<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 10:40 P.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Wise sour cream and onion potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 8:35 P.M. A neighbor knocked on my door. He want to know if I had a spare TV remote control, since he had lost his. I sold him my new spare Philips TV remote control for $10. I went downstairs, and I installed it on his Toshiba TV, and it works just fine. The neighbor also gave me 2 bananas. I also have five old apples, in case we get snowed in tomorrow night. I use the fruit on my breakfast oatmeal. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 5:20 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I threw out the garbage. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400109699937272534384 on the order for TRENDnet TU2-ET100 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter * For Macbook Air and Windows PC for $9.99 with free shipping arrived. I will put it on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom. It is very cold out at 22 degrees Fahrenheit http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VM1UTCzlzQA . The only thing I need it bananas, so I will not be going downtown to just get bananas. I chatted with a relative. I feel like I am running Iceberg Ivan's Internet. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 4:25 P.M. Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction.action?tRef=fullpage&tLc=1&text28777=&tLabels=9205590106531505024369 on the order for http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/40011/peter-stokkebye-84-turkish/#p-106299 for $1.46 an ounce for $116.80 total with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 3:50 P.M. I woke up at 2 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 5:05 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon. It is currently 13 degrees Fahrenheit outside. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 4:10 A.M. I ate 12 brown rice and sea salt Triscuit crackers with 1 inch by 1 inch by 3/16th inch thick slices Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/31/15 Saturday 4:10 A.M. http://www.ebay.com/sch/techdealsnow1/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= Refurbished Dell PCs. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 2:45 A.M. http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2015/public.asp?page=home.htm
At https://www.networksolutions.com , I renewed my Domain name and web site protection for another year as of May 2015 for $19.98. CIO
<888> 01/31/15 Saturday 1:20 A.M. For dinner I ate cheese tortellini with Pesto sauce. I boiled 3 quarts of water and a teaspoon and a half of salt in a large Revere pot with lid on high heat. I then added a 14 ounce bag of frozen Servoli cheese tortellini, and I boiled it with the lid for five minutes. I then drain it all in a colander in the kitchen sink. I put the cheese tortellini in a large Cobalt blue bowl, and I added four tablespoons of Smart Balance extra virgin olive oil spread, two tablespoons of Hormel bacon bits, four tablespoons of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, and seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and celery salt, and I mixed it all together. I then added three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, and I mixed it all together. I then put the bowl with the mixture in the microwave oven for one minute. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 10:05 P.M. 2015 Gates Annual Letter CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 10:05 P.M. Dangerous cold, 8 inches of snow forecast for the weekend CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 9:25 P.M. I ate an apple before going to bed this past morning. I chatted with a relative. I went outside, and I cleaned a small bit of ice and snow off the Volvo wagon windshield. I picked up the mail. I will next shower and clean up. It is suppose go down to five degrees Fahrenheit tonight, and it is windy outside, so the wind chill temperature will be below zero degrees with a wind chill of minus 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VMw7uSzlzQA . If there are any young Nordic types in the area, we should keep a "Freezing Norwegian Patrol" going on such a cold night. Also it says we have 40% chance of getting six inches of snow this weekend. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 7:40 P.M. I woke up at 6:15 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 8:20 A.M. Dell's old version of a Panasonic Toughbook http://www.blairtg.com/index.php/dell-latitude-e6400-xfr-rugged-laptop-core2-duo-2-8ghz-4gb-160gb-dvd-windows-7-professional.html
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I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. I am bit worn out from my usual night time routine. Life on the dark side of town. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 7:25 A.M. http://www.oldlouisville.com/ . There are some traditional people still left in the world. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 7:10 A.M. I ate 13 brown rice and sea salt Triscuit crackers with 1 inch by 1 inch by 3/16th inch thick slices Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 6:50 A.M. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/06/fattest-man-in-world-dies-at-age-44/ . CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 6:45 A.M. I heard the snow plow outside about an hour ago. I just now checked outside, and there is about an inch of very slippery icy slush outside, so I would recommend to commuters to stay home and not go to work. Saving your car is more important than making a day's salary.
http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2354&q=415220 .
Current temperature is 30 degrees Fahrenheit, which means the roads should be still frozen and slippery http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VMtteSzlzQB CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 6:00 A.M. If one wants to see whom might have influence in the Federal Government, one might study this table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state . CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 4:50 A.M. I paid my http://optonline.net/ Digital Cable TV, Optimum Boost Plus, Optimum Voice, and my http://www.cl-p.com/ electricity bill and my www.verizon.net bill. My current Optimum bill was about $198, which is about $65 for high speed Cable Modem, $35 for Optimum Voice long distance and about $98 for premium Cable TV. However that includes $25 in discounts for all three packages which covers the two cable boxes which are about $12 and taxes other fees. I also recharged my Nokia Windows 8.1 Go Phone at https://www.paygonline.com/websc/home.html for $25.00 and $2.29 tax for $27.29 total, so I have $305.35 on my AT&T account good until April 30, 2015 at ten cents a minute. I ordered 80 ounces of http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/40011/peter-stokkebye-84-turkish/#p-106299 for $1.46 an ounce for $116.80 total with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 4:00 A.M. It has not been mentioned in the liberal press, but with Venezuela bankrupt and in turmoil, the liberal Kennedy's free energy assistance programs from Venezuela will probably no longer be available anymore. CIO
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Bill Gates working on new Microsoft 'Personal Agent' technology | ZDNet
Microsoft's Bill Gates insists AI is a threat CIO
<888> 01/30/15 Friday 2:00 A.M. I ate two 3 ounce Perdue chicken Italian cutlets, steamed baby carrots and a baked sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/30/15 Friday 12:55 A.M. When I returned from California in November 1980, I was very excited about Ronald Reagan having been elected. After his inaugural which I attended, I went back down to Washington D.C., a month later. I chatted with a few people. On the Eastern Airline shuttle back to Manhattan, I sat next to Edwin Meese who was the new attorney general of the United States. He seemed to know who I was and my background. He said point blank to me, "Scott, if you stay in that neighborhood, you will end up on a meat hook." My roommate was the head of word processing for Cyrus Vance after he was Secretary of State. I finally moved out of Manhattan in February 1982, when it was minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit, when my roommate's son took over my place in the apartment. In those two years, I guess nobody bothered me, because in the apartment we had a Doberman Pincher and a white German Shepard. Also the owners of the building were relatives of General William Westmoreland, so they were formidable people. However, having tried to resettle in New Canaan, Connecticut, Port Washington, Long Island, New York, Key West, Florida, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Plandome Manor, Long Island, New York, Frankfort, Germany, Oslo, Norway, and finally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, my viewpoint is that whomever did not like me in Manhattan might have had me confused with someone else, possibly out here in Greenwich. A lot of people think I look like Peter Jennings who died of cancer and broadcast for A.B.C. News. Other people though when I was thinner, I looked like George W. Bush, so that might have been the problem. I don't think I made enemies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was mostly a lot of walking around a big building. I am pretty good at walking though. From my viewpoint out here in Greenwich, somebody that is more private might, whom may or may not look like me was the target of the threat. I have been told that I look like somebody that buys a lot of ammunition at Wal-Mart up on Route 7 in Wilton, Connecticut. Also I look like somebody in Redding, Connecticut. I also look like somebody in Oyster Bay, Long Island. From my own investigation, I think I also look like a former Greenwich, Connecticut State Trooper named "Major" that died in Oxford, Connecticut a couple of years ago. A Connecticut State Trooper might have enemies. We did get bomb threats while at Polaroid, but that might not be relevant. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 11:50 P.M. Well, it is winter out, and if they are smart "Old People" don't go out in the cold weather. Of course younger people are always prowling about looking for something to happen around here. I think from my own experience living in Green Witch, Connecticut since June 1962, it takes money to make something happen. More than likely the more thrifty residents are saving their little bit of extra money to pay off their mortgages or save for their retirement, unlike the younger generation who are planning their next adventure, where ever that might be. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 11:05 P.M. I had another wrong number telephone call. I chatted with the 17th Precinct http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/contact_information.shtml to see if anything interesting was happening over in Manhattan, but they did not tell me anything. I threw out the garbage in the garbage chute outside my apartment. I picked up the mail. Not much happening anymore. I guess the new people with money don't speak English, so they do not know how to communicate with American English speaking people. Basically the New York City people are use to seeing a lot of people, and when they venture out here in the suburbs with so few people around, they become uncomfortable in our local environment. To be honest, there is not much going on in Manhattan at night except a bit of traffic escaping the City to go elsewhere. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 9:15 P.M. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 9:15 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I chatted with a local walker. I chatted with a relative again. I chatted with a local night time person. Not much happening out here in the wilderness of greater southwestern Connecticut, particularly if one does not watch the television or pay much attention to the local California newspaper press. I suppose we have a nice ambience downtown that people find congenial, but most of the back country people do not spend much time in our local downtown shopping area, since they can afford to drive elsewhere, where the same merchandise is cheaper or order off the internet. I suppose the future trophy wives hoping to get lucky might have a different point of view, which is why they work Greenwich Avenue so hard for no porpoise. From my viewpoint, I do not get involved with the local gentry, since I have amble communications, if they need to communicate. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 7:10 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M., when an unknown person called me up and woke me up. I chatted with two relatives. A neighbor stopped by and wanted a ride tomorrow morning to work, but I explained I would probably be asleep by then. I printed out the #11 Port Chester bus schedule for him "http://www.cttransit.com/routesschedules/Display.asp?DivID={D1549146-02F9-4566-B5EC-11DF55D27C1D}" , so he can easily get to work. I emailed an old www.lfc.edu classmate about nothing happening around here. I chatted with a retired www.navy.mil person that also knows a little bit about Florida. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 8:05 A.M. I made a couple of out town telephone calls. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon. About an hour ago, I ate two ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg Cheese. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 7:05 A.M. I chatted with www.nantucket.net , and they are getting back to normal. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/29/15 Thursday 6:20 A.M. It says here "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merritt-Chapman_%26_Scott" three million dollars in gold was lost off www.nantucket.net in 1909 in 40 fathoms of water. I wander if it was ever found. Maybe somebody should go looking for it.
http://www.rms-republic.com/story_rumor.html . CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/30/15 Thursday 5:40 A.M. Simple lesson on economics:
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealthiest_Americans_(1957)"
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custodian_bank"
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/rothschilds-rockefellers-trillionaires-of-the-world.html"
Of course Donald www.trump.com says the combined wealth of the United States of America is $285 Trillion, so some of the poorer folk also have a bit of money. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 4:20 A.M. I called up the http://www.delamargreenwich.com/ , and they did not receive any flood damage in the recent snow storm, and they are quite busy. I suppose once the Florida people return back up north for their summer sojourn, it will be busier. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 3:20 A.M. Travel Fatigue Jet Lag Pentagon picks new Air Force One plane
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/747family/747-8_facts.page CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 3:05 A.M. I ate 13 brown rice and sea salt Triscuit crackers with 1 inch by 1 inch by 3/16th inch thick slices Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. When I was up in the Sovereign Country of Norway back in the winter of 1983, I learned how European Monarchs protect their turf. Of course they have their point of view based on their own experiences. I have never been to the United Kingdom or Ireland, so even though they speak a somewhat familiar dialect of English, unlike the Hollywood point of view, I am sure they have their own opinions and beliefs as far as Americans are concerned. That is probably why we never hear from any of them despite this worldwide communications network. Our dialect of English is not well received by them, and they tend to be a bit rude when we try to chat with them on the wire. Prince Edward is suppose to know 50 different dialects of English, so perhaps if he tried calling up some of his own telephone lines in a different dialect, he would find how why the verbal form of communications that they rely upon is not too effective. One has to accept the fact that Hollywood is not reality, so the local anywhere one goes frequently have a different point of view based on their own experiences and education. Also most everywhere one travels, the hosts tend to be on the lookout for some sort of money that might be coming their way. Thus if one does not travel, one tends to have a better and simpler lifestyle. CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 2:20 A.M. This is how they run their world http://www.msgsoc.com/ .
https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftGS
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Why is Apple sitting on $142bn?
Skull clue to exodus from Africa
AI will not kill us, says Microsoft Research chief CIO
<888> 01/29/15 Thursday 12:55 A.M. I called up http://www.pbso.org/index.cfm?fa=Contact , but they did not feel like chatting with me. I guess there are more important matters down there.
I called up the http://morgancoso.com/new-page-2.html , and the old Chemstrand Acrilan plant is now a Cat Food Factory, but I could not find out what brand of Cat Food they make.
I ate two 3 ounce Perdue chicken Italian cutlets, steamed baby carrots and a baked sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 11:15 P.M. I chatted with a neighbor. I put away the clean laundry. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 9:55 P.M. I chatted with a neighbor. I have 50 minutes to go on two dry cycles. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 9:30 P.M. I put clean linens on the bed. I showered, and I cleaned up. I started two loads of laundry, and I have ten minutes to go the wash cycles. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 7:45 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I picked up the mail. I received a letter from the Greenwich Senior Center that after 14 years of using the facility, I am no longer allowed to have a free parking permit, because I do not participate in an active program, where one signs in once a month into a computer data base before participating. I will thus have to pay 75 cents an hour, when I go downtown in the daytime to park. Of course after 5 P.M., one does not pay to park. I will chat with them to see if they will make an exception for me. I guess they are all democrat party members at the senior center, and they do not like republicans that exercise walk and keep a security eye on the area and smoke cigarettes and network with other friends and associates and visitors. I have been busy recently, so I don't go downtown that much anymore anyway. I can always park for free at the Greenwich Library. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 6:30 P.M. I woke up at 5 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I will now make up a fresh batch of punch. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 9:15 A.M. I have the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop all setup. I ate 12 brown rice and sea salt Triscuit crackers with 1 inch by 1 inch by 3/16th inch thick slices Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go eat a blueberry muffin and then go to bed. Beta Testing is not for Amateurs. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 6:25 A.M. $16.99 Amazon.com: Norton Utilities (For 3 PCs) [Download]: Software
Storm That Glanced at Region Hit Hard in New England - NYTimes.com
First step in plan to save northern white rhino
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
Kepler telescope identifies ancient solar system
Distant exoplanet hosts giant ring system
Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 5:25 A.M. I finished configuring the Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise Edition X32 version 9026 on the second partition of the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer. I am now doing a Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Seagate Go Flex 1.8 TB external USB hard drive. I will then restore the same configuration to the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop and make a few minor adjustments in the configuration. The TrendNet TW100-BRF114U USB Print Server does not work with the Windows 10 Technical Preview, so I will not be able to print out on the network with it, but it does work with the older Windows XP Professional on the first partition. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 1:15 A.M. Tracking is http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=61299998266820505750&type=0 on the order for PNY RVCGG2101D3XXB GeForce 210 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card for $21.99 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/28/15 Wednesday 1:05 A.M. I have the Windows 10 Technical Preview beta installed on a second partition on the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop. I still have to configure it. I had one technical problem. I had to install it through wireless, since it would not install wired through the LAN cable. It turns out I had disconnected its LAN cable at the Switch to us the connection for another device, so I connected it the Netgear Wireless Router on top of the Ricoh laser printer. Thus to use the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop, one has to turn on the Netgear Wireless Router which switch is the second from the left on the control panel of the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server. It is getting to be like that movie "Brazil" about thirty years ago, when everything became so complex only the technicians could run them. Of course that came ten years after "Max Headroom" , if you have not forgotten that. I guess with two feet of snow around www.mit.edu at the moment, it looks more like MAX.
I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Wise sour cream and onion potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 10:20 P.M. For the Dell Optiplex in the bedroom, I ordered TRENDnet TU2-ET100 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter * For Macbook Air and Windows PC for $9.99 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 10:20 P.M. I called up the Nantucket Police http://www.nantucket-ma.gov/195/Police-Department , and their phones are working, and some of their electricity is working, but the airport is still closed. The Microwave Towers out on Nantucket are part of the http://www.norad.mil/ Defence Network, so it is important they have electricity, if you get my drift. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 10:00 P.M. I have to do a new install of the Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise 32 bit version 9026 on the second partition on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 9:50 P.M. Good News, Nantucket seems to be back on line http://www.ack.net/ and http://www.ack.net/HistoricStormForecast012515.html . There might be some Norwegians out on the island with whale oil for their old whale oil lamps, but the old time Nantucket people liked using candles in a power outage which happens frequently in the summer with too many people visiting. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 9:30 P.M. On the www.nantucket.net electricity and power problem, I tried calling the British Foreign Office through the United States British Embassy telephone number at 1-202-588-6500, but the Foreign Office Emergency telephone number did not work. I then called New Scotland Yard at 011442072301212 , and I told them to pass a message. I then used this contact form https://www.bnymellon.com/us/en/contact.jsp to let the BNY Mellon try to figure it out. I passed a message to the Canadian Emergency Number at 16139968885.
I am uninstalling programs on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop and other files to fit on the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview 32 bit Update, which needs about 8 gigabytes of space to install. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 8:05 P.M. http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2015/01/27/travel-bans-lifted-after-northeast-blizzard-misses-most-area/
Thousand left without power on Nantucket. Boston got over two feet of snow and more to the west. If they need a new ships generator for the power company out on Nantucket, they are no longer made in England, but they are now made in Germany. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 7:20 P.M. Not too much snow on the beach in Kennebunk, Maine http://www.kennebunkportbeachwebcam.com/ , but cold there http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.40579869155749&lon=-70.48001823705118&site=all&smap=1#.VMgpXyzlzQB and this http://www.weatherstreet.com/city_snow_depth/04043-Kennebunk-ME-snow-depth.htm says they had 10 inches of snow in the last 48 hours. http://nantucket.net/ is supposed to have had 80 mile per hour winds, so there might be damage out there. I chatted with a relative twice. I checked downstairs, and told the building custodian to get some rest. We have had no mail delivery for the last two days. I disabled the motherboard LAN on the Dell Optiplex in the bedroom, and I will just use the Rosewill LAN on it. I had to download the Technet 32 bit version of Windows 10, since the Enterprise Edition installation on the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop looked for a different product key. I will now install it. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 4:30 P.M. I woke up at 3 P.M. when Newt Gingrich for Conservatives in Iowa called me up. I then dress up warmly, and I went outside in 26 degree Fahrenheit weather. There was no snow on my Volvo wagon. I moved it to a clear parking space, and I ran the engine for about five minutes. I chatted with a friend in East Fairfield Beach, Connecticut, and he got 10 inches of snow on the waterfront there. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 4:20 A.M. Microsoft 2Q Earnings Hit by Higher Costs
This says we suppose to get 9.25 inches of snow today the rest of the day http://howmuchwillitsnow.com/in/greenwich/ct , but it is not snowing yet. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon. Have a good day. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 3:25 A.M. I ate a five ounce bag of New York Texas Toast Seasoned croutons. I checked out downstairs and outside, and there is no more new snow. They are plowing the ice skating rink parking lot again. I will now drink a cup of Lipton green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. Back at www.lfc.edu I had a friend whose step father was the Chairman of the Board of Lipton tea, and they lived up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was also the commodore of the Marblehead Yacht Club and a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club here in Greenwich. I also once had another friend that worked for Lipton tea. CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 2:25 A.M. St. Joseph's Indian School
New York shuts down as 'historic' snowstorm approaches
Study: Global warming 'doubles risk' of extreme weather CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 1:55 A.M. I checked downstairs and outside. There is only about inch more of new snow, and it is not snowing at the moment. There was a report on News12 by the Meteorologist before the live broadcast ended at midnight that Bridgeport was on the western edge of the blizzard which is the most intense part, so possibly this area has been spared for now. The http://farmersalmanac.com/ did predict a worse winter for this winter. We forgot to celebrate Burns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns Night this past Sunday http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/burns-night . CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 1:25 A.M. For the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server, I ordered PNY RVCGG2101D3XXB GeForce 210 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card for $21.99 with free shipping.
$39.99 with free shipping Logitech Z506 75 watts 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers refurbished CIO
<888> 01/27/15 Tuesday 12:10 A.M. I checked downstairs and outside, and there is no more snow that I can tell in the front parking lot. The back picnic bench has about five inches of snow on it, but that could be also from the snow fall this past weekend. There is more wind out though. The worse part of the blizzard is suppose to start about now. I saw a tall thin young individual walking up the stone stairs in the back yard towards the ice skating rink, so there is at least one Eskimo moving around in the neighborhood. When I was younger before the internet, I used to visit a pub in White Plains, New York run by a former New York Ranger's Hockey Player next to the White Plaines, New York public works department, but they never noticed me. That is where I met my friend from Brazil. I saw on the video from New Canaan on News 12 that they built a block of stores, where the Shell Station used to be in downtown New Canaan. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 11:35 P.M. http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-look-back-at-historic-snow-storms-6040584.php CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 11:30 P.M. I took a 21 ounce frozen http://www.birdseye.com/vegetable-products/voila Chicken Florentine meal, and I emptied both packages in a large Pyrex microwave proof casserole bowl with lid, and I microwaved it for 10 minutes, and then I mixed it all together, and I ate it in large cobalt blue bowl with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Back in the Winter of 1972, when I was a art student in Firinze, Italia, I drove through a blizzard to Carrara, Italy, and I skied in two feet of fresh powder, but I almost got injured, when I skied off a 200 foot cliff, and I landed on a road in a snow plow full of snow which broke my fall. Back in the winter of 1992, when I attended the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France; I used to drive around regularly in a foot of snow in a little Peugeot http://www.peugeot.com/en/ automobile. Back in February 1983, when I arrived in Oslo, Norway at military airport on my way to Stockholm, Sweden, there was about six feet of snow on the ground in Oslo, when I was walking around. However, by the time I departed after a couple of weeks, it had all melted. While at www.lfc.edu in Lake Forest, Illinois, we had much colder weather than here and quite a bit snow. I used to drive around in my 1952 Mercedes 300 B four door sedan around in a lot snow. It was a heavy vehicle, so it was pretty good on snow. About 20 years ago, when we had a 2.5 foot snowfall here, I went out driving in my old Volvo during the storm, and there were people riding along Putnam Avenue in Snow Mobiles without any problems. I used to know how to drive on a bit of snow, but one still has to watch out for the other person whom may not. When I was a taxi cab driver in Lake Forest, Illinois in those great big old Chrysler sedans with three speed column clutch shift, I was their designated snow driver to take people to O'Hare airport during snow storms. I think I have lost my skills with the more modern transportation we have today. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 10:30 P.M. I checked downstairs and outside. There is not much more snow yet. From the back stairway window, I can see the www.exxon.com station down the hill is still opened and well lighted. I assume the www.mobil.com station across the street and just to the east of me is opened, and the www.shell.com station a quarter mile to the east of me is probably still opened. I do not know if the local fast food restaurants are opened or not. The http://glorydaysdiner.com/ is supposed to be opened until 1 A.M., but I am not sure if they are or not. The Town of Greenwich Polices Department reports on News 12 that the snow accumulation is now manageable. However, the worst part of the snow is not supposed to start until midnight. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 10:10 P.M. Despite news media, I know there are always people on the road during a blizzard. Back in 1968, I drove in blizzard with my father in a 1967 Mustang Convertible from Wellesley, Massachusetts to Hamilton College in upstate New York, but they did not accept me. Back in December 1978, on my return from my first trip to California, I drove with a friend, and we traveled through a blizzard with over two feet of snow through the Rocky Mountains from Salt Lake City all of the way to Denver and then from Denver through a ice storm to Louisiana in a 1971 Subaru with front wheel drive and six inch clearance, but we put Continental Snow Tires with Studs in Vail, Colorado that we found at a www.sears.com tire dump in Dillon, Colorado, and the local Amoco station in Vail, only charged $2.50 a tire to put them on the front of the Subaru. In Russell, Kansas a all night garage on Interstate 80 fixed our broken radiator hose for $20 in beer, so we could keep going. On the road in America, one discovers we have some of the worst weather in the world. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 9:50 P.M. As of 9 P.M., there is a travel ban on the roads of Connecticut which will probably be in effect tomorrow. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 9:45 P.M. I chatted with CVS www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue at 1-203-422-2022 and they plan to stay open through out the blizzard. They are only expecting a foot of snow in this area. They are out of D batteries and flash lights, but they have other batteries. I am within easy walking distance, but I don't need anything. They said one can not park in their underground parking area for a long period of time, but it is just for shopping. I guess if one were on the road, one could go shopping there for a long time and park in their underground parking during the blizzard. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 9:35 P.M. Connecticut National Guard is on Duty http://blog.ctnews.com/weather/2015/01/26/live-updates-blizzard-of-january-2015/#30049101=0 CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 9:30 P.M. Metro North is supposed to close at 11 P.M.. News 12 Weather is calling for 8 inches of snow before midnight, 16 inches of snow from midnight until noon tomorrow and 8 inches of snow noon tomorrow to midnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, however the good news is that they said that Greenwich, Connecticut here in the tropical section of Connecticut will only get 12 inches of snow. I have a theory that the heat from New York City keeps this area a little bit less intense. However, that is only a theory.
http://www.greenwichct.org/upload/medialibrary/126/Winter-Storm-PR-2.pdf
24 degrees Fahrenheit at the moment http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VMb3pyzlzQA CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 9:15 P.M. I checked around the building downstairs. They are plowing the little bit of snow in the ice skating rink in the back yard. News 12 always shows a web cam of Greenwich Avenue with the new Restoration Hardware store at Arch Street, but I can not find it on the internet. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 8:50 P.M. I chatted with two relatives. The blizzard is suppose to continue on until midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The last train out of Grand Central Station on the New Haven Line is supposed to be at 9 P.M.. There is a travel ban in Connecticut as of 9 P.M.. I am now watching the local Connecticut Channel www.new12.com . The first selectman of Greenwich, Peter Tesei is now speaking on News12 http://www.greenwichct.org/ . CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 8:00 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I got email from my New York City observers, and they are presently in Tahiti at the moment on their way to Auckland, New Zealand; so they are not currently in Manhattan. I still have a busy relative in Manhattan. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 7:40 P.M. I threw the garbage down the garbage chute outside my apartment. I checked outside downstairs. There is not much snow accumulation yet. They have moved the parked cars from in front of my building for easier snow removal. There was no mail delivery today. I chatted with two neighbors. New York City wants all vehicles off the street by 11 P.M. this evening. New York City is now expecting 18 inches of snow, but they are now saying less like 8 to 12 inches of snow for New York City. They say Long Island will get the worst of it. They say the storm might go on for 24 hours, but they do not say from when. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 6:55 P.M. Bloomberg News said the worst part of the blizzard is suppose to be from 10 P.M. this evening until 10 A.M. tomorrow morning. I will now switch over to the Weather Channel on Norwalk Cablevision Channel 62 http://www.weather.com/ .
Not much traffic on I-95 http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2354&q=415220 , CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 6:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative at 1 P.M.. I woke up at 4:45 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 5:50 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 5:20 A.M. Cablevision to Introduce Wi-Fi-Based Phone Plan - NYTimes.com
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<888> 01/26/15 Monday 4:40 A.M. On Norwegians in this area. I went to Greenwich Country Day with a local citizen from a prominent Norwegian shipping country. When I used to have an occasional night cap at the old Show Boat Motel now the Delemar Hotel on the waterfront, the bartender was Norwegian. About 25 years ago or more before the internet, I went out to the Westchester Country airport nearby, and I met two Norwegian helicopter pilots whom had flown over from MacArthur airport on Long Island in a heavy snow storm in a Norwegian off shore oil rig helicopter that was made for flying in severe cold and snowy weather. There is a retired Norwegian ships captain in the area. Brooklyn, New York also has a lot of Norwegians. The Sons of Oslo are no longer in Byram, Connecticut; but they have a lodge up in North Salem, New York, near the I-684 Hardscrable Road Exit, which I think is exit 7 on I-684. http://www.royalcourt.no/ . One can email the King of Norway for help here http://www.royalcourt.no/kontakt.html?tid=28714&sek=27327 . CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 3:55 A.M. Today is Australia Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day .
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<888> 01/26/15 Monday 2:55 A.M. North-east US braced for huge snow storm
Northeast Corridor braces for 'potentially historic' snowstorm
New York City mayor warns: 'Don't underestimate this storm' CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 2:25 A.M. The prosperous young internet crowd like the http://www.jhousegreenwich.com in nearby Riverside section of Greenwich, Connecticut. At the bottom of Greenwich Avenue on the waterfront is the http://www.thedelamar.com/ , but their parking lot might flood in the five foot storm surge on Long Island Sound, but it is within easy walking distance of the nearby Greenwich Train Station which is one block north. http://greenwichtaxiinc.com/ is always available if one does not have wheels. Expensive beef restaurant in Greenwich, Connecticut http://gabrielesofgreenwich.com/ . In the Posh section of Belle Haven of Greenwich, Connecticut; there is always the http://www.homesteadinn.com/ and up in the Banksville section of New York State just north of Greenwich is the very fine http://www.cremaillere.com/ . CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 1:50 A.M. For a Deluxe Winter Wonderland, the http://www.doralarrowwood.com/ is only about four miles from me and about three miles south of the Westchester County Airport near the www.pepsi.com world headquarters and not too far from the half dozen five star hotels in nearby White Plains, New York. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 1:45 A.M. http://blog.ctnews.com/weather/2015/01/25/blizzard-watch-posted/#29999101=0
It the hotels in this area are filled up with stranded travelers, some times the Hilton Garden Inn in Danbury, Connecticut off I-84 has room http://hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/connecticut/hilton-garden-inn-danbury-DNBDHGI/index.html . CVS also usually has snow brushes and ice scrapers. CIO
The cheapest places I know of to stay in this area is http://www.extendedstayamerica.com/ in Elmsford, New York off I-287 and Norwalk, Connecticut off I-95. I think the http://www.stamfordymca.org/ has inexpensive room for rent too. Usually by this time of winter, people have places to live, unless they happen to be traveling which a lot of people have to. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 1:35 A.M. I don't have a sofa anymore for guests, but I happened to have two United States Army www.army.mil sleeping bags good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit which might just fit on the little bit of spare space on the living room floor. Alas, I never had an emergency budget. I just saved on my food budget to build a home office with lots of computer equipment http://scott-mike.com/computer.htm . However, although the big budget people in back country people have large homes, many of them are away during the winter months, but some of them might have generators in their houses. This building at 71 Vinci Drive has an emergency http://www.generac.com/ generator for the hallway lights, but not the electric heat and other appliances and equipment people might need to use. I assume the Genrac generator in back of the building has fuel, but I have no way of knowing. Once the blizzard is over, and the snow removal people have to remove the snow from our parking lot, we usually move our cars to the ice skating rink parking lot in the back yard which is first cleared by the town, so they can clean out our parking lot. I think they dump the accumulated snow from the removal process at the Grass Island parking area and possibly Tod's Point parking area. The Environmental Protection Agency does not allow the local towns to dump the accumulated snow into Long Island Sound. CVS on West Putnam Avenue is still opened 24hours so emergency supplies might still be left to buy. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 1:20 A.M. I used to watch Sergeant Preston and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on black and white television, when I lived in Decatur, Alabama. I think dog sleighs with teams of huskies can go through a lot of snow, but I don't know if we have any dog sleighs and teams of huskies around here. Alas, I don't have my old St. Bernard named "Brandy" around anymore which was the only reliable cold weather companion I ever had. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 1:05 A.M. I put out the Braun 10 cup coffee maker on the center kitchen counter in case I have to serve more than one cup of coffee at a time. I have the Krups one cup coffee maker on the left side of the kitchen counter. I happen to have plenty of coffee in the apartment, but some of it needs to go through the coffee bean grinder to use, but I have plenty without the coffee beans too. I probably will continue to be on a night schedule during the snow emergency. However, I might have to go out in the daytime to move the Volvo wagon around as they clear the parking lot after the blizzard. One time they showed up here with big front end loaders to move the snow driven by French Canadians. Nous Parlons De Francais un Peu, Ici. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 12:45 A.M. http://blog.ctnews.com/weather/2015/01/25/how-to-prepare-for-the-blizzard/ CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 12:40 A.M. I turned on the Netgear Wireless N and Netgear Wireless N Extender near my left living room windows to provide more high speed wireless in the immediate area for duration of the emergency period. I think the Community Room at 71 Vinci Drive is a designated emergency evacuation point with room for 126 people, but someone would have to authorize it. Obviously people without electricity for a period of time might need other shelters. A lot of people go to the Hyatt Hotel in Old Greenwich, Connecticut since they seem to always be fully staffed, if one has money. CIO
<888> 01/26/15 Monday 12:20 A.M. There used to be somebody in Bedford, New York that made snow shoes. The most reliable vehicle in a lot of snow might be a three horse sleigh which they call a http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/troika/ , but one would also need Russian wolf hounds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borzoi to keep any wolves away. Obviously in a lot snow, the eco system of the wildlife in the area might be disturbed, so wild animals like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar might show up. Alas, I do not think it wise to try to move around, and one should be prepared at home. I am charging up my rechargeable devises at the moment.
http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2354&q=415220 . Nobody has contacted me locally. If one lived in the West Putnam Avenue of Greenwich, Connecticut, where I do in Byram, there is covered parking underneath the new 24 hour CVS building on West Putnam Avenue, but I am not sure whomever owns the building would allow non tenants to use it in an emergency. For what I can tell other tenants have not occupied the building yet, so there might be snow free parking available. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 11:50 P.M. http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browse.html CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 11:45 P.M. Now if you really had to get around in 30 inches of snow, I discovered at Christmas Time in 1973, when I picked up George Cary from Shovel off to Buffalo, New York at Newark airport, his grandfather's old farm in Gladstone, New Jersey is now the headquarters of the United States Equestrian Team, so they might have a horse or two that could travel through that much snow. Also near by the www.forbes.com farm in Far Hills, New Jersey there was a snow mobile shop which might be the only reliable transportation, unless it conked out in some remote location leaving one stranded in the blizzard. It is best to stay home. Usually after a major blizzard like we are expecting the New York City airports which are a transportation hub could be closed three days or more with that much snow. Obviously if the workers and emergency personnel can not get to work, they can not do their jobs of improving the situation. Also without electricity some gasoline stations might not be able to pump gasoline unless they have generator power. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 11:30 P.M. I ate 8 ounces of reheated John Soules grilled chicken strips, a baked sweet potato or yam with steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice.
Out in the Rust Belt in the Midwest of the United States of America, there used to be and might still a company called http://www.navistar.com/navistar/ which is the old International Harvester Company owned by the McCormick family of Chicago, Illinois fame that make vehicles http://www.navistardefense.com/NavistarDefense/ that might have a small chance in navigating through 30 inches of snow, but even if they could get through 30 inches or more of snow, they would still have a problem getting around all of the other stranded vehicles in that much snow. Also with high winds of over 60 miles an hour with over 3 feet of snow in the tree area, a lot of trees might come crashing down bringing down electrical lines, so people could be without power or electricity for a long time. Also with three feet of snow, a lot of the Big Box stores and other buildings with large flat roofs over large expanded areas could see their roofs collapse underneath the weight of the snow. There could be some major problems coming up that only the military might be able to deal with. Also most emergency service vehicles probably would not be able to move around. People on life support systems at home might find themselves without electricity. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 10:25 P.M. I threw out the garbage. The Volvo wagon for now is still currently cleared of snow and ice. We are thus enjoying the lull before the storm. Of course if it is two storms converging, what they have sometimes done in the past is push further eastward and converged out over the Atlantic Ocean leaving us high and dry. I watched Season 5 Episode 4 of "Downton Abbey". The Old Guard in this area used to dress in British type tweed wool clothing. When I used to dress that way as a youth, the local people used to address me as "Sir", which I always found amusing. I still have a few fairly nice dress clothes which barely fit me at 6 feet tall 227 pounds waist 50 inches and size 50 long to regular sports jacket. Alas there is no point in being all dressed up with no place or funds to go anywhere. The good news is that when I balanced my Microsoft Money Sunset accounts earlier this evening, I was off $30.82 in my favor which is like found money in my particular case. I am always craving a slice of prime rib of beef medium rare which I ate frequently in the old days, alas it is beyond my current budget, since my spare funds go into my computer hobby as opposed to down the toilet. Between 1973 and 1982, when I was an occasional resident of nearby Manhattan, I would frequently walk around the http://www.metmuseum.org/ for free, since they seemed to know me there. In their courtyard cafeteria on Tuesday nights, a prime rib of beef medium rare dinner with about one inch thick beef with Yorkshire pudding or twice baked stuffed mashed potatoes with broccoli and roll with butter and a glass of iced tea was only $6.95 which was a lot of money back then, but it was a most excellent meal for an art enthusiast. One could even enjoy a cigarette there in the http://allengelhard.com/biography/charles-w-engelhard-jr/ court yard and people watch the other art enthusiasts. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 8:15 P.M. I did an Aomei backup of both partitions on the Asus Netbook to the Seagate GoFlex 1.8 TB external USB hard drive. I will now shower and clean up. Downton Abbey is on Channel 13 www.pbs.org at 9 P.M.. I would advise internet users to watch it later off the www.pbs.org web site later, and to get ready for the worse Blizzard Storm of History in this area. The reverse number warning from the http://www.greenwichct.org/ came through. It is my personal opinion that the Governors of the States to be effected should mobilize their National Guards to be ready to respond in their various areas. Since Eastern Canada will also be effected, they might not be able to come down here to help us out. Possibly the electric companies from down south should be on stand by. Waste Management http://www.wm.com is suppose to have a lot of heavy equipment in this area, since more than likely the local public services will be overwhelmed. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 6:55 P.M. Blizzard Warning:
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2015/01/25/northeast-braces-for-another-major-snowstorm/ CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 6:15 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M.. On www.foxnews.com the mayor of New York City was holding a press conference to say the National Weather Service is calling for 20 to 30 inches of snow starting Monday at 1 P.M. or earlier with snow from Pennsylvania up to north of Boston along the East Coast with hurricane force winds of over 60 miles an hour. The General Public is suppose to get ready for one of the worst snow storms ever in this area and be prepared to be without electricity and have some emergency food and water supplies. Over 50 million people will be effected. I chatted with two friends and a relative and I chatted with a number of other people on my speed dial to let them know. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 01/25/15
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 7:40 A.M. Now the IBM ThinkCentre by the mahogany bureau does not recognize the Orico SATA external USB hard drive holder in the bios at boot up, when one presses F12, but the first time I tried it did. I think for the Aoemi backup restore program to work, the device has to be recognized by the bios. I finished installing the Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise Edition 32 bit build 9926 on the second partition on the Asus Netbook. I will back it up at a later time.
I ate five ounces of stale Chex-Mix.
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I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. Earlier in the week, I ate two of the last for Christmas Clementines from Moroc, and now I will eat the last two. I suppose I don't know anyone that has anything to do with citrus elsewhere in the world. If one wants a fresh citrus, one could try http://petersongroves.com/ or http://www.halegroves.com/ . CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 4:25 A.M. I have a Orico SATA external hard drive holder which is recognized by the BIOS of the IBM ThinkCentre computers, so I can use that for backups on those machines. On the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau, I deleted the second partition that held the Windows 10 Technical Preview that would not boot. Because the Windows 10 installation changed the boot partition, I could not do a Complete PC backup of the first Windows partition, so I am doing an Aoemi backup of the first Windows partition to the Orico external USB 1 TB hard drive. The Orico USB drive is only recognized from a fresh boot up from off and not on a reboot until the operating system boots up. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 3:35 A.M. I am installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview 32 bit Enterprise Edition build 9926 on the Asus Netbook. I am using the external DVD drive to install it. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 2:55 A.M. I ate a 13.1 ounce Boston Market Swedish meatballs dinner with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. The supply of inexpensive beef in the United States of America has been low, since they have had a prolonged drought in the Southwestern part of Texas and the United States where a lot of the beef used to come from. Thus we have learned to eat more chicken and other foods. CIO
<888> 01/25/15 Sunday 2:20 A.M. I made 336 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching episodes 5 and 6 and 7 of "Marco Polo" on Netflix. CIO
<888> 01/24/15 Saturday 10:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 01/24/15 Saturday 9:10 P.M. I threw out the garbage. There is no snow on the Volvo wagon, but a bit of a sheet of ice is beginning to accumulate. I picked up the mail. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/24/15 Saturday 8:05 P.M. I woke up at 6 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 01/24/15 Saturday 1:00 P.M. I have the Windows 10 Technet Enterprise 64 bit beta installed on two partitions on the Lenovo ThinkCentre on the oak dining table. I was not able to get the 32 bit version of the beta to work on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau. However, the Windows system on the first partition still works just fine. Its TrendNet USB LAN failed, so I replaced it with the same one from the Dell Optiplex which was redundant on that system. I configured the beta on the Dell E6400 laptop on a second partition. I then did a Windows Complete PC backup of both partitions to the Rosewill external hard drive. It seems the IBM ThinkCentres when trying to do a Windows Restore do not recognize the Rosewill 1 TB USB and the Seagate 2 TB USB hard drives, when booted from the DVD. I will now shut down the primary work computer. Earlier, I ate a blueberry muffin. I will now eat another blueberry muffin and go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/24/15 Saturday 4:45 A.M. I did a Windows Complete PC backup of the Windows 10 Technical Preview X64 Enterprise installation on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom to the Rosewell 1 TB external hard drive. I had to free up some space on the exteranal hard drive to do it. The backups of the first partition on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau on the Rosewell external hard for both Windows Backup and the Aoemi backup would not restore, so I deleted them for more space. On the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau I have the preview installed on a second partition, and I had to restore the first partition with another backup, but using my dual boot method that has work in the past to repair the boot partition is not working, and although the first partition boots, the second beta partition will not boot, and I am still try to figure that out. I do not really need a beta on that computer, and I might just go back to the old Windows partition on the first partition. On the Dell E6400 laptop, the upgrade install on a second partition failed twice, so I did a new install of the beta on the second partition which seems to work just fine, but I still have to configure it. I have the beta installed on two identical partitions on the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server. I am now backing it up to Seagate FreeAgent external USB hard drive. I will then restore the backup to the Lenovo ThinkCentre on the oak dining table which is pretty much the same machine. I have not yet had time to eat dinner. CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 11:55 P.M. The Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise 64 bit edition installed just fine on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower computer, and it runs just fine with all device drivers installed and no more tweaking except to change the computer name which I did to make the Windows Complete PC backup to the second hard drive saving the earlier version backups which backup is now complete. I am now doing a Aoemi backup to the second hard drive. It still does not do product activate, but possibly as a beta which expires on April 15, 2015, it does not need to be activated. The install on the Dell E6400 laptop did not work, and it returned the system to its original state, so I am now trying it with more disk space freed up. The new beta installs besides the boot partition and install partition another third restore partition. I am installing the 64 bit edition on the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right side of the FIC server on the first partition as an upgrade. I am installing the 32 bit edition on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the mahogany bureau as an upgrade on the second partition. CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 10:30 P.M. I chatted with a relative. The install on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower is almost completed. After I tweak it, I will do backups to the second internal hard drive. The new installation does not requiring sending email to receive a security code which was a nuisance. To get the install upgrade to work on the Dell E6400 laptop computer, I had to disconnect the USB devices except the wireless mouse and the SD card and free up some disk space. CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 9:15 P.M. The card reader works just fine. One has to insert SD cards upside down. I am installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise X64 version on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom and with a second DVD I burned, I am also installing it on the Dell E6400 laptop computer in the living room. Both are being installed from the current versions booted up as upgrades. CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 8:35 P.M. I have the Rosewill card reader installed in the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower computer on the right side of the bedroom desk. It is slightly recessed in the case, since it does not fit past through the front panel of the machine. I plugged in the 16 GB PQI Readey Boost pen drive into it, and I took the 4 GB SdCard out of the PogoPlug to device to put in the card reader. I have not tested it, but it should work plug and play. It came with a long SATA motherboard cable, so I did not need to use mine, and it also came with a long Molex cable, so I did not need to use the second Molex Y-splitter power cable. I chatted with a relative. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/23/15 Friday 6:40 P.M. I got good news in the mail today. The Eastern Hemisphere actually still exists. I received a http://www.unicef.org/ Christmas Card from the http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/ . CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 6:10 P.M. I chatted with a neighbor. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown to CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I picked up a prescription. I chatted with a chef from Latin America. I paid 50 cents to park on upper Greenwich Avenue. I drove further down Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I stopped by the Greenwich Tobacconist, and they don't sell Havana Cigars yet. I stopped by the Verizon Store, and they were too busy to chat with me. The construction project on lower Greenwich Avenue, where the Thataway Patio used to be is proceeding, and they are doing foundation work. I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I chatted with someone from the www.hrc.com in front of Saks Fifth Avenue. I stopped by CVS, and I chatted with a few people. I stopped by the www.chase.com bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I stopped by the AT&T store, and they told me Frontier Communications bought the AT&T lines in Connecticut. I sat out after my walk. I then went by the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a 30 ounce jar of Hellmann's extra virgin olive oil mayonnaise for $2.99, a 12 ounce jar of generic honey for $2.50, two 12 ounce Perdue chicken cutlets for $2 each, a reduced price dented box of 50 count Splenda for $1.59, and bananas for .49 a pound for .85 for $11.93 total. I then returned home. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=%209400109699938116595165 on the order for Brand New Netgear WNA1100 N150 Wireless USB Adapter for $10.90 with free shipping and the order with tracking of http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=4200683092748901015478100008305893&type=4 on the order for Rosewill RCR-IM5001 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port / Extra silver face plate / Molex Power for $11.99 and .50 shipping for $12.49 total arrived. I installed the Netgear USB wireless device on the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop. I will install the drivers later. I downloaded the 64 bit and 32 bit version of the Windows 10 Technical Preview for Enterprise. I will now burn them to DVD. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/23/15 Friday 5:50 P.M. The latest version of the Windows 10 Technical Beta Preview is now available in download here:
For the Enterprise Edition here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-enterprise-technical-preview?i=1?i=1
For the regular edition here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-download CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 12:10 P.M. I woke up at 11:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will next shower and clean up. In about an hour I will be going downtown to do errands. CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 2:00 A.M. King Salman of Saudi Arabia
I ate three ounces of 60% reduced fat stale Chex Mix. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 1:10 A.M. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz dies
<888> 01/23/15 Friday 12:45 A.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 11:50 P.M. I put away the clean laundry. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 11:10 P.M. Snowy weekend http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Officials-unsure-what-to-expect-with-coming-storm-6033937.php . CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 10:35 P.M. I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 10:00 P.M. I started two loads of wash, and I have 20 minutes to go on two wash cycles.
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 9:10 P.M. I finished the backup on the Dell Optiplex in the bedroom. Last night I had taken out the SanDisk 16 GB USB pen drive that I was using for Ready Boost, but before that I copied some backup files to it to have available for other computer installations. I just now put in the PQI 16 GB pen drive with 4 GB for Ready Boost, and the rest of the pen drive space I used for backing up key files. I put clean linens on the bed. I took out the six inch stack of laser printer receipts from the black plastic paper shelf rack on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom, and I put them in a large plastic bag on the center bedroom shelf with another smaller plastic bag of paper work to their right. I moved the little two foot artificial Christmas tree and artificial wreath in their large plastic bag from underneath the bedroom desk to on top of the receipts on the center bedroom closet shelf. The bedroom desk chair now pushes in all of the way, and there is room for a small person to sit on it. I normally sit on the side of the bed behind it when using the bedroom desk computer setup, which is more comfortable for a larger person. I took the www.arrowdirect.com shipping box that was on the bedroom closet shelf, and I threw it out along with the Krups coffee machine box. I also threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I picked up the mail. I watered the plants. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 6:35 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 6:15 P.M. On the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower computer in the bedroom. I took out the DVD/R drive and the serial PS/2 adapter and the Intel PCI LAN card. I installed the PCI Express 1 USB card and the Rosewill PCI LAN card. I connected a third LAN cable to the Rosewill LAN card. I also added a second Molex power cable Y splitter and a longer SATA motherboard cable, so when I get the Rosewill card reader, the cables will be long enough to reach it. The new devices were recognized by Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview. I had to reinstall the SIIG PCI 5.1 audio card drivers. It all seems to work just fine. I am now doing another Complete PC backup to the second internal hard drive. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 4:25 P.M. The order with tracking of http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=4200683092748901015478100008286253&type=4 on the order for Rosewill RC-400-LX Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45 for $12.99 with free shipping and the order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400111699015825842131 on the order for Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports and 5V 4-Pin Power Connector for Desktops [VL805 Chipset] for $12.92 and $4.99 shipping for $17.91 total arrived. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 3:55 P.M. Mel Gibson's former Greenwich home on the market for $31.5 million CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 3:50 P.M. I woke up at 2:30 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 4:45 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 4:05 A.M. The 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career .
I have the Windows 10 Technical Preview Enterprise 64 bit version 9879 installed on the Dell Optiplex in the bedroom. However, at the moment, the Microsoft servers will not let me activate it. I am doing a Complete PC backup to the second hard drive. I renamed it, so I still have the earlier backup of the previous release 9841. I ate two ounces of cheese combos. CIO
<888> 01/22/15 Thursday 2:00 A.M. I did some other maintenance routines on the computers. I ate 5 ounces of cheese combos. Since the most recent version of the Windows 10 Technical Preview still has not been released this morning, and I currently have version 9841 on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom, I downloaded and burned to DVD the 64 bit Enterprise Edition version 9879, and I am now installing it as an upgrade to preserve my setup. I also installed a second LAN cable on the Dell Optiplex connected to the motherboard LAN connector, since frequently on installation, one needs to be online which might not happen with the TrendNet USB LAN. CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 9:45 P.M. Hoover WindTunnel 2 High Capacity Bagless Upright Vacuum $60 + Free Shipping CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 8:55 P.M. Microsoft Store for Education
http://www.howtogeek.com/186775/how-to-download-windows-7-8-and-8.1-installation-media-legally/
I chatted with a relative. I ate 8 ounces of reheated John Soules grilled chicken strips, a baked sweet potato or yam with steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice.
Traditionally when Microsoft releases a new release of a beta, it does not come out until then end of their late work day at 8 P.M. west coast time which would be 11 P.M. eastern time. Their servers don't get busy until the following day, since most people have gone to bed by then, except for night owls like myself. CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 7:10 P.M. https://insider.windows.com/ .
Tracking is http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=4200683092748901015478100008305893&type=4 on the order for Rosewill RCR-IM5001 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port / Extra silver face plate / Molex Power for $11.99 and .50 shipping for $12.49 total.
Leaked Windows 10 Build (9901) Offers Big OS Update: 10 Partner Takeaways
IBM Revenue Slides as Revamping Takes Hold - NYTimes.com
Windows 10 to get 'holographic' headset and Cortana
Meteorite is 'hard drive' from space CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 6:15 P.M. I chatted with a relative twice. I missed an appointment last Friday, when I was sleeping after configuring the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower all night and in the early morning hours. I picked up the mail. I chatted with a neighbor. I threw ou the garbage
I got a fund raising letter from http://www.bushcenter.org/ . I figure they have enough money compared to me. If I ever meet him, I might express my own viewpoint. CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 3:25 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 2:20 P.M. I woke up at 1 P.M.. I chatted with a friend.
Riverside home sells for $19 million, bypasses MLS
Trump's former Greenwich home on the market for $54 million
Microsoft to give away Windows 10 as free upgrade
http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/ CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 4:10 A.M. I took four extra large Eggland eggs expire February 6, 2015, and I broke them in a large metal mixing bowl. I added two tablespoons of milk, two tablespoons of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, two tablespoons of bacon bits, and I seasoned it with ground black pepper, celery salt, and Italian seasonings, and I used a whisk to mix it together. I then put in two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and a tablespoon of Smart Balance extra virgin olive oil spread in my seasoned omelet pan, and I heated it over medium high electric burner heat, and once the fat was hot, I added the egg mixture, and I lowered the heat to medium. Then once the egg mixture became a little bit solid underneath on the bottom, I mixed it up off the bottom with a large plastic cooking spoon several times over a few minutes, until I had soft scrambled eggs. I then put the hot pan on the dinner plate to warm it, and then I put the scrambled eggs on the warm dinner plate, with a toasted English muffin with olive oil, and I ate it all with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale.
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 2:35 A.M. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-download . CIO
<888> 01/21/15 Wednesday 1:05 A.M. For the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower, I ordered Rosewill RCR-IM5001 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port / Extra silver face plate / Molex Power for $11.99 and .50 shipping for $12.49 total. I have a 10 pin USB connector on the motherboard and the free floppy drive space to install it in. However, to connect up the card reader feature, I will have to disconnect the second DVD/R drive, since I am using two of the four SATA connectors for my two hard drives, and the third one for the DVD/RW drive which only leaves one SATA port left for the Rosewell Internal Card Read. This http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124024 or this 64 bit version http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124009 Windows 7 Compatible SATA controller PCI card would add the needed SATA ports for the second DVD/R drive, but to use it, I would have not to use the Rosewill LAN card, since the system only has two PCI slots. Thus I prefer to use the Rosewill PCI LAN card versus having the second DVD/R drive. CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 10:25 P.M. Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 10:15 P.M. I came up with an interesting technical problem with the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower computer setup. I hooked up the 15 foot HDMI cable from the video card in the Dell setup to the switch box for the Haier 32 inch LCD TV in the bedroom, but plug and play did not recognize the Haier LCD TV as an additional monitor in Windows 10 Technical Preview, like Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 does. However, on the same switch box, my Roku 3 device was recognized by plug and play and it installed the hardware driver for it, but as far as I know there is not program that plays in Windows with the Roku device installed on it. There is a Windows app for remote control of a Roku device. CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 8:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I put in a second DVD/R drive in the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower Computer beneath the DVD/RW drive. It was a pull from one of the Lenovo ThinkCentres. I used a spare SATA power cable for it. I also put in a four pen Y-Power splitter to be able for the four pen power cable to reach the USB card, when I put it in. I also plugged into the back USB port of the case a new SanDisk 16 GB USB pen drive, 4 GB of which is used for "Ready Boost".
The final Dell Optiplex 740 Dell Mini Tower Configuration will be once the other parts arrive:
scott37, Dell Optiplex 740 3.4Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 X2, two 250 GB SATA Drives, DVD/RW Drive, 4096 GB memory, came with Windows 7 Home Premium, but Windows 10 Technical Preview Installed.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/740_customer_brochure.pdf
http://www.dell.com/downloads/jp/products/optix/OptiPlex_740_TechSpecs_070326.pdf
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/optiplex-740/manuals
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+64+X2+Dual+Core+4600%2B .
It is supposed to be a tower case with two PCI slots and one PCI-Ex16 slot and one PCI-Express 1 slot.
DELL Optiplex 740 2.4Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 250GB 4096MB for $53.50 less $10.70 with coupon code "US20" for $42.80 and $11.99 shipping and $2.72 tax for $58.27 total, January 7, 2015
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5450 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card ( 100292DDR3L) for $29.99 with free shipping, December 26, 2014
Buy.com - Siig SoundWave 5.1 PCI for $19.55 and free shipping, October 3, 2011
New Engergizer #2032 CMOS battery, $1.00, January 14, 2015
Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports and 5V 4-Pin Power Connector for Desktops [VL805 Chipset] for $12.92 and $4.99 shipping for $17.91 total, January 17, 2015
Rosewill RC-400-LX Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45 for $12.99 with free shipping, January 19, 2015
Rosewill RCR-IM5001 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port / Extra silver face plate / Molex Power for $11.99 and .50 shipping for $12.49 total, January 20, 2013
Sandisk 16 GB USB Pen Drive, $8, Staples, December 1, 2014
Y-splitter power cable $3,
SATA, power cable, $1
Total: $164.57, January 20, 2015
CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 6:30 P.M. I picked up the mail downstairs. I did not look at the complicated Publisher's Clearing House material to see if I was a five million dollar winner, and I just threw it in the paper recycle bin in the bathroom.
RGS IBG Postgraduate Conference - PhD Programmes - Geography - The University of Sheffield
How much does Microsoft make from PC makers with Windows 8.1? | ZDNet
Peter Wallenberg, Patriarch of a Swedish Dynasty, Dies at 88 - NYTimes.com
Windows 10 Technical Preview for Enterprise | TechNet Evaluation Center
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso-update?ocid=tp_site_downloadpage
It says earlier versions of Windows 10 Technical Preview will automatically install the latest versions, when they become available.
X-ray technique 'reads' burnt Vesuvius scroll
Dawn spacecraft gets an eyeful of dwarf planet Ceres CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 5:10 P.M. Tracking is http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=4200683092748901015478100008286253&type=4 on the order for Rosewill RC-400-LX Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45 for $12.99 with free shipping.
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=%209400109699938116595165 on the order for Brand New Netgear WNA1100 N150 Wireless USB Adapter for $10.90 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 4:50 P.M. I ate a 13.1 ounce Boston Market Swedish meatballs with Dutch Noodles dinner with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 4:05 P.M. I chatted with neighbors. I went downtown to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up a prescription. I paid 50 cents for 40 minutes parking. I stopped by MacInspires, and I told them about the Microsoft demo tomorrow. I also stopped by at the www.chase.com bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I got $3 of parking quarters. I chatted with a local politician. I then drove further downtown. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High Scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I stopped by the www.apple.com computer store, and I chatted about Chicago. I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center. I chatted with a local business person about business in the Caribbean. I went into the Greenwich Hardware store to warm up. I toured CVS again, and I chatted with a local tech person. I sat out for a while at the top of Greenwich Avenue. The former sight of the People's Bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue at the Pickwick Plaza is being remodeled into another People's Bank. I went back by CVS again, and I bought buy one get one free of 120 count 1200 mg. Fish Oil capsules for $9.99 both bottles and .63 tax for $10.62 total. I used the bathroom at CVS. I then returned back down Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out enjoying a slow cold day. I then went by the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a 42 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned Oats for $3.84, a six pack of various colored day old apples for $1.68, bananas for .49 a pound for .84 for $6.36 total. I then returned home, and I chatted with neighbors, and I put away my purchases. CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 11:10 A.M. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to do errands in the cold tundra of this area. CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 10:50 A.M. I moved the new Logitech wireless wave keyboard and mouse system with the USB sending unit from the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table to the Dell Optiplex 740 tower computer in the bedroom, so the PS/2 adapter on the Dell Tower is not being used. It is connected to the motherboard USB port. I put the older Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse system with the PS/2 connectors on the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table.
IBM's Rometty Under Pressure to Revive Tech Giant After Plunge CIO
<888> 01/20/15 Tuesday 9:45 A.M. I woke up at 8:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 01/19/15 Monday 11:50 P.M. 'Microsoft Windows 10' Release Date, Preview & Download: What to Expect at Jan. 21 Event [Rumors]
What to expect (and what you won't see) at this week's Windows 10 launch
I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat 8 ounces of Dannon vanilla yogurt, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/19/15 Monday 11:10 P.M. What to expect (and what you won't see) at this week's Windows 10 launch | ZDNet
Microsoft Looks to Windows 10 for a Jolt in the Mobile Realm - NYTimes.com
Italian Journal of Geosciences Table of Contents — October 2014, 133 (3) CIO
<888> 01/19/15 Monday 10:40 P.M. I ate a 19 ounce Stouffer's tomato and meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 01/19/15 Monday 9:35 P.M. I finished the backup. I chatted with a relative. I bought a 64 bit LAN card for the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower Computer Rosewill RC-400-LX Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45 for $12.99 with free shipping. It is suppose to work with Windows 8, so hopefully it will work with the Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview. I moved the deluxe Lenovo headset to the Dell Tower in the bedroom plugged into the front headset ports. I moved the Logitech USB headset from there to the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server. I installed the drivers on the second partition on the Lenovo ThinkCentre for the new devices. I also switch the video to the motherboard VGA, since Intel PCI Express card was not always working properly in the CMOS settings. It might have been one of the CMOS settings that I had wrong, but for now it works just fine. I ate a ounce of mixed nuts earlier. CIO
<888> 01/19/15 Monday 6:35 P.M. I woke up at 7:30 A.M. this morning. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I chatted with a relative. I showered, and I cleaned up. On the primary work computer on the Vista partition, I updated the drivers with Driver Booster. I then installed 110 Windows Updates which took a while. I then ran Advanced System Care. I then ran registry cleaner and registry compactor with the Norton Utilities.
While doing that I took the *NEW* MSI ATI 128MB X600 Pro PCI-E Express x16 DVI VGA - eBay (item 220650048125 end time Sep-05-10 20:54:28 PDT) for $18.95 with free shipping, November 2012 out of the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower Computer, and I put in the SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5450 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card ( 100292DDR3L) for $29.99 with free shipping, December 26, 2014 from the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the living room to the right of the FIC server. I put the Intel PCI Express Card that came with the Lenovo ThinkCentre back in it. I moved the AOC 23 inch LED monitor from the same Lenovo ThinkCentre to the Dell Tower in the bedroom. I moved the 19 inch Acer LCD monitor from the Dell Tower in the bedroom the Lenovo ThinkCentre. I also switched the Logitech web cameras between the computers, so the Dell Tower has a better web cam. I installed the drivers for the devices on both computers. The ATI web site has a program that installs the Catalyst program for the Sapphire card. I also had to put the larger bracket on the Sapphire card. On the Dell Tower, I did a Complete PC Backup to the second hard drive. I then did an Aoemi backup to the second hard drive. I will now do a Complete PC backup of the primary work computer to the third backup hard drive. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 11:05 P.M. I ate 6 ounces of mixed nuts and 10 ounces of Dannon Vanilla yogurt. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed directly. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 10:10 P.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I watched part of "Great Estates of Scotland", and then I watched Series 5, Episode 3 of "Downton Abbey". CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 8:20 P.M. On the Dell Optixplex 740 Tower Computer in the bedroom, I tried figure out how to connect to the TrendNet TW100-BRF114U USB Print Server in the living room to no avail. I also installed the Windows Updates on the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 6:05 P.M. Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400111699015825842131 on the order for Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports and 5V 4-Pin Power Connector for Desktops [VL805 Chipset] for $12.92 and $4.99 shipping for $17.91 total.
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<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 5:50 P.M. I chatted briefly with a friend, when I first woke up. I just now chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 5:25 P.M. I threw out the garbage and the shipping box from yesterday. There is a steady rainfall. Now that gasoline is a bit cheaper in this area, instead of shopping at the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue, one could try shopping at the Stop and Shop nearby in the Glenville section of town in Western Greenwich, and one would see the more affluent back country people who keep dogs. There is one whole aisle of pet food in the Glenville Stop and Shop the last time I looked over several years ago. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 3:00 P.M. I ate 8 ounces of Dannon vanilla yogurt before going to bed. A friend called at 9 A.M. to tell me there was lots of ice on the road and there were a lot of accidents on I-95. At 10 A.M., I got the reverse telephone number from the Greenwich Police Department telling me there was ice on the roads, and to stay inside until it warmed up. I finally woke up at 1 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up.
I installed the Windows Updates on the FIC server, and I am now updating the drivers, and then I will run Complete System Care before starting up the FIC server. The DNS resolution on the FIC server is still slow, since the first of October 2014, and although I have called up Optimum Web Hosting, they still have not solved the problem. Thus the FIC server is not taking any hits that I know about. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 01/18/15
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 5:10 A.M. I ate 7 ounces of mixed nuts. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer and go to bed.
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 4:30 A.M. The current processor in the Dell Optiplex 740 tower computer is http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+64+X2+Dual+Core+4600%2B and the Intel Quad core is suppose to be twice as fast if it worked, but I don't feel like put anymore money into the machine at the moment. It is just a beta machine with mostly parts that I already had. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 3:40 A.M. It says here http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/342234-optiplex-745-processor-upgrade.html that I could upgrade the processor on the Dell Tower http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/342234-optiplex-745-processor-upgrade.html available here http://www.amazon.com/Intel-E8400-3-0GHz-Processor-EU80570PJ0806M/dp/B0019NKGR4 for $22.40 according to this method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_Vj8jPvGA
Another Dell note says this would work http://www.upgradebay.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?rid=26&ProductID=168877201&utm_source=googlepepla&utm_medium=adwords&utm_content=pla&gclid=CLPL-ZOMncMCFVI6gQodkG4AEg and more here.
However, it say all Dell Specs are not the same.
However, the Dell Tower seems fast enough for me now.
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<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 2:10 A.M. Well, the Dell Tower in the bedroom is running just fine.
It says here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-faq#faq=tab1 that the Windows 10 Technical Preview will expire on April 15, 2015. At which time, I can put Windows 7 back on the beta machines or install some other operating system of convenience until the next beta of Windows 11. I think I have pretty much been fiddling around the Windows Operating systems since about DOS 2 about 25 years ago or when ever I bought a PC and started volunteering at the used computer shop downtown off Greenwich Avenue near where the current www.apple.com store is. I still send them email, but I am not sure what they are doing anymore. I suppose they are still helping out newbies to PCs. I had a certain benefit in home computers, when I started 25 years ago, in that I knew how to type. I had access to the computer information at the Greenwich Library, and I was somewhat familiar with computer having programmed a spread sheet in Cobol while at Polaroid in the summer of 1971 which ran on an www.ibm.com 360. Alas, once I returned from Europe and graduated from www.lfc.edu in the summer of 1972, I tried going down south, but www.nasa.gov was not interested in me, and the stock market crash and oil embargo of the fall of 1973 left a lot of tech people at lose ends. At Polaroid they had the internet back in 1971 on 200 baud teletype machines. I was not experience enough on my trips to California between October 1978 and November 1980, but I once tried using a Fortran terminal at the University of California as Santa Cruz, but I did not know the commands. I guess California was sort of amused by me, but I did see a bit of the Pacific Coast while out there. It never occurred to me to check out http://www.caltech.edu/ , and having lived around the ocean most of my life, I was more interested in checking out the waterfront areas which are quite expensive. I left California for the last time shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected President selling my two door Burgundy Volvo Coupe near Disney Land and flying back east with a friend. We though my friend's father lived in Santa Barbara, but he lived in Santa Rosa, and we never looked him up. I did meet the head of http://www.parc.com/ who had a nice house on the beach in Laguna Beach which he shared with his roommate who was in charge of Camp Pendleton, so he had good security and nice climate. They also took me to lunch in Dana Point near the sailing Marina. When I got back east I had to face some cold winters after Mount St. Helens had erupted making for colder weather in the Northern Hemisphere. As I recall the first IBM PCs were about $7,500 with two floppy disks and the first Apple Lisas were about $2,500 which were beyond my cigarette budget. About 1992 after two years of a $250 286 PC, a relative paid a $1,000 for me to buy a clone 386 computer at the used computer store which was a lot of money at the time, when IBM stock was at the bottom of the barrel so to speak. CIO
<888> 01/18/15 Sunday 12:30 A.M. I started up the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower Computer. The Audio would not work. I tried plugging in another pair of speakers in the front panel with the motherboard audio enabled, but the audio still would not work. I then did a System Restore to when I had first finished configuring the system, and the audio still would not work. I then did a Complete PC backup restore of the system, from when I first configured it, and the audio still would not work. Then I discovered, I had the Logitech 2.1 Speaker Control switch button turned off on the little control switch box beneath the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor, so the Logitech 2.1 speaker system now works. That might have been the problem with the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the second partition of the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, when I had the same set of speakers hooked up to it, and the audio would not work. Why the Jensen speakers did not work off the front panel, I do not know unless they were not enabled in the settings. Well after all that the speakers now work. I am now installing the SetiPoint drivers for the Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. The keyboard works off the PS/2 connector in the back of the computer, which I plan to remove when I get the USB card. However, I have a PS/2 to USB adapter for that. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 9:50 P.M. I moved the better Logitech web cam off the Lenovo ThinkCentre on the oak dining table to the bedroom Dell Optiplex 740 Tower Server setup, and I moved the generic Logitech web came from the bedroom Dell setup to the Lenovo ThinkCentre setup on the oak dining table. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 9:35 P.M. I moved the small USD LED light from the second Dell D410 laptop, to one of the front USB ports on the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower computer in the bedroom to have available for low light usage. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 9:05 P.M. I bought Brand New Netgear WNA1100 N150 Wireless USB Adapter for $10.90 with free shipping. I will put is with the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 8:35 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
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Superyachts to the Rescue - NYTimes.com
The geese that can conquer Mount Everest CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 7:25 P.M. For dinner I ate cheese tortellini with Pesto sauce. I boiled 4 quarts of water and a teaspoon and a half of salt in a large Revere pot with lid on high heat. I then added a 14 ounce bag of frozen Servoli cheese tortellini, and I boiled it with the lid for five minutes. I then drain it all in a colander in the kitchen sink. I put the cheese tortellini in a large Cobalt blue bowl, and I added four tablespoons of Smart Balance extra virgin olive oil spread, two tablespoons of Hormel bacon bits, four tablespoons of grated parmesan and Romano cheese, and seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and celery salt, and I mixed it all together. I then added three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, and I mixed it all together. I then put the bowl with the mixture in the microwave oven for one minute. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 5:25 P.M. For the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower, I ordered Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports and 5V 4-Pin Power Connector for Desktops [VL805 Chipset] for $12.92 and $4.99 shipping for $17.91 total. I will remove the PS/2 keyboard and mouse adapter on the Dell Optiplex 740 where the PCI Express 1A slot is and put in the USB PCI Express card. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 5:05 P.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 3:55 P.M. I hooked up one of the Rosewill power strips in between the Dell Omniplex 740 Tower Computer and the control panels on the bedroom desk. The front switch turns on the Dell Tower, the second switch back turns on the Dell Tower 19 inch Acer LCD monitor, the third switch back turns on the Dell Tower Hercules 2.1 speaker system, and the fourth switch back turns on the Dell Tower Dell Laser printer. The back two switches are vacant. I put the spare Rosewill power strip underneath the living room desk with the other cables and power strips. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 3:25 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking number of "1ZX79947YW25719459" at www.ups.com for two Rosewill RPS-200 6 Outlets Power Strip 125V Input Voltage 1875W Maximum Power 6 Feet Cord Length for $7.99 each and $3.87 shipping for $19.85 total arrived. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 2:35 P.M. I chatted with a friend. It is cold out at 28 degrees Fahrenheit. I think I will be staying home today at "Chez Michel". CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 1:40 P.M. I woke up at 12:15 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 2:50 A.M. Wind Chill Values here between zero and 5 degrees Fahrenheit http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VLoTeyzlzQA . I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin. I will then go to bed. Stay Warm. CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 2:35 A.M. USF :: Volcanology
Mineralogical Society of America - Mineralogy, Petrology and Crystallography
2014 warmest year on record, say US researchers CIO
<888> 01/17/15 Saturday 2:10 A.M. I ate 7 ounces of mixed nuts. I made 237 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching episodes 3 and 4 of "Marco Polo" on Netflix. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 11:00 P.M. I ate a couple of ounces of mixed nuts. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 9:25 P.M. I ate a 15.5 ounce www.hungry-man.com veal parmesan dinner with Smart Balance Spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. It is going down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit here tonight. In the old days, when the town of Greenwich allowed people to drink alcohol freely, on a cold night, one could see a lot of young people in the local pubs partying and enjoying themselves despite the cold. Now I guess they are all doing computer gaming. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 8:45 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 7:00 P.M. I uploaded pictures of recent changes in my apartment:
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http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mls-apt-011615/
http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-011615/ CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 6:20 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with a neighbor. I picked up the mail. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 5:35 P.M. I moved the Logitech wireless LX 500 keyboard and mouse to the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower computer on the bedroom desk from the Lenovo ThinkCentre. I installed its SetiPoint drivers. From the Dell Tower, I moved the generic USB keyboard and the Microsoft wireless mouse to the Lenovo ThinkCentre. I chatted with a relative again. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 4:20 P.M. I chatted with a relative.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(finance)" CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 3:45 P.M. I woke up at 2:30 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 6:35 A.M. I ran the Dell Diagnostics, and the Dell Tower passed all tests. The Dell web site gave me a free copy of this http://www.iolo.com/landing/welcome/scu/ that I ran, and I fixed the repairs, it suggested. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/16/15 Friday 5:35 A.M. I finished configuring the Dell Optiplex 740 Tower Computer on the right side of the bedroom desk, and I also updated the BIOS. I did a Windows Complete PC Backup to the second internal hard drive. I also did a Aeomi backup to the second internal hard drive. I also did a Aoemi backup to the Seagate Free Agent external hard drive. I took the old Microsoft ergonomic keyboard off the system, since it had a faulty space bar which was unresponsive. I put on a generic USB keyboard. The system seems to be running just fine. I ate five ounces of mixed nuts. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 10:45 P.M. The reason I went out tonight, when it was 27 degrees Fahrenheit outside instead of Friday evening when all of the rich and famous office workers are out and about is that tomorrow night it is supposed to be 11 degrees Fahrenheit. Monday is the Martin Luther King Holiday, which is always one of the coldest days of the year, so we have a three day weekend of cold weather coming up http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VLiHnizlzQA . CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 10:10 P.M. I ate a 16 ounce www.hungry-man.com turkey dinner with Smart Balance Spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and stuffing and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I will now work on configuring the Dell Tower computer in the bedroom. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 9:15 P.M. I went out, and I went by the A&P Fresh. I bought two 16 ounce Boston Market Swedish meatballs for $3 each, 65 cent can return, buy one get one free of 33 ounce Eight O'clock Columbian Coffee beans for $17.99 both, buy one get two free of six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $4.29, a 28 ounce Bird's Eye Chicken Voila Chicken Florentine dinner for $3.99, two Seviroli 14 ounce frozen cheese tortellini for $3 each, bananas for .79 a pound for $2.49, a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.99, a quart of America's Choice lemon juice for $2.39, a Bermuda Red Onion for $1.99 a pound for .58, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99, a 5 pound bag of Russet potatoes for $2.99 for $51.05 total. I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $7.50 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $3.149 a gallon for 2.381 gallons at odometer reading of 109986 miles for 30.7 miles driven since Sunday December 28, 2015 for 12.894 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic. I then returned home, and I brought up and put away my groceries. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 7:15 P.M. I will now go downtown to do a few quick errands. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 6:55 P.M. I put away the clean laundry. I chatted with neighbors. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 6:20 P.M. Tracking number is "1ZX79947YW25719459" at www.ups.com for two Rosewill RPS-200 6 Outlets Power Strip 125V Input Voltage 1875W Maximum Power 6 Feet Cord Length for $7.99 each and $3.87 shipping for $19.85 total.
Global Volcanism Program | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report
US-Cuba travel and trade: New rules start on Friday
When I was last in Cayo Hueso back in February 1982, they though I was crazy for wanting to run Hydrofoils from Key West to Havana like they do across the English Channel. It took 33 years for them to make up their minds, so I guess they are in no rush down in Florida. Cuba is also a good place to look for antique automobiles, if one is in that business.
Smart shoe devices generate power from walking
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Bar-headed geese: Highest bird migration tracked
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<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 5:35 P.M. I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 5:10 P.M. I picked up the mail, and I chatted with a neighbor. I chatted with a relative. I put clean linens on the bed. I started two loads of laundry, and I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycles. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 3:45 P.M. I called up www.microsoft.com at 1-800-MICROSOFT, and they answered in the Philippines. They told me that the Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key that I have for the Dell Tower Computer, should work with my Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 X64 DVD, should I ever chose to install it on the Dell Tower. I chatted with the tech rep a bit about tech. On the Lenovo ThinkCentre behind the primary work computer chair with two partitions with Windows 10 Technical Preview setup in dual boot, the second partition does not boot unless one selects it, and when it does not work turns off the computer, and then when it boots again, it does boot the second partition. This has not happened before on it. I could restore the backup, but that is not that important at the moment. Right now I am installing the Windows Updates on both partitions, to see if that fixes the problem. I ate a blueberry muffin with a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 2:05 P.M. $69.99 with free shipping Executive Vintage Suede Jacket
I ordered two Rosewill RPS-200 6 Outlets Power Strip 125V Input Voltage 1875W Maximum Power 6 Feet Cord Length for $7.99 each and $3.87 shipping for $19.85 total. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 1:05 P.M. I setup the Ricoh laser printer to the right side of the FIC server connected to the Lenovo ThinkCentre behind the primary work computer chair. I had to install the Ricoh 64 bit English printer drivers from the CD that came with the last printer. The drivers work just fine with the Windows 10 Technical Preview on both partitions. I left the instructions and other paperwork that came with the Ricoh laser printer on top of the Ricoh laser printer. I threw out the Ricoh laser printer box and the garbage. I sat outside briefly. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 11:15 A.M. I chatted with a relative. I chatted with www.arrowdirect.com about the Windows 7 Product Key, and they told me if my Windows 7 Home Premium DVD does not work with the Microsoft Product Key, I can check with Microsoft about it. I will not being installing Windows 7 Home Premium on it, until the Windows 10 Technical Preview expires, if it expires. www.arrowdirect.com is a good source for value priced refurbished computers. CIO
<888> 01/15/15 Thursday 9:30 A.M. I ate 7 ounces of mixed nuts before going to bed. I woke up at 8 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 10:40 P.M. Cunard®
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. I will finish configuring the Dell Tower tomorrow. There is suppose to be a low of 18 degrees Fahrenheit tonight http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VLc2BcnlzQA . CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 10:05 P.M. I reheated and ate the same flavored rice and flavored Dinty Moore stew mixture as last night which I ate with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 9:15 P.M. I took off the generic USB keyboard from the Dell Tower, and I put on the older white Microsoft PS/2 Ergonomic keyboard with USB ports connected to the back of the Dell Tower. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 8:20 P.M. Windows 10 Technical Preview X64 is working just fine on the Dell Tower. I have to finish configuring it. The Intel PCI LAN Card will not work with it though, and it did not work with the Lenovo setup either. So I don't have to use the motherboard LAN I installed the TrendNet USB LAN device that works just fine. Windows 10 Technical Preview gives one the chance to install one's apps and setting from previous setups, so one does not have to do all of that, but one still has to install the regular programs and data files. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 6:00 P.M. The restored backup of Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Dell Tower will not work, so I have to do a new install and configuration which will take a while. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 5:35 P.M. I put in a new #2032 CMOS battery in the Dell Tower. I moved the Dell Laser Printer to the small computer table on the right side of the bedroom desk connected to the Dell Tower. Its power turns on with the same power strip that controls the Dell tower. I reconfigured the CMOS settings. I chatted with a relative. I moved the paper work from that location to another small oak folding table on the left side of the bedroom desk in front of the Rubbermaid colored clothes laundry hamper. I moved the cardboard box with Premier cigarette tubes from that location to the bedroom window. I put the unused AT&T two line telephone at that location underneath the right side of the bedroom desk. I started up the Dell Tower with the Windows 10 Technical Preview that I restored to it. It so far has taken about an hour to reconfigure itself, but the hard drive light is still flashing. There is no video yet. I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 3:05 P.M. On the Dell Tower, Windows 7 Professional was installed on it, but the product key on the case is for Windows 7 Home Premium, which I could install, if I ever need it. I backed up the drive to the Rosewill 1 TB external hard drive, and I am now restoring the dual boot mirror Windows 10 Technical Preview 64 bit. The Dell Tower has two 250 GB SATA drives in it. On startup of the CPU, it says the CMOS battery is low, so I have to look into that. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 2:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative who is recovering from knee surgery, but seems to be doing well. I put the cards in the Dell Tower. It also a PS/2 adapter for mouse and keyboard which I won't be using. It also has two hard drives, but I don't know what size yet. It has a DVD/RW drive too. I only booted so far to the setup screen. I filed my energy assistance application. I will now backup the Windows 7 partition on the Dell Tower. I will then restore the Windows 10 Technical Preview dual boot backup to the Dell tower for beta testing. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 12:20 P.M. http://www.kwsal.com/
The order with FedEx tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/WTRK/index.html?tracknumbers=624461092453&cntry_code=us&fdx=1490 on the order for DELL Optiplex 740 2.4Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 250GB 4096MB for $53.50 less $10.70 with coupon code "US20" for $42.80 and $11.99 shipping and $2.72 tax for $58.27 total arrived. I put its shipping box on the bedroom closet shelf for now. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 11:45 A.M. Greenwich K-9 officer adjusts to life after the job
When I was living with the family from the Kaiser of Germany's consulate in New York City in 1980, I made my first trip to Germany. I stay in Frankfurt, Germany for three days at the local Y.M.C.A. there for about $20 a night. They had good security with two big friendly German Shepards that kept a watch on things. The owner of the Y.M.C.A. in Frankfurt, Germany looked like one of my Uncles from Holland, Michigan; so I guess I might have a German look being Dutch for better or worse. My friends in Manhattan had a white German Shepard in the apartment on West 74th Street, so the friendly German Shepards in Germany probably smelled its scent. However, down in Key West during the winter of 1978, they had K9 Security to protect the http://casamarinaresort.com/ where I was living with a member of the same family while the old hotel was under reconstruction. However, the K9 Security never bothered us because of the 200 stray Hemingway cats with six toes around the hotel. However, at the seafood restaurant on the west side of the island, there was an African American fisherman with a big German Shepard, and when I tried to pet it, it almost took my hand off, so not all German Shepards are that friendly. When my family lived in New Canaan back in 1966, we had a German Shepard that we raised from a puppy, and I was supposed to train it to be a guard dog for when we next were supposed to move to the Turkish embassy in Mexico City, but when my father's failed business venture failed down there, because the Mexican Government wanted 51% of the business, and he returned home, the German Shepard bit him in the rear end, so my father was not too happy with that German Shepard, and we later gave it away with the dog house that I had built for it. We might have also had the same German Shepard when we lived on Baldwin Farms North here in Greenwich, because that is where I built the two piece dog house. The roof would come off from the bottom enclosure, so it could be carried out the basement door in two pieces that fit the enclosure, where I built the dog house. In the summer of 1967, I also helped build our new house on Baldwin Farms South, when we decided to move back from our new house in New Canaan. The new house in New Canaan had lots of sulfur in the water which is supposed to help one live longer, but it smells. I think in New Canaan in the second house which was new, we also lived around someone from www.ibm.com and someone from International Telephone and Telegraph. When in 1962, we used to carpool to Greenwich Country Day School from Stamford, we rode with a British family that owned a computer software company called "Online Decisions". Besides offices in Elmsford, New York; they also had offices at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. They did not hire me after college in 1973, since I did not know the Fortran programming language. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 10:40 A.M. I turned in my Section 8 Application in the Community Room. The Energy Assistance person will be here in the community room from noon to 2 P.M.. I am number 13 on the sign up list. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 9:35 A.M. I have to sign my Section 8 Application in the Community Room downstairs at 10 A.M. this morning. At 1 P.M. this afternoon, I have to submit the information for my Energy Assistance in the Community Room downstairs. CIO
<888> 01/14/15 Wednesday 8:30 A.M. I ate 20 Triscuit brown rice and sea salt and pepper crackers before going to bed. I woke up at 6:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up.
Bush’s France ambassador apoplectic about no-show
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<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 9:20 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat 8 ounces of Dannon vanilla yogurt. I will then go to bed. Stay Warm. C'est tres froid n'est pas? CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 8:15 P.M. I chatted with another relative. I was told this was on television tonight http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/13/us/man-overboard-cruise-rescue/ .
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<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 7:35 P.M. I chatted with a relative. It is minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit in Kennebunkport, Maine right now http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.40579869155749&lon=-70.48001823705118&site=all&smap=1#.VLW30snlzQA . CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 6:55 P.M. There is this Ricoh Toner refill kit, and one would also need Toner Hole Making Tool at the bottom of the page http://refillbay.com/laser-toner-cartridge-refills/ricoh-407165.php?id=toner-refill-ricoh-type-sp100la-kit&ref=ADWTC-rk&gclid=CIvUvv6JksMCFVU8gQod1g0A0A .
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<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 5:35 P.M. I made up a batch of http://scott-mike.com/mlsrice.htm that I also put a little bit of celery salt and Frank's hot sauce with and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar. I ate half of the rice with half of a 20 ounce can of Dinty Moore beef stew that I seasoned with ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, celery salt, garlic powder, soy sauce and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, and I put in a microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it in the microwave oven for four minutes on 60% power. I put the beef stew on the rice in a large soup bowl, and I mixed it all together, and I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I covered the beef stew can with plastic wrap and rubber band, and I put the other half of the rice in a Rubbermaid container with rice, and I refrigerated both containers. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 4:40 P.M. The order with tracking number of "1Z0X118A0303520362" at www.ups.com on the order for Ricoh SP 112 Monochrome Laser Printer, 16 ppm (Letter), 1200 x 600 dpi, Low-profile, 50-sheet paper capacity for $26.99 with coupon code "1RCSP112" with free shipping arrived. It looks like it might be too big for the bedroom, so I might set it up the right of the FIC server, and put the smaller Dell Laser printer in the bedroom with the Dell Tower, when I set it up. The Dell Tower is now in New Jersey having traveled from Reno, Nevada last Thursday, so it should be here tomorrow via FedEx tracking is https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/WTRK/index.html?tracknumbers=624461092453&cntry_code=us&fdx=1490 on the order for DELL Optiplex 740 2.4Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 250GB 4096MB for $53.50 less $10.70 with coupon code "US20" for $42.80 and $11.99 shipping and $2.72 tax for $58.27 total.. www.arrowdirect.com no longer has cheaper older computers, but they might come up with some in the future. Basically on the low income scale of things, one does what one can afford, not what the big budget boys wished one would do. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 3:55 P.M. The new Krups coffee machine makes very good coffee. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking number of "1ZX79933YW06262567" at www.ups.com on the order for LITE-ON DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA Model iHAS124-14 - OEM for $19.99 with $7 off with promo code "EMCWHGP33" for $12.99 total with free shipping arrived. I don't know whether I will use it in the Dell Tower or not. The Dell tower has a DVD drive, but I don't know whether or not it is RW or not. Also when I took the DVD drive out of the most recent Lenovo desktop, I did not check if it was DVD/RW or not. I did put a new DVD/RW drive in it though. I got a promotional coupon for http://www.omahasteaks.com/ and one can enter "42866WNA" for this promotion http://www.omahasteaks.com/servlet/OnlineShopping?Dsp=268&AID=106810&ITMSUF=WNA&SRC=BA5299&IID=42866 , but with all of the money I pay to www.geico.com insurance for the Volvo wagon that does not travel too far, I can not afford their $50 offer, so I threw the promotion in the paper recycle bin in the bathroom. One of my trips across country in the late 1970s, I drove through Omaha, but I could only afford to eat at www.mcdonalds.com on the east side of town. Their homeless shelter in Omaha is suppose to serve very good food. I guess there are no more meat packing families left nearby at www.lfc.edu like in the old days. Lester Armour only weighed 135 pounds, so he did not eat too much meat. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 3:05 P.M. If you are a cold weather person in this area, you might check out this place http://www.visitbearmountain.com/ . About 10 years ago in the summer, I visited http://www.nynjtc.org/park/harriman-bear-mountain-state-park , and there is large lodge there. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 1:55 P.M. http://www.llbean.com/llb/search/?freeText=union+suits&init=1 they do keep one warm. I have four pairs, but I never where them, since it does not get that cold in my apartment for now. However, as electricity rates go up, I might have to lower the thermostat and wear one of my pairs of Union Suits, which I have done in the past. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 1:50 P.M. It is minus one degrees Fahrenheit on top of the summit at Stowe, Vermont http://www.stowe.com/ski-ride/ . Also https://www.mountwashington.org/experience-the-weather/mount-washington-weather.aspx . Of course all of the Big Buck Sailors could be down in Cayo Hueso http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/key-west-fl/33040/weather-forecast/332323 and http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ . I guess they don't have any darkly tanned long haired people down there anymore. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 1:45 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I moved my Volvo wagon to its usual place. My Volvo Wagon says it is 34 degrees Fahrenheit outside, but my apartment weather station says it is 24 degrees Fahrenheit outside. This http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VLVlZcnlzQA says it is 21 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Thus it is probably a bit too cold outside for old people to exercise walk. I have noticed the younger people around here do not even dress warmly, so they are used to it. My last two observers in Manhattan besides a relative have left Manhattan over a week ago for a cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Auckland, New Zealand, so they are out of touch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on Holland American Cruise Lines. They say they will be back in Manhattan the first or second week of February 2015. My only relative in Manhattan left for London, England today for a family event. Thus I have no observers in Manhattan that I know about. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 1:05 P.M. The new juice bar is now opened on the south side of the www.apple.com computer store on Greenwich Avenue. I can not remembers its name now. The www.apple.com computer store is also across the street from the Greenwich Financial Center where https://www.bankerstrust.com/ has some small financial offices. Back in 1973, when I interviewed with vice chairman of Banker's Trust at their offices on Park Avenue, he wanted me to keep an eye out for FALN terrorists in Manhattan who had just bombed their building plaza. I also use to play golf at the Greenwich Country Club with the Chairman of Banker's Trust in the old days. Donald www.trump.com is able to barrow money from Banker's Trust for his construction business. They are now part of www.db.com . One can still smoke cigarettes in their outdoor patio on Park Avenue across the street and just south of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel which is now owned by the Chinese and undergoing renovations. Franklin Roosevelt's old armored railroad car is still on the basement railroad siding of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, if one wants to renovate a secure ground transportation vehicle. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 12:30 P.M. I chatted with a local walker twice. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 11:55 A.M. The new www.chase.com bank on the west side of the Greenwich Library has a http://www.generac.com/ generator in their lower garage in case they ever lose electricity in this storm torn area of the world. Also www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue sells a cheaper snow brush with a 3 foot wooden handle for $7.99 if it ever snows during this warmer winter weather. After watching the www.pbs.org presentation on the garden around Buckingham Palace, I noticed something wrong with their local environmental gardening. They are using horse manure and mulch for composting around their garden beds. However, with all the sheep in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, they should be using sheep dip on the grass to fertilize the lawn. Although it smells horribly, it makes for a nice soft green lawn. I tried to get the www.whitehouse.gov to use it around their lawn, but they turned a blind eye to the suggestion. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 10:15 A.M. I woke up at 8:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/13/15 Tuesday 12:10 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat 8 ounces of Dannon vanilla yogurt. I will then go to bed.
Tracking number is "1Z0X118A0303520362" at www.ups.com on the order for Ricoh SP 112 Monochrome Laser Printer, 16 ppm (Letter), 1200 x 600 dpi, Low-profile, 50-sheet paper capacity for $26.99 with coupon code "1RCSP112" with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 11:10 P.M. Email - Steve Forbes Webcast and 50% Off Presidential Cufflinks - Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 10:50 P.M. I chatted with two relatives. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I read the Krups coffee machine instructions. I do not used it for espresso and I do not use the frothing attachment. I just put two to three scoops of ground coffee in it and run a cup of water through it to make regular coffee. I ran a cup of water through it to clean it out. It seems to work just fine. It says to unplug the machine when not using it. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 8:25 P.M. After the last note. I threw out the two www.arrowdirect.com shipping boxes and the two APC control panel boxes, and the Krups coffee maker shipping box. I put the Krups box on the top left bedroom closet shelf. I cleaned the center kitchen counter. I put the two old single cup coffee machines that were there on the top center bedroom closet shelf. I put the new Krups coffee machine on the center kitchen counter to the left of the wooden cutting board. I put the instructions to the far left counter on top of the Oster Blender instructions. I picked up the mail. I went out, and I went by the www.chase.com bank on the west side of the Greenwich Library. I took the long way around up Valley Road to Glenville Road to the Lake Avenue Circle to Deerfield Drive which is easier to enter and exit the new Chase Bank. I noticed they have a generator in their parking garage, so their ATM machine would work, if the power goes off in the area. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I chatted with a young fellow from Westport. I stopped by the www.apple.com store, and I chatted with a senior sales associate. I chatted with a sales associate at www.brooksbrothers.com about the Wool Business in the Commonwealth. Alas I no longer wear Brooks Brothers clothes, because I don't feel like looking prosperous and getting mugged. Also I am not prosperous anyway. I stopped by CVS, and I bought https://www.grabbag.com/ for $14.99 less $3 off with a CVS coupon machine coupon and .76 tax for $12.75. They may be hard to find when this new law goes into effect http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Plastic-bag-ban-could-be-coming-to-state-6006820.php . I left it in the back of the Volvo wagon. I chatted with somebody from Naples, Italy outside the Italian Prepared Food Place. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High Scratch Card for a dollar, and the prize was a $1,000, and the dealer only had a 10, but none of my four numbers beat it. I told a customer at Starbucks about CVS having the Grab Bags. He mentioned he was Dutch from Palm Beach, and his family were involved with http://www.colgatepalmolive.com/ . I mentioned a few things about Florida. I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with the reference librarian. I then returned home. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 4:00 P.M. I went downstairs to the mail room, and I picked up the order with tracking number of "1ZX431W40342038075" at www.ups.com on the order for a refurbished Krups XP100050 Steam Espresso Machine for $34.99 and $2.22 tax for $37.21 total which has arrived. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 3:50 P.M. By Greenwich, Connecticut standards, I am just an average size male at 6 feet tall and 227 pounds. However, the largest man that I have seen in Greenwich, Connecticut was when Ronald Reagan went to the G8 Conference in Mattrich in the Netherlands, a large white Dutch man showed up here in our local A&P that looked like Prince Charles. He was about 7 feet 2 inches tall dressed in traditional Dutch costume trying to sell 500 pound wheels of Dutch Gouda Cheese. I would say he was easily over 350 pounds weight. Thus there are probably some other large people in the Eastern Hemisphere, besides the small people that one sees in their urban environments. Locally in the New York City area, about nine years ago, when I went to the Microsoft Conference in Hauppauge, Long Island at the Hyatt Hotel out there, there was a large white man about six feet wide and six feet tall, and I would say he probably weighed over 600 pounds. Thus there are probably other large people in the world, we do not see amongst the mostly skinny house wives shopping on Greenwich Avenue most of the time, where they seem to think I am some sort of a giant, which is far from the truth by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe Paul Bunyon does exist up in Canada for all I know. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 2:45 P.M. I bought Ricoh SP 112 Monochrome Laser Printer, 16 ppm (Letter), 1200 x 600 dpi, Low-profile, 50-sheet paper capacity for $26.99 with coupon code "1RCSP112" with free shipping. If I can find room, I will put it in the bedroom connected up the Dell Tower. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 1:55 P.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 1:10 P.M. http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0014-identity-theft CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 12:15 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/12/15 Monday 11:15 A.M. I ate a clementine before going to bed. I have noticed recently that on Friday evenings at the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue, they have old apples in the clearance section opposite the deli. I might try to eat some of them in the future. Apples are suppose to be healthy, but they tend to be a bit hard to eat. I finally woke up at 11 A.M.. CIO
<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 11:20 P.M. After Downton Abby, I watched on www.pbs.org Channel "The Queen's Garden" about Queen Elizabeth II's 40 acre garden around Buckingham Palace http://www.royal.gov.uk/ . I guess the Royals have so many visitors with 18 million tourists a year visiting London, England, they are use to seeing a constant crowd of people visiting there area year round. I suppose this time of year, they get visitors from the colder areas of the world whom enjoy the warmth of London. While watching the television, I ate 10 ounces of mixed nuts. I don't know where in the world the mixed nuts come from, but we have a lot of trees in this area that might produce some of the nuts in mixed nuts, but I don't think the Brazil nuts come from this area. Down south in the old days, Woolworths used to sell a lot of nuts, so maybe mixed nuts come from down south. I know pecans come from Georgia. I think almonds come from California. There are no walnuts in my mixed nuts, but they can come from this area. I think the cashew nuts come from down south. The Macadamia nuts come from Hawaii. I have noticed over the years that the grey squirrels seem to survive the winter, so they probably put away a lot of the local nuts and berries. I once read that grey squirrels migrate though. I think in England they also have red squirrels. We also have a few black squirrels here too. For some reason we do not have many birds around here anymore. I do see predatory birds around here like hawks, possibly falcons, and the occasional eagle, and owl; so that is probably why we don't have as many song birds as other areas. I have a theory that the birds don't like the automobile fumes in this area, so they avoid the area. I also learned from "The Queen's Garden" that herons eat baby ducks, which I did not know. We do have herons around here in the warmer months, so that might explain the decline in the duck population. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon. Stay warm. Wintry mix tonight and tomorrow http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VLNJh8nlzQA . When it gets really cold for the last two years, a snowy owl has shown up in Bruce Park http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=snowy+owl+images&qpvt=Snowy+Owl+Images&FORM=IGRE . CIO
<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 8:30 P.M. Downton Abby is on www.pbs.org tonight on Channel 13. It is another new episode.
I chatted with a relative.
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<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 7:50 P.M. The beef in Canada is suppose to taste better, since it is grain fed instead of grass fed, but because of mad cow disease, one is not allowed to import Canadian beef into the United States of America.
http://www.tremblant.ca/ and http://www.fairmont.com/frontenac-quebec/ where http://www.fairmont.com/frontenac-quebec/pdf/lcf-winter-champlain-menu-eng-2014-pdf/ is $41 Canadian Dollars about the same as around here at http://chuckssteakhouse.com/ where prime rib is only $29 http://www.chucksdanbury.com/dinner.htm , but I don't think they allow cigarettes smoking in the restaurant anymore. CIO
<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 7:20 P.M. I ate 8 ounces of reheated Perdue grilled Italian chicken strips, a baked sweet potato or yam with steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice.
A local walker that I chatted with today on the telephone asked me where the http://hearstcastle.org/ , and I told him it is on the Pacific Coast Highway about 20 miles north of http://visitslo.com/ . Also they have a Nantucket Cove Village on the Pacific Ocean opposite the Hearst Castle for tourists to visit and some farm stands along the Pacific Coast Highway. South and East of the Heart Castle, there is about 75 mile two lane road with oil wells and cattle on both sides of the road that http://www.76.com/ owns. I am not sure if it is the Hearst Ranch or the Bixby Ranch http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/13/magazine/tm-bixby19 . Also if one has money which a lot of people do not have anymore, one can order beef from the Hearst Ranch http://www.hearstranch.com/ , but it probably would raise one's cholesterol. Locally the http://www.greenwichtime.com/ is owned by the Hearst Newspapers, so they are always trying to get people here to move to California, where without money, one just ends up just sleeping in their car, until one has to drive back east to start all over again. In the summer, I do see a few cars here from California and the West Coast, but they do not spend very much time here, and continue their journeys. CIO
<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 5:35 P.M. I took the passwords off the Dell Latitude 4600i computer, and I decommissioned McAfee Internet Security on it. I removed the email setups for my personal email on it. I then disconnected it, and I put it on the left rear floor of the bedroom closet behind the Turkish tobacco mason jars. I then switched the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor to the IBM ThinkCentre upper control panel and CPU. I will put the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitor on top of the Dell Tower to the right hand side of the desk, and I will have the Dell Tower connected to the center Acer 19 inch LCD monitor on top of the IBM ThinkCentre. I put the Hercules woofer speaker and its left speaker on the right side of the bedroom window shelf, and I have it connected to the power strip for the Dell tower on the right side of the control panels. I thus have the Dell Tower ready to install, once I receive it and install its hardware cards. However, with the confusion on the bedroom desk computer setup, none of its computers are available for use at the moment, until I have the Dell Tower installed on the right side of the bedroom desk. Earlier I mailed a letter to a relative in the mail room downstairs. CIO
<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 3:45 P.M. I chatted with a friend and a local walker. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. Not much happening out here in the wilderness of greater South Western Connecticut. I guess the Movers and Shakers are down south staying warm leaving behind a skeleton crew of loyal retainers to keep an eye on the local environment, until they return in the late Spring. There might be some tourists or investors in nearby New Amsterdam whom venture out this way to see whatever they have left behind in this area. CIO
<888> 01/11/15 Sunday 12:25 P.M. I woke up at 11 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up.
Son Charged in Fatal Shooting of Hedge Fund Father in Manhattan Apartment CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 01/10/15
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 10:15 P.M. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 10:00 P.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 9:10 P.M. I chatted with a relative. The relative's telephone is fixed. I printed out some paper work to send to the relative with a 49 cent forever stamp. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 8:20 P.M. I ate 7 ounces of mixed nuts. I made 267 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching episodes 1 and 2 of "Marco Polo" on Netflix. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 4:25 P.M. I took the Hercules 2.1 speaker system off the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop system at the apartment entrance, and I put the Hercules speaker system on the bedroom desk chair to have ready for the new refurbished Dell Tower, when it arrives. The Tweakers Speaker system is about the size of four packs of cigarettes. I put it on the left side of the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop system above the mouse pad. It works quite well. It came with a travel case that I put on the computer desk to the right side. Thus the Tweaker Speaker system is available to travel, when I travel up to Kennebunkport in the summer, which is the only time I travel. I will now make cigarettes. I put the note pads and post it notes underneath the Lenovo ThinkCentre monitor to the right side of the living room desk. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 3:45 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9405511899561499470183 on the order for Tweakers 2.1 Channel Desktop Speakers for $15.99 with free shipping arrived. I chatted with a neighbor about the price of tea in China. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 1:10 P.M. I chatted with a relative and a friend.
If one has an internal USB port in one's desktop and a free front bay opening, this is the only device that I can find to install additional USB ports in the front of the CPU case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811998136&cm_re=Front_Panel_USB_3-_-11-998-136-_-Product and http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1270 . I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 11:45 A.M. https://www.buycleverlight.com/ CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 11:40 A.M. I woke up at 10 A.M.. I chatted with a relative whose telephone is not working properly. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 1:20 A.M. Netscape co-founder revealed as buyer of Ron Howard home
I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/10/15 Saturday 12:50 A.M. On the refurbished Dell Tower, I came up with this spec list for the Dell Tower http://www.dell.com/downloads/jp/products/optix/OptiPlex_740_TechSpecs_070326.pdf and http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/optiplex-740/manuals . It does not seem to have a motherboard 5 pin USB connector, so I can not install a memory card reader, but that is no real big deal. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 10:30 P.M. I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue. I bought a loaf of Pepperidge Farm 15 grain bread for $4.29, a quart of Dannon vanilla yogurt for $3.19, a 15 ounce tub of Smart Balance extra lite virgin olive oil margarine for $3.59, Stop and Shop deli sliced white American cheese for $4.99 a pound for $4.74, Stop and Shop deli sliced honey ham for $5.99 a pound for $6.17, two 18 ounce Stouffer's meat and tomato lasagnas for $3 each, buy one get one free of 12 ounce Eight O'Clock regular coffee beans for $5.99 both, bananas for .49 a pound for $1.47, and sweet potatoes for .99 a pound for $3.02 for $40.12 total. I then went by the CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I bought a 3 ounce Hormel real bacon bits for $2. I then went further down Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out for a while. I walked over to www.starbucks.com , and I chatted with a regular. I then sat out some more. I then returned home, and I brought up and put away my groceries. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 7:50 P.M. I will now go out to the Stop and Shop to get some groceries. I do not plan to be walking around, but I could browse CVS on Green Witch Avenue to see if their are any bargains. CiO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 7:35 P.M. I printed out the last 74 pages of my August 2014 notes which were faint with the Lexmark E238 laser printer, and they printed out just fine. To print out from the primary work computer, one has to move the Lexmark E238 USB cable from the TrendNet USB router USB port, and connect it the primary work computer USB port to the right underneath the keyboard. However, I normally keep it connected to the TrendNet Router USB printer port, so I can print out with it with the 32 bit computers on my home apartment network. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 7:20 P.M. I removed the one inch diameter soft plastic cap on the side of the Lexmark E238 toner cartridge and its inner cap, and I filled it up with the new toner. I replaced the inner cap and the outer cap. The Lexmark E238 laser printer now works just fine. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 6:30 P.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I chatted with neighbors downstairs. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400111899561815962696 on the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/185g-Toner-Refill-for-Lexmark-23800SW-23820SW-Cartridge-for-E238-Printer-/281406871463?pt=US_Toner_Refills_Kits&hash=item41852817a7 for $8.75 with free shipping arrived. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400109699937207779200 on the order for $9.99 with free shipping TRENDnet TU2-ET100 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter * For Macbook Air and Windows PC arrived. I delivered two packages to a neighbor. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 4:35 P.M. Cunard®
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<888> 01/09/15 Friday 4:10 P.M. I went downstairs, and I chatted with neighbors and the building custodian. The mail is not here. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 3:45 P.M. I prepared the paperwork for my Section 8 Application and Energy Assistance Application this Wednesday, January 14, 2015. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 2:05 P.M. I dressed up warmly. I went outside, and I cleaned about two inches of snow off the Volvo wagon. I have a very good snow brush that I bought last winter at the Greenwich Hardware Store http://www.greenwichhardware.com/index.php on Greenwich Avenue for about $20. The Greenwich Hardware Store has the best snow brushes in the area. Someone had thrown the teak bench on the right entrance of the building off to the side in the grass, so I moved it back to the sidewalk on the right entrance of the building. I chatted with a neighbor. I will now shower and clean up. I have plenty of winter clothes and snow boots and snow shoes. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 12:45 P.M. I woke up at 11 A.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 1:45 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. I will eat a blueberry muffin first. CIO
<888> 01/09/15 Friday 1:40 A.M.
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I use to know somebody from Sao Paulo, Brazil http://mikelouisscott.com/photo/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg that knew the His Highness the Aga Khan's 76th Birthday - Mowlana Hazar Imam's 76th Birthday - December 13, 2012 Salgirah Khushiali Mubarak! , but he has not visited me since I moved to 71 Vinci Drive 26 years ago, but he did tour the building with me the summer, before I moved in. Thus there has been a real Brazilian in this building at one time, not that it makes it any warmer.
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<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 11:40 P.M. One can get a refurbished Dell 19 inch monitor here for $63 with tax with free shipping or a 24 inch refurbished monitor for $103 with tax and shipping http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/28/campaigns/delloutletpromopage_dfb .
I bought a refurbished Krups XP100050 Steam Espresso Machine for $34.99 and $2.22 tax for $37.21 total.
New Dell D2015H Black 20" VA Panel Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 3000:1 for $80.99 with coupon code "DELLNYSALES" ends 1/12/15 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 10:05 P.M. I disconnected the charging to the three jump start systems and the 2 million watt rechargeable lantern. I threw out the garbage and the chicken carcass. I mailed some papers to a relative with a 49 cent forever stamp.
Frigid conditions outside http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VK8_48nlzQA here in Greenwich, Siberia.
Colder in the northwest http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/today/Minneapolis,MN,United%20States/we-city?weadegreetype=F&ocid=INSWEPL10 .
Warmer in Oslo, Norway http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Oslo+Norway+NOXX0029 ,
http://www.weather.com/news/weather/video/bob-simpson-weather-pioneer-dies
Warmer in Moscow, Russia http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Moscow+Russia+RSXX0063
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/l/USFL0244 tropical in Cayo Hueso.
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<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 9:15 P.M. I fixed the little black LED light on the white bookcase at the kitchen entrance. The batteries were worn out, so I replaced them. Also the terminals were a bit corroded, so I cleaned them. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 9:00 P.M. Who first said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'?
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 8:05 P.M. 2.0-magnitude earthquake confirmed in eastern Connecticut
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 8:05 P.M. From http://www.mytechguide.org/10042/windows-7-sp1-iso-download-official-digitalriver-links/ , I downloaded and burned to DVD copies of Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium 32 bit and Windows 7 SP1 Professional 64 bit to have available in case I need to reinstall on any of my recent computer purchases. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 7:25 P.M. $9.99 with free shipping 13 Deals - Magic Box: The Wireless Stereo Portable Speaker - SHIPS FREE!
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9405511899561499470183 on the order for Tweakers 2.1 Channel Desktop Speakers for $15.99 with free shipping.
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http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/ CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 6:50 P.M. I ate a six 1/4th inch thick slices of rotisserie chicken white breast meat with Frank's hot sauce, a baked sweet potato or yam with steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 5:00 P.M. I threw out the shipping box. I put away the clean laundry. I burnt a DVD Copy of Windows 7 Home Premium X64. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 4:15 P.M. I have 20 minutes to go on two dry cycles. I sold a neighbor four ounces of my Turkish pipe tobacco of http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/40011/peter-stokkebye-84-turkish/#p-106299 for $1.46 an ounce for about $5 or $6. The neighbor will pay me next week. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9261293150311518731037 on the order for Fellowes 98335 NEATO Slim CD/DVD Jewel Cases - 100 Packs - OEM for $26.49 with free shipping arrived. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 3:10 P.M. I put clean linens on the bed. I showered, and I clean up. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I moved the Volvo Wagon to its usual place. It started up right away, and I ran it 5 minutes. I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on two wash cycles. I watered the plants. This morning before going to bed, I started charging up the three jump start systems and the 2 million watt rechargeable lantern, so they should be fully charged by now after 13 hours. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 1:20 P.M. It is coming from Reno, Nevada near Area 51, tracking is https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/WTRK/index.html?tracknumbers=624461092453&cntry_code=us&fdx=1490 on the order for DELL Optiplex 740 2.4Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 250GB 4096MB for $53.50 less $10.70 with coupon code "US20" for $42.80 and $11.99 shipping and $2.72 tax for $58.27 total. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 12:55 P.M. For the third computer in the bedroom, I ordered Tweakers 2.1 Channel Desktop Speakers for $15.99 with free shipping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley birthday today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon birthday tomorrow. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 11:05 A.M. I woke up at 9:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk.
In the line with my previous notes about remote friends. I have another friend whom is a http://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/ investigator. His father was one of the original www.cia.gov agents during World War II, when it was the Office of Strategic Services. His maternal grandfather was the last living member of Queen Victoria's Honor Guard and President of the Illinois Central Railroad. His Uncle was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman oldest sister's son. I have another friend from Sao Paulo, Brazil who owns a million acres of coffee plantation knows the https://www.facebook.com/AgaKhanIV . Of course these are friends that do not live in Greenwich. Having lived in Greenwich, Connecticut most of my life, I know quite a few people whom are more private and do not have many friends or connections outside of Greenwich, since they do not trust people from out of town that they do not know. Of course I now quite a few other people, but since I am low income, they do not bother trying to network with me anymore. CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 12:45 A.M. Jeb Bush takes swipe at Hillary Clinton
I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. Stay Warm ! CIO
<888> 01/08/15 Thursday 12:10 A.M. I ate a bowl of Utz wavy potato chips. I am no long an active member of "The Freezing Norwegian Patrol" in this area http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VK4PicnlzQA . It is 7 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now, and my home weather indicator says it is 9.5 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 11:45 P.M. Of course, when I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, I had to return to being part of the establishment of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut. They were in the process of rebuilding the Mianus River Bridge, which had fallen down the spring before. During that period, somebody that looked like a relative bought me a seafood dinner at the Showboat Hotel. He was from Oklahoma City, and he told me to keep working with computers. He owned the process of the moveable highway barricade machine, they use to move short sections of concrete barricades to temporary change lane directions on highways during highway or bridge construction. The machine use to be parked underneath the Mianus River Bridge. Thus possibly he was a relative of my relative from Tulsa, Oklahoma. A neighbor of Helen Clay Frick's up in Bedford, New York also bought me quite a few prime rib beef meals, until my doctors put me on cholesterol medication about eight years ago. He is still in the area, but at age 72, he no longer drives at night because of poor night vision. Since his Dutch family have lived in New York State since the first Dutch arrived, he knows quite a few old time New York families, but his family's claim to fame is that his grandfather invented aluminum solder. Also his mother was one of the pioneers of communications with AT&T, so possibly knows somebody at one of the various phone companies around here. From April 1982 until February 1983, when I was building the garage apartment out at Plandome Manor, Long Island, I did not have time to follow any media. About the only thing I noticed was the local Plandome Manor or Manhasset or Port Washington, Long Island New York Telephone book in the house had an aerial photograph of www.nantucket.net island on the cover. They did not believe in modern communications technology in the house, and I think they had one of those old black steel telephones. They recycled their www.nytimes.com papers for the bird cage for the parrot. The parrot did not like it, if you ate any of its cashew nuts. For television viewing they only had one of those $29 8 inch RCA rabbit ear televisions, and the only thing they watched was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rukeyser Wall Street week on www.pbs.org . Since it is third wealthiest zip code in the United States, there must be some important financial information in those two media outlets. Their claim to fame was that they were related to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cadwalader family which the Kelsey family here of the Greenwich Hardware store fame is also related to. The former husband of the house was a Canadian geologist from the University of Toronto that explored North America for the oil companies. I think he also discovered the oil in the Middle East. The drift of my typing this is that all of the old families pretty much know each other over the years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Philadelphians and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Scott . Tom Scott also gave John D. Rockefeller, the exclusive monopoly on his railroad of hauling oil from Ohio back East, and he was partners with William K. Vanderbilt. He had a falling out with John D. Rockefeller, so Rockefeller built a pipe line from Ohio back east. It was rumored that John D. Rockefeller was behind the Pittsburgh Railroad Strike. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 10:00 P.M. I chatted with a relative again. The relative told me that besides oatmeal, avocadoes are good for reducing cholesterol. I used to use avocadoes in my summer salads. They are also high in vitamins E. Back in the fall of 1976, when my unemployment pay checks from Daniel Construction in Greenville, South Carolina did not come in for six months, because I had filed for Interstate benefits first in Stamford, Connecticut, and then in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and finally in Key West, Florida, I was a little low on money, so I was quite hungry, and I went from 185 pounds in Greenville, South Carolina eating Winn Dixie steaks to 125 pounds by the time I left Key West in April of 1977 with James Edward Eldert from Syracuse, New York whose grandfather that I never met was Richard Nixon's neighbor in Key Biscayne, Florida. I did not commit any crimes when I was starving most of the time on peanut butter sandwiches, but one morning on Thanksgiving Days in 1976, it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit at 7 A.M. according the bank sign next to the Swimming Hall of Fame. Wiley Middleton whose family had the https://www.middletonplace.org/ enjoyed drinking Southern Comfort whisky, at the first of the month, when he got his social security check, so later in the month, he was low on money, and he would collect food from the http://www.publix.com/ dumpsters and try to give it to all of the homeless people on the Fort Lauderdale Beach. Not too many people were interested, however. That Thanksgiving morning, he had a large grocery cart full of slightly old Florida produce, so I happened to find a large old aluminum pot, and I gathered up a lot of old charcoal from the barbecues on the south end of the beach, and I put the pot on a barbecue grate outside of http://www.bahiamarhotel.com/default-en.html , and I added water from the beach showers along with native Florida produce, and started a fire underneath the barbecue grate, and I boiled up a large vegetable stew. I do not recall if it had any meat or not. When I tried to get some of the local homeless people to eat some, none of them were interested, but I left the 10 gallon pot of stew on the grate simmering after I ate some, and I took of. In my wildest imagination, I dreamed a boat load of refugees came ashore and enjoyed a good Thanksgiving meal. The following winter, I graduated to being a dishwasher at Le Vielle Maison restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida, which was the most expensive restaurant in Florida at $200 a meal price fixed plus liquor. None of the skinny women ate much of their food, so as a dishwasher, I enjoyed eating lots of filet mignons and lobster tails that came back on the plates from the dining room. The Haitians that worked in the kitchen weighed from 300 pounds to 500 pounds, so they were fairly well fed. I only got $2.15 an hour for those three months in Boca Raton, but the food was good. To get back to Fort Lauderdale, sometime in that period I was very hungry, so once when I was walking over to http://pier66.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html , I spied an avocado about the size of a football on a tree in somebody's front yard, so I picked it, and I ate it with a friend shortly there after. The friend's father worked for the John Hancock Insurance Company in Connecticut. As I recall that was the only crime, I committed. Later, in 1980, when I was out in California, I met Otis Chandler Junior, and he showed me his Buckmaster Fuller House in Oceanside, California, and it was on a hill overlooking the ocean with 40 acres of Avocado groves around it. He did not object to me smoking cigarettes in his house. When I was also in Santa Barbara, California in the same period, they also had large amount of avocado groves. I never noticed any avocado groves in Florida, but maybe, since avocados are green on green trees, I just thought they were out of season orange trees. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 8:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 7:30 P.M. House Speaker John Boehner buys vacation condo in Florida
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I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 6:05 P.M. For Russian Christmas, dinner I ate a rotisserie chicken leg, thigh, wing, and three 3/16th inch thick slices of white breast meat with Frank's hot sauce, a baked sweet potato or yam with steamed baby carrots with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Stop and Shop lemon juice and a sliced tomato seasoned with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, celery salt, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil with dried parsley on top. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 4:10 P.M. If they are that harsh on their own people, one can only imagine what might happen to a foreigner that was not familiar with the country. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 4:10 P.M. It says here that 18 million Russians died in Stalin's purges of the 1920s and 1930s http://gendercide.org/case_stalin.html
http://historyofrussia.org/stalins-purges/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
It says here 15 to 30 million people died in the Gulag http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249117/Gulag along with the people that died in the Russian Revolution, World War I, and World War II. I can not find the exact number. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 3:25 P.M. I am playing the Russian CD of music "Midnight in Moscow" with Russian Gregorian chants that is disk 33 on the Sony CD carousel.
http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/indexeng.htm is at 75 East 93rd Street in Manhattan. I have passed by it many times. It helps though if one knows the Russian language, which I do not. Twenty to Forty million Russians died in World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union , so they have a history of turmoil that many people are unaware of. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 2:45 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. The order with
tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400109699938073343366 on the order for
for $5.49 with free shipping arrived. I put one in the Pierre Cardin pen in the Brazilian pen holder on the white bookcase at the kitchen entrance, and it works just fine. I put the other spare nine in the drawer of the blue night stand beneath the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop computer at the same location. When I went to my first Microsoft Conference a the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut over 20 years ago, they gave us a free word processor which was a silver and black plastic BIC pen that said Microsoft on it. I still have it somewhere in my fast inventory of spare parts along with the Microsoft XP tee shirt from that launch conference, I think at the same location. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 1:15 P.M. I ordered DELL Optiplex 740 2.4Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 250GB 4096MB for $53.50 less $10.70 with coupon code "US20" for $42.80 and $11.99 shipping and $2.72 tax for $58.27 total.
scott37, Dell Optiplex 740 3.4Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 X2, 250 GB, 4096 GB, with Windows 7 Home Premium
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/740_customer_brochure.pdf .
It is supposed to be a tower case with two PCI slots and one PCI-Ex16 slot.
I will configured it like this with existing parts with the Windows 10 Technical Preview Dual Boot, and place it on the right side of the bedroom desk where the Dell 4600i tower computer is:
DELL Optiplex 740 2.4Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 250GB 4096MB for $53.50 less $10.70 with coupon code "US20" for $42.80 and $11.99 shipping and $2.72 tax for $58.27 total, January 7, 2015
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Happy Russian Christmas which is on January 7, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Russia . CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 10:35 A.M. I woke up at 8:30 A.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will shower and clean up shortly. CIO
<888> 01/07/15 Wednesday 1:45 A.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and two dill pickle slices and Utz wavy potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a sliced tomato seasoned with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, celery salt, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil.
My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for December 2014 was $227.58 for 33 days for 1288 kWh for 39.03 kWh per day with an average temperature of 37.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
For December 2013, it was $223.41 for 34 days for 1463 kWh for 43.03 kWh per day with an average temperature of 31.2 degrees Fahrenheit. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon. CIO
<888> 01/06/15 Tuesday 11:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative earlier. I have been busy playing musical computers again. Since I will not be getting the 18th computer, I moved some units around. I took the APC control panel off the 19 inch Seiki television in the living room, and I put on a regular power strip. I put the APC control panel on top of the Belkin control panel on the oak dining table with the IBM ThinkCentre. I then moved the Lenovo ThinkCentre from the bedroom to on top of the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table. I hooked it up to the APC control panel, and the right Acer 19 inch LCD monitor. I moved the Logitech 2.0 speaker from the bedroom to the Lenovo ThinkCentre. I put a new Logitech C210 web cam on it along with a new Logitech RCA jack headset on it. Thus its hardware is setup, and it has both Windows 10 Technical Preview partitions. I also have the Microsoft Wireless 5000 keyboard and mouse on it. I have the IBM ThinkCentre setup the same with only the left 19 inch Acer LCD monitor. In the bedroom, I set up the Dell Latitude 4600i computer on the right side of the desk, the same as it was before connected to the power strip on the right side of the control panels. It has a Logitech USB headset, but no speakers. The Abit computer is the same. I have the center IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom setup with the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor on the VGA port, since the HDMI port did not work. I have Lenovo USB speakers connected to it. Otherwise, it is still the same. This all took some time, and I am quite hungry at the moment. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Tuesday 5:55 P.M. I threw out the Oster Blender box and shipping carton along with the wooden Clementine crate from Moroc. It is extremely slippery and icy outside, but hardly any snow. I picked up the mail. I would advise people not to go outside in the slippery icy conditions. The building custodian had put a bit of deicer on the sidewalks, but it is still extremely slippery. One does not want to fall and break something. CIO
<888> 01/06/15 Monday 4:40 P.M. The order with tracking number of "1Z6838190318955281" at www.ups.com on the order for $19.99 with free shipping Oster 006694-015-RNP - 14-Speed Blender - White and $1.27 CT. Sales Tax for $21.26 total arrived. I moved the single cup coffee maker that was on the far left of the kitchen counter, and I put the Oster Blender on the far left kitchen counter with its instructions.
http://www.newegg.com/Refurbished-Promotion/EventSaleStore/ID-2202884
I chatted with a relative. The order for LENOVO THINKCENTRE M58 2.7Ghz Dual Core 320GB 4096MB for $43.50 with $8.70 off with coupon code "US20" and $11.99 FedEx shipping and $2.97 tax for $49.76 total was cancelled, because they could not find it in their inventory. They have started the process to refund the money. I chatted with them down in Austin, Texas, which I think is www.dell.com territory, but since I am low on money this early in the month, I don't think I will be ordering another one, unless it is a rock bottom price. Thus the Abit computer on the left side of the bedroom desk will be still configured. I can not used the Abit computer for Windows 8 or Windows 10 beta testing, since it is an AMD Anthlon 2800 processor which only supports Windows 7 or below. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 1:50 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I chatted with a friend.
http://dealnews.com/s40767/Arrow-Direct/
One could order one of these http://arrowdirect.com/search#/?_=1&filter.category_hierarchy=Notebooks&page=1&filter.memory.low=3500&filter.memory.high=4500&filter.manufacturer=DELL&sort.price=asc&filter.os_list_view=Windows%207%20Home plus 40% off with coupon code "LAP40" and about $7.99 shipping.
Thus this DELL LATITUDE E6410 2.26Ghz Core 2 Duo 160GB 4096MB for $226.80 less 40% with coupon code "LAP40" would be $90.72 off for $136.08 and $7.99 shipping would be $144.72. They have 60 day warranties. CIO
<888> 01/06/15 Tuesday 12:10 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 01/06/15 Tuesday 11:15 A.M. I woke up at 8 A.M.. I made my bed. I showered, and I clean up. I drove over the Greenwich Hospital http://www.greenwichhospital.org/ , and I got my blood drawn at the laboratory for the follow up on my cholesterol medication. I then returned home in light snow flurries, and I chatted with neighbors. One can not eat for about 12 to 18 hours before having one's blood drawn. CIO
<888> 01/06/15 Tuesday 12:50 A.M. I called up and emailed http://lagunabeachcity.net/contact/default.asp to see if there are any full time Republicans left in America. Nobody communicates with me, so I guess they are more advanced in their communications than I am. I guess from what I know which is not too much, once one quits watching television which is basically meant to sell soap, there is really not much happening in the United States of America. I ate a blueberry muffin. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. It is currently 17 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Wednesday night, when the former governor of Florida Jeb Bush will be here, it will be 4 degrees Fahrenheit. Jeb Bush the last I knew was from Coral Gables, Florida where the Gilbert Grosvenor family used to have a nice authentic Florida tropical house. At www.amtrak.com the cheapest current one way fare from Stamford, Connecticut to Miami, Florida is $189 up from $107 this past September, if anyone needs to flee town to warmer climates. Of course in Florida, one also needs some sort wampum.
Currently in Vero Beach, Florida it is 70 Degrees Fahrenheit. Vero Beach is only half way down the coast of Florida, so it is cooler than south Florida. http://www.covb.org/ and http://www.johnsislandclub.org/ . CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 10:50 P.M. Biltmore Wine Email Newsletter
UNAM - Portal de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
seg.org - Near Surface Geophysics Asia Pacific 2015
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant Begins Slow Process of Closing - NYTimes.com
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 10:20 P.M. I used to have a tall square white vase that somehow has disappeared from the apartment over recent years. i no longer frequent the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. More of my spare funds are spent on my computer ventures. Alas, nobody here in Greenwich, Connecticut knows how to communicate in English, so I guess they are a different cup of tea. Everyone sees everyone, but nobody communicates, so possibly they are held here in some sort of diplomatic limbo that is beyond my reality. Nobody that I chat with is interested in anything to do with the Midwest, so they must all be focused on New York Media. However, it is so long ago that I was last in the Midwest, what I once knew is possibly no longer relevant in today's more modern communications and more modern world. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 9:40 P.M. I did a communications check with Scotland Yard over in England, and it works well enough for 2 cents a minute. I probably don't know anyone in England anymore, since I am 64 years old, and some of the few English people I used to know were older, they might have retired outside of the United Kingdom to warmer areas elsewhere in the world. Although I speak English, I have a different formal education than my British contacts had. They might have me confused with the Michael Scott from England who is my age and has traveled on the Cunard Line to America every summer for his entire life. It is a very common name, so more than likely which ever Michael Scott they might have heard of, they are not interested in me Michael Scott the personal computer nerd who has never been in the United Kingdom. A lot of theatre people and actors pretend to be people whom they are not, so possibly that is the confusion. I did accidentally get a bit of public attention with the British on July 5, 1976, when I was walking up Third Avenue in Manhattan the day after the Tall Ships festival, and a police man motioned me to walk into Bloomingdales Department store that I was familiar with and there was a reviewing line that I stood in and about fifteen minutes later Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip showed up in a tan Rolls Royce with sun roof waving at the crowds and reviewed the department store, so I did get to see them in person, when they walked into the store. I had met someone the night before that owned the McCormick spice company from Newport, Rhode Island, but I did not meet anyone else as I recall during those festivities. The following day on July 6, 1976, the Royal Yacht Britannia left Manhattan and sailed along Long Island Sound to New Haven, and when I walked downtown, the other living soul around was the old Golden Retriever outside of the former deli at the top of Greenwich Avenue, so I guess a lot of Greenwich people were away on vacation, so after that I traveled up to Nantucket hoping to see some more of the Tall Ships, but none showed up. I have been a wharf rat most of my life. I have many times in my travels seen individuals that look like Queen Elizabeth, so a number of other individuals have the same appearance. Alas, nobody seems to be interested in Scottish immigrants in America let alone Dutch immigrants. However, I do have an English connection in that my paternal grandmother Scott was from the Gard family from Devonshire, England that were the first settlers of the George's Plantation in York, Maine, so that makes me one fourth English. So There. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 8:45 P.M. One could order LENOVO THINKVISION L1900P 20 for $37.20 and $7.44 off with coupon code "US20" for $29.76 and $1.89 tax for $31.65 and $11.99 shipping for $44.40 total, but I can get by with my current supplies of monitors. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 7:40 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I moved the Brother Laser printer back on top of the FIC server connected to the primary work computer. It has a new toner cartridge, and I have two spare new toner cartridges for it, so it is available for primary work. I put the Samsung color laser printer on the back side of the white bookcase at the kitchen entrance connected up to the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop computer. I never use the Samsung color laser printer except for my Christmas letters. I was in the bathroom, and I heard something fall. I looked all over the apartment, and I could not figure out what it was. I finally noticed that the Radio Shack NOAA weather radio had fallen off the white book case at the kitchen entrance, and when I looked down on the floor behind the bookcase, I also saw that the Glade automatic scent machine had fallen out of the Chinese vase from Macau. I guess its round bottom was not stable in the top of the vase. I put the NOAA weather radio back up on the top of the white bookcase, and I put the Glade automatic scent machine on top of the rear of the Samsung color laser printer.
It is suppose to get colder as I was told today http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VKsgF8nlzQA . I had turned the living room thermostat down two degrees in the warmer December weather, so I turned it back up to 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and since the living room thermostat is not accurate, the actual temperature in the living room will be about 70 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400109699937207779200 on the order for $9.99 with free shipping TRENDnet TU2-ET100 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter * For Macbook Air and Windows PC
Tracking number is "1ZX79933YW06262567" at www.ups.com on the order for LITE-ON DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA Model iHAS124-14 - OEM for $19.99 with $7 off with promo code "EMCWHGP33" for $12.99 total with free shipping.
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400109699938073343366 on the order for
for $5.49 with free shipping.
CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 6:00 P.M. For dinner I ate a rotisserie chicken leg, thigh, wing, and two 1/4th inch thick slices of white breast meat with Frank's hot sauce, a baked sweet potato or yam with steamed baby carrots and steamed sliced zucchini with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of green tea with Equal sweetener and Borden's lemon juice and a sliced tomato seasoned with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, celery salt, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil. I threw out the garbage. I picked up the mail. The order for the Retractable Universal Silvery New Touch Screen Stylus Pen for $3.30 with free shipping from Hong Kong, Hong Kong arrived. I already gave my neighbor, a spare on that I had, so I will keep the new one as a spare. I chatted with a new neighbor that I already know. It seems since the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to England, they took some of the local British residents back with them. I noticed, when I was downtown today that the http://www.jackwills.com/ has closed, but they have other stores in the area. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 3:35 P.M. The building fire alarm went off, while I was getting dressed to leave. I chatted with a neighbor. I threw out the garbage. As I was driving out, two Greenwich Fire Trucks showed up. I went to my 10:30 A.M.. appointment. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar Store, and I bought another Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and the prize was a $1,000, and I got a Jack, and the dealer got a Queen, so I lost again. I then stopped by CVS, and I bought three 17.5 ounce low salt deluxe mixed nuts for $6.99 each for $20.97 total. I then bought two 11 ounce Maxwell House Breakfast Blend coffee for $2.50 each and a total cost of zero with the previous purchase I got $5 bonus bucks. I then finished my walk. I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center. I chatted with a local photographer. I then went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought a rotisserie chicken for $6.99, three clearance tomatoes and one zucchini for $1.35, a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.50, a Bermuda red onion for $1.99 a pound for $1.11, a 42 ounce old fashioned Quaker oatmeal for $3.99, a 15.5 ounce Hungry Man turkey dinner for $2.50, a 16 ounce Hungry Man veal parmesan dinner for $2.50, and .35 can return for $21.59 total. I then returned home, and I put away my groceries. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 9:50 A.M. I will now get ready to go out to my 10:30 A.M. appointment. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 9:25 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 7:55 A.M. Jeb Bush picks Greenwich as springboard for potential White House bid
I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/05/15 Monday 7:05 A.M. I woke up at 5:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 10:30 P.M. On www.pbs.org Channel 13, I watched series 5, episode 1 of "Downton Abby" . I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. I have a 10:30 A.M. appointment tomorrow. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 8:40 P.M. Windows 7 SP1 *.iso downloads, but you still need a product key http://www.mytechguide.org/10042/windows-7-sp1-iso-download-official-digitalriver-links/
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 7:50 P.M. I ordered $9.99 with free shipping TRENDnet TU2-ET100 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter * For Macbook Air and Windows PC CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 6:05 P.M. I took the last 12 ounces of the Cajun potato salad, and I put it in a microwave proof bowl with lid, and I heated it for 4 minutes on 70% power level in the Sharp microwave oven. I ate it with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
I have a Lenovo PCI X16 Express low rise video card that came with the previous Lenovo ThinkCentre, so I will install that in the next Lenovo ThinkCentre. I do not know if it has any memory, or it is just another video add on card. I also have another HDMI to VGA adapter. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 6:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative who just bought a $79.98 Cuisinart Digital Convection Toaster Oven . I made 293 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching Series 3, Episodes 3 and 4 of "Jeeves and Wooster". CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 1:55 P.M. I took 12 ounces of the Cajun potato salad, and I put it in a microwave proof bowl with lid, and I heated it for 4 minutes on 70% power level in the Sharp microwave oven. I ate it with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and two clementines from Moroc. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 1:15 P.M. I chatted with a relative. For the Pierre Cardin pen, I ordered http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-CROSS-Type-Ballpoint-Pen-Refills-BLUE/230895278758?_trksid=p2054897.c100204.m3164&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140407115239%26meid%3Df438bff91d114c1b9f2106b85e3bd935%26pid%3D100204%26prg%3D20140407115239%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D30%26sd%3D121282975281
for $5.49 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 12:40 P.M. I moved the Glade Automatic air freshener from on top of the Epox computer to on top of the Chinese vase at the kitchen entrance. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 12:15 P.M. I am not expecting any Russians for Russian Christmas on January 7, 2015, so I took down the artificial wreath from the front door and little two foot artificial Christmas tree at the apartment entrance on the white bookcase at the kitchen entrance, and I put them in a large plastic bag underneath the bedroom desk. I left the teak stand on the white bookcase at the kitchen entrance with the $10 Chinese vase from Macau on top of it along with the Radio Shack NOAA weather radio, Brother laser printer, little Norwegian flag on a little silver stand and the Brazilian pen holder with the Pierre Cardin pen that Tony Pigato gave me about 28 years ago. I do not have the Mark Cross pen that came with it, since shortly after he gave it to me, I had three young Irish guys over to my apartment at 700 Steamboat Road for beers, and the Mark Cross pen disappeared. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 11:50 A.M. I installed the Windows Updates on the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I installed the Windows Updates on the IBM ThinkCentre underneath the Ocosmo TV in the living room. I installed the Driver Updates on the Epox computer on the oak dining table. I also put in a new Energizer #2032 CMOS battery in the Epox computer. I had put in a new one about two months ago, but for some reason it was worn out. I tested the new one with a battery tester, and it is fully charged. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 9:00 A.M. I bought LENOVO THINKCENTRE M58 2.7Ghz Dual Core 320GB 4096MB for $43.50 with $8.70 off with coupon code "US20" and $11.99 FedEx shipping and $2.97 tax for $49.76 total. I will hook it up to the Abit Computer setup in the bedroom with the Abit's devices and configure it once again with Windows 10 Technical Preview. I won't add any parts to it except the DVD drive that I took out from the other Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I will leave the Abit tower in place unconnected with the Lenovo ThinkCentre stacked up on top of the other two. CIO
!!!!!!<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 8:20 A.M. One can buy this for $50 with shipping with coupon code "US20" LENOVO THINKCENTRE M58 2.7Ghz Dual Core 320GB 4096MB CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 7:50 A.M. I have a 11 A.M. appointment tomorrow morning January 5, 2015 at 11 A.M.. CIO
<888> 01/04/15 Sunday 6:20 A.M. I woke up at 4:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 01/03/15
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 9:15 P.M. I chatted with a friend and a relative. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 7:55 P.M. I ate 11 triscuit brown rice crackers with sea salt and black pepper with about .75 inch by 1.75 inch by 1.75 inch by 3/16th inch slices of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese on them. I also at the last ounce of mixed nuts. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 7:10 P.M. The LG DVD/RW drive is recognized and works just fine on the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. It is a nice computer for the price and very powerful for the price. If and when the Windows 10 Technical Preview expires, I will put the Windows 7 Home Professional on it and configure it.
Cunard® CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 5:35 P.M. I picked up the mail. It raining outside right now. It is supposed to be 59 degrees Fahrenheit here tomorrow with showers. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 5:10 P.M. There are these instructions for removing the old DVD drive from the Lenovo ThinkCentre http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/43c6692.pdf , but they are not right. Once on has the housing in an upright position on the left side of the DVD Drive housing there is a 1.5 inch by .35 inch metal tab bar with a round end. One depresses the round end, and the DVD drive housing easily slides out with its attachment carriage bar. I have the new LG DVD/RW drive installed with the same carriage bar, and I will test it shortly. I also vacuum out the front fan housing from the front of the CPU case removing some dust building up which would interfere with air circulation to cool the unit. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 3:55 P.M. I ordered LITE-ON DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA Model iHAS124-14 - OEM for $19.99 with $7 off with promo code "EMCWHGP33" and Fellowes 98335 NEATO Slim CD/DVD Jewel Cases - 100 Packs - OEM for $26.49 for $39.48 total with free shipping.
I will put a spare DVD/RW drive in the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. The final hardware configuration of it will be:
Lenovo ThinkCentre M57P Scott36 with 4 gigabytes of memory and 160 gigabyte hard drive, 64 bit came with Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 installed.
MT-M 6073-AR4 S/N LKPTWTY
https://arrowdirect.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m57p-2-33ghz-core-2-duo-desktop-160gb-4096mb.html for $68.20 less 20% with coupon code "US20" for $13.64 off with $4.22 tax and $11.99 FedEx shipping for $70.77 total. It is a little bit slower than the other one, but it has Windows 7 Home and a DVD drive. It is a 64 bit processor, December 26, 2014
The specs are http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkcentre-m-series-desktops/thinkcentre-m57p
StarTech.com 5.1 Channel PCI Surround Sound Card Adapter for $18.99 with free shipping, December 26, 2014
$9.99 with free shipping TRENDnet TU2-ET100 10/100 USB Ethernet Adapter * For Macbook Air and Windows PC, December 26, 2014
http://www.cowboom.com/deal-of-the-day.cfm Galaxy GeForce GT610 GC 1 GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card for $14.99 and $5 shipping and $1.27 tax for $21.26 total
LG Internal Super Multi Drive 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA Model GH24NSB0 - OEM for $14.99 with coupon code "EMCYTZT5442" and free shipping, January 13, 2014
Total: $136.00, January 3, 2014
CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 3:10 P.M. I took 12 ounces of the Cajun potato salad, and I put it in a microwave proof bowl with lid, and I heated it for 4 minutes on 70% power level in the Sharp microwave oven. I ate it with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I chatted with a relative. It started snowing heavily about an hour ago, but now it has stopped. There is about a one inch accumulation so far. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 1:50 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went by the new www.chase.com bank on the West Side of the Greenwich Library. I then went by the Wells Fargo Bank on Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by Starbucks, and I used the bathroom. I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store to warm up. At CVS, I bought two 10.8 ounce Folger's Black Silk Coffee for $3.50 each less $6.50 CVS End of the Year Bonus Bucks Coupon from the coupon machine for 50 cents total. I chatted with a couple of locals. I then stopped by the new East Putnam Avenue Variety store on the north side of Subway Sandwich on upper Greenwich Avenue, and I bought a roll of Scotch Magic tape for $3.70. It is the type of roll that fits in Scotch tape dispensers. I then finished my walk, and I sat out for a while. I then used the bathroom at Starbucks again. I then went by the Stop and Shop. I bought four buy one get one free of Thomas's English Muffins for $4.29 each two, a 59 ounce Simply Orange orange juice with calcium for $3, two 64 ounce Ocean Spray crangrape juice for $2.50 each, two 64 ounce Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $2.50 each, a 42 ounce Old Fashioned Quaker oatmeal for $4.59, a five quart box of Stop and Shop powdered milk for $7.29, buy one 9.5 ounce of Lays sour cream and onion potato chips get one free for $4.29 both, a quart of jar of Hellmann's extra virgin olive oil mayonnaise for $2.99, two quart jars of B&G Kosher dill spears for $2 each, two 12 ounce generic honey for $2.50 each, two 8 ounce Lysol automatic hand soap dispenser aloe refills for $3.37 each, two 8 ounce John Soules grilled chicken breast strips for $3 each, bananas for .49 a pound for $1.39, a sweet potato for .99 a pound for .76 for $64.63 total. I then returned home, and I carried up my groceries, and I put them away. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 8:05 A.M. After I clean up. I will go out and do errands. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 7:20 A.M. I put the Microsoft Wireless 5000 keyboard and mouse desk set on the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom, since it uses a USB dongle. The Lenovo ThinkCentre does not have PS/2 ports, so I could not use the Microsoft Wireless 6000 keyboard and mouse on it, so I put it back on the IBM ThinkCentre underneath the Ocosmo TV in the living room. There are USB to PS/2 adapters which one could use, and I think I have some, but it is not necessary with the equipment that I have. I will now make up a fresh patch of punch. CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 6:55 A.M. http://healthcare.utah.edu/huntsmancancerinstitute/ CIO
<888> 01/03/15 Saturday 6:40 A.M. I ate one ounce of mixed nuts before going to bed. I finally woke up at 5 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 10:40 P.M. I took 12 ounces of the Cajun potato salad, and I put it in a microwave proof bowl with lid, and I heated it for 4 minutes on 70% power level in the Sharp microwave oven. I ate it with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I also ate one ounce of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese.
I found this page http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht001060?tabName=Solutions which says on the M57p model of Lenovo, one can not change the Intel ME settings at boot up. It also says the Intel ME default password is "admin" .
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 9:20 P.M. I sat outside briefly on a cool night. I picked up the mail. I got my rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 8:55 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I updated the CMOS on the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I moved the 19 inch Compaq LCD monitor to the IBM ThinkCentre beneath the Ocosmo TV in the living room. I used two more Encyclopedia Britannicas to raise up the Ocosmo TV another three inches, so the Compaq monitor will not block it. I moved the Acer 19 inch LCD monitor from there to the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. It is a higher resolution monitor that works better with the Windows 10 Apps. I also installed the 15 foot HDMI cable from the video card to the Haier TV in the bedroom, and it works just fine. The only flaw in the Lenovo ThinkCentre on booting up, there is an Intel password also that I don't have that controls the motherboard LAN, which I am not using, since I have the TrendNet USB LAN device installed. However, the basic hardware and software configuration on the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom is just fine and works great. There is no network printing on it, since the Windows 64 bit does not support the TrendNet Router USB Print Server. However, the IBM ThinkCentre beneath it is 32 bit and prints out just fine on the network. Anyway the Lexmark E238 laser printer on the network is not available until I get the toner replacement in the mail. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 4:55 P.M. Configuration on the new Lenovo ThinkCentre went just fine. The only problem was the new video card would not work in the new Lenovo ThinkCentre, but the other video card from the other Lenovo ThinkCentre works in the new Lenovo ThinkCentre, so I put that in, and I put the new video card in the other Lenovo ThinkCentre where it works just fine. I was not able to do a Complete PC backup of the Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 partition, since I think the Restore partition keeps the Complete PC backup from working, so I did an Aoemi backup of the new Lenovo ThinkCentre to the Rosewill 1 TB USB external hard drive. I am now restoring the dual installation of Windows 10 Technical Preview to the new Lenovo ThinkCentre, and it is restoring just fine. I installed the video drivers of on both partitions of the other Lenovo ThinkCentre, and it works just fine with the new video card. I put the Compaq 19 inch LCD monitor that was on the Epox computer on the new Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I have one of the Eizo 19 inch LCD monitors on the Epox computer. I stored the shipping box on the bedroom closet shelf. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 1:05 P.M. Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400111899561815962696 on the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/185g-Toner-Refill-for-Lexmark-23800SW-23820SW-Cartridge-for-E238-Printer-/281406871463?pt=US_Toner_Refills_Kits&hash=item41852817a7 for $8.75 with free shipping.
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The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/fedextrack/WTRK/index.html?tracknumbers=625168333260&cntry_code=us&fdx=1490 on the order for https://arrowdirect.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m57p-2-33ghz-core-2-duo-desktop-160gb-4096mb.html for $68.20 less 20% with coupon code "US20" for $13.64 off with $4.22 tax and $11.99 Fedex shipping for $70.77 total arrived. I will now configure it. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 12:45 P.M. I sat outside for 45 minutes, and I chatted with neighbors. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 10:55 A.M. Another slow day http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=2354&q=415220 . CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 10:55 A.M. Flu rises in Connecticut, hits epidemic levels nationwide
I updated:
http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/sn.htm
http://mikelouisscott.com/sn.htm
CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 10:35 A.M. I went downstairs, and I chatted with a neighbor. I sat outside briefly. I took 12 ounces of the Cajun potato salad, and I put it in a microwave proof bowl with lid, and I heated it for 4 minutes on 70% power level in the Sharp microwave oven. I ate it with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 8:50 A.M. I have a spare 15 foot HDMI cable which I can use to hook up the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the Haier LCD TV in the bedroom for additional display purposes. The video card will support it. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 8:05 A.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 8:05 A.M. I took the Microsoft Wireless 6000 keyboard and mouse off the IBM ThinkCentre underneath the Ocosmo TV in the living room, and I put the Microsoft Wireless 5000 keyboard and mouse on it. I will use the Microsoft Wireless 6000 keyboard and mouse on the Lenovo ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I will put the Lenovo ThinkCentre on top of the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I will keep the Logitech wireless comfort keyboard and mouse on the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I disconnected the other items connected to the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom, and I will use them on the Lenovo ThinkCentre. I transferred the items that were connected to the Dell Latitude 4600i computer to the IBM ThinkCentre in the bedroom. I will leave the Dell Latitude 4600i computer in place on the far right of the bedroom desk without anything hooked up to it. I thus am prepared to install and configure the Lenovo ThinkCentre once I receive it later on today. It will be another 64 bit double installation of Windows 10 Technical Preview if all goes well. I will have seven Windows 10 Technical Preview beta computers setup, once I have the Lenovo ThinkCentre setup in the bedroom. I spend a lot of time setting up the beta computers, but I actually do not have that much free time to use them and test them. However, it is a learning experience. I will also now have a 64 bit laptop and two 64 bit desktops for the next Windows 11 beta which is in a year or so will only be available in 64 bit and not 32 bit too as Windows 10 Technical Preview is. CIO
<888> 01/02/15 Friday 3:40 A.M. I woke up at 2 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 6:20 P.M. If one clicks on the "Buy Now" button here http://slickdeals.net/f/7565700-dell-outlet-latitude-e5540-i5-4210u-ssd-8gb-9cell-426-30 , one can order a 24 inch refurbished Dell Monitor with tax and shipping for $107. I chatted with a relative. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 4:55 P.M. I ate three ounces of mixed nuts.
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<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 3:45 P.M. I took 12 ounces of the Cajun potato salad, and I put it in a microwave proof bowl with lid, and I heated it for 4 minutes on 70% power level in the Sharp microwave oven. I ate it with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I mailed the letter downstairs. I wished a neighbor "Happy New Years". I threw out the garbage and the calendar shipping box. All quiet on the Greater South Western Connecticut Front near the border of Nova Yorka. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 2:45 P.M. I put in a new Photoconductor Kit in the Lexmark E238 laser printer in May 2014. Perhaps the reason, I use so much toner is that I mostly only use it for printing out my notes every four months. However, I print out the notes in TimesRoman Bold 12 pt. Font, which might use a lot of toner. Since it is a work horse of a laser printer, 5,600 sheets printed out since I bought it December 2005 from Staples for $72.62 after a $80 mail in rebate is not a lot of usage. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 2:15 P.M. I printed out my last four months of Scott's Notes, and they are 222 pages long. I put them in two clamp binders that I laid on the www.harvard.edu chair at the hallway entrance.
I have them available for download at:
http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsnote32.pdf
http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mlsnote32.pdf
http://scott-mike.com/mlsnote32.pdf
CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 12:40 P.M. I was printing out my last four months of my notes with my Lexmark E238 laser printer. It is out of toner. I put in a new genuine Lexmark E238 printer toner cartridge good for 6,000 sheets in May 2013, and I have only printed less than 1000 sheets with it, but it is out of toner. To save money, I ordered http://www.ebay.com/itm/185g-Toner-Refill-for-Lexmark-23800SW-23820SW-Cartridge-for-E238-Printer-/281406871463?pt=US_Toner_Refills_Kits&hash=item41852817a7 for $8.75 with free shipping. I am printing out my notes with the Minolta PagePro 1350W laser printer, which takes more time. The Lexmark E238 laser printer has only printed out about 5,600 pages since it was new. I have used two six thousand sheet toner cartridges and one 3000 sheet toner cartridge in the Lexmark E238 laser printer. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 10:25 A.M. I chatted with a relative.
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<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 9:10 A.M. I printed out two copies of the Microsoft Money Sunset Income versus Spending report for December 2014, and I have one copy ready to mail to an interested relative. I put a forever stamp on the envelope. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 8:10 A.M. I put out my six new 2015 calendars on the five living room closet doors and the kitchen refrigerator door. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 7:35 A.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 01/01/15 Thursday 6:50 A.M. Happy New Years. I woke up, and I ate 7 ounces of mixed nuts. I finally woke up at 5 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
