on what I know instead of dealing with computer technology like it was television, they would learn that from what I know the news is only public relations, and from what I know some older people prefer not to be bothered by the younger generation whom are too adventuresome.   It is my professional viewpoint that when key computer setting change when the computer is turned off, that more than likely somebody has tampered with the computer for ulterior motives.  Having such skills with a relatively secure setup using a stealth mode of operation with out my permission would lead me to believe that the parties involved have some sort of separate agenda from the general welfare of the community at large.  Whatever the case if they have bothered me at my rather low obscure position of internet activity and computer usage, it is more than likely they have bothered people at a higher level of professional usage for whatever purposes that they might have.  The only reason my computer systems seem to work with out much problem is that I work at it all the time, and the fact that somebody tried to disable keyboard encryption would lead me to believe that somebody has installed a keyboard Trojan logger program on my computer.  A U.S. government official would not be able to legally do that, so more than likely it is somebody working for some other group with diverse interests.   I am tired, and it is hot outside, so I will now go to bed, and I will skip my 3 P.M. appointment today.  I do better with rest than tea and sympathy.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 10:10 A.M..:  I chatted with a relative and a friend and a local security group.  I also chatted with two other government security groups.  From what I can tell not much is happening in Greenwich locally.  Possibly after Labor Day when some people might come back, it might get a bit busier.  I need to take a couple  of hours nap, and I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  I do not like stressful activity during my normal computer activity at night, but I felt some people might be interested in this story which does not seem to have generally covered by the media The Advocate - Experts work to disassemble crane .  From my professional point of view most of our home computer problems in my neck of the woods are caused by Scientology - Church of Scientology Official Site and their German engineering associates whom seem to enjoy reverse engineering and causing problems.   I will now put the computer in sleep mode and take a two hour nap.  I munched on a couple of pieces of cheese, and I finished off the potato chips.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 8:00 A.M..: 

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I chatted with a number of security people in the area and around the country.  I finally figured out the computer security problems that I have been having and possible intrusions into my apartment to cause computer problems is probably being caused by agents of the Syrian government probably working with agents of the Russian government and other unknown parties they are able to bribe or buy off.  It does not make sense to me unless they are interested in stealing my Microsoft betas or other information off my computers which are basically generic setups.   One of the first people to have keys to my apartment 18 years was a jogger who still jogs this area and he is an associate of a well known Syrian in this area, and I once saw somebody about five years ago come out of my next door neighbors apartment who looked like the former president of Syria the father of the current president of Syria.  Thus it would seem to me by conjecture that more than likely the computer system problems that I have been having are caused by agents of the Syrian government.  When I go for a walk or an errand in downtown Greenwich, it is not to hard for somebody to spot me at one of my usual locations and with a cell phone call their contact to check out my apartment and cause computer mischief.  Since they are very cleaver at over riding the motion detection on the server and gaining access through the CMOS password, it would lead me to believe the only other person who knows the password told somebody which includes amongst his associates the President of IBM, and they do not consider my work important, so they tell other people and word gets around.  They are all Westport, Connecticut liberal who work in this area probably robbing us blind.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 4:05 A.M..:  This is the local news stories that some of my neighbors are concerned about and other people do not know about The Advocate - Experts work to disassemble crane .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 3:40 A.M..:  I chatted with an out of town security agency.   There is a big buck deal if you have got $500 you can get this for $500 after $300 instant rebate and $200 mail in rebate and $70 shipping, so at first it would cost you $770 and after the $200 mail in rebate it would be $570, but in this neck of the woods with the internet, I do not have time to watch television Newegg.com - ASTAR Silver 37" 16:9 12ms LCD HDTV w/ Built in ATSC Tuner Model LTV-37LS - Retail , but they will only get cheaper in the future.   If that out of town security agency does not start looking into some sort of social security benefits, I could always stay here until the town gets so expensive that only people from Saudi Arabia can afford to live here and their help, in which case I would be stuck volunteering for Saudi Arabia in a Jewish community which is much their attitude anyway around here as far as they think about me.  I still have my old copy of "Lawrence of Arabia" , but I am not big on Muslim religious law.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 1:15 A.M..:  From the lower right bookcase shelf on the bedroom side board, I took out the computer parts plastic wrapping holders, and I put them in a grocery bag in the false ceiling above the bed in the bedroom.  I think I need them in case of any warranty claims.  I put the small books from the floor behind the bedroom door on that book shelf with some odd electronic components.  I moved my balsa wood air plane to on top of the Lindbergh radio, so I have repositioned my Air Force. You can buy one up at the Ridgefield, Connecticut hardware store for a couple of dollars.  Ridgefield, Connecticut is where Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands's nephew Eric use to live when he was not flying flowers around the world for www.klm.com .  He did not like Greenwich, Connecticut, since he thought the people were too uppity.   His family has lived in the same Schloss in Inchgiday in the Netherlands since the 14th century, so I guess you could say he is an Old Guard pilot.  I earlier had taken down the mahogany display stand from the wall to the right of the Orion television in the bedroom next to the bedroom thermostat, and I just put it on the left side above the bedroom closet.  It has room to display a few small items way up high.  I will now make my same baked breaded boneless breast of chicken dinner with vegetables and rice that I have been eating recently, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  I stock up on tea too when it is on sale.  A lot of old women in the New York area supposedly live on tea and toast, so we do a bit better out here, since we have a bread factory, and tea tends to be on sale a lot, and we have a nuclear power plant about 20 miles away to keep the tea warm and the toast toasted.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/07 Thursday 12:20 A.M..  I was awake today about noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I slept some more until 4 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with potato chips and sliced dill pickle with iced tea.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I played a #26 Super Match 3 scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I stopped by CVS during my walk.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought six 20 packs of Twinings www.twinings.com for $2.50 each for $15 total.  I got one box each of Earl Grey, Prince of Wales, Darjeeling, China Oolong, Indian Spiced Chai tea, and Ceylon tea.  The Food Emporium told me they might be installing a coffee roaster.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  In the small white bookcase at my bedroom entrance, I arranged the top two shelves of Software CDs and DVDs.  The second shelf is mostly old betas and old backups.  The first shelf is device drivers, software, and current operating systems and betas and other current programs.  The small books that were on the second shelf, I put on the floor behind the bedroom door.  Thus it will be easier to find computer CDs and DVDs in the future, when I need them.  CIO        

Note: <888> 08/29/07 Wednesday 3:20 A.M..  I ate some more goldfish crackers.  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed.  Have a good morning.  I think the Greenwich, Connecticut schools go back in session today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/29/07 Wednesday 2:15 A.M..  I ate the last of the Moose Tracks ice cream.  The Arkansas solution to high energy prices and cold weather Everest Mummy 0 to 5-Degree Sleeping Bag - Wal-Mart .

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Well not much going on in the world.  It is not all right to smoke cigarettes, but it is all right to fight massive wars, which I suppose are more expensive and do cause other people problems.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/07 Wednesday 1:25 A.M..  I ate some goldfish crackers. 

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Maybe when www.ibm.com sold their personal computer business to the Chinese computer company Lenovo select a country, they also sold me, so I am now a prisoner in a Chinese skunk works project.   There are other interesting things in the neighborhood besides computers.  I noticed today that where the www.porsche.com dealership use to be before moving into a larger Infiniti dealership, there is now a New Country Motor Car Group : Greenwich, Hartford CT : Mechanicville, Spring Valley, Latham, Saratoga Springs, Clifton Park, New York Lamborghini dealership, so if you got the bucks, Greenwich, Connecticut seems to have the wheels.  Usually if you have the bucks for high ticket cars, you can afford the fuel.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/28/07 Tuesday 11:45 P.M..  I rested after the last message.  I chatted with a friend who was kayaking today.  I woke up at 9:30 P.M..  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I checked out the Leadtek TV card in the Epox computer, and it does not work any better in that, when it use to work fine in it.  All I can think of is that www.cablevision.com changed its cable TV signal recently.  The Hauppauge 1600 HVR TV card I got last January 2007 works just fine in the Vista computer.  I reconnected the Epox computer speakers to its sound card instead of the onboard sound, so the sound now works on it.  I am installing the XP updates on the Epox computer.   I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with potato chips and sliced dill pickle with iced tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

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I think I will rest some more.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/07 Tuesday 5:05 P.M.:  This morning, I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers before going to bed.  I was awake at 11 P.M., when I had a telephone call from a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.    I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment early.  I returned from my 3 P.M. appointment, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I am making up a batch of Formula Two http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .  I ate two bowls of goldfish crackers.  I will now go through my email.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/28/07 Tuesday 6:55 A.M.:  I took out the Leadtek TV card from the FIC server, and I put it back in the Epox computer.   I did not bother trying to put in the Hauppauge TV card in the FIC server, so it will now not have one.  I restored the Vista Server beta 3 backup to the FIC server, which also includes the XP Professional partition.   I installed the Microsoft drivers for the recently changed keyboard and mouse, and I am not installing the XP updates on the server.   I will then start the server running again.  I have straightened up my work area in the apartment, so it is a little bit neater.  I will now finally shut down the Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note: <888> 08/28/07 Tuesday 3:25 A.M.:  I had a call yesterday morning at 11 A.M., but I did not answer it properly, so I missed the call.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I checked the oil on the Audi and the Buick.  I picked up my mail.  On the FIC server, neither the LeadTek or the Hauppauge TV card work in it properly.  I exchanged the LeadTek card into it, and I tried changing its software and troubleshooting the cables.  I finally tried restoring my backup from last December 2006, but the FIC server seems to have some sort of static problem with the TV cards.  I can always restore a more current backup once I have finished troubleshooting the problem.   I reheated and ate the same dinner as last night.  On my order from www.directron.com , tracking is UPS: Tracking Information .  I will now shut down the Vista computer, and I will not run the FIC server for now, until I finish trouble shooting it.  It might be the video on the motherboard, but the problem appears on two different installations.  It does not happen with either card in the Epox computer.   From the splitter going to either primary Vista or FIC server computer, I tried a different cable to the FIC computer, and it did not work.  I will have to try to trouble shoot it later on today.  I will now shut down the Vista computer.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/27/07 Monday 2:45 A.M.:  This looks like Jimmy Eldert T-Mobile Hot Spot @ Home , so he must still be in the communications business.  When I lived down in Key West, Florida, he was the only person who could afford a telephone, so he managed to stay in the communications business.   I thought he was Elizabeth Taylor's hair dresser.   Come to think of it Franklin Roosevelt always said he was an Apple farmer, so I guess since the Roosevelts started the Bank of New York The Bank of New York Mellon Mellon way back when, there was not much money in this country, they must have had other profitable side lines besides Apple farming.   Maybe Rope, Hemp, Cannibis, Marijuna in North America Expose was the second thing the American Indians gave to the Europeans after introducing them to tobacco.  Basically thinking like a reference librarian on the internet, my resources are only as good a published material.  It says here that Walter Chrysler Walter Chrysler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia had a relationship with Alfred Vanderbilt II Alfred G. Vanderbilt II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and his father was torpedoed by the Germans Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , so beware of Greeks Baring Gifts.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I ate a couple of bowls of Goldfish crackers.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/27/07 Monday 1:20 A.M.:  The www.adobe.com flash plug-in was causing problems with Internet Explorer and causing it to crash.   I reinstalled it, so possibly it is fixed now.  When I chatted with www.cablevision.com tech support the last time, they told me that the Internet Explorer Active X add ins usually cause problems, which is why he uses other web browsers that do not support them.  The Greenwich Water Company which has offices nearby on Holly Hill Lane gives away water restrictor kits which have a mister shower head, but since I did not use it, I think I gave it to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I could always get another one if I feel I need to install it to conserve on funds. I still have the large Admiral's shower head that has two broken spouts, and the original shower head that has about the same flow as my present generic Pollenex shower head that seems to do a better job.  When washing one's hair, one has to have enough water to rinse off the soap.   On the In re Epson Ink Cartridge Cases, I never received the $40 discount code to use at Buy Epson Printers, Scanners, All-In-Ones from the Official Epson Store - Epson America, Inc. which was suppose to be active June 20, 2007.  Since in that same period I had the email from Microsoft about beta testing SP1 for Vista disappear while I was up in Kennebunkport, Maine in June, possibly also the Epson Settlement email was also stolen.  I will contact them at In re Epson Ink Cartridge Cases Contact .  It sort of makes me think what other email or communications or ideas that might have been stolen from me during my many years on the internet.  I once received two emails from Bill Gates many years ago, but they were in PGP encryption which I did not know how to use in an older email program that no longer works, but I might still have copies of them.  Basically since Home Computers and Internet Technology is what I deal with in my spare time which I have quite a bit of, it is what I deal with, just like if you drove a car, you would have to deal with its expenses, maintenance, and hazards.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/27/07 Monday 12:20 A.M.:  Well, when I lived at the Pensione Adria on the Santa Trinita bridge in Florence, Italy back in the winter of 1972, they had a hot water meter on the bath tub, where one had to put in a 100 lire coin every couple of minutes, about 18 cents.  I suppose the company might be more advanced, so they would have machines to monitor hot water usage, as one uses it in a public or private facility, thus when one takes a shower, it might shout out $1 every two minutes or so, or keep a running count, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, etc. with advertising such as "for that price you could have bought a drink at the bar" and charge customers for hot water usage or even water usage in locations where water is less plentiful.  Who knows, maybe if your spouse or guest takes long showers or baths, it would automatically give them a warning and cut off the water.  With today's technology it is possible.  Maybe, they could just come up with a clever shower head flow control attachment, and one could use some sort of clamp to make the shower feature active all of the time, and the bath tub dispenser not work.  Of course, if I thought some clever intruder was using my hot water, I could always turn off the hot water at the fuse box, but then I would not have hot water for my personal use.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 11:20 P.M.:  For a change of pace in my laid back lifestyle in America, I decided to take a bath instead of a shower for a change, which I think is a lot more expensive.   We have small bath tubs in our public housing project or council housing as one calls it back in the Old Country.  I put in a my www.lnt.com deluxe bath mat Linens 'n Things - Bath: Accessories: Bath Mats/Pillows: Deluxe Bath Mat which is probably the most practical thing available in America, if you ever have time to take a bath or a shower.  I then filled the bath tub half way up with hot water,  which in my case with the low temperature hot water setting on my hot water tank is at the maximum faucet temperature, and I then soak in the hot water filling up the bath tub most of the way with my body.  When one sinks their head under water, one has to remember to hold one's nose, so as not to breath in the water and choke to death.  Yes, people do die in bath tubs which is probably the most dangerous thing in America.  I then washed my hair with shampoo and rinsed it off the same way.  I then used hair conditioner on my scalp, and then I lathered by body with soap, and then I rinsed off the same way.   I then soaked in the bath tub enjoying a hot muscle relaxing soak in a hot tub, and I then stepped out of the bath tub, and I towel dried myself and my hair.  I then cleaned the bath tub with Comet scouring cleaner and I let the water run out of the tub.  I do not leave the shower curtain in the bath tub when taking a bath.  Thus I feel a bit cleaner and refreshed.  I am not going out tonight, since I was up at 1:30 P.M. this afternoon, and I am just beginning to end my day.   Even if we had bigger bath tubs here, we would not be able to afford the extra expense of more hot water to clean up.  The way I figure it a bath in a shallow bath tub uses five times as much water as a hot two minute shower that I usually take which costs about 50 cents, so a bath costs me about $2.50 with the bath tub half filled plus the cost of shampoo, conditioner, and soap, so from the cheap way of doing it, a bath costs about $3 in the United States of America.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 9:50 P.M.:  After dinner, I went out and checked the motor pool.  One white Army jeep dropped off two residents.  When I knew Wiley Middleton, he claimed that Walter Chrysler was homosexual, so I guess since Chrysler makes jeeps there must be a connection between them and the Army.  Wiley is still known down south as the Swamp Fox, but somebody told me the Swamp Fox's real name was Frances Marion.  Whatever the case, I have a feeling that some of these Liberal Democrats who are apple farmers are growing a product that is more profitable than apples as a side line, which is why they can afford to go into politics.  It could be much the same with other farmers.  I know Caroline Kennedy lives on a farm in North Salem, New York near the Haight Apple orchards, and her family has already established a reputation of dealing in contraband over many years.  Whatever, the case it is the nature of people around the railroad, they pretty much see everything around the tracks, so they generally wait to see what comes next.  Obviously all the various schools in the area will be going back to classes soon, so possibly we have some families in the area dropping off their children at the local boarding schools in the area.   I generally having been on a night time schedule for so many years, I do not get involved in local town politics, since the day time people always seem to run everything, since they sit in comfortable offices in the day time, and they are paid well by national standards, however if every one whom is not paid decided to go back on a daytime schedule, some of the night people with far more experience are better qualified than some of the younger daytime people whom are looking to get ahead too easily in terms of networking with individuals whom they think can advance them on their career paths as they decide whether they want to continue residence in this area or move on to greener pastures.  Frequently some of the summer people prosper in this area around the sports activities, but we all know they also work the winter resort activities down south, so sooner or later they fold their tents like Ahab the Arab and head back down south for the Winter Season.  The expense of going back and forth plus living in resorts in the high season around wealthy people frequently leaves them in less than profitable circumstances when they can not keep up with the younger generation that always comes along, thus they end up doing more full time maintenance in the areas they chose to settle in.  I don't know much about the military, but I do know around Army bases, a lot of people spend a lot of time cutting the grass and maintaining the facilities, so they are somewhat expert in it.  Whether they actually have any combat capabilities is opened to debate.   A lot of our political military heroes seem to have been limited to clerical duties in the military, so since they know how to type, you hear more about them.  Basically although the military has a budget, there are so many individuals involved that the funding does not go very far for the mass of the personnel, and from what I know War is suppose to be organized chaos, so unless one is used to dealing with the front line troops, I would advise any civilians whom have more peaceful back grounds to think twice before they start touring the front lines of any sensitive areas.   CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 8:35 P.M.:  I did a Vista Complete PC backup from first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I am making, and I will eat the same dinner as the last two nights.  CIO 

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Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 6:50 P.M.:  My Microsoft Wireless 6000 mouse has been terribly slow in Vista, since Vista was released.  For the Logitech LX 500 keyboard and mouse system on the FIC server, the Vista drivers were not released.  They are now, so I switched the Logitech LX 500 mouse and keyboard to my primary Vista system, and I put the Microsoft Wireless 6000 mouse and Comfort Keyboard on the FIC XP server.  I uninstalled their drivers before switching them around, and after switching them around, I installed their drivers.  The Logitech LX 500 wireless keyboard has keyboard encryption so it is probably better security.  The Microsoft system has 64,000 frequencies, but it was not as responsive as it should have been in Vista.  I thus now have a more responsive Vista system.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 5:25 P.M.:  When I last lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, I knew Roy Scott was the chief of police, and there was another Michael Scott in town whom was in the local newspaper for setting off fireworks in the downtown area.  When I returned from Ronald Reagan's inaugural in 1980 on the Time Magazine private jet into Westchester County airport, I gave my name to a young fellow on the train from Greenwich to New Canaan, and he told me he was from Brazil and lived in New Canaan, Connecticut.  What is strange he was pale and blond haired and blue eyed.  Even J.F.K. Jr. was building a house in New Canaan, Connecticut before his plane did a belly flop off of Martha's Vineyard.  Whomever still lives up in New Canaan, more than likely still has contacts with Manhattan.  I once saw Alexander Haig in New Canaan, Connecticut, and I use to see him all of the time around the Franklin Delano Roosevelt post office building on Third Avenue where he parked his black U.S. Army www.army.mil Nash Rambler on the North Side of the Post Office building where it said "RESERVED FOR FEDERAL PARKING".  He also wore an Army General's Uniform coming and going to work, so more than likely he was not alone.  That was in the Good Old Days when Military Intelligence had it headquarters for the Northeast in Manhattan before moving to Fort Devens, and there was a large group of friendly fellows that worked for the "Anti Terrorism Task Force" that was assigned to Manhattan until about 1982.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 4:45 P.M.:  I woke up at 1:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with two relatives.  As it stands now, this Friday a relative will pick up his Audi and drive it up to Kennebunkport, Maine for the Labor Day weekend.  Then he will return it here Labor Day or the Tuesday after Labor Day to return the Audi.  Then on Friday September 14, 2007, I will drive it back up to Kennebunkport, Maine for a week's stay in Maine, and I will help my relative close up the house.  The following Friday on September 21, 2007, I will drive my relative down in the Audi, and two other relatives will pick up my relative here at my apartment along with the Audi and take it further south to where they live.  I am beginning to feel like Scott's Pit Stop headquarters.  If one has gasoline to waste, it is always a nice drive up the Merritt Parkway to New Canaan, Connecticut.  New Canaan, Connecticut has the Waverly Nature Center for outdoor walks across from its Y.M.C.A., and it also has two www.cvs.com stores in downtown New Canaan, Connecticut along with a Starbucks.  On week days, I used to shop there at the Visiting Nurse thrift shop across the street from the New Canaan fire house.  There are quite a few antique shops in New Canaan, Connecticut with a wide variety of items such as New Yorker look for on weekends.  Karl Chevrolet has a dealership there.  There is a Food Emporium and Stewart's Market.  Also there are a number of Christian Churches around the Town Green, which they call "God's Little Acre".  The President of Mobil oil used to live in New Canaan, Connecticut, so people could afford to drive around.  Maple Lamb real estate seems to know the local market there.  There are inexpensive apartment buildings and houses in the downtown area of New Canaan, Connecticut.  It has a very good school system.  Alas a lot of old time Yankee types still live there, so they try to get younger people to do house painting for less than the established wage rates.  New Canaan, Connecticut is about a hour and a half commute out of New York City each way, and one has to change for the New Canaan branch line at the Stamford, Connecticut train station.  A lot of people in New Canaan, Connecticut use to read a lot with the hour and a half commute each way into Manhattan, unlike the Greenwich people who only have time for a 40 minute drink in the bar car on the way out from Manhattan.  However, it is colder there in the winter and hotter in the summer, since it is not on Long Island Sound.  There was a popular movie made there about Wife Swapping that took place during an Ice Storm in the winter around 1980.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 6:30 A.M.:  Of course every one in this area knows "Money Follows Money".  From this maybe I should try living in Monaco World's Most Overpriced Real Estate Markets - Forbes.com , and since I know a little bit of French, I would more than likely survive.  However, I do not approve of gambling, but realistically Greenwich, Connecticut has more gamblers with all of the Wall Street people around.  Bon Soir, Mes Amis.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 6:15 A.M.:  I cut a Kaiser or Bulky roll in half, and I put a generous portion of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both sides, and then I put two 1/16th inch thick slices of Wilson's Virginia ham and four 1/16th of an inch thick slices of Stop and Shop white American cheese on it, and I cut it in half.  I put it on a dinner plate with a Lay's sour cream and onion potato chips and a sliced dill pickle, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  When I chatted with AT&T wireless up in Toronto, Canada the other day, I told them I thought they should make it a nickel a minute outgoing and free incoming, but AT&T has always been one of the greediest American companies, so they were polite, but I do not think they will change their rates.  A lot of the former wealthier residents of Greenwich, Connecticut now live in New Canaan, Connecticut where they now have more privacy, and many of them no longer need to commute into Manhattan having established themselves a long time ago.  However, as one gets older New Canaan does not have a hospital, and since it is away from Long Island Sound, it is hotter in the summer and colder in the winter.  More than likely they can still afford to pay their utility bills.  Since the last place I lived in New Canaan, Connecticut was nearby the New Canaan, Connecticut police department, I did not worry too much about security, but when driving back and forth into Manhattan during the early morning hours, I worried about any wild animals that might be along the Merritt Parkway, if one ever broke down there in the back woods of Connecticut in the middle of the night.  Basically, I no longer cover Manhattan anymore, since it costs too much to cover Manhattan, and since I am more interested in computer technology than the news, I do not pay much attention to the local news anymore, since with 40 million people in the New York City area, there is always news, but more than likely not many people have time to pay much attention to it, except the retired community and the younger generation.  Many people travel through this area, so I enjoy seeing the diverse cross section of individuals from around the world as opposed to the local Village Idiots that every town seems to have.   If anyone is starving in this area, across the street from the new Mobil www.exxon.com gasoline station that they are rebuilding on West Putnam Avenue, there is an apple tree that is dropping its apples, and apples are not cheap anymore.  Since it is on a public roadway by a public sidewalk, I assume they are public property until the worms get them.  Just east of that apple tree is where the orange sign on metal stake use to be that said, "Do Not Dig Trans Atlantic Cable".  However, it was probably not removed for security purposes, if you know the area, more than likely it was knocked down by a snow plow pushing snow and ice in the winter.  It is just on the north side of the United Jewish Appeal, so more than likely other people over the years noticed it was there.  Whatever, the real cost of communications in this area, it seems sort of strange when visitors show up here, there are not that many visitor activities except for the sports activities at the private clubs which cost money.  They town is like any other upscale suburb catering to family life and women's shopping habits.  From a maintenance stand point the town is well maintained, but since the town is quite large, one never knows the over all picture.  It is the responsibility of the public servants to look after the town, and not the free press.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 5:05 A.M.:  About the only thing else besides the internet that people in Connecticut are good at is raking leaves.  Here is a handy item I just saw on television The Cyclone Rake leaf and lawn vacuum .  Basically the people in Connecticut are the landed gentry of New York State whom moved out here to our agricultural environment to escape the high taxes of New York State.  However, since Connecticut is mostly rocks, there is not much use to try farming.  We use to make a bit of money off the Insurance Industry in Hartford, Connecticut, but there are so many Insurance Companies, anymore it is not a very profitable business.  Basically the well to do people in Connecticut were so comfortable for so long of a period of time that once they had to learn how to make a living, they out sourced the jobs, and they continue to wait for the profits to be returned, which does not make much sense in a real economic world, where the world markets tend to dictate the price of goods and services.  Sure you think you know it all because you watch California television in Connecticut, but California television is not really relevant to day to day living in Connecticut.  About all California knows about Connecticut is "Christmas in Connecticut" which had Bing Crosby in it, whom was from Coure De Laine, Idaho, and he actually invested his money in the orange juice business in southern California and Spain, so I am not sure how much he really knew about real life in Connecticut.  The television personalities of New York television are frequently from California where they make the "Talkies", since there are more sunny days in California, unlike the New England area.  Since I had my high school education in Connecticut which is a colder climate, and since I had my college education in Illinois which is an even colder climate, I tend to think in terms of Yankee fundamentalism, and not in terms of the Robert E. Lee school of public journalism or where ever the old southern families finally decided to settle in after they figured out that they could not live off Government contracts forever.  Yankees whom actually live in this area are not easily intimidated by physically large people, since there are quite a few large people in this area, whom do not bother to exercise walk downtown observing the General Public.  We still can arrange for Walter Hudson to steal a bag of potato chips, if you know anything about Hudson Valley Armor Car Company.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/26/07:

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 4:05 A.M.:   I ate a few handfuls of Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers, which are about the only product produced in Connecticut that I can afford to buy.  Connecticut has another group of people, and those are the people who network in New York City around social functions, and then because they met somebody at a social function, they think they know as much as that person when they go elsewhere.  Whatever, the case hacking capabilities are not a very useful job function in the Real World, so more than likely most hackers end up becoming homeless and sooner or later their laptop batteries run out.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 3:15 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Technology | The Tech Lab: Vint Cerf

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

NCSA, FBI launch National Center for Digital Intrusion Response

National Center for Digital Intrusion Response (NCDIR)

Well, as I was reading these latest links, somebody crashed my computer.  I chatted with a few different security groups.  I have a theory the hackers are monitoring my computer activity, and they randomly crash my computer when they do not like the content that I am working on.  It is the nature of the internet that it could be coming from anywhere in the world, but why would somebody from half way around the world bother me.  More than likely it could be someone in this area whom has the capability of monitoring internet activity.  To have that capability they would have to have assets, and thus if one found whom it was, they could be prosecuted and sued in a court of law.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/07 Sunday 12:35 A.M.:  I woke up at 2 P.M., when a relative called today.  I then went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I chatted with two relatives and two friends.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought a 10 pound bag of Carolina enriched rice for $5.69, two 12 ounce containers of Stop and Shop honey bear U.S.A. clover honey for $1.50 each, two 15 ounce bottles of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.19 each, a 2 pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, broccoli crowns at $1.29 a pound for $2.35 for $18.41 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $28 of self service premium unleaded gasoline at $3.529 a gallon for 7.935 gallons for 106.4 miles driving since I returned from Kennebunkport, Maine a week ago this past Thursday for 13.409 miles per gallon at current odometer reading of 115,260 miles.  I checked the air on the front tires at 30 PSI and the air on the rear tires at 35 PSI.  I washed the windows with the window cleaner.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  It was not too busy, but it was later in the evening.  I chatted with one stroller that had lived in Milan, Italy.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  There were about a half dozen fishermen on the waterfront.  The modest size yacht the Utopia III was moored at the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor .  Their restaurant The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor - L Escale Restaurant and Bar was quite busy.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.  I will now reheat and eat the same meal as last night.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/25/07 Saturday 7:15 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Under the hood of the $100 laptop

I posted it at http://mikelouisscott.com/bbc-cheap-laptop.rm  .

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

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The Cable Lock is back ordered until September 5, 2007, so I do not know if the order will ship right away or not.

CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/07 Saturday 4:00 A.M.:  Remote Sensing for Hazard Mitigation and Resource Protection in Pacific Latin America

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So Much for the Spaghetti Version of the Internet.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/07 Saturday 2:50 A.M.:  Where to find the bargains Slickdeals.net and xpdig.com- dig + share hot deals & coupons .  I finished my chores.  I am now in low light conditions, and I will now go through my email.  I downloaded the beta of Vista Server 2008 June release last night, but I did not bother to install it on my FIC server, since I have the previous release installed on it, and I am currently running the XP IIS server, since it has footers, so I can display my footer Mike Scott's Stats and Ads .  However, since I chat to much www.ibm.com is not user friendly to me in the area, since I told Michael Dell www.dell.com about 15 years ago at the Knights of Columbus flea market how www.ibm.com made money off Personal Computer by buy less expensive parts in Asia.  Of course what www.ibm.com ignores like www.microsoft.com is enough to keep me busy in my spare time.  I guess after going to the Watson debutant ball at the St. Regis hotel in Manhattan back around 1970, I forgot to throw them a party in return.  However, I had other friends throw parties that I showed up at there were equally well attended.  There was the Tall Ships in New York Harbor back in 1976 and there was the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France back around 1992, so possibly I rubbed shoulders with them elsewhere in the world.  Who knows Bill Gates originally worked on developing Windows into OS/2 in Boca Raton, Florida where I worked at the Le Vielle Maison restaurant until New Years 1978, and I lived out in Long Island for a while near where the IBM country club was located in Sands Point, Long Island, and I had a roommate in Manhattan who was the head of word processing in Cyrus Vance's law firm across the street from IBM's Manhattan headquarters, so possibly besides the Greenwich, Connecticut area, I have bumped into IBM people elsewhere in the world.  Alas if they never bothered hiring me after all of these years, I guess I do not have any of the skills they need in their work around Super Computers compared to the at Home Personal Computer user.  I will now go through my email.  Well, at least I can type.  It comes in handy for writing a web log.  It does not look like the heavy rain in the Midwest is coming our way Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  I also opened up a new ten pound bag of Carolina Enriched rice.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/07 Saturday 1:40 A.M.:  I opened up the package of six boneless chicken breasts, and I put four of them in a large flat Rubbermaid container.   I then rinsed off the other two in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.   I then put a thin coat of olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish, and on a separate plate, I rubbed the bottom side of the boneless chicken breasts with olive oil, and then I spread a thick coating of seasoned bread crumbs on it, and then I did the same with the top side and the other boneless chicken breasts.  I then seasoned the top side generously with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Old Bay Seasoning, and Italian spices.   I then put them in the Pyrex pie dish, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I also made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm to which I also added two teaspoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and Italian Seasoning and chicken bullion seasoning.  I ate half, and I put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I also steamed in a two quart Revere pot with steamer tray and lid about 1.5 cups of baby carrots and broccoli crowns for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat, and I put some olive oil on the vegetables.  I put the other baked boneless chicken breast in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now water the plants, and I will throw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I will also put out more white vinegar in the scent bowl underneath the Sony television.   The apartment is not really too dirty, so I did not bother doing house cleaning today.  While using the Farberware convection oven to cook the chicken, its power went off.  The power strip behind the Panasonic television in the kitchen malfunctioned, so I disconnected it from behind the refrigerator, and since I could not reach the wall socket behind the refrigerator and since the spare power strip had a shorter cable, I strung it from the center of the kitchen wall plug along the wooden shelf above the kitchen sink with the same electrical cords plugged into it for the Farberware convection oven, the clock radio, and the Panasonic television.  Some times the www.ibm.com six socket electrical adapter on the center kitchen walk becomes disconnected, so one has to make sure it is pushed in all of the way for it to work properly.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/07 Friday 11:30 P.M.:  I went out on a Top Secret Mission after the last message.  I went west on West Putnam Avenue, and I noticed some young fellow on a motorcycle doing a wheely up the hill riding east.  The Port Chester beer distributor had already closed at 10 P.M., so I drove through the center of downtown Port Chester over to the A&P grocery store in the Port Chester shopping center near I-287.    They are opened 24 hours except weekends, and they can sell beer until 4 A.M..  They have lots of beer on sale including the Heineken DRAUGHTKEG at room temperature for $19.99.  They have 12 packs of 12 ounce bottles of Heineken regular and light on sale for $3 off for $13.99 a twelve pack, so I bought a 12 pack of refrigerated cold regular Heineken for $13.99 and .60 bottle deposit and a 33.5 ounce box of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers for $6.99 for $22.61 total.  I then returned home.  I put the sealed 12 pack in the refrigerator on the top shelf behind the Brita water holder.  I do not drink alcohol myself, but I keep it around for guests should the occassion ever arrive.  The current beer in my refrigerator and stored elsewhere around the apartment is two to five years old, so it might not be good, but it is still good for cooking hot dogs.  Obviously the large A&P has a lot other food, but I can not use my Connecticut Food Stamps in New York, and they are not good for alcohol anyway.  Possibly http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm 's real name was Freddie Heineken Junior, which might be why he never ran out of money, and is also why he knew out to speak Dutch along with about a dozen other languages.  Since Freddie Heineken Senior was retired in Jamaica, they might have gotten darkly tanned down there.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/07 Friday 9:50 P.M.:  I had a buzz on my phone at 10 A.M. this morning for another neighbor.  I got back up at noon.  My order for 4 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s from www.ordersmokesdirect.com had arrived.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I ordered for a relative a free Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Free Cultured Freshwater Pearl Necklace worth $19.99 for free with $2.95 shipping .  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I went downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank on Mason street.  I then chatted with the Bank of New York security guard at the same location.  The security guard thinks I look like Prince Charles The Prince of Wales , but he is from Haiti, so he probably thinks all northern European males look the same. I then chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone downtown.  I might be going back up to Kennebunkport, Maine for another two weeks after labor day and driving my relative down after that period, where they would transfer my relative to another's relative's car to go further south.  During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a five pack of www.bic.com lighters for $2.99 and .18 tax for $3.17.  I noticed somebody having dinner at the Gingerman restaurant up at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and they were driving a Range Rover that said the The Barclay InterContinental NEW YORK CITY Hotels | THE BARCLAY NEW YORK | Welcome .  The Barclay is were airline flight crews use to stay just behind the Waldorf Astoria.    I completed my walk.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of White Gem boneless breasts of chicken for $1.79 a pound for $6, buy one get one free of six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $2.99 both six packs, a 12.5 ounce bag of Lays sour cream and onion potato chips for $2.50, two 64 ounce Kedem grape juices for $2.50 each, fresh Chiquita bananas for .54 a pound $18.01 total.  I then bought a two pack of 1.7 ounce Stop and Shop Pure Power Blue Automatic Toilet Bowl Cleaner tablets for $2.69 and .16 tax for $2.85 total.  I noticed at the Stop and Shop they sell what looks to be 5 liter kegs of Heineken draft beer Heineken DRAUGHTKEG in small draft containers that are at room temperature that are suppose to last 30 days for $19.99.  There is no deposit on the container, so they are not returned to the Netherlands.  Whenever, I can afford to drive down to the waterfront on Steamboat Road, I will have to see if any of the local wharf rat are discarding them around the waterfront.  However, you can not buy beer from the store after 8 P.M. in Connecticut, but more than likely they have it at the nearby Port Chester, New York Beer distributor, which as I recall stays open until 11 P.M..  I was told there is a Brazilian grocery store on Main street in Port Chester, New York that sells fresh coffee beans.  I was told they are near the Cuban meat market across the street from Radio Shack in downtown Port Chester, New York.  I chatted with a relative.  I picked up my mail, when I returned home, and I received the www.ge.com Service Contract that I have paid one third of for the next year through September 12, 2008 on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control.   I made two copies of it, and I put the copies and the original in the front of my metal file holder on the right side of my bedroom desk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/24/07 Friday 1:40 A.M.:  I did some regular internet work, and I watched some television.  I ate three scoops of Moose Tracks ice cream.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 11:00 P.M.:  3 foot IDE cables Yellow Modware Round ATA133 IDE Cable 36" 2 Device Mesh PVC Covered Modware 2A36YEL-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com $3 .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 10:35 P.M.:  Optimize your computer for peak performance

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I watched a television program about young royals around the world, alas the new rich in America seem to be richer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 8:10 P.M.:  I chatted with four relatives and a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 7:10 P.M.:  I cancelled the AT&T Motorola travel charger for $15.89 more available on my debit account.  I made and ate the same ham and cheese sandwich, which I ate with a sliced dill pickle, potato chips, and ice tea.   I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 4:30 P.M.:  I ate a sliced bulky roll with margarine before going to bed.  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I returned home, and I picked up my mail.  I will now go through my email.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 3:30 A.M.:  The best multivitamin for you -- and 11 to steer clear of - CNN.com

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.

CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 3:10 A.M.:  By switching the Radio Shack Cable Switch to the right switch for the Digital Cable Box, one can disable the cable input the Cable input into the computer, if the Digital Cable box is turned off.  I did that.  I then moved the Terk antenna on to a small flat place mat situated between on the rear sides of the two Dell monitors of the FIC server.  I then provided extra stability to it by using to metal book ends to stabilize the Terk antenna.  I did a WinTV channel manager scan of it, and with the Terk antenna pointed out the left living room window to the west, I found one analog channel, and eight HDTV digital channels.  They come in well including two www.abc.com channels.   Once can use Antennaweb Address to locate the orientation of the antenna, and in my case I have it pointed west towards New York City where the most High Definition Digital Channels would come from.

The Channels are:

Analog:

3, Ant-3

Digital:

1091, WWOR DT

1092, WNYW DT

1411, WXTV DT

1051, WNYW-DT

1052, WWOR-DT

1071, WABC-HD

1072, WABC+

1073, WABCnow

I have the WinTV2000 TV view program setup to view all of the Digital Cable Channels available without the Digital Cable Box along with the Terk antenna channels.  Of course one can view a lot more channels from Channel 3 when the Digital Cable Box is turned on and the Radio Shack cable switch is switch to the right for the Digital Cable Box.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/07 Thursday 12:50 A.M.:  I have ordered with the AT&T Motorola Go Phone that I have received a $14.99 plus tax Motorola travel charger, which I have not received or been billed for.   I need to contact them at Contact AT&T | Wireless from AT&T, formerly Cingular , so either they send it or I cancel it, so I can free up the money in my debit account.  You can buy them cheaper elsewhere on the internet.  I need one of these Motorola C139 Protector Case  HoneyNavyBlue  (TF) .  This is suppose to work with the non blue Motorola C139 tooth phone JABRA FREESPEAK BT200 CORDLESS HEADSET NON BLUETOOTH - (eBay item 170129931398 end time Sep-08-07 12:20:20 PDT) , but I would not use it much at 25 cents a minute.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 11:50 P.M.:  I think this is the specific car Porsche 2007 Transsyberia. parked in front of the Porsche dealership on West Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut New Country Porsche of Greenwich .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 11:25 P.M.:  There was an orange and black Porsche like the one in this picture Home - Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG parked in front of our local Porsche dealership on West Putnam Avenue this evening without the racing logos.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 11:15 P.M.:  I ate the same dinner as last night.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.

Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

Possibly the Chikurachki Kuril Islands, Russia volcano activity has caused our more recent cooler weather.

Or Pavlof in Alaska Alaska Volcano Observatory

I finished the XP Professional ASR backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive on the FIC server.

Where you fall in poll of U.S. reading habits - CNN.com

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Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 8:45 P.M.:  I chatted with my relative in Kennebunkport, Maine.  My relative reported on their news, there was a report of a unknown submarine off the coast, but it did not say where or what type or whose.  Maybe we have finally been invaded.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 8:25 P.M.:  15 Ways to Reinvent Your PC - Review by PC Magazine

» Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Perfect Places To Dine Solo - Forbes.com

Amazon.com: Classic Greenwich Style: Books: Cindy Rinfret

http://view.ed4.net/v/27N6/40KLW/5PNM5C/6MNDOE/MAILACTION=1&FORMAT=H

Totalidea TweakVI - Review by PC Magazine

Vista Test Drive

Microsoft TS2 Event Rocky Hill, Connecticut, October 23, 2007

» Building an energy efficient home computer | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com

Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program

Windows Home Server

rename music – RenaMusic: Take the Hassle Out of Renaming Your Music Files - Downloads by PC Magazine

PC Troubleshooter Resource Guide, Fifth Edition, from TechRepublic Pro - Downloads - TechRepublic

Me.dium for Internet Explorer - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

backup utility – InstaBack 2: Instantly and Automatically Back Up Your Data - Downloads by PC Magazine

I Hate My Website eBook - Web Site Development Tips for successful Ebusinesses

I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 6:50 P.M.:  Google Sky explore the Stars Google Earth Sky .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 6:45 P.M.:  I was awake at 10 A.M., when somebody called me up that I can not remember.  I then went back to bed until noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with www.ordersmokesdirect.com , and they told me my order for 4 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box are shipping today.  I might order the Natives in the future, since possibly they would not have the same smell as the Senecas.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read P.C. Magazine and P.C. World magazine.  I then returned home.  I ate the rest of the can of Planter's Spanish peanuts about one fourth of a can.  I am doing a XP Professional ASR backup of the FIC server, so it is currently not running.  I will now go through my email.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.:  Photovolcanica: Volcano Penguin Moai Photos

I am tired, and I will now go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 1:55 A.M.:  I have two of these I got last December 2006 US Military Cold Weather Mummy Sleeping Bag. N/R - (eBay item 270157387910 end time Aug-24-07 14:00:00 PDT)  and they have a couple here Premium Genuine Issue U. S. Military Surplus. Including, United States Army, U.S. Navy and U.S.M.C. New Old Stock, Current Issue And Also Some Used. .  Let's hope we don't need to use them this winter.  I did not need them last winter, but I figured if we lost our electric heat, they might come in handy.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/07 Wednesday 1:40 A.M.:  I finished the laundry, and I put it away.  I made ate my greasy spoon special of a sautéed hamburger with onions and Swiss cheese with steamed broccoli crowns and baby carrots and flavored rice, all of which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 11:45 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt footprint 'could be oldest'

BBC NEWS | Europe | Denmark eyes North Pole riches

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Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 11:35 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out the delivery box, and the garbage.  It has quit raining for now.  It is like a fall or spring evening.  It is about 55 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so I hope it will not be a colder winter.  If there is any volcano that erupted worldwide to cause the cooler weather for this time of year, I am unaware of it.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have ten minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 10:35 P.M.:  This morning before going to bed, I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil.  Earlier today, I ran the maintenance utilities on the FIC server.  New book Amazon.com: The Fortune Hunters: Dazzling Women and the Men They Married: Books: Charlotte Hays .  I chatted with a relative.  I will now throw out the shipping box and the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 10:00 P.M.:  About 7 P.M., the Terk HDTV amplified antenna arrived.  It is made for a HDTV, and I connected it up to my dual HDTV and Analog Hauppauge 1600 TV card in my Vista computer.  It seems to only recognize the lower 13 HDTV channels, but they come in clear as a bell.  I guess I could use it if the Cablevision System failed.  Obviously my TVs are not HDTV.  I have it set up behind the right Vista monitor.  Its power comes on with the control panel switch to the power strip that turns on the lights, and there is a small switch on its control to turn it on and off.  Basically, it seems to be an alternative to Cablevision if the Cablevision system fails, providing there is electricity for the computer, I would have HDTV on its lower 13 channels.  I put the Terk shipping box to the right of the Orion television in the bedroom.  I lefts its instructions on the dining table.  I tried it with the Sony analog television, and only a few channels come in.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 6:10 P.M.:  Norwegian Princess Talks To Angels | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Hard of hearing Buy.com - GN Netcom GN-5150 Professional Headset System - GN5150 $35

i-CAUGHT :: Hurricane DEAN Waves August 20th 2007  CIO

I ate the same ham and cheese sandwich as usual with one half of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a sliced dill pickle and a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 5:05 P.M.:  Rainy Day Blues.  I woke up at 10:45 A.M.  I had a telephone call, and my appointment for today was rescheduled for next week at the same time.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I watched the space shuttle www.nasa.gov land.  I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I watched some television.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  On the order for Newegg.com - TERK HDTVa Amplified Directional Indoor HDTV Antenna - Retail for $39.99 plus $7.14 UPS ground three day shipping less $2.99 Rush Ordering plus $2.99 preferred account Rush ordering for $47.13 total, it is out for delivery UPS: Tracking Information .  I ran and am still running maintenance utilities on the FIC server.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 4:35 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Rare dead star found near Earth

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Shuttle undocks for early return

http://www.coffeefool.com/?Click=11749&gclid=CJGfqdaUho4CFQILPwodzGauCg

Locally in the good old days, when Port Chester, New York was less prosperous and more ethnic, for some reason, one use to find some interesting blends of fresh Latino coffee at some of the local neighborhood grocery stores.   Yes, I have had fresh coffee before.  I am a bit worn out, so I will now shut down the inferno bogging machine and try to figure out a ways to save more money and get back to what the back country rich people consider a more normal lifestyle for poor people.  However, sooner or later, I probably will be back on a night schedule.  That should happen a week from this Wednesday, when the local younger generation have to return to their educational duties as opposed to protecting the town from summer invaders.   Bon Soir.  I suppose one could take a modern laptop computer, and put an Etch A Sketch Program on it, and tell some older non tech type person, it is a Etch A Sketch, but then they would probably throw it away.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 3:15 A.M.:  Earlier I ate three scoops of Moose Tracks ice cream, and the rest of one fourth of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle Sour Cream and Onion potato chips.  The reason for using the LCD monitors, is that it is easier on my eyes, which after 20 years of the older CRT type monitors were much harder on my eyes.  My mother who is nurse, whenever she sees me is upset at the way my eyes look from all of my computer work.  Usually after a couple of weeks around her house with less computer activity, my eyes are back to looking normal. I recall this past Sunday while waiting for my relative at the Greenwich Train Station, I saw somebody arrive out the station entrance that looked like http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm . He was moderately darkly tanned by Caribbean standards, and he looked more like an African American in this area.  He was wearing a orange pull over shirt with big black letters on the front that read "PANTHER" and on the back was a big Panther Paw Print.  Thus I guess my old friend the "Pink Panther" finally got him back up north again.   Possibly he came out of Jamaica where his family of Meyers Rum fame are supposed to have substantial assets.   He possibly has departed the area, but since the J.P. Morgan bank www.chase.com bank has private banking in this area, he might be paling out some more, before he goes further north into northern Europe.  I once saw him in New York in February 1975, and he had a pale European look, and I had given him a grey sweater for Christmas on his birthday to thank him for his hospitality, and when I saw him that following July in Nantucket after spending most of the spring swimming in this area in the sun, he was so darkly tanned he looked like he was an African America, which tends to lead me to believe he might visit some area nearer the Equator, where one can get darkly tanned.  Since when I first got on the internet about 15 years ago, I searched out his family name, "Von Mierers", and there were two references, one said it was the name of a Dutch Prime Minister that was assassinated in a Greta Garbo movie made around 1938, and Fred knew Greta that had a house in Tobago, and the other reference was that it was the name of a Dutch family in Dutch intelligence that moved to Tahiti after World War II.  Of course there was not much tropical in Fred's apartment at 420 East 49th street except Bird of Paradise plants come from Tobago and sometimes orchids, but he usually kept the Frederick air conditioner going in the winter with the apartment at between 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit to reduce the overbearing steam heat in the building.  He also had a big screen of a Tiger, so since Tigers generally come from India, he might travel to other warmer areas.  Generally in the resort businesses, people tend to travel to warmer areas, but Manhattan use to get people traveling there during the colder months, for the other activities that New York City has to offer.  Possibly Fred and Helen Kress Williams were involved with Russian diplomats, since they both kept bottles of STOLICHNAYA in the freezer, but I never saw either of them drink any of it.  Helen drank hot A&P tea, and she made the tea bags last at least a week, and Fred tended to drink ordinary white French table wine such as Valbon or Rene Junot, but he kept about 50 different bottles of liquors on his Pullman Pantry bar for guests.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 2:30 A.M.:  I put more white vinegar in the scent bowl that I keep by the Sony television in the living room.  I turned off the living room light system, and there is now plenty of light to work in the computer work area.  I leave the light on in the kitchen since I take cigarette breaks there.  I also have a number of low light fixtures going in the apartment all of the time, so a person with good low light vision can easily navigate around the apartment.   I thus reduced the amount of wattage being currently used by the amount of wattage the four Acer LCD monitors are currently using.  I am still running the General Electric air conditioner since I function better in cool temperatures, and I am also running the Honeywell Hepa air purifier for scent control.  I think it was on Saturday, that I received a 110,000 mile scheduled maintenance reminder from Stamford Volvo is a New, Pre-owned and used Volvo dealer serving Fairfield county Connecticut and Westchester county New York, volvo parts and service , but alas after the flood this past April, the 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon is no longer in my ownership, it was totaled by the insurance company when it had its engine flooded by the Presbyterian Church in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  They recently repaved the road there, but it was not raised any higher, which probably would cost too much money.  There are Swedish families that live in the area, and I use to occasionally try to keep an eye out for members of the Swedish Royal family Kungahuset - Kungahuset in the area, but alas they do not give away free Volvos or even free trips to Sweden.  Last time I tried to visit Sweden back in February 1983, I was blocked by the Norwegian military, and our SAS Scandinavian Airlines - fly SAS! Book your low fare SAS tickets online! Fly to Scandinavia! flysas.com - SAS International flight was terminated at a Norwegian military base, and my round trip ticket to Stockholm, Sweden with a weeks stay at the S.A.S. hotel there which I paid $695 for according to the New York Times advertised price at the time was only good for a one way trip to Stockholm, so we did not even make it to Sweden, and my family had to pay for my stay in Oslo, Norway, and my return back to the United States of America via Copenhagen, Denmark.  Well, the good news while in Oslo, Norway, I saw about 5,000 Ford Escorts on the waterfront that they had imported, but the 1984 Ford Escort that I once owned never started in the winter, and my joke was, "What Type of Cars to Norwegians Drive?, "Fiords".  Of course on a minor diplomatic note, the Nobel Peace Price is not presented in Stockholm, Sweden like the other Nobel Nobelprize.org prizes, but at the Peace Hall in Oslo, Norway The Norwegian Nobel Institute , where I attended an enjoyable piano concert with a dignified group of citizens.  I saw members of the Norwegian Royal family kongehuset.no - Forsiden walking around the nearby palace area, and I even saw an older man frequently in a black rain coat that looked like King Olav V of Norway Olav V of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who was enjoying the early spring weather after the six feet of snow that was on the ground that quickly disappeared after I arrived.   I even remember seeing 10 cruise ships heading south towards warmer climates, and I recall at the Atlantic Shores Beach Club in Key West, Florida, they use to fly the Norwegian flag.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/07 Tuesday 1:40 A.M.:  There is an old expression in the English speaking world that goes, "There Will Always Be An England."  In keeping with the English Country Style of decorating of my apartment as the cooler weather has started to approach this area earlier than normal, I took down the Bermuda flag from in front of the center living room windows, and I hung it over the left hallway bookcase over the United States Air Force flag, and the Saudi Arabian flag underneath that.  I then hung the 3 foot by 5 Swedish flag with bobby pins over the left living room window, and I then hung the 3 foot by 5 foot British Union Jack with bobby pins over the center living room window with bobby pins, and I moved from the left living room closet the 3 foot by 5 foot Dutch tricolor flag, and I hung it over the right living room window with bobby pins.  I am still agile enough to do stuff like that, and I do not have any eight foot tall friends that I know about.  I then got out a black metal spot light fixture with electrical cord, and I secured its base into the false ceiling rails above my primary Vista computer keyboard work area, and I also used a brass metal screw with nylon license plate nut as washer to further secure its mounting hold into the false ceiling.  Thus it should not fall down on one's head when working on the computer.  I attached a three prong socket two prong adapter to it, and I then attached a 15 white extension cord to its electrical cord, and I lead it around the metal fixture, so the cord does not touch it, and I draped it off the false ceiling hanging about a foot beneath it, and down off the right sconce on the wall behind the Vista computer setup and down in the computer cord area attached to the power strip that turns on from the desktop control panel labeled "power strip", so when one turns it on, the antique brass light on the right corner speaker and the ceiling light turns on shining on the Vista computer keyboard work area.  Since it is a metal fixture, I did not want it to overheat, so I put in one of the 15 watt energy saving curving tube bulbs that produce 70 watts of light.  The fixture is barely warm to the touch.  Thus I have a lot more light on the desktop work area, and technically one could work in that location very easily with the primary living room light system turned off, if one needed to conserve more electricity or work in a darker environment.  I also replaced one of the far living room left scones bulbs by the Abraham Lincoln picture with another clear bent tip bulb of about 25 watts.  The apartment is well lighted, but since I use energy saving bulbs, I do not use as much electricity as it appears.  On the primary Vista computer each of the three 19 inch monitors uses 55 watts of electricity, and so does the 22 inch Acer LCD monitor.  I think the old CRT monitors use considerably more electricity.  All of the four Acer LCD monitors have 3 year limited warranties on parts and labor which are suppose to completely cover them.  They usually last a long longer according to what a relative has told me.  I move the items from in front of the side chair in the bedroom adjacent to the desk to other locations, so it is easier to access the bedroom desk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 11:00 P.M.:  I showered, and I cleaned up after the last message.  I went out, and I went downtown.  I went by www.radioshack.com in Cos Cob, Connecticut, and I bought a RadioShack.com - Cables, Parts & Connectors: Connectors & connectivity: A/V connectors & adapters: RadioShack Gold Series F-Connector Coupler for $2.29 and .14 tax for $2.43 total.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a "Deal Me In" scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I chatted with a local.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 24 ounce bar of New York extra sharp cheddar cheese for $4.99, two 59 ounce containers of Tropicana orange juice for $2.50 each, sliced Wilson Virginia ham for $5.99 a pound for $6.40, sliced Stop and Shop White American cheese for $4.99 a pound for $4.99, a six pack of KAS bulkie Kaiser rolls for $2.69, a quart jar of B&G Kosher Dill pickles for $2.99, two 48 ounce containers of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.49 each, two 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop grape juice $2.99 each, a 20 bag four variety pack of Twinings tea for $3.69, a top round London Broil 2 pieces for $1.79 a pound for $6.30, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99 a pound, a three pound bag of onions for $2.79, fresh Chiquita bananas at .54 for .73, broccoli crowns at $1.49 a pound for $1.76 for $59.48 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.  I made eight 8 ounce hamburgers out of the London broil.  To make the hamburgers, I cut the London broil into about 1.5 square cubes with a serrated knife on a cutting board, and I fill my Cuisine Art about 1/3rd full, and I grind the beef into chopped meat with about five pulses.  I then weigh out the chopped meat with my kitchen scale into 8 ounce amounts, and then I hand form each burger about 1.25 inches thick and about 5 inches diameter.  I put two each in old baby carrot bags and then large Zip Lock bags, so they are double bagged squeezing the air out, and I froze six of the new burgers, and I put two in a flat Rubbermaid container for future use soon.  I ate the last piece of Cheese cake.  I chatted with a relative who bought a new La-Z-Boy Furniture - Sofas, Chairs, Recliners and More - Find Stores - Offical La-Z-Boy Website sofa.  I guess I will now do some regular computer work.  I chatted with Microsoft on their hotline.  Not much seems to be happening around here.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 2:55 P.M.:  Government Health IT

Sony VAIO Ultra-Portable, Ultra-Cool Notebook Only $499.99 @ Geeks.com

I finished going through my email.  I need a two splitter coaxial connector to hook up the Terk HDTV antenna when it arrives.  I will get one when I go out.  I will now eat the same ham and cheese sandwich as the last few days.  I will then shower and clean up, and I will go out to do some errands.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  To clarify a point on finances, I paid for the Acer 22 inch LCD monitor, I did not charge it, so I am a bit low on the end of the month finances, but I will survive.  When we are low on money, we get more work done around the apartment.  One of these blue moons, I might think about doing my usual apartment cleaning, since I have not cleaned the apartment in over a month.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 1:30 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with the building custodian.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 12:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a local security official, and I faxed them the information on my purchase of the Acer 22 inch LCD monitor, and they checked with www.officedepot.com in Nanuet, New York, and Office Depot said it was just a clerical error.  I chatted with a relative a few times.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  Greenwich, Connecticut resident dies Leona Helmsley, 'queen of mean,' dies at 87 - CNN.com , she and Harry bought their house the same day, I moved back to Greenwich in December 1983.  They also donated the Helmsley wing at the Greenwich Hospital .  Besides her real estate holding in New York, she also had homes in Miami, Florida and somewhere in New Mexico.  The first Christmas Eve back in Greenwich, Connecticut, I went bar hopping in Greenwich Village with a Danish fellow, who kept calling up Harry every 15 minutes.  There is no mention on the internet about the Warehouse Outlet store in Nanuet, New York next to Office Depot, but on Sunday afternoon, the Warehouse Outlet store was quite busy there.  I did not tour the store to see what sort of merchandise they carry.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 10:40 A.M.:  I was awake at 10 A.M..  Before going to bed, I started defragmenting the C: drive.  I was complete, when I woke up.  I then did another Vista Complete P.C. backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  The Vista system seems to be running fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 2:00 A.M.:  I ran a number of system maintenance utilities, and then I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I will now go to bed shortly.  Have a good morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/07 Monday 12:30 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  I updated the pictures in http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/07 Sunday 11:55 P.M.:  ivhhn.org

Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

Positions Vacant - University of Tasmania

AGU Abstract Submission

Microsoft TS2 Event Ronkonkoma, New York, September 27, 2007

McGill University Halogens in Volcanic Systems

AGU 2007 Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA - 10–14 December 2007

CIO 

Note: <888> 08/19/07 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  I ate a piece of cheese cake.  Today is Bill Clinton's 61st birthday Bill Clinton --  Encyclopaedia Britannica .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/07 Sunday 10:40 P.M.:  After dinner, I chatted with a relative.  I registered all four new Acer LCD monitors at www.acerpanam.com .  I printed out two copies of each registration, and I made three copies of the sales receipt from today, and I put them all in the red Christmas folder that holds computer receipts on the right side of the bedroom desk in the metal file holder.  I interlaced two purple broccoli rubber bands together, and I strung them across the top of the new Acer 22 inch LCD monitor to hold the Logitech 4000 web cam securely in position.  The other bracket it came with tends to be need to balanced on the monitor instead of securely resting on it.  I put the small Swiss, Swedish, and Bermuda flags on top of the Northgate computer monitor.  I will now do some regular computer work.  A relative mentioned to me when I was up in Kennebunkport, Maine that he wanted to visit the Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts antique auto museum.  I mentioned that I had toured it around 1969, and as I recall back then in their collection, they had Adolph Hitler's touring Mercedes limousine and one of Franklin Roosevelt's bullet proof Packards.  I am not sure if they are still in the collection today or not.  Boston has a lot of collectors, so you never know what they manager to pick up in their travels.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/19/07 Sunday 8:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 10 A.M. this morning.  I checked with www.officedepot.com over in Nanuet, New York, and they told me that somebody had picked up my order earlier, but they still had another 22 inch Acer LCD monitor.  I had not yet paid for it, so I told them I would be over in a while to pick it up.  I chatted with a local security official.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I drove over to Office Depot in Nanuet, New York.  I had not been over that way in quite a long time.  They have a large Warehouse Outlet store next to Office Depot in Nanuet that looks quite busy.  I bought the Acer 22 inch LCD monitor for $179.03 plus $14.99 tax for $194.02 total.  I then returned back the same route, and I had to pay a $4 toll on the Tapan Zee bridge.  The traffic was normal for this time of year.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I moved the 19 inch Dell monitor off the Northgate computer system, and I put it on the right side of the bedroom window.  I put moved the 20 inch Dell monitor from the primary Vista computer to the Epox computer.  I moved the 19 inch Dell Sony Trinitron from the Epox computer to the Northgate Computer.  I installed the  new Acer 22 inch LCD monitor as the primary centered monitor or third monitor on the primary Vista Computer, and I have one Acer 19 inch LCD on the right, and two on the left mounted above and below each other.  The new Acer 22 inch LCD monitor was recognized by Plug and Play.  I set it to its default resolution and Auto configure.  I put the monitor box in the false ceiling above the bed, and I left the spare cable with the other spare cables in the bag in the bedroom to the right of the Orion television.  I put the other mount on the Logitech 4000 web cam, so it hangs off the top of the new monitor.  I moved the desk lamp to back on top of the corner computer speaker.  I might want to put the HDTV antenna there later.  I chatted with two relatives.  One of my relatives was driving down from Maine, so a neighbor gave me a ride to the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I walked down Greenwich Avenue, and I waited at the Greenwich train station for three hours until the relative arrived.  The relative and his two friends caught the 7:12 P.M. into Manhattan, and I will keep the relative's 10 year old silver Audi in my parking lot until he picks it up in 12 days to go back up to Maine.  I returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now reheat and eat the same meal as last night.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/19/07 Sunday 2:50 A.M.:  From www.slickdeals.net , I found this bargain Acer® AL2216Wbd 22" Widescreen Digital/Analog LCD Monitor, Black at Office Depot. which with in store pickup is $179.03 and $14.99 tax for $194.02 total over in Nanuet, New York 20 miles away across the Hudson River.  I have ordered one.  I guess I have to get to bed to pick it up later on today.  I will pay for it, so I will be low on funds until next month.  However, it will work well with my computer setup.  You have to follow the directions for ordering it for $179.03 listed in the comments at www.slickdeals.net .   It is $40 cheaper than ordering it here Newegg.com - Acer AL2216Wbd Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor with HDCP support 300 cd/m2 700:1 - Retail .  However, one the order, I reserved it is a cash payment, so if I should decide not to get it in 48 hours, they would automatically cancel it.  This is a map on how to get there http://www.officedepot.com/stores/directions/find.do?toLine1=135+E.+ROUTE+59&toLine2=ROCKLAND+CENTER&toCity=NANUET&toState=NY&toZip=10954&toPhone=%28845%29+627-2123&toLatitude=41.09476721&toLongitude=-74.00574681&fromLine1=71+Vinci+Drive&fromCity=Greenwich&fromState=CT&fromZip=06830&x=68&y=15 .   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 11:35 P.M.:  To use with my high definition TV connection on my Hauppauge 1600 TV card besides the Cable Digital analog connection, I ordered Newegg.com - TERK HDTVa Amplified Directional Indoor HDTV Antenna - Retail for $39.99 plus $7.14 UPS ground three day shipping less $2.99 Rush Ordering plus $2.99 preferrred account Rush ordering for $47.13 total.  I technically could use it if it works well enough instead of paying for Digital Cable television, but I will have to wait to see how well it works.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 11:10 P.M.:  I ate a piece of cheese cake.  I chatted with an out of town security official about the weather.  I checked in with http://www.casamarinaresort.com/ which is slow online at the moment.  Nobody seems to be interested in my reference books in the bookcases in the hallway, so for decorative purposes, on the left book case, I put up the Saudi Arabian flag, the U.S. Air Force flag over that, and the Swedish flag over that, and the British Union Jack over that.  One the right bookcase, I put up the U.S.A. stars and stripes flag, the British Union Jack over that, and the large Scottish Cross of St. Andrews flag over that.  On the left living closet I rehung the Netherlands tricolor flag.  Thus the apartment is back up to its former diplomatic glory.  We do not fly the Saudi Arabian flag usually, because the large Hebrew Medical community would object to it.  I fly the U.S.A. and the U.S. Air Force flags, when I leave town.  I normally fly the Swedish flag in the winter where the British Union Jack is displayed currently.  However, I am not now flying the British Union Jack flag over the center living room window above the air conditioner, since I now have the Bermuda Lion flag on display at that location.  I also have the smaller flags still flying around the apartment.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 10:10 P.M.:  It says here Jamaica under hurricane warning; Haiti braces for Dean - CNN.com that the average Jamaican earns about a dollar a day.  I think Colin Powell's family were from Jamaica, so they seem to be doing a little bit better.  On my Tropical Weather pages http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm and http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm , one can look at the latest hurricane information available, and make one's own best guess.  This shows the current tracking of Hurricane Dean Hurricane DEAN Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Track Forecast Cone .  In U.S. Politics, former politician W. Averell Harriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia use to own property in Barbados and Jamaica, so possibly some of their family members visit either location occasionally.  As I recall a member of the Getty family The Getty was in Jamaica for a hurricane about 15 years ago, and was one of the cast members in the movie remake of "Lord of the Flies" Lord of the Flies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  In local travel television here in Greenwich, Connecticut, members of the Rockefeller www.rockefeller.edu and www.exxon.com families advertise themselves as vacationing in Jamaica in the summer, so they might be there.  Also as I recall, many hippies think Jamaica's only export product is hemp, but possibly http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , always has money because he might be really Fred Meyers of Meyer's Rum Myers's Rum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which is heavily consumed in the Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth Secretariat .  Also Bill Gate's www.microsoft.com has a father who was the head attorney for www.boeing.com , so possibly since Jamaica is the largest source of Bauxite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia use in making some jets, and possibly since www.alcoa.com probably has operations there, more than likely members of the Mellon The Bank of New York Mellon family also have interests there.  The Scott family interests in Jamaica go back as far as I know to around 1700, when Captain Scott after discovering Long Island at South Hampton, Long Island owned all of Long Island, but it was not profitable, and after declaring himself King of Long Island, he changed his investment strategies and moved to Jamaica around 1700, where it was apparently more profitable.  I have a copy of his book "Tom Cringles Log" written by Michael Scott some time after that.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 9:25 P.M.:   Well not many people seem to be interested in contacting the Bermuda Yacht Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.  The British Army British Army started the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Royal Bermuda Yacht Club , so they could have a place for High Tea in the afternoon in Bermuda, where it probably gets a bit hot.  Alas the Greenwich, Connecticut branch of the Bermuda Yacht Club is still functioning, and we still have good relations with the River Club Yacht Club in Kennebunkport, Maine, which is one of the oldest Yacht Clubs on the East Coast of America.  I filled a four quart Revere pot about 3/4th full with water, and I put a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil in it, and I brought it to a boil over high heat.  Before doing that, I used the defrost cycle on the General Electric microwave oven, and I defrosted a pound of ground London Broil top round of prime beef.  I then peeled and diced a large onion, and I put the onion bits in a bowl, and then I put about four tablespoons of olive oil in a large 10 inch diameter stick proof frying pan, and I heated it over medium high electric burner heat.  I then cut the defrosted ground beef into about half inch cubic chunks or slightly larger.  Once the olive oil in the frying pan was hot, I put in the onions and the ground beef, and I seasoned them with Old Bay Seasoning, ground black pepper, red cayenne pepper, garlic powder, Italian, seasoning, and oregano.  I kept mixing it together until the beef was browned and the onions were blanched.   Once the water was boiling in the Revere pot, I put in a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni vermicelli, which I boiled for eight minutes.  Earlier about 10 minutes before I put in a 26 ounce jar of Tuttorosso Marinara tomato sauce in the beef and onion mixture, and I mixed it together with more of the same spices.  Once it was bubbling, I simmered on medium to medium high electric burner heat for about 15 minutes stirring it frequently.  Once the vermicelli was cooked 8 minutes, I drain it in a colander in another large pot, and I dumped out the hot water into the bathroom sink to clean out the shaving soap scum.  I then put half the noodles on a dinner plate with half of the tomato meat sauce, and I put the other half in two Rubbermaid containers.  I seasoned the spaghetti dinner with a few tablespoons of Kraft grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 7:40 P.M.:  I napped until 4:30 P.M..  This morning when it was 54 degrees Fahrenheit outside, it was warmer in the apartment, so I set the General Electric air conditioner at 64 degrees Fahrenheit.  However, it was too cold for the air conditioner, so its front cooling grill froze over.  Thus when it was trying to cool later on during the warmer part of the day, it was not working effectively.  I removed the Frost King filter, and I cleaned it in soapy water.  I ran the air conditioner fan, until the frozen ice had melted and dripped away, and I reinstalled the filter, and it is now working just fine.  I have it set at 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and the apartment is cooling down again.  Once it has cooled down to about 74 degrees Fahrenheit, I will set it on 72 degrees Fahrenheit, Energy Saver, low fan.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.   I picked up my mail.  The 7-Port USB 2.0 HUB, Indicator Lights, AC Power Adapter Included - Free Ground Shipping for $11.99 with free shipping using coupon "ACC104" arrived.  I removed the USB 1.0 D-Link hub with its LAN connection from the primary Vista computer, and I installed the new USB 2.0 hub, and I have it powered on with the control panel USB switch.  I have three USB devices connected to it and two USB pen drives.  It seems to work just fine.  I took the old USB 2.0 non powered device off the Vista computer, and I connected it to the FIC server.  I removed the USB 1.0 hub device from the FIC server, and I have both USB 1.0 devices in the shipping envelope stored underneath the side board in the bedroom.  I installed the XP updates on the FIC server.  I chatted with two friend and two relatives.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 2:10 P.M.:  I ate a piece of cheese cake.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 1:15 P.M.:  I did a Vista Complete Backup or the primary computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.   I ate the same ham and cheese sandwich as the last couple of day.  I also had a half of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle Sour Cream and Onion potato chips with it and a sliced dill pickle with a glass of iced tea.  I am worried that it might be a colder winter, because when I was up in Kennebunkport, Maine the last two weeks, the acorns on the oak trees were already falling, so possibly we could be in for a colder winter.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/18/07:

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 11:45 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes for the last three weeks.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 11:25 A.M.:  I posted my last 10 years of notes in *.pdf format at Michael Scott's Notes in *.pdf format from June 1997 to Date .  One might the *.pdf viewer from www.nuance.com to view them in *.pdf format, but possibly they will work with the Adobe *.pdf reader.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/07 Saturday 10:15 A.M.:  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I installed the most recent Vista Updates.  Last night, I also installed the ScanSoft PDF converter 4 software on my computer.  Once I convert them, I will also post my old notes in *.pdf format for easier viewing.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I straightened up the brown carpet runner along the apartment entry wall through area.  I also moved the antique bronze lamp from the corner on top of the speakers to the large flat surface on the Dell 20 inch monitor centered over the keyboard work area.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil.  I will shut down the primary computer shortly, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 9:25 P.M.:  ASPnews.com -- News : IBM Ships Lotus Notes, Domino 8

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Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 8:40 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I did some bottom fishing on the internet, but with the kids going back to school soon, there do not seem to be many specials.  Of course I am always looking for bargain basement specials, which recently seem to be fewer and further between.  I replaced the two AA alkaline batteries on my Microsoft Optical 6000 mouse, and it seems to be a bit more responsive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 6:35 P.M.:  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a mixture of orange, grape with certo, and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Valley Road Post office, and I picked up my last two weeks of mail.  My order for 4 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s still has not shipped yet from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .  They are suppose to ship early next week.  I went by the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then went by CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza.  CVS vitamins and supplements are on sale through this Saturday for buy one get one free, and the larger CVS at the Riverside shopping center generally has them stocked up.  I bought a 16 ounce bottle of Gold Emblem dry roasted lightly salted peanuts for $2, a 15 ounce bottle of VO5 Kiwi shampoo for .77 and a 15 ounce bottle of Kiwi conditioner for .77, a 10 pack of CVS disposable razors for $4.49, two 260 count CVS Spectravite Senior vitamins and supplements for seniors for $13.99 both, two 100 count flush free Niacin 500 mg for $6.49 both, two MSM 60 count capsules 1000 mg.$6.79 both, two B-150 50 capsules $9.99 both, two CVS B-12 2000mcg. 60 capsule $6.99 both, two 100 softgels garlic oil $4.59 both, two 3.53 ounce black pepper corns .99 each, and one 1.09 ounce Italian seasoning plus .36 tax for $60.20.   I then went by the :::: The Haircut Place :::: in Old Greenwich, and I got my hair cut for $22 and $5 tip for $27 total.   I then went CVS in Old Greenwich briefly.  I then went out to the Southwest parking area at Tod's Point, and I chatted with an old timer smoking a cigar.  I then stood out briefly at the southeast beach area.  I then returned to central Greenwich, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  Some of their variety of items are on sale.  I then drove by the Greenwich Railroad station, and I chatted with a relative.  Another relative was in town wandering around waiting for his ride, but later on while I was walking upper Greenwich Avenue, apparently the relative was sitting on a bench on lower Greenwich Avenue.  I then walked upper Greenwich Avenue with a regular walker and as far east at Christ Church.  We then sat out at Garlicke and Herbs on West Putnam Avenue while the other walker had a cup of coffee.  We then walked back down Greenwich Avenue and parted company.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two six packs of New York Everything Bagels for $1.79 each six pack, and a Entenmann's 23 ounce French Cheese cake for $2.25 for $5.83 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I sorted through the mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate the same ham and cheese sandwich as last night along with a slice of cheese cake with iced tea.  I chatted with another relative.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 1:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  I have to pay my rent later on today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 12:35 A.M.:  At www.geappliances.com/spp , I made the first of three payments of $36.02 for a total of $108.07 on the purchase of the new maintenance contract at on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control which new contract starts on September 12, 2007.   Thus I will be covered on the G.E. air conditioner for another year.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/07 Friday 12:15 A.M.:  I paid off my www.newegg.com of $79.11 for the HP LaserJet 1018 laser printer I bought.  I still have to wait a couple of months for the $65 mail in rebate.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/07 Thursday 10:25 P.M.:  Last night after the last message, I watched the evening news with my relative, and I ate some cheese and crackers with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water and 50% orange juice.  We stopped by a relative's house to drop off a glass vase.  We then went to the Wayfarer in Cape Purpose, Maine, and I ordered the turkey dinner, with mashed potatoes, gravy, green peas, mixed salad with blue cheese dressing, cranberry sauce, and rolls with butter, which I ate with a glass of water.  We then returned back to my relative's house, and I packed my luggage.  I went to bed about 10 P.M., and I was awake at 8:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate my usual breakfast with sliced peaches on the oatmeal instead of sliced bananas.  I watered some of the plants in front of the house.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put my luggage in the car.  I said goodbye to my relative, and I left my relative's house at 10 A.M..  I stopped by the Big Apple Mobil station in Kennebunkport, Maine, and I spent 75 cents to check the air in my tires to 30 PSI front and 35 PSI rear.  I then drove out of town.  I took a break at the Amtrak station in Wells, Maine.  I headed south on the Maine turnpike or I-95 South, and I paid a $1.75 toll.  I paid a $1 toll on the New Hampshire turnpike.  I took a break at the Massachusetts welcome area.  I then took I-495 West, and I took a break at the Lowell rest area.  I then got on I-290 West, and then I got on the Massachusetts turnpike.  I took a break at the Charlton rest area.  I bought $34 of full service premium unleaded gasoline at $3.249 a gallon for 10.466 gallons.  My odometer reading was 115,020 miles, and I had driven 159 miles since I last filled up, for 15.192 miles per gallon.  I had a lot of stop and go driving in two construction areas which were backed up, so my gasoline mileage was not as good, plus there was a lot of traffic for irregular driving.  I paid a 50 cent toll, and I got on I-84 West.  I stopped at the Connecticut welcome center.  I then got off at the Charter Bridge I-91 South.  I then got on I-15 West or the Wilbur Cross Parkway.  I stopped at the East Haven rest area.  I then drove into Greenwich, and I arrived at the Chase Bank on Mason Street at 4:45 P.M. after 6 hours and 45 minutes driving.  I chatted with an officer of the Chase Bank about a member of the Ford family that we both know in Vail, Colorado.  The officer attended www.lfc.edu also.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a pound of Wilson Virginia sliced ham for $5.99 a pound for $5.99, a pound of Boars Head Provolone Cheese for $6.99 a pound for $7.29, a six pack of Bulky rolls for $2.79, fresh Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.46, two red onions for $1.99 a pound $2.35, a 16 ounce container of Gumout concentrated fuel system cleaner for $3.99 plus .24 tax for $24.11 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $19 of self service premium gasoline at $3.599 a gallon for 5.278 gallons purchased.  The odometer was at 115,152.5 miles for 133.5 miles driving since the Massachusetts turnpike rest area, for 25.294 miles per gallon driving with the air conditioner going all the time.  The highway EPA on the 1992 Buick Roadmaster wagon when it was new was 26 miles per gallon, so I would say the car is running just fine in terms of miles per gallon.  I put the Gumout Fuel Injector cleaner in the tank, before I filled it up.  I then returned home.  I brought up my luggage.  I also brought down from Maine, the HP 4L laser printer, which did not work with the IBM Netvista computer, since it did not have a parallel port.  I put it back on the dark mahogany bedroom dresser.  I turned on the air conditioner and the toilet water.  I unpacked my belongings.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I cut a Kaiser roll in half, and I spread Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on it, and I put five slices of Wilson Virginia ham on it, and four slices of Boars Head Provolone cheese, and a few thin slices of red onion, and I ate it with a mixture of grape, cranraspberry juice, and cold fresh water.  I watered my plants in the apartment.  I chatted with a relative.  I cleaned the frozen ice out of my Brita water filter container.  I put fresh water in it.  I am making up a batch of Formula Two http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .  I started up the computer server.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/07 Wednesday 6:15 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and the next time I update the notes, I will be back at my apartment in Greenwich, Connecticut tomorrow. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/07 Wednesday 6:00 P.M.: I picked up my relative. I called "611" on my AT&T Go Phone, and I was able to finally charge it up with another $25 at $26.50 cost, so I now have $28.46 on it. I am now charging up the wireless telephone. The original charge did not go through, since I had additional number on my zip code entry. We are going out to dinner at the Wayfarer tonight at 7:30 P.M.. I will shut down the computer, and get ready to pack before I go out to dinner. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/07 Wednesday 4:10 P.M.: I ordered 7-Port USB 2.0 HUB, Indicator Lights, AC Power Adapter Included - Free Ground Shipping for $11.99 with free shipping using coupon "ACC104" . CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/07 Wednesday 3:55 P.M.: After the last message, I took the outside garage door off of its hinges. I went downtown, and I bought another Frost King U-Shape bottom of the door weather stripping and a can of 3 in 1 oil. I then put the piece of wood that had fallen out of the bottom of the outside garage door back in place removing its old weather stripping. I cut the new Frost King U-Shaped weather striping to 31 5/8 inches with the drill holes centered on the door. I installed it on the bottom of the door, and I put five screws on both sides of the door into the U-shaped weather striping also holding in the piece of wood that had fallen out of the door. I oiled the hinges and hinge bolts, and I rehung the door, and it works just fine, so now it has a bottom piece of weather stripping. I adjusted the spring mechanism on the screen door latching mechanism on the door jam leading into the house, so it catches when the door closes. I took my relative to an appointment. I ate the same lunch that I have been eating regularly. I oiled the chain, and wheels, and other moving parts on the electric garage door, so it moves more freely. I replaced one of the garage ceiling light by the steps. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/07 Wednesday 11:40 A.M.: The oil delivery truck filled up the oil tank. I used the leaf blower to clean off the front sidewalk, the garage, and the driveway. I swept off the rear deck. I moved the two white plants from the front porch into the boy and girl plant stands, and I put them out on the deck on the north side by the rail next to the library entrance. I showered, and I cleaned up. I am doing a load of laundry with the dry cycle about ready to begin. I ran the dishwasher, and I emptied it. I filled the bird feeder from the front tree. It now is two thirds full, and we are out of more bird seed. I used the Black and Decker dust buster, and I picked up bits of stray debris off the carpets. I cleaned the black and decker dust buster. I emptied the humidifier in the basement this morning. I started the humidifier in the downstairs guest room. CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/07 Wednesday 9:50 A.M.: I woke up at 8 A.M.. I ate my usual breakfast. I will shower and clean up shortly. CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/07 Tuesday 9:40 P.M.: I chatted with two relatives. My relative returned home and went to bed. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/07 Tuesday 7:55 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. British Airways: London fares - dealnews.com $159 one way, of course you might look into the cost of a return ticket in case you might need to return. CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/07 Tuesday 7:45 P.M.: I watered the plants front, rear, and on the deck after the last note. I dropped my relative off at a dinner party. I barbequed on the gas grill for 6 minutes a side on medium high a thick piece of marinated one pound filet of Atlantic wild salmon. The skin came off on the grill, since I started it skin side down. I ate it with steam broccoli crowns, baby carrots, and three small red potatoes with olive oil on them, along with reheated herbal rice, and a tossed mixed green salad with blue cheese on it, and a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water on ice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I am waiting for my relative to call for me to come pick her up. I chatted with another relative, and the relative is going to pick up my other relative and give them their second car at the Greenwich train station on Friday, so I do not necessarily need to be there on Friday, but I probably will go down on Thursday, unless the plans are changed. My relative after this weekend will leave their Audi at my apartment for two weeks, until they use it again to go up to Kennebunkport, Maine. CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/07 Tuesday 5:10 P.M.: Since it is still pending on my Chase Visa Credit card until it ships, I cancelled the order for $24.99 and $4.99 shipping for Macy*s - Men's - Polo Ralph Lauren \Prospect\ Pant which were on sale when I ordered them. I could have ordered them on my Chase Visa Debit card for the same lower price, but they would not have shipped until November 2007, so I cancelled them. I could always stop by the Ralph Lauren outlet store in Kittery, Maine on the way down to Greenwich, Connecticut this Thursday, but I really do not need another pair of cotton pants at this time. CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/07 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.: I put another $25 for $26.50 charge on my AT&T wireless Go Phone account AT&T GoPhone, so I have $7.21 on it that expires September 3, 2007, and another $25 that expires in 90 days. When I am traveling back down to Greenwich in two days, I do not want to risk running out of minutes should I need to talk. I thus have $32.21 on it, but I might get another $5 bonus on refilling it.

Note: <888> 08/14/07 Tuesday 4:10 P.M.: Happy Birthday to a relative. I was awake at 8:30 A.M. this morning. I ate my usual breakfast, but instead of sliced peaches with the oatmeal, I ate a half of a sliced banana with it. I took the screen door off the garage door entrance to the house. I removed the hardware. I taped the edges of the new screens on both sides with one inch diameter masking tape on both sides. I spread an old sheet on the floor with newspapers around the sheet. I laid the screen door flat on the sheet with the trim side up with four paint sticks keeping the screen door off the newspaper. I painted the trim pieces with a small 1 inch brush, and I painted the rest of the door and edges with a 2.5 inch brush. I put a second coat of paint on the new wood trim pieces. I washed the brushes in the downstairs basement sink with hot water. I let the screen door dry for about two hours. While doing that I showered and cleaned up. I then flipped the screen door over, and I painted the other side the same way. I ate my usual lunch. I went out with my relative, and we went to Kennebunk, and my relative went to a nail salon. I went by Deering lumber nearby, and I got a four foot piece of half inch diameter dowel, which I had cut into two 18 inch pieces and a foot long piece for $1.35 all together. The 18 inch dowels are used to keep Anderson windows opened where their faulty nylon sash cords have broken. I then walked over to the Hanneford Market, and I got some groceries, and then I walked back to the car to wait for my relative to be ready. My relative and I then filled up the gasoline tank at Irving gasoline at the Blue Canoe service center for $2.929 a gallon for premium. My relative then got the basic car wash for $7. We then went by the Kennebunkport post office, and then we went by the Kennebunkport municipal building to get five free hour parking stickers, they give out to local residents. We then returned home. The screen door was dry, so I put the hardware back on it. I then removed the masking tape from both sides, and I rehung the screen door. It looks quite nice, and it works quite well. I guess using masking tape is the way to paint a screen door with screen with wood around it. I put the remaining 3/4th of a gallon of California white satin latex paint in the basement on the metal shelf to the left of the laundry machines with the cleaned brushes and spare brushes and sand paper and the remaining white satin Rustoleum. I put the remaining masking tape in the tool cupboard as one comes into the house from the garage. I will now do some regular computer work. I chatted with my relative who had tibia left leg surgery yesterday, and my relative is staying in bed doing cross word puzzles. My relative will have to go through rehab for a while. I also use some of the white satin spray Rustoleum to touch up the metal base of the flag pole side bars that still showed black instead of white. CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/07 Monday 10:10 P.M.: Iconic philanthropist Brooke Astor dies at 105 - CNN.com . I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch television with my relative before going to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/07 Monday 10:05 P.M.: I took a nap after the last message until 5:30 P.M.. I watched the evening news along with eating some cheese and crackers and a mixture of orange juice and cold filtered water. I ate dinner of the left over cold tid bits of grilled skirt steak with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, two steamed ears of corn on the cob with butter, two tiny red potatoes with butter, tossed salad with blue cheese and dressing, and a slice of cantaloupe and cold filtered water and orange juice. I went for a drive with my relative over to the Beach Club and along the Kennebunk beach. I stopped by the Colonial Pharmacy, and I got two rolls of white masking tape for $1.79 a roll. I will use the masking tape on the new screens on the screen door from the garage when I paint it, so I do not get paint on the new screens. We returned home. I cleaned up the kitchen. I put out the garbage and the recycle materials. I chatted with my relative. I chatted with my relative whom had surgery on her left leg broken tibia, and she is out of surgery, but she has not chatted with the surgeon yet. CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/07 Monday 3:25 P.M.: Outlook still murky for $150 Medison laptop | Crave : The gadget blog

It rained a bit. I closed the house windows before it rained. I ate a oatmeal cookie. CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/07 Monday 2:00 P.M.: After the last message, I printed out instructions for our guest to get to Manchester Boston Regional Airport: Manchester, NH USA: A Boston Area Airport & The Convenient Alternative to Logan International Airport . I went to bed at 11:30 P.M.. I was awake at 7:30 A.M.. I ate my usual breakfast. I showered, and I cleaned up. I packed our guest's car. The guest, and I drove over to the Kennebunk shopping plaza at 45 Portland Road on U.S. 1, and the guest packed and mailed three boxes of the display items used for the coral jewelry promotion display. The guest paid me $100 for my help over the last couple of days, which will come in handy for paying my bills, when I get home. The guest departed from the shopping plaza for the airport at 11:30 A.M.. I then went by the Super Stop and Shop, and I got some items. I then returned home. I broke down the old shipping boxes in the rear of the Buick wagon, and I put them out by the street to be hauled away by the garbage collection tomorrow. I went back downtown to the Kennebunkport post office. I then returned home. I ate a ham, turkey, Swiss cheese, and mayonnaise sandwich with potato chips and a mixture of cold filter water and orange juice. When we drove by Walker's Point last evening, it looked like the Presidential entourage was all gone. I will now do some regular internet work. I have the computer available again, since the guest room is vacated. I am washing and drying the guest room linens and towels. I need to get some masking tape, so I can paint the garage screen door. Our relative is having left leg tibia surgery today, but we have not heard if the relative is out of surgery. I will now do regular internet work. CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/07 Sunday 10:00 P.M.: After the last note, I sat outside for a while. I went to the River Club Art show with a relative. My relative bought a painting of Goat Island off Cape Purpose, Maine for $39. Our guest was able to sell quite a bit of Coral Necklace Jewelry. We sat out at the River Club for a while. I then drove my relative home. I then returned, and I waited for the art show to end about 5:30 P.M., and I helped my relative and guest pack up their coral jewelry show. We then returned to my relative's house. We then drove one of my relative's to the Amtrak train station in Wells, Maine, and then we went by a clam restaurant south of the fire house in Wells, Maine, but it was too busy. We then went by Federal Jacks in Kennebunkport, Maine, but it was too busy. We then went by the Ramp restaurant in Cape Purpose, and it was too busy. We finally found a table at the Captain's restaurant, and we had hamburgers with French fries and Heinz ketchup and water and cold slaw for about $6 apiece. We just now returned home. I am probably going to drive back down to Greenwich, Connecticut this Thursday depending on the weather. I have to go out tomorrow morning to help our guest ship some boxes before she leaves. I will go to bed shortly. CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/07 Sunday 2:00 P.M.: After the last message, I sat outside for a while. I watered the plants front and rear and on the deck. I dropped my relatives and guest off at a Art show at the River Club, and I picked them up an hour later. For dinner, we had barbequed marinated chicken, steamed broccoli and carrots, and flavored rice along with cold filtered water. I went to bed after cleaning up the kitchen about 9 P.M.. I was up at 8 A.M. this morning. I ate my usual breakfast. I showered and cleaned up. I helped our guest set up for the art show at the River Club. There is a large collection of local artists there. Our guest sells jewelry made from ocean coral at various art shows. I had lunch of a crab meat roll with potato chips and a mixture of orange juice and cold filtered water. Apparently the President of the United States www.whitehouse.gov and the President of France were at church early this morning. They are suppose to be out fishing now. There is a noticeable larger security presence. Ocean Avenue in front of Walker's Point is closed. I dropped my relative and guest off at the Art Show at the River Club. We chatted with another relative who drives a 1999 Buick Roadmaster Wagon Collectors Edition in Bronze with 92,000 miles on it with Maryland license plates. I also helped a neighbor set up her art show. We might go over there shortly before it closes, since my other relative is a patron, and I have to help our guest close up her stall at the show. It like the art shows they have at the Bruce Museum in the Spring and Fall. CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/07 Saturday 3:05 P.M.: I had a telephone call from Foreign Pharmacy Discount Drug Prescriptions -Save 80-90% on Health Bills , and they ship from India, and they have free shipping on over $100 orders. Their toll free number is 1-866-419-7475. They told me a hundred 20 mg. Lipitor pills are about $140. You do the math. CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/07 Saturday 2:25 P.M.: I ate the same lunch as yesterday. I cleaned up the kitchen. I went downtown in Kennebunkport, Maine, and I went by the Kennebunkport post office. I walked around the downtown area, and I saw another Buick Roadmaster wagon like mine with a lot of Bush "W04" stickers on it from Maryland. I noticed the best fed college student around town was wearing a tee shirt that said "Gibson Steak House, Rosemont, Illinois". I think the www.hyatt.com hotel chain is also headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois. It is near O'Hare airport and near Oakbrook, Illinois where www.mcdonalds.com is headquartered. It is the nature of www.mcdonalds.com , they are such a large beef business, they have large ranches out west, where they have the whole steer and not just the burger meat, so they obviously produce the prime cuts of meat also. When I worked at the house of the Kaiser's consular staff out in Plandome Manor, Long Island, they had a picture of the Von Trapp family lodge in Austria up on their second floor landing, and locally here in America, they have another Von Trapp family lodge up in Stowe, Vermont, which is opened for year round vacationing. They never made any money off the "Sound of Music", so they went into the hospitality business.

Note: <888> 08/11/07 Saturday 11:45 A.M.: After the last note, on Thursday evening, I cooked marinated skirt steaks on the outdoor gas grill, which we ate with corn on the cob and salad and cold filtered water. I went to bed at 9:30 P.M. after cleaning up the kitchen and watching television. On Friday, I was awake at 5:30 A.M.. I ate my usual breakfast, but instead of bananas on the oatmeal, I had sliced fresh peaches. I watered the plants front and rear and on the deck. I transplanted one of the new plants into the square front planter, and I moved the plant there to the far corner of the driveway. I took out a dead plant from the planter box in back, and I put in a new plant there. I covered the planter box in back with a bag of Scott's brown mulch. Earlier on Thursday evening, I also installed the 9 inch safety bar in the master bathroom. The house keeper cleaned the house, and the yard man cut the lawn. I ate lunch of pieces of cooked skirt steak on a bagel with mayonnaise and tomato along with cold filtered water. On Friday morning, we had a telephone call from a relative out west on the Coast, and the relative and fell broke her left tibia beneath the left knee and it was shattered and was not a clean break. The relative is at a good bone hospital, and the surgeon will operate on the relative's knee this coming Monday. Thus the relative will probably take a while to recover. I went by the Port Hardware store, and I picked up the garage to house screen door with the new metal screens in it, a Frost King U-shape five strip seal bottom of the door weather stripping for the same door, and a household Kidd fire extinguisher. I went by the Kennebunkport post office. I took the old weather stripping off the bottom of the garage to house door, and I cut the new piece to size, and I installed it. It has four or five pieces of weather stripping on it, so it should be a good weather seal in the winter. I put the screen door back on. I hung the fire extinguisher on the side of the kitchen wall as one enters the kitchen from the garage door area. We had a new sofa and chair from Hickory, North Caroline delivered for the library. I cooked fresh swordfish and salmon on the grill for dinner, which we ate with steamed asparagus and steamed red potatoes and mixed salad and cold filtered water. My relative and guest picked up another relative, and I cleaned up the kitchen. I went to bed at 9:30 P.M., and I was awake this morning at 6:30 A.M.. My relative said the plants only need to be watered every two days, so I had the same breakfast. I chatted with them. I am finishing doing a load of laundry. Supposedly President Bush caught Lyme Disease sometime recently. The President of France had to go back to France for a funeral, and he will be back later on today to fish with the President. I also put the cleat on the flag pole, so its rope hangs properly. We have a new flag, but the old U.S.A. flag is just fine. CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/07 Thursday 5:00 P.M.: After the last message yesterday, I ate a ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a bagel with mayonnaise with potato chips and cold filtered water. I emptied the humidifier in the basement. We went by the Kennebunkport post office, and I mailed a package for my relative. We then drove along the Kennebunk shore line, and I stood out briefly. We then returned back to my relative's house, and I took a nap until 5 P.M.. We watched some television. At 7:15 P.M., I picked up an order at the Wayfarer in Cape Purpose of two turkey dinners with dressing, mashed potatoes, peas, cranberry and salad, which we ate them for dinner with cold filtered water. We watched the Maine Public Broadcasting documentary of Edgar R. Murrow who also once worked for www.cbs.com . I went to bed at 9:30 P.M., and I was awake at 7 A.M.. I ate the same breakfast as usual. I took down the 24 foot flag pole, and I sanded it with rough sand paper, and I painted it with satin white latex paint. I painted its metal base with satin white Rutoleum. I then painted the back wall of the guest wood bathroom downstairs behind the toilet with satin white latex paint. I then showered, and I cleaned up. I emptied the basement humidifier. I went out with my relative, and my relative went by the hair dresser. I walked around the downtown area. I bought a copy of the York County Star newspaper for a dollar. They said the President of the United States of America www.whitehouse.gov would be arriving by helicopter today. I chatted with a friend on my wireless telephone. I picked up the mail at the post office. I picked up my relative at the hair dresser. We then went back by the post office to mail a letter. We returned to my relative's house. I ate the same lunch as the last couple of days. I put the 2.5 inch diameter hose clamp around the top of the flag pole, where the wood was split a little bit from the large screw that holds the top pulley on the top, so it is more secure. I put the flag pole back up. I strung up the U.S.A. flag which is a bit faded. I need to still reattached the rope clamp. It looks quite nice. I took up the paint papers in the downstairs guest bedroom bathroom. I put in the window fan. We have a guest for the guest room arriving this afternoon for a stay. We then went to a medical appointment for my relative. We then went by Home Depot, and my relative got another 9 inch safety bar for the Master Bathroom toilet area. My relative also got a annual lily plant. We then went by Wal-Mart, but they do not have a wide selection of canes for women. We then went by Wendy's and my relative got a chocolate frosty to go. We then went by the Kennebunk Super Stop and Shop. We then went by the Kennebunkport farm stand, and we got two Jersey tomatoes for $2.99 a pound. I have seen a Buick Roadmaster wagon like mine from Georgia and Virginia. We then returned home. We put away the groceries, and my relative is taking a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 11:35 A.M.: I shared a bowl of Sunshine white cheddar cheese its with my relative. The rain has let up a bit. I watered the new plants on the porch. CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 11:05 A.M.: I chatted with my relative. I was told about this newly refurbished Inn on the waterfront just south of Portland, Maine about 30 miles north of Kennebunkport, Maine http://www.blackpointinn.com/inn/ . CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 10:50 A.M.: Midwest Farmers survive Making Money the Warren Buffett Way - US News Money and Business . CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 10:40 A.M.: I chatted with my relative. I cancelled my August 13, 2007 appointment in Greenwich, Connecticut, and I asked them to reschedule it for August 20, 2007 at 3 P.M.. Traditionally on rainy days in New England, people read books, which is why there are so many good writers in New England. I guess there is not too much to report on Kennebunkport, Maine http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/137.htm . I have been visiting up here for 29 years in the summer, except for when I lived out in Nantucket, where it also rains quite a bit. I think I first visited here around 1969 with my Taft School classmates Myles McGough and Tommy Cookman, but all I can recall is visiting some Maine resort close to Boston, so I am not sure if it was Kennebunkport, Maine or not. It was one of those lost weekends, where we did not keep track of what was going on. They use to have a Kennebunkport, Maine to Nantucket sailboat race according the Nantucket Inquirer Mirror newspaper, which was my main source of information, when I lived out in Nantucket. Of course on rainy days in Nantucket, I was usually working, but if not I could always visit the local library, which I guess one could do here also. The Kennebunkport, Maine library is not too big compared to the Greenwich, Connecticut library, but they might have some interesting reading material, which the tourists probably do not have much time to pay attention to. Where we went yesterday on the road north of U.S. 1 in Biddeford, Maine near the Wal-Mart shopping area south of Biddeford, there is a large new collection of stores in shopping malls, so one does not have to drive all the way to Portland, Maine on rainy days for outlet shopping. Of course www.llbean.com never closes their doors, and they are opened all the time in Freeport, Maine, and they have these field coats on sale L.L.Bean: Search Results . Of course about 20 miles south of us is Kittery, Maine with pretty much the same collection of outlet clothes stores. Thus the locals like rainy days, since they tend to make a little bit of wampum off the tourists. CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 9:50 A.M.: I chatted with a relative. I am charging up my AT&T wireless telephone. Hampton Bay Outdoor Portable Post Lantern - Y7012P-209 at The Home Depot for $55 with free shipping. Of course an electric lamp outside might electrocute one, if one were not careful with it. According to http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/us/08farmers.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin , farm land in Illinois is going for $10,000 a acre, but you have to know how to farm. CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 9:20 A.M.: My relative got up and had breakfast. I showered and cleaned up. We are just going to have a quiet day at home today. CIO

Note: <888> 08/08/07 Wednesday 7:45 A.M.: Happy Birthday to a relative. Well, it is a rainy day this morning in Kennebunkport, Maine. I ate my usual breakfast. My relative is still sleeping. Since the advent of electricity this century, usually in summer resorts on rainy days, people do laundry. My relative's Verizon wireless phone finally charged up properly, so she will have to see how it works today, if the battery is taking a charge and keeping it the way it should be. My relative wants to get another 9 inch safety bar for the master bathroom toilet area. I can not paint the wall behind the toilet in the guest bedroom downstairs and the flag pole, until we get a nice long sunny dry day. It is not hot up here, it is quite cool and comfortable. The New York Times home delivery finally came through with the newspaper this morning. Hollywood comes to Greenwich Some question state's generosity to filmdom - Greenwich Time . CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/07 Tuesday 10:20 P.M.: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'

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Note: <888> 08/07/07 Tuesday 10:00 P.M.: After I got up from my nap, my relative and I had dinner of baked filet of salmon, steamed corn on the cob, and sliced Jersey tomatoes. I ate it with cold filtered water. I cleaned up the kitchen. I read some magazines, the newspaper, and watched some television. I will now go through my email before going to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/07 Tuesday 2:35 P.M.: After the last message, I showered and cleaned up. We went out about 11 A.M., but I also brought in the garbage cans from the street. I also put a load of my laundry in the dryer. We went by Lowe's in Biddeford, and we bought lyme for the grass, Scott's brown mulch, and four flowering plants. We then went by the Verizon and my relative had her wireless telephone checked out. It seems to be all right, and it does not need a new battery. They said it should be turned off when one charges it. We then went by Wal-Mart, and I had new nose pads put on my relative's glasses for $1.90 at their optical center. We then went by the Home Depot, and I got a nine inch safety bar for the power room for about $12. We then returned to Kennebunkport, and we stopped by the Kennebunkport post office. We then returned to my relative's house, and we I ate a egg salad and chopped barbeque chicken sandwich with relish and mayonnaise mixed into it on a bagel along with splitting a can of iced tea. I also ate two oatmeal cookies. I cleaned up the kitchen. I installed the 9 inch safety handle on the lower left side of the power room bathroom window, so one can assist themselves off the toilet. I put away my laundry. I will now take a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/07 Tuesday 9:15 A.M.: I woke up at 7 A.M., and I ate the same breakfast as the last few days with my relative. I went out to the local Kennebunkport drug store, and I bought the New York Times. I chatted with a neighbor of my relative. I checked my Chase Visa Credit card, and my relative's payment on it has gone through. I closed out the Chase Visa Credit Card, and the surplus will be mailed to me in a check in a couple of weeks. I destroyed the Chase Visa Credit Card. I now am not in debt to David Rockefeller. I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out with my relative to get a new battery for her wireless telephone. CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/07 Monday 10:25 P.M.: I read Architectural Digest magazine. There is a small house for sale in Khakum Wood area where the Agah Khan lives off Round Hill Road in Greenwich, Connecticut for $19.7 million dollars. I guess the real estate prices in Greenwich are still going up. Every time I read Architectural Digest at my relative's house, there is an article about Juan Montoya from Columbia, South America. He is now struggling in Paris, France. I had him as a guest at the Greenwich Country Club on the Fourth of July in 1974. He knew Juan Echevaria that I went to www.lfc.edu with and I studied with in Florence, Italy back in 1972. I recall scaling the walls of the Medici Palace one evening with Juan Echevaria. Juan Echevaria's family had the Spanish land grant for Columbia, South America over 500 years ago, and he claimed his family was wealthier than the Rockefeller family, which might be the case. I chatted with my relative and a friend. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/07 Monday 8:40 P.M.: My relative and I went out after the last message. We went by the Kennebunk hardware store, and I dropped off the screen door to be repaired. It should be ready in a couple of days. I also bought a gallon of white satin latex paint and white rustoleum and sand paper and a 2.5 inch diameter hose clamp and paint sticks to use to paint the flag pole in front of the house when we get a couple of sunny days. Since I put it up, I know how to take it down. I also bought an orange 50 foot extension cord to use on the humidifier in the basement. We then went by the Blue Canoe Irvine gasoline station in Kennebunk, and my relative bought me $20 of premium self service gasoline at $3.12 a gallon for 6.412 gallons at 146.2 miles driving since the Massachusetts turnpike rest area for odometer reading of 114,847.4 averaging 22.8 miles per gallon with the car air conditioner going. We then went by the Super Stop and Shop, and my relative got groceries. We then went by the Farm stand in Kennebunkport, and we bought $4 of Jersey tomatoes at $2.99 a pound. We then returned to my relatives. My relative's neighbor sent some welcome home flowers. I unloaded the groceries. I ate a ham, turkey, cheese, and lettuce sandwich on a bagel with mayonnaise and a diet Sprite with ice. I used the 50 foot orange extension cord to hook up the humidifier in the basement from the electrical panel to the small room behind the bunk room to dry it out. It seems to need to be emptied every day. I then slept from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M.. I ate cheese and crackers with my relative. I then barbequed fresh sword fish with marinade on the grill which I ate with two ears of fresh corn on the cob and sliced Jersey tomatoes and a glass of cold filtered water. I cleaned up the kitchen. I threw out the garbage. I took the garbage cans out to the street to be picked up the garbage people tomorrow. I will now check my email. CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/07 Monday 10:10 A.M.: After breakfast I watered the plants front and rear and on the deck. I also fertilized the plants in the plant box in the rear. I took of the screen door from the garage into the house, and we will take it to have it repaired. I could fix it myself, but we would have to buy a staple gun, and for the same price we can get it repaired. I also took the HP LaserJet 4L printer from the guest bedroom, and I put it in the rear of the Buick wagon to take back down to Greenwich, since it will not work with the IBM Netvista computer, since it does not have a parallel port. I will now shower and clean up, and we will go out shortly for some errands. I also called the New York Times to resume delivery on the paper, since it was not delivered yesterday and today. My relative is awake, and we are getting ready to go out. CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/07 Monday 7:25 A.M.: After the last message, I woke up from my nap at 4:30 P.M.. I went for a drive with my relative along the waterfront. We then returned back to my relative's house. I barbequed some marinated boneless breasts of chicken which we ate with steamed carrots and broccoli crowns, and I ate my dinner with a Sprite sofa on ice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I chatted with my relative for a while, and my relative chatted with relatives. I woke up at 7 A.M. this morning. I will now eat the same breakfast as yesterday, but with only one toasted English muffin. CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/07 Sunday 1:00 A.M.: I chatted with my relative out in the sun on the deck. My other relatives packed to leave and left about noon. I ate half of a ham and cheese sandwich and a crab meat roll with potato chips and half a can of Sprite with ice. I will now take a nap for a while. CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/07 Sunday 9:10 A.M.: I had coffee, and I chatted with my relatives. I walked the dog. Two of my relatives are going to leave today, but they will be back a week from next Friday, so I will be staying here until at least then or later. CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/07 Sunday 7:55 A.M.: I rested some more. I ate a bowl of oat meal with a sliced banana and two toasted English muffins with butter, two glasses of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water. My relatives are not awake yet, so I will wait for them to wake up to have coffee. I showered, and I cleaned up. It is a very nice day out. CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/07 Sunday 5:55 A.M.: After the last note, I slept until 6 P.M. yesterday. I had telephone calls from three friends and a relative. I got up at 6 P.M., and I chatted with two relatives. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a mixture of grape juice with certo, cranraspberry juice, and orange juice, a toasted bagel with olive oil, and vitamins and supplements. I showered, and I cleaned up. I turned off the Honeywell Hepa air purifier, the G.E. air conditioner, and the toilet water. I put my luggage in the car, and I also brought along two six packs of English muffins, a two pound bag of baby carrots, and a pound of broccoli crowns. I chatted briefly with my neighbors. I checked my mail. I went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I mailed a stop mail form. I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon station, and I bought $17 of premium self service gasoline at $3.639 a gallon for 3.639 gallons for 48.3 miles driving in the past week with odometer reading at 114,571.9 miles for 13.28 miles per gallon. I sat out briefly at the Greenwich Library parking lot. I left Greenwich at 8 P.M.. I drove up North Street, and I got on the Merritt Parkway I-15 east. I took a break at the rest area west of West Haven. I then took I-91 North to I-84 East. I stopped along side the roadside to go number 1. I got on the Massachusetts turnpike, and I stopped at the rest area. I used the bathroom, and I chatted with my relatives with my wireless telephone. It was about 10:30 P.M.. At the Exxon pumps there, I bought $18 of self service premium gasoline at $3.149 a gallon for 5.717 gallons for 129.2 miles driving since Greenwich at odometer reading of 114,701.2 for 22.60 miles per gallon driving 55 to 65 miles per hour with the air conditioner going. That is pretty good since the new car highway EPA mileage rating is 26 miles per gallon without the air conditioner. Thus I think the car is pretty much tuned up and in top performance. It ran just fine. I then got on to I-290 east paying a .50 toll. I stopped at the Lowell rest area, and I went to the bathroom outside. There were four Hell Angles types at midnight throwing away a case or more of Sam Adam's beer bottles, but they did not bother me. I then drove to I-95 North, and I took a break at the New Hampshire rest area. I paid a $1 toll, and I drove the short distance to the Maine turnpike where I paid a $1.75 toll. I got off at the Wells Sacco exit. I took a break at the Wells Amtrak train station. I chatted with a maintenance man making his rounds there. I drove into Kennebunkport, Maine arriving at my relative's house at 2 A.M. this morning for a six hour trip. I unpacked. I ate a English muffin with cold filtered water. I slept from 2:30 A.M. to 5 A.M.. I might try to rest some more or wait for my relatives to wake up. It was an easy trip, and the 1992 Buick Roadmaster Wagon seems to run just fine on the highway. I listened to vantage MP3 music the whole way. CIO

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I guess they all left town on the Queen Mary II yesterday QM2 - Itinerary - 2007 , but it will be back August 15, 2007 for the return trip.  I use to see a sign occasionally when I traveled, it said, "Stay Awhile, You Have Forever."  I guess the British tourists are enjoying the quieter pace of Manhattan anymore.   I suppose since Manhattan is relatively flat, you could make money offering Rickashaw rides.  Of course now that it is warmer this time of year, the His Highness the Aga Khan's 69th Birthday might be back at his Greenwich, Connecticut home.  I sometimes wander since his family is originally from Mongolia, if they have managed to hang on to a home there too.  Who knows, maybe we are in Greenwich, Mongolia. CIO

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For the individuals whom are not to swift down in the southern belt, there is somebody who use to make cartoons about a character called Steamboat Wiley and his misadventures.  The cartoonist later  worked on the Chicago World's Fair around 1926, so more than likely Steamboat Wiley could have been Wiley Middleton from the rice plantation Middleton Place Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.  More than likely he knew other people who raised rice, so the rest is history.  Of course there could be gators around that rice plantation too.  From what I know, his local buddies referred to Wiley as the Swamp Fox who was also a revolutionary war hero in South Carolina.  However, if Wiley Middleton the brains behind the new Confederacy were not really Wiley Middleton, and if he were some other character like the Desert Fox Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , all of those rich retired liberal people down south would be stuck between 2.5 billion that speak Spanish and a group of German engineers that might not share their same viewpoint, so it might be a hard trip back up north, compared to how easy it is to go down south.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

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I will now take a nap for a while.  CIO