Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 02/02/04  Monday 10:20 A.M.:  I emailed reseau@pasteur.fr <reseau@pasteur.fr> about the mold spots on the gelatin mixture.  The mold spots are white about 5/8 inch in diameter with turquoise blue spots in the middle about 1/4 inch in diameter.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/04  Monday 9:35 A.M.:  I have always called my apartment a branch of the Pasteur Institute http://www.pasteur.fr/ .  I use to keep Tropical Angel Fish in my aquarium here until I started into computer research ten years ago.  I use rinse the aquarium filter charcoal weekly and bake it in a 550 degree oven for about an hour to recycle the carbon that I used in the aquarium filter.  It got me to thinking with all of the natural items in angelfish feces from areas like the Amazon River in Brazil that any mold that might develop in the carbon which I also kept frozen in the refrigerator freezer before recycling, might be immune to temperatures from 20 degrees Fahrenheit to 550 degrees Fahrenheit or some sort of genetic mutant mold.  I occasionally buy Danish Blue cheese or other blue cheeses because they contain a certain mold that I think is good for you, and I use small amounts in my salads.  On January 8. 2004, I made up a batch of sugar free sparking Champagne Jell-o with a little Rene Junot white wine, orange juice and canned DelMonte peaches and their syrup, and I ate some a couple of times the following week, and then I forgot about it.  I just noticed on the remaining two thirds of the Jell-O mixture there are interesting mold spots developing in much the same way, one would culture a mold in a Petri dish gelatin.  Since because of the environment has remained relatively stable in my apartment for 15 years reflecting our native environment in this area as it relates to the Scott's world travels which would have dust from their travels on certain items in the apartment like the family couch, it would be interesting to investigate the mold to see if it is some new scientific breakthrough in mold and spore research or just another variant of a typical mold that is produced frequently in this area.  I am not sure whether to throw it out or to let it continue to develop to see how it develops and grow.  I think we should have a local pharmaceutical laboratory examine the mold to see if by chance we have come up with anything new or not.  Thus for now, I will let the moldy Jell-O remain in the refrigerator to see what develops.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/02/04  Monday 9:00 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/04  Monday 8:05 A.M.:  If in the next week, a interesting group of people start to converge in the New York City area and the surrounding area, it is because of this event The Westminster Kennel Club | Latest News: Another Full House For 2004 .  It is not that these people are particularly well financed, but they save their pie money and invest in a yearly event.  Basically, people whom own pets and dogs are a large share of the population in the United States of America, so a great many people whom show their pooches at the Dog Show are breeders, and the sponsors are those whom manufacture items that support the industry.  If one is interested in a particular breed or just likes dogs, it can be an interesting event, but basically it is not as low key as the "Putting on the Dog" event here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  We also use to have an "Adopt a Dog" fund raising event, and the wool carpet in my living room apartment was bought for $40 at a "Adopt a Dog" tag sale about 14 years ago.  It was donated by a well known local celebrity, and it seems to have held its own over the years.  I suppose people with dogs will be following the event closely to see how their particular breeds fair.  Frequently with smaller children in a community like ours, we have a number of smaller breed dogs around besides the larger breeds that local owners are seen walking around town.  This time of year, Tod's Point beach park is opened to the general public and dogs, but one is required to use one of the clear plastic gloves made available for free in the southeast beach area to clean up after their dog's mess.  I suppose we probably have someone downtown in the early morning trying to enforce canine regulations as they relate to the early morning dog walkers.  Also by the Bruce Museum we have a local dog pound that seems to draw attention, and I would imagine there is always a temporary resident there every once in a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/04  Monday 7:15 A.M.:  Today is Ground Hog's Day, so if the ground hog sees his shadow, we will have six more weeks of winter, which actually would not be too bad.  I was up at 5:15 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I will now do some regular computer work.  On the business front locally, I suppose it is important to try to network with other people, but since most of the local business community here is already established, they do not seem to feel like networking with any new people.  However, since the Scott family was one of the original business partners in the New Amsterdam colony, I suppose we are already networked with most of the established business community.  Thus we have so much influence whatever we suggest or back seems to be successful.  The only person that contacted me yesterday has a family involved with http://www.bbh.com/ , http://www.up.com/ , and he dabbles in race horses www.nyra.com .  However, I did chat with other people yesterday whom are involved in equally complex operations whom because I chat with them randomly, I am not totally familiar with the complete scope of their operations.  A lot of people in this area seem to have some sort of Midwestern United States connection, so the old guard blue bloods in this area are actually a bit put off when people try to do business in this area, when they frequently think they control everything.  However, it is frequently those families from further west that are the original business partners in this area before the more recently arrived families in this area put up stakes.  However, a number of the more recently arrived families might have been some of the original foreign investors, and more recently in the last 100 years or so, they have come over to personally supervise their investments.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 7:50 P.M.:  I ate a piece of apple pie.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 7:15 P.M.:  With the four halves of boneless breasts of chicken, I made garlic herbal chicken breasts.  I rinsed the chicken breasts in cold water, and I dried them with a paper towel.  I put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a Pyrex pie dish, and I rubbed all sides of the chicken breasts in the olive oil.  I then seasoned the bottom sides of the chicken breasts with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, chicken and meat seasoning, Italian spices, oregano, basil, Hungarian paprika, and parsley.  I then turned the seasoned bottom sides down, and I poured on the breasts and into the dish about a quarter of a cup of Rene Junot white wine and several tablespoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce.  I then seasoned the tops of the chicken breasts with the same seasonings.  I next minced a large glove of Elephant garlic, and I spread the pieces over the chicken breasts.  I then baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes.  I ate one of the chicken breasts with the juices, and I put the other three in the refrigerator in a Rubbermaid container.  I had the chicken with steamed white rice with the chicken juices and steamed broccoli stalk pieces with a little bit of olive oil.  I also had a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 4:50 P.M.:  I put the Altoids in the Steuben style glass bowl inside the Delft style bowl on the right side of the long mahogany bureau in the living room.  I put one of the Altoids tin containers on the dining room table holding some small odd items and the other one on the bedroom desk.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 4:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription at $1.50 cost.  I also bought four 18.8 ounce cans of Campbell's Chunky New England Clam Chowder for 2 for $2.99 for $7.48 total.  I then drove down to the center of downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area, and I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by at CVS again during my walk, and I bought 3.25 ounces of Paprika for .99, 2.75 ounces of Ground Cinnamon for .99, 2.875 ounces of Cayenne pepper for .99, a 1.5 liter bottle of CVS yellow mouthwash for $3.69 plus .22 tax for $6.88 total.  I then brought two 1.76 ounce tins of Altoids one of citrus sours and one of tangerine sours buy one get one free for $2 both plus .12 tax for $2.12 total.  They did not have 3 volt battery display Christmas light candle holders to use the bulbs I bought yesterday.  I will use the other bulbs for night light bulbs.  I am not sure whether it would be safe to use the battery bulbs with 120 volt electrical current.  I completed my walk.  I then used the bathroom at the senior and arts center.  I sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and this month's National Geographic magazine with the polar bears on it and the Greenwich, Connecticut story was not available.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 10:25 A.M.:  I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder which I put 10 Arnold large cut garlic and herb croutons in.  I had the soup with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 9:30 A.M.:  I ran Ad-aware 6.0, SpyBot, Regcleaner, Norton WinDoctor, System Restore Backup, Disk Cleanup on the C: drive, Norton Fast and Safe CleanUp, Norton Disk Doctor.  I then did a C: drive to D: drive backup in 7 different parts.  I next ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive.  While doing all of this, I went through part of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotwork.htm on the Dell backup computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/04  Sunday 6:40 A.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I opened up one of the packages of 10 CD jewel cases and two were broken, so I threw them away.  I put the other eight on the wicker rack to the right of my primary computer.  I noticed yesterday, when I was at Zyn stationary, they have lots of copies of the National Geographic with polar bears on it, which has the article on Greenwich, Connecticut in it.  I will read it in the library.  I will now run the computer maintenance utilities, and then do a C: drive to D: drive backup, and then run Norton Speed Disk.  This should take about three hours.  I can watch a little bit of television while doing it or use the Dell backup computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 10:35 P.M.:  I ran the previous mentioned procedures.  I read the back issues of the Greenwich Post and Greenwich Citizen while doing the computer maintenance.  I also read some tech periodicals.  I still have a lot of computer technology periodicals and other periodicals to read.  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 Swiss cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  It is suppose to continue raining until Friday, so I will not be going out this evening.  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 7:05 P.M.:  I was up at 3 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  It is raining out, so I will not be going out at this moment.  It is suppose to rain steadily until midnight, and then it is suppose to be sporadic showers.  I will now run Ad-aware 6.0, SpyBot, Norton Win Doctor, a System Restore backup, a Disk Cleanup of the C: drive, Norton Disk Doctor, RegClean, and then I will do a seven part backup of the C: drive to the D: drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 6:05 A.M.: Daylight Saving Time starts in Europe and North America this Sunday at 2 A.M. moves forward to 3 A.M..  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 5:55 A.M.:  CNN.com - Dutch farewell Queen Juliana - Mar 30, 2004 , BBC NEWS World Europe Dutch bid farewell to ex-monarch ,  BBC NEWS In Pictures In pictures: Queen Juliana's funeral .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 5:35 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  A tip you may have forgotten, if you want your web browser to open in Full Screen, set it to Full Screen, and then Press "CTRL-Y" combination to set it.  Then after you close it and reopen Internet Explorer, it will be in full screen.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 5:15 A.M.:  GeorgeWBush.com :: Kerry's Gas Tax Calculator .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 4:30 A.M.:  I am going through my email.  Microsoft Office Live Meeting - Download.com - Free downloads, shareware, and more. .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 3:55 A.M.:  I heated and ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder with 20 Arnold large cut croutons along with a glass of iced tea.  I just found this story for Connecticut smokers Greenwich Time - Taverns prepare to comply as deadline for smoking ban nears .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 3:20 A.M.:  I made a backup of my Outlook 2003 contacts and my Outlook Express address book, and I copied them to the USB drive.  The USB 32 MB drive is now filled up.  I will leave it sitting to the left of my primary computer on the bronze Eiffel Tower trivet.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 2:40 A.M.:  I was able to fit on the 32 MB USB drive my Favorites in *.zip format, my directory www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scotlis.htm  and my password program.  I ran the disconnect applet program on the primary computer, and I unplugged it.  I replugged in the USB 2.0 cable for the Minolta laser printer.  I now have the information for transferring to other computers.  However, it was just a test, I might leave if empty for future data transfer operations, but for now I will leave the information on the USB drive.  I attached the blue strap that came with it to the device, and it also came with drivers for Windows 98 which I do not need.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 2:15 A.M.:  The Favorites reduced in size by a factor of 4, so they will not all fit one USB drive.  However, I have them in *.zip format, which takes up about 19 megs.  Once I put my directory on, I could copy them onto the backup computer, however two of them already have most of them, and it is not really necessary.  The copying of large files is fast with the USB drive, so I will use the USB drive for copying files between computers.  Although for use I could copy all of the URLs to two 32 MB USB drives, I do not think it is necessary, since I do not use them that much, and the *zip format if fine enough.  I suppose I can use the USB drive for other file transfers too.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 1:25 A.M.:  I plugged the USB portable drive into my computer front USB 2.0 port, and I removed the Minolta Laser printer cable temporarily.  I am trying to copy my Favorites to the USB drive.  However, on a hard drive they take up about 235 megabyte of disk space, but they only comprise less than 5 megabytes of space, so since the memory might be actual space as opposed to hard drive formatting, they might actually fit on the USB drive.  Of course it takes a bit of time.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/31/04  Wednesday 1:05 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 and a 3 ounce container of Stop and Shop grated parmesan cheese for .99 for $2.98 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I then drove around the train station area.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I noticed downtown, they now have a highway barricade at the entrance to Grigg street off Greenwich Avenue, so through traffic is not permitted through there at the moment.  I am not sure what the situation is there, but maybe they are going to do some construction there.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went over to Walgreen's in Old Greenwich which is opened all night.  I noticed packages of Alkaline batteries are on sale for .99 and with the store coupon, one can get three tins of sardines for .99 all.  They also have a few computer accessory items on sale.  I bought a Computer Essentials 32 MB USB Portable Drive or what they call a pen drive for half price for $14.99 plus a package of Marlboro Lights 100s for $4.12 plus $1.15 tax for $20.26 total.  They have about four more USB drives left.  They keep them locked up with a number of other computer items, so the manager has to open the rack.  I just now returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 9:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 8:55 P.M.:  I reheated and ate the remainder of the Ronzoni linguine and the Frensceso Rinaldi tomato and basil sauce which I put a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it will with a glass of iced tea.  I then drank a 50% Folgers' decaffeinated instant and a 50% Folgers' instant coffee.  I always put a bit of milk in my coffee.  I watched some television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 7:35 P.M.:  Before going to bed, I ran Norton Win Doctor, and I did a system backup with System Restore, then I ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive.  I have 2.6 gigabytes of hard drive space left on the C: drive.  I left the computer on, and I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive while I was asleep.  I was up at 2 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 6:15 P.M..  I watched the NBC national news.  I threw out some garbage, and I checked the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 7:15 A.M.:  I finished watching Princess Juliana's funeral.  God rest her soul.  I tried to put it on the television, but the Real Player does not work with secondary monitors, so I watched it on the primary monitor with the sound playing through the television.  I tried reinstalling the Nvidia drivers, but that did not make it play the Real Player on the television.  I use the Nvidia drivers from www.mdmm.com for my Mad Dog Prowler 440SX AGP 4X video card instead of the ones from Nvidia.  Thus I only watched the last one hour and 45 minutes of the funeral, since I was tinkering with the system for a while after the last message.  I chatted with a friend for a while about a half hour ago.  I am a bit tired, so I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will eat two Quaker low fat corn cakes and some iced tea before going to bed.  Despite the sadness of the advent, it was enjoyable to see all the Dutch citizens and the Dutch Royal family and the House of Orange, the foreign visitors, and the other Royals from around the world.  I guess since I grew up in a Dutch American household, it is a more important event to me despite its sadness, however it tends to bring us all closer together in our grief.  The tulips should be up in a couple of weeks, they are about half way out of the ground downtown here.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 3:35 A.M.:  Princess Juliana's funeral is being broadcast on this link at the current time http://www.rtvnh.nl/tvpopup/livetv.rpm .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 3:05 A.M.:  Live stream links for Princess Juliana's funeral http://www.nos.nl/prinses_juliana/index_1.html?paginas/nieuws.html~output  and time schedule http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/juliana/www/persberichten2.php?Lang=EN&Pe_id=10&Id=6 .  At the moment the broadcast links are not working, but the Netherlands Time is seven hours ahead of us, so the procession should have started by now.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 2:55 A.M.:  I updated the Real Player 10 beta to the final release version, and I also updated Real Arcade.  I installed the updates, and I configured them.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 2:20 A.M.:  I watched a Dutch television report on NOS Journaal http://www.nos.nl/ and http://wwitv.com/portal.htm in Dutch, and it showed the crypt where all of the House of Orange are buried.  Also this page has more information http://www.nos.nl/prinses_juliana/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 1:55 A.M.:  More recent photos and news stories of Princess Juliana passing away CNN.com - Dutch queen mother dies - Mar 20, 2004 and Telegraph News Holland bids farewell to its bicycling ex-monarch and of course In Memoriam Prinses Juliana der Nederlanden .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 1:25 A.M.:  I put the ice tea in the refrigerator.  I watched some television.  I also have been told quite a number of times over the years that I also look like Peter Jennings of A.B.C. news.  Although, I might have a similar appearance, I believe Peter Jennings is a couple of inches taller than I am, he also has brown hair and brown eyes, while I have grey blond hair and blue eyes.  However, because of the similar appearance, I have had a number of people over the years try to tell me news stories.  Since I have not really watched that much television during my adult life, I was not aware of the similarity until it was brought to my attention a number of times.  Having been a professional photographer at Polaroid during the summers of my college years and with all of the walking that I have done in my life, I suppose I have been more visible to the general public than the average individual.  However, since one is perfectly attuned to looking at one's own image in the mirror, it frequently does not draw attention to one, when one sees one's similar image on the street, since one has seen it so many times.  I suppose since Peter Jennings is from Canada, there would be other people in the north country of North America with the similar appearance.  Whatever the case, I have local experience in this area, which someone whom simply looked like myself would not necessarily have.  However, since I have rather severe arthritis, in the colder damp weather, I do not spend that much time outside.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/30/04  Tuesday 12:20 A.M.:  When I lived in Nantucket, people use to ask me if I were living at my grandmother's house, and I was confused since my grandparents lived in the Midwest of the United States of America.  However, when I attended the Taft School http://www.taftschool.org/ in Watertown, Connecticut from 1965 to 1968, I had a classmate in the class behind me that look similar to me.  That same classmate's family had a little farm in Nantucket that was put on the market for $80 million dollars last summer, so more than likely I was confused with that friend.  I believe his family lives nearby in Bedford, New York, and they own or are involved with Tucker Electronics http://www.tucker.com/ .  Since that classmate lived in Bedford, New York where John Jay the first United State's Supreme Court Chief Justice was from, and since John Jay's mother was a Scott, we might be distant relatives thus the family resemblance.  However with families like the Scotts and the Jays which have been in this country for so long, there are hundreds of thousands of distant relatives, many of them which do not carry the same family name or resemblance.  For example when I attended Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu , I had a classmate with the last name Gates, but their family owned Gates Tire and Rubber, not the other outfit.  Thus with many people in America that have the same genetic stock and with many people having similar names, it is easy to get people mixed up, if one does not keep track.  Usually people do not bother me very much, since I am pretty limited on finances, but since I am part of Old Guard stock, there could be individuals whom look similar to me whom are better financed.  Of course it is the nature of the Scott family which have had such long term involvement with the United States Military, that there could also be members of the family whom are still involved in such a capacity or with other services.  CIO