Michael Louis Scott June 1997 to Date
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Note: <888> 05/14/04 Friday 6:35 P.M.: I microwaved and ate a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 12.5 ounce chicken with mushrooms dinner. I had it with a glass of iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up. I will then go out. CIO Note: <888> 05/14/04 Friday 6:05 P.M.: I finished house cleaning and watering the plants. I threw out the garbage. I checked UPS tracking and the laser cartridge arrived at Shrewsbury, Mass. at 3:05 P.M. this afternoon, the 1.3 pound package from Texas arrived at Chelmsford, Mass. at 3:40 P.M. this afternoon, and the 7 pound package from Las Vegas is still in Secaucus, New Jersey. CIO Note: <888> 05/14/04 Friday 3:15 P.M.: I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I threw out some garbage. I showed the building custodian the wire rack that I put in the bathroom. I will now do my house cleaning. I will shut down the computer while I do my house cleaning. CIO Note: <888> 05/14/04 Friday 1:25 P.M.: I just woke up. I guess, they are now hitched BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Danish prince marries Australian . Note: <888> 05/14/04 Friday 5:40 A.M.: CNN.com - Royal wedding fever grips Denmark - May 14, 2004 , The Royal Wedding - Media Service , The Danish Monarchy , The New York Times > International > Australian Woman to Wed Her Danish Prince . I will now put the computer on standby, and I will try to rest some more. CIO Note: <888> 05/14/04 Friday 4:50 A.M.: I woke up at 3:30 A.M.. I finished off eating the dry roasted peanuts with some iced tea. I search the internet for 6 foot high by 19 inch wide by 5 inch deep wire racks, but I find no mention of them in that size. Although the Home Depot www.homedepot.com web site does not mention them, they might carry them at their stores. I could possibly put one on the right side of the wall in the bedroom entrance, anther on the wall to the right of the apartment entrance and remove the bookcase from the left kitchen entrance wall and put one there. Of course I would have to first find them and be able to afford them. My 7 pound UPS package arriving from Las Vegas, Nevada from www.outletpc.com arrived at Secaucus, New Jersey at 3:06 A.M. this morning, the laser printer cartridge from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges departed Laurel, MD. at 3:53 A.M. this morning. All three packages are still scheduled for delivery on Monday, May 17, but it looks like the 7 pound shipment is running a bit ahead of schedule. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 10:30 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 10:10 P.M.: My remanufactured 6,000 sheet laser cartridge that I ordered for $72 for my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges departed from Chantilly, Virginia at 9:32 P.M. this evening via UPS, and it is due to be delivered this Monday May 17, 2004 with the other two orders coming via UPS. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 10:00 P.M.: Yahoo! News - More Evidence Points to Meteor in Mass Extinction . CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 9:50 P.M.: After I ate the lasagna, I ate a piece of apple pie with a glass of iced tea. The Comet Neat is still in the western sky, but with all the overcast weather recently, I have not been able to see it. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 9:15 P.M.: I am now microwaving a 10.5 ounce Stouffer's lasagna with meat sauce, which I will have with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 9:10 P.M.: I use to have a can of Black Flag wasp spray that I bought about two years ago, when I had a wasp in my apartment, but about two weeks ago, the can started to leak, so I threw it out. I just weighed myself, and I weigh 210 pounds. I just chatted with a friend. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 8:40 P.M.: I was up at 10 A.M.. I ate a Stouffer's Lean Cuisine 12.5 ounce chicken fettuccini dinner along with some iced tea. I checked my mail. I went out, and I stopped by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a loaf of Arnold oat nut grain bread for $1.35, a 5.5 ounce box of Arnold large cut Italian seasoning croutons for .99, a Entenmann's apple pie for $1.89 less 10% senior discount of .42 for $3.81 total. I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I next drove over to Old Greenwich to Off Center hair stylists, and I had my hair cut for $18 plus $5 tip for $23 total. I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room thrift shop. I next drove out to Tod's Point, and I sat out briefly at the southwest parking area. I then used the bathroom at the southeast beach area. I chatted with somebody from Kansas City, Missouri. I next went by Staples, and I bought a 500 sheet package of Staples laser paper for $4.98 plus .30 tax for $5.28 total. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought for $3 a six foot high by 19 inch wide six shelf white wire rack about five inches deep. I put it in my Hyundai through the hatch back opening. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various location. On the way up Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought three carburetor cable clamps for a dollar all. The wire shelf had three similar clamps on it. I then on the way back down Greenwich Avenue from the top, I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store again, and I bought a package of six wall anchors for hallow walls # 10 - 12 with screws for $1.49 plus .09 tax for $1.58 total. I then completed my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior center. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then returned home. I drank some iced tea. I put the new laser paper underneath the open package of laser paper underneath the Minolta laser printer table. I checked the wire shelf, and it fit in just perfectly against the wall to the right of the bathroom toilet. I took off the picture of "A Friend In Need" of dogs playing poker, and I rehung it to the right side of the bathroom sink above the small shelf. I move the plate of the "Great Seal of the United States" further to the right on the wall to the right of the toilet, so the wire shelf would fit in. I put the wire shelf in position, and I put the three carburetor cable clamps along its right side, and the three plastic clamps that came with it, I put two at the top and one in the middle center. I had to take the wicker shelf off from above the toilet temporarily, but one can not drill into the corner at that point because of aluminum studs. I marked the clamps with small drill holes. I then drilled quarter inch wide holes into the sheet rock, and I put in the six wall anchors, and I secure the wire shelf with the six screws. Since the wire shelf rests on the floor, most of its bearing weight is on the floor, not the wall. I then took all my cleaning supplies and other toiletries from the floor to the left of the bathroom sink, and I put them all in the new white wire rack. They filled up the entire rack. I move the three boxes of home cleaners from the bathroom entrance to underneath the bathroom sink. Thus the bathroom entrance and the area around the sink on the floor is a little less cluttered, and my cleaning supplies and toiletries are neatly arranged. I then went outside, and I sat out briefly. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 3:50 A.M.: I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts with a glass of iced tea. I surfed the net a bit. I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest for a while. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 3:10 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 05/13/04 Thursday 2:50 A.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue including the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I then drove around the train station area, and they are still working on the Arch Street railroad bridge at night. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Food Emporium, and I bought four half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, two 13.5 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine chicken with mushroom dinners for $1.99 each, a Stouffer's 12.5 ounce glazed chicken dinner and a Stouffer's 12.5 ounce chicken fettuccini dinner each for $1.99 each for $17.96 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea. I now have 7.5 half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium, which should be enough to last until the end of the month. I do not care if it is a couple of weeks old. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.: I threw out some garbage. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of chopped sardines, and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. I will now put the computer on standby, and I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 10:40 P.M.: On my Minolta QMS 1250W laser printer, I have used 770 pages on the 1250 page starter cartridge. I just ordered for $72 with free UPS ground shipping the 6,000 page cartridge from Infinity Remanufactured Toner Cartridges , a Compatible Minolta Pageworks Pagepro 8E 8L 1100 1250w Toner Cartridge - Replaces Minolta 1710405-002,1710399-002,1710511-001. . Thus when I run out of toner in the starter cartridge, I should have 6,000 sheet of printing capacity from the new cartridge. I just opened up a new 500 sheet package of Staples laser paper, and I filled the Minolta 1250W laser printer with paper. The remaining paper, I keep in box in a sealed plastic page to prevent moisture, which I keep underneath the laser printer table. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 8:55 P.M.: I had a telephone call about 10 A.M. this morning about how to set up an eye appointment. I slept until 4 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until 8 P.M.. I watched some television news. I threw out some garbage. I picked up the mail. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 9:15 A.M.: I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts with iced tea. I did some computer web surfing. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed again. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 7:25 A.M.: I went through my email. I chatted with a friend. The friend wanted to know the name of a book that he saw me reading some years ago about the ocean. I know it also included some information about sailing on a schooner to Barbados. From searching on the Internet, I think the book was called "The Living Ocean" by Elizabeth Collins. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 5:05 A.M.: I ate a bowl of peanuts before going to bed. I just woke up, and I ate a Nature's Valley strawberry and yogurt bar along with some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 12:40 A.M.: I put one of the new cans of tomato juice in the refrigerator, and I put the other underneath the blue sofa. I labeled the old can dated to expire March 2003, and I wrote on it "Old Skunk Juice". I will use it if I ever get sprayed by a friendly skunk. I put it underneath the yellow French sitting chair at the apartment entrance. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. Note: <888> 05/12/04 Wednesday 12:25 A.M.: I checked outside, but there is haze in the west, so I was not able to see the comet. I will look later this week if the evening sky is clear. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 11:50 P.M.: At the moment according to StaryNight, there is a Comet called "Neat" 24 degrees above the horizon in the west. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 11:25 P.M.: I put away my laundry. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of a can of solid white albacore tuna fish, I used a 6 ounce can of flaked tuna fish. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese, and I used all of the other regular ingredients. I had the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 9:40 P.M.: I was up at 12:30 P.M.. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom. I turned on the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control. It is cooling off the apartment nicely. I set it at "Cool", 70 degrees Fahrenheit, low fan speed, with the exhaust louver closed. I then cleaned up, and I went out. I made my 4 P.M. appointment. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 16 ounce jar of dry roasted lightly salted peanuts for $1.99. I then finished my walk. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $2.41, two 48 ounce cans of Stop and Shop tomato juice for $1.39 each, two four packs of six ounce cans of Star Kist solid white tuna fish for $2.99 a four pack, and a bulb of elephant garlic for $1.99 for $13.16 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank a glass of iced tea. I next started two loads of laundry, and I currently have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle. There is no new news on the larger 7 pound UPS package that shipped from Las Vegas last night at 8:35 P.M., but the smaller 1.3 pound package arrived in Houston, Texas and departed at 4:19 A.M., and then it departed Mesquite, Texas at 2:49 P.M. this afternoon. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 4:55 A.M.: Earlier I finished off the jar of dry roasted peanuts. I also ate three 3 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese with some iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 4:35 A.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 3:55 A.M.: I uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times Quicken 2003, and it still will not register, because of a script error. I have it still setup, and I restored the backup file after reinstalling it. I put away the ice tea in the refrigerator. I watched some television. The second UPS package has departed Las Vegas, Nevada. They are both due for delivery on Monday May 17, 2004. One package weighs 7 pounds coming from Las Vegas, Nevada, and the other package coming from Stafford, Texas weighs 1.3 pounds. CIO Note: <888> 05/11/04 Tuesday 12:40 A.M.: I am making up a batch of iced tea www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . I received notification that the two computer parts orders from www.outletpc.com that I ordered this past weekend shipped UPS www.ups.com from Stafford, Texas this evening at 10:23 PM and the other order from www.directron.com has sent billing information to UPS, but has not been picked up yet. Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 11:45 P.M.: I hear thunder off in the distance. I have three vacuum cleaners. I have a Hoover upright vacuum, a Electrolux vacuum with a regular hose and metal poles with vacuum attachment and upholstery brush. It is about 25 years old. I have a 20 year old Electrolux vacuum with a hose with the power nozzle attachment. It one were going to use the newer Electrolux with the metal poles or upholstery brush, one would use the hose from the older model, since it would be difficult to detach the power nozzle from the hose on the newer model. I also have plenty of bags for all models and spare belts for the Hoover. CIO Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 11:40 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . I did not use broccoli and for the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 10:15 P.M.: I ate two bowls of dry roasted peanuts before going to bed this morning. I was up at 1 P.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then cleaned up, and I went out. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 1.5 liter bottle of yellow mouthwash for $4.19 plus .25 tax for $4.44 total. I next went by the Greenwich Hardware Store, and I bought two General Electric 25 watts frosted tube bulbs PC:13487 25T10/F CD for $3.99 each plus .48 tax for $8.46 total. I then completed my walk. I used the bathroom at the senior and arts center. I sat out in front of the senior and arts center. I noticed that besides cutting down the one willow tree at the northwest corner of the property and moving the other willow tree just south of it to where the cut down willow tree was, today they cut down the white birch tree at the northwest corner of the senior center and arts center. It does not make sense to me why they cut it down, unless the police administration building wants a view of Greenwich Avenue, which was blocked by the trees. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a package of the parts for a two position interlocking connector #274-222 for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time and the New York Times. I was showed in the New York Times in the top left editorial section by a fellow library reader that the U.S. Government is debating whether to eliminate Section 8 Housing Vouchers which would effect two million recipients. This obviously would aggravate the homeless problem. I get rental assistance for my Connecticut public housing, but I am not sure whether it is from Section 8 Federal funds or the Connecticut general fund. In any event, I plan to stay where I am living for the rest of my life as long as I am able to get around, so I guess the only way I would be moving is "Feet First". Having been homeless during my visits to south Florida during the winter from 1976 to 1978, I do not feel like becoming homeless, so hopefully the Federal Government will not eliminate any subsidy I might need. I suppose though if it came down to needing money to pay my rent, I might depend for a short period of time from relatives, but since I am elderly and disabled, I probably would have to look into moving to another country such as Canada or Holland which I would be eligible for from my family background, and hopefully the social benefits would take care of me. I then returned home. I put the two new frosted 25 watts tube bulbs in the picture light above the Rembrandt print of the Polish Rider. One of the old two were burned out. I saved the other used one in my bulb drawer in the bedroom mahogany bureau. I bought the Radio Shack 2-Position Interlocking Connector to possibly use to repair my Electrolux vacuum power nozzle, but when I opened up the vacuum hose spout with the electric interface, and I took it apart, I decided to crimp slightly the female receptacles to make a better connection. I then reassembled it, and it worked initially, and then I noticed that the hose spout nozzle cover tended be a little lose when fasten on with the two screws causing the round electrical contact rails not to make a steady electrical connection. I fixed it by wrapping black electrical tape around the nozzle cover to make it fastened on more tightly, and the Electrolux power nozzle seems to work just fine now with the vacuum cleaner. I will put the Radio Shack parts package in a card board tray on the floor of my hallway sweater closet, where I keep other electrical items. CIO Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 4:55 A.M.: There is an error in the Quicken 2003 registration script which causes it not to work. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 4:25 A.M.: I installed Intuit www.intuit.com Quicken 2003 New User Edition. I exported my Microsoft Money 2002 files, and I imported them into Quicken 2003. However, I can not get Quicken to Register Online and to create a user account. I will try to maintain my accounts in both programs, which will take a bit of extra time. I checked out the Intuit web site for information on the registration problem, but nothing worked. The updates do work. CIO Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 1:55 A.M.: I opened up a birthday present from a relative. I received a size 40 inch waist by 30 inch length pair of Calvin Klein blue jeans which fit just fine. I received a large Polo by Ralph Lauren Williamsburg blue color polo shirt and a large Chereskin casual light green beige short sleeve dress shirt. However, in the shirts I tend to be extra large size. I can either save them and hope I lose weight which I hope to do some time soon or since I received the TJ Maxx sales slip for the Chereskin shirt and the jeans, however I did not receive the sales slip for the polo shirt, my relative said I could exchange them, if I needed to. I will have to think if I want to drive all the way to Norwalk to TJ Maxx to exchange them, or keep them in hope that I will lose weight. I will wait until I have a chance to discuss it with my relative. I also received a Intuit Quicken 2003 new user edition CD and a American Greetings CreataCard disk. I will now see how much disk space they take up, and possibly put them on my computer. CIO Note: <888> 05/10/04 Monday 12:45 A.M.: Since I was born on May 9, 1950 at 10:30 P.M. Central Standard Time in Alton, Illinois, I guess I am now officially 54 years old. I placed another computer parts order at http://www.outletpc.com/ for a Spire FalconRock II Socket A/370/462 Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler (up to AMD 3400+) for $9.67, a Nway 8 Port 10/100 Mbps Auto Sensing Switching Ethernet HUB (silver color) $18.78 total, a Sunon 80 X 80 mm Sleeve Bearing 2 - pin case fan $1.98, a Artic Ceramique High Density Thermal Compound Syringe 2.7 g (22-32 Applications) $2.38, a Arrow 500 Watt ATX Power Supply 500 W (RETAIL) $22.48, a 4-Port Mini USB for PC-Mac $5.74 for $61.03 subtotal plus $9.92 UPS ground shipping for $70.95 total. When I get all three shipments that I have ordered this weekend, I will do some maintenance on my primary computer, and upgrade the case fan, power supply, CPU cooler, CD drive IDE cables, connect the 4 Port USB mini hub, connect a Lan cable from the Siemens router to the Nway HUB to be placed on the Dell backup computer CPU, so technically with the LAN cables I ordered, a few people could be online in my living room with Laptop computers should the need arise. Since my primary computer is about 18 months old, the moving parts such as power supply, CPU cooler, and case fan need to be maintained. I will also install case locks on the CPU, and I will put in the CNR network card and reinstall the PCI X2 telephone modem. Thus when all three orders that I ordered this weekend arrive, I will probably do the maintenance upgrade on my primary computer CPU and setup. Possibly they will be here by next weekend depending on UPS, since they will not be fulfilled until today. CIO Note: <888> 05/09/04 Sunday 10:25 P.M.: I went to bed after the last message. A friend called at 6:30 A.M. this morning, and we chatted. I ate a bowl of dry roasted peanuts. I then went back to bed until 3 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I then chatted some more with the same friend. I the cleaned up, and I went out. I decided to vary my routine, since it is my 54th birthday. I went over to Costco www.costco.com , and I toured the store with a store pass. To be a member, it costs $45 a year, but since at the moment, I do not need any of their discounted items, I am not a member. I toured the store, and I noticed they have a 19 inch flat panel LCD Princeton monitor for $559, a 10,000 BTU Panasonic air conditioner for $220 and a 10,000 BTU Carrier air conditioner for $240. I checked out the food department upstairs and ground sirloin beef is $1.99 a pound, pork loin roasts and pork tenderloins are $2.99 a pound, Gouda cheese is $3.99 a pound, and New York Strip steaks and delmonico steaks are $8.69 a pound. The last time I toured the store around Christmas time in 2002, New York strip steaks were $3.99 a pound, so the price of beef steaks have gone up. I toured the waterfront plaza to the north and east of the store along the Byram river. If I ever need a discounted item, I might take out a membership if the discount pays for the membership. I next drove down by the waterfront in Greenwich. I then stopped by Manero's and their meat department was closed, where I had planned to get a steak sandwich with onions, but I was able to order one to go at the bar. I bought a steak sandwich to go cooked medium rare on a subway roll with onion rings on the sandwich for $7.95. I ate it on the steps of Greenwich Capital http://www.gcm.com/ , Royal Bank of Scotland http://www.rbs.co.uk/ overlooking the harbor. I then drove up to Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a regular cup of coffee at Starbucks for $1.70 plus .30 tip for $2 total, and I drank it front of the senior center, where on a nice day, one can enjoy a cigarette outside. Somebody has left an orange Department of Public Works dump truck in front of the Senior Center along with some garbage bags. I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. I stopped by CVS, and I bought two packs of three pair each pack of Hanes Cushion Crew white socks size 6 - 12 for $2.99 each three pack for $5.98 total. I then went completed my walk. I sat out for some more. I then drove back down by the waterfront again. I next went by the Food Emporium at closing time, and I bought a 13 5/8 ounce Stouffer's chicken fettuccini dinner for $1.99 and a 12.5 ounce Stouffer's lean cuisine with mushroom dinner for $1.99 for $3.98 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases and drank some iced tea. I ate the last piece of French butter crumb cake. CIO Note: <888> 05/09/04 Sunday 4:00 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/09/04 Sunday 3:55 A.M.: I looked at the local public media television provided by Cablevision, and it seems to be the usual weekend programming. CIO Note: <888> 05/09/04 Sunday 2:40 A.M.: After eating the chicken pot pie, I ate two bowls of corn chips with some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/09/04 Sunday 1:20 A.M.: I am microwaving a 10 ounce Stouffer's chicken pot pie, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/09/04 Sunday 12:50 A.M.: Well Happy 54th Birthday to me. I was just remembering for those of you whom are not familiar with the motto of the state of Florida which applies to other parts of the world. It is "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake before going to bed yesterday morning. I was up at 4 P.M. this past afternoon. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I had a telephone call from a friend, and his relative had lost the stone in her wedding wing while collecting plants in her garden for mother's day church. They could not find it. I suggested using a wire strainer or colander to sift the dirt in the garden. I then showered and cleaned up. I then left a message with my friend, and I suggested they should check sink drains. I then went downtown, and I went by Zyn stationary, and I bought a Western Union www.westernunion.com money order for a dollar cost to pay my Northeast Utilities electricity bill. I then filled it out, and I mailed it at the outdoor box at the central Greenwich Post Office. I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I went by CVS, and I bought two 7.5 ounce boxes of wheat crackers for $1.79 buy one get one free, a 16 ounce jar of Gold Emblem dry roasted peanuts for $1.99, a three pair pack of Haines white socks for $2.99, a 10 count pack of CVS type S.O.S. soap pads for .99, a 33 ounce spray bottle of CVS window cleaner for .99, two 12.5 ounce CVS spray furniture polish for .99 each, six 14.75 ounce cans of Bumble Bee Alaska pink salmon for .99 each plus .24 tax for $16.91 total. I then completed my walk carrying my items. I then sat out for a while. I next drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with a local waterfront observer. I then went by the Exxon gasoline station, and I bought $6.60 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.159 a gallon for about 23 miles per gallon usage. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases, and I drank some iced tea. I received a message from a friend on my answering machine that he had sifted the garden dirt with a wire screen, and he had found his mother's wedding ring stone, so he was very relieved. I guess persistence in a crisis tends to pay off. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 8:35 A.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 8:25 A.M.: I logged onto www.directron.com and I ordered two CPU Case Security Locks, works like a case screw but requires a key to open for $2.99 each, 12 feet 20AWG Red wire .99, 10 feet 20AWG black wire .99, two 9 foot RJ45 LAN cables for $1.99 each, a Directron Rounded IDE dual device cable with boots in white 24 inch length for $4.99, a AT Power Supply Push button switch for computer $1 for $17.93 subtotal plus $7.35 UPS ground shipping for $25.28 total. Thus with the last two orders, I have bought some inexpensive parts over the internet that would cost considerably more locally. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 7:15 A.M.: I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake with some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 6:40 A.M.: I called www.bny.com 1-800-CALLBNY and I was able to figure out that my $5 donation to the Greenwich Country Day School www.gcds.net needed the Card Security Code from my Master Card debit card, so it went through and the $5 donation to the Greenwich Country Day School Annual fund has been made. I chatted with the Bank of New York representative for a while. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 5:40 A.M.: I ordered from http://www.outletpc.com/ a Intel Pro/100 VE 10/100 MBPS CNR Network Card for $5.78, two 10 foot USB 2.0 cables for $1.99 each and a 10 foot Crossover RJ45 Cat5E Ethernet cable 10/100 MBps for $2.35 for $12.11 subtotal plus $6.69 UPS Ground Shipping for $18.80 total. Since I only have 3 PCI slots in my computer, all of which are used, I can free up a slot by using the Intel CNR Network card in my CNR slot on the Syntax motherboard. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 4:30 A.M.: I have been browsing www.accessmicro.com , www.jab-tech.com , and www.tigerdirect.com to see if there are any small items or bargains, but at the moment, I do not see anything I need. I have thought about getting this CPU Security Lock, works like a case screw but requires a key to open, -cg , but there is a $10 minimum order and shipping. I do not need any ink or toner cartridges at the moment, and I usually get them at http://xtremetoner.com , but I figure with printer supplies, I can be like Dell and order them when I need them. I will now study http://www.directron.com/ . CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 2:00 A.M.: I finished going through most of my email. CIO Note: <888> 05/08/04 Saturday 12:40 A.M.: I am going through my email. I just made a $5.00 donation online to the college I attended Lake Forest College http://www.lakeforest.edu/ in Lake Forest, Illinois. I specified it be used for the Annual fund for Economics. I would imagine that people in Illinois would appreciate the significance of $5, since Abraham Lincoln's portrait is on the $5 bill, also $5 in Illinois will buy about as much goods and services as $10 on the east coast of the United States. I think some colleges still hold bake sales to raise money from their alumni, but alas I do not live near the old campus. While attending Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu besides majoring in Economics for four years and a minor in Fine Arts, I also had time to work afternoons six days a week in a local bank there, and I also drove a taxi cab and restored old Mercedes. Thus I was living better by the standards of that time than I am doing today, but having majored in conservative economics, I have learned to stretch a dollar, which is hard in this area. If I were the Lake Forest College alumni office, they could buy two ten pound bags of Carolina rice for about $2.50 a ten pound bag, and locally in Illinois soy sauce is cheap, and they could probably make it through to better times. When I attended Lake Forest College, there were a certain group of apathetic students that said that LFC stood for "Last F***ing Chance", but since my father's family were from Illinois, I took my college days seriously, although I was frequently working so hard, I did not always make it to my scheduled classes. However, my parents did pay real hard earned money for me to attend college, so I graduated with above average grades, and I received a Bachelor or Arts degree in Economics. One of the many definitions of Economics is the "Management of One's Home", not to be confused with the more complex economics on the world's stage. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 11:20 P.M.: I ate four 1.75 inch by 1.35 inch by .30 inch slices of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese along with some iced tea. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 05/07/04: Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 10:20 P.M.: I chatted with some neighbors. My guest arrived at 6:20 P.M.. We chatted for a while. My guest gave me the $20.40 that I paid for ordering him a carton of Misty Ultra Light 100 Menthol cigarettes. My guest will probably have me order more for him in the future. We next drove down by the waterfront. We chatted with a former neighbor down there. We next went over to the East Putnam Avenue shopping plaza next to the YMCA. My guest treated me to a birthday dinner at the Hunan Gourmet Chinese restaurant. I had a spring roll for appetizer which was a $1.50. We each had Chilean sea bass with ginger and scallion sauce along with white rice for $15.95 per person. We also had green tea. The bill was around $40 plus tip. My guest told me that Stew Leonard's sells Chilean sea bass for $23 a pound, so the large portions we had were an excellent value. My birthday is in two days on May 9 http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm . We sat outside at the tables nearby afterwards, and we had a cigarette. We then drove down Greenwich Avenue again, and we returned to my apartment building. We chatted with a neighbor. My guest, and I chatted at my apartment for a while. My guest left at 9:30 P.M.. I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake with some iced tea. I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 5:05 P.M.: Buffalo.com(SM) - Duty Free Cigarette Links . CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 5:00 P.M.: According to a neighbor the art street festival was last night Greenwich Time - Town festival brings art works to the masses . I checked the passenger side front seat belt, and it seems to be working just fine now. One simply does not pull it out too fast. I have a friend coming down at 5:30 P.M. to take me out to dinner. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 4:35 P.M.: Greenwich Arts festival is suppose to be tonight www.greenwicharts.com and Greenwich Time - Takin' it to the street: Art to the Avenue returns to Greenwich . CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 4:25 P.M.: I woke up after the last message this morning, and I ate a piece of French butter crumb cake. I was up at noon today. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry preserves, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I did my house cleaning and watering the plants. I threw out the garbage. In the mail, I had a notification from Hyundai on my 1999 Hyundai Accent that I am due a $75 debit from them due to a lawsuit on the horse power on the car. Other models are due up to $250 debits. They can be used at the dealership for merchandise. I will have to fill out the form for the debit. I also noticed in a promotion from Bank of New York www.bny.com that the life time free checking promotion does not require a minimum balance, so I will have to check with my Bank of New York branch on Mason street to see what the case is. They had told me that I am required to keep a $100 minimum deposit in the checking account. On my 1999 Hyundai Accent the passenger side front seat belt does not pull out too easily. I will have to see if I still have the five year warranty on the car to get it fixed for free. I would imagine it should not break. I will now go outside and fiddle with it to see if I can repair it myself by pulling it all the way out and letting it retract. It is 78 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and I am currently running the air conditioner, since the apartment heats up with the westerly afternoon sun. However, it is suppose to go down to 45 degrees Fahrenheit tonight and be cooler on Saturday. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 1:55 A.M.: Well, I have to be on a daytime schedule today, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will do house cleaning later on today when I wake up before my guest arrives. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 1:45 A.M.: Of course the 2,000 marines give or take a thousand that I saw having a Sunday beach break on Huntington Island, Georgia in the first week of May in 1978 were not wearing Marine uniforms, but just swim wear, so it was hard to tell whether they were Marines or not, but they seem to have short 1/4 inch long military type hair cuts, and they seemed to be in good physical condition, and I was familiar that Paris Island was near by. Of course my friend and I both had long hair down to our waists, so we looked more like hippies. However, I did notice that Huntington Island, Georgia has a large Marine burial ground, and when we were in the town, nobody gave us a ride hitchhiking and we had to walk everywhere, which was quite a hike. However, we had done so much walking down in Key West, that it was not too difficult. If one walk in the Old Town Area of Key West from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic about 1.75 miles on the various cross streets for about six to twelve trips each way each day, one gets quite a bit of exercise not to mention walking up Roosevelt Boulevard at far north as the airport along the beach. Of course all we usually go to eat down there was a Cuban sandwich and orange juice for breakfast which is basically a ham and cheese sandwich on Cuban bread occasionally yogurt and a orange for lunch and either a veggie sandwich for dinner or a plate of rice and beans. Thus for poorer travelers in Florida, there is not as much southern hospitality as one might think. I do recall once the Salvation Army in Key West gave us a can of corn, and I do recall that the Herb Garden in Key West let us charge modest amounts of food, and I paid off my bill there every season before I left Key West. Basically down in south Florida, there are so many large numbers of elderly getting by on marginal incomes that there is not much charity down there, so since we were spending our own money, one would have to call it a cheap vacation. My father once asked me in the winter of 1977 to come up to meet him at Miami airport when he was arriving from Brazil on Varig airlines, and when I arrived at the airport with my last funds, there were a lot of displays at the airport, and he bought me a Miller beer, and he left on a connecting flight. I was expecting some sort of financial assistance, but apparently he was not able to offer it. I felt sort of strange drinking a Miller beer at Miami airport at 10 A.M. in the morning, but I somehow made it back down to Key West hitch hiking after taking the bus up to the airport. Thus frequently when so called rich relatives show up, they are not able to help out their poorer relatives, and since most of my immediate family and friends know I live on a modest income, they do not expect financial assistance from me. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 1:15 A.M.: Of course on a more northern note, I noticed when I was looking at my electricity account www.cl-p.com that my past April 2004 electricity usage which includes electric heat was 75% higher than in April 2003, so it was a cooler April this year plus in December 2003, electricity rates were raised 10% in December 2003. My Northeast Utilities Electricity account still has not received the NEON electricity supplement that I get from the Federal Government each year, so possibly I will have to pay an electricity bill in May when it arrives. Thus living here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I tend to do things based on the four seasons basic here, although I have experience elsewhere. During the winter of 1979, when we spent some time in Daytona, Florida after venturing down to Key West and living in Port Washington, Long Island at my friend father's house, the food budget was so lean in Daytona, Florida until we got our $60 a month food stamps, that I recall a major meal was a box of spaghetti noodles boiled and a four ounce can of tomato paste diluted with about two parts water. Of course, I am eating more up north, because in colder weather one needs more body fat. Back during that period in the 1970s, I had weighed 185 pounds when living in Greenville, South Carolina, and after the first winter in Florida in 1976-1977, I went down to 125 pounds, and until I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, I continued to weigh 135 pounds, so I did not eat as much. I recall, I think I bought the prime rib roast with food stamps at Bonjournos in Stamford, Connecticut after the winter in Daytona in 1979. I did use to try fishing in Daytona, Florida with my surf casting rod and my usual Hopkins lure, but I never caught anything from the break water on the south end of Daytona Beach and not in the Florida Keys and not at Jones Beach and not in California. However, I did once catch 78 blue fish and two striped bass out on the south shore of Nantucket by the Old Navy Quonset Hut at the end of Lyon Farm road in Nantucket in October of 1978, and I filleted them on the beach, and I sold them to the Languedoc restaurant where I worked for about .50 a pound. With the profits, I bought a blank surf casting rod that split in half and a reel and tackle, and I began the long tedious process of wrapping the ferrules and the entire rod eventually which I finally finished lacquering it in California later on that fall of 1978, and the lacquer bubbled because of the humidity along the coast of California, and in the fall of 1980 after Ronald Regan was elected, I left it with the reel at the Shell station on the highway in Santa Barbara for $10 of gasoline to get to Laguna Beach, and a week later we left California for the last time selling the 1974 two door Burgundy Volvo for $1,250 at a cash for your car place outside the entrance to Disney Land. Thus although the fishing was good in Nantucket, it was not very good everywhere else I tried around the country. CIO Note: <888> 05/07/04 Friday 12:45 A.M.: I have friends in Manhattan whom also have a home in Sea Island, Georgia, and they have repeatedly invited me down to visit. Although, I know it is very nice down in Sea Island, Georgia having lived down south during colder winters, if I ever went down south, I would probably not want to come back for the colder winters up north. However, one time when a friend and I thought the season was over in Key West, Florida during the spring of 1978, we went up to the Appalachian Trial starting in Ashville, North Carolina, and for about four days we hiked the trail north in the first week of May, until it started to snow. What bothered me on the trail in the Pisgah National Forest, is there were lots of signs posted by Champion Paper company warning about Bears in the area. Since we were only armed with a pen knife, I was somewhat nervous about our hiking expedition. On about the fourth day it began to snow, we found a Christian hostel in the mountains of North Carolina in a small town. I remember buying an Acrilan blanket for extra warmth, and we stayed in the hostel for a couple of days. We then hitchhiked down to the Hilton Head shore line, and we got a ride with someone that had worked for Daniel construction in Greenville, South Carolina. In Hilton Head, we pitched our tent on the north side of the island on the beach, and during the night, my friend woke me up, and said there was a hoot owl outside the tent. I sort of had a feeling it was not a hoot owl, but I did not want to scare my friend. Since for defense, I only had a pen knife, I started boiling hot water on the little butane camp stove to make tea. We never did venture outside the tent that night, but the next morning, there were tracks from about a 14 foot long alligator around the tent. We then spent another night on the beach at Huntington Island and woke up that Sunday morning surrounded by about 2,000 Marines on the beach having a little recreation time. We then started hitchhiking back south again to Key West, Florida, and we got a direct ride down to Key West with someone whom seem to know us whom looked a bit like Jimmy Buffett and was going to visit Jimmy Buffett, so we picked up our May allotment of Food Stamps in Key West, and we stayed another week or so, before finally hitch hiking up as far north as Washington D.C. where we caught a train to Stamford, Connecticut and returned to my mother's apartment in Byram. I recall being so hungry after that winter in Florida, I use my food stamps to buy a standing rib prime roast at Bonjournos over in Stamford, Connecticut. A few days later we returned to Nantucket for the summer around mid May in 1978. Possibly the time I used the Food Stamps at Bonjournos in Stamford, Connecticut was after the following lean winter in Daytona Beach, when we returned north in the yellow Subaru. I can not remember now. CIO Note: <888> 05/06/04 Thursday 11:55 P.M.: Upcoming G8 information http://www.g8online.org/ and http://www.g8usa.gov/ . CIO Note: <888> 05/06/04 Thursday 9:40 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced the remaining two 3/8 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese and Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. I am trying to register online with www.cl-p.com , but their online registration is slow to work. CIO Note: <888> 05/06/04 Thursday 8:15 P.M.: I was up at 9 A.M. this morning when a friend called. I ate breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I went back to bed until noon. I then got up, and I cleaned up. I then went downtown, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then returned home. I picked up my mail, and I chatted with a relative. I then made my 3 P.M. appointment. I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a fairly new Sylvania 4 head hi-fi stereo on screen display easy operation VHS/HQ 19 Micro head VCR with remote control for $10. I also bought a blue and white pillow case for a dollar, a white and pastel pattern pillow case for .50, a pastel pattern pillow case for .50, and a blue and white and green pattern pillow case for a dollar for $13 total. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I chatted with a couple from Argentina in French. This evening, they were having the arts festival downtown with horse drawn carriages and strolling musicians and other festivities. The Colony florists next to Starbucks has lots of pretty flowers on display. They have local art in the store windows. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I returned home, and I hooked up the Sylvania VCR to the 20 inch Proscan television in my bedroom. It automatically setup itself. I set it to play on the Proscan channel 3, but it might automatically recognize it. It seems to work just fine. I put the new batteries in the VCR remote control. I just chatted with a friend whom is coming down around 5:30 P.M. tomorrow to take me out to dinner. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 11:40 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. I will first eat a piece of apple pie with some iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 11:25 P.M.: I watched some television. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 10:20 P.M.: I went through my email. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced three 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. I also put on the salad five artichoke heart quarters. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 8:15 P.M.: I finished the C: drive to D: drive backup after the last message. I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive, and while it was running, I cleaned up, and I went out. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I then drove down by the waterfront. I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 6.5 ounce dry weight of medium California black pitted olives for .99 each can, two 28 ounce cans of Goya chick peas for $1.09 each can, a 28 ounce bar of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese for $3.99, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $1.99, a 12.5 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn chips for $1.69, a quart of fresh plum tomatoes for $3.49, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.50 for $16.82 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. I had a telephone call from a relative whom is traveling just before they took off. The computer is running just fine. I put as one of my first Internet Explorer favorites weather.com - Local Weather Page Greenwich, Connecticut 06830, since I do not have Weather Bug running. Weather Bug runs just fine, but it seemed to be using a bit of startup system resources, so I will just stick with the link. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 3:15 P.M.: I uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton System Works 2003 along with Live Update and Symantec events detect. I safe booted the computer, and I delete the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\" folder. I then reinstalled and configured Norton Internet Security 2004 with Norton Antivirus 2004 and Norton System Works 2003 without Norton Antivirus 2003. I also ran the Norton Updates. The system all seem to be working just fine. I ran Norton Win Doctor and I did a System Restore Backup, and I did a Disk Cleanup on the C: drive. I will now run Norton Disk Doctor, and then I will do a seven part backup of the C: drive to the D: drive. I will run Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive after that. I will eat breakfast while doing that. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 1:35 P.M.: Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton Antivirus 2004 would not start. I disabled the Windows XP Firewall. I tried uninstalling Norton Internet Security 2004, but it would not uninstall because, I did not have administrator privileges. I ran "msconfig", and I tried unchecking Norton startup programs, but that did not make a difference, and I rechecked the Norton Programs in Startup. I finally ran "msconfig" and under "Services", "Symantec Event Manager" was not checked. I checked that to enable it and rebooted, and both Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton Antivirus 2004 are running just fine. I also uninstalled Weather Bug. I will now run Norton Update, Norton Win Doctor, do a System Restore backup, then do a Disk Cleanup of the C: drive, and then I will run Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive. While doing this I will have breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 12:05 P.M.: I was up at 11:30 A.M.. My cigarette order from http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ arrived from the Seneca Indian reservation in Irving, New York up by the Great Lakes. I received five cartons of Seneca Ultra Light 100s at $11.25 each carton and a carton of Misty Slim Ultra Menthol 100 Box for $19.20 plus $1.20 ship each carton for $82.65. I now have enough cigarettes to last me into June. I also ordered a friend a carton. It took five days from the time I placed the order for them to arrive. I will now uninstall Norton Internet Security 2004 and Norton System Works 2003, since when I boot up the computer, they do not always start up. I will then reinstall them. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 4:50 A.M.: I ran Ad-ware 6.0 and Spybot. I also uninstalled a couple of startup ad aware programs with Bazooka. The computer is running a lot better with the maintenance that I did this evening. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/05/04 Wednesday 2:55 A.M.: I did some systems maintenance after the last message. I put in my Microsoft Windows XP Professional CD, and I ran install, and I selected "upgrade", and I reinstalled the operating system saving my current setup by using the "upgrade" option. I was prompted for the Syntax motherboard USB VIA drivers that are on the motherboard CD. It was a normal install. I then installed XP SP1 update and all of the other updates. I next ran Norton Win Doctor and Norton Disk Doctor. I had to reset the registry with this tweak InfoWorld: Speed cleaning: February 28, 2003: By Brian Livingston: Platforms . I then did a System Restore backup. I next ran Disk Cleanup on the C: drive which works much faster with the previous mentioned tweak. I still have 2.5 gigabytes of free space on the C: drive. By refreshing the system, it seems a bit more responsive, since it was beginning to get a bit sluggish. Of course everything in computers is relative to the observer. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 11:05 P.M.: The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service and BBC NEWS World Europe Polish president welcomed to UK . CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 10:15 P.M.: I chatted with the same relative again. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 9:45 P.M.: I chatted with a friend. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 9:40 P.M.: I watched some television. I chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.: ABCNEWS.com : New Medication Useful for Many Ailments including quitting smoking. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 8:05 P.M.: I went outside briefly. I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced three 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. I also put on the salad five artichoke heart quarters. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 5:45 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop. I then went downtown, and I mailed my $5 check donation to the Taft School Alumni Fund http://www.taftschool.org/ . I know a Japanese resident in town whom is interested in sending his daughter to Taft. It is very fine school started by President Taft's brother, and the Taft family of Ohio are still involved in running the school along with other activities. I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought the last 4 inch by 6 inch German flag with a small flag pole for $2.95 and a small plastic flag stand for .99 plus .06 tax for $4 total. The German flag is a black stripe over a red stripe over a yellow stripe. I once worked out in Plandome, Long Island for a German American family whose older relative had worked for the Kaiser's general consulate in Manhattan before the Great Wars. I also used to visit with a friend in Manhattan whom spoke fluent German and had lived with the Krup family in Germany, and near where he had his modest apartment at 420 East 49th street is supposedly where the German Consulate to the United Nations is located at First Avenue and East 49th Street, but I have not seen it myself. Also before I moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1961, I lived around Germans whom worked for NASA. I also use to regularly visit the Mercedes Benz dealership in Lake Forest, Illinois while I was attending Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu when I was restoring old Mercedes for a little extra pocket money. I also have a Norwegian American friend whom races Porsches quite successfully. I first visited Germany during December 1980 to Frankfurt, Germany, and I spent about four days touring around Frankfurt. I found it very clean and well run. I noticed quite a few United State service personnel were stationed there. Also around 1988, I flew via Lufthansa to Düsseldorf, Germany, and then flew on to Munich to catch a bus to Innsbruck, Austria, and I returned the same way. Thus I have not seen too much of Germany, but what I have seen impressed me. I also on my first trip to Frankfurt took a local train to Stuttgart, Germany, and I toured the Mercedes Benz showroom, but I have not seen the factory. I have some relatives whom are taking a tour this month on My Celebrity Cruises - Celebrity Constellation Cruises. , and as part of the cruise they will be taking a train to Berlin, Germany this month, since I do not think Berlin is on the ocean. I put the German flag on the U.S. Robotics external modem on top of the Dell backup computer. I thus have added it to my collection of flags. After finishing my walk, I drove down by the waterfront. I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought an Entenmann's carb counting crumb topped French butter cake for $1.89, a fresh loaf of Arnold 7 grain wheat bread for .99 and two 5.5 ounce boxes of Arnold's large cut garlic and herb croutons for .99 each less 10% senior discount of .49 for $4.37 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. I also put $10 on my Mac Gray laundry card, so I now have $20.55 total on it. CIO Note: <888> 05/04/04 Tuesday 1:15 P.M.: I was up at 11 A.M., and I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I checked my mail. I made out a $5 check to the Taft School Alumni Fund http://www.taftschool.org/ , which I will mail when I go out. I tried to make a $5 donation at www.gcds.net , but the web site would not accept the Bank of New York Master Card debit card. I will wait until I receive a Greenwich Country Day School alumni solicitation, and I will then mail in a $5 check, if I have the funds. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 11:50 P.M.: I read some internet news. I relaxed a bit. I ate a piece of apple pie and two bowls of white corn chips along with some iced tea. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 10:35 P.M.: I finished going through my email. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 10:15 P.M.: http://music.download.com . CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 9:30 P.M.: I am in the process of going through my email. Make a bootable CD http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ . CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 8:10 P.M.: I just logged onto http://www.hourofpower.org/support/ at http://www.hourofpower.org/ and since their web site has a minimum donation of $20, I called 1-800-9-POWER-9, and I used my Master Card Debit card to make a small $5 donation. I met Dr. Robert Schuler about 17 years ago, when he was signing books in this area at the Stamford, Connecticut mall, and he prayed for me. From what I can tell, my life got better after that, so I enjoy supporting his church, which is part of the Reformed Church of America which has its roots in the Dutch Reform church which was in my mother's home town of Holland, Michigan, since a lot of Dutch people lived there. I believe Dr. Schuler's wife Arvella is on the board of trustees of Hope College http://www.hope.edu/ in Holland, Michigan where a great many of my mother's family's relatives attended. Although they are small donations, I consider them seed money at this spring time of year. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 7:30 P.M.: I watched the NBC evening news. I used my Master Card debit card from the Bank of New York to make a $5 campaign contribution to the Bush - Cheney 04 campaign fund http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/SupportOurPresident/ and http://www.georgewbush.com/ select the "Donate" button and make your own donation. Remember, it is all the small donations that add up to a big political victory this fall. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 6:00 P.M.: I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm . Instead of tuna fish, I sliced two 1/4 inch thick slices of cold eye round beef, and I cut them into half inch wide strips. I also put on the salad five artichoke heart quarters. For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Cracker Barrel white Vermont sharp cheddar cheese. I used all of the other regular ingredients, and I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea. It is suppose to rain through out this evening, so I will not be going out. However, tomorrow is suppose to be sunny. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 4:55 P.M.: I made up a fresh batch of home made hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm . For the olive portion, I used a 6.5 ounce dry weight can of California black pitted medium olives, and for the garlic portion, I used two cloves of elephant garlic. I used all of the other regular ingredients, but instead of 1/4 teaspoon of celery salt which is no longer available at CVS, I used a teaspoon of celery flakes. I just put away the laundry. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 3:50 P.M.: Yahoo! News - Simmering NZ Crater Lake More Scary Than Mt. Doom . CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 3:45 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went by Smoke for Less in Byram, and I bought a carton of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s for $31 total. That will probably be the last carton of cigarettes that I buy at Smoke for Less, since I expect my order from http://www.smokemcheapcigarettes.com/ later this week, and I will order from them in the future. I next went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I mailed my Cablevision, Optimum Online, and Verizon bills. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, but there was no parking there, so I did not go in. I then drove to the center of town, but there was no parking at the Board of Education parking lot where I usually park, so I did not sit out or walk downtown. I then drove down by the waterfront. I noticed the Launch sailor at the Indian Harbor Yacht club smokes cigarettes. A lot of people around the waterfront smoke cigarettes to keep the bugs away particularly in the tropics. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I chatted with a couple of regular library users. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four half gallons of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2 each, a 10 package box of quart packages of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, five 16 ounce boxes of Stop and Shop vermicelli for .40 each, a 48 ounce box of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $3.99, two 10 ounce Stouffer's chicken pot pies for $1.50 each, a Stouffer's 10 ounce vegetable and a Stouffer's regular 10 ounce meat lasagna for $1.50 each, a 16 ounce jar of Classico roasted garlic and alfredo sauce for $1.99, a 26 ounce jar of Classico four cheese tomato sauce for $1.99, a 24 ounce bar of Stop and Shop white cheddar cheese for $3.99, a quart jar of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $2.99, two 17 ounce bottles of Monari balsamic vinegar from Modena, Italy for $2.50 each, a 10 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce for $2.79, a 16 ounce container of Stop and Shop grated parmesan cheese for $5.99, a 12 ounce bag of Snyder's 40% less fat white corn chips for $1.69, a package of Quaker low fat popcorn cakes for $2.39, and two packages of five different varieties of five each for 25 total per package of Twinings tea for $3.19 each for $63.18 total. I then returned home, and I used my metal shopping cart that I keep in my apartment to bring up my groceries. I put away my groceries. I started two loads of laundry. I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle. I also washed in the washer machine my yellow Gortex wind breaker jacket, which I hung up in the shower tub area to dry. CIO Note: <888> 05/03/04 Monday 11:35 A.M.: I ate 15 Town House crackers after going to bed last night. I was up at 9:30 A.M. this morning. I had breakfast of oatmeal, toast with strawberry jam, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee. I put clean linens on by bed in the bedroom. I took off the heavy wool baby blue wool blanket from the bed, and I put it in the bedroom closet. I put on the light weight dark blue summer blanket along with the orange bed spread. I checked my mail. I made out checks to pay my Verizon, Cablevision, and Optimum Online bills. I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 10:55 P.M.: I sent a relative an email. I ate ten Town House crackers. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 10:10 P.M.: I watched some television including the last half of the movie Robin Hood on the Turner Movie channel. I just now chatted with a relative. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 8:25 P.M.: I went out after the last message. I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I noticed they have Planter's peanuts buy one get one free. One can get two 16 ounce cans of Planters cashew halves and pieces for $5.99 both. Although, I was tempted to get them, I decided to stick with my diet, and not to get the snacks. I next drove down by the waterfront. I then took a drive through Bruce Park and north on Indian Field Road, and back west on East Putnam Avenue. I sat out at the library for a while. I moved the orange rubber bumper in front of the rail divider in the annex parking lot. I have seen people in their car hit the rail before, so with the orange bumper, hopefully they will see the rail. The kids are not suppose to skate board in the library parking lot, but they do occasionally. I suppose when they ride the rail, they move the bumper. I also noticed on the light pole on the east side of the street at the top of Greenwich Avenue, the Christmas tree lights timer is left open to the weather, and it still has an extension cord coming out of it. I next went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I found out that my BNY ATM card no longer works, since I activated my BNY debit card. I next drove back down by the waterfront, and I watched the approaching storm front and fog coming in. I then returned home. I had a message from a friend on my answering machine. I put away the ice tea in the refrigerator. I took the BNY ATM card out of my wallet, and I put it in a safe place, and I put the BNY debit card in my wallet. I ate a piece of apple pie with iced tea. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 5:05 P.M.: I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out. I will let the tea steep while I am out. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 5:00 P.M.: I cut four slices of 1/4 inch thick cold eye round, and I put Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them, and I reheated the remaining half of the rice from yesterday, and I put a few teaspoons of La Choy low sodium soy sauce on the rice, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea. I am now making a batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm . CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 4:25 P.M.: I printed out the list of the different files that I back up in my seven part back up procedure in backing up the C: drive to the D: drive. I backed up the C: drive to the D: drive in seven parts. While doing this I corrected in black ink the page numbering of my print out of my last four months of notes. The total print out is now 3,166 pages long in Post Script Times Roman 12 bold font. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 2:30 P.M.: I will now run Norton Disk Doctor, and then I will do a seven part backup of the C: drive to the D: drive. CIO Note: <888> 05/02/04 Sunday 2:20 P.M.: I printed out my last four months of notes. I got the page numbering mixed up, and I printed out 310 pages numbered at page 2751-3061, when it should have been 2856 -3166, but later on I will ink in the correct page numbers. I have the print out in two clip binder folders. It is also available for download at Scott's Notes from June 1997 through April 2004, 3.41 Mbytes http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsnote1.zip contains "mlsnote1.doc" pages 1 - 1582 January 1997 to December 2001 and "mlsnote2.doc" January 2002 through December 2003 pages 1583 - 2855" and "mlsnote3.doc" January 2004 through April 2004 pages 2856 - 3126" Download 3.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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