Friday 6: 45 P. M.: I installed this driver

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 6:55 A.M.:  I checked outside, and it seems to be raining a little bit, but not bad by North Sea standards.  It seems most of these internet gurus have been out in California for so long, they are not prepared to deal with the usual weather in this area.  I noticed on my kitchen television which is not on the Optimum Digital television, there is an oscilloscope type graph.  I suppose it is for monitoring the cable network from remote.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Still baby sitting a panda http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html .  Down in Alabama in the old days, when a lot of people played checkers, we use to play Chinese checkers, and we use to joke about digging a hole to China.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 6:05 A.M.:  For those individuals whom still drink beer 20028, Brew Keg Premium Edition Kit, Beer Machine, Beer Brewing Machine and 20026, 3 Beer Mix Variety Pack, 3 Beer Mixes, Beer Variety Beer Mix Pack .  In my youth the Sears catalog use to sell beer making kits and bottling devices.  Basically, I think one could buy a bottle cap installer and bottle caps from the Sears catalog.  One would use one's grandfather's old 10 gallon crock.  One could buy a hydrometer to measure the beer brewing process from some odd retailer.  One would need cheese cloth to cover the beer as it fermented.  One had a real hard time finding Blue Ribbon Malt Syrup  for this recipe Blue Ribbon 2 or Blue Ribbon 1 , but where you can buy a quart can of Blue Ribbon malt syrup Malts and Grains for Brewing .   Of course, you need cake yeast and sugar and water.  Also one needs some sort of siphon tube, and I use to float the siphon tube on top of the mixture with a  12 inch wooden disk with a hole in the middle for the tube.  We use to bottle it in Canada Dry Ginger Ale bottles, and I recall my eldest sister's friends use to sell it at Tod's Point.  I recall there is a certain United States law that the head of the household is allowed to ferment a certain amount of beer or wine each year for their personal consumption.  http://www.hoptech.com/ can help one with the supplies.  I recall in my Economic studies when a country goes into recession, two businesses that tend to do better are beer and movies.  Back at prep school at Taft in Watertown, Connecticut in the old days, we use to take a gallon of cider and put a handful of raisins in it, and let if ferment for a couple of weeks.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 5:35 A.M.:  Tall ain't cheap Greenwich Time - Cops cite drivers using cell phones .  I ate the last two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 5:10 A.M.:  My current full size comforter that I bought new two years ago from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop for $30 is from www.jcpenny.com by Croscill JCPenney home furnishings department Croscill Comforter in a Dutch Blue Colonial type pattern that is no longer available , but they have others Royal Home Fashions :: Your Complete Croscill Headquarters or The Home Decorating Company - Croscill Bedding, Croscill Comforters, Croscill Sheets, Croscill Drapes & Valances .  There is this clearance item in Croscill Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day!Croscill Figaro , so I would say my current Croscill comforter at new prices would be a couple of hundred dollars, so I do not feel like replacing it with something cheaper.  It has kept me plenty warm for the last two winters, and I generally leave the bedroom heat at 55 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter.  It is Polyester Fortrel fill.  Need I say more.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 4:05 A.M.:  Of course last year, my solution was Men's Mostly Long Underwear and Long Johns .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 3:50 A.M.:  These are available SmartBargains: Comforter sets perfect for cuddling up for the night , but they might not be warm enough for a cold winter, unless one can afford to heat one's house, but they are decorative.   These are probably warmer and more expensive Comforters at Sierra Trading Post or from the people that know L.L.Bean: Down Comforter Guide for more wampum L.L.Bean: Comforters & Covers .  These people are suppose to know and the Canadian dollar goes further www.hbc.com .  However Sears knows cold Down Comforters .  More fashion for those who can afford heat Linens 'n Things - Bedding: Comforters , but if you have the bucks, these might work Linens 'n Things - Bedding: Down Comforters: Search for .   Life's not cheap north of the border Bed Bath & Beyond Product Styles down comforters .  Thus after  a quick search if the web shows what it seems to be, you pretty much get what one pays for.   Best deal for the buck seems to be Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Synthetic down comforter $40 in blue in king and queen or Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! white down comforter $50  , but from if money were no object, I would probably buy a house or apartment that I could afford to heat or Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! 330 tc Siberian Down Comforter .  Of course Sam does not want you to freeze Search results for comforter - Wal-mart , but I have a Costco card Costco.com Comforters , but Costco generally assumes their customers have more money than I usually have.  I guess I could always shoot and pluck a Canadian Goose.  However, I have a perfectly good comforter that I bought for $30 new at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop about two years ago, and it matches my color scheme in the bedroom.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 2:55 A.M.:  Of course if one were from Brazil planning to spend the winter in Connecticut, one might need this Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! 330 tc Siberian Down Comforter .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 2:50 A.M.:  I cancelled the order for the Amazon comforter, because reviews said it was not heavy enough.  I did find these Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Down Comforters with this synthetic one Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Synthetic down comforter $40 in blue in king and queen , but I do not know if the blue color would fit into my bedroom.  Also this is available Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! white down comforter $50 .  However, I think I will save my money, and I will just use my current synthetic one, which has been warm enough in past winters.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 2:15 A.M.:  I ordered it in Queen Size for $29.99 with free shipping Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Westpoint Stevens Patrician Woven Jacquard Queen Comforter Set, Frederica and other items for $10 more are at Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares Search Results: CF Textile .  I have a good comforter about three years old, but with a cold winter coming, another one might come in handy, plus it fits my bedroom's current decorations.  I ordered queen size, since full size does not seem to fit on my full size bed.  I can always use the quilt during the warmer months.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 1:45 A.M.:  Get ready for a cold winter Cheap Stingy Bastard: Westpoint Stevens Patrician Woven Jacquard Queen Comforter Set, Frederica for $30 down from $300.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/05 Wednesday 1:25 A.M.:  I chatted with Optimum Online Cablevision www.cablevision.com , and I then searched their web site at www.optonline.net , and I found deeply buried in the bowels of their web site this downloadable program to go with their Optimum Online Service Optimum Online - Cservice - The Optimum Online net guide or the Netguide download program from this link Optimum Online - Customer Support.  I downloaded it, and I installed it.  It has certain useful features.  It was already downloaded on my machine, so I must have forgotten to reinstall it during some past configuration.  Whomever invaded my apartment in the last six months did not touch the alcoholic beverages, so maybe it was somebody from one of those countries, where people do not have privacy.  I was just thinking since I have tropical experience, maybe I could apply to replace Fidel Castro in his job as dictator of Cuba, and I could teach the Cubans a little English and French.  Alas, my northern cousins do not feel like going tropical.  After all my branch of the Scott family is from Illinois, so more than likely the Polish Democrats in Chicago are just waiting to see what comes back at them on the Scott's adventures in the greater world.  Judging by our local home economics, popcorn still is not very profitable.  Unless we have another great war, where they blockade India, and then we might make some money supplying  the nautical business with items that they grow in India, but alas the United States Navy seems to have other resources like the DuPont family.  However, I have always maintained nylon rope does not last very long around salt water.   I use to have many friends around the waterfront in Florida, and I think they are confusing me with a friend that I have only seen a few times, and he is known around the waterfront as the "Sea Wolf".  However, most people avoid him, since he usually works the waterfront with black jack gangs recruiting unwilling sailors for a voyage at sea.  In times of war, they can do that.  If one hangs out around the waterfront too long, one might even end up in some foreign Navy depending on what their job needs are.  I suppose since I have lived in Florida a number of times, and since I still have relatives living there, and since I know Texas has rangers, and since I have long term residency in Connecticut no matter what I do, I guess like Texas has its rangers in every state in the nation, I could be the Florida ranger in Connecticut.  However, like the honorary New Amsterdam Dutch night watch, the job does not pay anything, so on a limited budget, one can not really do that much except buy orange juice when it is on sale.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 11:25 P.M.:  I chatted with the Casa Marina - Resort and Beach House - Key West, Florida .  Since I use to observe down there, I have seen both Gulf Oil and Exxon personnel in that area, it would seem to me that some other oil company probably one in California like Getty or Chevron, which I think is now the same company is probably trying to cause some mischief in interfering with activity in that region.  More than likely some company like Royal Dutch Shell or British Petroleum is waiting to pick up the pieces.  We obviously know Getty is connected up with the Arabs and so is BP.   Thus the high technology people on the west coast of the United States of America are interfering with communications in the Caribbean area in hopes to make profits off disasters.  It is sort of like if Exxon cut off the electricity in California a couple of hours before a major earthquake.  Believe me that business is so ruthless, they will do anything for fun and profit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative that is leaving the cold weather in the north country to face the warmer tropical weather.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used mozzarella cheese.  I use 10 grape tomatoes and all of the other usual ingredients.  In my www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm , I am off two six ounce tins of tuna fish and six 3.75 ounce tins of sardines.  Thus either I am absent minded, or we have an intruder whom is health conscious or whom is feeding a cat.  I guess possibly since the cats might own Microsoft, they are coming around here for meals, but there must be a cat handler helping them to open the tins.  Thus I guess Microsoft employs cat handlers.  I do not allow cats in my apartment, because I think I am allergic to them.  I chatted with my British neighbor, and I was told that once the British come here, they do not feel like going back to England.  It was my perspective after covering the British consulate in Manhattan for 10 years, they were never there anyway, and perhaps they were all hiding out at one of the warmer commonwealth resorts.  I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with a relative.  One of my neighbors received a delivery from Frank's Italian restaurant and pizzeria in Port Chester, New York, which one can contact at 1-914-939-8299.  Technically if they delivered a pizza to you in Greenwich, one could charge them with Interstate conspiracy to commit murder by raising your cholesterol.  I know Frank here in Greenwich that owns the world wide famous www.planetpizza.com whose biggest customer is IBM in Armonk, New York, so I would imagine the big boys at IBM some day are going to invest some money in Lipitor to lower their cholesterol.  I still know how to make my own pizza www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pizza.htm , which is basically my own version of Sicilian pizza as opposed to the American version of a round deep dish pizza or what we call in America, Chicago deep dish pizza.  In Sicily, they have so little firewood, the make every inch of the oven count, so they don't use round pizza, but instead rectangular pizza pans.  It takes me about three hours to make my homemade pizza,so I do not make it that often, but I can freeze four of the six slices for later.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 5:45 P.M.:  Of course one needs money, when  one gets there JetBlue:Special Offers:Sale Page .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 5:40 P.M.:  I finished configuring the Dell 350V computer, and I am running a maintenance utility on it.  The Pontech speakers work just fine on it.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.:  I woke up at 11 A.M., when my telephone rang.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal , a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic, and I got my flu shot for the season.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I bought a pair of Pontech generic computer speakers for $3.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I noticed they had a tent set up at Admiral Moore's house, so I guess the U.S. Navy can afford to party or camp out as the case may be.  I forgot to buy bananas.  I then returned home.  I showed the building custodian the evidence of the music CD that somebody had used my bedroom computer CD player for music.  It all seems like some sort of Mickey Mouse business.  I put the spare boon microphone on the Dell L1000R bedroom computer placed on top of the CompUSA 19 inch monitor, and I put the Pontec computer speakers on top of the Dell Trinitron monitor connected to the Dell 350V computer.  To use the bedroom backup computers, one has to turn on the power strip between them, so as to turn on the power to the Network router connected to the living room cable modem.  That same power strip also turns on the power to Dell 350V computer setup.  The control panel underneath the monitor turns on the power to the Dell L1000R computer.  I received the black ink cartridge in the mail for the HP Deskjet 842C printer, and the color cartridge has been back ordered.  The HP Deskjet 842C and the HP Photosmart 1000 both use the same ink cartridges, so I will have two spare color and two spare black ink cartridges, once I received the color cartridge from www.ezinkjets.com .  I will now finish configuring the Dell 350V computer.  CIO      

Note: <888> 10/11/05 Tuesday 3:00 A.M.:  I have almost finished configuring the Dell Dimension 350V backup computer on the left side of the bedroom desk.  I still have a few programs to install.  I used the AT&T lens cleaner to clean the CD lens, and the Yamaha CD/RW in it did not work properly.  I took out the 58X CD from the Dell 4100, which used to be in the Dell 350, until I switched them, when I got the 4100.  Thus the 58X CD was in the Dell 350V computer, when it was the backup computer at the center of the bedroom desk.  In the 58X CD, I found a music CD, "The Greatest Hits Fugees", which I have never owned or seen before.  I have suspected that persons or persons unknown have been gaining access to my apartment to use my computer equipment over the years, and recently since the first of July 2005, I have had a lot of unexplained system malfunctions.  The fact that some party left the music CD in my computer would lead me to believe that someone has entered my apartment and used my computer equipment while I have been absent.  They obviously are cleaver enough to override the passwords to gain access to my systems which is not too complicated.  Whatever, the case last night when I went out, my primary computer setup was messed up when I returned.  It thus seems to me that whomever it is has malicious intent, and it would seem to me they would also have the capability of tampering with my food and drink.  It is specific evidence, and there is no other way it would have gotten in the 58X CD player without somebody entering my apartment and using my computer equipment.  Whomever it is has been very cleaver over whatever period of time it has gone on, and it leads be to believe whatever their purpose, they obviously think they have been cleaver enough to evade me knowing.  It would also seem to me that if they gained access to my apartment, some of my neighbors would have noticed and alerted me.  I suppose I have to wait and see what else develops in the future.  I shut down the computers in the bedroom, and I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 2 P.M. appointment today for a flu shot.  The Dell Dimension 350V computer now has the 58X CD and the CD/RW players.  I ate a nine ounce can of Walgreens almonds with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 10:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 9:05 P.M.:  I reheated in the microwave oven the cooked vermicelli and the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu chunky primavera tomato sauce which I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese to.  I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 8:35 P.M.:  I chatted with another relative.  The process of configuring the Dell 350V backup computer is coming along fine, and I am still working on it.  I moved the Gateway computer that I had in front of the bedroom door to sitting sideways on the left side of the sideboard in the bedroom with the other items from the sideboard sitting on top of it.  Thus the bedroom entrance area is neater.  I have been listening to Connecticut Public radio while working on the Dell 350V backup computer in the bedroom, which I have tuned into on the Lindbergh radio.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 5:25 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/05 Monday 4:45 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I ran Norton Antivirus 2005 on the primary computer while I was asleep.  It ran through without any problems.  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 50% mixture of cold orange juice with a 50% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   On European news on Digital Television, they showed that Angela Merkel a Christian Democratic has been elected as chancellor of Germany in a now coalition government A woman chancellor for Germany? Maybe - Europe - MSNBC.com .  I went outside, and I threw away my banana peel.  I chatted with a relative.  I have three old computers that I do not have hooked up, and sometime soon, I might throw all or part of them away, since I obviously have limited storage in my apartment.  On days that I do not go downtown, I do not bother to shower and clean up in order to save on energy and hot water.  I will now work on configuring the Dell 350V backup computer in the bedroom.  CIO