Note: <888> 10/31/10 Sunday 11:00 P.M.  I ordered two Croft and Barrow Flex-On Flat-Front Shorts - Big and Tall in size 46 in drawstring for $3.40 each and two Chaps Flat-Front Basic Twill Shorts - Big and Tall in classic navy in 46 size for $4.75 each less 15% with promo code "SPENDSAVE15" for $2.45 discount and $5.95 shipping for $19.80 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/10 Sunday 10:15 P.M.  I ate a 21 ounce Stouffer's frozen tomato meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch.  I will drink a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice in a little while.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/10 Sunday 9:10 P.M.  I was born in Alton, Illinois, but I am not as tall as this Alton, Illinois resident World - The tallest man living on earth ever Robert Pershing Wadlow.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/10 Sunday 8:55 P.M.  I watched the CBS News Magazine program 60 Minutes with a story about how the Bill Gates family wants to have a State tax in Washington State and a story about a race horse.   I chatted with a relative.  I moved my Audi to its usual place.

Faster refurbished IBM ThinkCentre, but more money IBM M52 8215 3.0 1gb ram 80gb Hd DVD XPpro SFF DDR2 - eBay (item 310239475152 end time Nov-04-10 10:57:11 PDT) .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/10 Sunday 7:10 P.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until noon.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a day old muffin.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  As I was standing on the corner of Arch Street and Greenwich Avenue on the northwest side, a white SUV with Florida license plates did not stop at the stop sign, which is why I always wait until the vehicles come to a full stop.  Last night at the same location, a blue Cadillac almost ran me down crossing the cross walk at that location, which is why I am trying to wear white or light colored jackets at night.  Frequently drivers do not see pedestrians on Greenwich Avenue, so one has to be very cautious.  I stopped by CVS, and I browsed the store.  I chatted with a friend on my wireless telephone.  On the way back down Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by CVS again, and I used the bathroom.  I bought another 12 pack of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99.  I then sat out for a while downtown.  I felt lucky, so I went by Zen stationary, and I bought an Aces High scratch card for a dollar, and I won $25.  I then went across the street, and I put the money in the Chase Bank ATM machine, so I would not be mugged with all of my money.  I then toured the Apple computer store.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I then sat out for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with two reference librarians.  I then chatted with two local walkers outside.  I then chatted with the library security person.  I then returned home.  CIO     

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/31/10:

Note: <888> 10/31/10 Sunday 12:15 A.M.  GOP Donate Huckabee , I just donated them $5.00.

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I ordered four Country Life RNA / DNA (100 mg / 10 mg) -- 100 mg - 100 Tablets - Vitacost for $6.50 each less 10% today of $2.60 only with source code "EMOCT" and $4.99 shipping for $28.39 total. 

I will now send out my weekly notes.

I will then shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.

Mostly sunny and 52 to 33 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 10:30 P.M.  On Monday November 1, 2010, the Queen Mary II will be back in Manhattan QM2 - Itinerary - 2010 with more Limeys.  They called the British "Limeys", since they were always getting scurvy while at sea, until they learned to use lime juice to ward off scurvy. 

I chatted with a relative and a friend.

I ate a 8 ounce sautéed cheeseburger on a Kaiser roll with Dijon mustard and ketchup along with my usual steamed vegetable mixture of potato cubes, broccoli crowns, and baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 8:10 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I drove all the way over to Staples in Port Chester, New York.  The Staples web site said they had one of these in stock Logitech Webcam C600 | Staples® which was not on display, but they had one in the back room, and I bought it for $29.99 and $2.21 tax for $32.20 total.  I will use it as a backup web cam, in case any on mine fail.  I then returned to Greenwich, and I went to the ATM machine at the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks midway through my walk and at the end of my walk.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 a 12 pack for $7.96 total.  I straightened up the Linda McMahon sign Pledge Your Vote » Linda McMahon for Senate that had fallen over at the top of Greenwich Avenue.  I finished my walk.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a box of four day old muffins for $2 and a 59 ounce bottle of Simply Orange orange juice with calcium for $3.99 less a dollar off Stop and Shop Simply orange coupon for $4.99 total.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station at 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $11 of self service premium for $3.299 a gallon for 3.335 gallons for 35.4 miles driving since a week ago Friday at odometer reading of 67969 miles for 10.615 miles per gallon in mostly local driving in traffic.  I cleaned the outside windows and the headlights.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I put the Logitech C600 web cam on the shelf beneath the stereo system.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 4:05 P.M.  I put away the laundry.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 2:50 P.M.  I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I picked up my mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 2:10 P.M.  I went back to bed until noon.  I put clean linens on the bed.  For lunch I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of Pringles salt and vinegar potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 10:15 A.M.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/30/10 Saturday 9:05 A.M.  I was awake at 7:30 A.M..  I paid my www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Boost, and Optimum Voice Long Distance bills, my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com telephone bill.  I also charged up my AT&T Go Phone with another $26.50 in time.  Thus I have $93.51 on it good until January 28, 2011.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/10 Friday 10:30 P.M.  NASA - Shuttle and Station

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy tomorrow and 44 to 57 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/10 Friday 9:50 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried thick bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda sweetener and lemon juice.  I threw out the garbage.  I tested the Audi key with the new batteries inserted properly.  First it did not work, but once I opened the driver's door with the key and then turned on the car with the key, the remote key worked properly for keyless entry.  I chatted with a relative.  I watch Tom Ridge on Larry King talking about Homeland Security.

DHS | Homeland Security Advisory System .  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/29/10 Friday 7:40 P.M.  I made 162 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with an associate that I had not heard from in a while.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/29/10 Friday 3:50 P.M.  I ate the rest of the linguine and tomato meat sauce with grated parmesan and Romano cheese with a glass of watered down punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I took a nap until just now.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/29/10 Friday 11:10 A.M.  I woke up during the night, and I ate an untoasted English muffin.  I moved the IBM Netvista computer from the window shelf lazy Susan to on top of the Panasonic air conditioner, so it is easier to access.  I put the pedestal fan on the window shelf lazy Susan.  I finally woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.   I went to the Greenwich Hospital Outpatient Clinic, and I got my Flu shot for the upcoming winter season.  It was not very busy.  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 the arts center before and after my walk.  I stopped by CVS, and I toured the store.  After my walk, I sat out for a while watching the regular morning pedestrian traffic.  There was a group of people looking at the Greenwich Post Office downtown which is for sale.  I then returned home.  I put out the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators in the living room.  One I put by the primary computer chair next to the oak dining table.  I put the other one by the hallway entrance chair in front of the mahogany bureau.   Thus they are available for additional heat in the winter.  I had to reverse the two new batteries in the Audi key, since I put them in backwards.

!!!! Windows 7 IBM ThinkCentre desktop computers IBM P4 items - Get great deals on PC Desktops, Windows 7 Home Premium items on eBay.com! , select Windows 7 option on left side of page.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 9:40 P.M.  More IBM ThinkCentres IBM P4 items - Get great deals on PC Desktops on eBay.com!

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy tomorrow and 38 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 8:10 P.M.  If you look at REAGANFOUNDATION.ORG | CONTACT US , one can call up 1-805-522-2977, and they still have people that are Republicans that speak English there.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 6:40 P.M.  I went downtown after the last message.  I sat out briefly.  I ran into another local walker.  I drove with the other walker in the walker's car over to the Citgo station in Cos Cob, where the other walker got gasoline.   While driving through the Millbrook section of Greenwich just south of the Greenwich High School and south of East Putnam Avenue, I noticed on Mallard drive, someone has an older grey 4 door Buick Century sedan with a big "For Sale" sign in the window in their driveway.  That particular model Buick is very popular with retired people.  The other walker dropped me off at my 3 P.M. appointment, so I did not have to pay to park.  After my appointment, I sat out briefly downtown.  I then drove back home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.

The order for  Logitech Premium USB350 Headset 4 PC & MAC 980374-0403 - eBay (item 120575153749 end time Oct-23-10 13:30:23 PDT) for $16.99 with free shipping arrived.  I put it on the primary Windows 7 computer, and I set it up.  It works just fine.  I stored the Radio Shack USB headset that was on the primary Windows 7 computer on the shelf beneath the stereo system in the living room with the other spare headsets.

I put a new 395 disk battery in my Swiss Army watch.  One opens up the back of a Swiss Army watch with the short blade on a Swiss Army knife.  I then used a small nylon hammer to shut the back of the Swiss Army watch.  I also put two new CR1620 batteries in my Audi key for the remote keyless entry.  Since I never use the spare key, I did not stick new ones in the spare key.  I have a lot of spare disk batteries for it along the computer motherboard batteries that I stocked up on a couple of years ago. 

I will now eat a 18 ounce can of Progresso beef pot roast soup with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 1:35 P.M.  For lunch I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go downtown.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 12:50 P.M.  Town of Greenwich, Connecticut Parking Violations hearings Greenwich Town Departments - Parking Services .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 12:45 P.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

BBC News - Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupts again as victims buried

BBC News - Neutron star packs two Suns' mass in London-sized space

BBC News - Home computers discover rare star

BBC News - China aims to become supercomputer superpower  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 12:20 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/28/10 Thursday 11:45 A.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  The laundry room is closed today for maintenance.  I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/27/10 Wednesday 9:15 P.M.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.

Partly cloudy and 44 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/10 Wednesday 8:15 P.M.  Church music Greenwich Gossip .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/10 Wednesday 8:05 P.M.  I made and ate spaghetti tomato meat sauce with linguine and grated Parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch.  I refrigerated half to eat tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/27/10 Wednesday 4:25 P.M.  BBC News - Assassin bug lures spiders by mimicking prey  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/27/10 Wednesday 3:25 P.M.  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 11 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I have an appointment on Friday morning to get my flu shot at the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic.  I chatted with a relative.  I watch a movie on TMC.  I ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso mushroom soup with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and watered down punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor and the building custodian.  I picked up the mail.  It is suppose to start to get cooler starting on Thursday.

The George W. Bush Center groundbreaking on the internet on November 16, 2010 at 10:30 A.M. CST George W. Bush Presidential Center - Groundbreaking .

Prince Charles' pal killed in copter crash - mirror.co.uk

Prince Charles' birthday is November 14, 1948 Charles, Prince of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , so he is slightly older than me, and a bit more conservative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 10:20 P.M.  Thunderstorms tomorrow and 53 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 10:10 P.M.  Greenwich Gossip

http://www.mercedesbenzgreenwich.com/ still says I am using Internet Explorer 6, when I am using Internet Explorer 8 that comes with Windows 7 Ultimate.  I guess they do not read their email.  I was told by a neighbor that they moved their showroom to the old Infiniti showroom just east of them, and they are going to spend a year remodeling their primary showroom with a second story to be added on to the building.

I think the restaurant just north of J.G. Melon was called Fry's not to be mistaken with New York Fries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 9:35 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried maple bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda sweetener and lemon juice. 

If anyone ever has legal problems in Manhattan, there is a pub at around Third Avenue and 55th Street on the northeast corner just north of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt post office federal building called P. J. Clarke's .  I use to eat their occasionally when I could afford one of their blue cheese bacon cheeseburgers with lettuce and tomato and home fries and a Welcome to Heineken beer from the bottle in a glass.  It was rather expensive, and as I recall in the mid 1970s, it would cost about $7.50, and I usually gave about a $2.50 tip.  They also have a bar where one can eat at instead of a table.  Their hamburgers tasted like steak.  I once ate there with a family from Greenwich, Connecticut that owned Bell Helicopter , so possibly the might have known some helicopter pilots.  While eating there, I noticed quite a few of their patrons seemed to be in the legal profession.  Needless to say, it was so expensive, there I found a few other places further uptown that had cheaper hamburgers like JG Melon - Upper East Side - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide and a similar restaurant just to the north of it one block.  The newcomer in the area just south of it was Churchill's which does not seem to be listed anymore.  As the City became more prosperous with all of the Rockefeller republicans in office, McDonalds.com was able to establish a foot hold in New York City.  Having covered the meat packing district when it used to be down in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, I knew a few places that sold a very good hamburger for around $2, but it was not necessarily an Upper East Side preppy crowd.

For late night and early morning diners, there was always the Brasserie - Midtown East - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide in midtown and downtown, there was the The Empire Diner and Chelsea's Empire Diner Set To Close Next Month - Gothamist .  Of course there use to be plenty of all night coffee shops in Manhattan and small restaurants that served very good meals too.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 6:40 P.M.  Microsoft's Windows 8 Could Be Company's Riskiest Bet - Windows from eWeek

Warren Buffett Hires Todd Combs to Invest for Berkshire - NYTimes.com

Cheap Laptops for Tight Budgets | PCMag.com

Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat") Netbook Edition Review & Rating | PCMag.com

BBC News - Deaths as thousands flee Indonesia volcano Merapi

BBC News - Ray Ozzie tells Microsoft to 'go beyond the PC'  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 6:05 P.M.  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order in Tall XXL in Field Khaki Men's Chukar Jacket: Outdoor Apparel at L.L.Bean for $54.99 less $10 promotional savings with coupon code "OCTOBER10" good through today and free shipping for $44.99 total arrived.  It fits me just perfectly.  I had to pick it up in the mail room, so I went out briefly.

I chatted with a friend.

I was told by a neighbor, the reservoirs in Greenwich, Connecticut are really low, so we really need rain in this area.

Tornadoes, high winds rip through Midwest, South - CNN.com .  The weather west of us tends to come our way.

Keep an eye out here National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 5:00 P.M.  I ordered two Regular Fit Straight Leg Jean - B&T | Lee.com in waste 46 inches and 30 inches long in pepperstone heavyweight denim for $19 each half price and $5.95 shipping for $43.95 total.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 4:15 P.M.  I ran the Comodo System Cleaner, and it cleaned up 650 registry entries and 6000 files.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 3:45 P.M.  Comodo System Cleaner Review & Rating | PCMag.com

Free System Cleaner Software Download From Comodo  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 3:25 P.M.  I ate a Stouffer's 21 ounce meat and tomato frozen lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it with a glass of watered down punch.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 2:10 P.M.  BBC News - Indonesia tsunami deaths increase after Sumatra quake

Thousands flee, some hurt as Mount Merapi erupts on Java

Global Volcanism Program | Merapi | Summary

In Dutch Language Pusat Vulkanologi & Mitigasi Bencana Geologi, Badan Geologi

They finished spackling the patches underneath the center living room windows and the caulking around that window and the bedroom window, and they also install a strip on the left side of the bedroom window.  I put the various items back in their place.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/10 Tuesday 12:30 P.M.  Best Deal on a Home Desktop computer $64.99 and $30 shipping IBM Netvista P4 2.4GHZ 512MB 40GB HDD CD XP Pro (IBM COM10093) : surpluscomputers.com

Same item and Vendor and $59.99 and $24.95 shipping here IBM Netvista P4 2.4GHz 512MB 40GB CD XP Pro |COM10093 - eBay (item 180577690671 end time Nov-01-10 07:16:11 PDT)

I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a neighbor who wrecked his new Toyota Prius.  Somebody else ran into him.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the whole length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a local Norwegian about shipping.  I chatted with a local walker.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 18 ounce cans of Progresso beef pot roast soup for .99 each and two 18 ounce cans of Progresso chicken and rice soup for .99 each for $3.96 total.  I finished my walk.  I chatted with somebody from Martha's Vineyard about the scallop business out on Nantucket.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with one of the reference librarians about the IBM computer deal above.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I put away the soup. 

The building custodian just came to my apartment, and he is going to have two of the windows installers do caulking around the center living room window and the right side of the bedroom window, which they will do shortly.  I moved the items off the window shelf in those areas.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/25/10 Monday 7:35 P.M.  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order in Tall XXL in Field Khaki Men's Chukar Jacket: Outdoor Apparel at L.L.Bean for $54.99 less $10 promotional savings with coupon code "OCTOBER10" good through today and free shipping for $44.99 total.

I watched some television.

I chatted with a relative and a friend.

I ate the last Danish pastry.

Cloudy tomorrow and 61 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will eat a untoasted English muffin before going to bed. 

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/10 Monday 3:45 P.M.  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/10 Monday 1:45 P.M.  I ate the same sautéed London Broil dinner that I have been eating recently. 

I guess the new group of British prisoners have arrived in Manhattan by now QM2 - Itinerary - 2010 .  I guess none of them have any communications devices to call me up, so I can give them free advise on surviving in America.  When I used to live in Manhattan, I used to see plenty of them pub crawling in Manhattan, so possibly they no longer drink liquor anymore and have become more invisible.  Maybe they are all living off of cups of tea at 4 P.M. in the afternoon for tea time.  Possibly they can not afford transportation to come way out here in the suburbs of Greenwich, Connecticut which is the incredibly long distance of about 20 to 25 miles from midtown Manhattan.  I guess they are not interested in the more rural aspects of America compared to the Big City indulgences.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/10 Monday 12:10 P.M.  The building custodian paid me a visit.  He had me pull up the living room window shades to make sure the window weather stripping were properly installed which they were including the bedroom window.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/10 Monday 11:20 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate a untoasted English muffin.  I finally woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a Danish pastry.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.   I made 137 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching on TMC a Katherine Hepburn movie filmed in Venice, Italy and the beginning of an Ingrid Bergman movie, both of which I had seen before.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 6:35 P.M.  I watched the end of a movie "The Good German". 

I chatted with a relative.

Cloudy tomorrow and 59 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit.  I guess we are having "Indian Summer".

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I will eat a almond Danish pastry before going to bed.   CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/24/10:

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 3:35 P.M.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 3:25 P.M.  I ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso Minestrone soup and a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch. 

I put the vice grips back in the tool box in the Audi trunk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 2:35 P.M.  I went out, and I threw out the garbage.  I went by CVS.  I bought the last four 18 ounce cans of Progresso New England clam chowder for .99 each for $3.96 total.  I then bought an orange and a lemon Ajax 16 ounce liquid dishwashing detergent for .87 each  and .10 tax for $1.84 total.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a local from Martha's Vineyard about the liquor business in New York and elsewhere.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought a Master Plumber Toilet Flush lever with chrome metal handle for $3.99 less a 40 cent discount and .22 tax for $3.81 total.  I stopped by CVS again.  I bought two more 16 ounce lemon Ajax liquid dishwashing detergent for .87 each and .10 tax for $1.84 total.  While driving into town, I noticed the sign for J.P. Morgan at 100 West Putnam Avenue does not say J.P. Morgan on the west side of the sign but just 100 West Putnam Avenue.  I think maybe Chase www.chase.com should buy the Greenwich Post Office building, since it looks more like a bank than some of their other buildings.  The only thing when people park across the street from that location at the Board of Education south parking lot, it is very dangerous crossing from the parking lot to the Post Office building, because drivers on Arch street do not seem to yield for pedestrians.  After I finished my walk, I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a box of three day old almond Danish pastries for $1.75 and a dozen Eggland eggs for $3.29 expire November 27, 2010, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $2.29 for $7.33 total.  I then returned home.  I got the vice grips out of the tool box in the trunk of the Audi, so I could install the toilet handle.  I put away my purchases, and I installed the toilet handle which is simple enough with the vice grips, and I also put in a new blue 9 ounce Walgreen's Automatic toilet bowl fresh jar.   The toilet seems to work just fine.  However, whenever I flush, I watch it go through it whole fill up cycle, since I once had it over flow out of the toilet handle hole, when the mechanism malfunctioned, and it flooded the floor in my apartment, which was a major hassle.  It also flooded the neighbor's next door apartment and the apartment downstairs.  Thus I now watch it go through it whole cycle, until it stops.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 9:35 A.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and five strips of fried thick bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.

I chatted with a friend.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.

I will wash the second breakfast dishes.  I will then shower and clean up.  I will then go out for a Sunday morning walk.  CIO

What I think is the most significant invention in America recently 24' Presidential Restroom Trailer brought to you by A Royal Flush, Inc. - Portable toilets, Restroom Trailers, Portable Sinks, Trash Boxes, Grease Trap pumping, and more by a Bridgeport, Connecticut company.  Possibly President Obama on his trip to Bridgeport, Connecticut this Saturday will get to try one out.  He could park a few of them around the White House for the many tourists whom might need restroom relief.  They definitely could use them in Manhattan.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 8:10 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 6:55 A.M.  I posted this:

1934 Psalm from the papers of George Bliss Agnew son of New York State legislator during Teddie Roosevelt's time

1934 Psalm from the papers of George Bliss Agnew son of New York State legislator during Teddie Roosevelt's time  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/10 Sunday 6:15 A.M.  I woke up at 2:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 5:30 A.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/10 Saturday 4:10 P.M.  I ate the last muffin.

I watches a movie.

I went outside, and I picked up the mail.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Cloudy tomorrow and 53 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/10 Saturday 1:00 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

12 Best Government Websites -- InformationWeek

BBC News - Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson dies of cancer

BBC News - US surfer recalls deadly shark attack on his friend

BBC News - Runway opens at world's first spaceport  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/10 Saturday 11:30 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringle style sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/23/10 Saturday 10:25 A.M.  After the last note, I put away my summer quilt.  I got out my winter comforters.  I put an electric blanket on the bed with a comforter on the bed and another one on the end of the bed.  I also put two smaller comforters with the Aerobed behind the Ethan Allen recliner.  I hung out on the bathroom door, my two pairs of red L.L. Bean union suits Two-Layer Union Suit: Long Underwear and Base Layer at L.L.Bean, and I also have two new unused pairs.  I also hung on the hook to the right of the bedroom door two pairs of long underwear bottoms.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a local at the train station.  I chatted with a Canadian in front of the Belgium bakery.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two buy one get one free of CVS 100 softgels garlic oil for $5.49 both, a CVS 100 softgels Natural Lecithin 1200 mg. for $2.74, a 500 caplet 500 mg. CVS Extra Strength Pain Relief Acetaminophen for $9.99 and a 6.9 ounce box of chicken flavor Rice-A-Roni for $2.15 less a $4 off $20 CVS internet coupon for $16.37 total.  I noticed that the bench that used to be in front of Credit Suisse is now at the top of Greenwich Avenue by the cross walk by Putnam Avenue, where it is very noisy with traffic.  I think they should move it back further down Greenwich Avenue like in the Chase Plaza, so one does not get wet on rainy days.  I sat out for a while after my walk.  I then chatted with another regular walker.  I then returned home.

I was told this by a relative NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA: Another Winter of Extremes in Store for U.S. as La Niña Strengthens.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/23/10 Saturday 5:30 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate a untoasted English muffin.  I went back to bed until 2:30 A.M..  I put clean linens on the bed.  I did two loads of laundry.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I rotated my summer shirts with my winter shirts putting the summer shirts on the far left side of the bedroom closet and putting the winter shirts on the left center of the bedroom closet.  I will now shower and clean up.  I will then go out for an early morning walk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/22/10 Friday 6:20 P.M.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly sunny tomorrow and 49 to 63 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/10 Friday 5:35 P.M.  Microsoft Sales Of Windows 7 Licenses Hit 240M -- InformationWeek

Windows 7 Key | Office 2010 Key | Windows Server Key - LicenseKeyCity

Oil Sands Effort Turns on a Fight Over a Road - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Moon's water is useful resource, says Nasa  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/22/10 Friday 4:35 P.M.  10 Free Security Products You Can Download Now

I ordered in Tall XXL in Field Khaki Men's Chukar Jacket: Outdoor Apparel at L.L.Bean for $54.99 less $10 promotional savings with coupon code "OCTOBER10" good through today and free shipping for $44.99 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/10 Friday 3:30 P.M.  After dinner, I put away the new white turtle necks in the sweater closet in the hallway.  I made copies of the Oil Star receipt, and I put them with the original in the folder that holds the Audi paper work in the bedroom.  I put one copy in the Audi in the folder behind the driver's seat that holds the same receipts.  I moved the Audi to its usual place.

For the latest updates on the Audi, one can look at http://mikelouisscott.com/audi1998.htm

I picked up the mail.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodicals.  I watered the plants.

I got the CTE Energy Assistance grant letter for 2011.  The amount will be $880.  They usually do not put it into my CL&P account until March or April.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/10 Friday 1:25 P.M.  I chatted with a friend after the last note.  I went to bed, and I woke up at 2:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 7:30 A.M..  I ate a blue berry muffin.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I took I-95 East, and I drove over to Oil Star Oil Change Center in Stamford, Connecticut.  There was a jack knifed trailer truck just west of exit 9 blocking two west bound lanes on I-95 in the morning rush hour. 

I had this done Oil Star Service package was $38.79, with an extra charge for 1.25 quarts more of Castrol 10W30 oil of $4.76, a disposal fee of $1.77, a Audi-VW oil filter part number 0418156 for $9, two Chevron Pro Guard Fuel Injector Cleaner $15.98 less $5 off discount coupon and $3.92 tax for $69.92 total.  The power steering fluid, transmission fluid, windshield washer fluid, door hinges, coolant checked.  The brake fluid is non accessible.

I then returned to Greenwich on U.S. 1 west.  I drove out to Tod's Point, and I walked out to the southwest picnic area, and I enjoyed the view of Long Island Sound on a cool windy day.  I then used the bathroom at the concession area at the southeast parking area.  I then went by the Rummage Room thrift shop in Old Greenwich, and I toured the store.  Men's suits there are 75% off.  Bric-a-Brac is 50% off. 

I then went by the Feinsod True Value hardware store, and I bought two Storm King Air Conditioner foam strips 1.25 inches square by 42 inches for $5.58 both.  They are to replace the strips that I ripped, when I took out the living room air conditioner.  I then drove back to downtown Greenwich.  I went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription.  I bought buy one get one free of 60 capsule CVS MSM 1000 mg. for $7.79 both.  I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and I toured the shop.  Everything is 50% off.  I signed a petition to keep the shop there, since some powers that be are thinking about shutting it down.  The have a 30 inch Panasonic television there in a oak cabinet.  I then use the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I noticed the old U.S. Tobacco building across the street from the Greenwich Library, now has a sign in front of it that says J.P. Morgan Chase www.chase.com , so I guess they executive offices there.  I went by the Courtesy Mobil station at 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $11 of self service premium  gasoline at $3.299 a gallon for 3.334 gallons for 49 miles driving during the last eight days at odometer reading of 67933 miles for 14.697 miles per gallon in mixed driving.  I then returned back to my apartment.  I chatted with a relative.

I will now make and eat the same sautéed 12 ounce top round London Broil with steamed vegetables and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice that I have been eating recently.

The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for four Croft and Barrow Turtleneck in white in XXL for $11.99 each less $7.19 15% discount with promo code "FIFTEEN4U" and $3.96 shipping and no tax for $44.73 total just arrived.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/21/10 Thursday 4:35 P.M.  I watched some television.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I ate a blue berry muffin with watered down punch.

More of those British prisoners they keep sending over here will be arriving on Monday October 25, 2010 QM2 - Itinerary - 2010.   They can wear the prison strips for their Halloween costumes.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Not much seems to be going on, but I hear more jet traffic, so somebody has the fuel to travel for no reason.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/21/10 Thursday 2:55 P.M.  I ate a Stouffer's 21 ounce tomato meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch.  I watched a bit of television.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/10 Thursday 1:25 P.M.  Tropical Storm Richard forms, expected to head for Gulf of Mexico » TCPalm.com

Tropical Storm RICHARD 5 Day Forecast Cone  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/10 Thursday 12:50 P.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/10 Thursday 12:10 P.M.  I woke up at midnight.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 7:30 A.M..  I ate a blue berry muffin.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringle style sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up yesterday's mail.  I made 164 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  I went outside briefly, and I said hello to neighbors.  CIO       

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 2:25 P.M.  I watched a little bit of television.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Tomorrow showers and 40 to 58 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 11:25 A.M.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  Three trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities http://www.americablog.com/2010/10/us-city-pension-funds-seeking-nearly.html .  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  I walked around the building.  Although Cablevision does not have channels 5 and 9, one can get their content off the Cablevision Channel 25, I guess too for the World Series.  I will now cook the same dinner as the last two days.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 9:35 A.M.  Tracking is FedEx Tracking on the order for four Croft and Barrow Turtleneck in white in XXL for $11.99 each less $7.19 15% discount with promo code "FIFTEEN4U" and $3.96 shipping and no tax for $44.73 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 8:55 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I noticed on the way downtown on West Putnam Avenue that the  http://www.mercedesbenzgreenwich.com/ has moved out of their primary showroom to the their new showroom where the Infiniti dealership used to be.  They still have their service department, where it used to be.  They have their old showroom set up for a party of some sorts.  I also noticed that the new Subway sandwich shop in the new building on West Putnam Avenue is also opened.  During my walk on Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by CVS which is opened on weekdays at 7 A.M., and I bought buy one get one free of CVS Glucosamine Chondroitrin double strength 240 caplets for $57.99 both.  After I finished my walk, I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 16 ounce container of Smart Balance spread for $2.89, two 8 ounce Kraft parmesan and Romano grated cheese for $3.69 each, two 18 ounce Progresso mushroom soup for a $1 each, two 18 ounce Progresso minestrone soup for $1 each, a top round London broil for $2.99 a pound for $4.96 for $19.23 total.  I then returned home, and I said hello to neighbors, and I picked up yesterday's mail, and I put away my groceries.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 6:10 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go out, and I will face a great adventurous walk on Greenwich Avenue watching the morning rush of Wall Street commuters at the Greenwich Train station.  I guess they do not use the internet.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 4:50 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringle style potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.

I ordered a spare USB headset Logitech Premium USB350 Headset 4 PC & MAC 980374-0403 - eBay (item 120575153749 end time Oct-23-10 13:30:23 PDT) for $16.99 with free shipping.  I will put it on the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will keep the one that I currently have on it as a spare.

I will now shower and clean up.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/20/10 Wednesday 3:20 A.M. I chatted with an associate after the last note.  I installed the Widows Live Essentials updates on the primary Windows 7 and the IBM ThinkCentre computers.  I went to bed about 2:30 P.M..  I chatted with a friend briefly about 4 P.M..  I slept until 9:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 2:30 A.M..  I ate a blue berry muffin.  I have a migraine head ache.   I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up.  The reason that I no longer go out in the early morning hours for a walk anymore is that I am getting older, and there is no place at that hour to go to the bathroom.  Thus I generally do not show up downtown now until 7 A.M., when Starbucks opens and the train station bathroom is opened.  I also seem to have a weak blather, and I seem to have to go the bathroom more frequently possibly from drinking cups of green tea after my primary meal.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 1:25 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Tomorrow mostly cloudy and 47 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 12:45 P.M.  I made a couple of telephone calls.  I ate a blueberry muffin.  A lot of the people my family and I use to know were involved in various aspects of energy production, particularly hydroelectric power.  Thus if the lights ever quit working, more than likely there is probably something wrong with the generation source.  There were a lot of elderly people downtown this morning today enjoying the sunny day.  From what I know which is sometimes more than the locals whom seem to read only Greenwich magazine, there is a lot going on in the world, so if you happen to know how to do your research, you can probably figure it out.

For example with http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , the last time I chatted with him, I suggest he visit Oslo, Norway.  One of the U.S. government officials whom visited his apartment by the www.un.org was Albert Lillienthal who ran the TVA.  I know they have built new dams in Iran and Norway, and such companies has Nord Hydro might be involved.  The French also build turbines used in such large facilities.  George Cary is from Buffalo, New York where the Niagara River dam is.  Tony Pigato showed me lots of new pictures of hydroelectric dams in Brazil.  John Bolton's family with their German and Chinese connections might have known people involved in building the Yanksee River dam.  When I lived down south around the TVA, there were people involved with the Aswan dam in Egypt.  I do not know anything about the local dams here in Greenwich, Connecticut; but they tend to be more modest structures.  Where Microsoft exists there are a lot of hydroelectric dams in Washington State for Boeing's operations.  In making aluminum, one uses a lot of electricity.  My best friend at the Taft School had parents that had lived in China, and they were also involved with Wolfson construction that was involved with the construction of Hoover dam.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 11:30 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I chatted with the building custodian and a couple of neighbors.  I went downtown to CVS.  I bought a three pack of Schick Hydro razors worth $8.99 that I got for free with a CVS coupon from the mail and a 8.4 ounce Schick Hydro shaving gel worth $4.29 that I also got for $3.99 off with a CVS coupon from the mail and buy one get one free of CVS 2000 mcg Vitamin B-12 time released 60 caplets for $8.49 both and buy one get one free of CVS flush free Niacin 500 mg 100 capsules for $8.39 both and .45 tax for $17.63 total.  I then bought three CVS Natural Lecithin 1200 mg 100 soft gels for half price for $2.75 each bottle and buy one get one free of CVS 2000 mcg Vitamin B-12 time released 60 caplets for $8.49 both less a CVS bonus bucks coupon of $5 for $11.71 total.  I then used the bathroom at CVS.  I then chatted with a regular walker from Martha's Vineyard.  The regular walker needed money for coffee, so I gave the regular walker a dollar.  I chatted about the bathroom situation downtown.  I then went by the Senior and the Arts center, and I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four fresh muffins for $3.99 and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.63 for $5.62 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I put away my purchases.  I had closed the living room window this morning, because it was getting colder, but I opened it back up again today to get some fresh air and air out the apartment, since it is a nice day, but I will close it in a little while before I go to bed to keep the dampness out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 8:00 A.M.  I move the Aerobed and its linens and the two www.army.mil extreme cold weather good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags to behind the Ethan Allen recliner in the living room.  There is still room for it to fully recline.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go out to do some errands.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 6:40 A.M.  I will now make and eat the same dinner as yesterday morning.  I am not starving yet, and I have about 33 pounds of rice to help me make it through the winter.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 6:20 A.M.  If you look at The Boeing Company, they are still testing their Boeing: Commercial Airplanes - 787 .  I read about six months ago, they are missing a part the size of a credit card before the can fully finish it.  Boeing Sets 787 First Delivery Date for Mid-First Quarter 2011 - Aug 27, 2010 .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 5:45 A.M.  I read some back issues of Maximum PC.  I did not get around to the two most recent issues.

Not much happens in the U.S.A. anymore, since we are in a severe economic recession caused by the Obama and Democratic party government programs which have put a lot of people out of work, and cut back on content on the internet.

Since I have lived on disability income for the last 27 years, a lot of people are getting use to living like I have become accustomed to living over these many years.  So although the "Noveau Pauvre" seem to be increasing in this area, I have my web site available for them to research about how I manage to survive.  Basically as a dependant of the State, there is not much I can do about the Status Quo, but maintain my simple routines that I have developed over the years.  For example, I have only been to about a half dozen movies in cinemas over the last 40 years, so when I see an old movie on television, it is frequently new to me.  One only averages about a dollar a year in found money walking Greenwich Avenue, so it is not very profitable.  For me it is a relief from Cabin Fever, but I have plenty of activities to keep me busy at home.  I am more comfortable at home, and I have the means of keeping busy.  I suppose not many people communicate with me, because they are busier with their daytime schedules, while I am frequently on a night time schedule.  I guess the people whom fly up north from down south looking for a better life here are in for a rude awakening particularly as the weather gets colder and damper.  The weather in the fall around here is what like winter in Florida feels like, so if one does not like camping out around here in the Fall season, one will not like camping out in Florida in the Winter season.  The few people whom I know whom are more financially successful, recently seem to be spending more time watching television.  I guess the people whom still have jobs are worrying about losing them, and possibly they are having to deal with salary cut backs.  Basically, I have to survive another long cold winter.  I do not go out as much in the winters anymore, because after a couple of afternoon walks, I tend to get worn out and more tired.  Still I have my apartment routines to keep me busy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 3:05 A.M.  http://office.live.com

Perspective from Greenwich, Connecticut U.S.A. of England and Europe NRL Monterey Satellite Photos  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 2:25 A.M.  FoxNews.com - Megachurch Birthplace of 'Hour of Power' Files for Bankruptcy in California

Norway is still suppose to have money, but the North Sea oil is running out kongehuset.no - English

Crystal Cathedral Ministries : News : Press Release

BBC News - Microsoft software head Ray Ozzie resigns

BBC News - Chile's president gives mine rescue rock to Queen and PM  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 1:40 A.M.  I made up a fresh batch of punch.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/10 Tuesday 12:10 A.M.  I could not fall asleep after the last note, although I tried to sleep.  I retaped up with duct tape the sheet on the bedroom window.  I ate a blueberry muffin and a untoasted English muffin.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I finally fell asleep around noon.  I woke up at 6 P.M.. 

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for a spare Newegg.com - HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive for $37.99 with promo code "EMCZYZR32" for the $12 discount with free shipping arrived.  I put it on the shelf with the other hard drives behind the Sony television in the living room.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I watched some television.  I ate a blueberry muffin.  I moved the table fan from on top of the Samsung color laser printer to the far right window shelf in the living room.  I collapsed the pedestal fan at the hallway entrance, and I put it on top of the Panasonic air conditioner behind the Ethan Allen recliner.

I will now make and eat a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringle style potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  I will then shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/10 Monday 6:40 A.M.  I threw the garbage down the garbage chute.

BBC News - German radar satellites fly tight space waltz

BBC News - Identity fraud now costs £1.9bn, says fraud authority

BBC News - UK net is "not ready" for future

BBC News - Bill Gates: 'Expertise' will keep internet secure

Today mostly cloudy and 45 to 61 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.  I might watch some television before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/10 Monday 5:05 A.M.  I went ahead, and I took the two air conditioners out of the windows in the apartment, and I put them away as described below.  I broke the piece of Plexiglas on the side of the bedroom air conditioner, but I might be able to use the old Plexiglas from the previous air conditioner, when I install it in the spring.  The piece that I broke is 30 inches by 18 inches.  I used my little folding cart from the trunk of the Audi to move the air conditioner from the bedroom to behind the Ethan Allen recliner.  There is still room for it to fully recline, but it is very close to the Sony television.  I put new batteries in the weather station remote sender, and I hung it outside the window from a thin telephone wire strung around the window handle, which should work just fine.   If I need to access it, I have to take the screen off to get at it.  I put the wicker breakfast tray in front of the living room window with a Lasko box fan on top of it to blow cool air into the apartment from the opened window.  It is currently 51 degrees Fahrenheit outside and 72.5 degrees Fahrenheit inside the apartment living room.  I have the bedroom window fully closed with the sheet still in front of it for privacy.  The air conditioners were a bit difficult to get out, because the duct tape sealing them in was hard to remove, particularly the outside duct tape. 

I will now make an eat a 10 ounce sautéed top round London Broil with my usual vegetable mixture and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/10 Monday 2:25 A.M.  On personal health matters, I need to a flu shot at the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic.  I have not have my eyes checks in over eight years, and my one spare pair of reading glasses has a broken ear piece.  I also need to get a crown put in by the dentist at the Stamford Town center on the decayed molar I have on my right rear lower jaw.  That would take two visits. 

I might leave the two fans set up, so I can blow the electric heat around in the winter.  Although it is colder outside, the reason that I have not take the air conditioners out yet, it is easier to control the temperature with them installed this time of year, since the only other option would be to open the windows a small amount, which might be too cold.  Also the sun still shines brightly against my windows in the afternoon.  The building custodian still has not installed the window shade in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/10 Monday 2:15 A.M.  Well anyone with common sense around here knows that it will get colder around sooner or later, and once winter sets in, one still has to be prepared.

If you look at 1998 Audi A6 owned by Michael Scott , I last had my oil changed on September 28, 2009 at mileage 64,928; and I currently have 67,890 miles on the Audi, so I am due to have my oil and filter changed soon, once I get on a daytime schedule.  I have a $5 off coupon for Oil Star over in Stamford, Connecticut.  I should have had the Audi washed, and I could have waxed it in about a half hour with the DuPont car wax that I have Car Detailing Wax | Car Detailing Kits | Final Detail , but I am not sure that I will get around to it or not before winter sets in.

In a week or so, once it gets a bit colder, I still have to take my two air conditioners out of the windows, and I am going to store both in the apartment, so I have them available right away once it gets warmer in the spring without waiting for the building custodian to take them out of storage.  I thought I might store the Panasonic air conditioner from the bedroom behind the Ethan Allen recliner in the living room.  I can move the two United States Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags from behind the Ethan Allen recliner to beneath the bedroom window.  I can also store the Aerobed there and its linen, and I can put the Frigidaire air conditioner from the living room beneath the chair at the hallway entrance.  I have already moved the Lasko box fan from the hallway to behind the Sony television in the living room.  I really do not have room to store the pedestal fan, so it might stay in the living room, where it is at the hallway entrance.  I might be able to store the table fan on top of the Samsung color laser printer on the far right living room window shelf.  When I take out the living room Frigidaire air conditioner, I have to put new batteries in the Oregon Scientific weather station sending unit hanging outside the window from duct tape, and I need to reposition it more securely with wire and string tied to the closed window above it.  Still I have to get on a day time schedule for some of the activities, I need to do.  It still goes up to 75 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room with just the fan going on the air conditioner, and I normally feel more comfortable at 70 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/18/10 Monday 1:25 A.M.  Good deal on Turtlenecks for men here Croft and Barrow Turtleneck for $11.99 and today Monday and Tuesday 15% off with promo code "FIFTEEN4U" and 99 cent shipping.  I ordered four Croft and Barrow Turtleneck in white in XXL for $11.99 each less $7.19 15% discount with promo code "FIFTEEN4U" and $3.96 shipping and no tax for $44.73 total.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/18/10 Monday 12:40 A.M.  Living here in Greenwich, Connecticut in the Nordic country, we are living in the southern edge of the tropics, where it is warmer here than further north, because of the Long Island Sound.  When I used to travel, when I was younger; I made a number of friends from Vermont, most of whom were from Stowe, Vermont Official Guide to Stowe Vermont: Hotels, Skiing Vacations - Resorts, Lodging, Dining, Spa .

Office 2010 Professional Word still does not let one copy a web document to a server, unless the file is closed in Office 2010 Professional Word, which is why I keep using FrontPage 2002.  It makes it difficult to post a continual web log.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 11:35 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate a blue berry muffin.  I finally woke up at 8 P.M..  I received the product key for Office 2010 Professional.  I activated it on the primary Windows 7 computer.  I did a Windows 7 Complete PC backup from the primary hard drive to the third internal hard drive.  I then did a backup to the Bytecc external hard drive.  The Office 2010 Professional product key is good for two computers, so I installed it on the IBM ThinkCentre.  I then did a Windows 7 Complete PC backup to the Bytecc external hard drive.  I also burned two copies of the Office 2010 Professional download to DVDs. 

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will shower and clean up soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 12:35 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will eat a blue berry muffin, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 11:55 A.M.  From Windows 7 Key | Office 2010 Key | Windows Server Key - LicenseKeyCity , I ordered the product key for Office 2010 Professional Office 2010 Professional Key [OFFPRO] - $30.00 : Windows 7 Key | Office 2010 Key | Windows Server Key - LicenseKeyCity for $30.  It can activate the trial version which I downloaded here Microsoft Office Online Office Professional 2010 download link for trial .  I downloaded it, and I installed it with the trial key.  I chose the option to keep Office 2007 Professional on the primary Windows 7 computer.  However, when it installed it installed just fine, but it eliminated Outlook 2007, keeping the other Office 2007 Professional Programs and also installing the Office 2010 programs including Outlook 2010.  It works just fine however.  From the Microsoft Office 2010 Tools folder, there is a link for Office Anytime Upgrade, where I can enter the new product key, when I receive it in less than 8 hours.  Office Professional 2010 starts up giving one this link Welcome to Microsoft Office 2010 - Microsoft Office

I went ahead and paid off my next three final monthly payments on my www.geico.com automobile insurance policy which is now fully paid up until April 7, 2011.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 9:45 A.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/17/10:

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 8:15 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  They have expanded the Mercedes Benz dealership on West Putnam Avenue into the Infiniti dealership where the Cadillac dealership used to be.  They are working on the smaller Mercedes Benz dealership across the street from their primary dealership building http://www.mercedesbenzgreenwich.com/ .  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The bathroom at the Greenwich Train station does not open until 7:30 A.M. on weekends.  I noticed there are a few new stores on Greenwich Avenue.  The new pharmacy under construction across the street from CVS is called the Greenwich Drug Store.  They have removed the green bench from in front of the Union Bank of Switzerland across from the AT&T store.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I used the green Port-O-Potty there.  There were two early morning Spanish fishermen that did not know English.  I then went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought a six pack of fresh blueberry muffins for $2.49, a 12 ounce package of Stop and Shop sliced white processed cheese for $2.69, four 21 ounce Stouffer's frozen tomato meat lasagnas for $2.50 each, a top round London Broil for $2.99 a pound for $5.77, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.97, and a three pound bag of baby red potatoes for $2.99 for $29.90 total.  They have an emergency steam cleaning trailer in front of the Chase Bank just south of the Greenwich Post Office.  The Greenwich Post Office has a for sale sign in front of it.  Maybe they could put another Chase Bank in it.  I also checked out the ATM machine at the Chase Bank down on central Greenwich Avenue, and they still were not completely working yet as it is off the internet right now.  I will now send out my weekly notes.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 5:10 A.M.  Microsoft Expands Effort to Protect Nonprofit Groups - NYTimes.com

Editorial Notebook - Running Against Food Stamps - NYTimes.com

Today sunny and 44 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  I currently weigh 220 pounds, so I occasionally try to walk in nice weather hoping to lose weight and stay fit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 4:40 A.M.  I was thinking of ordering two white in size 2XL Hart Supercombed Cotton Turtleneck - Long Sleeve (For Men) - Save 56% for $10.95 each and a Lauren by Ralph Lauren Voyager Pea Coat - Insulated (For Men) - Save 59% in black size 2XL for $119.96 and with today's discounts only, the Pea Coat would be $83.97 with free shipping for $105.87 total all items.  However, I have enough winter coats, and I might need the money later on this winter, so I decided not to order it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 4:10 A.M.  When I logged onto www.chase.com this past evening, their web site was not working.  I called them up at 1-877-242-7372, and they told me, it would not be working until 11 A.M. EDT this morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/10 Sunday 2:30 A.M.  I woke up at 6 P.M., and I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I did two loads of laundry.  I picked up the mail.  My renter's rebate arrived in the mail.   I made 173 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com and a Cspan presentation by Dan Qualye. http://mikelouisscott.com/ryo.htm .  I went downtown to the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue, and I deposited my Connecticut Renter's Rebate Check.  Once it clears, I will probably pay off my www.geico.com insurance policy that needs three more payments for the policy running until April 7, 2011.  I noticed the Barcelona cafe was full of young people.  I sat out briefly downtown, and I then returned home.  I will now make the same baked boneless breast of chicken dinner that I have eating recently.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 6:35 A.M.  Partly cloudy and windy today and 43 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.

I will eat a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I will then either watch some television, or I will go to bed.   I have to do laundry this evening, when I wake up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 6:30 A.M.  The movie "Dante's Peak" about a volcano eruption in the Northwest come on at 6:40 A.M. on channel 832 MOMAXHD on Norwalk Connecticut HD Cablevision System, but I don't get that channel.  I have seen it twice before.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 6:15 A.M.  This past evening around 6 P.M., I ate the last three day old Danish almond pastry.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 5:50 A.M.  In Windows 7 Update, in the other updates, besides the language updates, there are also the hardware updates.  I installed the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard hardware update on the primary Windows 7 computer, and then I installed the Hardware Updates on the IBM ThinkCentre computer.  I got an error message 80070103 on one of the updates which means the installed update is a better one.  I took the generic Plantronics headset off the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer, and I stored it with the other generic headset on the shelf below the stereo entertainment center.  I put the new Logitech headset from CVS on the secondary Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I took the 3M Command hook off the left side of the left monitor of the primary Windows 7 computer, and I installed it on the left side of the Eizo monitor of the secondary Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.   It has to set for an hour before I hang the Logitech headset from it.  To use the headset on the secondary Dell Latitude D410 laptop, one has to plug the audio jack into the control button on the rear left side of the laptop that controls the speaker system, and when plugged in, it over rides the speaker system.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 4:05 A.M.  Windy day ahead National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 4:00 A.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried maple bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda sweetener and lemon juice. 

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 2:25 A.M.  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for a spare Newegg.com - HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive for $37.99 with promo code "EMCZYZR32" for the $12 discount with free shipping.

IUGG 2011, 28 June – 7 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Conference

BBC News - Baby killer whale born in Florida

BBC News - Dedication of new Hoover Dam bridge  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/16/10 Saturday 12:30 A.M.  For Big Bucks Billionaires, if you look at this item Newegg.com - DELL Optiplex 380MT(468-7476-19IN) 19" Core 2 Duo E7500(2.93GHz) 4GB DDR3 250GB Intel GMA 4500 Windows 7 Professional , you can get it here for $270 less with less memory and slightly slower processor DEll Optiplex 380 MT E5400 2.7GHZ/1GB/250GB/Black/New - eBay (item 280546653485 end time Nov-07-10 12:20:49 PST) and three 1 gigabyte DDR3 memory strips would cost about $60, so it is about $200 cheaper.  Of course www.dell.com is now selling the same system at the moment for $354 with free shipping, but it probably does not have Windows 7 Professional which you can buy at Win 7 Key City   CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/10 Friday 11:05 P.M.  I woke up at noon, when I chatted with another computer magazine person.  I have been canceling all of my free computer magazines, because they call me up frequently and wake me up all of the time, when I am asleep in the day time.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for a waterproof mattress pad JCPenney : Waterproof Mattress Pad in twin size for $19.99 in white from www.jcpenny.com with free shipping with promo code "ITSVITAL" and $1.20 tax for $21.19 total arrived.  I put it underneath the chair at the hallway entrance with the Aerobed and its linens.

I watched some television.  I chatted with a friend.  The friend has a house for sale at this web site Mary Beaton Stapleton | Real Estate Agent , but I am not sure which one it is.

I rested some more.  I watched some television.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed. 

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS style pringle potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.   I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants.

Being on a night schedule recently like I have been for more years than I can remember and being on the internet all of the time for about 20 years, I feel like "The Night Watchman of the Western Hemisphere".  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/10 Friday 3:45 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.

I will eat an almond Danish before going to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/10 Friday 3:10 A.M.  Back in 1973, when I was a year out of www.lfc.edu after spending six months in Europe at the last half of my senior year, I was fired that summer by www.cbsnews.com , and I was also fired that fall by Boodles restaurant in Greenwich and their other restaurant Sassafras in Scarsdale, New York.  I had a job interview after that with a computer software company called "Online Decisions" which was producing a word processing program in Elmsford, New York.  Online decisions made software for workstations, and it was a British company owned by Mr. Gerraud who we carpooled with, when we lived in Stamford, Connecticut for a year before moving to Greenwich in 1963.  Online Decisions also had an office in the "666" building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.  Elmsfords, New York is near the Rockefeller estate in North Tarrytown, New York.  It also has a www.samsclub.com .  It is near the major hospitals and other facilities in White Plains, New York; so it can be quite busy as well as being close to Westchester County airport.  It also is near the IBM Watson Research Center and close to IBM in Armonk.  There are quite a few other companies in White Plains, New York also along with major department stores and five star hotels and the nearby the Doral Conference Center on the Greenwich border in Purchase, New York.  The less expensive Extended Stay motels in Norwalk, Connecticut is near two Walmarts, Norwalk Hospital, Fairfield County and the busy I-95 corridor.  The less expensive Meriden, Connecticut Extended Stay motel or Homestead Motel would be near Yale University and its medical center and New Haven, Connecticut with quite a few businesses.  Thus depending on what one's focus might be any of the three in this immediate area might suit one's needs for about $60 to $110 a night.  They have internet connections and cooking facilities.  Thus for the frugal business traveler or other traveler Extended Stay Hotels – hotel rooms and suites for long term stays , they might have suitable accommodations.  They also have senior citizen discounts of about 5% and discounts for stays longer than a week.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/15/10 Friday 1:40 A.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for a waterproof mattress pad JCPenney : Waterproof Mattress Pad in twin size for $19.99 in white from www.jcpenny.com with free shipping with promo code "ITSVITAL" and $1.20 tax for $21.19 total .

BBC News - Campaign builds to construct Babbage Analytical Engine  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/15/10 Friday 1:05 A.M.  I threw out the garbage down the garbage chute, since it raining cats and dogs outside.  It is suppose to rain all day and be 45 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit.  I picked up the mail.  The Stop and Shop grocery circular says top round roasts are $1.99 a pound this week.  You can make good hamburgers out of top round roast. 

For rainy nights in Greenwich, Connecticut; one can always go to the 24 hour diner across the street from the Y.M.C.A. on East Putnam Avenue.  I have not been there in about 20 years, when I last visited with a friend from Irvington, New York.  That was where I overheard the person that looked like http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm 's son talking about moving to East 54th street in Manhattan.  There is another very good diner over in Irvington, New York by the I-287 exit to Tarrytown, New York just before the Tapan Zee bridge that is also opened 24 hours.  That is near the Extended Stay Hotels – hotel rooms and suites for long term stays in Elmsford, New York.  There is also another 24 diner near the www.mcdonalds.com in Port Chester, New York on U.S.1. 

More common sense from Bill Clark Greenwich Gossip .  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 11:50 P.M.  I ate a 8 ounce cheeseburger on a Kaiser roll with Dijon mustard and ketchup along with my usual vegetable mixture and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

I am not going to do a Windows 7 Complete PC backup to an external hard drive of the IBM ThinkCentre computer, since with the larger hard drive, I would not be able to restore it to a smaller hard drive.  I have the two backups to external hard drives with the smaller 40 gigabyte partitions, and that is all I need to restore to a larger or smaller hard drive.

I will now shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 10:25 P.M.  I ate a untoasted English muffin after the last note.  I watched a movie about a spoof of Newport, Rhode Island until 9 A.M..  I went to bed.  I had a computer magazine telephone call and a fund raising call for MS.  I finally woke up at 3 P.M.. 

Tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for the spare power supply for the IBM ThinkCentre M52 Type 8213 computer IBM ThinkCentre A52, M55 225 Watt P.S. 24R2630 41A9631 - eBay (item 280551694563 end time Oct-19-10 17:46:05 PDT) .  I bought it for a spare one for $44.95 and $10.95 shipping for $55.90 total arrived.  I inspected it, and it looks like new.  I put it behind the www.harvard.edu chair beneath the stereo system with the other spare power supplies.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.

I had a spare new Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive for $54.99 with free shipping, January 22, 2010.  I took the 40 gigabyte SATA hard drive out of the IBM ThinkCentre, and I put in the 500 Gigabyte Seagate SATA hard drive.  I restore my August 25, 2010 backup from the Bytecc external hard drive.  I installed the Windows 7 updates.   I expanded the hard drive with Disk Manager, so it now has 464 gigabytes of space.  I am defragmenting it right now.  I put the 40 gigabyte hard drive in the Seagate box, and I stored it on the shelf behind the Sony television.  Thus I have more hard drive space on the IBM ThinkCentre.

The hard drive that I put in was my spare hard drive for the FIC server folder which is SATA, so I ordered another spare Newegg.com - HITACHI HDS721050CLA362 (0F10381) 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive for $37.99 with promo code "EMCZYZR32" for the $12 discount with free shipping.

I chatted with a relative.  I will now make my bed.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 6:20 A.M.  Afternoon showers today and 48 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I will eat a Danish almond pastry before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 5:05 A.M.  STAR Fine Foods - Borges USA distributes Star Extra Virgin Olive oil which is packaged in Spain from olive oil from Spain, Italy, Greece, and Tunisia Star Fine Foods Olive Oil.  It says here http://shop.starfinefoods.com/Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil/p/STAR-00011&c=Star@OliveOils , a 101 tin of extra virgina olive oil costs $35.99, but at the Stop and Shop I only pay $21.99, so I guess with all of the Spanish around here, it is cheaper.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 4:40 A.M.  For any beef eaters around here, those seven pound eye round of beef are on sale at the Stop and Shop this week for $2.99 a pound down from $4.99 a pound, so you can butcher them up and then grind them up in a Cuisine Art make them into your own hamburgers.

Microsoft’s Bing Gets a Social Aspect From Facebook - NYTimes.com

George W. Bush Is Back in the Rangers Front Row - NYTimes.com

Corn Prices Raise Worry Over Expensive Food - NYTimes.com

BBC News - Asteroid collision makes quite a picture

BBC News - Two million US PCs recruited to botnets

Hurricane PAULA 5 day tracking forecast  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 3:45 A.M.  Those jackets below are for spring and fall.  I also have a much heavier grey 3/4th length L.L. Bean winter coat they not longer make and a pair of L.L. Bean classic snow boots.  I have a couple of new pairs of other snow boots from Bargain Outfitters - Bargains, Discounts, Markdowns, Deals, on Boots, Clothing, Outdoor Gear at Bargain Outfitters , and if you sign up for their email list, they send you $5 discount coupon codes. 

I also have plenty of other winter clothes including two used and two new pairs of the red L.L. Bean Union suits.  I have polar fleece pull overs and sweaters, corduroy trousers and blue jeans including flannel lined ones, heavier winter socks, scarves, knit caps, gloves, flannel shirts, turtle necks, and a Audi with fairly new tires with good tire tread.  Thus whenever I make it outside this winter, I should be comfortable.  I have heavier sports jackets too, if I need to dress up.  I think I might have one Swedish double breasted pin stripe suit that might possibly still fit me at my larger size too, but I am not sure about that.

I also have a full length down coat, several parkas, another winter coats.  In the winter, one can always layer one's clothing to stay warmer.  We do occasionally get winter days, when it is below 20 Degrees Fahrenheit, but not many in recent winters, but that can change.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 3:30 A.M.  Currently through December 20, 2010 L.L.Bean: Free Shipping on Clothing and Outdoor Gear for the Whole Family. has free shipping.  I have various jackets from them.  However, I have never gotten it together or afforded to buy this one Original Field Coat with Wool/Nylon Liner: Casual Jackets at L.L.Bean or this one Original Field Coat, Cotton-Lined: Casual Jackets at L.L.Bean in Saddle color is a must have for New England Preppies.  I used to wear my father's jacket like it in Manhattan, when I lived there.  I think later on I bought one in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for $20, but I gave it to a friend who needed a winter jacket, and it had holes in its pockets where I had dropped car battery acid on it.  I still have the expensive brown Gortex hunting jacket, the blue Barn jacket, and the Saddle color Boat Builders jacket from www.llbean.com .  The Original Field Coat was very handy, because it had lots of pockets, which today with all of the items people carry with them might be handy.  They never go on sale, but with free shipping they are cheaper.  There is an www.llbean.com outlet store one exit east of the Manchester, New Hampshire airport.

This might be handy for winter Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt: Daily Markdown at L.L.Bean

If you search the word "Sale" at the www.llbean.com web site, you come up with sale items.

For winter warmth Two-Layer Union Suit: Long Underwear and Base Layer at L.L.Bean for men

Two-Layer Union Suit: Women's Apparel and Footwear at L.L.Bean

Search for "Union Suit" at www.llbean.com for more winter underwear.

They have a list of their outlet stores here Visit L.L.Bean Retail Stores.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 2:45 A.M.  More details on the meal that I just cooked.  First of all, I used to have 12 inch long aluminum oval fish baking pan that I never used, that I can not find.  I have a lot of cooking items stored in my kitchen.  However, possibly I gave it to a friend or a relative that cooks fish more often.   We use to use them all of the time at the Le Languedoc Bistro a Nantucket Restaurant and Inn. Serving French cuisine on Nantucket for over 30 Years our on www.nantucket.net island. 

I rinsed the boneless filet of cod that was about 1/3rd to a half inch thick underneath cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel. 

I then cut it into two pieces, so it would fit into a 10 inch diameter round Pyrex pie baking dish.  I then rubbed the Pyrex pie dish with olive oil.  Then on a separate plate one side at a time starting with the skin side of the fish, I rubbed the filet of cod with olive oil, and then I seasoned it to taste with Old Bay Seasoning and Italian spices.  I then coated it with seasoned Italian bread crumbs.  I then did the same thing on the flesh side of the fish.  I then placed the two pieces of filet of cod in the Pyrex baking dish skin side down.  I microwaved three two inch diameter baby red potatoes that I had pricked a few times on each side with a fork for two minutes in the microwave oven.  I then put them in the Pyrex baking dish with the filet of cod, and I rubbed the small red potatoes with olive oil.  I baked it in the Sharp Convection Microwave oven on a five inch high stand to raise it up on Convection setting at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.  Once the dish was cooked, I placed it on my heat proof dinner plate to warm it up before serving it on the plate.  I split open the three small potatoes, and I cut sliced though each side inside, and put Smart Balance spread and olive oil inside them. 

While doing that I put about 3/4th of an inch of water in a two quart Revere pot with lid, and I put a steamer tray in it with the baby carrots and broccoli crowns.  I split the broccoli crowns, so they are not too large.  I started the pot on an electric burner on high with lid on it, and once it begins to steam, I lowered it to medium high for 15 minutes total time.  I remove the steamer tray, and I serve the vegetables in a separate soup bowl with Smart Balance spread and olive oil on them.  Recently I have been using Star Extra Virgin Olive oil from Spain which the Stop and Shop sells for about $21 for three liters.  With the remaining hot water from the Revere pot, I put it in coffee cup with a green tea bag and a packet of Splenda sweetener, and I let the tea steep while I eat dinner, and then I removed the tea bag and squeeze it, and I add a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice.  I eat the dinner with my watered down punch, which is about 25% of my fruit juice punch mixture and 75% cold filtered water.   It was a very good dinner for a change of pace from my usual meat meals.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/10 Thursday 12:50 A.M.  I watched a movie yesterday morning until 7 A.M..  I woke up at noon, and I chatted with a friend.  I went back to bed until 5:30 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I watched the www.abcnews.com evening news.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a box of three day old Danish almond pastries for $2, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance Lite spread for $2.89, a half gallon of Tropicana premium orange juice with calcium for $3 and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.97 for $9.86 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the DVDs that I checked out on this past Friday evening that I did not have time to watch.  I chatted with the information desk.  I then chatted outside with a chef from Nicaragua.  I then went back by the Stop and Shop, and I used the bathroom.  I bought a quart of Borden lemon juice for $2.69 and a filet of cod from Alaska for $5.99 a pound for $3.89 for $6.58 total.  I then went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with some Asian computer people coming out of the new Chinese restaurant opposite Grigg street where the Italian wine bar used to be.  I chatted with a carpenter at the corner of Grigg street and Greenwich Avenue where Meli Meli is building their new restaurant.  I sat out at various locations.  I finished my walk.  I then drove way down south to the bottom of Steamboat Road, and there were not any fishermen on the pier trying to fish this time of year.  Who knows stripped bass might be running south again.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station on 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $8.50 of self service premium gasoline for $3.199 a gallon for 2.656 gallons for 30 miles driving in the last 12 days at odometer 67884 miles for 11.295 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic.  I then returned home, and I picked up the mail, and I put away my groceries.

I will now make a baked breaded cod dinner with small baked red potatoes and steamed baby carrots and broccoli crowns with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/13/10 Wednesday 4:50 A.M.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch a movie before going to bed.

Sunny today and 47 to 63 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/13/10 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.  Greenwich Gossip  CIO

Note: <888> 10/13/10 Wednesday 3:45 A.M.  Afghanistan must embrace women's rights » George W. Bush Presidential Center

Tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for the spare power supply for the IBM ThinkCentre M52 Type 8213 computer IBM ThinkCentre A52, M55 225 Watt P.S. 24R2630 41A9631 - eBay (item 280551694563 end time Oct-19-10 17:46:05 PDT) .  I bought it for a spare one for $44.95 and $10.95 shipping for $55.90 total.

BBC News - Joy as first trapped Chile miners reach surface  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/13/10 Wednesday 3:25 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS style pringle potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/13/10 Wednesday 2:35 A.M.  I finished installing all of the Windows Updates on all of the computers.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/13/10 Wednesday 1:30 A.M.  I looked for something on television to watch, but I did not find anything I felt like watching.

I will now start installing Windows Updates.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 11:55 P.M.  The Optimum Email server is not working at the moment.  After the last note, I rested a bit.  I ate a untoasted English muffin.  From 7 A.M. to 9 A.M., I watched the movie "Bride's Head Revisited".  I went to bed at 9 A.M., and I woke up at noon.  I cancelled my 3 P.M. appointment.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

The order for $7.99 with free shipping Buy.com - Logitech ClearChat Premium PC Headset - Bulk Packaging was outside my door.  I put it on the Panasonic Toughbook CF29 laptop computer, and it works much better than the lower quality Logitech headset from CVS.  I put that one on the right stereo system shelf with the other spare headset.

I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I cleaned the two air conditioner filters.  It is suppose to be warmer in the daytime for at least another week, so I will leave them installed for now. 

I cleaned the entire bathroom including the sink area, toilet and toilet area, the bath tub and shower area, and the mirrors.  Thus it is a little bit neater and cleaner in the apartment.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I fixed the electronic front entry door which had the right side slightly opened and the left side left opened a few inches.  It now works just fine.  I picked up the mail.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 4:45 A.M.  This is the exact power supply that is in my IBM ThinkCentre M52 Type 8213 computer IBM ThinkCentre A52, M55 225 Watt P.S. 24R2630 41A9631 - eBay (item 280551694563 end time Oct-19-10 17:46:05 PDT) .  I bought it for a spare one for $44.95 and $10.95 shipping for $55.90 total.  It is suppose to be basically new.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will try to go to bed soon.  I should be up at noon to get ready for my 3 P.M. appointment.

Morning showers today and 42 to 61 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 3:25 A.M.  The order for the backup power supply for the IBM Lenovo ThinkCentre computer for $30 with free shipping 24R2625 IBM Power Supply 225 Watt For Thinkcentre. New Pull. has been cancelled, since it out of stock. CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 2:55 A.M.  For the AeroBed, I ordered a waterproof mattress pad JCPenney : Waterproof Mattress Pad in twin size for $19.99 in white from www.jcpenny.com with free shipping with promo code "ITSVITAL" and $1.20 tax for $21.19 total.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 2:15 A.M.  I can across this diet product web site Four Ventures with a product called "Dietrin" like in Rhone Dietrin's name, but no mention of him.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 1:55 A.M.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.

See Jolly Old England London at Its Best - Virgin Vacations

Become an expatriate, fly to Europe one way for $206 and try to get lucky or sleep in the rough at your favorite location http://www.airfrance.us/US/en/local/resainfovol/meilleuresoffres/marketing_webfares3.htm

Of course a U.S. passport would cost you at least a $100

Of course, you have to buy a Welcome to www.urail.com here before you leave, if you want to travel and sleep cheaply on a train.  I don't think you can buy them over there.

Of course a return ticket from Europe to the United States can cost three to four times as much, so one is better off buying a cheap round trip air fare, but they do have expiration dates, unless one is fairly sure, one does not return back to the Western Hemisphere.  I once read about somebody that spent a few years sleeping in a French airport, so they do not offer much charity over there.  Also frequently back packers have their passports, funds, and money stolen, so even when prepared, one can end up in trouble. 

BBC - Earth News - New carnivorous mammal species found in Madagascar

BBC News - Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 smartphones  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/10 Tuesday 12:05 A.M.  I am making and just about ready to eat  in a little while a breaded boneless breast of chicken with three baked small red potatoes and steamed baby carrots and broccoli with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

I guess it now cold enough in Wisconsin that they can now start shipping cheese.

Carr Valley Cheese Co. - Wisconsin Cheddar, American Originals, Artisanal and Award Winning Cheeses

La Valle cheese stores, Middleton cheese factory, Fennimore specialty cheeses, Carr Valley Cheese, Sauk County Wisconsin  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/11/10 Monday 11:20 P.M.  I made 177 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com . http://mikelouisscott.com/ryo.htm .  I chatted with a relative.

A new shipment of prisoners arrives tomorrow QM2 - Itinerary - 2010 , and they will be back with more prisoners on October 25, 2010.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/10 Monday 8:35 P.M.  I have been mostly resting since the last note, and my back pain seems to be better.  I woke up yesterday at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I watched television, and I rested.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS style pringle potato chips and a dill pickle slice around midnight.  I rested, and I watched television.  I woke up at 8 A.M., and I drank a glass of tonic water with Angostura bitters.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I will now make some cigarettes.  My back pain seems to be better, but I have been taking two Tylenol every six to eight hours.

No boost for Social Security checks in 2011 - FoxNews.com

There was an article in the Greenwich Time this past Sunday Park-ing place: Trust wants to move Lyon House to playground - GreenwichTime  that said, they are thinking of the moving the Lyon Farm homestead house from down the hill on West Putnam Avenue to behind 71 Vinci Drive in the playground.  Thus since Lyon Farm is the oldest house in Greenwich, Connecticut; I guess Vinci Drive is the "Old Lyon Farm" compared to the "New Lyon Farm" up on Weaver Street.

House part of historic struggle - GreenwichTime

http://www.greenwichpreservationtrust.org/Resources/TLH title search Kerschus.pdf

Greenwich Preservation Trust

I use to also fish on the ocean off Lyon Farm Road in Nantucket, so I guess there were members of the Lyon family also in Nantucket.

There were three members of the Lyon family at Greenwich Country Day, when I attended school there, and as I recall one of them was my class photographer along with a few other classmates.  Maybe we should start growing a Cash Crop here at Lyon Farm to make a little extra money.  Traditionally Columbus Day is the day the "Old Guard" leave Nantucket www.nantucket.net to discover America.  CIO 

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

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 5:55 A.M.  I will now send out my weekly notes.

Sunny today and 53 to 66 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will then shut down the primary Windows 7 computer and either rest or watch some television or one of the DVDs.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 5:45 A.M.  I sent a list of American retail outlets to the Chinese shopping cart vendor.

http://www.ebay.com/

http://www.llbean.com/

http://www.sierratradingpost.com/

www.smartbargains.com

www.walmart.com

www.overstock.com

www.sears.com

www.target.com

www.cvs.com

www.walgreens.com

www.homedepot.com

 www.stopandshop.com

www.amazon.com

www.buy.com

www.kmart.com

www.costco.com

www.samsclub.com

http://www.aptea.com/

http://www.publix.com/

http://www.kroger.com/

http://www.albertsons.com/

http://www.target.com/

http://www.safeway.com/

http://www.ahold.com/

http://www.pathmark.com/

http://www.shoprite.com/

http://www.hbc.com/

http://www.thebay.com/

http://www.macys.com/

http://www.bloomingdales.com/

http://www.lowes.com/

http://www.staples.com/

http://www.iga.com/

http://www.winndixie.com/

http://www.truevalue.com

http://www.acehardware.com

CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 4:45 A.M.  Marijuana, Once Divisive, Brings Some Families Closer - NYTimes.com .  I would not recommend driving a car.

YONGKANG ZHENFA LEISURE CO.,LTD. Foldable Shopping Bags

Yongkang Zhenfa Leisure Co., Ltd. - Shopping trolley, shopping cart, shopping basket

They look quite useful, particularly for people without cars.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 3:30 A.M.  Church news Greenwich Gossip  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 2:45 A.M.  I am making and will eat shortly the same dinner as I ate the last couple of nights.

I hurt my back carrying the laundry.  Hopefully the minor pain will go away soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 1:55 A.M.  I put away the laundry.

I ordered a backup power supply for the IBM Lenovo ThinkCentre computer for $30 with free shipping 24R2625 IBM Power Supply 225 Watt For Thinkcentre. New Pull.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 1:00 A.M.  Archaeologists Find Mini-Pompeii Buried in Norway

When you look at http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm at the older new IBM ThinkCentre that I was able to put together for about $250 and compare it to this new one Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p Desktop Computer Review - PCWorld for $1,050; I think it was a good deal.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 12:30 A.M.  I have 40 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I watered the plants.  I said hello to a neighbor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/10 Sunday 12:20 A.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M. in the morning when two friends and a relative called.  I went back to bed until 4:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I went back to bed until 9 P.M..  I watched part of a movie.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. CIO   

Note: <888> 10/09/10 Saturday 4:55 A.M.  I chatted with an out of town security official.  I noticed on Greenwich Avenue, since the tree on the north side of St. Mary's was knocked down by a storm last spring, the entire side of the brick building to the north of it is exposed.  It would probably look better if some wealthy catholic replaced the tree there.  If they are low on money which the Catholics always claim because they have so many hardship cases, they could paint the side of the brick building to the north of it white and put green shutters on it with flower boxes hanging from the windows with ivy planted in the flower boxes.   Ivy tends to do well year round, and I do not think you would have to water it.  Of course they could dig up part of the driveway to the north side of St. Mary's and plant ivy along the wall of the building to the north of it.  Then they would not have to paint it.  However, I think ivy can wreck the sides of brick buildings over time.

I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Sunny today and 42 to 66 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/10 Saturday 3:50 A.M.  metabolic disorder: Definition from Answers.com  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/09/10 Saturday 3:05 A.M.  I chatted with a local security official, but they can never understand me, since I seem to speak a different dialect of English than they are use to listening to.  I guess when one speaks English with a Dutch accent, they probably think I have had one too many http://www.heineken.com/AgeGateway.aspx , but since I have a protein metabolic disorder, I am not allowed to drink alcoholic beverages. 

It says in the Fred web page below that his last apartment in Manhattan was at 405 East 54th street across the street from the Mayfair Restaurant.  In the web log, it says that Queen Elizabeth II gave Fred the apartment.  That would imply that Fred had some sort of British or Commonwealth connection.  If he were related to the Meyers Rum family of Jamaica that might explain why marijuana was occasionally around his apartments until he turned to holistic medicine.   In the old days when the hippies were smoking marijuana, it seems a lot of the adults were using valium, so I guess they all needed to slow down a bit.  Fred's friend at 405 East 54th street was Joe McDonald who was the top male model in New York.  Joe was from Chicago and had been the life guard on the beach in Chicago, when I lived at 31 East Elm Street in the same building that one of the Blairs lived in.  I kept the checking account open from the Midwest Bank of Lake Forest, Illinois for "The Farm" on 1014 Rockland Road in Knollwood, Illinois, and when I moved to 31 East Elm Street in Chicago, we used the same checking account to run the apartment.  I think Tim McMurray who later died in Miami was allowed to use the account.  Also at 405 East 54th street was Billy from South Carolina.  Ema Mac Donald had lived at 405 East 54th street since the mid 1920s.  When I met here about 20 years ago, she was working as a hair dresser's assistant in the neighborhood.  Michael and Louis Mountbatten also had the penthouse at 405 East 54th street.  It was all painted in white lacquer, and they smoked heavily.   Teddie Kennedy also had an apartment in that building.  Noel Coward also once lived at 405 East 54th street.  I once saw John and Yoko Ono Lennon at the bakery in that building.  It is a prewar building that runs through to East 55th street.  Also the famous cross country Lock Stock and Barrel race that the movie the Cannon Ball Run was made about left originally from the garage at 405 East 54th street, so they probably had some pretty fancy automobiles in that garage.  Joe MacDonald I think was related to Anne MacDonald Ford, so possibly they might have had a mechanic in the family.  The young fellow from William Street in Greenwich that disappeared a few years ago also mentioned that he had moved to East 54th street somewhere.  He looked like he could be Fred's son.  The Rockefellers had town houses on East 54th street, so it is not necessarily a slum area.  When I worked for six months at Daniel Construction in Greenville, South Carolina, I had Fred's telephone number and address in my limited address book on my desk, and when I got back to Manhattan for the Tall Ships on July 4, 1976, when I saw Queen Elizabeth II again and Prince Phillip at Bloomingdales Department store on July 5, 1976, I happened to noticed they were building a new high rise apartment building across the street from 405 East 49th street.  There are two bars across the street from the Mayfair Restaurant which is on First Avenue and 54th street on the southeast corner.  One is Crawfords and the other is Billys across First Avenue from the Mayfair restaurant.   Apparently the Sports Editor for the New York Times drinks at one of those bars.  The www.nytimes.com use to first come out at the news stand at the southeast corner of 54th street and 2nd Avenue about 11:30 P.M. in the evening for those people who needed to be the first to know the news.  I used to drive in from Greenwich, Connecticut living in the Rockefeller neighborhood to pick it up there, and I would network with a few Rockefeller employees.

Fred Von Mierers had a friend named Adam Ginowsky who was Polish and a fellow at Rockefeller University, and he lived with Barbara Rockefeller at East 68th street.  Adam had a grant from the United States Federal Government to grow and study marijuana, so possibly the government marijuana business got way out of control once the younger generation got involved.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/09/10 Saturday 1:05 A.M.  FBI allegedly caught using GPS to spy on student - CNN.com  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/10 Saturday 12:45 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.

I found this page on Fred Von Mierers Frederick Von Miers .  However from what I can tell, there is not much interest in him anymore, so possibly he is actually dead, and possibly he just has relatives that look like him.  Since he was suppose to be 14th generation Dutch New York, he could possibly have relatives out there in the wood work.

I noticed downtown, when I was walking this evening a large brand new tobacco or medium brown or bronze new chauffeured Rolls Royce pull up in front of the Restoration Hardware store.  Its passenger looked very aristocratic like possibly a Bill Clinton or Aga Khan look-a-like.  From what I saw briefly of the New York license plate, I think it was "ED" .  More than likely it was not Bill Clinton, since he would have Secret Service protection.  Expensive cars are common in this area, and sometimes the expensive car dealers like to show them off trying to get new customers.  Of course it might have been a wealthy Hedge Fund person with name or initials "ED".  Of course the old guard with money tend to like to drive older well maintained Buicks, and I think Olive Watson even use to drive a 10 year old Buick sedan.  Of course from what I know there might be some new money in town from overseas that prefers to maintain a more traditional wealthy look, but even in England they maintain their older Rolls Royce motor cars for a long time.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 11:40 P.M.  On the Sharp Convection oven I made a mistake, and I pressed 150 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 350 degrees Fahrenheit, so I am having to recook the boneless breast of chicken again for another 35 minutes.  It should be ready shortly.  I already ate the steamed vegetables.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 10:55 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I am now making the same dinner as last night that I will eat shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 10:10 P.M.  I woke up at 12:30 P.M. today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 4:30 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  There were a lot of people out for dinner.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two eight roll bundles of Scott Paper towels for $3.50 each or $9.29 off each  and .42 tax  for $7.42 total.  I used the bathroom at CVS.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I checked out a two DVD set on Germany and a movie called "Master and Commander".  I chatted briefly with a local Swedish resident.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I got my $5 back on the day old Kaiser rolls they overcharged me for yesterday.  I bought another package of 6 day old Kaiser rolls for $1.25, a 15 ounce container of 4-C seasoned bread crumbs for $1.67, a 12 ounce generic honey for $2.49, five 26 ounce Ragu tomato sauce for spaghetti for $1.67 each, five 16 ounce boxes of Ronzoni linguine for $1 each, a 48 bag box of Stop and Shop green tea bags for $2.50, a six pack of White Gem boneless breasts of chicken for $1.99 a pound for $7.92, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $1.97, and a three pound bag of baby red potatoes for $2.99 for $34.13 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries, and I also picked up the mail.  I chatted briefly with a relative.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 4:40 A.M.  Otto grows into true tropical storm; hurricane status possible » TCPalm.com

I noticed while I was in Kennebunkport, Maine recently that somebody from Kingsburg, California looked at my web site Kingsburg, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which is a Swedish Village where they produce mainly raisin and table grapes and is headquarters of Sun-Maid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  Somebody named Delia von Meyer is the Sun-Maid raisin girl. 

When I lived in Firinze, Italia; they use to make Raisin Liqueurs which were enjoyable to drink. 

Somebody that looks like Warren Buffet once told me at a local bank about this Gin-Soaked Raisins - Can Gin-Soaked Raisins Really Help Arthritis?

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Today sunny and 53 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 4:15 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS sour cream and onion Pringles style potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 3:15 A.M.  Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

Microsoft: 16 security patches coming Tuesday, 4 critical for Windows 7 | NetworkWorld.com Community

The city lights of Edinburgh & Glasgow

A Push to Ban Soda Purchases With Food Stamps - NYTimes.com

Bomb squad probes "smoldering package" - GreenwichTime

BBC News - Dutch queen OKs government backed by Geert Wilders

BBC News - Twin pandas born at Madrid Zoo  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 2:35 A.M.  Now if the British are once again back in this area, I have to remind them that until about 8 P.M. at night, I still think the Port Chester, New York beer distributor has the largest supply of various beers and draft beer.  They are across the street from the Life Saver apartment building complex in downtown Port Chester, New York, but the www.costco.com in downtown Port Chester, New York might be cheaper and have other necessities.  For night time people the Cumberland Farms on the Port Chester New York and Greenwich, Connecticut border is allowed to sell beer until 4 A.M..  I think the A&P at the Port Chester, New York shopping center sells a large supply of beer and alcohol until 4 A.M..  Nobody drinks alcohol and drives in this area anymore, because the local police are very severe.  The Port Chester, New York taxis might run 24 hours, but the Greenwich taxis close about 1 A.M..  The British whom live in the urban areas tend not to drive cars too much, since they are heavily taxed, so they tend to drink more alcohol than their suburban counter parts.  When I did a survey about 10 years ago, alcohol was cheaper in Connecticut and Wine was cheaper in New York State, but that might have changed.  The primary cargo on the British cruise ships is they carry bonded liquors, so that is part of their business as they travel around the world.  The Queen Mary II is in Barbados on December 22, 2010 and back in New York on Saturday, December 27, 2010, so they will probably be delivering a new cargo of Barbados Mount Gay rum to keep us warm for the winter.  Lord Snowden once told me he has a house in Byram, Connecticut; but he spends the winter in Barbados, so he sometimes can be darkly tanned.  I think he still owes me $59 for a broken blinker light on the Hyndai Accent that he once bumped into at the old Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, so I guess he could send me up two half gallons of Barbados rum in case I need any for guests this winter.  Of course rum tastes good with Trinidad and Tobago Angostura Bitters.  Remember I am not allowed to drink alcohol, or I tend to take off traveling which can lead to financial problems in foreign countries or even at home in the U.S.A..  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 2:00 A.M.  Well, a new group of prisoners arrived today QM2 - Itinerary - 2010, and they will be returning with another group of prisoners this Tuesday October 12, 2010.  Unfortunately with all of my frequent routines, I have not been able to clean my apartment since around the first of June 2010, so it is a bit dirty and disorderly compared to my normal house cleaning routines that I have not had time for.  I was told by the Captain of the Queen Elizabeth II back around 1980 whom also had a house in Byram, Connecticut that the only thing they buy in United States of America is toilet paper, so they are lucky this week it is on sale for half price at CVS.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/10 Friday 12:35 A.M.  I can not find the old Smithsonian magazine article published in July a number of years ago that said Mount Rainier might erupt in our lifetimes.

I did find this reference Geologists worry about dangers of living 'under the volcano' | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine from the July 1996 issue which is probably the issue that I was looking for that I seem to have lost.

Jon Krakauer Receives the 1997 Walter Sullivan Award

Article: Geologists worry about dangers of living 'under the volcano.' (Mount... | AccessMyLibrary - Promoting library advocacy

A couple of days ago, I looked at the building permit on the door of the new pharmacy across the street from CVS on Greenwich Avenue, it is not for another CVS, but for another pharmacy.  The building permit number starts with "CV" which had me confused without my reading glasses.

There is suppose to be another new CVS in the new building being built at the southeast corner of Weaver Street and West Putnam Avenue in the Byram section of Greenwich, Connecticut; but since it seems that it might be a large building, I would think it will take over a year to complete judging by the size of the construction going on there.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/10 Thursday 10:40 P.M.  I am making and just about ready to eat a breaded boneless breast of chicken with two baked small red potatoes and steamed baby carrots and broccoli with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/07/10 Thursday 9:45 P.M.  I woke up at 1:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. 

I bought $7.99 with free shipping Buy.com - Logitech ClearChat Premium PC Headset - Bulk Packaging .  I will keep it as a spare.  Since the headsets tend to be on all of the time, the computer is on, they can wear out.

I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 20 double roll bundle of Cottonelle Toilet tissue for half price for $7.49 and .45 tax for $7.94 total.  I then finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then drove back by CVS, and I used the bathroom, and I bought another 20 double roll bundle of Cottonelle Toilet tissue for $7.49 and .45 tax for $7.94 total.  I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read www.pcworld.com magazine.  I chatted with a staff member.  I used the bathroom.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of day old Kaiser rolls for $1.25 that they overcharged me charging me $5, a 16 ounce box of Smart Balance spread for $2.89, deli sliced Stop and Shop Danish ham for $5.99 a pound for $8.96, deli sliced Stop and Shop provolone cheese for $5.99 a pound for $9.16, a 15 ounce box of 4-C seasoned bread crumbs for $1.67, a quart jar of B&G kosher dill pickles for $2.99, two 16 ounce Oscar Meyer thick cut bacon for $3.50 each, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.71 for $39.38 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases, and I put them away.  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/07/10 Thursday 5:25 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.

Partly cloudy and 49 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit today.

Not much happening in this area as far as I can tell.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/10 Thursday 4:05 A.M.  I made 105 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  I watched part of a movie.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/07/10 Thursday 12:15 A.M.  I ate a Nature's Valley Sweet and Salty Nut Almond granola bar.   I will now make some cigarettes.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/10 Wednesday 11:45 P.M.  Not much in the email today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/10 Wednesday 10:35 P.M.  I woke up at noon today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I surfed the internet.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a 8 ounce cheeseburger on a Kaiser roll with Dijon mustard and ketchup along with my usual vegetable mixture and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched some television.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I will now make a fresh batch of punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/10 Wednesday 2:25 A.M.  As I recall, when I kept an eye on http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm  Fred Von Mierers' apartment at 420 East 49th street from October 1973 to April 1975, I met quite a few jet set hippies from around the world.  If Fred had any religious training other than spiritual highs from his friends and neighbors, they must have come from the 100 volume set of Edgar Cayce' s A.R.E. that he kept in his bedroom closet.  His Major Domo or butler was Edgar Powers who became an Episcopal minister at the Grace Episcopal Church | New York City which is suppose to be one of the wealthiest churches in New York City from the old days, when the 400 lived around nearby Astor Place. 

I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

A few showers today and 50 to 63 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/06/10 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.  My eldest sister, once bought myself and another family member a What is chateaubriand? at Bern's Steak House in Tampa, Florida Bern's Steak House and Bern's Steak House > Bottom Menu > Menu > Dinner Menu .  I guess from what I can tell from here Chateaubriand steak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , it only a tiny portion of the whole cow.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/10 Wednesday 12:25 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.

Help Bill Gates not make too much money Win 7 Key City

BBC News - Dinosaurs' dominance 'helped by mass volcanism'  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/05/10 Tuesday 10:20 P.M.  After dinner, I turned on one of the many National Broadcasting Company television stations, and there was a television show about the Rockefeller family and their various political activities.  They claim they do not have much money anymore, but they seem to manage to stay in the lime light despite the price of tea in China.  What has me confused, is that as I have seen before, it says they started construction on the World Trade Center in 1966.  However, as I recall when I lived in Manhattan in 1973, I went downtown to Wall street a few times at night, and I recall back then seeing the foundation just beginning on the World Trade Center, so unless it took them seven years to dig the hole for the foundation, which I photographed on a videotape camera, it seems like the television people have their dates confused.  When I first came off Nantucket in December 1983, and I returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut, I went into a pub in Manhattan, and I met somebody that looked like Nelson Rockefeller, and he claimed he was spending that Christmas with Happy Rockefeller.  He said he was the doctor in charge at the United Nations trying to keep the diplomats from drinking liquor.  As I recall, he drank Perrier with a dash of Angostura Bitters.  He was with a pair of twins that I guess were relatives.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/05/10 Tuesday 8:15 P.M.  I woke up at 11:30 A.M. this morning.  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for 15 Premier LIGHT 100MM Tubes (200ct) for $3.70 each and $8.95 shipping for $64.38 total arrived. 

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I chatted with neighbors, and I threw out the garbage.  I surfed the internet.  I got my Greenwich Housing Authority rent statement in the mail.  I went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  They have new blue carpet pattern in the Greenwich Town Hall, and the walls are covered with a white style faux marble wall paper.  My 3 P.M. appointment never showed up.  I read an old copy of Vanity Fair.  I then went by CVS.  I picked up a prescription.  I then bought two TUMS Extra Strength 750 assorted fruit 96 tablets for $4.99 each less a $5 off CVS coupon for $4.98 total.  I chatted with a local butcher about the Rockefellers in this area.  I then went further downtown, and I chatted with a Starbucks coffee shop customer about Brazil.  I then chatted with the Greenwich Tobacco shop proprietor about Roll Your Own Cigarettes Ultra Lights 100s with filter .  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store briefly.  I then sat outside briefly.  I then returned to my apartment building.  I picked up the mail. 

My www.cl-p.com statement arrived, which I have already paid.

My bills for September 2010 for 29 days, when I was gone for 17 days with the hot water turned off was $124.12 for 642 kWh and 22.17 kWh per day with an average temperature of 67.3 for September 2009.

My bill for September 2009, when I was gone for about 9 days with the hot water turned off was $151.33 for 34 days and 762 kWh or 22.41 kWh with an average temperature of 62.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

I chatted with a relative.  I will now reheat and eat the same spaghetti and linguine with grated parmesan and Romano cheese with watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/05/10 Tuesday 12:10 A.M.  I ate some mixed nuts.  Afternoon showers today and 52 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit.

I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 10:50 P.M.  I watched a little bit of television.  I chatted with a relative.

I was having a problem with the Epox and Abit computers starting up, when one pressed the power button.  I changed the CMOS settings for PWR BTN from Off to On, and that solved the problem, and they now both start up without any problems, when one presses the power button.  I installed the Windows updates on the Epox computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 7:50 P.M.  Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for 15 Premier LIGHT 100MM Tubes (200ct) for $3.70 each and $8.95 shipping for $64.38 total.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 7:35 P.M.  I made up a batch of spaghetti sauce and linguine noodles, and I ate half with grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it, and I refrigerated half.  I ate it with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a relative of a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 5:40 P.M.  BBC News - Water survey shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'  Maybe more people should live around the Great Lakes in the Midwest, but it is a bit colder there.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 5:20 P.M.  $21.95 with free shipping Buy.com - Kingston 16GB DataTraveler 102 USB Flash Drive (White) CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 4:35 P.M.  10% off Aerobeds and entire order and free shipping for new customers Online shopping for brand names at discounted prices. Duvet covers, sheets, shoes, handbags & more; find the best bargains at SmartBargains.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 4:25 P.M.  I woke up while sleeping, and I ate 1/4th of a 20 ounce can of CVS deluxe mixed nuts.  I finally woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted multigrain English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought a 33 ounce bag of Eight O'Clock Columbian coffee beans for $15.49.  I then dropped the Windows 7 book off at the book drop at the Greenwich Library.  I then drove through the center of town, and not much was happening on a rainy day.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 59 ounce container of Simply Orange orange juice with calcium for $3.99, a 8 ounce jar of Grey Poupon Country Dijon mustard for $2.99, a 12 ounce jar of Stop and Shop generic honey for $2.49, a 48 ounce container of Quaker Old Fashioned oats for $4.99, two 64 ounce Stop and Shop grape juice for $3.49 each, two 64 ounce Stop and Shop cranberry juice for $2 each, and a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99 for $28.43 total.  I then returned home.  I used my folding cart that I brought with me to bring up the groceries.  I picked up the mail.

The Logitech Premium USB350 Headset 4 PC & MAC 980374-0403 - eBay (item 120575153749 end time Oct-23-10 13:30:23 PDT) for $16.99 with free shipping arrived.  I put it on the IBM ThinkCentre computer, and then I installed the updates on it.  The new headset works just fine.  I moved the other Logitech headset from the IBM ThinkCentre to primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I moved the older malfunctioning Persona DSP500 headset from there to the right stereo bookshelf with the other generic headset. 

I put away the groceries.  CIO        

Note: <888> 10/04/10 Monday 1:15 A.M.  I finished setting up the Windows XP Professional partition on the secondary Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I then installed the Windows 7 demo on the second partition.  I then did a Windows 7 Complete PC backup to the Bytecc external hard drive.

I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried maple bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.

Showers today and 52 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/03/10 Sunday 10:05 P.M.  The threat level in the airline sector is up to Orange DHS | Homeland Security Advisory System  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/10 Sunday 9:50 P.M.  On the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop, the Windows XP Professional ASR restore did not work properly.  Thus I once again restored the Windows 7 beta Complete PC backup from the Maxtor external hard drive, and it works just fine.  I am now installing the Windows XP updates.  I then will install McAfee Internet Security 2009 on it and Skype.  I could install the demo of Windows 7 on it, so I could make another Windows 7 Complete PC backup, which I might do.

I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/10 Sunday 6:20 P.M.  I watched television after the last note.  I went to bed at 1:30 A.M..  I woke up at 9 A.M., when a relative called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted multigrain English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I restored the Vista Complete PC backup on the FIC server.  I am now doing another Vista Complete PC backup of the FIC server from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I will then do one to the Bytecc external hard drive.  The secondary Dell Latitude D410 laptop would not boot properly.  I tried to restore the Windows XP Professional ASR backup, but it would not recognize the floppy drive to restore the backup.  I restored the Windows 7 beta Complete PC backup from the Maxtor external hard drive.  I am now restoring the Windows XP Professional ASR backup from  Windows XP ASR backup from the Samba external hard drive.  I will then have to resize the hard drive to eliminate the outdate beta of Windows 7.

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style Pringles potato chips with a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/03/10:

Note: <888> 10/03/10 Sunday 12:15 A.M.  I ate a few day old muffin.

BBC News - US will issue travel warning for Americans in Europe

I will now send out my weekly notes.

Mostly cloudy tomorrow and 50 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit.

Fall back one hour on Sunday, November 7, 2010 when daylight savings time ends.  Other places are here Daylight Saving Time Around the World 2010

I will then shut down the computer, and I will watch anther movie on Channel 816 at 12:30 A.M. about Computer Nerds.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/10 Saturday 10:05 P.M.  I also stopped by the Apple computer store today, and I briefly browsed the internet. 

I ate three scrambled eggs and six strips of fried maple bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of, and a cup of green tea with splenda sweetener and lemon juice.

I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  I moved my Audi to its usual place.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/10 Saturday 8:05 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I went out, and I went by CVS in Cos Cob.  I then went by the hardware store in Cos Cob.  I then toured Radio Shack in Cos Cob.  I then went by the end of the Christ Church tag sale.  I then went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue.  I went by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I parked further down Greenwich Avenue.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a number 27 Spicy Hot Cash scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I stopped by CVS on the way back up Greenwich Avenue during my walk.  I bought a Logitech Clearchat Stereo headset for $22.79 and a 6.2 ounce tube of Crest Whitening Plus Scope toothpaste for $2.75 less a $4.50 off CVS bonus bucks and a $5 off $25 CVS internet coupon for and .96 tax for $17 total.  On the way down Greenwich Avenue, I noticed on the building permit on the building across the street and a bit south of CVS, they are building another CVS pharmacy.  I guess CVS is getting to be like the Chase Bank in Greenwich sprouting up all over the place.  I guess it is too far for some of their patrons to walk across the street, so they are putting one on both sides of the street.  I finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at the newly remodeled Starbucks.  The new layout is quite nice, and people seem to be enjoying it.  I then went by the Shell Station on East Putnam Avenue at Sherwood Place, but their air pump was broken.

I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of day old Kaiser rolls for $1.25, a 8 ounce jar of Grey Poupon Country Dijon mustard for $2.99, two 10 quart packs of Stop and Shop powder milk for $7.99 a ten pack, two 16 ounce Oscar Meyer thick cut bacon for $7 both, a two pound bag of onions for $1.50, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.81, and a bulb of garlic for $3.99 a pound for .56 for $31.09 total.  

I then went by the Shell station on West Putnam Avenue, and I put 35 PSI in all of my tires.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station at 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $8.70 of self service premium for $3.379 a gallon for 2.576 gallons for 30.4 miles driving since last Saturday at odometer of 67853 miles for 11.8 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic.  I then returned home.  I picked up my mail.  I connected the Logitech Clearchat headset to the Panasonic Toughbook CF29 laptop computer, and it works just fine.  I am installing the updates on it now.  I put away my groceries.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/02/10 Saturday 2:00 P.M.  I woke up at noon, when a friend called.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted multigrain English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.

I did a Windows 7 Complete PC backup of the primary Windows 7 computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I watered the plants yesterday.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/02/10 Saturday 1:20 A.M.  Windows 7: The Top 10 Hidden Features | PCMag.com

BBC News - Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

BBC News - More than 100 arrests, as FBI uncovers cyber crime ring

Sunny today and 47 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I will eat a three day old muffin before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/02/10 Saturday 12:35 A.M.  I mailed the letter in the mail room downstairs of the Microsoft Money 2007 September 2010 Income versus spending report to a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/10 Saturday 12:10 A.M.  I made 190 Gambler Premier Lights 100s filtered cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com , and I also watched the movie "Angels and Demons".  I chatted with a friend.

I ordered 15 Premier LIGHT 100MM Tubes (200ct) for $3.70 each and $8.95 shipping for $64.38 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/10 Friday 7:15 P.M.  I opened up the Aerobed, and I spread it on the floor from the Ethan Allen recliner to the hallway entrance.  I moved the magazine rack to the left.  I plugged it into the hallway power strip, and I inflated it in about two minutes.  It is quite comfortable.  I then deflated it per the instructions, and I rolled it up, and I put it in its bag.  I made two copies of the instructions, and one copy is in the bag with the Aerobed.  I stored the two spare patches and copy of the instructions in the right mahogany bureau top drawer in the bedroom.  I stored the Aerobed underneath the chair at the hallway entrance along with a fitted twin and regular twin sheet and the old light blue electric blanket that does not have a control panel.  Thus it is all set to use.  I threw out the shipping boxes.

I changed the Cable setup on the primary Windows 7 computer, and it seemed to have fixed the problems that I was having when the F: backup drive disappeared again.  The Maxtor 320 gigabyte drive is the primary IDE master drive.  The LG DVD/RW drive in the primary IDE slave drive.  The Seagate 320 Gigabyte drive in the secondary IDE master drive.  The Seagate 200 Gigabyte Drive is the secondary IDE slave drive.  I also changed some of the drive letters to reflect the new cabling.  I booted the Vista partition, and I installed the Vista and the McAfee updates.

I chatted with a relative.

I will now make and eat a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with CVS Pringle style sour cream and onion potato chips with a glass of watered down punch.  I will then make some cigarettes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/01/10 Friday 3:15 P.M. 

I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money 2007 Income versus Spending report for September 2010.  I will mail one copy to an interested relative.

I paid my www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Boost, and Optimum Voice Long Distance bills, my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com telephone bill.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/01/10 Friday 2:45 P.M.  After the last note, I watched the Showtime movie, "Return of the Mummy".  I then went to bed at 1:30 A.M..  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted multigrain English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I moved the oak dining room table over towards the kitchen wall about eight inches.  I moved the case of CVS bottle water from underneath the chair at the hallway entrance the lower level of the bookcase at the kitchen entrance.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I said hello to neighbors.  I picked up the mail.

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for a twin size Save on the Aerobed 16in Style Series Guest Bed at SmartBargains.com for $79.98 and $9.95 shipping for $89.93 total.  However, according to the link, I was suppose to get a 10% discount and free shipping, so I called them up at 1-866-692-2742, and they are going to credit me the 10% discount and free shipping charge for a total of $17.93 in a few days thus it will eventually cost me $72 arrived.  CIO