Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 11:55 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went by CVS, and I bought a 3M Designer Medium Command hook two pack with four strips for $2.50, a 10 pack of Merrick white coat hangers for $2.50, eight 5.5 ounce tubes of Pringle Sour Cream and Onion potato chips for .88 each tube, a RTH six outlet surge protector 200 joules for $4.99, two Deluxe 75% off red nylon heavy duty folding arm chairs for $3.49 each and $1.02 tax for $25.03 total.  I then bought another of the folding nylon chairs for $3.49 and .21 tax for $3.70 total.  I then bought for 75% off a Igloo 26 quart plastic red and white picnic chest for $4.99 and .30 tax for $5.29.  I put the three folding nylon chairs in the Audi trunk with the other two regular ones, so I now have five folding nylon chairs in the trunk.  I then went further down Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out briefly, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I then returned back to my apartment.  I put the Igloo ice chest at the kitchen entrance on the left side on the floor.  It might be handy should we ever lose power.  I put the surge protector on the right kitchen counter outlet with the Sharp convection oven and Proscan television connected to it.  I took the other power strip off, and it is underneath the bedroom side board on the right side.  I put the ten plastic hangers in the bedroom closet.  I put the 3M hook on the right side board book case shelf.  I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money 2006 August 2008 Income and Spending report, and I have one copy ready to mail to an interested relative.  I will now printed out my last four months my notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 7:55 P.M.  I put away the laundry.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will eat a baloney and cheese sandwich with 1/3rd of a tube of Pringle potato chips and a dill pickle slice and some watered down passion punch.  I will then shower and clean up and go out.  It is better to get out a bit more in the warmer weather before it starts to get colder.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 7:15 P.M.  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa 'reviews shuttle shelf-life'

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 7:05 P.M.  I have 15 minute to go on the second dry cycle, and I put away the first dry cycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 6:45 P.M.  I just threw out the garbage.  I started the second load on the dry cycle.  I have 5 minutes to go on the first load on the dry cycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 6:25 P.M.  I had a wrong number telephone call this afternoon.  I woke up at 3:30 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, and a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed.  I started two loads of laundry.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with some neighbors.  My relative is going to drop off the family car tomorrow and on Tuesday my other relatives are going to pick it up.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I made up another batch of passion punch.  I have to start the second dry cycle shortly.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 5:40 A.M.  BBC NEWS | Americas | New Orleaners told to flee Gustav .

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 2:55 A.M.  I ate 43 dried apricots today, and I finished off the open container.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/31/08 Sunday 1:05 A.M.  Here are pictures of the recent improvement in my apartment in the last month, since I got back from Kennebunkport, Maine.  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-083108/ CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/30/08:

Note: <888> 08/30/08 Saturday 11:25 P.M. ivhhn.org

Note: <888> 08/30/08 Saturday 9:15 P.M.  With the vegetable at dinner, I was out of Russet potatoes, so with the cauliflower and baby carrots, I steamed a medium onion that I cut into 1/8th sections, and I ate it with butter, olive oil, grated parmesan cheese, and Italian spices along with the reheated breaded boneless breast of chicken and watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/08 Saturday 8:00 P.M.  I installed the latest version of my directory

http://mikelouisscott.com/scott008.zip

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scott008.zip , right click and save file.

Extract files to folder and open "scotlist.htm" and set it to your default browser web page for easier browsing, particularly if you do not type.

which includes

http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm

on the five other computers I have, and it was already on the primary Vista computer.

I watched the www.nbc.com evening news.  Well, all six computer systems http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm seem to be pretty much running up to snuff, and there is not much more I can do with them, but maintain them, and pursue my regular computer activities.

I will now reheat and make the same dinner as the last three nights.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/30/08 Saturday 4:45 P.M.  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, and a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put out one of the folding oak tables, to the left of the small computer desk at the apartment entrance, and I put the HP Photosmart C4280 All Purpose Printer back on it, and I reconnected it.  I connected the power cord for the Brother MFC-8840D all purpose laser printer to the lower control panel on the third switch from the left, so it can be easily turned on and off at that switch with out having to reach over and below the small computer desk.  I also labeled the control panel switch.  I put the telephone books and the 1989 Social Register on the right hallway bookcase.  I moved the small DVD player and its power supply from there to on top of the small Panasonic television in front of the French reproduction chair, and I moved the AT&T two line telephone from there to the lower shelf beneath the television.  Thus it is all more user friendly.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I still feel a little bit lame in my right foot heel arch.  I got out the Stanley scraper, so I can scrape off a neighbor's old Connecticut registration sticker and put on the new one.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/30/08 Saturday 4:05 A.M.  After dinner, I watched the movie, Apocalypse Now (1979) .  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I also ate 10 dried apricots.  Instead of bowls of low fat Cheez-its, I might lose some weight snacking on them.  Bon Soir.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 11:30 P.M.  I moved the power adapter and the AT&T wireless Go phone to the telephone tea table.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 11:20 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I sat out for a while.  I chatted with a couple of locals.  I found a half pack of Marlboro regulars at the post office plaza.  I then went by the Greenwich Train station, and I picked up my relative and the friend.  I then brought them back to my apartment to pick up the family car, and they departed.  They will drop it off late Monday afternoon or evening for other relatives traveling to pick it up, and it will be gone for the season.  I gave the half pack of Marlboros to a neighbor who was out of cigarettes.  I then went back downtown wearing my new shoes which are quite comfortable, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I stopped by CVS, and I bought eight 16 ounce containers of Sunsweet dried apricots for $2.50 each for $20 total.  I then finished my walk.  There were light sprinkles.  I then went by the Chase Bank ATM machine on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $19 of self service premium gasoline at $4.319 a gallon for 4.400 gallons for 45.9 miles driving since August 19, 2008 with odometer reading of 61028 for 10.4318 miles per gallon driving in heavy local traffic at less than 30 miles per hour with the air conditioner set at 66 degrees Fahrenheit.  Well, it seems in the last month gasoline has come down 70 cents a gallon anyway, but my income has not gone up.  I chatted with a relative of the station employee from Madrid, Spain about Florida.  I then returned home.  I put away the apricots.  I took the power strip off the wall outlet behind the hallway bookcase, and I connected it to the power strip underneath the telephone tea table to the right of the recliner.  Thus there are three outlets there, if one wanted to use laptop computers at the oak dining table, and there is also wireless in the apartment, if you know how to turn it one.  There is also an available LAN cable by the power strips.  I moved the small lamp from beside the French reproduction chair to above the telephone tea table, so there is a bit of light to read the LCD screen on the 2 line Panasonic corded telephone.  I also moved the Panasonic two line cordless 5.8 GHZ telephone from the Northgate Syntax computer table to the telephone tea table.   I had earlier moved the small DVD player with its power adapter to the right hallway bookcase.  I put the two small back packs in the false ceiling above the bed along with a couple of empty larger thermos jugs, I use to keep for emergency water.   I also have the two U.S. Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags stored there, and I will once again put them out on the end of the far end of the sofa this winter with comforters to have available for emergency warmth should we lose our electric heat.  I will now make and eat the same dinner as the last two nights.  CIO         

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 5:40 P.M.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.  My relative called, and will arrive at the Greenwich train station at 6:58 P.M..  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with 1/3rd of 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle potato chips and a dill pickle slice with a glass of watered down passion punch.  I chatted with another relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a bit of time downtown, before I pick up my relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 4:30 P.M. The order for tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for size 9 1/2,  Mitre Fly 77 Classic Shoes - White with 20% off coupon code "WEB20TODAY" for $17.98 and $5 ground shipping for $22.98 total arrived.  I will now throw out the shoe box.  They fit just fine.  My right foot heel arch is a bit lame from all of the walking that I have done the last two days.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 3:50 P.M.  I woke up at noon today.  I watched the John McCain speech www.johnmccain.com speech announcing his running mate of a woman governor Palin from Alaska.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk, a toasted English muffin with butter, and a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I did not eat a banana with the oatmeal, since they are not yet ripe enough to peel.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I checked the family car to make sure it starts, when my relative arrives.  It only has a fourth of a tank of gasoline, so my relative will have to fill up the tank.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with two friends.  I went outside.  They have put new sod on the baseball field in the back yard, and it looks to be quite a professional job.  As a neighbor says watching the Greenwich, Connecticut RTM on television is like watching grass grow, so they speeded up things around here by using sod.  In the old days, when www.princeton.edu  was less busy, they use have large sod farms to keep the campus green.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 5:25 A.M.  I ate 10 dried apricots.

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 4:15 A.M.  I paid my bills for www.verizon.com , www.cablevision.com for Optimum Online Boost, Digital Cable Television, and Optimum Voice Long Distance telephone service, and www.cl-p.com electricity.  I ordered from www.ordersmokesdirect.com five cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $15.99 a carton and $14.48 shipping for $94.43 total.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/29/08 Friday 3:40 A.M.  After the last note, I rearrange the apartment a bit.  I basically moved the 54 inch diameter oak table out from the living room kitchen wall towards the center of the living room, and I moved the small computer table against the wall.  This involved quite a bit of detail that I will not go in.  The Brother All Purpose machine is now sitting on the speaker behind the small computer table.  The two telephones that were at the apartment entrance are now on a tea table to the right of the of the Northgate Syntax computer.  I disconnected for now the HP Photosmart all purpose printer, and I put it on the Visioneer scanner in the bedroom.  I set up the table with four place settings and bric-a-brac.  I only have the three oak chairs at the table with more room around them, but one could swing the computer swivel chair around for a fourth chair.  I put place mats, vases, and candelabras on the table too.  However, I also have to eat at it, and keep some of my daily work items on it, so it is not as neat as it could be if one were formal dining.  I waxed the table too.  I also vacuumed the areas that I moved items around in.  There is only one small table at the French reproduction chair now with the telephone on top of the small television.  I also threw out two old HP laser cartridges.  I also used a plastic cutting board to prop up the lower left LCD monitor on the primary Vista computer, so it is aligned with the other LCD monitors.  I propped it up with a steak knife wedged in between the control panels and the IBM Home Director box which was the right size on the CPU with the other side resting on the small computer table.  To add paper to the Brother all purpose machine, I would have to pull out the small computer table, and that would also mean moving the lower left LCD monitor, and if I moved the CPU, it would be the same.  However, the overall effect in the apartment it much better, and more user friendly.  I might have to tweak it some more in the following days.  I will now pay my first of the month bills.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/28/08 Thursday 9:30 P.M.  I woke up during the early morning, and I ate 13 dried apricots.  I then finally got up at 11 A.M. this morning, when I had a computer magazine telephone call.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, and a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.

The order for tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for size 9 1/2,  Mitre Fly 77 Classic Shoes - White with 20% off coupon code "WEB20TODAY" for $17.98 and $5 ground shipping for $22.98 total was misdirected and refused at the Valley Road Post Office.  I called up UPS, and I got back to them this evening, and they are going to deliver the shoes tomorrow.  I also called www.kolhs.com to make sure the latest order is delivered to my apartment and not a level 2 delivery to the post office which the Valley Road post office claims they do not accept deliveries from UPS.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went to my usual Thursday 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought a black iron grill stand about 4 inches high with 7 square inch grill rack for $2 and a 14 inch diameter stainless steel Italian made pizza plate with a four inch high stainless steel stand for $5 for $7 total.  Both of which could be used in the Sharp Convection Microwave oven.  I then went downtown, and I walked upper Greenwich Avenue first.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and they have my same Sharp Convection Microwave oven for $475 plus 6% Connecticut sales tax which matches the cheapest price on the internet.  I bought a Weber Charcoal Grate for a 18.5 inch Weber grill which is actually about 14 inches in diameter for $7.99 and .48 tax for $8.47 total.  It can be use with the other stands or put on a Pyrex pie plate to have a higher elevated baking surface in the Sharp Convection Microwave Oven for more even convection baking.  They have a larger stoneware round pizza pan there for $20.  I then went by the Complete Kitchen Gourmet cookware shop, but they did not have anything I needed.  I then finished my walk of upper Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by briefly at CVS.  I then put my purchases in the Audi.  They were in the process of removing the flamingo statues from in front of the Senior and the Arts center.  They were done by a Greek sculpture Kasacopolis.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with a husband while his wife shopped.  I walked around the train station area, and then I sat out for a while at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I used the bathroom there.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and they have square baking trays on sale, but no round ones.  I then went by the A&P Fresh, but they did not have any round baking trays, just aluminum ones. I bought a quart of California strawberries for $2.50.  They also have California Honeydew Melons on sale there.  I then returned home.  I took the two large aluminum pots off the top of the Sharp convection oven, and I put them underneath the smoker's chair in the kitchen.  I put the two different round rack assemblies on top of the Sharp Convection Microwave oven.   I then emptied about 8 Tropicana 59 ounce orange juice containers with spare water, and I threw out the containers, which I had to do to make room for the large pots underneath the chair.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now reheat the chicken from last night, and I will steamed the same vegetables and serve them the same way.  I will also drink some watered down passion punch.  I brought up my mail, when I came in.  A relative and a friend are going to pick up the other family car tomorrow, and I will pick them up around 6 P.M. at the Greenwich Train station coming from Manhattan.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/28/08 Thursday 4:20 A.M.  Tropical Storm GUSTAV Five Day Tracking

http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm

I put the four rolls of aluminum foil on the right side of the Sharp convection oven.

Note: <888> 08/28/08 Thursday 3:25 A.M.  I was able to find these

Note: <888> 08/27/08 Wednesday 2:25 P.M.  After the last note, I watched on the channel 782, the Hallmark Movie channel high definition, the move, "The Curse of King Tut".  I went to bed about 12:30 A.M..  I woke up at 11 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, and a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.

I ordered four Chaps Jackson Pleated Twill Pants - Big & Tall in 44X30 for $5.40 each, less 10% with coupon code "NEW7857" for $2.16 off plus $5 ground shipping for $24.44 total.

I chatted with a relative.

I ordered four Logisys Fan 80mm, Blue LED (3pin and 4pin, Retail Pack LT400BL) for $15.99 with free shipping.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a little daytime activity.  I first have to shower and clean up.

Hurricane Gustav heading for New Orleans Tropical Storm GUSTAV 5 day tracking .  They generally pick up strength in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 10:25 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will possibly watch some television before going to bed.  I ate the last 7 of the dried apricots in the opened container.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 10:10 P.M.  John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 8:45 P.M.  I got the documentation together to file for the NEON Energy Assistance program on Thursday afternoon September 4, 2008.  I ate 10 dried apricots.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 8:00 P.M.  I ate a Jones' 7 ounce precooked ham steak fried over medium high to medium electric burner heat for about 4 minutes a side seasoned with Italian seasoning and fried in butter and olive oil, and I turned it repeatedly.  I put some Dijon mustard on it.  I also steamed on a steamer tray in a pot with lid and an .75 inches of water for 15 minutes two small Russet potatoes cuts into eights with baby carrots and broccoli crowns and cauliflower, about two cups worth, which I put in a bowl with butter and olive oil and Italian seasoning and parmesan and Romano grated cheese, and it ate it with a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 6:45 P.M.  I finished installing the XP Home updates on the Toshiba laptop, and without the CA security suite it runs a bit faster.  I am using the XP firewall on it.  I chatted with a relative three times.  While doing that, I took out HP Photosmart C4280 all purpose printer black ink cartridge that was not working, and I put it upside down on a paper towel on a dish, and I poured a little bit of Ronsol lighter fluid on its print head, and I let it sit for 10 minutes, and then I did it again for another 10 minutes.  I dried the outside of the cartridge with a tissue not touch the electrical contact or print head.  I then reinstalled it, and it now works just fine.  I ran the alignment cycle and the print head cleaning cycle.  I now have it available for color photo printing, which is its primary purpose.

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 5:15 P.M.  I ate 10 dried apricots yesterday, and I ate 10 dried apricots just now.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 4:55 P.M.  I picked up my mail.  I chatted with neighbors.  Two neighbors who are smokers outside of the north end of the building have colds.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 4:30 P.M.  I uninstalled the CA security suite off the 10 year old Toshiba laptop, so it now runs faster, and I am now installing the XP Home updates on it.  I will now mail the rebate and holiday aid letters.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/26/08 Tuesday 3:55 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I watched some television on the Science channel #170 on my Cablevision Digital television system. 

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, and a glass of  50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I filled out the $20 rebate information on the computer memory I received yesterday, and I have it ready to mail.  I ran a test print out on the Epson Stylus Color 800 printer, and it still works fine.  However, the black ink cartridge does not work on the HP  Photosmart C4280 all purpose printer.  I ran a couple of cleaning and priming cycles to no avail.  I chatted with a Staples in Old Greenwich, where I bought it the first week of May 2008, and they told me, it only comes with starter cartridges that are nearly empty.  I chatted with HP, and they told me the cartridges that come with it are 80% full, and the black ink cartridge probably dried out, and I should replace it.  I have two new starter cartridges in the similar unit, I just purchased, but since I never use it, there is no point in installing the cartridges, until I need to use it.  I might need to use it to print out my Christmas letters before Christmas time.  I will now fill out the form from the Greenwich Department of Social Services for my Holiday food vouchers.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/25/08 Monday 10:05 P.M.  I sat out a couple of times this afternoon.  I watched a program about the new large 600 seat Airbus.  Tracking is "35786272082" at DHL: Track (By number) Detail for the order FRYS.com | CRUCIAL CRUCIAL DDR 1GB PC3200 MEMORY for $11.99 after $20 mail in rebate with free shipping for $31.99 before mail in rebate arrived.  I tried installing it in the primary Vista computer and the Epox computer, but it was not compatible with the existing memory.  I finally installed it in the bedroom Gigabyte computer, so it now has 1.75 gigabytes of memory.  I also installed a better coaxial cable on the Leadtek TV card in the bedroom Gigabyte computer, so the TV quality on it is better.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate the other half of the salad from last night with some watered down passion punch.  I also ate 20 dried apricots this afternoon.  I will fill out the $20 rebate information on the memory tomorrow.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/25/08 Monday 1:05 A.M.  They are fixing up the playing field in the back yard by the skating rink, so there is now a big pile of old dirt and sod in the parking lot and another big pile of fresh dirt in the diamond field.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I enjoy getting out a little bit more often now that summer is ending soon, so I can get use to some of my more active cold weather routines.  I really have difficulty taking the heat of the summer around here, which is why I spend most of my time around the air conditioner in my apartment during the summer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/25/08 Monday 12:40 A.M.  Well, the Queen of Denmark use to vacation in the winter in Key West, Florida The Danish Monarchy , so I probably know one or two other Danish people.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/08 Monday 12:20 A.M.  There are one and possibly two photographs of me when I was thin and tan after returning from Florida in 1977 and 1978, and those are the staff photographs taken at the Gordon Folger Hotel in Nantucket those summers.  I recall, Michael the baker was also from Key West, and he later became the bartender at the Languedoc in Nantucket and the Fogarty House in Key West, and then the two chefs were from Panama.  Well, it was warm by the cast iron storm in the kitchen, when your blood is thinned out.  The owners of the Gordon Folger Hotel were the Bowman family from Canada, and I recall Scotty Bowman thought we were rather suspicious looking characters.  The rest of the staff were pretty much well fed pale northern people.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 11:55 P.M.  I ate 20 dried apricots.

Alas, I was never agile enough to skateboard, and I have spent most of my life walking around for exercise.  If you want to explore areas where skateboards do not work so well, it helps if you can walk.

One relative recently walked up and down Mount Washington for a little bit of exercise, which I do not think I would be up to doing.

If you lived in Florence, Italy, you could try walking up and down the steps of Duomo, which I only did once.

I noticed one person downtown that I know has lost about 50 pounds, and I noticed a lot of other people have lost weight, so I guess people are eating less and getting more exercise.  The easiest way I know to lose weight is to try living in Key West, Florida for about six months in the winter, and eat a six inch long piece of Cuban bread for breakfast, and a yogurt and orange juice for lunch, and a plate of beans and rice or peanut butter sandwich for dinner if you are lucky, and walk around all of the time, and like me back in 1976 to 1978, I went from about 185 pounds in Greenville, South Carolina to 125 pounds, when I left Key West, Florida both in the spring of 1977 and 1978, but I was also darkly tanned, so when I returned up north, they thought I was a Puerto Rican, but I did not know Spanish.  Here is what I looked like when I was heavier at 155 pounds back in October 1983 at age 33, when I left Nantucket, but I was not in the sun that much after I left Florida in 1978 http://mikelouisscott.com/mike-scott-kennebunkport-maine-august-1983.jpg  .  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 11:25 P.M.  If any public individuals from overseas have any complaints, they are suppose to take it up with their respective consulates and embassies.  Since my family has lived here for close to 400 years, I tend to go along with the status quo versus the talking head status quo.  From what little I know about geo politics, in the old days of the cold war with Russia when it was a much larger country, the United States of America had about 5,000 thermonuclear missiles, and Russia was suppose to have around 60,000.  Whether any of them work after all of these years, is opened to question, and more than likely there are more advanced weapon systems that the general public does not know about.  I do know from one recent B.B.C. news story on the poisoning of a Russian spy in England, that Russian claimed they were not involved, since if they had done it, they had poisons that can not be detected.  It sort of makes one think that they might have the upper hand with all of the foreign operatives around here.

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 10:20 P.M.  Vesuvius -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia on this day in 79 A.D..

BBC NEWS | Europe | Hopes fade for avalanche victims

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 9:40 P.M.  I put a new 25 watt GE bent tip bulb in the far living room left sconce.  I am throwing out the 20 month old 32 ounce On Cor frozen baked sliced turkey meal, since it is probably too old.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 9:00 P.M.  I took the large wooded salad bowl, so I washed it cleaned.  I then took the last third of a head of Foxy iceberg lettuce that I bought about two weeks ago, and it was still fresh since I had it in the refrigerator in its original wrapping, and I peeled off the rest of its leaves, and I ripped them into two to three inch pieces, and I added them to the salad bowl.  I then added about a half cup of broccoli crowns with stalks cuts into quart inch chunks.   I then added 15 baby carrots that I cut lengthwise in quarters.  I then added one medium peeled and diced yellow onion.  I then added two Kosher dill pickles that I cut into quarter inch chunks.  I then opened up a 3.75 ounce tin of Beach Cliff sardines, and I added the oil to the mixture, and I cut the sardines into half inch chunks, and I added them into the mixture.  I then took four slices of Kraft processed American cheese, and I cut them into 1 inch by .25 inch slices, and I added them.  I put three strips of bacon on two paper towels on a microwave proof plate with a paper towel on top and a microwave lid on top of the plate, and I microwaved the bacon for 4.5 minutes.  I then crumbled the bacon on the salad.  I toasted an English muffin well done, and I cut it into half inch cubes, and I added it for croutons. I then added about a third of a cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.  I then added a half teaspoon of Maggi seasoning, and some Italian spice seasoning,  about eight tablespoons of Tunisian extra virgin olive oil, four tablespoons of Italian balsamic vinegar and about a few ounces of Kraft Balsamic salad dressing, and I mixed it all together with Canadian Goose salad fork and spoon, until it was thoroughly mixed.  I then put 40% on a dinner plate, and I put the other 60% in a large Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I ate tonight's portion with a glass of 1/4th passion punch and 3/4ths cold filtered water.  I chatted with a relative.  The emergency pull cord alarm went off for the second time in two nights.  Once again it was families in the community room having a party, and they pull the emergency pull cord in the mail room bathrooms by mistake, and once again it took about a half hour to reset.  I chatted with a couple of neighbors.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 6:25 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $3.39 both six packs.  I chatted with a local.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with visitors from Yugoslavia.  I chatted with a local.  I stopped by CVS again, and I bought four 16 ounce cans of Sunsweet Mediterranean dried apricots for $2.50 each can.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I chatted with a relative who was traveling on my wireless AT&T Go Phone.  There seems to be a few visitors today.  I then returned home.  I ate the rest of the last can of almonds.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 4:40 A.M.  Earlier, I ate half of the 10.8 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I also ate a bowl of the pineapple strawberry mixture.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Maybe some of the adult writers will produce some more interesting content once the children go back to school.  People around here are not really interested in Professional Sports, since they tend to work a lot, they do not have time for watching Professional Sports.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/24/08:

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 2:15 A.M.  Another oil brat Hugh D. Auchincloss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  Of course Standard Oil distributed oil from other families' lands which families managed to remain more private.  Wall Street: A History : from Its ... - Google Book Search .

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 1:50 A.M.  Ready-Made Rockefeller - NYTimes.com  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 1:30 A.M.  More than likely President Bush does something Welcome to the White House , but the liberal media does not cover him up this far up north, since they are too busy trying sell women's dresses for the www.nytimes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 1:25 A.M.  I ate 20 almonds.  I put away the laundry.  From my experience, if you spend a lot of time downtown on Greenwich Avenue at night and in the early morning hours, you begin to feel like Boo Radley Boo Radley - Google Search in "To Kill a Mockingbird" .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 12:20 A.M.  Obama's cabinet FBI - Most Wanted - The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives . CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/08 Sunday 12:10 A.M.  I have a half hour to go on the dry cycle of the laundry.  I chatted with a neighbor while putting in the laundry in the dryer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/08 Saturday 11:30 P.M.  I woke up at 6 P.M..  There was a false emergency pull cord alarm in the building that took a half hour to check out and turn off.  There did not appear to have been any lights above any of the doors on indicating a problem.  I ate four egg omelet with grate parmesan and Romano cheese two slices of processed cheese along with five strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with butter and watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 10 P.M..  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I am about ready to start the dry cycles.  I put clean linens on the bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/23/08 Saturday 1:55 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/08 Saturday 1:25 P.M.  I finished off the can of almonds, and I made up a batch of passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/08 Saturday 1:20 P.M.  I woke up at 7:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary Vista computer to the Bytecc external hard drive, and then I did it from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I no longer seem to get the Blue Screen crashes with this the Nvidia drivers for my two GeForce 6200 AGP and PCI video cards http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm . I got a solution message to install the older drivers 96.85 Nvidia Answer which I did which seem to have solved the problem with my two video cards and four LCD monitor setup.  I watched Laurel and Hardy movies on the Turner Movie channel while waiting for the backups to complete.  www.johnmccain.com looks a little bit like Stan Laurel.  A relative is suppose to pick up the family car next Friday and take it to Kennebunkport, Maine.  CIO        

Note: <888> 08/22/08 Friday 7:30 P.M.  Earlier this morning before I finally got up, I ate about 1/4th of a 10.8 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a regular.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 10.8 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds. I ate about a fourth of the can while sitting out downtown.  The ski shop at the top of Greenwich Avenue has moved to Old Greenwich.  I finished my walk.  I used the bathroom again at the senior and the arts center.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.  The order for order for two New Cooler Master 60mm x 10mm CPU Replacement fan for $6.99 each and $4.22 postage for $18.20 total arrived.  I put them in the box on top of the sideboard bookcase with the other computer parts and CPU coolers.  I watched some television, and I ate the rest of the can of almonds.  I am a bit tired, so I will now take a nap.  Have a good evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/08 Friday 2:10 P.M.  I woke up at 11 A.M..  The water to the building had been turned off and back flushed, so there was rust and dirt in the water.  I ran the bath tub water, until it ran clear again.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.

I had a telephone call from Microsoft in the Philippines about TS2 Event: Increase your customer offerings and drive your business! Manhattan, August 26, 2008, and I explained to them, I probably would not be able to afford to attend.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.

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I will now eat a bowl of the pineapple strawberry mixture, and I will then shower, and I will clean up.  I will then go downtown to face the masses of village idiots downtown, whom are trying to get ready for school next week.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/08 Friday 12:35 A.M. The Top 15 Wealthiest Royals - Forbes.com

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Note: <888> 08/21/08 Thursday 11:05 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with some of the regulars, and I read National Geographic.  I then went to my usual Thursday 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a Green Backs scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 10.8 ounce cans of CVS smoked almonds for $2.99 each for $5.98 total.  I stopped by the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then walked back to Greenwich Avenue, and I finished my walk down Greenwich Avenue.  I tried sitting in the little park across from CVS, but a bee buzzed me away.  I finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I chatted with a few locals during my walk.  I then drove over to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99 and a head of cauliflower for $2.99 for $5.98 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I put away my purchases.  I received the Viewcon VE091 USB to 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter, USB Ethernet Adapter with coupon code of "HW19225OFF" for $5.49 with free shipping.  I installed it on the Northgate Syntax computer.  Vista did not recognize it with a driver, but I was able to download it from this site Realtek Viewcon VE091 USB to 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter, USB Ethernet Adapter Drive Download , and it worked just fine.  It is only USB 1.0, and not 2.0, so on the Northgate Syntax computer, I only get 5 MBPS download and upload versus 15 MBPS and 7 MBPS with the LAN card.  I removed the LAN card from the third slot, and I installed the Hauppauge WinTV Go card, and I then reinstalled its program, and it works just fine.  I leave it on channel 3 and with it with the Digital Cable Box it is connected to, since its remote control is at that same location.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a eight ounce hamburger with a slice of cheese on a bun with ketchup along with a large bowl of steamed russet potato chunks, broccoli crowns, asparagus, and baby carrots with butter and olive oil and water down passion punch.  I also ate 10 almonds.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/08 Thursday 12:35 P.M.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and a 1/3rd of a tube of Pringle potato chips with a glass of watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will shower and I will clean up, and I will go out early for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/08 Thursday 11:40 A.M.  I ordered Newegg.com - HP Deskjet F4280 CB656A Up to 26 ppm 4800 x 1200 dpi Thermal Inkjet MFC / All-In-One Color Printer - Printer - Inkjet Printers for $29.99 with discount coupon code "EMCAJCBBD" for $29.99 with free shipping.  It is like the one that I already have.  I will keep it for backup.  I will not bother installing it.  I paid for it, and I did not charge it.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/08 Thursday 10:50 A.M.  I woke up at 5 A.M.. 

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I will put it in the primary Vista computer, so it will have 3 gigabytes of computer memory, and I will move the PNY 512 meg. memory chip to the Bedroom Gigabyte computer, so it will 1.25 gigabytes of memory.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage.  I said good morning to neighbors.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 11:30 P.M.  I ate a bowl of low fat Cheez-its.

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 10:20 P.M.  Since I still walk quite a bit, and although I have a lot of shoes, I ordered in size 9 1/2,  Mitre Fly 77 Classic Shoes - White with 20% off coupon code "WEB20TODAY" for $17.98 and $5 ground shipping for $22.98 total.  They look a little bit like the Addidas Country sneakers I use to wear all of the time in my younger days.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.  I chatted with a relative earlier and another relative a few minutes ago.  The news is talking about war with Russia, but from my view point, we can not afford to go to war with anyone let alone get over there, so I guess the Russians will have to come over here to start the war.  We already have over a half million new Russian immigrants in the New York area over the last 20 years which we could hold hostage in case the Russian continue with their hostile ways.  There are only 150 million people in Russia today, and there are over 2.5 billion people in the Western Hemisphere, so generally we tend to have pretty good security here.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 9:15 P.M.  FOXNews.com - Tropical Storm Fay Floods Hundreds of Homes in Central Florida - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 9:10 P.M.  Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled - CNN.com

Medicare.gov - Hospital Compare  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 9:05 P.M.  I slept until 5 P.M., when I had a computer magazine telephone call.  For dinner, I ate a baked breaded boneless breast of chicken with two small baked russet potatoes with butter and steamed broccoli crowns, baby carrots, and sliced asparagus with butter and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  The police and EMT were at the family apartments.  I picked up my mail.  I chatted briefly with a friend.  www.foxnews.com said the Melbourne, Florida had over 20 inches of rain today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 1:20 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 12:55 P.M.  I ate a 6 ounce Yoplait mixed berry yogurt.  Yogurt has a lot of enzymes in it that are good for the body's natural digestion system.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 12:45 P.M.  BBC NEWS | Health | Fruit juice 'could affect drugs'

BBC NEWS | UK | Airport face scanners tested

That news story does not matter anyway, because in America, we can not afford to go anywhere anymore anyway, and the visitors find us so boring, nobody ever visits us anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 12:10 P.M.  I went outside briefly, and I said hello to neighbors.  I guess the fashion crowd on Greenwich Avenue miss my low key fashion presence out there.  Not many people seem to be interested in computers except the financial crowd that uses them for online trading.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 11:40 A.M.  I tried installing the IBM Home Directory System on the FIC server, but it does not work, since I use a power strip with surge protection on the FIC server, and I do not want to run it without surge protection.

To decrease system resources on the primary Vista and the FIC Vista computers, I ran this command BigG's: Turn Off Hibernate in Vista to turn off hibernate in Vista.

I had a call from a Wireless Computer magazine about a free subscription.

I ate about 25% of a 13.5 ounce box of low fat Cheez-its.  There is a 75 cents off coupon on the inside wall of the box for the next purchase.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 8:55 A.M.   One Laptop per Child Lands in India  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 8:40 A.M.  106 mpg 'air car' creates buzz, questions - CNN.com  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/08 Wednesday 8:30 A.M.  I woke up at 5 A.M..  I had a telephone call at 9 P.M. last night that I did not answer, and nobody left a message.  I was a bit tired.  I watched the special on www.foxnews.com about www.johnmccain.com .  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a friend.  I threw out the garbage.  I found a black umbrella in the dumpster that I put in the rear window of the Audi.  I saw the building custodian arriving early.  I will now do some regular internet work.  Although I really need more exercise walks with the higher prices of fuel it is expensive to go downtown regularly for a walk, and since I have invested in a first class office at home, I feed I should try to make the best use of it.  I used to have a large extensive network of republican friends around the country, but living around so many liberal democrats, I have lost touch with most of them, and since the liberal republican group of Rockefellers seem to control this area, they have chosen not to invest in my more conservative republican activities over the years.  Thus most of the people I have networked with while living here have similar experiences to myself from living elsewhere in the world and the country and quite a few of them are veterans that do not tell anyone too much, since Connecticut still is a primary defense contracting state, once you quit reading the local press that only sells real estate for those that can afford it in this area.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 8:35 P.M.  I ate a Maria Callendar 21 ounce beef lasagna with some grated parmesan and Romano cheese with some diluted passion punch.  I chatted with two relatives.

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 7:05 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read P.C. World Magazine.  I chatted with a few regulars.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I have to fill out my Energy Assistance application on September 4, 2008.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought an IBM Home Director starter kit for $3.  They have some clothes on sale for 75% off.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $14 of self service premium for $4.619 a gallon for 3.031 gallons for 35.8 miles driving since August 8, 2008 at odometer reading of 60982 for 11.8112834 miles per gallon in mostly local heavy traffic with the air conditioner at at 66 degrees Fahrenheit.  I cleaned the windows, and I checked the tires all around for 36 Pounds Per Square Inch.  I chatted with a Mobil employee that I know, and I chatted with a local plumber, and I chatted with a friend driving a Lotus automobile.  I then returne home.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I relaxed a bit in my smoking chair in the kitchen.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment downtown, so I will go out a little bit early and kill some time downtown.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 12:25 P.M.  Michael Phelps Beijing Sports College Athletics College Aquatic Sports Culture and Lifestyle - SI Vault

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Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 11:35 A.M.  I went outside, and I chatted briefly with neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 10:20 A.M.  Bill Clinton's birthday Bill Clinton -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 10:15 A.M.  The GE air conditioner repair man came shortly after the last note.  He checked out the unit, and he said it was just fine.  All they could do in the future is take it our for two weeks and clean the coils in Long Island, but I also could do that myself if I left it off and let it return to room temperature and clean it with my one gallon steamer.  However, it is a sealed unit, so one can not add Freon.  Also it is cooling properly, and if it is not putting out enough temperature, he suggested turning down the temperature on it, which I did.  He said at this time of year, there is no point taking it out for two weeks for cleaning, since I will need it.  I put the items on the window shelf back in their usual position.  I cleaned the window shelf first.  I move the vintage wooden tool box to the far right of the window shelf, so it is not as conspicuous, and I moved the pathos plant to the center of the window shelf, so it is better seen.  Thus it also looks better.  I set the air conditioner on medium fan speed at 66 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is currently 72 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment.  I also have both tower fans going to blow the cool air around the apartment.  I chatted with a relative.  When the GE air conditioner maintenance contract expires on September 16, 2008, my relative told me not to renew it, and if the unit ever fails after eight years so far, we will just buy a new one.  Of course that probably means I will have to install it myself and remove the old one, which was part of the reason for having the maintenance contract, so I would not ever have to do that which is quite tedious and difficult and they weigh a lot.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 8:15 A.M.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I received a call from GE Service that they are on their way.  I moved some of the chairs out of the way, so there is more room to access the air conditioner.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 7:20 A.M.  I went outside briefly.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips along with some diluted passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/19/08 Tuesday 6:10 A.M.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the first hard drive to the second hard drive after the last note.  I went to bed about 2 P.M..  I had a call from the GE reminding my of the air conditioning service appointment between 8 A.M. and noon this morning.  I woke up at 1 A.M..  I watched the local weather from Key West, Florida at www.liveduvalstreet.com .  It does not seem to be too bad down there.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I removed the items from the living room window shelf around the air conditioner, so it can be more easily serviced.  It removes from its case by removing the front cover, and then removing the two retaining screws on the lower front on each side, and it slides out of its case, so it can be serviced.  Besides not being cold enough the front moving louvers have not moved for five years, so I have used a tower fan to blow the cool air around the living room.  I also put a sheet over the living room sofa, so it will not get dirty when working on the air conditioner.  If the unit case had to be removed, one would have to remove the insulation hand towels from in between the two halves of the window upper and lower and then remove the Plexiglas from the left side of the opening of the window, and the Plexiglas is held in by duct tape, and then removed insulation hand towels from the right side and open the window further.  Also would have to remove the styrofoam insulation from around the unit which is held in by duct tape.  Then the case could be lifted out with its wall leg supports or possibly disassembled from the roof outside.  It is GE's option to replace the unit or not.  I do not know if the replacement unit would fit in the same case or not.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went by the Chase Bank on Mason Street, and I used the ATM machine. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  At the top of Greenwich Avenue, I walked east as far as the Y.M.C.A. and back browsing the shops on both sides of East Putnam Avenue.  It looks like the new Y.M.C.A. pool might be opened for early morning swimming for its members.  I then finished my walk, and I returned back to my apartment after my walk.  I do not drive down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road anymore, because it costs me an extra dollar round trip from the center of Greenwich Avenue. Each round trip downtown to the Senior and the Arts center from Byram costs me about $2.50 round trip.  The Queen Mary II is back in Manhattan today QM2 - Itinerary - 2008 , so maybe we will have some British tourists around.  I also have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  CIO 

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Note: <888> 08/18/08 Monday 11:50 A.M.  I made up another batch of the pineapple strawberry mixture.  I went outside, and I threw away the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I will now fry an 8 ounce hamburger, and I will eat it on a defrosted bun with ketchup.  I will also steam some baby carrots, broccoli crowns, quartered small russet potatoes and sliced asparagus which I will put some butter on and a little bit of olive oil on.  I will eat it all with the watered down passion punch mixture.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/08 Monday 10:05 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove over to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a 12 roll package of CVS toilet paper for $4.99 and two one liter bottles of CVS Antiseptic Oral Rinse for $2 each and .54 tax for $9.53 total.  I then bought as a clearance item 5 two packs of 15 watt light bulbs for .87 a two pack and .26 tax for $4.61 total.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of Thomas' New York Everything bagels for $3, a 16 slice package of Stop and Shop low fat white processed cheese for $2.50, two half gallons of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $1.99 each, German Wondabar double thick sliced baloney at $2.99 a pound for $3.39, a 13.5 ounce box of low fat Cheez-its for $2.50, a pound of fresh strawberries for $2.99, and fresh green bananas for .64 a pound for $1.91 for $20.27 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases, and I put them away.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/08 Monday 6:30 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips along with a glass of cold watered down passion punch.  I checked out the bedroom generic computer testing its CD and Hard drives with various cables and alternative drives, and I determined the motherboard controller had failed, so it is no good.  I disassembled the generic computer salvaging parts just leaving in the CPU.  I will throw out the case shortly.  I straightened up the bedroom.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a walk after I get dressed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/18/08 Monday 3:20 A.M.  Although the generic system seems to work.  When I ran the low level format and ran the MaxBlast test, it indicated there might be a read problem on the 20 gigabyte Maxtor hard drive, and the system just crashed installing the last of the updates, which I am now installing again.  The hard drive could be replaced, but if it were the motherboard hard drive controller, the system would not be useable, so for now until I troubleshoot the system more, I will not order the extra memory which at the moment I can not really afford.  Also in installing the 10 gigabyte hard drive, it is adjacent to the 20 gigabyte hard drive, so there might not be enough cooling for the hard drives, but I could mount the 10 gigabyte hard drive in a 5.25 inch bay for better cooling.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 12:10 P.M.  I ate some Dutch sour dough pretzels.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will let the Ubuntu install on the generic computer continue running.  Possibly with the generic case, I could build a faster computer with the spare parts that I have in the apartment, but it is not really necessary, but I will think about it.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 11:10 A.M.  The portable DVD player is a Trutech Go Anywhere 7 inch DVD player Model No. PVS12701B date 2005 like this Trutech® 7" Portable DVD Player - Silver (PVS12701) : Target.  I plugged in my adjustable transformer set to the 9 volts with the right adapter, and it works just fine.  I am now charging it up.  I do not know if the rechargeable battery will take a charge or not.  I left it on top of the Toshiba laptop in the living room.  I am still installing Ubuntu on the generic bedroom computer.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 10:15 A.M.   I threw out the garbage after the last note.  Somebody had discarded a desktop computer by the dumpster and a portable DVD player.  I brought them both up to my apartment.  I tested the desktop in the bedroom, and it works.  It is a generic desktop with a AMD 700 MHz processor and a 128 megs of memory and a 32 meg AGP card with LAN card and sound card and 20 gigabyte hard drive and a internal telephone modem.  It had Windows 2000 on it, but it was password protected.  I set it up the left of the Gigabyte bedroom computer desktop.  I put the Dell 17 inch monitor on top of it with the Visioneer scanner connected the Gigabyte on top of the monitor.  I connected its power to the speaker power strip.  I installed the 4 port Netgear router and the generic headset, and I connected it with a Y splitter to one of the two pairs of speakers in the window.  I hooked up the Logitech cordless mouse and a Microsoft keyboard.  I set its CMOS settings.   I downloaded the latest version of www.ubuntu.com from www.mit.edu .  I burned it to a CD.  I did a 2% low level format of the hard drive.  I am now installing Ubuntu on the generic bedroom computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 6:30 A.M.  I put another blue tablet in the toilet tank, when I did my house cleaning on this past Friday.  There is not worth bottom fishing for on the internet, but I always keep looking hoping to find a bargain on something I might be able to use, and that usually takes a bit of time.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/17/08:

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 5:15 A.M.  BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Green Room | Camera spots rare clouded leopard 

I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 5:00 A.M.  I put away the laundry.  I made up another patch of passion punch.  I forgot to defrost some meat, so I had a meatless dinner.  I steamed for 15 minutes in a pot on a steamer tray with 3/4th of an inch of water four 1.5 inch diameter russet potatoes cuts into quarter, 4 small broccoli spears, 1/3 of a pound of asparagus with the ends cut off at an angle, and cut into 1/3rd lengths, and about 15 baby carrots.  I put four pads of butter on the steamed vegetables and a teaspoon of olive oil, and I ate it all with a 20% mixture of passion punch and 80% mixture of cold filtered water.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 3:30 A.M.  Refurbishing an old approach to PC recycling - CNET News.com 

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 2:40 A.M.  I put the laundry in the dryer, and I have 45 minutes on the dry cycle.  I went outside briefly, and I saw a jet way up in the sky flying towards the East, but over Greenwich it made a turn towards the southwest, so maybe they are heading back to the Middle East, where they still have cheap energy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/08 Sunday 2:15 A.M.  Haier Microwave - Electrics - Kitchen - Macy's $40 and $12 shipping.

I am doing two loads of laundry.  I have 12 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I ate a bowl of Dutch sour dough pretzels.  It does not seem like the Dutch have much of a presence in this area anymore, since they now have a much higher standard of living in Europe.  I was told on Thursday afternoon during my appointment that the Scottish have a much higher standard of living in Scotland with all of their north sea oil compared to the standard of living in the United States.  Maybe I could apply for foreign aid from Scotland and the Netherlands.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/08 Saturday 11:55 P.M.  After the last note, I ate the rest of the linguine with tomato and shrimp sauce with grated parmesan and Romano cheese along with a glass of 20% passion punch and 80% cold filtered water.  I threw out the garbage.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I then picked up my mail.  I then went to bed until 10:30 P.M..  I watched part of the Greenwich RTM meeting of August 14, 2008 debating on how to install a stop sign and cross walk at Shore Road and Sound Beach Avenue in Old Greenwich.  Apparently there is a problem there with morning commuters from Stamford, Connecticut driving too fast to the Old Greenwich train station in access of 45 miles per hour.  They apparently do not have sidewalks yet at that location.  Since the primary Vista computer still occasionally crashes, I had thought it might be hackers, but I now think it is the Nvidia drivers for my two GeForce 6200 AGP and PCI video cards http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm . I got a solution message to install the older drivers 96.85 Nvidia Answer which I did which will hopefully solve the problem with my two video cards and four LCD monitor setup.  I will now eat a bowl of the pineapple fruit mixture with a diluted glass of passion punch.  It is the nature of eating pineapples or pineapple juice since they tend to grow on volcanic soil which is rich in sulphur that pineapple can give one a lot of intestinal gas that smells like sulphur, but it is the same with the white sulphur in the MSM that I take for my arthritis.  I was not planning to be in mixed company anytime soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/08 Saturday 4:15 P.M.  The way I figure it with the hurricane season starting, it is going to get warmer up here.  The GE air conditioner has not been putting out too much cold air this summer, and the apartment has been around 78 degrees Fahrenheit most of the time in the apartment.  I paid $600 for the GE Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control at Partridge and Rockwell eight years ago, and I have since spent close to $800 or more on service contracts since then, so I have over $1,400 invested in the current unit.  I called up GE Service at 1-800-626-2224, and I schedule a repair service on Tuesday August 19, 2008 between 8 A.M. and noon.  They told me under the service contract they either repair the unit, and at their discretion, they can also replace it with a new one at no extra charge.  Thus it is worth maintaining the service contract that I currently have, since they pay to replace the unit, if it is needed.  Also the front moving louvers have not worked in five years or more.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/08 Saturday 5:15 A.M.  I downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia driver on the primary Vista computer.  I will now shut it down, and I will go back to sleep for a while.  I ate a Kashi bar.

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Note: <888> 08/16/08 Saturday 4:05 A.M.  I watched some more television.  Well not much seems to be happening on this the quiet side of the planet.  I guess with the higher prices of fuel around here, there is not much late night and early morning activity anymore.  I suppose not many people venture into Manhattan anymore for any sort of weekend activity.  There more than likely are still plenty of people around here trying to figure out how they will keep their homes warm this winter with the lack of fuel.  I have been told that the Greenwich schools go back into session this coming week which is earlier than usual, so maybe they are expecting more snow days this winter.  I have made up my mind to stick with my computer activity for now, since that is what I know how to do best.  I am totally oblivious to the National political scene, and from what I can tell no matter whom gets elected the over situation in the country will probably not improve very much.  Writers are not paid very much, so there is always something for people to read about or for the talking heads on television to talk about.  As far as the overall general economic situation, we are now more prisoners of our environment with out very much happening.  Since this area has a lot of people in the communications and finance and transportation industries with the many service industries revolving around those activities with the decrease of activity in this area, there is less for a lot of people to keep busy with.  One can always start using the internet to think of ways to get better prepared for winter such as that one might still get free shipping LL Bean Coupons, LLBean.com Coupon Codes - DealCatcher , and one might consider ordering L.L.Bean: Search Results Union Suits or even two, if you plan to be around this winter with minimal heating available.  Of course if and when it gets colder here, we will get a few people venturing out of the north land heading south, and possibly some people from the north country might show up around here if they can afford it to escape the colder conditions to the north of us.  More than likely since we never hear anything out of Canada, the Canadians whom are use to colder weather might be doing better overall with more energy, but from what I can tell, there do not seem to many Canadians showing up in past winters, since when they leave Canada, they would rather show up in warmer places to the south of us.  Of course it is still warm around here, and I am still using the air conditioner to stay cool on the warmer days.  Downtown at night, it is mostly a few youngsters hanging out, but on weekends there still are a few people whom seem to be able to afford to go out to dinner which generates a little bit of activity downtown.  Of course with the Welcome to Greenwich Library , one can always stay home and read a book to escape into some new adventure.

There is now no current movie theatre in town anymore, just the art cinema Art house hits Railroad Ave. - Greenwich Time

CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/08 Saturday 2:35 A.M.  I woke up at 11:30 P.M..  I watched a Gary Cooper and Ritz Hayworth movie about Mexico on the Turner Movie channel.  While doing that I took a 16 ounce box of linguine, and I filled a 5 quart Revere pot 60% full of water, and I added a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of salt, and I brought it to a boil.  I cooked the linguine 9 minutes, and I drained it in a colander, and I put have in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I put half on a dinner plate.  While doing that I took a 26 ounce jar of Barilla roasted garlic tomato sauce, and I put in in a pot, and I brought it to a simmer over medium high electric burner heat, and I added three peeled and minced cloves of garlic and a peeled and diced medium onion, and I seasoned it with garlic powder, Italian seasoning, ground black pepper, a tablespoon of olive oil and a half teaspoon of Maggi seasoning.  I also took a 16 ounce bag of frozen cooked shrimp, and I rinsed the ingredients in a colander under cold water, and I added them for the last five minutes of the tomato sauce cooking altogether about 15 minutes.  I then put half the tomato sauce mixture on the linguine on the dinner plate and half in a Rubbermaid container, and I seasoned the portion I was to eat for dinner with grated parmesan and Romano sauce, and I ate it all with a glass of 20% passion punch and 80% cold filtered water.  After the movie, I threw out the garbage with the shrimp tails, so the apartment would not smell.  It seems to be a full moon out tonight.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/08 Friday 4:25 P.M.   John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President Contribute

Note: <888> 08/15/08 Friday 3:50 P.M.  After I cleaned up, I went outside, and I threw out the shipping box.  I then chatted with some neighbors.  I then picked up mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/15/08 Friday 2:05 P.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M. today.  During the night, I woke up, and I ate the last of the low fat Cheez-its.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I did my house cleaning, and I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  The order for tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Seagate Technology - ST3160023A-RK - Internal 3.5-inch Ultra ATA/100 160-GB Hard Drive for $34.99 and $2.10 tax with free shipping for $37.09 total arrived.  I will now eat a baloney and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips along with a glass of 20% passion punch and 80% cold filtered fresh water.  I will then shower, and I will clean up.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/15/08 Friday 12:20 A.M.  As far as I know the only activity the Duke of Windsor ever did in Greenwich, Connecticut was on a visit as the Prince of Wales back around 1926, he dedicated a statue at the Electrolux Welcome to Electrolux USA vacuum cleaner factory in old Greenwich, Connecticut.  Electrolux was owned by a Swedish friend of his, and that friend use to lend the Duke of Windsor his yacht the Southern Cross to travel back and forth to Europe on.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  The local expert on the Duke of Windsor that I used to chat with was Wilbur Banks, the Electrolux vacuum cleaner salesman in Greenwich for many years, and Wilbur was also in the Duke of Windsor's honor guard in Newport, Rhode Island during World War II.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 9:40 P.M.  I made and ate a four egg omelet with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and two slices of Kraft processed cheese along with two slices of toast with butter and five strips of low sodium fried bacon along with a glass of 20% passion punch and 80% cold filtered water.  I threw out the garbage and the shipping box.  I picked up my mail.  I got a fund raising letter from the wife of www.johnmccain.com , and his birthday is on August 29, 1935.  Since I have already donated $10 to his campaign, and since I advertise him with the window sticker that I purchased and put in the rear window of my car, and since I use my web site to advertise his campaign, I feel I have done my fair share to support his campaign.  I will now go through my email.  I do not watch that much television news, just bits and pieces of www.foxnews.com when I have meals, so I really do not know much about what is going on in the Talking Heads media, but I have always supported Republican Party candidates, and I will continue to do so.  Of course I did support Bob Dole against one of the Bushs that ran against him in a primary many moons ago.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 7:40 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I wished the relative Happy Birthday.

To have spare fans for my new Thermaltake Volcano 10 CPU heat sink coolers, I ordered two New Cooler Master 60mm x 10mm CPU Replacement fan for $6.99 each and $4.22 postage for $18.20 total.

I chatted with my relative again.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 6:00 P.M.  I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I chatted with a neighbor on the way out.  I returned from my 3 P.M. appointment.  I chatted with a neighbor.  The order for tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for two Thermaltake Volcano 10 All Copper CPU Cooler for Athlon XP up to 3400+ & Athlon MP up to 2600+-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $14.99 each and $9.45 UPS ground shipping for $39.43 total arrived.  I installed one of the Thermaltake Volcano 10 CPU coolers on the FIC server.  It has a 70,000 hour life span.  I noticed that the copper hink seat on old CPU coolers does not deteriorate, so technically one could install a 60 mm fan with 3 pin connector on an old heat sink from the CPU cooler, and one would save a bit of money

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 1:20 P.M.  Before taking a nap, I ate two bowls of low fat Cheez-its.  I got up at noon.  I ate a bowl of the pineapple fruit mixture with a 20% mixture of passion punch and 80% mixture of cold filtered fresh water.  I will now make my bed, and I will shower and clean up, and I will get ready for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 9:35 A.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now try to cat nap some more.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 8:30 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate a bowl of the pineapple strawberry mixture.

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Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 2:40 A.M.  2008 Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA - 15-19 December 2008 | Main / Welcome!

Note: <888> 08/14/08 Thursday 2:10 A.M.  After the last note, I ran some of utilities, and I ran disk cleaner on the C: drive to clean up the unneeded files.  I then did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second.  I ate a bowl of the pineapple strawberry mixture.  I went to bed about 11:30 A.M..  I woke up at 5 P.M.  I move my Audi to one of its usual places.  I picked up the mail.  I said hello to a neighbor.  One of the two post cards to an acquaintance in California came back as an unknown address.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I moved the Audi to its regular place.  I took the old flight bags and travel bags off the wire rack behind the apartment entrance door, and I stored them away.  I put the six New York Coffee travel mugs in the same wire rack.  I moved the 2 foot by 4 foot throw rug from the apartment entry area to underneath the computer chair.  I move the lighter throw rug from the bathroom to the apartment entry area.  I took down the British Union Jack, the Swedish flag, and the Netherlands flags from in front of the living room windows.  I moved the small flags to the hallway bookcases, so there are no longer any flags in the living room.  The curtains look better without the flags.  I moved around some of the smaller bric a brac.  I took down the Cross Bow from above Granddad Boven's portrait, and I moved it to on top of the left bookcase in the hallway.  I worried about it falling down on my computer equipment.  I chatted with a relative.  I defragmented the C: drive on the primary Vista computer from 5 P.M. to 1:30 A.M., when I quit defragmenting it.  I watched some television through out the evening including part of the Maltese Falcon.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of 25% passion punch and 75% cold filtered water.   I will now go through my email.  Happy Birthday to a relative.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 9:50 A.M.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I noticed they have a summer work crew of youths cleaning the over growth along the east end of the baseball field out back.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have been walking regularly on Greenwich Avenue in various patterns for 25 years, since I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut from Nantucket, where I also walked a lot more, and when I lived in Manhattan for various times up until 1982, I also walked quite a lot frequently over 20 miles a day, and I also use to jog long distances in Nantucket, and I also use to walk all of the time when I was down in the Florida Keys, and as I youth I used to walk a lot when I played a lot of golf, so obviously I have done more than my fair share of walking in my life, not to mention in other jobs like dish washing and pot scrubbing in Nantucket for about eight years and various other construction and maintenance jobs, I was frequently on my feet.  Also with my arthritis, I tend not to walk as much on damp and rainy days, but living around the ocean up north that is pretty much the status quo in the colder weather, so I have done more than my fair share of cold and damp weather walking too.  Since I am better equipped for my walking routines, I find it easier, but obviously over all of these years at age 58, I have gotten older, and obviously as I get older, I will probably show more physical wear and tare from all of the years of walking.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 8:55 A.M.  I have two old bathroom scales, and I currently weigh between 212 and 217 pounds depending on which scale I use.  I have not been eating more, but with the higher price of fuel, I have not been going downtown as much to walk regularly like I use to.  I still walk quite a bit however.  I have been trying to walk for longer periods in hopes of losing more weight.  Last night, I parked at the Board of Education, and I walked down Greenwich Avenue on the East Side of the street.  I then walked west on Railroad Avenue on the North Side of the Street to Arch Street.  I then crossed south to the West Bound railroad steps, and I walked up the steps to the railroad platform, and then I walked up the steps of the cross over bridge and down again, and I walked over to the south side of the office and down the four flights of steps into the parking garage and then back out on Steamboat Road.  I walked up the West side of Greenwich Avenue and crossed over to the senior center, where I took a break.  I then walked up the East Side of Greenwich Avenue and East on Putnam Avenue on the south side of the street as far as Whole Foods and then back on the same side to Greenwich Avenue and down Greenwich on the west side of the street to the Veterans Monument across from the Senior Center, which is a longer walk than I normally take.  With the steps around the Greenwich train station, it is also a bit more exercise.  I also might have a blood blister underneath the toe nail on my big toe on my left foot, but I can not tell whether it is or not.  I could also try walking from where I live in Byram downtown and back which I have done before, but usually when I go downtown, I am doing errands, so the car is useful.  I figure since I have a car, and since I pay a lot to insure it despite the higher prices of fuel, I should use it for the local driving in this area.  Also when the weather is worse, it is more convenient.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 8:25 A.M.  Happy Birthday to a couple of friends.  I chatted with the friend.  I finished installing the updates on the computers except the 9 year old Toshiba laptop, which I never use anyway.  I also did a Vista Complete PC backup of the Epox computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 6:25 A.M.  I watched some television.  I ate a bowl of the pineapple strawberry mixture.  I also ate some sour dough Dutch pretzels.   I installed the latest Vista updates on the primary Vista computer.  I also installed the Vista updates on the FIC server.  I installed them on the XP partition on the Epox computer, and I am in the process of installing them on the Vista partition on the Epox computer.  I installed the Vista updates on the Northgate Syntax computer.  I am in the process of installing the XP updates on the Bedroom Gigabyte computer.  I also installed two new AA alkaline batteries in the Microsoft wireless mouse on the Epox computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 2:50 A.M.  SOA Executive Forum - InfoWorld Events

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Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 2:15 A.M.  After I made up the fruit mixture, I threw out the garbage.  The Cable Modem was down for maintenance, but it is now working again.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/08 Wednesday 12:40 A.M.  I woke up at 5 P.M. today.  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Maxtor 300GB Ultra16 PATA Internal Hard Drive at Staples® for $39.90 and a Staples Clamp Binder, Clear at Staples® for $2.48 and $2.54 tax for $44.92 total with free shipping arrived.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I took the flags down in the hallway, so the hallway looks more spacious with the open bookcases.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I gave the neighbor a package of King Mountain Ultra Lights regular cigarettes.  I went out, and I went by the A&P fresh.  I bought fresh Chiquita bananas for .64 a pound for $1.89 and a quart of fresh strawberries for $1.99 for $3.85 total.  I then went downtown, and I stopped by CVS.  5 inch by 7 inch enlargement photographs are $1.49 each there, but at www.kodakgallery.com , they are .79 each currently on sale plus minimal shipping cost.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area including the track area and the train station office park and its lower parking garage.  I saw two people fixing a flat tire on an Audi similar to mine.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS again briefly.  I used the ATM machine at the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I walked over to Whole Foods, and I bought another fresh pineapple from Costa Rica for $2.99.  I finished my walk.  I chatted with another regular Greenwich Avenue person that had a heart attach at Tod's Point recently, and he had angioplasty at Yale New Haven hospital, and he is back out again in public.   I recommended that he take it easy.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a loaf of Arnold 7 grain bread for $2.99.  I then returned home.  I chatted with the building custodian whom was here late.  I put away my purchases.  I ordered from www.kodakgallery.com nine 5 inch by 7 inch enlargement photographs for .79 each plus $2.07 shipping and tax for $9.18 total.  I will now eat the remaining salad that I made last night with a glass of 20% passion punch and 80% cold filtered water.  I will then peel and slice and cube one of the pineapples, and I will add the quart of strawberries that I will slice into quarters lengthwise, and I will add about a teaspoon of Angostura bitters and about a cup of passion punch, and I will mix it all together, and I will refrigerate the fruit mixture in a large Rubbermaid container.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 6:15 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  I will finish eating the sugar free blue berry Jell-o mixture.  I might watch a little bit of television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 5:35 A.M.  I filed a claim with Paypal for not receiving my new subscription to Forbes and Architectural Digest, so now I have to wait to hear from them.  I ordered them back in December 2007, and my current subscription to Forbes must have run out before the new subscription kicked in.  I never received either subscription.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 4:50 A.M.  I ate some Dutch Sour Dough pretzels.  I received the refunds on the two CPU coolers that were cancelled, and I was also charged for the photographs, so my accounts are now up to date.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 3:50 A.M.  The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites - Reviews by PC Magazine

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 3:00 A.M.  The Cable Modem is now working again.  I read the last three issues of U.S. News and World Report and the most recent issue of P.C. Shopper.  I put the issue of U.S. News and World Report with the report on the best hospitals in the United States of America on the lower shelf of TV table by the French reproduction chair on top of the old issue of the Social Register.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 2:10 A.M.  After dinner, I removed and washed the air conditioner filter, and then I reinstalled it.  When I went back to the computer, the Optimum Online Cable Modem was not working.  I called up www.cablevision.com at 1-203-349-9211, and the recording said their network would be down for repair for at least an hour.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/08 Tuesday 12:20 A.M.  I woke up at 3 P.M., when I had a telephone call from a relative.  I then went back to bed until about 5:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I chatted with two relatives.  I went through and read about a foot high stack of computer magazines and other periodical literature.  I do not seem to be getting my subscription to www.forbes.com anymore.  Possibly they went out of business in the economic recession.  I threw out the magazines and the other old periodical literature.  I will now make and eat half of the same chef's salad as the last two days.

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Note: <888> 08/11/08 Monday 8:55 A.M.  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Invisibility cloak 'step closer' 

Note: <888> 08/11/08 Monday 7:15 A.M.  I threw out some garbage, and I sat outside briefly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/11/08 Monday 5:30 A.M.  I took a nap until 3 P.M..  I watched some television.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips, and a glass of 20% passion punch and 80% cold filtered water.  I also finished off a box of low fat Cheez-its.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/08 Sunday 11:55 P.M.  I chatted with a relative at 3 P.M. this afternoon.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I put the www.af.mil flag up front in the hallway on the left side, and the U.S.A. flag up front on the right side of the hallway.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, 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 threw out some garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with some Starbucks patrons.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 5 ounce bottle of Gold Emblem chicken bouillon powder for .88.  I was told by the Starbucks regulars that one of the Starbucks regulars with the small white Maltese dog had died last week.   I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and then I returned home, and I ate the remaining salad from last night and the last piece of blue berry pie with a glass of 80% cold filtered water with 20% passion punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/10/08 Sunday 6:40 A.M.  Hearst Corp. takes reins of Greenwich Time, other papers in Fairfield County - Greenwich Time

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Well, not much happening at the Mouse Palace East, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I might do a bit of quick bottom fishing on the internet, but I really can not afford anymore major purchases this month off the internet.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/08 Sunday 5:50 A.M.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice with a glass 20% orange juice and 80% fresh filtered cold water.  I put this flag CIA - The World Factbook -- Flag of United States on my two homepages, so it is more conspicuous, not that many people ever look at my web sites, because they are not trendy.  I put the large U.S.A. flag up in the hallway over the right bookcase with the British Union Jack over that and the even larger Scottish flag of St. Andrews over that.  Over the left hallway bookcase, I put the smaller United States Air Force flag, the Bermuda flag, and then over those the Saudi Arabian flag.  I had the hallway bookcase flags down while I was reorganizing the apartment.  I constantly change my apartment with the seasons, so one never knows what might happen next, but most of the effort and costs seem to go into the apartment's computers.  I also put the U.S.A. flag on my two Tropical Weather pages at:

http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .

It is my viewpoint on the global weather with Global Warming, the Artic Ocean is suppose to be clear of ice this September, so possibly the northern Asian current is coming through the Artic from the East Coast of Asia and down the Western Coast of Europe and Africa and back up the Eastern Coasts of the Americas making it cooler along the coasts despite the overall Global Warming.  The Atlantic Ocean in the Florida and Caribbean area is suppose to be cooler from hear say, but I have not read it.  Thus since the warmer tropical waters can cause increased tropical storm activity, hopefully slightly cooler waters might cause less activity.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/10/08:

Note: <888> 08/10/08 Sunday 2:10 A.M.  John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President

Note: <888> 08/10/08 Sunday 1:40 A.M.  I ate a 1/5 of of a piece of blueberry pie with a scoop of butter pecan ice cream.   I will now go through my email.  I also walked lower Greenwich Avenue a second time tonight.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/10/08 Sunday 1:00 A.M.   I took two English muffins, and I sliced them in half, and I then cut them into .75 inch square pieces.  I put two tablespoons of olive oil and three pads of butter in a 10 inch frying pan on medium high electric burner heat, and I brought the oil and butter to a sizzle, and I added the English muffin pieces without the crumbs, and I sautéed them with garlic powder, Italian seasoning, and ground black pepper for about 15 minutes, until they were browned and a bit crisp.  I then set them aside in a bowl to cool.  I have a large wooded salad bowl, so I washed it cleaned.  One can wash it since it has a varnish finish on it.  I also washed my Canadian Goose salad tossing spoon and fork.  I then took a head of Foxy iceberg lettuce that I bought about a week ago, and it was still fresh since I had it in the refrigerator in its original wrapping, and I peeled off about the top fifth of leaves, and I ripped them into two to three inch pieces, and I added them to the salad bowl.  I then added about a half cup of broccoli crowns with stalks cuts into quart inch chunks.   I then added 15 baby carrots that I cut lengthwise in quarters.  I then added one small peeled and diced yellow onion.  I then added two Kosher dill pickles that I cut into quarter inch chunks.  I then cut a cucumber in half, and I put plastic wrap over one end, and I held it with a rubber band, and I put it in the refrigerator.  I then peeled the other half, I cut it into 1/8th inch thick slices, and I added it to the bowl.  I then cut the tomato in half, and I put half in a plastic bag in the refrigerator, and I cut the other half into eight wedges that I cut in half into 16 pieces, and I added it to the mixture.  I then opened up a 3.75 ounce tin of Beach Cliff sardines, and I added the oil to the mixture, and I cut the sardines into half inch chunks, and I added them into the mixture.  I then took two slices of Kraft processed American cheese, and I cut them into 1 inch by .25 inch slices, and I added them.  I sliced two medium large mushrooms into 1/8th inch thick slices and added them.  I added about half the croutons that I made, and I put other half in a plastic bag not refrigerated.  I then added about a quarter of a cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.  I then added a half teaspoon of Maggi seasoning, about six tablespoons of Tunisian extra virgin olive oil, three tablespoons of Italian balsamic vinegar and about a couple ounces of Kraft Balsamic salad dressing, and I mixed it all together with Canadian Goose salad fork and spoon, until it was thoroughly mixed.  I then put half on a dinner plate, and I put the other half in a large Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I ate tonight's portion with a glass of 1/4th passion punch and 3/4ths cold filtered water.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/09/08 Saturday 10:45 P.M.  I woke up during the morning, and I ate some low fat Cheez-its.  I finally woke up at 2:30 P.M. this afternoon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, 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 downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with some Starbucks patrons.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played an Aces High scratch card, but I lost.  I stopped by CVS, and I toured the store.  I used the ATM machine at the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I walked over to Whole Foods in the shopping plaza east of the Y.M.C.A., and I bought a fresh pineapple from Costa Rica for $2.99 a pound.  I think it is a rather expensive store, since steaks which look quite good are over $25 a pound.  At that price, you could afford to eat out.  I returned back down Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with more of the Starbucks crowd, and I use the bathroom at Starbucks.  It seemed to be a bit busier than usual.  I sat out for a while.  I then went over to the A&P Fresh, and they gave me a total refund of $3.99 on the blueberries that they over charged me for when they opened their new store.  I then bought four 3.5 ounce tins of Season sardines in olive oil for $5 all, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $3, two ears of sweet corn on the cob for .50 each, two 15 ounce cans of Rienzi white clam sauce for $2.19 each, five mushrooms for $4.99 a pound for $1.40, a fresh tomato for $3.49 a pound for $2.06, a cucumber for .66, fresh asparagus for $1.99 a pound for $2.41, a Aqua Plumb C0490 Flat Suction Sink Drain Stopper for $2.69, a three pound bag of small Russet potatoes for $2.99, and two 12 ounce boxes of America's Choice fish cakes for $1.99 each box for $30.29 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  I will put the sink stopper by the kitchen sink.  I will now make up a batch of passion punch.  I will make a chef's salad for dinner, which I will describe later.   CIO       

Note: <888> 08/09/08 Saturday 5:25 A.M.  InformationWeek | Business Technology News, Reviews and Blogs

According to Bloomberg News a month ago, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund is now 680 billion dollars, so more than likely somebody up in north country will be able to afford to eat sardines Norway - the official site in Canada - News .

Note: <888> 08/09/08 Saturday 3:10 A.M.  I put away the laundry.

Note: <888> 08/09/08 Saturday 12:25 A.M.  I also ate a piece of blue berry pie with the dinner.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have about 5 minutes to gon on the wash cycle.  I also put clean linens on the bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/08/08 Friday 10:40 P.M.  I woke up during the night, and I ate some low fat Cheez-its.  I finally got up today at 2:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up my mail.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I watched a program on High Definition television channel 727 about Megaprojects in the Netherlands.  Apparently the Dutch keep busy staying afloat, when they are not in coffee houses.  I chatted with a relative.  I went out at 6 P.M., and after the bad weather seemed over.  I stopped by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought three 50 ounce Tide 2X liquid detergent with Downy fabric softener for $4.97 each and a half price clearance item, a Pledge Multi Surface Duster for $1.50 and .80 tax less a $3 off CVS internet coupon for $14.21 total.  I then went down Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a Summerfest Jubilee scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I noticed across the street from the train station in front of the Blackstone Group, a long silver Mercedes Benz with New York License Plate "ROCKY?", so maybe some sort of rich capitalist was in the area.  Earlier I chatted with a family from near Princeton, New Jersey, and I gave them a calling card.  I chatted about the weather as usual.  Earlier this morning, before I went to bed, I got email that the Kasatochi volcano is on Red Alert Alaska Volcano Observatory which usually means it will erupt, and thus we might be in for a much colder winter.  Also jets flying back and forth to Asia will have to watch out for any volcano ash that might cause their engines to quit working.  On the way back up Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by CVS again, and I bought a MagniVision Eyeglass Holder strap for $2 and .12 tax for $2.12 total.  I have been using Super Sunin hair lightener which I bought years ago in my hair recently to lighten my hair, which I noticed CVS now sells in a smaller spray bottle for about $5.  I walked by the Chase ATM machine plaza on Mason Street.  I chatted with a local from Italy about living in Italy.  I completed my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $16 of self service premium for $4.819 a gallon for 3.320 gallons for 37 miles driving since last Thursday a week ago at odometer reading of 60946 for 11.1445783 miles per gallon in local driving with the air conditioner going.  I cleaned my windows.  I checked my tires all around to 34 PSI.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now reheat the same dinner as the last four nights, but instead of rice, I will have two ears of corn on the cob.  My relative is not coming out from Manhattan to pick up the family car to drive up to Maine, so when some of my relatives return from Maine, they will pick up the family car.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/08/08 Friday 3:25 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  I will eat some of the sugar free blue berry jello.  I will then go to bed shortly.  I might have a relative coming out this evening to pick up the family car.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/08/08 Friday 2:25 A.M.  To replace the CPU coolers that were cancelled, I ordered two Thermaltake Volcano 10 All Copper CPU Cooler for Athlon XP up to 3400+ & Athlon MP up to 2600+-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com for $14.99 each and $9.45 UPS ground shipping for $39.43 total.  I will put one in the FIC server to replace the three year old one, and I will have a spare one.  Happy Birthday to a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/08 Thursday 11:55 P.M.   Mineralogical Society of America - Mineralogy, Petrology and Crystallography

Note: <888> 08/07/08 Thursday 11:20 P.M.  Summer jobs in the North Country might still be available Shelburne Farms: Current News and Employment Opportunities .   CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/08 Thursday 10:55 P.M.  I guess they eat better up in Vermont Shelburne Farms: The Inn at Shelburne Farms - Restaurant .  I guess there is a lot of profit in Maple Syrup.  I use to visit with friends from Cambridge, Massachussetts at a commune on a dairy farm in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, but at my age, I don't feel like sleeping in the hay loft.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/07/08 Thursday 10:50 P.M.  With dinner, I also ate a piece of blue berry pie.  I will now go through my email.  I guess the Hollywood script writers wrote Bill Gates out of the every day reality of the internet, so once he is retired, he is probably trying to figure out how to invent a better mouse trap.  With apples costing close to a dollar apiece, he could invest in Washington State apples.  They tend to be popular in fall.  However, we use to have a lot of apples around here, but with all of the real estate development in the area, you have to go a bit further north to find the orchards anymore.   The Vanderbilts have a horse barn up in Vermont Shelburne Farms - Cultivating a Conservation Ethic , I guess where they go with the seasons the money follows them.  However, they also married into the Duke of Marlboro's Duke of Marlborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia family in England, so they might have access to their family home over in England.  The Rockefellers are also suppose to have homes in England and Scotland, so more than likely they are somewhere further up north this time of year.  Alas, my branch of the Scott family only had a couple thousand acres of corn and soy beans in Illinois that another branch of the Scott family, the Gard family took over after my grandfather Scott passed away.  As I recall the farms were in down state Illinois near the Wabash River, which tended to flood a lot.  Trust me, I would not be a very good farmer, since I am not very good at getting up early in the morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/08 Thursday 9:35 P.M.  I woke up last night, and I ate some low fat Cheez-its.  I finally got up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 1 P.M.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed the $16 rebate information.  I then returned home, and I picked up my cell phone which I had forgot.  I also picked up the mail.  I then went downtown, and I went by CVS, and I picked up the 80 photographs, and a prescription.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a local.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I walked by the Chase Bank on Mason Street, and I stopped by there briefly.  I also chatted with another local.  Apparently somebody in back country had a 100 trucks for some sort of activity.  It might have been somebody moving in or out.  After my walk, I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read PC Magazine and Popular Mechanics.  I browsed the large DVD collection upstairs.  I chatted with a library employee.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 13.5 ounce box of low fat Cheez-its for $2.50, a day old blue berry pie for $3, a 2 pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a three pound bag of onions for $2.29, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.29, two ears of corn for .67 both for $15.36 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I put the 80 photographs in my most recent photo album.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now reheat and eat the same dinner as last three nights.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/07/08 Thursday 1:50 A.M.  I ate some of the sugar free blue berry Jell-O.  CIO

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Bush chides Beijing over rights

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

Note: <888> 08/06/08 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

Note: <888> 08/06/08 Wednesday 11:00 P.M.  I have the $16 memory rebate ready to mail.   I also made a copy of the paper work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/06/08 Wednesday 10:25 P.M.  After dinner, I chatted with two relatives.  I threw out the garbage.  I shut down the Northgate Syntax computer http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  It seems to be running just fine.   I changed the color on the monitor from 1 to 3, so there is a little bit more color.  I picked up the mail, when I went out. My electricity bill for July 2008, when I was gone about 2.5 weeks was $135.93.  For 30 days in July 2008, I used 683 KWH or 23 KWH a day, compared to July 2007, when I was not away, I used 1369 or 47 KWH a day for a 29 day period.  I will now fill out the $16 computer memory rebate information, and I will get it ready to mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/08 Wednesday 8:00 P.M.  I ate a bowl of the sugar free Jell-o mixture and blue berries after the last note.  I woke up during the night, and I ate some low fat Cheez-its.  I woke up this afternoon at 1 P.M..  UPS delivered the UPS: Tracking Information on ATI Radeon 9550 256MB DDR AGP 8x DVI VGA TV Out Video Card 100-437105 at TigerDirect.com for $29.99 and $7.99 shipping for $37.98 total.  The "35783645284" to track DHL: Track (By number) Detail for FRYS.com | CRUCIAL 1 gigabyte PC2700 memory for $29.99 with free shipping.  It has a $16 mail in rebate, so the final price will be $13.99 after I receive the rebate arrived.  FedEx delivered McCain 2008 Window Decal Sticker for $5 with free shipping.  I put the McCain campaign sticker on the driver's side inside lower rear window.  It does not stick with glue, and it can be easily removed like the Greenwich Land Trust sticker.  I threw out the shipping boxes.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put the cleaning items back underneath the kitchen sink, and I moved the tower fan back into the hallway.   The postal worker delivered the order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com  of 7 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box.  I took the PCI PNY 256 megabyte video card out of the FIC server after restoring the backup to a clean installation.  I put the new ATI video card in.  I had to removed one of the VGA adapters from the primary computer to install the second monitor on the new ATI card.  I used a D-sub cable on the primary computer to connect the monitor backup where I removed the adapter.  I removed the Hauppauge TV Go card from the Northgate Syntax computer, and I installed the PNY PCI 256 megabyte video card, and I configured it.  I also installed the new memory as the first memory chip, so the Northgate Syntax computer has 2 gigabytes of memory.  It took a bit of troubleshooting to work out the overall configuration.  I can not remove the LAN card and use the motherboard LAN, since it does not work.  The Northgate Syntax computer has three PCI slots and one AGP slot.  I installed the updates, and I ran the maintenance utilities on it.  I am now defragmenting the C: drive.  I had a visitor checking out on things.  I will now make and eat the same dinner as the last two nights.  I also have to fill out the $16 rebate for the memory.  CIO        

Note: <888> 08/06/08 Wednesday 12:10 A.M.  MicroSpeak

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

Note: <888> 08/05/08 Monday 11:10 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/05/08 Monday 9:50 P.M.  I ordered two sets of 80 prints the same from www.kodakgallery.com of the pictures that I took in Kennebunkport, Maine.  I had one set send to one of my relatives in Maine.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/05/08 Monday 7:45 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  The police were at the apartment across the hall.  I chatted with neighbors.  UPS delivered the Maxtor 300GB Ultra16 PATA Internal Hard Drive at Staples® for $49.99 and a clamp binder Staples Clamp Binder, Clear at Staples® for $2.48 and $3.15 tax and free shipping with over $50 order for $55.62 total.  Another neighbor told me the neighbor across the hall had passed away.  I know the neighbor had had medical problems recently.  I chatted with some associates and two relatives.  I reheated and ate the same dinner as last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/08 Monday 5:10 P.M.  I woke up last night about 9 P.M. last night, and I chatted with a relative.  I ate the same dinner as the last two night before, but I did not have corn on the cob.  I watched a television program about Howard Hughes on high definition television.  I made up two package of sugar free Jell-o one black cheery and the other raspberry, and for the cold liquid, I added about 15 ounces of passion punch, and I also added a pint of rinsed blueberries.  I went to bed about 1 A.M..  I woke up about 9 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, 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 threw out some garbage.  I went downtown, and 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 to my 1 P.M. appointment.  At the first Tuesday of the month, the Connecticut department of motor vehicles bus is at the Greenwich Town Hall.  I read a recent copy of Ski magazine while waiting for my appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought an AT&T black two line telephone like the one I have by the French reproduction chair for $2.  They had six 1999 19 inch EIZO LCD monitor for $20 each.  I bought one, so I spent $22 all together.  I then returned home, and I carried up my purchases.  I tested the monitor on the Epox computer with the more power video card, and it worked fine.  I then installed it on the Northgate Syntax computer which will soon have the PNY 256 MG video card, and it works just fine, just a bit more blurry.  I removed the 3M Command hook from the 17 inch Dell Trinitron monitor I took off the system, and I put the monitor on the floor of the bedroom closet.  I use one of two remain stick strips, and I put the 3M Command hook on the left side of the EIZO LCD monitor to hold the headset.  I disconnected the Southwestern Bell black wall phone from the bathroom and the GE cordless telephone, and I installed the AT&T two line phone with the longer white headset cord.  I put the black Southwestern Bell phone underneath the bed, and  I connected up the GE cordless telephone to Optimum, and I put it on the bedroom Gigabyte Bedroom computer.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 7:20 P.M.  I watched ABC evening news.  I have a 1 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  I also received my rent statement today, so I have to pay my rent tomorrow.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 6:35 P.M. Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on ATI Radeon 9550 256MB DDR AGP 8x DVI VGA TV Out Video Card 100-437105 at TigerDirect.com for $29.99 and $7.99 shipping for $37.98 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 6:10 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, passion punch, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I walked around the outside of the building.  I will now go through my email.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 4:55 P.M.  The building custodian finished installing the new drain pipe assembly.  The new Delta kitchen faucet assembly works just fine.  I then cleaned the kitchen sink area and the spices racks, and I reinstalled the spice racks and their contents.  I also cleaned the lower sink cabinet, and I am now drying it out with a tower fan for a day or two, before I put the cleaning, laundry, and kitchen supplies back underneath the sink.  The building custodian also caulked around the sink, so it would not leak below.  I also put a new scouring pad by the kitchen sink.  I will now eat my usual breakfast.

I am worried about this cloud formation off the west coast in terms of tropical weather in the future down the western Atlantic.

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 1:55 P.M.  Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient shark had colossal bite . 

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 1:20 P.M.  The Delta faucet assembly is installed.  However, the brass drain pipe between the two plastic  drain pipes underneath the sink has to be replaced with a more modern plastic assembly which will take a few more minutes.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 1:05 P.M.  The building custodian has the old faucet assembly removed, and he has the new Delta faucet assembly in place, and he is now securing it and attaching it.  I chatted with a relative.  Austin, Texas is suppose to get some rain Tropical Storm EDOUARD 5 Day Tracking .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 12:20 P.M.  I was up at 10:30 A.M..  The building custodian is here installing a new Delta faucet assembly.  For the Northgate Syntax computer, I ordered FRYS.com | CRUCIAL 1 gigabyte PC2700 memory for $29.99 with free shipping.  It has a $16 mail in rebate, so the final price will be $13.99 after I receive the rebate.  The Northgate Gigabyte computer will have two gigabytes of memory installed once the new memory is installed.  I chatted with a friend.  Once the faucet is repaired, I will have to clean up the sink area, and the lower sink cabinet, and reposition the spice racks and reshelf the lower sink cabinet which will take a while.  I will then have time to eat my usual breakfast.  The building custodian is replacing the Delta faucet unit, but he does not have to remove the sink.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/04/08 Monday 2:20 A.M.  After the last note, I typed out a note to remind the building custodian to fix the faucet, which I had been told to do by him on Friday, and I left it underneath the custodian's door downstairs.  I went outside briefly.  I then removed all of the items from underneath the sink, and I put them in the living room in the open area by the Mongoose Mountain bike.  I then removed the spice racks from above the kitchen sink.  Thus it is all ready to work on.  I turned off the water to the kitchen sink.  From what I can tell the spray adaptor which was clogged was letting air into the faucet system, because its head was lose.  I tried tightening the spray adaptor head, and the faucet worked correctly briefly, and then it quick working all together.  There is a way to remove the faucet handle and insert a new mechanism, so perhaps the whole unit will not have to be replaced.  However, the spray attachment has been clogged for years, so it would probably be better to replace the whole faucet assembly, so the spray attachment works.  There is not much water pressure out of the spray adaptor with its head removed, so it is clogged further down the line towards the sink plumbing.  Also the environmental people about four years ago installed a new water saving aerator, and they sheered the threads on the faucet, so the aerator is barely held on the faucet end, and it use to put out a bit of spray, which it has not done recently.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed.  I will have to be up early if the building custodian can fix the faucet in the morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/03/08 Sunday 11:45 P.M.  In anyone knows Laura Bolton Brody out in Long Island, her younger sister Lisa is married to a Chinese Taxi cab driver, and they live in Peking, China for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing | Athlete, Team Profiles, Olympics News | Free Photos & Videos | NBC Olympics, and Lisa has worked for China airlines for 28 years the last I knew, so more than likely they could get you there.  However, since they have United States State Department U.S. Department of State members in their family, more than likely, one should not bother them, unless you can afford to pay for your own way, and have some sort of travel capability.  More than likely if you went to China with them, you would probably just see a lot of dogs called Pugs Pug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/08 Sunday 10:45 P.M.  Before dinner, I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I guess with people away on vacation, we get a few visitors traveling through this area, but since I did be a private individual that everyone sees, I tend to not take much notice of the ever changing visitor population in Greenwich which happens all of the time.  If seems most people whom know me are not interested in seeing me, but they seem to be interested in the other ambience around town, which tends to change with the four seasons.  From what I can tell, nobody in their right mind expects this area to remain static with all of the visitors that travel through this area all of the time.  I heard a bit of jet traffic this evening Westchester County - AirportMonitor - by Megadata - powered by PASSUR , from what little I know most of the corporate jet set that visit this area this time of year seem to be more interested in golf on the many golf courses in this area as opposed to real business activity.  For big bucks golfers, the New Canaan Country Club now has a $350,000 membership fee and a 15 year waiting list.  Since property in the New York City area is hard to come by, more than likely Donald Trump will not be finding too much new land new the city to build more golf courses compared to what is already developed in this area.  They Hyatt Hotel in Hauppauge, Long Island has a golf course on its property, but it is not as prestigious as Piping Rock in Locust Valley, Long Island or the Maidenstone Club out in the Hamptons.  The Westchester Golf Club is where I think Donald Trump belongs, and I think they have two 18 hole golf courses.  I am not sure if it is the same as the old Winged Foot Country Club, or if that is a different club.  The Blind Brook Country Club which no longer exists use to be where the Rockefellers would be seen playing golf, but it is now the Doral Conference Center.  I read in the Greenwich Time about 10 years ago that the William Rockefeller family had moved out of this area to Lakeville, Connecticut, and I was told that someone up there had built an authentic Scottish golf course.  There is a nice golf course in Bedford, New York on the road to the John Jay homestead, but I have a feeling the Bedford, New York crowd tend to be fairly private.  From what I have been told the Greenwich Country Club http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/Greenwich-Country-Club.jpg is now run more like a resort hotel with exchange privileges with other clubs from around the world.  They do have guest room there along with an outdoor swimming pool and tennis and squash and dining facilities and a men's grill and a card room if you don't feel like going to Atlantic City.  They probably still serve liquor on the premises, and I think they still have a bowling alley, but they are probably more formal today than when my family were member up until about 1976, when the Internal Revenue Service eliminated the Corporate Tax deduction for Country Clubs and Yachts.  The major families like the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers have been member on an off at the Greenwich Country Club over the years, but without the tax deduction, they probably don't bother with to much golf there anymore.  They are still business orientated.  They still allow tax deductions for working farms, so a lot of people have gotten into the Horse business for tax deduction purposes whether they actually ride horses or not.  The expert on equestrian tax deductions is probably up there right now as he was when I chatted with him twice this week http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-with-distant-relative-whom-knows-about-horses-with-relative-whom-knows-about-railroads-putnam-hotel-in-saratoga-ny-about-summer-1990.jpg .  Of course the British owning so many off shore properties have a lot of other tax deduction ports of call worldwide.  Instead of horses, Peggy Rockefeller raises Swiss Dairy cows for a tax deduction, and I think they actually have their own dairy.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/08 Sunday 8:45 P.M.  Not much happening in the world, since people do not have the energy to travel around to see what is happening.   I will now reheat and eat the same dinner as last night.  I will also have an ear of steamed corn on the cob with brocolli and steamed baby carrots with butter.  I guess so many people are stuck home watching television anymore, they are left to the talking heads to tell them what is happening.  At least with the internet, one gets a larger picture of the world, however writers also have to be paid, so if you do not pay writers, you do not get content.  Also for writers to write, they have to write from experience.  The West Bound platform at the Greenwich Train Station is running off the inside track, since they are working on the southern most rails on railroad bridge just east of the train station over Steamboat Road.  Also the MTA has Steamboat Road closed off underneath the bridge as off 6 P.M. this evening.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/03/08 Sunday 7:25 P.M.  I went out after the last note, and I met up with my relative, when he arrived.  My relative left the family car here, and then I drove my relative over the Greenwich train station.  I then walked then entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  For a change I walked upper Greenwich Avenue first.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, but they do not have the plumbing insert to fix my kitchen faucet.  I think one can remove the handle mechanism and insert a new valve mechanism without having to replace the entire sink faucet.  They have a replacement spray hose for $8, which the sink also needs, but possibly the Greenwich Housing Authority will also replace that.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought two 10 ounce boxes of Old Dutch sour dough pretzels for .99 each box, and a 200 count box of Splenda sweetener packets for $6.99.  On the way down lower Greenwich Avenue, I bought a dollar Aces High scratch card at Zen stationary, but I lost.  There were quite a few people out walking today for a change.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a dozen large eggs expire August 28, 2008 for $2.29, a half gallon of Tropicana premium orange juice with calcium for $2.50, 1.5 pounds of German thicker slice Wondabar baloney for $2.99 a pound for $4.60, four 6 ounce cans of Bumble Bee solid white albacore tuna fish a $1 each, two 13.5 ounce boxes of low fat Cheez-its for $2.50 each, a quart jar of Vlassic Kosher dill pickles for $2, two 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop lite cranraspberry juice for $2 each, and two 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop crangrape juice for $2 each, a 15 ounce bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.29, a large package of Purdue boneless breasts of chicken for $1.99 a pound for $6.87, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.13 for $42.67 total.  I then returned home, and I used my cart to bring up my groceries and put them away.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/08 Saturday 11:50 P.M.  I ate two bowls of low fat Cheez-its.  I also ate a Kashi trail mix bar.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  The weather is suppose to be nice on Sunday, so I will try to get out for a walk.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/02/08:

Note: <888> 08/02/08 Saturday 10:40 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I emailed a copy of the letter pertaining to Fred Von Mierers http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm and http://geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm to a few associates.  If Fred is indeed still alive somewhere in the world, it is more than likely that sooner or later, he will show up at Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy Harry's Bar in Venice.  I will now send out my weekly notes for the last several weeks.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/08 Saturday 8:20 P.M.  I ordered two Volcano 11 Xaser Ed. CPU Fans for Socket A from http://www.pc-pitstop.com/clearance/ for $12 each and $9.46 ground shipping for $33.46 total.  I will put one in the FIC server http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm , and I will also have a spare.  Since the server runs all of the time, it is important to make sure the CPU cooler is good working condition.  My current one is a bit old, and my other new spare ones will not fit on the FIC motherboard, since they are side mounted cooler and the FIC motherboard has a diode that interferes with the clearance.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/02/08 Saturday 7:20 P.M.  I cooked up the Purdue chicken breaded the way I do, and I ate half, and I refrigerated half.  I also cooked a baked onion with it that I ate.  I also cooked up a batch of flavored rice that I also used a little maggi seasoning in, and I ate half, and I refrigerated half.  I also steam an ear of corn on the cob that I ate with butter.  I ate it all with a glass of cold filtered water.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/02/08 Saturday 4:50 P.M. US Search - Search Results Jim Eldert West Coast Address Results

Note: <888> 08/02/08 Saturday 12:25 A.M.  I am a bit tired.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 10:45 P.M.  The blue berries were suppose to be a $1.99 a pint, so the A&P owes me $2, which I will collect in the near future.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 10:35 P.M.  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Chase Bank on Mason street.  I then sat out for a while downtown.  I mailed the Microsoft Money 2006 July 2008 income versus spending report to a relative at the central Greenwich Post Office.  I then went by the Greenwich Train station, and I picked up a relative, and I returned to my apartment building to pick up the other family car, and then I showed my relative how to get on I-95 East Bound in central Greenwich.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I chatted with the most regular fisherman who does not fish very much anymore.  He has a new grey pickup truck.  I chatted with another local.  I then went by the new A&P store.  It is a quite nice less expensive well layed out store, and it does not have lights that are too bright.  I filled out a form to get a A&P customer card.  I then bought two 26 ounce jars of Francesco Rinaldi tomato, onion and garlic sauce for $1.39 each, and two 16 ounce boxes of Ronzoni Linguini for .70 each, a bulb of garlic for $3.69 a pound for .66, a head of Foxy lettuce for $1.51, a pint of blueberries for $3.99, two 12 packs of English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack, a package of Purdue boneless breasts of chicken for $2.67 a pound for $3.54, fresh bananas for .64 a pound for $1.71, two ears of corn on the cob for .50 each for $19.42 total.  I then returned home, and I put away the groceries.  I put the bananas in one of the green freshness bags.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with 1/3rd of a tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of cold filtered water.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 5:55 P.M.  My relative will be arriving about 7 P.M. to pick up the family car.  I chatted with another relative.  I will now go out downtown, and I will sit out for a while until my relative arrives over at the Cho Cho station from the Big Apple.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 5:25 P.M.  Things are not very good down south Wachovia economists say Florida is in recession .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 5:15 P.M.  I went outside briefly, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I ate two bowls of low fat Cheez-its.  I watched some low cost television.  Not much seems to be going on in the United States of America anymore, but simply a lot of rhetoric, which does not seem relevant to any local situations at the moment.  If what is good for General Motors is Good for America, the recent news today is not very good http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7695262 .  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 4:00 P.M.  Earlier today, I had to take one of the power strips out of the kitchen, and reconnect the Proscan television, and Farberware convection oven and electric can opener with another power strip that was in the kitchen.  I threw out the defective power strip.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 2:45 A.M.  It took a while to delete 2000 emails out of my email program that I had mostly already looked at.  I was told that they had 16 feet of snow this winter in Kennebunk, Maine, and nearer the waterfront in Kennebunkport, they only had 11 feet of snow this winter.  With the higher prices of fuel, they are worrying whether they will have enough fuel for the trucks to plow the roads in the north country this coming winter.  Of course they are not always that friendly up north BBC NEWS | Americas | Man decapitated on Canadian bus .  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/01/08 Friday 1:20 A.M.  Pictures from my trip to Kennebunkport, Maine http://mikelouisscott.com/kpt-pub-0708/ .  CIO