Note: 09/30/07 Sunday 11: 45 P. M now that summer and September are almost over with all of the rich people are departing the area to go back south to warmer areas, I guess we are now going back to being Greenwich, China
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- Note: 11/12/07 Monday 1:35 A.M.: I noticed there are three more of the same dime banks here j chein co, Vintage, Antique Toys, Banks, Registers Vending items on eBay.com
- Note: 11/11/07 Sunday 10:45 P.M.: I went through my email. I will now do some system maintenance. CIO
- Mens Mostly Long Underwear and Long Johns and http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/lj.htm . CIO
- Note: 11/10/07 Saturday 7:30 P.M.: BBC NEWS | Europe | Mafias Ten Commandments found BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | State Opening of Parliament
- I am a bit tired, so I will shut down the primary Vista computer shortly, and I will go to bed soon. CIO
- End of Scotts Notes week of 11/10/07: Note: 11/10/07 Saturday 2:35 P.M.: I watched some television. I went through my email. www.kenradio.com
- Note: 11/10/07 Saturday 11:50 A.M.: I napped in the recliner for a while, and I watched some television. I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers. CIO
Note: <888> 11/12/07 Monday 2:35 A.M.: This Wednesday, November 14, is Prince Charles' 59th birthday Charles, Prince of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and The Prince of Wales , but everyone always seems to forget it, since he tends to be a private individual and does not like being disturbed. CIO Note: <888> 11/12/07 Monday 2:30 A.M.: In other worldly events around here, I recognized somebody downtown today who is the chap that I met from Denmark around 1981, when there was an ice storm in this area during the winter, and I drove him out to another family residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, and I drove him back into Manhattan in the ice storm. All he did was drink a glass of milk and say he had to return back to Manhattan. The reason, I recognized him is that he looks a bit like George Cary, but being European he is healthier looking, since the Europeans enjoy a higher standard of living, and he was dressed European. However, I do not think it was George Cary, because if he came out here, he would look me up sooner or later, since I know my way around this town better than anyone else I know except for a few taxi cab drivers. I can even guess that the fellow that looks like George Cary is staying over on Cat Rock Road with Pear, whom everyone knows is also from Denmark, but since he no longer drives a car with the Danish flag on it, nobody recognizes Pear. Pear is a local architect in the area, and he designed the high rise public housing in downtown Stamford, Connecticut, and he once told me was one of the witnesses to the birth of the Queen of Denmark The Danish Monarchy . News that some people do not pay much attention to since he is already divorced once The Danish Monarchy - Current activities - News . I suppose Pear is a bit older than Queen Margrethe, since he witnessed her birth. In terms of royalty and such, they have to have witnesses and such, so that nobody switches the babies around. I don't know much about Denmark, besides they make Danish cookies and Danish hams. Also I know they smoke Prince cigarettes there. I also know in Demark, if you buy a car, you have to pay 100% tax on it, so automobile transportation in Denmark can be very expensive. I am a bit tired. There is an old European Expression, "The Dutch and The Danish Don't Know Much". I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon. I have no appointments until my 3 P.M. appointment on Thursday afternoon, so I will probably be cabin bound for the daytime most of the week. I probably will sneak out at night like I usually do, weather permitting. I still have to watch my budget, since although all of my bills are paid, I am stocked up on essentials http://mikelouiscott.com/inventory.htm , I am basically on a Greenwich, Connecticut on $5 a day budget after expenses. CIO Note: <888> 11/12/07 Monday 1:35 A.M.: I noticed there are three more of the same dime banks here j chein co, Vintage, Antique Toys, Banks, Registers Vending items on eBay.com , but they are more expensive. I will take my chances with FDR40. A little while ago, I just had a psychic impression that somebody stole Jimmy Eldert's old cherry red Porsche in Miami Beach, while he was stopping over on his way back down to Key West, Florida for the season. It seems like me as he gets older, he is getting absent minded, and what he does not know is that it was not stolen, he forgot where he parked it. Maybe that is why I have not been hacked on my computers recently. He is probably traveling, and he is the only computer nerd that I know in my network of friends that would waste his time hacking me, but what is the motive. It would seem to me, it would be easier to call and have a chat, but he is into such high tech electronic surveillance, he does not trust the telephone. CIO Note: <888> 11/12/07 Monday 12:25 A.M.: I also did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive. Well, look at it this way, although the computer and its software and internet connection are more expensive than a copy of the newspaper, one does not get the black ink all over one's hands from reading the paper. Also one saves on gasoline from going out to have to buy the paper. I will admit the paper tells one more, but most of it is just public relations and advertising, and there is plenty of that on the internet. I mentioned today in the Greenwich Library that the The Bank of New York Mellon not to be confused with the fruit stand selling cantaloupes at Balducci's had a bit of history that I read in a book published on it in 1924 on its 150th anniversary. I bought it about 15 years ago for $10 in the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I gave it to the officer's secretary at Putnam Trust when it was bought by the Bank of New York. At the time in 1924, the president of the Bank of New York had the last name Townsend, and I recall when I first moved here to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1961, the two telephone exchanges were Normandy 1, or NO1 and Townsend 9 or TO9 prefixes. Most everyone knows that the Bank of New York was the first bank in the United States of America, and that Alexander Hamilton started it. However, to start a bank one needs money, and in the book it said that the founding of the Bank of New York was financed by Elihu Roosevelt's money. Since as I recall the Roosevelt family first came to this country around 1660, it would seem that Elihu Roosevelt was several generation after the first of his family to have arrived. Thus more than likely if any members of the Roosevelt family have anything left, but an empty Roosevelt Dime bank, it might somehow be involved in the financial affairs of the Bank of New York. My first bank was one of these J Chein Tin Bank dime register WORKS - (eBay item 130172823499 end time Nov-17-07 14:47:01 PST) which you use to be able to buy in the toy store in Decatur, Alabama for 59 cents, and once one saved $10, I would put the dimes in my savings account at the local First Federal Savings bank there. I actually went through a few of them, since I would occasionally need money, and I would pry it open. It did not regularly open up, until one had $10 in it. I placed a $10.01 bid on it plus $4 shipping, in case anyone want to outbid me. CIO Note: <888> 11/11/07 Sunday 10:45 P.M.: I went through my email. I will now do some system maintenance. CIO Note: <888> 11/11/07 Sunday 10:05 P.M.: When I left Chicago, Illinois after college at www.lfc.edu for the first time in the fall of 1972, I left with Hurley Haywood and two of his cousins who were also related to the McCormick Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia family, Rob Glore and his cousin with the last name Whitney. Hurley had been a captain in the U.S. Army www.army.mil flying Medivac in Viet Nam in a helicopter. Thus besides racing cars, he knew how to handle other mechanical machines. He had me for a short stay at his maternal grandmother's house in Oakbrook, Illinois a not too modest 200 acre estate, and I met the elderly Mrs. Hurley. She spent half of her year preparing her Christmas calendars to mail out to her friends. Her husband General Hurley was also in the www.army.mil , and this is a short summary of what he did Yahoo! - TIME General Hurley . Although I have numerous other Chinese connections such as my paternal grandfather's brother Vernon Scott whom has visited China over 50 times to sell them soy beans, and Lisa Bolton who has worked for China airlines for 30 years and married the son of a Chinese silk merchant, and she previously worked at the liquor store in the Dakota where Yoko Ono lived in Manhattan. Also I had a few Chinese classmates at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut The Taft School . Also as I recall, I knew the Chinese that owned Design Observations in Manhattan, and http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm had a Chinese roommate John attending www.columbia.edu . Thus besides being Bush family neighbors in both Greenwich, Connecticut and Kennebunkport, Maine, which family were also ambassadors to China, more than likely one or two Chinese are curious about me, which is one of the reasons I run my web sight. One of the first locations I emailed about 13 years ago, when I got on the internet was the Welcome to Peking University Physics laboratory 北京大学物理学院 and in English School of Physics at Peking University Introduction , so more than likely I have had a little bit of help from the Chinese here half way around the world from China. Also while at www.lfc.edu there was a Chinese Physicist there named Dr. Jung, and he was working on the development of holography Holography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and he is linked to here Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology from here http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pang/NanoGRC/98NanoGRCProg.html. Thus I have been working mostly with the Microsoft Operating Systems, as they relate to the internet. I also have dealt with Ming from www.hmcomp.com who has become a bit too upscale living in Connecticut. CIO Note: <888> 11/11/07 Sunday 9:00 P.M.: I reheated and ate the same Chinese chicken stir fry dinner with rice that I ate last night. I chatted with a relative. While I was at the Greenwich Library today, I checked out the book "Mastering Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise" by Mark Minasi and John Paul Mueller. Hopefully, I will have the time to take a look at it. It is cool enough in the apartment now, although the living room thermometer says 72 to 74 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room, with the draft from the tower fan that moves the electric heat around from the electric radiators, I might start wearing my full length long underwear soon. I put this list together two years ago Men's Mostly Long Underwear and Long Johns and http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/lj.htm . CIO Note: <888> 11/11/07 Sunday 6:45 P.M.: I woke up at 5 A.M. this morning. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I went back to bed until 9 A.M.. I chatted with a relative. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers. I showered, and I cleaned up. I dress warmly to go out. I went out at 11:30 A.M.. I went by the Food Emporium, and I bought four 16 ounce boxes of Land-O-Lakes 50% less fat butter for $1.99 each box, a 38 ounce box of Pepperidge Farm whole wheat goldfish crackers for $6.99, and a 40 bag box of Salada green tea for $2.50. I then went by the CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought buy one get one free of Nature Made 300 count Super B-Complex with vitamins C for $19.99 both, Nature Made Vitamin E 400 I.U. dl-Alpha 300 count for $17.99 both, Nature Made 100 count Vitamin C 1,000 mg. for $9.39 both, two six ounce tubes of Aquafresh White and Shine tooth paste for $4.99 both, two 13 ounce Palmolive antibacterial dishwashing detergent for $1.49 each, a 96 table of CVS antacid fruit tablets for $3.79, a 100 yards of CVS mint flavored dental floss for $1.99, a 7 ounce can of CVS sensitive skin shave gel for $2.29, a two pack of essence of beauty combs for $2.49 both combs, three 15 ounce Alberto VO5 kiwi and lime conditioner for .99 each, a 15 ounce Alberto VO5 kiwi and lime shampoo for .99 plus $1.12 Connecticut 6% state tax for $70.98 total. I put my purchases in the car, and then I walked over the Chase Bank ATM machine on Mason Street. I then went back to CVS, and I bought two 15 ounce Palmolive antibacterial dishwashing soap for $1.49 each less $2 CVS coupon and .06 tax for $1.04. I then bought a Tums extra strength 72 count fruit flavored antacid tablets for $4.99 less a $2 off CVS Tums coupon, less a $2 off CVS coupon for .99 total. I then bought a 100 yards of CVS mint flavored dental floss for $1.99 less a $2 off CVS coupon for 0 cents. I then drove down Greenwich Avenue further, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a "24K Gold" scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. They have put in a raised walk ramp at the cross walk in front of the north side of the Greenwich Train station, so hopefully cars will slow down for pedestrians. I still think it might be simpler to put in a pedestrian cross walk stop light. I chatted with an older retired citizen looking for discarded cans. I told him about Wiley Middleton in Fort Lauderdale back around 1976. I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I bought a 3 inch by 5 inch flag of the State of Florida for $2.95 plus .18 tax for $3.13 total. The one that I sent up to Kennebunkport, Maine this summer seemed to have disappeared. They are putting in new flooring and rearranging the Greenwich Hardware store shelves. I then went by CVS, and I bought a 5 ounce bag of Gold Emblem Mediterranean Blend trail mix with raisins, walnuts, figs, apricots, almonds, pistachios, cherries, blueberries, and hazelnuts for $1.59. I sat out on the bench across the street from the Gingerman Cafe, and I ate them for a late lunch. I completed my walk. I sat out for a while. I am such a constant fixture on Greenwich Avenue, the younger generation does not chat with me, since they do not want to appear old. However, if they are lucky, they might be fortunate enough to grow old gracefully too. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the Greenwich Time. I chatted with some of the patrons and the staff. I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a two pack of 1.75 ounce Stop and Shop blue toilet tablets for $2.69, a 1.25 liter bottle of CareOne antiseptic citrus mouth wash for $2.50, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, broccoli crowns at $1.99 a pound for $3, and organic green bananas at .79 a pound for $2.03 plus .31 tax for $13.52 total. I then returned home. I brought up my purchases. I will now put them away. If one spends a bit of time outside in the cold weather, it helps if one dresses warmly. I was out for 5 hours today, and most of the time was outside, but I was dressed warmly. I have plenty of winter clothes. I put the Florida flag in the same stand as the Swiss flag on top of the Sony television in the living room. CIO Note: <888> 11/10/07 Saturday 7:30 P.M.: BBC NEWS | Europe | Mafia's 'Ten Commandments' found BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | State Opening of Parliament BBC NEWS | Americas | Shut up, Spain king tells Chavez BBC NEWS | Americas | US and Germany vow Iran diplomacy I am a bit tired, so I will shut down the primary Vista computer shortly, and I will go to bed soon. CIO Note: <888> 11/10/07 Saturday 6:50 P.M.: I ordered Trail Model Soft-Shell Jacket: Jackets at L.L.Bean for $29.95 in extra large in colonial red with free 5 to 7 day shipping for $29.95 total. CIO Note: <888> 11/10/07 Saturday 5:25 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. Instead of cooking the dinner that I cooked the last four nights, I changed the menu. I made up a batch of Chinese stir fry. I made up a batch of flavored rice http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsrice.htm . I took out my Chinese wok, and I added about four tablespoons of olive oil and four pads of 50% less fat butter. I then peeled and minced six cloves of garlic, and I added them to the wok. I then took two boneless skinless breast of chicken, and I cut them into half inch to a third inch by one to 1.5 inch strips. I then peeled and diced two medium onions. I then cut into small half inch to 3/4th inch chunks about 3/4th of a pound of broccoli crowns. I then cut into quarters lengthwise about 45 baby carrots. I then turned on the electric burner heat underneath the Wok to medium high, and once the fat was bubbling, I added a the chicken and onions, and I sautéed it all until the chicken was lightly browned. I seasoned it with ground black pepper, garlic powder, oregano, Old Bay Seasoning, red cayenne pepper, chicken boullion seasoning and Italian seasoning. After a few minutes of stirring the ingredients, I added the carrots and broccoli, and I mixed it all together with more seasoning and a couple more tablespoons of olive oil and a teaspoon of sesame oil. I cooked the ingredients for about 8 minutes stirring them regularly, which is why they called it stir fry. I then added about a fourth of a cup of Kikkoman soy sauce, and I mixed it all together, and I continued cooking the ingredients for about another four minutes stirring them frequently. I use a large wooden spoon to stir the ingredients with. I then added half the rice to a large dinner plate spread over the plate, and I spread half the cooked stir fry ingredients over the rice. I put the remaining food in two separate Rubbermaid containers with lids, and I refrigerated them. I ate the meal with a glass of iced tea, and then I cleaned up the kitchen. I then went outside, and I walked around the outside of the building. I then picked up my mail, and I chatted with some neighbors. CIO End of Scott's Notes week of 11/10/07: Note: <888> 11/10/07 Saturday 2:35 P.M.: I watched some television. I went through my email. www.kenradio.com seems to still be surviving on the internet, but he was one of the original developers of AutoCad, so he might have some money left. Well, I have been here all day, and I am spending more time at home, because with the higher prices of gasoline, it probably costs me about $2 to $3 to drive downtown and back, and particularly in the daytime, when one is idling in traffic. I only live a mile from the Greenwich Library, and probably one of the most deluxe Automobile Rows in America is in between, and for the low budget traveler in between there is a www.mcdonalds.com , www.wendys.com , and Dunkin' Donuts Coffee | Buy Coffee Beans Online . However, one could always investigate the Food Emporium and the Stop and Shop near the Greenwich Library. Unfortunately the www.exxon.com gasoline station in between has been taking most of my spare money. With winter coming, I might have additional expenses, so since I am currently warm and comfortable at home, there is not point venturing out downtown, since everyone ignores me, because I smoke cigarettes. Not that everyone does not smoke cigarettes, but since there are no places inside downtown where one can smoke a cigarettes, it seems most cigarette smokers prefer to remain comfortable at home. I do not think they allow smoking in pubs anymore, so the few people whom still smoke cigarettes are left to outside benches in public, which can be uncomfortable on a cold or damp day. I might quit smoking some time soon, but I doubt if I will find the people anymore interesting, since about the only thing the non smokers can figure out to do is to sit inside www.starbucks.com . If you can recall what people use to do before Starbucks, they probably walked a little bit more in terms of mall hopping or some other past times. Thus the non smoking Starbucks generation seems to be getting lazier. From what I know people whom spend a lot of time out in the general public in the daytime, have a common excuse for being unemployed, and they say they are self employed. However, after several years of sitting in Starbucks, I think most of the locals know they are really unemployed, hoping to get lucky. Since they do not have home offices, they must be trying to get lucky some other way in terms of their personal presentation and face to face meetings. Perhaps they are all just bored to death. I generally find walks at night more enjoyable since with less people around, one can walk at a normal pace instead of dodging pedestrian traffic in the day time. Having been a professional observer having been a photographer since 1962, I tend to have better observation skills than the average person whom just put down a book. However, I have seen so much in my life, I tend to keep it all in perspective. The first thing that happens when one visits older European cities, is that one notices the buildings are not as large as in American cities, so one should have the same attitude about downtown Greenwich, Connecticut versus downtown Manhattan. If one has some spare funds, one can have an enjoyable day in the country out here, whatever one might do. I know on rainy days, some people actually go to the movies in the daytime. During my slow times, I like watching cooking programs on television, although I seldom cook anything too complicated. The reason I do not try making new friends in anymore is that it tends to cost me money which I can not afford, and the reason that old friends and family ignore me is that it tends to cost them money which they can not afford. It is the nature of the downturn in our local economy that people whom once had a bit of spare money, now have to learn how to get by with less money. Having lived on a low budget economy for most of my adult life, I am use to micromanaging my financial affairs. I can not even justify a $22 round trip on Metro North into Manhattan to be ignored by the younger generation. I did have the Salvation Army call me up for a donation yesterday. I sometimes give a dollar to www.gop.com , so I stay on their records. However, if the general population elects a president from the democrat party, I probably will quit paying for Digital Cable Television, so I would have about $73 more a month spend on other more enjoyable activities like filling up my fuel tank to make more frequent trips out to Tod's Point in Old Greenwich to be ignored by the people in Old Greenwich whom tend to be polite, but they are a very clannish group of people, and if they do not know you, they do not chat with you. Since I have probably lived in Greenwich, Connecticut longer than most residents I have my own two cents to add, when I chat with people whom seem to know everything. Having a private school education, we were taught to use certain social behavior patterns like manners which hopefully lead to B&B, Background and Breeding. However, having dealt with the general public for so many years, I frequently forget parlor manners, and now that I tend to be getting hard of hearing in my older age, I can not always hear what other people are talking about anyway. Since most people seem to be focused on the printed and broadcast media, and since a great many people in that media drink alcohol, people whom enjoy that media are following what people whom drink alcohol follow, and sooner or later the owners of that media try to get you interested in drinking alcohol, so they can make some money. Having grown up down south, before I moved here in 1961, I tend to enjoy http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm . However, several people whom I know seem to drink alcohol, and they seem to function in terms of their other associates whom drink alcohol, but from what I know just because they watch the Evening news, does not mean they know it all. Well, I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then make and eat the same dinner as the last four nights. CIO Note: <888> 11/10/07 Saturday 11:50 A.M.: I napped in the recliner for a while, and I watched some television. I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers. CIO Note: <888> 11/10/07 Saturday 7:45 A.M.: I woke up at 5 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice and pineapple juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I bottom fished on the internet. 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