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Note: <888> 09/05/05 Monday 5:05 A.M.: I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm . I then made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up. I then will go out for some fresh air. CIO Note: <888> 09/05/05 Monday 2:35 A.M.: There is a bargain on meat in this area CVS - Weekly Store Ads Online Danish Plumrose Ham or Hormel Spam , but I do not need any since, I still have four of the Danish Plumrose hams left. The Danish Plumrose ham is good for ham and cheese omelets or ham and cheese sandwiches or chef's salads. CIO Note: <888> 09/05/05 Monday 2:20 A.M.: I rested for a while. There is a lot of television programming on the local Cablevision www.cablevision.com Optimum Digital Television network about the Louisiana area, particularly on the Discovery Channel. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 11:40 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 a relative. I went back to bed until 10:30 P.M.. I chatted with two more relatives. This is the web site of the Hotel LaSalle in New Orleans, Louisiana on Canal Street in the French Quarter http://www.hotellasalle.com/ that a friend of a relative's just opened on the Friday before the hurricane. I have dealt with Dr. Lee here in Greenwich, Connecticut, and it was his relative Robert E. Lee whom use to build levees on the Mississippi River before the Civil War. The network news in this area said according to a computer study at Louisiana State University, there could be 10,000 dead people in New Orleans, and that does not include the surrounding areas. Of course with all of the flooding in the region and open sewage running in the flood waters, they could have Typhoid and Cholera problems down there, some time in the near future. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 10:35 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 10:15 A.M.: On a more encouraging recent event http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html . CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 9:35 A.M.: I ate 12 Ritz crackers with twelve 1.25 inch by .5 inch by .20 inch slices of Kraft 2% low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them. I ate them with a glass of iced tea. I went outside, and I threw out some garbage. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 8:20 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 09/04/05: Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 7:20 A.M.: I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors. I chatted with a relative in Texas last night, and a good friend of my relative's put every last dollar he had into a hotel on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana which opened the Friday night before the hurricane, so I guess he suffered a loss of guests with the hurricane. Most of the old timers whom know the Atlantic and Gulf coasts do not put all of their eggs in one basket, in case something like a hurricane happens. With the higher prices of energy, another relative is thinking about not heating the house in Maine this winter. My relative recovering from hip surgery is doing well. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 6:15 A.M.: I went out after the last message, and I chatted during the morning hours with another morning stroller. I then walked the morning stroller back to his house along with his dog. I then returned back to central Greenwich, and I drove down by the waterfront. There were a few star gazers down by the waterfront. I then returned home. I took my empty Glade Plug-in refill, and I pried off its lid with a screw driver, and I used a small perfume funnel, and I pour in a 60% English Leather cologne and 40% 80% isopropyl alcohol mixture into up to half inch from the top of the inside of the Glade plug-in refill. I then put its wick with cap back on the Glade plug-in refill, and I reinserted it back in the Glade air scent device with small fan. Thus the apartment kitchen and living room area have a faint scent of English Leather Cologne. I guess I should do some regular computer activity. I have not been through my email in the last couple of days. I guess I am on a night schedule. It was a very quiet morning out this morning with just a few dark navy blue Ford Crown Victoria's cruising around. I sort of like the old Fords they use here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but the only time I can ever recall being in one was when I first returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1982, and I had returned in the Connecticut limousine shuttle from LaGuardia airport, where I was stranded, and my father suggested I return back to Greenwich, and one of the local officers gave me a ride from the old Showboat Motel to the Greenwich Hospital to get my feet checked out. My ankles had swollen up to twice their normal size from walking around Manhattan for two weeks, where I could not remember if I knew anyone there. I only had Governor Harriman's sister's nephew's telephone at their Sands Point, New York country home, and I figured I probably should not show up homeless at their house, so I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut, and once I was settled in after three years, I called them up. I had been given George Cary's telephone number by his father when I got off the Amtrak train in Buffalo, New York near East Aurora, New York, and I chatted with George Cary's father. Since they supposedly knew all of these important New York families, I figured I might have a place to stay, but I only ended up walking through a medical needle convention at the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue, and going to some of my old watering holes where I did not recognize anyone, and after they closed, I would end up taking a short cat nap at the East Side Airline terminal south of the United Nations, and I kept my luggage in the luggage lockers there, which only used $1 Susan B. Anthony dollars. I was able to use the Tennis Club upstairs to shower and clean up, and after my two weeks of sleeping at the Anglican seminary in Toronto, Canada, I did not have much luck making new friends in Manhattan, so I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut instead of trying to camp out in Florida. George Cary was living in the garage apartment on W. Averill Harriman's sister's waterfront home in Sands Point, New York, so he probably would have put me up, but as another neighbor of theirs use to tell me, "Fish and House Guests Stink After Three Days." Since George's relatives are primary movers and shakers in the New York democratic party, it is probably just as well, I did not stay there, or they probably would have out maneuvered the Greenwich, Connecticut republicans. After building one garage apartment down the street from them in Plandome Manor, New York, I am not sure they would have wanted me to alter all of the history in their garage apartment including the 500 books on sailing. Of course with their political connections, they probably could have made me an Admiral in the United States Navy, but other than reading books about the ocean, when I was a youth from the Carnegie Library in Decatur, Alabama and living around the ocean, I do not really know that much about boats or Navy types of craft. I did once row a wooden row boat in Holland, Michigan on Lake Michigan during August vacations there, and I also sailed a sunfish sail boat. Lake Michigan can have up to eight foot waves, and the water can be a lot colder than Long Island Sound. When we drove up from our house in Decatur, Alabama about 1958 to visit friends in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, I recall during the snow blizzard that was going on in Chicago, Illinois at the time that Queen Elizabeth II was visiting Chicago, Illinois on her yacht the Britannia, and since the St. Lawrence Seaway is usually frozen over in the winter, there must have been a way to get the Brittania into Lake Michigan going up the Mississippi River to the Illinois River to the Chicago River. It was in the headlines of the Chicago newspapers at the time. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 12:40 A.M.: I lightly toasted four slices of bread. I opened a 6 ounce can of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I rinsed it with its lid on underneath cold water, and then I squeezed out the water, and then I flaked it with a fork in a mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of Hellmann's Just-2-Good low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together. I then put half on two slices of bread, and I put the top slices of toasted bread on, and I cut the sandwich in half crosswise, and I ate them with a glass of iced tea. I will now go downtown for some fresh air. I will shut down the computer. CIO Note: <888> 09/04/05 Sunday 12:05 A.M.: I woke up this past morning at 6 A.M., and I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor for a while. I then could not fall asleep, so I was up until about 10 A.M. before going to bed. I ate about 10 triscuts and the remaining two scoops of Edy's low fat caramel and pralines frozen yogurt. I called up www.ordersmokesdirect.com , and I ordered 6 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $11.49 a carton for $68.94 and $10.50 United States Post Office Priority Mail shipping for $79.44 total. I slept until 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 a relative. I showered, and I cleaned up. I went downtown, and I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Stop and Shop in Glenville in central western Greenwich. I bought four 10 ounce bars of Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss cheese for $2 each, sliced American White cheese at $5.89 a pound for $5.80, sliced Purdue sliced turkey at $6.89 a pound for $8.09, buy one get one free of six B&M 16 ounce baked beans bacon and onion flavor for $1.59 two, two 15 ounce cans of Goya chic peas for .67 each, a 48 ounce package of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.19, a 10 quart package box of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, four 6 ounce cans dried of Stop and Shop medium pitted California olives for $1.39 each, buy one get one free of Oscar Meyer beef franks for $3.99 both, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99, fresh broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $1.65, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39, a pint of grape tomatoes for $2.99, and two 96 ounce containers of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3.99 each for $67.23 total. I then returned home, and I used my cart that I had brought with me from the apartment to bring up my purchases. I chatted with a relative, and then I chatted with an acquaintance for a while. CIO Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 3:25 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer. I will go to bed soon. Have a good morning. I suppose one could start investing in alternative forms of transportation, but if one is on a daytime schedule around here and near the Boston Post Road or Putnam Avenue and the downtown area, there is still local bus service in this area. I think this area is too busy to try to ride a bicycle. Although technically I could take a walk down West Putnam Avenue, there is not much I can afford on it including McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts. Generally I find my current lifestyle is based on my limited income and my limited needs. I suppose the upscale part of the community is trying to figure out how to get by with a half dozen cars they do not even use. Possibly some people's help will have to start driving less. Basically, having lived on this budget for 21.5 years, I tell people that I am a long term prisoner in Greenwich, Connecticut suffering from what Prisoners of War in World War II suffered from called the Stockholm Syndrome, when the prisoners began to identify with the guards that were holding them prisoner. Well Bonsoir. CIO Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 2:55 A.M.: I surfed the internet looking for bargains, but alas nobody is giving anything away. I guess instead of window shopping on the internet, I could try to use it for more informative purposes. Alas, since I had an electricity payment to make this month, and since I probably will not quit smoking right away, I will probably have to order some cigarettes from http://www.ordersmokesdirect.com/ . In which case after my other monthly every day expenses, which have gotten higher with the higher prices of gasoline, I probably will not be buying anything else this month on the internet. Even Ebay is not giving away anything. I guess I will put back in the primary computer the Enermax case fan controller, when I receive it back, since it is nice to have a warning signal if the CPU cooler fan or one of the three monitored case fans fail. I do other work on the internet, but recently after so many years of looking at technical news, during the summer months and vacation time, there is not that much new technical news. I could buy a 256MG PC133 SDRAM memory chip from www.newegg.com for about $32 to try out in the Dell Dimension 4100 computer, but presently I do not need a faster second backup computer, since I am not using my backup computer very much, although the Northgate Syntax primary backup computer is a very good computer, and it is almost as fast as my primary computer. My usual spending strategy at this time of the month is to spend a dollar on a scratch card and hope I get lucky. CIO Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.: Surplus Computers GE Wireless Optical Mouse with Microsoft Office 2003 STD (NFR) . Of course some people like myself think MS stands for Mike Scott not Microsoft. If you still need the tube with the internet Surplus Computers Sabrent TV Tuner Capture PCI Card FM Radio Remote SBT-TVFM . CIO Note: <888> 09/03/05 Saturday 12:10 A.M.: I cleaned the excess bread crumbs out of my toaster. It has two trays underneath each side for removing the crumbs, but some with the larger bagels with have bigger crumbs still get stuck inside. It is a RowentaUSA.com - Steam Irons & Home Appliances white 4 slice toaster which has two rows of three custom buttons for each side. I think the middle button is for toasting only on the outside away from the center, the top is stop, and the bottom is defrost, but I might be mistake about that, but I know the middle on is right. It was a $100 toaster at the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought it last February 2, 2005 for 70% off for $30.80 and $1.85 tax for $32.65 total. It is like this http://www.ekitchengadgets.com/ro4sltopeto.html or Amazon.com: Rowenta: Rowenta TO-912 4-Slice Toaster, Pearl . However, since I do not use the other button much, I forget exactly what they do. If one wears their glasses, they can read what the buttons do, since they are marked, and I had them in the right order as I listed them. Rowenta is French German company, in other words, I think it is German company that makes toasters in France. I think the model that I have is a couple of year old model, and they might have a newer model. At that price, I guess it is the Mercedes Benz of toasters. It has wider slots to accommodate bagels. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 11:25 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I put away my laundry. I chatted with a friend. I took three medium organic eggs that I let warm up to room temperature, and I broke them in a mixing bowl, and I added two teaspoons of milk and a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese and a teaspoon of Italian seasoning, and I used a whisk to mix it all together until it was bubbly. I then took my 8 inch seasoned omelet pan, I place it on the large electric burner on medium heat, and I added two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, until the fat began to bubble. A seasoned omelet pan is one that is NOT washed after use, but one just wipes it off with a paper towel to remove any excess cooking material. If an omelet pan is well seasoned it should not stick to the pan. I added the egg mixture, and I turned the heat down a little bit lower than medium, and once the omelet mixture began to bubble and the bottom half is cooked enough, so one can flip it over, I flipped it over. I had earlier prepared six one inch by .20 inch by 2 inch slices of Danish Plumrose ham and eight Kraft Cracker barrel 2% low fat Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese slices 1.25 inch by 1.25 inch by .25 inch. Once I flipped the omelet, I spread the cheese and then the ham over it one half of its top side, and then I sprinkled grate parmesan cheese over it, and I flipped the empty side of the omelet over the side with the ham and cheese, and I put it on a dinner plate, and I sprinkled a couple of teaspoons of grated parmesan cheese over it. While cooking the omelet, I toasted on the inside two halves of a bagel which my toaster can toast on one side, and I added a little bit of olive oil spread around the toasted side. I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 8:30 P.M.: I ate a toasted bagel with a little bit of olive oil and 4 ounces of America's Choice 1/3rd less fat Philadelphia style cream cheese and a glass of iced tea. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I started two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle. I put clean linens on the bed. I chatted with my relative whom is recovering from surgery, and my relative is not having to use pain killers today, so my relative is doing better. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 4:15 P.M.: I package up the Enermax fan controller, and I went out, and I mailed it at the Valley Road Post Office for $5.75 Priority Mail to California. Yesterday, when I returned home, I put $10 on my MacGray laundry card, so I now have $18.45 on it. I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 2:55 P.M.: I disconnected the primary computer case, and I removed the Enermax fan controller. I put a blank in it space in the case. I put the side mounts back inside the case. I connected the three Antec variable speed case fans to the power supply with the power adapters that came with the case fans. I have the four blue lite Antec case fan connected to the motherboard case fan power supply. I have the CPU cooler fan connected to the motherboard CPU fan cooler too. I reconnected the primary computer. I checked its USB devices to make sure they all work. I now have to repack the Enermax fan controller in its packaging, and then I have to put it in a box and address it along with a copy of its original order slip and its RMA number on the package. When I get the replacement unit back from Enermax, I am not sure whether I will put it back in the primary computer, because I do not think it is really necessary. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:25 P.M.: I got a telephone number from www.enermax.com , and they issued me an RMA number to send back my Enermax case fan controller to them. I will take it out and send it back to them for replacement some time in the near future. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:20 P.M.: I had a telephone call from a relative about 11 A.M. about a pure and simple water filter replacement. 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 went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors. I emailed a copy of my Social Security TPQY statement to my Social Worker for my Renter's Rebate. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:50 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 1:15 A.M.: I made Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks . For the beans, I use a dented 16 ounce can of Bush's baked beans which I bought a while ago at the Stop and Shop for .75. I also added a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot French white table wine to the mixture. I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 09/02/05 Friday 12:30 A.M.: I put all the computers back together. I put the Yamaha 8X 8X 28X CR/RW drive from the Dell Dimension 4100 in the older Dell Dimension V350 backup computer, and I also switched the floppy drives between the two Dells. I put the Dell Dimension 4100 that needs memory and a hard drive on the floor with the AMD backup computer by the bedroom door. I took out the SoHo LAN card from the AMD backup computer, and I put it back in its packaging on the white bedroom bureau. I switched out the SoHo LAN Card from the primary computer, and I put it in the Northgate Syntax backup computer. I took the 3COM Ethernet XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC 3C905B-TX LAN card from the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I put it in the primary computer. In Vista beta 1, I installed the 3COM LAN card driver for XP, and it works fine, but it only shows a 10 MB connection. In Vista Beta 1, I was not able to run Hardware Update from the Device manager since with the SoHo LAN card, it tried to install a non working Ethernet Controller every time I ran Scan for Updates. All the computers seem to be running just fine. I have cleaned up my computer work area. CIO Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 10:05 P.M.: I solved the problem on the Dell Dimension 4100. I think it would probably work with PC 133 SDRAM DIMM 168 pin 128 meg or 256 meg in the two memory slots, and I only have PC 66 and PC 100 128 meg. It is not worth it to me at the moment to spend the extra money for the memory, since it would be my second backup computer, and the old Dell is good enough for now for the second backup computer. However, I will keep an eye out for memory coming down in price. I now have to put back all the systems together which should take about one hour and a half. Well, it is a good way to take one's mind off the depressing news. CIO Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 8:35 P.M.: On the Dell Dimension 4100, I cleaned the CPU, and I reseated it with CPU thermal grease and its heat sink. I put in a hard drive from the other Dell backup computer. I added two 128 meg. 133 MHz memory chips. I left in its existing PCI video card. I also cleaned the interior of the case. However, when I booted it, I get no video just two beeps. I tried the primary computer AGP and PCI video cards, but I still did not get video, and I only got two beeps. The Dell Dimension 4100 has two older CD/RW drives. I search the Dell technical support looking for a solution, but I could not find any that worked. I also cleared the BIOS, and I put in a new #2032 CMOS battery. I will tinker with it some more, and if I don't succeed, I will put back together the other Dell backup computer, and I will possibly add one of the CD/RW drives along with the better face plate from the Dell Dimension 4100. Needless to say my work area on the blue blanket on top of the quilt on top of the bed in the bedroom is a bit busy at the moment. I chatted with my relative whom had surgery on Monday, and my relative is at a rehabilitation facility and doing just fine. CIO Note: <888> 09/01/05 Thursday 5:30 P.M.: I woke up at noon. 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 showered, and I cleaned up. One of my neighbors knocked on my door needing a pack of cigarettes, but at the time I was not able to help my neighbor out, since I was busy getting cleaned up. I then went downstairs, and I picked up my mail, but my neighbor was unavailable to get a pack of cigarettes. I then went downtown by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. They let me have from their dumpster for free an older Dell Pentium III computer which is missing its memory and some of its cards. I will try to get it going with the parts of my Dell backup computer which is Pentium II at 350 MHz, but the dumpster Dell computer is 800 MHz, but it only has two memory slots, so I will only be able to put in two 128 meg. 133 MHz memory chips. I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $23 of premium unleaded self service gasoline at $3.579 a gallon for 99.1 miles driving the last 12 days, at 15.2 miles per gallon driving an average of 14 miles per hour. I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $1.95. I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought three 5.5 ounce bags of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons for .99 a bag, two bags of 6 Everything bagels for $1.85 a bag, and a loaf of Arnold Multigrain bread for $1.59 for $8.26 total. I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases and the Dell computer. I gave my neighbor the package of Seneca Ultra lights 100 cigarettes, so now my neighbor owes me 4 packages of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes or about $5. I will now try to get the Dell Pentium III computer going with the parts from the Dell Pentium II backup computer. CIO Download 1.37 Mb. 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