Note 08/29/97 Friday 5:20 AM EDT: Updated a few random links in the http://www.mikescott.net/bm.htm page. I surfed the net briefly. I added For Security Contact Wells Fargo link to my homepage. Wells Fargo is probably the best private security agency in the United States besides being a bank. They have over a hundred years of experience. At the Greenwich Country Club a year ago the Wells Fargo security guard was a nice old gent who looked like Ronald Reagan. Get the picture. Needless to say many prominent old timers like to moonlight particularly around their grandchildren, so as to keep an eye on them. Last night , the night before tonight, I spotted a yellow Honda Civic with Florida plates with blackout windows entering into town, perhaps it is another youngster coming up from Disney country to visit us. One of the best night time security jobs in the summer is probably night watchman at the Steamship Authority on Nantucket, you get lots of time to chat with kids who don't have a place to stay on the island. Being a security guard around any university campuses can be amusing, particularly like a great many professional university security personnel who have worked dozens of campuses around the world in their careers. Enough of constant comment, time to check the morning rush. CIO

Note 08/29/97 Friday 3:00 AM EDT: I continue to recieve email from porn site trying to get me to log on. I emailed the White House to have the Secret Service stop the harrassment. Greenwich is quiet, lots of people taking holiday. Library was empty this evening. I imagine a number of universities in the area are going back into session. I will surf the internet this evening a bit for fun. If out at night in Greenwich beware of the large skunk population around town. The area down by the water off Steamboat Road is inundated with a large population of a family of skunks. I have not seen Morris the cat on Greenwich Avenue this summer. In reply to local experts on interior decoration, I recommend the English Country look. Famous decorators such as David Hicks, Billy Baldwin, and Elsie de Wolfe Mendal have succeded famously with the English Country look. Basically the English Country look is what ever you happen to have lying around of decent quality tastefully organized to suit a comfortable lifestyle and enjoyable home. Vitamins this week are half price at CVS, also garlic tablets which might be good for arthritis are available for half price. Relatives are arriving in Kennebunkport today, so I imagine the town will be happy to see them. I am so near sided like Mr. McGoo I don't recognize any famous people are political celebrities, and living here in the New York area lots of people look alike. I imagine the day time family people will be out and about tomarrow and this weekend getting ready for school. Library is closed on Friday night and I believe this Sunday. It should be open during those periods after Labor Day. Parking lot still is not completed. Remember I hardly every watch television, and the next economic curtailment I will probably make is to have the Cablevision disconnected. Also my VCRs doesn't work. Have a good holiday weekend. CIO

Note 08/28/97 Thursday 7:00 AM EDT: Lots of rain clouds over town. Looks like we will be getting lots of rain, and the town will be maintaining their inside routines until the monson passes. Morning traffic reflects quite a few people go to work at 5:30 AM in the morning around here. Quite a few familiar faces out in the morning. I am going to bed now, I have to be up at 1:00 PM to make a 3:00 PM appointment. Enjoy the rainy day, some people live in the rain quite a lot and are use to it. CIO

Note 08/28/97 Thursday 4:20 AM EDT: Created seperate stats page linked from homepage. Ordered MS Internet Explorer 4.0 CDROM for $5. CIO

Note 08/28/97 Thursday 3:20 AM EDT: I recieved email on family reunion of mom's family, Boven Reunion. All is quiet in Greenwich with a few kids haunting the streets at night. I drove with a friend around back country this afternoon. Lots of new houses have been built. The Greenwich Country Club is green and as well manicured as ever. Oldest members are a prominent local Dutch family. Needless to say the teenagers I saw playing golf are trying to maintain a quiet respectful retreat. I believe Jerry Ford and General William Westmoreland are life time honorary members of the club. Alas the Internal Revenue Service will no longer let business members write off club dues off their income tax. Still it is fun to remember the good old days of corporate memberships. I guess now one can write off second homes as tax deductions, so certain people are away at their second homes. Needless to say, I got a little time off the computer this evening. I am not to surprised to see my stock portfolio go down, but remember it is just an economic portfolio of bell weather stocks, and I don't pretend to be a Wall Street wiz, or I would not be living in my present circumstances. I have been reassurred that most of our full time residents will return from their summer hideaways after Labor Day. I know of one local individual that claims to know someone that lives in Montserrat, but I have not seen any tan faces around this area. I expect the winter to be mild. They are still working on the roof on my building. I am surprised the historical district commission let the housing authority remove the beautiful old slate roof to replace it with ugly asphalt shingles. Lots of used slate for sale. I guess the black shingles will attrack more heat in the winter and keep the building warmer. It costs several thousand dollars a year to maintain a slate roof, but they last forever, where the new half million dollar roof will wear out in 15 to 20 years depending on what quality shingles they use. Once they start banging over my part of the building I will probably get on a day schedule. I have to keep an eye out for relatives traveling in the area today. I have not done much computer work this evening. I made a boneless chicken breast Chinese meal of onion and green pepper and corn on brown rice meal this evening that will last several days. Hope you all are enjoying your vacation. The Greenwich library was not busy this past evening. CIO

Note 08/27/97 Wenesday 9:40 AM EDT: I did 19 hours of systems maintenance work this morning and yesterday. I eliminated the Netware error at startup by installing Netware Network and deinstalling it. I backed up the computer with some hassle. I have not been out in a couple of days. Not much else to report. I checked with our local political representatives yesterday afternoon about them resuming paying for the heat in my building and they just gave me the run around like they have for the last year. Right now conditions are pleasent in my smoked filled room, but come winter I dare say they will be torturing me again. Basically the Facists have taken over Greenwich or it might be possibly some sort of mafia like the Russian, Irish, or Italian mafia, but needless to say they all hate my guts, except they are afraid of my relatives elsewhere in the country. That is all for now folks. Greenwich is a center of a lot of public relations for people and groups who don't want to bothered. Have fun on you vacations. CIO

Note 08/26/97 Tuesday 1:40 AM EDT: Phone call at noon from Texas woke me up yesterday. I made 4:00 PM appointment. I had a dinner guest. I went downtown a couple of times this past evening and this morning. The town is very quiet which is typical for a Monday or a Tuesday night. Weather is in the mid 60's F. in the night. I suppose there is more activity in the daytime, but night people don't really care. Nothing unusual to report. Roofers are still working on the roof on the building. I think the Federal or State government should live up to their moral responsibility and pay for the electric heat in this building instead of having 55 elderly and disabled people freeze in the winter. Obviously the local state officials don't care that much about our well being. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is law, they have violated our rights. Something is rotten in Denmark. CIO

Note 08/25/97 Monday 7:00 AM EDT: I'm a little bushed. I had to reinstall my network, going through the procedure mentioned before in these notes. The new version of the IBM.NET dialer continues to mess up my networking system, slowing the system and also causing the system not to authenicate when I reconnect after having it freeze on the IBM.NET access. It takes me 1 1 1/2 hours for this procedure. The system is back up to optimized speed. 8.8 Kbytes a second on my test page. If interested scan these notes for the procedure. Lot of new news on Montserrat. My viewpoint is that if the birds and other nature have disappeared from the island, man should have common sense to get off. I have to go to bed. CIO

Note 08/25/97 Monday 3:30 AM EDT: I surfed the net this morning. I chatted with a friend about horses. I emailed the Scott Polar Lab in the U.K.. I will update Pointcast and call it a day.