<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 6:20 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 5:25 P.M. I picked up the mail. I left a package outside a neighbor's door. I ate a blueberry muffin. A friend of mine has a relative up in Vermont that grows four acres of organic blueberries as well as raising lamas for $200 hand made lama wool hats. Alas the property is too expensive around here for such endeavors. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 4:35 P.M. It says here Eric Trump is 6 foot 5 inches tall http://www.bing.com/search?q=How+tall+is+Eric+Trump&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=how+tall+is+eric+trump&sc=1-22&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=43b5dfce0bad4d959da792d28835711c . Of course, when I was at the Kennebunk, Maine Department of Motor Vehicles three years ago getting a handicap sticker for a relative, there was a white dark haired man there about 7 feet 4 inches tall, so the further north one goes, there are some pretty tall people too. In the old days, when there used to be quite a lot of tall people in Greenwich about 15 years ago, there was a young blond fellow about 7 feet tall from Estonia that worked at the Radio Shack at the Riverside Shopping Plaza. I also used to know a tall Swedish drummer who was about 6 foot 7 inches tall. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 4:30 P.M. It says here Peter Doocy of www.foxnews.com is 6 foot 9 inches tall http://www.answers.com/Q/How_tall_is_peter_doocy . I saw him out in Greenwich two days after Prince William visited Manhattan. I asked him, if he had visited Sweden yet. He said, "No". I also told him there were a lot of big blond people in Wilton, Connecticut. I told you the people out in Iowa are quite large people. The waitresses in coffee shops along the highway in Iowa are even bigger than that. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 3:50 P.M. Bad Hair Day http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00677/hair404a_677734n.jpg . CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 3:20 P.M. Actually, when one is poor; Florida is not that great either. During the winters of 1976 - 1977 and the winter of 1977 - 1978, when I was homeless on the beach in Fort Lauderdale and Key West, I ate peanut butter sandwiches and coffee and later that first winter sesame seed sandwiches and orange juice, and the second winter, when I knew somebody with a little bit of money, it was Cuban bread and cheese sandwiches and Cuban beans and Cuban rice and a glass of water. The third winter, when I stayed with a friends from the United States State Department and the www.airforce.mil in Daytona during the winter of 1978 - 1979, it was corn flakes and milk and twice a week a four ounce can of tomato paste shared with a 16 ounce box of spaghetti noodles at the Spirit of 1776 motel on Daytona Beach. During the spring break that year, they give away free boxes of four Marlboro cigarettes on the beach. I used to try fishing, but I never caught anything. Towards the end of the winter in 1979 in Daytona, we finally applied for an got about $40 in food stamps, and when we returned back up north in the old yellow 1971 Subaru from www.nantucket.net , we stopped by a relative's apartment at Putnam Green across the street from where I currently live, and I drove over to Bonjournos in Stamford, and I bought a seven pound prime rib of roast beef for about $20 in food stamps, but we left shortly there after for Nantucket I think, so I don't know if we ate it or left it in the relative's refrigerator for an unknown surprise. When one does not eat too much food, one sort of gets disorientated, but one gets used to it for better or worse. Thus I think I am doing better north of the Mason Dixon line. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 2:40 P.M. I printed out the Microsoft Money Sunset income versus spending report for March 2015, and I put it in an envelope with a 49 cent My Florida forever stamp, and I mailed it in the mail room downstairs to an interested relative. I sat outside briefly as it has begun to rain and get colder. I chatted with a neighbor. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 2:00 P.M. I ordered in XXLarge one package of Hanes three packs of boxer shorts with coupon code "MLCK30XN" for $9.49 with free shipping. I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
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<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 12:20 P.M. I went downstairs, and I chatted with the building custodian and some neighbors. While I was out of the apartment, I turned off the Cable Modem and removed its battery and turned off the router and net switch, so they all could be reset. I don't know if it is necessary, but that is part of normal IT maintenance. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 10:55 A.M. With coupon code "MLCK30XN" two packs for $16.49 with free shipping Hanes three packs of boxer shorts .
$29.99 with free shipping NEW Microsoft Office 365 1 Year Subscription 1 User 1PC/Mac + 1 Tablet CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 10:30 A.M. I made a hard copy list of my directory on the Panasonic KX-TS4300 telephone, and I printed out six copies. Thus if I lose the 9 volt battery backup and the power to it, I now have a printed copy. I chatted with a relative on the new Panasonic KX-TS4100 telephone with Optimum Voice, and the relative told me it sounds a lot better than the Panasonic KX-TS4300 telephone with Optimum Voice, which I bought used last July for $40. Thus the new refurbished one for $30 sounds better. However, it might also be that since I am not running the FIC server anymore which was constantly getting Denial of Service Attacks, the Optimum Internet telephone line is now working better. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 7:35 A.M. I hooked up the Uniden Spread Spectrum cordless telephone to the Verizon line in the bathroom, so it is easier to receive incoming telephone calls while on the toilet. There are still the corded Optimum and Verizon lines in the bathroom too. I printed out a list of the 15 Panasonic KX-TS4100 Speed Dial List, and I placed it on level just beneath the phone along side the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 6:45 A.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/31/15 Tuesday 5:20 A.M. I got up at 5 P.M., and I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400115901094080297931 on the order for 25ft Telephone Handset Receiver Cord Phone Curly Coil Cable 4P4C RJ22 - Black for $4.17 with free shipping arrived. I hooked it up to the new Panasonic telephone. Also I used a telephone line 2 splitter and a 25 foot telephone line, and I hooked up the OpiTalk device to the third line on the new Panasonic telephone line. I chatted with a relative, and the relative said the new Panasonic telephone is louder, and I can be heard better. I went back to bed. I woke up at 8 P.M.. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn, 8 Rosemary and extra virgin olive oil Triscuit crackers, a Kashi trail mix bar, and a 6 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch piece of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I went back to bed until 4:45 A.M., when I just got up. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 3:45 P.M. I went downstairs, and I chatted with neighbors. I sat outside for a while. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a blueberry muffin. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 1:55 P.M. The new four line Panasonic is the 4100 model and not the 4300 model like I already have. The 4100 model does not have a phonebook, so I setup 15 speed dial buttons on it. It is all set up on the right side of the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. It works just fine. I put the manual underneath it. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 12:20 P.M. I woke up. The order with tracking number of "1ZE4W1680397526442" at www.ups.com on the order for for $29.99 with free shipping http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000JLA3XE/ref=dp_olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&condition=refurbished arrived. I will now program it and set it up, which will take a while. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 11:00 A.M. I chatted with a relative twice and a friend. I ate two 3 ounce Perdue chicken Italian cutlets, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved sweet potatoe with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Schwepppes Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginseng with Splenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 8:30 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I cleaned about a half inch of snow off the Volvo wagon. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 8:10 A.M. http://www.courant.com/business/hc-furniture-store-closing-0325-20150328-story.html . However, http://www.bakerfurniture.com/ is still in business. On one of my last trips to Manhattan, I once met the owner of Baker Furniture in Manhattan, and he used to have a store just south of St. Mary's on Greenwich Avenue, but I have not noticed if it is still there or not. He told me his family used to own the Three Bricks in Nantucket and also the Hope Diamond. They also have this clearance web site http://www.bakeroddsandends.com . I think some of their furniture is made in Grand Rapids, Michigan where Gerry Ford was from which is about 20 miles from Holland, Michigan, where some of my relatives are from. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 7:45 A.M. It was snowing out a little bit a little while ago. I chatted with a friend. I moved the Buckingham Palace model from the right side of the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner to in front of the Cambridge Sound bass woofer to the left below the living room LED TV. I will put the new Panasonic KX-TS4300 four line telephone where the Buckingham Palace model was. I also moved the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators from the living room to underneath the bedroom desk. Generally I do not install the air conditioners in the apartment until the first week of May, but with the colder weather this year, it might be later. CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 6:05 A.M. You should be nice to short people http://www.bing.com/search?q=how+tall+was+andrew+carnegie&go=Submit+Query&qs=bs&form=QBRE .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibo_Castle CIO
<888> 03/30/15 Monday 4:25 A.M. I woke up, and I ate a bag of microwave oven popcorn. I finally woke up at 3 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed.
Another election in Jolly Old England https://www.conservatives.com/ourteam/david_cameron.aspx . CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 7:00 P.M. I ate a blueberry muffin and a six inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slice of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed directly. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 5:50 P.M. The Whitney Museum, Soon to Open Its New Home, Searches for American Identity - NYTimes.com CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 5:40 P.M. I chatted with a friend twice about the price of tea in China. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 4:25 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I sat outside for a while enjoying the day. I chatted with a friend. I chatted with a neighbor that I sold a package of http://www.buydiscountcigars.com/cigars/p-2-richwood-mild-filtered-cigars.aspx for $2 that the neighbor will pay me for at a later time. I showed the neighbor my living room computer setup, which was very confusing to the neighbor. I noticed today that cigarettes at the Greenwich Cigar store cost $11 and discount generic cigarettes are $9.75. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 3:05 P.M. I woke up at 2:30 P.M.. I heated and ate a 15 ounce can of Chef Boyardee ravioli which I seasoned with garlic powder, ground black pepper, celery salt, Italian spices, paprika, Frank's hot sauce, soy sauce, soy sauce, and Lea and Perris Worcestershire sauce. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 10:50 A.M. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 10:25 A.M. I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginseng and Splenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice.
I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 9:10 A.M. I went by CVS at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a 8.75 ounce of CVS deluxe mixed nuts for $4.99, four buy one get one free of 60 capsule 1000 mg MSM for $8.49 each two, buy one get one 50% off of 200 capsule All Day Pain Relief for $15.29 and $7.64, a 200 capsule of CVS 81 mg low dose aspirin for $8.79, and two 8 ounce Edge Sensitive Skin shaving gel for $6.29 both less $4 off $20 with a CVS internet coupon on the CVS card and $3.26 Connecticut 6.35 percent sales tax for $59.24 total. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar Store, and I played an Ace's High Scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. They are still remodeling the Pickwick Plaza at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I think it is owned by a Chicago real estate firm that bought it for over $400 million over ten years ago. I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 4 ounce Bumble Bee shrimp for $2.29 each for $4.58 total. I then bought a 16 roll 2X bundle of Charmin extra strong toilet paper for $9.99 and .63 tax for $10.62 total. I then finished my rigorous morning stroll without too many people around. I then went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.79 and bananas for .79 a pound for $2.43 for $6.22 total. I then bought a five pound bag of Idaho potatoes for $4.99 and a Bermuda red onion for $1.99 a pound for $1.17 for $6.16 total. I then returned back home to Chez de Vinci in the Buy Rum section of Greenwich. I put away my purchases. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 4:55 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go out for an errand. CIO
<888> 03/29/15 Sunday 4:10 A.M. I woke up at 2:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 03/28/15
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I will now send out my weekly email. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 5:30 P.M. I picked up the mail. I walked around the parking lot. I received the redetermination approval letter telling me that my Food Stamps SNAP EBT has been approved for another year through March 2016. They do not indicate the amount has changed, so I guess the amount will continue to be the same. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 4:45 P.M. Two IT jobs available at Buck House:
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 4:15 P.M. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn. A relative told me that a few dashes of Angostura Bitters in tonic water or soda water is a good way to get rid of intestinal gas.
Bill would nearly triple car taxes in Greenwich CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 3:20 P.M. I sat outside briefly. I chatted with a neighbor. It is just starting to snow lightly. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 2:35 P.M. I woke up at 2 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I will now eat a blueberry muffin. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 10:50 A.M. I will now take a nap. Judging from the sound outside, it might be the fire department trying to fix the alarm. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 10:35 A.M. The Greenwich Housing Authority weekend repair person called back five minutes later and came over directly, since he lives near by, and he is now trying to fix the alarm system. I ate a 16 ounce Marie Callender corn chowder chicken pot pie and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes ginger ale. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 10:20 A.M. The building fire alarm went off again about five minutes ago. I called it into the Greenwich Housing Authority at 1-203-869-1138. We are not supposed to call the fire department, unless it is an emergency. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 9:50 A.M. I downloaded and burned to DVD both of these http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso-update-1503 , but I am not installing them on the Asus Netbook and the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, since I would have to reinstall all of the apps which would take time, and the previous version is good enough for my needs. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 9:20 A.M. They have reset the fire alarm in the building. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 9:05 A.M. The fire alarm went off again at the same apartment. I called the Greenwich Housing Authority to come over an reset it. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 6:50 A.M. Three fire trucks responded, and the firemen reset the building alarm and checked out the apartment where the light was on above the door and the rest of the building. I guess everything is all right. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 6:35 A.M. I chatted with a friend. The building fire alarm went off for the same apartment in the middle of the second floor. I checked with the tenant, and the apartment is all right. I called the Greenwich Housing Authority at 1-203-869-1138, and I reported the incident to their answering service for someone to come and reset the alarm. However, I hear a heavy truck outside, so maybe the fire department showed up anyway. The fire alarm was just turned off. CIO
<888> 03/28/15 Saturday 5:25 A.M. I chatted with a friend at 9 P.M.. I woke up and ate eight rosemary and extra virgin olive oil Triscuit crackers and a .25 inch by 1.75 inch by 7 inch slice of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I am going to drive two friends around on Easter Sunday afternoon. I woke up at 3 A.M.. I picked up the mail. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 4:25 P.M. I ate a bowl of microwave popcorn.
I chatted with a relative. I went outside, and the drain repair on the front driveway is done. They blocked off the right entrance as one enters to the front driveway with orange cones. I chatted with neighbors. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 1:45 P.M. This is where they thought about building low cost senior housing, but the project never went through Cos Cob Park officially opens despite drizzle
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 1:45 P.M. I chatted with two relatives. I threw out the garbage. The street maintenance people are repairing the damaged street drain in front of the building. I sold a pack of my King Mountain Ultra Light 100s cigarettes for $5 to a neighbor. The neighbor was out of cigarettes. I now only have two packages of the King Mountain emergency cigarettes left, but I also have about 2.7 cartons of the cigar cigarettes along with my Premier cigarette supply. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 12:15 P.M. I woke up at noon. I ate a blueberry muffin and a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 9:30 A.M. It has quieted down a bit. I will now try to take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 9:10 A.M. I ate a 13 ounce Marie Callender cheesy chicken with rice meal with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I was just about ready to take a morning nap, when the freight elevator construction people just started up outside my bedroom window with a noisy pneumatic drill or hammer, so I will stay awake for a while. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 8:25 A.M. I made 230 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching series 4 episode 3 and 4 of "Jeeves and Wooster". CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 5:25 A.M. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 3:45 A.M. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/27/15 Friday 3:25 A.M. I woke up at 2 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 5:30 P.M. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn.
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The building fire alarm went off about 4:50 P.M.. It was a light cooking smoke false alarm on the second floor center apartment. I called it in to the Greenwich Housing Authority for someone to come over to reset the alarm, since the building custodian is not here now. I sat outside for a while. I picked up the mail.
The building fire alarm still has not been reset as of 5:30 P.M..
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 4:00 P.M. I have had a lot of intesting gas recently. I thinking of buying some of this when I can afford it Simethicone 180mg Softgels Anti-Gas Generic for Phazyme Ultra Strength 6 PACK 360 ea. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 3:30 P.M. I ate a 16 ounce Marie Callender corn chowder chicken pot pie and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes ginger ale. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside a while. I chatted with a neighbor. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 2:40 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 2:10 P.M. I tried restoring the Windows XP backup to the FIC server, but the ASR restore program would not install to the first ide hard drive. I tried doing a new XP install, but the new install would not recognize the ASR backup on the second SATA drive or even the drive. I guess there is different partitioning or drive file system. However, the Vista Complete PC Backup restore recognized the second hard drive with the recent Vista backup, so I am restoring it back to the way it was before. Vista does work on the FIC server, once it takes about 15 minutes to fully startup. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 11:30 A.M. I ate 1.5 ounces of mixed nuts. Saturday night here is supposed to be down to 22 degrees Fahrenheit with a chance of snow. However, Sunday and Monday are supposed to be sunny with a high in the low 50 degrees Fahrenheit http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VRQf_47lzQA . I have severe arthritis, so I do not go out on rainy days. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 7:55 A.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 6:35 A.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 6:00 A.M. I put away the clean laundry. CIO
<888> 03/26/15 Thursday 4:45 A.M. I woke up, and I ate seven ounces of mixed nuts. I finally woke up at 3:30 A.M.. I put clean linens on the bed. I started two loads of wash, and I now have 50 minutes to go on two dry cycles. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 5:15 P.M. I ate 12 rosemary and extra virgin olive oil Triscuit crackers with .75 inch by 1.5 inch by 3/16th inch slices of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed directly. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 4:30 P.M. I picked up the mail. I chatted with the MacGray laundry person about their Maytag washer machines and Braun washer machines that I saw in Europe in 1992 on my last trip there. I sat out briefly in the damp arthritis weather. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 3:30 P.M. If one reads this, one of the original Lock Stock and Barrel race people from Darien, Connecticut passed away recently http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?n=george-lysle&pid=174472742 . That is the race that the Canon Ball Run movies were based upon. Maybe it is secret code to do it again. I am too old to travel long distance, having not driven too much in many years, so I guess it is up to the younger generation to figure it out. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 3:05 P.M. I called up Wal-Mart in Fargo, North Dakota http://www.walmart.com/store/1581/whats-new , and they told me the high paying Wal-Mart jobs are further west in the state around the oil fields, but it costs more to live there, which is why they pay more. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 2:50 P.M. I ate a 14 ounce Marie Callender sweet and sour chicken dinner with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. I chatted with two relatives. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 1:15 P.M. If any old guard American families worry about being disturbed in their summer vacation plans up north by curious people from the Eastern Hemisphere, they could always try vacationing in the Dutch American town of http://www.holland.org/ which can be colder in the summer than back east. However, the surf on Lake Michigan can be as dangerous as the oceans. Also the Dutch in Holland, Michigan are very religious and they like to keep track of everything happening in their neighborhood, even when the summer tourists are there. For a more cosmopolitan lifestyle in the summer in Michigan, further north there is http://www.mackinacisland.org which does not allow motorized transportation except emergency vehicles. Of course, one might have to put up with the indignity of meeting people from the Midwest, which the last I knew was still part of the lower 48 states of America. Of course it is very dangerous driving out there with all of the traffic on the interstates, and one might have to put up with more primitive summer camps, but one probably would not be disturbed by too many foreign visitors with hostile intentions. Of course, we do know back east if the information we get on our local televisions and news media is accurate or not. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 12:25 P.M. I installed the HIPO Weather Station sending unit on the primary work computer, so when it is turned on the HIPO weather station display will be updated. I have it set for White Plains, New York; since the nearby weather station is at the nearby Westchester County airport, which actually might be a bit colder, since it is further away from Long Island Sound. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 11:00 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside on a warmer morning chatting with neighbors. The http://www.schindler.com/us/internet/en/home.html elevator people are getting the new Swiss freight elevator put together. If one wants to see a lot of religious people before Easter, back in the week before Easter in 1983, I spent a week living at the S.A.S. airline terminal at Kennedy airport before Easter, when I got back to Oslo, Norway; and I saw thousands of different religious figures from around the world traveling through the airport. Finally I went out to Plandome Manor, Long Island on the train, and I spent the night in the tool shed where I had built the garage apartment, and one of the residents of the house gave me a hundred dollar bill which I used to fly back up to www.nantucket.net , where I returned to my dishwashing duties at which time the Mianus River Bridge fell down in Greenwich, Connecticut changing our simple back country town in Connecticut into a busy business metropolis as people on the I-95 diversion on U.S. 1 got to see a bit of the town from Port Chester to Old Greenwich. When I first got into personal computers over 25 years ago, the person from Oklahoma City that owned the moveable highway barricade machine bought be a seafood dinner at the old Showboat Motel on Steamboat Road, and he told me, I should stick with computers. He looked like a relative of mine from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I just chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 8:45 A.M. I will now shower and clean up. I try to keep busy in my home office as opposed to people watching younger people moving around whom have no interest in high tech old duffers like myself. All of this massive communications effort only to chat with a couple of family members and a few friends. I guess when one gets to be older, none of the young people have too much interest, and they would rather get out and explore the planet from their own perspective. You know it costs a lot of money to communicate in the modern world, but it is better than paying for a lawyer, when people try to misrepresent one or misinterpret one's actions. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 7:55 A.M. I removed the AT&T two line telephone from the kitchen along with the Uniden cordless Spread Spectrum telephone. I moved the old Panasonic 2 line telephone from the telephone tea table in front of the living room television to the small black table just inside the kitchen connected up to both Verizon and Optimum. It works just fine and the speed dial is already programmed. I guess I can leave it there, since in the kitchen by the smoking table, it will get dusty. I guess I can put the new Panasonic four line telephone on the telephone tea table underneath the living room television. I put the old telephones underneath the right rear side of the bed in the bedroom. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 7:00 A.M. I woke up at 5:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I disconnected the wall phone in the kitchen, and I connected up a two line black AT&T phone to the Verizon line. The phone is defective, so it will not take the second Optimum line off the Uniden cordless phone. I put the phone on the small black table at the kitchen entrance.
For the new Panasonic four line telephone that I will put in the same location in the kitchen, I ordered 25ft Telephone Handset Receiver Cord Phone Curly Coil Cable 4P4C RJ22 - Black for $4.17 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 03/25/15 Wednesday 12:50 A.M. I ate a blueberry muffin. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. It is 28 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VRI-FY7lzQA . CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 11:45 P.M. 'Monster salamanders' found in fossilised mass grave CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 10:45 P.M. I ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder seasoned with ground black pepper, celery salt, and Italian spices along with a toasted Thomas's bagel thin and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
Tracking number is "1ZE4W1680397526442" at www.ups.com on the order for for $29.99 with free shipping http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000JLA3XE/ref=dp_olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&condition=refurbished . CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 9:55 P.M. I woke up at 7:30 P.M., and I chatted with a relative. I picked up the mail. I dressed up warmly, and I went downtown. www.mcdonalds.com on West Putnam Avenue is closed for renovation. I used the ATM machine at the www.chase.com bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue. I saw a SUV from Washington State, so maybe a www.microsoft.com guru drove out here. I then sat out further downtown. I chatted with a regular at www.starbucks.com . I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road. The new condominium project on Steamboat Road in Manero's old parking lot is proceeding along. No parking is allowed at the pier on Steamboat Road after sunset. The Indian Harbor Yacht Club seemed busy. I saw a charter bus driving around. The http://www.thedelamar.com/ was busy. I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue. I bought $7 of self service V-Power premium gasoline with a dime a gallon off with my Stop and Shop card for $3.049 a gallon for 2.295 gallons at odometer reading of 110046 miles for 32.1 miles driven since Monday February 23, 2015 for 13.987 miles per gallon in mostly local traffic. I then returned home to Chez de Vinci. CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 1:40 P.M. I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Utz wavy potato chips with a sliced tomatoe seasoned with ground black pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese, balsamic vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil , and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 12:30 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went by www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. I tried to get credit for the defective gallon jug of CVS distilled water, but they would not offer credit, since it was four years old. I bought another one for $1.77. I then went further down Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various places. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I chatted with the window cleaner at Tonic and Herbs. I toured the Greenwich Train Station lobby. The two Italian restaurants just north of Richard's on either side of the street are out of business. I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center. I stopped by the https://www.greenwichhardware.com/index.php and CVS again. I sat out at the top of Greenwich Avenue. http://www.boastusa.com/ seems to have moved one store further north to the top of Greenwich Avenue, where Mike's Putnam barber shop used to be. I stopped by the variety store. I stopped by http://www.makerbot.com/ . I sat out for a while enjoying the day. I then went by the Stop and Shop. I bought two six packs of Stop and Shop English muffins for .99 each, a 9 ounce box of Triscuit balsamic vinegar and basil crackers for $2.50, a 42 ounce Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, two 15 ounce Chef Boyardee ravioli for $1 each, a 12 ounce Perdue Italian breaded cutlets for $3.34, and bananas for .49 a pound for $1.32 for $16.13 total. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 7:35 A.M. I will now shower and clean up. It is 24 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VRE1rY7lzQA . I will then go downtown to do a few errands. CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 5:30 A.M. One interesting fact that I discovered, when I was down south, if one happens to come north around the first of May, and one happens to be in Atlanta, Georgia, one can take a https://www.greyhound.com/ from Atlanta, Georgia to Ashville, North Carolina at sunrise, and the bus lets one off at the entrance to www.biltmore.com . One passes tens of thousands of acres of peach trees in bloom, so I guess the Vanderbilts like peaches. A lot of the streets in Atlanta, Georgia have the word "peach" in them. Maybe we should rename Doubling Road in Greenwich, Connecticut "Peach Tree Drive". CIO
<888> 03/24/15 Tuesday 5:10 A.M. I woke up at 3:30 A.M.. The gallon jug of CVS distilled water at the kitchen entrance had leaked out all of its distilled water, so it was a bit wet at that location. That is the second time those particular jugs have leaked. I will complain to CVS next time I visit. Possibly they will give me another one. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 7:40 P.M. I did a telephone computer survey from the Philippines.
I bought it refurbished here for $29.99 with free shipping http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000JLA3XE/ref=dp_olp_refurbished?ie=UTF8&condition=refurbished . I will put it in the kitchen on the little black table just inside the kitchen on the left. It will be loud enough to hear over the kitchen stove fan, when I am smoking a cigarette. I have both telephone lines in the kitchen. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 6:25 P.M. I went outside, and I picked up the mail.
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 6:25 P.M. I chatted with a friend and a relative. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 5:15 P.M. For an older person like myself with arthritic hands, I order three Multi Opener Jars Bottle Rubber Lid Handy Twist Container Flexible good Tool SWB for $1.52 each with free shipping for $4.56 total, and for a relative, I ordered two more for $3.04 total. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 4:35 P.M. For more than one cup of coffee, I put the Braun 12 cup coffee maker back out on the counter to the left side of the www.ge.com stove.
For individuals with reciprocal guest privileges, the http://www.greenwichcountryclub.org/ should be open for guests to stay out in the country in the wilds of mid country Greenwich, Connecticut. I doubt if the golf course is opened yet, but they have other hospitality features. The http://www.johnsislandclub.org/ has guest privileges with them, for anyone coming up north early from Florida. Of course most of the "Old Guard" follow the Azalea Trail when coming north taking two to three months to move north slowly with the season arriving here around the first of June. The first sign of movement down south is the http://www.masters.com/index.html and then https://www.middletonplace.org/ and then www.biltmore.com and then http://www.history.org/ and http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html and then http://www.si.edu/ and then http://www.monticello.org/ then http://www.greenbrier.com/ and http://www.kentuckyderby.com/ and http://www.nps.gov/inde/index.htm and then http://www.frick.org/ and http://www.metmuseum.org/ and http://www.guggenheim.org/ and http://www.mcny.org/ and http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ and http://www.amnh.org/ and http://www.moma.org/ and http://www.carnegiehall.org/ and http://lc.lincolncenter.org/ and http://www.metopera.org/ and http://www.nycballet.com/ and http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php and http://www.nassaumuseum.com/default.php and http://www.nps.gov/sahi/index.htm and http://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org/ and http://www.plantingfields.org/ finally www.usma.edu graduation around the first of June and http://theardenhouse.com/home.html and http://www.hudsonvalley.org/historic-sites/kykuit and http://www.nps.gov/hofr/index.htm and http://nysparks.com/historic-sites/4/details.aspx before they move even further north into the North Country http://www.yale.edu/museums and http://britishart.yale.edu/ and https://www.osv.org/ and http://www.mysticseaport.org/ and http://www.newportmansions.org/ and www.nantucket.net and http://www.seeplymouth.com/things-to-do/plymouth-rock and http://www.cityofboston.gov/freedomtrail/oldstate.asp and http://www.mfa.org/ and http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/ and http://www.shelburnefarms.org/ leaving a few of their vast group in this area. I called the large group that move into this area from down South in the Summer, the Army of the South. I have frequently met relatives of "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" in this area in the summer. A lot the people from down south have www.army.mil connections which is why they like to walk and play golf. Of course now if one is a United States Citizen and traveling into Canada, one needs a pass card of passport which can take two months to get. The information is available online at:
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/information/do-i-need.html . If one is over 16 years old, one needs a U.S. Passport Card http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/information/card.html and http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/first-time.html . It says it takes 4 - 6 weeks for a passport card, and costs $55. http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/first-time.html .
Of course if one only goes as far north as Maine Kennebunkport, Maine , one does not need a passport. Of course since it is 31 degrees out at the moment, I think we pushing the summer season. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 3:40 P.M. I chatted with a relative. The new Krups one cup coffee maker has a water cap that is hard to open for old people with arthritic hands, so I put the Brew 1 one cup coffee maker back out next to it. Its coffee basket is in the spice rack behind it. I will now do some bottom fishing on the internet http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . I really don't have any money to buy anything, but one never knows what cheap internet bargains might show up. Bottom fishing is like going to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop http://www.greenwichhospital.org/directions/greenwich-hospital-auxiliary-thrift-shop in the old days. Of course, one might have to pay shipping for purchases off the internet, where if they happen to have it in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, one does not pay shipping. Of course one needs a car to get there now. If one comes out from New York City to our local train station, it is about a mile west walk from the train station through the Italian neighborhood in Greenwich which can be interesting. The have a good pizza place near it http://grecosbellacucina.com/ which seems to use very good olive oil, if one knows olive oil. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 2:45 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I am just about ready to have a cup of www.lipton.com green tea with Ginseng and Splenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 2:10 P.M. I ate 6 ounces of white cheddar Cheez-its. I woke up from my nap at 2 P.M.. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 9:45 A.M. I ate a 10.1 ounce Bertolli chicken Florentine Alfredo dinner with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes ginger ale. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 9:00 A.M. I called up the Connecticut Department of Social Services SNAP Food Stamps program, and since they sent me the letter about my documentation for redetermination not being received, they have received it. Thus that is all taken care off. They had me on hold waiting for one hour and 20 minutes, so I listened to their music on my speaker phone, and I did other internet activity. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 7:25 A.M. On the FIC server, the Skype webcam does not work either. Since both the primary work computer and the FIC server have VIA 400 USB ports, there must be some problems with DirectX and the VIA 400 USB device drivers. I worked in setting up some www.skype.com settings using Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Dell Optplex 740 mini tower, which runs just great. Alas nobody ever communicates with me outside family members and a few friends, so I am obviously over connected in telecommunications from my viewpoint, but it keeps me busy. I setup a Skype number to call for long distance phone calls which one can do, and also I activated it on my two telephone numbers and my three cell phones. I guess from my viewpoint on a mostly night schedule, not too much ever happens in the world. I guess the writers in the daytime are the ones that seem to make things happen in the news media. Well with 13 desktop computers and five laptop computer and two tablets and three cell phones, I obviously have to work at maintaining them all. However, I do not use them all most of the time. Most of the media writers around here are trying to get the more affluent people in the local neighborhood to spend some money. Alas, if one has no product or service to sell, one is pretty much left on the fringes of society waiting to see what the next sales person tries to sell one. Before personal computers and the internet 25 years ago, I knew more people and I ate better, and I traveled more. However, as I got older personal computers and the internet fit into my current lifestyle. I guess some people still like sitting in airport lounges looking for signs of intelligence in the universe. I obviously have spent more than my share of time in our local www.greenwichlibrary.org , but the local gurus seem to have a different point of view as it pertains to our local politics, which since I do not pay any attention to our local politics, pretty much leave me out of touch with whatever the locals seem to think is going on in our small suburban community. Judging by the different patrons that I see at our local Starbucks many of whom use their free wireless, the locals like sitting around drinking coffee and ignoring each other. However, since they are out in the general public they must enjoy people watching or being watched. I guess with 25 million people in the New York City area, there will always be one or two curious visitors to our local downtown shopping area. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 3:40 A.M. I will now shower and clean up. In watching the BBC News on the television, they said there are shortages of corn flour and cooking oil in Venezuela, but I happen to know there are supposed to be ample supplies of both commodities in Illinois. Maybe Illinois could trade some Venezuela oil for corn flour and cooking oil. CIO
<888> 03/23/15 Monday 3:00 A.M. I chatted with a friend at 8 P.M.. I woke up at 1 A.M.. I did a Complete PC backup of the FIC server to the Toshiba SATA 1 TB drive in the Roswill external USB SATA hard drive holder. I will next do an Aomei backup to the same device. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/22/15 Sunday 2:55 P.M. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn. I will now shut down the work computers, and I will go to bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 03/22/15
<888> 03/22/15 Sunday 2:15 P.M. Scottish Party May Prove Crucial to Future of Britain’s Nuclear Fleet - NYTimes.com
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I am now doing a Complete PC backup of the FIC server to the second internal hard drive. I will then shut it down.
I will now send out my weekly notes. CIO
<888> 03/22/15 Sunday 12:05 P.M. On the FIC server which I probably will not be using anymore, I installed the McAfee Security suite, and I am now installing the Windows updates. The Hostaway server is a lot faster. I ate a 16 ounce Marie Callender corn chowder chicken pot pie and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes ginger ale. CIO
<888> 03/22/15 Sunday 9:40 A.M. I went out, and I threw out the garbage. I went to the A&P Fresh. I bought a 59 ounce Tropicana orange juice with calcium for $3, two yams for $1.49 a pound for $2.83, a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.99, a 10.1 ounce Bertolli chicken Alfredo dinner for $3, a 33 ounce bag of Eight O'Clock Columbian Peaks coffee beans for $8.99, a 12 pack box of Orville Rickenbacher microwave popcorn with butter for $4, two 20 count boxes of Bigelow green tea with lemon for $2.50 each, four 6 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $2.50 each six pack and 20 cent can return for $40.61 total. I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I mailed my lease agreement to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went by CVS, and I bought two 7 ounce boxes of white cheddar Cheez-its for $2 each for $4. I the bought two 8.75 ounce CVS deluxe mixed nuts without peanuts lightly salted for $3.49 each, less a $1 with the previous purchase bonus bucks coupon for $5.98 total. Greenwich Avenue is posted with "no parking" signs for the St. Patrick's Day parade which begins at 2 P.M. this afternoon. I next drove further downtown, and I sat out for a while. I said "Go Morning" to a regular at Starbucks. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I played an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. CIO
<888> 03/22/15 Sunday 6:35 A.M. I signed my Greenwich Housing Authority lease documents, and I have them ready to mail, when I go out in a little while this morning. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go out and do errands. CIO
<888> 03/22/15 Sunday 5:45 A.M. I woke up at 4 A.M.. I chatted with a friend. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 10:40 P.M. I chatted with Optimum about my tech problem. Someone was still trying to upload files to the FIC server. I also could not log on to www.optimum.net with the FIC server to download the McAfee security program. I redirected my server address http://mikelouiscott.com/ to my remote Hostaway server, and I shut down the FIC server. I chatted with a relative and two security people. They gave me a web address http://ic3.gov/ to contact. I chatted with a relative. I chatted with Optimum Web Hosting at 1-800-504-5710, and they told me, since I hosted the web server at home, they would not be able to know what was causing the problem. I am extremely tired, so I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 6:00 P.M. I put the four new cordless telephone batteries in the four cordless phones that I still use. The battery on the AT&T cordless 2.4 GHz phone in the bedroom still has to charge up. The other batteries were charged. In the mail, I also got my new lease contract from the Greenwich Housing Authority that I have to sign and return to them. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 5:25 P.M. I went downstairs twice, and I chatted with a neighbor and a neighbor's relative. I picked up the mail. The orders with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400110897700015909666 on the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement-3-6v-Battery-Pack-for-At-t-Lucent-3300-3301-6100-6200-Cordless-Phone-/321294879678?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aceaacbbe for $2.98 with free shipping for the AT&T cordless two line 2.4 GHz telephone on the bedroom desk arrived
and with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400110200793498343287 on the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cordless-Phone-Battery-Uniden-BT-990-Toshiba-BT-415-SW-Bell-LIQUIDATION-SALE-/231385361071?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dfa46aaf for my UNIDEN Spread Spectrum cordless phone for $3.99 with free shipping for the Uniden Cordless telephone at the kitchen entrance arrived and
with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400110200883575005990 on the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-800mAh-Cordless-Home-Phone-Battery-for-Panasonic-P-P511-HHR-P402-ER-P511-/201149403785?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed5705289 for $2.99 with free shipping for the Panasonic two line cordless 2.4 GHz telephone by living room telephone table arrived and
with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400110200830647405677 for the order for http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-3-6v-800mAh-Phone-Battery-for-Radio-Shack-23-298-43-3505-ET-1110-ET-3506-New-/181645922940?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4af0d27c for $6.95 with free shipping arrived. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 4:00 P.M. I chatted with a relative. On my home FIC server, I think I found why it was so slow to work. I keep the server folder on a separate hard drive which I upload a few files to a week. I found out somehow there were hundreds of new folders since mid October 2014 up until today with 20 gigabytes of html files 23 to 26 Kbytes long. It took a while to delete them all. I also found out from Optimum Web Hosting that in my DNS record, someone had entered a second IP address, so half my web traffic was going to another web address. I opened one of the html files, and it was in an Asian language that I do not read. Also some web sites do not work on the server, so I guess it has been hacked again for the umpteenth time, so after the files are cleaned out my www.ccleaner.com , which is taking a while for over a half million files, I will restore the server backup. I can not figure out with all of the servers in the world, why anyone would even bother my simple home server, unless it is one really cheap SOB from some remote part of the planet. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 12:55 P.M. I woke up at 12:30 P.M.. I went outside, and I fixed the rear window windshield wiper on the Volvo wagon. It turned out to be a warmer day. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 10:05 A.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 9:50 A.M. I ate a 13 ounce Marie Callender orange chicken dinner with a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 9:15 A.M. I made 239 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching series 3 episode 6 and 7 of "Jeeves and Wooster". CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 5:45 A.M. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 4:30 A.M. I cleaned five inches of snow off the Volvo wagon. On the rear windshield wiper blade, the end rubber part of the blade came out of its twin metal strips, so I have to reattach that in the daytime, when I can see better. I sat outside for a while. I picked up the mail. I received a letter from the Connecticut Department of Social Services Scanning Center in Manchester, Connecticut that they have not received my Food Stamp EBT SNAP redetermination application form due by March 5, 2015 which I mailed in the mail room downstairs on Sunday February 22, 2015. This is the second time in about five years, they have not received it, so there is obviously something wrong with the mail system or their processing system. I will call them up on a week day between 7:30 A.M. and 4 P.M. at 1-855-626-6632 to have them send another form. I have to have the form submitted by April 20,2015. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/21/15 Saturday 3:05 A.M. I woke up at 1:30 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 3:40 P.M. I think the Global Warming Crowd are out to lunch, if they have been in this part of the country recently.
I chatted with an associate. I will now shut down the primary work computers. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 2:35 P.M. I chatted with a relative. It started snowing about 2 P.M.. Since the snow storm was eight hour late in arriving that means it might be a slow moving front, ergo a slow moving front might mean more snow tha forecast because it will linger over this area longer dropping more snow. I am still installing updates on the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 1:05 P.M. I am installing the Logitech C270 webcam software on both partitions on the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I am also installing the Windows Updates. I have never used the www.apple.com product except my first personal computer, the Apple IIE, but I know the Apple product is much more expensive to buy versus my home network of computers http://scott-mike.com/computer.htm . I treat the Microsoft Personal Computers like they are church office computers and not high security types of computers that a better funded group of individuals might use. Still it takes all of my time with little reward, but over all of these years, I have learned a bit about the technology for better or worse for what it is worth. In the old days, I used to have a lot of people hanging out around me from the Royal Canadian Air Force base outside of Toronto near York University where the Scott Library is located, but one of the first people I had contact with on the internet over 20 years ago told me they all returned to Canada, because too many of their people were being killed working this far down south. I think the individual was from around Calgary. You know those big tall dark haired men with beards. I once chatted with somebody from Whistler Canada who told me about the Crown Princess of Sweden that I had just chatted with. I also have kept in touch with a French Canadian Indian whose family have property on the Vermont U.S.A. side and the Quebec Canada side of the border, so more than likely since the individual is not too swift in English, be might chat a bit of French Canadian. A lot of the Electric Company employees in this area seem to be French Canadian. The individual who was from Vermont told me his grandfather worked for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant and his mother worked for the IBM Clean rooms in Burlington, Vermont, where they used to make the 386 processor. Outside of that most of the local www.ibm.com people in this area ignore me, since they expect to be paid a lot of money for chatting. Thus I have pretty much learned to do things simply and inexpensively on my own on my very limited budget. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 11:45 A.M. I chatted with neighbors. The http://www.schindler.com/us/internet/en/home.html elevator people are back here again working on the new Swiss freight elevator. I guess they are anticipating us moving a lot of freight in this building in the near future. If one wants to see a really old historical building in disrepair in this town, one should tour the Board of Education building across the street from the Greenwich Senior Center. I suppose there are a lot of other old run down facilities in this neck of the woods. About 40 years ago, when I checked out the U.S. Customs office at Westchester County airport, there were only three things in it. A standard issue metal government desk, metal chair, and old black metal dial telephone. Knowing the United States government, they still have not upgraded it in the last forty years. It takes time to get one's own politician elected, and then for that politician to pass some sort of expenditure bill, and then to set up some sort of government office to administer the bill, and then to figure out how to carry out the provisions of the bill, by which time the politician is no longer around, and some other politician wants to do things differently based on their constituency. I threw out a old Schweppes Ginger Ale carton. One of my recent contacts with Schweppes Ginger Ale was about 25 years ago, when I bought my first personal computer. Over at the Chinese computer store at High Ridge and Long Ridge road in Stamford near Radio Shack, I met Roger Schulz who was a software engineer for Schweppes. He told me he was a personal friend of Nancy Rockefeller, and since Roger easily weighed over 500 pounds, I figured somebody could afford to feed him. I once drove over to Rockland County with him in my old www.ford.com Escort that never started in the winter, and we visited the Egghead Software store clearance center. The last time I recall being in Rockland County was when I bought my 22 inch Acer LCD monitor at www.bestbuy.com there, when it was on sale for $140 back in July 2007. I recall I might have visited once more shortly there after, and I recall there was a railroad salvage store there in one of the strip mall complexes. I noticed on my Volvo Station wagon, there were beech tree seeds blocking the drain plugs underneath the front windshield wipers, so I cleared them out. One of my primary sources of information in the old days before the internet, when the locals used to gossip on the waterfront was the Maytag repairman from Partridge and Rockwell who did not live in Greenwich anymore but Danbury. He seemed to know a lot of the old timers around town who could not be bothered with high technology. Of course at the time the younger kids were also around the waterfront with some sort of software company called the Beagle Brothers Software Company that made shareware disks for floppy disk personal computers that they sold at the various Chinese computer stores in the area. Of course we have come a long way since then, but alas we still do not know anymore than we did before. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 10:10 A.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 9:30 A.M. I chatted with a friend about the price of tea in China. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 8:50 A.M. I bought two Headset Adapter 3.5mm to 2.5mm Audio Adapter and Converter (Black) - Non-Retail Packaging - 2.5MM - Male - 3.5mm FEMALE for $2.66 with free shipping. I will try them with the other headset on the Panasonic telephone hopefully for a louder microphone. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 8:35 A.M. I moved the Logitech C270 webcam from the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop to the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I moved the Logitech high definition webcam from there to the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the living room television. I moved the laptop webcam from there to the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 7:55 A.M. Prince Charles told of Americans' 'fondness' for royals CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 7:40 A.M. I ate 4.5 Perdue chicken tenders or 5.6 ounces, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and with a sliced tomatoe seasoned with ground black pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese, balsamic vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginseng with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. I noticed the last time I was in the A&P Fresh that three rib eye steaks now cost over $40, so beef has gotten more expensive in this neck of the woods. I like the beach tree along the sidewalk of the Greenwich Common on Greenwich Avenue, there used to be another one at the other end of the common that was knocked down over ten years ago by a storm. I think if one were rich and had a view to the future, one could plant a long straight formal driveway lined with similar beech trees http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=beech+tree&id=1583BB48C52D58E9310FF690A1FC1216E29CA97F&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=1583BB48C52D58E9310FF690A1FC1216E29CA97F&selectedIndex=0 . They do provide good shade on hot summer days, and they appear to be a hearty tree. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 6:00 A.M. $49.99 with free shipping D 1TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive, USB Powered #WDBUZG0010BBK-NESN CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 5:00 A.M. The Black Stone hedge fund is now in the office building on the north side of the Greenwich Railroad Station, where the Thomas Cooke Travel Agency used to be. If one needs to do British Banking in Greenwich, Connecticut, the http://www.citizensbank.com on Greenwich Avenue happens to be owned by the www.rbs.co.uk The Royal Bank of Scotland which also happens to have a major presence five miles east of us in Stamford, Connecticut for whatever it is worth. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 4:20 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while enjoying the quiet morning. I picked up the mail with the weekly grocery circulars. The bargain this week is that at the A&P Fresh, Thomas' English muffins are two six packs for $5. The building custodian cleaned up the community room. We are suppose to have snow today starting at 6 A.M. this morning, so batten down the hatches as we prepare to return to our winter wonderland.
The British have a major food presence in our local grocery stores. I think http://www.twiningsusa.com/ , http://www.leaperrins.com/ , and http://www.walkersshortbread.com/uk/ all have the Royal Warrant. Of course if one visited some of many liquor stores such as https://www.varmax.com/ , one would see many British distilled products available for sale. Locally nearby by we also have a http://used.astonmartin.com/ dealer, and about 10 miles east of us in Darien, there is http://www.landroverdarien.com/ and http://www.minifairfieldcounty.com/ and 20 miles east of us, there is https://www.virginamerica.com/ in Norwalk, and on Greenwich Avenue, there is also http://www.zara.com/us/ and http://www.jackwills.com/ in New Canaan, and about 10 miles west of us, there is http://www.jaguarlarchmont.com/ . However, so many British have been in this area over the centuries, there is lots of stuff and individuals that nobody pays any attention to and most people take for granite. CIO
<888> 03/20/15 Friday 2:25 A.M. I woke up at 11:30 P.M.. On the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower, I did a Complete PC backup to the Toshiba SATA drive in the Rosewill external USB drive holder. I then did an Aomei backup to the same drive. I am now doing a Complete PC backup of both partitions on the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server to the same external drive. I will then do a Aomei backup of the same computer to the same external hard drive. I put a new Lysol disinfectant hand cleaner refill in the electric dispenser on the bathroom sink. I tried installing Windows 10 Technical Preview updates on the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop with no USB devices attached, but none would install. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 3:25 P.M. The Dell Latitude E6400 laptop is back to the way it was before. I heated and ate a 15 ounce can of Chef Boyardee small ravioli which I seasoned with Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, ground black pepper, celery salt, Italian spices, paprika, red cayenne pepper, Frank's hot sauce, soy sauce, and grated Parmesan and Romano cheese. I ate it with a toasted Thomas' bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. I will now shut down the two primary work computers, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 2:30 P.M. On the upgrade on the Windows 10 Technical Preview partition on the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, the install went up to 75%, but when it rebooted it said the upgrade failed, and it is now restoring the previous earlier version.
The weather forecast for tomorrow morning at 6 A.M. to 2 A.M. on Saturday morning is calling for 2 to 4 inches of snow and possibly more http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CTZ009&warncounty=CTC001&firewxzone=CTZ009&local_place1=Greenwich%20CT&product1=Winter+Weather+Advisory&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VQsUio7lzQA . I cancelled my appointment for tomorrow Friday March 20, 2015 at 1:30 P.M.. Once the restore on the Dell laptop completes, I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 1:50 P.M. I did an Aomei backup of the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower to the second internal hard drive. If one is installing Windows 10 Technical Preview 10041 upgrade on a http://technet.microsoft.com/ enterprise edition version versus the regular download, one needs to reenter the product key from the page for "preinstall information" at this web site http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-enterprise-technical-preview . One enters the product key from the Settings page of Windows 10 Technical Preview. The Dell Latitude E6400 laptop must be slower, since the upgrade is only 30% complete. I also found out that by making the background page light on the desktop, one can see the slider bar betters on the apps popup. They should make the slider bar red or orange, so one can more easily see it. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 12:50 P.M. I have the Windows 10 Technical Preview Update 10041 installed on the first partitions of both Lenovo ThinkCentres in the living room. I am going to leave the earlier version on the second partitions. I am still installing it on the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop. For some reason it would not install on the second partition on the Asus Netbook. I switched the Dell 20 inch monitor with the line on the display on the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server back into the bedroom on the IBM ThinkCentre. I moved the identical good monitor from there in its place on the Lenovo ThinkCentre to the right of the FIC server in the living room. I took the new Logitech C270 webcam off the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower, and I moved it to the Dell Dimension E6400 laptop. I moved the older similar webcam from there to the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the living room television. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 11:05 A.M. I have the Windows 10 Technical Preview Update 10041 installed on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower, and I am now doing a Complete PC backup of it to second internal hard drive. I am also installing it on the other four beta computers two of which I need to install it on second mirror partitions for a seven updates. I also moved the new Microsoft Live Cam 3000 to the Dell Optiplex along side the Logitech C270webcam. The Microsoft Life Cam 3000 high definition starts up faster in Skype. I moved the high definition Logitech web cam from the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the television to the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I still have the generic USB web cam on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the television. I ate a blueberry muffin. It will take at least two more hours to finish installing the updates. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 8:50 A.M. I am now installing the Windows 10 updates on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower. I will start installing it on the other computers. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 7:20 A.M. I ate a bag of microwave popcorn. CIO
!!!!!! <888> 03/19/15 Thursday 6:50 A.M. I updated http://scott-mike.com/computer.htm to reflect the recent changes in the primary work computer setup in the living room and the bedroom computer setup. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 5:25 A.M. I posted a few pictures of the changes in my primary computer setup and the bedroom setup at:
http://scott-mike.com/comp-031915/
http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/comp-031915/
http://mikelouisscott.com/comp-031915/ CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 4:30 A.M. When www.polaroid.com was down the tubes back in 1974, I sold two signed Ansel Adams photographs about two feet by three feet to Marge Neigrug at her gallery on the East side for $100 apiece. It shows how much inflation there has been since then Photographs | by Sotheby's | eBay live auctions .
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-windows-10-build-10041-commits-to-monthly-updates/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f , if one reads the article, it says the new updates is only available as an update and not as a separate download.
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Wet wipe litter on UK beaches up 50%, report suggests CIO
!!!!!! <888> 03/19/15 Thursday 3:55 A.M. I ate 13 rosemary and extra virgin olive oil Triscuit crackers with .75 inch by 1.5 inch by 3/16th inch slices of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese.
If one is interested in Economics, I recommend first reading "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_(textbook)" , and then if one is interested in the subject matter to get a Bachelors Degrees in Economics, one needs to read about 200 more similar books and go to about two years worth of classes in a liberal arts college. I never worked in the field of Economics, but I have used my studies in the field in other areas of endeavor. Also the biggest variable in Economics is the Weather. CIO
<888> 03/19/15 Thursday 1:40 A.M. I woke up at 1:30 A.M.. CIO
<888> 03/18/15 Wednesday 10:40 P.M. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/18/15 Wednesday 10:30 P.M. I ate a 13 ounce Marie Callender sweet and sour chicken dinner with Smart Balance Spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/18/15 Wednesday 9:10 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown to the A&P Fresh. I bought four 13 ounce Marie Callender sweet and sour chicken dinners for $2.50 each, a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.99 and bananas for .79 a pound for $2.31 less 35 cents can return for $15.95 total. I am getting low on English muffins, and they have not been on sale recently. I then went by CVS, and I picked up a prescription. I found a 5 ounce open bottle of http://www.tabasco.com/ on the sidewalk that I retrieved. I then went further downtown, and I sat out for a while. I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I played an Ace's High Scratch card for a dollar, but I lost. I stopped by Starbucks, and one of their most frequent night time customers using their free wireless upgraded to a used $650 Apple laptop with a lot of programs. I told him he should back it up to an external hard drive. I then returned back home to Chez Vinci. I picked up the mail. I put away my groceries. I chatted with a relative. I was told by someone from California that the west coast has a lot of Marie Callender restaurants. CIO
<888> 03/18/15 Wednesday 5:25 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to do errands. CIO
<888> 03/18/15 Wednesday 8:10 A.M. I chatted with a friend.
I ate the last bowl of apple and pineapple mixture and a bag of microwave popcorn.
I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/18/15 Wednesday 6:25 A.M. I chatted with a relative at 5:30 P.M.. I woke up at 10:30 P.M.. On the primary work computer, I did a Windows Complete PC backup to the third internal hard drive. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made up a fresh batch of punch. I did a Windows Complete PC backup of both partitions of the primary work computer to the Toshiba 1 TB SATA drive in the Rosewill external USB SATA drive holder. I put clean linens on my bed. I showered, and I cleaned up. I did two loads of wash and dry of laundry. I picked up the mail. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. On the primary work computer, I did an Aomei backup of both partitions to the Rosewill 1 TB USB external hard drive. I cleaned the Ionic air purifier and the outer filter of the Honeywell air purifier. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale.
Prince Charles, Duchess Camilla arrive in USA
Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall begin US visit
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2898418/microsoft-will-ship-windows-10-this-summer.html
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7863331/microsoft-project-spartan-new-web-browser CIO
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I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed directly. CIO
<888> 03/17/15 Tuesday 4:00 P.M. Earlier this morning, I moved the new Logitech C270 web cam from the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop to the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower setup. I took the Logitech web came from the Dell Optiplex, and I put it on the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the living room TV. I moved the laptop Logitech web cam from there to the Dell laptop. CIO
<888> 03/17/15 Tuesday 3:55 P.M. Since the last note for the last 15.5 hours, I have been refreshing my operating system on the Windows 7 partition on the primary work computer. I uninstalled Service Pack 1, and then I reinstalled it. I then installed the Windows Updates again. Internet Explorer 11 would not install, but I fixed that by uninstalling Windows 8 rebooting, and installing Windows 8, and then Internet Explorer 11 installed. I took a nap from 5:30 A.M. to 8 A.M., while the system ran. Before my nap, I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. This morning I ate 13 balsamic and basil and rosemary and extra virgin olive oil Triscuit crackers with .75 inch by 1.5 inch by 3/16th inch slices of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I also ate a bag of microwave popcorn and a blueberry muffin. I chatted with a friend three times and a relative once. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 11:55 P.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside briefly. I picked up the mail. I filled out a Votes registration survey. I guess I will now keep a "Night Watch" on the lost continent of oceana. Obviously because of our poor public relations, nobody is interested in us on the other side of the glove. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 10:40 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 9:30 P.M. A neighbor rang my wireless door bell before I went to bed. The neighbor needed a ride to Radio Shack in Port Chester, which I could not help him out on. I woke up at 8:30 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I ran a quick scan with Norton Internet Security. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 12:50 P.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 12:20 P.M. I listed to some music on the Windows 10 beta machine. I received a telephone call from the Jupiter, Florida tech people, and I let them take over my computer to show that it is sending out lots of errors. They then wanted $195 to fix the problem over an hour. I told them I could not afford it. They left the remote control program as a startup, which I disabled. If they did any sabotage or espionage on my computer, I can not tell. Hopefully, they will not keep bothering me. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 9:45 A.M. I updated http://scott-mike.com/lang.htm which now translates fast off the remote server. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 9:10 A.M. Vladimir Putin reappears in public for first time in 10 days
I updated http://scott-mike.com/nasa.htm . CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 7:15 A.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 6:20 A.M. I went out to www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I bought four 40 ounce 2X http://www.tide.com/en-US/product/tide-simply-clean-fresh.jspx Daybreak Fresh for $2.94 each and .75 tax for $12.51 total. I then bought four 12 packs of 12 ounce cans of http://www.schweppesus.com/products/schweppes-ginger-ale for $3.50 each 12 pack and $2.40 can deposit for $16.40 total. I then returned home, and I used my little folding cart from the back of the Volvo wagon to bring up my purchases and put them away. I put the little folding cart in the back of the Volvo wagon. It is not very busy out yet. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 4:30 A.M. I will now go out for a brief errand. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 3:30 A.M. The Warburg is Britain’s most eccentric and original library. Can it survive? CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 3:20 A.M. On my https://www.h2owirelessnow.com/ wireless Nokia Go Phone, I put $10 more on the account to recharge it for 90 days at 10 cents a minute. CIO
<888> 03/16/15 Monday 2:45 A.M. I ate 4.5 Perdue chicken tenders or 5.6 ounces, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and with two sliced tomatoes seasoned with ground black pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese, balsamic vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginseng with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. CIO
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<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 11:20 P.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I threw out the garbage. Some of the local star gazers were hanging out in our neighborhood checking out the local turf. CIO
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 10:05 P.M. I ate 15 balsalmic and basil Triscuit before going to bed. I woke up at 8 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. The relative told me that the Panasonic headset was not as loud as the telephone handset, so I will use the handset to chat with that relative. Perhaps it was the back ground noise from the television. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 03/15/15
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 8:20 A.M. I ate a blueberry muffin. The blueberry muffins at the A&P Fresh are the same price as the Stop and Shop blueberry muffins, when they have them; however I think the A&P Fresh blueberry muffins taste better. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 7:40 A.M. My $18 rebate form on the DVD/RW drive was received, but it has not yet been sent.
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<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 7:10 A.M. I ate a 10.1 ounce Bertolli chicken Florentine alfredo dinner with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and with one sliced tomatoe seasoned with ground black pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, oregano, grated parmesan and Romano cheese, balsamic vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes ginger ale. CIO
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 6:25 A.M. I made 310 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching series 3 episodes 12 and 13 and the final episode 14 of the Netflix production of "Borgia".
Today is the Ides of March. CIO
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 1:35 A.M. Well nothing happening in the lost continent of "oceana". I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 12:35 A.M. Mom finds deadly 'erection' spider in store bananas CIO
<888> 03/15/15 Sunday 12:20 A.M. I threw out the garbage. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400111899562447352251 on the order for Panasonic KX-TCA430 Foldable Over The Head Headset for $18.95 with free shipping arrived. I installed it on the Panasonic KX-TS4300 four line telephone. To use it one dials the number than presses the "headset" button. I tested it by calling Optimum Online at 1-203-348-9211. I chatted with them about the person from India in Jupiter, Florida that keeps calling me up all of the time on my Verizon telephone line to fix my computer. I don't have caller ID, so all I can do is possibly press *69, and see if I can get their telephone number to file a complaint, but I don't know how to do that. Anyway the Panasonic headset works just fine, but it only has a short 4.5 foot long very thin cable, so one has to be very careful, when using it. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 9:50 P.M. I was awaken again by the computer person from India trying to fix my computer again. I told them not to bother me, but they keep bothering me. I woke up at 7:30 P.M.. I chatted with a friend and two relatives. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 11:55 A.M. I ate a red velvet muffin which is similar to a German semi chocolate cake muffin, but without the coconut frosting. I chatted with a relative going out to breakfast. The reason there is nothing going on in oceana is that the powers that be do not pay writers enough to see what is going on in their environment. More than likely with billions of pages of content on the internet, people are fed up with the literary world version of home movies. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 11:05 A.M. I chatted with a local walker. I ate a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture. I guess if there is nothing happening to speak of on the west coast of oceana, one could look for some sign of intelligence at http://www.cam.ac.uk/ , if one is interested in poorly heated and antiquated housing. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 8:10 A.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 7:15 A.M. While asleep, I woke up and ate 15 balsamic vinegar and basil Triscuit crackers. I finally woke up at 7 A.M.. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 1:35 A.M. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/14/15 Saturday 1:30 A.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Schweppes Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 11:40 P.M. I moved the three old packages of hot dogs off the shelf of the freezer door into the main part of the freezer, and I put in two white and one robins egg blue plastic ice trays with water on the lower shelf of the freezer door, so we will once again have ice available in my New York City Metropolitan Area Pied A Terre apartment in case it ever gets warm here, and somebody wants ice in their beverage refreshment on a hot summer's day. Although we have had a long cold winter, it has been my experience here that sooner or later it gets hot in the summer, so it does not hurt to be prepared. One could also use my new Oster blender with ice to make slushies or some other refreshing beverage. I think in Florida, they call them slurpies, particularly around the 7-11 stores. I also found another one inch thick slice of frozen uncooked prime rib off beef on my freezer door, that I think is about two years old. The young fellow from India that keeps calling me up from Jupiter, Florida trying to fix my computer called up again this evening, and I tried to explain to him why I don't need him to fix my computer, if that is what he actually does. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 11:05 P.M. I ordered http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cordless-Phone-Battery-Uniden-BT-990-Toshiba-BT-415-SW-Bell-LIQUIDATION-SALE-/231385361071?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dfa46aaf for my UNIDEN Spread Spectrum cordless phone for $3.99 with free shipping for the Uniden Cordless telephone at the kitchen entrance.
I ordered http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement-3-6v-Battery-Pack-for-At-t-Lucent-3300-3301-6100-6200-Cordless-Phone-/321294879678?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aceaacbbe for $2.98 with free shipping for the AT&T cordless two line 2.4 GHz telephone on the bedroom desk.
I ordered http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-800mAh-Cordless-Home-Phone-Battery-for-Panasonic-P-P511-HHR-P402-ER-P511-/201149403785?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed5705289 for $2.99 with free shipping for the Panasonic two line cordless 2.4 GHz telephone by living room telephone table.
For the GE cordless 900 Mhz telephone on the bedroom desk, I ordered http://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-3-6v-800mAh-Phone-Battery-for-Radio-Shack-23-298-43-3505-ET-1110-ET-3506-New-/181645922940?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4af0d27c for $6.95 with free shipping.
Thus all of my older cordless telephones will have new batteries. I still have the three Panasonic KX-TG6700 5.8 Ghz digital 2 line cordless telephones which have about one year old batteries. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 9:45 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while. I picked up the mail. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 8:50 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 7:30 P.M. I woke up at 6 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 9:40 A.M. I broke three extra large A&P eggs in a mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of milk and a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and two tablespoons of grated parmesan and Romano cheese and two tablespoons of bacon bits, and I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, celery salt and Italian spices, and I whisked it all together. I put my seasoned 8 inch omelet pan on a medium heat electric burner, and I added two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, an once the olive oil was hot, I added the egg mixture. Once the egg mixture was thick enough on the bottom to flip, I flipped it very carefully, and I added three deli slices of Danish ham and two slices of white American cheese, and I fold one side over the other and put it on a dinner plate, with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil on it. I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 7:50 A.M. I have finished making the backups that I needed to make. I still have about a half a terabyte of space left on the Toshiba SATA drive. I might make some more later on. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 7:05 A.M. I am now doing an Aomei backup of the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop to the same Toshiba SATA external USB drive in the Rosewill holder. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 5:50 A.M. One could buy DELL NA P2213F 22 for $45.50 less $4.55 with coupon code "US20" and $2.60 tax for $43.55 and $11.99 shipping for $55.54 total. However, Dell sometimes sells refurbished like new 23 inch monitors for $89 with free shipping, so one could wait for one of those bargains. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 4:50 A.M. I am doing an Aomei backup of the Dell Latitude 6400 laptop to the same Toshiba SATA drive that I am using as an external hard drive. CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 4:35 A.M. Cunard®
Hubble finds 'best evidence' for Ganymede subsurface ocean
Hunga Tonga volcano eruption forms new S Pacific island CIO
<888> 03/13/15 Friday 1:30 A.M. I ate a 16 ounce Marie Callender corn chowder chicken pot pie with two sliced tomatoes seasoned with ground black pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese, balsamic vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry ginger ale.
I did an Aomei backup of the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the living room television to the Toshiba Rosewill external USB hard drive. I am now doing one of the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 11:25 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I threw out the garbage. I went out into the wilderness of greater southwestern Connecticut. I went by the A&P Fresh. I bought a large package of reduced produce tomatoes for $3.44, a package of six reduced produce apples for $1.64, bananas for .79 a pound for $2.67, two 10.1 ounce Bertolli chicken Florentine meals for $3 each, a four pack of blueberry muffins for $3.99, two .9.5 ounce bags of Utz wavy potato chips for $3 each, and 50 cents can return for $22.24 total. I then went to the Stop and Shop across the street. I chatted with a local computer person that is having system problems. I told him the most common computer problem is a hard drive cable problem, which the individual did not know. I bought a large chunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese for $6.99 a pound for $11.18, a 16 ounce package of Stop and Shop deli sliced Swiss cheese for $5.49, four 16 ounce Marie Callender corn chowder chicken pot pies for $2.50 each, two quart jars of Vlassic kosher dill spears for $2 each, a 42 ounce Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, a 9 ounce balsamic vinegar and basil Triscuits for $3, a 9 ounce rosemary and extra virgin olive oil Triscuits for $3, three 15 ounce Chef Boyardee ravioli for $1 each, a quart of Stop and Shop lemon juice for $2.39, a one liter bottle of reduced produce Listerine Total Care for $3.24, a 9 ounce tub of Stop and Shop deli sliced smoked ham for $2.99, a 9 ounce tub of Stop and Shop deli sliced smoked honey turkey for $2.99, two one pound bags of baby carrots for $1.66 each, and four sweet potatoes for .99 a pound for $3.61 for $63.20 total. I then returned home. I carried up my groceries, and I put them away. Now I don't have to go out on Friday the 13th, and one probably should not go out on March 15 which is the Ides of March. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 7:45 P.M. I am now doing an Aomei backup of the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go out and do some errands. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 6:55 P.M. Using the Toshiba 1 TB SATA drive in the Rosewill external USB SATA hard drive holder, I did a Windows Complete PC backup of the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower computer. I then did an Aomei backup to the same drive. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 5:40 P.M. I woke up at 4:30 P.M.. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=4200683092748901015478100008882226&Type=4 on the order for TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3 (6.0 Gb/S) 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive for $44.99 with coupon code "ESCAPAV32" with free shipping arrived. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 9:10 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go back to bed. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 9:05 A.M. http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21645711-how-multinational-muslim-empire-was-destroyed-first-world-war-heading-towards . CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 8:35 A.M. Obscure fact http://www.ilcorn.org/file/86 . CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 7:35 A.M. I ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder light which I flavored with oregano, ground black pepper, and celery sat along with a toasted bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil on it and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry ginger ale. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 6:40 A.M. In the bedroom, I installed the Ricoh laser printer on the front lower USB port of the Dell Dimension 4600i computer. On the Abit computer, the Microsoft Wireless 800 keyboard and mouse were not working properly, so I removed them and put them in a white plastic garbage bag on the right side of the desk. The wireless senders are scotch taped to the bottom of the keyboard. It probably works, but not on the Abit setup. I put a generic USB mouse and a generic USB keyboard on the front USB ports of the Abit computer. I used a USB extender, and I installed the Ricoh laser printer on the Abit computer, and then I installed the Windows updates. Thus to use the Ricoh laser printer in the bedroom, one can easily move the USB cable to any of the three computers. I left it plugged into the IBM ThinkCentre. Basically as far as I know for now, I have done pretty much everything I can do on my current computer network setup. When I get the 1 TB Toshiba SATA drive, I will use the Rosewill SATA drive USB external holder to make Aomei backups of most of the systems, since the Windows Complete PC Backup restores are not always recognized. When any of my computers get messed up for any odd reason, I don't try to fix them, I just restore backups of new configurations. I save any data and other files that might have changed to other drives. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 4:05 A.M. Cunard®
Anthropocene: New dates proposed for the 'Age of Man' CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 3:25 A.M. I put away the clean laundry.
1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place CIOI
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 2:35 A.M. I ate a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture with a glass of cold filtered water.
I guess we were pushing Spring, it is getting cold again http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VQEzCI7lzQA . One could always go out and hang out at www.cvs.com on West Putnam Avenue to see if there are any night owls moving around. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 2:10 A.M. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel . Stay in touch with the Queen. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 2:05 A.M. I have 50 minutes to go on two dry cycles. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 1:40 A.M. I put clean linens on the bed. I started two wash cycles, and I have 15 minutes to go on them. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. CIO
<888> 03/12/15 Thursday 12:35 A.M. I woke up at 12:15 A.M.. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 6:45 P.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I chatted with a relative. I am now going back to bed. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 5:45 P.M. I picked up the mail. I chatted with neighbors. I sat outside for a while more enjoying the warmer day. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 5:25 P.M. One could order two of these http://arrowdirect.com/dell-na-p190st-44.html for $31.85 each and 10% off with coupon code "US20" for $6.37 off for $57.33 and $3.64 tax and $23.98 FedEx ground shipping for $84.95 total. However, one can buy a refurbished one here for about the same price Dell P2011H Black 20" 5ms Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor for $84.99 with free shipping . Of course, one could always give up on computers and the internet and cable television and go back to eating better food and having more friends and the chance to move around more freely in the local area, but that might upset the new local business community in our neck of the woods. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 4:35 P.M. I went outside, and I walked around the building. I chatted with a Greenwich Housing Authority official after they finished inspecting the building ceilings and ceiling insulation in several apartments. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I threw out the garbage. I took two old Greenwich Parks and Recreation stickers and one old Senior Senior sticker off the inside driver's side of the windshield of my Volvo wagon, and I put the new Greenwich Parks and Recreation sticker in that location. I put the old stickers in the beach sticker envelope in the glove box. I used a Stanley tools scraper to remove the old stickers. I sat outside for a while enjoying the warmer day. I saw a Robin and a Eagle. I chatted with neighbors. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 12:25 P.M. I woke up at 10 A.M., when a computer security magazine called me up trying to give me a free subscription. I declined. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 4:35 A.M. I ate ten balsalmic vinegar and basil Triscuit crackers.
Near real time weather and ocean model data access with rNOMADS
BBC News - Chameleon colours 'switched by crystals'
I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 3:20 A.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 2:50 A.M. The bedroom computer setup is basically all setup. I still have to install the Ricoh laser printer drivers on the other two computers, but they are already online with the Lexmark E238 laser printer. I put a few small parts from the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the drawer of the blue night stand at the apartment and kitchen entrance. CIO
<888> 03/11/15 Wednesday 1:05 A.M. I setup the Dell 4600i tower computer on the right side of the bedroom desk where it was before. I have a Rosewill switch power strip to turn on the computer and monitor. The front switch turns on the CPU, the second switch back turns on the Eizo monitor. The third switch back turns on the laser printer that can be plugged into any of three computers at that locations on their front USB ports. All three computers are also connected to the Lexmark E238 laser printer in the living room through the network. I connected a generic Logitech USB web cam to it along with a wired PS/2 keyboard and a wired USB mouse. I have a generic headset connected to its audio card. I did not use a USB keyboard, because the key strokes on a USB keyboard were too rapid causing errors. The Dell 4600i has both Windows XP Professional and OpenSuse on a dual boot configuration. I connected the center IBM ThinkCentre to the 20 inch Dell monitor on top of it. On the IBM ThinkCentre I had the audio plugged into the wrong sound card jack. The Lenovo USB speakers now work on it and I used a Y-splitter to also connect the Logitech headset to the audio card. I am now installing the Windows Updates on it. I will now install the TrendNet USB LAN that I took off the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower on the IBM ThinkCentre on the oak dining table in the living room. Mickey Mouse computer maintenance does take a bit of time. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 10:05 P.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I threw out the garbage. I sat out for a while watching the rain melt the snow. I picked up the mail. I got my new Greenwich, Connecticut Parks and Recreation vehicle sticker. Tomorrow Wednesday March 11, 2015, the Greenwich Housing Authority is going to inspect some of the apartments to look at the recent ceiling and ceiling insulation that was put in about two years ago. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 8:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 7:30 P.M. I had two telephone calls of people trying to seed me a fax. A local computer person called me up, and I called him back. He had the Windows Update virus, and we figured out he should use a McAfee or Norton Internet Security CD to scan the computer to remove the virus. I had a computer person from India call me up again, and he was very insistent about trying to fix my computer which has no problems. At 6:30 P.M., a neighbor rang my wireless door bell, and he wanted me to help him with a cell phone problem. I was tired, so I could not help. Thus I am awake after a lot of interruptions. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 10:05 A.M. The Hannspree touch screen monitor feature works just fine with the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower. I am a bit tired. The backup is complete, I will now shut down both computers, and I will eat a red velvet muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 9:45 A.M. The neighbor stopped by again.
Colima volcano (Mexico) photos
I am doing a Complete PC backup of the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower to its second internal hard drive. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 9:10 A.M. A neighbor stopped by to chat with me about some difficulty that he is having. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 8:45 A.M. I solved the Skype problem in the primary computer work area by a very complicated method. I felt sorry for my poor step child Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the far corner of the bedroom on the bedroom desk. I disassembled its setup, and I moved it to the primary work computer area placed in between the two monitors connected to the Hannspree 23 inch touch screen monitor. I also connected it up to the Logitech 7.1 speaker system using the 2.1 speaker system from the bedroom setup on the primary work computer. I also connected it up to the Brother Laser printer on top of the FIC server. Both computers in the setup seem to work just fine. I have the two different wireless mice to the left side of my work seat, and of course I have to shift around the two different wireless keyboards. I guess I will setup the old Dell 4600i computer backup on the far right side of the bedroom desk, when I have time maybe, after I sleep today. I put in a switch power strip connected to the center monitor switch on the control panel of the primary work area, and the front two switches turn on the Dell Optiplex 740 and its monitor. The third switch back turns on the primary work computer speaker system. Of course the power strip has to be turned on for them to work. Thus Skype with all of its glory is now available in the primary work computer area. The Dell Optiplex has the Windows 10 Enterprise 64 bit technical preview on it. I also hook up the good Microsoft LifeChat LX 3000 USB headset to it and the Lenovo wireless headset W770 to it along with the good Lenovo wired headset. I also have the good Logitech QuickCam s5500 hooked up to it. I think my older Logitech webcam is better, but I could try the two new webcams, when I have the time. They should work just fine. The Logitech webcams have facial recognition and motion detection. The new Microsoft web cam is high definition, but so is the current Logitech webcam. Once the beta of Windows 10 Technical Preview expires, I have a spare new copy of Windows 8 that I could put on it and upgrade it to Windows 10, but we have a while to do that yet. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 5:00 A.M. I ate 4.5 Perdue chicken tenders or 5.6 ounces, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginseng with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 4:15 A.M. On the primary work computer with the Logitech C270 webcam attached, I found a registry fix that supposedly would fix it, but although the computer would boot with it attached, in the device manager it gave a error 19 that it could not start as well as the other web cams that I tried. I found this that looked interesting http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html to try to remove old USB devices, but the webcams kept giving an error 19 start problem. I then did a system restore to yesterday, so the old Logitech webcam now works, but not with Skype. I could try to remove the old USB devices again, to see without the registry fix if DirectX would recognize my webcams, so they work in Skype. CIO
<888> 03/10/15 Tuesday 12:20 A.M. I fiddled with some other webcams on the primary work computer. Whatever keeps the primary computer from booting with the Logitech C270 webcam attached, is what is probably causing my Skype Video problem. I do not feel like restoring the backup from July 2014 to see if it worked then. Also that would take two hours, and if it did not work, I would have to restore the backup from early February 2015 which would take another hour. Since I never use Skype, it is a minor technical annoyance that I have not been able to trouble shoot.
I did come up with this Facebook Video conferencing, but I have no one to test it with, although I installed it.
https://2acc1-downloads.phpnuke.org/en/c386157/facebook-video-calling
You can also use this with Chrome http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ on a Windows computer.
Tracking is http://www.newegg.com/Info/TrackOrder.aspx?TrackingNumber=4200683092748901015478100008882226&Type=4 on the order for TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3 (6.0 Gb/S) 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive for $44.99 with coupon code "ESCAPAV32" with free shipping. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 10:40 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I sat outside for a while. It looks like the snow on the ground is beginning to melt in the warmer weather. I saw air traffic from the south coming into our area. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 9:40 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I chatted with a relative. On the post card from the Canary Islands, it is interesting in that it does not have a stamp on it, but just a grey blue square of paper where the stamp would normally be. Perhaps, there is some sort of electronic code in the non descript piece of paper to indicate the postal value. I will now shower and clean up.
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9400111899562447352251 on the order for Panasonic KX-TCA430 Foldable Over The Head Headset for $18.95 with free shipping. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 7:50 P.M. I woke up at 7 P.M.. I chatted with a neighbor. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=9261299998620277624257&cntry_code=us on the order for 3XL Big in Crimson Plaid http://www.kingsizedirect.com/large-size/Double-Brushed-Plaid-Flannel-Shirt.aspx?PfId=447855&DeptId=24528&ProductTypeId=1&prefine=Clothing%20Size,1|Size%20Type,1&ppos=13&Splt=1&StyleNo=1452 for $11.24 and in crimson 3XL big http://www.kingsizedirect.com/large-size/Double-Brushed-Solid-Flannel-Shirt.aspx?PfId=154429&DeptId=24528&ProductTypeId=1&PurchaseType=J&pref=npc&rec=Certona for $11.24 and also in Winter Blue for $11.24 and free shipping with coupon code "KS27238" on over $25 order for $33.72 total arrived. They fit me just fine. However, the flannel is not too heavy, but they are good quality shirts. I also got a post card from Puertorico, Gran Canaria from a Danish internet pen pal. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 10:20 A.M. I tried testing video messaging on the primary work computer with www.camfrog.com , but it would not work either. I ate 15 balsalmic vinegar and basil Triscuits. I tried copying DirectX files from one of the other Windows 7 computer and also a Windows 10 Technical Preview computer to the C:\Windows\system32 directory on the primary work computer, but that did not enable the webcam in DirectX 11. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 6:15 A.M. Millions at risk from 'Freak' encryption bug
Solar Impulse plane begins epic global flight CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 5:40 A.M. I took a 15 ounce can of Chef Boyardee lasagna, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I seasoned it with garlic powder, celery salt, ground black pepper, oregano, and Frank's hot sauce, and I heated it in the microwave oven on 60% power for 4 minutes. I then put it in a soup bowl, and I put grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it, and I ate it with a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 5:00 A.M. I tried booting the primary work computer in Vista, but DirectX 11 still does not recognize a webcam. I have USB 2.0 ports. I tried disabling USB 2.0 in the CMOS, but that still did not make a difference. At this point with all of the computers I have configured, I am not sure if a webcam ever worked with Skype on the primary work computer or not, since I never ever tried to use it. It obviously works on all of the other computers. CIO
<888> 03/09/15 Monday 3:25 A.M. I tried to figure out what the webcam with Skype problem is on the primary work computer. All I can figure out is that when I run "DXDIAG" with any of various web cams attached, the DirectX 11 does not recognize any of the webcams. Thus they do not show up in Skype. I can not find a fix for it anywhere on the internet, except to do a reinstall. I could try doing a System Restore to say last July 2014, but I would lose my Symantec programs and have to reinstall them, and I am not sure if they would be considered the same or another copy. I ate a red velvet muffin. I moved the Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000 business webcam from the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom to the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner and installed it on both partitions. I moved the High Definition Logitech webcam from there to the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom. I ran the PC Cleaner Pro utility on the primary computer. CIO
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 9:00 P.M. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/how-to-uninstall-directx-and-reinstall-to-repair-directx/
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/280483-how-reinstall-directx-11-repair-directx-11-a.html
http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/14-windows-7-direct-download-links
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 9:00 P.M. I bought TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3 (6.0 Gb/S) 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive for $44.99 with coupon code "ESCAPAV32" with free shipping. I will using it for Aomei backups of my various computers using the my external USB SATA hard drive holders. CIO
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 8:10 P.M. I chatted with a relative. CIO
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 7:35 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I moved the Volvo wagon to its usual place. I set the clock ahead an hour in the Volvo wagon. I sat out for a while enjoying the warmer evening. I chatted with a neighbor. CIO
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 6:15 P.M. I ate ten balsamic and basil Triscut crackers before going to bed. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I chatted with a friend. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I installed the Windows Updates on the primary work computer. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 03/08/15
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 6:20 A.M. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture with a glass of cold filtered water. I will then go to bed. It is suppose to be up to 50 degrees Fahrenheit this Wednesday http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPwiBY7lzQA . CIO
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 5:40 A.M. The new restore to the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop works just fine. I had to install the Netgear WNA1100 N150 wireless USB adapter program for the XP partition. CIO
<888> 03/08/15 Sunday 3:50 A.M. I am still installing the Windows updates on the IBM ThinkCentre along side the Ethan Allen recliner. I tested the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Second Dell Latitude D410 laptop, but for some reason, although I had not used it, it crashed. When I tried to restore the backup from the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop, which I had done before; for some reason, the Windows 10 Technical Preview restore DVD would not recognize the backup from the Seagate 1.8 TB External USB SATA hard drive. I am now doing another backup of the primary Dell Latitude D410 laptop to the Rosewill 160 GB SATA external USB hard drive, and if it is recognized, I will restore it to the second Dell Latitude D410 laptop.
I ate a 18.8 ounce bowl of Campbell's New England clam chowder which I seasoned with celery salt, ground black pepper, and oregano. I ate it with three reheated biscuits with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I reset my clocks and watches forward one hour. CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 11:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative earlier. I installed the web cams on the webcams that I moved around in the living room and also their Windows Updates. On the computers with Windows 10 Technical Preview like in Windows 8, one can go to the Store, and then from the upper right corner select "My Account" and then from the upper left corner select "Apps" and then from the lower left corner select "Select All" and then from the lower left corner select "Install" to install all of the Apps that one has installed on other computer along with the one that one is working on. However, that does not work if one still has the Store beta on the Windows 10 Technical Preview. However in the regular Store, the Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint previews are not available, but in the Beta store they are. CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 6:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I am fiddling with some of my computers updating the various webcams that I moved around on them.
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 6:05 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I picked up the mail. Three Bush family members are on the cover of www.time.com magazine. CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 5:15 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 4:35 P.M. I chatted with a relative at 10 A.M.. I finally woke up at 3 P.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, four reheated biscuits with extra virgin olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with Splenda sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 5:30 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 5:10 A.M. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 4:40 A.M. I ate a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture. I made up a batch of http://scott-mike.com/biscuit.htm . I ate four of them with extra virgin olive oil. I still have 7 left. I used old flour and old baking soda, so they were not as light and fluffy as they normally would be. I ate them with a glass of cold filtered water. It is 16 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPrFnI7lzQA , but Sunday is supposed to be up to 42 degrees Fahrenheit as it will be until Wednesday or later. I guess it is warming up. On Sunday morning, we have to spring forward an hour for daylight savings time https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=daylight+saving+2015 .
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 3:05 A.M. I made 217 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching series 3 episodes 10 and 11 of the Netflix production of "Borgia". CIO
<888> 03/07/15 Saturday 12:10 A.M. I woke up at midnight. I ate 10 basalmic and basil Triscut crackers. I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 9:10 P.M. I ate 4.5 Perdue chicken tenders or 5.6 ounces, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved sweet potato with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginseng with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. I will now take a nap. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 8:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative.
International Symposium on Geo-Disaster Reduction 2015, Prague, Czech Republic
Geologic Map of the Summit Region of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Digital Database of the Geologic Map of the Island of Hawai'i | USGS DS-144
BBC News - The lavish lifestyle of India's royalty CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 5:45 P.M. I went outside, and I put the new www.geico.com insurance card in the Volvo wagon glove box. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=9374869903500320899071 on the order for three http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5mm-Male-to-3-5mm-Female-Stereo-Headphone-Headset-Adapter-Converter-Cable-Cord-/360723975200?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53fcd30c20 for $6.99 total with free shipping arrived. However, the adapter does not work with the 3.5 mm headset on the Panasonic 4 line telephone. The sound works but not the microphone. To fix the problem, I ordered Panasonic KX-TCA430 Foldable Over The Head Headset for $18.95 with free shipping. I chatted with a friend. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 3:30 P.M. I woke up at 2 P.M., when someone called up again trying to fix my computer. They don't know when to quit bothering me. All they do is mess up one's computer. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 6:00 A.M. It is 12.2 degrees Fahrenheit and 67% humidity outside right now, and this http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPmGw47lzQA says it is 6 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now. However, it is suppose to warm up at the first of the week; so once it warms up a bit, we can get all excited about the warmer weather and hopefully get over our cabin fever. I ate a bowl of the apple and pineapple mixture, which was very tasty. In the old days, when I could afford Mount Gay rum from Barbados, I would put in an ounce or two of rum in the mixture. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. Stay Warm. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 4:40 A.M. I installed the new Microsoft web cam on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower, and it works just fine. One has to reboot, after one installs its program. However, although the webcam works, its program does not install in Windows 10 Technical Preview which does not matter. It works just fine with Skype. In the store now in Windows 10 Technical Preview, they have the previews of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint. I installed the new Logitech webcam on the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop on both partitions. It works just fine. I am now installing the Windows Updates on the Windows 7 partition. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 2:15 A.M. I cleaned and cut into half inch chunks six apples that I put in a large mixing bowl, and then I added one pineapple that I peeled and diced into half inch chunks. I mixed it all together, and then I added three tablespoons of Angostura bitters and a half cup of lemon juice, and then I mixed it all together again. I put it all in two large Rubbermaid containers with lids in the refrigerator. I threw the garbage down the garbage chute. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 1:25 A.M. Out in the Midwest where people are poorer and popcorn in plentiful, they eat a lot of popcorn instead of expensive mixed nuts. I microwaved popped and ate a bag of http://www.conagrafoods.com/ and http://www.conagrafoods.com/our-food/brands/orville-popcorn expire July 2007. It was still good. The popcorn button on the Sharp microwave oven is for 90 seconds, when it should be for about 75 seconds. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 1:05 A.M. Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?tracknumbers=9261299998620277624257&cntry_code=us on the order for 3XL Big in Crimson Plaid http://www.kingsizedirect.com/large-size/Double-Brushed-Plaid-Flannel-Shirt.aspx?PfId=447855&DeptId=24528&ProductTypeId=1&prefine=Clothing%20Size,1|Size%20Type,1&ppos=13&Splt=1&StyleNo=1452 for $11.24 and in crimson 3XL big http://www.kingsizedirect.com/large-size/Double-Brushed-Solid-Flannel-Shirt.aspx?PfId=154429&DeptId=24528&ProductTypeId=1&PurchaseType=J&pref=npc&rec=Certona for $11.24 and also in Winter Blue for $11.24 and free shipping with coupon code "KS27238" on over $25 order for $33.72 total. CIO
<888> 03/06/15 Friday 12:20 A.M. NBTC Enjoy Spring in Holland!
Global Volcanism Program | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 11:55 P.M. I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 11:10 P.M. I prepared my Connecticut Department of Social Services Medical Assistance form, and I mailed it in the mail room downstairs. I paid the first of four payments on my www.geico.com automobile insurance policy that starts April 8, 2015. Paying bills ahead of time is like saving money. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 10:10 P.M. I put away the clean laundry. I prepared the $18 DVD RW rebate, and I put a 49 cent Forever stamp on the envelope, and I mailed it in the mail room downstairs. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 8:50 P.M. I have 50 minutes to go on two dry cycles. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 8:10 P.M. I have 20 minutes to go on two wash cycles. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 7:25 P.M. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. I put clean linens on my bed. I chatted with a relative. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 5:55 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 4:55 P.M. I tried moving the Volvo wagon to a cleared parking spot further up the drive, but the building custodian wanted me to leave it where it is currently parked. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 4:20 P.M. I cleaned 8 inches of snow and ice off the Volvo wagon. I picked up my mail. The order with Tracking number of "1ZW0343VYW12641477" at www.ups.com on the order for Internal IDE CD-RW & DVD-ROM Combo Drive - 5.25", Tray Opening, Black - KW-1632 (TS-H492) $19.99 with free shipping and $20 rebate arrived. I also got the form from the State of Connecticut Department of Social Services for my Medicaid redetermination. I also got my new www.geico.com auto insurance cards for the new policy that starts April 8, 2015. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 3:30 P.M. I chatted with a relative while asleep. I woke up at 3 P.M.. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 4:05 A.M. Cunard®
Biltmore Wine Email Newsletter
My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for February 2015 was $287.45 for 1412 kWh for 28 days for 50.43 kWh per day with an average temperature of 19.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
For February 2014, it was $221.50 for 1304 kWh for 29 days for 44.97 kWh per day with an average temperature of 26.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
'First human' discovered in Ethiopia
I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a German chocolate muffin before going to bed. CIO
<888> 03/05/15 Thursday 3:20 A.M. I chatted with a relative. I spent quite a while trying to get the new Microsoft web cam to work with Skype on the primary work computer to no avail. I even tried another video card on it. The Skype repair program says that the web cam was working fine, but it did not show up in Skype. I finally put the new Microsoft web cam on the Dell Optiplex 740 mini tower in the bedroom, and I moved the new Logitech web cam from there to the Dell E6400 laptop computer, and I moved the older Logitech from there to the IBM ThinkCentre in front of the living room TV. In trying to get the web cam to work with Skype on the primary work computer, it some how got messed up. I thus restored the backup from February 2, 2015, and I then restored the few changed files.
I ate a ham and American cheese sandwich on toasted 15 grain bread with Hellmann's olive oil mayonnaise and a dill pickle slice and Lays low salt potato chips, and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. CIO
<888> 03/04/15 Wednesday 6:00 P.M. I got my last issue of www.forbes.com . Although back in my age of prosperity, I knew members of the Forbes family, I never made enough money to keep up my subscription. Also I really never read it too much, since I don't have any major financial decisions to make. This http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CTZ009&warncounty=CTC001&firewxzone=CTZ009&local_place1=Greenwich%20CT&product1=Winter+Weather+Advisory&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPeKP46GMYc says we might have 2 to 5 inches of snow this evening. I will now shower and clean up. It said on Bloomberg News yesterday that up until 20 years ago, the Ukraine had the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, so I hope there are not any rouge nuclear weapons around. From the old days, when we lived in fear underneath the nuclear umbrella, I thought a good place to hide out from mass extinction in America might be to walk around in the 40 miles of underground streets in Toronto or Montreal. Alas one would have to wait 4 to 6 weeks for a passport to go there, so that probably is not an option. The best place I know to hide out in the Northeast would be the place mentioned in this book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Report_from_Iron_Mountain which I think as I recall is up in the mountains of update New York https://www.google.com/search?q=Location+of+Iron+Mountain+Storage+facility&biw=1536&bih=771&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_Yz3VPfKDIWhgwTyk4KgDQ&ved=0CH0QsAQ . I think the facility is now a private documents storage facility, since it became obsolete Apparently there are a number of similar storage facilities elsewhere in the country. I have heard there is one up in the mountains of northeast Vermont. CIO
<888> 03/04/15 Wednesday 4:15 P.M. A neighbor rang my wireless door chime at 7 A.M.. The neighbor needed to make a telephone call. I went back to bed. The order with tracking of https://www.ups-mi.net/packageID/#9274896900561203751985 for the order for Microsoft T4H-00002 LifeCam HD-3000 for Business USB 2.0 WebCam for $31.99 with free shipping was outside my door. I checked the Volvo wagon, and there was no snow on it. The building custodian had me move it to another location. I guess he is getting ready for more snow. I picked up my mail. I chatted with neighbors. CIO
<888> 03/04/15 Wednesday 4:45 A.M. I chatted with www.llbean.com at 1-800-441-5713 about the price of tea in China. I ate a blueberry muffin. It is suppose to rain today, so hopefully when I wake up, all of the snow will be washed away http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPbSWI6GMYc . I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/04/15 Wednesday 2:30 A.M. Tracking number is "1ZW0343VYW12641477" at www.ups.com on the order for Internal IDE CD-RW & DVD-ROM Combo Drive - 5.25", Tray Opening, Black - KW-1632 (TS-H492) $19.99 with free shipping and $20 rebate .
Alas, nobody seems to be interested in my personal computer efforts for the last 25 years, so I guess people are doing something else somewhere else in the world. They probably still don't trust white European males living in the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years. I am trying to figure out what we are doing here too. The food and the weather is pretty much the same as over there, but we think we are a bit more modern from what we watch going on over there. However, I have been over there, and it is really not that much more modern from what I could tell. CIO
<888> 03/04/15 Wednesday 12:20 A.M. If one looks at http://scott-mike.com/computer.htm . I have five X86 Pentium 4 IBM ThinkCentres that I have used for 32 bit beta testing in the past. I also have them configured when not beta testing with OEM Windows 7. I have them backed up on their original configurations with Windows 7 Complete PC backup to the smaller Seagate and Western Digital USB external hard drives and other older external USB hard drives which restores do work. However, the latest backups of them to the Seagate 2 TB and the Rosewill 1 TB external USB hard drivers are not recognized by the Windows 7 DVD restore process, although the two external USB hard drives are, once one changes the BIOS setting to slow boot from fast boot and Plug and Play Operating System and presses F12 to see if the external USB device is recognized. The backups are recognized with the Windows 8 and Windows 10 DVDs, but one can not use them to restore a Windows 7 backup. When I have time, I have to delete the unrecognized backups to free up space on the drives and make Aomei backups of the current state of the IBM ThinkCentres. The Aomei backups are recognized. I did not know about this problem until recently. Thus in deleting the unrecognized backups, I will free up external hard drive space, so I don't think I need to buy another external hard drive to use. I try to keep two working backups of each of my 18 systems original installs and one or two backups of their current state, which uses up a lot of external hard drive space on backing up relatively simple systems. I also keep backups of a lot software and operating system downloads including some betas which I probably have deleted by now, although I have lots of CD and DVD copies of many earlier betas of various operating systems including Microsoft's since Vista. I did not beta test Windows 98, although I did use it. One of these days, I should try to sort out all of the various CDs and DVDs, but I really do not have room or shelf space to organize them better.
Now that I have nothing to do in the daytime, I probably will get back on a night schedule which I have done for many moons in this neck of the woods including the nearby Dutch trading post on the Hudson River. I chatted with a local Italian resident in the grocery store today, and I told the resident that the Italian olive oil here does not taste like the olive oil in Italy, but the A&P used to carry Goya Spanish olive oil which tasted like real European olive oil, but it only came in inexpensive small 12 ounce bottles. Since there are not many Hispanic individuals around here anymore from what I can tell, I don't see the Goya product line in our local food stores like I used to see. I know they sell a large variety of beans. Also this winter, CVS has not had any Campbell's Chili, so I guess since beef as gotten so expensive, they can not discount it on sale. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 9:45 P.M. One could order three of this Cheap version of an Alpine Swiss Backpack Mossimo Supply Co. Backpack - Green for $10.48 each and get free shipping on a $25 order.
I bought in 3XL Big in Crimson Plaid http://www.kingsizedirect.com/large-size/Double-Brushed-Plaid-Flannel-Shirt.aspx?PfId=447855&DeptId=24528&ProductTypeId=1&prefine=Clothing%20Size,1|Size%20Type,1&ppos=13&Splt=1&StyleNo=1452 for $11.24 and in crimson 3XL big http://www.kingsizedirect.com/large-size/Double-Brushed-Solid-Flannel-Shirt.aspx?PfId=154429&DeptId=24528&ProductTypeId=1&PurchaseType=J&pref=npc&rec=Certona for $11.24 and also in Winter Blue for $11.24 and free shipping with coupon code "KS27238" on over $25 order for $33.72 total.
I chatted with a relative.
CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 7:55 P.M. I chatted with a relative. On my first trip to Europa in the winter of 1972, I bought a vintage Swiss Army backpack for $15 in the Florence, Italy flea market by the Medici boar in downtown Florence, Italy. It was similar to these http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&ghostText=&_sacat=0&_nkw=vintage+swiss+army+backpack&_sop=15, but it had a metal frame. I think it was most like this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Canvas-Leather-Metal-Swiss-Army-Packpack-Preppers-Backpack-Salt-Pepper-/161619217261?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a1418b6d . You can buy a new version of the vintage version here http://www.ebay.com/itm/American-Eagle-Outfitters-Green-Cotton-Canvas-Leather-Backpack-Swiss-Army-NEW-/131442968305?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e9a9c86f1 . I have a fairly new red and black Swiss Army back pack that I use to carry my large load of vitamins, when I travel; but that is about all I use it for. It is similar to this one http://www.amazon.com/SwissGear-Travel-Gear-ScanSmart-Backpack/dp/B007R6JPC4/ref=sr_1_2/183-2676665-3444641?ie=UTF8&qid=1425429477&sr=8-2&keywords=backpacks+swiss+army . Thus when I traveled out of www.lfc.edu , where I went to college from 1968 to 1972, I appeared as a Swiss traveler, when I traveled through southern Europe and Turkey. I even drove a red and white German Opel car in Greece and Turkey. I have five years of high school French, so I can get by when I am in Europe and Switzerland. Of course the internet also started in Geneva, Switzerland. When I was on a train from Grenoble, France to Barcelona, I even met a 40 year old Swiss Organic Chemist that had three PHDs in Organic Chemistry. He told me he had 22 wives around the world, and he was spending most of his fortune visiting his various wives all of whom had children by him. He could afford it being a successful chemist for Swiss Pharmaceutical Companies. He even told me to take a Swiss pill called "Bustaid" which contained vitamins, caffeine, methamphetamine, and Phenobarbital, when traveling to stay awake on trains. It was sort of like a "Truth Pill". I used it for writing exam papers. Spain had no pharmaceutical laws, so anyone could buy a package of it for about 40 for about $3. It was like the European version of NoDoz. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 6:35 P.M. I picked up the mail. I left a package outside a neighbor's door.
I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 6:15 P.M. I ate two 3 ounce Perdue chicken Italian cutlets, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved potatoe with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginsing with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 4:45 P.M. A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it is real money. http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ . CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 4:35 P.M. I checked downstairs and outside. It is snowing right now. We might get up to 10 inches of snow during the next two days http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CTZ009&warncounty=CTC001&firewxzone=CTZ009&local_place1=Greenwich%20CT&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPYnJ46GMYc . I think www.news12.com should do a report about stranded drivers at the rest areas on Interstate 95 in Darien, Connecticut. There are always people moving around this area, even in bad weather. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 3:55 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went by the www.chase.com bank just west of the Greenwich Library. I then went by the Wells Fargo Bank, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went to the center of downtown Greenwich, and I walked over to Zen Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, but I did not beat a 10 for a $1,000 prize. I then used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center which was quite busy in their newly remodeled environment. I then went by the Stop and Shop. I bought a four pack of red velvet muffins which taste the same as German semi chocolate cake for $3.99, a load of Pepperidge Farm 15 grain bread for $2.50, Stop and Shop deli sliced Danish ham for $5.99 a pound for $6.23, Stop and Shop deli sliced white American cheese for $5.99 a pound for $6.29, a 64 ounce Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $3.79, a 64 ounce Ocean Spray crangrape juice for $3.79, two 9 ounce Triscut balsamic vinegar and basil crackers for $3 each, a five quart box of Stop and Shop powdered milk for $7.29, two 12 ounce generic honey $2.50 each, a 8 ounce Stop and Shop parmesan and Romano cheese for $2.99, two 12 ounce Perdue chicken tenders for $3 each, a six pack of reduced produce apples for $1.79, two sweet potatoes for .99 a pound for $2.20, a Dole Golden pineapple for $2.99, a 2 pound bag of baby carrots for $2.50, bananas for .49 a pound for $1.69 for $65.04 total. I then put my groceries in the Volvo wagon. I then returned 65 cents worth of cans. I then returned home, and I parked the Volvo wagon further away from the building in a less snow prone area. I then carried up my groceries, and I put them away. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 10:50 A.M. I woke up at 9:45 A.M., and I chatted with a relative. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown and do errands. CIO
<888> 03/03/15 Tuesday 12:30 A.M. I called up1-954-828-4900 , at http://www.flpd.org/index.aspx?page=211 , and I left them a message about something that happened back in the Fall of 1976, when I was down there. I did not commit any crimes while I was down there as far as I know other than too many parking tickets at the park across the street from the Swimming Hall of Fame, which I paid off before leaving Florida the following spring. Alas I am not allowed to go out in the hot sun anymore. My dermatologist here in Greenwich, Connecticut http://health.usnews.com/doctors/richard-connors-16049 told me about twenty years ago, I should never go out in the sun again until after 3 P.M. in the afternoon, so I guess I was a bit darkly tanned, when I was down south below the Mason Dixon line almost forty years ago for what it is worth. As we all now know sun exposure can come back to haunt one many decades after exposure.
I ate three slices of deli ham rolled up with three slices of white American cheese. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 11:15 P.M. http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/today/Ottawa,ON,Canada/we-city?weadegreetype=F&ocid=INSWEPL10
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/25-richest-canadians/ss-BBeve9I CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 11:00 P.M. Connecticut Residents on Forbes 2015 Billionaires List CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 10:50 P.M. I chatted with the Canadian Emergency Number at 1-613-996-8885. Since not many people but a couple of old veterans bother to chat with me around here, I try to network outside the area. They told me that if a child is born of Canadian parents outside of Canada, that child or its parents have to apply for Candian citizenship for the child. I used to know relatives of Lord Stanley http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lord+stanley&qpvt=Lord+Stanley&qpvt=Lord+Stanley&FORM=IGRE and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby in Canada, but the Scott family is still relatively unknown in the English speaking world, so they do not pay much attention to me, since we seem to be so numerous. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 9:55 P.M. I chatted with a neighbor over the telephone. I was told by the night person at www.llbean.com that a United States Citizen does not need a passport to return from Canada but only a birth certificate. That is wrong, unless one is under 16 years old. http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/information/do-i-need.html . If one is over 16 years old, one needs a U.S. Passport Card http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/information/card.html and http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/first-time.html . It says it takes 4 - 6 weeks for a passport card, and costs $55. http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/first-time.html . I have an old expired passport from 1992 which would not help, I guess. The one problem is that I only have copies of my birth certificate and not the original one with the embossed stamp. That might be a problem. However, I do not plan to travel anytime soon, since disabled people do not have the money to travel and disabled people do not feel comfortable going outside their normal routines. Thus the person that told me the information at www.llbean.com must be under 16 years old. CIO
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Bright spotlight on Dawn mission to Ceres CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 7:40 P.M. I ate two 3 ounce Perdue chicken Italian cutlets, steamed baby carrots and a microwaved potatoe with Smart Balance spread and extra virgin olive oil on the vegetables and a 12 ounce glass of Canada Dry Ginger Ale and a cup of Lipton green tea with ginsing with Spenda sweetener and America's Choice lemon juice. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 6:40 P.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 6:20 P.M. I chatted with a relative. It is warm in mid coast Florida http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=27.638636155000484&lon=-80.39726867099967&site=all&smap=1#.VPTtZ46GMYc .
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CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 5:00 P.M. I picked up the mail. I got my rent statement from the http://greenwichhousing.org/ . I got my new www.aarp.org cards. I renewed my annual membership for $16 until May 31, 2016. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 4:25 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I chatted with a neighbor.
One can still take a walk on the beach in Kennebunk, Maine http://www.kennebunkportbeachwebcam.com/ . CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 2:00 P.M. I chatted with a local Scottish walker twice. I will now shower and clean up. For the local dining crowd with wheels whom are bored with eating downtown on Green Witch Avenue, there is always the back country ambience of http://www.centroristorante.com/greenwich.htm .
I will now shower and clean up. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 12:40 P.M. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
<888> 03/02/15 Monday 11:20 A.M. I woke up at 10 A.M.. I cleaned about five inches of snow off the Volvo wagon. When I chatted with a friend in Manhattan yesterday that volunteers at the New York City ballet, the friend told me that the ballet stars drink lots of chocolate milk to build muscles. CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 11:00 P.M. I watched the final season episode of "Downton Abbey". I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will eat a blueberry muffin, and then I will go to bed. CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 9:00 P.M. I chatted with a relative and a friend.
I printed out the rebate form from the instruction here "http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/rebates/TD-20573 (US).pdf" requesting the quicker $18 rebate, and I will mail it once I receive the package with the UPC code. CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 7:15 P.M. I heated and ate a 18.5 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder with dried parsley in it and a toasted Thomas' multiseed bagel thin with extra virgin olive oil and a 12 ounce glass of A&W root beer. CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 6:35 P.M. I made 315 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Turkish pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching series 3 episodes 7, 8, and 9 of the Netflix production of "Borgia". I ate four ounces of mixed nuts. CIO
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I will now make cigarettes. CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 12:55 P.M. Byram Shore Road mansion on market for $29.5 million CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 12:45 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I showered, and I cleaned up. I mailed the letter in the mail room downstairs. I threw out the garbage. It is just beginning to snow lightly. CIO
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 12:40 A.M. I woke up at 11:05 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with equal sweetener and milk. I made my bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 03/01/15
<888> 03/01/15 Sunday 12:40 A.M. I ate 8 ounces of mixed nuts.
I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money Sunset Income versus Spending report for February 2015, and I have one copy ready to mail to an interested relative. I put a 49 cent Forever stamp on the envelope. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. It is 12 degrees Fahrenheit outside http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Greenwich&state=CT&site=OKX&lat=41.0613&lon=-73.6368#.VPKlRY6GMYc . CIO
