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

Note: 12/09/07 Sunday 5:55 P.M.: I have 26 Christmas card with Christmas letters ready to mail. I posted my Christmas Letter here

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Note: <888> 12/09/07 Sunday 5:55 P.M.: I have 26 Christmas card with Christmas letters ready to mail. I posted my Christmas Letter here Michael Louis Scott's Christmas 2007 Letter . I will now microwave and eat a Stouffer's 21 frozen beef lasagna, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea. I will shut down the primary Vista computer, and after I eat, I will go out to mail the Christmas cards. CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/07 Sunday 1:40 P.M.: I woke up at 10:30 A.M. this morning. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with a relative. I will now put together my Christmas letter and my Christmas Cards. CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/07 Sunday 1:20 A.M.: UTC - High technology for building & aerospace industries is in the area, so maybe they are testing out their choppers. I have seen their older models flying around before. I installed an update for one of my Nvidia GeForce FX5800 video card driver. I am a bit pooped, so I will shut down the Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon. I ate three scoops of Maple Walnut ice cream. Stay warm. CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 11:45 P.M.: Word to the wise, once they try to kill you, you tend not to be afraid to use Federal Marshals. There is no shortage of man power in the U.S. Government. I do know this past week, there were a new type of silver blue helicopter flying overhead at very low level with lots of noise with the usual sort of front type of artillery, so unless some local business person is trying to sell something, more than likely some sort of law enforcement group is exercising its authority. I ate a bowl of goldfish crackers earlier. CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 10:15 P.M.: Since I am a beta tester for Vista SP1 RC, I went ahead and installed it as an upgrade from Windows Update with the registry tweak download that I was able to download. It took about 20 minutes to download and install the Vista SP1 RC. The system seems to be running about 30% faster, and it runs quite a bit more smoothly. However in Internet Explorer, Programs, Manage Add-Ins, I found an unsigned program "DLC.class" which is spyware, which I deleted. You can not install the latest release of SP1 over an earlier release, and you have to uninstall SP1 to install it from Windows Update. I backed up the system before installing it. However, I will not back it up again for another week or so to make sure it is running fine. I also downloaded the Upgrade Version, the Full Install version, and Windows 2008 Server editions. I will now burn them to DVD. I left a message with a relative that with the Russians Saber Rattling, more than likely the U.S. Government is going to have to send some people up to Alaska to repair some of our old "Cold War" facilities, and more than likely the Southern Command against Cuba will also have to be strengthened. Who knows, maybe the United States Air Force www.af.mil will send me back down to Key West, Florida to reinforce the waterfront patrol down there against invading Cubans. CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/08/07:

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 4:15 P.M.: Come On, Grandma, Drive My Car - Forbes.com .

I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 2:55 P.M.: ate another piece of pumpkin pie with the last of the cool whip topping.   As a small note of diversion, I have been observing www.starbucks.com on Greenwich Avenue, since they first started converting the old Finches' drug store on the southeast corner of Benedict Place and Greenwich Avenue. I have only had about three cups of coffee there over the years, because about seven years ago, I suspected that someone tampered with the creamer that I used to add cream to my coffee. They now have small sealed plastic cream cups. I am the guy that use to sit down there observing the Starbucks store from the Veterans Monument across Greenwich Avenue from the Senior and the Arts Center. In the old days instead of buying coffee from Starbucks, I use to bring my own coffee in a thermos. However, as I get older, I have to go to the bathroom after I drink coffee, so if I drank coffee from a Thermos downtown, sooner than later, I would have to go to the bathroom, which is usually at the Senior and the Arts center or at Starbucks. It is part of most towns municipal codes that public places have to let the general public use their rest room facilities. I will now go through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 1:05 P.M.: I put away my laundry. I picked up my mail. My actual www.cl-p.com electricity bill during the previous month of November 2007 was actually $196.84, and I have already paid the monthly average of $182. Let's hope it is a warmer winter.   I will now eat two tuna fish sandwiches with potato chips and a slice of dill pickle and a glass of iced tea. I will then shower and clean up, and I will then go through the last four days email. Not much seems to be happening on the internet, I guess a lot of people are low on money having over extended their credit. CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 12:05 P.M.: I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I checked my car, and the little bit of snow has melted. I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 10 minutes left on the dry cycle. I put clean linens on the bed. I watched the end of the movie "Flipper". I chatted with a relative and a friend. I chatted with my neighbors.

NASA - Space Shuttle

Antares' lender selling off loan - Greenwich Time

CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/07 Saturday 12:05 A.M.: I am sort of bored with the internet recently after all of these years, since once the weather changes to winter, I have to adjust my biological clock to winter, and then hopefully I might get back to more of my normal computer routine. I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/07 Friday 10:10 P.M.: I chatted with two relatives, and I ate a piece of Pumpkin pie. As a matter of political reference to any Yankees whom have never been down south, having lived down south, I tend to know people whom have lived down south and up north, and that would include various political groups, since I once was associated with a well known now unknown media company, people use to entertain me, when I came to visit. Thus I tend to have a better viewpoint of some areas around the country than the random people whom happen to travel through the same areas. Basically once one has worked with cbs, which some people thinks stands for "Charles Battenberg Scott", one tends to end up reading more than watching television. Since, although television can be entertaining, it also contains actors, whom are only reading the scripts of writers, whom one may be or may not be familiar with. We have enough younger people in this area, so I do not have to do all the work myself anymore, thus when the weather is difficult, I tend to pursue more of my normal home routines. CIO, "Chief Information Officer" or "Charles Ivan Ottawa". Unfortunately for them so many northern people travel south in pursuit of warmer climates anymore, they frequently upset their natural biological clocks in their travel pursuits.   I really should go through my email, since I have not checked it in three days. CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/07 Friday 8:30 P.M.: I woke up this morning at 8 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I watered the plants, and I put more white vinegar in the scent bowl. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I received the first issue of my new subscription to www.forbes.com . Since I have more time at home anymore, I took the time to read it, and I enjoyed reading it in the privacy of my apartment for a change. It still has interesting articles based on what their media company is able to publish. I ate the same sautéed burger with onions and cheese and steamed baby carrots and broccoli crowns with flavored rice and a glass of iced tea. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. It was beginning to snow, and there were a few inches of snow on the ground. I checked the lights on the Buick wagon, and they all seem to work just fine. With the internet, I guess there is no need for four to eight people to travel to together in a car anymore to save fuel, so I guess there is nobody in the area that wants to have the Buick wagon that I have to use for some economical transport such as car pooling. Of course the newer vehicles of the same capacity can be used for the same purpose. Most people here think it is the Rockefeller family hearse, since I park it downtown near the local funeral homes, like I am out looking for customers. Station wagons use to be very common in the suburbs in the old days when people had large families. Also with people stocking up on weekends at Wal-Mart and Costco type stores, station wagons have room enough to bring home the bargains that some people stock pile. I chatted with a relative for a while. I do not really think the price of fuel really has risen too much in terms of real terms, its cost and price is just keeping up with inflation in terms of real world prices. We have enjoyed cheaper fuel in the U.S.A. for a long time, since we are a larger country area wise, and we need it cheaply to run a larger country, but I suppose as the country has become more densely settled away from the coasts, the necessity of driving long distances is not as necessary, since there are a lot more developed modern communities within the country outside the major urban areas, and many of them tend to be a lot more family friendly, since they are encouraging growth. Usually this time of year in the suburbs of Connecticut, we get bothered by people from the upper Midwest trying to get us to move there for a better life, and trust me, I think on a four seasons basis we have a better life here. In other words, I am not very good at milking cows. I will now go through my email. CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/07 Friday 1:40 A.M.: I ate the last piece of chocolate filled crumb cake. I chatted with www.geico.com at 1-800-42GEICO. They gave me a quote on the same policy that I have on the Buick Roadmaster wagon on the 1998 Audi A6 Quattro, and the $88.88 four monthly payments on a six month policy with liability and full comprehensive with no deductible would go up about another $32 per payment, so I would pay $121 for four monthly payments or $484 for six months or $248 more a year or $968 a year. For about $500 more a year, I could insure both cars, if I kept the Buick Roadmaster up in Maine. However, if it were stored in Maine, the policy would be turned off for eight months, when it would not be used. However, my relatives said that they intended to sell the car there, and not keep it. My relative has friends and associates in Maine whom drive less fancy cars than the 1992 Buick Roadmaster wagon. Of course depending on how far they drive, they might not be able to afford to go too far with the price of fuel around here.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa delays space shuttle launch

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Meteorite dates lunar volcanoes

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft trials XP on XO laptop

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/07 Thursday 11:20 P.M.:   I went out after the last note. I went by the George Weston Bakeries Arnold Bread Outlet, and they had a special today. I bought the limit of three loaves of fresh Arnold Healthnut bread for .99 each, and three fresh six packs of Thomas' English muffins with cranberries for .99 each six pack, and a 21 ounce Entenmann's pumpkin pie for $2.25 for $8.19 total. I then went by the Gateway Automobile Supply, and I bought four green Christmas Tree Royal Pine scent cards for .90 each for $3.60 total. I put one hanging from the driver's side rear door hook, and three unopened in the glove box, so it now has a fresher scent in the car. I then went to my regular 3 P.M. appointment. I was told that this evening or late afternoon they were lighting the Christmas tree in front of the Watson Pavilion at the Greenwich Hospital. I strolled around the Hospital 911 Memorial Garden, since I was told that you can no longer smoke in the underground parking garage, and you can not smoke in front of the building. It is the nature of a hospital, they are not user friendly to smokers. However, sometimes smokers see more in their routines than the near sighted medical professionals. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I then went downtown, and I parked my car at one of the free spots for seniors in front of the Senior and the Arts Center, so individuals could see the For Sale sign on the Buick Wagon. I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I used the bathroom before and after at the Senior and the Arts Center. I stopped by CVS. I walked a little further at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I browsed the store fronts just east of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by Vision Consultants, and I bought a blue SAX eye glass chain for $5. I then went by CVS again, and I ran into another walker, and I walked with the walker to his car. I then returned to CVS, and I bought the last black Magnivision eye glass holder for $2 and .12 tax for $2.12 total.   I then completed my walk. I then went by the Splash Car Wash on West Putnam Avenue, and I got the after hours Express Car Wash for $5 and a $1 tip for $6 total. I then vacuumed the car with the free vacuums. I then returned home, and I brought down two car towels, and I dried the car, and I left the car towels in the rear section of the car. I then returned an inquiry from a local citizen on the Buick wagon, and I gave the particulars. The party said they might call me back if interested. I was told the cheapest gasoline in Greenwich, Connecticut is at the Citgo station in the Glenville section of town just north of me three miles, and it is suppose to be $3.25 for regular gasoline. However, at the rate I drive, my savings would be eaten up by driving up to Glenville. Besides my family has always bought gasoline at Greenwich Exxon Service Station next to the Greenwich Library, except for when we lived off Round Hill Road, we bought gasoline at the Round Hill Road Exxon store. We also bought gasoline at the Mobil station that used to be across the street from the Greenwich Train station, when they had gasoline during the oil embargo of the 1970s when Exxon did not. We also bought gasoline for a time at the Getty station by the train station where the Mobil station is now located. I also use buy gasoline at the Mobil station by Indian Field Road, and for quite a period I bought gasoline at the Shell station on West Putnam Avenue, since they are opened 24 hours, and I am frequently on a night schedule. At one time or another, I have probably bought gasoline at most of the other stations in town. However, since I usually drive older cars, I tend to try to stay a regular gasoline customer at Greenwich Exxon, since I also depend on them for occasional maintenance. They are very good at maintaining older cars, and they have competitive prices. Also they are near the downtown area and the Greenwich Library if one needs to wait a while. I ate a piece of chocolate filled crumb cake with some iced tea. I chatted with a relative. I will now put the black $2 eye glass tie on my good pair of reading glasses, and I will leave the spare $5 one in the bedroom on the wicker rack by the bed with some of my other eye glasses.   I froze two of the loaves of bread and two of the six packs of English muffins with cranberries. My freezer is currently full, so I have no more room for frozen food. I think I will put my union suit on over my leisure clothes, since my apartment feels a bit like my freezer. Tomorrow is Pearl Harbor Day Pearl Harbor Memorial Page and http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pearlmem1.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/07 Thursday 12:50 P.M.: I chatted with a relative. I ate two tuna fish sandwiches with a slice of dill pickle and potato chips and a glass of iced tea. I chatted with a friend whom will be traveling northeast this weekend with his family, and I found them a pet friendly place at the Sturbridge Days Inn 1-800-916-4614 at www.hotels.com . I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will get ready to go out for my 3 P.M. appointment. CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/07 Thursday 11:45 A.M.: Despite the price of fuel today, it is my viewpoint as a professional economist that anything big heavy and bulky has also gotten more expensive, particularly when it comes from somewhere else like Detroit, Michigan area, so more than likely the price of the vintage Buick wagon is actually worth quite a bit more, since it is definitely big, heavy, and bulky. CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/07 Thursday 10:55 A.M.: I have a bill of sale ready, and copies of the work orders and recent history of the Buick wagon ready in case any one is interested in buying the Buick wagon. I put out the garbage, and I put the two for sale signs on either side of the rear windows. The building custodian gave me my order for 6 cartons of New York Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box from www.ordersmokesdirect.com that arrived yesterday in the mail, so I now have 10.5 cartons. I chatted with a neighbor. I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea. The Buick wagon gets 26 miles per gallon on highway driving and 11 to 17 miles per gallon in local driving using premium fuel. It weighs 4400 pounds, so in stop and go traffic it uses more fuel. I think it an excellent value considering that I am only charging my expenses, and I am not charging for all of the time and work that I have put into it personally checking it out for the last eight months. CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/07 Thursday 8:05 A.M.: I woke up at 4:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I have been watching www.cnbc.com when I watch television, when I wake up. I chatted with a friend. I am making up a batch of Formula One http://mikelouisscott.com/icetea.htm . The Michael Scott 1992 Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon for $2900 is listed here

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp;?tracktype=usedcc&searchType=21&pageNumber=0&numResultsPerPage=50&largeNumResultsPerPage=0&sortorder=descending&sortfield=PRICE+descending&certifiedOnly=false&criteria=K-%7CE-%7CM-_7_%7CB-3000%7CD-_61_%7CN-N%7CR-30%7CI-1%7CP-PRICE+descending%7CQ-descending%7CZ-06830&aff=national&paId=252179380&recnum=1&leadExists=false .

It is also listed under station wagons in the Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com and the Stamford Advocate.

I will now print out two copies of a For Sale sign to put in the rear inside side windows on both sides.

I have the Connecticut Title for the car and the two extra sets of keys for three sets of keys total set out to have available. I am not selling the Club Bar with it, so I will keep its keys.

I will also print out copies of a bill of sale to have available to fill in. CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/07 Wednesday 7:40 P.M.: Russia possibly coming to our help.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia to extend naval exercises

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Row over China tiger photo 'fakes'

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Kill switch' dropped from Vista

I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon. Have a good night. CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/07 Wednesday 7:00 P.M.: I ate a piece of crumb cake. I chatted with a friend and a relative.   I thought about going across the street to the Splash Car Wash for their after hours from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M. car wash for $5 Express Wash Menu and Greenwich, CT Splash Car Wash , but usually when it is below freezing, it is not a good idea to get a car wash, because it does not dry off thoroughly, and the locks can freeze, and if you do not have remote keyless entry which I do, you can not get into the car. Also the windows can freeze and not open and close. Thus I have to wait until it is warmer after 6 P.M. at night. There is a $6 car wash over in Old Greenwich NEW ENGLAND SERVICE MOBIL On the Run , but it would cost me about $6 to $8 to drive over there and back. The Good Old Days on the mid 1980s, when I could use the 25 cent spray car wash device at the Exxon gasoline station on the border with New York here are long since gone. I was told today that New Jersey is full of Arabs, so maybe they are using all of the energy to stay warm driving up the price of fuel.   I recall my Victorian friend's grandfather use to keep his hand cut English stone house in Gladstone, New Jersey at 45 degrees Fahrenheit, and when I visited there in December 1973, during a blizzard, we had to drive into Manhattan for a party at http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm 's girl friends apartment, and on the way in my blue 1970 4 door Volvo sedan the fan belt broke, and we found a snow mobile shop in Far Hills, New Jersey that was able to replace it, and we made it to the party on time. However that Volvo was not good on snow, since it was rear wheel drive. Shortly there after we had the Energy Embargo, and trying to make it the Mobil gasoline station on I-95 in Darien, Connecticut which was one of the few stations in the area with fuel, on the way back, I slid into a guard rail in the snow storm, and the driver's side was all smashed in, and I later sold it a few month's later to a African relief worker from White Plains, New York. CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/07 Wednesday 4:35 P.M.: I ate another piece of chocolate filled crumb cake before going to bed. I woke up at 4 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, two toasted English muffins with olive oil, orange and grape and cranraspberry juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee with milk and splenda sweetener. I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I showered, and I cleaned up. I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor. I went downtown, 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 dollar 24 K Gold scratch card, but I lost. After I finished my walk, I went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon gasoline station, and at 8 A.M., they did the service on the Buick wagon.

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