Note:<888>11/07/99 Sunday 9:50 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 3 A.M. last night, and I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of Cheerios, toast, vitamins, orange juice,and coffee. I chatted with a family member. I worked on the computer all day. I uninstalled the Naturally Speaking 4.0 update for Microsoft Word, and I put on version 3.0 that came with the program, and it works much better in Microsoft Word, fast enough to make it useful. I started working on trying to get Real Audio to work which was not working. In the process of cleaning up some files, I noticed I had in my "C:\Windows\system" directory, two copies of "mfc42.dll" and "Mfc42.dll", got rid of the caps version and kept the Microsoft lower caps newer version from 9/16/99, and believe it or not the system runs a lot better. I tried installing Netmeeting, and it also works now. I finally called tech support at Optimum online about 3 P.M., and although I tried various options in Real Audio including changing setting and reinstalling it several times including reinstalling it from Optimum Online before I called them to no avail. While chatting with tech, I tried changing the "Preferences" setting by unchecking "Enhanced Video" and sure enough the Real Audio video now works fine. I optimized the C: and D: drives. I backed up the C: and D: drives to the E: drive. Ford dinner I pealed ten four inch Idaho potatoes, the smaller ones in the bag, and I diced them into 3/4 inch pieces and boiled them in water with a dash of salt for a half hour. I then put them in the Cuisinart with a quarter cup of milk and a half of stick of " I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" along a few dashes of Hungarian Pepperica, a dash of basil, a dash of garlic powder and I mixed them up into a pudding like consistency since I made the mistake of adding a half cup of milk which makes them too runny unless you were going to try to make potatoe pancakes out of them. Along with the mashed potatoes for dinner, I had a cold chicken leg and theigh with tobasco sauce and steamed frozen peas with pearl onion, and ice tea and I am just having my coffee right now. I refrigerated about four cups of the mashed potatoes. I chatted with a family member while boiling the potatoes. I have to do my laundry in a little while. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/07/99 Sunday 1:40 A.M. EDT: Well I went out after the last message. I parked in the center of town. I mailed two copies of my internet directory. I bought five stamps for $1.65. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I said good evening to a local Park and Recreation employee who seems to know the town better than I do. I sat out in front of the senior center. I walked up to the top of the Avenue. I noticed quite a few of the college crowd were having refreshments and the local pub and I noticed quite a few individuals were going to the movies. I studied the construction site for the Mitchell's department store, and they have filled in more of the southwest side of the foudation. I sat out at the top of the Avenue. I walked back down the Avenue, and two strollers barked at me something I did not understand. I returned down the Avenue and chatted tech with a local stroller. I then walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again. My feet were aching, so I came inside about midnight. I chatted with a couple of contacts. I had some microwave popcorn and a glass of ice tea. I also had eight Danish butter cookies and a few jelly beans. I am tired, so I will pass up doing the laundry this evening, and I will do it tomorrow when it is not busy. Well have a good morning. One British contact told me that the "House of Lords" had not been abolished, so I guess there is a disparity between between Western Hemisphere propaganda and that from the Eastern Hemisphere. Well I guess if I go to bed now, I will be out on an earlier schedule today, if it is not too cold. Present temperature is 47 degrees F.. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/06/99 Saturday 8:00 P.M. EDT: I was able to set up the Microsoft Word 97 regular label program to print out my pin labels from the manual sheet feed from the top the Lazer Printer, five labels fed in at a time. They come in handy for making flopping disk labels and other item label. I made five, two disks copies of my Internet Directory, and I put them in saran wrap and bound them together with Andy Boy brocolli bands for distribution, so I now have a shrink wrap copy of my directory. I still have to clean up, and there is still a wet spot where I scrupped the stain on the carpet which is annoying when you step on it barefoot. I still have to clean up and have a bite to eat before I go out for some fresh air. Have a good evening. I had a wrong number phone call while doing my work. CIO

Note:<888>11/06/99 Saturday 5:35 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, four strips of bacon, toast, coffee, orange juice and vitamins. I went back to bed and got up at 10 A.M.. I started cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. I listened to the last part of Tarzan of the Apes, by Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Listen to the audiobook on Yahoo! Broadcast while doing this. I also cleaned the mirrors and pictures with Windex. I finished about 3 A.M., and I had a dinner of cold chicken and theigh leg without the skin with tabasco sauce, steamed frozen peas with pearl onions, two small microwaved potatoes, ice tea and coffee. While drinking my coffee, I worked on a another project. Last night before going to bed, I had a stain on the carpet from when there was a hot water tank leak in the neighboring apartment. My Queen Anne chair had let off mahogany stain at one of the legs on the carpet, so when I moved it there was red mahogany stain. I should of taken care of the problem when it happened several months ago, but it did not show until I moved the chair when rearranging the apartment. I soaked the stain with white vinegar and salt which when I vacuumed it up this afternoon, some of it was still there. I then soaked the stain with lighter fluid and rubbed it in. After that I soaked the stain with a diluted mixture of of one fourth bleach and three fourths water. I wiped that in and worked it with a toothbrush. I then put a tad of blue bigment watercolor in a small amout of water and wiped that in. I then brushed it again with the toothbrush with the diluted bleach mixture to the best I could get it. I then poured on blue liquid detergent and brushed it with the tooth brush, and then I soaked up the detergent with fresh warm water rinsing out the carpet. The net result is the stain is barely visable, but it is still there; and the carpet around the two inch stain is a bit cleaner for about five inches in diameter. Well since it is old furniture stain, it is hard to remove. I guess in the Spring I will use my rug shampooer and clean the carpet better. I then seperated Scott's Internet Hotlist downloadable into two seperate files, which can be downloaded from download.htm, so one can carry the directory easily on two floppy disks in "Zip" format. Well I am now trying to print out some labels with the laser printer and Microsoft Word 97 Avery label printer. However the labels are old pin sheet feed labels, so I don't know how they will go through the laser printer. I need them to put on a few floppy disks on my directory for easy transport. Well after doing that, I might clean up; and go out for a breath of fresh air. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 7:50 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I viewed the merchandise. I bought an old Cablevision Box for $1.50 like they use to use before Cablevision. I then bought a buy one get one free of Parliaments for $2.75. I might try to smoke cigarettes a bit at home, so the smell of cigar cigarettes is not around, and I could smoke the cigar cigarettes outside. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I viewed the Mitchell's construction site. The have finished pouring about 40% of the first floor and started to fill in the foudation at the southwest corner. I sat out in front of the senior center. I drove down by the waterfront and the usual fishermen were there in force. I noticed yesterday while at Tod's Point, there was a brown grey heron on the road by the marsh area which I thought unusal for this time of the year. They had a picture of it in the local paper today. I chatted with the fishermen for a while. I then stopped by CVS and bought a tin of Danish cookies for $1.99 and eight roll pack of Scott Paper towels for $5 plus .30 Ct. sales tax for $7.29 total. Next week they are going to have 24 roll packs of Charmin on sale, and they already have them stacked up, but not on sale yet. I stopped by the local library and it was busy with lots of people using the internet terminals. I read the local paper. My feet were aching since I did not wear my usual Nikes. I returned home, and I fiddled with the cable box on the bedroom TV set, but it does not work with Optimum TV, so I put it away. I attached a Cable from the bedroom wall cable receptacle around to the bedroom backup computer, so if I ever pick up a LAN card for it, I could use my cable modem with it. 100 Meg Lan cards at CompUSA this week were $20 minus $10 mailin rebates, so I guess I could afford on some time. I relaxed a bit, and they annouced on CNBC that the Microsoft ruling had been annouced and that Bill Gates has to live as a hermit on a actively volcanic island for the rest of his life or something like that. I then watched a bit of the History Channel about the Mississippi River. I had some microwave popcorn and pumkin pie for dinner along with ice tea. Not much else happening, so have a good evening. I don't think I will be going out this evening, since my feet ache, and I am bit tired after having only five hours sleep last night and being up at 9 A.M. this morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 2:00 P.M. EDT: I chatted with a couple of family members for a while with www.dialpad.com . I ran Speedisk on the C:, D: and E: drives. While doing this I went downstairs and checked the mail. It is a nice day outside. I had lunch of cold chicken breast with tabassco, steamed frozen green beans, and microwaved potatoe, and ice tea. I am just about to have a cup of coffee and then I will go out to enjoy the day. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 10:50 A.M. EDT: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I made a backup of the E: drive to the C: drive while I was asleep. While having and eating breakfast, I backed up the D: drive to the E: drive and the C: drive to the E: drive. I rezipped the downloadable file download.htm to include few extra links I have added, nothing major. I will now run Norton Speedisk on all three drive, and I will shut down the server while I do it. I had breakfast of Post raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I guess I will either rest or clean up while running speedisk. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 3:30 A.M. EDT: I have not had anything to eat yet, since I have been busy on the computer. I made a mistake installing Dragon Naturally Speaking 3.0. I installed the update for it for 3.5 to 4.0; but after I trained it, I found it did not work in Microsoft Word. After many hours of tinkering with it, I finally figured out that the update was messing me up. I uninstalled it saving the sound file, and then I reinstalled it without the update. It now works with Microsoft Word 97, but it is a bit slow. It works faster with its own interface. I then installed the Microsoft Home Publishing 99 Suite. I will now have some Ramen noodles and Pumkin Pie for a snack with ice tea before going to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/04/99 Thursday 5:15 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at midnight last night and I was up at about 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, five strips of bacon, two pieces of toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I went out about 10 A.M.. I stopped by and mailed a letter at the West Putnam Avenue post office off the side road. I stopped by the Hosptial Thrift Shop. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and did some business. I stopped by the Mews Thrift shop, and they gave me a Honeywell enviracaire air filter that they had out by the dumpster. I drove down by the harbor and besides the usual fishermen, I chatted with a fisherman from Russia. The CBS news truck was also there with their satellite in the up position. I told them about having once worked for CBS news in 1973. I drove over to Old Greenwich, and I got my hair cut for at Off Center barbers for $15 plus $5 tip. They give a very good hair cut there. I went to the Old Greenwich Thrift shop and bought a 10 inch electric burner liner for $1.50 and I stopped by CVS and bought a bottle of garlic powder for .99, a bottle of Bay Leaves for .99 plus a bottle of 91% alcohol for cleaning my tape drive for $1.39, plus two bags of jelly beans for .99 each plus .12 CT. tax for $5.47 total. I drove out to Tod's Point, but it was too windy to walk. I noticed by the caretaker's cottage near the chained off entrance to the upper property, there was a very large dead tree that had fallen down. It would supply about fifteen cords of firewood, if properly split up; and since the tree was dead, the wood would be dry. I stopped by Staples and found two packeage of software in the Clearence Bin for $9.99 each "Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard Version 3 with headset and Microsoft Publishing Suite 99 with "Home Publishing 99", "Picture It! 99" and the Hallmark Connections. I bought three package of open pins from the Clearence area for $1.50 total and I then went to Putnam Trust Bank of New York in Riverside to withdraw funds for the software. I returned and bought the two packages of software for $9.99 each plus $1.20 tax for $21.18 total. I then headed over to the Greenwich Library and read the local paper, and I chatted with a couple of regular patrons. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I returned home, and I installed the new HoneyWell air purifier. It had hardly been used. I threw out the old Hospital Electronic air purifier which is dangerous. I had some ice tea. I sorted out my pins as to those which that work and don't work, and I put them in four cups by the desk on the computer. I put out the jelly beans on the lazy susan on the oak dining table. I now will install the two software packages. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/03/99 Wednesday 10:50 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at midnight last night and started a tape backup. I got up twice during the night and it had failed and I restarted it. I finally got up at 9 A.M.. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Raisin Bran, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I reconfigured the backup program updating the SCSI drive, and put the Veritas updated backup on and then reinstalling the Seagate backup, and starting it again. It ran until about 4 P.M. and failed. While doing this I slept. I tried the same configuration, but this time setting the SCSI driver setting to "/W95" and not adding the other parameters. I also did one drive at a time. I just finished backing up the entire system, except for a 100 kbytes of the D: drive. I watched television while doing most of this. Earlier I read two month's back issues of the Greenwich Post and Interactive Week. After watching the ABC news I had dinner of cold chicken breast with tabassco, steamed frozen green beans, microwave potatoe, ice tea and coffee. I made up a batch of icetea.htm while doing the tape backup. I watched Animal World after the BBC news. I just finished the tape backup and restarted the server. I found these two links in the Greenwich Post Lolly Prince '99 who won yesterday's election for First Selectman and The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce, Greenwich CT . I also found a link to this firewall Welcome to Network ICE if you happen to afford $40. Well since I got up late, I guess I will do a little computer and internet work. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/02/99 Tuesday 10:10 P.M. EDT: I had dinner of roasted chicken, steamed green beans, microwaved potatoe, ice tea, and coffee. I watched a little bit of the Arts and Entertainment Channel. I guess I will do a little internet work now. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/02/99 Tuesday 7:15 P.M. EDT: Well before I went out, I took the two leaves out of the dining room table and moved it around a bit to make more room in the apartment. I also put away two of the blue bent wood chairs in the cieling. I rearranged the table, and I put the two minature palms in the window. I put the restored leather office chair in opposite the dining room table next to the day bed. I put the shield of Pall Mall back up on the book case, and I put the Bermuda watercolor on the back of the entry door. I put mom's picture above the restore leather chair. I put a folding TV table next to the computer to hold the mouse pad and my note paper. I put the Veterans of World War I books back in the bookcase. I think the apartment looks a bit more spacious now. I went about 3 P.M., and I stopped by the Fleet Bank in Byram to use their ATM. I voted at the New Lebannon School. I stopped by the Arnold Bread store and bought three loaves of 3 seed bread and a pumkin pie for $6.35. I drove downtown and I drove down by the waterfront, but no one was there on a rainy day. I went by the library and read three computer newsweeklies. The Greenwich Times was not available. I stopped by the Grand Union five cans of Cento Crushed tomatoes for $2, Ragu 4 Alfredo sauce $2.19, a bulb of garlic .51, four cans of Cento tomatoe paste two for .99,a Red Baron Pizza for $3.99, Ronzoni spinich fettucini $1.65, GU frozen peas with onions $1.34, GU whole green beans frozen $1.50, GG frozen brocolli pieces $2, two "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" $1.29, two 12 packs of Vintage seltzer $1.99 each plus $1.20 can deposit for $26.85 total. I went to pay but the ATM machine at the store was out of money, so I paid all but $4 and then went to the Putnam Trust bank ATM and withdrew funds and returned to the store and repaid the manager the $4. It was pouring rain heavily when I left the store. I brought the groceries up, and I put them away. I showed one my neighbors my apartment. I started cooking the Purdue chicken and it should be ready in a little over an hour. Well I guess I will relax a bit have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/02/99 Tuesday 1:45 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, five strips of bacon, orange juice, and vitamins. I went back to bed after breakfast and awoke again about 11 P.M.. I did some computer work. I just had some Ramen noodles and ice tea. Not much going on a rainy day. I have to get out and vote in about an hour. I checked with Bank of New York, and their online banking program does not work with Microsoft Money 99, but they have their own online banking program that works with bill paying for $8.95 a month. It would seem Bank of New York is behind the times in online banking. Well I guess I should start cleaning up, and getting ready to go out and vote. I also have to stop by the Arnold Bread Store. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>11/01/99 Monday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I did a few errand around the house, and I had lunch of reheated spegeheitti sauce and Ramen noodles with ice tea and coffee. I smoke a couple of cigars since I was out of cigar cigarettes. At about 2:30 P.M. I went out downtown. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and did some banking. I went by the bank on Lafayette Place and paid my rent. I drove down Greenwich Avenue and parked downtown, and I went to the Post Office. It was busy, so I walked across the street and bought three packs of basic regular buy two get one free for $6.40. I then went back to the post office and waited in line for a while, and I paid my MCI and Bell Atlantic telephone bills along with my GEICO insurance with money order which is cheaper than bank money orders. I then stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop and bought the roll of hemp webbing for $1.75 that I had asked them to save me. I chatted with a few visitors from Scotland, one of whom looked like my paternal grandmother. She did not seem to recognize me. I happened to be dressed up for a change, so at least I made a presentable appearrence. I noticed in Yahoo Reuters today, they have a picture of Bill Clinton with King Olaf's younger brother whom I am not sure is the King of Norway. I guess the Norwegians know whom is King by whoms picture is on the money. I then stopped by Exxon and bought $14 of Exxon Premium. I then drove down to the I95 and drove up to Cable Vision in Norwalk. I paid my Optimum Online and my Cablevision for the last two months. I was told that as oppose to the @home, I can get the Optimum Online package $10 cheaper and own my own cable modem, however I am not sure that service is available in Greenwich. One can pick up the modem and what ever software you need for it at the Wiz in Norwalk. I then went by CompUSA in Norwalk. I toured the store merchandise, but I did not buy anything. I thought about buying the last headset microphone set from Lan? Electronics for about $20, but I figured my Andrea electronic microphone I bought a couple of years ago for $50 is better. I then drove through Darien. I stopped by CVS and bought a carton of Phillie Cigar cigarettes for $15.90 individually with $2.50 off in stickers and two bags of jelly beans for .99 each with .92 Ct. Sales tax for $16.30 total. I then stopped by the Greenwich Libray and read the local paper. I then went by the Grand Union and bought a quart of 2% parmalat milk for $1.55, a Stauffer's 20 oz. lasagna for $2.99, GU 2% milk half gallon $1.95, two half gallons of Sealtest orange juice not from Concentrate for $2.50 each, three cans of Progresso New England Clam chowder for .99 each, two packages of Oscar Meyer bacon for $2.50 each, a dozen GU eggs for $1.49, four boxes of three piece plate, cup, and saucer Churchill English China with the blue and white pattern like I got before for $1.99 each for $32.74 with .48 tax. I now have 12 setting of the three piece china set. I will leave them unused for guests if I should ever dain to have guests. I returned home and I had a diet Sprite in a frosted mug and relaxed a bit after I filed this report. Well not much happening. It was pretty much a normal day. I have to remember to set back the clock in the car. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/01/99 Monday 10:00 A.M. EDT: I was up at 4 A.M., and I had breakfast of Post Raisin Bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I went out side and smoke a White Owl cigar since I was out of cigar cigarettes. I came back in and fell asleep until about 9 A.M.. I went out and smoke a Middletown Cherry light cigar. I restarted the Apache server logs for the new month. Well I have to clean up and go out pay some bills at the first of the month. I probably will drive up to Norwalk Cablevision and pay my Cable and Optimum Online cable modem bills and stop by CompUSA on the way back. Well first of the month is alway busy. Have a good day. CIO