Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 4:05 A.M.:  I printed out a copy of my last four month's Scott's Random notes.  It is 270 pages long, and I put it in two Oxford Clip binders, which I left on the near end of the blue sofa for easy reading.  In a couple of days, I will put them with the other Oxford Clip binders in the left bookcase in the hallway.  The entire printout of the notes for the last six year and seven months is 2855 pages long, so it is a long stack of Oxford Clip binders in the left hallway bookcase.  I used my trusty old HP LaserJet IID laser printer, which is good for heavy duty printing.  It probably has less than a thousand sheets usage on the present toner cartridge, so it should be good for another two thousand pages.  I print out in Post Script Times Roman 12 Bold, so it uses a bit more toner in the printout.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 2:30 A.M.:  I watched a little bit of television while I was having my coffee.  I will now print out the last four months of my Scott's Random Notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 1:25 A.M.:  Dinner was delicious.  I am just about ready to have a cup of coffee.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 12:50 A.M.:  For any stranded night owls who are hungry or cold, and providing one has Unites States of America wampum, the Glory Days Diner on East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut is usually opened 24 hours a day seven days a week, so one can take refuge there and eat to one's heart's content.  However, here on the more frugal side of town, I am cooking the same dinner as last night. I took two Purdue boneless breasts of chicken breast, and I rinsed them off in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.  I put them in a Pyrex pie dish, and I rub both sides with a little olive oil.  I then seasoned both sides with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, and basil.  I put about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine in the dish with a few tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I put six minced gloves of garlic on the top of the boneless chicken breasts.  I will cook them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I will eat one of the chicken breasts with reheated steamed white rice, and I will put the cooking juices on both the chicken and the rice.  I also will have steamed fresh asparagus, and I will eat the dinner with a glass of iced tea.  I will refrigerate the other cooked boneless chicken breast for use later.  CIO  

Note: <888> 01/05/04  Monday 12:10 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 11:55 P.M.:  Free cars Big GM incentive: free cars - Jan. 4, 2004 .  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  I was up at 5 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched some television.  I went back to bed until 10 P.M..  I just cleaned up.  I will not being going out, since it is a cool damp night out.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 10:10 A.M.:  I finished running the utilities on the HP Kayak XA computer, and it is all running fine.  I shut it down.  I have the bedroom LAN cable connected to the AMD backup computer on the brass and glass coffee table on top of the Danish desk, but the LAN cable can be switched around easily.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 9:45 A.M.:  I ate two Mandarin oranges.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 9:20 A.M.:  On the HP Kayak XA computer, I changed the IDE Cdrom from Cable Select to Master.  The computer then booted without any problems from the CD.  I replaced the defective file.  I rebooted without the CD, and the computer is running just fine, and it is all configured.  It has about 1.5 gigabytes of free space on the 4.5 gigabyte hard drive.  I have it back in the bedroom underneath the sideboard.  I am running a utility on it.  Well it is all running just fine, so I now have four backup computers that can go online, and another one that can not go online besides the primary computer which obviously can go online.  Well, it took some time, but the HP Kayak XA seems to be running fine.  When I changed the Cdrom to IDE Master, it was also recognized as to the specific type it is.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 6:40 A.M.:  I shut down the HP Kayak XA computer, and I put it back in the bedroom underneath the sideboard.  Unfortunately when I booted it with the other Dell monitor in the bedroom, it would not start saying that I had a corrupt file that needed repair.  I can not boot the CDrom at the moment to try to repair it, since the CDrom does not boot.  The CDrom is set to Cable Select, and if maybe I set it as the Master IDE device, it might boot, when I select the CD boot option.  I will work on this at a later date when I have more time.  It is just one of many backup computers that I have, so it is not critical.  I had it all configured, and it was working just fine, until I moved it into the bedroom and tried to boot it.  It might be that it has a faulty SCSI controller or hard drive, but during the many reboots during installation and configuration, I had no problems with it.  Well, it just goes to show the best efforts can frequently be to no avail.  Still, in working with the HP Kayak XA computer, I learned something about the older technology.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 4:25 A.M.: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html  or same Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home .  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html with feed on the NASA Mars Rover.  I also went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 3:55 A.M.:  I am still configuring the HP Kayak XA computer.  I will use it as another emergency backup computer, so I will not be using it regularly, except to check it to make sure it is still working.  Configuration is coming along just fine, and I about done configuring it, and then I will run some utilities on it.  It has a 300 MHz Pentium II processor with 160 megs of memory, so it just has enough horsepower to run the programs that I have put on it.  Well, I guess we could call it part of the "Dumpster Computer Repair Skunk Works Project".  Sound is working on it, so I will put the headphone set from the AMD backup computer which has speakers anyway.  It also has the HP Lan card and another Lan card, so technically it could be used for networking.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/04/04  Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  I am still working on configuring the HP Kayak XA computer.  I made this dinner.  I took one Purdue boneless breast of chicken breast, and I rinsed it off in cold water, and I dried it with a paper towel.  I put it in a Pyrex pie dish, and I rub both sides with a little olive oil.  I then seasoned both sides with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, and basil.  I put about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine in the dish with a few tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I put five minced gloves of garlic on the top of the chicken.  I cooked it in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I had the chicken with steamed white rice, and I put the juices on both the chicken and the rice.  I also had steamed fresh asparagus and broccoli, and I ate the dinner with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 11:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 10:45 P.M.:  I was awake at 3 P.M., when a friend called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to sleep until 7 P.M..  I vacuumed my apartment, so the house cleaning is now done.  I cleaned up, and I went out.  I stopped by CVS.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I briefly sat out at the Greenwich Library.  It was damp out, so I did not walk.  I went by the Exxon gasoline next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $2 of regular unleaded gasoline at $1.839 a gallon for about 30 miles per gallon.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice original flavor for $2 each half gallon, a Marie Callender chicken tenders dinner for $3, fresh asparagus at $2.49 a pound for $2.46, a 19 ounce bottle of Texas Best Barbeque sauce original rib style flavor for $2.99, a quart of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $2.99, a Spanish yellow onion at .99 a pound for .84, a bulb of fresh garlic at $2.99 a pound for .48, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $3.99, and just before the asparagus, they rang up an unknown item as the same weight at the asparagus "Sar Grnd Chourco" for $3.70, which was the cost of the Purdue boneless breasts of chicken at $1.99 a pound for $3.70 for $28.45 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I drank some iced tea.  I just chatted with a couple of relatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 7:15 A.M.:  I will finish configuring the HP Kayak XA backup computer later on today, when I wake up.  I shut it down.  I went through my email.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 01/03/04:

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 6:15 A.M.:  I am mostly finished with the configuration of the HP Kayak XA backup computer.  I still have at least another hour or two to finish it off.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 4:55 A.M.:  I am still configuring the HP Kayak XA backup computer.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I used the Dole Tuscany salad greens instead of spinach.  For the cheddar cheese part, I used Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and 2% low fat extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 3:25 A.M.:  I am still configuring the backup HP Kayak XA computer.  I took the World Wildlife Federation www.wwf.org 2003 calendar off the refrigerator door, and I put it to the left of the AMD backup computer in the bedroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 1:55 A.M.:  Since I have not been doing much reading off the internet this morning, I have been listening to 106.7 FM with my Emerson wireless headphones.  I am recharging the spare pair of rechargeable batteries, and they will be charged at 8 A.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 01/03/04  Saturday 1:25 A.M.:  I was up at 7 P.M. this past evening.  The HP Kayak XA computer would not work, so decided to format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.  I have just finished doing that.  I will start configuring it shortly.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  While installing the operating system on the HP Kayak XA computer, I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I still have to do the vacuuming, which I will do after 9 A.M. in the morning, when I will not disturb my neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 11:45 A.M.:  I had problems configuring the HP Kayak XA computer, so I shut it down for now.  I finished eating the can of smoked almonds.  I will now have some iced tea, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 8:00 A.M.:  I am still working on the systems maintenance upgrade on the HP Kayak XA computer.  I chatted with a friend.  I drank some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 4:55 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I had the salad with iced tea.  I put the iced tea away in the refrigerator.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 3:25 A.M.:  I am installing some updates on the backup HP Kayak XA computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 2:30 A.M.:  As a point of reference, a relative asked me today how much I weigh.  I just weighed myself on my bathroom scale, and I presently weigh 208 pounds before eating my primary meal of the day.  I will probably have my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm in about another hour or so.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/02/04  Friday 2:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove over to Walgreen's in Old Greenwich, and I bought two nine ounce cans of Walgreen's smoked almonds for $1.99 each can, three 11 ounce cans of Madam mandarin oranges for $1 all, and three eight ounce Air Wick air fresheners in three scents, Green Apple and Honeysuckle, Crisp Breeze, and Sparkling Citrus for .99 each with the store circular coupons for the Madam mandarin oranges and the Air Wick air fresheners  plus .18 tax  for $8.13 total.  I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I then returned home.  I am making up a batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm using one each of the five different types of Twinings 25 pack of five different Twinings tea, eight America's Choice orange pekoe tea bags, one Salada orange pekoe tea bag, four Lipton green tea bags, and two Bigelow orange pekoe tea bags.  I am not using sugar either.  I ate six medium handfulls of smoked almonds along with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 10:25 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up and go out for some fresh air.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I am microwaving a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 13 ounce glazed chicken dinner, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 9:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I watched the New Years concert from Vienna, Austria with Walter Cronkite hosting the show.  I only saw about the last two thirds of the show.  I listened to it with my headphones connected to my stereo amplifier connected to my television.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 8:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I ate two mandarin oranges.  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 6:45 P.M.:  I was up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I watched a bit of television.  I rested a bit more.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 4:55 A.M.:  I ate two mandarin oranges.  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 3:40 A.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I put the glove box organizer in my Hyundai glove box, and I put the insurance and registration information in the glove box organizer to have it handy.  I mailed the large envelope at the Valley Road Post Office.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations.  I next drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I drank some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 1:20 A.M.:  I installed the Red Hat Linux 9.0 updates on the Dell backup computer.  I printed out a report.  While I was looking for a large envelope to mail it, I found two souvenir coffee cups in my desk drawer with a large number of spare ink pens.  I put the two souvenir coffee cups with the ink pens in them on the Danish end table on the right side of the bedroom desk to the right side of the IBM Cyrix computer.  I found a large mailing envelope, and I will go out shortly to mail the report.  I will put the computer on standby.  I will also put the glove box organizer in my Hyundai glove box, and I will put the insurance and registration cards in the glove box organizer.  CIO

Note: <888> 01/01/04  Thursday 12:05 A.M.:  Happy New Years!  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 11:40 P.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 10:55 P.M.:  I did some regular computer work.  I moved the old computer CDs from below the sideboard in the bedroom to the bottom shelf of the CD rack to the right side of the computer chair.  I moved the computer tool kits to the left side of the old tool box that my left handed Kensington wireless mouse sits on.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 9:25 P.M.:  I switched my three calendars from February to March.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 9:05 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 8:35 P.M.:  58th Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 1 - 5, 2004 IHC

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 7:50 P.M.:  I checked www.airborne.com , and my Microsoft Office Suite 2003 Professional arrived at South Norwalk, Connecticut at 9:43 A.M. yesterday, but its estimated delivery date here is not until Wednesday March 3, but possibly it might arrive tomorrow.  It says it was shipped ground from Kent, Washington 2/25/04 at 8:11 P.M., so it made good time to this coast by ground.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 7:25 P.M.:  I watched a bit of CSPAN.  I have a 1:45 P.M. inspection tomorrow from the Greenwich Housing Authority, so I will probably not be going out until after that.  I will now do some regular computer work.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 6:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I drove down by the waterfront.  I the drove over to Tod's Point, and I walked out to the southwest picnic area, and I then walked out to the southeast point.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York in Old Greenwich.  I next went by CVS in Old Greenwich.  They have two Coca Cola lamps there for $10 at 50% off instead of $20.  I then went by Staples in Old Greenwich, and I browsed the clearance rack, but they did not have much there or anything that I needed, so I did not buy anything.  I then went downtown, and I sat out for a while.  I did not walk because although it was warmer above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, I felt a bit fatigued.  I then returned home.  I helped a neighbor get a piece of plastic stuck underneath his car out.  I sat out for a while by the baseball field viewing the indoor ice skating rink.  I then went back into my apartment, and I had a message from a relative, and I called the relative back, and the relative said they would call back.  I then made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I use a 4.25 ounce tin of pink crab meat instead of tuna fish and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I had the salad with iced tea.  The Lipton tea at CVS is still expensive at two 100 count boxes of orange pekoe tea bags for $4.99, but I have plenty of tea here in reserve.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 1:20 P.M.:  I will now eat a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea, and I will then clean up and go out to enjoy the day.  

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 1:15 P.M.:  Well, I watched a bit of television.  They seem to be worried about weapons of mass destruction.  I happened to stumble across a unique weapon of potentially destructive force, when I was put on Lipitor to lower my cholesterol.  I started eating salads with canned fish, instead of other types of meats.  With all of the roughage from the greens and other items in the salad, one gets such a methane gas buildup in one's digestive track that one seems to be constantly emitting a non stop stream of digestive gas that if one is not familiar with the smell of such sulfur type odors such as one would have around an oil refinery, one basically is not too socially acceptable in mixed company.  Basically one has about the same potential lethal objective of a horse in a barn when it breaks wind.  I could for the same price of the salad diet go back to the meat, poultry, pork, and fish diet with rice and cooked vegetables, but I have stocked up on the major ingredients of my salad and tinned fish diet, so it would take a while to readjust my pantry provisions and used them up to return to a fresher smelling diet.  This has been pretty much the case since the end of June 2003 when I started the salad and tin fish diet.  However, I have a feeling it is a healthier diet despite the odor problems, so since I really do not entertain many people at home, and since I spend most of my time out in public in the open air, it is not really a problem until I have to go inside for some errand.  I could always increase my budget for CVS Enzyme tablets which are the generic equivalent of Beano, but that would mean having to increase my monthly expenses on another health supplement.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/29/04  Sunday 11:45 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I have been watching Cspan local cablevision channel 65 on the Senate Intelligence Oversight committee briefing.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/28/04  Saturday 9:20 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/28/04  Saturday 6:05 P.M.:  Of course in conservative areas like Greenwich, Connecticut, old guard people tend to be a bit more conservative in their spending also.  Thus if one saw some old timer in a beat up old blue Cadillac, it might be the sheriff or chief of police whom was just making the rounds in that old gas hog.  Since the old timers tend to be more sedentary, about the only thing they enjoy in their advanced age after they have made a lot of money is a good meal.  Thus they usually tend to be overweight, and they tend to eat too much, which generally means they do not live as long as their wives, whom seem to end up with everything sooner or later.  Then there is another group whom seem to prosper off the widows, since they know how to cater to their affairs, which their husbands usually managed.  Thus since over 77% of the private money in the United States of America is controlled by women over 70 years old, it basically comes down to the fact that the group whom influence this group of older women exercise a considerable amount of influence.  However, a great many of the women having lead conservative frugal lives just simply continue with their knitting and pursuing their normal affairs and really do not pay much attention to the larger events in the world as the public media continually report it.  Thus one is more than likely to influence the real financial decisions makers by advertising in a magazine like Good House Keeping versus using the tombstone press of the Wall Street Journal.  Whatever the case as a hermit like pensioner, I do not feel like getting involved with the larger public relations squabbles as they relate to the world in general, since generally when one is on a low income bracket in this town, one does yield much influence, and one generally is too busy trying to make ends meet.  I just chatted with a friend, and he told me that www.greenfield.com is opening up Worldwide offices, so they are going international.  However, it is more than likely a niche group activity in the computer field they are pursuing, and once they go international their local expertise might not be applicable to the larger world in general.  From my viewpoint here in Greenwich, Connecticut the most internationally attuned individuals in town are the hard working fellows from India that run the news stands, since in their public jobs on main street dealing with a diverse crowd, they actually have a clearer idea of what the scope of international activity is here as it relates to the English speaking language.  However, I never see many of the Asian community using any of the services offered locally here in town, so they obviously drive elsewhere to obtain certain services and goods at cheaper prices.  CIO