Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 11/26/04  Friday 7:30 A.M.:  I added a few more links to Michael Louis Scott's Online Shopping List .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/26/04  Friday 6:00 A.M.:  I ate piece of Pumpkin pie with whipped cream and iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/26/04  Friday 5:00 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area, and I sat out at various locations.  The wind had thrown some foam insulation boards that are being thrown out in front of Victoria's Secret, and they were all over the sidewalk, so I stacked them in two separate piles, so the sidewalk is now clear.  I could have brought them home to put in my windows to insulate them, but Styrofoam does burn, so it would be a fire hazard, so I will not try to use the material, although it would make it warmer in my apartment.  I met the owner of the building that Victoria's Secret is in about 15 years ago, and he is a wealthy Greek that bought the property and built the building, but I am not sure if he still owns it or not.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I noticed the last office building on the right on Steamboat Road has a large "For Rent" sign in its windows.  I am not sure if it is the entire building or just some office space.  They do have a dock on the harbor as well as a patio though for summer enjoyment.  I next stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  I went to Save on the Dream Suite Automatic Warming Blanket at SmartBargains.com , and I ordered the electric blanket in full size in Ecru color for $27.98 plus $6.95 shipping for $34.93 total.  Until Sunday www.smartbargains.com offers free shipping on orders over $50.  I will be a little low on money at the end of the month, but as it gets colder here, I figure it is worth having an electric blanket on the bed in the bedroom as well as a comforter.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/26/04  Friday 1:35 A.M.:  I cut a individual servings worth of broccoli crowns in smaller pieces, and I heated them in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid on the vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.  One can get the microwave proof cookware at www.walmart.com .   I cut two 17/32nds thick slices of the Butterball white meat boneless turkey breast, and I put them on a microwave proof dinner plate, and I added half of the remaining mushroom gravy and half of the remaining cooked rice and half of the remaining Stove top stuffing, and I put the plate with the food with a microwave lid on top of it in the microwave oven, and I heated it all on the Reheat cycle.  I then put the hot plate on another plate.  I strained the broccoli, and I put it in a bowl with a teaspoon of olive oil, and I put the remaining half can of Ocean Spray whole cranberry sauce in a bowl, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/26/04  Friday 12:20 A.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.  I chatted with a relative about 10:30 A.M..  I chatted with another relative about 3 P.M..  I woke up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed.  I woke up at 8:30 P.M., and I chatted with one relative twice and another relative.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I still have to do the vacuuming, when I will not disturb my neighbors later this morning.  I threw out some garbage.  It has gotten colder again Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast , but it is actually below freezing since there are frozen ice drops on my Volvo.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 9:10 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 8:55 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 8:50 A.M.:  I am going through my email.  I chatted with a friend.  New links for Hour of Power Windows of Hope http://www.hourofpower.org/windowofhope/register.cfm .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 8:15 A.M.:  Sherman discovers Europe: ShermansTravel.com — Screened Listings, Deal Reviews, Objective Editorial .  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 7:20 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - Saluting one of their own and the headlines in the Greenwich Time today in the newspaper box on Greenwich Avenue says that Connecticut Light and Power www.cl-p.com are going to raise the electricity rates 17%.  They raised them 12% this past January.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 7:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  It seems to have cleared a bit, and it is quite nice out.  I noticed that starting at 5 A.M. on this Friday morning after Thanksgiving www.kbtoys.com is having a sale.  Also www.radioshack.com also has a sale on the Friday after Thanksgiving.  I enjoyed looking at all of the Christmas decorations on Greenwich Avenue.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront, but there were no fishermen there.  One would think with the warmer weather, they would be fishing.  I next stopped by Cumberland Farms www.cumberlandfarms.com on West Putnam Avenue on the Port Chester Greenwich border, and I bought a 7 ounce container of Garelick Farms light whipped cream for $2.39.  I noticed across the street, they are building a new office building or apartment complex just east of the Perrier headquarters if they are still there.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I then ate a piece of pumpkin pie with some of the whipped cream on it along with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 3:20 A.M.:  I will go back out shortly, and I will check out our local environment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 3:00 A.M.:  Basically in the time it took to cook a Mrs. Smith's frozen pumpkin pie, I made and ate my Thanksgiving dinner.  I cooked the Mrs. Smith's 2 pound 5 ounce pumpkin pie in the Farberware convection oven putting it on a baking sheet at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 55 minutes.  It now has to sit for 2 hours.  If I go out sometime soon, I will pick up some whipped cream at Cumberland Farms just across the border on West Putnam Avenue in Port Chester, New York.  While doing that I made up a batch of rice the usual way with the China Village rice steamer.  I put a 17 ounce can of Swanson's chicken broth in a pot with four tablespoons of butter and a teaspoon of Italian spices, and I brought it to a boil, and then I put in the 15 ounce package of Kraft www.kraft.com Stove Top Stuffing let it stand for five minutes off the heat, and then I fluffed it with a fork before serving.  I took a 10.5 ounce can of Franco American mushroom gravy, and I put it in a sauce pan, and I added ten 1/4 inch thick sliced medium to large mushrooms, and I heated it over medium heat with a lid under the mushrooms shrank.  While the rice was sitting for five minutes after cooking, I put in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid a half of a cup of water and one large service of broccoli crowns cutting into smaller pieces, and I heated it on the vegetable cycle on the General Electric microwave oven.  After that was done, I cut two 3/8th inch thick slices of the Butterball www.butterball.com boneless breast of white turkey meat which is already cooked, and I put them on a microwave proof plate with a microwave lid, and I heated them on the Reheat cycle for about three minutes.  I then served on a different dinner plate, one third of the rice, one third of the stuffing, the two turkey slices with one third of the mushroom gravy on them and in a separate bowl the broccoli with a teaspoon of olive oil on it, and in another bowl a half of a 15 ounce can of www.oceanspray.com whole cranberry sauce.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea, and I just finished the dishes, and I am letting the pie cool.  Local weather calls for rain and thunderstorms today Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast ,although it will be warmer.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/25/04  Thursday 1:15 A.M.:  Happy Thanksgiving Day.  I went out after the last message.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  The local youth were using the local pubs.  The wind is out of the south, and it is currently raining, but today Thanksgiving Day should be warmer and clear.  There usually are a large number of volunteers on Central Park West in Manhattan blowing up the large cartoon character balloons for the New York Thanksgiving Day parade, so with the wind and the rain, they would be having additional problems stabilizing the balloons.  I am thinking about preparing my Thanksgiving Day meal in a little while instead of Friday morning when I am awake.  I will probably wake up tomorrow evening during today, but I would not be eating my primary meal until Friday morning.  Thus in a little while, I will prepare and eat my Thanksgiving Day meal.  Before I went out, I ate a Celeste 7 ounce Deluxe pizza with some iced tea.  CIO   

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 9:45 P.M.:  I was up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of a oatmeal with a sliced banana, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went downstairs, and I threw out some garbage.  I then picked up my mail.  I next went to bed until 9 P.M..  According to this it is raining, but at the moment it is clear Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast Wednesday .  I suppose I could clean up and go out.  However, it depends on the conditions at the time I get out there as to whether I will take a walk or not.  Last night there was nothing going on except for the local youth hanging out at some of our local pubs which is par for the course during the Thanksgiving Holidays.  I suppose tomorrow night on Thanksgiving night the family people will be going to the movies.  Realistically not much ever happens in the suburbs, but since people maintain large complex homes, it keeps them busy doing their chores.  I guess I will be having my Thanksgiving meal late tomorrow night since I seem to be on a later schedule.  I frequently go to a later schedule at the end of the month when I am low on funds, and it does not cost to much money to go downtown for a walk.  However, my apartment is like my bank, and I am comfortable, and I have enough non perishable foods, so I never complain.  However, not many people in this area seem to be awake on a later schedule anymore, since it costs so much to live here, they have to keep busy working in the day time.  Thus on my schedule, I feel more like the Maytag repair man.  CIO  

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 8:40 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I ate two more black licorice twists.  CIO 

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 7:55 A.M.:  One can order the Abercrombie and Fitch http://www.abercrombie.com/ catalog free online at http://www.abercrombie.com/anf/onlinestore/html/catalog.html .  The kids in the catalog look more like the kids that I grew up with, since most of my friends were the outdoors types.  This dude I am sure will be popular at the Winter Olympics Abercrombie & Fitch Stars on the Rise which are next suppose to be in Turin, Italy in 2006 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES, TURIN, ITALY .  When I was last in Albertville, France in 1992, I mentioned when I was in Chamonix, it might be nice to travel through the St. Bernard Pass from Switzerland to Italy.  Italy can be a very colorful and festive country, but alas I don't think it is as cheap now as it was when I visited in 1972.  However a pack of Marlboros back then in Italy was about $5, when French cigarettes were about $2 and a Fiasco of Chianti was $3 and a weeks stay at the Pension Adria at the Santa Trinita bridge in Firenze, Italia with continental breakfast and five course dinner was $40 plus the cost of wine.   Of course one had to put a 100 lire coin about 16 cents back then at 585 lire to the dollar in the bath hot water heater for about three minutes of spray hot water in the tub.  A cappuccino with cream filled pastry was about a dollar.  A train ride to Rome from Florence was about $20.  A borcellino hat was about $2.  Dinner at lunch time was about $3 and dinner late at night at one of the late night restaurants was about $4.  The more enterprising youth in Florence would put down black felt clothes on the Ponte Vecchio, and sell gold trinkets.  Since there was very little crime in the area, the felt secure in displaying their gold on the street.  However, the population is fairly dense in the old part of the city in the daytime everyone is watching everyone like something out of a Machiavellian script.  However at night when there is no Fiat automobile www.fiat.com or www.alfaromeo.com traffic, one can walk about the Renaissance streets in the early morning hours, and only see the spray cannon street cleaning machine which also washes off the cars.  If the street cleaner sees you, he will turn off the spray when he passes by.  If he does not see you, you get a free shower.  I frequently have told people their street cleaning machines do a better job of cleaning the streets, since they wash down everything every night including the fronts of buildings, cars, sidewalks, streets, and whatever else is left outside.  Alas, I am not to good at standing out in cold mountainous areas anymore, so more than likely I will not be making it to Turin, Italy, also because of lack of funds.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 6:55 A.M.:  I just microwaved and ate a Celeste 7.26 ounce Suprema pizza, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  We all know that www.chase.com bought www.jpmorgan.com .  Two days ago, I saw somebody walking around looking like he should be the chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase.  He looked like he had eaten half the Angus cattle in Scotland, but more than likely he can afford Lipitor www.lipitor.com after all the beef he looks like he has eaten.  Of course by fat people's standard, he is still small because he can still walk around easily.  J.P. Morgan Private Banking has an office next to the Greenwich Police station on Mason street, so more than likely the head of J.P. Morgan shows up occasionally.  He actually looks more like a Morgan than a Texas cattle baron, but whatever the case since we know the Morgan family were once pirates, they more than likely would be able to spend some money in our locally depressed economy.  Of course the Morgan Bank still has an office in London, and I am not sure if that was acquired by Chase or not.  From what I can tell the local economy is in a downturn, since the price of fuel is so high.  Also I was told by the night manager of Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue that they would be opened on Thanksgiving Day, but I am not sure what hours.  Usually the Versailles restaurant next to Starbucks is open and as usual the Glory Days diner on the Boston Post Road is always open.  Rue de Croissant has a "Cease Work" order in their window on their remodeling project, so possibly they did not have the right building permits.  They are also remodeling the Texaco gasoline station at Arch Street and Railroad Avenue.  According to the Greenwich Time http://www.greenwichtime.com/ about six months ago that gasoline station as well as the Shell station at Sherwood Place and East Putnam Avenue and the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library are owned by a wealthy Texas oil individual whom acquired them a long time ago.  The individual thought they were over accessed at their $350,000 value, so perhaps the individual has not been here in a long time.  More than likely the individual or company would have other oil interests.  Somebody else told me the Volpe family owned them, but the Volpes might just keep an eye on them.  I believe the Volpe family are in the highway construction business, since they built a great deal of the Interstate Highway System with the Volpe construction company out of Boston, Massachusetts.  Volpe was Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Transportation, and there is a Volpe http://www.volpe.dot.gov/ National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so more than likely they travel around and see more.   CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 5:45 A.M.:  In my formative years in Decatur, Alabama before I moved here in 1961, I use to use the Carnegie Library in Decatur, Alabama which had lots of sea novels since Decatur was named after Stephen Decatur a United States Navy admiral famous for fighting the Barbary pirates off the North African coast.  In reading the many sea novels, it seemed a great many treasures were always being lost at sea including gold, thus I was never really too interested in looking for gold if it only ends up getting lost anyway.  With my friends in Decatur, Alabama at the southwest side of the Walter Jackson grade school play ground we did find petrified dinosaur eggs and in the stream beds south east of Decatur, we found lots of Indian artifacts including Indian arrow heads.  I used to use my grandfather Boven's Indian Head pennies that my mother had saved to buy penny candy at the local candy store down the road from our house.  I once found a V nickel in the dirt around our house.  However, at the moment although most people think that America has been sifted and sorted through thoroughly over the last half of a millennium, it is such a large continent and people are always in such a rush, there is always no telling what one might find on a more closer examination of this continent.  Still as I told a couple of friends from a church group in Sea Island, Georgia on a hot June day before "911", I had been all over the United States and there is nothing worth stealing from a military point of view.  It was my viewpoint after our country going overseas frequently during this century, that since we can not really afford to fight long wars overseas indefinitely, the next time the aggressive powers would probably be coming here, and we would have to defend our country here.  Of course it is hard to put a value on Freedom and Liberty unless one knows what slavery and oppression is.  I dare say most Americans would fight at home for their Freedom and Liberty, so any outside aggressors would have a very difficult time of it.  I recall Eleanor Roosevelt in planning the defense of the United States during World War II in case we were invaded wanted all of our citizens to plant Poison Ivy around the churches and to put Golden Rod in all of the public buildings, so I guess having been exposed to both in Alabama, the new arrivals having just arrived here have lots to learn about the American way of life.  I dare say some of the more fundamental American Indians are still hiding secrets from the long term European American residents.  We do know a lot of the American Indians and the African slaves were cannibals, so maybe that is why there are so many missing people.  Of course we still also have dangerous wildlife in the Americas too, so it is better to stay near the cement sidewalks and urban areas.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 4:45 A.M.:  The Australian waterproof matches were in a match box with orange, black, and white lettering, and I though they would be useful for lighting a cigarette on a rainy day in Nantucket.  My identification at the time showed that I was resident of New Canaan, Connecticut where the Chief of Police also had the last name Scott.  When I returned back from California, there were quite a few Californians working around the Shell station next to the train station in New Canaan, and that winter which was very cold, there were also Hawaiians with lots of body fat working at the Mobil gasoline station on the Merritt parkway in New Canaan.  However, at the time the area was still in major recession, and although I attended Ronald Reagan's first inaugural at my own expense, it was not until I returned from Nantucket in December 1983 about 21 years ago to this area that this area started to improve financially, lest we forget.  CIO

Note: <888> 11/24/04  Wednesday 4:30 A.M.:  Over the last three hours, I also ate seven black licorice twists.  I recall in the Jan Sport day pack, I think besides the other items mentioned, I had a pair of Lee blue jeans, a pink and a blue LaCoste http://www.lacoste.com/ polo shirt, my Greek fisherman's blue and white shirt that Joel gave me in Laguna Beach, California.  I think I put the five ounce Swiss Credit gold bar that was numbered inside a box of Australian waterproof matches, and I think I also had another box of Australian waterproof matches which I found at a camp store in Laguna Beach when I bought the Jan Sport day pack.  I also had a pair of long underwear knit bottoms.  I probably had my toiletry kit.  The United States passport would have been in my brown leather passport holder.  I probably had some souvenirs from my travels.  It may seem strange that I was using gold instead of American Express travelers checks, but at the time gold went from about $250 a ounce to over $850 an ounce, and there was gold fever http://www.kitco.com/ in the country.  At every airport there was a Deak Perrara gold exchange with long lines.  I recall exchanging the 2.5 ounce Kaiser Wilhelm gold coin for some lesser coins and cash at the coin store in Huntington Beach, California after I returned to California from Hawaii.  It seems like the people in California were honest, since I would leave my Jan Sport day pack on the beach in Laguna Beach with the gold coins and cash all day, and frequently leave it, and nobody would ever take it.  However, after being around the honest Californians, when I returned back to the Manhattan area, unfortunately they are not that honest here.  I used some older gold coins to exchange for the newer gold coins, and although they were older, they never went up in value when the spot value of the newer gold coins went up.  Of course, I also was around Mel Fisher's group in Key West, Florida when they were on their salvage dive for the gold they found there too.  Since one of my relative's husband's father was the chairman of Newmont mining, it would be safe to say that they probably had seen gold before.  They use to joke in California, "All the Gold in California is buried in a Bank in Beverly Hills".  Whatever the case after that experience, I no long keep precious metals or gems around me anymore.  I do have a Canadian quarter with Queen Elizabeth II's engraving on the front, and possibly the Canadian quarter is real silver unlike the U.S. quarter.  I also have a few old pennies that never went up in value along with my plate block stamp collection that never went up in value.  I am acquainted with somebody from DeBeers from South Africa, so possibly they would know more about what happened to the gold that I was carrying.  For all I know it was used to start Microsoft.  CIO