Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 8:45 P.M.:  I chatted with three relatives.  I will now reboot the computer into Microsoft Vista beta 1 to see if the USB 2.0 hub installs, and then I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 7:35 P.M.:  I shut down the computer, and I plugged in the USB 2.0 port hub into the motherboard USB 2.0 port beneath the keyboard plug.  When I rebooted it was recognized as a USB 2.0 port hub, but it does not show up in the device manager, although the USB 32 meg pen drive does work off of it.  The USB 2.0 PCI four port card is recognized as a USB 2.0 device.  Maybe the USB 2.0 port hub does not show up unless, it has a USB 2.0 device plugged into it.  However, after it recognized it as a USB 2.0 hub, it then installed it as a generic USB Hub, so it might be installed differently than one expects.  I currently have new Epson ink cartridges in the Epson Stylus Color 880 printer that is my primary computer inkjet printer, so I will continue to use it for now.  I also have spare generic cartridges for it.  I also have the Epson Stylus Color 900 printer with new generic ink cartridges connected to the primary computer, and the HP Photo Smart 1000 with new generic cartridges.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 6:45 P.M.:  I installed this driver Syba - United States PCI to USB/Firewire add-on card USB 2.0 4+1 ports  download driver for the SYBA USB 2.0 4+1 PCI card SYBA USB 2.0 4+1 PORTS RETAIL BOX .  From all of the USB devices in my system properties, I can not tell whether it is working at USB 2.0 speed or not, so I will wait to see if the system alerts me again.  However, except for my Vivitar digital camera, I do not think I have any USB 2.0 devices yet, except possibly the Rio Player, which I doubt.  I thus did not change the USB 2.0 port box cable around yet.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 6:20 P.M.:  A plug and play applet notified me that my new USB 2.0 port box was not plugged into a USB 2.0 port, and it would go faster if I plugged it into one of my USB 2.0 ports connected to the motherboard.  I have it plugged into my USB 2.0 PCI card SYBA USB 2.0 4+1 PORTS RETAIL BOX .  At the moment I only have my 32 meg. USB drive plugged into the USB 2.0 port box, but I will assume the system alert is right, and I will plug it into one of the other spare USB 2.0 ports on the rear of my case connected to the motherboard and not the PCI card.  I think I have a spare USB 2.0 port  available.  I finished going through my email.  Since I have to move the case a bit to get at the rear cables, I will shut down the computer for a minute to change the cable.  However, one does not need to have the computer turned off when plugging in USB devices.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 5:50 P.M.:  The ink order for the Epson Stylus C80 printer included 4 black cartridges, and two each of the tree primary colors for 10 cartridges total.  I put one each of the four cartridges in the printer, and it works just fine.  I have it attached to the Dell backup computer in the bedroom.  However, it is probably my best inkjet printer, so I might move it into the living room to the primary computer setup at some future time, but at the moment, I do not print out that much on the inkjet printers, so I will leave it where it is for now.  Thus for the purchase price of $5 and about $8 in ink for $13 total, I have a very good printer working along with all of the other ones.   I left the spare cartridges in their shipping box to the left of the printer on the desk.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 5:00 P.M.:  I am going through my email.  I emailed Verizon about the credit on my bill.  UPS just delivered the ink for my Epson Stylus C80 printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 4:15 P.M.:   BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Bird flu 'could kill 150m people' .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 4:10 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I threw out some garbage.  I am still waiting for UPS to deliver the ink cartridges for the Epson Stylus C80 printer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 3:35 P.M.: Today only online for $40 with special code at bottom of the page Staples.com®. that was easy™. SanDisk 1GB Cruzer Micro  .  I think if the order is over $50, there is free shipping.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 3:05 P.M.:  Interesting device to share data between computers USB 2.0 DirectLink PC to PC Cable - DRIVERLESS! .  One could add on three foot sections of these 3-Foot USB 2.0 A to A M/F Extension Cable (Clear/Silver) USB 2.0  and at the moment what appears to be the same device is $5.01 cheaper USB 2.0 DirectLink PC to PC Cable - DRIVERLESS! CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 2:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I tried calling the Verizon business office about the credit that showed up on my account.  One can get them on a Verizon telephone by dialing 1 and then 6, but there number is busy all the time.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 1:25 P.M.:  I went outside, and I checked the building's outside activity, and it seemed pretty much normal for this type of day.   I am curious about some of my neighbors whom sit outside around the building on warmer days.  It seems strange that they never get tanned.  Possibly from the long periods of cold in this area, people do not tan as much in the warmer weather.  I picked up my mail.  I have not yet received my rent bill, so I can not pay it yet.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese.  I also used 15 grape tomatoes.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I did not use any homemade hummus.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  It seems that my normal routines and house keeping routines interfere with my computer routines.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 11:55 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 7 ounce bags of black licorice for $1.19 each, two 9.25 ounce cans of Planters lightly salted cashew nuts halves and pieces for buy one get one free for $4.99 both, two .25 ounce jars of Gold Emblem parsley for .99 each, and two 50% more free packages of 150 caplet Nuprin pain relief formula ibuprofen 200 mg. for $5.29 each plus .14 tax for $20.07 total.  After I completed my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon service station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $16.40 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.259 a gallon for 78.8 miles driving during the last two weeks at 16.4 miles per gallon driving an average of 13 miles per hour.  I then returned home, and I saw a FedEx truck leaving as I arrived home.  I found a folding chair by the dumpster, and I put it in the rear of my Volvo station wagon with the other folding chair.  My FedEx delivery of 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) was left with my next door neighbor, and I got it from my neighbor.  I removed the regular USB 4 port hub placed underneath the right monitor from my primary computer, and I installed the new USB 2.0 hub, and I put the 32 meg. flash drive in it.  I put the old USB 4 port hub connected to the USB 2.0 port on the front of the Northgate Syntax backup computer with the hub placed to its left.  I took the Linksys hub from that location, and I connected it to the one USB port on my Toshiba laptop computer.  All of the ports on my primary computer are USB 2.0, but not the hubs.  I did my vacuuming.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 6:55 A.M.:  I checked with Cablevision on the telephone, and my bills to them were credited to my account on time when I paid them, and I do not owe them anything.  It is just that their web site is not updated as fast.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 6:30 A.M.:  I paid my GEICO insurance premium for October this past September.  I just now paid my Cablevision, Optimum Online, Optimum Voice, Connecticut Light and Power, and Verizon telephone bills.  Although I paid my Verizon telephone bill, they showed that they gave me a $63.45 credit to my account, which would mean that I do not owe them anything.  However, I will check with them first to see what I got the credit for.  I do know years ago, they use to charge me some excessive rates for ordinary services.  On my Cablevision bills, they do not show the current bills paid, which they were paid on the first of the month for the last several months, so in their billing cycle, although I have paid my bills, their accounting does not show that on the internet.  I find it hard to beloved they would be a month behind in crediting my payments to my account.  I will have to call up Verizon and Cablevision to find out about these factors.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 5:50 A.M.:  I lightly toasted two pieces of Arnold frozen multigrain bread, and I spread a few tablespoons of Skippy low fat peanut butter on them, and I cut the sandwich in half, and I ate the sandwich with some iced tea.  Today my order for 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping has shipped FedEx Express Tracking Results Detail  www.geeks.com for USB 2.0 4 Port Hub and my order from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping are suppose to arrive.  The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005 or later has shipped UPS Package Tracking EZinkjets.com .  It would be amusing if Fedex and UPS arrived at the same time.  Thus I will have to be home for the deliveries later on today.  My funds are available to pay bills, so I will now pay some bills online.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/30/05 Friday 5:20 A.M.:  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment after the last message, and I returned home.  I ate 9 Ritz crackers with 1.25 inch by 1.25 inch by 1/32nds inch slices of Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese on them.  I went to bed about 4 P.M..  I had a telephone call from a relative about 9 P.M. and from another relative about 10 P.M..  I woke up at 12:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with strawberry preserves, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I still have to do the vacuuming later on this morning when I will not disturb my neighbors.  I threw out the garbage and some periodical literature.  I put four new Philips clear DuraMax long life bent tip 15 watt light bulbs in the sconces above the dining room table.  Two of the old bulbs had burned out, so I have two used ones left over.  The new ones are suppose to be good for 2000 hours, and they occasionally have the package of 15 watt bulbs at www.homedepot.com instead of the brighter 25 watt bulbs.  I still have a package of 25 watt frosted.  I prefer the 15 watt bulbs since they do not provide glare with the small linen shades over them.  I have to pay bills later on this morning probably about 6:30 A.M., or I could wait until after I go out for my walk.  I put the air conditioner on low fan drawing in fresh air.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 1:55 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will get ready for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 1:40 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Technology | Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 1:35 P.M.:  The Intel video phone program works fine on the primary computer.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment, but I will not go out until just enough time to drive to it because Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT , the weather is suppose to be windy with possible rain.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 1:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.  I then put the hot soup in one of my two large Cobalt blue soup bowls, and I added a couple of handfuls of Arnold seasoned croutons, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now install the Intel Create and Share software CD on my primary computer.  The doctor said that I also need to get a colonoscopy which they do over at the West Putnam Avenue branch of the Bank of New York.  One needs to have someone drive one home from that procedure, since they give you a local atheistic.  I was suppose to get it done a year ago, but I put it off.  It has also been about eight years, since I have had my eyes checked by Dr. Brownstein.  My relative whom had the hip surgery is doing well, and she is thinking of waiting to return to Vero Beach, Florida after the hurricane season and after she has her roof replaced.  My other relative with her husband will be returning from Sun Valley, Idaho to Vero Beach, Florida on October 12, 2005.  My relative whom had the hip surgery is now thinking about not having me come down to help out in the end of October 2005, since my other relatives should be enough help.  In which case, I might visit Florida in February 2006, but it is still all up in the air, and the hurricane season is not yet over yet.  Remember to keep an eye out on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . CIO 

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 12:15 P.M.:  I cancelled the Vista beta 1 backup to the D: drive because it is too slow.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 11:55 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by briefly at CVS.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought for a $5 an Intel USB  PC Camera Pack.  I then returned home.  I had started the Nero Restore of the DVD backup that I had made of my Microsoft Vista beta 1 configured backup.  When I got home, it was complete.  I tried rebooting the computer into Vista beta 1, and the configured backup worked.  I guess when I reinstalled and restored Windows XP earlier this week and last week, it changed my startup files, so the Vista beta 1 configured would not work.  When I reinstalled Vista beta 1, it restored my startup files, and it now works after the restore.  It is the first boot file, but it does not show up as the XP boot.ini file, but it is a similar file.  Perhaps other files are installed by the Vista beta 1 install that are not restored by the XP and Vista beta 1 restores.  Still Vista beta 1 configured is working just fine.  I ran Norton Speed Disk on the Vista beta 1 drive, and I installed a driver.  I am trying to back up the Vista beta 1 drive to the D: drive, but at the moment it is going very slowly with the XP backup utility, and it says it will take two weeks.  I am hoping it will speed up as it progresses.  I installed the Intel Create and Share software CD on the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and it recognized the Intel USB camera plug and play.  I set the Intel camera on the top center of the left monitor.  However, it does not work with the Creative Monitor program, which I think needs a Creative camera like I have on my primary computer.  It does work with the other video programs like Netmeeting and the Intel Video program.  I installed Office 2003 updates on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I will install the Intel Create and Share software CD on the primary computer after I finish trying the Vista beta 1 backup.  The Intel software has an internet communications program which probably will work with my Creative USB camera on the primary computer.  I chatted with a relative.  My doctor's appointment for next Monday has been cancelled.  However, my cholesterol LTL level is 80, which is good.  I was told by the doctor when he called that he will see me one of the times I stop by the clinic for another appointment.  I was told that I would not need to take Lipitor if I quit smoking cigarettes, which I hope to do soon.  I was told if I get down to less than a package a day, I can try the nicotine patch again to try to quit smoking cigarettes.  I went outside briefly, and I picked up my mail.  It is suppose to rain heavily this early afternoon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 6:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 6:05 A.M.:  I formatted the Vista beta 1 drive.  I then reinstalled Vista beta 1.  I will not configure it.  I do have the configured version backed up with the Nero backup to DVD.  I also have the Vista beta 1 configured with the Vista backup, but the Vista beta 1 backup does not have a restore function that I can find.  The Nero restore did not work either.  I ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 2:35 A.M.:   I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 2:30 A.M.:  Cold weather coming Sierra Trading Post What's New DealFlyer .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 2:20 A.M.:  The $100 laptop moves closer to reality | Tech News on ZDNet .  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 2:15 A.M.:  A good program for public access computers Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 2:10 A.M.:   I received a notification today from the state of Connecticut that my Connecticut medical plan had been approved for another year starting October 1, 2005.  I have to quick smoking cigarettes soon, because they are bothering me.  I will now go through my email.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 2:00 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Technology | Boom times for hi-tech fraudsters .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/29/05 Thursday 1:55 A.M.:  Well today is Michaelmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , so it should be a good day for me, since my first name is Michael.  In the old days, it use to be a holiday.  After the last message yesterday morning, I set up the Panasonic 2 line telephone.  I guess it lost its memory because yesterday morning the power blinked for a split second.  I also chatted with a relative.  I ate 15 Ritz crackers with .60 inch by 1 inch by .125 inch pieces of Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese.  I went to bed about 11 A.M.. About 5 P.M., I had two telephone calls with nobody answering.  I woke up at 7 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with strawberry preserves, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until midnight.  I finished programming the Panasonic two line telephone directory with my stored telephone numbers.  It has fixed memory for some functions, but it might lose the stored telephone numbers in case of a power failure.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  According to FedEx | Track www.geeks.com UPS 2.0 port box , it is due this Friday, and my order from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping.  The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005 has shipped UPS Package Tracking EZinkjets.com  is also due this Friday.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/28/05 Wednesday 9:35 A.M.:  I  installed the Office 2003 updates that just came out.  I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003 and Ad-awareSE.  The primary computer is running just fine, except for the fact that the Vista beta 1 does not work.  I disabled Microsoft Messenger in case that was causing the problem along with the Net2Phone startup applet.  I chatted with a relative.  When I picked up the Panasonic 2 line telephone all of my stored memory dial numbers had disappeared.  It does not use a battery but fixed memory.  All the problems that I have had with the computer recently and now with the Panasonic 2 line telephone seems to lead me to believe that someone is hacking my Optimum Online connection that serves both the computer and the telephone.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/28/05 Wednesday 8:40 A.M.:  I restored the Nero backup DVD backup of Microsoft Vista beta 1.  While doing this, I ate two scoops of Haagen Dazs 50% less fat dulce de leche ice cream Light Ice Cream Details dulce de leche .  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor while doing this.  However, after the restore was completed, Microsoft Vista beta 1 still would not start, and in safe mode it stops at the "crsdisk.sys" file in the \windows\system32\drivers folder.  I researched it, and either there is some other problem, or possibly the beta expired early.  However, since I restored the backup, it should not be expired.  The Nero restore program does not work from windows, so all of the original backup files would have been restored.  I changed my CMOS settings to enable SETI ATA IDE which added more IDE devices and recognized my DVD drivers differently.  I also enabled dual floppies in the CMOS.  Windows XP is working just fine in the primary C: drive.  Since I have configured Vista beta 1, instead of reinstalling which can not be done as a upgrade, I will wait for beta 2 which will permit upgrading and will save my configuration and settings.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/28/05 Wednesday 4:25 A.M.:   My computer system started behaving erratically, and I did a system restore, and it was running fine again.  I then tried reinstalling the update for Tropic Designs : Home of Weather Pulse software - Content (do not install) , and it began behaving erratically again.  I did a system restore to an earlier time, and it ran just fine.  I put the earlier version of Weather Pulse back on the computer, and it is running fine.  However, Microsoft Vista beta 1 will not boot.  I tried changing the "boot.ini" file that I had backed up, and it still would not boot.  I tried to restore my Nero backup of the Vista beta 1, and the power blinked for a second while doing it, so it still will not work.  I will try restoring the Nero backup of Vista beta 1.  Still, it might be a problem with the "boot.ini", since most of the Nero backup of Vista beta 1 was restored, and the odds are it should have worked.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/28/05 Wednesday 1:25 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now reboot into Vista beta 1, and I will go through some its newsgroups.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/28/05 Wednesday 1:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I noticed on a flyer on the bench across from the Greenwich Train station, they are having a Car Wash this Saturday October 1, 2005 at the Greenwich Boys and Girls Club for a $5 a car from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. for Hurricane relief.  It was not very busy out downtown.  While driving around the lower level of the Greenwich train station office parking area, I found a collapsible Totes umbrella that I put on the floor of the passenger side front seat of my Volvo station wagon.  There was one fisherman from Michigan down on Steamboat Road.  I returned home.  I refilled the Glade plug-in refill with a 60% mixture of English Leather cologne and 40% mixture of 80% isopropyl alcohol.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 10:40 P.M.:  I rested a while.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I updated Tropic Designs : Home of Weather Pulse software - Content (do not install, see later note) .  It is a nice evening, and since I slept most of the day, I guess I will go out for a stroll.  I will now shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 6:55 P.M.:  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 6:25 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I did not use homemade hummus in the salad.  Instead of tuna fish, I used three 3 inch by 1 inch by .25 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham that I sliced into half inch strips.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss Cheese and Kraft Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheedar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I used 15 grape tomatoes instead of 8.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO     

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 4:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I have noticed recently that there are not many people commuting into Manhattan on the train anymore, so I guess more people are staying at home working, because they worry  about terrorism.  However, quite a few people are reverse commuting out to Greenwich from other points.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital, and I had my blood drawn for my Lipitor blood monitoring.  The new Welcome to Greenwich Hospital $450 million Watson pavilion should be opened in another month.  They will move different sections of the old hospital one section at a time.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  There were some new fishermen, and they seemed to be catching blue fish.  I then went by the Arnold bread store outlet, and I bought a six pack of bagels for $1.85 and two 5.5 ounce packages of Arnold seasoned croutons for .99 each for $3.83 total.  I then returned home about 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with strawberry preserves, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I rested until about 4 P.M..  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  It seems like it was a nice day, but when one is use to being on a night time schedule around here, the daytime schedule seems to be a bit busy.  I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 6:25 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for a walk and my Lipitor blood draw at the Greenwich Hospital laboratory.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 5:50 A.M.:  Another list, I did not make The 400 Richest Americans - Forbes.com .  I went through my email.  My order for 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping has shipped FedEx Express Tracking Results Detail  www.geeks.com for USB 2.0 4 Port Hub .  My order from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping.  The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005 has shipped UPS Package Tracking EZinkjets.com .  My Outlook 2003 email program is working just fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 5:35 A.M.:  Good news since the beginning of the summer, I have lost 20 pounds weight, and I have gone from 212 pounds to 192 pounds.  I guess my pants will be a bit baggier.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 5:05 A.M.:  I was awake from 9 P.M. to 10 P.M., when I booked on the internet two tickets at www.united.com for a relative.  I went back to bed.   I woke up at 4 A.M..  I had two telephone fax calls.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I threw out some garbage.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I have to be at the Greenwich Hospital Laboratory at 8 A.M. this morning for a blood draw on my Lipitor use.  I will go out for a walk before then after I put away my laundry.  I can not eat breakfast before the blood draw.  I will now shower, and I will clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 7:05 P.M.:  After the last message, I did a full system scan with Norton Antivirus 2005.  It detected, and I deleted one virus from the C: drive something like "Ad aware-Lop".  I rested while it was running.  I woke up around noon, and I reheated the cooked spaghetti and the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce which I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese to.  I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  I rested until 2 P.M..  I started running Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a 5 inch by 8 inch Canadian flag on a plastic pedestal for a dollar.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went to my 4 P.M. appointment.  I was told by my 4 P.M. appointment that my Connecticut medical plan had been approved.  I then returned home.  I put the Canadian flag on the right monitor on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.   I watched a movie about dogs.  I chatted with a relative.  I finished running Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  The computer seems to be running just fine.  I will now shut it down, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 10:15 A.M.:  I mailed a letter downstairs in the mail room.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors and the Red Cross driver that was here.  I watched some television.  I ate two scoops of Edy's butter pecan ice cream.  I chatted with a relative.  I finished the C: drive to D: drive backup.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest until 1 P.M. when I have to get up for a 4 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 8:00 A.M.:  I will do a Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive shortly.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 7:45 A.M.:   I tried reinstalling Norton Internet Security 2005, but it did not install properly.  After a number of attempts, I gave up.  I then restored my Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from August 8, 2005 from the D: drive to the C: drive.  I copied the files that had changed from the C: drive to the D: drive first.  After restoring the backup, I still had problems with Norton Internet Security 2005, so I used this method to uninstall and reinstall it Reinstalling your Symantec program after a failed installation or after you see error messages .  Norton Internet Security 2005 worked fine after that.  I installed the Norton Updates.  I had to uninstall and reinstall Norton System Works 2003.  I ran its updates.  I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I installed the Logitech  wireless keyboard and mouse drivers.  I transferred my saved files back from the D: drive to the C: drive.  I tested the programs.  The Microsoft Outlook 2003 email program now works properly.  I installed the Windows Updates.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 9:35 P.M.:  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I had two telephone calls one from a relative and one from someone that I can not remember while I was asleep.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now install Norton Internet Security 2005 and Norton Internet Security 2004 and uninstall Norton System Works 2003, and uninstall Symantec updates and I will have to delete the programs remains also and then delete the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared files, and then run Norton Win Doctor 2003 from the CD, and then install Norton Internet Security 2004 and then install Norton Internet Security 2005 and Norton System Works 2003 and then the Norton Updates.  This will take a while, but hopefully it will fix the problem with my Microsoft Outlook 2003 email program.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 7:45 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  It is getting cooler out  Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 6:40 A.M.:  Here is another Justin Dart Justin Dart, An Obituary .  The Justin Dart that was my neighbor on Steamboat Road did not use a wheel chair.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 5:45 A.M.:    On the right center AGP monitor, one can display only the Windows Media Player, but not the Real Player.  They both work on the left monitor.  One can switch the Windows Media Player on the right monitor with the Nvidia option on the tray for the clone mode option to either show the Windows Media player on the right monitor or on the Orion television, but it can not be displayed on both.  One could turn off the clone mode option, and show it on the Orion television as the third monitor.  I watched a bit of Chinese television this way, and it is quite lively, but I do not know Chinese.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 5:00 A.M.:  I did some system maintenance.  I tried to figure out how to delete my four local area connections to no avail.  I supposedly should run Norton Antivirus 2005 from Safe Boot mode to delete any spy ware, which I will do later.  If one looks at this page Nforce network problem - service name/service display name and searches the page with the Find command for "grey", one finds out that there is a tip which I tried.  I thus deleted my grayed out and not-working devices in my Device Manager.  However in doing it, I deleted my driver for my MadDog AGP 4x 64 meg. video card.  I could not get the default Windows XP drive to reinstall, so I had saved on my computer version 66.93 of the Nvidia driver which I installed, and that reinstalled the AGP driver.  Since I use two monitors including the one with the AGP card with video out, the 66.93 AGP driver permits me use the video out in "Clone Mode" for the third Orion television monitor.  I ran Norton Updates. I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I ran tests of all four of my USB printers.  The system seems to be running fine except for the Outlook 2003 email problem, which one works around by having the router turned off while one opens the Outlook 2003 email program.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 1:20 A.M.:  I went through my email.  My Outlook 2003 email program still freezes up when one starts it using 100% CPU usage.  I can work around it by starting it with the Siemens router turned off.  Then once I turn on the Siemens router, it fetches the email without any problem.  It might be a network problem, but all four of my networks are grayed out where the delete option is, so I have not figured out how to delete them and reinstall them.  I toasted two pieces of frozen Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread Hellmann's mayonnaise on both pieces, and on the bottom piece, I put four slices of Stop and Shop 1/32nds inch thick slices of roast beef, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop American white cheese, five 3/16th inch thick slices of onion, ground black pepper, five large fresh spinach leaves, salt, and the top layers of bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 12:15 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I had a call from a relative about 4 P.M..  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with three relatives.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  There was the usual group of weekend diners, movie patrons, pop crawlers, and coffee shop lurkers along with the local youth watching the street activity.  The local business group at Pickwick Plaza still can not afford a new bench at the top of Greenwich Avenue.  I guess someone could move the bench from in front of the Presbyterian Church on the north side of the street to where the bench use to be in front of Pickwick Plaza, but that would involve a major executive decision, which I am sure the town would have to debate for a period of time.  I completed my walk.  I saw an interracial couple speaking Afrikaner which is the native language of South Africa, so we must have more visitors. I am sure some people would rather spend our winter up north down in the summer of south Africa.  However, I know a white man from South Africa who speaks Afrikaner and his British wife seems to know about South Africa and England having lived in both locations.  They have maintained a low key presence in this area for 20 years.  Also when I lived on Steamboat Road for 4.5 years, Justin Dart was one of my neighbors at the Steamboat Road waterfront apartment complex.  I believe his family own Dart Communications, and they also own the Bixby Ranch in California which vaster than the Hearst Ranch, and the Bixby Ranch also happens to be covered with oil wells that I believe supply Chevron.  Frequently wealthy individuals move into a wealthy community, and they maintain a low key presence just so they can observe the business activity of other wealthy people and hopefully make a little bit of money.   It is like the Mellon family have been making money off what the Rockefeller family ignore for over a 100 years ago, and they manage to get by off their meager investments.  After my stroll down Greenwich Avenue, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by Lord Hartford's grocery store known as the Food Emporium, and I bought Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $1.95, two six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.50 a six pack, and a 8 ounce container of America's Choice parmesan and Romano cheese  for $2 for $6.95 total.  I then returned back to Byram on the shores of the mighty Byram River.   I noticed while downtown on the pump signs at Exxon gasoline station that the price of gasoline does not seem to have changed in the past week which would be about $3.499 a gallon for premium unleaded self serve gasoline, but the signs might not be the same as at the price on the pumps.  I put away my groceries.  CIO     

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 9:05 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest some more.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 09/24/05:

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 7:30 A.M.:  I watched part of the vintage movie "Arsenic and Old Lace".  A lot of people think that is what the Roosevelt family of Oyster Bay, Long Island are about.  In fact at one time Teddie was the Police Commissioner of New York, when times were very turbulent with all of the new immigrants.  Thus I would say the Roosevelt family of Oyster Bay, Long Island probably know something about law enforcement.  I also read that he use to harvest the hay on his farm out there, so he was a fairly physically active individual.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 6:00 A.M.:  I slept until 4:30 P.M.. I watched some hurricane news.  I reset Norton Internet Security settings from "default" to "home", and the Outlook 2003 100% CPU usage went away.  However, when I opened it, I got two copies.  In Internet Explorer, I went to Tools, Options, Programs, Manager Icons , and I disabled the ActiveX control "AxTaskList Class", and this fixed the two copies of Outlook 2003 opening.  For now Outlook 2003 seems to be running fine including after rebooting.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 1:30 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 12:20 A.M.:   An easy way to filter one's water GE SmartWater: Drinking Water Filtration: Faucet-Mount .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 12:20 A.M.:  I got another Service Contract on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control which is good from September 12, 2005 until September 12, 2006.  The changed the contract, so it in now tranferable.  I put it with the original contract in the front of the metal file stand on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 11:55 P.M.:  My order from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping.  The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005 has shipped UPS Package Tracking EZinkjets.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 11:50 P.M.:  Hyatt Regency Maui I called them up, and I chatted with them.  It is still pretty much the same as it was when I was there in August 1980.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 11:20 P.M.:  My order for 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping has shipped FedEx Express Tracking Results Detail  www.geeks.com for USB 2.0 4 Port Hub .  When I started up the Outlook 2003 email program, it still did not work properly, so I rebooted, and then I turned off the router, and I checked the settings in Norton Internet Security 2005 to make sure they were set to "Home" and "Detect Network Connections".  For some reason it had changed from "Home" to "Default".  I then reset my Siemens router, and I set it up with the defaults.  I then started the Outlook 2003 email program, and once it had tried to download my email without success, since the router was not turned on, I turned on the Siemens router, and the Outlook 2003 email program worked without any problems.  I can not figure out what the problem is unless there is some problem with my Networking setup.  At least I know how to work around it.  I am now going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 10:05 P.M.:   I boiled three quarts of water with a tablespoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni #10 vermicelli noodles.  I then drained the water off with a colander  into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi no salt tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven.  I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I refrigerated the other half of the tomato sauce in its jar.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 10:15 P.M.:  My personal viewpoint is that the local medical personnel are more important the politicians whom try to influence our lifestyles.   

Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 8:35 P.M.:   I watched some hurricane news after the last message, and I ate two scoops of Edy's butter pecan ice cream.  I woke up this morning at 2:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  The neighbor told me that gasoline in Port Chester, New York was only $2.899 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, but currently they do not have any gasoline to sell, and they are still waiting for a fuel delivery.  We have had a lot of aviation traffic for the last couple of days, but for all I know it is some aircraft manufacturing company trying to sell their product to some VIP.  If we have any VIPs in the area, I am unaware of it. Locally downtown, besides the usual crowds, this past week, I have only seen a lot of very skinny Asians of unknown country of origin.  I also saw some wealthy well dressed Northern Italians.  Since I have not been going out much, I do not know much that is going on.  I chatted with a lot of relatives and friends.  I watched the hurricane news.  I went outside a couple of times, and I chatted with neighbors.  I have received a letter from my state of Connecticut social worker that my medical benefits are going to be cut off as of September 30, 2005, because they did not receive some paper work from me in August 2005.  I sent the paper work in, and I received a notice on my food stamps they will be increased from $85 to $88, so I know they received the paper work.  The same paper work was also for my Connecticut Medicaid program too.  I left messages with the Connecticut social worker twice this week, and my Greenwich social worker can not do anything until I sign a release this Monday.  I also informed my regular doctor.  Since one of my neighbors received the same paper work, it might be some sort of computer problem.  I saw on the Fox News business report at 9 A.M. that gasoline will be going to $5 a gallon, but that still depends on what the hurricane does.  It is now suppose to be headed to Port Arthur, Texas.  It is hard to tell whom might be in this area, since not as many people are going downtown because of the higher price of fuel.  My personal feeling is a lot of the same people are here.  They just are not going downtown.   I chatted with the Casa Marina Hotel in Key West, Florida today, and they are back up and running after the hurricane, and they did not have any problems with the hotel.  Since I have unlimited telephone service in the United States, Canada, and Porto Rico which includes Hawaii and Alaska, and it does not cost anything for me to make a telephone call to those locations after the $15 a month flat fee.  I went to bed at 1 P.M..  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I chatted with some more relatives and friends.  I am a bit stressed out watching the hurricane news and having to deal with the potential more expensive energy situation in this area.  In the early 1970s in Manhattan when we had no money or energy, we use to hang out at the Ninth Circle Bar and Cafe on West 9th Street  between Greenwich Avenue and Seventh in Greenwich Village, since the owner was from Vermont, he did mind the cold, and frequently the pub cafe was not heated, so the more people that showed up warmed it up.  They had a back open air cafe where people from Jamaica use to smoke hemp.  They had pictures of the Beatles.  The had an old Jute Box with Beatles and Beach Boys Music.  They had a pool table.  If one did not have money they let you hang out there.  Also I recall they sold Schlitz beer instead of Budweiser.  I use to drink little four ounce cans of grapefruit or orange juice.  Sometimes it was busy, and other times it was not.  It was the difference between uptown and downtown.  They had a black and white sign that looked like this,

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CIO  

Note: <888> 09/22/05 Thursday 12:30 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will either go to bed soon, or I will relax around here before my 3 P.M. appointment.  I will see how I feel.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/22/05 Thursday 12:25 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with a relative.  I chatted with a friend.  I chatted with another relative and another relative has pneumonia in Sun Valley, Idaho.  I saw briefly on the Fox News, they are expecting a 20 to 50 foot tidal wave surge in Galveston, Texas with a category 4 to category 5 hurricane.  From what I know about the category four hurricane in the Florida Keys in the 1920s which was over shallow water, the storm surge took out the railroad bridges which were about 50 feet thick of reinforced cement.  Since the breakwater in Galveston, Texas is only 17 feet thick facing deep water, more than likely it will not hold, and the area will be inundated.  Water when it is driven by hurricanes is denser that cement or granite.  If I were in that area, I would head to high ground as fast as possible.  I have never been in that area, but I know there are lots of oil facilities and refineries.  That could mean with the hurricane it could knock out 25% of the United States fuel supply which after the hurricane in Louisiana would mean we will probably not have enough fuel up north this coming winter to support the population, and there will be shortages of gasoline and heating oil.  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and with two ounces of 1/3 less fat America's Choice Philadelphia style cream cheese.  I chatted with a relative.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon, but I am not sure if I have enough body energy to make it, since I am very tired.  I finished the ASR backup of my C: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/22/05 Thursday 10:10 A.M.:  I was still having problems with Microsoft Outlook 2003 not working properly, and it would start using 100% of the CPU and bring the system to near stall.  I reinstalled Windows XP with the repair option.  I then reinstalled Internet Explorer SP1 and Outlook Express 6.0.  I then reinstalled Office 2003.  Office 2003 with Outlooks 2003 would not work until I installed XP SP2.  I still had the same problem with Outlook 2003.  I then uninstalled and reinstalled Norton Internet Security 2005.  I still had the same problem.  I thought about for a while, and I did some additional configuration on the refreshed system.  I finally got Outlook 2003  working properly by changing the Norton Internet Security 2005 Firewall settings from default to home, and I enabled network detect, and now Outlook 2003 works just fine.  I installed the Windows XP and Norton updates.  I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003 a number of times.   Well, as far as I can tell the system is running just fine, and it basically has been completely refreshed.  I went through my email.  I will do a Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup shortly from the C: drive to the D: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/22/05 Thursday 2:05 A.M.:  I had three fax non telephone calls that woke my up, and I chatted with a relative about 4 P.M..  I went outside, and I picked up the mail.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  About 4:30 P.M., my Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Swiss Army Ridge Backpack in Red for $34.95 and $2.95 UPS ground shipping for $37.94 total is UPS Package Tracking www.overstock.com Swiss Army Ridge backpack in red for Mike Scott to use with his Schwinn Traveler bicycle if he can manger to ride it arrived via UPS.  I went back to bed.  I woke up about 8 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  I ate two scoops of Edy's butter pecan ice cream.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station.  I also walked down by the Bentley Ferrari dealership, and they have a nice vintage 1940s Chevrolet Woody station wagon with Maine license plate parked there.  They also have some of their new cars.  I sat out for a while on the bench in front of the Greenwich Railroad station observing the front of the building.  They have eight rows of two story vertical windows.  They could make it more colorful by hanging alternating panels of pink and green fabric in the windows to add a bit of color to the train station.  The Citibank branch on the east side of the station also looks like just a bunch of glass.  It was not very busy downtown.  I chatted briefly with Bobby Crabtree up at the top of Greenwich Avenue.  He and his wife were having dinner at the Barcelona restaurant.  I knew him when he use to be a student in Manhattan in the old days.  His family use to be neighbors of my family down in Vero Beach, Florida, and now they have moved slightly north to Windsor.  I also found Christopher Smith's card from the Bank of New York  on Greenwich Avenue, and he is the assistant branch manager of the Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  There was also one of those long white Ford Lincoln Continental limousines parked at the Board of Education parking lot, and its battery had gone dead, so one of their other cars jumped start it.  It is not good anymore with cars having electronic ignition computer modules to jump start cars with cables anymore.  It is better to use one of the rechargeable jump start devices like I have.  I completed my walk.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I toasted two pieces of frozen Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread Hellmann's mayonnaise on both pieces, and on the bottom piece, I put four slices of Stop and Shop 1/32nds inch thick slices of roast beef, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop American white cheese, five 3/16th inch thick slices of onion, ground black pepper, five large fresh spinach leaves, salt, and the top layers of bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I put the new Swiss Army red ridge bag with the other two small back packs on the back of the down sofa to have them available for use.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 8:35 A.M.:  One also has to remember that England and Scotland are further north that Hudson's Bay, and nobody wants to live around Hudson's Bay.  Thus particularly Scotland has the worst weather in the world.  Thus if one were in the British Navy sailing around to tropical ports of call, more than likely your blood would be so thinned out so much that when one got back to the really cold and damp country in the United Kingdom, one would need a good stiff drink to stay warm, and if one were wealthy, one would not have to worry about driving one's own self or insurance liability, since one could afford a chauffer and a butler and whatever other household staff, it took to maintain one's lifestyle.  Thus there are so many poor people in the United Kingdom that modestly wealthy people can afford low paid servants to do their bidding.  Of course in some other ports of call, they seem to know me, but so many people look the same in the United Kingdom, it can be easily confusing.  I recall when I went to Hawaii with Queen Elizabeth II back in August 1980 on a United Airlines flight from Las Angeles which she continued on to some other point in the Commonwealth, in Hawaii they seemed to think I was the Earle of Sandwich.  Well I am tired, so I will now go to bed soon.  I will now shut down the computer.  Yesterday night I had a two scoops of Edy's butter pecan ice cream.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 8:10 A.M.:  Of course with all of the exciting news about hurricanes recently, we forgot this little fellow is also getting bigger http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html .  I guess this is what all of the Chinese are all excited about.  The probably think they deserve more deluxe accommodations.  I guess one could sit there and watch the baby panda all day, and one could say you are a panda baby sitter, but panda's and their mothers can be very nasty.  I recall back on the Farm in Knollwood, Illinois west of Lake Bluff, Illinois where a member of the Milton family lived, on the Farm, we had bamboo growing along with a willow tree, or maybe the bamboo grew some place else.  I once recall seeing bamboo grow in some place, where I did not expect it to be growing.  Yes I now recall bamboo use to grow up by the dam at Conyers Farm.  I recall IBM also use to try to grow bamboo in its building at 57th street and Madison Avenue in the late 1970s.  At that time computers were so tedious, I let the law firm that a friend work for keep an eye out on IBM across the street.  Of course, when I graduated from www.lfc.edu in 1972, and I was not able to live on the Stanley farm in Lake Forest where one of my friends lived, I moved in with my college roommate from the Farm in Knollwood, Illinois, and before the apartment at 31 East Elm Street in Chicago, Illinois, I stayed at my roommates small apartment across from the Red Cross ambulance parking lot which also happened to be about a half block north away from the IBM building.  Thus I guess, I could honestly say, I have been around IBM since I graduated from college.  Who knows maybe when I went to Susan Watson's coming out party at the St. Regis Hotel back in about 1971 with my sister Peggy and Jenny Warburg and Bob Bianche, and we drove down from Boston, and we used the Warburg apartment to dress into our formal clothes, and when I demonstrated my mechanical skills give and Arthur and Tom Watson a free ride in the St. Regis Roof elevator, which was the old type with the 180 degree swivel handle, that you could stop real fast and run up or down real fast sort of like a roller coaster, they took note of my skills.  Maybe after all of these years, I could be an elevator operator at IBM.  Of course at the time, the British movie with the name "Room at the Top" was very popular.  It was sort of the British version of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.  Since one of my original contacts after that with IBM in Manhattan was with David May whom was a friend of Olive Watson's daughter Olive or Jeannette Watson, and he worked for IBM Public Relations, and he lived on the same block as the Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys which served as a British Intelligence house during World War II.  Of course west 13th Street also had the Forbes building and the Winfield Scott townhouse.  Thus I must have known some of my other neighbors in the neighborhood.  However, since I frequently commuted back and forth from either Greenwich or New Canaan, Connecticut late at night, I really never got to see much of what went on in that area in the daytime.  I recall basically there was too much traffic as all of uptown Manhattan rushed downtown to make money on Wall Street.  I guess Greenwich Village makes it money when they return after work going back uptown, and the stop by for a cocktail.  Of course since Bill Paley and Joe Kennedy were in cahoots in the liquor business using what is the C.B.S. Broadcast center on West 57th street to smuggle liquor into Manhattan through the tunnels from the ships on the west side, I guess one can figure out that CBS was basically the liquor and cigar business.  I guess the Copacabana was one of their GIN joints.  I think during prohibition, they called them "Speak Easys".  Of course the CBS black rock headquarters is still next to the most famous speak easy of them all called the "21 Club".  Of course somebody in the Old World had to be in cahoots with them to make the liquor back in Europe.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 6:45 A.M.:  Recently there have been more people than normal from Asia around, and at the same time my Microsoft Outlook 2003 program continues not to work properly.  It seems that there is some sort of email or part of the Microsoft Outlook 2003 program that is trying to access the internet that causes it to stall as if it were trying to connect a more remote computer.  Whatever, the problem I usually solve the problem by turning off the router, to prevent internet access.  Sometimes I have to do a system restore, but I frequently find a system restore will not work, and several times I have had to reinstall Office 2003.  It seems to me that there is either problem with my software or there is some sort of hidden program on my computer causing the problem or that the Optimum Online email server or access is doing something that interferes with it.  Since the reason they call it "Windows" is that it is so easy to break, it is usually somebody very stupid whom usually causes problems like I have been experiencing recently.  Still, I eventually get through my email.  The fact that there is a problem would lead me to believe that some idiot from Asia whom does not really know English very well is causing the problem.  However, from an objective point of view, what would be the motive.  However, it is the nature of computers that some sort of rogue element of another computer or group of computers could be causing the problem.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 6:30 A.M.:  I went outside briefly.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 6:15 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 5:20 A.M.:  I checked my facts with the British Embassy in Washington D.C., and according to this SEAWEED CULTURE IN JAPAN the Japanese get $7 a pound for sea weed, so imported sea from the Florida Keys would be twice as much at least.  But processed they get closer to $50 a pound "Nori" Seaweed and Seaweed Salad from Japan.  Thus after a hurricane, they should have thousands of tons of sea weed around in south Florida, so if they use a little bit of local ingenuity, they might learn to make a little bit of money off what is lying around.  I recall, it was somebody like myself when they were throwing tons of orange peels away in the 1970s, I got them to start selling the orange peels to the Chinese.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 4:45 A.M.:  Of course current President Bush learned Japanese at Yale, and since he had gone to Harvard Business School with Bill Takakai whose father was president of Mitsubishi heavy industries, more than likely he was making a tidy fortune off selling the sea weed from Key West to the Japanese, just like they sell Sea Urchins in Maine to the Japanese, and they might sell the coral calcium from the Florida Keys to the Japanese.  I knew the fellow from Design Observations in Manhattan who was in Key West, Florida, but he was Chinese not Japanese.  With all of the World Leaders in Manhattan last week, it is a possibility that some of them might have gone down to Key West afterwards to kick back on vacation or whatever they do when they are not working.  I do know the Queen of Denmark use to be down there in the winter.  I know Anwar Sadat use to be at the beach.  I know Queen Nord of Jordan use to be there.  I know the Shah of Iran's oldest son use to be there when he was training in the United States air force.  I use to see someone there that looked like the current governor of Florida, and I guess he got the job since he speaks Spanish, but when I was down in Key West, Florida, I used to have Juan Carlos or Jimmy Eldert speak Spanish for me, and they seemed to get more done than when I tried to speak broken French to the Spanish.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 4:25 A.M.: From a quick analysis of the situation, if Jimmy Eldert or whatever is real name is seems to be running the show, I think he might not be informed as to what is really going on, and he could be running it out of one his various home bases like some place like Marbella, Spain.  Since he knows anyone currently involved in world politics, he more than likely is using the old Spanish network to control his financial empire.  What has me confused is I thought he might have been one of the Duke of Windsor's many off spring, and I think his wife is the sister of the emperor of Japan.  Thus from what I can tell, since he only knows English and Spanish, he is a little bit lost in the larger world of nations.  However, if he is connected up with Gulf Oil which is named after the Gulf of Mexico and since the Mellon family were also involved in Alcoa aluminum which needs Bauxite from Jamaica, and besides using aluminum for frozen chicken pot pie tins, they also use it in other items like communications cables and Wright brother contraptions.  However, this time of year, he might still be up in Scotland working as one of the Queen's Elk hunters at her Balmoral Castle and Estate, online shop, gift shop, holiday cottages, fishing, scotland , since when she is there, they have lots more people to feed, and they need to keep all of her help fed.  Whatever, the case despite his James Bond fantasies, he better be prepared to start dealing with some real world reality as it exists down south, once he leaves his northern retreat.  Since nobody evers contacts me from outside this community besides my immediate family, I am not fully informed as to the larger world situation.  I do recall the last time I was down in Key West, Florida in 1982, the tall fellow that I knew from Norwalk, Connecticut that had gone to Dartmouth College named Richard was there.  I use to see him while sitting around the Atlantic Shores beach club where Tennessee Williams use to have afternoon cocktails, and as I recall, there was a local character on the shoreline at the Atlantic Shores beach club just south of the Casa Marina always raking sea weed off the beach.  One of my friends told me they were prison labor that had been arrested, and that they used to clean the beach, but the individual raking sea weed off the beach at the Atlantic Shores beach club looked like my mother's and father's gardener in Florida, and he according to our local communications here in Greenwich, Connecticut is suppose to be the Great White Father in Washington D.C..  However, from the old group in Key West at Louis' Patio, besides Mel Fishers' children, myself and John Bolton and Joy Cooper, there was Izi from Saudi Arabia, and one other tall character named Crazy Horse whom was about 6 foot 8 inches tall, and I would assume Crazy Horse was a local in Key West, Florida, since he told me he was a Seminole Indian.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.:  I called up the Casa Marina at 1-305-296-3535 at their Key West, Florida telephone number, but nobody answers the telephone, so I guess they are closed due to whatever happened in the hurricane.  However, the 1-800-626-0777 reservations number in Dallas, Texas does answer, but they do not know anything about the status of the Casa Marina.  Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Welcome to Wyndham Hotels & Resorts .  According to this http://www.wyndham.com/corporate/main.wnt and Corporate Information - Press Release Cendant Corporation acquired Wyndham on September 14, 2005.  Cendant's web site is Cendant . Their stock transfer agent is the Mellon Investor Services, so more than likely the Mellon family probably needs a bucket and a mop to get the Casa Marina back in shape.  My friend Jimmy Eldert in Key West, might have been a Mellon family member, since he had their look, but the Irish have such a common ordinary look around this neck of the woods, it is hard to tell the sheep herders from the so called rich people.  The Mellons are such a pale group of people, it is hard to tell why they would need a beach house in Key West, Florida.  My sister was Paul Mellon's daughter's roommate at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and we supposedly have other Mellon family member living in Connecticut, and Richard Mellon Scaife is one of President Bush's primary contributors.  Also Mellon family members live up near Lyme, Connecticut in some town that I forget its name.  If you want to know what Paul Mellon looks like, his picture is at the Mellon art gallery at Yale.  This says that he died on February 1, 1999 Paul Mellon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  According to my log http://www.geocities.com/mikescottnote/02010799.htm , I had my oil changed on the old 1976 White Volvo that day.  Well, I suppose since Billy Baldwin did some work for the Mellons and since Fred Von Mierers did some work for them and since Bill Heinz lived next door to them on East 70th street in Manhattan, and as I recall Paul's house was yellow, and since when I got down to Key West for Halloween in 1976, and the only building opened on Duval Street were the Kress department store, the Household Finance Company, and the Gulf Oil Office, besides a few bars, and a Episcopal Church that nobody took much notice of besides the Episcopal Church next to the Casa Marina, it seems the Mellons are expanding their turf down in Key West, Florida, but it is the nature of large Irish catholic families, they tend to breed like flies.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 1:20 A.M.:  The live camera does not work from http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/intro.html , so the electricity must be off at the Casa Marina hotel in Key West, Florida.  I suppose they probably have a few spare old hurricane lanterns around.  Local news from the Keys Category 2 Hurricane Rita passes 50 miles south of Key West .  Of course for those wharf rats whom like a Salty Dog's life, it is part of living around the ocean.  It is not as bad as being in a 270 mile per hour typhoon in the South Pacific in World War II.   CIO    

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  When I have the money in another 10 days or so, I will order this memory card reader Sabrent 42-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5-inch Internal & External Flash Memory Card Reader and Writer - White SBT-ICR42W at TigerDirect.com which can use a Type A USB connector that I have on the internal portion of my USB 2.0 PCI port card.  One would need about a 12 inch USB cable to connect it, which I could take off of my existing external memory card reader, and replace it with longer cable which I have many of.  I do not need to use the other type of memory card reader with the case fan monitors, since I already have a case fan monitor, and I do not need to bring my audio devices to the front of the computer to be plugged in.  For now the spare slot with the 5.25 inch floppy drive will do fine, and maybe sometime in the future, they will dream up a cleaver device that I can afford to use in that slot.  I could take out all of my old 5.25 inch floppy disks from the Princess Diana memorial television cabinet underneath my Orion television, and I could burn all off those old 5.25 inch programs that I downloaded from BBSs in the old days to a CD/R or DVD/R, but what is the point.  I saw somebody downtown this evening that looked like a relative, but once one has seen one Midwesterner, one knows that they all tend to look a bit the same out there on the Farm.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/21/05 Wednesday 12:40 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used four 3 inch by 1 inch by .25 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham that I sliced into half inch strips.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss Cheese and Kraft Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheedar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I used 10 grape tomatoes instead of 8.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO       

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 11:05 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went outside, and I threw out a banana peel, and I chatted with a neighbor.  One of my neighbors had a flat tire, so I used my Slaymaker jump start system to inflate the tire, but it has a faulty valve, so the air leaked back out of it.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the Mel Gibson DVD in a foreign language.  I started to read some computer magazines, but I brought my sun glasses instead of my reading glasses.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought the made in China PS Pro Sport bicycle back pack with water bottle with pocket in durable black and light reflector material, front zip pockets, self mending zippers, CD pocket with port for wire, padded self adjustable back straps SKU #316478 for $7.49 plus .45 tax for $7.94 total.    I add to make a run to the Putnam Trust Bank of New York ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue, so I could afford to buy the back pack, and then I returned back to CVS to buy it.  I then completed my walk.  I noticed some of the local Bentley car dealers were trying to sell Bentleys around town by parking a few around town to make it look like they are popular.  I think the new ones are much too small for an expensive car.  Also I do not like the chrome strip that divides the grill in half.  However, I guess if you have money, it would be a convenient small car.  However, if one can afford a Bentley, one does not really need to worry about the higher price of gasoline.  I then completed my walk, and I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I reminded them back in the early 1970s during the Energy Embargo in this area, when I use to help out Fred Von Mierers www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm at his United Nations neighborhood rent control apartment at 420 East 49th Street, he was always sending me down to McNultys coffee and tea  http://mcnultys.com on Christopher Street in Manhattan to buy Vienneze Blend coffee at $7.95 a pound which he made with a Danish coffee press with cream and honey.  McNultys also sells imported teas.  I am not sure which coffees going into Viennese blend coffee, but I know that coffee from the mountains in Jamaica, Maui, Latin America, and Kenya tends to be more expensive coffee, since coffee growing in the cool mountain mists in those areas is suppose to have a better flavor.  I chatted with Greenwich Police department patrol officer, and I asked him if Ford is going to ever make a new police vehicle besides the Crown Victoria.  I know Greenwich uses Fords because they get a break on the price from Ford, and I know Ford owns Volvo automobiles, so maybe the Greenwich Police Department should buy Volvo police cars to make the the town look more European.  However, recently there has only been a few Asians downtown spending money in the evening like they are the only remaining residents that still have money to burn downtown.  Of course we always get a few tourists off the road too.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I left the new bike pack pack on the back of the down sofa by my Schwinn Traveler bicycle, and of course tomorrow, I am suppose to get the the Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Swiss Army Ridge Backpack in Red for $34.95 and $2.95 UPS ground shipping for $37.94 total is UPS Package Tracking www.overstock.com Swiss Army Ridge backpack in red for Mike Scott to use with his Schwinn Traveler bicycle if he can manger to ride it  , so I will  have three small back packs.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 7:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 7:00 A.M.:  I had a problem with Microsoft Outlook 2003, which I have been having for the last few days.  I have been doing a system restore to the day earlier, and then I reinstall Microsoft Office 2003.  This time I reinstalled Microsoft Office 2003 not saving its settings, but restoring the default install settings.  Microsoft Outlook 2003 now works much better.  I restored my saved address file.  However, I lost all of my saved email on the computer.  That does not really both me, and I might be able to find it some where on the computer, but I don't know if I will be able to get it back in the Microsoft Outlook 2003 program.  Well, anyway it is working fine now.  Also Norton AntiSpam 2004 is now working with it again.  Also I have it set to a higher security settings, so it does not load the pictures in email.  I have been listen to Cspan while doing this.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 3:45 A.M.:  There is live web cam link at the bottom of this page http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/intro.html for a live view of what is happening around the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida.  Casa Marina in Spanish means "Castle by the Sea".  Also in Cuba, the DuPont family used to have some villas, and they built the Blue Grotto discothèque in one of them.  Of course in Spanish circles, The Spanish Royal family is related to the French Royal family, since they are both members of the "Bourbon" familyThe Bourbons, which a fairly established family in some European circles.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 3:40 A.M.:  If I am not mistaken in pre Castro non communist Cuba, the Coca Cola company owned vast sugar plantations, and the DuPont family also had vast mineral and land holdings in Cuba.  In the International Courts, they still lay claim to these properties.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 3:15 A.M.:  As a minor point of business in the state of Florida, the St. Joe Paper Company used to be one of the largest land owners in the state of Florida, and it had over a million acres of timber land in the Northwest part of Florida.  The St. Joe Paper Company used to be owned by the DuPont family.  As I recall the First National Bank of Florida which use to be the largest bank in the state of Florida, which I think is now call the First National Bank and Trust Company also used to be owned by the DuPont family.  Also in Vero Beach, Florida, they have a branch of the Wilmington Trust Company.  Besides Henry DuPont one of the wealthiest DuPont family members this century was Pierre DuPont.  He had only one daughter that he left his entire estate to, and her name was Ruth DuPont.  Pierre DuPont's estate consisted of among other things 25% of the entire DuPont company stock and 25% on the entire General Motors stock with other minor holdings some of which I have mentioned.  His only daughter married somebody from an old Virginia families name Randolph Scott who was a famous actor.  They had no children, and about the only thing I read about Ruth DuPont Scott was around 1975, when she was age 85, she learned how to fly a helicopter.  I doubt if she is still with us.  My family use to have an Aunt Ruth who would visit us at my grandparents house in Champaign, Illinois along with an Aunt Eleanor, but I am not sure if they were the same people of those famous names.  When Ruth DuPont Scott died, since she had no children, she set up a Trust with her vast estate with the income of it to go to about 2,000 DuPont family members which when divided up between such a large group, as she said, it would make them all divinely Middle Class, and each would get about $40,000 a year income at the time her estate was settled.  Of course how that estate has been managed, and how those heirs have managed their incomes or what additional heirs might have been added to the trust, it would seem to me, some of them might be still getting by off of their modest trust accounts.  I am not sure if Randolph Scott's family the Randolph and Scotts had any money as the first families of Virginia, but Winston Churchill's mother was a Randolph from Virginia, so they manage to keep up appearances.  However, the Scotts are such a vast family, as they say it the Sedgwick family once you split up Granny's pie, it does not go very far.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 2:40 A.M.:  State of life down in Key West, Florida KeysNews.com - The Florida Keys Only Daily Online News! .  I recall, when I showed up in Key West, Florida for the rest of the season in January 1977 after having visited there the previous Halloween weekend, that I had my 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne towed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for not paying for parking at the Swimming Hall of Fame.  Since I frequently did not have much to eat, I would be a bit disorientated walking around homeless all day there.  I recall that I think I told some people that my name was Tom Sawyer, and I had sailed down on my raft down the Mississippi River, and I had ended up in Key West, Florida.  I recall since I had lived down south as a youth, my southern accent would come back, and people since I was tanned would assume I was one of the locals.  Most of the time I wore a red flannel shirt with blue jeans and Adidas Country sneakers.  I wore a bathing suit underneath my blue jeans for swimming.  I recall carrying a small ditty bag with a beach towel, toiletries, a couple pairs of clean socks and a couple of tee shirts and a spare pair of blue jeans.  Most of my belonging were in my car that was towed.  The ditty bag was an old Army Navy store duffel bag which half full with a nylon rope one could sling over one's shoulder.  The following year in 1978, I had come up with a regulation army poncho that was quite large and good for sleeping out at night in the open, but it could be a bit humid, since it did not breath.  Since I had better clothes up north, I would occasionally bring down a couple of polo shirts.  I recall since I had a 30 inch waist, I was a good swimmer,  I wore my red yellow and blue stripe bathing suit underneath my blue jeans.  I think those are Queen Victoria's racing colors or the three colors of an artist, and I think the Royal Scots Guards also use those colors.  In that period I do not recall having sun glasses.  In that period, I recall wearing a straw hat that I bought for $3 at the Army Navy store, and I recall it was made in Cambodia, and since I had long blond hair down to my waist, and I was darkly tanned, some of the local veterans from Viet Nam thought I looked like a Cambodian Refugee despite the blond hair and blue eyes.  I recall I would use the bathrooms in the various bars, the Clarence Higgs beach pavillion, the Atlantic Shores beach club, and the Key Lyme motel.  I would spend my mornings reading in the Key West library, where they had a literary group called the committee of 100.  I recall back in the winter of 1977, the Key West Citizen printed a picture of me reading the newspaper in the Monroe County Library which was pink on the outside near Caroline street.  It was air conditioned, so it was comfortable.  I recall they also had a bathroom.  Thus life was rough down in Key West, but I managed to survive without social services, since I was young, and I treated it like "Outward Bound".  The British tried to call it a scouting adventure.  Since my original friend in Key West was Rob Glore from Lake Forest, Illinois, where I had gone to college at www.lfc.edu, and since he was a member of the DuPont family, it would seem to me that I was just being low key, and trying to be unobtrusive.  I never saw Rob around much down there, but he did own the craft shop across from the Key West Post Office next to the Key West electricity company on Simington Street.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 1:35 A.M.:  I put the tea mixture in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  When my family lived in Pensacola, Florida from 1954 to 1956, I recall that we had one hurricane or tropical storm.  I remember, we took refuge in the furnace room which did not have windows in our one story house, and the glass windows as I recall did break at some locations in the house in the storm.  I can not find mention of which storm that might have been.  In 1956, we move to Decatur, Alabama, and then to Connecticut in 1961.  In Decatur, Alabama, my father had access to the Chemstrand company DC3 plane, so we would frequently fly around the southeastern United States, and I recall visiting Pensacola during that period while we lived in Decatur, Alabama.  Since Decatur, Alabama was where Chemstrand made Acrylan, and Pensacola was where Chemstrand made Nylon, my father was the assistant plant manager in Pensacola, and he was the plant manager in Decatur.  Back then because of the TVA www.tva.gov Decatur like most of that region had the cheapest electricity rates in the country.  I recall both the houses in Pensacola and Decatur were air conditioned.  In Decatur, it would get a bit cold in the winter, and we once had a six inch snow fall in Pensacola, Florida.  Thus despite the weather in the summer and this time of year, it does get cold down south.   When I was in Key West, Florida in 1977 or 1978, I recall one evening it was down to 42 degrees Fahrenheit, and people were sitting around the fire place at Captain Tony's bar in Ski Sweaters to stay warm, since before electric heat pumps down south which generate both heat and air conditioning, a great many houses down south did not have heat, particularly in south Florida.  Of course when one lives down south in South Florida year round, it gets to be so hot that one's bloods thins out, so when one comes north, even in moderate weather, one feels even colder than the locals.  Back in the old days down in Florida, they use to say when the Pelicans disappear in Key West, a hurricane is coming, and when the Flamingoes disappear in Biscayne Bay off of Miami a hurricane is coming.  Still after the hurricane season if there is not too much damage, it is awfully nice to spend a warm winter down south, if one can afford to have a house with some sort of income.  Since a great deal of the southern economy is dependent on tourists whom are suppose to pay money for services rendered, they are not too friendly to snow birds from up north whom have no money.  I recall the entire time I was starving in south Florida, when I went from 185 to 125 pounds during the winters of 1976 to 1979, in 1976 - 1977, the salvation army in Key West gave me a can of Green Giant corn, and in April 1977 after six months, I got six months of unemployment compensation in one lump sum.  The following two winters, I had food stamps, and possibly some unemployment compensation, but I can not recall for sure.  As I recall back then unemployment compensation was $87 every two weeks for a six month period, and I would work up north during the warmer spring, summer, and fall months to qualify for the unemployment compensation.  Of course back then one could rent a motel near the beach in some place like Fort Lauderdale of Daytona for $40 a week, but down in Key West, we lived in the winter of 1978 in the abandoned Casa Marina Hotel Casa Marina - Resort and Beach House - Key West, Florida , since John Bolton claimed he was the architect, and he had the key to the hotel.  I later learned he was just a local artist, and he had found the key lying on the sidewalk near the Bird Cage Bar which use to occupy a small portion of the hotel.  Since it was full of stray cats and undergoing renovation, it was quite dusty, but it was out of the wind on cold evenings.  Of course it is right at sea level, so more than likely it would flood during a hurricane.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/20/05 Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:  Today before I went out, I checked the bike tires for 100 PSI.  While riding the bike around Bruce Park, and the Steamboat Road area, there was commuter rush hour traffic, so one had to stay vigalent.  I mostly rode in first and second gears, since I did not ride too fast, and there are not too many steep hills at that locations.  I saw two Geese in a flock of about 30 with number bands on their necks.  There were about a 100 youngsters at the ball field for a sporting event, and nobody was playing tennis or picnicing.  There were a couple dozen strollers in the park.  There were about a half dozen people at the end of Steamboat Road including the medical doctor from the Phillipines who fishes there regularly.  There are sidewalks around the park and west of Bruce park, where I guess one could ride a bike more safely, but one would have to stop the bike and mount the curbes, since the walks at the corners do not slop onto the payment.  Part of the path that I rode in the northeast part of the park was part of the old Perrier www.perrier.com  Fittness course that use to be there, but I did not see any evidence of the old Perrier fitness course.  The park looks to be in good shape.  Downtown was not too busy this evening.  It seemed to be mostly Asian residents downtown, so I guess they have more fuel efficient vehicles.  I was told lots of people whom continue to drive a lot around here are driving Company cars or Fleet vehicles, so they do not worry as much about the price of fuel.  The motor scooter in the north front window of Saks Fifth Avenue is a Vespa http://www.vespausa.com/ motor scooter.  Since I do not have much distance to drive to town, and complete round trip to town including side stops and driving down by the waterfront is about 7 miles all together, but it is only about a mile from where I live at 71 Vinci Drive to the top of Greenwich Avenue, and there are sidewalks, but there is also a lot of traffic on West Putnam Avenue.  Still, if one explores West Putnam Avenue, one gets to see a lot of imported automobile dealerships, if one can afford their expensive products.   On the tropical weather front www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , Tropical Storm RITA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 3-Day Cone is suppose to pick up steam in the Gulf of Mexico, and it could effect Texas or even Houston according to CNN about 2 P.M. this afternoon.  All of the Florida Keys have been evacuated.  CNN.com - Mayor halts return to New Orleans - Sep 19, 2005 and CNN.com - Governor orders evacuation of Keys - Sep 19, 2005  and NRL Monterey Tropical Images .  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 11:40 P.M.:  I woke up at 2:30 P.M. this afternoon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw away a banana peel, and I picked up my mail.  I adjusted my new Giro bicycle helmet, and I read the instructions.  It is guaranteed for three years, and it is made in China.  It fits me just fine.  It came with extra inserts to fit a slightly smaller head, which I do not need to use.  While I was outside, I folded down the rear seat in my Volvo station wagon.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out with my Schwinn Traveler bicycle and my Giro helmet.  I put the bike in the back of my Volvo station wagon.  I then drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I drove over to Bruce Park, and I parked just south of the tennis courts.  I got out my bicycle, and I put on my helmet.  I moved the items in my pockets to the front flap pockets of my Columbia shorts which snap shut, so I would not loose any items while riding.  I rode north around the northwest circle of the park, and then I rode along the south side of the park, at the picnic area, I turned left and rode northeast to the north side of the park.  I then rode the walking path to the northeast corner of the park, and I then rode south the southeast corner of the park, and then I headed west to the west end of the park, and I crossed the main road Bruce Park Drive, and I rode west to the Bruce Museum road, and I bore left up to Oneida drive, and I turned right and went over to Steamboat Road, and then I road down south to the end of the road to the pier.  I got off my bike, and I surveyed the rocks on the waterfront, and there was a large white heron on the rocks which this time of year is the sign of tropical storm activity.  I then returned back to my car the same route.  I noticed in Bruce Parks there were Geese with number bands on their necks.  I put my bike and helmet in the car.  I sat out for a while on a bench by the pond.  I then drove back to the center of town.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The elevator at the train station pedestrian cross over looks nearly ready.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I walked up to CVS.  I bought two RTH 15 foot white extension cords for $1.50 each and for 50% off their regular 50% off price for $9.99 a made in China Velocity small backpack Access Bag N' Pack  with a main storage compartment with padded CD Player holder, Multi-Side Storage compartment with cell phone holder, padded pack, back straps and padded fold down wheel cover for extra comfort with wheel and a telescopic handle.  Style #30178.  It is black with turquoise blue patches.  One can use it as a back pack or roll it on its double set of wheels with the extension handle.  With tax of .78, I paid $13.77 all together.  With the Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Swiss Army Ridge Backpack in Red for $34.95 and $2.95 UPS ground shipping for $37.94 total is UPS Package Tracking www.overstock.com Swiss Army Ridge backpack in red for Mike Scott to use with his Schwinn Traveler bicycle if he can manger to ride it , I will now have two small back packs.  I bought the last one of the particular model they had, and they had one bicycle back pack for $7.50 and about 50 regular small back packs for $5.  I then wore the Velocity back pack out of the store, and I completed my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I then returned home.  When I took the bicycle out of the back of the Volvo station wagon, I noticed the chain had come off, and it had become wedged into the wheel.  I guess when one puts the bike in the Volvo in the station wagon, one needs to put it chain side up.  I was able to fix it in about 10 minutes, and it now works fine.  I put up the rear seat in the Volvo, and I brought up the bike, helmet, and backpack to my apartment.  I chatted with a relative.  I took three medium organic eggs that I let warm up to room temperature, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added two teaspoons of milk and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese and a teaspoon of Italian seasoning, and I used a whisk to mix it all together until it was bubbly.  I then took my 8 inch seasoned omelet pan, I place it on the large electric burner on medium heat, and I added two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, until the fat began to bubble.  A seasoned omelet pan is one that is NOT washed after use, but one just wipes it off with a paper towel to remove any excess cooking material.  If an omelet pan is well seasoned the omelet should not stick to the pan.  I added the egg mixture, and I turned the heat down a little bit lower than medium, and once the omelet mixture began to bubble and the bottom half is cooked enough, so one can flip it over, I flipped it over.  I had earlier prepared four one inch by .25 inch by 4 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham and six Kraft Cracker barrel Baby Swiss cheese slices 1.25 inches by 1.25 inches by .25 inches.  Once I flipped the omelet, I spread the ham and then the cheese over it on one half of its top side, and then I flipped the empty side of the omelet over the side with the ham and cheese, and I put it on a dinner plate, and I sprinkled a couple of teaspoons of grated parmesan cheese over it.  While cooking the omelet, I toasted on the inside two halves of a bagel which my toaster can toast on one side, and I added a little bit of olive oil spread around the toasted sides.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I then started making a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm. I chatted with a relative.  I then used a Allen wrench from my large black tool book, and I tightened the Schwinn Traveler bicycle handle bars after I aligned them.  I used a Phillips screw driver, and I tightened the gear shift lever control mechanism where it attaches to the bike, so it does not swivel.  I put the two extension cords in the box underneath the living room desk.  I put the Velocity backpack on the back of the down sofa in the living room.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 10:25 A.M.:  I called up www.geeks.com, and I cancelled the HP memory card reader, so now my order will be just $6.29 for 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping for $6.29 total.  CNN.com - Lower Florida Keys ordered evacuated - Sep 19, 2005 and Tropical Storm RITA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 3-Day Cone and www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 9:45 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I did a full Norton AntiVirus scan of my computer while I was asleep, and there are no problems.  At 9:30 A.M.., the Giro Semi MX 05 large bicycle helmet arrived via FedEX.  It fits me just fine.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 5:15 A.M.:  I went through my email.  Somebody that also speaks English that rides bikes BBC NEWS | UK | Biker prince in new birthday shot , but his has a motor, and he is probably in better shape for riding a bike than I am.  My order FedEx tracking on the GIRO SEMI MX '05 at JensonUSA.com and giro and  in orange large size at market price of $34.95 plus $6.95 FedEx ground shipping for $41.90 total is FedEx Tracking Mike Scott Giro Semi MX '05 bicycle helmet from JensonUSA.com  is due today.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will wake up at 10 A.M. to cancel the HP memory card reader from www.geeks.com .  With the additional purchases this evening, I am going to be a little low on funds until the first of the month.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 5:05 A.M.:  I got email from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping.  The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 2:55 A.M.:  I made a mistake, the Hewlett Packard 7-in-1 Card Reader (Gray) - Plugs into USB Hewlett Packard 5069-6272 plugs into a USB motherboard header and not a USB port.  Thus I will not be able to use it on my primary computer, since my primary computer has the front case USB 2.0 port and the rear USB 2.0 PCI slot attached to the two Gigabyte motherboard USB 2.0 headers.  I could use one of the Gigabyte motherboard USB 2.0 headers that connects to the rear USB 2.0 PCI slot device, and move the two USB cables attached to it to the two spare USB 2.0 ports on the rear of the case, but I would rather not do that.  I have a USB memory card reader on a cable attached to the computer now, and I am still waiting for the $15 rebate on it.  There might be a USB cable adapter that I could use, so I will look for it.  I could cancel that part of the order at 10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time EDT by calling them up at 760-726-7700.  The HP memory card device will not fit into my other two computer cases.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 2:10 A.M.:   This $50 off coupon "GEEKPC42" on Coupon Redemption GEEKS.com compact PC according to Geeks.com Coupons, Discount to save you money at Geeks.com. is suppose to be good until September 23, 2005, where this link says Compact Computer, Compact Price @ Geeks.com! says September 17, 2005, but although you could get free shipping in the next 50 minutes, I don't think they would give you an extra 10% off with the $50 off coupon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/19/05 Monday 2:00 A.M.:  Until 3 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, www.geeks.com has free shipping, so with 10% discount from Geeks.com Coupons, Discount to save you money at Geeks.com., I ordered Hewlett Packard 7-in-1 Card Reader (Gray) - Plugs into USB Hewlett Packard 5069-6272 which is normally $8.25 for $7.43 and 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping for $13.72 total.  The HP USB memory card reader will fit into my spare 3.5 inch case opening, and it will plug into the spare internal USB 2.0 port on my 4 port USB 2.0 card SYBA USB 2.0 4+1 PORTS RETAIL BOX which I paid $7.99 for a couple of years ago from the same site as the link.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 11:20 P.M.:  I tried watching the Mel Gibson film about Jesus, but it was not in English, just English subtitles, so I did not watch it.  I tried watching television, but the television content was not to my taste.  I guess I will now do a little bit more computer work.  I guess if one gets tired of working on the computer, one can always read a book or a magazine, which I use to do before computers.   Locally here all the national network news seems to be about the hurricane activity down south.  If one does not watch the local television channels or read the local papers, one does not know what is happening around here.  According to one of my neighbors, there is still a large amount of violence in the New York City area.  However, from my viewpoint in Greenwich, Connecticut with our modest public safety department, life seems relatively safe.  However, I have not been going out much late at night, since it started to get warm this spring.  Usually as it gets colder around here, there are not many security problems, since people do not spend as much time out on the cold winter's evenings.  Office workers tend to be a very well behaved group of people.  Whatever, the case, I am not stuck inside, but I have been trying to relax more at home, instead of facing the evening walking Greenwich Avenue watching the few local people downtown whom seem to spend a bit of time out of their homes.   Since I have an over all picture of the whole town, there are a great many people whom never go downtown at night whom are also part of our community, and they stay home reading, and a lot of the older generation play the card game Bridge.  I suppose others watch various video entertainment.  Of course with the internet, I can always find computer technological information to read which I have done for years.  However, if one is interested in a subject matter, it is frequently better to read a book on the subject matter, which would be more informative.  Of course at the higher academic levels, books for advanced learning are more expensive than the every day recreational reading at the Greenwich Library, and one frequently needs a more advanced educational background to understand what is in the books.  Locally here in Connecticut, one can find the more advanced books to read at the Yale Coop at www.yale.edu , but frequently to understand those books, one should be a student at the same university, which is expensive, and one has to meet their academic qualifications.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 9:50 P.M.:  I ate four ounces of Planter's Lightly salted dry roasted peanut and a half of a bag of Arnold Seasoned Croutons and eight .5 inch by .15 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss Cheese and four pieces of black licorice.  I chatted with three relatives and a friend.  On my Verizon telephone, it sounds like some cheap third world country is trying eves drop of my telephone line, since it sounds like a squirrel chewing on the telephone line.  As they say in the telecommunications business, if you can hear the tap, it is not the United States government.  I guess here in Byram, Connecticut on the border with Port Chester, New York with our Verizon telephone service lines going down into Port Chester, New York any of the third world illegal aliens or local mafia in Port Chester, New York could be trying to tap our telephones, but it goes to show how really dumb they are to even bother us with such nonsense.  Maybe they think that I am rich since my zip code of "06830" comes up with a local area here in Greenwich, Connecticut as Belle Haven instead of Byram.  Belle Haven is the are where all the movers and shakers whom are trouble maker happen to live at.   Not much going on, so I think I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch the Mel Gibson movie where he thinks he is Jesus Christ.  I suppose Australians whom drink too much beer lose touch with reality.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 8:15 P.M.:  It says here, that today is Mexican independence day TCPalm : Fellsmere celebrates its Mexican heritage .   Dutch Holidays Expatica's Dutch news in English: Dutch holidays .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 8:10 P.M.:  I chatted with two friends.   I guess we all have become so high tech with out personal computers that once learns some of the details behind the technology behind them, it begins to look like the Taiwanese are jerking us around for fun and profit.  I suppose, since they are a tiny country with a large population, and since they are nervous about China, they keep track of so called important Old Guard Americans like myself whom they worry about are being too friendly with the mainland Chinese.  Thus when things get messed up in this area, it usually means the Taiwanese and the Chinese are playing a chess game of their own.   They are probably upset with friends and family of mine for being friendly with the Dali Lama.  Of course that is a whole other kettle of fish.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 6:40 P.M.:  I woke up at 2:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with two relatives.  I tried to connect them together with the conferencing feature on the Panasonic 2 line telephone, but I could not figure out how to get that feature to work.  I went outside, and I threw away a banana peel.  While watching the Fox News, it said that the Florida Keys were being evacuated.  This shows the tracking on Hurricane Rita Tropical Storm RITA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 3-Day Cone .  My viewpoint on Microsoft trying to get us all to show up at a TS2 conference in Norwalk, Connecticut on October 5, 2005 when we might have some money is that they hope we will stop by CompUSA in Norwalk afterwards and buy something.  I noticed last night when I was walking Greenwich Avenue that Saks Fifth Avenue where the women spend all of their husband's money has a super size motor scooter in their front lobby entrance.   When I use to visit with the Forbes family down in Far Hills, New Jersey back in the early 1970s beside having the basement of their farm house stocked up with cases of liquor, they also told me that they owned the Honda franchise for New Jersey, so you might be able to get a good deal on a Honda motor scooter 2004 Honda Scooters - Honda Motor Scooter Info, Specs, Prices  from the Forbes, providing they still own the Honda franchise for New Jersey.  However, I noticed that Schwinn also sells motor scooters Schwinn Motor Scooters - Campus, Graduate, Collegiate , but although a motor scooter might be cheaper to drive than an inexpensive automobile, one would probably be a bit colder up north riding on a motor scooter, and one would probably have increased clothes cleaning bills.  One can still buy an inexpensive used car which uses a small amount of gasoline at Bargain News Online - Connecticut's Classified Ads Source , but it would not be as safe as a full size car that one hardly ever goes anywhere, but it would be safer than a motor scooter that one cruised all over tar nation on.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  At http://connect.microsoft.com/ a new Vista beta 1 build is available, but if one installs it over the earlier build, one will not be able to upgrade to beta 2.  Thus I will not download and install it.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/18/05 Sunday 1:50 A.M.:   I went through www.geeks.com looking for any items that I might be able to afford with free shipping, but alas I did not find any.  If one were riding a bicycle, one would probably need one of these tools Harris Cyclery - Tools > Chain Tools sooner or later.  Harris Cyclery-West Newton, Massachusetts Bicycle Shop seems to have bike parts on the internet on the east coast of the United States of America, if that is where I am still am.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/17/05 Saturday 11:45 P.M.:  I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive after the last message while I cleaned up.  I then went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $10 of premium unleaded  gasoline at $3.499 a gallon for 39.5 miles driving at 13.7 miles per gallon at 12 miles per hour.    I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 16 ounce jar of Planter's Lightly Salted Dry Roasted Peanuts at $1.99 a jar.  I then completed my walk.  I used the bathroom afterwards at Starbucks.  Not much going on downtown with the higher prices of gasoline.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a 54 ounce container of Edy's butter pecan ice cream at $2.99 and Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $1.52 for $4.51 total.  I then returned home.  I ate two scoops of the Edy's butter pecan ice cream.  When I started up the computer, it prompted me to reactivate the Logitech keyboard encryption, which might be an indication that someone had tampered with the computer.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/17/05 Saturday 6:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out to see if there is anyone left in Greenwich, Connecticut whom can afford to drive downtown on Saturday night.   Free shipping for the next two days from Geeks.com - New Arrivals for the week of 17.SEP.05 free shipping today and tomorrow .  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 09/17/05:

Note: <888> 09/17/05 Saturday 5:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 and Ad-awareSE.  I then did a Windows XP Automatic System Recovery from the C: drive to the D: drive.  However, after I did the backup, the Outlook 2003 program would not work properly, so I ran the repair option for Microsoft Office 2003, and the Outlook 2003 program worked after that.  I then went through my email.  I then ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 and Ad-awareSE.  I then ran CCleaner.  I then removed the files in my Norton Recycle bin.  I then did a Windows XP restore backup.  I then did another Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  While doing this, I went outside briefly, and I chatted with a friend.  I toasted two pieces of frozen Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread Hellmann's mayonnaise on both pieces, and on the bottom piece, I put four slices of Stop and Shop 1/32nds inch thick slices of roast beef, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop American white cheese, five 3/16th inch thick slices of onion, ground black pepper, five large fresh spinach leaves, salt, and the top layer of bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/17/05 Saturday 12:30 P.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I moved my Schwinn Traveler bicycle from in front of the down sofa to behind it in the access space in front of the living room closets.  It is a tight fit to get to the bathroom and the bedroom and the hallway, but it works better there, and it frees up the living room space.  If one needs to be able to have a fat guest get into the rear area of the apartment, one can always roll the Schwinn Traveler bicycle out in the building hallway.  I went back to bed.  I woke up at noon.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now go through my email.   Local weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 8:45 P.M.:  I ate a couple of handfuls of peanuts.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 8:15 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used four 3 inch by 1 inch by .25 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham that I sliced into half inch strips.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss Cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I used 11 grape tomatoes instead of 8.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I threw out my recycle paper and my periodical literature that was out of date.   CIO 

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 6:40 P.M.:  After the last message, I did a system restore to get the computer working properly.  I then ran Norton WinDoctor and Ad-awareSE.  I then shut down the computer, and I went to bed about 4 A.M..  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a relative.  I picked up my mail.  During the last two days, I have leant a neighbor three packs of cigarettes.  I gave the neighbor one of the note cards from www.ordersmokesdirect.com with their toll free telephone number.  If one does not have a bank account, one can still order them with a money order.  I then did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  When I went to throw out my garbage, it was raining cats and dogs, so I threw out the garbage in the garbage shoot outside my door.  I will throw out the recycle paper and the periodical literature later.  I chatted with two relatives.  Lots of rain this evening Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO    

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 3:05 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  The internet does not seem to be working at the moment for some odd reason.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 2:40 A.M.:  When I first lived on Steamboat Road, I bought an orange Peugeot 10 speed bicycle that I use a infrequently when I lived on Steamboat Road for 4.5 years from June 1984 to December 1989, until I moved to my present location.  I recall I bought it after October 1986, when I had just bought the yellow Volkswagon Dasher station wagon, and I started going to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I gave it to a friend that lived in North Salem, New York who now lives at East Fairfield Beach, Connecticut better known as Bridgeport, Connecticut.  I think he got rid of it when he moved from North Salem, New York to Heritage Hills in Bedford Hills, New York before he moved to Wilton, Connecticut.  Thus that bicycle is probably no longer available.  I think I had a chain repair kit that I bought at the bicycle shop across from the old Grassi Oldsmobile Cadillac dealership, neither of which is there anymore.  I think I recall I gave the chain repair tool kit to a friend that worked at Christ Church whom rode a Mountain Bike, and since he was from Jay Peak, Veromont which is quite mountainous, he was actually very good at riding a mountain bike until he had a run in with a Mountain Lion, when he was playing with one of its cubs.  My bicycle experience is limited to riding a Schwinn 3 speed Bendix brake bicycle in Decatur, Alabama from around 1957 to 1961 when I moved here.  I once was in a wreck with it, and I flew over the handlebars, and I had stitches on my chin.  I did not ride it much here in Greenwich, Connecticut on Round Hill Road, since it was a heavy bicycle with all of the hills in this area, so it just sat in the garage and basement for many years.  It was black with my name "Mike Scott" on it in paint.  I use it one summer up in Nantucket in 1976, when I stayed at a guest house near the White Elephant, and I used to park it at the White Elephant for safe keeping.  The following summer, I stored it a barn in Norwich, Vermont, and when I left Nantucket, I stored it at a relative's house in the Philadelphia area which my relative was renting to someone else, and I never saw it again.  In that same move, my Rolex watch with the red and blue patches disappeared.  I rode a bicycle occasionally in Nantucket during the following summers up until, I finally left in December 1983, but I think I used other bikes that were left around.  I did not actually have one myself.  A lot of people use to discard them there at the end of the summer.  Then I had the Peugeot 10 speed which I did not ride too much, because I felt it was too dangerous in the downtown  and Bruce Park area which has lots of traffic.  Thus I have limited experience in riding a bicycle.  Although I might not ride my Schwinn Traveler much once I get the helmet, I lived in this area during the early 1970s during the oil embargo, so I would like to be prepared if any events cause a drastic shortage of gasoline which can not meet my meager 50 miles a week that I normally drive back and forth to town.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 1:45 A.M.:  Of course, I think this might be a little bit too flashy for our local downtown NiteRider  , but there are alternatives Bike Lights .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/16/05 Friday 1:40 A.M.:  I studied what little I could find out on the Schwinn Traveler tires, and it is basically a 27 inch tire by 1 inch.  They are 1 inch across, so I assume that is right in terms of measuring.  However, I found notes saying that Schwinn did not have standard size tires.  However, I found this 27 Inch Bicycle Tires from Harris Cyclery (ISO/E.T.R.T.O. 630 mm) that says it is probably a 27 tire.  My tires are fine on the Schwinn Traveler as far as I can tell, but if I needed a new pair from dry rot or age, I found these on sale Harris Cyclery - I.R.C. 27 x 1 Traction , but they might not be available for long.  Since tubes expand a 27 inch tube does not have to be exact.  All I can find out about the current tires is that they are Nylon made in Japan.  A tire lever is here Harris Cyclery - Tools > Tire tools .  Instead of using http://sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html#length to calculate a spoke length, it might be easier to measure an existing spoke and order it from Harris Cyclery - Parts > Spokes & Nipples .  As far as safety lights up front possibly Harris Cyclery - CatEye HL-EL200 or Harris Cyclery - CatEye HL-EL300 and for the rear Harris Cyclery - CatEye LD 1000 10 LED Tail Light .  Of course, you really would want to use an expensive lock on a $10 Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop bike such as Harris Cyclery - Locks/Security .  If I spent that much money toward the bike, it would be cheaper to pay a little bit more for gasoline, but on the bike if I am able to ride it easily and safely enough, the exercise might do me good.  Of course I have not looked at any other sites to see if the parts are cheaper, but we all know they ride a lot of bikes in Boston where this shop is.  I suppose I could check out http://www.davecycle.com/ to see what they are priced, but at the moment, I can not afford any of the items in this list.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 11:10 P.M.:  I tried to use Nero 6 to copy a DVD movie, but it will not copy a copy protected DVD.  I really do not have time anymore for much television or movies, since I am constantly busy with my own activities on the internet.  The UPS tracking number on Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Swiss Army Ridge Backpack in Red for $34.95 and $2.95 UPS ground shipping for $37.94 total is UPS Package Tracking www.overstock.com Swiss Army Ridge backpack in red for Mike Scott to use with his Schwinn Traveler bicycle if he can manger to ride it .   When I can afford it, I still need to find a bicycle web site for a couple of the type tubes for its wheels, a few spokes, and possibly some sort of front and rear light for the Schwinn Traveler bicycle.  It does have a red reflector on the rear and white reflector on the front and a white reflector on each wheel.  With the cost savings usually on the internet, it might pay for a larger order with shipping instead of paying the local retail markup here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  Thus with the helmet arriving Monday September 19 and the red Swiss Army backpack arriving on Wednesday September 21, I might be ready for some preliminary test bike rides in our area, but I will probably wait until it cools down a bit, and wait for the price of gasoline to be raised higher, so there is less traffic.   There was a lot of traffic today, so the current price of gasoline is not effecting traffic volume at all.  Of course Greenwich, Connecticut is a wealthy community with a lot of people of Jewish origin, so I guess their attitude is not conservation, but to drive more and tell the Arabs where to shove it.  Of course the United States of America does have a 400 year supply of coal in the ground, but I do not see many of these urban people whom would know how to shovel or use coal, but I am sure the utilities know how to convert it electricity.  They even have big steam shovels in the coal country out west that can load an entire railroad coal car in one scoop, and in the old days, there use to railroad coal trains that were up to 400 coal cars long, but there is a slight problem.  To pull such heavy loads, one needs very heavy duty steam locomotives, and there are only two left in America in Arkansas.   I think we sold the rest to the Chinese.  Also to haul heavy loads of coal, there is a lot of wear and tear on the railroad bed and the bridges have to be strong enough to support the heavy loads.  What I think they do to avoid having to move the heavy coal across country which also uses energy is that they convert it to other useful forms of energy such as electricity or liquid fuel at its point or origin from the ground in some central location, and then it can be transferred in the usual pipe lines or power grid.  Of course one has to have the resources to maintain the heavy equipment that mines coal whether in mines or open pits, and it involves numerous environmental problems and labor union problems along with the major economic outlays to develop the resources.   Also during the oil years, the wealthy Arab investors with their excess profits seemed to have bought up most of the large major coal companies anyway.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 10:15 P.M.:  On Greenwich Capital Markets www.gcm.com owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland which occupied the Melon's old Gulf Oil tank site down on Steamboat Road formerly occupied by General Reinsurance which was owned by Gulf Oil, they have improved the property a bit with new brick paving in the courtyard and the sidewalks and new trees along the roadway.  Whether the bricks and trees will stand the test of time unlike the old bricks, we will have to wait and see.   I also have noticed recently that up on the top of Greenwich Avenue at Lafayette Place, they have torn down all of the First Presbyterian Church The First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, Connecticut ( CT ) except for the primary stone parish hall, and they have also torn down the house north of the old church building, and they are building a completely new church which incorporated the older granite stone part.  I think that church has 600 families as members.  I chatted with a family member.  I installed the Epson Stylus C80 printer driver on the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom along with its status monitor.  According to the status monitor the black cartridge is empty, and three color cartridges are 90% empty so to use it, it will need four new cartridges when I can afford them, but as I wrote earlier, I have enough working inkjet printers with spare cartridges for now.  I ate about three ounces of Planter's Dry Roasted peanuts.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 8:40 P.M.:  Greenwich Time - RBS plans move to Stamford .  I guess we will be getting more bread crumbs from those Scottish tightwads.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 8:35 P.M.:  I toasted two pieces of frozen Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread Hellmann's mayonnaise on both pieces, and on the bottom piece, I put four slices of Stop and Shop 1/32nds inch thick slices of roast beef, two tablespoons of Gold's horse radish, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop American white cheese, four 3/16th inch thick slices of onion, ground black pepper, four large fresh spinach leaves, salt, and the top layer of bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 7:50 P.M.:  I put away my laundry.   While doing my laundry, I found a white Blindbrook Country Club towel that I washed and dried.  I believe the Blindbrook Country Club was once written up in this area, because Nelson and Happy Rockefeller ventured off their palatial dairy farm in North Tarrytown, New York that they share with other family members when they happen to be in this area during the social season, and they once had dinner there.   I think it was over on Anderson Hill Road near where the polo field use to be.  I think today it has been turned into another Rockefeller enterprise known as the Doral Arrowwood Resort - Rye Brook, New York - Westchester County NY where the movers and shakers in the corporate world can sit near a warm fire place during our cold winters and have the comfort of home.  I think they are pretty much booked up year round, and I think the remains of the Blindbrook Country Club compose part of the tiny golf course on the property.  It is near the Pepsi Corporate headquarters and the State University of New York off King Street off Anderson Hill Road, and the Westchester County airport is just north of them, so the movers and shakers can fly in and out without being noticed, other than all the automobile traffic they create in this area.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  I was up at 9 A.M. this morning when a relative called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I left a message with a fellow Greenwich Country Day student that I would be unable to attend our 40th reunion dinner coming up soon, since I will be busy with other matters.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought a Epson Stylus C80 printer EPSON America, Inc. - Product Information - Epson Stylus C80 with 10 foot USB cable for $5.  It needs new ink cartridges, and I can order five cartridges from http://www.abcink.com/stylusc80.html for $30.95 plus with a $4 discount from http://www.drini.com/coupons/ABCInk , they would be $26.95, but a better deal is T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for twice as many cartridges for $34.96, and they include free shipping too, so I will probably order from them, when I have the money.   However, I might not order cartridges right away for it, since I have plenty of good inkjet printers with spare cartridges at the moment, so I might keep it in reserve.  This Macworld: Review: Epson Stylus C80 says it was a $179 printer three years ago.  After the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, I went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I returned home.  I brought up the Epson Stylus C80 printer, and I hooked it up to the Dell Dimension L1000R computer in the bedroom, and it turns on with the AUX control panel switch and the printer switch.  Of course, possibly only one of the cartridges is empty, and I have not yet read the instructions on the internet or installed the drivers.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.   CIO   

Note: <888> 09/15/05 Thursday 12:50 A.M.:  I noticed two half grown fawns at our driveway entrance, when I returned home this evening.  I am bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have my usual 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/14/05 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS during my walk, and I bought two 2.75 ounce jars of Gold Emblem cinnamon for .99 each, two 16 ounce jars of Planter's Dry Roasted Peanuts for $1.99 each, and two 7 ounce bags of black licorice for $1.19 each plus .14 tax for $8.48 total.  I completed my walk.  I then sat out a little bit more.  I have noticed recently that the air conditioner on my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon does not seem to be working as well on hot days, so I will probably have to have it serviced next spring, if I can afford it.  I next drove down by the waterfront, and there are still a lot of people with color down there trying to make a living fishing.  Actually this time of year, the fishing is not that good, since the water tends to be warm, and there is a lack of oxygen called hypoxia which either kills or keeps the fish away.   However, some of them just like to pretend that they are fishing to enjoy the ambience of the scenic Greenwich waterfront.  It would be nice if some of them told me where they were from, so I would know if any of them happen to own any deluxe tropical vacation resorts that some of the locals might enjoy in our rather cold winters.  Our regular observer from Jamaica has not been seen around walking recently, but I think he has become more upscale, since I thought I saw him riding a bicycle the other day on Old Track Road.  During World War II, the Jamaicans ran the telephone systems for the Allies in Europe, thus they must know something about communications, and a lot of communications items use aluminum which comes from bauxite from Jamaica. One such communications device is a jet or an airplane.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked out a DVD.   I do not know if I will have time to watch it, but I want to see if Nero 6 will copy a movie DVD.   I hope Mel Gibson does not mind, but he is another local Commonwealth resident from Australia who has enough body fat that he will probably not be cold during the winter.  He bought the house up on Round Hill Road from somebody that I know that imports Cutty Sark liquor.  Apparently the liquor business is not that profitable anymore.  I then made a long trip up to north western central Greenwich to the Stop and Shop in Glenville, Connecticut.  Driving up Glenville Road, it is very dark since the Rockefellers can not afford to light up their property anymore.  Maybe they should put out one of those little iron jockeys with their racing colors with a little 8 watt light bulb to let people know where they live.  Of course they have relatives and houses elsewhere, and the house on Glenville Road is just a Christmas Tree farm on rugged terrain that is not suitable for development unless you want to use about a billion dollars of DuPont dynamite.  As I recall they originally bought the property to have for a summer house in the country to avoid the summer epidemics in New York City that the tenements seemed to produce.  However, money follows money, and this area became more prosperous.  I guess that would mean that branch of the William Rockefeller family might also be able to afford a house in Manhattan, but maybe they just live over at Carnegie Hill at their relative's house.  There is probably enough room, but whether they still can afford to heat it or not might be opened to question, which is why members of that branch of their family use to be down in Key West, Florida or elsewhere around Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Possibly I was in camp with some of them at Lookout Mountain Camp in the old days, since it was near Chattanooga, Tennessee and Rock City.   At the Stop and Shop, I bought two 96 ounce containers of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, Stop and Shop rare roast beef at $6.99 a pound for $7.33, Stop and Shop Swiss Cheese for $5.99 a pound for $3.71, a pound of baby carrots for $1.50, broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.99, a bag of fresh spinach for $1.50, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $1.99, a pint of grape tomatoes for $2.99 for $26.01 total.  I then sat out briefly outside the Stop and Shop, and I drove back down the long dark road down Weaver Street back to my chateau in Byram.  Of course in America in 1907, when this building was built, they did not yet know how to build a chateau, since they had not yet fought World War I and II, but after those wars, they learned how to.  I guess the Petit Trianon on North Street in Greenwich, Connecticut is the closest thing we have to a chateau, but presently relatives of the king of spain are using it.  I put away my purchases, and I chatted with two relatives.  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and two ounces of cream cheese and a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/14/05 Wednesday 4:00 P.M.:  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on three 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, four slices of white American cheese, four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, and pepper and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   CIO    

Note: <888> 09/14/05 Wednesday 3:10 P.M.:  Before going to bed after the last message, I ran Ad-awareSE and Norton WinDoctor 2003.  I woke up at 8:30 A.M. this morning, when I had a telephone call about renewing my subscription to a Military and Aviation magazine, which I did.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched President Bush's speech at the United Nations.  I then took my Schwinn Traveler bicycle outside with some cleaning and maintenance supplies.  I used a S.O.S. scouring pad and Scot's Pot Shot cooking utensil cleaner, and I cleaned the entire bicycle including the wheels.  I brought out a bucket of hot water, and I wiped off the cleaning compound with a rag and hot water.  I then waxed the black metal parts of the bike with Mother's car wax and buffed it.  I put some Castrol motor oil in my appliance oil container, and I lubricated the moving parts with motor oil except the chain and gears.  I used Teflon Super Lubricant to lubricate the chain and the gears.  I adjusted the brakes with the brake levers by the tires, so they are a bit tighter.  I put a valve cap on the rear wheel.  I used Turtle Wax Extreme 2001 to protect the bicycle seat.  The rims are 25.25 inches by one inch and the tires are a little bit more than 27 inches.  I might check out http://www.davecycle.com/ to see if they have spare tire tubes.   I put the bicycle maintenance supplies and lubricants and WD-40 from the Volvo station wagon on the floor of the sweater closet in the hallway.  I put the open container of Castrol Motor oil in the back of my Volvo station wagon.  I have the Schwinn Traveler bicycle back in the living room with front wheel pointing out leaning against the down sofa.  I chatted with a Microsoft representative about an upcoming TS2 conference in Norwalk, Connecticut on October 5, 2005.  It is about server software, and I told them since I am not able to run a server, I would not be attending.  I sorted out about a dozen old computer mice, and I coiled and tied their cords with garbage bag wire ties, and I put them all in a platic bag underneath the bedroom side board on the right side.  I picked up my mail earlier.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 11:20 P.M.:  I ate three ounces of Arnold Seasoned croutons with some iced tea.  Chance of rain the next few days Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 10:35 P.M.:  If I were getting a new bicycle for riding around town, I would probably get Schwinn 2004 Voyageur Sport for about $249.99 or Schwinn Bikes - Bike Detail 2005 Voyageur GS for $339.99.   They supposedly can supply them locally at http://www.davecycle.com/ .   However, first I will try out my old Schwinn to see if I am physically capable of still riding a bike.   With winter coming soon, I would probably wait until my birthday next spring to get one.  However, depending on the price of gasoline and traffic in this area, I am not sure how much I would ride a bicycle, since one has to consider the safety considerations on the road with all of the cars that are currently around here all of the time.   However, with the price of fuel that might change as the price of fuel continues to go up.  I have a very strong pair of legs after all of the walking all of these years, but since I am a bit overweight, I am not sure how adept I will be on a bicycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  This Costco.com Racor Bike Hoist Stores Bikes Safely on the Ceiling $14.99 would not work in my apartment, but it might work for some bike riders.  I suppose the place to go for bike supplies is https://www.jensonusa.com/ .   Of course locally we have http://greenwichbikes.com/ , but they might be more expensive.  However, they do have some useful maintenance tips.  However as usual, the agony is in the details.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:  It seems the President of the United States of America is in New York City Bush Packs in Busy Day of Diplomacy - Yahoo! News .  I will keep a keen eye out in this area for any of the 160 presidents, prime ministers, and kings, and I suppose a few queens.  Alas, none of them have contacted me.  I did get a telemarketing call today soliciting funds for the Greenwich Police department.  I told them I could not help them out, but that I regularly volunteer for them.  If any of the smaller visitors need some nice used clothes, the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop just west of the downtown Greenwich, Connecticut post office opened their store after their summer break.  They have remodeled the store, and when I snuck a peak last week, it looked like they might have some interesting items, but alas I can not guarantee one any bargains.  Of course it will cost me money in terms of gasoline at about 35 cents a mile and $2 a day in insurance to drive the usual seven mile round trip to downtown Greenwich, Connecticut and drive by the waterfront and make a few local stops.  Thus at the higher prices, I do not do it everyday anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 7:55 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out the shipping box that the Enermax fan controller was returned in.  I picked up a copy of the SBC Fairfield County white pages.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 7:30 P.M.:  About 15 years ago, when I first bought a personal computer before the internet was available to the general public, one of the busier computer bulletin boards that one would call up over the telephone lines was Jimmy Bolster's astronomy BBS in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  I heard Jimmy ended up at an observatory in Argentina, but the local astronomy club continues to function Greenwich Time - Bowman Observatory reopens tonight .  I noticed a broken Mead telescope at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop yesterday.  My first internet web site was at a free site at Ohio State, and it was a web site that serviced the Scott Amundsen Research base Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (Bill Spindler's Antarctica)  in Antarctica.  My second free web site was the River City Cafe web site, and Ed Gauldet there posted the W3 web directory on astronomy.  It goes to show how much has changed on the internet in about ten years and personal computers over 15 years.    CIO 

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 6:50 P.M.:  FedEx tracking on the GIRO SEMI MX '05 at JensonUSA.com and giro and  in orange large size at market price of $34.95 plus $6.95 FedEx ground shipping for $41.90 total is FedEx Tracking Mike Scott Giro Semi MX '05 bicycle helmet from JensonUSA.com  .  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 6:45 P.M.:  Daimler: Smart Or Dumb? - Forbes.com  and smart:smart fortwo cabrio which would be about $17,000, which seems a bit expensive for such a small car.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 6:20 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I chatted with some neighbors, and I threw out some garbage.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 5:45 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative, and I looked up flight itineraries for the relative.  My relative mentioned this news story Delta seen close to bankruptcy; stock tumbles - Aviation - MSNBC.com , so my relative will probably be flying www.united.com for the flight from Boise, Idaho to Orlando, Florida which is actually a lot cheaper than Delta.  My relative does not think I need to go down to Florida in the middle of October, since my relative says she can help out my other relative whom is recovering from hip surgery.  The round trip flight for me on the Delta Commair flight from Kennedy Airport to Melbourne, Florida has gone up from $184 to a slightly over $250, and the flight now leaves at 7 A.M. going south.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 3:00 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  While I was at the dentist office yesterday, I picked up a copy of the June 27, 2005 U.S. News and World Report, which has the front page article "Treating and Beating Arthritis".   This is part of the article USNews.com: Doctors have identified nine key ways to beat the disabling pain of arthritis (6/27/05) and USNews.com: Health: In Brief: Arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis (6/29/05) , but the cover story article does not seem to be available on the internet.  I will now reboot briefly in Vista beta 1 to make sure my USB printers and USB devices are connected properly in Microsoft Vista beta 1.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 1:55 P.M.:  I have the Enermax Multifunction Panel UC-A8FATR4 fan speed controller and temperature monitor installed and working just fine in my primary computer.  The CPU fan is A1.  The lower front intake fan which would show room temperature is A2.  The lowest rear exhaust fan is B1.  The upper front fan in front of the hard drives is B2.  This time I used pipe cleaners to mount the temperature probes to the case fans, so they are securely mounted and properly positioned.  I took care not to touch the sensors on the temperature probes.  I have the temperature probes about one inch away from the areas they monitor.  I set the fan speeds to the maximum, since they are variable speed Antec fans.  I labeled A1 with a CPU sticker and B2 with a HDD sticker.  I will now clean up my work area in the bedroom.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 11:40 A.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I drank my coffee outside in my Starbucks traveler plastic cup.  While, I was outside, FedEx delivered a new Enermax Multifunction Panel UC-A8FATR4 that they sent in replacement for the malfunctioning one that I sent back last week.  I moved my car into its usual parking place.  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made the bed.  I will now install the new Enermax Multifunction Panel UC-A8FATR4 fan speed controller and temperature monitor in my primary computer in the uppermost 5.25 inch bay.     

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 2:10 A.M.:  I went outside briefly.   I noticed this story that might be of interest to the local Norwegian community BBC NEWS Europe Norwegian PM admits poll defeat .  I might be going down to John's Island, Indian River Shores, Vero Beach, Florida TCPalm: Press Journal this mid October to help out my relative that recently had hip replacement surgery.  Of course it depends on what happens with www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm and when my relative is well enough to return to Florida.  Tropical Storm OPHELIA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 3-Day Cone .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/13/05 Tuesday 1:25 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Once I get my bicycle on the road, I might want to travel with some personal items, so I ordered Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Swiss Army Ridge Backpack in Red for $34.95 and $2.95 UPS ground shipping for $37.94 total.   I looked at Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Swiss Pioneer Military Backpack , but I basically having used backpacks before thought it would be too large for a bicycle pack, and its shoulder straps were too narrow.  However, when I was in Europe in 1972, I traveled around with a similar backpack to the Swiss Pioneer Military Backpack.  It was a very good backpack, buts its narrow straps are hard on the shoulders.  However it is quite versatile.  I think the Swiss Army Ridge Backpack in Red will be a good bicycle backpack, since it is smaller, and it has wide shoulder straps.  It also has a water bottle.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/12/05 Monday 11:45 P.M.:  I did some research on bicycle helmets, and I finally ordered GIRO SEMI MX '05 at JensonUSA.com and giro and  in orange large size at market price of $34.95 plus $6.95 FedEx ground shipping for $41.90 total.  I ordered the particular brand since it had a high rating and a $15 discount at Market Price.  It also se  Of course, I am assuming my 19 year old $10 Schwinn Traveler bicycle will be good enough to take me for a ride once I try it out with the helmet.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/12/05 Monday 10:00 P.M.:  I went through my email.  There is not much happening here.  I guess with the shortage of fuel and the higher prices of fuel in the United States of America, the Corporate Jet Set crowd can not afford to travel as much into this area anymore.  However, this might be good for the computer business, since it will be more costly for people to travel, they might use the internet more for communications instead of business travel.  Of course how busy it remains up north depends on the weather during this coming winter and the availability of fuel to keep activity going along.  Thus we will all have to wait to see how matters develop in this neck of the woods.   NetJets: Jet Aircraft for Sale has a facility at our local Westchester County airport in case anyone wants to waste the money to come here to see how slow the area is recently.  I heard today that there are always accidents on the I-95 highway in our area with people always trying to talk on their cell phones, so that frequent occurrence keeps our local public safety department busy at all hours of the day.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/12/05 Monday 9:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I called up the Casa Marina - Resort and Beach House - Key West, Florida , and they told me that Key West, Florida is full of people from New Orleans.   They told me the best room in the historical old part of the old Hotel are still available for about $400 a night during the Sailboat Yacht Race during the third week of January, when they have the Fort Lauderdale to Key West to Tampa sailboat race, which is the busiest time of the resort season there.  Of course, there are so many resorts in the world anymore, there is really no reason to ever go back to Key West, unless it was one of many resorts that one happened to own.  I suppose since the original developer was a Saudi Arabian named Izi who spent too much time on a prayer rug at Louis' patio, whether he still had influence down there or not would depend on the whimsy of the new King of Saudi Arabia.  Thus depending on what the new King of Saudi Arabia did in terms of managing his resort portfolio along with the weather www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm might effect they way and whom might show up there.  I just ate four 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch pieces of Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss Cheese.  In the old days in Key West, Florida back in the winter of 1982 when it was cold up north such as 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Manhattan, I knew Steve Bahl in Key West, Florida, and he looked a lot like Adolf Hitler, but I guess he was Finnish, since he owned Wisconsin Cheese - FENNIMORE CHEESE - Wisconsin Cheese - the finest Wisconsin Cheese from southwestern Wisconsin - Cheese Products .  In another month when it cools off up north, he will be able to start shipping his cheese.  Steve lived just west of the Post Office on Simonton Street as I recall.  I think he might have lived above a mortuary, since I recall seeing a hearse on the lower level of his house.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/12/05 Monday 7:30 P.M.:  I was awake at 7 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I mailed my Greenwich Country Day alumni survey at the Valley Road Post Office.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I gave them the old Krups and old Braun espresso cappucinno machines.   They have lots of sale items there.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with two of the regular fishermen.  I then went back by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought for a dollar a Thinner electronic bathroom scale.  It said I weight 199 pounds with my sneakers on.  I then returned home, and I put the Thinner electronic bathroom scale in my bathroom next to the recycle paper plastic container.  I then got out four of my old telephones, and I removed the stored telephone numbers from their memory by removing the batteries temporarily.  I threw out one that did not work, and I put the other three in a plastic bag, and I put them in the back of my Volvo.  I also put in four old flat keyboards and four old serial mice.  I gave an old 5 foot by 8 foot handmade rug to a neighbor.  I also put in the back of the Volvo station wagon the blue and yellow surf casting rod.  I also put a long telephone receiver cable on the telephone by my bed from one of the other telephones.  I then went to my dental appointment at the Greenwich Hospital dental clinic.  I need to have one cavity filled in between two teeth.  I have to make an appointment for that later on in the week.  I also need to have a crown on my lower right rear molar, but they do not know if Connecticut Medicaid will pay for it, and they suggested the Stamford Dental clinic.  I was told by some people that the state of Connecticut does not pay for crowns.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I gave them the items that I put in the back of my Volvo station wagon.  I then sat out for a while downtown, and I chatted with another local walker.  I then walked over to my 4 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home after picking up my car downtown.  I chatted with a relative whom is recovering from hip surgery, and the relative walked a bit down my relative's local street yesterday, so the relative is doing better the second time around with hip surgery.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonaise,  and I put on three 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, four slices of white American cheese, five 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, six spinach leaves, and pepper and salt and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I finished off the jar of Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise, and I washed it out, and I threw it in the recycle container outside.  I put a new jar of Hellmann's regular mayonnaise in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 9:10 P.M.:  Well, I am tired, and there is not much going on in this neck of the woods.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 8:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  If one has money, and one wants to live a comfortable life in the Midwest, there is a $25 million dollar house for sale in Lake Bluff, Illinois Most Expensive Homes In America: Midwest - Forbes.com and Most Expensive Homes In The Midwest 2004 - Forbes.com .  Of course as they say in Chicago, Illinois, there is no spring or fall, just ten months of winter and two months of summer, so if one had a big house in the Midwest, one would also have very high heating bills, while one enjoyed the view of Lake Michigan frozen over in the winter.  Even such famous people as John D. Rockefeller III whom has multiple homes, for legal reasons, he has to have one legal address, which is probably for tax purposes, and is maybe just a mail box, but it is the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois next to the John Hancock tower.  It is a very cold and windy location on Lake Michigan.   The apartment that I rented after graduation from college at www.lfc.edu in 1972 was at 31 East Elm Street a few blocks north of the Drake Hotel and half block west of the Drake and Lake Michigan, but at the time since I was as now a staunch Republican and since Chicago was and is still is a Democrat town, I returned back east.   While living at that address, I had the checking account from "The Farm" in Knollwood, Illinois drawn off the Midwest Bank in Lake Forest, Illinois changed from to "The Farm" with the address at 31 East Elm Street in Chicago, Illinois.  I left that checking account book with Tim McMurray now diseased who was my roommate there, since he seemed to know enough people in Chicago to keep the apartment going.  One neighbor in the neighborhood walking his miniature white poodle every night was Brooks McCormick whose family owned International Harvester now Navistar.  More than likely there were other important people in that neighborhood as well, but since the Midwest is such a vast area, they do not all have to live on top of each other, the way they do back east.   CIO   

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 8:05 P.M.:  I might have made the second trip to Fisher's Island with John Bolton during the spring of 1978, when we were hitchhiking back up north from Key West, Florida and going out to Nantucket.   I do recall making the second trip with someone else, so possibly it was then.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 8:00 P.M.:  I might have done the second trip to Fisher's Island back in September or August 1976, before I went up to Nantucket that year.  I can not really recall.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 7:55 P.M.:  I recall, I might have visited Fisher's Island a second time.  Back in the summer of 1975 around July, I got a post card from a friend in Nantucket, so I decided to hitchhike up to Nantucket, but I did not make very fast progress, so I ended up getting stuck in New London, Connecticut, and I knew where the Ferry was to Fisher's Island, so I stayed up all night at the Ferry, and I then took it out to Fisher's Island in the morning, and I walked around the island which took the better part of the day, and I was starving all day, since I did not have any money for food, but I recall, I had brought with my some homemade Rye bread that I also use to eat elsewhere during that journey.  I took the Ferry back from Fisher's Island to New London, and somebody from Greenwich who was in the Coast Guard gave me a ride to their trailer on Cape Cod, and from there I hitchhiked to Woods Hole, and I met some people in a church group that let me stay in the Episcopal retreat house in Bourne given by the Poor family of Standard and Poors which was a retreat for the Cambridge Episcopal church.  I spent the Fourth of July weekend there, and they had lots of government surplus food there.  I then eventually made it back to Woods Hole, and I sat out all night at the Ferry terminal when there was a major storm, and that morning, I caught the Ferry to Martha's Vineyard.  I walked around the island, and I stayed at the Martha's Vineyard youth hostile for free.  I then caught a ferry to Nantucket, and I spent about a month there camping out on Fairgrounds Road at a hippie camp site that Tony Farrell told me about whom lived by Surfside Beach.  He said it was a lot of his cousins.  Tony Farrell had a dairy farm up by Dartmouth college.  I stayed in touch with other people whom I knew working on the island, but since I was not always dressed up to island standards, and since I would frequently go barefoot, a number of my friends would ignore me.  However, at that time, I had given up smoking cigarettes, and I had spent April through June swimming and camping out at the lake at Conyers Farm, so I was a pretty good swimmer.  When Fred Von Mierers showed up with the August rush of New Yorkers, he insisted that I stay at the Demendle house that he had rented for $8,000 a week off Main Street, but after he lost his temper and went ballistic, I left the house, and I left the island.  He did take me to dinner at the Opera House that evening, and from what I could tell, Jimmy might have made off with what Fred thought that I had taken.   Also while Jimmy was working at India House, a lot of wine disappeared from their basement.   CIO 

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 7:20 P.M.:  Henry Luce III, 80, Publisher of Time and Philanthropist, Dies - New York Times  .  Lila Luce was in my class at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu .   I recall when she lived in Manhattan, she changed her name to Lila Ting, so people would not bother her.   Fred Von Mierers www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm , once told me he went to a party at her hippie pad on the west side of Manhattan, and like all hippie apartments in that day, he said it had those inexpensive tie dye India sheets of cloth on the walls which were used in hippie decoration.   Also at Lake Forest College on the Farm http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-the-farm-illinois-1970.jpg Berry Cerf who was Bennett Cerf's son was one of my roommates, and he was an environmentalist working for the EPA climbing smoke stacks to monitor pollution emissions in Chicago, Illinois.  When I was job hunting in Manhattan in the early 1970s, I ran into him in the lobby of the Time Life building, and he was working in their mail room.   Berry dated a girl from Vero Beach, Florida where my family now lives in the winter, but at the moment, I can not recall her name.  Berry's mother was Phyllis Wagner who was married to Robert Wagner whom was a democratic mayor of Manhattan.  Also Bob Sweet who was a classmate of mine at the Taft School was the son of John Lindsay's deputy mayor of the same name.  Of course living way out here in Greenwich, Connecticut all of these years, I have probably seen one or two people from New York City over the years, but with all of the crowds over the years, it all becomes a blur.  I have only visited Fisher's Island once, and I recall going out there in October 1973 with a couple of the Donahue sisters from Greenwich along with Toby Ginch who worked for Fawcett publications, and I think we visited their cousins the McCartys who had a house on a bay or cove on Fisher's Island next door to the point where the Luce family castle was.  We spent a simplistic weekend on the island, and I recall we had a big debate after cocktails one afternoon as to whether we should storm the Castle or not.  Alas, the Farm is no longer there, anymore, and according to satellite photographs on the internet, it is now a housing development.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 6:40 P.M.:  Earlier, I put the old Braun and the old Krups espresso cappuccino machines in the back of my Volvo station wagon to give to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I am not sure if they will want them or not, since they are a bit coffee stained, but I will see if they want them.  I looked at some of the computer sales links, but there is not anything that I need that I can afford.   This is still a very good bargain Great Deal on HP small profile computer Compact Computer, Compact Price @ Geeks.com for $226 refurbished plus $9 shipping ! .  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 09/11/05:

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 5:30 P.M.:   I went through my email.  I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 5:05 P.M.:  According to www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm and Hurricane OPHELIA three day track is now heading towards the outer banks in North Carolina, but I guess it could still change course.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 5:00 P.M.:  I toasted two slices of Arnold Multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise on both slices.  I put on three 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, two slices of Jarlsberg Lite Cheese and two slices of white American cheese, four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four spinach leaves, and pepper and salt and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend.  I filled out the Greenwich Country Day paper work.   I opened up the oldest 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Hazelnut coffee, and I filled the Braun coffee grinder marked regular with it, and I put the remaining amount in two mason jars to have available for use.  The three new bags of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee are suppose to be good until June 2006 as the last date of sale on their bags.  Thus they should be good enough through out this winter.  I will now go through my email.  I frequently have not been going downtown every day recently, since I have a more relaxing day staying at home, instead of dealing with all of the busy activity in our small commercial area in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut.  There are a great many established people in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the relatively small commercial area is only a small part of the overall business activity within the town.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 3:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Apparently the Dali Lama is going to be on CNN sometime today ministering to his flock in Sun Valley, Idaho.  I was told it is at 4 P.M. today, but I am not sure whether it is Sun Valley  time or New York time.  If it is Sun Valley time, it would be 6 P.M. Eastern Daylight time.  I took the computer parts packaging and boxes to the left of the bedroom desk, and I threw them out.  I saved some instructions and unneeded cable adapters for the new power supply in a plastic bag along with my old General Electric answering machine, which I put underneath the left side of the bedroom side board.  I sorted through the big Compaq cardboard box in the bedroom to the right of the desk.  I sorted out the cables into five plastic bag, one with power cables, one with serial cables, one with video cables, and two with LAN cables, and I put the five bags with cables and another plastic bag with smaller parts in the false ceiling above the bed.  I threw out the Compaq cardboard box with a few unneeded items.  I moved the Schwinn Traveler bicycle to along side the down sofa in between the down sofa and the brass and glass coffee table in the living room, so there is easier access into the bedroom.  I normally do not sit on the down sofa, but it is just for guests, which I infrequently have.  One can move it from that location to another location easy enough in case guests arrive.   I can still get by it to the living room mahogany bureau to get out my underwear which I keep in it.   Thus the bedroom computer desk area is neater looking, and it is easy enough to access.  I noticed last March 2005, I received my Greenwich Country Day 40th reunion package for this fall.  I will fill it out, but I will not be going since I see Greenwich Country Day people all the time, since I live in Greenwich, and I am pretty easy to see me most of the time in anyway.  The dog walker told me yesterday that one could buy a horse farm in Rhinebeck, New York for about $500,000.  An equestrian friend of mine is looking to buy a horse farm for that price in the country, so he can get off of crowded Long Island.  I was told by another relative that the Omega Institute has a retreat there Omega: Retreat Centers , so I guess it is a nice time in the country at that location this time of the year.  When I use to live in Manhattan until 1982, and I knew somebody that worked for the Cyrus Vance after he left the State Department and whom was active in New York democratic politics, they use to go to a nudist camp in Woodstock, New York, but I never felt like being that liberal.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 1:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I paid my www.geico.com automobile insurance policy for the first of four premium payments for the next six month policy that begins in October 8, 2005.  I guess since I am driving less GEICO has lowered my automobile policy from about $850 a year to about $600 a year.  Thus the payment was $75.  The last time I chatted with them, I told them I was driving about 5,000 miles a year, but at the current rate of about 50 miles a week and one round trip to Kennebunkport, Maine, it works out to a little over 3,000 miles a year.  The way I figure it, if I pay my bills ahead of time, I will not spend the money on items that I do not really need.  I will now put the GEICO policy card in m Volvo station wagon glove box.  On West Putnam Avenue across the street from Western Junior High, we have a big bill board that needs painting that says "GEICO 1-800-42GEICO".  CIO

Note: <888> 09/11/05 Sunday 11:45 A.M.:  I ate a 5 ounce bag of Arnold seasoned croutons before going to bed after the last message.  I woke up yesterday at 1 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I chatted with a relative.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  The neighbor that I had leant the 4 packs of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes to gave me $5 for them.  I then went downtown, and I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $12.50 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.579 a gallon for 51.5 miles driving this week at 15.1 miles per gallon averaging driving 14 miles per hour.  I then went by the Greenwich Library.  I gave one regular patron the folding brown Ford Explorer chair from the back of my Volvo, since the patron had a brown Ford Explorer.  I read P.C. World and P.C. magazines.  I chatted with some other people.  The Greenwich Library does not seem to have changed much.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out for a while.  I then walked up Greenwich Avenue with another regular walker, and we stopped by CVS.  We then walked east on East Putnam Avenue and back down Mason Street to the center of town.  We sat out for a while downtown.  We chatted with a local dog walker whom had an interesting breed of dog half full size standard poodle and half golden retriever.  It looked more like a poodle, but it had hair the color of a golden retriever.  The dog walker told us that next weekend they were having the "Puttin on the Dog" event at Roger Sherman Baldwin park.  We talked about dogs.  I then walked the other walker back to his apartment building, and I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and they have the large bags of 8 O'clock coffee on sale for half price.  I bought three 36 ounce bags of 8 O'clock Hazelnut coffee for $5.49 each, a two pound bag of yellow onions for $2.49, and Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $2.10 for $21.06 total.   I noticed the Columbian coffee only comes ground in the large bags not in beans.  I was told that because of the hurricane in New Orleans, coffee would be going up in price because the warehouses are there.    I then returned home, and I picked up my mail,  and I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm  .  I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish, and I used Kraft baby Swiss cheese along with all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I then went to bed.  I woke up at 5 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I then went back to bed until about 10:15 A.M..  I watched some of the "911" ceremonies on television.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/10/05 Saturday 4:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.   I will munch on some Arnold seasoned croutons with ice tea before going to bed.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/10/05 Saturday 4:00 A.M.: With this IBM launches super-fast printer in business push - Sep. 9, 2005 you could print out all 4,259 pages of my notes in less than 15 minutes.  Of course, it would take a bit longer to read them.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/10/05 Saturday 3:55 A.M.:  I have had a horse fly for a house guest for the last few days that does not want to leave my apartment, and I am not quick enough anymore to swat a horse fly.  A common house fly only lives a few days, but I am not sure how long a horse fly lives.  I guess there must be stables near by or someone that hangs out around horses that brought the horse fly in with them.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/10/05 Saturday 3:30 A.M.:   I printed out my notes for the last four months, and they are 293 pages long.  I put them in two Staples clamp binders, which I laid on the near end of the back of the down sofa at the apartment entrance.  I had a problem printing them out, since the form I pasted in with my notes of the National Weather Service hurricane report about Key West, Florida in July 2005 would not print out properly, so I deleted it from the printed text of my notes.  Thinking the problem might be caused by my internet connection, I turned off my router.  However, once I figured out the problem was with the form, when I went to print, the HP LaserJet IID postscript printer still  would not print.  After fiddling with it for a while, I changed cables on it connecting it from the printer to my printer port box.  Then it still would not work.  I did a System Restore to a day ago, and it would not print.  I tried reinstalling the printer driver, and it still would not print.  I then remembered that it is on my Siemens router port which does not work if the router is turned off.  I turned the router on, and the HP LaserJet II printer printed out the remaining notes just fine.  I generated a bit of scrap paper in the process.  I posted the downloadable file of my notes at Scott's Notes from June 1997 through August 2005, 4.93 Mbytes http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/mlsnote1.zip contains "mlsnote1.doc" pages 1 - 1582 January 1997 to December 2001 and "mlsnote2.doc" January 2002 through December 2003 pages 1583 - 2855" and "mlsnote3.doc" January 2004 through December 2004 pages 2856 - 3605" and "mlsnote4.doc" January 2005 though April 2005 pages 3711 -4259" , and the document in Times Roman 12 font regular is 4259 pages long.  It is 4334 pages long in the HP LaserJet IID Postscript Times Roman 12 postscript font that I do with my printouts, since the HP LaserJet IID postscript printer is a heavy duty printer, and it does print fast in postscript mode.  It also has a new generic toner cartridge, and I have a spare HP toner cartridge too.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/09/05 Friday 11:10 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a friend at 8 P.M. that woke me up.  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and couple ounces of America's Choice 1/3 less fat Philadelphia Style cream cheese.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  If one looks at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  It looks like according to tracking on Hurricane Ophelia that South Carolina might get some rain Hurricane OPHELIA 3 Day Cone and  Hurricane OPHELIA 5 Day Cone .   I will now print out my last four months of notes, which should take a couple of hours.   CIO  

Note: <888> 09/09/05 Friday 1:35 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/09/05 Friday 1:10 P.M.:  I am microwaving a 16 ounce Pepperidge Farm roasted chicken pot pie which was made in Canada, so they probably have some extra food up in Canada in the winter that is frozen.  I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/09/05 Friday 12:40 P.M.:  I went outside, and I picked up my mail downstairs.  I then sorted through the periodical literature, and I threw out some of the old periodical literature.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/09/05 Friday 12:05 P.M.:  I looked on the web for bargains, but there are none that I need.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/09/05 Friday 11:10 A.M.:  I was up at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I also cleaned some items like my Water Pik, my comb and brush, and I filled the shower liquid holder with shampoo and conditioner.  I mixed the European Mystique shampoo with the Suave shampoo.  I also took most of the regular and decaffeinated coffee beans out of my two Braun coffee grinders, and I mixed them into a 50% to 50% mixture, which I have in a mason jar and in the Krups coffee grinder.  I left a minimal amount in each Braun coffee grinder, in case someone does not want the mixture.  I threw out the garbage, and I also threw out three shipping boxes.  I am now making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 11:00 P.M.:  I will shut down the computer.  I will go to bed soon.  I will do house cleaning when I wake up tomorrow.  I have to remember not to bump into the bike when I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, but the only place to put the bike is in the bedroom entrance way which makes it more narrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 10:00 P.M.:  According to this How old is my Schwinn Traveler? , my number is "2046", so my Schwinn Traveler bicycle was made on the 204th day of 1986 or July 23, 1986, so it is just about 19 years old.  It has True Temper 4130 Chromolly tubing, and it was sold by the Schwinn bicycle shop in Bloomington, Indiana, where the University of Indiana is located.  I once visited Bloomington, Indiana on a trip across country, and it was documented in the movie, "Breaking Away" about Italian bicycling.  I use to know John Barrett in Manhattan whom lived on Minneta Place in a Carriage House, where both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner lived at other times.  Last I heard John was the manager of Tavern on the Green in Manhattan.  He introduced me to Thomas Watson's daughter Olive Watson, and we use to hang out in Greenwich Village in the old days during the oil embargo in the early 1970s.  Back then John worked at the Spring Street restaurant on Spring Street in SoHo.  In those days, when we had money, we would occasionally eat stuffed Dover sole at the Spring Street restaurant.  John knew a lot about the theatre, since he was raised by George Bernard Shaw's mistress out in Indiana.  He had three older brothers, and his family owned the limestone quarry in Bloomington, Indiana where the limestone for the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., and St. John the Devine Cathedral in Manhattan came from.  It also was used in quite a few other public buildings.  The masons working on St. John the Devine Cathedral for close to a 100 years are not suppose to work on it during times of war, so I guess they are not getting any work done.  John's roommate Michael Bright and he also use to work at Daly's Dandelion on First Avenue next to the Ford Modeling agency, and I use to have drinks with them there, and Shawn Hemingway was one of their regular customers.  I recall John Lindsay's going away party at the end of his term was also there.  Michael Bright was from Stonington, Connecticut, and he had an uncle whom was head of neurology at Sloan Kettering, and once when Shaun Hemingway fell off of a bar stool, we took him there, and they all knew Michael Bright's uncle.  Of course the Chinese in the bar across the street were always keeping a close eye on us.  They also use to do some free lance work for CBS.  I do not recall John ever riding a bicycle in Manhattan or seeing one at his apartment.  He was not very happy when they started building McDonalds restaurants in Manhattan as I recall, particularly when they put on in his back yard in Greenwich Village.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 9:30 P.M.:  I chatted with one relative twice and another relative once.  I opened a 15 ounce can of Dinty Moore beef stew, and I put it in plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle, and I then put it in a bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 7:35 P.M.:  Today my order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com  of six cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box came today via Priority mail from the United States Post Office.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 7:00 P.M.:  I was up at 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I cashed my $15 Viking memory rebate.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  They have a bag sale going on, and most of the other merchandise including linens are half price.  I bought a 4 foot wide by 90 inch long pink and green and beige floral pattern curtain for $7.50, two pink and blue and dark green stripe 20 inch by 20 inch pillows for $2.50 each and a black 10 speed Schwinn Schwinn Traveler racing bicycle for men for $10 for $22.50 total.  I had to put my rear seat down to get the bicycle in the back of the Volvo station wagon.  I then went by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought two package of 14 three inch Newell Pin-on Curtain hooks for $2.29 a package plus .27 tax for $4.85 total.  I then went further downtown, and I sat out for a while downtown.  I went by the Merry Go Round Mews Thrift Shop, and they will be opening next Tuesday September 13, 2005.  They were having to resort their entire store, since they had new dark blue carpet put in the store.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by Val's Liquor store at the Stop and Shop plaza, and I bought a 10 ounce bottle of Angostura bitters for $8.75 and .50 tax for $9.25 total.  The new Stop and Shop store is still not opened yet.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I two mixed bags of six bagels each for $1.85 and two 5.5 ounce bags of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons for .99 for $5.68 total.  I then returned home, and I carried up my purchases, but I left the bicycle in the Volvo.  I put the two pink and blue and dark green pillows on my bed.  I took the chain and Master padlock off the center hallway bookcase cabinet where I keep my bar supplies.  I put one of the two keys on my primary key chain, and I put the other key with a yellow tag with the lock and chain and I also brought down to the car a can of WD-40 and my Slaymaker jump start system with electric tire pump.  I pumped up the tires on the bicycle to 100 PSI, one of the wheels needs a valve cap.  The tires seem to hold air without any problems.  I used the WD-40 to spray the chain and the gears.  I rode the bicycle around the parking lot, and I went through the gears, and it seems to work just fine.  However, since it is a racing bicycle one has to lean forward.  I used some spray windows cleaner and paper towels that I keep in the car, and I cleaned off the bicycle.  I probably should do a better cleaning job sometime in the future.  I noticed the front wheel is missing one of its spokes which is easy enough to replace, if one knows what they are doing.  There is a bicycle shop behind the Greenwich Hardware store, but maintenance parts might be cheaper on the internet if available.  I brought the bicycle up to my apartment along with the Slaymaker jump start system, and I parked it in my bedroom door entrance, which is the least obtrusive place to put it.  I also put the rear seat back up in the Volvo.  I left the WD40 in the back of the Volvo.  I suppose if I ride the bicycle, I might need a helmet.  I also fixed the chain with the Master lock and key around the seat post.  They bicycle has a San Marco racing seat.  I toasted two slices of Arnold Multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise on both slices.  I put on four 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite Cheese, four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four spinach leaves, and pepper and salt and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I then went back downtown, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and then I went downtown, and I sat out at a few places.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home.  I took the items out of the bedroom window.  I put one package of 14 hooks on the curtain top inside at the pleets, and I use the other package of 14 hooks to hem the curtain, so it is 6 inches shorter at 84 inches.  I then hung the curtain over the two other pairs of curtains on the bedroom window.  It looks quite nice, and it matches my new pink and green quilt on my bed.  The one curtain underneath is a green, yellow, and white linen curtain, and underneath that facing the outside window is a heavy rough wool Nantucket Looms curtain.  I then put the items I have stored on the window shelf back in place.  Here are some pictures. 

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http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-bedroom-pink-and-green-and-blue-and-white-bed-decor-090805.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-bedroom-pink-and-green-and-beige-floral-pattern-curtain-090805.JPG

CIO   

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 2:25 A.M.:  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and cream cheese with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 1:00 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  I noticed the other night, when I was out for a walk that the Thataway Cafe at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue now has wireless internet, and they will give the password to their customers.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/08/05 Thursday 12:30 A.M.:  A Solution In Alaska - Forbes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  This is still a good deal if one needed a wireless keyboard and mouse Amazon.com: Electronics: Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 700 .  Of course one would still need a monitor, and www.newegg.com always has monitors on sale, but one has to make sure it would work with one's computer, but one might be able to get one cheaper at Costco www.costco.com locally.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 11:30 P.M.:  I chatted with three relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 10:55 P.M.:  When I bought the used computer at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop yesterday, I told the Bank of New York Security guard about it, and he told me he needed a computer.  I told him unless one knows what they are doing with older computers, it is less hassle and cheaper in the long one to buy a new computer, and one can get them for as low as $200.  I don't think he believed me, but if one looks at this link Great Deal on HP small profile computer Compact Computer, Compact Price @ Geeks.com for $226 refurbished ! , I think you would believe I am right.  That is pretty good deal considering that Windows XP Professional retails for $300 let along getting it with a computer.  I could not build that unit with those parts at wholesale prices for twice the price.  How do they do it?  CIO

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.:  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I will now go through my email.  My www.cl-p.com electricity bill this past August 2005 was $154 or about $20 less than July 2005.  Of course, I paid my monthly average budget amount of $111 at the first of the month.  I guess staying cool by the air conditioner is costly, but starting about now for the next two months, I will not be using air conditioning or heat.  I usually turn on the heat in mid November, when it starts to get a bit damp in the apartment.  Around here, summer are enjoyable, but by the time, it arrives, it is gone, and one generally is more accustomed to colder weather.   Although the Dell Dimension 4100 that I got from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop dumpster did not work, its Pentium III processor might still be good, so I have a spare Pentium III processor which is the same as the one in the Dell Dimension L1000R computer.   I have not set up the Dell Dimension V350 computer, which I put the 4 gigabyte hard drive in from the Dell Dimension L1000R computer, but possibly the old operating system on it might work plug and play.  I have not checked it out.  I should sort out the box of LAN cables and other cables by my bed in the bedroom, so I can make room at that location, but I might need some of the cables in the future.  I guess I could give away some of the LAN cables, but I am not sure if the local Hospital Thrift shop would want to be bothered with them.  The big box that contains them is sort of unsightly in the bedroom.  My relative is recovering from hip surgery just fine.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 1:35 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel 2% low fat milk Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I ate the salad with all of the usual ingredients.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 12:05 P.M.:  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  I got a $15 rebate on the Viking memory that I ordered a few months ago.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 10:55 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I took three pictures of the current backup computers. 

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/northgate-syntax-computer-with-two-dell-19-inch-monitors-090705.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/dell-dimension-l1000r-and-gateway-2000-backup-computers-in-bedroom-090705.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/amd-pcchips-dell-dimension-v350-and-non-working-dell-dimension-4100-backup-computers-at-bedroom-entrance-090705.JPG . CIO: 

Note: <888> 09/07/05 Wednesday 10:05 A.M.:  I was awake a 4 A.M. when I got two fax calls, which do not work on my telephone line, since I do not use a fax machine.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched some news.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I took one of my two oak dining room table expansion leaves from the bedroom closet, and I put it on top of the Northgate backup computer keyboard drawer.  I opened up the Northgate backup computer, and I put in the SIS 300 16 meg. PCI video card from the Dell Dimension 4100 computer.  I installed and updated the software for it.  I then took the second 19 inch Dell M990 monitor from the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom, and I put it on the right side of the other 19 inch Dell M990 monitor with them both centered on the oak dining room table leave on the living room desk.  I moved the power control panel to the far right side of the oak leave with the Northgate Syntax CPU on top of it.  I had to mount the Belkin surge protector on the second lower right desk drawer, so the power control panel power cord would reach it.  I put the Kensington wireless mouse and keyboard base unit in between the two monitors.  I have the cable modem on the left side of the left monitor with the telephone junction on the desk beneath it, and I left the Linksys 8 Port Switch which I don't use on the right side of the desk beneath the oak leaf.  I moved the Panasonic 2.4 GHz cordless telephone from the right top desk drawer on to the right front of the desk, so there is room to put a right hand mouse pad on the book on the top right desk drawer for right hand use.  I started up the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I set it up, so the left primary Dell monitor connected to the 32 meg. onboard AGP is the primary icon monitor, and the right monitor connected to the 16 meg. SIS PCI 300 video card, is available for a web browser.   Thus it is now a two monitor system.  I put the Dell 17 inch Ultima Sony Trinitron monitor that came with the Dell Dimension L1000R computer with it on the bedroom desk.  Thus I have two computers each with two monitors for four monitors total in my primary living room corner computer work area.  I will post some photographs in a little while.  CIO      

Note: <888> 09/06/05 Tuesday 9:10 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I was told by Dutch intelligence that apparently the Duke of Windsor met Wallace Simpson through Gloria Vanderbilt's mother, so more than likely the Duke of Windsor spent more time in Greenwich, Connecticut than just dedicating a statue at the Electrolux Factory in Old Greenwich in 1926, since occasionally the Vanderbilts have also lived here amongst their many homes.  It is all getting quite confusing.  Maybe Wallace Simpson was related to the Vanderbilts.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/06/05 Tuesday 6:50 P.M.:  I am still tweaking the Dell Dimension L1000R computer.  I toasted two slices of Arnold Multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's Just-2-Good mayonnaise on both slices.  I put on four 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, four slices of Jarlsberg Lite Cheese, four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, baby spinach leaves, and pepper and salt and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  The power just blinked for a split second.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/06/05 Tuesday 4:20 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I sat out briefly downtown.  I drove by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought for $12.50 a Dell Dimension L1000R Computer Power User Article - Dell Dimension L1000r computer with a Dell Ultimum 17 inch Sony Trinitron monitor and Dell keyboard and Microsoft Mouse.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a regular library user.  I then returned home.  I used the cart I keep in the back of my Volvo to bring up the new Dell computer and monitor, and I returned the cart back to my Volvo.  I put the blanket on the quilt in the bedroom, and I opened up the Dell Dimension L1000R.  It had one 128 meg PC100 SDRAM chip, and a 4 gigabyte hard drive and a CD/RW drive.  I disconnected and opened up my old Dell 350V backup computer, and I transferred a PC100 128 meg. SDRAM from it to the new Dell.  I also exchanged its 15 gigabyte hard drive with it the 4 gigabyte hard drive.  I took out from the new Dell, the 3COM LAN card, and I put in a SOHO LAN card.  The new Dell has a telephone modem also.  Its onboard Intel Video is only 4 megs.  I also used the exhaust end of my Electrolux vacuum to blow out the dust from it.  I put in a new #2032 CMOS battery in it.  I then connected it up.  I had to reinstall the operating system with the repair feature, but it works, and I have my old Dell's computer configuration working on it.  It a very nice computer.  I set the Dell 17 inch monitor on the floor at the entrance to my bedroom.  I have the new Dell connected up to a Dell 19 inch monitor.  I am in the process of tweaking it.  It is 1 gigabyte speed Pentium III or three times faster than the old Dell. It has 256 megs of memory in it total.  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  I put the old Dell on top of the other Dell by the bedroom door.  Since the memory from the old Dell works in the new Dell, there is probably something wrong with the Dell Dimension 4100 which new memory would not fix.  I tried using its PCI video card in the new Dell, but it would not work.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/06/05 Tuesday 7:25 A.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and cream cheese.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up and go out.  I think after being busy with the computer this spring and summer, I will try to resume my normal routine using the Greenwich Library for some other reading.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/06/05 Tuesday 5:45 A.M.:  I did not go out after the last message, but I slept until 9 A.M..  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  On the way down Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a #28 scratch card for a dollar.  On the way up Greenwich Avenue, I stopped and scratched it in front of the senior and arts center, but I did not win.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought two 7 ounce bags of black licorice for $1.19 each and a two 16 ounce bottle pack of European Mystique shampoo and conditioner for $1.29 both bottles plus .22 tax for $3.89 total.  I then completed my walk, and I sat out for some more.  I then went by Zen stationary, and I bought a another #29 scratch card for a dollar, and I scratched it up by the senior and the arts center, and I won $2.  I then returned to Zen stationary, and I got my $2, so it was a net profit of 0 on the scratch cards for the day.  I then used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I chatted with a couple of regular walkers.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home. I chatted with a relative and a couple of friends.  I reminded my friends according to the news reports, the United States lost one third of its domestic supply of oil production in the hurricane, so there might be shortages of energy up north to stay warm this winter, and the prices will most certainly be higher.   I went to bed about 5 P.M..  I was called by a relative, and I was told to watch George and Barbara Bush on Larry King Live, and I watched part of it, and they have this web site Welcome to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Official Web Site .  I then slept until 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then went back to bed until 5 A.M. this morning.   I have been thinking recently, if Queen Victoria was not only Queen of England, but also Empress of India,  would that mean that win the Duke of Windsor abdicated his job of King of England, when Winston Churchill forced him to abdicate that he would have still been Emperor of India.  Thus technically since I saw the Duke of Windsor alive after he was supposedly dead, when I saw him at the Waldorf Towers in January 1973, possibly he might still be still alive living as the Emperor of India, and I suppose with over a billion people helping him out, he might still be alive at over age 110.  If he were not alive,  would that mean any of his descendants would be the Emperor of India.  Well, it is just food for thought.  Of course India besides having Emperors and Empresses also used to have Maharajas, and I am not sure which is more important.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/05/05 Monday 5:05 A.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  I then made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up.  I then will go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/05/05 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  There is a bargain on meat in this area CVS - Weekly Store Ads Online Danish Plumrose Ham or Hormel Spam , but I do not need any since, I still have four of the Danish Plumrose hams left.  The Danish Plumrose ham is good for ham and cheese omelets or ham and cheese sandwiches or chef's salads.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/05/05 Monday 2:20 A.M.:  I rested for a while.  There is a lot of television programming on the local Cablevision www.cablevision.com Optimum Digital Television network about the Louisiana area, particularly on the Discovery Channel.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 10:30 P.M..  I chatted with two more relatives.  This is the web site of the Hotel LaSalle in New Orleans, Louisiana on Canal Street in the French Quarter http://www.hotellasalle.com/ that a friend of a relative's just opened on the Friday before the hurricane.  I have dealt with Dr. Lee here in Greenwich, Connecticut, and it was his relative Robert E. Lee whom use to build levees on the Mississippi River before the Civil War.  The network news in this area said according to a computer study at Louisiana State University, there could be 10,000 dead people in New Orleans, and that does not include the surrounding areas.  Of course with all of the flooding in the region and open sewage running in the flood waters, they could have Typhoid and Cholera problems down there, some time in the near future.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 10:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 10:15 A.M.:  On a more encouraging recent event http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 9:35 A.M.:  I ate 12 Ritz crackers with twelve 1.25 inch by .5 inch by .20 inch slices of Kraft 2% low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 8:20 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 09/04/05:

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 7:20 A.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I chatted with a relative in Texas last night, and a good friend of my relative's put every last dollar he had into a hotel on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana which opened the Friday night before the hurricane, so I guess he suffered a loss of guests with the hurricane.  Most of the old timers whom know the Atlantic and Gulf coasts do not put all of their eggs in one basket, in case something like a hurricane happens.  With the higher prices of energy, another relative is thinking about not heating the house in Maine this winter.  My relative recovering from hip surgery is doing well.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 6:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I chatted during the morning hours with another morning stroller.  I then walked the morning stroller back to his house along with his dog.  I then returned back to central Greenwich, and I drove down by the waterfront.  There were a few star gazers down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I took my empty Glade Plug-in refill, and I pried off its lid with a screw driver, and I used a small perfume funnel, and I pour in a 60% English Leather cologne and 40% 80% isopropyl alcohol mixture into up to half inch from the top of the inside of the Glade plug-in refill.  I then put its wick with cap back on the Glade plug-in refill, and I reinserted it back in the Glade air scent device with small fan.  Thus the apartment kitchen and living room area have a faint scent of English Leather Cologne.  I guess I should do some regular computer activity.  I have not been through my email in the last couple of days.  I guess I am on a night schedule.  It was a very quiet morning out this morning with just a few dark navy blue Ford Crown Victoria's cruising around.  I sort of like the old Fords they use here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but the only time I can ever recall being in one was when I first returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1982, and I had returned in the Connecticut limousine shuttle from LaGuardia airport, where I was stranded, and my father suggested I return back to Greenwich, and one of the local officers gave me a ride from the old Showboat Motel to the Greenwich Hospital to get my feet checked out.  My ankles had swollen up to twice their normal size from walking around Manhattan for two weeks, where I could not remember if I knew anyone there.  I only had Governor Harriman's sister's nephew's telephone at their Sands Point, New York country home, and I figured I probably should not show up homeless at their house, so I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut, and once I was settled in after three years, I called them up.  I had been given George Cary's telephone number by his father when I got off the Amtrak train in Buffalo, New York near East Aurora, New York, and I chatted with George Cary's father.  Since they supposedly knew all of these important New York families, I figured I might have a place to stay, but I only ended up walking through a medical needle convention at the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue, and going to some of my old watering holes where I did not recognize anyone, and after they closed, I would end up taking a short cat nap at the East Side Airline terminal south of the United Nations, and I kept my luggage in the luggage lockers there, which only used $1 Susan B. Anthony dollars.  I was able to use the Tennis Club upstairs to shower and clean up, and after my two weeks of sleeping at the Anglican seminary in Toronto, Canada, I did not have much luck making new friends in Manhattan, so I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut instead of trying to camp out in Florida.  George Cary was living in the garage apartment on W. Averill Harriman's sister's waterfront home in Sands Point, New York, so he probably would have put me up, but as another neighbor of theirs use to tell me, "Fish and House Guests Stink After Three Days."  Since George's relatives are primary movers and shakers in the New York democratic party, it is probably just as well, I did not stay there, or they probably would have out maneuvered the Greenwich, Connecticut republicans. After building one garage apartment down the street from them in Plandome Manor, New York, I am not sure they would have wanted me to alter all of the history in their garage apartment including the 500 books on sailing.  Of course with their political connections, they probably could have made me an Admiral in the United States Navy, but other than reading books about the ocean, when I was a youth from the Carnegie Library in Decatur, Alabama and living around the ocean, I do not really know that much about boats or Navy types of craft.  I did once row a wooden row boat in Holland, Michigan on Lake Michigan during August vacations there, and I also sailed a sunfish sail boat.  Lake Michigan can have up to eight foot waves, and the water can be a lot colder than Long Island Sound.  When we drove up from our house in Decatur, Alabama about 1958 to visit friends in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, I recall during the snow blizzard that was going on in Chicago, Illinois at the time that Queen Elizabeth II was visiting Chicago, Illinois on her yacht the Britannia, and since the St. Lawrence Seaway is usually frozen over in the winter, there must have been a way to get the Brittania into Lake Michigan going up the Mississippi River to the Illinois River to the Chicago River.  It was in the headlines of the Chicago newspapers at the time.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 12:40 A.M.:  I lightly toasted four slices of bread.  I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I rinsed it with its lid on underneath cold water, and then I squeezed out the water, and then I flaked it with a fork in a mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of Hellmann's Just-2-Good low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.  I then put half on two slices of bread, and I put the top slices of toasted bread on, and I cut the sandwich in half crosswise, and I ate them with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go downtown for some fresh air.  I will shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 12:05 A.M.:  I woke up this past morning at 6 A.M., and I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor for a while.  I then could not fall asleep, so I was up until about 10 A.M. before going to bed.  I ate about 10 triscuts and the remaining two scoops of Edy's low fat caramel and pralines frozen yogurt.  I called up www.ordersmokesdirect.com , and  I ordered 6 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $11.49 a carton for $68.94 and $10.50 United States Post Office Priority Mail shipping for $79.44 total.  I slept until 7 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Stop and Shop in Glenville in central western Greenwich.  I bought four 10 ounce bars of Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss cheese for $2 each, sliced American White cheese at $5.89 a pound for $5.80, sliced Purdue sliced turkey at $6.89 a pound for $8.09, buy one get one free of six B&M 16 ounce baked beans bacon and onion flavor for $1.59 two, two 15 ounce cans of Goya chic peas for .67 each, a 48 ounce package of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.19, a 10 quart package box of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, four 6 ounce cans dried of Stop and Shop medium pitted California olives for $1.39 each, buy one get one free of Oscar Meyer beef franks for $3.99 both, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99, fresh broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.65, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39, a pint of grape tomatoes for $2.99, and two 96 ounce containers of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3.99 each for $67.23 total.  I then returned home, and I used my cart that I had brought with me from the apartment to bring up my purchases.  I chatted with a relative, and then I chatted with an acquaintance for a while. CIO

Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 3:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  I suppose one could start investing in alternative forms of transportation, but if one is on a daytime schedule around here and near the Boston Post Road or Putnam Avenue and the downtown area, there is still local bus service in this area.  I think this area is too busy to try to ride a bicycle.  Although technically I could take a walk down West Putnam Avenue, there is not much I can afford on it including McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts.  Generally I find my current lifestyle is based on my limited income and my limited needs.  I suppose the upscale part of the community is trying to figure out how to get by with a half dozen cars they do not even use.  Possibly some people's help will have to start driving less.  Basically, having lived on this budget for 21.5 years, I tell people that I am a long term prisoner in Greenwich, Connecticut suffering from what Prisoners of War in World War II suffered from called the Stockholm Syndrome, when the prisoners began to identify with the guards that were holding them prisoner.  Well Bonsoir.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  I surfed the internet looking for bargains, but alas nobody is giving anything away.  I guess instead of window shopping on the internet, I could try to use it for more informative purposes.  Alas, since I had an electricity payment to make this month, and since I probably will not quit smoking right away, I will probably have to order some cigarettes from http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/ .  In which case after my other monthly every day expenses, which have gotten higher with the higher prices of gasoline, I probably will not be buying anything else this month on the internet.  Even Ebay is not giving away anything.  I guess I will put back in the primary computer the Enermax case fan controller, when I receive it back, since it is nice to have a warning signal if the CPU cooler fan or one of the three monitored case fans fail.  I do other work on the internet, but recently after so many years of looking at technical news, during the summer months and vacation time, there is not that much new technical news.  I could buy a 256MG PC133 SDRAM memory chip from www.newegg.com for about $32 to try out in the Dell Dimension 4100 computer, but presently I do not need a faster second backup computer, since I am not using my backup computer very much, although the Northgate Syntax primary backup computer is a very good computer, and it is almost as fast as my primary computer.  My usual spending strategy at this time of the month is to spend a dollar on a scratch card and hope I get lucky.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  Surplus Computers GE Wireless Optical Mouse with Microsoft Office 2003 STD (NFR) .  Of course some people like myself think MS stands for Mike Scott not Microsoft.  If you still need the tube with the internet Surplus Computers Sabrent TV Tuner Capture PCI Card FM Radio Remote SBT-TVFM  .  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 12:10 A.M.:  I cleaned the excess bread crumbs out of my toaster.  It has two trays underneath each side for removing the crumbs, but some with the larger bagels with have bigger crumbs still get stuck inside.  It is a RowentaUSA.com - Steam Irons & Home Appliances white 4 slice toaster which has two rows of three custom buttons for each side.  I think the middle button is for toasting only on the outside away from the center, the top is stop, and the bottom is defrost, but I might be mistake about that, but I know the middle on is right.  It was a $100 toaster at the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought it last February 2, 2005 for 70% off for $30.80 and $1.85 tax for $32.65 total.  It is like this http://www.ekitchengadgets.com/ro4sltopeto.html or Amazon.com: Rowenta: Rowenta TO-912 4-Slice Toaster, Pearl .  However, since I do not use the other button much, I forget exactly what they do.  If one wears their glasses, they can read what the buttons do, since they are marked, and I had them in the right order as I listed them.  Rowenta is French German company, in other words, I think it is German company that makes toasters in France.  I think the model that I have is a couple of year old model, and they might have  a newer model.  At that price, I guess it is the Mercedes Benz of toasters.  It has wider slots to accommodate bagels.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 11:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I put away my laundry.  I chatted with a friend.  I took three medium organic eggs that I let warm up to room temperature, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added two teaspoons of milk and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese and a teaspoon of Italian seasoning, and I used a whisk to mix it all together until it was bubbly.  I then took my 8 inch seasoned omelet pan, I place it on the large electric burner on medium heat, and I added two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, until the fat began to bubble.  A seasoned omelet pan is one that is NOT washed after use, but one just wipes it off with a paper towel to remove any excess cooking material.  If an omelet pan is well seasoned it should not stick to the pan.  I added the egg mixture, and I turned the heat down a little bit lower than medium, and once the omelet mixture began to bubble and the bottom half is cooked enough, so one can flip it over, I flipped it over.  I had earlier prepared six one inch by .20 inch by 2 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham and eight Kraft Cracker barrel 2% low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese slices 1.25 inch by 1.25 inch by .25 inch.  Once I flipped the omelet, I spread the cheese and then the ham over it one half of its top side, and then I sprinkled grate parmesan cheese over it, and I flipped the empty side of the omelet over the side with the ham and cheese, and I put it on a dinner plate, and I sprinkled a couple of teaspoons of grated parmesan cheese over it.  While cooking the omelet, I toasted on the inside two halves of a bagel which my toaster can toast on one side, and I added a little bit of olive oil spread around the toasted side.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 8:30 P.M.:  I ate a toasted bagel with a little bit of olive oil and 4 ounces of America's Choice 1/3rd less fat Philadelphia style cream cheese and a glass of iced tea.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I chatted with my relative whom is recovering from surgery, and my relative is not having to use pain killers today, so my relative is doing better.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 4:15 P.M.:  I package up the Enermax fan controller, and I went out, and I mailed it at the Valley Road Post Office for $5.75 Priority Mail to California.  Yesterday, when I returned home, I put $10 on my MacGray laundry card, so I now have $18.45 on it.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 2:55 P.M.:  I disconnected the primary computer case, and I removed the Enermax fan controller.  I put a blank in it space in the case.  I put the side mounts back inside the case.  I connected the three Antec variable speed case fans to the power supply with the power adapters that came with the case fans.  I have the four blue lite Antec case fan connected to the motherboard case fan power supply.  I have the CPU cooler fan connected to the motherboard CPU fan cooler too.  I reconnected the primary computer.  I checked its USB devices to make sure they all work.  I now have to repack the Enermax fan controller in its packaging, and then I have to put it in a box and address it along with a copy of its original order slip and its RMA number on the package.  When I get the replacement unit back from Enermax, I am not sure whether I will put it back in the primary computer, because I do not think it is really necessary.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:25 P.M.:  I got a telephone number from www.enermax.com , and they issued me an RMA number to send back my Enermax case fan controller to them.  I will take it out and send it back to them for replacement some time in the near future.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:20 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative about 11 A.M. about a pure and simple water filter replacement.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I emailed a copy of my Social Security TPQY statement to my Social Worker for my Renter's Rebate.  CIO  

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:50 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:15 A.M.:  I made Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks .  For the beans, I use a dented 16 ounce can of Bush's baked beans which I bought a while ago at the Stop and Shop for .75.  I also added a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot French white table wine to the mixture.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 12:30 A.M.:  I put all the computers back together.  I put the Yamaha 8X 8X 28X CR/RW drive from the Dell Dimension 4100 in the older Dell Dimension V350 backup computer, and I also switched the floppy drives between the two Dells.  I put the Dell Dimension 4100 that needs memory and a hard drive on the floor with the AMD backup computer by the bedroom door.  I took out the SoHo LAN card from the AMD backup computer, and I put it back in its packaging on the white bedroom bureau.  I switched out the SoHo LAN Card from the primary computer, and I put it in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I took the 3COM Ethernet XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC 3C905B-TX LAN card from the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I put it in the primary computer.  In Vista beta 1, I installed the 3COM LAN card driver for XP, and it works fine, but it only shows a 10 MB connection.  In Vista Beta 1, I was not able to run Hardware Update from the Device manager since with the SoHo LAN card, it tried to install a non working Ethernet Controller every time I ran Scan for Updates.  All the computers seem to be running just fine.  I have cleaned up my computer work area.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 10:05 P.M.:  I solved the problem on the Dell Dimension 4100.  I think it would probably work with PC 133 SDRAM DIMM 168 pin 128 meg or 256 meg in the two memory slots, and I only have PC 66 and PC 100 128 meg.  It is not worth it to me at the moment to spend the extra money for the memory, since it would be my second backup computer, and the old Dell is good enough for now for the second backup computer.  However, I will keep an eye out for memory coming down in price.  I now have to put back all the systems together which should take about one hour and a half.  Well, it is a good way to take one's mind off the depressing news.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 8:35 P.M.:  On the Dell Dimension 4100, I cleaned the CPU, and I reseated it with CPU thermal grease and its heat sink.  I put in a hard drive from the other Dell backup computer.  I added two 128 meg. 133 MHz memory chips.  I left in its existing PCI video card.  I also cleaned the interior of the case.  However, when I booted it, I get no video just two beeps.  I tried the primary computer AGP and PCI video cards, but I still did not get video, and I only got two beeps.  The Dell Dimension 4100 has two older CD/RW drives.  I search the Dell technical support looking for a solution, but I could not find any that worked.  I also cleared the BIOS, and I put in a new #2032 CMOS battery.  I will tinker with it some more, and if I don't succeed, I will put back together the other Dell backup computer, and I will possibly add one of the CD/RW drives along with the better face plate from the Dell Dimension 4100.  Needless to say my work area on the blue blanket on top of the quilt on top of the bed in the bedroom is a bit busy at the moment.  I chatted with my relative whom had surgery on Monday, and my relative is at a rehabilitation facility and doing just fine.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 5:30 P.M.:  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  One of my neighbors knocked on my door needing a pack of cigarettes, but at the time I was not able to help my neighbor out, since I was busy getting cleaned up.  I then went downstairs, and I picked up my mail, but my neighbor was unavailable to get a pack of cigarettes.  I then went downtown by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  They let me have from their dumpster for free an older Dell Pentium III computer which is missing its memory and some of its cards.  I will try to get it going with the parts of my Dell backup computer which is Pentium II at 350 MHz, but the dumpster Dell computer is 800 MHz, but it only has two memory slots, so I will only be able to put in two 128 meg. 133 MHz memory chips.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $23 of premium unleaded self service gasoline at $3.579 a gallon for 99.1 miles driving the last 12 days, at 15.2 miles per gallon driving an average of 14 miles per hour.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $1.95.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought three 5.5 ounce bags of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons for .99 a bag, two bags of 6 Everything bagels for $1.85 a bag, and a loaf of Arnold Multigrain bread for $1.59 for $8.26 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases and the Dell computer.  I gave my neighbor the package of Seneca Ultra lights 100 cigarettes, so now my neighbor owes me 4 packages of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes or about $5.  I will now try to get the Dell Pentium III computer going with the parts from the Dell Pentium II backup computer.  CIO   

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 6:15 A.M.:  I paid online my Cablevision, Optimum Online, Optimum Voice, Verizon, and Connecticut Light and Power bills.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 5:15 A.M.:  I ate three scoops of Edy's low fat caramel and pralines frozen yogurt.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 4:30 A.M.:  Of course Louis Armstrong was fairly well known around New Orleans jazz circles.  When I knew Wily Middleton down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida back in 1976, he claims his coffee importing business had two large warehouses one in Jacksonville, Florida and the other in New Orleans, Louisiana, so depending on the state of the New Orleans coffee warehouse, the price of coffee might be going up.  He claimed those two coffee warehouses imported all of the coffee into the United States of America.  I ate about 20 tricuits.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 3:25 A.M.:  Pricing experts says $4 a gallon gas on the horizon - Aug. 31, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 3:15 A.M.:  Of course Bob Dylan made the song called "House of the Rising Sun" famous.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 3:10 A.M.:  Of course in the old days, my grandfather Clarence Scott use to know a bit about the City of New Orleans, because as a railroad engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad living in Champaign, Illinois, for 50 years one of the primary runs, he was a locomotive engineer on was the train they called the "City of New Orleans"as in the song by Arlo Guthrie whose father Woodie Guthrie my grandfather knew.  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 2:55 A.M.:  I posted this picture http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/john-james-audubon-louisiana-heron.JPG .  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 2:05 A.M.:  On Sunday night Monday morning, when I took a walk on Greenwich Avenue, I heard music coming from the Thataway Cafe at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue, and they were playing what I think is a vintage New Orleans song, "Mr. Bojangles".  Of course back in the winter of 1971, just before I left for Europe for the first time, Don McClean's song "American Pie" was very popular.  I particularly remember the lyrics, "Good Old Boys Drinking Whisky and Rye", "I Drove My Chevy to Levee, and the Levee Was Dry."  I guess it is pretty bad down there in New Orleans.  Possibly the United States Army Corps of Engineers should check with some Dutch Engineers, since the Dutch know a lot of about Levees or Dykes, since half of their country is below sea level.  Since New Orleans is the primary port serving the Mississippi River delivering all of the food grains and other bulk materials out of the Midwest for delivery around the world, more than likely those countries overseas that depend on the goods delivered out of the Port of New Orleans will have to wait a while for delivery of the bulk items such as grains out of the Midwest.  I have an Audubon bird print at my bedroom entry way of the "Louisiana Heron".  CIO 

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 1:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 12:55 A.M.:  I was up at 12:30 P.M. yesterday.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went to my 3:45 P.M. appointment for follow up on Lipitor.  I have to go back for blood work during the last week of September.  I then see the Doctor again during the first week of October.  I then returned home.  I went to bed until 11:30 P.M..  I reheated the cooked spaghetti and the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu tomato sauce which I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese to.  I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  I watched some of the hurricane aftermath news.  I drank a cup of coffee.  I washed my dishes, and I made my bed.  CIO