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Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 6:55 P.M.: I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . CIO Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 6:25 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I did not use homemade hummus in the salad. Instead of tuna fish, I used three 3 inch by 1 inch by .25 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham that I sliced into half inch strips. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss Cheese and Kraft Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheedar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, but I used 15 grape tomatoes instead of 8. I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 4:55 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I have noticed recently that there are not many people commuting into Manhattan on the train anymore, so I guess more people are staying at home working, because they worry about terrorism. However, quite a few people are reverse commuting out to Greenwich from other points. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital, and I had my blood drawn for my Lipitor blood monitoring. The new Welcome to Greenwich Hospital $450 million Watson pavilion should be opened in another month. They will move different sections of the old hospital one section at a time. I next drove down by the waterfront. There were some new fishermen, and they seemed to be catching blue fish. I then went by the Arnold bread store outlet, and I bought a six pack of bagels for $1.85 and two 5.5 ounce packages of Arnold seasoned croutons for .99 each for $3.83 total. I then returned home about 9 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with strawberry preserves, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I rested until about 4 P.M.. I went outside, and I picked up my mail. It seems like it was a nice day, but when one is use to being on a night time schedule around here, the daytime schedule seems to be a bit busy. I will now make my bed, and I will wash the breakfast dishes. CIO Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 6:25 A.M.: I put away the laundry. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for a walk and my Lipitor blood draw at the Greenwich Hospital laboratory. CIO Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 5:50 A.M.: Another list, I did not make The 400 Richest Americans - Forbes.com . I went through my email. My order for 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping has shipped FedEx Express Tracking Results Detail www.geeks.com for USB 2.0 4 Port Hub . My order from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping. The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005 has shipped UPS Package Tracking EZinkjets.com . My Outlook 2003 email program is working just fine. CIO Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 5:35 A.M.: Good news since the beginning of the summer, I have lost 20 pounds weight, and I have gone from 212 pounds to 192 pounds. I guess my pants will be a bit baggier. CIO Note: <888> 09/27/05 Tuesday 5:05 A.M.: I was awake from 9 P.M. to 10 P.M., when I booked on the internet two tickets at www.united.com for a relative. I went back to bed. I woke up at 4 A.M.. I had two telephone fax calls. I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 50 minutes to go on the dry cycle. I threw out some garbage. I put clean linens on the bed. I have to be at the Greenwich Hospital Laboratory at 8 A.M. this morning for a blood draw on my Lipitor use. I will go out for a walk before then after I put away my laundry. I can not eat breakfast before the blood draw. I will now shower, and I will clean up. CIO Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 7:05 P.M.: After the last message, I did a full system scan with Norton Antivirus 2005. It detected, and I deleted one virus from the C: drive something like "Ad aware-Lop". I rested while it was running. I woke up around noon, and I reheated the cooked spaghetti and the remaining half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce which I added a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese to. I ate it all with a glass of ice tea. I rested until 2 P.M.. I started running Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive. I showered, and I cleaned up. I went out, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a 5 inch by 8 inch Canadian flag on a plastic pedestal for a dollar. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then went to my 4 P.M. appointment. I was told by my 4 P.M. appointment that my Connecticut medical plan had been approved. I then returned home. I put the Canadian flag on the right monitor on the Northgate Syntax backup computer. I watched a movie about dogs. I chatted with a relative. I finished running Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive. The computer seems to be running just fine. I will now shut it down, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 10:15 A.M.: I mailed a letter downstairs in the mail room. I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors and the Red Cross driver that was here. I watched some television. I ate two scoops of Edy's butter pecan ice cream. I chatted with a relative. I finished the C: drive to D: drive backup. I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest until 1 P.M. when I have to get up for a 4 P.M. appointment. CIO Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 8:00 A.M.: I will do a Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup from the C: drive to the D: drive shortly. CIO Note: <888> 09/26/05 Monday 7:45 A.M.: I tried reinstalling Norton Internet Security 2005, but it did not install properly. After a number of attempts, I gave up. I then restored my Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup from August 8, 2005 from the D: drive to the C: drive. I copied the files that had changed from the C: drive to the D: drive first. After restoring the backup, I still had problems with Norton Internet Security 2005, so I used this method to uninstall and reinstall it Reinstalling your Symantec program after a failed installation or after you see error messages . Norton Internet Security 2005 worked fine after that. I installed the Norton Updates. I had to uninstall and reinstall Norton System Works 2003. I ran its updates. I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003. I installed the Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse drivers. I transferred my saved files back from the D: drive to the C: drive. I tested the programs. The Microsoft Outlook 2003 email program now works properly. I installed the Windows Updates. I will now go through my email. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 9:35 P.M.: I woke up at 7 P.M.. I had two telephone calls one from a relative and one from someone that I can not remember while I was asleep. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with two relatives. I will now install Norton Internet Security 2005 and Norton Internet Security 2004 and uninstall Norton System Works 2003, and uninstall Symantec updates and I will have to delete the programs remains also and then delete the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared files, and then run Norton Win Doctor 2003 from the CD, and then install Norton Internet Security 2004 and then install Norton Internet Security 2005 and Norton System Works 2003 and then the Norton Updates. This will take a while, but hopefully it will fix the problem with my Microsoft Outlook 2003 email program. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 7:45 A.M.: I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors. It is getting cooler out Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 6:40 A.M.: Here is another Justin Dart Justin Dart, An Obituary . The Justin Dart that was my neighbor on Steamboat Road did not use a wheel chair. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 5:45 A.M.: On the right center AGP monitor, one can display only the Windows Media Player, but not the Real Player. They both work on the left monitor. One can switch the Windows Media Player on the right monitor with the Nvidia option on the tray for the clone mode option to either show the Windows Media player on the right monitor or on the Orion television, but it can not be displayed on both. One could turn off the clone mode option, and show it on the Orion television as the third monitor. I watched a bit of Chinese television this way, and it is quite lively, but I do not know Chinese. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 5:00 A.M.: I did some system maintenance. I tried to figure out how to delete my four local area connections to no avail. I supposedly should run Norton Antivirus 2005 from Safe Boot mode to delete any spy ware, which I will do later. If one looks at this page Nforce network problem - service name/service display name and searches the page with the Find command for "grey", one finds out that there is a tip which I tried. I thus deleted my grayed out and not-working devices in my Device Manager. However in doing it, I deleted my driver for my MadDog AGP 4x 64 meg. video card. I could not get the default Windows XP drive to reinstall, so I had saved on my computer version 66.93 of the Nvidia driver which I installed, and that reinstalled the AGP driver. Since I use two monitors including the one with the AGP card with video out, the 66.93 AGP driver permits me use the video out in "Clone Mode" for the third Orion television monitor. I ran Norton Updates. I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003. I ran tests of all four of my USB printers. The system seems to be running fine except for the Outlook 2003 email problem, which one works around by having the router turned off while one opens the Outlook 2003 email program. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 1:20 A.M.: I went through my email. My Outlook 2003 email program still freezes up when one starts it using 100% CPU usage. I can work around it by starting it with the Siemens router turned off. Then once I turn on the Siemens router, it fetches the email without any problem. It might be a network problem, but all four of my networks are grayed out where the delete option is, so I have not figured out how to delete them and reinstall them. I toasted two pieces of frozen Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread Hellmann's mayonnaise on both pieces, and on the bottom piece, I put four slices of Stop and Shop 1/32nds inch thick slices of roast beef, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese, two 3/64th inch thick slices of Stop and Shop American white cheese, five 3/16th inch thick slices of onion, ground black pepper, five large fresh spinach leaves, salt, and the top layers of bread, and I cut it in half across, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 09/25/05 Sunday 12:15 A.M.: I went to bed after the last message. I had a call from a relative about 4 P.M.. I woke up at 7 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with three relatives. I showered, and I cleaned up. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. There was the usual group of weekend diners, movie patrons, pop crawlers, and coffee shop lurkers along with the local youth watching the street activity. The local business group at Pickwick Plaza still can not afford a new bench at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I guess someone could move the bench from in front of the Presbyterian Church on the north side of the street to where the bench use to be in front of Pickwick Plaza, but that would involve a major executive decision, which I am sure the town would have to debate for a period of time. I completed my walk. I saw an interracial couple speaking Afrikaner which is the native language of South Africa, so we must have more visitors. I am sure some people would rather spend our winter up north down in the summer of south Africa. However, I know a white man from South Africa who speaks Afrikaner and his British wife seems to know about South Africa and England having lived in both locations. They have maintained a low key presence in this area for 20 years. Also when I lived on Steamboat Road for 4.5 years, Justin Dart was one of my neighbors at the Steamboat Road waterfront apartment complex. I believe his family own Dart Communications, and they also own the Bixby Ranch in California which vaster than the Hearst Ranch, and the Bixby Ranch also happens to be covered with oil wells that I believe supply Chevron. Frequently wealthy individuals move into a wealthy community, and they maintain a low key presence just so they can observe the business activity of other wealthy people and hopefully make a little bit of money. It is like the Mellon family have been making money off what the Rockefeller family ignore for over a 100 years ago, and they manage to get by off their meager investments. After my stroll down Greenwich Avenue, I drove down by the waterfront. I then went by Lord Hartford's grocery store known as the Food Emporium, and I bought Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $1.95, two six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.50 a six pack, and a 8 ounce container of America's Choice parmesan and Romano cheese for $2 for $6.95 total. I then returned back to Byram on the shores of the mighty Byram River. I noticed while downtown on the pump signs at Exxon gasoline station that the price of gasoline does not seem to have changed in the past week which would be about $3.499 a gallon for premium unleaded self serve gasoline, but the signs might not be the same as at the price on the pumps. I put away my groceries. CIO Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 9:05 A.M.: I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors. I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest some more. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 09/24/05: Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 7:30 A.M.: I watched part of the vintage movie "Arsenic and Old Lace". A lot of people think that is what the Roosevelt family of Oyster Bay, Long Island are about. In fact at one time Teddie was the Police Commissioner of New York, when times were very turbulent with all of the new immigrants. Thus I would say the Roosevelt family of Oyster Bay, Long Island probably know something about law enforcement. I also read that he use to harvest the hay on his farm out there, so he was a fairly physically active individual. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 6:00 A.M.: I slept until 4:30 P.M.. I watched some hurricane news. I reset Norton Internet Security settings from "default" to "home", and the Outlook 2003 100% CPU usage went away. However, when I opened it, I got two copies. In Internet Explorer, I went to Tools, Options, Programs, Manager Icons , and I disabled the ActiveX control "AxTaskList Class", and this fixed the two copies of Outlook 2003 opening. For now Outlook 2003 seems to be running fine including after rebooting. CIO Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 1:30 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.: I finished going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 12:20 A.M.: An easy way to filter one's water GE SmartWater: Drinking Water Filtration: Faucet-Mount . CIO Note: <888> 09/24/05 Saturday 12:20 A.M.: I got another Service Contract on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control which is good from September 12, 2005 until September 12, 2006. The changed the contract, so it in now tranferable. I put it with the original contract in the front of the metal file stand on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom. CIO Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 11:55 P.M.: My order from http://www.ezinkjets.com/ , and instead of using the coupon code "SUMMER25" for 25% off, I used "SUMMER35" for 35% off, and I ordered for my Epson Stylus C80 printer this package T032120B(4),(2)T032220C,(2)T032320M,(2)T032420Y for $22.72 with shipping. The coupon code is good until September 23, 2005 has shipped UPS Package Tracking EZinkjets.com . CIO Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 11:50 P.M.: Hyatt Regency Maui I called them up, and I chatted with them. It is still pretty much the same as it was when I was there in August 1980. CIO Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 11:20 P.M.: My order for 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub (Gray) which is normally $6.99 for $6.29 plus free shipping has shipped FedEx Express Tracking Results Detail www.geeks.com for USB 2.0 4 Port Hub . When I started up the Outlook 2003 email program, it still did not work properly, so I rebooted, and then I turned off the router, and I checked the settings in Norton Internet Security 2005 to make sure they were set to "Home" and "Detect Network Connections". For some reason it had changed from "Home" to "Default". I then reset my Siemens router, and I set it up with the defaults. I then started the Outlook 2003 email program, and once it had tried to download my email without success, since the router was not turned on, I turned on the Siemens router, and the Outlook 2003 email program worked without any problems. I can not figure out what the problem is unless there is some problem with my Networking setup. At least I know how to work around it. I am now going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 10:05 P.M.: I boiled three quarts of water with a tablespoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt. I then boiled for 10 minutes a 16 ounce package of Ronzoni #10 vermicelli noodles. I then drained the water off with a colander into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum. During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi no salt tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven. I put half of the cooked spaghetti noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese. I refrigerated the other half of the tomato sauce in its jar. I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 10:15 P.M.: My personal viewpoint is that the local medical personnel are more important the politicians whom try to influence our lifestyles. Note: <888> 09/23/05 Friday 8:35 P.M.: I watched some hurricane news after the last message, and I ate two scoops of Edy's butter pecan ice cream. I woke up this morning at 2:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of Florida orange juice and filtered cold water, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor. The neighbor told me that gasoline in Port Chester, New York was only $2.899 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, but currently they do not have any gasoline to sell, and they are still waiting for a fuel delivery. We have had a lot of aviation traffic for the last couple of days, but for all I know it is some aircraft manufacturing company trying to sell their product to some VIP. If we have any VIPs in the area, I am unaware of it. Locally downtown, besides the usual crowds, this past week, I have only seen a lot of very skinny Asians of unknown country of origin. I also saw some wealthy well dressed Northern Italians. Since I have not been going out much, I do not know much that is going on. I chatted with a lot of relatives and friends. I watched the hurricane news. I went outside a couple of times, and I chatted with neighbors. I have received a letter from my state of Connecticut social worker that my medical benefits are going to be cut off as of September 30, 2005, because they did not receive some paper work from me in August 2005. I sent the paper work in, and I received a notice on my food stamps they will be increased from $85 to $88, so I know they received the paper work. The same paper work was also for my Connecticut Medicaid program too. I left messages with the Connecticut social worker twice this week, and my Greenwich social worker can not do anything until I sign a release this Monday. I also informed my regular doctor. Since one of my neighbors received the same paper work, it might be some sort of computer problem. I saw on the Fox News business report at 9 A.M. that gasoline will be going to $5 a gallon, but that still depends on what the hurricane does. It is now suppose to be headed to Port Arthur, Texas. It is hard to tell whom might be in this area, since not as many people are going downtown because of the higher price of fuel. My personal feeling is a lot of the same people are here. They just are not going downtown. I chatted with the Casa Marina Hotel in Key West, Florida today, and they are back up and running after the hurricane, and they did not have any problems with the hotel. Since I have unlimited telephone service in the United States, Canada, and Porto Rico which includes Hawaii and Alaska, and it does not cost anything for me to make a telephone call to those locations after the $15 a month flat fee. I went to bed at 1 P.M.. I woke up at 7 P.M.. I chatted with some more relatives and friends. I am a bit stressed out watching the hurricane news and having to deal with the potential more expensive energy situation in this area. In the early 1970s in Manhattan when we had no money or energy, we use to hang out at the Ninth Circle Bar and Cafe on West 9th Street between Greenwich Avenue and Seventh in Greenwich Village, since the owner was from Vermont, he did mind the cold, and frequently the pub cafe was not heated, so the more people that showed up warmed it up. They had a back open air cafe where people from Jamaica use to smoke hemp. They had pictures of the Beatles. The had an old Jute Box with Beatles and Beach Boys Music. They had a pool table. If one did not have money they let you hang out there. Also I recall they sold Schlitz beer instead of Budweiser. I use to drink little four ounce cans of grapefruit or orange juice. Sometimes it was busy, and other times it was not. It was the difference between uptown and downtown. They had a black and white sign that looked like this,
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Note: <888> 09/22/05 Thursday 12:30 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer. I will either go to bed soon, or I will relax around here before my 3 P.M. appointment. I will see how I feel. CIO Note: <888> 09/22/05 Thursday 12:25 P.M.: I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I chatted with a relative. I chatted with a friend. I chatted with another relative and another relative has pneumonia in Sun Valley, Idaho. I saw briefly on the Fox News, they are expecting a 20 to 50 foot tidal wave surge in Galveston, Texas with a category 4 to category 5 hurricane. From what I know about the category four hurricane in the Florida Keys in the 1920s which was over shallow water, the storm surge took out the railroad bridges which were about 50 feet thick of reinforced cement. Since the breakwater in Galveston, Texas is only 17 feet thick facing deep water, more than likely it will not hold, and the area will be inundated. Water when it is driven by hurricanes is denser that cement or granite. If I were in that area, I would head to high ground as fast as possible. I have never been in that area, but I know there are lots of oil facilities and refineries. That could mean with the hurricane it could knock out 25% of the United States fuel supply which after the hurricane in Louisiana would mean we will probably not have enough fuel up north this coming winter to support the population, and there will be shortages of gasoline and heating oil. I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and with two ounces of 1/3 less fat America's Choice Philadelphia style cream cheese. I chatted with a relative. I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon, but I am not sure if I have enough body energy to make it, since I am very tired. I finished the ASR backup of my C: drive. CIO Download 1.37 Mb. Share with your friends:
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