Michael Louis Scott's Notes October 2023
10/31/23 Tuesday 6:50 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I ate a turkey wrap with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 6:10 P.M. I spend the afternoon listening to music off the Amazon Display. I went outside twice, and once I drank a brewed coffee. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 12:35 P.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 12:30 P.M. I ate the other half of the chicken salad hogie with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. In the last month in fixing up my apartment, I have lost ten pounds, and I now weigh 196 pounds. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 11:55 A.M. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I toured the store twice. I sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce park observing the younger daytime people. I used the bathroom at the CFCF coffee shop. I toured the drugstore on the north side of it. I paid a $1.50 in quarters parking. I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought two turkey wraps for $5.99 each, a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $2.99, and a 48 ounce Silk vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.89 and .88 tax for $21.74 total. I then returned home. I put the food away. I put the grey bag back in the car. I drank a brewed coffee outside. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 9:25 A.M. I went outside.
I went through http://scoott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I chatted with a friend.
I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 8:25 A.M. I got up at 7:45 A.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 6:25 A.M. For November 2023, I paid my Verizon telephone and my Eversource electricity bills and Optimum Online bill which is now $242 for three Optimum services. I paid my rent to the Housing Authority of Greenwich.
I will now rest some more. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 6:05 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/31/23 Tuesday 5:15 A.M. I woke up at 4:30 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 4:50 P.M. I did not get any mail. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 4:15 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I ate half of the chicken salad hogie with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 2:45 P.M. I went out to my 10:30 A.M. appointment. After my appointment, I went to Palm Barbers on Church Street, and I got my hair cut short since last April 2023 for $35 and $15 tip for $50 total. I then went to the www.chase.com Bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I got a $10 roll of quarters. I then walked down to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I got my fifth Covid 19 shot and my flu shot. I then sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park across the street. I used the bathroom at the CFCF coffee shop. All together I paid $3.75 in quarters parking downtown. I then went the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought the last five gallon of Primo Vermont Spring water for $7.49 with bottle return and a chicken salad hogie for $5 and .53 tax for $15 total. I then returned home. I used my little folding cart from the car to brink up the 42 pound bottle of water. I then put it back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee. I filed this report. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 9:00 A.M. I put a 42 pound five gallon bottle of Primo Vermont Spring water in the Nestle water dispenser.
I took off the white Princess telephone off the bedroom desk, and I installed the regular red telephone with volume control on the Optimum line on the bedroom desk.
I will now shower and clean up and go out to my 10:30 P.M. appointment. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 7:50 A.M. I chatted with a friend. Well, the New Amsterdam Night Watch and the Scottish Black Watch has kept me quite busy the last 35 days at night and in the early morning hours.
I have a 10:30 A.M. appointment this morning.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 6:45 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 6:25 A.M. I ate a roast beef sandwich with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 6:10 A.M. I turned the wire stand on the far right of the living room around the other way, so the display devices and the internet radio show better. I hung a little red bulb light above the left side of the bedroom desk.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-76/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-76/ CIO
10/30/23 Monday 5:10 A.M. I rested until 3 A.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I removed the white hooks and hose clamps from the living room ceiling. From in front of the center living room window, I move the Ocean Digital Internet Radio and its Craig tower speaker to the top of the mahogany bureau in bedroom and the tower speaker on the window shelf. Underneath the left living room window, I took out the wire shelf with the palm tree on it, and I move the folding oak table to its right further left. I then moved the Queen Anne chair underneath the center living window further left, so one can see the televisions from there. I put the wire rack with the palm tree underneath the right living room window on the right side of the Queen Anne chair. From the folding oak table to its left, I moved the Alexa display and the Google display to the wire rack on the right side of the Queen Ann chair. I moved from the bedroom desk the Ocean Digital internet radio the same wire rack.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-75/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-75/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 1:35 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/30/23 Monday 12:15 A.M. I woke up at 11:15 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside.
I moved the small mahogany folding chair from in front of the left living room closet to the back wall of the kitchen. I moved the bent oak chair from in front of the middle living room windows to in front of the left living room closet. Under the middle living room window, I moved the wire stand holding the palm tree more to the left. I then moved the Queen Anne chair from in front of the right living room window to in front of the middle living room window, so it is a more comfortable seating arrangement with the Ethan Allen recliner and the other Queen Anne chair.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-74/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-74/
I have a 10:30 A.M. appointment this morning. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. I will first go outside again. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 11:05 A.M. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I toured the store. I sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park across the street. I used the bathroom at the CFCF coffee shop. I then went to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a 42 ounce Smart Balance spread for $9.69, a 48 ounce Simply Grapefruit juice for $4.79, and a package of sliced turkey breast for $8.78 and a dollar tax for $23.32 total. I then returned home. I sat outside. I put away my groceries. I chatted with a relative. At the primary work computer, I disconnected the two red telephones, and I stored them away underneath the bedroom bookcase. I now just have the two Panasonic telephones to the left of the primary work computer. One of the red phones had increased volume control for a deaf person to hear, but for now I hear fine. I ate a turkey wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. I went outside. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 8:35 A.M. I rested a bit. I chatted with a friend. The friend said he would pay for me to visit with him to Vienna, Austria for five days at Christmas Time, if I paid for my airfare, which I can not afford https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/United-States-US0/Vienna-Intl-VIE?sck=xerqgy3jlifh3vdapjygkq&tags=t%3A422_o_cy-253_d_c-22046_t_rt,f%3A631&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlbq50qGbggMV5wqtBh397w89EAAYASAAEgIHOfD_BwE&aid=142746053508 .
I went outside.
I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 7:05 A.M. I ate a croissant. I turned off the Nestle five gallon water dispenser. There is no point in running it.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 6:00 A.M. I will now fill up the K cup drawers, and then I will go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 10/29/23
10/29/23 Sunday 5:45 A.M. I ate a roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. There was hardly any roast beef on the sub but mostly lettuce.
I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 5:10 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 5:05 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 4:25 A.M. For the Panasonic KX TG 6700 cordless phone system, I ordered https://www.amazon.com/3x-Pack-Panasonic-KX-TG6700-Replacement/dp/B00HKWHBF8/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Panasonic+KX+TG6700+batteries&qid=1698566819&sr=8-3 for $11.99 and $4.99 shipping and $1.08 tax for $18.06 total.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/29/23 Sunday 3:30 A.M. I went out, and I donated the two pairs of pants to the Charity Clothes container for Ovarian cancer at the northeast corner of the Stop and Shop parking lot at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I then sat downtown at the Board of Education Parking Veterans monument for a long time. I then returned home. I sat outside. I moved the standing brass lamp from the left side of the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance to the left side of the Ethan Allen recliner as one faces it places behind the small oak table with the remote controls and display devices. Thus one has plenty of light for reading or viewing the small remote controls. I also moved the ultrasonic pest control from the bathroom to the power strip nearest the apartment circuit breakers box. Yesterday, I moved the LED desk lamp from the oak dining table to the right side of the living room desk.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-73/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-73/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
10/29/23 Sunday 1:45 A.M. I rested until 12:15 A.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee.
On the right side of the bedroom closet, I have a lot of good pairs of pants that fit me. I sorted them out by trying them all on, and I put the dark pants and the corduroy pants in the right side of the left living room closet. Thus the right side of the bedroom closet only has blue jeans and khakis or tan colored pants. I have a pair old blue jeans and a pair of too small khakis, I will now go out and donate to the clothing charity for Ovarian cancer drop off at the northeast parking lot of the Stop and Shop at 161 Putnam Avenue. Recently people have been telling me to get a $50 expensive hair cut, but I think I am currently in the current fashion with the Dutch Grunge look.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-72/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-72/ CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 9:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 8:40 P.M. I woke up at 8 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 11:20 A.M. I ate a turkey wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 10:40 A.M. I moved the dark oak end table from in front of the left living room closet to the left side of the Ethan Allen recliners as one faces it. It has on it the Alexa display, the Google display, the Panasonic two line wireless telephone extension phone, the Samsung television remote control, the Samsung television sound bar remote control, and the Cable Box remote control.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-71/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-71/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 10:00 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 9:55 A.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 7:40 A.M. I chatted with a friend. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. I figure on weekends the rich people whom can afford to buy coffee downtown will be moving around like they always do. I once on a Saturday morning at the Greenwich Hardware store heard two financial types talking about taking over www.ibm.com when its stock was at a all time low, before it took off with the internet. One has to be very advanced and tech savvy to work with IBM's advanced equipment. I call home computers simply church computers. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 7:10 A.M. In the spring of 1977 after I gave away my car to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop with all of my dress clothing and other items, I hitch hiked off Nantucket, and I showed up at the Boston Science Fair at the Prudential Center. I also a lot of familiar faces having worked in Dr. Land's research laboratory on Osborne Street for Polaroid next to www.mit.edu . I met a lawyer that lived on Beacon Hill. I also met an www.army.mil major who wanted to recruit me for the Army. After I left the science fair, I was walking across the Charles River Bridge, and I met a www.harvard.edu student who put me up for a night at a small apartment just west of Kindle Square. That morning, I walked to the Howard Johnson's in Cambridge, and I ate a dollar bowl of oatmeal. I then hitch hiked up to Stowe, Vermont to clean up the owners of the Le Languedoc's pub named Sister Kate's at Stowe for two weeks, and then I hitch hiked back to Nantucket for the season. Thus besides the Gordon Folger Hotel, I was also involved with Le Languedoc as a pot scrubber back then. For waiters, Le Languedoc used the Stowe Ski patrol where it is minus twenty degrees below zero on top of the Stowe Mountain in the winter. Another employee doing maintenance was Ian Greenshield from Montreal, and he told me he was Jackie Onassis's body guard in Stowe, Vermont. About the only friend I made since returning to Greenwich forty years ago, was a friend from Bedford, New York who grew up next to Helen Clay Frick there, and he also used to have a house in Stowe, Vermont; so he is still probably a cold weather person. The British flag on my center window in the apartment was sold to me by a prominent member of the Old Guard here in Greenwich for $15 at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop. She also once gave me a silver belt buckle that says "MIKE" on it, which I still have. The big Scottish flag on the left living room window came from Tray Kelsey's 75% off rack at the old Greenwich Hardware store on Greenwich Avenue. The big U.S.A. flag on the right living room window was bought off the internet for about $25. The smaller U.S.A. flag in front of the bookcase on the left side of the hallway was bought for about $8 off the internet. Most of the smaller flags of convenience were bought from the Greenwich Hardware store's flag stand over the years. I still know Tray Kelsey's son who knows how to keep track of things going on in back country in the winter, when people are away. I think he is involved with snow plowing and other cold weather maintenance.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 6:30 A.M. I turned on the Nestle five gallon spring water dispenser. I paid a $150 for it at I think the Shop Rite on the Greenwich Stamford border. Nestle is the world's largest food company, and they also own www.perrier.com and the www.starbucks.com products distribution franchise. It is a Swiss company that has offices nearby in White Plains, New York. I once saw the President of Nestle on Bloomberg news, and he is very skinny like a lot of other Europeans. I guess world wide all of their food does not go very far. A former neighbor Klaus on Steamboat Road worked for them, but he moved to Westport. Perrier used to have their headquarters across the street from me, but they were bought out by Great Waters of France part of Nestle, and I was told they moved up to Trumbull, Connecticut. Many years ago, when I went to the tag sale of Roger Hall's our next door neighbor at 21 Cornelia Drive, he was the head beverage chemist at Canada Dry here in Greenwich. They gave me a hundred big thick books on beverage chemistry which I gave to Perrier across the street. At the time when my mother and myself lived at 21 Cornelia Drive, a friend of President Jerry Ford that went to www.yale.edu with him after World War II was always at our house. His name was Skip Waltz, and he was chief of security at Norton Simon that owned Canada Dry. Norton Simon also owned Halstead fashion which Helen Kress Williams started in business. I guess, since I did not drink hardly any liquor in the pubs that I visited in Manhattan, but Canada Dry Club soda, people thought I worked for Canada Dry which used to have research offices on Old Track Road in Greenwich. Skip Waltz retired to Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs in California where Jerry Ford and his wife also retired. Fred Von Mierers' friend Walter Anneberg who was Richard Nixon's ambassador to England also retired there. He had married Louis Rosenstiel's wife here in Greenwich, and she was Ronald Reagan's Chief of Protocal.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 5:25 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. The way I figure it, it costs $4 round trip to drive to www.starbucks.com down on Greenwich Avenue and another $4 for a cup of coffee there, so having my expensive K cups at home is cheaper. The Nestle 5 gallon water dispenser can be turned on, so it has hot water for instant coffee and chilled cold water; but I figure that appliance uses as much electricity as a small refrigerator. Also showering every day for three minutes uses a lot of expensive electricity, so being a www.nantucket.net conservationist by training, I even gave away my 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne, when I returned there in April 1977 just to be come a lowly scallop opener and pot scrubber at the Gordon Forger Hotel that season for $2.15 an hour. The modern generation does not realize how hard the older generation has worked like spending forty years moving around Greenwich without being paid, although I thought I was a volunteer with a lot of experience. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 5:05 A.M. I will now eat a half of a ham and cheese hogie with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 4:55 A.M. I took down the smaller flags of convenience in the apartment, and I stored them in the bottom drawer of the Danish end table in the living room. I still have the small U.S.A. flag on the oak dining table. I also have the large U.S.A. flag on the bookcase on the left side of the hallway entrance. I still have the big U.S.A. flag on the right side of the living room windows. On the center living room window, I still have the large British Union Jack. On the left side of the living room windows, I still have the big Scottish flag. CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 4:50 A.M. King Charles gifts https://highgrove-news.com/422Z-1LEWW-53CFB14B83AD85817ZYG584BE1A9309BB5A4A3/cr.aspx
First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-20231027?e=d0a721e34a CIO
10/28/23 Saturday 4:00 A.M. I took out the computer table to the left of the primary work computer, and I threw it away. I had to clear stuff off of it. I then took off the LG portable air conditioner from the oak dining table, and I also stored away the Dell 17.3 inch laptop that was on the oak dining table in on the left living room closet shelf. I then moved the oak dining table to the left wall at the entrance, where the small computer table was. I vacuumed. I moved one of the red and yellow carpets to the center of the living room. I moved the Ethan Allen recliner out into the center of the living room. I move the LG portable air conditioner to the floor in front of the center living room window. I had to move a lot of stuff off the oak dining table elsewhere. There are now only two eating places at it. I put the Eton shortwave radio in front of the Sony CD player. I moved the Ocean Digital amplifier internet radio and the Craig tower speaker by the folding oak table underneath the center living room window. I moved another Himalayan salt lamp to the living room window shelf. I put one of the oak chairs from the oak dining table to the left of the Queen Anne chair underneath the right living room windows. I put a USA flag hanging in front of the bookcase on the left side of the hallway entrance. In the bedroom, I move the LG portable air conditioner back a bit, so access to the bedroom desk and the left side of the bed is easier. I put the pineapple lamp on top of the Nestle water dispenser for light for the oak dining table. I threw out the old B&M baked beans in the hallway cabinet. I put two boxes of the Hormel 90 second food in that cabinet. I put the other two boxes underneath the living room desk. When one is hungry, one works harder. That is 33 days of working on my apartment to make it better. I guess I am a 33rd degree situation person.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-70/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-70/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 11:55 P.M. I rested until 9:30 P.M.. I then went out the www.chase.com Bank ATM at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I then went to www.cvs.com on Greenwich, and I bought a 12 pack of www.coke.com Zero Sugar with can deposit for $11.22. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue and down Arch Street and back up around the Greenwich Town Hall. There are lots of campaign signs in front of the Greenwich Town Hall. I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a roast beef sub for $4.99, a roast beef sandwich for $5.99, and two 48 ounce Ocean Spray diet cranberry juice for $3.49 each and .81 tax for $18.87 total. I then went to the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I filled up the tank with $9 of self service premium gasoline for $4.799 a gallon for 1.876 gallons at odometer reading of 124867 miles for 41.9 miles driven since Saturday October 21, 2023 for 22.334 miles per gallon in mostly night time driving, when there is no traffic. I then returned home. I put away my groceries. I put the grey bag back in the car. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. I will now go outside again. The have not turned the holiday lights on Greenwich Avenue yet. There are lots of cars at the Delamar Hotel on the waterfront which I guess are people heading South for the winter. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 8:20 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 7:20 P.M. I woke up, and I chatted with a friend, and I ate a chicken wrap with a glass of spring water. I finally woke up at 6:30 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. My Connecticut Renters Rebate arrived with a check for $541.70 . I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 4:50 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a croissant, and then I will go to bed. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 4:20 A.M. King Charles gifts https://highgrove-news.com/422Z-1LDO8-53CFB14B83AD85817ZYG584BE1A9309BB5A4A3/cr.aspx
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 3:50 A.M. I ate half of the ham and cheese hogie with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 3:35 A.M. I dropped the unneeded clothes off at the Ovarian Cancer recycle clothes drop container at the Stop and Shop. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue and down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road and back uptown my way. I saw a dark large animal maybe a big coyote cross the street in front of me a half block east of the Greenwich Fire Station. I then returned home. I sat outside a while. There is now a raccoon around the dumpsters. CIO
10/27/23 Friday 2:35 A.M. From the hallway sweater closet top shelf, I filled up two heavy duty Hefty brown leaf bags with a dozen heavy duty sweaters and polar fleece that are now too small for me. From the left living room closet, I filled up another leaf bag with a half dozen new suit jackets and a half dozen new dress pants. I will now go out and donate them to the Ovarian Cancer charity clothes drop at the northeast parking lots of the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-69/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-69/ CIO
10/27/23 Friday 1:25 A.M. I went to the Ovarian Cancer clothing drop at the Stop and Shop in the northeast corner of the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I donated the four brown Hefty heavy duty brown leaf bags of twelve coats. The way I figure it at this point, I have thrown out a hundred leaf bags of stuff over 32 days not to mention all of the other heavy stuff.
I went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought two turkey wraps for $5.99 each and a 12 pack of Jimmy Dean sausage, egg, and cheese croissants for $16.99 for $29.86 total. I then returned home. I put away the food. I drank a brewed coffee outside.
Then on the left side of the kitchen I took the heavier stuff off the blue book case, and then I moved it out of position. I then removed the four old layers of carpet underneath the blue bookcase and the left side of the kitchen, and then I threw it away. I then swept that part of the kitchen floor. I moved the blue bookcase back into position on the left side of the kitchen. I threw out the white plastic stand that the three drawers of K cups were sitting on, and I put the K cup drawers on the bottom left of the blue bookcase. I moved the spare K cup machine from the lower left kitchen cabinet to on top of the new Sunbeam iron on the top left of the right living room closet shelf. I then moved from the other plastic rack that I threw away, and from it I put a dozen jars of instant coffee in the lower left kitchen cabinet. I also put in that cabinet two 12 packs of Fresca. I now have the Amazon microwave on the right top of the blue bookcase, and the Cuisine Art K cup machine on the left top of the blue bookcase. It is all a bit more spacious.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-68/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-68/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 10:30 P.M. I went outside. From the right living room closet, I took out twelve old coats, and I put them in four brown heavy Duty Hefty leaf bags, and I will now go out and donate them to the Ovarian Cancer clothes drop at the northeast corner of the Stop and Shop parking lot at 161 West Putnam Avenue.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-67/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-67/ CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 9:05 P.M. I rested until 8:30 P.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I picked up the mail earlier. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 5:20 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 4:00 P.M. I woke up at 3 P.M.. I made my bed. The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=785501209159&trkqual=12026~785501209159~FDEG on the order for two more of the same area rugs https://www.wayfair.com/rugs/pdp/andover-mills-shiflett-oriental-burgundy-red-area-rug-w005006988.html?piid=1756067253 for $85.06 total arrived. I laid one down at the entrance to the primary work computer area and the other I laid down between the oak dining table and the living room closets. I also moved the five gallon water dispenser out of the kitchen to the right side of the kitchen entrance.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-66/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-66/
I will now go outside again.
I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 8:15 A.M. I chatted with a friend. I fixed a neighbor's television input on its remote control. I went outside. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 6:50 A.M. I ate a roast beef sandwich with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 6:05 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 5:55 A.M. I guess that is about four tons of unneeded stuff that I have thrown out in the last 31 days.
I went by the Ovarian Cancer clothing donation container at the Stop and Shop at the northeast corner of the parking lot at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I donated the large Hefty brown extra strong leaf bags of six new winter coats and a rain suit.
New Ice Skating rink proposal behind my building at 71 Vinci Drive https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-dorothy-hammill-rink-18442321.php?utm_content=hed&sid=5d19d23991d15c62dc5bbcc2&ss=A&st_rid=7318d796-fd37-4d00-81b4-e1f87f90ef11&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CT_GT_MorningBriefing
I then by the www.chase.com Bank ATM machine at the top of Greenwich Avenue.
I then drove down to the Board of Education Parking Lot Veterans Monument, and I sat out for a while.
I then returned home, and I drank a brewed coffee outside. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 4:10 A.M. From the back of the apartment door, I put my warmer weather jackets in the right living room closet. I took out the colder weather and coats from the right living room closet, and I hung them on the back side of the apartment entrance door and the outside of the right living room closet. I also have in two heavy duty extra strong brown Hefty leaf bags six coats and a rain suit I will now go out to donate to the Ovarian Cancer clothes donation container at the northeast corner of the Stop and Shop parking lot at 161 West Putnam Avenue.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-65/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-65/ CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 3:10 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 2:40 A.M. I will now eat the other half of the turkey and cheese hogie with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 2:35 A.M. I moved from the back side of the apartment entrance door to the right side of the kitchen entrance the three fairly new fire extinguishers.
I really do not want to get rid of my LAN cables, since I pay for 400 mbps LAN. The fire marshal has approved the LAN cables several times in my apartment. A LAN cable uses less energy than a flash light battery. Also in my apartment wireless would be less than a tenth the speed or even slower. Also my experience with wireless in the past is that it has been easily hacked many times.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-64/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-64/ CIO
10/26/23 Thursday 1:45 A.M. From the back left side of the primary work computer, I threw out all of the rechargeable flash lights, the NOAA weather radio, and the rechargeable emergency radio. I moved from the white book case on the right side of the kitchen entrance the Brother all purpose laser printer on the back side that I cleared up. From the white book case on the right side of the kitchen entrance, I moved the Himalayan salt lamp and a family picture to the center window shelf. I moved the pineapple lamp to the table on the left side of the primary work computer. From the white bookcase, I moved the U.S.A. flag and the U.S. Air Force flag to the top drawer of the white bureau in the bedroom. I moved the Red Cross medical kit to the wire rack behind the apartment entrance. On the right living room closet shelf, I moved the boots and shoes to the floor from the top shelf. From the white bookcase at the right side of the kitchen entrance, I moved the spare garbage bags, the Sunbeam iron, my spare computer tools, and my straw hat and a www.exxon.com Polar King hat to that shelf. Also from the white bookcase on the right side of the kitchen entrance, I moved the www.cvs.com noodle meals to the upper right kitchen cabinet. I then used my folding cart from the back of the car to get rid of the white bookcase on the right side of the kitchen entrance. I then vacuumed and cleaned the area where it was. Well in the old days, Fred Von Mierer's apartment at 420 East 49th Street was in a $150 ground floor apartment with over a hundred thousand dollars of antiques. He called it the "Mouse Palace", so I call this place the "Mouse Palace East". Up on www.nantucket.net Fred was so exhausted decorating, when he lived at John Rugg's on India Street in a rented room, he only painted it white lacquer with just a white lacquer bed, and nothing else.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-63/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-63/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 11:35 P.M. I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. For the clearance section, I bought a box four croissants for $2.99, and then I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $2.99, a chicken wrap for $5.99, a roast beef sandwich for $5.99, and a 48 ounce Silk vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.89 and .88 tax for $24.73 total. I then returned home, and I put away the food. I put the grey bag back in the car. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 10:10 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes.
I moved the two oak dining table leaves from the right side of the bedroom closet to underneath the bed. I vacuumed the blue wool carpet in the living room where it was exposed by removing the three area rugs.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-62/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-62/
Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=785501209159&trkqual=12026~785501209159~FDEG on the order for two more of the same area rugs https://www.wayfair.com/rugs/pdp/andover-mills-shiflett-oriental-burgundy-red-area-rug-w005006988.html?piid=1756067253 for $85.06 total.
I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 8:50 P.M. I woke up at 7:30 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk.
I threw out the two Acrylic Aubisson and the Wool Oval Aubisson carpets. They were shedding. I will cover their areas with the red and yellow carpets, when they come. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 6:20 A.M. I ate half of a roast beef sandwich and half of a glass of spring water. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 5:40 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 4:45 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm
I ordered two more of the same area rugs https://www.wayfair.com/rugs/pdp/andover-mills-shiflett-oriental-burgundy-red-area-rug-w005006988.html?piid=1756067253 for $85.06 total.
I ate half of a turkey and cheese hogie with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 3:55 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 3:35 A.M. On the oak dining table, I moved the 4.5 foot miniature palm on the left side to the right side of the living room desk. I had to lift the 80 pound portable air conditioner off of it, and after I was done lift it back on to the oak dining table. I took out the center leaf, and I stored it with the other leaf on the right side of the bedroom closet. I then collapsed the table, so the oak dining table is now round. There are still three places at it, but one has the Dell 17.3 inch laptop setup on it.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-61/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-61/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 1:55 A.M. I went outside again. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 1:25 A.M. I dropped the bag of clothes at the clothing drop at the Stop and Shop. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue. Greenwich Avenue is fully lighted up with holiday lights in the trees. I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road. I then returned back uptown and back home my way. I then went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee.
I will now eat a roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/25/23 Wednesday 12:10 A.M. In the top drawer of the mahogany bureau in the living room, I cleared out over 75% of the new knit hats, knit gloves, and regular heavy duty gloves. I will now go donate them to the Ovarian Cancer Charity clothes drop at the northwest corner of the Stop and Shop parking lot at 161 West Putnam Avenue.
Pictures of the nearly empty drawer and changes in the hallway bookcases: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-60/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-60/ CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 11:05 P.M. I went to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a turkey and cheese hogie and a ham and cheese hogie for $10.24 total. I then returned home, and I put the food in the frig. I then drank a brewed coffee outside.
From the right side of the Ethan Allen recliner, I moved the brass Shield of Pall Mall to the left side wall at the kitchen entrance. From the upper right of the right bookcase in the hallway, I moved the hats and gloves and scarves to the top drawer of the mahogany bureau in the living room. From that drawer I moved the new silk ties and old leather belts to the middle drawer. From the right bookcase in the hallway, I moved the King James bibles to the middle hallway bookcase. From the middle hallway bookcase, I moved the videotapes to the left hallway bookcase. I moved some other items around too. I took out the upper shelf in the right bookcase, and I stored it behind the bathroom door. I then moved the two stereo speakers from on top of the right hallway bookcase to the first upper shelf. Now the hallway bookcases have nothing on top of them.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-59/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-59/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 9:20 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 8:20 P.M. I woke up, and I ate a half of a roast beef sandwich. I finally woke up at 7:30 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements.
The order with tracking of https://www.ups.com/track?track=yes&trackNums=1ZA42706A891791258&loc=en_US&requester=ST/trackdetails on the order for twenty https://www.floridatobaccoshop.com/Richwood-Filtered-Cigars-GOLD-Mild_p_2987.html for $11.75 each for $235 total arrived.
The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=705502405456&trkqual=12026~705502405456~FDEG on the order for this dish rack https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-L3-6008-M5-CHROM-Twin-Sink-Drainer/dp/B00104X7AU/ref=asc_df_B00104X7AU/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=343974546462&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11511157252490126658&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003454&hvtargid=pla-492310076559&ref=&adgrpid=72020980714&th=1 for $24.79 and $1.57 tax for $26.36 total arrived.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-58/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-58/ CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 11:05 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 10:35 A.M. I brought in the small white plastic rack, and I put it underneath the K cup drawers to the right of the Nestle five gallon water dispenser. Thus the K cup drawers are a little bit higher off the floor. However, the white plastic rack blocks the oven door, but I never use the oven.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-57/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-57/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 9:45 A.M. I chatted with a friend whose mother used to employ Fred Von Mierer's boss Billy Baldwin as an interior decorator. Billy Baldwin in my friend's mother's time was big on needle point rugs in front of the fire place or else where.
I moved from the center kitchen counter, the K cups drawers to the floor to the right of the Nestle five gallon water dispenser. I also put the wooden oak cutting board underneath the Cuisine Art four slice toaster on the kitchen counter. Now the kitchen counter has more work space. I never use the stove, but it would now be fairly simple to install a new stove, if Greenwich Communities thought it was important. I basically microwave most of the time. Recently to have more strength I have just been buying prepared deli sandwiches.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-56/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-56/ CIO
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 7:55 A.M. On the white plastic rack on the blue book case in the kitchen, I moved some smaller items to the blue book case below. I then moved from the white book case at the kitchen entrance, the Cuisine Art toaster to the left side of the center kitchen counter. I moved the backup K cup machine to the lower left cabinet. I moved the Cuisine Art K cup machine to on top of the Amazon microwave oven on the blue book case after I took down the white plastic shelf. I moved the K cup drawers to the right side of the kitchen counter. From the white book case on the left side of the kitchen entrance, I moved most of the canned vegetables, salad dressings, soups, and microwave tuna to the upper left cabinet in the kitchen. I then threw out the white plastic shelf, the oak bread box, the oak shelf from on top of the white book case at the kitchen, and I used my little wheel cart from my car to throw out the white book case on the left side of the kitchen entrance. I then moved the Nestle water dispenser with its five gallon bottle to the back far left of the kitchen. Now the kitchen entrance is totally opened.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-55/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-55/
I will now go outside and drink a decaf coffee. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 5:20 A.M. In the northwest corner of the living room from the top of the left dark oak bookcase, I moved the speaker on top of it to a lower shelf.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-54/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-54/ CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 4:50 A.M. I ate a chicken wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.
In 34 years on personal computers and the internet, I have not heard from anyone to speak of. When I first got on the internet with Netcom, I heard twice from Bill Gates, but the second email was in PGP encryption. He wanted to know what my web site was about, and back then I told him NASA could x-ray volcanoes with satellites like Mount Rainier near Redmond, Washington. I heard twice from Tim Burners Lee, and he told me to keep it up while he was teaching at www.mit.edu . I heard once from Mark Zuckerberg before he went to www.harvard.edu , when he had made the program Instant Messenger for American Online. When the internet took off, they probably did not like me living near www.ibm.com in Armonk, so I guess they have worked around me all of these years. Also I do not know programming code, just some COBOL from the summer of 1971 at Polaroid and a bit of HTML which is how web pages are made. I also have known how to type, since I took a typing course on an IBM selectric at Eastern Middle school in the summer of 1965. I remember when Google first started, they might have used my Yahoo data base of 75,000 web sites in my downloadable directory. I remember in the early days of Google, I read they kept their server in closet, and they would buy replacement hard drives at CompUSA. I guess once they get a lot of money they are using more advanced equipment. Being disabled at age 39, when I started, I did not feel like starting a company, and I could not afford a $275 search engine for my data base. Also www.internet.com came out of nearby Westport, Connecticut; so I figured the internet people were making money off the more private people in Greenwich whom prefer to stay private. When I over hear people my age talking around the www.apple.com store on Greenwich Avenue, they mostly seem to be interested in Email. I am not that familiar with the Apple product other than installing its IONS. From what I can observe locally most people are not interested in desktop or laptop computers, and they prefer to use Apple Iphones or Android cell phones which require sharper vision which I do not have at age 73 and 34 years of personal computers and 35 years of reading books and periodicals before that. Also cell phone are easier to carry, when one is constantly on the move.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 3:45 A.M. About midnight this past evening, there was a very big doe deer watching me from about fifty feet away. It just stared at me for about ten minutes. Maybe it is pregnant. It was very large for a doe.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 3:35 A.M. I did not do too much work on my apartment tonight. I am sort of worn out after 29 days of de-cluttering my apartment. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 3:05 A.M. I guess I am not going to Scotland any time soon https://www.tobaccocontrollaws.org/legislation/scotland .
The CIA used to buy Presbyterian Pipe tobacco at this place in New Haven https://owlshopcigars.com/ .
The original United States government intelligence agents were tobacco buyers all over the world. I still have the Harry's Bar ash tray from Venice, Italy; where all of the United States government CIA agents use to hang out in the days of Radio Free Europe. I did not visit Venice in the Winter of 1972 while living in Italy, since I figured there would be no place to walk around with all of the canals.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 2:55 A.M. I emptied the crumbs out of the Cuisine Art four slice toaster. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 2:00 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
A good place for breakfast in the early morning hours in Manhattan was just East of Park Avenue in the basement of the Seagrams Building https://ny.eater.com/2015/6/23/8830827/everythings-falling-to-pieces-at-the-seagram-building-brasserie , but I do not think it is there anymore. I guess there are no longer any late night and early morning people in Manhattan anymore. The all night currency traders at the Citibank next to the Seagrams building used to have meals at the Brasserie. Time Square was always do dangerous to visit in my time in Manhattan. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 1:45 A.M. When I used Fred Von Mierers' apartment at 420 East 49th Street from October 1973 to February 1975, it was about two blocks from the British consulate in Manhattan which then was on the east side of Third Avenue just south of East 53rd Street. I saw a lot of Irish people protesting in front of the British Consulate, but although Fred had been to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace with Helen Kress Williams the summer before I met him, I do not recall meeting any British visitors. George Gordon Cary from East Aurora, New York did visit me at Fred's apartment, and his grandfather from Gladstone, New Jersey had been the last living member of Queen Victoria's Honor Guard before he came to America. I guess that was the British Connection. I do recall meeting a few people my age that lived in the area, and nearby was the Vanderbilt Y.M.C.A. which had more people my age. I used to tell people in Pubs that I was an Economist that had lived in Alabama, but with the noise in Pubs what came back at me was that I was a Communist from Albania. New Yorkers are so busy talking, they really do not listen. I did meet Albert Lillinental at Fred's apartment, and he was the person in charge of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the Roosevelt Administration. The TVA supplied the electricity to build the Atomic Bomb during World War II. The Manhattan Project consumed 25% of the electricity in this country during World War II. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 1:00 A.M. Gladstone Library in Wales https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231022-gladstones-the-uks-only-residential-library
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 12:35 A.M. I ate a roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/24/23 Tuesday 12:10 A.M. From behind the 24 inch Insignia Smart TV in the living room beneath the picture of Abraham Lincoln, I moved the Disney clock to in between the two right windows in the living room.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-53/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-53/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 11:10 P.M. From the top of the hallway bookcases, I removed all of the stuff except the two speakers on the right side. I moved the family pictures to the far right of the living room window shelf. I moved the book light to a lower shelf. I moved Himalayan salt lamp to the bedroom window. I moved the signed Golf magazine to hanging above the bedroom closet. I moved the Swiss cross bow to on top of the spare fans on the far right of the living room window shelf. I threw out a little mahogany shelf. From the top of the dark oak bookcases with the stereo system, I moved the clock to the right living room window shelf. I left the little Budweiser beer mug up there that holds the short wave radio antenna.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-52/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-52/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 10:05 P.M. Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=705502405456&trkqual=12026~705502405456~FDEG on the order for this dish rack https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-L3-6008-M5-CHROM-Twin-Sink-Drainer/dp/B00104X7AU/ref=asc_df_B00104X7AU/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=343974546462&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11511157252490126658&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003454&hvtargid=pla-492310076559&ref=&adgrpid=72020980714&th=1 for $24.79 and $1.57 tax for $26.36 total.
Over 40 years ago, when I lived next door to the New Canaan police department, and today New Canaan is supposed to be the safest town in the United States. At the last east bound exit in New Canaan off the Merritt Parkway, I think for Route 106, the Connecticut National Guard used to have an Armory. However, the current governor of Connecticut lives in Greenwich, and he would have to mobilize the Connecticut National Guard. My only friend left in Connecticut lives near the State Police in Bridgeport, and he has military experience, but at age 81, he can not see to drive to well at night. When I visited the www.forbes.com family in Far Hills, New Jersey in the summer of 1974, there oldest brother Steve Forbes was away in the New York State National Guard, but he is pretty old too.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 9:45 P.M. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a box of four croissants for $5.99, a roast beef sandwich for $5.99 and a roast beef sub for $4.99 and .81 tax for $17.78 total. I then returned home, and I put away the food. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 7:50 P.M. I woke up, and I ate a yogurt. I finally woke up at 7 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 4:30 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 3:40 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 3:25 A.M. I ate a chicken wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 2:25 A.M. I also have 34 years of personal computer experience. I also spent four and a half years on www.nantucket.net dish washing, pot scrubbing, and cleaning up restaurants for up to twelve hours or more a day. I also spent ten months building a garage apartment for over twelve hours a day or more at night for a family in the United States State Department next to Mr. Grumman who owned Grumman Aircraft the second largest Defense contractor in the United States of America. There were two police cars parked next to the house 24 hours a day, so there was good security, but that was not good for networking. The State Department family were also related to the Kaiser of Germany's consulate in Manhattan before World War One, and they had a relative who was a colonel in the United States Army. Also, when I was sixteen years old in the summer, I spent three months building a house on Baldwin Farms South in Greenwich. In Boston, I spent three months one summer building on the Boston waterfront a Italian restaurant. Also I spent another three months one summer building a chemical assembly plant for Polaroid. Also on Nantucket, I spent four months restoring the second oldest house on Nantucket. Also in Key West, I hired dozens of people to work on restoring the Southern Most Hotel in America known as the Casa Marina and working as the night watchman at night on the project. Also I worked for six months in Greenville, South Carolina expediting for Daniel Construction on building pharmaceutical plants around the country. Thus it is not polite for people whom do not know me to say that I never did anything before or after my disability.
Pictures of the recent polishing efforts: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-51/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-51/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 1:50 A.M. With a new can of www.cvs.com furniture polish, I polished the kitchen cabinets, the mahogany bureau in the living room, and the mahogany bureau in the bedroom.
From experience around Fred Von Mierers interior decorating apartment from October 1973 to February 1975, there was a lot of cleaning, polishing, and vacuum cleaning which Fred let me have all of the fun doing, while he was out decorating. When he introduced me to Kip www.forbes.com whom he met at a Sotheby's auction, Kip came over to visit me one night on West 20th Street across from the Anglican Seminary that Chris Hemphill and John Wells let me use while they were else where. That night when Kip fell asleep, I did a complete cleaning of the whole apartment which at the time I thought was Teddy Roosevelt's old family town house in Manhattan. Kips father had a town house on West 21st Street, and Teddies Roosevelt's town house was closer to Fifth Avenue. Fred knew the more important details about maintaining expensive antique furniture which he learned from living with the Shah of Iran's family, the Krump family of Germany, and Richard Nixon's ambassador to Spain. Helen Kress Williams was also the head trustee of the Brooklyn Museum, and she also used to finance the Park Avenue Armory antiques show. Out here in Greenwich, the younger brother of my step father got Peter Brant to move to Greenwich, and amongst other ventures Peter Brant owns Antiques magazine. He also grew up in Queens knowing former President Donald Trump.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 12:55 A.M. I ate a roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee thanks to a friend of the Aga Khan named Tony Renato Pigato from Sao Paulo, Brazil who owns twenty million acres of Brazilian coffee plantation. The Aga Khan's oldest brother also lives in Brazil and was married to the actress Rita Hayworth. The Aga Khan might still have a little money having been able to afford to have a house in Greenwich since World War I, and his family also helped finance the start of the United Nations. His world wide headquarters is now in France, so he probably has some people whom speak French, and he is legally a Swiss Citizen. CIO
10/23/23 Monday 12:50 A.M. Owing to the recent security changes in the area, I moved one of the Dell 17.3 inch laptops from the left living room closet shelf, and I set it up at the far end of the oak dining table, so two people can now work on the internet in the living room at the same time.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-50/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-50/ CIO
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 10:40 P.M. I did a whole lot of dusting and cleaning through out the apartment.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 9:15 P.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 8:55 P.M. I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a turkey and bacon wrap for $5.99, a chicken wrap for $5.99, a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $2.99, and a 48 ounce Silk Vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.89 and .88 tax for $21.74 total. I then returned home. I put away the groceries. I put the grey bag back in the car. I drank a brewed coffee outside. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 7:45 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a friend twice. I went outside again. I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 6:15 P.M. I woke up at 5:15 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 6:10 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 5:30 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 10/22/23
10/22/23 Sunday 5:20 A.M. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 5:10 A.M. The way I figure it, in the last 27 days I have thrown out about three tons of stuff that I did not need in de-cluttering my apartment. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 5:05 A.M. I ate a chicken wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 4:25 A.M. I channel surfed. The is a Bush documentary on Channel 106 right now. I think I have seen it before.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 3:45 A.M. I swept the leaves off the front outside door entrance. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 2:55 A.M. With Lysol Spray Disinfectant and Hot Water, I cleaned the Window Shelves in the living room and the bedroom. I also cleaned the legs on the oak dining table.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-49/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-49/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 2:10 A.M. I did some cleaning with the Black and Decker dust buster.
I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 1:20 A.M. I went outside again. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 12:40 A.M. For the kitchen sink, I bought this dish rack https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-L3-6008-M5-CHROM-Twin-Sink-Drainer/dp/B00104X7AU/ref=asc_df_B00104X7AU/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=343974546462&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11511157252490126658&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003454&hvtargid=pla-492310076559&ref=&adgrpid=72020980714&th=1 for $24.79 and $1.57 tax for $26.36 total.
I will now eat the roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/22/23 Sunday 12:05 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 11:45 P.M. I ran hot water down the three drains, and they all seem to be working just fine now. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 11:15 P.M. I threw out the bathroom garbage. I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought two roast beef subs for $4.99 each and two 48 ounce Ocean Spray diet cranberry juice for $3.49 each and .73 tax for $17.79 total. I then toured www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. I then went to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought an economy package of two 80 ounce bottles of Draino drain cleaner for $20.20 total. I then went to the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $17.11 of self service premium gasoline for $4.699 a gallon for 3.643 gallons at odometer reading of 124826 miles for 54.3 miles driven since Thursday November 12, 2023 for 14.905 miles per gallon in local traffic. I then returned home. I put away my purchases. I put the grey bag back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee outside. I put about 12 ounces of Draino in the bathroom sink, the bath tub drain, and the kitchen sink drain. I will rinse them out with hot water about 11:30 P.M. after a half hour. I filed this report.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 8:15 P.M. I vacuumed the living room rugs. I then moved the wool Aubisson oval rug from India from in front of the televisions to along side the oak dining table in front of the living room closets on top of acrylic Aubisson rug. I then laid out the two new cranberry and beige rugs from the hallway to the Ethan Allen recliner. It all looks quite nice.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-48/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-48/
I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee.
I will now shower and clean up. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 6:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 5:35 P.M. I woke up at 4:30 P.M.. I chatted with a friend twice. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=785300286773&trkqual=12026~785300286773~FDEG and https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=785300289967&trkqual=12026~785300289967~FDEG on the order for two for 57% off five foot by three foot three inches area rugs https://www.wayfair.com/rugs/pdp/andover-mills-shiflett-oriental-burgundy-red-area-rug-w005006988.html?piid=1756067253 for $55.99 each for $119.09 total arrived. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 7:15 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 6:40 A.M. I will now go outside again. Earlier last evening, we had a visiting deer and later in the evening we had a possum. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 6:10 A.M. I channel surfed. I practiced speaking slow Midwestern American English. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 3:00 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 2:25 A.M. I ate a Italian sub with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 2:05 A.M. Earlier I moved two of the area rugs around.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-47/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-47/ CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 1:10 A.M. Beatles news https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2023/10/19/paul-mccartney-launches-his-tour-with-a-beatles-song-he-hasnt-played-in-almost-20-years/?sh=4c57cc30f302
no crab meat https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/us/alaska-crabs-ocean-heat-climate/index.html
Bear News https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bear-encounters-prevent-attacks-wellness/index.html .
The Piscah National Forest near www.biltmore.com has bears which I discovered, when I hiked the Appalachian trail for four days in late April 1978. The Appalachian mountains are supposed to be the oldest mountains on the planet Earth all worn down over time. When resting, I hung my food in a tree to hopefully avoid bear contact. At that part of the trail there were signs posted that it was owned by the Champion Paper Company that a former relative once worked for. Biltmore House was closed the Sunday morning, when I arrived via bus from Atlanta, so I was not able to tour it. It is supposed to be the largest house in North America, so somebody in the Vanderbilt family has hung on to a bit of property.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/21/23 Saturday 12:40 A.M. I ate a roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 11:55 P.M. I rested until 10 P.M.. I then went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I bought an Italian sub for $4.99, a chicken wrap for $5.99, a box four fresh croissants for $5.99, and two 11.5 ounce Stauffer's Swedish meatballs for $3.50 each and .81 tax for $24.78 total. I was told last night that the reason the Stop and Shop in the Glenville section of town closed was that its rent was raised too high. I then returned home. I put away the food. I went outside, and I put the grey bag back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee.
I will now go outside again. I probably will not be doing too much de-cluttering and cleaning tonight, since I am worn out from yesterday. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 7:45 P.M. King Charles gifts https://highgrove-news.com/422Z-1LCEV-53CFB14B83AD85817ZYG584BE1A9309BB5A4A3/cr.aspx
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 7:20 P.M. Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=785300286773&trkqual=12026~785300286773~FDEG and https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=785300289967&trkqual=12026~785300289967~FDEG on the order for two for 57% off five foot by three foot three inches area rugs https://www.wayfair.com/rugs/pdp/andover-mills-shiflett-oriental-burgundy-red-area-rug-w005006988.html?piid=1756067253 for $55.99 each for $119.09 total. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 6:55 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I chatted with a friend. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
I moved the blue and tan Acrylic 3 foot by 5 foot Aubisson carpet from the hallway entrance to the main entrance in the living room between the oak dining table and the living room closets. I have to wait until I get the two new Burgundy rugs to know what I will do with the two old used ones. CIO
1020/23 Friday 4:45 P.M. I woke up at 3:30 P.M., and I chatted with an associate. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
1020/23 Friday 9:15 A.M. I /ate the turkey and bacon wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca. I chatted with a friend.
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 8:15 A.M. First Selectman of Greenwich Notes https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-20231020?e=d0a721e34a
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 8:05 A.M. I cleared out and sorted out half of the computer and electronic stuff in the three left desk drawers in the living room desk which amounted to one big brown Hefty leaf bag that I threw out.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-46/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-46/
I went outside again. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 6:15 A.M. New Microsoft Windows 12 Canary beta here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewiso?rfs=1&wa=wsignin1.0
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 5:50 A.M. I ate the turkey sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 5:05 A.M. Two of my area rugs in the main part of the living room are falling apart, so I ordered two for 57% off five foot by three foot three inches area rugs https://www.wayfair.com/rugs/pdp/andover-mills-shiflett-oriental-burgundy-red-area-rug-w005006988.html?piid=1756067253 for $55.99 each for $119.09 total. They are due to arrive this Monday.
I will now go outside again and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 3:20 A.M. I went by www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought two 12 ounce boxes of Depends L-XL men's diapers with coupons for $17.48 both. I then dropped off the big brown leaf bag full of old silk ties at the charity clothes drop for Ovarian cancer at the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I then drove down to the Board of Education Parking lot Veterans monument, and I sat out for a while. I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, where there was one fisherman trying his luck. I then drove back up Steamboat Road and West on Railroad Avenue and up Arch Street.
!!!!!! As I was waiting to turn left off Havemayer Place by the police and fire station onto Milbank Avenue, two big wolves crossed in front of my car. The one was full grown and brownish and the other one was slightly smaller. I then drove up to East Putnam Avenue and back down Greenwich Avenue, and I told the desk sergeant at the Greenwich Police station about the wolves. From what I know if a wolf ever attacks one, one should try to cover one's throat, because that is what the wolves go for.
They are starting to put the Holiday Lights on the trees on upper Greenwich Avenue and East Putnam Avenue. I then returned home. I filed this report.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 1:40 A.M. I will now go out and forage around. CIO
10/20/23 Friday 12:45 A.M. From the mahogany bureau in the living room, I threw out three big brown plastic leaf bags of stuff. From the top drawer, I moved the brown and tan knit scarf that a relative knitted for me to the lower shelf of the sweater closet in the hallway. I moved a half dozen dress shirts to the left bedroom closet shelf with the other dress shirts. I have another big brown plastic leaf bags of silk ties that I will donate to the Ovarian cancer clothes drop at the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue the next time I go out. I also threw out a lot of belts and suspenders and formal ties and cummerbunds that are too small for me. I saved two old vintage leather belts with brass buckles, and I also saved about ten new dress ties. There is not too much in the top drawer. In the middle drawer, I threw out all of my white boxer shorts, since I have not worn them in over three years, since I had the Kidney Stone operation at the Greenwich Hospital and now wear disposable diapers. From the bottom drawer, I threw out a lot of white socks, and I moved the remaining white socks that are still good to the right side of the middle drawer. From the bottom drawer, I moved a lot of my heavier winter colored socks to the left side of the middle drawer. In the bottom drawer, I still have a lot of colored heavier winter socks. In the top drawer, I also found a new bathing suit that a relative gave me that I put in the top drawer of the white bureau in the bedroom with the other bathing suits.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-45/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-45/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 11:05 P.M. rain coming https://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/s/isuq4/ct-weather-noreaster-to-bring-rain-wind-and-storms-this-weekend?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert&user_email=01b56d8bf7109524081ab901b67fca7d88224ba889670bb012c7405fc80e0f90
Tracking is https://www.ups.com/track?track=yes&trackNums=1ZA42706A891791258&loc=en_US&requester=ST/trackdetails on the order for twenty https://www.floridatobaccoshop.com/Richwood-Filtered-Cigars-GOLD-Mild_p_2987.html for $11.75 each for $235 total.
This looks like the refurbished Cuisine Art air oven that I gave to my neighbor https://www.ebay.com/itm/234695483696?_trkparms=5373%3A0%7C5374%3AFeatured%7C5079%3A6000009941
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 9:45 P.M. I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a roast beef sub for $4.99, a turkey sub for $4.99, and a turkey and bacon sub for $5.99 for $15.97 total. I then returned home, and I put the foot in the refrigerator. I filed this report.
I will now go outside and drink a brew coffee. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 8:30 P.M. I threw out four big strong brown Hefty leaf bags of stuff that I do not need from underneath the kitchen sink. I moved the new box of Signature 80 count Kona K cups to right side of the floor in the right living room closet where the Cusine Art air oven was.
Pictures here of recent improvements: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-44/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-44/
I will now water the two remaining palm trees in my apartment which is the most important thing a Dutch American can do.
I will then go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 7:15 P.M. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I chatted with a friend. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 6:05 P.M. I threw out the kitchen garbage, and I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes.
I gave the new refurbished unused Cuisine Art air oven to a neighbor. The instructions are inside it. I bought it for $90 down from $300 off Ebay. There is no room for it in my apartment. It is also too complicated for me to figure out how to use. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 4:50 P.M. I woke up, and I ate a turkey and bacon wrap with a glass of Vermont spring water. I finally woke up at 4 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 2:15 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 1:25 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 1:05 A.M. I ate the roast beef sandwich on a hard roll with mayo with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/19/23 Thursday 12:20 A.M. In the kitchen from the far left kitchen drawer and from the upper kitchen cabinets and from the white book case on the left side of the kitchen entrance, I threw out seven heavy duty brown leaf bags of stuff, I do not need anymore.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-43/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-43/ .
Afterwards, I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 10:30 P.M. I ordered twenty https://www.floridatobaccoshop.com/Richwood-Filtered-Cigars-GOLD-Mild_p_2987.html for $11.75 each for $235 total.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 9:50 P.M. Somebody drove by and took the new $40 stainless steel cart that I discarded. Judging by the number of heavy duty Hefty brown leaf bags that I have used, I have used over fifty of them or more.
I went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a turkey and bacon wrap for $5.99, a roast beef sub for $4.99, two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.99 each six pack, and a 28 count box of Hefty brown strong leaf bags for $11.69 for $26.65 total. I then returned home. I picked up the mail. I put away my purchases. I then went outside, and I put the grey bag back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee. I filed this report. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 8:00 P.M. I rested until 6 P.M.. I chatted with a friend. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee.
From the right living room closet floor, I moved the boots and shoes to the right living room closet shelf. From the stainless steel cart in the kitchen, I moved the new refurbished unused Cornier air oven to the right floor of the right living room closet. I then moved the other items from the kitchen stainless steel cart to the blue book case to its left. I then threw out the stainless steel cart. I then cleared out two big brown heavy duty leaf bags of stuff from the lower left kitchen cabinet, so it is now empty. I moved the Panasonic two line wireless phone to the kitchen sink spice rack along side the Alexa display. I also threw out a few unused items from the upper center kitchen cabinet.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-42/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-42/
I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 5:10 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 4:15 P.M. I woke up at 3:30 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 2:35 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/18/23 Wednesday 1:00 A.M. From the shelf in the right living room closet, I took out the new Joy Chen microwave rice cooker, and I put it on the shelf above the blue book case in the kitchen. From underneath the bed, I threw out another brown plastic leaf bag of stuff I don't need. I also found underneath the bed two more new duffle bags that are one green and one blue that I put on the right side floor of the bedroom closet.
I will now eat a roast beef sandwich on a hard roll with mayo and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 11:55 P.M. From the blue book case in the kitchen, I threw out six heavy duty brown leaf bags of old food. I also moved the Panasonic two line cordless phone to the book case, and I also moved the Alexa display from the book case to the spice rack above the kitchen sink. The book case now just has Knorr rice and noodle packages, soy sauce, A 1 steak sauce, and sardines, and that is about it.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-41/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-41/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 10:25 P.M. I went out to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought two rare roast beef sandwiches on hard rolls with mayo for $7.99 each, a 48 ounce Silk vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.99 and a 48 ounce Simply grapefruit juice for $4.79 for $23.57 total. I then returned home. I put away the food. I put the grey bag back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 8:55 P.M. From underneath the bed in the bedroom, I threw out eight big heavy duty brown bags of stuff I no longer need. I also threw out the oak Lazy Susan that I made at Greenwich Country Day School. I found my two beach towels and blue duffle bag that I put on the right floor of the bedroom closet. I also moved the flags of convenience to the top drawer of the white bureau at the bedroom entrance.
I will now go downtown and forage around. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 6:05 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I picked up the mail. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a friend.
From the far right windows shelf I threw out and gave four plants to a health care worker. I also moved the Teddy Bear from the back of the Queen Anne chair to the book case shelf to its right.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-40/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-40/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 3:55 P.M. I woke up at 3 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 4:20 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 4:10 A.M. I rested for an hour. I ate the other roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayo with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 2:35 A.M. In the kitchen, I threw out five very heavy brown heavy duty leaf bags of pots, pans, and cookware from the lower center kitchen cabinet from the hanging rack to the right front of the refrigerator.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-39/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-39/ CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 1:35 A.M. I ate the roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayo with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with two ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/17/23 Tuesday 12:50 A.M. From the upper left closet shelf in the bedroom, I put the dark navy blue and light blue quilt on the Ethan Allen recliner. From the upper left bedroom closet shelf, I threw out two electric blankets and two light blankets. From there I put the St. Mary's wool blanket, and the white comforter on the bed with the Hudson's Bay blanket. From the bed, I stored in the upper left bedroom closet shelf the pink and green quilt and the light white wool blanket. I also have stored there a new Acrilan blanket and another new light blanket. From the center part of the bedroom closet shelf, I threw out four brown leaf bags old polo shirts, sweat shirts, flannel pajamas, and other clothing. I donated them to the clothing drop off at the Stop and Shop. I also have stored on the bedroom closet shelf two pairs new L.L. Bean Union suits and new dress shirts. From the right floor of the bedroom closet, I moved all of the extra pairs of shorts to the bedroom closet shelf. I also moved from the right bedroom closet floor a lot of extra pair of blue jeans to the left floor with the other blue jeans. From the right bedroom closet floor, I threw out in the dumpster six bags of old linens, old towels, and other items. I also put three more polar fleece on the back side of the bedroom door. The clothing drop off at the Stop and Shop says it has something to do with Ovarian Cancer. The neighbor who wanted to help me on de-cluttering my apartment fell while walking his dog and broke three ribs recently.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-38/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-38/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 9:40 P.M. I am going to have my next apartment inspection on Wednesday November 1, 2023 at 3:30 P.M..
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 9:30 P.M. I rested until 9 P.M.. I went outside. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 7:40 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I went out to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a five gallon bottle of Primo Vermont spring water with bottle return for $7.49 and two roast beef sandwiches on a Kaiser roll with mayo for $7.99 each for $23.47 total. I then returned home. I brought up the 42 pound bottle of water with my little folding cart, and then I put it back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee outside. I chatted with a friend and a relative. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 4:55 P.M. I woke up at 3 P.M..
In the bedroom from the oak book case on top of the mahogany bureau, I put the paper work in the second drawer down on the mahogany bureau. I moved the computer parts to the stack of parts behind the bedroom Vizio television. From the bedroom desk, I threw out the white ceramic lamp. I moved from the oak book case, the pineapple lamp to the bedroom desk. I then used my little folding cart to roll out the oak book case and throw it away. I left the other lamp on the mahogany bureau. In the hallway I saw the Greenwich Communities official, and I was told I can keep the Ethan Allen recliner, and the two Queen Anne chairs.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-37/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-37/
I will eat a bowl of Kellogg's raisin bran with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 5:55 A.M. I ate the chicken wrap with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 4:55 A.M. New ice skating rink news https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-dorothy-hamill-rink-ice-skating-18424660.php?src=gthpdesecp . There goes the view of the night time sky line for star gazers. That is right next to my building. I guess I will see some new noisy construction. The only time I have even been inside the old Dorothy Hummel ice skating rink was around 1987, when I took a friend from Sao Paulo, Brazil there to ice skate. Of course I have looked at the outside of it for the 34 years I have lived here. CIO
10/16/23 Monday 4:45 A.M. In the Northwest corner of the living room in the right dark oak book case to the right of the stereo system, I threw out all of the music CD cases along with the audio tape of Dutch about Ronald Reagan and some DVD videos. In its place, I put the LG sound bar for the Vizio television. I still have the Sony carousel CD player with about 150 mixed up music CDs to the left of the stereo system. In the military, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy Seabees do maintenance work. I am not sure what group does maintenance in the others services. I have probably been around all of them over my life time.
I will now go outside again and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-36/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-36/ CIO
10/16/23 Monday 3:00 A.M. I thought a while. Good News, the Colonel Bogey March now plays off the Amazon Display. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee.
In the Northwest corner of the living room in the right dark oak book case on the lower two shelves behind the Vizio television, I threw out a dozen spare new power supplies for older computers, my cassette tape collections, about 50 smaller power supplies, some old video tapes including the ones on the opening of the Nixon library, and the Tall Ships in New York harbor, and a heck of a lot of other computer parts. My trusty folding cart from the back of the 2005 Volvo XC 70 wagon with a 125,000 miles on it helped me carry it all down in two loads and also two heavy duty plastic leaf bags. I have not had this much fun, since a relative had me use the same cart to throw out my private library of 400 books mostly from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop which since they moved into their seven million dollar building do not ever want to see me again. As a minor point of dispute, I did spend about 37 years going to the old Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop daily across from the telephone company on Sherwood Place keeping an eye on the place.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-35/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-35/ CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 11:35 P.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 11:30 P.M. In the kitchen on top of the blue book case, I cleared out most of the stuff on the white plastic rack. In the bathroom on the right side of the toilet, I cleared out a lot of the stuff on the wire rack.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-34/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-34/ CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 10:15 P.M. I ate the roast beef sub with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 10:00 P.M. I went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a roast beef sub for $4.99, a chicken wrap for $5.99, and four 20 ounce cans of Stop and Shop pineapple chunks for $1.69 each for $17.74 total. I then returned home. I put away the food. I put the grey bag back in the car. A neighbor's grandson is coming to pickup the Lindbergh radio that I threw away. The Stop and Shop has pot roast on sale. CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 8:55 P.M. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee.
In the bedroom desk, I threw out the Lindberg radio. The Lindberg radio cost me $40 at the Mews thrift shop. It works just fine. I moved my jewelry box from the oak bookcase on the mahogany bureau to underneath the radio on the bedroom desk. I cleared out most of the small shelves on the far left side of the kitchen. From the left living room window shelf, I threw out the Hyannis candle holder and the Boston bean pot. From that location, I moved the Dutch beer stein to the center living room window shelf. From there I also threw out the horse head book end. From on top of the left dark oak book case in the far right of the living room, I threw out the big German beer stein, two blue vases, the brass dual horse figurine, and the twin swan ceramics. From the entrance at the apartment, I threw out the brass cricket cage and the little rubber Frosty the Snow Man.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-33/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-33/ CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 7:05 P.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now throw out the kitchen garbage. CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 6:50 P.M. I went outside, and I threw out the bathroom garbage. I then emptied out the old food from the far left kitchen cabinet.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-32/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-32/ CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 5:20 P.M. I rested until 4:30 P.M.. I then went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 3:10 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/15/23 Sunday 2:10 P.M. I woke up at 1:30 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 10/15/23
10/15/23 Sunday 1:05 A.M. I rested a bit. I ate the turkey and cheese sandwich with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 11:35 P.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 11:05 P.M. I set the living room thermostat at 74 degrees Fahrenheit. I set the bedroom thermostat at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. I took out four polar fleece, and I hung them on the back side of the bedroom door. In the left side of the bedroom closet, I moved my summer shirts to the far left of the closet. I moved my colder weather shirts to the left center of the closet. On the shelf behind the toilet, I cleared out various items.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 10:30 P.M. I ate the ham and cheese sub with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 10:15 P.M. I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a ham and cheese sub for $4.99, a turkey and cheese sandwich for $4.99, and a 48 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $4.99 for $14.97. I then returned home, and I put my purchases away. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 8:35 P.M. I disconnected the power to the living room portable air conditioner. I then removed the duct insert from the window insert, and I replaced the window insert. Then end of the duct needs to be repaired, since it is partially broken off, which I will do, when I reinstall it next spring. I disconnected the power from the bedroom portable air conditioner, and I removed the window duct insert, and I closed the window all of the way. Thus the apartment is sealed up for colder weather. The center living window above the window insert still opens up, if I need some fresh air.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-31/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-31/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 7:00 P.M. I chatted with a friend who was watching the Antiques Road Show.
From the dark oak bookcase in the northwest corner of the living room, I threw out the lower two shelves of unused electronic devices. I also threw out the dark mahogany end table from in front of it. From the left side of the Queen Anne chair at that location, I moved the two American Red Cross food pails, the box of decaf K cups, and the box of tea K cups into the lower shelf of that dark oak book case. I also moved the blond oak folding table from there to behind the bathroom door.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-30/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-30/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 5:05 P.M. I guess they do not like the name Mike in Greenwich anymore. When I drove by https://mikesorganic.com/ yesterday, there parking lot was empty.
I emptied out and sorted the bottom shelf and the floor of the sweater closet in the hallway.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-29/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-29/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 3:40 P.M. My old guard friend is watching the original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_Come_Home .
I will now go outside and drink another brewed coffee. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 3:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a friend. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 2:25 P.M. I woke up at 1:45 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a bowl of Mueslix with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 4:35 A.M. I ate the turkey and bacon wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 3:50 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 3:45 A.M. Pictures of recent improvements including pictures of my current library. As a matter of dispute, since I returned to Greenwich from www.nantucket.net on December 13, 1983 on the Aga Khan's birthday, I have spent almost forty years walking the whole length of Greenwich Avenue with a lot of time around the Senior and the Arts Center, forty years on Steamboat Road, forty years using the www.greenwichlibrary.org , and forty years keeping an eye on the waterfront mostly at Tod's Point in Old Greenwich until it got too expensive to drive over there and also keeping an eye on my neighborhood in Byram for 34 years, since I moved off Steamboat Road. Also my family first moved here in June 1962, so I am familiar with the area. Local relatives in the area have also lived in this area since the Civil War or earlier or before the American Revolution or since the founding of New Amsterdam.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-28/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-28/ CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 2:35 A.M. From the floor on the left side of the hallway entrance, I moved the Apple Ipad with its Phillips stand to the far right of the bedroom desk. From the right side of the Queen Anne chair underneath the right living room window, I moved the Ocean Digital Internet radio to the top back center of the bedroom desk. From the bedroom desk, I move the green jewelry box with not much of value in it but a Dan Qualye coin from his inaugural to the top shelf of the oak book case on top of the mahogany bureau.
Also when I got my emissions test at the Shell Service Center in Old Greenwich, I discovered that the basic car wash is now $12 and the deluxe car wash is $19, and the monthly unlimited car wash is now $49. Needless to say, I did not get my car washed. I also happend to live almost across the street from the Splash Car wash, which someone I once met named Michael Peters from Darien claimed he own the Splash Car Wash network in this area.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-27/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-27/ CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 1:25 A.M. I have two weather stations, but the cheaper one was not working. However, I had an identical replacement unit that I bought for a dollar as a clearance item at CVS on Greenwich Avenue for Christmas over five years ago. I set it up, and both units have new alkaline batteries besides being AC powered, and the two outdoor sending units are once again hung outside the living room window, and they also have new alkaline batteries.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/14/23 Saturday 12:05 A.M. Eclipse of the sun coming Saturday https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66938670
Einstein viewpoint https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0gkw3wb/the-eclipse-that-proved-einstein-right
Apple Farming https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/meet-american-first-planted-apples-colonies-william-blaxton-settler When I attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and some of us were too weak to play sports, they let us pick apples in a local orchid. At the Haight family farm in North Salem, New York, they used to have fresh fall produce. Also get a burger and home fries here http://www.theblazerpub.com/ . They are close to the Sons of Oslo Lodge nearby in North Salem, New York.
El Nino weather https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/historically-strong-winter-el-nino-possible
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 11:40 P.M. I ate the roast beef sub sandwich with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 11:10 P.M. From the mahogany bureau in the bedroom, I moved the two Afghan throws that two of my relatives made to the Ethan Allen recliner and the Queen Anne chair underneath the right living room windows.
My Alexa Displays have been modified. Whenever I ask it to play the Colonel Bogey March, it now plays WMAL 105.9 from the Washington D.C. area. The Colonel Boogie March was whistled by the British Prisoners in the movie, "Bridge on the River Kwai." It is still here though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZRfTBcuYg . I guess they do not like Anglophile people on the Alexa display anymore. I try to be Anglophile, because my primary language is American English.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 10:30 P.M. I went out to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a 80 count family box of Signature Kona coffee K cups for $24.99, a 42 ounce Smart Balance spread for $9.69, and two 11.6 ounce Marie Callender country fried chicken meals for $4.50 each for $43.68 total. I then went across the street to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a roast beef sub sandwich for $4.99. I then returned home. I put away my groceries. I put the grey bag back in the car. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. I will now go outside again.
I also moved from the left side bathroom bookcase my two new Phillips electronic tooth brushes to the left hallway bookcase. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 8:35 P.M. King Charles gifts https://highgrove-news.com/422Z-1L9SH-53CFB14B83AD85817ZYG584BE1A9309BB5A4A3/cr.aspx
First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-20231013?e=d0a721e34a
32 inch Insignia Smart TV $80 https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Insignia-32-inch-Class-NS-32F201NA23/dp/B09ZLTMWWH?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_11ab9f6e_0
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 8:00 P.M. I gave a neighbor who is not feeling well, a year expired box of 50 capsules of Aleve. While sleeping this morning, I put the Hudson Bay blanket on top of the summer blanket. Earlier today, I threw out the sun tea brewer from the kitchen. Today is Friday the 13th. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 6:55 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I threw out the two bags of old linens that I took out from underneath the bedroom desk this morning. I saved two bath towels though. At the bedroom entrance on the left, I emptied out the white bureau drawers. Now in the top drawer there is just an official U.S.A. 49 star flag that Mrs. Garland at the New Canaan Visiting Nurse thrift shop sold to me for $5 before the 1989 inaugural. In the top drawer there is also a new set of linens. In the middle drawer there are four bathing suits that I used to wear on the beach in Kennebunk. In the bottom drawer there is nothing. From the left living room closet shelf, I moved the almost new and hardly used HP 15.6 laptop with its HP wireless mouse and Microsoft headset all of which I moved to the bedroom desk. It is all setup. I bought it new for $350 at the Target store in White Plains, New York almost two years ago with my Renter's Rebate money. However, there is no printer in the bedroom anymore. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. A new neighbor gave me a slice of pizza earlier.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-26/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-26/ CIO
10/13/23 Friday 4:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I drove five mile east to the Old Greenwich Shell Service center, and I got my DMV Connecticut emissions checked for $20 cash. I then returned home. I picked up the mail. I will now go outside and drink a cup of coffee. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 1:50 P.M. I woke up at 1:15 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 2:15 A.M. I ate the turkey and bacon wrap with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/13/23 Friday 1:35 A.M. From underneath the bedroom desk, I stored all of the extra bed linens on the floor of the right side of the bedroom closet. I also threw out three old monitors and a electric typewriter. I also moved the spare wireless keyboards and wireless mice to on top of the Rubbermaid hamper to the right of the bedroom desk. The only thing underneath the bedroom desk is the old portable air conditioner duct work on the right under side and the bedroom garbage can underneath the left side. I also moved from in front of the left living room closet the small raw oak chair all of the way underneath the bedroom desk. From the left side of the bedroom window, I threw out the box of cigarette tubes.
Pictures here with a picture of www.af.mil flag http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-25/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-25/ CIO
10/12/23 Thursday 11:50 P.M. I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I bought two 10 ounce Jimmy Dean steak and egg bowls for $2.99 each, a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.99, and two 11 ounce Marie Callender chicken Alfredo bowls for $3 each and two turkey and bacon wraps for $5.99 each for $25.95 total. I then went to the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $27.04 of self service premium gasoline for $4.899 a gallon for 5.52 gallons at odometer reading of 124771 miles for 73.5 miles driven since Sunday September 24, 2023 for 13.316 miles per gallon in local traffic. I then returned home. I put away my food. I then went outside, and I put the grey bag back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee. I am going to throw away the bubble wrap in the Rubbermaid container in the bedroom, and I moved the spare headsets from underneath the bedroom desk to the Rubbermaid container. I filed this report.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/12/23 Thursday 10:00 P.M. I chatted with a friend. Just a little while ago, I drank a brewed coffee. In the northwest corner of the bedroom, I threw out the extra cables in the Rubbermaid hamper. I still have two packages of bubble wrap in it and a Brother toner cartridge. Underneath it, I have one or two new wireless keyboard and wireless mice sets and one or two laser printer toner cartridges. I emptied out the two right drawers of the bedroom desk. The left bedroom desk drawer has postal supplies and a Brother ID system and business cards. I emptied out the left night stand in the bedroom except some keep sakes, and I cleared items off the top of the left night stand. I sorted out the right bedroom night stand, and I now mostly have spare telephone system parts in it. On the mahogany bureau, I cleared out most of the items in the two top half size drawers except some smaller items. Three of the four big drawers in the mahogany bureau have spare light bulbs. The second big one down I emptied, and I moved my spare paper work from beneath the cable box into it. I cleared out a lot of electronic items from the oak bookcase on top of the mahogany bureau. I moved and connected the two Stanley jump start systems to the little white table lower level underneath the cable box. I will see if they charge up. I replaced the telephone jack face plate in the bedroom. From underneath the Vizio TV in the living room, I threw out two remote control holders and some old remote controls. From the left bookcase at that location, I threw out two wired keyboards. I cleaned the caulk on the kitchen sink. I filled up the K cup drawers. In an emergency situation the smaller folding mahogany chair at the oak dining table can be moved into the kitchen surrounded by the brick walls surrounding it except the entrance. One could peacefully watch television there in such a situation. I put the www.af.mil flag over the USA flag on the white bookcase on the right at the kitchen entrance.
I will now go outside again.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-24/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-24/ .
I did not photograph the United States Air Force flag. A real United States Air Force person would probably recognize it. The last job I had a Polaroid, my supervisor was a retired Air Force Captain. Out on www.nantucket.net , one of the owners of the restaurant, where I worked the longest was a retired Air Force Major. There were also personnel from Otis Air Force on Cape Cod living on Nantucket. Back in the summer of 1977, I gave the Air Force Colonel's NORAD flight suit that I found along the highway hitch hiking in the Florida keys and wore in Key West to Bob Mullerin who skied in Stowe, Vermont and moved to Martha's Vineyard. He was from Fairfield, Connecticut, and his father worked for www.exxon.com . I suggested he try skiing at Colorado Springs where the Air Force Academy is that I once visited in 1971 with a friend from Colorado College. I do live about five miles away from Westchester County airport, which also has Net Jets. CIO
10/12/23 Thursday 4:25 P.M. I sorted out, and I cleared out the wire rack behind the apartment entrance door. On the right living room closet, I cleared out the top shelf except for two new microwave steamers. On the floor, I cleared out my old Kiwi shoe shine kit, which was about my first business in Greenwich shining my father's shoes. I have three pairs of winter snow boots on the right living room closet floor along with a laptop bag and a couple of laptop cases. I also have an ironing board on the right side of the right living room closet and a new steam iron in the right book case at the kitchen entrance. I have a lot of winter coats in the right living room closet, and I moved one to the left living room closet. It does get colder here sooner or later, which the Country Club crowd that goes to Florida for the Winter never seems to know.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-23/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-23/ CIO
10/12/23 Thursday 2:25 P.M. From the kitchen counter, I gave the new cappuccino espresso machine to a neighbor. I cleared out the two spice racks above the kitchen sink. I cleared out and organized the white book case on the right side of the kitchen entrance. I found the www.af.mil flag and the Swedish flag, and I put them underneath the right side of the bed. I have the white bookcase on the right side of the kitchen entrance covered with the U.S.A. flag. There is an emergency medical kit in it too.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-22/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-22/ CIO
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/12/23 Thursday 12:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/12/23 Thursday 11:40 A.M. I woke up at 11 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a bowl of Mueslix with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 10:00 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 9:25 P.M. I ate a 15.6 ounce box of Red Baron deep dish pepperoni pizza with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 8:25 P.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 8:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I went outside. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 6:25 P.M. On the living room desk, I cleaned out and straightened the right side row of drawers and the center desk drawer. I threw out the stuff. I then picked up the mail.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 4:50 P.M. I went downtown to the Acme grocery store, and I bought a pre-made roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with lettuce and tomato for $7.99. I then drove downtown to the Veterans monument, and I paid $3 in quarters to park for two hours. I had a picnic in the Greenwich Common. I spent most of my time sitting in front of the Senior and the Arts Center. I used the bathroom there three times. I chatted with a friend twice on my cell phone. I then returned home. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I took the small raw oak chair from the living room desk, and I moved it in front of the left living room closet. I chatted with a relative.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-21/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-21/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 12:40 P.M. I brought up from outside, the folding mahogany chair made in Viet Nam, and I put it at the right center of the oak dining table, so there are now four places to eat at the oak dining table. It is not good to have an odd number at a dinner party. However, I do not feel like cooking for four unless it were all microwave. Fred Von Mierers got to go to all of the A List Social Register parties in Manhattan with Helen Kress Williams, so there would not be an odd number. I guess with Fred's multiple language skills he was able to chat with guests with different languages. There are a lot of take house places around Greenwich with meals ready to go.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-20/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-20/
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 11:50 A.M. I cleared off the near left side of the oak dining table, and I moved the bent wood oak chair to the near left side end of the oak dining table, so there are now three eating places at the oak dining table. I threw out a lot of stuff that was there, and I moved some smaller items to the bookcase on the left side of the hallway entrance including the Ipad on the Phillips stand. When one is hungry, one works harder.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-19/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-19/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 10:00 A.M. I threw out the long mirror in front of the bookcase at the left side of the hallway entrance. In that book case, I threw out the CD case, a lot of old electronic devices, and some more computer CDs. I moved to that bookcase, a lot of the items from the table on the left side of the primary work computer. Also from the top of the bookcase on the right at the kitchen entrance, I threw out two radios.
Pictures here of recent improvements. http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-18/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-18/ CIO
I will now go outside again and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 8:25 A.M. I rested until 7:30 A.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I chatted with a friend. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 4:25 A.M. I am about to eat a Boston Market 14 ounce meatloaf dinner with Smart Balance spread on the mashed potatoes with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.
In the old days in Boston off www.harvard.edu square Elsie's sandwich shop sold a roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Bermuda onion and Russian dressing for $1.79 and at Durgan Park by the Callahan Tunnel a big thick slab of prime rib of roast beef was only $7. John Kenneth Galbraith went to Harvard and taught there and knew something about Economics. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 4:10 A.M. I threw out a big plastic brown leaf bag of stuff from the left hallway bookcase. It was mostly old IDE hard drives. I threw out to big brown plastic leaf bags of stuff from the bookcase at the left side of the hallway entrance. It was mostly old computer CDs and old electronics. The top shelf is mostly more recent computer CDs. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 2:45 A.M. I rested until 2 P.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. CIO
10/11/23 Wednesday 12:05 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I have a sore lower back from all of the work that I have been doing the last two weeks de-cluttering my apartment. I will now rest some more. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 11:20 P.M. I put away the clean clothes. I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.99, two 48 ounce Ocean Spray diet cranberry juice for $3.49 each, two 14 ounce Boston Market meatloaf meals for $3.50, and a 48 ounce Silk vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $3.99 for $20.06 total. I then returned home. I put away my groceries. I put the grey bag back in the car, and I sat outside. I filed this report. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 9:05 P.M. I have 40 minutes to go on two dry cycles. On the bedroom door, I changed the hook rack to the back side, so there are no hanging clothes on the front side of the bedroom door. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 8:10 P.M. I rested until 7 P.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I put clean linens on the bed. I started two loads of wash. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 3:30 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I will now rest a bit. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 3:15 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 2:20 P.M. I woke up, and I chatted with a relative. I finally woke up at 1:30 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 5:30 A.M. I thought for a while. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 3:45 A.M. I threw out the potato French Fry maker.
Pictures of recent improvements. http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-17/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-17/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 3:00 A.M. I disconnected the 24 port Netgear switch from the oak dining table, and I stored it in the dark pine bookcase in the bedroom. I replaced it with an 8 port Netgear switch with a spare LAN cable if needed. I put a LED light bulb in the book light on the hallway bookcase. I put the spare power strips in a brown plastic bag, and I stored them behind the oak dining table. I put a case of www.coke.com Zero sugar underneath the Queen Anne chair in front of the right living room closet. I put a case of Fresca on the stainless steel rack in the kitchen. Now there is only one 12 pack of Coke Zero Sugar underneath the Ethan Allen recliner, so it easily fully reclines and returns to its up right position. From the living room I took six headsets and put them in a white plastic bag, and I stored them underneath the bedroom desk. Now the bent oak chair with the pink cushion can be easily removed from the near end of the oak dining table. I put it in front of the left living room closet, where it can be easily moved to gain access to the closet, which does not happen to much. Now I have two eating places at the oak dining table, and I also have a oak folding table behind the bathroom door and another one behind the bedroom door and a black generic one on the left side of the left living room closet which can be used for extra dining on take out food. I do not plan to do much cooking in my kitchen besides microwaving. I put a little Dutch and little Danish flag on the bookcase on the left side of the hallway entrance along with the Swedish and the Canadian flags.
I will now go outside. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 1:25 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/10/23 Tuesday 12:45 A.M. I put new batteries in the living room Vizio TV remote control. I also put new batteries in the remote controls of the three sound bars in the living room TV setup and the bathroom TV sound bar remote control. As a matter of dispute, some older people tend to be a bit hard of hearing, so they need sound bars. Ninth Circle TV repair has become a bit complex for the older generation who grew up with rabbit ears antennae and now there is internet connectivity not to mention cablevision. However, all of its programming seems to be programmed for the younger generation except for Cspan documentaries. I have to remind the local people all my internet activity began back in September 1989 when the only internet site was Jimmy Bolster's astronomy club bulletin board BBS with astronomy shareware from Old Greenwich which cost me close to $800 in telephone time logging on to other BBS web sites through telephone long distance with a loss of my telephone for over three years, when I had to use the cheaper pay phone in the Port Chester police station entrance to make a 35 cent long distance call to Long Island versus $2.50 for my building lobby pay phone in Connecticut. John who I used to chat with at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop taught physics at www.columbia.edu for fifty years and had a PHD in Physics from www.harvard.edu , and knew all of the original computer pioneers. He volunteered at the local astronomy club at the observatory on Milbank Avenue across the street from my original apartment in Greenwich at 100 Milbank Avenue. He told me I was wasting my time by getting on the internet, but I had nothing else to do being mostly on a night schedule staring at the smoggy sky. CIO
I will now go outside and view the galaxy waiting for signs of intelligence in the universe. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 11:10 P.M. I moved from underneath the bedroom desk the pink and green quilt, the Hudson's Bay blanket, the dark blue and grey afghan, the orange and yellow afghan, and a clean set of bed linen to on top of the cleared mahogany bureau in the bedroom.
I also setup the TLC sound bar on the bathroom on the 24 inch Insignia Smart TV.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
I guess Midnight Mike is trying to get back on a night schedule for better or worse. On a night schedule it is a lot colder when I go outside every hour during the four seasons, so I guess I am cold weather person. Before Coved 19, I used to walk Greenwich Avenue in the wee hours of the morning, when it was frequently below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Alas I gave away my two Earmark snow suits, so whom ever got them can try using them, when it is colder in he wee hours of the morning. Last January when it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit, when I was sitting outside at 8 P.M. at night in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park, a local judge ordered me to go inside, so I took his advise. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 9:50 P.M. In the bedroom, I moved all of the vitamins and supplements in the dark pine bookcase to the wire rack on the right side of the bedroom entrance. I moved the radio, the Lindbergh radio, and the jewelry box to the bedroom desk. I cleared of the top of the mahogany bureau. I reorganized the stuff in the dark pine bookcase on the left.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-16/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-16/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 7:15 P.M. I went out to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayo for $7.99. I then had a picnic in the Greenwich Common. I then sat out at the Board of Education Parking lot Veterans monument, and I chatted with a relative. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . I bought a medium Veranda blend coffee with Splenda sweetener and almond milk for $3.51 off my Starbucks card. I drank it in front of the Senior and the Arts Center. I then drove to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I used the bathroom at the CFCF coffee shop across the street. I toured CVS. I then returned home. I did not get any mail. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 4:35 P.M. From behind the bathroom door, I threw out a four foot plank and two shelves, so the bathroom door now fully opens. I moved from the open side of the bathroom door my two L.L. Bean red union suits and bath robe to the hooks on the open bedroom door. Thus the bathroom entrance is fully clear. From the wire rack on the right side of the bedroom entrance, I threw out all of the items except some old medication.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-15/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-15/ .
I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue to forage around. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 3:00 P.M. From the bedroom desk area, I disassembled the Apple Mac Mini setup. I put the Apple Mac Mini on the shelf of the left living room closet. I threw out the 40 inch ONN television monitor. I threw out the Dell Laser Printer. I threw out the older Insignia 15,000 BTU portable air conditioner. I threw out two older 20 inch televisions. I threw out two computer speaker systems. I packaged up all of the cables, and I stored them on the back left hand side of the oak dining table. I stored away a 8 port net switch. I stored the pink and green bed spread, the Hudson Bay blanket, and two Afghans my relatives knitted for me underneath the bedroom desk. Thus the bedroom desk is mostly clear on top except for two telephones, a Radio Shack speaker phone, a 8 port net switch, and a lamp.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-12/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-12/ .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 11:25 A.M. My retired Red Cross friends from Sea Island, Georgia just cancelled this trip https://www.cruisespecialists.com/cruise-promotion-detail.aspx?packageId=121886 due to the problems in the Middle East.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 11:10 A.M. I gave the stand up four cane tips cane to a handicap neighbor, and I put out by the dumpster two regular walking canes and two walking sticks. I attached a sound bar back up to the Samsung television. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 9:45 A.M. Here are the pictures from the work that I did yesterday http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-11/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-11/ .
I can hear them emptying our two dumpsters.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 9:25 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a friend. CIO
10/09/23 Monday 8:25 A.M. I woke up at 7:45 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a bowl of Mueslix with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 8:55 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 8:05 P.M. I went downtown to the Acme grocery store at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayo for $6.99. I then had a picnic in the Greenwich Common. I then sat out for a while at the Board of Education parking lot veterans monument. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . I then returned home. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 5:35 P.M. I moved the 24 inch Insignia Smart TV from the bedroom window to where the 32 inch Insignia Smart TV was in between the other two televisions. It is still connected to the JVC sound bar underneath the Vizio TV to its left. I put the sound bar from the Samsung TV and the 24 inch Insignia TV setup in the bedroom underneath the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 4:45 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I took up the baby blue oriental runner rug in the hallway that was falling apart, and I threw it away. Underneath it I now have showing is an orange and black American Indian pattern runner rug that is now showing. I swept the hallway area.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 2:20 P.M. I went downtown to the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park, and I sat out for a long time. At www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, I bought buy one get one for a dollar of 140 count Nature Made B Complex with Vitamin C and a 40 count box of Hefty heavy duty garbage bags with discount coupons for $23.48 total. I then sat outside in the park a lot longer. I used the bathroom at the very busy CFCF coffee shop. I then went back into CVS, and I got a box of 12 Donut shop K cups for free with bonus bucks from my previous purchase. I then sat out in the park for a while longer. I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $2.99 total. I then returned home. I put away my purchases. I then went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 11:05 A.M. My relatives stopped by. I gave them the new Xerox laser printer on the left side of the hallway entrance. I also gave them the 32 inch Insignia Smart TV that was in between the two televisions in the living room.
I will now go downtown and forage around on Green Witch Avenue. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 9:25 A.M. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 8:45 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a friend, and I chatted with a relative twice.
I threw out a mirror and the tower speaker on the left side of the hallway entrance. I swept the living room rug. Both dumpsters are almost filled up, so I can not throw out anything until the empty the dumpsters on Tuesday. A neighbor took all of the liquor and wine that I threw out yesterday.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 6:55 A.M. I woke up at 5:45 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I did the items below. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/08/23 Sunday 6:55 A.M. I moved the flash lights and emergency lanterns to the lower right bookcase in the hallway. I threw out the throw rugs in the main apartment area opposite the living room closets, so there is no tripping hazard. I moved the www.perrier.com and boxes of curry to the hallway cabinet. I put the eight mouse pads in the far right hallway bookcase. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 10/07/23
10/07/23 Saturday 8:55 P.M. I went outside. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 8:25 P.M. I am about to eat a 16 ounce Hungry-Man Salisbury steak meal with Smart Balance spread on the vegetables along with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
!!!!!! 10/07/23 Saturday 8:10 P.M. My retired American Red Cross friends from Sea Island, Georgia that also once worked for Nelson Rockefeller's Presidential campaign are leaving on this extended cruise this Tuesday https://www.cruisespecialists.com/cruise-promotion-detail.aspx?packageId=121886 CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 7:10 P.M. I chatted with a relative and a friend.
I moved the can foods on the floor in the kitchen to the hallway cabinet. I took the slip covers off the Ethan Allen recliner and the Queen Anne chair underneath the right living room window, and I threw the slip covers away. The Ethan Allen recliner now fully reclines, but one has to push it up from behind to raise it up. I will now go outside again.
Pictures of the changes today. http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-10/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-10/ CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 4:55 P.M. From the lower cabinet of the center hallway bookcase, I threw out two cases old white wine along with all of the other liquor. I moved it with three trips with my little folding cart from the back of the Volvo. I will use that space for food. I put in ten cans of Contadina pizza sauce in the cabinet, and I have four boxes of nicotine patches in it.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 4:05 P.M. From the hallway, I threw out the old curved mirror that used to be part of the mahogany bureau in the living room. From in front of the two right windows in the living room, I moved the new mirror from there into the hallway, where the other mirror was. I moved the Google display from the window sill to the folding oak table on the right side of the Ethan Allen recliner along side the Alexa display. I put a little lamp on the window sill. I threw out two old 24 port net switches. From the back side of the Ethan Allen recliner, I moved the Craig tower speaker to the floor on the left side of the Ethan Allen recliner. If I took the slip covers off the Ethan Allen recliner, it would now recline, if I moved it back a bit. However, right now I do not think it is necessary. I threw out the magazine rack with all of its old magazines.
I chatted with a friend. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 1:55 P.M. From the center living room window area, I moved two plants to the far right window area along with a smaller aloe plant from the left living room window area. I threw out two bigger plants from the left living room window area shelf. From the left living room window shelf, I threw out two big mirrors. On the left living room shelf, I put a German beer stein, a Boston bean pot, and a Hyannis candle holder.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 12:55 P.M. From the left living room top of the bookcase, I threw out a desk fan. From underneath the Queen Anne chair in front of the right living room windows, I threw out a 17 inch Gateway laptop and a over the air television adapter. From the right side of the living room windows, I threw out a burgundy lamp with lamp shade and Alexa bulb, two other lamp shades, a Lasko box fan with filter, a 10 inch fan, the white breakfast try, and a piece of luggage with my old flight bags in it. I kept the expensive vintage tan suede Gucci flight bag though. I also threw out the octagon mirror hanging on the bathroom door.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 12:05 P.M. I think I found the Lenovo mini adapter, and I put it with the Lenovo mini on the right side of the closet shelf in the left living room closet. I also put there a Microsoft Surface RT with its case and wireless Microsoft mouse and power adapter. From underneath the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance, I threw out eight Microsoft Surface RTs with their cases and power adapters and wireless Microsoft mice and three laptop coolers. I now only have eight mouse pads underneath the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 11:20 A.M. With the heavy rain today, I might not do as much work on de-cluttering my apartment. Being half Dutch, one fourth English, and one fourth Scottish, rainy weather happens to be in my genes.
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 10:35 A.M. I moved the spare mac mini and the Lenovo mini to the right side of the left living room closet shelf. I can not find the Lenovo mini adapter. I moved the brown bags with the various cables to back side of the oak dining table, so the front side underneath of the oak dining table is now opened. I put a USB power adapter at the far end of the oak dining table, so the Ipad mini is now connected up there.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 9:45 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/07/23 Saturday 8:40 A.M. I woke up, and I chatted with a relative last night. I finally woke up at 8 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. Yesterday, I broke the little Dutch Delft pot on the white bookcase at the apartment entrance. I will eat a bowl of Mueslix with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 8:30 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 8:05 P.M. I am about to eat a 15 ounce Marie Callender chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 7:25 P.M. I put the three hanging plants in the apartment out in the garden. On the left living room closet, I moved the shoe rack in front of it into inside the left living room closet. From the far end of the oak dining table, I moved the two 17.3 inch Dell, the 15.6 inch HP, and the Apple Mac Book to the top left shelf in the left living room closet along with their power supplies and their wireless mice. Thus I only have the Ipad and the Android tablet on the left side at the far end of the oak dining table. Also the left living room closet is free to open, if one moves the small oak table slightly forward from its left side. On the bedroom desk, I took out the SSD drive from the Dell Optiplex 790 SFF desktop, and I threw away the Dell Optiplex 790 SFF desktop. Thus I now only have the primary and the backup computer to its left on the living room desk setup.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-09/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-09/
I went outside twice, and I will now go outside again. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 4:55 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 4:45 P.M. Two of my relatives stopped by at 4 P.M., and toured the apartment; and told me to keep working at it. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 2:55 P.M. King Charles gifts https://highgrove-news.com/422Z-1L58M-53CFB14B83AD85817ZYG584BE1A9309BB5A4A3/cr.aspx
King Charles birthday https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16965959959375022a38155c2/raw?utm_term=16965959959375022a38155c2&utm_source=cnn_Royal+News+10+06+23&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=A1JVEqKb6OG4kUtx3x%2FHcl%2FyyY6vLVgqGQxKgqBYTjwBo2BQEynmXbfTK78RjUfx&bt_ts=1696595995940 First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-20231006?e=d0a721e34a
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 2:30 P.M. From the bedroom desk, I threw out the two old Dell laptops and the Asus netbook. From the far right of the bedroom desk, I threw out the 42 inch Hisense television and the Memorex DVD player. From the entertainment bookcases, I threw out four cases of Ramen chicken noodle cups. From behind the Ethan Allen recliner, I threw out all of the stuff that I had stored there. I also threw out my golf clubs and the old Frigidaire 8000 BTU window air conditioner. The only items stored behind the Ethan Allen recliner is the Rubbermaid laundry hamper and the Hoover upright vacuum, and its accessories. This all took a lot of time. I drank three cups of coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-08/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-08/
I have relatives stopping by to visit at 3:30 P.M..
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 7:10 A.M. I drank a coffee outside.
I threw out the very heavy cranberry terrycloth bath robe that was hanging on the bathroom door blocking partial entrance. I cleared out the three hallway bookcases. I threw out twelve 50 pound brown leaf bags of stuff.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-07/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-07/
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 4:35 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/06/23 Friday 3:40 A.M. I woke up at 3 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/05/23 Thursday 2:20 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
10/05/23 Thursday 2:00 P.M. I went outside. I rested a bit. I went outside. I will now eat a 12.3 ounce Marie Callender chicken sesame dinner with a can of Green Giant green beans with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice. CIO
10/05/23 Thursday 12:05 P.M. https://www.finocchio-brothers.com/ emptied both dumpsters.
I threw out the slow cooker. From the folding oak table at the bedroom entrance, I moved the transistor radio to the right of the television. I moved the Google display to behind the cable box to its right. I folder up the oak table, and I put it behind the bedroom door. I threw out all of the glass ware on the Danish end table between the televisions in the living room. I put the most recent Ipad and the Android tablet on the laptop stack at the far end of the oak table. I threw out the broken computer LCD light.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-06/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-06/
I chatted with a relative, and I drank a brewed coffee. CIO
10/05/23 Thursday 10:15 A.M. I took the six pairs of shoes off the back of the bedroom door, and I put them in the left living room closet floor. I removed the shoe rack off the back of the bedroom door, so the bedroom door now opens fully. Off the stainless steel rack that was in front of the left living room closet, I moved the two Dell 17.3 inch laptops and the Apple Mac book to the far end of the oak dining table along with the almost new HP 15.6 laptop. I threw out the HP 17.3 inch laptop that was there along with the HP 17.3 inch laptop from the stainless steel cart. Then from the stainless steel cart in front of the left living room closet, I threw out five Windows laptop and three Chromebook laptops, and the brother lazer printer. I removed the cables, and I threw out the stainless steel cart, and I moved the shoe rack from the hallway to in front of the left living room closet. I moved from behind the bathroom the spare Volvo door panel and the box of white plastic bags, and I put them in the left living room closet floor. I moved the small dark oak table on the left side of the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance to the right side of the Queen Anne chair in front of the left living room closet. I threw out the tower speaker. I put the Google and Alexa displays and the cordless telephone on the small oak table along with the television remote controls. Thus the hallway entrance is totally opened up. Also one easily move the shoe stand to open up the left living closet, if one needs formal clothing. I threw out the folding mahogany chair in the kitchen, and I organized the stuff that was behind and beneath it. I threw out the mahogany chair behind the primary work computer chair, and I threw out the mahogany chair that was at the desk to the left of the primary work computer. On the desk to the left of the primary work computer, I threw out the 20 inch AOC monitor, and I removed the SSD drives from the two Dell Optiplex 790 SFF factor desktops, and then I threw out the desktops. From there I threw out the Dell laser printer and the Richo color laser printer. From the mahogany table at the apartment entrance, I moved the smaller items on it to the area to the left of the primary work computer that I cleared out, and I threw out a lot of other smaller items. I then gave the mahogany table at the apartment entrance to a neighbor.
Thus there is one tower and one desktop computer in the living room and four laptops. The area at the entrance of the apartment as it leads to the primary work computer is all opened up to as is the area around the left side of the oak dining table and passage way into the apartment.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-05/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-05/
I also drank three cups of coffee while doing all of this.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/05/23 Thursday 3:15 A.M. I woke up at 1:30 A.M. I made my bed. I went outside. I will eat a bowl of Mueslix with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements.
I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 7:30 P.M. My social worker and the Greenwich Housing Authority representative looked around my apartment, and suggested I work two or three more weeks decluttering stuff. I went out and I drank a brewed coffee. I chatted with a relative twice and a friend. I went outside again. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. You can't take it with you. Give some money to the living https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinseanmartin/2023/10/03/the-2023-forbes-400-the-20-richest-people-in-america/?sh=15202f50571f . Maybe I could make some money tutoring people how to live being poor.
More tracking https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/174541.shtml?cone#contents .
I have my social worker and two Greenwich Housing officials coming to inspect me at 3:30 P.M. today, so I am just trying to have a relaxing day without all of the stress and expense on Greenwich Avenue.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 1:50 P.M. I chatted with some neighbors about the price of tea in China. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 12:15 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I went outside, and a group of neighbors listened to https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-democrats-laura-erickson-candidates-18253735.php and https://ywcagreenwich.org/laura-erickson/ chat with us about our needs for an hour and a half. I chatted with a relative.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
10/04/23 Wednesday 9:50 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 9:15 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 8:25 A.M. My www.eversource.com electric bill for September 2023 is $328.95.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 8:20 A.M. I drove downtown to the Board of Education Parking Lot Veterans monument, I observed for a long period a number of early risers. I then went to www.cvs.com , and I toured the store. I sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce park across the street. I then went to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a five gallon bottle of Primo Vermont Spring water with bottle return for $7.49. I then returned home. I used my little folding cart to bring up the 42 pound bottle of water. I then put the folding cart back in the car, and I drank a brewed coffee outside. I filed this report. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 5:30 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to forage around on Green Witch Avenue for the early morning rush. CIO
10/04/23 Wednesday 4:30 A.M. I woke up at 3:30 A.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I did not get any mail yesterday. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 6:25 P.M. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription. I returned home. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt and a croissant. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 4:10 P.M. I cleaned the toilet and put a blue jar inside the toilet bowl. I cleaned the bathroom sink. I cleaned the kitchen counter. Once when I arrived in Kennebunkport, Maine after a tiring six hour drive to visit relatives, the first think my mother did was have me clean five toilets even before I unpacked. Maybe she did not recognize me, and thought I was a new house boy. The Dutch really know how to clean. One of my relatives who is a clean freak might be visiting Friday afternoon.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 3:35 P.M. I swept outside the apartment door. I did a quick vacuum of the apartment with my orange and black Hoover. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 2:30 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. I chatted with my social worker. Tomorrow she and two Greenwich Housing Officials are going to visit my apartment at 3:30 P.M.. My Social Worker also wants a copy of my Connecticut SNAP report for this year, which I made a copy of. I removed the far side table expander from the oak dining table, and I closed up the divide, so the table is now 16 inches less long. I stored the oak blank on the right side of the bedroom closet. With the table shorter, I moved one of its chairs to the apartment entrance area. I put the 15.6 inch HP laptop and the 17.3 inch HP Workstation on the far end of the oak dining table. I went outside a number of times. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-04/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-04/ CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 9:05 A.M. I drove downtown to the Board of Education Parking lot Veterans monument, and I sat out for a long time, and I drank my coffee from the thermos. I used the bathroom three times at www.starbucks.com. I bought a toasted bagel with butter for $2.65 off my Starbucks card, and I ate it front of the senior and the arts center. I walked the lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area, and I toured the train station. At 7 A.M., I drove to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. I bought a croissant for $2.14, and I ate it in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park across the street. I used the bathroom at the CFCF coffee shop. I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a 12 pack of Jimmy Dean sausage, egg, and cheese croissants for $16.99, a 48 ounce Silk vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $3.99, and a turkey bacon and cheese wrap for $5.99 for $26.97 total. I then returned home. I put away my groceries. I put the grey bag back in the car, and I sat outside.
I will now eat the turkey, cheese, and bacon wrap with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 4:40 A.M. I will now make a cup of coffee and put it in my thermos. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue to observe the early morning rush. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 4:05 A.M. I remember the Nixon Agnew days in this area. I was living on Morton or Swanson chicken pot pies which were four or five for a dollar. Nixon's head of the Federal Reserve Bank Arthur Burns lived here, and I used to see him all of the time, and he started, "Wage and Price Controls" on the national economy, and it only cost $5 for a tank of gasoline. Knowing economics, I knew it would get worse. Helen Kress Williams as the Head of the Opera Guild in Manhattan amongst other charities knew about little old ladies living on tea and toast and sometimes cat food if they could afford it. Helen was personal friends of Eleanor Roosevelt living next door to Alice Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, Long Island. She told me in World War II, if the Germans invaded they were going to plant poison ivy around all the churches. She would make one A&P tea bag last a week, and then she would use the old tea bags in the garden. She was also involved with the Long Island Garden Club, and once came out here with some friends to see what we were doing out here. She also knew Rose Kennedy, and told me the Irish Potato feminine blight was caused by the active volcanoes in Iceland. She also told me in 1882 after the volcano Krakatoa erupted, there was a fifteen foot snow fall in Manhattan. Her neighbors the Roosevelts in Oyster Bay were involved in starting up the Natural History Museum in Manhattan. However, when Jerry Ford and Nelson Rockefeller were in office next, the Republicans thought they might earn some more money, so the threw a Republican Fund Raising dinner at the Plaza Hotel that Fred Von Mierers worked on setting up, but I guess they did not get any money, and the big event at that time was the Field Club here in Greenwich advertised in the Greenwich Time, a roast beef dinner for anyone for $7 a head with big thick slices of roast beef. Somebody from Greenwich with money must have snuck down to the Meat Packing District on West 14th street and come up with a big chunk of beef. Around February 1975, when Fred Von Mierer, George Nichols and myself spent three nights with a Uhaul trailer moving her from the gate house on her forty acre estate in Oyster Bay on the waterfront to a nice house next to the Locust Valley fire house, they bought a big Perdue chicken from the 24 hour A&P in Glencoe and cooked it with butter and white wine, so we would have something to eat. She also took Fred and myself to Sunday Dinner at the Winter Club. At that time it was about zero degrees Fahrenheit. Next to the house in Locust Valley, there was a pub, where all of the young people were wearing orange parkas, so I thought they might be from the House of Orange Nassau. At the deli in Oyster Bay, they also sold Norwegian Ringness beer, because the King of Norway spent some time out there in World War II, when he was in exile. He was a member of the Swanika Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 3:00 A.M. From the near left side of the oak dining table, I threw out three old Ipads with their cases and ten old cell phones with their cases. I kept their cables and a five port USB device in a white plastic bag that I put on the right side of the living room desk. Also I put four cell phone headsets on the chair beneath at that location beneath the left side of the oak dining table. Also from the center hallway bookcase cabinet lower enclosure and the Danish bar setup in between the living room televisions, I threw out about a hundred old boxes of nicotine patches. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-03/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-03/ CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 1:10 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
By my count I have disconnected and thrown out nine various computers in my apartment along two TV monitors and a whole lot of other stuff.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/03/23 Tuesday 12:50 A.M. I took the used Apple 20 inch Imac which is like new with a new install of Maverick OS worth about $250 and the CVS shoe bench worth about $40 to the nearby Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop which has gotten be very expensive, since they bought a $7 million building across from the Hamilton Avenue school. I then sat outside some more. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 11:35 P.M. I got back to work. I put eight pairs of shoes in a brown leaf bag. I moved from the shoe stands six pair of shoes to the back of the bedroom closet shoe rack. From the CVS shoe rack in front of the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance, I moved the rest of its shoes to the shoe stand at the hallway entrance. On the Apple Imac on the CVS shoe rack in front of the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance, I deleted its hard drive setup and did a new install of Apple OS Maverick. I then threw it out by the dumpster. It cost me about $250 a few years ago, and it is also in perfect shape. I also threw out the CVS shoe stand. Thus the area in front of the Queen Anne chair and around the far end of the oak dining table is now more spacious. From the hallway, I threw out the Lakso tower fan. From the hallway, I threw out the three bottles of COVID 19 cleaner and two bottles of old Downy. I moved the bottles of Tide to along side the toilet in the bathroom. Now the bathroom door can fully close for privacy. I went out to the Stop and Shop parking lot at 161 East Putnam Avenue, and I put the bag of shoes in the clothes and shoes container on the east side of the rear parking lot. At the Stop and Shop, I bought two four packs of Chaboni yogurt for $3.99 each four pack, a 48 ounce Florida Natural Ruby Red grapefruit juice for $4.29 and a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.99 for $14.26 total. I then returned home, and I put away the groceries. I put the grey bag back in the car. I drank a brewed coffee outside. I finished the activity above.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
Pictures here: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-02/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-02/ CIO
10/02/23 Monday 7:50 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a friend earlier. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 6:45 P.M. I woke up at 6 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat a bowl of Mueslix with almond milk with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and a glass of spring water with some cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 7:40 A.M. I went downtown to the Board of Education parking lot Veterans monument, and I sat out for a long time. I bought a gouda and egg sandwich at www.starbucks.com for $5.10 off my Starbucks card, and I ate it in front of the Senior and the Arts Center. I then sat out for a long time more, and I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I then went to www.cvs.com and I toured the store. I sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce park before. I then returned home, and I sat outside. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 5:00 A.M. I will now throw out the oldest Stanley Jump Start system. I will then go downtown and observe the early morning rush on Green Witch Avenue. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 4:30 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. Midnight Mikey is worn out. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 3:55 A.M. I work better, when I am hungry.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 3:55 A.M. On religion Helen Kress Williams, Fred Von Mierers, and Vivian Simmons West all went to St. Bartholomew's church on the north side of the Waldorf Astoria. Happy Rockefeller also once threw a big outdoor party there too, so maybe some of the Rockefellers went there too. Fred's Major Duomo ended up working at Grace Church on University Place in Greenwich Village, a very established church. Vivian Simmons West's daughter Julie Bolton and son in law Peter Bolton were married at the Anglican Church on Fifth Avenue and 11th Street. Richard Van Marter's parents were also married there. John Michael Barrett's family from Bloomington, Indiana owned the lime stone quarry that supplied the lime stone for the National Cathedral and St. John's church in Manhattan. Peter Bolton's second wife Beverly from Nova Scotia worked for the World Council of Churches. My stepfather's family went to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. In Greenwich in 1963, I was confirmed as a member of the Round Hill Community Church, but one has to be rich to go there, because J.P. Morgan's daughter started it. My stepfather's Bliss family also donated the property for the New Canaan Presbyterian Church. My stepfather's family went to St. Anne's church in Kennebunkport, since 1872. My mother's Dutch family in Holland, Michigan have a lot of Dutch Reform churches a seminary at Hope College. My grandfather Scott was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite mason, and my father's grandmother's Gard family from Lincolnshire, England that settled York, Maine four hundred years ago, I think were Roman Catholic.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 2:50 A.M. 32 inch Smart TV $80 https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Insignia-32-inch-Class-NS-32F201NA23/dp/B09ZLTMWWH?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_11ab9f6e_0 .
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 2:35 A.M. I drank a cup of coffee outside. I used to look a bit like William Clay Ford, when I used Fred Von Mierers' apartment at 420 East 49th Street now the German Consulate two blocks north of the Ford Foundation. I was told some of the Ford family members have houses in Greenwich too. However, some people thought I looked more like Prince Albert on Monaco, since I had to try to speak French a lot of times. Fred Von Mierers' girl friend was Sona Van Voohes the daughter of a Park Avenue Doctor who was also Ted Kennedy's doctor, and they also had a house on Nantucket. We spent a lot of time maintaining Fred's apartment in case any of Helen Kress Williams' friends from Houston, Texas showed up to spend money. Helen's son Claud Williams was the largest highway contractor in America, and I think they were also related to Williams Brothers' Energy a big Energy company in America. Helen's grandson was also going to Babson College, when I met him when he showed up to visit Fred. I have some relatives familiar with Texas, but they do not like dealing with me, since I am not familiar with Texas other than driving across it a few times. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 1:00 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/02/23 Monday 12:50 A.M. I rested until 9:15 P.M.. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee. The right side dumpster still has some room in it. In front of the left living room closet, I moved the stainless steel cart on wheels with the laptop computers to the right, and I opened up the left living room closet. I threw out the two foot artificial Christmas tree and ornaments and the artificial www.cvs.com Christmas wreath from the top shelf. From the right side of the top shelf, I threw out the computer boxes with old computer parts and the boxes with the old external hard drives. From the floor which was mostly cleared, I moved the spare florescent lights to behind the Queen Anne chair at the hallway entrance. I threw out a CD case, a printer stand, and some laptop coolers and cases, so the left living room closet floor is now completely clear. From the hanging clothes, I put the two Aramark snow suits in leaf bags, and in another leaf bag, I put in the $400 size 40 Brooks Brother brown leather jacket, the pink sports jacket, the lime green sports jacket, several old sports jackets and trousers. a dark blue Joseph Bank parka, a tan L.L. Bean denim jacket, a yellow wind breaker and a orange wind breaker. I moved the Joseph Bank 2 XL leather jacket to the hook on the right living room closet. I still have the more formal Joseph Bank blazers, suit jackets and trousers and suits and the full length black wool over coat. I threw out the London Fog rain coat. I then took the three leaf bags full of clothes to the Stop and Shop east side parking lot clothing and shoe drop off containers, and I put them inside the containers. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue and back my usual way. I returned home. I went outside, and I drank a brewed coffee, and I ate a croissant.
Pictures here of the cleared left living room closet: http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1023-01/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1023-01/ CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 7:35 P.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 7:25 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes.
$12.5 million https://www.johnsislandrealestate.com/listings/120-coconut-palm-road CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 6:20 P.M. I woke up at 5:20 P.M.. I made my bed. I went outside. I chatted with a relative. A number of the other tenants in my building got lease termination letters in my building, so they are also throw out a lot of stuff in the two dumpsters, so both dumpsters are now totally filled up. Thus I can not throw out any more stuff tonight. I will eat a Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and cheese croissant with two toasted English muffins with Smart Balance spread, and pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges, and a glass of spring water with some pineapple juice and cranberry juice and a cup of coffee with artificial sweetener and almond milk. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 9:05 A.M. I chatted with a relative. I ate a 9 ounce Hormel roast beef and mashed potatoes with gravy and Smart Balance spread with a glass of Primo Vermont spring water.
I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 10/01/23
10/01/23 Sunday 8:15 A.M. Well at the first of October a lot of the warm weather people might be heading down South.
I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 7:45 A.M. I chatted with a friend. I guess the reason my family knew automobile people was that my father's first wife's father was Owen Coon the founder of General Finance the largest automobile finance company in America years ago. When we lived in the Boston area, and I drove a 1967 Mustang convertible with Firestone wide oval tires with a three speed stick shift, one of my relatives knew Edsel Ford, when he was going to nearby Babson College. William Clay Ford is about my age, so maybe when I was driving that Mustang around Cambridge, when he was going to www.mit.edu , I might have been around some of his friends. There were a lot of blond haired Irish in Boston in those day. The Irish always look like they are starving, but when sees a lot of well fed Irish people somebody must be helping them out with food.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 6:50 A.M. When I knew Jimmy Eldert out on Nantucket, Key West, Manhattan, and Santa Cruz; he looked a lot like Rob Ford, so maybe at Fred Von Mierer's apartment at 420 East 49th Street two blocks north of the Ford Foundation, since he was an actor, they used him as a Ford decoy. Joe MacDonald was a frequent visitor at Fred's apartment, and Anne Ford MacDonald was Henry Ford Jr.'s first wife. When Fred moved to East 54th Street on the East Side of First Avenue, it was where Joe MacDonald lived. Also Noel Coward once lived there. When I met a women when I had dinner at the Mayfair restaurant near there named Mrs. MacDonald that looked like the Queen Mum of England, she told me the MacDonald family had the land grant for Western Canada. She was with somebody that might have been Winston Churchill's grand daughter, and she was complaining about crime in Manhattan to me. She like going to Billy's bar across the street, where she like chatting with the Sports Editor of the New York Times. When I knew Bobby Fink, he introduced me to brothers Michael and Louis from England that had the pent house apartment in that building. Ted Kennedy also had an apartment in that building. The arch diocese of Manhattan has their offices across the street on First Avenue. When I was at Daniel Construction now part of www.fluor.com , when I had Fred's new address in my desk address file, when I got back to Manhattan; there was a new 40 story building somebody built across the street from the building on East 54th Street. There was also somebody named Billy from South Carolina that lived in that building.
Also when I came off Nantucket in December 1983, Greenwich Social Service got me the $225 a month apartment in the attic at 100 Milbank Avenue and gave me $200 a month in welfare money, which went on even at 700 Steamboat Road for $400 a month to $475 a month, when I moved to this Byram Public housing for elderly and disabled individuals in January 1989. I had expensive hospital bills, so I was not eligible for unemployment from working out on Nantucket. I also ate a croissant, when I last went out. One of my last friends in Lake Forest, had a grandmother that owned Morgan Stanley, so possibly they were related to Lord Stanley up in Canada. Several of my professors at Lake Forest College were from McGill University in Montreal, where it is the Keysian School of Economics verus the University of Chicago Milton Freeman school of Economics that David Rockefeller had a PHD in, because his family gave them a hundred million dollars. John Davidson Rockefeller Jr.'s legal address for tax purposes was the Drake Hotel on Lake Michigan in Chicago. Another celebrity couple John and Avra Rockefeller also lived there.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 5:55 A.M. In the summer of 1974, when I was a guest of Kip Forbes at the Forbes farm in Far Hills, New Jersey, I knew there was a Greenwich connection with them since Mr. Dunn who lived on Glenville Road here in Greenwich was the publisher of Forbes magazine. At www.lakeforest.edu where I spent a lot of time at the library, I knew Mr. Donnelly who donated that library owned R.R. Donnelly which published over two million magazines world wide including Time Life magazine that had people from here in Greenwich including its chairman Mr. Lenin and the Luce family also lived in the area, and they started Time Life after working in China. Their daughter was a classmate at Lake Forest College. However, from my perspective in economics that I learned there, Rob and Rick www.ford.com that I went to Taft and Lake Forest College with who were Henry Ford Jr.'s nephews probably had a large circle of friends. William McCormick Blair who was the chairman of the Board of Trustees at Lake Forest College, was my friend's father's room mate at www.harvard.edu , where my friend's father was on the Board of Over Seers. William McCormick Blair had a big estate in Lake Bluff, Illinois; and he started Ducks Unlimited, where my friend went horse back riding every day. He was also President Kennedy's ambassador to Denmark and the Philippines. The Ford nephews lived on his estate, so they were more private. Another classmate from Tulsa named John Riggs had a family connection in owning the Riggs National Bank the main bank in Washington D.C. which I guess had Oklahoma oil money.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 5:25 A.M. Expensive House sale on Nantucket https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/09/29/barstool-founder-dave-portnoy-buys-most-expensive-home-in-massachusetts-history-this-42-million-nantucket-mansion/?sh=16521e4b522b .
The most I ever earned on Nantucket in the summer of 1983 was $8.75 an hour before taxes as the head dish washer, pot scrubber, and food prep work at https://languedocbistro.com/ from when I got back from Oslo, Norway at Easter Time in April 1983 until December 1983. I basically knew the people that I worked with, and that was about it. At the time the Mianus River Bridge fell down in Greenwich, so I was afraid to return to Greenwich.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 5:15 A.M. Old Fish https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2023/09/24/methuselah-oldest-fish-lungfish-captivity-js-cprog-orig.cnn?iid=homepage_video_zone-outbrain&dicbo=v4-zOyfxm0-1131160479 .
Turtles also live a long time. The sailors in the British Navy used to eat Sea Turtles in their worldwide adventures. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 4:45 A.M. When I first came off Nantucket in December 1983 to Le Guardia airport from Hyannis with Jackie Onassis on the plane, I took the Amtrak up to Toronto for a couple of weeks, where I stayed at the Anglican Seminary Library at the University of Toronto where John Bolton's grandfather West majored in Geology before discovering the oil in Saudi Arabia. It was zero degrees Fahrenheit up there, so when I came back to Manhattan, I spent two different weeks wandering homeless with a stay at the Greenwich Hospital, and the second time there, they said I was disabled, and my Social Worker Sid Ferie found me an inexpensive apartment in the attic at 100 Milbank Avenue here in Greenwich. In the homeless period in Manhattan, I would go Uncle Charlie's on Greenwich Street in Greenwich Village until it closed, and then I would rest at the East Side Airline terminal where Wolf Peugeot was located across the street from the Manhattan Power station that got coal from a underground railroad connection across the Hudson River. On the second floor of the East Side Airline terminal, there was a tennis club, where I would sneak in and shower and clean up. None of those places are there anymore.
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 4:10 A.M. Greenwich, Connecticut used to have a Florida connection. The Manero family that had a small farm on Glenville Road across from the former Rockefeller family estate had a steak house on Steamboat Road. They also had a steak house in Manhasset, Long Island, a steak house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and a steak house in Hollywood, Florida. However, since nobody can afford to eat steak anymore, they probably went out of business elsewhere too. They still have Greenwich Prime Meats https://www.yelp.com/biz/greenwich-prime-meats-greenwich . When I frequented Steamboat Road for forty years, occasionally on my birthday, I would buy a steak sandwich at their Steamboat Road business for about $7 and eat it on the steps of the Royal Bank of Scotland on the Harbor across from them. Alas with the Royal Bank of Scotland there, I never made any Scottish connections, but I knew John Bonham whose family owned Bessemer Trust which now occupies that building at 600 Steamboat Road. Ogden Phipps family that are involved with Bessemer Trust know my friend who used to live in Sands Point, New York at W. Averill Harriman's sister's estate, and he used to also be in charge of the Jockey Club https://www.jockeyclub.com/ in Manhattan. My friend that knew them is from East Aurora, New York outside of Buffalo, New York where all of the electricity comes from Niagara Falls, and back in the Fall of 1972, he and his family had me at the Fort Erie race track south of Toronto with the Queen Mum of England, so they have an Anglophile connection through his grandfather Jay Cogan that went to Sandhurst Military Academy in England and lived in Gladstone, New Jersey as president of the Illinois Central Railroad that my Grandfather Scott worked for sixty years as a railroad engineer and fireman on old steam locomotives that hauled lots of coal. However, since nobody seems to use coal anymore, I guess that is not important. Maybe we should have a railroad strike. My grandfather Scott was heavily involved with the Brotherhood of Railway Workers which is supposed to be the best union in the United State of America. On my first trip to Europe, I did get to ride on a lot of trains. The Carnegie family probably sold steel to the railroads with their United States Steel business before J.P. Morgan bought out Carnegie, and the local Frick family with Bethlehem Steel probably sold them a lot of steel. Andrew Carnegie was only five foot three inches tall, and he use to weave Harris Tweed cloth in Scotland before he came to America and worked for Tom Scott, the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They still have the Carnegie Foundation I think in Manhattan. On the Netflix series on the Medici family, I learned the Medici family in Italy used to use Scottish mercenaries, and that is probably why there is the Scottish Gate in Vienna, Austria, where one of the Medici woman became Queen besides another one being Queen of France. I guess in the old days, there was a lot of money in wool
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 3:05 A.M. I practiced speaking slow Midwestern English unlike fast talking New Yorker English. A lot of people whom think like to think before they talk.
I replaced the 15 watt bulbs in four Himalayan Salt lamps in the living room.
I am still waiting for my old Black and Decker Dust Buster to charge up before I use it.
In the Winter here when it is very cold to go outside, we sometimes like watching reruns of Ice Station Zebra and Dr. Zhivago which was playing on the first cable system in Manhattan in February 1982, when there was a minus 26 degree Fahrenheit wind chill outside, and as I recall I only had my $5 street parka with the colors of www.columbia.edu on it. If it were not for Bobby Fink from Hollywood, Florida putting me up for a week above a little Episcopal Church on East 52nd street, I might have frozen to death. It was a small studio apartment with a lot of heat.
I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee.
10/01/23 Sunday 1:50 A.M. Super Moon https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-66974472
Greenwich Communities proposed public housing https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-communities-cos-cob-18394534.php?src=gthpdesecp
$47.5 million house on two acres for sale in Mead's Point near the $135 million house that sold there recently https://www.greenwichtime.com/realestate/article/549-indian-field-road-greenwich-ct-18397354.php
I will now go outside again. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 1:35 A.M. In the sweater closet, I folded some of my colorful turtle necks, and I put them on the second sweater closet shelf that I cleared out that also has the two Norwegian Dale sweaters. I still have a number of other heavy sweaters too. It does get a bit cold here in the winter. CIO
10/01/23 Sunday 12:45 A.M. I will now go outside and drink a brewed coffee. CIO