Note:<888>12/21/98 Monday 7:55 P.M. EST: Well I had an all nighter last night, and I am back on a night schedule. I was having problems with my floppy A: drive working in Windows 98. I fiddled exchanging the drives and cables to no avail. I finally installed a second 3 1/2 inch B: drive, but I still had a problem writting to both drives in Windows 98 giving an error message. I fiddled with system files and nothing seem to work. I went to bed at 9 A.M. this morning without resolving the problem. I was up about 4 P.M. this afternoon. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, fresh Florida fruit, vitamins, and orange juice. I showered and cleaned up. I went back to work on resolving the computer floppy problem. I searched the Microsoft site and found no answer. I remembered that the problem first started when I installed the new monitor. I tried the floppies on a lower monitor setting of 800 X 600 and they both worked fine. I figured it was on my onboard video comtroller was not powerful enough for the new monitor. I set the CMOS "refresh" rate for it to 12 which the manual recommends. I then put the Monitor Video setting at higher resolution of 1024X768, and once again the floppies did not work. I fiddled with combinations of the video controller and monitor refresh rates. I finally lowered them from 85 HZ to 60 HZ for both which are the lower defaults, and both floppy drives work fine. I set the Monitor adjustment to enlarge the smaller picture frame to the edges and lowered bightness on the monitor button settings from 50 to 40. Thus eveything is working fine, and still looks the same. When I can afford it, I guess I could get a more powerful video card that would support the higher refresh rate of 85 HZ, but for now all is fine and I now have both 3 1/2 inch floppy A: and B: drives working fine. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well time to take a break at the library. Have a good evening. I have to be awake on Thursday morning for the Cablevision Optimum Online Cable Modem installation. CIO

Note:<888>12/20/98 Sunday 8:30 P.M. EST: Today I was up at noon. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, Fresh Florida Fruit, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno. I cleaned the apartment and watered the plants until about 3:30 P.M.. I cleaned up and went out at 4 P.M.. I stopped by the library and read PC Magazine. I found a Compaq online services cdrom in the magazine. I went for a walk downtown. It was not busy, and I chatted with one local I had not seen in a while. I smoke one of the Old Greenwich CVS fifteen cent cigars at the post office plaza. I drove down by the water and viewed the waterfront. I returned home and decided to get rid of some vintage computer hardware. I dumped an old PC case in the dumpster outside. I also took the two IBM 386 servers that weigh about 60 pounds apiece to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop and dropped them off in front. I returned and throughout the day I have been listening to classical music for a change which is very relaxing. I also chatted with a couple of family members today. One of them is thinking of getting a top of the line Dell Computer system for Christmas. I had a dinner of sliced ham, potatoe, and green beans along with ice tea and cappacinno. I will do a little bit of internet work throughout the evening. Well have a good evening, and enjoy yourselves. CIO

Note:<888>12/19/98 Saturday 10:55 P.M. EST: I went to bed at 3 A.M. last night. I was up at 9:30 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno. I watched a little television on the impeachment debate and went back to bed. I watched more around noon time and rested a bit more. I chatted with an acquaintence around 2:30 P.M. for a while. I had some ramen noodles and a peanut butter sandwich along with Cappacinno. I went out after having cleaned up around 4 P.M. and stopped by the Greenwich library and read the local paper. I went downtown and bought a buy two get one free of Doral Lights which I have been still smoking a few of every day. I noticed lots of Christmas Holiday shoppers out along with a few dog walkers. They were setting up again for the Christmas Nativitiy Pagent on the town Green again. I smoked a White Owl Panatella at the Post Office. There were a few dog walkers out that I chatted with. I returned home via the Grand Union. I bought a gallon of GU whole milk for $2.99, two half gallon Tropicana orange juice for $2.50 apiece, and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter for $1.29 for a total of $9.28. I returned home and watched the ABC evening news. I then relaxed a bit eating some goldfish crackers. I started watching a program about pirates on the learning channel. I guess quite a few of their descandants are still lurking in these waters. I ate the shrimp ring that I purchased last night along with Ramen noodles. I chatted with a friend. I sat around relaxing for a while, and thinking. I went outside and dumped the shrimp remains in the dumpster. I smoked a Middleton small tip cigar. I came back inside and spent the next hour making a fresh Florida Fruit salad. I sectioned three grapefruit, five orange, and six clementines and mixed them together a in large bowl. I added a half cup of white wine, a jigger of Mount Gay Eclipse Rum, a tablespoon of Angostora Bitters, a half cup of orange juice, and sprinkled it all with cinnamon and mixed it all together and put the mixed fruit salad in a sealed Rubbermaid container to sit overnight and soak up the flavoring which should be enjoyable for the next few days. I decided to file this report, since my major acitivity is on the computer and I have invested most of my resources into this activity. I was thinking today since I get over a thousand pages logged on each day which have the Value Link click through, I am getting less than .1% click through on my pages instead of the .8 to 1% I should be getting. Thus I am making less than a $1 a day on the clickthroughs. It goes to show a lot of the internet business might be hype and is not really there, since I seem to have over 10,000 different users on my site each month. Either something is rotten in Denmark, or I am be taken to the cleaners. I also noticed today in the Greenwich Times classified that somebody is trying to sell unused copies of Microsoft Office 97 $500 value for $100, but since Universities around the country sell this product for $5, it sounds like some enterprizing college student is trying to profiteer. I suppose, mailto:billg@microsoft.com could send me a copy, but I guess he and all his menions are too busy. After all it is not like I have done anything to help out Microsoft or IBM on my site, since the general public seem to have made that determination. Well I guess I will start being the internet philosopher and worry less about commerce. Perhaps someday, I will learn what all the hub bub is about over the internet, since having always used libraries constantly in my neck of the woods, I have never had a shortage of reading material. I personally regard the Internet as the All Night Library Research Tool, and not the commercial product it seems to becoming. Well I hope everyone is beginning to wind down as the Holiday season approaches, and enjoy their down time. I recieved another Christmas package from a family member, and with my early Christmas computer gifts, I look forward to having an enjoyable internet year. I suppose we all should try to think more about the truely less fortunate during this holiday season and spread some cheer around. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>12/19/98 Saturday 12:30 A.M. EST: I finished sifting through my email. I spent some time day dreaming at these two sites Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. and STARSHIP MILLENNIUM VOYAGE . Well at my age, I guess I would settle for a rubber raft in a warm swimming pool. I am tired, time for bed. CIO

Note:<888>12/18/98 Friday 9:00 P.M. EST: I went to bed yesterday at 3 A.M.. I was up at 9:30 A.M.. I posted a link to ValueLink's subscribe site on my homepage. I have only had 9 click through links, but I will keep using the service, since even a minimal amount of click throughs would help pay for my internet activity. I spent most of the rest of the day maintaining the system. I deleted most of the betas and downloadable files on the system and freed up a lot of space. It gave me enough room to back up the entire C: drive to the D: drive. I also made a tape backup which I just finished a little while ago. I thus have the system tweaked and ready for use. I had Kelloggs Corn Flakes, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno for breakfast. At about 5 P.M., I made a chef's salad with escrodril lettuce, ham slivers, mosserella slivers, sliced mushroom, chopped onion, chopped olives, and four crumbled bacon strips with olive oil, wine, herbs and spices, and dijon mustard dressing with ice tea and cappacinno. I went out at 6 P.M. and stopped by the Greenwich library and read two of the regular computer weeklies I normally read. I went downtown and walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. It was cooler out this evening. I smoked a White Owl panatella in front of the post office. I watched a Nativity Choral Production by the youth and local citizens on the town green with live animals until 7:45 P.M. It was very enjoyable. I stopped by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library and bought $10.90 of premium at $1.47 a gallon. I stopped by the Food Emporium and bought a gallon box of Pepperidge Farm goldfish cracker for $4.99 and a 33 medium shrimp ring with sauce for $4.99 for a total of $9.98. I returned home and the tape backup was complete. I am having a Diet Pepsi and Pepperidge Farm crackers while I write this. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . IBM was up quite a bit today. I checked out the videotape "The Mission" from the library. Well have an enjoyable evening. I might make a shrimp salad tomorrow. Speaking of shrimp, I noticed a white Volvo from Monroe Country where Key West is parked in front of the Colonial Diner about 8 P.M.. We must have visitors from the Counch republic in Greenwich. Well have a relaxing weekend. CIO

Note:<888>12/18/98 Friday 1:10 A.M. EST: I recieved the IBM SmartSuite 30 Day Demo and installed. Some of the scripts don't work in WordPro including the one that starts ViaVoice. IBM should study its demo more closely. I am off to bed. I hope people don't mind the click throughs. I am a bit bushed. CIO

Note:<888>12/17/98 Thursday 9:00 P.M. EST: I was up at 10:30 A.M. today. I worked all day until now installing the ValueClick Click Through Advertising on my web pages. I also created a new downloadable directory scott005.zip available for download from download.htm . The new directory has the Military directory incorporated into it, along with the ValueClick Click Through advertising. I hope to derive some modest income from the ValueClick through advertising in order to help pay for some of my internet activity which is draining my resources. I made it to my 3 P.M. appointment today. I had Kelloggs corn flakes, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno for breakfast, and for dinner this evening I had a Stauffers Lasagna and a diet Pepsi. I also made up a new batch of icetea.htm this evening. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm. Well have an enjoyable evening, I think it is time to start relaxing before going to bed. CIO

Note:<888>12/17/98 Thursday 2:40 A.M. EST: ValueClick - The Pay For Results Advertising Network accepted me for paid advertising click through links, which means I get a dime for every time somebody clicks through on one of their ads. I added some of the ads links to my more popular pages and I may add more to other pages as time permits. Well I hope this might yield a little income to pay for my computer expenses. Well have a good evening, I am bushed. CIO

Note:<888>12/16/98 Wednesday 11:50 P.M. EST: I worked on the internet until about 6:15 P.M. this evening. I checked with OptimumOnline if they could install me sooner, but they're very busy. I changed my email with them to "mikelouisscott@home.com" which does not have a number in it. I guess the current installation on Christmas Eve still applies. Well as far as I can tell not much else is happening around here. I noticed a modest group of senior citizens coming out from an internet lecture for beginners at the Greenwich Library when I was departing from copying some information that one of the local agencies needs. I made a copy of another receipt at the copy place across the street. I went downtown and walked around lower Greenwich Avenue. I noticed that where Quinn's grocery use to be, they have installed some sort of furniture shop. I smoked a Phillie Tip at the Post Office. It was a very quiet cool evening, with the usual lurkers about town. I returned home and verified with OptimumOnline that "mikelouisscott@home.com" was my new Optimum Online email which should be valid on Christmas Eve. Well not much else is happening in this neck of the woods. They finally have the Christmas lights lit up on Greenwich Avenue, and it looks a bit festive. The weather is warm enough I don't think we will have any snow for Christmas in this neck of the woods. There is some sort of military news on the television, but it might just be another rebroadcast by the propaganda bureau. The National Media news says they're going to wait until Monday to try to impeach Clinton, if he does not resign sooner. It does not make sense to me, since from all my extensive historical reading over many years, all presidents have lied and fooled around since the office was founded. It is the nature of the job. I suppose there is a new higher morality in the country, which is why the military propaganda is promoting adventure in the middle east. From the Arm Chair travelers point of view, if we get nuked, copper wires in the ground are more likely to work than optic fibres in the sky. Well who knows if what is on television is true, since for all I know they're all on vacation in Brazil, and the local maintenance crew is causing mischief. Well it is time to bid adieu until next time. CIO

Note:<888>12/16/98 Wednesday 4:20 P.M. EST: I went out at about noon. I dropped off some mail at the Greenwich Town Hall. I drove by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop and toured the merchandise. I bought a Mercedes Benz Cobalt Blue coffee cup for .25. I noticed they have a automobile refrigerator there for $25. I chatted with a few of the regular patrons. I next went down Greenwich Avenue and viewed Long Island Sound, as far as I can tell it is still there. Local waterfront people like flying a great big United States flag, which looks lots better than the old faded glory flying from the veterans monument downtown. I next stopped by the Greenwich Library. One of the regulars is going to buy a Dell computer for business work. I briefed him a bit about computer ops. I read the Greenwich Times. One of the regular library patrons wrote an article in the Editorial that noon is 12 A.M. and midnight is 12 P.M. for those of us who have it backwards. Well I use to know that, but so many people have it backwards on the internet, I started doing it wrong. I chatted with another internet patron, and he told me that one can use Hotmail or Yahoo mail to access one's personal email account off of another server. I will have to try that some time. After about 2 P.M., it got extremely loud in the library with jack hammers going from all the construction outside, so I departed. I returned home and earlier in the day I had recieved a Half Bushel of Grapefruit and Oranges from the Hale Indian River Groves in Wabasso, Florida. I ate an orange, along with two clementines I already had. I decided to make a Chef's salad. I put some of that good redish lettuce on a plate, with lots of slivers of ham, and slivers of moserrella cheese, sliced mushrooms, diced onions, chopped olives, crunched crispy bacon with a dressing of 3/4 th cup olive oil, 1/4 cup white wine, two tablespoons Dijon mustard, teaspoon garlic powder, teaspoon of Italian spices and oregano, ground pepper, and a half teaspoon of Lea and Perrons Wostershire sauce. I mixed those all up in a big bowl, and put it in a salad dressing holder and added some to the salad. I wolfed down the salad. I then filed this report. I will update Scott's Index scopor01.htm shortly. Well have a good day, and enjoy what is left of it. I also read in the local paper that the Sovereign of the Seas ran aground in St. Martins, and will be out of commission for a month or more. Let's hope Carnival Cruise manages the Cunard Line better. CIO

Note:<888>12/16/98 Wednesday 11:40 A.M. EST: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of Kellogg's corn flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno. I did a little internet work for a while. I checked with www.optimumonline.com and they said to keep checking back to see if there is an earlier appointment. They told me that my email address would be (mikescott1@home.com), apparently somebody has already taken the name without the "1". Frequently people have tried to use names like mine as names of convenience. Let me assure you, I am the Michael Scott with the background in my resumee.htm , and anyone trying to impersonate me, better have my same education or a better one. Realistically having spent 44 or my 48 years constantly in the library, I have a pretty good idea of what some of the other "Mike Scotts" are up to, and quite a few of them are on the internet. Let's just hope they don't pretend to be people they are not and screw up in affairs they don't understand. I surmize, when push comes to shove, I will still be the same Mike Scott in Greenwich living around IBM all these years, along with the Republican Party activity, and NASA familiarity and a network of friends and associates derived from our family's historical ties in the community and the country. Well have a good day, and give my best to any other Michael Scotts you may stumble across. The most important Michael Scott in the English speaking language, I believe is the Marquis of Queensbury, but he would be quite a bit older than I am, although he might have younger children or relatives. Well time to clean up and go out. CIO

Note:<888>12/15/98 Tuesday 8:00 P.M. EST: Sorry, I did not make it to the Yale Club on Vanderbilt Avenue this evening, but my best regards to old Taft school chums. I guess if there are any Vanderbilts in the hinterlands, one would have to look for slightly overweight Dutchmen. There was an interesting article in the Greenwich Times today, that Prince Claus of the Netherlands has decided to forsake neck ties since he considers them an inconvenience, which is much my sentiment. Well any Dutch folk in the area might consider paying their regards this Holiday season, since this representative of the New Amsterdam Night Watch, is just about fed up with arthritis in this chilly weather, and is not spending much time out on cool evening strolls, until it warms up in the spring during tullip time. Well I stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper, and one computer newsweekly. I also checked out the "Windows 98 Resource Kit". It was very slow in the library, and the town Christmas lights are lit up on Greenwich Avenue, and it seems to be the festive Christmas season. I had a Tony's Supreme pizza for dinner along with ice tea and a cup of coffee. I am only drinking 50% decafinated coffee, so I am not as wired on coffee as I normally am. It is nice to slow down the pace of life away from caffine and cigarettes. Well have a good evening, I will go back to a little net surfing. I am not well enough versed on the national political situation to comment on the general crisis in Washington D.C., since I have been focusing on computer technology, but I suppose the "Will of The People" will win out. CIO

Note:<888>12/15/98 Tuesday 4:30 P.M. EST: I did some internet work checking my email for a while. I then checked my monitor settings, and the slightly darker greyish four inch area in the lower right hand corner of the screen was still there. I checked with CompUSA tech support at 1-888-226-6772 and they said I should exchange it for one without the defect. I thus packed the monitor back up again and returned to Norwalk to CompUSA and exchanged it for another unopened box. They are very curtious and willing to exchange defective mechandise. I returned home and set up the new monitor and it works fine with no defects as far as I can tell. I set the wider perimeter on the new monitor again, and left the defaults except reducing the brightness from 50 to 30 to reduce eye strain when using it for extensive periods. I really like the monitor and it is an excellent value for $399. I am also using the Acer 19 inch monitor driver for the Acer 99C model, which might manufacture the CompUSA monitor since they're both made in Taiwan. I found this article on 19 inch monitors Top 10 Monitors and since the ACER 99 C is the only one that is actually 18 inches diagonally, I figure they might manufacture the CompUSA 19 inch monitor. Thus I am using their 99 C driver successful instead of the default Windows 98 Plug and Play monitor driver. One can see that other 19 inch monitors are substancially more expensive and the CompUSA 19 inch monitor is an excellent value. I noticed when going out on Western Junior High Road that across from Western Junior High, what I thought was going to be a new house is a four story modular housing complex with the components trucked in and lifted by craine. It is quite a large building for that corner lot. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm , which was up today. CompUSA symbo "CPU" was up 3% percent today after being low for quite a while. I actually like the CompUSA chain, since one was does have the opportunity to browse the merchandise and return quickly if there are any problems. Well have a good evening. I am about to have dinner, and finish checking my email, and about 5:30 P.M. or slightly later I will go to the library. CIO

Note:<888>12/15/98 Tuesday 11:30 A.M. EST: I was up until 4 A.M.. I "Degaused" my new monitor with the "Purity" setting on "0" and that seemed to eliminate the slight shadow in the lower right hand corner of my screen, and then reset "Purity" to "80".. I got up again at 9:30 A.M. and had breakfast of Kelloggs corn flakes, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno. Well back to internet work. CIO

Note:<888>12/15/98 Tuesday 2:55 A.M. EST: File Mine - Virtuosa Gold 3.0, Freeware Audio Program. The laundry is done. I don't need to make ice tea yet. CIO

Note:<888>12/15/98 Tuesday 12:50 A.M. EST: I worked on the computer until 2 P.M.. I went out downtown and stopped by the Greenwich Library, and read the local paper. I chatted with a few of the local patrons. I went downtown and walked around until my arthrtis kicked in, and then went inside for a while. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I stopped by down on Steamboat Road and observed the waterfront. I chatted with one waterfront observer about the well preserved GMC he was driving. I returned home and watched Peter Jennings on the ABC evening news. I had a big dinner of ham, salad, brocolli, potatoe, and ice tea. I got a tired spell after a heavy dinner and went to bed about 7:30 P.M.. I received a phone call from a relative about midnight and chatted for a spell. I decided to get up from my night sleep after the phone call, and I started doing laundry. I guess I will work on the internet, and go back to bed later this morning. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good morning. CIO