Note: <888> 11/30/09  Monday 10:55 A.M..  Well not much happening in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I think I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap for a while.  I might read some of my unread magazines later on.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/30/09  Monday 10:20 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/30/09  Monday 10:15 A.M..  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors, and I said hello to the building custodian.  I surfed the internet.  I saw on www.foxnews.com that Obama is making a speech at www.usma.edu tomorrow.  Unfortunately I do not go over there, since I do not like spending $4 to cross the Tapan Zee bridge which tends to give one vertigo.  I have seen the military police at nearby Fort Montgomery, and they are rather big and over fed, so he should have no security problems.  Like all African Americans, when they are given too much food, they tend to eat so much that they tend to get rather gross, and they do not look like they would fit into a regular airline seat, so more than probably they travel around in bigger vehicles like C5As or whatever they use to move heavy equipment.  Of course, if you eat too much, sooner or later you are going to have to pay a farmer.  I ate a 1.2 ounce Kashi bar.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/30/09  Monday 7:25 A.M..  I sautéed over medium high electric burner heat in a few tablespoons of olive oil a 8 ounce package of Jone's frozen sausage links for seven minutes turning them frequently.  While doing that I mixed three eggs and two tablespoons of milk and Italian spices together.  Once the sausages were browned, I added a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and the egg mixture, and I scrambled the eggs and sausages together until the eggs were still soft.  I used the frying pan to heat the plate, and I added the eggs and sausages mixture to the plate.  While doing that I also toasted an English muffin, which I ate with olive oil on it.  I ate it all with a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shower and clean up, so I will be prepared to stay home comfortably today and work on the computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/30/09  Monday 6:35 A.M..  It is suppose to rain all day today, so the only place to go warm inside without money is the Greenwich Library: Welcome , but I have plenty of work to do at home, so there is probably no point in going out today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/30/09  Monday 6:05 A.M..  I woke up at midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 4 A.M..  I watched a movie about the Titanic called "Carpethia".  I washed the breakfast dishes.

End of Scott's Notes week of 11/29/09: 

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 3:45 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I chatted with a relative of a friend.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayo with a dill pickle slice and 1/3rd of a 6.2 ounce tube of CVS potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a friend.  I was told today, they either tore down or are rebuilding Ulysses S. Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia house in North Salem, New York, and that William Randolph Hearst once also had a house in North Salem, New York, but today it is mostly Jewish people whom are not afraid of Grizzly Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and of course the Kennedy girl that falls asleep reading the New York Times www.nytimes.com .  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Showers tomorrow and a high of 52 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 7:30 A.M..  It is 35 degrees Fahrenheit outside.  It is suppose to be up to 54 degrees Fahrenheit today and mostly sunny.  I ate the other half of the 13.5 ounce box of Cheez-its along with a clementine.  Since it is colder out, I will put on my long underwear bottoms and dress more warmly, when I go out for a walk this morning.  Not much happening on this side of town, but at least I will see a little bit of day light.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  I happen think regular exercise is healthy for one, providing the conditions are right.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 6:50 A.M..  Conservatives fighting over money Buckley kin accuse dad of tapping trust fund - Greenwich Time .  Buckley communications has their office just west of the Food Emporium on West Putnam Avenue next to the light fixture shop.  I use to see Shell oil trucks with Buckley Oil written on them delivering oil to the Shell station on West Putnam Avenue.  However, their oil use to come from Texas, so whether they still have money or not is opened to debate, since Texas is not suppose to have any oil anymore, except for what they import from elsewhere.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 6:30 A.M..  Cable News William Bresnan Death Notice: William Bresnan’s Obituary by the GreenwichTime. .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 6:15 A.M..  I still should buy this DELL 2nd Hard Drive Module Caddy D400 D410 D500 D505 - eBay (item 220406720036 end time Dec-27-09 01:57:16 PST) for $12.99 with free shipping, when I can afford it.  I think the Dell D410 has a maximum hard drive capacity of 80 GB.

It is also available here Dell D400 D500 D600 D800 2nd hard drive module caddy - eBay (item 360042896321 end time Dec-04-09 18:38:10 PST) new for $19.99 and $6.99 shipping.

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 5:25 A.M..  $49.99 with free shipping Newegg.com - Seagate 320GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ST903204EXA101-RK - External Hard Drives .

Of course, I would still have to buy a second 80 GB IDE 2.5 inch hard drive.  I am beginning to think it would have been cheaper to buy a new laptop.  However, I do not need the hard drive space at the moment.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 5:10 A.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I received a Christmas card from another regular downtown.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 4:20 A.M..  The Safety Net - Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades - Series - NYTimes.com  CIO

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 4:10 A.M..  I cut two 3/8th inch thick slices of the Jenie O turkey ham, and I put them on a microwave proof plate with microwave lid, and I microwaved them for two minutes.  I put some Dijon mustard on them, and I ate the ham turkey with my usual vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down punch.

I advise one not to travel without money, or you tend to get hungry when you have to eat.  Although we have a lot of food in the U.S.A., you generally have to pay for it.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 2:55 A.M..  Best I can figure out, that building in Manhattan is where the old Lock Stock and Barrel race from Darien, Connecticut to Malibu, Calfornia started, once they were kicked out of Darien, Connecticut.  Best I could figure out the top secret code word to start the race was "Jelly Bean", but you would have to known whom to call up to give that code word to, which I do not.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 2:10 A.M..  A couple of weeks until his birthday His Highness the Aga Khan's 72nd Birthday - Mowlana Hazar Imam's 72nd Birthday - December 13, 2008 .  I wander if he still gets his weight in diamonds that he gives to charity.

Note: <888> 11/29/09  Sunday 2:05 A.M..  I went to bed after the last note.  I woke up at 5 P.M., when I got one of those automobile warranty telemarketing telephone calls.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 9 P.M., when I chatted with a relative.  I then went back to bed until 1:30 A.M..  I ate a clementine.  I started up Windows 7RC partition on the Dell Latitude D410, and the Motorola H780 Bluetooth headset works on startup.  To use it though one should change the Audio properties to the headset and turn off the speaker system and Logitech microphone on the web cam, which only takes a minute.  I will now make my bed and wash the breakfast dishes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 10:00 A.M..  OEM Windows 7 Ultimate OEM Windows 7 Ultimate $119.90 .  OEM means you can not transfer it between computers.

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Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 9:20 A.M..  I ate half of a 13.5 ounce box of Cheez-its and a clementine.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 8:30 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a regular at the train station, and I gave the regular four cigarettes.  I was told they have some reindeer at McArdle McMillan on Arch street.  I walked over there, and I could not tell how many reindeer there are.  There was one out front in the fence area and several or so back in the shelter.  I chatted with a resident on Arch street.  I then returned home, since it is very windy out, and I was not dressed warmly enough for the cooler weather.  I installed the latest ATI drivers and program for my video card.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 5:50 A.M..  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/3rd of a 6.3 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice, and watered down punch.

I received a Christmas card photograph of relatives in the mail yesterday.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk with the coyotes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 4:35 A.M..  I put away the laundry.

I found this article that mentions http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm in this article about the Wyatt family of Houston, Texas New York Magazine Google Books Tex Wyatt family of Houston, Texas , back track to page 42.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 3:30 A.M..  I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put www.skype.com on the FIC server. 

Note: <888> 11/28/09  Saturday 3:00 A.M..  I woke up at midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk. I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I started two loads of laundry, and I am just about ready to start the dry cycles.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/27/09  Friday 4:55 P.M..  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  I installed www.skype.com on the primary Vista computer.  I went to install it on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer, but the Motorola Bluetooth H780 headset would not work.  I finally from the Bluetooth icon in the tray selected to show Bluetooth devices, and I deleted it, and then I let plug and play reinstall it, and then it worked properly.  The code for it is "0000".  I shut down for a while, and the same thing happened again.  I went through the same procedure again, but when I shut down and restarted again it worked fine.  I am using Windows 7RC, so it might have been a bug in the release candidate.  I installed Skype on the Windows 7RC partition.  I then installed the Bluetooth devices and Skype on the Windows 7RC partitions on the Abit computer, and the Epox, and the bedroom gigabyte computers' Windows 7RC partitions.  On the Epox the front USB ports do not work, but the rear USB device hub behind the monitors does work.  On the Northgate Syntax computer, the front USB ports do not work, and the rear USB ports are all used up. 

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayo with a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.   I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Partly cloudy and a high of 48 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/27/09  Friday 11:05 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/27/09  Friday 10:00 A.M..  Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Swedish inventor) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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Note: <888> 11/27/09  Friday 8:45 A.M..  The new www.apple.com Ipod store on Greenwich Avenue must have been designed in California.  It is not very energy efficient.  They have 30 foot high cathedral ceiling where the heat rises up into the ceiling instead of keeping the lower area warm.  Its bright lights are on all of the time at night.  Also their double glass entrance doors have a 5/8th inch space around the doors' edges between the rest of the glass front, where all of the heat can leak out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/09  Friday 8:15 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  They are working on paving the sidewalk in front of the new People's Bank on the west side at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  The two canoes in the window of the new Ralph Lauren store are American Traders from Brattleboro, Vermont American Traders Contact Us.  I saw a few early morning dog walkers going about their business.  I noticed when driving up Mason street the building that I saw Fred Von Mierers look-alike http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm coming out of getting into a gold Bentley sedan with Nordic chauffeur was not at the southwest corner of Mason Street and East Elm Street, where Larry Lawson has his local law office, but just south of there at 165 Mason Street.  On the street going south of the Greenwich Library, I saw two black squirrels.  I then returned home.  I said good morning to a neighbor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/27/09  Friday 6:00 A.M..  I went to bed after the last note.  I chatted with a relative.  My door bell rang at noon, and a nice family from the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich The First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, Connecticut ( CT ) delivered me a Thanksgiving meal in a white shopping bag.  I chatted with another relative.  I went to bed until 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched the movie "High Society on the Turner Movie Channel".  I went back to bed at midnight.  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I reheated my Thanksgiving Day meal from the First Presbyterian Church.  It consisted of white meat turkey with gravy, stuffing, mashed yams, green peas, salad with vinaigrette dressing, carrot sticks and celery, two rolls with butter and a piece of pumpkin pie.  It was delicious and enjoyable.  I went back to bed until 4 A.M..  There seems to be a lot of television programming on the Turner movie channel about Monaco and Princess Grace movies.  I read a few years ago that their castle on the cliff in Monaco is at risk of falling into the sea.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  It is suppose rain today, but it is clear out now, so I guess I will go out for an early morning walk.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for some exercise.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/26/09  Thursday 11:20 A.M..  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice, and watered down punch.  I also ate the two small candy bars and a Hershey's kiss.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Cloudy today and a high of 55 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

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Note: <888> 11/26/09  Thursday 9:40 A.M..  I ate a clementine.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with another neighbor.  I picked up my mail from yesterday.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/26/09  Thursday 7:50 A.M..  I ate a 9.5 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds after the last note.  I went to bed, and I woke up at 2:15 P.M., when the Postal person delivered with

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Also my Thanksgiving dinner was outside the door.  I put it in the refrigerator, and I went to bed.

I woke up at 7 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.

I did an XP Professional ASR backup of the XP Professional partition on the Dell Latitude D410 to the Samba external hard drive with the floppy drive installed, so I could make the recovery floppy disk.  I left the floppy drive on the right side of the stand in between the two monitors.  I tried to get the Motorola H780 wireless headset to work with the XP Professional partition, but I messed it up, so I restored my earlier Windows 7RC Complete PC backup of both partitions.  I finally gave up with the Dell Bluetooth device, and I disabled it after I got it going properly, but although it recognized the Motorola headset, it would not install its drivers.  I then tried the Cirago USB 2.0 Bluetooth device on it, but although it did recognize the Motorola headset, it did not install the device drivers for the Motorola headset.  I left it installed.  I tried it on the FIC Vista server, but it was not recognized.  I then tried it on the Windows 7RC partition on the Dell D410, and it was recognized plug and play, and it installed the Motorola H780 Bluetooth headset plug and play without any problems. I set it as the default audio device.  I made a test call with Net2Phone to Cablevision tech support, and it worked just fine.  I have it plugged into the dining table power strip that stays on all of the time, and I have it place to the left on the stand in between the two monitors.  I reheated my Thanksgiving meal with a 1/3rd inch thick slice of the turkey ham that I put some mustard on.  The Thanksgiving meal did not have any turkey or gravy.  It was mashed potatoes, green beans, stuffing, and cranberry sauce.  There were also two cookies and two small candy bars and a Hershey kiss.  I ate it with watered down punch.  I am now doing a Windows 7 RC Complete PC backup of both partitions on the Dell D410 to the Maxtor external hard drive.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO     

Note: <888> 11/25/09  Wednesday 10:35 A.M..  I registered the warranty for the Samba external hard drive with www.acomdata.com .  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will eat some almonds, and then I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  Afternoon showers and a high of 53 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/09  Wednesday 10:15 A.M..  I went over to the Valley Drive post office to mail the package.  The package was .25 inches longer than 16 inches, and it would have been $28 and change to mail it Priority Mail, so I mailed it parcel post for $9.27 and .80 for delivery confirmation for $10.07 total.   It will take 7 to 10 days to get to McAllen, Texas.  I then returned home.  When I got to my apartment, I discovered I had lost my reading glasses, so I returned to the Valley Drive post office, and I found them in their case in the parking lot, where I had parked.  I guess they came out of my passport pouch, when I took out my car keys.  They were not run over by a car, so they are all right.  I then returned back to my apartment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/09  Wednesday 9:05 A.M..  I finished the backup.  I now have 141 GB left on the Samba external hard drive.  I will now go out mail the package at the Valley Drive post office.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/09  Wednesday 8:35 A.M..  I am now backing up both partitions on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop to the Samba external enclosure.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/09  Wednesday 7:35 A.M..  I installed the new Seagate 300 GB PATA hard drive in the Samba enclosure.  I did a Vista complete PC backup from the first hard drive of the primary Vista computer to the Samba enclosure.  I then copied a lot of files from the C: drive to the Samba enclosure.  However, just as I was finishing, the Seagate hard drive failed making a clanking sound.  I put in another spare new identical hard drive, and it worked just fine.  I then did another backup.  While doing that I got the RMA information from Seagate, and it is under warranty until February 2014, I printed out the RMA and label, and I packed up the Seagate drive in its box without the cables and paper manuals.  I packed that box in the box that the Samba drive arrived in with foam peanuts, and I put the label on it, and I have it ready to mail.  It weighs just under three pounds.  Priority Mail will cost $10.60 which I think includes tracking.  I will mail it at the Valley Drive post office, when it opens at 9 A.M.. 

I put my OEM logos on the two partitions on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop.  One searches Google for "OEM Logo XP" or "OEM Logo Windows 7", but there are no logo programs for Vista.

I am now copying the FIC server folder to the Samba enclosure. 

I ate a clementine.

I have the server program turned off while copying.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 11:55 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I installed the Dell W9242 Bluetooth device in the Dell Latitude D410 laptop.  I had to use a small screw from the primary Dell Latitude CD hard drive mount to secure it.  I will look for some more small screws to have in reserve some time in the future.  Plug and Play in Windows XP Professional recognized it, and installed the drivers.  In Windows 7RC, Windows update installed the same devices, but it gave an error message that a protocol and a device were not installed, but in hardware settings, it shows it installed fine.  I can not test it, until I get the Motorola Bluetooth headset.  I chatted with a friend.  After I ate the meal below, I went out.

I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two eight packs of Freirhoffer's hot dog buns for $2.89 each eight pack, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $3, a dozen jumbo eggs for $2.49 expire December 30, 2009, a 12 ounce generic honey for $1.99, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, a two pound Jenie O turkey ham for a $1.99 a pound for $4.06, a 2 pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a five pound box of Spanish clementines for $4.88, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.70, and broccoli crowns for $1.79 a pound for $2.69 for $34.57 total. 

I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue.  I chatted with some students from Greenwich Village outside the Thataway pub.  I sat out briefly.  I did not have time to walk upper Greenwich Avenue, but I am pretty sure it is still there, since I saw it when I drove down Greenwich Avenue.  Ralph's scaffolding is still there too.

I next went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station next to the Greenwich Library.  They have a 1972 Mercedes 280SL roadster in mint condition with 80,000 miles for sale there.  One can call Chris or Steve there.  I chatted with a Buick Roadmaster wagon owner about them.  I put $15 of self service premium gasoline at $3.279 a gallon for 4.575 gallons at odometer reading of 65,196 miles for 58.6 miles driving since November 7, 2009 for 12.809 miles per gallon driving mostly in local traffic.  Yes, I have a full tank of gasoline, since I do not driver very much to save on energy.  I would prefer to keep my apartment warmer than to heat up a car engine.  I cleaned the outside windows, and I checked the tires for 32 PSI.  I also used the bathroom there.  I then returned home, and I put away the groceries. 

I will now put one of the new Seagate 320 GB PATA hard drives in the Samba enclosure.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 7:05 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.

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I will now eat two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice, and watered down punch. 

I will shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for groceries at the Stop and Shop after that.  I will not walk downtown, since I have computer work to do.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 4:45 P.M..  My father was Louis Dale Scott from Champaign, Illinois.  His father was Clarence Scott and his father was James Scott.  Dad was a chemical engineer with degrees from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana and he did doctorate work at Ohio State.  He worked with Dr. Salk on the Polio Vaccine as a young chemist.  I do not know what he did for a job when he was married to his first wife who was the wealthiest heiress in Chicago, Illinois, and her family the Kuhns family owned the Household Finance Company.  Dad when he first married my mother Phyllis Bovan Agnew from Holland, Michigan worked for Royal Dutch Shell in Wood River, Illinois building a refinery for Shell, and I was born nearby in Alton, Illinois.  His next job was with www.dupont.com in Martinsville, Virginia, before he took the job with Chemstrand at their Nylon plant in Pensacola, Florida, then to the Acrilan plant in Decatur, Alabama, and finally we moved to this area in 1961, when dad worked in the Chemstrand offices at the Empire State building.  He also worked for a lot of those different companies mentioned overseas in various international capacities.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 4:20 P.M..  On a minor note of diplomacy, when I attended Greenwich Country Day from 1962 to 1965, my family lived in Baldwin Farms North down the street from Lowell Weicker when he was first selectman of Greenwich, Connecticut.  We use to carpool with the Weicker family to Greenwich Country Day, and the Cole family of Reader's Digest and the Barnum family that were local architects.  Baldwin Farms North and South are off Round Hill Road just south of the Merritt Parkway.  Lowell Weicker's first wife's family maiden name was Bigelow of Bigelow Teas, Green Tea, Herbal Tea, Decaf Tea, Tea Gifts from Bigelow Tea fame, but the Bigelow family also made Bigelow Commercial carpet which used Acrilan fiber from Chemstrand, so that was the business connection.

When Dad was at www.polaroid.com after Chemstrand the Warburg family that was also at Greenwich Country Day also were involved in founding Polaroid as was Julius Silver from Byram who was the treasurer of Polaroid.  Also the Harriman family who were related to my classmate George Cary at Lake Forest College were involved in starting Polaroid.

After Polaroid, Dad was at Combustion Engineering, and they had offices in Stamford, Connecticut and his boss at Combustion Engineering Arthur Sandry also lived here in Greenwich.

After Combustion Engineering, Dad was at Continental Can, and they had offices in Greenwich, and Mark Hatfield here in Greenwich was the president of Continental Can.  Continental Can's offices in Manhattan were across the street from New York Blue Cross Blue Shield that provided me with medical insurance.

After Continental Can, Dad was at King Wilkinson construction company out the Hague in the Netherlands, and I just know they are a large worldwide construction company.  Dad was the project manager to build the Royal Dutch Shell and Mobil oil refinery in Nigeria.  He then retired in 1982 to Bayonnet Point, Florida and passed away in 1989 from a bone chip from a fractured hip that gave him a stroke.  His third wife who was his secretary inherited his and my grandparent Scott's assets.

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Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 3:10 P.M..  I woke up at noon.  My 3 P.M. appointment was cancelled.  I was called and told that I would receive my Renter's Rebate check within two weeks.  I was also told the state of Connecticut is auditing the Renter's Rebate program and that some people were overpaid and others were underpaid, and that the state might require some people to give back the money they were overpaid.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I said hello to neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I received my $20 Thanksgiving food voucher.  I will use it for a regular food order at the Stop and Shop.  I am suppose to have a Thanksgiving meal delivered on Thanksgiving day between 11 A.M. and noon.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 2:45 A.M..  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Morning drizzle and a high of 55 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 2:40 A.M..  As far as I could tell in the old days, one of Nelson Rockefeller's more visible jobs in Manhattan in the old days was ringing the Salvation Army bell at the red kettle in front of Rockefeller Center.  He seems to be cleaver at collecting money dressed up like Santa Claus.

I did notice on my walk downtown yesterday that the women's dress shop next door just south of the Versailles restaurant has a "Toys for Tots" box just inside of their store entrance.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 2:25 A.M..  BBC News - Design fixed for 1,000mph car  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 2:15 A.M..  Pumpkin Pie - animated Flash ecard by Jacquie Lawson

Note: <888> 11/24/09  Tuesday 12:30 A.M..  The Scott family original connection with the Rockefellers was Tom Scott, when he was President of the Pennsylvania Railroad after the Civil War organized the Standard Oil Trust for John D. Rockefeller giving the Standard Oil the exclusive right to haul oil on the Pennsylvania Railroad out of Ohio.  Young Andrew Carnegie was Tom Scott's telegraph operator.  My grandmother Elizabeth Gard Scott's grandmother was a Davidson, so some of the Davidson family look is apparent in my branch of the Scott family.  Also in more recent times, when we first moved to Greenwich, Connecticut my father was a Vice President for Chemstrand that made Acrilan and Nylon fibers. Chemstrand was 50% owned by American Cynamid here in Greenwich and 50% owned by Monsanto out of St. Louis, Missouri.  Stillman Rockefeller here in Greenwich, Connecticut was the Chairman of the Board of Citibank, and he was also on the board of directors of Monsanto.  Since Acrilan fiber was use to make expensive $100 a square yard carpet in the 1960s, wealthy people bought the carpet.  Also since Acrilan carpet shed a lot of fabric, one needed an Electrolux vacuum cleaner Electrolux Appliances - Electrolux Appliances Official Site to keep the carpet looking right.  The Duke of Windsor knew the Swedish owner of Electrolux and use to barrow his yacht the Southern Cross in the Bahamas, and in the 1920s while still the Prince of Wales, he dedicated a statue at the Electrolux factory in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, so he obviously visited Greenwich back then.  When I stayed at Fred's apartment in Manhattan, my only friend that visited me there was George Cary whose grandfather Jay Coogan worked for Queen Victoria's honor guard.  The only people from Greenwich, Connecticut that visited there were George Nichols who was an assistant editor of the www.nytimes.com and Wilbur Banks who was in the Duke of Windsor's honor guard in Newport, Rhode Island during World War II, and Wilbur Banks just happened to be the local Electrolux vacuum cleaner salesman in Greenwich, Connecticut, so he visited all of the wealthy homes in Greenwich, and I guess Manhattan.   However, I am not sure it is safe to use modern vacuum cleaners on expensive antique museum quality carpets.  In the fall of 1973, Fred did buy a new Electrolux vacuum cleaner from Wilbur Banks with the carpet sweeper attachment, since his chocolate colored wall to wall wool carpet got a lot of traffic with all of the European guests.  There is just east of Greenwich Avenue at the first left from the top, a store that use to be the Electrolux vacuum cleaner shop, but it now has some other new name that begins with A that I forget. 

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 11:45 P.M..  Campaign Finance - Money, Political Finance, Campaign Contributions

I think I forgot to mention, I saw somebody that looked like http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm about three weeks ago, and he looked very alive and well.  I was driving up Mason Street late Thursday afternoon, and at the building on the southeast corner of Mason and East Elm Street, somebody that looked like Fred walked out of the building with a blond Nordic looking chauffeur, and they got into a gold colored Bentley automobile sedan.  They walked right in front of my slow moving silver Audi, oblivious to local traffic on the street.  I do not know whether it was Fred of not, but it sure looked like him.

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 10:50 P.M..  Before going to bed, I ate a 9.75 ounce of Planter's Heart Healthy mixed nuts.  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  Somebody has left a General Electric washer or dryer out by the dumpster.  I do not know if it works or not.  We use Maytag washers and dryers in the building.  I do not think any of the apartments have their own separate appliances.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow afternoon.  Thus I will have to be up at noon tomorrow, so I should go to bed earlier this morning than previous mornings.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 11:10 A.M..  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  Afternoon showers and a high of 49 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 8:50 A.M..  Believe it or not, since www.exxon.com and www.mobil.com are very profitable companies, they also have one of the most advanced security services in the world.  I have seen their forces in action before, and they have all of the latest toys and other protective services know how.  It takes an advanced security force to protect their worldwide assets.  They employ a lot of former military special forces personnel.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 8:20 A.M..  Greenwich Gossip 

Bill Clark's picture is in this story as picture number 4, he is the person on the far left This Polo isn't in Conyers Farm: Ralph Lauren store opens on Greenwich Avenue - Greenwich Time

Bill and I recently discovered, we used to be neighbors in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where my draft board was, so possibly unknown to both of us, we were both drafted into the military service while living up there.

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 7:15 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the Greenwich Train station.  Cole Haan Official Site - Shoes, Handbags & Accessories : ColeHaan.com is putting in a store across the street from Ralph Lauren.  For some reason Ralph is using canoes in his window display.  They are wooden canoes like the old Canoes and Kayaks - Old Town Canoes and Kayaks , but I think they are from another manufacturer.  After my walk I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  A guess a great deal of the non internet senior generation still prefer reading newspapers to get more detailed stories instead of the quick summaries off the internet.  However, the older retired generation have more time to read.  Quite frankly I am 59 years old today, and I started using personal computers at age 39 about 20 years ago.  So it is not like I just started using them.  Although they are easier to use today, I have certain habits such as constantly backing up my work to other hard drives and keeping redundant computer systems which is much more costly and time consuming.  It seemed to be busy out there this morning.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  There were not many houses lighted up around the waterfront, so I guess people are saving on electricity, and not using too much electricity anymore to light up their houses.  Coming back, I noticed there were a lot of cars parked around the Y.M.C.A. with I guess a lot of people using the new swimming pool there.  Although I use to like swimming, I do not like crowded indoor swimming pools, and it is easy to catch Athlete's foot or foot fungus using public locker rooms.  I returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 4:15 A.M..  On the primary Vista computer, I untangled the Plantronics headset cable, and I reconnected, and I set it as the default audio and recording device.  It works just fine.

One can use www.net2phone.com to call Long Distance overseas for a pennies a minute.

One can call up U.K. Metropolitan Police Service , and they have an anti-terrorist hotline Metropolitan Police Service - Specialist Operations at 44-0800-789-321, but it does not work through net2phone right now, but 44-207-230-1212 does go through, if you can afford a few pennies a minute with www.net2phone.com through the internet to Jolly Old England, where from what I can tell, they still speak English.

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 3:15 A.M.. Microsoft JUF-00001 Life Chat LX-3000 USB Headset with Mic for PC in Computer Headsets at JR.com $29.99

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 2:25 A.M..  I also connected the Compaq LCD monitor on the Dell D410 laptop docking station to the power strip, so its power comes on, when the power strip is turned on.

I ate the same London Broil dinner as last night.  I did not have green tea, since beside being an antioxidant, green tea is a diuretic, and it makes on have to go to the bathroom more frequently, and when I go out for a walk later this morning on Greenwich Avenue, there are not always bathrooms around.  Even in Paris, France, they have bathrooms on the street called "Pisseries".  Maybe the town of Greenwich should look into them.

I showered, and I cleaned up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/23/09  Monday 12:30 A.M..  I woke up at 5 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made up a fresh batch of punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I took a spare power strip, and I connected it up to the power strip on the dining table.  The power strips on the dining table are connected to a good surge protector power strip on the floor by the FIC server desk.  I set the new power strip next to the left side of the Compaq LCD monitor, and I connected the Dell D410 laptop power supply into it, so one can now turn off the Dell D410 power supply with the power strip switch.  I took the new $50 surround sound speaker system that I got for free at Staples this past summer, and I took it off the bedroom gigabyte computer, and I put the subwoofer on the dining table platform with the Ionic Pro air purifier on top of it.  I put the two speakers behind the Dell D410 Compaq LCD monitor, and I connected the speaker input cable to the Dell D410 docking station.  I connected the speakers' power cable to the same power strip, so the speakers turn on with the power strip.  One has to have the headset speaker jack disconnected from the Dell D410 laptop,  for the speaker system to work.  I have the volume turn knob beneath the Compaq LCD monitor on the right side.  Thus there is much better sound on the Dell D410 laptop setup.  I moved the speaker system from the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop to the bedroom gigabyte computer, and I moved the speaker system from the secondary Dell Latitude CD laptop to the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop.  Thus the secondary Dell Latitude CS laptop does not have a speaker system connected to its docking station, but it has a headset.  CIO     

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 9:55 A.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayo with a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.

CTFLUWATCH: CT Towns with Confirmed Swine Flu Cases

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed shortly.  There is really not much happening out here in Greenwich, China during the recession and depression, since most people do not have any money.  They are just maintaining appearances hoping things will get better sooner than later.  However, I did not major in computers at www.lfc.edu but economics.   Generally a period of recession can last as long as the period of prosperity before it.  Thus since the period of prosperity before this recession was close to 20 years, we could be one year into a 20 year recession or depression.  In other words, you should get use to it, if you have not already.

I was advised my a relative with medical experience that one should clean one's bathroom and kitchen with bleach, but I am not sure if one would use straight bleach in a spray bottle or watered down bleach.  The bleach container might has some sort of instructions on it.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 8:25 A.M..  Long line for opening of Greenwich Avenue Apple Store - Greenwich Time

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 7:10 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  There was Fjord Fisheries bus full of women leaving St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.  The scaffolding is still up in front of the new Ralph Lauren store.  They have nice new Christmas cars at Carriage House motors and a couple of antique ones.  I viewed the inside of the Apple Ipod store.  It seems to be a lot of space with not too many items on display, but I guess it looks different when it is full of people using the gadgets.  I used the ATM machine at the Chase Bank at mid Greenwich Avenue.  While there I called 611 on my AT&T Go Phone, and I put $25 more on my account for a $26.50 charge.  I now have $72.31 on my account which is good until February 20, 2011, when I have to recharge the account before then to keep the amount on the account or what is left.  I chatted with a local walker who mentioned Cybernetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  I said hello to a former neighbor's relative, but he did not recognize me.  I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station again.  I was told by the other walker that there was a Porto Potty behind the People's Bank construction site on lower Greenwich Avenue, so I was able to relieve myself.  The People's Bank new construction site is in the process of taking down their scaffolding and preparing to redo their sidewalks.  I stopped by the Greenwich Train station, and I left two cigarettes by another regular walker who was sleeping there.  The walker that I chatted with earlier does not believe in using modern technology, so he was reading the morning papers by a store front light.  I mentioned the Apple Ipod devices are so small, and they appear that one can not repair them oneself, and one would have to send them into the manufacturer for repair.  The Apple Ipod showroom does look modern and sleek, but I think their items are a little bit too expensive for my budget, and I am basically a PC person anyway.  I finished walking lower Greenwich Avenue, and then I returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 3:30 A.M..  I cancelled  Newegg.com - Rosewill RX355-U Aluminum 3.5" USB 2.0 External Enclosure - External Enclosures for $19.99 and $5.99 shipping for $25.98 total.  Instead I ordered Newegg.com - acomdata SMBXXXU2E-Blk Aluminum 3.5" Obsidian Black USB 2.0 Samba Enclosure Kit - External Enclosures for $29.99 with free shipping.  It will work with both IDE and SATA.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 11/22/09: 

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 3:15 A.M..  Voltaire (French philosopher and author) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Mayflower Compact (North America [1620]) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 2:25 A.M..  I ordered Newegg.com - Rosewill RX355-U Aluminum 3.5" USB 2.0 External Enclosure - External Enclosures for $19.99 and $5.99 shipping for $25.98 total.  I will use it with one of my spare Seagate 320 GB hard drives, and I will then have more external drive storage.  CIO    

Note: <888> 11/22/09  Sunday 12:40 A.M..  I put away the laundry. 

For the Dell Latitude D410 laptop docking station, I ordered Latitude D Series and Inspiron 8500/8600 Floppy Drive w/ USB Cord (New) for $7.95 and $6.99 Priority Mail for $14.85 total.

Note: <888> 11/21/09  Saturday 11:50 P.M..  To use the bluetooth headset with the other computers, I also ordered Newegg.com - cirago BTA-6210 USB 2.0 Micro Bluetooth Dongle support Bluetooth 2.1 - Network - Bluetooth for $24.99 and $2.99 shipping for $27.98 total.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/21/09  Saturday 11:20 P.M..  I went ahead and order Newegg.com - MOTOROLA H780 Bluetooth Headset Bulk Package - Bluetooth Cell Phone Accessories for $29.99 with free shipping.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/21/09  Saturday 11:10 P.M..  After the last note, I looked at Bluetooth Computer Products , How to install and configure Bluetooth devices in Windows XP Service Pack 2 , and How to connect a bluetooth headset to a laptop? .

I then looked at bluetooth devices, and I determined that Newegg.com - MOTOROLA H780 Bluetooth Headset Bulk Package - Bluetooth Cell Phone Accessories for $29.99 with free shipping would be the best value and clarity to use, when I can afford it.  There are a lot of other cheaper bluetooth headsets, but I do not think they would provide the clarity.  It also is Bluetooth 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate.

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 11:50 P.M..  Greenwich Arts Council  seems to be more active recently.

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 11:25 P.M..  I chatted with a relative. 

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 8:50 P.M..  The QM2 - Itinerary - 2009 is not due back from Barbados until Monday November 30, 2009.  Maybe they will bring back some Mount Gay rum.

I prepared a 7 ounce box of Armour lite brown and serve sausage per the instructions on the box for a frying pan.  I mixed up three eggs with two tablespoons of milk and a few dashes of Italian seasoning while doing that.  I then browned the sausages a little bit more in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and a couple tablespoons of Smart Balance margarine.  I then added the egg mixture, and once it began to harden, I stirred it up to make soft scrambled eggs with sausages mixed in.  I heated up the plate with the frying pan, and I also had two English muffin halves with Smart Balance.  I also had some watered down punch, and I am just about ready to drink some Asian green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

One of these days, I have to do house cleaning, but the apartment is really not that dirty.  I guess I have to wait until I have enough money to pay myself to do it.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 7:40 P.M..  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I watched a bit of a television movie on Turner about an artist in Mexico.  I changed the CMOS DIMM setting on the Abit computer from 333 MHz to 266 MHz, and I no longer have any blue screen technical problems with it.  I changed the advanced visual setting to less processor intensive settings.  I then backed it up again from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  It seems to be running just fine.

I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail. 

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 12:25 P.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayo with a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  In the southern European countries from France on south, they always take naps in the afternoon, so they can stay up later at night.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 12:05 P.M..  Rhinelander Mansion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Medici Riccardi Palace - Florence - Museums - Monuments - Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - Chapel of the Magi - Frescos of Benozzo Gozzoli .

I use to live about a block from Palazzo Pitti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia while I was an art student in Florence, Italy.  I stayed at the Pensione Adria, and I enjoyed walking around the neighborhood.  All of the wall space inside the Pitti Palace is covered with art work.

However, I was once told that if one ever visited the Hermitage Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and you looked at every picture for 20 seconds, it would still take more than a life time to look at them all.  Of course that depends on how long one might live in Russia.

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 11:00 A.M..  Bill knows it all Greenwich Gossip .  Alas the items for sale on West Putnam Avenue are more expensive than anything on Greenwich Avenue and the items for sale in back country Greenwich are even more expensive.

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 8:45 A.M..  This what Florida looked like in the Good Old Days http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/old-florida-post-card-011506.jpg .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 8:30 A.M..  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I said good morning to the building custodian and a couple of neighbors.

The new Ralph Lauren Careers - About.RalphLauren.com is suppose to open on Greenwich Avenue today.  It is on the north side of the Knapp Funeral home, if you are not familiar with the area.  They have a lot of Palm Beach preppy clothes, if you are planning to go south for the winter.  They also have traditional suburban country clothes, for people whom prefer to dress informally in the Country.  They tend to be expensive. CIO

Note: <888> 11/20/09  Friday 7:15 A.M..  I went to bed after the last note.  I woke up, and I ate a 9.75 ounce can of Planter's Heart Healthy mixed nuts.  I finally woke up at 3:15 A.M..  I did a Windows 7 RC Complete PC backup of the Dell D410 laptop to the Maxtor external hard drive.  I also did a Vista Complete PC backup of the Epox computer first hard drive partitions to the second hard drive.  I also did a Vista Complete PC backup of the Abit computer first hard drive partitions to the second hard drive.  The Abit computer can be a bit slow in shutting down, and I think it is caused by the drivers for the Leadtek TV Expert card or its software.  It is basically the same as the FIC server except the Leadtek TV card.  That is all that I can figure out. 

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.

This external IDE enclosure is available for $18.95 with free shipping Rocketfish 3.5" PATA IDE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE ENCLOSURE - eBay (item 180431110903 end time Dec-10-09 14:56:54 PST) .  However, if I did not want to use one of my spare computer Seagate IDE hard drives which are hard to find, I could spend a bit more money, when I have it, and I could order from Cheap Hard Drives the Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 750GB which is currently $69.99 and with free shipping on an over $50 order with promo code "OUTLETFREESHIP" , I think when I have the extra money, it would be a better deal an offer more external drive storage space.

At www.geico.com , I went ahead and made my third payment of four payments on my six month policy which is due in December 2009. 

Note: <888> 11/19/09  Thursday 7:10 P.M..  I ate a Boston Market 16 ounce pot roast dinner with a glass of watered down punch.

I could always switch one of the drives out of my two existing IDE hard drive enclosures to make additional backups with one of the spare new IDE hard drives.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Morning rain tomorrow with a high of 57 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/19/09  Thursday 6:05 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up. When I went out both the fire department and the ambulance were here.  I waited for them all to leave.  The head fireman on duty said that whenever the fire alarm goes off in the building, we should call "911", since the alarm company does not always respond to the alarm.  However, a tenant said that if the fire alarm goes off in one's apartment, it can cost $150, so I do not know the real story.  I went to my 1 P.M. appointment, and I returned back here.  I waited for the mail to arrive.  I then went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then returned home.

Note: <888> 11/19/09  Thursday 6:05 A.M..  I installed the beta of Office 2010 Professional on the Windows 7RC beta partitions on the Dell D410 laptop, and the Abit, Epox, and Northgate desktops.  There is no room to install it on the Windows 7 RC beta partition on the bedroom Gigabyte computer.  I activated it, and I also configured the Outlook email programs on all of them.

Cloudy today with a high of 57 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  I ate my last apple last night.  I will eat a toasted English muffin with olive oil before going to bed.  I have to be awake at 10 A.M., since I have a 1 P.M. appointment.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/19/09  Thursday 1:55 A.M..  New York Is Set for Strict Stand on D.W.I. Cases - NYTimes.com

Fearing I.R.S., 14,700 Americans Disclose Foreign Accounts - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 11/18/09  Wednesday 11:50 P.M..  I woke up at noon.  I chatted with a relative.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayo with a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom twice at the senior and the arts center.  The new Ralph Lauren store is suppose to open this Friday November 20, 2009.  I was told the two police cars at the top of Greenwich Avenue by the United Way are to prevent people from parking on that side street while they repave it.  They were also putting move Christmas Italian lights on the tree on the north side of the Veterans monument.  Possibly with the recession or depression this year, they do not have the money to put Holiday lights elsewhere on Greenwich Avenue.  I was told by a local walker that I gave 4 cigarettes to that Obama is planning a $250 per person Christmas stimulus this year, but I have not read that in the news.  I gave another walker a cigarette.  I also toured CVS.  They have watches there for $6, and they also have Waltham watches for $15, if you need a wrist watch.  I chatted with a friend yesterday that has an ill relative.  Last night I also drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, which I forgot to mention in my earlier note.  After my walk this evening, I returned home.  I watched the Sarah Palin interview on www.foxnews.com .  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a three egg omelet with three slices of processed cheese with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and five strips of bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and watered down passion punch.  CIO     

Note: <888> 11/18/09  Wednesday 5:00 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Sunny today and a high of 54 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will eat an apple before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/18/09  Wednesday 4:15 A.M..  I also have the Western Digital 160 GB hard drive that I used for about two years as the C: drive  on the FIC server, and I keep it for replacement in case the current C: drive fails.  I also have an older 8.4 GB Maxtor drive.  I have used most of my older hard drives to build my backup computers.  Of course some of them like the second hard drive on the Epox computer have not been used that much, since it was always a backup drive as was the second drive on the Abit computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/18/09  Wednesday 3:50 A.M..  On the Primary Vista computer http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm , I installed a new primary C: Maxtor IDE 300 GB hard drive on February 19, 2009.  About the same time, I installed a new C: drive Seagate IDE 160 GB hard drive in the FIC server.

I also have in reserve four new Seagate IDE/PATA 300 - 320 GB hard drives.

Since I am running out of external hard drive storage space, I could use one of those for another external hard drive.  This is available that works with both SATA and IDE Newegg.com - MASSCOOL UHB-340U/PS Aluminum 3.5" Black USB 2.0 External Enclosure - External Enclosures .  Of course for the cost of the hard drive and the enclosure, I could buy a much larger external hard drive at Cheap Hard Drives , when they have a sale.  Also they have free shipping on an over $50 order with promo code "OUTLETFREESHIP".

These IDE enclosures are also available Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Computer Accessories,External Enclosures,3.5",IDE,USB 2.0 .

Cheapest price on the net for an IDE enclosure with shipping is here 3.5" USB 2.0 Aluminum External IDE Hard Drive Enclosure - eBay (item 360207329830 end time Dec-12-09 12:44:47 PST) .

However, I am currently using one like this Newegg.com - BYTECC ME-747U2/BL Aluminum 3.5" USB 2.0 External Enclosure - External Enclosures , and I like it because it has a fan.

However, the MASSCOOL above might be more practical because it also supports SATA.

There is no rush at the moment to get one though.

Of course larger capacity external hard drives are getting cheaper too Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Hard Drives,External Hard Drives .

Note: <888> 11/17/09  Tuesday 11:25 P.M..  Beware of Gold buyers! Greenwich Gossip .  I remember having read that during the Great Depression after the Duke of Windsor abdicated, and he was given the job of Governor in the Bahamas, he had a friend down there that was quite wealthy, and the friend owned a gold mine in Canada.  The friend died under mysterious circumstances.  However, that would indicate to me that there is gold up in Canada.  However, any gold mines are probably surround by 16 foot tall grizzly bears.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/17/09  Tuesday 10:05 P.M..  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The new Apple Ipod store looks like it might open soon.  The new Ralph Lauren store is still not opened, and they still have the scaffolding installed on the front of the new store.  They were putting Christmas Tree Italian lights on the tree just south of the Veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of Planter's 9.75 ounce Healthy Heart mixed nuts for $6.49 both. I noticed a lot more people smoking cigarettes downtown, so we must still have people here from down south, where more people smoke cigarettes.  I finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at CVS and also again at the senior and the arts center.  I then tried to go by the Greenwich Library, but all of the parking spaces were filled up for some event.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 10.7 ounce packages of Kraft slices of low fat Swiss cheese for $2.50 each package, a 59 ounce container of Simply orange juice with calcium for $3, two 16 ounce Boston Market pot roast frozen dinners for $2.50 each, a 15 ounce Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce for $4.39, two 64 ounce Stop and Shop cranraspberry juice for $2 each, two 64 ounce Stop and Shop cran grape juice lite for $2 each, a top round London Broil for $2.99 a pound for $5.02, and a three pound bag of baby red potatoes for $2.99 for $33.40 total.  I use the bathroom at the Stop and Shop also.  I then returned home.  I brought up my groceries and the mail.  I put away the groceries.  I chatted with a relative twice. 

I will now make and eat the same London Broil dinner as last night with the same steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil.

For those of you that forgot, I take a frying pan, and I put  a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in it, and I heat it on medium high electric burner heat, and once the olive oil is hot, I put in a 12 ounce cut of London Broil, and I sear it on both sides seasoning it with ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder, and I flipped it every minute for about 5 minutes a side.  For the last three minutes I put in about five tablespoons of Kikkoman soy sauce, and I keep flipping it until most of the soy sauce is evaporated.  I basically cook the thicker piece of meat medium rare.

For the vegetables, I take a medium small potato, and I cut it into half inch cubes.  I put about an inch of water in a Revere pot with steamer tray, and I add the potato cubes, baby carrots, and broccoli crowns, and I steamed them on electric burner high for about 16 minutes.  When I lift the steamer tray out, I put the steamed vegetables in a bowl with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil.  I use the remaining hot water in the pot to make a cup of green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  I eat the London Broil with KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/17/09  Tuesday 8:35 A.M..  I finished configuring both partitions on the Northgate Syntax computer.  I then backed it up the Maxtor external hard drive.  To have room to back it up on the Maxtor external hard drive, I deleted the Windows 7 RC backup on it for the bedroom Gigabyte computer.  I have a copy of the Server folder on the Maxtor external hard drive.   I deleted the copy of the Server folder on the Bytecc external hard drive, and I backed up with Windows 7 RC the bedroom Gigabyte computer to the Bytecc external hard drive.  This all took a while, because on the Northgate Syntax computer it took quite a while to install the 31 Vista Basic updates.  I also ate a 10 ounce can of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts with a glass of water.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Cloudy and sunny today with a high of 52 degrees Fahrenheit.

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 11:50 P.M..  I woke up at 1 P.M. today, when I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched the Space Shuttle launch on www.foxnews.com , and I went out in the backyard and in the southwest sky 7 to 8 minutes later after the launch, I saw the Space Shuttle fly by.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I ate a London Broil dinner the way that I cook it along with steamed vegetables and olive oil and water down punch.  I chatted with two relatives and two friends.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor's friend.  I am restoring the backup on the Northgate Syntax partition, since the Ubuntu disk manager GRUB messed up booting for Vista Basic and Windows 7.  Once I install the updates and changes on it, I will back it up again.  I will not install Ubuntu on it again.  I am also installing my directory update on all of the computers.  CIO    

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 3:15 A.M..  Well, I guess most people do not seem to know how to communicate anymore.  All they seem to know how to do, is spend money.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  Mostly sunny and a high today of 58 degrees Fahrenheit.  It seems like we are having a warmer fall than normal.  However, the Old Farmer's Almanac predicts that this coming winter is suppose to be colder than last winter which was bad enough.  Thus you should enjoy the warm weather while it lasts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 2:50 A.M..  Exclusive interview: Burt Reynolds back in action after back injury, pill addiction » TCPalm.com

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 2:35 A.M..  I cleaned the kitchen stove fan hood and filter.  It tends to get dirty over time.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 1:45 A.M..  Well, since not many people seem to speak English in this area anymore, I feel it is important to keep in touch with the British, since that is where a lot of English speaking people come from.  Whenever I have traveled outside of this area, I have frequently met and chatted with British and Canadian citizens, so I feel it is important to stay in touch with them, while I am living at home.  The British seem to have a large network of people that speak English in the world, but the current crop of English speaking people in this area do not like tobacco smokers, so they tend to ignore me despite my vast experience in this area and elsewhere.  From what I know, they might not actually trust me, since my mother is 100% Dutch American, and my father's family is old American, so possibly they are not interested in my different viewpoint compared to what they are preprogrammed with by their elders.  I know cigarettes smoking is harmful to the health, but as a youth when I grew up in this area, most everyone smoked tobacco, so I got hooked on the product, except my years in college at www.lfc.edu which did not seem to go as I had planned as a non smoker.  From what I know from around here is that if one lives in a city like New York City, one gets the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day from the pollution in the City, so living part way out in the country I am less exposed to that factor.  When I lived out in Nantucket and Key West and in summers in Kennebunkport, Maine, I get a better feeling of what real fresh air is all about, but alas I do not have the means to live in any of those areas year round, since I am legally disabled.  Hopefully I will be able to quit smoking some time soon.  Every time I try to quit smoking, something terrible seems to happen, so I have learned to be careful about the quitting smoking process.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 1:35 A.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayo with a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/16/09  Monday 12:35 A.M..  This past Saturday, November 14, 2009 was Prince Charles 61st birthday, but it was raining here, so we did not go out and do the usual walk around.  The British legation in the United States of America no longer has much money for the old time formalities, and we are just making ends meet. 

I turned the HP Photo Smart C4280 Printer on the small white book case around 90 degrees, so its back is against the kitchen wall.  I then took out the Lazy Susan from the oak dining table, and I put it on the top front of the white bookcase with the Seamen's telephone and a few bric-a-brac items on it.  Thus to use the HP Photo Smart printer, one has to pull out the Lazy Susan about 9 inches.

I put the large upside down wooden CD holder on the dining table with the smaller one placed upside down on the end near the Dell Latitude D410 laptop to hold the Compaq LCD monitor which is attached to the docking station.   Thus it is more stable.  I rearrange the Ionic Pro air purifier and other bric-a-brac on the CD case, so it is neater looking around the oak dining table.  I only have one position at the dining table available to eat, because the computers occupy the other two positions.  However, I have several small oak folding tables that could be put in front of some of the available to chair to eat from, if the need ever occurred to entertain, which never seems to happen.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 11:35 P.M..  W. Averell Harriman (American diplomat) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 11:15 P.M..  I moved the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor from the left side monitor position of the Epox computer to the right side monitor position for the FIC server.  I took the Dell 21 inch CRT monitor from the bedroom closet floor, and I connected it up as the left side monitor for the Epox computer.  I also used the ATI Wizard to change the monitors, so both monitors are displayed instead of the second Sony television monitor.  I took out the small upside down CD case from the Lazy Susan, and I put in the larger wooden CD case upside down, so there is more room on it to put other items on the oak dining table.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 8:45 P.M..  I ate the same dinner as the last four nights.  I watched the CBS program 60 minutes.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 6:50 P.M..  I woke up, and I ate 2/3rds of a 10 ounce can of Planter's deluxe mixed nuts.  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I said hello to neighbors.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I browsed the store circular at CVS.  There is a new shop just north of CVS on the east side of the street on Greenwich Avenue called Ella Vickers, Recycled Sailcloth.  They sell items made out of recycled sail cloth.  I guess it is like the old Hood sail shop from Nantucket in the old days with an upscale approach.  I finished my walk.  I then went by the Stop and Shop.

I bought a six pack of Freirhoffer's bulkie rolls for $3.19, 1.5 pounds of Boar's Head white American cheese slices for $4.99 a pound for $7.68, 1.5 pounds of Stop and Shop sliced Danish ham for $5.99 a pound for $9.16, a 3 liter can of Star Extra Virgin olive oil from Tunisia for $20.49, two quart jars of Vlassic dill pickle slices for $2 each jar, a top round London Broil for $2.99 a pound for $5.47, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $2.26, broccoli crowns for $1.79 a pound for $1.95 for $54.20 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  CIO      

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 5:05 A.M..  I ate a piece of pound cake.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Cloudy today with a high of 64 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 11/15/09: 

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 4:35 A.M..  Milbridge Journal - Maine Town Is Riven by Housing Dispute - NYTimes.com

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Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 4:05 A.M..  Not that anybody uses it anymore, but I upgraded http://mikelouisscott.com/scott008.zip and http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/scott008.zip with the few minor changes that I have made recently. You unzip it into a folder such as "scott8", and then open the interactive file "scotlist.htm" with one's web browser, and one can even set it to be the default home page.  Since I have not worked on it in many moon, most of the web links are probably out of date.

It looks like this Scott's Internet Hotlist or Scott's Internet Hotlist .

Before the internet had become come faster with advanced search engine technology, it was like a local hard drive directory.

In making it up, I learned quite a bit about the internet.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 3:25 A.M..  I picked up the mail, when I did the laundry.  I was able to installed the latest version of Ubuntu through upgrade on the bedroom Gigabyte computer partition, but on the Northgate Syntax computer, there was not enough room to install it through upgrade on the Ubuntu partition.  I also had disabled ReadyBoost on the three computers with the Norton Internet Utilities, through its advanced settings selection, but I now have ReadyBoost working on all of them.  I think I need to enable ReadyBoost on the Windows 7 RC partitions, when I have the time.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/09  Sunday 2:50 A.M..  I ate a piece of pound cake after the last note, and I went to bed until noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  On the Abit computer, I changed the CMOS setting to Optimal, and I had to change the memory setting down from 400 MHz to 333 MHz to keep the Abit computer from crashing.  I enabled all the Visual features including Aero on the Vista computers.  I also have the computers and laptops with battery backup and batteries set to cache the hard drives.  I had restored the backup on the Abit computer, and after installing the updates and a few changes, I did another C: drive to D: drive backup of it.  On the Dell D410 laptop Windows 7RC partition, the laptop graphic adapters and the docking station graphics adapter which is the same does not support Aero.  I have all of the Visual features enabled though.  I changed the Mouse CMOS setting to PS/2, so the wireless mouse now works on it just fine.  I ate an apple.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M..  I put another bent tip 25 watt bulb in the far living room right sconce.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I did two loads of laundry.  I threw out the garbage.  I installed the latest updates on all of the partitions of all of the computers except the old Toshiba laptop.  I tweaked the Windows 7 partitions installing the Microsoft Free Antivirus program.  On the Northgate Syntax computer Vista Basic partition, I uninstalled the Computer Associates Internet Security Suite, and I am now just using the Vista firewall with the free Microsoft Antivirus program, which makes the system run faster.  I could do the same on the other computers, but for now I will leave the more advanced security software, since they have the resources to handle it.  I put two new D batteries in the black rubber flash light, I put both flash lights that were on the left shelf of the night stand at the kitchen entrance on the white book shelf second shelf at the right side of the kitchen entrance.  I made and ate the same dinner as the last few nights.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/14/09  Saturday 6:55 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Rain today and a high of 54 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/14/09  Saturday 6:15 A.M..  I have been doing some routine system's maintenance on various computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/14/09  Saturday 2:10 A.M..  Under the Device Manager for the hard drives and other storage drives, under polices, I selected "Optimize for Performance", and now when I shut down the primary Vista computer 

Note: <888> 11/14/09  Saturday 12:25 A.M..  If you have money to burn Newegg.com - serious performance. extreme fun. Qosmio® X505  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 11:55 P.M..  I ate a bowl of Ramen chicken flavored noodles with watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 11:15 P.M..  I watched the Laura Bush interview on www.foxnews.com .  Apparently they have started their own

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 10:00 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 8:45 P.M..  I woke up during my sleep period after the last note, and I ate half a 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I woke up again at 10 A.M., when Microsoft called from Syracuse, New York about trying to get me to buy Windows 7.  I tried to explain my viewpoint.  I had to go to the bathroom during the call, and I stumbled against the Jim Dine print on the bedroom door, and I knocked it part way out of its frame, and I later fixed that problem this evening.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M., when I had a fund raising telephone call for MS.  I ate a piece of pound cake and the rest of the 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I ate the same dinner as last night with another piece of pound cake.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I noticed when coming in, the new tenant on the east end of the building has a primitive sculpture outside his door that sort of looks like a vampire.  I watered the plants.  Earlier in the day, I started up the Abit computer, and I shut it down in Power Saving mode, and it boots right up in Power Saving mode, which the primary Vista computer does not.  However, on the Abit computer in Power Saving shut down mode, one does not get the Boot screen with the option for Windows 7 RC to boot, but it still starts up almost instantly.

Laura Bush is on www.foxnews.com channel 67 here at 10 P.M. EST tonight talking about the Bush Policy Institute.  CIO     

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 4:00 A.M..  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips, and watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Rain today and a high of 49 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 2:15 A.M..  Pictures of the current Dell D410 laptop setup with docking station and Compaq 18.1 inch square LCD monitor http://mikelouisscott.com/dell-d410/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/09  Friday 1:40 A.M..  I moved most of the spare items and bric-a-brac from the Lazy Susan on the oak dining table to the small white bookcase at the kitchen entrance.  I put a upside down wooden CD case on the Lazy Susan, and then I put the White Star Line place mat on it.  I put the Ionic Pro air purifier back on the Lazy Susan.  I took off the Compaq LCD Flat Panel 18.1 square TFT8030 monitor from the FIC server, where it was the second monitor on the right side of the primary monitor, and the Compaq I never used, so I put it on the CD case on top of the Lazy Susan, and I connected it up the Dell Latitude D410 docking station VGA port.  Plug and Play recognized it on both operating systems, and it is setup as a second extended monitor above the Dell D410 Laptop screen.  Of course, if one undocks it, it automatically reverts back the Dell D410 Laptop video device from the docking station video device.  One turns on the Compaq monitor with the large button on the right side front.

Today is Friday the 13th.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 11:40 P.M..  This says the Dell Latitude D410 laptop originally sold in April 2005 for $2,254 Dell Latitude D410 Notebook Computer (Pentium M 750 1.86GHz/40GB/512MB) Laptop reviews - CNET Reviews

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 10:50 P.M..  I ate a 1/5th piece of pound cake.

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 9:20 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 7:10 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center twice.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I briefed them on local happenings around town.  They offered me a free used toilet seat, but I declined the gift.  I told them that there use to be a plumbing supply warehouse in Elmsford, New York just east of Sam's Club where the road turns to the right, and that plumbing supply warehouse carried parts for American Standard plumbing fixtures.  I stopped by CVS, and I used the bathroom there.  I bought four 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack for $7.96 total.  I was told by the Ralph Lauren construction crew the new store opens on November 17, 2009.  They put in the triangular pattern sidewalk in front of the store.  The limestone on the store facade is slightly darker than Indiana Limestone, and it apparently came from China.  It looks quite nice.  Their Polo Shop just north of Sak's Fifth Avenue is also having a sale.  I finished my walk.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the www.greenwichtime.com .  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee beans for $14.99 and a 11.5 ounce Entenmann's all butter pound cake for $2.14 for $17.13 total.  I returned home, and I picked up the mail. 

On the Vista computers, there is now a low power off button that I never noticed before that is much faster to turn off and start up the Vista computer. 

With the heavy rain storm coming in the next two days and with high tides being higher in the fall and if there is a full moon, there could be local flooding around the waterfront here in Greenwich, Connecticut.

I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  I will then eat a cold beef eye round dinner with steamed vegetables and watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 2:45 A.M..  Well, I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 2:30 A.M..  It is suppose to be cloudy and windy today with a high of 52 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 2:25 A.M..  I used my Brother P-Touch computer label printer, and I printed out labels for the outside top of the Dell D410 laptop with my name, address, telephone numbers, and email address.  I also ate an apple.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/12/09  Thursday 12:35 A.M..  Latitude D Series and Inspiron 8500/8600 Floppy Drive w/ USB Cord (New)  is available for the Dell Latitude D410, and it has a mini USB cable if needed.

This says they work with Dell Latitude D410 Floppy Drive - DiscountElectronics.com .  They both have the same Dell part number 2R152.

This is cheapest, but it does not have mini USB cable DELL FLOPPY DRIVE 7T761-A01 INTERNAL/EXTERNAL USB. NEW! - eBay (item 150387677478 end time Dec-09-09 17:47:53 PST)

I only need a floppy drive for the Dell D410 docking station, if I do a Windows XP Professional ASR backup, and I need to create the recovery floppy disk.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/11/09  Wednesday 11:05 P.M..  I burned two copies of the Windows 7, 90 day trial to DVD.

Note: <888> 11/11/09  Wednesday 9:50 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M.. There was another false fire alarm in the building.  I chatted with neighbors.  The building fire alarm went off for quite a while, since the building custodian was not here on Veterans Day.  The alarm came from the same apartment as last night.  The fire doors no longer close automatically, when the building fire alarm goes off.  I just now reported the matter to the Greenwich Housing Authority answering service at their number at 1-203-869-1138.  I tried calling them this morning during the false fire alarm, and their number was busy for an hour.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  There is no mail delivery on Veterans' Day.  

I cooked the eye round the way that I cook it, and I ate two half inch thick slices, and I refrigerated the rest in a Rubbermaid container.  I also had my usual steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil and a glass of watered down punch.  I also had my green tea mixture.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/11/09  Wednesday 4:55 A.M..  Must-have Windows tools | The Download Blog - Download.com

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Note: <888> 11/11/09  Wednesday 2:50 A.M..  I finished off the other 1/3rd of a 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds earlier this evening. 

Note: <888> 11/11/09  Wednesday 1:25 A.M..  I enabled Aero on the Abit computer, and I downloaded and installed those two programs below.  They do not seem to do much of anything, but I left them on.  I then disabled Aero, and I used the Norton Utilities to reduce the Systems Resources, and I now I am defragmenting the C: drive, so hopefully the Abit computer boots a little faster.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/10/09  Tuesday 11:00 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I also had a cup of green tea the way I make it after dinner.

Here is the MacHack website Hackintosh Instructions, Hackintosh How To Guides @ Hackintosh.com .  Sorry, I a'int got the time of motivation to do it, and I can not afford to buy an www.apple.com operating system to try it.

How to Build Your Own Hackintosh

The August 2009 Printed issue of www.maximumpc.com has an article on page 63 called "Step-by-Step Guides to Improving Your PC" with a sub article called "Steal Mac OS X's Desktop Features". 

It lists two free program at:

www.rocketdock.com

www.insentient.net to do just that.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/10/09  Tuesday 8:40 P.M..  I woke last night, and I ate 2/3rd of a 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I finally woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a few locals.  I noticed while driving down Greenwich Avenue, they were putting in the new sidewalk in front of Ralph Lauren.  It will be interesting to see what the town of Greenwich approved for a sidewalk.  The Apple Ipod store is progressing well.  I use the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I help a local horticulturalist carry her gardening supplies to her car across the street from the Senior and the Arts center.  She was on her way to Nathaniel Whitheral nursing home.  I mentioned that my friend that passed away recently was also a horticulturalist, and he liked Japanese Dogwoods.  His family had one at their house.  I noticed some of them in front of the houses on Round Hill Road recently, so I guess they have become more popular.  They have small red leaves in the fall, and they bloom at a different time than regular dogwoods, and they have a different pattern flower.

I went to my 3 P.M. appointment, and I had to pay a dollar to park there.  They will check out about my Renter's Rebate.  Most everyone I know has received theirs.  I plan to use mine to pay off my next two months auto insurance premiums.  I read an article about Warren Buffet not giving his children enough money.  In the same magazine that I can not remember its name, there is an article about MacHacking a regular cheap PC DOS laptop to make it run like a Mac.  I am quite content with the Windows interface.  There are two Windows programs that I read about that give Windows an Apple interface, but that would obviously use more resources.  I think the article is in Maximum PC in June or July 2009 for the two free downloads.  I also signed up to have a Thanksgiving meal delivered to me.

I next returned home.  I chatted with neighbors, and I waited outside a while for UPS: Tracking Information on the order for NEW Dell Latitude Inspiron Precision DVD±RW Drive XJ019 - eBay (item 350274739137 end time Dec-04-09 08:50:53 PST) for $29.99 with free shipping to arrive.  I put the Dell DVD/RW drive in the Dell Latitude D410 docking station module, and it fits in just fine.  One has to have the eject tab out when inserting it, and then press in the eject tab.  I booted Windows 7RC, and plug and play recognized it.  In Windows XP Professional it was recognized in device drivers, but there was no icon for it.  I reinstalled the XP Dell D410 drivers, and when I rebooted, there was an icon for it.  I am not sure it was necessary to reinstall the drivers or not.  I installed the Windows XP Updates.  I also tested the external DVD/RW drive, and it did not work.  I opened up its case.  It has a short power cable inside that has tension on it that can come lose from its internal plug on the circuit board, so I resecured it, and it now works just fine. 

Earlier I had a telephone message from a friend to look up something, and I left a message to what I found.  We also had another false alarm in the building.

I will now eat two hotdogs with buns and mustard and ketchup and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO      

Note: <888> 11/09/09  Monday 10:35 P.M..  I was told today that the new Ralph Lauren Careers - About.RalphLauren.com will be opened on Greenwich Avenue by the end of the month.  They are already moving out of the old Polo Shop further up Greenwich Avenue.

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for NEW Dell Latitude Inspiron Precision DVD±RW Drive XJ019 - eBay (item 350274739137 end time Dec-04-09 08:50:53 PST) for $29.99 with free shipping.

Note: <888> 11/09/09  Monday 9:25 P.M..  Now Welcome to the official website of the British Monarchy .  Maybe they were busy installing the Windows 7 Server.

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Note: <888> 11/09/09  Monday 8:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I reheated and ate the same dinner as last night along with my usual green tea mixture.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/09/09  Monday 6:45 P.M..  For some reason http://www.royal.gov.uk/ worked briefly, and then it quit working despite the same fix below.  Maybe it is overwhelmed with traffic.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/09/09  Monday 6:05 P.M..  I chatted with www.cablevision.com , and they had me turn off the Cable Modem and then connect it directly to the computer, and http://www.royal.gov.uk/ now works.  I then reconnected the cable modem to the Netgear Router and Switch and the computer to the Switch, and I turned them all off and back on and http://www.royal.gov.uk/ now works properly.  I guess somebody hacked my router to block it.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/09/09  Monday 5:25 P.M..  I woke up during the night, and I ate half of a 10 ounce can of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts with sea salt.  I finally woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I chatted with neighbors, and I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I noticed that they were pumping raw sewage into the storm drain on a sewer repair project on Railroad Avenue in front of the movie theatre.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of four 9 ounce cans of CVS smoked almonds for $4.79 for two for $9.58 total.  I finished my walk.  I sat out for a while.  I chatted with a relative on the wireless telephone.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a couple of reference librarians.  I used the bathroom there.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/ works on the Greenwich Library computers, but it does not work on my home computer network which seems rather strange.  I guess the Irish terrorists in this area are trying to prevent the Anglophile community from staying in touch with England.

I next went by the Stop and Shop.  I chatted with a local, and I was told that acorns only develop and fall every three years.

I bought a 59 ounce container of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3, two 8 ounce containers of Stop and Shop grated parmesan and Romano cheese for $2.50 each, a eye round roast for $2.99 a pound for $8.16, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.22 for $17.38 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  I put away my groceries.  I almost finished off the can of mixed nuts.  I guess orange juice containers have gone down from 64 ounces to 59 ounces to save the producers money.   CIO  

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 11:00 P.M..  I ate an apple.

If you look at http://maps.google.com/ Greenwich and Byram, Connecticut are due north across Long Island Sound from Lattingtown, New York and Oyster Bay, New York out on Long Island, so I guess in warmer weather we probably get a few sailors sailing back and forth between the two points, so that is probably why sometimes our local yacht clubs are busy for unknown reasons.  Thus I guess some people instead of driving through all of that traffic in between the two points, probably cruise back and forth by sea.

Of course in the winter, when it might not be too busy on the highway, I happen to have a Jeep dealership across the street from where I live in Byram, Connecticut, but there are a lot more expensive cars for sale in the neighborhood, so the local security people tend to keep an eye on them. 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 9:00 P.M..  Last night, when I was at the Gulf station, I also cleaned the outside windows on the Audi, and I also checked the air on the tires for 32 P.S.I..  After dinner tonight, I drank a cup of Asian gourmet green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I chatted with a relative.  I watered the plants.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 6:30 P.M..  I will now make my regular linguine and tomato meat sauce mixture, and I will eat half with grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it and a glass of watered down punch.  I will refrigerate the other half in a Rubbermaid container.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 6:05 P.M.. 

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Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 4:05 P.M..  The British Royal Family web site is not working http://www.royal.gov.uk/ .  Maybe they went away to Barbados for the winter.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 4:00 P.M..  I walked around the building.  I chatted with neighbors.  I put away one load of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 3:00 P.M..  I have 20 minutes to go on a wash cycle and 50 minutes to go on a dry cycle.  I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 2:30 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary Vista computer C: drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started one load of laundry, and I will start another load of laundry shortly.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 11/08/09: 

Note: <888> 11/08/09  Sunday 12:30 A.M..   I also ate an apple and a cup of Asian gourmet green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice. 

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Note: <888> 11/07/09  Saturday 10:45 P.M..  I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I surfed the internet.  I did not win the Panasonic Tough Book, and the last I looked it was selling for over $170 plus shipping.  I did not really need it or could I afford it anyway.  I chatted with a friend.

I received the order for DELL BATTERY y6142 - eBay (item 260499198336 end time Nov-06-09 10:10:09 PST) for $12 and $4.95 shipping for $16.95 total.  I put it in the Dell D410 laptop, and I moved the other new battery from the Dell D410 laptop to the docking station.  They both show 100% charge and working properly.  I should have about five hours battery life with both batteries installed.

I showed a neighbor my apartment.  I chatted with neighbors.  I went downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank ATM machine at the top of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by CVS, and I bought four 10 ounce cans of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts with sea salt for $2.50 each and four 6.38 ounce tubes of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips for $1.50 each tube less a $4 off $20 CVS internet coupon for $16 total. 

I chatted with a local art dealer.  He gave me his card.  It is http://arcbabel.com/SharpStudiosLLC/ .

I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I got some parking change quarters.  I used the bathroom at the Greenwich train station.  I watched them install a new sculpture in front of the senior and the arts center called "The Spirit of the Mountain".  I stopped by briefly again at CVS.  I finished my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.

I next went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf Station, and I bought $18 of self service premium gasoline for $3.279 a gallon for 5.489 gallons at odometer reading of 65138 miles for 76.3 miles driving since October 29, 2009 for 13.9 miles per gallon driving mostly in local traffic.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I surfed the internet looking for Dell Latitude D410 parts that I might need. This is another optical drive that is suppose to work with the Dell D410 Docking Station module NEW DELL 5W299-A01 DVD ROM Drive Module TF030 Inspiron - eBay (item 220311600009 end time Nov-08-09 04:24:51 PST) .  I also found this, if one wanted to put a second hard drive in the docking station module DELL 2nd Hard Drive Module Caddy D400 D410 D500 D505 - eBay (item 220406720036 end time Nov-27-09 01:57:16 PST) .  I chatted with a relative.

I will now make and eat two hot dogs on buns with mustard and ketchup and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/07/09  Saturday 2:40 A.M..  Learn about Panasonic's TOUGHBOOK-29

Note: <888> 11/07/09  Saturday 1:25 A.M..  Reinstalling Windows XP Professional with COA key Preserving OEM Pre-Activation when Re-installing Windows XP .  The Tough Book that I am bidding on has a SBC logo on it, and when one types www.sbc.com , one gets www.att.com , so it was probably heavily used by a phone company employee.  CIO

I need to save $10 for the rest of the month, so I can do laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/07/09  Saturday 12:45 A.M..  I drank a cup of Asia Gourmet green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.

Note: <888> 11/06/09  Friday 11:05 P.M..  I am microwaving a Maria Callendar 21 ounce frozen meat lasagna, which I will put some grated parmesan and Romano cheese on, and I will eat it with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/09  Friday 6:45 P.M..  This might be a bargain Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Pentium M 1.4GHz 512Mb 40Gb - eBay (item 300363884317 end time Nov-07-09 12:24:36 PST) at eBay Store - Deal Train Mania: Auctions, Notebooks, MP3 Player .  More information on it Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Notebook PC - Intel Pentium M 738 1.4GHz, 512MB DDR, 40GB, CD-ROM, 13.3" Touchscreen, Windows XP Pro (Off- Lease) at TigerDirect.com .  Says here, it cost $650 new http://www4.dealtime.com/xPF-Panasonic-Panasonic-Toughbook-CF-29-Notebook-PC-Intel-Pentium-M-738-1-4GHz-512MB-DDR-40GB-CD-ROM-13-3-To .  Of course, you would have to buy a battery for it, which would be over $50, but you can compare it to the other items here Panasonic Toughbook CF-29, great deals on Computers Networking, Business Industrial on eBay! .  It has an XP COA, so you might be able reinstall the operating system.  This says the memory is limited to 768 megs or 1024 megs Computer memory upgrades for Panasonic Toughbook 29 Series Laptop/Notebook from Crucial.com , so you could spend $35 on another 512 meg memory strip.  To reinstall the operating system, you would need an external optical drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/06/09  Friday 6:15 P.M..  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of CVS potato chips, and watered down punch.  Since the relative's fax machine does not work, I mailed the Microsoft Money 2007 October 2009 Income versus spending report to the relative, and it is now in an envelope with Forever stamp in the mail room outbox downstairs.  There are free copies of the www.greenwichtime.com in the building lobby downstairs.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/06/09  Friday 4:45 P.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with neighbors, and I threw out the garbage.  I read a back issue of www.time.com magazine.  I picked up the mail.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Housing Authority, and I paid my October and November 2009 rent payments.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 10 ounce cans of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts with sea salt for $2.50 each and four 6.38 ounce tubes of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips for $1.50 each for $20 total.  I chatted with a local chauffeur from a White Plains, New York livery service.  I chatted with a local banker.  I finished my walk, and I chatted with a local maintenance person who told me a well known celebrity bought an apartment in downtown Greenwich, but we will keep that secret for now to keep the paparazzi away.  I then returned home.  I helped a neighbor bring in two iron chairs from in back, apparently someone has taken the other two iron chairs during the last two nights.  The iron table is still in back.  I printed out two copies of my October 2009 Microsoft Money 2007 income versus spending report, and if a relative has fixed their fax machine, I will fax it to them.  The new building facade on the new Ralph Lauren store is now exposed, and it looks to be quite a classical looking building, but it still has a way to go until construction is completed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/05/09  Thursday 11:00 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a three egg omelet with four slices of processed cheese with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and six strips of bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and watered down passion punch.  Since the Plumrose bacon is cut thin, I fried two strips together on top of each other of the six slices for a better texture.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High tomorrow 47 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny and windy.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/05/09  Thursday 9:05 P.M..  I put the Belkin wireless card in the Dell D410 laptop.  I set it up on the XP partition.  I then tried to set up its software on the Windows 7RC partition, but its device driver installs all right, but its program does not work with Windows 7, but Windows 7's wireless manager controls it just fine, so there is no problem with it with Windows 7.  The Belkin card is suppose to have a 1400 foot range and be capable of Wireless N if anyone is running it where ever one might wander.  I am now doing another Windows 7 Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Maxtor external hard drive.

I put the Netgear wireless card that was in the Dell D410 in the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop.  It was already configured for it.

I chatted with a relative.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/05/09  Thursday 4:45 P.M..  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringles vinegar and salt potato chips, and watered down punch.  I then went outside, and I walked around the building.  The picnic table in back is in an upright position.  Somebody took away the smoker's bench's ashtray on the north side of the building.  The parking lot for the ice skating rink in back is full to capacity, so I guess people are figure skating again.  I heard one of my neighbors talking about snow coming soon.  There is lots of aviation traffic, so I guess now that the elections are over, people are heading south to their winter homes.  Maybe come Canadians will show up here to visit their winter homes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/05/09  Thursday 3:15 P.M..  I ran the Norton Utilities after the last note.  I set the primary System resources to Minimum, so it boots faster and uses less resources.  I also cleaned up about 6,000 files in my Internet explorer cache.  I also ran the other utilities that checked the registry.  I then did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I went to bed about 11 P.M..

I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with neighbors, and I threw out the garbage.

I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought two 8 packs of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $1.67 each, two Stop and Shop six packs of multigrain English muffins for $1 each, two six ounce jars of Gold's hot horse radish for $1.59 each, a 12 ounce container of generic honey for $1.99, a 64 ounce container of Ocean Spray cranberry and pomegranate juice for $2.50, a 64 ounce container of Ocean Spray lite grape juice for $2.50, a 8 ounce container of Stop and Shop Dijon mustard for $1.50, a 13.5 ounce box of Sunshine Cheez-its for $2.50, buy one get one free of Nathan's 16 ounce beef franks for $5.29 both, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for .83, and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $1.37 for $29.99 total.

I then went downtown, and I went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I went to my 1 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 9:15 P.M..  I baked half of a 24 ounce box of America's Choice frozen fish sticks or 22 fish sticks of the 44 in box, and I ate them with a about one third of a cup of Heinz ketchup mixed with two tablespoons of Gold's hot horseradish, and I had my usual vegetable mixture with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of Asia green tea with splenda and Borden's lemon juice.

I watched the TV show on TNN name "Bones". 

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good night.  I have a 1 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  High tomorrow of 50 degrees Fahrenheit with afternoon showers.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 6:05 P.M..  Winston Churchill who also was a newspaper reports said that, "politics was the last refuge of scoundrels."  Alas, Winston Churchill had more money than most politicians, so he seems to have won quite a few times.

As I recall while Prime Minister during World War II, Winston Churchill smoked cigars all of the time and drank brandy frequently and would spend a good deal of his time in bed dictating to his secretary.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 5:45 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 5:10 P.M..  Hogmanay & more great Scottish events for 2010

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Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 4:40 P.M..  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 3:45 P.M..  For the docking station battery compartment on my Dell D410, I bought this slightly used DELL BATTERY y6142 - eBay (item 260499198336 end time Nov-06-09 10:10:09 PST) for $12 and $4.95 shipping for $16.95 total. CIO 

Note: <888> 11/04/09  Wednesday 3:10 P.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I got a couple of nuts and bolts out of my tool chest in the trunk of the Audi, and I used them to fix the smoker's bench on the north side of the building.  I chatted with neighbors.  I put the snow brushes and ice scrapers on the floor of driver's side back seat in the Audi.  I fixed the clock in the community room, and I put a new AA alkaline battery in it.  After adjusting it a second time, it seems to work all right. 

I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringles vinegar and salt potato chips, and watered down punch.

I chatted with neighbors while waiting outside for the mail, but it still has not come yet.  CIO    

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 10:05 P.M..  Newegg.com:100 Deals Under $100: Up to 85% off top-brand products!

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Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 9:30 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 9:15 P.M..  I ordered from here Newegg.com - BELKIN F5D8011 N1 Wireless Notebook Card - Laptop Networking for $12.99 with free shipping with promo code "EMCMMLP62" for $12.99 total.  I will use it in the second Dell Latitude CS laptop computer which does not have a wireless card.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 7:40 P.M..  I drank a cup of Gourmet Asian green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I put the smaller oak chair in front of the Dell D410, so with the extra space behind it from the white bookcase and the smaller chair, it is easier to sit at the Dell D410.  I moved the large green oak chair in front of the Samsung color laser printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 7:05 P.M..  I ate a three egg omelet with four slices of processed cheese with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and six strips of bacon and a toasted bagel with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  Since the Plumrose bacon is cut thin, I fried two strips together of the six slices for a better texture.

I changed the white bookcase setup.  I sorted through the paper work and organized it.  I put it on the lower right shelf.  I put the Toshiba laptop on the upper right shelf, and one can now sit at it with a chair from the oak dining table, if one were available.  I put the Siemens telephone on the top right, and it is only connected to Verizon, and it is not a two line phone like most of the other phones in the apartment.  When the front building door buzzer rings on the Verizon phones, one has to press 6 to open the front building door.  Most of the phones in the apartment are two line phones with Optimum Voice as the second line.  Optimum Voice has free long distance in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico.  Although I use to know a number of Canadians, I guess they think I am living so far down south, I probably have gone native, so I guess they do not try to communicate with me anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 4:45 P.M..  I went out, and I sat out for a while chatting with neighbors.  A friend of a neighbor brought over for the neighbor a 4.5 foot by 4 foot by 12 inch deep white bookcase for the neighbor, but the neighbor did not want it, so they gave it to me.  I brought it up to my apartment. 

I then got the mail.  My www.cl-p.com statement arrived.   The total new charges on my bill for the period of October 2009 is $115.46.  That is for 24 days in October 2009 for a usage of 584 kWh or 24.33 kWh a day with an average temperature of 50.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

For October 2008, it was $136.10 for 30 days or 684 kWh or 22.80 kWh a day with an average temperature of 51.9 degrees Fahrenheit.

The rent statement for the last two months from the Greenwich Housing Authority still has not come.  It probably will be here tomorrow.

I moved the speaker underneath the Brother all purpose machine into a vertical position, and I put the printer stand back on it, and I put the Brother machine back on it.  That made room after I removed the two small tables from the kitchen entrance to put the new white bookcase in that location.  I put the oak folding table behind the bedroom door and one of the wooden CD cases. I put the other wooden CD case underneath the folding table to the right of the bedroom desk.  I put the mahogany tea table underneath the oak dining table at the Abit computer location.  I moved the picture of the Tulleries to underneath the Audubon print behind the bedroom desk.  I put the HP Photo printer on the left side top of the new white bookcase.  I moved the old Toshiba laptop to the right side top of the white bookcase, and I hooked its power supply to the power strip on the floor to the right of the small computer desk chair to the left of the primary Vista computer.  One has to turn on that power strip to use the Toshiba.  I leave the power strip off, so the external USB DVD/RW power supply is not running all of the time. I connected the Toshiba laptop the Netgear network switch with a LAN cable.  I moved the computer tools to the lower shelf left of the white bookcase.  I put the paperwork from the tables on the right side of that shelf.  The small kitchen fire extinguisher is on the left side of that shelf, and the two big red fire extinguishers are now at the left side of the kitchen entrance on the floor.  Thus I have more room to work with for storage, and it is a neater setup.

Pictures of the white bookcase are here http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-110309/   

I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 1:40 P.M..  After lunch, I walked around the building.  The Joe Chapmen bench appears to be all right.  One of the other tenants uprighted it.  I chatted with neighbors.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go outside and wait for the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/09  Tuesday 12:50 P.M..  I woke up at 7 A.M. today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I drove over to the New Lebanon School, and I voted.  It was not too busy around 10 A.M..  I toured the new Byram Schubert library.  They have internet computers on the upper level for children, and adult access on the main level.  The bathrooms are on the lower level.  I then drove by the new Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop across the street from the Hamilton Avenue school.  I propped open the entrance door, since they were cleaning out the sewer connection inside the shop, and the shop stank of sewer gas.  I then drove around Grass Island.  The high tide today was about the highest I have ever seen up to about two to three feet from the road around Grass Island.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I would imagine the tide is even closer to the road at Tod's Point in Old Greenwich.  I then went by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions.  I then went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  Apparently some local vandals broke the Joe Chapman memorial bench in the back yard and turned over the picnic bench.  Joe Chapman was our first tenants president, and she was a well known local reporter years ago.

I will not eat two hot dogs with buns and a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle vinegar and salt potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/02/09  Monday 10:25 P.M..  My 3 P.M. appointment was cancelled tomorrow.  I still have to get out and vote sometime.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  Tomorrow is suppose to be partly sunny and a high of 56 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/09  Monday 9:35 P.M..  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringles vinegar and salt potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down punch.

I will now make up a fresh batch of passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/09  Monday 7:35 P.M..  British Geophysical Association, New Advances in Geophysics Meeting 2010

BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Twin Towers' warship enters NY

Note: <888> 11/02/09  Monday 6:55 P.M..  My $10 survey check came today.  I chatted with a relative.

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for RD730 PR06S Latitude D410 Media Base Docking Station - eBay (item 200395477314 end time Oct-27-09 07:32:14 PDT) for $19.99 and $8.10 shipping for $28.09 total arrived.

It came with its manual and another manual for the other type of docking station.  The Media Base Docking station adds two more USB ports to the three on the Dell D410 laptop for a total of five.  It has room for a second battery.  The front left side button undocks it, and the second front side button turns on and off the power, and the rear side left latch releases it from the docking station.  One can undock it while turned on.  I set the D410 laptop CMOS to use the docking station video while docked.  It automatically switches to the laptop video while undocked.  I could order this for it DELL Slim COMBO DVD DRIVE for LATITUDE & INSPIRON Dnnn - eBay (item 330243096033 end time Dec-01-09 09:00:07 PST) which is new, but I already have the external USB DVD/RW drive, so it is not really necessary.  These other refurbished drives are available for it Dell Latitude D410 DVD DVDRW CDRW Combo CD Drive , but they are not really necessary.  The only thing that I might use a floppy drive for would be for the XP ASR recovery disk.  You need to use the Dell drives, because they have the eject button.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/02/09  Monday 4:05 P.M..  I surfed the internet.  I picked up the mail.  My order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for 6 cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s arrived.  I put some new batteries in a neighbor's wall clock.

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with a dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle vinegar and salt potato chips along with some watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/09  Monday 12:05 P.M..  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 10 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  There is a sign at the building entrance that one of the tenants found a tick on their person.  One has to be careful when sitting outside, because the ticks can drop down from the trees, and one should never sit in the grass.  I set back the wall clock and hour in the community room.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 9:15 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High tomorrow of 53 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly cloudy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 6:50 P.M..  I ate the same dinner as I have been eating recently using up the last of the cold eye round of beef.  I had a survey telephone call, and I told them to take my name off the list.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 4:35 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I stopped by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription, and I used their bathroom.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with the fellow collecting the money for Charity for the Junior League Food Pantry for Neighbor to Neighbor at Christ Church, and they looked to be raising quite a bit of money, but it did not look like much of the John Lennon art was selling, but of course I only observed the activity for a brief period.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a Amazing 8's scratch card for a dollar, but I did not win anything.  I used the bathroom again at CVS on way up Greenwich Avenue.  I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  The new Greenwich Hardware store on West Putnam Avenue across the street from the Mercedes Benz dealership appears to be open.  They seem to be a larger store than the Greenwich Avenue store with more hardware.  I sat out for a while after my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read PC World magazine.  I chatted with two regulars.  They were just starting an advent in the auditorium for "Convenant of Care" which is to benefit military families in this area.

The official name is "Help Military Families" at 1-203-698-2258 and mailto:HelpMilitaryFamilies@hotmail.com . 

I next returned home.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 12:05 P.M..  I also ate a piece of crumb cake.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 11:20 A.M..  I put away the laundry.

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 10:30 A.M..  IUGG 2011, 28 June – 7 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Conference

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 10:05 A.M..  I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  High today of 56 degrees Fahrenheit and partly cloudy.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/09  Sunday 9:40 A.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I am about ready to start the dry cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO