Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 11:50 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I used a 4.25 ounce can of flaked pink crab meat. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Swiss cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I am now making a batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . I am using 10 Salada orange pekoe tea bags, 5 Salada green tea bags, and one each of the five different types of Twinings five variety pack. I am not using sugar, but I am using two teaspoons of Angostura bitters. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 9:40 P.M.: I was up at 4 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until 6:30 P.M., and I then had a friend call up. The friend is coming out to spend the night on this Sunday night about 7 P.M., and then the friend has to travel eastward into Connecticut. The friend said he would take me out to dinner. I then cleaned up, and I went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Times. I then went downtown, and I stopped by Zyn stationary, and I bought a #28 scratch card for a dollar, but I did not win. I did not walk Greenwich Avenue because it is very damp out, and it feels like Europe like one were sitting in a bath tub full of ice cubes. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a half gallon of Tropicana orange and pineapple juice for $2.50. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 8:25 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will try to go to bed. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 8:10 A.M.: Sometimes uninformed individuals underestimate the resolve of the United States Government when they take action domestically. Once when I left Key West, Florida in the spring of 1977, I happened to visit a friend in Durham, New Hampshire, and there were about fifty thousand well educated well financed white Northern European origin individuals whom had organized a demonstration against building the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. They were called the Clam Shell alliance. When I monitored their demonstration at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site, it did not surprise me that the United States Government came up with enough personnel to arrest and house all of them for an undetermined amount of time, since after the arrests, I went down to Williamsburg, Virginia, and then I returned to Nantucket, I do not know what eventually happened to them all. Possibly that formidable group of people that I saw in Key West, Florida were United States Department of Energy personnel, and since much of their activities are kept secret, but it is well known they have a quite formidable budget and all of the latest technology, gadgets, and security tools. Thus if they were deployed in this area, I would imagine they would stand out a bit. However, this is all just theory as to whether they were such personnel or not. My father worked for a number of construction companies, so maybe what I saw down in Florida were some of his associates involved in the construction business. In my travels, I have seen personnel from Fluor Daniel, Bechtel, Olympic and York, Turner Construction, Stone and Webster, Halliburton, Waste Management, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Navy Seabees, Tischman Construction, Trump Construction, Browning Ferris, the United States Department of Energy, NASA, Debeers, Phelps Dodge, Endicott, Peabody, Red Adair, Long Star Cement, ABB Asea Brown Boveri, the United States Department of Transportation, Tennessee Valley Authority, Wolfson Construction, Volpe Construction, Co Ed, Northeast Utilities, various railroads, various oil companies, and a few other lesser known engineering groups not to mention their suppliers. I suppose it might be from the fact that my father was an engineer or when I was in Key West, Florida; members of the Dupont family were there, and their original product was dynamite. However, being partly of Scottish origin, maybe all of these construction people drank a product from Scotland, but from my experience most of the rich corporate engineer types in this town drink Jack Daniels which is commonly available in 1.5 liter bottles in this area. I suppose in those areas, where the people are bigger, they sell it by the keg. Of course once one gets on a computer, one can not drink alcohol because it requires a certain level of precise thinking. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 6:55 A.M.: I was once told that Admiral Hyman Rickover Hyman Rickover - Father of the Nuclear Submarine was living in retirement in Key West, Florida when I was down there in the mid 1970s. With all the elderly people from the U.S. Navy down there at that time, I am sure other well known U.S. Navy personalities were also down there. It seemed to me at some times down there in Key West, Florida, there were about two thousand tall men whom were about six foot six inches to over seven feet tall, and a great many of them had beards. What they actually did, I never found out, since whom ever was in charge of such a formidable group kept it a secret. I had a few theories that they were United States Military Special Forces, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building the new bridges down there, Oil workers on furlough, U.S. Air Force personnel down from the DEW line, United States Federal Marshals, Canadians on Vacation, Texas Rangers, U.S. Border Patrol, National Park Service, or they could have been just big people whom like to fish. When I was last there in February 1982, I did not see them there, so more than likely they had moved on to other locations. They were taller and more formidable than the personnel I have seen at United States of America Presidential Inaugurals. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 6:15 A.M.: I rested a bit, and I watched some more television. I suppose some time in the future this URL will be handy www.rentarobot.com . I just stumbled across www.wn.com . CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 3:25 A.M.: I rested a bit, and I watched a bit of television. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 2:05 A.M.: I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 1:40 A.M.: I am boiling a 16 ounce box of Ronzoni #17 Linguine for 12 minutes, which I will heat with half of a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi tomato and basil which I reheated in the microwave along with a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese. I will have the meal with a glass of iced tea, and I will refrigerate the remainder. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 12:35 A.M.: I freed up some disk space, and I now have 2.78 gigabytes free space on the C: drive. I could uninstall a couple of programs that I never use like Encarta, but at the moment, the space is not needed. I also have 1.81 gigabytes of music MP3s that I never listen to, but it took time to collect them, so I keep them. CIO Note: <888> 03/29/04 Monday 12:05 A.M.: I deleted some of the back issues of Zenio downloads, so I have 2.5 gigabytes of free space on the C: drive. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 11:55 P.M.: Since it is currently 76% humidity http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=06830 , I will not be going out for a walk this morning, since with my arthritis, I would not be too agile. I noticed after tomorrow, there are chances of rain all week. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 11:35 P.M.: I put away my laundry. I consolidated two different Documents folders in My Documents folder, so I do not get them confused. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 10:50 P.M.: CNN.com - Northbound lanes on I-95 reopen - Mar 28, 2004 . CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 10:45 P.M.: If one lives in the New York area and has extra money for good quality food The Food Emporium has a number of locations http://www.thefoodemporium.com/locations.asp , unfortunately they are not opened all night on weekends. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 10:30 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 10:10 P.M.: I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle. I said hello to a couple of my neighbors. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 9:40 P.M.: I started two loads of laundry, and I have five minutes to go on the wash cycle. I threw out some garbage, and I moved my car nearer to my side of the building. I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 8:55 P.M.: I microwaved and ate a 17 ounce Boston Market chicken and noodles dinner, which I ate with iced tea. I also drank a 50% Folgers' instant and 50% Folgers' decaffeinated instant coffee. When I was living in Manhattan up until February 1982, I recall occasionally reading the New York Times. I recall that previous summer before moving out, that there were a series of stories about a Canadian woman that worked for Morgan Stanley in Manhattan and also lived in Nantucket. The stories reported that she had disappeared I recall during that previous fall without a trace, and they never found her again. The stories mentioned that she use to walk along the beach, and they mentioned that the Nantucket police chief had come down to Manhattan to investigate. Thus possibly the woman might have been snatched off the beach by some killer whale, since there would have been evidence that she had gone swimming if she had been caught in a rip tide. I recall my last extended stay in Nantucket through the spring, summer, fall of 1983 until the end of November, I had regularly swam on the south shore of Nantucket at various locations, and as the fall progressed, I did not swim for about six weeks. Around the third week of October 1983, there were some warm days, so I went out by the Mount Vernon Farm, and I went swimming about 100 yards off shore. I was swimming east along the shore, when I was suddenly caught by a very strong force of current in the water, and I did not know what to initially do. I briefly tried to swim back to shore, and since I was not a strong swimmer, I decided to swim with the Rip Tide which was not very difficult since it was propelling me strongly east along the shore. I managed to stay afloat and around the Sewer beds just web of Surfside where there was a sand spit projecting out in the water, I was brought close enough into shore, where I could make it back onto land. Thus I was propelled by the Rip Tide for about a mile west to east along the shoreline. I never swam along that shoreline again. It was my theory that as the colder weather sets in, the currents around the south shore of Nantucket change from what they normally are during the warmer months during the summer. Since a great many people walk the shores of Nantucket and occasionally go in swimming in the water, this is possibly what happened to the woman that disappeared off the island two years before. There were also some stories in the Nantucket Inquirer Mirror about the event. Shortly after that a relative's house was broken into in Florida, so I left the island, and met the relative in Boston at the airport, and I drove down with the relative to Florida to investigate, and I recall stopping in Greenwich along the way. I think I cashed a check at Putnam Trust in Riverside from an employer in Nantucket. I recalled also that Rand Insurance had been my insurance company, when I had a car a couple of years before. My relative returned back up north flying, and I left her area in Florida, and I visited Fort Lauderdale, and I was there during the Granada invasion when all the tall people were there around the Halloween time. I had rented the black Hertz rent a car Mercury Cougar which the windshield wipers did not work on, and when I left Fort Lauderdale, I traded it in for a gold Mercury Cougar, and I visited with another relative on the west coast of Florida, and I then returned back to Nantucket, I recall flying there from Tampa. There was also a tropical storm when I drove down to Fort Lauderdale and for most of the time that I was there. I stayed in Nantucket until Thanksgiving Time when I took the Ferry off the island to Hyannis, and I recall staying up all night in the airport, and I read in their newspaper they were having a memorial service in Hyannis marking an anniversary of the John F. Kennedy's death. I then caught a Provincetown Boston airlines embarcadero turbo prop made in Brazil, from Hyannis to LaGuardia. I had seen John Van Airesdale the airline owner before, and he was the pilot, and I noticed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sitting a couple of seats in front of me. She was met by someone when we arrived in New York, and I then went to Grand Central Station, and I went up to Toronto on the Amtrak, and I spent about a week there staying in at the Anglican seminary at the University of Toronto and walking around Toronto, and I then returned back to New York via Amtrak, and while the trains stopped over in Buffalo, New York, I called a friend, and I chatted with his father, and the friend was living out on Long Island. I then spent about a week walking around Manhattan with no place to stay in Manhattan, and I would sit up all night at the East Side airline terminal with my bags checked there. After all of the walking in Toronto and Manhattan, my ankles were swollen up about four times their normal size, so I called my father from LaGuardia airport, and he told me I should come out to Greenwich. I caught an airport limousine to Greenwich, and I checked into the Greenwich Hospital for about a week. I then ended up being discharged, and I spent another week walking around Manhattan staying at the East Side airline terminal. I would use the upstairs tennis club to clean up. My ankles became swollen again, so I checked back into the Greenwich Hospital for anther week. Finally they got me a social worker, and my social worker found me a room on Milbank Avenue a week before Christmas 1983, and I have been here ever since, and I have gradually become more established. I saw a democratic politician from Florida downtown yesterday, so maybe other people from Florida are back here early. For historical hurricane weather information I found this link http://weather.greenwichtime.com/tropical/ . I now have to start laundry. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 7:25 P.M.: As I recall, NBC News out of New York had a satellite news truck down on Steamboat Road filming live coverage of Hurricane Gloria Weather Underground: 1985 Hurricane Archive back in September 1985, so they might still have archival videotape coverage of this area during that event. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 6:45 P.M.: After the last message, I could not fall asleep. I called the Greenwich Police about 6:30 A.M., and I reported the incident down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road yesterday at 5:30 P.M.. I told them when I went down to the pier on Steamboat Road about 5:30 P.M. after my walk on Greenwich Avenue, I noticed a red or burgundy, but more like cherry new Dodge Durango possibly or that style pickup truck with New York license plate. It was parked with the front facing out, and it had a Plexiglas bug screen on it that said "Keep on Trucking". When I got out of my car, I chatted with one local walker about the upcoming hurricane season and what happened down there during hurricane Gloria in 1985. There were two couples down at the end in cars enjoying the view and three other individuals sitting on the pier besides the lone fisherman fishing off the west side of the pier with a trout fishing rod. When the other people sitting on the pier departed, the fisherman started to leave, and I asked if the fishing was any good. He responded that he got tired of sitting on the couch, so he decided to go fishing. I mentioned the fact about the military activity in the area, and the fisherman said he was a Korean war veteran. The fisherman was about 6 foot 1 inches tall weighing about 240 pounds, and he had a noticeable pot belly stomach. He was bald, and he seemed congenial enough. About that time he pulled out a Buck knife and flung it open, and then he put it back. I mentioned that the first week of June was the best fishing for Striped Bass off Madaket in Nantucket. About that time the fisherman pulled out and flung open his buck knife again, and I might have talked some more. I did not think too much about it but made note in my subconscious since over the 20 or more years I have gone down by that pier, fisherman have always used knifes around their fishing activity on the waterfront, and unless one is use to it, it can make people feel nervous. One long term resident on the road also carries a Buck knife, and when I lived in Nantucket all of the fisherman seemed to carry Buck knives, so maybe that is why I talked about Nantucket. The fisherman left in his truck, and I left shortly thereafter, and I returned home. That is a little more of the substance of what I told the Greenwich Police Department when I called them about 6:30 A.M.. About 7:30 A.M., we had my building fire alarm go off, and I got up to investigate, and there was the smell of burnt toast in the downstairs north hallway. One of the residents whom has the key to the security system was trying to reset it. Shortly there after that four fire trucks from the Byram fire department arrived, and they investigated the toast fire for about 20 minutes. I noticed the Byram fire department seems to be physically in very good shape, so I assume we are well protected here. It was enjoyable to see a lot of young faces. My neighbors had responded to the alarm, and they were just waking up. I went back to my apartment, and I had a telephone call from a friend whom is also Dutch American. He told me in an old library or archive in Albany, New York, they had found an old journal recording the earliest Dutch exploration and settlement of North America around 1609. Parts of it were damaged, but the content of the remaining content of the Journal has been published called "Island at the Center of the Earth". He gave me the name of the author, but I can not remember it. He told me the colonial Dutch capitol was at Albany. I ate a Nature's Valley strawberry yogurt bar. I then fell asleep until about 2 P.M., when a relative called. I next ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then fell back asleep until about 6 P.M.. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 4:00 A.M.: Well, I am tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will reheat the remaining Kraft macaroni and cheese and chicken broth rice, and I will eat them with some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 3:40 A.M.: Of course with this group of so called Whalers in Nantucket, their favorite hangout was a restaurant bar up from the Wharf called "The Brotherhood of Thieves", so more than likely they were also descended from pirates. I suppose when one shows up there for a vacation, they might go off island and take advantage of one's home environment, but it might be just an observation point to watch travelers, and they actually might be from other places out of our jurisdiction like Canada or elsewhere. However, a lot of people in Nantucket had native Irish accents, so more than likely they were from Ireland, however with all of the Hollywood type people there, they could have simply been from California practicing their craft on the east coast. Summer resorts are well known for attracting theatrical types. Whatever, the case it is my viewpoint that there are not any rich people in the world, there are just a group of people whom constantly advertise themselves as being rich surrounded by large groups of con artists whom take advantage of the individuals whom try to curry favor with the so called rich individuals. Since locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut which is suppose to be a wealthy town, there never seem to be any rich people, but just a lot of people walking around hoping to be rich, the concept of rich must be sometime they have bought off their television sets, and they probably would have a little spare money if they did not pay for Cablevision or waste so much time watching television. Maybe everyone is just working at the going wage, just trying to get ahead. It is really hard to tell. Since a great many people go to Nantucket from Greenwich besides all of the people from down south and locally in New England, I would imagine for the young people, it is where various New England families and their schools network during their free summers, so historically they return there like lemmings running into the sea. The Pierce family name which is associated historically politically and more recently in the current Bush administration is on Nantucket since it is the name of the high school and S.S. Pierce also supplies food, and Sysco Brands were there which also came from Houston. Of course just because somebody might know somebody there, does not mean they are always there, and it does not guarantee that one will not be swept away by a Rip Tide current or become part of the Food Chain by a Great White Shark or a Killer Whale. I think this concept of political people summering in summer resorts started with the advent of mass transportation, and it was like the suburbs a way of selling transportation services, so their investors could make profits. I have always felt more comfortable at home, since I work on maintaining it mostly year round. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 3:15 A.M.: I was just thinking about the recent news story about the Wright Whale in distress tangled in fishing lines off the Carolina coast. I suppose since the endangered Wright Whale is only about a year old, one could try to fool it by using mother Wright Whale sounds to get it to relax, so they could remove the threatening fishing lines. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 2:55 A.M.: Of course, I got back at my friend from Nantucket and Key West and California whom was trying to pull dirty tricks on me, I once had him walking for about a half of day down Alligator Alley hitch hiking with no one offering us a ride as we walked along the quaint canals along Alligator Alley which may or may not have had the reptile of the same name. We did see the old airport along that stretch of road which was famous in his godfather's exploits. Of course with another friend from Nantucket and Key West and Long Island, I once camped out on the Appalachian Trial where there were Bear Country warnings, and we also camped out on Hilton Head Beach, where we had tracks around our tent from a 14 foot long alligator. Thus when one takes off traveling from Greenwich, Connecticut to these so called deluxe beach resorts, one may run into types of wildlife that one might not regularly encounter in one's normal routines here in Greenwich, Connecticut. For all I know back country is full of Mountain Lions and Bears and the Tod's Point area has the same reptiles and there are wolves roaming over the entire area. I ate two Quaker low fat corn cakes about an hour ago. CIO Note: <888> 03/28/04 Sunday 2:30 A.M.: Of course locally here in Connecticut, it is no big secret that Sikorsky http://www.sikorsky.com/ makes helicopters, and it is no big secret that the Cheyenne contract was cancelled and the U.S. government is thinking of using a European helicopter for Marine 1, so maybe locally Sikorsky is lobbying for their own product line. Thus maybe some foreign buyer might be interested in their product line. However, since I am not in the market myself for a helicopter, since I believe "If Man Were Meant to Fly, He Would Have Wings". However, I was told that they use them for medivacs and other non military purposes as well. Whatever, the case every story has its own context as the story is told, so frequently people whom travel around and see lots of things get the story out of context, since it is the nature of traveling, one tends to not be as well informed, an individual like myself who just sits at home reading the Press. Whatever, the case I would imagine people from Sikorsky tend to be active in this area, if only to test their product line. However, the owners of Sikorsky is UTC www.utc.com a company that makes other products that compete with www.ge.com . So maybe with the Bill Gates group so much in the news with their Microsoft Information on the internet, UTC and GE are trying to sell Bill's father's old company Boeing www.boeing.com some sort of aircraft engine to go with their aluminum. Needless to say, I will remind any big heavy fat security type truckers that it is the nature of aviation that aviation personnel tend not to weigh as much historically unless one is using a C5A Lockheed C5A Galaxy which could probably carry a whole truck. However, if one had that type of money, one would not need to be driving a truck, unless one possibly were on active duty in the United States Military and then more than likely one would get a free ride, but at the moment, I do not know many people whom would want to be driving where they are advertising their current driving experience although the gasoline is cheaper there. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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