Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 10:50 P.M.:  I was up at 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative in Florida.  Apparently there is a lot of rain and wind from the storm down in Florida Tropical Storm Noel claims 48 lives, threatens Florida - CNN.com .  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I chatted with the same relative again.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 40 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I am continuing to have to deal with volcanic sulfur smelling intestinal like gas syndromes.  I have the air conditioner sealed up, so I only have the Honeywell Hepa air purifier going in the apartment to deal with the smell.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 9:15 A.M.:  I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers.  I will now go to bed, have a good day.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 7:20 A.M.:  GVB-Grupo de Volcanología de Barcelona

Any old timer will tell you that people who drink sulfur water or well water with sulfur tend to live a lot longer.

Zombie Storm Rising - Forbes.com

Bill Gates Speaks Out On ...

CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 6:10 A.M.:  Well,  the new AA Metal Hydride batteries are fully charged.  I put two in the Nikon digital camera, and I saved the other two in the camera bag.  I also have four fully charged Radio Shack AA metal hydride batteries, and I put two in the Polaroid camera and two in reserve in the camera bag.  The new ones are suppose be able to be recharged for over a thousand times.  One has to remember not to throw them away like old worn out batteries, since they cost about $3 apiece as opposed to .20 cents apiece which is what you can get regular alkaline batteries for from www.batteries.com .  It takes 10.5 hours to charge them up in my Radio Shack battery charger which I keep below the Sony television in the living room, and I have it set on Metal Hydride instead of the other setting of Nickel Cadmium.  Now you know why I washed out of the astronaut training program despite all of my advanced skills.  In the BBC film clip of the inside of the space station, they have hundreds of loose cable wires hanging around with all of their electronics, which reminds me of my home computer setup.  I don't think they would want to be shut in with me in Antarctica for the winter either.  I did fly down to Ronald Reagan's inaugural in January 1980 on a $40 Braniff airlines flight from J.F.K. to Reagan airport, and the only other person on the plane was Prince Boni Sadhir the Oil Minister from Saudi Arabia, so maybe he smells in close quarters too.  Since there is a lot of oil in the ground in Saudi Arabia, maybe because with lots of oil in the ground, the ground also has lots of sulfur, so maybe any Arab that eats lots of local food which contains sulfur smells like a toot or a fart.  However, they probably do not have problems with arthritis.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  Well, if I was able to get elected to congress, I could pretty much guarantee a quorum of one anytime it came to vote.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 5:20 A.M.:  Currently this evening after eating beans and franks for dinner, I have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.  It is a well known family trait which makes me smell like volcanic sulfur.  I guess that is why the Europeans sent my family to America 400 years ago, so they would not have to smell us.  Basically if you feed a person items like oats which you feed horses and beans which everyone knows make you toot, you end up smelling like you live in a stable.  In the old days, when I could afford to eat my more traditional balanced meal diet, I did not have such problems.  Thus the nature of smelling like a British sailor comes from my local diet.  I can not afford to buy Beano, and I think in the old days, when I drank Vodka mixed with fruit juice or tonic, I did not have the problem or wine.  Obviously beer would also make you smell like a drunken sailor.  Thus if you smell anyone around that smells like Volcano sulfur, it might be a relative or somebody living on the same low income diet that I am currently living on.  Perhaps that is why nobody visits anymore.  My father being a Chemical Engineer had no sense of smell, so perhaps I should be around other Chemical Engineers who have no sense of smell.  Thus more than likely they would never try to kidnap me off a submarine.  The good news is that the Booze Boat is back in town today QM2 - Itinerary - 2007 .  Thus more than likely they would not want me to be frequently traveling on a train or an airplane or other confined quarters.  Everyone in the family knows it is a family trait, and I even have a relative working at Rockefeller Center, if things don't seem right there either.  Maybe this is why the call it the Microsoft Skunk Works.  It might possibly come from a number of things like maybe the olive oil that I use regularly is rancid, and the Italians do not sell fresh olive oil here.  It might come from the smoke in tobacco.  It might come from the MSM that I take for arthritis, which is white sulfur, and it might come from the pineapple juice that is grown in volcanic soil with sulfur.  Obviously my system knows how to deal with it.  I have a good Honeywell Hepa air purifier running all of the time, but since it is always a constant flow of intestinal gas, I am not sure how the people that pass me buy when walking in the general public feel.  Possibly it is from some guinea pig project that the local chemists at Cytech dreamed up as our secret defense plan.  If everyone in the country had the same amount of intestinal gas that I seem to have, I really doubt if any group of foreigners would every invade us.  It even gets hard for me to stand myself sometime, and I can imagine how other people feel.  Maybe they thought there was a natural gas leak downtown this evening when all of the police showed up.  I think it is suppose to be a family trait from the Scottish side of the family, so maybe the Scotch drink whisky, so it does not happen.  I know they eat a lot of oats, but I do not know if they eat beans or not.  From what I can tell, more than likely even when I eat more meat it seems to happen.  Usually when I eat a broiled shell steak, it goes through me in less five minutes.  Maybe eating olive oil all of these years has changed my intestinal system or possibly it is some of the other vitamins and supplements.  Well, if the Nazis ever try to invade England again, don't waste the money fighting them, just feed everyone baked beans, and I don't think they will stay very long.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 4:30 A.M.:  Before the incident this past evening on Greenwich Avenue, I noticed that one of the party coming out of the Japanese restaurant this evening near the same location as the incident was wearing a King Ranch King Ranch Brush Jacket in Natural King Ranch Saddle Shop Brush Jacket from their store at King Ranch Saddle Shop, so maybe we had some visitors from the Long Star state.  The Symbol of the King Ranch or its brand, the "Running W" King Ranch "Running W" brand is why Texans in the country dress the way they do.  I know they can get up to six feet long, and they prefer not to be eaten as Rattlesnake stew Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - DesertUSA .  I use to have a local friend here that was a local guide, and he once showed me the area near Bedford, New York on upper Stanwich Road here in Greenwich, Connecticut which has small cliffs and ravines in a wooded area, where the Hollywood Producer David O. Selznick David O. Selznick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia lived, and he told me that area was full of rattlesnakes and copper heads which are not too friendly either.  That is near the same area, where the fellow I met from Saudi Arabia lived, so more than likely they are aware of their local nature habitat.  Of course anyone from down south is use to dealing with all sorts of reptiles, and even in the Florida Keys, the most dangerous snake is not the two above, but the tiny little Coral snake.  Thus if you can not afford to hire an experience guide when you travel, you might check with you local Scout troop.  Even when one watches "Flipper" on television here, you begin to realize the children of the local Keys park ranger were always running into trouble even with Flipper there to keep an eye on them.  Thus if you ever think about living down south, you might think about watching Flipper or some of the other traditional programming from the Southern region.  Obviously some of the locals know a thing or two too.  Having lived both North and South, I tend to have a different viewpoint that the locals in each area whom have not shared the same experience of both locations.  As I recall Lewis B. Mayer and Joseph E. Levine also had houses in Greenwich, Connecticut at various times, and the Fonda family lived here, so we have a bit of Hollywood on the Hudson in our own neighborhood, Lucy and Dezi were married when they eloped out of Manhattan in the old days, when you could wake up the Justice of the Peace in Byram, Connecticut just across the New York border and get married without the three day wait in New York.  Actually the former Justice of the Peace use to live in this building before he retired to Pompano, Florida, so I am not sure whom the Current Justice of the Peace is, but I do not know whether the same old New York laws apply across the border.  Of course, if a women ever married a Saudi Arabian and lived there despite their wealth, underneath Saudi Arabian religious law, a man can divorce a women by saying I assume in Arabic three times "I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you".  Thus despite their wealth their might not be all of that peace and harmony that one might expect out of wealthy people over there.  Of course women from wealthy Arab families might tend to fair better off, off their father's monies than their husband's.  I ate two bowls of goldfish crackers.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/07 Wednesday 2:35 A.M.:  I woke up at 1 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  UPS delivered the order for 9984 Nikon Camera Case and Extended Service Coverage (2 Years) for Coolpix 7900, 7600, 5900, 5600, 4600, L1, L2, L3, L4 for $14.99 and XP4AA25/XP4AA29 Power2000 AA Rechargeable Batteries, 1.2 volt Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), 2700 mAh, Pack of Four. for $11.49 plus $5 shipping for $31.44 total.  I put the four metal hydride rechargeable batteries in the Radio Shack battery charger set at Metal Hydride, and they will be fully charged by 4 A.M. this morning.  I put the Nikon 4600 digital camera in the Nikon case in the Lowepro camera bag.  I put the Polaroid digital camera in the Polaroid case in the camera bag too.  I filled out the two years warranty card for the Nikon 4600 camera.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out some garbage.  I went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two 38 ounce boxes of Pepperidge Farm whole wheat goldfish crackers for $6.99 each for $13.98 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with some of the staff.  I then went downtown, and I stopped by CVS.  I recommended to the staff that they should restock the Haines Long Underwear they use to sell.  I use to buy it there before the internet.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I chatted with two chauffeurs, and one of them was from Uruguay.  They were splicing a cable together underground at Railroad Avenue and Greenwich Avenue.  I noticed they have a bronze about 1960 Cadillac convertible with white top at Carriage House Motors.  It is one with the fins, but I think the fins got twice as big in later years.  I stopped by the Greenwich Post Office, and I mailed the Nikon warranty card.  I kept my copy and the other Nikon purchase information at the front of the file cabinet  on the right side of the bedroom desk.  About the time I was crossing the street at Starbucks about a dozen Greenwich Police cars converged on the Thataway restaurant area and Sundown Saloon.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then stood out at the senior center, and I asked a few walkers what was going on, and everyone said nothing as far as they could tell.   I then chatted with a patron walking up the street from the Thataway restaurant, and I walked the patron back.  It is good to know the Greenwich Police has fast response capability.  I then walked upper Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, I bought Chiquita bananas at .54 a pound for $1.38 and a dozen Omega extra large eggs for $2.50 for $3.88 total.  I chatted with a local French Italian resident about the Winter Olympics.  I then returned home.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I took off the summer weight pink and green quilt, and I put it in a protective holder on the shelf in the bedroom closet.  I took from the bedroom closet, two light weight comforters that I put on each sofa in the living room.  I also took the summer weight blue blanket off the bed, and I put it on the back on the green sofa in the living room.  I put the white electric blanket on the bed, and I connected it up.  I put the new winter comforter on the bed with the old winter comforter folded up at the end of the bed.  I cleaned the comforters last spring before putting them away, so they are clean, except the new one, which was only used for about a month last spring.   I hung out my two long john union suits on plastic hangers on the bathroom door.  From the right brass hook as one enters the bedroom door, I hung out the four light pairs of long underwear bottoms and two heavier pairs.  I hung the leisure shorts from the opened bedroom door, and I hung the pajamas from the opened bathroom door.  Thus I have the apartment back to its winter motif.  I will do laundry when I have more dirty items.  I made up a batch of http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm , and I used a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans to make it.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/07 Tuesday 4:00 A.M.:  I guess not much is happening in this part of the world anymore with the higher prices of oil.  Still we manage to keep a skeleton crew of people maintaining essential services.   Since Greenwich, Connecticut is suppose to be wealthier community as are some of our neighboring communities, more people can still manage to afford the price of fuel for transportation, but I would imagine with the larger homes in the area, more people are having trouble with increased home heating fuel bills.  From what I know despite the economic news that is manufactured, it seems like we are in an unannounced depression or recession, and the only reason prices are still high is because of inflation and the weakening dollar.  I suppose from what I can see happening around me, fewer people are venturing out at night, and it was mostly the younger generation that were out at night, so more of them are obviously spending more time at home as opposed to pursuing other leisure activities.  I would imagine fewer of them are also venturing into Manhattan.  I have a Saudi Arabian flag in my apartment beneath the United States Air Force flag, and although my father worked on building oil refineries in Saudi Arabia and other places in the world, I personally never saw any family income from it.  The only people that I ever met that told me, they were from Saudi Arabia was Izi down at Louis' Patio in Key West, Florida in mid 1970s and the fellow that used to run the cigarette store in Byram told me he had worked for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and Auri who lived up on North street here in Greenwich told me he was the son of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United Nations.  I also recall when I last lived in Manhattan up until February 1982, the Saudi Arabian flag use to fly at the Waldorf Towers in Manhattan all of the time with the United States flag.  Thus just because one has met a few of them, not much money seems to come our way.  I also know that a local English family here in Greenwich the Scott Paine family were friends of T.H. Lawrence of Lawrence of Arabia fame.  I think I have a copy of the book that I have never read.  I suppose if Izi was down in Key West, Florida, there might have been other Saudi's down there, but he was the only one that told me he was from Saudi Arabia.  I guess because I am from a northern stock of people, I do not tend to run into warmer weather people, since during warmer weather it is frequently too hot for me to go outside very much.  Well have a good morning, and since I can not get around as much in my normal routines, I have less to write about.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/30/07 Tuesday 3:25 A.M.:  Oil Up, Financials Pressured Before Fed Meeting - Forbes.com

Book The Red Volcanoes with fabulous pictures of Kilauea in Hawaii and Piton de La Fournaise in Reunion Island

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on 9984 Nikon Camera Case and Extended Service Coverage (2 Years) for Coolpix 7900, 7600, 5900, 5600, 4600, L1, L2, L3, L4 for $14.99 and XP4AA25/XP4AA29 Power2000 AA Rechargeable Batteries, 1.2 volt Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), 2700 mAh, Pack of Four. for $11.49 plus $5 shipping for $31.44 total.

Windows Server 2008

BBC NEWS | UK | Red carpet welcome for Saudi king

BBC NEWS | Technology | Uruguay buys first $100 laptops

I went through my email.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/30/07 Tuesday 1:55 A.M.:  I installed DTV4PC on the XP partition on the FIC server, but it would not install on the Vista Server RC1 beta on the FIC server partition.  I also installed it on both partitions on both the Epox and Northgate Syntax computers.  It has better resolution with video in Vista SP1.  I went outside briefly, and I picked up my  mail.  It is a bit colder out.  I will now eat a baloney and cheese sandwich with a third of a tube of Pringle low fat sour cream and onion potato chips and a sliced dill pickle and a glass of iced tea.  Since it is rather cold out tonight, I probably will not be going out for a walk this morning.  I need to watch my fuel consumption and save energy.  I saw on Sky TV the British are looking for Asian investors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/07 Monday 9:15 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched Dr. Zhivago Doctor Zhivago (1965) on the Turner Movie channel.  They usually show it in the winter, when it is like Siberia outside here.  Tomorrow it is suppose to be 68 degrees Fahrenheit here in the daytime, so it is not exactly winter here yet.  I opened up the right living room window, and I put two new alkaline AA batteries in Oregon Pacific weather station sending unit.  I also put four new AA alkaline batteries in the base unit.  Thus the Oregon Pacific weather station is set for another winter.  Of course the comuters are also have very good weather information.  I cleaned off the window ledge while I was working at that location.  I received the registration key for DTV4PC TemplateZone by KMT Software Store DTV4PC for $30 which I purchased yesterday, and the program works quite well with all of its channels from around the world.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/29/07 Monday 8:05 A.M.:  Security Watch: Why online criminals get away - CNET reviews

F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments - New York Times

Tropical Storm NOEL

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saudi visit to seal ties with UK

BBC NEWS | UK | Saudi king chides UK on terrorism

BBC NEWS | Technology | Africa waiting for net revolution

BBC NEWS | Business | A380 superjumbo lands in Sydney

I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon. 

CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/07 Monday 6:55 A.M.:  I heated a 18.2 ounce can of Campbell's New Clam chowder, and I put some parsley flakes on it, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I went outside, and I threw out the 9 old eggs and two old 24 ounce jars of Mott's Apple Sauce.  I emptied the outside building ash tray.  I walked around the building.  The Greenwich Housing Authority has not taken out the other tenants' air conditioners, so maybe they are going to start leaving them in.  They usually are out by this time of the year.  I have a fairly new electric blanket that I use in the winter with the comforters.  Maybe I will put it on the next time I change the linens.  Not much happening on this side of town.  The local newspaper is full of news about the local elections, but it is my viewpoint that more than half the town after they vote here in the fall go south for the winter.  It would be interesting to know how many are actually legal tax paying residents here or in some other warmer state or country.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/07 Monday 5:20 A.M.:  On of the reasons, I keep my web log is to keep track of things.  I was about to make some eggs, and I researched in my web log, when I bought the Nature's Promise extra large eggs, and it was August 2, 2007, so more than likely they are no good.  I probably have some other food products likes Mott's Apple sauce that is out of date too.  I will throw out the eggs.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/07 Monday 4:40 A.M.:  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  It is starting to get colder outside, but I am used to it.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  There was one solitary jeep there enjoying the view of Long Island Sound and Long Island.  With the higher prices of fuel in this area, Long Island does not look as brightly lighted up the way it one was not too many years ago.  Not many lights shinning along the waterfront of the Gold Coast of Long Island better known as Nassau County.  I then drove over to Walgreens.com - Online pharmacy & drugstore, prescriptions, health information, photo center which is opened 24 hours a day seven days a week.  I bought buy one gallon get one gallon free of Peak 50%-50% antifreeze for $7.49 both and a 60 yard roll of grey 3M Scotch duct tape for $6.99 and .87 tax for $15.35 total.  I then put about half of a gallon of the antifreeze in the coolant overflow container on the Buick wagon, so it is about 2/3rds full.  I put the two Peak antifreeze jugs in the driver's side rear compartment to have in reserve.  I had to move a few items from there into the lower rear compartment.  I then drove back to central Greenwich, and I sat out briefly.  I then returned home.  I then cleaned my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner filter and its covering.  I closed its louvers, and I unplugged it from its heavy duty extension cord.  I then used duct tape to seal it off with the Styrofoam panels, so it is winterized for the upcoming cold weather.  I removed the bobby pins to lower the curtain over it.  Thus it is all closed off, and set for the winter.  Once I turn on the electic heat, I will use the electric tower fan to blow the heat around the apartment, so it does not go into the false ceiling.  I moved the two U.S. Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags from behind the bedroom door to the far end of each sofa in the living room.  I took out my winter hats, gloves, and scarves from the lower shelf of the sweater closet, and I put them on the back side of the down sofa.  Once it gets colder in the bedroom, I will put on the heavier blanket on the bed and the new polyester comforter.  I have a spare comforter too that I cleaned before storing.  I keep more than enough extra warm materials in the apartment in case we ever lose our electric heat in the winter.  I left the new roll of 3M Scotch duct tape on the boxes on the floor in the bottom front of the sweater closet with the used on.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 10:40 P.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with one fourth of a 5 1/8th ounce tube of Pringle low fat sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of iced tea.  I will now go downtown for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 7:35 P.M.:  I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes.  I will start making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm .  I will then shower and clean up.  I do not plan to go out, but I think I should shower and clean up every two or three days, so I do not stink too much.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 7:30 P.M.:  I shredded the $5 check and envelope to Greenwich Country Day Greenwich Country Day School and instead I gave them a dollar online.  Since they treat me like a dollar a year person working for the President of the United States in Greenwich, Connecticut, I have given them my entire yearly salary from the White House www.whitehouse.gov .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 7:10 P.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I rested some more.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  My relative likes the Bed Bath & Beyond Product Watergard™ Bath Mat .  I have suggested over the years that www.exxon.com should send one like I sent to my relative to each stock holder, and they could have the Exxon logo printed on it.  I bought a copy of DTV4PC for $29.99 to put on my primary Vista computer.  I will now install it.  Unfortunately, I did not receive the license key, so I have to wait until they send it to me to use it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 2:15 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last note.  I chatted with www.chase.com and my account was not available until 10 A.M.  on their system for use.  I woke up at 1:45 P.M., and I ordered from New Lee Jeans SALE with the 20% off coupon code that they emailed me, I ordered two pairs of Lee Store - Product Detail Regular Fit -Straight Leg Jean in dark stone color waist 42 inches length 30 inches for $19.99 each pair less $8 discount for $31.98 total with free shipping.  Certain people around here think I am in the Lee Jean model around here, but alas they never paid me.  Write down the Lee Coupon Code or print it out, since it disappears when you look at it a second time.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 5:50 A.M.:  I am now watching some surfing action from Fiji.   I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with half of a 5 1/8th ounce tube of Pringle low fat sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of iced tea.  I overheard a surfer last Thursday night chatting about somebody he knows that owns a surf shop in South Africa.  Greenwich, Connecticut because it is on Long Island sound does not have much wave surfing just a bit of wind surfing.  However, having lived around the ocean most of my life, I have seen a few surfers.  The most surfers I ever saw together in one place was in Malibu, California outside the Getty Villa on Labor Day in 1980, and I recall seeing about 50,000 of them that all looked the same.  Of course I saw quite a few younger surfers down in Huntington Beach, California during that same trip.  When I first went to Nantucket around 1969, I went with the son of the station agent for British Airways in Boston, and his name was Ian Emberson, and he had a twin brother who was a wine steward at the Ritz in Boston, and Ian since he also had lived in Hawaii tried his hand at surfing off Surfside beach in Nantucket with a board he barrowed from a local.  As far as I can recall I have only body surfed, I have never tried a board.  I guess the Body surfing off of Black's Beach in Tobago was probably the most dangerous body surfing I ever did, since it is full of black coral.  I am so heavy now, I do not think I would be a good enough swimmer to be a good enough surfer.  Thus I am left surfing the internet.  Having lived around the waterfront most of my life, I do have a few friends around the waterfront in other areas, but I guess they have long forgotten about me, since this is a colder area on a year round business.  Tobago also has calm beaches at Pigeon Point, but there are quite a few sand flies there.  Now they are showing snowboarding on HDTV.  I think the next Winter Olympics is at Whistler in Canada Vancouver 2010 - Welcome, where one of the fishing surf casting youth on Steamboat Road use to be from a half dozen years ago, so he will probably see quite a few people on the rebound including Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden H.M. Konungens tal.  George Cary looks a bit like H.M. Konung Carl XVI Gustaf - Kungahuset , maybe he is related to European Royalty having come from Queen Victoria's Court.  I can't read Swedish, but it looks like he is 60 years old now H.M. Konungen 60 år - Kungahuset .  According to this Royal Diary - Kungahuset he will be at the World Scout Foundation in Copenhagen, Denmark.  From this side of the pond not much is happening that I can tell.  I have spent so much time outside observing over the years that few people want to be bothered by me, since they find computer people boring, particularly those with minimal income.  I guess they are all looking for a free ride to Europe or Manhattan, and the way I got to both of those places over the years was by working.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 4:35 A.M.:  I finished the Vista computer maintenance on the primary computer.  I am watching High Def TV about trying to catch the big wave HD channel 734 VOOM HD Networks - RUSH HD about surfer trying to catch an Amazon Pororoca surf wave for a 35 minute ride or more to set the world's record.  If you don't wear a Speedo, you could have something amputated.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 2:35 A.M.:  Earlier today, I put the U.S.A. flag in the hallway over the right hallway bookcase.  I moved it over the Scottish Cross of St. Andrew's flag and the U.K. Union Jack.  I still have the U.K. Union Jack displayed in the living room.  I will now do some system maintenance, and then I will do a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/28/07:

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 2:10 A.M.:  I went through my email earlier.  I ate two scoops of Friendly low fat sugar free maple walnut ice cream.  I currently weight 202 pounds, so I am not doing too well losing weight, since I was down to 190 pounds when I was up in Kennebunkport, Maine this past summer and fall.  I guess since I am not making it downtown to exercise walk as much anymore with the higher price of fuel, I am not getting as much exercise.  Of course I have been keeping busy around the apartment, and the apartment is a bit improved in its overall appearance.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/07 Sunday 1:25 A.M.:  I went out after the last note, and I checked my car, and I picked up my mail.  I received a Greenwich Country Day School fund raiser letter with a "GCDS Alumni" car sticker.  I put the sticker on the lower right side of the inside rear window of my Buick wagon to the left as one faces forward of the GB sticker.  I tried to make a donation at their web site, but it would not accept my debit card, so I guess it only takes credit cards.  I mailed them a $5 check with their donation envelop that I will mail later on today.  I looked for one of my old "SCOTT" USA stickers, but I seem to be out of them.  I found a KPT white oval sticker with a small lobster in in it, and I put it on the outside rear lower  window to the left as one faces forward of the GCDS Alumni sticker.  While looking for a SCOTT sticker, I found an older GCDS alumni sticker.  I ate the other 1.5 cups of the reheated defrosted steak and vegetable stew with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 10:35 P.M.:   European Geophysics Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria April 13 -1 8, 2008

COSIS.net - Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology - Call-for-Paper Programme

Copernicus Online Service + Information System

CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 10:25 P.M.:  For the Nikon Coolpix 4600 digital 4.1 mp camera, I ordered 9984 Nikon Camera Case and Extended Service Coverage (2 Years) for Coolpix 7900, 7600, 5900, 5600, 4600, L1, L2, L3, L4 for $14.99 and XP4AA25/XP4AA29 Power2000 AA Rechargeable Batteries, 1.2 volt Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), 2700 mAh, Pack of Four. for $11.49 plus $5 shipping for $31.44 total.  I used Chris N. as my sales representative, since I think it was him that I chatted with, and he told me he had been a Microsoft Salesman, and he knew Bret Clark whom lives near them and that I once met, who was from Steubenville, Ohio; Vienna, Austria; and Palm Beach, Florida, and Bret had gone to the Harvard Design School, and was working on the Kennedy Library in Boston.  Bret is a smaller person like Billy Baldwin, but he looked to be very cleaver.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 8:55 P.M.:  For older people whom need a cane, this is the cane Amazon.com: Duro-Med Adjustable Folding Fancy Cane, Floral: Health & Personal Care that I ordered for a relative while in Maine this past summer.  The relative was most pleased. 

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 8:40 P.M.:  I ate a piece of pineapple cheese cake with some iced tea.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 7:45 P.M.:  I took 55 pictures of my apartment with the Nikon Coolpix 4600 4.1 mp digital camera.  It takes quite good inside flash pictures, and with the wide angle lens, one gets good pictures at close up.

Here are two links to the pictures.

Kodakgallery.com Slideshow Mike Scott's Apartment 55 Pictures October 27, 2007

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls102707/

CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 5:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.

I ordered from DVD R Media,DVD-R Media,DVD-RW,DVD+R Media,DVD+RW,Buy Blank DVD Media,Dual Layer,DL DVD R Media,DVD-RAM,CD-R,CDR,CD-RW,DVDR,CD DVD R Media Storage Online Shop,CD DVD Labels,CD DVD Burner,DVD Drive,Ink Toner,Ink Cartridges,Pen Drives, a 21 LEDs Lamp for Bicycle,FREE STANDARD SHIPPING for $9.99, a Kingston 1GB Secure Digital Memory Card (SD 1GB Card), Model SD/1GB for $14.65 less $5 off coupon with code "MMTOP5OFF" with free shipping for $19.64 total.  I will thus have a light for my bicycle at night besides the dynamo light if I need to use the bike at night, and I will now have a SD card for my older Polaroid 3.1 mp digital camera.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes, and I will make my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 5:45 A.M.:  I ate two 1.25 inch by .25 inch by 2.5 inch slices of New York extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I watched some high definition television.  I have so many television channels to chose from, I should really look at one of the internet television guides instead of channel surfing.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | New room added to space station

BBC NEWS | Technology | Reporter's Log: A day with Vista

I guess I have not got around to exploring all of the features of Vista in pursuing my every day routines.  I still have not tried its speech recognition.

Well, I am a bit tired, so I think I should now shut down the primary Vista computer http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm , and I will go to bed shortly there after.  Have a good day.  Don't take any wooden nickels.  I have been looking at laptops on the internet, and they are so god awful expensive, I do not think I will ever be getting a new one, and to be frank I really do not need one, since I am more comfortable being a desktop hero at home as opposed to being a laptop warrior on the run.   Well it seems to me that after 11 months of Vista since its final release, I have it under control for now.  However, more than likely when Vista SP1 is released, I might try installing it as an update, and possibly as an update over a restored backup of my original configuration, but I will probably try it over the current installation first.  However, it is not due for release until January 2008, so more than likely I might have some time to get back to some normal routines, whatever those might be.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 3:40 A.M.: Local writer Greenwich Gossip who writes better than I do because he went to www.harvard.edu and he uses a Apple, so he does not have to fix it all the time.  He seems to know a lot of the older movers and shakers, but at my age having hung out downtown at night with the kids here for the last 24 years, some of the newer generation have a different perspective than the old guard at the local events.  I was thinking that since the liberal democratic party has gone so far to the left, maybe the Republican party could dig up some old time conservative democrats to run on the upcoming ticket, since it seems the Republicans are all hiding behind their lawyers, and none of them want to be public anymore.  Obviously without enough funding, it is not worth being public anymore, since it takes a considerable amount of time and money to mingle with the general public, if one does not have an objective.  Somebody must make money off the political process, or they would not be so ruthless in their competitive adventures.  I guess since a lot of Average White Male Americans think the same, the various feminist political groups make hay by dividing and breaking up the consensus of the general public and diverting one's attentions away from the real events.  From what I can tell, if one had the time, and one studied this Budget of the United States Government: Main Page , one might make more sense out of the current political process as opposed to their various public relations efforts.  At a quick glance I even noticed that the DOD has a $76 billion research budget, so more than likely some other people are working on high tech in a more clandestine fashion than what one sees on the internet.  You have to remember that the Internet is what the DOD turned over to the Civilians around 1980, so more than likely they are using some sort of Star Wars type of communications network that most of us are totally unaware of.  I know in the old days, the "Audubon Network" was a Defense communications system, but I can not find any mention of it on the internet.  I guess everything is pie in the sky satellite technology, and more than likely other countries are using various other technologies.  From what I have read briefly about www.cia.gov by charter, they are not allowed to conduct clandestine surveillance in the United States, but only outside the country, and it is the www.fbi.gov and various other intelligence agencies that have that responsibility.  However, since Greenwich, Connecticut is an international community, more than likely we have other foreign intelligence agencies operating in this area not to mention the New York Area in general.  The Old Guard in Greenwich tend to be a quiet group that play the card game Bridge a lot, so more than likely anyone throwing too many social events might be trying to gather intelligence.  However, we all know about the biggest spy network in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.  I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 1:20 A.M.:  This Wednesday, October 31, 2007, the Queen Mary II is back in Manhattan again QM2 - Itinerary - 2007 .  I would not mind taking off on it to spend the winter in Barbados, but sooner of later I will get use to the colder weather.  It will visit again three more times in November 2007 and twice in December 2007, so I guess the POSH aristocracy of England is not spending too much time back home across the Pond anymore.  There are probably a lot of wet behind the ear youth keep the home fires burning.  I will now go get the white quilted throw and put it back on the Ethan Allen recliner.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/07 Saturday 12:50 A.M.:  Tony Blair Boards With Random House - Forbes.com

Download details: DirectX End-User Runtime

- Microsoft Stripping Down Windows to Run on OLPC - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

NMSU: Geological Sciences

» Windows Vista: More than 88 million copies sold | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

10 Head-Turning Products From Interop NY

Microsoft Goes Godzilla In Fiscal First Quarter - Software - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

U.S. Navy Proposes New Strategy - Forbes.com

Surplus Computers 11 LED Head & Bicycle Lamp

Slippery Slope - Forbes.com

I just remembered yesterday that I started walking a lot in my life at age 7 when I started playing golf.  Thus I have been walking a lot in my life for the last 50 years.

I have 25 minutes to go on the dry cycle on the white quilted throw for the Ethan Allen recliner.  If one does not watch too much television, there is always something that one can do with their spare time.  I ate a 1/6th piece of pineapple cheese cake.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/07 Friday 11:30 P.M.:  This morning before going to bed, I ate two scoops of low fat sugar free Maple Walnut ice cream.  This afternoon, I also ate a 1/6th piece of pineapple cheese cake.  The weather is cooler damp and rainy today.  I moved the large Bermuda flag from the left hallway bookcase to the left living room closet.  I now have the U.S. Air Force www.af.mil flag flying over the left hallway bookcase.  The weather in Bermuda Civil Air Terminal, Bermuda Forecast : Weather Underground is warmer than here.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I moved the Buick wagon to its usual place underneath the street light.  I picked up my mail.  Earlier this afternoon, I chatted with a friend going back up to Toronto, Canada.  I shut down the Northgate Syntax computer.  I will now wash and dry the white quilted throw that is spread over the Ethan Allen recliner in the living room.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/26/07 Friday 10:25 P.M.:  I was awake at 1 P.M..  I ordered this almost free promo xpdig.com- Great Cleaners: Kaboom NeverScrub toilet cleaning system + Cameo stainless steel cleaner + Brillo pads $1.5 shipped , and for the item that I paid for, I ordered the 10 pack of Brillo lemon soap pads for $2.25, and the other three items and the shipping were free, so the total was $2.25. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I watered my plants, and I put out more white vinegar in the scent bowl.  I reinstalled and configured Vista SP1 beta on the Northgate Syntax computer on the second hard drive.  Now the audio works with it.  I did not put Microsoft One Care beta on it, so it does not have an antivirus program.  I am now using Vista Complete PC backup of both hard drives with Vista SP1 beta and XP Home to the Bytecc External hard drive.  I chatted with a relative.  I am defrosting and reheating the steak and vegetable stew that I made over six months ago.  I will eat half of it shortly with a glass of iced tea.  I watched television while working on the Northgate Syntax computer.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/26/07 Friday 6:45 A.M.: BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple ready to set Leopard free

Shuttle docks with space station - CNN.com

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/07 Friday 5:45 A.M.:  Microsoft Earnings Boosted By Windows Vista, Office, Halo -- Windows Vista -- InformationWeek

Saudi King Tries to Grow Modern Ideas in Desert - New York Times

The Deals are Getting BIGGER and BETTER at Geeks.com 750 GB SATA hard drive $140

PC rebooting? The cause may be MS OneCare

Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

Microsoft Dynamics Forum Series

Dell Small Business 360 - Managing and Promoting Your Business Web Site

Photovolcanica Full Index: Photos of Volcanoes, Penguins, Moais...

Pavlof- Volcano by Richard Roscoe,From Etna to Strombolil,  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/07 Friday 4:45 A.M.:  I ate a 1/6th of a piece of pineapple cheese cake.  I will repeat my theory that pineapple or pineapple juice from pineapples that are grown on sulfur rich volcanic soil might possibly be good for arthritis, since MSM MSM & Joints | Information, Benefits, Research | MSMGuide.com that I take for arthritis has white sulfur in it.  I also take chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate.  I also take two Tylenol arthritis pain formulas a day, one when I wake up, and one when I go to bed.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/26/07 Friday 3:40 A.M.:  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I noticed at the vintage car dealership across the street from the Greenwich, Connecticut train station, they have an antique 1958 to 1963 Mercedes 220S or 220SE four seater convertible in grey with black top.  I once owned a 1961 Mercedes 220s convertible that I bought in 1971 for $750, and it had a bit of rust, but I had to sell it for $1,750 after a couple of months to get my money back after I paid $850 have a valve job done at Loeber Mercedes in Chicago, Illinois, when all it needed was a $15 fuel filter.  I sold it to a fellow from California that was going to restore it.  Still I had a few enjoyable spring days on the North Shore cruising around in it. With the money that I had left when I sold it, I bought the St. Bernard puppy at the Senior Class Auction for $300.  During my walk, I saw the trains coming and going on both sides about 10:30 P.M..  I chatted with somebody walking the third labradoodle that I have seen in two years.  It is a mixture of a Labrador and Poodle.  It is suppose to have a good sense of smell.  During my walk, I found an orange with fleur de leis pattern women's silk scarf made in Italy about 24 inches by 24 inches.  It seems to be in good shape, so I brought it back with me, and I left it on the back of the down sofa, in case anyone needs it.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and not much is happening now that the cooler weather has set in.  I then returned home.  I started defragmenting the C: drive when I went out, and I just stopped it, and I am not sure whether it was working or not, although the hard drive light was flashing, I had a warning that the defragmenting module had failed. 

I tried reactivating Vista SP1 beta on the second partition on the Epox computer, but product activation came up, and I could not get to administrative privileges.  I then pressed F8 on boot up, and I selected "Last Known Good Configuration", and I got the normal boot up without product activation.

I found the script to run to reactivate it for another 30 days. 

I ran the DOS prompt as an Administrator.

I then typed in without the quotes "cscript slmgr.vbs /rearm"

It then prompted me to reboot, and I have another 30 days of usage.

I am suppose to be able to do it three times for a total usage of 120 days.

On this page Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation , it says you can go beyond 120 days for 12 times if you reset the registry key to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ SL

Step 3. Right-click the Registry key named SkipRearm and click Edit. The default is a Dword (a double word or 4 bytes) with a hex value of 00000000. Change this value to any positive integer, such as 00000001, save the change, and close the Registry Editor

,

but when I reset it just now it was set to 0, maybe after three times you need to set it to 1.

I am doing a quick Complete PC backup on the Vista SP1 beta partition hard drive from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/07 Thursday 9:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  It is suppose to rain tomorrow, so I will now go out for walk downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/07 Thursday 8:45 P.M.:  I woke up at noon today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put a new Stop and Shop blue toilet tablet in the toilet tank.  I went out, and I mailed a letter at the Chase Bank on Mason street at their outside mail box.  I then use the ATM machine and teller counters at the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then went to my regular 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a 35 inch diameter with round engraved dark gold frame mirror for $15.  I then went by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought two 75 pound OOK three nail hanger assemblies for $2.99 each, and two 5 inch by .25 inch toggle bolt assemblies that I assembled myself with each with two 1.5 inch diameter fender washers with three nuts in between for $1.15 each assembly plus .50 tax for $8.78 total.  The toggle bolt assemblies are a good way to hang a heavy object off of a sheet rock wall.  But if sheet rock ever gets wet from a leaky roof or some other damp situation, it becomes like wet card board, and everything would fall down no matter what one hung it with unless it was hung of the stud.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Center Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $28 of self service premium unleaded gasoline at $3.439 a gallon for 8.142 gallons for 83.1 miles driving the last 12 days for a total odometer reading of 115,474.3 miles for an average of 10.206 miles per gallon, which is about right since I have been driving recently in heavier daytime traffic with the air conditioner going.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought three 64 ounce containers of Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $5 all, German Wondarbar baloney at $2.79 a pound for $3.21 and $1.42, and Stop and Shop white American cheese for $5.49 a pound $5.82 for $15.45 total.  I then went by the George Weston Bakeries Arnold Bread outlet in Byram off Old Track Road near the I-95 exit two exit, and I bought two six packs of Thomas' New York Everything bagels for $1.79 each six pack and a Entenmann's 24 ounce pineapple cheese cake for $2.25 for $5.83 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.  One of the three discarded air conditioners by our dumpster is a Frederick 6,000 BTU model about ten years old, and it looks like it might work, but I have not tested it.  I brought up my purchases.  I took off the items from the top side of the inside of the apartment door, and I used a 75 pound OOK hook to hang the new mirror there above the picture of the Chateau of Versailles.  It looks quite nice.  I cleaned the mirror with glass cleaner.  I hung the two small bird brings from the door below the Ox Yoke above the living room closets.  I hung the picture of Prince Wilhelm of the Netherlands and Princess Maxima above the light switch.  I hung the mirror I took off the door beneath the mirror on the right side of the kitchen entrance.  I moved the framed map of Scandinavia from that location to above the Abraham Lincoln picture in the living room.  I moved the water colors of the Town Hall in Paris and the Cathedral of Notre Dame from that location to above the right side of the bedroom closet. I move the framed New York Central Stock certificate from that location to the above the Green Heron picture to the left of the bed.  I moved the Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard of North Water Street print from the lower right kitchen entrance to the wall just above the dining table below the mirror.  I moved the framed spider web from that location to the wall above the chair in the kitchen below the shelf.  I moved the picture of the Queen Mother of England from the apartment entrance door to above the kitchen entrance on the left side.  I moved the picture of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands from that location to the wall above the kitchen sink.  I moved the round barometer from the apartment entrance door to the left side of the bedroom entrance, and I moved the Putnam Lodge Masonic broken and repaired dinner plate from that location to above the handicap assist handle to the left side of the toilet as one sits down.  I put my spare Turkish change purse that I bought a few years ago from the Port Chester flea market for a couple of dollars in between the Buick wagon seats where the music tapes are to hold any spare change.  I will now eat a baloney and cheese sandwich with mayonnaise and potato chips and a slice of dill pickle with a glass of iced tea.  I also put the spare toggle bolt assemblies and spare OOK hooks in a small brown paper bag in the right top drawer of the mahogany bureau in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.:  I surfed the internet a bit.  I made and ate my burger with sautéed onions and cheese dinner, which I ate it with steamed flavored rice and steamed broccoli crowns and baby carrots with a glass of iced tea.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 5:20 P.M.: I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I went outside briefly, and I picked up my mail.  I emptied my paper shredder, and I lubricated it.  I threw out the shredded paper.  I watched a Discovery Channel presentation on Super Volcanoes and Yellow Stone Park's history.  It has been about 75,000 years since there was the last Super Volcano there, so maybe one is long over due.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  Basically if you are high tech in Southern California, and you are displaced by the Santa Anna winds' fires, you could always sit in a 24 hours Denny's and work with your laptop.  I recall there use to be a 24 hour Denny's in Laguna Beach, California.  More than likely they would have plenty of coffee.  Denny's has very good breakfast specials as I recall in the old days.  Laguna Beach actually had the only ice cream shop that I saw in California, and it was right on the beach.  There used to be a fellow there that looked like John Wayne that would walk around downtown shaking hands with people, and Mickey Rooney use to show up at anyone's cocktail parties for $50.  Everyone I met in Laguna Beach seemed to own a $100,000 house on the hillside with a view that they could afford through Escrow, and they were always sparsely furnished with rental furniture, and they were always trying to sell them for a quick short term profit.  I saw a great deal of Laguna Beach and the hills area, since I delivered telephone books there for about two months in the fall of 1978, so it was a good way to get to know the community and the various neighborhoods.  I recall it was quite difficult driving a Subaru station wagon full of telephone books up the steep hills.  Just north of Laguna Beach use to be a trailer park on the beach where James Garner's father lived in some long forgotten television show.  Between Laguna Beach and Newport Beach which is more upscale was the Irvine Ranch which had been owned by Mobil oil.  It was just being developed into expensive California homes.  There were a lot of Jar heads around Laguna beach since Camp Pendleton was just to the south of it and El Toro Marine air station was to the northeast.  It tended to be a republican party area, since Richard Nixon had a home on the beach in San Clemente, California where I use to go surf casting along with another place that I surf cast at in Dana Point that is now a Ritz Carlton.  Donald Breem is a developer in Laguna Beach, and he is a Bush family friend, and since quite a few Texans would vacation by the cooler ocean in Laguna Beach when it was hot in Texas, there was quite a colorful group of people there in the summer.  However, there is only one coast road to the north of Laguna Beach and a narrow two lane road going to the east through a narrow ravine in the hills to the more highly populated area and the coast road to the south, so there can be a bit of traffic getting into and out of Laguna Beach.  It is serviced by the nearby Newport Beach, California airport called John Wayne airport.  One weekdays Laguna Beach has quite a few retired people, but on weekends a lot of people from Las Angeles to the north visit it.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  No appointments today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 5:25 A.M.:  On Beyond Vista: First Public Demo of Windows 7 - AppScout

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When I first looked into the computer business in California in the fall of 1978, I noticed around the University of California at Santa Cruz lots of people were wearing medallions of the Bhag Juan?, but I do not find a web site for him.  I guess it is another off shoot of the Hindu Religion BHAG - Hinduism .  I did read while out there that a Doctor of Physics from India that had developed optic fibers was teaching the University of California at Santa Cruz.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 4:35 A.M.:  One of the original internet gurus around here http://mikelouisscott.com/MASKAPE.GIF .  I used the ASSEENONTV light vacuum sweeper that a relative gave me for Christmas this past Christmas, and I cleaned the common walk areas in the apartment, and I charged it up.  One can use it late at night or the early morning hours, since it does not make hardly any noise.  It takes about two hours to charge it up.  I will now go through my email.  I ate a bowl of white cheddar cheese its.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 3:15 A.M.:  On the Toshiba laptop, I have its power transformer plugged into a power strip on the floor to the right of the RTH computer desk, but I leave the power strip turned off, when the Toshiba laptop is not being used, since the transformer tends to get warm when standing for long periods of time turned on.  There is no point in leaving it on, since the Toshiba laptop battery does not hold a charge for very long. For fundamental internet and computer use, the vintage Toshiba laptop is still a useable computer, although I do not use it much at all with my faster desktops, but if I ever had to travel it would work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/07 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.:  I went out after the last note.  I picked up my mail.  I went by the Chase Bank on Mason Street.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I chatted about cars with a local.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the senior and arts center twice.  I stopped by CVS briefly.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with some of the staff.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought partially green Chiquita bananas from Honduras for .54 a pound for $1.63.  I then went back by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought another RTH "Round The House" made in China computer table with keyboard shelf for $9.99 and .60 tax for $10.59.  I notice one of the one dollar coins I was spending was a 1988 Bermuda dollar with Queen Elizabeth II on its face and a sailboat on the reverse side, so I saved it with my Canadian penny.  I spent the rest of the Indian dollars on the Chinese computer table.  The local Swedish observer is still trying to figure out what I am doing all of the time.  He is too cheap to invest in the internet and computers and he only invests in vintage books.  I chatted with a local from nearby Holland, Michigan.  I returned home. I brought up my purchases.  I assembled the RTH Chinese computer desk without attaching the keyboard drawer, so a chair would fit underneath it.  I put the keyboard parts for it behind the French antique reproduction chair.  I then took Charles Prince's www.harvard.edu chair out of the kitchen, where I have been using it for a smoking chair.  I put the purple and cherry wood office chair by the telephone table in the living room in its place in the kitchen.  I took the tea table out of the kitchen, and I put it above the paper shredder by the French reproduction chair in the living room.  It makes is slightly narrower opening into the hallway.  I took the night stand that the telephones sat on by the telephone chair, and I put it in the kitchen where the tea table was.  I put the blue Rubbermaid garbage can by its side.  I put the plastic bag with spare plastic storage bags on the right living closet shelf.  I moved my shoes that I wear regularly into the right living room closet floor with the other shoes.  I left out my old house slippers.  I threw out all of the telephone books except the small Greenwich telephone book.  I put my automobile tool chest in the rear of the Buick wagon and the socket set underneath the rear compartment of the Buick wagon.  I put the new RTH computer desk where the purple chair and night stand telephone table had been at the near end of the down sofa at the apartment entrance with the www.harvard.edu chair set inside of it, so it is easy to pull out and sit at.  I put the telephones and the light back on the RTH computer desk along with the small Greenwich telephone book underneath it.  There is still enough room on the RTH computer table for a laptop computer, so I moved my vintage 9 year old Toshiba laptop with its accessories from the left side of the bedroom desk to the new RTH computer table.  I disconnected one of the two blue LAN cables from the Northgate Syntax computer, and I lead it over to the Toshiba laptop, so it is online.  It also has a wireless card, so if I turn on one of the two wireless routers, it will also go online that way.  However, the AT&T wireless router frequency interferes with the Logitech wireless mouse on the primary Vista computer, but possibly the Linksys wireless router does not.  I have them available in case, a number of people needed to use their wireless laptops.  Both wireless routers are connected to my network switch off the cable modem.  I moved the folding shopping cart from the bedroom entrance to hanging off the bathroom door in front of the Reader's Digest map of Magellan.  I moved the yellow ceramic Harry's Bar Venezia, Italia ashtray to the right rear of the other RTH computer table with the Northgate Syntax monitor on it. Harry's is probably the only place in the world that you might catch up with http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm .  I was wandering if anyone over on this side of the pond have recognized any of the people in this picture http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-picture-of-visitors-at-courchevel-1550-albertville-france-winter-olympics-1992.jpg .  I move the black volcanic lava tiki ashtray that Paul White gave me from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop about 20 years ago with the Kennebunkport, Maine lighter to the right side of the new RTH computer desk.  Although I do not smoke in the living room, but instead in the kitchen by the kitchen fan, I leave ashtrays available around the living room area, in case anyone needs one should any smokers ever stop by.  I only have one expected visitor once or twice a year, and that is George Cary http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-with-distant-relative-whom-knows-about-horses-with-relative-whom-knows-about-railroads-putnam-hotel-in-saratoga-ny-about-summer-1990.jpg who sometimes stops by here on cold winters nights while on his way up to Boston, so since George is from the Buffalo, New York area of East Aurora, New York, before he moved down to Long Island, I call this place the Buffalo Road House. He usually shows up when it is below zero degrees Fahrenheit or there is an ice storm, so I figure the trend will continue in the future. The Cary family were the original contractors on the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia, so they tend to have a lot of friends.  I threw out the RTH packing box.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a slice of dill pickle and a glass of iced tea.  I put my Bermuda dollar and a Canadian penny in the little brass picture frame on the dining table with the British pound coin and the Canadian quarter.   Thus I have in English Commonwealth Money, One British Pound, One Bermuda Dollar, One Canadian Quarter, and One Canadian Penny, which the way I figure it would buy one about one gallon of gasoline in the United States of America at today's prices.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/07 Tuesday 1:35 P.M.:  I checked to see if the mail person had arrived yet, but not yet.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a slice of dill pickle and a glass of iced tea.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/23/07 Tuesday 12:25 P.M.:  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I watched the www.nasa.gov Space Shuttle Launch on www.foxnews.com , and I also watched the 30 second delay on NASA - NASA TV Landing Page .  About 12 minutes after the launch in the back yard of my building out by the baseball field, one could see the contrail of the Space Shuttle go by right above the tree line just southeast of the cloud line.  It might have been clearer to see if one were on the pier on Steamboat Road, but there is only one thing that would lead a contrail like that.  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Shuttle heads for space station . I chatted with some neighbors.  I am waiting for the mail to arrive.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  The Space Shuttle is launching a new connecting module made in Italy.  According to this the Italians can afford it Italy's biggest business: the Mafia - Telegraph with an income of $120 billion a year in Italy alone.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/07 Tuesday 10:35 A.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M..  11:38 A.M. EDT is suppose to be a www.nasa.gov Space Shuttle Launch time, but they currently are having technical problems.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  Santa Anna winds continue to cause massive fires in southern California FOXNews.com - Deadly Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations in Southern California - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 11:00 P.M.:  On the Vista SP1 beta partition on the Epox computer, it has 4 days before it is deactivated.  I tried to reactivate it by running the Visual Basic script to reactivate it for another 30 days, which one is suppose to be able to do three times, but it did not work.  Perhaps, one has to wait until it expires to reactivate it.  I ate a bowl of white cheddar Cheese Its.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed.  Have a good night.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 7:05 P.M.:  I watched some HiDef television.  Since I am low on funds, there is not much use to do anymore bottom fishing on the internet. 

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 6:15 P.M.:  I ate three scoops of low fat sugar free maple walnut ice cream.  Unfortunately this warmer weather does not seem to be a long term trend around here AccuWeather.com - Greenwich, CT - 15 Day Weather Forecast - Local Weather Forecasts .  Maybe it is an early Indian Summer who knows.  Anyway the tree leafs are still green, so they have not yet begun to change and fall, so nobody is raking leaves yet.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 5:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Recently for the last two days, I have noticed that I have had quite a lot more intestinal gas than normal, and all that I have changed in my diet is that I have been using 25% Dole pineapple juice in my breakfast juice mixture.  Since pineapples usually come from volcanic rich soil, more than likely the pineapples have higher levels of sulfur in them which tends to give one intestinal gas.  However, like MSM which people take for arthritis which is basically white sulfur which is an anti-inflammatory which also gives one intestinal gas, more than likely pineapple juice despite the intestinal gas side effects is probably good for arthritis.  On the warmer weather that we have been having this fall in New England, it might be caused by the Gulf Stream having moved further westward against the Atlantic Coast.  Since the biggest factor in our weather is the Atlantic current, possibly the current which runs down the west coasts of Europe and Africa and back around up the east coasts of South America and North America has possibly been altered by the fact that the Northwest Passage in the Artic is no longer frozen over, so possibly warmer water from the Pacific Current of Humboldt current is crossing from the Pacific ocean through the Artic waters into the Atlantic current causing our warmer weather.  It is just a theory, but it might explain why it has been warmer this fall.  If this trend continues for the indefinite future, there is really no purpose in going down south for the winter, since we have a Bermuda like climate here currently.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 4:20 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out some garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 3:05 P.M.:  On the Right Track CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 2:00 P.M.:  I finished off the box of white cheddar Cheese Its.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 1:40 P.M.:  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a slice of dill pickle and a glass of iced tea. I will now go through my email.  I picked up my mail earlier.  All I had was a promo from www.vistaisready.com .  I saw the local Bill Gates look alike downtown on Greenwich Avenue on Saturday afternoon.  I have chatted with him before, and he told me he was from Stamford, Connecticut and worked for www.ibm.com when he used to campaign for Ross Perot, and he is the only person that I have ever seen wearing an IBM name tag in the area.  However the person I saw downtown on Greenwich Avenue on Saturday afternoon is 6 feet tall, and according to Celebrity Heights - How tall are Celebrities Bill Gates is 5 foot 10 inches tall Bill Gates Height - how tall and the person I saw downtown is a lot heavier than Bill Gates.  However, he is in good company since Prince Charles if 5 foot 10 inches tall Prince Charles Height - how tall and Prince William is Prince William Height - how tall and Prince Harry is suppose to be about the same, but the Boss Queen Elizabeth II is suppose to be 5 foot 3 inches and her husband Prince Phillip is suppose to be 5 foot 10 inches.  However, a tall rich person would be Howard Hughes Height - Hughes's  is 6 foot 3.75 inches.  Myself being 6 foot tall and 200 pounds, I know people both above and below that.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 12:40 P.M.:  I ate a bowl of white cheddar Cheese Its before going to bed.  I woke up at 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started to go out, and I noticed my Turkish leather change purse was missing.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic, and I got my flu shot.  I found my Turkish leather change purse on the street outside CVS, where I must have dropped it last night, when I bought the RTH Chinese computer table.  RTH stands for Round The House.  I then drove downtown, and I spent 75 cents parking downtown at the Senior and the Arts center, since there were no free parking places.  It is now suppose to be 25 cents for 15 minutes, but the parking meters still say 25 cents for 20 minutes.  I chatted with a regular daytime person.  I then walked over to the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop which is closed on Mondays.  I noticed they have a 1989 Sony 5 disc carousel player in the garbage and a pair of ice hockey skates about size 9 in the garbage.  I do not know if the Sony disc player works.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  One of the regular fishermen is there.  The Polish artist from Nantucket is back painting on the waterfront.  The large yacht is no longer moored off of Indian Harbor.  I then returned home, and the contractors were looking at our building in terms of their bid for the possible Greenwich Housing Authority addition.  They also are still doing excavation work at the side of the old Maneros across from the Delamar Hotel in preparation for a new condominium complex.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 1:55 A.M.:  I went outside, and I got the white wicker breakfast tray out of the rear of the Buick wagon, and I put it on the living room window shelf in front of the General Electric air conditioner, which I will be closing up soon for the winter.  I open up the air conditioner from about mid April to end of October, so it basically is closed up about half the year.  I arranged the items in front of the air conditioner on the white wicker breakfast tray.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have to be up at 7 A.M. to get ready for my flu shot.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/07 Monday 12:55 A.M.:  I did some system maintenance, and then I did another Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I was asked by an Asian women this evening where the Redmen's Hall was downtown in Greenwich, Connecticut.  It is on East Elm Street on the side entrance off Greenwich Avenue on the north side of the street.  It is used for various social events in town such as Thanksgiving dinners and such.  From what I know half of the world's population probably dies at night, so we have to keep a few people awake in case anything goes wrong.  Maybe Jim Eldert is now one of those all night disk jockeys that weirdoes listen to in California.   In warmer climates there tends to be more people awake at night, since it can be hot in the daytime.  Once it gets colder around here, some of the northern Nordic populations start showing up, and they tend to be out at night more, since they do not feel cold around here in the winter compared to their northern homes.  When I was in Oslo, Norway in February 1983, there were people awake and about town until well after midnight even in six feet of snow, and the town was lighted up.  It is not much different in Scandinavia in the winter than around here, once you get use to the winter.   I suppose we now have a larger Russian population in the area now that over a half million of them have moved to the New York City area, since the wall came down.  Maybe I should apply for some sort of foreign aid from Russia, since I certainly have seen plenty of them on cold winter's nights over the years.  I know winter is coming when I see some of the local New York Ranger's hockey players around.  A lot of them are French Canadian, so they frequently are not too swift in English either.  I ate a bowl of white cheddar Cheese Its.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  There are two old GMC air conditioners by the dumpster.  I can't think of anywhere handy where I could store the white wicker breakfast tray in the apartment, so it is in the back of the Buick wagon.  I could put it on a window ledge, but it is not necessary.  I have other smaller breakfast trays.  In the old days around Fred's http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm apartment at 420 East 49th street when he was being trained to take over Billy Baldwin's business, he was always buying breakfast trays as if they were important.  I guess rich Manhattan people can not be bothered to get out of bed for breakfast, and most of them are not even awake by lunch time.  I have to be at the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic tomorrow by 9:45 A.M. for a 10:15 A.M. appointment for a flu shot.  I will now go through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 10:35 P.M.:   I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS during my walk.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  There is a large yacht all lighted up on Long Island Sound about a mile off shore Indian Harbor.  I then drove back by CVS, and at the front entrance of the store, they had four clearance items RTH made in China computer desks with keyboards that require assembly.  They are regularly $39.99, and I bought one for 75% off for $9.99 plus .60 tax for $10.59 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I brought up the RTH computer desk.  I assembled it per the instructions leaving the back brace off.  It had an inside width of 23.25 inches, and my brass and glass coffee table has a diameter of 23.50 inches, so I removed from the near end of the brass and glass coffee table, the white wicker breakfast tray supporting the Northgate Syntax computer monitor, and I placed the RTH computer desk over the near end of the brass and glass coffee table, and I assembled the rear support strut on it, so it is a snug fit over the brass and glass coffee table.  I then put the lazy Susan and the Northgate Syntax monitor and control panel on the RTH computer desk with the Kensington wireless keyboard in the sliding keyboard drawer.  I then put the other items back in place.  It is a much neater set up, and the RTH computer desk or table is a lot more stable.  It is well made item, and I would have bought another, but I have no room for another.  The RTH computer desk is 31.5 inches wide, 21 inches deep and 30 3/8 inches high.  I used duct tape to tape the Allen or L wrench used for assembly underneath the RTH computer desk top.  The only other tool needed was a Phillips screw driver.  I will now throw out the RTH computer desk packing box, and I will put the white wicker breakfast tray in the rear of the Buick wagon to give back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I do not have room to store it.   I defragmented the C: drive while I was out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 6:00 P.M.:  I made and ate my burger with sautéed onions and cheese dinner, which I ate it with steamed flavored rice and steamed broccoli crowns and baby carrots with a glass of iced tea.  I also added two cloves of chopped garlic, when I sautéed the burger.  About the only thing Malibu, California is famous for on the East Coast back east is there use to a transcontinental automobile race from the garage in Fred Von Mierers http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm building on East 54th street in Manhattan just east of First Avenue across country to Malibu, California.  It was made famous in the Cannon Ball or Gumball Race movies, since in the movie the secret code word to launch the race was Gumball, but I think in reality it was "Jelly Bean", which is why Ronald Reagan always kept a jar of Jelly Beans on his desk.  In later years, it started from the Lock Stock and Barrel restaurant in Darien, Connecticut, which I don't think is there anymore either.  However, we have enough exotic cars around here, if we had the fuel, we could still have the same race.  I learned when I was in California between 1978 and 1980 on five different trips out there mostly by automobile, there is also reverse race of vintage old Volvos from Santa Cruz, California to somewhere around Boston, Massachusetts.  The races are also called Rallies.  www.nasa.gov is suppose to have another space shuttle launch this Tuesday also.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go downtown for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 4:30 P.M.:  This place is suppose to have burned down in Malibu, California Welcome to the Famous Malibu Castle Kashan .  When I first got on the internet 15 years ago, there was a member of the Scott family How A 32-man Assault Team Murdered Donald P. Scott At Trails End Ranch that owned a 200 acre ranch in Malibu, California, so I wander how that is doing.  It reads to me like it was a Land Grab, which is very typical if you can not afford proper legal representation.  Unfortunately, when it comes to the law, I know the experts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 4:10 P.M.:  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I walked around the building.  It is still quite dry around here with drought conditions.  Thus since it is dry around here with drought conditions, and since we live in a heavily wooded area, we should have increased fire watch 24 hours a day in case any of the wooded areas catch fire.  It is even drier down south, and with all of the wooded areas in America, it takes more energy which is more costly for increased fire protection.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 2:45 P.M.:  I woke up at 11 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out my Danish tin of old cigarette butts, which I forgot to do on Friday.  If Jimmy Eldert is still living in the Malibu Colony, I wander what he is doing today FOXNews.com - Wildfires Force Evacuations, Threaten Towns, Throughout Southern California - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News .  Of course according to Jimmy in the old days, he had 200 cousins that looked the same, so we are never sure if it is him or not.  I chatted with somebody a year ago last June 2006 on a Sunday evening across the street from Starbucks in Greenwich that looked like Juan Carlos I of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , and he told me that he has a daughter in school in Santa Monica, California, so maybe some Spanish people would know how to put out the fires in Malibu.  Diana Ross is suppose to live there.  The Rand Corporation is suppose to be there. The old Getty Villa Reflecting Antiquity (Getty Villa Exhibitions) is there, so more than likely they can afford to something than sit on their duffs and watch the world go by.  www.newegg.com ships from Whittier, California where the Nixon Library Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation , and Jimmy Eldert's grandfather use to be Richard Nixon's next door neighbor in Key Biscayne, Florida, so when you see Jimmy Eldert, you might also see some old time republicans who have become lost in the shuffle.  Since Disneyland Park is near Las Angeles, one could take a bargain flight from their to Disney www.disney.com in Orlando, Florida, and then on week days it is suppose to be only $69 to fly from Orlando, Florida to Westchester County airport between Greenwich, Connecticut and White Plains, New York www.airtran.com, so  if there were cheap flights from Las Angeles to Orlando, it might be a cheaper way to get back to the New York area from Las Angeles, California, if somebody were stuck out there in fire ravaged Malibu, California.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 1:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/07 Sunday 1:00 A.M.:  I ate the rest of the box of white cheddar Cheese Its.  I also finished off the opened bag of potato chips.  I did some regular system maintenance.  I also did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/20/07:

Note: <888> 10/20/07 Saturday 9:50 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/07 Saturday 8:40 P.M.:  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  The Indian Harbor Yacht Club Indian Harbor Yacht Club staff still are taking up most of the parking at the end of Steamboat Road, so it is hard to park to enjoy the view now that it is not busy down there.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a bunch of Maine broccoli for .99 a pound for .89, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, and a fresh loaf of Stop and Shop 12 grain bread for $2 for $5.88 total.  I then returned home.  I said good evening to a neighbor.  I put away my groceries.  I have stocked up a bit on necessities for winter at http://mikelouisscott.com/inventory.htm .  I will have to check it to make sure nothing is more than a year old.  I reheated and ate the same dinner as last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/07 Saturday 4:25 P.M.: I rotated my summer shirts from the left center of the bedroom closet to the far left.  I moved the winter shirts from the far left to the left center of the bedroom closet.  I used the Slaymaker jump start system to pump up the air in the Mongoose bicycle to 65 PSI front and rear.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/07 Saturday 3:45 P.M..:  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning when a friend called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I went back to bed until 1 P.M..  I did two loads of laundry.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up my mail.  I threw out some garbage.  I put away the clean laundry.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a slice of dill pickle and a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shower and clean up.  I put the nine extra bags of coffee beans in the left living room closet. Official: International hackers going after U.S. networks - CNN.com.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/07 Friday 11:30 P.M..:  Well not much happening around here.  Earlier I chatted with BoomBoomRoom.com :: The Coast INN :: is just about ready to fall into the ocean, so they are closing it forever.  It was one of the older inns on the beach in California, and it had a lot of history.  I guess that means that Joel's house slightly west of it on the beach has already washed away into the ocean.  They recommend San Diego or Palm Springs for a similar get away, but some of us like the ambience of old Laguna Beach in the old days.  I suppose nothing stays the same as the sands of time have washed it all away.  Any coastal observer along the coast of California would notice a lot of erosion along the coast over the years.  Because it is so warm in Southern California, a great many people particularly the young ones like to strut their stuff.  The Coast Inn was almost across the street from another well known place called the Hotel California of the song made famous by the Eagles.  One of our local psychics just told me that Jimmy is now working in a car wash in Venice Beach, California.  In the old days, whenever you saw Jimmy it poured rain, so I guess after living out west for so many years, he learned about the sun.  I have quite a few other friends around the world, but a great many of the old guard seem to live where ever Jimmy lives, so possibly they use him to stay in touch with the younger generation.  A lot of older people live in warmer places, so some of the younger people whom live around them are their neighbors and interact with them in their daily routines.  I am a bit bushed.  I ate a bowl of white cheddar Cheese Its.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/19/07 Friday 10:15 P.M..: Back in May of 1977, when I was traveling north in Florida with Jimmy Eldert from Key West, Florida, I stopped by to visit my Commanding Officer in Florida Hurley Harris Haywood in Jacksonville, Florida, and Jimmy did not like Hurley, because Hurley knew a couple of Jimmy's cousins.  After we left Hurley's, Jimmy said he wanted to fly back home to the University of New Hampshire where he was attending college, so I took him to Jacksonville, Florida airport, and I bought him a $89 airline ticket back north to New Hampshire, and I also gave him $400 in traveler's checks, so he would not be broke when he got back home.  Other than a few meals and a beer or two and my first trip to Disney World, where Jimmy smoked a joint while waiting in line to ride the Alpha and Omega ride, I did not invest too much money in Jimmy Eldert enterprises, since he told me his family already owned the bank in Syracuse, New York, so I figured he did not really need the money.  Helen Kress Williams whom was fairly established out in Oyster Bay, Long Island owning the Kress Department stores and Williams Energy Company along with being the head trustee of Vassar College told me we had to try to keep a close eye on Jimmy, but she never explained why.  Thus I spent about $1,726.50 on keeping up appearances around Jimmy along with his entrance to Disney World back then which would have been about $20 and a few cheap meals and a couple of beers in St. Augustine, Florida at the oldest tavern there, so it was no more than $1,800, since he did not make much money working in Key West, and he was my neighbor in Nantucket, and he also happened to be Dutch, so I knew was cleaver.  He told me while working for Jacob Javitts as a secretary, he met Princess Irene of the Netherlands and that he worked at Sandringham in Queen Elizabeth's staples, so I figured since he could afford to ride horses in Nantucket, he must have some sort of back ground and breeding.  However, I never saw him much in Nantucket, since he was very protective of his privacy at India House four houses away, and since I knew Billy Baldwin lived behind him, and http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm lived three houses further up India street from me at John Rugg's, I figured some of Jimmy's 200 cousins that looked like him were in the area keeping him busy.  I once saw a picture of them all sitting on the roof of the Wauwinet House http://www.besthotelsresorts.com/wauwinet.htm , so I figured what he told me was pretty much the truth.  Since his maternal grandmother was a member of Boston's original Joy family as in Joy street on Beacon Hil, and with the Joy monument on Main Street in Nantucket, more than likely he has returned to Nantucket, since I last saw him out in California in 1980, and as I recall I last chatted with him from Greenwich around 1989, when the telephone calls to California were getting to be too expensive, but Helen Kress Williams had requested that we try to keep an eye on him, but she never told us why.  She did not ask us to keep an eye on Fred http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm her godson, which I though was sort of strange as it Fred could take care of himself.  Thus it would seem to me, since I am easy enough to find in the world, and since Jimmy was rather a private individual, more than likely he is getting along where ever he is in the world, and possibly he has settled down in life.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/07 Friday 9:10 P.M..:  I can not afford to search