Michael Louis Scott's Internet Notes

September 1999 to December 2001

Greenwich, Connecticut USA Site: http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/

Email: mikescot@optonline.net

Note:<888>9/07/99 Tuesday 5:00 P.M. EDT: After the last message, I walked downtown and stopped by the Fashion Light Center after saying hello at Pray Porsche. I bought four candelabra light bulbs frosted 15 watts for $5.72 total. I reminded them that if the President of First Lady stop in for light fixtures, they can get wholesale prices through the general services administration, since the government usually buys wholesale. I next walked over to Exxon and my Volvo was ready and hour early. They charged me $190.39 total. I paid $4.95 for an oil filter, $9.95 for five quarts of motor oil, $7 for a steel brake line, 2 cans of CRS brake cleaner $12.36 both, 2 cans Wagner brake fluid $7.52 total, Oil and Filter Change $15.08, Brake Inspection $39.95, Replace brake line from master cylinder flush and bleed brakes as needed $82.80 for a total $41.78 parts, Labor $137.83 and $10.78 tax for $190.39 total. I next stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I next stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop and viewed the displays. I next stopped by CVS and bought a gray carton of Dutch Treat Lights cigar cigarettes for $15.03 and a can of mixed party nuts for $3. I next drove down the Avenue and parked on Steamboat, and chatted about geological and government facts with a local. I mentioned that people on both sides of the roads on either side of the hedges can you along with the Russian consulate across the sound in Glen Coe, Long Island. He mentioned that theoretically if their were an asteroid or meteorite impact soon it would probably be 22 miles south east of Steamboat Road. He conjectured it would produce a mile high wave which in the midwest in the safe zone would have knee deep water. Thus you would have to be at least at 6,000 foot elevation, which means Mount Royal might not be high enough in Montreal. I suppose the Hidden Valley up around Lake Louise in Canada might be at a high enough elevation. Well for now I will hope for at least an hour warning, so I can hitch a jet from Westchester to the high ground. Well I chatted with another local. I then returned home and the brakes are working fine. I installed the four new bulbs on the living room sconces. I then made a short phone call. I then updated this report. I had a Citra soda when I arrived home. I am very tired, so I will go to bed soon. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/07/99 Tuesday 1:05 P.M. EDT: I have been doing a little internet work and telling fish stories. I don't have a Thursday afternoon appointment. I received a telephone call from Exxon about 10:30 A.M.. They said the problem was just a leaky brake line. They are also going to replace the brake fluid and tighten the fan belt. They said it should be ready by 3 P.M.. I went out and chatted with my neighbors and studied the weather. I think it should stay clear for a while. I received a $36.84 check from ValueClick and a $20 check from Recotron for the speaker rebate, so when I go uptown; I will deposit them at Putnam Trust Bank of New York, and then I will linger in the library until the car is ready. I just had some fresh melon and Ramen noodles along with ice tea; so I think I will have enough energy to make it uptown. I guess I will leave shortly as soon as I put my shoes on, and I will take my umbrella with me. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/07/99 Tuesday 7:10 A.M. EDT: I went out at 5:30 A.M. and studied the sky, it looks like we might get a bit of rain today. I dropped by the Volvo at Greenwich Exxon 6 A.M. to have the brakes repaired at Greenwich Exxon. I walked over to the ATM at Putnam Trust Bank of New York and withdrew funds and stopped by the Post Road news stand and bought buy one get one free of Merit Ultra Lites for $3.49. I then walked back west on Putnam Avenue and returned home. It is very hot and sultry hot, so I will stick by the air conditioner today and relax a bit and do internet work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/07/99 Tuesday 5:15 A.M. EDT: For any of you civic minded people whom like going to events here is a link that might interest you Greenwich Hospital Construction News . CIO

Note:<888>9/07/99 Tuesday 4:50 A.M. EDT: In other news that rather expensive home that George H.W. Bush visited in Brazil while president that the Rockefellers built for their German friends to hide out in, since it is out in jungle surrounded by alligator motes and other natural defenses reminds me of the old short story my sister read in the car when we moved up from Alabama years ago called, "Lineengine? and the Ants". Well who knows what natural defenses linger in this area besides something like Yeti, Wolves, Bears, Tiger Sharks, addicted shoppers, and gourmet diners. Well think about the historical knowledge in this area. CIO

Note:<888>9/07/99 Tuesday 2:50 A.M. EDT: I called a relative in Pennsylvania to tell them they would have a little rain today. I went back to bed and was up at 1 A.M.. I started cooking a Cookin Good chicken in the over which will be ready about 3:30 A.M.. I am also on the dry cycle of the laundry which will be done about the same time. I am also forgot to wash my bath towel. I noticed all the republican candidates are up in New Hampshire yesterday, so maybe they will come through town and hood wink us again. One has to remember that the Tuesday after a holiday all the clubs in town will be closed, so today will be like a Monday with the old people doing their shopping and the Club people loitering in town looking for something to do. Since it is suppose to rain heavily today, I think I will hold off until tomorrow to do my brake repairs at Exxon, since they will be busy today. Well not much else to report. I suppose the people whom read newspapers are a little confused by the local reality here in Greenwich, since private people don't like making public their private lives which tend to be rather ordinary and involved quite a bit of work, to maintain the relatively high standard of living we enjoy. Well from what I can tell nobody ever bothers me, since the local grapevine advises people I am usually on a different schedule than the daytime want a bees. Well if you ever tried a night schedule you get more done since there is less partying and less people to deal with when one goes about their simple chores. Well have a good day, I might go out around 4 A.M. for a weather check or I might just do a little routine internet work. CIO

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Note:<888>9/06/99 Monday 7:10 A.M. EDT: I finished off the reheated spaghetti, and also made a batch of cut up honeydew melon, and added a bit of white wine, orange juice, grapefruit juice, and angostura bitters to it. Well I went out last evening about 11 P.M., and I walked down Greenwich Avenue. A very polite young couple visiting town asked me if the street they were walking up was Greenwich Avenue, and I explained that it was and it ran up to back country which runs all the way up to Hudson's Bay and beyond. I also explained a lot of Canadians keep Greenwich going in the winter which this year is expected to be very severe from what I can tell so far, so we might need an experience snow town manager like Ford from Vail when Ragland is sipping punch in Barbados. I explained to them that they were on Greenwich Avenue, and the cross street was railroad avenue, and that the street down on the end was Steamboat Road, and the cross street there was Arch Street. I then walked up the Avenue, a bit and observed that it looked like Sadie Hawkins day downtown with all the youngsters enjoying the holiday weekend. I sat out in the center of town for a while. I then walked down to the bottom of Greenwich Avenue, and continued walking on down Steamboat Road, and I stopped by to say good evening at the desk at the Greenwich Harbor Inn, and told them about the family emergency. I noticed a wedding party was arriving. I next walked down the waterfront past the Sea Falcon, and told them some fishermen in front of Greenwich Harbor Associates that I had seen hundreds of blue fish last Thursday evening jumping out of the water at the entrance to Tod's Point to the east, so I imagine it is good fishing down there at hide tide. I noticed one fishermen had caught a large fish. I next went of down by the waterfront, and not much was happening. I walked back uptown and sat out for a while until about 1 A.M. when it started raining. I then drove down by the waterfront, and walked out on the pier and removed a empty bottle of Lindeman wine and a empty bottle of Heineken along with a Coke can placed them in the new trash receptacle to try to make the place where lots of fishermen fish look a little bit more presentable. I observed the weather patterns as usual, and it was very ominous with very severe black clouds in the sky over Long Island. I noticed the whole North Shore of Long Island was lit up like they were having hurricane parties. A young couple showed up and started making out. Just about the time I was about to leave, a local patrol officer stopped by and ran them off. I explained to the officer that I was making weather observations and I was quite experienced in such a capacity. I think he finally believed me. I waited until he left, and I returned back home shortly thereafter when it started to rain. I next relaxed a bit and recited old fish stories from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion that we all have heard many times before. I finally exhausted the bed time story, and about 6:30 A.M. NOAA weather warning alert came on with a Flash Flood Warning for Rockland County. I did not do any internet work since it is a holiday, I decided to relax. I mentioned the old Jim Scott story, and they got a kick out of it that I remembered it, but as far as I know I would rather not think back any further in time for now. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/05/99 Sunday 8:00 P.M. EDT: I finally got around to updating Scott's weekly broadcast sound.htm . Well I might try relaxing for a bit or surfing the net. CIO

Note:<888>9/05/99 Sunday 6:30 P.M. EDT: Well I went out after the last message, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I noticed a few walkers. I next drove down by the waterfront, and watched somebody pull in a blue fish. I stopped by the Grand Union, and I bought a large box of Total for $3, two Florida Natural Orange Juices for $2.50 each, 2% GU milk for $1.69, a Cookin Good chicken for $5.09, a Honeydew melon for .99 for $14.75 total. I next returned home in a heavy downpour. Well have a good evening. I have to reboot the server. CIO

Note:<888>9/05/99 Sunday 3:30 P.M. EDT: Well I chatted with a friend about 9 A.M. this morning about the 12 meter yachts. I rested until about 2 P.M., when I received a phone call from a relative out west about the tennis tournament on Long Island. I did noticed a blimp flying over Long Island the other day, so maybe they're trying to promote some sort of event. I watched a bit of a program on PBS channel 13 about DeBeers Consolidated Mining and their present day activities under the communist government in South Africa. I suppose they're still trying to sell diamonds, but since they are not Hebrew, they don't know anything about the business. I had some tuna fish and ramen noodles. On the phone call from out west a relative is ill in Maine again, so that needs to be paid attention to. Not much happening here. I have not been out since Thursday night I believe, and I have just been relaxing at home, and I have not cleaned up since then, so I am all dirty and grubby, but I suppose I could shower and clean up, and try to drive my car with low break pressure on damp roads which would reduce the breaking effectiveness anymore. I received a summons for jury duty, but I think I will tell them I can't make it, so I don't feel like looking at some character like Frankle over a long extended trial, if you know what I mean. The 800 number for jury duty information does not work in Connecticut, so I would assume the local communist party has taken over most of Connecticut. Well that is all I know for now. CIO

Note:<888>9/05/99 Sunday 6:50 A.M. EDT: Lake Forest College class of 1973 student announces he is willing to run for First Selectman of Greenwich, Connecticut Housing for Poorer Neighbors Offends Vail's Rich . CIO

Note:<888>9/05/99 Sunday 5:20 A.M. EDT: We had a conference with Western Hemisphere leaders, and we decided we should intercept the unidentified aircraft in South Africa, intercept it and force it to land in the Falkland Islands for a thorough search of the passenger and aircraft to make sure that no nuclear military armament was procured in China to be used against established authority in the Western Hemisphere. I was advised all force to go to their safe havens, and to maintain constant surveillance on the aircraft in question at least 50 miles distance, so in case they should to decided the said nuclear weapon, it would not harm the intercepting aircraft. Basically from what I can tell, they might be trying to gain entrance at the Scott Amudsen weather research station in Antarctica which is a key military and scientific research facility which a group could possibly gain entrance to or attack this time of year, but if they landed or parachuted in, they would not get out until around mid November at the earliest. Well I am not sure what the status is of the overall situation. Perhaps it is a bunch of British school boys who escaped when they got wind of the fact that we were thinking of making a remake of Lord of the Flies in case there was another hurricane or tropical storm in some location which would be a realistic setting for the novel. Since we don't know what the status of the incoming aircraft his, as the Swiss observer, I would have to advise that the usual quarantine controls and other security precautions be used to ascertain the nature of this group of internet travelers whom seem to like Russian classical music. From what I can tell, it might be a SST or TU‑144 or military craft which would only have the capability of flying from China to South Africa without refueling in Diego Garcia. Thus we will continue to try to monitor the craft with our satellite surveillance equipment unless possibly the satellite surveillance equipment has been compromised. In which case we might be dealing with a terrorist group trying to enter the Western Hemisphere through South America, and working there way into North America with a terrorist device. Since I am not briefed on modern weaponry or devices I am not sure what the real status of the group might be. From my viewpoint it is worth paying attention to since it has been going on for close to two weeks now. It might be some sort of Beatles Magical Mystery tour, but it will be interesting to see where they end up next, I bet Brazil to try to force entry into the Western Hemisphere. Well who know for sure. If they head over towards New Zealand again, we might be in real trouble. It might have something to do with Welcome to IUGG99 coming to and end, or maybe a major international effort is being made on some other front besides the Turkish earthquake and tropical storm season. It all seems rather peculiar. Thus we should continue to remain at our various safe locations for the indefinite future, until we are sure what the real situation is. Well good hunting. CIO

Note:<888>9/05/99 Sunday 3:55 A.M. EDT: I noticed from the news that they claim they have caught Frankle. However from my link Apache Status for my server the music bandit or one of his associates have fled from China to South Africa with the loot. I noticed in the story they said Frankle made off with $50 million in diamonds and they arrested him with $10 million in diamonds, so I think it is safe to assume that one of his associates is still traveling around with the loot. I have advised the Greenwich Police, and I told them to advise Debeers Security in South Africa. Well from what I can tell, whomever it is they're hitting all the well known diamond ports in the world. Perhaps I should check out Henry Mancinni "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friends" from the library and place the tune on my internet site. Known airlines that might go to all these locations would be either El Al, China Airlines, South Africa Airlines, or even British Airways, KLM, or possibly TWA. Maybe we're dealing with a flight attendant, pilot, or vacationing internet guru with lots of money. Who knows for sure. We do know Frankle looks a bit like Paul Allen of Microsoft, so perhaps he impersonated Paul Allen or Paul Allen is somebody else, and they have conned the whole country with Microsoft. We do know Paul Allen has his own 757, and he and Bill Gates come out of Boeing territory, and it is vacation time. Well I suppose there is a network of high speed internet terminals in all these airport destinations, and since New York is a flight hub, they will probably eventually dead head into the area and be back living in Greenwich under assumed personas. Perhaps the United States Air Force should intercept the craft and see what they're really up to, who knows, but if they made a trip to China and all the other diamond ports, and China does also have diamond supply capability, they might be laundering drug money in exchange for diamonds. Well keep a sharp eye out for inbound aircraft with lots of diamonds. I suppose Debeers Security would know what this is all about. Perhaps some wealthy old lady is out buying more jewelry who knows. Well while they were in China, it would have been nice if they picked up some new motherboards from Taiwan, so we could upgrade our systems. Maybe it is Bill Gates wife spending his money. We should try to ID both Gates, Allen, and Ballmer and any key members of their entourage whom might be traveling. I would say there is something rotten in Denmark. Which reminds me, I have seen the Danish training ship I believe in Stamford harbor along with the usual group of Danish cadets roaming the downtown Greenwich area, so maybe Danish royalty is in the area. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/04/99 Saturday 6:30 P.M. EDT: Well I had a bit of time to think last night before I went to bed. I was thinking with all the Rockefeller enterprise employees and associates and customers in the area, they could setup a private discount wholesale buying network and outlet in the area where individuals could order and buy merchandise whom were affiliated with their enterprises. They even could have a web site such as www.rockbuy.com . The Caldor’s store is vacant in Port Chester, so they could even set up a pilot project there if the property were available there. Thus with the immense buying power of their group, they could have an outlet in Irvine, Texas and one in Manhattan and one in a convenient location around the oil tanks in New Jersey, thus all their employees, associates, and customers of such enterprises as Exxon, Citibank, and the Chase bank would have the buying power of a group like the Military PX system or other buying clubs in the country. Basically it is worth looking into, since if you encourage one's employees, family, friends, associates, and customers to shop at the Company store; they get to know their co associates and other brand name items the family is associated with. It is worth considering in this competitive economic market. It would sure put a dent in Sams and Sears operations in this area. Well I went to bed about 8 A.M., and I was up around 4 P.M.. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, coffee, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I chatted with a family member and a couple of other individuals on the Frankel embezzlement matter. I was thinking perhaps Frankel saw some natural wildlife form like Big Foot, Yeti, or Sasquatch in his back yard and fled the country in terror taking his investors assets to protect them, and he has not been given a chance to present his case. Who know what various wildlife forms could be lurking in the back country area of Greenwich, Connecticut which the naive urbanite might not be equipped to deal with. Well in other matters it is a possibility on my 1976 Volvo which I have owned for 7 1/2 years that since I have never changed the brake fluid in that period that with the additional moisture in the atmosphere finally contaminated the brake fluid in one of the two brake systems causing it to malfunction. The car is still serviceable, so I can go out if necessary; I just have to watch my speed and keep it in a low gear, but if there were an emergency; I would not have the responsiveness and maneuverability that I normally have with the car. Well I guess I should think about cleaning up and going out, so have a good evening. On a minor note since I believe the United States Senate republican majority leader is from Mississippi where Frankel embezzled a good deal of the money from, I believe somebody should brief Trent Lott on the current state of the current ongoing Federal investigation. Also in China the average citizen earns about $10 a month, so $3 billion would represent about 60 billion work hours by Chinese standards and in Mississippi where they average about $2 an hour it would represent 1.5 billion work hours, so even though by New York standards $3 billion dollars is not a lot of money, once you get down to the harsh reality of the real world, it is a lot of money, and therefore the United States Federal government and its allies will put the maximum effort into recovering Frankel and the assets he embezzled, assuming it is a he, and not some cleaver actress masquerading as another person. Well have a good evening. In the world there is a cleaver group of people known as the Mandarin actors and actresses whom frequently assume the personalities of other individuals worldwide, so it is best to make sure whom you are dealing with. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/04/99 Saturday 9:05 A.M. EDT: Well I finally figured out how to print out enveloped with my HP LaserJet Printer this morning. I restarted the server. I chatted with a few security group and reported there is unusual activity on my server out of Australia and China and the activity has quit out of Israel. The old Russian Tchaikosky symphony War of 1812 if very popular with fugitive at the Chinese Defense Ministry, so thus it would seem Frankel for better or worse traveled to Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Australia trading his diamonds as a fugitive, and he suddenly bought his way into refuge in China. Unfortunately Russia is the large supplier of Chinese foreign aid, and also the largest supplier of diamonds in the World, so they would not need to buy his diamonds, and conversely they would have enough influence to have him picked up anywhere in China and placed in a Chinese slave labor camp or returned to the United States for criminal proceedings, so thus it seems Frankels journey is over shortly when he is brought back to America by the United States government fugitive task force. Of course China does not have extradition with the United States, but they would do what Russia suggest; so thus the only refuge Frankle might still seek is in Mongolia which does not trust either China or Russia and is very primitive, but the many of the various satellite internet services do work there. Unfortunately the head of Mongolia is an absolute monarch, so he would probably just seize Frankles ill begotten property and use it to buy horses since the Mongolians I believe started Polo by knocking enemies heads around the ground with mallets. Well who know what really is going on here, since it is dead a door nail here in Greenwich. Basically I figured local parties sabotaged my brakes on my car to try to create some sort of insurance incident, so they would be possibly prosecutable on premeditated manslaughter charges. Well so much for now, but the apartment is beginning to look better, but the carpet deodorizer smell is beginning to wear off, so it smell more like an old smoke filled room again. Well have a good morning, I am going to bed. So much for the continuing education creative writing class this morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/04/99 Saturday 4:50 A.M. EDT: Well I was up about 4 P.M. yesterday afternoon. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, five strips of bacon, toast, coffee, vitamins, and orange juice. I guess I fiddle with the computer for a while. I can't exactly remember what I did. I do recall chatted with Bell Atlantic about the squirrel possibly chewing on our building telephone line. I received email from Paul Allen telling me he does not make charity contributions to individuals, but only to groups. I have not been out yet, other to check the mail. I chatted with a family member. I called up a number of automobile dealerships here in Greenwich. Jack Grassi quoted me $13,500 for a 1996 Buick Century station wagon with 28,000 miles; but www.kbb.com Kelly Blue Book says the trade value is about $6,500 and the retail is $10,500. I looked at some other automobile sites. Volvo of Danbury is run by Volvo of Mount Kisco. Volvo of Danbury is building a new showroom. The Chevrolet dealership in Darien said they might have a some low priced used cars around Thursday this coming week. I chatted with the Buick dealership in Wilton, and they cheapest car on their lot is around $5,000. I chatted with Pray Volkswagen, and most of their used cars are over $20,000. They told me their rear lower parking lot where they store the Audis floods all the time; so make sure you don't buy a water damaged car there. I chatted with Marty Motors in Mount Kisco, and they said they still make a large Fleetwood Cadillac, and they still sell cars to the Rockefellers in North Terrytown, New York. I called Mount Kisco Chevrolet, and they were not interested in selling me a car. Toyota of Greenwich does not come up on the www.switchboard.com database. I chatted with Greenwich Exxon about bringing my car in next week for brake repairs. Midas this past morning told me if it were the vacuum booster it would be hard to push down the petal. I guess it might be the master cylinder, and one of the two three wheel breaking systems went out or malfunctioned, since I still have partial braking function. I also turned off the brake warning light five years ago, since it stayed on all the time when there was no problem, so I don't have a bulb in the dash warning light. One of my neighbors got stranded at the Meadowlands casino when his watch battery stopped and he missed the bus back to Port Chester, so he finally took a bus from the Foxwoods casino. I received a Bell Atlantic phone bill, and there were $32 in charges on my phone bill for local collect calls from Stamford and Greenwich of duration of about 40 minutes in total. It would seem some of these private phone operators handling local phone calls are extorting the general public and I would imagine the Federal Communications Commission will have to have hearing and deter the practice, which is a violation of the public trust. I will call Bell Atlantic at their local office here in town at 203‑869‑5222 and get once again to correct the bill. It always seems a lot of these con games happen when the democrats are in the area or the southern people are up north visiting. Basically I would hate to think what they are doing to the millions of retired people living on fixed incomes down south. Well I also took the NEC LC‑800 laser printer and place it next to the bedroom computer and installed the printer driver for it. I also put WordPerfect 6.0 on the bedroom computer and Microsoft Word 2.1.; so it can be used for word processing and printing with the reliable NEC laser printer. The NEC is beginning to lose the smudges on the printouts, since I refilled the toner container about a year ago and never used it all. Thus I have it set on light, and after running about a dozen copies; it is a pretty clear copy. I put the HP LaserJet II over on the left side of the living room desk next to the bar. I thus have a little space cleared on that desk. I noticed the half gallon of Vodka is down about an inch, so somebody must have been in the apartment to partake of the Red Cross emergency supplies that I keep handy in case anyone gets frost bite or hypothermia during the cold winter nights. Needless to say on a night schedule, I don't have to bother drinking and only occasionally use the stuff for cooking, but it is a sign of hospitality around the world to have a beverage bar set up for guests. I even have a crystal glass bottle of three year old water along with a three year old water in the seltzer bottle. Well usually people like myself whom don't drink find people whom do drink annoying, since when they're trying to relax from their day schedules, I am just beginning my night schedule. Conversely if I came by somebody's house at 8 A.M. in the morning and had a drink or if I sat out on Steamboat Road at 8 A.M. in the morning and had a beer people would frown on me. Thus the local daytime people are ill informed and not experienced at being away at night. Of course a few semi and retired nurses live in this building, so they are well aware what the night schedule is all about. I chatted with ValueClick ‑ The Pay‑for‑Results Advertising Network , and they told me I should be able to register my three domain names to the same home server here in Greenwich. Possibly the problem is that the Network Solutions ‑ Domain Name Registration Services from the dot com people server where you change you information is a case sensitive UNIX server, and when it does not recognize my registered email address, it is because two of the sites has the Internic Handle MLS57 with email "mikelouisscott@HOME.COM" , so I changed it to "mikelouisscott@home.com" which is the only reason, I can figure out why it would not accept the information. I chatted with the ValueClick ‑ The Pay‑for‑Results Advertising Network technicians for a while about tech and Florida gossip. I defrost a container of spaghetti sauce and had it with thin Italians noodles and parmesan cheese about 2 A.M.. There is not really much happening on the internet with people away for the Labor Day weekend and the vacation season. I am not even bothering to read the New York Times enews or tech news, I am just deleting them. I noticed that "www.edole2000.org" Error Occurred While Processing Request does not work, and that George W. Bush Presidential Exploratory Committee, Inc. does not update their site with recent information. Well at the local place is a little bit more straightened up, but as one philosopher said once a clear desk is a sign of insanity. So making order of Chaos might not necessarily be the all that it has cracked up to be. I suppose since the head terrorist is "Rocky the Squirrel" we all have to learn to live with it, and possibly all the nonsense will come to pass in this neck of the woods around Frost Bite, Minnesota. So give my best to Bullwinkle and the gang where ever they might be. Once seems sort of funny about all the news on Reuters is that the writers are only paid $8 an hour over in Stamford, Connecticut; so though it is cleaver; they and Reuters don't always have the financial where with all to do all the thorough research that is sometimes necessary for accurate news. Well lets see what else is happening. I suppose once I clean up and shower, I can go out in the morning, but the morning crew in the morning around here is usually pretty grumpy, so it is usually not as fun as the night crowd. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/03/99 Friday 7:55 A.M. EDT: After the last message, I went out for a ride and chatted with a couple of local fishermen down by the harbor. It was a quiet morning. I returned home, and I did a bit more straightening up around the apartment, and have the place pretty much straightened out. I need to buy a couple of fifteen watt sconce bulbs for some of the fixtures at the lighting store between the Food Emporium and Pray automotive. Basically when one spends so much time on the computer lots of paperwork and junk mail begins to pile up over the months. Well it is good to have the place back into a more presentable appearance. All three printers startup and work now, when the modem and server are running. If the HP LazerJet II, does not start its start cycle you can just change the LPT port switch to another printer, and the HP printer seems to start. Well from what I can tell all the Florida summer people departed on the last day of the August month, and a lot of the year round regular residents will not return until after labor day. Nothing unusual to report. I check the brakes on the car, and it seems that the booster cylinder has gone out; but the car does stop on the last four to five inches of brake play. I will wait until after the labor day weekend to have it checked out, and see if it is worth having it fixed or not. I noticed somebody on Steamboat Road has had an Audi for sale for the last two weeks, but it has 84,000 miles which is too much. Well not much else to report, so have a good morning; and watch out for summer travelers visiting our local community. CIO

Note:<888>9/03/99 Friday 12:35 A.M. EDT: Well I was up at 1 P.M., and the apartment smelled better. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I cleaned up, and I made it to my 3 P.M. appointment. On the way there, I noticed the brakes on my car were a little mushy. It seems like the master vacuum cylinder has gone, but the car still stops fast enough; particularly if one down shifts. I will have to have it looked into soon, but I don't know if I will get it done before the Labor Day weekend. After my appointment, I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop and viewed the merchandise. I was told that President Clinton and family bought the out in Cattapa?, New York just north of Armonk, New York on Old House Road. I suggested at the hospital thrift shop, if he needs value in used furniture he look at the used and antique furniture warehouse on Route 6? just south of Poughkeepsie, New York with the large white horse in front of it. They have reasonable prices for the New York area, but one would need heavy lifters and a rental trailer or truck depending on the size of the furniture one bought there. I next stopped by Peabody's garage and they have a Pontiac compact car about 1986 with 56,000 miles for $1,000. They are also taking in a 1994 Toyota with 74,000 miles for $4,800 they have to do some work on. I then went by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper, and it was very busy there with lots of people using the internet terminals. I noticed they do have a flag pole across from the entrance in the parking lot. I guess I am so near sighted, I had never noticed it before or not at night when I frequently go. I told them about "fireball.co.uk" for email for traveling British students or anyone else and www.radiolinx.com for them possibly to get Laptop Internet service in the library. I read the local paper. I then headed down Greenwich Avenue, and chatted briefly with the fishermen down on Steamboat Road. I headed over to R & R outdoor furniture on the Boston Post Road at the Mianus River Bridge. They have nice teak furniture there from Indonesia. They also have very nice beach chairs for about $50 each. I then headed over to Old Greenwich, and I stopped by Service Star Hardware store, and they have fold lie down beach chairs with webbing made by Sunbeam for $35 each. I went out to Tod's Point, and I got out my old trusty rusty fifteen year old beach chair I bought for $3 and I sat out on the beach watching the eastern horizon. I chatted with a carpenter from upstate New York about Lanzerote and other locations along the waterfront. One young girl reprimanded me for smoking near children. I have to remember to watch out for children when I smoke. I then walked a short way back down the beach and studied the tide line. I returned back along the dirt road and use the men’s room. I chatted with a couple from the Norwalk Yacht Club. I decided to go up to Norwalk, and I departed the beach forgetting my old rusty beach chair. I arrived in Norwalk, and I went to Home Depot and they did not have beach chairs. I bought two miniature palms plants there for $5.96 each, a golden pathos plant for $9.96, and a fiscus for $7.96 plus $1.79 Ct. sales tax for $31.63 total. I next stopped by Bradley’s and they have everything under the sun that Caldor’s use to have except beach chairs. I next went to CompUSA and I bought a Inland Pro Commander power control center on clearance for $11.88 plus .71 Ct. sales tax for $12.59 total. I next returned down the post road and I went to CVS in Darien, and they did not have beach chairs. I stopped by next door at Boston Chicken and I had a half chicken dinner, with stuffing, corn bread, creamed spinach, and mixed broccoli and carrots for with ice water for $7.25. Boston Chicken is right next to nice restaurant the Black Goose Inn. I went back into CVS and bought a pack of Marlboro lights 100s for $3.49. I mentioned to another customer, I bought my first Volvo from Peabody's in 1973 with a loan from Mr. Dupont at the Union Trust Bank in Darien. He told me to remember that. I also reminisced about living on the old farm across from the New Canaan Country Club. I then walked briefly around downtown Darien and Starbucks was closed, so I returned to the car, and returned to Greenwich. I stopped by the Exxon station, and I bought $15.25 of premium. I mentioned that Exxon should sell beach chairs along the coast for any evacuees whom might pass their stations. I returned home, and I brought up my purchases. I transferred the new plants into my terracotta pots and I placed them around the apartment after watering them. I installed the new control panel on my computer, taking of an older one, and leaving another newer one with it, so I have two underneath the monitor for controlling my peripherals. The monitor is about 3/4 inch higher. I had some iced coffee while doing this. I put the old control panel underneath the bedroom computer. I then filed this report. I will go out now for a little fresh air. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/02/99 Thursday 7:40 A.M. EDT: I rearranged a few more items in the apartment. I put the dead plants out of site. I placed the hallway carpet back in its original position. I spread the a can of the CVS carpet deodorizer all over the apartment, and swept it in with a broom. I will leave it in the carpet instead of fifteen minutes until next Sunday when I vacuum. It now smells like a perfume factory. Well I have to get off to bed and be up at 1 P.M.. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/02/99 Thursday 4:15 A.M. EDT: Well I sat around checking out internet information until 11 P.M.. I went out then and drove down by the harbor. There were a few youth and a large fisherman out. I returned to the center of town, and I went to the Grand Union. I bought two half gallons of Tropicana grapefruit juice for $1.99 each, a dozen large eggs for $1.49, two Ragu Parmesan cheese sauce for $1.50 each, two 3 Kings bacon for $2 each, Ronzoni Spinach fettuccini for $1.75, Ronsonzi Spinach tortellini for $1.59, two ears of corn for .25 both, and a 24 roll bundle of Northern quilted toilet paper for $7.69 for $24.21 total. I drove through the center of town, and I returned home. I put away the groceries. I straightened up the refrigerator, and I still have a two year old container of Yoplait yogurt and a three to four year old container of open Yugoslavian grape jelly. I put in some more wine to chill including the white chardonnay I bought last evening. I cleaned up the paper work around my computer desk area and sorted through it. I found about a dozen promotional cdroms that I put in the towel drawer. I put the last years worth of Interactive Week that I never read in a bedroom file stand with some other computer literature. I straighten up the coffee table books. I sat thinking about fish stories. I can not put the rug deodorizer on the carpet until the hallway carpet is thoroughly dry hopefully this coming evening. It only takes a fifteen minutes to work, but I thought I would let it sit for a few hours tomorrow evening or today evening when I go out and then I will vacuum it up. I need to dump out the junk mail and throw out a wine cardboard case. Well the place looks a little neater, but it still stinks to high heaven with the cigar cigarette smoke, which I can not substitute with better quality Virginian tobacco. Well not much else to report on. Hopefully my other two domain names will be working off my local server in a day or two. Well have a good morning. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. CIO

Note:<888>9/01/99 Wednesday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I was awake this past morning at 11 A.M. by the NOAA weather warning weekly test from Rockefeller Center. I noticed that the tape backup that I had started had failed because I tried to run it with the server going. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, three strips of bacon, orange juice, and coffee. I started the tape backup again, and I had to reinstall the Seagate Tape backup program, and I started it about 2 P.M., and it ran and completed about 7:30 P.M. for the second tape backup. I went out after starting the tape backup, and I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York, and I did some banking. I stopped by the First Union bank and paid my rent. I went by the Post Office and mailed money orders for my MCI, Cablevision, Optimum Online, and Electricity bills. I stopped by the hospital thrift shop. I drove by CVS and bought a carton of Dutch Treat Light gray carton cigar cigarettes for $14.19, two large containers of CVS carpet deodorizer for $1.79 each, two bars of Yardley Aloe soap for $1.19 both plus $1.14 Ct. tax for $20.10 total. I looked for beach chairs on sale 50% off, but they were sold out. I drove down by the waterfront and viewed the harbor. It was a bit crowded. I went by ELDC thrift and I bought a Pyrex 14 inch glass lid for a frying pan for $1.50 and a pair of Bausch and Lomb Ray Ban sun glasses possibly for $1.25 with case. I noticed they have a 1840s sleigh bed for sale for $250. One would have to restore the finish, and get an odd size box spring and mattress, and possibly cover it with Nantucket Looms Raw Wood Cloth with fluffy pillows in the same material for that colonial look. I drove back down the Avenue, and I viewed the waterfront again. I headed over to CVS in the Riverside Shopping plaza, but they did not have any beach chairs. I stopped by Staples in Old Greenwich and they were very busy with back to schoolers. I stopped by CVS in Old Greenwich, and they did not have beach chairs. I thought it might be a good idea to keep a couple of beach chairs in the trunk like Florida people do for relaxing outside. I drove out to Tod's Point, and I parked in the southwest corner parking area. I chatted about the weather with a fisherman. I walked out to the picnic area and it was busy. I chatted with a retired couple about the weather. I returned back to Byram, and I still had a half hour on the tape backup, so I ate some pasta fraiche and Citra soda. I made up two pots of coffee for iced coffee. I had a glass of iced coffee. I restarted the computer and the server after the tape backup was complete. I went out to Port Chester, and Odd Job does not have beach chairs, neither does Pergament. I stopped by Staples and I bought a $18 32 oz. box of 32 packets of Hawaiian Gold Kona coffee for $9 from the clearance center. I stopped by Jembro and I bought a large blue made in China umbrella for $5.33, and on the way back home, and I stopped by Var Max liquor pantry and bought two bottles of 1997 Novellum white chardonnay regularly $8.99 for $4.99 each plus .67 NY tax for $10.85 total. I returned home, and I filed this report. Well have a good evening, I guess I will go out for a stroll shortly. CIO

Note:<888>9/01/99 Wednesday 4:35 A.M. EDT: Well I studied the www.carnegie.org for a while. There is also www.glf.org . Well for now, lets call it a day. CIO

Note:<888>9/01/99 Wednesday 2:45 A.M. EDT: Well I just finished listening to ABCNEWS.com : Bush Shattering Campaign Cash Records video linked from ABC. I resubmitted my Internic submission form from Network Solutions ‑ Domain Name Registration Services from the dot com people this time just adding the domain names mrscott.com and www.mikescott.org to the mrscott.com change page submitting them as secondary servers, and I received email back that they would process the request manually. I fixed the hallway closet handle by putting a longer screw into the handle. I still have about a 100 emails to sift through. During the early morning hours this link works to show where Dennis is heading NRL Satellite Photo /archive_data/sat/www/atlantic/tropics/ir/LATEST.jpg tropics . Well I might have some more pasta fraiche to eat. How do you make Pasta Fraiche.

Boil one box of green spinach noodles for ten minutes.

While doing this heat one jar of Ragu or Five Brothers cheese parmesan cheese sauce or alfredo cheese sauce over medium to low heat.

Add one small can of mushrooms

Add dashes of Italian Seasoning

Add dashes of Basil

Add dashes of Oregano

Add a bit of Celery Salt

Add a bit of ground pepper

Add a bit of garlic powder

Add one quarter of cup of dry white wine

Stir this cheese sauce mixture a bit while heating over low.

When you strain the green noodles put them in a separate mixing bowl,

Pour the cheese sauce mixture over the noodles and mix it all together thoroughly.

Add about a third cup of grated parmesan cheese and mix it to the existing mixture.

Eat it while it is hot.

Leftovers can be put in a Rubbermaid container and refrigerated.

Note:<888>9/14/99 Tuesday 1:35 P.M. EDT: I went out at sunrise, and the usual fishermen were down by the waterfront. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a few locals. I went by the Hospital Thrift shop. I walked to the bank to pick up funds and returned to the hospital thrift shop. I bought a U. S. Army canteen for $1.50 and a Rubbermaid beach drink container for $1.50. I put the U. S. Army canteen in the back of the car. I returned to the center of town, and I watched the seagulls down by the waterfront. With all the sea gulls the fishing obviously very good since the sea gulls know where the fish are. Also the sea gulls know where to take refuge. I returned home, and I think I had some chicken salad for lunch and a chilled Citra soda. I watched a bit of the CNN news about the hurricane activity. They advised people to take refuge in Alabama. I guess Chemstrand still has to old guest house in Decatur, Alabama that could accommodate about twenty couples of ten modest families. I suppose one could tour Graceland for diversion of in Memphis. I remembered the a local group of hillbilly’s Biltmore Estate have a modest conference center under construction on the grounds of their park. It is on relatively high ground, but you have to watch for the bears in the Pisgah National forest. I think it is with spitting distance of the Jack Daniels distillery where they make those hams for Christmas they soak in Jack Daniels and then smoke in hickory smoked fires. I suppose there are a few other moonshiners in the neighborhood. I recall their use to be a Hilton motel in Greenville, South Carolina. I believe Tryon, North Carolina has the largest number of retired doctors up there in the hills of North Carolina. I suppose if you were a hermit and knew Henry Ford, you could park your car in Muscle Shoals, Alabama which is a rather peculiar town. I suppose the Wheeler family are still receiving guests on the Wheeler plantation, along with a few families along the Mississippi River. I suppose you could hide out in a coal mine in Kentucky or tour horse country around Versailles, Kentucky. I suppose if you drive through down state Illinois you could stop by the old farm on the Wabash River, and see how the Marathon Oil refinery is doing. I suppose you could park a few cars around the University of Illinois campus. Basically when certain groups of people start moving north, they always seem to keep moving north towards Canada, until it gets cold or they run out of money. I suppose as people leave the evacuated areas along the Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina coasts, they decided not to visit the Middleton family in Charlestown, South Carolina. Also about an hour west of Hilton Head half way to Columbia, South Carolina is Summerville, South Carolina or Aiken. I suppose if you all are heading North West away from the shore lines, you can finds lots of room to maneuver around, but remember by the time you all get up to Sun Valley, Idaho you will probably have to turn around in a month or two and come back down. Well for I know, it is a pretty nice day here, so I will probably go out and tour around. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/14/99 Tuesday 4:40 A.M. EDT: I was up at 3:30 A.M.. I found this link Florida IR Satellite Image . I tried to find a south Florida Radio station to listen to, but they were talking about the war with Pakistan and India at the West Palm Beach Radio WJNO ‑ Home . Well I need to have breakfast, of course there are also storms to the northeast of Floyd moving towards the Northeast also NRL Satellite Photo /archive_data/sat/www/atlantic/tropics/ir/LATEST.jpg tropics . Also if they are not hit by hurricane you cold buy this Product Detail H36809 . Time for breakfast. CIO

Note:<888>9/13/99 Monday 9:55 P.M. EDT: I was up at midnight and I started doing systems maintenance. To make a long story short, just about the time I got it all straightened away, on the last reboot before 7 A.M., they system booted; but it did not display anything of the desktop. I spent the next 2 1/2 hours trying to straighten it out. It was caused as before by using the Microsoft System file checker, and restoring a disastrous file that cause the system not to boot properly. I had some Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, vitamins, and coffee; while I reinstalled the operating system. I then quickly did a few upgrades of important files. I was able to get the Windows 98 update working by installing the Visual Basic element of Internet Explorer 5.0. Also on my system with @home Outlook Express, I can not install Outlook Express 5.0 without crippling it and Outlook 98. I keep the downloaded able group of Outlook 98 cab install files on my computer, so when I have to reinstall it, they are available. It can be tricky though, since you have to uninstall it reboot and install it, and in uninstalling it deleted the install cab files since, but I had them back up. Needless to say I uninstalled and installed Outlook 98 about three times before, I got it all working again. Also I also reinstalled most of the Windows 98 updates. I ran Norton Disk Doctor, Norton Anti Virus, Norton WinDoctor, I backed up the C: drives and the D: drives to the E: drive. I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive. I also made backups of the registry and updated the registry backups twice. There is a command from the DOS prompt, something like "regscan /restore" that permits one to restore backed up registry files which did not work for the blank screen problem. When I got the blank screen problem "systray" would not boot also; but "explorer" did to know effect. Safe boot produced the same results. While doing this I checked my mail and watched a report on CNN at 1 P.M. about the hurricane Floyd. I finally cleaned up and at about 2:30 P.M., I started a complete tape backup, which finished at 9 P.M.. I put my weather pages on the homepages, and I posted my Florida IP address in case the domain name quits working when I finally get it transferred up here. I guess I will be shutting down the Florida site as soon, as I get the IP addresses transferred properly. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York, and my account was lower than expected since they are deducting my some of my insurance policy payments directly from the bank account. The gave me a print out of the reason. I told them the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta has to keep $50 billion in cash on hand in case of major hurricane disaster in the southeast, and electronic payment systems don't work. I made my 4 P.M. appointment which was cut short by an emergency. I went by the Greenwich library and gave them a cold weather maintenance tip. I drove down by the waterfront, and the harbor was quite busy with lots of fishermen out sport fishing in boats. I chatted with a couple of regulars and told them I was in a foul mood. I came back home and I relaxed and I chatted with a family member whom is a Florida resident part of the year. I tried to relax a bit. I had some Ramen noodles with teriyaki sauce and ice tea for dinner. I finished updating my internet page and added Florida Division of Emergency Management to a number of my pages. I have the system basically up to snuff and all the system maintenance done for now. It is working great and should be able to provide reliable usage for the time being. I am really tired having been awake for 22 hours although mentally tiring and tedious, it has not been a physically demanding day. Well have a good evening, and watch the weather.htm . I also noticed a few new General Motors cars today with Palm Beach license plates including a large model white Buick. Well have a good evening once again. CIO

Note:<888>9/12/99 Sunday 6:15 P.M. EDT: I chatted with a family member. I went out and I got the refund of $1.51 from the Grand Union for the coupon discount on the Skippy peanut butter. I used the refund and $2.28, and I bought a roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll from the Grand Union deli for a total of $3.79. I went downtown, and I put green duct tape on my broken right rear tail light, so it won't let in moisture in the winter. I sat outside at the veterans monument, and I had my sandwich and a Nestea Ice tea. I then walked over and chatted with a couple of local village observers. I then walked down Greenwich Avenue. I strolled down by the Greenwich Harbor Inn, and I noticed a nice racing yacht from St. Croix. I told them, I would not mind having a couple of acres overlooking the ocean at the Mount Irvine Club in Tobago. I noticed while, I was walking down the Avenue, and a tanned foreigner whom looked very wealthy was snorting a substance out of a little 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch black cube. I suppose that is what they do in places where it is legal. I then chatted with a fisherman at Greenwich Harbor Associates about the west side of Manhattan when they built the World Trade Center, and when the railroad and the West Side highway use to run down the west side of Manhattan. I mentioned that Olympia and York is probably still building the Yanksee River Damn over in China for the next fifteen years, so he would not be seeing their construction crew around for a while. I also mention that when people see Paul Reichman, they usually don't notice him since his construction crew are rather tall, but he is a first class construction engineer. Last time I saw him, he was wearing a Intel polo shirt at Egghead software about five years ago. I then walked on down to the end and it was busy, and I chatted about the weather with a local. All in and all it was a perfect day. I did not see the Island Beach ferry running, so I guess it is over for the year. I returned back up the Avenue, and I chatted with the same two observers; who were still sitting there. I then chatted with a local Florida summer resident about the shortage of beach chairs for sale in Greenwich and other important matters. I returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor. Well not much happening today. Have a good evening. I had a Citra soda in a chilled mug when I got home. CIO

Note:<888>9/12/99 Sunday 1:40 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront, and they asked me where I had been, and I told them I had been busy with tech and car repair the past week. There were lots of sea gulls on the harbor this morning, so you know it was going to be a nice day. I then drove over to the center of town, and I looked for a regular visitor from Florida whom I had not spoken with in a couple of weeks. I then drove over to Old Greenwich, and I noticed Staples is not open early on Sunday morning. I noticed parked in front of the Old Greenwich elementary school was a very deluxe Volvo Wagon lemon yellow with 56,485 miles and black interior. It is the deluxe 850 T‑5R in excellent condition, I would say about four or five years old. It has no price on the sign, but the person looking to sell it posted their telephone number 1‑203‑969‑5976. Dealer trade in value should be about $17,425 for a 1995 model Kelley Blue Book Used Car Values and retail sale value about $22,975 Kelley Blue Book Used Car Values according to www.kbb.com if it is a 1995 model. I also watched a home building show yesterday, which showed them building a log house with an interesting Finish soap stone or volcanic stone oven furnace that is very energy efficient for about a 1,500 square foot area, it heats the stone with a small amount of wood and stays warm half the day with the hot air from a small fire heat the surrounding air inside the stone furnace. I headed out to Tod's Point at the south east beach area. Lots of people were gathered around the northeast beach area for the First Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwich morning beach service. It was an incredible low tide with the beach extending at least 300 yards. I walked around the beach area deciding to avoid the path around Tod's point so as to avoid any dangerous mosquitoes. I then drove over to the southwest parking area and viewed the waterfront, and used my binoculars to spy on the waterfront homes of Belle Haven. I then headed back towards town at 9 A.M.. I noticed they have the Old Greenwich sidewalk art sale going on. I stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason street. I stopped by CVS and bought European mystique shampoo and conditioner for $1.58 total which I bought after buying Tampa lite Sweet cigar cigarettes for $12.19 a carton, two boxes of 50 CVS 10 inch security envelopes for $1.19 both, two boxes of cheese crackers for .99 each, Glad gling wrap $1.99, CVS aluminum foil .50, two jars of CVS peanuts $1.69 each with CT. tax of .95 for $22.18 total. I then drove down the Avenue, and I parked near the park. I tore the black tape off my right rear tail light. I have to put on some duct tape, before winter; and hope it keeps the moisture out. I walked up the Avenue with a local retired citizen. We stopped and viewed the Presbyterian church that had tables set out in front. Well walked east on Putnam Avenue and viewed the new Episcopal Church parish house that is having a open house soon, along with the local church going activity. We returned to the bench in front of the Presbyterian church and chatted some more. We walked down the Avenue, and I showed him the $5 Chinese umbrella I got at Jimbos. We then departed company. I walked down the Avenue, and I viewed the Mitchell’s construction site. It is progressing quite fast, and a lot of the foundation walls are poured besides digging and blasting the block square hole for the underground parking. I chatted with one local. I then headed back down the Avenue, and I chatted with a local gal watering her beautiful plants in her half barrels in front of her building. I returned back up the Avenue, and I chatted with another person whom is originally from Texas. I then drove over to the Grand Union at 11:30 A.M.. I bought 18 bags of Ramen noodles various flavors for $3, 32 oz. bag of PicSweet broccoli for $2, and 32 oz. bag of PicSweet mixed vegetables for $2, Kellogg’s 20 oz. raisin bran $2.33, GU 5 pound sugar $2.09, GU large dozen eggs $1.49, GU teriyaki sauce 12 oz. $1.49, three boxes of thin Ronzoni spaghetti for $1 total, Stauffer’s 20 oz. frozen Lasagna $2.99, Honeydew melon .99, GU sixty white kitchen bags $4.69, a 18 oz. jar of Skippy peanut butter for $2.39; I forgot to use the coupon on to get it for .88 instead, a half gallon of GU 2% milk $1.69, two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice for $1.99 each, GU zip storage bags $1.85, Virginian Maple bacon $1.74, three I Can't Believe It's Not Butter .99, 1.19, 1.19 plus .39 tax for $39.46 total. I then returned home, and I carried up the groceries and put them away. I had a some defrost frozen melon sorbet, and a chilled Citra soda in a chilled mug for a snack. The E: drive to C: drive was finished. I relaxed for a bit and then posted this report. I am tired, so I might relax before going to bed, I don't expect to be going out again. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/12/99 Sunday 7:05 A.M. EDT: I put the Fiscus plant that is losing its leaves in the smaller plastic pot it came in, and I set it out in the community room. It is guaranteed for a year, so I might return it to Home Depot for another plant later on this week. I ran system file check from system information with the original default list. I ran it with both options checked, and I restored every file about 250 that came up with the original install Windows 98 versions. When I reboot only my screen and sound came up, and no icons. I ran Windows 98 install from a floppy boot, and I reinstalled the system; and when it did its final reboot every thing including the icons were back to normal. I tweaked some of the system setting. Microsoft Windows 98 update does not work because a java script error in the page. I think it is their site fault not mine. I installed the latest Java VM and the Windows 98 update. I had a problem getting Outlook 98, to install, so I reinstalled it from a copy I had on my hard drive. I had to uninstall it first, and it removed the installation files and cab files; but I was luck to have a backup. I had to reinstall it twice, because Outlook Express 5 also did not work, and when I installed it, it crippled Outlook 98; possibly because I had another version of Outlook Express on my drive that came with @home. Anyway Outlook 98 and the @home Outlook Express now work. While doing this I cleaned my apartment and watered the plants. I also ran Norton WinDoctor. I made some chicken salad with the remains of the chicken with an onion and herbs and spices and mayonnaise. I had it with Ramen noodles and ice tea. I just finished a C: drive backup to the F: drive. I will now start a D: drive backup to the F: drive while I shower and clean up. I will start an F: drive backup to the C: drive before I go out in about 45 minutes. I need to get some groceries, and I could use a breath of fresh air. Also one of the reason I reinstalled is that the Win98 Explorer recycles from an error message when running the Apache 1.3.9 server. Possibly I might try going back to 1.3.6 or it is another system problem, which it should not be after a new install with all new files. I still probably need to do some Win98 updates, when their page Java script works. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/11/99 Saturday 11:05 P.M. EDT: I was up at 9 P.M.. I had three fried eggs, four strips of bacon, toast, vitamins, grapefruit and orange juice and coffee for breakfast. I ran Norton System Information, and I ran system file checker, and I restored a few new files. I also reinstalled the two main Windows 98 system updates from Windows 98 Update. Microsoft Netmeeting still does not work. Well I will either rest now, or do some house cleaning and watering the plants. The fiscus plant is dying in my apartment, but it has a year guarantee, so I will take it out of the clay pot, and put it back in the plastic pot in the sun to see if it come back alive. Well another exciting Saturday night in Greenwich. CIO

Note:<888>9/11/99 Saturday 2:30 P.M. EDT: I fooled with Iphone trying to get it to work properly. Finally about 9 A.M. this morning, I decided to reinstall Windows 98. The first three times from Windows failed. Finally I reinstalled it booting from the bootable disk. It installed fined. I then configured a few programs and the updated the Intel driver, and installed the Windows 98 updates. Netmeeting still does not work. I installed the latest version of Iphone. I ran Norton WinDoctor and Regscan. I noticed explorer was still a bit unstable running WinDoctor, so I enabled "taskmon" in the startup. Well the system seems to be running fine for now, and I started up the server. Well I have been drinking ice tea through out the morning, and I am just about to have some Ramen noodles with ice tea. Then I will relax and go to bed. I am bushed. CIO

Note:<888>9/11/99 Saturday 1:45 A.M. EDT: Well I had a case of the blahs today. I believe I was up around noon. I had some Total for breakfast with toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I worked on the internet, and I went back to bed until 6 P.M.. I had a problem with my Internic registration, in that both mrscott.com and www.mikescott.org went through the form application, but Primary Server IP addresses were listed as: "MRSCOTT.COM" at "24.228.18.154" which is the setup for my primary home server "MRSCOTT.COM". I chatted with Network Solutions 703‑742‑4777, and tech advised me that I might have to wait for the DNS database on my @home server to be updates. When I do a traceroute on www.mikescott.org which was originally changed two weeks ago, nothing comes up; and I would imagine the same might happen to mrscott.com once it is registered on the DNS server lists. I tried tinkering with the Apache httpd.conf file, to improve to add the other two servers, but since the DNS server lists are not yet updated, I don't know if it will work. Network Solutions indicated to me that the two Internic names mrscott.com and www.mikescott.org will send users to my home server at "24.228.18.154" once they are registered in the Internic DNS servers on the routers. Since www.mikescott.org has been set up this way for two weeks and does not work, I am somewhat suspect. Thus I after quite a bit of fiddling I think I have the Apace 1.3.9 httpd.conf file setup to work, if the domain server information is correct. I tried resting about midnight. I got up and finished off the fresh melon and then I had some slices of cold roast chicken with Tabasco and reheated frozen broccoli with ice tea and iced coffee. I watched a bit of the History Channel about Richard III killing the two young princes, and I then watched a bit on CNN on whaling on how it was productive for Sperm Oil until underground oil came along much like could happen with the internet if somebody in a garage like Bill Gates worries about came up with something better. Well I still have not cleaned up, and I have not been out recently; so maybe that is why I have a case of the blues or blahs. I am not sure what I will do next. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/10/99 Friday 4:05 A.M. EDT: I installed Apache 1.3.9 www.apache.org for Windows and edit the httpd.conf file with a few fixes. I ran Norton Anti Virus with the latest update files. I did my daily scotwork.htm . I am watching a short bit of television before going to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/10/99 Friday 12:50 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message, and I dropped off Bill Gates' book, "Business at the Speed of Light" at the library book drop. I parked in the center of town and walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with one local who was having car troubles. I sat out for a while at the post office plaza. I drove down by the harbor, but nobody was there, I guess they're all worrying about the St. Louis encephalitis outbreak in mosquitoes in the New York area. I returned home, and I read this week's issue of the Greenwich Post. I read a high school alumni magazine. Not much happening, I guess I will do a little net work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/09/99 Thursday 10:20 P.M. EDT: The Internic Network Solutions registration went through for mrscott.com and www.mikescott.org and they should be working off the homeserver where mrscott.com is with a couple of day. I had dinner of cold roasted chicken slices with Tabasco sauce, steamed frozen broccoli, Ramen noodles, ice tea, and coffee. I finally cleaned up, and I will go out in a while. I had a phone call from a relative this evening, and the sick relative is back out of the hospital and back home again. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/09/99 Thursday 7:10 P.M. EDT: I rested until about 10 A.M.. I had some cold roast chicken, Ramen noodles, and mixed vegetables this morning. I made up a batch of ice tea. I worked until about 2 P.M.. I rested until 6 P.M.. I called Internic at Network Solutions at 703‑742‑4777 and I found out that I had password encryption on my sites mikescott.org and mikescott.net which I had forgotten for changing, so I think I have finally changed those two domain names to my home server. I might have to setup the Apache server to recognize them once they are working, which I can do. I will then shut down the site in Florida and edit my homepage to reflect the new site. Well not much accomplished but it is normal routine work. I guess I will have a bite to eat and possibly go out. I also made up a batch of ice tea this morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/09/99 Thursday 5:00 A.M. EDT: I talked with https://www.valueweb.net/ , tech support about the Internic registration problem. I went back to bed and rested a few hours and got up at 4 A.M... I found this link if your interested in the local tides Stamford, Connecticut and http://www.pozo.com has my web directory. I also am running this in the background on my computer to help out SETI@home: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home , at the moment I am running it all the time since my computer and modem seems to handle it. You can also set it up to run when the screen saver activates. CIO

Note:<888>9/08/99 Wednesday 10:50 P.M. EDT: I am just doing a bit of routine internet work. I installed @home 1.7, but I did not let it go through the whole process; so as not to reinstall the web browser and the extra components, since I prefer the Microsoft setup. I also chatted with @home tech support about tech for a while on their local number out of Stamford, Connecticut 348‑9211. Well it is great to have a quiet night at home for a while, and to be off Greenwich Avenue for a change. Not much to report, but what is happening on the net. I guess I might relax for a while and go back to the net later. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/08/99 Wednesday 7:00 A.M. EDT: Well I still have not fallen asleep. I was thinking about the early message and what I communicated with various groups this evening. It has long been thought that there is a large level of telephone eaves dropping in this area for procuring business, technical, and political information. I mentioned that yesterday, I noticed the old AT&T copper transatlantic telephone connection cable do not dig sign at the intersection of Weaver Street and West Putnam Avenue, has been changed and it now says "Do Not Dig Optic Fiber Cable". Thus they have a new optic fiber cable running underneath the Atlantic which would carry up to a half million conversations or data calls. However I noticed this High Speed Optic fiber cable runs underneath the UJA United Jewish Appeal building at the intersection of Weaver Street and West Putnam Avenue at the southwest corner. Since it is very obvious that the UJA is a wealthy group in this area, I believe it is safe to assume they place their building next to the town dump possibly, so as to eaves drop on the Transatlantic Cable with high tech sniffing equipment or decoding or sensing equipment such as the NSC National Security Council would use. Thus when all the power brokers in North Terrytown, New York; Bedford, New York; and other Westchester county areas along with back country Greenwich and adjacent communities use the services that use the AT&T trans Atlantic cable, which as I mentioned earlier carries up to a half million streams, it is more than likely the Israeli Mosad intelligence organization has compromised our communications and National Security collection key information in this area and selling it to other possibly hostile political groups. I have advised the Secret Service White House Intelligence unit, the Greenwich Police, IBM security, Lou Gerstner, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, and a friend of mine whose family are major stockholders in both telephone companies, and I have advised the telephone company to work the grapevine. It does not seem fair, that with all the openness in a democracy that the foreign government groups would try to compromise our communications expertise since we actually help them with foreign aid, and they are turning it against us to use against us. Thus other neighboring office communities more than likely have been compromised by this security breach. Well I suppose they will cover this up, like they always do. Also the NOAA weather warning came on Red for western Suffolk County, Long Island and there is suppose to be flash flooding this morning there. Well have a good morning, and I need to try to get some rest. CIO

Note:<888>9/08/99 Wednesday 4:50 A.M. EDT: I am really tired and hardly can keep my eyes open. I did a little internet surfing and tried to relax for a while. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/08/99 Wednesday 1:25 A.M. EDT: I noticed when I walked east to Exxon today, that the United Jewish Appeal has put an office at the corner of the road with post road and the Mobil station, so maybe they are siphoning off all the charity we expected to come our way. I also noticed the old AT&T don't dig sign across from the Mobil station now indicates there is a fiber optic cable there for the trans Atlantic telephone cable. I slept this evening from 6 P.M. to 9 P.M.. I had a phone call from a friend who wanted to know if I am on a day time or night schedule, and I said day; but I am back on night. I received a phone call from a relative about a sick relative, and he is still in intensive care. I suppose the Cleveland Clinic or the Mayo Clinic should be consulted. I next drove down by the waterfront, and when I was parking I found a blue bic lighter that might work when it dries out. I chatted with the fishermen whom had pulled in a few blue fish at high tide. I advised them to put them by the gills and to use long pointed needles nose pliers to pull out the hooks. Never stick one's fingers in a blue fish's mouth if you know what is good for you. It looked like it had rained while I was asleep. I guess we are still waiting for Denis to possibly come our way in two to three days, it is so slow moving; unless it passes us to the west. It was a decent night out. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and I then walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue with a local who was walking to all night Kinko’s across from the Greenwich Library. I then walked back down the Avenue, and I sat out for a while, and I then walked the lower section again; and then I sat out for a while again. I then drove down by the waterfront, and I finally returned home. I have a cold chicken in the refrigerator, I will start eating tonight or tomorrow. I was advised that the Greenwich public schools start up again today, so the kids will be up bright and early this morning full of enthusiasm for the new school year. Well there is not much else to report on, so I will try to stay up until about 4 A.M. before going to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 11:20 P.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Broadcast sound.htm for the first time in about two weeks. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 9:25 P.M. EDT: I went out at 8 P.M., and I stopped by CVS. I bought a carton of Hav‑A‑Tampa cigar cigarettes for $12.19, a 12 oz. container of Rosonol lighter fluid for $2.99 plus .91 Ct. sales tax for $16.09 total. I also purchase a package of four 60 watt light bulbs for $1 plus .06 CT. sales tax for $1.06. I chatted with a local German American citizen about research. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and read part of the local paper. I noticed in the legal items in the classified there are certain tax deferments offered by the state of Connecticut to veterans. I returned home after the library started to close. I filled my Greenwich Country Club lighter with the Rosonol lighter fluid and put it in the Nantucket ash tray. I put away the shell butane lighter. I will now do some of my regular internet work. It is raining very mistily outside. I plan to have a quiet evening at home. Have a quiet evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 6:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon, and I had Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I went back to bed because with all the rain, the low barometric pressure makes me more tired, so I thus slept through a rainy afternoon. I did chat with a few local people about the local reptile problem, and none of them seemed to know what to do with it. I finally got up about 5 P.M., and I watched a bit of television. Apparently Donald Trump is running for President on the Reform Party platform. I guess he can afford his own secret service protection. I have a feeling that the reptile presence has disappeared from the area, but it might be a temporary sense of security. Possibly with all the rain, it was washed out of the natural watershed in the surrounding area, and it was washed out to sea in Long Island sound. It is hard to tell. I try not to think about Alligators, Salt Water Cayman or other Crocodiles, but I was advised that the Welcome to the New England Aquarium keeps salt water crocodiles up in Boston, god only knows for what purpose. Perhaps they feed Harvard freshmen to the salt water crocodiles whom don't follow the established course curriculum. Well have a good evening, and once I eat a bit and make it outside, I might drop by the library to read a little technology news. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 5:40 A.M. EDT: Well not much happening is this neck of the woods. I emailed Queen Elizabeth II of England, The High Commission of Australia in London, and the Prime Minister of Australia about getting rid of the Saltwater Crocodile off of Long Island Sound, Greenwich Harbor, and back country swamp land in Greenwich. We don't know what sort of numbers of the reptiles we are talking about, if they have been here for an extended periods of time, they might be well established within the community. Nobody within the community seems willing to comment on any such event since it would jeopardize real estate values, but for all I know we are living on top some ancient alligator pit or indigenous region of the area, where they don't bother the local inhabitants; but it is best to be made aware of such problems. I suppose as we conjecture the salt water crocodile might be over 24 feet long, and weigh over a ton; thus it might want a little bit more to eat than one measly Purdue chicken, so it is best we leave the door open all night of a local food store, so it can walk in and help itself to whatever it wants to eat. I really don't feel like tangling with such a ferocious reptile. Maybe it would settle for a horse out at Conyers Farm, are maybe it might get tired of gorging on blue fish and decide to have something different. Since nobody has been able to spot the saltwater crocodile, it is hard to tell what its feeding habits are or where it originated from. Whether it was dropped here as a terrorist threat to the community or whether it was imported by the House of Fins twenty years ago. Needless to say it seem that it is indeed possibly within the community and swimming in the surrounding waters of Long Island Sound and the shorelines of Connecticut, New York, Long Island, and possibly New Jersey or Rhode Island and possibly points further north and further south. If the saltwater crocodile happens to be using the internet, I read there are millions of dead chickens in North Carolina along with hundreds of thousands of dead hogs, so maybe it might enjoy feasting by itself or with the rest of the Alluvia of Crocodiles swimming out in the ocean or the other wetlands of the continent. If it is indeed an Alluvia of Crocodiles, they might eventually swim into the north country or across to Europe, so all shore dwelling people along the Atlantic ocean's boarders might keep a sharp eye out for unfriendly reptiles swimming in their regions. If you have a lot of money, you might try camping out in the middle of Russia with the wolves, bears, and eight foot plus tall people; I have heard talk about. Of course we will have to see what today brings, for all I know the night are the same as usual. From what I recall with Alligators, Salt Water Caymans, Crocodiles Fresh and Salt; I believe they tend to be more nocturnal; however they will feed anytime of the day depending on their mood and the availability of food supply. Needless to say, I am not sure what the real story is, but I suppose we will know soon enough. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 2:10 A.M. EDT: Well I chatted with a Texas resident and they told me that two thirds of North Carolina is under water. I guess Reuters Yahoo missed the story. I went out for a drive about 10 P.M., and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue avoiding the waterfront area of Greenwich Harbor. Of course that does not mean that a reptile could not sneak up behind you from upland, so keep a weary eye when out to any noise in the brush. I did not notice anything unusual. I drove over to CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza and I bought two rolls of Scott towels for .89 each and two packs of Winchester sweet cigar cigarettes for $1.59 each plus .30 Ct. sales tax for $5.26 total. I stopped by the Hyatt in Old Greenwich and a few youngsters were watching the football game on the television. I told one of the desk clerks that 2/3 of North Carolina was under water, and that they should advise their guests to watch out for reptiles and probably stay north of the railroad tracks. However realistically such a creature as a saltwater crocodile could probably venture much further inland, so possibly Montreal or Toronto would be safer. I next went back downtown, and I briefed the local Kennedy security officer downtown. I sat out for a while keeping a keen eye out for any nocturnal movements. I figured out if a large 24 saltwater crocodile came down Greenwich Avenue, one if they were in good shape could try climbing a light pole, but since a salt water crocodile can jump 20 feet or more, one would have to have a high perch. I think they're pretty fast creatures, so maybe the best bet would be to walk around with a Purdue chicken and chuck it at it, if it started to approach you, which might deter its progress. Of course you could try keeping your karma. I then stopped by the Grand Union, and they were closed to fix the Y2K problem. I then stopped by the Food Emporium, and I discussed the crocodile problem with the night staff and some night shoppers. I bought a gourmet spinach pizza for $3.29, and I gave them the best briefing I could. I next returned home, and I filed this report. Well have a good evening and keep an eye out for any unusual remains around the waterfront or around town in the morning. Believe me I am not kidding. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 9:10 P.M. EDT: Or maybe the reptile did not swim back to Manhattan Species Accounts: Saltwater Crocodile cporo.htm . I don't feel like being a dinner guest. CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 8:45 P.M. EDT: West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center and Sakhalin TWC and FEMA: FACT SHEET‑‑TSUNAMIS and Tsunami Research Program and Pacific Tsunami Museum Homepage and Science of Tsunami Hazards and Scientific American: Feature Article: TSUNAMI!: May 1999 and http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps‑seti/spacegd7.html and USC Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Team and Science of Tsunami Hazards ‑ The Tsunami Society and Welcome to Tsunami! and NASA Observatorium . CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 8:30 P.M. EDT: I had cheese crackers and ramen noodles, and ice tea; and I went out and read some computer tech newsweeklies at the Greenwich Library. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. It is getting cooler out, so I imagine the gators from Manhattan will be swimming back to their sewers there. Most of the private schools have gone back to school today, so it is a little slower around town. I noticed a surf board in a car parked in front of the movie theatre. I suppose with the 7.6 Richter earthquake in Taiwan, that the west coast of the western hemisphere and the various islands in between have to be put on a tidal wave watch. It generally takes two and a half days for a tidal wave to span the Pacific from Asia to the west coast of the western hemisphere. Thus the local beach people in those areas should start waxing up their surf boards or heading East to higher ground. I will look for a link on Tidal Wave or tsunamis activity in the Pacific. I recall there use to be a site. CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 4:15 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at midnight. I was up at 10:30 A.M., and I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. With this low pressure system from the hurricane activity, I fell back asleep until just now when NOAA weather radio alerted me to hurricane warning for Bermuda and Flash Flooding for northeast New Jersey tomorrow. Well I guess I should do the dishes and start cleaning up. I called the Greenwich town hall and the Greenwich Harbor Inn about the gator alert this morning. I also called Burns security. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 10:40 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I was sitting out in front of the post office plaza, and there were lots of bees there. I also was dive bombed by a kamikaze dragon fly that just missed me. The same thing happened after hurricane George last year. I noticed lots of young faces out and about town along with lots of babies and families. There were lots of dinners about. I mentioned to one couple waiting for a table at Thataways that the Roger Sherman Inn in New Canaan, Connecticut might not have such a long wait. I mentioned that with the hurricane evacuations that there might be from three to five million people moving on the eastern seaboard highways. I suggested that Montreal and Toronto might have room for evacuees. I did not go south of the tracks, but I did walk along the railroad platform, and observed lots of people going back to Manhattan. They have temporary crossing platforms since the platform side west bound is closed off. I chatted with one local doing his laundry. I noticed lots of people using Starbucks as usual. I returned home about 9:45 P.M., and I boiled some spaghetti noodles and heated some tomato sauce and had a spaghetti dinner with parmesan cheese sauce with ice tea. I got a pain in my back while I was making the sauce about earlier in the afternoon, and I still have a sharp pain there. I might try a hot tub. I suppose it is another uneventful day in Greenwich, with not much else to report. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 6:00 P.M. EDT: I finished cleaning up. I finished the ice tea. I had some cheese crackers and ice tea for dinner. I will go out shortly as soon as I reboot the server. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 4:00 P.M. EDT: I finished watering the plants and cleaning the apartment. I have a half hour until spaghetti sauce I have made is done. I put in a pound of ground beef, two large cans of plum tomatoes, a half cup of white wine, three diced onions, two diced green peppers, a few tablespoons of olive oil, a whole bulb of garlic chopped fine with the Braun chopper in two ounces of water, ground pepper, dashes of Italian spices, oregano, basil, celery salt, poultry seasoning, Chinese five spice, hot curry powder, McHilney's Tabasco sauce, Lea and Perrins worcestershire sauce, Angostura bitters, and I simmered it all for an hour. I also diced a Honeydew melon, and added angostura bitters, a half cup of white wine, and orange juice, and stored it in the refrigerator. I have been listening to Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Listen to the audiobook on broadcast.com while doing all this. I will relax a bit until the spaghetti sauce is finished in a half hour, and then I will refrigerate it. I will then probably make icetea.htm and clean up, and maybe go out around 6 P.M.. Well have a fun afternoon with the Reptile neighbors. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 12:50 P.M. EDT: Well I was up at about 11 A.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I checked with a few other people on the reptile matter. I guess somebody will take care of it sooner or later. I have to do house cleaning for the next few hours. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 11:05 P.M. EDT: I tried installing FrontPage 2000, and it installed; but it quit responding trying to open my web site. I guess it does not work with my web site, so I uninstalled it. I also had to reinstall Outlook 98. I guess not much is happening locally since everyone is maintaining normal routine. Well have a good evening, back to a little web work. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 9:30 P.M. EDT: Well I went back to bed until 4 P.M.. I got a tired spell from the Benadryl. I got up and cleaned up. I chatted with a couple of other people about the gator or Cayman. I then drove up to Home Depot in Norwalk on the Post Road. I exchanged the dead fiscus plant that had died for a golden pathos for $1.12 more. I then stopped by CompUSA and toured the merchandise. I next went up to New Canaan, and I had a blueberry muffin at Dunkin donuts for .90. I then walked the entire length of downtown New Canaan. I returned to Greenwich via the Merritt Parkway. I chatted with a local about the gator. I then walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I then avoided going down Steamboat Road. I then went by the Grand Union, and I chatted with a harbor regular about the gator. I then bought 90% ground beef at $2.99 a pound for $3.89, a Tony's Pepperoni pizza for $3, a bulb of garlic for .28, two green peppers at .99 a pound for $1.07, for $10.63 total. I told a local attorney that I had told a lot of people about the gator. I returned home, and I conferred with my neighbor. I put the golden pathos in my clay pot. I received another copy of FrontPage 2000 demo CD disk, which I will install shortly when I shut down the server. Well not much else happening. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 11:40 A.M. EDT: I went back to bed after breakfast, and I got up at around 10:30 A.M. and I finished my coffee, and I did a little computer work. I am just relaxing at home, have a good day. I checked with various police officials on the alligator, salt water Cayman, or crocodile matter; and there are now only two swans not four swans on Greenwich harbor according to them. Needless to say I plan to avoid the harbor area for the indefinite future. Use your own best judgment, and if anyone has a reptilian experience, I suggest they report it to the local authorities. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 3:55 A.M. EDT: I sat up through the hurricane on Thursday evening. It was not that bad. At around 8:30 P.M. while I was downstairs in the community room chatting with my neighbors, I heard a loud noise like a clap of lightning, but one generally does not get lightning in a hurricane. I walked around the building once, and it was not too bad. I threw out the Yugoslavian grape jelly, I had in my refrigerator for three years. I chatted with some neighbors. I stayed inside, and I was up until about 6 A.M.. I went to bed and got up at 9 A.M.. When I got up at 9 A.M., I felt like I had been hit by a biological warfare attack, and I thought that maybe the explosion I heard during the hurricane was a biological warfare shell exploding in the area. I felt like the noise came from 48 miles to the northwest. I had breakfast of Total, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I next sat up thinking. I chatted with a few people about the alligator problem in the area. I chatted with GEICO insurance about it. I chatted with Roger Kennedy of Kennedy security told me that one of his dogs was bitten by something over by the Japanese school and Stillman Rockefellers property. I also told a partner of Greenwich Capital partners, Morgan Jenkins sister, Malcolm Pray's secretary, and a few other people around. Basically if there is and there probably is an alligator around or misplaced crocodile, it probably lives here in the winter hibernating in the Steam Pipes of various building facilities. It probably crawls into the bridge culvert in front of the boys club where there are steam pipes, so it never freezes; and that was where the swans use to live before they were eaten. I guess they can go up from that culvert up the natural stream bed that runs along Malcom Pray's dealership, up through the wet land areas between lake Avenue and Glenville Road. Thus any wetland areas in the area could have an alligator in the warmer time of the year. I suppose it would be important to watch oneself when outside. Probably during the colder weather they would hibernate. I chatted with Rockefeller University and the Greenwich Hospital about the allergy and alligator problems. I continued to feel lousy, and I finally remember that the tailwinds of a hurricane have all the allergies of the tropics, so I went out about 4 P.M., and I bought two packages of Benadryl at CVS for $7.18 total. I returned home quickly, so as not to be outside in the allergy weather very long. I then had some Ramen noodles and ice tea and went to bed about 7 P.M., and I just got up now, and I will have some breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. Well have a good morning. Basically with this alligator problem, I feel like locking myself in my bank vault and never coming out again. There is traditional folk wisdom, that if you mess with a alligator that since they live to be over 200 years old, they will come back to haunt your off spring after you are dead a hundred years. Well I suppose I should get some sort of Koon dog, but I don't have the time to walk a Koon dog. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/16/99 Thursday 1:45 P.M. EDT: Yesterday I went out, and I stopped by the bank. I drove by the Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a Coleman drink holder for $1.50 made by Rubbermaid. I stopped by CVS and bought a carton of Tampa lite cigar cigarettes for $12.19, peanuts $1.69, shaving aftershave conditioner $1.39 plus tax .81 for a total $16.08 I went down by the harbor and chatted with a couple of fisherman and told them about the gator, and as usual with their prefixed conditions they did not believe me. If the fisherman down by the harbor continues with the same prefixed attitude, I would prescribe medication, since obviously he is a fish out of water. I next drove by the library and chatted with a couple of local observers, and I suggested to him that his team could pick up the new visitor. I next stopped by Exxon and got $15.50. I next stopped by the Grand Union and bought a half gallon of 2% milk for $1.69. I chatted with a few local people there about the upcoming storm condition, and I recommended they fill up their gasoline tanks with gasoline in case the electricity goes out. I then observed around the Grand Union, and I then I played a game of satellite shopping cart chess and chatted with a few other local shoppers and patrons of other stores. I next went home, and I chatted with one my neighbors. I forgot to eat, and I sat up until about 6 A.M. remember various historical research projects. I told the story about the alligator invasion in Buenos Ares, Argentina in 1906 when hundreds of thousands of gators swooped into town off the ocean and ate most every one during festival time, except one local man who fed the baby alligators at the local botanical garden. It was a rather peculiar story to read, and I also told them about how old Wiley Middletown's nemesis alligator came out of the swamp right after he died and ate him and spit him out for the baby gators to eat just after he died. I then relaxed quite a bit, and a lot of this historical information is available in French from the Bibliotheca National de Paris, and possibly available for download over the internet. Well I relaxed until about 8 A.M., and I got up at around noon. The NOAA weather radio has gone off a few times, and it is raining heavily out. I have to eat breakfast and clean up and go out in the rain for my 3 P.M. soon. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/15/99 Wednesday 8:55 A.M. EDT: Well I had some time to think about what I observed down by the waterfront on the pier on Steamboat Road yesterday. I noticed quite a few dead rats which had not been eaten, and I noticed a few dead sea gulls that had been eaten and there were only feather wings left. Having camped out in Key West, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and other tropical parts of Florida that would be an indication that we have a common site from Florida in the area. As any old Florida hand would tell you that is a sure sign of an alligator prowling around the waterfront in this area. Since an alligator would not swim up here either one got away from the zoo or on snuck off somebody boat that arrived up here. That is the best I can determine from what I observed around here. Needless to say I try to keep my karma with alligators since they are part of the ecological evolution of the tropical areas. Normally we feed alligator old chickens that are out date, so possibly if you threw an old chicken in the water on Steamboat Road, I bet the alligator would eat it and leave the sea gulls alone for a day. That is the best I can determine from what I observed yesterday. I still have not cleaned up, and I will be out in a while. Well have a good morning. I am just conferencing. CIO

Note:<888>9/15/99 Wednesday 6:00 A.M. EDT: Well I went out yesterday after the last message. I went downtown and walked around lower Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a few visitors. I stopped by the Mews Thrift shop and viewed some of the merchandise. I drove down by the waterfront and observed some local marine activity. I came home about 6:30 P.M. as I recall. I received a phone call from a friend and went over to visit until 9:30 P.M. The friends grandmother had not evacuated Daytona Beach, and she was uncured down in the powder room of her apartment in case the hurricane came ashore there. I gave them some advise from what I know of the area in 1978. I then returned to Greenwich and walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out for a while. I then drove down by the waterfront, and I viewed the harbor. A few fishermen were down there, so I told them about the large number of sea gulls, and they know where to take cover from the storm. I suppose if the sea gulls leave, we might be in for trouble. I returned home at 11:30 P.M., and I went to bed at midnight, and I was up at 5 A.M. this morning. Well have a good morning, and I have to have breakfast of Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, coffee, and vitamins. CIO

Note:<888>9/30/99 Thursday 11:45 P.M. EDT: Well I went for a walk on Greenwich Avenue after the last message. I chatted with a retired railroad employee about local activity. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue a couple of times. I noticed when going out that they are spraying the Byram River by building tomorrow evening at 7 P.M.. I drove down by the waterfront and nothing is going on. The Greenwich Harbor Inn is closed for the next year for remodeling. I can't figure out why they have to remodel. I never stayed there, but it looks perfectly presentable to me. The previous owners went bankrupt with a $10 million tax judgment against them, so maybe it is just not a profitable operation. That lowers the night time pedestrian activity on Greenwich Avenue by about a fifth. I returned home, and I chatted with one of my neighbors. Not much else to report on. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/30/99 Thursday 8:25 P.M. EDT: Well I cleaned up, and I went out and made my 3 P.M. appointment. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I drove by the harbor. I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the local paper, and I read three computer newsweeklies. I drove back down by the waterfront, and I viewed the harbor and chatted with a few locals for a while. I noticed three swans on the harbor two young and one older. I did not see any other birds on the harbor like gulls, so maybe croc of gator is still around. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a 12 oz. container of GU frozen orange juice for $1.39 and used $1.15 in cans to help purchase it. I returned home and put the frozen orange juice in the refrigerator to defrost and had a diet Sprite in a frozen mug. I made up a box of spaghetti noodles and I also mixed a 12 oz. can of white clam sauce, two cans of mushroom, one diced onion, herbs and spices, a quarter cup of white wine, several tablespoons of olive oil, four pads of margarine and heated it all stirring over low heat while the spaghetti noodles boiled. I then had spaghetti with white clam sauce and ice tea. I will now make some coffee to have after dinner. While I was out this afternoon, I made a C: drive to E: drive backup. Well it was a nice afternoon. Remember to watch out for mosquitoes with encephalitis when your out in the evening at sunset and also in the morning at sunrise. Not much else to report. CIO

Note:<888>9/30/99 Thursday 1:30 P.M. EDT: Well I slept from about 6 A.M. until 11 A.M.. I listened to some computer broadcast. I had some reheated pasta friche, buttered toast, ice tea and coffee. I updated Scott's Weekly Broadcast sound.htm . I have a 3 P.M. appointment, so I have to get ready to go out soon. Have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/30/99 Thursday 6:00 A.M. EDT: I spent most of the evening and morning working on the computer. I played with the sound drivers and reinstalled them trying to get Netmeeting to work to no avail. I install @home 1.7 for Internet Explorer. By removing "npbmv32.dll" in both the plugin folders for Communicator and Internet Explorer, when I star the @home browser, it does not try to load my 75,000 bookmarks. I reinstalled some basic files and did a little system maintenance. I had some Pasta fraiche and bread and butter with ice tea about 4 A.M.. Well the system is running fine, and although it does not seem like I accomplished much, there are always a few minor headaches. When installing @home 1.7 for either web browser, it try to install to install a system backup program which when it starts automatically on my system uses too many resources. After installing the setup files, before reboot, I disable the backup program in the System Information, System Configuration, Startup Files settings. Well I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon, so I might rest for a while. My back is not too bad right now. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/29/99 Wednesday 8:45 P.M. EDT: I made a tape backup this morning while I was sleeping. I got up around 3 P.M., and I cancelled my site at mrscott.com down in Florida as of October 24, 1999. I had three eggs, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins for breakfast. I got a tired spell and went back to bed until 8 P.M.. I had the rest of my coffee and four slices of bread when I woke up, and I also took a back pill. My back is feeling better. Well have a good evening, I believe it is suppose to rain this morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/29/99 Wednesday 7:30 A.M. EDT: I tried to rest, and then I got back up and did my email. I installed AOL 5.0 which just came out, and I uninstalled AOL 4.0. Not much else to report on. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/29/99 Wednesday 4:00 A.M. EDT: I went back out and drank a thermos of coffee in the post office plaza. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue and around the train station and up Arch Street. I sat out for a while at the Post Office Plaza. Not much to report. As usual it is quite out Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/29/99 Wednesday 2:10 A.M. EDT: I am making coffee to go out and enjoy on this enjoyable morning. I also noticed Number 46 Canadian License Plate on Greenwich Avenue today in close to sixteen years. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/29/99 Wednesday 1:55 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I then sat out for a while. I walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue. There was a used pair of hiking boots about size 9 1/2 discarded in front of Outdoor Traders. I walked down towards Mason Street. I sat out opposite the Presbyterian Church. They have a sign out that there is a Closet Sale on October 1 and 2. I walked down the Avenue, and I saw a new pair of women’s shoes discarded on the stone wall in front of the Greenwich Common with a CVS bag about size 5. I sat out for a while. I drove over to CVS in Old Greenwich and they have a bin of generic cigarettes for $1.20 each. I got five packs for $6.36. I drove back to the center of town. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and I walked around the train station platform area. I returned to the post office plaza area. I noticed a sign for a Art Festival in front of the Senior Center at the Bruce Museum I believe on October 9 and 10. I returned to Byram, and I went to Cumberland Farms, and I bought a quart of milk for $1.09. I came home and I am now making Pasta Fraiche. I am also having a Citra soda in a chilled mug. Well have a good morning. Remember to watch out for mosquitoes with encephalitis in this area. I am just about to sit down to dinner. CIO

Note:<888>9/28/99 Tuesday 10:10 P.M. EDT: I was up at about 2:45 P.M., and I still had the bad back. I called the Greenwich Hospital 1‑203‑863‑3000 and I made an appointment to go over to outpatient at 4 P.M.. I had Kellogg’s raisin bran and orange juice with vitamins. I showered and cleaned up. I went over to the hospital, the Doctor said I probably pulled out my sacracariliac. I also have only lost three pounds since my last physical, so I put on weight and lost fifteen pounds recently. I was given twelve Vioxx 12.5 mg. tablets to take once a day. I then stopped by CVS looking for a large Djeep lighter which they were out of. I parked downtown, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue and back up Arch Street. I returned home, and I went to bed until 9 P.M.. When I got up my back felt a bit better, but it still hurts slightly when I sit down and stand up. I had some reheated brown rice, ice tea, and coffee. I then restarted the server, and I filed this report. Well I will go out shortly, so have an enjoyable evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/28/99 Tuesday 6:30 A.M. EDT: At USC Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Team they have TSUNAMI FIELD SURVEY MOVIES with a 17.1 meg movie of a Tsunami Computer Simulation in California. Also this link shows what could happen from a Tsunami in any coastal area after a small asteroid impact on the ocean Tsunami from Asteroid Impacts . Well now after you finish worrying about the Reptile having you for lunch, you can worry about that. I am going to try to sleep for a while, my back is still hurting. CIO

Note:<888>9/28/99 Tuesday 4:30 A.M. EDT: Well my back has been hurting me all evening in the lower right-hand side. I have been trying to relax. I put MediaRing.com ‑ Linking People Connecting Minds on the computer which now works with a cable modem. I have been cat napping not bothering to go outside. Whenever I try to pull on my shorts or put on my socks I get a severe pain in my back. Also when I sit down it hurts after a while. I have been lying down in bed, and also the short blue sofa with my feet propped up is comfortable. I called the British Embassy in Washington D. C. and chatted with the security personnel, but they fell asleep. There number is 1‑202‑462‑1340 and since the U.S. Government intelligence services and other foreign governments monitor them, it is a good way to pass a message to the intelligence community. I told them about the Reptile problem here, and suggested the build a Gator Fence like around the White House or the Rockefeller Estate in North Terrytown, New York. The only problem is that if it is indeed a thirty foot plus King Crocodile in this area are swimming up and down the coastal Atlantic regions which it could, it might actually be much larger, and possibly swimming in a Alluvia or large pack of them. Thus we would try building a fifty foot deep moat around the British Embassy and putting the gator fencing on either side. However a much larger King Crocodile could dig much deeper in muddy soil. I guess they would have more of a problem digging deep in Connecticut with all the rocks. However the recently deceased George C. Scott kept a stone wall around is property up in the swamp area around Stillman Rockefellers property which might have been partially effective. Still in swampy terrain it could dig much deeper. Needless to say, I am happy to sit inside, but if it is a really big gator, caiman, or crock it could jump up to a second story landing and barge into a second story window. Thus we need to go to our full gator defenses. I advised a local veteran to check out what the local vets know about such reptiles in their travels. There is mention today in the Fox News service that China plans to invade and takeover Taiwan again, which might cause some sort of international difficulty for any neutrals living in that part of the world. Well have a good morning, and I will continue to rest. CIO

Note:<888>9/27/99 Monday 6:35 A.M. EDT: Well I read through chapter 22 of Ronald Reagan's autobiography published a number of years ago, and on page 125 he mentions in the 1950s he was paying 94% taxes out in California on his income, so that is why he never had that much money saved up once he became President. I suppose much would be said for a lot of the other perceived as being wealthy from that period across the United States. Thus most of their taxed income is probably invested in the highway infrastructure of the United States that was built in that period, and a lot of established tax payers paid to build. I also checked with the Greenwich Police Department and suggest that beside buying and old office building for new headquarters, they could build a new state of the art security complex on the site of the Cos Cos power plant instead of using the old run down Cabin Fever Records building. I also suggested they should study the precinct concept here in town, but the nature of the town it would probably be better to have 5 to 10 mobile command post set up at 10 to 20 hookup locations with dispatch vehicles located around them including GEMs vehicles. Thus at different times of the year, and with different public safety matters, they could rotate them around, and it would offer patrol officer operating facilities in the neighborhoods they work in saving the necessity of returning to a central station all the time. Also whether at the old Cabin Fever Records building or at the Cos Cob Power Plant location in a new state of the art building, it would seem Indian Field Road at exit four off I95 is going to have to be widened to accommodate extra traffic with emergency vehicles. It would almost seem if it has not been done already, that they might need to do some sort of long term planning in terms of state, municipal, and regional development and see how all these diverse facilities would fit into the local long term regional plan. Basically it would seem to me that some of the regional banks might have long term plans in terms of the development of the area, that they have not informed the general public as to how these different development program fit into the overall scheme. Needless to say the local Greenwich Times, does not even publish the minutes of the RTM anymore, so basically I think it would be safe to assume we are part of a Exxon Rockefeller development, and I did see somebody downtown on Thursday night at 10 P.M. walking from the Dome Restaurant to a parked rental car with chauffer and body guard that looked like David Rockefeller, Junior; and I overheard him say; "We're Smarter Than These People." Well I guess as long as the economy support the new development, activity will continue to progress; but boom times never last forever; so remember to save for a rainy day. CIO

Note:<888>9/27/99 Monday 3:05 A.M. EDT: I was up at 1:30 A.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, five strips of bacon, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I listened to the BBC and they were complaining that one should eat a low cholesterol diet, so maybe they should have suggested a low cost alternative such as oatmeal, which last I heard was plentiful in Scotland. Basically the printed press in looking to cover stories about notable people somehow seems to miss the point that a lot of notable people spend a lot of time reading, so therefore instead of covering mundane facts about notable people which are not relevant, they should seek to ascertain which book or periodical literature they are reading during their reading periods. Well so much for political commentary. I will now relax a bit and read another fifty or so pages from the Reagan biography that came out a number of years ago. George Bush has a new book coming out around October 6, so that will give something for the Reagans to read. I guess anyone whom reads a lot, should also reference which libraries, bookstores, and newsstands they also use. Well have a good day, and remember if you get bored of English beside the English speaking libraries in the UK, there are also good libraries in French in towns like Paris. I believe there is a brand new library in Paris. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>9/26/99 Sunday 4:00 P.M. EDT: Well after I had a cup of herbal brown rice and ice tea, I went out and stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times. I chatted with a local whom I had not seen in several weeks, and I briefed him on the reptile matter. He told me the largest individual stockholder in IBM is a Danish merchant ship owner. He showed me a picture of the Aka Khan and his uncle with their wives, so if I ever see them floating around, I will recognize them. I saw a lot of familiar faces. The Greenwich Times says that George Bush is suppose to be over in Stamford, Connecticut signing books on October 6,1999. I was thinking that since the crocodile is the symbol of the Bourbon family, it might have come over here to protect any member of such a clan lingering in the area, like a Royal watch dog. I next went downtown, and I saw lots of afternoon strollers. I chatted with a neighbor once I returned. I am bushed, so I might go to bed soon. I tried calling a family member. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/26/99 Sunday 12:45 P.M. EDT: Well I went out at first light. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a regular at the Greenwich train station which is open on Sundays now. I said hello to a visiting resident from Austria, and told him there are Austrian skiers at Stowe, Vermont. I walked back uptown. I chatted with the same regular. I then walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again, and I chatted with a few morning regulars. I then returned uptown and chatted with the same regular. I then walked up the Avenue with another regular morning walker. We rested at the bench by the Presbyterian Church, and then we walked up by Christ Church and the Synagogue and then down the Post Road by the High School, and then back downtown. I then sat out until 11:30 A.M. observing the morning Starbucks crowd. I noticed people still park their left front tires right up to the granite curbs when parking on Greenwich Avenue, and I frequently comment it is poor civil engineering since the granite curbs cut the sidewalls which are thinner of the left front radial tires creating potential highway hazards. I noticed quite a few youngster and families out for morning strolls. I returned via Exxon and bought $12.75 of premium. I recommended to Exxon that they should dump a forty pound defrosted turkey in Horse Neck Brook by Malcolm Prays and one also by the bridge by the Exxon Station in Byram at sunset and see if indeed a saltwater crocodile or alligator or saltwater Cayman tries to eat them during night. Conceivably they could use police surveillance equipment to see if we can catch the reptile in the act. Of course if we do find such a reptile, and it has not harmed any humanoid forms, it would be protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act. I returned home and chatted with a couple of my neighbors. I noticed a friendly baseball game was just beginning to start in the baseball park behind the Dorothy Hamill rink and behind the 71 Vinci Drive building. Not much else happening. I plan to have some reheated herbal brown rice, and ice tea. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/26/99 Sunday 5:45 A.M. EDT: I tried to rest a bit, but I could not fall asleep. I decided to make a some herbal brown rice. I put in 2.5 cups of water in a heavy cooking pot, and I turned it on to boiling, and I added four tablespoons of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", a tablespoon of olive oil, a dash of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, a dash of McHilney's Tabasco sauce, a eight of a cup of white wine, a tablespoon of teriyaki sauce, a dash of ground black pepper, a bit of garlic powder, basil, oregano, Italian season, Ramen noodles seasoning, cinnamon, Chinese five spice, hot curry, two beef bouillon cubes, Hungarian pepperica, celery salt, poultry seasoning, to which when it all boiled I added one and a eight cups of brown rice, and a seven ounce can of mushroom stems and pieces which I simmered for 50 minutes until most of the moisture was observed, and then I refrigerated it in a Rubbermaid container for having to reheat latter on. It could also be used for refried rice. Well I am listening to the BBC morning report, which is amusing as usual on Sunday since I think they can afford to have a cocktail on Saturday nights. Well not much else to report. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/26/99 Sunday 3:45 A.M. EDT: Well I finished reading the Ronald Reagan biography through chapter 12, page 100. Not much happening around here, perhaps I will take a nap before cleaning up and going out in the morning. Have an enjoyable morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/26/99 Sunday 1:10 A.M. EDT: I went back to bed and got up at 8 P.M.. I had the rest of the pasta fraiche and ice tea. I started cleaning my apartment and watering the plants. I finished this activity about midnight. I defrost some spaghetti sauce and boiled some spaghetti, and I had a spaghetti dinner with ice tea and coffee. While doing this I made C: and D: drives backups to the E: drive, and E: drive to C: drive backup, along with optimizing with Norton Speedisk all three hard drives. I watched a bit of the History Channel while finishing up this activity. My back is bothering me again from cleaning up. I think lifting the octagon table while vacuuming strains my back, which happened last Sunday also. I guess now, I will splash some water on my face, and possibly sit down and do a little reading of the Ronald Reagan biography that I started last night. I also plan to quit running the Florida server on October 23, 1999 when the present payment runs out, so be sure to use the local home server http://mrscott.com/ here in Greenwich, Connecticut USA. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/25/99 Saturday 4:00 P.M. EDT: I was up at 1:30 P.M., and I checked all my fonts deleting them and trying to run Netmeeting and then reinstalling them, and unless it is one of half dozen fonts that can't be deleted, they are not what is keeping Netmeeting from running. It might be a problem with my AOL Networking, but it does not seem that would cause a problem. I have not found a solution the Microsoft knowledgebase. I received Jeb Bush's email newsletter from Florida, and he plans to fly up to New York this Thursday and return the following Friday. I don't know if he will be coming out to Greenwich or not. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. Well I will either rest or clean up and go out in a while. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/25/99 Saturday 8:00 A.M. EDT: I did some routine work. I checked my system fonts to see if they were keeping Netmeeting from starting, but it still does not start; but I never used it anyway. Well I just had some pasta fraiche and ice tea. It just thundered, so maybe it will rain this morning. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/25/99 Saturday 2:10 A.M. EDT: I watched a hour show on the History Channel from 11 P.M. to midnight about the historical political campaigning between Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon. I then went outside and smoke a cigar cigarette. I then read the first four chapters of "An American Life Ronald Reagan The Autobiography". I believe there is suppose to be a new Reagan biography out this week, so I will have to look for it in the library. Reading tech news all the time, all you hear about is tech people; occasionally one enjoys changing the subject matter and relaxing at home reading. Well have a good morning, maybe I will try some other household chores or activities. I am really not a television watcher, mostly a reader. CIO

Note:<888>9/24/99 Friday 11:05 P.M. EDT: I went back to bed after the last message, and I got up at 9 P.M.. I updated Stroud's CWSApps List ‑ New 32‑bit Apps. Free Software downloads for Windows 95/98/NT to Microsoft Direct X 7.0 and a latest version Music Match Jukebox. I listened to BBC Up All Night while having some pasta fraiche, ice tea, and now coffee. I will watch a bit of the History Channel now GIST TV Listings . Not much happening, have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/24/99 Friday 6:45 P.M. EDT: I went to bed about 9 A.M., and I was up at 5 P.M.. I put together a page on Alligators, Crocodiles, and Caimans gator001.htm from the Microsoft Encarta 98 and the World Book Encyclopedia Cdroms. I also had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. Well I guess I will clean up in a while and head over to the library. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/24/99 Friday 5:05 A.M. EDT: Well after dinner of pasta fraiche and ice tea, I went out about 10 P.M. last night. It was a quiet night out, and I sat out for a while. I noticed a few business people making the rounds. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue a couple of time, and it was a quiet night. I noticed www.restorationhardware.com is selling Kazoos for $3. It was a typical fall night, and it was a bit chilly; so I wore my fall jacket without a sweater. I returned home about 12:15 A.M., and had some more pasta fraiche and ice tea. I sat around relaxing until about 2 A.M.. I then remembered I had to do my laundry, so I did it and finished it about 4:30 A.M.. I had two large loads, so it was slightly damp when I took it out. I put it away. I relaxed while I was doing it. I suppose it is enjoyable to have some quiet time. Not much to report on. I noticed that George C. Scott passed away. Quite frankly I did not know he was even out in California around his family. I suppose he got wind of the Gator and was living out there for quite awhile to avoid it. Well I guess it goes to show, that it is a large extended family network on both sides of the continent. Not really much to report on, I suppose I will have to start slowing down for the morning. I have been feeling a bit lackadaisical. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/23/99 Thursday 8:45 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 4 A.M., and I was up at noon. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I rested a bit after breakfast, and then I cleaned up; and I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I then stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I then drove down and parked in the center of town, and I sat for a while at the veterans monument. I chatted with one regular walker. I walked down by the train station, and I chatted with a retired railroad employee. I walked through the train station, and there were lots of commuters there. I walked over to the other side of the platform, and there was a commotion there, somebody was nearly passed out on the steps. Railroad employees told me that they had called the police. It took about 35 minutes for the Emergency Medical Technicians to arrive. I explained that frequently somebody might not be drunk, but they might have had a stroke, a bee sting causing an allergic reaction, or possibly have been given a Mickey Finn in a local establishment in Manhattan. Once the EMTs transported the person away, I walked back up the Avenue, and I drove over to the Greenwich Library. I read the local paper, and it said they would be spraying for mosquitoes with St. Louis encephalitis from trucks in Old Greenwich tonight at about 7 P.M.. I read a computer magazine. I then departed the library and noticed two patrons arguing about a scratched door. I stopped by VALs liquor at the Grand Union shopping plaza and picked up three empty cardboard wine boxes. I then returned home and I removed all the contents of my trunk from the Volvo and I reorganized the trunk putting in various items in the boxes, and resorting other items. I took out the small clay potting pots and put them in the community room kitchen for my neighbors to use. Thus I have room for about one suitcase in the trunk, if I move the snow shovel. I went upstairs, and I had diet Sprite in a frosted mug and some peanuts. I went back downstairs, and I put the pots in the community room kitchen. I then returned upstairs and started making pasta fraiche which should be ready in about ten minutes. I filed this report while doing that. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/23/99 Thursday 1:25 A.M. EDT: I was up about 1 P.M. today. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I next cleaned up, and I received a phone call from an individual complaining how I told someone where he lived, and the individual had only told me about a million times where he lives as if he wanted everyone to know. When the individual called a second time, I answered "Cornelius Vanderbilt residence, Mr. Vanderbilt is at his Grenada, Spain residence." Then I hung up. When I returned after my errands there was a message on my answering machine with much the same complaint. Next I stopped by the Arnold Bakery bread outlet, and I bought three loaves of Arnold Masters Winter Wheat for $4.03 total. I then headed over to the as I recall the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and chatted with customers about a possible salt water crocodile in the lake on the ninth hole of a local country club. I then checked some of the merchandise. They had an electronic air purifier that sparked with a ten thousand volt spark when you turned it on. Realistically the hospital thrift shop should not sell used electronics. I noticed a book by Penny Junor on Prince Charles for sale. I eventually bought a folding wine rack which I put in my bedroom for $1.50. Now all I need is some wine for it. I then stopped by the ELDC thrift shop, but on the way I informed a local pedestrian while walking by the new Christ Church Manse about the salt water crocodile in Greenwich Harbor. I then continued on to the ELDC thrift shop, and they told me that all the Florida people had gone back south. They had a nice old spinning wheel there for $95. I next went over to downtown Greenwich and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a few locals about waterfront problems. I mentioned to a local from Trinidad they should gallon bottles of Angostura Bitters here. I walked around the lower downtown area on a cool blustery afternoon. It looks like hurricane Floyd has spun over Scotland and around Scandinavia and over Russia and the North Pole, and come back down heading Northwest to Southeast with lots of moisture still. I suppose it dropped a bit of snow up in the artic. I then went over to the Greenwich Library, and I read a couple of computer newsweeklies. I noticed one article said the Navy Research Laboratory in Monterey figured out with a CRAY supercomputer three days before hurricane Floyd would hit North Carolina instead of Florida, and they sent the ships out to sea. I hope they also informed the general public. I would not know since I hardly ever watch television or read a newspaper, just the internet stories. I noticed while sitting down in the comfortable chairs in the library, some change fell out of my pocket; and it was quite difficult to retrieve out of the cushion. I eventually departed to the Grand Union. I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural Juice for $1.99, a half gallon of 2% milk for $1.69, a dozen large eggs for $1.49 for a total of $5.17. I chatted with one returning member of the old library skate board mafia whom I had not seen in nine years, and I guess he is now a doctor after attending premed and medical school for nine years. He looks a bit like a family member. He said he is now living in Brooklyn, New York now. I recall last night when I went out, I was looking at http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/sat‑images/DTOT.JPG and over Diego Garcia in the India Ocean, there seems to be forming a dense tropical storm formation that might head into the Caribbean in a week, however the local cooler weather would probably keep it from being too intense up north. I noticed quite a few people were just buying a few items, like nobody had any money. I suppose possibly the Clinton fundraising in Westport, Connecticut is siphoning off lots of money from local people in the area whom really can not afford it. I guess local doctors make so much money off government Medicaid and other medical payments it is a way of paying back the politicians. I would think that would be illegal, but since the attorney general has Parkinson’s Syndrome, I guess she is absent minded. I next returned home, and I had a Spinach pizza for dinner with ice tea. I rest for a bit, and then I downloaded and installed StarOffice which is free. I have noticed lots of Russians as usual following me around, so I guess they think I am the Czar of Russia planning to take over Russia again. Well from what I can tell as usual not much is happening which is normal. Also Greenwich is going to spray Thursday night for St. Louis Encephalitis. I guess we're pretty lucky here compared to eastern North Carolina. I will keep a sharp eye out for visiting dignitaries with the United Nations General Assembly starting up its annual sessions. I have been here for so long, I can't seem to remember if I am part of some other foreign country delegation or not. I always seem to have blue and white on my mind, so maybe it is some group with blue and white colors. Well for all I know we're still in Greenwich, Switzerland. I forgot to mention I transferred control of my Greenwich, Connecticut pocessions to my Swiss Corporation, so we are a separate Canton of Switzerland, but the taxes to Switzerland will actually be higher than United States taxes. It had something to do with International Law of something. Well have a good evening, and don't take any wooden nickels from any of the local Indians. I am still continuing to avoid the waterfront in case any reptiles are out there lurking and much could be said for the swam wetland areas of town. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/22/99 Wednesday 7:25 A.M. EDT:I went out about 1:30 A.M., and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I studied some of the Pied a Terres, Sotheby’s has for sale in their Pickwick Plaza display monitor which seemed to be somewhat unique properties. I noticed at the boutique across from the Dome Restaurant they have a nice picture of a British aristocrat horseback riding with his wife. I noticed the Baccarat crystal shop has a modern display. I noticed the French antique shop up the road across from St. Mary's has a new shipment of Paris collectables. I noticed that as usual a lot of other shops are getting ready for the fall and winter seasons. I suppose one could go on and on about Greenwich Avenue, but I usually don't do much shopping there anymore other than CVS, since I have most everything I need; but it is always an enjoyable exercise walk viewing the morning hub bub and other assorted activity at various time of the day or week. No unusual reptiles spotted in the area, so possibly they headed down to warmer places like Washington D.C. to feast on the local wharf rats. I suppose with the change of seasons more of the Northern folk or making their annual migration here for the winter where it is warmer. I guess we can expect pretty much the normal routine as ever. I am a bit bushed, so I suppose I should start thinking about going to bed. I basically relaxed most of the morning. From what I can tell there is not much to report here. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/07/99 Thursday 7:20 P.M. EDT: I went out after dinner. I viewed the harbor, and it is a cool blustery evening with the usual fishermen in attendance. I stopped by the library and read the local newspaper and three computer newsweeklies. I am a bit tired, so I will stop the server; and do a tape backup while I am asleep. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/07/99 Thursday 5:35 P.M. EDT: I worked on the computer until about noon, doing some routines like backing up the C: and D: drives to the E: drive, and the E: drive to the C: drive. I also posted the new version of my directory at the Florida site which ends on October 24. I had dinner about 9 A.M. of cold chicken breast with Tabasco sauce, steamed broccoli, Ramen noodles, ice tea, and coffee. I cleaned up, and I went out at 1 P.M.. I stopped by Putnam Trust bank of New York on Mason Street. I drove over to the Arnold Bread store and bought three loaves of 12 grain bread for $2.43 total. I drove down by the waterfront. The usual fishermen were there. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. I went by the Mews thrift shop. I chatted with a visitor from California. I found a bargain. I bought a mahogany acorn poster bed 3 feet by 6 six feet with all the parts for $70. They had taken in the box spring and mattress which they could not sell, so they gave them to me. I packed the bed in the Volvo, and I tied the box spring and mattress to the roof of the car, and I drove it home. I carried it all up. I moved the blue love seat, and I set up the bed where it was. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I toured part of the new hospital. It is a very beautiful building, and they have a new cafeteria there also. I will have to explore it some more, when I have time. I returned home. I polished the bed, and I made it up. I put a silk converter on it that a friend had given me years ago. I put the bolsters from the blue love seat on it, and I stored the two cushions from the love seat underneath the bed. I put the love seat frame out by the dumpster. I put some pillow on the day bed, and it is very comfortable and it looks very nice in the living room. I had to put the head board end by the television, so the low part is by the hallway. It is quite comfortable to lie down on and read or watch television, and the mattress is quite comfortable. I just made some Stauffer’s lasagna, so I will eat it with some ice tea, and go out for some fresh air afterwards. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/07/99 Thursday 9:30 A.M. EDT: I was up at midnight. I had Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, coffee, orange juice, and coffee. I just finished posting the new version of Scott's Internet Hotlist downloadable directory at download.htm, version scott007.zip is available. It is basically 73,000 proofed links in 160 categories. Well I have to do some uploading, and have a bit to eat. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/06/99 Wednesday 1:45 P.M. EDT: I made a long bookmark of my Microsoft Favorites with a Favorites to Bookmark converter. I removed date code from the bookmark file with Text Pad, and I am about halfway through updating my downloadable directory with the Proofed Favorites in the bookmark file. It is just a lot of cutting and pasting with Text Pad, so tomorrow, I should have a new update of my downloadable directory with all proofed and updated links. Well I am bushed, so I am off to bed. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/06/99 Wednesday 5:05 A.M. EDT: Well I finished my laundry. The right most dryer does not seem to dry very well, some of the clothes came out damp. Well I finally turned of the music. It was fun to listen to oldies for a while. Well time for a little internet work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/06/99 Wednesday 3:35 A.M. EDT: Well I am still listening to www.cool107.com . I went out after last message, and I walked a bit downtown. I viewed the construction site of the new Mitchell's department store. It was a bit cool out, and I did not wear a sweater, so I did not stay out long. The Grand Union was closed, so I stopped by the Food Emporium. The usual friendly staff was there. I bought three bottles of Perrier for $2.99, a MasterChoice Spinach pizza $1.64 with Food Emporium savings card, a half gallon of Sealtest 2% milk $2.09, Mighty Mouse six pack of microwave popcorn, for a total of $9.71. I then returned home, and I started the laundry. I had some cold chicken breast with Tabasco sauce, steamed broccoli, and reheated herbal spice brown rice along with ice. I put the laundry in the dryer, and it should be done in about a half hour. I will now have my coffee. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/06/99 Wednesday 12:30 A.M. EDT: Tired of tech, try http://playlist.broadcast.com/makeasx.asp?id=5629&introad=mms://nsads.broadcast.com/ads/simplenet

for mood relief. CIO

Note:<888>10/05/99 Tuesday 11:20 P.M. EDT: I was up at 9 P.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, six strips of bacon, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I then cleaned the old hospital air purifier by cleaning the ionizing grids and the cabinet. The charcoal filter is a bit clogged, but it all seems to work adequately for now. I noticed on television the other night that the The Sharper Image: 1‑800‑344‑4444 has Product Display Page Ionic Air Purifier which I can not afford, but would be very handy for my apartment. It is easy to clean, and does not need additional new filters, and it uses far less electricity than regular air purifiers, and it is perfectly quiet to regular air purifiers. Well maybe some time in the future. I am listening to Radio 5 Up All Night on the BBC the third dino on the homepage about the train wreck in Great Britain where 26 people were killed. Well I need to clean up and go out for some fresh air and I also need to get a half gallon of milk. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/05/99 Tuesday 12:55 P.M. EDT: Well I have finished printing out the last four months of notes. I put them in another binder. I now have six binders with all the printed out notes since I started them. Well so much for my recent adventure in publishing. However, they say write from experience, so I guess I pretty well have documented the experiences of a novice middle aged Personal Computer user. I guess if you have a little bit more money in your life than Ramen noodle expenses, you might want to do something more interesting. Well I just had some Ramen noodles, bread and butter, and ice tea. I think I might take a nap now. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/05/99 Tuesday 11:40 A.M. EDT: I updated mlsnote1.txt linked from note02pr.htm . I am printing it out now, which should be done in about a half hour. Well then I might clean up and go out or rest, who knows. CIO

Note:<888>10/05/99 Tuesday 8:55 A.M. EDT: I did a little routine internet work. After dinner, I had coffee also. I went through scotwork.htm . I called the Bell Atlantic toll call dispute number at 1‑203‑890‑0183, and they said they would take off $75.96 in collect phone calls from local pay phone in the area that AT&T billed me for during the last four months. If AT&T wants to pursue it, they will have to bill me separately. It does not make since that when someone does not have a quarter to call someone from a local pay phone, AT&T tries to bill at the rate of .35 to .50 a minute which is against the public trust as the phone companies are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. It goes to show that one should look at their bills more carefully. Well I will rest a spell, and then go out after I clean up. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/05/99 Tuesday 4:35 A.M. EDT: I was up at about 9 P.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I checked with somebody at another office location about general events in this area. I changed my screen resolution to 800 X 600 pixels, so AOL content comes up in larger screens. Since there is less room for icons on the desktop, I made sub folders to hold my various groups of icons. Well it all took a while, and I also reinstalled the display driver. On my system with Win98 , I have to use the Win95 display driver for the S‑571 motherboard from www.pcware.com with onboard video, since the Win98 display driver does not seem to work. Well any way it is all working for now, so it should be a little easier on the eyes. Also I have to have to take a break for dinner, and have some of the cold roasted chicken I prepared last night, with steamed broccoli, and reheated herbal and spice brown rice, and I am just finishing making up a batch of icetea.htm . Well have a good morning. Remember any early sunrise risers and sunset watchers and harbor or shore observers, the mosquitoes are out there with St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile fever, so watch yourselves. Smoking tobacco does help keep mosquitoes away. CIO

Note:<888>10/04/99 Monday 2:25 P.M. EDT: I had some reheated herbal and spice brown rice with buttered bread and ice tea this morning. I went out at 7 A.M., and I stopped by the Exxon Station next to the library and bought $14.25 of premium gasoline. I drove down by the waterfront, and the usual fishermen were out in force. I noticed there were three older twelve meter yachts at the Yacht Club getting ready to sail. It started raining, so I left the waterfront. I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a cheese slicer for .50. I then drove by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. They have lots of new books there. I stopped by the Grand Union and I bought six sets of the Willow Churchill dinner ware plate, sauce, and cup sets for $1.99 each for all three pieces, and I also got four free two ounce jars of Brazilian Samba instant coffee for $12.66 total. I returned home, and I was informed that a neighbor downstairs whom had been ill quite a long time had passed away last night. We will all miss her, she was one of the original tenants in the building. I chatted with a few neighbors. I put away the China. I went out again about 11:30 A.M., and I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York to do some banking. I stopped by the Grand Union again, and I got two more sets of the China for $1.99 each for a complete set of eight plus a box of Post Raisin bran on sale for 20 oz. for .99 for $5.21 total along with another four jars of 2 ounce Brazilian Samba coffee for free. I then headed back down by the waterfront. I viewed the waterfront with a visiting party from Maryland. They told me they had seen the 12 meter yachts at Tod's Point, and sure enough they entered the harbor as we were viewing and dropped their sails. It was a beautiful sight. I wish I had had a camera to photograph the vista of the old 12 meter yachts sailing. I chatted with the fellow about Maryland, and I told him that I thought it was a good place for the Florida people to park their boats during the hurricane season, since it could hold them all. He was very knowledgeable about the water. I then drove by the ELDC thrift shop, and they have some nice chairs there. I went back by the Hospital Thrift shop, and they have the usual assortment of various items. I tried to go by the Mews thrift shop, but they were closed. I returned home from there, and I had some reheated herbal spice brown rice and bread and butter and ice tea. I then put away the other two sets of dishes for a total of eight. I relax a bit, and I filed this report. I am quite tired, so it is time for bed. Have an enjoyable rest of the day. CIO

Note:<888>10/04/99 Monday 5:20 A.M. EDT: I turned off the server for a while when there was a bit of lightning. I think it is suppose to rain all day today. I made up a batch of herbal spice brown rice. I ran Norton Anti Virus. I am watching a old movie, but I guess I will do a little internet work soon. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/04/99 Monday 3:40 A.M. EDT: I had some Ramen noodles and bread and butter with ice tea, and I made a thermos of coffee, and I went out for a stroll. I sat out in the post office plaza and drank the coffee. I then walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and I then walked down Railroad Avenue and up Arch Street. I then walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue, and then I sat out at the bench at Pickwick Plaza for a while. I then returned down Greenwich Avenue, and sat out for a while in front of the senior center. I noticed for the last several years that the box woods in front of the Institute for Foreign Study are dead which seems peculiar. I then drove down by the waterfront, and it was quiet. I then returned home. Not much going on, and it was another quiet night on Greenwich Avenue. Well time for some net work, have a quiet morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/04/99 Monday 1:00 A.M. EDT: I watched a bit of the BBC television news, and the Mystery Channel on Channel 21 PBS. I finished cooking the Purdue chicken, and I put it in the refrigerator to chill. I will now go out for a bit of fresh air, after I have some Ramen noodles and teriyaki sauce to eat. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/03/99 Sunday 11:05 P.M. EDT: I rested a bit more until 9 P.M., since my back was still hurting a bit. I put the pillows in my major sitting chairs to relieve back pain. I went out at 10 P.M., and I stopped by the ATM machine, and it once again gives out $20 bills instead of $50 bills. I stopped by the Grand Union, and they are promoting Churchill Microwave China with the blue and white pagoda pattern that has been around for over a hundred years. They don't have the major starter seven inch plate, with saucer and tea cup for $1.99 with Grand Union Card, but this week two salad plates are $6.99 with the Grand Union card. They have a 11 inch round platter that is like a big plate for $11.99 plus the other crockery accessories. I remember at Flossies Guest House in Nantucket she use to have the original China pattern. I bought a Tony's cheese pizza for $3.49, a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna for .99, a head of broccoli for .99, a Purdue Oven roaster chicken for .79 a pound with .55 off coupon on it for $5.56, Post Raisin Bran 20 oz. with $2 off store coupon .99, two General Mills cheerios for $2 each, two Tropicana Ruby Red orange juice for $2 each, Angostura bitters for $3.29, four two ounce containers of Samba Instant coffee with Grand Union Card free, for $25.75 total. I returned home, and I put away the groceries, and I started cooking the Purdue chicken in the convection Microwave oven, and it should be done about 12.35 A.M.. I will then chill it for cold chicken slices. I will do a little internet work until it is done. Taking the hot shower made my back feel a little better. I might go out after the chicken is cooked for a walk about 1 A.M.. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/03/99 Sunday 7:10 P.M. EDT: I went to bed about 4 A.M., and I was up at 11 A.M.. I chatted with a couple of family members. I emailed one of them beach1.mpg which is a rather amusing clip of a beach accident. I got a tired spell, and I went back to bed until 5 P.M.. My back was also a little stiff, so I took a back pill. I guess I have to learn to sit upright at the computer. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I watched a bit of Baywatch Hawaii on Channel 9 at 6 P.M.. Well I guess I will clean up, and go out in a while. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/03/99 Sunday 3:20 A.M. EDT: I went out about 11:30 P.M.. I drove downtown, and saw a few kids out having cocktails. I drove down by the waterfront, and not much was going on. I drove over to CVS in Riverside, and I returned the two Honeywell water filters that did not work for $10.60 return, and I bought a 50.7 oz. bottle of CVS generic antiseptic mouthwash that is just like Listerine for $3.49 plus .21 Ct. sales tax for $3.70 total. I noticed in the Clearance area in the back right of the store, they have another type of water filter for half price for $20 and the replacement cartridge for half price $15 each, however they only do 400 gallons when the HoneyWell system did a 1,000 gallons if it worked. I then returned downtown, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. A few kids were still out. I noticed a long stretch white Lincoln Continental Limousine was parked in front of Tucson’s bar. I also noticed most of the yuppies seemed to be at the Dome. A few younger kids were at the Sundown saloon and at Thataways. I returned home, and I was hungry; so I made a batch of nine Aunt Jamima pancakes with Aunt Jamima pancake syrup and I had them to eat with ice tea. Both the Grand Union and the Food Emporium were closed this evening. I still have not bought much food yet this month, although I have paid most of my bills. I received the bills for Cablevision and Optimum Online cable modem which I still have to pay. I channel surfed a bit of television, but not much was on. I guess it is another quiet weekend in Greenwich, or Byram, Connecticut. Not much to report on, but at least I have my house cleaning and plant watering done. I moved the magazine rack on the right side of the Queen Anne chair in front of the left living room door to make more room to get by. I have to remember that I have done my house cleaning, so I don't start doing it again when I wake up tomorrow. I guess I will try to read a little bit more of the book on Ronald Reagan for diversion. It seemed to be a bit warmer out this evening. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/02/99 Saturday 10:50 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 8 A.M., and I was up at 5 P.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s raisin bran, toast, vitamins, ice tea, and coffee. I chatted with a family member. I repacked the Honeywell water filters for returning them. I cleaned the apartment and watered the plants. I did not throw my back out moving the plants and the furniture for vacuuming. I had some Ramen noodles with Teriyaki sauce and bread and butter and ice tea. I will clean up and go out in a while to return the water filters and get a little bit of exercise. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/02/99 Saturday 6:45 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront and chatted with a fisherman. I drove over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza, and I bought 16 packs of generic cigarettes at $1.20 a pack plus two Honeywell water filter clearance items at $4.99 apiece plus $1.75 CT. sales tax for $30.93 total. I returned to the center of town, and I chatted with one local for quite a while. I then walked down the Avenue and I chatted with a few other locals. I then chatted with a former resident whom works for Arnold Bakers Best Foods about grain in the midwest. About 4 A.M. it was quiet, so I drove over to the Food Emporium and chatted briefly with a couple of night employees. I bought a pound of Smithfield Bacon for $3.39, a large box of Kellogg’s corn flakes for $2.50, a dozen eggs $1.68, a half gallon of Tropicana Ruby Red orange juice for $2.49, Sealtest 2% milk $2.09 for $12.15 total. The Grand Union was closed. I returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea. I tried installing first one and then another was filter, and although the flow diverters work sending water into the feeder tubes, they back up at the water filter intake at the bottom of the canister, and water does not flow through them. A closer examination shows the bottom angle flanges might be sealed with epoxy which possibly blocked the intake values. I gave up trying to get them to work, so I will probably return them tomorrow. I had some reheat Spaghetti with white clam sauce with ice tea. I then filed this report, and it was a long cool night; and I am tired, so I will probably go to bed shortly. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/01/99 Friday 9:00 P.M. EDT: Well I went to bed this past morning at 4 A.M., and I was up at noon. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and coffee. I went out after cleaning up around 1:30 P.M.. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I paid my rent at the Lafayette Place Bank. I drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with a nice Swiss couple who had parked next to me, and I told them about Swiss businesses in the area. I stopped by the central post office in Greenwich and obtained money orders to pay my GEICO insurance, electricity, Bell Atlantic, and MCI bills. I went back uptown, and I stopped by the Presbyterian Church and I went to their tag sale. I bought four pairs of pants for $5 each which I will tell you more about latter. They have a new elevator at the church. I toured their new sanctuary which has been enlarged since they have put on the new stone front. I then drove by CVS and bought three packs of Tampa light cigar cigarettes for $1.39 each and add .24 CT. sales tax for $4.42 total. I had .60 parking on a busy day of paying bills. I then drove down by the harbor, and I chatted with a few of the fishermen who were doing their usual thing. I returned home about 6 P.M.. I tried on the pants and the dark green wide wale corduroy and the Tommy Hilfinger White Slacks fits me. Unfortunately the L. L. Bean Heavy wool and the gray trousers were too small for me. I had some reheated spaghetti with clam sauce along a Sprite soda in a chilled mug. I got a tired spell after dinner, and I fell asleep until just now. Well time for coffee, and then maybe I will go out for a walk. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/01/99 Friday 3:55 A.M. EDT: I restarted the server logs. I earned $37.80 from ValueClick advertising in September. I guess at the rate I am going I am losing money, but it keeps me busy. Maybe I will try reading more when I have time. CIO

Note:<888>10/14/99 Thursday 9:55 P.M. EDT: I rested until 2 P.M.. I cleaned up, and I went out and I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop. I tried to park at the Greenwich Town Hall, but the parking lot was busy with everyone trying to get flu shots. I parked at the board of education and walked over to the Town Hall. I got a number and filled out the form. I waited with about 400 people for about an hour and a half for my shot. I saw former and present first selectmen there, along with a lot of the old guard in Greenwich. I was about number 325. I got my flu shot for free since I have a Medicaid Card. If you don't have insurance it was $15. You have to be over 65 to get a pneumonia shot. I then walked over to Greenwich Avenue, and I walked up to CVS. I bought a white Djeep large light for $1.59 plus .10 tax for $1.69. I then walked down the Avenue. I told someone in the senior center about the flu shots. They were going to be open again from 7 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. this evening. I then drove down by the harbor. No one was fishing since it was about 45 degrees F.. I said hello to a local resident. I then drove along the waterfront to CVS in Riverside. I checked GNC for the arthritis supplement Glucosomine and Chondroitin, but they were too expensive. I stopped by CVS and bought two cartons of Philly little cigar cigarettes for $12.19 each plus $1.46 Ct. tax for $25.84 total. I then drove over to Port Chester, and I stopped by the Vitamin Shoppe at the old Caldor shopping center and I bought a 240 tablet bottle of 500 mg. each of Glucosomine and Chondroittin with suggested retail price of $59.95 for $35.97 with their 40% discount no tax. I also bought a clearance item of two sixty tablet 1000 mg. bottles of MSM for $9 both. I then went to Odd Job trading and I bought a box of 15 Christmas Cards for $4.99 with envelopes, plus a 10 oz. can of mixed nuts for $1.99 plus .34 tax for $7.32 total. I then went over to Staples, and I bought a 500 sheet package of Xerox paper for $3.98 and a clearance item 20 CD Kensington plastic rack for $2.90 plus .46 tax for $7.34 total. I then returned home. I put away the merchandise, and I tool my arthritis pills. I had mixed nuts and ice tea for dinner. I chatted with a couple of family members and a friend. I then filed this report. The server was down, so I had to restart the server. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/14/99 Thursday 12:35 P.M. EDT: Well I was up at 9 A.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I updated the IBM Long List ibm01.htm . Well have a good afternoon. I have a 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note:<888>10/14/99 Thursday 12:45 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I drove downtown, and I sat out for a while. I watched the police stop a driver from the Bahamas. It was a quiet evening. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and then I walked up Arch Street. I sat out at the post office for a while. It was raining lightly, so I carried my umbrella. I noticed on the bulletin board downstairs, they're giving out flu shots at the Greenwich Town Hall tomorrow Thursday afternoon evening from 3 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. and about 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M., so I will have to get a flu shot. I next stopped by the Grand Union, and I bought four cans of Pope crushed tomatoes for .75 each, five cans of Pope tomato paste for $2, Ragu Classic Alfredo sauce $2.19, a quart of Parmalat 2% milk $1.45, GU Parmesan cheese $2.99, two Stouffers five cheese lasagnas for $2 each, a Tony's Cheese pizza $2.50, a 2 pound bag of onions $1.99 for $20.12. I returned home, and I put away the groceries. I am a bit tired, so maybe I will go to bed earlier this evening. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/13/99 Wednesday 9:30 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message, and I dropped the table off at the Hospital Thrift shop. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York, and I did some banking. I drove down by the waterfront. I stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with the usual library security. I stopped by the Greenwich train station and said hello to somebody from Germany with his family whom was taking the train to Stamford, that looked like somebody that I use to work for in Manhattan next to the United Nations. I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with one former neighbor about getting Direct TV internet connection, since he already has Direct TV. I chatted with the blue fishermen, and I told them that this time of year; for about every 30 blue fish they catch, they might get a four foot striper. I drove through Bruce Park looking for snow geese. I returned to the center of town, and one local town observer is back from Italy. I chatted with another Florida resident. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with a few people. I walked back up Arch Street. I sat out at the Post Office plaza for a while. I returned home at 6:30 P.M.. I sat around the apartment for a while. One local library patron told me the Wallenberg family from Sweden is one of the world's most powerful families except for possibly the Saudi Royal family. I relax for bit thinking and testing out scripts. I received a call from American Online from Flagstaff, Arizona wanting to know how I like AOL. I chatted with them for a while. I had dinner of microwave heated ham with Dijon mustard, steamed frozen mixed vegetables, microwave potato, ice tea, and I am now just having my coffee. Well have a good evening, and I guess after my coffee; I will go out for some fresh air. CIO

Note:<888>10/13/99 Wednesday 1:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at 9 A.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I decided to do a little bit more furniture rearranging. I moved the square table from the right window corner of the living room out of the apartment, and I will give it to the Hospital Thrift shop. I moved the Danish end table in front of the bar in that corner. I moved the bar in front of the left living room closet. I put in the two leaves into the dining room table and stretched it out along the left was towards the desk, and rearranged various items that were on those surfaces. The apartment is still a bit cramped, but it seems to work better. I am just about to have some reheated spaghetti and tomato sauce with ice tea. I will then clean up and go out in about an hour. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/13/99 Wednesday 1:50 A.M. EDT: I went downtown after the last message. I drove by the waterfront and there was a couple making out on the pier. I parked in the center of town, and I ran into a commuter. I walked up the Avenue with the commuter chatting about technology. The person told me about the Internet World computer show in Manhattan. I mentioned some events I had seen happening locally. We toured over by the automobile dealerships on West Putnam Avenue. I showed the commuter some of the Mercedes Benz products available. We tried checking out McDonalds, but they did not have any food left ten minutes before closing. I chatted about processor size maxing out, and told the person that I have been chatting about Optic processors for ten years which could be smaller since they would not be limited in size by electrons. I mentioned I had chatted with a few Japanese about them over the years, but I don't know if anything has come of it. I bid adieu, and I headed back downtown; and I sat out until about midnight. I drove down by the waterfront at midnight, and I saw a large sailboat heading out of the harbor. I returned home, and I relaxed. I heard the Doberman visiting next door bark. I relax for a bit, and I even though it is early, I had a busy day; so I will probably be going to bed shortly. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/12/99 Tuesday 9:50 P.M. EDT: I had my coffee, and I made up a batch of icetea.htm . I guess I will go out for some fresh air after I restart the server. CIO

Note:<888>10/12/99 Tuesday 8:35 P.M. EDT: Well I was up about noon today. I had breakfast of a two egg omelet, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I received my ValueClick advertising check for $37.68. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street and cashed it. It was busy at the bank after the holiday. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I viewed the merchandise. I made my 4 P.M. appointment with my new appointment person. I will now have that appointment on Tuesdays every two weeks. I drove down by the waterfront. The usual fishermen were there. I chatted with one person whom I had not seen in a while whom had a very nice folding canvas lie down beach chair. I told him they come in handy when traveling around the shoreline. I mentioned that if one goes down to Florida, it might be handy to take along one of those DeLongi oil filled radiators in case where one stays does not have heat. I chatted with a visiting couple from London. The gentleman was a well recognizable face out of London. They mentioned they were having trouble getting into Tod's Point, so I told them they could be my guests at Tod's Point despite the mosquito problems. I discussed nature and the fact somebody told me they had seen two Artic snow geese in Bruce Park which foretells a cold winter. I then drove over to Tod's Point along the waterfront, and told them the guests from London might be stopping by. I sat out at Tod's Point for a while and walked a short way around. I left at closing about 6:10 P.M., and I drove over to Staples and toured the store merchandise. I next went over to the Exxon Station next to the Greenwich Library and bought $12.50 of premium at $167.9 a gallon. I then stopped by the Grand Union and bought 18 bags of Ramen noodles for 6 for $1 for $3 of various flavors, a cooked half boneless smoke carvemaster ham at $1.99 a pound for $6.59, four boxes of extra thin San Georgio spaghetti for .50 each, 5 cans of Star Kiss tuna in spring water for $2 all, two five pound bags of Idaho potatoes for buy on get one free for $2, two Tropicana Ruby red orange juice for $2 each, a half gallon of GU 2% milk $1.89 for $22.95 total. I returned to the car, and I chatted with a local on the way out about high insurance rates in the area. I then returned to the store and bought a pound of early morning bacon for $1.79. I noticed on the town fathers was about whom I had not seen in a while. I guess down from Nova Scotia. I returned home, and I put away the groceries. I am just finishing boiling a box of San Georgio spaghetti noodles and reheating some tomato sauce for dinner along with ice tea and coffee. I had a chilled diet Sprite in a frosted mug when I returned home. Well have a good evening. I guess after dinner and coffee, I might go out for a stroll. CIO

Note:<888>10/11/99 Monday 11:55 P.M. EDT: Well I went out for a walk after the last message. I stopped by CVS first, and I picked up the prescription for VIOXX for my back and another prescription I take to reduce the stress generated by all my ambitious neighbors. I parked in the center of town. I walked down by the harbor and chatted with a few former neighbors along the way. One former neighbor had his IBM Aptiva start acting up, and I suggested it might be the power supply or the older building he lives in might not have good wall receptacles, so when it cuts out; it might be caused by a plug making a faulty connection in a wall receptacle. I chatted with a gal catching blue fish from Barbados. The bluefish were really hopping in the harbor in front of the Greenwich Capital Associates building. I chatted with a couple of other regulars. I chatted technology with two fellows from Hong Kong and Siberia. They really did not tell me anything I already did not know. I walked back up the way chatting with the one from Siberia. He told me that Russian bears are afraid of Badgers which are like Wolverines. I told him about a friend from Bloomington, Indiana that raises Dalmatians like he was walking. I walked back to the center of town, and I mentioned to one walker that the Scott Amudsen base in Antarctica is able to relieve some of its personnel today. I chatted with another retired railroad employee about wildlife in the area. We both agreed there is a large Skunk population downtown. I mentioned that there are at least four to six skunk families living along Steamboat Road. I returned home about 10 P.M.. I put away my medication. I chatted with a relative whom invited me down to Texas for Christmas. The relative mentioned that John Warner spent $26,500 on a cashmere jacket in Manhattan today, so maybe he is out here. We have a Cashmere clothing store diagonally across from the YMCA. I believe some quaint folks in Scotland still supply cashmere. I also chatted with a couple from Israel today and a lady from Macedonia. I generally chat with quite a few people during the day, and I frequently try to speak French if they don't know English. Well at least I got a little exercise and fresh air. My back feels a little bit better. I had reheated spaghetti sauce and noodles for dinner. I suppose not much else is happening. Well have a good evening, I guess I will try to relax a bit and do a little computer work. I also chatted with the person at the orthopedic back chair on Greenwich Avenue. The Mexican bakery is being taken over by the Japanese restaurant next door. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/11/99 Monday 4:05 P.M. EDT: Well I took a nap from about 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. to rest my back. I checked with http://www.gordonliddy.com/ and Raymond told me that his father was never employed as private security for Richard Nixon after he gave up the secret service. Thus it goes to show that everything that is printed in the New York Times is not necessarily true. Well I emailed a few people this message:

I checked with Raymond Liddy, and he said his group have not run a private security firm in five years, so whom ever these Hispanic government people are or private contractors they must be working for some other individual, group, or other political group. I do know Nelson Rockefeller speaks Spanish, so maybe he hired them since the Nelson Rockefeller Museum is in San Antonio, Texas. http://www.ggordonliddyshow.com .Don't mess with me, unless you are interested in hiring some sort of construction outfit like Fluor, Olympia and York; Asea, Brown, Boveri; Stone and Webster; Turner Construction, Bechtel, or some other world wide construction outfit like General Electric, all I can do is give you their address or telephone number which you should be able to find yourself. Yours Truly, Michael Louis Scott

Well not much else to report on, so I will go check out the remains of the day. Hopefully my back will not cause me too much problem. Have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/11/99 Monday 9:00 A.M. EDT: I took a Viaxx back pill before going to bed last night. I was up at 8 A.M. this morning. My back is still sore and it still hurts to move around too much. I had my physician order a new prescription for the Viaxx. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I tried watching a bit of television, but I did not find it interesting. I guess I will try to do a bit of computer work. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/10/99 Sunday 10:10 P.M. EDT: Well I fell asleep while listening to the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio5live/live/output28.ram . I guess I might try to rest a bit more. Not much to report on. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/10/99 Sunday 7:40 P.M. EDT: I chatted with a family member about the fact that the alligator or crocodile might be living around Arnold Baker, since they use cooling water to cool off the ovens which might keep the gator or croc warm enough for the winter. In other news I found the site www.big‑brother.nl that is the live cam on a household, but unfortunately although I am half Dutch, I don't know a word of Dutch, and the site really messes up Microsoft Internet Explorer, but works with Netscape. Well so much for that. On other Audubon observations, I noticed a black dog by the entrance to Tod's Point yesterday that looked like a two foot high wolf, but it was probably a black Samoan. Its hair was sticking out like it had stuck its paw in a light bulb, but possibly it was scared if it had seen a reptile. I noticed while driving through Bruce Park yesterday, that a swan was hanging out with the Chinese cormorants on the pond between the road and the turnpike. I did not see any geese although there are plenty of geese dropping around. I have not been out observing much because of the mosquito encephalitis scare in the area. Well have a good evening, I suppose I will just relax at home for a change. CIO

Note:<888>10/10/99 Sunday 5:05 P.M. EDT: I added a can of mushroom to the spaghetti sauce just before it was done, and I had my spaghetti dinner with ice tea. I then tried the Brazilian Samba instant coffee and it was very delicious. It is not bitter and it tasted a lot like the Nescafe instant coffee I use to drink in Europe during the winter of 1972. Well I guess the Brazilians still know how to make a good cup of coffee. I have been relaxing listening to classical music on the older stereo system I have in my apartment with 16 older stereo speakers that still work fine. The Queen Anne chair sits in front of one pair, so the harpsichord music sound particularly very good when one listens to it. One does not have to turn on the stereo system very loud to get the surround sound effect. It is very relaxing, so I guess I might take a cat nap for a while now. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/10/99 Sunday 2:30 P.M. EDT: Last night before going to bed, I moved the yellow French chair in front of the computer which is more comfortable and I put the restored leather office chair in the living room sitting area. I was up at 5 A.M. this morning. I puttered around. I watched Robert Schuler www.crystalcathedral.org on television. I had two fried eggs, toast, five strips of bacon, orange juice, and vitamins for breakfast. Words to the wise when you have four eggs left, eat two eggs for two days not three eggs and then one egg. I fell back asleep after channel surfing until about noon. I got up and watched a little television including "Two Fat Ladies" cooking show. I decided to start cooking dinner. I had taken out of the freezer and put into the refrigerator a package of Jones sausage which I browned in olive oil in a Griswold frying pan. I added to this two strips of bacon. I added the browned mixture to a Revere soup pot, with olive oil on the bottom, along with two diced medium onions and two large cans of plug tomatoes. I added a quarter of a cup of white French white wine, along with herbs and spices (ground black pepper, basil, oregano, Italian seasoning, celery salt, Hungarian pepperica, Chinese five spice, cinnamon, hot curry, and two beef bouillon cubes) and a dashes of Tabasco, Lea and Perrins worcestershire sauce, and Angostura bitters. This mixture while still cool, I pureed with the Braun hand mixture, and then I put it one medium reducing it to low to simmer for an hour. I will have the sauce over spaghetti noodles in about an hour for dinner. I am listening to some classical music and just relaxing around the apartment. It is a cool, damp, rainy day; so I am just relaxing a bit inside. I took my back pill VARXX before going to bed last night, so the back seems a little bit better today, but I am still stiff when moving around particularly when standing up after sitting down. Well have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/09/99 Saturday 11:20 P.M. EDT: I had dinner of the rest of the Purdue chicken along with defrosted mixed vegetables that I undercooked and Ramen noodles with chicken curry seasoning. Unfortunately the Ramen noodle factory puts too much curry in their mixture, so I ditched the Ramen noodles. I went out and moved the car around in the parking lot. I watched an ABC movie about a 767 being hijacked and I basically tried to rest my back. Not really much to report on. I noticed a low flying plane overhead and heard another one fly low overhead. Well on a limited budget, I guess there is not much for me to do but sit home and relax, unlike all the movers and shakers in the local community. Well have a good evening, I think I will start winding down for the evening and think about getting some shut eye. I have to get use to a new computer chair, since I put my regular computer chair in the living room sitting arrangement, and I am using the restored computer office chair. Well at the moment, I have to bend over too much to use the keyboard, so I will have to see how it work; and possibly switch back to the other chair. However that configuration over all these years might have caused my back pain. Well so much for computer interior decoration 101. Have a good night. CIO

Note:<888>10/09/99 Saturday 7:20 P.M. EDT: I went downtown after the last message. It was warm and damp out today. I sat out for a while and then I walked up the Avenue and chatted with a few local people. I returned back down the Avenue. I drove down by the waterfront and the usual fishermen were there. I drove along the waterfront, and I stopped by CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza and bought a carton of Captain Black cigar cigarette sweets for $11.83. I then drove out to Tod's Point and I walked out to the south west corner and viewed the harbor. One person was out in a loud motor boat, and it sounded like they hit bottom or rocks about a half mile north east of Island Beach. They were going fast, and it was a very low tide; so maybe they hit bottom or a rock. Anyway they were back underway heading back into the Mianus River harbor basin. I suppose during very low tides, one has to watch out for more obstacles than during the normal tides. I chatted with a family about how well my medication for my back was working, and I mentioned I will have to see how I feel when I wake up tomorrow. I returned back home, and I noticed a few weddings going on around town as usual on a Saturday afternoon. I guess I should start thinking about dinner. I guess I will finish up the rest of the Purdue chicken. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/09/99 Saturday 3:00 P.M. EDT: I chatted with a family member. My back was feeling better with the VIOXX pills. I just finished cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. I also moved the mahogany bureau from the living room to the bedroom by making room for it by removing the bedroom door and storing it. I put the yellow French chair where the bureau was, and I put the restored office chair in front of the computer. I straightened some other areas up too. Well I had a spinach pizza for lunch along with ice tea. I took out the garbage. I will now go out for some fresh air with my thermos of coffee. Have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/09/99 Saturday 8:50 A.M. EDT: I took one of my prescription back pills with my morning vitamins, and I went back to bed. I rested on my stomach, and I woke up and my back felt a little less painful. I am still a little bit stiff in the back and painful in the back, but it is slightly better. I will hold off on the house cleaning until tomorrow and see how I feel. Well not much going on. I might go out around noon. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/09/99 Saturday 3:55 A.M. EDT: Yesterday morning, I raised the parson lamps in the living room, so they would not interfere with the day bed. I went out after the last message yesterday. I parked in the center of town. I walked down by the harbor and sat for a while in Roger Sherman Baldwin park. I noticed two full grown and two younger swans on the harbor. It was a cool blustery day. There was a lot of goose droppings on the park. I walked back uptown, and I sat out for a while; and I studied the squirrels in front of the senior center. I then stopped by the Greenwich library and read the local paper. It said they decided not to buy the U.S. tobacco building at exit 4 for the Greenwich Police department. I read a computer magazine. All day my back was hurting me yesterday. I returned home, and I went to bed about 6 P.M., and I was up at 3 A.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. My back is still hurting me again this morning, so I might rest more. I was advised to soak in Epson Salts in the bath tub. The custodian in the library told me that President Clinton was in Manhattan, so maybe that is why it was slow out here. Have a good morning.

Note:<888>10/08/99 Friday 2:45 P.M. EDT: I had breakfast about 6 A.M. this morning of three fried eggs, six strips of bacon, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I tried to rest, but I could not fall asleep. I watched a bit of television. My back is bothering me again. I suppose I should not do any heavy lifting for the indefinite future. I finally took a hot bath around noon and soaked for a while. I went outside briefly and chatted with a neighbor. I just had dinner of cold chicken leg and thigh with Tabasco sauce, steamed broccoli, and Ramen noodles, and ice tea. I suppose I will go out for a while to enjoy the afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/08/99 Friday 5:45 A.M. EDT: I ran Norton Anti Virus on all three drives. I moved a couple plants around, putting one of the miniature ferns on the octagon table, and I put the taller lean palm on the dining room table. I moved the candy and throat lounges to the dining table. I moved around the two American, French, and Norwegian flags. I have the small blue chair blocked with the Danish end table in front of the bar and the desk. I could possibly move the Grand Rapids CBS table from the right corner out of the room, and put the Danish end table there, but it is convenient to have the end table clear next to the dining table, bar, desk, and computer chair for setting items occasionally there, and if one wanted to set up the bar and serve drinks it would be convenient. Not that I plan to have a drink, but the way my back feels, I think I should. I will try to rest of have breakfast. CIO

Note:<888>10/08/99 Friday 4:55 A.M. EDT: I ran Norton Disk Doctor with surface scan on all three hard drives, and then I started a tape backup; and I went to bed about 9 P.M.. I was up at 2 A.M., and the tape backup finished about 3 A.M.. While waiting for it to finish, I went out by the dumpster; and retrieved the blue sofa frame. I moved it with a skate board that was available. I put it back in the apartment where the Queen Anne chair was perpendicular to the long sofa with the bolsters on it. I put the Queen Anne chair in front of the right side of the long sofa. I put the long sofa coffee table in front of the desk and bar. I put the leather arm chair in front of the left closet sideways. I moved the octagon sofa behind the blue sofa, with the periodical rack to the left of that. I put a miniature plant on the dining room table. I put another plant on the desk. I put on of the left stereo speakers underneath the television raising it higher, so one can see if from all points in the room. I checked the television connections to make sure it has clear reception. I watched a bit of Martha Stewart while thinking through this. I put pillows on the blue sofa to support my back, and I set up pillows and a knit throw on the pineapple bed. It is all a bit crowded, but it works; and there is room to move around. I tied up my wall electrical cords with rubber bands on nails to keep them away from the electric radiators which have come on a bit. I have room for storage underneath the pineapple poster bed. My back is hurting me a bit, and I took a back pill before going to bed. Well I think I have it all straightened around. If you're near sighted like me, it looks fine. Of course a big fat person would have trouble moving around in the apartment, but there is plenty of room for me to maneuver. I also ran Norton Speed disk on all three hard drives, so I basically have done my system maintenance. I might either go back to sleep or have breakfast. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/21/99 Thursday 12:05 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 3:30 P.M. yesterday, and I was up at 8:30 P.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I moved the Queen Anne chair around facing the television opposite the front entrance door. I put the Danish coffee table next to it, with room for a tea cup. I put the telephone on it and the Nantucket ash tray and television remote. I put the mahogany telephone table next to the blue couch with the decoy mat on it. I straightened out the Coca Cola tray underneath the day bed putting the Greenwich telephone books behind the television on the television cabinet. I put the older pairs of sun glasses with the other sun glasses. I put some personal items in the bedroom bureau left drawer. I straightened out the shoes in right living room closet and other items in the closet switching clothes around between the left and the right closet. I frisked the clothes to see if any strange items were left in them. I put the ironing board back in the right closet. I put the rug cleaning machine underneath the day bed. I took the bathroom telephone off the wall next to the toilet and put it next to the bathroom entrance, so if it rings at night it won't disturb my neighbors. I checked my cables in the hallway. I have two stereo wires running underneath the beginning of the hallway carpet, and a telephone wire and stereo wire running underneath the bedroom threshold and along the hallway and into the bathroom. Technically one should not have wires underneath carpet, but I figure it is more dangerous to trip over them at those points. I spackled the screw holes for the telephone in the bathroom and the holes where I moved the parson lamps above the day bed. I put another power strip on the bedroom bureau, so the typewriters are plugged into it, and the emergency flash light is more easily available. I moved the cough drop bowl to the dining room table. I move the magazine rack behind the Queen Anne chair at the entrance to the kitchen. I put the speaker further forward, so it is easier to make into the kitchen. I moved the brass lamp behind the Queen Anne chair, so one can turn it on and read, but when it is on; it glares into the door side part of the blue sofa, if someone is sitting there. I move the pelican and pink flamingo Audubon picture further right underneath the cafe sculpture, and then moved the larger stereo speaker away from the computer into the corner underneath granddad’s picture, and put the laser printer on it. I put the light beneath granddad’s picture higher to do this, and I put a 40 watt bulb in it, so it is not so bright. I put the Body Basic's aroma machine on the Boston Acoustics speaker in front of the large speaker placing it on the right back of the blue sofa sideways, hopefully it won't fall down on a sitter with the aroma machine. I put the Wilson Jones Terminal Center stands in the middle of the desk with my odd paper work in them and the computer cdroms and demos on them. I put the aroma machine funnel to store the beads on that stand with the bad Sony Tape. I put the Sony SuperStation backup tape devise on the file cabinet along with current mail and paper work, and my scratch paper and three working pins along with the www.icelandair.com 1‑800‑779‑2899 two day travel to Scotland promotion for $399, which seems like a lot of money to go to Scotland for two days. Their website is www.Scotland99.com . I move the Monsanto and George Bush coffee cups with mostly non working ink pins in front of the Sony Superstation. Basically the space behind the restored leather office chair is open, so it look more open, and less closed in. I moved the fake book light on top of the right hallway bookcase and left the eight light on all the time for a night light. I repaired the Malaysia Save the Children balsa wood tropical fish with Elmer’s glue, and set it up to dry. I moved the computer tool kit on top of the shrunken pair of long underwear. I put two candles on the two Harvard plate on the bedroom bureau. I moved some other bric a brac around the bedroom. I sorted out the hallway sweater closet, and put the scarves and gloves on the lower shelf. I put the Television folding tables in front of the bar. I put a empty little silver frame on the Dictaphone. I folded the parson lamps further apart. frisked the clothes in the bedroom closet, and moved a few clothing items around. had dinner about 9 A.M. of reheated herbal garlic in wine boneless chicken breast with ham and onion along with reheated pasta mixture and ice tea and coffee. I just remember, I put the NOAA weather warning radio yesterday to the right of the computer, so I can follow it more easily while I am on the computer. After breakfast, I went to clean the toilet brush container, and I noticed a mosquito had died in it, so I sanitized it and left a quarter of a inch of Swiss Pine cleaner in it. I called the Greenwich Health Department and notified them of the mosquito that had to try to breed in my toilet cleaner container. I guess it is smart to leave a little antiseptic in the toilet cleaner container, besides spraying it with Lysol. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, so guess I will clean up shortly and go out for the afternoon, and try to remember to pick up a few items at the Grand Union. Well have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/20/99 Wednesday 10:25 A.M. EDT: Well I was not able to fall asleep. I decided to do more arranging. I put the two leaves back in the dining room table spreading it across the room between the green couch and the left closet. I moved the restored leather office chair where the large speaker was on the right side of the blue couch. I rearrange the material around the speaker putting the tape drive on it along with other bric a brac that was in that area. I stacked up ten Veterans of Foreign War encyclopedias from after World War I, and put the mouse pad on them to my left, so I still have easy access to the mouse. I can put my scratch paper on the office chair when I make notes. I suppose I could make notes on the computer just as easy, and technically these are notes I am doing on this now. I pulled back the Queen Anne chair, and I put the telephone on the telephone table next to it. I move the pathos plant off the telephone table to the window sill. I put the two miniature palms on either end of the dining table opposite the lazy Susan. I arranged the four bent wood chairs around the table at the rounded corners with the two old rustic French dining chairs in the center on either side. I placed water bird and nautical place mats around the table, somewhat worn. I have one the Revere bowl with lid in the center of the lazy Susan with various ash trays and cigarette lighters for guest use. I have one Washington D. C. ash tray with red Djeep light to the right of the side French chair facing the television. I put the TV tray underneath the day bed where the laptop typewrite is in the briefcase with the Coca Cola trays with odd items along with the telephone books. I also have the ironing board all the way back underneath the day bed. I put the magazine rack on the far side of the bedroom bed next the night stand on the right side of the bedroom desk. If one were entertaining around the blue sofa which I never do, you could pivot the yellow French computer chair towards the computer square off an the left angle, and move the Danish coffee table equal distance between the leather office chair, Queen Anne chair, and blue sofa or even turn around the French computer chair 180 degrees backing it against the computer table facing the Queen Anne chair. It does make it necessary to lean on the sofa to get the paper off the laser printer, but I hardly ever use the laser printer. Since I use the computer all the time, and hardly ever entertain, I plan to mostly leave the French arm chair facing the computer on a left diagonal. I had to run a telephone extension cable from the computer power control center underneath the blue couch, so the telephone can be on the telephone table next to the Queen Anne chair on its right along with the Smithsonian volcano book and the Nantucket ash tray sitting on it with the Greenwich Country Club Zippo lighter in the Nantucket ash tray. Well so much for arranging household items for personal convenience and aesthetic comfort. I am a bit bushed, so I might try to sleep sooner or later. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/20/99 Wednesday 7:40 A.M. EDT: It is a drizzly pouring rain outside today. After dinner I did some more rearranging. I put the Moulin Rouge painting where the Bermuda watercolor was on the right side of the day bed. I put the Bermuda water color on the left most bookcase in the hallway behind the blue piece and white piece of coral. I took out from the Princess Diane memorial television chess, the Panasonic KX‑E708 electric typewriter and the black IBM 50th Anniversary selectric typewriters and put them on my bedroom bureau. I put the Decoy lamp in my bedroom window. I put the books on my bedroom bureau on the television chest. I put the beer steins on the bookcase behind the television chest. I put the 5 1/4 floppy shareware disks from the left closet and lots of the boxes my computer parts came in the chest. I organize the left closet shelf. I put the spare laser printer paper there along with a few other computer items along with the 3 1/2 disk storage trays. I cleaned out the right closet shelf and put the excess shopping bags in a bag and eventually put them in the car to take to the thrift shop. I put the hats on that shelf. I sorted through some other items. I put the telephone books in a Coca Cola tray underneath the left front of the day bed. I remade the day bed put a mattress liner on it, along with a French brocade sheet and I put the light blue blanket on it. I put the dark blue blanket as a throw on the green couch. I moved the bar in front of the television stand. I moved the dining table closer against it. I put the telephone and answering machine in front of the Queen Elizabeth Life Magazine coronation portrait. I put the NOAA weather warning device on the Dictaphone at the far end of the green couch. I put the Shield of Pall Mall that was on the hallway bookcase on the front door inside. I moved the two television trays against the wall where the bar was folder up behind the restored leather office chair. I have both typewriters in working order I believe. I move the cuff link box to the bedroom dresser. I moved one of the pineapple lamps on the white bedroom dresser. Behind it is a six plug strip with a emergency rechargeable flash light like the one behind the kitchen rack. I moved the magazine rack in front of the left side of the left closet, so the door still opens next to the restored leather office chair. I took out the laser printer from the bottom two drawer filing cabinet and put it on the shelf in the left closet. I showed one of my neighbors what I had done. I dumped the old telephone books and other paper items in the recyclable paper bin. I chatted with one of my neighbors outside briefly and explained what I had been doing for the arthritis. I had some reheated pasta mixture and ice tea just now. I am very tired, so I think I will go to bed. Have an enjoyable morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/20/99 Wednesday 1:25 A.M. EDT: I have not made it out yet or cleaned up. I completed a successful tape backup at midnight. On the slower bi-directional speed it took the Sony Superstation about 28 hours for a 6 gigabyte compressed backup. I tried the other tape, but it does not work; so I will have to send it in for exchange. I rebooted the computer without the tape drive turned on without loading the drivers, and I was able to turn it on and the HP LaserJet II printer; and it worked through the pass thru port. Thus when using the HP LaserJet II printer now, you have to turn on the Sony Superstation Tape machine, but you don't need to reboot. While doing all this, I did some more cleaning and straightening around the apartment, and generally reorganizing. I put the items on the bedroom window sill on waterproof items, so when it collects moisture in the winter, it won't damage them. I moved the old National Geographic magazines on top the file cabinet. I brought down my three beer steins and displayed them at lower levels. I sifted though the Coca Cola junk tray underneath the day bed. I hung the picture of the Moulin Rouge on the front door. I put the Audubon Pelican and Pink Flamingo pictures above the desk beneath the copper French Cafe sculpture. I did a bit of damp rag dusting. At about 11:15 P.M., I washed the four boneless chicken breasts that I bought last night. I rolled two in olive oil putting a little olive oil in the bottom of a Pyrex pie dish. I put the chicken breast in it. I laid quarter inch strips of ham across the breast. I put two pads of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" on each breast. I poured a third of a cup of French white wine on the chicken breast, and some Angostura Teriyaki, dash of Lea and Perrins worcestershire sauce, and a dash on Angostura bitters, and then I diced finely four gloves of garlic and spread it on the chicken breast, and then I put on light dashes of ground pepper, garlic powder, Basil, Oregano, Italian spices, cinnamon, celery salt, poultry seasoning, and Chinese five spice. I then sprinkled on a bit of Parmesan cheese. I then diced finely a medium onion and sprinkled it on the chicken breasts. I added a small amount of olive oil on this. I cooked it in the convection oven at 350 degrees F. for 35 minutes. I had one of the breasts for dinner with the reheated pasta dish from last night along with ice tea and coffee. I refrigerated the other cooked breast. I enjoy the new dining table setup, since it is more spacious. I did the dishes and made up a batch of icetea.htm without the wine which I am just about to put in the jugs. I will go out in about 45 minutes after I clean up for a breath of fresh air. I have to remember to keep an eye out for any skunks. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/19/99 Tuesday 9:10 P.M. EDT: I stayed up until 12:30 P.M.. I moved the Queen Anne chair from in front of the television to in perpendicular to the blue love seat just beyond the front door entrance. I moved the magazine rack between the two closet doors. I moved around other bric a brac around the apartment. I was up at 5:30 P.M., and I had breakfast of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. The backup of the D: and E: drives will be done about midnight, and it is still running. I changed the aroma beads in the Body Basics aroma machine. I vacuumed the apartment. I listened to the BBC while doing all this, and they were talking about organic food. I move the Prince Charles "Vision of England" book in front of the book on the book shelf about Queen Victoria and another one on the Windsor’s. I checked my stereo speaker this morning to make sure they all work. I sorted out the magazines and periodicals in the magazine rack. I need to shower and clean up before I go out. I also moved the television tables behind the front door. Well not much else to report. I might move the HP LaserJet II printer cable from the Sony Superstation pass thru to either a serial cable if I have compatible serial cable of back on the four port LPT converter box, since that did not seem to be the problem. I would do this after I get the backup finished. Well have a good evening, and I will be out in about a half hour or so. CIO

Note:<888>10/19/99 Tuesday 8:25 A.M. EDT: I just finished the tape backup of the C: drive using the slower Bi-Directional setting. It took about 8 1/2 hours for 2.7 gigabytes. I just started the backup of the D: and E: drives appending it to the same tape. It should take just about as much time or more. I put a book in front of the tape drive, so it does not make as much noise. I went out after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront and viewed the harbor. I parked in the center of town, and I walked up Greenwich Avenue. I noticed a dime on the sidewalk in front of Outdoor Traders. I saw two pedestrians heading towards the Food Emporium. I sat out at the bench at the top of the Avenue for a while. I walked on back down the Avenue, and I found another dime in front of Saks Fifth Avenue, which I picked up. I noticed the night security motion detector device at www.restorationhardware.com sets of an ultra sound frequency when one walks by the doorway. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I viewed the Mitchell’s construction project while walking back up the Avenue. I heard water being pumped. I noticed they are laying the grids and platforms for pouring the main floor in front, and still working on the lower level in back. I talked to a local peace office about the internet. I stopped by the Food Emporium about 3:30 P.M., since the Grand Union was closed. I spent about $21.32, but I did not get a receipt; so it is hard to be accurate. I bought Angostura Teriyaki sauce for $1.59, a barrel jar of German dill pickles for $1.99, two pounds of boneless breast of chicken at $1.99 a pound for about $4, two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice for $2.50 each, a half gallon of 2% milk for $1.89, Three Kings bacon for $2.59, a dozen eggs for $1.79, a box of Spinach fettuccini $1.79 and a bulb of garlic about .50, for about $21.32 total. I returned home, and I noticed a dead skunk on the Post Road just west of the Shell Station, and it really stank. I put away the groceries. I noticed the backup was continuing. I decide to do some more furniture rearranging. I put the blue love seat couch against the left wall as you come in front of the desk. I moved a speaker in front of the desk and file cabinet. I setup the mouse pad on my tape box. I put another speaker at the other end of the couch with a small speaker on it by the kitchen entrance. I put a small lamp on it from the bedroom. I put the Round Oak table with the leaves removed in the center of the room where the couch was. I took out three other small bent oak chairs with the single one and the two formal restored French dining chairs and put them all around the table. I put the two miniature palms on the window sill, and the golden pathos next to the large one in the kitchen entrance, and the smaller on in the bathroom. I put the former mouse mahogany table next to the Queen Anne chair in front of the day bed. I exchanged phones and put the portable on that table with the Nantucket ash tray on the answering machine. I put the large button speaker wire phone next to the computer. I put the Danish square table in the corner in front of the blue sofa and speaker, so I lie facing across the diagonal of the room. I put the bar where the restored leather arm chairs was, and move the restored leather arm chair in front of the left closet door, with two folding TV stand tables next to it. While I had the closet door available, I switched my frequently worn clothing to right closet and put my less worn jacket and suits in the left closet. I put the Decoy lamp in the bedroom. I took down last years Christmas Cards of the French cafe sculpture and stored them. I moved the French, Norwegian, and two United States flags where the IBM 24 pin printer was. I put the 24 printer underneath the bed. I have the HP LaserJet II printer working on the tape drive pass thru, so the tape drive has to be one before one boots the computer (tape no necessary) to have the printer work, if one intends to use the printer. I had to connect the answering machine and portable phones to power sources behind the day bed. I also received a package from UPS yesterday from a family member. I rearranged various smaller objects around the apartment. I put the magazine rack at the kitchen entrance at the end of the blue sofa. I put the mahogany octagon table in the hallway, and I gave it to an early rising neighbor, who said she knew somebody that could use it. It was solid, but it had some chipped and cracked pieces. I put the two oak table leaves in the right hand side of the bedroom closet. I put the Prince Charles' "A Vision of England" underneath the bar on top of the wine glasses. I put the aroma lamp in front of the laser printer. I put the Revere Bowl with top with ash trays in it on the lazy Susan on the oak dining table. Thus I kept busy while doing the tape backup. One has to walk around the dining table far side in front of the long green couch to access the computer French arm chair. I also put the framed spider web in glass case beneath the left wall full mirror. I put the sewing kit in the left bedroom top drawer along with a deck of cards. I put the blocked of desk supplies I need in the front of the top drawer of the file cabinet, which a couple items had to be moved to open. Well it all seems to work. I am tired, so after some Ramen noodles, I will go to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/19/99 Tuesday 1:05 A.M. EDT: I was up at 2 P.M. today. I called Sony Superstation support at 1‑888‑369‑0685. They called me back at 4 P.M., just when another backup had quit, and I had just finished cooking breakfast of three fried eggs, five strips of bacon, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I went through a number of procedures with the tech representative. We decided put it on "BI Directional" speed which is slower and takes twice as long would work. He also recommended me taking off the LPT to 4 LPT port switch box. Sony Tech support is at

Sony Electronics

c/o New Image Technology

78 Lafayette Avenue

Suite 102

Suffern, New York 10901

He also said that I could send back the non working tape for an exchange at that address, if I don't get it working.

I disconnected the 4 port box and in the process loosened the screws on the LPT 1 connection, so I had to open up the computer to reconnect it. I reconnected it, and I also cleaned the CPU fan and spray the whole inside with canned air. I adjusted different cables that had shifted. I closed the computer, and at about 6:30 P.M., I started a regular EPP backup, which quit unsuccessful after four hours. I also had reinstalled the Seagate Backup software putting in the original SCSI driver instead of the Microsoft update. I washed the glass wear on my bar which all had a film on it. While doing this I watched a bit of news. I started my laundry which I finished about 11 P.M.. When the backup failed after four hours, I set it on the Slower bi-directional speed which will take about nine hours for just the 2.7 Gigabyte C: drive. I will then add on backups for the D: and E: drives appending them to the tape. I put away the laundry. I took a shower and cleaned up. I boiled some Pasta Ronzonni Rotini number 45. I added to a medium pot, one jar of Ragu alfredo sauce, and then a half Ragu jar of white wine which I shook in the jar to remove the excess cheese sauce. I added a can of sliced mushrooms, a diced onion, two diced quarter inch slices of ham, ground pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, oregano, Italian spices, basil, a half cup of diced frozen broccoli. I simmered this mixture about fifteen minutes while the noodles boiled, and then I drained the noodles and added the sauce mix over all of them in a large bowl, and add a quarter cup of crated parmesan cheese and mixed it all together. I had one portion for dinner with ice tea along with Samba instant coffee and refrigerated the rest. I decided to start the server, and let it run while the backup is running. Well after my coffee, I guess I will go out for some fresh air and groceries. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/18/99 Monday 6:30 A.M. EDT: On Saturday afternoon, I watered the plants and did my weekly house cleaning. I had dinner about 6 P.M. of reheated ham, microwaved potato, steamed frozen mixed vegetables, ice tea and coffee for dinner. I also did C: and D: drive backups to the E: drive, and E: drive backup to the C: drive. I started a tape backup about 6:30 P.M.. I went out at 8:30 P.M., and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I was hungry, so I drove down to Maneros butcher shop, and I bought a steak sandwich on a hoagie with onion rings for $5. They are open until about 9:30 P.M. on Saturday nights. I sat out at the Greenwich Capital Associates waterfront steps and ate it. I drove down by the waterfront, and some of the usual fishermen were there. I returned to town, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at the post office. I walked up to the top of the Avenue, and I sat out for a while. I returned back to the bottom of the Avenue, and I sat out for a while. I then walked the lower section of the Avenue again, and I sat out at the post office for a while. I returned home to find out the tape backup had failed and the computer had rebooted to the password. I started the tape backup again, and it did the same thing again about 3 A.M.. I tried reinstalling the tape backup software. I tried changing the LPT ports from regular, to EPP, to EPC. I finally tried running the tape backup again, and when I was up at 9 A.M., it had failed again. I went through the same procedures again, even trying downloading a updated demo from www.veritas.com which bought the product from www.seagatesoftware.com . I tried another tape, and it failed too. I had breakfast about noon of Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, vitamins, coffee, and orange juice. I chatted with a couple of family members. I made arrangements to go down to Texas over the Christmas holiday to visit a relative flying Southwest Airlines . I will have to drive out to Islip, Long Island to McArthur airport to use the free airline tickets my relative is giving me. I continued to try to use the tape backup varying the procedures and it still failed. I was having problems with Norton Disk Doctor showing back CRCs which I fixed. I watched a bit of HBO movies. I continued the procedures to no avail. I had a Tony's pizza and ice tea about 6 P.M. after a slight rest. I continued working trying the tape backup. About midnight, I tried reformatting one of the two tapes, I have had and it would take 12 hours, so I stopped it; and the tape would not work after that. With the remaining tape, I tried different variations. I basically had to reinstall the backup software everytime the tape backup failed and rebooted the computer. I tried removing all my cookies which seems to eliminate the bad CRC checksum problems. I optimized the C: drive about 3 A.M. on Monday morning. I tried a backup with EPC lpt port, and it failed. I put on a shorter tape drive to computer cable. I tried a tape backup with LPT EPP setup, and less compression, and it failed after about 300 megs of the 6 gigabyte attempt. I am tired, hungry and burned out. I restarted the server which has been down for the last 36 hours. I will have some Ramen noodles, and then go to bed. Have a good morning, and an enjoyable work week. All I can think of it that there is so much humidity in the air from the nearby tropical storm, it is causing the tape backup to fail. What a pain. CIO

Note:<888>10/16/99 Saturday 2:35 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, five strips of bacon, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I updated my index for Scott's Internet Hotlist SiteMiner Search Engine . I fixed the stock quote links and opening links on the IBM pages, I.htm , and I also included ibm01.htm in the downloadable directory. Well after I do a few uploads, I have to do house cleaning and watering the plants. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/16/99 Saturday 2:25 A.M. EDT: I updated the Florida site mrscott.com which will be closed in about ten days. I updated http://mrscott.com/dod01.zip the DOD directory linked from download.htm which now has dod02.htmin it linked from dod01.htm linked from the opening page dod.htm . Well I am bushed, so after I email a few people about the correction of the directory, I will go to bed. CIO

Note:<888>10/16/99 Saturday 2:00 A.M. EDT: I had dinner about 7 P.M. or reheated ham, steamed frozen peas, and microwaved potato and ice tea and coffee. I was listening to the BBC and doing my regular internet work when I discovered I had a major coding problem in the internet directory. All *.htm and *.html links had a "/" following them which kept them from working. I fixed all this code by searching and replacing with TextPad, so they all should work now. I did a few other minor editing changes. The fixed downloadable is at http://mrscott.com/download.htm or directly http://mrscott.com/scott007.zip . Now most of the links should work. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/15/99 Friday 6:35 P.M. EDT: I fixed a few of the opening links in Microsoft 075.htm . CIO

Note:<888>10/15/99 Friday 6:00 P.M. EDT: I rested until 5:30 P.M., when I received a phone call from AOL trying to sell me their manual again. I updated volcanoe01.htm . CIO

Note:<888>10/15/99 Friday 2:15 P.M. EDT: I updated Scott's weekly broadcast sound.htm . CIO

Note:<888>10/31/99 Sunday 8:20 P.M. EDT: I went out about 2 P.M., and I drove down town. I noticed lots of people out enjoying the warm weather today. I sat out in front of the senior center and lots of people think the Pear Sculpture looks out of place, but I personally don't mind it since I like Pears. Pear Liquor is also very tasty. I chatted with a few local telling them about www.dialpad.com . After sitting out enjoying the sun, I returned to my car and I drove down by the waterfront and chatted with some of the local people. When I showed up at sunset lots of people were gathered at the end of the road, and incoming launch flying a red and white pennant with "R" in the insignia exchanged what seem to be a informal 20 gun salute with the Indian Harbor Yacht Club's sunset canon exchanging about 20 rounds. The incoming Launch seemed be firing something like a Shot Gun and I could not believe the Indian Harbor Yacht Club fifteen inch long canon could be reloaded so fast, so maybe they were firing some other type of weapon back like a shot gun. It was all very noisy and no projectiles flew in the direction of the Steamboat Road crowd. The usual fishermen were out there. I chatted with one gentleman from New Jersey who was interested in buying my old Volvo because he drove a car that was a white Volvo about ten years newer than my Volvo. He looked quite a bit like a Head of State I have seen in Switzerland and he appeared with his wife just at sunset. He looks quite a bit like the actor that plays the modern day Count Dracula or Vlad the Impaler from Romania, so maybe he flew over here for Halloween and the Yacht Club gave him a 20 gun salute. Who knows in this town with all the Hollywood types around. I briefed on the state of my Volvo and he lost interest, and he said he and his wife were hungry and they had to go get a bite to eat and they drove off in the old White Volvo. I noticed a young couple downtown dressed up in Halloween Costumes and the young lad was wearing a Spider Man costume. I suppose it is another normal fall day in Greenwich. I found on of those old plug electric plastic antennas by the dumpster that you plug into your wall outlet, and I replaced the rabbit ears on the short-wave antennae with the modern electric plug in device. I am too tired to test the reception on the Short-wave Radio to see if it works any better. I chatted with a couple of family members and they were getting ready for Halloween trick or treaters. A few of my neighbors are gathered downstairs with Tootsie Rool Pops for any kids that drop by. Well not much else is happening, I am quite tired; so I guess I will go to bed to be up for my usual first of the month routine. Well have an enjoyable evening, and since Halloween falls on a Sunday, it should be a bit quiet. Best of all from me to any foreign heads of state whom may be visiting the area, but I have to get some rest. I might have some Ramen noodles myself and ice tea, before going to bed. CIO

Note:<888>10/31/99 Sunday 11:20 A.M. EDT: Well I finished house cleaning and watering the plants. I chatted with a few night time people. I made a few more calls this morning. I heard about the Egypt Air Flight Disaster about 9 A.M.. I checked into it, and since I use to cover the south shore of Nantucket, I called the Nantucket Police department, and told them they should get personnel from New London, Connecticut to start combing the beach on the South Shore of Nantucket. I watched a little bit of television coverage on the event. While I was vacuuming I fixed the Electrolux vacuum attachment, so it works when you turn on the vacuum. I guess I will place more of my late morning calls, before I got out for a while after I clean up. I also had reheated spaghetti sauce with reheated spaghetti noodles and ice tea and coffee for my early morning meal about 6 A.M.. I told a few other people about www.dialpad.com . Not much else to report on. I still can not go out until I clean up. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>10/31/99 Sunday 1:15 A.M. EDT: Well I went to bed at 6 A.M. on Saturday Morning, and at around 9 A.M., I received two no answer telephone calls from somebody trying to bother me. I complained to the telephone company, and I checked *69, and no number was returned; so maybe somebody is bothering me through an internet gateway like www.dialpad.com . I crossed notes with another local representative, and I did not fall back asleep until about 2 P.M.. I was finally up at 11 P.M.. I had breakfast of Post Raisin Bran, Toast, Coffee, Orange Juice, and Vitamins. I am just finishing my coffee now. I called a few local people and told them about www.dialpad.com . Well time for my weekly house cleaning and watering the plants. CIO

Note:<888>10/30/99 Saturday 5:55 A.M. EDT: I had some Ramen noodles and ice tea for dinner about 10 P.M. I cleaned up, and I did a little internet work. I went out about 12:30 P.M., and I parked in the center of Greenwich Avenue. I walked up to the top of the Avenue, and I sat out for a while. I observed a few ambulances on maneuvers. I saw a few college kids having beverages at the Dome Restaurant. I walked back down the Avenue, and I observed the two decorative lights in front of the veterans monument are now working. They now have a new bronze pair sculpture at the Senior Center that looks from the backside like a Horse's Ass. I walked down the Avenue, and I told a local night watchman about the www.dialpad.com internet site. I sat out in front of the post office a while. I walked back up the Avenue a bit and sat at the veteran's monument. I then walked down towards Steamboat Road, and I noticed a diesel locomotive coming in at the train station about 2:30 A.M. in the morning. It was Metro North train, and each car had names on it, and one of them said "Nelson Rockefeller". I observed a group of youngsters coming off the train in Halloween costumes. I suppose they were working late in Manhattan. I continued on walking down Steamboat, and I walked down to the end and observed the night sky from the end of the pier. There is suppose to be a Meteor Shower around November 17 that could knock out satellite communications Meteor Storm Could Damage Satellites ‑ Air Force. I guess a number of astronomers will be trying to observe the night sky. I walked back up the road and noticed a few tenants out and about. I stopped by at Greenwich Capital Associates and told them about the www.dialpad.com site, although they have one of the heaviest telecommunications cables in town, I doubt if they need it. I chatted with the night watchman there about a few minor details. I suggested when they remodel the new Greenwich Harbor Inn, they put multi tiered parking on the southeast corner of the property with all harbor through suites accessible from the tiered parking through parking area to corridor, and corridor doors to rooms. I suggested that there be no parking underneath the building to prevent any accidental automobile problems affecting the guest areas. I suppose a cleaver architect could come up with a cleaver enough plant. I also think where the North Parking Lot is, they could eliminate it and put in a private Maze garden. I suppose they are consulting with a few individuals trying to keep it within budget. I suppose Greenwich Zoning would have to be shown a presentable plan which would stay with the town restrictions against too much development along the waterfront. I next walked back up the Avenue, and I sat out for a while. About 3:45 A.M., I head over to the Shell Station and bought a half gallon of Hood whole milk for $1.99. I returned home, and I had a glass of ice tea. I relaxed a bit, and I then filed this report. Well have an enjoyable morning. I suppose I will be doing my house cleaning today when I get up late this afternoon or early this evening, so I will probably not be out before about midnight. Well have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>10/29/99 Friday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I went out and chatted with one of my neighbors. I was reading the tech news, and I saw this site mentioned Dialpad.com Free Internet Computer to Telephone Calls Anywhere in the USA . You log onto the site, and it puts an Active X plugin on your web browser and you can talk anywhere in the United States free through their gateway in San Francisco. The have advertising on their dialpad. They should have the Alphabet numbers with the telephone numbers on the Key Pad. There is advertising on the Key Pad from groups like the United States Air Force. I had one problem starting the plug in and got an error message. There was a Voxware File in my C:\Windows\System directory "Vct32150.dll" that caused the programs not to work, so I removed it from the directory and put in a backup folder in case another program needed it to work. I chatted with a few friends and family and it works quite well. I use my old Radio Shack headphones which I keep with the computer, so I don't get feedback off the computer speakers when talking. Well now I can really justify the expense of the Cable Modem. I spent a while adding names and telephone numbers to the Dialpad.com Free Internet Computer to Telephone Calls Anywhere in the USA telephone directory. Well I guess this means that people outside of the country could call home through the internet or elsewhere if they have high speed connections. I imagine it might be a bit choppy with a telephone connection to the internet. Well it is the best thing I have seen on the internet for a while since it is for free. Well I have to clean up and have a bite to eat and possibly go out for some fresh air. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/29/99 Friday 2:50 P.M. EDT: I rested until noon, and then I worked a bit on the directory adding links to www.fortunebrands.com categories. Well I guess I might have some more reheated spaghetti and tomato sauce and then clean up and get some fresh air. Have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/29/99 Friday 7:40 A.M. EDT: I was up at 6:30 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of Post Raisin Bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I updated scott007.zip linked from download.htm by adding IBM promo1.htm and Microsoft promo2.htm to the downloadable directory. I asked a family member to order me a copy of Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade. Happy Birthday to a friend somewhere east of us. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/28/99 Thursday 10:55 P.M. EDT: Well I am still awake. I went out after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront and chatted with a group from Switzerland. One of Poggies handlers were around. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I asked them to reserve a roll of hemp webbing for me for $1.75 to use for furniture repair. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I drove back to the center of town. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a retired IBM executive running for First Selectman. I chatted with a some gals about St. Johns, in the U. S. Virgin Islands and they recommended I use the Puritan Products brand of arthritis formula. I am not sure where they are available. I walked back up the Avenue, and I observed lots of individuals enjoying the nice weather. I drove down by the waterfront. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and they were having a reception for the new library administrator. I did not attend since I was not properly dressed. I read three computer newsweeklies and the local paper. I have to remember to bring my Polarized sunglass clipons to put on my reading glasses since the new library is so bright. I noticed CompUSA has a special with 3COM and @HOME selling Cable Modems for $100 after a $200 rebate. I returned home. I decided to print out last summer's IBM and Microsoft annual reports. The Microsoft Report in Word format printed out quickly, but the IBM Annual report in *.PDF format took four hours to print out for the 96 pages. I updated the IBM promo1.htm and Microsoft promo2.htm pages which took a while. Well I am really bushed, so after being awake for 24 hours, I will have a bite to eat and get some sleep. Have an enjoyable evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/28/99 Thursday 12:40 P.M. EDT: I went down and checked the mail while about 11 A.M. and got a breath of fresh air. I chatted with some of my neighbors. I updated the JAVA script in my opening home pages Scott's Internet Hotlist and the links to not show the old Florida site. I posted a page of the non working links that LinkSweeper removed from my directory favorites when I used it three months ago Scott's Internet Hotlist Favorites with Broken Link’s Bookmarks . Well I have been working at this for about 14 hours, so I think I will begin to slow down. Have an enjoyable afternoon. I have a 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note:<888>10/28/99 Thursday 10:45 A.M. EDT: I downloaded and installed some IBM ViaVoice SDKs and other developer programs. They did not work since, I did not let the installs overwrite my c:\windows\system\mfc40.dll file which lots of programs try to overwrite. I uninstalled them and they left lots of Active X registry entries in the registry which I used WinDoctor to remove. However IBM Software : Groupware ‑ Productivity and Lotus : ViaVoice : News is suppose to offer a free demo soon for those of you whom feel like fiddling with it. I believe it will work with Microsoft Word 97 for Speech dictation into the Word Processor. Well not much else happening. Since it is the end of the month and I am low on funds, I am just relaxing at home. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/28/99 Thursday 6:25 A.M. EDT: I have been doing routine work. I signed up for an offsite storage account at http://www.driveway.com to store my key files off site. One gets 25 megs for free, 5 more megs the second time you logon, 5 megs for filling out a survey, and 2 megs for each friend that registers. It is a good deal for free to backup your key files off site, or at least your critical files. You can also share files this way with other users. Well have a good morning, time for some spaghetti and reheated tomato sauce. CIO

Note:<888>10/28/99 Thursday 3:25 A.M. EDT: I went after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront. I drove through Bruce Park and over to CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza. I said good evening to two of the patrol officers. I bought six packs of Philly Sweet light cigar cigarettes for $8.34 less $1.50 in .25 off coupons plus .41 Ct. sales tax for $7.25 total. I then drove back to the center of town. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. It is cooler outside. My window thermometer says it is 40 degrees F.. I chatted with one of the Starbucks delivery people about coffee. I drove back down by the waterfront. I stopped by the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue and lower the air in my tires from 32 PSI to 30 PSI, since in the cooler weather it helps to have a little better traction, and when one drives on the highway which I hardly ever do; the tires warm up a bit and the PSI goes up. I chatted with the friendly night manager at the Shell Station. Well not much else happening. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/28/99 Thursday 1:10 A.M. EDT: I was up at 11 P.M.. I reinstalled two Windows 98 System Update files from Windows 98 Update. I ran Speedisk on Drives D: and E:. The whole system is running fine. I have MDM running when I first start the computer, but it is not running now. It runs in the background. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I made my bed and cleaned up. Well I guess it is another night on the net. The system is running fine, and I guess on Saturday, I might do another tape backup. I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/27/99 Wednesday 2:35 P.M. EDT: I reinstalled Outlook 98 and downloaded the add-ons. I installed the add-ons and updates from the Symantec Live Update Pro. I then ran Regscan, Norton WinDoctor, and Norton Speedisk. Basically I have the system tweaked around, and it seems to be running better. I will make another C: drive to E: drive backup now. I just had some microwave popcorn and ice tea. I chatted with a friend from Eastern Connecticut. It is cool in the apartment, and I am a bit tired. I guess it is time to start slowing down and possibly going to bed. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/27/99 Wednesday 9:05 A.M. EDT: I just finished backing up the C: drive to E: drive. I had a Stauffer’s five cheese lasagna for a meal with ice tea. I just finished making up a batch of icetea.htm . I have another half hour or a little bit more to finish three quarts of spaghetti sauce that I made up with eight gloves of garlic chopped, three diced medium onions, three cans of plum tomatoes, three cans of tomato paste, a third of a pound of diced ham, 10 oz. of frozen chopped broccoli, 2/3 cups of white wine, four beef bullion cubes, dashes of Tabasco sauce, Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, Angostura bitters, Angostura teriyaki sauce, garlic powder, Italians spices, oregano, basil, celery salt, ground pepper, Hungarian pepperika, Chinese five spice, parsley which I simmers for one hour fifteen minutes, and I still have a half hour to go. Well have a good morning. I might take a nap after I have refrigerated the spaghetti sauce. CIO

Note:<888>10/27/99 Wednesday 6:45 A.M. EDT: I was up at 11 P.M. last night. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I tried reinstalling Microsoft Network MSN 2.6 to fix it when my www.msn.com page comes up it comes up with http://msn.co.uk instead. I can get the MSN USA page by clicking on Welcome to MSN.COM USA . I also reinstalled the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 that came with MSN from a download. I reinstalled the downloadable updates and the Microsoft Windows 98 system and internet explorer 5.0 updates. The system is running fine. I tried changing a couple of setting in the registry to make the right MSN page come up to no avail. Needless to say this all took a bit of time. I added the MSN links to 075.htm , news.htm , and first1.htm . I also put them in the downloadable group of files at download.htm to get scott007.zip . I will run RegClean, Norton Disk Doctor, and Windoctor and then Norton Speedisk and then reboot the computer and start the server and do another C: drive to E: drive backup. Time to relax a bit. CIO

Note:<888>10/26/99 Tuesday 6:05 P.M. EDT: Well I went out after the last message. They are working on the Post Road removing a layer of asphalt possibly for more underground cable repairs. I drove down by the waterfront, and I viewed the harbor and I chatted with a few locals. I stopped by the Greenwich Town Hall, and I chatted with the host of the Greenwich Year 2000 Party at the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I returned back down by the waterfront briefly. I returned home and I pointed out to my neighbor what I had noticed along the waterfront. There is a large 100 mile wide swath of clouds heading southwest to northeast with a very sharp straight edge along the northern side. It looks like it could be possibly a volcanic eruption cloud formation coming from the southwest. I am now helping someone with AOL dial Norton Update which seem to be tricky. I am very tired and going to bed. CIO

Note:<888>10/26/99 Tuesday 1:50 P.M. EDT: I drove down by the waterfront after the last message and viewed the harbor. It is a very nice day. I parked in the center of town and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop and viewed the merchandise. I notice they have a nice baby changer there. I also saw a walking cane. I went by the Greenwich Library and they have the statue of Andre back up in the lower courtyard, but they have not put up the plaque that use to be with it. I read the local paper and chatted with a couple of patrons. I checked out the Speed Test at MSN Computing Central ‑ Bandwidth and they are getting about 130 Kbytes a second at the library in the morning. I am getting a 1000 Kbytes a second right now on the cable modem with people out on a nice day and kids still in school. I recommended to a couple of patrons that Gold might be a good hedge against stockmarket deflation although it has not done anything in fifteen years. I mentioned that Malachite was an interesting material to construct a building out of. I then drove downtown, and I stopped by the Mews thrift shop and toured the merchandise. I bought a brass roll stamp holder for $1 plus .06 Ct. tax for a total of $1.06. I chatted with the usual friendly staff. I next went down by the harbor and chatted with a knowledgeable fisherman about gator and crock watching. I drove through Bruce Park and I stopped by ELDC thrift. I notice they have an old Rockwell circular saw there for $10 that you could cut off your fingers with. One regular patron bought an oval French inlaid table circa late 18th century to early 19th century for $40 with pedestal and three legs. They have an old beat up Windsor chair at the antique shop at the other end of the plaza from ELDC. There were lots of dealers touring the shops today. I returned to town and spent .50 on parking for an hour. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with the Perrier deliverymen who were delivering foreign beer. Their truck is out of Bethel, Connecticut. I chatted with painter painting the people's bank and told them about painting an old house in Nantucket with epoxy paint from St. Louis, but it took a lot of prep work. On the way down the Avenue, I studied the Mitchell's construction site. I noticed they are laying the reinforcing rods for pouring the front part of the first floor. I saw one gal in a antique Oldsmobile drop a plastic medicine bottle underneath her car which I retrieved. I noticed quite a few senior using walkers with bicycle brakes and small baskets in front. About noon the yuppies started appearing. I chatted a bit of French with some French speaking people around town. I headed back home at 12:30 P.M., and I fixed a Tony's cheese pizza for lunch with two German dill pickles and ice tea. I heard loud noises in the hallway, and the plumbers are replacing the hot water tanks nearby. They said they have 14 more hot water tanks to go. Well it is a very nice day, so I guess I will go out and float around some more. I have a 4 P.M. appointment. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/26/99 Tuesday 8:00 A.M. EDT: Well I did some regular internet work. I chatted in the Italian chat room on AOL, but I don't think they could understand my Italian. I showed one of my neighbors what I had done in straightening up the apartment. Well not much happening, now that the sun is up, I might go out for a little fresh air and day light. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/26/99 Tuesday 5:05 A.M. EDT: I did a little systems maintenance. I an Regscan, Norton WinDoctor, and I Norton Speedisk on the C: drive. I changed the Video multiplier to from 4 to 12 in the CMOS. On the AOL Network Drivers TCP/IP‑>AOL Dialup Adaptor , I set "Wins Configuration" to "Disable Wins Configuration". I was viewing the television cabinet area and with certain decorative accessories on the bar, it looked too busy; so I stored certain of the items behind the Nixon and Kennedy books behind the television and speaker cabinets in the book case. I guess it is all right to display mixers and a little wine. Since I don't drink it make an impression that I am a lush having the hospitality bar set up, but that is a copy of the Billy Baldwin style of decorating. A few years ago there use to be a lot of old silver cocktail shakers in the thrift shops, so I will have to keep an eye out for one of those. Well the system is running fine. I will do another tape backup and more systems maintenance at the end of the week. I have a 4 P.M. appointment this afternoon. I also mailed a letter at the West Putnam Avenue new post office when I went out earlier this evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/26/99 Tuesday 3:20 A.M. EDT: I finished the laundry. I chatted with Cablevision up in Bridgeport. Since I have to pay the bills by November 3, I will go up to Cablevision in Norwalk and pay them on November 1, and stop by CompUSA there. The Cablevision person seems to think that Spanish is a secondary language here. I tried to explain to them with thirty million people living in French Canada, that there are quite a lot of French speaking people in New England and the New York area to no avail. Well so much dealing the Cablevision propaganda agency. I guess if you don't want to deal with a communications agency in English geared towards Spanish speaking population, one could try DirecTV, but the satellite dishes do not work well when it snows or snow is on them. Conversely Optic fiber of Cablevision tends to fail when it gets extremely good, since glass or glass fiber gets brittle the colder it gets. Well so much for being shook down the Mafia in Westbury, Long Island to the tune of about $1,200 a year and another $900 a year for GEICO insurance from Melville, Long Island. I guess the local Connecticut people should start charging the New Yorkers and Long Islanders more when they are in this area. First we should start charging out of towners for using our very fine library. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/26/99 Tuesday 2:15 A.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront and it was quiet. I parked in the center of town. I found a one dollar bill on the street in front of the senior center. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I returned home. I had a cooked sliced of frozen pizza and a Stauffer’s five cheese lasagna. I started my laundry. I am having my coffee, and I have about twenty minutes to go on the laundry. I put the dollar bill I found in a little silver tone frame I got with a two pack of Kent cigarettes as a novelty decorating item. I guess I will do a little internet work this morning. I have to call up cablevision to see if I can defer payment on the Optimum online TV and the Cable modem until a few days after the third of November when they are do. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/25/99 Monday 10:55 P.M. EDT: I had a phone call about 3 P.M.. I was up about 5 P.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, four strips of bacon, toast, orange juice, and coffee. I watched the ABC evening news. I went back to bed until about 8:30 P.M.. I put fresh sheets on my bed and I cleaned up. I updated Scott's Broadcast sound.htm . Well I guess I might be going out for some fresh air in a while. Also Scott's Site in Florida is no longer available since, I feel the site here in Connecticut is adequate. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/25/99 Monday 9:40 A.M. EDT: My "Motherboard Resources" drive was not working, so I deleted it and restarted the computer, and it worked. I set my Intel Card driver to defaults and it is working faster. I put the original S‑571 motherboard driver on my computer or an earlier one and it is working much faster. Overall the computer seems to be running as good as it ever has. Well I am tired, so time to go to bed. Also with the faster Intel Ethernet Card defaults, I am getting my home page to load in the AOL browser. I also installed the AOL Network drivers from the Win98 Cdrom which are older, but they seem to go faster. Well I am bushed have a good morning; time for me to go to bed. CIO

Note:<888>10/25/99 Monday 5:55 A.M. EDT: I had dinner about 11 P.M. of reheated chicken, steamed defrost broccoli, microwaved potato, ice tea and coffee. I rested from about midnight until 1:30 A.M.. I did a bit of internet work going through last weeks email. I changed the IRQ for the SoundBlaster 32 from 10 to 7. I can not get the Fox News video clip to work with it from @home. I changed the @home shortcut to load the web browser. For some odd reason, my MSN page keeps loading with www.msn.co.uk . I must have set it up improperly. Not a lot happening. I think I might have some microwave popcorn and relax and go to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/24/99 Sunday 9:20 P.M. EDT: I rested a bit this afternoon. I chatted with family members. I wrote a letter to a family member. I printed out some envelopes on the laser printer with Microsoft Word 97. It prints the recipient bar code. In bold text I only got three lines on the return address, when initially I got four lines. Well I guess I will have a bite to eat, clean up, and possibly go out for some fresh air. I did the internet update on Microsoft Money 99. My visitor had to cancel out today. Well have a good evening. Computer and server all up to snuff. CIO

Note:<888>10/24/99 Sunday 1:55 P.M. EDT: Well the tape backup completed successfully in 6 1/2 hours. I went for a drive about 4 A.M. and a short walk on the Avenue. I bought a half gallon of 2% milk and margarine for $2.98 at Cumberland Farms. I went to bed about 8 A.M. and just awoke now. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>10/24/99 Sunday 3:40 A.M. EDT: I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants and straightening items around. I have tried to make two backups, both of which have failed about half way through. I tried between them to lower the refresh rate on my onboard video from 75 mhz to default. I lowered the Video Multiplier in my CMOS from 8 to 4. I reinstalled the onboard VGA drive for Win95 instead of Win98. This all did not make a difference. This time I deleted the Sound Blaster 32 driver and changed the CMOS setting for the LPT1 port to EPP, and I set the IRQ to 5 and the other setting to 378. I rebooted and it loaded the Sound Blaster 32 to IRQ 7 and the LPT1 port to IRQ 1. I will now installed the Seagate Tape backup software again, and run it on its default install SCSI setting to see if that works. About midnight I made baked boneless beast of chicken in wine with herbs and spices, chopped garlic, and chopped onion, with a tab of Angostura Teriyaki sauce, steamed frozen broccoli, and baked potato, ice tea and coffee. I tried watching a bit of television, but it was boring. I rested about an hour. Well back to trying to backup. I will possibly go out for some fresh air during this attempt. Have a good morning. I won't run the server while trying another backup. CIO

Note:<888>10/23/99 Saturday 8:40 P.M. EDT: I went to bed about 8 A.M.. I started another tape backup which failed when I checked at 9 A.M.. I went back to bed, and I received a call from a friend who said he would visit tomorrow afternoon. I started another tape backup which failed. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I decided to return the tape drive to Staples in Old Greenwich. I packed up the tape drive, and I cleaned up. I took the tape drive back to Staples. I could not return it, but they exchanged it for a new one since Sony said that 7% of merchandise is defective. The one I bought originally came in shrink wrap, and the Sony Superstation does not come in shrink wrap, so the original drive I bought was a returned item already and probably defective. I returned home, and I chatted with one of my neighbors whom just returned from the Mohegan Sun Casino. I setup the new tape drive with the same Seagate software. I will now start the server, and try another full tape backup with EPP settings. Let's keep our fingers cross that it all works. Well have a good evening. I will start my house cleaning while the tape backup runs for about 5 1/2 hours. CIO

Note:<888>10/23/99 Saturday 7:40 A.M. EDT: I tried making a Tape Backup with SCSI fast EPP, but both times it fail, so I reset the SCSI drive to Bi-Directional, and like last weekend it should run continually for about 28 hours, and hopefully I will have another complete tape backup. I will run the server while it is running. Well I am really bushed, so time for bed. CIO

Note:<888>10/23/99 Saturday 5:00 A.M. EDT: I decided to reinstall Windows 98, and then I reinstalled the Updates and a few other necessary drivers. I ran Norton Disk Doctor, RegClean, WinDoctor, and also reinstalled the Seagate Tape backup software. I did a C: drive to E: drive backup. I just started the faster EPP full tape backup and hopefully it work since I reinstalled Win98. Netmeeting still does not work. Well I will relax a bit and go to bed. I am tired. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>10/22/99 Friday 10:20 P.M. EDT: Well I had a bite of reheated pasta mixture, and I had to restart the C: drive to E: drive backup, since there was not enough room on the E: drive. I moved the D: drive backup to the C: drive. I then went out and I drove down Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by the waterfront and I said hello to a couple of the fishermen. I then went over to Staples in Old Greenwich and I exchanged the defective SonySuperstation Tape for a good one. I then stopped by the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich, and I chatted with Hotel Security for a while. A number of guests as usual were arriving for a wedding reception. I used the Bank of New York ATM at the Hyatt Hotel, and I withdrew funds. I then stopped by CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza, and I bought a carton of Philly Cigar cigarettes for$11.94 plus .72 CT. tax for $12.66. The carton was $12.19 but each package had a .25 off sticker, but the scanner would only take one, so I have nine .25 off stickers to use. I then returned home. I had to make another C: drive to E: drive backup, since the one I started did not complete. Apparently one has to have enough space for the previous backup plus the current one to get a complete backup, so I deleted the previous and ran the backup again and it finished after about an hour and fifteen minutes later. I had two German pickles while doing this. I then changed the settings on my SCSI tape backup to EPP and restarted the computer and started the server. I will try to run a faster backup now with the new tape with the server running, let's see what happens. CIO

Note:<888>10/22/99 Friday 4:30 P.M. EDT: I installed the parts of Microsoft Essentials 98, I did not have, since I had Microsoft Money 99, Microsoft Encarta 98, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, and Microsoft MSN, I did not need those features. I also went to Microsoft Word Downloads and installed about 24 add-ons for Word 97 including the "SR2bOF97.exe" update file, which asked me for my registration number which I had from installing Microsoft Work 98, which is different than the Microsoft Essential CD number. I ran Regclean, and Norton Disk Doctor, and Norton WinDoctor; and I am just about ready to start a C: drive to E: drive backup. I will have a bite to eat, and then clean up and shower; and then go out in about a hour. I might drive up to CompUSA in Norwalk; and get an exchange for my SonySuper Station which I bought from them which does not work. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>10/22/99 Friday 1:15 P.M. EDT: I went out yesterday at about 1 P.M.. I basically did have finished cleaning up my and rearranging my household. I got to thinking about the mosquito larvae and mosquitoes I found growing in my bathroom toilet brush container. I figure they might have come down the bathroom fan duct above the toilet brush since we live near the Byram River which is basically a creek. I do have some luggage stored here of a friend whom returned from Cologne, Germany a year ago and whose girl friend's father worked in archeology in Egypt, so possibly he brought back mosquito larvae in his luggage that set off the West Nile mosquito encephalitis in this area. Another possibility is that a prominent Egyptian has a house on Greenwich Harbor, and possibly he has an aquarium in his house that is breeding Egyptian mosquitoes since he might have imported objects or Aquarium life that might have contained Mosquito encephalitis. I checked with the House of Fins this morning about it, and they said more than likely the fish would eat the Larvae. I went out yesterday afternoon, and I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I then stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I found a copy of Microsoft Home Essentials 98 for $12.50 which I bought. I will install it after I post this message. It has all its material with it. I will now have Microsoft Word 97. I noticed they also have Microsoft Streets 98 there for $12.50. I stopped by the Exxon station and bought $12 of Premium gasoline. I chatted with a livery driver there driving a Lincoln Town Car, and I tried to interest him in buying a Cadillac. I then went to the Grand Union. They don't have the English china starter sets out at the moment. I did buy two bottles of Swiss Pine cleaner for $1.39 each, a bottle of dishwashing liquid for $1.79, a nylon scouring pad for .99, and a Sylvania 7.5 watt light bulb there for $2.39, Angostura bitters $3.89 for a total of $11.84. I next went to my 3 P.M. appointment. I toured the new Greenwich Hospital cafeteria and the Nutmeg Grill is open from 6:30 AM to 10:45 AM, 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM and 3:30 PM to 7:00 PM. I use to eat there a lot before I had a kitchen since it is the most reasonably priced place to have a meal in town. I then drove down by the waterfront, and the regular fishermen have disappeared. I noticed the sea gulls and the cormorants were around the harbor and it was perfectly normal. I chatted with a couple of visitors about ornithology. I mentioned that occasionally birds can be dangerous. I next went by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. I said hello to one patron that had had a back operation, and I told him I was using VIAXX for my back. I returned home, and I did some brain storming and chatted with a couple of people. I went to bed about 10 PM. I was up at about 10 AM this morning, and I had breakfast of Kellogg’s corn flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I chatted with a family member, and told them a friend from Long Island would drive me out to McArthur airport on Long Island and back when I fly from there to Texas over Christmas. I noticed my Apache server log was not working when I went to restart it. I looked a the log, and somebody had locked the log with the Archive switch. According to the log the third to the last entry was

tcs‑gateway6.treas.gov ‑ ‑ [22/Oct/1999:12:37:30 ‑0400] "GET /marine04.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 34298

and they hacked my server and locked the log, which seems very unprofessional; unless they are sending a message that the U.S. Treasury Department needs help from the U.S. Marine Corps. I unchecked the archive check box, so the log works again. It is rather strange here when I chat with the security personnel, they don't seem to know English very well as if it were there second language. I will now install the features of Microsoft Essentials 98 that I don't have. Well have a good day. I suppose I will go out in about an hour and a half. CIO

Note:<888>11/07/99 Sunday 9:50 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at 3 A.M. last night, and I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of Cheerios, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I chatted with a family member. I worked on the computer all day. I uninstalled the Naturally Speaking 4.0 update for Microsoft Word, and I put on version 3.0 that came with the program, and it works much better in Microsoft Word, fast enough to make it useful. I started working on trying to get Real Audio to work which was not working. In the process of cleaning up some files, I noticed I had in my "C:\Windows\system" directory, two copies of "mfc42.dll" and "Mfc42.dll", got rid of the caps version and kept the Microsoft lower caps newer version from 9/16/99, and believe it or not the system runs a lot better. I tried installing Netmeeting, and it also works now. I finally called tech support at Optimum online about 3 P.M., and although I tried various options in Real Audio including changing setting and reinstalling it several times including reinstalling it from Optimum Online before I called them to no avail. While chatting with tech, I tried changing the "Preferences" setting by unchecking "Enhanced Video" and sure enough the Real Audio video now works fine. I optimized the C: and D: drives. I backed up the C: and D: drives to the E: drive. Ford dinner I pealed ten four inch Idaho potatoes, the smaller ones in the bag, and I diced them into 3/4 inch pieces and boiled them in water with a dash of salt for a half hour. I then put them in the Cuisinart with a quarter cup of milk and a half of stick of " I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" along a few dashes of Hungarian Paprika, a dash of basil, a dash of garlic powder and I mixed them up into a pudding like consistency since I made the mistake of adding a half cup of milk which makes them too runny unless you were going to try to make potato pancakes out of them. Along with the mashed potatoes for dinner, I had a cold chicken leg and thigh with Tabasco sauce and steamed frozen peas with pearl onion, and ice tea and I am just having my coffee right now. I refrigerated about four cups of the mashed potatoes. I chatted with a family member while boiling the potatoes. I have to do my laundry in a little while. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/07/99 Sunday 1:40 A.M. EDT: Well I went out after the last message. I parked in the center of town. I mailed two copies of my internet directory. I bought five stamps for $1.65. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I said good evening to a local Park and Recreation employee who seems to know the town better than I do. I sat out in front of the senior center. I walked up to the top of the Avenue. I noticed quite a few of the college crowd were having refreshments and the local pub and I noticed quite a few individuals were going to the movies. I studied the construction site for the Mitchell's department store, and they have filled in more of the southwest side of the foundation. I sat out at the top of the Avenue. I walked back down the Avenue, and two strollers barked at me something I did not understand. I returned down the Avenue and chatted tech with a local stroller. I then walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again. My feet were aching, so I came inside about midnight. I chatted with a couple of contacts. I had some microwave popcorn and a glass of ice tea. I also had eight Danish butter cookies and a few jelly beans. I am tired, so I will pass up doing the laundry this evening, and I will do it tomorrow when it is not busy. Well have a good morning. One British contact told me that the "House of Lords" had not been abolished, so I guess there is a disparity between Western Hemisphere propaganda and that from the Eastern Hemisphere. Well I guess if I go to bed now, I will be out on an earlier schedule today, if it is not too cold. Present temperature is 47 degrees F.. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/06/99 Saturday 5:35 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, four strips of bacon, toast, coffee, orange juice and vitamins. I went back to bed and got up at 10 A.M.. I started cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. I listened to the last part of Tarzan of the Apes, by Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Listen to the audiobook on Yahoo! Broadcast while doing this. I also cleaned the mirrors and pictures with Windex. I finished about 3 A.M., and I had a dinner of cold chicken and thigh leg without the skin with Tabasco sauce, steamed frozen peas with pearl onions, two small microwaved potatoes, ice tea and coffee. While drinking my coffee, I worked on a another project. Last night before going to bed, I had a stain on the carpet from when there was a hot water tank leak in the neighboring apartment. My Queen Anne chair had let off mahogany stain at one of the legs on the carpet, so when I moved it there was red mahogany stain. I should of taken care of the problem when it happened several months ago, but it did not show until I moved the chair when rearranging the apartment. I soaked the stain with white vinegar and salt which when I vacuumed it up this afternoon, some of it was still there. I then soaked the stain with lighter fluid and rubbed it in. After that I soaked the stain with a diluted mixture of one fourth bleach and three fourths water. I wiped that in and worked it with a toothbrush. I then put a tad of blue pigment watercolor in a small amount of water and wiped that in. I then brushed it again with the toothbrush with the diluted bleach mixture to the best I could get it. I then poured on blue liquid detergent and brushed it with the tooth brush, and then I soaked up the detergent with fresh warm water rinsing out the carpet. The net result is the stain is barely visible, but it is still there; and the carpet around the two inch stain is a bit cleaner for about five inches in diameter. Well since it is old furniture stain, it is hard to remove. I guess in the Spring I will use my rug shampooer and clean the carpet better. I then separated Scott's Internet Hotlist downloadable into two separate files, which can be downloaded from download.htm, so one can carry the directory easily on two floppy disks in "Zip" format. Well I am now trying to print out some labels with the laser printer and Microsoft Word 97 Avery label printer. However the labels are old pin sheet feed labels, so I don't know how they will go through the laser printer. I need them to put on a few floppy disks on my directory for easy transport. Well after doing that, I might clean up; and go out for a breath of fresh air. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 7:50 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I viewed the merchandise. I bought an old Cablevision Box for $1.50 like they use to use before Cablevision. I then bought a buy one get one free of Parliaments for $2.75. I might try to smoke cigarettes a bit at home, so the smell of cigar cigarettes is not around, and I could smoke the cigar cigarettes outside. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I viewed the Mitchell's construction site. The have finished pouring about 40% of the first floor and started to fill in the foundation at the southwest corner. I sat out in front of the senior center. I drove down by the waterfront and the usual fishermen were there in force. I noticed yesterday while at Tod's Point, there was a brown gray heron on the road by the marsh area which I thought unusual for this time of the year. They had a picture of it in the local paper today. I chatted with the fishermen for a while. I then stopped by CVS and bought a tin of Danish cookies for $1.99 and eight roll pack of Scott Paper towels for $5 plus .30 Ct. sales tax for $7.29 total. Next week they are going to have 24 roll packs of Charmin on sale, and they already have them stacked up, but not on sale yet. I stopped by the local library and it was busy with lots of people using the internet terminals. I read the local paper. My feet were aching since I did not wear my usual Nikes. I returned home, and I fiddled with the cable box on the bedroom TV set, but it does not work with Optimum TV, so I put it away. I attached a Cable from the bedroom wall cable receptacle around to the bedroom backup computer, so if I ever pick up a LAN card for it, I could use my cable modem with it. 100 Meg LAN cards at CompUSA this week were $20 minus $10 mailin rebates, so I guess I could afford on some time. I relaxed a bit, and they announced on CNBC that the Microsoft ruling had been announced and that Bill Gates has to live as a hermit on a actively volcanic island for the rest of his life or something like that. I then watched a bit of the History Channel about the Mississippi River. I had some microwave popcorn and pumpkin pie for dinner along with ice tea. Not much else happening, so have a good evening. I don't think I will be going out this evening, since my feet ache, and I am bit tired after having only five hours sleep last night and being up at 9 A.M. this morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 2:00 P.M. EDT: I chatted with a couple of family members for a while with www.dialpad.com . I ran Speedisk on the C:, D: and E: drives. While doing this I went downstairs and checked the mail. It is a nice day outside. I had lunch of cold chicken breast with Tabasco, steamed frozen green beans, and microwaved potato, and ice tea. I am just about to have a cup of coffee and then I will go out to enjoy the day. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 10:50 A.M. EDT: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning. I made a backup of the E: drive to the C: drive while I was asleep. While having and eating breakfast, I backed up the D: drive to the E: drive and the C: drive to the E: drive. I rezipped the downloadable file download.htm to include few extra links I have added, nothing major. I will now run Norton Speedisk on all three drive, and I will shut down the server while I do it. I had breakfast of Post raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I guess I will either rest or clean up while running speedisk. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/05/99 Friday 3:30 A.M. EDT: I have not had anything to eat yet, since I have been busy on the computer. I made a mistake installing Dragon Naturally Speaking 3.0. I installed the update for it for 3.5 to 4.0; but after I trained it, I found it did not work in Microsoft Word. After many hours of tinkering with it, I finally figured out that the update was messing me up. I uninstalled it saving the sound file, and then I reinstalled it without the update. It now works with Microsoft Word 97, but it is a bit slow. It works faster with its own interface. I then installed the Microsoft Home Publishing 99 Suite. I will now have some Ramen noodles and Pumpkin Pie for a snack with ice tea before going to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/04/99 Thursday 5:15 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at midnight last night and I was up at about 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, five strips of bacon, two pieces of toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. I went out about 10 A.M.. I stopped by and mailed a letter at the West Putnam Avenue post office off the side road. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift Shop. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and did some business. I stopped by the Mews Thrift shop, and they gave me a Honeywell envirocaire air filter that they had out by the dumpster. I drove down by the harbor and besides the usual fishermen, I chatted with a fisherman from Russia. The CBS news truck was also there with their satellite in the up position. I told them about having once worked for CBS news in 1973. I drove over to Old Greenwich, and I got my hair cut for at Off Center barbers for $15 plus $5 tip. They give a very good hair cut there. I went to the Old Greenwich Thrift shop and bought a 10 inch electric burner liner for $1.50 and I stopped by CVS and bought a bottle of garlic powder for .99, a bottle of Bay Leaves for .99 plus a bottle of 91% alcohol for cleaning my tape drive for $1.39, plus two bags of jelly beans for .99 each plus .12 CT. tax for $5.47 total. I drove out to Tod's Point, but it was too windy to walk. I noticed by the caretaker's cottage near the chained off entrance to the upper property, there was a very large dead tree that had fallen down. It would supply about fifteen cords of firewood, if properly split up; and since the tree was dead, the wood would be dry. I stopped by Staples and found two packages of software in the Clearance Bin for $9.99 each "Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard Version 3 with headset and Microsoft Publishing Suite 99 with "Home Publishing 99", "Picture It! 99" and the Hallmark Connections. I bought three package of open pins from the Clearance area for $1.50 total and I then went to Putnam Trust Bank of New York in Riverside to withdraw funds for the software. I returned and bought the two packages of software for $9.99 each plus $1.20 tax for $21.18 total. I then headed over to the Greenwich Library and read the local paper, and I chatted with a couple of regular patrons. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I returned home, and I installed the new Honeywell air purifier. It had hardly been used. I threw out the old Hospital Electronic air purifier which is dangerous. I had some ice tea. I sorted out my pins as to those which that work and don't work, and I put them in four cups by the desk on the computer. I put out the jelly beans on the lazy Susan on the oak dining table. I now will install the two software packages. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/03/99 Wednesday 10:50 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at midnight last night and started a tape backup. I got up twice during the night and it had failed and I restarted it. I finally got up at 9 A.M.. I had breakfast of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I reconfigured the backup program updating the SCSI drive, and put the Veritas updated backup on and then reinstalling the Seagate backup, and starting it again. It ran until about 4 P.M. and failed. While doing this I slept. I tried the same configuration, but this time setting the SCSI driver setting to "/W95" and not adding the other parameters. I also did one drive at a time. I just finished backing up the entire system, except for a 100 Kbytes of the D: drive. I watched television while doing most of this. Earlier I read two month's back issues of the Greenwich Post and Interactive Week. After watching the ABC news I had dinner of cold chicken breast with Tabasco, steamed frozen green beans, microwave potato, ice tea and coffee. I made up a batch of icetea.htm while doing the tape backup. I watched Animal World after the BBC news. I just finished the tape backup and restarted the server. I found these two links in the Greenwich Post Lolly Prince '99 who won yesterday's election for First Selectman and The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce, Greenwich CT . I also found a link to this firewall Welcome to Network ICE if you happen to afford $40. Well since I got up late, I guess I will do a little computer and internet work. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/02/99 Tuesday 10:10 P.M. EDT: I had dinner of roasted chicken, steamed green beans, microwaved potato, ice tea, and coffee. I watched a little bit of the Arts and Entertainment Channel. I guess I will do a little internet work now. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/02/99 Tuesday 7:15 P.M. EDT: Well before I went out, I took the two leaves out of the dining room table and moved it around a bit to make more room in the apartment. I also put away two of the blue bent wood chairs in the ceiling. I rearranged the table, and I put the two miniature palms in the window. I put the restored leather office chair in opposite the dining room table next to the day bed. I put the shield of Pall Mall back up on the book case, and I put the Bermuda watercolor on the back of the entry door. I put mom's picture above the restore leather chair. I put a folding TV table next to the computer to hold the mouse pad and my note paper. I put the Veterans of World War I books back in the bookcase. I think the apartment looks a bit more spacious now. I went about 3 P.M., and I stopped by the Fleet Bank in Byram to use their ATM. I voted at the New Lebanon School. I stopped by the Arnold Bread store and bought three loaves of 3 seed bread and a pumpkin pie for $6.35. I drove downtown and I drove down by the waterfront, but no one was there on a rainy day. I went by the library and read three computer newsweeklies. The Greenwich Times was not available. I stopped by the Grand Union five cans of Cento Crushed tomatoes for $2, Ragu 4 Alfredo sauce $2.19, a bulb of garlic .51, four cans of Cento tomato paste two for .99,a Red Baron Pizza for $3.99, Ronzoni spinach fettuccini $1.65, GU frozen peas with onions $1.34, GU whole green beans frozen $1.50, GG frozen broccoli pieces $2, two "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" $1.29, two 12 packs of Vintage seltzer $1.99 each plus $1.20 can deposit for $26.85 total. I went to pay but the ATM machine at the store was out of money, so I paid all but $4 and then went to the Putnam Trust bank ATM and withdrew funds and returned to the store and repaid the manager the $4. It was pouring rain heavily when I left the store. I brought the groceries up, and I put them away. I showed one my neighbors my apartment. I started cooking the Purdue chicken and it should be ready in a little over an hour. Well I guess I will relax a bit have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/02/99 Tuesday 1:45 P.M. EDT: I was up at 7 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, five strips of bacon, orange juice, and vitamins. I went back to bed after breakfast and awoke again about 11 P.M.. I did some computer work. I just had some Ramen noodles and ice tea. Not much going on a rainy day. I have to get out and vote in about an hour. I checked with Bank of New York, and their online banking program does not work with Microsoft Money 99, but they have their own online banking program that works with bill paying for $8.95 a month. It would seem Bank of New York is behind the times in online banking. Well I guess I should start cleaning up, and getting ready to go out and vote. I also have to stop by the Arnold Bread Store. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>11/01/99 Monday 9:35 P.M. EDT: I did a few errand around the house, and I had lunch of reheated spaghetti sauce and Ramen noodles with ice tea and coffee. I smoke a couple of cigars since I was out of cigar cigarettes. At about 2:30 P.M. I went out downtown. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York and did some banking. I went by the bank on Lafayette Place and paid my rent. I drove down Greenwich Avenue and parked downtown, and I went to the Post Office. It was busy, so I walked across the street and bought three packs of basic regular buy two get one free for $6.40. I then went back to the post office and waited in line for a while, and I paid my MCI and Bell Atlantic telephone bills along with my GEICO insurance with money order which is cheaper than bank money orders. I then stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop and bought the roll of hemp webbing for $1.75 that I had asked them to save me. I chatted with a few visitors from Scotland, one of whom looked like my paternal grandmother. She did not seem to recognize me. I happened to be dressed up for a change, so at least I made a presentable appearance. I noticed in Yahoo Reuters today, they have a picture of Bill Clinton with King Olaf's younger brother whom I am not sure is the King of Norway. I guess the Norwegians know whom is King by whoms picture is on the money. I then stopped by Exxon and bought $14 of Exxon Premium. I then drove down to the I95 and drove up to Cable Vision in Norwalk. I paid my Optimum Online and my Cablevision for the last two months. I was told that as oppose to the @home, I can get the Optimum Online package $10 cheaper and own my own cable modem, however I am not sure that service is available in Greenwich. One can pick up the modem and what ever software you need for it at the Wiz in Norwalk. I then went by CompUSA in Norwalk. I toured the store merchandise, but I did not buy anything. I thought about buying the last headset microphone set from LAN? Electronics for about $20, but I figured my Andrea electronic microphone I bought a couple of years ago for $50 is better. I then drove through Darien. I stopped by CVS and bought a carton of Philly Cigar cigarettes for $15.90 individually with $2.50 off in stickers and two bags of jelly beans for .99 each with .92 Ct. Sales tax for $16.30 total. I then stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. I then went by the Grand Union and bought a quart of 2% parmalat milk for $1.55, a Stauffer's 20 oz. lasagna for $2.99, GU 2% milk half gallon $1.95, two half gallons of Sealtest orange juice not from Concentrate for $2.50 each, three cans of Progresso New England Clam chowder for .99 each, two packages of Oscar Meyer bacon for $2.50 each, a dozen GU eggs for $1.49, four boxes of three piece plate, cup, and saucer Churchill English China with the blue and white pattern like I got before for $1.99 each for $32.74 with .48 tax. I now have 12 setting of the three piece china set. I will leave them unused for guests if I should ever dane to have guests. I returned home and I had a diet Sprite in a frosted mug and relaxed a bit after I filed this report. Well not much happening. It was pretty much a normal day. I have to remember to set back the clock in the car. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/01/99 Monday 10:00 A.M. EDT: I was up at 4 A.M., and I had breakfast of Post Raisin Bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I went out side and smoke a White Owl cigar since I was out of cigar cigarettes. I came back in and fell asleep until about 9 A.M.. I went out and smoke a Middletown Cherry light cigar. I restarted the Apache server logs for the new month. Well I have to clean up and go out pay some bills at the first of the month. I probably will drive up to Norwalk Cablevision and pay my Cable and Optimum Online cable modem bills and stop by CompUSA on the way back. Well first of the month is always busy. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>11/14/99 Sunday 10:20 P.M. EDT: I was up finally about 5 P.M.. I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I chatted with a few family members. I fiddled with my registry settings from SpeedGuide.net and looked at Cable Modems & xDSL Registry Tweaks and also Cable Modems & xDSL ‑ Advanced Registry Editing and I used their recommendations for Windows 98, but checking my MTU with pinging, the @Home server has a MTU of 1460 which I set my MTU settings to and thus an MSS of 1420. The cable modem seems to be working faster, and at this busy time of night I am getting 1 megabyte a second instead of .5 megabyte a second, so I would say the settings they recommend along with the correct MTU and MSS setting make a difference. I am not able to use www.dialpad.com on Sunday evenings at the moment since it is busy and some weekday evenings. However when I am on an earlier schedule and also during the morning it should be available. I guess it depends on the number of Foreign users. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/14/99 Sunday 7:00 A.M. EDT: I also put cinnamon in the Oat Meal cookies. I went out after the last message, and I contemplated the waterfront in the peaceful serene morning hours for about an hour. I noticed it will be a cloudy day, when I came in at first light, it almost looked like snow clouds. I returned up to the Avenue, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by the train station and they have it opened in the morning. I noticed a few people heading to the restaurant across the street from the train station. I noticed a weird car from Florida with a University of Vermont sticker, so it must be a reverse snow bird, I guess we would call the person a pelican. Well I walked back up the Avenue, and I stopped by the news stands across from Figaro and viewed the magazines. I returned back to my car, and I stopped by the train station and I chatted with one of the workers from Omnifitness waiting to start work on the new store. I returned home, just now and sampled one of the oatmeal cookies and they taste pretty good with a glass of ice tea. I guess I will try to go to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/14/99 Sunday 4:15 A.M. EDT: I noticed an obscure note in history as I was doing my reflections of past events. I believe Prince Charles heir to the throne of Great Britain and the future head of the Commonwealth is celebrating his 51st birthday today having been born on November 14, 1948. I guess he will be seeing the trooping of the Horse Parade today and other events as recorded on the BBC since the Queen and the Prime Minister are out of England for the Commonwealth Meeting. Well Happy Birthday Your Grace. CIO

Note:<888>11/14/99 Sunday 3:20 A.M. EDT: Well I went out for some fresh air after the last message. I drove down by the waterfront, and it was quiet. I drove over to CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza and I bought a carton of Philly cigar cigarettes for $14.19 less a .25 coupon plus .84 CT. tax for $14.78 total. The carton also has ten .25 off coupons on the packs which I will use later. I thought about buying CVS Italian seasoning, oregano, and basil bottles; but the store was out of them. I might find them on Greenwich Avenue at the CVS store there. I returned back to town and I parked downtown, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. It was a quiet night. I drove back down by the waterfront, and then I returned home. I then used the recipe on the Grand Union old fashioned oatmeal container and made 30 oatmeal cookies. Instead of using a cup of brown sugar and a half cup of sugar, I just used a cup of regular sugar. I also use 3/4 teaspoon of baking powder instead of a 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, and I also used a cup of chopped walnuts. I put about Tablespoon balls instead of teaspoon balls on each of the two greased baking trays containing 15 each. Since they were larger balls of cookie doe, I cooked each tray in each of the convection microwave ovens for about 22 minutes each at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. I then set out each tray to cool about 45 minutes, and I then put fifteen oatmeal walnut cookies in each of two Danish cookie tins for munching on during the next number of days or so. One should not eat too many of them since each cookie contains 1/30 of a cup of sugar. I also used "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" for shortening in the recipe. An I greased the cookie sheets with Canola oil. Well it helps to keep busy during the winter evenings. At the moment it is 38 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Well have a good morning, I guess I will do a little internet work. I have several days of email to sift through. CIO

Note:<888>11/13/99 Saturday 10:45 P.M. EDT: Well I finished cleaning the apartment and watering the plants. I listened to a bit of BBC while doing it. I had a meal of pork stew I made last night, ice tea and coffee. I cleaned up, and I guess I will go out for a bit of fresh air shortly. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/13/99 Saturday 3:55 P.M. EDT: Well I was up at 2:30 P.M.. I had breakfast of Cheerios, toast, vitamins, orange juice and coffee. I tried making a telephone call but no one was there. Sprint has called me up the last two days trying to sell me long distance, and I politely keep asking them not to call me back. I will now start my house cleaning routine. Have an enjoyable afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>11/13/99 Saturday 3:30 A.M. EDT: I went out about 10 P.M., and I parked downtown. I explored the Mitchell's Construction site. I ran into another exercise walker. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and we walked west on the Post Road and back down Indian Field Road and west on Elm Street. I noticed they were doing some construction on West Elm Street. We chatted a while, and I bid "Adieu". I walked down the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again, so I got a good walk. I sat out at the Post Office plaza for a while. I drove down on Steamboat Road and there was a box in road by the closed Greenwich Harbor Inn, so I moved it off the road. I noticed there are some discarded wing back chairs in the construction dumpster at the Greenwich Harbor Inn that look to be in good shape. I drove down by the waterfront. I returned back through town. It was a very quiet evening since it was cooler. I stopped by the Shell Station and bought a half gallon of 2% milk for $2. I returned home and I had some ice tea, and I finished up the Danish cookies. I relaxed a bit this morning and did not do any computer work. I guess tomorrow when I awake it is another Saturday house cleaning day. Well I am getting a bit tired, so I guess I will try to get some sleep. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/12/99 Friday 9:10 P.M. EDT: I went out and test the phone. It works fine in the upstairs hallway, not in the elevator, in the laundry room, not in the community room, outside in front of the building, by the east side entrance, halfway out to the family units, weakly by the back bench overlooking the baseball field, by first, second, and third base, not on the far side of the building by the community room, or along the Post Road side of the building, but it does work very well in front parking lot of the building. I then came upstairs about 7:30 A.M., and I diced the four boneless center cut pork chops and five strips of bacon and browned them in olive oil. I put a few tablespoons of olive oil in the bottom of the Revere soup pot and I drained the brown meat and put it in the bottom on the soup pot. I turned it on medium high and added a half cup of white wine and a cup of milk. I then cleaned a whole bulb of garlic and pureed it with the Braun handblender in a quarter cup of white wine and added it to the pot. I added a large can of crushed tomatoes. I peeled and diced five medium onions, and added them. I turned the heat down to about medium and let it all simmer. I added another cup of milk, a stick of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", and another quarter cup of white wine. While it was simmering I added garlic powder, Italian spices, Basil, Oregano, Five Bay Leaves, Cinnamon, Chinese Five Spice, Hungarian Paprika, Ground Black Pepper, Celery Salt, Tabasco, Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, Angostura Teriyaki sauce, Angostura Bitters and mixed it in. After about a half hour I peeled and diced five medium potatoes and added them along with a diced head of broccoli. I stirred it adding a half of bag of macaroni soup noodles. After another half hour, I added two cans of mushrooms stems and pieces and proceeded to simmer it another half hour until the potatoes and broccoli pieces are soft. In about five to ten minutes once the potato pieces are soft enough, it should be ready for dinner. I will have it for dinner with ice tea, and refrigerate part and freeze the rest. Then I will have a cup of coffee and after I clean up I will go out for a breath of fresh air a little before 11 P.M.. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/12/99 Friday 12:25 A.M. EDT: Well I actually had a Red Baron Pepperoni pizza for dinner. After dinner, I decided to clean my old Faberware Convection over with oven cleaner. So I took a while to clean it with over cleaner. I then took down the book case on the bureau in the kitchen and put it in the bathroom along the left wall when you come in along with the kitchen storage items in it. I stacked the two Faberware Convection ovens on top of themselves putting the newer one on the bottom and the older one on top. I seperated them a little further apart by supporting the legs with CVS spice bottle caps. I also connected them to an outlet with a heavy duty orange utility cord along with the toaster oven. Thus I have two convection ovens set up in the small kitchen along with the GE microwave and the regular GE oven. I also turned off the circuit breaker for the bathroom heater which the bookcase is in front of along with having it turned off at the unit. I never use the heat in the bathroom since it is too expensive. I just let the heat flow in from the rest of the apartment. I rearrange a number of smaller kitchen items to complete the setup. I am steeping a another batch of icetea.htm which should be ready in a half hour. The new Radio shack phone is charged up enough to try. It sounds fine. Both telephone splitters I bought off the clearance table were for two line phones, so they did not work. Thus I disconnected the red phone which would be redundant now. I also disconnected the NOMAD 4000 and 4400 cordless phones since their batteries are down, and that could cause problems until I replace them. I will also replace the GE cordless phone battery at the same time when I have funds. You can't do everytime at the same time. Tomorrow night I will try to make a stew with the center cup pork chops, Idaho potatoes, fresh broccoli, onions, and garlic which should be tasty for the next few days. Well not much else to report, I will set the presets on the new phone in the day time so I don't wake anyone at night trying to set the presets. Really not much to report. Well I guess I will do a little internet work. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/11/99 Thursday 7:50 P.M. EDT: Well I was up this morning until about 8 A.M.. I chatted with a friend about 7 A.M.. I went to bed and was up at 1 P.M.. I had breakfast of Post Raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I cleaned up and I made it to my 3 P.M. appointment. I then stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I then drove down by the waterfront and noticed a few fishermen were out. I then went over to ELDC thrift shop and I bought a like new Faberware Turbo Air Convection Oven for $10 plus .60 tax to replace my same model one that was getting older but still works fine. I then went to Staples and checked out cordless phones and I only bought a 3M Post It pad for my Post It note holder for .27 from the Clearance Center. I then went to Radio Shack in Cos Cob and I bought on sale from $69.99 to $39.99 the Radio Shack 900 MHz Cordless Phone in Graphite Color "43‑1108 Graphite", and I paid $39.99 plus $2.40 CT. tax for $42.39 total. I think it is a good buy since it is the latest 900 MHz technology that might have a range up to 700 feet depending on conditions. It also works with a one plug headset you can buy there for $20. It is featured in this week's advertising promotion. I then returned home, and I installed the new Faberware Oven, and I guess I will put the old one out by the dumpster. It needs a little cleaning but works fine. I then set up the new Radio Shack Phone to the right of the computer. It takes 24 hours for the batteries to charge up before one can use it. It has quite a number of features. I fiddles with the telephone line splitters behind my control panel to make it the first phone on the split. I also noticed one of my new splitters did not work, so I replaced it with another one I had. I read the instructions for it. I will set up the speed dials once I have it charged tomorrow. They suggest to discharge the phone once a month and recharge it to keep it more fully charged. I am now cooking a Tony's Pepperoni Pizza in the new Faberware oven to make sure it works before I dump the old one out. Well after coffee and pizza and ice tea, I guess I will go out for some fresh air. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/11/99 Thursday 12:50 A.M. EDT: I was up at 8 A.M. this morning, and I had breakfast of Kellogg's raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I made a few phone calls checking with people about what was going on. The new telephone number for the White House Secret Service Intelligence IP control center is:1‑202‑406‑5988, and they handle computer matters. I got some more rest until about 2 A.M., and I munched on some Danish cookies and ice tea and showered and cleaned up. I went out and toured the festive display activities at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I noticed they have a bolt of heavy Clarence House type fabric 3.5 yards by 5 feet for $35 not half yet. It is not big enough to throw over my sofa. To cover it properly I think I need about eight yards by five feet to ten yards by five feet, and then I could lay it across length wise in two sections. Of course if one had a drape cover over the sofa, it might hang against the electric radiator which might be a fire hazard unless one pulled out the sofa another foot or so. I chatted with a couple of the volunteers about seeing the Vienna Boy's Choir in my travels along with the Lepisand Stallions in the old days, and I mentioned that the Vienna New Years Cotillion they throw every year might be the proper party to attend for the Year 2000 festivities, since I guess they would do it up right in the old world tradition if one did mind waltzing. I suppose some people here locally have been invited or can afford to be patrons. I then drove over to the Greenwich Library and read three computer news weeklies and the local paper. I chatted with a couple of regular patrons. I noticed it was quite busy. I checked out "A History of London" by Stephen Inwood and "Inside the White House" by Betty Boyd Caroli for my current conversation books. I don't know if I will have time to read them or not. I then headed down Greenwich Avenue, and I parked downtown, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by St. Moritz bakery and I bought a blueberry muffin for a $1 and they gave me a second for free since they were closing. I walked up to the Post Office Plaza and ate one blueberry muffin. I chatted with a local who introduced me to a Canadian couple. I chatted a little Canadian gossip. I then headed to CVS on the Avenue looking for bargains. I then walked back down the Avenue. I then headed over to the Port Chester shopping plaza. I toured Jimbo's but I did not find anything I needed. I went by the Appliance store next to the rear entrance of Staples, and I viewed their new General Electric appliances. They have a Stainless Steel General Electric refrigerator with Culligan Water cooler for $2,200 at warehouse prices. I toured Staples, and they have a 24X Creative computer CD player in the Clearance center with cables in the box for $20. I noticed you can get the Fortune Brands Scotch tape holder for $3 that is made by Swingline and is weighted and the Scotch Tape in a half inch roll costs about $1.50. I decided to hold off on the purchase. I then toured Pergament, and they have a General Electric inexpensive phone with cord not cordless for $13. I then toured Odd Job, and they advertise $3 bottles of Kosher Dill pickles for $1, but they were out of them. I noticed they have the $70 Uniden cordless phone on sale for $40. I then returned back to Staples since they use the lower back entrance after 6 P.M. now, and they don't have any General Electric cordless phones there like I bought at Caldor’s before for $25. I decided not to get the CDrom player for the bedroom computer, since I though it would not work, but then I figured it would work since I put in my ACER 24 X cdrom into it and it worked. I then went to the Vitamin Mart and I bought 300 Capsules of 500 Mg deodorized garlic for $10.17 with tax. I returned back downtown, and I chatted with a Hospital employee on his way to work. I then headed back to the car, and I fetched my umbrella, and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I then ate the second blueberry muffin in front of the senior center. I walked around the lower section of Greenwich Avenue again. It started to get quiet, so I returned home about 11 P.M.. I then relaxed a bit. I have not eaten yet, but I am still trying to lose a bit of weight. I noticed the Barnes and Noble bookstore have both the Reagan and Bush books, but I have not seen them in the library yet. I returned home, and I remembered I have a $3 Red "Star Fifty" phone stored in the closet, so I hooked it up next to the computer to make it easier to answer the phone. I did not see any rechargeable batteries for the two AT&T rechargeable Nomad 4000 phones, I still have; but one still works, but one seems like it needs a new battery. I have never used them very much, since frequently they caused problem along with the red phone when I tried using a telephone modem for years, but since I use a cable modem now it does not matter. I still have not eaten, and I have a 3 P.M. appointment today. I suppose I could have a snack of some Ramen noodles instead of eating a heavy meal. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/10/99 Wednesday 12:05 A.M. EDT: Well I had a dill pickle and reheated mash potatoes and walnuts and jelly beans for my late evening meal about 10 P.M.. I guess I will throw out the rest of the Purdue chicken since it is a week old. I sort of drifted off into a trance this evening, so I guess I am tired; so I will go to bed. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/09/99 Tuesday 8:50 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message, and I stopped by down by the waterfront and a few of the usual fishermen were still there on a warmer day. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. I stopped by Peabody's garage to see if they have any General Motors station wagons, but alas they only seem to have tiny foreign cars. I chatted with the garage proprietor about the Chicago Marathon and all the old foreign cars one use to find around Great Lake Naval Station in the old days, when the young recruits were allowed to return home from duty with their foreign automobiles. I noticed on the internet that Queen Elizabeth II went back down to South Africa to pick up more of diamonds. I returned home and I chatted with a neighbor. I chatted with a former Greenwich resident living further east in the state. I guess not much is happening. I hear a bit more air traffic than normal, so I guess the local business community is up and traveling a bit more today. I guess they have to keep up their frequent flier miles irregardless of conservation. I have a feeling a lot of the local business community are like Sea Captains in the old days with a ship in every port leading diverse and secret lives when they travel. Perhaps they're all a bunch of polygamist Mormons trying to befriend the mostly protestant town of Greenwich. Who know for sure what it is all about, but since the local women control the financial infrastructure of this town, it is more than likely if the traveling business public is up to mischief, they will find their line of credit and American Express Cards cancelled. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/09/99 Tuesday 1:45 P.M. EDT: I fixed some links in first1.htm and incorporated them into download.htm . Well time to start cleaning up and get outside. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>11/09/99 Tuesday 12:50 P.M. EDT: I was up at 11 A.M.. I had breakfast of Cheerios, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I have a 4 P.M. appointment this afternoon. It is suppose to be a warm day out, so I guess I will get out and enjoy the day after I clean up. Latest temperature check from my outside thermometer is 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Well I suppose on a day schedule, it might be slightly busier that on a night schedule. Have a good day. CIO

Note:<888>11/09/99 Tuesday 4:05 A.M. EDT: Well I sifted through my email. I had some reheated mashed potatoes and a dill pickle slice for a bed time snack. Well not much happening in Greenwich. I guess everyone went down to Barbados early for the Big Year 2000 Party they are having down there. On a minor note, the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop will be offering their Christmas collection this starting