Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/03/04:

Note: <888> 07/03/04  Saturday 4:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I mailed the photographs at the Valley Road Post Office box in the lobby.  They weighed less than four ounces, so they were all right to mail.  One can not mail more than 16 ounces at the post office box mail boxes after hours because of security reasons.  I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the restroom at the Thataway cafe.  After I completed my walk, I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Food Emporium.  I used my debit card, and I bought a piece Norwegian Jarlsberg slightly skim cheese at $5.99 a pound for $11.20 total.  I will not use it for my salads, but I will keep it for guests or special occassions.  Hopefully, it will last a while in the refrigerator.  I chatted with another grocery shopper.  I just now returned home.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/02/04  Friday 11:55 P.M.:  I will go out shortly, and I will mail the photographs.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/04  Friday 11:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by CVS, and I picked up my double print photographs at $9.69 cost, which I paid for with my debit card.  I then went further downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and there were quite a lot of people fishing down there after 9 P.M. at night, when they are not suppose to be there, so I guess the fish are running.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four three ounce containers of Stop and Shop parmesan and Romano grated cheese for .99 each, and two eight ounce bars of Land-O-Lakes pepper jack cheese for $2 each, and a 16 ounce bag of Stop and Shop frozen California snow pea medley of vegetables for .99 for $8.95 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor. I ate a piece of apple pie with iced tea.  I will send one copy of the photographs to a relative, and I will put the other ones in my photo album.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/02/04  Friday 7:25 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/04  Friday 7:10 P.M.:  I am microwaving a Stouffer's 8 ounce lean cuisine herb roasted chicken dinner, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  I took the Entenmann's Home-style apple pie out of the freezer last night, and I let it defrost.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/04  Friday 6:45 P.M.:  I ate a bowl of corn chips before going to bed about 4 A.M..  I was up at noon.  I checked my mail.  I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then returned home, and I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I chatted with a friend while I was doing house cleaning.  I just threw out the garbage.  It is just beginning to rain lightly.  The weather forecast locally is calling for isolated thunderstorms until 9 P.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/04  Friday 1:35 A.M.:  I looked at some web sites.  The site where I ordered my Northgate barebones computer system from www.accessmicro.com  a year and a half ago has been taken over by www.northgate.com , so they offer a different product line now, but they offer a 20% discount to www.accessmicro.com customers.  I was unable to change my Profile at their site, since I had a different profile, when I ordered the computer.  I ate five 2 inch by .75 inch by 3/8th inch pieces of Land-O-Lakes pepper jack cheese.  I received a post card from a relative whom took a cruise to Norway recently up the northern fjords.  The post card was from Norkkapp, Norway at 71 degrees, 10', 21" North, which is as far north as one can go north, and still be able to mail a post card.  I will  shut down the computer shortly, and I will go to bed.  When I wake up later on today, I will do my weekly house cleaning, which was not done last week, because I was away in Kennebunkport, Maine http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/137.htm .  I suppose with Canada day yesterday, and the Fourth of July this Sunday, and the first of the month yesterday, that Kennebunkport, Maine is a bit busy.  However, we are six hours driving less further north here, so we get the occasional tourists here whom like to enjoy our beaches, golfing, tennis, equestrian events, sailing, and suburban lifestyles, if one can afford it.  I suppose the stripped bass would be running about now in Kennebunkport, Maine.  Of course disabled volunteers like myself tend to keep busy when all the able bodied people are thinking about vacation.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 11:45 P.M.:  I mailed the Optimum Online and the Cablevision payments in the mail room downstairs.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 11:05 P.M.:  I made out checks to pay my Optimum Online and my Cablevision bills.  I will mail them tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 10:35 P.M.:  I logged onto http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ , and I ordered five cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes for $11 a carton plus $6 U.S. postage for $61 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 10:25 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Land-O-Lakes pepper jack cheese.  I did not use Danish blue cheese, but I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 6:35 P.M.:  I ate a bowl of corn chips before going to bed.  I had a call from a friend at 9 A.M. this morning, but I was too tired to talk very much.  I was up at 12:30 P.M..  I picked up my mail.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I obtained a money order to make the final of four payments on my six month GEICO automobile insurance payment.  The money order cost .90, and I mailed it at the central Greenwich Post Office along with another letter.  I then made my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought four solid oak folding TV tables with stand for $20.  They must weigh about 50 pounds all together since they are solid oak.  They tend to be more sturdy, since they are heavier.  I then went by Charles Stuttig's locksmith at 158 Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a extra large Magnetic Hide a Key box for $4 plus .24 tax for $4.24 total.  I then returned home.  I used my folding cart that I keep in the back of my Hyundai to bring up the solid oak folding TV tables.  I move the brass hat rack from the end of the day bed, and I put it in front of the open bedroom door, and I put the folding solid oak TV tables at the right front end of the day bed.  I put my folding cart back in the Hyundai.  I threw out the old warped plastic hide a key box.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 25 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  I ran SpyBot 1.3, and I checked the errors that it found, and they are all cookies and bookmarks, so they are not critical spyware, so since it freezes trying to remove them, I will just leave them as is.  I drank some cold filtered water.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 6:20 A.M.:  I got Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3 working by selecting advanced mode and deselecting "c2.lop" Driving with Dawn: c2.lop revisited and its related entries which I think are four all together.  After the program completely runs, and it shows on my computer 83 entries that need to be deleted, it freezes on deletion.  I will work on it again later on today.  I went outside briefly and threw out some garbage.  I will now shut down the computer.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, and I also should pay some bills.  I will get up about noon, and see what bills might have arrived that I have to pay.  I will now go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/04  Thursday 4:35 A.M.:  Happy Canada Day http://www.calendar-updates.com/Holidays/Canada/canada.htm .  After the last message,  I ran Ad-aware 6.0.  I then ran Norton Win Doctor.  I tried running SpyBot Search and Destroy 1.2, but it would freeze my system.  I uninstalled it, and I installed version 1.3, but it would also freeze my system.  I watched a movie on the Turner Movie channel about old New York.  I cut off the tops of 10 medium to large fresh strawberries, and I split them into quarters lengthwise, and I rinsed them underneath cold water in a wire strainer.  I put them on two scoops of Ben and Jerry's Butter Pecan ice cream, and I ate it all.  I tried to figure out the problem with Spybot.  I downloaded and installed http://www.ccleaner.com/ , and I deleted all the items it selected except old shortcuts, which I think are still valid.  I then downloaded and installed the 30 day demo of RegSupreme 1.2 http://www.macecraft.com/downloads/ , and I did a deep scan, and I eliminated a couple of thousand invalid registry entries.  I had already uninstalled Spybot 1.3 and put 1.2 back on the machine.  Anyway Spybot 1.2 and 1.3 still freeze my machine.  It use to work.  Anyway the computer is still running just fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 11:55 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.  I mailed a letter in the letter box down in the mail room.  If one happens to be walking downtown on Greenwich Avenue, and it seems a bit pricey, the second biggest business in town after real estate is represented on West Putnam Avenue with lots of automobile show rooms, and the restaurants which are more expensive than the grocery stores such as McDonalds, Wendy's, and Duncan Donuts are also on West Putnam Avenue, so one can have a big Mac and look at the latest Mercedes Benz.  We happen to have a large German population in residence in town, and judging by all of the German automobiles for sale in this town, somebody from Germany must be making money off the sales of all of the German automobiles.  However, I once read that the Ford family through their private shares in Ford Motor Company and through the Ford Foundation control about 80% of the Ford Motor Company's stock worldwide, so obviously though they are not as expensive as Mercedes Benz, somebody obviously makes money off Fords.  I also once read that Margaret Thatcher lived in Henry Ford's private apartment in London, and I always wondered what she did if Henry showed up.  I also read recently that Margaret Thatcher is currently on vacation in the United States of America, so besides what one sees on the television, there are also people whom frequently visit in this area from other areas, and thus I have come to regard the United States of America as the giant rest area for those people from the western half of the eastern hemisphere going to visit the eastern half of the eastern hemisphere and visa versa.  Thus living in this area, we always see lots of people from Europe traveling to Asia and lots of people from Asia traveling to Europe.  I once recall seeing both Margaret Thatcher and Mao Tse Tung traveling to opposite continents in New York, while they were not paying official visits to the United States of America, and one has to release being a communications and transportation hub in this area close to New York City, we get a lot of people traveling through this area on their way to other destinations.  Also in Florida this time of year as well as Southern California there tends to be people from Argentina and Chile and Australia and South Africa and New Zealand trying to avoid the winters in the southern hemisphere.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 11:25 P.M.:  I finished watching the republican convention.  Since there seems to be an increase of other activity in this area other than the normal routines, I am a little bit busier downtown than normal, thus I do not have the time to spend as much time on the computer as I normally do.  However, as it begins to get cooler in this area and the area begins to slow down to its slower more indoor type of activity, I will try to resume more of my regular computer activity.  Since there are a great many computer people in this area, the computer activity is important in terms of keeping ordinary communications on other events outside of this area that might otherwise escape the local media such as www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , however once the hurricane season is over down south the general opinion of the southern people whom live down south is that we have a worse time during our long winters than they do during their hurricane seasons.  Thus, I guess it depends on what one is use to on a four seasons basis in whatever environment that one happens to live in.  Quite frankly we spend some very cold days in this town during the winter, which visitors during the summer might not realize.  Also we have a lot of residents from further north in the north country whom live here because they think the winters are milder here than further up north.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I chatted with another relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 8:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 7:40 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Wisconsin extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with all of the other usual ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 5:50 P.M.:  I checked the mail.  I noticed at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm Hurricane Frances is now tracking further north around Coco Beach and Daytona Beach http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0604W5+GIF/312053W5.gif , but it is such a big storm, it looks like it will effect most of the state of Florida.  If one were on limited income in the state of Florida, one could take a Greyhound Bus or Amtrak train to Atlanta and stay in an inexpensive motel like a Days Inn, but at the moment the storm still keeps changing course, so it might yet come ashore in at the barrier islands of Georgia or the Carolinas.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/31/04  Tuesday 5:20 P.M.:  I was up at 9 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside briefly, and I chatted with some neighbors.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  Bags of clothing and linens are $10 and everything else is half price.  I went downtown, and I spent a dollar on parking for 2 hours, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with various people.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  If one is looking for a low budget lunch in downtown Greenwich, there is a hot dog truck parked by the Greenwich Common.  Also across the street from the Greenwich Train station on Railroad Avenue, at Harrington's of Vermont http://www.harringtonham.com/ they make sandwiches to go for about $6 or $7 which tend to be gourmet sandwiches.  I noticed while getting into my car, the door stop guide was lose where it is attached to the frame.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I fixed the door stop guide by tightening the bolt with a wrench kit that I keep in the hatchback area of my car.  I then went into the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I next returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  I noticed that my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer was not working, but I fixed it since when I changed USB cables on it, I did not push the USB cable far enough into the printer, so now it works.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/04  Monday 11:55 P.M.: I finished watching the Republican convention.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/04  Monday 10:10 P.M.:  Down in Florida, somebody better tell Jeb Bush, they better hold on to their hats www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , NRL Monterey Satellite Photos , http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0604W5+GIF/302053W5.gif , and http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml .  I chatted with a relative.  I have been watching the Republican convention from nearby Manhattan.  Manhattan is the name of the Indian tribe that my family bought the farm from in 1640.  I suppose if any frugal republicans come out here to check out the area, they can always get an inexpensive meal at the Greenwich Hospital providing they have the energy to walk from the Greenwich train station about 1.35 miles north to the Greenwich Hospital.  Of course there are a lot more expensive dining establishments along the way.  Of course in the day time, one can always go the delicatessen at the Stop and Shop.  I suppose one could always splurge on a steak sandwich from Maneros or a Subway sandwich up towards the top of Greenwich Avenue.  Alas, since we are close to Manhattan, our prices tend to be similar to those of Manhattan.  Of course the Blimpie Sandwich shop still sells an egg and croissant sandwich for a dollar.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/04  Monday 8:15 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Wisconsin extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I watched a bit of the Republican convention.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/04  Monday 6:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  Everything is half price and bags of clothing and linens are $10.  I bought a six outlet power strip with surge protector for .50.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  They are in the process of scraping off the old asphalt off Steamboat Road, and I guess once the weather is nice, they will be repaving it again.  Greenwich Capital Royal Bank of Scotland is also repaving their court yard.  I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and one of their sales representatives inquired about Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and I told the sales representative that I had a copy on CD in my car, so I walked back to my car, and I got it, and I gave it to the Greenwich Hardware store sales representative.  The sales representative said they had a Dell computer running Windows XP, so it should install without any problems.  I explained they should copy the SP2 upgrade file on the CD to the hard drive and install from the hard drive.  I next stopped by CVS, and I bought a two pack of CVS automatic blue tablet toilet bowl cleaner for $1.29 for two tablets plus .08 tax for $1.37 total.  Recently the CVS Clorox toilet bowl tablets that I usually buy for $1.99 have not been dissolving in my toilet tank, possibly because there is more chlorine in the water.  I completed my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 16 ounce jar of Planters Dry Roasted peanuts for $1.99, a package of Twinings five packages of five different varieties of tea for 25 bags total for $3.19, and fresh broccoli crowns at $1.69 a pound for $1.22 for $6.40 total.  I returned home.  I noticed out by our dumpster someone left a Bissell upright vacuum cleaner that looks like it might work with a full bag.  If it did work there is vacuum shop in Byram and another shop nearby in Port Chester, New York that might have the Bissell bags.  I drank some iced tea.  I put the power strip connected to the other power strip on the floor by the living room desk with two extension cords plugged into it, so it is available for use with laptop computers should the need arise in the apartment with my LAN cables connected to the cable modem.  I set my computer to display all the icons in the tray when it starts up.  Some times one has to log off and log back on to get them all to display.  Also today the D-Link LAN has not been installing on boot up, but if one turns on and off the Siemens router, once the computer is booted the D-Link LAN installs.  I also have the RealTek motherboard onboard LAN connected, and I have the two LANs bridged together.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/04  Monday 2:00 P.M.:  I woke up during the night, and  I ate some smoked almonds.  I was up at 10 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I picked up the mail.  I went back to bed until 1:30 P.M..  I finished eating the can of smoked almonds.  It is clear now, but we are suppose to get some rain later on this afternoon.  I will now clean up, and I will go out.  The computer seem to be running just fine, but of course, since I have it set on PIO mode for the IDE ports, it is a bit slower.  Yahoo! News - Farmers' Almanac Predicts a Wild Winter versus The Old Farmer's Almanac - Weather Center and of course www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/04  Sunday 9:55 P.M.:  I downloaded and installed and ran for Windows XP SP2 Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V 1.2.1 .  I chatted with a relative.  The Windows XP SP2 upgrade is available for complete download in English, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, French, German, and Korean from this link Download details: Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT Professionals and Developers for the full download for high speed internet users.  The beta test site also had it in Japanese in released to manufacturing, but it has not been released on the Microsoft web site yet.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/04  Sunday 8:55 P.M.:  I reheated and ate the other half of the rice that I made today, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/29/04  Sunday 8:10 P.M.:  Since Standby on the computer does not work, I enabled Hibernate, which I never use, but now it is available.  I ran update on the Via Bus Master IDE controller driver, and it updated the files.  On the Primary IDE channel, I switched it from UDMA to PIO, since when I was trying to install the Real Player update to 10.5 the install froze, and in PIO mode it installed without any problems.  I will leave it in PIO mode for now, since the system froze before the update just playing the Real Player in full mode.  I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I also changed my Performance settings to the Minimum with just "Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts" and "Use Visual Styles on Windows and Buttons" as the only two options enabled.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/29/04  Sunday 6:35 P.M.:  I ate half a 10 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds with some iced tea.  It seems there is a bit of tropical storm activity coming our way www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . 

Note: <888> 08/29/04  Sunday 5:50 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  It is a bit warm out.  I then returned home, and I drank a cold 12 ounce can of Diet Coca Cola www.coke.com in a cold frosted mug.  I then drank some cold filtered water in the same cold frosted mug.  While downtown, and I noticed that the stone masons are putting the facing stones on a new Brooks Brothers http://www.brooksbrothers.com/  store just north of the Greenwich Hardware store just north of Saks Fifth Avenue http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/Entry.jsp .  CIO