Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 03/08/04 Monday 12:55 A.M.: Sky and Telescope - A House Call for a Hubble House Call . CIO Note: <888> 03/08/04 Monday 12:30 A.M.: Thus when I was kicking around Santa Cruz, California up until after election day in 1980, more than likely some people were involved in work at this site http://www.ucolick.org/ and of course, in the Canary Islands on a clear night one can see forever http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020819.html and http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/tour/orm.html and http://www.ing.iac.es/ . CIO Note: <888> 03/08/04 Monday 12:15 A.M.: For star gazers NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library and NASA ADS: ADS at Harvard . CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 11:55 P.M.: I went through my email. I knew my way around Lake Forest, Illinois while I attended college there because I also drove a taxi cab there the last year and a half. Lake Forest, Illinois is a very quiet town, and it had fairly good security since Fort Sheridan was just to the south and Great Lakes Naval Station was just to the north. It however is like Chicago, Illinois in terms of the weather in that there are basically ten months of winter and two months of summer, and it tends not to have the milder fall and spring seasons. However, since it is a colder climate the students tend to spend more time inside reading, and quite a few of my classmates have become successful. I guess since the East Coast Ivy League and the other prominent colleges on the East and West Coasts tend to overshadow the Midwest, not many people on the coasts of America seem to respect educational degrees from the Midwest. Particularly since I did not have an advanced degree, I never seemed to get an advanced job in the corporate world of Wall Street in this area. Still, I manage to get by tinkering with my computers. I once read about ten years ago, that six of the top 10 Fortune 500 CEOs in the United States of America had degrees in Engineering from the University of Illinois http://www.uiuc.edu/index.html where http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ is also located, so obviously there is some expertise still in the Midwest. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 11:30 P.M.: Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu at Address Imagery View Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 just west of Lake Michigan . CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 11:15 P.M.: The Farm, at 1014 Rockland Road in Knolwood, Illinois just west of Lake Bluff, Illinois does not appear to be there anymore Address Imagery View 1014 Rockland Road, Lake Bluff, Illinois site of the old Farm which use to look like this http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsfarm70.jpg . Well, I guess that is progress. Site of William McCormick Blair's old Farm on Lake Michigan just north of Lake Bluff, Illinois Address Imagery View Farm north of Lake Bluff, Illinois on Lake Michigan who was one of the founder of Ducks Unlimited http://www.ducks.org/ , of course I might be wrong, and it could be the Lake Shore Country Club, where I once went to a debutant party. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 10:45 P.M.: TerraServer Image Courtesy of the USGS 71 Vinci Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut USA 06830, my building is just northwest of the baseball diamond . CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 10:15 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown. I walked most of the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 96 ounce bottle of CVS liquid bleach for $1.49, a 1.5 liter bottle of CVS yellow mouthwash for $4.19, a six one ounce bar package of Nature's Valley granola bars for $1.99, two cans of Ajax cleaner for .39 each, and a one bottle of Gold Emblem Italian spices for .99 plus .39 tax for $9.83 total. Since my purchases were heavy, I did not walk up to the top of Greenwich Avenue, but I returned to my car. I also sat out for a while. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $4.80 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.059 a gallon for about 27 miles per gallon. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two half gallons of Tropicana premium orange juice with Calcium for $2 each, two 8.5 ounce boxes of Nabisco Triscuts 40% reduced fat for $2 each, four ten ounce bars of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $2.50 each, two Boston Market 17 ounce chicken and noodles dinners for $2.99 each, and a 16 ounce Boston Market Swedish meatballs for $2.99, and 10 ounces of fresh spinach for $1.50 for $28.47 total. I then returned home. I brought my cart down to the parking lot to bring up my purchases. I then put away my purchases. I drank some iced tea. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I had the salad with iced tea. I chatted with a relative. I drank a cup of coffee. I watched a National Geographic Special about Lord of the Rings. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 4:30 P.M.: I was awake at 1 P.M.. I made breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I started making a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . I used ten Salada orange pekoe tea bags, one each of the five different types of the five variety pack of Twinings tea, three Lipton green tea bags, and two Salada green tea bags. I did not put sugar in the mixture. I went back to bed until 4 P.M.. I then put the ice tea in the refrigerator. I will now clean up, and I will go out. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 3:55 A.M.: I watched a bit of television. I have to make some ice tea when I wake up later today. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 2:35 A.M.: There is good news on the local economic front, if one can wait until late August and early September 2004. The National Republican Party www.gop.com is having their convention in Manhattan from Monday August 30, 2004 through Thursday September 2, 2004 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/R.phtml and http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=872 , and that following weekend should be Labor Day weekend, so it would seem some big spending republicans might show up in this area to help fuel the local economy. Of course, Manhattan is such a big place, it is hard to tell, if any of them will feel the need to come out here. Of course that time of the year, it still can be quite hot in this area. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 1:40 A.M.: On my first trip up and down the coast of California between southern California and San Francisco, I did not know that a friend from Nantucket and Key West was attending the University of California at Santa Cruz, so I did not stop by to visit, but I do recall on the first trip up the coast driving through Santa Cruz, California from Carmel in a very dense fog. On later trips I visited the friend in Santa Cruz, California, and I recall trying to use the Fortran computer terminals in the computer laboratory at the University there, but I only knew Cobol, I did not know Fortran. I also recall seeing a few of my classmates from Lake Forest College there, and one trip in the Subaru, I recall seeing a red and white Volkswagen van with Massachusetts license plate that ended in "K" which only the license plates in Nantucket and Williamstown, Massachusetts did. On the last trip in the 1973 two door Burgundy Volvo in the fall of 1980, there were about five hundred old Volvos parked on campus as part of some sort of Rally. I also recall that the King of Sweden was in San Francisco with the Royal Swedish symphony. I was also informed that the Netherlands government had a consulate in Santa Cruz, California. I recall seeing lots of Brussels sprouts ready for harvest in the fall, and a lot of them were twice the size of what I was use to seeing. Down in Watsonville towards Carmel, they also had strawberries. I did drive the Pacific Coast highways south to north and back quite a number of times on the various trips. I also visited Stamford University on most trips. I recall once visiting U.C.L.A. and once visiting U.C. Irvine. I visited U.C. Santa Barbara quite a few times. Well, the computer industry as we know it today was not as well developed, and on the last two trips, I met with the head of Xerox Parc whom had a house in Laguna Beach whom looked a lot like a famous New York politician, and I also met in Santa Cruz, California with a native Californian whom had attended M.I.T.. I also recognized a few people from Back East along my various excursions. I recall seeing a friend from Manhattan outside the Getty Museum in Malibu on a Labor Day holiday around 1979. Since I enjoy being around the ocean, I did not spend much time in the interior areas such as Bel Aire or other well known areas, but I do recall driving through it once. I also went through Palm Springs two or three times. Of course the viewpoint from the highway or commercial streets is always different than when one lives there. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 12:55 A.M.: I just microwaved a Maria Callender's 16 ounce Chicken Parmigiana dinner, which I will have shortly with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 03/07/04 Sunday 12:35 A.M.: I went through half of the periodical literature that I had accumulated over the last month. I did not read the computer and technical press. I threw out the material that I went through. When I went outside, I noticed it is a bit colder at http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830?lswe=06830&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared at 43 degrees Fahrenheit with winds gusting to 35 miles per hour. This colder blustery winter evening on what appears to be a full moon reminded me of my first trip across the United States in October 1978. I had bought a 1972 yellow Subaru station wagon in Nantucket a couple of months before for $150. I put a new clutch in it by removing the engine and installing the new clutch plate which took about two weeks during the slower time in Nantucket. The Subaru had a Polaroid employee sticker on it, and another sticker from Dillon, Colorado. I left the island with a friend, and we drove back down to Greenwich, and visited briefly with my mother. We then stopped by one of my sisters' house outside Philadelphia. We then headed west to Chicago and visited another sister. We next went down to Champaign, Illinois, and we visited my paternal grandparents. I recall staying with my grandparents on the first trip, and then on a following trip, I stayed at the Lincoln Log Cabin Motel in Champaign, Illinois, and on another trip, I stayed with my grandfather's brother. We then visited my other sister in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Next driving down towards west Texas, we had the windshield brake at Midland, Texas when the gasoline station attendant did not close the hood all the way, and the hood blew up on the highway, and broke the windshield. We thus arrived in southern California with a broken windshield. We stayed at a motel in Dana Point, California, and I did some surf casting for about a week relaxing from the trip. I lacquered my surf casting rod, which I had wrapped with blue thread for additional strength. I never did catch any fish in California. After exploring the Laguna Beach area, we drove up the coast highway to San Francisco, and we arrived there on Columbus Day. The city was closed to vehicle traffic because the Queen of Spain was visiting, so we walked around the various tourist sights. I recall the American Railroad convention was also going on at the Hyatt hotel in San Francisco. I recall then driving back down south again touring Carmel, and Santa Barbara, and returning to Laguna Beach after about two weeks. We worked in Laguna Beach delivering telephone books until about Thanksgiving day when we were evicted from our motel in Laguna while cooking a Thanksgiving turkey. We ate the turkey in the Subaru at the beach parking lot in Dana Point, where I believe the new Ritz Hotel is located. During that time we also camped in our car in the mountains east of San Juan Capistrano, where it was a bit cool at night. I recall one general store where they raised guinea pigs. We also visited the San Diego area and the beach communities to the north of it as far as Long Beach. Weekends were busy, but the weekdays were not too busy. The day after Thanksgiving when we got our last pay check for delivering telephone books, we headed east to Las Vegas, north to Salt Lake City, east for two days through a blizzard in the Rockies. I found two used Continental snow tires with studs at a Sears tire dump in Dillon, Colorado that I had mounted on my car at a Amoco gasoline station in Vail. We drove through the blizzard over Eisenhower pass, and we arrived in Denver and spent the night at the airport. The next day we drove around Denver, we then spent another night at the airport. We then headed east in an ice storm, and somewhere in east Kansas, we had a hose fixed on the radiator around midnight. We arrived at Russell, Kansas at sunrise during the ice storm, and the famous coffee shop was closed. We drove over to Tulsa, and stopped by briefly at my sister's house. We drove through floods through Arkansas and Louisiana. There were tornadoes in the pan handle of Florida, and there was a hurricane watch on when we arrived in Key West. After a couple of days there, I found a new windshield that I installed at a junk yard in Fort Lauderdale, we visited my friend's sister in Daytona, and around Christmas Time we returned to Long Island, where my friend's family lived. I recall house sitting in Greenwich that Christmas, and that Christmas Eve, I installed an air conditioner in the Subaru, which I also had gotten at the junk yard in Fort Lauderdale, but it never worked. We brought out a Christmas Tree from Banksville, New York to the house on Long Island. Thus it was about a two month odyssey. What I basically learned spending that much time outside traveling was that a great deal of the United States of America is very cold except Florida and southern California. CIO Note: <888> 03/06/04 Saturday 10:30 P.M.: I have a foot high stack of periodical literature, which I will start going through. CIO Note: <888> 03/06/04 Saturday 10:05 P.M.: I rested until 9 P.M.. I watched a bit of television. CIO Note: <888> 03/06/04 Saturday 7:35 P.M.: I made up www.geocities.com/mikelscott/onionsoup.htm . I had the onion soup with a glass of iced tea. I will now put the computer and standby, and I will rest for a short while. CIO Note: <888> 03/06/04 Saturday 6:00 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 03/06/04 Saturday 4:30 P.M.: After the last message, I ate 10 Saltines with 3/16 inch thick slices of Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I went to bed about 3 A.M.. I had a telephone call from a friend about 6:30 A.M.. I woke up again at 10:30 A.M.. I dressed up, and I went over to the Valley Road Post Office, with the Priority Mail envelope containing Barbara Bush's book "Reflections, Life After the White House". I had it in a priority mail envelope, but not a Flat Rate Priority mail envelope, so on top of the 11 U.S.A. 37 cent flag stamps I had on it for $4.07, I had to add .83 more postage for $4.90 total. I also bought five Purple Heart .37 postage stamps for $1.85 plus the .83 for total of $2.68. I obtained three Priority Mail Flat Rate envelopes and three light Priority Mail envelopes and five priority mail stickers. I returned home, and I rested until noon. I put the Priority Mail envelopes and stickers on the black plastic box underneath the right side of my bedroom desk. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. In my kitchen entrance on the right lower wall, I have a glass framed print of a Martha's Vineyard street scene that the frame came apart on. I glued it together with Elmer's glue, and I held it together with grey duct tape. I am letting it dry, before I rehang it. I rested some more until 4 P.M.. I watched a bit of television. I ate a bowl of white tortilla chips along with a glass of iced tea. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 03/06/04: Note: <888> 03/06/04 Saturday 12:45 A.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Valley Road Post Office, but the mail boxes have security information labels that one is not allowed to mail a package over 16 ounces with stamps from the mail box. The book weighs 1 pound 12 ounces. I then went downtown. The same labels are on the mail boxes at the central Greenwich Post Office. They open at 6 A.M. on Saturday for the lobby and the windows open at 8 A.M.. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I then drove down by the waterfront. I then returned home. I will now send out my weekly notes. Then I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. I will try to get up early enough tomorrow to mail the package, but there is really no rush on it. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 10:30 P.M.: I put away the laundry. I chatted with a relative. I packaged up the Barbara Bush autographed book "Reflections, Life After the White House" in a two day priority mail envelope addressed to a relative. I have it sealed, and I put 11 U.S.A flag stamps on it for $4.07 total of the required $3.85 postage. I will now dress up warmly, and I will go out and mail it at the Valley Road Post Office. I will then go downtown for some fresh air. I will put the computer on standby. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 9:05 P.M.: I brought up one load of laundry, and I have another load of laundry in the dryer with 40 minutes to go. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 8:35 P.M.: Montserrat volcano explodes sending ash 20,000 feet into sky . CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 8:25 P.M.: I showered and cleaned up. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 8:00 P.M.: I started one dry cycle, and I have 47 minutes to go on it. The other two dryers are busy, so I will start the second load dry cycle when I finish the current load dry cycle. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 7:35 P.M.: I threw out the garbage. I started a load of laundry, and I have five minutes to go on the wash cycle. I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom. It is a bit damp out, so I am not sure whether I will be going out after I finish the laundry. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 6:40 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I finished my coffee. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 6:15 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Wisconsin white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with iced tea. I will now make and drink a cup of coffee. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 4:50 P.M.: I had a telephone call from a friend about 6:30 A.M. this morning. I was awake about noon. I checked the mail. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I chatted with a friend. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I listened to part of the Ronald Reagan book "Dutch" that I have in a books on tape format. I got up to the part where he goes to Eureka college. I listened to it through my stereo speakers, since it was during the daytime. I threw out the garbage. It is very foggy and damp out. In the old days in Washington D.C., they use to call the State Department "Foggy Bottom" since it was located near the Potomac River, and it was always in the Fog. Much could be said the same about Greenwich, Connecticut at the present. CIO Note: <888> 03/05/04 Friday 1:55 A.M.: I took some more time out and watched Cspan. It seems from the Cspan broadcasts that the Washington D.C. government on the Potomac River is still working, which if one does not watch Cspan, but watches the regular news network, they do not tell one that much. Thus if one wants to know a bit about what the United States of America government is doing, one has to watch Cspan, and not the news. However to get Cspan, one has to subscribe to cablevision, which costs money. So although it is public access, it is not for free. Naturally the U.S. Government turns out a lot of information, and they have always had public hearings. However, the news bureaus tend to cover what sells soap, so they do not always cover Washington D.C.. Basically in the old days, there seemed to be more going on in Washington D.C. than we get on the news here today. From this perspective on the internet in Greenwich, Connecticut near IBM's World Headquarters in Armonk, New York, we actually hear more about Washington state via information on Bill Gates and his company Microsoft than we hear about the Federal Government and Washington D.C.. I guess since we are New England, we have more of the Village mentality than the National approach. However, once one is bounced out of Manhattan for lack of funds, there is really no need to go back, since they always expect people to continually to shell out money for the experience of traffic and congestion. It was my experience with Manhattan that they simply deal with what is there at the moment, and then they deal with what comes next like a train station. I suppose one day no one will show up, and then it will be just an over engineered metropolis, but if one knows Manhattan and its environment like I do, besides the residential and business sections, there are the large advanced hospital complexes which a great many people from outside the urban area frequently need. Also it is part of the hub of a vast communications and transportation network, so if one feels a bit left out in the crowd, one can always retreat to some more quiet nearby retreat. For all the years, I went into Manhattan around midnight, which is only about 20 to 25 minutes away, it was like visiting an empty stage set, but if one stays to long into the early morning, it suddenly gets very busy again. Basically, I think it is the nature of Manhattan and the expensive prices of real estate that the population there is more focused on monetary reward than spiritual values. Still, since so many of them walk a lot, they seem to be more physically fit than their suburban and rural cousins. Whatever, the case the urban population I dealt with did not seem to be programmed or educated the way I was in my formal education, and during most of my time there, they treated me as a casual visitor. I guess, so many of them have come out this way and been under whelmed, that they soon forget, that part of the country experience is to learn to relax. I happened to noticed this past Sunday about 50 people walking around Tod's Point coming and going from the Old Greenwich, Connecticut commuter railroad station with day packs on their packs, so it seemed to be a large excursion of urban visitors into our area on foot, but they could have just have as easily have been foreign visitors. Since, there are probably over a million people whom pass through this town every week, I tend to treat the traveling public like the primary orders on the Starship Enterprise, which is not to interfere with the normal evolution and timeline of the planets evolvement. In other words, I do not want strangers to come into my apartment and treat it like a souvenir shop, since I tend to try to keep items orderly despite the cluttered nature of the apartment. It would seem to me that whom ever is encouraging travel into this area would probably own real estate and income producing assets, so I would recommend people visiting to visit the movers and shakers in this area, and not simply the low level volunteers whom seem to just get by on subsistence income. Anyway I ate a half of a 10 ounce can or five ounces of smoked almonds along with some iced tea. Since I watched Cspan, I did not do much computer work. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO Note: <888> 03/04/04 Thursday 11:05 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I watched some hearings on CSPAN. Judging by the base of the hearings in Washington D.C., they are still going at that old slow deliberate pace as characterized by the old guard whom seem to frequent that town. Of course as Everett Dirksen said, "A Billion Dollars Here, and A Billion Dollars There, and Pretty Soon It is Real Money". Well, the trickle down theory of economics does not really seem to work up here in Greenwich, Connecticut, because by the time the public money is siphoned off in New York, when it reaches this point in Connecticut, there is not much left but private enterprise. It may not make sense to some local economists, but I once read that at the height of their economic influence, the Rockefeller family had two thousand lawyers in New York, and six thousand lawyers in Chicago. It makes me wander, with this latest list of wealthy people around the world Forbes.com The World's Richest People , how many lawyers are making all the money, while everyone else takes a back seat. Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, besides the financial people the medical profession seems to be making some money also. I suppose, once one gets into the real world of real prices and what goods and services are worth, I wander what my minor volunteer efforts have been worth over the years over what it has cost for me to live here. Basically, considering I have a fairly good academic back ground with some computer expertise recently in the last 11 years, I can reflect from experience. However, much of what I have read in the last ten years on the internet is more public relations than real world fact, so in that fine line between fact and fiction, it is hard to tell where I stand within the community compared to everyone else. Basically as a long term resident from a family of long term residence, I generally try to look at the whole picture and not just the bottom line in my savings account. It is hard to deal with a community that respects tradition, when many of our neighbors in New York do not. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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