Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 11:40 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 11:35 P.M.:  I ate the last two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn butter pecan ice cream.  I moved the Lexmark X85 printer, scanner, copier from the right side of the Northgate backup computer to on top of the HP LaserJet IID printer on the dining room table.  I connected its power to the power strip on the left side of the primary computer on its coffee table, and I used a 15 foot USB cable to plug it into the USB 2.0 port on the top rear of the primary computer.  I downloaded and installed the Lexmark X85 printer drivers and software.  I thus have it hooked up to the primary computer.  I can use other printers for the Northgate backup computer.  The reason I put the Lexmark X85 in its new location is that it is more easily accessible for copying and other functions.  I only use the HP LaserJet IID printer that it sits on top of three times a year, when I print out my Scott's Notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 10:25 P.M.:  I was told by a relative that one should have if one can afford it a "Coronary Calcium Scoring CT Cat Scan on the Heart".  I think this tests for calcium buildup in the heart.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 10:20 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 10:00 P.M.:  I am going through my email.  IOC: Towards a Tsunami Warning System in the Indian Ocean .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 9:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on two full 1/32nds inch thick slices of turkey, 3 five inch by five inch by 3/32nds slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese,  five 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slices of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I then took a shower and washed my hair to clean off the loose cut hairs from my hair cut today.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 8:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I left a message with a friend.  I chatted with a relative.  I posted this picture http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/lexmark-x85-printer-copier-scanner-with-northgate-syntax-backup-computer-103105.JPG .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 7:50 P.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a six pack of New York style multiseed bagels for $1.85.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought a Lexmark X85 All-In-One printer, scanner, copy machine Lexmark X85 All-In-One Print Center Overview for $10 and 21 floppy disks for .50 for $10.50 total.  I then went to the http://the haircut place in Old Greenwich, and I had my hair cut for $20 plus $5 tip for $25 total.  I then went by the Old Greenwich First Congregational Church Rummage Room thrift shop.  I then drove out to Tod's Point, and I chatted with someone at the southwest parking area, and I used the bathroom near there.  I walked out to the southwest picnic area.  I then chatted with someone that I know at the southeast parking area.  I then returned to central Greenwich, and I went to the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $12 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.919 a gallon for 53.7 miles driving in the last 9 nine days at 15.1 miles per gallon at an average of 12 miles per hour.  I then went to my 4 P.M.. appointment.  The town elections are not until the second Tuesday in November, which is November 8, 2005.  I then returned home.  I put the floppy disks on the printer cart to the right of my primary computer on the right side on the middle shelf.  I installed the Lexmark X85 on the right side of the Northgate Syntax backup computer on top of the Kensington Control panel, and I connected it with a USB cable to the Northgate Syntax computer, and I plugged its power cable into the power strip just beneath that rests on the right desk drawer.  I started up the Northgate computer, and I downloaded the Lexmark X85 drivers and software, and I installed them.  The color cartridge is almost full and looks like it is fairly new, however the black cartridge is empty.  I went to www.ezinkjets.com , and I ordered two black ink cartridges for $34.99 both Lexmark 12A1970 - Black (Reman) No. 70 _ 2PK and one color cartridge for $20.99 Lexmark 15M0120 - Color (Reman) No. 20 for $55.98, plus I used the 40% Savings Coupon "FALL40" for $22.39 discount plus the order includes free shipping for $33.59 total.  The existing color cartridge works, but I might clean it some more with this process Michael Louis Scott, How to Clean and Hewlett Packard HP clogged inkjet print cartridge with print head in cartridge , when I get the replacement black cartridge.  The Lexmark X85 seems to work just fine.  I chatted with a friend.  I also put $20 on my MacGray laundry card, so I have $26.85 on it.  CIO       

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 2:05 A.M.:  Sale at LLBean with free shipping .  I ordered in tall XXLarge in Royal Blue with free shipping for $22.95 total Trail Model Fleece Pullover: Fleece at LLBean .  I went through my email.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/05 Monday 12:40 A.M.: Gates Takes On Malaria - Forbes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 11:55 P.M.:  I ate a bowl of the pineapple mixture.  Here is a little bit of information that you might find handy in our neck of the woods The Old Farmer's Almanac - 2006 Northeast Long-Range Weather Forecast and Prediction .  December and January are suppose to be colder than normal with the rest of the winter milder than normal.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 11:30 P.M.:  Another good deal on a weather station Amazon.com: LaCrosse Technology WS-7014CH Wireless Weather Station: Outdoor Living .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 11:20 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Technology | Supercomputer doubles own record .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 10:45 P.M.:  CNN.com - Prince Charles: Climate change is 'terrifying' - Oct 30, 2005  and The Diary The Prince of Wales .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 10:35 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove all the way to downtown Greenwich, Connecticut from Byram, Connecticut which is about one mile as the crow flies.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with one local resident that keeps an eye on the train station.  I stopped by CVS, but they are out of black licorice, so I guess it is very popular for Halloween.  At the north side veterans bench I found a Anne Taylor bag with a pink girls tutu in it.  I gave the bag to the police officer at the desk at the Greenwich Police station, and they noticed it also had a sales receipt in it, so they can track down the person that lost it.  I next drove down by the waterfront, but nobody was there, since I do not think the fishing is that good this late in the year.  I then returned home, and I chatted with two relatives.  I ate six spice wafers with some iced tea.  I made a mistake a couple of months ago in my notes.  I said that when the Cadillac Oldsmobile dealership was bought out at West Putnam Avenue when Bob Watson would not renew their lease, that there were no more General Motors dealerships left in Greenwich.  In fact the Cadillac dealership move in with the SAAB dealership on Old Track Road just west of the Greenwich Train Station.  It is a smaller dealership with perhaps 30 cars, but I suppose they could get and service any Cadillac that one might need.  If I am not mistake SAAB is also owned by Chevrolet.  The largest car dealerships I know of in this area are up in Danbury, Connecticut where there is more room for such large dealerships.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 5:45 P.M.:  Here is a more recent picture of the Aga Khan with his German wife and child Imamat Day 2001 Mowlana Hazar Imam's 44th year of Imamat .  The Aga Khan besides being a holy person is also a medical doctor and legally a Swiss citizen, which makes him politically neutral.  I am not sure whether they have had any more children since then or just the one, but he has children by his earlier marriage.  There are links at the bottom of the page to other related web sites, such as Imamat Day July 11, 2004 - 47th Anniversary.  Thus according to this His Highness the Aga Khan's 68th Birthday , he will be 69 years old on December 13, 2005, but people frequently forget his birthday since it is near Christmas Time.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I can not figure out which horses the Aga Khan had running in the Breeder's Cup, and a search of the word "Khan" at www.breederscup.com comes up with NTRA Dalakhani wins l'Arc de Triomphe .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 5:05 P.M.:  I went back to bed until 4:30 P.M..  I am microwaving a Maria Callendar 21 ounce frozen meat lasagna which I will eat soon with a glass of iced tea.  I also spread a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on the cooked lasagna.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/05 Sunday 1:05 P.M.:  I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I went back to bed until 1 P.M..  I chatted with a friend about 10 A.M..  I ate 8 and then 6 spice wafers when I woke up for short periods during the morning.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 10:05 P.M.:  I ate a  9 ounce can of Planter's cashew nut bits and halves with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  Current temperature outside is 41.2 degrees Fahrenheit and 70% humidity and inside it is 72 degrees Fahrenheit and 30% humidity.  Before I go to bed I will adjust all my clocks and set them back an hour which will take a bit of time.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 9:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  The telephone rang on the other line, while I was chatting with the relative, but I am not sure how to put one person on hold and chat with another.  I refilled the kitchen Glade plug-in refill with a 60% mixture of English Leather cologne and 40% of 80% isopropyl alcohol.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/29/05:

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 7:30 P.M.:  I watched some television, but not much is on.  I had a cup of Salada green tea with a packet of Splenda sweetner and a tablespoon of lemon juice.  I drank it with eight spice wafers.  I also ate a bowl of the pineapple mixture.  Early this coming morning is the end of daylight savings time, so one will set back one's clocks at 2 A.M. to 1 A.M..  Spring forward and fall back.  If during the colder weather, one does not have much to do, one can always read a book.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 5:35 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I normally do not go out in the evening, when I am up early in the morning, because as the day drags on, this time of day I do not have as much energy.  I usually go out later in the day, when I am on a night schedule, and I happen to wake up later in the day.  I am beginning to get a bit of cabin fever from being inside so much, but it is better than enduring the colder weather outside.  Technically I could go outside, but I am warmer and more comfortable inside, so why should I go outside.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 5:15 P.M.:  I woke up from my nap.   I ate four scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat butter pecan ice cream and one Kellogg's raspberry fruit bar.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 2:00 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Polly-O 1/3 less fat mozzarella cheese.  I use a plum tomato that I chopped into slivers.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap on the Scott family long green sofa in the living room.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 12:20 P.M.:  I did the computer maintenance, and I threw out some garbage while doing it.  Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut about the only thing going on is we have another local election next Tuesday, since the second Tuesday of November is election day.  More than likely the republican party will win, since they tend to get out in large numbers and vote republican just to let the democrats know that they still control the town.  We probably have certain democratic operatives causing problems downtown, and basically the republicans usually know how to take care of those problems.  Whatever, the case we seem to have a long cold winter coming ahead.  When I did  a bit of research a couple of weeks ago, I came up with a nice Russian product that the well heeled in Greenwich, Connecticut might like on colder nights.  For hundred bucks you might be a little warmer this winter Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! 330 tc Siberian Down Comforter .  Of course these might be just as warm Save on the Safe 'N Warm Automatic Warming Blanket at SmartBargains.com or Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Soft Heat Luxurious Warming Blanket .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 10:10 A.M.:  I was awake at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I will now run Norton Win Doctor.  Ad-awareSE.  I will then do a System Restore backup.  I will then do a C: drive to D: drive backup with Windows XP Backup Automatic System Recovery.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 1:05 A.M.:  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I will heat a couple scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn ice cream before going to bed.  It is currently 40.5 degrees Fahrenheit outside and 70% humidity and 72.1 degrees Fahrenheit inside and 40% humidity.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 12:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  www.ezinkjets.com offers a 40% off discount with "FALL40" coupon code plus free shipping.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 11:05 P.M.:  They better not try to develop Megapolitans: A treasure map of opportunity - Oct. 28, 2005 Flander's Farm or all the ghosts of Flanders will haunt the new residents.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I took the bolster off the back of the down sofa, and I put it with the bolsters on the bed in the bedroom.  I arranged the afghan throws, comforters, and blankets on the backs of the two living room sofas, so they are more easily accessible during cold weather in the winter.  I actually spend a great deal of time tweaking my apartment besides cleaning it, so everything is just right.  However, I am frequently so close to it in terms of details since I live here, I frequently do not notice certain details in the overall setup.  I suppose I could hire an outside consultant such as Fred Von Mierers, but currently he is working in the Forbidden Palace in China trying to create some European style apartments within the 9,999 rooms of the Forbidden Palace.  After working there all these years, more than likely he would look a bit Chinese, but since his last roommate in Manhattan was Chinese, more than likely he has some help from the Chinese.  Despite his modest attempt at lavish comfort in Manhattan, when he was in Nantucket and Oyster Bay, Long Island he would paint the wood floors white lacquer and the walls and ceiling some sort of shade of white and would live with a few simple pieces of furniture almost like a monk.  I guess that is what gave him so much time in those locations to have time for other activities.  Where as in Manhattan, he was so busy arranging his and other people's homes, he frequently lost sight of the larger picture in terms of what was going on in the world around him.  I hope that does not happen to us here.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 10:45 P.M.:  I put the Cuisinart Complete DLC-7 Disc set less one blade in its box on the lower right side of the bedroom closet.  I did the apartment cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 6:30 P.M.:  I toasted three slices of bread, and I put Hellmann's mayonnaise on two of the slices, and then I put one folded 1/32nds inch thick slice of Costco sliced turkey on the piece of bread two 5 inch by 5 inch by 3/64th thick slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese four 3/32nds thick slices of onion, ground black pepper, then I spread Hellmann's mayonnaise on both side of the third sliced of bread and put it on, and then I put another folded 1/32nds thick slice of Costco turkey, two 5 inch by 5 inch by 3/64th thick slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, five spinach leaves and a few dashes of sea salt and the top piece of toasted bread, and I sliced it in half, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative, and the relative has a Cuisinart DLC-7 model in Kennebunkport, Maine, so I will save the blade set for a relative to transport to Maine in the future.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants, but first I will do the vacuuming, so I do not disturb my neighbors later on in the evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 4:55 P.M.:  I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and they are continuing their half price sale.  I bought a Cuisinart Complete DLC-7 Disc Set with 9 optional DLC-7 Series discs, but one was missing, so it only had 8 for a cost of $5.  I chatted with the same fellow from India whom showed up a day before the Tsunami in India at Christmas Time, and it was the second time that I had seen him.  I hope no other disasters happen.  However, since I frequently wander about things by second sight which can mess one up, but after I chatted with the fellow from India, I noticed a fellow with a Pacific Bell telephone jacket, so I hope nothing happens on the west coast of the United States.  I took a little extra time in the thrift shop looking for the ninth blade.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four 10 ounce packages of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $2 each, a 1.75 quart container of Edy's slow churn 50% less fat Light French Silk ice cream for $2 and a 1.75 quart container of  Edy's low fat Caramel and Pralines frozen yogurt for $2 each, organic Dole bananas in a clear plastic bag for .69 a pound for $1.89, fresh broccoli crowns at .99 a pound for $1.06 for $14.95 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I put away my purchases, but unfortunately the Cuisinart DLC-7 blade set does not fit my standard model Cuisinart, so I will check with my relatives and friends to see if they have that model.  I will probably keep it even if they do not, since the DLC-7 model might show up in the future, and the blade sets are rare in thrift shops. I ate a Kellogg's Nutrigrain raspberry bar.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  The internet seems very slow, so I guess with the colder weather more people are staying inside using it.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 11:45 A.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out without cleaning up.  I will then do some errands, and I will come back quickly, and I will do my house cleaning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 11:20 A.M.:  I was awake at 8 A.M. which is a more civilized hour for the suburbs.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and without a sliced banana, a bowl of the pineapple mixture, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  Yes, we have no bananas, so the monkey is upset.  I chatted with a relative.  I also chatted with John Bolton's sister to see if she knew if John knew anything about the cistern at the Casa Marina Hotel.  I think since he knew about the cistern, and he had seen the original architect's drawings.  Perhaps somebody has hidden something in that old cistern.  She said she would get back to me.  I chatted with the White House operator, and they do not have any continuity with previous administrations, and they suggested that I chat with the Smithsonian.  I chatted with an infantry officer at West Point who answers the Army Corps of Engineers telephone there.  Basically everyone complains about the weather, and they blame if on global warming, and they suggest that we should use less energy while China and Asia uses more energy.  It is my viewpoint that the weather has not changed because of energy consumption and that is just the excuse they give while they consume more energy.  There might be another factor.  Over the last couple of decades I am aware that there have been major water control dam flood control projects in China, Brazil, Turkey, and elsewhere.  Since these major flood control projects alter the amount of fresh water flowing into the oceans from the rivers they control, this might have altered the world's ocean's currents thus effecting the weather.  Like other things it is just a theory.  Another theory is that there are major ancient engineering projects that the vast majority of the world's population are unaware of, and some clever group of individuals is tampering with those ancient engineering projects for their own ancient benefit.  Since the Aga Khan's power base today comes out of India, and since he has shown up here supposedly for a horse race which I do not buy, it would lead me to believe that the country of India is behind what ever seems to be wrong with the world's ancient engineering projects, since they would have the ancient 10,000 year old history while the Chinese only have a 6,000 year old history.  More than likely since India is a hot country, they are pursuing some engineering project to make it cooler while the rest of the northern world gets much colder.  Of course that and two cents would buy you a Lipton tea bag.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 3:40 A.M.:  Well, I went through my email.  I guess no one wants to chat or email anymore, and they all seem to have so much money, all they want to do is "Lunch".  If they keep going to lunch so much of their work time, they are going to end up carrying lunch pails.  When I once worked in an office, I made up a weeks worth of corn beef sandwiches with mayonnaise on branola type bread, and I wrapped them in aluminum foil, and I froze them.  I then would take one with me to work everyday and put it in the office refrigerator, and by lunch time it had thawed out enough to eat.  However, the mayonnaise after being frozen and defrosted always looked sort of funky looking.  I will now shut down the computer, and I have house cleaning to do when I wake up later on today.  Current outside temperature is 43.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 72% humidity.  Inside temperature by the apartment and kitchen entrance is 72.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 42% humidity.  I have not turned the heat on in the apartment yet, but I am using the electric blanket at setting 4 of 10 when I go to bed.  I also finished eating the bag of almonds from Costco.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 3:00 A.M.:  It ain't over until the fat lady sings Tropical Storm BETA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 2:05 A.M.:  I called up the Key West, Florida police department at 1-305-809-1111 Welcome to the Florida Keys and Key West Official Tourist Development Website, and they told me that there was about two to three foot of flooding in the Casa Marina hotel, which is basically what I saw on the picture of North Roosevelt Boulevard.  However, they told me they are basically back up in business again in Key West,  Florida for now depending on the remaining hurricane season.  I explained to them what has me worried about the Casa Marina Hotel after it floods is that since I was around it when they were first doing the refurbishing of it, I knew that it has a cistern underneath it to store rain water.  However, I never found the entrance to it or explored the cistern.  What has me worried is after a flooding condition in the Casa Marina Hotel, if there were a large amount of snakes of various types including coral snakes in the Cistern which is a definite possibility, they would have more than likely in the flooding have ventured up into the rest of the hotel, which might not be agreeable with any future guests or employees.  When I lived at the hotel while undergoing refurbishing back in the winter of 1977 and 1978 because John Bolton told me he was the architect, and I knew Chris Ray whom owned the End of the Road Construction Company, and Jim Eldert also knew Chris Ray, but they did not live there.  Basically at that time there were about 200 stray cats around the hotel, so there were not any problems with snakes or other big insects.  I did once see about a four inch in diameter tarantula in the annex of the Casa Marina, once they had us move out of the main hotel, so they could put a tent over it and fog it for termites.  Thus after a hurricane there could be unusual but normal for Florida wildlife in the hotel or its grounds which would not bother the natives, but might upset any tourists.  I still think one of those cats was a baby panther.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/05 Friday 1:10 A.M.:  Basically, I guess this powerful Mellon family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are not that powerful, since they can not even get the telephone to work at their hotel in Key West, Florida http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/ , although they had the money to buy it before the recent hurricane, which they more than likely knew would occur eventually, more than likely they are not willing to maintain it properly.  Possibly they are using it for one of their front operations to cover their smuggling operations.  I guess it is the nature of dealing with Bauxite for aluminum from Jamaica that they might import other items from Jamaica.  Whatever, the case my mother supposedly had to let go one of her Jamaican gardeners recently because he was too cold in Vero Beach, Florida, so possibly he might find work down in Key West, Florida.  Quite frankly if I were hiring a gardener in Florida, I would hire a Seminole Indian.  I guess if I called up the British Embassy again in Washington D.C. and complained about Commonwealth matters, I might get more experts here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but I am not sure how much first hand experience they have.  I suppose since Prince Charles served on a frigate in the Caribbean on one of his earlier British Navy duties, I could assign him to hurricane reconstruction in the Gulf Coast region of the Atlantic after the hurricane season is over.  However, he would have to bring along a large entourage, which I do not suppose the area could support at the moment.  I recall the Casa Marina was built by German Engineers in Florida between World War I and World War II, so obviously it was part of what their so called master plan was, but as I recall Henry Flagler was the builder of the railroad, so technically he also built the hotels although German Engineers might have actually constructed it.  We know from experience, the Germans know how to pour cement.  Whatever, the case nobody calls me up for advise on anything that I am familiar with.  As I recall when the Casa Marina was originally rebuilt starting back in 1977, Chris Ray of the End of the Road Construction Company was the subcontractor, and he was working for the Marriott Corporation which was refurbishing the hotel.  However, the Marriott Corporation did not have the money at that time, so it was financed by the Equitable Life Insurance Company out of Illinois.   Thus although the hotel has since changed hands a number of times, I am not familiar as to whether the financial obligations to the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Illinois have ever been paid off.  Besides nobody every paid me for any of the work that I did down in south Florida, and I only chatted with other people that I knew from up north, so I do not think legally we have any legal obligations in that area, since I do not recall entering into any contracts or other business matters.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  A lot of these so call important men in the New York City area are not really that important, they just marry into women's families whom have a little bit of spare change.  Frequently the women replace their male opposites the same way they replace their interior decorators, and suddenly, some of these so called important men are no longer important, so they try to get money from other women with means.  From what I can tell from my historical research even Adolph Hitler's only profession was that he was a wall paper hanger, thus he was basically an interior decorator employed by somebody else.  I have a feeling Hilary Clinton will never make President of the United States, since there are a great many powerful women who do not like her group of interior decorators.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 11:25 P.M.:  I have to remind some of the local visitors and first generation immigrants in this area that people like me tend to be the representatives of the superior power that controls this area, and as their representatives, we know that sooner or later, they may choose to exercise their powers as they see fit.  However, most people whom control such commodities as superior power tend to look at the cost benefit analysis of such actions, and they tend to regard New York City as an unimportant in terms of the overall continent, and thus I do not think they would waste a penny to exercise their power in Manhattan or its neighbors, but having superior power, they can do things like raise the cost of living there, so people whom live there may choose to go elsewhere, and in those other locations, the locals whom control the local authority might turn a dim viewpoint towards their activities.  Coming from an old guard American family network and having lived elsewhere in the world, much of my viewpoint has been to wait and see what comes next after one group leaves another group ventures forth.  Exxon is not the superior power in this area, they are just a small company of about fifty thousand people whom market gasoline from other people's properties and facilities.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 11:00 P.M.:  I threw out the .75 liter empty bottle of Mount Gay Rum from Barbados along with the pineapple peels.  That reminds me, I still have a $54 debt owed to me from Barbados for a local British citizen that looks and talks like Tony Snowden that sometimes is a bit darkly tanned.  He once bumped into my left front parking light blinker on my old Hyundai automobile, and he told me would repay me for the damage on the parking light lens, which he never did.  I guess in Barbados and England they drink so much of the Caribbean rum, they forget about other such lesser matters as banking and finance.  I have friends in Tobago, so I guess I could send Greta Garbo over to Barbados to shop lift $54 of Barbados Rum, and since the local Barbados customs people do not tend to notice the local traffic between the islands, she might get away with it.  The last time I was in Barbados, we just changed planes there on the way back from Tobago in 1971, and as I recall in the Barbados Duty free customs shop, a liter bottle of John Walker Black Label was only $2, which I thought was quite reasonable, so I bought it.  That also reminds me, I owe my former roommate in Manhattan a .75 liter bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label, since back around  1981, Bobby Culver invited me to a New Year Eve's party at his Greenwich Village apartment with Jack whom was his roommate from Pensacola, Florida.  I tried to dress up a bit, and I think I came up with grey flannel slacks and a blue blazer and a white Oxford shirt, and I noticed Bobby was only wearing a Red Flannel Shirt with khakis, but all of his other male guests were dressed in tuxedos, so as I recall, I only had one drink out of the Johnny Walker Red label scotch, and I left it at Bobby's apartment.  All of his other guests supposedly worked at Salomon Brothers, but maybe I was misinformed.  I have never been able to handle Scotch, since it seems to give a me a wicked hangover, so in the old days, when I would occasionally have a drink, I would drink white wine with Perrier and a slice of lemon or lime.  I also would drink vodka with orange juice or grapefruit juice.  I also would drink Heineken of Becks beer.  I never liked Budweiser beer, I found it too light.  When I left Nantucket in December 1983 after spending Christmas dinner with Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill at the Rue De Croissant bistro here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I ventured into Manhattan with some of my Welfare money, and I ran into a doctor that looked like Nelson Rockefeller and he was with Sophia Lauren's two twin sons, and at the bar that night he had a $1,500 tab, and all that he was drinking was Perrier and Angostura Bitters.  I figured he must have been buying rounds of drinks for the whole bar.  Whatever, the case he was sort of a hypocrite, since he said was the medical doctor assigned to the United Nations to dry to prevent the diplomats from drinking too much liquor.  It would seem that if that was his profession, he would not be spending $1,500 on buying rounds of drinks for the entire bar near the United Nations.  Thus I would say even at the highest levels in Manhattan, they do not tend to tell the truth.  I later had the Federal Government shut down that bar, when one of its patrons threatened to kill me and my friend.  Basically although the United Nations has some sort of diplomatic immunity, it is the nature of the fact that it is still on Unites States territory, and thus it could be isolated from the rest of the country with all essential services such as heat, electricity, water, food, liquor, and other items of communications cut off, so although on the premises, they would have diplomatic immunity, they would be stuck starving and freezing to death within the buildings at the United Nations until they left the United Nations properties, where they would not have diplomatic immunity.  In other words diplomats do not have immunity against crimes committed in their host countries.  I opened a 15 ounce can of Dinty Moore beef stew, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof container with lid, and I heated it up twice on the reheat cycle of the microwave oven, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 9:50 P.M.:  I made up a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Fresh Pineapple Delight .  I put it in the refrigerator to chill, and I will eat some of it once it is cold.  I used up the last jigger of Mount Gay Barbados rum in the .75 liter bottle, but I still have a 1.75 liter unopened bottle that I keep in reserve in my hospitality bar.  I do not drink liquor myself, but occasionally I use it in cooking.  However, thinking like Sherlock Holmes with all of the liquor stores around Greenwich, Connecticut either we do a large exporting business or somebody locally must actually drink the stuff.  I will now throw out in the dumpster the old Mount Gay liquor bottle along with the pineapple peels.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 9:05 P.M.:  Optimistic president predicts robust response during visit to Pompano Beach: South Florida Sun-Sentinel  .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 9:00 P.M.:  I woke up.  The snows of Mount St. Helens Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 3:15 P.M.:  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a little bit of a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 3:05 P.M.:  I think the reason I have so much intestinal gas is from the fact that since I have arthritis, I take Gluscosamine  and Chondroitin Sulfate which builds new cartilage, but I also take 1000 mg. of MSM twice a day which is basically an anti-inflammatory consisting of "white sulfur" compound, and that is what gives me so much intestinal gas.  Anyone whom knows chemistry knows that sulfur stinks.  However, with arthritis, I would still prefer to be moving around than smelling like a rose.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 2:55 P.M.:  Yesterday, I ate one Kellogg's Nutrigrain raspberry bar, and just now I ate two more.  I also ate three scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat butter pecan ice cream and three 1.25 inch by 1.25 inch by .25 inch slices of Polly-O 1/3rd less fat mosserella cheese.  I am just snacking today, because I am tired, and I do not feel like taking the time to make a salad.  I guess as the season changes and as the weather changes, it begins to effect one as one gets older.  I suppose at the ripe old age of 55, I am beginning to feel the effects of middle age.  Of course the further north, one lives in the north country over the years, the long cold winters are much harder on one than for the people whom live in the warmer regions of the world.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 2:10 P.M.:  I picked up my mail earlier.  I finished going through my email.  I guess people have to work so hard anymore to afford what little entertainment that they can afford, more than likely not much is really going in the world at the moment.  There is this Tropical Storm BETA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone , but I am not sure it will be doing anything in the near future.  My 4 P.M. appointment was cancelled today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 1:40 P.M.:  I forgot to mention yesterday, when I parked in my usual place downtown, I found a broken cell phone headset lying on the ground.   I hung it on the wire rack at my apartment entrance with the Sony Walkman headsets.  I do not know whether it works or not, since I do not have a cell phone.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 1:25 P.M.:  In Nantucket, in the old days, the locals whom could not afford fishing boats to make a living and whom did not have blue collar labor skills would frequently pursue other types of crafts to make a living.  Several of the main occupations was opening scallops which is hard on the fingers and hands, weaving lightship baskets, and in the old days before whaling was outlawed they would carve scrimshaw from whale ivory which was also a pastime on the whaling vessels.  Of course the wealthier educated citizens could afford books, so they would read and occasionally write, and since the China Trade was profitable for New Englanders, a great many of them invested in other new ventures.  I think the Mott family from Nantucket along with the Joy family from Nantucket invested in a horse stable in Springfield, Massachusetts which later went on to become the General Motors automobile corporation.  In its hay day, they even made a Springfield Rolls Royce.  However, conservative Boston Braham bankers and lawyers would frequently not let their simpler clients on Nantucket know what their family's investments were.  Thus on Nantucket, one would see 50 year old Willy's Jeeps and other odd items left around by the summer tourists.  I once gave them a 1966 Chevrolet 4 door Biscayne with about 125,000 miles on it, which was still in very good shape.  However, as they became more prosperous the Nantucket citizen began to explore other wealthy areas, and they began to copy what they saw in other wealthy areas, as it suited their fancies.  Whatever, the case I was just cheap summer help on Nantucket, but since my family was already established in Boston, I sort of knew that some other summer residents knew better.  Basically when one sees Henry Cabot Lodge Junior's wife picking up so many legal briefcases at the ferry every day, one knows that there was something going on in the larger world.  Whatever, the case nobody ever asks me my opinion or my advise based on my experience.  Anyway, I should now go through my email to see if the world has anything else to offer besides spam.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 11:55 A.M.:  As I have said many times before without money, one does not go anywhere in America except for maybe jail.  It is a common fact as I have said in America, 77% of the private money in the United States of America is controlled by women over 70 years of age, either because they knew how to save and invest money or they outlived their husbands.   Thus frequently when the older women are doing their charity work, there is another group of people such as bankers and lawyers whom keep and eye on them, so they do not end up spending their remaining years living on tea and toast and cat food.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 11:50 A.M.:  Of course the last town I lived in before I returned home to Greenwich, Connecticut was Nantucket Island.  Although Nantucket Island is a colorful summer resort, it is a little known fact that 80% off the island's year round population is comprised of what we call in New England "Old Maids" or women whom never got married, which is why they call the island "They Grey Lady".  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/05 Thursday 11:35 A.M.:  I was awake at 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I threw out some garbage.  Her is another Mike Scott that might be able to help you all if you happen to be down in Florida Sheriff Mike Scott .  However, I think he works for another guy named Bob Lee who is the Naples City manager.  Down in Florida they have short hair because it is cooler on hot days, and they do not have much money, so they shave their heads which is cheaper than the barber.  Up north where it is much colder, they have longer hair, since like a warm hat in the winter, longer hair keeps one's head warmer, particularly if one works outside on the cold winter's days.  One can lose up to 50% of one's body heat from heat lost at the head if one's head is not kept warm.  Of course if one's hair is too long, one has to worry about it getting caught in mechanized equipment such as the old days when hippies working on their old cars would get their long hair stuck in the fan belts, and that frequently could have killed them.   Thus every area has their local customs based on their experience and budgets.  I do not have much to do today, so I am just waiting for the United States Post Office delivery person to deliver the mail.  I could go out with the few dollars I have remaining, and I could look for a bargain in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  They are not very friendly to me in the Greenwich Library because despite the fact that the Pederson Addition was paid for by United States Tobacco money to the tune of $25 million, they do not like people whom smell of tobacco.  Also since I am on a low food budget of such items as beans and vegetables which included a lot of roughage, it tends to give me have a lot of intestinal gas, which the other library patrons do not like smelling.  The people whom do not smell in the Greenwich Library are more like California types, whom although they can afford good cars and gasoline to go to the Greenwich Library, they are not smart enough to know how to maintain their own computers and internet connections at home or in an office.  They basically use the Greenwich Library like it was the Democratic Party headquarters in the town of Greenwich.   I have lots of informants in the town of Greenwich, and during one democratic government official a town employee was running a drugs and prostitution network in a town facility, and when I reported it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was quietly hushed up, and never reported in the town newspaper, and the individual simply disappeared.  There are amble other examples over the years where the town government has covered up other such scandals.  Basically in a wealthy town like Greenwich, there  are a lot of private tax payers whom do not spend much time in public, and there is another group frequently from out of town whom work here and use the town facilities.  Basically it is my viewpoint in terms of town government the tax payers will when in the long run.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/26/05 Wednesday 10:20 P.M.:  I had email from Inga Hentschel in Cologne, Germany, and she is still looking for Chris Parizo http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/chris2000.JPG , but he has not surfaced yet.  Since Chris a church worker, he might be busy at the moment depending on which church he is working around.   I ate some almonds earlier.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/05 Wednesday 9:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative down in Florida, and unlike the reports up north in the media, apparently in the local news down in Florida, it is being reported that it is a lot worse in the hurricane aftermath.  I read today on the CNN news web site that they are rationing gasoline to $20 a car per purchase, and there is a five hour wait for it in Miami.  Apparently the damage is so extensive that the fuel trucks can not make deliveries.  A lot of the bridges are apparently closed because of damage.  I researched this item that is now available GN 9120 and GN 9120 LR and it is available at  GN 9120 Base & Flex-Boom Headset (GN Netcom-91202805) - PriceGrabber.com for $173.51, and it is 2.4 gigahertz with a 100 foot range versus this GN 6210 which is 900 MHz with a 30 foot range, which at Search for 'GN Netcom GN 6210 Bluetooth Office Headset - 6210-05' - PriceGrabber.com at $123.99 is on sale, but for $49.52 more, it probably would be better to get the longer range one GN 9120 Base & Flex-Boom Headset (GN Netcom-91202805) - PriceGrabber.com .  I also earlier chatted with Le Languedoc - Inn and Bistro , and I explained to the owner who has a photographic memory also that all of those comfortable people in Nantucket who are use to escaping the busy life in New England and returning back down to Florida during the colder months might not have any place to go back to in Florida, so if they run out of gasoline and fuel in New England some time soon, more than likely they will have a hard life in Nantucket, and more than likely if they still have places on the mainland of America, they might look into them as to whether they are still available.  Al seemed to know what I was talking about.  Needless to say at my age, I do not need a job as a guest dishwasher.  I have enough to keep myself busy at home.  I still have not gone through my email for two days.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/05 Wednesday 4:45 P.M.:  On the Northgate backup computer, when I installed the Kensington Power Control Center with surge protector, I also used its surge protection feature for the telephone line that leads into the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/05 Wednesday 4:40 P.M.:  http://keysnews.com and Top story Key West and Top story Jeb Bush surveys damage in Key West .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/05 Wednesday 4:35 P.M.:  I chatted with an associate.  I have an appointment next week to file my energy assistance.  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I used a 16 ounce can of B&M bacon and onion baked beans to make them.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/05 Wednesday 3:20 P.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I checked the weather with the new Oregon Scientific weather station, and it looked to be a nice day, so instead of starting up the computer I showered, and I cleaned up.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a few local people.  It looked to be a normal busy day.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and everything is now 50% off.  I bought for $5 a plastic adjustable Kittywalk keyboard cover and mouse house and for $3.75 a Kensington power control center with surge protection for $8.75 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I told our local ornithologist that I had a witness to seeing the blue heron which was the Swiss fellow.  A friend of mine told me that when they are young, they are mostly brown, so it is a young blue heron.  The ornithologist told me there is a blue heron refuge on an island off Norwalk.  If I see the blue heron again, I will tell it.  I also chatted with our local British representative for Swiss Airlines, and he told me I need to get a hair cut, but I explained at John Hilton's barber shop in Old Greenwich at $18 a haircut and $5 tip for $23 total, I could not afford it, and besides long hair in the winter keeps one's head warm.  I then returned home, and I chatted with two relatives.  I installed the keyboard cover on the primary computer keyboard.  I installed the Kensington power center surge protector on the Northgate backup computer, and I labeled its buttons.  One receptacle is  turned on all the time, so I plugged in the Panasonic 2.4 gigabyte telephone into it.  Also there is no switch for the computer plug, and it stays on all the time.  Of course the computer has a switch.  I then move the Belkin control panel from that location to underneath Belkin control panel on the bedroom desk, and I transferred the power cords from the hub and the Dell 350V computer from the power strips to that control panel, and I labeled the switches on both control panels.  I removed the power strip, and I put it on the bedroom sideboard.  I received a letter from my Connecticut Social Worker, and they have raised my food stamps from $88 to $102 a month, so I guess the government finally figured out that food is getting more expensive.  Of course, I eat more than that in food each month, but it helps out a lot.  I checked with Costco, and they do not accept EBT food stamps.  However, Wal-Mart in Norwalk does take food stamps for food, but one has to be willing to drive through all of that traffic about 10 miles from here to take advantage of their savings.  I prefer generally to buy food at our local Stop and Shop, and I usually find sales items competitively priced, but usually only when they are on sale, and Wal-Mart in Norwalk does not carry that much food anyway.  Since my eldest sister was Sam Walton's daughter's roommate at Trinity College in Texas, we have a Wal-Mart connection, but for years I have tried to get them to put a store in Port Chester, New York and another on the Greenwich Stamford border on U.S. 1, but I guess the property is too expensive.  However, I do know the wealthy clientele in Greenwich like to shop for bargains and save.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/25/05 Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:  I cut off one third of the loaf of Italian bread, and I sliced it in half.  I put Hellmann's mayonnaise on both sides of it, and then I put two 1/32nds inch thick slices of the Kirkland honey roasted turkey, four 5 inch by five inch by 3/32nds inch slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 3/32nds inch slices of onion, and five spinach leaves and salt and pepper and then the top slice of Italian bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend who works for race horses.  He told me they are having the NTRA Breeders Cup and that His Highness the Aga Khan's 68th Birthday has two horses entered in it.  Maybe the person that I chatted with from Switzerland was him today, but if it is, his followers are in big trouble, because on his birthday they have to donate to charity his weight in precious jewels, and from what I could tell today he has put on at least 75 more pounds.  Of course his grandfather weighed over 800 pounds, so they charities did better in the old days.  Well not much else going on around here, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/25/05 Tuesday 7:15 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bread store outlet, and I bought a six pack of New York multiseed bagels for $1.85.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  On the end of the pier down on the end of Steamboat Road was a visitor from down south who flew up with the passing hurricane.  I was about a four foot high either a great blue heron that was old with brownish color and a blue head or a brown heron with a dark head.  In the grey light, I could not tell.  However, a heron up here this time of year is a sure sign of hurricane activity down south.  It was escorted by three well fed sea gulls.  I shared the observation with a fellow neighbor from Switzerland, so more than one individual saw the majestic bird which was a little bit worn out from flying with storm.  When it got bored of us watching it, it flew over to the patio at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, so some of their personnel could also see it.  I then made my usual stop over at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought a HP 51629A black and a HP51649A color ink cartridge for a dollar each.  They are for the Deskjet or Deskwriter 600 series printers, which I do not have, but I now have the cartridges if I ever need them.  I also bought a orange and blue dophin shaped neon light sculpture about 16 inches high with base that was made in China with its power adapter for $5 for $7 total.  The busy volunteer at the cashier forgot to give me a sales receipt.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read P.C. World and P.C. Magazines.  I was told by one regular library user, one is not suppose to talk in the library, which is strange since people are alway talking and socializing in the library.  I guess they changed the rules.  I guess we now have to scribble notes on note pads.  They probably do not want people to know that we speak English.  I told the town ornatholigist about my heron sighting.  I then returned back to the Byram Embassy where I live, where I seem to have diplomatic immunity.  I chatted with some neighbors about the possibility of a ghost being around the building.  I found outside my door the package with my order for  or $6.99 Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Presto 04212 Electronic Clock/Timer and  for $19.99 Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster with free super saver shipping on an orders over $25 for $26.98 total .  I put the dolphin neon light sculpture on the left side of the Queen Victoria lamp on the center of the window shelf, and I moved from that location to on the power control base beneath the Queen Victoria lamp the model of Buckingham Palace.  I moved the round Swedish glass glove from that location to the far right in front of the Life magazine picture of Queen Elizabeth II, and from that location I removed the dish that contained concentrated lysol and pinesol for scent control, which I will not longer use, since I still use the white vinegar.  I have the neon dolphin sculpture plugged into the Kensington Power Control Center that control the three lamps on the window shelf, so the three lamps and the neon Dolphin lamp comes on with the light switch at the apartment door.  I then opened up the Oregon Scientific weather forecaster, and I put the batteries in both of the station and the sender.  On the station the batteries were already installed, and one just removes a clear plastic strip to activate the batteries.  I removed a few items from in front of my right living room window, and I cleaned the window shelf, and I then opened the window, and I installed the sender unit on the outside left screen clip, so it is about a foot off the bottom of the window ledge, and it faces with its LCD towards the window.  I then tested it with the window shut, and it has a perfectly good signal.  I then closed up the window, and I put the items back on the window shelf.  One can see the sender's LCD if one pulls back the curtain after moving the picture of Queen Elizabeth II.  I then programmed the time on the receiving station, but I did not see any of its temperature alarms.  I then put the receiving station on the near end of the top CD wicker rack, so one faces it going into the kitchen or sitting at the dining room table or entering the apartment.  I think it works just great, and it is an excellent value for the money.  I put the instruction behind it.  I then set the Presto Electronic Clock/Timer, and I used its magnet to stick it on the freezer door in the kitchen.  I chatted with a neighbor about the possibility of a ghost in the building using the internet.  I chatted with somebody from Nebraska doing a survey on the Greenwich Time.  I took some pictures of my activities. 

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CIO       

Note: <888> 10/25/05 Tuesday 9:40 A.M.:  I was delayed in cleaning up and going out by a minor redecorating project.  I took down the 2.5 foot by 4 foot Holland Dutch flag from the center hallway bookcase.  I then removed its OOK nails that held it in place.  I then used four 2.5 inch wood screws, and I drilled holes in the upper right speaker on the right bookcase and the upper center speaker on the center bookcase and the left top of the left bookcase, and I put in the four wood screws.  I then from the left bookcase to the center of the center bookcase, I hung the 4.5 foot by 6 foot U.S.A. flag and then at the same location I hung the 4.5 foot by 6 foot British Union Jack flag over the U.S.A. flag.  On the left hallway bookcase I hung the 2.5 foot by 4 foot Saudi Arabian Flag and the I hung the 2.5 foot by 4 foot Holland Netherland flags over the Saudi flag.  Thus on the left side a shorter five tall person could rotate the Dutch and the Saudi flags quickly enough and one the right hallway bookcases a taller 6 foot tall person could rotate the British Union Jack with the U.S.A. flag quickly enough.  All of the flags have two brass eye rings which makes it easy enough to slide them off the wood screws and rotate them around depending on what diplomatic setup, the apartment might need.  Thus one could fly the British Union Jack with either the Dutch of Saudi flags and one could do the same thing with the U.S.A. flag.  Since I tend to be from cold weather stock and since winter is approaching, I feel the British Union Jack and the Dutch flags displayed are more in keeping with the apartment decoration.  However, if any big mucky mucks from the U.S.A. government dane to stop by, we could quickly change the British Union Jack with the U.S.A. flag, and if a Dutch house boy were freezing in the winter which is me, I could quickly change the Dutch flag with the Saudi flag.  I still have all of the smaller flags displayed around the apartment.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  Of course the flags obscure all of the books and bric-a-brac I have on display in the hallway bookcases, but it make the hallway area look neater.  Of course one has to reach behind the flags on the left bookcase to turn on the hallway light switch which is located in the center rear shelf area of the left bookcase.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/25/05 Tuesday 7:25 A.M.:  I woke up at 5 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   I chatted with a friend.  It must be bad down in Florida Greenwich Time - Wilma Leaves 6M Without Power in Florida . and Greenwich Time - When all hell broke loose, this Key Wester chose a quick retreat and ABC News: Wilma Leaves 6M Without Power in Florida and South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade news, entertainment, sports, jobs, cars & homes. and keysnews.com Hurricane Edition and check out this picture of North Roosevelt Boulevard where the airport beach is Top story Surge causes more damage than wind in Key West .  Local Greenwich, Connecticut weather alert Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT and Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .  I guess I have a bit of cabin fever, so I will shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will venture out in the cool rainy weather to see what is happening locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  It is a bit cool and damp in my apartment, but it is 71.2 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment, and I normally do not turn on the heat until about mid November, which saves a little bit of money.  In other news the price of fresh Florida orange juice is suppose to be going up, so stock up if it is still on sale.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative in Vero Beach, Florida TCPalm: Press Journal and TCPalm : Over 250,000 on Treasure Coast are without power , and my relatives seem to have survived Hurricane Wilma without any problems.  They had a larger part of the storm than other sections of Florida, and my relatives still have electricity.  The news this afternoon from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2005 Information is scheduled for this weekend, but Clay Shaw did not know if they would be able to have time to get ready for it.  I read in the Key West news that Louis' Patio just south of the Casa Marina Hotel had its deck washed away.  When I used to enjoy some privacy in Key West, I use to sun bathed on the patio with John Bolton, Mel Fisher's Children, and Izi the fellow from Saudi Arabia.  It was the windsurfing deck.  At the moment the Casa Marina is not answering the telephone.  Having studied the hurricane, I think Islamorada might have experienced more hurricane damage in the upper Florida Keys.  Before the hurricane, they still had 80 rent a cars for rent on Islamorada that nobody had rented.  There seems to be a news black out from Miami, so nobody knows whether it is even there anymore or what the status of it is.  I have read that Miami International airport is closed.  This is the only news from Miami, Florida Miami sets overnight curfew in wake of Wilma: South Florida Sun-Sentinel .  Well, I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 6:20 P.M.:  Although my order for  or $6.99 Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Presto 04212 Electronic Clock/Timer and  for $19.99 Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster with free super saver shipping on an orders over $25 for $26.98 total is not due for delivery until November 2, 2005 according Amazon.  According to this tracking www.usps.gov tracking number "9102127391790169411559" shipped from Jersey City, New Jersey today, so maybe it will arrive sooner.  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 5:55 P.M.:  I went outside, and I walked around the building.  Judging by the amount of traffic that I hear in this area, people are still driving like there is no tomorrow.  There does not seem to much effort towards energy conservation.  I read on one of the news reports from Florida that the state of Florida only has a ten day supply of gasoline in reserve.  Thus it would seem to me that since a lot of the fuel that we use in this area in the New York metropolitan area comes from the Gulf of Mexico region that if they only have a ten day supply of gasoline left in Florida, there might be less gasoline in reserve in this area.  One relative suggested to me that people should start trying to carpool to get to work in this country.  It seems to me, that like back in 1973, one of these days in the near future that we will just run out of gasoline in this area.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 5:00 P.M.:  I cut off one third of the loaf of Italian bread, and I sliced it in half.  I put Hellmann's mayonnaise on both sides of it, and then I put two 1/32nds inch thick slices of the Kirkland honey roasted turkey, four 5 inch by five inch by 3/32nds inch slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 3/32nds inch slices of onion without the frozen inner halves, and five spinach leaves and salt and pepper and then the top slice of Italian bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 4:15 P.M.:  Greenwich Time - Wilma Leaves a Mess Behind in Florida  .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 4:05 P.M.:  Death, destruction follow Wilma through S. Fla.; 3.2 million without power: South Florida Sun-Sentinel .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 3:55 P.M.:  No word out of the 5 million people in Miami, so it is hard to tell what is going on there.  With most of south Florida without essential services such as water and electricity, any tourists whom are still willing to travel down there will need some place to go.  Every cloud has a silver lining, and it looks like  Walt Disney World® Resort seems to have survived in Orlando, Florida.  I suppose that would mean that Daytona and points north and the Tampa areas are opened for business.  Of course the area around Vero Beach, Florida and Melbourne, Florida still has a lot homes with blue tarps on their roofs, since their roofs still have not been fixed from last year's hurricanes.  Of course Pensacola, Florida would be still recovering from last year's storm and the storms this year.  Thus although south Florida has been hit by a major Hurricane Wilma, there are still parts of the over all infrastructure of the state that remain intact and are still functioning.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 3:25 P.M.: 20,000 tourists still stranded in Yucatan in Mexico.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 3:20 P.M.:  Havana, Cuba is flooded.  West Palm Beach and Key West Florida do not have electricity and water.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 3:15 P.M.: 2.5 to 3 million residents of Florida without electricity.  Governor Bush of Florida visiting Naples, Florida shortly.  3 to 5 feet of flooding in Key West, Florida.  Locally my neighbors whom are mostly democrats do not care, because they think it is mostly republicans whom are effected.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 2:55 P.M.:  I picked up the mail.  My neighbors do not know about the hurricane, since it does not seem to be on their television network.  I guess my television system shows different media.  I chatted with my relative in Vero Beach, Florida, and my relative is cleaning up some outdoor pots that broke, but otherwise everything is fine there.  I chatted with a friend.  I am not going out today, since I am a bit worn out from following all of the hurricane information on the internet and television this morning.  Fort Meyers, Florida seems to be repeating itself in the media and even the commodities person that called me was from Fort Meyers.  I do not know that much about Fort Meyers, Florida, but I know it is near MacDill Air Force base MacDill Air Force Base  where the Rapid Deployment Force is stationed.  When I used to watch my father's television in Bayonet Point, Florida, he use to get Pentagon briefings on his television system from MacDill air force base.  This is suppose to have good weather information Air Force Public Weather Site , but it is only the civilian version of a more popular web site that the military uses that is not available to civilians.  Alas I do not seem to have my NORAD colonel outfit jumpsuit that I use to wear in Key West, Florida and Nantucket.  I think they do not call it the Strategic Air Command anymore, but they now call it the "Air Defense Command".  This is how the boys in Omaha, Nebraska perceive it https://afweather.afwa.af.mil/images/satellite/ANI_US89IR01_L.GIF .  I guess they think it is a cloud shaped like a donut.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 2:10 P.M.:  I woke up when I had a telephone call about a commodities seminar at the Hyatt Hotel here in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  I chatted with the caller for a while.  My relative in Vero Beach, Florida has a bit of water coming through her doors.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 10:50 A.M.:  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 10:50 A.M.:  The hurricane surge was 5 to 9 feet in the Florida Keys, and 35% of Key West is flooded with some water above the roofs of cars, and it will take several low tides to clear out the water.  I watched Governor Bush's press conference at 10 A.M., and he said that the most dangerous time of the hurricane is the period after the hurricane and the day afterwards, so people should exercise caution in their activities in the day after the hurricane.  He said particularly the use of gasoline generators can be very dangerous, and one should use them in an outside environments, and not to use them in any inside locations such as garages.  The eye of the hurricane is passing over Palm Beach and Martin counties, and the west side of the storm will be as strong or as intense as the east side of the storm.  He has 3,000 National Guard troops mobilized and 3,000 more on standby.  In Homestead and Tallahassee, he has 21 trucks of ice and 21 trucks of water with preplanned deployment locations in the effected areas along with some meals ready to eat.  The Governor of Florida strongly urges the residents of the effected areas to stay inside until after the storm, and the emergency workers have time to access the damage in the areas.  With large power outages, there will be problems of live power lines in outside areas which can be dangerous.  Power companies had time to deploys their emergency crews, so they will be ready to start repairs after the hurricane ends.  As a result of the hurricane winds, the New York City area is suppose to have 50 mile an hour winds tomorrow.  I ate three handfuls of almonds, and I ate three 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch pieces of mozzarella cheese with some iced tea.  Fox news said the area on the barrier island east of West Palm Beach called Palm Beach might have sustained more damage than West Palm Beach.   The newer buildings are better built than some of the older buildings.   Fort Myers, Florida (33901) Forecast : Weather Underground .  There is suppose to be heavy downpours of rain in Vero Beach, Florida in the next few minutes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:50 A.M.:  West Palm Beach getting maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hours with Palm Beach, Broward and Dade Counties getting the worst of it on the East Coast of Florida with the eye of the hurricane arriving shortly on the east coast of Florida, however the worst of the hurricane might be on the west side of the hurricane after the eye.  Florida City is flooded.  2,500 Florida National Guards waiting to come into the disaster areas.  Hurricane costs could bust the Federal budget.  Hurricane should have passed out to sea in a few hours.  It should be a sunny afternoon in south Florida.  During hurricane activity in a area like south Florida, one has to watch out for snakes.  Much of south Florida has been declared a disaster area.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:35 A.M.: Coral Gables, Florida (33114) Forecast : Weather Underground .  My 4 P.M. appointment cancelled today.  8 to 9 inches of water in Key West at Duval and Green Streets. Key West Fantasy Fest might have to be cancelled.  Sun-Sentinel: South Florida weather Florida and the Bahamas Satellite  .  Damage all over south Florida.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:15 A.M.:  Hurricane Wilma Short List .  Donald Trump Plaza being hit hard in West Palm Beach, Florida.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:15 A.M.:  Foxs news reports 800,000 homes without power in south Florida. Fort Lauderdale, Florida (33301) Forecast : Weather Underground is suppose to be getting the worst part of the hurricane now.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:05 A.M.:  Vero Beach, Florida (32960) Forecast : Weather Underground ,  West Palm Beach, Florida (33401) Forecast : Weather Underground , Miami Beach, Florida (33109) Forecast: Weather Underground , Key West, Florida (33040) Forecast : Weather Underground , Naples, Florida (34101) Forecast : Weather Underground .   half million of people in south Florida without electricity and no electricity in the Florida Keys.  Water Spout in Key West harbor.  Miami Beach over 100 miles per hour.  Emergency vehicles tanken off the streets in Miami.  Governor Bush of Florida to visit south Florida after the storm.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 8:40 A.M.:  Hotel and road map of Florida - World Sites Atlas .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 8:25 A.M.:  Broward Country 102 miles per hour and Dade Country 92 miles per hours.   Sun-Sentinel: South Florida weather Florida and the Bahamas Satellite  .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 8:20 A.M.:  30% of Key West is flooded.  U.S. 1 out of Key West is flooded out in Marathon, Florida.  800,000 people are without power in Broward County.  I chatted with a relative in Vero Beach, Florida, and the wind is about 35 miles per hour, and a tree is knocking on their house.  I went outside, and the weather here in Greenwich, Connecticut is 43 degrees Fahrenheit and partially cloudy with a chance of rain Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:35 A.M.:  WPEC NEWS 12 - The 1•2 Turn To Live Doppler .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:25 A.M.:    Wilma bears down on S. Florida with 120-mph winds; eyewall near Marco Island: South Florida Sun-Sentinel on the lower right side of the page has a live TV coverage from local News Channel NBC 5.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:20 A.M.:  South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade news, entertainment, sports, jobs, cars & homes. .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:10 A.M.:  CNN.com - Category 3 Wilma makes landfall in southwest Florida - Oct 24, 2005 says that the name of the Lee County Sheriff is Mike Scott.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 6:45 A.M.:  Hurricane Wilma officially made landfall at Cape Romano at 6:33 A.M..  That is is just south of Naples, Florida on the Collier and Monroe Counties border Florida Counties - Google Image Search .  Miami and Fort Lauderdale are suppose to get the worst side of the hurricane with a 2 to 3 foot storm surge.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, we also have a Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT Hazardous Weather Outlook .  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 6:05 A.M.:  I posted a short list of links Hurricane Wilma Short List .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 5:50 A.M.:  www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I was awake at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I have been watching Hurricane Wilma coverage on the Fox News Channel.  It does not look for the Florida Keys, since less than 10% of the people evacuated.   According to the Foxs news broadcast the Monroe Country Emergency director said there are lots of people in the Florida Keys that are calling in about flooding.  The eye of the hurricane is suppose to come ashore at Everglade City which is three feet below sea level.  The top hurricane winds are 125 miles per hour or category 3.  Around Everglade City they are expecting a 8 to 17 foot storm surge and in the Florida Keys they are expecting a 5 to 12 foot storm surge.  One local weather observer at the eye of hurricane in Naples, Florida has a web site Welcome to the StormStudy Project .  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 7:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now run Norton Win Doctor 2003 and Ad-awardSE.  I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed a little while after that.  I have a 4 P.M. appointment tomorrow, so I do not want to get up too early.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:55 P.M.:  Event Sectors Severe Storms and Special Events .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:50 P.M.:  NOAA GOES East DATA - EASTERN US IR .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:45 P.M.:  National Weather Service Radar from Miami, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Melbourne, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Tampa Bay Area, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Key West, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Tallahassee, FL .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a couple of handfuls of almonds.  I posted this note about a month ago, and thus there might be a good side to hurricane down south. According to this SEAWEED CULTURE IN JAPAN the Japanese get $7 a pound for sea weed, so imported seaweed 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 after the hurricane.  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 to make orange sofa.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 5:30 P.M.:  See who is left behind in Key West, Florida http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ and Casa Marina webcam link at the bottom of this page http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/intro.html and at the moment this one does not work http://www.laconchakeywest.com/webcam.htm .  Top story Most stay for Hurricane Wilma's arrival ,  Key West Radar National Weather Service Radar from Key West, FL and http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html and http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/GMEX/VIS/20.jpg .  If I were in Key West, Florida, I would wear my west suit to bed tonight.  Of course they tend to not sleep much at night in Key West, so more than likely they are just waking up down there now, and they do not know what is going on.  Apparently the Fantasy Festival is this week.  It might turn out to be more like "Lord of the Flies".  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 4:55 P.M.:  I looked at a lot of satellite photographs at Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks and this one seems to explain the current situation with hurricane Wilma the best Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks .  Figure red is warmer and blue is colder.  From what I can tell, it does not look very promising for Key West, Florida.  Apparently 80% of the people in the Florida Keys have chosen not to evacuate yet.  Vero Beach news on hurricane Wilma TCPalm : Hurricane Wilma speeds up on path to Florida .  I suppose since it is once again towards the end of the month, a lot of people can not afford to evacuate.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 3:35 P.M.:  Polar Satellite Products for the Operational Forecaster: Analysis of Tropical Cyclones .  I will now install the Windows download version of this program to see what it does.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 3:30 P.M.:  Try this  Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 3:10 P.M.:  I ate a few handfuls of almonds.  I watched some hurricane Wilma news.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 1:40 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  If there is a reset switch for my Volvo service light underneath the dashboard, it is covered by the under covering of the dashboard.  I will look at the owners manual sometime to see what it says.  I next went downtown, and I stopped by the Greenwich Service Center Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $13.50 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.999 a gallon for 65.4 miles driving the last 15 days at 15.2 miles per gallon averaging driving 12 miles per hour.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I viewed some of their sale items.  On the 70% off rack, they have two Oregon Scientific rain measuring instruments for 70% off $69.99,  but the do not show the other weather measurements.  For 50% off, they have True Value batteries.  Also for 50% off, they have large United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Air Force, and United States Marines flags.  They also have for 75% off a Tide spot remover system.  They also have for 75% off three 48 inch by 15 inch ironing board covers and a few other items.  I next went by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of 300 count packages of antimicrobial Q-tips cotton swabs for $2.99 both packages and a 7 ounce package of black licorice for $1.19 plus .25 tax for $4.43 total.  I then completed my walk.  At the top of Greenwich Avenue at the Pickwick Plaza, the Greenwich Arts Council has various sculptures for sale.  After I completed my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and two of the usual fishermen were there.  I sat out for a while in one of my folding chairs that I keep in the rear of my Volvo station wagon.  I then went by the New Renovated Stop and Shop at the Stop and Shop shopping plaza on West Putnam Avenue next to the Exxon gasoline station, and they just opened their new store today, and it looks quite nice, and it is much larger and clean and well organized.  I am most pleased with the way the new store looks.  If one buys $25 worth of groceries, one can get with the store circular coupons a free bottle of Perrier, a quart of Mott's Apple Juice, and a dozen large eggs.  While touring the whole store, I ate some deli snacks and a cannolli they were offering to customers.  I did not see the fish monger stand, but I must not have noticed it.  The new produce section is much larger.  It is a quite large and spacious store, and I am sure their regular customers will enjoy the shopping experience.  I bought a 25 count box of Twinings 5 different varieties of tea bags for $3.49.  As I was leaving the store, they gave me a loaf of Italian bread called Ciabatta from the Chabaso Bakery in New Haven, Connecticut.  I thanked them all for the shopping experience.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a relative.  I cut off one third of the loaf of Italian bread, and I sliced it in half.  I put Hellmann's mayonnaise on both sides of it, and then I put two 1/32nds inch thick slices of the Kirkland honey roasted turkey, three 5 inch by five inch by 3/32nds inch slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, four 3/32nds inch slices of onion, and four spinach leaves and salt and pepper and then the top slice of Italian bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   On Steamboat Road in front of the Indian Harbor House apartments, there is a heavy communications cable that has been hanging down too low for the last week, and although it is marked by a barricade and yellow tape, it is sort of strange that the utility company has not gotten around to fixing it this past week.  It would be a road hazard for larger trucks.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 7:25 A.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle in the General Electric microwave oven.  I put the hot soup in a large cobalt blue soup bowl with a couple of handfuls of Arnold Caesar croutons, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I opened up a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee beans, and I filled the mason jars marked "regular" with them and the regular coffee bean Braun coffee grinder.  I need to reset the service light on my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon.  All of the scheduled service has been done on the car to date, and it is running just fine.  I still have just over a quarter inch of tread left on the tires.  Maybe this tip will work to reset the service light Volvo: 850 turbo dash service light .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:45 A.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I took out my long underwear bottoms, and I hung them on the right hook at the bedroom entrance.  I took out my winter knit caps, scarves, and gloves, and I put them on the near end of the down sofa, and I put the orange bicycle helmet on the far end of the down sofa.  On the left side of the bedroom closet, I rotated my summer shirts to the far left of the closet, and I put my cold weather shirts on the left center of the closet.  It is not cold enough yet to rotate around my winter jackets with my moderate weather jackets in the right living room closet, but one has to remember during the first week of December last year, it was down to zero degrees Fahrenheit here, so it does not hurt to be prepared.  As L.L.Bean - Outdoor Specialties since 1912 Limited Time Free Shipping says, there is no such thing as cold weather, just people whom are not dressed for it.  For cold weather clothes, one can also try www.sierratradingpost.com and www.moutainhardware.com , and of course http://www.canada-goose.com/ is about the best I know of for extreme cold weather, but it usually does not get that cold around here for the http://www.canada-goose.com/ unless one happens to be from Brazil or Saudi Arabia or India or somewhere else where it tends to be really hot year round where one's blood might be thinned out.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 5:40 A.M.:  Sunrise is suppose to be at 7:15 A.M., and the rain is suppose to have quit by then, but it will be still a bit damp out Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 5:00 A.M.:  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I started two loads of laundry, and I am almost done with the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I also took off the pink and green quilt, and I put it in its packaging  and placed it on the left side of the closet shelf.  I put the electric blanket on the bed, and I put the comforter on the bed.  I also put the light weight blue throw blanket at the end of the bed.  I threw out some garbage.  I put both afghan throws the orange and pumpkin one and the blue and grey one folded up on the back of the down sofa.  I am in the process of making a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  When I started the computer, I had to do a system restore to yesterday, because for some reasons, when I clicked on one icon, all of the icons to its left would high light.  I have had the problem before, but I am not sure what causes it.  Restoring it to an earlier time fixes it.  I will now run Ad-awareSE.  I will now go downstairs and get the laundry, and I will put it away.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 4:00 P.M.:  I ate a half of a cup of almonds with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 3:20 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I picked up the mail.  I got another Greenwich Country Day alumni sticker in the mail.  I posted a picture of what the living room window wall looks like now http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-living-room-window-wall-102205.JPG .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 2:45 P.M.:  I rested on the long green Scott family sofa for an hour.  I then washed the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner filter and reinstalled it.  I then closed its exhaust louvers, and I shut its front louvers.  I unplugged it from its heavy duty power cord.  I then used 3M duct tape, and I resealed any air leaks around the double layer of Plexiglas to the left of the air conditioner.  I made sure the hand towels that I have stuck into the window gap between the sliding and fixed windows were inserted tightly.  I installed two sheets of one foot by four foot by one inch Styrofoam vertically to the left of the air conditioner in front of the Plexiglas, and I secured them with duct tape.  I put another two sheets side by side vertically in front of the air conditioner, and I secured them with duct tape.  I restuffed in some small hand towels around the corners where there might be air leaks.  I took out the bobby pins from the orange curtain that hangs in front of the air conditioner and above it, so the orange curtains hangs full length in front of the styrofoam and air conditioner.  I plugged in and put the Lasko box fan in front of the curtain in front of the air conditioner, so it can blow heat around the apartment on low speed during the heating season without all of the heat flowing into the false ceiling.  Right now it is turned off.  I moved the bric-a-brac back into position on the window shelf.  I put the small type Steuben vase on the brass and glass coffee table on the far end opposite the down sofa.  I put the General Electric air conditioner remote control in the remote control box on the left side of the window shelf.  The air conditioner is installed in the center of the three windows.  I will have to open the right window temporarily when I get the Oregon Scientific weather station to install the temperature humidity sensor outside on the window frame between the glass and the screen.  Thus I have the air conditioner secured for the winter season.  I have tried taking the earlier Sears air conditioner one winter before, and leaving it in the way I do with it insulated and taking it out make no difference in the overall  apartment temperature in the winter or electric heat costs.  Since it is a fixed unit on a frame and not a window unit, I leave it installed year round.  It would be very cumbersome to remove, and one would have to disassemble the frame outside the window, and although the housing authority would do it for me, I generally start using it about a month before they install them, and I use it later in the season due to my apartment's western exposure to the afternoon sun during the warmer months.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 12:25 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used 1/3 less fat mozzarella cheese.  I used 5 grape tomatoes and one sliced plum tomato along with all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I checked the mail, but it was not here yet.  I threw out some garbage.  I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive while making and eating my salad.   I will now take a nap.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/22/05:

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 10:15 A.M.:   Remember to keep an eye on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 10:00 A.M.:  The sun is just beginning to shine on Mount St. Helens Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 9:55 A.M.:  In Vista beta 1, I went through the most recent newsgroups postings.  I organized the Favorites, so they are all in Folders.  I installed the most recent Nvidia XP drivers which worked with Vista beta 1.  I rebooted to XP.  Yesterday, I moved the blue and black backpack from the back of the sofa to on the floor behind the apartment entrance door behind the cart I use for hauling my groceries.  I filled up the Winter Protection Energy form, and I mailed it downstairs in the mail room.  I have the paperwork ready to fill out the Energy Assistance Program form.  It is raining steadily outside, so I probably will not be going out today.  We are beginning to get into that gloomy part of the year, but once it gets cold, we get a lot of clear and cold days, which can be enjoyable if one bundles up warm enough for them.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 6:45 A.M.:  I will now reboot the computer, and I will boot Vista beta 1, and I will go through some of the Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 6:40 A.M.:  Robert Schuller www.hourofpower.org is a Million Dollars in Debt, and he needs your contributions again Make a Contribution to www.hourofpower.org Thank You from Robert H. Schuller .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 6:35 A.M.:  L.L.Bean - Outdoor Specialties since 1912 Limited Time Free Shipping .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 6:25 A.M.:  I am letting the golden pineapple ripen for a few days, before I slice it up into chunks.  I guess there are no smart people on the internet, since I never get any email of substance just spam and newsletters.  Some of the newsletters have a lot of content, but it is the nature of the internet, most of the content is relevant to the California way of thinking whatever that might be.  I will now go through my email.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 5:55 A.M.:  I woke up at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  The Bonita bananas that  I bought yesterday at the Royal Farm and Sushi market come from Ecuador.   They came in a seal medium weight clear plastic bag.  I have a feeling that a sealed medium weight clear plastic bag keeps them from going bad faster.  The chain store ones  like Dole and Chiquita that I usually buy that do not come in  a clear plastic bag and only last about three to four days before turning brown.  Thus more than likely if one keeps one bananas in a sealed medium weight clear plastic bag, they will last longer.   There is suppose to be rain all day today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 7:45 P.M.: This Buy.com - GN Netcom GN 6210 Bluetooth Office Headset : Gn Netcom : 6210-05 with this cheaper Buy.com - 5% off  and Buy.com - 10% off new customers versus Plantronics )) Medium & Large Business )) Systems )) CS50 Wireless Office Headset System or $124 versus $295, but in a year, one will probably be able to get a similar device for less than $50 because electronic devices drop in price very quickly.  Of course, one would only need the device, if one were moving around talking on the phone all the time, such as a house wife chatting in the kitchen while preparing meals.  I chatted with a friend whom got four free tickets for foreign travel by looking at time shares in Cape Cod.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I guess I will end up being on a day schedule tomorrow, but unfortunately there is a 90% chance of rain Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground , so it will be the rainy day blues on the internet.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 6:30 P.M.:  SharpReader RSS Aggregator .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 6:15 P.M.:  On hurricane Wilma, try to figure it out yourself www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  This gives one and overall viewpoint NRL Monterey Tropical Images .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 6:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 4:50 P.M.:  For deals try Techbargains - discount computer sale buy cheap digital camera review cheap laptop techbargain tech bargain - Techbargains.com , Cheapstingybargains.com - Free Online Coupons, Dell, Overstock, Amazon! , and Computer Deals at All Tech Deals .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 4:40 P.M.:  Buy.com - GN Netcom GN 6210 Bluetooth Office Headset : Gn Netcom : 6210-05 with this cheaper Buy.com - 5% off  and Buy.com - 10% off new customers .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 4:00 P.M.:  I sat outside briefly, and I picked up the mail.  I then threw out all of the computer periodicals.  I am not renewing my subscriptions to the computer periodicals, since I never have time to read them.  I prefer to read the computer information on the internet, since it uses less paper.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 3:25 P.M.:  I took three medium organic eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added two teaspoons of milk and a half 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 high 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 to 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.  Once I flipped the omelet, I put two five inch square slices of Jarleberg Lite cheese on one side and then four .5 inch slices of 1/3 less fat Philadelphia Cream, 12 grape tomatoes and 10 black olives and another slice of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, and then I flipped the empty side of the omelet over the side with the added items, 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.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 2:45 P.M.:   When I was sorting out the bulbs in the mahogany bureau drawers in the bedroom, I found an international Franzus compact polarized 1600 watt international electricity converter that converts 220 volt foreign electricity to 110 volts rated 50 to 1600 watts model M-1600, and a Belkin Ericsson compatible mobile power cord.  I put both of them on the shelf on top of the bedroom side board.  I just had to replace the two AA batteries in my Logitech wireless optical mouse with two new Duracell AA Energizer batteries, since the low battery warning came on.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 2:05 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 1:55 P.M.:  OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0 | Tech News on ZDNet .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 1:45 P.M.:   Italian Internet Cafes Now Require Passports To Surf (Internet) .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 1:35 P.M.:  After I showered, and I cleaned up, I took my bicycle backpack, and I walked down the walkway and stone stairs at the rear of the building down to the street below.  They are paving the street below.  I noticed a flock of ducks on the Byram River.  I went to the Royal Farm and Sushi Stand at the Cumberland Farms plaza, and I bought plum tomatoes at $1.59 a pound for $1.60 and six Bonita bananas for $1.70 for $3.30 total.  I carried them in my bicycle packback.  I then walked back up the walkway and steps at the rear of the building.  I noticed in the cement on the steps near the top, someone etched a memorial to the "911" victims on September 16, 2000.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now go through my email.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 11:55 A.M.:     I showed the building custodian my apartment as it exists at the moment.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on two full 1/32nds inch thick slices of turkey, 2 full slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese,  five 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slices of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I sorted out the second drawer down in my mahogany bureau in the bedroom that contains all the spare candelabra bulbs and other odd bulbs that I used around the apartment.  I put the florescent and the DC volt candelabra bulbs in the bottom drawer.  I found two packs of four 25 watt clear regular base torpedo bulbs, and since one of the two torpedo bulbs had burned out in the Rembrandt print light fixture in the living room, I replaced both of them with the new ones.  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will clean up, and I will walk down to the Korean vegetable stand at Cumberland Farms in nearby Port Chester, New York, and I will buy some bananas.  This will save on fuel, and it will give me a little bit of exercise walking down and up the long flight of steps to the road below our building.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 10:00 A.M.:  CNN.com - Prince William to join the army - Oct 21, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 9:35 A.M.:  I ordered for $6.99 Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Presto 04212 Electronic Clock/Timer and  for $19.99 Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster with free super saver shipping on an orders over $25 for $26.98 total.  The order is scheduled for delivery on November 2, 2005.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/05 Friday 9:00 A.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative last evening at 10:30 P.M..  I woke up at 2:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went back to bed until 5 A.M..  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out some garbage and periodical literature.  Yesterday, I put another blue tablet in the toilet bowl tank.  I put two dollar Indian coins in the small brass frame that I bought yesterday, and I left it on the CD shelf on the dining room table.  I use one of the magnetic hooks from the refrigerator, and I put it throught the wire rack behind the apartment entrance, and I hung the bicycle back pack from it and the Swiss Army back pack from it.  I left the back pack with wheels on the back of the sofa.  I am charging up the 2.5 million watt lantern on the bedroom sideboard.  I noticed www.costco.com now sells a big 15 million watt rechargeable lantern, in case you need to signal Long Island across Long Island Sound.  I also noticed they sell a quart of grape tomatoes for $4.29.  Prime New York steaks are $7.99 a pound for those of you whom have a little extra money.  You can get 4 pounds of bananas for $1.49.  There are lots of other bulk bargains. 

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 4:15 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants, when I wake up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 4:00 P.M.:  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.  I forgot to put cheese on the salad.  I used 10 grape tomatoes.  I did not use homemade hummus.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I threw out some garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 2:25 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I bought a Koh-i-noor Rapidograph Slim Pack  set of 7 Rapidograph Technical Pens for $2.  They do not look like they have been used, and their original retail price was $83.50.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and while waiting in line I ate three croissants and two other small cakes which they had out for customers.  I then went downtown, and I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and I bought a small brass picture frame two inches by three inches for one dollar.  I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove over to Costco in Port Chester, New York which was quite busy.  They have a new Lowe's movie theatre complex at the center of Port Chester, New York where Costco is along with a Marshall's discount clothing outlet.  At Costco, they have the LaCrosse weather station with ceiling projection for $40 and the Oregon Scientific weather station with ceilng projection for $35, but neither has barometric pressure.  I can not afford either at the moment.  They have a very good surge protector power strip with cable surge protection for $20.  I bought a six pack of 19 ounce cans of Hormel Steakhouse beef stew for $9.69, a six pack of Lindsay extra large pitted black olives 6 ounce dry weight cans for $5.29, a 16 ounce container of Kraft grated parmesan cheese for $4.99, a golden fresh pineapple about five pounds for $2.99, a two pound package of Kirkland sliced honey roasted turkey for $7.14,  a two pound package of Jarlsberg lite sliced cheese for $7.39, a two pound bag of Kirkland almonds for $7.49 for $44.98 total.  The Costco carts can be a bit hard to push around because their wheels seem to be worn out, so one should be sure to get one with wheels that work properly.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I put the little brass frame on the CD cabinet on the dining room table.  I do not have a picture in it yet.  I put the Rapidograph set on the sideboard in the bedroom with other odd items I keep around the apartment.  I have an old friend that disappeared into the government I think who use to work with Rapidographs.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 8:15 A.M.:  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up.  Don't forget to keep an eye out for British tourists off the Queen Mary II today http://www.qm2.org.uk/itinerary.html .  I suppose they will sailing slightly ahead of hurricane Wilma.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 7:45 A.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  The funds for the computer microscope that I cancelled have been put back in my account.  I searched out weather stations on the internet, and the best deal for me is at Costco.com Oregon Scientific Weather Forecaster/Atomic Clock .  I will go over there today to see if the have it in stock at the local store in Port Chester, New York after they open at 10 A.M..  I do not know if I can really afford it though.  I however do need to buy some sliced turkey and sliced cheese for sandwiches.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  They now have moved to 1 A.M. Monday for Hurricane Wilma to cross the east coast of Florida at Jupiter, Florida Hurricane WILMA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone .  Of course that can all change, and since the Florida Keys will be on the east side of the hurricane as it presently tracks, and since the east side of Key West, Florida is deep water, they still could get a storm surge according to the present tracking.  Currently tracking shows it coming ashore between Naples and Fort Meyers, Florida.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 12:40 A.M.:  This Hurricane WILMA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone now says that Hurricane Wilma will cross the east coast of Florida at Jupiter at 8 P.M. on Sunday.  Of course all of that can change in the next few days. CNN.com - Deadly Hurricane Wilma eyeing Florida - Oct 19, 2005 .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  I guess I will be on a daytime schedule today, and I do not have my 3 P.M. appointment today, so I am on a flexible schedule.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 12:15 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/20/05 Thursday 12:05 A.M.:  My Seth Thomas three instrument weather instrument cluster had fallen off the wall over a year ago where it hangs next to the hallway sweater closet.  I took apart the barometer, and I looked at http://www.indianharboryc.com/weather1.htm , and I set it to 29.9, and hopefully it will now work again.  I also adjusted the Jensen barometer on the back of my apartment door to 29.9.  Thus hopefully both barometers in the apartment now work correctly.  This is the weather station that I would like to get Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Oregon Scientific BAR898HGA Wireless Weather Station , but I am not sure that I can afford it this month.  It has a barometer which other ones like this Amazon.com: Oregon Scientific BAR888NA Cable Free Weather Forecaster with ExactSet Clock and Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer: Explore similar items  do not and the later one needs to have its shipping paid for, so for about $8 more one can get the unit with the barometer.  Thus from what I can tell, I would get this one Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Oregon Scientific BAR898HGA Wireless Weather Station .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 10:05 P.M.:  Florida Division of Emergency Management .  I chatted with a relative twice in Vero Beach, Florida, and they intend to stay there instead of leaving the area.  I chatted with another relative who is leaving for Rome, Italy tomorrow and sailing back across the Atlantic on Holland America cruise lines to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  They get good cruise rates this time of year.  I opened a 15 ounce can of Dinty Moore beef stew, and I put it in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I reheated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  On the five day forecast tracking Hurricane WILMA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone the tracking has changed from noon today to at present .  Judging from http://www.jacobsonsplants.com/find/images/florida.gif the tracking on Hurricane Wilma over the east coast of Florida changed from going over Fort Pierce around Sunday morning as of tracking at noon today, and it now shows it going over Jupiter, Florida on Sunday morning.  If the southern or downward trend of the tracking continues, it means the more heavily populated area of south Florida from West Palm Beach down to Miami might be effected.   I chatted with the Bank of New York, and they told me the $81.05 from the computer microscope that I cancelled should be restored to my account tomorrow morning.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 8:20 P.M.:  I ate a half of a bag of Arnold large cut Caesar croutons.  I then rested on the sofa all afternoon.  I chatted with a relative.  I just woke up.  I guess if I were down in Florida, I would head north out of the hurricane's way.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 11:10 A.M.:  Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar :: .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 11:05 A.M.:  I chatted with two relatives, and I left messages with two other relatives.  I called up the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/ 1-800-626-0777, and they had started to evacuate, and they left one poor little girl behind from the Philippines whom did not know whether it was safe to stay down there or not.  I called St. Paul's Episcopal Church  in Key West, at 1-305-296-5142 , and they did not know whether they were going to evacuate or not.  They told me St. Margaret's church next to the Casa Marina hotel is no longer there.  Since Hurricane Wilma is coming from the west side of Key West, Florida where the water is deeper, the storm surge might be greater than if it came from the east side of the island.  I guess much of the rest of the state of Florida is in a state of flux and does not know what to do.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 9:30 A.M.:  Hurricane Wilma: Get news updates, tracking maps, latest coordinates and preparation tips and Hurricane Wilma predicted to hit hard, fast .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 8:45 A.M.:  Hurricane Wilma is a category 5 hurricane heading across Florida tracking at the moment towards Fort Pierce, Florida TCPalm : Hurricane Wilma reaches Category 5, may whip Treasure Coast on weekend ,  about Sunday morning Hurricane WILMA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 7:05 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 6:50 A.M.:  The future of Microsoft Office: Get information about the next release .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 6:45 A.M.:  TechWeb | IT Careers | U.K. Seeks Real-Life IT 007s For Pretty Odd Job and The official website of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/05 Wednesday 5:35 A.M.: About 6 P.M. last night I had a telephone call from Inga Hinchel in Cologne, Germany, and she was looking for Chris Parizo http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/chris2000.JPG .  She is now a social worker.  I told her I had not heard from him since he showed up here after "911".  The last known address for Chris was New London, Connecticut.  A internet search shows he has a non published telephone number in Groton, Connecticut, and he is living with his brother James.  Inga said she would email me, and I gave her my email address.  I had another telephone call from a relative about 7 P.M..  My relative in Boston has a mild concussion from having her wine drugged at a pub in Boston.   I woke up with that telephone call, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I chatted with a relative and a friend.   I went back to bed until 4:30 A.M..  I ate some peanuts and licorice.  They still have not credited my bank account for the computer microscope that I cancelled.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 12:55 P.M.:  I went outside, and I picked up the mail.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 12:30 P.M.:  I took three medium organic eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added two teaspoons of milk 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 high 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 to 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.  Once I flipped the omelet, I put a slice of Swiss cheese on one side and then four .5 inch slices of 1/3 less fat Philadelphia Cream, 15 grape tomatoes and 10 black olives and another slices of Swiss cheese, and then I flipped the empty side of the omelet over the side with the added items, 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 noticed when I was out at Tod's Point this morning, when at night when one can see New York harbor clearly, that is a tidal wave from the Canary Islands entered into Long Island Sound, it probably would not effect Greenwich and Byram, but possibly Riverside, Old Greenwich, and Stamford would be effected.  It is hard to tell.  Of course a large tidal wave might not be broken by Manhattan Island or Long Island, so technically it could be worse if it ever did happen.  Various governments have studied this fact, but they have never released the information to the general public, since they do not want to scare the general public.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 11:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and my Volvo station wagon was a little bit slow starting, since I have an alarm system that drains the battery down.  I took it for a drive down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road. I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then drove over to Old Greenwich out to Tod's Point in the dark, and I stood out at the southwest and the southeast parking areas until sunrise.  I then stopped by downtown Old Greenwich at 7 A.M., but the Hair Cut Place was not opened until 8 A.M..  I then drove by Staples, but they were not opened until 8 A.M..  I drove back to downtown Greenwich, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  They have the new train station platform opened, but they do not have the elevator installed on the new pedestrian cross over.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 7 ounce bag of black licorice for $1.19 plus .07 tax for $1.26 total.  I got $4 in bonus bucks, and I bought a 500 count package of Georgia Pacific copy paper which is also for laser printers for $4.99 less the $4 off bonus bucks for .99 plus .06 tax for $1.05 total.  I then completed my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and they have a buy one get one free for the same price or less on clothing.  I noticed Christopher Peacock Welcome to Christopher Peacock Cabinetry has a large showroom across the street west of the Greenwich Library.  They use to be on Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Arnold Bread store outlet, and I bought two 6 bagel bags of New York multiseed bagels for $1.85 each bag and two 5.5 ounce bags of Arnold Seasoned regular cut croutons for $1.39 each $6.48 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with our current building custodian, and I told him I saw our original building custodian downtown, and he is as big as a horse.  I chatted with another computer magazine, and I had them send it to me in Digital format which saves trees.  I noticed at QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 it is due to be in Manhattan this Thursday October 20 and again November 1.  I am not sure if I will order the weather station or not, since it has some drawbacks according to the comments, but it is a good price if one does not want to turn on the computer to see the outside temperature.  Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster .  The order has to be over $25 to get free shipping, and the batteries at the bottom of the page would put it there.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 5:10 A.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso Creamy Chicken with wild rice soup, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle in the General Electric microwave oven.  I put the hot soup in a large cobalt blue soup bowl with a couple of handfuls of Arnold Caesar croutons, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  With President Bush's poll ratings at 39% CNN.com - Bush's job rating continues to drop - Oct 17, 2005, I guess many of the republican faithful are fleeing this area to safer home grounds.  I guess all that we are left with are the Rockefeller republicans with what remains of their few Swiss dairy cows.  At this rate Hilary and her hairdresser will be running the country soon.  Well, one usually has to get up early in the morning to milk the cows, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go downtown in Greenwich, Connecticut to see if the lights are still turned on.  Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is 50 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground , so I will have to remember wear a heavier jacket or a sweater for my walk.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 4:00 A.M.:  It looks like Tropical Storm Wilma will be near Key West, Florida at 8 P.M. on this Saturday Tropical Storm WILMA Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 3:55 A.M.:  I went through all of the television channels on my Optimum Digital television system.  The New Zealand rugby match was sort of interesting in that it looks like they still let the people in New Zealand eat food, since they seemed to be a bit hardier that we seem to be.   Of course our computers probably work better, since we sacrifice our food consumption for better computer parts, so the Asians can get bigger that sell the computer parts to us.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 2:25 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 2:10 A.M.:  Microsoft updates Windows Vista test code | CNET News.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 2:05 A.M.:  At http://connect.microsoft.com/ Vista Beta 1 Build 5231 is available for beta testers in both DVD and CD.  However, if one installs it over the earlier version of Vista Beta 1, one will not be able to upgrade it to beta 2 when beta 2 is released.  Thus I will not be installing it.  However, for beta testers without a DVD drive, it is now available in CD.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/18/05 Tuesday 12:30 A.M.:  I rested on the sofa some more.  I ate a couple of handfuls of Planter's dry roasted peanuts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 9:50 P.M.:  CNN.com - D.C. panda gets a name - Oct 17, 2005 and  http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html and half way down the page http://www.cnn.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 9:40 P.M.:  Just as I was about to go out after the last message, my 4 P.M. appointment called, and said that my appointment was cancelled.  I then went downstairs, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up the mail.  I then took a nap until 6 P.M..  I watched a Turner movie channel vintage movie by Tennessee Williams called "Sebastian", which I had seen before.  It sort of shows the quaint manners and morals of southern life.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  Apparently my relative whom was drugged in Boston went out with some friends on Friday night and was dancing and left a wine glass where they were sitting, and while they were dancing somebody put something in my relative's wine glass that messed up my relative.  I next microwaved and ate a 21 ounce Maria Callender lasagna with meat to which I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I do not think I have been out since about Thursdays, when I got groceries, so I am getting a bit of cabin fever.  They tell me the weather is nice out.  I still have not had my account credited with the cancelled computer microscope, so I can not yet buy the weather station.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 2:15 P.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I will now shower and clean up.  I will turn off the computer.  I will go out for my 4 P.M. appointment.   With the lower level of activity in this area because of the higher prices of gasoline and because of the impending very cold winter and because of the chance of terrorism in this area, more than likely there will be very fewer people out and about, since any people left in this area are probably just staying home.  Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=06830 .  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 1:05 P.M.:  I had two no person telephone calls at noon and shortly there after.  I got online at www.bluedeals.com , and I was able to cancel the order for the QX3 Computer Microscope.  It still has not yet shown up on my bank account.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 4:45 A.M.:  Nothing ever seems to happen here, so maybe I am in Greenwich, China.  The Chinese however do seem to be few and far between.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 4 P.M. appointment today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 4:25 A.M.:  I chatted with Optimum Online technical support, and I told them what I know about the Canary Islands, and that possibly a terrorist could cause the rift in the Canary Islands to happen sooner generating a tidal wave across the Atlantic.  Of course it probably has happened before in prehistory, and the old world people know this.  I suggested that Cablevision should have a backup facility on high ground.  I found a convenient email address on the waterfront in Manhattan, and I emailed them the same thing.  Basically, it would take a large force to prematurely dislodge the broken off piece of the Canary Islands, but technically it is possible.  I think I would be safe here in Fairfield County, Connecticut and possibly Long Island might be safe because of Fire Island, but I am not sure about New Jersey and Manhattan.  That is really all that I know.  Why is it in this area, the oldest most prosperous families always seem to live on the high ground.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks .  I used a 16 ounce tin of B&M maple flavored baked beans in the mixture, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  George Cary told me, when he retires in 10 years, he is thinking about buying a horse farm in Goshen, New York near West Point, New York.  I know he can not afford to pay help to run a horse farm, so I guess he is going to try to run it all himself in his old age with his wife and children.  He does not seem to worry about having a hospital nearby as he gets older.  I guess in an emergency, a veterinarian could help him out.  I do not know if civilians are allowed to use the hospital at the West Point military academy.  Of course, once you spend your whole life around horses, I guess you would not want to be left without them.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 1:40 A.M.:  There goes all of the off shore tax free bums ABC News: Cayman Islands Braces for Tropical Storm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 1:20 A.M.:  I can not afford to go to the Greenwich Library regularly, but for $20 one can copy the DVDs from the Greenwich Library if one has a DVD burner Surplus Computers DVD X Copy Platinum Version 4.0.3.8  .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 1:15 A.M.:  I chatted with the Greenwich Country Club at 1-203-869-1000, and they still have somebody at the desk there at night, but Kennedy Security has not worked it for several years.  There was once somebody that worked there that looked Ronald Reagan, and he worked for Wells Fargo Security.  They explained to me that they can not afford to keep their internet connection up and running, so I guess the golfing crowd took all the money and went south.  I guess we are stuck with all of the Wall Street bean counters that work for the retired people.  As I have said before 77% of the private money in the United States of America is controlled by little old ladies over 70 years old, so that mean the rest of use only control 23% percent of the money.  As anyone knows in the United States of America, we are not a communist country, and we mostly have private property, so without money one can not do anything, but sit at whatever place one has that one calls home, and wait until the people from down south come back up north in the spring, and hopefully one will earn a little extra money to survive the winter.  I think I know the fellow at the desk at the Greenwich Country Club.  He always wears a white sweater downtown in the morning that says Greenwich Country Club, and he walks a golden retriever.  Of course Larry Lawson of the Greenwich Library fame is also a member of the Greenwich Country Club, and his law firm on East Elm Street is being repainted and improved, so he must have some new money from somewhere.  The old guard in this area frequently have much larger law firms, and some of them even have as many at 10,000 lawyers, so the price of litigation can be quite costly depending on whom one bothers.  I once recommended to Bill Gates instead of hiring expensive lawyers that he hire 1,000 legal graduate students from the University of Illinois at $10 an hour and to flood the courts with paperwork, but he did not take my advise about these Mickey Mouse lawsuits.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/05 Monday 12:45 A.M.:  I called up the RCMP headquarters in London, Ontario RCMP Ontario Detachment Directory , and I tried to explain to them, it is my perspective, we are going to have a hard time surviving this winter.  I will keep a keen out this winter for Sergeant Preston and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  Of course it is not winter yet, but it does not hurt to try to get ready for winter while it is still warmer.  The only thing that would have probably caused all of the rain that we had the last couple of weeks is that a volcano erupted somewhere in the world that has not yet been reported, and more than likely it is going to be a colder this winter than expected and probably next winter too.  I am prepared, but are you?  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  In times of war, things are not generally the same as times of peace.  In my family a great many of the immediate family are like diplomats or representatives from a larger power.  My recommendation to Clarence Scott my grandfather if somebody still could contact him would be for the United States Government to go to Marshall Law at home and in all its territories and processions and to forget this quaint notion of peacetime democracy.  That is my fervent belief, if he wants to protect his family and neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 11:20 P.M.:  A strange thing happened this weekend.  When on Friday a Microsoft representative from Boston called up to invite me to a Microsoft event in Manhattan, I gave the Microsoft representative the name of a relative in Boston.  This same weekend the relative in Boston was poisoned, and her friends are taking care of the relative after going to the Boston hospital.  If the Microsoft representative is behind the poisoning which knowing Microsoft might be the case, I will contact my General Electric representative, and I will have them pull all the General Electric engines from the Boeing aircraft, and Boeing will be left with a bunch of beer cans.  If you want me to give you more examples about how to exercise supreme power, keep testing my patience.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 10:45 P.M.:  I checked with the Thataway Cafe , and their wireless internet only works in the bar area, and it does not work in the dining room or outside.  Locally my building seems to have wireless internet, but I do not know if it works outside the building.  I could try it, outside my apartment in front of the building, but at the moment, I have other things to do.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 10:30 P.M.:  Wireless internet set up at the Greenwich Library Greenwich Time - No better place than Greenwich for those who drive the best , but if you read the fine print, they have it set up, so users can not access it from the parking lot when the libraries are closed.  However, I think the Thataway cafe at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue has wireless access that you might be able to pick up from outside, but you would have to ask the bartender for the password.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 10:20 P.M.:  It looks like the United States Navy webmaster in Pensacola, Florida might get a little wet in a week or so, if Tropical Depression Twenty-four known as Hurricane Wilma continues its current course Tropical Depression TWENTY-FOUR Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone , of course it might increase in stength, and it still could change course and head over Florida.  As of now, the previous mentioned action has not happened.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 10:15 P.M.:  Now if this old guard type has supreme control over the internet, they would be able to void my purchase of the computer microscope, and release the money back into my bank account, so I could buy the Oregon Pacific weather station.  Obviously, they do not have supreme control over the internet, since this action has not yet happened.  In other words, I am calling your bluff, until I see it happen.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 10:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I am not going out, since I have spent more time out at this time of night in this area than anyone that I know.  Based on my experience with the local weather the local Mountain Lion population has not yet migrated down to Florida, and although I have not been paid in 22 years of my volunteer activity, I do not feel like risking my butt in this area being outside, just so some old guard type can use my apartment to meet up with his mistress.  Apparently the character's wife does not really care, but she has the money, and he does not, so I will advise them to go to family counseling and to quit bothering me in my private apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 8:10 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I chatted with a relative.  I shut down the four backup computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 7:20 P.M.:  I was up at 4 P.M. when a neighbor buzzed me.  I went downstairs, and my neighbor gave me $5 for the four packs of Seneca cigarettes that I had leant the neighbor.  I sat outside a while, and I watch the local activity.  I came upstairs, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I started up all five computers that are online in my apartment, and I am installing the updates.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I have been taking CVS Enzyme tables with my vitamins and supplements for breakfast to relieve some of the intestinal gas that I seem to get from my diet that I have been on for a long time.  It is the nature of the Scott family that they all seem to have lots of intestinal gas, unless they get it from the Boven family.  I guess that is why they call him the Duke of Windsor  or Lord Breakwind.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 6:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 6:05 A.M.:  I ate 3/4ths of a 9 ounce can of Walgreens smoked almonds with some iced tea.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/16/05:

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 4:50 A.M.:  I finished my email.  I took a little bit of time to see what was happening on the moving picture box.  They have a vintage 1950s movie about aliens taking over the planet by changing the weather.  It looks like one of those low budget Howard Hughes type movies that RKO use to run as the second feature on the weekend double feature matinees.  Of course it is the nature of the planet around these parts, that the weather does tend to get colder this time of year.  Thus if one intends to stay in this neck of the woods for the winter, one should get ready for winter.  It will probably another couple of weeks before I seal up and insulate my General Electric air conditioner, because we still have yet to get Indian Summer, where it can be warmer.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 3:30 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used mozzarella cheese.  I used 12 grape tomatoes.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 2:05 A.M.:  I put away the second load of laundry.  There goes the railroad CNN.com - Thousands flee after train explosion - Oct 15, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 1:35 A.M.:  There is some rain heading towards Key West, Florida Tropical Depression TWENTY-FOUR Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 1:25 A.M.:  I might order this with batteries, once I get my money back from the Computer Microscope order that I cancelled.  Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster .  The order has to be over $25 to get free shipping, and the batteries at the bottom of the page would put it there.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/05 Sunday 1:15 A.M.:  Good news in Denmark BBC NEWS Europe Baby born to Danish royal couple .  I chatted with a relative.  I put away one drier load of laundry, and I am now doing the second drier load.  One of my neighbors forgot to pick up their laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 11:50 P.M.:  It is a rather peculiar fact of the environmental movement that with all of the world's environmental problems, a great many of the Kennedy connection environmental activities seem to be involved in locations around the world where illegal narcotics are produced and transported.  Thus I would say since the Kennedy, Roosevelt, Mellon group were involved in illegal bootlegging of liquor during for prohibition that more than likely they consider themselves above the law, and their environmental activities are a cover for the production and distribution of illegal narcotics and other illegal activities.  It is such a large group of them involved in the activity, that I think it is an open secret.  As Everett Dirksen said when he read John Kennedy's list of cabinet appointments, the only think missing was the Sherriff.  I have a feeling from what I read the Viet Nam war that it was a turf battle over illegal narcotics, and that it is a major business, and the parties interested seem to be organized to fight to protect their turf.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 11:20 P.M.:  I started one dryer load.  We have a local election going on in which the republicans will probably win.  A great many people here in Greenwich, Connecticut are well educated, and they do not buy the liberal propaganda machine on television.  There are a great many of odd things about the democratic party between what they say and do.   For example it is widely advertised that the Robert Kennedy family is related to the Skakel family of the local murder trial fame.  However, although the Robert Kennedy family advertise themselves as world class environmentalists.  It is a less published fact the Skakel family wealth is derived from their ownership of Great Northern Carbide.  Great Northern Carbide is the largest producer of asbestos in the world, and the major cause of the overwhelming asbestos pollution in Lake Superior on whose banks they have major production facilities.  Thus it would seem a lot of their public relations as far as the environmental movement is a way of covering up their major environmental sins, and it never made sense to me why environmentalists have to use so much energy traveling around the world to save the environment.  I would recommend that some of these environmental groups publish their energy expenditures and be audited.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 10:45 P.M.:  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I chatted with a relative.  I ran Windows and Office updates.   I ran Norton Updates.  I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 and Ad-awareSE.  I then did a System Restore backup.  I ran CCleaner.  I then did a Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I will now put clean linens on the bed.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 1:25 P.M.:  I went outside, and I heard the sound of a lot of traffic, and I picked up mail.  The Stop and Shop will give you six items for .10 each this week, if you buy $25 of other groceries.  I chatted with a relative, and I chatted with a friend.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 12:10 P.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea earlier.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 12:05 P.M.:  I cancelled the computer microscope, but one can get the QX5 for $75.83 with shipping in this area from JR.com: PRIME ENTERTAINMENT QX-5 Microscope in Telescopes: and in this area, it is $75.83 with shipping since JR is a local outfit.  That would be a $13.22 savings from the other site.  I might order it from them once the other order is cancelled and credited to my account.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 11:15 A.M.:  In my old age, I am getting a little bit hard of seeing, and I am a bit absent minded, and I keep forgetting the computer and the internet are just tools that can be connected to other tools.  I can not do astronomy work around here, since 20 miles east of Manhattan the skies are not too clear, and I do not need to really upgrade my computer equipment.  Thus I ordered a new attachment for my computer equipment which might come in handy for some more scholarly research.  I looked at Ebay and in the excitement of a last minute auction, I bid up an old Gilbert microscope from $7  to $16, but I lost.  I noticed microscopes can get very expensive, and I figured I have an expensive computer, so maybe there was something that would work with the computer.  I did not do much research, and I was in a hurry, but I found this from a search at Google for "Computer Microscope".  I ordered the QX3 with free voice device by mistake, and I just email them to change the order from the QX3 with free animation station to the  QX5 Microscope - Digital Blue QX5 Computer Microscope Sale for $77.99 plus $11.06 shipping for $89.05 total.  It should be a useful tool to use with my overall computer setup.  Money will be a bit tight for the rest of the month, so I will be spending more time inside.  I figure I might do some other research with the microscope connected to the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 9:25 A.M.:  I made a mistake earlier in my notes.  I said that having studied a great many American characters, Granddad Scott reminded me of Geronimo, but in fact Granddad Scott reminded me more of Sitting Bull.  Whatever the case he was supposed to have been a railroad fireman for 20 years, and a railroad fireman was the guy that shoveled the coal, so he must have been fairly strong.  Then for another 30 years, he was a steam locomotive engineer.  The railroad was called the Illinois Central railroad, which people in New York have never heard about.  However, people in New York have heard of W. Averill Harriman, and he once was President of the Illinois Central railroad before he lost all of his money working for a measly dollar a year for Franklin Roosevelt.  I guess the Roosevelts did not have much money, if all they could pay was a dollar a year.  I guess they actually paid a dollar a year, so they could not be accused of employing slaves.  Anyway Granddad Scott supposedly won two 1,000 acre farms in poker game in the depression, so he let my Grandmother Scott's family live on them, while he worked the railroad.  He always liked the railroad, since the Brotherhood of Railroad Workers was suppose to have the best pension plan in America, if you live that long working on the railroad.  It is the nature of moving very heavy equipment that the railroad can be very dangerous.  Since the railroad did not pay that much, Grandmother Scott worked as a school teacher.  Thus my father Louis Scott was well educated, and he graduated number one in his class from the University of Illinois, and he worked on his Doctorate Degree in Organic Chemistry, but he never got his Doctorate Degree since he did not complete his dissertation.  I think because of the polio epidemic, he went to work with Doctor Jonas Salk whom helped find the cure for polio.  Whatever, the case most people here in Greenwich do not seem to know whom he was, they just know some of his friends.  I guess he was so busy working on projects related to chemical engineering, he did not have time to network with the local community.  Thus most of the ignorant people focus on other people named Scott particularly the ones that show up on the moving picture box.  Basically once one reaches a certain high level in research or the medical profession, you colleagues know you, but the average man in the street thinks you are nitwit, since you have worked so hard in your profession that you do not know what is in the penny press.  Basically I finally figured out that Dad had enough influence for us to be left alone and for use to pursue our professions as we chose to do so.  Whatever, the case from what I can tell having been around reputable professional people whom had lawyers and political connections because they did government research, my family does not need to explain itself to the average snoop in the community whom is usually trying to get ahead with out really working.  As in any profession, once one begins to get involved, if you can not take the hours and the time it takes to pursue one's profession, one should just pursue simpler ideals.  A great many accomplished professionals in retirement take up other hobbies and past times, because they get tired of listening to their wives talk about their sister.  Whatever, the case I studied up a bit on Howard Hughes, and although Howard Hughes did not like cigarette smokers and invented the Iron Lung, I figured it was safer to stay at home instead of testing risky aircraft, and I figured the reason he had to work so much and hide out is that his many wives were causing problems.  Whatever, the case since the Hughes people are always spying on the Rockefeller network, more than likely if we do not know something, they will know something.  We even use to have a detective Hughes in town, so maybe we have some of his other family members.  Basically the Greenwich Police Department in Connecticut does not like dealing with the Greenwich Village Police department in the Ninth Precinct, since the Greenwich Police spend most of their time in cars, so once they get out of their cars, they are not use to the colder and hotter weather in lower Manhattan, and they are not use to walking so much.  Having always been a walker, I do not need to waste my time playing golf to try to make a little extra money.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 8:05 A.M.:  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I remember occasionally, when my father married my mother he weighed 450 pounds.  Of course people in the Midwest tend to eat more.  However, as an international business person, he pretty much knew everyone of substance, but after living in Africa and Florida, he did not have very good medical care, so he died around 1990 when he broke his hip, and a piece of the broken hip gave him a stroke.  At the time of his death, he only weighed about 250 pounds, because he had had Parkinson's Syndrome for about 10 years.  He was able to still drive his Jaguar to the liquor store, since he was taking medicine from one of his old company's called Monsanto called Sinemet.  He also I think took Carbidopa Levodopa.  These seemed to stabilize his palsy, and he was able to maintain a good life.  The last time I saw him I played golf with him, so he was still active.  However, as we get older over time, we forgot that we too will get to be our parents age some day, and whatever the problems we may have had with them as children, we always enjoy seeing our parents, and our parent's friends.  The reason I always talk about my parents, because as a Christian that has done more than just read the new testament or watch television evangelism, I have also read the complete King James version of the Bible twice.  One time when I was confused about my family when my parents were divorcing for personal reasons, I read the passage, "Honor Your Father and Your Mother, That Your Days May Be Long."  Thus whatever, the case, when one comes from a divorced family that gets a bit confusing because usually after all of those years, if they do divorse, they do not really like each other, they just hang around for the kids sake to see what will happen next.  Whatever, the case my father since he drank alcohol knew other people whom drank alcohol, and he once told me he knew the writer Ian Fleming of James Bond fame.  I read most of Ian Fleming's books to see what they were all about, and I found them somewhat amusing compared to my academic studies.  I sometimes think if my father knew Ian Fleming, he might have known other people in the espionage business, so I read about six other books on the subject.  The one that caught my attention was a "Man Called Intrepid".  about Sir William Stephenson and his exploits, and I realized that my friend George Cary's father was involved with some of Sir William Stephenson's friends from Canada.  However, George likes horses so much, he never paid much attention to what his father's friends did.  Since Dad knew that type of people, I sometimes tell people that Dad got tired of his third wife's family trying to steal his money, and after my mother his second wife was remarried to a well established man, so he could not hang out in his usual circles.  Thus he gave up and faked his death, and possibly moved to Australia with what little money remained from the oil business, and he started a new life with a fourth wife.  Apparently with all of the cheaper food on the ranch in Australia, he got use to eating a little bit more, and after a roast beef or leg of lamb after another, he got a little bit larger, so today he weighs about 1,500 pounds, and he is too big to be able to travel off of Australia to visit his earlier families whom usually want money.  However, that is mostly my own whimsy, since he did not look too alive at his funeral.  However, I do not recall ever having seen another dead person before, so I am not an expert on what a dead person looks like. I do recall when leaving Westchester airport, a few of those large African Americans that dad employed drove me in the snow storm from Westchester airport to LaGuardia airport in six inches of snow, and when I arrived in Chicago, Illinois, I saw about a dozen big military transports on the ground at O'Hare airport.  Everyone in O'Hare airport looked like relatives, but it was sort of strange that nobody other than a few other friends of my father showed up at the funeral.  I guess since as international business person away from his family hometown in Champaign, Illinois most of his life, when he was returned to be buried not many people knew him where he had grown up.  After living in the New York City area, Champaign, Illinois seems sort of remote, and I recall after the funeral, two of my sisters and myself had a large chicken salad in a large corn chip at a local restaurant.  Thus if I had the money, I guess there is a family mausoleum with my grandfather Clarence and grandmother Elizabeth Scott and father Lou Scott, next to the University of Illinois, but I do not think any of my other relatives could afford to be buried there.  Alas, as the last of the Scotts in America, I hope they do not put my ashes in Danish cookie tin and throw them out in the dumpster.  Helen Williams use to save my old cigarette ashes, and mix them with gold leaf to paint the frames at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since mixing the ashes with gold leaf made the paint look older and more to her taste.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 5:20 A.M.:  I finished the house cleaning.  I over watered the plants, so I will have to remember not to water them so much next week.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 3:20 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - Soaker carries echoes of '55 deluge .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/05 Saturday 3:15 A.M.:  This morning after I went to bed, I had a no person telephone call at about 11 A.M..  Usually since the type of people that perform that sort of activity cause other problems, their activity usually ends sooner or later.  I had a telephone call from a computer magazine.  I told the computer magazine that I am no longer renewing my free subscriptions to computer magazines, since I never have time to read them.  I had a telephone message left by a relative.  I finally was awaken again by a telephone call, since the neighbor needed a pack of cigarettes.   I went downstairs, and I leant the neighbor a pack of cigarettes, and I picked up my mail.  The neighbor now owes me four packs of cigarettes.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I chatted with a relative.  I chatted with a Microsoft represenative that wanted me to go to a presentation in Manhattan, and I diplomatically told the Microsoft representative that I could not afford to visit Manhattan.  I told another computer magazine, I did not need to renew their subscription.  I went back to bed until 7 P.M..  I chatted with three relatives.  I ate some peanuts and black licorice and a few 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices of mozzarella cheese.  I started my house cleaning by vacuuming and cleaning the bathroom and watering the plants.  I still have to clean the kitchen and clean the mirrors and glass work.  I am a bit slow this evening, so I am doing things at my own pace.  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, 2 slices of Swiss cheese,  four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, three large spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slices of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I watched some television during the evening, and they said the rain had stopped after 1.5 inches of rain instead of 5 inches.  None of the local dams had broken, but of course water is flowing over them.  New Jersey has some flooding.  There are suppose to be thunderstorms today along with gale force winds on Sunday and Monday, so hopefully Tuesday will be nicer weather.  I think it was too late for Noah to start building an ark.  Either the King of Saudi Arabia or King of Jordan were suppose to be on television, but I do not speak their languages, so I did not bother to watch.  If any important people every show up in Greenwich, Connecticut besides the Rockefellers, nobody ever tells me.  I suppose everyone is just Rockefeller employees, and those affiliated with their employees.  Since the Scott's started the Rockefellers in business, once their business affairs come to an end for lack of interest, I guess the Scotts will go back to growing potatoes at the Greenwich Country Club or whatever crops is profitable at the time.  Since the Scotts were the original people in the United States of America whom could barrow money from the Warburg bank before all of their other later associates came along, I would assume if you are old guard the Dutch West Indies company is no longer taking new partners, and it is probably the same with the British West Indies company.    Since we have absentee colonial management of a good part of their enterprises here, I just keep a benign eye on the overall activity.  I suppose there is some bean counter back in Europe looking for other ways we can save money looking at the bottom line of some financial ledger.    Well, not much happening, so I will resume my house keeping.  From my observation here over a period of time, and knowing something about electronics, I think one or more trucks park on Interstate 95 in our area, and they have such high frequency radio communications that they use, it interferes with human brave waves.  Possibly the FCC should look into the type of radio frequencies some of these truckers are using in this area, and possibly they could monitor it, and figure out exactly what is the problem.  I noticed like in Nantucket around the microwave antennas, a lot of people around here wear headsets and listen to music to tune out the radio interference.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 6:40 A.M.:  I am really tired, so I will shut down the computer soon, and I will go to bed.  I think if Port Chester or Greenwich flood, according to the fire department sign in the community room downstairs, there is room for a 114 evacuees.  I think for it to be used for evacuation, some sort of town official would have to designate it as such.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 6:25 A.M.:  Come to think of it, I might have a connection with an elephant.  Back in July 1977, when I was living at Flossie's Flop house on Nantucket working 12 to 14 hour days 7 days a week for $2.15 an hour at the Gordon Folger Hotel as a pot scrubber next to a cast iron stove that was about 140 degrees Fahrenheit around the stove, I think I got the job because I was darkly tanned having spent the previous winter in Florida at the beach.  Although I did not know Spanish, I think they thought I was an illegal alien, so they gave me one of the harder low pay jobs on the island.  Milk is scarce on Nantucket, so they use to feed us meat loaf and Cool Aid and canned vegtables.  The job does not show up on my Social Security record, since at the time I put down the wrong Social Security number, since I did not have my card with me at the time.  I recall working the Gordon Folger job from about June to September, when I took another job at the India House which was more low key, and then I transferred to the Languedoc restaurant where I worked for a number of years during the summers.  Occasionally we would quickly change jobs around depending on certain guest employees. Occasionally I would get a day off from the Gordon Folger job, and I would buy a dollar bottle of .75 liter French wine which is cheap on the Atlantic Coast in America, since ocean transportation is cheaper from France than land transportation from California.  Since I did not have much money, I would sip the white wine is some quiet location.  I once recall at that time there was a circus on the island, and I happened to wander out towards the circus after I had sipped a bit of the wine late at night after the circus had shut down, and there was a baby elephant about four feet high and maybe four hundred pounds tied up with nobody watching it, so I spent the rest of the evening and early morning sipping the white wine and talking with the baby elephant, since I was told that elephants always remembered.  I am not sure if the elephant at its young age knew what I was talking about, but maybe there was some other circus animal listening in.  Thus one of my original drinking buddies on Nantucket when I returned from my first winter in Florida on my own was a baby elephant.  More than likely after all these years, the elephant is older and wiser and probably bigger.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 5:25 A.M.:  Since I suspect I have been having security problems on my computer environment, I have changed the CMOS passwords on the primary and the primary backup computers.  Since the CMOS password is six characters of either the 26 letters of the alphabet or 10 numbers which is 36 to the 6th power, one would have a one in 1,679,616 chance of guessing it.  Of course CMOS passwords are not fool proof, since one can usually remove the CMOS battery and the password and CMOS settings are lost.  However, then I would know there has been an intruder, and I could increase security measures like buying some sort of user friendly pet that I can afford. I am not allowed to have a dog and neither can I afford it.  However, there must be some sort of pet in the animal kingdom that would protect my computer operations.  I still say it all started with a monkey and parrot that broke into a top secret communications facility, and we still seem to have plenty of nuts and bananas around.  I am the only person that knows the password on the primary computer, and it is not written down anywhere or stored on the computers.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 5:15 A.M.:  BBC NEWS Europe EU holds bird flu crisis meeting .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 5:10 A.M.:  Last year at this time, I bought an electric blanket from www.smartbargains.com for about $35, but this year with higher energy costs, nobody seems to be discounting electric blankets.  It is another reason why my comforter was always warm enough in the bedroom.  This year if you can find one, they will probably cost at least twice as much.  I have heard on the news, we are suppose to get another five inches of rain today, so sooner or later, there might be some flooding.  If we are actually living in Greenwich, China instead of Greenwich, Connecticut, China might be getting some rain NRL Monterey Satellite Photos Pacific Ocean .  On the news locally, they have said that natural gas prices for heating will be going up 50%, oil for heating will be going up 35%, and electricity for heating will be going up 5%.  That is good news for me, since I have electric heat, but it even if one uses it and pays the high bills, it is usually not that warm during the cold days of winter.  They are predicting a warmer winter, but from what I know I would not bet on it.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 4:45 A.M.:  I decided the 25 watt bent tip Philips bulb was too bright in the elephant lamp, and I tried a 8 watt red and a 8 watt white bulb, but they were not bright enough.  I do not have any 15 watt bent tip bulbs, so I put in a 25 watt round opaque Philips decorator bulb, and it cast a nice even low light without glare.  There is no point in having a night light on all the time, if it does not project enough light for one too see in the dark.  I also have a standard 8 watt night light that goes on and off in the dark automatically in the kitchen, and I have a long life 40 watt bulb in the hallway bookcase book light that stays on all the time, and a 8 watt night light in the bathroom that stays on all the time.  Also there are a lot of devices that have red or green indicator lights which stay on most of the time.  This is just the night time lights out environment.  The bedroom does not have a night light, but I have a red indicator light off the ultrasonic bug zapper and the hallway bookcase book light casts its light into the bedroom.  When one wakes up at night and has to go to the bathroom in a rather small cramped apartment, it is good to have night lights.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 3:20 A.M.:  I took some pictures

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.  I also updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 1:45 A.M.:  Now if you want to see how many of my neighbors are worried about the Byram River flooding, try http://maps.google.com/ searching "71 Vinci Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830" , and then look at the satellite photograph and click the "-" to enlarge it to see how many people live around the Byram River watershed.  Maybe we will see a Rockefeller come kayaking by our neighborhood.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/05 Friday 1:10 A.M.:  I woke up today about 10:30 A.M., when I got a no person telephone call.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I then went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment, and I also took time to tour the ground floor of the new Watson Pavilion at the Greenwich Hospital.  They will be opened in about two weeks, and they are moving into it gradually.  I noticed the new coffee shop at the south end on the ground floor of the Watson Pavilion is already opened.  I do not have my 3 P.M. appointment next week, because they will be moving.  I next went to the last outpost of thrift in Greenwich, Connecticut called the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  Occasionally if one tours the shop long enough one finds interesting items tucked away in various obscure places.  I bought a 12 inch high mahogany pedestal lamp which takes a candelabra bulb with two  three inch by three inch little brass raging elephants on its pedestal for $5 and a small green cloth shade with bow for a dollar for $6 total.  I also found a plastic white candelabra fixture tube wrapping that I put with it, so the electrical fixture did not show.  I was told by one of the Greenwich Hospital shop volunteers that the local C.B.S. news had been reporting from her house on Cliffdale Road that the dam on the Byram River north of Cliffdale Road might wash away.  I have never seen it since it is an old dam with about five miles of silt and mud behind it where they built $50 million dollar homes.  I guess when they built the Kensico reservoir and completed the newer Valhalla dam redirected the Byram River into a new course.  I once looked on the Greenwich satellite photograph, and it showed a bunker type formation south of John Street and north of Cliffdale Road, but it did not show anything, but woods behind the bunker formation.  At http://maps.google.com/ search "Cliffdale Road, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830".  Maybe they are worried about Wooley Pond if that is held back by a dam.  I think the bunker formation is on the south side of the Bydale Farm owned by the Warburg family.  If it is an older dam, then possibly it might be the weak link in the Kensico Reservoir complex.   It does show up on the satellite photograph from the same link.  I do not know that much about it, however a lot of people downtown were worried about it.  Apparently today was another Jewish holiday, so lots of the local youth were downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I noticed in the front of window of Greenwich Cigar across the street from the Greenwich Train station, they now have a daily morning bus at 7:30 A.M. returning at 4:30 P.M. to and from the Foxwoods Casino on the Eastern shoreline of Connecticut, if you feel like risking you wampum with the Indians.  I guess that is why not many people bother to play the Powerball lottery game anymore.  I think the bus might be free if one gambles.  I do not know if that includes other entertainment privileges.  During my walk, I went by CVS, and I bought two 7 ounce packages of black licorice for $1.19 each, and 75% off shelf bottle of CVS Vitamin C 500 MG. 500 tablets for $2.49 for $5.01 total.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then went by waterfront, and one person from North Carolina has been lingering down there for about six months.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I polished the mahogany base of the elephant lamp with furniture polish, and I tightened the two screws to secure the elephants more securely.  I put a 25 watt clear Philips bent tip bulb in it, and I put the green shade on it.  I put it on my living room window shelf in front of the General Electric air conditioner with the model of Buckingham Palace on the left and the LCD clock on the right.  I plugged it into the power strip on the floor, so it stays on all the time like a night light.  It looks quite nice and quaint for a $6 night light.  It is better than a $5 piece of junk plastic.  Thus the living room area will be lighted all the time even when the main wall switch is turned off.  I chatted with two relatives.  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, 2 slices of Swiss cheese,  four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, three large spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slices of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with some government officials about the Greenwich Dam  situation, and they gave me two telephone numbers to call at the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the daytime.  I guess dams do not break at night.  However with all of the rain to the north of us, plus what we have had in this area, we might have some sort of flood situation in the near future depending on how the weather develops.  I told one party that Harrison Hoffman my retired history teacher from eighth grade at Greenwich Country Day who is retired from the British Army use to always lecture on the Greenwich, Connecticut watershed.   However, I do not know if he is still available, but I think he is a volunteer at the Stanwich Road community church which I think is on higher ground.  CIO              

Note: <888> 10/13/05 Thursday 4:50 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/13/05 Thursday 1:35 A.M.:  I did not win with the http://www.powerball.com/ numbers, but maybe we will have a few people lined for the next drawing this Saturday at $290 million.  I guess with that type of money, one could buy a house in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on six 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, 4 slices of Swiss cheese,  six 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four large spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slice of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/13/05 Thursday 12:25 A.M.:  I woke up at 2:30 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal , a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I watched the ABC evening news.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I said good evening to some of my neighbors sitting at the front entrance.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I used my multicolor umbrella, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a Powerball Ticket for a dollar numbers 02,12,23,24,28/38 .  It is a chance to win $240 million.  There were not any other people lined up to buy them.  I then went completed my walk.  I drove down by the waterfront.   The waves were breaking over the sea wall on Steamboat Road.  I then drove into back country to Glenville to the Stop and Shop.  There are red and white signs posted in front of the Greenwich Hospital that the Emergency Room entrance has been moved from the east side of the Greenwich Hospital to the west side of the new Greenwich Hospital Watson Pavillion.  The Watson Pavillion is suppose to open October 24, 2005.  It is well marked.  Of course the new ramp leading up to the emergency room might be slippery in the winter.  At the Stop and Shop in Glenville, I bought buy one get one free for $3.39 of Land-O-Lakes 8 ounce Pepper Jack and Monterey Jack two of each, two 96 ounce containers of Tropicana Essentials and one of low acid orange juice for  $2.77 each, 2 pints of Godiva one of Belgium chocolate and the other of Bellia Chocolate sorbet for $2.50 each, buy one get one free of Freschetta 18.5 ounce brick oven five cheese pizzas for $7.89 both, 5 Maria Callendar 21 ounce frozen lasagna dinners with beef for $2 each, buy one get one free of Ritz low sodium 14.5 ounce crackers for $3.69 both, two 48 ounce containers of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $2.50 each, a pound of baby carrots for $1.50, fresh Chiquita bananas with the store circular coupon for .25 a pound for .25, a fresh head of broccoli at $1.29 a pound for $1.37, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99, and a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39 less a $5 off store circular coupon with over $50 purchase for $49.17 total.  I saved with the sale items and store circular coupons $55.41 on that order.  I then returned back home to my apartment building.  I had brought my folding cart in my car to bring up my groceries.  I chatted with a relative.  I put away my groceries.  I took out from the freezer the glass beer pitcher and the wine fiasco, and I put them on the Danish bar in the living room with the French flag resting on top of the wine fiasco.  There was a broken 26 ounce bottle of Perrier in the refrigerator that had broken possibly from falling against the back of the refrigerator, and I cleaned up its mess, and I threw the glass down the garbage chute next to my apartment.  I had the opened bottle of Perrier that I used for cleaning the HP ink cartridge, and I drank the rest in a large wine tulip glass with a couple of dashes of Angostura bitters.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 6:55 A.M.:  I checked outside, and it seems to be raining a little bit, but not bad by North Sea standards.  It seems most of these internet gurus have been out in California for so long, they are not prepared to deal with the usual weather in this area.  I noticed on my kitchen television which is not on the Optimum Digital television, there is an oscilloscope type graph.  I suppose it is for monitoring the cable network from remote.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Still baby sitting a panda http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html .  Down in Alabama in the old days, when a lot of people played checkers, we use to play Chinese checkers, and we use to joke about digging a hole to China.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 6:05 A.M.:  For those individuals whom still drink beer 20028, Brew Keg Premium Edition Kit, Beer Machine, Beer Brewing Machine and 20026, 3 Beer Mix Variety Pack, 3 Beer Mixes, Beer Variety Beer Mix Pack .  In my youth the Sears catalog use to sell beer making kits and bottling devices.  Basically, I think one could buy a bottle cap installer and bottle caps from the Sears catalog.  One would use one's grandfather's old 10 gallon crock.  One could buy a hydrometer to measure the beer brewing process from some odd retailer.  One would need cheese cloth to cover the beer as it fermented.  One had a real hard time finding Blue Ribbon Malt Syrup  for this recipe Blue Ribbon 2 or Blue Ribbon 1 , but where you can buy a quart can of Blue Ribbon malt syrup Malts and Grains for Brewing .   Of course, you need cake yeast and sugar and water.  Also one needs some sort of siphon tube, and I use to float the siphon tube on top of the mixture with a  12 inch wooden disk with a hole in the middle for the tube.  We use to bottle it in Canada Dry Ginger Ale bottles, and I recall my eldest sister's friends use to sell it at Tod's Point.  I recall there is a certain United States law that the head of the household is allowed to ferment a certain amount of beer or wine each year for their personal consumption.  http://www.hoptech.com/ can help one with the supplies.  I recall in my Economic studies when a country goes into recession, two businesses that tend to do better are beer and movies.  Back at prep school at Taft in Watertown, Connecticut in the old days, we use to take a gallon of cider and put a handful of raisins in it, and let if ferment for a couple of weeks.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 5:35 A.M.:  Tall ain't cheap Greenwich Time - Cops cite drivers using cell phones .  I ate the last two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 5:10 A.M.:  My current full size comforter that I bought new two years ago from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop for $30 is from www.jcpenny.com by Croscill JCPenney home furnishings department Croscill Comforter in a Dutch Blue Colonial type pattern that is no longer available , but they have others Royal Home Fashions :: Your Complete Croscill Headquarters or The Home Decorating Company - Croscill Bedding, Croscill Comforters, Croscill Sheets, Croscill Drapes & Valances .  There is this clearance item in Croscill Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day!Croscill Figaro , so I would say my current Croscill comforter at new prices would be a couple of hundred dollars, so I do not feel like replacing it with something cheaper.  It has kept me plenty warm for the last two winters, and I generally leave the bedroom heat at 55 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter.  It is Polyester Fortrel fill.  Need I say more.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 4:05 A.M.:  Of course last year, my solution was Men's Mostly Long Underwear and Long Johns .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.:  These are available SmartBargains: Comforter sets perfect for cuddling up for the night , but they might not be warm enough for a cold winter, unless one can afford to heat one's house, but they are decorative.   These are probably warmer and more expensive Comforters at Sierra Trading Post or from the people that know L.L.Bean: Down Comforter Guide for more wampum L.L.Bean: Comforters & Covers .  These people are suppose to know and the Canadian dollar goes further www.hbc.com .  However Sears knows cold Down Comforters .  More fashion for those who can afford heat Linens 'n Things - Bedding: Comforters , but if you have the bucks, these might work Linens 'n Things - Bedding: Down Comforters: Search for .   Life's not cheap north of the border Bed Bath & Beyond Product Styles down comforters .  Thus after  a quick search if the web shows what it seems to be, you pretty much get what one pays for.   Best deal for the buck seems to be Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Synthetic down comforter $40 in blue in king and queen or Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! white down comforter $50  , but from if money were no object, I would probably buy a house or apartment that I could afford to heat or Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! 330 tc Siberian Down Comforter .  Of course Sam does not want you to freeze Search results for comforter - Wal-mart , but I have a Costco card Costco.com Comforters , but Costco generally assumes their customers have more money than I usually have.  I guess I could always shoot and pluck a Canadian Goose.  However, I have a perfectly good comforter that I bought for $30 new at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop about two years ago, and it matches my color scheme in the bedroom.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 2:55 A.M.:  Of course if one were from Brazil planning to spend the winter in Connecticut, one might need this Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! 330 tc Siberian Down Comforter .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 2:50 A.M.:  I cancelled the order for the Amazon comforter, because reviews said it was not heavy enough.  I did find these Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Down Comforters with this synthetic one Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Synthetic down comforter $40 in blue in king and queen , but I do not know if the blue color would fit into my bedroom.  Also this is available Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! white down comforter $50 .  However, I think I will save my money, and I will just use my current synthetic one, which has been warm enough in past winters.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 2:15 A.M.:  I ordered it in Queen Size for $29.99 with free shipping Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Westpoint Stevens Patrician Woven Jacquard Queen Comforter Set, Frederica and other items for $10 more are at Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares Search Results: CF Textile .  I have a good comforter about three years old, but with a cold winter coming, another one might come in handy, plus it fits my bedroom's current decorations.  I ordered queen size, since full size does not seem to fit on my full size bed.  I can always use the quilt during the warmer months.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 1:45 A.M.:  Get ready for a cold winter Cheap Stingy Bastard: Westpoint Stevens Patrician Woven Jacquard Queen Comforter Set, Frederica for $30 down from $300.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 1:25 A.M.:  I chatted with Optimum Online Cablevision www.cablevision.com , and I then searched their web site at www.optonline.net , and I found deeply buried in the bowels of their web site this downloadable program to go with their Optimum Online Service Optimum Online - Cservice - The Optimum Online net guide or the Netguide download program from this link Optimum Online - Customer Support.  I downloaded it, and I installed it.  It has certain useful features.  It was already downloaded on my machine, so I must have forgotten to reinstall it during some past configuration.  Whomever invaded my apartment in the last six months did not touch the alcoholic beverages, so maybe it was somebody from one of those countries, where people do not have privacy.  I was just thinking since I have tropical experience, maybe I could apply to replace Fidel Castro in his job as dictator of Cuba, and I could teach the Cubans a little English and French.  Alas, my northern cousins do not feel like going tropical.  After all my branch of the Scott family is from Illinois, so more than likely the Polish Democrats in Chicago are just waiting to see what comes back at them on the Scott's adventures in the greater world.  Judging by our local home economics, popcorn still is not very profitable.  Unless we have another great war, where they blockade India, and then we might make some money supplying  the nautical business with items that they grow in India, but alas the United States Navy seems to have other resources like the DuPont family.  However, I have always maintained nylon rope does not last very long around salt water.   I use to have many friends around the waterfront in Florida, and I think they are confusing me with a friend that I have only seen a few times, and he is known around the waterfront as the "Sea Wolf".  However, most people avoid him, since he usually works the waterfront with black jack gangs recruiting unwilling sailors for a voyage at sea.  In times of war, they can do that.  If one hangs out around the waterfront too long, one might even end up in some foreign Navy depending on what their job needs are.  I suppose since I have lived in Florida a number of times, and since I still have relatives living there, and since I know Texas has rangers, and since I have long term residency in Connecticut no matter what I do, I guess like Texas has its rangers in every state in the nation, I could be the Florida ranger in Connecticut.  However, like the honorary New Amsterdam Dutch night watch, the job does not pay anything, so on a limited budget, one can not really do that much except buy orange juice when it is on sale.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 11:25 P.M.:  I chatted with the Casa Marina - Resort and Beach House - Key West, Florida .  Since I use to observe down there, I have seen both Gulf Oil and Exxon personnel in that area, it would seem to me that some other oil company probably one in California like Getty or Chevron, which I think is now the same company is probably trying to cause some mischief in interfering with activity in that region.  More than likely some company like Royal Dutch Shell or British Petroleum is waiting to pick up the pieces.  We obviously know Getty is connected up with the Arabs and so is BP.   Thus the high technology people on the west coast of the United States of America are interfering with communications in the Caribbean area in hopes to make profits off disasters.  It is sort of like if Exxon cut off the electricity in California a couple of hours before a major earthquake.  Believe me that business is so ruthless, they will do anything for fun and profit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative that is leaving the cold weather in the north country to face the warmer tropical weather.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used mozzarella cheese.  I use 10 grape tomatoes and all of the other usual ingredients.  In my www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm , I am off two six ounce tins of tuna fish and six 3.75 ounce tins of sardines.  Thus either I am absent minded, or we have an intruder whom is health conscious or whom is feeding a cat.  I guess possibly since the cats might own Microsoft, they are coming around here for meals, but there must be a cat handler helping them to open the tins.  Thus I guess Microsoft employs cat handlers.  I do not allow cats in my apartment, because I think I am allergic to them.  I chatted with my British neighbor, and I was told that once the British come here, they do not feel like going back to England.  It was my perspective after covering the British consulate in Manhattan for 10 years, they were never there anyway, and perhaps they were all hiding out at one of the warmer commonwealth resorts.  I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with a relative.  One of my neighbors received a delivery from Frank's Italian restaurant and pizzeria in Port Chester, New York, which one can contact at 1-914-939-8299.  Technically if they delivered a pizza to you in Greenwich, one could charge them with Interstate conspiracy to commit murder by raising your cholesterol.  I know Frank here in Greenwich that owns the world wide famous www.planetpizza.com whose biggest customer is IBM in Armonk, New York, so I would imagine the big boys at IBM some day are going to invest some money in Lipitor to lower their cholesterol.  I still know how to make my own pizza www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pizza.htm , which is basically my own version of Sicilian pizza as opposed to the American version of a round deep dish pizza or what we call in America, Chicago deep dish pizza.  In Sicily, they have so little firewood, the make every inch of the oven count, so they don't use round pizza, but instead rectangular pizza pans.  It takes me about three hours to make my homemade pizza,so I do not make it that often, but I can freeze four of the six slices for later.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 5:45 P.M.:  Of course one needs money, when  one gets there JetBlue:Special Offers:Sale Page .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 5:40 P.M.:  I finished configuring the Dell 350V computer, and I am running a maintenance utility on it.  The Pontech speakers work just fine on it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.:  I woke up at 11 A.M., when my telephone rang.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal , a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic, and I got my flu shot for the season.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I bought a pair of Pontech generic computer speakers for $3.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I noticed they had a tent set up at Admiral Moore's house, so I guess the U.S. Navy can afford to party or camp out as the case may be.  I forgot to buy bananas.  I then returned home.  I showed the building custodian the evidence of the music CD that somebody had used my bedroom computer CD player for music.  It all seems like some sort of Mickey Mouse business.  I put the spare boon microphone on the Dell L1000R bedroom computer placed on top of the CompUSA 19 inch monitor, and I put the Pontec computer speakers on top of the Dell Trinitron monitor connected to the Dell 350V computer.  To use the bedroom backup computers, one has to turn on the power strip between them, so as to turn on the power to the Network router connected to the living room cable modem.  That same power strip also turns on the power to Dell 350V computer setup.  The control panel underneath the monitor turns on the power to the Dell L1000R computer.  I received the black ink cartridge in the mail for the HP Deskjet 842C printer, and the color cartridge has been back ordered.  The HP Deskjet 842C and the HP Photosmart 1000 both use the same ink cartridges, so I will have two spare color and two spare black ink cartridges, once I received the color cartridge from www.ezinkjets.com .  I will now finish configuring the Dell 350V computer.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 3:00 A.M.:  I have almost finished configuring the Dell Dimension 350V backup computer on the left side of the bedroom desk.  I still have a few programs to install.  I used the AT&T lens cleaner to clean the CD lens, and the Yamaha CD/RW in it did not work properly.  I took out the 58X CD from the Dell 4100, which used to be in the Dell 350, until I switched them, when I got the 4100.  Thus the 58X CD was in the Dell 350V computer, when it was the backup computer at the center of the bedroom desk.  In the 58X CD, I found a music CD, "The Greatest Hits Fugees", which I have never owned or seen before.  I have suspected that persons or persons unknown have been gaining access to my apartment to use my computer equipment over the years, and recently since the first of July 2005, I have had a lot of unexplained system malfunctions.  The fact that some party left the music CD in my computer would lead me to believe that someone has entered my apartment and used my computer equipment while I have been absent.  They obviously are cleaver enough to override the passwords to gain access to my systems which is not too complicated.  Whatever, the case last night when I went out, my primary computer setup was messed up when I returned.  It thus seems to me that whomever it is has malicious intent, and it would seem to me they would also have the capability of tampering with my food and drink.  It is specific evidence, and there is no other way it would have gotten in the 58X CD player without somebody entering my apartment and using my computer equipment.  Whomever it is has been very cleaver over whatever period of time it has gone on, and it leads be to believe whatever their purpose, they obviously think they have been cleaver enough to evade me knowing.  It would also seem to me that if they gained access to my apartment, some of my neighbors would have noticed and alerted me.  I suppose I have to wait and see what else develops in the future.  I shut down the computers in the bedroom, and I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 2 P.M. appointment today for a flu shot.  The Dell Dimension 350V computer now has the 58X CD and the CD/RW players.  I ate a nine ounce can of Walgreens almonds with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 10:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 9:05 P.M.:  I reheated in the microwave oven the cooked vermicelli and the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu chunky primavera tomato sauce which I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese to.  I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 8:35 P.M.:  I chatted with another relative.  The process of configuring the Dell 350V backup computer is coming along fine, and I am still working on it.  I moved the Gateway computer that I had in front of the bedroom door to sitting sideways on the left side of the sideboard in the bedroom with the other items from the sideboard sitting on top of it.  Thus the bedroom entrance area is neater.  I have been listening to Connecticut Public radio while working on the Dell 350V backup computer in the bedroom, which I have tuned into on the Lindbergh radio.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 5:25 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 4:45 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I ran Norton Antivirus 2005 on the primary computer while I was asleep.  It ran through without any problems.  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   On European news on Digital Television, they showed that Angela Merkel a Christian Democratic has been elected as chancellor of Germany in a now coalition government A woman chancellor for Germany? Maybe - Europe - MSNBC.com .  I went outside, and I threw away my banana peel.  I chatted with a relative.  I have three old computers that I do not have hooked up, and sometime soon, I might throw all or part of them away, since I obviously have limited storage in my apartment.  On days that I do not go downtown, I do not bother to shower and clean up in order to save on energy and hot water.  I will now work on configuring the Dell 350V backup computer in the bedroom.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 6:45 A.M.:  I shut down the computers in the bedroom.  I went outside briefly.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 5:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 5:30 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 4:40 A.M.:  I configured the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom a bit more, and I ran updates and maintenance utilities on it.  I took the 17 inch Dell Sony Trinitron monitor off of it, and I put the CompUSA 19 inch monitor on it.  I took the Gateway computer off the left side of the bedroom desk, and I took out its 128 meg. memory chip leaving a 64 meg and 32 meg memory chip in it.  I put it by the bedroom door entrance.  I put the 128 meg. memory chip in the Dell 350V computer with the two other 128 meg. memory chips.  It has the two CD/RW drives in it from the broken Dell 4100 computer, and it has the 20 gigabyte hard drive in it from the Dell L1000R computer.  I exchanged the face plate of the Dell 4100 computer on the Dell 350V computer which might be confusing, but the face plate from the Dell 350V computer has a missing catch, so it hangs loose.  I set up the Dell 350V computer on the left side of the bedroom desk with the 17 inch Dell Sony Trinitron monitor on top of it.  I am now configuring it.  I also put a new CMOS battery in it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 1:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I drove I-95 East from exit two to exit five at about 55 miles an hour to put a little high speed activity on my Volvo station wagon.  I went to Walgreens in Old Greenwich, and I bought two 9 ounce cans of roasted and salted almonds for $2.50 each can, two 60 count boxes of Walgreens plastic bandages for $3 both boxes, two four packs of Walgreens ultra alkaline supercell batteries of AA and two of AAA for .99 each four pack and .42 tax for $12.38 total.  I then went by CVS, and I bought two 16 ounce jars of Planter's low salt dry roasted peanuts for $1.99 each for $3.98 total.  I found a nail clippers in the parking lot, and I put it on my dashboard.  The Riverside shopping center Food Emporium was closed at that hour on Sunday night.  I then drove back to central Greenwich, and I used the ATM machine at 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 $11.75 of premium unleaded gasoline at $3.179 a gallon for 57.1 miles driven this past week at 15.2 miles per gallon averaging driving at 12 miles per hour around town.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I then returned home.  The Food Emporium in central Greenwich was also closed at 11:30 P.M. on Sunday night.  I guess they do not stay open late on Sunday nights.  When I started up the computer, it seemed to acting oddly, so I did a system restore to last night's system restore backup, and it is running fine now.  I enabled the Nvidia settings for the right Dell monitor, so it is a little bit sharper.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 9:10 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out after I clean up.  Although I am on a night schedule, I have a 2 P.M. appointment this Tuesday afternoon to get a flu shot.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 8:25 P.M.:  I boiled three quarts of water with a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  I then boiled for 8 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 Ragu chunky primavera 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.  I then took a nap.  I am now installing the updates on the Toshiba laptop computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 6:00 P.M.:  I was awake at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I watched some television.  I went to bed until 4 P.M..  I watched the television program on the Discovery Channel called "Extreme Engineering" about the network of dykes in the Netherlands, and their major engineering projects to control the North Sea.  In the end of the program it mentions New Orleans, and how it will probably flood in the near future from a hurricane.  In the Netherlands, it said because of Global Warming, the Kingdom of the Netherlands would be getting tropical storms in the future which would cause increased flooding for the lowlands despite the extensive dyke network.  I chatted with my Dutch mother about that.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 3:00 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 2:10 A.M.:  In Vista beta 1, I was able to install the Gigabyte motherboard VIA 4 in 1 drivers.  I might have been able to install the VIA onboard LAN driver.  I was not able to install the Via 8237 Serial ATA driver.  In Vista beta 1, I have both Outlook Express and Outlook 2003 installed with Outlook 2003 installed as the default email program.  When I opened Outlook 2003, it sent and I received my Outlook Express email.  I can not find a way to import my email address book in Outlook Express however.  I booted back to XP.

I post this message at the Vista beta 1 newsgroup for "microsoft.beta.longhorn.ie_on_xpsp2" which is probably the wrong newsgroup.  Message follows:

I have been running vista beta 1 since release with my XPSP2 system since it was released.

http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm for system configuration.

I have XPSP2 on the C: drive on my first hard drive, and I have Vista

beta1

on a smaller partition on the same hard drive which shows up as L: drive since my memory card reader uses extra drive letters.

I had to reinstall XPSP2, and when I restored my XPSP2 backup with ASR from the second hard drive to my first hard drive, my boot.ini did not show Vista beta 1 which was still on the L: drive.

I had backed up Vista beta 1 with Nero 6.0, so I could restore it with a

bootable DVD, but I still did not get the boot.ini with the Longhorn boot option.

I finally reinstalled Vista beta 1 to the L: drive, and this time when I

restored the Vista beta 1 DVD bootable backup with Nero 6, I got the boot.ini file prompt to boot either XPSP2 or Longhorn Vista beta 1.

I can not find the boot.ini file on my hard drive for Longhorn Vista beta 1 in the L: drive, and the one for XPSP2 in the C:\ directory is the second boot file.

Thus it must boot to another boot.ini in the L: drive when it boots with

Vista beta 1 installed. I would like to find it, so I could save it.

Either that, or there is another boot.ini type file that boots first in the

C: drive before the L: drive invisable boot.ini.

Anyway it is all working fine, and the way above one can restore it from

backup with the Nero 6 backup to DVD after one reinstalls Vista beta 1 to get the right boot.ini setup.

The Vista beta 1 has a backup program, but the restore feature does not work.

I post my web log including Vista beta 1 activity at http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/note02.htm

My web site still remains at http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/

End of Message:  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/05 Sunday 12:55 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I watched the vintage movie "The Guns of Navarone" MSN - TV: Search Results for ''  The Guns of Navrarone .  While watching the movie, I ate two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream.  I use to know Steve Niven, David Niven's son in the old days in Manhattan, so maybe I am a British actor.  Alas, I was born in the United States of America, so I guess I can not expect a "Grace and Favor" apartment in Hampton Court, or some other English country side estate.  Still, it is warmer here in Greenwich, Connecticut, and probably a bit drier than Jolly Old England, but alas not that many people speak English here, so I am left reviewing all of this old history left around here.  There are even some new Rolls Royce or Bentley limousines left around on automobile row, so I guess I could masquerade as a resident diplomat, but I do not think that the privy purse would pick up the tab.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/08/05:

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 9:10 P.M.:  Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York buys a Pied a Terre in Manhattan Lenny In Limbo and Sarah Ferguson buys apartment in Manhattan- Forbes.com  .  A friend of mine in Manhattan told me she attended an event in Manhattan yesterday with the daughter of the King of Norway, which is probably this princess Princess Märtha Louise of Norway  linked from Det Norske Kongehus .  I will keep an eye out for them to see I see any of them sitting in Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue like I once saw the King of Sweden there Kungl. Hovstaterna when his daughter was attending Yale.  He told me if I ever went to Sweden, which I once tried to do, before the Norwegians stopped me back in the winter of 1983, I would end up visiting a coffee shop in Stockholm.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on five 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, 4 slices of Swiss cheese,  five 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, two very large spinach leaves,  and pepper and sea 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 will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 8:20 P.M.:  I went through the Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  In Vista beta 1, I tried sending email to myself, but it did not come through in XP after I reboot, although the Vista beta 1 Outlook Express is set to leave a copy on the server, so possibly outgoing Outlook Express email does not work in Vista beta 1.  Incoming email in Vista beta 1 does come through.  I chatted with a friend.  I went downstairs, and the outer outside of the two front sliding doors on the building was not working properly, and it kept opening and closing, so I turned it off.  I called the Greenwich Housing Authority at 203-869-1138, and I told their answering service.  I told them it probably could wait until Monday morning.  There is a weather warning for this area Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 4:50 P.M.:  I will reboot into Vista beta 1, and I will install the HP Deskjet 842C driver.   Then I will read some Vista beta 1 newsgroups.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 4:40 P.M.:  Before going to bed, I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  I woke up during the morning, and I ate 75% of a 9 ounce can of Planter's bits and halves of cashew nuts.   I woke up at 10:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with a friend.  I threw out some garbage.   The mail arrived.  I received my 10 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .  They also threw in a package of GT One Ultra Lights 100s.  I received back a letter from a relative that had the wrong zip code on it.  I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I watched some television, and New York City is on a heightened state of alert, since they expect terrorism tomorrow DHS Department of Homeland Security DHS Home Page .  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative. I ate the remaining 25% of Planter's halves and pieces of cashews from the nine ounce can.  I left a message with some friends in Manhattan.  There is a chance of rain for the next few days Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast .  I chatted with a relative.  Apparently the McDonald Observatory Houston Astronomical Society Other Information is in Fort Stockton, Texas, since it out there in the middle of not much light.  When I was in Fort Stockton, Texas, I had just left Santa Cruz, California a couple of days before where the Lick Observatory was University of California Observatories .    Right now some football game is one down there between Texas and Oklahoma.  Thus I guess someone I know must be an astronomer, since I have been to other astronomy locations too.  The high temperature down at my relative's in Texas yesterday was 55 degrees Fahrenheit, so colder weather has arrived down there.  A little rain from this possibly National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center if it develops.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/08/05 Saturday 1:05 A.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I ran Ad-awareSE.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 11:50 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 11:40 P.M.:  Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) Earthquake News  .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 11:25 P.M.:  I tried to clean the printing head on the Epson Stylus C80 printer using the same method by squeezing the fluid through the print head nozzles with the inkjet refiller syringe, but it did not seem to work.  It now prompts me to replace all four ink cartridges, since the cartridge chip shows they are empty, although I have them filled with a mixture of ink and water.  Although I do have replacement cartridges, I do not think that will fix the problem with the printer, so I am not able to test it any further to see whether it works or not.  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.  I did not use homemade hummus.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker barrel baby Swiss cheese.  I used 23 grape tomatoes and 9 olives.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 8:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I searched www.moutainhardware.com looking for an item for the relative.  www.sierratradingpost.com and www.llbean.com also have cold weather clothing.  Of course http://www.canada-goose.com/ is about the best I know of for extreme cold weather.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 7:15 P.M.:  I posted this page Michael Louis Scott, How to Clean and Hewlett Packard HP clogged inkjet print cartridge with print head in cartridge .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 6:50 P.M.:  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I picked up my mail downstairs.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage and some old newspapers.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 7:05 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 7:05 A.M.:  I tried lighter fluid, hot glass cleaner, and print head cleaner with the inkjet refiller syringe to clean the Epson Stylus C80 print head.  I also tried filling its ink cartridges with glass cleaner and then water, and it still would not print out.  I tried cleaning its set tray and its vacuum hole, and it still did not work.  I tried cleaning the HP DeskJet 842C color ink cartridge with print head cleaner, and it got the cyan color working along with the blue, but the yellow did not work.  I finally took some lighter fluid, and I let a few drops sit on the color ink cartridge print head for a couple of minutes, and I wipe the print head with a lighter fluid soak cotton swap.  I then poured some lighter fluid over a folded paper towel on a sauce, and I let the ink cartridge sit on the lighter fluid soaked paper towel propped up with a Bic lighter so the printhead was flush with the lighter fluid soaked paper towel for ten minutes, and then I wiped the print head with a lighter fluid soak cotton swap.  I then soaked it in a hot window cleaner for five minutes, which I put about a quarter cup of Windex in a cup on beverage in the microwave to get it hot, and then I soak it on an angle instead of flat against the bottom of the Pyrex measuring cup for five minutes, and I wiped the print head with a Windex soaked cotton swap.  I did not have anymore print head cleaner or distilled water, so I put about a quarter of a cup of Perrier in a Pyrex cup, and I heated it on beverage in the microwave oven, and then I let the color ink cartridge sit in it for five minutes on the same angle, and I wiped its print head with a Perrier soaked cotton swab.  I then shook it vigorously for a couple of minutes to dry off any moisture and to try to mix any freed up ink.  I then used a paper towel to dry any extra moisture off its contacts and its case, but I did not touch the print head.  I then put it back in the HP DeskJet 842C printer, and I ran a cleaning cycle and on the first print out from the cleaning cycle, the colors came out perfect.  I ran the priming cycle.  I did a couple more printouts.  I aligned it.  I filled up its paper feed from a new package of paper that I opened, which I have stored in the paper stand underneath it.  Thus the HP DeskJet 842C printer works just fine.  I also have the spare black and color cartridges coming for it in a few days.  The HP color cartridge that came with it is a $33 cartridge from HP, but the ones that I ordered are generic.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 1:25 A.M.:  I ran Ad-awareSE.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/05 Friday 1:05 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream.  I used this tip for cleaning the vacuum tube on the Epson Stylus C80 printer clearingnozzles with Windex cleaner, but it did not work.  I tried cleaning the nozzles using this method Epson C80/C82 InkJet Print Head Cleaning Solution Kit - Directions for use. linked from Epson Printer Head Cleaning Cartridges and Head Cleaning Kit with hot Windex cleaner, but it still did not work.  I used my ink replacement syringe to push the hot Windex through the nozzles with the cartridges removed with strips of paper towel underneath them to absorb the excess.  The Epson C80 has a very fine print resolution, so its thin nozzles are easily clogged.  However, I have done everything I can think of, and it is not worth spending anymore money on it.  I also tried a new black cartridge, but that did not work, so I put the used cartridge back in, and I resealed the black cartridge, and I put it in a plastic bag to keep from drying out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 10:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 9:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative after the last message.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read Popular Mechanics and part of Popular Science magazines.  I then returned home.  There was an advertisement in Popular Mechanics about a special toilet flush mechanism that uses a non gravity flush tank to make one have to flush only once.  They had a web site, but I can not remember it.  I am bored with walking downtown, so I probably will not be walking downtown as much anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  I put away my laundry.  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on five 1/32nds inch thick slices of Purdue turkey, three slices of white American cheese, 1.5 slice of Swiss cheese,  four 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion, four large spinach leave,  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 shut down the computer, and I will go back downtown.  I went through about 1/4th of my email from the last few days.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/05 Thursday 5:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I threw out some garbage, and I went back to bed until 1 P.M..  I then threw out some computer part boxes from the right side of my bedroom desk, and I put the broken Epson Stylus C80 printer on the right side of the bedroom desk.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Arnold bread store outlet, and I bought 2 six packs of Arnold multiseed New York bagels for $1.85 each and a loaf of Arnold multigrain bread for $1.59 for $5.29 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription.  I then returned home.   I started two loads of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I remembered today that the place in Texas where I was stopped on Interstate 10 where the site of the first Standard Oil oil well was might not have been Fort Apache, Texas, I think it was Fort Stockton, Texas.  It was back in December or November 1979 around Thanksgiving time, when they had the aborted Iranian hostage rescue which came out of Kelly air force base.  I stopped by the Alamo and Kelly air force base in San Antonio, Texas that day after they let me out of jail in Fort Stockton, Texas, so Fort Stockton, Texas City of Fort Stockton, Texas  must be about a half day's drive west of San Antonio, Texas.  For a quick summary of Standard Oil A History of the Standard Oil Company .  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 9:40 P.M.:  I am tired.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.:  I went outside, and I stored three quarters that I had used yesterday for parking back in my parking change slots of the Volvo.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 8:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I remembered when talking with relative that on one of my trips back east around December 1979, I was driving across Interstate 10 East in Texas, and I had picked up a couple of hitchhikers from Byram, Connecticut in New Mexico.  When I filled up the tank at a Texaco gasoline station, I gave them $10 to pay for the gas, but they did not pay for it, and I ended up being arrested in a quaint bleak area called Fort Apache, Texas where I spent the night in the local jail which was quite neat and tidy.  When I called up my Uncle in Dallas, Texas, whom was a lawyer, he arranged for me to be let out of jail.  I then explored a little bit of Fort Apache, Texas, and there was a lodge there called the "Brotherhood of Eagles", and in front it was a metal historical sign saying Fort Apache was the site of the first Standard oil well in Texas.  I guess once Exxon ran out of oil, there was not much left in the tiny town, and I do not even recall seeing a Esso gasoline station.  There does not seem to be much on the internet about Fort Apache, Texas, but I suppose they have not gotten high speed internet access there.  It would be quaint to put a web cam at the site of the Standard Oil Fort Apache, Texas sign to see if anyone ever hangs out around it or ever looks at it.  I suppose we could even put a live camera in the Fort Apache, Texas jail.  It basically seems to be one of those old time southern speed traps on Interstate 10.  They see you coming and going for hundreds of miles.  As I recall back then I was driving my old yellow 1971 yellow Subaru station wagon with Massachusetts license plates from Nantucket that as I recall ended in K.  I recall back then both the license plates in Nantucket and Williamstown, Massachusetts are ended in K.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 7:45 P.M.:  It is not like I am short on printing capacity with the HP LaserJet IID, it has a new generic 3,000 sheet cartridge and a spare HP 95A 3,000 sheet replacement cartridge a and the Minolta QMS 1250W PagePro laser printer has a 6,000 cartridge with less than a thousand sheets used, not to mention I still have besides HP DeskJet 842C inkjet printer, I have the three other inkjet printers with spare ink cartridges.  I figure it there is ever a terrorist event in this area, and we had to use my apartment as a backup office, we would need extra printing capacity for any printing that might be needed such as casualty lists or emergency directives, and in a major terrorist event such as an invasion, we might need to print out such documents as letters of surrender, but let's hope it does not come to that.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I feel more like the volunteer Swiss and Swedish councils, since nobody tells me much of anything.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.:  I steamed a cup of fresh broccoli crowns with baby carrots for fifteen minutes, and I put a little bit of olive oil on them, and during the last few minutes of the steaming, I reheated the remaining rice from yesterday, and I also reheated the last slice of medium rare prime rib of roast for 2 minutes on power level 3 in the Microwave oven, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 6:00 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I decided not to throw out the HP printer box, but instead I put it in the false ceiling above the bed to keep until I know it works with the new color cartridge.  I put the two HP color cartridge boxes on the sideboard in the bedroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 5:45 P.M.:  I was awake at noon today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went outside, and I threw away the banana peel, and I picked up my mail.  I tested the Epson Stylus C80 printer, and it did not work after sitting for a while, so I disconnected it, and I placed it on top of the Epson Stylus 900 printer in the bedroom.  I might try to get a refund on the cartridges from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , but it was probably something wrong with the printer and not the cartridges, so since it was a $23 order and to send back the cartridges would be about $6, I am not sure it is worth it.  I installed the HP DeskJet 842C printer where the Epson Stylus C80 printer was on the printer stand to the right of the computer.  I put in the new color and black HP cartridges.  However, since it is a older printer which was never used, the color cartridge did not work properly probably because it was old.  It only printer blue, and not yellow and red.  I tested it to make sure including connecting it up on the Northgate Syntax computer, but obviously the HP color cartridge was defective.  Since I got it in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I would not be able to get HP to replace it on a older discontinued model, but I might look into it. I ordered a black and color ink cartridge from EZinkjets.com - Compatible Ink Jet and Toner Printer Cartridges for Canon, Lexmark, HP and Epson Stylus Printers. $15.99 for the color $12.22 for the black with the coupon code good until October 7, 2005 "Fall35", for a 35% discount of $9.87 with free shipping for $18.34 total.  Although the HP black cartridge works fine, I figured I should have a spare black cartridge.  I then called up http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/  at 1-866-215-1069, and I ordered 10 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $11.49 a carton plus $17.50 shipping for $132.40 total.  I guess I will now throw out the HP printer box, since I have no room to store it.  I will keep the HP cartridge boxes in case HP can replace the color cartridge.  I put the HP instructions and paper work on top of the Epson Stylus C80 printer in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  I found this page C80/C82 Cap Tubing Assembly , but I can not find the tubing assembly on my printer, so it must be different.  I tried this utility http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 4:35 A.M.:  Well, I guess possibly the cartridges from www.ezinkjets.com might not work, but I have used other cartridges from them without any problems, so possibly it is a problem with the Epson Stylus C80 printer.  I  

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 4:00 A.M.:  On the Epson Stylus C80 printer, I tried reinstalling the drivers.  I tried reinstalling the ink cartridges.  I tried cleaning the ink carriage with isopropyl alcohol, and it still does not work.  I ran the cleaning cycle a number of times.  One instruction said to let it sit over night and see if it works after the cleaning cycle.  Well, that is all I can do for now.  I guess it is probably no good.  I will install the new HP later on today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  Thank gods its Wednesday.  I usually sleep a little bit more on Wednesday.  I put two gold pineapple handle butter knives on the four bone china with gold trim butter plates from Bangladesh on the coffee table, so one can use them with cheese.  I have one slices of the prime rib of beef left, and I had already cut it off the two prime rib bones, so I threw the pair of bones with meat still on them out by the rock behind the dumpster in case that grey fox is still around in the woods and is hungry.  It might have grown up a little bit to become a young grey wolf.   CNN.com - Bush: Military may have to help if bird flu breaks out - Oct 4, 2005 .  Just because a climate is warmer does not mean one might not get the flu, because in warmer climates the virus can multiply faster versus colder climates.  I also stopped by Carlson Travel on Greenwich Avenue today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 11:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Wachovia bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing authority.  I then went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and I bought two five inch long gold pineapple handle butter knives for $2.50 each plus .30 tax for $5.30.  The Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop has redecorated, and it now looks more like a gift shop.  I mailed a letter at the central post office.  It is a very pleasant shopping experience.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I bought a new in the box Hewlett Packard HP Deskjet 842C for $15 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hewlett Packard DeskJet 842c InkJet Printer at Epinions.com.  It has never been used, and it has two new HP cartridges and all of its accessories and CD.  One can get more cartridges for it here HP Deskjet 842C EZinkjets.com - Compatible Ink Jet and Toner Printer Cartridges for Canon, Lexmark, HP and Epson Stylus Printers. .  It is a basic older model HP printer, but it should work well enough once I get it hooked up.  I will still try to get the Epson Stylus C80 printer going.  I next went downtown, and I faced the masses of people downtown on the Jewish holiday and with all of the children out of school.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with the other village idiots around town.  I stopped by Starbucks, and I chatted with a couple of retired Navy veterans, and I told them about Bob Lee.  I chatted the local railroad observer and a retired life guard.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 7 ounce package of black licorice for $1.19 and a 225 count bottle of Nuprin caplets for $8.19 less a $5 off bonus bucks coupon for $4.38 total.  I completed my walk.  The local business community still has not been able to afford to replace the bench in front of Pickwick plaza.  I completed my walk.  I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  They now have a new person there at the desk whom use to work for Verizon, and he knows communications, and he happens to be from Jamaica.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with our most regular observer from Jamaica.  I then returned home.  I chatted with three relatives.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.    I then made Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe , and I used half of it for dinner, and I refrigerated the other half.  I also steamed a cup of broccoli crowns and baby carrots for 15 minutes, and I ate them with a little bit of olive oil.  I then reheated another .75 inch thick slice of medium rare cold prime rib of beef, which I heated for 75 seconds on power level 5, which is too long for the microwave.  It probably should be a minutes on power level 3.  I ate the beef with a little bit of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 1:35 P.M.:  I tried using the Epson C80 printer, and it malfunctioned.  I can not get it to work properly.  I have to go out and pay my rent, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out after I clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.:  I was awaken by three fax telephone calls, but the phone just buzzed.  I watched the news with President Bush's press conference.  Apparently the government wants to spend $40 billion to study pelicans in Louisiana.  I guess the government thinks bird watching is important.  I watch birds up here, but I never get any money.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went outside, and I threw away some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I called up West Point, and apparently Colonel Bob Lee whom graduated from West Point around 1942 had left his retirement home in Coral Gables, Florida, and he had moved to Houston, Texas where he died of unspecified causes in 2002.  However, I am not sure whether other Lee family members are still around here, and they might still own a house on Steamboat Road in the waterfront area of Greenwich, Connecticut where Admiral Moore's family also maintain the house with the Widow's walk on the Greenwich Harbor.  Thus Bob Lee will not be able to give us inside information on approaching hurricane activity, since he is no longer living near the National Hurricane Center.  I recall Bob Lee also looked like another family friend Colonel Knolton who use to be in charge of the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts.  Colonel Knolton as I recall had three sons.  I let the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop know that Colonel Lee would not be available for service.  I chatted with my relative who is recovering from hip surgery, and my relative has a small bit of pain.  I chatted with a visitor from Hungary, and apparently the Hungarian restaurant in Manhattan on 82nd street and 2nd Avenue is no longer there, but my observers in Manhattan tell me there is now a new Hungarian restaurant somewhere in the city.  I guess a lot of people like Hungarian goulash, which is basically macaroni and cheese with hamburger and Hungarian paprika.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 2:10 A.M.:  I chatted with a family member.  When www.google.com asked me if I wanted to show the weather with Google, it came up with the weather for Happy, Texas Google Maps - Happy, TX  and Handbook of Texas Online: HAPPY, TX .  I guess after Nelson Rockefeller gave up the ghost and his widow Happy was left destitute, she took what remained of the family fortune and moved back to Happy, Texas.  I guess after volunteering for former President and Barbara Bush's campaign back in 1988 after their worldwide travels, there was no money left.  When I checked up on them in Washington D.C. back in 1989 the city had been abandoned on a zero degree Fahrenheit day in February, and only one sheriff from South Dakota was left in the White House, and they had all fled to Argentina.  I suppose to see if the old neo Nazis had better security.  When I called up the Clinton White House a cannibal from Uganda use to answer the telephone.  Thus with all of this modern communications for all I know it is just a rerun of old video tapes on cablevision trying to get us to buy something we do not need.  I guess we will manage to survive up here another winter.  I saw one of my relatives from the Jay family on Sunday, and we do look a lot alike, but I look older, since I deal with the general public all of the time.  Maybe John Harvard was related to the Jay family or to put it more concisely, maybe both the Jay and the Harvard families are related to the Scott family whom are probably related to other people in the Scottish part of the world.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I suppose as long as the electricity continues to function, we will survive and write.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 1:30 A.M.:   I guess the Lee family went into private enterprise or joined the Indians Bob Lee Archery/Wing Archery - Handcrafted, Traditional Takedown Recurves, One-Piece Bows, Take Down Longbows and Sticks for Bowhunting, Bowfishing, Target Shooting, Compound Shooters, Hunters, Tournaments .  When I lived in Decatur, Alabama, I learned a bit about local history.  We read about the time that the Explorer Desoto with 2000 well armed explorers tried to attack the local Cherokee Indians in Alabama.  They succeeded in their first few attempts, but they eventually lost and died.  When I explored the site of where Desoto like Custer met his last stand which I have seen, they were not evenly matched with the Cherokee Indians.  In the history that I had read, they did not say how many American Indians defeated Desoto, but when I explored the site down in Alabama, what was quite curious is that it was not much more than a lot of gravel. However, on closer exploration, the gravel was not gravel, but there were about five million American Indian arrow heads.  Thus if any new Europeans do not think there were not many American Indians, and there are not many more left, they are in for a rude awakening.  From my extensive travels around the United States of America, it is curious although there are close to a half billion people in North America, I have only seen most of the time in my travels the same 50,000 or so Europeans that live around us here in Greenwich, Connecticut.   It is like there is a larger group of people out there laughing at us.   For all, I know Granddad Clarence Scott was Geronimo Geronimo .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:  I made some more telephone calls, but nobody seems to know what happened to Dr. Robert E. Lee.  The last time I saw him was about five years ago, when he use to watch the case box for Mrs. Godfrey Rockefeller at the Merry Go Round Mews retirement home thrift shop.  When I use to deal with him regularly, he told me he bought a retirement house in Coral Gables, Florida on the same street as Jeb Bush, Lawton Childs, and near the National Hurricane Center.  His sister use to live on Steamboat Road before she died.  He was a graduate of West Point, and he would be about 80 years old today.  I suppose if anyone knew anything about the future of hurricane activity in the southeast he might, but nobody seems to know what happened to him.  For all I know he is watching CNN to see what is happening in Coral Gables, Florida.  Whatever, the case I did not go to West Point, but while I worked at the Polaroid Corporation from 1968 to 1971 in the summer, I use to have a checking account in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard Trust Company CNN.com - Harvard endowment cracks $25 billion - Sep 30, 2005 .  Of course if one ever visited Harvard Yard, one might take a notice from the statue of what John Harvard actually looked like.  If he looks like anyone familiar, I suppose that person might know a thing or two.  But as Richard Bissell wrote, "You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man, but You Can't Tell Him Anything."  Whatever, the case I do not think I would be able to barrow any money from Harvard University.  However, John Harvard's father was a coal miner, so maybe he would know somebody with some money.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 11:30 P.M.:  Of course if this ever changes in the daytime Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop or some other major volcano erupts, instead of being zero degrees Fahrenheit in Lake Forest, Illinois or colder it could go down to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit like up in Canada, in which case the DuPont family that also lives in Lake Forest, Illinois besides Maryland would make more money off of Florida when large numbers of people seek refuge down south.  I have a feeling the Lee family currently can afford to live in Lake Forest, Illinois, because they have made so much money off people trying to get by living down south during cold winters.  However, the Lee family are frequently dependent on Military pensions, and if they do not follow orders when someone gives them orders, they may find themselves smoking old discarded cigarette butts off the streets of Chicago, since we all know that since they really come from Virginia, they still have a nicotine problem.  Also more than likely Lincoln still has his agents active in Illinois, and whether the Lincoln family actually still live there anymore is opened to dispute, but we do know the Davis family keeps surfacing all the time, so possibly they still control the treasury from what is left from the Confederate States of America.  More than likely those Southern Aristocrats are more worried about the price of Kentucky bourbon, since they are unaware of the price of gasoline or fuel, since that is something their servants keep track of.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 11:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a few people.  This is a colder town The City of Lake Forest, Illinois that I lived in when I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu between 1968 and 1972.  However, back then I earned about $200 a week working various jobs around Lake Forest, Illinois while I attended college and fuel oil was only 12 cents a gallon and gasoline was about 29 cents a gallon.  However, today my income is only about 65% of that, and prices obviously have gone up.  Since I obtained what would be considered a quarter of a million dollar education by today's standard, obviously other people whom supposedly have responsibility do not know anything about Economics.  It is my personal perspective, the United States government is robbing the United States citizens on fixed incomes by encouraging inflation to decrease the cost of the government debt.  Since I live on a fixed income, I would prefer to see "Wage and Price" controls as opposed to the continual inflation.  I would also assume that those countries and individuals whom hold the United States government debt would prefer to see it paid off at its actual cost at barrowing including interest at the real prime rate.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 9:25 P.M.:  I reheated the left over cooked rice from yesterday on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and I steamed fresh broccoli crowns and baby carrots on a steamer tray with about .75 inches of water in a Revere quart pot with lid on high until it steamed and then medium for 15 minutes total, one portions worth about a cup all together, and I cut a .75 inch slice of cold medium rare cooked prime rib of beef off the bone, and I put it on a microwave proof plate, and I heated it a microwave lid on in the microwave oven for one minute at power five, and I put it on a dinner plate with the reheated rice with some Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on it, and I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a small bit of olive oil on them, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  With the more upscale meals the last two days, I have not become more affluent, I am just eating my Easter dinner and leftovers that I never got around to cooking, since my Easter guests did not feel like eating meat.  The Easter dinner was bought the frozen prime rib of beef that I ate half of at Christmas Time, and I froze the other half, so technically I am eating the remains of my Christmas dinner which local affluent citizens provide funds for to individuals like myself whom can not afford such expensive cuts of meat normally and even then it was on sale at Christmas Time for half price.  The Dutch company Ahold Royal Ahold which owns the Stop and Shop food chain has over 50,000 food stores worldwide, so they must know something about food, not mention www.nestle.com is another local food company, and Nestle http://www.nestle.com/  is suppose to be the largest food company in the world, and Nestle is a Swiss company.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 8:05 P.M.:  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with strawberry jam, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went outside, and I threw away some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  The building custodian said he would try to get rid of the bees at the apartment building entrance, but they are still there.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out.  I went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Starbucks, and I chatted with a couple of regular sidewalk observers.  I then went by the Greenwich Hardware store, and on their 70% off rack, they have an Oregon Scientific rain meter for about $20.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 100 count bottle of CVS MSM for $6.79.  I completed my walk.  I then went by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  Long Island sound still seems to be there, and I do not think anyone around here believes me that a member of the Scott family use to own all of Long Island until he found Jamaica was more profitable.  Possibly they have a potato patch or two on the mainland.  I next went all the way out to Glenville to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a dozen large eggs for free with over $25 purchase, three 8 ounce packages of 1/3 less fat Philadelphia cream cheese for $1 each, Stop and Shop premium sliced Swiss cheese at $5.99 a pound for $5.18, Stop and Shop premium sliced turkey at $5.99 a pound for $5.90, a container of 4-C grated parmesan cheese 6 ounces for $2.50, a container of 4-C grated parmesan and Romano cheese 6 ounces for $2.50, a free quart of diet Pepsi with a $25 purchase, a free container of Progresso bread crumbs 16 ounces with $25 purchase, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.19, six 26 ounce jars of Ragu tomato spaghetti sauce various flavors for $1 each,  six 16 ounce boxes of Ronzoni #9 spaghetti noodles for .50 each, a 10 quart package box of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, a 100 count box of Splenda sweetener packages for $4.79, two 2 pound bags of onions for $1.50 each bag, a pound of baby carrots for $1.99,  fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $2.12, fresh broccoli crowns at .88 a pound for .97, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $1.99, a pint of organic grape tomatoes for $3.99 for $60.15.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  I then put away my groceries.  With over a $25 purchase at the Stop and Shop, one could also get a 11 ounce box of Oscar Meyer breakfast sausages, a 32 ounce bottle of Stop and Shop ketchup, and a 16 ounce bag of Stop and Shop salad greens, but they were out of them, since they were free.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 1:45 A.M.:  The reason that I am somewhat skeptical that so called important people might have been downtown in Greenwich, Connecticut today is that there was a flea market going on at the Island Beach parking lot.  From having observed the flea market many times, I know that they bring along a group of carnival type people whom might try to impersonate other people.  I once talked to a former Russian army guard at one of the flea markets, and he told me he had been a guard a Treblinka, and that Czar Nicholas' son was still alive in a Russian Army hospital.  Another time I chatted with a young fellow selling odd computer gear, and I told him about all of the IBM people around here and how they got a lot of their PC parts from Asia.  He bore a resemblance to Michael Dell about 15 years ago.  I also know they sell vintage weapons that might still work at the flea market along with hunting items like dangerous knives, so if one does not feel like being on one's guard, one does not go the flea market.  Of course much could be said for the Port Chester, New York flea market too which is opened below Linens and Things occasionally.  Of course one usually needs spare money to buy anything at a flea market, and since I still have to pay my rent, and since I still have not quit smoking cigarettes, I would imagine that I am still on the same limited budget.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 1:20 A.M.:  Comparing the old and the new train schedules for Metro North between Greenwich and New York as best as I can tell, the only difference is that the three trains out of New York after midnight and the one train leaving from Greenwich to New York after midnight have different schedules. Leaving New York on week days, there is now a 12:25 A.M. with Fordham stop, 1:15 A.M. with Fordham stop, and 1:50 A.M..  Leaving Greenwich after midnight, there is now a 12:34 A.M. with Fordham stop.  On weekends and holidays leaving New York after midnight, there is a 12:25 A.M. with Fordham stop, 1:15 A.M. with Fordham stop, and 1:50 A.M., I think they call that the milk train.  Leaving Greenwich on weekends and holidays after midnight, there is a 12:34 A.M. with Fordham stop.  At that hour of the morning, they would all be local trains. The rest of the schedule seems to be the same, as far as I can tell.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 12:40 A.M.:  This is available for about $30 with shipping on the internet Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster w/Remote :: Oregon Scientific Weather Stations :: Weather Stations :: DogByte Computer or  $35 with free shipping from a bigger supplier Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAA182HG Digital Weather Forecaster or Amazon.com: Outdoor Living: Oregon Scientific BAR608HGA Wireless Weather Station and Self-Setting Clock.  However, obviously a computer setup with high speed internet access is a better weather machine or in a rush possibly the weather channel on the cable television, so I think a in home weather forecaster would be redundant.  If one were in such a rush that one did not have time to check the weather with a computer, then more than likely whatever the weather was did not make any difference.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 10:25 P.M.:  I cut a stick of black licorice into half inch pieces, and I sprinkled them over two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream, and I ate it all.  Of course, since the weather is very nice here this time of year, there are a lot of local residents whom are more visible in the downtown area in the nicer weather.  However, with more expensive gasoline, more residents seem to be staying more local in this area instead of constantly running back and forth to the big Apple trying to get lucky.  There are established people from the Midwest whom maintain residents in Manhattan or this area.  I recall that the Marshall Field home in Manhattan is maintained by an Italian interior decorator on Park Avenue in Manhattan, so I would imagine there are other people from elsewhere in the United States and perhaps elsewhere in the world whom also have residents in the area.  One of the most formidable homes is probably the Harriman estate called Arden house, but that happens to be one that is advertised a lot since it an old railroad house.  I would assume that there are more opulent homes which are not noticeable in this area.   Of course sometimes when the owners are not in residence, they are not as maintained as well as they should be.  I remember when I explored the Rockefeller Walgreen estate in Lake Forest, Illinois, all that remained of the formidable lakefront estate was the Chinese tea house.  I suppose much the same could be happening over in North Tarrytown or at the other R houses in the area, since if various family members travel extensively, other vandals might be gradually be disassembling the homes for profit.  I recall that when I visited Versailles, about the only furniture left in the chateau was a bed and not much else.  Of course maybe some Russian relative is just trying out the furniture for size.  I suppose when it comes to furniture, one has to have some idea about whom might be using it and maintaining it.  In the old days in larger homes like palaces, they used a lot of marble which was more difficult for relatives to move.  Of course whatever the case our simple village like homes in America do not really impress Europeans and other world travelers whom have seen places like the Forbidden Palace, which is suppose to have 9,999 rooms.  Of course in the old days palaces or whatever their local equivalent were, were like office blocks or office buildings in which to conduct the local business affairs.   However, from what I can tell, most people in America travel and move so much anymore in the pursuit of whatever they pursue, they actually do not try to build large homes anymore, and the modest McMansion seems to be a popular form of dwelling.  I think in the old days, they called them "Leave it to Beaver" homes.  Of course from what I can tell, there are probably some substantial homes that are less well advertised.  Since I am of partial Scottish origin in America, I am aware the Carnegie family once had a nice home in Scotland, but whether they were able to afford to maintain it over all of these years of generous philanthropy is opened to question.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 9:10 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 picked up two new Metro North Greenwich train station schedules.   The new ones start October 1, 2005.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought a state of Florida flag for $3 and a plastic stand for it for a dollar for $4 total.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought a 150 caplet bottle of Nuprin for $5.29, two 6 ounce tubes of Crest Mutlicare Whitening fresh mint toothpaste for $1.99 each, a 1.5 liter bottle of CVS Natural Citrus mouth rinse for $4.39, a 16 ounce bottle of Renuzit for $2.99, three 13 ounce bottles of Palmolive antibacterial dish washing detergent for .88 each, a 27 ounce bottle of Febreze for $2.99, a Sunbeam battery powered mosquito repeller for $2.49 less a $5 off CVS bonus bucks coupon with $25 purchase plus .93 tax for $21.36 total.  I then completed my walk, and I sat out at various locations.  I next drove down by the end of Steamboat Road.  I then went by the Greenwich Library at closing time, and I tested out the new jet engine in the men's room.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a friend.  I chatted with three relatives.  I put the Sunbeam mosquito repeller on the sideboard shelf in the bedroom.  It runs off batteries, so at 75% off, it might come in handy for outdoor use in the future.  I put the Florida state flag on the left computer monitor on the Northgate Syntax backup computer in the living room to the left of the Canadian flag.  Since I have relatives whom are legal residents of the state of Florida, and since I have spent time down there, and since my relatives have helped me create my Florida hospitality suite, I feel the flag of Florida should be prominently displayed.  Also I saw either William Rockefeller downtown today whom looks like Stillman Rockefeller or maybe it was Gerry Ford, or just one of many older retired people whom one sees in Florida with short military style haircuts that could be just somebody from Podunk, Iowa that looks the same.  It is a very common look in America particularly in the Midwest.  I also saw the twins from Hawaii today whose stepfather edits the Chicago Tribune, whom I call Hawaii Five-O.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 1:05 P.M.:  The standing rib roast came out just perfectly, and it tasted like it had just come from the grocery store despite the fact it had been frozen for over nine months.  I had wrapped it in besides the butcher's plastic wrapping in four plastic grocery bags with twist ties.  I put the remaining cooked portion in a large Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.  I also put a little bit of olive oil on the steamed broccoli and carrots.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative told me the large type of prime roast they served at the Field Club back in 1967 is called a Steamship roast.  Well, I guess if one follows the instructions for defrosting and cooking, one can still eat a good meal off of a frozen sale item from the grocery store.  I cleaned up the dishes and the pans.  I noticed the other day, when I was watching Pat Boone on television calling Arnold Schwarzenegger a "Girly Man", it reminded me of something that I had forgotten.  My Uncle from Texas or one of my relatives from Texas had always told me to remember the four famous people whom died at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.  The Alamo was a Spanish mission, so it was not really a fort.  However, I could always remember Davy Crocket, Jim Bowie, and Colonel Travis, but I could not remember the fourth person, and Pat Boone on television reminded me it was Daniel Boone.  Thus everyone whom is from Texas is suppose to know whom the four famous people were whom died at the Alamo.  Of course the 1950s movie by Disney also recorded that history.  Sam Houston did not die at the Alamo, and it was because he was late arriving to the rescue with a relief column that the other's died.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  Also the same relatives also told me that there is one Texas ranger stationed in each state in the nation, and judging by the people whom I see around here, I think I know whom it is, but he does not wear a Stetson at least in Connecticut.  However, the Danbury hat company use to make Stetsons.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 11:55 A.M.:  One of my neighbors buzzed me.  Instead of two half inch slices, I will carve a 3/4th inch thick slice, which a more traditional way to serve the beef.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 11:40 A.M.:  Well, the meal should be ready in about 15 minutes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 11:30 A.M.:  Of course after one has cooked the standing rib roast for the allotted time, one lets it sit outside the oven on its rack for five minutes before carving.  I will use a serrated bread knife that I have to carve it, and I will cut off two half inch slices.  Of course one has to work around the two standing ribs, when one carves it.  The largest cooked roast beef I ever saw in Greenwich, Connecticut was at the Field Club tennis club back in 1967, when I went to a dinner party there for young teenage youth.  It was about two feet high and about a foot in diameter with no bones, and they had it sitting on its round side, and they cut off beef from the other round side.  Of course, I think out in Illinois at another dinner party while I was at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu , they had a larger cut of roast beef.  Of course I spent many years walking around the meat packing area in Manhattan starving not to mention all of the years of driving by Maneros and checking out the local grocery stores, so I would imagine a little bit of beef will not hurt me.  I forgot to mention that old pub in Greenwich Village called the Ninth Circle, also happened to be the oldest steak house in Manhattan, but frequently they can not afford to serve beef and much of their clientele do not eat much meat.  Of course Fred's apartment on East 49th street was just east of Smith & Wollensky: A Steakhouse to End All Arguments. where I never could afford to eat, but I do recall someone once started to take me there to eat, but there was no room.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 11:00 A.M.:  When I bought the standing rib roast before Christmas last year, it was on sale at the Stop and Shop down from $12.99 a pound for $6.99 a pound, and I had it cut in two pieces, and I saved the larger piece, and I used the slightly smaller piece for my Christmas dinner.  Thus by last Christmas prices, the 3.5 pound piece of standing rib roast that I am about to cook shortly is a $45 cut of beef.  I will season it before cooking with sea salt and ground black pepper on all sides.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 10:30 A.M.:  I have the 3.5 pound frozen standing rib roast, so I took it out of its freezer bags, and I left it in the butcher's plastic wrapping, and I put it on a microwave proof plate, and I set the Auto Defrost cycle on the General Electric microwave oven to 3.5 pounds, which will take about 25 minutes to defrost it on the automatic setting of power level 1.  I have to flip it twice, and I am about half way through the defrost cycle.  I am suppose to let it sit for a half hour after that.  I will then bake it in the Farberware convection oven on a roasting rack in a roasting pan at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for about 45 minutes Roasted Prime Rib, Standing Rib Roast, Rib Roast, Roasting Chart .  The Farberware convection oven is a little bit hotter than a regular oven.  I like my roast beef medium rare, and the leftovers will taste better cold if they are on the rare side.  I can use the cold roast beef in a chef's salad or roast beef sandwiches.  It is just a two rib roast, but providing it is still good after being frozen since last Christmas, I might have a little extra energy today after eating a traditional Sunday dinner.  I have some fresh broccoli, which I could steam with baby carrots.  I guess I could also make up a batch of rice Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe  .  I guess I could consider it a Harvest feast, providing the frozen standing rib roast is still good.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 9:45 A.M.:  This is available Staples Circular Savings Maxtor 80GB 7200 RPM USB 2.0 external hard drive  or AcomData E5 160GB, 7200RPM External USB 2.0 Hard Drive - CompUSA.com or Creative Labs WebCam Instant USB Webcam - CompUSA.com only shipped.  This is being cleared out http://store.yahoo.com/justdeals/gstv00.html , but I guess it is an older refurbished model.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 8:45 A.M.:  I don't really need either, but this Buy.com - Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Drive Bay Hub - Hub - 4 Ports : BELKIN COMPONENTS : F5U261-IVO would work off my internal USB 2.0 PCI card plug SYBA USB 2.0 4+1 PORTS RETAIL BOX or this would work off of it Sabrent 42-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5-inch Internal & External Flash Memory Card Reader and Writer - White SBT-ICR42W at TigerDirect.com .  However, I currently can not afford memory cards, and I don't need anymore USB 2.0 plugs.  Still they are options that would work in my spare 3.5 inch drive bay.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/05 Sunday 8:05 A.M.:  In the old days in traditional America, people use to go to church on Sunday, and then they would come home to  a large Sunday dinner.  Now that a great many people are too busy for church anymore, the do household maintenance on Saturday and Sundays, and they are what we call the weekend warriors working out in their yards gardening.   I woke up at 2:30 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with strawberry jam, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I went back to bed until 7 A.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went outside, and it seems to be a nice day.  We have one of those aviation patterns that one frequently sees on nice weekends.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 7:15 P.M.:  I turned on the Zombie television network, and not much seems to be happening as reported by  the Zombies.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 6:00 P.M.:   After, the last message, I went out, and I chatted with some neighbors.   There is a small hole in the ground by the left tree as one goes out of the building with lots of bees going in and out.  I then went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed a letter.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought for a dollar a General Electric mini touch light.  I next went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought  for a dollar a #27 FastCash Bingo scratch card, but when I scratched it in front of the Greenwich railroad station, I did not win anything.  I did not walk upper Greenwich Avenue, because I felt a little weak, since I had only had breakfast.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read P.C. Magazine and P.C. World magazine.  I noticed in the men's room on the ground floor level of the Greenwich Library, they have installed a high performance air hand dryer that is so loud, it sounds like a jet engine.  I like the old days of Scott paper towels better.  I saw one of my neighbors from Norway, and he seems to have survived the hot summer days.  I keep trying to get him to buy an air conditioner, but since he has served on ships all over the world, he is use to tropical weather and seems to thrive in it.  I noticed when I was downtown across from the train station movie theatre, they are in the process of building a pub called "McDuffs".  After the Greenwich library, I went by the Food Emporium, and I bought four 16 ounce packages of Polly-O part skim mozzarella cheese for $1.99 each, a 1.75 quart container of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream and another one of butter pecan for $2.99 each, and a gallon of America's Choice white vinegar for $1.99 for $15.93 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  I hung the General Electric mini touch light with a small OOK hook beneath the small brass bell at the apartment entrance to have available for emergency light.  I put two AA Energizer alkaline batteries in it.  I took half of  a 18.5 ounce frozen box of Vandenkamps frozen fish tenders, and I put ten of them on a metal baking sheet with 16 frozen onion rings and 16 frozen tater tots, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.  I took two tablespoons of Gold's horse radish and a quarter cup of Heinz ketchup, and I mixed them together.  I put the baked items on a plate, and I started to eat them, but the Vanderkamp fish filets had serious freezer burned and were as hard as leather, so I did not eat them.  I did eat the tater tots and onion rings with the ketchup horse radish mixture.  I then put two Nathan's skinless beef franks on a microwave proof plate, and I pricked them along the sides with a fork, and I put them on the plate in the microwave oven with microwave lid, and I heated them for one minute and thirty seconds.  I ate them with the remaining ketchup horse radish mixture.  I then went outside, and I threw away the cooked and the frozen Vandenkamps frozen fish fillets.  I think I got them this past winter, so I guess they do not last as long in the freezer.  I hope the standing rib roast that I have in the freezer from last Christmas that I have not cooked is still good.  I have it wrapped in several plastic bags besides it store wrapping.  I was originally going to eat it for Easter, but I had guests whom do not eat meat.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 11:10 A.M.:  I finished the backup on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I shut it down.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  It looks to be a nice day out.  I put the spare ink cartridges for the Epson Stylus C80 printer with other spare ink cartridges behind the left monitor in the wicker rack hanging on the wall behind the dining room table.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/01/05:

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 10:40 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 10:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 9:55 A.M.:  I finished breakfast, and I finished the backup.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I put $10 on my MacGray laundry card, so I now have $17.65 on the laundry card.  I installed the Epson Stylus C80 printer driver to the Siemens port on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  When using the Siemens port, one has to have the port switch box to the right of the primary computer switched to one of the different printers on the Siemens port.  I ran Win Doctor 2003 on the Northgate backup computer.  I am now running Ad-wareSE on it.  I will then do a System restore backup of the computer.  I will  then run a XP Automatic System recovery backup on it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/05 Saturday 8:05 A.M.:  After the last note, I booted Vista beta 1, and although the Gigabyte motherboard CD program will not start, I was able to install its drivers from the CD folders.  Of course, I am not sure if the drivers installed after reboot are the Gigabyte motherboard drivers or the Vista beta 1 drivers.  I went to bed at 11 P.M..  I was awake at 5:30 A.M..  I moved the Epson Stylus C80 printer to the top of my printer stand to the right side of my primary computer.  I put the Epson Stylus 880 printer from the top of the stand to the middle shelf.  I moved the Epson Stylus 900 printer to the right side of the Dell backup computer in the bedroom.  I installed the drivers on the Dell backup computer for the Epson Stylus 900 printer.  I installed the drivers on the primary computer for the Epson Stylus C80 printer.  I installed them both in XP and Vista beta 1 and also for both USB and the Siemens port.  All of the printers work fine.  I will install the Epson Stylus C80 driver on the Northgate Syntax backup computer later.  I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003 in Vista beta 1, and I booted to XP.  Sometimes in Vista beta 1, the network does not install, and one has to push the reset button, and usually on the second time, it starts up fine.  In XP, I will now run Norton Win Doctor 2003, Ad-awareSE, and then do a System Restore backup.  I will then do a XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  While doing the backup, I will eat 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.  CIO