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

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 7:45 P.M.:  It is not like I am short on printing capacity with the HP LaserJet IID, it has a new generic 3,000 sheet cartridge and a spare HP 95A 3,000 sheet replacement cartridge a and the Minolta QMS 1250W PagePro laser printer has a 6,000 cartridge with less than a thousand sheets used, not to mention I still have besides HP DeskJet 842C inkjet printer, I have the three other inkjet printers with spare ink cartridges.  I figure it there is ever a terrorist event in this area, and we had to use my apartment as a backup office, we would need extra printing capacity for any printing that might be needed such as casualty lists or emergency directives, and in a major terrorist event such as an invasion, we might need to print out such documents as letters of surrender, but let's hope it does not come to that.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I feel more like the volunteer Swiss and Swedish councils, since nobody tells me much of anything.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.:  I steamed a cup of fresh broccoli crowns with baby carrots for fifteen minutes, and I put a little bit of olive oil on them, and during the last few minutes of the steaming, I reheated the remaining rice from yesterday, and I also reheated the last slice of medium rare prime rib of roast for 2 minutes on power level 3 in the Microwave oven, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 6:00 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I decided not to throw out the HP printer box, but instead I put it in the false ceiling above the bed to keep until I know it works with the new color cartridge.  I put the two HP color cartridge boxes on the sideboard in the bedroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 5:45 P.M.:  I was awake at noon today.  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.  I went outside, and I threw away the banana peel, and I picked up my mail.  I tested the Epson Stylus C80 printer, and it did not work after sitting for a while, so I disconnected it, and I placed it on top of the Epson Stylus 900 printer in the bedroom.  I might try to get a refund on the cartridges from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , but it was probably something wrong with the printer and not the cartridges, so since it was a $23 order and to send back the cartridges would be about $6, I am not sure it is worth it.  I installed the HP DeskJet 842C printer where the Epson Stylus C80 printer was on the printer stand to the right of the computer.  I put in the new color and black HP cartridges.  However, since it is a older printer which was never used, the color cartridge did not work properly probably because it was old.  It only printer blue, and not yellow and red.  I tested it to make sure including connecting it up on the Northgate Syntax computer, but obviously the HP color cartridge was defective.  Since I got it in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I would not be able to get HP to replace it on a older discontinued model, but I might look into it. I ordered a black and color ink cartridge from EZinkjets.com - Compatible Ink Jet and Toner Printer Cartridges for Canon, Lexmark, HP and Epson Stylus Printers. $15.99 for the color $12.22 for the black with the coupon code good until October 7, 2005 "Fall35", for a 35% discount of $9.87 with free shipping for $18.34 total.  Although the HP black cartridge works fine, I figured I should have a spare black cartridge.  I then called up http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/  at 1-866-215-1069, and I ordered 10 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $11.49 a carton plus $17.50 shipping for $132.40 total.  I guess I will now throw out the HP printer box, since I have no room to store it.  I will keep the HP cartridge boxes in case HP can replace the color cartridge.  I put the HP instructions and paper work on top of the Epson Stylus C80 printer in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  I found this page C80/C82 Cap Tubing Assembly , but I can not find the tubing assembly on my printer, so it must be different.  I tried this utility http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 4:35 A.M.:  Well, I guess possibly the cartridges from www.ezinkjets.com might not work, but I have used other cartridges from them without any problems, so possibly it is a problem with the Epson Stylus C80 printer.  I  

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 4:00 A.M.:  On the Epson Stylus C80 printer, I tried reinstalling the drivers.  I tried reinstalling the ink cartridges.  I tried cleaning the ink carriage with isopropyl alcohol, and it still does not work.  I ran the cleaning cycle a number of times.  One instruction said to let it sit over night and see if it works after the cleaning cycle.  Well, that is all I can do for now.  I guess it is probably no good.  I will install the new HP later on today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/05 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  Thank gods its Wednesday.  I usually sleep a little bit more on Wednesday.  I put two gold pineapple handle butter knives on the four bone china with gold trim butter plates from Bangladesh on the coffee table, so one can use them with cheese.  I have one slices of the prime rib of beef left, and I had already cut it off the two prime rib bones, so I threw the pair of bones with meat still on them out by the rock behind the dumpster in case that grey fox is still around in the woods and is hungry.  It might have grown up a little bit to become a young grey wolf.   CNN.com - Bush: Military may have to help if bird flu breaks out - Oct 4, 2005 .  Just because a climate is warmer does not mean one might not get the flu, because in warmer climates the virus can multiply faster versus colder climates.  I also stopped by Carlson Travel on Greenwich Avenue today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 1:35 P.M.:  I tried using the Epson C80 printer, and it malfunctioned.  I can not get it to work properly.  I have to go out and pay my rent, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out after I clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.:  I was awaken by three fax telephone calls, but the phone just buzzed.  I watched the news with President Bush's press conference.  Apparently the government wants to spend $40 billion to study pelicans in Louisiana.  I guess the government thinks bird watching is important.  I watch birds up here, but I never get any money.  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.  I went outside, and I threw away some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I called up West Point, and apparently Colonel Bob Lee whom graduated from West Point around 1942 had left his retirement home in Coral Gables, Florida, and he had moved to Houston, Texas where he died of unspecified causes in 2002.  However, I am not sure whether other Lee family members are still around here, and they might still own a house on Steamboat Road in the waterfront area of Greenwich, Connecticut where Admiral Moore's family also maintain the house with the Widow's walk on the Greenwich Harbor.  Thus Bob Lee will not be able to give us inside information on approaching hurricane activity, since he is no longer living near the National Hurricane Center.  I recall Bob Lee also looked like another family friend Colonel Knolton who use to be in charge of the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts.  Colonel Knolton as I recall had three sons.  I let the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop know that Colonel Lee would not be available for service.  I chatted with my relative who is recovering from hip surgery, and my relative has a small bit of pain.  I chatted with a visitor from Hungary, and apparently the Hungarian restaurant in Manhattan on 82nd street and 2nd Avenue is no longer there, but my observers in Manhattan tell me there is now a new Hungarian restaurant somewhere in the city.  I guess a lot of people like Hungarian goulash, which is basically macaroni and cheese with hamburger and Hungarian paprika.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 2:10 A.M.:  I chatted with a family member.  When www.google.com asked me if I wanted to show the weather with Google, it came up with the weather for Happy, Texas Google Maps - Happy, TX  and Handbook of Texas Online: HAPPY, TX .  I guess after Nelson Rockefeller gave up the ghost and his widow Happy was left destitute, she took what remained of the family fortune and moved back to Happy, Texas.  I guess after volunteering for former President and Barbara Bush's campaign back in 1988 after their worldwide travels, there was no money left.  When I checked up on them in Washington D.C. back in 1989 the city had been abandoned on a zero degree Fahrenheit day in February, and only one sheriff from South Dakota was left in the White House, and they had all fled to Argentina.  I suppose to see if the old neo Nazis had better security.  When I called up the Clinton White House a cannibal from Uganda use to answer the telephone.  Thus with all of this modern communications for all I know it is just a rerun of old video tapes on cablevision trying to get us to buy something we do not need.  I guess we will manage to survive up here another winter.  I saw one of my relatives from the Jay family on Sunday, and we do look a lot alike, but I look older, since I deal with the general public all of the time.  Maybe John Harvard was related to the Jay family or to put it more concisely, maybe both the Jay and the Harvard families are related to the Scott family whom are probably related to other people in the Scottish part of the world.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I suppose as long as the electricity continues to function, we will survive and write.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 1:30 A.M.:   I guess the Lee family went into private enterprise or joined the Indians Bob Lee Archery/Wing Archery - Handcrafted, Traditional Takedown Recurves, One-Piece Bows, Take Down Longbows and Sticks for Bowhunting, Bowfishing, Target Shooting, Compound Shooters, Hunters, Tournaments .  When I lived in Decatur, Alabama, I learned a bit about local history.  We read about the time that the Explorer Desoto with 2000 well armed explorers tried to attack the local Cherokee Indians in Alabama.  They succeeded in their first few attempts, but they eventually lost and died.  When I explored the site of where Desoto like Custer met his last stand which I have seen, they were not evenly matched with the Cherokee Indians.  In the history that I had read, they did not say how many American Indians defeated Desoto, but when I explored the site down in Alabama, what was quite curious is that it was not much more than a lot of gravel. However, on closer exploration, the gravel was not gravel, but there were about five million American Indian arrow heads.  Thus if any new Europeans do not think there were not many American Indians, and there are not many more left, they are in for a rude awakening.  From my extensive travels around the United States of America, it is curious although there are close to a half billion people in North America, I have only seen most of the time in my travels the same 50,000 or so Europeans that live around us here in Greenwich, Connecticut.   It is like there is a larger group of people out there laughing at us.   For all, I know Granddad Clarence Scott was Geronimo Geronimo .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/05 Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:  I made some more telephone calls, but nobody seems to know what happened to Dr. Robert E. Lee.  The last time I saw him was about five years ago, when he use to watch the case box for Mrs. Godfrey Rockefeller at the Merry Go Round Mews retirement home thrift shop.  When I use to deal with him regularly, he told me he bought a retirement house in Coral Gables, Florida on the same street as Jeb Bush, Lawton Childs, and near the National Hurricane Center.  His sister use to live on Steamboat Road before she died.  He was a graduate of West Point, and he would be about 80 years old today.  I suppose if anyone knew anything about the future of hurricane activity in the southeast he might, but nobody seems to know what happened to him.  For all I know he is watching CNN to see what is happening in Coral Gables, Florida.  Whatever, the case I did not go to West Point, but while I worked at the Polaroid Corporation from 1968 to 1971 in the summer, I use to have a checking account in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard Trust Company CNN.com - Harvard endowment cracks $25 billion - Sep 30, 2005 .  Of course if one ever visited Harvard Yard, one might take a notice from the statue of what John Harvard actually looked like.  If he looks like anyone familiar, I suppose that person might know a thing or two.  But as Richard Bissell wrote, "You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man, but You Can't Tell Him Anything."  Whatever, the case I do not think I would be able to barrow any money from Harvard University.  However, John Harvard's father was a coal miner, so maybe he would know somebody with some money.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 11:30 P.M.:  Of course if this ever changes in the daytime Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop or some other major volcano erupts, instead of being zero degrees Fahrenheit in Lake Forest, Illinois or colder it could go down to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit like up in Canada, in which case the DuPont family that also lives in Lake Forest, Illinois besides Maryland would make more money off of Florida when large numbers of people seek refuge down south.  I have a feeling the Lee family currently can afford to live in Lake Forest, Illinois, because they have made so much money off people trying to get by living down south during cold winters.  However, the Lee family are frequently dependent on Military pensions, and if they do not follow orders when someone gives them orders, they may find themselves smoking old discarded cigarette butts off the streets of Chicago, since we all know that since they really come from Virginia, they still have a nicotine problem.  Also more than likely Lincoln still has his agents active in Illinois, and whether the Lincoln family actually still live there anymore is opened to dispute, but we do know the Davis family keeps surfacing all the time, so possibly they still control the treasury from what is left from the Confederate States of America.  More than likely those Southern Aristocrats are more worried about the price of Kentucky bourbon, since they are unaware of the price of gasoline or fuel, since that is something their servants keep track of.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 11:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a few people.  This is a colder town The City of Lake Forest, Illinois that I lived in when I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu between 1968 and 1972.  However, back then I earned about $200 a week working various jobs around Lake Forest, Illinois while I attended college and fuel oil was only 12 cents a gallon and gasoline was about 29 cents a gallon.  However, today my income is only about 65% of that, and prices obviously have gone up.  Since I obtained what would be considered a quarter of a million dollar education by today's standard, obviously other people whom supposedly have responsibility do not know anything about Economics.  It is my personal perspective, the United States government is robbing the United States citizens on fixed incomes by encouraging inflation to decrease the cost of the government debt.  Since I live on a fixed income, I would prefer to see "Wage and Price" controls as opposed to the continual inflation.  I would also assume that those countries and individuals whom hold the United States government debt would prefer to see it paid off at its actual cost at barrowing including interest at the real prime rate.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/03/05 Monday 1:45 A.M.:  The reason that I am somewhat skeptical that so called important people might have been downtown in Greenwich, Connecticut today is that there was a flea market going on at the Island Beach parking lot.  From having observed the flea market many times, I know that they bring along a group of carnival type people whom might try to impersonate other people.  I once talked to a former Russian army guard at one of the flea markets, and he told me he had been a guard a Treblinka, and that Czar Nicholas' son was still alive in a Russian Army hospital.  Another time I chatted with a young fellow selling odd computer gear, and I told him about all of the IBM people around here and how they got a lot of their PC parts from Asia.  He bore a resemblance to Michael Dell about 15 years ago.  I also know they sell vintage weapons that might still work at the flea market along with hunting items like dangerous knives, so if one does not feel like being on one's guard, one does not go the flea market.  Of course much could be said for the Port Chester, New York flea market too which is opened below Linens and Things occasionally.  Of course one usually needs spare money to buy anything at a flea market, and since I still have to pay my rent, and since I still have not quit smoking cigarettes, I would imagine that I am still on the same limited budget.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO