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

Note: <888> 11/07/05 Monday 9:55 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative while I was asleep, and I had a telephone call from a computer magazine.  I woke up at 3:30 P.M., and 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 back to bed until about 8:30 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives, and I left a message with another relative.  I picked up my mail from downstairs, I received the $20 rebate on the Logitech X500 wireless optical mouse and wireless keyboard, after the rebate, it only cost me about $16.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  When I woke up the second time, I heard something like a Startrek beeper waking me up, but I can not figure out where it is coming from in my bedroom.  It is not the smoke detector.  Perhaps in the drawers behind the Delonghi oil filled radiators, I have that heat sensitive door handle alarm, and its battery is low.  That is all that I can think of.  I need to call www.ezinkjets.com about one ink cartridge that has been back ordered for two weeks, and the most recent order for the Lexmark X85 printer, scanner, copier is due any day.  One can get a discount from www.ezinkjets.com by using the coupon code "FALL40" .  CIO    

Note: <888> 11/07/05 Monday 3:55 A.M.:  I shut down the computer in the bedroom.  I ran Ad-awareSE.  For some reason Internet Explorer would not work, so I did a System Restore this past Friday.  I suspect more mischief aloft.  I will now post my last note and run Ad-awareSE again.  I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/07/05 Monday 2:40 A.M.:  I chatted with Cablevision again, and I told them some other things that I know about electronics, and suddenly my Cable system started working again.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/07/05 Monday 2:00 A.M.:  I toasted two slices of Arnold multigrain bread, and I spread them with Hellmann's mayonnaise,  and I put on two full 1/32nds inch thick slices of turkey, 4 five inch by five inch by 3/32nds slices of Jarlsberg Lite cheese,  three 3/32nds inch thick slices of onion,  and pepper and sea salt and the top slices of bread, and I cut it in half across.  I ate the sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I called up CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza, and they reported it was business as normal.   I checked with the West Putnam Avenue Shell station, and they still have Cablevision, so we just have a local outage in our area, however West Putnam Avenue Shell is only about a quarter of a mile away.  The Cablevision system is still out.  Judging from what I can tell, the situation is pretty much normal in this area.  However, since as I get older and slower, I have not been going out at night much anymore, and I also am trying to save on fuel.  With 95% humidity, I am not very good at getting around with my arthritis as far as walking around late at night anymore.  However, once it gets much colder, it usually is drier.  However, for the 22 years that I walked around the downtown area with about 65% of the time at night, I was just doing it for exercise walking and observation, since after living here since 1961, I am quite familiar with the town, but I never recognize many familiar faces downtown anymore.  Whatever, the case I would imagine that less people are driving around at night with the higher prices of fuel, and besides the grocery store runs were usually my primary purpose, and none of them are open after midnight in central Greenwich anymore.  Thus since the internet is not working, I am just blogging away on the computer, and I will post it once Cablevision gets it act together.  I have a feeling when it comes to first generation immigrants whom seem to think they know it all versus people whom have a larger network of friends around the country, the first generation immigrants do not know that much other than what is on television.  CIO      

Note: <888> 11/07/05 Monday 12:35 A.M.:  Both my primary and my backup computers in the living room have telephone modems, but they are connected to Optimum Voice, which currently does not work.  I could change the junction underneath the chair underneath the stereo, so they are connected to Verizon, but since it is suppose to be a short outage, I did not.  Instead, I connected my Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom to Verizon by adding an extra telephone wire splitter to the Verizon telephone junction beneath the rear chair between the desk and the bureau.  I then was able to use Juno to post my latest note through the Verizon telephone network.  I use Juno for backup internet connections in case the cable modem fails.  I have never had to use it before in about six years of cable modem service.  The is the first www.cablevision.com outage that I ever recall, although we have had power outages that cause www.cablevision.com not to work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 11:20 P.M.:  I chatted with Cablevision at 203-348-9211, and they said the outage could be for four hours or more.  I went outside, and I checked the building area with my 2.5 million watt rechargeable lantern, and locally from quick observation everything seems all right with just a few extra leaves down.  We are basically in a communications black out, but with my arthritis, I do not feel like sitting out on the bench downtown, where I normally sit on my evening strolls in case we still have a sniper still around.  Of course, I do not know for sure it was actually a sniper, and for all I know it could have been just a kid throwing a rock in my direction.  What outside, I tested my lantern, and I signaled a passing plane with three short flashes --- and three long flashes _ _ _ and three short flashes --- which is standard procedure in a communications black out.  We are not bothering the Greenwich Police department, since with Cable Modem service out in this area, they are probably busier with more people cruising around late at night.  I can not afford to sit in the diner coffee shop to see what is happening, and I am perfectly comfortable at home.  We do have electricity.  Since it was reported before the cable modem service went out, there was a tornado in Evansville, Indiana, more than likely it might have passed over higher in our area.  Generally the storms around here are not as severe by the Long Island shore line, and they tend to be worse up in the ridge area north of Armonk, New York.  Local weather here is 56.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 97 percent humidity.  I guess without the internet, one can get a bit of cabin fever in the apartment, but I suppose we have enough late night people to cover any situation.  I have one relative traveling today, and I am waiting to see if that relative calls about returning home, and I have two relatives traveling tomorrow on Monday.  Without the internet, I can not check to see what weather hazards might still be around this area.  My basic feeling is that there is a group of trouble makers whom always try to take advantage of situations in this area when the weather is warmer, and once it gets colder, they seem to disappear.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 10:20 P.M.:  I was able to reset the Voice Mail on my cordless telephones.  We currently are having a bit lightning, so the Cable Modem started acting up around 9:40 P.M., and it finally went out at around 10 P.M..  Thus I have no computer, television, or telephone cable modem service.  There is no point going downtown in a thunderstorm.  The cablevision telephone system said their cable modem service was also out in Tarrytown, New York, so I guess the Rockefellers will have to vacate their premises for communications and go elsewhere.  I do not know any local pubs in the area, where I might find them hanging out, but my Verizon telephone service still works, so if they want to call me on their cell phones, they still can.  I guess I could clean up and go out, but with arthritis damp nights are not too good.  I could also put an end run around the whole group and do something stupid like drive into Manhattan and see if the Aga Khan is still the doorman at the Waldorf Astoria.  Of course that would cost money which nobody seems to have anymore.  Just sitting on a bench in damp weather on Greenwich Avenue is not much fun, and the local types that hang out in the pubs downtown do so because they seem to have no place else to go, and all they seem to be interested in is watching boring sports on television.  Well, I guess if we have no global communications, we are cut off from the larger world.  I do not know anyone locally whom I can call up and make a telephone call to.  I guess I could always read a book.  I will do some more writing, but first a cigarette break.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 9:25 P.M.:  I woke up at 3 P.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 out some garbage.  I found a collapsible nylon green chair like the one that I left in Kennebunkport, Maine in the basement this summer, and I put it in the back of my Volvo station wagon.  There is a large beach umbrella behind the dumpster also.  I chatted with a couple of neighbors.  I talked on the telephone with, and I left messages with two friends and I chatted with a friend and two relatives.  I ate the remaining 5 ounces of the can of Planters Deluxe mixed nuts.  I had to replug into the Kensington Control panel my Panasonic 2.4 gigahertz cordless telephone.  I took a nap on the Scott family sofa.  I now need to figure out to clear the Message Light on my cordless telephones that are connected to Optimum Voice.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 6:20 A.M.:   I ate two scoops of Edy's Caramel and Praline Crunch low fat frozen yogurt.  In summary, most of the local people do not think I look like President Bush, since most of them know what he really looks like.  However, at night I could be mistaken for him.  In the day time around here, when more daytime people have a better reality,  more people currently with my shorter hair cut seem to think I look like Ford Motor company Chairman and CEO William Clay Ford Jr., left, and Chairman of India Ford Arvind Mathew stand with the newly launched Ford's Fiesta - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News .  However, the local media have been showing about a five year old picture of him a lot in the recent media which looks more like I do currently with short hair.  In the more recent photo in this pictures he looks like he has had a few more chateau briands than I have had recently, and he now looks quite a bit like Prince Andrew.  Needless to say, I have to get to bed soon.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 11/06/05:

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 5:15 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 5:05 A.M.:  I sent a second email to a former Taft classmate.  He use to be one of the larger people in my class, and I think he use to be a government lawyer.  Following is the text of the note: 

In quick summary of what might have happened in Greenwich, Connecticut tonight, I was pursuing my usual rounds, and I chatted with Frank whom I have chatted with for years. I do not know his last name, but the He might Be Frank Garr chief of homicide or Frank Sturgess or Frank Sinatra Junior who knows. While I was sitting in my usual rousting place at the veteran's bench across from the senior center with a short hair Cut looking a bit like the current president, the car in front of me was backing out, and it sounded like it hit the adjacent car a new BMW. The driver Got out to investigate and left, since there was a metallic sound. I got up and looked at the car, and there was no damage from what I could tell. However, it could have been something else such as the sound of a bullet ricocheting, but there was no gun fire sound. I still have very good hearing. Frank was around people whom looked like undercover officers.

Whatever is going on here, when I have the short hair cut, which I can only afford every three months, strange things seem to happen. You have to remember for years, people thought I looked like Peter Jennings, so they were always trying to tell me the news, and I had worked at CBS news for a couple of months during Watergate. I personally do not think it was a shot, but I am quite familiar with that location after 13 years of sitting there, and it is the first time I have heard a metallic sound like that. It did not sound like a fender bender, but the BMW was parked on an odd angle.

I once saw General Westmoreland show up at that veterans monument about four years ago during graduation at West Point, and lots of older people sit there. I did notice they had planted new sod in front of the veterans monuments, so obviously I hope people are not sniping at it.

I am told there is a person that looks like me in Oyster Bay, Long Island that has a lot of money, and there is another rich person that looks like me In Redding, Connecticut where Richard Van Marter use to live before he moved to East Fairfield Beach, Connecticut. Also I am told there is a person that looks like me that buys lots of ammunition at Walmart on the Norwalk Wilton, Connecticut border on Route 7. Basically Richard is an expert hunter, and another friend Chris Parizo claimed he was joining Special Forces three years ago and disappeared, and he claimed he could shoot the hair off the back of a dog at two miles. A veteran that I know that looked like Buddy Epson of the Beverely Hillbillies fame told me before he supposedly died during that time they shot at me five years ago, "There Ain't No More Kentucky Wind." , if you get my drift. Whatever, the case it could have been some other sound. I did find about 14 months ago at that same location, two spent rifle casings, one of which I still have, and I turned one into the Greenwich Police, and they told me they were blanks, but they do not look like blanks. Whatever, the came most of the time, Greenwich is like being the Maytag repairman, but sometimes there are gangs working the town from neighboring communities. Most of the time nobody really bothers me, because I think they think I am a bit unaware. I sometimes feel like Mr. McGoo of the cartoon fame.

Richard's family are members of the camp fire club that Teddie Roosevelt belonged to near Mount Kisco, New York. If all seems sort of strange, since I am one of the most conspicuous people in town except, I usually have longer hair. I get my hair cut every three months or so, so after a month, it is usually a bit longer.

Thus it could have been a ricochet, but I did not hear any gun fire, and I did not see any car damage on the BMW. However, there was extra security on Greenwich Avenue before I saw Frank the first time, but not the second time.

I once saw former President Bush after he was President on Greenwich Avenue getting out of a car, and I farted about that time, and somebody shot me with a laser gun that briefly stunned me. We also seem to have gangs of troublemakers that spray people downtown with some sort of substance that is more powerful than mace. With a quarter million Russian immigrants in the New York area, there is a lot of Russian mafia around from my viewpoint.

I like this area, and we are suppose to have good medical treatment as one gets older, and I do not intend to move away, but there is a certain mafia element that tries to scare people. I never see most of my neighbors downtown like they know better.

I did see somebody that looked like Elvis carrying a concealed weapon about six years ago.

Mike Scott,

Second note.

End of Note:

CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 1:15 A.M.:  Apparently the United States Government does not have any money left, since they are not able to afford to pay the illegal immigrants CNN.com - Immigrant workers stiffed for Katrina work - Nov 5, 2005 .  Of course nobody has paid me for any of my 22 years of work here, since I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut where my family has lived in this area for 400 years, and I have a quarter million dollar education by today's standard, but not much recent modern work experience, since mostly I deal with people whom either do not know English very well or whom consider me disabled which I am became from being constantly intimidated by larger people whom were not very smart and seem to drink too much alcohol, but such people manage to make a living swindling older people with modern business technology which is I suppose what the older people did to earn their money.  Thus somewhere in the wood work there must be a big fat group of people making all of the money and we just never see them.  It seems to me that the medical profession is overpaid for what they actually do and so is the legal profession, but this is probably because higher insurance premiums and other costs in those professions.  Thus it is a never ending cycle of robbing Peter to pay Paul.  It would seem to me that if there were more accountability and auditing in some of the newer professions in this country more people would suddenly get a real idea as to what they are really worth as opposed to their inflated ideas of themselves.  Since whether employed or not, I have managed to keep busy working at my own routines, I manage to get by on my government assistance and a little help from family which is the same case for a great many disabled people.  Whatever the case, I would assume since the government seems to spend lots of money on all sorts of frivolous activities, the disabled people no longer have a very strong or influential political lobby, and since they are disabled, they are easily intimidated, but most of them have relatives whom are suppose to help a bit in such political matters.  It seems to me the disabled people like the older people sooner or later get left behind in the shuffle by the more modern business orientated young people.  The concept of volunteering is not practical for them, since like us, they have bills and expenses to pay, and they too will get older sooner or later.  I ate 5 ounces of the Planter's deluxe mixed nuts, and from what I can tell, that is pretty much all we have around here in terms of the general population.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/06/05 Sunday 12:30 A.M.:  I ate two scoops of Edy's Caramel and Praline Crunch low fat frozen yogurt.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/05/05 Saturday 11:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  The door stop and retaining mechanism on the second floor east side of my building is broken, so the door is left open defeating the purpose of the fire door.  I will try to leave it shut whenever I use it.  However, when it is left opened, it lets up lots of hot hair from the east stairway electric heater.  Somebody stronger than the normal users must have broken it.  I went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.859 a gallon for 22.1 miles driving since this past Monday at 13.6 miles per gallon driving at an average of 10 miles per hour.  I then went downtown. I went by the Greenwich Post Office, and I mailed the Bank of New York survey.  I picked up 13 Priority Mail labels, two 5 inch by 9 inch Priority Mail boxes, three 20 inch by 12 inch Priority Mail boxes, and three Priority Mail 10 inch by 15 inch envelopes.  They now have a 24 hour automated postal system at the central Greenwich Post Office.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  The train station was closed about 6 P.M..  I stopped by Zen stationary during my walk down Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a #26 King of Cash scratch card for a dollar.  I stopped by the Senior and the Arts center to use the bathroom.  I scratched the scratch card, but I did not win.  I then walked up Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by CVS.  I chatted with another regular night person.  I bought two 60 capsule 1000 mg. bottles of MSM for $6.79 each, two 7 ounce bags of black licorice for $1.19 each, a six pack of BIC lighters for $3.74 which contained three blue, two green, and a colorful Flick My Bic lighter, 10 3.5 ounce tins of Beach Cliff sardines for two for .99, less two $2 off CVS coupons on CVS brand purchases plus .13 tax for $20.78 total.  I then completed my walk, and I chatted with the other night person again while walking down Greenwich Avenue.  I then sat out for a while.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  There was a charter bus at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club which is unusual.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought at $5.99 a pound on sale Boar's Head sliced turkey for $6.47, for $5.99 a pound Stop and Shop premium Swiss cheese for $6.02, buy one get one free of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts with extra cashews for $5.99 both, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $2.19, Organic Dole bananas at .79 a pound in a plastic bag to stay fresh for $2.12 for $22.79 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I put the Priority Mail material on top of the printers in the bedroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/04/05 Friday 11:20 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | UK | Charles pays tribute to war dead and  BBC NEWS UK Royals see storm-hit New Orleans .  Yesterday, when I installed the two new pillows on the sofa, I took off the two orange pillows off the back of the sofa, and I put them on either inside of the side arms of the French reproduction chair with the sheep skin cover.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO