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

Note: <888> 11/16/05 Wednesday 3:20 A.M.:  CNN.com - Volcano forces Colombia evacuation - Nov 15, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/16/05 Wednesday 2:55 A.M.:  I woke up from my nap, and I watched about 15 minutes of television.  While I was taking my nap, I ran Norton SpeedDisk on the C: drive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/16/05 Wednesday 12:05 A.M.:  Dinner was delicious.  I put the rest of the cooked medium rare eye round of beef roast in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator to become cold beef.  I will  now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 11:15 P.M.:  I took the three pound Cab top round eye roast, and I put it on a roasting rack in a baking pan, and I seasoned it with garlic power, chicken and meat seasoning, celery salt, ground black pepper, Old Bay Seasoning, and Italian seasoning on all sides, and then I spread on all sides Kraft  Bulls Eye Barbeque sauce.  I am cooking it in the Farberware convection oven at 340 degrees Fahrenheit for 47 minutes.  I will let it stand for five minutes before carving off three 3/8th inch thick slices.  For the last 15 minutes before it is ready, I will steam a about a cup all together of baby carrots and broccoli crowns, which I will eat with the sliced beef along with half of the Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe , and the other half of the rice, I will refrigerate in a Rubbermaid container.  I will eat the dinner with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 9:55 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative who is going to call me back in ten minutes after a television program is over.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 9:45 P.M.:  After cleaning the Lexmark color ink cartridge, the colors seem a little bit lighter, and the yellow has a small bit of a greenish tone, however it is an even cartridge cleaning printout with no lines.  Some bubbles did come out of the Lexmark cartridge when I first tried to submerge it before leaving above the surface of the Perrier, so possibly the color ink was slightly corrupted.  However, it might look differently once a new black ink cartridge is installed.  Still, since I have the other inkjet printers, the Lexmark X85 will be mostly for copying.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 9:10 P.M.:  The red ink on the HP DeskJet 840C color ink cartridge was not working properly, so I used this method again to clean it Michael Louis Scott, How to Clean and Hewlett Packard HP clogged inkjet print cartridge with print head in cartridge .  However, this time after soaking the print head with lighter fluid, I let is sit on a paper towel with isopropyl alcohol for ten minutes before completing the procedure.  I also used enough hot Perrier in the cup, so the entire cartridge, but the top was covered, and I soaked it in the Perrier for 10 minutes.  I do not cover the top with Perrier, since the cartridges have small vents at the top, and I do not want Perrier to get in the ink.  After soaking it, I lightly dried it except the contacts and print head, and I shook it vigorously to mix up the hot ink.  The color cartridge is now working properly in the HP DeskJet 840C again.  Since it is the original new cartridge that came with the HP DeskJet, I figured it still has a lot of life in it, once I get it working.  I will now see if it stays in working order the next few days or week.  I am also using the same procedure to clean the almost new color cartridge that is nearly full in the Lexmark X85 inkjet printer, copier, and scanner.  I am just about done doing that.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 7:50 P.M.:  I went through my email. I checked with www.ezinkjets.com at 1-877-2-GET-INK and then press 1, and they told me because of a quality control problem, they were just shipping the Lexmark cartridges today or tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 7:10 P.M.:  I watched the N.B.C. evening news.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 6:20 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M..  The color ink cartridge for the HP DeskJet 840C printer arrived HP C6625 - Color (Reman.) No. 25 High Capacity .  Since the one in it does not seem to be functioning, I might put it in.  I also have a replacement black ink cartridge for it when I need it.  I made a mistake earlier in my notes and the HP PhotoSmart 1000 ink cartridges are not the same as the HP DeskJet 840C ink cartridges.  However, I have a replacement color and black ink cartridge for the HP PhotoSmart 1000.  I also have a replacement color and black cartridge for the EpsonStylus Color 900.  I also have two color and one black replacement cartridges for the EpsonStylus Color 880 printer.  For the EpsonStylus C80 which does not seem to work, I have the three different color cartridges and three black cartridges.  Technically the problem with the EpsonStylus C80 might be that it is out of ink, but when I put a new black cartridge in it, it did not seem to work.  I do not feel like wasting the ones that I have just to test it, since it looks like it does not work.  I also have a few other cartridges for printers that I do not own.   I guess the Lexmark generic replacement cartridges should be here in a day or two.  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.  It is damp out, so I probably will not be going out.  CIO    

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 7:45 A.M.:  BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japanese princess weds commoner  .  I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn French Silk ice cream.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO    

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 7:20 A.M.:  I went outside, and I checked out the local conditions.  Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .  Greenwich Time - Town sells CD of aerial photos .  I will n   

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 6:40 A.M.:  CNN.com - Princess Sayako marries commoner - Nov 15, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 6:35 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 6:15 A.M.:  Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free | Tech News on ZDNet .

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 6:05 A.M.:  I relaxed a bit.  I move the small brass frame with two Indian dollar coins to the left side of the left monitor, so one sees it more easily.  I put the Eiffel Tower brass trivet on top of the candy dish on the down sofa side small brass and glass end table.  In the space beneath the HP Photosmart 1000 printer to the right of the primary computer, I have the waste paper left over from printer tests and other activities.  I put the new laser paper on the lower shelf on the left side beneath it.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/15/05 Tuesday 5:00 A.M.:  I made some improvements in the apartment appearance.  I took the two wicker CD racks and the metal CD rack with software CDs and other computer items such as the Vivitar digital camera, and I moved them stacked on top of each other to the right side of the bedroom desk behind the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer.  I then took the Lexmark X85 inkjet printer, copier, and scanner from on top of the HP LaserJet IID laser printer, and I moved it on the table to the left side of the left monitor.  I put four of the British small tea place mats around the table with the two larger duck table place mats.  I cleaned and dusted the items as I moved them.  I move the wood pineapple to on top of the Honeywell air purifier on top of the left living room entertainment bookcase.  I move the glass salad bowl with wooden goose salad servers to the top rear left of the refrigerator.  I moved the green class sugar pourer to in front of the kitchen Panasonic television.  I moved the oil and vinegar green glass holders to the microwave shelf rack.  I arranged the other bric-a-brac, so the solid oak dining table is much more presentable.  I left the large Chinese bowl on the table that contains my discarded miscellaneous items and other random paper items.  Thus the HP LaserJet IID laser printer is easily used.  I did leave my print out or my recipes sitting on top of it which is easily removed if one needs to use the printer.  It has a new generic 3,000 sheet toner cartridge in it that I bought last June from HP 92295A Premium Compatible Laser Jet II, IID, III, IIID for $15.95 plus $8.85 United States Postal Mail Service shipping of $8.85 for $24.80 total.  I have used about a hundred sheet with it.  I also have a new HP 95A toner cartridge that I bought from the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop for $5.  The HP LaserJet IID although it is slower in True Type in Postscript it is fast, and it is the most heavy duty laser printer that I own.  I bought it for half price of $20 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop about 7 years ago.  Since it weighs about 85 pounds, it might have caused me to aggravate the hernia that I already, and I had repaired at the Greenwich Hospital a few years ago.  I carried it out myself.  I put one of the Tree of Life place mats on the left side of the bathroom periodical magazine rack on the small bookcase, so the taller magazines stand upright.   I am still waiting for the two black and one color generic Lexmark X85 ink cartridges from www.easyinkjets.com .  They still have their discount of 40% if one enters the coupon code of "FALL40" plus free shipping which must be third class ground judging by the time it is taking to arrive.  Here are some pictures

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Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 9:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Library.  I read P.C. Magazine and P.C. World magazine.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 1.75 quart containers of Edy's slow churn low fat coffee ice cream for $2.50 each, three Marie Callender's 21 ounce lasagnas with meat for $2 each and 3 Marie Callender 16 ounce turkey pot pies for $2 each, a 32 ounce Mrs. Smith's hearty pumpkin pie for $1.99, five 16 ounce jars of Planter's lightly salted dry roasted peanuts for $1.99 each, a six pack of Poland Spring 16.9 ounce bottled water for $2.99, but for free with a $2.99 off Stop and Shop manufacture's coupon that came in the mail, a pound of baby carrots for $1.99, fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.68, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $2.19, a 8 ounce box of fresh sliced mushrooms for $2.39 less a $5 off store coupon from the mail for over $40 purchase for $32.19 total.  When I was checking out, I first gave them a top round eye roast at $2.49 a pound for $7.47, but they did not charge me for it by mistake.  The roast was dripping a lot of blood, and they scanned it through a shopping bag, so it would not drip more blood.  Thus with the Stop and Shop savings of $39.71 and the free roast at $7.47, I saved $47.18.  I add the items as I went through the store, and there was confusion at the check out about the price being less than $40 which I thought it would be, so I bought the extra two jars of peanuts to put my total over $40.   I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  To make room for the frozen food items, I had to take the four frozen drink steins out of the freezer and a loaf of Arnold low fat oat bread.  I left the frozen load of bread in the laundry room for one of my neighbors to claim.  I sat outside briefly.  I did not walk today, because I did not have much sleep this morning, and I am a bit tired.  I will not cook the roast tonight, but I will cook it tomorrow, since I am scheduled to eat a salad today.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 4:45 P.M.:  I was awake at 1 P.M. when a relative called.  I then rested a bit.  I had a telemarketing political call asking me to support the New Jersey judge for the United States Supreme Court, and they tape your response to send to your local Senators.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, and milk, 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 friend and a relative.  My order from www.designerlinensoutlet.com , that I bought two Full Size Fitted Angelica Fitted Sheets for $9.99 each DesignerLinensOutlet.com - Angelica Fitted Sheet  for $19.98  less the New Customer Coupon "NEWTENOFF" for 10% off for $2 off plus $4.95 UPS ground shipping for $22.93 total has arrived and tracking is available at UPS Package Tracking DesignerLinensOutlet.com sheet order for Mike Scott .  I left the sheets on the back of the down sofa the apartment entrance.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out and explore our local environment.  I am a bit tired after only five hours of sleep, but U.S. Navy submarine commanders in World War II would not sleep for months at a time, and they would just cat nap occasionally.  CIO        

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 8:00 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn French Silk ice cream.  It is so of strange that since IBM no longer makes Desktop computers, since they sold that division to the Chinese.  When one now goes into the new Watson Pavilion at the Greenwich Hospital Welcome to Greenwich Hospital , one now sees HP www.hp.com Desktops and Monitors.  However, IBM www.ibm.com still manages to make a computer or two BBC NEWS | Technology | Supercomputers set processor pace and TOP500 Supercomputer Sites which is using all of the fast processors, so I am still stuck with my slower processors an AMD www.amd.com Athlon XP 2000 processor on the primary computer and a AMD Duron 1600 on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  Still, I have 1 gigabyte of memory on the primary computer and 768 megabytes on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  My overall computer setup is well documented at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 7:20 A.M.:  I went out, and I chatted with two neighbors.  I walked around the building.  My weather station says it is 57 degrees Fahrenheit and 74% humidity which pretty much matches up with this Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .   I shut down the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I am expecting today my order from www.designerlinensoutlet.com , that I bought two Full Size Fitted Angelica Fitted Sheets for $9.99 each DesignerLinensOutlet.com - Angelica Fitted Sheet  for $19.98  less the New Customer Coupon "NEWTENOFF" for 10% off for $2 off plus $4.95 UPS ground shipping for $22.93 total has shipped and tracking is available at UPS Package Tracking DesignerLinensOutlet.com sheet order for Mike Scott .  More wind Tropical Depression TWENTY-SEVEN Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Cone and NRL Monterey Tropical Images and Tropical Weather Directory .  As I have said before, "It Ain't Over Until the Fat Lady Sings."  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 6:30 A.M.:  I moved the oak shelf containing the Northgate Syntax backup computer to the right, so its left edge is lines up with the keyboard drawer it sitting on.  I move the two monitors to the left, so they are centered on the desk, and I moved the CPU to the left.  I support the right end of the shelf by putting three Progress of Nations books between it bottom and the green sofa back.  I slid the Kensington Control Panel to the shelf far right.  I put the AMC UPC backup power unit on the right side of the desk underneath the shelf.  I took the HP LaserJet 6P printer from the bedroom, and I installed it on top of the Kensington Control Panel with a parallel cable to the Northgate computer LPT1 port, and I installed its power cord to where the hub switch was on the control panel, and I labeled it.  I installed the Visioneer 4400 scanner to the Northgate computer, and I placed it on top of the right monitor.  I still have the HP 840C inkjet printer on top of the Northgate CPU.  I have the power for the AT&T wireless hub, the secondary Linksys Ethernet hub, and the Visioneer 4400 scanner connected to an extension cord that is turned on by the left switch on the Kensington Control Panel.  I supported the hard place mats that support the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer on its printer stand with three more Progress of Nations books place on the left side of the desk underneath the hard place mats that support the printer.  I am now able to move the printer further to the right, so its switch is easy to reach.  I installed the HP LaserJet 4L printer on the right side of the bedroom computer desk, and I moved the EpsonStylus 900 printer back onto the small folding oak table on the right side of the desk.  Thus the printers are easier to use.  I move the old mail from the folding table to the shelf on the side board with my other old mail.  Here are pictures

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Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 2:15 A.M.:  I renewed about 8 free computer magazine subscriptions.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 1:20 A.M.:    At http://connect.microsoft.com/ a six month trial version of Microsoft Office 2003 is available for download.  One can obtain two product activation keys, so it would be good for a year, and each product activation key is good for 5 times.  I already have the full version of it that Microsoft gave me at their first TS2 Security conference at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Connecticut about 2 years ago, but I downloaded and obtain the product activation keys to have available should I need an extra copy.  I hardly use the backup computers, so I do not think I need to install it on my backup computers.  I put the copy that I burned to CD with the product activation numbers on my lower wicker CD rack on the right side of the shelf on the dining room table.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 12:45 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  Marie Callender's meals are three for $6 at the Stop and Shop this week.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/14/05 Monday 12:35 A.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, and I put it in a microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and I put it in a large cobalt blue soup bowl, and I added a couple of handfuls of Arnold Seasoned croutons, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go back to my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  I am still running maintenance utilities on the backup computer.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 10:40 P.M.:  All of the updates are installed on the backup computers, and I am now running maintenance utilities on them.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 9:15 P.M.:  I am awake from my nap, and I am rested and relaxed.  I will now install updates on the backup computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 2:25 P.M.:  Occasionally such frozen meals as Marie Callender's , Boston Market - Home Style Meals , Swanson Foods , STOUFFER'S® - SEE WHAT'S COOKING AT STOUFFER'S® , and Pepperidge Farm frozen meals along with a new variety of other frozen meal products are on sale at our local groceries stores, and I follow the grocery store circulars that we get in the mail every week looking for such sale items.  When one lives by oneself, one frequently does not need to cook a large meal, and the single serving frozen meals are convenient, and they can be inexpensive when one buys them on sale.  Of course, one usually finds it more convenient to cook them in a microwave oven.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a Sunday afternoon nap on the Scott family sofa.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 1:55 P.M.:  I am microwaving a Marie Callender's 21 ounce frozen beef meat lasagna, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  I am leaving the clear plastic film on it during the entire cooking cycle instead of taking it off during the last part of the cooking cycle, so it does not splatter in the microwave oven.  I will put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it too.  Yes, I am having a more substantial meat for Sunday dinner.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 1:30 P.M.:  I ran an extension cord from the APC UPS to the location on the floor where my extension cord from the computer power control center connects to the cable modem and Radio Shack fax switch.  I thus would be able to connect up the cable modem quickly if the power went off.  However, I think when the alarm goes off, it might indicate the battery is low on the APC UPS, so I am not sure how much battery power is left in it or not.  However, there probably would be enough for a least an hour for the cable modem.   The Radio Shack fax switch does not need to be powered for the Optimum Voice cable modem service to work.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/13/05 Sunday 1:10 P.M.:  I have old APC Backup UPS 200 130 watt uninterruptible power supply that I had not had plugged in for over a year, and I tested it for 15 minutes, and it still had enough power to keep the light on the elephant light 25 watt bulb and the reading light 40 watt tube bulb by the long green sofa, so I set it up on the right side on the Northgate Syntax backup computer on the wood shelf.  Thus if the power ever goes off in the apartment, the elephant light with the 25 watt bulb in it which is always on should stay on for at least a half hour.  I could technically connect the cable modem up to it in power failure, so the Optimum Voice would work, but for now I will leave the cable modem connected to the control panel power switch, so I can reset it when I need to reset it.  This item is on sale this weekend, and since it  weighs 14 pounds its cost of $20 with the sale price of $10 off would offset the $14 shipping, so it would be about $34 500VA/115V 4-Outlet Line Interactive UPS (Black) 500VA , but I am not sure how many watts it can put out.  Still if it was not powerful enough to power a computer and monitor, it would power a light for a while.  On my old unit, an alarm goes off when it is activated, which is annoying, but it still nice to have backup power on the elephant light which stays on all the time.  It has two plugs, so I have the 40 watt reading light plugged into it, but it is turned off, unless I turned it on.  CIO