<888> 09/09/14 Tuesday 8:40 P.M. I woke up at 5 P.M.. I went out with a relative, and we mailed a letter at the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove along the entire length of the Kennebunk beach and back. We parked for a brief period at the east end and watched the dog walkers. There are major high and low tides with the harvest full moon. We then returned to my relatives’ house, and we watched the local NBC news and the national www.nbcnews.com . I ate avocado dip with triscuits and watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate the reheated baked breaded haddock with sweet potato with butter and sautéed zucchini and onion and a glass of watered down orange juice. I chatted with a neighbor down in Greenwich. They are still working on the new freight elevator in my building. I chatted with a relative. I will now shut down the laptop, and I will read before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/09/14 Tuesday 3:10 P.M. I spent two hours, and I watered the plants, bushes, and flowers in front, in rear, and on the rear deck of the house. I also swept the front sidewalk and rear deck. With the wild ducks in the backyard tidal pond, we could start our own branch of the Kennebunkport Ducks Unlimited. When I went to www.lfc.edu , the chairman of the board of trustees William McCormick Blair was the founder of Ducks Unlimited. Also a friend from Bedford, New York used to go to the Ducks Unlimited dinners there with the former governor of Massachusetts. When I once chatted with a friend’s relative who is the heir to the Union Pacific railroad fortune, the only thing he chatted about was Ducks Unlimited, but that was over 25 years ago. Some relatives last week visited Glacier National Park up in northern Montana. If one does not mind grizzly bears that is really getting away from it all. I went by the Kennebunkport post office with a relative. We then drove along the entire length of the Kennebunk beach and back. Starting Monday September 15, 2014; anyone can park at the Kennebunk beach in the daytime for free, but it might be a bit cooler by then. For lunch I had a ham and turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread with Hellmann’s mayonnaise and wabasi and ginger potato chips and potato salad and carrot soup and a 8 ounce glass of Canada Dry ginger ale. I saw a half dozen tour buses with senior citizens off cruise ships that docked in the harbor in Portland, Maine moving around the downtown and beach area of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. Sometime in the near future, they are going to start replacing the draw bridge in downtown Kennebunkport which will probably disrupt the regular traffic flow with people having to detour around to the north. I will now take a nap.
CIO <888> 09/09/14 Tuesday 10:10 A.M. I woke up at 8:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 09/08/14 Monday 8:25 P.M. I woke up at 4:30 P.M.. I went for a drive along the Kennebunkport waterfront with a relative. We stopped by Bradbury’s in Cape Porpoise and got some bread. We drove out to the point in Cape Porpoise, and we returned the same way. I watched the www.nbcnews.com national news and ate some avocado dip with triscuits and watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate baked breaded filet of haddock, with baked sweet potato with butter, sautéed zucchini and onions, and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I will now shut down the laptop computer, and I will read before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/08/14 Monday 2:20 P.M. I went to the Kennebunkport post office. I then went by Port Lobster, and I got filet of haddock for $10.99 a pound for $12.75. For lunch I had a ham and turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread with Hellmann’s mayonnaise and wabasi and ginger potato chips and potato salad and a 8 ounce glass of Canada Dry ginger ale. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 09/08/14 Monday 12:40 P.M. I put the garbage can out by the street for pickup tomorrow morning. I emptied the dishwasher.
$49.99 with free shipping Canon LBP6200D Monochrome Printer CIO
<888> 09/08/14 Monday 11:40 A.M. The housekeeper left at 11 A.M.. The housekeeper cleaned the master bedroom and bath and kitchen and the powder room. One of my relatives gave me a used pair white king size sheets with two king size pillow cases.
<888> 09/08/14 Monday 9:40 A.M. I woke up at 8:30 A.M.. The housekeeper arrived at 9 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 09/07/14 Sunday 8:35 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I went out with a relative, and we drove through downtown Kennebunkport and up Route 9 to Kennebunk, and we filled up a family car with premium gasoline at the Blue Canoe Irvine gasoline station. We then got groceries at Hanneford’s. We then drove part way down Route 9 and took the back west road to the west side of the Kennebunk beach and drove along the Kennebunk beach. We stopped briefly to watch the dog walkers. We then returned to the family house. We watched the local news and the www.abcnews.com national news. I ate French cheese and dip and triscut crackers with a 8 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. For dinner, I ate four reheated precooked barbecued pork ribs with two ears of sweet corn on the cob with butter and a glass of watered down orange juice. I clean up the kitchen. I will now shut down the laptop, and I will read before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/07/14 Sunday 2:45 P.M. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 09/07/14 Sunday 2:25 P.M. I chatted with a friend. For lunch I had a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread with Hellmann’s mayonnaise and wabasi and ginger potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. CIO
<888> 09/07/14 Sunday 1:30 P.M. As it stands now, I will be returning to Greenwich, Connecticut on Sunday, September 14, 2014. I chatted with a relative for a while this morning. CIO
<888> 09/07/14 Sunday 10:15 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up.
<888> 09/06/14 Saturday 8:45 P.M. I woke up at 5 P.M.. I went for a drive along the Kennebunkport waterfront with a relative. We saw 10 tour buses approaching Walker’s Point. We also drove along the Kennebunk beach the entire distance, and we stopped briefly to watch the dog walkers at the middle part of the beach. I emptied the dishwasher. We watched the www.nbcnews.com national news, and I ate some French cheese with Canadian crackers. For dinner, I ate five reheated prepared barbecued pork ribs, potato salad, steam broccoli with butter, and watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. It rained a little bit. It is suppose to rain more tonight.
I will now shut down the laptop computer and read and watch television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/06/14 Saturday 3:10 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I did a mixed load of laundry and dry cycle. I went out to the Kennebunkport post office. I made 146 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while listening to www.foxnews.com . For lunch I had a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread with Hellmann’s mayonnaise and wabasi and ginger potato chips and potato salad and a glass of diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I started the dishwasher. I will now take a nap. The NOAA weather radio went off for impending thunderstorms. CIO
<888> 09/06/14 Saturday 10:35 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 09/05/14 Friday 8:15 P.M. I woke up at 5 P.M.. I went with a relative to CVS in Kennebunk. We then watched the www.nbcnews.com evening news. For dinner, I ate a lobster roll with two ears of sweet corn with butter and watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I chatted with a relative.
My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for August 2014 was $183.07 for 1029 kWh for 33.19 kWh per day for 31 days with an average temperature of 72.3 degrees Fahrenheit. For August 2013, it was $228.43 and 1544 kWh and 51.47 kWh per day for 30 days with an average temperature 72.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course I have been gone since August 20 this year with the air conditioners, fans, lights, and hot water turned off.
I will now shut down the laptop computer, and I will read or watch television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/05/14 Friday 3:55 P.M. I ate a half of a toasted pita bread with turkey and Swiss cheese and Hellmann’s mayonnaise sandwich with cold filtered water. I went by the Kennebunkport post office. I tried out using my Iview tablet and Nokia Windows 8.1 GoPhone with the house wireless. I drove along the waterfront in Kennebunkport, and I went by the Colony Hotel beach. I took a picture with my Nokia GoPhone of the Kennebunk beach, and when I got home, I used the house wireless to post it on my Facebook web site. I stopped by http://www.portlobster.com/ , and I got two lobster rolls for dinner for $10.99 each. I ate some potato salad. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 09/05/14 Friday 12:45 P.M. The yard person finished cutting the lawn. The housekeeper was also here. CIO
<888> 09/05/14 Friday 10:10 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 09/04/14 Thursday 8:25 P.M. I will now shut down the laptop computer. I will read of watch television before going to bed in a little while. CIO
<888> 09/04/14 Thursday 8:10 P.M. I went with a relative, and we picked up another relative. We went to the http://www.villagetavernwestk.com/ for dinner. I ate sautéed medium rare beef tenderloin tips on a bed of sautéed baby spinach with horseradish sauce and two potato pancakes with crème fraiche sauce for $21 and a glass of iced tea with Equal sweetener and a lemon wedge. I also finish a relative’s filet of grilled wild salmon dinner with sweet potato. I also had two slices of sour dough bread with extra virgin olive oil and butter. We dropped the relative off. We then returned to my relatives’ house. I fixed the master bathroom toilet handle by tightening the nylon nut on the inside of the toilet tank one eighth of a turn beyond tight with a pipe wrench. On nylon nuts, one does not tighten them too tight, so as not to shear the threads. CIO
<888> 09/04/14 Thursday 3:45 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I ate two slices of Hannaford’s pepperoni pizza with watered down orange juice. I went by the Kennebunkport post office. I took two hours and watered the plants and bushes in front and rear and on the deck. I also pinched off the dead flowers off the plants on the deck. I also swept the front walk and the deck. I drank a glass of watered down orange juice. There is a grey heron from down south in the rear tidal pond. It seems to return every year, but I have no idea where it goes down south in the winter. Maybe somebody should try to put a GPS tracking device on it to see where it comes from. CIO
<888> 09/04/14 Thursday 11:45 A.M. I went back to bed until 10:30 A.M.. I showered, and I cleaned up. I chatted with a friend. I emptied the dishwasher. I emptied the two dehumidifiers downstairs which I do regularly. CIO
<888> 09/04/14 Thursday 8:25 A.M. I ate two ounces of mixed nuts during the night. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I paid my Verizon telephone bill. My relative cancelled the 11 A.M. appointment. CIO
<888> 09/03/14 Wednesday 8:10 P.M. I woke up at 5:45 P.M.. I watched the local evening news and www.nbcnews.com national news while eating French cheese, dip, triscuts, and Canadian crackers with watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate three scrambled eggs with a toasted English muffin with butter and watered down orange juice. I will now shut down the laptop computer, and I will go to bed. I have to be up at 8 A.M. tomorrow morning to take a relative to a 11 A.M. appointment. CIo
<888> 09/03/14 Wednesday 4:50 P.M. I went out with a relative, and we went by the two jewelry stores in Kennebunkport trying to get a watch battery fixed to no avail. We then went by the Kennebunkport Post Office. We then went by French Nail in the Ace Hardware shopping plaza in Kennebunk. While waiting for a relative, I noticed next door there was a computer store next door called “B9C”, but I did not go into it. I chatted with two friends on my wireless phone. I was also able to use the wireless from the nearby Subway sandwich shop. We next went to Gold Dust and Rouge jewelry store in Kennebunk, and we got my relative’s watch battery fixed for $10. We then went by CVS. I got buy one get one free of Niacin flush free for $14.99 both. I also picked up a prescription. We then went by Hannaford’s grocery store. We then returned to my relatives’ house in Kennebunkport. For lunch, I had sandwich on whole wheat bread with Hellmann’s mayonnaise with ham and turkey with Swiss cheese and wabasi and ginger potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 09/03/14 Wednesday 12:10 P.M. I chatted with a friend down in Connecticut, and it is hot down there. CIO
<888> 09/03/14 Wednesday 10:35 A.M. I woke up at 9:15 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 09/02/14 Tuesday 8:15 P.M. I ate dip and French cheese with triscuts and Canadian crackers and watered down orange juice while watching the www.abcnews.com evening news. For dinner, I ate baked breaded filet of haddock, a sweet potato with butter, broccoli with butter, and watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. I started the dishwasher. I will now shut down the laptop computer and read before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/02/14 Tuesday 5:45 P.M. I woke up at 5 P.M.. It rained while I was asleep, so I don’t have to water the plants. There were also a vintage B-52 and B-51 planes flying over Walker’s Point.
<888> 09/02/14 Tuesday 3:25 P.M. I went out with a relative, and we went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then stopped by H&B provisions, and we bought a 59 ounce container of Tropicana orange juice for $6.29 and a half gallon of Hood 1% milk for $2.49. We then drove along the entire length of the Kennebunk beach and returned. We stopped by Port Lobster and got three quarters of a pound of filet of Haddock for $9.99 a pound. We drove along the waterfront in Kennebunkport. For lunch, I had sandwich on whole wheat bread with Hellmann’s mayonnaise with a barbecued chicken breast with Swiss cheese and sliced tomato, wabasi and ginger potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. I put away the dry laundry, and I put clean sheets on my bed. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 09/02/14 Tuesday 12:50 P.M. I mopped the kitchen floor with Windex and hot water. I put eight Jobs fruit and citrus tree spikes around the inner parameter of the wild plum tree in the front yard. I put bone meal around the two rose bushes and the flowers by the sidewalk on the south end of the house. I watered the hanging baskets and the flowers and rose bushes in the front of the house. I put the mixed load of laundry in the dryer. CIO
<888> 09/02/14 Tuesday 11:05 A.M. I started a mixed load of laundry. As it stands now, I will be returning to Greenwich, Connecticut on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. On the Monday before on September 15, we are having carpet installed in the bunk room downstairs, so I have to be here for that. CIO
<888> 09/02/14 Tuesday 10:15 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 09/01/14 Monday 9:10 P.M. I will now shut down the laptop computer. I will watch a bit of television before going to bed. CIO
<888> 09/01/14 Monday 9:00 P.M. Some of my relatives left around noon. I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money Income Versus Spending report for August 2014, and I gave one copy to an interested relative. I ate two reheated slices of sausage pizza with watered down orange juice for lunch. I went out with a relative, and we went by Wal-Mart in Biddeford, Maine. They cannot replace watch batteries on watches they do not sell. We then went by T.J. Maxx. We then went by Ace Hardware store in Kennebunk, Maine. We got Jobs Tree fertilizer spikes for fruit and citrus trees for $9.99 plus tax. We then went by Hannaford’s and got some groceries. We then returned to my relatives’ house in Kennebunkport. I took a nap from 4:30 P.M. to 5:45 P.M.. I put the garbage and recycle materials out by the street for pickup tomorrow. We watched the www.nbcnews.com evening news, and ate some French cheese and hummus with triscuts and Canadian crackers and watered down orange juice. For dinner, I had marinated barbecued chicken breast, sweet corn on the cob with butter, potato salad and watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. We went for a drive along the Kennebunk beach and along the Kennebunkport waterfront. It was not too busy out, so I guess a lot of the Labor Day Weekend Holiday visitors have left. CIO
<888> 09/01/14 Monday 10:35 A.M. I woke up at 9:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey, milk, and sliced banana; a muffin, a glass of 50% orange juice and 50% cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with Truvia sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now shower and clean up. I was told the German bicycle rider is now up in Burlington, Vermont. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 9:05 P.M. The pizza dinner was very good. The Hurricane Season http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season does not end until the end of November, but I suppose a lot of the seasonal people have already headed south for the winter, since their seasonal rents possibly ended at the end of the month. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 8:20 P.M. I unwrapped a frozen 27.37 ounce Freschetta Margherita pizza, and I placed it on a baking pan, and I seasoned it with celery salt, garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese, and extra virgin olive oil, and I placed it in the 400 degree Fahrenheit preheated Farberware convection oven for 20 to 24 minutes. I am hungry enough, I might eat it all with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 7:50 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 7:30 P.M. I could dress up and go out in my vintage unused Microsoft Windows XP tee shirt that I never wore, but I don't think it is my size. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 6:20 P.M. See the colorful characters at http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ . Looks like a cruise ship is in port. Down south this time of year, the sun goes down a bit later. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 6:00 P.M. My next door neighbor had their hot water tank replaced today, and it was 16 years old. My hot water tank was replaced after eight years, so it is now 18 years old; so one of these days, it might need replacing. Thus I have been here at Chateau de Vinci for almost 26 years as of the first week of December. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 5:35 P.M. Available new in Norwalk, Connecticut today $229.99 Asus - 15.6" Laptop - Intel Celeron - 4GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive - Black
I am generally do not go out on Halloween night, although I do need bananas, since I am worried some of the local youth might throw eggs at me, which has happened in the past. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 5:25 P.M. Refurbished new laptops with 90 day warranty http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptops-Netbooks-/175672/m.html?item=271232845855&_ssn=acer . I have four laptops at the moment that I never use, except for one on vacation in the summer. CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 5:00 P.M. The called back and said I had won a price, and they will send me documents in a few days to claim my price in Terrytown, New York. They said I could transfer the price to someone else.
$99.99 with $19.99 shipping LATITUDE E6500 15.4" C2D-2.53GHZ 4G/250G RW BT WC
One hour to go http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-E6500-P8700-2-53GHz-4GB-160Gb-Windows-7-Pro-Webcam-15-4-screen-/221590938968 . CIO
<888> 10/31/14 Friday 4:05 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. I got a telephone calls saying that I might have won a www.ford.com Explorer, but I do not recall entering any contests online or at a shopping mall, since I never go to shopping malls. CIOI
!!!!!! <888> 10/31/14 Friday 3:15 P.M. The FIC server was working slowly. Apparently the cache in the hardware over time gets filled up. The solution which I did was to turn off the Cable Modem, Router, and Switch for a few minutes, and then restart them, and now the FIC server is working fast as before. CIO
888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>888>