Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 6:25 P.M.:  I finished the house cleaning and watering the plants.  I put a little liquid plant fertilizer in the plant water.  The TEAC DVD player would not work, which it does not, if there is weight on the top of it.  I took off the family picture off of it, and I hung it to the left of the left sconce.  I move the picture that was there to beneath the right sconce beneath the picture of Abraham Lincoln.  Beside my normal house keeping routine, I also vacuumed the furniture.  I was able to reset the TEAC DVD player by unplugging its plug, and it now works.  I put new AA Energizer batteries in the TEAC remote control, and I left the TEAC remote control unit on top of the TEAC DVD player.  I threw out the garbage.  It is beginning to rain.  I will now go out to do some errands.  I will shut down the computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 3:50 P.M.:  I moved the book on antique cars to the center hallway bookcase.  I moved the 4 inch magnifying reading glass to the right bookcase in the hallway.  I move the two wooden remote control holders to the window shelf to the right of the plants.  I put the two brass candle holders with white candles and the two 15 inch tall hurricane globes on the brass and glass coffee table.  I do not have anything on the two smaller brass and glass coffee tables.  I microwaved and ate a 13.25 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken Florentine meal, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I move the blue sofa and maple side table a little further away from the entrance area, so the entrance area is more spacious.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 3:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 3:00 P.M.:  I finished moving the furniture around.  It all looks a lot better.  I have a lot of extra pillows stacked on the bed in the bedroom, some of which I might get rid of in the near future.  I put the linens from the day bed in plastic bags in the false ceiling above the bed in the bedroom.  I have the two wool throws underneath the end of the bed in the bedroom.  I also put the damask comforter in the false ceiling.  I have the AMD backup computer sitting on the Danish desk in the bedroom hooked up.  I had to move the ceiling tile with the smoke detector in the living room closer to the kitchen, since it was above a lamp fixture that caused it to go off.  I threw out the old Dupont Orlon throw rug that I replaced with the larger antique rug.  On the wall where the day bed was, I have the Danish bar from the left, the long mahogany bureau, and the French sitting chair.  I put the magazine rack with the periodical literature at the bedroom door entrance.  I put the oak folding tables where the square table was in the bathroom on the left wall as one enters.  I went outside for breaks a few times.  I received the General Electric Service contract on my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control good until September 12, 2005.  I paid it a week or so ago.  The living room is a lot more spacious looking and more comfortable.  I have the two couches about five feet apart across from each other with the antique rug on the floor between them with the two foot by four foot brass and glass coffee table set up in between the two couches.  I still have the maple side table against the near end of the blue couch with the telephone equipment and lights and the other same items on it.  I have about 30 inches between the back of the blue couch and the living room closets.  I have one of the small brass and glass coffee tables at the near end of the blue couch and the other one in front of the Danish bar.  One can enter the sitting area from either end of the blue couch.  The overall effect is much more pleasing.  My steel folder holder is on top of the right monitor on the side board in the bedroom.  I put the cups with the pens on the lower shelf of the left bookcase in the hallway.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 10:30 A.M.:  My relatives arrived at 9:30 A.M. to pick up the day bed.  We took the day bed apart.  They decided not to take the box spring and mattress, so we discarded them by the dumpster outside.  They took the day bed frame apart and put it inside their car, so they don't have to carry the box spring and mattress on the roof.  I also gave them the pine square table at the bathroom entrance.  The items are for another relative's house in Kennebunkport, Maine http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/137.htm .  They left at 10:20 A.M. to get a coffee downtown, and then they are back on the highway ahead of the rain.  I will now rearrange the furniture putting long mahogany bureau on the wall where the day bed was with the Danish bar and separate the two sofas further apart and put an antique rug I have on the floor in between them with the brass and glass coffee table from on top of the bedroom desk in between them with the two smaller brass and glass end tables on either end of the blue sofa.  I have a lot of day bed linens and spreads and mattress pads to store away.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 9:20 A.M.:  Key West Hurricane Local Statement .  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/04  Friday 9:10 A.M.:  I was up at 6:30 A.M..  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I checked outside.  I watched the hurricane news www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I showered and cleaned up.  My relatives whom are coming to pick up the day bed called at 9 A.M., and they are just crossing the George Washington Bridge coming north, so they should be here soon to pick up the day bed.  I went outside briefly.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 11:25 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I am suppose to have my relative call between 7 A.M. and 9 A.M. about picking up the day bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 11:20 P.M.:  I ate a bowl of peanuts.  I called up http://www.laconchakeywest.com/ at 1-305-296-2991 , and I chatted with the desk manager.  I told him he was probably in the safest location in Key West.  He told me they are expecting a seven foot tide surge, and I read that Tampa is expecting a 14 foot tide surge.  Key West weather warning Hurricane Local Statement Key West, Florida .  http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ shows not many people are moving around in downtown Key West.  The desk clerk at La Concha said there were news media people down there covering the story.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 10:25 P.M.:  I called the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/ at 1-305-296-3535 , and I suggested to them that they should evacuate the hotel and go to the La Concha Hotel http://www.laconchakeywest.com/ which I believe is a little bit taller hotel.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 10:00 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I chatted with a relative.  I found this story about the Florida Hurricanes TCPalm: Charley could flood parts of Tampa; 800,000 in Florida told to evacuate and remember www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm and for the god's eye view NRL Monterey Satellite Photos .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 8:45 P.M.:  Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD - Windows-Help.NET .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 8:40 P.M.:  This a Microsoft page with the XP SP2 RTM download available in English, German, Korean Download details: Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT Professionals and Developers .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 8:25 P.M.:  The Microsoft Windows XP SP2 service pack RTM (released to manufacturing) is available in the German Version from this link Windows XP Service Pack 2 download in German .  Although it is also available in Japanese, I can not find it on the internet.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 7:50 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Heluva A Good Muenster cheese.  I did not use mushrooms.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 6:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought two 5.5 ounce regular cut Arnold garlic and cheese croutons for .99 each and a loaf of Arnold Oat bran bread for $1.45 for $3.43 total.  I then went by the Mercedes Benz dealership on West Putnam Avenue, but they do not have anyone whom uses Windows XP in German there.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time and P.C. Magazine.  I sat out and watched the weather a bit.  I chatted with another regular walker.  I did not walk downtown today, because I still have some computer work to do.  I returned home, and I drank some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 3:15 P.M.:  I ate a peanut butter sandwich with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 2:15 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  The two relatives are not sure whether they will be coming by tomorrow morning to pick up the day bed or not.  It depends on the weather, and they will call me tomorrow morning.  If they do pick it up, they are going to put the box spring and mattress on the car roof and cover it with heavy plastic sheeting, but if it is raining, they might delay their trip until Saturday morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I had the package from http://xtremetoner.com/ with my two Epson StylusColor 880 color and two black ink cartridges which came in about two days priority mail from the west coast.  I put the new ink cartridges, on the top shelf of the wicker rack behind the 19 inch left monitor above the old used ink cartridges on the lower shelf.  The four port USB 2.0 PCI card also arrived from http://www.pcimicro.com/ .  I went outside, and I checked my mail.  I got another copy of Horse Illustrated magazine.  I took out the two port USB 1.0 card from the computer, and I installed the four port USB 2.0 PCI card.  I plugged the D-Link 3 USB port device with LAN, the Sony monitor 4 port USB hub, and the two four port USB hubs into the USB 2.0 ports on the rear of the computer.  When I booted and after some tweaking all of the devices were recognized and the drivers for my USB devices were installed, and they all are working just fine.  I still have the cable modem install the same way with one USB cable from the D-Link USB hub to the cable modem USB port, one LAN cable from the D-Link LAN to the Siemens router, and one LAN cable from the onboard LAN to the Siemens routers, and I have all three LANs bridged with firewalls enabled.  I do not know whether USB 2.0 devices will play through my HUBs or not, since they are not USB 2.0 hubs, but maybe that does not matter.  I am currently getting 3607.4 kbps from CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - Bandwidth Test .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 2:40 A.M.:  On http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ , I saw an old friend of mine who is still down in Key West, Florida.  I guess he moved out of Malibu, California.  I think he should look at www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , but he has weathered worse storms.  I finished configuring the HP Vectra XU 6200 backup computer.  I have the HP Kayak XA backup computer back up and running, but I still have to configure it.  I connected two LAN cables to it, since it has two LAN connections.  I thus have five backup computers capable of running, and one slower IBM Cyrix in reserve not connected besides the primary computer.  I never really use the backup computers, and I have mostly used them for beta testing.  However, in an emergency they would be able to be used if there was electricity and cable modem working here.  I shut down the two HP backup computers. For an overall view of the Atlantic Ocean try NRL Monterey Satellite Photos .  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 1:40 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/04  Thursday 12:15 A.M.:  On the primary computer, I ran Ad-aware 6.0 and Norton Win Doctor.  I am still doing maintenance on the HP backup computers.  I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts and a half dozen triscuits finishing off the box.  I had them with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 10:45 P.M.: http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ .  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 10:40 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  Remember one should check www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm , if one is down south.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 10:20 P.M.:  I did some maintenance on the AMD backup computer in the bedroom, and I am still doing maintenance on the two HP backup computers in the bedroom.  I microwaved and ate a 14 ounce Maria Callender chicken tenderloins dinner, which I ate with some iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 8:30 P.M.:  I took the case cover off the HP Kayak computer, and I checked the cables, and whatever I did, it now works fine.  I will do some system maintenance on both HP backup computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 7:05 P.M.:  I just woke up from my nap.  I watched a little bit of the news.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 2:30 P.M.:  It is suppose to be raining soon which tends to make me tired with the lower barometric pressure, so I will not log off the computer, and I will rest for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 2:20 P.M.:  The Queen Mary II is due to arrive back in New York on September 17, 2004 http://www.qm2.org.uk/itinerary.html which is the day before Stillman Rockefeller's funeral at Christ Church here in Greenwich, so maybe the old world British and the old world Americans will be converging at that time.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 2:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I watched some television.  I ate half a bowl of Arnold Zesty Italian large cut croutons, a half dozen triscuits, and two and a half .75 inch by .25 inch by 2 inch slices of Heluva A Good Muenster cheese along with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 1:05 P.M.:  Weather Hazards for Northern Westchester County, NY .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 1:00 P.M.:  I went outside briefly.  I picked up the mail.  The first issue Horse Illustrated magazine arrived that I subscribed to for free.  I ate a bowl of peanuts with some iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 12:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a couple of relatives, and we researched these two web sites on heel spurs http://www.painfree-eswt.com/ and http://heelspurs.com/index.html .  Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, it was reported that James Stillman Rockefeller aged 102 passed away yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut Greenwich Time - James S. Rockefeller dies at 102 .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 11:00 A.M.:  I was up at 9:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  The National News and the Weather Channel report that Hurricane Bonnie is heading towards the Pensacola and Panama City, Florida region and that Hurricane Charlie is headed towards the Florida Keys www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I went outside, and it is sultry here, but it is only 73 degrees Fahrenheit here http://www.w3.weather.com/weather/local/06830 , but having sat by my air conditioner most of this summer working on the computer, it feels warmer.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 1:10 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  The worse case scenario of an "811" meltdown of the Internet would be that millions of people will not be able to check and trade their stock market portfolios and like lemmings to the sea, there might be mass selling causing panic in the equity markets.  Thus an "811" meltdown of the world equity markets would be an economic assault on the world economy as we know it, but once again that is just the worst case scenario.  Maybe so many people are on vacation that nothing will happen, since recently the internet has been quite fast with everyone at the beach or where ever they happen to Holiday.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 12:40 A.M.:  If the computer industry keeps up the way it is currently going from an economic point of view, we are all going to end up like "Max HeadRoom" The Dominion - Max Headroom , or as the writer Villards David better known as Winston Churchill said in his book "Advise to My God Children", "Always Eat Rice With a Spoon." CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/04  Wednesday 12:25 A.M.:  I hate to say it, but when I few million people or more try to download the Windows XP SP2 RTM (released to manufacturing) download of 266 megabytes, we might be testing the limits of the internet capacity, so it will be interesting to see how many people download it, and if the internet infrastructure is up to the task.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 11:25 P.M.:  Windows XP SP2 Final RTM (released to manufacturing) is available for download on the internet from this link http://www.softpedia.com/public/scripts/downloadhero/13-9-177/ , but it is a 266 meg. file download, so unless one has a cable modem, it would take quite a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 10:05 P.M.:  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 Heluva A Good Muenster cheese.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I had the salad with a glass of iced tea.  If any computer people have not figured it out, many of the people whom produce software code for programs like Windows XP are not volunteers, and they contract out for certain job assignments based on their experience and what their employers are willing to pay.  Once the project is complete and released to distribution, they tend to go back to their homes until the next project comes around and is completed.  I still have a Texas Longhorn steer horn in my apartment that was made as into an ashtray, and now that Microsoft Windows XP SP2 is completed, Windows Longhorn http://www.microsoft.com/windows/longhorn/default.mspx is still under development and not scheduled for release until early in 2006, so I guess once its beta is available and if I have the time and resources to test it, and if Microsoft lets me beta test it, I will be working on it, but I would imagine we will not see the beta probably until this winter at the earliest.  I suppose it would run on my primary computer, but I do not think I would want to use it for an early beta.  Basically I did not do a lot of beta testing on XP SP2 except install the different betas and then uninstall them, until I had to recreate my entire system starting July 1, 2004, when XP SP2 RC2 totally crashed my system.  However, since it was a fairly fresh install on my system, the final release of XP SP2 installed almost flawlessly.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 8:25 P.M.:  I took the three canvas blue and white ground level beach chairs out of the false ceiling in the bedroom, and I put them on the back seat of my Hyundai behind the driver's seat. I now have those three canvas beach chairs, two long stretch plastic beach chairs in the back hatch back area of the Hyundai and the black and wooden canvas director's chair in the car.  However, with the beach chairs, there is only room for three people in the car, but if I ever needed to transport 4 or 5 smaller people all together, I could put the three canvas beach chairs back in the apartment, and once the cold weather comes, I will put them back in the false ceiling in the bedroom.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 6:50 P.M.:  I put the Styrofoam packing peanuts and other packing material in the bag in the false ceiling above the bed in the bedroom.  I also have three canvas blue and white ground level beach chairs up there, about eight humidifiers, about a dozen stuffed pillows, my Minolta laser printer box, and Northgate computer shipping box.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 6:40 P.M.:  I ran the Symantec Live Update program.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 6:10 P.M.:  I went outside briefly to throw out the box.  Since I live on a limited income, I keep a lot of spare items around the apartment that might come in handy at some future date.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 5:50 P.M.:  I had about eight computer parts shipping boxes and cigarette box shipping boxes, that I broke down by removing the tape on the bottoms, and I collapsed them, and I stored them underneath the bedroom bed.  I put the shipping foam peanuts and other shipping bubble wrap in a bag in my bedroom window.  I put the box with computer parts and the DVD/CD drive box and the old broken CD drive in the box on the speaker to the left in the bedroom window.  To make room for the broken down boxes, I will throw out the Pure N Simple water filtration box and its literature, but I will save its videotape on my stereo bookshelf rack with other tapes and the faucet connector parts, I put on the floor in the hallway sweater closet.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 5:25 P.M.:  I changed the three calendars in the apartment from July 2004 to August 2004.  I have a Welbilt bread machine, Krups steamer, Italian pasta machine with parts, and Hamilton Beach juicer on the floor of the left living room closet along with all of the other kitchen items in the apartment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/04  Tuesday 5:15 P.M.:  Blenders come in handy, since one can use them to make cold frosty drinks in the summer or if one is very careful not to overfill them, so the lid comes off hot soups in the winter.  One can also use them to make baby food or food for older people whom do not have many teeth.  I also have a Cuisine Art food processor in the kitchen with blades in the cabinet above and a spare Cuisine Art food processor in the bedroom closet.  I had a bag of ice cubes in the refrigerator that were about a year old, so I threw out that ice, and I put in ice from the ice trays that is about eight months old, and I put in fresh water in the eight ice trays in the freezer.  I also have a small Rubbermaid container in the ice bag in the freezer in my refrigerator that has a sample culture of the penicillin mold that I found growing in my refrigerator about eight months ago that I reported on at that time.  I have kept it frozen in the ice bag since then.  Basically in my volunteer computer operation, I pretty much do everything myself in the apartment, but a large group of town employees still maintain the building and the surrounding environment and we have an experience group of volunteers.  CIO