Note:<888>09/30/00 Saturday 1:45 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7:30 A.M., and I had three hard boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, cappucinno, and vitamins. I rested a bit more until about 11 A.M.. I had a bowl of ice cream. I watched the movie the "X Files" while sipping a little ice tea. I recieved in the mail yesterday from CDW a Wiji Ball as a prmotional gift. I recieved my AT&T long distance bill seperate from my Vorizon Bill today. I guess they now since the bills seperate. My telephone bills are minimal since I am using Net2Phone. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>09/29/00 Friday 9:40 P.M. EDT: I had an enjoyable dinner. I did not have coffee. I watched some BBC programming on channel 21 PBS from Long Island after dinner. I just did the dishes and had a bite of French cheese cake. Well I guess it is time to start winding down and to head off to bed. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>09/29/00 Friday 6:25 P.M. EDT: I went out about 11 A.M. this morning. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went to the Post Office. I paid my bills with money orders. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue at lunch time, and I sat out enjoying the day. I then stopped by the Arnold Bakery outlet and bought two loaves of 12 grain bread, hotdog buns, and a French Cheese cake for $4.10. I then returned home and had three hotdogs with buns and a piece of cheese cake for lunch with ice tea. I then stopped by the Bank. I then paid my rent at Fleet Bank on Benedict Place. I then went to the library and read the local papper and two computer magazines. I checked out the movie "Thomas Jefferson". I then drove downtown and sat out briefly. I then stopped by the Grand Union, and I bought two half gallons of Tropicana orange juice for $2 each, two packages of Bar S jumbo franks for .89 each, a package of GU boneless breasts of chicken @ $2.49 a pound for $3.96, GU frozen 12 oz. green beans .99, GU frozen mixed vegtables 12 oz. .99, a bulb of garlic at $1.99 a pound for .64 for $12.36 total. I then returned home, and I had a chilled Citra soda in a frosted mug. I will now cooked a chicken breast rubbed in olive oil, with white wine, herbs and spices, and chopped garlic at 350 degrees Farenheit for 35 minutes, and have it with microwaved potatoe and steamed green beans, ice tea and coffee for dinner. CIO

End of Notes Week 09/29/00 Friday:

Note:<888>09/29/00 Friday 9:15 A.M. EDT: I watched the Norwegian movie until about 10:30 P.M. last night, but I got tired of reading the subtitles, so I quit watching it and went to bed. I was up at 7:30 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I made a telephone call. I rested a short spell. I have to pay my bills today. Well there supposedly was a frost last night, so the colder weather is here. I can not tell whether the heat has come on in the apartment, but it is 70 degrees Farenheit in the apartment. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>09/28/00 Thursday 9:45 P.M. EDT: Well I drove down by the waterfront after my last message. I then stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then went to the Greenwich Library. I read the local paper and three computer news weeklies. I checked out the movie the "X files". I then drove downtown and stopped by CVS. I returned home, and I had a hamburger and hotdog for dinner with ice tea and coffee. I then went downtown for a walk. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I hten sat out for a while. I noticed the Republicans were having an event at the Senior Center. I walked up the Avenue and the Bacaraque crystal shop was having a champaign tasting party. I sat at the top of the Avenue for a while. I then stopped by CVS and bought two Djeep lighters for $1.29 each plus .16 tax for $2.68 total. I then walked down the Avenue all the way to the bottom. I sat out for a while and hten I returned home. I chatted with a family member for a while. Well have a good evening. I think I will watch the Norwegian movie. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>09/28/00 Thursday 1:15 P.M. EDT: I woke up last night and I had a dish of peanuts and also a dish of ice cream. I was up at 11 A.M. this morning after going to bed at about 4 A.M.. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, cappucinno, and vitamins. I made a telephone call. I went through my email. I went through "http://mrscott.com/scotwork.htm" . The stock market is way up today. I reviewed my stats "http://24.228.18.154/statsct/index.html" . I had about 2,600 unique sites this month with about 37,000 web links. I made about $12 advertising this month, and I will recieve a check in October since I reached the $30 limit. Well one can tell even with a lot of internet activity, the advertising links really are not that profitable, but reallistically the whold directory is a yellow pages, so I do a lot of advertising for free. Well I will now clean up and go out. I have a 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note:<888>09/28/00 Thursday 2:30 A.M. EDT: I was able to get the JVC Universal Remote working with the Proscan Television and the Optimum Online Cable Box, so that once one learns how to use the remote, one does not need to switch remotes. CIO

Note:<888>09/28/00 Thursday 1:05 A.M. EDT: Well I finished watching the movie. The VCR worked great. I had some goldfish crackers and ice tea while watching the movie. I am tired, so it is time for bed. CIO

Note:<888>09/27/00 Wednesday 10:35 P.M. EDT: Well I had a busy day. I dropped off the video tapes at the library with the two books I had last checked out. I could not finish Gravesend Ligght since it is on reserver. I checked out the new "Harry Potter" book though. I then went by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I drove down Greenwich Avenue and viewed the waterfront on a delightful day. I stopped by the ELDC thrift shop. I stopped by the Old Greenwich Thrift shop. I drove out to Tod's Point. For the first time in a long time, I took the three mile walk around Tod's Point. There were about three egrets out at the Point. It was quite an enjoyable walk as it always is. I then drove up to Norwalk. I studied the VCRs at CircuitCity. I like the JVC four head mono for $70. I went to the Wiz, and they had open box and clearence items for 25% off but final sale and no warranty. I then took a quick look at T.J. Max's mens coats. They have lots of Tommy Hilfinger coats for half price. I looked around downtown Norwalk for the new Bush Cheney campaign headquarters but I could not fine the site. I then went by CompUSA and the had four clearence JVC four head VCRs earlier model 54 down from$120 to $100. I then stopped by the People ATM in the large grocery store across the street. I then went back to CircuitCity and I was thinking of getting the General Electric four head sterio VCR for $87, but they had the $100 JVC HR-VP58U four head sterio model in an open box with the remote and instructions for $84.97 plus $5.10 tax for $90.07 total. I bought it which was just all about the cash I had on me. It comes with 90 Labor Year parts warranty and all the same as in the box. So I saved $15 by not getting the box. I returned home about 6:30 P.M.. I installed it quickly and set up the on screen programing for the VCR. I checked to make sure it worked. I then had three hotdogs with ice tea. I then went by the Greenwich Library and checked out "Deep Impact" and "Kristin Lavransdatter" a Norwegian Film. I then stopped by Exxon and purchased $17 of premium. I then went downtown and walked lower Greenwich Avenue and returned home at 9 P.M.. I had a chilled diet Sprite in a frosted mug. I then fiddled with the VCR setting and set up some more with the remote on the screen. The remote has the capability of handlig the TV and CableBox, but I have not figured that out, so I have lots of remotes on the coffee table. The JVC VCR works great and it is nice to have it all in sterio. I will now watch "Deep Impact". I have only been to about a half dozen movies in the last thirty years, so lots of Library videotapes are new to me. Well have a relaxing evening. CIO

Note:<888>09/27/00 Wednesday 11:20 A.M. EDT: Well I started to watch a video, and my VCR did not work. I spent the next two hours taking it apart trying to fix it to no avail. I finally put it back together and dropped it off by the dumpster. I just had two of my special hamburger fried, and I added a little bit of wine towards the end for them to simmer in. I had them with ice tea and coffee. The NOAA weather radio test is going off, and as I have already observed it is a nice day, so I will go out after I clean up and enjoy the nice day. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>09/27/00 Wednesday 8:20 A.M. EDT: I did a little routie internet work and then I rested. Yesterday, I had one type crank fax call and one call from Cablevision trying to sell me online access I already have from them. Today I had two crank telephone calls or fax calls between about 7 A.M. and 7:30 A.M.. One can call 203-869-5222 to Vorizon to complain about crank telephone calls. Well not much else happening. Since I snacked so much this morning, I am not really hungry yet, so maybe I will watch a movie before eating. Good sailing story at "http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_942000/942806.stm" Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/27/00 Wednesday 3:50 A.M. EDT: I rest until about 9 P.M.. I was for a snack of peanuts. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, coffee, vitamins, and cappucinno. I got a tired spell and slept until about 12:30 A.M.. I had a dish of ice cream. I started making a batch of ice tea which I will put in the refrigerator shortly. I worked on the computer doing some routine activity. I might rest a bit then watch a movie. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/26/00 Tuesday 11:25 A.M. EDT: I went downtown about 9 A.M.. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop and bought an umbrealla for $2.50 and put it in the back of my car with another umbrealla. It is a rainy day today. I then stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. I checked out the videotapes "Ghost" and "Frantic". I noticed that videotapes are only good for a week, and they charge $1 a day for overdue videotapes. I then went to the Greenwich HealthMart and bought a 100 tablet bottle of 500 mg. Niacimide for $7.95. I then stoppped by the Mews Thrift Shop. They have quite a bit of funiture there. They have a new pair of size 8 Doc Martins made in England. They also have a Professional CuisineArt for $25. They were just putting out a mens classic medium length tan leather coat like a hunters jacket about size 38 for $50. Since it was a damp day my arthritis was acting up, so I returned home and I had a glass of ice tea. Well with all the rain we've been getting if it turns to snow this winter, you better invest in a coal shovel for one's car to shovel it out, if you don't have a garage. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>09/26/00 Tuesday 8:00 A.M. EDT: I worked on the computer since the last message going through my usual interent routine. I trying various CMOS CPU setting to no avail, so I am still running my AMD K6II processor at 366 MHz at 66.6 MHz CMOS CPU setting and a multiplier of 5.5 and 2.2 volts and it runs best that way. As mentioned before I am using an older www.pcchips.com S571 LMR socket 7 motherboard. I chatted with a friend. I guess I will microwave a few hotdogs and have them with buns and dijon mustard, ketchup, onion, and ice tea. Then after those, I guess I will go out and enjoy the day. It looks overcast outside. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/26/00 Tuesday 3:40 A.M. EDT: Well I went out for a walk after the last message. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue twice on a slow night. There was not very much going on. I drove down by the waterfront. I went by two ATMs at Bank of New York on Mason Street and Chase on Greenwich Avenue, but they were both out of money. I finally used the ATM at the Grand Union. I bought Bryers ice cream half gallons buy one get one free for $5 both. I got coffee and Candy Bar Sundae. I also got two Lays barbeque buy one get one free for $1.49 both, GU hotdog rolls .79, two packages of Bar S jumbo franks for .89 each, and a five pound bag of Russet potatoes for .99 for $10.05 total. I then went to the Food Emporium and I bought Bornier Dijon mustard for $1.69 at .40 off, Domino five pound sugar $1.79 at .70 off, Bokart coffee beans $4.39, Hazzlnut beans $4.39, French Roast $2.99, Columbian $4.39, and Red Bag $2.99. Each of the five bags of coffee beans were 13 oz.. I then returned home. I mixed the five different types of coffee beans together and put them in the mason jars I store them in. I then took the London broil I had gotten on Saturday. I chopped it into cubes and added it to the CuisineArt along with one medium eighthed onion, celery salt, garlic powder, ground pepper, and Lea and Perrins Worchestershire sauce and chopped it all together. I made five burger patties. I fried two of them and had them on hamburger buns with mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, and sliced onion. I had these for my midnight meal with ice tea and cappucinno. I then fell asleep until about 3 A.M.. I tend to fall asleep even when not tired when there is low pressure systems in the area from rain. I then had two dishes of ice cream. I am now having ice tea. I disabled Microsoft Auto Update in the Control Panel since when it comes on, it causes my server to stop. Well have a good morning, I guess I will do a little regular internet work. CIO

Note:<888>09/25/00 Monday 8:25 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7 P.M.. I watched the BBC evening news. I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I will now go out for some fresh air. CIO

Note:<888>09/25/00 Monday 8:15 A.M. EDT: I had a frosted Citra Soda, along with a bowl of goldfish crackers and a couple of dishes of ice cream. I saw on the travel channel last night that when Islamarada, Florida and the Florida Keys got hit by the hurricane on Labor Day in 1935, they recieved 250 mile and hour winds along with an 18 foot tidal wave, so it is not so safe down there in the Florida Keys for those of you whom think it is safe. I suppose citizens of Florida and the Carribean still have to keep a weather eye until the Tropical Storm season is over. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/25/00 Monday 7:25 A.M. EDT: Well I went out, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I then sat out for a while. I then went down by the waterfront and I chatted with one of the morning fishermen. Well I had a quiet night, and there is not much happening, so I guess I will call it a day and go to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/25/00 Monday 5:40 A.M. EDT: I channel surfed and watched a movie on HBO from 3:30 A.M. to 5:30 A.M.. I guess I will go out for a little morning air. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/25/00 Monday 1:35 A.M. EDT: I finished the laundry and put it away. Instead of having hamburgers, I had a Mystic pizza and a hotdog along with ice tea and coffee. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/24/00 Sunday 11:50 P.M. EDT: I cleaned up, and I took a walk around town. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and then up to the top and sat out for a while. I then walked west on Putnam Avenue and south by U. S. Tabacco and back down around to Greenwich Avenue. I then walked back down the Avenue. It was a very quiet pleasent evening. I still don't need a sweater just a flannel shirt. I then drove down by the waterfront. The entrance to the Yacht Club is closed for repaving. The underground parking at the Greenwich Office plaza for the commuters is being cleaned and is closed off. I returned home. I just started three loads of laundry. I will now grind up the London Broil, so I can make and eat a couple of hamburgers with buns along with ice tea and coffee during the dry cycle coming up. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/24/00 Sunday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I was up about 7 P.M.. I had breakfast of three GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I put copies of Windows ME on hard drives on both computers. I vacuumed the apartment. While fiddling with the Electrolux powere nozzle, I think I accidently fixed the connection by sperating the tongs a little bit, so I don't have to keep pressure on it while using it. I chatted with a few family friends and associates. I guess I might clean up and go out for some fresh air. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>09/24/00 Sunday 6:00 A.M. EDT: I did a little internet work and had peanuts and ice tea. I then channel surfed. I watched an HBO movie from 4 P.M. until now and ate some goldfish crackers while watching it. Well I guess it is time for bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/24/00 Sunday 2:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at about 6 P.M., and I had breakfast of three soft boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I rested a bit more until about 8 P.M.. I had a couple bowls of ice cream. I cleaned up, and I went out at 9 P.M.. It was raining lightly out. I forego my walk on Greenwich Avenue, but I drove down the Avenue. I then went over to CVS at the Riverside shopping center. I bought a carton of Phillie Natural cigar cigarettes for $14.19, a jar of honey roasted peanuts for $1.69, Rapid White toothpaste on sale for $2.79, Crest toothpaste on sale for $2 plus$1.14 CT. tax for $21.81 total. I then drove back down Greenwich Avenue again in the light rain. I then went to the Grand Union and I bought a dozen eggs for .99, two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice for $1.99 each, a two pound bag of onions for $1.99, a Tombstone extra cheese pizza for $3, London Broil Sirloin at $1.99 a pound for $3.02, and GU hamburger buns for .79 for $13.77 total. I then drove back around Greenwich Avenue again and returned home. I did a little computer work. About midnight I microwaved three Armour hotdogs and ate them on buns with Dijon mustard, Heinz ketchup, and chopped onions along with ice tea and coffee. I then started a C: drive to D: drive backup doing it in three parts. First the entire drive except the "Program Files" and "Windows" directory. Then the Program Files directory, and then the Windows directory. I do this since Microsoft Backup can not do more than about 3.4 gigabyte backup at a time. While doing the backup, I cleaned the apartmetn and watered the plants. I still have vacuuming to do which I will do after 8 A.M. since I don't want to disturb my neighbors. I watched a little bit of the "Iron Chef" cooking show. Well time for some regular computer work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/23/00 Saturday 6:40 A.M. EDT: I decided to reinstall Microsoft Frontpage Express, and it is not available for install from Windows ME or Internet Explorer 5.5 updates, but I found this link at Microsoft Help that has it available for download "http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp" along with other downloads no longer available. They recommend against it with Windows ME, but it is working fine for ME. Well time to reboot, start the server, and get some rest. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/23/00 Saturday 4:40 A.M. EDT: I listened to Bill Gates' presentation on Microsoft .Net "http://www.microsoft.com/net/keynote.asp" which was a little over an hour. While listening to it, I had a dish of ice cream and some ice tea. Well I might start to wind down in a while. I think I need to reinstall FrontPage Express since, I am having problems with "Hyperlink". Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/23/00 Saturday 2:10 A.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Broadcast "http://mrscott.com/sound.htm" . I raised the camera resolution and did a ten minute broadcast. The Microsoft Windows Movie Maker works fine, but one has to set one's video card to 16 bit instead of 32 bit to use it. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>09/23/00 Saturday 12:45 A.M. EDT: I got the Microsoft Wheel Mouse working properly. I Had two incidences of the Microsoft Intellipoint Mouse Drivers loading. I deleted both in Add Remove rebooted and then installed it again and rebooted and the scroll mouse is working fine now. Time for a couple burgers. CIO

Note:<888>09/22/00 Friday 11:15 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon, and I had three hot dogs with buns, Dijon mustard, ketchup and onions and ice tea. I did a little compuer work. I chatted with a couple of people. I went back to bed until about 6 P.M.. I listened to some internet computer news. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappucinno. I made a couple more calls. I wient out for a walk. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I then walked to the top. I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue with a local resident. I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue again. It was a pleasent night with the usual diners, movie goers, coffee drinkers and strollers. The computer system is running fine. I can not get the Microsoft Wheel mouse to work possibly because I used the Microsoft Intellimouse driver. I will have to look for another mouse driver. I also have much better sound since I installed and enabled all the sound codecs that Microsoft provides. Time for my regular nightly routine. CIO

End of Week Friday 09/22/00:

Note:<888>09/22/00 Friday 6:00 A.M. EDT: I worked all morningon the computer. I did some of my regular routine. I then installed two of the free programs Canon Video and PhotoSuite III that I recieved free with Windows ME from Staples. They both work with my USB camera also. I was fiddling with the Windows Movie maker camera settings and my system crashed. When I rebooted, it said there were some missing files "shlwapi.dll, xdnp32.dll, comctl32.dll" and it said I would have to reinstall Windows ME. After trying to fix the situation by restoring the files from my backup computer to no avail. I booted from the Windows ME startup disk with CDRom support, and I started to reinstall Windows ME. I disabled USB in the CMOS doing this. While Windows ME was reinstalling, I cooked and ate two hamburgers on buns and had them with ice tea. One Windows ME was successfully reinstalled all my previous setting were pretty much there. I tweaked a couple of minor settings. I left the default Windows ME startup files instead of unchecking them this time. I restored my "config.sys" which Windows ME eliminates. I tested they system. It all seems fine now. I restarted the server. I have made the $30 payment cap on my advertising getting about $10 so far this month in addition to the amount acquired be I stopped the server this summer. Well have a good morning. I think I might take a nap. CIO