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Note: <888> 11/28/05 Monday 12:30 A.M.: I ate four .25 inch by 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm to be more specific about the general cracker and candy items and other items from what I can remember. I bought a lot of candy after Christmas last year at CVS on Greenwich Avenue when it was 75% to 90% off. I do not keep track of my black licorice inventory and consumption, since I tend to munch on it all the time. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 11:25 P.M.: I use the last half inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked white boneless turkey breast, and I put it on a microwave proof dinner plate, and I put about the last eight heaping tablespoons of the turkey and mushroom gravy on the turkey and stuffing, and I put on the plate a double large portion of the stuffing, and I put on a microwave plate cover, and I heated the meal in the General Electric microwave oven on two reheat cycles. I put the hot plate on another dinner plate. I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. Earlier this afternoon, I stacked the two Rubbermaid clothes hampers on top of each other, so there is more entrance room at the bedroom door entrance, I moved the small wooden chair from the bedroom door entrance to along side the Rubbermaid hampers in front of the white bureau in the bedroom. Thus one can now close the bedroom door, and there is a fairly even flow pattern flow of traffic in the bedroom for smaller people or more agile heavier people. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 10:30 P.M.: I had a telephone call from a friend at 10 A.M. this morning calling from a car wash on his cell phone. I guess cell phones work in car washes. One is not suppose to talk on a cell phone while driving in Connecticut. My cable television did not work in the bedroom, since in moving items around last night, I had pulled out the cable from its socket on the television. I installed a new spare three foot cable television cable that I had. I then went back to bed until about 3 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% 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. When I went outside the east entrance door of the building that I live in, I noticed a grey cat eating a small bit of bird seed that had been left out. I figured the grey cat was hungry, so I went upstairs, and got from my pantry, and I left out on the rock behind the dumpster a 3.5 ounce tin of Beach Cliff sardines opened for the cat to eat. I then went downtown, and I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and then I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. They were locking up the train station about 5:30 P.M.. I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 14.75 ounce cans of Bumble Bee Alaska wild pink salmon for .99 each for $3.96 total. I chatted with another cigarette smoker, and I told the cigarette smoker about www.ordersmokesdirect.com . I chatted with a father and son selling Christmas Wreaths in front of St. Mary's to benefit the Boy Scouts. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I chatted with a two locals. Before starting my walk, I plugged in the Holiday lights on the tree on the north side of the veterans monument across the street from the senior center, so they are lit up this time of the year. I saw a sign downtown saying next Sunday December 4, 2005, they are going to have the Festival of Holiday Lights downtown at 5:45 P.M.. It is usually centered around the Post Office Plaza, but a lot of local merchants participate. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and they told me none of their regular customers had showed up, and the store was slow. I guess they are all still away for the Thanksgiving break. I bought Dole organic bananas at .69 a pound for $1.98. The Dole organic bananas come in a clear plastic bag, and they have them hanging on a rack stand, so I guess that way they last longer, and they do not bruise. They had lots of prepared food on display at the Stop and Shop. Fresh filet of salmon is $4.99 a pound, and fresh shrimp is $5.99 a pound. I then returned home. I chatted with two relatives. I took out my spare 15 foot extension cord that I keep for utility work around the apartment that I bought for two for $3.59 at CVS plus tax, and I went outside, and I plugged in the Holiday Lights in front of the building in the Cherry trees into the 15 foot extension cord that I plugged into the outside light plug. I reset the circuit breaker on it. Unfortunately only the lights along the north end of the building work, and the other two strings of lights in front of the building entrance and along the east side do not work. I fiddled with them for a while trying to get them to work. In the old days with those types of Italian lights as they use to be called if the last bulb in the string was burned out, the whole string would not work. Well at least one string of lights works. The tenants have put out a Holiday Christmas tree in the building entrance lobby. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 4:20 A.M.: I ate one fifth of the nine inch Mrs. Smith's pumpkin pie with three heaping tablespoons of the Stop and Shop frozen topping. I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I will first take a warm shower and clean up before going to bed. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 3:50 A.M.: Hot on Parkinson's Trail - Los Angeles Times . I went through my email. I finished the maintenance on the Dell L1000R backup computer in the bedroom. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 3:00 A.M.: I tested the Toshiba laptop computer with Juno www.juno.com free dialup connected to the AT&T 2 line telephone data port, and the data port is set for Verizon which should work in a power failure, and it connected up just fine at 42,000 baud. Thus with the battery in the Toshiba laptop and the Verizon telephone line, I would have internet connectivity in a power failure. Of course the Toshiba laptop is also hooked up to my cable modem LAN, so it can go much faster online. I also have a wireless USB device to connect to it, so technically it could be used for wireless activity. Of course all of my internet activity and computer activity is done on a very limited budget for the last 16 years on about on average $74 a month for connectivity and computer maintenance. However, recently maintaining the equipment has been a bit more costly, since sometimes certain items are not available in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and on a limited budget, I can not afford to buy the latest and greatest equipment. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 2:05 A.M.: I have 12 chairs, two 7 foot sofas, one full size bed, and one toilet in the apartment along with the rest of the furniture, so my apartment is a bit like a cruise ship suite at 450 square feet. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 11/27/05: Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 1:40 A.M.: I moved the small chair behind the other chair to the left of the bedroom desk to the bedroom door entrance way. Thus the chair that remains to the left of the desk is pushed back further, so there is a more even flow of floor space. I weigh about 200 pounds, and I am near sighted, so I am use to the floor area pattern in the apartment. For a much larger person use to wide open spaces, they would find it a bit cramped. However, having been in many small New York City Pied-A-Terre apartments, it is a general way that people arrange home furnishing in small New York City apartments. I threw out about 8 cardboard boxes that I had saved, since I do not think I will be using them. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 1:00 A.M.: I am doing some software maintenance on the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom. CIO Note: <888> 11/27/05 Sunday 12:15 A.M.: I watched a Sherlock Holmes television show. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 11:05 P.M.: I steamed a cup of carrots and broccoli for 15 minutes, and I put a little bit of olive oil on them in a side dish. I cut off one 5/8th inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked white boneless turkey breast, and I put it on a microwave proof dinner plate, and I put about four heaping tablespoons of the turkey and mushroom gravy on the turkey, and I put on the plate a large portion of the stuffing and the remaining Near East long grain and wild rice pilaf mixture, and I put on a microwave plate cover, and I heated the meal in the General Electric microwave oven on two reheat cycles. I put the hot plate on another dinner plate. I also put the remaining 1/3rd of the can of cold Ocean Spray whole cranberry sauce in a side dish, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 9:55 P.M.: In the two foot by four foot by four foot television chest in the living room that I bought for $10 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop on that Saturday that Princess Diana died, I have store two plastic bags with various instructions and smaller computer parts and other related items. I left the two bags there, but I took out the 700 five and three quarter inch floppy disks that I had stored there in their plastic boxes, and I sealed the boxes with clear packing tape, and I threw them out in the dumpster. I put in four plastic boxes with about 200 three and a half inch floppy disks for storage. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 8:45 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. Behind the Stowe, Vermont picture in front of the oak bookcase on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom, in the oak bookcase I had stored some old software programs. I threw out about eight of the software programs and their boxes. I kept the older unused Microsoft, IBM, and Norton programs. Frequently one needs the older programs when upgrading. Also since I have done mostly systems work for the last 16 years, I like to keep the old operating systems that I worked with in the past. I also have my more current programs stored on the back side of the white bureau in the bedroom in their boxes, and I moved a few from there to the oak bookcase. I threw out some old LAN card boxes and the Motorola cable modem box. I kept the CD drivers and the floppy drivers and instructions, and I put them on the lower shelf of the CD rack on the right side of the bedroom desk. I also threw out five jars of cigarette ashes that I saved for some odd reason. In the Sterling PCI modem box, I found a six foot telephone cable, so I use it to connect the modem on the Toshiba laptop to the data port on the AT&T two line telephone. Thus if the cable modem did not work, one could use the Juno instead on the Toshiba laptop, and I think one can switch the data port line on the AT&T two line telephone to either of the two telephone lines in case there was no power and Optimum Voice did not work. I straightened up some of the smaller items on the right side front of the white bedroom bureau. I took a few telephone splitters, and I put them in the right bedroom night stand drawer. I took the second Rubbermaid clothes hamper from on top of the one that I have clothes stored in, and I moved it to in front of the opened bedroom door, so it is not stacked in front of the white bureau. On the one in front of the white bureau, I put the Slaymaker jump start system on top of it. I put a new rechargeable battery in the Slaymaker jump start system last February. I threw out the old Slaymaker jump start battery, and I put it to the left of the dumpster, when I threw out the other items. Thus the bedroom looks a bit more neater. I also put a 100 watt bulb in the lamp by the bed that turns on without the wall switch, so there is a more powerful light at that location for reading. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 6:35 P.M.: Well you have heard of the black Friday sales after Thanksgiving for people with money. Now I have started the tradition of the free white Saturday giveaway after Thanksgiving for people without money, if you are capable of dumpster diving. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 6:25 P.M.: I showered, and I cleaned up after the last message. I then went to bed. I woke up at 2 P.M.. I picked up my mail. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% 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 threw out a number of old computer and camera items stored in my bedroom. I threw out in the dumpster most of the old cameras that I had retrieved from the dumpster a year ago http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/camera.htm . I also threw out the old Acer and Compaq laptops, the Gateway 350 MHz desktop, the AMD 450 MHz desktop, and the broken Dell Dimension 4100 desktop. The first four computers worked, but they are older and slower. I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm . I also threw out all of my recent computer periodical literature. I straightened up the area in the bedroom on the sideboard and the book shelf above it. Thus the bedroom looks a bit neater and less cluttered. I saved the outer Compaq computer carrying case to use with my Toshiba laptop computer. I put the cameras that I threw out in a plastic garbage bag, and I put the two old laptops with their power supplies in a plastic garbage bag. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 8:00 A.M.: The Queen is looking well Royal Insight > Gallery and Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy , and I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I will eat two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream before going to bed. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 7:25 A.M.: I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003 and AdawareSE. I tested the color cartridge that I cleaned on the Lexmark X85 multipurpose printer, and it does not work properly. I guess if I were to use it, I would have to buy a new color and black ink cartridge for it, which at any other sites besides www.ezinkjets.com would be too expensive or about $50, which I could by a new one for. Thus I will more than likely use it as copier and scanner and fax machine, but I will print out its results with some of my other good printers. There is no purpose in buying just a black ink cartridge for it. I tried putting some of the spare Epson C80 cartridges in the Epson C80 printer, but it still does not work or recognize them. Since the printer is a fairly new printer, and it worked initially when I installed the first set of cartridges, I suspect the cartridges are defective. This is the cartridge set that I bought for it T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y which I was able to buy with their discount for $22.72 back on September 19, 2005. I put the cartridges in a box with the RMA form, and I sealed up the box, and I put the prepaid shipping label on it. I can not afford to buy the regular Epson cartridges to see if that will fix the problem, and I only paid $5 for the printer at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop back in mid September. Thus I suspect the cartridges are defective and not the printer. They have the three color Epson ones at the Mews thrift shop for $15, but I would still have to buy the black one, and I do not think it is worth spending the money to test a $5 printer. The cartridges do not have print heads, so I suspect the generic cartridges plugged the Epson printer head which I did try to clean when I had the problem. The Epson C80 printer has very fine print heads which are easily clogged. Thus I will now go downstairs, and I will leave the box with the ink cartridges to be mailed at the mail room, and I will leave the Epson C80 printer out by the dumpster. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 4:05 A.M.: Amazon.com: Factory-Refurbished HP OfficeJet 4215 Printer, Scanner, Copier, Fax: Camera & Photo or new Amazon.com: HP OfficeJet 4215 All-in-One Printer: Electronics and Lexmark X4270RFB Refurbished 4-in-1 Printer, Scanner, Copier & Fax - Wal-Mart or All in one printers Printers - PriceGrabber.com or probably the best deal HP Officejet 4215 InkJet MFC/All-In-One Color Printer - OEM at Newegg.com or new and the same price after rebate HP Officejet 4215 InkJet MFC/All-In-One Color Printer - Retail at Newegg.com . However, I would rather have a flat scanner instead of a sheet feed scanner, so I would look at Upgrade Source - Lexmark X7170 - Multifunction ( color ) - copying (up to): 22 ppm (mono) / 14 ppm (color) - printing . Of course that is in the under $100 range. It does not seem that fax machine type printers scanners versus printer scanners with photographic quality are in the same printers. Thus one would have to decide what type of printing output, one would be doing the most of. Quite frankly, with my Lexmark X85, I might just try to get a Lexmark 70 refilled cartridge from www.ezinkjets.com for about $11 after the "FALL40" discount with free shipping. Since I have so much print capacity, I am in no rush. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 3:00 A.M.: Win-Vista and Win-Vista snaps Vista build version 5259 is due to be released soon, possibly early next week. Welcome to ieXbeta - The beta underground .CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 1:15 A.M.: MSN Search Toolbar and Help thwart online scams with Microsoft Phishing Filter and MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search Add-ins and MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search Add-ins Weather. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 12:55 A.M.: Microsoft Office Live . I finished going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 12:35 A.M.: Free shipping through this Sunday SmartBargains: FREE Shipping on Any Order of $50.00 or More Terms and free shipping through 9 A.M. EST today, no minimum Online shopping for brand names at discounted prices -- find the best bargains at SmartBargains.com . CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.: Volcano erupts, covers Colombia city in ash - Americas - MSNBC.com and BBC NEWS | Americas | Colombia's Galeras volcano erupts and Columbia INGEOMINAS Volcano site . CIO Note: <888> 11/26/05 Saturday 12:20 A.M.: I put away the laundry. I ate one fifth of the nine inch Mrs. Smith's pumpkin pie with three heaping double tablespoons of the Stop and Shop frozen topping on it. CIO Note: <888> 11/25/05 Friday 11:10 P.M.: Ultra 512MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz CL3 Memory ULT30215 at TigerDirect.com for $9.99 after $40 rebate. CIO Note: <888> 11/25/05 Friday 10:55 P.M.: I chatted with a friend. I have 40 minutes to go on the dry cycle. The Queen Mary II is due in Manhattan tomorrow Saturday, November 26, 2005 QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 . They are heading down to Barbados, and they will return to Manhattan on Thursday December 8, 2005. I found this refurbished bargain on the internet Netgear WG511T SuperG 108 Mbps Wireless 802.11g PC Card - WG511T for $24.99 with free shipping. That is half the normal price. Thus if one owned a laptop computer, one would be able to go high speed long range wireless in some location that is wireless like the Greenwich Library Welcome to Greenwich Library! . However, the wireless access does not work outside the library, so one can not hang out there and use it in the parking lot at night. CIO Note: <888> 11/25/05 Friday 10:10 P.M.: I steamed a cup of carrots and broccoli for 15 minutes, and I put a little bit of olive oil on them in a side dish. I cut off two 3/8th inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked white boneless turkey breast, and I put them on a microwave proof dinner plate, and I put about four heaping tablespoons of the turkey and mushroom gravy on the turkey, and I put on the plate a large portion of the stuffing and Neareast long grain and wild rice pilaf mixture, and I put on a microwave plate cover, and I heated the meal in the General Electric microwave oven on two reheat cycles. I put the hot plate on another dinner plate. I also put about 1/3rd of the can of cold Ocean Spray whole cranberry sauce in a side dish, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. I chatted with a relative. I started two loads of laundry, and I have 5 minutes to go on the wash cycle. I put clean linens on my bed including one of the new full size DesignerLinensOutlet.com - Angelica Fitted Sheet . Earlier today while house cleaning, I put a new vacuum bag in the Sears Kenmore vacuum cleaner. I only have two Sears Kenmore vacuum bags left, so I will have to order some more soon. I still have plenty of vacuum bags for the two Electrolux vacuum cleaners and the Hoover upright, but I usually use the Sears Kenmore upright vacuum cleaner with hose attachment, since it is more versatile. CIO Note: <888> 11/25/05 Friday 8:15 P.M.: I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants. I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor. I have signed up to beta test Microsoft Windows in Italian, but the download is not available yet. They have a web site available Microsoft Windows Italian Home Page . Since I lived in Italy in the winter of 1972, and although I have not studied or learned Italian, I did study five years of Latin and four years of French, I can make some sense out of some Italian. I also did some smaller backups of the key folders on my primary computer from the C: drive to the D:\C folder. I did another backup from the C: drive to the D: drive of the Northgate backup computer to update a change I made in it after I did the backup earlier today. I moved the water color of the Moulon Rouge from above the white bureau behind the television in the bedroom to above the French reproduction sitting chair in the living room. I took the Audubon print of the blue heron from that location, and I put it the location in the bedroom behind the television. Thus the bedroom has mostly Audubon prints, and the living room has mostly European art. http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/moulin-rouge-water-color-by-girard.JPG . CIO Note: <888> 11/25/05 Friday 3:35 P.M.: I woke up at 12:30 P.M.. I started and completed C: drive to D: drive backups on the primary and Northgate backup computers. I picked up my mail. I received the three cartons Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes in a box that I ordered from www.ordersmokesdirect.com . I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% 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 will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants. I will shut down the computers while I do the house cleaning. CIO Note: <888> 11/25/05 Friday 6:10 A.M.: I ran some maintenance programs on the primary and backup computers. I will now shut them both down. I watched some television while running the maintenance programs. I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 11:20 P.M.: I ran Ad-awareSE and Norton WinDoctor 2003, and I did a System Restore backup. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 9:55 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I threw out my garbage. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. The train station was opened for holiday travelers. I sat out at various locations. Nothing was opened except the movie theatres and Thataway restaurant at the bottom east side of Greenwich Avenue. I enjoyed looking at the Christmas decorations in many of the shop windows. Brentano's book store is now called Borders. I noticed at the Complete Kitchen they have a Welcome to Nestlé Nespresso (US): espresso coffee machines machine in their shop window. It uses their own prepackaged coffee blends, so it is a more expensive coffee system, but I am sure it tastes good. I completed my walk. I then drove around the train station area, and I drove down by the waterfront. I then returned home. I ate about a 1/5th slice of the Mrs. Smith's pumpkin pie with three double tablespoons of the Stop and Shop lite topping on top of it. I have the Stop and Shop topping frozen, since that is the way it comes in the store. I am not sure if one can refrigerate it for a softer less ice cream like and more whipping cream like topping. I put the pie in a garbage bag, and I tied it with a twist tie, and I put it in the refrigerator. CIO Download 1.37 Mb. Share with your friends:
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