Note: <888> 03/31/05 Thursday 10:20 P.M.:  I went to bed on top of my bed underneath a blanket, since I did not feel like moving all the pillows.   I woke up at 3:30 P.M., so I missed my 3 P.M.  appointment.  I had set the alarm, but either I did not hear it, or it did not go off.   Possibly I have A.M. mixed up with P.M..   I installed another LAN card in the Gateway backup computer, and it was recognized by RedHat Linux 8.0 and installed along with the network.   The Gateway backup computer now goes online without any problems.   I opened a free 30 day account with the RedHat Network, but I can not get it to update my new install of RedHat Linux 8.0.  I will fiddle with it some more at a later date.   I went back to bed about 5 P.M..  I woke up at 9 P.M., and I turned on the television, and it showed Donald Trump taking delivery of a pizza from Dominos.   I then turned it off, when I had a telephone call from a relative.   I chatted with the relative for a while.   I then threw out some garbage.   I picked up my mail.   I started up the primary computer, and I installed HP software updates and the Norton LiveUpdate updates.   I will now eat breakfast of a onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese, oatmeal with a sliced banana, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is 39 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/31/05 Thursday 8:25 A.M.:  I got Red Hat Linux 8.0 installed on the Gateway backup computer.  It boots all right, but it does not recognized the LAN card installed in it properly, so I will have to change LAN cards to get it to go on line.   I will do this later.   I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will rest until about noon.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/31/05 Thursday 5:25 A.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .   I also made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.   On top of the salad, I used 14 grape tomatoes, and the bottom half of the stalks of 13 asparagus vinaigrette cut into 1.5 inch lengths.   I also put the 8 pitted black California olives on top of the salad.   I used all of the other regular ingredients.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/31/05 Thursday 3:10 A.M.:  I finished installing Fedora 3.0 on the backup Gateway GP6-350 computer, but it would not boot.   I downloaded and installed an updated bios driver from 1999 to 4/5/2001, but it still would not boot.  I finally got it to boot, but it would not install the "smartd" feature, and the Xserver would not run with its onboard AGP video.   I am now installing an older version of the Fedora operating system called RedHat Linux 8.0 which might work.   I am doing a complete installation, so it will take some time.   From past experience the older version seems to work on older computers, when the newer version only works on newer computers.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 11:20 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 10:45 P.M.:  The Fedora installation on the Gateway 2000 backup computer is on the fourth and final installation CD.   I moved the long green couch about another 5 inches further away from the wall earlier this morning, so it is now 12 to 13 inches away from the wall giving more room for the heat from the electric radiators to circulate.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 10:25 P.M.:    Forbes.com: Estate Of Confusion  and Forbes.com: Dolan Seeks to Block Satellite Sale .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 10:25 P.M.:  The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft's "Thoreau" takes to woods to ponder future .   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 9:55 P.M.:  I put the Krakatau video tape on the center top hallway bookcase with the Smithsonian book on volcanoes and the other volcano videotape.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.:  Techbargains.com - Buy computer cheap digital camera review cheap computer sales cheap notebook wholesale online computer store .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 9:30 P.M.:  I was up at 6 P.M..   I started installing Red Hat Fedora 3.0 on the Gateway 2000 backup computer.   It has a Pentium II processor running at 350 MHz, 256 megs of memory, and 8 gigabyte and a 800 megabyte hard drives.   It is about 75% through a full installation.   I chatted with a relative.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a relative, and I left messages with two friends.   I went outside, and I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.   I put the Sunbeam bug zapper information and the First Alert smoke and fire alarm information on the left hallway bookcase shelf with the other household information.   I put the 11 in 1 memory card reader information and CD on the second shelf of the lower CD rack on the dining room table.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 8:35 A.M.:  I have finished burning the 4 Fedora CDs.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 7:50 A.M.:  I have the 4 Fedora *.iso downloads downloaded and their checksums are alright.   I will now burn the *.iso files to CD.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 6:25 A.M.:  I am downloading Fedora http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ and http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html , and I probably will put it on the old Gateway 2000 backup computer in the bedroom.  I am downloading all 4 downloads at the same time, so I am using up a bit of bandwidth.  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 5:50 A.M.:  http://www.stamps.com/welcome/ .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 5:40 A.M.:  Microsoft TS2 Seminars .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 5:40 A.M.:  SmartBargains: Bargain Bin .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 5:35 A.M.:  Forbes.com: Colonoscopies: Too Much Of A Bad Thing? .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 5:30 A.M.:  Forbes.com: Newport Views .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 5:10 A.M.:  I put a 18 ounce can of Progresso chicken with wild rice soup in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I heated it with the reheat cycle on the General Electric microwave oven.   I put the heated soup in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/30/05 Wednesday 4:30 A.M.:  After the last message, I put 2 duplicate photographs in a stamped envelope to a relative with two .37 postage stamps on it.  I then put 9 digital photographs on my 32 meg. compact memory card in the memory card reader.  I also put on a new bar of CVS beauty bar soap in my bath tub.  I then went downtown after cleaning up.  I went by the ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue of Putnam Trust Bank of New York and deposited my $15 Kingston 512 meg. compact memory card rebate.   I drove down by the waterfront.   I then over to CVS in Old Greenwich.  I used their digital photograph machine, and I followed the instructions, and I put the memory card with 9 digital photographs into the machine, and it printed out the 9 digital photographs.   They came out well, but I do not think they are as good as the ones that Kodak sends when one uploads them.   I got five of them for free with my CVS card this week, and I paid .29 each for the other 4 for $1.16 plus .07 tax for $1.23 total.  I put the 9 photographs in the envelope addressed to my relative, and I sealed it, and I put some scotch tape on it that the CVS clerk had available, and I had it ready to mail.   I checked out the United States post office at the Riverside Shopping plaza, but I decided to mail the photographs at the central Greenwich Avenue post office outside box.   I then went to the Food Emporium, and I bought a 10 ounce bag of fresh baby spinach leaves for $2.50, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $2 and fresh Dole bananas at .69 a pound for $1.22  for $5.72 total.   I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went downtown, and I mailed the photographs at the central Greenwich Post Office outdoor mail box, and then I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   During my walk, I stopped by the ATM machine on Greenwich Avenue, and I got some deposit envelopes to take home to have available for night deposits.   At the top of Greenwich Avenue on the east side where the Cole gallery once was, they are putting in a new Swedish mattress and bedding store called Hastens www.hastens.com .  I watched their videotape presentation in their front window.   I also noticed that Bang and Olufsen http://www.bang-olufsen.com/ is moving from Greenwich Avenue to just west of Greenwich Avenue on to West Putnam Avenue.  The new LUSH gourmet all natural soap shop is not yet opened yet.   Apparently the soap is made from fresh fruit and lasts for three weeks.  After I completed my walk, I sat out for a while.   I then drove down by the waterfront.   I next went by the air pump at the West Putnam Avenue Shell station.   It is only free to customers now, and for non customers it costs .50 for three minutes.   I checked my tires with the tire gauge from my glove compartment, and they are all still 32 pounds per square inch.   I think the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library still has free tire air.  Also my Slaymaker Jumpstart system with the new battery has a tire air pump with gauge.  I then returned home, and I put away my food purchases.   CIO     

Note: <888> 03/29/05 Tuesday 11:55 P.M.:  I put the remaining half of the tomato sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I heated it with the remaining cooked spaghetti noodles on the reheat cycle in the microwave oven.   I put it all on a dinner plate with some grated parmesan cheese, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I will now put the computer on standby, and I will clean up, and I will go out in a short while.  Current temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is 43 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/29/05 Tuesday 11:00 P.M.:  I watched the two PBS programs.   I recorded on a new Sony 6 hour videotape the 90 minute Krakatau program, but I missed about the first two minutes of it.   I had to figure out how to use the new Daewoo DVD VCR.   I removed the tab from the Sony videotape, so it can not be recorded over.   I left it on top of the round Swedish glass on the brass and glass coffee table.  In the process of recording the program, I could not figure out how to stop it, so I finally unplugged the machine and replugged it in.  I think I had set the timer on the VCR, so it might not have stopped until the timer ran out.  However, the recording session was successful, and the Krakatau program is on the Sony videotape less the first two minutes.   For some reason the computer stopped and went to the startup boot screen while watching the program.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/29/05 Tuesday 7:40 P.M.:  I fell asleep on the long green sofa.   I got a telephone call from a relative, and I was told on our local Public Television channel 13 at 8 P.M., there is going to be a program on NOVA about the Tsunamis, and then at 9 P.M. on Public Television on channel 13, there is going to be a program about Krakatoa  Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program Krakatau Summary .  Also Alaska Volcano Observatory has improved their web site.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/29/05 Tuesday 5:35 P.M.:  I was up at 8 A.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 4:30 P.M..   I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.   I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.   I noticed a large hawk flying around our building or possibly it was an eagle.   I picked up my mail, and I got the Kingston $15 rebate check on the 512 MB. Kingston Compact memory card.   I will put it in the night deposit at Putnam Trust Bank of New York, probably on Greenwich Avenue, since I seem to be on a night schedule this week.   It has warmed up a bit, and it is currently 54 degrees Fahrenheit and tomorrow is suppose to be sunny and just as warm Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast , so I guess spring is finally arriving.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/29/05 Tuesday 1:45 A.M.:  I went through my email, and I sent out a few emails.   I did some research.   I microwaved with the Popcorn button a package of ACT II microwave popcorn, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 9:40 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 8:50 P.M.:  Yahoo! News - Indonesian VP: Quake May Kill Up to 2,000 .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 8:45 P.M.:  In a five quart Revere pot, I brought three quarts of water to a boil with a dash of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil in the water.   Once the water boiled, I put a 16 ounce box of Ronzoni #9 spaghetti noodles in the water, and I boiled them for ten minutes.  With five minutes to go, I put half a 26 ounce jar of Newman's Own tomato and roasted garlic sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, which I heated on the reheat cycle for about the same time as the spaghetti has to cook for the last five minutes.   I then drained the spaghetti water in a colander inside a larger Revere pot to save the hot water.   I  dumped the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out the residue from whiskers and shave cream that builds up.   I put half the cooked spaghetti in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I put the other half on a large dinner plate along with the heated sauce and with a thin layer of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 7:25 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  On a more local note Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 6:35 P.M.:  Yahoo! News - 296 Dead in Indonesia Quake, Official Says , Yahoo! News - Hundreds Feared Dead in Indonesia Quake; No Tsunami , CNN.com - Quake kills at least 290 on Indonesian island - Mar 28, 2005 , BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Lethal quake rattles tsunami zone , and http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/wmsg  .   I went out after the last message, and I went downtown, and I went to Charles Stuttig locksmith  at 158 Greenwich Avenue 203-869-6260, and I had copies made of my apartment door key and the side doors key for my building for $2.50 each plus .30 tax for $5.30 total.   I then went to my 4 P.M. appointment.   I then returned home.  I tested the keys, and they work, and I put them on my dining room table in a little relish dish.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the dry  cycle.   I also put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom including two of the new yellow pillow cases.   I chatted with a relative.   In the old days in the winter in Key West or the summer in Nantucket, everyone did laundry on rainy days.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 2:40 P.M.:  I watched the news reports, and they say there does not appear to have been any Tsunami generated.   I chatted with a friend.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal, a onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I will now clean up, and go out for my 4 P.M. appointment.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 1:35 P.M.: http://www.vsi.esdm.go.id/news/index.htm and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center - Ewa Beach, Hawai`i and http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/wmsg TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN  .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 1:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I called 1-800-305-4838 to freeze my Verizon long distance and regional calling accounts with NO carriers, since I eliminated AT&T.   Since I am in Connecticut, I can not use the automated system, so I was transferred to a Verizon customer service representative, whom finally put the freeze though on both long distance and regional dialing, and then I was connected to an Independent Verification auditor, and I entered the information on the telephone.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 12:35 P.M.:   I woke up this morning, and I ate the remaining can or about 1/3rd of Planters Deluxe cashew nuts.  Yahoo! News - Strong Quake Hits Off Indonesia Island and CNN.com - Quake strikes off Indonesia coast - Mar 28, 2005 and BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Huge quake hits Indonesian coast .   A friend stopped by to pick up a printout, and the pictures I made up for him.   I chatted with a relative.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 5:05 A.M.:  Wait ten years, and you will be able to buy it for $500 BBC NEWS Technology Fastest supercomputer gets faster .   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I ate a .75 inch by 3 inch by .75 inch pieces of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont Hunter's Seriously sharp cheese.  I have a 4 P.M. appointment today.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 4:25 A.M.:  Judging from http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/welcome.html , there is a whole lot of seismic activity on Mount St. Helens.   Don't forget http://einstein.atmos.colostate.edu/~mcnoldy/msh/ during their daytime three hours behind eastern time.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 4:15 A.M.:  I went through my email.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 4:00 A.M.:  I went downtown, and I mailed the Priority Mail envelope at the central Greenwich, Connecticut post office outside Express Mail box.   I assume one mails it there, since there was no Priority Mail mail box.   It is raining out, so I did not bother to sit out for a while.   I drove down by the waterfront, and I suppose the rain is washing off the sea gull droppings from the pier on Steamboat Road.   I then returned home.   I emailed my friends that I sent them the brass broach.  I will not put the 9 photographs in my most recent photograph album, and I will put it back in the center hallway bookcase with my other photograph albums.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 2:35 A.M.:  I found an item that my guests dropped on the bathroom floor while visiting, so I put in a small box in a Priority Mail envelope which is good for up to 2 pounds for $3.85 USPS - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service) , and I put a "Living in Greenwich, 1995" paper back book in with it, and I printed out labels for the Priority Mail label, and I  put on the Priority Mail envelope $4.07 or eleven .37 postage stamps, and after I dress up warmly, I will go out to the central Greenwich, Connecticut post office mail box and mail it.  I will put the computer on standby.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 1:00 A.M.:  I just posted the nine pictures at Michael Scott's Kodak Picture Center online which is also linked from http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/ .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/28/05 Monday 12:50 A.M.:  I posted this picture http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-and-wendy-and-bob-reilly-tods-point-original-32705.JPG which is the unchanged photograph of the earlier one.    I also printed out nine 5" X 7" prints with the HP Photosmart 1000 printer of the group of pictures that I took today, and I am letting them dry a bit, before I put them in my most recent photograph album.   I have 26 sheets of Staples 5" X 7" photograph  paper left.  I have 80% left on HP Photosmart 1000 color cartridge, and I have 50% left on the HP Photosmart 1000 black ink cartridge.  CIO    

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 11:35 P.M.:   My friends called at 4 P.M., so I drove over to pick them up in the central Greenwich area.   All three of us drove out to Tod's Point, and I took some pictures.  

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We stood out for a while at the southwest parking area and the southeast parking area.   It was bit cool, so we did not stay too long.   We then drove over to the Hyatt in Old Greenwich Hyatt.com Fairfield hotels Hyatt Regency Greenwich hotel , and I toured my friends around the hotel.   They were serving a nice buffet to their Easter guests.   We next drove back to central Greenwich, and I showed them downtown from my car, and we drove down by the waterfront.  We then drove back to my apartment.   I showed them around my apartment, and they thought it was quite presentable.   I served one of them a cup of hot water, and the other guest had a cup of coffee.   I turned up the heat a bit, since one of the guests was a bit cold.   I took two cans of solid white albacore tuna fish, and I drained them underneath cold water with the lids opened on top, and I then put them in a metal mixing bowl, and I flaked the tuna fish, and then I added two kitchen tablespoons of Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise, and I mixed it all together.   I then washed with the salad spinner about one third of a ten ounce bag of fresh spinach removing the stems, and I spread the spinach on each of three of my unused Chinese blue and white plates that I keep in the left cupboard.   I then put one third of the tuna mixture on top center of each of the plates with the fresh spinach.   I then cut the last four inches of the tips of 8 asparagus vinaigrette, and I spread them around two of the plates four to a plate,  I then put five grape tomatoes on each of the three plates evenly,  including one in the tuna fish, and I added two pitted California black pitted olives to each of the piles of tuna fish,  and .5 inch by 1 inch by .25 inch pieces of www.cabotcheese.com Vermont Hunter's Seriously sharp cheese and I served them to myself and my guests, and I also had a glass of iced tea.  I used some of the new silverware that I keep in the left cupboard for my guests to use.   We looked at the photographs that I took on the computer.   I took my guests to the Greenwich train station, and they caught the 8:12 P.M. train back into Manhattan.  I then returned home.   I chatted with a relative.   I emailed my guest copies of the photographs that I took.  I used the Microsoft Photo Editor to make them look better.   The picture of the three of us, I took with the tripod, which works just fine, and it has a mounting screw bracket, so one can break the camera away quickly from the tripod.   However, the photographs with the three of us did not come in clear, since with the overcast setting sun in the west, it still fooled the electric eye on the camera, so the foreground subjects were too dark.   I lightened it as best I could with the software.   One should remember to try to take photographs with the sun at their back.   When I returned home, I straightened up the apartment also, so everything is back in the same place.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 3:55 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and wait for my friends to call.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 3:50 P.M.:  If one were an elderly retired person down in South Florida worrying about being invaded by Fidel Castro, this is suppose to protect you Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division , but since a lot of retired people spend so much time inside, I don't think they would even notice.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 3:45 P.M.:  If you are short of tall people, one of my sisters is a cheerleader for the San Antonio, Texas Spurs THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS , however around the corporate world of Fairfield county, Connecticut, there then to be some taller people out in the wood work.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 3:35 P.M.:  I was up at noon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a onion bagel with cream cheese and margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I went outside briefly, and I threw out some garbage, and I saw a neighbor that I had not seen in a while, and he looked just fine.   I chatted with a relative.   I showered and cleaned up.   I went back outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.   I am waiting for my friends to call shortly, and then I will drive over and pick them up, and then we will do something.   I am taking my camera and tripod, so I can take pictures of them with myself.   Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut is a bit cool and damp Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast at 45 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 5:30 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   My guests are going to call me later on today between 3:30 P.M. and 4 P.M., so I guess I will have to get up around 1 P.M. to have breakfast and to get ready to meet with them.   There does not really seem to be much going on in the world on weekends anymore, since news writers do not tend to write on weekends.   Thus if they did not write for all 7 days of the week, not much would be going on at all worldwide.   Thus the fact that writers from their perspective report what is going on, is relevant to their environment, and the readership that chooses to read the various reports.   Thus my reports are based on the English language from a fairly well educated United States citizen of Dutch, Scottish, English, French, and German background.  Since I am in the New York area about 20 miles east of Manhattan, I tend to see more than the average individual whom is just left with television to watch.   From my point of view nothing much really happens in the public sector in Greenwich, Connecticut since most people whom pay the taxes in back country happen to be private, and it frequently is the case that they are not even here, because a lot of Greenwich people when they are younger tend to travel.   Whatever, the case not much really is happening here except maintaining a family type of community which tends to take the considerable energies of the rest of the community, so the children have time to watch their cartoons.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 5:05 A.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 4:30 A.M.:  I went through my email.   I ate one third of a 10 ounce can of Planter's Deluxe cashew nuts.   I ate a handful of licorice bits.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 3:30 A.M.:  My $15 rebate on the Kingston 512 meg. Compact Memory Disk was mailed on March 25, 2005.   I am half way through my email.   When going through a large volume of email, it is best to sort it by "From", so one can quickly delete the ones one does not want to read.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 3:15 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped and about four .25 inch by 1 inch by 3 inch slices of Danish Plumrose had that I chopped into half inch wide slices.  On top of the salad, I also used 10 grape tomatoes, 10 asparagus vinaigrette chopped into 1.25 inch long slices, and the usual 8 California black pitted olives.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .   Instead of my usual recipe with five bags of the different types of Twinings in their variety pack, I am using the six different types in the Bigelow six assorted tea package.  They include Constant Comment, Plantation Mint, English Teatime, Earl Grey, Green Tea, and Lemon Lift.  I also used four green tea bags and 10 orange pekoe tea bags for the mixture.  I will now start going through my 500 plus emails.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/27/05 Sunday 1:10 A.M.:  I was up at 8 P.M. this evening.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese, orange juice, vitamins, and supplements.   I think the extra sugar in the pineapple mixture this week was messing up my system, since I am hypoglycemic and possibly the small bit of alcohol in the pineapple mixture.   I chatted with a friend.   I cleaned up, and I went out.  I then went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $5.25 of regular unleaded gasoline at $2.559 a gallon for 32 miles total driving this week, at 15.4 miles per gallon averaging driving 14 miles per hour.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.   There was a fire call at the Figaro restaurant since in making Crepes Suzette it set off the building alarm system.   I completed my walk.   I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.   CIO    

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 9:35 A.M.:  Yesterday, when I woke up while I was sleeping, I ate 3/4 of a 10 ounce can of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts.   I just ate the remaining quarter can of nuts.   Stories like this in the Greenwich Time every year at this time, makes the local population suspicious of strangers Greenwich Time - The area's opulent homes lure many improvement contractors, some without credentials .   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/26/05:

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 7:05 A.M.:  I posted this most recent picture of the 100 year old blue bureau low boy that I was told to get rid of out of my kitchen by the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector, and I donated to the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, which they sold this past Thursday for $65 to a pregnant girl http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-100-year-old-blue-bureau-low-boy-in-kitchen-021505.JPG .  If anyone knows anything about medicine, one should not bother a pregnant lady.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 6:20 A.M.:  In final summary, maybe we should investigate the blue low boy bureau more thoroughly with modern scientific procedures.   If has been in my family for over a 100 years, maybe the thick top of it has concealed in it some old valuable document like the original Mayflower Compact or possibly it might yield some evidence about some crime committed around my family over a 100 years, but more than likely it is just a 100 year old plus old low boy bureau with its legs cut off with several layers of paint and newer brass hardware and the most recent coat of paint of Dutch or Williamsburg Blue.   Obviously parts of the bureau are machine made, so it is not much more than a 100 years old, and it is only worth about $20 in the United States of America, where I think we still are.  Give me a break.   I have more important things to dwell upon.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 5:55 A.M.:  From my professional point of view of thrift shops since 1968 starting at the Lake Forest, Illinois thrift shop back in 1968, I would have charged $5 for that bureau there back in the fall of 1968, so going to http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm and taking $5 at 2.7% annual compound interest over 37 years, my professional opinion at Midwest prices, the blue bureau low boy with cut off legs and probably an undercoat of lead paint would be worth in the Midwest at its point of origin about $13.40, but since it was probably moved from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Holland, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois, to Alton, Illinois to Martinsville, Virginia to Pensacola, Florida to Decatur, Alabama, to Stamford, Connecticut to Greenwich, Connecticut to New Canaan, Connecticut to another New Canaan, Connecticut location to Greenwich, Connecticut to another Greenwich, Connecticut location, to Wellesley, Massachusetts to Weston, Massachusetts to Greenwich, Connecticut, to several locations in the Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania area then finally back to my residence in Greenwich, Connecticut, it is probably home sick for the furniture museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and but if they made so many ones like them, more than likely they have a better one there.   Thus from my professional point of view in an expensive Greenwich, Connecticut thrift shop, a 100 year old piece of well moved furniture that is worth $13.40 at its point of origin should have an inflated value in Greenwich, Connecticut of about $20, thus the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop charged the poor unsuspecting mother of a baby to be born whom might be exposed to lead paint $45 too much for the bureau, but the local people having only lived mostly in this area know that the $65 is probably what the market would bear.   Obviously if I had the money and time, I would have paid for the piece of furniture to be stripped of its paint, and I would have had a furniture restorer look at photographs which are common of the piece with its legs, and have them fashion a new pair of legs, and then have it professionally restored to its natural wood beauty and then have the appropriate hardware put on it, but even in the Midwest today that would cost over a $1,000 and around here several thousand dollars, and with so much old junky furniture piled up in the New England area, most thrift shops move it through as fast they are able to move it.  The two newer mahogany bureaus in my apartment about 50 years old that I bought in better shape at thrift shops 15 years ago cost $20 apiece, thus at local prices on http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm $20 AT 2.7% interest over $15 years is $29.83 and if one averaged $29.83 and $13.40 the two different prices at two different locations $21.615 which means that it probably did not go down much in value in a 100 years of being moved around and abused, but as I have said there is so much furniture like this through out North America, most people are happy to get rid of it only to wait until the next similar museum piece shows up.   Of course poor Europeans whom have never seen a tree or a forest can not understand why there is so much furniture like this in North America, and the next thing some Chinese expert will start carving intricate figurines on it to make it an another odd piece of Asian art.  One has to remember some military experts frequently try to confuse children into joining their services so as to profiteer off of recruitment fees that they earn, and I have had so many people in my youth try to recruit me over the years that I am probably a senior military officer in all of the military branches as well as a number of foreign militaries, but from what I know from reading I am too old to join the French Foreign legion being over 45 years of age, and although they are suppose to eat better than poor disabled people in Greenwich, Connecticut, but alas just because I was good at walking around and fixing things before my arthritis got worse in damp weather about five years ago, I was never very good at military fighting skills, but of course the Scott family military school called www.usma.edu is suppose to be a military engineering school, so more than likely they have more advanced military and engineering skills than I have managed to obtain as simple layman.  Of course individuals from rural America have been feeding the military since it began.  Alas my email will have to wait.   Basically Forbes, Gates, and others think they have brainwashed me with all of their email over the years, but since they do have money, they must have earned some money off of what they do.   However, since my family has personal contacts with the Forbes family and their staff, I am not at liberty to tell anyone any business information, and quite frankly I do not know any business information other than what I read which may or may not be true.  I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 4:50 A.M.:  I thought about it, and I think the country and I am doing better under the current GOP administration, and they obviously need more money to continue the GOP fight, so I donated $5 online to www.GOP.com/VPCheney which takes you to your personal donation page.   I am still concerned about my blue low boy bureau donation to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, since I still see Kerry stickers on the vehicles of employees and volunteers there, but I have a feeling there are a few republicans working and volunteering at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and since I have used the facility and kept an eye on it since 1973, and donated quite a lot of merchandise to them over the years as well as having bought a lot of merchandise there, I hope my donation of the blue bureau sales donation goes to the Greenwich Hospital and not the Democratic trouble makers fund.   I might have to remind them the donations to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop are tax deductible, and although I did not take a tax deduction, since I do not earn enough money to pay  state or federal taxes, I would assume everything in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop back room and accounting is done up to the standards of the United States Federal government, and if somebody like me donated something that was worth much more, and I did not know it, and the staff of the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop passed it off to a friend, they would be in serious jeopardy of losing their tax donation status.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 4:00 A.M.:  I saw this rocket take off while I was down in Florida this past January Yahoo! News - Spacecraft on Course for Comet Encounter and NASA - Deep Impact .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 3:55 A.M.:  Basically as I have said so many times before, office worker types generally have so little free time left on their hands, that they try to supplement their lack of further education by going to fictional movies, which frequently have no bearing on reality in the world today.  Thus if one is educated and follow the code of conduct in fictional movies, one might end up working in a prison library or some other academic institution.    Also in many communities where established individuals live, groups of individuals seek to disrupt the established individuals by undermining their families which can cause them financial hardship.   This is why good communications although expensive, frequently is cheaper than a lawyer or a psychiatrist or a personal trip.   I am doing just fine here, but since a great many of my neighbors are on limited budgets they are left to the reality of a local television signal, which might not be telling them what they seek to know.   A great many of them do read, but as I have said the Greenwich Library does not have a lot of formal academic literature, and it is mostly recreational reading.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 3:25 A.M.:  The Greenwich Detective whom I has spoke with had a familiar voice, but alas he though South Beach, Miami might be good place to take refuge.  If one spoke Spanish, one could mix into the local Latino population whom would defend their home turf, but alas with the currently United States Military involvement in the Middle East, some individual like Fidel Castro whom is not yet old and senile could decide to expand his turf, and although the United States Navy might try to stop them, the local civilians might not like getting caught in the cross fire.   I chatted with the Casa Marina Hotel in Key West, Florida this past Thursday with the assistant manager whom was a long time local, and she seemed to remember me and my friends, and I think she got the drift of my conversation not to sell out because of possible future hurricane problems, and although colder weather might make the Key West, Florida operation more profitable, if one were sitting on Fidel Castro's door step without too much security, one could end up harvesting sugar in Cuba for the Cuban minimal wage which is nothing, in other words you might become a prisoner, but you would sure lose weight and get a good sun tan.   We have a lot of members of the exile Cuban community around here whom seem to know better, so if one is planning a tropical vacation, remember a great many of the other Caribbean Islands are also heavily influenced by Fidel Castro, and I would imagine when I chatted with the Casa Marina, Fidel Castro's intelligence eves dropped on my conversation, and more than likely they follow my internet traffic, and more than likely have intercepts on our local communications here in Greenwich, Connecticut both Verizon and Optimum Voice, and it could just as easily be conceivable that my apartment or Volvo is bugged, all for really no reason other than I know a lot of what I read which may or may not be true.   For all I know all of the internet traffic comes out of the University of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign computer laboratory The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) where my grandfather and father once lived while they were alive, and it is suppose to have a large amount of U.S. Government funding, which I never got.  However, once you work on important activity for the United States government, they generally do not let you intermingle with the general civilian population anymore, so since I am still mixing with the general civilian population, I never worked on any important government projects.  Of course what the United States government frequently does seems to get involved with certain political groups finances, so although the Republican majority is in power by a narrow majority, the Democratic party still has influence, which is probably why the former governor of Connecticut is going to jail for a year to learn more about computers.  What I know about home computers currently has taken 14 years of continual work on home computers, and it is based on experience from working in Dr. Land's research facility at Polaroid and doing programming in COBOL back in the summer of 1971, and from reading computer magazines and technology books, but it has not earned me a living, and it has not taught me how to come up with any new ideas, and more importantly it is based on the fact that I had a quarter of a million dollar education until 1972 based on Today's prices, and it is also based on the fact that I have continually read for over 50 years, and it is based on my modest budget, and it is based on the fact that I know my limits, and I also have some knowledge of what other governments are capable of along with the United States government.   Thus with all of the supposedly important people around this area, I am well aware we have snoops in the area with the biggest being the United Nations.  As a child in Decatur, Alabama living south of Huntsville, Alabama where NASA first started the basic security was limited to the law of the gun, and not many people interfered with the government work at Huntsville, Alabama, and from what I could tell, not many people would have been interested in it, but having been educated in schools that had frequent Nuclear attack drills in Decature as well as in Greenwich and at Taft, it is hard to forget that as a child, we were taught to be somewhat vigilant and aware and distrustful of foreigners.   In all of my eight months of experience in Europe, I never saw or learned anything I did not already know, so I would imagine the people in the Eastern Hemisphere are cleaver at concealing any secrets that they might have from tourists.   I reheated the spaghetti noodles and tomato sauce left from yesterday, and I put some grated parmesan cheese on them, and ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 2:15 A.M.:  I was told recently that McDonalds www.mcdonalds.com sells coffee to senior citizens for .50, but one has to be able to afford to get to McDonalds.   Since I can afford to make it a little bit more cheaply in my apartment, I do not drink coffee at McDonalds.   According to www.arrp.org the definition of a Senior Citizen is somebody over 50 years of age.  Thus when the Greenwich Police Detective criticized me for Free Loafing off Social Security System, he has to realize the value of my work effort as a volunteer over my non working parts of my career is in excess by current government costs of procurement from the civilian sector of millions of dollars, plus I have done it at my own and my family's expense.   I think this is why the republican party is currently in charge in the United States government, unlike a great many liberal democrats who have yet to come to grips with reality.   A lot of people that I deal with in my building recently seem to be wanting some sort of pay off, and all I can give them is free advise.   At today's rates in this area, a lawyer can cost over $600 a hour, and any legal case would be tide up in the local courts for 6 to 10 years, and if you lost you would have to pay all parties' legal expenses, and if you can not afford to fight city hall either move away or do something else more useful.  There is always plenty of respect for the dog catcher in town considering all of the strays that show up in this area.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 1:50 A.M.:  I threw out the garbage, and I checked the building, and it still seem to be here, and the Starship has not beamed it to another planet.   From my perspective, the Greenwich Police department is a professional organization, but since they deal with some many diverse matters, they do not always seem to realize what or whom pays the taxes in Greenwich, Connecticut.   However, being an economist, I then to have a better idea.   Also if and when they chose to retire elsewhere on their pensions in such places like Florida or the Southwest of the United States of America, since they tend not to like the cold having worked outside so much of their professional careers, they will find out as inflation eats up their pensions, they will probably have to work private security with their professional experience at some gated retirement community where not much really happens.  Thus they too will begin to feel like the Maytag repairman.   However if they live to be an older age which policeman do not frequently because of the stress of their jobs, they will at an older age begin to find that medical costs and other inflated costs will eat up their pensions, and they will be left reading discarded sports pages on an old television that is probably a fire hazard that still shows local television and news that really does not interest them.   They more than likely will get use to it and pursue some useful activity like fishing in Florida to supplement their meager diets, and since policeman do not earn that much compared to most of the more prosperous citizens in Florida, they will probably be networking with retired military personnel whom seem to have even more diverse experience.   However, depending on the economic climate of the country, their expected benefits can be eaten up by unexpected inflation which will make their real value pensions worth quite less.   In other words what good is a $40,000 a year retirement pension when a egg might cost a billion dollars.   This is what happened in Germany in the 1930s and basically caused the rapid decline of Europe into World War II.   With all the Germans involved in our economy today, it could well happen again.   Thus even if one saved up a tidy nest egg for retirement, one might find that with the economics of inflation, it might not be worth that much.   The United States Government which keeps track of such small details around the country allows for about a 2.7% cost of living increase Social Security Online News & Announcements in the inflation index at today's prices.   Thus if one compounded inflation at 2.7%, Compound Interest Calculator thus $100 compounded once annually at 2.7% over 30 years would be $222.39, but at the same time, we all know from local experience here near the New York City area, prices have gone up a lot more, which is why people move to less prosperous areas of the country, where you might actually get by on your retirement income and even earn a little extra money working at odd jobs.   I would be curious to know whom the oldest employee at McDonalds restaurants is.   Thus seniors seem to know how to get by with or without a little extra money, since once their primary source of money runs out, they generally can not look towards any more extra money.   Frequently since charitable institutions are so tapped out, they are not able to help the extremely destitute, particularly in areas like south Florida with so many transients and retired people along with illegal aliens live.   Thus although I have Supplemental Security Income and modest help from my family with subsidized housing and free medical care, I continue to try to volunteer in the local community based on my energy and experience, so I have a larger network of friends and associates, and it keeps me mentally active and alert versus watching the television all the time which does serve its purpose for people whom are too busy for other recreation such as office workers.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 12:55 A.M.:  Basically living in my own apartment, I am like the Swiss International Red Cross under siege with a Chinese citizens living on one side of me, and on the other side is a Polish citizen and guests and thus I am feel like Russia stuck in between Poland and China, but across the hall is a Polish American citizen and two doors east of me is a German citizen and across the hall from me is a British citizen, and we all seem to get along just fine and also on the penthouse level is another couple of unknown origin, but he looks like an American Indian and she looks a bit Dutch, and he works for the Greenwich Department of Parks and Recreation.   However, we have many other citizens from around the world in this building, so it is hard to tell how their apartments are fairing in the recent inspections, but since the building is about 50 democrats and 4 republicans and a couple of independents, it is hard to tell whether the democrats have done better on the housing inspections than the republicans.   However, I do know one thing and that is that I am the only one whom has sat up many all night sessions in this building for 16.5 years, while all of the original tenants slept at night most of the time.   One of the original tenants was the grandfather of the Chief of Detectives Donald Merchant, so maybe if he would have a quiet talk with his grandson, we might get a little peace and quiet in this building occasionally on the subject of tenant rights.   You have to remember, if I manage to sleep in the daytime while all the activity is going on, I tend to be very quiet myself at night.   Whatever the problems might be in this building for the last eight years, it usually comes from the fact that the tenants have to pay for their electric heat right now unlike the first 8 years, so they tend to have less money, and they tend to be colder and grumpier.   Also the mortality rate in this building is much too high than it should be, which is probably caused by the stress of the colder temperatures in the winter and the extreme heat in the summer.   I manage to cope with it since I am a cold weather person that can afford air conditioning in the summer.   Whatever, the case since we have a tenants group, it is their responsibility to communicate problems with the Greenwich Housing Authority.   In my particular case, since I am frequently busy with other matters, I do not attend tenants meetings, and they do not give me a copy of the tenants meeting minutes.  However, I do chat with my neighbors frequently.  Some of my neighbors are on medication and some of them drink alcohol, so there perspective might be different than mine.  Also since I am frequently on a night schedule, I am not to communicative in the daytime, when I have just been up all night.  From what I can tell best is the building runs fairly well, and the Greenwich Housing Authority representative inspector was just doing her job as far as the safety of the building is concerned.   Possibly the inspection process is complete, since the Greenwich Housing Authority sent my documentation papers back to me today.   I basically communicate with my psychiatrist once a week and my social work once every two weeks, and they never seem to tell me much back, but if any person has complaints, they could communicate with them.   Since the United States of America government has paid a small fortune to maintain me in my hometown for the last 21 years, I do not think it is the right for outsiders to interfere with my lifestyle, particularly if they are trying to shake down for financial gain other more prosperous members of my family.   There is a Federal Law on the Statutes of the United States Government called "The Americans with Disability Act" ADA Home Page - ada.gov - Information and Technical Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act , and although I am not a lawyer, I assume it is designed to protect individual disabled individuals like myself.  Thus if one broke this law, they would be subject to prosecution by the United States of America Federal government.  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I will throw out the garbage shortly.   I do not intend to go out for a drive or walk tonight, since with my chronic arthritis I am even more disabled on damp days and nights.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/26/05 Saturday 12:15 A.M.:  All I know is what I read.   I noticed on this picture http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/queen-elizabeth-II-coronation-photo.jpg , in the part that I censored out, it says that Queen Elizabeth II was the new wife of Joseph Stalin, and since Joseph Stalin had killed 40 million people by 1945, if he or his followers were still alive, I would not want to engage them with controversial force, since more than likely that old Stalinist group of Communists are still in charge in Russia just waiting for the right time like when it gets so cold in North America, they can just walk in and take over.   Thus the weather does matter.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 11:55 P.M.:  I was told by the Greenwich Police detective earlier that there is nothing of value on Greenwich Avenue.   I would thus suggest if somebody takes away all of their police, fire, and emergency vehicles, that they will not be missed.  Of course since the State of Connecticut is the insurance state, more than likely there are some important people in the insurance industry around here and some of their employees.   Thus even on my 10 year old Volvo, I pay $800 a year for complete automobile insurance, or I would not be driving around.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 11:15 P.M.:  Of course illegal aliens have no rights living in America, but depending on which class of illegal aliens one defines depending on how far back one goes in time, it is opened to dispute.   It is the nature of the original American Indian population that they were migratory going from north to south with the seasons and back up north.   This would have included native Americans who went south down into Mexico and the southern Americas, so more than likely in following their legal migratory rights, they would go back and forth across the Texas Mexico border as they pursue their traditional migratory patterns and much would be said about the United States of America border with Canada.  Of course most Indians seem to enjoy a more western lifestyle, and instead of sneaking across borders in the Americas are more than likely to use modern transportation.   However, I have seen Indians riding horses in Greenwich, Connecticut before.   Also many native American Indians seem to not to rely on the Western news media for information, since they already have established forms of communications.  The Greenwich, Connecticut police seem to mostly have United States Navy backgrounds which is why they drive blue police cars anymore, but it would seem to me that in other parts of the United States of America, their professional skills around the waterfront of our ocean would not be as necessary except for maybe around the Great Lakes of the Midwest.   However, when my elder sister was a neighbor of Admiral Crowl, she use to be amused by seamen who joined the United States Coast Guard whom were stationed on the lakes in Oklahoma.   It is the nature of the Republican administration currently in control of the Federal Government that they can transfer United States government personnel to where they please.   I put the nice "Certificate of Appreciation from president George Bush, vice president Richard Cheney, and Ken Mehlman republican national committee chairman in the Lucite picture holder that contains Richard Cheney's Christmas greetings on the wall to the right of my personal computer.   I still have to do the cleaning of the glass work and the mirrors with spray glass cleaner.  I have to consider whether I can afford to make a small donation to the Republican National Committee, since I can not afford price of attending the expensive churches in Greenwich, Connecticut which usually costs thousands of dollars.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 10:40 P.M.:  On the matter of my former Vanderbilt family heirloom which was only sold for $65 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop because its legs were cut off, more than likely it was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan where back then if they made one of them, they probably made at least 50,000 to a million of them, so more than likely they style of furniture is quite common in America, and more than likely there are probably other ones like it in the Midwest of the United States of America with their legs still on them, that they would probably be happy to sell for $20 just to get rid of them, but of course, one would have to pay to transport them back east.   One could try looking in the furniture warehouses in Indianapolis, Indiana or where I did at the Salvation Army in Waukegan, Illinois where recovering alcoholics volunteer their services.   I once back in 1969 furnished an entire farm house on the west side of Lake Forest, Illinois for $50 with the furniture delivered by the big red truck with the price included.  In other words from my viewpoint, they got a good price for it.  I will now go back to my house cleaning.   I have still have to clean the mirrors and glasswork with spray glass cleaner.   Remember in a Dutch household, Cleanliness is next to Godliness.   Also if one messes with small Dutch people, the largest Dutch citizen that have seen in Greenwich, Connecticut is close to 8 feet tall and weighs over 800 pounds, and he frequently shows up in grocery stores pretending to be a Dutch Cheese salesman from Mattrich in the Netherlands.  Alas, he is a town of Greenwich, Connecticut resident, and he works certain jobs that require larger people, and his children would be much larger than I am at 6 foot tall 210 pounds and legally near sighted and partially deaf and legally disabled according to professional psychiatrists and a professional disability judge in the state of Connecticut back in 1983 to 1985, when they first evaluated me.   However, one a minor point of reference, as anyone gets older if they live that long, you more than likely will also become legally disabled as you get older and frail.   Also people whom have grown up down south tend to have a different way of speaking compared to people up north whom speak differently in colder weather.   My specific speech pattern of English is closely copied from the way television news broadcasters speak, but in the communications business, the individuals tend to talk faster in a lighter tone when communicating, since they get more said in a shorter period of time.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 10:15 P.M.:  I chatted with another Greenwich detective, and he said I sounded like a fruit cake, and I have no legal rights when I live in public housing, and I tried to explain to him, I am legally disabled.   I also could try to explain to him that since I smoke cigarettes, my voice changes with the amount of breathing capacity that I have, and also since speaking in any other tone of voice would cause me to get laryngitis.   Also when one speaks English, one tends to speak it the way the other people speak English around them.   Judging by the detectives voice, he also drinks alcohol.   I am continuing my house cleaning.  I do know a volunteer computer security person over in Stamford, Connecticut if he is still alive with the name of Roger Schultz, and he use to visit with me, when I first started using computers at home 16 years ago, but I can not afford to feed him since he weighs about 800 pounds or more, but he was a good friend of Nancy Carnegie Rockefellers, and he was on the board of the Representative Town Meeting that got the town of Greenwich, Connecticut and the Greenwich Housing Authority to restore this building the Old Byram School into Connecticut Public Housing.  Although the last I knew he is not a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, but he is still a member of Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.   Alas when I talk to people on the telephone, I do not make too much sense, since I am a bit deaf from working around a lot of noise in my younger years.  However, since I have read for over 50 years, I tend to think like a reference librarian when I hold conversations with individuals.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 9:05 P.M.:  I chatted with some relatives.   They said not to make a big deal about it, because people in Greenwich are always being shook down by criminal types.   I do know there is a professional furniture restorer that regularly goes to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and he more than likely acquired the blue bureau, and the volunteers in the back room at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop volunteer their low paid services, so they can make money off the donations that people make, so more than likely they tipped the professional furniture restorer whom I think works out of Stamford, Connecticut, and he is probably going to restore the blue bureau and make money off of it.   Thus we have a situation where the Greenwich Housing Authority, the Greenwich Hospital, the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop a charity operation of the Greenwich Hospital, and the professional furniture restorer in Stamford, Connecticut are in criminal collusion to shake down myself for profit , and since I am a legally disabled individual with no assets other than what I have been given by my family and what I have purchased myself and managed to acquire in my apartment in the last 16.5 years.   It would seem equally criminal that the Greenwich Housing authority inspector wanted me to get rid of the solid oak round table in my apartment, the long Scott family sofa, and the computer equipment.   This would seem to me that they are trying to take advantage of individual, since nothing was mentioned about the less valuable items.   I thus charge them all with criminal conspiracy to commit felony theft of over $50,000.   That is my final decision.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 8:35 P.M.:  I tend not to believe the story about a girl about to have a baby buying the bureau for $65 at the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, since one would not want to have an bureau around a newborn baby that might have a coat of lead paint on it.   It all seems very suspicious.   It basically seems like the Greenwich Hospital and the Greenwich Housing Authority is in collusion to steal valuable family heirlooms from older people whom do not know whether they are valuable or not.   My psychiatrist collects antiques, and I suppose he would know whether the bureau was worth anything or not, but I guess he did not bother to take a look at it.  For all I know it was one of the valuable Vanderbilt family heirlooms.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 8:20 P.M.:  I called the Greenwich Police department on their non emergency telephone number at 203-622-8000, and I finally was able to contact a detective, and I explained the matter as best as I was able to, and the detective said that there was nothing that they could do about it.  I will now go back to my house cleaning.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 7:25 P.M.:  I was awake at 2 P.M., and I ate breakfast of the last of the pineapple mixture http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pineapple.htm , along with a toasted onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 5 P.M., and I then went out, and I checked my mail.   I received a certificate from the Republican party of the United States of America honoring me and asking me for another financial contribution.   I am half way through my house cleaning.   On a minor note about the blue low boy bureau which I gave to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, which they sold for $65, I feel like they have underestimated my gift, and I was taken advantage of.   I was told on the first inspection by the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector a couple of weeks ago that I should get rid of it, since it made my kitchen too crowded, and thus I gave it away.   However, I feel this was a major act of trespassing on the part of the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector.   I could have moved it elsewhere in my apartment and gotten rid of one of the other bureaus, however in the rush, I did not think about it.   The blue low boy bureau had been in my grandmother Boven's family for over 100 years, and it originally came from her house in Holland, Michigan when my parents were first married in 1948.  We have continually maintained it family houses ever since then.   Although the legs had been cut off of it in 1957, when my mother read an article about it in the House and Garden magazine which also comes from Greenwich, Connecticut, and she had repainted it.   However, it had been repainted  a couple of times since, and I had repainted it in my apartment a Williamsburg blue or Dutch blue.   Since the bureau was originally in my Grandmother Boven's house in Holland, Michigan, it might have been made in Grand Rapids, Michigan where they make furniture such as Baker furniture, and people like Jerry Ford were from.   I think it was about 5 feet high, 3.5 feet wide, and about 20 inches deep.   It had three wide curved lower drawers, and two half size curved drawers on the left upper left side and a door on the upper right side where in the old days, one would have put a bowl and a pitcher for cleaning up in the morning.  Thus when the bureau was made, they did not have indoor plumbing.   I think the top of it might have been oak and the supporting frame might have been oak.   However the front drawers and door had curves and were probably pine or some other similar lighter wood that one could curve the wood with steam pressure and they were curved about 4 inches in a ribbon effect.   Technically a professional furniture restorer could have restored the legs.  Since it came from Holland, Michigan I would consider it Dutch piece of furniture.   However, since Holland, Michigan use to have the Chris Craft boat company, they would have also used the wood laminating process of curving wood to curved shapes in making boats.  Thus although it was not a valuable piece of furniture as far as the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop was concerned, it would cost a considerable amount of money to reproduce, and it was kept by my family and my mother's family for over a 100 years.   Thus as far as I am concerned, one can tell the so called legal authorities as far as I am concerned they can start burning the furniture at the Bush Holly house here in Greenwich, Connecticut.   Once again, I feel the act of the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector telling me to get rid of the blue low boy bureau a major act of trespassing.   I reported it to my social worker, my psychiatrist, my mother, my sisters, and the police department, and since we are all afraid of doing anything that would jeopardize my tenure as a resident in Greenwich Public Housing, so I will not become homeless again, nobody took action to counteract their demand that I get rid of the bureau.   As far as I am concerned, if they ever try to visit Holland, Michigan, they can be put to work in the Dutch furniture factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan making similar furniture, which they probably still do.   I would imagine there are still a lot of trees in Michigan, and in a cold environment of Michigan working in a furniture factory would be warm compared to being outside in the winters that are colder than around here in Connecticut.   If I ever see it again in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, I will try to retrieve it from them, and I will put it back in my apartment, and get rid of one of the two more traditional mahogany bureaus that I have acquired while I have lived here.   I will now go back to my house cleaning.   Of course, it is my personal viewpoint, the so called town of Greenwich, Connecticut has not really appreciated my family's presence here for all of these years, and they are more like a bunch of junk men trying to profiteer off of our presence.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/25/05 Friday 12:05 A.M.:  I have about 400 emails to go through, but I will do that at a later time.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I will do my house cleaning when I wake up today.   I will now mail the rebate letter downstairs in the mail room.  Of course whatever one does in terms of adverse weather, it is usually based on one's economic circumstances.  Happy Good Friday.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 11:05 P.M.:  Basically if Mount St. Helens should decide to erupt soon in the next few years, it would be very cold in the sub zero degrees Fahrenheit temperature up in the north country of the northern hemisphere, so more than a few of the billion plus residents in the northern parts of the northern hemisphere might spend more time in the warmer regions of the world and learn to appreciate their southern neighbors.  Of course, since Mount St. Helens already had a major eruption on May 8, 1980 which blew away a good portion of the mountain, it is hard to tell weather the ash cloud  from that eruption would thin out the sun light up in the earth's upper atmosphere would be as intense or not, but a could portion of a major volcanic eruption comes from underground, so that could well be the case.   If this should happen, I would continue to be a resident in this area Greenwich, Connecticut, since I am quite use to colder weather, but I might take time off occasionally to visit relatives whom live in Florida.  However with more fuel being used to keep the northern parts of the world warm, there might be less fuel worldwide for travel.   Of course if a significant part of the populations shifted south, more than likely there would be surplus energy in the northern parts of the world, since they are not entirely dependent on oil, and other sources of available energy might make up the shortages.   However, it would also be colder down south, so some of the local people in the south might actually move further south to warmer areas.  I remember when I first arrived in Key West, Florida on Halloween 1976, nobody was there, and Captain Tony's had a fire going in the fireplace, and it was rather cold.   By Thanksgiving Day in Fort Lauderdale in 1976, it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit, so it was not too busy, and as I said before the head life guard on the beach was Joseph Coors III from Colorado with Colorado license plate on his Cherry Porsche of "COORS", so it was not like he was too private of a citizen, most everyone saw him.  My routine was routine beach patrol on mostly deserted beaches at both locations, and I enjoyed chatting with a few people from Canada.  Of course by the middle of January in 1977, the area became quite busy because there was so much snow and sub zero Fahrenheit cold up north.   Of course any warmer areas to live in would have to survive the tropical storm season, but the tropical storm seasons would tend to be less intense, since the Atlantic ocean would be a bit cooler.   I am not the expert, but that is my quick summary.   There are a great many people up north whom have substantial homes that live simply down south in the winter.   I can recall somebody that looked like Nelson Rockefeller after he lost the Vice Presidential race with Jerry Ford for president was laying a cinder block wall himself around the Key Lyme motel in Key West, Florida on Truman Avenue or US1 to keep down the noise from all of the traffic and to have a little privacy.  However, he was a younger man then.  What is funny is that he had the same hairstyle as a friend of mine whom eventually showed up down there from a good will trip to Russia as an actor and gymnast out of the University of New Hampshire, which was probably a bit cold then too.   Of course it might have been a look alike of Nelson, but it sure got busy when my friend showed up, and we had no lack of help to help restore the island to its former Victorian gingerbread  glory days.  I did not really do much down there back then but read and walk around and lose weight, and in that period I went from 190 pounds to 125 pounds, since I had very little money to buy food to eat, but as I got thinner I became a better swimmer, since in the water in the controlled swimming areas such as the Clarence Higgs beach just north of the Casa Marina Hotel was not too deep, and one could see if any big predator fish came into the swimming area.  Of course one tends to get a bit tanned in that environment, and when I came back north, everyone thought I was Puerto Rican, and they tended to avoid me, since the northern people are more conservative looking.  Alas I only know English and a little French, but I did manage to survive those summers up north in Nantucket as long as I kept working low paying jobs.   However, from what I could tell, the northern people needed the jobs just as much as I did because in the colder weather there was less work up north in the winter.   When I first headed south that fall of 1976, it was too cold in September up north, and in the first few days in Fort Lauderdale, it dropped from 90 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.   I had thought at the time about working on a charter boat to return to Tobago where I had vacationed in 1970 and 1971, but alas I knew how poor the economy was down there, and I do not know how to sail, so I might not have survived in Tobago with no money sleeping on the beach.   However, one can always try to make new friends, and go native, but once one goes native, it is really hard to come back up north again.   I still have that big nautical chart of the lower Caribbean behind my bathroom door entrance.  If I ever go down there again, I might take it with me, and I always could send it down to my relatives in Vero Beach, Florida as a conversation piece, but I think the glass would break in shipping, and it would be expensive to ship.   I posted a picture of it http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/nautical-chart-of-west-indies-lesser-antilles-guadeloupe-to-trinidad.JPG .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 9:15 P.M.:  This might cause the price of Florida land to rise Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop and PNSN - Webicorder Records .  I chatted with two relatives.  However, I was told by a local politician that Connecticut is eliminating the state inheritance tax soon Connecticut state taxes. and thus the reason a lot of retirees live in Florida to avoid the inheritance tax might mean some of them might want to tough it out in the cold weather of Connecticut even if it does get colder.  However, for long time retirees, their blood usually thins out in the warmer weather of Florida, so making a transfer up to the colder weather in Connecticut might be too uncomfortable.  Of course a lot of lifestyle and capital expenses are more expensive in Connecticut, and people tend to lead more quiet lives here.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 8:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative for a while.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 6:40 P.M.:  I put the 11 in 1 memory card reader on the computer drawer between the CPU and the monitor stands, so it is handy.  I filled out the rebate information form including the circled item on the original invoice and both UPC codes from the packaging, and I put it a envelope with the address that I printed out, and I put a stamp on it.   I will mail it tomorrow.  It is for a $15 rebate.  It says it takes about 12 weeks for the rebate.  While cutting out the UPC code from the packaging, I found a small CD with drivers.   I tried installing the drivers, but it said in Windows XP one does not need to install drivers.   However, I did install under the Custom option the Icons, so now my 11 in 1 memory card reader as specific icons on the drive letters for each memory device.   I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 5:20 P.M.:  When I chatted with my neighbor whom volunteers at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, I was told the blue low boy bureau with the washing bowl and pitcher storage area that I gave to them sold for $65 to a young girl who is having a baby.  The UPS delivery of PcUSA - CR 211-1 - Memory - 11-in-1 Card Reader USB 2.0 - PC Mall for $14.99 plus $4.99 UPS ground shipping for a total cost of $19.98 arrived at 4:49 P.M..   It has a $14.99 mail in rebate http://image1.cc-inc.com/rapcoupons/3272PCMall.pdf which one mails in with the package invoice and UPC code, so eventually it will only cost me the $4.99 shipping.   I installed it on my front USB 2.0 port, and I moved the Vivitar digital camera USB cable to my four USB splitter on the right side of the computer.  The 4 USB splitter on the right side of the computer is also connected to the USB 2.0 four port card on the rear of the computer.  Assuming the 4 port splitter works just as fast, the camera still should work just as fast.   I took the 8 MB compact flash card out of the HP Photosmart 1000 printer, and I put it in the 11 in 1 memory card reader.  The Compact Flasher reader port on the 11 in 1 memory card reader is drive I, and the camera is now drive M.   I will now fill out the rebate information.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 4:35 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.   They had their annual spring preview opening, and there were lots of new items for sale.   They did not seem to have as much in past years, so I guess with the economically recessed times, people are not buying many new items, so they are not donating as many used items.   I chatted with a long time Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop visitor, and she was in her usual good humor.   They had a lot of nice porcelain figurines for sale that she pointed out.  I next went to my 3 P.M. appointment.   I then returned home at 3:40 P.M., and I saw the UPS delivery truck at the Splash car wash on West Putnam Avenue, and they have not arrived here yet, so they should be here any minute.   I chatted with a neighbor while I waited for a while for delivery.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 1:55 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  I will come back after my 3 P.M. appointment to wait for UPS.   If they arrive while I am out, I can always receive it tomorrow while I am doing house cleaning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 12:45 P.M.:  I picked up my mail.   I chatted with two relatives and a friend.   In a five quart Revere pot, I am bringing three quarts of water to a boil with a dash of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil in the water.   Once the water boils, I will put a 16 ounce box of Ronzoni #9 spaghetti noodles in the water, and I will boil them for ten minutes.  With five minutes to go, I will put half a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi garlic and onion tomato sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, which I will run on the reheat cycle for about the same time as the spaghetti has to cook for the last five minutes.   I then will drain the spaghetti water in a colander inside a larger Revere pot to save the hot water.   I will dump the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out the residue from whiskers and shave cream that builds up.   I will put half the cooked spaghetti in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I will put the other half on a large dinner plate along with the heated sauce and with a thin layer of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.   I will eat it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 10:00 A.M.:  Since I am constantly on the internet looking for bargains and news and weather information, I pay $46 a month for high speed internet access from www.optonline.net , but if one were only a casual user of the internet and did not want to pay for internet access www.juno.com offers free internet access with many local dialup numbers.   When dialing up an internet provider, one has to make sure it is not a toll call.  If an internet provider is in an adjacent town, usually a local telephone company offers dialup services toll free to a neighboring community for a marginal fee.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 9:50 A.M.:  Basically, I feel like I am a Swiss house boy in my own apartment.   I turned off the circuit breaker for the electric heater in the bathroom, so nobody tries to turn it on the bathroom electric heater with the small bookcase partially blocking it.  I went outside, and I chatted with some neighbors and the building custodian.   I came back up, and the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector had to cancel because of the weather conditions.  We only has about an inch to two inches of snow, but it might be slippery out a bit.  I went back outside, and I chatted with the building custodian and some neighbors.  I have to wait for my UPS delivery, but I also have a 3 P.M. appointment.  European news is now working on channel 113.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 7:40 A.M.:  The UPS delivery as of 7:16 A.M. is out for delivery UPS Package Tracking for Mike Scott 11 in 1 memory card from www.pcmall.com .   I will now clean up, and I will start to get ready for my 9:30 A.M. electrical inspection by the Greenwich Housing Authority.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 7:35 A.M.:  The reason I knew the person whom was supposedly a friend of Angier Biddle Duke whom was evicted from this building although he claimed he was a computer engineer might be a phony is that he use to turn on all four electric burners on high continually on his General Electric stove in the apartment downstairs to heat up his apartment, and I do not think a qualified person whom supposedly knows about electricity would do that.   All of the electric cords in my apartment exceed the Underwriters Laboratory requirements for the voltages that they carry, and it is quite expensive on a limited budget to keep everything up to manufacturer's and Underwriters Laboratory specifications.  However, since I did not build this building I can only assume the electricity in the building is up to local code.  I did notice one time that the 220 volt electric heater in the bathroom was not properly grounded, and its grounding wire was not connected.  I did finally ground it, but I never use it, since it uses too much electricity for the heat that it provides.  Thus it is turned off all the time.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 7:15 A.M.:  I microwaved a Boston Market 14 ounce sirloin beef tips and noodles dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I can not figure out why anyone would object to the electronics in my apartment, since they are fairly new, and when the computer and lights are running they use less than a 1000 watts of electricity, which is about the same amount of electricity that a microwave oven uses.   It seems rather odd that the Greenwich Housing Authority would need an electrician to inspect my apartment, when I obviously know what I am doing, but it is the nature of government that they are always calling in outside consultants, because they do not think I know what I am doing.   A word of advise beside knowing about electricity to run a computer, one should also know how to type on a keyboard.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 6:35 A.M.:  Since my father obtained a PHD in Chemical Engineering in Organic Chemistry, he was a chemical engineer http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/louis-dale-scott-1919-1990.jpg , and since my grandfather was a locomotive engineer for over 50 years http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/clarence-scott-1890-1984.jpg , and since I have worked with electricity for over 50 years, although I only have an educational degree B.A. in economics, and since I have worked with computers since working with them in an advanced research laboratory in 1970, I obviously have certain computer and electronics skills that the average layman would not have, so I think it is safe to say that I am also a self trained computer, software, and electronics engineer at a modest level, and I used to know how to fix automobiles before they became too advanced, and with severe arthritis working with computers is easier on my hands, thus I think it is safe to say as the Duke of Edinburgh use to tell me that I come from a family of Engineers.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 6:00 A.M.:  It is the nature of going to the Greenwich Country Day School http://www.gcds.net/ , everyone pretty much knows everyone in their class and the classes around them http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/greenwich-country-day-class-of-1965.jpg .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 5:40 A.M.:  It is the nature of republican politics beside knowing independent politicians like the Weicker family we also know Democrats like the Warburgs http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/jim-and-jenny-warburg-visiting-scott-family-weston-massachusetts-1971.jpg  whom started Jack Kennedy in politics.  In the old days, Greenwich, Connecticut was such a small town everyone pretty much knew everyone else.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 5:05 A.M.:  Since the Scott family have been established members of the Greenwich, Connecticut community for a long time, I can also produce such pictures as this of a former neighbor on Round Hill Road http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/lowell-weicker-junior-with-scott-family-members-1967.jpg .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 4:30 A.M.:  This is a picture of the most frequent visitor to my current apartment for the last 16.5 years.   He is an established member of the local business community, and he is from a Dutch family that lived continually in this area for close to 400 years.   He also grew up next door to Helen Clay Frick, so obviously other established people within the community know him.   He regularly uses my current computer setup, and he approves of my current apartment setup, and nobody ever seems to object when he is around visiting with me.   He has been seen in the company of most of the Crowned Heads of Europe along with other well known individuals.   Basically if you bother one member of the old guard, they also have friends.   Following is the picture from the only time I went to Geneva, Switzerland to see what the city was like http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/richard-van-marter-geneva-switzerland-1992.jpg .  He is also not a civilian since he served in the United States Army.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 4:05 A.M.:  On my upcoming apartment inspection on the electronics,  I will listen to what the electronics inspector has to say.   However, on a minor point of dispute, the United States of America government is at war with a foreign enemy.   I have a friend named Robert Reilly who attended Yale College with President Bush, and he has a PHD in Psychology and Religion.   He volunteered along with his wife after 911 as councilor for the New York City Disaster Services Bureau.   I was the best man when he and his wife were married back in 1975 at Christ Church.  Bob is a native of Connecticut.  She is on the board of trustees of Barnard College at Columbia University.   Since they are well aware of the terrorist threat against the New York City, I have told them that if god forbid, there should be more terrorism in New York city where they live part of the year, they could come out to my apartment and be safe and comfortable.   Also I have set up additional communications equipment along with the computers, so if there were electricity available in my apartment, there would be some sort of well maintained working environment.   This has cost me additional resources and time, but since as a volunteer I have already the talent on my limited resources for setting up the equipment, I have continued to setup and maintain the equipment.  Thus I do not think it is within the authority of the Greenwich Housing authority at this point and time in the War to ask me to uninstall any of my current electronics.   I am on a personal conversation basis with the head attorney for the Greenwich Housing Authority, I have given him my card in regards to my internet activity at this particular location.   I have also maintained email contact with the various political groups involved in this area sending them a copy of my weekly log.   Nobody to date except Bob Reilly and his wife have contacted me personally, and it seems objectionable that the current inspector for the Greenwich Housing authority would not understand what the purpose of the equipment is that I maintain in my personal apartment.  Bob Reilly and his wife Wendy will be visiting with me again this Easter Sunday.   This  a link of a picture of Bob Reilly with President Bush http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/president-bush-and-robert-reilly-2004-at-white-house.jpg .   I do not like invading his privacy by publishing the photograph, but I think it is important for me to continue my internet activity.   As a professional volunteer on a limited budget, I am well aware of other people whom are doing the same activity in this area, and there are over 10 people with personal computer setups within this building.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/24/05 Thursday 3:30 A.M.:  I was awake at 8 P.M. this past evening.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.   I called Cablevision repair service because channel 113 the European news channel is not working.  I ate breakfast of a bowl of the pineapple mixture with a sliced banana and a toasted onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese and a glass of orange juice with vitamins and supplements and coffee.   I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  It seems to have snowed less than an inch, so I would imagine that the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector along with the electrician will be inspecting my apartment at 9:30 A.M. this morning.  According to UPS Package Tracking Mike Scott order 11 in 1 memory card reader from www.pcmall.com  the package left Hartford, Connecticut at 9:57 P.M. this past evening, and hopefully it will be delivered today.   However, like last Thursday I have a 3 P.M. appointment when I will be out of my apartment before and after it.   Channel 113 the European news channel is still not working on my television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 2:15 P.M.:  I just chatted with an associate.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   I have the 9:30 A.M. inspection on my apartment electrical equipment setup tomorrow, I suppose weather permitting.   All of this maintenance work I have been doing relative to the multiple apartment inspections has been exhausting me a bit, since I am trying to continue some of my regular internet activity and other regular routines.   Anyway I will be on an earlier schedule tomorrow, but I also have a 3 P.M. appointment on Thursday afternoon too.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 1:45 P.M.:  I went downstairs, and I picked up the mail.  I chatted with the building custodian.   The Optimum Online service technician is here.   I received the videotape eBay item 6331998320 (Ends Mar-17-05 14:46:29 PST) - Warbirds VHS Video Movie Jim Eldert S/H $2 in the mail.  I don't have the time to watch it now.    One of the actors in the movie was my communications officer in Key West, Florida, but he just though he worked in a yogurt stand, but I was one of the few people that knew him and talked with him.  He had a large group of friends, but they seemed to be different than my smaller group of friends, whom spent much more time walking around 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the two winters I was down there, not to mention he was also my neighbor in Nantucket, so maybe he was so busy with all of his friends that he forgot what is primary job was.  However nobody was paying him to be a communications officer, but he could afford to own and use a telephone when I could not.  The kids seemed to like him, since he gave them free yogurt at his expense, and he use to make up to a $1.61 a day in tips, but of course people were always stealing his tips.  Unfortunately since I was never able to afford to clean up and dress properly, he did not like being seen around me.  However, he was a much better athlete and jogger than I was, and he seemed to know some of the local big shots, whom from my point of view were just going along with the status quo as some elderly ladies saw it.  He also was very good at doing laundry and setting up a bed and breakfast.  Unfortunately a lot of the wine kept seemingly to disappear.  I use to call him up regularly with briefings until around 1988, I lost my telephone services for about 2 years for lack of funds, so I used individuals traveling back and forth between the west coast of America and the east cost of America for communications.  For all I know he is a flight attendant.  There were quite a few pilots in Key West, Florida, but nobody knows who they were, because people were not into wearing uniforms.  I guess it is too expensive down there to do laundry.  Since he had large number of government contacts and since his family were prominent New York State republican politics more than likely his family businesses are still in business, however since he tended to have wanderlust, his family tried to keep a short string on him.  Needless to say, I think he also knows something about music too.  The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut The Taft School wishes I could give them more than $5 this year, but alas with the local downturn of the economy in Connecticut I probably can not afford to give them anything this year.  I suppose if some of their alumni had common sense and realized we shared a common education, they would have tried to contact me a long time ago.  Two have in the last several years, one wanted me to come into Manhattan to have a drink and the other contact a good friend was interested in starting and inkjet and laser cartridge business.   However, they never got back to me.  UPS tracking on the 11 in 1 memory card reader UPS Package Tracking Mike Scott 11 in 1 memory card reader from www.pcmall.com  has arrived in Hartford, Connecticut at 11:37 A.M. this morning, so maybe weather permitting Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT it will arrive tomorrow .    CIO

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 12:20 P.M.:  The interesting thing about Optimum Voice www.optimumvoice.com  is that besides the free long distance telephone calling in the United States of America and Canada, which I assume would include Alaska, and I happen to know people in Alaska.  I also have for no extra charge,  Enhanced Voice Mail, Call waiting, Caller ID, Caller ID Blocking, Call Forwarding, Call Return, and one potentially very useful feature three-way calling Phone Services - Optimum Voice.  One of the under used features is that there is free three way calling Voice Service - Optimum Voice  where one dials one number and presses the hook flash or flash key and then when one gets the dial tone, one can dial the second number, and then press the hook or flash key again, and all three telephone connections will be connected at the same time.  If one individual or family or group of individuals were on a low budget, the Optimum Voice caller could connect up two other individuals whom might not normally be able to chat with each other with traditional long distance service, but of course they probably would not want the Optimum Voice caller who placed the call to listen in on their telephone conversation.   Also from what I can tell, a lot of cell phone users pay for daytime incoming calls after their minutes are used up depending on their plans.   Thus I could call a friend in Key West, Florida  and have them talk with another friend somewhere up in Alaska.   On a minor point of diplomacy, a long time friend whom is very private and whose family is associated with the United States State Department whom has neglected to call me for the last two years, because I am so boring, and since one of his family members used to be stationed with the State department in Thailand, he would wear a United States Embassy in Thailand T-shirt when he would visit here.  Alas, even though he has not bothered to notify a few friends, according to a close relative he has never been in Thailand, so he was not washed away by the recent Tsunmai.  However, since he drives a car with Virginia license plates instead of local New York license plates, he could also be working for the United States government, since their tends to be a bit of nepotism within the United States government hiring of individuals.  Whatever, the case since my family has always been very prosperous tax payers, it would seem to me sooner or later, we are able to exercise our influence.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 11:35 A.M.:  If you figure, I am now paying about $130 a month to Cablevision for Optimum Digital Television, Optimum Cable Modem Internet Service, and Optimum Voice telephone service that is quite a lot of money for maintaining communications which nobody seems interested in.  However, it is my way of staying in touch with an extended network of friends and family.   Of course for $130 one could buy a lot of stamps, but with the local security situation the way it is in the world today, it is a way of staying in touch with individuals whom seem to travel in the process of earning their living.  I explained to the Verizon representative that there are other forms of communication, and I suggested some of them.  I am generally too busy maintaining my apartment and performing my internet routines and my other outdoors activity that I do not have much time to watch the expensive television programming, but I try to keep it available to look at for about a half hour a day when I have my wake up coffee.   The way the creative budget seems to be left for cablevision and the news agencies to create news, pretty soon we will soon turn on all of our hundreds of digital television channels, and it will be nothing but one long coffee commercial.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 11:25 A.M.:  I logged onto http://www.allaboutholland.org/ and the page 1 Adobe file crashed my computer, so it seems my Dutch cousins know something about computers.   Alas, I speak English on the east coast of America, and I have to do what the English speaking people direct me to do.  I inventoried my spaghetti noodles, and I was off by 4 lower of spaghetti noodles, so I lowered www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm .  I received a computerized telephone call from Verizon saying my AT&T and long distance and regional calling plans had been terminated as I directed.   I then called up Verizon, and they told me I would be able to put the freeze on my long distance and regional setup in a few days by calling 1-800-305-4838.  I chatted with the Verizon representative about communications.   CIO    

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 8:50 A.M.:  When using the LCD telephone at my apartment entrance way, one has to use a light finger approach to touch the panel on the LCD telephone which is connected to Optimum Voice.   As I said before AT&T is still making money, since they lease part of their digital optic fiber communications network to Cablevision.  The princess style telephone on the same tea table is connected to Verizon, which no longer has AT&T long distance, however one could use a telephone card on it to make a long distance phone calls, if there was a power outage, and one could not use Optimum Voice.   I still have several AT&T long distance telephone cards and my Net2Phone account.  Optimum Voice is toll free for long distance telephone calls in the United States of America and Canada, where a lot of people still speak English and a little bit of French.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 8:35 A.M.:  I still have not found the AT&T extension cord.   I do not need it, but it seems strange it disappeared.   I recall missing it before the Optimum Voice installation person arrived.   The Optimum Voice installation person told me that he had worked in Iraq.   They seem to employ a lot of people from the Middle East.   I put the two spare packages of Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco that I had stored in the kitchen bureau that I removed on top of the book case in the bedroom on top of the mahogany bureau next to the Bull Durham used tobacco mixture in the tobacco jar next to the pipes.   It would have to be a tall man that smokes a pipe to reach it unlike me whom climbs on a chair to reach it.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 8:05 A.M.:  While looking around for the AT&T cord, I found some more sun screen in my KLM flight bag.   I have 7 containers of #30 sun screen, which I put on the lower right shelf of the bathroom bookcase.  Back in the early 1970s a lot of Canadians were living in Manhattan, because Pierre Trudeau's wife decided she wanted to work as a photographer in Manhattan.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 7:55 A.M.:  I guess one can get a steak in Canada, but who has money to go to Canada Yahoo! News - Bush to Meet With Canada, Mexico Leaders .   I did spend a lot of time around Canadians in New York in the meat packing district in the 1970s, but I could only occasionally afford a hamburger, but I usually ate a liverwurst sandwich back then for $1.15 or Arthur Treacher's fish and chips for about $2.  When McDonalds arrived in Manhattan, it was not very popular because people worried their neighborhoods would stink.   The most senior Canadian I know in Manhattan is Ima MacDonald, and she works as a hair dresser's assistant, and she lives in Noel Coward's old building where Freddie Von Mierers www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm use to live on First Avenue on the east side between 54th street and 55th street with entrances on either of those streets.   She looks like the former Queen Mum of England, and her family had the land grant for western Canada, and she has maintained a residence in Manhattan since 1925.   If Tom Devlin is still around, he could take her out on a date.  They probably would get along, since they both seem to enjoy a bit of Scotch.   It is hard to tell with the older people whom is still around with them traveling around the world visiting various younger relatives.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 7:10 A.M.:  I put a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Chunky Salisbury and Mushroom soup in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.   I ate it in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl with a glass of iced tea.   I then moved one of the old Sunbeam bug zappers from the kitchen to the bathroom, and I put the new one from the bathroom in the kitchen where the Technasonics Pest Raider II bug zapper was, and I moved the Technasonics Pest Raider II bug zapper in the bedroom on top of the central monitor on the desk.   The Technasonics Pest Raider II bug zapper hums a bit, but it is less annoying than the Sunbeam bug zapper.   I looked some more for the AT&T 100 foot telephone extension cord, and all that I can remember is that I set it out some where in the living room to have available for when they installed Optimum Voice, but I can not seem to find it.   It was coiled up in its original AT&T package, and it had a dollar label on it, since I had bought it for a dollar in the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop.   It is still a mystery to me what happened to it.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 6:00 A.M.:  I took a three plug adaptor, and I plugged it into the bathroom three plug adaptor, and I moved the Sunbeam bug zapper from the bedroom where it makes too much noise into the bathroom, where there is more than likely to more silver fish.   Earlier when I got home, I used the plastic mounting anchors and screws, and I secured the First Alert smoke and fire alarm to the ceiling panel at the bedroom entrance just above the television.  Instead of using the weaker Eveready 9 volt battery that came with it, I put in a Polaroid 9 volt alkaline battery.   Thus besides the central building fire alarm system in the living room, I have a smoke detector in the living room, the hallway, and the bedroom.   The problem with the building central fire alarm system is that when I am asleep, I can not hear it in my bedroom.   In the neighboring apartment they installed for the original tenant an auxiliary fire alarm bell for that apartment just east of me, but I guess they never considered me to be important, so they never did the same for my apartment.  Since although the building was finished being remodeled 16.5 years ago, it was built in 1925, and as such I know a similar building in Cos Cob at the Cos Cob school had a major fire when the roof caught fire, so the old timber beams are still in this building, and although it has a central fire alarm system and a responsive fire department it worries me that if there is ever a fire in the day time while I am sleeping they will just leave me sleeping.   However, at night if there were a real fire we would have to get all of the tenants out of the building, and usually when there is a fire alarm problem in the early morning hours, no more than 25% of the tenants seem to hear it and leave their apartments.  Thus if I were an insurance man, I would not insure the building.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 5:30 A.M.:  I called the Greenwich Police department on their non emergency number of 203-622-8000 to report that I could not find my tape measure and the 100 foot AT&T extension cable was missing, but that my main concern that if somebody were accessing my apartment, I was concerned about my food and drink being tampered with.   Also I told them that from my perspective somebody occasionally accesses my computer, but that always could be caused by an internet intruder.  I also explained to them that the Greenwich Housing Authority is inspecting my apartment particularly the electronics for the third time in three weeks with an electrician this Thursday morning at 9:30 A.M..  They asked me to let them know what they say after the inspection.  Of course for what the internet and computer costs me, I could always give up the internet and just writer letters and mail them.   It would be far cheaper.   After I chatted with them I searched in my mahogany bureau, and I found the tape measure, it is a 12 foot Service Star tape measure.   However, the large 100 foot long AT&T telephone extension wire is still missing.   If one were a Sherlock Holmes type of detective, one could imagine it being to use for some purpose such as setting up a hidden telephone system or possibly being used to bind somebody up in a kidnapping attempt.   However, possibly the telephone wire is just misplaced.   However, I do suspect somebody of using the computer system, since certain system settings change that I do not change, and that has to be caused by somebody using it either at my home site or somebody altering it through the internet.   Whatever, the case it is all a mystery to me.   I am not going to dig through the dumpster on Steamboat Road to see if somebody also threw away their fishing real and tackle.  I actually enjoy fishing, but I never have the time for it.   I have a friend whom fishes frequently, so possibly I will give him the fishing rod.   I left my Nantucket surf casting fishing rod out in Santa Barbara, California for $10 of gasoline, the day that Ronald Reagan got elected, so I could get back to the boss's home turf in Laguna Beach, California.  Unfortunately he does not remember me, and all that he told me was that he was the head of Xerox Parc in California, and his roommate and my friend that I was traveling with, also know that we met along with everyone else in that area of Laguna Beach,  California.   I remember Joel had a very nice beach house, and he was thrifty since he had jars of spare change in his kitchen, but from what I could tell, they were more interested in Hollywood than electronics, which is par for the course in California.   The only new company that seemed to evolve then was Disco Vision, and the only people in the area that seemed to have money were the Nuclear Engineers around Fluor construction or whomever was building the twin nuclear power plants at San Onofre, California.   I was more concerned about getting back to New York and getting use to winter again, which Californians with nuclear power plants never have to worry about.   CIO   

Note: <888> 03/23/05 Wednesday 4:20 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I drove around the train station area and down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.   I found in the dumpster by the waterfront a 89 inch long white surf casting rod with blue and yellow on the farrell wrappings.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove over to the Riverside Shopping Plaza.   I was told by the Food Emporium staff that their store is opened 24 hours a day.   I went by CVS, and I had a $4 off coupon on a $20 purchase, so I bought on sale from $13.99 for $11.99 the last First Alert Smoke and Fire Alarm and a two pack of Sunbeam Ultrasonic Pest Repellers for $9.99 less the $4 off coupon for $17.98 plus $1.08 tax for $19.06 total.  I got more CVS bonus bucks on the cash register receipt, and I got a $3 off coupon on CVS products, so I bought three 16 ounce bottles of CVS wool cold water wash for .99 each and a 12 ounce spray can of CVS disinfectant for .99  less the $3 off coupon for .96 plus .06 tax for $1.02 total.   I then returned downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.  I noticed just north of CVS at the old Baskin Robbins shop, they have opened a homemade deluxe gourmet soap shop called "Lush".  Also on the demolition fence towards the top of Greenwich Avenue where they tore down the old building that caught fire, I noticed somebody's pet's dog tags with three tags on it attached to the fence.   I completed my walk, and I drove down by the waterfront again.   I then returned home.   I put the fishing pole behind the front door.   I do not have a reel or tackle for it.   It seems seaworthy.   I went to measure it, and I now can not find my 20 foot Stanley tape measure which seems to have now disappeared.   I kept in my bedroom mahogany bureau drawer, and that was the same location about where I last saw the AT&T 100 telephone wire.  I have always kept it there.  I can not figure out what has happened to either of them.  I was able to measure the fishing rod with another tape measure in my mechanics tool box.   The last time I would have used the Stanley tape measure would have been probably for measuring furniture when I moved it around, so possibly I misplaced it elsewhere.   I put one of the pest repellers on the power strip behind the sofa along side the living room closets, and I put the other one in the power strip along side the bedroom desk.   They make a slight clicking sound.   I have an older one on top of the General Electric microwave oven in the kitchen.   The UPS delivery of the 11 in 1 memory card reader left Laurel, Maryland at 2:41 A.M. this morning.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 10:35 P.M.:  I rested until 8 P.M. when a friend called.   I chatted with the friend, and then I relaxed a bit more.   I then called the friend back, and we chatted some more.   I opened up a 12 ounce box of six America's Choice frozen fish cakes, and I put them on a baking sheet with 18 frozen America's Choice onion rings and 18 frozen America's Choice small potato cakes, and I baked them in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.   While they were baking, I mixed three tablespoons of horse radish and a third of a cup of Heinz ketchup together.  I put the mixture on the baked items that I ate.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I chatted with a relative.  My UPS shipment of the 11 in 1 memory card reader departed Fishersville, Virginia at 9:32 P.M. this evening according to UPS Package Tracking Mike Scott's order for a 11 in 1 memory card reader from www.pcmall.com  .  I have not cleaned up in a couple of days, so I will now clean up, and I will go out.   It is currently 36 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .    There is this weather alert posted for tomorrow Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .   I will now shut down the computer.  I never did find the 100 foot AT&T extension cord that I had available for my new phone installation.   Generally it will probably show up soon or later.   It has been my person viewpoint around this apartment since I have lived here for 16.5 years that when odd things happen, it is usually the Ghost of Flanders that seem to inhabit this building.  Of course Rolls Royce fans all remember the "Silver Ghost" and the "Phantom", and a friend once reminded me of another character from times past called the "Crimson Ghost".  Generally Tuesday nights downtown are so slow, it looks like a stage set waiting for something to happen.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 3:45 P.M.:  A little word of financial advise is that when a stock picker recommends that one invest in the Dow, they do not mean the Dow Chemical company but the Dow Jones Industrial averages.   Although Dow chemical is a good company, I have a feeling some people are so naive when it comes to  investing in the stock market that they actually make that mistake.   One can also imagine how many people have invested in their computer hardware manufacturer thinking it was the software manufacturer.   Believe it or not, there are still people whom do not understand the basics of market investing.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will try to get some more rest.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 3:30 P.M.:  Interesting cat story Yahoo! News - The Puss of the Baskervilles? .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 3:25 P.M.:  I stayed up until 5:30 A.M..  I left a message with an associate.   I went to bed.   Another relative called up and woke me up at 10 A.M..   The relative had a bird chewing on her LAN cable and wanted to know how to fix it.   I went downstairs, and I chatted with some neighbors and the building custodian.   I relaxed around the apartment for a while.   I cancelled my AT&T long distance phone service, since I have Optimum Voice.   If the electricity goes out, I can always use a phone card for long distance.   I chatted with a relative.   I picked up my mail downstairs, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I ate breakfast of a bowl of the pineapple mixture with a sliced banana and a toasted onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese and a glass of orange juice with vitamins and supplements.   I did not drink coffee, since I am still a bit tired, and I have not had enough sleep.  My UPS shipment of the 11 in 1 memory card reader left Nashville, Tennessee at 8:01 A.M. this morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 2:35 A.M.:  Current temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is 36 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  If you notice in Washington D.C. at night to save money while they are asleep, they turn off the lights Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. .  However, in New Amsterdam, New York, we have the tradition of the Dutch Night Watch, so while we are awake, we leave the lights on, and since we have large amounts of hydroelectricity from Niagara Falls, also part of Canada, it does not hurt to burn the lights at night when nobody else would be using it.   However, all the stress that the daytime people are causing me has worn me out, so I will now be shutting down the computer, and I will be taking a nap.   The United States government has paid a small fortune over the last 21 years to maintain my lifestyle and living environment, so they would take a dim view of any outside interference in my present living arrangements.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 2:15 A.M.:  Before I posted the last message, I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   Instead of tuna fish, I used a tin of sardines that I chopped and about four .25 inch by 1 inch by 3 inch slices of Danish Plumrose had that I chopped into half inch wide slices.  On top of the salad, I also used 10 grape tomatoes, 9 asparagus vinaigrette chopped into 1.25 inch long slices, and the usual 8 California black pitted olives.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  The 11 in 1 memory card device arrived at Nashville, Tennessee at 11:10 P.M. this past evening for Elvis to inspect it.   I also have seen him alive and walking around in this area about 7 years ago, and he was downtown on lower Greenwich Avenue across from the Thataway cafe chatting with a couple about his age, and I saw him driving a Burgundy Ford pickup truck with North Carolina license plate on the truck, and I happened to notice he was carrying a gun at his waste in a belt, and he is the only civilian I have seen in this area on Greenwich Avenue carrying a gun in 21 years.   Of course, it might have been an Elvis look-alike, but having grown up around Elvis before I moved here, I think I would recognize him.  Of course since Elvis was in the United States Army, you can not really classify him as a civilian.  Generally when people around here get too big and tough, and they try to throw their weight around the former night clerk at the old Showboat Hotel who was a large Spanish woman that weighed over 600 pounds seemed to take care of such matters, but since it is now so expensive there at the Delamar Hotel which is what it is now called, I have not looked into its lobby at night to see if she is still working there or not.  Of course since she worked the old hotel for over 30 years at night, she would recognize all of their old regular customers in this area.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/22/05 Tuesday 1:45 A.M.:  Of course there in one minor flaw in the Rockefeller armor as it relates to the British Empire or what remains of it called the Commonwealth of Nations.   65% of New York City's energy comes from Canadian Natural gas.  Also as a minor point of dispute, the Alaska pipeline is over 30 years old, so more than likely it needs continual maintenance.   Since most of the oil pumped through the Alaska pipe line comes down from the north slope of Alaska from Prudhoe Bay which is basically an Exxon and British Petroleum oil operation, Exxon and the Rockefellers and the British and their stockholders make a lot of money off the fuel moved through the Alaska pipe line.   However, although Alaska is part of the United States of America as is the contiguous 48 United States, there is one minor point of dispute which the Canadian people might have a bit of influence in that a great deal of the Alaska pipe line runs through Canada from Alaska to the United States of America.   The fact that it has continued to operate for 30 years or more, we have ample fuel in this country without being totally dependent on the Middle eastern and South American oil.   However, if the Latino element in the current Republican administration continues to sour relations with our northerly English and French speaking neighbors, more than likely as well as the British, the Canadians might find themselves compelled to cut of the Trans Canada oil pipeline, in which case although Exxon could deliver oil to the south coast of Alaska, they would be forced to rely on tankers to deliver oil from there elsewhere.   Since most of the world's tanker supply is produced and controlled by a South Korean company called Hyundai which became quite large with the financial help of a British bank called Barkley's which most of whose money is controlled by Middle Eastern oil sheiks, the Rockefeller Exxon group is still in a vulnerable position, and although they could more than likely obtain some tankers to transport the oil from Alaska, it would be more costly, and we might see gasoline in the United States of America at well over $5 a gallon.  Thus as they use to say in the music in the Exxon oil employees discothèque in Key West, Florida amongst many famous song lyrics, "Don't Rock the Boat Baby!"  Free words of advise from somebody whom knows better.   Since Exxon is a very profitable company, their oil field workers are also substantial large people, and since many of them are probably Canadian, they would have to chose between either Exxon or Canada, and it is the nature of Canadians, they would prefer Canada to Exxon.   Thus the English speaking Canadians with their French cousins, and their English cousins, and the Commonwealth individuals would probably object to one underestimating that their long term alliances would break, because of one small potato suddenly had some new found wealth.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 11:55 P.M.:  I have been very careful and thrifty in my current electronics setup, but I have advanced skills.   If the electrician whom inspects for the Greenwich Housing Authority this Thursday seems to think there is a need to change the current setup, he will explain it from a professional point of view.  Whatever, I could always store my electronics and go back to sitting at home all night reading books underneath a 150 watt General Electric reader's light in a lamp that I gave to a Rockefeller family member over in Irvington, New York in a red leather chair another Rockefeller family member retrieved from my local building dumpster.  Generally in families like the Rockefellers when a younger member is spending too much money, a more senior member will cut back on their budget, and life will go back to normal again.  Since I keep spare computer equipment around to replace the primary computer equipment if it malfunctions, I obviously do not intend to throw it away although it is not too valuable, but since I can not afford to buy newer equipment if the current equipment malfunctions, I intend to keep it all.   However, it is the nature of computer equipment that it can be repaired if it malfunctions, and generally the repair parts are not too expensive.   Since I mostly use my computer equipment for word processing and web browsing, my current computer equipment and spare computer equipment is up the tasks that I am currently pursuing on the internet in my computer volunteer activity.   In other words, if you do not know anything about computers, do not pretend that you do.  With all of the IBM and other computer people in this area, there is ample expertise, but it is going to cost one $100 to $200 an hour, which is the reason why I learned to do it myself.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 11:20 P.M.:  I have had my résumé on the internet for 10 years, and nobody has contacted me http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm .  Generally in North America in the United States of America where a great many of the property owners are still English speaking, if the local United States government can not afford to protect the property owners, established property owners can afford private security organizations such as Wackenhut or Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. .  However, since the United States of America has very good diplomatic relations with Canada, frequently in the less populated environment of Canada this group of individuals RCMP Detachment Telephone Numbers and Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Gendarmerie royale du Canada tends to know more about the traveling public in the United States of America as they work their way north.  Unfortunately once one crosses into Canada, one is in a whole different legal jurisdiction with a different set of laws, where most everyone either speaks English or French, and they do respect this person http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/queen-elizabeth-II-coronation-photo.jpg since her picture is on the money, and more than likely her family beside owning property in the United States of America, probably own a tree or two in Canada.  However, a great many people might look like the Queen of England, but having seen the real Queen of England show up in the United States of America in areas like New York City, one has to be prepared for about 5 million other people whom also speak English showing up with her, and she tends to rule the day, when she shows up.   In other words actors and actresses out of work, frequently try to impersonate people for profit, but in an area like this, the local tax payers tend to know the real people, and most of the local property owners are thrifty and well educated and know the ropes as they pertain to this area.   Most of the Rockefellers that I have dealt with in this area over the years are well educated, and they work professional jobs, and many of them have Spanish or German language skills, but just because they advertise themselves too much, does not mean they are the only established individuals in this area.   Stillman Rockefeller was a senior banker managing other people's money along with his family money, and the truly wealthy Rockefeller's still live over in North Tarrytown, New York, and like the Queen of England, they tend not to travel alone, and more than likely when they show up, they know some established individual to visit with.   I have observed a lot of Hispanic gardeners around North Tarrytown, New York, since one of the Rockefeller brothers named Nelson spoke Spanish, and he served in the United States state department in Latin America, before going into the family business and politics.   Thus I would dare say some his associates would also speak Spanish, but most of the younger generation that I have dealt with have been educated in Germany, so they also speak German.   Most of the established Old Guard individuals I know in this area don't bother the Rockefellers on their private estate, and lower level individuals in this area such as diplomats and international business people seem to know the correct procedure for contacting them.   If I am not mistaken a deputy United States ambassador to the United Nations with the name of John Reed still lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, and since he has Rockefeller contacts having worked for David Rockefeller, he could probably arrange an introduction.  However, most of the Rockefellers I have dealt with spend most of their time reading when they are not traveling, so they obviously know what is going on in terms of their worldwide business investments.   People like Happy Rockefeller show up in public on former President Bush's inaugural platform, where there is adequate security, but in an extended prosperous family like theirs, they also have a great many family members whom prefer to remain private, so they can pursue their less public activities.   In other words, they would more than likely know the Queen of England, and also have a house of their own of modest size in England.   Of course I am not applying to clean either families homes, since they seem to be able to afford to get enough low paid help.  If you are not careful, somebody might give you a mop and a bucket and have you help out cleaning Château de Versailles – Site officiel – Résidence royale du Roi Louis XIV. .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 10:40 P.M.:  Basically as I have said many times before, my family has lived in this area for close to 400 years, and I have at today's cost, a quarter million dollar education.   However, I am only educated and only speak English, although I did study French for 4 years and Latin for 5 years, I can hold a casual conversation in French.   Since we have many professionals from other countries in this areas with equal educational qualifications, I would advise those speaking other languages to deal with those individuals whom know their languages and have some professional experience in the area.   Alas according to CNN.com - Study: Undocumented population tops 10 million - Mar 21, 2005 one in 28 residents in the United States of America is an undocumented illegal alien and since many of them work low paying jobs at night, they are frequently seen walking around this area and driving at night.   Since I do not have Spanish language skills when I am out at night, I would recommend that a senior Spanish speaking individual take a closer look as to what is going on in this area at night, and for the non English speaking individuals whom I do not deal with to use their own common sense about what their status might be.  Since the local employers in this area employ the illegal aliens, it is their responsibility to supervise them, and if they bother the general civilian population going about their normal activity, they will be less hospitable.   Whatever, the case since I have severe arthritis, I tend not to go out for a walk anymore on damp nights, and currently gasoline is too expensive for me to drive around.  Also at the end of the month, I am on limited funds.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 10:00 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.   I normally tie up the cords along the outside windows wall above the radiators with double looped broccoli rubber bands connected to OOK hooks, but to make them more secure I also used metal twist ties and plastic ties, so they are doubly secure.   The 11 in 1 memory card reader left Bartlett, Tennessee at 7:54 P.M. via UPS.  If one want to track it themselves, the link to track it is UPS Package Tracking Mike Scott's 11 in 1 memory card reader shipment from www.pcmall.com  .  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 8:50 P.M.:   I have also been around the nuclear power industry when they built nuclear reactors in California in the late 1970s Yahoo! News - Rising Energy Needs Renew Nuclear Interest and being on a night schedule for many years, I have networked with many of the people whom happen to work in the utilities industries, and I believe I also know people from http://www.abb.com , since my father also worked for them when they were Combustion Engineering.  Also while I worked at CBS news, they also computerized the entire network during the period of Watergate.  Thus if the local democrat party here in Greenwich, Connecticut does not like my use of electricity, I also know of a candle factory in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, and from my viewpoint candles are more dangerous.  The simple fact that on average, I use $111 a month of electricity versus some of my neighbors whom use to 2 to 4 times as much would seem to indicate to me that I am not burdening the electricity capacity of this building or its wiring.  Also a desktop computer uses as much electricity as a light bulb and so does a monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 8:40 P.M.:  I had a telephone call at 2:30 P.M. this afternoon, and the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector is coming to my apartment on this Thursday morning March 24, 2005 at 9:30 A.M. with an electrician to inspect my electronics cables.   As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with my electric cables, since they are all fairly new heavy duty cables, and the electronics that they are all connected to are fairly new.   I have actually wired a house before, I know about electricity, amps, voltages, and capacities.   Since this is Connecticut public housing most of the lamps in my apartment happen to have been made in Connecticut.   Since I don't like looking at a bright light bulb, I use 15 watt, 25 watt, 40 watt, and 60 watt light bulbs in most of my lamps, so as to put out an even light without overburdening the electrical wires, and in a small 450 square foot apartment, one does not have to stare into a bright light bulb.  On the computers and amplifier wires, I have them on ground fault interrupters to avoid a power surge in case of lightning or other power surges.   I use heavier orange extension cords for the air conditioner and the DeLonghi oil filled radiators.  However, I hardly ever use the DeLonghi oil filled radiators except on the coldest days in the winter, since they cost too much to operate.  On my lower voltage electronics that need extension cords, I used heavy duty General Electric extension cords, which happens to be another Fairfield County, Connecticut company.   If there were any electronics in my apartment that I felt were not safe, I would not have it in my apartment.   Thus from my perspective, the electronics in my apartment are fine.   However, if the Greenwich Housing Authority wants to pay for an independent inspection by an electrician it is fine with me.   However, if they take the time to look in the back east stairway, they will find three light fixtures that do not meet the current electrical code for the town of Greenwich, which they have not replaced in 16 years.  Most of the cables in my apartment are low voltage cables such as speaker cables, printer cables, LAN cables, USB devices and telephone cables, and they actually do not carry live current unless the individual devices happen to be turned on.   My worst worry about the electronics is not their current state, but if the roof leaked or a neighboring apartment flooded, it might cause some problem with the electronics in my apartment, but that would be the case with any of the apartments in this or any other building.  Since I work constantly in my apartment maintaining its environment, as far as I can tell everything is fine, but at the same time, I am too close to it living here, so maybe an independent inspector will notice something that I have not noticed.   My primary complaint is not my electronics or how they are set up is the fact that I can not afford to pay for more electric heat, so my apartment is actually cold all the time.  However, with electric radiators having them on a lower setting is actually safer.   I keep the cables along the outside wall tide up higher against the wall, so they are not near the electric radiators.  Besides the central building smoke detector, I have also installed a battery smoke detector in my living room and my bedroom hallway.  I went back to bed until 5:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of a bowl of pineapple chunks, a toasted onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese on it, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.   I chatted with some neighbors.  I chatted with a relative, and I left a message with a friend.   My UPS order for the 11 in 1 memory card reader had its origin scan at 4:55 P.M. today at Bartlett, Tennessee.   The specific house that I wired actually was not a house, but the Mother in Law apartment that I built in a two car garage at 21 Circle Drive in Plandome Manor, Long Island, New York back in 1982, and I did it way above the local electrical code knowing that in the future more electronics would be used in modern homes.  I have also maintained a great many of my family's homes over the years, and I worked with a Rockefeller family employee maintaining an expensive apartment next to the United Nations back in 1973 to 1976.  I also worked for the world's largest construction company at one time.  I also worked in Dr. Land's research laboratory next to MIT at Polaroid when a lot of this internet technology was being developed for the United States government before they turned it over to the civilian establishment.  I also have a kitchen fire extinguisher at the kitchen entrance along with a professional fire fighter's extinguisher and another one is available in the hallway outside of my apartment.  Thus I feel, I have gone way beyond the call of duty in my maintaining my apartment.   I am reminded about some of the mansions in back country Greenwich that have burned down because of cheap extension cords.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 4:55 A.M.:  TCPalm : Tide may be turning for HBOI .  Not much going on,  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 4:45 A.M.:  I made a couple of phone calls trying to track down a missing person, but nobody at those locations seemed to know anything about the missing person.   Alas so many people travel in the world today, that many of them do not leave forwarding addresses.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 3:55 A.M.:  If one speaks English or French in North America, one can always call up Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Gendarmerie royale du Canada and RCMP Detachment Telephone Numbers .   

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 3:40 A.M.:  It is unusual that my web site is maxed out at this time of the morning, so more than likely whomever is using it is awake on another continent.   I just searched the stats on my web site and went to another link and came up with this Most Dangerous Volcano from The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory .  Unfortunately I can not afford to cross the Tappan Zee bridge regularly Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Campus Map and the bridge height scares me not to mention the traffic.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 3:15 A.M.:  I just found this CIGARETTE SALES BY CC ON NET TO BE STUBBED OUT while looking at this The Rumor Mill News Reading Room http://www.rumormillnews.com - Message Index while looking at  THE RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY while looking at Wayne's Armageddon Watch while looking at The World of Wayne Green where I noticed COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY .  I suppose we already have aliens among us, so if you go cruising at night more than likely you might run into them.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 2:30 A.M.:  Of course if one lived some place where there was clear sky at night and no distracting artificial light, one could study astronomy at night, and possibly with the internet if one were not in such a location, astronomers at the larger worldwide observatories could post their observations on the internet for other urban astronomers to look at.   Remember, about the first Computer Bulletin Board that I looked at 15 years ago, when I purchased a personal computer was the astronomy BBS run out of Old Greenwich, Connecticut.   Of course with our skies not being too clear here, these items would not be of much use SmartBargains: Save on Telescope at smartbargains.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/21/05 Monday 2:10 A.M.:  I watched some television, but there was not much to watch on it.   I suppose since it is the 21st of the month, one could go to the 21 Club, New York Restaurant, NYC, in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most famous and most romantic restaurants in New York City. Club 21/New York Wedding Reception/best restaurant in New York and eat a $50 medium rare filet mignon Cheese burger, but one would also have to have suitable expensive clothes to go with the decor, and I suppose one would also need the wheels to arrive and depart, so that if you can afford that lifestyle, more than likely one would be one of those big cheese executives, whom have been there so many times, that the only thing they seem to take note of is the bar.   Alas without money, you're not even going to get to ride on the subway in New York City.  Once when I was trying to catch a subway in New York while I was traveling, the subway token vendor would not cash a traveler's check, so I showed the turnstile transit policeman my passport, and he let me board the subway.   Of course in this neck of the woods, I have wheels, but there is no place at night to go that does not cost money along with the cost of gasoline to get there, and I don't think it is really worth the effort to go over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza or Walgreen's just east of there just to browse the store.   In the old days, when not much was happening in Greenwich, Connecticut, I discovered with a car, one could drive into Manhattan after midnight in about 20 to 25 minutes from here, and one could explore the night spots in the city, but alas once one gets to be my ancient age of 54, the places that cater to the older generation expect one to by able to pay for the service they offer, and not just hang out.   I suppose one could try going to a hotel lobby and see if there are any night owls whom can not sleep, and the last chance in Greenwich, Connecticut for the late night folks is to go have a cup of coffee at the dinner across from the YMCA, but they generally expect one to order food items.   With my Optimum Voice, I could try calling up anyone whom I might think is awake at night in Canada or the United States of America, but having been on a low budget for so long, I do not know of anyone to call up.   Generally, with the high tech revolution going on in America, there seems to be a gap between the daytime people and the night time people.   I suppose there might be an all night Starbucks in New York City for the non alcoholic crowd, but the only place in my day, I ever found to go late at night in New York City before driving back out to the suburbs or taking the train was the Brasserie Brasserie in the basement of the Seagram's building on Park Avenue in New York City.   I suppose with the major metropolitan area hospitals being opened at night, there might be a hospital cafeteria or coffee shop opened.  From my point of view, the greatest amount of environment conservation could be made if more people used the facilities available in the daytime at night time.  Alas family people have to be on a daytime schedule, so their kids can go to school while they go to what they call work.  Well anyway, I could always go out for a cruise at night, but with the higher price of gasoline that is not really an option.   I use to drive over to Irvington, New York to visit with a friend whom worked at night before I got on the internet, and just south of Tarrytown, New York, they have an all night diner, and the Shell oil company trying to make money off the Rockefellers also has an all night gasoline station there.  Basically, one can always read, but much of the newer literature is not my cup of tea, and it seems to be mostly written in hopes of making a movie.   I have plenty of old books in my apartment to keep me busy if I want to read.   Of course here in Connecticut near Interstate I-95, one could drive up to the east bound or west bound Darien, Connecticut rest areas, and the west bound rest area is generally more interesting because that has people coming from New England, but more than likely one would just run into truckers having a coffee break.  Of course if one were in the news business truckers since they travel a lot tend to see more, so sometimes they know more than the local newspaper people here know.  Of course with millions of people traveling around the New York area all the time, one never knows whom one might run into.   Alas that would also cost gasoline too.  Generally a lot of people working at night are a bit tired, since many of them also work jobs at other times of the day.   I suppose, once it is all said and done, there is not much money to be made working at night.  From my experience being awake at night in the New York City area, the only people making money working at night and the early morning hours beside the medical profession were some of the people I saw at the Brasserie whom were trading foreign currencies and trading on European stock markets while they worked at the Citicorp building all night and early morning just south of the Brasserie.  Since at about 3 A.M. our time, the European markets would be opening up.   Thus with the internet, one could trade on the European markets, but if one made money doing that, there would still not be much of any place here to spend money at this time of day, but one could always shop online, but then one has to hang around home or be awaken by the delivery person.   However, having been on a night time schedule a good deal of the time since about 1965, and even more of the time since 1972 when I got of college, I enjoy the peace and quiet of the night time.   One important element to being successful on a night time schedule is to avoid people up late at night drinking alcohol, since they can be a drain on one's time.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  I threw the garbage out.   I mailed the envelope in the mail room downstairs.   I am microwaving a Maria Callender 16.5 ounce turkey pot pie, which I will eat with a glass of iced tea.   I will not be going out tonight, because it is cold and damp and raw outside.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 10:20 P.M.:  I put one of the original scanned photographs in an envelope to mail to a relative.   I put the other one with the lighter one to give to a friend.  I emailed the photograph as an attachment to the same relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 10:00 P.M.:  On the HP Photosmart 1000 printer, I printed out two more of the same photograph in the original scanned darker image.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 9:15 P.M.:  At the moment, my email is not working, so I can not email the picture.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 9:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of a bowl of pineapple chunks, a toast onion bagel with margarine and cream cheese on it, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 8:30 P.M..   I chatted with a relative whom use to be a neighbor the Getty family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the relative knows something about the oil and gas industry, and the relative suggested that I do not need to fly the Saudi Arabian flag in my apartment, so I took down the Saudi Arabian flag, and I put it in its box on the right side of the second drawer in the living room mahogany bureau.   The relative did not get the picture that I emailed, so I will email it shortly.  I ate the remaining 25% of the 10 ounce can of Planter's cashew nuts.   I could hear it raining this afternoon, so with my low blood pressure when it rains, it makes me want to sleep.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 9:35 A.M.:  BBC NEWS  Science Nature  North Sea crater shows its scars .  I will now shut down the computer.   I will eat a bowl of Michael Louis Scott's Fresh Pineapple Delight  .   I will then go to bed.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 9:15 A.M.:  Snow 365 - Welcome to SNOW 365 and CNN.com - Faking the slopes - Mar 18, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 9:15 A.M.:  Bucket of bolts for sale CNN.com - Landlocked Queen short of cash - Mar 16, 2005 .  I ran Ad-aware SE.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 8:30 A.M.:  I scanned the photo in color and high resolution.  I then printed it out with the HP Photo program on the HP Photosmart 1000 printer in the same size of 4 inches by 6 inches.  I printed out two copies, and I wasted one sheet of paper figuring out how to install the paper.   One installs the paper face down in the 4 inch by 6 inch photo tray above the regular tray, and then one slides it into position with the slider.  I have 37 sheets of Staples 4" X 6" photo paper left.  I put the remaining Staples photo paper in a clear plastic zip bag.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 7:10 A.M.:  I sorted out some of the paperwork in the Chinese rice bowl on my dining room table.   I put the online receipts in the stack of them on the second shelf of my printer stand to the right of the primary computer.  I put the Optimum Voice and computer and auto and merchandise receipts in the metal file stand on the mahogany bureau in my bedroom.   I threw the waste paper in the waste paper can in the bathroom.  The Chinese rice bowl still has an assortment of various items in it, but it is a bit neater.   I went through my photograph negatives looking for a negative to make a copy of a photograph of myself with a relative for a friend, but I do not have the negative, and I think it was taken on the relative's camera.   However, at CVS on Greenwich Avenue, they have a machine that will scan a photograph and make a copy of it, so when I have time, I will use that.   I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 5:15 A.M.:  I got this link from Microsoft Microsoft Momentum Campaign .  I can not figure out why Microsoft wastes money mailing literature to people whom they know have email addresses.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 5:05 A.M.:  I went through my email.   The 11 in 1 memory card reader has shipped, but UPS tracking does not show it yet, although I have a tracking link.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 4:35 A.M.:  The established member of the Greenwich, Connecticut community whom was originally from the Wisconsin and moved here before my family did owned a Cheese Company that he later sold.   He was associated with CBS, and he got me a job with CBS news, when I was first out of college back in 1973.  He later went on to be associated with American Home Products which is now part of Wyeth .  Thus if he walked into a drugstore, more than likely the products of Wyeth would be represented.    I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks , which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I did not use a chopped half onion this time.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 3:50 A.M.: The asparagus are Altar asparagus from Mexico.   The Del Monte pineapple was missing its tag, but usually Del Monte pineapples are from the Philippines, Hawaii, and sometimes they are from the Caribbean.   I put the camera bag on the back side of the sofa along the living room closets.   I put out the largest wooden cutting board back on the floor against the kitchen wall that the refrigerator door opens against.   I have a smaller cutting board, three wooden serving trays, a wooden knife rack, and a brass tray behind the bookcase pantry.   On a minor point of detail, one of the original residents in this building that is Greenwich, Connecticut public housing was the Associated Press reporter from Mexico whom was a tall courtly Mexican, and many of his family still live in the area.  The reporter moved back to Mexico about ten years ago.   I once gave him a sofa that I did not have room for in my apartment.  I think one of his sons ran the motorcycle shop in Port Chester, New York.  Thus having been here over 20 years, they more than likely have learned a little bit of English, and it is the nature of the Associated Press that some people also know English.  Another original tenant in the building was friends of Angier Biddle Duke, but he did not get along with the local political establishment, and he moved to Berkeley California.   He was one of the original software engineers for Pan Am.  However, at the time Fortune Brands http://www.fortunebrands.com/  was located in Greenwich, and it owned Brown and Williamson tobacco company, which was the old Duke tobacco company, before it was sold by Fortune Brands to the British American Tobacco company.   Fortune Brands moved to the Chicago, Illinois area, but I have seen members of the Duke family in this area before, and I recall Doris Duke also had a house in Hawaii, so more than likely she would know how to make other items with pineapples.   I recall my father always drank pineapple milk shakes.   I also recall, Helen Kress Williams told me that the Pineapple was the symbol of Christian Hospitality in the old days, and she had two carved stone pineapples on the brick wall gate entrance to her estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and she said it was derived from when the Christians in Boston, Massachusetts went to Hawaii to become missionaries, and they brought the symbol back.   My mother's house in Florida also has large pineapples in front of it front door.   Unfortunately during the great wars this century, the pineapple became slang for a hand grenade, so unfortunately it has a double connotation.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 3:20 A.M.:  I used my tongs to put the partially steamed asparagus in the large flat Rubbermaid container, and I shook the jar with vinaigrette liquid, and I pour it over the partially steamed asparagus.  I added a little bit more of white distilled vinegar to bring up the level of the liquid above the partially steamed asparagus, and with the lid on, I rocked the container a little bit sideways to mix it all together a little bit, and I then put it all in the refrigerator, and in about two days, I should have two pounds of asparagus vinaigrette.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 3:00 A.M.:  I am not going to use the half inch ends of the asparagus to make asparagus soup since they tend to be a little tough on the digestion system.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 2:45 A.M.:  With the asparagus, I am making Michael Louis Scott's Asparagus Vinaigrette .  However, I saved the vinaigrette liquid in a jar in the refrigerator from the last batch, so I will reuse the vinaigrette liquid on this batch.  It is the nature of a vinegar mixture that is refrigerated that it tends to last for a while, since vinegar has been used as a preservative since time began.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 2:25 A.M.:  I made up this with the fresh pineapple Michael Louis Scott's Fresh Pineapple Delight .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 1:20 A.M.:  I put in a plastic microwave proof container, a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's Chunky savory chicken with white and wild rice which I heated with the lid on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.   I put the heated soup in a Cobalt Blue soup bowl which is one of two that I bought for about $7.50 both at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop about four years ago.   They are larger heavier soup bowls than the bowls I eat my oatmeal out of, and they hold a 18 ounce plus can of soup.  I keep the two large Cobalt Blue soup bowls underneath the Danish bar.   I ate the soup with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/20/05 Sunday 12:55 A.M.:  After the last message, I sorted out some of the items in the two boxes of items, I took out of the small drawers in the kitchen bureau before I donated it to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.   I put all the batteries on the left lower shelf of the hutch in the bedroom along with two flashlight bulbs.   On the next shelf above it, I put all of my current paper work and mail.   To the left of the paper work in a small shipping box, I put all of my disposable cigarette lighters and three packages of flints.  I left the remaining items in a box on the paper shredder behind the blue chair in front of the bedroom window.   I went to bed about 6 A.M..  I chatted with a relative about 10 A.M..  I ate 75% of a 10 ounce can of Planter's Deluxe cashew nuts.   I then went back to bed.   I woke up at 4 P.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, a toasted onion bagel with margarine, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I chatted with a friend.   I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I sorted out some periodical literature from the shelves in the small bookcase in the bathroom, and I threw it out with the other garbage.   I chatted with a neighbor.   I chatted with a relative.   I then cleaned up, and I went out.   I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two blue toilet bowl drop in tablets for .99 each, fresh broccoli crowns at $1.79 a pound for $1.74, and a 10 ounce bag of fresh mushrooms for $2.39 for $6.23 total.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I drove around the train station area.  I drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a large Del Monte fresh pineapple for $2.99, fresh asparagus at .99 a pound for $2.02, 4 eight ounce packages of www.kraft.com Philadelphia Cream Cheese for .89 each for $8.57 total.   The Food Emporium in central Greenwich, Connecticut is not longer opened all night, but it now closes at midnight.   Usually when I buy a fresh pineapple it seems to snow, but it was a good price on the large pineapple.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/19/05 Saturday 4:25 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/19/05 Saturday 3:55 A.M.:  I ordered PcUSA - CR 211-1 - Memory - 11-in-1 Card Reader USB 2.0 - PC Mall for $14.99 plus $4.99 UPS ground shipping for a total cost of $19.98.   It has a $14.99 mailin rebate http://image1.cc-inc.com/rapcoupons/3272PCMall.pdf which one mails in with the package invoice and UPC code, so eventually it will only cost me the $4.99 shipping.  Of course I have to wait for the package to mail in the rebate.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/19/05 Saturday 3:15 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/19/05 Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  http://stores.ebay.com/Power-cell-Battery-Products .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/19/05 Saturday 2:15 A.M.:  I hope the British people, the Commonwealth, and Time Life don't mind, but I have a copy of this magazine which I display in my apartment with this picture on the cover http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/queen-elizabeth-II-coronation-photo.jpg .  It is part of my perception of the English Country style of decorating.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/19/05:

Note: <888> 03/19/05 Saturday 1:00 A.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont Seriously Sharp Hunters cheese.   I used all of the other regular ingredients.   On top of the salad instead of using sliced tomatoes, I used 12 grape tomatoes and 8 California black pitted olives.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   Current temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast 32 degrees Fahrenheit.   I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 11:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up two prescriptions.   I also bought two six packs of Thomas' bagels with onions for $2.50 a six pack, two 16 ounce bags of Twizzler licorice bits for $1.99 each, a 9 ounce spray can of Glade melon burst spray odor freshener for .99, a 28 ounce bottle of Pine-Sol lemon cleaner for $2.50, less a $2 off coupon for over an $8 purchase and a $1 off coupon for buying two 16 ounce bags of Twizzler licorice bits for $9.47 plus .27 tax for $9.47 total.   I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   They have a new ATM machine on the left side of the drive through, the right drive through has nothing now.   With the new ATM machine at its location, one will be able to see the display, since the morning sun will not shine on it.  I then went by the Exxon gasoline next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $7.55 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.499 a gallon for 14.2 miles per gallon usage driving an average of 12 miles per hour around town.   I drove about 46 miles this week.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 59 ounce clear plastic containers of Simply orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, a 14 ounce Boston Market beef sirloin with noodles dinner for $2.99, a 14 ounce Boston Market country fried chicken dinner for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.23, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.50, two pints of grapes tomatoes for $2.50 a pint for $18.71 total.  I then returned home.   I chatted briefly with a relative.  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .   Instead of my usual recipe with five bags of the different types of Twinings in their variety pack, I am using the six different types in the Bigelow six assorted tea package.  They include Constant Comment, Plantation Mint, English Teatime, Earl Grey, Green Tea, and Lemon Lift.  I also used four green tea bag and 10 orange pekoe tea bags for the mixture.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 8:00 P.M.:  I put in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid a 18 ounce can of Progresso Chicken Italiano which I reheated in the microwave oven.   I served it in a large Cobalt blue bowl with a couple of handfuls of croutons and a thin layer of grated parmesan cheese.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 7:40 P.M.:  I finished house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 5:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   Now I will start my house cleaning.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 4:05 P.M.:  I backed up the computer C: drive to the D: drive with Windows XP Automatic System Recovery.    At 3:20 P.M. UPS www.ups.com delivered the Zeus Sealed lead acid batteries and custom battery packs 12V 17AH Sealed Lead Acid UPS or Alarm System Battery at www.ebay.com for sale by "batteryman20" for $15.95 plus $11.50 shipping and handling by UPS standard delivery for $27.45 total.  I took out the old battery from the Slaymaker Jumpstart system, and I installed the new Zeus battery.   Since the Zeus battery has wider terminals it came with longer screws.  I used the longer screws with lock washer and washer at the  bolt head and the lock nuts that were used on the old battery.   I have it all installed, and it seems to be fully charged.   I put it on charge in the bedroom, so it will stay charged.   I put the old battery next to it on the floor with the package with the old bolts and new nuts and washers and lock washers in the small plastic bag tapes on top of it.   The Zeus battery is about 1/16th of an inch two narrow in the Slaymaker battery compartment, and since I did not have cushioning tape, I will leave it that way, so it is just a hair loose.  I will now return to doing  my house cleaning.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 2:40 P.M.:  I was up until 6 A.M. this morning watching television.   I went to bed, and I had a wrong number telephone call at 11 A.M..  I woke up at 1 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I will be here this afternoon waiting for my UPS delivery of the replacement battery for the Slaymaker Jumpstart system.  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I will also do a C: drive to D: drive backup of the computer with Windows XP Automatic System Recovery.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 2:15 A.M.:  BBC NEWS Technology Have hackers recruited your PC? .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 1:55 A.M.:  Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library Air Force One Pavilion.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 1:45 A.M.:  What is happening in the north country University of Toronto Computing & Networking Services Web Site .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/18/05 Friday 1:05 A.M.:   I made and ate http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mcegg.htm with a glass of iced tea.   I took the picture of Abraham Lincoln out of its frame, which is easy to do, since the oval frame is split in half, and I scanned it.  I posted it at http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/abraham-lincoln-001.jpg  .   I bought it for $5 at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop about four years ago.  They once had a photograph there of General Douglas McArthur, but I could not afford to buy it.  I will now put the picture back in its frame, and I will rehang it.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  Basically the British like the Scottish have tended to be Penny Thrifty and Pound foolish over the years.  I suppose since Queen Victoria's Racing colors were the three primary colors of red, yellow, and blue, and since more than likely they also had white paint, when they began to dabble with paint and their colors, they found out that red and white paint could make pink paint and yellow and blue paint would make green paint, so thus evolved pink and green decorating colors based on the three other colors they already had and the white which means there is no color.  As a for instance during the great Wars, there was a lot of battleship grey paint around, so people commonly painted their houses along the shoreline grey to help them blend in.  Also the army tended to use green paint, so a lot of people found that green paint could be darkened with black paint to make what we now call Country Club or Park Service green color.  In France when I visited there during the Albertville Olympics, all the buildings were painted what I would call an earth tone brown about the color of coffee with milk, about the same color of my wind breaker that I wore for many years before I outgrew it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 11:35 P.M.:  I posted Michael Louis Scott's Original Hot Sauce Recipe .  Earlier, I opened up a 39 ounce bag of 8 O'clock decaffeinated coffee beans, and I filled the glass jars labeled "decaffeinated" along with the Braun coffee grinder that contains "decaffeinated" coffee beans.   I use a 50% to 50% mixture of both regular and decaffeinated coffee beans for my one cup of coffee when I wake up.   I do not drink coffee for the rest of the day after that.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 11:05 P.M.:  While going through my kitchen drawers to throw out the old blue low boy bureau, I found this recipe I made up dated October 27,1993.   I changed it a bit adding 14 ounces of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce instead of 10 ounces of generic Worcestershire sauce and 4 ounces of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, and I changed it from apple vinegar to balsamic vinegar.  Other than that it is the same.  Michael Louis Scott's Hot Sauce Recipe .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 10:30 P.M.:  I ate the remaining 25% or 2.5 ounces of Planters deluxe mixed nuts with some iced tea.   I threw out one of my six clear plastic 59 ounce orange juice jugs by mistake two days ago, when I was in a rush to get ready for inspection, so I will have to buy another one, so I have enough when I start using them for iced tea.  However, I still have to finish using the other 4.5 containers of orange juice, before they will be available for iced tea.  Since a certain small group of people seem to drink too much alcohol on St. Patrick's Day, I don't think it is safe to drive tonight.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 10:00 P.M.:  I took the items out of my bedroom window shelf, and I cleaned the items, and I cleaned the window shelf.  I put the Epson C60 printer on top of the backup Dell monitor on the left side of the bedroom desk.   It is a fairly new printer, but the ink cartridges for it cost as much as the printer did new with new ink cartridges.  I could buy generic refills, but they are still a bit more expensive than what I pay for my older Epson Stylus Color 880 printer.   I organized my light bulbs on the bedroom window shelf by wattage.   I put the other items back on the window shelf.  I put the IBM USB keyboard and spare mice underneath the bedroom sideboard.   I took out the 18 inch stack of used laser paper, and I put it in my grocery hauling cart.   I sorted through my periodical literature, and I put the older periodical literature in the cart.   I sorted through my old mail from the hutch on the bedroom side table, and I threw out part of it into the cart.  The mail that I am saving, I put back on the lower shelf left side of the hutch.   I put my government papers on top of the milk crate underneath the left side of the bedroom desk.  I put the automobile information in one of the rear compartments on the metal file holder on the top left side of the bedroom mahogany bureau.   I then threw out all of the waste paper in the paper recycle bin.   I have thus done all of the suggestions that I can do for now that were suggested by the Greenwich Housing Authority Inspector.  I possibly some time in the future could get rid of some of the clothes that fit me when I weighed less, but they are good clothes, and as one gets older, one tends to get smaller, so for now I have room to keep them.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 7:50 P.M.:  About this time of year, the St. Lawrence Seaway System Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System  will be opening on March 25, 2005 which is in eight days, and thus the people in the heartland of America will once again begin to export large amounts of food to starving people in the other parts of the world.   Of course with a little luck, they might also be able to ship out a few barrels of Corby's Whisky Welcome to Barton Brands: Corby's Canadian Whisky for the senior citizens in the northern parts of the world whom tend to feel a bit cold during the winter.  Unfortunately, the licensed distributor for Balmoral Castle 15 Year Old Malt Scotch Whisky does not seem to have made it here to Greenwich, Connecticut.  However, they still have jobs available at the Royal Household The Monarchy Today > Recruitment which would involve the more traditional employment in keeping up an established house.  However, at the moment, I can not afford to go to England to peel potatoes, however if I ever went there, it would be more like Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".  CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 7:20 P.M.:  If I am not mistaken the origins of the decorating scheme of "Pink and Green" were from one of Queen's Victoria's children or grandchildren whom had a "Pink and Green" sun room in their palace, but I can not recall which child or grandchild or what palace.   Perhaps it was at Osborne House which was one of Queen Victoria's summer homes.  I know Queen Victoria had a daughter that lived in Bermuda because her husband's house in Canada was too cold, so that is why "Pink and Green" are very popular in Bermuda.  Billy Baldwin whom was a personal friend of the Duke of Windsor made "Pink and Green" popular in his worldwide decorating schemes.  I was reminded today that Billy Baldwin decorated the bar at the Round Hill Club here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but since I have not been in the Round Hill Club, since about 1967, I am not sure if it still remains that way.  Round Hill is also a deluxe area in Jamaica, the West Indies, so more than likely they would have some rum or other beverage at either location.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.   Back around October 1973, I met somebody in New York named James Edward Eldert that was going to work for Senator Jacob Javits in Washington D.C..  He was Dutch and Irish, and we had similar appearances.   He also showed up to visit me in Key West, Florida, and he was my neighbor in Nantucket, and I also visited with him a few times in California.   He lost interest in politics and tried acting and working as a disk jockey for a radio station next to Fort Ord, California.  His was a unique name, and a mutual friend ask my friends to try to keep an eye out for him.   He seems to be lost in the netherworld of California, and nobody ever heard from him again after he made new friends.   He did seem to make one movie, so since I had never seen it, I ordered it from eBay item 6331998320 (Ends Mar-17-05 14:46:29 PST) - Warbirds VHS Video Movie Jim Eldert S/H $2 for $3.98 cost and $2 postage.   I suppose he might be working on his family's horse farm in upstate New York, but since besides speaking English, he also spoke Spanish, he would be useful to have around here to speak Spanish with the Spanish speaking people around here.   Since I only speak English and have studied French for four years many years ago, when I lived around the Spanish at other times, Jim seemed to make sense to the Spanish, since he also knew their language.   For all I know he happens to live next door in Port Chester, New York where lots of Hispanics live, and I just never notice him around here.  Since he frequently showed up in places where nobody knew I was visiting, he seemed to know somebody that had access to larger amounts of information.  Whatever the case, it will be interesting to watch his acting performance in Warbirds.  Jim always liked Nantucket even though he was not from there, so maybe he has become a hermit on Nantucket counting sea gulls.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 5:40 P.M.:  In plastic microwave proof containers, I reheated in the microwave oven the remaining cooked spaghetti and tomato sauce from yesterday, and I put it all on a dinner plate, and I put the grated parmesan cheese on it, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I have 25 minutes to go on the dry cycle on the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 4:45 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.   They have two tripods there for $5 each.  They also have a nice expensive dining room set.   Also they took in four Queen Anne chairs recently.   They gave me a spindle type shaker chair in need of repair, they had by their dumpster.   I returned to my car, and I chatted with a local politician on the way.  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I showed my 3 P.M. appointment the chair.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I gave them the chair, since I do not have room for it.   They still have their $20 a bag sale on, plus other merchandise is half price.   They are having their grand spring reopening on March 27, 2005.   I then returned home.   UPS attempted to make the delivery of my Slaymaker Jump start replacement battery at 3:45 P.M., but I was not here.   However, I will be here all day tomorrow until they arrive, because I do my house cleaning on Friday.   I started two loads of laundry, and I am just about to start the dryer cycles.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 1:30 P.M.:  I will go out earlier for my 3 P.M. appointment.   I will leave a note on the front outside door for UPS.  I will  now shut down the computer.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 12:50 P.M.:  I threw out the garbage.  I gave a neighbor a half of a pack of  Parker cigarettes.   I picked up my mail.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/17/05 Thursday 12:25 P.M.:  I woke up during the night, and I ate 3/4th of a 10 ounce can of Planter's Deluxe mixed nuts.  I was awake this morning at 10:30 A.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I put clean linens on the bed including two of the new pillow cases.  I had a telephone call from a friend whom did not identify himself which seems strange.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  The Slaymaker Jump start replacement battery is out for delivery by UPS.   If it does not arrive before I leave for my 3 P.M. appointment, I will leave a note on the outside front door.  I will come back directly after my 3 P.M. appointment around 3:45 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.   CIO   

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 8:50 P.M.:  I refilled the Glade plug-in refill in the kitchen with a 60% mixture of English Leather cologne and 40% of 91% isopropyl alcohol leaving about a half inch for air at the top of the plug-in refill.   I use a screw driver to pry off the top.  Also, one should not let the Glade plug-in refill become totally empty and dry out before refilling.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 8:30 P.M.:  I put the Gaggia espresso coffee grinder on the left kitchen counter with the other coffee grinder and coffee machines.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 8:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a Dutch friend.   I posted three pictures:

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-02-031505.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-apartment-kitchen-entrance-031605.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-apartment-kitchen-bookcase-pantry-031605.JPG .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 7:00 P.M.:  I moved the kitchen garbage can from out behind the chair, so it is more easily available at the kitchen entrance.   If one uses the toaster oven, they probably should take the toaster off from on top of it, and put it on the garbage can, since the top of the toaster oven gets hot.  In a five quart Revere pot, I am bringing three quarts of water to a boil with a dash of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil in the water.   Once the water boils, I will put a 16 ounce box of Ronzoni #9 spaghetti noodles in the water, and I will boil them for ten minutes.  With five minutes to go, I will put half a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi garlic and onion tomato sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, which I will run on the reheat cycle for about the same time as the spaghetti has to cook for the last five minutes.   I then will drain the spaghetti water in a colander inside a larger Revere pot to save the hot water.   I will dump the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out the residue from whiskers and shave cream that builds up.   I will put half the cooked spaghetti in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I will put the other half on a large dinner plate along with the heated sauce and with a thin layer of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.   I will eat it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/16/05 Wednesday 6:30 P.M.:  I was up at 5:30 A.M. this morning.   My guest, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with sliced banana, orange juice, coffee, and I also had English muffin with grape jelly, vitamins, and supplements.   I went back to bed after breakfast, and my guest left while I was asleep.   I was awake at 10 P.M..   I chatted with two relatives and a friend.   I am now going down to Florida on Sunday May 1, 2005 on Delta Comair #5361 leaving J.F.K. at 10:30 A.M. arriving at Melbourne at 10:30 A.M..  I will returned on Thursday May 12, 2005 leaving Melbourne, Florida on Comair #5361 at 11 A.M. and arriving at J.F.K. at 1:30 P.M..  A friend will drive me to and pick me up at the airport.  I then removed the spare LAN cables from my hubs in the bedroom and the living room, and I also removed the spare extension cords on the floor, and I put them all in the cable box underneath the living room desk.  Thus the extra wires are not visible in my apartment.   I need all the other wires though.   I then sorted out the contents of the two small drawers in the blue bureau in the kitchen, and I put each drawer's contents in a box, which I put for now on the chair to the left of the bedroom desk.   I then sorted out the rest of the contents of the blue bureau.   I took out its drawers, and I put them in the hallway.   I removed the contents of the bookcase at the kitchen entrance, and I then took the bookcase out of the kitchen entrance.   I then took the blue bureau out of the kitchen, and I used my cart from the back of the Volvo to take it downstairs along with the drawers.  I then put drawers back in the bureau, and I put it in the back of my Volvo station wagon.   I took it over to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and I donated it.  They said it was a low boy with a wash stand.  Although it is over 50 years old, the legs were cut off of it in a redecorating project, so it is not that valuable.  I then returned home.   I vacuumed and cleaned the kitchen area.   I moved the bookcase into the kitchen where the blue bureau was.    I put the General Electric microwave oven on top of the blue bookcase.  I put the spare food contents back in the blue bookcase.   I put the small dark oak table at the kitchen entrance with the wooden bread box on top of it and the Optimum Voice telephone.   I put the DeLonghi toaster oven on top of the bread box, and I put the Rowenta toaster on top of the toaster oven.  I connected them all up to power.   I put the Braun coffee maker on the kitchen counter where the blender was, and I put the blender back on the shelf in the left living room closet.   I put the Gaggia espresso coffee grinder on the floor in the left bedroom closet.   I sorted out some of the smaller items related to the change of furniture.   It all looks much better and more spacious.  I have the small chair back in the kitchen between the stove and the bookcase, but it is easily moved to use the stove, which I never do.  I put the trays and cutting boards behind the bookcase.  I chatted with a friend.   I threw out the garbage with the items I sorted out.  The jumpstart replacement battery arrived at Chelmsford, Mass. at 1:21 P.M. today.  It is scheduled for delivery tomorrow.  I put the tripod behind the apartment entrance door.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/15/05 Tuesday 10:45 P.M.:  I made a salad for myself and my guest www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   On the salads, I split a tin of sardine and tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used www.cabotcheese.com Vermont Hunter's extra sharp cheddar cheese.   I used all of the other regular ingredients.   I used the remaining grape tomatoes and asparagus vinaigrette.   We ate the salads with glasses of iced tea.   After dinner, we went out a drive down by the waterfront and downtown.   My guest has gone to sleep on the living room couch, and I am about to go to bed right now.   I will now shut down the computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/15/05 Tuesday 7:15 P.M.:  I showed my guest my Vivitar Digital camera and we took some pictures.   I will post the one's of me later.   A relative called, and the relative is going to book airfare for me to go down to Florida to visit relatives around the first two weeks of May.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/15/05 Tuesday 6:20 P.M.:  I was up at 10 A.M. this morning, when I had a telephone call from the Greenwich Housing Authority inspector, and I was told by the inspector that she would be coming by at noon today.   I made my bed, and I straightened up the apartment and cleaned up.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with sliced bananas, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   At noon the Greenwich Housing authority inspector inspected my apartment.   The inspector was concerned about the access to my windows, the many electrical cords that I have with my electronics, and the blue bureau that I have in the kitchen.   I explained most the electric cords were speaker cords and LAN cables that do not carry high voltage.   I explained the curtains on my windows keep the apartment warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.   I explained that the bureau in the kitchen could be removed, but any other item like a microwave cart that I could put there  to hold the microwave oven would take up just as much room.   Most of the items in the bureau drawers I could get rid of, but since the bureau is a family heirloom, I would have to transport it to a relative's house which would cost money and time.   I explained I keep some of the backup monitors and computers, since I do not have the money to replace my primary computer if it malfunctions, I would use one of the backup monitors or components.   I explained that on a limited budget, I keep a number of backup items in case the primary items malfunction.   I also explained that I constantly work on maintaining my apartment, and I am the individual whom has been sitting up most nights in this building for 16 years along with walking at night on Greenwich Avenue for 21 years.   On a limited income as a volunteer, there is only so much that I can do.  I explained I clean the apartment once a week thoroughly.  I wait for the toilet to complete its flush cycle, so it does not overflow like it once did in the past.   I explained a few other things.   I was told by the inspector that she would get back to me.  She asked me if she could photograph the apartment, and I explained that I had posted pictures on my internet web site, and I gave her two of my internet cards.   I also explained to the inspector that from my perspective, the most dangerous part of the building was the flight path of the local airport over the building when some times jets and airplanes come a hundred feet or lower over the building.  I then went out, and I chatted with two neighbors, and I picked up my mail.  I then went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I next went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   They have a $30 a bag sale.   I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out for a while.   I then returned home.   UPS delivered the tripod at 4:34 P.M..   I chatted with a neighbor.   A friend of mine arrived at 5:30 P.M..  My friend gave me 10 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes.   I had a telephone message from a relative about possibly visiting Florida.   My guest is staying overnight.  The replacement jumpstart battery left Addison, Illinois at 1:23 A.M. this afternoon via UPS.  CIO      

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 10:00 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 9 ounce box of four cheese hot pocket pizzas, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.   On a matter of historical trivia about tomorrow Ides of March March 15.  The tripod was delivered to the Stratford, Connecticut UPS depot at 9:24 P.M. this evening.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO        

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 8:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative and a friend.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 6:50 P.M.:  The tripod left via UPS from Chelmsford, Mass. I guess headed to Norwalk, Connecticut for delivery tomorrow.   The Slaymaker jumpstart system battery shipped via UPS, but although I have the tracking number, it does not show up on UPS tracking yet.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 6:15 P.M.:  Only two left Save on the Chinook 31701 Ultra Ice Sleeping Bag at SmartBargains.com .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 6:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went to my 4 P.M. appointment.  Before my 4 P.M. appointment, I chatted with another Florida resident, and I told him about the colder weather in New York after Mount St. Helens' last eruption back during the winters of 1981 to 1983.   He agreed with me that if it happened again, it would get much colder up north.  Thus despite the recent hurricane problems in Florida, the value of Florida real estate would not decrease, but would only increase as more and more people would go down south to get away from the colder weather up north.   I mentioned one person I know of is still building a $20 million house on the beach in Indian River Shores, Florida, so more than likely other people are following his example.   Basically people with money know more than some of the transient individuals whom try to make a quit buck off disasters and other people's problems.   I went to my 4 P.M. appointment.   I then drove down by the waterfront, and the cold weather sailors were out in Greenwich Harbor sailing their sailboats in formation.  I did not have my camera with me to take a picture of them, but they were very precise in their sailing maneuvers in the cold high wind.   They all had red and white sails, so there are still some cold weather people around here.   If the harbor ever freezes over, we could always try ice sailing.   The younger generation around here tends to be use to colder weather.  I then returned home.  I received this link from www.smartbargains.com/ten for an extra 10% off through March 15, 2005.  Alas I don't need anything else at the moment, and I can not afford anything more.   I did not take my walk, because I am a bit tired having been awake since 9 P.M. last night with my partial nap this morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 2:35 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up and go out for my 4 P.M. appointment.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 2:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  For my meal, I made Michael Louis Scott's Egg McMuffins .  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 1:05 P.M.:  I rested most of the time since the last message.   At 8:29 A.M., FedEx delivered the telephone parts.   I took the old soldered cable off the cable modem, and I put a new 25 foot cable to the telephone junction area underneath the chair underneath the stereo system.   I connected it to a duplex adaptor 3 female splitter and then I connected the 5 outlet adaptor with 7 foot cord.   I then disconnected the cables from the daisy chain of duplex adaptors, and I connected the 5 Optimum Voice telephone cables to the 5 outlet adaptor.   I used one of the duplex adaptors, and I changed the General Electric 900 MHz cordless telephone at the same location from Optimum Voice to Verizon on its duplex adaptor, so there is a cordless telephone on Verizon too.   I secured the cable behind the sofa with the other cables.   I labeled the General Electric telephone for Verizon.   I used a female to female coupler adaptor, and I connected the Optimum Voice cable in the bedroom to the 5 outlet adaptor that connects the General Electric cordless telephone on the desk with Radio Shack speaker phone and the General Electric big button telephone on the side table with the hutch.   Thus I have 5 telephones working with Verizon and 8 telephones working with Optimum Voice, and they are all labeled respectively.   I did not use 1 five outlet adaptor with 7 foot cord, 3 female to female adaptors, 1 50 foot cord, 1 25 foot cord, and 1 duplex adaptor with 3 female splitter, and I put the spare telephone parts in the brown box on the back side of the white bedroom bureau.  I rested for a while and at 11:39 A.M., UPS delivered the four king size yellow pillow cases and the camera bag.   I put the yellow pillow cases on the side table in the bedroom to have available the next time I change my sheets.   I think I will use two at a time on the two top pillows.   I generally use a different set of linens when I change the linens, since I have two sets.  I put the camera bag on top of the HP LaserJet IID printer by the kitchen entrance to have available for use with my cameras and any other smaller items I might need to tote around.   It is a very well made camera bag, and it also has a cushioned shoulder strap.   I threw out the boxes, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I picked up my mail.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 5:30 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will rest for a while.   I have a 4 P.M. appointment today, and I also have to wait for the UPS and FedEx deliveries.  The package with the pillow cases and camera case arrived at the Norwalk, Connecticut UPS facility at 3:30 A.M. this morning.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 4:45 A.M.:  I put a PayPal donation but on my web homepage, since it does cost me quite a bit of money to maintain my internet activity, and the associated activities that go with running it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 3:40 A.M.:  The UPS shipment of the pillow cases and camera case departed Chelmsford, Mass. at 11:43 P.M. this past evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 3:20 A.M.:  I put the battery back in the Slaymaker jumpstart system to have it available for emergency lighting, and I have it connected to the charging transformer.   Although the old battery is not strong enough for jump starting a car, it will still be available for emergency lighting, but it probably would not hold its usual two day capacity for emergency lighting.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/14/05 Monday 2:25 A.M.:  I took the back off my Slaymaker since 1888 2 in 1 Jumpstart / Air Compressor System, and I removed the worn out Sheng Yank Sy 121170 (12V17Ah-B) Valve Regulated Rechargeable Sealed Lead-Acid Battery, and I searched out similar batteries on the internet, and I found a Zeus Sealed lead acid batteries and custom battery packs 12V 17AH Sealed Lead Acid UPS or Alarm System Battery at www.ebay.com for sale by "batteryman20" for $15.95 plus $11.50 shipping and handling by standard delivery for $27.45 total.  I ordered, and to order it, I had to open a Ebay and a PayPal account.   I left the old battery out, and I put the case back on the Slaymaker system, and I will install the new battery when it arrives.   I think it is shipped via UPS.  The price at Ebay was about half the price of other web sites for a similar battery.  It is being shipped from Glendale Heights, Illinois.  I received confirmation of the order.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 11:45 P.M.:  Basically when one is stocked up on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm , one does not need to go downtown to look for bargains.  I have always said the best thrift shop is one's own home.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 11:30 P.M.:  BBC NEWS Technology 'Digital plumbers' fix home nets .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 11:25 P.M.:  Although Greenwich Avenue currently looks more prosperous, most of the local people know it is just the same old buildings with new facades and renters, and it really has not been improved overall too much.  Still the improvements that have been made, tend to make it look more upscale than it actually really is.  The shopping environment is more geared towards families, and usually families do not have too much money.  Whatever the case the local merchants on Greenwich Avenue seem to compete with the other merchants in the area that have boutique malls and wholesale outlets not to mention the internet.  A great many older people do not seem to be able to drive too far, and a lot of the retired people seem to shop in Port Chester, New York which has a large variety of general merchandise outlets.   Also since Rye, New York has a small downtown area, they also shop in Port Chester, New York.  Overall neighboring Stamford, Connecticut also has a lot of stores.   However, with the higher price of gasoline, it costs money to shop in neighboring communities.  Also when one lives in Connecticut and shops in New York, the taxes go to New York instead of one's home state in Connecticut.   Most of my minor purchasing decisions are based on supporting our local economy along with being thrifty enough to use my computer expertise to purchase off the internet, where although I do pay shipping costs, they are not anymore than gasoline costs and wear and tear on my automobile costs.   I generally find lots of merchandise for less than half the price on the internet.  However, I also look at the local store promotions available on the internet to find local value in our local stores.   However, a great many of the professional community are so busy working all the time, they do not have the time or inclination to look for wholesale values.   However, most of the real professionals in this area tend to shop wholesale prices, and since they buy in larger quantities, they are able to get wholesale prices.  However, my internet time also costs me money along with time that I could use for other purposes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 10:55 P.M.:  Although I pay $67 a month for digital television, I do not watch much of it, since I consider myself a professional reader.   I spend most of my time reading content on the internet.  Since there is so much content, I rarely have time to watch the public relations or other events they advertise on television.  However, television does seem to serve its purpose, when there is a breaking news story that is of interest to the general public.   Everyone I chatted with says that television is mostly repeats, so it seems that we are not getting any new programming on television.   However, a great many people watch so much television that it would tend to repeat itself overtime, since a great many of the creative people whom produce the content tend to repeat what was popular as opposed to coming up with newer content.  Since the television cable system has the capability of monitoring what the viewers watch, if the viewer watches certain content then they provide more of that same content.   However, I have noticed a trend in the business news that it is not really business news, but more of a hype of lesser known businesses in hopes that they will become more profitable.   The only reason to promote a lesser company would be if the individual whom is promoting the company already owns equity in the company in hopes that it would become more valuable.  Locally since Greenwich, Connecticut tends to be a very prosperous town, the local venues that the public deal with have lots of individuals whom are not too savvy about the real nature of business, so they constantly are trying to promote their own business viewpoint.   I see a non stop stream of individuals showing up in the more public areas of town in hopes of promoting their ventures.   It would seem to me that some of them might potentially be prosperous, so possibly the local business community should have a guest reception area where individuals could register their business enterprises that they are trying to promote.  It is sort of like Westinghouse trying to sell General Electric light bulbs.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 10:30 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate 21 ounce Stouffer's frozen lasagna with meat.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 9:20 P.M.:  I went to bed after the last message.   I chatted with a friend about the time I went to bed.  I was awake at 3 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I chatted with a friend.   I chatted with a relative.   I went back to bed until now.  The tripod arrived at Chelmsford, Mass. at 4:07 P.M. this afternoon,  and the package with the pillow cases and camera bag are there since 1:04 A.M. on March 12, so possibly they will arrive tomorrow via UPS.  The telephone parts are still at the FedEx sort facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey due for delivery tomorrow, so maybe I will get all three packages tomorrow.   I have a 4 P.M. appointment scheduled for tomorrow.   I am staying on a later schedule, so as not to spend as much money.  Still occasionally I have daytime appointments.   Basically not much happens at night around here, and it is basically like being the Maytag repairman whom I also happen to know, but when it got so expensive here, he moved up to a trailer park in Danbury, Connecticut.  There are suppose to be flurries tonight with a low of 20 degrees Fahrenheit Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast .  Also I have to remind one that this is a normal winter.  If one gets a colder nuclear type winter after a major volcanic eruption, it would be a lot colder.  No sign of any spring robins.   CIO       

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 6:25 A.M.:  Tour guide job in Michigan for $11.09 an hour Tour Guide Job in Michigan for $11.09 an hour Employment  .   If you don't get the job, as they say in Illinois, there's always McDonalds www.mcdonalds.com .  Of course in the old days of prohibition, the Ford staff use to use Henry Ford's Yacht for boot legging across the Detroit river from Windsor, Canada.   Of course if your name were Windsor, you would probably would not need to help out the Fords.  I went through my email earlier.  The local Irish are having their little St. Patrick's Day parade in Greenwich today, but I am on a night schedule, and they usually don't like seeing me for the parade, since they see me downtown all the time anyway.  Of course if the Scott family were Scotch Irish, we would probably be the oldest part Irish family in America, but as I recall we never paid any attention to the St. Patrick's Day parade, since we were raised Scotch Presbyterian.  However, historically the Scotch and the Irish have been moving back and forth between their lands depending on what local sailors tried to adventure across their mutual sea.  Alas the English do not seem to pay much attention to the north country anymore, since they were bought out by the middle eastern oil sheiks a long time ago.  Basically from what I can tell, the United States of America still seems to enjoy a modest level of prosperity depending on what level of skills one might have, but how long that might last for individual skills depends on what the public demands in terms of skills.  Currently here in Greenwich, Connecticut there does not seem to be much interest in the English language.   I guess the newer European arrivals have their own separate viewpoint and agenda.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 6:00 A.M.:  I chatted with the Optimum Voice operator.   Apparently when one dials zero or 0 on an Optimum Voice telephone, one gets an Optimum Voice telephone operator.   I then chatted with the Laguna Beach, California police department and related my concern about the Mount St. Helens volcano.  Although I am NOT a volcanologist or geologist, it is common knowledge that the Cascades range which included Mount St. Helens lies on the San Andreas fault line.  Major tectonic activity in the Cascades range could trigger activity in the San Andreas fault.  Remember there was a major earthquake in San Francisco, California shortly after the eruption of Mount St. Helens about 25 years ago.  If it did erupt with major force, it would cool down the northern hemisphere significantly enough to cause major population shifts and relocations.  As I constantly remind people whom live in this crowded New York City area, there are at least a billion people on the planet whom live further north than we do.  Thus if New York City in the next two or three winters experienced colder sub zero degree Fahrenheit winters like after Mount St. Helens' last major eruption, those population groups in the further north country would probably be relocating to the warmer New York City area, when it might be 50 degrees colder in their native lands.   It is hard to tell with volcanic activity, but we do know that in the past year, there has been the worse solar flair activity on the sun in a hundred years, and it seems from my conjecture that increased solar flair activity causes increased tectonic activity on the planet earth.  Whatever, the case, I intend to stay in this area, and I always have relatives further down south that I can visit if it gets too cold here.  However, there are large population groups from warmer regions living in this area, and if this area starts to experience unusually colder temperatures, more than likely they will return to their warmer homelands.   However, with the down turn in population, it will also cause a down turn in the local New York economy, and with that more than likely local business profitability and real estate prices will decline to values similar to the period around 1980 to 1983, when it was so cold in this area, nobody seems to want to live in this area except the people accustomed to living in this area.  Whatever, the case when this area gets very cold, the local real estate prices tend to be similar to those such as up in Canada or the upper Midwest, where there are not large population groups.  I am so use to cold weather that I never take notice when it gets colder, but I start seeing unusual activity like Rolls Royce vehicles from Alaska, which seem to carry people whom think this area is warm enough.   It is a matter of what one is use to and what one can afford.  The middle eastern investors in this area, obviously are not going to continue to invest in this area, if there is not a population group that wants to use their investments.   More than likely since they are well educated and would know more than I do, they have already invested in warmer areas of the world where they feel their clientele would be more comfortable.  Every banker has a client.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 3:35 A.M.:   Royalty still horsing around CNN.com - Prince William takes polo tumble - Mar 12, 2005 .   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 2:05 A.M.:  My insurance man posted a letter on the internet --IMPORTANT NOTE-- Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett letter .   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/13/05 Sunday 1:20 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I chatted with a neighbor.   My Volvo with the new battery started up without any problems.   I went by the Exxon gasoline service station next to the Greenwich Library, and I put $6.50 of premium unleaded gasoline in the car at $2.479 a gallon.  Since the trip computer on the car was reset when the new battery was installed, I can not give the average miles per gallon or miles per hour, but they would be generally the same as in passed weeks.  I drove 47 miles this week, which included the trip to Sears in White Plains, New York, where Sears was out of inventory on my particular battery.   I guess the Sears Diehard International battery is popular in White Plains, New York with all the foreign employees working around the Rockefeller network of companies.  I suppose they also drive foreign cars.  Well anyway the Exxon gasoline station seemed to know something about batteries, so I am still able to drive my car without any problems.  Exxon's gasoline for premium unleaded gasoline has gone up .08 a gallon.  There is one minor problem with the Volvo, and that is when one goes to start it up, one has to wait for the SAB "Supplemental Air Bag" yellow light to go off before starting the engine.  When one starts the engine, it is suppose to go off again.  Sometimes on damp nights which does happen around the ocean, it does not go off, and although the car starts, when the yellow light does not go off, the headlights and the blinker lights do not work.  If that happens, I just turn off the Volvo, and restart it again, and usually the second or third time, it starts up and the yellow SAB light goes out, and once it goes out, the head lights and the blinker lights work properly.   It is the nature of modern electronics that there are occasionally bugs in the system, particularly as they get older.  Still, I have lived with this minor problem on the 10 year old Volvo 1995 850 Turbo wagon, since I have owned the car since last September 2004, and most of the time the yellow SAB light goes out.   I next drove down by the waterfront.  I got out of my Volvo, and I walked out on the pier on Steamboat Road which is quite dirty this time of year full of sea gull droppings.  I noticed the staff at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club have their pier spot light directed on the pier on Steamboat Road which lights up the pier, but makes it difficult on night vision when one turns around on the pier and the spot light blinds one's night vision.  Of course I do not know anything about nautical protocol, but I would imagine having a spot light on the Steamboat Road at night would tend to make it safer particularly with icy conditions frequently on the pier.  I noticed they seem to have a billiard table on the second floor of the Indian Harbor Yacht club in a red room, so at night, one can see more of the decorations.   I have been inside the Indian Harbor Yacht Club many times, but in the daytime, the interior always looks a bit dark and dreary.  I suppose the various sailors that use the facility have different perspectives about what it should look like.  Anyway the Indian Harbor Yacht Club seems to continue to maintain their usual winter motif for this time of year, and the staff at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club continue to use the parking area at the end of Steamboat Road as a staff parking lot.  I would imagine it should be the responsibility of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club to provide parking for their staff that have cars, not that anyone cares this time of year around the cold waterfront, but as it warms up, it is the responsibility of the town of Greenwich, Connecticut to make sure that the normal traffic pattern is maintained on Steamboat Road, so one of the rare vantage points of the waterfront is available in Greenwich to the general public.  One has to remember, with so many closed waterfront properties in the northeast, some people do occasionally enjoy looking at the ocean, when they have traveled from other parts of the world, particularly away from the ocean.  I will suppose it is will remain the same for now, since the members of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club seem to have enough influence with the Greenwich Police department to permit their staff to use that area as a private parking lot.  Whatever the case, I do not get involved in other people's affairs that do not involve me.  Maybe they could lease the building just up the street from them to use it for parking and other Yacht Club business activities that do not seem to be compatible with a sailing club.  I noticed there is a for rent sign on the building.   I think the building use to be owned by somebody whose father owned the British Motor Boat company.  I next drove over to downtown Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  There are quit a large number of restaurants opened in downtown Old Greenwich at night.   I walked by some of them, and it seemed the residents were enjoying fine dining.   I went by CVS, and I bought a 15 ounce container of CVS baby powder for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total.  I believe on can use baby powder for food powder.   I chatted with one friend about Mount St. Helens, and since she attended Vassar College, she knew all about it.  During my walk in downtown Old Greenwich, I used the ATM machine at the Bank of America and the Bank of New York both of them seemed to work.   I next went by the Mobil Express car wash on East Putnam Avenue, but it had closed five minutes before I got there.   I then went by the Radio Shack at the Riverside shopping plaza, and they wanted $3.50 for the telephone line coupler that I ordered for a $1 off the internet, so I did not buy it.  I chatted with the shop attendant about Florida.   I then toured the Food Emporium at the Riverside Shopping center, and it is maintained up to Food Emporium standards.   I then went by the CVS store, and I chatted with the assistant manager whom was also from Illinois.  I noticed quite a few people were shopping at the Riverside Shopping plaza, since their stores tend to be opened later.   I next went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I did not walk upper Greenwich Avenue because I felt a bit weak from not eating too much today.  Instead a I drove around the downtown area for a while which is a bit warmer activity.   I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor in the laundry room.   I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks .  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I drove about 20 miles locally around town tonight.  CIO     

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 5:50 P.M.:  I just installed some Norton Updates.   Another problem with the electric gasoline hybrid automobile not mentioned in the Greenwich Time article is that with their batteries being charged and discharged constantly, they wear out faster, and with about a half of ton of batteries in the car, it would cost several thousand dollars at least to replace the batteries.   Also I assume since batteries are being charged and discharged, they produce sulfur dioxide gas, and that the battery compartment in the rear of the Ford vehicle would have to be adequately ventilated.  If large amounts of them were used in urban environments, the overall environment would probably smell like a New York subway with lots of ozone and sulfur dioxide gas.  However, if one did not have enough fuel, they might be an alternative.   Of course if one lived in Buffalo, New York, one could try plugging it into Niagara Falls and see if it starts in the winter and how long the batteries last, but that would be for an all electric vehicle.   Natural gas or hydrogen are other alternatives, but they also tend to be more dangerous.   Local sunset in Greenwich, Connecticut today is at 5:58 P.M. Greenwich, Connecticut, US 06830 - Local Weather & Forecast , so I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.   I will eat a trail mix bar before I clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 5:15 P.M.:  From this story Greenwich Time - Fuel-efficient upsize vehicles in short supply the new hybrid car seems logical, but more than likely the Ford engineers should check with an electrician, since it is the nature of automobile batteries in colder climates that they tend to be less efficient.  When I use to chat with people whom worked on the Alaska pipe line, they use to tell me, they had to leave their equipment going all the time, or it would freeze up if they turned it off in the sub zero degrees Fahrenheit climate up in northern Alaska.  Thus although the new gasoline electric hybrid vehicles might be useful and economical in warmer climates, if one were driving into the north country, they might not be as practical.   From what I can recall most snow mobiles besides having batteries also have pull cords in case the battery does not work.   Of course one has to be strong enough to pull a pull cord.   I had a little practice pulling an engine pull cord as a kid in Alabama, when I use to start the lawn mover to cut the grass.   Well, anyway since I have a new car battery, I should not have any problems starting my Volvo.   I am waiting until later to go out when it is less busy and less expensive.   Since I had the major expense of $172 on the new Deka car battery, I am a little low on funds, so I have to watch my spending.  However, I am stocked up with most of the necessities of life www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm .   It is another matter of curiosity in Greenwich, Connecticut since the Time Life people live here, they like to make Greenwich Avenue look like People magazine, but unfortunately in the northern Yankee environment of New England that Greenwich lies on the southwestern edge of, usually on weekends local people have to do their chores, so the big city folks enjoying the ambience of our downtown environment might learn more if they tried doing more of their own chores in the big city instead of watching suburban individuals do chores.   Unfortunately sitting in Starbucks observing the traffic on Greenwich Avenue does not make one an expert on the town, and like in New York City, you would be just another sidewalk philosopher.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 4:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.   I left some messages with other friends.   On a matter of public record on the subject of geology, the current public administration in the current United States government went into politics because they did not make any money drilling for oil, so obviously their geology expertise was lacking or there is simply no more oil left in Texas.   Whatever, the case it is the nature of the profitable oil industry, they are able to employ expert geologists, and they also tend to keep their private corporate information secret, so as to avoid competition from their competitors.  Since Greenwich, Connecticut has Exxon personnel living here, we get a lot of other people from other oil companies snooping around.   Paul Mellon of Gulf Oil owns the Royal Bank of Scotland building on Steamboat Road.  More than likely the other big oil companies are in this area trying to figure out what Exxon is doing.  I suppose since my father who is currently dead, also while he was living worked for Royal Dutch Shell, Aramco, and Mobil oil, we obviously have some oil expertise in the family, but that is more on the refining side as opposed to drilling or distribution.   The most senior person in the Rockefeller network I have dealt with directly was somebody whom looked like Nelson Aldridge Rockefeller, but more than likely more important private members of his family have been around in the years my family has lived here.   It is the nature of Nelson in the old days of politics and oil, he was always out in the general public trying to get the vote out.   However, I am not sure if any current members of that family know anything about oil and gasoline, since most of them seem to be banking types.  Whatever, the case there are plenty of other families in this area whom are established in similar and other businesses, so basically they all get together and share knowledge for increased profitability.   However, there is a law on the books of the Securities and Exchange commission about sharing inside corporate information of public companies, thus the real corporate people tend to be more private and not too chatty with the general public.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 3:10 P.M.:  I put in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid the contents of a 18 ounce can of Progresso vegetable penne soup in chicken broth, which I reheated on the reheat cycle.   I put it in a large cobalt blue soup bowl, and I added a couple of handfuls of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons with a thin layer of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  For many years,  I have suggested that instead of the traveling public wasting so much public carrying clothes around with them, they should just travel in orange jump suits to save money on transporting old clothes.   One can generally find old clothes anywhere one travels.  Once back in 1977, when I was making one of my usual hitchhiking runs from Key West, Florida to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and back again, which I did frequently in that time, I found in the bushes along U.S. 1 along the Florida Keys highway, a medium green jump suit with NORAD and Strategic Air Command patches on it with a colonels emblems on it.  According to a source in Washington D.C. the United States of America's capitol, they are suppose to be now part of another group called the "Air Defense Command" or "ADC" for short.   I wore the Air Force jump suit the rest of the time I was around Key West, and I wore it up in Nantucket that summer of 1977.   I eventually gave it to the son of an Exxon employee from Fairfield, Connecticut whom was thinking about going skiing in Colorado instead of his usual haunts in Stowe, Vermont.   However, I think when he went out west to try to ski in Colorado with that jump suit, he got diverted by the real United States Air Force, and he ended up in Santa Cruz, California at a gasoline station called "Rotten Robbie's" gasoline station.  Thus just because one finds clothes or equipment in some place like a thrift shop or army navy store, one still needs the professional skills to know how to use them.  I also once found a United States Army major's olive green wool uniform jacket in the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I wore it occasionally until I outgrew it.  I gave it to another mountain kid from Vermont whom was going to visit his girl friend in Germany.  Old Military uniforms are commonly available in thrift shops around the world, but the newer uniforms are a bit more different, and it is the nature of various militaries, they tend to know whom their personnel are, and they tend to know what the local uniforms are, and they also know how to use the equipment that comes with the uniform.  Obviously Vermont ski bum types are physically in good shape from their outdoor lifestyles and possibly even in better shape than some of their military colleagues, but as I recall in Nantucket, in the restaurant where I worked there was United States Air Force National Guard personnel whom owned the restaurant, and Nantucket was just a hop skip and a jump from Otis Air Force base, where I would assume they would have real United States Air Force personnel.  CIO    

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 2:00 P.M.:  If one looks at CVO Photo Archives - Mount St. Helens - 2004, 2005 Field Crews and Field Work Images , one will see this photograph http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/MSH04/MSH04_preparing_BLIS_for_dome_10-12-04.jpg  from October 12, 2004 of USGS scientists that shows it is not all young geologists doing the field work.  The senior scientist in the picture looks vaguely familiar, but a lot of older people look the same.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 1:15 P.M.:  I was awake at 7 A.M. when a friend called, and said there was 3 to 5 inches of snow in Wilton, Connecticut.  There does not seem to be any snow here, so we probably had less than an inch of snow, and it is clear and cold.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I went back to bed until 12:30 P.M..   I chatted with a relative.  I threw some garbage out outside, and I picked up my mail.  My telephone parts are not scheduled for delivery via FedEx until this Monday.   The tripod is still on the road via UPS, and the pillow cases and camera bag arrived via UPS at Chelmsford, Massachusetts at 1:04 A.M. this morning, so it looks like I will have two deliveries on this Monday.  However, I have a 4 P.M. appointment this Monday, so hopefully they will have arrived by then.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/12/05 Saturday 12:35 A.M.:  House NOT for sale Edsel & Eleanor Ford House .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 11:30 P.M.:  Yahoo! News - Bush Names College Physicist New NASA Head and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory  .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 11:10 P.M.:  The telephone parts were scanned at the FedEx sort facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey this evening at 8:10 P.M..  There is no new news on the other two orders.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 11:00 P.M.:  I ate three 3/4 scoops of http://www.haagen-dazs.com/ Mango ice cream.  I also drank some iced tea.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/11/05:

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 9:20 P.M.:  I left messages with six people.  I guess on Friday night, nobody stays home anymore.   I ate 10 Town House crackers with .75 inch by .75 inch by .25 inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them.   I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 8:05 P.M.:  Important Link PNSN - Webicorder Records with Mount St. Helens current seismic data .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 7:55 P.M.:  There is lots of information on Mount St. Helens on the internet if one has time to understand and to investigate it.  This might tell one more http://einstein.atmos.colostate.edu/~mcnoldy/msh/ and Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) Seismicity Press Release and PNSN - Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network and PNSN - Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network and PNSN - Webicorder Records and Seismo-surfing the Internet - Expanded version .   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 6:20 P.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.   I think I will save my six Tropicana 50th anniversary clear plastic orange 59 ounce orange juice jugs, as I use them, and I will use them for keeping my ice tea in the refrigerators.   Since they are clear plastic and have wide mouths, they can be more easily cleaned for reused instead of the 96 ounce orange juice jugs.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 5:45 P.M.:  Maybe this made it colder http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/MSH05/MSH05_plume_from_CVO_office_03-08-05.jpg and http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/MSH05/MSH05_plume_from_CVO_office_03-08-05_B.jpg and http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH04/framework.html and http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH04/crater_dome_eruption_february_2005.html and http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/  and http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ .  Well, it is colder in the north country.  Currently it is 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Weather Underground: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Forecast where as here in Greenwich, Connecticut it is 34 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  I have said many times over many years that volcanoes effect the weather.  It is suppose to be cold all next week too.  I guess we will have a late spring.  Of course this weather is perfectly normal for this time of year.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 5:05 P.M.:  How to succeed in business without really trying Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management : Your Career .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 4:55 P.M.:  Nobody ever seems to call me up, but I just got a telephone call from Walt Disney World® Resort , and they wanted to know if I was interested in buying one of their time shares, and I explained to them that I have relatives living near their Vero Beach, Florida resort Disney World Hotels - Walt Disney Hotels and Disney's Vero Beach Resort .  I chatted with the caller a bit about Disney, and I explained to them my grandfather from Illinois was familiar with Walt Disney Walt Disney: A Biography since he helped design the Chicago World's Fair Chicago: 1933-34 A Century Of Progress .  I also told them a local play write if he happens to be alive still had some of the original Steamboat Willy films in his collection, so he must have been familiar with the Walt Disney operation.  I also mentioned to them that Disney is suppose to own a small company called A.B.C. that is in the media business.   I told them their Vero Beach resort reminded me of Paradise Island, when I visited it in the Bahamas back in 1978.  Of course Paradise Island has changed a bit.  Just before the call, I ate two pieces of black licorice.   I also mentioned that I was worried that if Delta airlines went bankrupt it might effect Florida tourism.  I mentioned that I had met somebody five years ago whom wanted to be an animator.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 3:40 P.M.:  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .   Instead of my usual recipe with five bags of the different types of Twinings in their variety pack, I am using the six different types in the Bigelow six assorted tea package.  They include Constant Comment, Plantation Mint, English Teatime, Earl Grey, Green Tea, and Lemon Lift.  I also used four green tea bag and 10 orange pekoe tea bags for the mixture.  Right now it is 32 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast , so the local damp road surfaces could be freezing over.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 2:40 P.M.:  I took out of the box a frozen made in Canada Pepperidge Farm Premium Pot Pie original flaky crust roasted turkey, and I put in a Maria Callender pot pie box which has the browning paper on the top of the box, and I am microwaving it for 10 minutes in the General Electric microwave oven, and then one lets it stand for 5 minutes before, I will eat it with a glass of iced tea.  The Maria Callender pot pies are made by ConAgra www.conagra.com which makes quite a bit of food products to besides Pepperidge Farm which is owned by http://www.campbellsoup.com/ .  I suppose with over 6.5 billion people on the planet, the people whom produce and distribute food also earn some money too.  However, I saw on EuroNews that Polish Farmers, only make 1,250 Euros a year, so I guess farming is not as profitable as high tech.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 2:20 P.M.:  I woke up at 9 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  They had pictures of the King and Queen of Spain on European news for the 3 11 memorial.   I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I listened to some vintage MP3 music off the TEAC DVD player while doing my house cleaning.  One sets the Stereo amplifier to VCR1 to play the TEAC DVD sound through the stereo system.   I threw out the garbage.  We had about an inch of snow, but the road is cleared.  I picked up my mail.   I have to fill out a form for the 40th anniversary of the Greenwich Country Day School class of 1965 alumni reunion next fall, which I will to try to remember.   However, since I live here in Greenwich, I see a lot of Greenwich Country Day alumni, students, and employees all of the time.  There is a weather alert for Kennebunkport, Maine for 6 to 12 inches of snow until this Saturday evening.   However, we are just suppose to have light snow showers here in Greenwich, Connecticut which are not suppose to freeze.   I put the CDW www.cdw.com red solution wizards ball on the left monitor.  I have to remind people when traveling in this heavily trafficked area just east of New York City that the stretch of I-95 highway between the New York and Connecticut border and I-7 north in Norwalk, Connecticut which includes Greenwich, Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut, Darien, Connecticut, and Norwalk, Connecticut is the most dangerous section of highway in the United States of America, so the weather conditions and the amount of traffic do play an important factor when driving that stretch of highway which lots of people do in this area.   However, I hardly ever drive up to Norwalk, Connecticut to the discount stores anymore, but I find cheaper prices on the internet, and I save the wear and tear on my car along with the gasoline costs and the increased liability for my GEICO insurance company.  Thus think before you cruise.  Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut the roads seem to be clear, but if it got colder and the forecast changed, the current conditions would cause icy conditions on the roads.  I left a message with two relatives, and I chatted with another relative.  Although I have unlimited free calling in the United States and Canada with Optimum Voice for $15 a month, it is not really free, since I also have to pay besides the $15 a month, $67 a month for Optimum Digital Cablevision, and $47 a month for Optimum Cable modem service, plus I have to maintain my computer hardware and software and the telephone equipment and the apartment environment.  Although I have the talent to maintain the equipment, the United States government also subsidizes me in my currently living environment, and I get financial help from a family member.  Also AT&T does make money off of the Cablevision service, since they lease the Optic Fiber network lines to Cablevision that Cablevision uses.  The telephone parts, departed the FedEx sort facility this afternoon at Raleigh Durham, North Carolina at 12:04 P.M., and there is no change on the other two orders.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 1:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.  Every day before I shut down, I look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/ to see if anything new happened overseas, where they are generally awake by now.   It looks like Prince Charles is somewhere between Fiji and home BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Prince nears end of tour in Fiji .  Of course who knows, there might be a Potemkin city or town in Russia similar to the real place.   Says here Bill Gates is 5 foot 10 inches tall Famous People Height List - Pt2 and his father is 6 foot 6 inches tall Famous People Height List , and Queen Elizabeth II is 5 foot 4 inches tall Famous People Height List - Pt3 ,which might explain why shorter people don't always get the attention they deserve.  Recently there have been a lot of heavy people around Greenwich, Connecticut including a 600 to 800 pound man I saw walking on Greenwich Avenue on Sunday.  However, once they get that heavy, it is hard to tell their real weight.  However, some people seem to be interested in money, so they publish this list too Forbes.com: The World's Richest People whom allow their names to be published versus those whom seem to perfer and get privacy .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/11/05 Friday 12:15 A.M.:  My telephone parts order left via FedEx from Raleigh Durham, North Carolina at 6:15 P.M. this past evening.   The tripod left Cincinnati, Ohio via UPS at 11:17 P.M. this evening. The pillow cases and camera bag left Cincinnati, Ohio at 11:22 P.M. via UPS on March 9, 2005.  Thus all three deliveries are in transit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  I microwaved a 9 ounce box of two four cheese Hot Pockets, and I ate them with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 10:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and my car battery was totally dead.   I tried using my Slaymaker jump start system, but after 7 years the battery in it was also too weak to start the car.   I chatted with a relative.  I called Geico Emergency Road Service at 1-800-42GEICO, and they dispatched a tow truck from the Riverside Gulf station.   It arrived at 4 P.M., and they used a similar jump start system to start my car.   I let it run for a half hour to charge up the battery.  I put the new Geico insurance card in the glove box.   I then drove over to the Sears Automotive department in White Plains, New York by I-95 to I-287 north to exit 8.   I was there about a year ago to get a new battery for my previous car the 1999 Hyundai Accent hatchback.   They tested my car, and they said the battery was defective.   Unfortunately in the colder weather we have had recently, they were sold out of the Sears Diehard International battery that cost about $100 plus installation and tax.   It has a three year warranty.   I drove back to Greenwich via Anderson Hill Road, and I went to Greenwich Exxon next to the Greenwich Library at 4:45 P.M..  They said they had one battery left for my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon, and it would be about a $170 cost.   I told them to go ahead and put it in.   I went to the Greenwich Library for an hour, and I read the Greenwich Time.  I called a relative and told them what I was having done.   I picked up the car at the Greenwich Automotive Services Exxon station at about 6 P.M..  They installed a Deka  Automotive Batteries: Deka's Complete Line of Lead-acid Batteries for Passenger Cars & LTV Part # 547/90, 740 cranking amps, CCA@ 0 degrees Fahrenheit 595 for $129.99 plus $31.60 installation and testing, a $1 shop supplies, and $9.92 tax for $172.51 total.   The Deka battery has a five year warranty.  I paid for the battery.    I then dropped the two old car radios off as a donation at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I then went downtown, and I reset my car radio since the battery had been taken out.   I also reset the clock.   I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.  stopped by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by briefly at CVS, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I returned cans for .35 refund.   I bought two 10 ounce bars of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $1.99 each, two 59 ounce clear plastic containers of Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, two 16 ounce Maria Callender frozen chicken pot pies for $2.99 each, a 4.25 ounce bottle of McCormick whole peppercorns for $2.09, and Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.91 for $18.96 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a relative.  I put away my purchases.   I chatted with a friend.  The dash board lights on the interior of the Volvo are much brighter than they have ever been since I have owned the car.  The service representative said that I should try taking the car for a drive once a week.  Of course that would cost more gasoline.  Thus I did not make it to my 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 1:30 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.  On top of the salad, I used 7 one inch sliced asparagus vinaigrette, 10 cherry tomatoes, and the usual 8 California black pitted olives.   I used all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 11:45 A.M.: thestore.adidas.com adidas_1 shoe with a computer chip .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 11:25 A.M.:  TCPalm : Clinton, Bush go golfing and raise $1.8M for tsunami relief .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 11:20 A.M.:  I picked up the mail downstairs.   I tried calling two people, but they were not home.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 10:55 A.M.:  On digital television, I selected channel 827 which is Big Band and Swing Music, and then on my Stereo amplifier, I selected TV/VCR2, and it plays the television music through my stereo system.  I adjusted the television sound and stereo sound together, so it sounds all right.  I looked for the AT&T 50 foot telephone cord, and all I can figure is that I hid it from myself, or I mistook one of the two 25 foot cord packages that I used for it.   I have a generic car radio and an older Chevy Blazer radio with tape deck that I am going to give to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop when I go out.   I am allowed to play music from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., but I keep it at a low level, so as not to disturb my neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 10:20 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  Current temperature in Greenwich, Connecticut is 23 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/10/05 Thursday 9:05 A.M.:  Before I went to bed last night, I took the corded and the cordless telephones in the bedroom that I am going to connect to Optimum Voice when the parts arrive, and I connected them to Verizon for the time being, but they are still labeled Optimum Voice.   I woke up at 5 A.M. this morning, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, English muffins with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I watched European News television.   I went back to bed until a short time ago.   I clipped my finger nails and my toe nails.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 11:30 P.M.:  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/resumee.htm with the additional telephone number.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 11:05 P.M.:  I had a Princess style spectra white push button telephone that was not being used, so I put it where the AT&T telephone was on the tea table at the front apartment entrance connected to Verizon.  Thus its buttons works just fine.   I put the AT&T telephone on the small oak table in the kitchen along side the bread box.   I ran a 25 foot cable from it to the Radio Shack Speaker phone at the primary computer.   I connected it to the Radio Shack Speaker phone with the two way splitter that Cablevision gave me.  The other line off the speaker phone goes to the AT&T telephone with the Plantronics headset to the left of the left monitor.   I put the speaker phone on top of the right center monitor on the left side, so if one uses it, it will sound better at that location while working on the computer.   I moved the CDW www.cdw.com red ball from the top of the left monitor to on top of the computer speaker on the left side wall.   I put the "Michael Scott" name plate on top of the left monitor.   I moved the Texas Long Horn ashtray to the window shelf on the far left side.  I moved the mouse remote control the table beneath the left monitor.   The AT&T phone in the kitchen is connected to Optimum Voice.   I now have two phones in the kitchen connected to each system.  I have one corded phone with Plantronics headset, three cordless telephones, two more corded phones in the living room connected to Optimum Voice, plus the corded phone connected to Verizon in the living room.  I have the corded phone in the bathroom connected to Verizon.   I have one corded phone in the bedroom connected to Verizon, and a corded phone and a cordless phone in the bedroom will be connected to Optimum Voice when the parts arrive.  I also have a speaker phone connected to the cordless telephone in the bedroom.   Thus I have 13 telephones connected in the apartment, but two are not yet connected until the parts arrive.  I have four of the telephones connected to Verizon, and the other 9 are connected to Optimum Voice with 2 yet to be connected.  Plus I still have Net2Phone on the internet off the computer.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 9:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.   I left messages with two friends and a relative.   I chatted with a relative.   I moved the AT&T corded telephone by the Stereo system to the tea table with the Chinese telephone.   The AT&T corded telephone is set to work with Verizon.  I moved the GE 900 MHz cordless telephone by the Stereo system.   I need the AT&T corded telephone to push the number 6 when answering the front door entry system.   Also it would work and be convenient should there be a power shortage.  However, the * button and the 6 buttons occasionally stick, but that is not much of a problem, since I will not be using it much.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 8:20 P.M.:  I went outside, and I threw out some garbage.   There was no snow or ice on the car.  I picked up my mail.   I received my new GEICO www.geico.com automobile insurance registration card, which becomes effective April 8, 2005, after I make my next payment at the first of April 2005.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 7:50 P.M.:    I chatted with a relative and a friend.   It is currently 23 degrees Fahrenheit  going down to 16 tonight Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  I will now bundle up warmly, and I will go out and clean off the snow and ice off my car.   I am not going anywhere though.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 7:25 P.M.:  CNN.com - Scientists seek source of Mount St. Helens blast - Mar 9, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 7:20 P.M.:  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks .  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 6:40 P.M.:  I labeled all the apartment telephones with either "Verizon" or "Optimum Toll Free", and I also put the telephone numbers on the GE 900 MHz, the Chinese Nikai Osaka telephones in the living room on the tea table by the apartment entrance door, and the GE cordless telephone on the bedroom desk.  I put scotch tape on the labels.  I put my spare telephone parts and cable modem cables in a brown box on the back side of the white bureau in the bedroom with the cable modem box on top of it.  I printed out new telephone lists with the new telephone numbers, which I put them underneath the telephones and in my wallet.  I filled the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W printer with more paper.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 5:20 P.M.:   Yahoo! News - Mount St. Helens Releases Large Ash Plume and Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 5:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a couple of relatives.  The Optimum Voice because it is digital is a lot clearer than the regular telephone.  One has to use one of the Verizon telephones to answer the apartment door intercom system.   I will now label the telephones with stickers that I will make up with the blank labels that I have.   Also the Optimum Voice would not work if the electricity power were turned off in the apartment, since the cable modem needs electricity.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 4:00 P.M.:  Of course the Cable Modem needs to be turned on for Optimum Voice to work, so I will leave it on all the time.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 3:50 P.M.:  I could not find the 50 foot AT&T telephone cable, but I am sure it is around somewhere.   I have finished setting up the telephones with Optimum Voice http://www.optimumvoice.com/index.jhtml  for now.  I had an older 25 foot cable with a female receptacle that was slightly burned, so I cut out the burned part, and I soldered it together.   I then wrapped it with electrical tape.   I then connected it from the cable modem to the junction point underneath the chair underneath the stereo system.   I have 7 two way splitters at the junction point.   I connected a 50 foot cable that I took off the back of my Dell backup computer CPU, and I connected it from the junction point to the bedroom where the five splitter is.  I connected another shorter cable to the Dell backup computer.   I will connect the bedroom Optimum Voice cable with a double female splitter when I get it, so the telephones on the sideboard and the desk work off Optimum Voice.   I connected from the junction point a 25 foot cable to the Chinese telephone on the tea table at the apartment entrance.   All of the other telephones in the living room are connected to Optimum Voice from the junction point except the General Electric 900 MHz telephone on the tea table connected to the answering machine.   From the bedroom Verizon telephone wall jack, I put a two splitter on it, with one line gong to the telephone by the bed, and the other going to the line in the living room by the junction point, which has a two way splitter on it.  From that two splitter, I have connected the bathroom telephone and the General Electric 900 MHz cordless telephone and General Electric answering machine.  Thus I still have connected to the Verizon telephone network, the kitchen wall telephone, the living room General Electric 900 MHz cordless telephone and the black wall phone in the bathroom and the bedroom telephone on the left night stand.   All of the other telephones are connected to Optimum Voice except the two in the bedroom that I will connect later.  To improve my connections and to have available telephone parts, I ordered from Trianglecables.com Quality Computer Cables , Adapters, Genuine Ink Cartridges ,  two Standard Telephone 5 outlet Adaptor converter with 7 foot cord  for $5 each,  two Telephone Duplex Adaptor 3 Females Splitter 6P4C for $2 each, four Telephone Coupler Adaptor Female to Female for $1 each,  two 25 Foot RJ-11 Telephone cable Ivory color  for $2 each, 1 50 Foot RJ-11 Telephone cable Ivory color  for $4 for $26 subtotal plus $7.65 FedEx ground shipping for $33.65 total.    I will use one of the female to female connectors to connect the two other telephones in the bedroom.   I will also run a 25 foot cable from the cable modem to the junction point underneath the chair, and I will connect it with one of the 3 female adaptors to the two 5 outlet adaptors, and thus I will probably have better connections without using the seven duplex splitters connected together.  My Optimum Voice telephone number is 203-532-5474.  Optimum Voice since I subscribed to Digital Optimum Television for $67 a month is only $15 a month for me with an unlimited $20 discount from the regular $35.   With Optimum Voice I have other features such as Caller ID, and it is good for unlimited long distance within the United States of America and Canada 24 hours a day seven days a week.  Thus as soon as I have time, I will be discontinuing my AT&T long distance which works through Verizon, and I will not need to use Net2Phone for long distance anymore.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/09/05 Wednesday 12:20 P.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M. this morning.  I had breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English Muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I chatted with a friend.   I went back to bed until 9:15 A.M..  Cablevision called, and they said they would be coming over this morning instead of this afternoon.   Cablevision arrived about 10:15 A.M., and they took about an hour to install Optimum Voice.  They installed a new Motorola SBV5120 Surfboard Cable Modem along with the installation, and they used my computer to set it up.   The new cable modem stays on all the time for the Optimum Voice telephone service to work.  The cable modem has a telephone jack on the back that connects to my Optimum Voice telephones.   I currently just have the new Chinese telephone on the tea stand by the apartment entrance connected.   I have two 25 foot telephone cables, and I am looking for a 50 foot telephone cable that I have somewhere.   I chatted with the Optimum Voice service with a relative, and it sounds much better than the regular telephone service.   I will keep my regular Verizon telephone service too.  The Optimum Voice telephone number is 203-532-5474.  I thus have two working telephone lines in the apartment now.   I will stop my AT&T long distance service some time soon.  They gave me a 12 foot telephone cable that I have connected to the Chinese telephone from the new cable modem.   They also gave me a 3 splitter.   The cablevision person installed a two cable splitter before my four slitter on the cable outlet in the living room for a better connection.  I need to get some telephone cable female to female connectors at Radio Shack and possibly some other parts to complete installing my telephones that I want working with Optimum Voice.   I have the chair taken out from in front of the stereo system, so I have access to the telephone connectors.   I am still looking for the 50 foot telephone cable that I saw the other day.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 8:00 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 7:15 P.M.:  I posted this picture http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-apartment-new-speakers-030805.JPG of the new Technics speakers.   I was able to buy the Saudi Arabian flag at the Greenwich Hardware store about 10 years ago for 75% off for $10.   Since it frequently is so cold in my apartment, I keep it flying to remind me that I use to live in a more warmly heated living environment here, until we had to start paying for our electric heat.   I have thought about emailing the king of Saudi Arabia to see if he would pay for my heat.   Since when it was minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan during periods of the winter in 1981 and 1982, I use to see the Saudi Arabian flag flying at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, United States of America, North American Continent, west side of Atlantic Ocean.  Whenever I walked into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel lobby area, it was very warm there during those cold winters.   The Saudi Arabian flag was always flown along side of the United States of America flag.   I also remember seeing Prince Boni Sadhir on the Braniff jet I flew down to Ronald Reagan's first inaugural, and he was the only other passenger on the jet.   Also there were some Saudi Arabians in Key West, Florida.   Here in Greenwich, the son of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations only talked to me once, and he was interested in computers.  Also there are people here in Greenwich, Connecticut whom once knew T.H. Lawrence of Lawrence of Arabia.  Also when I worked in Plandome Manor, Long Island, I was told that the West family there had been United States ambassadors to Saudi Arabia after World War II, and Arab Sheiks use to walk around Plandome Manor, Long Island in their Arab Robes.  Of course I don't speak Saudi Arabian, but lots of them speak French, which I do also.  The person I worked with in Manhattan had lived with the Shah of Iran's family, so he might have known some Saudi Arabians too.  Whatever, the case since I am use to cold weather, it is currently warm enough in my apartment for me.  I think the last time I saw the Aga Khan His Highness the Aga Khan's 68th Birthday , he was working as a doorman at the Waldorf Astoria, since he is a Swiss Citizen, he is use to cold weather.  He is a medical doctor, and he use to be the high commissioner for refugees at the United Nations, so more than likely he or somebody he knows would know more about what is going on in New York City.  Current local temperature is 19 degrees Fahrenheit Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 5:35 P.M.:  I showered and cleaned up.  Thus I will be cleaned up when I get into my clean bed in a little while.   I will try to stay up until 8 P.M..   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 5:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   For the cheddar cheese portion I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.   I used all of the other regular ingredients.   I also put 10 asparagus vinaigrette cut into 1.5 inch slices on top of the salad with 12 grape tomatoes and the usual 8 black pitted California black olives.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 2:55 P.M.:  I finished making the bed, and I put away the laundry.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 2:00 P.M.:  I have 30 minutes to go on two drier loads.  I put the clean linens and clean mattress pad on the bed.   I still have to wait for the orange bed spread to finish in the drier before I finish making up the bed.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 1:25 P.M.:  I sprayed the top side of the box spring with Lysol disinfectant.  I sprayed the four sleeping pillows on all sides with Lysol disinfectant.   They are a bit dirty from hair  and body oil, but they are not the type one can remove the pillow cover off of to wash, but I do wash my pillow cases frequently.   I guess one could use dry cleaning sheets on them in a dryer to clean them a bit, but they will have to stay the way they are for now.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 1:15 P.M.:  I sprayed the top and bottom side of the flipped mattress with Lysol spray disinfectant.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 1:05 P.M.:  I have the mattress pad and sheets in the dryer with 30 minutes to go.   I will have two other driers available in 20 minutes.   I also started a washing cycle to clean the orange bed spread that will be done in 30 minutes.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 12:35 P.M.:  Cablevision just called to confirm my appointment tomorrow for installing Optimum Voice between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 12:25 P.M.:  I started three loads of laundry.  I am also washing the mattress pad.   I flipped the mattress top to bottom.  The last time about six months ago, I flipped it side to side.  It is starting to snow out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 11:55 A.M.:  I threw out some garbage, and I  picked up my mail.   At the moment, I am not planning to go out today, since it is very damp out.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 11:20 A.M.:  Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 11:20 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I refilled the Glade plug-in refill in the kitchen with a 60% mixture of English Leather cologne and 40% of 91% isopropyl alcohol leaving about a half inch for air at the top of the plug-in refill.   I use a screw driver to pry off the top.  Also, one should not let the Glade plug-in refill become totally empty and dry out before refilling.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 10:30 A.M.:  I was awaked at 6:30 A.M. when a friend called.   I finally woke up at 8 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English Muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  My FedEx delivery of ENGLISH LEATHER by Dana: Men - COLOGNE 8 OZ perfumeryoutlet MarketPlace Product Info Page arrived.   I was only charged $10.59 for the shipment with shipping on my Bank of New York account, because I got the $5 discount.   They did not bill me for a second item like I thought they had.   I have another $5 discount promotion within 30 days, but I do not need anymore items.  At SmartBargains www.smartbargains.com , the camera case and pillow cases have shipped, but UPS tracking on the tracking number does not work yet.   They Tripod has not shipped yet.  I tested my stereo system with the new speakers, and it sounds just great.   It is suppose to go down to 12 degrees Fahrenheit tonight Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  CIO      

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 12:40 A.M.:  BBC NEWS Science/Nature Cern tunnel machine gets key part .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Sleep Tight Don't Let the Bugs Bites.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/08/05 Tuesday 12:25 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.   I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop.   I bought a pair of Technics 3 Way Speaker System SB-2665 about 16 inches by 30 inches by about 12 inches deep for $15 for the pair.  They have an impedance: 80, input power: 200 watt, crossover frequency 2000 Hz 6000 Hz output sound preserve level 93 dB/W (a11.Om).  Everything remains half price at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.   I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out for a while.   I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home, and I used the cart I keep in the back of my Volvo to bring up my new speakers.   I then moved the items from the top of the two right bookcases in the hallway, and I connected the speakers at that location side by side.  They are on the right channel.   I move the two speakers that were in that location to on top of the bookcase by the television.   I connected them up with spare Y splitters and speaker connector cables.  I had to solder one of the cables to get it to work.   I also found some items in the box for the Sony HandyCam which I put with it in on the hutch shelf.   In the process of connecting the speakers, I also reheated the cooked spaghetti and remaining tomato sauce from yesterday, and I ate it with grated parmesan and Romano cheese.  I also had some iced tea.   I sat outside for a period,  while I was installing the speakers, and I chatted with a visitor.   It all took some time.  Anyway all the speakers now work, and although I infrequently play the stereo system, I have it set up even better for when I ever do, which is usually while I am doing house cleaning.   I put the other items that were on top of the hallway bookcases further to the left and on top of the new speakers.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/07/05 Monday 12:40 P.M.:  I put in a plastic microwave proof pot with a lit, a 18 ounce can of Progresso chicken and wild rice soup, which I heated on the reheat cycle.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  If one wants to still track the bean market,  Scott's Index portfolio http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/scopor01.zip is still available which works with http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp , but it is NOT meant to outperform the market, but just mirror it as an index indicator.  If one were investing in the market, one would want more stocks that tend to outperform the market average, and if I knew out to select those stocks, I would not be eating soup for lunch.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up and go out.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/07/05 Monday 12:05 P.M.:  I threw out some garbage, and I picked up my mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/07/05 Monday 11:15 A.M.:  I posted another picture http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/chateau-de-versailles-001.jpg which I visited before the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France in 1992 http://www.chateauversailles.fr/ , as I also visited the Louvre before the winter Olympics in France in 1992 http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/mlsparis.jpg .   I noticed while visiting Versailles, they still maintain ample security, and the local gun club was practicing nearby, so one could hear the distance sound of shooting like when one hears one shooting locally here from the Greenwich Country Club when they shoot skeet or trap.   Not many people were visiting on that cold winter day, but I did notice that the only bathroom I saw was at the front side entrance, so if one were living there, one would have to walk over a 1000 feet or more, every time one went to the bathroom.   I did take noticed there was a young couple visiting at the same time, and the young fellow was about 6 foot 6 inches tall with long blond hair down to his waste, and he looked like something out of a Louis portrait.   Also owing the lack of funding by the French people there was no furniture in Versailles except for a large ornate bed.   I did happen to notice in the local press that Musée et Domaine nationaux du Château de Fontainebleau demeure de François 1er et de Napoléon Bonaparte was fully furnished and staffed and well maintained, so I guess it is now more glamorous to live on the south side of Paris than the north side of Paris.   When one walks around the city in Paris, one's initial impression is that French people are not too physically large, but that is much the case in many urban environments.   However, one only needs to visit Quebec or the country side in France, and I think there are probably French people as large as any of their fatter European cousins.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/07/05 Monday 10:35 A.M.:  I was up at 5 A.M., and I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, toast with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went back to bed until 8:30 P.M..  I watched some television.   I washed the breakfast dishes and made my bed.   I chatted with my 4 P.M. appointment today, and it has been cancelled, and it was rescheduled for the same time next Monday.  When one exercise walks downtown around the general public in Greenwich, Connecticut, what one never realizes that since Greenwich is a very prosperous town, there are also a large number of quite heavy overweight individuals in back country whom never go downtown amongst the general public.  Since they are prosperous, they can afford to have their help obtain their groceries, and they continue to eat until there money runs out, which never seems to happen.   I guess it is because one overweight prosperous individual tends to know other people of the same girth.   I suppose since they more sedentary, they just read all the time trying to make money off the markets and manage their properties.   However, since they are quite large individuals whom do not easily move around amongst the general public, their first hand experience is quite limited to what they read and hear.   Much could be said of the large overweight individuals in the Midwest, whom tend to be like arm chair philosophers.   Any educated individual would know that being thin is healthier, but in more violent times, some individuals feel more secure having extra weight for security purposes, thinking they are less vulnerable, which is not necessarily true, since with modern weaponry, like in David and Goliath, the big guy does not always win.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 7:25 P.M.:  Most the British that I see here look like they're starving to death over there, except for the one British visitor about six weeks ago with the digital camera that I drove over to Tod's Point the last time I was there and the Greenwich Country Club, and he weighed over 250 pounds and looked like a Churchill, so more than likely he has some source of food over there, or he is a good hunter or fisherman or farmer.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  By the way besides being stocked up on food www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm , I also am 6 feet tall and slightly over weight at 210 pounds, so I am not starving by any stretch of the imagination, and I keep trying to figure out ways to try to lose some weight, which I think would be healthier for me.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 7:05 P.M.:  Basically since the country is at war, I can not report much on what goes on around here, except for what I do myself, and I really don't know that much except for what is on the internet and occasionally when I have time to watch television.  Most of the news on European television on channel 113 on Digital Cablevision television is on skiing and other Nordic sporting events in Europe.   I think they are having a colder winter there than we are having here.  On my count on Canadian License plates in this area over the last 21 years, I am only up to 123 Canadian License plates, so I guess Canadians can not afford to drive down here to be warmer, but I have been told there are a lot of Canadians living around the Syracuse and Albany, New York areas which really are not much warmer than Canada this time of year, unless one happens to be from Hudson's Bay or some more northerly place.   I suppose since Prince Charles is kicking back in Fiji, they won't eat him, but when they originally discovered Fiji, I think it was inhabited by cannibals.  Basically he might skip a refueling stop in North America and pick up fuel in Iceland where the fuel might be cheaper, and he also could pick up some smoked Icelandic salmon.  However, for the moment Scotland has plenty of both.   Because his would be a military flight more than likely he would have military escort in his flight path as he travels back home.  However, he might go back the other way.  The Prince of Wales and BBC NEWS - Search Results For Prince Charles , however he might still be birding in New Zealand.  Queen Elizabeth II does not seem to be making any news BBC NEWS - Search Results For Queen Elizabeth , so perhaps she is just having a quiet weekend at one of her country estates.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 6:25 P.M.:  At the time I went to Lookout Mountain Camp, my family lived in Decatur, Alabama since my father was the plant manager for Chemstrand which was part owned by Monsanto, a company that Stillman Rockefeller was on the board of directors of, which is what got us to move up to Greenwich, Connecticut.  I recall I attended camp with a friend from Decatur, Alabama whose father was our local Presbyterian minister.  My friend's name was Ricky Rocky, and his father later moved from Decatur, Alabama to be the Presbyterian minister at Parris Island, South Carolina, so besides the usual camp activities of swimming which I was not very good at, and arts and crafts, and horse back riding, there was also archery and more advanced skills such as marksmanship or teaching young boys how to shoot 22 rifles, which I was pretty good at.   Thus there was a certain military nature to the camp, but we all seemed to have a good time.  As I recall the camp had very good food, because it was run by the Morrison family whom also owned the Morrison chain of cafeterias down south.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 6:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  Apparently the dolphins are mating in the lagoon in Vero Beach, Florida this time of year.   I looked on the back of the 1961 Lookout Mountain Camp photograph, and it was developed at Fort Payne, Alabama  www.fortpayne.com , and the Lookout Mountain Camp page says it is located on top of Lookout Mountain 277 County Road 632 Mentone, Alabama 35984 Lookout Mountain Camp :: Contact Information and Google Maps - Mentone, AL . However, since it is on top of a mountain, it would be a little bit cold this time of year down south to use for an informal retreat, and it is probably all boarded up to keep the bears out.   Of course it is cool there in the summer, when it is hot down south.  It is pretty much a wilderness area.  Of course back in those days at camp in the summer, I was one of four Yankees in the camp when the rest of the boys were from down south, and I managed to survive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 4:55 P.M.:   I chatted with a friend.  I can not find my pictures of Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia back around 1965 in the summer when I stayed down there in the old colonial settlement with friends from Greenwich.   I posted a couple my camp pictures from Lookout Mountain Camp, which is a boys camp in the summer near Chattanooga, Tennessee located way out in the wilderness near Camp Desoto a girls camp, somewhere on a river where the Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama borders converge, but it is very hard to find.  However, they did have horses at the camp, so one could explore the wildlife in the mountains, if one was not afraid of running into the local natural environment.  In the 1960 picture, I am in the front and center of the picture.  CIO  

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http://www.lookoutmountaincamp.com/

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Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 4:10 P.M.:  Jamestown 2007 .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 3:05 P.M.:  I don't think I would pass this test BBC NEWS Programmes From Our Own Correspondent A Swiss hygiene inspector calls .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 2:50 P.M.:  In a five quart Revere pot, I brought three quarts of water to a boil with a dash of salt and a teaspoon of olive oil in the water.   Once the water boiled, I put a 16 ounce box of Ronzoni #9 spaghetti noodles in the water, and I boiled them for ten minutes.  With five minutes to go, I had put half a 26 ounce jar of Francesco Rinaldi mushroom, pepper, and onion sauce tomato sauce in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, which I ran on the reheat cycle for about the same time as the spaghetti cooked for the last five minutes.   I then drained the spaghetti water in a colander inside a larger Revere pot to save the hot water.   I dumped the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out the residue from whiskers and shave cream that builds up.   I put half the cooked spaghetti in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and I put the other half on a large dinner plate along with the heated sauce and with a thin layer of grated parmesan and Romano cheese.   I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 1:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message, and I went by the Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $6.50 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.399 a gallon for 15.1 miles per gallon usage driving an average of 14 miles per hour.   I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I toured their vast collection of quality but slightly expensive merchandise, and I bought a Cape Cod 4-point plate hanger #450 for plates 10" to 14" made by Boscamp Industries of Valhalla, New York for $1.99 plus .12 tax for $2.11 total.   I stopped by CVS, and I browsed their sale brochure.   I then finished my walk, and I used the bathroom at Starbucks.   I next drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 10 ounce bars of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $1.99 each, two 59 ounce clear plastic containers of Tropicana Premium orange juice with calcium for $2.50 each, a 16.9 ounce bottle of Monari balsamic vinegar $2.99, two 26 ounce jars of Francesca Rinaldi low salt tomato sauce for .88 each, two 32 ounce jars of Stop and Shop strawberry preserves for $1.99 each, and a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $1.99 for $19.70 total.   I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I used the plate hanger to hang the Putnam Lodge Masonic No. 338 F.&A.M. 1854 to 1954 commemorative plate above the outside of my bathroom door.  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 7:45 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up.   I will then go out to enjoy some of the invigorating morning winter weather.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 7:25 A.M.:  Since I am infrequently on regular hours anymore, I am accustomed to being active around the clock depending on when I get sleep.   I just microwaved a Stouffer's 21 ounce frozen lasagna with meat sauce which I will eat shortly with some grated parmesan cheese on it with a glass of iced tea.   This will be my Sunday dinner for the day.   As far as I can tell Prince Charles is still kicking back in Fiji, so maybe on his way back from the south Pacific to England, he might have to make a pit stop in North America.   I will keep an eye out for any Limeys.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/06/05 Sunday 6:00 A.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative at 9 P.M. last night, and I told the relative what I had bought, and the relative suggested that I go easy on the spending.  I ate half a 10 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I woke up again at 1:30 A.M. this morning, and I ate breakfast of oatmeal, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I then went back to sleep until now, so I am back on a day schedule.   When I chatted with the same relative a few days ago, the relative reminded me of something else that happened besides seeing the black puma or jaguar in her back yard http://www.cathouse-fcc.org/gifs-jpegs/doc27mon.jpg .   The relative has a lanhai off of which there is the door to the patio where I saw the black cat.   One time when I was returning back from the patio through the lanhai, the relative whom was recuperating from hip surgery had moved a wicker chair from in front of one of the lanhai glass sliding doors to have a more comfortable chair to watch television.   While the chair was removed from its usual position, I returned from the patio through the darkened lanhai, and although its sliding glass door was opened,  the glass panel where the chair had sat in front of to the left of the opening was not blocked by the chair, and in the dark thinking that it was an opened glass door, I walked into it full force forehead first.   I did not break the glass, but I hit it as hard as one could hit it without breaking it or hurting oneself too badly.   There was a large skin oil stain on the glass.   However, I think hitting the glass so hard with my forehead jogged my memory a bit, but a day later I forgot about it until the relative mentioned it again.  Sunrise today is suppose to be at 6:20 A.M., and it is currently 25 degrees Fahrenheit, but there is suppose to be rain and snow showers today http://www.weatherroom.com/forecast/Old_Greenwich.ct.html , so I do not think it would be a good time to try to take early morning pictures from the southwest picnic at Tod's Point west up Long Island Sound towards Manhattan, since one would need a clear morning for that photographic shot. 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 4:05 P.M.:  I woke up at 10 P.M. last night, and I had a two hour nap this morning, so I think I will call it a day.  Local weather is clear and cold Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast at 37 degrees Fahrenheit.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Frequently the visitors on the weekends do not know that much about this area, since the are occupied elsewhere most of the week.  Since I am frequently on a night schedule, most people whom know me don't bother me in the daytime.  Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bugs Bite.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 3:30 P.M.:  http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html at http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/ and http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/ .  A well known liberal named Ronald Reagan Junior use to work at the Cascades Volcano Observatory.   Maybe this is why he changed his political outlook.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 3:10 P.M.:  Perhaps the more intense sunlight for this time of year is caused by a solar flare which is causing this activity to occur Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument .  Of course it would be normal to have steam in cold weather around minor volcanic activity.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 2:55 P.M.:  Interesting weather program, I will install it now http://www.cronancomputer.com/weatherstation.shtml .   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 2:05 P.M.:  I placed another order with www.smartbargains.com for Save on the Samsonite Triton 1600 Tripod at SmartBargains.com for $18.99 plus $6.95 shipping for $25.94 total.  I chatted with them on their 800 number, but they could not add it to my previous order to save the extra shipping fee.   Still with the tripod, it will permit me to try to do a little photography when I happen to be on a night schedule with weather permitting.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 12:20 P.M.:  I ordered from www.smartbargains.com two sets of two of king size yellow pillow cases Save on the 400TC Solid Sateen Pillowcases at SmartBargains.com for $9.97 a set plus a Lowepro Nova 1 Camera Bag for $9.99 Save on the Lowepro Nova 1 Camera Bag at SmartBargains.com for $9.99 plus $6.95 shipping for $36.88 total.  My current pillow cases are in pretty sad shape, and I do not have a good camera bag for my two primary cameras.   CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 03/05/05:

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 10:00 A.M.:  I will now send out my weekly notes.   Once one quits watching the public media on television around here which seems to come from down south, and one takes a look outside at the real world, one will soon realize we live up north in the cold country where frequently a wood chopper has more common sense than a political pundit from the south.  If one knows the real story, one of the former CEOs in this area like Ronald Reagan use to like to chop would in his spare time, but alas his grandson probably put him out of business.   I have not seen that large pile of fire wood around here recently, so more than likely the wood chopper moved somewhere they have a bigger fire place and chimney.   The largest fire place I have seen in this area is at the Bear Mountain Lodge at Harriman State Park near the United States Military Academy at West Point.  I do not know if the fire place at the Harriman home called http://www.ardenhouse.com/ is any larger, but more than likely since E.H. was in the railroad business which used coal for a long time, the old place might be heated by coal.  As I recall the Roosevelt family also made one of their original fortunes in the coal business, so more than likely there are probably some thin blooded coal miners warm somewhere in this region whom do not like thick blooded Scottish electricians whom manage to get by in the warmer weather of this area.  I can assure you if I lived way up north in Scotland, I would probably be burning pete to stay a little bit warmer.  Alas it is so much warmer here, I manage to get by.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 9:25 A.M.:  Basically John Harvard was the son of a Welsh coal miner.  Thus if some of these over fed Harvard types got off their fat butts and shoveled some more coal, there would be more heat for skinny old ladies living on tea and toast whom do not know how to turn down the thermostat when it comes to energy savings.   I guess the fat coal miner types have a enough body fat, they do not notice the cold when inside, but they would if they had to produce the energy to stay warm.   Whatever, the case they tend to be cheap which is why they waste energy to drive to town public property to stay warm, when the same amount of energy they use to drive to the town public property to stay warm could be used in their own homes to stay warmer.   However, being liberals, they constantly like to work their political ways, particularly on weekends when the tax payers are going about their normal business after working all week to pay their bills, so the liberals can use the town facilities the conservatives pay for to poster their liberal positions.  Basically the liberals in the Greenwich Library are not democratic liberals, but European socialists which is a whole different kettle of fish.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 9:00 A.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel baby Swiss Cheese.   I also used on top of the salad 10 sliced asparagus vinaigrette and 20 grape tomatoes, and I also put my usual 8 California black pitted olives on top of the salad.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  Of course the two individuals whom tell me that I stink in the Greenwich Library do not smoke tobacco, but they do drink more than their share of alcohol.   Thus I suppose people whom drink large amounts of alcohol have a keener sense of smell when it comes to tobacco.   One of them supposedly went to Harvard, so as they always say, "You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man, but You Can't Tell Him Anything."   However in the English speaking world, I would imagine there are still quite a few Oxford and Cambridge dons whom smoke pipe tobacco, so obviously just because one of them went to Harvard, does not mean he is smart, he just knows how to say the right thing, like he went to the Harvard Bar Tenders School.   If they were really smart, they would have more meaningful jobs earning a living instead of meandering around the Greenwich Library criticizing people whom they do not really know.   I suppose the fact they drink their fair share of beer, they might be part of that group of imposters from Germany that settled in this area between World War I and World II pretending to be "Old Guard" Americans, and when they lost World War II, they stayed in the area and went on to prosper off the local economy.  Whether they actually are the "Old Guard" Americans they actually claim to be descended from is opened to debate.   Having dealt with the real "Old Guard" Americans, it is my perspective that the real "Old Guard" Americans are actually physically larger.  However, since on my mother's side of the family, I am descended from Dutch settlers whom came to the United States of America around 1840 from Groningen in the Netherlands which is right on the German border, I try to be friendly with the German imposters, since a lot of them look like me, and since the Germans tend to be a good engineers, and I think like an engineer, more than likely they might have some engineering capabilities once they quit drinking too much beer and alcohol.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 7:10 A.M.:  The new group of local subversive clowns probably from the liberal democratic party that have taken over the Greenwich Library since the new Peterson Wing has been completed are really quite rude.   Every time I go in there they tell me I smell from smoking cigarettes.   The last time I went in there, I wore Old Spice cologne, and they told me I stink, and asked me what type of cigarettes I was smoking.   I guess since the Peterson Wing was paid for by the widow of United States Tobacco across the street from the Greenwich Library, one would think they would still be more tolerant of cigarette smokers.   I suppose if the library workers every got off of their fat duffs, and tried to work up a sweat doing some real  work, they might smell too.   Alas, there do not seem to be any skunks around here anymore that I could drop off at the local library, which means we have owls around that tend to eat skunks.   Still, since having grown up in this town, when most people smoked, I think it is rude of the local group of people to insult people because they smoke cigarettes.   I suppose the beer drinking group in the Greenwich Library don't smell too good when the over indulge in eating and drinking and break wind.   Fat people tend to be flagellant.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 6:50 A.M.:  Looks like they're still asleep at the White House Washington DC Real Estate Webcam - EarthCam - Capitol Cam, Washington, D.C. .  Well at least up north the New Amsterdam Night Watch is awake most of the time at night.   Of course when we occasionally go outside at night in the winter, we call it the "Freezing Norwegian Patrol".  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 6:40 A.M.:  TCPalm : Scientist's plan: Saving your trees from canker .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 6:30 A.M.:  I rested for a while.   I ate half of a 10 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.   I watched some television.  It still seems to be mostly reruns.   One would think the United States government and the Federal Communications System would require the Cablevision companies to provide new content considering I am paying $68 a month for Optimum Digital Television.   However, maybe that is the nature of the broadcast medium in America is that nothing new really ever happens, and it is all just reruns.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 3:20 A.M.:  I watched some television.  It does seem to repeat itself a bit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 2:00 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 1:55 A.M.:  Iron Mountain - Services .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/05/05 Saturday 12:55 A.M.:  I was up at 10 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I watched some television.   I showered and cleaned up.   There is not really much going on at night in Greenwich, since most of the people whom happen to be awake late are usually doing some form of reading.   I will now go through my email and do some other computer work.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 1:25 P.M.:  I picked up my mail downstairs.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 1:00 P.M.:  It is probably perfectly normal for a resting volcano like Mount St. Helens to occasionally let off a little bit of steam.  However, if it did ever have a major eruption again like back in 1980, more than likely like back in February 1982 afterwards when it was minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan, the most popular thing for those whom could not afford to get away was at least for the women was those full length down coats made out of Long Island duck feathers, which currently with the warmer winter weather are not in fashion at the moment.   Current weather in Greenwich, Connecticut Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast which at moment does not look like this Weather Underground: Search Current Weather Related Photos .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 12:30 P.M.:  Mount St. Helens seems to be letting off a little bit of steam today Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 12:15 P.M.:  I threw out some garbage.   I found a man's gold plated moon face watch outside on the east sidewalk on the way to the dumpster.  I checked with a neighbor whom lives near that location, and the neighbor had not lost it.   I gave it to another neighbor whom monitors the building in the daytime.   The mail has not come yet.   I have been up since 1 A.M., so I will not be going out today.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 11:20 A.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 14 ounce Boston Market country fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy and peas and carrots.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 10:30 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   I also moved from the bedroom side board the sign that says "Michael Scott" that Daniel Construction gave to me while I was working for them during the winter of 1976 in Greenville, South Carolina, until I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut for the bicentennial celebration.   I believe Daniel Construction was merged with Fluor www.fluor.com construction, so more than likely there are an ample number of engineers out there in the wood work.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 9:50 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I normally don't post pictures of distant relatives on the internet, but I have been seen with that one distant relative many times around the world, so it is no big secret that we know each other.   I noticed on his Virginia side of the family branch where we might be related that his family member was the original contractor on the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, Virginia, which would go back to the same time when my family arrived in this country.   Thus since we look a bit the same, we might be related, and also since both families have been here a long time, more than likely we have a few distant relatives whom are not keeping track of other distant relatives.  I found this out, when I was researching the Christopher Wren style of architecture in America the other night.  Alas my distant relative's family back then apparently went bankrupt building the governor's palace at Williamsburg, Virginia, so they had to go into other endeavors to make ends meet.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 9:15 A.M.:  I paid my electricity bill which included my electric heat at http://www.cl-p.com/ .  I now have all my bills paid for the month.   CIO  

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 9:00 A.M.:  Better fill up your tanks Report says 25-cent a gallon gas price spike could be near. - Mar. 4, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 8:55 A.M.:  Around here, we frequently do our weekly house cleaning on Fridays, so when the big wigs from New York City come out on weekends to enjoy their weekend hideaways, everything tends to be in order.   I just finished vacuuming the apartment.   I threw out the garbage.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 7:45 A.M.:  I once had a relative tell me that my apartment looks like one of the Vanderbilt railroad Pullman cars interiors stored up in Sherburne, Vermont on one of the Vanderbilt properties.  This distant relative that I am pictured with http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott2006/mike-scott-with-distant-relative-whom-knows-about-horses-with-relative-whom-knows-about-railroads-putnam-hotel-in-saratoga-ny-about-summer-1990.jpg also has a relative that knows about railroads, and since he visits here occasionally, he must enjoy the friendly railroad atmosphere of my apartment. 

Note: <888> 03/04/05 Friday 7:10 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative at 10 P.M. last night.  I was awake at 1 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with a sliced banana, toasted English muffin with margarine and grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplement, and coffee with milk.   I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.   I still have to vacuum the apartment in a little while, when I will not disturb my neighbors downstairs.   I had to remove the items off the long mahogany bureau in the living room, because when I watered the plant on it, it overflowed and got underneath the glass top on the top of the bureau.   I removed the glass top and dried off the bureau and the glass, and I put the items back on the bureau, and I also drained the excess water from the Chinese rice bowls that hold the large golden pathos plant.   I put the USB LAN port unit back in its box which is stored on top of the hutch in the bedroom.   I put another headset on the Gateway  backup computer in the bedroom.  I moved the Revere bowl with its contents to the bedroom side table.  I also put on the bedroom side table the two old laptop computers, which are now charging up their batteries.  They are only good for word processing.   I also dusted off the Dictaphone on the bedroom left night stand which is next to the big button Columbia telephone.   I have the wooden folding chair that was stored underneath the chair by the stereo now along side of it, and the old bottles of mixers are stored underneath the chair beneath the stereo system.   I also have a telephone junction underneath that same chair where the cable from the bedroom wall connects into the junction for the living room telephones, since there is not a living room telephone wall jack.   I will have to use that junction to connect the living room telephones to the cable modem for Optimum Voice when it is installed next Wednesday.   I will also have to use the same junction for any of the living room telephones to be connected to Verizon.   If I want Optimum Voice in the bedroom I will have to run a another telephone cable into the bedroom from that junction.  The telephone junction is a just a number of telephone wire splitters coupled together.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 5:30 P.M.:  I looked at www.smartbargains.com , but there is nothing that I need.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become ice tea.   I microwaved and ate a 9 ounce package of two four cheese hot pockets.  I ate them with a glass of iced tea.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 4:05 P.M.:  Economist.com Meeting the world’s energy needs .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 3:45 P.M.:  That bump inside the crater of Mount St. Helens has been getting bigger Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 3:20 P.M.: http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/ .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 3:15 P.M.:  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .   Instead of my usual recipe with five bags of the different types of Twinings in their variety pack, I am using the six different types in the Bigelow six assorted tea package.  They include Constant Comment, Plantation Mint, English Teatime, Earl Grey, Green Tea, and Lemon Lift.  I also used four green tea bag and 10 orange pekoe tea bags for the mixture.  CIO     

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 2:30 P.M.:  I had a telephone call about 10 A.M. from a fundraiser for the Greenwich, Connecticut Jaycees.  I ate half a 10 ounce can of Planter's cashew nuts.   I then got a telephone call canceling my 3 P.M. appointment.  I checked my mail.   I got my rent bill, so I went downtown.   I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   I found a black glove in the parking lot that I gave to one of the teller's for the bank's lost and found.   I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent.   I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.   I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two Maria Callender 16 ounce turkey pot pies for $2.99 each, a 3 liter can of Botticelli pure olive oil for $9.99, a box of 10 quart packages of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, a 16 ounce bag of baby carrots for $1.99, fresh broccoli crowns at $1.79 a pound for $1.31, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39 for $28.65 total.  I then went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought a 12 muffin pack of Thomas' English muffins for $3.02, and two 6 ounce boxes of Arnold Italian regular cut croutons for .99 each box for $5 total.   I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.   I only had three hours sleep, but I will try to stay up for a while to get back on a daytime schedule.  I have paid all of my bills except for my electricity bill which is not yet posted on the internet.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 6:55 A.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.   I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  BBC NEWS UK Knighthood for Microsoft's Gates .  CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 6:00 A.M.:  I don't drink much liquor or alcohol, since with all the electronics in the apartment, I find it necessary to stay sober and alert.   I originally bought most of the liquor about 7 years ago at Christmas time, when a relative was suppose to visit with a friend later on that winter, and I though I might throw a party.   However, the relative whom paid for the liquor never showed up to visit that winter, and instead stayed in Manhattan.   I did drink the half of a 1.5 liter bottle of Vodka over time with a friend around the holidays.  I used the Jack Daniels for making sautéed boneless center cut pork chops with other ingredients.  I used the Mount Gay Rum for making a tropical fruit mixture a number of times.  The Mr. Boston Peppermint Schnapps I found in its current used state in our laundry room.   I occasionally have a friend visit whom drinks beer.  I occasionally have a drink of French white wine, but most of the time I use it for cooking sautéed items or for onion soup.  I do not know if liquor gets any better when it gets older when it is bottled.  I have not kept half of the beer refrigerated.   The German beer is refrigerated, but the 12 bottles of Kennebunkport shipyard variety collection are not refrigerated.  The mixers seem to have lost their fizz, since the plastic bottles have shrunken inward.  I keep the hard liquor locked up in a cabinet behind the Saudi Arabian flag in the center hallway bookcase.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 5:30 A.M.:  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm with my list of various bar supplies included.  I put the old drink mixers underneath the chair by the stereo system where the Perrier is stored.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 4:15 A.M.:  I posted Michael Louis Scott's Asparagus Vinaigrette .   CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 3:50 A.M.:  I made up a fresh batch of homemade hummus www.geocities.com/mikelscott/hummus.htm .   For the garlic portion, I used two cloves of elephant garlic.   I then made my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   Instead of tuna fish, I used a 4.25 ounce can of crab meat.   For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Kraft Cracker Barrel Baby Swiss cheese.   On top of the salad, I also used 10 asparagus vinaigrette chopped into 1.5 inch to 2.5 inch pieces.   I also used 15 grape tomatoes on top of the salad.  I also put the eight black California pitted olives on top of the salad.   I used all of the other regular ingredients.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 1:50 A.M.: http://www.perfumeryoutlet.com/ seems to have been hijacked.    One can use Google to translate it from Portuguese to English Translated version of http://www.perfumeryoutlet.com/ .  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 1:35 A.M.:  When I placed this order last night ENGLISH LEATHER by Dana: Men - COLOGNE 8 OZ perfumeryoutlet MarketPlace Product Info Page for $9.60 less $5 discount from the previous order plus $5.99 shipping for $10.59 total, I pressed the back button on the page after ordering it, and I guess it caused it to place the order a second time according to my Bank of New York account, so I will be receiving two 8 ounce bottles of English Leather cologne along with the bottle I already obtained.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 1:15 A.M.:  I paid my Cablevision Optimum Online digital television and my cable modem bills online along with my Verizon telephone bill.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/03/05 Thursday 12:50 A.M.:  I woke up yesterday morning, and I ate a half of a 10 ounce can of Planter's cashew nuts.   I had a telephone call at 10 A.M. from a friend that got back from Europe, and the friend said it was cold there.   I woke up at 7 P.M. this past evening.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.   I went outside, and I threw out about a dozen broken down cardboard shipping cartons.   I picked up my mail.   I showered and cleaned up.  I put a gallon of windshield washer antifreeze in my Volvo.  I stopped by the Stop and Shop, and I bought Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for $1.32.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.  At the post office plaza, I found a white pair of women's knit gloves.   I noticed that the Holiday lights are still on but turned off at the tree on the north side of the veterans monument.  I drove down by the waterfront.   I then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a gallon of Master Choice white distilled vinegar for $1.85.  I then returned home.  I washed the white knit gloves with cold water and CVS cold water wool wash.   I rinsed them out after soaking them a few minutes, and I hung them up to dry.  I drank some iced tea.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/02/05 Wednesday 7:25 A.M.:  I have seen on EuroNews recently that it is recently 40 degrees Celsius in Alice Springs, Australia which is 104 degrees Fahrenheit http://www.metric-conversions.org/temperature/celcius-fahrenheit.htm and http://www.metric-conversions.org/ .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/02/05 Wednesday 7:15 A.M.:  BBC NEWS UK Charles fails bush tucker trial .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/02/05 Wednesday 7:00 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/02/05 Wednesday 5:20 A.M.:    I ordered another ENGLISH LEATHER by Dana: Men - COLOGNE 8 OZ perfumeryoutlet MarketPlace Product Info Page for $9.60 less $5 discount from the previous order plus $5.99 shipping for for $10.59 total.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/02/05 Wednesday 4:50 A.M.:  I made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks .  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I took the old Compaq laptop computer off the top of the hutch, and I put it by the bedroom door entrance on the floor with some toilet paper stacked on top of it.   I moved the box with old computer parts and boxes from the left side of the bedroom window to on top of the left side of the hutch.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/02/05 Wednesday 3:35 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.   When I started up my Volvo, I turned on the windshield wipers, and the driver's side windshield wiper was frozen to the windshield, and it would not work.  I should have loosened them when I cleaned off the snow earlier.  I unstuck the windshield wiper, but it still would not work, and I opened the hood, and it has a nut on it that needed to be tightened.   I went back upstairs, and I got my larger crescent wrench out of my tool box which I keep underneath the tea table and chair at the apartment entrance.  I tightened the nuts on both windshield blades, and they now work just fine.  I came back upstairs, and I put the crescent wrench away in the tool box.  I still need to fill the windshield washer fluid with washer fluid which I have in my apartment.   I then drove over to CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza, and I took exit 2 on I-95 east to exit 5 to give the Volvo a chance to drive at highway speed which should clean out the ignition system a bit.   I chatted with another CVS customer.  All the CVS vitamins and supplements and minerals and herbal supplements are buy one get one free.  I bought

2, CVS Vitamin C 1000 mg. 200 caplet bottles for $10.79 both,

2, CVS Spectravite Senior multivitamin and mineral with lycopene 260 tablet bottles for $13.49 both,

2, CVS Vitamin E 400 IU 250 softgels, $9.99 both,

2, CVS time release Balenced B-150 50 caplets, $9.99 both,

2 CVS flush free Niacin 500 mg. 100 capsules, $6.99 both,

2, CVS B-12 500 mcg. 100 tablets, $5.29 both,

2, CVS garlic oil, 1000 mg., 100 softgels, $4.59 both,

2, CVS tropical fruit antacid tablets, 96 count, $3.00 both,

1, CVS adult low strength 81 mg. aspirin 180 count like St. Joseph aspirin, $5.99

for $70.12 total. 

I then returned back to the center of Greenwich Avenue.   I mailed a letter at the central Greenwich post office outside box.   I then cleaned off the snow off the four post office plaza benches, the bus bench across from Starbucks, the three benches in front of the senior center, and the two benches on either side of the veterans monument.   I do this since I frequently sit on some of those benches, and I prefer them to be dry instead of snowy and icy.   I next walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I sat out at various locations.   I noticed while walking down Greenwich Avenue on the west side of the street that just south of the north driveway on the north side of St. Mary's and south of George Jensen that there is a large patch of black ice on the sidewalk.  This happens all the time after a snowfall, since the moisture in the driveway melts and runs out on to the sidewalk and then freezes.   I then drove around the train station and down by the waterfront.   I then returned home.   I put $20 on my MacGray laundry card, so I now have $26.85 on the laundry card.    I moved the tan canvas flight bag with the old Acer laptop computer to underneath the bedroom sideboard on top of the spare keyboards.  I put all the new vitamins and supplements on the left top hutch shelf on top of the bedroom sideboard.   I also moved the unopened containers of vitamins and supplements and drugs from the center kitchen cabinet to the same location on the bedroom hutch.  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm  to reflect the change.  CIO  

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 10:50 P.M.:  http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm .  I reheated on reheat in the General Electric microwave oven for 3 minutes and 30 seconds on a microwave proof plate with cover the last slice of homemade pizza.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I will put the computer on standby.  I will now put on some warm clothes and go out.  Since it is damp out, I will probably not be taking a walk, but I will probably do some errands like going to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Center.  CIO

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 9:50 P.M.:  I paid my AT&T long distance bill online.   My Verizon and Cablevision Optimum Digital television and my Cablevision Optimum Online cable modem bills are not online yet.   I do not have Geico automobile insurance this month.  I can not reorder the English Leather with the $5 discount because www.perfumeryoutlet.com is down for maintenance.   I do not need to reorder cigarettes, since a friend is giving me as an early birthday gift 10 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s that he ordered by mistake.  I have already cleaned up and showered, so technically I could go out for a walk, but it is a bit damp outside Weather Underground: Greenwich, Connecticut Forecast .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 9:15 P.M.:  I was up at 5 P.M. when FedEx www.fedex.com  delivered my package of ENGLISH LEATHER by Dana: Men - COLOGNE 8 OZ perfumeryoutlet MarketPlace Product Info Page .  I put the 8 ounce bottle of English Leather Cologne on the hutch shelf with the old cameras.  It came with a $5 off coupon, if I order another order in the next 30 days, so I will reorder the same item again for an additional $5 off.  I went outside, and I picked up my mail.  I received a promotion offer from Optimum Voice - Local, Regional and International Calling Plans with Voice Service in New York, Connecticut & New Jersey , where I can get it for $20 less for $14.95 a month since I already subscribe to Digital Optimum television and Optimum Online cable modem service.   I went ahead and subscribed to it.  Cablevision will be coming to my apartment Wednesday March 9, 2005 between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. for a standard $20 installation fee.  I will be able to make unlimited long distance calls in the United State and Canada for the $14.95 price.  Once it is installed I will discontinue my AT&T long distance service.  I will keep my Verizon local service, so I will still have the same telephone number for incoming telephone calls.  I get the lifeline plan from Verizon, so I only pay about $15 a month for it.  I own my current cable modem.  They will install a new cable modem with a telephone jack on it for the $20 installation fee, and they will connect the telephones up to five that I want connected to it.  My Optimum Voice telephone number will be 203-532-5474.  I guess one leave the new cable modem turned on all the time to have it available for telephone service.  I received a letter from the Greenwich Housing Authority, and they are going to reinspect my apartment on Wednesday March 16, 2005 at 10 A.M..  I chatted with a friend.   I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal, English muffin with grape jelly, orange juice, vitamins, supplements, and coffee.  I went outside, and I cleaned the snow off my car.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I just chatted with a relative.  I now have to pay some bills online, since it is the first of the month.  CIO   

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 5:15 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 4:30 A.M.:  GasPriceWatch.com - The Worlds Largest Consumer Advocacy Gas Price Site .  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 4:15 A.M.:  The English Leather arrived at the Fedex location at Keasbey, New Jersey this past evening at 10:55 P.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 4:10 A.M.:  I checked outside, and there only seems to be still about 3 inches of snow, and it was not snowing an hour ago.   I watched some television.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 2:30 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.   CIO 

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 2:05 A.M.:  My order for ENGLISH LEATHER by Dana: Men - COLOGNE 8 OZ perfumeryoutlet MarketPlace Product Info Page left via FedEx from Brooklyn, New York this past evening at 8:48 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 1:40 A.M.:  I made my usual summer salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.   I did not use homemade hummus, however I also added on top of the salad 10 cut asparagus vinaigrette, 15 grape tomatoes, and I also put the 8 pitted California black olives on top.  I used all of the other regular ingredients.   I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 03/01/05 Tuesday 12:05 A.M.:  I checked outside, and about 2.5 inches of snow has fallen, and the snow is just falling lightly, and it is almost more snow flurries.  CIO