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Note: <888> 11/03/05 Thursday 1:15 A.M.:  Somebody named mlscott@oakland.edu and another one from mikescot@netvigator.com tried to send me a virus Trojan.Lodear.B , which the Optimum Online internet access deleted.  I guess living around IBM for all of these years, we all pretty much know all of the trouble makers come from and seem to end up in Oakland for better or worse back to Asia such as some screwed up Asian in Hong Kong.  It is a shame to see the tax money wasted in California on such incompetence or in Hong Kong as the case may be.  Since Hong Kong is part of Communist China, I am sure it has already been taken care of.  More that likely the sender will be harvesting rice for about 5 Yuan a year.  Tracking on my order for tall XXLarge in Royal Blue with free shipping for $22.95 total Trail Model Fleece Pullover: Fleece at LLBean is that it shipped and it is at the Sortation Center at Northborough, Massachusetts.  I will now shut down the computer, and I have a 11 A.M. appointment today.  I will now go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/05 Thursday 12:45 A.M.: Spyware You CAN Buy Peace of Mind @ Geeks.com! .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/05 Thursday 12:40 A.M.:  I checked with Casa Marina - Resort and Beach House - Key West, Florida at 1-305-296-3535 or 1-800-626-0777, and their communications center said they will be fully operational this morning at 9 A.M..  Judging from www.liveduvalsteet.com there seems to be some local activity down there.  Of course younger people always seem to have disposable income before they assume more financial obligations later in life.  Of course anything could happen NRL Monterey Tropical Images .  Of course Key West has a lot of low paid cleaver writers whom do not earn that much money, so they tend to be pro chamber of commerce KeysNews.com - The Florida Keys Best and Only Daily Online News! .  South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade news, entertainment, sports, jobs, cars & homes.   and TCPalm and life in Florida seems to go on.  Most of the older citizens in Florida having seen tough times before know how to cope with them for a short time, but at their advanced age, they are not always able to do as much as they once did.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/03/05 Thursday 12:10 A.M.:  This would be an affordable place to live for some poor Saudi oil sheik who needed some place to change his clothes a couple of times a year Warburg Realty Partnership 12 East 73rd Street · Net#298015 .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/05 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  I guess the Kaiser of Germany is still trying to sell real estate in Manhattan Warburg Realty Partnership - New York City and Manhattan homes for sale brokerage agents and realtors in New York and Manhattan buy and sell homes .  Maybe he should consult with a Rothschild Banker about future real estate prices.  I remember back in the period between World War I and World II, there was so much inflation in Germany that a Trillion German Marks would not buy a dozen eggs.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/05 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.:  I tested the Lexmark X85 fax scanner printer by sending a fax to the White House at 1-202-456-2461 of Colonel Horse Pasture's inexpensive computer Compact Computer, Compact Price @ Geeks.com! using the free Optimum Voice telephone connection and the Lexmark software that interfaces with the Microsoft software to fax, and it went through in about five minutes.  Thus it is easy enough and cheap enough for me to fax, but I am cheap, so I do not leave my computer on to receive faxes or do I neither own a fax machine.  The Lexmark X85 since it currently has an empty black ink cartridge only scans and prints out black in white currently in pink and white.  Of course one has to turn on the U.S. Robotics external modem to the left of the computer control panel with the switch at its top to be able to send a fax, and one has to make sure Windows XP device manager has installed it once it is turned on by selecting "Scan for new devices".  CIO

Note: <888> 11/02/05 Wednesday 12:30 P.M.:  I was awake at 10 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 went outside, and I threw away some garbage.  I  chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up my mail.  The rent bill still has not arrived from the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I have a 3:15 P.M. appointment today.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out soon.  Basically with the decline of people living on farms in America, we have a larger number of rural individuals whom try to make a living in more urban environments.  A rather dramatic picture Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop .  Of course rodeo stars from Texas frequently do not realize that it gets cold up in the north country.  I once remembered when I was helping Fred Von Mierers run his modest apartment in Manhattan next to the United Nations around 1975, we met a freezing Texan in the West Village, and we took the Texan to the Pink Tea Cup for breakfast, and then Fred let the freezing Texan spend the night at his 420 East 49th Street apartment in Manhattan.  I recall the freezing Texan had the same look as the current President of the United States, and as I recall back then his father was the head of the United States delegation to the United Nations.  As I recall also at that time Nelson Rockefeller might have still been Vice President of the United State and Gerald Ford was President.  Needless to say at that time the energy from Saudi Arabia had been cut off by Nelson Rockefeller when all the tankers were in New York harbor, and he ordered that they not be unloaded.  This story was told to me by a private pilot for Texas Gulf Industries whom use to fly former President Bush around.  Needless to say the movers and shakers still wield a little bit of influence.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/02/05 Wednesday 12:35 A.M.:  Basically I am a little bit tired now, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3:15 P.M. appointment today.  When we were tight on money, mother would occasionally keep Teacher's scotch around the house and she currently likes Vodka and soda water on the rocks with a twist of lemon or lime or Dewar's and soda water on the rocks, and I remember occasionally The Great St. Andrew's Day Debate would be around.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/02/05 Wednesday 12:10 A.M.:  This friend of mine George Gordon Cary that investigates race horses for the state of New York is the son of W. Averell Harriman's W. Averell Harriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia sister's niece and his mother now diseased is the daughter of Jay Coogan the last living member of Queen Victoria's Honor Guard, but that is the American story, and for all I know they might be a bunch of Irish bootleggers.  The Harriman family is a family that came to America after the Civil War arriving from England, and they were Episcopal ministers before they made money, but before England, they were from Austria when Austria had an Imperial Court.  When I met W. Averell Harriman it was at Sandy Carlson's art gallery on East 67th Street across the street from the Austrian Consulate.  As I recall Sandy Carlson worked at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York before that, so that is how he knew Jim Eldert.  Sandy moved to an art gallery in Paris, France.  I assumed Tim Grant was related to the person buried in Grant's Tomb.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 11:55 P.M.:  If one still needs a Major Domo, I have seen Ed Powers around here a couple of times in Old Greenwich, Connecticut over the last 22 years, but he seems to have gotten bigger.  He is the fellow that use to push the shopping cart around Beekman Place making deliveries and collection odd pieces of discarded material.  He also use to like dressing up in White Tie and going to the Texaco opera at Lincoln Center on Sunday afternoons.  I think he was related to the Powers family from Lloyds' Neck, Long Island.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 11:50 P.M.:  Maytag is a household appliance manufacturer that bought the Hartwick Radio Company.  When I first moved into this building, I went to a tag sale or rummage sale at a house in Greenwich, Connecticut on Mayfair Lane where Tad Sterling who also used to live there and who was Fred Von Mierers' partner in design and interior decoration.  I bought for $50 about 16.5 years ago a Hartwick Radio Company caboose coal stove in near mint condition, except it had a broken fire grate in it because somebody thinking it was a wood stove had tried to burn wood in it instead of coal which caused the fire grate to get to hot and break.  It had all of its broken pieces to the grate, and the rest of the coal stove was in near mint condition, so technically somebody whom knew how to work with iron would be able to repair or recreate it.  I kept the coal stove around for a period of time as a decoration object, and about a year later, I tracked down the Hartwick Radio Company and it had been sold to the Maytag Company of Tennessee.  I contacted the President of Maytag, and he was interested in the Hartwick Radio Company Coal stove, and a friend of mine bought it from me in exchange for a $125 Phillips 5 disk CD music player.  My friend then had a house with two rental properties in Wilton, Connecticut, and he exchanged the Hartwick Radio Company stove with the president of the Maytag company for three new refrigerators, three new driers, and three new washers for his residence complex which he later sold for twice as much money to someone that imports Dom Perignon Champagne.  Thus some of my friend's associates have seen better days.  Of course I know lots of other people, but having been lost on personal computers for about 16 years, I am mostly familiar with near sighted computer nerds.  Fred Von Mierers once or twice organized birthday parties at the Le Jardin discothèque in Manhattan for Carol  Maytag.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 11:30 P.M.:  In the British Royal Navy, if you excuse my ignorance, since I do not seem to have contact with them recently, I think when one wants to send a message, one says "Flag", and when one wants to receive a message, one says "Tag".  Such as Flag Admiral So and So or Tag Gibraltar.  If one is sending and receiving lots of messages, it is much faster.  However, over here on the sleepy side of the planet, we never have much communications from outside our hemisphere, so we spend most of our time sitting around like the character in the American television commercial called "The Maytag Repairman".  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 11:10 P.M.:  If in Pensacola, Florida and Decatur, Alabama, I used to help maintain my parent's house when I was younger, and if in Greenwich, Connecticut I did the same thing, and if in Nantucket I occasionally took naps on Benjamin Franklin's mother's grave, and if in Key West, Florida, I seemed to know that Hyman Rickover - Father of the Nuclear Submarine was around occasionally, and if in Manhattan I spent time around people whom worked at night, and if in Greenwich, Connecticut they do not seem to care about what I do in retirement on disability, hypothetically where did I go wrong or right.  When I first use to chat on the internet over telephone connections with Netcom and IBM.net with somebody from Scotland telling them what I did, I was told by the Scottish person that I am an engineer.  However, I have no formal education experience as engineer except a few courses in physics.  Whatever, the case technically I have not figured out why the locals do not seem to understand what I talk about.  However, one person in town with a lightening bolt on their license plate seems to understand and when I was at Tod's Point yesterday, the car with Connecticut License Plate "GE 1" was there.  Basically, since I am not allowed to go into Manhattan to see what is really happening versus what the moving picture box tells me, I suppose the lights are still on there, presumably if one assumes we are still in the United States of America and not living near some place like Manhattan, China.  I once ran www.mikescott.net and www.mikescott.org and I once had the email address mailto:mikescott@ibm.net and mailto:mikescott@netcom.com and mailto:mikescott@home.com thus over time on personal computers and the internet, I might have been lost in the shuffle, and there might be somebody else pretending to me using one of those web sites or email addresses.  Unfortunately, what would be the purpose, unless it was for some sort of con job, and basically they would not have the same background, education, or experience.  Also if one is not sure the lights are on in Manhattan at night, one can sneak out to Tod's Point at night, and on a clear night, one can see the lights, but as I have said before in my notes, occasionally a wolf lives out there, so if one were out there at night, one might run into some wild animal.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 9:05 P.M.:  If Forbes has a place in Far Hills, New Jersey, he obviously can afford to also have a house in Greenwich, Connecticut, so maybe he does, or maybe he just parks his boat here occasionally 150 Places To Live Rich - Forbes.com .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 9:00 P.M.:  How to speak Scotch THE Glenlivet .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 8:55 P.M.: 2 cents from Forbes Steve Forbes' Flat Tax Revolution .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 8:50 P.M.:  Sam remembered Sunbeam Heated Blanket, Denim - Wal-Mart .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 8:45 P.M.:  The Worst Jobs in Science - Popular Science .  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 8:35 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  Earlier this evening, when I went out for my walk around the building, I moved my Volvo station wagon to its usual parking place.  I can not afford to buy any internet bargains this month and still maintain my usual routines.  I however can call toll free anywhere in the United States of America, Canada, and Puerto Rico, but alas, I do not want to bother anyone whom may have long since forgot about me.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 8:15 P.M.:  Of course for a little bit of Hill Billy Heaven, try Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, America's Largest Home, gardens, winery, four-star inn, romantic getaway .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 8:05 P.M.:  Of course the Getty family of west coast of America and Saudi Arabia fame The Getty - http://www.getty.edu use to and might still possibly still own the Taj Pierre in Manhattan, New York(NYC): The Pierre Hotel in New York City , but it looks like some wealthy Hindu has taken over it.  I guess Raj Mikhan is lurking in the wood work.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 7:55 P.M.:  According to this QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 , the Queen Mary II was in Manhattan today, so there might have been one or two other British citizens that jumped ship today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 7:40 P.M.:  I use to have a friend that would visit me here in Byram, Connecticut regularly whom was a neighbor of Helen Clay Frick The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library: Home Page , but alas the last time I was at the Frick about 2.5 years ago was during the G8 conference in February, and it was not too busy, but there was lots of security, and I recall noticing one of the urns in the front of the building was developing a small crack, and it seemed the carpets were a bit thread bare.  Otherwise the place seemed to be in good order.  That same day I visited with friends the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Asia House along with viewing the Campbell apartment at Grand Central station and the Yale Club and the boat house in Central Park and a brief walking tour of the local central park area a longer walking tour of midtown Manhattan.  The IBM lobby was closed for security purposes.  It did seem to me that New York City in Manhattan had not changed much, but I was not able to check out the Waldorf Astoria because of the police barricades around the hotel.  We also had dinner at the Peking restaurant on Park Avenue south of Grand Central station.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/01/05 Tuesday 7:25 P.M.:  Back in the 1970s on the West Side of Manhattan where there use to be lots of warehouses near the waterfront on West 20th street and near the Anglican Seminary, one would occasionally see British seamen.  I once figured out all of the livery vehicles were coming out of one warehouse, and they all had license plates with "BERMUDA1", "BERMUDA2", etc.  They were operated by the Bermuda Motor Car company for visitors to Manhattan.  They were those big old Cadillac limousines that nobody can afford to drive anymore.  I also recall reading the local press in that time, and I read about a detective Churchill in that neighborhood, and I finally figured out whom he was, because he was one of the few fair haired individuals working that neighborhood.  Of course with modernization the Manhattan that I once knew is probably no longer the same.  As I recall the British consulate officers in Manhattan were on Third Avenue on the East side of the street between 50th and 51st streets, and the liquor store where Fred Von Mierers www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm had a charge account was at 52nd street and Third Avenue on the southeast corner.  I also recall that his bank was the Chemical Bank across the street, but it became part of Manufacturers Hanover Bank which became part of some other bank that I forget its name.  I also recall the residence for the British Consul to Manhattan was on East 67th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenue on the north side of the street.  I also recall the residence of the British Consul to the United Nations was at One Beekman Place in the same prewar building that John Davidson Rockefeller III maintained a New York City apartment.  Former ambassador to Great Britain Walter Annenberg maintained the most opulent triplex apartment that I visited on East End Avenue I believe in the same building that Lawrence Rockefeller also maintained an apartment.  The Greta Garbo home for wayward boys was on West 13th street across from St. Vincent's Hospital, and it was marked by a bronze plate, and I recall that was the headquarters of British Intelligence during World War II.  Also Greta Garbo lived on East 52nd Street across from the River Club.  Perhaps the most spacious private home is Manhattan is Abby Rockefeller's designed by Phillip Johnson on East 52nd Street between Third Avenue and Second Avenue it takes up most of the south side of the block.  It is Japanese style house with gardens.  There is still the old house with low ceilings on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village.  I have never visited the India House, but I have walked by it many times.  NBC news covered briefly Prince Charles and Camilla visiting the World Trade Center site and unveiling a memorial to the British victims of "911" .  CIO