Note:<888>8/21/99 Saturday 10:05 P.M. EDT: Well after dinner, I tried installing the Microsoft Frontpage 2000 demo, and the CDrom is still defective even after I tried to clean it. I ran the System Information, System File checker, and I updated the list of good files by comparing the new files with older files, so I have the latest files. One file in the C:\windows\system directory "msrdo20.dll" was reported as being possibly corrupted. It would not restore from the Win98 Cdrom, so it is not one of Win98's file. I checked my backup, and the current file was September 1998, and the file on my backup was November 1997. By looking at the Microsoft Help site, I figured out the file I have on presently is the update of Microsoft Visual Basic 3.1 that I had downloaded from Microsoft, which is different from the Windows 98 Update. Thus I guess the file is all right. The system is working fine, and is still much snappier. I had to run WinDoctor again to remove the registry entries for the Microsoft Frontpage 2000 Demo aborted installation. It also removed 72 shared file entries. Thus the system seems to be back up and running fine. I also reinstalled a few Win98 Updates, I had on my hard drive. I recieved a call from Texas, and they were worried about Hurricane Bret, weather.htm which looks like it is heading near Brownsville, Texas and might possibly effect off shore oil platforms. It bares watching. It developed in the gulf and did not develop over the Atlantic. There is also another hurricane Cindy out in the Atlantic headed into the Carribean. Thus I guess the hurricane season is underway, so keep a weather eye. I am quite burned out from all the system maintenance today, so I guess I will start to relax and go to bed. I will do my usual house cleaning when I wake up tomorrow. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>8/21/99 Saturday 4:10 P.M. EDT:Well after breakfast I did a little routine internet work. About noon, I checked the mail, and there was just junk mail and a high school alumni news magazine. I decided to reinstall Windows 98 Original Edition, since I still don't have the Second Edition, but a relative has ordered it for me. Reinstallation went smoothly, and the overall system is running much better, snappier, and quicker. All my drivers updates were maintained, and the existing interface and setup was maintained. I guess it was worth the chance. I did have to reinstall the update for the Intel Lan card for my modem, my Logicode telephone modem driver, and my Creative Lab SW32 driver updates. all of which I keep on the hard drive and the Logicode modem driver I had handy on a floppy. Well I also went to Windows 98 Update, and I installed all the Updates that came up, except the Mobil Processor Update which is for laptops. I also did not install the Frontpage Express Update since, it has never worked on my system, so I keep the earlier version on my system. I will optimize the drive for faster performance after a few days after the system files are run enough times to become priority files for Norton Speed Disk. The reinstallation left my Swapper on the E: drive, but instead of a fixed 128 Megs, twice the size of my 64 megs memory, it is variable. I am running Norton Anti Virus with the latest virus updates, and I have it set to AutoProtect and to boot up at startup. After Norton Anti Virus, I might Run Norton WinDoctor. Well not much happening on this rather dreary day. I guess I will have the rest of the salmon and tuna mix in sandwiches, and some fresh fruit. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>8/21/99 Saturday 6:45 A.M. EDT: I started a tape backup of the system after the last message yesterday. Since it was raining, I went for a short drive down by the waterfront. I stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a regular parton from Norway about large yachts. I returned home, and I had reheated speghetti with meat sauce and ice tea for dinner. I relax and watched a bit of television until 9:30 P.M.. I was finally up at 5 A.M. this morning, and the tape backup was finished about midnight last night. I shut down the tape drive, and I restarted the computer and the server. I did some routine internet work, and it looks to be a rainy day. Well I will have breakfast now of Post Almond Oats, toast, fresh fruit, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. Also on a sad note according to the Greenwich Times on Friday, Henry Van Buren age 84 supposedly died on Thursday from a fall, and there will be no funeral and burial will be private. He truly personified "Mr. Greenwich". Well have an enjoyable Saturday morning. CIO

Note:<888>8/20/99 Friday 2:00 P.M. EDT: Well did a bit of routine computer maintenance and did hard drive to hard drive backups. I chatted with my neighbors. I went out about noon. I drove down by the waterfront. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop, and they're still full price not half yet. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I went by the CVS and bought a carton of Dutch Treat Sweet lights cigar cigarettes in the grey carton for $15.04. I went by the Grand Union and bought a dozen large eggs for $1.49 and a quart jar of Hellmans real mayonaise for $2.79 for $4.28 total. I returned home, and I had to detour around an auto wreck by the BMW garage. I chatted with a neighbor. I am about to have salmon and tuna sandwiches with iced coffee. It looks like it might rain with the wind out of the southwest, so I plan to stay in this afternoon, and for the next two hours I will optimize my hard drives. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>8/20/99 Friday 7:50 A.M. EDT: I sat up until about 10 P.M. last night. I was up at 6 A.M.. ran the indexer for my Micrsoft Favorites and updated it while asleep Scott's Internet Hotlist SiteMiner Search Engine . I recieved email from Welcome to Expedition wanting to know if I had a telephone number for George W. Bush the candidate. I emailed this reply from what I know on Bush telephone numbers:

To: Richard Favara
Subject: RE: Great site
Usually when I want to pass a message to the President, I try calling the White House Secret Service Intelligence Division at: 1-202-435-5000. Since former president Bush has secret service protection, they would be able to relay a message to him. Also here locally in Greenwich, Connecticut Betsy Heminway of Deerpark married to Spike Heminway managed former President Bush's campaign locally. Their number that I have for Greenwich, Ct. is 1-203-869-8141. Since they are long time friends, I would imagine she would be able to relay a message to George W. Bush the candidate. However, this time of year they could very well be in Kennebunkport, Maine. The number I have for former President Bush when he was president is 202-456-1414, possibly a White House number. Also his bother Prescott's number locally is: 1-212-490-7710 at his office and 1-203-869-4409 here in Greenwich, but he might be up in Maine also.   I would imagine some of that some of these numbers might still be valid. I pulled them out of old Greenwich Country Day alumni and Taft School alumni manuals. Recently my telephone has been tapped by a non U.S. government group, since I can here the clicks, so I am not so sure how secure telephone communications is.   Also Governor Jeb Bush of Florida has email linked from: http://www.state.fl.us/eog/contact_governor/contact.html   They know whom I am, but since I was never financially successfully enough to be a major contributor, I usually can only get their attention during slower times.   Of course the George W. Bush campaign site has email also. http://www.georgewbush.com/Contact/contact.html   In an emergency situation the White House Secret Service Intelligence Division has the communications and capability of contacting George W. Bush the candidate, although until he wins a primary, I believe, he is not entitiled to Secret Service Protection.   Any other matters I can help you on, let me know.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Favara [mailto:RichardF@expedition.com]
mailto:RichardF@expedition.com

Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 1:55 AM
To: 'mikelouisscott@home.com'
Subject: Great site

Can you help me get an important message directly to George Bush (Candidate)    Richard T. Favara President The Expedition Networks' Group of Companies Phone 818-892-6000    RichardF@Expedition bringing "Imagination to Realization" Http://www.Expedition.com

I then had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, fresh fruit, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I will do a little internet work this morning. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/99 Thursday 7:15 P.M. EDT: I had a couple of salmon tuna sandwiches for lunch along with iced coffee. I went out and I stopped by the Arnold Bread store outlet, and I bought three loaves of 12 grain bread for $2.50 total. I drove down by the waterfront, and it was not busy. I drove by the Hospital Thrift shop and toured the merchandise. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. I stopped by Exxon and bought $13.50 of premium gasoline. I returned home, and I had a diet Sprite in a frosted mug. I recieved a phone call from a friend. I stopped by Stamford to deliver some supplies. I stopped by Tod's Point, and there were quite a few picnicers out in the southwest picnic area. The wind was pretty strong out of the southeast, so some of them had to seek shelter from the wind along the tree line. I noticed driving through Old Greenwich, that Sconavocah's? restaurant in the center of town was advertising a prime rib diner for $10.95. I returned home, and I had dinner of reheated spegehetti with meat sauce and grated parmesian cheese along with ice tea and orange juice combination. I guess I will relax for the rest of the evening. Enjoy the evening. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/99 Thursday 11:40 A.M. EDT: I took a nap, and I found these links Hector Russell kiltmaker - Quality Kilts and Highland Dress from Scotland. , Edinburgh Castle webcam in Scotland , Webcamera views of Scotland , The Edinburgh Military Tattoo ,Bank of Scotland , SendWine.com - Send gifts of fine wine nationwide , Festival Revue Home Page , and I guess it is back to the net. I am online at Iphone General 2, but no one whom speaks English has called yet. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>8/19/99 Thursday 8:25 A.M. EDT: I was up at 5:30 A.M.. I had breakfast of fresh fruit, Post Almond oats, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I chatted with an IBM employee up in Burlington, Vermont. I went out at 7 A.M., and I watered the plants until just now. Not much else to report on at this juncture. Well have an enjoyable morning. CIO

Note:<888>8/18/99 Wednesday 9:50 P.M. EDT: After dinner, I went for a walk on lower Greenwich Avenue. I first stopped by CVS and bought jars of garlic powder, Basil, Oregano, and Italian Seasoning for .99 each or $3.96 total. I then walked down again, and I toured Roger Sherman Baldwin park where they had a country music band from Vermont beginning to play an evening concert. I counted a line of 30 geese paddling on the water. I returned to the center of town. About 8 P.M., I headed over to the Greenwich Library, and I checked out "Business @ The Speed of Thought" by Bill Gates. I returned home, and I watched the end of the History Channel about the history of the masons in America. I began to watched a conspiracy program on the History Channel about the Kennedy assination which I had seen before. I recieved a phone call, and I chatted for a while. Well I am a bit tired, so have a good evening, and tomorrow is another day. CIO

Note:<888>8/18/99 Wednesday 5:15 P.M. EDT: I slept from after the last message until noon. I had two salmon and tuna sandwiches with ice tea. I went out about 1:30 P.M.. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I drove down to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a carton of grey Dutch Treat Sweet Lights cigar cigarettes for $14.19 plus a two pack of Dove soap for $1.79 plus .96 Ct. tax for $16.94. I drove down by the waterfront. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and I read the local newspaper. We have a new library director from the New York Public Library. I read the three computer newsweeklies, I usually read. I stopped by the Grand Union, and I bought two large cantaloupes for $1.99 both, two Dole Carribean Pineapples for $3 both, a 4 oz. bottle of Angostora bitters for $3.29 two half gallons of Tropicana tangerine juice for $5 both a quart of parmalt whole mile for $1.45, a half gallon of GU 2% milk $1.69, and two cans of mandarine oranges for .89 each for $18.40 total. I returned home, and I peeled the two pineapples and diced them not using the core, and I also peeled and diced the two cantaloupes, and I added the two cans of Mandarine oranges with juice, all to a large mixing bowl and I mixed all the fruit together. I added a ounce of Mount Gay eclipse rum, five tablespoons of Angostora bitters, and pint of white wine, and three cups of Tangerine juice and mixed all the ingredients together with my trusty wooden spoon. I then put most of the fruit mixture into two large rubbermaid containers to ferment for a day in the refrigertor along with a bit of left over in a Hellmans mayonaise jar. I then started boiling water for speghetti noodles which should be done in five minutes along with reheated speghetti sauce with parmesian crumbled cheese which I will have for dinner shortly with iced coffee. Well have an enjoyable evening. CIO

Note:<888>8/18/99 Wednesday 9:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at 1:30 A.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, six strips of bacon, vitamins, orange juice and coffee. I sorted out the unsorted good Favorites and put them back into the directory and removed the bad links from the directory. I zipped the 11 different groups of downloadable Favorites, and they are available from download.htm . I now have 72,416 Favorites , so I cleaned up about 6,000 bad links with LinkSweeper. Well have a good morning. I will have a bite to eat and clean up, and go out in about an hour. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/99 Tuesday 4:10 P.M. EDT: I threw two cans of tuna fish and a 12 oz. can of Alaska Pink salmon in the CuisineArt with an eighted onion, mayonaisse and herbs and spices, and I processed it. It came out a bit runny, but it is still good for sandwiches if you slice the bread first. I had one of these sandwiches just now along with Ramen noodles and iced coffee. I made up another batch of coffee for iced coffee. I am just cruising the internet, since it is a little hot and sultry, so I don't feel like going outside just now. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/99 Tuesday 2:00 P.M. EDT: Not doing much today, just having a lazy day at home. I had a call from Germany about some local phone numbers. Well have a good afternoon. I think I will take another nap. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/99 Tuesday 9:00 A.M. EDT: Well I slept from about 3 A.M. to 5 A.M.. I did some normal maintenance on the system and am running LinkSweep on the group of Bad Links again. I tried running AltaVista Search Indexer with it, but a red light came on the modem. I chatted with www.bam.com Bell Atlantic Mobil, and they said you can buy a analog cell phone for $45 and get cell phone digital minutes for about .50 to .80 a minute. The best deal if you want to chat a bit is the Digital 200 Plan for $40 a month which comes with 200 minutes a month and free time on weekends and from 8 P.M. to 7 A.M.. They said the plan the store tried to offer me yesterday is not a valid plan, and that is not a Bell Atlantic store just a licensee. There is a Bell Atlantic store in Stamford, Connecticut where you could get that plan, and one would still have to pay a $200 deposit, and would be locked into the plan for 2 years. Also they recommended the Qualcomm phone which would be about $80 to $120 depending about their mood. I also checked with Bell Atlantic repair, and they will check into the clicking on my phone; and it looks like some idiot that nothing better to do or some rougue Russian has been tapping into my telephone line, which does not make sense, since I hardly ever get any phone calls. I guess it goes to show how dumb people can be whom watch too much television and movies and don't read enough. I had some taco chip and a Citra soda for a snack. Well have a good day, and don't take any wooden nickles. It is a bit overcast outside right now, so since I have nothing to do, I will fiddle with the system. Also someone fiddled with my Audio settings again and turned off the microphone, so I guess they're afraid I am running an open microphone in the apartment. I guess I could try to set up a streaming program where I could do that. I will have to check it out. Well not much else happening. I was thinking of going up to Nielsen's Florist and greenhouses in Darien to buy four house plants to replace the ones that have died, but at the moment; I don't have any funds for such extravagence. Well have an enjoyable morning. CIO

Note:<888>8/17/99 Tuesday 2:40 A.M. EDT: Well I was up about 12:30 A.M.. I had breakfast of Post Almond Oats, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I put a few of my old music MP3 files that are less popular back on the server at http://mrscott.com/music1.htm . Hopefully since they are not as popular as the Beatles and Elvis, there will be less baud width use on my server. I updated Scott' Weekly broadcast sound.htm . Well have a good morning, and enjoy the day. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/99 Monday 12:40 P.M. EDT: Well I went out a litte before 8 A.M.. I stopped by St. Moritz and had a Almond Danish. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I went over to the Old Greenwich Staples, and I bought two blue binders for $2.12 off the clearence shelf. I went out to Tod's Point, and I walked around the three mile walk. I sat at the southwest corner and contemplated the skyline. It is obvious we might have some clouds coming in from the west. I noticed last week and again this week, they have changed the flight patterns of the incoming air traffic coming into Westchester Airport where they come along the southern land shore of Greenwich, instead of over the waterfront. I noticed quite a few walker and young sailors and beach goers on a near perfect morning. I returned to town, and I stopped by the Bell Atlantic Cellular phone store in Cos Cob. I was thinking of getting service, but they want a $200 deposit that I can not afford. One can get digital cellular service from them for $30 a month which includes 90 daytime minutes and unlimited night time minutes from 8 P.M. to 8 A.M. along with unlimited weekend calls. One also has to pay $90 for a digital phone. I decided to wait to get one. I don't think it is fair I have to pay for a deposit. I next went over to the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I toured the merchandise. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with a regular waterfront observer. I returned home, and I had a Citra soda in a frosted mug. I finished running LinkSweeper, and there were a little over 6,000 bag links, and I still have over 72,000 good links in my favorites. I will run it again to check the bad links again. Have a good afternoon. I suspose, I will go out again in a while after I have something to eat. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/99 Monday 6:50 A.M. EDT: Well I had some speghetti and iced coffee to eat. This might be interesting property for the President and Mrs. Clinton to look at if it happened to be on the New York side of the boarder Microsoft TerraServer Full Resolution Image Page Northwest Greenwich, Coonecticut, New York Boarder . I have to clean up and go out in about a half hour, have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>8/16/99 Monday 3:35 A.M. EDT: Well I rested from 1 P.M. yesterday until 10 P.M.. I got up had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, coffee, vitamins, orange juice, and cafe au lait. I returned back to bed from 1 A.M. until just now. I guess I will do a little internet work. Will people on vacation not much is happening, so I am relaxing at home. I might go out this morning once the sun comes up around 6:30 A.M. until 8:30 A.M.. Not a whole lot happening if you get my drift. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 1:30 P.M. EDT:Well I made a couple of my usual Sunday calls. I have a new neighbor moving in downstairs. There is not a lot happening, I am just having a lazy Sunday afternoon. I might take a nap now. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 10:00 A.M. EDT:Basically a small group of about a half million Russians seem to think they have control of the New York Metropolitan area, so if we ran about 260 million United States citizens through the area or even 2.5 billion Western Hemisphere residents, they might begin to realize what a small minority, they really are. Well have a good day and enjoy the comedy of errors. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 9:50 A.M. EDT: Well if you read as much as I do, there was a major environmental story on the internet in Yahoo Reuters that said that a section of Antartica about half the size of Greenland had separated from the main continent and was starting to drift out to sea. This would be enough to effect the ocean currents and the weather and the usual weather patterns has predicted and might have disrupted the usual hurricane season along with El Nino. As far as I can tell there has been no further mention. However a mass of ice that big floating north would take so much weight off the South Pole, that it would cause the Earth's axis to tilt a partial degree and have a major effect on weather patterns as we have understood them historically, but there has been no mention of the story so far. A cleaver group of people might figure out how to divert certain ocean currents, so the separted section of ice floated back towards the South Pole and eventually reattached itself. Separting from the pole and changing the Earth's axis might concievable also effect the earth's orbit also. The high level scientists would probably have the answer. If my phone is tapped, they should give me Digital ATT wireless sevice with a Noikia cell phone as mention a couple of days ago. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 9:40 A.M. EDT:During World War II, the DAR had three cleaver plans to defend the White House and Public Buildings. They were to plant Poison Ivy around the public buildings and churches, put Golden Rod inside all the Public Building and Churches, and to spread Sheep Manure on all the lawns of Public Buildings and Churches. I dare say this would then or even now be an effective deterent towards disrupting the public trust. Well I tried calling an important number, and they keep cutting off my phone number and disconnecting the call, so I think it is safe to assume the telephone is tapped and the telephone communications in this area is under control of groups not friendly towards democratic speach. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 9:20 A.M. EDT: Apparently a Clipper Ship operator knows a cheaper way to get back and forth to Oyster Bay without disrupting the general public or even a few bicycle mechanics in the area. CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 9:10 A.M. EDT: Unfortunately after the Steel Baron traders decided to sabotage Greenwich Harbor, a little old lady that owns a dynamite company objected along with a bootlegger from Oyster Bay and a bird watchers from North Terrytown, New York and a coal miner from Arden, New York and a old Scottish hemit up in Scoland and a short lady with some short dogs and a bunch of stray cats along with the Beagle Brothers software company and a miner from South Africa and a oceanographer from Japan and a Tin Lizy saleman and coffee baron and tea dumpers from Boston and a tabacco farmer from Virginia and a Apple Farmer from New York and a Uranium minder from Nevada and few other neighbors and a little old lady with a beat up car and a Khan from Mongolia and we have yet to hear from the Emperor of China or the Czar of Russia or the Pasha of Persia or the Sultan of Turkey or the Raj from India or the flamingo dancer from Spain or Adle and Omar the tent makers. So lets see how this comedy of errors progresses. I guess it might turn out like "Bridge Over the River Kwai". I am finishing up making some icetea.htm .CIO

Note:<888>8/15/99 Sunday 7:05 A.M. EDT: I went back to bed after the last message, and I got up about the midnight. The NOAA weather warning system went off lots of time, so I assume we had lots of rain. I had breakfast of Post Almond Oats, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I finished cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. Last Thursday when the current wife of a current chief of state of a nearby country was seen around town, there was some discussion along the waterfront with the Head of The Army Corps of Engineers whether they should try to build a bridge from Steamboat Road to Oyster Bay. They were seen consulting with the owners of United States Steel and Bethleham Steel whom have the capability of caring out the project. I don't want to mention names, so as not to invade people's privacy. Well I have some Spegehetti and meat sauce, have a good morning. CIO