Note:<888> 12/21/97 Sunday 3:05 P.M. EST: I went to bed about 4 A.M. this morning. I got up at 10 A.M.. I chatted with family with MCI's 5 cents a minute plan on Sunday. I had breakfast. I called up Cablevision to chat with them about my service. I don't watch television very much, but I keep it handy for guests and visitors. Cablevision told me when the "E" flashes on my present Cable Box, a "Pay For View" is available. I never use this feature since I can't afford it. I was told that Optimum TV is up and running on my present system. I now get MSNBC I belive on Channel 77. On this Tuesday between 8 A.M. and 12 Noon, Cablevision will deliver the Optimum TV box for free which works with the new features. I called Cablevision at I believe the local number is 203-348-9211. I also was informed by Cablevison of Connecticut they are installing a test Internet Cable Modem system in Westport, Connecticut right now. For information on the service call 203-750-8790. I chatted with Mrs. Davis for quite a while at Cablevision and she was quite knowlegable about her customers needs after 9 years on the job. She said lots of young children call all the time about the cablevision service and the older population is somewhat confused on how to use it. She said I might be able to reprogram my cable ready TV to accept the new channels which I will try shortly. Hopefully they will install cablemodem access in Greenwich soon. Since the optic fibre network is up and running, it should not be too difficult to install once the service is available in the area. I cleaned my apartment and listened to Saturday's broadcast of www.ttalk.com while I cleaned the apartment. I now have to have a bite to eat and clean up, and I should be out about 4 P.M. or shortly thereafter. CIO

Note:<888> 12/21/97 Sunday 2:55 A.M. EST: Yes guys I am still awake in the penthouse. I found those URLs and sent them to Ken along with some old scifi stuff based on other beings existence. GOTO Software, Developer & Publisher of successful Internet and Game Software and Webearly 1.70 and PC Magazine: PC Tech (Share Your Bookmarks Between Browsers) . I am a little bit bushed and it is cold in here. Returning to the planet "Neptune". I wish someone would turn back on the mirror, but I guess they need it in the tundra. CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/97 Saturday 11:40 P.M. EST: I had a Tony's frozen pizza for dinner tonight and a Pepsi. I put on my long johns bottoms and my Gap blue seamans sweater. I drove downtown and parked in front of the veterans monument. I walked down the avenue and by the train station as I was pausing, at the crosswalk the pizza deliveryman was walking and a black Mercedes Connecticut plate 747-MOM came to a quick halt impatiently. I started to walk behind the pizza deliveryman who was upset that the Mercedes had not wanted to stop for him. He said "Doesn't he know, it is pedestrian crosswalk?" I walking behind the Planet pizza deliveryman was slower with my arthritis. As I was almost out of the way of the Mercedes he the driver became impatient and accelerated almost hitting me. Perhaps he a younger white male dark haired fellow with a female did not realize that it was a pedestrian crosswalk in front of the train station. The crosswalk has a sign in the middle of the road saying "Stop for Pedestrians". I noticed and have commented to both the Greenwich Police before and Kennedy security at the building across the street from the train station that the street lights across the street from the train station in front of the office building are burned out, so it is very dark at night. Also since it is dark the crosswalk sign is not very visable. I suggested to the desk sargent when I reported the incident fifteen minutes later that they should put blinking yellow lights on the pedestrian crosswalk sign. I also suggested that lots of Mercedes drivers seem to be Doctors, so possibly the younger gentleman driving the Mercedes was possbily rushing to a medical emergency. After crossing the crosswalk I walked into the train station and chatted with a young man from Philadelphia that worked for a computer company in London. He had my family look, so I told him where many of my family lived around the world. I then proceeded up to the second level of the train station and crossed over the overpass to the taxi area and commented to one of the local drivers about the incident. I next went back up the avenue and reported the incident to the desk sargent. I then sat in front of the senior center. I chatted with the day custodian who told me the regular night custodian would be back on Monday. I then chatted with a new local about his dog. He said he had found it and it was half huskie and half German Shepard. I am somewhat familiar with dogs and the lost dog he has adopted looks more like a cayote to me, who knows. I next walked back down the avenue and back through the train station which out of some kind act of sanity they are leaving open for the passengers, so they can stay warm. I chatted with a couple of people I thought colder weather is headed our way. I next walked back up the avenue and sat in front of the senior center until 10 P.M.. I noticed quite a few young people were out. The movie "Titanic is playing at the train station cinema. I did not think it was very busy downtown, so perhaps people are away skiing. Starbucks had about a dozen people. I saw a number of visitors around town, however although today was busy the night was not busy. I then drove down by the water on Steamboat Road and saw the lights on across the harbor. I noticed it seemed to be an unusual cloud formation like I have seen after volanic erruptions before. I was wandering if it was not an after effect of the Greenland asteroid. It got me to thinking that an asteroid that large could possibly alter the Earth's polar axis or its orbit and possibly effect the weather as we know it. It also made me wander if it had put up any unusual amouts of dust debris in the upper atmosphere possibly thinning out the sun's light and warmth a bit. I wandered if anyone had gone up to Greenland to find out if the asteroid or meterite had left any geological remains from other parts of our solar system or universe. It was an erie night as far as the weather on the Harbor felt. I heard a Duck on the water which lead me to believe it might be expecting warmer weather. I don't usually see Ducks this time of year. I commented to the fellow walking the Cayote that backcountry game keepers have spotted wolves and bears in the area since I have lived here. All and all it was a delightful evening. I noticed quite a few younger people headed into the late showing of the train station cinema. I am not sure whether they are interested in the Titanic or not, perhaps some other movie is showing. Having spent a great deal of time outside today, since 8 A.M., I need to take a hot bath to ease up my arthritis, so I will feel better tomarrow when I get up to clean my apartment. I have turned the heat down in the apartment to try to save a little money. I will try once again to do that, but I will have to wait and see how I feel. I suppose it will be a little quieter tomorrow since it is Sunday, but the downtown merchants might be open this time of year. I noticed the police department were monitoring traffic speeds on Greenwich Avenue and pulling over people for speeding. I do not walk around the upper part of the avenue that much anymore since it is not that busy at night. I did stop by Baccarrat Crystal shop today and told them that when I worked in the kitchen at "La Vielle Maison" in Boca Raton; they used Baccarrat Crystal. I commented that someone I once me, said their family owned the sand pits in Steubenville Ohio where Steuben glass comes from. I asked them where Baccarrat's sand came from and they said it was a trade secret. I told them I knew quite a bit about sand, and I had probably forgotten where the Baaccarat Crystal sand came from. I suggested that since the French own Devil's Island, they could possibly make it into a "Club Med" for white collar criminals. I also suggested that they might think about using black Lanzerote sand for black crystal. I also suggested that a few French people and other Europeans are working in French Guiana for the European Space Agency Arian Space Program. I chatted with a fellow named Eduardo and his son outside my building today from Brazil. I told him about other Brazilian's I knew of in the area. Since one Brazilian friend showed up here, we have seen about fifty coffee shops show up in town. Coffee is an important commodity, but it is not the only commodity. I suggested to the libraian today that the government should put a $2 a gallon tax on gasoline to raise more money for providing heat for older people and other neccesities. I also suggested that it might help in conservation. People here seem to be use to using as much oil as available. Having lived through the oil crisis in the 1970's, I know it could happen again. Environmentalists spending hundreds of millions of barrels of oil a year to travel to look at ecology does not make since to me. Ultimately the people have to decide for themselves what they want to do, and get unglued from the mass media. The yonger people I saw downtown looked very sincere and look like they have been working very hard and I hope they enjoy their holidays. I suggested to several people today, if they have family members who are ill, Westchester Airport has two flights a day on weekdays to Rochester, Minnesota where the Mayo Clinic is located. It is colder there, but they have excellent facilities and are world reknown. I have not had a chance to surf the net today, but I suggested to a British patron in the library today that the British could possibly use the Britannia as a tourist or holiday vessile in Florida, the Bahamas or the Carribean. I know it costs a lot to maintain, but there are lots of enthusiastic Commonwealth and retired United Kingdom citizens down south that might like the idea. Interesting URL's I jotted down today are www.postageplus.com , www.pitneybowes.com , www.goto.co.uk , www.aolpress.com . I also read an article in PC Magazine about a program one can download from their site PC Tech "SYNCURLS". It is a program that minds both the bookmarks simultaniously for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 and Netscape Communicator 4.04. I will have to look into it when I have time. Au Revoir Mes Amis.

Note:<888> 12/20/97 Saturday 2:20 P.M. EST: Today I got up at 7 A.M. and had breakfast of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Two Slices Arnold Healthnut Bread, One Large coffee www.mikescott.net/coffee.htm , and a 12 ounce glass of Tropicana Ruby Red Orange Juice and my usual vitamins. I went downtown and stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop and bought a Budweiser Beer stein for 50 cents. I chatted with one of the shop volonteers about aviation. I stopped by Bank of New York Putnam Trust and withdrew all my money except a $1. I chatted with an old Day school classmate about who was up at Harvard that I had gone to Taft with. I went down the avenue and stopped by Quinn's market looking unsuccessfully for Tom Collins Mixer and drove down by the pier on Steamboat Road and chatted with one of my former neighbors about Volcanology and Oceanography and Lanzerote on the pier for a while. I went by the Mews thrift shop and bought a whisky decanter for $1.06 to keep water in at my bar. I went by the ELDC thrift store and bought a bartenders spoon for $1.06. I went by Hospital Thrift Shop again, but their parking lot was full, so I did not stop by. I went by the Greenwich library and read the local paper. I chatted with the Burns Security agent and he said he once worked at Wescon tire in Port Chester. Istopped the Exxon station and filled up my tank with $8.80 premium gasoline. I went by the Grand Union and bought Whisky Sour Mix for $1.61. I stopped by Val's liquor across the parking lot and they did not carry Canada Dry Collins Mixer, and neither did Quinns, Grand Union, or the Food Emporium. I noticed Val's carried the quart bottles of Angostora Bitters, so I will have to start buying it there. I went over to the Port Chester Beer distributor and they finally had Canada Dry Collins Mixer for a $1.09 a quart. I bought three bottles. I noticed that they had 12 packs of Becks beer for $8.99 plus tax and deposit. I came back home and expressed my condolences to one of my neighbors about Mary Ann passing away while she was in the laundrymat. She seemed quite mournful. I went upstairs and defrosted some smoked turkey and had a smoked turkey sandwich and with tabassco sauce and two microwave russet potatoes. I then made coffee and entered my financial accounts and filed this report. I will probably go out for another tour shortly. CIO

Note:<888> 12/19/97 Friday 10:55 P.M. EST:I updated my Soundblaster SW32 card drivers from this link Creative Labs What's New on the FTP site , select "SBW95UP.EXE". This afternoon I organized my kitchen cabinets some more and moved the canned goods out of the bookshelf by the kitchen. It looks much neater. I polished my wooden furniture with limon oil. I straightened up a bit. One of my neighbors told me Mary Ann Thyse died from heart problems caused by pneumonia. The state of Connecticut refuses to pay for the electric heat for the seniors and disabled in this building, so quite a few tenants are forced to live in very cold conditions which can cause illness and death. Mary Ann called me two weeks ago to check her new Lucent cordless telephone which did not work. I noticed when I was in her apartment it was very cold. I suppose she was trying to save on electricity and caught pneumonia and died. It is a shame that the State of Connecticut refuses to pay for the electric heat in this building causing a great deal of misery for many of the tenants. All the other public housing in Greenwich has the heat paid for. I was told by our former tenant's president who was evicted for complaining that over 15 people have died in this building of 55 tenants in the eight years it has been open. If one complains the establishment threatens and intimidates the residents here. Most of them are afraid to speak up. I guess the local housing authority would rather allocate the funds for heating this building to other projects more popular with the voting public. The head of the housing authority has not returned my calls in 1 1/2 years. I basically have no choice but to pay the higher heating bills or suffer in the cold with my severe arthritis. It is pretty much the same for all my other fellow tenants. One neighbor's electricity bill was $500 last February. It basically shows how foolish the housing authority was to install electric heat in a building up north and we all have to pay the consequences. We have no political redress since the Housing Authority is an independent agency. Still it is better than sleeping in a palmetoe tree in Key West. I had frozen pasta premavera for dinner. I cleaned up. I went out for a drive. While driving down Greenwich Avenue, a good looking 25 year old brown haired female pedestrian tried to pick up a ride with me to the bottom of the Avenue because she was in a rush. Basically we are not rude here, but from experience I try not to pick up hitchhikers anymore, not to mention it would raise eyebrows to be seen with such a good looking gal. She sort of looked like Ali McGraw when she was that age. I guess since I am such a local figure she wanted to grab a ride, but the village has a million eyes so I don't think she minded walking the three blocks to the bottom of the avenue. There were lots of young folks out tonight. I stopped by the library and read the local newspaper with a story about the Greenwich Police investigation. I chatted with some of the library locals. I returned Nixon and checked out the film Sophisticated Gents. I also checked out "Diana The Last Year" by Donald Spoto to read. I then went by the Grand Union and bought a half gallon of 2% milk for $1.84 . I went over to the Food Emporium and chatted with a local about general topics. I was looking for Tom Collins mixer at both places and neither seem to carry it anymore. They did have Whisky Sour mix though. I noticed the Food Emporium carried Key West Lime Juice which is strange because when I was down there I don't recall seeing many Lime trees. I played a $1 lottery ticket out of the vending machine at the front of the Food Emporium and did not win anything. I chatted with an acquaintence who must have been spending at least $100 on the lottery tickets there. I told him I read an article that the one of the Indian Casinos in Connecticut was giving each of its tribe $1,500 in profit sharing which seemed a little low, since I read that the same Casino was the largest individual contributor to Bill Clinton's campaign giving him $50 million. Basically from what I am writting one can surmize that the political establishment in Connecticut is somewhat corrupt with the overflow of the mafia element out of New York State. Needless to say they don't worry about Federal intervension, so I basically feel the status quo will continue. They never bother me because I tell them I have family in the military who would be quite upset. After I returned home I chatted with one of my neighbors and filed this report. CIO

Note:<888> 12/19/97 Friday 2:40 P.M. EST: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I updated www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm bookmarks. I had all three local IBM.net access numbers not work and the operator "0" number fail for ten minutes today. It obviously was some problem with the telephone company switching system. I checked with IBM Armonk security 1-914-499-4400 and they did not know about any problems. I found the Inforworld link for Dave Livingston's article this week for using two modems, two lines, and two ISP accounts with Microsoft MS Dun 1.2 to double one's connect speed. This is the link but it will changes after a week, Opinions InfoWorld, Dave's Current Column . I found an interesting password saver program that just came out at ZDNet Software Library - The Lock 98 . I straightened up my kitchen and dining area a little while listening to the Internet News broadcasts. I will probably go out in about an hour. CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/97 Thursday 5:40 P.M. EST: I updated www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm Scott's Index. I went out this morning and bought 4 champaign glasses at the hospital thrift shop for $2 and 2 beer mugs for $1. I stopped by the library and read the four computer news weeklies I normally read. Brian Livingston has a good article in Infoworld this week about multilinking with MS Dun 1.2, setting up two 56,000 baud modems with two two telephone lines and two ISP accounts where one can get 112,000 baud download speeds. Of course I don't know if it actually downloads from one site that fast, or one can download from two sites at 56,000 baud. I am going pretty dang fast right now, so I don't think I will try it just right now. I checked out Oliver Stone's film Nixon out of the library to view. I had a smoked turkey sandwich for lunch with tabassco on it. I went back downtown and parked by the water down on Steamboat Road and had a cup of coffee out of my thermos. I watched the aviation traffic around the area on the clear blue sky day. I did not notice the flag flying. I saw two jets from Europe headed down south plus the usual Westchester aviation traffic. I drove by the hospital thrift shop again. I sat downtown for fifteen minutes. I went by the library and read two computer magazines. I noticed that www.ibm.net is rated the best internet service provider. I wish they would let one dial up at least two ISP connections at once like they use to and I might try getting a second phone line then. I noticed a lot of activity around town. I guess we have a lot of holiday shoppers. I noticed one of the family neighbors wearing a red baseball cap. I guess so many people travel into and out of the area, I continue to feel like the computer reference librarian at the library. It is too bad I don't have more of a budget to expand my operation. Well at least I have a well stocked refreshment center. They say in the future one will be able to talk to ones computer very easily. I already talk to my computer like some other people chat with their plants. I wore my long underwear on this warmer day, and it seemed to make a difference with my arthritis. I have to check if I am having guests for dinner or not shortly. Great Day in Greenwich. I also recieved a second call from an attorney in Port Chester, Mann? and something yesterday about a Michael Scott that use to have the Cutting Board deli. He is from the east block and his real name is Michael Swobe in his 50s. I suppose he left without paying his landlord the rent on the deli. Michael Scott is very common name. Lots of new arrivals have taken the Scott family name instead of using their more complicated sounding foreign names. I am reasonably assured that I am from the real Scott family that arrived here over 350 years ago, and I have lots of relatives descended from that branch of the family here in this country and around the world. Lots of this European types around today. I suppose lots of relatives are coming to visit their families while others head away on holiday. www.ibm.net supposedly works fastest in the evening because it caters to daytime business users. I do not use the IBM dialer which I think messes up the system with older files, but the regular Microsoft dialer for IBM Net. That is all for now. CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/97 Thursday 9:15 A.M. EST: Updated www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm Current Bookmarks. I plan to go out shortly this morning. CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/97 Thursday 7:00 A.M. EST: I was up at 4 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast and showered. I went out and cleaned the frost off the car. I stopped by the Grand Union and picked up a six pack of Schweppes Bitter Limon for $3.59. I also picked up a bag of Idaho potatoes for 99 cents and a box of Post Rasin Bran for $1.99. I got home and carved up the Greenburg smoked turkey from Tyler, Texas I recieved from a family member. I put the white and dark meat in five different plastic bags in the freezer and left one bag in the fridge. I cut the meat off in large sections, and ripped the rest off. I put the carcass in the dumpster. I noticed this moring the early morning execs going to work. I did not see lights on down by the water, so people are probably away. I will do some net work today and possibly go out this morning. I received my electricity bill for the last month which includes my electric heat. It was $188.87 which is about typical. I am keeping it warmer turning the heat off in the room that I don't use either the bedroom or living room. I pay an averaged monthly amount of $123.. With my arthritis I have to keep it warm enough, about 70 degrees, to be comfortable here so my joints don't ache. Back to net. CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/97 Wednesday 12:30 P.M. EST: Updated www.mikescott.net/bmnow.htm Recent bookmarks. The internet seems to be quiet with the holiday season approaching. No, I have not gotten into the hootch. I made a complete backup this morning. I also had a turkey sandwich for lunch and coffee. I need to carve up and freeze the smoked turkey. I ran across one interesting story from yesterday on the BBC that caught my attention, BBC News | Sci/Tech | It came from the skies, Greenland Asteroid . I hope this does not mean that the possible dust cloud from the asteroid will cool off the earth shortly and we will have a much colder winter than normal. They have had minus 20 degrees F. weather in Russia recently, but I don't think the asteroid would cause that effect so quickly. Only time will tell. I probably won't be going to Key West. I am so stuck in my routine, and enjoy the quiet and comfort of home. I think I can tough it out here in Connecticut. Somebody called me this morning asking me if I was the Mike Scott that owned the "Chopping Block" in Port Chester. I had to say no. CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/97 Wednesday 3:15 A.M. EST: I went to bed at 8 P.M. and got up at 2:00 A.M.. Scott's index www.mikescott.net/scopor01.htm was up a bit yesterday. It seemed to be a good day for tech stocks. I finished setting up my holiday hospitality bar with a 1 litre bottle of Kahlua Coffee Liquer, in case anyone wants to stop by and have a "White Russian". The Kahlua was $19.99 plus $1.35 tax for a total of $21.34 . I normally don't drink that much, but I figure with snow possibly coming at the holiday time, I would try to set up a user friendly environment should anyone contact me about stopping by. I suppose a lot of people enjoy drinking something besides ice tea and coffee. I have spent a number years around estatblish people sipping their booze, so I guess part of the secret to success in moderation is to offer liquid and alcoholic refreshment to one's guests. Having lived in places like Manhattan, Nantucket, Key West, and Lake Forest; I suppose I have a number of deja vue friends who enjoy a cocktail occassionally particularly amongst the old guard. Well I'll let you know if anyone stops by for cocktails. If not all this good hootch can sit and gather dust. It will give me something else to dust in my apartment. If we ever get something like the blizzard of 1888, I suppose I will have some extra Red Cross Emergency Medical supplies stocked up for emergency purposes too. Alcohol is part of our culture, particular in colder climates and realistically I think it is safer to sit back and relax and entertain or have a night cap at home than to spend particularly high prices at the local pubs. Not that I am cheap, but I am on a limited budget and I suppose one can only do so much. I expect guests will not drink and drive, where ever they are enjoying their holiday refreshment this year. I suppose this collection of beverages and cocktails will be handy for anyone who stops by. I do not myself drink alone, but do enjoy conversation and relaxing when old friends and visitors stop by and would probably have a drink myself if any of them ever do. If you don't have the time to come into the area, I am sure some of the staff at the main operation headquarters would be happy to make sure you are given amble refreshment whenever needed. After all these years around corporations and diplomats, I tend to be forgetful about what the main operation is, but I am sure there is somebody out there to remind me. Needless to say the funds to set up the holiday bar were provided by other members of the Scott family, so that gives you an idea what the main operaton might be after over 350 years of helping to run a Dutch Trading Post on the Hudson River. I believe one of the family's original businesses was the Molassis business down to the Indies and back up the coast to Europe. Back to the net. I hear tell somebody I might know has a house in Brazil bigger than the Kremlin with millions of acres of land, but that might be one of the southern branch offices. With this extended network, I am not sure of all the established friends, family, and associates that we have in place, but I suppose it is extensive. Needless to say things are quite simple here in the diplomatic quarter. CIO

Note:<888> 12/16/97 Tuesday 1:30 P.M. EST: I went out at 7 A.M. this morning and bought 2 % milk for $1.84, Lemon Juice $1.69, Angostora Bitters $2.49, Rose's Lime Juice $3.19, 2 Tabascos $1.19 each, 2 cocktail red and green napkins 40 packs $1.59 each, cocktail onions $2.29, V-8 Juice 99 cents, White Wine Vinegar $1.09, cocktail olives 99 cents, 6 limes $1.98, 1 lemon 67 cents, 1 box clementines $4.99 plus tax .37 for a total of $29.73. I then put the food away and arranged it around my cocktail bar. I then did had toast and orange juice and vitamins took a shower. I then went over to Var Max Liquor pantry 1-914-937-4930 and purchased 1 litre Canadian Club $16.99, 1 litre Jack Daniels which came with two JD glasses for $17.99, 1 litre Mount Gay Rum $17.99, 1 Litre Gordon's Gin $12.99, 1 bottle Le Fleur Chevalier rouge $6.99, 1 bottle Notilly Prat Dry Vermouth $3.99 for a total with tax of $5.19 of $82.13. I then remembered to buy a bottle of Moet & Chandon White for $23.99 plus $1.62 tax for a total of $25.61. Thus $162.12 was spent on liquor and $35.30 for mixers and additives. I also picked up four 1 1/2 ounce shot glasses at Lecters for $4.10. After finishing up setting up the Holiday bar I did some minor arrangements. I went downtown and walked briefly. I sat in front of the senior center and noticed a number of British tourists strolling around. I remembered that I had a UPS delivery coming, so I returned home and the smoked turkey and a package from mom just arrived now. I guess I will relax of go out a bit shortly. I had a peanut butter sandwich and Pepsi for lunch. It is a nice day, but I like to keep my accounts straight, and am trying to relax a bit by drinking less coffee. I have a 4 PM appointment, so I might make a few rounds before then. I also unsealed the liquor bottles, so they are ready for use. CIO

Note:<888> 12/16/97 Tuesday 4:30 A.M. EST: Yesterday I went out about noon. I purchased a solid oak Microwave cart for $12.50 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. It normally retailed for $120. It came disassembled. I went downtown by the water and checked the skyline. I noticed a new forest green GMC parked down by the water. I noticed a long time family friend parked by Mike's former barber shop trying to get a haircut. He still drives the black and white Rolls. I did not have a chance to converse. I stopped by the Greenwich library and chatted with Norman. He asked me if a 747 could land at Westchester Airport. I said I did not think so, but possibly a C5A could, if they cut down the trees at the end of the runway. It probably depends on how much fuel it is carrying as to whether it could take off. Greenwich was full of holiday shoppers and old guard. I noticed a few new young faces returning from college. The libray painted the temporary construction partition yellow. I noticed the construction crew was busy digging the foundation for the new addition. They have a lot of rich top soil they have dug up, I suppose they will have to relocate. I went home and assembled the Microwave oven stand on wheels. It looks presentable. I decided to setup a Strategic Air Command Emergency Cocktail Bar on it. I washed and cleaned 40 beer, wine, short and tall pieces of glassware and placed them strategically on the bar. I set out the Westchester PGA ice bucket in the center. I put 7 sealed bottles of white wine and one open bottle of of white wine along the back top. I put the selzer bottle on the bottom shelf, with the flask, and the empty Dom Perrigon bottle along with a wine caraff. I put a Benson and Hedges cork screw next to the ice bucket. I placed the Norwegian peace conference flag in front of the ice bucket. I went out and got smokes, and 4 bottles Schweppes Club Soda, two bottles tonic water, 2 seltzer water, one ginger ale for 89 cents apiece at the Grand Union. I stopped by Var Max liquor pantry in Port Chester just down the road 1-914-937-4930. I purchased a 1.75 litre bottle of Dewars Scotch for $36 and 1.75 litre bottle of Smirnoff Vodka for $18.50. I set the mixers and the liquor on the bar when I got home. I probably need to pick up a fifth of Jack Daniels, a fifth of gin, ?what type, a fifth of Canadian Club, a small bottle of vermouth, a bottle of red wine to complete to complete the emergency bar. I refilled the ice trays in the refrigerator. I don't drink at home myself, but I always try to be prepared for guests stopping by. When one is out in the chilled holiday cold, they occassionally need a warmer upper, particularly if they are use to warmer weather or conditons. The Scott family has a tradition of trying to offer hospitality and refreshment when we can afford it. I guess it is all right to use my emergency money to setup a cocktail refreshment center instead of getting a new hard drive for shareware programs. I also unsealed the liquor bottles. They tell me at the liquor store, if one does not drink it in a year of two it will evaporate. I placed the bar in the corner in front of the deer picture next to the laser printer. With winter coming up, one never knows when chilled visitors might show up or sneak in, so it is better to be prepared. I also have a case of cokes and pepsi in the fridge, orance juice, cranberry juice, 12 bottles dark beer, and tabassco, tomato juice, lea and perrins. That reminds me I need to buy some 2 percent milk. After setting up the bar, I stopped by the Greenwich library and chatted with the custodian about Key West in the old days. A friend wants me to check at Liberty Travel across the street from the library about Key West travel packages around New Years. Last year they had a $800 round trip airfare package, with stay at the Key West Best Western next to the airport, and car per person double occupancy for a week. Well I will do a little bit more cold weather maintenance today and net work. I suppose if anyone is in Manhattan around Rockefeller Center they should be generous to the Salvation Army Santa collecting funds in front of Rockefeller Center. He might be getting a little chilled this time of year, but he works hard. Maybe they should setup a little warmer booth for him around his kettle. Enough of Christmas preparations. CIO

Note:<888> 12/15/97 Monday 11:)0 A.M. EST: Yesterday at 8 P.M. I got up and started cleaning my apartment after breakfast. I did a little bit more thorough cleaning and finished about 3 A.M. I went for a drive around town, and noticed an orange Volkswagon beatle for sale down town. I drove out by the Westchester airport and studied the flight schedule. I always park at the XEROX parking space, since when I went out to California around 1980 a fellow in charge of XEROX west coast that looked like Nelson Rockefeller in Laguna Beach took me out to lunch and I explained some of my concepts of the computer industry. I guess they had enough research projects like the Windows operating system at the XEROX parc research site, that they were able to develop and market some of their research concepts. I had several thousand people around me from Cal Tech, and I believe Vincent Butler in Santa Cruz was enthusiastic about some of the concepts. He said he was a fourth generation Californian that had gone to MIT. Back in 1978 the only thing they had on the Computer lab at U.C. Santa Cruz was Fortran, so I guess after a several hectic trips to California, the Volcanology alert team came up with some more more interesting software and hardware for the computer industry. One has to realize there are quite a few people on the West Coast and it was not all a one man operation. I believe the original company I formed was called Discovision, but it might have evolved into something else today. I talked with so many people out there during 1978 -1980, I am not sure what all came of it, but I figure some of the boys in the Silicone Valley remember. I remember 50,000 private airplanes parked around Lawrence Livermore Labortory, so obviously it was a major effort. Hippie guru computer types in the Redwoods of California, well how life has changed. Remember when life was simpler. Yeh, the IBM office is in Palo Alto, and I stopped by it to on those trips. Well lets not forget a few other people living peacefully in Carmel by the Sea. Who knows for sure who was in charge out there, but I suppose the computer industry has changed a bit in 17 or 18 years since those trips. I remember when the Apple came out in 1982, so I suppose some of the people when I went west came back east, needless to sya the patent lawyers and attorneys are going to have a field day with all this. Yes it is all mostly proprietary patented company information that they are using that we leant for the global effort. On a minor note an IBM friend JJ is renting a house near my family in Florida to take Executive Air Flight Training, so I guess he plans to travel a bit for business and pleasure. Company trips off Nantucket were a lot simpler in a $150 Subaru with a Polaroid sticker all around the country. So who knows whom the evil wizard really was, but most of all the new toys were sitting on the shelf for years only to be rediscovered and reconfigured and remarketed. I guess one could look at it as the ultimate recycling project. You were all having so much fun partying you never paid much attention to what the old family firm was doing. I suppose you better not fire the help because they don't look like movie stars, but they sure as hell made the firm one hell of a lot of MS dollars. I noticed Westchester Airport has a couple flights a day to Rochester, Minnesota for those needing expert medical care at the Mayo Clinic. Most of the flights there are to D.C. and around the north country. CIO