Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 6:55 A.M.: I worked on my email. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest a bit. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 5:00 A.M.: Cool News: NSF - OLPA - PR 03-135: ABANDONED PENGUIN COLONIES MAY HELP REFINE ANTARCTIC CLIMATE STUDIES . CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 4:40 A.M.: Specifically, my friend told me at around 10 P.M. last night that yesterday that there were using special tactical units at the Guggenheim museum http://www.guggenheim.org/ which she was told they revolved them around the city on a rotating basis. Thus if New York City is using such high levels of security, I would imagine they are worried, since extra security costs money. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 4:25 A.M.: I just woke up from my nap. I ate about 15 saltine crackers with some iced tea. It would seem to me that although the United States government never tells us very much, that they must know something, or they would not be spending all this money on terror prevention. I am not sure how it is relevant to our area, since most people only know what is in the Greenwich Time and on local television and the internet. However, I suppose some people whom travel into Manhattan for work would have a better idea of the larger picture. At the moment, http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/ is at yellow level, so whatever activity is going on in Manhattan is part of their normal preparedness which they have kept in effect since "911". Still, since I am more expert at running computers than I am at walking around at night in cold weather, I have not gone out yet. Although it is warm at 25 degrees Fahrenheit outside with a wind-chill of 16 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.weather.com/weather/local/06830 at the moment, I feel like it might be damp outside, which since I have arthritis would bother me. Generally when I can feel the dampness inside, it means it is damp outside. The humidity level is 56% outside which is enough to make an arthritis sufferer feel a bit cranky. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 1:30 A.M.: I relaxed a bit. I put the ice tea in the refrigerator. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap. With the apartment being kept cooler, one frequently feels more comfortable in bed. CIO Note: <888> 02/19/04 Thursday 12:05 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese with the salad, and I also used Stop and Shop no fat grated parmesan cheese topping. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with iced tea. I am also making up a fresh batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . I am using 10 Salada orange pekoe tea bags, 5 Lipton green tea bags, and one each of the five different types of Twinings tea in the five variety pack. I am not using sugar, but I am using a couple of tablespoons of Angostura bitters. The friend whom called me from Manhattan told me that they are still using antiterrorist tactical forces around Manhattan and New York City, so I would imagine that it is not really safe to visit the city. Locally here our top notch antiterrorist tactician is probably in hibernation, since I have not seen any of the local skunks downtown since winter began, but I have seen raccoons, and I would imagine in back country various coyotes, wolves, bears, mountain lions, cougars, and bob cats are probably still prowling around. Whether any of them ever venture into the downtown residential areas is opened for debate. About the only back country wildlife I ever see south of Putnam Avenue is an occasional deer or fox. A local resident brought up the subject of Conyers Farm yesterday, and I mentioned that I had tried getting a relative to buy all 4,400 acres in 1978 when it was offered for $7 million dollars, thus the current residents have seen the value of their property increase substantially. Back in the spring of 1975, when I was try to quit smoking cigarettes, and I was much younger and in better physical shape, I tried camping out and swimming at the local Conyers Farm lake around mid April to mid June that year, when the water turned mucky from too much algae buildup. I once swam the entire length of the lake, but since I am not a very good swimmer, I took my time. I would not advise other young people to try that unless they were skilled swimmers, since even a skilled swimmer can get cramps and drown particularly in cold water. A number of the local high school students were out there using the property then. I met Louis Rosenstill and other of his family members whom were resident owners of the property at the time. Louis Rosenstill use to walk the property with three Russian wolf hounds, so more than likely he kept the wolf hounds, because he had wolf problems. The local caretaker from Banksville, New York on the property advised me that bears were frequently seen on the property. Since wildlife frequently returns along its long natural tracks in the woods, more than likely the polo crowd with horses are probably worried about their live stock. I was advised a couple of years ago, one should keep a radio going in the barn to scare away wildlife. I also once saw a Florida grey panther around the polo fields in Boca Raton, Florida. More than likely the back country people keep dogs, so more than likely when the dog barks at night, it means there is some animal or someone out in the woods. Of course it could just be Yeti paying a house call. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 10:05 P.M.: I put the AARP expiration stickers on my two AARP cards. One of them I keep in my wallet, and the other one is on my bedroom desk in the Harry's Bar ashtray from Venice, Italy, which I found many moons ago at the Old Greenwich rummage room thrift shop. The current expirations stickers that I received today are for May 2005. I have been told by two relatives that in some locations that AARP offers driving course renewal programs which certain insurance companies like GEICO give a premium deduction on their rates to their customers whom take the AARP course. However, I am not sure whether it is offered in this area or not. On CSPAN earlier they showed the CSPAN bus touring Grant's Tomb in Manhattan. When I used to live on West 74th in Manhattan near Riverside Park, I would occasionally walk up north to around West 96th street where I believe Grants Tomb is located in Riverside Park. Back then up until 1982, Grant's tomb was covered with a lot of graffiti, but I recalled that they have since restored it. A friend of mine showed me Ulysses S. Grant's house in North Salem, New York, and it still a beautiful home, which I think is still in private hands. I believe Grant also lived in New York City. He had publishing debts in publishing his memoirs, and his friend Mark Twain helped him publish him memoirs. Mark Twain lived nearby North Salem, New York about 30 miles away in Redding, Connecticut. His estate was recently put up for sale. Well, not much happening in this neck of the woods. I chatted with a friend. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 8:55 P.M.: I woke up at 4 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until 8 P.M.. I watched some television. I checked my mail, and I got my www.aarp.org renewal information, which I already have paid for. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 8:35 A.M.: I finished going through my email. Being fairly good at photo analysis, I think this picture most accurately represents what President Bush looks like in person http://www.georgewbush.com/news/photoalbum.aspx?gallery=7 . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 7:15 A.M.: I heated and ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, which I ate with a glass of iced tea. I put in about 20 Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons. I tried logging onto my Siemens router SpeedStream 2614 4-Port DSL/Cable Router with the default IP address. It prompted me for a password. I found my Siemens router quick-start guide in the Optimum Online bag that I keep on my white bureau in the bedroom with the Optimum information. I used the default password in the instructions. I then reset the Siemens router to its defaults and ran "Simple Setup". I then rebooted the computer, and it is pretty much running the same. I chatted with a friend. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 4:40 A.M.: Basically in the downtown area of Nantucket, the houses are so close together that everyone knows everyone else's business. I had two friends from New York whom lived two or three houses away from one of my rentals on India street where I rented a room, and during a six to eight month season, I would only see either of them two or three times. Thus even as small of an area like Nantucket, people get lost in the crowd. Basically, Nantucket after Fairfield county is suppose to the third wealthiest county in the United States and of course Nassau county on the North Shore of Long Island is suppose to be the wealthiest. Thus when one looks across to the south from the south shore of Connecticut towards the north shore of Long Island, one is viewing where all the money is going to. Since one never hears very much about Long Island and Nassau County in the national media, it would seem that they are wealthy and clever enough to control their public relations. About the only thing we ever hear about it in this neck of the woods is occasionally advertisements on the television for the North Shore Medical Hospital facility. As I recall when I lived out there about 21 years ago to 26 years ago, it is about ten times busier than this area, and there seems to be a lot of prosperity. Thus I suppose if they closed the Queens midtown tunnel and other ways of transportation such as the Long Island railroad, the Long Islanders whom are making all of the money in New York City would have to go back to growing potatoes. It is my viewpoint, that since a member of the Scott family founded South Hampton, and one time owned all of Long Island until 1700, when he moved to Jamaica which was suppose to be more profitable that more than likely there are some remnants of our family heritage out on Long Island, but I am not sure. More than likely it is plaque in South Hampton, Long Island. I have visited the Hamptons about a half dozen times over the years, and it seems quite remote from the busier activity in this area. Basically, from what I know if my family members have been around for so long, more than likely some of them might still own long established properties in some of those various locations. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 4:25 A.M.: For the multi lingual international crowd whom are under whelmed by the United States of America media, many of them frequently forget there are over 8 million or more people up in Canada whom speak French mostly in Quebec. Thus I would say it is fair to say that they have their own viewpoint of their neighbors to the south. When I use to visit in Florida in the mid 1970s, the most common sign in front of beach front hotels and motels was "Nous Parlons Francais", or something like that. Thus I would dare say the French Canadians are probably large investors in Florida. However, locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I have only counted 118 cars from Canada in the last 20 years or more, so it would seem to me that the Canadians have enough room up their way without traveling down our way. When I lived in Nantucket over 20 years ago during my last summer there, I occasionally worked with an individual named Ian Greenshield whom was French Canadian whom did casual maintenance around the island. He sort of looked like a Beefeater on the Beefeater gin bottle. He claimed to have been a body guard for Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Stowe, Vermont, and the last project he had me working on was painting the trim on Admiral Halsey's house off the Polpis road facing on the Nantucket harbor. They eaves area of the house had lots of bees. After that, I also once saw him walking the beach in Kennebunk, so more than likely there were French Canadians there occasionally. Ian enjoyed drinking alcohol, and he always seemed to have a different girl friend every day or several times a day, so he was quite popular. He told me his son lived in Fort Lauderdale, and his father sat around some old hotel in Montreal and owned the Greenshield Bank. However, there is no reference to the Greenshield bank on the internet, and the only reference to Greenshield is that it is the name of the Rothschild family home in Europe. Thus maybe Rothschilds live in Montreal also. Ian was friends of the Grennon family on Nantucket from Concord, Massachusetts and Stowe, Vermont whom owned real estate and the Languedoc restaurant on Nantucket. A great many of the employees of the Languedoc restaurant in the summer worked for the Stowe, Vermont ski patrol in the winter, so the Languedoc group was always amused to see me every spring coming up from Key West, Florida. Needless to say, I once cleaned up their bar Sister Kate's in Stowe, Vermont after the ski season which took about a week to clean up. They had rented the bar to someone called "Rock", so more than likely this Rock character was a cold weather person. That spring in 1983, as I recall was the last time I was in Stowe, Vermont, so more than likely the cold winters have taken their toll on the cold weather group up there. Since I have been up north really since about the spring of 1979, except for one two month vacation in Key West back in 1982, I would imagine that life has evolved into new generations in those localities. Ian lived above the firehouse in Nantucket, so a great many people regarded him as a security type of individual. We once witnessed an event which was terrifying. I recall it was a hot July weekend, and we were driving east on the dirt road from Surf Side towards the Nobodeer beach at the end of the runway of the airport. Ian had bought an old rusted GMC Jimmy with removable roof. There were approximately 500 or more people at that beach location at the end of the runway, and we could see it along the beach road from about a half mile away. One could here lots of people yelling and screaming, and the water seemed to be quite red. Ian observed the scene, and he said we better drive back into town, and I then went to work that late afternoon. We were at such a long distance away, it just looked like another beach day. Still, I regularly walked to that beach from town all the time after that, so as far as I could tell over the years, nothing ever happened there that I was aware of. About the only thing that happened there was that Preston's bar across from the airport burned down a number of years before my final summer in 1983, so they built the Mews disco on the Surfside road. Since most of the time I did not have a car on Nantucket, my viewpoint was mostly limited to the comings and going in town, and those places like the beach I either walked or jogged to. Occasionally I would walk up to Sconset on the Sconset road, and I would walk back the Polpis road which was more dangerous. Also occasionally, I would walk to Madekat. Thus my viewpoint was more limited to the downtown area of Nantucket. I suppose the four wheel drive crowd had a larger overall perspective. However, I did try to use the Nantucket library regularly to keep informed of Off Island events. Thus people whom seem to have television always seem to think they know more, and since during that time when I traveled and lived in those locations, I did not have television, I was not aware of a great many events that other people were better informed on. However, the media in the United States of America does not cover too much, so when one uses one's own two eyes, one frequently sees more. I suppose all of the French Canadians whom have traveled through this country over the years would also have their own perspectives too. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 3:00 A.M.: Inexpensive generic computer without the operating system Accessmicro Computers Motherboards and Laptops $50 rebate for $249 total cost on generic computer system without operating system . CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.: I did some minor tweaks on the Dell backup computer. CIO Note: <888> 02/18/04 Wednesday 1:45 A.M.: I woke up from my nap two times, and I ate 10 saltine crackers each time. I guess now that I am awake again, I will do some more computer work. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 10:40 P.M.: I am a bit tired, so I will go to bed early. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 10:15 P.M.: Yahoo! News - Tech Tuesday Free Software . CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 10:10 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 9:20 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I used a 3.75 ounce tin of Beach Cliff sardines, which I chopped into small pieces, and I added it all to the salad with the soy oil, instead of tuna fish. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese, and I also used Stop and Shop no fat grated parmesan cheese topping. I also used all of the other regular ingredients. I had iced tea with the salad. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 7:50 P.M.: I did not fall asleep until 5 A.M. this past morning. I ate about 10 Nabisco saltines. I did not wake up early enough for my emissions inspection appointment at the Shell Station on East Putnam Avenue and Sherwood Place, which was at 12:45 P.M.. I did wake up about 1:30 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with raspberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then cleaned up, and I went out. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went to my 4 P.M. appointment. I then went by the Shell station on East Putnam Avenue at Sherwood Place to reschedule my appointment. I am now scheduled for 4:30 P.M. on Tuesday March 2, 2004. I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by at CVS, and I bought two 32 ounce spray bottles of CVS cleaner with bleach for .99 each and one 16 ounce bottle of CVS wool wash for .99 plus .18 tax for $3.15 total. I then completed my walk. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I just drove around the parking lot, I did not go in. I next went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 3:35 A.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cabot's www.cabotcheese.com 50% less fat Vermont cheddar cheese. I also used Stop and Shop no fat grated parmesan cheese topping. I had the salad with iced tea. I will now shut down both computers, and I will go to bed soon. I have to be up at 10:30 A.M. for my daytime appointments. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 2:25 A.M.: Here in Greenwich, Connecticut late at night and during the early morning hours, there is not much in the way of warmer hospitality for casual travelers except the Greek owned Greenwich Glory Days dinner across from the YMCA on East Putnam Avenue one and half blocks east of the top of Greenwich Avenue. Since the railroads are not very profitable anymore, they do not keep the train station opened all night for casual travelers. On weekdays at night the Food Emporium is opened 24 hours, and also the small Shell gasoline station on West Putnam Avenue is opened 24 hours. Of course if one breaks the law, the Greenwich Police can frequently offer hospitality, but that can be expensive by the time was pays a lawyer and a fine. Also we have hotels and inns, but it is the nature of this area that they are very expensive. The cheapest lodging that I know of in Greenwich, Connecticut is the Howard Johnson's motor lodge http://www.hojo.com in the Riverside section of town. If one calls their 800 telephone number at 1-800-446-4656 they supposedly can offer a discount rate from the usual $109 a night plus tax for $83.99 a night plus tax. Their web site says they also offer a 20% discount to AARP American Association of Retired Persons http://www.aarp.org/ , but those rates are not always available. I called the 800 number, and they told me the current lowest rate they can offer at the Greenwich, Connecticut Howard Johnson's is $83.99 a night plus tax. There is hour local bus service from that location in the daytime on week days. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 1:45 A.M.: Of course when dealing with the Saudi Arabians and other people from the Middle East, they were traditionally nomadic following their wandering herds of goats and sheep. They usually stayed in middle eastern style tents which probably would not be too practical in the northern parts of the world. However, since they had goats and sheep, they more than likely had warmer woolen and goat hair garments to stay warmer when it got cold. It supposedly gets cold in the Middle East too, so I suppose it depends on what one is use to. I have never visited the content of Africa, but I have been as far south as Selchuk, Turkey, Crete, the south coast of Greece, Malaga, Spain, and Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, so more than likely I have seen a few people from further south of there. Of course that was over 30 years ago, and the world has changed. Locally here in the United States of America, one needs credit in the United States of America currency dollars to generally afford to live here and maintain a lifestyle. Occasionally people trade items in exchange for items of like value. Whatever, the case in the north country because of the cost of heating and maintenance, it can be very expensive to travel outside of the normal tourists' areas. I suppose the oil barons have their lodges where they entertain people from warmer areas of the world. Whatever, the case the largest lodge I have seen in this area is the lodge at Harriman State Park, which is one of those Adirondack lodges. However, there are large homes in this area, but the people in the large homes frequently travel, and they have their own private networks of friends and associates. In other words, some of the homes up north might not be very warm in the winter. Once again, it depends on what one is use to. Although I keep my apartment at 70 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter which is very expensive, there are plenty of people whom are more frugal whom live in colder environments indoors around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. I have a friend who has plenty of money, and for many years he use to come to visit my apartment just because I always kept the temperature at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, when his own personal house was frequently 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and very hot in the summer. Thus keeping an average temperature in an apartment on a year round basis from around 65 degrees Fahrenheit to 75 degrees Fahrenheit is a more expensive lifestyle. Of course when working with computer equipment which generates heat around electronics, it helps to have a cooler environment on a year round basis. When I went to the Microsoft conference at the Holiday Inn at Bridgeport, Connecticut two weeks ago, the Microsoft representative from Waltham, Massachusetts commented the conference room at 72 degrees Fahrenheit was a bit too hot. However, since Bridgeport is also where the Royal Dutch Shell tankers deliver oil for this area of Connecticut and it is also where Northeast Utilities has a large power plant, more than likely they can afford to keep it warmer. I was once given free hospitality in Bridgeport, Connecticut because a computer hacker working for a local Connecticut politician falsified information on a United States of America Federal computer network 20 years ago. Thus since at the time, I was not as computer aware, it is obvious that various politicians including government employees can use this technology to their own advantage. Thus one of the reasons for keeping the computer log is to let people know what I am up to doing, so others whom might try to profiteer off other peoples experience, connections or long time family affiliations know exactly what I am up to and basically how simple life can be when one ignores the salesmen on television. CIO Note: <888> 02/17/04 Tuesday 12:45 A.M.: Chicago, Illinois pied a terre http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/16/cx_bs_0216how.html . If I am not mistaken Chicago, Illinois' Astor Street also intersects with Scott street at the intersection of which location, my father lived during his first marriage. It is convenient to the Ambassador West and Ambassador East Hotels, and I believe the Ambassador East still has the dining room called the "Pump Room" with their very large black Nubian waiters wearing feathered head dresses such was the style in the old world court of some long forgotten Sultan. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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