Note:<888> 11/21/97 Friday 7:15 PM EST: I went out about 3PM after a peanut butter sandwich and apple for lunch. I drove by the Arnold Bread store and bought two loaves of Healthnut Bread for 99 cents a loaf. I drove through Bruce Park and stopped by St. Catherine's thrift shop and they had not recieved the file cabinet yet. I returned via the Post Road and saw the construction where the water main broke opposite Rudy's limosine service. I went by ELDC, and they commented the town is changing. I said we all are just getting older. I noticed they had a mahogany map cabinet for sale for $90. I went by the Hospital Thrift Shop and they still have the usual selection of merchandise. I drove down Greenwich Avenue, and bought buy 4 get 1 free 5 pack of Marlboro lights for $11. No one was down at the end of Steamboat Road, but one seagull. I spent quite a bit of time down there on this warmer day. I checked my lights on the car, and noticed the reverse lights were not working. I checked the fuse and it was all right. I took off both lens, and the right reverse light was not seated properly which I fixed. The left reverse light had a missing contact, which I fixed by running a wire into the light fixture, and seating the bulb, and then grounding the wire with the existing wire. Now both reverse lights work. I checked the oil and put pure antifreeze in the overflow container. I relaxed a bit more down by the water. I noticed the flags were flying around the water. On the way up the road, I chatted with a former neighbor who was out for a stroll. I went by the library and read the Greenwich Times. There is a nice split level house for sale in Riverside for $450,000. There was a special supplement in the paper about the Greenwich Library and the Petersen Grant. I noticed an article about Louis Gerstner being the first recipient of the Petersen Award with Jerry Ford at the awards ceremony. This is a article about Louis Gerstner today, IBM's Gerstner to stay at helm of computer maker for five more years . I returned home and cooked two sauteed center cut pork chops and ate one, with reheated Macaronni and Cheese and Brocolli. I am now sipping my coffee. I updated www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm Scott's Portfolio. It was down a bit today. It is warm and comfortable here today with the cooler weather. The fellows outside are still working on the copper flashing and painting the trim. They have to cut into the brick to install the flashing. Over all it was a good afternoon.

Following is an exerpt of an article from the Key West Cybercounch email newletter, CyberConch Zine - 1997 Issues :

KEY WEST MAYOR OPENS ARMS TO HOMELESS - "It's the responsibility
of the City to pick up and take care of the homeless," Key West
Mayor Sheila Mullins told a business luncheon this week. The
surprise policy statement follows one week after city police
cleared White Street Pier of its residents. Mullins promised a
working solution by April 1st, but in the meantime a tent city
will be built to house at least 120 people using tents provided
by the Salvation Army. The Monroe County Sheriff offered to
donate sleeping cots. Land to locate the shelter has yet to be
secured, but several ideas were floated. City Manager Julio Avael
pledged to coordinate the welfare effort, however, he made clear
that no City funds would be used.

Well when I did not have any place to stay in Key West in winter of 1977, I roamed around. I stayed in the Casa Marina undergoing renovation in the winter of 1978, and I recall around 1980 for short spell in the winter I slept in my car, and in the winter of 1982, I recall I tried camping out in incomspicuous places, until the local law enforcement picked me up on a false charge, that was for another person with the same name. Obviously a great many tourists camp out in the campgrounds in the Keys, but it can get chilly occassionally in the winter. CIO

Note:<888> 11/21/97 Friday 12:45 PM EST: Up at 7 AM this morning. I updated www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm , Bookmarks. It as usual has mostly what I find in surfing through my Scott's Daily Work List Links . I will have lunch, and go out after cleaning up to enjoy the warmer day. Lots of racket from the workmen out side. CIO

Note:<888> 11/20/97 Thursday 11:15 PM EST: I recorded Queen Elizabeth II's, 50th Wedding Anniversary Broadcast www.mikescott.net/queen02.ram and encoded it for uploading. One can record the ram file with RealPlayer Pro which has recording capabilities from my ram file. I hope the Queen is not upset, but it permits archiving and rebroadcast for those in her dominion who might not have access to the BBC link BBC News | UK | Queen promises to modernise the monarchy that I downloaded it from. My Bell Weather portfolio was up 1.14 % at www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm today. Remember I posted the portfolio as an economic experiment to track the market, I do not recommend buying or selling the stocks, it is just for tracking purposes. I made my 3 PM appointment. The Valet parking attendant said he was going to Cancun, Mexico. I guess he was cold. I drove down to Long Island sound afterwards, and it looked bleak and wintery. Tomorrow is suppose to be in the low 50s. I stopped by the library afterwards and read the Greenwich Times. Headlines are about the Tod's Point access case which will be tried February 10, 1998 and if need be taken to the Supreme Court. The article was inaccurate, in that many communities in Connecticut restrict access to their recreation facilities to local citizens. I went downtown afterwards and took a walk and bought a Croissant at St. Moritz Bakery for 80 cents. I walked up the Avenue and went to CVS and bought 9 colorful candles for 25 cents apiece and two 16 ounce cans of peanuts for $1.50 apiece. I returned home and watched the ABC news. I made a Tony's frozen pizza for dinner. I was having coffee when a friend stopped by. He said he got his deer "buck" while hunting, a very large one. He was tired and nearly fell asleep. After he left I worked on preparing the Queen's Broadcast. I only got five hours sleep last night since I was up until 6 AM and slept until 11:30 AM, so I will probably go to bed soon. I checked with the library internet computer, and one can post messages with ICQ and my Guestbook, if you don't have email on your internet site. CIO

Note:<888> 11/20/97 Thursday 1:45 PM EST: Last night I installed MS Outlook 98 Beta Version . It was about a 16 meg download after downloading the setup program. The program worked fine. However, it reinstalls IE 4.0 and if you have a long Netscape bookmark like I do, I suggest you save the bookmark and delete it and reopen it after installing Outlook 98 since in the reinstallation of IE 4.0 it adds the Netscape bookmarks to that program's favorites. However, I am low on hard disk space, so after looking at Outlook 98, I had to deinstall it. Outlook Express from MS IE 4.0 still works fine. Outlook 98 removed the Microsoft Exchange or Inbox Logo from my desktop. I suppose it replace it. I had a little bit more hard disk space left after deinstalling Outlook 98. Outlook 98 like MS IE 4.0 stores its *.cab files on the hard disk which takes room. Overall Outlook 98 consumed close to 80 meg of hard disk space which I did not have. If you have a Personal Information Contact program, it imports those files from several popular PIM programs. One other thing you have to reinstall ME IE 128 byte encryption, and probably any security fixes. I now have 110 Meg disk space left, and hope to keep it that way since the WIN95 system runs better with more hard disk space available particularly for the swapper file. I have a 3 PM appointment today. It looks like it is warmer out, so I turned on the air conditioner fan to air out the apartment. Also work on the building flashing and painting the trim is coming along fine, and it looks very good. CIO

Note:<888> 11/19/97 Wednesday 10:30 PM EST:Greenwich, Connecticut Area - NITC Travelbase City Guide . I went out at 1:30 PM today. I stopped by St. Catherine's Thrift shop looking for a file cabinet that will be in later on this week. I went by the Old Greenwich thrift shop and bought a spoon rack to hold my house keys for $3.18. I went out to Tod's Point and toured around. I say there were about 50 people out there on a little warmer day than usual. I went by the ELDC thrift shop and then the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. All shops have lots of merchandise. I drove down by the harbor on Steamboat Road and checked the weather patterns. We were right on the edge of a front. I stopped by the library and read the other two computer newspapers. I returned home and had Macarroni and Cheese, Sauteed Center Cut Pork Chops, and Brocolli for dinner. I watched the evening news on CNN instead of ABC for a change. There was a good segment about Queen Elizabeth's Wedding Anniversary. I will have to email them. Use this link to email Buckingham Palace British Monarchy Comment Form . After dinner I went by the library and read two computer magazines. I then went downtown and walked a bit. It was quiet downtown this evening. I stopped by the Greenwich Harbor Inn Greenwich hotels Greenwich Harbor Inn Connecticut and found out their web site. CT I believe is the appreviation for Connecticut. I came home and am back on the net. CIO

Note:<888> 11/19/97 Wednesday 11:45 AM EST: I updated www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm Current Bookmarks. I also reorganized my homepage a little bit. If someone is using these notes on my site and wants to get hold of me off the internet, the two links at the top of the page Page Scott ICQ and Scott's Guestbook would probably work on a Internet Web site that did not have email privaleges. Thought I would let you know. I will have a bite to eat clean up and go out about 1:30 PM. CIO

Note:<888> 11/19/97 Wednesday 9:15 AM EST: I was up at 7 AM, it is suppose to warm up a bit to the low 50s this afternoon. I will surf the net. I am running both ICQ #5202411 and AOL IM "mmikescott", they both work together. I will probably try to get out a little earlier today, to raise my dopamine level to feel a little bit more upbeat. I suppose with the Christmas shoppers the town will be busy. Downtown Greenwich is like the great outdoor mall of America. Parking is 25 cents a half hour. I was told by a neighbor that Bermuda has a Piggly Wiggly, if anyone in Bermuda needs to do shopping. I weighed 206 pounds last night before going to bed, so I think I need to work on dieting during the Holiday season. Of course I do plan to eat the center cut pork chops this week that I have in the fridge. I suppose 175 pounds would be a better weight, and more of my clothes would fit me. I have clothes from 155 pounds to my present weight of 206 at about 6 feet tall and plenty of size 9 1/2 C shoes. I am basically a pack rat, and I don't seem to throw away anything. I think I still have a few pairs of those hippie jeans with worn out holes from my Greenwich Village days, but I don't think they would fit at the moment. I even have 25 year new suit that I only wore twice when I was first out of college. I don't donate them all to the thrift shops, in wishful hoping that I will some day lose a little weight. Who knows anything is possibly. I don't eat that much, but I lead a sedantary lifestyle in the cold climate, which if I were starving and sleeping on a bench in Key West, I would probably lose a little weight and maybe get a little tanner, but the local medical community does not think that is the ideal way to lose weight. Thus I say I am graduate of the "I'm Still Eating School of Business and Finance and Computers". Basically we have so many heavy set people around here, I feel more comfortable with a little bit more weight on. I am not quite "Bubba the Beached Whale", but I have to start trying to lose weight. My old highschool in Watertown, Connecticut is trying to raise a $100 million dollars, so if any of the prosperous alumni are reading these notes, send them a few million dollars. I also got an Identifax postcard looking for another "Michael Scott" for the 1978 Class of Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Connecticut. If you know of his where abouts call 1-800-964-1980 to register him for his reunion. I believe when I lived in New Canaan in the late 1970s the Chief of Police also had a son named Michael Scott who was constantly making the newspapers for setting off fireworks. Thus Michael Scott is a common name. One even lives at Windsor Place in London, and I believe I have several second cousins with the same name. Michael is the most common male name in America, and Scott is a very common last name; particularly since we have been here for over 350 in the Colonies. I spotted a distinguished younger fellow yesterday, who might be from the Old Country. The way to tell Europeans, is to check out their tailoring and shoe styles which are a little bit different than American styles. Of course millions of people go back and forth all the time. One can fly to London for $300 round trip for three days and ride the subway all weekend for $6, but I would rather be a house guest, and no one has invited me over yet. I do remember an address in Eaton Square, but I generally don't show up uninvited. Perhaps I could stay at the Eagles Nest in London, which is what all the Limies call the American Embassey, because of all the large gold eagle above the entrance way. Well my place in the states is what you call council housing, and I graciously refer to it as my "Grace and Favor" housing. Enjoy yourselves. CIO

Note:<888> 11/18/97 Tuesday 10:30 PM EST: I installed a wider form in www.mikescott.net/scotticq.htm Scott's ICQ link page. I updated www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm Scott's portfolio. I went out this afternoon at 4 PM. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop bought two smoking pipes for $1 apiece. I drove down Greenwich Avenue and bought a five pack of Marlboro lights. I drove down to the harbor and viewed the shoreline. I surmize the unusual skyline of clouds two days ago was from Volcanic activity on the Kamchatka Penninsula. Check out Alaska Volcano Observatory for updates on the activity. It is obviously the cause of some of the colder weather we have been having. I went by the library and read two of the Computer press newspapers. The library was busy full of youngsters. I stopped by the Food Emporium and bought a half gallon of Tropicana. It is not on sale yet. A friend invited me to a Thankgiving meal at Christ Church. I had an excellent Thanksgiving meal at Christ Church and had two helpings and enjoyed the company. Downtown today had a lot of traffic. I am back home and about to go to bed. CIO

Note:<888> 11/17/97 Tuesday 1:25 PM EST: I added a Scott's, Michael Louis ICQ Web-Pager Panel Sample Code link to my homepage, so I can be paged when I am online. I need to have lunch. CIO

Note:<888> 11/17/97 Tuesday 12:15 PM EST: I worked on www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm bookmarks, yeh the Bookmark from Hell. I downloaded Microsoft NetShow - Player Download , I am not show if it is different than 2.0 or is a new 2.1. I downloaded ICQ - World's Largest Internet Online Communication Network . I posted a link on my www.mikescott.net/stats.htm Stats page to my direct stats link Scott's Internet Hotlist Web Server Statistics for www.mikescott.net I need to have dinner soon. CIO

Note:<888> 11/17/97 Tuesday 6:45 AM EST: Up at 5:30 AM. Yesterday I surfed the net until noon. It is pretty quiet with Comdex. I had Campbell's Mushroom soup for lunch and toast and apple. I rest briefly. I went out about 2 PM. It was in mid 30s. I stopped the Hospital thrift shop and they have lots of merchandise. I went down Greenwich Avenue and checked out the harbor. It was still there. I stopped by the library. The police were there for some unknown incident. I read the Greenwich Times. I drove back down the avenue again, and it was moderately busy. I stopped by the Hall and I believe the three selectman were exiting as I entered. Afterwards I went back down Greenwich Avenue to the harbor again. Cloud formations were a little bit more as one expects. Coming down the avenue, I noticed a Norwegian diplomat driving around in a jeep with his roof off. I guess they dont' mind the cold. I saw at the Lexus dealership across from the train station, they were having a reception to show off the prototype of a new four wheel drive vehicle. A young fellow was serving Perrier there which is headquartered across the street from me. I noticed at the top of the hill on Indian Field Road, somebody was selling a Toyota for $850. I returned home and had a Tony's frozen pizza and went to bed for a good night's rest. Back to the net. CIO

Note:<888> 11/16/97 Monday 8:30 AM EST:Microsoft @ COMDEX I listened to the Bill Gates speech at Comdex. The device I found is a 1. Memotec: Products, CX1000 Access Concentrator/Central Site Switch . If anyone is interested let me know. It turns on. I don't know if it is compatible with my system. Anyone need it, let me know. CIO

Note:<888> 11/16/97 Monday 6:00 AM EST: Up at 5 AM for a change this morning. Let's see if the net works faster during the day. Orange Juice supply is running low. CIO

Note:<888> 11/15/97 Sunday 8:00 PM EST: I went out yesterday morning and made the usual rounds. I stopped by all the thrift shops. I drove around Tod's Point. The water was very high, about two feet below the road grade. If there were a storm, there probably would be flooding in the low areas around the shore. I stopped by the Egghead Computer store in Old Greenwich. It was very cold below 60 degrees, since the thermostat was locked, and the employees could not fix it. I picked up a computer cord at Radio Shack for the MEMOTEC, CX1000; so I can turn it on from the computer council and have star wars flashing lights highlight my system. I know that is sort of corny. They now have a security guard at the library entrance, so the librarians don't have to sit in the cold entrance way. I still think it would be a good idea to put in a second entry door out by the parking lot, to stop the cold air from rushing into the entrance way. It uses up a lot of heat in the downstair entry way area, probably for two winters. Not much to report from the local newspaper, except the Sunday paper had a very informative article on tourism to Cologne, Germany. Apparently they have 20 breweries there, besides a large cathedral there. I guess it took so long to build, because they weren't in any rush drinking all the beer. Saturday night I had a dinner guest over. He informed me that Chicago was iced in. I got up on Sunday and cleaned my apartment and watered the plants. I chatted with family members. Bermuda was a hot topic. One family member won $60 dollars in a tennis tournament. I suppose if one ever visited Bermuda, they would probably like a solar powered gitney. I think they use to have those little pink and white canopied vehicles when I was last there in 1968. I imagine the people get use to island life like I did. I assume Bermuda is volcanic, but I don't know whether it is dormant or not. I would imagine the temperature in the day time would be 65 Degrees F. . On Sunday I went out and the flag was flying across the water off Steamboat Road. I noticed quite a few people out walking around in the cool air. I saw lots of cars at the local churches downtown. I suppose with the families back from vacation, the churches are busier. I had an apple tart at St. Moritz bakery. I went for a short walk. I stopped by the Grand Union and got $21.75 in groceries. DAK hams were $2 a pound. Center cut pork chops were $3.59 a pound. I picked up a bag of onions for $2 and Russet patotoes for $2, PolyO cheese for $2, 4 cans vegatables for $1 and a few other minor necessities. I returned home and relaxed a while. I cooked Sunday dinner of herbal wine garlic baked scrod, with baked onions and russet potatoes, and fresh brocolli. I made coffee and put it in my thermos and went down town and viewed the public while having coffee. It seemed to be the usual cross section of locals and visitors. It was much busier in the afternoon than the morning. I stopped by the library and read the Sunday paper. One of our favorite patrons was escorting a friend around the libray. They had a different security guard on Sunday who was also cold. The parking lot on Sunday was filled up, but there is plenty of parking in the adjacent areas on Sunday. I then drove back down to the water and saw two full grown swans and their two off spring swimming around. There were a lot of interesting cloud formations today, but only light snow flurries. I came home and relaxed and just had an apple and peanut butter sandwich for supper. I will relax for the rest of the evening, and stay off the computer. I was thinking if somebody nuked Las Vegas about now during COMDEX, we could all quit using computers and go back to reading books, but I suppose that would undermind the infrastructure of the country. I also found a Microsoft Mouse that was with some disgarded material one of the offices had thrown away. It is not to easy for a left handed person, but I might try it; but the Kensington Mouse seems to work better right now, maybe because I am use to it. I have turned the heat up a bit to be more comfortable and have the humidifiers going full blast. When I went out today a fellow was digging through our dumpster looking for cans, so I guess the community is totally into recycling. I disgarded another broken VCR and a broken humidifier, but I have two humidifiers working now, and two backups. Same old story around here, peaceful and quiet day. CIO

Note:<888> 11/15/97 Saturday 8:25 AM EST: Upgraded www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm . CIO

Note:<888> 11/15/97 Saturday 7:15 AM EST: I was up at 2 AM this morning. I had a Porter House steak with onions and mushrooms when I got up with Brocolli and Potatoes. I started downloading Netscape 4.04 New 32-bit Apps at Stroud's CWSApps List . Yesterday I also installed the new Microsoft MS DUN 1.2 upgrade available from the same page. I went out after showering. My car was covered with ice. I guess the ice storm the last day was a lot worse than I realized. I discovered that my ice scrapers were locked in the trunk which had a frozen lock. Luckily I keep a couple bottles of lock deicer on my dinning room table. I thawed out the lock and got the trunk open. Remember it does one no good to keep the lock deicer in the car if it has froozen locks. I scraped off the car breaking one of my three ice scrapers. I went for smokes at the Shell station. I checked the view of Long Island from Steamboat Road. I went by the Grand Union. I got another $7 Porter House steak for $4 a pound. I also picked up a piece of scrod and some Tony's frozen pizza. I picked up a 12 pack of diet Pepsi for $2. I also found discarded at one of the local offices an obsolete piece of equipment called a Memotec CX 1000 with lots of lights and serial ports on it. It turns on, but I am not sure what its purpose was. I am using it as a printer stand. It was made in Canada. When I got back I just finished downloading Netscape 4.04 Professional Edition. I installed it. It has the American Online Messenging system which is a neat feature. I am "mmikescott" on AOL messenging system. I will go out about 8:30 this morning probably. I took a short walk at 4 AM while down town. Hopefully it will warm up a bit this morning. While the car was warm I removed the rest of the ice. The CSPAN school bus is no longer at the Greenwich Harbor Inn, but I think it is in the area for one more day. Back to the net. CIO