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Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 7:15 P.M.: I put the pie out to cool. I will now throw out the garbage, and I will go downtown for a bit of fresh air and maybe a walk. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 7:00 P.M.: Thanksgiving dinner was delicious. I made Scott's Stuffing Recipe for Arnold Premium Stuffing . I also made up a 6 ounce box of Near East long grain and wild rice pilaf mix using a tablespoon of olive oil and following the instructions. I also steamed a cup of baby carrots and broccoli spears for 15 minutes. I also mixed together and heated a 10.5 ounce can of Campbell's turkey gravy and a 10.5 ounce can of Campbell's mushroom gravy with a 10 ounce can of Stop and Shop stems and pieces of mushroom without the liquid for 15 minutes heating time about half of the time on simmer. I cut two 3/8th inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked boneless breast of white turkey meat, and I put it on a microwave proof plate with microwave plastic lid, and I heated on power level 6 of 10 in the General Electric microwave oven for 2 minutes. I took the plate with the warm slices of turkey, and I filled it up with generous portions of the rice and stuffing, and I put a lot of the gravy over the turkey. I put a little bit of olive oil on the steamed baby carrots and broccoli in a side dish. I also had in a side dish 1/3rd of 16 ounce can of cold Ocean Spray whole cranberry sauces. I put the remaining cranberries, gravy, stuffing, and rice in separate Rubbermaid containers in the refrigerator. I ate the meal with a glass of iced tea. I have 15 minutes to go on cooking a Mrs. Smith's 37 ounce frozen 9 inch pumpkin pie in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 70 minutes. I then have to let it cool for two hours on a wire rack before eating a slice with the Stop and Shop lite dairy whip topping. One is suppose to refrigerate the remaining cooked pumpkin pie. I chatted with three relatives in Florida. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 3:25 P.M.: I did not install Vista build 5231 because I read in the newsgroups that Vista beta build 5259 is due out any day now, and it has already been released to some people. However, it is not available at http://connect.microsoft.com . I found a link to www.pro-networks.org and Windows Vista Beta Headlines and News . I will now start preparing my Thanksgiving dinner. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 1:55 P.M.: I downloaded Microsoft Vista beta build 5231 which was 3 gigabytes. I will burn it to a DVD shortly. Then I will install it from Vista beta 1 booted up as an upgrade on my secondary partition. I showered, and I cleaned up. I threw out some garbage. I booted up the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I had to reinstall a pair of Duracell AAA Energizer batteries in its Kensington wireless mouse. I installed some updates on it. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 11:45 A.M.: I was awake at 9:30 A.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 chatted with a relative. I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed. I read this Microsoft Hits Windows Vista Beta 2 Delays - OSNews.com . I will go ahead and download the latest Vista beta from October 17, 2005 and put it on my computer. Although I will not be able to upgrade it to Vista beta 2 when it is released. I can always restore Vista beta 1 and upgrade it with Vista beta 2. I will now download Vista beta DVD x86 build 5231, and I will make a DVD of it, and then I will install it as a upgrade over Vista beta 1. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 2:00 A.M.: The Staples $10 off card on a $20 purchase is only good if I charge the purchase with my MasterCard. I ate two scoops of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream. The Aga Khan and coffee came into the picture, when I met this person http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg from Brazil where it is not safe anymore BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil's police 'execute thousands' . The person from Brazil named Hernado Pigato works for Trans Brazilian Airlines, and his father owned a grocery store in Sao Paulo, and his grandfather owned a million acres of coffee plantations, and at the time they were building lots of hydroelectric dams in Brazil that he was aware of. Hernado use to ride around Manhattan in the Aga Khan's Rolls Royce, and he told me the Aga Khan besides having a house in Greenwich, Connecticut since 1922 also had an apartment on Central Park West in the 60s cross streets. At the same time the Aga Khan was the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Hernado spoke Portuguese, Italian, and English. His father is Portuguese from Brazil and his mother was from Milan, Italy. Basically when he showed up, a lot of other people from Brazil also showed up including members of the Swedish Royal family whose mother is also from Brazil, so maybe Hernado should learn Swedish. The building we are standing in front of is the World Trade Center, and that was the only time I ever went to the top of it, although when I lived in Manhattan, I walked through it many times changing subways on Wall Street. If in that period I saw the Aga Khan, it might have been when there were always about 200 business men in black suits walking around Greenwich Avenue, and I always thought they were Pinkertons keeping an eye out for John Davidson Rockefeller III or one of his relatives. You have to remember, nobody ever tells me hardly anything, so I have to figure it out based on what I observe and read. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 1:20 A.M.: Also on my Volvo, I had the oil and oil filter changed around the end of this past June 21, 2005 in Kennebunk, Maine at http://www.saabandvolvo.com/ for $46.09 total, which a relative paid for. It is 286 miles from Kennebunkport, Maine, and I drive about 140 miles a month, so I would have driven about a thousand miles since I had my oil changed, and I still have another 3,000 miles to go before the next oil and filter change according to Volvo. I also need to have the Service light reset on the Volvo. Also the driver's side left windshield wiper does not wipe off the entire left side of the front window, so possibly I need to replace the windshield wipers. At the time of the oil change, I also put in a container of Pennzoil high mileage fuel injection cleaner that I bought at Wal-Mart in Biddeford, Maine for $3.84 and .14 tax for $3.98 total. I have not been driving too much because gasoline is more expensive, and I only get about 13 miles per gallon driving locally, and anywhere one goes in this area, it is going to be just as expensive as it is here. CIO Note: <888> 11/24/05 Thursday 1:00 A.M.: What has me confused, is this person http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/agakhan01.jpg , the same person as this person His Highness the Aga Khan's 68th Birthday . Since the Aga Khan is a Swiss medical doctor, and since Switzerland is full of radioactive caves they use for health spas, he might be a radiologist, so I put a link to his picture from the Radiation Warning sign at the top of my web page. Quite frankly, it looks like he should be eating more fish for a healthier diet, but maybe fish is too expensive for him anymore too. The ABB Group is a Swiss and Swedish engineering company, and when I returned back to the United States of America from the Albertville, France winter Olympics about 14 years ago, ABB was advertised prominently in the arrivals terminal at Kennedy airport, and I was photographed arriving back in the United States of America by National Russian television as I was wandering around the terminal. When I got back to my current residence for the last 17 years, my 1984 Ford Escort would not start as usual in the winter, so I eventually had a 1976 Volvo sedan for 10 years or more, and then I had a 1999 Hyundai Accent for a couple of years, and I now have had for a year a 1985 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon which only has a quarter of an inch of tread on the tires, so I do not drive it on snowy roads, but it only has 102,000 miles on it, and it is fully maintained and a very functional and safe car. The only thing wrong with it that I know is that the Freon in the air conditioning seems to need be charging next spring, since the air conditioning compressor clutch makes a bit of noise turning on and off like it has no compression from Freon. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 11:50 P.M.: If you hurry, you have until midnight to get this with a $50 mailin rebate Epson Stylus CX3810 All-In-One Printer, Print Copy Scan - CompUSA.com and Midnight Madness CompUSA.com - Computers, Upgrades, Electronics, Services and More Central Standard Time. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 11:40 P.M.: Try this for comfort, but you will have to assemble it Cheap Stingy Bargains: Situations High Back Managers Chair for only $50 Shipped (HOT Price!) . CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 10:35 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I drove from exit 2 to exit 5 on Interstate 95 eastbound to put a little bit of high speed mileage on my Volvo station wagon driving at 55 miles per hour. I went to Staples in Old Greenwich, and they were unable to exchange the HP color ink cartridge that came with my HP DeskJet 842C printer, since it expired on November 2001. It was made in Ireland, so the Irish probably disabled the red ink feature and only the blue and yellow inks worked. I could have gotten a $3 turn in slip for it, but if I ever need to use it, I might try boiling it in hot water on low heat for a couple of hours to revitalize it, and then I would clean it with hot Perrier. More than likely the ink inside of it is dried up. At Staples the HP PSC 1401 is $80, so this is an excellent value HP PSC 1401 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier - Wal-Mart which is basically just the cost of the ink cartridges. My Lexmark X85 that needs a black ink cartridge is also a fax machine, although it is slower than the newer models printing. Since I was not able to get the replacement ink cartridges from www.ezinkjets.com , I might look else where for the black Lexmark 70 cartridge. At Staples the Lexmark 70 cartridge is $32, and I do have a $10 off coupon on over a $20 purchase, so it would be $22 and tax, which is comparable to the discount generic ink cartridges on the internet, but not as cheap at the www.ezinkjets.com price with the "FALL40" discount coupon , which they were not able to supply. Thus I might just buy the Lexmark cartridge for $22 from Staples. One can also buy there three small bottles of black ink for refilling the black ink cartridge for $10. I do not think I can refill my empty one, since more than likely it is dried out. I do not really need a new color cartridge in it other than the almost new one in it that I have, since I probably would use the Lexmark X85 mostly for the copy feature without turning on a computer to copy in black and white. It does have a Fax feature which the cheaper printer, scanner, copiers do not. However, the fax feature works through a computer and not independently. I checked out the clearance section at the rear center of the Staples store, and I bought five Allsop red, white, and blue mouse pads for .50 each and .15 tax for $2.65 total. I then returned to central Greenwich, and I went by CVS. I then sat outside downtown briefly. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 10.5 ounce cans of Campbell's turkey gravy for .50 each, a bulb of fresh garlic at $2.99 a pound for .45, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $1.99, a red pepper at $2.99 a pound for $1.35 for $4.79 total. I noticed at the Stop and Shop shopping plaza, they are putting in a new Chase Bank branch where the Panda Pavilion restaurant use to be, and they are putting in a coffee shop just to the south of that in between the Chase Bank branch and Val's liquors. Thus the Stop and Shop shopping plaza is becoming more upscale. I then returned home. I put three of the five new mouse pads with my primary, my Northgate backup, and my Dell backup computers. I put them on top of the old mouse pads to make them softer. I thus have two new ones left. I left the Audubon heron mouse pad with the Toshiba laptop computer on the brass and glass coffee table, since it is more decorative. I put the two spare new mouse pads in my center top desk drawer. I put the defective HP color ink cartridge on the lower wicker rack shelf with the other ink cartridges behind the dining table. I chatted with two relatives. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 5:50 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I used two plum tomatoes that I cut into slivers. I did not use homemade hummus. I am getting low of olive oil, so for the salad dressing I used Kraft balsamic dressing. I ate the salad with iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. I guess I will first go by Staples in Old Greenwich first to exchange the HP color ink cartridge. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 4:25 P.M.: I checked with Staples www.staples.com in Old Greenwich at 1-203-698-9011 , and they told me they would happily replace the HP color ink cartridge that came with the HP Deskjet 842C inkjet printer as long as it is returned in the original HP ink cartridge box which I still have. Thus when I have time to get over there, I will get it exchanged, and I will have a spare color ink cartridge, and I still have a spare black ink cartridge for it along with the two new ones in it that have hardly been used that are installed in the printer. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 4:05 P.M.: On the HP Deskjet 842C printer that I bought new at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for $15. It came with two new ink cartridges, but the color one never worked properly, since the red ink in it would not work. I tried cleaning it a number of times, but that did not work. I had ordered replacement cartridges for it, one black and one color ink cartridge from EZinkjets.com - Compatible Ink Jet and Toner Printer Cartridges for Canon, Lexmark, HP and Epson Stylus Printers. and it now works just fine with the new color ink cartridge that I put in it. Since it was an older item at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I do not think I have a warranty on the faulty HP color ink cartridge that came with it. It was originally bought at Staples, but I do not have the original sales receipt. I might look into it to see if they will replace the faulty HP color ink cartridge, but since the item was probably purchased over three years ago, I doubt that they would. Well at least the HP Deskjet 842C inkjet printer now works just fine. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 3:35 P.M.: I finished going through my email. Not much happening on the internet with people taking the Thanksgiving Holiday off for the rest of the week. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 3:30 P.M.: Volcanoes Calendar . Online-Only Specials - Feature - Wal-Mart . Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 2:30 P.M.: I got this email from the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) . Text follows: hi ... thanks for the email, it was forwarded on to me here at the Cascades Volcano Observatory ... what you saw was the ash plume from a rockfall off of Mount St. Helens dome ... these happen all the time on growing domes ... Mount St. Helens dome has been having rockfalls and ash plumes all year ... what was special yesterday was the wonderfully clear weather and the wind currents taking the ash into the air ... it was very photogenic ... here's the blurb from today's daily update: Two notable rockfalls occurred yesterday, one just before noon and another shortly after 3:00 PM. Both produced a dilute ash cloud that rose to a couple of thousand feet above the crater rim. These types of events are common during dome growth. Seismicity remains unchanged with earthquakes occurring on average about every one to two minutes. enjoy your upcoming Thanksgiving,
Lyn Topinka, Computer Specialist and Webmaster, Cascades Volcano Observatory URL: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/ End of Message: CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 2:15 P.M.: Walmart.com - Always Low Prices! . CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 1:50 P.M.: I called up www.ezinkjets.com at 1-877-243-8465 press number 1 , and I cancelled the ordered for the two black and one color ink cartridges for the Lexmark X85 printer, scanner, and copier that I had placed which was a $33.59 order. It will probably take a few days for the money to be credited back to my account. The reason I cancelled it is that when I have the money this new unit with cartridges is available this Friday black Friday from 5 A.M. to 11 A.M. Lexmark X1185 All-in-One Printer, Scanner and Copier - Wal-Mart for $39.88 or HP PSC 1401 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier - Wal-Mart , which would be much faster. However, I did pay $10 for the X85, so possibly I can try to do something else with it. I do not really need it, since I already have scanners and printers which can copy and print. However, if the money comes into my account while the Wal-Mart has the X1185 on sale, I might get it with a short drive up to Wal-Mart in Norwalk. However, www.ezinkjets.com told me they were having quality control problems refilling the old Lexmark ink cartridges. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 1:10 P.M.: Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library shop . CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 1:05 P.M.: I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors. I picked up my mail. I got my Taft School The Taft School alumni magazine, but I have not had a chance to look at it yet. I will now go through my email. Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground . CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 12:30 P.M.: My senses and informants tell me that someone has been stealthfully and cleverly snooping around my apartment for an indefinite period of time and causing problems with my overall computer setup and god only knows what else. When I lived across the hall my freshman year at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu from Marshall Perot, he secured his dorm room with a warning sign. I searched out warning signs on the internet, and I found a similar sign http://www.nmsu.edu/~safety/images/signs/sign_caution-rad-mat.jpg linked from Safety signs, and I printed it in color on 4 inch by 6 inch photo paper on the HP Photosmart 1000 printer, and I sealed it in a 4 inch by 6 inch 3M Scotch Photo Laminating Sheet, and I used two OOK nails at the top center and bottom center, and I secured it on the right side center of my outside apartment entrance door just above the door handle and lock. Thus I have increased the security system on my apartment based on my limited budget. CIO Note: <888> 11/23/05 Wednesday 11:15 A.M.: I was awake at 9 A.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 chatted with a relative. I made my bed. I washed the breakfast dishes. Because of perceived problems with my apartment and computer security on my network, I enabled CMOS password protection on all five computers on the network with a new CMOS password. CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 11:45 P.M.: When I returned home this evening, and I started up the primary computer, it seemed like somebody might have been tampering with it, since it would not display the CMOS password prompt, the first few times I tried to start it up. It all seems to be running just fine now. I reflashed the bios just to be on the safe side. I probably lived around some of these people when I lived in Decatur, Alabama from 1956 to 1961 which was 20 miles south of Huntsville, Alabama, where the original NASA www.nasa.gov scientists did research BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Project Paperclip: Dark side of the Moon . I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I need to get a red pepper for my stuffing mixture, and my garlic is about two months old or more, so possibly I should get some fresh garlic. Since I have given my web calling card out to lots of people that I do not know, possibly someone that I gave my web card to is interfering with my apartment computer setup locally at the apartment or from outside through the internet. It is all a mystery to me, except they must be pretty dumb to bother me at my modest level with all of the more technological individuals in this area. CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 11:05 P.M.: I tried calling the University of Washington Seismology Lab at 1-206-685-5788, but I just got a recording from March 2005. I dialed back the number to 1-206-543-7000, and I got someone at a University of Washington Medical Center, and they knew something about the situation out there, and they said there had been a large buildup up of the lava dome on Mount St. Helens, but they had not heard of any recent activity. The person remembered what it was like when it erupted in 1980 and we chatted a bit. I emailed the information to a number of parties. I faxed it to another party to be doubly sure. I chatted with a friend. No new activity here PNSN Webicorder Display . Possibly it is just letting off steam, which I assume is a good thing. There is a group responsible for monitoring the volcano USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) . Ron Reagan Junior was on television this morning from Seattle, and he used to work at the Cascades Observatory. I have a feeling there is sort of a news block out, or they are away for the Thanksgiving Holiday. CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 8:55 P.M.: I chatted with a relative and a friend. My web log is maxed out on the Yahoo server, so currently my notes can not be read. CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 8:30 P.M.: PNSN Webicorder Display and PNSN - Webicorder Records . CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 8:15 P.M.: http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mount-st-helens-steam-112205-1500pst-1.jpg . CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 8:05 P.M.: Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) Seismicity Press Release . It was about 6:47 P.M. EST. CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 7:55 P.M.: Archive of images Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument . CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 7:50 P.M.: If you look at it quick Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop , there is a steam eruption in the current sequence of pictures. CIO Note: <888> 11/22/05 Tuesday 7:45 P.M.: It is an interesting bit of television trivia that this character Robin Leech that did "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" lived up in Danbury, Connecticut where the Danbury Federal Prison is located. I have been in a lot of homes in Connecticut over the years, and most of them look like they are furnished with vintage Sears and Roebuck items as opposed to Park Avenue pied-a-terres, thus the most expensive thing one usually sees in a Connecticut home is usually what is parked in the garage or driveway, which is usually insured. CIO Download 1.37 Mb. Share with your friends:
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