01/14/25 Tuesday 2:35 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders.  I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue and forage around.  After 41 years on Greenwich Avenue and having lived here since June 1962, I know my way around.  In my days of golf at the Greenwich Country Club, I had an eight handicap, and in 1968 I drove down from Wellesley, Mass., and I won the Junior Club championship beating Chuck King and Peter Chester, so my name is still on the trophy there.  However, in those days the International Telephone and Telegraph golf course outside of Boston was over 8500 yards long, so I could drive a golf ball almost three hundred yards long.  Alas I threw out my last set of Haig Ultra golf clubs with a Burton golf bag from Jasper, Alabama.  I was also good at putting, but for some reason my Tony Lima putter disappeared years ago.  I was not too good on my short game around the greens though.

01/14/25 Tuesday 1:45 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.

01/14/25 Tuesday 1:20 P.M.   Outside I chatted with a visitor about the proposed ice skating rink.  I am told that the Greenwich RTM is having another meeting about it tonight.  I chatted with a neighbor.  The only time I have been inside the current ice skating rink is when I lived at 700 Steamboat Road, I took a friend from Brazil ice skating there.  At the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and at Lake Forest College, I used to watch a lot of ice hockey matches too, and at Christmas Time once I went to the Lawrenceville hockey tournaments in Princeton, New Jersey, and I stayed at the Cottage Club fraternity house.  At Lake Forest College, I was a member of Delta Sigma Khai fraternity which is a news reporter fraternity the last I knew.  The only time I have ice skated is that in the winter of 1976, I ice skated at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia; and another time I ice skated at Rockefeller Center right before I went to Oslo, Norway in February 1983.  In those days, I had a strong pair of legs from all of the walking that I did, so I was a pretty good ice skater.  I still think they should build the new ice rink at the current Greenwich High School or steal some property just north of it from Greenwich Country Day, where their ice rink is.

I will now go outside again.

01/14/25 Tuesday 12:20 P.M.  A neighbor gave me $10 to take him to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue.  While there, I bought six 20 ounce cans of Dole pineapple chunks and four 15 ounce cans of fruit cocktail for $21.94 total.  On the way back we stop by the Exxon service station store on the Port Chester border.  I put away my food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I sat outside.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/14/25 Tuesday 10:30 A.M.  No toilets here https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxnv4rjdq4o

I am afraid of heights https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdjd3rgdxj2o

Since I am older, I think the younger generation should take over observing on Greenwich Avenue.  One never knows whom might show up during the different four seasons.

I will now go outside again.

01/14/25 Tuesday 10:15 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

Yesterday I got a Christmas Card from President Elect Trump and wife and son Baron, so they know where I currently live.  When I met John Bolton outside the Casa Marina Hotel in Key West in February 1978, he told me he was the architect of the renovation project for the Casa Marina Hotel.  He certainly knew a lot about the old southern most hotel.  Alas history does not pay the bills.

01/14/25 Tuesday 10:05 A.M.   If one looks at Norway Electric Cars https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo , they could build a charging station at vacant lot for sale across the street from the Shell station at 401 West Putnam Avenue, but the better place would be at the Greenwich Train station parking lot.

01/14/25 Tuesday 9:35 A.M.  The Garage apartment I built in Mr. Grumman's neighborhood from April 1982 to February 1983 https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21-Circle-Dr-Manhasset-NY-11030/31083824_zpid/?mmlb=g,12

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/14/25 Tuesday 9:25 A.M.  When I first got online on the internet around 1991, NASA had launched a radar imaging satellite that could x-ray volcanoes to see if the might erupt, but they do not publish any information.

01/14/25 Tuesday 9:20 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 8 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

01/13/25 Monday 8:10 P.M.   I have keyboard fatigue.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/13/25 Monday 7:25 P.M.  From my research on the internet, when my Scott relative from Scotland arrived in New Jersey in 1724, he was looking for his brother that he never found.  His brother apparently went to Virginia and married into the wealthy Winfield family that produced General Winfield Scott.  My branch of the Scott family went from New Jersey to Western Pennsylvania and fought in the American Revolution and got two hundred acres in Western North Carolina for that effort and then went on to become the wealthy William Scott family of Kentucky, however my great grandfather Scott lived in Illinois where my grandfather Scott also lived, so they managed to survive out in the Midwest.  Some people in the Midwest eat too much though which is not healthy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JB_Pritzker .  I did learn while in college at www.lakeforest.edu from 1968 to 1972, they have an Illinois Bureau of Investigation which is like the local state version of the www.fbi.gov .  However, it is very cold in Illinois for ten months of the year, so they do not get many tourists in the corn belt.  I am still in touch with one Lake Forest College classmate from East Aurora, New York near Buffalo; so he is still a cold weather person and knows other cold weather people even up in Canada.

I will now go outside again.

01/13/25 Monday 7:15 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

01/13/25 Monday 7:00 P.M.  I went outside again.

01/13/25 Monday 6:25 P.M.  When I built the garage apartment out on Long Island Mr. https://www.northropgrumman.com/ and although he was blind he was a neighbor, and they are supposed to be the second largest defense contractor if one wants to buy something really expensive like the $8 billion James Webb satellite.

01/13/25 Monday 5:55 P.M.  I did spend a lot of years in the Greenwich Library, so maybe I advanced my education a little bit since I left Nantucket in December 1983.  When I first got a personal computer around September 1989, I quit reading the financial news in the Greenwich Library, and I started reading the computer press.  In one tech magazine a lot time ago, I read that www.ibm.com is not even one of the top one hundred defense contractors which seems sort of strange in that video of Thomas Watson Junior, it says IBM made the computers for the Air Force for NORAD.  Thus what we read may not always be true.

01/13/25 Monday 5:45 P.M.  Maybe my old school contacts are no longer worthwhile at age 74, but besides lifestyles we did have similar educations.

01/13/25 Monday 4:35 P.M.  From the mini computer setup, I moved the 24 inch LG Television and monitor and the Boston Acoustics sound bar to the primary HP laptop computer setup.  Thus there is a coaxial TV on the desk also connected to the LAN.  I used the LAN cable from the Ocean Digital internet radio to set it up.  The Ocean Digital Internet radio still works off the wireless network.  I moved the HP 24 inch curved monitor to the mini computer setup.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/13/25 Monday 4:00 P.M.  I picked up the mail.

01/13/25 Monday 3:20 P.M.   After New Years the local economy folds up in Greenwich until the summer when the country club people from Florida return back up North for the warmer weather, so it is best to try to save one's money for the long cold winter.

I will now go outside again.  Remember the best deal this week is 10.5 ounce Stouffer's frozen meals at Acme for $4.  When I went to Lake Forest College a member of the Stouffer family from Ohio was in my class, so maybe they are thinking about me back East.

01/13/25 Monday 3:10 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.

01/13/25 Monday 2:15 P.M.  I did make one investment in California in my six round trips between October 1978 to November 1980.  On the second to the last trip in August 1980, when I flew round trip; I met up with Jimmy Eldert at the Catholic Church Radio in Santa Cruz, California when he was broadcasting live, and I gave him an ounce and a half of gold thinking it would be for the Reagan California campaign, but when I met up with him for the last time after visiting the Hyatt Hotel in Maui in Hawaii, he told me he had given it to a Swedish couple so they could go back to Sweden.  That is the last time I remember seeing Jimmy, but once I settled in Greenwich after Nantucket, I would try calling him at the Malibu Colony where he was living, but all I got was an answering machine with the Flintstone theme song on it.  He later moved back to Miami, where he got into trouble for stalking which is sort of weird, since he is as blind as a bat, but he has a most excellent ear for old music, since the Santa Cruz Catholic radio station had over a million old records.  I guess he has been put out to pasture too.  There was no money in a frozen yogurt stand in Key West back in the winter of 1978 when he had CBS stationary in his apartment, when I met up with John Bolton from Long Island.  I did pay my hotel bill for a week at the Hyatt in Maui with a one ounce gold coin.  On the return, I stopped by Pearl Harbor at a coin store, and I bought a two ounce Kaiser Wilhelm gold coin that I can not find mentioned on the internet.  I traded it in at Laguna Beach, when I got back to California.  I know the American Numismatic Society used to be in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Federal building on Third Avenue and 54th Street next to P.J. Clark's tavern, so maybe they keep track of various old coins as they are traded around.  It is my theory there were also other government offices in that large brick building besides the post office for the neighborhood where Fred Von Mierers used to live near the www.un.org .

I will now go outside again.

01/13/25 Monday 1:50 P.M.  This is all of the old computer stuff that I acquired over the years most of which is long since gone http://scott-mike.com/computer2.htm .

01/13/25 Monday 1:45 P.M.  Locally a relative of George C. Scott barrowed about $300 from me that he never paid back.  Also he had a homeless friend that lived at the Greenwich Town Hall for seven years outside all of the time, and I felt so sorry for him, I gave him $2700 over those seven years to survive.  He finally got public housing in Norwalk.  I thought with his experience he could go to work for the National Park Service which means being outside all of the time, and he had also hiked the whole Appalachian Trail which is skill I do not have.  Being an outside person, I like dealing with outside people with a bit of experience unlike local couch potatoes.

01/13/25 Monday 1:05 P.M.  I also remember, when I sold my used Volvo at a Cash for your car place at Disneyland for $1250 in November 1980 that I exchanged for American Express travelers checks, the American Express travelers checks disappeared when I got back to Manhattan, and I had only spent about a third of them.  Also when I build the garage apartment out at Plandome Manor, Long Island from April 1982 to February 1983, I was paid at the end of the project $8,000 in Barclay's travelers checks from the Harlem Saving Bank in Manhasset, Long Island. By my recollection half of those Barclay's travelers checks disappeared in my brief travels.  When I was in Oslo, Norway, I reported the loss to Barclays there, but nothing ever came of it.  From my perspective in my network, there is a sneaky group of people that rob their associates.  Since at Reagan's 1981 inaugural I met up with Admiral Stanfield Turner the current head of the CIA, somebody in the government might have known who was traveling with my Connecticut Driver's license and U.S.A. passport and funds that they were covering for leaving me to end up as a dishwasher back on Nantucket.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/13/25 Monday 12:25 P.M.  Gold $40 https://www.ebay.com/itm/145424780464?_trkparms=5079%3A6000000123

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

The only time in the summer of 1980 when I carried gold when it was going from $225 an ounce to $825 an ounce, I was robbed of eight ounces of gold and my Jan Sport knap sack from my car, when it was parked in Port Washington, Long Island.  I saw four blond youth on motorcycles behind my car with Connecticut plates, so maybe they followed me out from Connecticut.  I reported the incident to various police stations I had traveled around, but nothing ever came of it.  Thus from my perspective, gold is not a good investment.  When I studied the gold standard at Lake Forest College, when gold was only $32 an ounce, nobody was interested in it.  James Warburg when he was under secretary of the treasury in the Roosevelt administration had a falling out with Roosevelt over the gold standard.

I will now go outside again.

01/13/25 Monday 12:05 P.M.  I rested until 11:40 A.M.  I went outside again.

01/13/25 Monday 10:20 A.M.  Ice Rink News https://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/camillo-issues-statement-upcoming-rtm-vote-hamill-rink-mi-status?utm_term=article-slot-1&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&user_email=01b56d8bf7109524081ab901b67fca7d88224ba889670bb012c7405fc80e0f90&user_email_md5=c5e7dfa888bd18577cc98d1df5637b42&lctg=62e24445456ff916ee067d12

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/13/25 Monday 10:15 A.M.  I woke up at 8:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

01/12/25 Sunday 8:25 P.M.  Norway Electric Cars https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo

I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt.  I will then go to bed.

01/12/25 Sunday 7:45 P.M.  I rested a bit. I chatted with a friend.  I ate seven Danish butter cookies.  I will now go outside.

01/12/25 Sunday 4:35 P.M.  I went outside, and I threw out the shipping box.

01/12/25 Sunday 4:00 P.M.  I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stouffer's chicken Alfredo fettuccini with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce can of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

01/12/25 Sunday 3:50 P.M.  I worked with the primary beta computer.  I went outside.  The order with tracking of https://www.amazon.com/gp/your-account/ship-track?itemId=jhskqsluliqwtsp&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_track_package&packageIndex=0&orderId=114-8367073-8359461&shipmentId=BvKss7xV9 for https://www.amazon.com/Del-Monte-Canned-Sweet-Sodium/dp/B07FTDPF9W/ref=sr_1_2?crid=12SSETZ3HABGQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pBy5S5djOQEqww4TdGIUBipA2z7OBWp1kpmRHhGkPNU7pZT0H4MiKa2vZRACbKwo6KK8JotVGKuS4TazCnCAkUvVcYrLgF5igQJJr61P_wKJ-7IqHOibetwMgTwOegdo5DZPyC4iLr8-8J3t78ddhtBB7xbRCqBs32Zco_RYrlqcAty5GmGOw44sZ_bbG_hWDpGobDQRP18Kz7W1lYSP3I8UBtTZWbIJdVmpsZZ-T8BMNzvQHOeMvcGaWrLnFx9PEylRSEY3qY3YXq3Cr-ITa0u23N00DS3aC8KVqRUKUVmOztBS-DDIXBECqNUdECemdErgP7fSjS93fkrQYe4TTahAx-QXH4511bjlSqcYGyQ.Ug_s9WiNNNU-7bY8gJkcXU8frpkxX0g79lJR_4_GKLw&dib_tag=se&keywords=sweet+peas&qid=1736549274&s=grocery&sprefix=sweet+peas%2Cgrocery%2C109&sr=1-2 for $12 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps card arrived.

01/12/25 Sunday 2:05 P.M.   I went out to the Senior and the Arts Center, and I sat out for a long time.  I then went to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a two pack of Crest 3 D white for $7.23 with coupons.  I used the bathroom at the CFCF coffee shop across the street.  I sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park for a while.  I then went to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought three 11.5 ounce Stouffer's Swedish meatballs for $4 each, three 11.5 ounce Stouffer's chicken Alfredo for $4 each and a 42 ounce Smart Balance spread for $9.79 for $33.79 total.  I then returned home.  I put my food away.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

01/12/25 Sunday 11:35 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go downtown and forage around.

01/12/25 Sunday 11:15 A.M.  https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-01-09/inside-the-dash-to-save-the-getty-villa-from-the-palisades-fire

01/12/25 Sunday 10:45 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

01/12/25 Sunday 10:40 A.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

Malibu Gone https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/usa-today-photographer-captures-wildfire-devastation-from-a-helicopter-in-malibu/vi-BB1rfI1p?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=adc0503e531540bba6a08fa8ae05943c&ei=11

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/11/25

01/11/25 Saturday 8:25 P.M.  I channel surfed.  Off C span I watched the rebroadcast of the George H.W. Bush inaugural speech.  I was in Washington D.C. for that event, but I watched it on television while having lunch at the Dutch Inn in Georgetown.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the H.P. laptop computer.  I will then go to bed.

01/11/25 Saturday 7:05 P.M.   I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

01/11/25 Saturday 5:05 P.M.  I bought for $2.12 from Stephan Hawking https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking-ebook/dp/B004WY3D0O?tag=slickdeals09-20&ascsubtag=f50c9520cf8211ef8c9522239ad048b50INT

01/11/25 Saturday 5:05 P.M.  I picked up the mail.

01/11/25 Saturday 4:25 P.M.  I rested.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  The LG television was too small in the bedroom to see properly, so I moved it to the mini computer setup at the apartment entrance.  From there I moved the Vizio television into the bedroom.  It also picks up more over the air channels too.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/11/25 Saturday 1:50 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheese burger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

01/11/25 Saturday 1:25 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

01/11/25 Saturday 12:15 P.M.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/11/25 Saturday 12:10 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.

01/11/25 Saturday 11:15 A.M.  When I lived out on www.nantucket.net  I had no telephone or television.   There were pay phones by the ferry dock and the visitor's center.  Also the last year in 1983 in the basement on Hussey Street, there was a 1950s black and white television that only got one channel with a few old television shows not worth watching.  Once when I was at the beach around 1977 I met somebody from Vero Beach, and we wrote in big letters in the sand, "Send Money," in case we were being observed from the air.  In 1978 there was a Radio Shack on Nantucket, and I bought a water proof floating Panasonic AM FM radio for about $70.   Later in Fort Lauderdale, I traded it in at a salvage yard for a replacement windshield for my car.  In Key West in the Southern Cross Hotel lobby there was a television going all of the time with CNN going, but not many people bothered watching it.  As I recall Jimmy Eldert had a telephone in his apartment in Key West in 1978.  He also had CBS stationary.  He knew somebody that owned the expensive Japanese style house near the Casa Marina, where he had myself and a friend for dinner.   Thus Jimmy was our communications.  He must have had my family home telephone in Greenwich in 1977, because some how he knew I was in Key West, when he was at the University of New Hampshire. 

I will now go outside again.

01/11/25 Saturday 10:55 A.M.  I rested until 10:15 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

01/11/25 Saturday 6:00 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

01/11/25 Saturday 5:45 A.M.  I woke up at 4:15 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

01/10/25 Friday 9:20 P.M.  I ate three Sandwich Brothers cheeseburger wraps with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed. 

At my senior age, I sleep at least 12 hours a day.  https://worldsleepsociety.org/membership/societymembership/membersocieties/french-society-for-sleep-research-and-sleep-medicine/

01/10/25 Friday 9:00 P.M.  Maybe this where all the construction people went that I once saw in this area https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/nasa-warns-china-has-the-power-to-change-the-earth-s-rotation-with-a-simple-action/ar-BB1rf36M?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=5990e67aaaef4fcc875bf5730659c494&ei=16

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5076791-prince-edward-represents-king-charles-iii-jimmy-carter-funeral/

https://events.inauguraltickets.com/

01/10/25 Friday 8:25 P.M.  On the HP laptop computer, I installed the Windows 11 updates.  I chatted with two relatives.

I will now go outside again. 

01/10/25 Friday 7:30 P.M.  For Greenwich Communities, I filled out the Elderly Emergency Contact form and the Vehicle information form, and I mailed it all in the mail room downstairs with two forever stamps.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

01/10/25 Friday 5:55 P.M.  For some reason, my order for peas was delivered to Staples in Port Chester for pick up.  However, it will be refunded if I do not pick it up by this Monday.  I reordered https://www.amazon.com/Del-Monte-Canned-Sweet-Sodium/dp/B07FTDPF9W/ref=sr_1_2?crid=12SSETZ3HABGQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pBy5S5djOQEqww4TdGIUBipA2z7OBWp1kpmRHhGkPNU7pZT0H4MiKa2vZRACbKwo6KK8JotVGKuS4TazCnCAkUvVcYrLgF5igQJJr61P_wKJ-7IqHOibetwMgTwOegdo5DZPyC4iLr8-8J3t78ddhtBB7xbRCqBs32Zco_RYrlqcAty5GmGOw44sZ_bbG_hWDpGobDQRP18Kz7W1lYSP3I8UBtTZWbIJdVmpsZZ-T8BMNzvQHOeMvcGaWrLnFx9PEylRSEY3qY3YXq3Cr-ITa0u23N00DS3aC8KVqRUKUVmOztBS-DDIXBECqNUdECemdErgP7fSjS93fkrQYe4TTahAx-QXH4511bjlSqcYGyQ.Ug_s9WiNNNU-7bY8gJkcXU8frpkxX0g79lJR_4_GKLw&dib_tag=se&keywords=sweet+peas&qid=1736549274&s=grocery&sprefix=sweet+peas%2Cgrocery%2C109&sr=1-2 for $12 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps card.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/10/25 Friday 5:40 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I went outside.  I chatted with a friend.

01/10/25 Friday 4:55 P.M.  Back in October 1973, Fred Von Mierers had me deliver a bouquet of roses to this person "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_(journalist)" whom lived nearby John Davidson Rockefeller III on Beekman Place and Mitchel Place.  Alas I guess the nearby Ford Foundation might have also had a bit of money in that area too.

01/10/25 Friday 4:45 P.M.   I did read this a long time ago https://www.amazon.com/Inside-CIA-Ronald-Kessler-ebook/dp/B006L9B6ES/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HNWNHDD2B7XI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-05kFjWoPbcrwJ-nBsS7ZBc45IGNvnB5rWDgF34J3MZZYI7lHYBLBXKIbdAKn7D2k65DEqrktp4mh3cfvk6POOgrN6KO0BgCdYZQXIiykIw46PLMy2CqYXPK5blent6jlbOuHHj7t14HgvvvyXLWiDUE3sCEz-cWaRo98511IiRxEC92vt_m1FP1oitvienLc0kpiBO2Y3lgQ6YwwkNZAhgmMdkVhkr9_GtK9jUKidM.Oqs6TmIXLMeBL8jZDOW6-glpaLMk4RAkuZbhTzaiisI&dib_tag=se&keywords=inside+the+cia+book&qid=1736544885&sprefix=Inside+the+CIA%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1 , but they never hired me.  I guess they did not like my Manhattan friends whom might have had www.navy.mil connections around the waterfront.  I did know one person in Manhttan who was raised at Fort Hood, Texas; and his father was a major in the www.army.mil .  He outwalked everyone in Manhattan, and he lived on Varick Street, when I met him near Military Intelligence headquarters before he moved across the street from the Forbes building near the General Windfield Scott town house which is now the Italian studies institute for www.nyu.edu .  Alas except for one phone call from Manhattan, I never heard from anyone there after I left the Big City.  New York City people are always looking for new talent, and they forget about those with a bit of experience around Manhattan and elsewhere around the world.

01/10/25 Friday 4:35 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside again.

01/10/25 Friday 3:05 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  During the summer in Boston in the old days, I read the complete collection of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.  Since we knew the station manager in Boston for B.O.A.C. who had twin sons, we had a minor British collection.  Maybe Tony Snowden was advertising the Polaroid Land camera in England, because Harold Wilson gave my father Queen Elizabeth II's Award in Industry, but maybe it was for Monsanto Chemstrand textiles over there.  Also at Greenwich Country Day school in my seventh grade year, we carpooled with a British family whom drove a Corvair.  The British family had a company called, "Online Decisions."  When I interviewed with them back in White Plains, New York in 1973, they even had a word processor.  It made software for terminals in manufacturing.  There New York City address was at 666 Fifth Avenue.

01/10/25 Friday 2:10 P.M.  $2 https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking-ebook/dp/B004WY3D0O?tag=slickdeals09-20&ascsubtag=f50c9520cf8211ef8c9522239ad048b50INT

https://sport.woot.com/plus/readywise-food-supply-essentials-1?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=CJ&cjevent=78e0373dcf8311ef833301da0a82b82d&utm_source=BensBargains.com+%28Internet+Brands%29

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=James+Bamford&crid=YDPZYYQ470VQ&sprefix=james+bamford%2Caps%2C126&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Counter Intelligence Books

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

01/10/25 Friday 1:30 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now go outside again.

01/10/25 Friday 1:00 P.M.  I ate three Sandwich Brothers cheese burger wraps with a glass of Poland Spring water.

01/10/25 Friday 12:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now go outside again.  According to one of the oldest books in the Greenwich Library, the Scott family have lived in the New York City area for four hundred years.  However, my branch of the Scott family only came here in 1724 from Scotland.  My direct descendant fought in the American Revolution, so I am eligible to be in the Sons of the American Revolution.

01/10/25 Friday 12:05 P.M.   I went out to the www.chase.com Bank ATM machine at Deerfield Place.  I then went to the Senior and the Arts Center.  They will not give me a free parking pass there for this year, because I do not do any activities there, but I use the bathroom there, and I sit in front of the building when I have free time.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.99, a twelve pack of Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, and Cheese croissants for $16.99, and a 16 pack of White Castle cheese burger sliders for $17.89 for $36.87 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

01/10/25 Friday 9:15 A.M.   First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-11025?e=d0a721e34a

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

I will then go downtown and forage around.

01/10/25 Friday 9:10 A.M.  I woke up at 7 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I chatted with a friend.

01/09/25 Thursday 7:55 P.M.  I finished watching Jimmy Carter's funeral.  I went outside.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/09/25 Thursday 5:50 P.M.  I rested until 4:30 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside.  I did not get any mail.  I am watching Jimmy Carter's funeral again.  I will now drink an instant coffee.

01/09/25 Thursday 1:40 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

I will now go outside again.

01/09/25 Thursday 1:20 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

01/09/25 Thursday 1:00 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.

01/09/25 Thursday 12:15 P.M.  I returned from my appointment, and I watched the end of Jimmy Carter's funeral.  I also drank an instant coffee.  I will now go outside again.

01/09/25 Thursday 9:50 A.M.  I watched part of Jimmy Carter's funeral.  I went outside.  I will now head out early for my 11 A.M. appointment.

01/09/25 Thursday 8:35 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate six Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 7 A.M.   I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I will now shower and clean up.  Jimmy Carter's funeral is on television at 9 A.M.

01/08/25 Wednesday 11:35 P.M.  I rested a bit.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.  I will wake up at 8 A.M. for a 11 A.M. appointment tomorrow.

01/08/25 Wednesday 9:55 P.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Stouffer's Swedish meatballs with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

01/08/25 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

01/08/25 Wednesday 9:00 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

01/08/25 Wednesday 8:35 P.M.  I rested until 8 P.M.  I drank an instant coffee.  I went outside.  I did not get any mail.  It is 23 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.

01/08/25 Wednesday 3:00 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate six Danish butter cookies.  I woke up again, and I chatted with a relative.  I finally woke up at 1:45 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

01/08/25 Wednesday 1:20 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.  I have to be on a daytime schedule on Thursday for an 11 A.M. appointment.

01/08/25 Wednesday 12:40 A.M.  I rested until 12:30 A.M.  I ate six Danish butter cookies. 

01/07/25 Tuesday 11:25 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

01/07/25 Tuesday 10:25 P.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender garlic chicken bowl with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

01/07/25 Tuesday 10:05 P.M.  I rested until 9:20 P.M.  I went outside.  I ordered ten sweet peas https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fresh-Canned-Sweet-Peas/dp/B0BZJNJTYV?pd_rd_w=aX9Gd&content-id=amzn1.sym.59910fa8-b73c-408a-aa5f-d0b4e0aa42cb&pf_rd_p=59910fa8-b73c-408a-aa5f-d0b4e0aa42cb&pf_rd_r=073AR2BDNFK2XNHWYP44&pd_rd_wg=YTYKf&pd_rd_r=6cb8753c-be2d-48ee-9ee8-5106dc1f037d&pd_rd_i=B0BZJNJTYV&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_0_2_pr_i for $8.41 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps Card/

01/07/25 Tuesday 8:10 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/older-than-egypt-s-pyramids-a-25-000-year-old-pyramid-found-beneath-this-mountain/ar-AA1x74EH?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=98cc2f7cc3c6402f916e1f0417a7b037&ei=13

Ice Rink news https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-hamill-rink-cost-2025-20017598.php

01/07/25 Tuesday 7:35 P.M.  I went outside again.

01/07/25 Tuesday 7:00 P.M.  I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up three prescriptions.  I then went to my appointment.  While waiting I chatted with a friend whom had cataract surgery on one eye today and now has to wear an eye patch and take eye drops every four hours.  I had a Siemens Cat Scan that only took five minutes.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50, four 16 ounce cans of Stop and Shop fruit cocktail for $2.09 each, and a 64 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $4.49 for $14.35 total.  I then returned home.  I put away the food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.

01/07/25 Tuesday 4:15 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate a yogurt.  I woke up at 3 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I will now shower and clean up. 

01/07/25 Tuesday 4:55 A.M.  Off Amazon Prime, I watched, "The Levys of Monticello."  I went outside midway through.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.  I have to be up at 3 P.M. for my 6:25 P.M. appointment.   

01/07/25 Tuesday 3:05 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I have a 6:25 P.M. appointment this evening, so I have to be up at 3 P.M.

01/07/25 Tuesday 2:15 A.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Maria Callender Swedish meatballs bowl with a 16 ounce can of B & M baked beans and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with two ounces of grapefruit juice.

01/07/25 Tuesday 2:05 A.M.  I rested until 1:45 A.M.  I went outside.

01/07/25 Tuesday 12:40 A.M.   I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I am too old for the Freezing Norwegian patrol anymore.  I also threw out my two snow suits last year, when I decluttered my apartment.  I still have four L.L. Bean Union suits which are no longer available anymore.

01/06/25 Monday 11:45 P.M.   I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/half-the-world-lives-in-these-10-overpopulated-countries/vi-AA1x2U7g?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6f7b41c7c8274312bec02fb869b36f68&ei=13

It is 23 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment.

01/06/25 Monday 11:30 P.M.  I rested until 11 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

01/06/25 Monday 9:45 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I cleaned a quarter inch of snow off the picnic bench and a quarter inch of ice off the windshield of my car.

01/06/25 Monday 9:05 P.M.  I woke up, and I went outside again.  I chatted with a friend.  I woke up again, and I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers.  I finally woke up at 7:40 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  The order with tracking of https://www.amazon.com/gp/your-account/ship-track?itemId=jhrpsvhmljrttop&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_track_package&packageIndex=0&orderId=114-7085863-5527443&shipmentId=BxxMYcDbk for https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FMPKXR8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title for $27.61 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps card arrived.  I put them in the left top kitchen cabinet.  I received a letter that Greenwich Hospital Outpatient as of February 4, 2025 is discontinuing, and I have to change to the Greenwich Family Center at 75 Hollyhill Lane.

01/06/25 Monday 5:20 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/06/25 Monday 4:45 A.M.  On the second to the last trip to California, when I flew round trip; I also visited the Hyatt Hotel in Maui, Hawaii for a week.  I met up briefly twice with Jimmy Eldert in Santa Cruz, California; when he was a disk jockey at the Catholic Church radio station broadcasting to the area including Fort Ord.  I also was put up for three days by Vincent Butler whom had one of the nicest houses on top of a mountain in Santa Cruz.  He was a fourth generation Californian that had attended www.mit.edu back East.  I also met in Laguna Beach, Joel who was the head of Xerox Parc in Palo Alto, and he put me up for a night.  On the last trip to California a few weeks later, I drove in an old Volvo, and I camped out near Reagan's ranch in Santa Barbara, and I toured the University of California at Santa Barbara a number of times.  There was the huge plane the Guppy at the Santa Barbara airport also.  I also visited Santa Cruz and stayed for a couple nights at the Normandy Inn in Carmel.  On election eve, I was back in Laguna, where I met up with Joel again, and he put myself and my friend up for the night.  He took us to lunch in Dana Point with the head of Camp Pendleton Marine base who was his roommate.  I later that day sold the used Volvo with a bad clutch for about half of what I paid for it for $1250 at a cash for your car place at the entrance to Disney Land, and I flew back east the last time with my friend to Manhattan, never to return again.  On the second to the last trip, I noticed there were a lot of older construction people building the twin nuclear reactors at Dana Point, which are not there anymore.  In Santa Barbara, I met up with on election day, the head lawyer for Combustion Engineering that my father had worked for, and he was checking into the Montecito Inn near Santa Barbara.  He also used to own a former family house in Greenwich that I helped build in the summer of 1966.  I attended the Reagan inaugural, but two months later when I flew down to Washington D.C. and back with the new Attorney General, he told me the waterfront that I was familiar with in Manhattan was not a safe area, and I might be done in by local people there.  Thus I did not get any job.

I will now go outside again.

01/06/25 Monday 3:30 A.M.   I turned the Harvard chair 90 degrees, so it faces the front entry, and it makes easier to access the Panasonic four line telephone.  From the northwest corner of the living room, I moved the black piano bench to in front of the white bureau at the hallway entrance, and I put the two blue cushions on it.  From the bedroom, I moved the square Danish cherry end table to the northwest corner of the living room with the Panasonic 17.3 inch laptop on it.  I took out a folding oak TV table out, and I set it up in the bedroom where the square Danish cherry end table was, and I put the two line AT&T telephone on it.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-0125-02/

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/06/25 Monday 3:10 A.M.  I went outside again.

01/06/25 Monday 2:45 A.M.   I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

01/06/25 Monday 2:35 A.M.  From 1976 to 1983, I spent about ten months in Key West, Florida; but in my entire life time, I have spent about 46 months in Florida.  I also have spent a little over eight months in Europe.  I also have spent about ten months in California on six different trips driving 4.5 times and flying 1.5 times.  I have lived near Manhattan most of my life, but I have only lived there on and off for about 36 months, but a lot of times while living in Greenwich and Manhattan, I was going back an forth.

01/06/25 Monday 2:00 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  I used to read a lot more books, but there is so much media to read off the internet, I do not get a chance to read any books anymore.

01/06/25 Monday 1:30 A.M.  Interesting book about early America https://www.google.com/search?q=de+tocqueville+democracy+in+america&sca_esv=13423f9d1d9c08a6&sxsrf=ADLYWIKgjKmoLKvI9g58PdATDph-nWpH0g%3A1736144253020&source=hp&ei=fHV7Z-SAPLeuptQPgo3hsAc&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZ3uDjcPgDCnQlRXCTsxWCIrIv3PFp7O6&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TcwqcxLMkkyYPRSTklVKMlPLixNLcvMyUlVSEnNzU8uSkyuVMjMU0jMTS3KTE4EAJNhERc&oq=de+touchville&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ig1kZSB0b3VjaHZpbGxlKgIIATIHEC4YgAQYDTIHEC4YgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDTIHEAAYgAQYDUiojwFQAFjQP3AAeACQAQGYAdYCoAHuCqoBCDEwLjIuMC4xuAEByAEA-AEBmAIMoALyCMICCxAuGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIREC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwHCAg4QLhiABBixAxiDARiKBcICBRAAGIAEwgIOEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEYigXCAg4QLhiABBixAxjRAxjHAcICCBAuGIAEGLEDwgIIEAAYgAQYsQPCAgsQLhiABBjRAxjHAcICExAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGIMBGMcBGArCAgUQLhiABMICCxAuGIAEGMcBGK8BwgINEAAYgAQYsQMYigUYCsICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgINEC4YgAQYxwEYChivAcICBxAAGIAEGArCAg0QLhiABBjHARgNGK8BwgIFECEYoAGYAwCSBwM4LjSgB7mYAQ&sclient=gws-wiz that I read at Lake Forest College in the history course that I failed with Hanke who was an expert of Teddy Roosevelt who was Helen Kress William's neighbor in Oyster Bay, Long Island.  More recent history https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Dream-Narrative-History-1932-1972/dp/0316544965 which I read in September 1975 when I returned home to Greenwich from my adventures out on Nantucket when I came down with strep throat.  From what I can recall, altogether, I have spent 28 months out on Nantucket when I was younger from 1968 to 1983.  I did return for a weekend around 1987. 

I will now go outside again.

01/06/25 Monday 12:50 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Stauffer's fettuccini Alfredo with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

01/05/25 Sunday 11:20 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

No snow yet https://www.earthtv.com/en/webcam/washington-white-house

01/05/25 Sunday 10:55 P.M.  I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a five gallon bottle of Poland Spring water with bottle return for $9.99.  I then returned home.  I used my little folding cart to bring up the 42 pound bottle of water.  I put it way.  I then put the folding cart back in the car, and I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed report. 

01/05/25 Sunday 9:45 P.M.  I bought Julia Child cookbook for $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZZFMTK?tag=slickdeals09-20&ascsubtag=868e8edacbd811efbe6b968a9a830e1d0INT

01/05/25 Sunday 9:45 P.M.  I rested until 9:20 P.M.  I went outside.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-is-the-most-volcanically-active-country-on-earth-with-4-earthquakes-a-day/vi-AA1teBlG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c582855c2fcc4512904c4686fd5c4135&ei=12

01/05/25 Sunday 8:05 P.M.  I woke up at 6:45 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/this-lava-field-in-iceland-has-a-very-dark-and-mysterious-past/vi-AA1wwCkB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=54cd63f5f47543af9d63fd5725477184&ei=8

01/05/25 Sunday 6:10 A.M.  I ate three Sandwich Brother cheeseburger wraps with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/05/25 Sunday 5:40 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watched, "In the Heart of the Sea."  It is a take off on Nantucket and Moby Dick.  I went outside midway through, and I drank an instant coffee.  The only long voyage I have even taken is from Pireaus in Athens, Greece to Crete and back in April 1972 with George Cary.  However, I have been on the ferry boat service to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard a number of times.  One Sunday morning in Manhattan around 1981, I walked on board the Queen Elizabeth II when it was moored on West 57th Street, and I made my way to the Captain's Cabin, and I drank a Bloody Mary.  When the Captain showed up, he told me had a place in Byram where I now live.  However, although I also saw the ship a number of times in Fort Lauderdale, I never sailed on it.

I will now go outside again.

01/05/25 Sunday 3:00 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/the-eruption-of-kilauea-in-1917/vi-AA1wnf6Z?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d66baba294ed4037bb8ecb47d87cf1fc&ei=18

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/science/mystery-volcano-1831-eruption-simushir/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/23/science/mount-rainier-volcanic-eruption-lahar-scn

01/05/25 Sunday 2:40 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee. 

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/05/25

01/05/25 Sunday 1:30 A.M.  I rested a bit.  I went outside.

Back around 1965, when my family was living in Greenwich, I visited West Point for a football game with friends.  Afterwards, one of my friend's relatives invited us on to the Forbes Yacht the Highlander, and I signed my name in the guest book after former President Herbert Hoover.  Back in the fall of 1971 while at Lake Forest College, I visited a friend at Colorado College, and we toured the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs.  One of the times I drove down to Florida, I drove up the entrance of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.  Living in Connecticut all of these years I have been by the United States Coast Guard Academy a number of times.  When I attended www.lakeforest.edu from 1968 to 1972, it was next to Fort Sheridan and Great Lakes Naval Station.  When I lived in Key West there were Navy personnel.  When my family lived in Pensacola, Florida in 1955 and 1956, we were around Navy people.  Alas, with no military experience, I can still run a personal computer and type.

I will now send out my weekly notes.

01/05/25 Sunday 12:15 A.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender Swedish meatballs bowl with a 16 ounce can of B & M baked beans with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

01/04/25 Saturday 11:40 P.M.  I went outside.  I channel surfed.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  Coffee makes the World go around.  I think down South, where it is warmer, they have more food.  However, from my experience, there is not much money down South either.

01/04/25 Saturday 10:45 P.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-fears-as-scientists-worry-about-crater-movement/ar-AA1wX7XH?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=65dcaf1e94bd46f899472f22594bf0b0&ei=11

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/massive-subterranean-ocean-found-3-times-more-water-than-earth-s-surface-oceans-combined/ar-AA1vXAol?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=668dceb125964186c7c7aa1e98f55030&ei=1

I ordered https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FMPKXR8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title for $27.61 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps card.

01/04/25 Saturday 10:10 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/winter-storm-ice-freezing-rain-midwest-mid-atlantic-snow

I will now go outside again in the cold winter tundra of New England.

01/04/25 Saturday 9:45 P.M.  I rested until 9:15 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

01/04/25 Saturday 7:35 P.M.   My Eversource electric bill for December 2024 was $327.80.

01/04/25 Saturday 7:30 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate ten Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 6 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

01/04/25 Saturday 5:35 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/04/25 Saturday 5:15 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/is-earth-overdue-for-an-eruption-of-a-supervolcano/vi-AA1qV7sv?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=4b8fc62027d3420fee19f1b0f64b5ec2&ei=13

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

01/04/25 Saturday 5:00 A.M.  I cleaned the kitchen sink.  I am soaking my regular coffee cup and my regular juice glass in 50% bleach and 50% water.  I went outside again.

01/04/25 Saturday 4:35 A.M.  There are $400 rooms still available here for the inaugural https://www.expedia.com/Washington-Hotels-Hamilton-Hotel-Washington-DC.h41943.Hotel-Information?chkin=2025-1-20&chkout=2025-1-24&rm1=a2&searchId=bc06c081-f1c9-4032-baa0-ef903116d369 .  I have medical appointments in the evening this coming Tuesday and in the late morning this coming Thursday.  Four room left for the inaugural for $1300 for four days near Scott Circle https://www.booking.com/hotel/us/holiday-inn-washington-capital.html?aid=356980&label=gog235jc-1FCAMo7AFCDHNjb3R0LWNpcmNsZUgzWANoiwKIAQGYATG4ARfIAQzYAQHoAQH4AQKIAgGoAgO4ApP_47sGwAIB0gIkYjUzOTA5NDMtZDlmYi00ZGRlLTgxYjItOGQ2MzE3OWMzYTVi2AIF4AIB&sid=ccef6a2e73239148f274c72f5f44929e&all_sr_blocks=18232903_94327091_2_2_0&checkin=2025-01-20&checkout=2025-01-24&dest_id=20021296&dest_type=city&dist=0&group_adults=2&group_children=0&hapos=1&highlighted_blocks=18232903_94327091_2_2_0&hpos=1&matching_block_id=18232903_94327091_2_2_0&no_rooms=1&req_adults=2&req_children=0&room1=A%2CA&sb_price_type=total&sr_order=popularity&sr_pri_blocks=18232903_94327091_2_2_0__130900&srepoch=1735983071&srpvid=f8b042e54b33061e&type=total&ucfs=1&

01/04/25 Saturday 4:10 A.M.  At Ronald Reagan's first inaugural,  I checked my luggage at the Hilton Hotel near the White House and Lafayette Square, and after inaugural I saw Ronald Reagan at the Medal of Honor reception at the Hilton.  I also had a cocktail next door with Admiral Stanfield Turner at the Sheraton Hotel, and a taxi driver took me to the Dutch Inn in Georgetown for the night, and then I flew back to Westchester County airport on the Time Magazine private jet.  I then took a taxi to the Greenwich Train station, and the train to New Canaan, where I was house sitting.  I remember chatting with a young blond boy on the train from Brazil.  While in New Canaan, I read about a young boy named Michael Scott that was always setting off fireworks in downtown New Canaan.  I do not know whether he was a relative or not.

01/04/25 Saturday 3:30 A.M.   I channel surfed.  I went outside.  When I went to President George H. W. Bush's inaugural, I stayed with three friends at the Dutch Hotel in Georgetown now called the https://www.guestreservations.com/the-graham-georgetown/booking?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=973793445&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA1eO7BhATEiwAm0Ee-M8HSZqbyHiQT3sPXgQoyWa0xjh1GjywesmZ9uyqha-Y1qm-DK3zHRoCl0wQAvD_BwE&ctTriggered=true and they have room available for the inaugural, but they are about a thousand dollars a night.  Nearby is the Georgetown Inn https://www.guestreservations.com/georgetown-inn/booking?currency=USD&checkIn=01%2F19%2F2025&checkOut=01%2F24%2F2025&rooms=1&adults%5B1%5D=2&children%5B1%5D=0&_gl=1*16dbm68*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAiA1eO7BhATEiwAm0Ee-IL6c7QoezX4UKP88-OkQvfAajYlzK6fPoaAb0Sf5tpuD1SPV2lF5hoCv4AQAvD_BwE which is slightly less expensive.  Remember, when one visits Washington D.C., one is making history.  However, I liked the quiet neighborhood aspect of Georgetown versus big city downtown Washington D.C.  When I finished the garage apartment out at Plandome Manor in February 1983, I did stay for a week at the Georgetown Inn, and I also at the Bush inaugural I walked in off the street with my friends to the Wisconsin reception where they had lots of free food.  Also the train station in Washington D. C. is by the Capitol building, and there is a McDonalds behind the FBI building.  On a cold day on the southwest corner of the Capitol there is also https://washington.org/find-dc-listings/united-states-botanic-garden?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA1eO7BhATEiwAm0Ee-Dl3TBkQENBR3Ua7uZtD-sVfTwJveqavlfjTZPr0dgMXXmxpLzC7DhoCbPcQAvD_BwE , but the Mall is a large area, so there is a lot of walking, so if one were to go down there, wear a comfortable pair of walking shoes.  I think I returned to Washington D.C. two months after the Bush inaugural or a year later, but my friend that drove me went hunting in Virginia at the Scott family plantation, so I took the Amtrak back to Stamford which was an enjoyable train ride.  The www.amtrak.com is now $150 to $500 each way.  I guess there has been a lot of inflation that I have not kept up with.  However, round trip from Westchester County Airport to Washington D.C. is about $300 round trip https://www.expedia.com/Flights-Search?flight-type=on&mode=search&trip=roundtrip&leg1=from%3AWhite+Plains%2C+NY%2C+United+States+of+America+%28HPN-Westchester+County%29%2Cto%3AWashington%2C+DC%2C+United+States+of+America+%28WAS-All+Airports%29%2Cdeparture%3A1%2F18%2F2025TANYT&options=cabinclass%3Aeconomy&leg2=from%3AWashington%2C+DC%2C+United+States+of+America+%28WAS-All+Airports%29%2Cto%3AWhite+Plains%2C+NY%2C+United+States+of+America+%28HPN-Westchester+County%29%2Cdeparture%3A1%2F25%2F2025TANYT&passengers=children%3A0%2Cadults%3A1%2Cseniors%3A0%2Cinfantinlap%3AY&packageType=&fromDate=1%2F18%2F2025&toDate=1%2F25%2F2025&startDate=2025-01-18&endDate=2025-01-25&combinedDate=2025-01-18+-+2025-01-25 , but for younger people there is a Y.M.C.A. in downtown Washington D.C. the last I knew.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/04/25 Saturday 2:05 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

The Cousteau Society might know something about under water volcanoes https://www.cousteau.org/ , but my Greenwich dermatologist told me to stay out of the sun many decades ago.  Also near Nantucket the Woods Holes Oceanographic Institute https://www.whoi.edu/ or in California https://scripps.ucsd.edu/ or https://www.fio.usf.edu/keys-marine-lab/ in Key West; but of course www.navy.mil or https://www.uscg.mil/ might know a thing or two.  Obviously another group like www.army.mil or www.af.mil and https://www.marines.mil/ venture into remote locations and for that matter https://www.spacecom.mil/ might have a broader perspective.

01/04/25 Saturday 1:25 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/volcano-erupts-in-mexico-in-1944/vi-AA1wwwjg?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9956700f962d4e04f723970c1dbf3eaf&ei=14

To learn something about volcanoes, read this book https://www.amazon.com/Krakatoa-World-Exploded-August-1883-ebook/dp/B00AV68GF4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AMK5791UNKTB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._nfN3vHFN4aI2kTTn26FdtuDOJNYPKpOSju13WzVSFUqFBw43ieDm5S12163nyTHUkOEvEX4kBzIRAod7ryU8DIsS5PpFZP8rXRvcwfQXimdmjOpI264YrTv-5JN5NSmhFVUMFulT36Ek_GlBWgHnB-TpY877XUc6cj7Ws2RdZqUZiTQ3CVJBVLJ9beiOEFGdk_9OBwrsGlW8rqikN1_q0Ps7SCUlbWJOrdE5xNNPbk.TyILNhdNoDBHjkiHnIm_IZSP7hBn2CfYlLzwJCqt-Iw&dib_tag=se&keywords=krakatoa+book&qid=1735970994&sprefix=Krackatoa%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-1

This hard to find book which I have is available used for $10 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/volcanoes-of-the-world-a-regional-directory-gazetteer-and-chronology-of-volcanism-during-the-last-10000-years_tom-simkin/577783/item/8183120/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_new_condition_books_high_14637440387&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=545679999522&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAst67BhCEARIsAKKdWOnFpc4eM6wvxlJog3vdcjOrx9E2HD641fL7Jv16aEWXCjZqL8N-YnUaAoUCEALw_wcB#idiq=8183120&edition=2762682

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/yellowstone-supervolcano-leaves-scientists-on-alert-as-explosion-risk-laid-bare/ar-AA1wVKqo?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=3a657195b5e7495ae88ebd0194ec6e7f&ei=15  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/antarctica-s-hidden-volcanoes-climate-change-awakens-giants/vi-AA1wVjIW?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=a593db805d6c4c739d99c98b59802a56&ei=44

01/04/25 Saturday 1:10 A.M.  I rested until 12:50 A.M.  I went outside.

01/04/25 Saturday 12:05 A.M.   I accepted and was accepted for free for the Trump Vance inaugural invitation.  However, the friend with money that would normally take me down there is having cataract eye surgery in January, so he would not be able to drive me down to Washington D.C.

01/03/25 Friday 11:50 P.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Stauffer's Swedish meatballs with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar. 

01/03/25 Friday 10:20 P.M.  I went out to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50, six 20 ounce cans of Dole pineapple chunks for $2.59 a can, and a 16 pack of White Castle cheeseburger sliders for $17.89 and $34.93 total.  I then returned home, and I put away the food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

01/03/25 Friday 9:00 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

01/03/25 Friday 8:50 P.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/there-will-be-eruptions-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-and-its-magma-under-close-study/ar-AA1wUw1c?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=2786e35b302b45f082b97250db434732&ei=8

01/03/25 Friday 8:40 P.M.  I rested until 8:15 P.M.  I went outside.

01/03/25 Friday 6:55 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I got email inviting me to the Trump Vance inaugural, but I can not afford to go https://t47inaugural.com/donald-trump-inauguration/ .

First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-1325?e=d0a721e34a

I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

01/03/25 Friday 6:35 P.M.  I woke up at 5:15 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  The order with tracking of https://www.amazon.com/gp/your-account/ship-track?itemId=jhrnqolromnqrsp&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_track_package&packageIndex=0&orderId=114-0367602-4967447&shipmentId=BkYKW7q3R for https://www.amazon.com/New-Vitality-Prostate-Advanced-Supplement/dp/B07C8C2J28?pd_rd_w=fY0p8&content-id=amzn1.sym.59910fa8-b73c-408a-aa5f-d0b4e0aa42cb&pf_rd_p=59910fa8-b73c-408a-aa5f-d0b4e0aa42cb&pf_rd_r=0TRN7ERSJYCED84M9MRK&pd_rd_wg=BMrsf&pd_rd_r=80728a8c-4e85-4dd4-b3ed-7f6edd8c22e5&pd_rd_i=B07C8C2J28&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_0_1_ec_pd_hp_d_atf_rp_3_i&th=1 for $67.46 total arrived.   I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

01/03/25 Friday 5:20 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/03/25 Friday 4:25 A.M.  There was a building Fire Alarm about 4 A.M.  The Greenwich Fire Department in full force responded promptly.  It appears to be a non emergency, but there was the smell of electrical smoke by the community room which I reported to them.  None of the lights above the apartment doors were on.

I have been watching, "Interstellar" off Netflix, and I am almost done.  I have been outside four times, and the third time; I drank a cup of instant coffee, and I saw two fat raccoons sneaking around the picnic bench area.

01/02/25 Thursday 11:50 P.M.  I beta tested.  I went outside.

Lake Forest College Transcript:

http://scott-mike.com/lfctr1.jpg

http://scott-mike.com/lfctr2.jpg

Computers:  http://scott-mike.com/computer.htm .

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/02/25 Thursday 10:40 P.M.  I worked with the beta computer.  I went outside.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender Swedish meatballs with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

01/02/25 Thursday 9:00 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside again.

Be a Microsoft Windows 12 beta tester in many different languages.  I did this one can try this an created a Windows 11 beta Rufus for older machines with this method by downloading the latest Windows Developer 11 beta 27749 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewiso?rfs=1 , and I used this procedure for Windows 11 on an older PC, Windows 11 Rufus installed from USB Pen Drive  I made a Windows 11 Rufus USB pen drive with this method this https://rufus.ie/en/ to created a Windows 11 bootable USB pen drive for it to upgrade https://www.elevenforum.com/t/create-bootable-windows-11-iso-without-tpm-secure-boot-and-ram-requirements.1891/ I formatted the over 8 GB USB pen drive in NTFS, and I set Rufus to "MBR" selected and the second and third advanced options selected, also select options no TPM/no Secure boot.  The different language versions of the Windows 11 *.iso download are here https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 thus for example if one wanted Windows 11 Professional in French download the *.iso file and make the Windows 11 Rufus USB pen drive the same way.  Once again the Complete PC backup does not work, but Aomei backup does work. Microsoft does not pay its beta tester minions, but one learns a bit about their operating systems for free.  Also on the beta disk manager does not work, unless one uses this way run a CMD prompt as Administrator, and run, "compmgmt.msc" .  This will also work on older computers too.

01/02/25 Thursday 8:20 P.M.  Ice Rink News https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-ct-ice-skating-rink-byram-hamill-dorothy-20008611.php

01/02/25 Thursday 7:30 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

Back in April 1977 when I returned to Nantucket and explored the South Shore, I met two life guards from Nova Scotia that were spending the winter there.  When they saw me, they went back to Nova Scotia.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.   The parking lot lights in the ice skating rink area must be out, so they now have two highway construction lights running on generators.

This is the LG television https://www.ebay.com/itm/305475469628 in the bedroom.

01/02/25 Thursday 7:05 P.M.  I rested until 6:30 P.M.  I went outside.

01/02/25 Thursday 5:20 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate nine Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 4 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

01/02/25 Thursday 4:55 A.M.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt.  I will then go to bed.

01/02/25 Thursday 3:55 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watched series 1 episode 3 and 4 of, "La Palma."  I went outside midway through.

I will now go outside again.

01/02/25 Thursday 2:15 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

01/02/25 Thursday 1:25 A.M.   I am about to eat a eight ounce Stauffer's macaroni and cheese and a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread with a 12 ounce can of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

01/02/25 Thursday 12:40 A.M.  From the mini computer setup, I moved the Panasonic 4 line telephone from the small dark end table to the white oak end table at the same location.  I then moved the small dark oak end table to in front of the television setup in the bedroom.  I moved the folding oak TV table from there to behind the bedroom door with the other folding oak TV tables.  I then moved the Harvard chair from the northwest living room corner to the apartment entrance on the left side of the red Chesterfield leather chair.  In the northwest corner of the living room, I setup the folding blue beach chair at the Dell 17.3 inch laptop setup.  Harvard might not be the best university in America anymore, but I use to survive when I worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts during my www.lakeforest.edu college years in the summer.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-0125-01/

I will now go outside again. 

01/01/25 Wednesday 11:50 P.M.  On Channel 107 Cspan, I watched, "Inside the White House, America's Most Famous House.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

01/01/25 Wednesday 10:10 P.M.  On Cspan book TV, I watched this author of this book https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Stack-Searching-Soul-Machine/dp/0802158846/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IYM1JGXIFUWN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Ziur4mfWGFShCGUqX29yeA.WKmPD5GS2WCpG7ELm_orjF4ZFiDKrVHyoDnz9y1ruOM&dib_tag=se&keywords=andrew+smith+devil+in+the+stack&qid=1735787050&sprefix=Andrew+Smith+a+Dev%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1

As a matter of historical reference, when I made my downloadable directory a long time ago, I used a Windows 3 machine with OS/2 dual boot, because in Windows one could bookmark  links, and then in OS/2 one could with a little tweaking with Boxer OS/2 editor sort out the bookmarks alphabetically.

01/01/25 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.  refurbished televisions $200 and up https://electronics.woot.com/offers/amazon-fire-tv-omni-qled-4k-tv-1?ref=w_cnt_wp_0_1

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

Trump Hotel terrorism in Las Vegas https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7qd97eyp0o

https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-police-say-cybertruck-exploded-trump-hotel-had-fuel-containers-large-firework-mortars

https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/earthquakes-hawaii-kilauea-eruption-december-2024?dicbo=v2-UFv2RqB

I will now go outside again.

01/01/25 Wednesday 8:50 P.M.  I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I bought a National Park Service calendar for $11.69.  I then went to the www.chase.com Bank ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue and Elm Street.  I then drove by www.starbucks.com , but they were closed.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought two 64 ounce diet Ocean Spray cranberry juice for $3.69 each, a 12 pack of Jimmy Dean sausage, egg, and cheese croissants for $16.99, and four 11.5 ounce Marie Callender Swedish meatballs for $3 each for $36.37 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.  I put the grey bag back in the car, and I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I put the National Park Service calendar on the outside of the front door, and I moved the free calendar to the left side kitchen wall.  I will now go outside again.

01/01/25 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.  I will now go out and forage around.

01/01/25 Wednesday 7:00 P.M.  I rested until 6:40 P.M.  I went outside.

01/01/25 Wednesday 4:50 P.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

01/01/25 Wednesday 4:45 P.M.  I woke up at 3 P.M.  I fixed a neighbor's television again.  I went outside.  I chatted with a friend.   I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

01/01/25 Wednesday 3:35 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

01/01/25 Wednesday 2:50 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

01/01/25 Wednesday 1:45 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  I never spent a New Years Eve in Key West, but I spent New Years 1977 and 1978 in Fort Lauderdale.  I recall in 1977 I spent all night outside the Button bar with a gallon gasoline can trying to get a dollar for gasoline to no avail.  In 1978, I had a bit of money so across the street from the Button Bar, I drank beer and sang Beatles songs. 

01/01/25 Wednesday 1:15 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watched series 1 episode 2 of, "La Palma."  I went outside again.

01/01/25 Wednesday 12:05 A.M.  32 inch Smart TV with coupon code "FIRE32" for $90 https://www.amazon.com/amazon-fire-tv-32-inch-2-series-hd-smart-tv/dp/B0CJDSNN4T/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1MTJDARGAU5AC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TP9hOCJ7rVo05ibyHka0JjOFNz-mdLUgFta8ofZ4w030VFJ1lL2b1T-xUvn6wmNOHQMBjoe5OOz5sQevRk9wwZSiUBQVRaDmH2Ec19tdRYxwlsH0txvfhfBO6dRAiHB0X79XnrDLBYSeXFC7I1MAN6oXMzYvUyrBzARdBt9wDpKuzPr-KjiqAlz4e8bTZrYOK_E3INxxLTKE-mYkqqH3NRe5MeR0_uFSkrA2qcJ4tD4.uDq1mkAiwP0o22514IXMWr-cJ7GCd9_zUJ0JVzD_kF4&dib_tag=se&keywords=32+in+smart+tv&qid=1735707526&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&rnid=2470954011&rps=1&sprefix=32+%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-3

12/31/24 Tuesday 11:55 P.M.  Off Netflix, I watched series 1 episode 1 of, "La Palma," about a volcano and tsunami in the Canary Islands.   It is in Norwegian with English subtitles.

I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

Happy New Years.

12/31/24 Tuesday 10:30 P.M.  I bought https://www.amazon.com/New-Vitality-Prostate-Advanced-Supplement/dp/B07C8C2J28?pd_rd_w=fY0p8&content-id=amzn1.sym.59910fa8-b73c-408a-aa5f-d0b4e0aa42cb&pf_rd_p=59910fa8-b73c-408a-aa5f-d0b4e0aa42cb&pf_rd_r=0TRN7ERSJYCED84M9MRK&pd_rd_wg=BMrsf&pd_rd_r=80728a8c-4e85-4dd4-b3ed-7f6edd8c22e5&pd_rd_i=B07C8C2J28&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_0_1_ec_pd_hp_d_atf_rp_3_i&th=1 for $67.46 total.

12/31/24 Tuesday 10:25 P.M.  I rested.  I went outside, the fire department was here on a call.  However, I did not hear the building alarm.  I can not hear it, when I am in bedroom.  It is raining heavily.

12/31/24 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender chicken and garlic bowl with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/31/24 Tuesday 8:00 P.M.  https://www.greenwichtime.com/connecticut/article/connecticut-minimum-wage-increase-2024-20002784.php $16.35 an hour.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/warning-as-volcano-off-the-west-coast-is-primed-to-erupt-in-2025/ar-AA1wITMP?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=13ae9f54ce9b48b59040b6b239e6c4f8&ei=12   under water west coast volcano off Oregon.

I will now go outside again.

12/31/24 Tuesday 7:00 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .   The Stop and Shop is opened until 9 P.M., but I do not need anything.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/31/24 Tuesday 6:50 P.M.  I rested until 6 P.M.  I went outside.  I took the wreath off the front door and the small Christmas tree, and I stored them on the left living room closet shelf.  I took down the calendar off the front door, and I put up a new free one.   I took down the old calendar in the kitchen.   I put the new Volcano calendar on the left living room closet door.  I put my Christmas cards in the most recent photo album.

12/31/24 Tuesday 4:20 P.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

12/31/24 Tuesday 4:15 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate seven Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 2:30 P.M., and I chatted with a friend.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

12/31/24 Tuesday 4:40 A.M.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt and a croissant, and I will then go to bed. 

12/31/24 Tuesday 4:10 A.M.  I paid my Eversource electric bill, my Optimum bill for all three services, and my Verizon telephone bill for January 2025.

I will now go outside again. 

12/31/24 Tuesday 3:55 A.M.  Lots to read https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/

12/31/24 Tuesday 3:20 A.M.  Some history on China here https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1823_Encyclopedia_A770.06.pdf

Charles Darwin https://darwin-online.org.uk/

https://www.britannica.com/

I will now go outside again.

12/31/24 Tuesday 2:00 A.M.  Big Bucks over a Franklin for Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FLPSQLM?binding=kindle_edition&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1735627031&sr=8-2

I bought this classic read for $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/1911-Encyclopedia-Britannica-Hugh-Chisholm-ebook/dp/B01NGZXCGM/ref=sr_1_19?crid=M4ZNLI0Q80Q3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i5DY3bipE8LbbOOhjSgHfcG_XU8urojE6YLQlD4JHgkSR5m5V4SNfgSIa7FZDnQ0CrtpKlWQgpaGbPnf-cHxk3Q9WCkTtKkePWy5IumkrRzl_UXegMDvDOU8DFJ6QaiIlxNM3oFxazOPym0mq6EIKOlCz4s-ZyH7RaqJzgrL8fDSSaOEJcOHcEbDWZ50urvpHdw1T0mn9LDnk2XzDWQ_HUmqmZ3EJE4jpdmWY5GWnF4.bWwD-4C5XCVhmgpxTFio220fjckE6J-F2NADy32My4Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=kindle+encyclopedia&qid=1735627264&sprefix=Kindle+Enc%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-19&xpid=ZTPhTdV-EV1Zb

When I tried to travel outside of Greenwich in my free time which I had little of, I would used the Nantucket Antheneum library and the Monroe County library in Key West.  In Manhattan the library at New York University was only open to only students, and the library at Columbia University was $200 a semester which I would not afford.  However, the Watson Business library at Columbia University was opened to the public.  When I was around Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, they took the old Women's House of Detension on Seventh Avenue and turned it into a Greenwich Village public library.  I knew somebody from Bloomington, Indiana that lived in a tiny apartment on the southwest corner of Washington Square where both Faulkner and Hemingway had lived in the past.  I only met two people one in Greenwich Village and one in Chelsea with tiny apartments full of books.  All Fred Von Mierers had in his apartment was the complete works of Edgar Casey.  He did live in a publishing neighborhood at 420 East 49th Street where a Lake Forest College roommate on the Farm had a father that owned Random House and Penquin books nearby. 

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/31/24 Tuesday 1:35 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

!!!!!! Here is the library of books, I used to have in my apartment a long time ago http://scott-mike.com/authors.htm .

12/31/24 Tuesday 12:55 A.M.  32 inch Smart TV $80 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-32-class-f20-series-led-hd-smart-fire-tv/6482022.p?skuId=6482022

I bought for free https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Astrophysics-Simulations-Struggle-Determine-ebook/dp/B0BT1H6VPJ/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_wsixnhcumxnet_d_sccl_2_14/143-3341666-8422740?pd_rd_w=3EsA2&content-id=amzn1.sym.ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_p=ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_r=7VV4V3HTMQAC17Z4BQ66&pd_rd_wg=6DGpd&pd_rd_r=595e4d28-e866-40a8-8a5e-e7238886b823&pd_rd_i=B0BT1H6VPJ&psc=1

I bought the five foot stack of Harvard Classics for 99 cents https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Harvard-Classics-Anthology-Literature-ebook/dp/B093D9XMRV/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_wsixnhcumxnet_d_sccl_2_34/143-3341666-8422740?pd_rd_w=3EsA2&content-id=amzn1.sym.ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_p=ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_r=7VV4V3HTMQAC17Z4BQ66&pd_rd_wg=6DGpd&pd_rd_r=595e4d28-e866-40a8-8a5e-e7238886b823&pd_rd_i=B093D9XMRV&psc=1

I will now go outside again.

12/30/24 Monday 11:35 P.M.  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/musk-admits-taking-controversial-weight-loss-drug-previously-opposed-rfk-jr

https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/black-moon-december-2024

https://homeandtexture.com/elon-musk-tiny-home/?utm_source=o1&bna=1&utm_campaign=002d4af93139857e2c26dbb4439854a4f1&utm_content=00fc18927bcdcd9570e0cc5dafeb82e5ec&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=00ab7aab0cc75688b9919676740090e4e7&dicbo=v4-esooDcb-1079310745-1 Musk House

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/northern-lights-could-be-visible-in-upper-fringes-20007194.php

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/30/24 Monday 10:40 P.M.  Nantucket jobs available, but it is expensive to live on the Island https://classifieds.nantucket.net/

I will now go outside again.

12/30/24 Monday 10:25 P.M.  I went outside.  I stuck the telescope in the case, and I put it underneath the teak dining table on top of the folded up cot.

12/30/24 Monday 9:25 P.M.  I am cooking twelve small egg rolls which I will eat with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/30/24 Monday 8:45 P.M.  I went out to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a 42 ounce Smart Balance spread for $9.79,  a 64 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.69, a 30 ounce Simply Orange grapefruit juice for $5.79, and a four pack of Chaboni blueberry yogurt for $4.99 for $26.26 total.  I then went to www.cvs.com  on Greenwich Avenue, but they would not take my coupons for free Maxwell House instant coffee.  They said they had already been used.  I then went to the Senior and the Arts Center, and I sat out for a while.  I walked down to Zen Stationary, but my Mega Millions $2 winning receipt was not any good.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and they would not refund me the overcharge on the croissants that I bought last time.  They said I needed the box.  I bought two 11.5 ounce Marie Callender garlic chicken bowls for $3 each and two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50 each six pack for $9 total.  I then went to the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I filled up the tank for $13.08 for self service premium for $4.199 a gallon for 3.114 gallons at odometer reading of 126414 miles for 38.4 miles driven since Sunday December 15, 2024 for 12.332 miles per gallon in local traffic.  I then returned home.  I put away the groceries.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/30/24 Monday 5:35 P.M.  I was on the telephone for a half hour trying to get a real person at Optimum to no avail.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee. 

12/30/24 Monday 5:00 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside again.  I did not get any mail.

12/30/24 Monday 3:40 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/30/24 Monday 3:30 P.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went outside.  I chatted with a friend.

12/30/24 Monday 2:15 P.M.  Greenwich Land Trust Donation https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NTQwODM=

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/30/24 Monday 2:10 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate six Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 12:45 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

12/29/24 Sunday 10:25 P.M.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt and a croissant, and then I will go to bed. 

12/29/24 Sunday 9:55 P.M.  The first time, I ever visited Long Island was when I flew up in the spring of 1962 from Decatur, Alabama on the Monsanto Chemstrand D-3 airplane or maybe it was a Gulf Stream.  We stopped in North Carolina, National Airport, Trenton airport,  MacArthur airport on Long Island, and then Westchester County airport, where we stayed nearby in Stamford, and I had my interview with John Webster at Greenwich Country Day School.  I chatted a lot about golf, so I was accepted.  The next time I visited Long Island was my Senior Year at the Taft school, and we took a weekend break, and we took the Long Island railroad to visit Randy Abood in Sands Point, Long Island.  Possibly the summer before I drove out there with Myles McGough from Katonah, New York, and we visited Kingman Brewster's house in East Hampton, where Myles knew his daughter.  In June 1968, I also had my Taft School graduation party at David Maxwell's beach in Lloyd's Neck, Long Island, and then I returned back home to Wellesley, Massachusetts where I made some Nantucket connections.  Also on a June weekend in 1973, when I was working at CBS News, I took the train from Manhattan out to South Hampton, and hitch hiked back.  When I knew Fred Von Mierers and Helen Kress Williams from October 1973 to February 1975, they also had me in Oyster Bay and Locust Valley, Long Island several times.  When I met John Bolton in Key West in February 1978, I visited his family in Manhasset, Port Washington, and Plandome Manor a lot until February 1983.  Around Christmas 1987, I visited George Cary in Sands Point, Long Island.  I might have been out on Long Island coming from airports to Florida after that.  Around 2007, I went to a Microsoft conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Hauppauge, Long Island.  However, on my last trip to Florida after that I was picked up at J.F.K. airport on Long Island.  I have a nice view of Oyster Bay from the pier on Steamboat Road over all of these years where I was once President Elect Trump's neighbor, when he lived in Indian Harbor in Greenwich, where my stepfather also once lived.

I will now go outside again.

12/29/24 Sunday 9:05 P.M.  Maybe Mrs. Earle Kress Williams in Oyster Bay, Long Island was related to him.  I think she might have owned the old Kress department store in Key West that was renamed Fast Buck Freddies' possibly after Fred Von Mierers.  I guess when one goes down South depending whom is retired and visiting there, one's point of view can change.

I will now go outside again.

12/29/24 Sunday 8:35 P.M.  The television said James Earle Carter passed away today at age hundred years.  The first time I recall seeing Jimmy Carter was when I was living in Greenville, South Carolina the first half of 1976.  I had driven down to Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend.  I heard on my car radio that Jimmy Carter was announcing to run for President in Plains, Georgia.  I drove two hours South to Plains, Georgia; and I saw Jimmy Carter, when he showed up at the Holiday Inn there after he had announced he was running for President at the local railroad station in Plains, Georgia.  In the Spring of 1977, I drove through Plains, Georgia on my way up North.  I also probably saw him again at President Reagan's first inaugural. 

12/29/24 Sunday 7:50 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/29/24 Sunday 7:30 P.M.  The order for a case from China https://www.ebay.com/itm/374851199750?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D276806%2C277836%2C277309%2C277737%26meid%3Db5c761ec5c844b2fbeebb89a70ecc8fc%26pid%3D101875%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D305883723676%26itm%3D374851199750%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DSimVIDwebV3WithCPCExpansionEmbeddingSearchQueryRecallAuctionPushout%26brand%3DCelestron&_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m1851&itmprp=cksum%3A374851199750b5c761ec5c844b2fbeebb89a70ecc8fc%7Cenc%3AAQAJAAABMM%252BSIK5LCqs2uiCwInhHqGVzIMLIMo0iPltG%252Fc%252FV8dzqXG8bAAbTVw985HbdYTuG2wPTDx%252F8lbe8GSu4NUrsEPcDBvCLFhf2QkBmtTX5yUHKON8ZSQ4QsakODq2637FQeXvzV%252Fe6hxGReATiWuPJziAIyAz158SteEN42BU%252FBrt22Gm7I7Rwyx8KkxttN%252F%252BaJwAjEpvR2iuq8Cy8whgf9DzGScs9t%252BFwz7pEb2UXJPTR6p%252BIOe8DVbQt5VGcaSfZ6Cdnvbo3W77UfQ5EZADQJbiGAlJXrXh%252Bbq1aQRxewARX1S8utXG5I769eSMURqB8Z1pS3bCQMAkkOHeutxRD0xupl6V1dJdnUKfL5phRFNO3cpdteOu1yawmlHpKYK1HfrGBysbGzQx7LLUx52mL6mU%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01JEWGEZMF2JN4818PH141DVDM 

for $33.49 arrived.

12/29/24 Sunday 7:00 P.M.  In the Oster convection oven, I am baking eleven small egg rolls for 20 minutes which I will turn over half way through.  I will eat them with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/29/24 Sunday 6:25 P.M.  I was told by the pharmacist at CVS that I had my RSV shot a year ago, so I am good for another year.

12/29/24 Sunday 6:25 P.M.  I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I picked up a prescription.  I got three jars of Maxwell House instant coffee for free with coupons.  I sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park across the street.  I then went back into CVS, and I got two jugs of Tide liquid detergent for $4.23 with coupons.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/29/24 Sunday 4:00 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/29/24 Sunday 3:10 P.M.  I switched the Vizio TV from the bedroom to the mini computer setup at the apartment entrance.  From there, I moved the LG television back to the bedroom.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/29/24 Sunday 2:25 P.M.  I went outside again.

12/29/24 Sunday 1:35 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate eight Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 11:30 A.M.  I went outside.  I fixed a neighbor's television.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.   

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/28/24

12/28/24 Saturday 10:15 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/28/24 Saturday 8:20 P.M.  I channel surfed the over the air channels in the bedroom.  I went outside again.

12/28/24 Saturday 7:20 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/28/24 Saturday 6:20 P.M.  I rested until 5:50 P.M.  I went outside again.

12/28/24 Saturday 4:30 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I am baking four fish filets which I will eat with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar .  We used to have a neighbor in back country Greenwich whom had the same last name of the founder of Coca Cola, but I do not know if there was a connection.  When I knew Fred Von Mierers, he introduced me to Bill Hines who lived next to Bunny and Paul Mellon on East 70th Street in Manhattan.  Bill Hines had the Coca Cola franchaise for North Carolina, and he had a house at the entrance of Camp Le Juene down in North Carolina.  He once had me to dinner for rach of lamb.  Also Coke of New York used to be by the boys club in Greenwich.  Coca Cola bottles back in the 1950s used to have the name of each bottler stamped in the glass bottoms of the bottles.  Some people used to like collecting different Coca Cola bottles from different locations.  A relative once told me Coca Cola was started by a drug store operator in Holland, Michigan.  Alas in America, there are so many companies that have moved around over the years, nobody ever seems to know where the companies were started.

12/28/24 Saturday 3:25 P.M.  I watched the other half of, "A Haunting in Venice," off Amazon Prime.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/28/24 Saturday 2:15 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I rested until 1:45 P.M.  I went outside again.

12/28/24 Saturday 12:45 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/28/24 Saturday 11:50 A.M.  I won $2 on the Mega Millions drawing.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/28/24 Saturday 11:40 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers.  I finally woke up at 10:15 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

12/27/24 Friday 8:10 P.M.  I watched the first half of, "A Haunting in Venice," off Amazon Prime.  I went outside.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt and a croissant, and then I will go to bed.

12/27/24 Friday 6:35 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/27/24 Friday 5:25 P.M.  I rested until 5 P.M.  I went outside.  I did not get any mail today.

12/27/24 Friday 3:20 P.M.  In the Oster convection oven, I am baking three breaded fish filets for 25 minutes at 425 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will eat them with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/27/24 Friday 2:40 P.M.  I chatted with a friend twice.  On the most recent Windows 12 beta Canary Lenovo Mini computer, I installed the most recent Windows updates.

They four of these at the Target store in Port Chester for $140 each https://www.target.com/p/vizio-32-34-1080p-full-hd-led-smart-tv-vfd32m-08/-/A-91940056#lnk=sametab

I will now go outside again.

12/27/24 Friday 1:10 P.M.  On the mini computer setup, I adjusted the color on the LG TV monitor.  On the Apple Mac Mini, I updated the apps.  On the most recent Microsoft Windows 12 beta Canary, I am watching https://nantucket.net/webcams/ .  Nantucket used to have a Radio Shack.  Also the neighbor in Greenwich that got me the job at CBS News in 1973 had also been the President of Radio Shack besides being the President of Columbia Pictures.

I chatted with a friend.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/27/24 Friday 12:05 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-concerned-over-major-volcanic-eruption/vi-AA1wzaRG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=3e1382c533404a73864e41c8a6dcb026&ei=13 

Inflation https://www.msn.com/en-ae/money/companies/bezos-miami-neighbor-seeks-200-million-for-empty-1-8-acre-lot/ar-AA1wxE1n

I will now go outside again.

12/27/24 Friday 10:55 A.M.  First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-122724?e=d0a721e34a

https://www.afar.com/magazine/new-years-traditions-from-around-the-world

https://www.gcds.net/giving/give-online Give to Greenwich Country Day

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/27/24 Friday 10:45 A.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.        

12/26/24 Thursday 8:00 P.M.  It is still available here for $100 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1395974-REG/samsung_un32n5300afxza_n5300_series_32_smart.html/specs?ap=y&smp=y&msclkid=28f2ddb11ad7197b8c45badce0516620

I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt and a croissant.  I will then go to bed.

12/26/24 Thursday 7:35 P.M.  Norway Season Greetings https://www.royalcourt.no/

12/26/24 Thursday 7:30 P.M.   I rested.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bill-gates-bought-only-2-stocks-in-q3-and-he-s-betting-big-on-just-one-sector/ar-AA1wxnq9?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=248d05b5bed946b79ccae1c269fe9feb&ei=28

https://www.expedia.com/Nantucket.d285.Destination-Travel-Guides?locale=en_US&siteid=1&semcid=US.UB.BING.DT-c-EN.PACKAGE&semcid=US.UB.BING.DT-c-EN.PACKAGE&semdtl=a1688197296.b11322714872683929.g1kwd-82670788466393:aud-815274863:loc-190.e1c.m1640def553ae71396f0698838d469125e.r1.c1.j199102.k151389.d182669913736594.h1e.i1.l1.n1.o1.p1.q1.s1.t1.x1.f1.u1.v1.w1&msclkid=640def553ae71396f0698838d469125e

I ate five Danish butter cookies.

I will now go outside again.

12/26/24 Thursday 5:15 P.M.  I am about to each the other piece of chicken marsella with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/26/24 Thursday 5:05 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside twice, and once I drank an instant coffee.  I picked up the mail.

12/26/24 Thursday 2:45 P.M.  I went downtown to the Senior and the Arts Center, and I sat out for a while.  The bathroom there was closed.  I went to Zen Stationary, and I bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket for $2.  There was a line for the bathroom at www.starbucks.com .  I then went to the Greenwich Library, and I used the bathroom there.  I sat out there for a while.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a five gallon Poland Spring water with bottle return for $9.99, a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50, from the clearance section a four pack of croissants for $5.79, a 11 ounce Stauffer's Swedish meatballs for $3.49, a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's chicken fettuccini for $3.49, and a 11 ounce Stauffer's cheese fettuccini for $3.49 for $27.75 total.  They chipped me on the croissants they were supposed to be $2.99.  They have lots of five gallon bottles of Poland Spring water.  I then returned home.  I used my little folding cart to brink up the 42 pound bottle of water.  I put the food away.  I put the folding cart and the grey bag back in the car.  I drank and instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.  Recently, we have had a large eagle hanging around the building property.

12/26/24 Thursday 12:05 P.M.  I will now go downtown and forage around.

12/26/24 Thursday 11:40 A.M.  I bought for Free https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Also-Rises-Ernest-Hemingway-ebook/dp/B0CBPMYKSP/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_wsixnhcumxnet_d_sccl_2_1/143-3341666-8422740?pd_rd_w=1UjSp&content-id=amzn1.sym.ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_p=ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_r=BA31EMM92X6XCZBD2YWR&pd_rd_wg=fHUfD&pd_rd_r=3e554c62-4eb6-42f7-a191-a6ba260f5aa7&pd_rd_i=B0CBPMYKSP&psc=1

and https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Sherlock-Holmes-Arthur-Conan-ebook/dp/B00JDY7S18/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_wsixnhcumxnet_d_sccl_2_1/143-3341666-8422740?pd_rd_w=pajn7&content-id=amzn1.sym.ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_p=ec4f6a3e-3d1b-4f11-bd99-626f3a969c7d&pf_rd_r=1XZSDCM6HY34DG4R487R&pd_rd_wg=3Gaxg&pd_rd_r=356a0e8f-8d04-46de-b943-0877cf0224ae&pd_rd_i=B00JDY7S18&psc=1

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/26/24 Thursday 11:30 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I also clipped my toe nails with my new toil nail clipper from China.  It does a most excellent job.

12/26/24 Thursday 10:20 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/26/kings-christmas-speech-commended-addressing-jewish-communitys-concerns

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/12/healing-divisions-is-central-to-dutch-kings-christmas-message/ Dutch King Christmas message in Dutch language.

12/26/24 Thursday 10:10 A.M.  Today is Boxing day, when they exchange gifts in England the day after Christmas.  I woke up, and I ate ten Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 8:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.      

12/25/24 Wednesday 8:35 P.M.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt.  I will then go to bed.

12/25/24 Wednesday 8:15 P.M.  I moved the Vizio television with the Vizio sound bar back into the bedroom.  Beside being connected to the Cable Box and the Amazon Cube, it is also connected to the new over the air antenna, and it picks up hundreds of over the air channels.

I moved the LG television with the Boston accoustics sound bar to the mini computer setup at the kitchen entrance.

I will now go outside again.

12/25/24 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.  I channel surfed.  For some reason, my living room Samsung television gets over 500 over the air channels which are clear as a bell.  I guess the bedroom LG television is not as advanced. 

This is available for a $100 Franklin https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-32-class-n5300-series-led-full-hd-smart-tizen-tv-2018/6202106.p?skuId=6202106&extStoreId=345&utm_source=feed&ref=212&loc=SaleEvent&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA9667BhDoARIsANnamQZyEgLfOEZ_t4q8YcCBp4qXjco2uBMEm4I7UE6A5ptl2WL0W71585QaAnCtEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

but I do not need 500 or more over the air channels in the bedroom.  The bedroom LG television has the usual internet apps, and the Amazon Cube is also attached to it.

12/25/24 Wednesday 5:30 P.M.  I moved the new over the air antenna for the bedroom television from the bedroom window to along side the over the air antenna in the living room for the living room television.  It now gets 29 over the air channels.

I turned on the Apple Mac Mini on the 49 inch Samsung television, and I am now watching big screen video off of it.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/25/24 Wednesday 4:55 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

12/25/24 Wednesday 3:50 P.M.  I rested.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I chatted with a friend.

12/25/24 Wednesday 2:15 P.M.  I am about to eat half of the chicken marsella dinner with a 15 ounce can of peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/25/24 Wednesday 2:10 P.M.  My relatives stopped by briefly.  They gave me a bag of cooked frozen fish filets and what looks like frozen pastry wrapped Vienna franks. 

12/25/24 Wednesday 1:45 P.M.  https://apnews.com/article/jackpot-mega-millions-lottery-9d15d33eb17c3c199c8bb1592e2804cb

https://www.crackerbarrel.com/ is closed in Milford today.

I will now go outside again.

12/25/24 Wednesday 1:40 P.M.  Great White Father https://www.earthtv.com/en/webcam/washington-white-house .

12/25/24 Wednesday 1:30 P.M.  Not very busy out on Nantucket https://nantucket.net/webcams/ .  I have spent three Christmas Days out on Long Island which has a lot more people.

12/25/24 Wednesday 1:15 P.M.  Rare pink footed goose from the Artic spending winter in Greenwich https://www.greenwichtime.com/connecticut/article/ct-arctic-visitor-pink-footed-goose-rare-bird-19986675.php

I will now go outside again.

12/25/24 Wednesday 1:05 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I chatted with a relative, and they will stop by around 2 P.M.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/grand-duke-of-luxembourg-abdicates-after-24-years-on-throne-in-christmas-eve-speech/ar-AA1wtJWL?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=18ebb47911514a54b7a59570f8484982&ei=19

King Charles and family at Christmas Church at Sandringham https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c878rz9qr0zo

12/25/24 Wednesday 11:40 A.M.  King Charles 2024 Christmas speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjDS85s4lg

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/25/24 Wednesday 11:15 A.M.  New John's Island real estate for sale $11 million https://www.johnsislandrealestate.com/listings/120-coconut-palm-road

12/25/24 Wednesday 10:55 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/25/24 Wednesday 10:40 A.M.  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  I went outside again.  Two relatives are going to visit me early this afternoon in the parking lot.

12/25/24 Wednesday 9:15 A.M.  Sneak to the office https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/florence-16th-century-vasari-corridor-opens-to-public-for-first-time?mc_cid=18f08b8754&mc_eid=bcbb0084fc

When I was in Florence, Italy in the winter of 1972, they were selling gold jewelry on the Ponte Vechio for $32 an ounce.  The vendors would lay the jewelry on black velvet clothes on the street, and from what I could tell nobody tried to steal it.  Ponte Vechio means, "Old Bridge."  I lived by the next bridge west, "Ponte San Trinita," in the Pensione Adria.

www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue is supposed to open at 10 A.M. this morning.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/25/24 Wednesday 9:00 A.M.  I woke up at 7:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.    

12/24/24 Tuesday 7:50 P.M.  I chatted with a friend back from Europe.  I went outside.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt.  I will then go to bed.

Merry Christmas.

12/24/24 Tuesday 6:00 P.M.  https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-lava-eruption-big-island-2e731c515e01dd283cdfe348f5a6dcb8

https://apnews.com/article/italy-florence-overtourism-vasari-corridor-renovation-medici-d0547c747732384cca7fdc9d7f7d78a3

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/starbucks-strike-expand-over-300-us-stores-christmas-eve-union-says-2024-12-24/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-spacecraft-attempts-closest-ever-approach-sun-2024-12-24/

I will now go outside again.

12/24/24 Tuesday 5:30 P.M.  I went outside again.  My friends from Sea Island, Georgia are back from their long European cruise.  They left me a message.

12/24/24 Tuesday 4:35 P.M.  I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's fetticini Alfredo with a 15 ounce can of sliced carrots with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/24/24 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  The toe nail clippers arrived from China with tracking of  https://www.amazon.com/progress-tracker/package/ref=pt_redirect_from_gp?_encoding=UTF8&from=gp&itemId=jhqhkpnnrnsqoup&orderId=114-0461254-7695417&packageIndex=0&shipmentId=24378802758025 for https://www.amazon.com/Clipmaster-Clippers-Clipper-Toenail-Toenails/dp/B0DDTNSB81/ref=asc_df_B0DDTNSB81?mcid=6f0075be70533a719751fe1a7127de29&hvocijid=16745655905044946636-B0DDTNSB81-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16745655905044946636&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003458&hvtargid=pla-2281435180778&psc=1 for $21.26 total arrived.  I put them on the right hallway bookcase.

12/24/24 Tuesday 3:50 P.M.  I hooked up the bedroom over the air antenna, and it gets 34 channels over the air.  I have the over the air antennas in case the cable boxes quit working.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/24/24 Tuesday 3:15 P.M.  The orders with tracking of https://www.amazon.com/progress-tracker/package/ref=pt_redirect_from_gp?_encoding=UTF8&from=gp&itemId=jhrhopqqokswsqp&orderId=114-9496217-7060226&packageIndex=0&shipmentId=370468830785301 and https://www.amazon.com/progress-tracker/package/ref=pt_redirect_from_gp?_encoding=UTF8&from=gp&itemId=jhrgsplonpostsp&orderId=114-9178096-0103433&packageIndex=0&shipmentId=370471001416301 for high definition antenna with coupon code "CJZW9QB8" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMJN6QVD?creative=9325&camp=1789&tag=dealnewscom&ascsubtag=1z65e0to8q91wgej9uy7opGBReXPW9Qd for $38.28 total and Pyrex baking dish  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFBYZPCS?tag=tbpre-20&ascsubtag=04BLgXthXApsFahRhDPpt10&th=1 for $21.06 total and diapers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QLMJNS2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title for $31.41 total arrived.  I put the Pyrex baking dish underneath the center kitchen counter.  I put the diapers in the right bookcase to the left of Harvard chair.  I will now hook up the wireless antenna to the bedroom television.  I threw out the shipping boxes.

12/24/24 Tuesday 2:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I moved the folded up cot to underneath the back side of the teak dining table, so it is out of sight and out of mine.  A friend told me, I should go out and get pre made mashed potatoes, but I am trying to stay away from starch, and obviously the local grocery stores would be quite busy on Christmas Eve.

12/24/24 Tuesday 1:25 P.M.   I went outside twice.  I gave the building custodian a $40 tip.  I chatted with a friend.

The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=283601485553&trkqual=12028~283601485553~FDEG  on the order for open box https://www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/jtangl-portable-travel-camp-cots-with-pearl-cotton-pad-for-homeoffice-nap-and-beach-vacation-heavy-duty-sleeping-cots-with-carry-bag-jadg1130.html?piid=63539378  for $61.67 total arrived.  I tested it putting it out in the sitting area.  I then folded it up, and I put it behind the telescope to the right of the mini computer setup.  I put its cushion in the far left bookcase.  Technically if I had guests, I could sleep on it, and two people could sleep on the full size bed in the bedroom.  One never knows in the cold weather, we could have a weather emergency.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1224-07/

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/24/24 Tuesday 11:40 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/incredible-moment-lava-erupts-from-one-of-the-world-s-most-active-volcanoes/ar-AA1wqjDv?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6b9b9525eced41ae9466d4388c1eb5cd&ei=16

12/24/24 Tuesday 11:40 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went outside.

12/24/24 Tuesday 10:30 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/24/24 Tuesday 10:20 A.M.  I rested until 9:30 A.M.  I went outside, and I cleaned two inches of snow off the car, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/24/24 Tuesday 8:35 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

12/24/24 Tuesday 8:20 A.M.   I woke up, and I ate six Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 7 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/buckingham-palace-shares-first-picture-from-king-charles-s-christmas-speech-as-monarch-breaks-tradition/ar-AA1wmUf9?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=88f061fe5e544927a3d17b14db289a86&ei=8

12/23/24 Monday 6:05 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed. 

12/23/24 Monday 5:45 P.M.  I splurged, and I went to Citarella at 600 West Putnam Avenue, and I got a chicken Marcella entree for $11.99 a pound for $18.60 total.  I then returned home, and I sat outside briefly.  I will eat part of the chicken Marcella for Christmas dinner along with a can of vegetables.

12/23/24 Monday 4:10 P.M.  This frozen turkey meal for $7 at Acme https://www.acmemarkets.com/shop/product-details.960043572.html?productId=960043572&CMPID=ps_acm_acmd_ecom_goo_20241106_21887366098_169581741586_2368271279689&psrc=g&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsaS7BhDPARIsAAX5cSAdSSNshNhddXH6zOLT64-LrWsD3lTmuVnMLvtv-715ld1iS3XVdmEaAkSfEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

I will now go outside again and drink an instant coffee.

I picked up the mail earlier.

12/23/24 Monday 3:50 P.M.  Big Buck Christmas Dinners https://www.citarella.com/markets/shop/holiday

12/23/24 Monday 3:05 P.M.  King Charles news https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it-s-not-just-cadbury-s-that-king-charles-has-stripped-of-their-royal-warrants/ar-AA1wnnbJ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=f875ed58e0474d7e842621b669a6cac4&ei=12

I once saw a video that one of the Rothschilds in England got famous with the Royal family by growing miniature pineapples in her mansion that she had delivered to Buckingham Palace.  I guess that was before Lord Sandwich discovered the Hawaiian Islands.

https://www.greenwichtime.com/weather/article/asteroid-earth-christmas-eve-19998260.php Huge Asteroid on Christmas Eve.

I will now go outside again.

12/23/24 Monday 2:45 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I chatted with a relative.

12/23/24 Monday 2:00 P.M.  I rested.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/23/24 Monday 12:30 P.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Stauffer's Swedish meatballs with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/23/24 Monday 12:05 P.M.  I drove downtown to the Senior and the Arts Center, and I sat out for a while.  I then used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50, six 20 ounce cans of Stop and Shop pineapple chunks for $1.69 each can, four 16 ounce cans of Stop and Shop fruit cocktail for $2.09 each, a 64 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $4.49, and a 16 pack of White Castle cheeseburger sliders for $17.89 for $42.38 total.  I then returned home.  I put away the food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/23/24 Monday 9:55 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go downtown and forage around.

The Ninth Circle Pub on West Ninth Street in Greenwich Village was next to a 24 hour television repair shop.  A lot of people from the Columbia Broadcasting System better known as CBS used to frequent the Ninth Circle Pub particularly the Music Division which was profitable.

12/23/24 Monday 9:20 A.M.  I took the over the air antenna off the television setup in the bedroom, and I hooked it up to my neighbor's television that has a broken cable box.  Thus my neighbor gets about forty over the air channels.  This https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D95W25M6?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title is the antenna that cost me $18.07.  I have the replacement antenna arriving tomorrow for the bedroom television.  See Ninth Circle TV repair is still functional in Greenwich, Connecticut.

I will now go outside again.

12/23/24 Monday 8:10 A.M.  I channel surfed.   In my day the https://www.metmuseum.org/ used to have a Christmas Eve service about 3 P.M. in the afternoon.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/23/24 Monday 7:35 A.M.  I woke up at 6 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  It was 13 degrees Fahrenheit.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  

12/22/24 Sunday 5:45 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop, and I will go to bed.  It is supposed to bed a low of eight degrees Fahrenheit tonight and tomorrow morning.

12/22/24 Sunday 5:15 P.M.  I channel surfed.

Dog news https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-golden-retrievers-reunion-anita-tilly-19993444.php

I will now go outside again.  Right now it is 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

12/22/24 Sunday 4:00 P.M.  I ordered high definition antenna with coupon code "CJZW9QB8" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMJN6QVD?creative=9325&camp=1789&tag=dealnewscom&ascsubtag=1z65e0to8q91wgej9uy7opGBReXPW9Qd for $38.28 total.  The current one on the bedroom television does not pick up many channels.

I will now go outside again.

12/22/24 Sunday 3:25 P.M.   I chatted with a friend.

12/22/24 Sunday 2:50 P.M.  I ordered Pyrex baking dish  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFBYZPCS?tag=tbpre-20&ascsubtag=04BLgXthXApsFahRhDPpt10&th=1 for $21.06 total.

I ordered diapers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QLMJNS2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title for $31.41 total.

I will now go outside again.

12/22/24 Sunday 2:05 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I rested.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  During the period I visited the Florida Keys from 1976 to 1978, the Army Corps of Engineers rebuilt a 140 miles of bridges and highway of the Florida Keys Highway.  Thus those big tall men were doing a lot of heavy work, when the younger generation was restoring the Southern Most Hotel known as the Casa Marina.

12/22/24 Sunday 12:40 P.M.  I am about to eat a 13 ounce Marie Callender chicken Alfredo dinner with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/22/24 Sunday 12:30 P.M.  The Winter of 1978 in Key West was spent at the abandoned Casa Marina Hotel while it was under reconstruction.  I went North both in April and May 1978, when I got my income tax return from working at Daniel Construction in Greenville, South Carolina as an expeditor for six months in 1976, before I returned back to Greenwich and Nantucket. 

12/22/24 Sunday 11:55 A.M.  Some people are down in Cayo Hueso https://liveduvalstreet.com/#google_vignette and https://casamarinaresort.com/live-webcam/?utm_source=Fla-Keys.com&utm_medium=WebcamLink&utm_campaign=StreamingLink&utm_cam=casa-marina and https://southernmostpointwebcam.com/ and https://fla-keys.com/webcams/mallory-square/ .  I recall being briefly in Key West for Christmas 1976, but nothing was going on, so I returned to Fort Lauderdale for New Years.  After New Years, they towed my car for too many parking tickets at the Swimming Hall of Fame parking lot, so I hitchhiked back to Key West, and sometime shortly there after Jimmy Eldert showed up with a whole lot of friends from up North.  When I did not have a car that time in Key West, I slept underneath the annex of St. Luke's Episcopal Church.  I do recall hitch hiking to Palm Beach, but the bank weather sign said it was 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so I hitch hiked back to Key West where it was warmer.  Before cell phones, it was hard finding Jimmy, and one had to wander around Key West, until one found each other.  That Winter Jimmy was a bus boy at the Pier House.  He did put me up briefly in an Air Stream trailer next to the Boca Chica Naval station.  Around April 1977, I got six months of unemployment checks.  Rob Glore cashed them for me.  Then Jimmy Eldert and myself took a Grey Hound bus to Fort Lauderdale, and I got my car out of the pound.  I recall earlier we had hitch hiked to Naples, Florida, where I worked for a night at the Howard Johnson's starting my dishwashing career.  We then hitch hiked back to Key West.  When I got the car in Fort Lauderdale, we went to Disney World, St. Augustine, and then Jacksonville to see Hurley Haywood.  I gave Jimmy $400 cash to fly back to the University of New Hampshire.  I then drove north.  I got about $400 in shock absorbers at the Firestone garage in Southern Georgia and also toured Plains, Georgia again.  When I got to Greenwich, I got a U-haul trailer to move my stuff from the garage to Norwich, Vermont in a barn.  I then recall visiting Jimmy at the University of New Hampshire.  We stayed in the Inn at Exeter, New Hampshire and also a motel in White River Junction, Vermont.  I think I then returned to Nantucket, where I gave away the car and my personal belongings to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop.  I do recall hitch hiking to Provincetown, Boston, Bowden College, and Portland, Maine.  I finally worked for two weeks at Sister Kate's in Stowe, Vermont, and then I returned to Nantucket.  I opened sea scallops for about two weeks, before I started working as a dish washer at the Club Car, Gordon Folger Hotel, and the Le Languedoc Restaurant that season.  I also worked briefly at Henry's bakery making grinder rolls.  I left Nantucket just before Thanksgiving to get my belongings out of the barn in Norwich, Vermont.  I stored them at a relative's in Philadelphia.  I then hitch hiked back down south to Fort Lauderdale, where somebody I knew from Hyannis got me a job as a dishwasher at La Vielle Maison in Boca Raton for $2.15 an hour sleeping outside in a tent at the Boca Inlet.  In that first winter in Key West, there was a Kress Department store on Duval Street in Key West which the following Winter of 1978 became Fast Buck Freddie's.  About the cheapest place in Key West https://www.boydscampground.com/ .  I recall meeting Chicago Cardinal John Cody, when he was staying there.  He told me his sister owned 25% of Molson's Beer in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  In the fall of 1976, Joseph Coors was the head life guard on Fort Lauderdale beach with a cherry red Porsche with Colorado License Plate, "COORS."  I also met Jim Warburg's friend Steve Spielburg, when I first go down there.  They had volunteered at the Y.M.C.A. in Cambridge, Mass.

I will now go outside again.

12/22/24 Sunday 11:25 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/22/24 Sunday 10:30 A.M.  I rested until 10:15 A.M.  I ate nine Danish butter cookies.

12/22/24 Sunday 8:35 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/22/24 Sunday 8:15 A.M.  I rested.  I channel surfed.  The BBC is showing polar bears swimming in the Artic.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  It is seventeen degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment.

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/22/24

12/22/24 Sunday 7:15 A.M.  Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/?trknbr=283601485553&trkqual=12028~283601485553~FDEG  on the order for open box https://www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/jtangl-portable-travel-camp-cots-with-pearl-cotton-pad-for-homeoffice-nap-and-beach-vacation-heavy-duty-sleeping-cots-with-carry-bag-jadg1130.html?piid=63539378  for $61.67 total.

I will now send out my weekly notes.

12/22/24 Sunday 7:05 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate ten Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 6 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  The side door lock would not work, so I stuck my key in a hot cup of coffee a couple of times, and then it worked.

12/21/24 Saturday 4:25 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  The order with tracking of https://www.amazon.com/progress-tracker/package/ref=pt_redirect_from_gp?_encoding=UTF8&from=gp&itemId=jhqosslmtrnqsup&orderId=114-4931680-0251458&packageIndex=0&shipmentId=368347045492301 for  five https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW77GN82/ref=vp_d_pb_TIER4_trans_lp_B076CG7TVL_pd?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_p=06cefaa5-a79e-433d-923a-f4250e24166d&pf_rd_r=TAEJ8BWMRF28EFHZQS1K&pd_rd_wg=LNeqa&pd_rd_i=B0CW77GN82&pd_rd_w=Y6blk&content-id=amzn1.sym.06cefaa5-a79e-433d-923a-f4250e24166d&pd_rd_r=72d2c9a0-d7d5-4635-bc94-7e16f146b4ae&psc=1 for $9.90 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps card arrived.

I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.  It is supposed to go down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit tonight.

12/21/24 Saturday 3:10 P.M.  I ate three Sandwich Brothers cheeseburgers and a glass of Poland Spring water.

12/21/24 Saturday 2:35 P.M.  From the library in the Community Room, I took Tom Brokaw's book, "The Greatest Generation," and John Grisham's, "The Client," and I used to them to support the Vizio TV monitor on the mini computer setup.  From there, I took the two new sealed large print editions of, "The King James' Bible," and I put them back in the center bookcase in the hallway.

Back in the spring of 1972 in Athens, Greece http://scott-mike.com/mlsgreece.jpg and http://scott-mike.com/mlsgr72.jpg , when I bought the Opal for $300 with George Cary, and we drove to Turkey instead of flying.  I did have to rebuild the carburetor on the highway, and when I crossed the Bosporus, and the alternator burned out, a Turkish mechanic recoiled its armature for $5.  In Turkey, one does not steal anything, because they cut off people's hands.  Alas, besides Istanbul and Selchuck where St. Paul the tax collector first preached, I have also seen Troy in Turkey.  I only had $1500 in American Express Travelers checks to live on when I went to Europe for five months in 1972, but with the book, "Europe on Five Dollars a Day," I did manage to get by.  In Greece, I ate Mousaka and Souvlakis.  There used to be a Souvlakis stand on University Place on the west side just north of East 13th Street.  Knowing how cheap the Scottish www.forbes.com magazine is nearby, that is probably when they have lunch for $1.29, but six fresh bagels at Third Avenue and 73rd Street used to be $2 also near there and Seventh Avenue and west 9th Street, there used to be slices of Ray's Famous pizzas for 59 cents.  On Christopher Street, they used to have David's Potty Belly with custom omelets for $3 with English muffin and coffee.  I don't think Pete's Tavern https://www.petestavern.com/  on Irving Place just North of Union Square still has roast beef dinners on Tuesdays for $13, but in my day they had a good bacon blue cheese burger for $2.75.  I recall they know how to make a good Bloody Mary there too.  It used to be near the Meat Packing district, so maybe they got a deal on beef.  It was President Kennedy's favorite tavern in Manhattan, so maybe he knew people in the neighborhood.  Luchows on the South Side of Union Square used to Richard Nixon's favorite restaurant.

I will now go outside again.

12/21/24 Saturday 1:30 P.M.  I watched the whole IBM video.  IBM used to have offices in Boca Raton, Florida; where back on Christmas Eve in 1977 on my day off from dishwashing at La Vielle Maison, I sat down with somebody from IBM at a coffee shop on U.S. One and on a napkin, I designed a desktop PC based on what I knew about an IBM 360 back in the summer of 1971.  However, it took a long time to make the small parts.  Alas after Christmas I had to go back to work, and when they started building a deluxe condo at my camp site on the north side of the Boca Inlet in February 1978, I left for a three day visit to Nassua in the Bahamas, and then back to Key West in February 1978, where Jimmy Eldert was running a frozen yogurt stand, and I met John Bolton whom had $1,500 cash, and he told me he was the architect for the Casa Marina Hotel renovation.  However, Jimmy knew the contractor Chris Ray.  Bill Marriott decided to start the project, and it was financed by the Equitable Life Insurance Company from Chicago.  I guess it was cold back up North.

I will now go outside again and drink an instant coffee.

!!!!!! 12/21/24 Saturday 12:15 P.M.  I watched a program about www.ibm.com  on https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Capitalist-Who-Ever-Lived-ebook/dp/B0BTZ257NJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ONZR3J1WM9NQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.0owKhITYX9zhbTEWnR6tPw.p7qA9xGylbkrUO688yGmpGTy6p3h-I1ZHXcEsZeo5vA&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+greatest+capitalist+who+ever+lived+tom+watson%2C+jr&qid=1734800960&sprefix=The+Greatest+Ca%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-1 on channel 77 from https://greenwichrma.org/ and here is the video https://vimeo.com/1038633984 .

I will now go outside again.

12/21/24 Saturday 11:15 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again and drink an instant coffee.  My friends from Sea Island, Georgia do not seem to be back from their long round trip voyage to Europe.  Maybe they decided to stay in the Canary Islands to get away from it all.

12/21/24 Saturday 10:45 A.M.  I bought open box https://www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/jtangl-portable-travel-camp-cots-with-pearl-cotton-pad-for-homeoffice-nap-and-beach-vacation-heavy-duty-sleeping-cots-with-carry-bag-jadg1130.html?piid=63539378  for $61.67 total.

I will now go outside again.

12/21/24 Saturday 10:25 A.M.  I rested until 9:45 A.M.  I went outside, and I cleaned about an inch and a half of snow off the car.

12/21/24 Saturday 8:00 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender Swedish meatballs bowls with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/21/24 Saturday 7:25 A.M.  I tried fix a neighbor's television, but there is something wrong with the Samsung cable box.  I went outside a couple of times.

12/21/24 Saturday 5:20 A.M.   I channel surfed.  According the BBC News, today is the Winter Soltace at Stone Hinge.  I also watched part of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert.  On my first trip back from California in December 1978, I drove up to the entrance of the Mormon Tabernacle, but it was closed.  I did stop by the University of Utah to take a hot shower, before driving through the Rocky Mountains in a two day blizzard to arrive at Vail, Colorado, but I did not know a Taft and Lake Forest College classmate had a house there, so after getting Continental snow tires with studs at a Sears tire dump in Dillon, Colorado and paying $5 to have them put on my old 1971 Subaru wagon in Vail, Colorado at a Amaco garage, I drove over Eisenhower pass in a blizzard and rested for a day at the Denver airport, before driving across the Great Plains in an ice storm.  I still remember the two mechanics in the all night garage in Russell, Kansas that put on a new water hose on the car at 1 A.M. in the morning, and they only charged me $20.  Alas for people on the road at Holiday times in the cold winter time of America, travel can be a bit rough.  I did make it back to Greenwich that Christmas after driving down to Key West, and on Christmas Eve when I was house sitting for Burns Security up on North Street, I tried to put in a new air conditioner system in the Subaru which never did work.  I did by a big Christmas tree at Troy Nursery up on North Street and take it out to Manhasset, Long Island to my friend's family house for Christmas day.  Even back around 1987, when I first got a car in Greenwich after returning from Nantucket, a friend had me out at W. Averill Harriman's sister's house garage apartment at Sands Point, Long Island on Christmas day.  When I met her son from Wyoming, all he talked about was Ducks Unlimited.  William McCormick Blair the chairman of the Board of Lake Forest College trustees started Ducks Unlimited, and he had wild ducks painted on his horse barn in Lake Bluff, Illinois.  I also watched the Pope blessing the Curia.  I also went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/21/24 Saturday 3:25 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again in the cold tundra of the early morning hours.  A few snow flurries but not much accumulation.

12/21/24 Saturday 2:35 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

12/21/24 Saturday 2:15 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate seven Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 1 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I did not get any mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

12/20/24 Friday 12:05 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/20/24 Friday 11:45 A.M.  I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I paid a $1.50 in quarters to park for an hour.  I picked up two prescriptions.  I then returned home.

12/20/24 Friday 10:35 A.M. First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-122024?e=d0a721e34a

I went outside again.

I will now go downtown again.

12/20/24 Friday 9:20 A.M.  I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I used the bathroom there.  I bought a yellow remote control toy car there with coupons for $7.22.  I then drove down to the Senior and the Arts Center, and I gave the toy car to the Greenwich Police department Christmas tree in the lobby, where they collect gifts.  I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com .  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.59, two 10.5 ounce 2X Stauffer's meat lasagna for $3.49 each, two 10.5 ounce Stauffer's chicken fettuccini for $3.49 each, and two 11.5 ounce Stauffer's Swedish meatballs for $3.49 each for $22.44 off my Stop and Shop gift card from the Greenwich Department of Social Services.  They have prime rib of roast beef there starting at $33 and up, but King Charles believes red meat causes cancer.  They have a lot of fish and chips in the United Kingdom though.  I then returned home.  I put away the food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/20/24 Friday 6:55 A.M.  I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue and forage around.

12/20/24 Friday 6:50 A.M. I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/20/24 Friday 5:20 A.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender sesame chicken dinner with a 15 ounce can of sliced carrots with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/20/24 Friday 5:10 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/20/24 Friday 4:55 A.M. I channel surfed.  England is having major problems with pot holes on the roads which will cost a couple of billion pounds to fix.

12/20/24 Friday 4:05 A.M. New British ambassador to the United States https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvnlxxp8jko

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-bible-s-wealthiest-ranking-their-fortunes-in-modern-terms/ss-AA1uQVPE?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=8531781f863e40519d46b1e3a3881688&ei=29#image=1 Wealthy people in the Bible

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/20/24 Friday 3:35 A.M.  I guess Elon Musk is private.  He does not know how to make a web site https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo-grantmaker-profile?key=MUSK013#contact

12/20/24 Friday 3:35 A.M. I rested until 3 A.M.  I went outside.  Midnight Mike is on full power keeping an eye on the Western Hemisphere for better or worse.  There used to be a few people awake at night nearby in Manhattan, but they think we are a bunch of hay seeds out here in the wilderness of Connecticut.

12/20/24 Friday 2:05 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . 

12/19/24 Thursday 12:20 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders and a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/19/24 Thursday 11:50 A.M.  New freight ferry on Nantucket https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/steamship-authoritys-new-freight-boat-mv-barnstable-makes-maiden-voyage-to-nantucket

I had my telephone medical visit.  One of my medications is being quadrupled.

I will now go outside again.

12/19/24 Thursday 10:35 A.M.   Sometimes investors sell the market to pay their taxes before the end of the year https://www.google.com/search?q=Dow+Jones&sca_esv=31fe99a6d4a2597d&source=hp&ei=ojxkZ7q9KK79ptQPl6CF6Qs&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZ2RKstGHGW9q_HuYkYxAqEa1SMc29G6b&ved=0ahUKEwi6luTxk7SKAxWuvokEHRdQIb0Q4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=Dow+Jones&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IglEb3cgSm9uZXMyFRAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUYRhj6ATIREAAYgAQYkQIYsQMYgwEYigUyEBAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUyEBAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUyEBAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUyEBAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUyEBAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUyEBAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUyCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBMgsQABiABBixAxiDAUjNG1AAWJkXcAB4AJABAJgBXKABwgWqAQE5uAEDyAEA-AEBmAIJoAL2BcICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgIKEAAYgAQYQxiKBcICBRAAGIAEwgIOEAAYgAQYsQMYgwEYigXCAgUQLhiABMICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIREC4YgAQYsQMY0QMYgwEYxwHCAggQLhiABBixA8ICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEMYigWYAwCSBwE5oAejSA&sclient=gws-wiz

12/19/24 Thursday 10:35 A.M.   I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I paid $2 in quarters for parking.  I toured the store three times.  I used the bathroom there three times.  I picked up three prescriptions.  I also sat out briefly in the Junior Chamber of Commerce park across the street.  I returned home.  I sat outside for a while.

Russian Orthodox Christmas this year is January 7, 2025.

12/19/24 Thursday 8:25 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue to forage around.

12/19/24 Thursday 7:50 A.M.  I traded with a neighbor, my $50 Shop Rite gift card for two $25 Stop and Shop gift cards.  Thus I do not have to drive a long distance to use it.

12/19/24 Thursday 7:10 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

Microsoft Office on sale https://www.groupon.com/deals/wanas-llc

Lenovo Mini refurbished https://computers.woot.com/offers/lenovo-m710-sff-i5-6400-ssd-w10p-29?ref=w_gw_zl_lc_59

I chatted with a friend.

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/19/24 Thursday 5:45 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/what-can-elon-musk-buy-with-400-billion-a-lot-more-than-the-trophy-of-being-the-world-s-richest-man-ever/vi-AA1vWkaZ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=4c20b44e5da94395af9fe8ec290f98a5&ei=5 Elon Musk $400 billion. 

12/19/24 Thursday 4:40 A.M.  Here is a picture of myself outside an Amsterdam telephone box in the winter of 1992 http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-nl.jpg .  It shows how the World of Communications has changed since then.  The only pay phone I know about in Greenwich, Connecticut is in the lobby of the Greenwich Hospital near the elevators.  I think it used to be a dollar for four minutes anywhere in the World.  I no longer tour the Apple store, since they did not like me talking about other technology there in my brief walks on Greenwich Avenue.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  I am currently drinking Nescafe instant coffee which is a Swiss company.  In Switzerland, they used to have Alpine Horns for communications, and they also used to yodel to scream across the numerous mountains which also have Mountain Lions.  In Switzerland all males have to join the military, and they are also required to own a rifle.  From what I know the Hollywood version of Europe is not always too accurate.  My friend with Swiss experience knows a few things even though he is older http://mikelouisscott.com/rv-ch-92.jpg .

12/19/24 Thursday 3:55 A.M.  I am about to eat a 11.8 ounce Maria Callender beef and broccoli bowl with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/19/24 Thursday 3:15 A.M.  I used to send a $20 bill to the Union Church in North Tarrytown, New York at Christmas time, but I figure they have enough money owing to their neighbors.  I thus gave $21.13 to https://www.roundhillcommunitychurch.org/giving-2 .

I will now go  outside again and drink an instant coffee.

12/19/24 Thursday 2:35 A.M.  On personal religion in America, before moving to Greenwich in June 1962, my family attended the Southern Presbyterian church in Decatur, Alabama where the kept young people interested by giving them free bottles of www.coke.com after Sunday school.  In Greenwich, when we lived just off Round Hill Road, I did my cataclysm, and my family went to the Round Hill Community Church.  When I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, I attended the Anglican Communion Service at the Anglican Church on the green in Watertown, Connecticut.  A few times, I went to the school church service at the Congregational Church which was close to downtown.  When I went to Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois; it was a Presbyterian College with a Presbyterian church right next to the campus.  When I was in Italy on Easter Eve in 1972, I stayed up all night at the Vatican which was not lighted up.  In Manhattan, several friends went to St. Bartholomew's Church on the north side of the Waldorf Astoria.  Also my stepfather's family went to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and also started the New Canaan Presbyterian Church.  Living downtown in Greenwich, I have visited the First Presbyterian Church, the Second Congregation Church, and Christ Church.  I once even met Robert Schuler of the Reform Church when he was signing a book at the Stamford Mall.  My mother's family attended the Fourth Dutch Reform Church in Holland, Michigan, and with my stepfather also went to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Kennebunkport, Maine.  On Nantucket, I once toured St. Paul's Episcopal church, and I lived near the Catholic Church.  In Key West, I used to visit St. Luke's and St. Margaret's Episcopal Church.  In San Francisco, I once toured the old Episcopal Church on Nobb Hill.  Princeton University is supposed to be a Presbyterian University where my stepfather attended.  However, being on a night schedule most of my life, I rarely make it to any church services.  I did visit Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris during my last trip to Europe in February 1992 for the Winter Olympics at Albertville, France.  In Oslo, Norway, I also toured the two old Lutheran churches.  In Florence, Italy in the winter of 1972, I toured the Duomo Church.  Also in the spring of 1972 while in Istanbul, Turkey, I toured Agia Sophia now known as the Blue Mosque.  I also attended Christmas Service at St. John's cathedral on the upper west side of Manhattan, around 1987, but first I went to Christ Church in Greenwich.  I also once knew somebody in Manhattan from Bloomington, Indiana whose family owned the limestone quarry for St. Johns Cathedral and the National Cathedral.  I once toured the National Cathedral when driving down to Florida many years ago.  In Fort Lauderdale, while homeless I used to camp out at the air conditioning room of the Presbyterian Church there.  I have attended the Presbyterian Church once in New Canaan with my mother and stepfather's family.  However, my paternal grandfather was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, and I know the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana had Methodist roots in its funding.

I will now go outside again.

12/19/24 Thursday 1:35 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee. 

12/19/24 Thursday 12:30 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I ordered five https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW77GN82/ref=vp_d_pb_TIER4_trans_lp_B076CG7TVL_pd?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_p=06cefaa5-a79e-433d-923a-f4250e24166d&pf_rd_r=TAEJ8BWMRF28EFHZQS1K&pd_rd_wg=LNeqa&pd_rd_i=B0CW77GN82&pd_rd_w=Y6blk&content-id=amzn1.sym.06cefaa5-a79e-433d-923a-f4250e24166d&pd_rd_r=72d2c9a0-d7d5-4635-bc94-7e16f146b4ae&psc=1 for $9.90 off my State of Connecticut EBT Food Stamps card.

I will now go outside again.

12/19/24 Thursday 12:05 A.M.  I rested until 11:30 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I have a 11 A.M. telephone medical appointment today.

12/18/24 Wednesday 9:25 P.M.  I woke up at 8:15 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  From the Greenwich Department of Social Services, I got a $50 Shop Rite gift card.  However, I think Shop Rite is on the other side of town.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

12/18/24 Wednesday 8:15 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/18/24 Wednesday 7:10 A.M.  On channel 77 Story TV, I watched a program about volcanoes and Hawaii.  I ate eight Danish butter cookies.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now go outside again.

12/18/24 Wednesday 6:15 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/meet-the-16-people-in-the-100-billion-club-who-are-jointly-worth-more-than-amazon-or-google/ss-AA1p38HG?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=b6a184bfd7994c7ac0343c60f854c987&ei=25

12/18/24 Wednesday 6:00 A.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-richest-people-in-the-world-as-of-december-2024/ss-AA1w45wM?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=a87c3897a6c641d18577319349c0e522&ei=13#image=1 More big bucks people whom except poor disabled retired people to volunteer for free.  I already had a good product key, so I did not have to buy another one.

 One can install, the Microsoft Project 2021 by buying the product key here for about $5 https://royalcdkeys.com/products/microsoft-project-pro-2021-global-key and then install it by this method https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/install-project-7059249b-d9fe-4d61-ab96-5c5bf435f281 and entering the product key and after a long time to install it, when one starts it, one can activate if over the internet finally.

12/18/24 Wednesday 5:30 A.M.   On the most recent Microsoft Windows 12 beta Canary Lenovo Mini computer,  I have Microsoft Project 2021 installed and activated on it.  I am now doing an Aomei backup of it to an external SSD drive.  It will also backup the astronomy software too.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/18/24 Wednesday 3:55 A.M.  I rested.  I channel surfed.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/18/24 Wednesday 3:00 A.M.  I am about to eat a 11.5 ounce Marie Callender Swedish meat balls bowl with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/18/24 Wednesday 2:15 A.M.  I watched off Netflix episodes 7 and 8 of, "A Man on the Inside."

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/18/24 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.  I will now go outside again.

12/18/24 Wednesday 12:40 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/18/24 Wednesday 12:25 A.M.  I rested until midnight.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/17/24 Tuesday 9:05 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate eight Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 7:30 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

12/17/24 Tuesday 10:05 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.  Remember an Alberta Clipper is coming our way this weekend.

12/17/24 Tuesday 9:15 A.M.  I went out, and I toured www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue.  I then drove down to the Senior and the Arts Center.  I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com .  I then went to CVS on Greenwich Avenue.  I bought the last miniature Christmas tree for $8.54.  I then went the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought a 5 gallon bottle of Poland Spring water with bottle return coupon for $9.99, a 12 pack of Jimmy Dean sausage, egg, and cheese croissants for $16.99, a 16 pack of White Castle cheeseburger sliders for $17.89, and a 64 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $4.49, two 11.5 ounce Marie Callender chicken sesame bowls for $4.29 each and two Marie Callender Swedish meatballs for $4.29 each for $66.52 total.  I then returned home.  I used my little folding cart to bring up the 42 pound bottle of water, and I put the food away.  I put the folding cart and the grey bag back in the car.  I sat outside.  I chatted with a friend.  I put the little 15 inch artificial Christmas tree on the table at the kitchen entrance.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/17/24 Tuesday 6:05 A.M.  I will now go downtown and forage around.

12/17/24 Tuesday 5:00 A.M.  Somebody with my same name https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27100.Michael_Scott

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  I guess night time people are limited with their daytime experience with daytime people.

Being on a night schedule is like staring at the ocean with nobody around.  Alas all of the various waterfront locations I have lived at around the world, there is nobody that I ever met whom wants to keep up with me on the internet.

This is what I looked like, when I departed Nantucket 41 years ago http://mikelouisscott.com/mike-scott-kennebunkport-maine-august-1983.jpg and was photographed on the waterfront in Kennebunkport, Maine.  I guess since I am a bit over weight at 210 pounds and have not been in the ocean in many years, that is all past me.

I guess the government is not interested in fat older personal computer people just getting by http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsdc.jpg .

12/17/24 Tuesday 4:05 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watched episodes 5 and 6 of, "A Man on the Inside."

I will now go outside again.

12/17/24 Tuesday 2:40 A.M.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

White House Christmas decorations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxrKH_w_aU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYRri3EqdYk

12/17/24 Tuesday 2:20 A.M.  I rested until 1:45 A.M.  I went outside.

12/17/24 Tuesday 12:20 A.M.  I am about to eat a 13 ounce Marie Callender chicken Alfredo meal with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/16/24 Monday 11:50 P.M.  Off Netflix, I watched episode 4 of, "A Man on the Inside."

I will now go outside again. 

12/16/24 Monday 11:05 P.M.  Off Netflix, I watched episode 3 of, "A Man on the Inside."

I will now go outside again. 

12/16/24 Monday 10:05 P.M.  Golf Balls $25 a dozen https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LZNQG9V?tag=tbpre-20&ascsubtag=04vTLlOfZRR16LL5PU2lVkX&th=1 after Christmas

iceberg news https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/worlds-largest-iceberg-antarctic-spinning-breaks-free

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/ct-weekend-weather-arctic-deep-freeze-19984152.php frigid weather coming

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  I once met somebody that claimed his family owned 20 million acres of coffee plantation in Brazi, so we have lots of coffee here.  However, I have been as far South as Tobago in the winters of 1970 and 1971 coming out of www.lakeforest.edu which can be a bit cold.

12/16/24 Monday 9:25 P.M.  I rested until 9 P.M.  I went outside again.

12/16/24 Monday 7:35 P.M.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

12/16/24 Monday 7:30 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate eight Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 6 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.   I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  My monthly State of Connecticut EBT food stamps have been lowered from $254 to $243 a month.  People in Connecticut do not eat too much, we are supposed to stay lean and healthy.

12/16/24 Monday 4:25 A.M.  I chatted with myself for a while.  I went outside.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_States

12/16/24 Monday 2:20 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watched episodes 1 and 2 of, "The Man on the Inside."

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/16/24 Monday 1:20 A.M.  I rested until 1 A.M.  I went outside.

12/15/24 Sunday 11:35 P.M.  I am about to eat a 11 ounce Maria Callender garlic and chicken pasta bowl with a 15 ounce can of carrots with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with two ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/15/24 Sunday 11:05 P.M.  Big Bucks https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-net-worth-tops-400-bln-forbes-billionaires-list-shows-2024-12-12/

https://www.pcmag.com/

One of the first parties I went to in Manhattan back in the fall of 1973, somebody stole my new Brooks Brothers black overcoat, when I left it on the bed during the party.  I still have a similar Joseph Banks black overcoat that I have never worn like President Elect Donald Trump always wears.  I got mine as a clearance item for $120 down from $800, and I paid an extra $20 to have the sleeves altered.  Alas only tourists dress up on Greenwich Avenue, and most of the locals wear casual winter clothing.  https://www.josbank.com/c/all-sale-outerwear

I will now go outside again.

12/15/24 Sunday 10:40 P.M.  Out on Nantucket in my free time to stay informed, I used to read the Christian Science Monitor in the nearby Nantucket Library https://www.csmonitor.com/ .  They also have a reading room on Greenwich Avenue just south of www.starbucks.com .

12/15/24 Sunday 10:05 P.M.  I will now go outside and drink my third instant coffee of the day.  My building parking lot fills up at night anymore, so I no long hang out at night watching the few people on Greenwich Avenue, but with the internet I do have global communications which a lot of other people do have, so I guess nobody is interested in my very simple lifestyle.  At Lake Forest College, they had a bit coffee shop in the Commons where everyone use to hang out in their free time.  I suppose some of the local wealthy people can afford to hang out at www.mcdonalds.com in my neighborhood.

12/15/24 Sunday 9:55 P.M.   I channel surfed.  There is a lot of history on my television system.  They do not really tell one much about what is happening today though.

12/15/24 Sunday 9:05 P.M.  Three feet of snow in upstate New York https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-declares-state-emergency-severe-winter-weather-impacts-new-york-state

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c20wxn8v4l8o

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/richest-country-in-europe-has-more-money-than-uk-and-spain-combined/ar-AA1vU7mU?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=60a4a56ce96c4be187da0fe874e0e857&ei=36 Germany is richest European Country

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/whats-inside-of-buckingham-palace/vi-AA1vTqS3?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=af79bd79b2134f819d26195e1d74a7c4&ei=17#details Buckingham Palace details.

I will now go outside again.

12/15/24 Sunday 8:20 P.M.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/german-archaeologists-discovered-the-iconic-bust-of-nefertiti-in-an-ancient-egyptian-sculptors-studio-find-out-why-their-discovery-is-now-one-of-archaeologys-most-controversial-180985565/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial Queen of Egypt sculpture

24 inch smart TV $50 https://www.amazon.com/insignia-fire-tv-24-inch-class-f20-series-hd-smart-tv/dp/B0BC9Z81P6/ref=shop-by-brand-rhf_HighVelocityEvent_to_B0BC9Z81P6/143-3341666-8422740?pd_rd_w=9q8AG&content-id=amzn1.sym.214bd7fc-746d-4615-96e6-8d5341eff369&pf_rd_p=214bd7fc-746d-4615-96e6-8d5341eff369&pf_rd_r=YES3K7MT76TXGP6NAHGK&pd_rd_wg=rHiGF&pd_rd_r=972825de-d171-44a2-9502-ad2aba629f5e&pd_rd_i=B0BC9Z81P6&psc=1

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/15/24 Sunday 7:25 P.M.  I woke up at 5:45 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

12/15/24 Sunday 5:45 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I listened to music off the Alexa display.  When one asks Alexa to play, "God Save the King," it plays an interesting group of music.

I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/15/24

12/15/24 Sunday 3:05 A.M.  I will now send out my weekly notes. 

12/15/24 Sunday 2:45 A.M.   I drove down the scenic holiday lighted Greenwich Avenue all the way down to the bottom of Steamboat Road.  Long Island still appears to be there.  I then drove back uptown my way.  I went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I filled up the tank with $25.02 of self service premium gasoline for $4.149 a gallon for 6.1 gallons at odometer reading of 126376 miles for 75.3 miles driven since Wednesday November 30, 2024 for 12.344 miles per gallon in local traffic.  I then went by www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought four tins of Danish butter cookies and a 200 count bottle of Nature's Bounty flax seed oil with coupon for $38.79 total.  The Danish butter cookies are on sale there for $4 a tin.  However, there are only two tins left.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/15/24 Sunday 1:00 A.M.  I am now going out for a cruise on Greenwich Avenue to look at the beautiful Holiday lights.

12/15/24 Sunday 12:45 A.M.  I rested until 12:20 A.M.  I went outside.

12/14/24 Saturday 11:00 P.M.  I am about to eat a 11 ounce Maria Callender garlic chicken bowl with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/14/24 Saturday 10:25 P.M.  I switched the Ethan Allen octagon end table with the square end table in the sitting area of the living room.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1224-06/

I will now go outside again.

12/14/24 Saturday 9:00 P.M.  I used to look like one of twins that were in pictures in artist sketches for Lord and Taylor, but I only owned a Lord and Taylor blue blazer sports jacket https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/america-s-oldest-department-store-looks-to-make-a-comeback/ar-AA1vQuNq?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=fe51145c00a04861bc304c0deef1d79c&ei=13

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/inside-the-historic-vanderbilt-mansion-so-big-it-spans-two-towns/ss-AA1vOvFv?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=b2bbd48d20904795b19e865f12cf6eba&ei=20#interstitial=1 another cottage

another cottage in Vermont https://shelburnefarms.org/

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/14/24 Saturday 8:35 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside again.  Channel 113 on Optimum has a lot of vintage movies.  Right now, "An American in Paris," is playing.

12/14/24 Saturday 7:40 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/14/24 Saturday 6:55 P.M.  I woke up at 4:30 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I picked up the mail.  I went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I returned a five gallon water bottle for a coupon.  They do not have any five gallon bottles of water.  I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50 each six pack, two 13 ounce Marie Callender chicken Alfredo dinners for $4.49 each, and two 11 ounce Marie Callender chicken garlic bowls for $4.29 each for $20.56 total.  I then returned home, and I put away the food.  I put the grey bag in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.   

12/14/24 Saturday 4:35 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will then go to bed. 

12/14/24 Saturday 4:00 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watches episodes 4 through 5 of, "Treason."

I will now go outside again.

12/14/24 Saturday 2:20 A.M.  Off Netflix, I watches episodes 1 through 3 of, "Treason."  I went outside once.  I ate some goldfish crackers.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.  It is 22 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment.

12/13/24 Friday 11:50 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/13/24 Friday 10:50 P.M.  I rested until 10:20 P.M.  I went outside.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/science/jupiter-moon-io-lava-chambers/index.html

12/13/24 Friday 9:00 P.M.   I just saw a shooting star in the north sky going east to west.

I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's 2X meat lasagna with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans and a 12 ounce can of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/13/24 Friday 8:25 P.M.  Off Amazon Prime, I watched, "The Flying Scotsman."

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/13/24 Friday 7:05 P.M.  Meteor shower tonight https://www.greenwichtime.com/weather/article/geminids-meteor-shower-peak-ct-19978050.php

ice rink news https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-ice-rink-design-planning-19973348.php

Solar Flares https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/12/astronomy-sun-superflares-solar-flares-relatively-common/76918387007/

I will now go outside again.

12/13/24 Friday 6:25 P.M.  I channel surfed. 

Out on Nantucket, the big excitement is watching the Island Ferries come and go https://nantucket.net/webcams/

I will now go outside in the freezing cold tundra which will get a lot colder this morning.

In Greenwich, the big excitement is watching people come and go from coffee shops.

12/13/24 Friday 5:25 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/13/24 Friday 5:05 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  It is supposed to go down to sixteen degrees Fahrenheit tonight.  Drones were spotted over Fairfield, Connecticut last night.

12/13/24 Friday 4:05 P.M.  First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-121324?e=d0a721e34a

12/13/24 Friday 3:55 P.M.  I woke up at 2:30 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I picked up the mail. 

12/13/24 Friday 3:35 A.M.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt.  I will then go to bed.

12/13/24 Friday 3:15 A.M.  Off Amazon Prime, I watched, "The World's Most Famous Train."

I will now go outside again.

12/13/24 Friday 2:20 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/13/24 Friday 2:00 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/13/24 Friday 1:00 A.M.  I went outside.  I then drove downtown to the central Greenwich Post Office, and I mailed the Christmas cards.  I then drove down the length of Greenwich Avenue looking at all of the holiday lights.  I then returned home, and I sat outside.  Today is the Aga Khan's birthday.  It is also 41 years since I returned for good to Greenwich from my summer holiday in Nantucket.

12/12/24 Thursday 11:25 P.M.  I am about to eat a 9 7/8th ounce Stauffer's meatloaf dinner with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/12/24 Thursday 11:15 P.M.  Human evolution https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o

down South where it is supposed to be warmer https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo

12/12/24 Thursday 10:30 P.M.   In moving things around last Christmas, I lost the file with my old Christmas Card address list.  I found some addresses on the internet and the older file.  I now have fifteen Christmas cards ready to mail with nineteen forever stamps.  I went outside.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/12/24 Thursday 8:50 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again in the frigid cold tundra.

12/12/24 Thursday 8:15 P.M.  I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I picked up two prescriptions.  I bought a box of Hallmark Christmas cards and 21 forever stamps for $21.26 with discount coupons.  I then sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park.  I then went to the Acme grocery store at 160 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought four 64 ounce diet Ocean Spray cranberry juice for $3.69 each, a 48 ounce Simply Orange grapefruit juice for $3.60, a 42 ounce Smart Balance spread for $9.79 and a 64 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.69 for $34.64 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/12/24 Thursday 6:25 P.M.  I woke up at 4:30 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I will now go downtown and forage around.

12/12/24 Thursday 5:10 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I moved the folding beach chair back into the northwest corner of the living room.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/12/24 Thursday 4:30 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.  I am too old anymore for the "Freezing Norwegian Patrol".

12/12/24 Thursday 4:10 A.M.  I channel surfed.

12/12/24 Thursday 3:05 A.M.  I will now go outside again.

12/12/24 Thursday 2:45 A.M.  The last time, I visited Toronto, Ontario, Canada in December 1983, I visited a pub called "The Barn".  There were about five hundred very tall men there well over six feet six inches tall, but for some reason; it was very hot in the pub about 80 degrees Fahrenheit.  I did see outside that pub five thousand Canadian youth come from a football match in the local arena.  I later found a pub called "Chaps" with had a couple dozen young people about six feet tall my size.  Alas, my friend that once lived in Canada and visited there twice this summer never tells me much about Canada.  He once told me, he knew somebody named Arthur Hancock that one is not supposed to cross in Canada.  On a trip there years earlier, I discovered the Scott library at York University outside Toronto, and nearby it they had a warehouse the size of a football field that said "Adidas" on the outside.  In my trip there in December 1972 as I recall, they had a two thousand car wreck in an ice storm on the Diefenbaker Expressway.  Alas according to the news on from Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada is having financial hard times anymore.  Still on the Canadian border at Niagara Falls, they are probably still producing a lot of electricity for the New York City area, and there is also a natural gas pipe line from Canada that goes underneath Long Island Sound to keep Long Island and Queens supplied with energy.  Thus some unknown group of people are making money off Canadian Energy in this area.  It is a nice train ride https://www.amtrak.com/maple-leaf-train , if one does mind cold weather.  I always wander what happened to that little blond boy I saw with the elderly lady on my trip back South in December 1983.  The elderly lady had the same look as the Queen Mum of England, and on the nearly deserted train, she had six Pullman porters around her, while she drank a LaBatts beer.  On one of my few trips to Manhattan since then, I met an Ima MacDonald who lived on East 54th Street and like chatting with the Sports Editor of the New York Times at Billy's Bar nearby.  She told me the MacDonald family had the land grant for Western Canada, and she was with a young girl whom looked British.  She warned me about crime in midtown Manhattan.

12/12/24 Thursday 1:45 A.M.  On the Vizio TV mini computer setup on the Lenovo ThinkCentre mini with most recent Microsoft Windows 12 beta Canary installation, I put the StarryNight software on it that came with the telescope.

I moved the red leather Chesterfield chair from the left side of the hallway entrance back to the Vizio TV mini computer setup at the apartment entrance.  It is more comfortable than the Harvard chair.  I moved the Harvard chair back to the northwest corner of the living room to the left of the Samsung television to use with the Dell 17.3 inch laptop setup.  From there, I moved the folding beach chair in front of the white bureau to the left of the hallway entrance.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1224-05/

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/12/24 Thursday 12:45 A.M.  I will now go outside again.

12/12/24 Thursday 12:35 A.M.  https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/the-christmas-stroll-power-outage-why-did-national-grids-underground-cable-fail As I recall in the summer of 1983 or possibly earlier, they installed a new fourth generator on Nantucket.  It was a big British ships turbine generator down by the harbor along side the other older generators.  However, since then that British company has been sold to the Germans.

12/12/24 Thursday 12:35 A.M. On the Greenwich High School channel 78 television two days ago, they were showing video of the stars at night, so there must have been a clear night sky recently for the local astronomy club which Jimmy Bolster's BBS bulletin board from Old Greenwich use to give away free astronomy software from, when I first got on the internet with telephone dialup around 1990 give or take a few months.  When I lived at Julie Bolton's apartment on West 74th Street from December 1980 to February 1982, there used to be a pub behind the Natural History Museum called "Cahoots" which used to show Carl Sagan videos, but at the time when the few times I was awake in the daytime, I did not have money to go to the Planetarium although Helen Kress William's neighbor in Oyster Bay, Long Island was the Teddie Roosevelt family whom were involved in starting the Natural History Museum.  Of course back in Decatur, Alabama until my family moved to this area in June 1962, we lived twenty miles south of Huntsville, Alabama where the first NASA facility was called the Redstone Arsenal.  Also the skies in Vero Beach at night near Cape Kennedy are clear enough to see a lot of stars, but not as clear as Lanzerote in the Canary Islands.  My first television in this apartment was an Orion television from Wal-Mart up route 7 in Norwalk, and I think I learned the Orion constellation.  Of course in Key West, the old hotel is called the Southern Cross.  I think that bright star I see in the evening here all of the time is the planet Venus.  I think the twin stars I see close together are Gemini.  If one follows the right side of the Dig Dipper up the sky, one sees the North Star.  Jimmy Eldert went to college for a while at the University of California as Santa Cruz near the https://www.lickobservatory.org/ .  The Maria Mitchell observatory https://www.mariamitchell.org/loines-observatory is still out on Nantucket.  I have a Taft School classmate from my class name Mike Putteti or Mike Primini whom has been at the Harvard Astrophysics Observatory all of these years, so he is probably pretty smart on the subject matter of the skies around us.  The other Mike is a lawyer on Round Hill Road here in Greenwich.  The Taft School had a small observatory in the science building, but they would not let me use it, so when I did not play sports, I spent a lot of my time reading Time magazine, Life magazine, and National Geographic in the library in the afternoon and maybe the New York Times all of which were free.  We were not allowed to watch television or listen to the radio at Taft.  I do not know what the case is there today with the internet though.

12/12/24 Thursday 12:05 A.M.  Kindle free books https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kindle+books%27free&i=stripbooks&hvadid=707411667071&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9003458&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8572846647253169640&hvtargid=kwd-2334139287768&hydadcr=22536_13531205&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_35m97wk1r0_e

12/11/24 Wednesday 11:25 P.M.  For the telescope, I ordered a case from China https://www.ebay.com/itm/374851199750?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D276806%2C277836%2C277309%2C277737%26meid%3Db5c761ec5c844b2fbeebb89a70ecc8fc%26pid%3D101875%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D305883723676%26itm%3D374851199750%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DSimVIDwebV3WithCPCExpansionEmbeddingSearchQueryRecallAuctionPushout%26brand%3DCelestron&_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m1851&itmprp=cksum%3A374851199750b5c761ec5c844b2fbeebb89a70ecc8fc%7Cenc%3AAQAJAAABMM%252BSIK5LCqs2uiCwInhHqGVzIMLIMo0iPltG%252Fc%252FV8dzqXG8bAAbTVw985HbdYTuG2wPTDx%252F8lbe8GSu4NUrsEPcDBvCLFhf2QkBmtTX5yUHKON8ZSQ4QsakODq2637FQeXvzV%252Fe6hxGReATiWuPJziAIyAz158SteEN42BU%252FBrt22Gm7I7Rwyx8KkxttN%252F%252BaJwAjEpvR2iuq8Cy8whgf9DzGScs9t%252BFwz7pEb2UXJPTR6p%252BIOe8DVbQt5VGcaSfZ6Cdnvbo3W77UfQ5EZADQJbiGAlJXrXh%252Bbq1aQRxewARX1S8utXG5I769eSMURqB8Z1pS3bCQMAkkOHeutxRD0xupl6V1dJdnUKfL5phRFNO3cpdteOu1yawmlHpKYK1HfrGBysbGzQx7LLUx52mL6mU%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01JEWGEZMF2JN4818PH141DVDM

for $33.49 total.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/11/24 Wednesday 10:55 P.M. 

 https://nantucket.net/webcams/

https://nantucketcurrent.com/ 

During my three long seasons out on Nantucket, there might have been some people with Harvard University experience helping to sort out all of the chaos from Manhattan and my other travels.

12/11/24 Wednesday 10:25 P.M.  Off Netflix, I watched episodes 3 and 4 of, "Churchill at War."  I went outside in between episodes.

I will now go outside again. 

12/11/24 Wednesday 8:10 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  Maybe the water shortage in the area has ended. 

12/11/24 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.  I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's 2 X meat lasagna with a 15 ounce can of green beans with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/11/24 Wednesday 6:55 P.M.  I moved the LG portable air conditioner in the living room into the northwest corner.  I moved the octagon end table next to it back against the outside wall.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1224-04/

12/11/24 Wednesday 6:10 P.M.  On the HP laptop, I installed the Windows 11 Preview Updates.

In the northwest corner of the living room to the left of the Samsung television, I set up the folding beach chair in front of the Dell 17.3 inch laptop setup.  From there, I moved the Harvard chair in front of the Vizio TV mini computer setup at the apartment entrance.  From there I moved the red leather chesterfield chair to in front of the white bureau at the hallway entrance.  I also moved the saddle color faux leather chair a bit to the right.

Pictures here:  http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1224-03/

I will now go outside again.

12/11/24 Wednesday 5:20 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/11/24 Wednesday 3:35 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/11/24 Wednesday 3:20 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400136106028279457392 for  https://www.ebay.com/itm/354086575971?_skw=dell+65wh+battery&itmmeta=01JE3MS0MKNBPCKR0WYJP6NG59&hash=item5271345f63:g:L1sAAOSw1~RmM1jE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKmEI8EJUhIIlEly0lHBiR2CsLvYFOL25gGWten7iAjhDsGGUuje0mLPr11C7OdfWEJ6HKZ%2BcWxZPP3bFyYNZzNQ9zaDXpLdoIoUCo3Y6YQheamDsXTPhzMlnvdCZCOitT9GMD9KQozChzHxvPQYPuM%2B%2BpGg1lQ%2Byony4yvTvvXE9ANydK6zw14hBuLCiPXb5WpKliieGWFy9gZaNRwDctbPya78%2BsRdG6jn7jNk2EA1yIIZTvLtgSa7zWQN%2Fvy5VZc%3D%7Ctkp%3ABlBMULCK5PTwZA for $19.13 total arrived.  I put it in the Dell 17.3 inch laptop behind the Ethan Allen recliner.

12/11/24 Wednesday 3:05 P.M.  I rested until 2:30 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee. 

12/11/24 Wednesday 1:05 P.M.  I woke up at 11:30 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.    

12/10/24 Tuesday 10:20 P.M.  I watched off Netflix episode 2 of, "Churchill at War."  I went outside.  I ate two Sandwich Brothers cheeseburgers with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/10/24 Tuesday 8:30 P.M.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thousands-evacuated-as-mt-kanlaon-erupts-threatening-more-explosive-activity/ar-AA1vzBkh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=04f34ec0fedd403aa296e2505d2b3e33&ei=11

I ordered toe nail clipper https://www.amazon.com/Clipmaster-Clippers-Clipper-Toenail-Toenails/dp/B0DDTNSB81/ref=asc_df_B0DDTNSB81?mcid=6f0075be70533a719751fe1a7127de29&hvocijid=16745655905044946636-B0DDTNSB81-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16745655905044946636&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003458&hvtargid=pla-2281435180778&psc=1 for $21.26 total.

12/10/24 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.  Off Netflix, I watched episode 1 of, "Churchill at War."  I went outside midway through, and I drank an instant coffee.  I will now go outside again.

12/10/24 Tuesday 6:45 P.M.  I rested until 6:20 P.M.  I went outside.

12/10/24 Tuesday 4:55 P.M.  I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's chicken Alfredo with a 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce can of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/10/24 Tuesday 4:45 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I channel surfed.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/10/24 Tuesday 2:55 P.M.  Well I guess having lived around the International Community most of my life, everyone knows my story for better or worse https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/the-richest-royals-of-all-time-ranked/ss-AA1vChnY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=079c45041e5543f78be14719c8b9bfed&ei=28#image=5

I will now go outside again.

12/10/24 Tuesday 2:05 P.M.  Microsoft Office 2019 $13 https://www.groupon.com/deals/easy-activation-microsoft-office-8-24?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&cjevent=e401aa89b72711ef8000001c0a82b820&utm_medium=afl&utm_campaign=cid*551655_pub*dealnews.com_pid*552179&utm_source=cj&subs_group=afl

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/10/24 Tuesday 1:40 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/10/24 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.  I chatted with a friend before going to bed.  I woke up at 11 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.   

12/09/24 Monday 9:55 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I ate a bowl of Kellogg's Special K with red berries with almond milk.  I will now shut down the HP laptop, and I will go to bed.

12/09/24 Monday 8:20 P.M.   I channel surfed.  I chatted with a friend.  On the red ottoman, I broke the support bracket for one of the legs.  I drilled a hole and put in a 1.5 inch wood screw to support the leg bracket, so it now seems all right.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I picked up the mail.

12/09/24 Monday 6:35 P.M.  DNA Test $39 https://www.amazon.com/AncestryDNA-Genetic-Testing-Ethnicity-Traits/dp/B07J1FZQBC?ref=dlx_deals_dg_dcl_B07J1FZQBC_dt_sl14_3e

Plaid Flannel Shirt $20 https://www.amazon.com/Alimens-Gentle-Button-Regular-Flannel/dp/B07CXYWB5Q?ref=dlx_deals_dg_dcl_B07CXYWB5Q_dt_sl14_3e

Earth Science Kit $23 https://www.amazon.com/NATIONAL-GEOGRAPHIC-Earth-Science-Kit/dp/B082ZLM39R?ref=dlx_deals_dg_dcl_B082ZLM39R_dt_sl14_3e&th=1

12/09/24 Monday 6:15 P.M.  I rested until 5:50 P.M.  I went outside.

12/09/24 Monday 4:10 P.M.  I went outside. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/watch-video-shows-moment-philippines-volcano-explosively-erupts/vi-AA1vxvdD?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=8bb2c5574dce4733c2241042b43a5c68&ei=10

I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce 2X meat Stauffer's lasagna with a 15 ounce can of mixed vegetables with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/09/24 Monday 3:15 P.M.  Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input?origTrackNum=9434611105502993816098 on the order for twenty https://www.floridatobaccoshop.com/Richwood-Filtered-Cigars-GOLD_p_2987.html for $279.80 total.

12/09/24 Monday 3:05 P.M.  https://channel2now.com/2024/12/09/article/news/crime/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-killer-identified-as-luigi-mangione-an-ex-ivy-league-student/ .  He worked for https://www.truecar.com/ .

I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  In my days in Manhattan, the wealthy Chinese used to sell umbrellas for $2 at the Park Avenue entrance to Grand Central Station on the north side.

12/09/24 Monday 1:45 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

12/09/24 Monday 12:25 P.M.  I will now go outside again.

12/09/24 Monday 11:25 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/09/24 Monday 11:10 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate the last eight Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 9:30 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

12/08/24 Sunday 8:40 P.M.  Swiss private school https://www.rosey.ch/

I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

I will now shut down the HP laptop, and I will go to bed.

12/08/24 Sunday 6:45 P.M.  I will now go outside again.

12/08/24 Sunday 6:45 P.M.  I drove downtown to the Board of Education Veterans Monument bench, and I sat out for a while.  They have a nice wreath there for Pearl Harbor Day.  I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com .  I then sat out in front of the Senior and the Arts Center.  I then went to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  One does not have to pay to park on Sundays, so one saves money on parking.  At CVS, I bought two 200 count 500 mg. Niacin tablets for $26.23 total with coupons.  The bathroom is still broken at CVS, so I used the bathroom across the street at the deluxe CFCF coffee shop.  I also sat out in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.50 each six pack, six 20 ounce cans of Stop and Shop pineapple chunks for $1.69 each can, and a six pack of White Castle cheeseburger sliders for $17.89 for $31.03 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my food and vitamins.  I went outside, and I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again. 

12/08/24 Sunday 3:45 P.M.  I rested until 3 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I will now go downtown and forage around on Green Witch Avenue.  One of these days, I should take my $20 digital camera and take pictures, but the private people in Greenwich are photo shy.

12/08/24 Sunday 2:20 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate a 11.5 ounce Stauffer's Swedish meatballs with a 15 ounce can of sliced carrots with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce can of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.  I will now rest a bit.

12/08/24 Sunday 1:20 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/08/24 Sunday 1:05 P.M.  Remember December 13 is the Aga Khan's birthday https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aga-Khan-IV .

12/08/24 Sunday 12:30 P.M.  I ordered  twenty https://www.floridatobaccoshop.com/Richwood-Filtered-Cigars-GOLD_p_2987.html for $279.80 total.

I will now go outside again.

12/08/24 Sunday 12:05 P.M.  I rested until 11:20 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/08/24 Sunday 10:10 A.M.  I woke up at 8:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside. 

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/07/24

12/07/24 Saturday 7:15 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will then go to bed. 

12/07/24 Saturday 6:30 P.M.  President Elect Trump and Prince William https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05ppeym6jro

I will now go outside again.

12/07/24 Saturday 6:25 P.M.  https://www.medchunk.com/tests/triglycerides-353#google_vignette

12/07/24 Saturday 6:15 P.M.  Bill Gates Holiday books:  https://www.gatesnotes.com/Holiday-Books-2024

12/07/24 Saturday 6:05 P.M.  On my Lipid Panel Blood draw, the results are:

Cholestrol: 112

HDL: 35

Triglycerides: 353

Chol/HDL ratio:  3.2

LDL calculated:  26

12/07/24 Saturday 5:55 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/07/24 Saturday 4:25 P.M.  Notre Dame https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crmnzm20en4t

I will now go outside again.

12/07/24 Saturday 4:05 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.

12/07/24 Saturday 3:00 P.M.   I rested until 2:20 P.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/07/24 Saturday 1:10 P.M.  I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's 2X meat lasagna with a 15 ounce can of corn with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/07/24 Saturday 12:30 P.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/07/24 Saturday 12:05 P.M.  I rested until 11:30 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/07/24 Saturday 9:20 A.M.  https://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/s/j1rrm/how-much-snow-will-we-see-this-winter-in-ct-see-4-predictions?utm_source=local-update&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert#google_vignette

12/07/24 Saturday 9:10 A.M.  I woke up at 7:30 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I chatted with a friend.

12/06/24 Friday 8:20 P.M.  I rested until 8 P.M.  I ate two Sandwich Brothers cheeseburgers with six Danish butter cookies and some Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop, and I will go to bed.

12/06/24 Friday 5:35 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.

12/06/24 Friday 5:25 P.M.  I went to another appointment.  I then paid a dollar to park in the parking lot west of www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  At CVS, I picked up two prescriptions.  I also bought two boxes of Post Great Grains cereal with cranberries for $1.99 each for $3.98 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I filed this report. 

12/06/24 Friday 3:10 P.M.  I went to my 1 P.M. appointment.  I then drank an instant coffee outside.  I will now go downtown.  CIO

12/06/24 Friday 11:45 A.M.  I will now get ready to go out to my 1 P.M. appointment nearby.

12/06/24 Friday 11:05 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/06/24 Friday 10:20 A.M.  First Selectman of Greenwich https://mailchi.mp/greenwichct/community-connections-from-fred-120624?e=d0a721e34a

I will now go outside and drink another instant coffee.

12/06/24 Friday 10:10 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate six Danish butter cookies.  I chatted with a friend at 8 A.M.  I finally woke up at 9 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

12/05/24 Thursday 7:15 P.M.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will eat a yogurt.  I will then go to bed.  I have a 1 P.M. appointment tomorrow.

12/05/24 Thursday 6:55 P.M.  I ate two Sandwich Brothers cheeseburgers with a glass of Poland Spring water.

I will now go outside again.

12/05/24 Thursday 6:40 P.M.  I used to know a Saudi named Izi in Key West, and when I first got on the internet in 1990, I chatted with the son of the Saudi ambassador to the United Nations about Digital Equipment which was bought by Compaq the following week https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-the-saudi-royal-family-s-extravagant-property-portfolio/ss-AA1vdl7t?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9fc6d952295847dc95aefb66b7e9a0fa&ei=16 I also flew to Ronald Reagan's first inaugural on a Braniff flight out of JFK with the Saudi Arabian oil minister.  I flew back to Westchester airport on the private Time magazine jet.  https://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/ct-jetblue-flights-westchester-jfk-ny-19961403.php .  I was told by Vivian West out in Plandome Manor, Long Island that all of the Saudi princes used to be out there in their long robes in the late 1940s when Saudi Arabia became oil wealthy.  When it was a very cold winter in 1982, the Saudi flag was always flying at the Waldorf Astoria along side the United States flag.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/these-are-the-states-rich-with-the-most-gold/ss-AA1nfRvR?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9fc6d952295847dc95aefb66b7e9a0fa&ei=16

12/05/24 Thursday 6:20 P.M.  https://www.greenwichtime.com/weather/article/ct-weather-gemenids-meteor-shower-19958113.php

12/05/24 Thursday 6:10 P.M.   I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/05/24 Thursday 4:35 P.M.   I went to my appointment on the Stamford border.  I used the bathroom there.  They have a toilet there for a huge person.  I stopped by the oil place on the way back, but they were too busy.  There was a car wreck on the Post Road outside Staples.  I paid $1.50 in quarters to park at www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I toured the store.  I sat out at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Park across the street.  I went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a six pack of Stop and Shop English muffins for $1.99, a 64 ounce Almond Breeze vanilla unsweetened almond milk for $5.99, a 12 pack of Jimmy Dean sausage, egg, and cheese croissants for $16.99, and a 16 pack of White Castle cheeseburger sliders for $17.89 for $42.86 total.  I then returned home.  I put away the food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I picked up the mail.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again. 

12/05/24 Thursday 12:05 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shower and clean up, and I will head out early to my 2:30 P.M. appointment on the other side East side of town. 

12/05/24 Thursday 11:30 A.M.  Polar Bear news https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewx20xrgj5o

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvlpyl066o

I will now go outside again.

12/05/24 Thursday 11:20 A.M.   Back in the winter of 1977, when I was hitch hiking from Key West to Fort Lauderdale,  around Islamorada, I found a colonel's Strategic Air Command NORAD flight suit with the patches in the bushes along the highway.  I used to wear it sometimes in Key West.  When I got back to Nantucket that spring, I gave it to Rob Mullerin from Fairfield whose father worked for Exxon.  He was a skier in Stowe, Vermont, and I told him he should try wearing it skiing in Colorado.  Nobody objected to me wearing the flight suit in Key West, and I even was once wearing it at the entrance of Homestead Air Force Base, when I was doing laundry at the Laundromat at the entrance to Homestead Air Force Base.  My boss at Polaroid was a captain retired from Air Force Intelligence.  One of the owners of the Le Languedoc restaurant out on Nantucket was also a retired Air Force major.  There might have been other air force people out on Nantucket, since Otis Air Force base used to be on Cape Cod. 

12/05/24 Thursday 10:45 A.M.  I installed the Windows Update on the HP laptop.  I will now go outside again.

12/05/24 Thursday 10:25 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

12/05/24 Thursday 10:20 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/05/24 Thursday 9:20 A.M.  I woke up at 7:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  I have a 2:30 P.M. appointment today.

12/04/24 Wednesday 7:20 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/04/24 Wednesday 6:50 P.M.  I channel surfed.

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/04/24 Wednesday 5:45 P.M.  This is a Greenwich company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GXO_Logistics .  It seems pretty complex.  However, beta testing Microsoft Operating Systems since about 1989 as an official OEM without pay was a bit complex also.  Particularly with all of the hackers I faced, so I became expert as restoring backups of a new install.  When I ran a server at home, I even found tens of thousands of Asian text files on the Server.  Alas, the Apple store on Greenwich Avenue seems to get all of the attention.

12/04/24 Wednesday 5:30 P.M.  A Vanity Plate Costs $139 https://portal.ct.gov/dmv/vehicle-services/get-vanity-special-plates?language=en_US , but that is the cost of an oil change in Greenwich, and I like being private.

I will now go outside again.

12/04/24 Wednesday 4:10 P.M.  Connecticut news about moose https://www.happyinshape.com/forestmoose/?utm_campaign=y5wz6fan&utm_source=zmaob&utm_medium=native&utm_term=www%2Efoxnews%2Ecom::b1_outbrainrtb&postbackid=86698_65b3f5d8-b282-11ef-9087-1caeee9a61c7&zpbid=86698_65b3f5d8-b282-11ef-9087-1caeee9a61c7

https://www.greenwichtime.com/weather/article/ct-snow-winter-storm-wednesday-impact-19958830.php maybe snow

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/04/24 Wednesday 3:40 P.M.  I picked up the mail.

12/04/24 Wednesday 2:50 P.M.  As a matter of confusion having been a Polaroid Research photographer, I noticed mostly in my wandering around Manhattan lots of inconspicuous vehicles photographing various locations unknown to the general public.  Now they can do it with satellites or cameras the size of a pen head.  I will now go outside again.

!!!!!! 12/04/24 Wednesday 2:35 P.M.  About Dr. Edwin Land and Polaroid https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/polaroid-inventor-edwin-land-gave-us-more-than-just-instant-photos-180969119/ .  It also mentions the U2 Spy Plane camera they developed.  Alas the private people on Greenwich Avenue do not want to see me taking pictures, but lots of Asians take pictures on Greenwich Avenue with their cell phones.

12/04/24 Wednesday 2:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  The last time I checked out the Stop and Shop two days ago, they had a lot of Marie Callender turkey dinners on sale for about $4.  This is on sale at www.cvs.com for $10 https://www.cvs.com/shop/superway-radio-control-vehicle-assorted-styles-1-ct-prodid-427581 radio controlled vehicle.

12/04/24 Wednesday 1:45 P.M.  I chatted with a town official about the ice skating rink proposal.  I went downtown to the Senior and the Arts Center.  I sat outside there briefly.  I used the bathroom twice at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I then returned home, since there was no parking around www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  I have a 2:30 P.M. appointment tomorrow afternoon and another 1 P.M. appointment on Friday afternoon.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/04/24 Wednesday 11:30 A.M.  I will now go outside again.

12/04/24 Wednesday 11:05 A.M.  I am about to eat a 22 ounce P.F. Chang sweet and sour chicken meal with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

12/04/24 Wednesday 10:10 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.  My www.eversource.com electric bill for November 2024 was $208.32.

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/04/24 Wednesday 9:30 A.M.  Cole Hann Penny Loafers $40 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KNS86ZK?ie=UTF8&_encoding=UTF8&tag=bensbargaicenter&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325&th=1&psc=1

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/04/24 Wednesday 9:00 A.M.  I rested until 8:30 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/04/24 Wednesday 6:05 A.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I woke up at 4:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I did not get any mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

12/03/24 Tuesday 2:45 P.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders with five Danish butter cookies and a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer, and I will go to bed.

12/03/24 Tuesday 2:00 P.M.  Nominee to Court of St. James https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e79nlpe6o

I channel surfed.  I will now go outside again.

I chatted with a friend.

12/03/24 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.  Swiss Gear Duffle bag $18 https://www.swissgear.com/sale/cyber-monday-door-busters/swissgear-9000-20-apex-duffel-bag-pewter-dobby

https://www.macys.com/shop/mens-clothing/trending/hats-gloves-scarves/Price_discount_range,Special_offers/50_PERCENT_%20off%20%26%20more,Cyber%20Monday%20Deal?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&id=47677&tagid=1120205_05_20&ctype=G&cjevent=75ec0befb19a11ef81d40fef0a82b821&clickid=75ec0befb19a11ef81d40fef0a82b821&m_sc=aff&m_sb=aff&m_pl=MagicLinks&m_si=7785186&flexid=

Danish Butter Cookies $4 https://www.amazon.com/Royal-Dansk-Selection-Preservatives-Coloring/dp/B000FNFL0G/ref=rvi_d_sccl_1/143-3341666-8422740?pd_rd_w=WEKiz&content-id=amzn1.sym.f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_p=f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_r=9VG2CPA1NMTXYPWDKEPM&pd_rd_wg=sZaL5&pd_rd_r=f9c3cd03-11c4-437f-aa25-7064f2feea1c&pd_rd_i=B000FNFL0G&psc=1

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/03/24 Tuesday 12:05 P.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/03/24 Tuesday 10:45 A.M.  I went outside.  I channel surfed.  I went outside again.

12/03/24 Tuesday 9:15 A.M.  I am about to eat a 11 ounce Marie Callender chicken Alfredo bowl with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.  I chatted with a friend.

12/03/24 Tuesday 8:35 A.M.  I drove down to the Senior and the Arts Center, and I sat out for a long time.  I used the bathroom twice at www.starbucks.com .  At Zen Stationary, I bought a "Stocking Stuffer" scratch card for a dollar, and as usual I lost to the Bank of Bombay.  I sat out some more at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I then went to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue.  Their bathroom is still broken.  I bought buy one get one 50% off of 70 count liquid gel Aleve capsules and a Daisy croissant for $32.36 total.  I then went to the Stop and Shop and 161 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought the last five gallon bottle of Poland Spring water with bottle return for $9.99.  It looks like they are no long going to carry the five gallon bottles of Poland Spring water, but now it is just Pure Life filtered water.  I returned home.  I used my little folding hand truck to carry up the 42 pound bottle of water.  I then put the folding hand truck back in the car, and I drank an instant coffee outside along with the croissant.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/03/24 Tuesday 5:45 A.M.  They got rid of me in February 1982 https://liveduvalstreet.com/ when it was minus 26 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Manhattan.  When I visited, the Queen of Denmark and the Queen of Jordan were supposed to be down there, but except for a few people nobody paid any attention to be.  I guess I wore out my welcome in the winters of 1977 and 1978 when in 1982 Rob Glore a Dupont, Jimmy Eldert a CIA contact and John Bolton a State Department contact were no longer there.  I guess a new group of people took over down there.

I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue to forage around in the local morning tundra.

12/03/24 Tuesday 5:00 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee in the early morning winter morning.  I put $25 on my www.starbucks.com Card.  I am too old to be sitting downtown for a couple of hours in the cold morning air.

12/03/24 Tuesday 4:15 A.M.  https://www.greenwichtime.com/things-to-do/article/mohawk-mountain-ski-area-open-cornwall-friday-ct-19954300.php

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/trump-says-he-ll-attend-notre-dame-cathedral-19954677.php

12/03/24 Tuesday 3:30 A.M.  Portrait of King Charles $27 https://www.etsy.com/listing/1690221915/official-portrait-of-picture-of-king?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_-art_and_collectibles&utm_custom1=_k_EAIaIQobChMI24jXmpSLigMVwFxHAR3duBsrEAQYCCABEgLEYPD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_21500569335_164907277123_707558291654_pla-314954651933_c__1690221915_12768591&utm_custom2=21500569335&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI24jXmpSLigMVwFxHAR3duBsrEAQYCCABEgLEYPD_BwE

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/03/24 Tuesday 3:10 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate a yogurt and fifteen Danish butter cookies.  I finally woke up at 1:45 A.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I picked up the mail.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.

12/02/24 Monday 11:25 A.M.  I channel surfed.  I went outside.  I will now shut down the HP laptop computer.  I will then go to bed.

12/02/24 Monday 9:45 A.M.  I went out to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I toured the store.  I then drove to the Board of Education Veterans monument bench, and I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com .  I then sat out in front of the Senior and the Arts Center.  I then went to the Stop and Shop at 161 West Putnam Avenue.  I bought three 16 ounce cand of Stop and Shop fruit cocktail for $2.09 each and three 16 ounce cans of Stop and Shop mixed fruit for $2.09 each for $12.54 total.  I then returned home.  I put away the food.  I put the grey bag back in the car.  I drank an instant coffee outside.  I chatted with a friend.  I filed this report.  I will now go outside again.

12/02/24 Monday 7:25 A.M.  For one of the Dell 17.3 inch laptop, I ordered https://www.ebay.com/itm/354086575971?_skw=dell+65wh+battery&itmmeta=01JE3MS0MKNBPCKR0WYJP6NG59&hash=item5271345f63:g:L1sAAOSw1~RmM1jE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKmEI8EJUhIIlEly0lHBiR2CsLvYFOL25gGWten7iAjhDsGGUuje0mLPr11C7OdfWEJ6HKZ%2BcWxZPP3bFyYNZzNQ9zaDXpLdoIoUCo3Y6YQheamDsXTPhzMlnvdCZCOitT9GMD9KQozChzHxvPQYPuM%2B%2BpGg1lQ%2Byony4yvTvvXE9ANydK6zw14hBuLCiPXb5WpKliieGWFy9gZaNRwDctbPya78%2BsRdG6jn7jNk2EA1yIIZTvLtgSa7zWQN%2Fvy5VZc%3D%7Ctkp%3ABlBMULCK5PTwZA for $19.13 total.  I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue to forage around.

12/02/24 Monday 6:55 A.M.   On the HP laptop, I did an Aomei backup to the second SSD drive, which took a while.  I moved the Microsoft Surface RT from the left side of the teak dining table to on top of the Apple MacBook Pro in front of the Queen Anne chair.  I tested both Dell 17.3 inch laptops.  I tested the Apple MacBook Pro and the Apple Mac Mini on the Vizio TV mini computer setup.  I went outside twice, and once I drank an instant coffee.  Off book TV, I watched part of this https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Artificial-Intelligence-Human-Spirit-ebook/dp/B0CYZM3PV1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3F3V657WW8KN1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-Tlg74OvZ4HAel_CqcQC_Q2RwQKnYBVBSBBrM9AZ1obCHCcjTL0zsx8PeFkyS3MmfC3zZqOfkbuVUHxYYLNZthcTmQWQvGY1AAnVODxqmaNbKjw99VervzlSistr_Gnd4aRtfUIBaphOf1El-r00xw.M3s5hkvr0rkzLsNhdPeAzpgfut2fbZBIuRQ-QpsRJDQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=genesis+artificial+intelligence%2C+hope%2C+and+the+human+spirit&qid=1733139975&sprefix=Genesis%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-1 . 

I reheated and ate the Temple Shalom Citrella Thankgiving Dinner which I ate a with a 12 ounce glass of Fresca with three ounces of grapefruit juice.

About Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-eruption-of-mount-st-helens-1980/vi-AA1qUSOt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=dadd18610eee4892aa57bc2a9a00e2d0&ei=10

I will now go outside and drink an instant coffee.

12/02/24 Monday 4:20 A.M.  Scotland News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2l119zlpo

12/02/24 Monday 4:20 A.M.  On the HP laptop, I installed and activated the Starry Night software package that came with the Celestron telescope.

I will now go outside again in the freezing cold tundra.

12/02/24 Monday 3:40 A.M.  Retirement real estate listings https://oakharborverobeach.com/resales.html .

I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/02/24 Monday 3:20 A.M.  I rested until 2:45 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.

12/02/24 Monday 1:15 A.M.  I woke up at 11:45 P.M.  I made my bed.  I went outside.  I ate my usual breakfast of pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, Jimmy Dean sausage egg and cheese croissant, two English muffins with Smart Balance spread, diet cranberry juice and vitamins and supplements, and an instant coffee outside.  

12/01/24 Sunday 10:35 A.M.  I ate four White Castle cheeseburger sliders and a glass of Poland Spring water.  I will now shut down the HP laptop.  I will then go to bed.

12/01/24 Sunday 9:55 A.M.  A neighbor gave me a Temple Shalom Thanksgiving dinner from Citralla, which I will eat tomorrow.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now go outside again.

12/01/24 Sunday 8:05 A.M.  I drove downtown to the Board of Education Veterans monument bench.  I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com twice.  I sat out at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I went by www.cvs.com , and I toured the store.  The bathroom is still broken there.  I returned home.  I sat outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now go outside again.  I guess the Holiday crowd will be back from vacation this evening.  I will see the jets coming into Westchester County airport, unless the major population is gone down South for the Winter which some people do. 

12/01/24 Sunday 5:55 A.M.  New Greenwich Police Dispatch Center.  https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-ct-emergency-dispatch-center-police-19936992.php?utm_content=hed&sid=5d19d23991d15c62dc5bbcc2&ss=A&st_rid=7318d796-fd37-4d00-81b4-e1f87f90ef11&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CT_GT_MorningBriefing

I will now go downtown to Green Witch Avenue to forage around in the cold tundra.

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/01/24

12/01/24 Sunday 5:35 A.M.  I rested.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I put a new blue toilet jar in the toilet tank.  I will now send out my weekly notes.

12/01/24 Sunday 4:30 A.M.  I am about to eat a 10.5 ounce Stauffer's 2X meat lasagna with 15 ounce can of sweet peas with Smart Balance spread and a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com Zero Sugar.

12/01/24 Sunday 4:10 A.M.  I put away the clean laundry.  I will now go outside. 

12/01/24 Sunday 3:10 A.M.  I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .

I will now go outside again.

12/01/24 Sunday 2:50 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I have 40 minutes to go on three dry cycles.

12/01/24 Sunday 12:55 A.M.   I rested until 12:15 A.M.  I went outside, and I drank an instant coffee.  I will now put clean linens on the bed.  I will then shower and clean up.  I will then do laundry.