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<888> 10/26/14 Sunday 7:10 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown, and I went by Agnew Morley public housing on Milbank Avenue, and two tenants let me in, and I put $20 on my MacGray laundry card for $21 total. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I played an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I stopped by CVS. I bought a 16 double roll bundle of Charmin extra strong toilet paper for $9.99 and .63 tax for $10.62. I then bought a 27.8 ounce Folgers's Columbian coffee for $8.99. When using EBT food stamps now, they have changed the system, and one now has to enter the long food stamp EBT card number. After I finished my walk, I went by the A&P Fresh. I bought two 18 ounce Marie Calendar five cheese lasagna for $3 each, two 19.8 ounce Tombstone 5 cheese pizzas for $2.75 each, a 16 ounce potato salad for $2.87 and 45 cents can return for $13.92 total. I then returned home, and I put away my groceries. CIO <888> 10/26/14 Sunday 3:35 P.M. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown for a breath of fresh air. CIO <888> 10/26/14 Sunday 2:40 P.M. I woke up at 1:30 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. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 10/26/14 <888> 10/26/14 Sunday 6:55 A.M. I installed Windows 10 Technical Preview on a second partition on the Asus Netbook. I also configured it. This time, when I installed it, it installed a list of apps that I have on the other computers, but I still have to install them. It runs just fine. I ate two ounces of mixed nuts. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 11:55 P.M. I checked outside, and I checked around the building, and I chatted with a neighbor. It seems pretty normal for around here. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 10:50 P.M. I finished the system backups for now. I took four large eggs, expire November 8, 2014, and I broke them into a mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of milk, and seasoned the mixture with celery salt and oregano and grated parmesan and Romano cheese, and I whisked the mixture together. I then took my seasoned omelet pan, and I added two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and a tablespoon of Smart Balance spread, and I heated the pan over medium electric burner heat until the fat bubbled, and then I added the egg mixture. Once the eggs mixture was hardened enough on the bottom, I flipped it over with a spatula to let the top side of the egg mixture cook, and I put three deli slices of ham and three deli slices of American cheese on one side of the top side, and I flipped the other side over it, and I slid it onto a dinner plate with a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread on it, and I ate it all with a 12 ounce glass of Sprite lemon soda. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 8:00 P.M. I am doing a Complete PC backup of the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom to the Seagate 2 TB USB external hard drive. I chatted with a relative. I will next do a Aomei backup of the Asus netbook, since the Complete PC backup restore process does not work on that device. When one has a home network computers, it is a lot of routine work. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 6:55 P.M. I ate 6 ounces of mixed nuts. I am almost finished with the backup of the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 6:25 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. The Greenwich Housing Authority is raising the bill on our apartments $27 a month to meet increased costs of maintenance. I finished backing up the IBM ThinkCentre in front of mahogany bureau. I am not backing up the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I tested the WinPC restore CD that Aomei backup program makes, and it boots just fine and recognizes the Seagate 2 TB USB external hard drive, but I have not tested a restored backup to see if it actually works. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 4:00 P.M. I put the large install of the Aomei backup utility on the Windows 10 Technical Preview partition on the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table, and I am now backing up the system to the Seagate 2 TB USB external hard drive. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. The mail just now is being delivered. I will next back up the entire system on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau, and then I will back up the entire system on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the Ethan Allen recliner. I also have to make a couple of the Linux restore disks from the Aomei backup programs. I will not test the restore process, since I do not want to alter my current configurations, unless I should have major malfunctions. The first thing the old timers in computers teach young computer people is "Backup, Backup, Backup". The second thing they teach you is "GIGO, Garbage In, Garbage Out". Of course our neighbors over at www.ibm.com might do things differently, but that is none of my business. CIO !!!!!! <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 2:45 P.M. http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html . CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 1:55 P.M. Free, Guidance On Creating Your Own Will & Power of Attorney: Legal Self Help Guide [Kindle Edition] Free, Journey Thru America - My Quest for Peace - Volume One [Kindle Edition] CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 1:55 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. It appears the Mac Gray laundry card machine is still not fixed, because nobody is using the laundry room. I could try to gain access to the Agnew Morley laundry room to charge up my card or go to the Cos Cob laundry and do laundry, but I have plenty of clean laundry, and on a busy Saturday afternoon, I prefer to relax and stay home and work on my home office computer network as opposed to facing the hoards of weekend shoppers downtown on Greenwich Avenue who have a different focus. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 12:25 P.M. I will now shower and clean up. I guess at age 64, I am out of touch with the younger generation. However at my advanced age, I am still in touch with a few members of the older generation who lead simple lives of retirement. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 11:35 A.M. I woke up, and I ate three ounces of mixed nuts. I finally woke up at 10 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. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 1:35 A.M. I ate a muffin. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 12:50 A.M. The Queen sends first tweet to launch Science Museum gallery . Of course, the Royalty still have "Pages" , so they do not need to use the internet. CIO <888> 10/25/14 Saturday 12:40 A.M. If one is a ground hog, and looks at www.amtrak.com , a Senior Citizen or a person 62 years old or more can travel from Stamford, Connecticut to Miami, Florida for $157.25 value price, and if one is under 62 years old, it is $185. Then one can take a dog www.greyhound.com senior web fare for $37.55 or adult web fare for $39.50 from Miami, Florida to Key West, Florida www.liveduvalstreet.com . Also I think there is a Grey Hound bus terminal in Coral Gables, Florida that might be closer to the Miami airport, and there might be local bus service between the airport and the bus terminal. Of course, once one is down there, one might not survive unless one has money to live off in a very expensive resort which used to be full of homeless types in less prosperous economic times. Of course Pan American Airlines started its original flight network by flying from Key West to Havana, so between the United States Navy pilots and the Pan American Airline pilots, there used to be a lot of flight personnel in Cayo Hueso. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 11:50 P.M. I braved the local cool tundra of the area, and I drove over to the Stop and Shop. I bought a 59 ounce clear plastic bottle of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3, a 42 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.59, a honey roasted rotisseries chicken for $4.50, fresh bananas for .49 a pound for $1.19, three sweet potatoes for .99 a pound for $2.11 for $15.39 total. They also gave me a four pack of cappuccino muffins for free to replace the blueberry muffins they did not put in my bag this past Monday. I then drove over to CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I bought two 17.5 ounce lightly salted deluxe mixed nuts for $6.88 each and a dollar off CVS machine coupon for $12.76 total. I then sat outside further downtown observing the slow evening. It was not very busy downtown for a Friday evening. I used the bathroom at Starbucks, and I chatted with two locals. As usual, I have a different focus than the locals, so they do not usually comprehend whatever I am chatting about. I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $10.01 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $4.079 a gallon for 2.453 gallons at odometer reading of 109803 miles for 25.8 miles driving since Friday October 10, 2014 for 10.518 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic. I said hello to the usual night person. I then returned home to Byram, Connecticut where the Sons of Oslo used to live before they moved to North Salem, New York, and I put away my groceries. All quiet on the Western Front. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 9:00 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now go downtown for a few groceries. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 8:35 P.M. I took out the old video card from the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table. I used the Scotch tape method covering on the long slot all of the pin except the 7 pin places on the left of the long slot with the connectors on the left. A place is also a blank. It works just fine, and I installed the latest Nvidia drivers on both partitions. The Windows 8 drivers work just fine with the Windows 10 Technical Preview. I registered the card with http://www.galaxytechus.com . I put old video card in the Gallaxy box, and I placed it on the right side of flat screen TV in the bedroom. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 5:50 P.M. I put 10 more Apps on the Windows 8.1 partition on the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I chatted with a neighbor outside. The order with tracking of http://wwwapps.ups.com/etracking/tracking.cgi?TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&InquiryNumber1=1ZA853080311880922 on the order for http://www.cowboom.com/deal-of-the-day.cfm Galaxy GeForce GT610 GC 1 GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card like this one http://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-GeForce-Express-Graphics-61TPS4HX2LNX/dp/B0083CA7PU for $14.99 and $5 shipping and $1.27 tax for $21.26 total arrived. I will now install it on the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 4:00 P.M. I sat outside some more, and I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=92748999983708513004362152 three sets of two 2 Pairs -TG Rugged Wear Mens Insulated Thermal Socks for $3.49 for each set of two pairs for $10.47 total arrived. I folded up the socks, and I put them in my socks drawer beneath the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 3:30 P.M. I am just about ready to eat a 18 ounce Stouffer's meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a 12 ounce glass of Sprite lemon soda. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 3:05 P.M. I took a walk around the building. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 2:45 P.M. 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K-9 ‘Agents’ Lift Spirits of the Secret Service With Heroics at the White House - NYTimes.com Microsoft Offers Tantalizing Signs of Progress - NYTimes.com I started up the FIC server. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 2:15 P.M. I sat outside briefly. I said "Hello" to a neighbor. There is a small pile of snow by the Zamboni door at the ice skating rink, so it might be opened for the season. I checked the MacGray laundry card machine, and it still is not working. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 1:45 P.M. I did a second Complete PC backup of the FIC server to the Seagate 2 TB external hard drive. I threw out the garbage. It is pretty slow around here. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 12:25 P.M. I finished installing the Windows Updates on the FIC server. I am now doing a Complete PC backup of the FIC server to the second internal hard drive. The new Seagate 320 GB SATA hard drive is the second internal hard drive. The primary hard drive is a Seagate 160 GB IDE hard drive less than two years old. One of the reasons for installing the same SATA hard drive instead of a larger one is that if I tried to restore on of my several Complete PC backups, for the restore to work, the second hard drive has to be the same size and possibly the same one, even if the restore is coming from an external hard drive. I will now shower and clean up. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 11:15 A.M. Greenwich peninsula property lists for $54 million I have a relative who sold a house on Vista Drive in 1973 for $450,000; so I guess the price of real estate has gone up over there. It might flood in a hurricane though. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 10:55 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. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 9:55 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. On the FIC server, I installed and ran Advanced System Care 7, and then I installed the latest version of www.skype.com . I am now installing the Windows Updates. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 2:55 A.M. I ate 9 ounces or two five cheese hot pockets and a 12 ounce glass of Sprite. Global Volcanism Program | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report Email - How much do you think you're paying the government? Surprise! - Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library Monster shark 'kept whales in check' I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed directly. CIO <888> 10/24/14 Friday 1:40 A.M. After the last note, I put the new Seagate SATA drive in the Orico USB SATA drive holder, and I connected it to the USB server, but it was not recognized. I then tried the same thing with the Rosewell USB SATA Drive holder, and it was not recognized. I then opened up the FIC server, and I took out the Seagate 320 GB SATA drive, and I put it in the new Orico USB SATA drive holder, and I put my new identical Seagate 320 GB SATA drive in the Rosewell USB SATA drive holder, and I connected them both to the primary work computer. Over the next eight hours, I copied all of the files from the old Seagate drive to the new Seagate Drive. While doing that I took out the four old Antec LED case fans from the FIC server which were quite dirty and I threw them away. I cleaned the case fan enclosures and the space between the front of the metal case and its front plastic cover. There was quite a lot of dark crud build up. In fact the front fan case openings were completely blocked. I also cleaned the CPU cooler cooper vents. It has a fairly new CPU cooler fan. I used compressed air to clean out the lose crud from inside the FIC CPU case, and I even turned it upside down and shook it to remove any additional debris. I installed four generic blue LED 80 MM case fans. I also replaced the 2032 CMOS battery with a new one. I tested the setup, but on restoring the bios defaults and testing them, it took me about three hours to remember I have to set the memory to 133 MHz instead of the default 166 Mhz. I also had to set it to AGP video and a few other minor settings. While waiting for the files to copy to the new hard drive., I chatted with two relatives. I also went downstairs, and I picked up my mail, and the MacGray card machine is still not fixed. 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 Lays low sodium potato chips and a 12 ounce glass of Sprite lemon soda. Once the files were copied to the new Seagate 320 GB SATA hard drive, I installed it into the FIC server, but it was not recognized. I then noticed on the old identical Seagate hard drive, there was a 1/8th inch square twin pin dip pin that I took off the old drive, and I put on the new drive on the right two pins. Then the new Seagate 320 GB SATA drive was recognized, and the FIC system works just fine as before. I closed up the case, and I used my Black and Decker dust buster to clean up the lose crud that I generated in my work. I had to solder one of the small wires on the small red LED light switch that I accidentally broke off while working on the system. Still the FIC Server is up and running just fine. The old Seagate drive that I took out had been installed and running continuously for eight years, so I would say it is pretty good hard drive to replace it with the same new one. The case fans were about six years old. Since I have new case fans in the FIC server, and since it also was cleaned of the crud, it should run cooler, and also it no longer makes any noise. CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 1:35 P.M. I bought two https://www.tanga.com/deals/umbrellas-blowout-fp?utm_source=cj&utm_campaign=BensBargains.net for $8.99 each less $8.99 with coupon code "UMBRELLA" for $8.99 with free shipping and $1.14 tax for $10.13 total. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9405511899561222613092 on the order for http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-ST3320620AS-7200-10-internal/dp/B000H6UG3I for $37 and $3.99 shipping for $40.99 total arrived. CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 1:35 P.M. I saw on Fox Business news, the cheapest gasoline in the country is $2.49 a gallon for regular self service gasoline at the Busy Bee gasoline station in Houston, Texas; if one pays cash. Mean while at the local gasoline stations, it is quite a bit more expensive http://util.automobilemag.com/31/connecticut/fairfield/greenwich/gas_prices.html in this neck of the woods. Thus I prefer to continue to work out of my home office than observing people downtown on Greenwich Avenue who do not share my point of view or economic experience. CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 1:25 P.M. I called up the Greenwich Housing Authority http://greenwichhousing.org/ at 1-203-869-1138 to tell them the MacGray laundry card machine at 71 Vinci Drive is not working. They told me it is the correct procedure to call up MacGray. I could go to the Cos Cob Laundromat to do laundry, but driving that far east in town is not part of my normal routine, and I might be tempted to spend money at the Radio Shack next door, which I can ill afford. The rich daytime people do not like seeing the very poor night time people, when they infrequently come out in the daytime, and on a daytime schedule, they tend to treat me like a foreign visitor, although I have lived here since June of 1962. Most people in Greenwich do not have the vast experience of living elsewhere that I have, so they tend to be programmed on their local experiences in the local community and what they read in the local paper www.greenwichtime.com and what they see on the local television depending on what television services they can afford. In other words, they do not all share the same viewpoint by any stretch of the imagination. CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 1:00 P.M. I went ahead and renewed NASA magazine, when they called a second time. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I said "Hello" to neighbors. They are still working on installing the freight elevator. The MacGray card machine still does not work. I still have plenty of clean laundry, so there is no rush. I watered the plants. CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 10:55 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. I have been watching Fox Business News http://www.foxbusiness.com instead of Bloomberg Business News http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/ to see what their perspective is. www.nasa.gov magazine called me up to renew my free subscription, and I declined to renew, since I never had time to renew it. It is raining here How to Safely Watch the Oct. 23 Partial Solar Eclipse CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 9:45 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. I called http://www.macgray.com/ at 1-800-MAC-GRAY and reported the card machine in the laundry downstairs does not work. In the old days, Ronnie who used to work at Partridge and Rockwell claimed he was the Maytag repairman in Greenwich, but I have not seen him around in quite a while. CIO <888> 10/23/14 Thursday 1:35 A.M. Earlier this evening, I tried using the MacGray card machine a second time, but it still would not recharge my card. When I tried to buy a new card, it says the machine needs to be serviced. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat eight ounces of Dannon vanilla yogurt. I will then go to bed. I guess I will have to see if the MacGray card machine works later on today. I think if I am on a later schedule, it might be to risky for an older person like myself to go to the Cos Cob Laundromat in the early evening to do laundry. That part of town has a lot of younger people whom can be very mischievous. CIO Download 1.31 Mb. Share with your friends:
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