Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 11:20 P.M.: The Zenio Reader does not work, unless one disables the Norton Internet Security Firewall. It does not prompt to allow it be accessed by the Norton Firewall, but it does work with the Norton Firewall disabled. I ran Norton Win Doctor, and I ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive. I only have about 1.66 gigabytes of hard drive space free on the C: drive, but I suppose that is enough. CIO Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 10:45 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 9:30 P.M.: I ate a Nature's Valley strawberry and yogurt granola bar. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 03/26/04: Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 8:45 P.M.: I rested until 7:30 P.M.. I watched some television. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 5:15 P.M.: I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm . I used two 4.25 ounce cans of California black olives, along with one teaspoon of Old Bay seasoning instead of a half, a whole clove of chopped elephant garlic for the garlic portion, and I also added a tablespoon of olive oil. I used all of the other regular ingredients. I then 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. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will take a nap. CIO Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 3:30 P.M.: I was up at 10 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail. I chatted with a relative. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I listened to the most of the third tape of "Dutch" about Ronald Reagan. Locally further east of us, there might be traffic problems Greenwich Time - Fiery crash closes I-95 , since I have not been out, I am not sure if the commuters going east in the evening are backing up in this area or not, but more than likely they are, since the highway tends to be full most of the time in the daytime and evening. CIO Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 12:35 A.M.: I ate a Nature's Valley strawberry yogurt bar. I drank some iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I guess I will do house cleaning when I wake up later today. CIO Note: <888> 03/26/04 Friday 12:15 A.M.: I guess since other than the time that I lived for a while in Manhattan, I have lived most of my life in relatively high security areas, most of the people whom I have lived around have much the same viewpoint about security, and they prefer to maintain as much as they can afford to pay for. In my particular case, since I can not afford security, I have always been law abiding, and I have spent most of my life walking around observing, although since I have read so much I tend to be a bit near sighted. Thus frequently when we seem to have had increased security in areas where I have lived, it simply seems to have been more senior people with experience walking around versus the young adventurers. Since I have lived in military areas such as Lake Forest, Illinois, Key West, Florida, Nantucket, Massachusetts and Pensacola, Florida, I have tried to maintain contacts with the military over the years, and with both local law enforcement where I have lived and with military and veterans whom I have come into contact, I have always been willing to volunteer information. However, since I have always been a civilian, my area of expertise has always been in those areas which I have studied, and not in those areas where other professionals have gained their training. Since I currently live in a highly professional community, I know the limits of my knowledge versus some of my neighbors whom have more experience and more information. I have frequently said the internet is just public relations based on public information available to the general public, it is not meant to be top secret or need to know classified types of information. Thus if one is searching out public information, there are many resources available through the internet, which one might normally have to pursue from more standard archival research facilities. However, in archival research information, the information frequently is what those in authority had the budget to publish, it is frequently not all of the information. However, it is my viewpoint, that the various archival institutions that I have studied in this country tend to keep volumes of information that over time gets lost in the storage process as newer archives are created. Also since a great many of the archival information records were kept in churches and institutions which may not have continued in existence, it would seem to me that over time a lot of the historical archival information gets lost over time. Thus I would assume that other world record repositories are in much the same shape with other conflicts disrupting the normal historical archival process. For example, although my internet log has been keep for about five years, it would be lost on the internet if I did not update it over a six month period. Not that my internet experience has any relevance to larger world events, it just helps me keep track of random technical and routine experiences, which since I live in a more complex sociological atmosphere in this community, my neighbors would find my experience mundane and tedious. It is the nature of the affluent class in this community that they prefer their creature comforts to the tedious process of record keeping. However, since I had the spare time when I returned to this community 20 years ago, and since about 11 years ago, IBM's stock was so financially weakened that the company was about to be taken over by Leveraged Buyout Venture Capitalists and since I figured a large number of members and institutions within this area had invested in IBM, I thought by relearning modern computers and accessing the internet, it would more properly use the technology that in some cases had been gathering dust on the shelves in research laboratories before a new group of young enthusiasts took up the task of advancing it. Since I am more adept at theory than the actual mechanical process of technological innovation, I have watched with bemusement as the information super highway was developed, however with some regret at all the other printed information in books and elsewhere that was not being read. Whatever, the case I have volunteered my time, since I had the support of the local community, and since quite frankly, I did not have anything else to do except maybe walk around Manhattan, which tends to be a lot more expensive and risky as one gets older. Thus I have settled into my niche in the suburbs, which frequently seems more secure, until one needs some sort of more advanced service or facility that might be available in a larger metropolis. In other words, since nobody seems to interested in contacting me out of Manhattan, I suppose it is just another world away, and since I did my time there, it just makes me tired whenever I think about going in there. I am sure it has not changed much, but I would imagine everyone is now 22 years older, since I moved out of there 22 years ago. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 10:50 P.M.: I seem to have put on 10 pounds, I have gone from 205 pounds to 215 pounds, so at the current weight, I do not think I would make a very good swimmer. I suppose, I have not been as active during the colder weather. It is sort of hard to imagine myself weighing so much, because until 1983 at age 33, I generally weighed only 135 to 145 pounds, but back then I was a lot more active. Thus I have put on about 80 pounds, since I left Nantucket a little over 20 years ago. I guess if one eats fish most of the time, one tends to weigh less, but with the price of fish in this area, I am limited to canned fish. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 10:30 P.M.: When I was in Europe during the first five months of 1972 in trying to take some time off from my studies and get away from it all during my studies there, besides visiting Lanzarote, I also visited Crete and Hydra. Lanzarote is much more remote and isolated than the other two islands. When one looks at a map of Lanzarote, not only is one sitting way out there in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, the nearest mainland is also the western Sahara desert. One can sort of develop a Papillion complex, as if one were on Devil's Island. However, I noticed tonight the constellation Hydra is in the southern sky. I suppose when one is young and one starts reading Hesse, one ends up in all sorts of remote locations in one's adventures. However, generally with about six billion people on the planet, one is never entirely alone, so even some of the most remote places seem to have substantial populations. Since I like the ocean and hearing the sound of the surf, I enjoyed my visit to Lanzarote, as well as the other two Mediterranean islands. However, it is easy to take off on adventures when one is young, but frequently when one is older, one enjoys the creature comforts that come with staying at home. I suppose any time one shows up in an isolated area, one starts to seek out more activity, and of course in Lanzarote, the two large islands Santa Cruz and Vera Cruz to the south are much more populous and developed than the more recently volcanically evolved island of Lanzarote. I had pretty much forgotten about it in April 1977, when I was down in Key West, and I was driving out of Key West with a friend, when we heard on the car radio that a KLM and a Pan AM 747 had crashed together in Santa Cruz, and since we were both Dutch and since we had both grown up around Pan AM, we returned to the Pigeon House patio where Pan AM had its first ticket office, and we left a peace offering of a Monte Cristo cigar box with a peanuts in the shell in the cigar box. It may have seemed odd at the time to any onlookers, but that was pretty much all we had to offer. As we traveled north, we were not really aware of the evolving story, and we even stopped by Space Mountain at Disney World before visiting St. Augustine. Thus when one is sitting on edge of the ocean, one frequently is attuned to another edge of the ocean or some island further out there, where the stars are much clearer. It is sort of like the spirit of Atlantis, when one has lived around the ocean for so many years listening to its call. However, as I get older, I am basically afraid of the ocean, so I never venture out on it, except once of twice a summer on the Island Beach Ferry. Last summer, I did not even take the Island Beach Ferry. Well, I suppose the colder weather here teaches us more respect for the ocean compared to the warmer tropical areas of the world which are more alluring, but which can be equally if not more so dangerous. In other words, the deeper the ocean, the fish tend to be bigger too. At the moment, I do not feel like becoming part of the Food Chain. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 9:50 P.M.: I chatted with a relative and a friend. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 8:50 P.M.: Before I ate the rice mixture, I ate another third of the Kraft macaroni and cheese mixture that I made last night with iced tea. Another note about Spain, it is a very traditional country like Italy and France, so people whom worked in one profession for generations tend to stay in those professions, so for outsiders they generally need their own money or need to have some special skill to earn a living. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 8:30 P.M.: I took a cup of Carolina enriched rice, and I rinsed it in hot water in a bowl, and I strained it through a wire strainer rinsing it with hot water. I then put the cup of rice in the China Village rice steamer, and I added a 14 ounce can of Swanson's chicken broth, and then I added a teaspoon of sesame oil, two tablespoons of olive oil, and a teaspoon of Italian spices, and I put the inner and out lids on it. I microwaved it in the General Electric microwave oven for 11 minutes on high, and I am now letting it stand for five minutes. I will thin eat about one third of it with a glass of iced tea. I will refrigerate the remainder in a Rubbermaid container. It should taste a bit like saffron rice, which unfortunately only rich Arabs can afford. I have lots of food in the apartment, but I am just eating some warmer food to feel warm inside instead of my usual salads. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 7:45 P.M.: I will post a quick explanation about my story about visiting Spain in 1972 while I was touring Europe during the first five months of 1972. I had attended Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu which was south of Great Lakes Naval station and north of Fort Sheridan. I had once toured the Chicago stock yards when I had a fraternity initiation requiring myself and some fellow students to visit the stock yards. I knew that Lake Forest, Illinois was home to the Armour, Swift, and Cudahy families involved in meat packing along with a small group of people whom helped start McDonalds. When I arrived in Italy, we eating very thin cracker types of pizzas with a little tomato sauce and no cheese. Mostly, we ate pasta and occasionally we would eat a half inch thick biftek a la Florentine, which is a half inch thick steak sautéed in olive oil, butter, lemon juice, white wine, and garlic called Etruscan cooking or Northern Italian cooking. When I was in France, the common sandwich Cheval a la pain, which is a ground horse meat on slices of bread. When I went to Spain, I figured since they are historically into Bull fighting that they might have some beef. Thus although the home port for the United States Mediterranean fleet was Naples, Italy; more than likely when the U.S.S. Enterprise visited Barcelona, they were probably able to procure large amounts of good quality Spanish beef, which it is the nature of the United States military, they tend to enjoy a substantial meal like a steak or a prime rib of beef, particularly all of those young sailors whom do not have to worry about their cholesterol. Thus more than likely, they found what they were looking for in Spain, since when one rides a train in the interior of Spain, one sees hundreds of miles of range land which obviously can support a large population of cattle. However, when I was traveling down the east coast of Spain on the train, I think they call it the Costa De Sol, the Sun Coast, I saw hundreds of miles of beach resort hotels and other accommodations much like the Florida coast, so obviously large numbers of people used the facilities during the hot Spanish summer, but they did not look too busy during the Spanish winter, which is not too cold for northern Europeans to enjoy a bit of warmer weather. Thus as I have said many times to run a robust military, it takes a skinny farmer or rancher. Since it is the nature of farming or ranching one tends to deal with a lot of chores and mechanized equipment, the people whom actually farm tend to be thinner and fit, unlike shareholder farmers whom have probably never seen the back side of a horse's ass. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 7:15 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I gave my electricity information to the building superintendent who will turn it in the to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop. I then went downtown, and I stopped by Zyn stationary, and I bought a #28 Winner Wonderland scratch card for a dollar. I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by VanDamm interiors, and I viewed their showroom. I mentioned another Dutch decorator whom use to help in New Amsterdam. I then sat out at the Greenwich Post Office plaza, and I scratched the scratch card for a $2 winner for a dollar profit. I then redeemed it at Zyn Stationary. I then walked the upper section of Greenwich Avenue, and I stopped by CVS. I picked up a prescription at CVS at a $1.50 cost. I then completed my walk. I chatted with a local on the way. I used the bathroom at the senior center. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next read the Greenwich Times at the Greenwich Library. I then returned home, and I drank some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 1:55 P.M.: I went to bed after the last message. I woke up at 5 A.M., and I ate a 8.5 ounce box of Triscuts with some iced tea. I went back to sleep until noon. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I threw out some garbage, and I checked the mail. I made two copies of the Northeast Utilities report on my electricity usage for the previous year. I will give the original to the Greenwich Housing Authority for their usage, since they requested it. The NOAA weather warning radio just did a Tornado test warning. I have a 3 P.M. appointment, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 2:50 A.M.: Microsoft Says Proposed Settlement Would Have Been Better For European Consumers . I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 03/25/04 Thursday 1:55 A.M.: Of course, when I was in Spain http://www.angelfire.com/mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/europe/spain.html during the winter of 1972, Francesco Franco was still in charge. Most all of the people wore black. When I arrived the first time in Barcelona traveling from Grenoble and Florence, it was about 1 P.M. in the afternoon on a weekday during Siesta, and I first exchanged money for pesetas. I think it was about 62 pesetas to the dollar, but I might have exchanged lire or francs, and when I exited the train station wearing my Swiss Army back pack that I had bought in the Florence, Italy flea market for $5, as I walked down the street towards the center of town, I had to walk down the center of the street because there were guards with machine guns standing about five feet apart for quite some distance, but as I got towards the Pedestrian Ramblas or center main street in the city, the guards were no longer lined along the street but were strolling the Ramblas. The Ramblas was quite long leading up from the harbor where the Replica of Columbus' ship was. During the first trip there, I ate lunch at the Barcelona Yacht Club, and they served me a seven course meal with wine at about 3 P.M. in the afternoon, which is not their dinner hour for about $3 with tip. It was a very enjoyable meal with a view of the harbor, and I had about six waiters waiting on me, since no one else was at the dining room. The Spanish tend not to eat dinner until after 10 P.M. at night. On initial arrival though, I walked up the Ramblas viewing all the stalls, and I enjoyed seeing all the bird sellers. The buildings were old looking but quite substantial. When I got to the top of the Ramblas, which was about a three mile walk, there was a large plaza with outdoor cafes, and I had coffee. There was a big sign overlooking the plaza that said "Sears", so having been attending college at Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu in Illinois, I felt sort of at home. I was using either Fodor's or Arthur Frommer's Europe on $5 a day. I met some English speaking students, and they were enjoying sitting outside at the cafe. It was not cold to me in February having attended college in Illinois. I met a Dutch student traveler from Rotterdam named Perry, and I do remember his last name, but I will not mention it for privacy sake. He knew English and was coming back from Morocco, and we started talking about our travels. Perry's father worked for the Dutch postal system. Perry and I found a room near the Barcelona Yacht Club for about a dollar a night, and after siesta, we explored the night life of Barcelona. He gave me a package to hold for him, when I left the following day or two to return to Grenoble. He was going to stay on for a few more days before returning to Rotterdam. I returned to Grenoble where friends of mine were studying at the University of Grenoble, and their rental was adjacent to a villa with a discothèque called "Birdland". I spent a few days there, and then I returned to Florence, Italy. While in Barcelona, Perry had told me that Spain had no pharmaceutical laws, so he told me I should buy something called Bustaid which are sort like "Nodos" to stay awake, since when one travels on low budget, one frequently finds oneself sitting up all night on a train or in a train station. I bought about $50 worth which at a dollar for about 50 pills were quite enough. They contained Phenobarbital and methamphetamine and vitamins and were quite heavily used through out Europe in exchange for not drinking too much coffee, which then was called Nescafe. I packaged them all in a plastic bag instead of carrying them in their bottles. I returned to Florence after a week in Grenoble, and I spend about a week in Florence. My fellow students liked the Bustaid to stay awake for studying. When we were in Illinois, one of my classmate's families whom were with us in Italy owned Roche pharmaceutical, so we occasionally had used methamphetamine to stay awake during some very long days, but I do not recall ever abusing it. When you have three 50 page papers to write in three days, those things happen. Of course in Europe we did not have electric typewriters, so we had to write everything long hand. I then returned from Florence, Italy to my friends in Grenoble, and after some time there, one of my friends wanted me to deliver a note to a girl friend of his at the Lido Bar in Barcelona. I then returned to Barcelona, and I found the Lido bar, but nobody knew my friend's girl friend. The United States of America aircraft carrier Enterprise was there, so there were a lot of sailors on the waterfront. I tried to find my friend Perry, but after a few days to no avail, I found out from the Dutch consulate that he had hitched a ride on the Enterprise to Rotterdam. I then returned to Grenoble for another week or two. I still had the package that Perry had given me to carry, and I finally found out that it was something illegal from Morocco which my friends told me that I did not know anything about. I did not know what to do with it, and my friends sold it to some hippie friends of theirs for $200 and gave me a thousand Francs. Thus with all my traveling, I could have gotten into trouble crossing between different country's borders, and sometimes people will try to set you up. Anyway, I had the thousand Francs, so I returned to Florence, Italy still using my Bustaid to stay awake. I recall Bustaid was made by Roche. Anyway, it was cheaper than two dollar cups of Cappuccino. Apparently what Perry had given me to carry would have only cost about $20 in Morocco, but supposedly it is illegal in southern Europe, but suppose to be legal in Holland. I did not use any of it, but I was told by a professor that warriors in North Africa use to smoke it before going to War. It is a good thing he did not bring it on the Enterprise, or Europe might not be there. Well I then returned from Grenoble to Florence, Italy, I met two Norwegians in the Florence flea market whom looked like the only two people having fun during a rather cold winter, and they told me they were coming from Lanzarote. Since I had a U-Rail student pass, I went back to Barcelona for a day staying up all night in the train station in Lyon on the way and possibly having stopped in Grenoble again and then from Barcelona on down to Malaga thinking I would catch a ferry to Lanzarote, but it was suppose to be a long trip on deck by sea. I then instead caught a $40 Iberian flight to Lanzarote, and I spent about three weeks there exploring the island on a Moped the first half of the time, and the last half of the time I spent with a Norwegian family with a son named Rhone whose father was a pilot with S.A.S., and they lived by the airport. I explored Lanzarote, and since there is not much water there, I did not clean up until I left. Rhone showed me parts of the Island that I had not seen like a deluxe resort. I also spent some cold nights before I met them camping out on a couple of different beaches with British travelers from the Isle of Wright. I explored some volcanic craters with black sandy lava and all over the island onions were growing. I liked the simple village of Playa Blanca, and I used to sit on the rocky beach there with some Danish back packers and we would drink inexpensive beers at sunset out of a old Coca Cola cooler with ice. The island had good tasting fish fried in olive oil. There were quite a few Germans there with a sense of humor from drinking beer, since water was just as expensive as beer. Rhone like watching the planes come and go from the airport, which they did twice a day. We would roast chickens to eat, and I showed him how to make French Fries. I did clean up before, I left to get on the plane, so he and his family saw what I looked like cleaned up instead of all salty from the ocean. I hope I did not use up all of their water in the cistern. Rhone asked me to get him a Borcelena hat like I was wearing which they sold for $2 in the Florence flea market. I used it to keep the pigeons from relieving themselves on my head in Florence. I never got a chance to get him a hat, but when I returned to Lake Forest, Illinois, I lost my hat on a train while going between Lake Forest and Chicago. I had bought a piece of brocade and sewed it around the base part of the upper part of the hat where it goes up from being flat. Thus when I left Lanzarote, I took the Iberia plane to Seville, and then I took the all night train to Madrid, and then I never left the train station in Madrid, and I caught the more expensive Fast train which I had to pay for instead of using my U-Rail pass to get to Pisa that same day and back to Florence, for exams the next day. I do not recall, if I made it to my art exam or not, but I think I recall taking the exam, but since I had not been going to classes, I might not have done well on the art exam. I could not see much point in just sitting in a classroom looking at Art projection slides, when I had a chance to explore parts of Europe. That winter was a very cold winter, and there was a coal strike in England, so there were a lot of English speaking people visiting in southern Europe. Thus that is a quick summary of my visits to Spain and other parts of Europe before I left from Italy for Greece and Turkey in April of 1972. CIO Note: <888> 03/24/04 Wednesday 11:10 P.M.: I do not speak any Spanish except for a few words, but this is a picture of the Spanish Royal family The Spanish Royal Family , which more than likely I probably have seen at one time or another. Since I have visited Spain, they might have also have seen me, but that was 32 years ago, so more than likely they have forgotten my walk around in Barcelona, Malaga, and Lanzarote. I did travel through Seville and Madrid, but I did not visit them, since I was in a rush to get back to Florence, Italy for my final exams the next day. I did ride the high speed train from Madrid to Pisa, but on the train from Seville to Madrid, I had to sit next to a 500 pound women, whom I do not think had bathed in her entire life, I suppose because Spain is a dry country. I also rode the train from Florence and Grenoble a few times to Barcelona, and I recall when riding the train down to Malaga, I was sharing it with three United States servicemen, and they were drunk, and they damaged the mahogany wood work in the train. I did not do any damage myself, since I always behaved like a gentleman. However, after walking around various cities all day, I would frequently travel to another city, so I could sleep on the overnight train, and I would take off my Frye boots, which unfortunately did not smell very good to the other passengers. According to a report, I read a few years ago, the Spanish Royal family are not particularly wealthy, and they have a net worth around about $2.5 million dollars, however they tend to command a lot of respect in the Spanish speaking world, and I read a few years ago that the people of Spain got together and bought the King a yacht. I think they vacation in Mallorca the island off of Spain south of France in the Mediterranean. Since the Spanish seem to be in this area in large numbers over the last 20 years, they could have snuck in here as Latino refugees, and no one might have noticed. However, more than likely their Spanish speaking associates might have noticed. Since there are probably more people whom speak Spanish in the Western Hemisphere than the Eastern Hemisphere, I doubt if it would have gone unnoticed. I have a videotape with Prince Felipe at the Statue of Liberty Tall Ships celebration in New York Harbor about 15 years ago. I think he is about 6 foot 6 inches tall, so if he showed up here, we might notice him. The King of Spain H.M. King Juan Carlos I is also a pilot, so he must occasionally leave the Hacienda in Spain for other ports. Prince Felipe is suppose to marry on May 22, 2004 to Letizia Ortiz http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Spain/ . Thus, when it gets cold here, more than likely a few people have visited Spain from time to time. CIO Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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