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<888> 11/17/14 Monday 1:05 A.M. I woke up at midnight. 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. I will now shower and clean up. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 3:00 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin. I will then go to bed. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 2:20 P.M. I drank a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% Schweppes Ginger Ale. Back in the 1960s, all of the golfers at the Greenwich Country Club at the Ninth Hole concession stand would drink a mixture they call a "Transfusion" which was 50% Welch's' Grape Juice and 50% Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 1:35 P.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 1:10 P.M. I moved the 13 inch Panasonic CRT TV into the bathroom on the small bookcase and connected it up. I took the 13 inch JVC CRT television from that location, and I moved it to the middle shelf of the printer stand to the right side of the primary work computer, and I hooked it up. On the white bookcase on the right side of the kitchen entrance, I moved the Brother laser printer further back towards the wall. I put out my two foot artificial Christmas tree on its teak stand at the front end of the same white bookcase, and I connected up its lights to a power strip that one can turn on and off. I also put the artificial wreath outside my front entrance door. I chatted with a neighbor and a relative. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 11:25 A.M. I threw out some garbage. I sat outside in the cool damp weather. I chatted with neighbors. I am running out of things to do in my apartment, but one of these days, I might do house cleaning. However, with everything else that I have been doing the apartment is in a little better shape. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 10:30 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 low sodium potato chips and two sliced tomatoes with celery salt, ground black pepper, garlic powder Italians seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil on the tomatoes, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I rehung the Dakota Indian spirit chime on the left side of the apartment entrance door. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 9:30 A.M. I made 194 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching series 13 episode 5 of "Poirot". <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 6:25 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside briefly. I installed the Windows Updates on the FIC server, and I am rebooting the system. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 5:25 A.M. $9.99 free shipping Giraffe-Print Laundry & Shopping Cart, from Laundry POD I will now shower and clean up. I will then make cigarettes. CIO <888> 11/16/14 Sunday 4:50 A.M. I woke up at 3:45 A.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. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 11/15/14 <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 10:50 P.M. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. I will eat 8 ounces of Dannon vanilla yogurt, and then I will go to bed. The New www.chase.com bank just west of the Greenwich Library opens Monday November 17, 2014. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 10:10 P.M. I ordered "Refurbished: Logitech M185 910-003922 Gray 1 x Wheel USB RF Wireless Optical Mouse " for $5.49 with free shipping. I bought Memorex USB 2.0 External Multi Format Slim DVD Recorder Model 98251 for $16.99 with coupon code "EMCWWWF44" with free shipping. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 9:15 P.M. It is getting a little bit cooler and damper in the apartment as winter approaches. I just changed from my walking shorts to one of my new pair of Hanes sweat pants to stay a bit warmer. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 9:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I turned up the living room thermostat from 72 degrees Fahrenheit to 76 degrees Fahrenheit, which should keep the living room at about 72 degrees Fahrenheit. I also keep a small tower fan going on the window shelf above the electric radiators to blow the heat away from the window wall out into the living room. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 7:55 P.M. A quick survey of the local French economy shows how things are getting more expensive in this area https://www.varmax.com/wines/Mouton-Cadet-Bordeaux-White-2011-w5624947lc . It was not too long ago that this https://www.varmax.com/wines/Rene-Junot-Vin-de-Table-Francais-White-w4745656pr was only $4.99 a bottle, so prices have gone up about three times recently. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 7:40 P.M. I woke up at 5:30 P.M.. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9405510200881385352566 on the order for $39.90 with free shipping Premier 100mm Light Cigarette Tubes - 10 Boxes and $2.53 tax for $43.43 total arrived. I made my bed. I moved the pair of speakers from the bedroom to on top of the hallway book shelves, and I connected them up. Thus my living room stereo system is back to normal. There now are no stereo speakers in the bedroom. I hardly listen to the stereo system anymore, since I do not want to disturb my neighbors. I also have a wireless headphone system on the stereo system. I find I concentrate better on the computer, if I do not listen to music. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 12:35 P.M. I chatted with a friend who is out hunting deer. I ate a 19 ounce Marie Callender 3 meat and 4 cheese lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and two sliced tomatoes with celery salt, ground black pepper, Italians seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil on the tomatoes, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 11:25 A.M. I put the clothes back on the bedroom closet shelf clothes hanging rack. With the six inch support space and the two speakers at either end, it is only about 5 feet or less of hanging clothes cramped in not 7 feet. It seems to be stable and secure. I put a small strip of wood on the right side of the top right speaker to keep it from shifting, and I and I wedged another piece of wood between the top left speaker and the wall with a piece of wood to keep it from pushing through the sheet rock. Thus the speakers can not rock of shift slightly forward. I did not put anything heavy on the closet shelf. Just a comforter, some tissue paper, a half dozen polo shirts, a box with my canvas back pack and two spare coffee machines and a spare Cusineart food processor. The heavier items are over the speakers. I put the items back on the floor including my spare towels and sheets along with my walking short piled up on the floor on the right side. I put my golf clubs behind the chair opposite the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer behind the primary work computer. I threw out a Sears upright vacuum cleaner with bags, a Regina carpet cleaner with extra brushes, a like new Olivetti toaster oven, a glass pipe tobacco jar, old coffee machines, a old coffee grinder, and a couple of boxes of old receipts. Thus it was about a six hour project, but the apartment is back to normal whatever that might be. I chatted with a relative earlier. When I have time, I can take the pair of speakers out of the bedroom and put them on the hallway bookcases to replace the larger pair I used for the closet setup. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 7:45 A.M. I finished installing the closet shelf hanging clothes rack as described in the previous note. It went faster because the Black and Decker drill has a flat head screw driver bit. The shelf seems sturdy enough. I will now put back in the clothes and other items, so hopefully it will support the weight. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 6:05 A.M. I have six, 8" X 1.25" X 3/8th" hard wood slats that came off pants hangers. I can use two of those sandwiched around the front center of the shelf to provide a connecting place for the front 45 degree angle support attachment. I then can use two of them on either side in the rear corners to secure the rear back of the wire shelf to speakers. I have a box of the right size woods screws, so I will get on it now. I have a new Black and Decker drill and a set of new Bosch drill bits and extension cord. Hopefully it will all work. I already have the other four 45 degree angle supports installed. With my setup having the shelf on top of the heavy wood speakers, all of the weight is on the floor and not on the sheet rock. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 5:40 A.M. I think I could probably fix the center front 45 degree angle support attachment with a 1.5 inch to 2 inch hose clamp, which I don't have. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 4:30 A.M. A simple cheap way to do it, might be to buy two, fours pack of 4 inch Stanley flat bars at the Greenwich Hardware store if they have them, and use two on the back side of either speaker to secure the shelf to heavy wood speakers, so it does not flip. However, the center 45 degree angle support has broken at its plastic mounting on the center front of the shelf, but one might repair that with a double layer of Behr paint sticks. Still there is a lot of weight on the shelf assembly, so it might be better for the building custodian to do a professional job when he has the time. CIO <888> 11/15/14 Saturday 4:20 A.M. The building custodian did not get around to checking out my attempted closet shelf hanging clothes rack installation yesterday. 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I will now shower and clean up. CIO <888> 11/14/14 Friday 2:45 P.M. I went out to my 1:30 P.M.. After my appointment, I returned home. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. I will first eat a blueberry muffin. CIO <888> 11/14/14 Friday 12:30 P.M. I will head out to my 1:30 P.M. appointment shortly. CIO <888> 11/14/14 Friday 11:55 A.M. I drank a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk. CIO <888> 11/14/14 Friday 10:35 A.M. I drove over to Neighbor to Neighbor, and I dropped off the clothes that I had outgrown. I then went by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions. I then sat out further downtown. I went by Zen Stationary, and I played an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I won $2 for a dollar profit. I then chatted with another local walker. I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor. The building custodian told me he might have time to look at my bedroom closet setup this afternoon. I have a 1:30 P.M. appointment this afternoon. CIO <888> 11/14/14 Friday 8:00 A.M. I ate a 16 ounce Marie Callender chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes soda. I will now change into warmer clothes and head over to Neighbor to Neighbor. CIO <888> 11/14/14 Friday 7:10 A.M. After the last note, I took down all of the flags in front of the hallway bookcases, and I put them in the Rubbermaid laundry hamper underneath the Sony Television in the bedroom. I then took down the two large wooden Technicsl speaker from on top of the hallway bookcases, and I put one each on either side of the floor in the bedroom closet. I then took two other large heavy wooden speakers from on top of the file cabinet in the bedroom and the right side of the bed, and I put them on top of the other two speakers creating about 12 inch by 11 inch by 55 inch high platform on either end of the inside of the bedroom closet. I then put the 7 foot long wire shelf with clothes hanging rack on top of the speakers. I used five 45 degree support bars between the lower back closet wall and the underneath of the shelf, with the closet wall ends held in place by Behr paint sticks to prevent push threw the sheet rock. It seemed like a secure setup, but just as I was finishing putting in all the clothes back inthe closet, the back of the shelf flipped up and slid off the speakers dropping the clothes to the floor. The center 45 degree support rod had its white plastic mount to the shelf break causing the shelf system to become unstable. I think the setup might work if I put a double thick layer of 2" X 4" underneath and along the top of the back of the shelf and below if in back, and smaller double layers of 2" X 4" pieces in front of the sides of the shelf to keep it from shifting forward, and possibly using some sort of fastener to secure the shelf to the rear 2" X 4" setup, so it would not shift. Also possibly putting a vertical 2" X 4" stud in the center front of the shelf with smaller "T" 2" X 4" inch pieces screwed into to either end of the center front of the stud, and securing it to the shelf and the floor with some sort of fastener strip and screws. I will have to think about it. In the process of putting the clothes on the shelf, I sorted out about a third of the clothes that are too small for me. I moved the good clothes back to the Ethan Allen recliner in the living room an on the floor in front of it. I took the plastic hangers off the clothes that are too small for me, and I saved them on the closet shelf to use later. I sorted those clean clothes into two plastic bags and two large piles, and I used my little folding cart to wheel them out to the Volvo station wagon in three trips. I will take them over to http://ntngreenwich.org/ a little before 8:30 A.M. this morning, when they open. The only problem with the shelf setup as I have described, if it works, one loses about two feet of the seven feet of hanging space, but one would not probably want to put any more weight on the setup any way. The shelf before it collapsed was sagging about 3/4th of an inch in the middle. I will have to think about is some more. I also threw out an old Epson inkjet printer, and the air conditioning recharge system, I had for my 1993 Buick wagon many moons ago. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 11:15 P.M. Local conditions http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2354&q=415220 . Interesting reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene . http://util.automobilemag.com/31/connecticut/fairfield/greenwich/gas_prices.html . CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 10:30 P.M. I put a partially used 9 volt battery in the CVS motion detection light, and I placed it on the left side wicker rack above the toilet in the bathroom, so a bit of light comes on automatically, when one enters the bathroom toilet area. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 9:55 P.M. When I was taking down the right bedroom closet door to clear out the closet last Friday, when the shelf broke, I also broke the string on the water color of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France that is part of a set of two with a water color of the City Hall in Paris. I remembered I thought that I had bought a spool of string some time ago at CVS, but I could not find it after looking everywhere for about an hour. I finally was about to look in my little plastic yellow tool box in the hallway closet, and I noticed a long piece of old telephone wire. I used part of that to rehang the water color of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. On my last trip to Paris, France during the Albertville, France Winter Olympics, I noticed the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and although I am not Roman Catholic, I went inside and said a prayer for Paris, since they seemed to be overwhelmed with security forces for the Winter Olympics. Since the French could not afford to have electricity in the place, it was sort of hard to see what it looked like inside, but it is quite a large place near the Louvre on the Seine River, possibly on the Isle de Paris in the middle of the Seine. I can not remember. Thus I have been inside that church too. In fact it was the last church I have been inside in the Eastern Hemisphere after all of the religious places I toured on an earlier trip the winter and spring of 1972 to Southern Europe. I do recall on the winter of 1983 trip to Oslo, Norway having visited the two main churches in Oslo, Norway. Since I have never been in the United Kingdom, I probably have not visited any of their old churches, but I have seen a few United Kingdom residents in my days. When I use to drink alcohol up until about 24 years ago, and I might have one beer on a Saturday night, I would frequently run into people from the United Kingdom in some of our local and Manhattan pubs, so I guess they enjoy having a pint or two and can afford it. I think in the United States of America, in the New York City Area, an alcoholic drink now costs about $8 to $10 at most places. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 8:20 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 6:10 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. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 5:15 P.M. I woke up at 9 A.M., and I went out into the hallways, and I chatted with a couple of neighbors. I ate one ounce of mixed nuts. I went back to bed, until a free computer magazine called me up, and I cancelled it. I then slept until 3:30 P.M., when a fund raiser for disabled veterans called me up. I then went downstairs, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I picked up the mail. I then rested until 4:45 P.M.. I chatted with a friend. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 7:05 A.M. Some people can afford to escape Old Man Winter Key West, Florida Weather , http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ , http://casamarinaresort.com/ , and http://keyambassador.com/ next to the airport, where one fly in on https://www.netjets.com/ from http://www4.passur.com/hpn.html . However, really big buck people have a lot of other warmer places this time of year, if you get my drift. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed for the day. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 6:20 A.M. Pictures of English Country Folk http://www.davidosbornphotography.co.uk/page20.htm from http://www.davidosbornphotography.co.uk/ . CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 6:00 A.M. I moved the ash trays, Eiffel Towel souvenir, and Zippo lighters to the right lower side of the Ocosmo TV in the living room. Earlier, I also put the www.monsanto.com cup with the spare pens there. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 5:55 A.M. I put the gift from a friend from Sao Paulo, Brazil in front of the Abit computer. His email no longer works anymore, so he is probably lost somewhere up the Amazon River. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 5:50 A.M. I reheated and ate the same Dinty Moore and rice dinner as yesterday morning with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I hung the internet weather station on the top left side of the apartment entrance door. I moved the Dakota Indian spirit chime from that location to the door handle of the right living room closet door. CIO <888> 11/13/14 Thursday 5:15 A.M. I cleared the various items from in front of the Epox computer monitor, and I moved them all to different locations. I put the ash tray, Zippo lighters, and Eifel tower souvenir on the center shelf of the right hallway bookcase. I moved the internet weather station by the left mouse pad on the Asus netbook setup. I moved the two emergency lanterns on the floor underneath the Epox computer. I moved the Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook laptop setup from the CVS laptop table in front of the left living room closet to in front of the Epox computer monitor on the oak dining table. One can still move the Panasonic setup slightly forward to pull out the Epox keyboard, if one needs to use it. I moved the CVS laptop table to the left rear of the bed in the bedroom with the various odd paper work on top of it. To do that I had to temporary move on to the bed the various spare coffee machines and other kitchen items I had taken out of the bedroom closet, and they are now on the left side of the bed on the floor again. I moved the folding oak TV table from that location folded up on the right side of the legal chair in the living room. Thus one can now access the left living room closet without having to move any items. I keep my formal clothes there along with my many polar fleece pullovers and backup hard drives and spare shoes. CIO Download 1.31 Mb. Share with your friends:
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