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/03/14 Friday 11:15 A.M. On this January day in 1990, it was zero degrees Fahrenheit in Washington D.C., when I toured the White House
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<888> 10/03/14 Friday 11:15 A.M. On this January day in 1990, it was zero degrees Fahrenheit in Washington D.C., when I toured the White House http://scott-mike.com/mlsdc.jpg , and as one can tell, I am not too warmly dressed, so I was used to colder weather back then. The White House is actually not too large of a building for all of the celebrity it gets, but it has a lot of historical significance. When I chatted with http://www.stjo.org , they told me it was minus 46 degrees Fahrenheit last winter in South Dakota, so it does get colder elsewhere in America. I drank a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% Schweppes Ginger Ale. On the IBM ThinkCentre beta machine in front of the mahogany bureau, I finished the Paragon Backup 11 restore of all partitions, and then I used the Windows 7 and Windows 10 DVDs to restore the boot managers. However, on Windows 7, product activation came up with a new hard drive installed. On the Windows 10 partition, the apps would not work. I just did a Seagate Utilities 1% zero write low level format of the new hard drive, and I will now try a Windows 10 Complete PC Backup restore of the system. CIO <888> 10/03/14 Friday 9:05 A.M. I woke up again. I ate two ounces of mixed nuts and a 12 ounce glass of 50% Schweppes Ginger Ale and 50% Punch. What the elite members of the so called liberal democratic party on both coasts in America forget is that there are a whole lot of ordinary people in the middle of the country that are more concerned with ordinary mundane affairs as opposed to the so called liberal Fabian socialist agenda. CIO <888> 10/03/14 Friday 7:35 A.M. I ate 8 ounces of mixed nuts, and then I went to bed after the last note. I just woke up. For some reason restoring the 10 GB Windows 10 partition is taking a long time. I have a while to go. I will now go back to bed. CIO <888> 10/03/14 Friday 3:40 A.M. I am now restoring the second partition. I took one of the new coaxial connectors, and I connected it up to the broken 50 foot black coaxial cable which is tricky. I do not know if it will work or not, since I did not test it. Cunard® Satellites detect 'thousands' of new ocean-bottom mountains CIO <888> 10/03/14 Friday 2:10 A.M. I took out the older Western Digital 400 GB SATA hard drive from the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau, and I installed the new Seagate 320 GB SATA hard drive. I used the Paragon 11 restore disk to first restore the boot manager partition, and now I am restoring the first primary partition, or possibly both primary partitions, if not I have to then restore the second primary partition. After doing three backups the older Western Digital 400 GB SATA hard drive was hot as a frying pan, which I do not think is very good for its life expectancy. I will know in a little while if the restore procedure works or not. I kept the new Seagate 320 GB SATA hard drive around in case I ever have to change the FIC server secondary hard drive that has the FIC server files and backups on it. I did not try the Microsoft Complete Backup restore, since I know from experience it will not work. Microsoft does not change a lot of its software in its operating system upgrades. CIO <888> 10/03/14 Friday 1:10 A.M. I finished the backups. I have a spare new 320 GB SATA drive, I could install and try to restore one of the backups to the IBM ThinkCentre to test the backup restore process as I have it configured. I ate a 19 ounce Stouffer's meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 11:55 P.M. In between the first and second backups, I tried creating another Paragon 10 restore disk, but Paragon no longer licenses part of it from Microsoft, so I have to stick with the Paragon restore disks that I have. I have a copy of Paragon backup 13 that I once had tried, but when I went to restore it, it did not work. I just discovered that restore disk was empty, so the restore program was never written to it. My www.cl-p.com bill for September 2014 was $145.09 with me being gone 14 days with 802 kWh over 27 days at 29.70 kWh per day with an average temperature of 64.7 degrees Fahrenheit. For September 2013, it was $105.91 with me being gone 14 days also for 647 kWh over 28 days at 23.11 kWh per day with an average temperature of 62.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Once I finish the three backups, I could try putting a new spare SATA hard drive in the IBM ThinkCentre, to see if I can restore it, but that takes more time after I have already been awake with 7 hours of sleep and one meal for 13 hours. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 9:50 P.M. I finished configuring the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau in the living room. I am now doing a Paragon Backup 10 backup of the both partitions to the Seagate 2 TB external hard drive. I will then do a Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Seagate 2 TB external hard drive. I will then try to do a Windows 10 Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Seagate 2 TB external hard drive. However, as mentioned earlier just because I am able to do the backups, does not mean that if I have to try to restore any of them on the IBM ThinkCentre the restore process will work, and the computer will boot up the same. Still I have the spare space on the Seagate 2 TB external hard drive to make the backups, so I am making it. I like the new interface of the desktop on Windows 10, but supposedly the tablet interface for it is different. However, I do not have a tablet to try it on. I guess a lot of people like the start button with the icons features as opposed to sliding square icons of Windows 8. However, www.stardock.com and http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ for $5 gives on back the start button with icons in Windows 8 and 8.1. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 6:50 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I am still tweaking the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau in the living room. A local political candidate http://oberlanderforgreenwich.com/ knocked on my door with a neighbor, and I discussed my viewpoint for a while, which is hard to explain, but it based on my experience. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 4:45 P.M. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/WTRK/index.html?tracknumbers=9274893150331270620949&cntry_code=us&fdx=1490 on the order for in red tartan 2XL http://www.blair.com/p/clearance/mens/button-front-shirts/scotch-plaid-shirt/pc/1684/c/1705/sc/1709/71143.uts?cid=af_bl_ls&src_code=574N&siteID=NKa3hZyYoHA-._pCnoUk6xGmLoMuvh8ppg for $10.47 with free shipping with coupon code "BQGH" for $10.47 total arrived and the order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=800876002893303606 on the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/20x-RG-59-Connector-Crimp-on-F-type-Coax-Coaxial-Cable-TV-Satellite-/191178216179?pt=US_Radio_Comm_Coaxial_Cables_Connectors&hash=item2c831c12f3 for $4.43 with free shipping arrived. The shirt fits just fine. It is a medium to light weight shirt. I am doing some minor updates on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau. Since I have the Windows 10 Technical Preview and an earlier version of Windows on it with Dual Boot, I can not back it up, since the Complete System Restore backup function restore does not work with dual boot and neither does the Paragon backup restore. If one changes the Boot Manager which one can do with a boot manger program to the default Windows 10 boot manager, one can back it up and restore it, but that brings up product activation on the first Windows partition. When one restores that backup, one and changes the boot manger back to the other boot manager, one still has product activation on the first partition, but one then has to restore the first partition, and then enable the other boot manager, all of which is very cumbersome and time consuming. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 3:05 P.M. $149.99 with free shipping Toshiba - 32" Class (31-1/2" Diag.) - LED - 720p - 60Hz - HDTV CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 2:45 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 1:30 P.M. I will now shower and clean up. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 1:25 P.M. I chatted with a friend. http://www.gatesnotes.com/ is doing an interview from Boston today on Bloomberg News at 3 P.M. EDT. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 12:55 P.M. I woke up at 11 A.M.. The St. Joseph's Indian School http://www.stjo.org called me up fundraising. I told them about other American Indians I knew, and I gave them some fund raising tips. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. One of those con artists from India called up saying my Windows machine was broken. I told them they were under arrest. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 4:30 A.M. On the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau in the living room, I finished configuring it and installing the apps. At a later time I will have to open each app to configure any that need configuring. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 2:55 A.M. I ate two ounces of mixed nuts. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 2:15 A.M. Global Volcanism Program | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report Cunard® Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9405510200882339026656 on the order for http://www.amazon.com/Premier-100mm-Light-Cigarette-Tubes/dp/B0024QAOCC for $42 with free shipping and $2.67 tax for $44.67 total. Microsoft's Windows 10: What's new and how to get the preview bits | ZDNet Moon's hidden valley system revealed Cotswold zookeeper rears leopard in bathroom Japan Mount Ontake volcano : Death toll rises to 48 Holuhran lava flow threat to Iceland highland road CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 1:35 A.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and a Wise salt and vinegar potato chips and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO <888> 10/02/14 Thursday 12:45 A.M. On the Windows 10 Technical Preview, the TrentNet TW100-BRF114U USB printer server works. Also www.openoffice.org installs without any problems. I put away the clean laundry. I washed the old green bedroom curtains, and I put them in the clear plastic package the new curtains came in, and I stored them on the left bottom floor of the bedroom closet. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 11:30 P.M. I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 11:10 P.M. When I woke up early this morning briefly, I ate four ounces of mixed nuts. I showered, and I cleaned up. I started two loads of laundry, and I have a few minutes to go the wash cycles. I threw out the garbage, shipping boxes, and old periodical literature. I watered the plants. On the Windows 10 beta machine in front of the Mahogany bureau, the SIIG 5.1 audio card driver is available for download from SIIG for Windows 8 which works on Windows 10. I will configure it more in a little while. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 8:40 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 8:30 P.M. I put clean linens on the bed. I took down the old thin dark green curtains in the bedroom, and I put up the heavier navy blue curtains in the bedroom. They look just fine. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 6:40 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 5:30 P.M. I downloaded the X86 version of Windows 10 Preview, and I burned two copies to DVD. I installed it on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau. I will configure it in a little while. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 3:45 P.M. The order with tracking number of "1Z595A210339812434" at www.ups.com on the order for two in waist 50 inches http://www.sierratradingpost.com/lands%e2%80%99-end-cotton-belt-for-big-men~p~6585a/?filterString=promostyles~29543%2Fclothing~d~5%2Fsizefamily~special%20sizes%3Bbig%2F&colorFamily=01 for $4.99 each and in Navy http://www.sierratradingpost.com/thermalogic-weathermate-curtains-80x84-grommet-top-insulated~p~2751c/?filterString=clearance~1%2Ffor-the-home~d~3%2F&colorFamily=01 for $24.95 and 99 cent shipping and $2.28 tax for $38.12 total arrived at noon. I woke up at 3 P.M.. !!!!!! Windows 10 Preview is available for download here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-coming-soon . CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 5:00 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 4:15 A.M. One of the pages says it will be released today at 9 PDT which would be midnight EDT between Oct 1 and Oct 2, so get some sleep. http://www.mydigitallife.info/download-free-windows-10-technical-preview-via-windows-insider-program/ http://www.winbuzzer.com/windows-technical-preview-enterprise-direct-download-links-iso/ CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 2:50 A.M. I paid my http://optonline.net/ Digital Cable TV, Optimum Boost Plus, Optimum Voice, and my http://www.cl-p.com/ electricity bill and my www.verizon.net bill. My current Optimum bill was about $195, which is about $65 for high speed Cable Modem, $35 for Optimum Voice long distance and about $95 for premium Cable TV. However that includes $25 in discounts for all three packages which covers the two cable boxes which are about $12 and taxes other fees. I also bought from Connecticut Power Tools http://www.amazon.com/Premier-100mm-Light-Cigarette-Tubes/dp/B0024QAOCC for $42 with free shipping and $2.67 tax for $44.67 total. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 2:25 A.M. I moved the spare food http://scott-mike.com/inventory.htm from the floor underneath the white bookcase on the right side of the kitchen entrance into the bookcase on the left side of the kitchen entrance. I put the bottle water and jug of white vinegar underneath the right bookcase at the kitchen entrance on the floor. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 2:25 A.M. Well, I guess all of the people whom are going to Florida for the winter have left today on the last day of September. There is now room for all of the Canadians and other Northern people to come down here and spend a warmer winter here providing they have money. A lot of the people whom work for the electric company during ice storms happen to be French Canadian. Nous parlons de Francais un peu ici. I ate two cold large 1/4th inch thick slices of cold rotisserie turkey breast with Frank's hot sauce on them with a baked potato and steamed baby carrots cut into quarters lengthwise with Oleva spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale, and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Borden's lemon juice. CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 1:00 A.M. With the higher prices of gasoline in the greater New York area http://util.automobilemag.com/31/connecticut/fairfield/greenwich/gas_prices.html not much is happening on our local I-95 highway at this time of day http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2354&q=415220 CIO <888> 10/01/14 Wednesday 12:30 A.M. I printed out two copies of the Microsoft Money 2007 Income versus Spending report for September 2014. I balanced the accounts, and I was short $6, which I can not figure out what happened to it. I mailed to an interested relative one copy of the report with a forever stamp in the mail room downstairs. CIO
I printed out three copies of a Microsoft Money Sunset Income Versus Spending Report for November 2014, and I put one copy in an envelope to mail to an interested relative, and I used a My Florida Forever stamp to mail it. I will mail it in the mail room downstairs shortly before going to bed. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed, after I mail the letter. CIO <888> 11/30/14 Sunday 8:25 P.M. Besides my Obama wireless telephone, I keep a backup inexpensive AT&T wireless cell phone with me, when I go out, but I use the cheaper access https://www.h2owirelessnow.com/ which had expired on November 10, 2014, so I put another $10 on it good for ninety days at 10 cents a minute good until February 28, 2014. I could use its H2O sim card in this device http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wrist-Watch-Cell-Phone-AT-T-Mobile-Camera-Mp3-4-MQ998BS-/260717292268?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item3cb3f62aec which I bought and returned a year ago, because its pin number was locked by another pin number, in other words, it had been used by someone else already. It did work quite well, if one wants to use such a device instead of a regular cell phone. At the moment, I will hold off, since I have three active cell phones and two inexpensive unused cell phones that I bought a few years ago for backup. I also have spare H2O regular and micro sim cards. The traveling international public do not realize how hard I work maintaining my rather complex but simple high tech "Pied A Terre" in North America. Alas the email for my only contact in South America does not work, so I guess I am the only contact in the Western Hemisphere in my network of International friends. The only telephone communications I ever get besides junk phone calls and friends and relatives is computer magazine call centers trying to get me to renew free computer magazines, which I mostly cancel, since I do not like being waken up the day time by them, when I am frequently on a night schedule. A lot of the cell phone and tablet parts and sim cards are in the boxes underneath the www.harvard.edu chair at the hallway entrance. The spare two new cheap cell phones are in some of the boxes piled around the Orion television in bedroom. Since most of the well finance general public use more expensive devices, there is not my interest in what I have accumulated on a limited budget over these years. CIO <888> 11/30/14 Sunday 6:15 P.M. I chatted with a relative. "Downton Abbey Rediscovered" is on Channel 13 www.pbs.org from 8 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. this evening. CIO <888> 11/30/14 Sunday 5:10 P.M. If you look at this http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=Panasonic%20Toughbook&sort=price_high , one can see what various expensive Panasonic Toughbooks cost at www.walmart.com like the Greenwich Police cars use. They are not cheap. CIO <888> 11/30/14 Sunday 5:05 P.M. I reheated and ate another Thanksgiving meal from http://www.templesholom.com/ . It consisted of three thick slices of white turkey meat, stuffing, steamed green beans and carrot bits, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, a dinner roll, and brownie. I put Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil in the vegetables and dinner roll. I ate it all with a 12 ounce glass of www.coke.com . It was a most excellent and delicious meal. CIO <888> 11/30/14 Sunday 4:20 P.M. According to the reports on the www.rockefeller.edu family in the www.nytimes.com last week Why Are Rockefellers Moving From 30 Rock? ‘We Got a Deal’ - NYTimes.com , they are down to their last $10 billion, and they now have 500 relatives. $10 billion at 7.5 interest would yield $750 million annually, which divided by 500 relatives means they each only get $1.5 million a year, which is not that much money anymore in the big bucks world. Also they are probably not all in cash, but a lot of low yielding real estate, but that is the basic math, and they would probably have to pay taxes of 35% on the interest of $525 thousand leaving them each with $975,000 a year mugging money. CIO <888> 11/30/14 Sunday 3:45 P.M. I chatted with neighbors. I threw out the garbage. I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought two 8.75 ounce cans of CVS deluxe lightly salted mixed nuts for $3.99 each for $7.98 total. I then bought a 16 double roll bundle of Charmin extra strong toilet paper for $9.99 and .63 tax for $10.62 total. I then went further downtown. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I played an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I toured the Greenwich Train Station. I stopped by the www.apple.com computer store, and I told them they should make an Apple version of the Panasonic Toughbook for Law Enforcement. I tried to used the bathroom at Starbucks, but it was busy. I toured the Greenwich Hardware and their wide variety of home maintenance items. I noticed on the way into town that the Rusty Oxer truck maintenance garage on West Putnam Avenue has closed, and they have moved to Bridgeport. I chatted with a staff member from the Casablanca Polo shop http://www.casablancapolo.com , and they told me they supply Prince William with his polo gear. I toured CVS again. I sat out for a while at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I toured the new shop http://www.boastusa.com/ of an old Greenwich Country Day classmate that sells the resort wear with the Japanese Tea Leaf on it at the top west side of Greenwich Avenue. Also the street lamp there that was lopsided has been removed. I chatted with a board of education employee. I finished my walk. I chatted with someone with a Doberman Pincher. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. At the board of education parking lot, there is a van selling what looks like vintage clothing. I then drove over to the Stop and Shop, and I bought four blueberry muffins for $3.99, two six packs of multigrain English muffins for $2.50 each, a 10 ounce bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.19, a quart of Dannon vanilla yogurt for $3.04, two 8 ounce Smart Balance extra virgin olive oil spread for $1.69 each, two 18 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned oats for $2.50 each, two 12 ounce generic honey for $2.50 each, a 16 ounce package of Perdue chicken nuggets for $1.99, bananas for .49 a pound for $1.39, one sweet potato for .99 a pound for .70 and 55 cents can return for $31.53 total. I used my $20 Greenwich Department of Social Services voucher to buy part of the groceries. I then returned home, and I carried up my purchases, and I put them away. CIO Download 1.31 Mb. Share with your friends:
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