Note:<888>09/21/00 Thursday 11:55 P.M. EDT: I read a bit this morning. I checked the mail about 9 P.M.. I rested until about 2:15 P.M.. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I drove by the waterfront. I returned home. I had two bowls of ice cream. I went to bed. The telephone rang about 8:30 P.M., but no one was there. I was up around 11 P.M.. I had three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I will now do some regular computer work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/21/00 Thursday 6:30 A.M. EDT: I read until about 4:30 A.M.. I then microwaved three Armour hotdogs and had them with three buns, Dijon mustard, Hunts ketchup, and chopped onion along with ice tea. About 5 A.M., I drove downtown. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out for a while. There were as usual for that hour of the morning lots of garbage trucks and other delivery trucks. Well I might try to take a nap, I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/21/00 Thursday 3:10 A.M. EDT: I wnet through "http://mrscott.com/scotwork.htm" and then I sifted through my day's email. I then read the last three back issues of the Greenwich Post, and I found these two local links "www.kidsevents.com" and "www.askbarclay.com" . I now will read some more of "Gravesend Light". CIO

Note:<888>09/21/00 Thursday 12:30 A.M. EDT: Well I rested a bit and read a bit on Wednesday morning. I had ice cream and around 6 A.M., I had a can of almonds. I slept until 6 P.M.. I was up and had GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I fell back asleep until a little before 10 P.M.. I quickly cleaned up, and I went to the Grand Union at 10:30 P.M. before 11 P.M. closing. I bought two half gallons at $3 off of Friendly's butter crunch ice cream for $1.99 each, a piece of London Broil at $1.99 a pound for $4.60, and two Kaiser rolls for .78 both for $9.36 total. I then went acrooss the street to the Food Emporium and bought a 38 oz. box of goldfish crackers for $5.29. I returned home, and I chopped the London Broil into 1.5 inch pieces. I then added half to the CuisineArt and ground it, then adding each remaing quarter and grinding up the whole batch of meat. I then made six hamburger patties. I cooked two and had one on a regular bun and one on a Kaiser roll along with mayonaise, dijon mustard, ketchup, and onions. I ated these with ice tea and then a cup of cappucinno. I then rebooted the computer and restarted the server. Well I got a bit of rest. Time to go back to normal computer routine. The bank still has not put in the insurance money it mistakenly withdrew from my account. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/19/00 Tuesday 10:05 P.M. EDT: Well I watched the evening news. I then had two hamburgers for dinner with buns, ice tea, and coffee. I went though my regular internet routine. I reinstalled Internet Explorer 5.5 . I chatted with a family member. I will now do some reading on this rainy evening. CIO

Note:<888>09/19/00 Tuesday 5:15 P.M. EDT: I was up until about 3 A.M.. I then awoke around noon. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I fell back asleep until about 4 P.M.. It is raining out, so I doubt if I will be going out. CIO

Note:<888>09/18/00 Monday 11:55 P.M. EDT: I finished running SpeedDisk. I had to restart it a couple of times, and close out some startup programs to free up memory. I reset my video to 32 bit. I had lower it to 16 bit as recommended for Windows Movie Maker recorder. I channel surfed to no avail while waiting for speeddisk to finish. I also had a bowl of ice cream. CIO

Note:<888>09/18/00 Monday 10:00 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon today. I had GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I cleaned up and went out. I stopped by the bank and did some business. I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I drove over to Old Greenwich Staples, and I bought a Staples mouse pad for $2.11 with tax. My old mouse pad was soiled. I then went to the Old Greenwich Thrift shop. I then bought a carton of Philly Natural cigar cigarettes for $15.04 with tax. I then drove around Tod's Point. I went to the Exxon station next to the library and bought $17.50 of premium gasoline. I then went to the library and read the local paper and four computer newsweeklies. I then went to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought two jars of dry roasted peanuts for $1.69 each for $3.38 total. I then went to the Grand Union, and I bought two Armour hotdogs for $1.59 each, 32 oz. jar of Hunts ketchup for $1.50, Angostora bitters for $3.29, GU hamburger and hotdog rolls .79 a package, and a piece of London broil at $1.99 a pound for $3.46 for $13.21 total. I then returned home. I chopped up the London broil into 1.5 inch rough sections and then ground it in the CuisineArt. I then form four hamburger patties out of the meat. I refrigerated two and fried two adding celery salt, ground pepper, garlic powder, and Lea and Perrins worchestershire sauce to about medium. I put mayonaise on the bottom bun, Dijon mustard on the top bun, and ketchup and sliced onion on the burgers. I had the two hamburgers for dinner with iced tea and coffee. At the Grand Union I had to do a price check on the hotdogs since the price di not come up on the register. The store manager removed the sign after he gave me the right price. I then got a telephone call, and I tried to call back on Net2Phone, but the headset cable was disconnected, so I could not hear. The party called me back. I tried to update Net2Phone, but the new version does not have SpeedDial. I was able to install the older version included with Real Player 8 Basic which meant I had to reinstall Real Player. I then did some other minor maintenance on the computer. I will now run Norton SpeedDisk befor restarting the server. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>09/18/00 Monday 5:50 A.M. EDT: I rest and I was up at about midnight. I had a dish of ice cream. I then worked on the computer. I found an informative site for you net readers "www.netlibrary.com" which has lots of books for you net readers and its own reader. I then worked with the Microsoft Windows ME Movie Maker program. It did not work initally with my USB camera, but I lowered the speed on the camers, and I reinstalled the Microsoft Video and Audio codecs with the Add Remove Hardware feature in control panel under the the Sound and Video drivers. I did my weekly broadcast with it at low speed for better audio while recording. I might be able to have better video next time raising the setting a bit. It is posted at "http://mrscott.com/sound.htm" . Well I think I better have a snack and go back to bed for a bit more rest. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/17/00 Sunday 7:35 P.M. EDT: I had a snack last night of a can of almonds. I was up at noon today. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I made a few telepone calls. I cleaned the apartment and water the plants. I went downtown. I drove around the waterfront. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I returned home. I microwaved three hotdogs and added them to the steak stew. I had a portion of this for dinner. I then had four scoops of butter pecan ice cream. I channel surfed, but there was nothing worth watching. I will probably relax this evening. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>09/16/00 Saturday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I was up at 8:30 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, cappucinno, and vitamins. I then went back to bed until 3 P.M.. I ate a peanut butter sandwich with ice tea. I then tried getting the onboard LAN working on my computer with Microsoft Windows ME, but alas after six hours of tinkering, it was to no avail. I then had some defrost steak stew with ice tea. I then watched an HBO movie. I just reinstalled another IDE cable on the C: and D: drives that I had that is a little better quality. Well time for some regular internet routine. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>09/15/00 Friday 11:00 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message, and I stopped by the local library and read the local paper. I then went downtown. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I then sat out for a while. I then chatted with a local citizen. We then walked lower part of Greenwich Avenue again. I then drove over to CVS and bought 4 packs of Philly cigar cigarettes for $6.74. I then returned home. I microwaved three hotdogs and had two of them on bun with Dijon mustard along with ice tea. I will now have a small cup of coffee. CIO

Note:<888>09/15/00 Friday 8:05 P.M. EDT: I was went to bed at 11 A.M. after finishing installing Windows ME on the backup computer. I was up at 4 P.M.. I called the bank about the insurance withdrawal, and they called me twice while I was sleeping. I tweaked the setting on the backup computer and checked to make sure the cable modem worked with it when it is connected to it. I then did some tweaking on the main computer. I unchecked in the startup files category of system information, vtunerstartup, scanregistry, taskmonitor, pchealth, load power profile, load power profile, scheduling agent, and *statemgr. These might be important startup files, but on my system; I prefer to have the extra resources available. I also orgranized my folders in the "start" "programs" into five alphabetical folders, so one does not have to scroll so many folders. "Start", "settings", "task bar and start menu" has a check box to enable scrolling the "start" "programs" folder which is handy and installation disabled. The computer does not work at 450 MHz though. I will continue to run it at 366 MHz. I noticed when backing up my registry files to another drive that "system.dat" is now 40% small having gone down from 10 megs to 6 megs. The computer boots very quickly like it is suppose to. One particular problem is that Windows ME does not let one install Microsoft Backup from the Add New Programs feature. It was already on my computer, but if one did not have it, one would have to uncompress it from Windows 98, if that were possible. Since it was still on my system though, I had no problem. I just finished making a backup of the C: drive to the D: drive. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I just finished cleaning up, and I watched a bit of the news while doing the backup. I will now go out for some fresh air and a walk. Have a good evening. CIO

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Note:<888>09/15/00 Friday 9:10 A.M. EDT: I have been quite busy since the last message. I went out and I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop and toured the store. I then parked downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue until about 6 P.M.. I stopped by CVS and bought two cans of buy one get one free of almonds for $2.99 both. I then returned to the car. I chatted with a local. I then went to the library, and I read the local paper. Staples had an advertisement circular in the paper for Windows ME for $50. I drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich. I ntoiced at the Shell station next door there was a red Volvo wagon totally dimolished with the roof sawed off. I hope no one was hurt. At Staples I bought Windows ME for $49.90. The offer included Windows ME first look for free regularly $4.97, ExpressIt cdrom .01, PhotoSuite 3 regularly $14.90 free, My Internet Postage regularly $26.94 free, Canon Vidoe Home Entertainment regularly $35.94 free. I also purchased on sale a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Lan Card for $19.97 with tax for all of $4.18 for $73.80 total. About 7 P.M. the store was not busy. I then went to the Grand Union in central Greenwich. I bought two Tropicana Ruby Red orange juice for $2.50 each, six GU thin speghetti noodles for .33 each, GU parmesian cheese $2.99, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $1.33, two 4 packs of GU toilet paper $1.35, 2dozen large GU egss $1.49 each, for $16.14 total. I then returned home and put away the groceries. I had a dinner of reheated speghetti with tomotoe and meat sauce with the parmesian cheese sprinkled on it along with ice tea and coffee. I then opened up both computers. I took out the 3 Com Ehternet II 3C503 card from the backup computer and installed the new Lan card in it. I put the old 3Com card in the main computer and after considerable time, I got both LAN cards in it work about midnight. I then installed Windows ME on it in about 40 minutes. On one reboot, I had to disable USB in the CMOS for it eventually to finish the installation cycle. However, after it was all running my 3COM card would not work for the cable modem since it would not let me set it at 16 bit setting instead of 32 bit which I usually do. Have tinkering with IRQs and other setting, I tried the cable modem with the other SoHo Lan card in the computer and it worked fine on the net. I tried networking the 3COM card with backup computer, but since one is 10 meg and the other is 10/100 as I expected it did not work. I also had removed my sound card from the main computer trying to get the 3COM card to work. However since it is seven years old and EISA, it was probably too much too expect the old 3COM lan card to work. I put back together both systems and then straightend up the work area. The main computer is running much better and I even tried booting it once successfully at 450 MHz, but I won't try that setting until I finish tweaking the system. I have been installing Window ME on the backup computer and have about a half hour to go on it. I noticed when doing my accounts, it looked like the Insurance company that deducted payments from my Putnam Trust account, that I cancelled a month ago is still making the deductions. I will have to get that straightened out, but it might leave me short of cash for the weekend. Well I am very tired, so I will go to bed after Windows ME finishes installing on the backup system. Have a good day. CIO