Note:<888>12/07/98 Monday 1:00 P.M. EST: On my way out shortly. CIO

Note:<888>12/07/98 Monday 12:20 P.M. EST:

SXUS99 KBDR 071711
RERBDR
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1210 PM EST MON DEC 7 1998

...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD BROKEN AT BRIDGEPORT...

THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE...SO FAR...TODAY IS 64 WHICH OCCURRED AT
1054 AM.

THE PREVIOUS HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD AT BRIDGEPORT WAS 62 SET IN
1953. WITH THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE AND WEST WIND THE TEMPERATURE WILL
CONTINUE TO GO UP ANOTHER DEGREE OR SO THIS AFTERNOON.

PJJ

Note:<888>12/07/98 Monday 12:10 P.M. EST: When using WeatherNode www.weathernode.com one can configure the program to show all the states, by selecting "Add Selected State" and entering "ALLSTATES". The program recommends you have a Pentium class computer with 64 megs of memory to use this "ALLSTATES" feature. CIO

Note:<888>12/07/98 Monday 11:40 A.M. EST: I went out this morning after the last message. I drove down to the waterfront on Steamboat Road and observed the morning haze and the sunrise. I lingered there for a while, enjoying the peace of the waterfront. I noticed across from the Greenwich Harbor Inn, there is a public notice sign, that one of the older homes next to the office buidling across the street is going to be torn down, I guess to expand the parking lot. It is too bad since, it is nice to see residential homes in that part of town as it becomes more and more commercial. I then returned to the center of town, and walked the lower area of Greenwich Avenue enjoying the unusually warm morning. I stopped by St. Moritz bakery and bought a blueberry muffin for $1 and a Danish honey bun with pecans on it for $1.50 both of which were fresh out of the oven. I walked up to the senior center and enjoyed eating them on the bench in front enjoying the morning. I then had a Phillie tip cigar. I chatted with a Danish acquaintence about various food enterprizes that I was acquainted with. I walked down to Zyns and bought a Tipporella for .50 and walked across the street and smoked it in the post office plaza. I chatted with an adjacent sitter about walking too much in New York in the old days, and how it is hard on the feet and knees. I then drove up to the Hospital Thrift shop and toured the selection of donated mechandise, nothing which interested me. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York did some business. I then drove back to the center of town and stopped by the Post Office and paid my local telephone bill and my Connecticut automobile registration for $74 by purchasing money orders and mailing them. I then walked back to the car and returned home. I rested for about and hour to slow down. I then ate a couple of Clementines and drank a cup of Capaccinno with with two caps of Kahlua and a eighth of a teaspoon of vanilla flavoring in it for a change. I have a 2 P.M. appointment this afternoon. Well I hope everyone enjoys another warm day. CIO

Note:<888>12/07/98 Monday 6:15 A.M. EST: I finished doing the small group of Christmas Cards, I do every year. I also posted my Christmas Message on my site xmas98.htm for good cheer to my users. Now I have to go mail the cards. CIO

Note:<888>12/07/98 Monday 3:00 A.M. EST: I worked on the computer until about 6 P.M. yesterday. I downloaded the Star Division Online Office suite at about 60 megs. I installed the whole program, and then only kept the word processor part of the suite which I might adventually delete, since I am not sure I want to be saving their files in Star format, since most of my word files are in Wordperfect, and if I change I will probably try Microsoft Word. I also downloaded the Weather node program and the Byte blaster engine which are linked from this page RealEMWIN along with RealEmwin. I emailed www.weathernode.com about what the abreviaton is for selecting the entire U.S. in their weather alert map. I went to bed about 6 P.M., and I did chat with a family member during the day. I was up at 1 A.M.. I started laundry which should be done in about a half hour, and I am making icetea.htm . I had breakfast of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and Cappacinno. I just finished showering and cleaning up. I have to write a Christmas letter and do my Christmas cards this morning. I have a 2 P.M. appointment today. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>12/06/98 Sunday 11:55 A.M. EST: http://www.skywatch.org/realemwin.html Weathernode Program add on. CIO

Note:<888>12/06/98 Sunday 11:30 A.M. EST: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Weather and Climate Information from the National Weather Service and this is the only station I can get on my Marine Band Radio in my 22 Year Old White Volvo NOAA National Weather Service Weather Radio WXRADIO http://www.nws.bnl.gov/wxradio.html , perhaps someday I will touch base with other nautical transmitters. CIO

Note:<888>12/06/98 Sunday 10:45 A.M. EST: I went out after I started the three hour download, and came back about a half hour ago, but I did not get the entire download, so I had to start it again. I drove down to Steamboat Road, and one fellow was out digging in the rocks for fishing worms, told me he is going down to Marathon, Florida in four weeks. I chatted briefly with him about Florida. I chatted briefly with another fisherman about fishing conditions. It is warm out, and the sun has burned off the early morning haze. I went back to the center of town, and I took out some fine steel sandpaper out of the trunk of my car, and sanded the rotor and cap points on my distributor while parked next to the town green. This is a quick remedy for fixing older ignition systems on older cars, when they don't need a tuneup yet. It gets the carbide off the points, so they start and run more smoothly. I next bought a buy two get one free of Doral Ultra lites for $6, so when I sneak a few cigarettes a day, I have some in reserve. I then smoked a White Owl panatella in front of the post office. I don't leave my cigar butts on Greenwich Avenue. I put them out thoroughly, and then dispose of them in the proper receptacles. I then walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by St. Moritz and bought a Danish Almond pastry for a $1. I walked back up to the senior center and ate it on the bench in front of the building. I then walked to the top of Greenwich Avenue, and sat on the bench on the Post Road until 9 A.M.. I then went to CVS and bought a box of Hallmark Christmas cards pack of 20 for $9.95, two bottles of Pine Sol Cleaner with 50% extra with sprayer bottles for $1.99 each, and a jar of planters peanuts for $1.99 plus .84 Connecticut sales tax for a total of $16.76. I then walked back to the senior center, and smoked one cigarette. I noticed a lot of early morning walkers out, and quite a few couples of all ages out for morning strolls and exercise walks before the sidewalks are too busy, and quite a few people going to church. I returned home and started the download again. It will be done about 1:30 P.M., so I will just relax around home, since I have been up all night again. I am sure quite a few people will be out at Tod's Point walking their dogs, since starting in December you don't need a beach pass, and dogs are allowed, but one has to clean up after their dogs. I guess we are awfully lucky to have this weather this time of year, and I wish I had more time to enjoy it. Give my best to those who are out enjoying this late Indian Summer. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>12/06/98 Sunday 6:30 A.M. EST: I am downloading a free office suite from Star Division Online . I guess, it will take a couple of hours for the 60 meg. file to download. I will go out in a little while as soon as the sun is up while I download. CIO

Note:<888>12/06/98 Sunday 4:40 A.M. EST: I called back a friend about 6 P.M. last evening, and he was having a crisis that needed to be resolved, hopefully everything will work out for the best. I went back to bed to reduce stress until about 10 P.M. with one phone call concerning the previous matter. I got up and made a mozzerella cheese omlette, toast, bacon, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno for breakfast. I listened to www.ttalk.com until midnight when it counched out, while I was cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. I also cleaned the old Compaq 15 inch monitor and set it up on the backup 486 computer in the bedroom. I finished house cleaning about 3 A.M., and I then showered and went downtown for a walk on the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. I smoked one of the Phillie tips at the post office plaza. I returned home via Cumberland Farms on the New York border which is way overheated for a milk store with the people from India running it. I bought a gallon of milk for $2.89 and a package five Middleton Cherry Pipe tabacco cigars for .99 for $3.95 total with .07 N.Y. tax. I came home and put out my pine cone Christmas wreath. I am making dinner of boneless breast of chicken with chopped garlic, dijon mustard, white wine, with herbs and spices, with baked potatoe, and baked onion quaters, along with mixed frozen farm vegtables and ice tea. I also snacked on a couple of Clementines. Well back to the net for a little work acitivity after dinner. I will go out probably between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M. for a morning walk and a little fresh air, on another nice day today. The new Acer monitor is working great, and I have set it up with the right driver, and set up the monitor settings to my preferences. Hopefully it will be easier on the eyes with the higher refresh rate, and less radiation emission. I will do laundry tomorrow morning. CIO

Note:<888>12/05/98 Saturday 4:50 P.M. EST: A friend came down and delivered an early Christmas gift. He bought me a ACER AcerView 77 E 17 inch monitor from CompUSA for $250, which works great, and I downloaded the latest driver from www.acer.com . I set up the monitor to my preferences, and changed to the settting to the higher refresh rate on the properties settings. I now have a really good monitor for viewing the internet and my computer work. My friend just left, and I have to have a bite to eat, and possibly get out for a stroll. With all the time I spend on the internet, I will be using this gift quite a lot in the upcoming years. Thanks again. CIO

Note:<888>12/05/98 Saturday 7:30 A.M. EST: I updated scott004.zip available from download.htm , with a few of the latest improvements, including a copy of the exxon01.htm page from my web servers. Well after I upload the changes, I will clean up and go out to enjoy the weekend morning. CIO

Note:<888>12/05/98 Saturday 5:30 A.M. EST: I finished setting up the backup 486 computer with Win98 and the auxillary programs about 2 A.M.. I rested until about 4:30 A.M.. I just had a Tony's Pepperoni pizza, ice tea, and coffee. I chatted with someone from Maryland briefly on Iphone. Well back to the net. I am pretty much done with my morning's work, but it is too early to go out, I will probably go out about 8 A.M.. CIO

Note:<888>12/04/98 Friday 11:30 P.M. EST: I worked on the computer until 2 A.M. yesterday morning. I then decided to install Win98 on the backup 486 in the bedroom. I had to temporarily install my cdrom player in it. I also took out the 5 1/4 inch disk drive. I put in the 340 meg. Western Digital drive in the 486 along with a 120 meg. drive. I had problems getting the system to boot from a floopy initially. Once I finally figured out the problem, by temporarily disabling certain cmos setting, I fdisked and formated the two drives. I then installed Win95 from floppies, so I could activate the sound card driver for the Cdrom. Once the cdrom was working, I installed Win98. I then ran maintenance wizard. I then setup up the dialers, and downloaded the updates from the Win98 updates. Once I had finished doing all of this it was 4 P.M. in the afternoon today, and I went to be bed until 9:30. I woke up and installed Netscape Gold 3.04 and the Real G2 player and its upgrades. I will have about 75 megs free on the C: drive, now that I have the backup 486 setup with Win98 and additional programs. I probably won't need it, but it is basically setup, and ready for use, should I need it. I have to install my directories on the system, and then I am done. I had corn flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno for breakfast when I just go up two hours ago. I will update Scott's Index scopor01.htm in a few minutes. Well have a good morning. I might rest more, or surf the internet. CIO

Note:<888>12/03/98 Thursday 10:15 P.M. EST: I listened to the aborted space shuttle launch until 4 A.M.. I went out and walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue, and had a White Owl panatella. I returned home at 5:30 A.M. and fiddled with my system until 8 A.M.. I slept until 7 P.M. missing my 3 P.M. appointment. I had breakfast of Kellogg's corn flakes, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno. I went out for a walk on the lower part of Greenwich Avenue at 8:30 P.M.. I bought two boxes of five Phillie tips for $1.90 and a buy two get one free of Doral ultra lites for $6, for when I occassionally sneek a cigarette, although I am still wearing the patch to quit smoking. I am having about three to four cigarettes a day. I also smoked one of the Phillie tips. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a Tony's Pepperoni pizza for $3, and buy one get one free of Purdue Boneless chicken breast two packs for $6.34 for both for a total of $9.34. I returned home and put away the groceries. It was busy downtown with lots of office people having dinner. I recieved a Christmas card from Vice President Albert Gore and family. I will have to do my Christmas cards during the next week. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm which is down a bit today. Well have a good evening, and I hope you all have fun surfing the internet. There is an old odd piece of IBM equipment somebody dumped at the train station dumpster area. Well I might try sticking my extra 340 meg. drive in the backup 486 bedroom computer, but it is not necessary since that system is all configured, and I hardly ever use it anymore, since I am no longer doing the directory, and don't need to use the OS/2 editor, but I keep it in case I do need it some time. CIO

Note:<888>12/03/98 Thursday 1:45 A.M. EST: I updated my stats.htm. CIO

Note:<888>12/02/98 Wednesday 11:55 P.M. EST: Awake again at 11 P.M.. I had a cup of coffee, two clementines, and cleaned up and showered. I will work on the net this morning. I think the shuttle is suppose to launch about 4 A.M. weather permitting. Check out nasa.htm . CIO

Note:<888>12/02/98 Wednesday 5:55 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . A friend came down and woke me up at 4:30 P.M., so I am awake. CIO

Note:<888>12/02/98 Wednesday 1:45 P.M. EST: Well the drive kept making noice, so at 8 A.M., I drove up to CompUSA in Norwalk; which does not open until 10 A.M. despite the 9 A.M. time in the circular. I had two croissants for $1.38 at the Pathmark next to it. I exchanged the drive for an identical one that works fine. I toured the store mechandise. They now have $30 mailin rebates on Western Digital drives. I drove home at about 10:30 A.M. arriving in Greewich after the traffic. I paid my rent while in town. I returned home and install the good Maxtor drive, and it works fine. I finished installing the software and restoring the system just now from the backup I keep on drive D:. The whole system is running fine and quietly without drive noice. I am exhausted, although it is a nice day. I plan to go to bed shortly. Enjoy the warm beautiful afternoon, perhaps I will see a little of late evening when I wake up. Well time for bed. CIO

Note:<888>12/02/98 Wednesday 3:40 A.M. EST: I think I finally fixed my noicey new drive problem. The drive started acting up, so since I had the C: drive backed up to my D: drive, I deleted the C: drive in FDISK and reinstalled it. I then figured out the problem was having "Block Mode" turned on in the CMOS, so I turned it off. I then reformated the drive, and did a minimal install of Windows 98 with the Backup program installed. I then restored my backup from the D: drive, and the system is back to the way it was, and it all seems to be running smoothly. I am now about to scandisk and defrag the drive with Maintenance Wizard to get the drive running even more smoothly. I had to restore a couple of files I had backed up since I did the complete backup yesterday, so I am back in business running smoothly. I might turn off "Block Mode" in the CMOS on the D: drive, but it has always been that way. Thus the way the CMOS recognizes the drive is not correct I believe. Time will tell. CIO

Note:<888>12/01/98 Tuesday 11:40 P.M. EST: I went out at 8 P.M. after resting a bit. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. I drove downtown and stopped by CVS and bought two five packs of White Owl Panatellas for $3.06 for both. I walked the lower area on Greenwich Avenue twice and chatted with one of the locals. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a Tony's pepperoni rising pizza for $4.29, two 16 oz. Sorrento Mozzerella cheeses for $4.69 for both, a Stauffer's Lasagna $2.99, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Lite $1.29, three Thorne bacons 16 oz. 3.69 all, three dozen large eggs $1.39 all, three cans Chicken of the sea chunk white tuna $1.99 all, two cans Heinz turkey gravy .50 a can, three quart bottles of Fab liquid detergent with bleach $3.99 all, a box of Clementines $3.99, two large boxes of Kelloggs corn flakes $3 all, plus .24 tax for $32.54 total. I returned home and put away the groceries. I made a Mosseralla three egg omlette, five strips of bacon, two pieces of toast, Welch's grape juice and diet sprite, and coffee for dinner. Well back to the net, have a good evening. It was slow downtown which is usual for a quiet Tuesday night. CIO

Note:<888>12/01/98 Tuesday 5:40 P.M. EST: I was up at 3:15 P.M. today. I went downtown to Putnam Trust Bank of New York and withdrew funds. I went to the post office and purchased money orders to pay my MCI telephone bill, my electricity, my cablevision, and my GEICO insurance bills. I also bought 20 Christmas stamps for $6.40. I stopped by the Arnold Bread store outlet and purchased three loaves of Healthnut bread for $3.87. I returned home and had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . I will shower and clean up and go out in a little while. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>12/01/98 Tuesday 4:25 A.M. EST:This is the sort of music senior management grew up with, check it out broadcast.com Radio Stations: WYCL - 107.3 FM Oldies CIO

Note:<888>12/01/98 Tuesday 1:25 A.M. EST: I went downtown at 9:30 P.M.. I went by the Food Emporium and bought a gallon of goldfish crackers for $4.99 and a 39 ounce Blue bag of 50 percent decaffinated coffee for $7.99 for a total of $12.98. I stopped by and chatted with a friend, who came back briefly to pick up some tapes and clothes, he had stored in my apartment. While he was putting his things together I mixed the blue bag of coffee with the two jars of my existing blend, so it will be 25% less caffine. I will probably eventually start drinking the blue bag mixture which is 50% less. I dropped him off at his present address. I went downtown and walked the lower Greenwich Avenue and train station area. I sat out in front of the senior center and had a White Owl New York Panatella cigar and returned home at 12:30 A.M.. I made a Tony's Pepperoni pizza and am just about to try out my new blend in a cup of cappacinno. I have to go out in the morning, so I might take a nap some time this morning. Well have a good morning. CIO