Note:<888>9/7/98 Monday 6:25 P.M. EDT: Well my computer is still working. I fell asleep after the last message. With my low blood pressure we had a severe thunder storm come through with lightning, and in this quiet building I did not even hear the lightning strike. My neighbor downstairs in the wheel chair called me up at 5:30 P.M. and his computer was out, so I guess his CPU was hit by lightning. I went down checked it with another monitor I have in reserve. His CPU is not booting. It is a Gateway and should be covered. I did notice he has a ground fault interupter strip, but he did not have a power control panel, and thus the telephone line to the CPU was not on ground fault interupter. Thus he has to call Gateway and have them come fix it. Well I still feel whoosy with my low blood pressure, so I will probably go back to sleep. Maybe we will have more lightning, so I will disconnect my CPU and telephone cord while I sleep. CIO

Note:<888>9/7/98 Monday 12:35 P.M. EDT: I went out at about 7:30 A.M. this morning and walked around until about 10:30 A.M. I chatted with some of the local downtown residents and advised them on the threatening weather forecast for sometime today. I noticed that there is always the same regular crew downtown in the morning when people start their days, exchanging pleasantries and local town gossip. This is much the pattern of country life in New England Villages, thus when you spend a great deal of time up on a night schedule, it frequently is necessary for people to go on into the daytime. I chatted with somebody that was in the Duke of Windsor's Honor Guard in Newport, Rhode Island years ago. I noticed a few old time military hands who like to keep an eye on local comings and going around town. Basically this town is like Peter McGowan's Television series "The Prisoner". Thus one gets use to same village routine of never going or coming, but maintaining simple routines around the village and other adjacent areas. The morning fisherman were out. I guess because it is a typical morning, around here but still a holiday, we don't have much to report. Still one should keep a weather eye today, in case any heavy thunderstorms occur in the area and cause substancial lightning or hail. Hail can also cause damage on expensive cars if it does occur, so automobile dealers should consider putting their cars inside or putting foam rubber over them. I chatted with a family member, but not much else is happening. I guess everybody is trying to keep busy, with their multitude of holiday activities around town, and be prepared for a busy work week come Tuesday morning. Hopefully with the extra days rest, people will have a better perspective on ordinary daily events in this area, as it relates to this area, as opposed to other areas in the media. Well have a good afternoon, I took a Tums, because I have a little acid stomach, from trying to reduce my calorie intake, so as to loose a few pounds. No news on the internet front to report. CIO

Note:<888>9/7/98 Monday 7:15 A.M. EDT: I finished making www.mikescott.net/icetea.htm . I made a call to the local Gendarmes about the inclement weather today, and advised them to keep a weather eye for rogue weather. I would imagine a number of people will be trying to enjoy outdoor weather, and if a sudden front comes in when people are on the Island Beach Ferry, a remote part of the beach, or a golf course; they might be in for lightning. Three local officers that I have seen many times before, stopped by to see my internet setup, and how the apartment is setup. I guess they know why I feel a little bit claustophobic and take walks a lot. However, I have always lived in a small apartment and room, so this place actually seems quite large and grand to me. I explained to them some of my internet terminology, such as "888" is use universally in volcanology warning systems and "CIO" means "Chief Information Officer". I also mentioned that since this an improvised place, it is a makeshift "Octagon" house of my own improvisation, which is why I keep the Octagon table in the front entry way. The apartment is spacious with 450 square feet, with 8' by 6' foot kitchen, 16' by 20' living room, 4' by 10' hallway to bath and bedroom, 10' by 10' bedroom, and 4' X 10' bathroom with bath shower stall with an admiral's shower head and indoor plumbing, such as is commonly found in the Americas. For people use to large accomodations it might seem claustophobic, but since I learned from working in small kitchens in French restaurants, that the less space one needs to walk, the more work one gets done in a confined environment, thus it is also like my home office. I keep everything orderly, and I thus know where everything is when I need to do something. However, as I get older I end up hiding things from myself, which frequently happens in your older years. After giving the officers the grand tour, they commented on my grandfather's portrait, and I explained Granddad Bovan was born in 1849, and my maternal grandmother was his second wife, and my mother was his second youngest child, and he passed away in 1928. Thus I have a lot of much older relatives than most people, and I have lived around older people most of my life, and I enjoy the peace and quiet around older people, particularly as I get slower in my advancing middle age. Well enough of old duffer talk, and reminincing about ancient history. My grandfather's portrait looks a little bit like "Prince Albert" of England, Queen Victoria's diseased husband, who died in his younger years. Of course everyone back then tried to look like Prince Albert since that was the current fashion. He is in White Tie in the photograph probably taken around 1870 with color highlights which were painted in. Of course back then Dutch people were not too big. Recently about 8 years ago, I saw a Dutch person selling cheese at the Food Emporium dressed in Dutch Pantaloons and size 30 wooden shoes who was about 7 feet tall and about 500 pounds, but not fat; so I guess the tullip farmers have some big friends in reserve. Of course a Dutch gentleman that big, would probably have larger children providing his wife was a large women. Thus as I always say, I am supposedly one of the runts in the family, since the family geneologist advises me that a lot of Dutch Boven males are over 6' 6" and their children are over 7' feet tall, so I guess they might feel a little claustophobic in my apartment if they ever stopped by, but perhaps the Greeenwich Housing Authority would let them pitch a sleeping bag in the community room, if they could not fit into my Pied A Terre in America. Well the officers departed knowing they had seen me thousands of times, and I mentioned to them it would be nice for somebody to tell the government we need to have our heat paid for in the winter. If that was the Sultan of Brunei walking around yesterday, which I think it was, I am going to vote for him for President, and hopefully we will have a little bit more heat in this place in the winter, subsidized by the government like it was the first eight years. With arthritis a warm apartment over 72 degrees is much more comfortable, and also one needs to keep a couple of humidifiers going with the dry heat from the electric radiators. I think the Grey Panthers should have some sort of political convention in Greenwich, and voice their grievances to the political system. Of course most of the Grey Panthers are probably content to stay down in Florida and the rest of the south , and not come storming up here by the tens of millions. Well I am a victim of my creature comforts. I have been up since 10:30 P.M. last evening, so I think I can make it out for a little bit of a morning stroll. I figure the officers that stopped by won't be worried about me too much. I do keep a symbol of my Swiss neutrality in my apartment, a William Tell type cross bow, that I found at the ELDC thrift shop that Tess sold me, knowing exactly where I was coming from. Unfortunately, I don't think I need any arrows. I also have a four inch Swiss Army knief, and I keep a ten inch Old Hickory chef's knief for my gourmet French cooking which I occassionally throw together, when I am not trying to lose weight. I just had a peanut butter sandwich and Ramen noodles. Well I have been dragging my butt around this town for fifteen years since I came back this time around, and if there are any terrorists out there, they have not bothered me, probably because of all the garlic that I eat which might make me stink along with the peutrid smell of cigarette smoke, that you get use to if you smoke. Well have a good morning. Off to raise my dopamine level in the morning sun. CIO

Note:<888>9/7/98 Monday 4:10 A.M. EDT:Weather Underground: New York, New York Weather Forecast severe thunder storms, hail, and heavy rain predicted for today. I would advise air travalers to exercise caution. Also check New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Weather and Climate Information from the National Weather Service Forecast Office - New York City, Upton, Long Island, New York City, Lower Hudson Valley, Southern Connecticut and Northeast New Jersey, .CIO

Note:<888>9/7/98 Monday 3:20 A.M. EDT: I recieved a call from a family member this evening about 10:30 P.M.. I had breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, orange juice, toast, and coffee. I checked with the Champaign, Illinois police department if there were any unusual events happening out there. They said there is nothing unusual happening out there, except the harvest time is coming up soon to bring in the corn and soy beans. I suppose the University of Illinois will be back in session soon, if it is not already. I went for a walk at midnight. I parked in the center of town. I walked down to the Greenwich Harbor Inn, and I then walked up to the center of town. There were a few people coming out of the Dome restaurant. I chatted with the night clerk at the Greenwich Harbor Inn, and told her with the internet, it is slower downtown, with less people going to the movies. I left downtown about 3 A.M. stopping by the harbor. There were the usual group of fisherman down by the water. Not much to report on a quiet weekend holiday night. Well tomorrow is a holiday, so I will probably be resting most of the day and going out in the afternoon or evening, depending on how my sleeping schedule evolves. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 3:05 P.M. EDT: I downloaded and installed Railroad Tycoon. I will now take a break from the computer and see how the Labor Day Holiday is progressing for our residents and guests. Not much news to report, since downloading a 45 meg program, does not provide a lot of excitement these days. Well hopefully some adventurous young kid, will be able to figure out how to play the game, in case they ever want to ride on a train. Well back to town watching. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 1:20 P.M. EDT: Words of conventional economic old guard wisdom are that the, "Stockmarket Usually Does Not Crash Until After the Hurricane Season, When the Old Guard Decide to Go Back to Florida, Providing It is Still There.", got the picture. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 12:50 P.M. EDT: The Free Willy Keiko Foundation: Keiko's Official and Music Trial and GameSpot: Railroad Tycoon II - Download it now and Shared Vision - Community Bridge Project and The Doll Art Company - Figurative MixedMedia Sculpture - It's not what you think... and Amazon.com: A Glance: Terra Incognita : Travels in Antarctica and The Shebeen and Australian Native Flora and The Sand Hill Challenge and remember the good old days when Greenwich use to have a "Soap Box Derby", well I suppose if you take an old "Soap Box" and nail some wheels on it, you might have a chance of winning, providing some local entrepreneur is not too cheap to sponsor it. Of course most of the local young dudes still like sneaking out late at night on their skate boards, once we clear the Avenue of all Pedestrian Traffic. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 10:50 A.M. EDT: I went out for a walk this morning at 6 A.M.. I drove down by the water and checked out the usual group of fisherman. I parked in the center of town and walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue one and half times. I noticed a Dutch couple out for an early morning walk. I noticed a few young families are early morning risers. I saw people going to church as usual on Sunday morning, and I saw quite a few people still buying the Sunday papers and morning coffee at Starbucks. I noticed the birds seem to be flying a bit south already. I drove back down by the water and chatted with some of the fisherman. There are a lot of dead bunker in the water I guess caused by hypoxia when the blue fish drive them in and the bunker die for lack of oxygen. I chatted with some of the morning regulars downtown. I drove by the Greenwich Harbor Inn and chatted with some of the sailors about the current hurricane season, and suggested it would be sound advise to wait it out until the end of October before going to Florida when the hurricane season is suppose to be over. I chatted with a young fellow from Barington, Illinois about the Retreat, the Archidiocse of Chicago maintains in Mundelein, Illinois which was built for evacuation of the Vatican during World War II, in case hostile forces evicted them from Vatican City. I also complimented him on the quality of students I had seen here from Illinois over the years. I returned to the center of town, and I bought two croissants from St. Moritz bakery for $2 and while eating them I complimented a lady on her two Standard poodles. She was gossiping with the morning crowd at the laundrymat. I chatted with a gentleman in the park about the current state of economics in this country. I suggested tha the stock market might be down by 25% by the end of November. It really depends on whether the foreign investors decide to keep their money in this country or invest it elsewhere. I suggested that we are the safest haven for investing money at the moment, but I think values are over valued, compared to real world prices. I basically spent about four hours out walking around, so I won't be going to the beach this morning or afternoon for a walk. It is time for me to begin winding down my day. It is fun to get a little day light for a change. I saw quite a few early morning walkers and travelers getting an early start. Of course most of the town is probably still asleep now with just the kids in residence watching cartoons. I suppose the early morning yuppie rush is just beginning to occur. Well enjoy youselves this morning, and remember those of you just getting up have a long day ahead of you. The computer sale fair is still on in White Plains again today. Well enjoy yourselves. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 5:50 A.M. EDT: I finished the laundry and my coffee, I guess I will quit rocking out to Radio Dingold, and go out for a morning breath of fresh air. I still have a jug of ice tea, so I won't make ice tea just yet. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 5:25 A.M. EDT: I also said good morning yesterday to a gentleman from Barbados and asked him "If Burt's Bar is Still There". They use to chat with me on the internet from there. I also said good morning to local volonteers from Ecudador. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 5:10 A.M. EDT: I have finished cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. I am still listening to Radio Ten Dingold, I am on the dry cycle with my laundry, and it should be done in about 20 minutes. I am making coffee right now. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 2:15 A.M. EDT: I'm rocking out listening to Radio 10 while doing my house cleaning Dutch Radio Stations, Scott's Internet Hotlist . CIO

Note:<888>9/6/98 Sunday 1:50 A.M. EDT: I went to bed at noon yesterday. I got up at 5 P.M. and had breakfast and then went back to sleep until 12:45 A.M. this moring. I listened to last 15 minutes www.ttalk.com. I took a look at the Microsoft "Running Windows 98" CD Rom, and they have file I copied from the book which is about 15 megs. It is an electronic copy of the book, which I am keeping on my hard drive for Win98 reference. Well it is Sunday morning, so I have to do some house cleaning as usual. Enjoy yourselves, if you are still awake. Today I also recieved the free Cdrom pack from !Welcome to Auto Europe! for my later viewing pleasure. CIO

Note:<888>9/5/98 Saturday 11:10 A.M. EDT: I went back out this morning at 2:30 AM and drove down by the water. It was very slow out, so I came back home and thought about the Swiss Air disaster from what I have read in the media. At the time of the plane's takeoff from Kennedy Airport on Wednesday evening, I would say around 8 P.M. EDT, we were having a strange whether phenomina that increased here throughout the evening, of light to heavy rain showers with moderate to heavy lightning and thunder. It has not rained much this summer, so I noticed it and did not take my usual evening stroll. I came in about 8:45 PM and while walking the short distance from the car to the building, I was worried about being hit by lightning. Since the Swiss Air Jet would have been flying through the same storm front, I think it is safe to assume that the Jet might have been hit by lightning, causing a delayed malfunction an hour later over Nova Scotia. Another likely scenario is that some maintenance or food service or cleaning worker had access to the Jet in the last year, and they might have planted a radio wave activated device that could have been triggered by remote control at the right time when the terrorists wanted to perpetrate the crime. However, any potential targets on the jet were public figures, so it does not seem likely they would have been the target of terrorists' attack. In the insurance business "ACTS OF GOD" are frequently attributed to certain events, and it is not unlikely that LIGHTNING might have caused the Swiss Air Aviation accident. I went out at 6:30 A.M. and chatted briefly with a local fisherman down on Steamboat Road, asking if he knew anything about any large type fish like Great White Sharks in Long Island Sound, and he said he had not heard any such reports. I suppose the Norwalk acquarium might know if any are out there. I noticed a young family from Asia also fishing. I returned to the center of town and chatted with the fish store next to Zyn stationary if they knew anything about any large fish sightings, they did not. I went down the street to the News Stand across from Quinns going out of business and bought 3 three packs of buy two get one free of Merit Ultra lights for $17.70 total. I walked up the Avenue and told one can lady from Jamaica about a large collection of cans beneath the train station office park. She was driving an old Volvo with a large collection of cans. I walked up the street and gave a former French resident of Park Avenue Manhattan one of my packs of cigarettes. I sat in front of the senior center, and chatted with a local former town politician about events around town. I noticed a few regular morning people as always as well as lots of dog walkers. I stopped by Subway barber and Frank said he could take me in fifteen minutes, so I walked down the street to one of the money machines and took out $20 and noticed Quinns going out business grocery, the Quinns liquor is staying, has a nice old grocery store coffee machine in their window, that would make a good fixture in a gourmet coffee place. I returned and waited for two customers, and Frank who had just gotten back from Rome gave me a very good hair cut. I chatted about living in Italy in 1972, and told him back then that there were 565 lire to the dollar. I also said about the most expensive thing I bought in Italy was Marlboros for about $5 a pack or about 2,700 lire. I said I did the whole six month trip of Italy and Greece for about $1,500. I also mentioned from what I know Banco de Milano is very good bank, and I once read that the Medici family in Firinze, Italia has not run out of money in 800 years, so they are the old feudal merchant princes from way back when. Of course all their money could not keep the Arno from flooding Firinze in a devastating flood back in 1971. Hopefully they have instituted better flood control projects since then. I chatted with a few other locals. I drove by the Hospital Thrift Shop and toured the offerings. I returned home and had a banana and gold fish crackers and ice tea and relaxed a while. I then filed this report for your inspirational reading. Well off to bed. See you later alligator. Yesterday's Greenwich Times besides covering the Swiss Air disaster mentioned on the third page in a small column that there was an attempted kidnapping of a 12 year old boy by two white male 20 year old boys at Western Middle School earlier in the week. I suppose one never knows what is going on locally, but I usually can't afford to buy the local paper. CIO

Note:<888>9/5/98 Saturday 2:20 A.M. EDT: I had a Tony's pizza for my lunch, and I will go out shortly to check out the remains to the day. Try Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Website- Welcome for information on the Swiss Air flight disaster as the Canadians are reporting it. CIO

Note:<888>9/5/98 Saturday 1:00 A.M. EDT: I got up and had breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, coffee, vitamins, and orange juice and grapefruit juice at 2 P.M. today. I went back to sleep and got up and watched the ABC evening news at 6:30 P.M. I went back to bed until 9 P.M.. I showered and made a cup of coffee and went out at 9:30 with my thermos. I stopped by the Shell station and bought three packs of Basic Lights 100s. I drove downtown and drank my coffee. I chatted with a local Christian Scientist about technology. I walked down with him at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue. I noticed a Greenwich Policeman who looked like a former Buffalo Bills football player who was charged with a west coast homicide last year. Well I guess the Greenwich Police will hire anyone. I went down by the harbor at the Greenwich Harbor Inn and chatted with a fellow on a deep sea fishing yacht from Dover, Delaware about deep sea fishing. He said Key West has been taken over by Gays from Provincetown, Massachussetts and is not the same. I noticed a cigarette boat from Vero Beach with Camelot as its name on it. Lots of people were drinking and listening to Jamaican Regee music. I noticed a lot of Chris Dodd campaign posters in the back of one station wagon. Perhaps that is why the drunk democrats don't think I need heat up here in the winter, since they all have carribean hideaways and are being bought off by either the oil sheiks or the drug cartel folks. Anyway it is none of my business. I returned back up the Avenue and chatted with a local observer who likes recruiting for big 10 college football teams. I returned to the Greenwich Harbor Inn and bought a copy of today's Greenwich Times. I wanted to look at the casualties of the Swiss Air flight in Nova Scotia. I guess there were a number of local casualties from this area. One older banker on board was related to the Harriman family. I metioned to a young gal coming in on a plane that it is not safe to fly during this period of Solar Flair activity, since sun spots can disabled anything electronic like the Swiss Air plane, the Titan rocket nine days ago, or even Air Force One coming back from Ireland. Basically the sun spot activity still could be going on. I had the same problem with my computer last May while installing the new motherboard during Sun Spot activity. Well they seem to be behaving theirselves at the Greenwich Harbor Inn. I also chatted this eveing with one couple walking their Doberman Pincher about the time a friend of mine gave away 24 Dober Pincher pubbies at the Cambridge common while he was living near Harvard. He dropped from sight years ago, because he was trying to date the present wife of a senior middle eastern official who at the time he thought she would be a free ticket on Pan Am. Since his parents worked in China in the 1930s, he is probably hiding out in China where no one pays attention to exiled Americans. The gal that looks and sounds like the former wife of a Greek shipping magnate except with blond hair is still sleeping the bench in front of the veterans monument. I guess she does not like the guests showing up at her house in Florida. Well sleeping out at night you don't get tanned unlike some people in the day time. I heard that an Arab Prince was on the Swiss Air flight, so maybe he was a target in some sort of Arab family fieud. Arab Princes are very common since Arab Sheiks have many wives and sire thousands of sons, not to mention a few daughters. Apparently some enterprising youngster has posted a site similar to mine at www.michael-scott.com trying to cater to women's fitness. Since it comes out of Ohio, I would imagine some of the fathers of the daughters he was trying to do in got down on his case. Well Michael is the most common American male name and Scott is a very common family name, so we all have a sense a humour about such teenage pranks. Since I live around IBM we try to maintain a moderate level of decorum and dignity so as to set a good example for company shareholders, employees, and customers. I basically figure what is good for IBM is good for Greenwich. So it was a full house of labor day weekend night people ending their summer. Come Tuesday we will be back into our more sedate downtown activities. There was an ambulance call at the Mews retirement home this evening, and I saw one fire truck go out on a call. Well back to internet activity, and I will probably make another tour of downtown later this morning. I saw a few people walking around with nap sacks, so maybe we have other happy campers paying visits to our community. Well I advise people to practice diplomacy, since you never know where or whom a visitor might be. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm also. Well back to my usual night routine. Also MarketPro www.marketpro.com have one of their computer fairs at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York today and Sunday September 5 and September 6 from 9:30 AM to 4 PM with lots of wholesale computer and software vendors for you techies looking for discounts. However, one frequently has to go to more remote locations if one needs to return any or the merchandise that one buys. I might browse it this morning for fun, but I don't need to buy any computer items and can't really afford to, since more money is going into entertainment than technology around here these days. Over and Out. CIO

Note:<888>9/4/98 Friday 7:00 A.M. EDT: I added some advertisers to my Dutch Radio Stations, Scott's Internet Hotlist page, and have been enjoying the Dutch music from across "The Pond" this morning. Time to log off and get some shuteye. CIO

Note:<888>9/4/98 Friday 4:44 A.M. EDT: Dutch Radio Stations Page www.mikescott.net/dutchrad.htm . People making noise by clonking their wooden shoes for the Tullips folks. CIO

Note:<888>9/4/98 Friday 4:30 A.M. EDT: Dutch Music Welkom bij Radio 10 Gold , NPS-WEBRADIO, ARROW Classic Rock Radio - Music on the Net , Radio Noordzee Nationaal, Sky Radio 100.7 FM , You're about to enter the Radio 538 Website , Concertzender Nederland . New Amsterdam Dutch Music from the Netherlands. CIO

Note:<888>9/4/98 Friday 4:00 A.M. EDT:Welcome to Maui's Heartbeat and KPOA Maui , well if we're all prisoners in China, we might stop by and visit the Chinese version of Maui, remember Maui Wowie and Moon Dogie, see you on the rebound. CIO

Note:<888>9/4/98 Friday 3:10 A.M. EDT: Well, as one person once said "Knowlege is Power", a different philosopher if he could spell might have said, "Knowlege is Freedom". Of course the key to successful use of the internet worldwide is an understanding of languages and international skills, which the bureaucrats tend to ignore due to political manipulations. Well enjoy yourselves. As a secretive individual who lived a hermit once said, "Pay Attention to the Living, the Dead Will Take Care of Themselves." CIO

Note:<888>9/4/98 Friday 12:00 A.M. EDT:Swissair - Information about the accident of SR 111 Swiss Air Crash Victims Names. CIO

Note:<888>9/3/98 Thursday 11:55 P.M. EDT: I did some system tweaking until 6:30 A.M. this morning. I went to bed and was up at 1 P.M.. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I toured the Hospital Thrift Shop and I paid my Bell Atlantic appointment. I tried to get a hair cut, but they were busy at Subway. I might try the barbers in Old Greenwich. I stopped by the library and read another computer newsweekly. I checked out the Microsoft "Running Windows 98" with a cdrom it came with. I returned home and worked on the system until 7 P.M. when my former house guest stopped by. We chatted, talking about six degrees of seperation. His office mate's son's fiancee's brother was on Swiss Air flight returning home to Switzerland. My friend left at 9:15 P.M. and I was tired and slept until 11:45 P.M.. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/3/98 Thursday 3:45 A.M. EDT: I posted a Scott's Media Player Demo at www.mikescott.net/scotdemo.htm . Time for bed. CIO

Note:<888>9/3/98 Thursday 12:50 A.M. EDT: I downloaded the Microsoft Media Player Netshow Encoder and posted a broadcast on my Broadcast page www.mikescott.net/sound.htm . It works really easily real time, and I will not be able to post broadcast when I have server space. I did it at 10 kbps at 56 K. baud. Well enjoy the broadcast if you have the Microsoft Media Player on your computer. CIO

Note:<888>9/2/98 Wednesday 11:40 P.M. EDT: I am downloading Downloads: NetShow Services for Windows NT Server Netshow Tools, hoping to find an encoding tool for MS Media Player. CIO

Note:<888>9/2/98 Wednesday 9:20 P.M. EDT: I rested from 2 P.M. until 6 P.M.. I watched the ABC evening news. I went out at 7 P.M. and read two computer newsweeklies at the Greenwich Library, PC Magazine, and the Greenwich Times. I drove down by the water on Steamboat Road. Five vans with www.theshark.com were in residence at the Greenwich Harbor Inn. I went by the Grand Union and bought one Cantalope at .29 a pound for .95, two bananas at .69 a pound for .58, two ears of yellow corn for .34, a quart jar of chopped garlic for $4.99, 20 oz. of Pepperidge Goldfish crackers for $4.29, 15 packs of Ramen noodles for $3, a Tony's pizza $3.39, GU frozen green beans a 12 oz. bags for .79 each for $1.58 for a total of $18.79. I chatted with a priest from Harlem about Italy while shopping. It started raining as I left the store heavily. I put away the groceries and am making herbal garlic baked in wine boneless breast of chicken with potatoe and onion and brocolli which should be ready in fifteen minutes. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/2/98 Wednesday 1:30 P.M. EDT: I went out at 9 A.M.. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop. I went by the bank. I paid my rent. I went by the post office and paid my cablevision and electricity. I also bought ten stamps. I have paid my MCI bill, but still have to pay my Bell Atlantic bill. I went up to CompUSA in Norwalk and returned the video graphics card. I came down and stopped by the Old Greenwich thrift shop. I drove around Tod's Point, and there were a few people there on an overcast day. I went downtown and stopped by the library and returned videotapes. I went by Exxon for $11.05 premium gasoline. I stopped by the Food Emporium and bought 2% half gallon milk $2.05, 1.23 pounds at $9.99 a pound of hazelnut coffee for $12.29, 13 oz. Bokar $3.89, 13 oz. French roast $3.69, 13 oz. 8 o'clock $3.69, 30 oz. Columbian $10.99 for a total of $36.60. I stopped by the Arnold Bread store and got 3 loaves of Healthnut bread and one free loaf of Arnold Nutty grain for $3 total. I returned home and mixed the coffee beans together and put them in the container jars. I made Ramen noodles and a peanut butter sandwich with ice tea for lunch and then had coffee and filed this report. I received my Bell Atlantic bill and will pay it this afternoon. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/2/98 Wednesday 7:25 A.M. EDT: Good Morning sunrise Bermuda Triangle [WebCam 1] . I upgraded my stats www.mikescott.net/stats.htm . When trying to use more than one monitor with my www.pcware.com S-571 onboard video, with a PCI ATI video card it, it loaded the Onboard SIS video driver, but it kept having a conflict. Thus to use dual monitors with my system, I would have to use two PCI cards and disable the onboard video. Well I am through my email, and I just finishing listening to the weekender broadcast www.ttalk.com . It is nice to get a little work done with the lites on for a change. I also changed my screen resolution to 640X480 with my homepage at the same resolution. It should be better for laptops users. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/2/98 Wednesday 6:15 A.M. EDT: I was up at 5 P.M. yesterday. I had breakfast of cerial, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. My house guest has departed. I went up to CompUSA in Norwalk at 6:30 P.M.. I bought an ATI graphics card which I will return today, since it will not work in dual monitor mode with my onboard video. It took quite a while to test it. I went to be bed at 2:20 A.M. and got up at 5:30 A.M.. I updated Scott's Index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm . Well I will pay bills this morning and return the video card to CompUSA. Have a good day. CIO