Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 03/21/04 Sunday 1:20 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. I then will go out for some fresh air. CIO Note: <888> 03/21/04 Sunday 1:00 P.M.: I went through my email. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . This time instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped, and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I had the salad with all of the other regular ingredients. I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. I then made a 50% Folgers' instant and a 50% Folgers' decaffeinated instant coffee, which I am about to drink. CIO Note: <888> 03/21/04 Sunday 10:55 A.M.: I watched television after the last message. I went to bed about 10 P.M., and I was up at about 6 A.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I watched President Bush's campaign rally on Cspan from yesterday down in Orlando, Florida. I went back to bed. I just woke up. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 8:20 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will watch some television before going to bed. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 7:50 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I took a 10 1/4 ounce can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup, and I added 2 ounces of Rene Junot white wine and six ounces of water and about 1/8 teaspoon of Italian spices, and I heated it in a microwave proof plastic pot in the microwave oven under reheat. I put about 20 large cut croutons in it, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I also ate a piece of apple pie. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 6:55 P.M.: MSNBC - Former Dutch Queen Juliana dies at 94 and BBC NEWS World Europe Beloved Dutch queen mother dies . CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 6:40 P.M.: I finished running Norton SpeedDisk on the C: drive on the Dell backup computer. I am now running Ad-aware 6.0. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 6:35 P.M.: I threw out some garbage, and I checked the mail. Since it is a bit damp out, and since I have work to keep me busy, I have just been working on the computer at home. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 6:10 P.M.: I completed the C: drive to D: drive backup on the Dell backup computer in three parts. I watched some television while doing it. I am now running Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive of the Dell backup computer. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 4:50 P.M.: I finished going through my email. I am doing a three part C: to D: drive backup on the Dell backup computer. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 4:25 P.M.: I rested for a while. I ate two bowls of Snyder's white corn chips along with some iced tea. I watched a bit of television. I ate a Nature's Valley strawberry yogurt granola bar. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 1:20 P.M.: I shut down the Dell backup computer. I will now put the primary computer on standby, and I will take a nap. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 1:00 P.M.: I am boiling up a 12 ounce box of San Georgio fettuccini Florentine for 13 minutes half of which I will have with half of a 26 ounce jar of reheated Aunt Millie's traditional tomato sauce along with grated parmesan cheese. I will put the remainder in the refrigerator. I will have it to eat with iced tea. On the Dell backup computer, the new Windows update site does not work. The new beta update is working fine. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 12:20 P.M.: Too much of the High Life Forbes.com: Most Luxurious Places To Dry Out . CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 12:05 P.M.: I finished the beta install of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 on the Dell backup computer. I am in the process of going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 11:50 A.M.: Changing of the Guard http://www.coursey.com/ and ZDNet AnchorDesk: Good-bye, farewell, and amen . CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 11:25 A.M.: I have the Dell backup computer configured, and I am now installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 on it. CIO Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 10:15 A.M.: I sent out my weekly notes. I uninstalled the earlier Windows XP SP2 beta on the Dell backup computer, and it restarted all right. I am now running Norton Win Doctor on it. I will check it programs to see if they run properly. I will also put www.starrynight.com on it. Once I get all the programs checked, and I know they are running all right, I will put the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 on it. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 03/20/04: Note: <888> 03/20/04 Saturday 9:30 A.M.: I was up at 8 A.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I burned the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 *.iso download to a CD. I tried installing it on the Dell backup computer, but I need to uninstall the earlier beta before I can install the newer one. If I uninstall the earlier beta, it will also uninstall all of the programs that I installed after the earlier beta installation. I will thus leave it as is for now. I put the beta CD in a CD envelope, and it is on the top right shelf of my CD shelf on the floor to the right of my primary computer chair. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 8:05 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I watched some television. I finished the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 *.iso download to the D: drive. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 5:55 P.M.: I threw out the garbage. I moved my car around to the regular parking place. It is a bit damp out, but most of the snow has melted. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 5:25 P.M.: I am downloading slowly the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2 which is a very slow to download. I turned on television, and there is more on television about Donald Trump. I guess because he has New York City tourist attractions he likes to advertise himself. It is sort of odd that there are a lot of people whom are worth a lot more money whom drive around in old cars and old clothes, which we call "Old Money". Whatever, the case his advertising the Capitalist Entrepreneur spirit in the New York area seems to draw a lot of young entrepreneurs. Yesterday, I saw two skinny girls at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop whom did not look like they could lift a Webster's dictionary, and they were buying hundreds of books, I guess to open a bookshop or furnish their own library, so some how I guess they were able to transport all that weight despite their skinny appearance. I suppose with all the billionaires in the world today, the private security people are making money protecting them. I noticed one person around Christmas time that would make interesting private security. It was a young fellow at CVS on Greenwich Avenue whom was about 20 years old, and he had my look when I was that age a long time ago. However, he was about 7 feet 2 inches tall with about size 24 feet. More than likely he probably plays College Basketball or some other tall people activity. Still, when one is of average height, one should remember that there are substantially bigger people in this world, whom one does not see in this area that often. The biggest group of people I have even seen in my life was not at a Presidential Inaugural or a Winter Olympics, it was in Fort Lauderdale in October 1983, where I visited before moving back to Greenwich, Connecticut. There were five to ten thousand of them of white northern European appearance, with about a third of them elderly close to seven feet tall, and a third of them middle age between about six feet and seven feet tall, and a third of them were teenagers whom were mostly over six feet to six feet six inches tall. Thus if one were a mere six feet tall, one felt like a midget. I remember seeing a picture at the Bahia Mar of an American General that looked a bit like what I thought Omar Bradley looked like. I do not know if they were from there, off a cruise ship, or just visiting from elsewhere. At the same time there were millions of cars on the Florida highways and that was the time of the St. George's Granada invasion. Since during that time I drove a black Ford Mercury Cougar from Hertz rent a car and then when during the tropical storm the windshield wipers did not work, I traded it in for a gold Ford Mercury Cougar from Hertz, I call it the Army of the South or the Imperial Army or the Army of Black and Gold. Obviously, they still exist somewhere in this country or elsewhere in this world, so I would dare say, if anyone has ever seen them moving around as civilians in force, they are a formidable and numerous presence. I use to joke about Donald Trump that I had a friend in New York whom was J.P. Morgan's grandson, and he had lived with the Krump family in Germany, and he never seem to run out of money. I thus thought that maybe someone got the Trump money mixed up with the Krump money which would also be sizeable. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 2:50 P.M.: I rested for a while. I ate a half of a 8.5 ounce box of triscuts with some iced tea. I watched a bit of television. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 11:55 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 10:40 A.M.: I updated my NASA directory. It is at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/nasa002.htm . I still have the old NASA directory at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/040.htm . I incorporated it into the downloadable file at www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scott008.zip. CIO Note: <888> 03/19/04 Friday 9:55 A.M.: I was up at 5:30 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants, and I just finished it all. I checked outside, and it looks like we had about six inches of light powdery snow, and it presently is not snowing. The driveway is cleared, and the building maintenance personnel are plowing the walks. I checked with the Greenwich Library, and they are opened today. My Columbia 2.4 megahertz cordless telephone by the primary computer was not working, but it now works, so maybe it was not put in the charging cradle properly. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 10:35 P.M.: I have a theory about established money versus Forbes or Capitalist type of money which is of more Western Hemisphere origin. It is possible that there are wealthier individuals in the world, but they do not track their wealth in terms of U.S. dollars. Possibly despite our propaganda, there still could be an Emperor of some country like India, China, or Russia whom does not have many U.S. dollars, but possibly has other valuable assets such as land with minerals or whatever. Thus since they exercise, so much control, they really live in a world where, they have had everything they needed for so long, they are more like self sufficient farmers versus modern capitalists on the move. Whatever, the case when one looks at the Forbes list, one mostly sees net worth in terms of corporate equity, and anyone whom has ever had to pay a mortgage knows that there seems to be another group out there that actually seems to own property in terms of real estate. Thus maybe one of the wealthiest people in the world might be some obscure land owner up in Canada or whatever. Forbes listing of wealth is tracked in terms of modern accounting, where possibly some properties have never changed hands for so many generations that there is really no way to assign a value to it, since it is basically in a permanent trust in perpetuity. The Forbes are well known in the United States of America, since they advertise wealth in a capitalist system, but they have been here for a little over a 100 years, and more than likely since they could not afford to stay in Europe, they came here to seek their fortune. Possibly in advertising wealth, they manage to intermarry with established families, but from what I know they are suppose to be a business publication as such, and for those people whom do not do business in their sphere of influence, they do not have much relevance. In other words, the truly long term historically wealthy people seem to manage to maintain their wealth since they control everything from soup to nuts if you get my drift. Thus it is pretty much the purview of their public relations personnel to control the content of what is printed locally in their jurisdictions. Thus when we turn on or read our media here, we are pretty much getting a story that someone is permitted to tell us, but it does not mean that it is the whole story or even a relevant story to our jurisdiction. Basically my viewpoint on the Microsoft activity on the internet is that they are a group of cleaver engineers whom grew up around Boeing, which we generally assume is adept at engineering, so maybe the Boeing aircraft company is using Microsoft and the internet for some sort of public relations. Having never been out in the Northwest, maybe they are just tired of us sit at home types for always ignoring them all of these years, when they have traveled our way, so basically when they have traveled here so many times, since they obviously have that ability, they have over the years interreacted with all of the other groups whom have traveled here, while the content stay at home types here, never really seemed to noticed any change in reality other than prices seem to be getting more expensive, and television although it has better reception has less relevant content. It almost seems that the television is primarily trying to recruit people for the United States of America Military, when one has to face the fact in the New York City area, most people are involved in other professions. Thus I would advise, if one does not intend to join the military, one should read more, one should not watch so much television. Anyway, I am a bit tired, and not much seems to be happening locally. I guess with the higher prices for gasoline as they continue to rise since we had a colder winter, more people would prefer to use the energy to heat their homes versus looking at frigid real estate. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 9:40 P.M.: Having been a long time watcher of Microsoft, I just noticed that Mike Maples is no longer with the company, and he is living in quiet retirement in Austin, Texas, and apparently, he is not that rich anymore, since he is no longer on the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans. I once recall seeing him there with a net worth of about 1.2 Billion dollars, so I guess he was not able to keep up with inflation. Well, I guess other Microsoft personnel could learn that when the money runs out, your piece of plastic credit card is not worth very much. Whatever, the case, I suppose Microsoft has so many people trying to curry favor with it, it much be seeing an interesting cross section of the world. I suppose, when push comes to shove, computer people tend not to look like movie stars, but some of them seem to afford trophy wives or partners, so they frequently are ignored in the general public when ever people see the other half. Such is life. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 9:05 P.M.: After the few inches of snow tomorrow morning, we might have some warmer weather coming our way. It is currently 52 degrees Fahrenheit in Sun Valley, Idaho weather.com - Local Weather Page Sun Valley, Idaho . CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 7:55 P.M.: I heated and ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso mushroom soup, which I had with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 6:50 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I arrived early for my 3 P.M. appointment. Before my 3 P.M. appointment, I chatted with a local sailor. After my appointment, I drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with a couple of regular waterfront observers. A truck from the United States of America Fish and Wildlife Service also showed up there too. I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times. I told a couple of the reference librarians at the Greenwich Library, about my updated Volcano list www.geocities.com/mikelscott/volcanoe02.htm . I then returned home, and I chatted with a couple of neighbors. I drank some iced tea, and I ate five saltines with 1/4 inch thick slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 1:55 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I microwaved a 17 ounce Boston Market home-style chicken and noodles dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea. I then ate a piece of apple pie. I have a 3 P.M. appointment, so I guess I will go out again shortly. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 12:45 P.M.: I went out after the last message, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop spring opening. There were about 25 people there waiting for them to open at 8:30 A.M.. Lots of used clothes dealers were buying loads of used women's clothing. The merchandise was going fast. I then went downtown, and I cleaned off the snow from the two benches at the Veterans monument across from the senior center, the four benches at the Post Office plaza, the three benches at the senior center, the bench across from Starbucks, and the two near benches in the Greenwich Common. I have frequently cleaned off the benches in the center of town when it snows over the years, but I usually do it at night when not many people see me. I sit on so many of those benches, that I enjoy it when they're dry. I then walked down Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by Blimpie, and I bought two cheese and egg croissant sandwiches for $1.05 each for $2.10 total. They have the cheaper price for take out. I ate them at the train station. I then walked up Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop. Everything is half price, and for clothing, it is $20 a bag. I then walked up to the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by the 70% off rack at the Greenwich Hardware store, and I stopped by CVS. There was a bus load of Japanese tourists walking around downtown. I then completed my walk, and I sat out at one of the cleared off benches. I then returned home. I chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 7:20 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 7:15 A.M.: Yahoo! News - 100-Foot Asteroid to Make Closest Pass . CIO Note: <888> 03/18/04 Thursday 7:00 A.M.: I was up at 2 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then went back to bed until 6:15 A.M.. I chatted with a friend. If one is visiting this area, http://www.extendedstay.com/ in Elmsford, New York has rooms for about $600 a week, of course the weekly rate in Champaign Urbana, Illinois is only $290 plus tax. It snowed a couple of inches last night, and the roads are suppose to be slippery. The Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop is suppose to have their spring preview opening this morning at 8:30 A.M.. Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 4:50 P.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 4:15 P.M.: I made up a volcano email list. I sent out an announcement about the new volcano directory. I copied the new directory to the local hard drive on my five backup computers. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 1:55 P.M.: I created a new Volcano directory page with the current working links www.geocities.com/mikelscott/volcanoe02.htm . Most of the links should work. I also posted it in the downloadable directory www.geocities.com/mike2scott2003/scott008.zip . CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 1:15 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used a 4.25 ounce can of flaked pink crab meat instead of tuna fish. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 11:55 A.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, however they cancelled their opening today. They will have their spring opening tomorrow. I then went downtown. Since we had about five inches of snow, and since I like sitting out downtown, and since no one else seems to do it, I took the snow brush from my car, and I cleaned off the snow from the two benches at the veterans monument across from the senior center, from the three benches at the senior center, from the four benches at the post office plaza, and from the bench across from Starbucks. Thus there are plenty of clean benches for one to sit on outside to enjoy the winter weather. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. The bench at the top of Greenwich Avenue is still covered with snow as are the benches across from CVS. I sat out for a while in the center of town. I used the bathroom at the senior and arts center. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I next went by the Greenwich Library. I read the Reserved Desk February 2004 copy of National Geographic with the article on Greenwich. I cleaned off the snow from the two benches at the Greenwich Library too. I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought two 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons for .99 each, a fresh loaf of Arnold oat grain bread for $1.98, a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .49 for $4.37 total. I then went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. We supposedly might have more snow during the next couple of days. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 7:15 A.M.: I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, which I had with about 20 large cut croutons. I had the soup with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. I will get to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop earlier, so I can find a parking place. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 6:55 A.M.: If one can not afford money at a thrift shop, try www.freecycle.org . One man or woman's trash, is another person's treasure. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 6:35 A.M.: I am in the process of going through my email. I chatted with a friend. The Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop is suppose to have their spring opening at 8:30 A.M. this morning. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 4:30 A.M.: I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I watched some television. I put away the laundry. CIO Note: <888> 03/17/04 Wednesday 2:50 A.M.: I tried to sleep yesterday, but I did not fall asleep until 4 P.M.. I ate the last piece of apple pie and a third of the 10 ounce can of smoked almonds. I woke up at 2 A.M. today. I started two loads of laundry, and I am just about ready to start the dry cycle. I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom. There seems to have been about five inches of snow. CIO Note: <888> 03/16/04 Tuesday 11:45 A.M.: I threw out some garbage. I checked the mail. I chatted with a relative. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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