Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 7:35 A.M.: Taipei Times - archives Hungry Polar Bears the Biggest Hazard in Arctic golf game and http://www.icelandnews.com/ . CIO Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 6:40 A.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie. I watched a bit of television, and it is still the usual programming the people seem to prefer in the suburbs. I checked outside, and although it is not raining, it is still quite damp out, which individuals like myself whom have arthritis generally try to avoid, so I guess I will not be going out. Basically, I could bundle up and go out, but since I spend most of my free time when I am not outside or doing household chores or resting, I generally spend that extra time reading on the internet. Of course if I get tired of reading off the internet, I could always read some of the periodical literature that I receive. I also keep my notes up to date. One tends to get a bit of cabin fever staying in, but since I can not afford the warm ambience of Starbucks downtown, in the current weather conditions, I would not feel comfortable sitting on a bench downtown. I guess, I will make and drink a cup of coffee at my own version of Starbucks or Chez Mike's. CIO Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 5:10 A.M.: I ate two large bowls of corn chips with some iced tea. If one has not figured it out, with daylight savings time, it will be lighter later in the evening, but it will be darker earlier in the morning, so sunrise this morning will be at 5:33 A.M. and there is suppose to be rain all day http://www.weather.com/weather/detail/06830 , so I do not think I will be going out. Maybe there is some vintage movie on television http://entertainment.msn.com/TV/guide/Default.aspx , which at the moment is "White Zombie" . CIO Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 4:25 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 04/04/04 Sunday 4:00 A.M.: Daylight Saving Time starts in Europe and North America Spring forward an hour on our time. I was up at 10 P.M., and I chatted with a relative. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, pineapple orange juice, vitamins, and supplements and coffee. I chatted with a relative. I watched a Fox broadcast with Laura Bush and Karen Hughes. I then checked outside, and it felt a bit damp. Since it is warm and comfortable inside, I went back to sleep until a short time ago. I set all my clocks and watches ahead. Well today's date is 04/04/04 that does not happen too often, so it is a unique date. I believe today is also Palm Sunday. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 1:50 P.M.: I reheated the other half of the spaghetti noodles and half of the jar of tomato sauce that I had last night, and I added several tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with iced tea. Before I did that, I checked my mail. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 12:20 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I sat out briefly downtown. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $4.75 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.999 a gallon for about 25 miles per gallon usage around town. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought five 16 ounce boxes of Stop and Shop vermicelli for $2 all, four half gallons of Minute Maid not from concentrate premium orange juice with calcium for $1.50 each, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $3.99, a box of ten quart packages of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, four 25.5 ounce jars of Francesco Rinaldi traditional tomato sauce with no salt for .99 each, a 32 ounce jar of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $1.99, a 17 ounce bottle of Monari balsamic vinegar from Modena, Italy for $2.99, a five ounce jar of House of Tsang pure sesame oil for $2.99, two 13 ounce boxes of Keebler reduced fat Townhouse crackers for $2.50 each box, four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's New England clam chowder for two for $2.69, a bulb of elephant garlic for $1.99, a 3 pound bag of yellow onions for $3.29, two Rosenborg extra creamy Danish blue cheeses at $7.99 a pound for $3.96 and $3.08, two four packs of six ounce cans of Chicken of the Sea solid white albacore tuna fish for $3 for two four packs with card, four 6.5 ounce cans dry weight of California medium black pitted olives for .99 each can, two 28 ounce cans of Goya chick peas for $1.09 each, two 8 ounce bars of Land O Lakes Monterey Jack and Pepper Jack cheese for $2 each, a 14.75 ounce can of Bumble Bee Alaska pink salmon for .99 for $71.23 total. I chatted there with a local about my experiences down south. The local said he had never been down south. I then went to the Food Emporium, and I bought a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Hazelnut 100% Arabica coffee beans for $7.99 since the bag was priced $7.99, although it rang up $8.99. I used my Food Stamp allotment for all of the purchases. I then returned home, and I used my cart that I keep in the apartment to bring up my purchases. I next put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 6:45 A.M.: My energy assistance from the NEON program although it has been approved, it has not yet been deposited by the Federal government into my electricity account, so I may have to pay my electricity account this month. However, if it comes later, I will not have to make a payment later in the summer, when I tend to be more active. I guess when the Arab sheiks are here in the summer with their energy business partners, they like to see us living better with our energy assistance. However, I happen to know one Arab that lived in Connecticut when I was at prep school at Taft, and not many people knew he was Arab, since he said he told them he was from Louisiana, however another classmate used an alias which was my same last name to keep an eye on him, and when the Arab sheik left, my classmate with the Alias claimed he was kicked out of school for listening to a transistor radio. We had very strict rules which included no drinking alcohol on campus, no smoking except for seniors, no television except in master's apartments, and students also were not permitted radios, so what we knew basically came from reading a lot, since the school library had lots of printed information. I made up a grocery list, so I guess I will shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out and do a bit of grocery shopping. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 6:05 A.M.: The right most sconce candelabra bulb on the dining table wall burned out. I took out the other three Satco 15 watt bulbs, and I replaced all four with Philips 25 watt DuraMax long life bent tip candelabra light bulbs output 145 lumens energy used 25 watts life 2000 hours or 1 1/2 years. I put the three used 15 watt Satco bulbs in their boxes, and I put them back in the mahogany bureau drawer in the bedroom where I keep various bulbs. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 5:45 A.M.: I finished going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 5:10 A.M.: PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites . CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 4:35 A.M.: I ate a piece of apple pie with some ice tea before I wrote the previous note. CIO Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 4:15 A.M.: After I sent out my weekly note, I took the time to read it, and although it makes sense to me based on my experience, it might not make sense to other people in other locations. Still, when I was at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu , they always said publish or parish. When I returned from Europe in June of 1972 to Weston, Massachusetts where my family lived, I had seen some waterfronts in Europe, and I was familiar with the waterfront in Massachusetts area. I spent that summer at Lake Forest, Illinois, and in the fall, I went down to Jacksonville, Florida and St. Thomas, I then returned to Chicago, Illinois, and since they were not friendly to Nixon republicans, I returned to Weston, Massachusetts, and then around January 1973, I moved down to Manhattan staying with my sister on the East side of Manhattan. From about mid April 1973 to July 1973, I worked as a clerk typist at C.B.S. news at the broadcast center on West 57th Street, and I saw about five thousand French sailors walking by the building coming off a French aircraft carrier. I figured by their numbers, they would know more than C.B.S.. That was during the Watergate period of broadcasting, so there was not much original news being published. Since I was on a limited budget, I rented a room in on West 9th Street at the St. Clair Residence for about $40 a week, and I shared a bathroom down the hall from about April through June of 1973. The room did have a non working fire place. A friend from Illinois lived nearby on 13th street just east of Fifth Avenue. Since I was earning about $85 a week after taxes, I used the subway to get back and forth to work, but in my free time I walked around Manhattan. Thus from about January 1973 to July 1973, I spent a lot of time walking around Manhattan familiarizing myself again with Manhattan. Since Richard Nixon's daughter lived nearby on the east side, there were a lot of republicans in the area, although New York City tended to be a democratic environment like all urban centers. I explored the city, and that July 1973, my family moved back to Greenwich, Connecticut, so I moved back home, and I quit working at CBS, since I had a hard time waking up early enough in the morning to be at work at 10:30 A.M., so they would have the paperwork done for the evening news, which back then was filmed a half hour ahead of time, and then broadcast if there were no mistakes. If there were a mistake or late breaking news, they broadcast live. At the end of the day, I would watch the broadcast at CBS, since I did not have a television at home. When I was fired for being late for work, I enjoyed being back in Greenwich, and since I had use of the family car, I could explore around Connecticut as well as visiting in Manhattan. That fall, I worked locally at Boodles restaurant in Greenwich and their Scarsdale restaurant Sassafras as a waiter. I made from $40 to $100 a night. That fall, I think was when the oil embargo started, and there was no oil from the middle east. Since my father had cosigned a loan with a bank in Darien for me to buy a 1971 four door blue Volvo 244 sedan for $1,750 from Peabody's garage in Greenwich, I would occasionally drive into Manhattan at night after work and explore around. By the winter of 1974, the oil embargo was causing major shortages of gasoline and fuel oil, and gasoline was hard to come by at the few gasoline stations selling it. I had friend in Manhattan, so during one snow storm, I dented the left side of my Volvo when the automatic transmission shifted, and it slid into a guard rail on the Connecticut turnpike after buying gasoline at the rest area there on the turnpike in Darien, since there was no gasoline for sale in Greenwich. I would stay with a friend in Manhattan near the United Nations, and I recall once my car was towed. I would go back and forth to Greenwich spending time at both locations. Around April and May 1974, I stayed with some friends in Chelsea, but going back and forth got to be too expensive. I recall selling the Volvo around March of 1974. I thus had to use the train when going back and forth, and I had to do a lot more walking. In the summer of 1974, I was around both Manhattan and Greenwich not doing too much but routine maintenance since the economy was in decline. I continued the routine of going back and forth until about April 1975. Of course the friends in Manhattan generally thought suburban people were not too interesting, since they were caught up with their larger Manhattan networks. Some of my friends were from Long Island, so I would visit out in Oyster Bay and Locust Valley, Long Island. Still those were cold winters, and there was not much energy available. The friends on the east side of Manhattan had buildings heated with steam from the East Side power plant south of the United Nations, so they had fairly warm comfortable apartments, which is why they needed to run the air conditioners all winter, since frequently it is hard to regulate steam heat. The railroad tracks underneath Manhattan would supply the power generation plant with plenty of coal to keep running for lack of oil. I spent a lot of time walking around exploring Manhattan including the waterfront areas on the west side, but with the lack of energy, it looked like everyone had left town. Still, I did not meet that many people from Connecticut, since Connecticut did not have much energy, but the mass transportation did work, so lots of people were using it. Basically like today even then Manhattan was expensive, so one spent a lot of time walking around in lieu of spending money. I stayed continually out in Greenwich from about April 1974 until July 1974 swimming at Conyers Farm and doing chores around home. I then went up to Nantucket for about a six weeks, and I returned to Greenwich around Labor Day. I went up briefly for a week to Yale thinking about continuing my education, and I then after the first of the year in 1976, I worked in Greenville, South Carolina for Fluor Daniel construction company on traffic and expediting, and I quit the job just before the fourth of July to return to Greenwich and Manhattan for the tall ships with all of my belongings that I had moved down to South Carolina. I then went up to Nantucket for some time, and around the third week of September 1976, I went back to Florida, since we did not have enough energy at home in Connecticut. Thus until I returned to live in Greenwich in December 1983 in that period I was traveling between Greenwich, Connecticut, Florida, Long Island, Manhattan, Nantucket, and California when I was not staying at one of those locations. One gets tired of traveling and sleeping on other people's sofas, so it is nice having my own home, and a more settled existence. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 04/03/04: Note: <888> 04/03/04 Saturday 12:40 A.M.: I chatted with a friend shortly after starting to lie down. I just woke up. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 8:30 P.M.: I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest for a while. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 8:15 P.M.: I am boiled a 16 ounce package of Mueller's thin spaghetti noodles, which I will eat half of with half of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu Parmesan and Romano tomato sauce which I will reheat in the General Electric microwave oven on reheat. I will refrigerate the remaining unused portion. I will put a few tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on the meal, and I will eat it with iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:40 P.M.: I read the American Express information. I called them on their 800 number 1-877-621-7786 or www.americanexpress.com/prefgold1 in Orem, Utah, and I chatted working the grapevine for about an hour or more. I was told by their sales representative that they have had seismic vibrations of 2 to 3 on the Richter scale in the Orem, Utah area. I believe there are volcanoes in that area, but I can not find which one. I use to chat with WordPerfect personnel there about eight years ago, and I was told they had a volcano which I thought was interesting since Microsoft was also near a volcano. Perhaps it is these reported events http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/monitoring.html that they are feeling in Orem, Utah. I was told by American Express that although $130 fee is waived the first year, I would have to pay it after that. Since I have no travel plans, I will not be getting the American Express Gold car, but it is nice to know they think I am eligible. I chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 5:00 P.M.: I was up at 2:30 P.M.. I went out without cleaning up. I went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the drive-up teller at the Wachovia Bank on Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I gave them the extra bags that I had collected. I bought another crystal cut glass shade like the other five that I had bought yesterday, and I paid a dollar for it. I now have six of them. I put it with the others behind the Lindbergh radio on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom. I then returned home. I put $15 on my MacGray laundry card, and I now have $21.35 on it. I vacuumed my apartment, so I am now done vacuuming. American Express sent me an American Express gold card application, with a card without my name, so I am not sure if it is a valid card or not. Since I am on limited income, I will probably cut it up. However, it would be handy in emergencies or for buying bargains online. I will have to think about it and read the details in the paperwork that came with it. In my earlier note chatting about my paternal grandfather that was surrounded by millions of acres of corn and a father whom was a well educated organic chemist, I suppose besides the option of making corn whiskey, they could have had another option of making methyl butyl ethanol which is a common additive in gasoline in North America during the warmer months to reduced air pollution. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:45 A.M.: I will now put the computer on standby, and I will try to rest some more. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:40 A.M.: Yahoo! News - 3 Intense Hurricanes Forecasted in 2004 and EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL . CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 7:05 A.M.: I put a box of six America's Choice fish filets and 14 America's Choice frozen onion rings, and 14 America's Choice potato miniature pancakes on a baking sheet, and I am cooking them in the Farberware convection oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 minutes a each of two sides. To serve with them, I mixed three tablespoons of horseradish along with a half of a cup of Heinz ketchup, and I will dip the cooked items in the seafood sauce. I will eat it all with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 5:45 A.M.: I used to know somebody that had the complete works of Edgar Cayce http://www.are-cayce.com/ in his apartment near Beekman Place in Manhattan in the old days, and his houseman was named Ed with another last name. However, during those cold winters, there was a bit of alcoholic refreshment in the apartment, and I recall, we actually left the Frederick Air Conditioner going all winter, so it was a colder group of people whom spent a bit of time outside in the cold weather. Since people like Nelson Rockefeller were in political office, and since Edgar Cayce was a confidant of Nelson Rockefeller, all I could figure out, was that they were not alcoholics, but they spent so much time in areas of extreme cold, which people from down south are not familiar with that those locals would occasionally have a drink of alcohol. I am not sure the relevance of it all, but when one is down south for extended periods of time, one's blood thins out, so possibly when one comes north, and one is not operating mechanized machinery such as automobiles, occasionally in the old days, alcohol helped people ward off the cold. Of course everything in moderation. I guess it is all what one is use to. I suppose somebody from say where it is 80 degrees Fahrenheit would say 40 degrees Fahrenheit is really not that cold, but once they hit minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, their attitude might change. Where I went to Lake Forest College, Richard Widmark also attended that college, and he made the movie "The Bedford Incident" All Movie Guide: The Bedford Incident , which if one has ever seen it, it is a really cold looking movie like Dr. Zhivago or Ice Station Zebra, but for me here locally it is not too bad presently at 40 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest a bit. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 5:15 A.M.: whisky merchants Kentucky bourbons, corn and rye whiskey off license shop , but the only source of corn whiskey in the United States of America is supposedly Other Whiskey Brands - Corn, Rye, Blended and Canadian Whiskeys - Heaven Hill Distillers , but I always joke since there were millions of acres of corn around my paternal grandfather in Illinois, and since my father was a well educated organic chemist from that area that more than likely they had the capability of making the stuff and even exporting it, so maybe this is where this stuff comes from Corn And Rye Whiskey, United States, Mellow Straight Corn Whisky 50% , of course back in the hill country of Appalachia and Arkansas, and other more rural areas, I think they still call it White Lightning, so if you happen to stumble across any of it in old gallon glass jugs or mason jars, don't tell any revenuers, since more than likely it is probably still freely produced in the North America, it is just harder to find, since they have gotten more cleaver. From what I hear tell, it is sort of smell and tastes like lighter fluid, and if it is too strong, it will make one go blind. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:45 A.M.: Of course there is a better alternative to Scotts lawn care products that might be cheaper, if one were a frugal Scotsman. In the American west, when they tried introducing sheep to range land, the cattlemen did not like it, because when sheep craze, they do not cut the grass, but they pull up the grass by its roots thus causing the grass to be harder to reproduce itself. I guess this is what caused much of the desert conditions in certain parts of the world. However, in an area like Scotland, there is so much moisture and rain, more than likely sheep were cultivated successfully there, since with the rocky soil, the grass seemed to continue to grow anyway despite the introduction of sheep. However, if one has sheep, more than likely one as a byproduct called Sheep dip or Sheep manure. I have frequently recommended to White House personnel here in the United States of America to spread Sheep manure on their lawn, and it stinks so bad nobody will come within miles of the place, so it would offer additional security and privacy. However, once the sheep manure gets blended into the soil, one actually ends up with a very nice lawn, which might be cheaper than calling Scotts, but of course one would need a source of Sheep manure. If one has ever traveled around America and smelled farms where they spread sheep manure, you would know what I mean, but it does truly smell when first applied. Of course if one's environment supported sheep, one would also have extra wool to stay warm, and if one were a carnivore, I suppose one could eat a bit of mutton too. Of course if one were living around the King of Cornwall, one more than likely could stay warm with some corn whisky, which I hear tell is still available in some areas of the world. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:20 A.M.: Coming up May 1, 2004 http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2004/ . CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:20 A.M.: BW Online April 5, 2004 Online Extra: ExxonMobil: More Power Ahead? and BW Online April 5, 2004 Online Extra: Why ExxonMobil "Makes Bets Early" . CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 4:10 A.M.: A job for Scotts http://www.scotts.com/ could be this assignment Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event London Parks Need 100 Million Pounds for Repair . However, I am not sure London is ready for a bunch of Midwestern gardeners. CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 3:50 A.M.: CTV.ca - Prince William tabloid photos dismay royals - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television and Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event Sun Banned in Royal Row . CIO Note: <888> 04/02/04 Friday 3:15 A.M.: I had a telephone call from a relative about 10 P.M.. We chatted for about a half hour. I then ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, pineapple orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I just finished it all except vacuuming, which I will do in the day time, when I will not disturb my neighbors. I just threw out the garbage, and I put the extra bags in my car to give back to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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