Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 4:05 P.M.: I proofed www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . CIO Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 3:15 P.M.: I was up at noon. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail. I spent two hours reading the computer periodical press. I threw out those magazines that I read. CIO Note: <888> 04/14/04 Wednesday 12:30 A.M.: G.C.C. Address Imagery View G.C.C. . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 11:35 P.M.: It is the nature of publishing my web log and the nature of the internet that it tends to be for individuals on a lower budget, and it is not meant to compete with the big budget operations on the internet. Since most of the world lives on a low budget, I would imagine it has a certain small group of curious users, possibly those whom are trying to live on a modest budget in an unfamiliar environment. However, since I have lived here since 1961 and since I have lived in other areas such as Manhattan, Nantucket, New Canaan, and Key West where people from Greenwich also live, from experience I know after 43 years, there is no point in trying to get ahead, since basically the Greenwich environment is a matriarchal environment in which a group of Amazon type women control the purse strings and the general economic welfare of the town. Thus since I grew up in a matriarchal family, I am familiar with this environment. It would seem to be that since there has been substantial inflation on the price of food and other items in the past year that there should be a comparative increase in the budget for subsistence income. I have noticed that only the blue color workers in town seem heavy and a few Asian visitors, and everyone else seems to be getting thinner. There is an old saying that "One Can Not Be Too Thin or Too Fair", but during times of conflict and potential terrorism, it might not hurt for the younger generation to have a little extra body fat in case they have to do field work or assist in other emergency capacity. However, since a great many of the tax payers here are office workers, it is the nature of their professions working with office equipment that they tend to be a thinner group of people. However, since I do most of my observation when walking downtown which consists mostly of women's shops, I suppose if I went over to some location like Home Depot, the people would be a bit beefier. Whatever, the case since I have pursued computers for 12 years this time around, I suppose the office crowd downtown in Greenwich is quite familiar with computers, and since they are trying to protect their corporate confidentiality with their clients, they are not a very chatty group except for when they are trying to curry favor with business customers. Thus since I do not interfere with the status quo with the local business community I seem to maintain my status here. However, since my family were amongst the original business partners in this area going back almost 400 years, I would imagine there are probably still members of the family in the business community in this area whom would be better versed in the exact nature of some of the complex business arrangements in this area. Since a great many of the community might be focused on television, and since the community also has a hospital, it is the nature of hospital personnel that they tend not to look like television celebrities but just your average cross section of world wide citizens. Since the senior community control the town, I would imagine they need the attention of the hospital personnel more than the theatre community whom also might move around this community. Basically since a great many people need exercise, I have noticed that many people use the downtown area for exercise. Whatever, the case it is the nature of the downtown area of Greenwich, it is actually a very small part of the entire real estate area of the town of Greenwich, and economically it is also a small part of the overall economic picture of this area. In other words, the shop operations on Greenwich Avenue are not Fortune 500 operations, and therefore, it would seem to me that those representatives of Fortune 500 companies in this area would probably have a greater economic impact on the area as they interrelate with their bankers and financial advisors whom also have economic influence. CIO Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 10:55 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 9:10 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by the Greenwich Town Hall for my 4 P.M. appointment an hour early. I went to the town parks and recreation department, and I filled out the required information for a new beach permit and beach parking permit. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. During my walk, I stopped by the 70% off rack at the Greenwich Hardware store. I did not sit outside during my walk, because it was raining. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time and P.C. Magazine. I then returned home. I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm . I use two 4.25 ounce cans of crushed California black olives and a clove of elephant garlic along with the other usual ingredients. I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the tuna portion, I used a 6 ounce can of Bumble Bee chunk light tuna and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Land O Lakes Pepper Jack cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 2:15 P.M.: I read all of the periodical literature except the computer press. I threw out what I read. I still have a large stack of computer press. I chatted with a relative to wish them Happy Birthday. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. I have a 4 P.M. appointment. CIO Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 12:20 P.M.: I did not fall asleep until 1:30 A.M. this morning. I had a telephone call from a friend at 6:30 A.M.. I was awake at 10:30 A.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I picked up my mail. I have a 4 P.M. appointment this afternoon. I have a lot of periodical literature mostly on computer technology to read, so I think instead of working on the computer, I will read some of it. CIO Note: <888> 04/13/04 Tuesday 12:05 A.M.: United States National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 11:25 P.M.: I rehung the battery operated door bell, which I keep in the bedroom, so I can hear people visiting at my door, and the batteries still work. I have it set to play the "Blue Bells of Scotland". I bought it for about $8 at Odd Job, when I first moved in to this apartment about 15 years ago, and I ran door bell wire from the apartment door into the bedroom, and I think I purchased the ringer button separately elsewhere. I moved all my computer tech magazines that I have not read along with other periodical literature that I have not read to the top of the magazine rack on the right side head of the day bed. It is about an eight inch high stack of periodical literature. Thus when one sits on the far side of the blue sofa, they are no longer there anymore. I threw out the old grocery store circulars in the trash. I put the 30 calling cards in my car. I have 7 more in my wallet. Basically, it is my impression locally people presently in Greenwich are not very interested in tropical storms, since they are use to dealing with so much colder weather in the winter. However, when some of the retired and southern people venture north in the tropical storm season there seems to be an interest. Also since Connecticut is known as an insurance state, there is obviously some actuarial and risk management involvement in terms of the insurance industry in New York, Connecticut, and elsewhere around the country and the world and those insuring against risk in those areas effected by tropical storm activity. Basically as an economist, I know the biggest variable is the weather. Whatever, the case I personally am not involved in the insurance business, and I just study what is made available freely over the internet. However, I do have family members, friends, and associates living in those areas at risk. I have read that there are 80 million U.S. citizens living along the shoreline from the south coast of Texas to the north of Maine, not to mention the Latin and Caribbean areas. Thus it is a large population group that is aware. During the last three years, the tropical storms have been moving further north in the tropical storm season, so areas like the Carolinas, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Bermuda have been more effected than normal. Also if the trend continues, it would mean those areas further north would be effected. From what I know it is not the air temperature as much that effects the tropical storm activity, but the ocean temperature, and although it is currently cold here in Connecticut, the weather down south has been very warm for a while, so the ocean water in the tropical storm areas is heating up more. I have not proofed my tropical storm page since last season, but it is available at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm for people to make their own best judgments as to their risks. Also the United States government since 1978 has sold low cost flood insurance, so more people take the risk of living in the effected areas. Since from what I hear, it is very busy down south with the colder winters, it is hard to tell what portion of that group might be venturing north with the terrorists threats since 911, and I suppose they might go to more remote parts of the country up north, but still the New York City metropolitan area offers many essential services which many people seek out in their travels away from home. CIO Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 9:50 P.M.: As a point of reference, I currently have 17 mirrors in the apartment, if I counted right. I use the mirrors to make the apartment fell larger, since they not only reflect light, but they also make the apartment fell a little bit more spacious. CIO Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 9:15 P.M.: I had five sheets of the Avery 5731 labels left, so I printed out 30 more calling cards on three of the sheets, but this time instead of the zip code "06830-2902", I printed out "06830 U.S.A.", but the rest of the format remains the same. My family lived in Martinsville, Virginia from 1953 to 1954, so I might have possibly visited Washington D.C. during that period, but I do not recall. The first time I recall visiting Washington D.C. was around February 1961, when I flew up from Decatur, Alabama on the Chemstrand Gulf stream, and we stopped over at National airport, and while walking through National airport, my father introduced me to the head of the Atomic Energy Commission. We then continued our journey up to Westchester County airport, and it might not have been in the Gulf Stream which is a turbo prop, but it might have been in a D.C. 3, since the Chemstrand and Monsanto company had a large fleet of company jets, they rotated the planes occasionally when one traveled on them, which I did quite a bit down south, so by the time I arrived here I was an experienced air traveler in the days of Planter Peanuts for snacks on the plane with box lunches and a soda pop for the kids. Later that year around June 1961, we moved up to Stamford, Connecticut, and when we drove north, and we toured through Mount Vernon and Washington D.C. on the way up north. One summer when I was about 15 living in Greenwich at that time, I drove down to Virginia with a couple of other people from old Virginia families, and we might have driven though Washington D.C. on our way to stay in Williamsburg and touring some James River plantations in Virginia, and I recall attending a wedding at the Boars Head Country Club and the Country Club of Virginia or some similar names. Thus more than likely we drove back north through Washington D.C.. I recall driving down south with my family for a family vacation in Pompano Beach, Florida around 1965 during the winter, so we might have driven through Washington D.C. on that trip both ways. I recall driving though Washington D.C. on my trip north from Greensville, South Carolina in July 1976, and I walked around Washington D.C. a bit during a few hour break. I recall the following September, I drove down to Florida, but I think I might have taken the Chesapeake Bay tunnel bridge, so I might not have gone through Washington D.C.. I recall that spring 1977 driving north through Washington D.C.. That same spring after the Seabrook demonstration, I hitchhiked from New Hampshire though Washington D.C. to Williamsburg, Virginia where I stayed a few days, and then I hitchhiked back north again returning to Nantucket probably traveling through Washington D.C.. I recall hitchhiking that following fall down through Washington D.C. on my way to Florida, and I was held temporarily in jail in Richmond, Virginia for hitchhiking on the Interstate for a few hours before they let me go. Since I could not hitchhike the Interstate Highway in Virginia, I think I hitchhiked a local road through Williamsburg, Virginia and down to Virginia Beach and down the coast highway into the Carolinas where one could hitchhike and then down to Florida, but I might have gotten a ride from the ramp near a military base in the Carolinas, all the way down to Fort Lauderdale. The following spring 1978 I hitchhiked north with a friend as far as Washington D.C., and we caught a city bus to the Amtrak station in Washington and took the train north to Stamford, Connecticut. In the fall of 1978 after a trip to California in the yellow Subaru and then down to the Florida Keys, I returned north with a friend before Christmas 1978 probably driving though Washington D.C.. I recall that winter of 1979 driving back down south again to Florida around Daytona and then returning early in the spring to the New York area which would have required going through Washington D.C. each way. I think also around 1979, I might have driven down to visit a relative in Philadelphia, and on the return trip I might have driven down to Washington D.C., and then driven back to the New York area, and it might have been around the time of the Pennsylvania nuclear accident called "Three Mile Island". I recall possibly in the fall of 1979 driving out to California in the same yellow 1972 Subaru wagon, and when the Iran helicopter rescue attempt was happening and the U.S. forces were on military alert, I drove from California on Route 10 East down to the Florida Keys and then back north to the New York area, which would have meant going through Washington D.C. around December 1979. I recall on my last trip to California in the Burgundy Volvo in September 1980, we drove from Greenwich to Nantucket, to Montreal to Toronto to Key West via Washington D.C. west across Route 10, and after election day in November 1980, we sold the car about a week later and flew back to New York. I think the next time I was in Washington D.C. would have been for Ronald Regan's first inaugural, which I think was in January 1981. I did visit between his first inaugural and former President Bush's #42 inaugural twice as mentioned in the earlier note. I think the trip that I flew down for a day and back was about six weeks after Reagan's first inaugural, and the person sitting next to me the plane looked like Ed Messe the United States Attorney General. Then there was the previous mentioned trip to Washington D.C. in February 1983 before I went to Oslo, Norway. The next time I was there, I attended former President Bush's #42 inaugural in January 1989 as mentioned in the earlier note. I think the following winter in 1990 when former President Bush was in Argentina and it was zero degrees in Washington D.C., I drove down there for a few days with a friend, and after the visit, the friend went quail hunting in Virginia, and I returned via Amtrak to this area. This picture was taken then http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsdc.jpg . That was the last time I recall being in Washington D.C., and on that trip we toured the White House along with the Capitol and a few other sites and we stayed once again at the Dutch Inn now the Thomas Jefferson Inn. Since there is a big world out there much of which I have not seen, if I ever get enough money to travel again, I probably will want to explore other areas, since I have seen quite a bit of Washington D.C.. I recall on my driving trips north to south and back going though Washington D.C., I stopped by Dulles airport a few times since it was an enjoyable exercise walk away from the city, and I recall once driving by Andrews Air Force base when I went around the east side on the belt way. I have visited in various trips the Botanical Garden next to the Capitol, Georgetown University, the National Cathedral, the White House, the Capitol, the Smithsonian, the National Air and Space Museum, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the train station, Stephen Decatur House, Lafayette Park, the Willard Hotel, the Canadian Embassy, the National Gallery, and I have driven near the Pentagon and Arlington National cemetery. I think when I moved to Greenville, South Carolina in January 1976, the plane down there also stopped at National Airport, and possibly on some air trips down south and back, the plane might have stopped at one of the Washington D.C. airports. I just chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 7:10 P.M.: Before the last message, I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder which I added 20 large cut croutons too, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. I then ate a piece of apple pie with more iced tea. I normally do not drink alcohol very much, so in those few times, I traveled to the Washington D.C. establishment which is actually quite transient, they probably thought I drank that much all the time. Unfortunately since I have driven automobiles a lot in the suburbs for a good deal of my life, I do not drink much in the suburbs, but when I did not have a car in places like Europe, Nantucket and Manhattan, I would occasionally have a drink, particularly during very cold winter nights. However, before I quit drink alcohol almost completely, my normal routine was to have one or two beers on weekends, and that was pretty much it. Basically, although I keep alcohol in the apartment, I can not afford to get use to drinking it, since not only the cost of alcohol is expensive, but also one would have to walk or hire a taxi cab to travel. Basically, from what I can tell, I have never had a serious alcohol drinking problem, and about the worst it has ever been was when I was on spring break in Bermuda in 1968, my freshmen orientation first month in September 1972 at Lake Forest College, and the first five weeks in Florence, Italy in January and February 1972, I drank quite a bit of cheap Chianti and occasionally I would have a drink during the rest of that trip until I returned home in May 1972. When one is busy and low on funds, one does not drink too much alcohol. CIO Note: <888> 04/12/04 Monday 6:45 P.M.: I secured the frame with a small nail and duct tape on the Audubon blue heron picture, but I forgot to straighten the print, so it is slightly crooked, but it still looks all right, since it is the nature of the print that it looks a bit crooked anyway. I originally got the Audubon pictures in a portfolio set at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop for $5 about 15 years ago, when I first moved here. Two friends with whom I visited Washington D.C. to see former president number 42 George Bush's inaugural in 1988, which we actually did not make it to the inaugural, since it was a very cold day, so we watched it on a small television at the Dutch Inn now the Thomas Jefferson Inn on Thomas Jefferson street in Georgetown. Before Ronald Reagan's inaugural in 1981 the night before, I was bought about five triple Vodka's on a cold night in Greenwich Village, which I stayed up all night, and since I had clothes and belongings to travel, I decided to go to Washington D.C. for the inaugural, I flew down on a $40 Braniff flight with Prince Boni Sadhir of Saudi Arabia. We were the only two passengers on the jet. I changed into my suit on the jet, so during the inaugural, I was a bit under the weather. After inaugural that time, I had a butterscotch sundae at the ice cream parlor in the basement of the Washington Hilton, and I saw Ronald Reagan again that evening in the lobby when he appeared at the Medal of Honor reception. I recall, I was drinking a Drambuie in the lobby cocktail lounge when he showed up. Since the Hilton was filled up, I was told by a cab drivers about the Dutch Inn in Georgetown. I stayed there that night, and I returned the following day via the Time magazine jet to Westchester airport and back up to New Canaan, Connecticut where I was living at the time. I think I also had another drink that trip to Washington D.C., when I went across the street from the Hilton after the inaugural to the Sheraton, and I recall having a Vodka tonic and sitting next to outgoing Admiral Stanfield Turner or someone that looked like him. During former President Bush's inaugural, during the inaugural myself and my two friends, and one of my friend's fiancée, we all had lunch in the basement of the Dutch Inn watching the inaugural, and I noticed that Happy Rockefeller was sitting behind George and Barbara Bush on the inaugural stand, so she has a good seat. We each drank about five alcoholic drinks while watching and as usual, I drank vodka and tonic. We also had drinks and wine at the dinner before inaugural ball and we had drinks at the inaugural ball, but at that point I can not remember how many we had all together. We were not driving, we were using Washington D.C. taxi service. I recall the following night after inaugural, I went to the 1782 Inn in Georgetown, and I met a Georgetown University heart surgeon that I had met on a previous trip between those two inaugurals, and I had a few Vodka tonics, and I was invited back to his house to meet his wife, and we sat up all night chatting on general subjects. The heart surgeon was a very brilliant man, and he looked like the actor James Mason, and he might have been related to the family that once owned the Stamford Advocate and the Greenwich Time, since both family names were the same. The heart surgeon told me he had been Lyndon Johnson's heart surgeon, and he had done thousands of heart operations, and he had also done many autopsies, and he claimed smoking and cholesterol were not the biggest causes of heart disease but stress was. Since the heart surgeon was Old Guard, and since his generation had gone through major challenges, I did not think it odd that he drank alcohol, since a great many of his generation did unlike the current generation. Anyway the same two friends sometime after the inaugural were visiting me in Greenwich, and I showed them the Audubon prints, and they liked them, so I gave one third of the prints which were mostly field birds to one friend, and I gave another third of the prints which were mostly inland water birds to another friend, and I keep most of the other third of prints which were mostly marine, sea, tropical, and swamp birds. Of course we divided the Audubon bird prints quickly, and I recall they had been part of some insurance company promotion about 40 years ago. I recall during Ronald Reagan's first term in office, I returned to visit Washington D.C. once for a day flying each way and walking around and once again after I finished the garage apartment in Long Island around February 1983 before I visited Norway, and it was at that time I met the heart surgeon. I also have traveled through Washington D.C. a number of times going north and south with the seasons when I was younger. 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