Note: <888> 11/30/02 Saturday 10:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I finished restoring the backups to the C: drive, but when I rebooted the system would not boot.  Probably overwriting the restore from the first group of files caused the problem.  I am now reinstalling Windows XP Professional on the C: drive.  Hopefully the system will be back to normal, although I probably will have to do some tweaking.  I just had a piece of pumpkin pie with whipped cream and ice tea.  I am watching some television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/30/02 Saturday 8:50 P.M.:  The primary computer motherboard has three pins next to the CPU for connecting the fan.  I forgot to mention, I did my housecleaning and watering the plants this afternoon while running the computer install.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/30/02 Saturday 8:35 P.M.:  After trying to reinstall Windows XP Professional on the new Maxtor drive,  the system did not boot properly since the boot drive was the D: drive and the second drive was the C: drive.  I tried fixing this to no avail.  I finally put the original C: drive back in the computer as the D: drive and the new Maxtor drive as the C: drive.  Before going to bed at 6 A.M., I ran the Maxtor utility to transfer the files from the old drive to the new drive.  I woke up at noon, and the utility had finished running. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee outside.  I reinstalled Windows XP professional again, and this time the system had the same problem.  I put in the new Maxtor drive as the C: drive and the old D: backup drive.  I then reinstalled Windows XP Professional on the reformatted new Maxtor drive, and Windows XP Professional is now running on the primary computer fine.  I started restoring my mid September 2002 backup from the D: drive to the C: drive.  My system has not changed much since then, and more than likely since the backup is newer, it is better.  While it was running, I cleaned up, and I went out.  I drove over to Smokes for Less, but they were closed.  I then drove by Entrée computer, but they were closed.  I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, but they do not carry CPU fans.  I then drove up to CompUSA in Norwalk.  I bought a CompUSA Pentium III FC-PGA series AMD Athalon/Duron Series CPU cooling fan/heat sink up to 1.2 GHz which works with my AMD K6II 450 MHz processor for $14.99 plus .90 tax for $15.89 total.  It does not have a power supply connector Y, but a three receptacle socket plug for the motherboard.  If it does not work with my motherboard, I will splice the cooling fan to one of the old cooling fan power supply cables that connect to the power supply.  I returned to Greenwich, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I returned back to my apartment, and I started the second of four restores.  Windows XP prompted me to install the Windows XP disk, so it could put back the right files which I just restored.  I did this, which may or may not be right.   I had the same dinner as last night.  I am about ready to start the 3^rd part of the restore.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/30/02 Saturday 1:30 A.M.:  I removed the D: drive, and I put the new Maxtor 20 gigabyte drive in its place.  I did not use the Maxtor utility for disk partitioning, instead I used Windows XP disk manager and I also formatted it.  I also set it as the D: drive instead of the F: drive by temporarily disabling the CD and the CD/RW drives.   I was not able to get the Maxtor disk utility to boot since it used DR. Dos, so I booted my machine with Windows ME enabling the CD drive.  I then from the Maxtor Cdrom enabled the mouse, and I started its disk utility.  I chose the advanced option, and I copied the contents of the original C: drive to the D: drive.  This took about three hours.  I had dinner of reheated slices of turkey, wild rice, with mushroom gravy on both along with stuffing and cranberry gel and ice tea.  I watched some television.  Once the C: drive was copied to the D: drive, I removed the old C: drive, and I put the new Maxtor drive in its place as the C: drive, and I put the old D: drive back in. I had to change the dip pins doing this.  I also put on a new IDE cable.  I had to replace my CPU fan with an older fan since the current one was going very slowly.  When I rebooted, I had to run Fdisk from the Windows ME boot disk, so as to enable the first hard drive partition which is the new Maxtor 20 gigabyte 7200 rpm drive.  Still when I booted, the system would not boot all the way stopping just before the logon screen.  After trying safe boot, I decided to install from the Windows XP Professional disk using the System Recovery option.  I am now in the process of that running it with five minutes to go.  I just had a piece of pumpkin pie with whipped cream and ice tea.  I am writing this on the backup computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/29/02 Friday 2:30 P.M.:  I was up at 7 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then cleaned up, and I went out.  I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went to the central Greenwich Post Office, and I obtained money orders to pay my GEICO automobile insurance, Northeast Utilities electricity, AT&T long distance, and a $80 money order for the Connecticut Department of Motor vehicles to renew my Hyundai registration for the next two years.  I also bought fifty 37 cent Frosty the Snowman Christmas Holiday stamps for $18.50.  I then went over to the First Union National Bank on Havemayer Place to pay my rent.  I next drove up to the Wiz in Norwalk, and I paid my cablevision and Optimum online bills.  I then went to CompUSA, and they had special sales from 7 A.M. to noon today.  I bought a CompUSA Maxtor 20 gigabyte 7200 RPM hard drive for $59.99 plus $3.60 tax for $63.59 total.  I paid $35 of it with the CompUSA gift card they sent me for a rebate.  The Maxtor drive also has a $40 mailin rebate from Maxtor, so ultimately it will cost me about $23.  I then returned to Greenwich, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then sat out downtown for a while.  I next went to Exxon, and I bought $6.25 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.679 a gallon for about 24 miles per gallon.  I then returned home.  I researched Maxtor?s web site www.maxtor.com , and they have a bootable utility Max Blast Plus II 1.30 that one can use to make a drive image copy of one?s old C: drive with the new drive installed as the D: drive temporarily to copy it which works with NTFS file format and for Windows XP.  I will now install the new drive temporarily as the D: drive and copy the contents of the C: drive to it.  If all goes successfully, I will then install the new Maxtor 20 gigabyte drive 7200 RPM as the C: drive keeping my old D: Maxtor 20 gigabyte drive for backups.  The Maxtor C: drive 15 gigabyte drive I will be removing is three years old, and I think I will just keep as a hard drive backup of my system.  I will first have a piece of pumpkin pie with whipped cream and ice tea before starting this procedure.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/28/02 Thursday 11:35 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will be going to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/28/02 Thursday 9:50 P.M.:  After a bountiful Thanksgiving meal, I turned on television and on Channel 21 PBS, they have a period show about World War II rationing in England, which makes one appreciates one?s benefits today.  I chatted with a couple of family members.  I had a piece of Pumpkin pie with Reddi Wip whipped cream.  I will now prepare my bills for paying tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/28/02 Thursday 7:45 P.M.:  I had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner.  Last night before going to bed, I had a piece of pumpkin pie and Reddi Wip whipped cream topping.  For Thanksgiving dinner, I had two one third inch thick slices of the Butterball honey roasted turkey breast.  I heated the slices in the microwave oven for two minutes.  I made up a batch of stuffing www.geocities.com/mikelscott/stuff2.htm .  I also took three cans of Franco American mushroom gravy and added a half box 6 ounces of sliced mushrooms which I heated.  I boiled the Canada Lake wild rice in 4 cups of water simmering for 60 minutes with a third of a box of sliced mushrooms 4 ounces added.  I strained the rice and mushrooms in a wire strainer.  I had the wild rice with the mushroom gravy on it and also on the turkey with the same mushroom gravy.  I also had steamed slices of fresh yellow squash and broccoli florets.  I had a dish of the Ocean Spray cranberry gel too along with ice tea.  The stuffing was delicious, and I also added a few dashes of Angostura bitters and one smaller apple for three total and instead of four cloves of garlic, I used eight cloves of garlic and three chicken bouillon cubes.  I also added the dashes of seasoning to taste.  I have plenty of leftovers in the refrigerator.  I will have a slice of pumpkin pie and Reddi Wip whipped cream topping in a little while once I have digested my dinner.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/28/02 Thursday 5:25 P.M.:  I was up at noon.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went out, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I met three visitors from 1.5 hours drive south of Florence, Italy.  I gave them a ride to the Glory Days diner.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue one and a half times.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove back down by the waterfront.  I then sat out briefly at the Greenwich Library.  I just now returned.  I chatted with a new tenant that will be moving in soon.  I will now cook my Thanksgiving Day dinner.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/28/02 Thursday 12:05 A.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed directly.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/27/02 Wednesday 10:35 P.M.:  Well, I have been exposed to colder weather than this before.  I remember temperatures in this area down to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero before.  Also it was cold out at Lake Forest College where I went to college.  It was also cold when I lived in Boston.  Also when I was living outside in Florida in 1976 to 1978 during the winter, it would occasionally go down into the 20s and the temperature in the daytime when one was outside would not go into the 50s.  When I drove across country in the fall and winter, I was exposed to cold weather.  When I initially arrived in Oslo, Norway in February 1983 it was cold, but it warmed up a bit after a week.  Also on trips to Canada and Europe in the winter, it was a bit chilly.  Thus I am basically a cold weather person as long as I have an indoor home with heat.  Of course during the colder weather it tends to get drier which is easier on the arthritis.  Still all the years I was on a night schedule, it tended to be colder at night.  I try to go out every day in the winter during the dry days to get a bit of fresh air.  Of course if people came from warmer climates they might be a bit uncomfortable out in this weather.  Well, I suppose we should have the ?Freezing Norwegian? patrol out and about to make sure no one is in distress.  My apartment has a northwest exposure with the western part of the building blocking the wind from the west, but when the wind is out of the north, it comes howling around the roof outside my window, and it can get colder.  I keep a heavy comforter on my bed so as not to get cold when I sleep.  Anyway, I suppose there are much colder areas around the country and the world right now.  This is still early in the winter season, so it might get colder as winter progresses.  If the ponds freeze, one should be careful not to venture out on to them; until one is sure the ice is thick enough.  Still, it seems a bit cold for this time of year.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/02 Wednesday 10:00 P.M.:  I had some pretzels and ice tea.  I chatted with a relative.  I put away the new batch of ice tea.  It is 26 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  My relative suggested that I put out my two DeLonghi oil filled radiators.  I put one on either end of the glass coffee tables in between the two living room couches.  I have them ready to turn on during colder weather.  I also turned the living room thermostat up a degree, so it is set at 75 degrees Fahrenheit, and right now the living room temperature is 73 degrees Fahrenheit.  Of course it might get colder later on this winter.   I have the bedroom thermostat at 61 degrees Fahrenheit, but the box fan above the living room electric radiators blows some of the living room heat into the hallway, bedroom, and bathroom.  I got an $80 bill today I have to pay to renew my automobile registration at the first of the year.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/02 Wednesday 8:10 P.M.:  I had two hotdogs with buns and Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup and potato chips and a dill pickle slice and ice tea.  I am now having some pretzels and ice tea.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm  using 23 tea bags of 13 varieties for 12 quarts of ice tea total.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/02 Wednesday 7:15 P.M.:  I modified my recipe for the Arnold Premium stuffing www.geocities.com/mikelscott/stuff2.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/02 Wednesday 6:45 P.M.:  I was up at noon.  I scraped a light coating of snow off my car.  I also brushed off the benches in front of the building with a broom, so hopefully they would dry.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  They will be closed until next Monday.  I bought eight Christmas tree ornaments.  I bought for a little wooden nutcracker soldier for $1, a little wooden snow covered house for a dollar, a little bird on a perch for a dollar, and for a quarter each an drum, penguin, snowman, sled with gifts, and angel for $4.25 total.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with some locals.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper, and I checked out a DVD video disk.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a tin of low cholesterol Danish cookies for $1.99.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought buy one get one free of UTZ sourdough pretzels for $1.99 both bags and a can of Swanson?s 14 ounce chicken broth for .99 for $2.98 total.  I will now put the ornaments on my little two foot tall artificial Christmas tree.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/02 Wednesday 12:30 A.M.:  I finished the updates on the backup computer of all three partitions of the RealOne 2.0 player and the other updates necessary for other programs.  I listened to http://www.warx.com/ while doing this.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed shortly after having some pretzels and ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/26/02 Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:  I downloaded and installed RealOne Player 2.0 on the primary computer, and I am in the process of putting it on the backup computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/26/02 Tuesday 8:10 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I had a bowl of pretzels.  I had a call from a relative who got another call from another relative on another line and will be calling back.  I wrapped up the pumpkin pie.  I saw on Dr. Robert Barefoot?s infomercial on Coral Calcium that it helps one sleep better, and sure enough since I have been taking the Vitamin Shoppe generic brand of Coral Calcium, I have been sleeping better.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/26/02 Tuesday 7:00 P.M.:  They saying the snow might not develop.  I chatted with a friend.  For dinner, I had a Stouffer?s 21 ounce lasagna with grated parmesan cheese on it along with ice tea.  I am letting the pumpkin pie cool for two hours.  I am not sure whether I will have some now or keep it until Thanksgiving.  I watched the ABC evening news.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/26/02 Tuesday 5:35 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a friend at 8 P.M. this morning.  I slept until noon.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went out about 2 P.M., and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned a DVD video disk, and I checked out a DVD video disk.  I then went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought buy one get one free of Mrs. Smith?s 37 ounce frozen Pumpkin pies $4.99 for both, buy one get one free of 10 ounce boxes of sliced mushrooms $2.19 both boxes, a 12.5 ounce bag of Wise potato chips $1.99, broccoli crowns at $1.69 a pound $2, a red pepper at $1.99 a pound $1, a Butterball boneless honey roasted turkey breast at $3.99 a pound $9.22,  6 ounce box of Canadian Lake Wild rice $3.69, three 10.5 ounce cans of Franco American mushroom gravy $2 all, a 14 ounce container of original Reddi Wip whipped cream $2.99 for $30.76 total.  I now have my Thanksgiving dinner.  I am not having Yams this year, but I also have a can of Ocean Spray cranberries in the refrigerator and a big bag of Arnold Herbal stuffing to use to make my stuffing recipe www.geocities.com/mikelscott/stuffing.htm .  I returned home, and I am cooking one of the Mrs. Smith?s pumpkin pies, since I do not have room for two in the freezer.  My dental appointment was cancelled tomorrow because of the impending snow.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 11:05 P.M.:  I am a bit tired.  I will shut down the computer.  I guess I might head off to bed shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 10:50 P.M.:  I watched a DVD video disk.  I had a bowl of pretzels and ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 7:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I spent some time down there chatting with waterfront viewers.  I then drove downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local paper, and I returned and checked out video DVD disks.  I then returned home.  I had a bowl of pretzels.  I ate about ten Danish cookies.  For dinner I had a half box of boiled spaghetti noodles with the rest of the reheated tomato meat sauce with grated parmesan cheese along with ice tea.  I watched a bit of television.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 2:05 P.M.:  I rested for a while.  I had four Danish cookies.  I will now clean up and go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 11:30 A.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and then coffee outside.  I will clean up and go out enjoy the warmer day shortly.  The Livingston family that the Bush family is related to is an old New York family that I believe signed the Declaration of Independence.  I believe they have their family seat in Livingston county up the Hudson River near Hyde Park.  I believe they restored the Livingston family manor recently.  Of course after producing so many generations of missionaries, there might not be many left in this country.  Of course as anyone knows in the New York area, there are plenty of the Jay family members still around.  As for the Scotts, I would imagine they are still around, but they were more venturesome, so they spread out around the country and the world.  Whether any ever went back to Europe, it is hard to say.  They last two days I have awaken to a dream about a web site link to earthquakes in California.  Let?s hope nothing is about to happen.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 12:30 A.M.:  Well for the few of us remaining on this side of the pond, there is http://www.bbcamerica.com/bbcamerica.jsp which I found at this useful list http://www.worldvillage.com/sitereviews/family.html which should keep your mouse happy for a while.  I am a bit chilly, so maybe I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/02 Monday 12:10 A.M.:  There is a new ?W? page http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/cousins/georgebush/index.htm which indicates he is related to the ?Livingston? family.  Coincidentally about ten years ago or more, I sent a small book to his father?s WH about the history of missionaries from Yale College published around 1812 listing the first two hundred years of missionaries sent out by Yale, and the most common family name was Livingston.  The web site also mentions John Jay?s wife was a Livingston, but I once read John Jay?s mother who had the property was a Scott.  Well in all the literature over the years I have read there is lots of reference to people immigrating to this country from Europe, but there is not much mention of people traveling back from here to Europe to return.  Well generally travel is two ways, so more than likely a few people have returned back to their roots.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/02 Sunday 9:55 P.M.:  Of course when I was engaged in the restaurant business, it was during the depressed economic cycle in the New England economy before venture capitalists discovered computers and technology.   In 1968 to 1972, I obtained a liberal arts bachelor of arts degree in Economics, and I read probably close to 2000 books on the subject of economics to obtain the degree.  Basically quite a few of my economics professors were from McGill University http://www.mcgill.ca/  in Montreal, Canada teaching at Lake Forest College, so when I interviewed with many New York businesses and banks, they were not interested in my economics degree.  However, the last person I worked for in Nantucket painting had a family bank called Greenshield Bank in Montreal, Canada which appears to be something else today http://www.greenshield.ca/  or http://www.freedomdomain.com/bankfed.htm or which case it might be the Rothchild Bank or maybe Richardson Greenshield.  Whatever the case, I had a Canadian connection. 

Note: <888> 11/24/02 Sunday 9:25 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  The new ?007? film is playing at the train station movie theatre.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 12.5 ounce bottles of Joy antibacterial dish washing detergent for .79 each plus .09 tax for $1.67 total.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought buy one get one free of UTZ sourdough pretzels 14.5 ounce bags for $1.99 both.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a friend, and I chatted with a relative.  I had a bowl of pretzels and some ice tea.  Speaking of dishwashing when I was younger and more energetic, I worked as a waiter here in Greenwich at Boodles restaurant in 1973.  When I went to Nantucket in the spring of 1977, I worked at the Nantucket bakery baking for about a month, Captain Toby?s chowder house for about a month dishwashing.  I then worked at the Gordon Folger restaurant for about four months pot scrubbing.  I next worked for a couple of months at Henry?s Bakery baking for a couple of months, then the India House dishwashing.  I then worked for the rest of the season in 1978 the following season at the Languedoc restaurant dishwashing and pot scrubbing up to 80 hours a week, and I returned I believe in 1983 for the same occupation.  It is hard to recall the exact dates, but the restaurant kitchen activity was very hard, and it was not what would imagine a working vacation to be about.  Basically working in a kitchen one loses ones appetite for food.  I recall also house painting one season, which I think was 1978, so maybe I did the kitchen work in 1979 too.  It is a while ago, so it is hard to recall.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/24/02 Sunday 5:10 P.M.:  I had two hotdogs with buns and Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup and potato chips and a dill pickle spear and ice tea.  I am now going to have a 50% Brazilian instant coffee and 50% Chock Full of Nuts instant coffee.  I will then clean up and go out to enjoy the brisk evening.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/24/02 Sunday 4:20 P.M.:  I had a call from a friend last night before going to bed.  We chatted for a while.  There was a line connection problem and we kept getting disconnected.  I was up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I fell back to sleep until 3 P.M..  I had 16 Danish cookies and ice tea.  I will look at the sale sights for computers such as www.compusa.com , www.staples.com , www.circuitcity.com .  I will then clean up and check out in the cooler late afternoon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/23/02 Saturday 10:05 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I finished off the pretzel rods, and I had about six Danish cookies.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will probably go to bed shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/23/02 Saturday 6:55 P.M.:  I finished the laundry and put it away.  I had dinner of reheated spaghetti noodles and tomato meat sauce with grated parmesan cheese and ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/23/02 Saturday 5:20 P.M.:  I have 40 minutes left on the dry cycle.  I wore my long Chinese made down filled overcoat today which was comfortable on a windy day.  I have left if out on the valet rack by the end of the day bed, so it is convenient to put on when I go outside to sneak a smoke.  Well, there were plenty of people out today not very warmly dressed, but they were just dashing between automobiles and shops.  I did see quite a few kids out not wearing jackets, so they must be used to colder weather.  I also wore my long underwear bottoms and my Polar Bear cap and my Burberry scarf and leather gloves.  Since I spent a couple of hours out in the cold, I felt it necessary to dress more warmly.  Of course if it were down to zero degrees Fahrenheit, I would be wearing the same clothes, since they are about as warm as my clothes go on a colder day.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/23/02 Saturday 4:45 P.M.:  I was up at 9 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I had a call from a relative.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I had a bowl of Progresso New England clam chowder and ice tea and a cup of Brazilian instant coffee.  I went out about 1 P.M., and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library.  I returned home.  I am on the wash cycle of two loads of laundry.  I put clean sheets on the bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 8:10 P.M.:  I had six Danish cookies after dinner.   I watched a bit of television.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 6:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I just now returned home in a heavy rain storm.  I am going to boil a box of spaghetti noodles, and I will have half of them with tomato meat sauce that I am defrosting and grated parmesan cheese and ice tea.  I should be ready to eat in about 25 minutes.  I have charged up the Slaymaker 1,000,000 watt rechargeable lantern beam.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 2:10 P.M.:   I saw my relative and friend right at 2 P.M. with the red sweater on the starboard bow of the upper level of the Crown Odyssey.  I wish I could be there.  Well, I will finish watching the ship go through the lock.  I have cleaned up, and I will go out afterward.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 1:30 P.M.:  This is the boat my relative will be on http://www.orientlines.com/fleet/cr/index.htm , however the relative is on the starboard side and the camera is on the port side, so maybe I will now be able to see the relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 1:05 P.M.:  I watched some television.  I had seven pretzel rods and seven Danish cookies.  I put a container of frozen spaghetti tomato meat sauce to defrost in the refrigerator.  I want to watch my relative pass through the Panama Canal at 2 P.M. EST http://www.pancanal.com/ .  The relative said they would hang a red sweater from the side of their balcony, so they might be more easily recognized.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week 11/22/02:

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 11:50 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then clean up and go out for some downtown activity.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 11:40 A.M.:  I put the pine cone wreath with the CVS ornaments on my front door.  I put the little two foot artificial tree by the day bed on the Buckingham Palace candy tin.  I am in the process of charging up the Slaymaker 1,000,000 watt lantern beam light.  It should be fully charged about 6 P.M. this evening.  It seems to gradually lose its charge without recharging every few months.  For those of you interested in an alternative Greenwich news source, the Greenwich Citizen www.greenwichcitizen.com is available online.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/22/02 Friday 10:45 A.M.:  I was up at 9 A.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  It is one of those overcast days that are so typical of New England this time of year.  Still, it is not too cold out only 48 degrees Fahrenheit.  I listened to a bit of the http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram .  I have a relative cross through the Panama Canal today, and at 2 P.M. EST, I can view the relative going through a lock in the canal on their live camera.  I have noticed a lot more new faces in Greenwich recently, but maybe it is just more unemployed people working at home whom have time to go downtown and try to network outside of their former work environments.  It is my viewpoint; a lot of the news organizations can not afford news offices anymore particularly overseas, so they just sit in any old Starbucks and write the news from there.  Of course here in Greenwich, we have the Greenwich Library, where one can hook up their laptop computers if one has a network LAN card in the laptop and a LAN cable.  Thus the traveling laptop community is probably somewhat comfortable in Greenwich.  There is not a lot to report on.  Since it is towards the end of the month, I am on a more limited budget.  Of course it does not cost that much to go down by the waterfront and observe, but usually on overcast and rainy days, there are not too many people around down there, and I am just left with the sea gulls.  Of course out in Nantucket they have rainy foggy overcast days all the time.  I suppose this weather is a bit like northern Europe, so people from that area whom happen to be in our area are relatively comfortable.  One can always go out and browse the shops in Greenwich, but since over half the shops are women?s shops, there is not much for the guys to do but browse the library, book shops, or read the newspaper in Starbucks.  Richards is a large men?s shop in Greenwich, but they tend to be pricey.  I some times see people slipping into a movie in the daytime.  One could always walk West Putnam Avenue and browse the automobile showrooms.  For the computer geeks here in downtown Greenwich, we do have one small computer shop Entrée computer on Mason Street.  Of course one could sit in the train station and just watch people coming and going.  On a day like today, it is not much fun sitting on a bench downtown.  I suppose if one were older, they could go to the senior and arts center in the town.  The Bruce Museum usually has exhibits, but it is only free on Tuesday.   Of course some people have a bite to eat out at one of the many local restaurants.  Of course on a limited budget, one has to keep a little change in one?s pocket, so one does not get arrested for loitering or vacancy.  Of course the nature of the news business, one has to be out there observing the pulse of the community to see what is happening.  However, this time of year, it is more than likely early Christmas shoppers.  I think I will now put out my Christmas wreath and put my small artificial Christmas tree up on the Danish bar.  Of course if one did mind the damper weather, one could take a nature walk at Tod?s Point.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/21/02 Thursday 10:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch a bit of television before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/21/02 Thursday 9:50 P.M.:  I did a little bit of regular computer work.  I had a piece of cheese cake, and I finished off the container of Edy?s toffee ice cream.  For any nautical types this link http://www.pancanal.com/ has a live camera on the Panama Canal to see ships passing through one of the locks.  Well not much happening here on the far side of town.  I suppose there are a few people like me walking when the weather is nicer trying to shed a few pounds.  I suppose the people whom one never sees have gotten too big to be able to go outside and walk around.  I wore my new green Wellington jacket today for that English Country look to go with the English Country look of my apartment décor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/21/02 Thursday 7:35 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought an Eveready Steel sportsman 3 D battery flashlight for $1.  It has the blinker signal switch on it.  I then made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went by the waterfront.  I then went to the Greenwich Library, and I read the local paper.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 16 ounce can of Ocean Spray jellied cranberry sauce for .79 and a 1.5 liter bottle of CVS mouthwash for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.90.  I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought a green and black Eveready flashlight for $2.99 plus .18 tax for $3.17.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove by Exxon, and they were out of regular unleaded gasoline, so I bought Exxon Plus unleaded gasoline at $1.799 a gallon for $7.55 total or about 20 miles per gallon.  There must be heavier traffic driving in the daytime this week in Greenwich.  I then went by McDonalds, and I bought two Big and Tasty hamburgers for $1 each plus .12 tax for $2.12.  I then returned home.  I put long life Fuji Alkaline D batteries in the two new flashlights, and I put them in the back seat of the Hyundai.  I now have five flashlights in the Hyundai and seven flashlights and lanterns in the apartment.  I never hardly use them, but maintaining them on an annual basis does cost money.  I am having a glass of ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/21/02 Thursday 12:40 P.M.:  I updated the dates on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm and www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa-113.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/21/02 Thursday 12:35 P.M.:  I was up at 8 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched some television.  I fell back to sleep until about 11:30 A.M..  I had nine pretzel rods, four Danish cookies, and a slice of cheese cake.  I will now clean up and go out.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 9:10 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed directly.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 8:20 P.M.:  My guest and I split an 18 ounce box of Van De Kamps fish tenders along with about 12 ounces of Americas Choice potato slices with Heinz tomato sauce mixed with horseradish and also glasses of ice tea.  We then watched some television.  My guest just left.  I gave my guest the yellow flashlight from the Hyundai to have for his car.  I also had a few pretzel rods.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 6:00 P.M.:  After the last message my guest and I went out.  We did not go to Tod?s Point.  Instead we went by Levine?s Army Navy store in Port Chester,  New York.  My guest was looking for a pair of thin glove liners.  We next looked for them at Kohl?s, Modells, and then Odd Job at the Port Chester shopping center.  On Wednesday, Odd Job has 10% senior citizen discount.  We finally found them at Feinsod Hardware on Main Street in Port Chester.   We next drove by the waterfront in one location in Greenwich and then we went by the waterfront in another location.  We then went by Dunkin Donuts for my guest to get a cup of coffee.  Next we went downtown, and we walked lower Greenwich Avenue and sat out for a while.  We just now returned.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 2:05 P.M.:  My guest arrived.  I had two hotdogs with buns and Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup and potato chips and a dill pickle slice and ice tea.  I will now have a Brazilian instant coffee outside.  We will then go over to Tod?s Point.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 1:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local paper.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Mews Merry Go Round thrift shop on Arch Street.  I bought for $20 down from $35 a men?s two piece double breasted black medium weight pin stripped wool suit.  The jacket size is about 44 and the pants are about waist 42 inches inseam 30 inches.  The suit has a label in the collar that says ?Made in Sweden?.  It fits me very well, and the shop manager gave me a deal on the suit.  I now can dress up a bit should the need arise.  I put it in my left living room closet.  I drove back down by the waterfront.  I then returned home, and I had some ice tea.  I then went to Smokes for Less, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $26.  I am expecting a guest at 1:30 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 8:25 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I will now clean up and go out and enjoy the bright sun shiny day.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 7:55 A.M.:  I was just trying on some of my more formal dress clothes, but since I have gone from 155 pounds to 220 pounds in the last few years none of my suits or sports jackets seem to fit, except maybe a couple of sports jackets barely.  I think I have a pair of dark wool trousers that do fit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 7:15 A.M.:  Of course if I were selecting exceptional properties in Greenwich, I always liked the Christopher Wren house on the south shore in Field Point Park in the Belle Haven part of town for waterfront property the house is not too large for the size of the lot.  On the old satellite photos of Greenwich, they use to show a 200 to 300 acre estate on Doubling Road just north of the Greenwich Country Club that had formal French gardens that could be seen in the satellite photos.  One local prominent family still has a couple of thousand acres in a Christmas tree farm that would make a most excellent executive business park, but more than likely none of these properties will be available any time soon.  I was told by one local lawyer that one could still buy two to three hundred acre parcels of land here in town, but I am not sure where they would be located.  Of course, the last thing Greenwich needs is another golf course, but it is a most excellent way to conserve property.  I have a theory that a gigantic magnetic asteroid crashed into Greenwich in ancient history, and its geomagnetic properties keeps the earth?s polar alignment in synchronization as we know it today, and if certain developers tried to displaced the magnetic asteroid remains in Greenwich, the earth would assume a new orbit.  Of course that might be all science fiction.  Since if we had large magnetic anomalies in this area, more than likely all the computers would not be functioning.  Of course in real estate Nassau County, New York is the wealthiest county then Fairfield County, Connecticut then Nantucket Island county, Massachusetts as third.  Thus it gives one a good idea as to where the wealth is piled up in this country.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/20/02 Wednesday 6:45 A.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  When I was at Sotheby?s real estate on the Boston Post Road yesterday, I inquired as to what the Grand List value was in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I told them about 15 years ago there use to be a sign in the Greenwich railroad station saying it was $5.5 billion.  I told them I though today that Greenwich real estate was probably under valued, and the grand list valuation would probably be over $15 billion.  I mentioned an employee in Belle Haven had told me that someone had bought a piece of property there for $40 million and torn down the house the following week and then built a $20 million house on the property making it worth about $60 million.  However, Sotheby?s confirmed the Greenwich Times story that the highest valuation property transaction on record as having been sold was $24 million over in Byram on Byram Shore Road.  Sotheby?s did tell me that a vacant piece of property across from family friends in north Greenwich had been sold for $17 million, and I had noticed they are building a house there.  It seems like there is a bit of inflation going around because my father bought a piece of property next to the same family in Florida in 1965 for $20,000.  Thus the grass is always greener on the other side of the tracks.  However, with the higher real estate valuations, it probably means that higher prices will eventually mean higher taxes.  I told them I knew of a 200 acre farm in Concorde, Massachusetts that had been in the same family for over 200 years.  Well, there is one draw back to the heightened real estate speculation in the area.  Indian Point?s twin nuclear reactors are only about fifteen miles away as the crow flies.  Thus if terrorists should attack those reactors, more than likely the price of local real estate would probably go down dramatically since people generally do not want to pay inflated prices for radioactive contaminated properties.  One prominent family lives in North Terrytown, New York and they are exceptionally close to those twin reactors, so depending on what they do will probably effect what other people do in this area.  Of course just because they are prominent, it does not mean they have common sense.  I told Sotheby?s from my view point; I would not sell any of the old properties in the area that old established families have managed to accumulate over the years.  It seems to me that possibly a new group of real estate speculators are trying to scare established people in hopes of getting cheaper prices which more than likely would never happen in this area, since historically New York real estate prices tend to be constantly inflated and rising.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 8:50 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I had a piece of cheese cake.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will watch some television, and then I will head off to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 8:15 P.M.:  I laid out the white and multicolor comforter along the back of the long green couch.  I took all the pillows on the day bed, and I laid them out flat on the day bed, so they all fit together patch work fashion.  I then laid the long white and dark tan Mexican poncho on top of the pillows on the day bed, so it all has a more uniform appearance with three matching throw pillows on top of it all.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 6:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought two Navaho pattern pillows about 20? by 20? in red and blue stripped pattern for $2 each for $4 total.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I returned a book, and I paid a $2 fine on a DVD video disk I returned last Friday.  I then drove downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by Sotheby?s real estate, and they gave me some information I was curious about.  I sat out downtown for a while.  I then drove back by the waterfront.  I then stopped by the Greenwich Library.  There was a fire in old stone building just north of St. Mary?s, so I viewed the fire department responding.  It seemed to be out.  After the library, I returned home.  I put the two new pillows on either end of the long green sofa with the one the same size in a different pattern in the center.  I put the other pillows with the other pillows on the day bed along with the comforter.  I will now have a Stouffer?s Home-style pot roast dinner with ice tea.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 1:15 P.M.:  I had to call up Net2Phone last night to have them set up my account to get the 2 cents a minute rate for PC to domestic telephone call instead of the 3.9 cent rate they were charging me.  It is now 2 cents a minute.  I found a Roosevelt dime outside.  Well with all this global communications on the internet, I guess there is really nothing of substance to communicate.  I suppose I should clean up and go out for some daytime activity.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 12:15 P.M.:  I had four more pretzel rods.  I am listening to http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram  .  I will now have a cappuccino.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 11:20 A.M.:  Any Anglophile royalty followers can always log onto to http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ and select the ?The Register? at the bottom of the page, and then select ?Court Circular? or ?Today?s Royal Engagements? to see what the Royalty are up to.  They seem to keep them busy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 11:10 A.M.:  I had a piece of cheese cake too, and I am now having ice tea.  I am staying in this morning since my right knee is a bit sore.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 10:45 A.M.:  I rested some more this morning.  I had nine pretzel rods and eight Danish cookies.  I watched the CSPAN presentation of the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois from yesterday evening http://www.alincoln-library.com/Apps/default.asp .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 6:35 A.M.:  For James Bond ?007? information try www.007.com .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/19/02 Tuesday 6:20 A.M.:  I went to bed last night after the last message.  I had a call from a relative about 10 P.M..  I was up at 5 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will now do a little bit of regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 7:30 P.M.:  I watched the ABC evening news.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 6:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront and around another waterfront area.  It is a very low tide.  I guess because of the full moon.  I guess that means a higher high tide.  One can check out the Greenwich, Connecticut tide charts at www.maineharbors.com  or http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/novgrw02.htm .  I printed out a few copies of this and next month?s tide charts at the library today.  I then sat out for a while downtown.  I made my 4:15 P.M. appointment.  I then sat out some more downtown.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked out a DVD video disk.  I returned one there this morning.  I then went by McDonalds and I had two Big and Tasty hamburgers with cheese for $1.30 each plus .18 tax for $2.78 total.  I then returned home.  I put $5 on my laundry card, so I have $11.65 on my laundry card.  A regular user at the library commented me on my red Woolrich jacket.  I told him I bought it two years ago at Marshall?s in Stamford, Connecticut for $75.  I am now having a glass of ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 2:45 P.M.:  In my primary computer a PC Chips S571-LMR motherboard running an AMD K6II 450 MHz processor at 336 MHz, I have a 128 meg. PC-66 memory chip and I believe a 64 meg PC-100 memory chip.  I tried a 128 meg PC-100 memory chip before, and it did not work, but I noticed that a PC-100 256 meg memory chip has a $15 mail in rebate for $30 after at CompUSA, but I think I have determined it would not work in my machine although the manual says it will take two 256 meg chips, I think they need to be PC 66 and not PC 100.  Well, it is nice day, maybe I will float around a while before my 4:15 appointment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 1:00 P.M.:  I broiled a one pound London Broil for five minutes a side, and I had it for a meal with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce with steamed sliced green squash and steamed white rice and ice tea.  I am just about ready to have a cappuccino outside.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 11:55 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local paper, the Wall Street Journal, and PC magazine.  The Wall Street Journal today has a series of articles about the internet.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by CVS, and I bought two tins of low cholesterol Danish cookies for $2.99 both.  I then sat out downtown for a while.  I then went back by the waterfront.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two packages of Snyder?s pretzel rods for $1.69 each or $3.38 total.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought an Entenmanns Deluxe French cheese cake for $1.89 and a loaf of Arnold 12 grain bread for $1.29 for $3.18 less 10% senior discount of .32 for $2.86 total.  I just now returned home.  I called a relative down south to have them check on a house up north since the area around Boston has 80,000 homes without electricity and northwestern Connecticut has 25,000 homes without electricity.  It is nice and sunny here though.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 7:25 A.M.:  This morning?s New York Times says the electricity is off in northwestern Connecticut.  I will now shower and go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 6:55 A.M.:  I fell back to sleep until 6:30 A.M..  I had the last piece of cheese cake.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/02 Monday 3:55 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I was up at 3 A.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I have a 4:15 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/17/02 Sunday 3:05 P.M.:  I rested until 2 P.M..  I finished off the pretzel rods and had a cup of Edy?s toffee ice cream.  I watched some television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/17/02 Sunday 9:25 A.M.:  I had a Boston Market chicken with Barbeque sauce meal along with ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/17/02 Sunday 8:50 A.M.:  I put away the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I had four Danish cookies and eight pretzel rods.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/17/02 Sunday 6:35 A.M.:  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/17/02 Sunday 5:50 A.M.:  I was up at 4 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television.  I will now do some computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/02 Saturday 8:05 P.M.:  My guest arrived at 2 P.M..  We went out and drove by the waterfront.  We then toured the ELDC thrift shop.  Next we returned back to my place.  We watched a DVD video movie.  We then watched some television.  We had a couple of pretzel rods.  My guest just left.  I will have some cheese cake and ice tea and then head off to bed after shutting down the computer.  I also chatted with a relative this afternoon and two relatives this morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/02 Saturday 1:20 P.M.:  I had four pretzel rods to eat.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/02 Saturday 12:35 P.M.:  We all know Queen Victoria was 4 foot 11 inches tall.  The present Queen of England is 5 foot 3 inches tall.  Prince Phillip is 5 foot 8 inches tall.  Prince Charles is 5 foot 10 inches tall.  Prince William of Wales is 6 foot 3 inches tall.  However, if one is interested in the heights of Presidents of the United States this link might come in handy http://www.campvishus.org/PresRelHtAff.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/16/02 Saturday 12:15 P.M.:  I reprogrammed two of the telephone numbers of relatives since they had changed area codes on three of my telephones with speed dial.  I finished vacuuming and polishing the mirror work and glass.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/02 Saturday 10:30 A.M.:  I went out, and I went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two half gallons of Tropicana Premium with Calcium for $2 each,  two shoulder steaks for London Broil beef chuck at $1.59 a pound for $1.83 and $1.84, Snyder?s pretzel rods $1.69, two dozen large eggs $1.69 each,  two Land o Lakes 10 ounce cheese one Pepper Jack and one Monterey Jack $2 each,  three green squash at .99 a pound for $.89, two yellow squash at .99 a pound for .78, and a bulb of garlic at $2.49 a pound for .42 for $18.83 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases, and I broiled one of the shoulder steaks, and I had it for a meal with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, steamed white rice, steamed yellow and green squash, ice tea, and I will now have a cappuccino.  I am expecting a guest at 2 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/02 Saturday 6:15 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I had a call from a friend and we chatted about 9 P.M..  I had a piece of cheese cake.  I fell back asleep, and I had a call from a relative about 11 P.M..  I then slept until about 3:30 A.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I just finished watering the plants and cleaning my apartment.  I still have to vacuum and polish the mirrors and glass later when I will not disturb my neighbors.  I will now clean up and go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/02 Friday 4:40 P.M.:  I had a busy day.  I went out after the last message.  I drove downtown, and I mailed a letter to a relative at the central Greenwich Post Office.  The spot where I frequently park by the veterans? monument recently has had several 2 ounce Bacardi rum bottles left on the ground.  This morning there was also a Coca Cola can.  I cleaned them up, and as my reward I found on the bench a package of American Spirit all natural cigarettes like the carton they?re send me in about six weeks that I order for free.  They are a most excellent cigarette.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next returned to the center of town, and I walked the lower Greenwich Avenue area.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I then drove over to Tod?s Point in Old Greenwich, and I walked around Tod?s Point for the 2.5 mile walk.  I then stopped by the Old Greenwich Thrift shop.  I bought three long sleeve large and extra large shirts for $4, $4, and $5 for $13 total.  One is a dark green cotton shirt light weight. Another is a blue and white plaid flannel shirt.  The third is a red patch work plaid cotton flannel shirt.  I then drove back to central Greenwich, and I parked downtown.  I went back by the Mews Merry Go Round thrift shop.  I sat out for a while.  I stopped by the senior center to use the bathroom.  Seniors are offered lunch there for $3.  I then drove back down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I then returned home.  However, I forgot to return a DVD video disk that was due, so I returned to the library, and I returned it, and I checked out another.  I then stopped by Exxon, and I bought premium unleaded gasoline by mistake at $1.879 a gallon for $4.80 or 33 miles per gallon.  I get better gasoline mileage driving at night.  I then returned home.  I relaxed a bit.  I had a dozen Carr?s crackers with slices of Dutch Edam cheese along with ice tea.  I chatted with some neighbors.  I guess I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed some time soon.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week 11/15/02:

Note: <888> 11/15/02 Friday 6:20 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then clean up and go out for some morning activity.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/02 Friday 5:50 A.M.:  I watched some television.  I had a meal of a can of Progresso New England clam chowder, a bowl of goldfish crackers, ice tea, and a piece of Entenmann?s cheese cake.  I will now have a Chock Full Nuts instant coffee outside.  I generally take my coffee with milk and sugar.  My telephones have been making a low beeping sound occasionally all night.  There might be a line problem.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/02 Friday 3:35 A.M.:  I watched some television.  CNN reported this link http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/ has President Bush?s tour of the Oval Office.  I also wrote a letter to a family member.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/02 Friday 12:40 A.M.:  I was awaken at 8 P.M. when a friend called.  Apparently the friend was deer hunting and was only able to obtain a grouse.  However, the friend told me when he returned inside he was covered with deer ticks.  This was in the western Massachusetts area, so if one is out in the brush, one still has to watch out for deer ticks.  I continued to sleep until about midnight.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and then I had coffee outside.  I just noticed that my Net2Phone account received and now shows the $25 U.S. Post Office money order deposit that I sent them.  Thus it takes about 2 weeks for one to make a check deposit to Net2Phone.  I was told yesterday that they are going to recover the surface area of the Cole Auditorium at the Greenwich Library with Indiana limestone, so it matches the Peterson addition.    CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/02 Thursday 10:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue area, and I sat out for a while.  I then drove and stood around a couple of waterfront areas.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I just now returned home.  I had a slice of French cheese cake and ice tea along with four Danish cookies.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed in a brief spell.  Well, it looks to be a nice day, but enjoy it, it is suppose to then rain until Monday.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/02 Thursday 6:05 A.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  I will now go out downtown for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/02 Thursday 5:05 A.M.:  There are geology programs on channel 21 PBS right now.  Watching one of them and remembering recently when I drove from Athens, Greece to the Bosporus in the spring of 1972 from Thessalonica, Greece to the Bosporus the area surrounding the road away from the coast line was mostly surrounded by low rising hills and small mountains and most of the landscape was covered with rocks and boulders.  It is just a theory that all those rocks and boulders might have been put there by some Atlantis type of volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean sea area or on what was land in that area that was so tremendous that it covered the area for thousands of square miles with rocks and boulders and possibly the area where it occurred might not have been sea as we know it today, but when the eruption occurred depositing all those boulders and rocks in that area the land plateau subsided allowing the ocean to run in and flood it.  Thus in some sort of prehistory event in the Mediterranean region there was such a large eruption and explosion of tectonic forces that the debris is seen in vast areas along the shores of the Mediterranean.  However, it could have been a series of eruptions over a prolonged period of time and not just one cataclysmic event.  Thus from a military point of view from even before Alexander the Great?s time, it is more than likely that traversing those regions was quite difficult not to mention with modern mechanical machinery today except on the established roads.  It basically is an ideal environment for goats and not much else.  Still historically it is a significant area, so perhaps the legends of San Turrini or other such volcanic activities were much more extreme over the entire area oven the prehistory period that is not well documented.  Unless in some sort of melting of an ice age ice cap with significant glaciers that came that far south, they deposited much of the geological formations.  I have not read up on much of the geological historical record of that area.  Well still it makes one wonder.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/02 Thursday 3:45 A.M.:  Since occasionally we get visitors from warmer climates whom are not use to our cooler weather,  I think we have reinstated the ?Freezing Norwegian? patrol for colder weather people to keep an eye out for warmer weather people whom might not be acclimated to our cooler climates.  As one goes further north from here into the more northern zones, this is much more of a regular practice.  Generally in very cold harsh climates the locals do not leave individuals outside in the extreme cold.  Of course at the moment it is not very cold here for the locals.  So says Nanook of the North.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/02 Thursday 3:30 A.M.:  I had the cappuccino outside.  I had two ten year old jars of ground coffee in my freezer that I kept for emergency coffee in case there was no electricity and the coffee grinders did not work, so I put them in the community room freezer since I needed the room in my freezer.  The community room is warm and comfortable at night, but they should put it on some sort of time thermostat and turn down the heat at night when no one is using it since it is such a large room to heat. CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/02 Thursday 2:35 A.M.:  Today when I was coming out of the Arnold Bread store outlet, I saw one of those very long stretch Rolls Royce limousines being test driven on Old Track Road.  I guess it was coming and going from our local Rolls Royce dealership.  I think BMW might now own Rolls Royce, so I guess since some Germans tend to be bigger, they are making the larger model limousine which looked quite roomy and comfortable.  Of course like the other stretch automobiles on narrow windy roads it might be harder to navigate.  I went out after the last message, and I drove down by the waterfront.  The lights are still on out on Long Island.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  It was a quiet night.  Not much seems to be happening down at the new Delamar Hotel on the waterfront.  I guess it will be busier when its new restaurant opens managed by the same people than run La Galoue in Manhattan.  I have nicknamed it the ?Heart Break Hotel?, but maybe we should nickname it the ?Hotel California?.  I am sure during the Holiday period and the warmer months it will be busier, and it the economy picks up it will probably be busier.  After my walk, I drove back down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium.  One of its night staff ran into a buck deer at 70 miles per hour on I-84 demolishing his old Ford.  Another former neighbor had his sister in law hit a deer in New Jersey.  Thus when driving around in this area particularly at night, one has to be a bit careful since we have a large deer population that stray onto our roads. I bought a 16 ounce bag of Americas Choice potato wedges for $1.79,  a Boston Market grilled dill potatoes for $1.49, a Boston Market barbeque chicken filet dinner for $2.74 and a Pepperidge Farm apple turnover for $1.99 for $8.01 total.  I will cook some of the potato wedges with the Van Da Kamps half package of Crispy Tenders for a more authentic Fish and Chips dinner and have them with 50% - 50% Heinz Ketchup and Horseradish sauce along with ice tea and a cappuccino inside.  I will cooked them in the convection oven a bit longer at 425 degress Farenheit for 18 minutes, since the potatoes need a bit more time. I will then do some regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 10:15 P.M.:  I went to bed at 2:30 P.M..  I was up at about 9 P.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I put two new AAA Energizer batteries in my Logitech cordless mouse.  I remembered today, I think I have also been in the Buffalo, New York and Syracuse, New York airports during my earlier travels.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 1:15 P.M.:  I went out, and I arrived at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop early, and I got a parking place.  It was full of shoppers browsing their Christmas displays.  I bought a silver bottle holder with a stags head on it for $12.50.  The silver stags head bottle holder is similar to one I have seen in the window of Bitteridge Jewelers on Greenwich Avenue many times.  I had to spend some extra time there since my car was blocked for a while.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street and they have their new IBM computers installed.  I noticed one customer was trying to get the new dollar coins, and they only had three in stock.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by the Marry Go Round Mews Thrift shop, and I bought a British Airways coffee mug for a dollar.  Unfortunately an ill omen happened, and I was departing the shop and putting on my sun glasses, I dropped the mug on the slate sidewalk and it broke into several pieces.  I was offered another mug, but I explained I had wanted that particular mug.  Well some day I will find another.  It was made in England.  I then sat out for a while.  I next drove by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I also returned seven music CDs.  I was thinking when I was mentioning my travels in my notes when I visited Turkey in the spring of 1972, I stayed on the western coast of Turkey about two hours on the road south of the Bosporus around Troy at a new very pleasant resort hotel with white sandy beach.  At the time there was only one other guest party.  However, that location would be about eight hours drive north of Iraq, so any media people trying to cover any potential Iraq confrontation might find that particular resort hotel complex a safe distant away yet close enough to cover the story.  As I recall it was about a half day?s drive north of Izmir or Selchuck.  The hotel resort was pretty much situated on its own on the coast with just fields around.  I recall back in 1972 we only paid about $10 a night for a pleasant large room and the meals were very enjoyable not to mention the beach and vistas.  Looking at the map in the old Reader?s Digest atlas, Selchuck is located near Izmir, so more than likely the hotel was some where between Izmir and Troy, closer to Troy.  As I recall we drove all night after crossing the border from Greece to Turkey and in the early morning hours we crossed the Bosporus on the Ferry, and at the first town we had car problems with the alternator, and a mechanic in the town fixed it rewinding the coil in a few hours and charged us a modest sum.  We then drove a distance out into the country down the coast, and tired with exhaustion we parked in a field and fell asleep.  When we awoke after our nap, we discovered the new hotel just down the coast road, and it was not busy since it did not open in time to make that year?s Michelin guide.  The roads in that part of the world then were just narrow two lane roads.  I am not sure how far it would be from Iraq at today?s driving times, but one would have Syria in between and Turkey was effectively secure when I crossed the border that evening and saw about a hundred miles of soldiers elbow to elbow with machine guns just standing there on either side of the road.  I guess that was why the entire Greek National Guard was on maneuvers on the other side of the border we had just come from.  Well, it was a Red and White Opel like in the International Red Cross, and we had met with the head of the International Red Cross in Athens whom we tried to look up in Istanbul, but he did not show up.  I think in Turkey it is called the Red Crescent.  Well any way we all had a very enjoyable tour of Greece and Turkey.  One eats a lot of lamb when one is in those countries along with salads.  Thus having briefed the reference librarian about a safe place for the media, I departed the library.  I then drove by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a package of Arnold Herbal stuffing for $1.99, a Deluxe French Bread cheese cake for $1.89, a 8 pack of hotdog buns for .99, and three loaves of Arnold 12 grain bread for .99 each for $7.84 each minus 10% senior discount of .78 for $7.06 total.  I then went by the Smokes for Less store in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $26.  I next returned home.  I had a chilled A&W root beer in a frosted mug.  I put the silver stags head bottle holder on the Danish bar next to the Queen Elizabeth II whiskey jug with a bottle of French white wine in it.  I think it is made for a bottle of Scotch, but I do not have any regular size bottles of Scotch just a half gallon of Dewars Scotch which would not fit in it.  I threw out the two old containers of Romanoff caviar.  I am a bit tired, so I will probably shut down the computer directly and head off to bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 7:35 A.M.:  I will go out shortly to pursue the more mundane routine activities of daily life in our quiet hamlet of Greenwich.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 7:00 A.M.:  I enjoyed the state opening of parliament and the Queen?s speech.  The BBC on the internet had complete coverage, and the American broadcast company CNN covered part of it, but their commentary was not very useful or relevant compared to the BBC coverage.   I am still watching the internet broadcast.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 5:50 A.M.:  One can fallow the State Opening of Parliament in ten minutes at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2448027.stm and 35 minutes into the broadcast one can listen to the Queen?s speech.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 5:05 A.M.: Well since my web address ?mrscott.com? no longer refers to my geocities web site that is harder to remember.  One can find it easily by searching www.google.com for either ?Scott?s Notes? or ?Michael Louis Scott?.  Since I get no feed back from any of the random users, I really do not try to evaluate my web site usage.  I will now have two hot dogs with Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup and buns and potato chips and a dill pickle spear and ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 4:15 A.M.:  I found .26 in one of the washing machines when I did laundry.  The laundry downstairs now costs .90 a machine instead of .85, and one has to put $5 increments of amounts on the laundry card to use it.  I have $6.65 on my laundry card at the moment. I just swept off the wet leaves off the two wooden benches in front of the building.  Basically sometimes one gets tired of reading the internet news spam since frequently it does not seem relevant to my immediate situation.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.: I went through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I just deleted 400 emails without reading their contents.  I did look at the topics to see if there were any personal messages.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 3:10 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 2:20 A.M.:  I have .17 left on my Net2Phone account, so hopefully they will credit the $25 U.S. postal money order I sent to them 11 days ago to my account soon.  I suppose once it gets cold enough with all the rain we have been having recently, we might get a bit of extra snow this winter in this region depending on whether it is freezing or not.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 2:10 A.M.:  Well I am cleaned up and am fresh as a daisy.  The big excitement starting at 8:30 A.M. this morning is the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop is opening up its annual Holiday display of gift items and other various items donated for sale by the general public.  I will probably go by at opening, but since I do not need anything, I will just browse.  I have 35 minutes left on the dry cycle.  Before Thanksgiving I need to buy a little Butterball boneless precooked turkey breast, yams, cranberries, vegetable, Heinz turkey gravy, and stuffing for my Thanksgiving dinner.  I will wait for a few days before Thanksgiving.  Well the modern aviation generation is amongst us with many of their modern devices, so whatever they discard is frequently new to other people.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 1:30 A.M.:  Well the Hartwick Radio company coal stove that I bought 14 years ago when I moved in here for $50 at a tag sale on Mayflower Lane is now thanks to a friend who traded it for appliances in the president of Maytag appliances office down there in eastern Tennessee which the Hartwick Radio company evolved into.  Meanwhile before I clean up, I am doing my laundry, and I am on the wash cycle, and I also put clean sheets on the bed.  Of course if we ever get a cold winter, and one needs an old caboose coal stove to travel around the country in like Eleanor Roosevelt use to travel around during World War II visiting the people that type of stove still might come in handy if one still had a caboose and a railroad all hypotheticals, and one would probably need someone strong enough to mine coal and shovel it.  For the moment I am warm and comfortable.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/02 Wednesday 12:50 A.M.:  I had the cappuccino outside.  It is like an English drizzle outside.  They use to say the English rain was good for the complexion, unless of course one caught pneumonia.  I guess I will now shower and clean up.  I am not sure whether I will go for a drive or not since I do not think there is really need to waste energy driving when the same cost of energy keeps the apartment warm and comfortable.  I guess all of these high energy people flying over my heads can afford to have warm accommodations when they arrive.  I believe in Greenwich, Connecticut one of the more reasonable priced motels is the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in Riverside, Connecticut is $69 a night with the HoJo spirit America 30% discount if available and one asks for it when booking ones reservation.    One can book it at www.expedia.com .  They only allow a certain number of Spirit America discounts per motel, so sometimes they are used up.  I just checked with Howard Johnson?s reservation number 1-800-446-4656 in Eastern Tennessee and they said the rate was available for today?s check in this morning the 13th, but otherwise according to their desk with tax it would be $102.  I guess it is time to clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 11:50 P.M.:  If one gets hungry around here, I was told by a friend that never seems to run of food that the deer hunting season starts this Monday in Massachusetts, but I am not sure it is starting in Connecticut or not.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 11:45 P.M.:  I mixed in a little dish a 50% - 50% mixture of horseradish and Heinz ketchup to have as a sauce for the fish fingers.  It is similar to shrimp sauce.  In the old days in Greenwich where the Chinese restaurant is on West Putnam Avenue next to Wendy?s we had an Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips which I always found most enjoyable.  I believe there was also one on Third Avenue in Manhattan around 64^th street, and when I could occasionally afford it, I would have their fish and chips.  They served their fish with a malted vinegar instead of shrimp sauce.  I will now make my cappuccino.  I am not sure whether I will have it inside or outside depending on the rain.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 11:15 P.M.:  I am cooking a half box 9 ounces of Van De Kamps frozen fish fingers in the convection oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.  I will have them for a meal with some potato chips and ice tea and a cappuccino.  I guess I am on a later schedule.  It is suppose to rain until Monday according to one source.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 10:55 P.M.:  I watched some television, and I fell back to sleep.  One interesting story was when I left Nantucket in October 1978 with a 1972 Subaru that I bought there for $150 which had been in Dillon, Colorado with a Polaroid Company ID on it.  I put in a new clutch in the car which was a bit difficult particularly lifting the engine out of the car.  It shows what one can do when one is young at age 28.  Anyway on the first trip across country to the west coast I was driving on Interstate 10 in West Texas, and I got off the interstate in Midland, Texas to get gasoline at a general store there that sold gasoline.  There were some young girls on the porch practicing ballet.  Anyway the service station attendant checked my oil, and when he closed the hood on the Subaru, he did not shut it all the way, so shortly on the way down the highway; the hood flew up and cracked the windshield across the entire windshield.   Thus for about the next few months, I drove threw out all of California exploring it for the first time with a cracked windshield, and I explored many salvage yards without finding a replacement one.  Eventually around that December in a salvage yard in Fort Lauderdale, I found a replacement windshield which I installed.  Apparently the Subaru was originally designed by Howard Hughes and when they first introduced them into this country, they had a race track in Fort Lauderdale where people could rent them and run them at high speed.  Thus there were quite a few old Subarus of the 1972 vintage in the Fort Lauderdale salvage yard which were not apparently available on the west coast.  Since the Howard Hughes medical institute was in Fort Lauderdale also besides the primary location in Texas http://www.hhmi.org/ apparently Hughes or some of his associates were in Fort Lauderdale also.  One local fisherman here bragged that he once broke into Howard Hughes? penthouse in the Bahamas.  Thus with these popular people in the news from Texas recently, it seems that Howard Hughes? personnel are also involved.  When I first came back to Greenwich off from Nantucket, one of my original contacts was someone that was involved with Howard Hughes? family?s Episcopal church in Houston, Texas.  Thus despite the other popular financial czars in the area, once one travels out of this area, it seems that the Hughes network is also in existence whether Howard is or not is another question.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 7:20 P.M.:  I was up at 6 P.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I noticed in a small article in the Greenwich Times last week that Westchester County is NOT going to spend $30 million for an airport deicing facility for Westchester County Airport nearby.  Thus if we get any ice conditions in the future winters which occasionally we do, travelers will have to use the larger metropolitan airports in the New York area.  Apparently the facility would also cause environmental problems with the ethanol glycol run off into the local ground water.  It is a general rule of thumb if one has ice on the plane, one should not try to take off without deicing.  Well, I guess I will clean up and explore our local library if it is still open by the time I get out.  I guess I am on a night schedule which is not unusual for me.  Also I saw on the Discovery Channel how herds of Killer Whales in Argentina come out half way on the beach and eat sea lions and seals.  I was wondering if any Killer Whales occasionally along our shores in North America come out of the water on shore and eat swimmers, sun bathers, beach walkers or fishermen.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 7:00 A.M.:  I had eight more Danish cookies.  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 4:15 A.M.:  I had four Danish cookies and ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 4:10 A.M.: I would have been at the Bermuda airport in spring of 1968, the Santa Barbara, California airport where the guppy was around 1978 to 1980 flying in once, driven by the Rockford, Illinois Air Force Base a number of times, by the Marathon, Florida Key airport a number of times, Düsseldorf and Munich, Germany on the Innsbruck trip.  I recalled seeing the entrance to Pope Air Force base once driving across country around Louisiana.  I visited the Schipol airport in Amsterdam when I visited there on the Albertville trip.  I exited Oslo, Norway in 1983 via the civilian airport different from the military one I arrived in.  I have driven by the Danbury, Connecticut airport a number of times.  I also recall there was an air strip next to the Mount Vernon and Bartlett Farms on Nantucket.  I lived near the Great Lakes, Illinois Naval air station while in college.  I recalled that Fort Sheridan south of Lake Forest College had an air strip.  I believe I might have had a stop off in Pittsburg once or twice going to the Midwest and possibly in Ohio on other trips during my college years.  When I lived on Long Island, I lived near the Grumman manufacturing family, and of course here in Greenwich a lot of the original Pan Am people once lived nearby, and I have family in Vero Beach, Florida where Piper Cub is, and I have flown in there before too.  Thus I treat my apartment like a Pan Am VIP suite which the Pan AM flight bag symbolizes.  Of course I still have my KLM,  Air Canada, and Gucci flight bags.  I gave away the British Air flight bag to someone whom had never flown before.  I still have a size 38 too small for me men?s Brooks Brother?s brown Leather bomber jacket made in New Zealand.  While in San Francisco, California airport around 1979, I saw the reinauguration of the Pan Am Clipper Flight to Shanghai, China take off, and I viewed the guest book, but I do not recall signing it.  I recall the name of a prominent electronics family from Wellesley, Massachusetts in the guest book though.  Thus my own personal select Pan AM guest suite is still functional and maintained.  I am trying to remember another airport, I just remembered and then forgot.   As yes, I visited a family relative and flew in and out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma airport around 1971 coming and going from and to O?Hare in Chicago, Illinois.  The last time, I flew I was arriving back from Paris, France from the Albertville Winter Olympics trip about 10 years ago arriving at JFK airport in Manhattan where they photographed me for Russian television for some odd reason.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 2:45 A.M.:  On the two trips to Tobago in 1971 and 1972, the BWIA jets stopped off also in Trinidad and Barbados, so I have been in those airports also.  I recall in the old days of frequently traveling on the Chemstrand Monsanto company jets, I flew in and out of Huntsville ? Decatur, Alabama airport, Raleigh Durham, North Carolina, Chatanooga, Tennessee, Atlanta, and Dalton, Georgia, Pensacola, Florida, Washington D.C. National airport now Reagan airport, Teterboro airport near Trenton, New Jersey, McArthur airport on Long Island formerly or presently Roosevelt Field, Westchester county airport in White Plains, New York.  I also while living in Boston and going to school north of Chicago flew in and out of Boston Logan airport, Chicago O?Hare airport, Chicago Midway airport, Detroit airport, Colorado Springs airport, Denver airport.  While living in Nantucket, I flew out of New York LaGuardia airport, Hyannis, Massachusetts airport, Martha?s Vineyard airport, JFK airport in New York.  I also have flown to Florida in the last 20 years out of Newark airport though Balimore, and the trips to Norway, Washington D.C. National for Reagan?s 1980 inaugural, Frankfurt, Tobago, Düsseldorf, and probably changing between Chicago and Boston were out of JFK in New York.  I also flew out of Bradley  Field in Windsor Lockes, Connecticut once to Chicago.  I flew into Toronto airport twice from New York Laguardia around 1983 and from Boston in 1973 and maybe one other time from New York, but some times I took the train to Toronto.  I also have been in the Rome, Italy Leonardo Da Vinci airport coming from Boston in 1972 and the Athens, Greece airport coming and going in the spring of 1972 along with the Lanzarote airport and the Malaga, Spain and Seville, Spain airports coming and going from Lanzarote. Thus with the stops in the Bahamas, Copenhagen, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Key West, Florida, San Juan, Purto Rico, Hawaii, Maui, San Francisco, Las Angeles, and Orange County airports have also been parts of my itinerary.  I might have landed once at Stuart airport further up the Hudson River and also at the Rochester Utica, New York airport around 1969.  I might have also been in some other airports that I have forgotten over the years, because it is hard to remember a lot of the stops on the Chemstrand Monsanto company plane like possibly Birmingham or Mobil, Alabama, or Nashville, Tennessee or Knoxsville, Tennessee.  Thus I have a bit of experience in aviation.  I also recall traveling by jet from Westchester County airport to Greenville, Spartanburg South Carolina airport when I lived down there for six months in 1976.  I also have traveled in or out of  the Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Melbourne, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Jacksonville, Coco Beach and Orlando airports in my travels.  I once visited the Tucson, Arizona airport, but I did not travel into it.  I also have visited Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Andrews Air Force Base and Dulles airport outside Washington D.C., Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, Homestead Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida, Patrick Air Force Base near Coco Beach, Florida, Pease Air Force Base in Dover, New Hampshire, Frankfurt Rhine Mien Air Force Base in Frankfurt, Germany, Offutt Air Force Base, in Omaha, Nebraska.  I have driven near McDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida, and more than likely in my travels around the Midwest, I drove by Scott Air Force base in Illinois not to mention there was another Air Force base near Champaign, Illinois I think called Chanook or Rantool Air Force base which I can not recall if I ever flew in and out of, but I think I once did from Champaign besides the train.  Thus if I have a good memory, the game would be to remember what other airports like Stratford, Connecticut airport or Virginia Beach, Virginia airports which I also have flown into along with Portland, Maine.  Let?s see what I can remember. There is  San Jose, California on the way back from Hawaii,  Grand Rapids, Michigan coming and going from Holland, Michigan,  Atlanta Hartsdale coming or going from Florida and the old Atlanta airport while in Alabama, Baltimore, Maryland going to Greenville, South Carolina.  Still more than likely I changed planes somewhere a long time ago, and I forgot about it like Paris Orly or Chales De Gaul airport when I went to the Albertville Olympics or Monteray, California airport while vacationing in Carmel, California.  Still, this is a good summary of my aviation experience.  I once spent the night at Denver?s old airport during a blizzard while driving back from California.  I also drove by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory airport once, plus when one drives around the country one tends to see a lot of other municipal airports. 

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 1:45 A.M.: In my note last night, I mentioned a few places around the waterfront I had been.  When I was around the Mediterranean sea, I was actually an art student in Florence, Italy; but since it was cold there that winter in 1972, I got a U-rail pass after about six weeks, and I travel over to Pisa and up the Italian coast and through Switzerland to Grenoble, France where I visited some friends.  I then occasionally headed down the eastern Spanish coast to Barcelona and toured there along with going to Malaga, and eventually catching a jet to Lanzarote on Iberia airlines where I stayed a couple of weeks.  After about three month in Europe, I participated in another art program out of Athens, Greece with another Lake Forest College group, and we toured most of mainland Greece, and I also acquired a 1962 Red and White Opel station wagon, and I drove with a classmate to Turkey to join up with the rest of the group that flew.  Thus I saw most of the mainland Greece coast line along with the islands of Crete and Hydra, and much of the western coast line of Turkey to Selchuck and back up the Bosporus to Istanbul.  I never crossed the large bridge into Asia.  Also on the trips to California, I spent most of the time when I had a car driving up and down the California coast line between Fort Brag, California about a day?s drive north of San Francisco and as far south as San Diego with frequent stops in Laguna, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Palo Alto.  Of course in driving to California from the east coast of the United States I crossed the country on Interstates I-80, I-70, and I-10 on different trips.  While in Florida in 1976 to 1983 period during the winters that I was there, I was in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Key West, and Daytona; however I spent a good deal of the time traveling the coast south from Flagler to Key West and up the west coast to Tampa.  Thus I saw a great deal of the Florida coast.  I made the side trip in January of 1978 to Paradise Island in the Bahamas where I met up with the British.  During the summers in Nantucket, I would frequently stay from around the first of April or May until December when I was there between 1975 and 1983 getting to enjoy the full season.  On the trip to Oslo, Norway in February 1983, I actually had a round trip ticket to Stockholm, Sweden and a week?s stay at the SAS hotel there for about $700 entire package, but the plane arrived at the military airport in Forneburg, Norway outside Oslo, and everyone departed the plane, and took a bus to the SAS hotel in Oslo near the palace.  However, when I arrived at the desk at the SAS hotel in Oslo, I was told the ticket agent at JFK airport in New York had only sold me a one way ticket to Stockholm for $700, so the rest of the package tour was not included.  Thus I was swindled by SAS.  A family member paid for the stay in Oslo and the return fare.  One can verify the fare offered by SAS in the New York Times, by looking at its sale advertisements in the New York Times that winter in February and January of 1983.  The SAS jet back did stop in Copenhagen, but I did not leave the terminal, but only bought two cartons of Prince Cigarettes.  I have also been to Canada close to 10 times.  I believe coming back from Michigan a time or two we drove through Canada and reentered via Niagara Falls.  I also had a classmate from college that lived in Canada for while.  Also I visited on my own a few times to enjoy the Canadian outlook on life.  I believe on two trips to California or one, I went via Canada as far as Michigan.  Thus visiting Toronto and Montreal could be considered waterfront visits.  On the Albertville, France winter Olympics trip, I visited Paris, France; Amsterdam, Holland; Lyon, France; Chamonix, France and Geneva, Switzerland besides the areas around Albertville, France plus going to Amsterdam and leaving, we drove through Belgium and Luxemburg.  I also once took a three day trip to Frankfurt, Germany and toured the city around December 1981.  Capital Airlines had $100 one way trips to Germany.  When I went to Innsbruck, Austria in February 1987, we flew into Düsseldorf and transferred to Munich before heading to Innsbruck.  On the trip to the Virgin Islands in October 1972, I changed planes in Porto Rico.  I drove through Texas a couple of times coming and going to California.  Thus I have seen a good deal of the eastern Atlantic coast from as far north as Bowden College, Maine to Key West and the western Pacific Coast from San Diego to Fort Bragg, California.  Thus I have traveled enough to have a general feeling of the world and having lived around the New York area for so long, I pretty much have seen tourists and representatives from most everywhere in the world over 41 years not to mention also in the other destinations I have visited.  When I have traveled, I have always tried to behave myself and conduct myself as if I were at home.  Well, I guess since Greenwich is not much of a travel destination and since most people read books here a lot, we are sort of off the beaten path.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/12/02 Tuesday 12:45 A.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  I am in the process of cooking a Stouffer?s Home-style Pot Roast dinner which I will have with ice tea.  Well, there is not much happening here as far as I can tell.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/11/02 Monday 10:35 P.M.:  I went out, and I drove downtown.  I sat out for a while.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I just now returned.  I will now do a little bit of regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/11/02 Monday 9:45 P.M.:  I was up at 3 P.M. when a friend dropped by.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and I had coffee outside.  My guest had the rest of the cold eye round with Hellmann?s mayonnaise in a sandwich.  We went for a drive down by the waterfront.  We walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  We returned to my place.  We had some potato chips.  We watched some television.  We had dinner of two hotdogs each with buns and Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup and dill pickle spears and ice tea.  I also finished off the pint container of cashew and praline ice cream.  My guest just left.  I just chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/11/02 Monday 5:45 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed directly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/11/02 Monday 5:10 A.M.:  I have been watching http://booktv.org , and there was an author Kevin Phillips author of ?Wealth and Democracy? that mentioned that the United States of America has two trillion dollars of debt.  Thus if we still have 288,475,392 million population  http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock give or take nine million illegal aliens, it mean that each resident of the United States of America owes about $6932.99 in debt.  Thus even if one is not personally in debt, one?s share of involvement of the country?s debt tends to be sizeable.  Well, I will now put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/11/02 Monday 3:25 A.M.:  Well, I watched a bit of television.  I had a few more dried apricots.  I took a nap until just now.  Well, today is Veterans Day.  I will try to explain my limited knowledge of the military.  I was born in Alton, Illinois where my family lived on the banks of the Mississippi River across the river from St. Louis, Missouri.  I thus probably developed a fondness for the waterfront.  Until my family moved to this area in 1961, we use to vacation in Holland, Michigan where once again the view of the waterfront of Lake Michigan was available.  After two years in Alton, Illinois we lived outside Washington D.C. in Martinsville, Virginia where possibly there was the view of another river.  We then lived in Pensacola, Florida from 1954 to 1956 where supposedly the U.S. Navy has activities along with a view of the waterfront.  Next we lived in Decatur, Alabama from 1956 to 1961 which was near the Redstone Arsenal and the Tennessee River.  We moved to this area about 1961 where we still have a view of Long Island Sound.  We also lived outside Boston from 1968 to 1972 which has the views of Boston harbor along with many trips to Cape Cod and other shore locations in New England.  During those same years, I was in college in Lake Forest, Illinois on the other side of Lake Michigan from Holland, Michigan.  While in college, I visited the Mediterranean for six months and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.  When I was out of college, we moved back to Greenwich, and I was around Manhattan Island a good of the time until 1994 when I quit going into the city every night.  I also lived out on Long Island in that period on the so called North Shore gold coast, as well as summers in Nantucket from 1975 to 1983.  I also was down on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of Florida for several winters in that period.  I also visited the California Coast line about five times.  About ten years ago, I visited the North Sea in Amsterdam, Holland and in 1983, I saw Oslo, Norway.  I also visited Bermuda in 1968 , the Bahamas in 1978, St. Thomas and St. Johns in 1972, and Tabago in 1971 and 1972 and Maui and Hawaii in 1980.  Thus I have been around the waterfront quite a bit of my life.  Still at my weight, I am not a very good swimmer, and I do not know how to handle a boat or navigate.  Thus my experience around the waterfront is more than most people, but I do not pretend to be the expert.  I am now in the process of making www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 10:55 P.M.:  It is not like I am under house arrest, but on some days in order to relax and catch up on one?s rest, it is necessary to stay home all day, thus breaking up the routine of going out every day.  Of course this time of year we could have wild cats migrating south in the ridge areas, so I guess it is necessary to stay vigilant when out in the evenings.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 10:55 P.M.:  I had some cashew and praline ice cream.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 9:40 P.M.:  I had some dried apricots before going to bed this morning.  I was up at 3 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and then I had a coffee outside.  I fell back to sleep until 6 P.M..  I watched some television for a while.  I chatted with a former neighbor who told me it is going to reach 70 degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow.  I guess I will be on a night schedule.  I just had the same meal as last night, and I had a 50% Brazilian instant coffee and 50% Folgers? decaffeinated instant coffee outside.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 3:30 A.M.:  Well, I searched the sale ads for Sunday.  I did a little bit of other computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 2:50 A.M.:  I just went outside briefly, and the skunk was on the side lawn, but it quickly took off into the woods.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 2:40 A.M.:  I downloaded and installed www.lavasoftusa.com Ad-aware program, and I ran it.  I eliminated 66 problems, and the system seems a bit more responsive.  I watched some television while doing this.  I also had two scoops of toffee ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 12:15 A.M.: I am in the process of consuming 10 apricots.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/10/02 Sunday 12:05 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I had the same dinner as last night.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/09/02 Saturday 10:00 P.M.:  I went out, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I just now returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/09/02 Saturday 6:35 P.M.:  I had a half dozen apricots before going to bed last night.  I was up at 2 P.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplement and the I had coffee outside.  I just finished my house cleaning and watering the plants while listening to some CD music.  I just now chatted with a relative.  I will now have two hotdogs with buns and Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup and potato chips and two quarter length dill pickle slices and ice tea.  I will then have a cappuccino outside.  I will then clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/09/02 Saturday 4:35 A.M.:  I have the backup computer squared away and running fine.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/09/02 Saturday 2:45 A.M.:  I have been doing a little bit of regular computer work.  I have to reinstall the Norton Personal Firewall on one of the partitions on the backup computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/09/02 Saturday 12:10 A.M.:  After dinner, I had two scoops of toffee ice cream.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/08/02 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I went out, and I stopped by the Greenwich Library.  I read the Greenwich Times.  I also read this month?s PC Magazine.  I was disappointed to learn that Jim Seymour had passed away http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,613919,00.asp having read his column for many years.  I checked out four McCartney and three Elvis CDs.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I stopped by the Food Emporium, and I bought buy one get one free of Edy?s Dreamery ice cream caramel toffee and cashew praline for $3.59 both.  I returned home, and I had a message from a relative on the answering machine.  I will now have four 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, reheated steamed white rice, steamed fresh broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower, and ice tea.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week 11/08/02:

Note: <888> 11/08/02 Friday 6:35 P.M.:  I had a call from a relative at noon today.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee outside.  I fell back to sleep until 5 P.M..  I had a meal of three hotdogs on two buns with Dijon mustard and Heinz ketchup, potato chips, two dill pickle quarter slices, ice tea, and a cappuccino outside.  I checked with Net2Phone 1-877-627-4663, and they said they would look into why my account has not been credited the $25 I sent via U.S. postal money order last Friday.  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa.htm and www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa-113.htm .  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/08/02 Friday 12:55 A.M.:  I had some goldfish crackers and ice tea.  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed in a little while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/07/02 Thursday 10:55 P.M.:  I had a call from a relative.  I chatted with a friend.  I finished off one of the containers of Edy?s dreamery toffee ice cream.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/07/02 Thursday 9:40 P.M.:  I had my cappucinno outside.  I updated WeatherBug.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/07/02 Thursday 8:35 P.M.:  I had goldfish crackers and ice tea before going to bed last night.  I was up at 2 P.M..  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  They will be closed tomorrow at 3 P.M. and on Saturday since they are installing new IBM computer equipment.  I then drove over to the Mobil Express Lube Car wash, and I got my Hyundai washed for $5 for the Express Wash.  I then drove out to Tod?s Point and parked in the southwest parking area.  I noticed a car from Montana, so maybe they brought the cooler weather.  I then drove over to the southeast parking area.  I gave two regulars tide charts.  I then toured Staples in Old Greenwich.  They were out of the Oxford Clip binders I use for binding the printouts of my notes.  I then went to downtown Greenwich, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a box of 28 two packs of Tide tablets for $4.99 and a can of Danish cookies for $1.99 plus .30 tax for $7.28 total.  I sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local newspaper.  I then stopped by Exxon, and I bought $6 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.699 a gallon for 26 miles per gallon.  I next stopped by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 16 ounce package of Kosher apricots for $2.99, a head of cauliflower for $1.99, two 18 ounce boxes of Van de Kamp?s fish tenders for $2.64 each, Angus Eye round roast at $3.29 a pound for $7.29, a 12 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce $2.29, three package of S&S margarine $2 for $21.84 total.  I then returned home.  I seasoned on all sides the eye round with Old Bay seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, poultry and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, basil, and Texas best barbeque sauce.  I am just about done cooking it in a roasting pan on a meat rack in the convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.  I will have two half inch slices of it with steamed white rice and steamed fresh cauliflower, asparagus, and broccoli crowns along with ice tea.  I will then have a cappuccino inside.  I chatted with a friend.  It is 29 degrees but suppose to be in the mid 50s tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/07/02 Thursday 1:05 A.M.:  I printed out four copies of the November tide chart.  I watched some television.  Well, I guess I will shut down the computer.  I will probably watch a bit of television or go to bed directly.  It feels cold out.  www.weatherbug.com says it is 41 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 11:20 P.M.:  Any waterfront observers here in town might have noticed that the tides with the new moon this time of year are very extreme.  This links is to the November 2002 Greenwich, Connecticut tide chart http://www.maineharbors.com/ct/novgrw02.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:  If one should be getting the cold weather blues and one has reached middle age, one might enjoy listening to some oldies such as available through the internet at http://www.warx.com/ .  One can search the term ?Oldies? from the Radio station menu on the Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 9:55 P.M.:  Dinner was delicious.  I had my coffee outside, so I could sneak a couple of cigarettes.  I took the big new throw pillow on the long green couch, and I put it on the left side of the couch, so can one can relax against it while watching television.  I spread the smaller throw pillows along the rest of the back of the couch.  Although, it is not symmetrical, it is more comfortable for any couch potatoes using it.  Net2Phone still has not added the $25 to my Net2Phone account that I sent in last Friday.  It would seem it would have been added by now, since it was only sent to Newark, New Jersey.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 9:10 P.M.:  I will have dinner in a few minutes.  I think I will have my coffee inside, since it is a bit cool 44 degrees Fahrenheit outside.  I received my CompUSA $35 gift certificate today.  I will wait until next week when they have more items on sale to use it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 9:00 P.M.:  I took the double thick 2 inch thick pork chop, and I cut the bone off it.  I then took the Pyrex pie dish, and I added a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, and I rubbed the chop in the oil.  I then seasoned each side with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, poultry and meat seasoning, Italian spices, Oregano, Basil, and then I spread on Texas Best Barbeque sauce.  I am cooking it in the convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for a half hour.  I will have the chop with reheated steamed white rice, and steamed fresh broccoli and sliced asparagus, along with ice tea, and 50% Folgers decaffeinated instant coffee and 50% Brazilian instant coffee.  I will probably have the coffee outside.  I put a new sponge refill on the dishwashing wand.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 8:15 P.M.:  I dug through about every drawer and storage area in my apartment looking for my soldering iron and solder.  I missed it where I first looked in my yellow plastic tool box on the floor of the sweater closet, but after looking everywhere else; I found it in the tool box.  I need it to solder my copper bracelet which since it is solid brass rapped with a copper strand, the strand was starting unravel, so I soldered it at the end, so hopefully it will be fine now.  I wear the copper bracelet to help with my arthritis.  I found a Glade Hawaiian Breeze refill which I installed in the kitchen.  I just chatted with a friend.  I will put the lemon oil refill I made with the empty Glade refill in the bathroom to see if it works.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 7:15 P.M.:  I watched television and had some goldfish crackers and ice tea until 3 A.M. this morning.  I was up at 2 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and then I had coffee outside.  I went out, and I stopped at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked out a DVD video disk, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I noticed in the election results that over a thousand people voted absentee ballots, so quite a number of residents must be elsewhere.  I then drove over to the VitaminShoppe http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/ in the Port Chester, New York shopping center, and I bought Vitamin Shoppe brands of One Daily with Lutein multivitamin 100 tablets $12.57, E-400 IU 100 count $9.57, Niacinamide 500 mg. 100 count $4.76, C-500 Complex 100 count $4.76, B-12 500 mcg. 100 count $4.76, Deodorized Garlic 500 $5.37 100 count, Coral Calcium 1500 mg. 90 count $16.17, B-Complex 50 100 count $7.17 plus a $10 discount for over $50 purchase with the certificate I received in the mail for $55.13 total.  The VitaminShoppe brand of Coral Calcium is about 50% cheaper than what I bought several months ago.  I wander if there is any Coral Calcium in the Florida Keys or if it has to come from Japan.  I then returned to my apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/06/02 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  I watched a bit of television.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed after watching a little bit of television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/05/02 Tuesday 10:50 P.M.:  I had two scoops of Edy?s toffee ice cream.  I did a little bit of regular computer work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/05/02 Tuesday 9:55 P.M.:  I watched some national election coverage.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/05/02 Tuesday 8:10 P.M.:  I had my cappuccino outside.  I noticed the skunk outside on the sidewalk before I went to bed last night.  It seemed be out for an evening stroll.  I am listening to the local election returns on 1490 AM radio.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/05/02 Tuesday 7:05 P.M.:  I took one of the double thick 2 inch thick pork chops, and I cut off the bone.  I then took a Pyrex pie dish, and I put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in the dish, and I rubbed the chop on all sides in the oil.  I then seasoned one side with Old Bay seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, Oregano, and Basil on one side, and I turned that side down on the oiled dish.  I then put about six tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the chop and the dish along with a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, dashes of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and I put the same seasoning on the top side of the chop along with two chopped cloves of garlic.  I am cooking it in the convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 17 minutes a side or 34 minutes total.  I will have it for dinner with steamed white rice and steamed fresh broccoli crowns and sliced asparagus and ice tea.  I then will have a cappuccino.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/05/02 Tuesday 6:30 P.M.:  I had some goldfish crackers and ice tea before going to bed last night.  I was up at 1 P.M. this afternoon.  I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and then I had coffee outside.  I then cleaned up.  I went out and voted at the grade school in Byram by the Byram library.  I then stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought a beige pattern throw pillow about 18 inches by 18 inches for $2.50.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local paper.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought four half gallons of Florida Natural Orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, two Stouffer?s Hearty pot roast dinners for $2.15 each, one Stouffer?s 21 ounce lasagna for $2.75, two Edy?s Dreamery toffee ice cream pints buy one get one free for $3.59 both, Lysol Lemon cleaner 52 ounce bottle $4.29, Borden?s quart of real lemon juice $2.29, a pint of La Choy low sodium soy sauce $2.19, a five ounce bottle of China Bowl Sesame oil for $3.69, and a 15.5 ounce bottle of Bornier whole grain mustard for $2.89, fresh asparagus at $1.99 a pound for $2.09, and double thick center cut pork chops two count package at $1.99 a pound for $3.70 plus .26 tax for $42.04 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I put the pillow on the center of the long green sofa.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/05/02 Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:  I did a little bit of regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer.  I will check out the television briefly.  I will then go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/04/02 Monday 11:45 P.M.: I was trying to find out if they still sell Hudson River sturgeon eggs, but apparently the Atlantic Sturgeon is endangered, so I do not see reference to them selling their eggs anymore.  However, I did come across these Caviar links http://shop.store.yahoo.com/caviarinc/  or http://www.caviar-house.com/ or http://www.caviar.com/ or https://secure.galisteo.com/pro-src/scripts/caviar-direct/ or http://www.freshcaviar.com/  or http://www.caviarassouline.com/ or http://www.justcaviar.com/  or http://www.justcaviar.com/ or http://www.icaviar.com/  or http://www.urbani.com/ , and once you have finished with your Caviar dreams, you can go over to McDonalds when it is open and get a ?Big and Tasty? hamburger for a dollar http://www.mcdonalds.com .  Of course this week at the Stop and Shop 18 chicken eggs are a dollar too.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/04/02 Monday 10:50 P.M.:  I had 13 Carrs? crackers with slices of Dutch Edam cheese.  I was checking my apartment supplies, and I have an eleven year old two ounce jar of Romanoff black lumpfish caviar and a two year two ounce jar of Romanoff Red Lumpfish caviar.  I am not sure if caviar like other food products goes out of date or not.  According to http://www.herbalhut.com/ they cost about $6.75 apiece when they?re fresh, but this site http://www.paramountcaviar.com/ has the stuff the Czar?s probably had with their smoked salmon.  However, http://www.herbalhut.com/mfrs/romanoff_caviar.asp says it only has a shelf life of six months, so I better not eat it.  Maybe the Romanoffs would want me to serve it to some communists.  Needless to say, I do not think there are many communists left in Greenwich, Connecticut these days.  I would think since caviar is salty it would last longer.  Well, I will leave it out on display on the Danish bar, but I do not think I would be tempted to eat it.  As far as I know the rest of the canned goods in the apartment are less than a year old.  I do have some soup and baked beans that should be eaten soon since they are nearing a year old.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/04/02 Monday 8:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/greenw.htm .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/04/02 Monday 8:40 P.M.:  After dinner, I had a 50% Brazilian instant coffee and 50% Folgers decaffeinated instant coffee outside.  I was told by one of the staff that the Delamar Hotel on the waterfront in downtown Greenwich is now open. For information on the Delamar Hotel try http://www.thedelamar.com/ and http://profiles.hospitalityonline.com/207166/ and http://www.travelhero.com/prophome.cfm/id/5341/hotels/reservations/ .  C?est tres cher, n?est pas? CIO

Note: <888> 11/04/02 Monday 7:40 P.M.:  I had goldfish crackers before going to bed last night, and I also finished off the Edy?s dreamery ice cream.  I was awaken at noon today by a relative calling.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went out, and I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove over to Old Greenwich, and I got my hair cut at Off Center Hair Stylists for $16 plus $4 tip for $20 total.  I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room Thrift shop, and I bought an extra large Eddie Bauer long sleeve blue navy work shirt for $3 and a pair of black L.L. Bean wool trousers waist 40 inches length 30 inches for $4 for $7 total.  I then walked back to my car.  I then used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York in Old Greenwich.  I then drove my car closer to the Old Greenwich Rummage Room Thrift shop.  I went back there, and I bought a pair of Advent Audio Prodigy II speakers with solid oak cases about 2 foot by one foot by one foot for $20 both plus $1.20 tax for $21.20 total.  All merchandise there was half price.  I then put the speakers in the back seat of the Hyundai.  I next drove around Tod?s Point, and I stood out at the southeast parking area.  I then drove back to central Greenwich, and I toured the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I then drove downtown, and I sat out for a while, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I checked out a couple of office buildings to see whom is renting them.  I then drove down by the waterfront.   I next returned home.  I installed the new Advent speakers in the bedroom with one underneath the Proscan television on the left on top of the white bureau, and the other on the right in the window opening.  I thus have four most excellent speakers in the bedroom.  I left the old pair of speakers out by the dumpster since I do not think the thrift shop would want them.  I also threw out two old cell phones.  The sound from the over audio setup in the apartment is quite excellent.  I am cooking a Stouffer?s Hearty Pot Roast dinner which I will have for dinner with ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/03/02 Sunday 11:15 P.M.:  After dinner, my guest and I watched television.  We had the same combination of ice cream as last night.  My guest left around 9:45 P.M..  I finished watching a television movie just now.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed directly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/03/02 Sunday 6:20 P.M.:  I read until 1 A.M..  I was up about 9 A.M..  We had breakfast of 3 scrambled eggs apiece, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  We went out, and we stopped by CVS, and I bought CVS shave gel sensitive skin for $1.85 plus .11 tax for $1.96 total.  We then drove down by the waterfront.  We next went out to Tod?s Point, and we viewed the waterfront from the southeast point.  We then drove back to the center of town, and my guest treated me to two Big and Tasty hamburgers for $1 apiece at McDonalds on West Putnam Avenue.  We then returned to my apartment.  I rested until 4 P.M..  We then drove downtown, and we walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  We then went down by the waterfront.  We next toured Whole Foods, and I bought a pint of Heinz distilled vinegar for .89.  We next went to Stop and Shop, and my guest bought me a pound of Italian espresso coffee beans and he also purchased a pound of Irish Atlantic Farm raised salmon filet at $4.99 a pound.  I will rub the salmon filets in a couple tablespoons of olive oil and place them in a Pyrex pie dish and put in about a third of a cup of orange juice and about a sixth of a cup of lemon juice and season the top sides of the filets with Old Bay seasoning, celery salt, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, Basil, and Italian spices and place a couple pads of margarine on them and cook them in the convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes and have them along with steamed white rice and steamed fresh broccoli and ice tea.  I will now start preparing dinner.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/02/02 Saturday 10:15 P.M.:  We watched a bit of television.  My guest is going to bed early.  I will do a bit of reading.  I will now shut down the computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/02/02 Saturday 9:45 P.M.:  After dinner, my guest and I started watching the DVD video disk, but it was in Italian with English subtitles, so halfway through we quit watching.  We then went out for a drive.  We drove down by the waterfront.  We sat out downtown for a while.  We went by Exxon, and I bought $5 of regular unleaded at $1.679 a gallon for about 20 miles per gallon.  There must have been a lot of traffic recently where I was idling more.  We then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought buy one get one free of pints of Edy?s Dreamery www.edys-dreamery.com one pint of Dulce de Leche and one of Caramel Toffee Bar Heaven for $3.59 both.  We then returned back to my apartment, and we each had a dish of ice cream with a scoop of each flavor.  The Food Emporium is open until midnight on Saturday night.  We will now watch some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/02 Saturday 6:45 P.M.:  My guest arrived, and we went for a walk of lower Greenwich Avenue.  We then stopped by the waterfront.  We next went to Stop and Shop, and I bought crowns of broccoli at .79 a pound for $1.48, two dozen Land O Lakes all natural eggs $1.99 each dozen, Hell of a Good Horseradish $2.19, and a jar of Vlasic dill spears $2 for $9.65 total.  We then returned back to my apartment.  We are going to have the rest of the cold eye round slices of beef with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, steamed fresh broccoli crowns, and steamed white rice, and ice tea.  We will then watch a DVD video disk.  My guest is going to be staying down for the night, so we will be pursuing daytime activity in Greenwich tomorrow such as going to Tod?s Point.   

Note: <888> 11/02/02 Saturday 3:50 P.M.:  I had some goldfish crackers this morning before going to bed about 1 A.M..  I had a call from a friend at noon who is coming down to visit at 4:30 P.M..   I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements and coffee.  I just finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I also just finished showering and cleaning up.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 10:55 P.M.:  I sifted through my email.  I had a bowl of goldfish crackers with ice tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch a bit of television before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 9:55 P.M.:  I ran water and two tablespoons of white vinegar through the Krups espresso cappuccino machine and the Braun espresso cappuccino machine and then water again and four tablespoons of white vinegar and about a quart of water through the Regal coffee machine and then water again, so I have decalcified the entire three machines.  I put the ice tea away in the refrigerator to chill.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 8:45 P.M.:  I cashed my Columbia 2.4 gigahertz cordless telephone $20 rebate check today, so it only cost me $20 total with the headphone included.  I have a weather warning that it is suppose to get colder below freezing tonight.  Right now it is 39 degrees Fahrenheit outside and damp after a brief shower.   I have not been taking regular evening walks now for about 14 months since with my arthritis I am more comfortable at home.  Occasionally when the evenings are dry, I sneak out for a brief stroll.  I have enough comfortable winter jackets and coats to wear on colder days.  I should get another pair of long underwear bottoms that fit me, so I have a second pair that fits.  I will be needing to restock some of my vitamins and supplements in the near future.  Thus it is pretty much the same old routine as I start to go into winter.  Usually when it gets colder, I spend more time on the computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 8:15 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I am in the process of making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm  with 22 tea bags of 13 types for 12 quarts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 7:05 P.M.:  I am on the dry cycle.  I put $5 more on the laundry card.  I am going to have dinner of two half inch thick slices of cold eye round beef with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, steamed white rice, steamed fresh broccoli, and ice tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 6:25 P.M.:  I started two loads of laundry.  I just put clean sheets on the bed.  I am listening to http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram .  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week 11/01/02:

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 5:35 P.M.:  I had some Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers and Carr?s crackers last night before going to bed.  I was up at 11 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and then I had coffee outside.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the central Greenwich post office, and I obtained money orders to pay my GEICO automobile insurance, Verizon telephone, Connecticut Light and Power electricity, Cablevision, and Optimum Online.  I also sent money orders for $4.20 to get a free carton of American Spirit cigarettes since I received the paperwork from the advertisement in P.C. magazine this month I called about last week.  I also sent $25 to Net2Phone to recharge up my PC to Telephone account that costs 2 cents a minute.  I then walked over to First Union Bank on Havameyer Place, and I paid my rent.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I then walked back from there to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then walked back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought for $29.75 half price an extra large Rainforest down lined full length about six inches below my knees overcoat with removable down liner in tan brown color.  It will be a quite comfortable overcoat on the colder days that might develop this winter.  It was made in China.  I then stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I returned two books, and I paid .30 in fines.  I then went to Smokes for Less, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $26.  I then returned home.  I put the new overcoat in my right hand side living room closet.  I put some of the jackets I do not wear in the left hand side living room closet to make room.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 12:50 A.M.:  I just turned the living room thermostat down to 74 degrees Fahrenheit since it is 74 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment.  More than likely when the King of Saudi Arabia turns the thermostat on at night downstairs below me, it warms up my apartment above a bit.  If it is too warm in here, I tend to get a bit drowsy.  I just threw out the Slaymaker 1,000,000 watt rechargeable flashlight container it came in.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/02 Friday 12:35 A.M.:  Happy ?All Saints? Day?.  However, I am not sure this is a holiday in the protestant church.  I doubt if it is.  I sorted out some paper work.  I signed my Energy Protection slip, and I have it ready to send in to Connecticut Light and Power.  I have the thermostat in my living room set at 76 degrees Fahrenheit, and the apartment living room temperature is 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  However, it is more efficient with box fan blowing the air around above the electric radiators.  I have my bedroom thermostat at 62 degrees Fahrenheit, since I am only there when I sleep underneath the heavy comforter.  Also the box fan blows air into the rooms.  I guess I can leave my bathroom door open, since I do not have the heat turned on in the bathroom.  I use to keep it closed, however since I have not smoked in the apartment since May 2002, I do not had to worry about cigarette smoke entering the bathroom vent fan and bothering my neighbors.  Besides cleaning my coffee machines with a couple tablespoons of vinegar and water mentioned earlier, I also need to clean the outside foam rubber filters on my two air cleaners that I run all the time.  I would imagine the two air cleaners cost over $100 a year in electricity, if one believes the infomercials on television.  Still, they probably keep the air fresh in the apartment, although a bit of fresh air does seems to leak into the apartment around the air conditioner which I keep in the winter, since it is a fixed unit type model.  Thus when one does not watch television continually or surf the internet continually, one can dream up other activities and chores to keep one busy.  A relative told me that eating Ramen noodles raises cholesterol since they use higher cholesterol causing types of fats.  I have two 12 box cases of Cup of Noodles which is a similar product, but for the time being, I think I will keep them.  Not that I am expecting the Blizzard of 1882, but since the building is an evacuation center for about 100 people, I figure it is useful to have some extra supplies on hand, but I figure in such a situation, the Red Cross might come through unless they should be on vacation in Barbados. CIO