Note:<888>8/21/98 Friday 7:10 P.M. EDT: I updated www.mikescott.net/download.htm the Microsoft Favorites file with about 700 links for your Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites folders. CIO

Note:<888>8/21/98 Friday 5:45 P.M. EDT: I worked on the net until noon today and took a cat nap until 2:30 P.M.. I went out at 4 P.M. after having a bowl of Ramen noodles. I read the local paper in the library and PC Magazine. I drove down by the water. I returned home about 5:15 P.M. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . It is very quiet downtown, and not much to report. Have a good evening. I checked with Optimum TV today and Cablemodem service will not be available at my place in Byram, Ct. west Greenwich until about December 1998 for $40 a month with cablemodem rental Optimum Online: The Revolutionary Cable Modem Internet Service from Cablevision. Greenwich Times reports a Kansas City hotel operator is going to build a hotel in Rye Brook, New York on the Greenwich border with one and two bedroom executive suites for visiting executives staying two ddays or more. Well progress is at our borders. Also 75 units of the development south of the airport runway have been sold for $450,000 to $600,000 and there is also suppose to be a senior citizen community in that development which is just undergoing excavation now. Both projects will take at least two years. CIO

Note:<888>8/21/98 Friday 11:05 A.M. EDT: I was up at 10:30 A.M.. I had shredded wheat, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee for breakfast. I am looking at CNBC tell the story of the Wall Street Decline today. It is down 173.73 right now. I guess Wall Street is headed for a Rocky Road today. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>8/20/98 Thursday 10:40 P.M. EDT: I went out at noon today. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I drove down by the water. I went by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper and a computer newsweekly. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I drove home and had a root beer and Haagen Daz ice cream float. I took a nap until 6 P.M.. I fixed dinner of baked Scrod, steamed peppers, potatoes and ice tea for my house guest. We went out at 8 P.M. and walked around the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a gallon of 2% milk for $2.99. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I anticipate the market might be down tomorrow with the recent political termoil. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>8/20/98 Thursday 10:10 A.M. EDT: I had breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, vitamins, and coffee along with my house guest. My house guest went out this morning and stopped by Imported Autos Mercedes. He said they have a nice silver grey 1995 Mercedes Benz station wagon with 22,000 miles on it for $37,000. We were thinking about going to West Point today or touring Pocantico Hill in North Terrytown, New York. John D. Rockefeller's house is open for touring by the general public, however I have a 3 P.M. appointment; so I don't think we will do that. Well my house guest is taking the day off today, so I will be doing some touring. Have a nice day. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/98 Wednesday 10:20 P.M. EDT: I went out at 4 P.M. today. I stopped by the Greenwich Library. I read the local paper and another computer newsweekly. I chatted with two regular library senior patrons. I chatted with a couple of library staff members. I went downtown and walked around a bit. I went by the Grand Union and bought Romaine lettuce at .99 a pound for a total of $1.40, a Tony's 4 cheese pizza $3.00, a ribeye steak for $3.91, a 12 pack of Barg's Root Beer $3.99 plus .60 deposit, a half gallon of GU orange juice $1.49, for a total of $14.63. I returned home and had ribeye steak, potatoe, brocolli, and diet sprite and apple juice for dinner. I made coffee and went downtown and drank it and chatted with the night custodian at the senior center. I walked down Greenwich Avenue and walked by the waterfront of the Greenwich Harbor Inn. There are harbor yachts there from the British Virgin Islands, Vero Beach, Florida, Caymen Islands, and one other place I forget. I chatted with two gals about my waterfront observations around America. They said they were from Marblehead, Massachussetts and had only recently visited Nantucket for the first time. I walked over to Roger Scherman Baldwin park and listened to the evening band concert. There were only about 100 people there. I walked by the Greenwich Harbor Inn afterwards and they were playing more sedate music there for a change. I walked back up the Avenue and noticed a young 20 year old Bill Clinton look alike about his size walking towards a local pub. I chatted with the Lowe's movie theatre manager and asked him if he had seen any older movie stars that nobody recognizes. I also picked up a movie earlier today at the library "Murder in the First Degree" with Kevin Bacon. I returned home and my house guest had arrived home from work, and I made him a small Celeste pizza for dinner. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . I filed this report. I will do a little net work and go to bed. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/98 Wednesday 2:10 P.M. EDT: I changed my top scrolling bar on my homepage from speed 20 to 8. I got email saying it was hard to see in Netscape 4.06, but since I proof it with Netscape 3.04, I might to have check the colors with another machine, I don't want to put Netscape 4.06 on my machine, and I don't have the disk space anyway. I think Netscape might mess up some of the Micrsooft files. I also finished my email and corrected some URLS in my directory. I will eat and clean up and go out enjoy the rest of the day. Open Heart Live , Live Open Heart Surgery on the net today. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/98 Wednesday 12:10 P.M. EDT: By way of random comments, I happened to find my reading glasses behind the front seat in the car yesterday, so I now have two pairs of reading glasses. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/98 Wednesday 12:00 P.M. EDT: I update my personal address page www.mikescott.net/mike.htm . I added a photo to the page of myself. I don't think I have to worry about any terrorists since I am commonly viewed in Greenwich, Connecticut. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/98 Wednesday 10:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning and had cerial, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I served my house guest breakfast also. I went out at about 7 P.M. last nigth with my house guest after a tuna salad for dinner. I walked Greenwich Avenue with my house guest. I stopped by CVS and picked up my photos for $14.66. I paid an extra $5 to have the photos put on computer disk. We returned home and I watched the video Prince Brat which was very cleaver. I did some computer work and checked out the photos on the computer disk. I emailed copies to a relative. I retired about 11 P.M.. CIO

Note:<888>8/18/98 Tuesday 2:20 P.M. EDT: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I saw my house guest off. I had breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I puddered around the house for a while. I went out at 11 P.M.. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I looked at the computer they have priced for $250. It is only a 386 computer with an older vga 15 inch monitor. I told them the computer is not worth anything, and the monitor might fetch $50. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and the place was virtually empty. I went by CVS and bought a bjeep lighter with a parot on it for $1.90 and some 50 meg Zinc vitamins 100 count for $3.49. Zinc I believe according to Nan Rockefeller in the Greenwich Times is suppose to be good for removing Copper from your system, however somebody else told me that wearing a copper bracelet is good getting copper in your system, so you don't feel arthritis. I guess the old guard have to cross check their Ps and Qs on medicine. I noticed for any cigar smokers at CVS in the 50% off section at the middle of the center aisle on the left end, they have a five packs of 12 inch hand roled cigars regularly $24, for half price for $12. I also noticed they have Salton and other electronic items on sale, such as an iron for $9.99. I noticed quite a few old guard walking around and youngsters getting ready to go back to school. I drove down the Avenue and down by the water and then drove by ELDC and I did not see much on sale. I went by the libray and one of the Construction Engineers said they hoped to have the building closed in by winter. He said they are having a hard time getting construction personnel on the library addition, and I suggested they look up in Canada. I read the Greenwich Times and two computer newsweeklies. I chatted with a local citizen about the PowerBall event recently, and we both agreed it should not happen again. I returned home and had Ramen noodles and chocolate cake for lunch. I will do a little net surfing. Microsoft is suppose to offer an update to Windows 98 today, so I will have to click the update button. Well it is a nice day, so enjoy yourselves. CIO

Note:<888>8/18/98 Tuesday 1:10 A.M. EDT: I checked my email until 12 Noon yesterday. I slept until 3:45 P.M.. I cancelled my 4 P.M. appointment. I had some Ramen noodles and chocolate cake for a light snack. I had my house guest return at 4:30 P.M.. I went out at 5 P.M. and stopped by the library and read the local paper and said hello to a few regulars. I checked out the videotape "Prince Brat". I went by Val's liquors which is now run by people from Peru. I bought a 12 ounce bottle of Angostora bitters for $5.99. I went by the Grand Union and bought 3 half gallons of apple juice for $1.99 for three, one half gallon GU orange juice for $1.49, a half gallon GU 2% milk for $1.67, 2 limes for .10 each for .20, 7 plum tomatoes for .10 each for .70, 2 green squash for .25 each for .50, 3 green peppers for .10 each for .30, a bag of onions for $1.99, two boxes of #2 coffee filters 40 count for $1.19 each for a total $11.36. I returned home and cooked dinner for my house guest and myself of shell steak, brocolli, potatoe, ice tea, and coffee. I did my laundry and made ice tea for the week. I went out at 10 P.M. and drove downtown. I walked around lower Greenwich Avenue. I drove down by the water. I noticed another small yacht at the Greenwich Harbor Inn called "Audacity" from Georgetown, Caymen Islands. The reason so many small yachts show up at the Greenwich Harbor Inn from the Caymen Islands, is that first Greenwich Harbor is a very small harbor. The reason for point of origin from the Caymen Islands is that it is a convenient off shore tax haven for shelting off shore funds and they offer convenient corporate shells for a nominal fee. Thus the off shore folks from the Caymen Islands might represent real or imagined assets depending on who keeps track of the books. I once read a note in the Economist that said most offshore offices in the Caymen Islands are vacant in the summer. The Queen's Treasury office keeps a sharp eye on offshore banking and assets, and a ruling last January by the Finance Office of the Crown United Kingdom said that most off shore havens are no longer tax exempt and they would have to pay tax on British income to the United Kingdom. However, I suppose one could avoid such prosecution by never returning to the United Kingdom, and if the off shore visitors represented assets from other sources, the point would not be relavant. Needless to say dozens of craft over the last few years have arrived and departed from the Greenwich Harbor Inn with Georgetown, Cayman Islands logo on their stern, so I would imagine the coast guard has a complete inventory of all their comings and goings. I chatted with a new resident of Steamboat Road who works for a tabacco company and he was upset that certain parties had started building another condo in front of his waterfront condo, obviously certain unscrupulous real estate people are breaking the rules, he should probably check with town zoning, and any construction on the water needs approval of the Army Corps of Engineers if it involves pilings, land fill, sea walls, docks, mooring, and other nautical alterations. We have enough experts here in town, I can't imagine people would overtly try to swindle a foreign resident or subvert the town ordinances. I returned to the center of town after chatting with another local waterfront resident. I chatted with a lady from a neighboring town camping out on Greenwich Avenue, and she said she had bronchittis. I suppose the grass is always greener. I explained to her I have no legal authority, but can only observe. I returned home about midnight, and filed this report. Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm was up a bit today, but I have recently been advising people to watch the stock market and it is probably better to be in a cash position, since I forsee the stock market declining sharply by the end of November. I guess one could invest cash in short term treasury bills. Well have a good morning. I will probably go to bed soon. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/98 Monday 10:30 A.M. EDT: NameStake for domain name lookup. I sifting through about 150 email messages mostly automatic news messages accumulated through last week. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/98 Monday 7:50 A.M. EDT: I made a mistake the concert this past weekend was at Loran Air Force Base up in Maine with a group called Pish. I read a news report that the White House forces are going camping on Marthas Vineyard this afternoon. I suppose they will have to watch out for Lyme disease which is common on the Cape Islands. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/98 Monday 6:50 A.M. EDT: I had dinner last night with my house guest of Greek salad with flaked salmon. I went out about 8 P.M. and walked around downtown. I toured down by the water on Steamboat Road and chatted with various waterfront observers and residents in that area. I mentioned that there was no hurricane activity at the moment in the carribean. I noticed a yacht at the Greenwich Harbor Inn from Las Angeles along with another yacht from Capetown. I noticed a musical group was leaving the Greenwich Harbor Inn. There were fishermen down on Steamboat Road and along the waterfront in front of the General Re building. I suppose people like keeping an eye on the waterfront looking for rum runners and other nautical activity. I returned to the center of town and headed back home at 11 P.M. and went to bed. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/98 Sunday 5:50 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last posting. I stopped by Exxon and purchased $10 in gasoline. I went down to the stationary store across from Figaro on Greenwich Avenue, and they have Merit Ultra Lite 100s for buy 2 get on free for $5.95 thus six packs of cigarettes were $11.90. I down by water and then drove over to Tod's Point. I contributed a $1 to the MS firemen's fund. I parked at the beach and walked out to the point. There were a number of beached whales at the Point along with the usual weekenders and there seemed to be a heigthened level of security with six patrol cars on the point, but they probably were just killing time Babe watching. I noticed there were a large number of cars parked at the Clam Bake area for some function. I walked out to the point and returned. I left my car windows open because it was a hot day, and some trespasser lifted my reading glasses. I have a spare pair. Thus when one parks around town, one should lock ones car, or persons unknown will obscound with materials left in the car. I possibly lost them at the next stop after I departed at Stables. I drove around Tod's Point and then out and stopped by Stables. They have the usual assortment of products, but nothing to write home about. I returned to central Greenwich and walked around lower Greenwich Avenue. There were the usual visitors walking around town. I chatted with a couple wearing a UNH polo shirt. I also chatted with a gentleman from La Joila with his family about ecology in the area. I returned up the avenue and chatted with a local retired citizen and gave him a briefing. While sitting in the park in front of the senior center a young couple from Korea asked me about Greenwich commercial real estate. They want to open a beauty salon. I told them that the store just south of the Lowes movie house was vacant and they should inquire about renting it. I also told them that William Pitt might rent commercial real estate. They spoke broken English but seemed to understand me. I walked back down the Avenue and while returning up the Avenue the movie theatre operator told me to send the Korean couple down. I walked down to Starbucks where they were reading the phone book and gave them the information. I gave them my phone number. I noticed one young blond dude in Starbucks pounding away on his laptop computer. A gang of three dark haired dudes showed up on their choppers while I was departing. Greenwich had the usual cross section of summer Sunday visitors for this time of the year. Well it is hot and saultry out today, and I guess I will have to procure another pair of reading glasses. I suppose the prescription has changed a bit too. I returned home and had peanuts and ice tea. I checked my car again for the glasses to no avail. Well back to the net until my house guest returns for dinner. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/98 Sunday 12:15 P.M. EDT: I finished cleaning the apartment and watering the plants and listened to www.ttalk.com broadcast while doing my chores. I will go out in a little while for some R&R. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/98 Sunday 9:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at 8 A.M. this morning and had scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee for breakfast. My house guest had GU raisin bran and black berries, orange juice, and coffee. He picked the black berries last week which are plentiful up north. He advised when picking black berries one has to keep a lookout for bears which also like black berries. I will clean my apartment now and go out around noon. I noticed yesterday there were a lot of song birds around more than normal. I suppose the weather down south if a hurricane might be forming might cause the song birds to use their natural instincts and possibly migrate in larger numbers futher north. I suppose maybe yesterday there was less pollution and possibly more were around. Well back to house cleaning. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/98 Sunday 12:15 A.M. EDT: I made a mistake the concert for 50,000 people is at Ekland Air Force Base in Maine, somewhere north of Portland, Maine. I verified that fact with a local from Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. My house guest brought home Salmon steaks for dinner this evening which were on sale through today at the Grand Union. Brocolli was $1.69 a pound which he also brought home along with Potatoe salad and cold slaw. I went out at 4:15 P.M. this past afternoon and stopped by the library and in the last 20 minutes read three computer newsweeklies. I chatted with library security about sale items at the Grand Union while they were closing. I went down town and chatted with a young French student from Vergannes, France near the Swiss boarder about French activity in the area. He is visiting with his girl friend here and then going to Boston. His English is at about third or fourth year level. I noticed lots of song birds today, so the pollution level must be down. I returned home and made my house guest dinner about 7 P.M.. I had coffee and went back out at about 8:30 P.M. and chatted with a local visitor from Florida. The man is a former employee of a former President's family in Florida and he told me a little of the local gossip about golf in Florida. I was informed by a legal expert in the library everybody is just look alikes whereever I travel, therefore the real people must have all taken off on vacation and left the lookalikes behind to handle business. I chatted with the local DOD observer in town and told him about my travel exercise. He said the concert is probably at Ekland Air Force Base in Maine, but as I recall there use to be more than one Air Force Base in Maine. While in Maine I heard a report on television that the retired Pease Air Force Base facility is going to be used to maintain the new Pan American Fleet which mostly does Florida travel anymore in its smaller fleet. I advised the DOD observer that one can probably buy a dairy farm in Canada with a 1,000 acres for about $10,000 but that probably would not be a prime location. I noticed a former Russian ballet star who lives in the area out on an exercise walk. Not many people recognize him anymore since he is retired, but from years of walking in cold weather in Manhattan I know he is an experienced cold weather person. I walked back up the Avenue and chatted with a local businessman waiting for his family and I told him usually around 3 P.M. on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years; when everything is closed; one occassionally sees interesting visitors in the area. I recall seeing a senior Spanish official about that time during one of those holidays. Since close to 2 billion people speak Spanish, a senior Spanish official might know a thing or two which an English speaking official might have forgotten or never been told. I advised the French speaking student that this area use to be called Nova Francia until some English pirates showed up and took pocession from a friendly Dutch trading post a few years back. Well back to bed and beware of biligual residents looking to pull the wool over your eyes. Lets face it more people get around today. Back to slumber land. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/98 Saturday 3:45 P.M. EDT: My traveling companion to Maine was a minor contributor to the Republican Party. He paid for the traveling expenses up and back to Maine in lieu of being my house guest this month. Lobster Rolls at the Seafood Stand in Maine were $7.99. At Mabels lobster on Ocean Boulivard in Maine they are $5.99 for a slightly smaller lobster roll. Grilled Swordfish at the Captain's was $12.99 for a 6 ounce portion. Baked 6 ounce Halibut stuffed with Crab Meat at the Wayfayer was about$13.95. Baked 6 ounce Scrod at the Brakers was $8.99 and Bar B Que Sandwich was $5.99. Coffee downtown in Kennebunkport is about a dollar a cup. Premium gasoline up in Maine is $1.24 a gallon. Poland Spring Water at restaurant runs about $2. Mass. Pike Toll each way is .50 and New Hampshire Turnpike is $1 and one does not pay toll if you get off in South Oconquit. I noticed two bicyclers with camping gear riding into town the last night I was in Kennebunkport. Elgin Air Force Base in Maine is suppose to have a concert this weekend with 50,000 people. Today I went by the Putnam Trust Bank of New York and saw a local Connecticut politician departing. I went by the Hospital Thrift shop and bought a file cabinet hanger for $4. I noticed a used computer for sale for $250. One needs a double plug adaptor to test it, there is only a single plug in the back room. I notice a printer for sale not marked. I went downtown and mailed a birthday post card. I walked up the Avenue and bought Edge Pro Gel shaving cream for $2.53 at CVS. I mailed in my photos to be printed up in double 4 inch prints for $8.99 and for $4.99 I get them on Computer disk, so I might post some of them, if they come out. They should be ready Monday afternoon. My Braun capacino coffee maker is still not repaired. I went down by the water and noticed some dude driving around his German Sheperd in the back of a pickup truck. I went by the libray and chatted with the polar extreme diplomats and the library security. I read the local paper. I did not get a chance to read the computer press yet. I went by the Grand Union and bought an Elo Pizza for $1.99, bag of Frozen pepper strips $1.39, Frozen Green peas $1.29, 3 half gallons of Florida natural orange juice for $1.99 each or $5.97 total, three GU small pitted olives in cans for .89 each or $2.67 total, two shell steaks at $3.99 a pound for $7.66 total, Romaine lettuce at .99 a pound for $1.27, two green pepers at .99 a pound for .73 total, plum tomatoes at 1.79 a pound for $1.56 total for a Grand total of $25.82. I picked up two packs of generic basic light 100 cigarettes at the Shell station for $3.57 and I returned home and put away the groceries. I had a Haagen Daz nut vanilla ice cream float for lunch with diet Coke. The file hanger does not fit in my file cabinet. I posted this message and will do a little net surfing. Have a good afternoon. It is a little warm out for me today. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/98 Saturday 6:40 A.M. EDT: I was up at 6 A.M. this morning. House Guest is still sleeping. I read the back news at Yahoo. I found this link on the Round the World Solo Balloon Flight Solo Spirit Round the World Balloon Flight . CIO