Note: <888> 02/28/11 Monday 10:00 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate a dozen rosemary and olive oil triscuit crackers with 3/16th inch thick by .75 inch by 2 inch slices of Cabot's Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them.  I finally woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I chatted with www.chase.com some more at 1-866-564-2262 .  I chatted with a friend.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I delivered a UPS package to a neighbor.  I watched some television.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now eat some chili with rice and watered down punch.  I will then wash the breakfast dishes.  Although I am well rested, I do not think older people should be wandering around at night, since I am 60 years old.  Also if I went for a drive, it might be up to $4 in gasoline used, which is the cost of making a good meal at home.  I printed out two copies of my February 2011 Microsoft Money 2007 income versus spending report.  I will either fax or mail a copy to an interested relative.  I have an 11 A.M. appointment tomorrow morning.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/28/11 Monday 3:30 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Rain today and 53 to 29 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/28/11 Monday 1:45 A.M.  BBC News - Oscars 2011: The King's Speech reigns at Oscars

Note: <888> 02/28/11 Monday 1:25 A.M.  I ate two 7 ounce salmon cakes with my regular flavored rice and steam lengthwise sliced baby carrots with broccoli crowns mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 11:45 P.M.  I guess since Greenwich, Connecticut is so expensive, people do not go to pubs at night, since if they started drinking alcohol, they would not be able to afford to live here for too long.

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 11:00 P.M.  The Greenwich Hospital is suppose to have a lot of people awake at night, but we should respect their privacy, so they can focus on their work of healing people.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 10:50 P.M.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with two out of town security agencies.  I threw out the garbage.  It is my professional viewpoint that since the town of Greenwich, Connecticut pays over $3 billion a year in state and federal taxes that we do not get back a fair amount in state and federal services for the amount of taxes that the local citizens pay.  It seems the democrats in the neighboring towns get all of our tax money along with many of our local public jobs.  It would seem to me the local republicans should take action to remove this inequality.  Also, it would seem since we have over a million travelers drive through this town every week, there would be a larger number of state and federal officials covering the town of Greenwich, Connecticut.  I see one state trooper about every six months and the same for metro north security.  If the federal government covers this town particularly at night, most of half the people I have seen at night on my 27 years mostly awake at night, are first generation immigrants or illegal aliens.  There does not seem to be any interest in the federal government maintaining any sort of surveillance at night around here despite the large numbers of travelers coming through this area.  It seems rather strange the local politicians have not lobbied more vigorously for more federal funds to maintain security in the town.  I guess it is all because they are mostly daytime people.  When I just went out, I could hear non stop traffic on the nearby Interstate 95, so from what I can tell in the only feedback I have gotten from the local FBI is that Greenwich, Connecticut is nothing but old retired people, and there is not much crime here.  It would seem to be, because the Federal Government does not maintain surveillance here that local out of country visitors take up residence here to conduct their business without having to worry about surveillance.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 8:45 P.M.  After the last note, I got to thinking the Mobil station on West Putnam Avenue might be the source of my Chase debit card being hacked.  I do not have any specific evidence, but I had used my last two debit cards there weekly for gasoline purchases.  Also the last purchase as a credit charge a week ago on Sunday February 21, 2011 for the amount of $6.01 has yet to show up on my account.  While I was there one of the gasoline attendants had one of pumps nearest the street open, and he was working on it.  I called up the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue, and the regular night person Richard told me, they had just put in new more secure card readers.  Thus I guess I will start getting the little amount of gasoline that I use there.  The Mobil station also is under constant surveillance, since there is a traffic camera at Weaver Street and West Putnam Avenue pointed at the Mobil station.  Whatever, the case the Chase debit card hacking still might be through the internet, but the internet uses 128 bit encryption, so it is not that easy to hack.  The illegal charges made on my debit card looked like they were at web sites that do not ask for the security number, so possibly someone is obtaining the debit card numbers outside of the internet.  I called up the Chase dispute center at 1-866-564-2262, and they told me, they do not prosecute charge card thieves.  I ate a bowl of the remaining rice that I made the night before and a glass of watered down punch.  I went to bed about 6 A.M..  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a local walker.  I went back to bed until 7 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives, and I watched some television.  I heard a lot of airplane traffic like people are returning back from winter vacation.  CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 02/27/11:

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 3:25 A.M.  I ate a few day old muffin.  I watched some television.

I will now send out my weekly notes.

I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed.

Cloudy today and 44 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 12:50 A.M.  vhub

Note: <888> 02/27/11 Sunday 12:20 A.M.  I made 168 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 10:00 P.M.  I ate a 21 ounce Marie Callendar frozen tomato and meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

I will now make cigarettes.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 9:15 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 8:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I have 25 minutes to go on two dry cycles.  I guess I will make cigarettes after I do my laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 7:40 P.M.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I have 15 minutes to go on two loads of laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 6:05 P.M.  I woke up at noon.  I drove over to the Chase Lafayette Branch.  Nobody seems to know the French language there besides me.  However, I only have four years of high school French.  I then returned home.  West Putnam Avenue was full of traffic like it was a normal day.  I chatted with neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.  I then went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 2:15 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed.

Partly cloudy and 35 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 2:10 A.M.  I took the 22 ounce frozen Stop and Shop frozen pizza, and I put it on a round pizza pan, and I spread around about a third of a cup of grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it, and I seasoned it generously with garlic powder and Italian seasoning, and I spread about a third of a cup of extra virgin olive oil on it, and I baked it on a raised stand in the Sharp convection over at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.  I then cuts it with a round pizza cutter into fourths, and I ate it all with a glass of watered down punch.  It sort of tastes like a real Northern Italian pizza.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 12:55 A.M.  List of Greenwich, Connecticut officials email addresses Town Officials - Greenwich Answer Book .  CIO

Note: <888> 02/26/11 Saturday 12:15 A.M.  I called up the Lake Forest, Illinois police non emergency telephone number at 1-847-234-2601 , and I had a little chat with them about matters as I know them.  Basically, since people seemed to be focused in this area of Greenwich, Connecticut with their circle of friends of six million Italians in the New England area, I frequently have to talk with people with a more Midwestern point of view of America as opposed to the spaghetti school of banking point of view here in the New York City area.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 11:30 P.M.  2,691 Treasure Coast residents log identity theft complaints with the FTC since 2005 » TCPalm.com  With all of the Greenwich people going to Vero Beach, Florida, some of the con artists from Vero Beach are probably coming up here and causing problems.  I reported the matter to a couple of out of town security agencies, but they were not interested in the matter.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 11:10 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants.

The order for WR9098 3 LED Light Keychain, Aluminum for $3.14 less $2.15 with coupon code "MLCK4031480214HPL1" for 99 cents with free shipping from China arrived.  I took off the old small flash light from my key chain.  It did not have batteries that could be replaced.  I put the new one on.  It has three small lithium batteries that one needs to replace when they wear out.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 10:00 P.M.  The red Viper Epox computer still does not startup properly when one turns on the CPU case switch.  One still has to start it up by the more tedious two step method described earlier below.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 9:40 P.M.  After the last note, I was sitting in the kitchen having a cigarette.  Suddenly a little two inch long small black field mouse came out from behind the refrigerator and walked up to me, and put its hands up like it was praying.  I asked it what it was doing here, and it looked like it was starving to death.  It then walked slowly into the living room and stood between the oak dining table and the Panasonic Toughbook.  I picked up the little Queen Elizabeth II candy dish, and I put it over the mouse, and then I slid one of the small place mats underneath it.  I then took it outside, and I released it by the front side of the building, where hopefully it will find a better lifestyle.  I can not afford to keep a pet mouse in the apartment, but who knows it might have other friends that know more being so tiny.  There is about an inch gap underneath my front door to the apartment, where a mouse can easily get into the apartment.  Who knows maybe, it was a CIA robot mouse sent to spy on me.

I then went to bed about noon.  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I chatted with a friend, who told me up north in Massachusetts, they had 13 inches of snow.  I chatted with a relative who told me it was reported in their newspaper that the AT&T credit card data base had been hacked, and the hackers are using the credit card information to make a couple of small charges on each credit card hoping that nobody notices.  I do use my Chase debit card to pay my AT&T Go Phone, but I had not used the new debit card that I got around the first of February 2011 to make any such charges.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative, and I chatted with two friends and a local security official.  I called back Chase to update them.  I also chatted with Microsoft Security, and the telephone call went first to India, and they transfered me to Redmond, Washington.  They do not really seem interested in Redmond, Washington with matters that happen outside of their own area.

The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for Minolta/QMS Remanufactured 1710567-001 Black Laser Toner Cartridge for Minolta/QMS PagePro 1300W / 1350W Printers (High Capacity) - replaces Minolta/QMS 1710567-001 for $40.95 less 5% with coupon code "ABC-ALL5PER" for a $2.05 discount for $38.90 less $24.71 store credit for $14.19 total was outside my door.

I will now make up a new batch of punch, and then I will make my bed, and I will shower and clean up.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 11:30 A.M.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Rain and wind today and 48 to 24 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 10:45 A.M.  I called the State of Connecticut Food Stamp client hotline at 1-888-328-2666, and I had them cancel my current EBT Food Stamp card, since it was worn out after 10 years.  I called the Connecticut Department of Social Services over in Stamford, Connecticut at their case worker number at 1-203-251-9317, and I had them reissue me a new EBT food stamp card.

I called up my Chase www.chase.com branch which is now the Greenwich Lafayette branch at 1-203-861-7379 at 19 West Putnam Avenue as opposed to the Mason street branch which no longer exists.  I chatted with person that answered the telephone from Peru, and I explained the situation with my Chase Debit card, and I told him some things I know about the larger Spanish speaking community.

I will now reheat the remaining chili with rice mixture that I made yesterday, and I will eat it with a glass of watered down punch.  You would think with all of the Spanish speaking people I know that I feel like the Viceroy of the Americas, but I don't know Spanish. Rice flavored with tomato sauce is called Spanish rice.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 8:40 A.M.  My www.chase.com debit card was hacked again.  There are charges pending for $19.99 to Yahoo Mail out of California and Match.com out of Texas for $35.34.  I called up the Chase Dispute Center at 1-866-564-2262 , and I had them cancel the card.  The last time I used this card was this past evening for a 94 cent charged at the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue.  Hopefully someone has not set up a card scanner at that location.  The only places I have used the card locally is the CVS on Greenwich Avenue which has lots of cameras and Mobil Gasoline station on West Putnam Avenue.  I do not have it posted online at any locations.  I have used it online mostly with Paypal for small purchases which tends to be secure.  It was last hacked around the first of February 2011, so it seems to be a recurring pattern.  I did use it at 4Noggins and PCMicrostore and the Computer Cable Store, but that was over two weeks ago.  From what I know people setup card scanners at terminals to get card numbers.  I called the Greenwich Police at 1-203-622-8000, and I told them about it.  They said if I want to file a report, I have to stop by there.  I can not cancel the two charges, until they have cleared pending.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 7:50 A.M.  I'm worried that this might be the January thaw, and then we go back to winter again.  I have seen six inches of snow in New York City as late as the first week of May in 1971.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 7:30 A.M.  Flood watch in effect as heavy rain falls - GreenwichTime .

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 6:40 A.M.  Illinois is a relatively large rural state.  Since it is just north of Kentucky, the Illinois state police have a lot of room to see any Kentucky moon shiners showing up in their neck of the woods.

The cousins on the farm in downstate Illinois use to like playing with baby wolf cubs.  I do not know what they did when the wolves grew up.  I remember, they once got into a fight in one of the chicken coops, and they were throwing chickens at each other.  They did not have indoor plumbing until around 1958.  I am not sure if they used the Sears catalog or corn husks in the out house.

The relatives in Holland, Michigan on my mother's family were more prosperous.  My grandfather owned half a men's clothing store and he also owned a millinery shop.

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 6:05 A.M.  Of course in the British network, John Scott Paine's father use to own the British Motor Boat Company.  I think his former wife's new husband now drives a Rolls Royce with a Chrysler engine down somewhere in Mexico.

I think the Springfield Rolls Royce also had an American engine in it.

The Aston Martin dealership here in Greenwich where the Subaru dealership used to be has a fairly new very large cobalt blue Rolls Royce limousine on their lot for the last couple of years.   I guess nobody in the world can afford that much gasoline anymore.  I have not checked it out to see if it is left hand or right hand drive.  I think in Bermuda, they still drive on the left side of the road.  They also drive on the left side of the road in Tobago.

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 5:35 A.M.  I filled out the every six month food stamps redetermination form, and I mailed to my Connecticut Social Worker in the mail room downstairs.

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 4:05 A.M.  On future apartment maintenance, the piece of 1/8th inch thick Plexiglas that I broke, when I took it out, when I removed the Panasonic air conditioner from the bedroom was 1/8th of an inch by 30 inches and by 18 inches.  I believe it was not quite long enough by about an inch.  The window opening is about 52 inches wide.  The Panasonic air conditioner is 22 inches by 16 inches, but the lower frame of the window is two inches deep, so one needs an 18 inch high piece of Plexiglas.  However, from my other air conditioner installations in the previous windows, I have a 1/4 inch by 26 inch by 18.5 piece and two together which are 1/4inch by 31 inch by 17 inch in two equal sizes of two pieces.  Thus hopefully, when it comes times in the spring to install the two air conditioners, I should be able to use the various pieces to install the one in the bedroom.  One can always use duct tape to fill in the gaps.  The smaller living room air conditioner fits into the small opening and does not need Plexiglas.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 2:30 A.M.  Mentions Lanzarote here The Danish Monarchy - The Royal House HM Queen Anne-Marie

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 1:20 A.M.  What is strange about this story You can’t make this (insert synonym for fecal matter here) up - Greenwich Real Time - Greenwich Time is that Coline Jenkins use to be my landlady when I lived down by the waterfront.  As I recall, her house did not have a mail box, the postal person named John Prince who also use to attend the Round Hill Community Church would leave the mail on the table in the front lobby of the building.  Since she owned the building, I doubt if she has moved.  The grey haired fellow in the far right of the picture is Carl Carlson, a Swedish American residence who has a PHD in chemistry, but he once told me, he has never been to Sweden, but when one chats with him, you can tell, he has read more books than most people, and he once told me, he has a large private library of his own.

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 1:00 A.M.  Thus it would seem if one shuts down the Red Viper Case Epox computer with the red tube lights turned on, it will not start up properly, until the charge from the ballast has been discharged.  I guess one could use the red tube light switch as a master control over ride switch to prevent access to the computer if need be.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 12:35 A.M.  I think I have fixed the red Viper Epox computer switch problem.  I have two small red tube lights installed in the case with a clear Plexiglas side, and they have a small electrical ballast attached to their wiring.  I turned off the red tube lights switch which is in on one of the rear PCI slots, and now the red Viper Epox computer starts up properly.  There must be a charge left in the electrical ballast which effects the CPU case switch.  Of course at the control panel underneath the Acer LCD monitor, one has to turn on all six labeled switches, and although the Red Viper Epox computer only has one Acer LCD monitor, it needs both of the control panel monitor switches turned on along with master switch, the speaker switch, the USB switch, and the CPU switch for six control panel switches total.  The second or left monitor switch turns on the ViewSonic TV adapter which feeds the CPU video signal into the Acer monitor. 

I have the Panasonic headset laid on top of the CPU case set up to receive the ViewSonic TV adapter audio signal.  This might all sound like a little bit of Greek to the household user, but I happened to build and run more complex computers than some people might be familiar with.

The Red Viper Case Epox computer has not been used very much, so it is a like new computer, but it has two older Maxtor 160 gigabyte used hard drives in it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 12:20 A.M.  For the last couple of years, the Epox computer in the Red Viper case has had a problem with its on and off switch.  It does not always turn on the first time.  It seems to have something to do with the other power to the other accessories from the power control center.  It usually turns on the second time, after the power control center is turned off, and the red computer case switch is press once.  There is a brief flash of light, and then when one turns on the power control center CPU switch, the CPU switch works the second time, and then the other switches can be turned on. 

Note: <888> 02/25/11 Friday 12:05 A.M.  I sorted through the magazines in the magazine rack on the left side of the Ethan Allen recliner.  I threw out the old ones along with this week's garbage and weekly periodical literature.  Thus the magazine rack is less cluttered and organized.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/24/11 Thursday 10:55 P.M.  Newmont Mining, Joy Global Keep Up The Payouts - Forbes.com

Note: <888> 02/24/11 Thursday 10:05 P.M.  I ate a 8 ounce sautéed eye round of beef cheeseburger with three slices of provolone cheese on a Kaiser roll with ketchup and my usual vegetable and flavored rice mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

The Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue is opened until 11 P.M. on week days and 10 P.M. on weekends.  They have a nice rotisserie chicken section on the far right in back just before the delicatessen section.  Besides rotisserie chickens, they also have chicken salad, sliced chicken or roast beef sandwiches, and a few other items.  It is probably the cheapest good food for those on the run in Greenwich, Connecticut.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/24/11 Thursday 8:40 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate a few day old muffin.  I finally woke up at 2 P.M. this afternoon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription.  I bought three 19 ounce cans of Campbell's chili with steak and beans for $1.50 each and a 19 ounce can of Campbell's homestead chili with beans for $1.50 for $6 total.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I toured CVS again, and I used the bathroom there.  I then finished my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a staff member about Denmark and Canada.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a dozen extra large Eggland eggs expire March 20, 2011 for $3.29, a 59 ounce carton of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $2.50, a quart jar of B&G kosher dill spears for $3.19, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for .96 for $9.94 total.  I then put my groceries in the Audi.  I then went back in the Stop and Shop, and I used the bathroom.  I then bought a 22 ounce Stop and Shop frozen cheese pizza for $2.50.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I put away my groceries.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/24/11 Thursday 4:10 A.M.  I finished configuring the Epox computer with Windows XP Professional.  I did a Windows XP Professional ASR backup to the second internal hard drive and then to the Seagate external hard drive.  I can not install the SP1 updates on the bedroom Abit computer.  I restored its backup a number of times, but it still will not install SP1.  I have an earlier backup I could try, or I could do a new install.  However, the bedroom Abit computer is working fine for now, so I will not worry about it now.  I made up a batch of the chili and rice mixture.  I ate half with a glass of watered down punch, and I refrigerated the other half.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly cloudy today and 46 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit.  It is currently 16 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will go through my email tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/23/11 Wednesday 10:10 P.M. I am still working on configuring the XP Professional partition on the Epox computer.  I changed the audio cables around, so the ViewSonic TV device audio plays through the Panasonic headset.  The computer audio now plays through the Monsoon computer speakers.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  I threw out the garbage.  I said hello to a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  I am having a hard time installing the updates on the bedroom Abit computer.  I removed the LeadTek TV card from it, but that still did not make a difference.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/23/11 Wednesday 4:15 P.M.  I woke up at 1 P.M., when I had a telephone call from www.hourofpower.org .  I did a Complete PC backup of the primary work computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I am doing a new installation of Windows XP Professional on the Epox computer.  The Windows 7 demo that I had on it expired.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I restarted the FIC server.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/23/11 Wednesday 5:45 A.M.  I ate a couple of day old muffin.

I will now shut down the primary work computer.

Sunny today and 40 to 23 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/23/11 Wednesday 5:00 A.M.  I am still doing more systems maintenance.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/23/11 Wednesday 2:10 A.M.  I ate a 21 ounce Marie Callender meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

Note: <888> 02/22/11 Tuesday 11:25 P.M.  I have been doing some systems maintenance on the computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/22/11 Tuesday 9:35 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/22/11 Tuesday 8:45 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I made 157 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/22/11 Tuesday 5:05 P.M.  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 3:30 P.M..  I woke up when the building fire alarm was going off.  There was another apartment on the east end of the ground floor that had a kitchen smoke alarm.  The building custodian was not around.  I called the Greenwich Housing Authority at 1-203-869-1138, and I reported that they needed to contact the building custodian.  About a half hour later he returned, and he turned off the fire alarm.  I chatted with neighbors.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes.  I will then make my bed.  I will eat a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.   I then will shower and clean up.  I next will make some more cigarettes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/22/11 Tuesday 1:25 A.M.  I ate a few day old muffin with some watered down punch. 

Partly cloudy today and 31 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

Note: <888> 02/22/11 Tuesday 12:40 A.M.  Michael, explore Scotland for less

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 11:55 P.M.  I ate the other half of the sushi rice and chili mixture with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 11:15 P.M.  On Thursday May 25, 2000, I had my usual medical appointment at 3 P.M..  Afterwards, since it was a nice cool day, I drove over to Old Greenwich to Todd's Point in my 1976 white Volvo 4 door sedan.  I saw a teenage boy riding a bicycle with an orange wind breaker, and I also saw a women with Queen Elizabeth's look walking by the wind surfing beach area with a riding crop.  I parked behind the bushes at the southwest parking area between 4 and 4:30 P.M..  I walked out to the picnic area, and I sat at a picnic bench watching water fowl on the waterfront.   I did not notice any boats on the waterfront.  I sat there for about 20 minutes.  When I was walking out there, a large chunk of bark fell off a tree limb above the path in front of me.  The tree limb was about 12 feet above my head.  When I returned back down the pathway, I noticed at the base of that tree, there was a 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch square florescent orange target marker nailed into the base of the tree with a galvanized nail about eight inches off the ground.  I suddenly thought that there could be a sniper on the waterfront shooting at me, and they had knocked the bark off the tree limb at that point.  I told an undercover Greenwich Police office in the southwest parking area who was chatting with four teenage boys.  As I departed the park, I told Reilly the gate attendant.  I then stopped by the Riverside Post Office, and I told the postal clerk.  I then drove back towards town, and when I was crossing the Indian Field Road Bridge going south bound over the turnpike, a man in a 1954 turquoise blue and dark blue Ford Station wagon with a surf board on the roof and South Carolina license plates waved at me.  I had seen the car the previous summer around Greenwich.  I told the police baseball team at Bruce Park including the largest police officer.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I told the desk at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.  I escorted one of their staff to their car at the bottom of Steamboat Road.  I noticed a young blond teenage boy getting off the Indian Harbor Yacht Club launch with a set of golf clubs, which seemed unusual.  Technically they could have contained a weapon.  I then drove over to Grass Island, and I told several local fishermen at Grass Island.  I was told later by one of the veterans with the new laser scopes, "There is No Such Thing as Kentucky Wind Anymore."  Which I guess means the new equipment does not miss.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I told the reference librarian.  I noticed when driving back home to Byram on West Putnam Avenue that somebody that I know locally whom is suppose to be near blind was walking fast out of the Belle Haven area carrying two large duffle bags in front of the Pray Volkswagen dealership.  I know the person is not as blind as he pretends, since I have seen him casually reading his watch dial many times, when people are not watching.  I then returned home, and I called the Greenwich Police a few times to report facts as I could remember.  At the time there were several rifle shot holes in the No Clamming signs at the southwest picnic area at Todd's Point, which is ample evidence that somebody or sniper was shooting at targets there.  Later on that month, the signs were replaced with new signs.  During that period John F. Kennedy junior was a frequent jogger at Todd's Point. Nobody ever interviewed me, or paid any attention to my reports.  At the time Donald Trump www.trump.com had a house on the Waterfront in Indian Harbor, and I called him up at his office, and I told him what happened.  That day was cooler, so as I recall, I was also thinner at about 175 pounds.  I recalling wearing my New Zealand Brook Brothers brown leather bomber jacket with my olive green Australian canvas bush hat.  I do not recall whether I was wearing blue jeans or not, but I usually dress up for my medical appointment.  One local waterfront resident from South Africa told me that the local lobstermen shoot at each other all of the time trying to protect their lobster traps from poaching.  Before my medical appointment that day, I had been down on the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I had chatted with a new Greenwich resident from India named Dr. Palai? and he was wearing a black turban, and he was with a younger woman.  I only saw him once more after that, and that was at the Japanese restaurant on Greenwich Avenue, when I passed by.  Possibly the sniper attempt had something to do with Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , since Warren Anderson the president of Union Carbide lived in Greenwich at the time.  However, there are a lot of shady Mafiosi characters around the waterfront in Greenwich, Connecticut; so it could have been any of a number of other individuals.  There was also a Ku Klux Klan rally in Hartford, Connecticut that weekend.  That also would have been around the time there was graduation at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.  Around that period, there was also an expert big game hunter around the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and as I recall he said he was from Harrison, New York.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 10:15 P.M.  Shoreline fair game for winter hunters - GreenwichTime

As I recall, it was Thursday May 25, 2000 around 4:30 P.M., when I was shot at by a sniper at the Southwest Picnic area at Tod's Point.  There is no mention of it in my notes, since I do not think I mentioned it in my notes for security reasons.  When it happened, I told dozens of people, so it was not big secret.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 9:45 P.M.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 8:00 P.M.  I slept until 4:30 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with multigrain Pringles potato chips and a www.honeybell.com orange and a glass of watered down punch.  I went back to bed until 7 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 12:10 P.M.  Instead of cleaning up, I ate a bowl of chili with rice, and I refrigerated the other half.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 11:40 A.M.  I cleaned the snow off the Audi.  Oil is now $107 a barrel this morning with the turmoil in the Middle East.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 11:05 A.M.  I copied the Server folder to two different hard drives on the primary work computer, and I also watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/21/11 Monday 9:00 A.M.  I woke up during the night, and I ate a couple of days old muffin.  I finally woke up at 7 A.M..  We have about four to five inches of new snow, but currently it is not snowing.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  Today is Presidents' Day, a Federal Holiday.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/20/11 Sunday 9:10 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

Snow tomorrow and 35 to 13 degrees Fahrenheit.

Judging from the quality of television on our www.cablevision.com system, out in California where it is warmer and television is produced, the people are not very smart or creative, and it is just a lot of canned junk that we seem to see out here.  Of course the weather is better out there which is why they try to produce the content for our media here, but from what I can tell, they  have not had an original idea out there is over a hundred years, since the gold ran out.

There is plenty to read out here, but not much of it is produced into media content, because it would probably not appeal to the worldwide public in general.

It must be all some sort of corporate tax write off from what I can tell here.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will try to go to bed early and get a good night's rest, before I face the snow tomorrow morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/20/11 Sunday 8:00 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate two 7 ounce salmon cakes with my regular flavored rice and steam lengthwise sliced baby carrots with broccoli crowns mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I threw out the smelly Bumble Bee salmon can.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/20/11 Sunday 6:00 P.M.  I woke up at 11 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two six ounce cans of Lindsay large black pitted olives for $1.25 each, two 3.25 ounce Speed Stick deodorants for $1.99 each, three 10 ounce Palmolive antibacterial dishwashing liquid for .97 each, a 10 ounce A1 steak sauce for $2.99, a 18 ounce CVS Gold Emblem California raisins for $2.19, a 3.32 ounce Gold Emblem ground black pepper for .99, and a Gold Emblem 2.5 ounce garlic powder for .99 less a $3 off CVS internet coupon and 34 cents tax for $13.89 total.  I then finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and the snow is melted enough to walk on the pier, but it is full of seagull droppings.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a local walker and one of the staff.  The staff member told me we are suppose to have three to five inches of snow tonight.

End of Scott's Notes week of 02/20/11:

Note: <888> 02/20/11 Sunday 2:10 A.M.  I will now send out my weekly notes.

I will then go back to bed.

Mostly sunny today and 38 to 29 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is currently 19 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/20/11 Sunday 12:10 A.M.  I put out one of my oak folding tables in front of the mahogany bureau in the living room, and I put my knit caps, gloves, and scarves on it to have available for use.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 11:05 P.M.  I am microwaving a Marie Callendar 21 ounce frozen meat and tomato lasagna which I will put some grated parmesan and Romano cheese on, and I will eat it with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 10:50 P.M.  I think the most snow I have ever seen was when I drove through the Rocky Mountains from west to east in December 1978 in a blizzard.  However, I have seen lots of snow around Stratton, Vermont in December 1968 and driving from Weston, Massachusetts to Hamilton College in upstate New York in December 1968 during a blizzard.  I think I drove to Stratton on Route 2 in a blizzard.  Of course we had a bit of snow, when I was in college at www.lfc.edu .  I also saw snow in the mountains, when I was in Albertville, France for the winter Olympics in 1992.  I saw lots of snow in Carrera, Italy in January 1972.  I also saw over six feet of snow on the ground, when I arrived in Oslo, Norway in February 1983.  I have seen the local snow in this area over the years also.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 10:25 P.M.  Well, it is better now, than it was on February 1, 2011.

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http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/71-vinci-020111/  CIO

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 10:00 P.M.  PURE VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 9:50 P.M.  Of course, when I lived in Massachusetts with my family, since my father was the Vice President in charge of manufacturing for www.polaroid.com we had a much better house in Weston, Massachusetts, until we moved back to mid country Greenwich in June 1973, where the weather is warmer.  Since Polaroid gave $10 million to www.harvard.edu in 1971, I had some smart friends when I lived outside of Boston.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 9:25 P.M.  In Nantucket, there was a Laundromat on Straight wharf in Nantucket.  Jimmy Buffett would play his guitar there occasionally.  In the fall of 1977, I moved out of Mrs. Frances' boarding house at 31 India Street where I frequently stayed, and I moved into the new apartment above the new Laundromat just east of downtown Nantucket, and I lived there with Bob Mullerin from Fairfield, Connecticut who got to live there for free in exchange for painting the new apartment upstairs.  I think the Laundromat was owned by the Tafts.  Bob's father had worked for Exxon, and I also had two other friends from Ridgefield, Connecticut who were house painters whose father had worked for Exxon in Beirut, Lebanon.  They grew up with lots of machine gunners in Beirut.  I think Bob Mullerin also worked at the Mobil gasoline station in Nantucket pumping gasoline.  He later moved to Martha's Vineyard.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 9:00 P.M.  I put away the last load of laundry.  It is a lot easier doing my laundry in my Connecticut Public Housing building than the first three years in Greenwich from December 1983, when I did not have a car, and I had to carry my laundry from my apartment at the bottom of Steamboat Road to the Grand Union laundry on West Putnam Avenue.   For a brief spell there was a Laundromat on Greenwich Avenue next to Zen stationary.  I think for a long time, there was also one at the Y.M.C.A. shopping plaza downtown.  I think the only laundry downtown in Greenwich, Connecticut now is the Cos Cob laundry which is opened 24 hours a day.  The have large machines for doing comforters and draperies and other large laundry loads.  There is also one near St. Catherines in Riverside, and I think there is also one just across the Port Chester boarder near Clancy's bar in Port Chester, New York.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 8:00 P.M.  I have 35 minutes to go on one dry cycle.  I put the other two dryer loads away.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 7:25 P.M.  I have one compass, I ordered another one here Carabiner with Built-in Compass, Champagne Gold for $2.69 with free shipping.  Thus I will have a backup direction finder.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 6:55 P.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on two dry cycles, and another dry cycle to go after that.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 6:30 P.M.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of wash, and I have 15 minutes to go on a wash cycles.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 5:10 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with multigrain Pringles potato chips and a www.honeybell.com orange and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 4:25 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate a muffin.  I finally woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 3:30 P.M., when the building fire alarm went off for a kitchen smoke alarm.  I called the Greenwich Housing Authority at 1-203-869-1138, and I told them the alarm needed to be reset.  The Greenwich Fire department arrived, and they checked out the apartment, and they reset the fire alarm.  I let them into the building.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 1:10 A.M.  I watched some television.

I will now go back to bed for a nap.

Partly cloudy today and 38 to 17 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/19/11 Saturday 12:05 A.M.  KLM World Deals

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 11:30 P.M.  I ate the same dinner as last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 9:35 P.M.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants.

On the primary work computer, the IDE1 cable on the slave drive was not properly attached, so it was causing the slave drive to malfunction.  I went ahead and rearrange the three hard drives, so the slave IDE1 drive is the bottom Seagate 300 gigabyte hard drive, the master IDE1 drive in the middle Seagate 200 gigabyte hard drive, and the master IDE0 Seagate 300 gigabyte primary hard drive is the top hard drive in the case.  The DVD/RW drive is the IDE0 slave drive.   With that hardware configuration, I was able to use a new two foot IDE cable for the IDE1 cable.  The primary work computer seems to be working just fine now with all drives recognized.

For women I saw this link Loehmann’s Discount Department Stores - 30% to 65% off Designer Fashions today.  They have a store in Manhattan at Broadway and 73rd street and another one in Chelsea at Seventh Avenue and 16th street.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 5:25 A.M.  I will now go to bed shortly.

Cloudy today and 59 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 4:35 A.M.  Outdoors

For my Minolta QMS PagePro 1350W laser printer which is still basically new with only a thousand sheet starter cartridge, I ordered Minolta/QMS Remanufactured 1710567-001 Black Laser Toner Cartridge for Minolta/QMS PagePro 1300W / 1350W Printers (High Capacity) - replaces Minolta/QMS 1710567-001 for $40.95 less 5% with coupon code "ABC-ALL5PER" for a $2.05 discount for $38.90 less $24.71 store credit for $14.19 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 3:45 A.M.  Keukenhof - Lisse - Holland

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 1:55 A.M.  I ate slices of cold eye round of beef with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and flavored sushi rice with steamed baby carrots cut into quarters lengthwise with broccoli crowns with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

I heard on the news yesterday that the government is going to cut $5 billion in funding for the railroads.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/18/11 Friday 12:20 A.M.  I chatted with a friend about the price of tea in China.  CIO

I chatted with a relative.  I made 160 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/17/11 Thursday 7:20 P.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M., when a relative called.  I went back to sleep until 10 A.M., when another relative called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 3 P.M., when another relative called.  I finally got up at 5 P.M..  I ate a piece of pound cake, and I ate a honeybell.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with multigrain Pringles potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with the building custodian and a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  I will now make some cigarettes.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/16/11 Wednesday 10:15 P.M.  I ate a piece of pound cake.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a friend.

Partly cloudy tomorrow and 54 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

Note: <888> 02/16/11 Wednesday 7:40 P.M.  Teacher Resources | School of Earth and Space Exploration

Note: <888> 02/16/11 Wednesday 7:05 P.M.  I ate two 3/8th inch thick slices of cold eye round of beef with horseradish and Lea and Perrins worcestershire sauce and the rest of the chili sushi rice mixture from last night and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/16/11 Wednesday 5:10 P.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning, when I was called by the Greenwich Hospital outpatient clinic to remind me that I had a hygienist appointment at 1 P.M. this afternoon.  I went back to bed until 9:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I cancelled the order below, because www.meritline.com can not use the www.abcink.com credits, although they are the same company, their book keeping will not allow it.  I threw out the garbage.  I went to my 1 P.M. dental appointment early, and I had my teeth xrayed and cleaned.  I need to clean my tongue better with a regular tooth brush.  Afterwards, I went downtown.  I stopped by the Chase Bank just south of the Greenwich Post Office, and I got parking quarters.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I chatted with two locals.  I toured CVS.  After my walk, I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a four pack of yesterday's muffins for $2, a 59 ounce carton of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2.50, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance Spread for $3.29 and a two pound bag of baby carrots for $3.49 for $11.28 total.  I then returned home, and I picked up the mail.  CIO   

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

Partly cloudy today and 43 to 34 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/16/11 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.  I am making up a batch of the same chili and sushi rice mixture that I made the other night.  I will refrigerate half, and I will eat the other half with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/16/11 Wednesday 12:15 A.M.  Back in the hippie days of Greenwich, Connecticut in the 1970s, there use to be a local entrepreneur who sold polo shirts with a hemp leaf on them.  He seems to have gotten away with it, because his well known family also owned a small company called American Standard Plumbing Fixtures - Style That Works Better not to be confused with Lawn Mower Parts & Small Engine Parts by Briggs & Stratton .  There use to be a whole sale plumbing supply warehouse in Elmsford, New York about a mile east of www.samsclubs.com and half way up the road to the IBM Research| Watson Research Center or whatever IBM research center is nearby there.  The plumbing supply house sold parts for American Standard fixtures.  I once bought a yellow long toilet seat there for a bathroom at one of our many houses that my family has owned in this area.

Note: <888> 02/15/11 Tuesday 11:35 P.M.  The architect of Castle Hill was David Adler David Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .  When I went to www.lfc.edu way out in the Boon Docks of Lake Forest, Illinois; there were lots of David Adler homes, so you can see some of the residents of Lake Forest, Illinois seem to live comfortably enough, even though they do not have all sorts of European experts around them to give them advise on what is fashionable or not.

It was one of those towns during the Great Depression that the workers on the construction of the great homes there were paid about a dollar a day, so they had lots of help, if they happened to have money to spare.  I guess even during the great depression some of the local meat packing families still made money, since people more than likely were still eating food in America.

Note: <888> 02/15/11 Tuesday 11:00 P.M.  I ate a piece of pound cake.

Note: <888> 02/15/11 Tuesday 8:40 P.M.  On my Epson Stylus C120 inkjet printer, it uses two TO681 black ink cartridges which www.abcink.com does not carry.  The three color cartridges that I returned were the right ones, but they are no good without the black ones which here Epson 68 Ink - T068120-D2 Dual Pack High-Capacity Black Ink Cartridges - Epson America, Inc. are $37.99 which is as much as the printer cost me new.

Note: <888> 02/15/11 Tuesday 5:50 P.M.  I ate two 3/8th inch thick slices of cold eye round of beef with horse radish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce along with my usual steamed vegetable and rice mixture and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice. 

I got my inkjet cartridge refund credits, so I can order something else from www.meritline.com .

I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/15/11 Tuesday 3:45 P.M.  After the last note, the new three foot modware IDE0 cable failed in the primary work computer.  I put in one of the new 3 foot IDE cables that I just received, and the primary work computer is working just fine.  I could rearrange the hard drives the next time I replace the IDE0 cable, and I would be able to use a two foot IDE cable.  I chatted with a relative, and I went to bed at 9:30 P.M.  I woke up at 7:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

I saw on www.foxnews.com the White House wants to reduce the low income energy assistance in the new budget Casey criticizes LIHEAP cuts | Go Lackawanna, Scranton, PA , which might effect me since I get energy assistance.

I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the A&P, and I bought a 33 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Columbian coffee beans for $16.99 and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $1.63 for $18.62 total.  I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Greenwich Library.  I then went to my 11 A.M. appointment.  I noticed in the New England homes magazine that I read while waiting, the Crane family have a nice beach house in Ipswitch, Massachusetts that is now a museum.  http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm introduced me to Richard Crane, when I first me him.  I think they have an office on Park Avenue also.

While waiting for my appointment, I had to sit next to somebody with a cold, so I hope I do not catch it.

I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I toured CVS.  I then went by the local www.bony.com , and I chatted a little bit about business.  They told to open a private account there, one needs $250,000.  I then finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I then returned home.

The order with tracking of Newegg.com Tracking on the order for Newegg.com - Crucial 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model CT12864Z40B - Desktop Memory for $39.99 less $6 with coupon code "DM15A02US" and 99 cent shipping for $34.98 total arrived.  I also picked up my mail.  I put the new Crucial memory in the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, and it works just fine, and it now has two gigabytes of memory in it.

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 8:00 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style Pringles potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

Sunny and windy tomorrow 31 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

I have a 11 A.M. appointment tomorrow morning.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 7:10 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I got a $25 survey check.

I also got a Christmas 2010 letter from Sandringham House from Queen Elizabeth II Welcome to the official website of the British Monarchy .  I put it in the frame with the other Queen Elizabeth II Christmas letters hanging on the back side of the bedroom door.  Since the frame is falling apart, I use rubber bands to hold it together.

They post downloadable pictures on the internet, but you would have to have a photo printer to print them out Royal Gallery which I no longer have or need.  I guess one could upload them to www.kodakgallery.com to have them professionally printed out.

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 5:40 P.M.  I ate a piece of day old pound cake with watered down punch.  I checked the mail, but it is still not here.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 5:05 P.M.  Malloy's plan: higher income taxes for the wealthy, higher sales taxes for all - GreenwichTime

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 4:55 P.M.  Van Gogh paintings 'degraded by UV-driven reaction'

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 4:40 P.M.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  The mail has not arrived yet.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 3:45 P.M.  I ordered WR9098 3 LED Light Keychain, Aluminum for $3.14 less $2.15 with coupon code "MLCK4031480214HPL1" for 99 cents with free shipping from China.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 3:15 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 2:10 P.M.  I am going the 2.7 pound eye round of beef.  I will eat two half inch thick slices with flavored rice with sliced lengthwise into quarters baby carrots and broccoli crowns with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch a cup of green tea with lemon juice and splenda.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 1:10 P.M.  John Paul Getty III destroyed by his family's billions | Mail Online  CIO

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 12:45 P.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I moved the bench at the north end of the building out of the snow and on to the sidewalk.  It seems to be a nice warmer day.  It is currently 50 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/14/11 Monday 10:25 A.M.  Happy Valentine's Days.

I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 8:45 P.M.  Partly cloudy and windy tomorrow and 48 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I guess I will either watch some television or go to bed soon.

I will eat a piece of pound cake.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 8:35 P.M. I chatted with a friend.  I watched some television.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 7:10 P.M.  I ate the other half of the chili rice mixture that I made last night with some watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 6:00 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown to CVS.  I bought a 12 pack of Scott Max triple rolls of toilet paper for $6.88 and .41 tax for $7.29 total.  I then bought buy one get one free of 120 Sweet and Low Sweetener for $3.49 both.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I toured CVS again.  I sat out at various locations.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read the most current copy of www.pcworld.com magazine.  I inquired at the reference desk if they get P.C. Magazine anymore, but they do not seem to get www.pcmag.com anymore.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a day old 8 ounce pound cake for $2, five Marie Calender meat and tomato 21 ounce frozen lasagna for $2 each, four 6.38 ounce Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips for $1.50 each, a eye round roast for $3.59 a pound for $9.63, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $2.01 for $29.64 total.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station, and I bought $9.01 of self service premium gasoline for $3.819 a gallon for 2.359 gallons at odometer reading of 68305 miles for 22.1 miles driving since last Sunday for 9.369 miles per gallon driving in mostly local traffic.  I then cleaned the outside windows.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  CIO    

End of Scott's Notes week of 02/13/11:

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 2:00 A.M.  Price Of Paradise: Volcano Videos about the eruption of Montserrat's Soufriere Hills Volcano

It seems quiet down in Cayo Hueso Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar ::  .  It does not look like people tan anymore.

I was told by local Greenwich person whom was in Key West, when I was there in the 1970s that the local Mafia controls everything there, and they collect all of the money from all the bars at the end of every night.  In other words, it is like the United States Sicily.

There are suppose to be snow showers today and 40 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will now send out my weekly notes. 

I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed or watch television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 12:20 A.M.  Subway Restaurant robbed at gunpoint - GreenwichTime  .  CIO

Note: <888> 02/13/11 Sunday 12:15 A.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went back to bed until noon.  I ate a 18.5 ounce bowl of Campbell's New England clam chowder with a glass of watered down punch.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..

The order with tracking number of "9405510200793301065712" at www.usps.com for the order for four 2 FT Round Ultra ATA 133 E-IDE Cable - Beige IDCx3 - ComputerCableStore.com  for $3.99 each and four 3 FT Round Ultra ATA 133 E-IDE Cable - Yellow IDCx3 - ComputerCableStore.com for $4.99 each for $35.92 and $7.37 United States Postal Service priority mail for $43.29 total arrived.  I put it on top of the bookcase on top of the mahogany bureau in the bedroom.  

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style Pringles potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I did two loads laundry and three dryer loads, and I put away the laundry.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.

I made 203 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  CIO      

Note: <888> 02/12/11 Friday 12:10 A.M.  I watched some more television.  There is not much worth watching on television.  I guess most of it is geared towards children and the younger generation.  I will now rest some more.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 11:00 P.M.  Tracking is Newegg.com Tracking on the order for Newegg.com - Crucial 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model CT12864Z40B - Desktop Memory for $39.99 less $6 with coupon code "DM15A02US" and 99 cent shipping for $34.98 total.

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 10:35 P.M.  Explosion, fire contained at Greenwich Country Day School - GreenwichTime

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 9:55 P.M.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 8:15 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style Pringles potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 5:50 P.M.  I woke up at noon after four hours of sleep, when I had a telephone call from Minnesota asking about my web page on http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm .  The caller mention that the picture of Fred looked more like Joe MacDonald whom was Fred's best friend.  I told the caller what little I could remember about both of them.  Since Joe was a celebrity whom was constantly in the media, he was a more private individual whom was rarely seen out in the general public.  In his work, he did travel extensively.  I once saw him at the swimming hall of fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida back in November 1976, when it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit at 7 A.M. on Thanksgiving morning.  He did not recognize me, since I was darkly tanned and homeless.  Before his modeling days in Manhattan, Joe was a life guard at the Oak Street beach in Chicago, Illinois which was near where I lived after college at www.lfc.edu at 31 East Elm Street.  Since he was a life guard, he obviously was a good swimmer and a cold weather person, and being outside a lot, he must have studied the weather.  When I first got on the internet about 15 years ago, the definitive weather page was posted by a Michael MacDonald out of the University of Michigan.  I do not know what happened to Michael MacDonald, but with the advancement of the internet, he must still be working on weather information.  When I went to my father's funeral in Illinois back in the winter of 1989 during a blizzard, there were a half dozen people at O'Hare airport that looked like Joe MacDonald, when I was waiting for the plane to return to Greenwich, so obviously he had relatives that looked like him in the Midwest.  The caller mentioned that David Hockney had painted a portrait of Joe MacDonald, which I do not recall ever seeing.  Joe, Fred, and myself all smoked Marlboros while most everyone else in Manhattan did not smoke cigarettes.   Thus we were a smaller group of friends with a few other cigarette smokers.  I recall while there Phillip Morris built a new corporate headquarter on 42nd street across the street from Grand Central Station.  The caller did not tell me much else, but sounded like it must have been somebody that knew Joe MacDonald.

The order with tracking of FedEx Tracking on the order for Refurbished $29.99 with free shipping Buy.com - Logitech Cordless Wave Keyboard for $29.99 with free shipping arrived.  I put it in the bedroom, where I store my wireless mouse and keyboard boxes.  I also still have the spare new Microsoft 6000 wireless keyboard and mouse set.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I went back to bed until 4:30 P.M..  I chatted with another friend.  I will now make my bed, and I guess I will shower and clean up.  I have had less sleep recently, so I guess I will not be going out today.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 7:10 A.M.  After the last note, I noticed the computer was having the same technical problems as this past Wednesday.  It also seemed that I was being hit with a DNS attack for some odd reason. 

Anyway, I finally figured out the IDE1 cable problem was that when I installed the two foot IDE1 cable on Wednesday, I connected it up wrong to the second and third hard drives.  To connect it properly, one has to use the three foot cable which I still had four news one of.  I installed the new 3 foot IDE1 cable on the second and third hard drives, and they are working just fine now. I also switched around a power connector on one of the hard drives, so it is connected more securely.  This all took a long time, and I am quite tired.  I will now head off to bed after I eat another Kaiser roll with Smart Balance Spread.  I am not sure about the DNS attack, so tested the primary work computer disconnected from the internet.  I guess I am back on a night schedule.  Still the primary work computer now seems to be running just fine.  I will now shut it down and go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 1:25 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer as opposed to the FIC server or the many other backup computers.  I guess everybody with computers is trying to figure out why they do not make money with them.  Basically a computer is just another office tool.  You have to know how to use them, and to make money off of them, one has to have a product or service to sell.  In my particular case, instead of wasting my time chatting with drunks in pubs, it is cheaper to save the money and blog on the internet.  From a legal point of view, a cheap lawyer in this area can cost $200 an hour and in New York City, Manhattan lawyers can cost over $2,000 an hour.  Also if one were to lose a legal case, one might have to pay expensive court costs which are just as expensive as lawyers. 

When the chickens come home to roost, we might get some peace and quiet in this town.  It seems everyone wants to go downtown, but very few people want to be involved in the work that it takes to maintain and keep downtown going let alone pay the higher prices that are charged in our local shopping area.  Whatever they find convenient like a cup of coffee is not paying the bills.  The tax payers in this town tend to have a different viewpoint versus the out of town gossips whom chose not to live here.

Mostly sunny today and 31 to 22 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/11/11 Friday 1:00 A.M.  Record-cold temperature in Oklahoma recorded today in Nowata | Tulsa World

Tracking number is "9405510200793301065712" at www.usps.com for the order for four 2 FT Round Ultra ATA 133 E-IDE Cable - Beige IDCx3 - ComputerCableStore.com  for $3.99 each and four 3 FT Round Ultra ATA 133 E-IDE Cable - Yellow IDCx3 - ComputerCableStore.com for $4.99 each for $35.92 and $7.37 United States Postal Service priority mail for $43.29 total.

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 11:50 P.M.  A Canadian I worked with in Nantucket the last year I was there in 1983 was named Ian Greenshield.  He lived above the fire house in Nantucket, and he would do maintenance work.  He claimed he built barns in Stowe, Vermont, and he was Jackie Kennedy Onassis' body guard in Stowe, Vermont, when she was there.  Right before I left Nantucket in December 1983, he had me paint the white trim on Admiral Halsey's William Halsey, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia small cape cod grey shingle house off the Polpis Road overlooking Nantucket harbor.  I remember the eves were full of bees, and he had a driveway made of scallop shells.  I do not know if any members of his family were there or not.  Ian gave me a check for about $40 for a day's work, which as I recall I cashed when I first came back to Greenwich.  I think I cashed it at the Riverside branch of Putnam Trust now a www.chase.com office formerly www.bony.com .  Possibly I cashed it there, when I left Nantucket the first time at the end of October 1983, when I drove down to Florida with a relative from Maine, and we stopped by Greenwich, Connecticut, since the last time I left Nantucket that year in December 1983, I took the ferry to Hyannis, and I stayed up all night in the Hyannis airport, and I saw Senator Ted Kennedy in the airport that morning, and Jackie Onassis was on the PBA Provincetown Boston airlines plane that flew down to LaGuardia airport.  I recall when looking out over the ocean and the view of Nantucket from a distance that I was way out there in the middle of no where, but it was always peaceful.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 11:35 P.M.  I chatted with an out of town technical advisor.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  Basically whey they call a Kaiser roll is also called a bulky roll.  There are not many Germans left here anymore, since not many people are buying expensive German cars in the Obama recession.  I did notice today that the large semi truck that was delivering www.coke.com downtown was an electric powered semi truck, which I had not seen before.  However it still looked like has a diesel engine.  I have noticed that a lot of the new European cars are much smaller and thus more economical to drive.  I even saw a small white Audi diesel station wagon today.  I have also notice quite a few small Volvo cars which are now owned by the Chinese.  However, with the internet if one knows how to use computers one can shop around for bargains, but one has to pay for shipping which might be more expensive than paying for gasoline to go to a nearby discount store.  Most of the items I order are more unique to my computer systems, so they are not commonly available around here, and the local computer store would just have to order them the same way that I do, and then they would charge a higher markup to pay for their overhead and profit.  However, some rich people are always in a rush, and just because they have money to spend, they think they are getting the most bang for their buck, which is not always the case.  From what I know which is only based on my experience, the real PC competition here is not from www.ibm.com which started the PC business but from www.apple.com which markets a competitive product based on technology for smaller Asian people whom think they are more cleaver.  Based on experience in the real Unites States of America, once one leaves the New York City area, a lot of the ways people use technology and interact with people is much more different.  From what I know, a lot of these tiny European cars might not make it over the Rocky mountains in the winter, unless they had an experience snow driver with guts.  When I first started watching television in the United States of America, they use to have on one program called "Sergeant Preston and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police".   Even with all of the Canadians in Nantucket, they once had a pub next to the Nantucket airport called "Preston's" which was very popular with some people.  From what I know about Greenwich, Connecticut, nobody is interested in www.ibm.com , just their money, and the real game here is people trying to out fox each other on Wall Street based on what they think they know versus what some other insider might know whom planted the story.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 9:50 P.M.  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 8:15 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and six strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 5:25 P.M.  I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment early.  I then drove way down south down by the pier on the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  There is about five feet of snow piled up on the end of Steamboat Road from the snow plows, so one can not gain access to the pier which does not have much snow on it, unless one is a mountain goat.  On the way back up Steamboat Road, I noticed there is a green Land Rover that is still snowed in by the south end of the Indian Harbor House.   I guess they do not have the energy to shovel it out of the snow.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and they have their usual large variety of items for sale.  They even have simulated red leather swivel desk chair for $85.  In my crowded apartment, I do not need anything else.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail. 

The order for three 3.5mm Audio Jack Splitter for .99 each and less a 15% discount with coupon code "MSC15" for $2.52 total with free shipping arrived.  I took the three splitter off the Dell 4600i computer, and I put one of the new two splitters on it.  I stored the three splitter and the other two splitters in the top left desk drawer in the living room.

www.newegg.com has 15% off Desktop memory through February 12, 2011 at 11:59 P.M. with coupon code "DM15A02US"

For the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, I order Newegg.com - Crucial 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model CT12864Z40B - Desktop Memory for $39.99 less $6 with coupon code "DM15A02US" and 99 cent shipping for $34.98 total.  Since I have tested the exact same memory from the Epox computer in the Dell 4600i computer, I know that it will work.  Plus it is very good memory at a good price.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 1:20 P.M.  I threw out the garbage after the last note.  I went way out east to downtown Greenwich Avenue.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I also did a detour down Arch Street and Grigg Streets.  I chatted with two Nordic senior citizens.  The new Meli Meli restaurant is opened on the corner of Grigg Street and Greenwich Avenue.   The Figaro restaurant has a Cease Work Order in their window, I guess for some new renovation project.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center.  I stopped by CVS.  I bought four 18.5 ounce cans of Campbell's New England clam chowder for $1.50 each, three 19 ounce cans of Campbell's chili with steak for $1.50 each, and one 19 ounce can of Campbell's chili with beans for $1.50 for $12 total.  I found a dark brown pair of women's small leather gloves at the top of Greenwich Avenue.  After I finished my walk, I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  They serve lunch there at noon to seniors for $4.   I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I ate a 16 ounce can of Campbell's Homestead chili with beans mixed with the other half of the flavored sushi rice from last night and a glass of watered down punch.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 8:50 A.M.  I will now shower and clean up.  I will then go out for a sunny morning walk.  It does not seem like too many people like enjoy networking with Nanook of the North.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/10/11 Thursday 8:15 A.M.  I ate a few day old muffin last night before going to bed, and I also ate one the night before.  I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I installed the Windows Updates on all of the computers.  I am doing an XP Professional ASR backup of the Dell Dimension 4600i computer to the Seagate external hard drive.  I then will do a Paragon backup of it to the Seagate external hard drive.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/09/11 Wednesday 8:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative complained that my long distance connection with Optimum Voice was breaking up.  I have a feeling that with 15 million people using Netflix, it is slowing down the internet for other more useful purposes.

Morning clouds and afternoon sun tomorrow and 24 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow afternoon.

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

Stay warm, and don't take any wooden nickels from the Indians.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/09/11 Wednesday 7:20 P.M.  On the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, the new Logitech wireless mouse has to be turned on and off with the small black button on the bottom of the wireless mouse.  Since it is a very tiny oval button about 1/8th of an inch by 1/16th of an inch, I took a large pink paper clip, I bent out the leading edge 90 degrees, and I left it on the right computer speaker.  Thus it is a handy tool for turning on and off the Logitech wireless mouse.  I guess one could leave it on all of the time, but it might wear out faster, and its batteries might wear out faster.

I installed the Windows XP Professional Updates on it.

Note: <888> 02/09/11 Wednesday 6:45 P.M.  Biltmore Email Newsletter

Note: <888> 02/09/11 Wednesday 6:20 P.M.  I chatted with a friend about the price of tea in China.

I ate a 12 ounce sautéed petit sirloin steak with flavored sushi rice with steam baby carrots cut into quarters lengthwise and broccoli crowns with Smart Balance spread and olive oil, and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

I picked up the mail, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/09/11 Wednesday 4:15 P.M.  I ordered four 2 FT Round Ultra ATA 133 E-IDE Cable - Beige IDCx3 - ComputerCableStore.com  for $3.99 each and four 3 FT Round Ultra ATA 133 E-IDE Cable - Yellow IDCx3 - ComputerCableStore.com for $4.99 each for $35.92 and $7.37 United States Postal Service priority mail for $43.29 total.  Now I will have some spare ones, when I need them.  I have two spare three foot IDE cables and one spare one foot IDE cable.  Since they wear out all of the time, one needs to keep spare ones.

I had my Section 8 Housing Inspection, and it all went fine.

I chatted with a friend.

I watched EuroNews on Channel 113 on Cablevison which is a half hour European News Summary that replays over and over.

Note: <888> 02/09/11 Wednesday 2:35 P.M.  I woke up at 7 A.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up. 

I had a problem on the primary work computer.  I tried to do a Complete PC backup to the third hard drive in the computer, but it failed a number of times.  I then restored the Bytecc external hard drive backup from January 11, 2011, and I installed the updates and any recent files changes.  When I tried to do the Complete PC backup again to the third hard drive, it failed again.  I then opened up the case, and I removed the three foot IDE1 cable, and since the second and third hard drives are now closer together, I put in a new two foot IDE cable, and that fixed the Complete PC backup problem.  I then did a Complete PC backup of the entire system to the third hard drive.  The primary work computer is now running just fine.  The most common computer problem is hard drive cable failure.

I am suppose to have my section 8 inspection at 2:45 P.M..  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 9:00 P.M.  Ronald Reagan Commemorative Stamps

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 8:35 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with barbecue CVS style Pringles potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch and a www.honeybell.com orange.  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 7:05 P.M.  It says here Documentation Dell Dimension 4600 computer , the maximum memory is 4 gigabytes, but Windows XP will only recognize 3 gigabytes of memory.

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 5:50 P.M.  It says here dual channel memory vs single channel memory? - Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com in one comment that the maximum memory of a Dell Dimension 4600 computer is two gigabytes.  Thus, if I were to upgrade the memory on the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, I would want to put in two PC 3200 DDR 512 megabyte memory chips, probably with a CAS latency of 3 and voltage of 2.6 volts.

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 3:25 P.M.  I picked up the mail, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 2:40 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed the RMA package with the wrong inkjet cartridges.  I 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 CVS, and I bought four 19 ounce cans of Campbell's homestead chili with beans for $1.50 each can for $6 total.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read www.pcworld.com magazine.  I checked the library internet connection at www.speakeasy.net , and they are 31 mbps download and 15 mbps upload which is twice as fast as my Optimum Boost connection at home.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a eight pack of Cassone sliced Kaiser rolls for $2.85, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance lite for $2.50, sliced deli Stop and Shop provolone cheese for $5.99 a pound for $8.99, sliced deli Stop and Shop Virginia ham for $5.99 a pound for $9.08, fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $2.15 for $25.57 total.  I saw an associate as I was driving home.  I picked up my mail.  The order for NERO SOFTWARE Nero 9.4.17/26 Suite 2 Burn no playback OEM for $5.99 and a $2.50 discount with coupon code "NERO" for $3.49 with free shipping arrived.  I will not install it for now.  I put away my groceries.  I ate the other half of the rice and chili mixture I made last night along with a glass of watered down punch.  While downtown, I saw on the front page of the Greenwich Citizen in the newspaper box that the IGA grocery store has closed in Banksville, New York.  Thus the back country people no longer have a convenient grocery store in back country.  I think there might be one by the New York and Connecticut border in Armonk, New York near the I-684 exits.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 9:45 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I will now shower and clean up.  I will then go out for some errands.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 9:20 A.M.  I rested some more.  I have the RMA package with the wrong ink cartridges ready for mailing.  I used six 44 cents stamps on it.  The ink cartridges will be returned to Meritline for in store credit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 5:35 A.M.  The $25.49 refund from Newegg on the PNY memory has shown up on my account.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/08/11 Tuesday 5:25 A.M.  I chatted with two relatives after the last note.  I went to bed.  I woke up at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 7:30 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Tomorrow morning snow showers and 34 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit.

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 5:55 P.M.  I made up a batch of flavored sushi rice, and I added a 16 ounce can of Campbell's homestead chili with beans, and I mixed it all together.  I refrigerated half, and I ate half with a glass of watered down punch.  Basically having been relatively poor most of my life, I am use to my current economic situation.  Although I have over invested in computer equipment, I feel it might be useful for communications in the future, when the global economy continues to falter.  Thus I have my own news room for my viewpoint which not many people seem to share.  Still by world standards, I have a higher standard of living than a lot of the poorer people in the world.  However, in my own way I do work quite hard, and it takes quite a bit of time maintaining my home office environment, although the financial rewards are yet to be realized.  I guess it comes from having too much free time to do my own technical and other research compared to what the media is constantly telling us.  Since the paid media costs quite a bit of money for me, it would seem the media is geared towards people whom have more money and free time.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 4:30 P.M.  SwissEduc: Stromboli Online - Erta Ale

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 4:05 P.M.  I threw out the shipping boxes.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 3:35 P.M.  I rested for an hour.  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for this item Logitech Cordless Desktop® Wave™ - Dented Box is available for $38.99 with free shipping with coupon code "logi_cdw_12711" during checkout and $2.34 tax for $41.33 total arrived.  I had already installed the software for it on the Dell Dimension 4600i computer.  I hooked it up.  It works just fine.  It has keyboard encryption.  One has to turn the wireless laser mouse on and off with a little black push button next to the red connect button on the bottom of the mouse.   I left its keyboard dust cover on the keyboard.

The building maintenance people were working on the drain pipes and ventilation covers on the roof outside my windows.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 11:55 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 11:30 A.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with barbecue CVS style Pringles potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 7:20 A.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I said good morning to a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 6:15 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made the bed.  If one goes downtown early this time of the morning, one can watch the garbage men pick up the garbage on Greenwich Avenue and also watch a few Metro North commuters coming and going to work. 

We do have the Greenwich Hospital which keeps a lot of people busy around town.  Since gasoline is so expensive at $3.819 a gallon for self service premium, it is expensive for people to get out and explore whatever else is going on in this area.  It use to be nice to take a pleasant trip up to New Canaan, Connecticut to explore the more traditional New England life style of the residents further out in the country.  However, that would be about a 30 to 40 mile round trip depending on how much one explored up there.  Thus it would cost me at least three gallons of gasoline or about $12, and for $12 I could go hog wild in Greenwich, Connecticut.  We do have the Greenwich Library: Welcome , but it tends to be orientated towards members of the Democrat political party for some odd reason in a republican town.  There are always a few people walking around Tod's Point, but this time of year, not too many people are out there in case something goes wrong.  One can always take the scenic drive up to Bedford, New York, but once one gets up there, there is not too much to do up there.  Of course one could always take a scenic drive in back country Greenwich.  With the leaves off the trees this time of year, one can see a bit more of the back country estates.  One can dine on a sandwich from the Round Hill store or go to the IGA grocery store in Banksville, New York.  It is surprising how many people linger in back country Greenwich not going downtown except maybe once a week.  I think they read more books in back country Greenwich like they do in New Canaan, Connecticut.  Of course some people have to do maintenance on their homes.  Thus they might go downtown to the Greenwich Hardware store or Home Depot in Port Chester, New York.  Commuters usually do maintenance on weekends.  The retired people spend more time downtown on Mondays, since the private Country Clubs are closed on Mondays.  I suppose they have to stock up on groceries.  Since the people in back country drive more frequently and more often, they probably have to get car repairs done more often too.  Also since they have more money, they have more errands to do such as picking up dry cleaning and visiting with other friends.  Of course for all we know the back country people are all away, and possibly they just have their household help doing the errands.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/07/11 Monday 5:35 A.M.  Yesterday before going out, I replaced a bent tip light bulb on the far living room wall on the far right side.  I also emptied the bedroom paper shredder, and I oiled it.  One oils it by putting a few drips of paper shredder oil on a couple of sheets of paper and running it through the paper shredder.

I woke up at 4 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

Not too much ever goes on in Greenwich, Connecticut anymore besides children watching cartoons.  All of the rich people seem to leave the community once they get money, and they usually head down to Florida for the winter.  The New York City people that come out here tend not to associate with their rustic country cousins, since they are more focused on their Big City contacts. 

Note: <888> 02/06/11 Sunday 9:15 P.M.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Morning clouds and sun tomorrow afternoon and 40 to 29 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/06/11 Sunday 9:00 P.M.  I chatted with a relative after the last note.  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I chatted with a friend twice.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched some television.  I ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style Pringles potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.

Note: <888> 02/06/11 Sunday 2:25 P.M.  I woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I stopped by CVS.  I bought two five packs of Bic 2X butane lighters for $3.50 each five pack, buy one get one free of CVS Balance B-150 time release 50 caplets vitamins for $12.49 both, and a 12 pack of CVS pivot plus twin blade disposable razors for $7.49 less a $4 off CVS internet coupon and .74 tax for $23.72 total.  I then bought four 16 ounce cans of Campbell's Homestead chili with beans for $1.50 each for $6 total.  I then drove further downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil  gasoline station, and I bought $4.01 of self service premium gasoline for $3.819 a gallon for 1.050 gallons at odometer reading of 68282 miles for 15.3 miles driven since this past Tuesday February 1, 2011 for 14.572 miles per gallon in mostly local driving.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 02/06/11:

Note: <888> 02/06/11 Sunday 3:50 A.M.  I watched some television, but it is mostly reruns.  I sprayed the plants with the plant mister spray bottle.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.

Note: <888> 02/06/11 Sunday 2:20 A.M.  I put away the laundry.  I made 154 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  I will now eat a several day old muffin and a www.honeybell.com orange.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 11:20 P.M.  I have 45 minutes to go on three dry cycles.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 11:05 P.M.   My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for January 2011 was $235.88 for 1459 kWh for 31 days and 47.06 kWh per day with an average temperature of 24.1 degrees Fahrenheit.

For the same period a year ago for January 2010, it was $216.30 fir 1211 kWh for 28 days for 43.25 kWh per day with an average temperature of 29.7 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 10:50 P.M.  I woke up at 9:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I had two telemarketing telephone calls.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a 16 ounce can of Campbell's Homestead chili with beans mixed with the remaining sushi rice from last night and a glass of watered down punch.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started three loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I picked up the mail.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 2:45 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed.

Snow to rain today and 36 to 26 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 2:20 A.M.  I ordered five pounds of Peter Stokkebye TURKISH PIPE TOBACCO for $110.09 with free shipping.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 12:10 A.M.  Prime Minister of Canada  CIO

Note: <888> 02/05/11 Saturday 12:05 A.M.  Yu-Wen Lee Obituary: View Yu-Wen Lee's Obituary by GreenwichTime

I ate a 12 ounce sautéed petit sirloin steak with flavored sushi rice with steam baby carrots cut  into quarters lengthwise and broccoli crowns with Smart Balance spread and olive oil, and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 10:35 P.M.  UPS Delivers Fatter Payout, Union Pacific Rolls On Even - Forbes.com

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 9:25 P.M.  I have the Section 8 Housing Inspection of my apartment on Wednesday February 9, 2011 at 2:45 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 9:20 P.M.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 8:45 P.M.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 7:25 P.M.  I made up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 7:05 P.M.  I woke up at 5 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 9:10 A.M.   I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style Pringles potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.

I chatted with www.newegg.com and on the RMA for the PNY memory, they are issuing a refund of $25.49 instead of issuing a replacement.  I guess they got the RMAs mixed up.  I guess that is fine for now.

I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 8:00 A.M.  Gabriele's opens at former Luca's in Greenwich - GreenwichTime .  When I lived in Florence, Italy during the winter of 1972, I frequently ate Biftek a la Florentine.  Unfortunately Italian steaks are not very thick.  The ones in Florence although very tasty were only about a third of an inch thick.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 7:15 A.M.  I tried to replace the two black ink cartridges in the Epson Stylus C120 inkjet printer, and the spare set of ink cartridges that I had ordered in December 2010 are the wrong cartridges.   Their web page still shows the wrong cartridges at http://www.abcink.com/epson-stylus-c120-printer-cartridges.html .  The Epson Stylus C120 inkjet printer requires the T068* series of cartridges and not the T069* series of cartridges.  I email them at "return@abcink.com"  about an RMA replacement Abcink Billing & Shipping & Return Polies.  The three color cartridges on the Epson Stylus C120 inkjet printer are still about one third full.

I called up the Chase Dispute line at 1-866-564-2262 , and they will refund the fraudulent $44.24 charge from DirectTV in the next 24 hours.  The $1.56 charge from Remington in Milford, New Hampshire no longer shows up on the account.

This identical keyboard and mouse set as the second one that I ordered this morning which has tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for this item Logitech Cordless Desktop® Wave™ - Dented Box is available for $38.99 with free shipping with coupon code "logi_cdw_12711" during checkout and $2.34 tax for $41.33 total is suppose to arrive today.  I will go ahead and use it on the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, when it arrives.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 4:55 A.M.  I ate a day old muffin.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 4:30 A.M.  Global CIO: Sam Palmisano And Larry Ellison Deserve Their Big Paydays -- InformationWeek

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 3:30 A.M.  For the Dell Dimension 4600i computer, I ordered Refurbished $29.99 with free shipping Buy.com - Logitech Cordless Wave Keyboard for $29.99 with free shipping.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 3:05 A.M.  Refurbished $29.99 with free shipping Buy.com - Logitech Cordless Wave Keyboard

I bought NERO SOFTWARE Nero 9.4.17/26 Suite 2 Burn no playback OEM for $5.99 and a $2.50 discount with coupon code "NERO" for $3.49 with free shipping.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/04/11 Friday 2:25 A.M.  I woke up at 1 A.M..  I ate other half of the sushi rice that I made yesterday and a www.honeybell.om orange.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 7:20 P.M.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with sour cream and onion CVS style pringles potato chips and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Sunny tomorrow and 33 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 6:10 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed the $25 rebate letter.  I then went by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a scratch card for a dollar, and I won a dollar for a net profit of nothing.  I walked as far up Greenwich Avenue as CVS, and we walked back down Greenwich Avenue.  We sat out briefly.  I then walked the other walker back to his building.  I then used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a four pack of yesterday's muffins for $2, a eight pack of Kaiser rolls for $2.85, a 16 ounce Smart Balance spread for $3.29, a 59 ounce carton of Tropicana premium orange juice for $3, sliced deli Stop and Shop white American cheese for $5.49 a pound for $5.57, Stop and Shop sliced deli Virginia ham for $6.99 a pound for $7.75, four 16 ounce Barrila linguine for $1 each, two 9.5 ounce Nabisco rosemary and olive oil triscuits for $2.50 each, a 48 ounce Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, three 26 ounce Ragu seven spice tomato sauce for $5 all, two Stop and Shop 64 ounce cranraspberry juice for $2.50 each, two Stop and Shop 64 ounce crangrape juice for $2.50 each, two 12 ounce Honey Bear honey for $3.19 each, a petit sirloin steak for $3.99 a pound for $5.78, fresh Chiquita bananas for .79 a pound for $1.48, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.15 less a $5 off manufacture's coupon for $64.24 total.  I then returned home with the sun shining in my face.  I used my folding cart to bring up the groceries.  I picked up my mail on the way up.  I put away the groceries.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 1:00 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M., when I heard two of the custodians shoveling part of the snow off the roof outside my windows.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Newegg.com - EVGA 512-A8-N403-LR GeForce 6200 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 AGP 8X Video Card for $44.95 with free shipping, and it has a $25 rebate here http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/rebate/SH/EVGA14-130-452Jan7Jan3111ls41-1.pdf arrived, so it will eventually cost me $19.99.  I put it in the Abit computer, and plug and play installed its drivers.  I also have it available for a backup video card for my primary work computer.  I put the old 64 mg Mad Dog AGP video card in the new video card box, and I have the box lying on the bedroom desk by the Abit computer.  I will eventually put the TV monitor cable and the monitor adapter in the top left living room desk drawer, and I will store the box elsewhere.  I have the $25 mail in rebate all set to mail.  I will shut down the primary computer.  I will shower and clean up.  I will then go out for errands.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 7:45 A.M.  I chatted with a friend.

The fraudulent debit charges showed back up up on my account.  Chase can not refund the funds until they have changed from pending to cleared.

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 6:35 A.M.  Metro-North announces reduced schedule through March - GreenwichTime  CIO

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 6:30 A.M.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  Having lived in the Midwest, when I went to www.lfc.edu and coming from a family in the Midwest, I am use to eating steaks more often.  Alas, the U.S. Government is spending so much money for the Midwest farmers to produce Ethanol from field corn for automobile fuel, there is not enough field corn to fatten up the livestock, thus the price of meat has doubled in the U.S.A. in the last couple of years.  However, since I weigh 220 pounds, and I have to worry about my cholesterol, I probably should not be eating as much food or meat anyway.  There are a lot of thin people around here, whom do not look like they ever eat too much meat, so they are probably use to eating those portion controlled meals that the New York City area restaurants provide.  Donald Trump www.trump.com seems to be the last fat person in this area, so he is obviously still eating steaks.  Chuck's Steak House - Darien, CT has almost doubled their prices on beef.  www.costco.com in Port Chester, New York, www.samsclub.com in Elmsford, New York, and Fresh milk products and great customer service at Stew Leonard's! in Norwalk, Connecticut are about the best prices to buy beef, if you can afford the gasoline to drive there.  This week a whole filet mignon is $6.99 a pound at Stew's, but we have black ice on the roads this morning in Connecticut, so I am not sure it would be safe to drive there, even if one could afford the gasoline.

Note: <888> 02/03/11 Thursday 4:55 A.M.  I woke up at 4 A.M..  I ate two www.honeybell.com oranges.  The $17.57 on the defective ATI video card from Ebay has been returned to my account.  The two fraudulent charges on my debit card account have disappeared, so maybe they are computer errors.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 11:15 P.M.  It looks like Anderson Cooper should follow the advise of the United States Department of State for all U.S.A. citizens to leave Egypt, and he should get himself and his news team out of Egypt.  The have evacuation planes at the airport in Cairo. They could always take a vacation some place more relaxing like Lanzarote or even Gstaad.  Basically all news reporters are like neutral Swiss citizens, but when they leave Switzerland, they do not have the protection of the Swiss military.  In Switzerland, all adult males are require to own a rifle and know how to use it, so that is how they protect their neutrality.  Also all male adult Swiss citizens are required to serve in the Swiss military.  Thus it is a little bit more conservative in Switzerland than some tourists understand.  Even the Germans did not invade Switzerland in World War II.

I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I have to do some grocery shopping tomorrow.

Sunny tomorrow and 28 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit.

Of course to get around in Switzerland, it helps if you can read a Swiss railroad schedule and know how to hike around mountains.  Switzerland is also very expensive.  Two regular cheeseburgers at www.mcdonalds.com costs $20 and a small 6 ounce Delmonico steak costs $100 at the John Bull steak house.  Also the www.un.org has headquarters in Switzerland, so there tends to be a large international community there, probably most of whom have money.  I do not know what one does, when they run out of money in Switzerland, the Swiss are very conservative on residency laws and foreign property ownership.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.  Anderson Cooper 360 is suppose to be on channel 70 www.cnn.com at 10 P.M..  I guess we should watch it to make sure he is all right.  I think his mother Gloria Vanderbilt sometimes lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.  The Vanderbilts having owned railroads and steamships and New York City have some awfully big people out there in the wood work www.biltmore.com .  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

James Bond Volcano Erupts Again  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 8:50 P.M.  The memory RMA was received my Newegg today.

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 7:55 P.M.  Journalists targeted, beaten, detained by Mubarak supporters - CNN.com

I picked up the mail.  CIO  

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 7:15 P.M.  I ate a breaded boneless breast of chicken with flavored Arkansas Japanese Sushi rice with steamed baby carrots cut lengthwise into quarters with Smart Balance Spread and extra virgin olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 5:35 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 4:00 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M., when I had a computer magazine telephone call.  I went outside, and I cleaned a lawyer of ice off the Audi.  It came off quickly, since it was 38 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and the ice had begun to melt underneath at the surface.  It came off in larger slippery sections.  I think the scratch on my Audi front passenger door might have been caused by the snow brush when I cleared it off a couple of weeks ago.  I chatted with neighbors.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  Earlier I called the DirectTV identity theft hotline that I mentioned last night, and it is just a recording saying to contact one's credit card agency.  I went out, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then returned home.  I noticed there must be a lot of ice further in back country, because there was hardly anyone downtown, except a few teenagers, and there were no traffic officers on duty.  The roads were clear downtown.  However, I worry that it might freeze and turn to ice once the sun goes down.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 3:40 A.M.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Today ice to rain and 36 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 3:25 A.M.  Basically the Kennedys with their influence in the liquor business, Las Vegas gambling, and Hollywood were in conflict with Italians and Spanish and Cubans who controlled the gambling and liquor in Cuba which once was profitable.  Apparently Joe Kennedy ran fleets of trucks with Cuban rum and other liquor all over the United States and Canada.  By controlling Hollywood, he maintained the myth that it was coming down from Canada.  Thus they obviously have a foot hold in Key West.  However, there must have been a business dispute with Castro when he came into power, so they no longer pay as much attention to Key West as when it was more profitable.  I would say the British control the same business activity from the Bahamas.  Thus they go into politics seeking to protect their business turf.  Since the Kennedys have an interest in the Casino in Monte Carlo, I guess they have expanded their overseas empire.  Obviously they are in cahoots with the liquor producers and the distributors.  Whatever the real story, I think not many people buy their Hollywood public relations.  I was told by John Heinz that Senator Kennedy kept his money in Tahiti, so possibly they expanded their business in that direction too.  Those businesses are not that profitable, since most of their customers end up losing their money, so they are always looking for ways to attract new customers.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 3:00 A.M.  Up until 1984, when I put on weight under medical supervision, I use to drink pints of cream once a day with usually my lunch sandwich trying to put on weight, because I only weighed 125 to 135 pounds.  Now I drink green tea hoping to lose weight from 220 pounds.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 2:45 A.M.  The psychology of people whom go to www.nantucket.net might be confusing.  I have visited and lived on Nantucket many times.  The summer resort population is different than the year round population.  There are lots of young people drinking at places like the Chicken Box in the summer working in resort jobs for school money they try to save.  Since I was already out of school when I lived in Nantucket, they figured I did not need much money, so I worked my way up from July 1975 to December 1983 working in restaurants, painting and other odd jobs from about $2.15 an hour to $8.75 an hour, when I left the island in December 1983.  The jobs were long hours and tedious, and the food for the help was not that good.  Even a in 1978 a roast beef sandwich on a Kaiser roll with Bermuda onion and mayonnaise and horseradish, and potato salad, and a pint of cream at the A&P downtown cost about $9.50.  Everything in Nantucket except bluefish and cranberries has to be imported which costs money.  I recall also working in bakeries.  I did not have an attorney in Nantucket, but I would see Henry Cabot Lodge III frequently in the morning at breakfast at the Dory restaurant on India Street, and I learned not to make conversation while he was watching the morning news shows.  His wife would pick up his legal papers from the ferry dock every evening when the ferry came in from the mainland.  Obviously somebody was keeping track of business out there in the Atlantic.  I was once even told by an African American porter at LaGuardia airport, when I was departing for Nantucket, that Nantucket was a private island owned by the Kennedys.  If that is the case, they have a lot of wealthy guests from elsewhere whom they entertain. When one lives there, one has the impression they are individual residents owning properties like everywhere else.  Thus the New York Society group might have a different impression of the island compared to the local residents.  I know a couple of the Kennedy kids worked on the ferry boat, and Senator Kennedy would show up for Yacht Club parties, but that is about all that I could figure out.  A lot of the Irish in New England look the same, so it is hard to tell one Irish beach bum from another.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/02/11 Wednesday 1:40 A.M.  I chatted with an out of town security agency who think I hate the Spanish.  I explained I do not speak Spanish, but besides English as my native language, I only have four years of high school French I learned many moons ago.  I used to use http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm to translate into Spanish, since by being multilingual, and since he had lived with Richard Nixon's ambassador to Madrid, I assumed he knew Spanish.  Alas poor Fred is pushing up tulips somewhere in the world, and all we see is somebody that looks like him but a bit younger.  I do not know if the character speaks Spanish or not, since I have never talked to him in English.  Fred knows I do not know Spanish.  I figure the computer hacker problems might be caused by somebody from Atlanta that does not like certain people, so the individual from Atlanta sends them up here in the winter to freeze.  More than likely there is some high tech group flying regularly between Atlanta and Westchester County airport, and I suggested to the security agency that they search a data base of those people whom fly up here in the winter regularly and also went to Georgia Tech.  Basically when members of the Rockefeller group of companies go south for the winter or on vacation, we get another group of people coming up here that looked somewhat confused, since they are not use to the colder weather.  The fact that they could afford to fly up here would imply they have money to enjoy the northern vacations for what they are worth.  I know the grass is always greener on the other side, but if you freeze to death it is not worth starting another Coke versus Pepsi war or whatever business they think they represent.  I think CNN still might be out of Atlanta, so possibly they are coming up here where Time magazine people live.  I think Warner Brothers is out in California if they feel cold.

I also chatted with a local security agency.  I have never personally met any members of the Bush family that I recall.  My family has vacationed in Kennebunkport, Maine since 1978, and I have been around www.ibm.com personnel that I do not know how to talk with about computers, since I do not know anything about main frame super computers.  One relative takes me out to dinner with one of the former editors of www.pcworld.com magazine who happens to be from Atlanta, and that individual sells lobsters in Maine in retirement, since there was no money in the magazine.  I will now mention any names, since they are private people, and the IBM people know how to do their own public relations.  If is my professional viewpoint as a home computer user, that if people read more and researched more, they would not make faulty lifestyle changes in hopes of a better life.  In other words if you have a paying job, don't give it up to try to live on government assistance in this area.  It is not that easy, unless you happen to be a sedentary individual who likes watching the world go by on a minimal budget.   The average writer for the www.greenwichtime.com makes $8,500 a year, so they can not afford a lawyer if they write the wrong thing. 

If you have lots of big bucks money, I would not use Cyrus Vance's law firm in Manhattan, since they are members of the democrat party, and Cyrus Vance's son is the district attorney in Manhattan.

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 11:40 P.M.  I was given this web site for internet fraud www.ftc.com .   I also called up DirectTV Service at 1-800-347-3288, and that number tries to sell one DirectTV, but by pressing 0, on can get a real person.  That person gave me the DirectTV Identity Theft hotline at 1-800-860-8542 which is opened from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. EST.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 11:10 P.M.  I received email that the defective ATI video card from Ebay was refunded for $17.57, but it still has not shown up on my account.  Also my Chase Debit card was used for two fraudulent charges of one to the Remington Corporation of Milford, New Hampshire for $1.56 and another for $44.24 to DTV DirectTV Service in California.  I cancelled the debit card.  Once the charges are cleared, Chase will be able to refund them to me, but at least nobody will be able to make any more charges.  I chatted with a local security official once.  I chatted with an out of town security official twice.  I chatted with a friend in the security business once.  I chatted with one relative twice and another relative once.  The existing charges on my debit card will go through. 

What has me worried is the Remington Corporation Firearms - Shotguns - Rifles - Handguns - Ammunition - Remington Guns - Home of America's Oldest Gunmaker sells unfriendly technical equipment.  I just can not figure out, what one would buy for $1.56 from them in New Hampshire that would make sense this time of year, unless somebody was so hungry they were going to take one shot at a moose.  CIO    

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 7:40 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and five strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 6:45 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I looked outside, but it does not look like it has changed too much since noon.  I suppose there is more ice that one can not see.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 6:20 P.M.  I made 201 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 2:10 P.M.  I ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shower and clean up, and then I will make some more stuff your own cigarettes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 1:10 P.M.  I took some pictures of conditions outside around the building.  One of tenants returned in the TAG Transportation Association of Greenwich bus.  I saw a jet landing at Westchester County airport, so the airport must be opened.  The sidewalk outside the building is extremely slippery.

http://mikelouisscott.com/71-vinci-020111/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/71-vinci-020111/  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 12:20 P.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I tried to fax the Microsoft Money 2007 January 2011 income versus spending report to an interested relative, but the fax would not go through.  The answering machine kept picking up.  Instead I mailed it to the relative in the mail room downstairs.  I chatted with neighbors and the building custodian.  It is very icy outside.  CIO   

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 9:35 A.M.  I woke up at 8:30 A.M..  I paid my bills for www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Voice Long Distance, and my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com local telephone bill.

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 12:50 A.M.  There is a nice steel desk on the lower level parking area dumpster area at the Greenwich Train Station parking garage that somebody with a station wagon could retrieve, if they happen to need a nice solid steel desk.  It would probably take two people to lift it.

If somebody in this Vinci Drive neighborhood does not want to get ice on their car in the upcoming storm, as I recall there is parking underneath the Chase Bank building at West Putnam Avenue and Valley Road opposite the Hollyhill Dump.  Of course, one should probably check with the night watch person to see if it is all right.  However, it would be hazardous walking over to that building when the sidewalks are not plowed, and one would have to walk along the bush snowy roadway.  CIO

Note: <888> 02/01/11 Tuesday 12:25 A.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate dinner of chicken Ramen noodle soup, a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread, a www.honeybell.com orange, and a glass of watered down punch.  I went out, and I stopped by www.mcdonalds.com on West Putnam Avenue.  I got a free quarter pounder with cheese hamburger with the coupon.  I had to buy a small French fries with it for $1.19 and .07 tax for $1.26 total.  I ate my meal in the restaurant.  The quarter pounder with cheese does not look as big as it used to be.  I used the bathroom there.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly downtown, and I had a cigarette on the green bus bench opposite Starbucks which was closed.  I then drove around the Greenwich Train station area.  I drove way down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road. I retrieved a four foot round damask cushion from the Steamboat Road dumpster, but when I got home, I noticed it had cat hair on it, so I threw it away in our dumpster.  After Steamboat Road, I drove around town.  On the way back home, I went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station at 623 Putnam Avenue, and I bought $5.05 of self service premium gasoline for $3.799 a gallon for 1.330 gallons for 13.6 miles per gallon driving in local traffic since this past Friday January 28, 2011 at odometer reading of 68268 miles.  I then returned home.  I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money 2007 income versus spending report for January 2011.  I will fax one copy to an interested relative tomorrow.  I had to put a new Walgreen's blue automatic bowl fresh jar in the toilet tank by the method described earlier today.  CIO