Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 12:50 A.M.:  Earlier this previous afternoon, I woke up briefly at 2:30 P.M., and I took the fully charged Radio Shack metal hydride 9 volt battery out of the Radio Shack battery charger by the Orion television in the living room, and I put it back in the Realistic transistor radio, which I keep on the top left side shelf of the blue bookcase cupboard at the kitchen entrance.  I switched the Radio Shack charger back to Nickel Cadmium for future use with the Emerson wireless headphones which I use with  AAA Radio Shack Nickel Cadmium rechargeable batteries.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/25/04  Sunday 12:40 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I put the two new boxes of Christmas card on the lower right of the lowest shelf in the left most bookcase in the hallway along with all the other spare Christmas cards I had in my lower right living room desk drawer.  I have quite a lot of Christmas cards for future use now.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 11:40 P.M.:  I was awake at 5 P.M. today.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $4.25 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.899 a gallon for about 24 miles per gallon.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station.  At the crosswalk at Railroad Avenue, I found a navy blue 100% Acrylic knit cap made in Taiwan.  I stopped by CVS during my walk, and I bought two boxes of 18 Santa Claus Christmas cards and envelopes for 90% off for .49 a box plus .06 tax for $1.04 total.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at the beginning of the walk at the Senior and Arts center, and I used the bathroom again at Starbucks.  After completing my walk, I drove down by the waterfront and the train station area.  I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought two half gallons of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2 each, a large bunch of Foxy broccoli for $1.50, and two 12.5 ounce bags of Snyder's white corn 40% less fat Tortilla chips for a $1.50 a bag, less $1.21 Food Emporium bonus points on the orange juice for $7.29 total.  I used the bathroom again at the Food Emporium.  The cold seems to make me have to go to the bathroom more frequently.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries, and I drank some iced tea.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I decided the bootup procedure on the primary computer with IIyama monitor was tedious, so I changed the 5 year old CompUSA 19 inch monitor back to the primary computer, and I put the IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 XGA 19 inch flat screen monitor on the Dell backup computer.  I am just finishing configuring them for their respective computers.  I washed the blue navy 100% acrylic knit cap with some generic Woolite type cleaner in my bathroom sink, and I have it drying from the shower rod.  It will be a good backup knit cap.  It is suppose to go down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit this morning with a wind-chill of -15 degrees Fahrenheit.  It is currently http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 7 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of -11 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 8:10 A.M.:  I shut down the primary computer, and I unplugged the parallel cable plugged into it that was not being used.  I connected it to the Dell backup computer parallel port and to the Epson Stylus Color 880 printer, and when I booted Red Hat Linux 9.0 it recognized it and installed it while it was booting.  I did a couple of printouts with the Mozilla and Open Office, and the Epson printer works fine with it.  I then shut down the Dell backup computer, and I disconnected its parallel cable to the Epson, but I left it by the rear of the Epson, and I reconnected the parallel cable that plugs into the switch box connected to the Siemens router printer driver.  Thus I have the option of using the Epson Stylus Color 880 color printer with Red Hat Linux 9.0 on the Dell backup computer.  I guess it does recognize plug and play devices all right.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 7:25 A.M.:  On the Dell backup computer Red Hat Linux 9.0 partition, I tried setting up printers.  The Minolta Pagepro 1250W printer will not work because it needs a Windows interface.  The Epson Stylus Color 880 printer was not recognized either, although it is one of the options.  The Red Hat Linux 9.0 program recognized the USB port for the Minolta printer but not the Epson printer.  I suppose I could try the LPT port on the Dell backup computer, but I will try that at a later date.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 4:55 A.M.:  I took the two fully charge Radio Shack Nickel Cadmium AAA rechargeable batteries out of the charging position in the Radio Shack battery charger, and I left them inside the charger for future use with my Emerson wireless headphones.  It is currently 10 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind-chill of 0 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  I took the 9 Volt Radio Shack Nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery out of my Realistic transistor radio that I keep in my kitchen entrance blue book shelf pantry, and I changed the Radio Shack battery recharger from Nickel Cadmium which I use for my Radio Shack AAA Nickel Cadmium batteries to Nickel Metal Hydride, and I am charging the 9 volt battery, which should be done at 2:30 P.M..  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/24/04:

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 4:05 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 3:50 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 3:05 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I did not use broccoli or blue cheese.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's http://www.cabotcheese.com/ Vermont 50% reduced fat cheese.  I used all of the other usual ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 1:50 A.M.:  After my coffee, I went through the accumulated mail on my bedroom desk most of which were school alumni mailings, and after sifting through it all, I threw most of it in my paper disposal waste basket, and I went outside and put it in the paper disposal waste container.  I will now fill out a congressional survey mailing that I received recently.  The bedroom desk is a little bit better organized and neater.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/24/04  Saturday 12:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I walked the train station area too.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I just now returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  On cold nights I turn on the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators to medium level at a temperature setting of 4 on a scale of 1 to 6.  I also wear my heavy cranberry terry cloth robe over my casual sleeping clothes while in the apartment.  One gets use to the cold weather up north, and it is not too bad.  It is mostly in the fall when the weather first changes that one is bothered by the colder weather.  Since I am on a limited budget, I chose not to use my limited funds for warmer activities like sitting in coffee shops drinking coffee, movies, restaurants, and pubs.  However, I do have a quite comfortable well run apartment.  I will now make a cup of coffee and drink it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 9:45 P.M.:  I opened up another Food Emporium Eight O'clock 38 ounce bag of Hazelnut coffee beans, and I filled my Braun coffee bean grinder and three large mason type jars with the coffee beans.  I keep one jar on the extreme left kitchen counter and two underneath the dining room table with the remaining unopened 38 ounce bag of Food Emporium Eight O'clock coffee beans.  I chatted with a relative.  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's Chunky New England clam chowder, which I had with some iced tea.  I will now put the computer on standby.  I will clean up, and I will go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 9:00 P.M.:  I was up at 2 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I checked my mail, and I had a holiday greetings letter from Vice President Richard Cheney http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ .  I put it on the French cafe sculpture that I keep on my other cards on the wall to the right of the primary computer.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I put a new Hoover vacuum cleaner bag type C in the Hoover upright vacuum cleaner.  I listened to 106.7 FM with my Emerson wireless headphones while doing the house cleaning.  I am now recharging the used pair of Radio Shack AAA rechargeable batteries that I used, and I have a fully charged pair of AAA Radio Shack rechargeable batteries in the charger.  It is currently 13 degrees Fahrenheit outside with a wind-chill of zero degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 6:30 A.M.:  I went through the top news part of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 6:15 A.M.:  I took the family photo file frame from on top of the Dell monitor for the AMD backup computer on the bedroom desk, and I put it on the AMD backup computer CPU.  I moved the silver framed Canadian quarter with a front side of Queen Elizabeth II and the Radio Shack Digital clock, and I put them on the IBM Cyrix CPU.  I took the Lindbergh radio from the top of the mahogany bureau in the bedroom, and I put it on top of the Dell monitor for the AMD backup computer on the bedroom desk, and I connected it to the power strip on the desk.  I move the tobacco pipes and pipe rack to on top of the oak bookcase on top of the mahogany bureau.  I dusted off the top of mahogany bureau, and I put the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer on the left side of it.  I put the stacks of glass globes on the right side back along with a glass ashtray with lighters.  I put the vanity box on the left front of the top of the bureau with the backup Radio Shack NOAA weather warning radio on it.  I do not have it turned on.  I also put the pewter bowl with the spare eye glasses on the vanity box.  I took out the two cases containing the ACER 486/SX 4 meg. laptop and the Compaq 486/DX 8 meg laptop, and I put them on the hamper at the bedroom door entrance.  I took out a spare parallel cable from the black file box beneath the right side of the bedroom desk that contains computer cables, and I connected the parallel cable from the HP Kayak XA computer on the left side of the bedroom side board to the HP LaserJet 4L laser printer.  I installed the drivers for it.  I thus have it connected to a working computer.  It works fine with it and is easily accessible.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 3:55 A.M.:  I ran the Sandra utility to diagnose my system, and it recommended me to turn off in the CMOS "VGA Palette Snooping" which I did.  I had two copies of Microsoft Messenger starting on system startup, so I uninstalled one.  I reinstalled the drivers for the Plantronics DSP 500 headset.  I ran http://www.pcpitstop.com/ , and I used their applet to change my Internet Explorer Active X security settings in Restricted Zones.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 2:05 A.M.: Sandra download http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_x86&langx=en&a=  and http://msn.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,114030,00.asp .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/23/04  Friday 1:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 4:50 P.M.:  I was up at 1:30 P.M..  I had a message on my telephone answering machine.  I drank orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and I ate a Nature's Valley granola bar.  I cleaned up, and I made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I returned home, and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television.  I will now go back out shortly after I make a telephone call.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 4:20 A.M.:  I read two computer magazines.  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 2:30 A.M.:  I will now read some technical magazines that I have received in the last few weeks.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/22/04  Thursday 1:50 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I watched some television.  I ate some little candied hearts.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 11:10 P.M.:  I made up a batch of fresh hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .  For the garlic portion in the hummus instead of 6 to 8 medium cloves of garlic, I use one very large clove of elephant garlic, which would be about the same amount.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  This time instead of tuna fish, I sliced crosswise in 1/8th inch thick slices a cold garlic herbal boneless breast of chicken that I cooked two days ago.  I did not use broccoli, and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker barrel extra sharp 2% low fat cheddar cheese.  I did not use blue cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I ate a half dozen heart candies.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 9:45 P.M.:  I did not fall asleep until about 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate two Quaker low fat white cheddar cheese flavored corn cakes with some iced tea.  I also chatted with a friend.  I was up at 2 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I showered and cleaned up.  I went out, and I cleaned the snow off the benches in front of the building I live in with a snow brush from my Hyundai.  I then went downtown, and I went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription at a $1.50 cost.  I then went drove further down Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS again, and they have in their center aisle a large assortment of St. Valentine's candy.  I bought a 21.5 ounce bag of Brach's small conversation hearts for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total.  I then completed my walk.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  I put the Brach's small conversation hearts in a Delft type bowl on the right side of the long mahogany bureau in the living room and the rest in a Steuben type glass bowl on the dining room table at the kitchen entrance.  I am thinking that small pieces of candy occasionally might help reduce the amount that I smoke cigarettes.  I reduced the megahertz setting on my IIyama Vision Master Pro 450 19 inch flat screen monitor from 120 Mhz to 85Mhz, at which setting I think it would last longer, although it does work fine at both settings.  I still have to turn it on by turning it on first with the control panel switch and letting it warm up for five minutes.  I then turn it off and on again and then off again.  Next with it turned off, I turn on my primary computer, and just after I start the primary computer, I turn on the control panel switch for the monitor and the IIyama monitor starts right up.  When it first starts it is a bit dark, so one has to wait for it to lighten up to see the password prompt, or just enter the top secret password with out waiting to see the prompt.  It works quite well, so I have no complaints.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 4:00 A.M.:  I finished going through www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 3:00 A.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 2:45 A.M.: Wal-Mart www.walmart.com sells good microwave ovens for about $100, and they also sell kits of plastic microwave cookware for about $10.  My General Electric microwave oven that I bought about three years ago is 1100 watts.  I recall paying $100 for it.  They also have microwave ovens that one can get at Costco www.costco.com  or Sams www.samsclub.com .  One has to remember though that when one travels to shop at discount outlets, one can easily spend $5 or $10 or even more on gasoline to get there and back, not to mention a comparable amount of wear and tear on one's automobile, so occasionally depending on what one's amount of purchases are, it pays to shop locally.  However Sams Club web site only show over the counter models, and Wal-Mart has a large variety Walmart.com - Search Results Microwave Oven and Costco has large units Costco.com search microwave oven and Sears www.sears.com carries a lot of them too.  However, none of them seems to carry Panasonic Consumer Electronics - Countertop Microwaves Home , but the Panasonic web sites says that Country TV and Appliance in Stamford, Connecticut, Sams Club in Elmsford, New York just north of White Plains, New York, and Sears in White Plains, New York and Costco are suppose to carry the Panasonic line of microwave ovens.  Frequently internet web sites do not reflect what a local retailer of the same group might carry.  Of course I hope my General Electric microwave oven last me for a few years more.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 1:50 A.M.:  I took a 10.75 ounce can of Campbell's condensed chicken noodle soup, and I put it in a microwave proof plastic pot, and I added two ounces of Rene Junot white wine, five ounces of water, half of the 10 ounce can of Green Giant peas without the water and a few chopped stalks of cooked fresh asparagus, a half teaspoon of Italian spices and a quarter teaspoon of dried parsley, and I heating it in the General Electric microwave oven on Reheat.  I will have it with about 10 Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons on the soup and a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 1:30 A.M.:  I ran Ad-aware 6.0 and Spybot.  I am making up a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  I am using one each of the five different types of Twinings tea in the five variety pack, four Lipton Green tea bags, one Bigelow orange pekoe tea bag, and 10 Salada orange pekoe tea bags.  I am making it the usual way with Angostura bitters and I am not using sugar.  I will now run Norton Win Doctor.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/21/04  Wednesday 12:30 A.M.:  I just finished going through my email.  One might find this site useful Microsoft Service Packs , but usually Windows Update has most of what one needs.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 10:30 P.M.:  I made dinner of the reheated garlic herbal boneless chicken breast with steamed white rice and streamed Green Giant canned peas with steamed fresh cut asparagus with a little bit of olive oil on the vegetables, all of which I had with iced tea.  I watched President Bush's State of the Union speech on television.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/20/04  Tuesday 8:00 P.M.:  I was up at 1 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought two four packs of Type C Hoover vacuum cleaner bags for .50 each four pack for a dollar total.  I will put them on the right side of my bedroom closet with the other vacuum bags.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then made my 4 P.M. appointment.  I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and  they were almost out of long underwear.  I went by Sportif, and they carry Red Hot Chilli Pepper thermal ski long underwear for about $55 a pair.  It is made of a composite of synthetic materials.  I sat out at various locations.  I completed my walk.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then stopped by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times.  I just now returned home.  I put the Java Virtual machine for my Internet Explorer web browser on my primary computer http://www.java.com/en/download/ .  It is a free download.  I finished eating the spice drops.  President Bush is suppose to making his State of the Union speech on television tonight at 9 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, and it will also be available at www.whitehouse.gov .  CIO