Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 04/08/04  Thursday 10:45 A.M.:  I ate a piece of apple pie with some iced tea.  I have to pay my electricity bill which came yesterday.  I have an appointment on Tuesday April 13, 2004 at 4 P.M..  I printed out a birthday card that I will mail to a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/08/04  Thursday 9:50 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I started up both the Compaq 486 laptop with 8 megs of memory and the Acer 486 laptop with 4 megs of memory to have their batteries charge up.  I think the Compaq holds a charge, but the last time I tested the Acer, its battery would not hold a charge.  I never use them, but I keep them around for mobile word processing in case I ever had to do it.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04  Thursday 8:50 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative last night, and they told me it would be too expensive to rent a truck to take the pineapple post day bed up to Kennebunkport, Maine, since the day bed with box spring and mattress only cost $70 at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop about four years ago.  Thus it will be staying here for the indefinite future.  I have a friend with a station wagon, but he is always too busy to drive up to Kennebunkport, Maine, and his Buick Roadmaster station wagon is over 11 years old with over 100,000 miles on it, so it might be too much wear and tear on the Buick to drive all the way up to Kennebunkport, Maine and back.  The last time we did a few years ago, he had to pay for a new transmission when it broke on the way down.  I have noticed in my observations around town that a lot of Old Guard citizens and Veterans drive Buick Centuries, so I guess that is the preferred car of the senior community, if they can afford the higher amount that they cost plus to maintain them.  Also last weekend, I saw for the third time in as many years someone park in front of the senior center in a new Audi, and have their front bumper catch on the stone curb, and when they tried to back up, the outer plastic covering on the bumper pulled off from the inner Styrofoam that cushions the bumper.  One would think that the Germans with all of their advanced engineering skills would be able invent a bumper for the Audi that does not pull off when it catches on a curb.  I have not noticed any other cars have the same problem.  I think what they have to do is have the plastic bumper covering project further underneath the Audi, so it does not catch on curbs.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/04  Thursday 8:25 A.M.:  Since it is warmer outside, I turned the thermostat in the living room from 78 degrees Fahrenheit which keeps the room at 72 degrees Fahrenheit down to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and the living room is now 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have the thermostat in the bedroom set at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which I kept it at all winter except on colder nights.  I never turn on the heat in the bathroom.  I turned off the box fan on the living room window shelf that I use to circulate the living room heat through out the apartment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/08/04  Thursday 8:15 A.M.:  I was up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I threw out some garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 10:00 P.M.:  I finished off eating a third of a box of CVS wheat thin crackers along with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 8:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend, and I left messages with three friends and a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 7:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I bought for $5 a black canvas director's chair that sits about three feet high off the ground on folding wooden legs.  Since it folds up, I put it in the back of my Hyundai Accent hatchback area.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I sat out in the director's chair on the pier off Steamboat Road, and I used my binoculars that I keep in my car to observe the waterfront.  From what I could tell, they seem to have built a lot of new buildings on the north shore of Long Island.  I chatted with a British couple.  I told them about the fact that people have been eves dropping across the waterfront for over a half of a century.  I suppose from both sides.  I also told them that all of the corporate CEO and managers live on the south shore of Connecticut in Fairfield County, while the owners whom have had so much money for so long that they do not know what they own, live on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau and Suffolk counties.  However, down by the colder waterfront out in the wind, it is still a bit colder than downtown.  I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  During my walk, I stopped by Zyn stationary, and for a dollar, I bought a number 28 scratch card Winner Wonderland, but I did not win.  I also stopped by CVS, and I bought four 32 ounce Fantastik orange action spray bottles with contents for $1.99 each and a five pack of Bic lighters for $2.49 plus .63 tax for $11.08 total.  I also stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I then completed my walk.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I next returned home, and I baked in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit six America's Choice fish cakes, 15 America's Choice frozen miniature potato pancakes, and 14 America's Choice frozen onion rings for 12 minutes on each of two sides.  I mixed up a half of a cup of Heinz ketchup with three tablespoons of horse radish to have a seafood sauce to go with the baked items.  I had it all with a glass of iced tea.  I then chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 12:55 P.M.:  I threw out some more garbage.  I am still waiting for the mail to come.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  It is currently 56 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so it has warmed up a bit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 12:25 P.M.:  I made and ate www.geocities.com/mikelscott/onionsoup.htm .  I had the soup with a glass of iced tea, and then I ate a piece of apple pie.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 11:25 A.M.:  I threw out the garbage.  One of my neighbors threw out a 5 foot by 8 foot rug which is green with stars, so I rolled it up, and I retrieved it to my apartment, and I put it by the bedroom door entrance.  Sometime in the near future, a relative will be driving north through this area with a rental truck, and they will pick up the pineapple post day bed and its box spring and mattress, and they will take it up to Kennebunkport, Maine to a relative's house.  Then I will move the long mahogany bureau in the middle of the living room to against the far living room wall with the two Danish end tables on either side of it.  I will then have room to pull out the blue couch further away from the long green couch, and the rug that I just found should fit in between the two couches just fine.  I will get rid of the smaller DuPont Orlon rug.  I will then put the 2 foot by 4 foot brass and glass coffee table that I have on the Danish desk in the bedroom in between the two couches, and I will put the two small brass and glass end tables on either end of the blue couch.  Of course, I can not do this until the relative comes through with the truck, which might be over a month.  The relative might want to pick up some other items, since my apartment tends to be a bit cluttered right now.  I checked the mail, and it has not arrived yet.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 10:50 A.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 10:35 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 9:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/04  Wednesday 9:25 A.M.:  I was up at 6 A.M., and I chatted with a friend.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8:30 A.M..  I am making up a fresh batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  Recently I have seen advanced elements of the group that spend the winter down south coming north into our area.  Whether they will spend the summer here or go further north is opened to question.  Since there are large numbers of them that regularly move through this area on their way up north, we are use to seeing them starting about the first of April.  However, whether they will be resting their laurels in this area or moving into the north country, I do not really know.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 7:55 P.M.:   BBC NEWS In Pictures In pictures: Queen in France ,  BBC NEWS UK Queen urges strong ties with US , Entente Cordiale The Centenary .  Je suis un peu fatique, et je veux reste.  I am a bit tired, and I wish to rest.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  Usually when the seasons change, I get a bit tired.  I suppose now that the weather is changing, it is effecting my biological clock.  During the winter, when it is cold, I feel more energetic, but when it starts to warm up, I begin to feel a bit tired at first until I get use to the warmer weather conditions.  At the moment, it is 47 degrees Fahrenheit outside.  I have not walked much in the last few days, since I have been on a different schedule, and during the daytime schedule, it costs too much money to park downtown for a walk which can take over an hour and cost .25 a half hour.  Thus I have not been walking as much.  Since I have low blood pressure, when I take it a walk, it tends to wake me up a bit and get me going.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 6:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 and a loaf of whole grain low fat oat bread for .99 less 10% senior discount of .29 for $2.59 total.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I checked the oil in my car, and it is fine.  I checked my glove compartment document folder holder, and the yellow registration slip that I had in it had expired, but in an envelope in the glove compartment, I had my current registration.  I put it in the document holder.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital to pay a minor bill of $2, but they told me it was an accounting error, and I did not need to pay it.  I then returned home, and 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 then rested for a while.  I next ate a half of a box of CVS wheat thin crackers and then I ate the remaining fifth of a 9 ounce can of Smoked almonds.  I then watched some television.  However, all of the television seems to be programmed for young children, so there was not any television for me to watch.  It has warmed up to 51 degrees Fahrenheit, but I feel lazy, so I will just continue relaxing at home.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 9:10 A.M.:  I went through the Microsoft information that I received yesterday, and I put it with the Microsoft TS/2 conference bag that I have on my Rubbermaid hamper at the entrance to the bedroom. The information that I received yesterday is basically a few pamphlets on the Microsoft Open License Program, a clipboard, a spiral notebook calendar, and a Microsoft pen.  It lists these links http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/webcast/saleswebcasts.asp , http://members.microsoft.com/partner/licensing/softwareadvisor/ and http://members.microsoft.com/certpartner/help/rsc/default.aspx .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 8:45 A.M.:  I checked my Hyundai service list, and I am not due for any Hyundai shop service, until 48,000 miles.  I currently have about 39,650 miles on the car, and I am due for a oil change at 40,800 miles.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 7:55 A.M.:  My guest the night before last finished eating the bag of corn chips.  My guest also noticed that when he was riding in my Hyundai that the front passenger side retractable seatbelt did not work properly.  I extended it after I got out of the car yesterday, and I left if fastened.  It is hard to draw out the belt from the retainer since it catches, when one tries to draw it out, and one has to let it retreat a number of times before extending it out far enough to cover the passenger.  If one is looking for items in this area, try looking at www.bargainnews.com .  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 7:45 A.M.:  I just finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/04  Tuesday 7:15 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I chatted with a relative about 10 P.M..  I was awake at 5:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I took the Lasko box fan out of the living room window where I use it to blow the heat from the electric radiators around the aparment in the winter.  I removed both of its louvered side panels, and I washed them in the kitchen sink.  I also cleaned the fan blades and the interior of the fan housing.  I then reassembled it, and I put it back in the living room window in front of the G.E. Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control, which I have covered with Styrofoam.  I turned the Lasko fan on low, and I now have it blowing the electric heat around the apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04  Monday 6:15 P.M.:  My guest just called up, and he is headed back to Long Island.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  It is suppose to be cold tonight.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04  Monday 5:25 P.M.:  About a year ago, I had given my guest my Land's End aqua marine colored Eisenhower jacket, and while my guest was here, I gave him my other similar aqua marine Eisenhower jacket made by Patagonia.  Neither fit me, since I weigh 215 pounds, but they fit my guest whom weighs about 155 pounds.  I have plenty of other clothes that size.  I noticed today that the ELDC thrift shop is no longer in business at the Cos Cob shopping plaza next to the Mobil station just east of Indian Field Road.  I called Microsoft back about a phone message about Microsoft's New Livemeeting program www.microsoft.com/livemeeting/ , which I have not had time evaluate, but since I am on a limited budget, I will not be buying it.  I heated an ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Select New England Clam chowder which I ate with 20 large cut croutons and a glass of iced tea.  I also ate a piece of apple pie.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04  Monday 3:50 P.M.:  After the last message, my guest and I both cleaned up.  My guest had a glass of orange juice.  We drove over to McDonalds, and my guest had breakfast of a sausage, egg, and cheese muffin with a potato pancake.  I had already eaten breakfast.  We returned to my apartment, and my guest picked up his belonging, and then we eat drove our respective cars, and I showed my guest the way to North Street, so he could drive up to the Merritt Parkway.  I then left him at the beginning of North Street, and I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought a Every Ready black and yellow flashlight for a dollar.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I used the bathroom downstairs there besides doing some banking business.  I then drove over to Walgreen's in Old Greenwich, and I bought a 12 pack of Walgreen Ultra Alkaline D batteries for $9.99, two nine ounce cans of Smoked Almonds for $1.99 each, three 11 ounce cans of Madame mandarin oranges for .39 each with store coupon, and three 6 ounce cans of Bumble Bee chunk light tuna for .39 each with store coupon plus .60 tax for $16.91.  I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room.  I next drove out to Tod's Point, and I parked by the southwest parking area, and I enjoyed the view.  I ate half of the can of almonds for lunch.  I fed a fourth of the can of almonds to the squirrels, crows, sparrows, and cardinals in the bush in front of me.  I then went to the southeast parking area, and I sat out for a while, and I used the bathroom there.  I then went by Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought a damaged package of 500 sheets of Staples legal laser paper for $2.60 and a 25 pack of slim jewel cases for $4.44 plus .42 tax for $7.46 total.  I then returned to the center of Greenwich, and I sat out briefly for a while downtown, and I then returned home.  I put in the new D batteries in the Every Ready flash light and the other black rubber flashlight I had in the car, and I put in three new batteries in the RayOVac metal Sportsman flashlight, and I brought it up from the car, and I put it on the rack behind the apartment entrance door.  I decided not to leave it in the car, because when it rolls around on the floor of the car, it turns on and runs out of power.  I put the other five D batteries in a bag in the top left drawer of the blue kitchen bureau.  I put away the other food items.  I filled my Minolta laser printer with more paper.  I put the CVS legal laser paper in a plastic bag to reduce moisture, and I put it underneath the table holding the Minolta laser printer.  I put the 25 slim jewel cases on the printer port box to the right side of the primary computer on the wicker rack on the wall.  I received at my door while I was out a Microsoft software advisor kit which has Microsoft information that I will look at later.  I drank some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/04  Monday 8:45 A.M.:  I checked the weather outside, and it is clear and currently 26 degrees Fahrenheit.  I made breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, pineapple orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  My guest is still asleep, but when he woke up briefly, he said he would be up soon.  He has to drive to Ansonia, Connecticut today, which I think is on this side of New Haven.  I do not travel much in this area, so I do not know where a lot of places are.  It seems colder than normal for this time of year, but I can remember when it has snowed here during the first week of May back around 1971.  I remember that because I was returning from Tobago, and when we flew into Kennedy airport during that time, there was snow on the ground as we transferred to Boston, and then I returned to Chicago.  Thus since we have had a colder winter, and if the pattern holds, which it can do for a up to 15 year cycle, this colder weather for extended periods might be here to stay for more than a decade compared to the warmer winters we have experienced during the previous 15 years or so.  Weather tends to go in long term cycles.  I hear tell, it is quite busy down in Florida, and I also hear that it is a lot colder out in the Midwest of the United States of America.  I suppose with all of this cold weather, the energy companies will be making more money, and of course we will be paying more for energy.  My guest just woke up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/05/04  Monday 7:10 A.M.:  I cleaned up after the last message.  My guest arrived shortly thereafter.  We chatted for a while.  My guest drank two St. Pauli Girl dark beers along with eating some white corn chips.  We went out about 10:30 P.M., and we drove downtown down by the waterfront.  I showed my guest the view of Long Island, and that the lights were still on out on Long Island.  We then went by the Glory Days Diner on East Putnam Avenue.  My guest bought dinner.  We both had iced tea.  My guest had a cheese omelet with bacon and Rye toast.  I ate a Caesar Salad with baked slices of grilled chicken.  We chatted over dinner.  We then returned back to my apartment.  My guest went to bed on the day bed in the living room about midnight, and I went to bed at the same time.  I just got up, and my guest is in no rush this morning, so he is still sleeping.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 8:00 P.M.:  I rested until a half hour ago.  I had one friend call and say he would not be able to make it to visit.  However, another friend will be arriving to stay the night shortly.  The friend has to drive further east in Connecticut in the morning, so he will save the time coming from Long Island.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 2:35 P.M.:  I rested a bit.  I watched some television.  I ate two large bowls of corn chips with some iced tea.  Not much happens in the suburbs during rainy weekends, since people are not able to pursue their outdoor activities.  Since the people in the suburbs are not as literate as their big city slicker neighbors, the suburban people are probably involved in other activates such as Sunday dinner, which frequently can be enjoyable, if one can afford it.  Since it is not safe frequently to drive during lots of rain, people just stay home and reflect upon sunnier days.  I suppose their might be a few English residents poking around town trying to make the spare pound or two, since they are use to lots of rain.  Generally here in the New York state area, we average about 40 inches or more of rain a year http://www.the-home-improvement-web.com/State-Facts/New-York.htm which works out to about one inch a week, however for some odd reason New York City's central park averages about 10 days a month or about one day in every three days, it rains in New York City, so although it supposedly rains less in the suburbs, anyone whom has lived in this area for a long time would be use to rain, so get use to it.  Rain information http://www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/wx/climate/daysrain.html .  Thus having lived in New York City and having spent 20 years here in Greenwich, Connecticut walking downtown and having lived in wet areas like Nantucket, Boston, Chicago, and Florida, the rain does not bother me at all.  I just have to readjust to it, when it occurs.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 11:25 A.M.:  I will put the computer in standby mode, and I will rest for a while.  I am suppose to have a guest come out to visit for the night at 7 P.M. this evening.  Obscure facts The House of Bush: Born in a Bank .  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 11:00 A.M.:  The Queen Mary II will be in Lanzarote on April 6, 2004 http://www.qm2.org.uk/itinerary.html .  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 10:55 A.M.:  If you forgot http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 10:45 A.M.:  How to get rid of goose poop http://www.pestproducts.com/goose_buster.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 10:40 A.M.:  http://www.abc.net.au/outbackhouse/ CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 10:25 A.M.:  I watched a bit of television including a show on Channel 21 about light houses in California.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 8:10 A.M.:  Art story News Danish Carlsberg collection coming to London .  I suppose next they will be drinking Carlsberg elephant beer in London.  I was told a few years ago by a Swedish visitor whom spent a lot of time sitting in our local Starbucks that if I ever go to Stockholm, I am going to end up sitting in a coffee shop.  I suppose with the colder Swedish weather that would be better than sitting on a bench outside.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/04  Sunday 7:50 A.M.:  It is rather strange that all of these so called environmentally friendly activists will spend a few gallons of gasoline to buy a $3.30 cup of coffee, when it would be far simpler to stay at home and make one's own coffee.  Of course the not so rich and not so secure like to strut their stuff hoping to advance themselves up the caffeine ladder of life.  I recently noticed that coffee beans have gone up in price, so maybe Starbucks should raise their prices, so they can more properly reflect the price of doing business, particularly at the central Greenwich, Connecticut business address, which is very expensive rental real estate, so when some out of Towner parks their butt their pretending to be Lord of the Roost, they might find out, that the Greenwich people probably do it in their locations too.  Thus in strutting their stuff pretending to be ecologically friendly, they are actually using up quite a bit of energy.  Whatever, the case so many of them work so hard on weekdays, they enjoy the ambience of Greenwich on weekends, which I actually find mundane and sort of boring with all the burned out corporate types, when the group we seem to see during the weekdays is actually more colorful and interesting.  Thus from 7 day a week 24 hour a day perspective, one has to keep everything in perspective.  Albany, N.Y. -- timesunion.com Starbucks story .  CIO